Oh noes! Whatever shall we do?! A new development platform is asking potential alpha testers about their programming experience! It's the end of the freaking world!11!!!one!!! RUN!!!
Precisely. Suddenly your dhcp server config == your ip list, and you get an audit of all mac addresses on the system for free out of the deal;)
That same list allows you to firewall out clients who've not yet registered for a "dynamic" ip. It also allows you to actually use dhcp for dynamic assignment of ip's for classes of clients who don't actually need "static" addresses.
> having to reboot 4,281 times during the install process.
To be fair, the last time I installed XP on a machine, the actual install itself only required 3 reboots. Patching and installing drivers after that... probably _only_ another 5 or 6 more.:P
Ok, so poke source, look at it for a few seconds to figure out how to get to their form, no biggy there.
Then they request a resume, no biggy there.
Then they request some php code in some really convoluted language and don't really tell you what they want, but they're from Quebec so we'll assume they just don't speak English.
Then you realize that they are willing to accept resumes in MS Word format, they lose. Bad Canadian. No resume.
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Erm. It was a joke;)
See... 20 years ago when kids were beating the original Metroid for the first time, the "good" ending of the game showed Samus removing her helmet - displaying an 8-bit female face. And people were surprised. Hence the comment. Yeah.
> So the real story here is that only 40% of the people playing are addicted.
Nod, wasn't the general consensus among this particular sector of psychologist that 100% of all Everquest players were addicts? Blizzard really _is_ slacking here. Though, 40% of 6.5 million registered users is a big more than 100% of the half million that EQ capped out at.
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> I'm still waiting for my 8.0 Flash player for Linux.
And you're not gonna get it. They're skipping 8 for Linux and will just be coming out with the 9 player.
There are just plain MORE fantasy MMO's out there. From a quick count on MMORPG.com's list (including both live games and those announced as in production), I see a total of:
Fantasy: 143
Historical: 9
Horror: 2
Real Life: 4
SciFi: 39
Sports: 1
Super Hero: 2 (CoH/CoV)
Now, these numbers are not horribly accurate in that I could be counting wrong, that standalone expansions to games are listed individually, and that some games are categorized strangely (Phantasy Star Universe is on the Fantasy List, as is Toontown, etc...). But even given these discrepancies, there are still well over 3x as many 'Fantasy' games as 'SciFi' out there.
Given that the first games to market in the genre were fantasy and that most derivative works are, in fact, well, derivative... shrug.
Yeah, this seems to be a common sentiment about EVE. Most people come to a space sim expecting something more like an fps and less like monopoly.
Personally, I really enjoyed the game for what it was, a gorgeously rendered economics game. But it wasn't worth enough to induce me into paying 180$ a year to play. And as the best SciFi MMO out there so far, thats kind of sad.
Umm, yeah, I'll bite the troll. Ok, I have spent more than a little time behind the pulpit on Sunday mornings and am very strongly opposed against pornography et all, however, the general stigma against anime is pure fallacy.
Yes, Sailor Moon is an anime character who happens to dress like an ordinary Japanese schoolgirl. There is nothing sexual in the costume, and I have always equated people with such fetishes to pedophiles. I am prone to think your Scottish friend's problem is not the anime, but something much more sinister.
'Anime' is simply the Japanese word for animation. Bugs Bunny -is- anime.
Pornography exists in animation just as it does on live film, that is to say it makes up a very controversial subgenre. You have probably not heard about normal children's television shows and educational comics because the media likes a scandal, ne?
My children will grow up watching anime, and I can guarantee that they will be able to watch a great variety of clean, funny, and well-written shows without any real problem on my part. Give me Akazukin Cha Cha over Barney or Telletubbies ANY day.
Along the same lines here... shouldn't they also go one step further and make digital cable and satelite television illegal? After all they transmit very easily captured/recorded music and movies...
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How hard is it to write a Lua script to reject logins by users who aren't on the whitelist? I think you're ok.
Oh noes! Whatever shall we do?! A new development platform is asking potential alpha testers about their programming experience! It's the end of the freaking world!11!!!one!!! RUN!!!
Precisely. Suddenly your dhcp server config == your ip list, and you get an audit of all mac addresses on the system for free out of the deal ;)
That same list allows you to firewall out clients who've not yet registered for a "dynamic" ip. It also allows you to actually use dhcp for dynamic assignment of ip's for classes of clients who don't actually need "static" addresses.
Genii? That's like multiple geniuses or something, ne?
> having to reboot 4,281 times during the install process.
:P
To be fair, the last time I installed XP on a machine, the actual install itself only required 3 reboots. Patching and installing drivers after that... probably _only_ another 5 or 6 more.
The submission happened because somebody thought it'd get attention and garner comments. Lo, and behold. It worked.
Ok, so poke source, look at it for a few seconds to figure out how to get to their form, no biggy there.
Then they request a resume, no biggy there.
Then they request some php code in some really convoluted language and don't really tell you what they want, but they're from Quebec so we'll assume they just don't speak English.
Then you realize that they are willing to accept resumes in MS Word format, they lose. Bad Canadian. No resume.
Erm. It was a joke ;)
See... 20 years ago when kids were beating the original Metroid for the first time, the "good" ending of the game showed Samus removing her helmet - displaying an 8-bit female face. And people were surprised. Hence the comment. Yeah.
> So the real story here is that only 40% of the people playing are addicted.
Nod, wasn't the general consensus among this particular sector of psychologist that 100% of all Everquest players were addicts? Blizzard really _is_ slacking here. Though, 40% of 6.5 million registered users is a big more than 100% of the half million that EQ capped out at.
> I'm still waiting for my 8.0 Flash player for Linux.
And you're not gonna get it. They're skipping 8 for Linux and will just be coming out with the 9 player.
http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/
Ok, issues of Tolkien, guns, magic, copyright law, realism, etc... aside.
There are just plain MORE fantasy MMO's out there. From a quick count on MMORPG.com's list (including both live games and those announced as in production), I see a total of:
Fantasy: 143
Historical: 9
Horror: 2
Real Life: 4
SciFi: 39
Sports: 1
Super Hero: 2 (CoH/CoV)
Now, these numbers are not horribly accurate in that I could be counting wrong, that standalone expansions to games are listed individually, and that some games are categorized strangely (Phantasy Star Universe is on the Fantasy List, as is Toontown, etc...). But even given these discrepancies, there are still well over 3x as many 'Fantasy' games as 'SciFi' out there.
Given that the first games to market in the genre were fantasy and that most derivative works are, in fact, well, derivative... shrug.
Yeah, this seems to be a common sentiment about EVE. Most people come to a space sim expecting something more like an fps and less like monopoly. Personally, I really enjoyed the game for what it was, a gorgeously rendered economics game. But it wasn't worth enough to induce me into paying 180$ a year to play. And as the best SciFi MMO out there so far, thats kind of sad.
You forgot Cowboys, Japanese Schoolgirls, and Psychic Mutants! :)
Excepting of course that 'virus' the English word is an English word and is used with an English pronunciation. Nobody I know says it 'veeroos' ;)
Sigh... 7z... I seem to recall having spent no less than two hours trying to decompress one of those on a unix box.
Apparently it works through wine, but nobody's thought enough of the format to actually port it, despite the windows code being open.
Umm, yeah, I'll bite the troll. Ok, I have spent more than a little time behind the pulpit on Sunday mornings and am very strongly opposed against pornography et all, however, the general stigma against anime is pure fallacy.
Yes, Sailor Moon is an anime character who happens to dress like an ordinary Japanese schoolgirl. There is nothing sexual in the costume, and I have always equated people with such fetishes to pedophiles. I am prone to think your Scottish friend's problem is not the anime, but something much more sinister.
'Anime' is simply the Japanese word for animation. Bugs Bunny -is- anime.
Pornography exists in animation just as it does on live film, that is to say it makes up a very controversial subgenre. You have probably not heard about normal children's television shows and educational comics because the media likes a scandal, ne?
My children will grow up watching anime, and I can guarantee that they will be able to watch a great variety of clean, funny, and well-written shows without any real problem on my part. Give me Akazukin Cha Cha over Barney or Telletubbies ANY day.
Along the same lines here... shouldn't they also go one step further and make digital cable and satelite television illegal? After all they transmit very easily captured/recorded music and movies...