#1) MMORG designers work carefully to balance each of their races. It's not like a MMORG would design a "KALB" race where the characters automatically get aggro'ed by the town guards, earn a half share from all kills and are randomly barred from the forums for bullshit reasons.
#2) Show me a 1/2 elf, 1/4 dwarf, 1/8 orc and 1/16 sprite and 1/16 centaur character and then we'll be a little closer to an apples to apples race discussion. (Is the character stronger because he's part orc or is it just chance?)
The researchers say tools like Google Earth and Sketchup could eventually help ordinary citizens get more involved in urban development.
Trained urban planners often don't get a seat at the development table; what makes you think local governments would care about what ordinary laypeople think?
New NASA Rule: No burritos in the hanger - period. For Christ's sake, if you make a Taco Bell run, it's not like people aren't going to be able to tell from the smell, so quit throwing your wrappers in the cargo bay.
There is a clear distinction between a review of a work - a movie, a book, a piece of art, or even a video game - and a critique of one.
Th' author who penned this trash stated thar be a "clear distinction" an' then utterly failed t' explain th' distinction. He employed a sophomoric convention: make a bold statement an' then hope yer audience be too cowed t' question 't.
Ya swabbie!
"Advergames" are not really that new. Think back to Tapper, in which you served thirsty patrons mugs of (gasp!) Budweiser beer. (http://www.basementarcade.com/arcade/tapper/index .html)
Only on SlashDot: "China Daily"=reliable source. Notice the "*.cn" extension; if you buy the crackdown, I know a rich, recently widowed friend in the Congo who needs your help. (Also, any time you see a "100-day" anything, that's a clear sign that it's pure PR.)
Thought I'd mention that the parallel IE option seems to be under the "Tools | Internet Options..." dialog, "Advanced" tab, "Security" tree: "Empty Temporary Internet Files folder when browser is closed" (unchecked by default)
The IE "Security" and "Privacy" tab also contains some options that let you handle cookies and Javascripts different ways for different sites; this is why IE exploits that get around the dividers between different classes of sites are noteworthy.
Don't care - won't watch it anyway. Video game movies don't work. (I won't see the Warcraft movie or the Call of Duty movie either.) Hell, most book movies don't work, and they almost always have better formed plot, subplots, characters, etc. (Even LOTH is an example where it took umpteen years and X many movies to finally get it right.)
I'd expect lots of hidden meanings. For example, look where long coding hours combined with thoughts of "love for pet bunny" + "maybe I'll get to date a girl someday" led these game coders: http://www.ffinsider.net/ff12/pix/viera.jpg
Yeah...no way am I going to Vista. I'm using Windows 2000 server as my primary Windows desktop OS (I collect somewhat legal castoffs from customers who dump their "obsolete" systems); it seems to be the last Windows OS that doesn't phone home.
Tried - can't do it. OpenOffice is a relative resource pig. (Office 97, designed for Windows 95, if nice and fast on a modern Windows OS.)
Also, I stopped sending relatives to OpenOffice once they started working with multiple docs with images. The webpage-ish "save all files NEXT to the doc" was cute as long as they didn't want to transfer files or navigate folders, but you know how people are...
Why I'm sticking with MS Office (97):
- It still works with people using Office 2003
- It doesn't take a registration key
- The CD is quite easy to copy for friends and family
- The built-in VB stuff is completely (safely) broken when you just run it off a file share
- It never phones home (and there's no Internet component)
- It installs in under 100MB
- If any new features have been introduced since 1997, I don't need them
- It doesn't try to figure out my advertising profile from the documents I work with
It seems we're regularly seeing "pre-annoucement" hype on Slashdot these days. A day or two ago the forthcoming Apple announcement was a topic; today its some random crap from the Wii guy a day before a big Wii announcement.
Anyone know a better site to get the kind of science and tech news we used to get from Slashdot without all the crap about consumer electronics?
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#1) MMORG designers work carefully to balance each of their races. It's not like a MMORG would design a "KALB" race where the characters automatically get aggro'ed by the town guards, earn a half share from all kills and are randomly barred from the forums for bullshit reasons.
#2) Show me a 1/2 elf, 1/4 dwarf, 1/8 orc and 1/16 sprite and 1/16 centaur character and then we'll be a little closer to an apples to apples race discussion. (Is the character stronger because he's part orc or is it just chance?)
New NASA Rule: No burritos in the hanger - period. For Christ's sake, if you make a Taco Bell run, it's not like people aren't going to be able to tell from the smell, so quit throwing your wrappers in the cargo bay.
Established software house X announces that future sequel to popular game Y will be available on future consoles Z1 and Z2. Really, I'm shocked.
WTF is an "indie kid?" (I'm thinking this is a marketing term for high schooler with too much of his parents' money in his pocket, but let me know.)
Quit yer girlish whinin', landlubber. This topic`s old news anyway; find somethin' current. Ya horn swogglin' scurvy dog!
"Advergames" are not really that new. Think back to Tapper, in which you served thirsty patrons mugs of (gasp!) Budweiser beer. (http://www.basementarcade.com/arcade/tapper/index .html)
Only on SlashDot: "China Daily"=reliable source. Notice the "*.cn" extension; if you buy the crackdown, I know a rich, recently widowed friend in the Congo who needs your help. (Also, any time you see a "100-day" anything, that's a clear sign that it's pure PR.)
Thought I'd mention that the parallel IE option seems to be under the "Tools | Internet Options..." dialog, "Advanced" tab, "Security" tree: "Empty Temporary Internet Files folder when browser is closed" (unchecked by default)
The IE "Security" and "Privacy" tab also contains some options that let you handle cookies and Javascripts different ways for different sites; this is why IE exploits that get around the dividers between different classes of sites are noteworthy.
Don't care - won't watch it anyway. Video game movies don't work. (I won't see the Warcraft movie or the Call of Duty movie either.) Hell, most book movies don't work, and they almost always have better formed plot, subplots, characters, etc. (Even LOTH is an example where it took umpteen years and X many movies to finally get it right.)
Welcome back to Slashdot - we missed you yesterday... http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/0 9/14/0320238
I guess "Slashback" got cancelled early, because all we're getting these days is regular dups.
"Gameology" ( http://www.gameology.org/ ) seems to be about on the same level as "assology" ( http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Ass ology ).
I'd expect lots of hidden meanings. For example, look where long coding hours combined with thoughts of "love for pet bunny" + "maybe I'll get to date a girl someday" led these game coders: http://www.ffinsider.net/ff12/pix/viera.jpg
(Maybe the last one is performed by a French guy?)
Yeah...no way am I going to Vista. I'm using Windows 2000 server as my primary Windows desktop OS (I collect somewhat legal castoffs from customers who dump their "obsolete" systems); it seems to be the last Windows OS that doesn't phone home.
Tried - can't do it. OpenOffice is a relative resource pig. (Office 97, designed for Windows 95, if nice and fast on a modern Windows OS.) Also, I stopped sending relatives to OpenOffice once they started working with multiple docs with images. The webpage-ish "save all files NEXT to the doc" was cute as long as they didn't want to transfer files or navigate folders, but you know how people are...
If they only renamed it the "Wii" it could be on Slashdot three times a day.
Why I'm sticking with MS Office (97):
- It still works with people using Office 2003
- It doesn't take a registration key
- The CD is quite easy to copy for friends and family
- The built-in VB stuff is completely (safely) broken when you just run it off a file share
- It never phones home (and there's no Internet component)
- It installs in under 100MB
- If any new features have been introduced since 1997, I don't need them
- It doesn't try to figure out my advertising profile from the documents I work with
It's 2006. If you still buy Google's "don't be evil" B.S., I have a rich friend in Nambia who wants to meet you.
It seems we're regularly seeing "pre-annoucement" hype on Slashdot these days. A day or two ago the forthcoming Apple announcement was a topic; today its some random crap from the Wii guy a day before a big Wii announcement.
Anyone know a better site to get the kind of science and tech news we used to get from Slashdot without all the crap about consumer electronics?
A book on regular expressions? What, is the Internet broken?
I'll stand by my original statement; I don't think 42 inches is a "blessing" in the hi-def world.
But if you've been "blessed by the hi-def gods", $600 is likely a rounding error.