In my recent experiences with FFXI, I was shown how to do mining (a decent way to make some gil, but borring as hell if you don't have a party to chat with while you mine). When a Mining Point is depleted, it instantly spawns in one of the other 15 designated spots.
now what i'm thinking is that since most of the non-quest/mission special monsters spawn with in a range of area, having them instantly re-spawn some where else inside that range might be a godo idea, with a minimum amount of distance form death-spot (to reduce chances of same party gettign it again if others want to kill it too)
Mission/quest critical encounters in FFXI either tend to be very fast respawns, or are instanced by a party activating a special portal or device. Some quest monsters are spawned inside of non-instanced areas when ever some oen at the rigth stage of the quest activates a special spot. Of course, if the activating group gets all killed, you now have a high level mob that will often agro on any hapless adventurers who come upon it. A quick call to the GMs causes one to show up and de-spawn the critter if no other high-levlers are around to take care of the problem.
Anyway, that's my info for FFXI for those of you who haven't played. hmm, I jsut realised that means FFXI has three different ways of handling critical monsters. To bad Notorious monsters are still done by the old spawn-camp method.
I have to agree, for the simple reasont hat death can occur EXTREMELY easily, especially if one has a bad connection. Unless some sort of un-killability(sp?) is turned on every time the connection goes bad, then characters die for no good reason. Also, Imaigne a higher level character who deicdes to train powerful agro monsters on mid level characters.. the entire system would ahve to be majorily rebuilt to support it.
Now, something else the article's author mentioned: replaying the game at a lower level when forced to build a new character.
This is one fo the things I like about FFXI. With the ability to switch jobs, you can find out what it's like to play as a different type of character, adn this can bring on unique challanges. Are you a magic heavy race? try the challenge of being a melee character with low STR for a while... your race have to magical skills worht speaking of? well, if you want to try something different that beign the party tank, give spell-casting classes a shot.
and, because of the greater resources of these characters, they can make up for weaknesses from their race with better equipment. SO, you can have non-perma-death and still have the fun of replaying low levels from a different perspective.
sewe, that's one of the things that I liek about FFXI (even if it has gotten me killed a few times). All intelligent monsters 'link', meanign that if they see another mob of their general type(goblin, orc, etc) moving to attack some one, they follow, even if they can't see the target of their friend.
several non-sentient mobs do the same thing, such as bats and beetles. Mobs that Link are trikier to pull bakc to the party. what reallu sucks is when you are ont he way back, and one or two spawn rigth behind you, so you don't even know there are two fo them chasing you now.
A quick note to add to this, in response to the grandparent as well:
do NOT get the monthly plan, Buy the life time service. Buying the lifetime service paid for itself already, and I'm way into the black compar4ed to where I'd be if I'd been paying every month
you are confusing quantum computing and Quantum communication via antanglement
when they talk about the cryptographic aspects, they mean using the quantum computer to encrypt the information isn such a way that only another quantum computer with the right codes is going to be able to decrypt it. Then you transmit the data normally.
The entanglement technology does not need any sort of encryption, as only the particles involved can send/receive 'messages' between them.
Funny, I have to regulary check on my boss's computer to make sure it's til up so he can log in remotely, because ti crashes repeatedly.
then there is the mess that is the Registry. What a horrible idea that was. because of the way the registry works, a company can leave data on a computer so hidden their own techs do not know how to remove it. Example:
Friend was having toruble with Norton, so she uninstalled it and was convinced by another person to try the McAfee free trial. In the process of this, an accoutn was registered for the free software that turned otu to be invalid. however, this was only discovered after She purchased the actuall McAfee software pakage and installed it.
I got involved into this mess, and no matter how hard I tried (you can imagine how desperate I was if I actually called their tech support), I could not delete enough information to let the new soft ware install with out it insisting on using the old account information.
A 'paradigm shift' is a radical shift in the way people think. Not individuals, but a large group as a whole. a population.
Right now, individuals think of the idea of free software being both good and viable.
But more and more people are thinking that way. When enough people think that way, the population as a whoel will effectively be thinking that way, and the way soft ware is produced will have radically changed (hopefully for the better).
At this point, we will have a paradigm shift.
now, given that we may be facing a paradigm shift that might greatly reduce Microsoft's ability to generate large revenue, at least via Windows and MS office, the idea of a service-software industry (aka Google, Yahoo!, Amazon, etc.) being the next big market makes sense. It's certainly already growing.
A) Leave the firewalls on. Yes, I know MS says otherwise. I always have both a hardware and software firewall on, no problems what so ever.
B) Get a router with a firewall. I currently happen to be on a Linksys wireless router which is attached to cable broadband. It works very well, and contains it's own firewall.
C) To repeat something that others have said, get a copy of SP1 and burn it to disk, install that before trying to log onto MS for your other updates.
We hope to be able to use this for computing, but we know it could be used for communication even better. All we have to do is develop better, cheaper tools for manipulating & reading the particals.
Unfortunatly, so far it only seems to work with pairs, we can't seem to get multiples going, so use is limited. but let's try this from the military point of view: In theory, we could build 'ansibles' (to steal from Orson Scott Card) that operate in pairs. Every ship and command unit could have one, the other one would be connected to a complex of normal computers that woudl determine which other ansibles to send the message to.
No static or bad connections, and no need for encryption as there is no way to intercept the communications!
Ah, but you see, there are many, many people who do not experience the conenction speeds you tlak of, AND there are people who no longer wish to have a land line. I for example no longer have aland line, but I use cable for my internet.
My mother however is using earthlink DSL, and is forced ot maintain a phone line which is costing her an additional $15 a month when there is no phone in use. she would be happy to get rid of that, and just pay for DSL.
It's about giving people OPTIONS. and options are good.
It's been offered this way in other countries for a while. So if California is a step ahead of the rest of the country, the USA is a couple steps behind europe. And we are supposed to represent the ideal example of a capitalistic society? not if we keep letting companies pull BS like packaging services liek that, and mandatory bundling services was declared illegal a long time ago.
Yeah, that woudl be nice, but the slashdot crowd is part of the small percentage of people who realise what a farce the patent office is. Maybe if we try hard enough, we can evenually spread the word.
Does any one else try and e-mail out articles to peopel they know who are politically active?
in all seriousness, I get perfectly fine receptioon in my house... except if I lie down or sit on my bed.
WTF??
that my friends is soem screwy coverage.
so how do they go about making it so I don't drop cals when I'm answering my phone from bed? I know we've all had phone calls where youa re tired and want to lay down, but don't want to get off the phone either. (no, your 1-900 calls don't count.:-P )
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but it's not a wager. Awaer requires that you invest something with monetary value. this is a guessin competition, with the winner getting a prize. no one in the competition has anything to loose.
I am NOT the government's child. The Purpose of the government is to serve me. people got together and created the US governemnt to be an insitute to serve the people. to be a servant of the people. And one of the primary duties of the government is to protect the people.
BUT, protection can only go so far.
A body guard knows the bet way to keep his charge safe is to remain in a very secure location, and to go everywhere with him, even into the bathroom or bedroom. But this does nto allow the protected person to enjoy their life.
So a body guard deliberatly compramises security by allowing his client outside, and allowing the client privacy.
The government need to re-learn that lesson. And if we decide we don't like our bodyguard any more, we can fire Unlce Sam and get a new one.
That's EXPLICITLY what the 2nd ammendment is for: To ensure that we always retain the right to fire our government, just like our forefathers fired the English government.
Actually, the three rule books for the latest version are only $30 each, and were $20 each when version 3.0 came out. Also.. if you think that's pricey, you've never made models have you? Good model sets can cost more than that each, and each set is only usable once, instead of being re-used over the course of years.
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wouldn't that be called a younger sibling? ;)
Online Video Games can suck up a lot of bandwidth too.
Hmmm, this just gave me an idea....
In my recent experiences with FFXI, I was shown how to do mining (a decent way to make some gil, but borring as hell if you don't have a party to chat with while you mine). When a Mining Point is depleted, it instantly spawns in one of the other 15 designated spots.
now what i'm thinking is that since most of the non-quest/mission special monsters spawn with in a range of area, having them instantly re-spawn some where else inside that range might be a godo idea, with a minimum amount of distance form death-spot (to reduce chances of same party gettign it again if others want to kill it too)
Mission/quest critical encounters in FFXI either tend to be very fast respawns, or are instanced by a party activating a special portal or device. Some quest monsters are spawned inside of non-instanced areas when ever some oen at the rigth stage of the quest activates a special spot. Of course, if the activating group gets all killed, you now have a high level mob that will often agro on any hapless adventurers who come upon it. A quick call to the GMs causes one to show up and de-spawn the critter if no other high-levlers are around to take care of the problem.
Anyway, that's my info for FFXI for those of you who haven't played. hmm, I jsut realised that means FFXI has three different ways of handling critical monsters. To bad Notorious monsters are still done by the old spawn-camp method.
I have to agree, for the simple reasont hat death can occur EXTREMELY easily, especially if one has a bad connection. Unless some sort of un-killability(sp?) is turned on every time the connection goes bad, then characters die for no good reason. Also, Imaigne a higher level character who deicdes to train powerful agro monsters on mid level characters.. the entire system would ahve to be majorily rebuilt to support it. Now, something else the article's author mentioned: replaying the game at a lower level when forced to build a new character. This is one fo the things I like about FFXI. With the ability to switch jobs, you can find out what it's like to play as a different type of character, adn this can bring on unique challanges. Are you a magic heavy race? try the challenge of being a melee character with low STR for a while... your race have to magical skills worht speaking of? well, if you want to try something different that beign the party tank, give spell-casting classes a shot. and, because of the greater resources of these characters, they can make up for weaknesses from their race with better equipment. SO, you can have non-perma-death and still have the fun of replaying low levels from a different perspective.
sewe, that's one of the things that I liek about FFXI (even if it has gotten me killed a few times). All intelligent monsters 'link', meanign that if they see another mob of their general type(goblin, orc, etc) moving to attack some one, they follow, even if they can't see the target of their friend. several non-sentient mobs do the same thing, such as bats and beetles. Mobs that Link are trikier to pull bakc to the party. what reallu sucks is when you are ont he way back, and one or two spawn rigth behind you, so you don't even know there are two fo them chasing you now.
A quick note to add to this, in response to the grandparent as well: do NOT get the monthly plan, Buy the life time service. Buying the lifetime service paid for itself already, and I'm way into the black compar4ed to where I'd be if I'd been paying every month
If Cannibas was GMed to not produce THC, would such GMed Cannibas be considered legal crop to grow for hemp, paper, and oil?
Well, if you are worreid mostly about the car being left alone, rig a device to electrify the outside of your car.
actually, you can turn the download manager off, and have each one open up seperatly, just like IE. I preffer to do it that way myself actually.
you are confusing quantum computing and Quantum communication via antanglement when they talk about the cryptographic aspects, they mean using the quantum computer to encrypt the information isn such a way that only another quantum computer with the right codes is going to be able to decrypt it. Then you transmit the data normally. The entanglement technology does not need any sort of encryption, as only the particles involved can send/receive 'messages' between them.
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Funny, I have to regulary check on my boss's computer to make sure it's til up so he can log in remotely, because ti crashes repeatedly.
then there is the mess that is the Registry. What a horrible idea that was. because of the way the registry works, a company can leave data on a computer so hidden their own techs do not know how to remove it. Example:
Friend was having toruble with Norton, so she uninstalled it and was convinced by another person to try the McAfee free trial. In the process of this, an accoutn was registered for the free software that turned otu to be invalid. however, this was only discovered after She purchased the actuall McAfee software pakage and installed it.
I got involved into this mess, and no matter how hard I tried (you can imagine how desperate I was if I actually called their tech support), I could not delete enough information to let the new soft ware install with out it insisting on using the old account information.
Yeah, real good setup there.
Actually, what I bet he's really wishing is that he'd PATENTED it.
A 'paradigm shift' is a radical shift in the way people think. Not individuals, but a large group as a whole. a population.
Right now, individuals think of the idea of free software being both good and viable.
But more and more people are thinking that way. When enough people think that way, the population as a whoel will effectively be thinking that way, and the way soft ware is produced will have radically changed (hopefully for the better).
At this point, we will have a paradigm shift.
now, given that we may be facing a paradigm shift that might greatly reduce Microsoft's ability to generate large revenue, at least via Windows and MS office, the idea of a service-software industry (aka Google, Yahoo!, Amazon, etc.) being the next big market makes sense. It's certainly already growing.
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A) Leave the firewalls on. Yes, I know MS says otherwise. I always have both a hardware and software firewall on, no problems what so ever.
B) Get a router with a firewall. I currently happen to be on a Linksys wireless router which is attached to cable broadband. It works very well, and contains it's own firewall.
C) To repeat something that others have said, get a copy of SP1 and burn it to disk, install that before trying to log onto MS for your other updates.
We hope to be able to use this for computing, but we know it could be used for communication even better. All we have to do is develop better, cheaper tools for manipulating & reading the particals.
Unfortunatly, so far it only seems to work with pairs, we can't seem to get multiples going, so use is limited. but let's try this from the military point of view: In theory, we could build 'ansibles' (to steal from Orson Scott Card) that operate in pairs. Every ship and command unit could have one, the other one would be connected to a complex of normal computers that woudl determine which other ansibles to send the message to.
No static or bad connections, and no need for encryption as there is no way to intercept the communications!
Ah, but you see, there are many, many people who do not experience the conenction speeds you tlak of, AND there are people who no longer wish to have a land line. I for example no longer have aland line, but I use cable for my internet. My mother however is using earthlink DSL, and is forced ot maintain a phone line which is costing her an additional $15 a month when there is no phone in use. she would be happy to get rid of that, and just pay for DSL. It's about giving people OPTIONS. and options are good.
It's been offered this way in other countries for a while. So if California is a step ahead of the rest of the country, the USA is a couple steps behind europe. And we are supposed to represent the ideal example of a capitalistic society? not if we keep letting companies pull BS like packaging services liek that, and mandatory bundling services was declared illegal a long time ago.
And I have a friend in sweeden whose yahoo site ends in .se (even trying to log into .com redirects her to .se) and she says it hasn't migrated over yet.
Yeah, that woudl be nice, but the slashdot crowd is part of the small percentage of people who realise what a farce the patent office is. Maybe if we try hard enough, we can evenually spread the word.
Does any one else try and e-mail out articles to peopel they know who are politically active?
in all seriousness, I get perfectly fine receptioon in my house... except if I lie down or sit on my bed.
:-P )
WTF??
that my friends is soem screwy coverage.
so how do they go about making it so I don't drop cals when I'm answering my phone from bed? I know we've all had phone calls where youa re tired and want to lay down, but don't want to get off the phone either. (no, your 1-900 calls don't count.
but it's not a wager. Awaer requires that you invest something with monetary value. this is a guessin competition, with the winner getting a prize. no one in the competition has anything to loose.
I am NOT the government's child. The Purpose of the government is to serve me. people got together and created the US governemnt to be an insitute to serve the people. to be a servant of the people. And one of the primary duties of the government is to protect the people.
BUT, protection can only go so far.
A body guard knows the bet way to keep his charge safe is to remain in a very secure location, and to go everywhere with him, even into the bathroom or bedroom. But this does nto allow the protected person to enjoy their life.
So a body guard deliberatly compramises security by allowing his client outside, and allowing the client privacy.
The government need to re-learn that lesson. And if we decide we don't like our bodyguard any more, we can fire Unlce Sam and get a new one.
That's EXPLICITLY what the 2nd ammendment is for: To ensure that we always retain the right to fire our government, just like our forefathers fired the English government.
Actually, the three rule books for the latest version are only $30 each, and were $20 each when version 3.0 came out. Also.. if you think that's pricey, you've never made models have you? Good model sets can cost more than that each, and each set is only usable once, instead of being re-used over the course of years.