The online play is an attempt to catch up to market demand and existing 3rd party products like http://www.fantasygrounds.com/ it's hardly an innovation on their part. As a company Hasbro seems to be very conservative, moving safely behind the market and then copying what works for others rather than leading the way with market trends. I guess the main difference with Scrabulous is they got caught in a licensing web.
A variant game to do with the connected nature of Wikipedia involves a group of people choosing a start page and an end page and seeing who can get there in the least amount of hops. Posting the route allows for interesting analysis of the logic players used to try to get places.
The "find shortest path" in the article would kill that tho:P
Unless memory fails me, Baldur's Gate also allowed you develop a gay relationship. There wasn't any particular special treatment for it, it just didn't exclude conversation by gender. You couldn't have a child tho:P
I think Descent's weakness was that number of people who couldn't mesh with it was disproportionately high, with reactions going to the extreme of physical illness.
But man, no other FPS could give that kind of rush. Forsaken was absolutely awesome as well. Those are the types of games they should use to test total immersion gaming. If the subject doesn't puke, it works!:)
"The question is whether low burn speeds, using high speed media, will produce better quality, worse quality or no difference."
This answers one part of the question, but I burn 4x and 16x CD-Rs at 4x with a continued zero failure rate over several years. I refuse to upgrade or change brands (external usb hp burner, Memorex (yes I know) disks) because they've worked so well while people I know have nightmares with all kinds of other combinations of better and worse brands of both.
From the description in the article, Radio sounds like it would be considerably more expensive and considerably less convenient. I know people into HAM. They spend tens of thousands on their hardware, and still can't match the flexibility, intuitiveness and impact of videoconferencing. Radio has it's ups, but in this case, low cost low bandwidth video conferencing has it beat hands down.
Anyway the gist of it was agreement. A little excercise, (one hour, twice a week), has made a tremendous difference for my enegery, attention and sleeping patterns, which has also straightened up my work habits.
I have had to change two of my best known addresses to explicitly allowed senders only. They get simply too much spam. Once I've allowed only certain senders, I made a new address for new people, with no filtering, and isn't linked or displayed anywhere. (A web form to a back end processor sends mail to the address, and of course I give it out to people who need it in person.)
So far the new address has gotten a single spam message, which I traced back to sender who got infected with a virus.
I'm not saying this is a good thing. It's terrible that I have to resort to explicit allow to have manageable email. I've had these addresses six or more years, I'm sure there are people who I have not added to the allow. It's unlikely they'll mail me, but if they do, they'll be rejected. Once I do hear from them I add them, and that's been ok, but spam is really starting to hammer on the usefulness of email.
While the actual number is a point of contention, America consumes between 25 and 40% of the world's resources. The WORLD's. You don't need foreign trees? Your own forests would dissappear in a decade if you tried to run America on local trees only. Food products? Steel? You sure import a lot of it. Not even to get started on oil.
I'm sure that in some countries, people would suggest that USA porno merchants be beaten with a baseball bat for daring to show women naked to anybody of any age.
In most countries outside the US, they would likely be beaten with a cricket bat.
$100 for 13 hours of anime is not a hell of a lot to pay. Considering you'd spend $25-30 for a 1-2 hour movie. Boxed sets run from $80-200, mostly depending on how new the series is, and how big a hit it was. If you're poor, be paitient as you said. Boxed sets get released for way cheaper than buying the individual dvds. I can't justify $200 (more because of my budget than anything else) but $100 for 13 hours is my sweet spot. (Nadesico was a super value at $80 for 13 hours) As was stated in other replies this has nothing to do with the DVD format. DVDs are dirt cheap to produce.
While the official collection may not exist any longer, that didn't stop amazon from releasing their own for $100. Check it out.
Anime is expensive, but I think it's worth it. It's been a rewarding hobby for me, and one that's easy to share with others with anime I own.
They said it was an attack of opportunity, there was no time for psyche effects, they just rolled the d20 and crossed their fingers like the rest of us.
Unlike Spam, Viruses can be filtered at the ISP level without much chance of false positives (except for viruses which piggyback on real emails without letting the sender know, but even this isn't really a false positive, and the mail server lets the sender know why the mail was blocked)
We recently performed an upgrade to a virus scanning mail server, now I get notified everytime it blocks a virus, about 20-30 times a day.
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The online play is an attempt to catch up to market demand and existing 3rd party products like http://www.fantasygrounds.com/ it's hardly an innovation on their part. As a company Hasbro seems to be very conservative, moving safely behind the market and then copying what works for others rather than leading the way with market trends. I guess the main difference with Scrabulous is they got caught in a licensing web.
They actually made an excellent version of Chess called Chess Pro. It has a very similar interface to Scrabulous. http://www.new.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=7908576820
A variant game to do with the connected nature of Wikipedia involves a group of people choosing a start page and an end page and seeing who can get there in the least amount of hops. Posting the route allows for interesting analysis of the logic players used to try to get places. The "find shortest path" in the article would kill that tho :P
"al-dente" in the context of rice being Italian for "Will break your teeth"?
I know for a fact I didn't modify the game, but I started as a female, and both Aerie and Jeheria were... receptive. :)
Unless memory fails me, Baldur's Gate also allowed you develop a gay relationship. There wasn't any particular special treatment for it, it just didn't exclude conversation by gender. You couldn't have a child tho :P
I think Descent's weakness was that number of people who couldn't mesh with it was disproportionately high, with reactions going to the extreme of physical illness. But man, no other FPS could give that kind of rush. Forsaken was absolutely awesome as well. Those are the types of games they should use to test total immersion gaming. If the subject doesn't puke, it works! :)
This answers one part of the question, but I burn 4x and 16x CD-Rs at 4x with a continued zero failure rate over several years. I refuse to upgrade or change brands (external usb hp burner, Memorex (yes I know) disks) because they've worked so well while people I know have nightmares with all kinds of other combinations of better and worse brands of both.
It's the S-Prize. Soon John Carmack will be in on it and it'll get huge computer-media attention.
All your base jokes are still funny? I must've missed a memo.
Ooooohh Pictures!
They're up in arms about the competition from cheap highly skilled programmers and electrical engineers.
They couldn't do the tech jobs without the education.
It's only a matter of time before there are masters of this projected input device and they discover they can using any "pointing device".
HELO imamailserver.com
250 Hello imamailserver.com [127.0.0.1] nice to meet you!
From the description in the article, Radio sounds like it would be considerably more expensive and considerably less convenient. I know people into HAM. They spend tens of thousands on their hardware, and still can't match the flexibility, intuitiveness and impact of videoconferencing. Radio has it's ups, but in this case, low cost low bandwidth video conferencing has it beat hands down.
That must be why folks with an Indian university education are taking away jobs by the boatload from Americans.
Anyway the gist of it was agreement. A little excercise, (one hour, twice a week), has made a tremendous difference for my enegery, attention and sleeping patterns, which has also straightened up my work habits.
So far the new address has gotten a single spam message, which I traced back to sender who got infected with a virus.
I'm not saying this is a good thing. It's terrible that I have to resort to explicit allow to have manageable email. I've had these addresses six or more years, I'm sure there are people who I have not added to the allow. It's unlikely they'll mail me, but if they do, they'll be rejected. Once I do hear from them I add them, and that's been ok, but spam is really starting to hammer on the usefulness of email.
While the actual number is a point of contention, America consumes between 25 and 40% of the world's resources. The WORLD's. You don't need foreign trees? Your own forests would dissappear in a decade if you tried to run America on local trees only. Food products? Steel? You sure import a lot of it. Not even to get started on oil.
In most countries outside the US, they would likely be beaten with a cricket bat.
While the official collection may not exist any longer, that didn't stop amazon from releasing their own for $100. Check it out.
Anime is expensive, but I think it's worth it. It's been a rewarding hobby for me, and one that's easy to share with others with anime I own.
They said it was an attack of opportunity, there was no time for psyche effects, they just rolled the d20 and crossed their fingers like the rest of us.
Marketing says: "Philosopher's Stone means nothing to target audience, call it "SORCERERS Stone", that makes it magic."
or
""Leon: The Professional" is too much for target audience to read, call it "The Professional". Oh and cut out all that inuendo, we'll get sued."
For these and other opinions some guy is paid 6 figures.
We recently performed an upgrade to a virus scanning mail server, now I get notified everytime it blocks a virus, about 20-30 times a day.