If multiple accounts aren't allowed to link to the same page for their link that goes with submitting the story, then wouldn't that remove some of the incentive to spam stories, thereby removing at least one motivation?
The code complexity to do this right, not to mention having to work out what statistics to take into account for such a system and how to properly measure them, would delay the development of already long taking and complex games by a great degree I would have to think, which is why the odds of seeing such a system anytime soon are not high.
Though something like a PSO or maybe GA could have some interesting results, given enough (read: LOTS) of testing.
Yeah that I can get behind 100%, with clerics having to use up a spell that could have gone to healing, and other similar tricks from other classes.
and I DEFINETLY agree there needs to be similar abilities/needs from other classes. Make it so there are a lot of ways to complete any given dungeon based on what group make up you have.
Thoughts on necessity of rogues in a group.
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The problem I have with this is it may make rogues TOO required. If you can skip the traps entirely but it make the dungeon take longer (read: the long way around) I don't have a problem with it. Otherwise you risk everyone rolling rogue because they are so needed.
The biggest problem with sticking with a 400 is the fact that the number of people who are trained to work on the things who are still in the market is shrinking at a noteable rate as there is little in the way of new people coming into it. Remember it wasn't more then a few months ago when there was a/. story about how IBM was looking to convince universities to start having programs about as/400s again.
This of course means that keeping support staff can become more expensive as the number of capable people declines, driving the cost of the system up over the years.
Keep in mind I'm probably a bit biased as I'm stuck working on a 400 as both a pseudo-sysadmin and developer at a tiny company who's codebase is hideous (lots of in house apps) which makes the 400 sometimes frustrating to work with.
That is strange I sure got mine... did you check in the leftmost pocket when you fully unfolded the Extended version, where the left was disc one and the rightmost was appendicies disc 2?
As a recent college grad who's been hunting for tech/programming work since May I can say... without experience right now unless you happen to live in an area with enough tech companies who'll hire "local candidates only" work is almost impossible to find. You need 3-5 years job experience or more... so basically the people who are probably (note probably, I'm not one of these so I can't know for sure) position to be in right now is the 28-35 year olds with a degree who've got one/a few projects/jobs/etc behind them.
Valid point, but IE is still a resource hogfrom hell...
At the same time, will MS add popup blocking into the browser, or will they just let 3rd party warez do it for them like now... hell maybe there are companies paying them NOT to add popup blocking (no I don't KNOW this but it's a thought, and being the Anti-MS guy I am it wouldn't surprise me)
As someone who converted from IE 6 at the.2 release of Phoenix I thought I'd chime in.
First off, tabs, greatest thing on earth. Run one copy of Phoenix, view as many pages as you want. And with.4, you can use ctrl- and 1-0 to alternate quickly among your first 10 tabs (on top of ctrl-page up and down to just go back and forth) so if you are more keyboard oriented you can cycle around quickly still.
Secondly, resources. My pc (mind you it's an old p2 300 with 416 megs of RAM) used to slowly go down to almost no resources until I had to reboot, now since I switched to phoenix (no other changes) I live in the 40+% range (usually 50+).
Third, as someone else said but can't be reiterated enough, popup killing, as well as ad image blocking. Wonderful tools in the horrible overjavascripted web of today
fourth, speed. It seems to flow a lot faster for me then IE... probably in the seconds range, which in many instances even on a modem like I'm on, can be a LOT.
All in all, phoenix is just a solid piece of software that has nowhere to go but up.
I saw this quote from someone working for the state of Utah and found it rather interesting (not surprising of course)
"We buy Microsoft products, and we have this sort of love-hate relationship with them like everyone else, I suppose," said Phillip Windley, chief information officer for the State of Utah. "Last year, they forced us to conduct an audit, which was very painful. And it turns out that the bottom line was that we have overbought. They didn't offer to refund any of those overbought licenses. But if we had underbought, they certainly would have required us to pay more money, I trust."
True, and if you don't wanna admit it's your porn you can claim you just happened to connect
plausible deniabile porn... man it gets better and better.
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Considering Graham's love of LISP I really doubt it has anything to do with RoR...
He's even building his own derivative language called Arc.
If multiple accounts aren't allowed to link to the same page for their link that goes with submitting the story, then wouldn't that remove some of the incentive to spam stories, thereby removing at least one motivation?
The code complexity to do this right, not to mention having to work out what statistics to take into account for such a system and how to properly measure them, would delay the development of already long taking and complex games by a great degree I would have to think, which is why the odds of seeing such a system anytime soon are not high.
Though something like a PSO or maybe GA could have some interesting results, given enough (read: LOTS) of testing.
Yeah that I can get behind 100%, with clerics having to use up a spell that could have gone to healing, and other similar tricks from other classes.
and I DEFINETLY agree there needs to be similar abilities/needs from other classes. Make it so there are a lot of ways to complete any given dungeon based on what group make up you have.
The problem I have with this is it may make rogues TOO required. If you can skip the traps entirely but it make the dungeon take longer (read: the long way around) I don't have a problem with it. Otherwise you risk everyone rolling rogue because they are so needed.
The biggest problem with sticking with a 400 is the fact that the number of people who are trained to work on the things who are still in the market is shrinking at a noteable rate as there is little in the way of new people coming into it. Remember it wasn't more then a few months ago when there was a /. story about how IBM was looking to convince universities to start having programs about as/400s again.
This of course means that keeping support staff can become more expensive as the number of capable people declines, driving the cost of the system up over the years.
Keep in mind I'm probably a bit biased as I'm stuck working on a 400 as both a pseudo-sysadmin and developer at a tiny company who's codebase is hideous (lots of in house apps) which makes the 400 sometimes frustrating to work with.
That is strange I sure got mine... did you check in the leftmost pocket when you fully unfolded the Extended version, where the left was disc one and the rightmost was appendicies disc 2?
As a recent college grad who's been hunting for tech/programming work since May I can say... without experience right now unless you happen to live in an area with enough tech companies who'll hire "local candidates only" work is almost impossible to find. You need 3-5 years job experience or more... so basically the people who are probably (note probably, I'm not one of these so I can't know for sure) position to be in right now is the 28-35 year olds with a degree who've got one/a few projects/jobs/etc behind them.
Valid point, but IE is still a resource hogfrom hell...
At the same time, will MS add popup blocking into the browser, or will they just let 3rd party warez do it for them like now... hell maybe there are companies paying them NOT to add popup blocking (no I don't KNOW this but it's a thought, and being the Anti-MS guy I am it wouldn't surprise me)
As someone who converted from IE 6 at the .2 release of Phoenix I thought I'd chime in.
.4, you can use ctrl- and 1-0 to alternate quickly among your first 10 tabs (on top of ctrl-page up and down to just go back and forth) so if you are more keyboard oriented you can cycle around quickly still.
First off, tabs, greatest thing on earth. Run one copy of Phoenix, view as many pages as you want. And with
Secondly, resources. My pc (mind you it's an old p2 300 with 416 megs of RAM) used to slowly go down to almost no resources until I had to reboot, now since I switched to phoenix (no other changes) I live in the 40+% range (usually 50+).
Third, as someone else said but can't be reiterated enough, popup killing, as well as ad image blocking. Wonderful tools in the horrible overjavascripted web of today
fourth, speed. It seems to flow a lot faster for me then IE... probably in the seconds range, which in many instances even on a modem like I'm on, can be a LOT.
All in all, phoenix is just a solid piece of software that has nowhere to go but up.
I saw this quote from someone working for the state of Utah and found it rather interesting (not surprising of course) "We buy Microsoft products, and we have this sort of love-hate relationship with them like everyone else, I suppose," said Phillip Windley, chief information officer for the State of Utah. "Last year, they forced us to conduct an audit, which was very painful. And it turns out that the bottom line was that we have overbought. They didn't offer to refund any of those overbought licenses. But if we had underbought, they certainly would have required us to pay more money, I trust."
True, and if you don't wanna admit it's your porn you can claim you just happened to connect plausible deniabile porn... man it gets better and better.
Wow 5 gigs worth of portable porn, what will they think of next? *gets ready to be modded down*