How long do you think it'll take before they got water in the tank? I'll give you a hint: One day my S.O. phoned home and asked what to do when the screen washer doesn't work. I told her to fill up the tank and proceeded by telling her it has a blue lid on it (that specificly says wiper fluid as opposed to the yellow one that says coolant fluid) She was happy to hear this and I thought everything was cool. When she got home, she told me that my advice was no good and that the washer must be broken. I went to have a look and found that the tank was empty. I asked her if she'd filled it up and she told me that she had, just as I told her to. Except ofcourse she added windscreen washer fluid and water to the radiator. Not a real disaster but doesn't do Jack to your windscreen washer.
It should be vlear from the above why we need to stick to open source, right?;)
but by doing that you get nowhere closer to a more realistic virtual world. Ok, granted, in real world people expect to be shut away for a long time (life or close to it) for a premeditated (spelling might suck here) murder. And it should be something like that in online games, too. But for instance them dark elves hate humans in Everquest. Yet human PCs don't get to kill dark elven PCs or vice versa, unless it's a PVP server, in which case everyone gets to kill everyone anyway.
I don't know the right solution to killing, especially if you want to have character classes such as assassin (what would be the point of making a character specializing in killing if it's not possible?) but I do feel very strongly about the so-called neutral alignment classes. I would LOVE to play a thief or a rogue if I was able to actually pick someone's pockets occasionally and perhaps even break into someone's house but in order for it to be fair it'd either have to be NPC houses (booooring) or there should be a limit to what and how much you can steal or something (not quite fair busting your chops off for that Wondrous Armor of Immortality +792 if the very next night someone busts into your home and steals it) One way of dealing with these issues is to declare that "life is not fair" and another is to ban just about everything.
No MMORPG (that I know of) has the balance between these anywhere close to what I think is right so I don't play any of them. Which is probably for the best, all things considered.
So you'd feel better about your computer if you knew that someday I could just creep into your apartment and take it from you?
I remember (ok, so it starts silly, bear with me) as a kid of 14 getting my 1st summer job. It paid like, oh, $500 a month or something. I was saving for a VCR as my parents were of the opinion that they don't need it, they get enough TV as it is. So I worked for a month and spent all of the money on a VCR. Yes, back in those days they really DID cost that much. I felt really good about that VCR and I don't think a potential threat of someone stealing it might have made it better for me. Ok, in a real world there is always a possibility of getting robbed and thus in a realistic virtual world there should be, too. But in any online game that allows PKing and/or stealing from other players it happens ridiculously often. It should be allowed to some extent but it would also have to be illegal in the gaming world and punishable as well. In the real world you get to pay fines in mild cases and go to jail in the more extreme cases. And you always, ALWAYS lose the benefit from your crime if you get caught and the one you have wronged should be recompensated as well. In the virtual world jail-time would probably translate to losing the gaming time you have paid for and well, fines and suchlike are pretty straightforward. If it needs to be truly virtual as in real-life-like, then make it truly virtual. Implement police force etc. Thief should be a possible occupation but it should also be an occupation that is easily short-lived and/or difficult to play.
This, by the way, from someone who only has experience on Everquest, not UO. All comments are welcome.
It WILL be one helluva boring ride, that's for sure. Even if the thingy accelerates to like 2000km/h it'll still take like 50 hours to reach the top. Hope that elevator has a good bathroom and a nice restaurant not to mention a bed innit.
What kinda pings do you think they'll get from up there by the way?
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Well, cellphone stealing has gone down a lot after joe sixpack's cellphone's price sunk to $99 or so. So if they start making laptops that only cost about $100 they won't be worth stealing anymore. Not that I see it happening, but...
I fully agree that uglification or some other unique identification is the key rather than alarms. Either that or never leaving your laptop anywhere. Ever.
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come now, surely it will be helpful to know what NOT to use;)
I have been using Winamp for almost as long as it's been out. During that time it has NEVER done any kind of whipping or other suchlike acts even when I took it to the zoo on my laptop and showed it a llama. I think this is false advertising and I DEMAND my money back!
Mandrake and Lothar are standing by their car, which has a flat tire. Lothar asks Mandrake why he doesn't just fix the tire with his magicks. Mandrake replies, that he can hypnotize Lothar into believing that the tire is fixed and that he could probably even hypnotize himself to believe that the tire is fixed but that he has no idea how to hypnotize the TIRE to believe it is fixed.
Add my vote to the cathegory that says "has nothing to do with comics" please.
in the MMORPG genre that seems to be the thing to do. EverCrack had a patch day every week. Plus unannounced critical patches. To tell you the truth they were good for my social life back then, because I'd actually get off the net and do something. But trust me, MMORPGs are not even close to complete when they are released. And yes, I feel this fits right in with Microsoft's business model. Oh, except that in EQ they sometimes did admit they have a problem and at least pretended to try to fix the problem.
There is only so much time before the election... Umm, I mean that America is in too much of a rush to space before, err, them communists get there, or something. Yessirree, no time to wait for no elevator.
if you look at market shares, they don't. Plain and ugly truth: market's pretty much dominated by Symbian and Bill is trying very, VERY hard to get his share, too. Doesn't look good for PalmOS
So now we're looking for anyone NOT named Andy, because even someone as stupid as a virus-writer wouldn't be so dumb as to put their real name on something this destructive.
Yes, unless he used reverse psychology and thought that nobody would believe his name is Andy. Or maybe he thought we'd think that he thought no-one would believe his name is Andy, or perhaps... Crud, I'm in a loop. This virus is VERY nasty indeed. Damn you Andy/notAndy!
Quite a few good comments about this in them previous posts, so I won't bother bashing the hair-brained idea of disposable discs anymore. Instead, I'll get right to the heart of the matter: wanna bet Conan O'Brien will make another crack at Gigli in relation to this?
There's 2 kinds of people, those who care and, well, who cares?
Most things that are fun as a hobby become tedious and not fun once you have to do them every day to get $$$. Remember how it was kinda neat making that web page for yourself back in the good old days? Well, try making a few pages every day for a month and see if you still like it. I didn't. I would imagine the same applies to games. Then again, maybe I just don't like working, period;)
...someone with terrorist connections decides to support someone's campaign? Can they somehow reject donations or something? Not that I think Georgey-boy will get much money from Al Quaida (sp?) but someone might, or someone might be framed so it looks like that. Ok, maybe I wathced conspiracy theory once too often, but it could be done, right?
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How long do you think it'll take before they got water in the tank? I'll give you a hint: One day my S.O. phoned home and asked what to do when the screen washer doesn't work. I told her to fill up the tank and proceeded by telling her it has a blue lid on it (that specificly says wiper fluid as opposed to the yellow one that says coolant fluid) She was happy to hear this and I thought everything was cool. When she got home, she told me that my advice was no good and that the washer must be broken. I went to have a look and found that the tank was empty. I asked her if she'd filled it up and she told me that she had, just as I told her to. Except ofcourse she added windscreen washer fluid and water to the radiator. Not a real disaster but doesn't do Jack to your windscreen washer.
;)
It should be vlear from the above why we need to stick to open source, right?
Very fitting for a project like this. Oh as in zero sex. Sounds about right for someone spending most of their time modding an XBox
but by doing that you get nowhere closer to a more realistic virtual world. Ok, granted, in real world people expect to be shut away for a long time (life or close to it) for a premeditated (spelling might suck here) murder. And it should be something like that in online games, too. But for instance them dark elves hate humans in Everquest. Yet human PCs don't get to kill dark elven PCs or vice versa, unless it's a PVP server, in which case everyone gets to kill everyone anyway.
I don't know the right solution to killing, especially if you want to have character classes such as assassin (what would be the point of making a character specializing in killing if it's not possible?) but I do feel very strongly about the so-called neutral alignment classes. I would LOVE to play a thief or a rogue if I was able to actually pick someone's pockets occasionally and perhaps even break into someone's house but in order for it to be fair it'd either have to be NPC houses (booooring) or there should be a limit to what and how much you can steal or something (not quite fair busting your chops off for that Wondrous Armor of Immortality +792 if the very next night someone busts into your home and steals it) One way of dealing with these issues is to declare that "life is not fair" and another is to ban just about everything.
No MMORPG (that I know of) has the balance between these anywhere close to what I think is right so I don't play any of them. Which is probably for the best, all things considered.
So you'd feel better about your computer if you knew that someday I could just creep into your apartment and take it from you?
I remember (ok, so it starts silly, bear with me) as a kid of 14 getting my 1st summer job. It paid like, oh, $500 a month or something. I was saving for a VCR as my parents were of the opinion that they don't need it, they get enough TV as it is. So I worked for a month and spent all of the money on a VCR. Yes, back in those days they really DID cost that much. I felt really good about that VCR and I don't think a potential threat of someone stealing it might have made it better for me. Ok, in a real world there is always a possibility of getting robbed and thus in a realistic virtual world there should be, too. But in any online game that allows PKing and/or stealing from other players it happens ridiculously often. It should be allowed to some extent but it would also have to be illegal in the gaming world and punishable as well. In the real world you get to pay fines in mild cases and go to jail in the more extreme cases. And you always, ALWAYS lose the benefit from your crime if you get caught and the one you have wronged should be recompensated as well. In the virtual world jail-time would probably translate to losing the gaming time you have paid for and well, fines and suchlike are pretty straightforward. If it needs to be truly virtual as in real-life-like, then make it truly virtual. Implement police force etc. Thief should be a possible occupation but it should also be an occupation that is easily short-lived and/or difficult to play.
This, by the way, from someone who only has experience on Everquest, not UO. All comments are welcome.
It WILL be one helluva boring ride, that's for sure. Even if the thingy accelerates to like 2000km/h it'll still take like 50 hours to reach the top. Hope that elevator has a good bathroom and a nice restaurant not to mention a bed innit.
What kinda pings do you think they'll get from up there by the way?
Well, cellphone stealing has gone down a lot after joe sixpack's cellphone's price sunk to $99 or so. So if they start making laptops that only cost about $100 they won't be worth stealing anymore. Not that I see it happening, but...
I fully agree that uglification or some other unique identification is the key rather than alarms. Either that or never leaving your laptop anywhere. Ever.
come now, surely it will be helpful to know what NOT to use ;)
I have been using Winamp for almost as long as it's been out. During that time it has NEVER done any kind of whipping or other suchlike acts even when I took it to the zoo on my laptop and showed it a llama. I think this is false advertising and I DEMAND my money back!
Oh, it's free. Never mind
must be the same guy who designed that XBox controller
Mandrake and Lothar are standing by their car, which has a flat tire. Lothar asks Mandrake why he doesn't just fix the tire with his magicks. Mandrake replies, that he can hypnotize Lothar into believing that the tire is fixed and that he could probably even hypnotize himself to believe that the tire is fixed but that he has no idea how to hypnotize the TIRE to believe it is fixed.
Add my vote to the cathegory that says "has nothing to do with comics" please.
Yes. And it's running a SCO kernel, too
in the MMORPG genre that seems to be the thing to do. EverCrack had a patch day every week. Plus unannounced critical patches. To tell you the truth they were good for my social life back then, because I'd actually get off the net and do something. But trust me, MMORPGs are not even close to complete when they are released. And yes, I feel this fits right in with Microsoft's business model. Oh, except that in EQ they sometimes did admit they have a problem and at least pretended to try to fix the problem.
There is only so much time before the election... Umm, I mean that America is in too much of a rush to space before, err, them communists get there, or something. Yessirree, no time to wait for no elevator.
if you look at market shares, they don't. Plain and ugly truth: market's pretty much dominated by Symbian and Bill is trying very, VERY hard to get his share, too. Doesn't look good for PalmOS
Great browser but the name change makes me wanna show them the fox...
The day Microsoft has half the kind of security track record as OpenBSD, they'll be cut some slack.
....
Hmm, so....
1) Erase OpenBSD track records
2) calculate that 1/2 * 0
3)
4) Profit!
So now we're looking for anyone NOT named Andy, because even someone as stupid as a virus-writer wouldn't be so dumb as to put their real name on something this destructive.
Yes, unless he used reverse psychology and thought that nobody would believe his name is Andy. Or maybe he thought we'd think that he thought no-one would believe his name is Andy, or perhaps... Crud, I'm in a loop. This virus is VERY nasty indeed. Damn you Andy/notAndy!
Quite a few good comments about this in them previous posts, so I won't bother bashing the hair-brained idea of disposable discs anymore. Instead, I'll get right to the heart of the matter: wanna bet Conan O'Brien will make another crack at Gigli in relation to this?
There's 2 kinds of people, those who care and, well, who cares?
Most things that are fun as a hobby become tedious and not fun once you have to do them every day to get $$$. Remember how it was kinda neat making that web page for yourself back in the good old days? Well, try making a few pages every day for a month and see if you still like it. I didn't. I would imagine the same applies to games. Then again, maybe I just don't like working, period ;)
Not to mention that Bill Gates could sell some of his stock if he wanted to, and put that money back in the company.
How fast do you think Microsoft's stock price would go down, were Bill to send bigger amounts of his?
Yes, but if it was one of those guys, surely the virus would be called GNAA/goatse.cx or something like that.
I have been requested by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company to contact you for assistance in resolving a matter... ;)
...someone with terrorist connections decides to support someone's campaign? Can they somehow reject donations or something? Not that I think Georgey-boy will get much money from Al Quaida (sp?) but someone might, or someone might be framed so it looks like that. Ok, maybe I wathced conspiracy theory once too often, but it could be done, right?
Sounds like a slow but expensive random number generator to me ;)
Hmph, this is so obvious. Even a child knows, that north is the one that is upwards in your map. Just look at any map of Mars and... Oh, never mind