Well, you know, there's always the chance that players haven't visited Naxxramas.
Or Ahn'Qiraj.
Or Zul'Gurub. Or Blackwing Lair. Or Dire Maul. Or Mauradon. Or Battlegrounds. Or used the auction houses in Thunder Bluff, Undercity, Stormwind, Darnassus, Booty Bay, or Everlook....but I doubt it.
Blizzard isn't adding any new classes this round. All they're doing class-wise is allowing each faction to now have the other faction's unique class.
These classes will be available to the two new races.
What does need to be balanced: 1. The two new races' racial abilities. Each race in World of Warcraft has 4 racial abilities, normally split into 1 Active and 3 Passive skills. Most of the Passive skills are plusses to resists, attributes, professions, and weapons, but there are exceptions. 2. The new talents and spells for each class. Rather than just give classes higher versions of their existing skills, Blizzard has created new spells and abilities.
The Talent trees have also been shuffled around in the expansion... although there's a good chance that the new talent trees will be available to all players. There are 3 talent trees available to each class. Players currently receive 1 talent point per level starting at level 10. In the present game, this means you top out at 51 points at level 60. The expansion bumps both up by 10.
Talent Trees are constructed so that you have to spend points in the lower talents in a tree in order to access the higher level talents. That's also why there's 3 trees per class: You can't gain access to the best talents in a tree without first spending 30 points in lower talents in said tree.
The expansion adds two more levels, making it so the best talents take 40 points in lower talents to reach. New talents have been added at other points in the tree as well.
"but I just think a floating magical portal into the expansion is so clearly a tech-crutch."
Except that this particular magical portal (which isn't floating, btw... you can go see it in Blasted Lands if you really want to) is written into Warcraft Lore. Heck, it was a major feature in "Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness" and its expansion "Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal".
Asking to use your computer would be quite useless if 1. You didn't have WoW installed OR 2. They didn't bring the WoW install discs with them.
and even if they did, passwording your regular account (assuming Windows here) and setting up the Guest account will make it so they can't install it.:P
I can confirm that you do not lose XP for dying on a PvE server. In fact, I'm fairly sure it's stated in the game manual that you don't lose XP on death.
I'm one of those people who had bad memories of Netscape 4. My parents actually refused to move away from Netscape, though.
They kept using Netscape 4 until Netscape 6 came out, then they wanted to move back to 4 because they hated 6's interface. Hence the move to Firefox/Thunderbird.:P
Of course, if your family members (even mom and dad) were using the web starting back at Netscape 1.x, it's way easier to get them to use Firefox.
"Oh, this? It's the latest version of Netscape. Oh, and mom, email is now in a separate program so it loads faster. You just double-click this icon that looks like an envelope with a bird on it."
Did I mention that my mother doesn't do much web browsing? I think she's happier now that "Netscape" has email as a separate program.
You could argue that, but I'm sure someone would quickly point out that a BASIC interpretter isn't an operating system.
The Commodore 128 also mentions Microsoft BASIC on its startup screen. Does this mean that its software is compatible with the Coco's software? (Hint: No)
Shouldn't that be unlock the doors closed to developers?
However, Microsoft already has massive programmer support, along with a development suite that a number of developers seem to prefer. (Note: I am not one of them.)
At this point, Apple is fighting an uphill battle to draw in developers.
In other words, no. If you have to follow "cross-platform rules" than it's not really WORA. Any language can be considered cross-platform if special rules are allowable. True cross-platform requires that each and every application run identically on all systems. Otherwise, what's the point?
Using your definition, no language would ever be WORA because of stupid programmers who make invalid assumptions about the operating environment.
I've found that since Opera went free, and people keep talking about this "Firefox memory leak" thing, the voices in support of Opera on Slashdot have grown considerably.
Yeah. I didn't start using it until: 1. It was free. 2. Firefox's developers pissed me off. This wasn't related to the memory leak bug, but that definitely contributed to me switching instead of just grinning and bearing it.
I blame #1 for me not discovering the greatness of Opera earlier.
Actually, I do use the GIMP, but only for resizing things (I used to use Macromedia Fireworks for this, but Fireworks does some odd things with.PNG file sizes unless you choose use Export).
As a web designer, there's a few different things I might want to create. Outside of logos, there is also buttons, which are generally a shape with text on them. How would I go about doing that in several different editors?
MS Paint: 1. Draw shape using appropriate shape tool. 2. Write text using text tool and style it appropriately. 3. Adjust colors... can't change the transparency (afaik).
Photoshop: 1. Draw shape using appropriate shape tool. 2. Write text using text tool and style it appropriately. 3. Adjust colors / transparency.
Paint Shop Pro: 1. Draw shape using appropriate shape tool. 2. Write text using text tool and style it appropriately. 3. Adjust colors / transparency.
The GIMP: 1. Use one of the selection tools to select an area. 2. Use the fill tool to fill the area. 3. Shrink the selection. 4. Delete the contents of the selection box. 5. Write text using text tool and style it appropriately. 6. Adjust colors / transparency.
Oops, The GIMP doesn't have shape tools, so you have to abuse the selection tool to draw them.
Another common web design thing is styling text. One such popular text type is chrome.
MS Paint: 1. Can't do it, don't bother trying.
Photoshop 1. Choose black background and white text. 2. Choose a wide font. 3. Type in the text you want to chrome. 4. Rasterize the text layer, then duplicate it. 5. Apply Gaussian blurs to one of the layers. 6. Apply lighting effects to the top layer. 7. Add a small blur to the top layer to soften the edges. 8. Add curves using the curve tool.
Paint Shop Pro: 1. Choose white background and white text. Yes, both are the same color. 2. Choose a wide font. 3. Type in the text you want to chrome. 4. Feather the selection a bit (makes the selection wider than the text). 5. Apply the Hot Wax special effect until it looks like you want it.
The GIMP: Part 1. Create an environment map. 1. Create an initial environment map using the Render Solid Noise filter. 2. Adjust the contrast. It is recommended that you use the Auto-stretch Contrast filter. 3. Blur the environment map to soften it. 4. Select the gradient you want to use in the gradient editor.
Part 2: Create the text 1. Choose black background and white text. The image MUST be a greyscale image. 2. Choose a wide font. 3. Type in the text you want to chrome.
Part 3: Create the final image 1. Create a new image with the same size as the text image. 2. Open the Lighting plugin. 3. Select the files you created in the previous two steps as the environment-map and bumpmap files. 4. Choose a maximum height. 5. Apply.
Of those choices, I prefer Paint Shop Pro's. It's the least amount of work for me for the exact same effect. However, this also limits you, so the best comprimise is the way Photoshop does it.
How about supporting id on client-side image maps when the pages that they're on are served as text/html? It's the only major browser that doesn't support this.
I hope I didn't come across as rude in my earlier post. It's just that several others and myself have to keep repeating this same fact, and I was getting a bit exasperated.
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Well, you know, there's always the chance that players haven't visited Naxxramas.
...but I doubt it.
Or Ahn'Qiraj.
Or Zul'Gurub.
Or Blackwing Lair.
Or Dire Maul. Or Mauradon. Or Battlegrounds. Or used the auction houses in Thunder Bluff, Undercity, Stormwind, Darnassus, Booty Bay, or Everlook.
It is the best... at sales, that is.
Believe it or not, news about highly successful products tends to get posted.
Blizzard isn't adding any new classes this round. All they're doing class-wise is allowing each faction to now have the other faction's unique class.
These classes will be available to the two new races.
What does need to be balanced:
1. The two new races' racial abilities. Each race in World of Warcraft has 4 racial abilities, normally split into 1 Active and 3 Passive skills. Most of the Passive skills are plusses to resists, attributes, professions, and weapons, but there are exceptions.
2. The new talents and spells for each class. Rather than just give classes higher versions of their existing skills, Blizzard has created new spells and abilities.
The Talent trees have also been shuffled around in the expansion... although there's a good chance that the new talent trees will be available to all players. There are 3 talent trees available to each class. Players currently receive 1 talent point per level starting at level 10. In the present game, this means you top out at 51 points at level 60. The expansion bumps both up by 10.
Talent Trees are constructed so that you have to spend points in the lower talents in a tree in order to access the higher level talents. That's also why there's 3 trees per class: You can't gain access to the best talents in a tree without first spending 30 points in lower talents in said tree.
The expansion adds two more levels, making it so the best talents take 40 points in lower talents to reach. New talents have been added at other points in the tree as well.
Parsing...
Error detected! PUG and dkp used in same paragraph! Program will now shut down. or shut up.
"but I just think a floating magical portal into the expansion is so clearly a tech-crutch."
Except that this particular magical portal (which isn't floating, btw... you can go see it in Blasted Lands if you really want to) is written into Warcraft Lore. Heck, it was a major feature in "Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness" and its expansion "Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal".
Asking to use your computer would be quite useless if
:P
1. You didn't have WoW installed
OR
2. They didn't bring the WoW install discs with them.
and even if they did, passwording your regular account (assuming Windows here) and setting up the Guest account will make it so they can't install it.
I can confirm that you do not lose XP for dying on a PvE server. In fact, I'm fairly sure it's stated in the game manual that you don't lose XP on death.
See the Trash Can pulldown menu on the far right of the Tab bar? No?!
:P
Oh yeah, this topic is for Firefox, not Opera.
Really? It renders just fine for me.
Of course, I'm using Opera 9...
P.S. I also hate the concept of data urls, but I've ranted on that subject in every recent thread that links to that page, so I'll skip it this time.
I'm one of those people who had bad memories of Netscape 4. My parents actually refused to move away from Netscape, though.
:P
They kept using Netscape 4 until Netscape 6 came out, then they wanted to move back to 4 because they hated 6's interface. Hence the move to Firefox/Thunderbird.
Of course, if your family members (even mom and dad) were using the web starting back at Netscape 1.x, it's way easier to get them to use Firefox.
"Oh, this? It's the latest version of Netscape. Oh, and mom, email is now in a separate program so it loads faster. You just double-click this icon that looks like an envelope with a bird on it."
Did I mention that my mother doesn't do much web browsing? I think she's happier now that "Netscape" has email as a separate program.
By early, I'm assuming they meant before 4.x, where Netscape started sucking horribly.
I think we should call the process of changing reality this way "wikiality." ...what do you mean Stephan Colbert already coined that term?
You could argue that, but I'm sure someone would quickly point out that a BASIC interpretter isn't an operating system.
The Commodore 128 also mentions Microsoft BASIC on its startup screen. Does this mean that its software is compatible with the Coco's software? (Hint: No)
It's easier to maintain system stability when you write all the drivers.
It's easier to write drivers when you limit the hardware support. Unfortunately, the other side of that scale is market potential...
Shouldn't that be unlock the doors closed to developers?
However, Microsoft already has massive programmer support, along with a development suite that a number of developers seem to prefer. (Note: I am not one of them.)
At this point, Apple is fighting an uphill battle to draw in developers.
Using your definition, no language would ever be WORA because of stupid programmers who make invalid assumptions about the operating environment.
Yeah. I didn't start using it until:
1. It was free.
2. Firefox's developers pissed me off. This wasn't related to the memory leak bug, but that definitely contributed to me switching instead of just grinning and bearing it.
I blame #1 for me not discovering the greatness of Opera earlier.
Mass hysteria!
That doesn't tend to work well on name-based virtual hosts. This does, though:
powerlord@vgmusic.com$ telnet www.google.com
GET / HTTP/1.1[enter]
Host: www.google.com[enter]
User-Agent: telnet[enter]
[enter]
Actually, I do use the GIMP, but only for resizing things (I used to use Macromedia Fireworks for this, but Fireworks does some odd things with .PNG file sizes unless you choose use Export).
As a web designer, there's a few different things I might want to create. Outside of logos, there is also buttons, which are generally a shape with text on them. How would I go about doing that in several different editors?
MS Paint:
1. Draw shape using appropriate shape tool.
2. Write text using text tool and style it appropriately.
3. Adjust colors... can't change the transparency (afaik).
Photoshop:
1. Draw shape using appropriate shape tool.
2. Write text using text tool and style it appropriately.
3. Adjust colors / transparency.
Paint Shop Pro:
1. Draw shape using appropriate shape tool.
2. Write text using text tool and style it appropriately.
3. Adjust colors / transparency.
The GIMP:
1. Use one of the selection tools to select an area.
2. Use the fill tool to fill the area.
3. Shrink the selection.
4. Delete the contents of the selection box.
5. Write text using text tool and style it appropriately.
6. Adjust colors / transparency.
Oops, The GIMP doesn't have shape tools, so you have to abuse the selection tool to draw them.
Another common web design thing is styling text. One such popular text type is chrome.
MS Paint:
1. Can't do it, don't bother trying.
Photoshop
1. Choose black background and white text.
2. Choose a wide font.
3. Type in the text you want to chrome.
4. Rasterize the text layer, then duplicate it.
5. Apply Gaussian blurs to one of the layers.
6. Apply lighting effects to the top layer.
7. Add a small blur to the top layer to soften the edges.
8. Add curves using the curve tool.
Paint Shop Pro:
1. Choose white background and white text. Yes, both are the same color.
2. Choose a wide font.
3. Type in the text you want to chrome.
4. Feather the selection a bit (makes the selection wider than the text).
5. Apply the Hot Wax special effect until it looks like you want it.
The GIMP:
Part 1. Create an environment map.
1. Create an initial environment map using the Render Solid Noise filter.
2. Adjust the contrast. It is recommended that you use the Auto-stretch Contrast filter.
3. Blur the environment map to soften it.
4. Select the gradient you want to use in the gradient editor.
Part 2: Create the text
1. Choose black background and white text. The image MUST be a greyscale image.
2. Choose a wide font.
3. Type in the text you want to chrome.
Part 3: Create the final image
1. Create a new image with the same size as the text image.
2. Open the Lighting plugin.
3. Select the files you created in the previous two steps as the environment-map and bumpmap files.
4. Choose a maximum height.
5. Apply.
Of those choices, I prefer Paint Shop Pro's. It's the least amount of work for me for the exact same effect. However, this also limits you, so the best comprimise is the way Photoshop does it.
The XHTML spec reads differently.
How about supporting id on client-side image maps when the pages that they're on are served as text/html? It's the only major browser that doesn't support this.
It's easy to do threads in perl 5.8.
I hope I didn't come across as rude in my earlier post. It's just that several others and myself have to keep repeating this same fact, and I was getting a bit exasperated.