>Ideally, all groups should have the same birth rates.
What for? Is God going to come down and smack us around for having different cultures and levels of development? Why would you try to dictate something like this for no better reason than symetry?
>And the west should get their priorities straight.
So your saying we should switch over to popping hordes of shoe factory workers out of our women? Or should we go try to tell a Chinese man not to have any more kids to help support his family since it's not economic for us?
So I get a huge patch, almost an expansion, and get to play a game I loved a bit more and all I have to pay Blizzard is some PR? I wish more companies would exploit me this way. There are so many games out there that I really like, but they need a decent patch and will never get them.
Well, I only MUD regularly. I have tried UO and a few other of the new graphical MMO games though. The article doesn't mention clans/guilds or PVP at all. Killing other people is probably the most fun activity in these games in my experience, seconded only by plotting/leveling/equipping your teammates and having the same done to you so you can kill even better. I guess not many of the new games have PVP?
Second he says not to include him in the story. Big mistake IMHO. Any game that doesn't have GM run events and mobs that force the players to do something meaningful in the story isn't worth playing from my POV. I've always enjoyed town invasions, but I admit they are usually the least involving of the GM run quests I've seen. It does get large numbers involved and you do get to hunt down the leaders or protect the empaths or whatever (like watching newbs die left and right, hehehe), though. ^^
I can't figure this article out. He admits the lizard/'zilla bit has some recognition and then says no one knows the Firebird & Thunderbird thing which causes confusion. His conclusion: stick with the 'zilla.
Next he decides to go completely the opposite direction and says get rid of the lizard and keep the flames for icons. WTH? Is confusing people by using the opposite name from the imagery supposed to help this useless branding thing?
As opposed to places like France and Russia who sold billions in arms to places like Iraq...and that after the Gulf War and restrictions like Food for Oil program were in place. They are just escalating arms proliferation which is perfectly all right?
With even countries like that, who pretend to own the moral high ground, spreading arms it would be senseless for us Americans to stop developing counter measures. If we have to go to war and fight France sold arms, no reason we shouldn't make sure we can shoot the artillery shells down instead of taking them in stomach like we did this time around.
Then we have North Korea threatening to sell nuclear weapons, should we really not develop a missile defense with psychos like that on the loose? You can go talk about "escalating the arms race" and feel happy, but I'm glad we are actually doing something about these problems which are going to get fixed by pretending to be nice people like France.
He doesn't say it was Doom he was playing, he says "as early as". Almost everyone into gaming knows Doom and knows it's about 9 years old or so or at least has a general idea - so it's a good thing to use to indicate where gaming was back then.
Personally I used to play muds using my 1200 baud modem (I had a 300 baud earlier, but I only ever used that for bbs stuff) which was way before Doom. The first graphical online games I played were around the age of Doom (actually a bit earlier IRC) and I was using a 2400 by that point. The big one that sticks in my mind is Neverwinter Nights, which was early 90's and you basically played an AD&D gold box game online with other people able to be characters (limit was 250 players in the world at once or something like that). AOL got hundreds of dollars off me playing that game since there was no unlimited plan back then.
So it's entirely possible he meant MUDs and even if not there were graphical online games back then as well. I admit oNWN is IBM PC, but it did run on pathetic hardware.
Wow, it's not buggy, limited, nagware like the QuickTime player on Windows? Maybe I'll give it a try. As others have said this is not the first bit of software Apple has released for Windows and they are going to have to work hard to get over the impression dealing with QT has given me.
You will have to buy a new burner to write dual layer media. So either side having dual layer *plans* doesn't matter at all to choosing now.
Since I'm posting anyway...personally I use DVD-R. It's the most compatible if you ever burn a DVD for a friend, it's cheapest, and the drives are cheaper and have been out longer with more generations (grab an old Pioneer, dirt cheap and reliable). So I couldn't care less about technical matters.
>Show me where I can buy an AMD64-based home computer at the mall
Living in NYC, I know about two dozen shops that will throw a custom PC together for you with an AMD 64 compared to less than half that who sell even off the shelf Macs. I bet even in rural areas you have more computer shops that will do that then Mac stores. Claiming Macs are easier to obtain is silly IMHO.
From reading the comment, the twit-bitch was a classmate in high school and not one of the poster's students. I have serious doubts you ever went to public school if you never thought one of the many who just cheat their way through was an idiot/ass/etc.
In the second case, personally, I feel publicly expelling a cheater will do more good -both for them and the rest of the class - than hiding it for them. The students who would get 'emotionally damaged' or some other ridiculous term over such a thing need mental help anyway. Much better to make a lasting impression on the cheater and an example for the rest in order to keep a few more of them in line.
I wish art was reviewed more like games. We have all this modern crap (and I'm not just talking visual art - we get modern, trying to do something new just to be an ass, works in music and literature as well) that everyone with some taste hates and doesn't connect with the people who view it at all getting rave reviews. Art is only as valuable as the people it affects, without good 'playability' it is worthless.
So many people have posted about zMUD and I agree. In my personal experience it's just silly to restrict yourself to only trying free clients (which I did for a while and have found them all inferior IMHO). The amount of hours people put into MUDs (which is a cost to yourself, just not in money) makes the small $$ cost of a single program which enhances those hours a very good deal.
Oh, no, one hour of work a month goes to paying for MUDs (I also prefer pay to play MUDs, btw ^^) which can entertain for 100 times that.
I use double sided DVD-Rs so you get twice the storage. I store them in these little cases with a selector switch so you can choose which number disc pops out instantly. What is on what number disc is in an easily grep-able text file.
The selector cases are actually cheaper than retail leather like music folders if you buy generic instead of discgear. As for the media, Ritek makes double sided DVD-Rs that are both cheap and reliable. I have over 100 burned with zero problems accessing later, although I do burn at 1x and do a full verify after.
Once long ago, on system no one has us...j/k. Star Wars Arcade for Sega 32x decided to give Admiral Akbar this atrocious accent. The line that sticks in my head is "Destroy enemee fightaaas" which you would hear all the time before missions...it's even funnier when you start saying it that way...and teach your little brother to do it all the time to. ^^
Also the Prinny guys in Disgaea constantly say "Dood" ('cool' wayof saying dude, just in case you don't know;p) in various ways when they attack, which gets pretty odd when you have 3-4 of them attacking in the same round (and characters next to each other can team attack which adds more doodage). Sample: Prinny1: Take this dood! *boom* Prinny2: Dood! *slashslashslash* Prinny1 (team attacking with 2): Dood! Prinny3: Dooooooooood! *thwak* Me (commenting on the experience): Doood! My brother (replying to my comment): Dood.
Hehehehe...also in the Disgaea department, Flonne has some hilarious voiced lines (paraphrased): "Nin nin nin" *pretending to be a ninja* "Nice to meet you. I'm an assassin. Whoops..." "Can't kill strangers. Can't kill acquaintances either...." "Eternal Love! [insert expected response from demon prince] But that's my favorite word!"
In SI units (which most civilised counties use) M means mega which is defined as 10^6, i.e. 1000000 , it is only the computer industry that deems K (1000) to equal 1024 which it does not
First in the SI system the prefix 'kilo' is abbreviated with a small 'k' and not a capital one. So you are flat out wrong there.
Furthermore there is no byte or bit in the SI system, the unit abbreviation 'b' stands for 'barn' which has nothing to do with computers. So no matter what letter is in front of byte the combination cannot be SI anyway.
I actually bought this game after..uh..'sampling' it off the net. Now I'm even more impressed and glad I threw in my support. Of course I preordered and bought MoO3 only to be disappointed on that game, so maybe I'm in backlash mode. ^^
I used to like Logitech mice a lot, but lately all I've been able to find have been the tiny, round, made-for-both-lefty-and-righty models. I really hate these new models of Logitech. The good ones are the nice big ones that fit your hand properly. I've actually switched over to using an IBM mouse with a trackpoint instead of a wheel, which the best one I've ever had. Goodbye Logitech.
How old are vampires and Shakespeare again? ;p
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Well WW says they have many unique points of similarity, but I find it hard to believe. Movies have so much less depth than books (and rpg systems and their backgrounds/settings/scenarios, etc). This movie claims to be vampire/werewolf/etc + Romeo & Juliet both of which are free game and open to anyone by now. How much more can there be to this movie that's outside those concepts? So another book combined the two at some later date, that doesn't mean a movie can't do the same using the same public domain stuff.
There is no file system on the SDRAM, it's completely used for system memory. The unit has built in flash (NAND, I believe) for all the file storage stuff. I've had the battery out quite a few times, it's the same as turning your computer off and starting it up again.
I can't figure out why people whine about no wireless. Wireless sucks battery like no tomorrow and most people keep it off most of the time anyway. Also there are so many competeting standards like bluetooth (probably best for cell phone interop) and the 802.11 (what my college uses for wireless internet) ones and improvements coming down the road that having your wireless on a swappable card is better anyway.
Of course since I don't need wireless I prefer that chunk of the price go towards more SDRAM or better screen or whatever anyway, heh. ^^ The 750/60 has as much SDRAM as most PDAs have total memory.
In my experience the guy could have had his entire character deleted and not deserve anything. This sort of item/data/uptime loss thing has been covered in the licensing terms of every commercial MMO game I've ever played.
Heck, I've even seen the same treatment in MUDs, the imms don't want to waste time with whining players and all the lying ones that would also try to cache in as well and they shouldn't.
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>Ideally, all groups should have the same birth rates.
What for? Is God going to come down and smack us around for having different cultures and levels of development? Why would you try to dictate something like this for no better reason than symetry?
>And the west should get their priorities straight.
So your saying we should switch over to popping hordes of shoe factory workers out of our women? Or should we go try to tell a Chinese man not to have any more kids to help support his family since it's not economic for us?
So I get a huge patch, almost an expansion, and get to play a game I loved a bit more and all I have to pay Blizzard is some PR? I wish more companies would exploit me this way. There are so many games out there that I really like, but they need a decent patch and will never get them.
Well, I only MUD regularly. I have tried UO and a few other of the new graphical MMO games though. The article doesn't mention clans/guilds or PVP at all. Killing other people is probably the most fun activity in these games in my experience, seconded only by plotting/leveling/equipping your teammates and having the same done to you so you can kill even better. I guess not many of the new games have PVP?
Second he says not to include him in the story. Big mistake IMHO. Any game that doesn't have GM run events and mobs that force the players to do something meaningful in the story isn't worth playing from my POV. I've always enjoyed town invasions, but I admit they are usually the least involving of the GM run quests I've seen. It does get large numbers involved and you do get to hunt down the leaders or protect the empaths or whatever (like watching newbs die left and right, hehehe), though. ^^
I can't figure this article out. He admits the lizard/'zilla bit has some recognition and then says no one knows the Firebird & Thunderbird thing which causes confusion. His conclusion: stick with the 'zilla.
Next he decides to go completely the opposite direction and says get rid of the lizard and keep the flames for icons. WTH? Is confusing people by using the opposite name from the imagery supposed to help this useless branding thing?
The sample size is kinda low...what if one of the rats in the Faraday cage was a delinquent and ate the rest of them? ^^
As opposed to places like France and Russia who sold billions in arms to places like Iraq...and that after the Gulf War and restrictions like Food for Oil program were in place. They are just escalating arms proliferation which is perfectly all right?
With even countries like that, who pretend to own the moral high ground, spreading arms it would be senseless for us Americans to stop developing counter measures. If we have to go to war and fight France sold arms, no reason we shouldn't make sure we can shoot the artillery shells down instead of taking them in stomach like we did this time around.
Then we have North Korea threatening to sell nuclear weapons, should we really not develop a missile defense with psychos like that on the loose? You can go talk about "escalating the arms race" and feel happy, but I'm glad we are actually doing something about these problems which are going to get fixed by pretending to be nice people like France.
He doesn't say it was Doom he was playing, he says "as early as". Almost everyone into gaming knows Doom and knows it's about 9 years old or so or at least has a general idea - so it's a good thing to use to indicate where gaming was back then.
Personally I used to play muds using my 1200 baud modem (I had a 300 baud earlier, but I only ever used that for bbs stuff) which was way before Doom. The first graphical online games I played were around the age of Doom (actually a bit earlier IRC) and I was using a 2400 by that point. The big one that sticks in my mind is Neverwinter Nights, which was early 90's and you basically played an AD&D gold box game online with other people able to be characters (limit was 250 players in the world at once or something like that). AOL got hundreds of dollars off me playing that game since there was no unlimited plan back then.
So it's entirely possible he meant MUDs and even if not there were graphical online games back then as well. I admit oNWN is IBM PC, but it did run on pathetic hardware.
Wow, it's not buggy, limited, nagware like the QuickTime player on Windows? Maybe I'll give it a try. As others have said this is not the first bit of software Apple has released for Windows and they are going to have to work hard to get over the impression dealing with QT has given me.
You will have to buy a new burner to write dual layer media. So either side having dual layer *plans* doesn't matter at all to choosing now.
Since I'm posting anyway...personally I use DVD-R. It's the most compatible if you ever burn a DVD for a friend, it's cheapest, and the drives are cheaper and have been out longer with more generations (grab an old Pioneer, dirt cheap and reliable). So I couldn't care less about technical matters.
>Show me where I can buy an AMD64-based home computer at the mall
Living in NYC, I know about two dozen shops that will throw a custom PC together for you with an AMD 64 compared to less than half that who sell even off the shelf Macs. I bet even in rural areas you have more computer shops that will do that then Mac stores. Claiming Macs are easier to obtain is silly IMHO.
From reading the comment, the twit-bitch was a classmate in high school and not one of the poster's students. I have serious doubts you ever went to public school if you never thought one of the many who just cheat their way through was an idiot/ass/etc.
In the second case, personally, I feel publicly expelling a cheater will do more good -both for them and the rest of the class - than hiding it for them. The students who would get 'emotionally damaged' or some other ridiculous term over such a thing need mental help anyway. Much better to make a lasting impression on the cheater and an example for the rest in order to keep a few more of them in line.
I wish art was reviewed more like games. We have all this modern crap (and I'm not just talking visual art - we get modern, trying to do something new just to be an ass, works in music and literature as well) that everyone with some taste hates and doesn't connect with the people who view it at all getting rave reviews. Art is only as valuable as the people it affects, without good 'playability' it is worthless.
So many people have posted about zMUD and I agree. In my personal experience it's just silly to restrict yourself to only trying free clients (which I did for a while and have found them all inferior IMHO). The amount of hours people put into MUDs (which is a cost to yourself, just not in money) makes the small $$ cost of a single program which enhances those hours a very good deal.
Oh, no, one hour of work a month goes to paying for MUDs (I also prefer pay to play MUDs, btw ^^) which can entertain for 100 times that.
I use double sided DVD-Rs so you get twice the storage. I store them in these little cases with a selector switch so you can choose which number disc pops out instantly. What is on what number disc is in an easily grep-able text file.
The selector cases are actually cheaper than retail leather like music folders if you buy generic instead of discgear. As for the media, Ritek makes double sided DVD-Rs that are both cheap and reliable. I have over 100 burned with zero problems accessing later, although I do burn at 1x and do a full verify after.
Once long ago, on system no one has us...j/k. Star Wars Arcade for Sega 32x decided to give Admiral Akbar this atrocious accent. The line that sticks in my head is "Destroy enemee fightaaas" which you would hear all the time before missions...it's even funnier when you start saying it that way...and teach your little brother to do it all the time to. ^^
;p) in various ways when they attack, which gets pretty odd when you have 3-4 of them attacking in the same round (and characters next to each other can team attack which adds more doodage). Sample:
Also the Prinny guys in Disgaea constantly say "Dood" ('cool' wayof saying dude, just in case you don't know
Prinny1: Take this dood! *boom*
Prinny2: Dood! *slashslashslash*
Prinny1 (team attacking with 2): Dood!
Prinny3: Dooooooooood! *thwak*
Me (commenting on the experience): Doood!
My brother (replying to my comment): Dood.
Hehehehe...also in the Disgaea department, Flonne has some hilarious voiced lines (paraphrased):
"Nin nin nin" *pretending to be a ninja*
"Nice to meet you. I'm an assassin. Whoops..."
"Can't kill strangers. Can't kill acquaintances either...."
"Eternal Love! [insert expected response from demon prince] But that's my favorite word!"
In SI units (which most civilised counties use) M means mega which is defined as 10^6, i.e. 1000000 , it is only the computer industry that deems K (1000) to equal 1024 which it does not
First in the SI system the prefix 'kilo' is abbreviated with a small 'k' and not a capital one. So you are flat out wrong there.
Furthermore there is no byte or bit in the SI system, the unit abbreviation 'b' stands for 'barn' which has nothing to do with computers. So no matter what letter is in front of byte the combination cannot be SI anyway.
I actually bought this game after..uh..'sampling' it off the net. Now I'm even more impressed and glad I threw in my support. Of course I preordered and bought MoO3 only to be disappointed on that game, so maybe I'm in backlash mode. ^^
I used to like Logitech mice a lot, but lately all I've been able to find have been the tiny, round, made-for-both-lefty-and-righty models. I really hate these new models of Logitech. The good ones are the nice big ones that fit your hand properly. I've actually switched over to using an IBM mouse with a trackpoint instead of a wheel, which the best one I've ever had. Goodbye Logitech.
Well WW says they have many unique points of similarity, but I find it hard to believe. Movies have so much less depth than books (and rpg systems and their backgrounds/settings/scenarios, etc). This movie claims to be vampire/werewolf/etc + Romeo & Juliet both of which are free game and open to anyone by now. How much more can there be to this movie that's outside those concepts? So another book combined the two at some later date, that doesn't mean a movie can't do the same using the same public domain stuff.
There is no file system on the SDRAM, it's completely used for system memory. The unit has built in flash (NAND, I believe) for all the file storage stuff. I've had the battery out quite a few times, it's the same as turning your computer off and starting it up again.
Contrary to the review, you don't lose your flash/storage memory if the "battery falls out". SDRAM obviously, though.
Also the video player doesn't play MPEG1/2 (or Divx/Xvid either), but this is Linux and mplayer works anyway.
Btw, I love my Zaurus SL-C760 and watch anime and read ebooks/saved html constantly on the thing, hehehe.
I can't figure out why people whine about no wireless. Wireless sucks battery like no tomorrow and most people keep it off most of the time anyway. Also there are so many competeting standards like bluetooth (probably best for cell phone interop) and the 802.11 (what my college uses for wireless internet) ones and improvements coming down the road that having your wireless on a swappable card is better anyway.
Of course since I don't need wireless I prefer that chunk of the price go towards more SDRAM or better screen or whatever anyway, heh. ^^ The 750/60 has as much SDRAM as most PDAs have total memory.
How did this get a +1? The comment replied to is talking about *running*, not bicycling. You know the thing that doesn't give you prostrate cancer?
er.. s/cache/cash, might as well beat someone else to making fun of me, I'm so pathetic ^^
In my experience the guy could have had his entire character deleted and not deserve anything. This sort of item/data/uptime loss thing has been covered in the licensing terms of every commercial MMO game I've ever played.
Heck, I've even seen the same treatment in MUDs, the imms don't want to waste time with whining players and all the lying ones that would also try to cache in as well and they shouldn't.