When suicides are widely reported, the incidence of suicides go up. That's why Toronto, at least in the past, didn't/doesn't report suicides (or at least omits the information that the gunshot wound was self-inflicted).
Sensationalism of kidnaping inarguably leads to more kidnaping, and sensationalism of skyjacking leads to more skyjacking.
This has been known for years, and I don't see why it wouldn't apply to terrorist acts, as well.
*BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are infinitesimally dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among hobbyist dilettante dabblers.
A few corrections here: for something to be "infinitesimally dim" would actually mean that it was dim by such a VERY SMALL fraction that it would not be "dim" at all. Second, a dilettante is a dabbler, so this statement is redundant to the extreme. If you are going to post a boring troll, at least strive for accuracy.
I'll be honest - and this is NOT a flame or a troll - I don't care whether it is against the law or not. When I buy a printer, I'll use it with whatever OS I want, regardless of the license to which I have tacitly (or otherwise) agreed.
My own rights of possession supercede any contracts that I might sign, any EULA, or the letter of any law. If I have to be an outlaw to fully use something that I own, c'est la vie.
Of course, the definition of "ownership" can be problematic for some people, but if I paid for it, and the understanding between myself and the seller is that I would normally be in possession of the purchased item for the rest of my life, than I'll do with it whatever the fuck I want. If I am renting an item - i.e., if it is understood that my possession of said item is temporary, and usually for a brief period - then I will abide by the rules of the provider.
Is it really that fucking difficult to write an accurate summary?
A person reads the summary, and reasonably thinks: "Great! An Open Source equivalent of VMware Workstation! Now I'll be able to run multiple OS's on my Desktop machine without the expense!"
Then he reads:
"Xen requires guest operating systems to be ported to run over it..."
This changes the picture dramatically, and should have appeared MUCH earlier in the summary.
Come on, I know this is only Slashdot, but stupidity and dishonesty like this get really annoying.
Should 1 minute late really be considered 'late'?"
Let's rephrase it:
Should 1 minute early really be considered 'early'?"
Being on time is easy. Your boss knows that it is easy, so when you are late, it is a great big "fuck you" to his desires. Of course, occasional tardiness is understandable, and even sometimes unavoidable, but that you can't drag your ass out of bed or leave the house five minutes earlier is not your bosses problem.
After all, the only important difference between an adult and a child is that an adult does what he/she is supposed to do (i.e, meets his or her responsibilities), even when they are tired, hung-over, etc., otherwise you are still a little boy or girl, and of no use to most employers.
I'm not ragging on you, I'm just stating the facts as I know from experience a large number of employers see them.
I think that we are essentially in agreement. I wasn't actually arguing that we imprison people to punish them, which was why I was arguing for the rights of prisoners to enjoy their consoles while they are locked up.
Sorry if I was unclear.
Anyway, as far as a prison being a "corrective facility," how many of the broken people who go into them ever emerge fixed? Results are the only true measure, not ideology or intention.
We do hold people in prison so they cannot do cannot do more harm, but only because we have to be protected from them while they are "corrected."
The system doesn't work. People are not cakes or pies that take a set amount of time to be prepare (to make whole). When, or if, the person has been repaired, we should let them out of the institution, not before, at least if we are adhering to the "prison is not punishment" credo.
We put people in prison for one of three reasons: 1) to rehabilitate them, 2) to punish them, 3) to keep them away from polite society so they won't harm us again.
Unless you are in prison for option 2, why the fuck shouldn't you play video games whilst there? Especailly since you might be there because the government has exceeded their mandate and locked you up for ingesting a substance that it is none of their fucking business to prevent you from ingesting.
"Hemingway bifurcated his sensibilities between post-modernism and jazz. This I posit without having read the majority of Hemingway's work: it seemed irrelevant to the focus of my current project. What is this focus, and is it monocular? My focus can be summed up as ascertaining the usefulness of the program analyzing this document.
Without really being cognizant of the background of Freud's bisexuality, or Hemingway's sado-masochism, I cannot continue this paragraph. I will repeat this sentence without attaching any meaning to the words typed, or to my gonads. An essay in experimental dissection might be more appropriate for the issues presented here. Entirely too many bifocal wearers insist that I am currently composing gibberish. However, both Freud and Hemingway felt that bifocal wearers gloried in their bisexual sado-masochistic attachments. I concur, and I do so without reservation.
Reiteration is the root of all nonplussed renegades of origami. Nothing can be elucidated from nonsensical verbiage, but some will make the valiant effort singing praises to the whisperer. When origami is embraced by the valiant trio, the nonsensical proctologist dies. Whenever a proctologist expires in a semantic heap, Hollywood has fodder for another musical, or at least the plotline for the final unaired episode of Barney meets Fred Flintstone. Barney is a seminal reductionist. When the elucidated evidence is thrust into trusting Barney's smiling orifice, San Franciscan nuns applaud loudly.
Today I type my penultimate paragraph. I use penultimate artificially, but not without candor. Within this myriad exegesis, I pause. A Hollywood proctologist questions Freud's reasoning, and validates Barney's temporary hypothesis. In conclusion, the validity of essence cannot be lessened by the earnings of providence.
If I have not typed 500 words, this paragraph is not my penultimate, nor was my last. To assert otherwise is prudent, but lacking in elegance. What a sad commentary on misery did Darwin conspire to unfold. He rejected utterly the Hemmingway of his, and our, forebears. His eloquence was Freud and lust personified."
This earned me an overall 78% score, with no effort whatsoever. I composed this nonsense in minutes.
Hmm? In which alternate universe is this insightful? Obnoxious, yes. Insightful? Only in a universe in which frontal lobotomies have been performed on the majority of the population.
You say we ARE in that universe?
Never mind, then.
Re:The organization has an obvious slant
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I concede. You are correct: I made faulty assumptions, and I don't have sufficient evidence to support my claims.
That was naughty of me, and I apologize.
Until I have educated myself more thorougly regarding gun control, the jury will remain out.
I do have the following questions:
1. Out of gun deaths in the US each year, how many of them were committed by enraged/drunken husbands/wives/brothers/sisters of their spouses/siblings?
2. How many of the deaths were accidental?
3. How many were by police in their line of duty?
4. How many of the deaths prevented other losses of life/property, or prevented rape?
5. Why do the Canadians have so few homocides? Why do the Japanese?
Thank you for your dialogue.
Re:The organization has an obvious slant
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Joining the ACLU?
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I don't think you read my message very carefully. If you had, you would see that nowhere within it did I suggest banning guns. Enforcing stricter gun controls != banning guns.
This isn't Switzerland. There is obviously something about the Swiss psyche, or the Swiss human condition, that is very different from what we have here. I don't know what that something is: that is why I am agnostic regarding gun-control. I see the dead bodies, and those dead bodies have bullet-holes in them, so I come to the perhaps false conclusion that there is a connection between unrestricted gun ownership and those deaths.
Banning guns would require that we lived in a totalitarian state, and I definitely don't want that. However, something needs to be done to prevent those thousands of deaths, and I am willing to consider all options (excepting the imposition of a totalitarian state).
Thank you for your dialogue.
Re:The organization has an obvious slant
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Joining the ACLU?
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The ACLU argument which I quote above was merely trying to demonstrate that we already accept some restrictions on our possession of arms.
As the acceptability of some restrictions is thus established, the area of contention becomes where the borders of such restrictions can be drawn.
The ACLU would draw them in different places, and narrower, than the NRA. Unfortunately, the disputed area of restriction is difficult to discuss without zealots from either camp turning the argument into a farce.
To me, the thousands and thousands of dead bodies generated every year by loose gun control builds a good argument for tighter restrictions. I can be convinced otherwise, but not by anyone who is screaming hysterically as they are trying to persuade me. No, I am not accusing you or anyone else on this forum of taking this approach, but 100% of the time in my previous experience, it has degenerated into an irrational screamfest, and I'm not prepared to waste a single moment of my life in an argument that looks fruitless at the outset.
I would currently describe myself as gun-control agnostic, with slight leanings towards the gun control side. These leanings are shifting more towards the ACLU side every day, but I hold no beliefs which are intractable (I'm a big proponent of deductive reasoning and the scientific method: no cow is sacred).
Yes, I do have gender-assignment issues, and I am homosexual. Well, bisexual, really, but that's not germane to this issue.
As far arse-licking, I suggest that you try it before you condemn it. It is pleasurable both as the recipient and the giver, providing that the anus is clean, unless you are into scat, which I understand that Anonymous Cowards frequently are(quite inexplicably, to my mind).
Oh, and for the vomiting, I recommend Pepto-Bismol, but you might want to consult your physician, as IANAD.
Reminds me of UO and since there are UO people making this game I'm not surprised a bit.
Not the first game to offer player housing...
...all things we have seen in other MMOGS
The transportation system again is not unique.
Whether they appear in other games or not does not deprecate their appearance here.
The game is pretty, the HUD is nice, but has a steep learning curve...
I've heard this complaint before, but I did not find it so. Truthfully, I found it one of the most intuitive and easily-learned games I've ever played. Maybe if I'd never played an MMORPG before, this wouldn't be the case, but that is impossible for me to judge, at least at this point.
Remember episode two when Kenobe turns down some death sticks and convinces the guy he doesn't want to sell them anymore.
No, sadly, I don't remember. This isn't a troll, but I've never liked any of the Star Wars films. I found episode II tolerable, in an eye-candy sort of way. I watched episode IV for the first time in 26 years just yesterday, to re-acquaint myself with some of the mythos.
I will amend my complaint about the chat system: it seems absurd to me that, when I am conversing with several players simultaneously, that it is so difficult to switch between them. No easy toggle as in EQ, which is the game by which this one will be judged, rightly or wrongly.
Anyway, it's good to read a constructive difference of opinion. Thanks.
Star Wars Galaxies is the best MMORPG I have ever played. Period. It is still buggier than I would like, but its depth and innovation astound me.
Aspects I love about the game:
1. The skill-based economy. This eliminates what I hated about EQ: the camping and the farmers. No more reading Harry Potter or Robert Jordan over the weekend while I wait for Something Special to drop.
2. The player houses and PA Halls. The player-vendors whose places of business appear on the planetary map.
3. The HUD. Waypoints. The well-designed and attractive cities, and the efficient/easy-to-use shutte/starship transportation system.
4. The mission terminals, the spendable faction points, the bazaar.
5. The amazing variety of Professions, and the ability to mix-and-match Professions, and even the ability to change my mind and surrender my skills to take up Professions that hadn't seemed attractive initially.
6. The loving attention to detail evident in the way NPC's even fidget convincingly.
7. The slightly Political Incorrectness ot the game: some of those dancers are hot almost to PG-13 standards, and a Slicer will sell you designer narcotics. George didn't succumb to any Disneyfication, which was startling to me, considering that this man was also responsible for Gungans and Ewoks.
8. Creature Handler. They can give creatures they've tamed to their friends, and one day those creatures will (probably) be available as mounts. Cool stuff!
9. Percentage-wise, I've encountered fewer griefers in this game than I have in the other MMORPG's. In other words, fewer losers, despite what one might think based on the lack of imagination in character naming.
Aspects I dislike about the game:
1. The lousy chat system that still stops working periodically.
2. The defective mission system, with missions that mysteriously vanish, and move too frequently.
3. The bazaar isn't as easy to use as it should be.
4. Trading items between players is still prone to malfunction.
Aspects I hate about the game:
Nothing here to list.
Anyway, my congratulations to Raph and his team, who have done a great job despite the impression you might get reading messages from anonymous whiners on the forums.
Thanks, Raph!
Re:The organization has an obvious slant
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The ACLU didn't forget about the second amendment. They just disagree with the populist interpretation of it.
To quote them:
"If indeed the Second Amendment provides an absolute, constitutional protection for the right to bear arms in order to preserve the power of the people to resist government tyranny, then it must allow individuals to possess bazookas, torpedoes, SCUD missiles and even nuclear warheads, for they, like handguns, rifles and M-16s, are arms. Moreover, it is hard to imagine any serious resistance to the military without such arms. Yet few, if any, would argue that the Second Amendment gives individuals the unlimited right to own any weapons they please. But as soon as we allow governmental regulation of any weapons, we have broken the dam of Constitutional protection. Once that dam is broken, we are not talking about whether the government can constitutionally restrict arms, but rather what constitutes a reasonable restriction."
First, the compilers of this work will not make "a killing," at least from my perspective, and my perspective is $7.50[USD] an hour.
Second, a lot of people make more money than other people, having performed less work. That's a facet of existance which causes me no more consternation than, say, dandruff or my wife forgetting to put the milk back in the refrigerator. It is so minor that it doesn't even qualify as an injustice; it's a fact of life that is echoed in millions of other human activities, and part of being a realist (which is the only satisfactory and logical human condition, IMHO) is accepting that sometimes others will prosper when i don't, and I've worked harder.
Doesn't that bother you that they will be making money by simply editing what amounts to Newsgroup emails and likely the newsgrous answers to those problems?
Not at all. If I can buy a book which, in one convenient location (between the pages of one tome is extremely convenient) has collected what might have taken me hours and hours to find, I am thankful for the authors/compilers ingenuity.
My time is my most valuable asset. Anything which prevents me from wasting it I consider a Very good Thing[TM].
if I found myself being bothered, I would slap myself for being petulant and get over it. I would suggest you do the same thing. There are more important issues in life.
Besides, I fail to see how a resource which might be used by developers to improve their products could be considered bad.
I like role-playing, but what our original poster was complaining about wasn't about thees and thous.
It's about the trying to figure out why the 26 year old guy I'm playing with still thinks that naming his avatar "BoogerSnorter Maximus" is even remotely funny.
It's the lack of imagination implied in the avatars in SWG named Duke SkyClocker and Obie's Frend (both real examples).
It's the player who shouts "Wazzup?!!?!!!?? DUDEZ!?!?!!?" for the 40th time to his friends in half an hour, and they all think it is hysterically funny, and I might have, too, when I was twelve, except that, from reading through the poor spelling and bad grammar that has assaulted you continuously, you know that these gentlemen have children who are at least thirteen.
I know, these complaints make me uptight and anal and a killjoy, and I should get a life.
Maybe.;-)
But I'd rather wait for the day that I can have my avatar kick your avatars ass.:-)
Methinks Mr. Livegoat needs to put away the thesaurus when he is writing a book review, at least until the words it recommends fit comfortably within his own vocabulary.
... dedicating much space to vilifying John Fanning, who seems to deserve every bit of consternation the reading public can muster.
The word you wanted was condemnation, Mr. Livegoat. Consternation is the rough equivalent of confusion, which doesn't fit the context of your sentence at all.
Techies of all stripes will be amused as Menn attempts to make computer programming jargon edible to the mainstream reader.
Edible? Try intelligible.
With a boatload of rock stars and other curious characters, you'd think the spectacle of it all would overshadow the book's business patois.
Patois, which means roughly the same thing as jargon or lingo, is nonsensical in this sentence. The spectacle of rock stars overshadows jargon? Really?
An informative review, if one can overlook these bloopers.
Regardless of the motive, it is good to see an example of litigiousness that might actually benefit us all.
ICANN needs to be slapped, and slapped hard, and NOT with an open palm. I don't know anything about Pool, but I'm hoping that they have a big enough fist, or good enough lawyers (which are effectively the same thing) to send ICANN's head spinning.
From the context, it should be obvious that our complainant is stating that he makes $5k less than the average minimum paid for his level of experience, wherein "minimum" is the lower/lowest amount in the range normally paid the people doing the same job in his/her geographical area.
Not to be condescending, but professionals have no mandated minimum salaries, so the meaning should have been unambiguous.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, no.
When suicides are widely reported, the incidence of suicides go up. That's why Toronto, at least in the past, didn't/doesn't report suicides (or at least omits the information that the gunshot wound was self-inflicted).
Sensationalism of kidnaping inarguably leads to more kidnaping, and sensationalism of skyjacking leads to more skyjacking.
This has been known for years, and I don't see why it wouldn't apply to terrorist acts, as well.
*BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are infinitesimally dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among hobbyist dilettante dabblers.
A few corrections here: for something to be "infinitesimally dim" would actually mean that it was dim by such a VERY SMALL fraction that it would not be "dim" at all. Second, a dilettante is a dabbler, so this statement is redundant to the extreme. If you are going to post a boring troll, at least strive for accuracy.
I'll be honest - and this is NOT a flame or a troll - I don't care whether it is against the law or not. When I buy a printer, I'll use it with whatever OS I want, regardless of the license to which I have tacitly (or otherwise) agreed.
My own rights of possession supercede any contracts that I might sign, any EULA, or the letter of any law. If I have to be an outlaw to fully use something that I own, c'est la vie.
Of course, the definition of "ownership" can be problematic for some people, but if I paid for it, and the understanding between myself and the seller is that I would normally be in possession of the purchased item for the rest of my life, than I'll do with it whatever the fuck I want. If I am renting an item - i.e., if it is understood that my possession of said item is temporary, and usually for a brief period - then I will abide by the rules of the provider.
Is it really that fucking difficult to write an accurate summary?
A person reads the summary, and reasonably thinks:
"Great! An Open Source equivalent of VMware Workstation! Now I'll be able to run multiple OS's on my Desktop machine without the expense!"
Then he reads:
"Xen requires guest operating systems to be ported to run over it..."
This changes the picture dramatically, and should have appeared MUCH earlier in the summary.
Come on, I know this is only Slashdot, but stupidity and dishonesty like this get really annoying.
I have worked retail for many years. The buyer has no automatic right of return: the rights vary from state to state.
The Attorney General's webpage for your respective state will usually provide you with the most accurate information.
You ask:
Should 1 minute late really be considered 'late'?"
Let's rephrase it:
Should 1 minute early really be considered 'early'?"
Being on time is easy. Your boss knows that it is easy, so when you are late, it is a great big "fuck you" to his desires. Of course, occasional tardiness is understandable, and even sometimes unavoidable, but that you can't drag your ass out of bed or leave the house five minutes earlier is not your bosses problem.
After all, the only important difference between an adult and a child is that an adult does what he/she is supposed to do (i.e, meets his or her responsibilities), even when they are tired, hung-over, etc., otherwise you are still a little boy or girl, and of no use to most employers.
I'm not ragging on you, I'm just stating the facts as I know from experience a large number of employers see them.
I think that we are essentially in agreement. I wasn't actually arguing that we imprison people to punish them, which was why I was arguing for the rights of prisoners to enjoy their consoles while they are locked up.
Sorry if I was unclear.
Anyway, as far as a prison being a "corrective facility," how many of the broken people who go into them ever emerge fixed? Results are the only true measure, not ideology or intention.
We do hold people in prison so they cannot do cannot do more harm, but only because we have to be protected from them while they are "corrected."
The system doesn't work. People are not cakes or pies that take a set amount of time to be prepare (to make whole). When, or if, the person has been repaired, we should let them out of the institution, not before, at least if we are adhering to the "prison is not punishment" credo.
We put people in prison for one of three reasons: 1) to rehabilitate them, 2) to punish them, 3) to keep them away from polite society so they won't harm us again.
Unless you are in prison for option 2, why the fuck shouldn't you play video games whilst there? Especailly since you might be there because the government has exceeded their mandate and locked you up for ingesting a substance that it is none of their fucking business to prevent you from ingesting.
Flash isn't proprietary, nor has it been for OVER FIVE YEARS.
We are a bit out of the loop, aren't we?
I submitted this paper:
"Hemingway bifurcated his sensibilities between post-modernism and jazz. This I posit without having read the majority of Hemingway's work: it seemed irrelevant to the focus of my current project. What is this focus, and is it monocular? My focus can be summed up as ascertaining the usefulness of the program analyzing this document.
Without really being cognizant of the background of Freud's bisexuality, or Hemingway's sado-masochism, I cannot continue this paragraph. I will repeat this sentence without attaching any meaning to the words typed, or to my gonads. An essay in experimental dissection might be more appropriate for the issues presented here. Entirely too many bifocal wearers insist that I am currently composing gibberish. However, both Freud and Hemingway felt that bifocal wearers gloried in their bisexual sado-masochistic attachments. I concur, and I do so without reservation.
Reiteration is the root of all nonplussed renegades of origami. Nothing can be elucidated from nonsensical verbiage, but some will make the valiant effort singing praises to the whisperer. When origami is embraced by the valiant trio, the nonsensical proctologist dies. Whenever a proctologist expires in a semantic heap, Hollywood has fodder for another musical, or at least the plotline for the final unaired episode of Barney meets Fred Flintstone. Barney is a seminal reductionist. When the elucidated evidence is thrust into trusting Barney's smiling orifice, San Franciscan nuns applaud loudly.
Today I type my penultimate paragraph. I use penultimate artificially, but not without candor. Within this myriad exegesis, I pause. A Hollywood proctologist questions Freud's reasoning, and validates Barney's temporary hypothesis. In conclusion, the validity of essence cannot be lessened by the earnings of providence.
If I have not typed 500 words, this paragraph is not my penultimate, nor was my last. To assert otherwise is prudent, but lacking in elegance. What a sad commentary on misery did Darwin conspire to unfold. He rejected utterly the Hemmingway of his, and our, forebears. His eloquence was Freud and lust personified."
This earned me an overall 78% score, with no effort whatsoever. I composed this nonsense in minutes.
Doesn't this system have a baloney detector?
Re:About time! (Score:5, Insightful)?
Hmm? In which alternate universe is this insightful? Obnoxious, yes. Insightful? Only in a universe in which frontal lobotomies have been performed on the majority of the population.
You say we ARE in that universe?
Never mind, then.
I concede. You are correct: I made faulty assumptions, and I don't have sufficient evidence to support my claims.
That was naughty of me, and I apologize.
Until I have educated myself more thorougly regarding gun control, the jury will remain out.
I do have the following questions:
1. Out of gun deaths in the US each year, how many of them were committed by enraged/drunken husbands/wives/brothers/sisters of their spouses/siblings?
2. How many of the deaths were accidental?
3. How many were by police in their line of duty?
4. How many of the deaths prevented other losses of life/property, or prevented rape?
5. Why do the Canadians have so few homocides? Why do the Japanese?
Thank you for your dialogue.
I don't think you read my message very carefully. If you had, you would see that nowhere within it did I suggest banning guns. Enforcing stricter gun controls != banning guns.
This isn't Switzerland. There is obviously something about the Swiss psyche, or the Swiss human condition, that is very different from what we have here. I don't know what that something is: that is why I am agnostic regarding gun-control. I see the dead bodies, and those dead bodies have bullet-holes in them, so I come to the perhaps false conclusion that there is a connection between unrestricted gun ownership and those deaths.
Banning guns would require that we lived in a totalitarian state, and I definitely don't want that. However, something needs to be done to prevent those thousands of deaths, and I am willing to consider all options (excepting the imposition of a totalitarian state).
Thank you for your dialogue.
The ACLU argument which I quote above was merely trying to demonstrate that we already accept some restrictions on our possession of arms.
As the acceptability of some restrictions is thus established, the area of contention becomes where the borders of such restrictions can be drawn.
The ACLU would draw them in different places, and narrower, than the NRA. Unfortunately, the disputed area of restriction is difficult to discuss without zealots from either camp turning the argument into a farce.
To me, the thousands and thousands of dead bodies generated every year by loose gun control builds a good argument for tighter restrictions. I can be convinced otherwise, but not by anyone who is screaming hysterically as they are trying to persuade me. No, I am not accusing you or anyone else on this forum of taking this approach, but 100% of the time in my previous experience, it has degenerated into an irrational screamfest, and I'm not prepared to waste a single moment of my life in an argument that looks fruitless at the outset.
I would currently describe myself as gun-control agnostic, with slight leanings towards the gun control side. These leanings are shifting more towards the ACLU side every day, but I hold no beliefs which are intractable (I'm a big proponent of deductive reasoning and the scientific method: no cow is sacred).
Sometimes trolls are disturbingly intuitive.
Yes, I do have gender-assignment issues, and I am homosexual. Well, bisexual, really, but that's not germane to this issue.
As far arse-licking, I suggest that you try it before you condemn it. It is pleasurable both as the recipient and the giver, providing that the anus is clean, unless you are into scat, which I understand that Anonymous Cowards frequently are(quite inexplicably, to my mind).
Oh, and for the vomiting, I recommend Pepto-Bismol, but you might want to consult your physician, as IANAD.
EQ, UO, AO, AC, AC2, DAoC,The Realm, Meridian 59.
Reminds me of UO and since there are UO people making this game I'm not surprised a bit.
Not the first game to offer player housing...
The transportation system again is not unique.
Whether they appear in other games or not does not deprecate their appearance here.
The game is pretty, the HUD is nice, but has a steep learning curve...
I've heard this complaint before, but I did not find it so. Truthfully, I found it one of the most intuitive and easily-learned games I've ever played. Maybe if I'd never played an MMORPG before, this wouldn't be the case, but that is impossible for me to judge, at least at this point.
Remember episode two when Kenobe turns down some death sticks and convinces the guy he doesn't want to sell them anymore.
No, sadly, I don't remember. This isn't a troll, but I've never liked any of the Star Wars films. I found episode II tolerable, in an eye-candy sort of way. I watched episode IV for the first time in 26 years just yesterday, to re-acquaint myself with some of the mythos.
I will amend my complaint about the chat system: it seems absurd to me that, when I am conversing with several players simultaneously, that it is so difficult to switch between them. No easy toggle as in EQ, which is the game by which this one will be judged, rightly or wrongly.
Anyway, it's good to read a constructive difference of opinion. Thanks.
Star Wars Galaxies is the best MMORPG I have ever played. Period. It is still buggier than I would like, but its depth and innovation astound me.
Aspects I love about the game:
1. The skill-based economy. This eliminates what I hated about EQ: the camping and the farmers. No more reading Harry Potter or Robert Jordan over the weekend while I wait for Something Special to drop.
2. The player houses and PA Halls. The player-vendors whose places of business appear on the planetary map.
3. The HUD. Waypoints. The well-designed and attractive cities, and the efficient/easy-to-use shutte/starship transportation system.
4. The mission terminals, the spendable faction points, the bazaar.
5. The amazing variety of Professions, and the ability to mix-and-match Professions, and even the ability to change my mind and surrender my skills to take up Professions that hadn't seemed attractive initially.
6. The loving attention to detail evident in the way NPC's even fidget convincingly.
7. The slightly Political Incorrectness ot the game: some of those dancers are hot almost to PG-13 standards, and a Slicer will sell you designer narcotics. George didn't succumb to any Disneyfication, which was startling to me, considering that this man was also responsible for Gungans and Ewoks.
8. Creature Handler. They can give creatures they've tamed to their friends, and one day those creatures will (probably) be available as mounts. Cool stuff!
9. Percentage-wise, I've encountered fewer griefers in this game than I have in the other MMORPG's. In other words, fewer losers, despite what one might think based on the lack of imagination in character naming.
Aspects I dislike about the game:
1. The lousy chat system that still stops working periodically.
2. The defective mission system, with missions that mysteriously vanish, and move too frequently.
3. The bazaar isn't as easy to use as it should be.
4. Trading items between players is still prone to malfunction.
Aspects I hate about the game:
Nothing here to list.
Anyway, my congratulations to Raph and his team, who have done a great job despite the impression you might get reading messages from anonymous whiners on the forums.
Thanks, Raph!
The ACLU didn't forget about the second amendment. They just disagree with the populist interpretation of it.
To quote them:
"If indeed the Second Amendment provides an absolute, constitutional protection for the right to bear arms in order to preserve the power of the people to resist government tyranny, then it must allow individuals to possess bazookas, torpedoes, SCUD missiles and even nuclear warheads, for they, like handguns, rifles and M-16s, are arms. Moreover, it is hard to imagine any serious resistance to the military without such arms. Yet few, if any, would argue that the Second Amendment gives individuals the unlimited right to own any weapons they please. But as soon as we allow governmental regulation of any weapons, we have broken the dam of Constitutional protection. Once that dam is broken, we are not talking about whether the government can constitutionally restrict arms, but rather what constitutes a reasonable restriction."
For what it's worth, I happen to agree with them.
My answer stays the same.
.02 cents.
First, the compilers of this work will not make "a killing," at least from my perspective, and my perspective is $7.50[USD] an hour.
Second, a lot of people make more money than other people, having performed less work. That's a facet of existance which causes me no more consternation than, say, dandruff or my wife forgetting to put the milk back in the refrigerator. It is so minor that it doesn't even qualify as an injustice; it's a fact of life that is echoed in millions of other human activities, and part of being a realist (which is the only satisfactory and logical human condition, IMHO) is accepting that sometimes others will prosper when i don't, and I've worked harder.
Just my
Doesn't that bother you that they will be making money by simply editing what amounts to Newsgroup emails and likely the newsgrous answers to those problems?
Not at all. If I can buy a book which, in one convenient location (between the pages of one tome is extremely convenient) has collected what might have taken me hours and hours to find, I am thankful for the authors/compilers ingenuity.
My time is my most valuable asset. Anything which prevents me from wasting it I consider a Very good Thing[TM].
if I found myself being bothered, I would slap myself for being petulant and get over it. I would suggest you do the same thing. There are more important issues in life.
Besides, I fail to see how a resource which might be used by developers to improve their products could be considered bad.
I like role-playing, but what our original poster was complaining about wasn't about thees and thous.
;-)
:-)
It's about the trying to figure out why the 26 year old guy I'm playing with still thinks that naming his avatar "BoogerSnorter Maximus" is even remotely funny.
It's the lack of imagination implied in the avatars in SWG named Duke SkyClocker and Obie's Frend (both real examples).
It's the player who shouts "Wazzup?!!?!!!?? DUDEZ!?!?!!?" for the 40th time to his friends in half an hour, and they all think it is hysterically funny, and I might have, too, when I was twelve, except that, from reading through the poor spelling and bad grammar that has assaulted you continuously, you know that these gentlemen have children who are at least thirteen.
I know, these complaints make me uptight and anal and a killjoy, and I should get a life.
Maybe.
But I'd rather wait for the day that I can have my avatar kick your avatars ass.
Content is as fresh as it is for most other MMORPG's, and certainly as "fresh" as it is for EQ, which is inviting most of the comparison.
:-)
I also don't find the action slow moving, nor the cost unreasonable.
And I hate Star Wars. I've disliked EVERY film (strangely, except for the most recent one, which I found tolerable), but I like the MMORPG.
Get the game. Play it. If you don't like it, sell it to a buddy or a Star Wars geek. Heck, they might even be the same person.
The word you wanted was condemnation, Mr. Livegoat. Consternation is the rough equivalent of confusion, which doesn't fit the context of your sentence at all.
Techies of all stripes will be amused as Menn attempts to make computer programming jargon edible to the mainstream reader.
Edible? Try intelligible.
With a boatload of rock stars and other curious characters, you'd think the spectacle of it all would overshadow the book's business patois.
Patois, which means roughly the same thing as jargon or lingo, is nonsensical in this sentence. The spectacle of rock stars overshadows jargon? Really?
An informative review, if one can overlook these bloopers.
Regardless of the motive, it is good to see an example of litigiousness that might actually benefit us all.
ICANN needs to be slapped, and slapped hard, and NOT with an open palm. I don't know anything about Pool, but I'm hoping that they have a big enough fist, or good enough lawyers (which are effectively the same thing) to send ICANN's head spinning.
This isn't rocket science.
From the context, it should be obvious that our complainant is stating that he makes $5k less than the average minimum paid for his level of experience, wherein "minimum" is the lower/lowest amount in the range normally paid the people doing the same job in his/her geographical area.
Not to be condescending, but professionals have no mandated minimum salaries, so the meaning should have been unambiguous.