Concur, but not concur, not when it doesn't matter what your password is when you visit digg.com to look at Grand Torino screens, to find later your gmail has been accessed from China, because of a recent.php hack, and finally conclude that digg.com is an infestation due to its very nature of anyone being able to leverage a malicious page to a top site.... A hack where your very strong password was plainly attained on the other side of the globe, but thank god the email account you accessed at the time was your trash one....
When you have an em-effing strong password, and your only error was using Windows, because that's where you play wow, and thank god you're using the authenticator, and you setup separate linux boxes to do sensitive work on, and now you're doubling your spending in computing: one for fun one for work, and you realize your wife's ipad is more secure than anything for fun and leisure, and she beats the hell out of surfing on it and you have no fear, but it sucks and you hate it for yourself with a gd passion....
Yea, used to be users were the weakest link, not anymore....
Basically, wow is now the most secure thing I do bcs of the authenticator. I'm putting my entire family on it. I plan on having them bank there and email there, etc. I can see it now, calling my sister, "mom got killed on the way to the bank...." Sister: WHAT?!?!?!?
We stole countries with the cunning use of flags. Just sail around the world and stick a flag in. "I claim India for Britain!" They're going "You can't claim us, we live here! Five hundred million of us!" "Do you have a flag ? "What? We don't need a flag, this is our home, you bastards" "No flag, No Country, You can't have one! Those are the rules... that I just made up!...and I'm backing it up with this gun, that was lent to me from the National Rifle Association." --Eddie Izzard
The primary purpose of laws is to either... expand the public sector or else to advantage one group in the private sector at the expense of another group so less laws is automatically better for the economy.
Not according to Lee Hamilton:
"[the] historic mission of Congress has been to maintain freedom...."
I.e., through bills passed into law. It's mission is simple. It's the people in there that have mucked it up... well, and ours for putting them there....
I don't think most folks blamed the democrats for a bad economy, so much as they didn't understand why the democrats seemed focused on something that _wasn't_ the economy -- health care reform. Sure, health care needed reforming, but working on that -- while people are losing jobs, houses, can't buy their kids clothes or worry about getting them to school, and hell, just supporting their family period -- instead of working on the economy (jobs!), turned people off to the dems.
If we are under eminent attack, if there is a foreign power poised to take over the globe (i.e., ww2) then that trumps all else. Otherwise, people want/need jobs. Jobs is #1 without a _real_ foreign conflict (and yes, the conflicts over the past decade have not been real). So, each time bill the factory worker who lost his job turns on his radio or tv, it's been about healthcare for the past 2 years. It just doesn't compute to bill. "Healthcare? Wtf are these guys thinking? I have no job!!!"
And I don't know how many of you have visited such towns as Monroe, MI, lately, but it's sad, sad, sad. There's no jobs, no factories, closed-down plants, and every house a street is like this: foreclosed, retired, unemployeed, foreclose, foreclose, foreclosed, etc. You're hard-pressed to find someone on a street with an actual paying job. There's entire, brand new condo complexes -- taking up 2, 3 and 4 blocks -- all vacant.
So, in light of the jobs problem (aka, economy), all this work on healthcare is like a guy drowning, begging you to help and you going, "ok, but first, put your foot up out of the water... your shoes untied...."
This'll just make me stop going to the movie theater, cuz if I feel like they're watching me pour rum into my diet coke, in order to tolerate their bad movies, then I just ain't goin. And I'm pretty sure the flare from my pipe will be picked up by these cameras too....
Concur. Boobs are cheap, more easily compilable, less guess work and very good for bribery, extortion and not to bad to maintain by comparison. Since intelligence has failed, boobs are the only option....
I disagree to about 90% of this. Yes, DoTA has less following than it did, say, 3 years ago, but it is still very solid. It is my crack -- literally, I need therapy. I've been playing DoTA Allstars since 2004 (and there is an ancient, older WC3 DoTA that's not Allstars, but the one that's madly popular is Allstars -- technically, if you just say "DoTA" you mean the much older version that doesn't focus on heroes and that's less popular, but now, "DoTA" has come to mean "DoTA Allstars" and the "Allstars" part is left off; "Allstars" basically means, "This is Defense of The Ancient with a focus on powerful Heroes" whereas, the older version did not put focus on heroes, and focused more on the marching creeps -- both have creeps.... of course, all of this is played within the WC3 engine, and DoTA non-Allstars was based on RoC, whereas, Allstars came with the advent of TFT..../digress). It is/was the germination of a new gaming genre, and that says a lot. Games that come along which found new genres are rare, and DoTA is one. The new genre (MOBA), I first heard this year. It is now fielded by LoL, et al., but it's first incarnation was DoTA.
The versions are coming out slower for sure, but 6.69 just came out, and I've had no problem finding games. I play on East Coast. Anyhow, DoTA has been strong with good population for over five years now by my personal account, and I don't see it going away. Even with the crappy leavers ruining games, even with the drawbacks of the old WC3 engine... the game has staying power that only a few games in history aspire to. So, no, it isn't dying by any stretch, and the next generation games have made a dent, but not a big one. Yes, there were more games a few years ago, but you can easily find a DoTA game at any time of day 24x7, and at times, there are many listed. Players have done tons to improve the WC3 DoTA playing experience (the game managing bots, vote kicks, etc.). If they will get the drop/leaver reconnects fixed (as I heard they have been working on), then I see WC3 DoTA living on much longer.
I've played LoL. It didn't stick. The archetypal heroes of the genre will forever be WC3 DoTA characters, and no matter what happens 2, 3, 5 years from now in this genre, it'll find it's roots in the legendary engine of WC3, and in the grass-roots, players driven mod of DoTA Allstars. (And unlike these replacements, after you purchase WC3, it's friggin totally free).
The WC3 game engine is among the elite, and ranks up there with Quake as something that changed gaming history, and is still in use. It's like a friggin Sherman ww2 tank... still used in the 1960 and 70s.... LoL was/is too complicated to me, and I get tired of every single game now associating leveling with the mechanics of another genre (do I really need to level my account that logs me in to play a single game? Yes, in LoL you do... Maybe I should implement levels to user accounts at work -- "congratulations! this is your 50th login. You are now level 4!).
What other game and game engine made so long ago has a solid following, and allows you to join a 10 man-game at any time of day for over 5 or 6 years? WC3 DoTA is rare.... (ok, ok, Everquest deadheads)....
I really doubt people want DotA yet again
Whether DoTA continues on the WC3 engine or takes off with Valve... the moniker will always be around. I question just how much DoTA you have played/play. As for me, I'm hitting a game when I finish this post. Please don't tell me group counselor....
Yes, and I think that's a ridiculous measure. 500 sf? Our main "data center" is less than that by a bit, and by god, it's a data center, because it gets all the attention and equipment needed to stay up, be cool and be protected. I don't think the size of the company should dictate the size of the room. A far smaller room or space can hold any amount of critical data or infrastructure. Technicians with little oversight, will pile main servers under their desk.
I gamble that if they stopped looking at physical rooms, and focused on nodes, that number would soar well beyond a couple thousand....
I highly doubt it. This is a core piece of the game decidedly left out. Expansions can do a lot, but change the actual mechanics of the game? No.
Religion in civ4 was well done. You could opt to play a game going heavy culture, and this meant going for all possible religions. You then end up building temples/shrines/mosques for each you either founded or learned, and in the end, your city gained more culture. The more culture, the more culture kampf (taking enemies territories via the crawling culture boundary around your cities).
And this made perfect sense. If you look at many of the great cities in history, they did just this. They either welcomed pluralism and/or had it forced on them, but it still makes for heavy cultural-centers. More culture means more chance to develope specialists and great people. More culture means more area of affect and more land and more resources.
Rome was founded as a free city. Free meant free to outcasts and refugees, sanctuaries for fugitives and, yes, open to the founding of new religions (can anyone even begin to doubt the affect christianity had on Rome?).
I joke with my jewish buddy all the time, that the problem with modern israel is they went too heavy religion starting out... they fucked-up their tech tree. We get a big laugh as we discuss how they went for culture, and now have all these great religious buildings breeding both influence and war.
Not anymore? Welcome to civ5 wherein, the fragile buttercups who don't even play the game are now no longer offended by nasty ol' religion.
Oh wtfever. Well. That does it. Now my video games suck. Tu for fixing the-not-broke and for highlighting the "this ain't a problem."
Next: Quinton Terrantino's scripts must be approved by the PC crowd....
I don't know you, but if you actually know people who have a problem with religion in civ, then you hang with a very up-tight crowd. Do they/you have a problem with violence in video games? Yes? Ok, then at least you're consistent. If not, then you are hypocrite, and I don't like you.
Civ has always reflected the things we don't like in a real world. That's why it's called "civilization." Civilization is the concept of the influence and growth of knowledge, war and religion, of production, disease and natural disasters, of immigration and racism and farming. To remove any of these is to build a house with no doors or windows. It's like eating icecream without sweetener.
Let's remake the movie 300, and give all the combatants nerf bats... if no one gets offended, it's worth it right?... Yea, great stuff. Eat your heart out Herodotus, Homer and Shakespeare....
To remove religion from this game is horrendous. It's like removing war. Nobody would choose either in an ideal world, but that's just it: we neither live in an ideal world nor is this great game genre/series one that should have it removed. I'm rather appalled at this. As an avid player of this game since I bought my first huge copy of it at a radio shack in the early 90s -- complete with big huge book with awesome graphic prints and everything (yes, I still have it) -- this has to be the worst decision for civ since RTP.
The only issue I see with a power company providing data, is that power is always primary and gets first attention. Data is secondary. Unlike a true telco, there simply will be a time when you'll have to wait on power if/when there is an outage, etc. Yes, yes, with no power you can't use data, but it could be you DO have a means to receive power, and still no data available. A true telco's job is data only....
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Concur, but not concur, not when it doesn't matter what your password is when you visit digg.com to look at Grand Torino screens, to find later your gmail has been accessed from China, because of a recent .php hack, and finally conclude that digg.com is an infestation due to its very nature of anyone being able to leverage a malicious page to a top site.... A hack where your very strong password was plainly attained on the other side of the globe, but thank god the email account you accessed at the time was your trash one....
When you have an em-effing strong password, and your only error was using Windows, because that's where you play wow, and thank god you're using the authenticator, and you setup separate linux boxes to do sensitive work on, and now you're doubling your spending in computing: one for fun one for work, and you realize your wife's ipad is more secure than anything for fun and leisure, and she beats the hell out of surfing on it and you have no fear, but it sucks and you hate it for yourself with a gd passion....
Yea, used to be users were the weakest link, not anymore....
Basically, wow is now the most secure thing I do bcs of the authenticator. I'm putting my entire family on it. I plan on having them bank there and email there, etc. I can see it now, calling my sister, "mom got killed on the way to the bank...." Sister: WHAT?!?!?!?
Yea, free, and waiting for global thermonuclear war.... "Shall we play a game?..."
Humanity has both never been so free and at the same time, never been so capable of extinguishing itself....
http://www.khaaan.com/
We stole countries with the cunning use of flags. Just sail around the world and stick a flag in. "I claim India for Britain!" They're going "You can't claim us, we live here! Five hundred million of us!" "Do you have a flag ? "What? We don't need a flag, this is our home, you bastards" "No flag, No Country, You can't have one! Those are the rules... that I just made up!...and I'm backing it up with this gun, that was lent to me from the National Rifle Association." --Eddie Izzard
Downloaded music, yes. Turned around and sold what they downloaded, no.
The Yoda touch was nice....
The primary purpose of laws is to either ... expand the public sector or else to advantage one group in the private sector at the expense of another group so less laws is automatically better for the economy.
... well, and ours for putting them there....
Not according to Lee Hamilton:
"[the] historic mission of Congress has been to maintain freedom...."
I.e., through bills passed into law. It's mission is simple. It's the people in there that have mucked it up
I don't think most folks blamed the democrats for a bad economy, so much as they didn't understand why the democrats seemed focused on something that _wasn't_ the economy -- health care reform. Sure, health care needed reforming, but working on that -- while people are losing jobs, houses, can't buy their kids clothes or worry about getting them to school, and hell, just supporting their family period -- instead of working on the economy (jobs!), turned people off to the dems.
... your shoes untied...."
If we are under eminent attack, if there is a foreign power poised to take over the globe (i.e., ww2) then that trumps all else. Otherwise, people want/need jobs. Jobs is #1 without a _real_ foreign conflict (and yes, the conflicts over the past decade have not been real). So, each time bill the factory worker who lost his job turns on his radio or tv, it's been about healthcare for the past 2 years. It just doesn't compute to bill. "Healthcare? Wtf are these guys thinking? I have no job!!!"
And I don't know how many of you have visited such towns as Monroe, MI, lately, but it's sad, sad, sad. There's no jobs, no factories, closed-down plants, and every house a street is like this: foreclosed, retired, unemployeed, foreclose, foreclose, foreclosed, etc. You're hard-pressed to find someone on a street with an actual paying job. There's entire, brand new condo complexes -- taking up 2, 3 and 4 blocks -- all vacant.
So, in light of the jobs problem (aka, economy), all this work on healthcare is like a guy drowning, begging you to help and you going, "ok, but first, put your foot up out of the water
This'll just make me stop going to the movie theater, cuz if I feel like they're watching me pour rum into my diet coke, in order to tolerate their bad movies, then I just ain't goin. And I'm pretty sure the flare from my pipe will be picked up by these cameras too....
In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls. -Lenny Bruce
Concur. Boobs are cheap, more easily compilable, less guess work and very good for bribery, extortion and not to bad to maintain by comparison. Since intelligence has failed, boobs are the only option....
Or find it very grindly....
LoL, et al., indeed took some of the pop, but yes, games are still there and easy to find....
Oh, that's right, slashdot. Sorry, zoned out and peed myself after clicking that link....
I disagree to about 90% of this. Yes, DoTA has less following than it did, say, 3 years ago, but it is still very solid. It is my crack -- literally, I need therapy. I've been playing DoTA Allstars since 2004 (and there is an ancient, older WC3 DoTA that's not Allstars, but the one that's madly popular is Allstars -- technically, if you just say "DoTA" you mean the much older version that doesn't focus on heroes and that's less popular, but now, "DoTA" has come to mean "DoTA Allstars" and the "Allstars" part is left off; "Allstars" basically means, "This is Defense of The Ancient with a focus on powerful Heroes" whereas, the older version did not put focus on heroes, and focused more on the marching creeps -- both have creeps.... of course, all of this is played within the WC3 engine, and DoTA non-Allstars was based on RoC, whereas, Allstars came with the advent of TFT.... /digress). It is/was the germination of a new gaming genre, and that says a lot. Games that come along which found new genres are rare, and DoTA is one. The new genre (MOBA), I first heard this year. It is now fielded by LoL, et al., but it's first incarnation was DoTA.
... the game has staying power that only a few games in history aspire to. So, no, it isn't dying by any stretch, and the next generation games have made a dent, but not a big one. Yes, there were more games a few years ago, but you can easily find a DoTA game at any time of day 24x7, and at times, there are many listed. Players have done tons to improve the WC3 DoTA playing experience (the game managing bots, vote kicks, etc.). If they will get the drop/leaver reconnects fixed (as I heard they have been working on), then I see WC3 DoTA living on much longer.
... still used in the 1960 and 70s.... LoL was/is too complicated to me, and I get tired of every single game now associating leveling with the mechanics of another genre (do I really need to level my account that logs me in to play a single game? Yes, in LoL you do ... Maybe I should implement levels to user accounts at work -- "congratulations! this is your 50th login. You are now level 4!).
... the moniker will always be around. I question just how much DoTA you have played/play. As for me, I'm hitting a game when I finish this post. Please don't tell me group counselor....
The versions are coming out slower for sure, but 6.69 just came out, and I've had no problem finding games. I play on East Coast. Anyhow, DoTA has been strong with good population for over five years now by my personal account, and I don't see it going away. Even with the crappy leavers ruining games, even with the drawbacks of the old WC3 engine
I've played LoL. It didn't stick. The archetypal heroes of the genre will forever be WC3 DoTA characters, and no matter what happens 2, 3, 5 years from now in this genre, it'll find it's roots in the legendary engine of WC3, and in the grass-roots, players driven mod of DoTA Allstars. (And unlike these replacements, after you purchase WC3, it's friggin totally free).
The WC3 game engine is among the elite, and ranks up there with Quake as something that changed gaming history, and is still in use. It's like a friggin Sherman ww2 tank
What other game and game engine made so long ago has a solid following, and allows you to join a 10 man-game at any time of day for over 5 or 6 years? WC3 DoTA is rare.... (ok, ok, Everquest deadheads)....
I really doubt people want DotA yet again
Whether DoTA continues on the WC3 engine or takes off with Valve
This will best explain dota:
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u292/Mx_Paladin/Pictures/WWII.gif
There is power in distribution, and there can be common-mode failure when all is consolidated....
Vizzini: HE DIDN'T FALL? INCONCEIVABLE.
Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
I used it and liked it. Then it went away.
My ex-gf did one time pass too with a bunch of different guys. I used to like her. Then she went away....
I figured voyager took that shot....
Yes, and I think that's a ridiculous measure. 500 sf? Our main "data center" is less than that by a bit, and by god, it's a data center, because it gets all the attention and equipment needed to stay up, be cool and be protected. I don't think the size of the company should dictate the size of the room. A far smaller room or space can hold any amount of critical data or infrastructure. Technicians with little oversight, will pile main servers under their desk.
I gamble that if they stopped looking at physical rooms, and focused on nodes, that number would soar well beyond a couple thousand....
"Maybe Civ V expansions will add it back in."
... they fucked-up their tech tree. We get a big laugh as we discuss how they went for culture, and now have all these great religious buildings breeding both influence and war.
I highly doubt it. This is a core piece of the game decidedly left out. Expansions can do a lot, but change the actual mechanics of the game? No.
Religion in civ4 was well done. You could opt to play a game going heavy culture, and this meant going for all possible religions. You then end up building temples/shrines/mosques for each you either founded or learned, and in the end, your city gained more culture. The more culture, the more culture kampf (taking enemies territories via the crawling culture boundary around your cities).
And this made perfect sense. If you look at many of the great cities in history, they did just this. They either welcomed pluralism and/or had it forced on them, but it still makes for heavy cultural-centers. More culture means more chance to develope specialists and great people. More culture means more area of affect and more land and more resources.
Rome was founded as a free city. Free meant free to outcasts and refugees, sanctuaries for fugitives and, yes, open to the founding of new religions (can anyone even begin to doubt the affect christianity had on Rome?).
I joke with my jewish buddy all the time, that the problem with modern israel is they went too heavy religion starting out
Not anymore? Welcome to civ5 wherein, the fragile buttercups who don't even play the game are now no longer offended by nasty ol' religion.
Civ6: say bye to war!...
Oh wtfever. Well. That does it. Now my video games suck. Tu for fixing the-not-broke and for highlighting the "this ain't a problem."
... if no one gets offended, it's worth it right?... Yea, great stuff. Eat your heart out Herodotus, Homer and Shakespeare....
Next: Quinton Terrantino's scripts must be approved by the PC crowd....
I don't know you, but if you actually know people who have a problem with religion in civ, then you hang with a very up-tight crowd. Do they/you have a problem with violence in video games? Yes? Ok, then at least you're consistent. If not, then you are hypocrite, and I don't like you.
Civ has always reflected the things we don't like in a real world. That's why it's called "civilization." Civilization is the concept of the influence and growth of knowledge, war and religion, of production, disease and natural disasters, of immigration and racism and farming. To remove any of these is to build a house with no doors or windows. It's like eating icecream without sweetener.
Let's remake the movie 300, and give all the combatants nerf bats
To remove religion from this game is horrendous. It's like removing war. Nobody would choose either in an ideal world, but that's just it: we neither live in an ideal world nor is this great game genre/series one that should have it removed. I'm rather appalled at this. As an avid player of this game since I bought my first huge copy of it at a radio shack in the early 90s -- complete with big huge book with awesome graphic prints and everything (yes, I still have it) -- this has to be the worst decision for civ since RTP.
I want to scream out like Blutarsky about now:
"They took the bar! The whole fucking bar!!!"
The only issue I see with a power company providing data, is that power is always primary and gets first attention. Data is secondary. Unlike a true telco, there simply will be a time when you'll have to wait on power if/when there is an outage, etc. Yes, yes, with no power you can't use data, but it could be you DO have a means to receive power, and still no data available. A true telco's job is data only....
t1=1.54Mb. So, you're saying they give you a worthless 1Gb connect just to them, then send you else where at a percent of a percent of that speed?