I never said anything about realism. The implication was a relatively major change in the core gameplay and strategies.
And to be perfectly honest, I don't think realism has much business in a game like Diablo, else you lose... well, the entire game. The fantasy races, the fantasy/demonic creatures, the magic, the setting...
Monsters drop health orbs on the ground when you kill them, instead of a potion system? So, in a way, what they've got now is Metroid applied to a dungeon crawl?
(yes, there's a billion other games that do that, Metroid was just the first to come to mind)
And you seem so proud of that. The goal is to make the systems function, not crash.
Only half of engineering is making things function. The other half is breaking things so you know why they function, or why they don't. Besides, it's just FUN!:-)
*shrug* All right. I might smear a few beats and horribly mangle the concept of "song", but remember, you asked for it...
We are Obamamaniacs We're devoted to the max So just sit back and relax We'll roll back breaks on income tax Obamamaniacs!
Come, join the campaign tour bus And the online grassroots crew There's comprehensive healthcare And it might appeal to you He's running to the White House He probably won't be caught Then he'll kick back Indulge in slack And now you know the plot!
Obamamaniacs! Foreign policy has been lax We'll work to stop attacks While Bill Clinton plays the sax Obamamaniacs!
Meet Hillary supporters, they're disgruntled as can be At least we are not going to stand against Mike Huckabee Ron Paul's been rejected Nader's waiting in the wings We'll take no pause to think because Our man's the hottest thing!
Obamamaniacs! We don't care about the tax! Devoted to the max Ignoring policies he lacks
Obamamanie Totally insaney (He's not McCainey) Obamananiacs! Those are the facts!
(note, of course, I'm not quite an Obamamaniac, but the song was too tempting to pass up)
Remember the fad of consumer-level push-to-talk features on cell phones? That feature where you could have a conversation effectively as if you were on speakerphone, anywhere you wanted to go? And the people who were (or still are) eagerly willing to do just that, blaring both sides of their conversations to anyone else within earshot?
I have this sad feeling gimmickiness will win out over privacy in the hearts and minds of people with far more money to burn than you or I.
Not having RTFA or RTFR referred to by TFA, I still have to say I'm amused by the last line in the summary (presumably paraphrasing the report) and its implications to further reports...
"The lost state and local tax revenue from piracy would have been enough to save the lives of HUNDREDS of poor, sick people, assuming they could afford the hospital costs after becoming poor from buying software regulated by our association."
"The lost state and local tax revenue from piracy would have been enough to pay the ransom on this CEO's poor daughter, kidnapped by evil software pirates, and because you selfish greedy bastards had to go and murder her by pirating software, they didn't have the money to pay to get her back! I HATE YOU ALL!"
"The lost state and local tax revenue from piracy would have been enough to save the lives of five hundred innocent kittens from being pulverized in our patented BSA Kitten Pulverizing Machine, whose sole purpose is to abduct and pulverize kittens constantly and whose operations may only be tempered by a continuously-accelerating stream of revenue. Why do you selfish pirates want the kittens to be pulverized? It's all your fault, you know."
Y'know, that used to be one of my complaints about ridiculous phones like these. I always said that the durn thing should make phone calls, and that should be the primary functionality of it. Plain and simple.
But then I realized that nobody wants to call me anyway, so maybe what I want really IS a portable computing platform that just happens to have a cell phone buried in it somewhere just in case.:-)
Well, if there were scientific data, the asker could've just Googled it (or the user would be enjoying 400 posts of "omg googl it u n00b lol"). Best we CAN do is anecdotal evidence and personal opinion. Maybe the asker was looking for that. Sometimes that's all you've got, and you've gotta act on that. You have to decide, Striker. You have to decide... you have to decide... you have to decide...
*ahem* Sorry. Just got a copy of the Airplane! DVD. Still on my mind.
What it isn't, in fact, is a good learning language. To be honest, I disagree. The concepts of object-oriented design didn't make much sense to me at all (tried to learn it in C++ in college classes) until I started messing about with Java. And, more specifically, once I started leafing through the standard Java libraries. Looking at how the API was organized suddenly made OO make sense to me. I think the exact point of realization was "Wait, I get it... all these GUI objects ARE JComponents, and that's why I can treat them all the same!".
So I'd say it's a decent learning language as well. Ironically, learning Java made C++ make a lot more sense to me than learning C++ ever did.:-)
Oh, oh, facial recognition. That makes a lot more sense. When I read the headline, I first thought it was going to suggest that if you lose the remote, get up and bash the buttons on the DVD player with your forehead or something.
A similar system applied to computer keyboards would certainly make IT and data entry more interesting professions...
Huh. Shows what I know, I just thought it couldn't create a world-destroying black hole because there just plain and simply wasn't enough mass and energy within the planet to do so, let alone in one (relatively to the planet) tiny building in Switzerland.
I'm just wondering why said jokes are still around. Okay, yes, when RealPlayer first came out, nearly nobody had broadband, so buffering lag on even simple videos was inevitable, and they were kinda the only consumer-level game in town for a while. Fine. But is it still THAT bad a problem nowadays? Ignoring for a second that nobody uses Real anymore, does it still not stream right on a decent connection for some reason?
I guess what I'm saying is, should we really harp on them for the way things were on the internet around ten years ago?
(the spyware junk from the last version(s), yeah, that was still their fault and in more recent memory)
No...but they DID admit to it in court last week in the presence of reporters. I believe five terrorists did. The ones against whom the U.S. already had fairly airtight cases. You are aware there's more than five people in Gitmo, right?
"Yes, truecrypt.org DOES contain child porn, so does wikileaks.org" "Do you have proof?" "Why are you asking? You must be looking for child porn! STONE HIM!" There, fixed it for you.
Y'know, I was just up at Newport on the Levee a month or so ago, mainly in a desperate attempt to find SOMETHING to do in this state (moved to Lexington recently to get a job). I was considering stopping by the aquarium, honestly, but around then my car started breaking down, so I had a bit more on my mind. Maybe I should've stopped by.
Well, okay, granted, I don't think this exhibit was there at the time, but still. Now I want to go back. This sounds neat.
Not only that, but as I recall from a website which does not exist anymore, they also prefer (maybe demand) it be spelled "REALTOR", complete with all caps. They even have a trademark out on the specific ALL CAPS spelling.
Well, okay, the site I was thinking of (TimmyBigHands, where one of the writers mentions that his spellchecker "caught" him "misspelling" it in lowercase) ended, but there's a mention of the fact at hand on the obligatory Wikipedia article.
Really, they own that patent? Well then why in the last 15 years didn't they bother to enforce it? I'm sorry but lack of enforcement of a patent is grounds to dismiss that patent. If I'm not mistaken, lack of enforcement is grounds to dismiss copyrights (registered or not) or trademarks, not patents.
Not that it shouldn't be grounds to dismiss patents...
I heard of viruses like those back in that time frame, too. Though when I heard of them, they were reported as spinning the hard drive heads so fast that they overheated and warped.
But in the end, I think those were all just email hoaxes. Ah, those were the good ol' days, when hoax emails were pranks like those and not phishing scams. Now I'm all nostaligic.:-)
All things considered, though, I don't believe the head would ever be able to do what you're suggesting due to the head never actually touching the platters and there not being enough power in the head's servo motor to cause enough destabilization to the mechanics. Similarly, the overheat story wouldn't be possible, either, unless it was an exceptionally poorly-made drive which suffered overheat problems anyway.
As Renesys points out, the volume of traffic to a root server is staggering, so the people running these bogus root servers must have had a reason. What did they get out of it? So how long has the submitter had this habit of answering his/her own questions before he/she asked them? Staggering amounts of traffic. That IS your answer. Victim machines whose upstream DNS servers didn't update the root server file could be redirected to ad-wrapped versions of "real" websites. If there was far more malicious intent involved, they can redirect, say, baking sites to whatever site they want. Plain and simple.
/me quickly darts off to make sure his root file is up-to-date
Yes, I agree, going on their track record and recent statements by Ballmer himself, Microsoft is "reaching out" to Blender, much in the same way that step one to strangling someone is reaching out your hands...
It's the Life of Brian conclusion. Because the rumor was denied, it must be true!
"I'm not the Messiah! Will you please listen? I am not the Messiah, do you understand? Honestly!" "Only the true Messiah denies His divinity!" "What?! Well, what sort of chance does that give me?"
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I never said anything about realism. The implication was a relatively major change in the core gameplay and strategies.
And to be perfectly honest, I don't think realism has much business in a game like Diablo, else you lose... well, the entire game. The fantasy races, the fantasy/demonic creatures, the magic, the setting...
Monsters drop health orbs on the ground when you kill them, instead of a potion system? So, in a way, what they've got now is Metroid applied to a dungeon crawl?
(yes, there's a billion other games that do that, Metroid was just the first to come to mind)
And you seem so proud of that. The goal is to make the systems function, not crash.
Only half of engineering is making things function. The other half is breaking things so you know why they function, or why they don't. Besides, it's just FUN! :-)
*shrug* All right. I might smear a few beats and horribly mangle the concept of "song", but remember, you asked for it...
We are Obamamaniacs
We're devoted to the max
So just sit back and relax
We'll roll back breaks on income tax
Obamamaniacs!
Come, join the campaign tour bus
And the online grassroots crew
There's comprehensive healthcare
And it might appeal to you
He's running to the White House
He probably won't be caught
Then he'll kick back
Indulge in slack
And now you know the plot!
Obamamaniacs!
Foreign policy has been lax
We'll work to stop attacks
While Bill Clinton plays the sax
Obamamaniacs!
Meet Hillary supporters, they're disgruntled as can be
At least we are not going to stand against Mike Huckabee
Ron Paul's been rejected
Nader's waiting in the wings
We'll take no pause to think because
Our man's the hottest thing!
Obamamaniacs!
We don't care about the tax!
Devoted to the max
Ignoring policies he lacks
Obamamanie
Totally insaney
(He's not McCainey)
Obamananiacs!
Those are the facts!
(note, of course, I'm not quite an Obamamaniac, but the song was too tempting to pass up)
Remember the fad of consumer-level push-to-talk features on cell phones? That feature where you could have a conversation effectively as if you were on speakerphone, anywhere you wanted to go? And the people who were (or still are) eagerly willing to do just that, blaring both sides of their conversations to anyone else within earshot?
I have this sad feeling gimmickiness will win out over privacy in the hearts and minds of people with far more money to burn than you or I.
s/process/physical transformation/g
Before: "A process by which text may be inserted into a 'base' of 'data' in a format easily searchable by electronic means."
After: "A physical transformation by which text may be inserted into a 'base' of 'data' in a format easily searchable by electronic means."
And presto, patent granted! Cue the next round of the trolls! :-)
Not having RTFA or RTFR referred to by TFA, I still have to say I'm amused by the last line in the summary (presumably paraphrasing the report) and its implications to further reports...
"The lost state and local tax revenue from piracy would have been enough to save the lives of HUNDREDS of poor, sick people, assuming they could afford the hospital costs after becoming poor from buying software regulated by our association."
"The lost state and local tax revenue from piracy would have been enough to pay the ransom on this CEO's poor daughter, kidnapped by evil software pirates, and because you selfish greedy bastards had to go and murder her by pirating software, they didn't have the money to pay to get her back! I HATE YOU ALL!"
"The lost state and local tax revenue from piracy would have been enough to save the lives of five hundred innocent kittens from being pulverized in our patented BSA Kitten Pulverizing Machine, whose sole purpose is to abduct and pulverize kittens constantly and whose operations may only be tempered by a continuously-accelerating stream of revenue. Why do you selfish pirates want the kittens to be pulverized? It's all your fault, you know."
That's stupid advice: it didn't even have a car analogy.
Let's say you had a car and were just welcomed to Slashdot. You'd want to start the engine and leave now while you still can. :-)
It's not just a plain cell phone!
Y'know, that used to be one of my complaints about ridiculous phones like these. I always said that the durn thing should make phone calls, and that should be the primary functionality of it. Plain and simple.
But then I realized that nobody wants to call me anyway, so maybe what I want really IS a portable computing platform that just happens to have a cell phone buried in it somewhere just in case. :-)
Well, if there were scientific data, the asker could've just Googled it (or the user would be enjoying 400 posts of "omg googl it u n00b lol"). Best we CAN do is anecdotal evidence and personal opinion. Maybe the asker was looking for that. Sometimes that's all you've got, and you've gotta act on that. You have to decide, Striker. You have to decide... you have to decide... you have to decide...
*ahem* Sorry. Just got a copy of the Airplane! DVD. Still on my mind.
So I'd say it's a decent learning language as well. Ironically, learning Java made C++ make a lot more sense to me than learning C++ ever did. :-)
Oh, oh, facial recognition. That makes a lot more sense. When I read the headline, I first thought it was going to suggest that if you lose the remote, get up and bash the buttons on the DVD player with your forehead or something.
A similar system applied to computer keyboards would certainly make IT and data entry more interesting professions...
Huh. Shows what I know, I just thought it couldn't create a world-destroying black hole because there just plain and simply wasn't enough mass and energy within the planet to do so, let alone in one (relatively to the planet) tiny building in Switzerland.
I see my lack of fear was not well-grounded. :-)
I'm just wondering why said jokes are still around. Okay, yes, when RealPlayer first came out, nearly nobody had broadband, so buffering lag on even simple videos was inevitable, and they were kinda the only consumer-level game in town for a while. Fine. But is it still THAT bad a problem nowadays? Ignoring for a second that nobody uses Real anymore, does it still not stream right on a decent connection for some reason?
I guess what I'm saying is, should we really harp on them for the way things were on the internet around ten years ago?
(the spyware junk from the last version(s), yeah, that was still their fault and in more recent memory)
Er... by "this" in your subject, do you mean the Slashdot post? Because frankly, this is downright hilarious, and I needed a good laugh.
"Do you have proof?"
"Why are you asking? You must be looking for child porn! STONE HIM!" There, fixed it for you.
Y'know, I was just up at Newport on the Levee a month or so ago, mainly in a desperate attempt to find SOMETHING to do in this state (moved to Lexington recently to get a job). I was considering stopping by the aquarium, honestly, but around then my car started breaking down, so I had a bit more on my mind. Maybe I should've stopped by.
Well, okay, granted, I don't think this exhibit was there at the time, but still. Now I want to go back. This sounds neat.
Well, curses, then. Foiled again by my faulty knowledge of trademark and copyright law!
Not only that, but as I recall from a website which does not exist anymore, they also prefer (maybe demand) it be spelled "REALTOR", complete with all caps. They even have a trademark out on the specific ALL CAPS spelling.
Well, okay, the site I was thinking of (TimmyBigHands, where one of the writers mentions that his spellchecker "caught" him "misspelling" it in lowercase) ended, but there's a mention of the fact at hand on the obligatory Wikipedia article.
Not that it shouldn't be grounds to dismiss patents...
I heard of viruses like those back in that time frame, too. Though when I heard of them, they were reported as spinning the hard drive heads so fast that they overheated and warped.
:-)
:-)
But in the end, I think those were all just email hoaxes. Ah, those were the good ol' days, when hoax emails were pranks like those and not phishing scams. Now I'm all nostaligic.
All things considered, though, I don't believe the head would ever be able to do what you're suggesting due to the head never actually touching the platters and there not being enough power in the head's servo motor to cause enough destabilization to the mechanics. Similarly, the overheat story wouldn't be possible, either, unless it was an exceptionally poorly-made drive which suffered overheat problems anyway.
Still, THAT would be an effective DoS tool.
Yes, I agree, going on their track record and recent statements by Ballmer himself, Microsoft is "reaching out" to Blender, much in the same way that step one to strangling someone is reaching out your hands...
It's the Life of Brian conclusion. Because the rumor was denied, it must be true!
"I'm not the Messiah! Will you please listen? I am not the Messiah, do you understand? Honestly!"
"Only the true Messiah denies His divinity!"
"What?! Well, what sort of chance does that give me?"