UO initially had ecosystems of a sort. Then the players pillaged and burned and plowed salt into the ground.
Animals? All killed off. Trees? Graphics still there but no lumber generating. Monsters? Hahahahahahahaha. You killed the other players while waiting for the one (1) orc to spawn in the orc fort.
Ecosystems are cool until they come into contact with players.
I'm surprised there's enough players left on UO to keep the ecosystem from regenerating.
Anyone else find it funny that MailTrust has an advert attached to this story
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It appears that turning on the LHC is transforming the world as we know it into the nightmare world of Linux on the Desktop...
If that were true they would of called it Hardy Hadron.
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Ok so there are huge problems with this.
To do a multi-person dungeon in WoW which lasts for an hour, despite the easy to use looking for group system and having large guilds and friends list to draw upon, it STILL takes a good 20 minutes to build a group and get to the dungeon itself.
Given a time limit too small and the "overhead time" becomes frustrating and makes the game unplayable.
Handling this is simple too you simply make a monthly cap. Assumeing you don't raid constantly(which is the whole idea of putting a limit in the first place) you could easily come up with a cap that lets you play for 8 hours on a weekend but not every day.
It has surprised me with all the vitriol that Microsoft received for using their desktop dominance to drive IE installs that no one has taken Google to task for using their web dominance to drive Chrome installs.
Thats because you don't have to install Chrome to use the Google website. You do have to install IE to use Windows,
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What would casual players REALLY want from an MMO? That the hardcore players somehow weren't in it.
That way they would be able to be in the top guilds. They would be able to make discoveries. The designers could remove the most egregious of time-sinks because the casuals aren't going to race through it anyway. The designers could do the end game so that it could be played by pick-up groups instead of scheduled guild raids. That they'd get their money's worth since they weren't subsidizing piles of content they'll never be able to see and subsizing the bandwidth hardcore players use.
I'm not sure HOW to best accomplish this, but that's what casual players really want. They want to play in a world DESIGNED to let them play as casuals, competing and adventuring with other casuals.
Thats simple. All you have to do put a limit on how much time a player can spend log'd in.
This will never happen though as hardcore gammers tend to be the most loyal and spend the most money. So executives will keep trying to please everyone.
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it is NOT a root kit - it installs a Ring 3 service, which is the least privileged, but only if you aren't running under an admin account),
It installs a ring 3 service without the users knowledge or consent. May not be a root kit but it fits the defintion of a trojan.
His goal is to get Californaias laws placed online which will never happen as long as it's illegal to be viewable to everyone for free. Such a project would cost quite a bit, and no one is going to risk putting in the effort if there's risk of it being shutdown.
1. A lot of times it is the computer. People use this lie because it is a common problem
2. If the line is up it doesn't matter what the problem is as far as the ISP is concerned. They won't trouble shoot your router unless your leaseing one from them.
3. It's likely this woman called and harrassed the the deparment to make this happen. This sounds like a call that got transfered to a manager
who sent someone out just to get her to shut up.
4. I guarentee they read the script first before they went out. Wouldn't matter if it was something even remotely unusual.
5. And when she screams to have a tech sent out a manager will send one out.
6. Many viruses can corrupt the tcp/ip stack createing this scenario.
It's sad when we can no longer convince Americans that the work that they do is work that they should want to do because it's what the company pays them to do.
Now, Americans are convinced that work must be entertaining, enjoyable, and come with a reward that is supplemental to the salary that they work for.
What's going to happen next? Will workers at McDonalds not serve us unless we dangle a dollar in their face and tell them, "If my meal is ready in the next 60 seconds, you get this reward?"
It's because companies no longer have any loyalty to their workers. Why are you suprised that workers have no loyalty to their company?
People who work hard still get outsourced so why try.
While I generally come down on the side of pirates in this debate, I must disagree. Pirate chicks are hot.
What do you mean? Of course its a chick...I mean look at her.
Wait a minute...oh...nevermind...
Please, moderators - "troll" is for posts like "OMGZERS L00zers tihs is teh craps ur all so dum sheeple." Not for "Interesting technology, but how much impact will it really have?"
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UO initially had ecosystems of a sort. Then the players pillaged and burned and plowed salt into the ground.
Animals? All killed off. Trees? Graphics still there but no lumber generating. Monsters? Hahahahahahahaha. You killed the other players while waiting for the one (1) orc to spawn in the orc fort.
Ecosystems are cool until they come into contact with players.
I'm surprised there's enough players left on UO to keep the ecosystem from regenerating.
is a form of estoppel.
Godwins Law is invoked.
Hitlers secret police have nothing to do with the conversation.
I'll have to point to this next time someone finds an error on my website.
Call me a right winger, but I want to damn well choose how much I play and when I play it.
Then you qualify as hardcore and the purpose of this exercise is to weed you out. This idea assumes we only care about casual gamers.
Anyone else find it funny that MailTrust has an advert attached to this story
It appears that turning on the LHC is transforming the world as we know it into the nightmare world of Linux on the Desktop...
If that were true they would of called it Hardy Hadron.
Ok so there are huge problems with this. To do a multi-person dungeon in WoW which lasts for an hour, despite the easy to use looking for group system and having large guilds and friends list to draw upon, it STILL takes a good 20 minutes to build a group and get to the dungeon itself. Given a time limit too small and the "overhead time" becomes frustrating and makes the game unplayable.
Handling this is simple too you simply make a monthly cap. Assumeing you don't raid constantly(which is the whole idea of putting a limit in the first place) you could easily come up with a cap that lets you play for 8 hours on a weekend but not every day.
It has surprised me with all the vitriol that Microsoft received for using their desktop dominance to drive IE installs that no one has taken Google to task for using their web dominance to drive Chrome installs.
Thats because you don't have to install Chrome to use the Google website. You do have to install IE to use Windows,
What would casual players REALLY want from an MMO? That the hardcore players somehow weren't in it.
That way they would be able to be in the top guilds. They would be able to make discoveries. The designers could remove the most egregious of time-sinks because the casuals aren't going to race through it anyway. The designers could do the end game so that it could be played by pick-up groups instead of scheduled guild raids. That they'd get their money's worth since they weren't subsidizing piles of content they'll never be able to see and subsizing the bandwidth hardcore players use.
I'm not sure HOW to best accomplish this, but that's what casual players really want. They want to play in a world DESIGNED to let them play as casuals, competing and adventuring with other casuals.
Thats simple. All you have to do put a limit on how much time a player can spend log'd in. This will never happen though as hardcore gammers tend to be the most loyal and spend the most money. So executives will keep trying to please everyone.
it is NOT a root kit - it installs a Ring 3 service, which is the least privileged, but only if you aren't running under an admin account),
It installs a ring 3 service without the users knowledge or consent. May not be a root kit but it fits the defintion of a trojan.
Because that's considered polite on our society? I've been in the bathroom when people walked in accidentally before. I survived the experience.
Having your phone tapped with out cause is generally considered rude in our society.
Is this because you don't want the NSA to know that you go to KFC, or is it because you don't want the FBI to know that you don't go to Taco Bell?
Just think, every time you borrow a phone, you expose yourself to voice analysis by the NSA.
I wish I had delusions of importance. Or was actually important.
I eat at Arby's.
I am imaportant.
When a certain species of animal overmultiplies, and Mother Nature brings a drought,
Oh sure bring religion into it.
I never notcied this before but he's right. There's not nearly enough hockey on this site.
on the other or are you stupid motherfuckers going to start a war over whether or not Firefox is the One True Browser or not?
Of course not everyone knows Opera is the best.
Heavy Rain, he told us, was an adventure game devoid of traditional "interactivity"
Almost word for word the same sales pitch they gave for Indigo Prohesy. I expect this one will fail too.
His goal is to get Californaias laws placed online which will never happen as long as it's illegal to be viewable to everyone for free. Such a project would cost quite a bit, and no one is going to risk putting in the effort if there's risk of it being shutdown.
1. A lot of times it is the computer. People use this lie because it is a common problem
2. If the line is up it doesn't matter what the problem is as far as the ISP is concerned. They won't trouble shoot your router unless your leaseing one from them.
3. It's likely this woman called and harrassed the the deparment to make this happen. This sounds like a call that got transfered to a manager who sent someone out just to get her to shut up.
4. I guarentee they read the script first before they went out. Wouldn't matter if it was something even remotely unusual.
5. And when she screams to have a tech sent out a manager will send one out.
6. Many viruses can corrupt the tcp/ip stack createing this scenario.
It's sad when we can no longer convince Americans that the work that they do is work that they should want to do because it's what the company pays them to do.
Now, Americans are convinced that work must be entertaining, enjoyable, and come with a reward that is supplemental to the salary that they work for.
What's going to happen next? Will workers at McDonalds not serve us unless we dangle a dollar in their face and tell them, "If my meal is ready in the next 60 seconds, you get this reward?"
It's because companies no longer have any loyalty to their workers. Why are you suprised that workers have no loyalty to their company? People who work hard still get outsourced so why try.
Bah the Tokugawa Shogunate messed everything up. Stupid Samurai.
While I generally come down on the side of pirates in this debate, I must disagree. Pirate chicks are hot. What do you mean? Of course its a chick...I mean look at her. Wait a minute...oh...nevermind...
Yeah all that eye makeup makes it hard to tell.
I understand every word. Any experimental particle physicist does. I will conceed its not clearn to non-experts.
Exactly, the emperor has wonderful clothes only non experts think he's naked.
Please, moderators - "troll" is for posts like "OMGZERS L00zers tihs is teh craps ur all so dum sheeple." Not for "Interesting technology, but how much impact will it really have?"
Yes please mod those as flamebait.......I keed,
Third, open source is completely OFF TOPIC in this discussion!!
This sis Slashdot. Open source is always on topic. Just like bashing the RIAA.
But calling preconceived ideas "pop culture" is stretching it a bit too much. Unless you want to start a debate about Pirates vs. Ninjas :)
But there's scietific conseus that ninjas are cooler than pirates.