I haven't logged to Slashdot in years, yet here I am just to answer this:
>They say to really know someone you need to walk 1000 miles in their shoes. Well, to really know what it's like to be overweight, you need to be overweight.
Congratulations, you found a former fatass. I was 116 kg (255 lbs) at 6'1" a year ago. I'm 82 kg now (180 lbs), still going to shed a few more pounds but otherwise normal weight.
You're full of it. Losing weight is now easier than ever, there's a bajillion apps that will count calories for you, track your activity, your BMR, everything. All I did was eat at a deficit and walk a bit. That's it.
If you looked at my MyFitnessPal logs, you'll find pizza, burgers, chocolate, chips, all the usual suspects (I've never been a fan of soda though, but I love chocolate, the more sugary the better). Only you'll find smaller portions of them. And not every day either.
What did I have when I was fat? Excuses, lazyness, and denial. "I'm not that fat" was the typical one. And maybe I wasn't, I dropped from size 38 to size 32 in pants, but I was carrying a good 75+ pounds of blubber.
The body may or may not be a simple machine, but it follows the laws of Thermodynamics to the T. I've been at a calorie deficit for a fucking year, and yet I have more energy than ever, and I'm in much better shape than when I started (or so my doctor claims).
... except you're not allowed to use the Ouroboros portal until you're level 25. Which makes it less of an option for the teen-levels I was talking about:)
Pocket D will sell you inspirations whenever you want.
if you're in 8 player groups all the time, otherwise it goes a lot slower
No, actually, if you're in an 8-man team all the time you get there in like an hour or two. Heck, the "Sewer Teams" in Atlas Park will get you to level 6 in less than 20 minutes.
I always wondered what's the big idea of aiming a TF-class challenge at people who are there because they messed up their spec.
The respec trial has been made so easy that you need exactly ONE player who knows what he's doing to succeed. That's it. A single good player can carry a whole team of misfits through the trial. And secondly:
very recently. And at twice the cost. A genuine newbie won't be able to afford even two sets of DOs, unless they had had some insane luck and got a rare drop to sell.
No, actually, a genuine newbie will be playing the low level content, and just the common salvage will be enough to kit him out with as much money as he could need for DOs. Seen the prices of Luck Charms in Wenworth's lately? Low level common salvage just keeps on giving to the newbies, not jut Luck Charms. And why the "very recently"? It's been less recently than your actual post complaining about it.
My complaint is that on _top_ of that, at least one of the teen level ones is full of COT ghosts which debuff accuracy majorly.
You didn't have any blasters in your team or something? The acc debuff is a PBAoE aura with a rather meh radius. Quite frankly, it's annoying, but it's not the end of the world by a long shot.
There have been lots of improvements to low levels that address your concerns. To wit:
buggerall attacks for a long time. (As a tanker or defender it's not uncommon to have one single weak attack until the mid-20's or so, and much twiddling your thumb while you wait for it to recharge.)
Having a single attack is not just uncommon, it's downright impossible. You get brawl and a ranged attack as inherents. They become useless soon, but at the low levels they are indeed quite useful. Brawl does about 20% of an enemy's HP at level 1. And it recharges in 2s. The ranged inherent does about 15% of the enemy's HP, and has a secondary effect (a debuff, sleep, hold... to get people familiar with these things). So at the low levels you're in fact pretty well equipped for the low level weak enemies.
A single weak attack till the mid 20's also sounds really bizarre because that'd imply getting nothing but powers from the "non-attack" part of your powerset and non-attack pool powers constantly (as there are levels where you will simply not have a new power from the primary open up for you, and then you'd have to choose a non-attack power from the pools), technically you CAN do it, but you'd be quickly advised by anyone you care to ask in-game about making a more balanced power choice - and the community is rather friendly that way. If you messed up the build the first time, not to worry, you now can have a second build for your character, so the newbie can switch to the second one and re-do it with more knowledge at no cost.
Also, you don't have to "waste" a power choice to travel around at the low levels. As soon as level 5 you can do a safeguard/mayhem mission to acquire a temporary travel power, then again at 10, and that will easily last you into the 20s. And if you are a villain, you can just buy a temporary jetpack outright as often as you want (the heroes have the contact for this locked in a hazard zone, which is a rather bizarre idea, but there you go).
you run out of endurance (think: mana) within a fight, and the "rest" button recharges once in a blue moon, so mostly you just get to sit around twiddling your thumbs for 3 f-ing minutes until it slowly recharges. And it gets even worse if you actually use your defenses, because those suck your endurance even faster.
Rest now recharges (unenhanced) in three minutes, so unless you just used it and want to immediately use it again, you don't have to wait for 3 f-ing minutes - and a single dual origin enhancement will put that at 2m30s. At the rate things go at low levels, you have it available every other fight or so, it's rather uncommon to need it much faster, and if you start with full end and HP bars, I doubt you'll have to wait much more than 30s to use it when you've finally gone through all your HP and need it again.
At the very low levels you'll hardly have any need for your defense toggles. That is pretty much evident after a couple of fights for any new player.
get to run to the other end of a zone and back all the time, and often through enemies which can kill you easily (running into level 6 enemies when running to a level 1 mission is not really great fun. And as that level means, it's more like running through level 10 enemies on WoW.)
A level 1 character is, first of all, someone who skipped the tutorial, where you get to level 2 quickly and safely and learn about the game - something a newbie or a trialer will likely not do. Second, your starter missions will NOT send you into the red zones of the starter areas - which is where the level 6s lurk. Third, Most everything CoV and all the better streamlined areas in CoH will not have you running back and forth, the contacts will give you their phone number after a mission, maybe two.
your accuracy sucks, so you'll have big streaks of missing the enemy
Your accuracy is 90% at level 1 thanks to the "beginner's luck" buff that slowly diminishes as you level up - and there is the obvio
Except that 90% of the world doesn't abbreviate Microsoft to MS... most people actually go and type whole words. Quicktype instant-message abbreviature typing is still (luckily) mostly restricted to instant messages and basement dwellers.
>No idiot, it would be like calling linux "£x" in some world where 90% of the people writing messages used that abbreviation.
By "world" you mean "extremely tiny group of basement dwellers," right?
>Face it, "M$" is a very useful and quick abbreviation that is not ambiguous. The letters "MS" mean MANY things (try typing them into Wikipedia).
That's why, when one intends to use abbreviations, it's useful to simply specify it after the first use of the non-abbreviated word, like this:
"I don't like Microsoft (MS). I think MS does very bad products and they have built themselves a bad reputation. Not only that, MS also smells. Yeah. Death to MS!"
Regardless, even using MS outright wouldn't have been the ambiguous problem you so stupidly try to paint. It's called context, and it's very handy to solve such ambiguities. Saying "I don't think buying Yahoo is going to be very good for MS" as a comment answering an article on Microsoft buying Yahoo is not going to confuse anyone who's not stupid. If you need to see "M$" instead of "MS" in a comment here to know they're talking about Microsoft and not, say, Mass Spectrometry, then the only idiot here is you.
"As the name implies, you must also be watchful. Peace can be made or broken with a gun, a word, an idea, even a thought. Now, those who work against peace sow the seeds of discontent. They plant false stories, they undermine the public good. It's not because they are necessarily evil. It's because they don't know any better. They're rejected, they're unhappy, and they lash out in the only way they can. So, If we could be made aware of these problems as they occur, then we can find these people, we can talk to these people, we can embrace them again in the arms of society, while, at the same time, protecting society from misinformation and harmful ideas. We're less interested in actions than we are in attitudes. We must help protect society against its own worst instincts. And by taking these bold steps, we will help to ensure a better future for everyone.
I'm proud to be a part of it, and I hope you'll all join me in becoming part of the Night Watch."
>Don't blame ills of a socialist economy on cluture
Spain had a whole lot of gold and money during the 16th-17th centuries, yet there was an important segment of the population who were living in extremely hard conditions. GDP in the 1600s? That's almost meaningless, unless you look at WHO had that money. I assure you it wasn't even remotely _evenly_ distributed.
>There was a time when you got CANED for even breathing out of turn.
And there was also a time when 'niggers' couldn't sit in the same place in a bus as the whites. What's your goddamn point? That because kids were regularly abused in the past in schools, they should be thankful that trampling their privacy is the worst they get?
School doesn't allow cell phone in the premises? Then the teachers take the phones. There's a whole world of difference between that and messing with the contents.
>What sort of reality-distortion field are you in that it looks like Linux, GNU, >FreeBSD, Mozilla, and OpenOffice are mere "pockets" of success and OpenBSD's >perennial financial trouble is the "overall" situation?
"No! Twilight Princess will be a Gamecube game! Honest! We're still developing for it, we're not doing anything for the Revolution with it! The delay is to make sure it's ready and nothing about releasing when the Revolution hits the shelves! Look at the monkey!! Look at the monkey dance!!"
The hilarious thing is that "iQue?", in Spanish, would be something like "So what?" At first I thought you were a Spanish speaker and poking fun at this thing, then I read your post:-)
>Because those thumbnails are similar in quality to content that Perfect 10 sells for mobile phones.
So, if you want to stop google from scanning and indexing all the books you want which are copyrighted, all you need to do is to offer every phrase in the book for, say, $5.99/use for fortune cookie manufacturers or even mobile phones. I bet the cost of a low-traffic server (thanks to the ridiculously high price) with the online shop for that would be a hell of a lot cheaper than the lawyers.
I think you missed something important in your comments, and it's that most of the time it was the inconsistency of the behaviour in every point what annoyed the GP poster. Inconsistency is always an irritation, even if it's relatively small.
Oh and one more thing:
>You know, I wanted focus follows mouse for a long time, but then I realized that if you had
>focus follows mouse, you'd never be able to choose anything in the menus
You have found just another source of irritation for people who prefer to have independent menu bars for each app. And of course, mouse focus (although you've quite handily pointed out why we'll probably never see mouse focus for the Mac).
The point was that the disambiguation wasn't very good. Longest in lenght could refer to length... of time. "Longest (in distance)" would have been much better.
I tried 3 monitors (I had them already, the third one was connected to a PCI Radeon 9200SE) but didn't quite work, although I later heard in a discussion about this in the CoH forums that triple monitors worked wonderfully in a dual-card SLI configuration. YMMV.
The gained real state was wonderful. As you can see in the screenshot, I could have a lot of chat windows open, as well as all the bars available (team, inspirations, powers), and the map tab, while keeping a great view of the game. I'd imagine that if WoW were to support multimonitor setups, the gain in space would be wonderful since the UI gets crowded so easily. Imagine having multiple chat windows shoved to the side, and keeping track of everyone in a 40 man raid without having to completely cover your screen and obscure your character.
>"Librarian causes delay in finding email threat source, results in death of 50"
No no, if Brandeis blew up the headline would have been: "Authorities fail to evacuate, results in death of 50." Finding the source of the email isn't going to necessarily get you anywhere closer to the (hypothetical) killer bomb. If they thought there was such [i]clear and present danger[/i] there'd have been noone at the threatened place to begin with.
Seriously, the whole "but the terrorist are after us!!!1" scaremongering to trample all over the citizen's rights is geting really really old.
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I haven't logged to Slashdot in years, yet here I am just to answer this:
>They say to really know someone you need to walk 1000 miles in their shoes. Well, to really know what it's like to be overweight, you need to be overweight.
Congratulations, you found a former fatass. I was 116 kg (255 lbs) at 6'1" a year ago. I'm 82 kg now (180 lbs), still going to shed a few more pounds but otherwise normal weight.
You're full of it. Losing weight is now easier than ever, there's a bajillion apps that will count calories for you, track your activity, your BMR, everything. All I did was eat at a deficit and walk a bit. That's it.
If you looked at my MyFitnessPal logs, you'll find pizza, burgers, chocolate, chips, all the usual suspects (I've never been a fan of soda though, but I love chocolate, the more sugary the better). Only you'll find smaller portions of them. And not every day either.
What did I have when I was fat? Excuses, lazyness, and denial. "I'm not that fat" was the typical one. And maybe I wasn't, I dropped from size 38 to size 32 in pants, but I was carrying a good 75+ pounds of blubber.
The body may or may not be a simple machine, but it follows the laws of Thermodynamics to the T. I've been at a calorie deficit for a fucking year, and yet I have more energy than ever, and I'm in much better shape than when I started (or so my doctor claims).
Drop the excuses and move your ass.
... except you're not allowed to use the Ouroboros portal until you're level 25. Which makes it less of an option for the teen-levels I was talking about :)
Pocket D will sell you inspirations whenever you want.
if you're in 8 player groups all the time, otherwise it goes a lot slower
No, actually, if you're in an 8-man team all the time you get there in like an hour or two. Heck, the "Sewer Teams" in Atlas Park will get you to level 6 in less than 20 minutes.
I always wondered what's the big idea of aiming a TF-class challenge at people who are there because they messed up their spec.
The respec trial has been made so easy that you need exactly ONE player who knows what he's doing to succeed. That's it. A single good player can carry a whole team of misfits through the trial. And secondly:
very recently. And at twice the cost. A genuine newbie won't be able to afford even two sets of DOs, unless they had had some insane luck and got a rare drop to sell.
No, actually, a genuine newbie will be playing the low level content, and just the common salvage will be enough to kit him out with as much money as he could need for DOs. Seen the prices of Luck Charms in Wenworth's lately? Low level common salvage just keeps on giving to the newbies, not jut Luck Charms. And why the "very recently"? It's been less recently than your actual post complaining about it.
My complaint is that on _top_ of that, at least one of the teen level ones is full of COT ghosts which debuff accuracy majorly.
You didn't have any blasters in your team or something? The acc debuff is a PBAoE aura with a rather meh radius. Quite frankly, it's annoying, but it's not the end of the world by a long shot.
There have been lots of improvements to low levels that address your concerns. To wit:
buggerall attacks for a long time. (As a tanker or defender it's not uncommon to have one single weak attack until the mid-20's or so, and much twiddling your thumb while you wait for it to recharge.)
Having a single attack is not just uncommon, it's downright impossible. You get brawl and a ranged attack as inherents. They become useless soon, but at the low levels they are indeed quite useful. Brawl does about 20% of an enemy's HP at level 1. And it recharges in 2s. The ranged inherent does about 15% of the enemy's HP, and has a secondary effect (a debuff, sleep, hold... to get people familiar with these things). So at the low levels you're in fact pretty well equipped for the low level weak enemies.
A single weak attack till the mid 20's also sounds really bizarre because that'd imply getting nothing but powers from the "non-attack" part of your powerset and non-attack pool powers constantly (as there are levels where you will simply not have a new power from the primary open up for you, and then you'd have to choose a non-attack power from the pools), technically you CAN do it, but you'd be quickly advised by anyone you care to ask in-game about making a more balanced power choice - and the community is rather friendly that way. If you messed up the build the first time, not to worry, you now can have a second build for your character, so the newbie can switch to the second one and re-do it with more knowledge at no cost.
Also, you don't have to "waste" a power choice to travel around at the low levels. As soon as level 5 you can do a safeguard/mayhem mission to acquire a temporary travel power, then again at 10, and that will easily last you into the 20s. And if you are a villain, you can just buy a temporary jetpack outright as often as you want (the heroes have the contact for this locked in a hazard zone, which is a rather bizarre idea, but there you go).
you run out of endurance (think: mana) within a fight, and the "rest" button recharges once in a blue moon, so mostly you just get to sit around twiddling your thumbs for 3 f-ing minutes until it slowly recharges. And it gets even worse if you actually use your defenses, because those suck your endurance even faster.
Rest now recharges (unenhanced) in three minutes, so unless you just used it and want to immediately use it again, you don't have to wait for 3 f-ing minutes - and a single dual origin enhancement will put that at 2m30s. At the rate things go at low levels, you have it available every other fight or so, it's rather uncommon to need it much faster, and if you start with full end and HP bars, I doubt you'll have to wait much more than 30s to use it when you've finally gone through all your HP and need it again.
At the very low levels you'll hardly have any need for your defense toggles. That is pretty much evident after a couple of fights for any new player.
get to run to the other end of a zone and back all the time, and often through enemies which can kill you easily (running into level 6 enemies when running to a level 1 mission is not really great fun. And as that level means, it's more like running through level 10 enemies on WoW.)
A level 1 character is, first of all, someone who skipped the tutorial, where you get to level 2 quickly and safely and learn about the game - something a newbie or a trialer will likely not do. Second, your starter missions will NOT send you into the red zones of the starter areas - which is where the level 6s lurk. Third, Most everything CoV and all the better streamlined areas in CoH will not have you running back and forth, the contacts will give you their phone number after a mission, maybe two.
your accuracy sucks, so you'll have big streaks of missing the enemy
Your accuracy is 90% at level 1 thanks to the "beginner's luck" buff that slowly diminishes as you level up - and there is the obvio
Except that 90% of the world doesn't abbreviate Microsoft to MS... most people actually go and type whole words. Quicktype instant-message abbreviature typing is still (luckily) mostly restricted to instant messages and basement dwellers.
>No, stupid. By "some world" I meant a fictional world, so that I could apply an analogy to the real world.
Except that in the real world noone but the basement dwellers use the "M$" abbreviation. So apparently the whole point of your post was fictional.
And you have quite handily ignored the rest of the post by replying to something that wasn't even the main point of it. Well done, retard.
>No idiot, it would be like calling linux "£x" in some world where 90% of the people writing messages used that abbreviation.
By "world" you mean "extremely tiny group of basement dwellers," right?
>Face it, "M$" is a very useful and quick abbreviation that is not ambiguous. The letters "MS" mean MANY things (try typing them into Wikipedia).
That's why, when one intends to use abbreviations, it's useful to simply specify it after the first use of the non-abbreviated word, like this:
"I don't like Microsoft (MS). I think MS does very bad products and they have built themselves a bad reputation. Not only that, MS also smells. Yeah. Death to MS!"
Regardless, even using MS outright wouldn't have been the ambiguous problem you so stupidly try to paint. It's called context, and it's very handy to solve such ambiguities. Saying "I don't think buying Yahoo is going to be very good for MS" as a comment answering an article on Microsoft buying Yahoo is not going to confuse anyone who's not stupid. If you need to see "M$" instead of "MS" in a comment here to know they're talking about Microsoft and not, say, Mass Spectrometry, then the only idiot here is you.
"As the name implies, you must also be watchful. Peace can be made or broken with a gun, a word, an idea, even a thought. Now, those who work against peace sow the seeds of discontent. They plant false stories, they undermine the public good. It's not because they are necessarily evil. It's because they don't know any better. They're rejected, they're unhappy, and they lash out in the only way they can. So, If we could be made aware of these problems as they occur, then we can find these people, we can talk to these people, we can embrace them again in the arms of society, while, at the same time, protecting society from misinformation and harmful ideas. We're less interested in actions than we are in attitudes. We must help protect society against its own worst instincts. And by taking these bold steps, we will help to ensure a better future for everyone.
I'm proud to be a part of it, and I hope you'll all join me in becoming part of the Night Watch."
Heh.
>Don't blame ills of a socialist economy on cluture
Spain had a whole lot of gold and money during the 16th-17th centuries, yet there was an important segment of the population who were living in extremely hard conditions. GDP in the 1600s? That's almost meaningless, unless you look at WHO had that money. I assure you it wasn't even remotely _evenly_ distributed.
>There was a time when you got CANED for even breathing out of turn.
And there was also a time when 'niggers' couldn't sit in the same place in a bus as the whites. What's your goddamn point? That because kids were regularly abused in the past in schools, they should be thankful that trampling their privacy is the worst they get?
School doesn't allow cell phone in the premises? Then the teachers take the phones. There's a whole world of difference between that and messing with the contents.
As long as they stop the browser from jumping to the end of the bloody page every other time when I try to highlight text.
>What sort of reality-distortion field are you in that it looks like Linux, GNU,
>FreeBSD, Mozilla, and OpenOffice are mere "pockets" of success and OpenBSD's
>perennial financial trouble is the "overall" situation?
Redmond?
"No! Twilight Princess will be a Gamecube game! Honest! We're still developing for it, we're not doing anything for the Revolution with it! The delay is to make sure it's ready and nothing about releasing when the Revolution hits the shelves! Look at the monkey!! Look at the monkey dance!!"
Shocking news I tells ya.
>In this case, however, the domain names had a demonstrable value; it's harder to argue that about a WoW character.
A quick look at Ebay or a quick question to any gold farmer will say otherwise.
Hehe, Ned Land would be proud ;-)
Blame them thar pirates again. Yarrr!
How does it score at the real important list?
The hilarious thing is that "iQue?", in Spanish, would be something like "So what?" At first I thought you were a Spanish speaker and poking fun at this thing, then I read your post :-)
>Because those thumbnails are similar in quality to content that Perfect 10 sells for mobile phones.
So, if you want to stop google from scanning and indexing all the books you want which are copyrighted, all you need to do is to offer every phrase in the book for, say, $5.99/use for fortune cookie manufacturers or even mobile phones. I bet the cost of a low-traffic server (thanks to the ridiculously high price) with the online shop for that would be a hell of a lot cheaper than the lawyers.
I think you missed something important in your comments, and it's that most of the time it was the inconsistency of the behaviour in every point what annoyed the GP poster. Inconsistency is always an irritation, even if it's relatively small.
Oh and one more thing:
>You know, I wanted focus follows mouse for a long time, but then I realized that if you had
>focus follows mouse, you'd never be able to choose anything in the menus
You have found just another source of irritation for people who prefer to have independent menu bars for each app. And of course, mouse focus (although you've quite handily pointed out why we'll probably never see mouse focus for the Mac).
>The disambiguation was completely necessary.
The point was that the disambiguation wasn't very good. Longest in lenght could refer to length... of time. "Longest (in distance)" would have been much better.
>How do you mod something informative but off-topic?
Ideally, the first person mods it offtopic and the rest go for the "Underrated" tag.
This is much more amusing when a post is badly marked as a Troll. Seing (Score:5, Troll) is quite a sight.
> If tags cost $50, nobody would ever tag anyone for any reason.
You severely underestimate road rage.
1. Get sample of authentic superbowl leather.
2. Use PCR.
3. ???
4. Profit!
One of the greatest things about City of Heroes is that it could be run in windowed mode and used accross dual monitors connected to a single card:
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http://walkiry.no-ip.org/coh/grab_023_2005_01_27.
I tried 3 monitors (I had them already, the third one was connected to a PCI Radeon 9200SE) but didn't quite work, although I later heard in a discussion about this in the CoH forums that triple monitors worked wonderfully in a dual-card SLI configuration. YMMV.
The gained real state was wonderful. As you can see in the screenshot, I could have a lot of chat windows open, as well as all the bars available (team, inspirations, powers), and the map tab, while keeping a great view of the game. I'd imagine that if WoW were to support multimonitor setups, the gain in space would be wonderful since the UI gets crowded so easily. Imagine having multiple chat windows shoved to the side, and keeping track of everyone in a 40 man raid without having to completely cover your screen and obscure your character.
>"Librarian causes delay in finding email threat source, results in death of 50"
No no, if Brandeis blew up the headline would have been: "Authorities fail to evacuate, results in death of 50." Finding the source of the email isn't going to necessarily get you anywhere closer to the (hypothetical) killer bomb. If they thought there was such [i]clear and present danger[/i] there'd have been noone at the threatened place to begin with.
Seriously, the whole "but the terrorist are after us!!!1" scaremongering to trample all over the citizen's rights is geting really really old.