You know, you really scared me for a second. From the title I though you were going to talk about your kid who was named DebianJr. (yes emphasis on both words).
What I wonder is why in such case would the MS be a problem. In a free-form Role Play (I've seen this in plenty of places, I frequent a board where there is a forum dedicated to it exclusively), as you said, it comes as a collective effort, and having one player come in and destroy everything with a Deus Ex Machina or an Uberpowerness as the Favoured Child of the Gods is as disruptive as typing/ignore in the IRC channel, or letting the post be buried in the thread as you continue ignoring it.
I understand pretty well why for some people having these characters in their stories is undesirable. I don't understand the cheese about one of them single-handedly destroying the game in a multiplayer environment. If the rest of the players give that MS support for their story and you can't come up with anything better then it's too bad for you, but the rest of the players seem to prefer that.
And I'd be very impressed if someone can come up with a Sherlock Holmes knock-off and solve a mystery puzzle I create in a purely deductive way. See, it's not all about role-playing in the "trying to gain power and outdo you" way, I've found that in the FFRP forum, the people that create situations with clever puzzles and situations that cannot be solved with a BFG are much more successful.
>> You're not making the right distinction between MMORPGs and MUDs/MUSHs.
That's because I think it's unnecessary. I don't see much difference between someone who puts a demi-god in a MUD or someone who has munchkined his character so that he's untouchable in an RPG (be it a MMO or a Pen & Paper). I've dealt with the "All 18/00 with more artifacts that you can count and knows the rules books to heart" player in real P&P RPGs, they're not nearly as annoying as portrayed there.
So this character is in a "ludicrous state of being" because he's an all-mighty son-of-a-god-and-married-to-a-goddess, but he's ruining the game because the only way you think you can keep playing is outdoing him? Hardly, that shows lack of imagination by the rest of the people who just try to outdo them.
I find this rant to be very close to the endless bashing of "munchkins" and "power gamers" you see in every RPG discussion (be it on the internet or somewhere else). Frankly, I don't see the point.
I don't play games to be the star in someone else's eyes, or to try and make people glare at me in disbelief due to my near-god status. When I play a game, I do so because it's fun, and the challenges/rewards it presents keep my interest on it.
This includes multiplayer games. I'm there to play my game, and possibly play it with people I get along with. The power-gamers don't bother me in the slightest, I don't do power-gaming myself, but if someone else likes then who the hell am I to say that's the wrong way to go? Fun is where you find it. My fun is playing the game my way and making my own challenges within the system, and playing along people with similar goals.
The original article strikes me as someone whinning that they want everyone to pay attention to them but they can't because someone else is better at doing that, and then goes on a long tirade about how bad these cookie-cutters are. Perhaps they should stop worrying so much about the others (be it the Mary Sues or the "faceless masses that see them shine") and pay attention to actually playing the game.
That's the point. He doesn't have a problem. He already has all the information he needs in the directory tree. The "problem" is the iPod refusing to use it and making him jump over hoops.
You know, your responses are like saying "Of course you can grep files in Notepad, just use the powerful Ctrl+F feature! Not only that, it'll let you replace text and even edit it, try doing that with your wimpy grep!"
From the original post:
The parent's response is similar to the many I saw on the ipodlounge forums. When people asked about browsing by folder, a bunch of apple zealots would shoot em down saying apple's way is better and that they should use it because it is easier. Well not in my case.
Then your reply:
iTunes' smart playlists are automatically synchronized with the iPod, and boast features that your "custom nested format" wouldn't ever dream of achieving.
Beautiful. Let me put it clear for you, the all amazing features iTunes has for making playlists mean squat to the original poster. As far as he's concerned, he doesn't give a shit about them, because he wants to organize HIS music in HIS own way, which is what works for HIM.
And not only that, I for one also organize my music in nested directories the way I see fit when I rip my CDs, and no whizzy ultra-featured playlist generator can beat my knowing exactly where in the directory tree things are because I organize them that way. I know quite a few people that do the same (although we all know how the plural of "anecdote" is not "data"). The point is that directory trees are an excellent way to organize all sorts of files, not just music, and it's totally retarded that something that simple is not supported.
I think you confused "Monopoly" and "Monoculture". The Windows monoculture is bad because it gives control to a single company with their own interests as top priority (just as many other privately owned companies really). Linux, on the other hand, does not seek profit per se, companies making distros do by offering support and added value with their own code on top of it.
Still, no monoculture is good. I don't think it'd be good to see Linux everywhere, I'd like it if there was more than one tool to do the job.
Even better, this could be the ultimate Spam Filter.
With the messages crawled and indexed by Google's engine, it could rank them and start labelling those that reach a large proportion of the users as Spam.
Blizzard has already done that with crazy stuff featured in their games in April 1st that came part of the game later, such as the cows in Diablo II or the Pandas. Of course, the size of this is much bigger than Blizzard's ones, which makes it even more funny because it was much easier to belive it was an April's Fools.
Someday it will be a nice company but I haven't earned that yet.
So no, increasing the company's profit is not a bad thing. Doing it in a short-sighted, near-term "I'm going to pocket 300K next year with this" way is. Companies can increase their profits and, more important, better guarantee their survivability in the long term by developing a strong market to sustain them. Offshoring and putting people in the unemployement lines doesn't help your company's future, but seems like the types the grandparent was talking about don't really care about that.
That is, if you see any bandwagon passing by that sounds like a plausible explanation to the real motivation, jump to it and see where the ride takes you.
First, it was because it just meant reconverting lower-tech jobs into "creative jobs", whatever the hell it means. That didn't quite float.
Then you see another bandwagon, say, a study that says students are not choosing computer science as much as they used to and claim that the reason why you're moving the jobs is because you can't find enough skilled people locally. Apparently the masses of skilled people finding themselves in the unemployed lists didn't quite bite that one either.
Next one, let's turn things around and show how the offshoring is actually helping the economy and the people by creating New Exciting(TM) employement opportunities as a middle-man parasite. Anyone wants to wager how far that bandwagon will travel?
The fact is that companies are doing that to cut costs and increase profit. Plain and simple in a capitalist market. The interesting thing is that they have to try so hard to make whacky justifications about it, pointing out the general consumer population (remember, we're not people, we're consumers) doesn't quite like the idea.
That's nothing dude, you should see it in my computer. Last year I bought a Radeon 9500 ASC for enhancing my Nethack games, and it turns out IF Quake also uses the onboard acceleration! When I tell people I'm playing IF Quake at 1,000 FPS I get all sorts of jealous looks. And the "Rottweilers", man they look so realistic and scary.
So do I, but all I have to do is type part of the url and the autocomplete takes care of the rest. Yes, autocomplete is great. No, it doesn't need a hierarchical, date-classified, thumbnail-enhanced history tool.
If it's not a single website (say, a CNN article for example, where you have to put a bunch of nonsense after the.php or.asp or whatever) it's easier to go to google and punch in the appropiate keywords than to dig through a whole bunch of pages in that history, that won't look very descriptive in either their link form or their "thumbnail" form (funny that, most news outlets have a consistent formatting that looks strikingly similar if you just squash it to a thumbnail).
So really, history is next to useless. An overbloated history like the one shown above, while no doubt an interesting exercise, is even less useful.
I knew you could. Browsing History has to be one of the most useless features in a browser. The only thing they're good for is to remind you of links you've already visited (you know, just in case you have fish memory and can't remember if you clicked something a few minutes/hours ago), and for auto-complete of URLs. And the first one is not even that useful since nowadays, with the advent of DSL and cable, clicking a link doesn't involve almost a minute of loading bad HTML like with a 28.8 Kbps modem.
I don't think I've clicked that "history" button in months. Of course, it could be my fish memory too:D
You might have missed this link, since it was in one of the comments. Quote of choice:
He also gave $15 million to his alma mater, the University of Virginia and runs a family foundation with his daughter Krista. (For the last ten years, Olsen has also personally mentored a Trenton, N.J., student through the Big Brothers-Big Sisters program.)
And besides, I see absolutely no reason why you have to crack on him like that about how he should be using that money in a "better way" according to you. Perhaps you don't think the way he is spending that money is the right one, but it seems like he disagrees.
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The question is, should an smart-ass mod option be +1 or -1? ;)
>>but just wait until the RIAA/MPAA take a cue from AOL and start liquidating pirates assets...
Will that include the pirates' MP3 and DivX files? They're, after all, Stolen Property(TM) according to them.
The TROPOSPHERE is only 12 miles thick. The atmosphere goes quite a bit beyond that.
Although you're right in the sense that it's the troposphere where the "weather" happens, so to speak.
You know, you really scared me for a second. From the title I though you were going to talk about your kid who was named Debian Jr. (yes emphasis on both words).
It was posted today! The fact that this news piece appears backdated in other websites proves there is something supernatural involved!!
*Jumps into Holy Water pool*
Amy Smart, the blonde chick in "Rat Race".
:D
Come on, she totally wrecked her boyfriend's house and kicked his ass with an helicopter
What I wonder is why in such case would the MS be a problem. In a free-form Role Play (I've seen this in plenty of places, I frequent a board where there is a forum dedicated to it exclusively), as you said, it comes as a collective effort, and having one player come in and destroy everything with a Deus Ex Machina or an Uberpowerness as the Favoured Child of the Gods is as disruptive as typing /ignore in the IRC channel, or letting the post be buried in the thread as you continue ignoring it.
I understand pretty well why for some people having these characters in their stories is undesirable. I don't understand the cheese about one of them single-handedly destroying the game in a multiplayer environment. If the rest of the players give that MS support for their story and you can't come up with anything better then it's too bad for you, but the rest of the players seem to prefer that.
And I'd be very impressed if someone can come up with a Sherlock Holmes knock-off and solve a mystery puzzle I create in a purely deductive way. See, it's not all about role-playing in the "trying to gain power and outdo you" way, I've found that in the FFRP forum, the people that create situations with clever puzzles and situations that cannot be solved with a BFG are much more successful.
>> You're not making the right distinction between MMORPGs and MUDs/MUSHs.
That's because I think it's unnecessary. I don't see much difference between someone who puts a demi-god in a MUD or someone who has munchkined his character so that he's untouchable in an RPG (be it a MMO or a Pen & Paper). I've dealt with the "All 18/00 with more artifacts that you can count and knows the rules books to heart" player in real P&P RPGs, they're not nearly as annoying as portrayed there.
So this character is in a "ludicrous state of being" because he's an all-mighty son-of-a-god-and-married-to-a-goddess, but he's ruining the game because the only way you think you can keep playing is outdoing him? Hardly, that shows lack of imagination by the rest of the people who just try to outdo them.
I find this rant to be very close to the endless bashing of "munchkins" and "power gamers" you see in every RPG discussion (be it on the internet or somewhere else). Frankly, I don't see the point.
I don't play games to be the star in someone else's eyes, or to try and make people glare at me in disbelief due to my near-god status. When I play a game, I do so because it's fun, and the challenges/rewards it presents keep my interest on it.
This includes multiplayer games. I'm there to play my game, and possibly play it with people I get along with. The power-gamers don't bother me in the slightest, I don't do power-gaming myself, but if someone else likes then who the hell am I to say that's the wrong way to go? Fun is where you find it. My fun is playing the game my way and making my own challenges within the system, and playing along people with similar goals.
The original article strikes me as someone whinning that they want everyone to pay attention to them but they can't because someone else is better at doing that, and then goes on a long tirade about how bad these cookie-cutters are. Perhaps they should stop worrying so much about the others (be it the Mary Sues or the "faceless masses that see them shine") and pay attention to actually playing the game.
>> what were these guys THINKING!?!?
:D
You give them too much credit. But yeah, funny as hell
What a compelling argument! Why didn't I see it before?
>>I'm simply suggesting that you FIX YOUR PROBLEM
That's the point. He doesn't have a problem. He already has all the information he needs in the directory tree. The "problem" is the iPod refusing to use it and making him jump over hoops.
You know, your responses are like saying "Of course you can grep files in Notepad, just use the powerful Ctrl+F feature! Not only that, it'll let you replace text and even edit it, try doing that with your wimpy grep!"
Delicious you are!
From the original post:
The parent's response is similar to the many I saw on the ipodlounge forums. When people asked about browsing by folder, a bunch of apple zealots would shoot em down saying apple's way is better and that they should use it because it is easier. Well not in my case.
Then your reply:
iTunes' smart playlists are automatically synchronized with the iPod, and boast features that your "custom nested format" wouldn't ever dream of achieving.
Beautiful. Let me put it clear for you, the all amazing features iTunes has for making playlists mean squat to the original poster. As far as he's concerned, he doesn't give a shit about them, because he wants to organize HIS music in HIS own way, which is what works for HIM.
And not only that, I for one also organize my music in nested directories the way I see fit when I rip my CDs, and no whizzy ultra-featured playlist generator can beat my knowing exactly where in the directory tree things are because I organize them that way. I know quite a few people that do the same (although we all know how the plural of "anecdote" is not "data"). The point is that directory trees are an excellent way to organize all sorts of files, not just music, and it's totally retarded that something that simple is not supported.
I think you confused "Monopoly" and "Monoculture". The Windows monoculture is bad because it gives control to a single company with their own interests as top priority (just as many other privately owned companies really). Linux, on the other hand, does not seek profit per se, companies making distros do by offering support and added value with their own code on top of it.
Still, no monoculture is good. I don't think it'd be good to see Linux everywhere, I'd like it if there was more than one tool to do the job.
Even better, this could be the ultimate Spam Filter.
With the messages crawled and indexed by Google's engine, it could rank them and start labelling those that reach a large proportion of the users as Spam.
Imagine the possibilities.
Blizzard has already done that with crazy stuff featured in their games in April 1st that came part of the game later, such as the cows in Diablo II or the Pandas. Of course, the size of this is much bigger than Blizzard's ones, which makes it even more funny because it was much easier to belive it was an April's Fools.
From that post:
Someday it will be a nice company but I haven't earned that yet.
So no, increasing the company's profit is not a bad thing. Doing it in a short-sighted, near-term "I'm going to pocket 300K next year with this" way is. Companies can increase their profits and, more important, better guarantee their survivability in the long term by developing a strong market to sustain them. Offshoring and putting people in the unemployement lines doesn't help your company's future, but seems like the types the grandparent was talking about don't really care about that.
That is, if you see any bandwagon passing by that sounds like a plausible explanation to the real motivation, jump to it and see where the ride takes you.
First, it was because it just meant reconverting lower-tech jobs into "creative jobs", whatever the hell it means. That didn't quite float.
Then you see another bandwagon, say, a study that says students are not choosing computer science as much as they used to and claim that the reason why you're moving the jobs is because you can't find enough skilled people locally. Apparently the masses of skilled people finding themselves in the unemployed lists didn't quite bite that one either.
Next one, let's turn things around and show how the offshoring is actually helping the economy and the people by creating New Exciting(TM) employement opportunities as a middle-man parasite. Anyone wants to wager how far that bandwagon will travel?
The fact is that companies are doing that to cut costs and increase profit. Plain and simple in a capitalist market. The interesting thing is that they have to try so hard to make whacky justifications about it, pointing out the general consumer population (remember, we're not people, we're consumers) doesn't quite like the idea.
That's nothing dude, you should see it in my computer. Last year I bought a Radeon 9500 ASC for enhancing my Nethack games, and it turns out IF Quake also uses the onboard acceleration! When I tell people I'm playing IF Quake at 1,000 FPS I get all sorts of jealous looks. And the "Rottweilers", man they look so realistic and scary.
you shouldn't use ducks as carriers during hunting season.
You know, since I bought Unreal tournament 2004 I no longer think "whoosh" in these situations, the phrase that comes to mind is "Pancake!" :D
So do I, but all I have to do is type part of the url and the autocomplete takes care of the rest. Yes, autocomplete is great. No, it doesn't need a hierarchical, date-classified, thumbnail-enhanced history tool.
.php or .asp or whatever) it's easier to go to google and punch in the appropiate keywords than to dig through a whole bunch of pages in that history, that won't look very descriptive in either their link form or their "thumbnail" form (funny that, most news outlets have a consistent formatting that looks strikingly similar if you just squash it to a thumbnail).
If it's not a single website (say, a CNN article for example, where you have to put a bunch of nonsense after the
So really, history is next to useless. An overbloated history like the one shown above, while no doubt an interesting exercise, is even less useful.
does this mean that we shoudl have IBM lawyers as friends?
I don't know about this specific case, but being in good terms with them is in general a really good idea.
I knew you could. Browsing History has to be one of the most useless features in a browser. The only thing they're good for is to remind you of links you've already visited (you know, just in case you have fish memory and can't remember if you clicked something a few minutes/hours ago), and for auto-complete of URLs. And the first one is not even that useful since nowadays, with the advent of DSL and cable, clicking a link doesn't involve almost a minute of loading bad HTML like with a 28.8 Kbps modem.
:D
I don't think I've clicked that "history" button in months. Of course, it could be my fish memory too
You might have missed this link, since it was in one of the comments. Quote of choice:
He also gave $15 million to his alma mater, the University of Virginia and runs a family foundation with his daughter Krista. (For the last ten years, Olsen has also personally mentored a Trenton, N.J., student through the Big Brothers-Big Sisters program.)
And besides, I see absolutely no reason why you have to crack on him like that about how he should be using that money in a "better way" according to you. Perhaps you don't think the way he is spending that money is the right one, but it seems like he disagrees.