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And life is the leading cause of marriage. And lets not even talk about the fact that life is a 100% terminal condition.... We really need to find a cure.
wish they'd implement a quicksave and quickload though...
Well, those features are lacking in all MMORPGs, aren't they? It's the need for farming/grinding that really puts me off First Life.
Almost as serious is all the rampant PKing. We really need PvP combat to be optional, so that players cannot become involved without opting in.
Finally, while there is a lot of speculation on what happens to the character after death (respawning on another server? respawning as another character?/dev/null?) there is no way to be certain without actually taking the plunge. We need some definite documentation here! There are people claiming to be Admins working for the company, but they don't seem to have any special privileges so at the very least, the majority of them are lying. Plus too much contradictory documentation claiming to be written by the designers. By this point, no one can really know which Company is responsible for this mess. There are theories the Company went bankrupt years ago, but due to a clerical error the servers are still powered. There are even theories that the entire First Life is the unexpected result of a genetic program.
Anyway, if anyone is (still) in charge of this thing, they really need to release some critical patches and updated documentation. A few classes on Game Design wouldn't hurt either.
But the writing on plaque is "D NG R H G V L G !" and you have to figure out that as soon as you step in the room lightning bolts will shoot towards you from the walls.
And what exactly do they mean by "better"? Is bigger always better? In that case, first thing that came to my mind was a two with a hundred zeros behind it.
Similar story as the thread's opening one about Sprint, except without the account being deactivated. I have a pay-as-you-go plan with Virgin Mobil where you have to "top-up" your balance by $20 every 90 days to keep your account active. I have auto-top-up configured which tops up by $20 (+$1 fee) from my paypal account whenever 90 days passes (or my balance runs low.) And I still get emails like "Better top up now or your account will be deactivated" and "90 days has passed without topping up, so your phone has stopped working." Auto-top-up works fine, as does my phone. This seems to be a case of the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing.
I dunno, for $5000, and given decent requirements, you could probably write a basic no-frills billing system from scratch. Of course the "decent requirements" factor is a BIG assumption.
I'm sure it did, and maybe some of them even let their managers know, and maybe some of those let the business/marketing departments know. That's where the knowing stopped and the engineers and managers were told to leave the business decisions to the professionals.
Something McAfee, Symantec and all other anti-virus/anti-spyware/firewall/spam-filter companies should bear in mind, if operating systems, applications and other software had been properly designed in the beginning these companies wouldn't exist. These aftermarket companies are effectively parasites.
They're not parasites, they're symbiotes. In a parasitic relationship, only the parasite profits. As you've said yourself, "It's would be true, however, to say that these aftermarket companies are in effect and after the effect Q/A arm of Microsoft, which has doubtless helped fuel Microsoft's growth."
On election day, a computerized voting machine in ward 1B in the Gahana precinct of Franklin County recorded a total of 4,258 votes for President Bush and 260 votes for Democratic challenger John Kerry.254 However, there are only 800 registered voters in that Gahana precinct, and only 638 people cast votes at the New Life Church polling site.[255] It has since been discovered that a computer glitch resulted in the recording of 3,893 extra votes for President George W. Bush256 - the numbers were adjusted to show President Bush's true vote count at 365 votes and Senator Kerry's at 260 votes.[257] (page 57)
That's the biggest one I know of, though if you read the entire report you'll see a whole lot of smaller discrepancies.
A program or machine isn't hacked if it does exactly what it is designed and implemented to do. The these machines have been designed and implemented to cheat. There's no hacking involved.
No oppressive laws? Give me a break. It may not be official, but there's nothing resembling freedom of speech/press (remember glastnost? ah, the good old days) in Russia anymore. But who needs oppressive laws when the entire police force is funded mainly by bribes, and don't you dare try to write an article about them, you'll be in a coma or worse within days. And of course don't forget about the skinheads, enforcing nationalism by beating up anyone who doesn't "belong", with nothing being done to stop them. And you really think we are worse off than Russians?
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And life is the leading cause of marriage. And lets not even talk about the fact that life is a 100% terminal condition.... We really need to find a cure.
It's pretty easy if the only output the program has is "I confess to having ties with terrorists. Death to America!"
wish they'd implement a quicksave and quickload though...
/dev/null?) there is no way to be certain without actually taking the plunge. We need some definite documentation here! There are people claiming to be Admins working for the company, but they don't seem to have any special privileges so at the very least, the majority of them are lying. Plus too much contradictory documentation claiming to be written by the designers. By this point, no one can really know which Company is responsible for this mess. There are theories the Company went bankrupt years ago, but due to a clerical error the servers are still powered. There are even theories that the entire First Life is the unexpected result of a genetic program.
Well, those features are lacking in all MMORPGs, aren't they? It's the need for farming/grinding that really puts me off First Life.
Almost as serious is all the rampant PKing. We really need PvP combat to be optional, so that players cannot become involved without opting in.
Finally, while there is a lot of speculation on what happens to the character after death (respawning on another server? respawning as another character?
Anyway, if anyone is (still) in charge of this thing, they really need to release some critical patches and updated documentation. A few classes on Game Design wouldn't hurt either.
You will need a pretty long chain if you plan to use lawyers to combat the Borg in space.
Current? Don't you mean internets?
But the writing on plaque is "D NG R H G V L G !" and you have to figure out that as soon as you step in the room lightning bolts will shoot towards you from the walls.
Can they pay the tax in light energy?
How many of the 15 ex-AC2 subscribers would likely chose to subscribe to gametap as well?
I was under the impression that there were 200 total detainees, but they weren't all ordered executed.
In any case, what was sci-fi channel thinking giving us a preview showing that certain people at least survived the execution?
Ack. Don't remind me of Angband. The T.O.M.E. variant gave me carpal tunnel syndrome...
And what exactly do they mean by "better"? Is bigger always better? In that case, first thing that came to my mind was a two with a hundred zeros behind it.
Similar story as the thread's opening one about Sprint, except without the account being deactivated. I have a pay-as-you-go plan with Virgin Mobil where you have to "top-up" your balance by $20 every 90 days to keep your account active. I have auto-top-up configured which tops up by $20 (+$1 fee) from my paypal account whenever 90 days passes (or my balance runs low.) And I still get emails like "Better top up now or your account will be deactivated" and "90 days has passed without topping up, so your phone has stopped working." Auto-top-up works fine, as does my phone. This seems to be a case of the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing.
I dunno, for $5000, and given decent requirements, you could probably write a basic no-frills billing system from scratch. Of course the "decent requirements" factor is a BIG assumption.
And now it turns out that Americans might as well get their news from this show...
I miss those slogans though, wonder why they were cancelled. "The Daily Show: Where more Americans get their news than any other nationality."
In cases where O(lg n) is unacceptable, aren't you pretty much stuck with either an array or a hash-based structure?
I've learned a lot from games as well.
Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt!
Two thousand years ago? So people (and animals, insects, etc) lived without RNA until Jesus came along? Hmm, that changes everything!
I'm sure it did, and maybe some of them even let their managers know, and maybe some of those let the business/marketing departments know. That's where the knowing stopped and the engineers and managers were told to leave the business decisions to the professionals.
With their treatment of employees now public knowledge, they desperately need a way of getting more tech talent.
Something McAfee, Symantec and all other anti-virus/anti-spyware/firewall/spam-filter companies should bear in mind, if operating systems, applications and other software had been properly designed in the beginning these companies wouldn't exist. These aftermarket companies are effectively parasites.
They're not parasites, they're symbiotes. In a parasitic relationship, only the parasite profits. As you've said yourself, "It's would be true, however, to say that these aftermarket companies are in effect and after the effect Q/A arm of Microsoft, which has doubtless helped fuel Microsoft's growth."
Any examples besides from kookie conspiracy theorists and Louisiana?
How about Ohio(pdf)?
On election day, a computerized voting machine in ward 1B in the Gahana precinct of
Franklin County recorded a total of 4,258 votes for President Bush and 260 votes for Democratic
challenger John Kerry.254 However, there are only 800 registered voters in that Gahana precinct,
and only 638 people cast votes at the New Life Church polling site.[255] It has since been
discovered that a computer glitch resulted in the recording of 3,893 extra votes for President
George W. Bush256 - the numbers were adjusted to show President Bush's true vote count at 365
votes and Senator Kerry's at 260 votes.[257] (page 57)
That's the biggest one I know of, though if you read the entire report you'll see a whole lot of smaller discrepancies.
Also in Wisconsin.
A program or machine isn't hacked if it does exactly what it is designed and implemented to do. The these machines have been designed and implemented to cheat. There's no hacking involved.
How do districts in the U.S. count several times more votes than they have registered voters? Yup, the same way.
No oppressive laws? Give me a break. It may not be official, but there's nothing resembling freedom of speech/press (remember glastnost? ah, the good old days) in Russia anymore. But who needs oppressive laws when the entire police force is funded mainly by bribes, and don't you dare try to write an article about them, you'll be in a coma or worse within days. And of course don't forget about the skinheads, enforcing nationalism by beating up anyone who doesn't "belong", with nothing being done to stop them. And you really think we are worse off than Russians?
You know, I may be in the minority here, but I think the vast majority of the blame lies with the murderer.