I think that one of the flaws is that the world is too small. In fact, it's not a world at all. It's a theme park. You could potentially walk every square inch of it, and do every quest there is.
They can't even do "find the" quests at all because after the fourth person that finds it is going to post the exact location on a web forum somewhere.
If your character walks into a tavern bragging about killing the king of the banditos and waving his severed head about, everyone else in that tavern can pull out their very own identical severed head of the banditos regent.
3-space is small and quest-space is small, and it's probably a limitation of the medium: someone has to design the world and the quests, and they aren't charging nearly enough to make private quests for every subscriber.
I know a guy that goes to Magic Kingdom every year, but I couldn't imagine doing that myself, even if they did have a whole buncha roller coasters.
Well yeah, now I do. After a couple page loads where I noticed, "Hey, That's not secure. Oops." I put in a quick bookmark to accommodate my usual method of accessing google mail: typing alt-d gmail
It IS a silly default, though. All you have to do is forget to type it manually just once and bam, plaintext. Anyone can read the subjects of emails sent to you at the very least.
I mean, yeah, some people might not care about security, but that's no reason to make the default inherently insecure. At the very least, they could have the first view not actually show the contents of the inbox, so when you log in insecurely by mistake, you can switch to secure without actually compromising anything.
But it IS still in Beta, so it is expected to be a little rough around the edges. I hope they do something about that before going live, though.
That's odd. I go to https://mail.google.com/ and at no time during the login process do I ever see the address bar go from yellow to white. Are you sure it still works the way you say? Or is it sending something unencrypted so fast that I'm just not noticing (which would be kind of worrying).
Y'know, I agree. Where are the pictures that Krawetz took with his own camera and deliberately doctored to demonstrate the technique? Not on the news site, or any site I can see. Perhaps because he didn't think of doing that.
I think so, yes. I don't think these guys have one, but someone like them might. They do have M16s and Thompsons though, and they're pretty fun to shoot.
Which is all well and good, but that's not what was implied by "picking up the clean end."
The particular word in question should be removed from the lexicon particular because it is is intended to do exactly that kind of separation. Some words become undesirable because the underlying thing they refer to is not so good: it sucks to be disabled, handicapped, or crippled and any word you use is eventually going to reflect that. Same thing with retarded, mentally challenged, and special.
But the 'N' word didn't become an insult because it refers to an undesirable condition. It is specifically used to degrade the people it refers to. If all the words we use to describe particular races become impolite because the 'turd' they refer to 'doesn't have a clean end' then we've got much bigger problems than we care to admit.
Political correctness for politics' sake is pointless, but that doesn't mean we should just keep on using words willy nilly that are deliberately degrading.
Just gonna have to bite the bullet and get a swimming pool. Or one of those continuous flow swimming machine dealys. Maybe you can get some kind of tax credit or something by calling it "medical equipment."
I'm not entirely convinced that 1 and 3 are actually different. For example, given the ease of duplication of fingerprints (see the rare, actually well-done mythbusters episode) your fingerprint is with out a doubt something you have, since it's something anyone can have. Does fingerprint duplication carry into other domains, like iris or handprint scans? I suspect it probably does.
The only thing that can't be duplicated (without your knowledge, that is) is the "something you know." It's the most important security feature. If you've got a device only you have access to, only one person knows the password, YOU. You don't need any of the identification because you're identified by being the only person who uses that thing.
The reason that identification is important is so that everyone can have a *different* password. (or in the case of banks, so they can know whose money to access)
But the point is that what you need is 1) something you know. and everything else is secondary to that.
And while they're at it, Just for a change of pace, get rid of the D20 bullsh*t. Make rock-paper-scissors style combat if they can't think of anything more inventive.
IMO, the rand() is a crutch to simulate depth of experience where there is none. If used at all, it should be used in the decision process of the NPCs. Actual combat, or anything else, should be completely deterministic: if you choose great swinging slash and the computer chooses stab&parry, you should get stabbed.
Yeah, it's probably a lot harder to code a deterministic universe that's not just a simple stat comparison, but is it really likely that the thing that succeeds WoW will do it by imitating WoW's imitation of Everquest? I think they've taken incremental improvement as far as it can go and still achieve dramatic results.
I guess I just have a different definition of grind than you. For me, whether I have to kill 100 goretusk in order to get materials for some silly soup (which incidentally gives some bonus XP), or I have to kill 100 goretusk to get enough exp to move on to the next thing, I'm still killing some boring mob 100x.
Sometimes, it's worse if they're hard to kill, forcing you into whatever fixed killing sequence happens to work for that particular beast. But after the four or five of 'em it takes to figure out that sequence, the remaining 96 are just tedious grinding.
But wireless is the best. If you can get a model with decent encryption, or don't need to care about that.
With a wireless pointing device, you can switch hands frequently, further reducing chance of repetative stress injury, without having to worry about keeping the cords untangled. With a wireless keyboard, you can put it in your lap occasionally, ameliorating a poorly matched desk height. Plus you've got no chance of spilling soda all over your skittles by catching a cord when you move an input device.
Asbestos wasn't really that bad.. to have around. But to work with it was pretty dangerous. In fact, just about the worst thing you can do is remove it. Which is what made the whole rush to remove all the asbestos everything so absurd: It was a non-problem unless you went mucking around tearing things up. The sensible thing to do would be to require the special protection or teams to remove it before demolishing the building, and just stop installing it in new buildings.
So Asbestos isn't really a very good analogy at all: The thing that puts asbestos in the air is the deliberate and unusual act of removing it. The thing that puts toner in the air is the regular operation of a poorly designed printer.
I'm pretty sure the water doesn't do anything useful. Maybe absorbs a little of the smell while looking cool, but that's about it. When you exhale, can you see the smoke? What do you think that is, steam?
If you're using less tobacco, that's your biggest benefit, but if you're using less tobacco because you're using a certain more potent herb, you're not getting any benefit at all. The bad stuff in cigarettes doesn't come from the tobacco, it comes from the burning tobacco. Any leaf you burn is going to be just as bad.
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Ahh, I think I remember that map. If you stick to the hills, IIRC, you'll come across a lone scion turret fairly quickly. Then you can snipe it and fly the turret across the jungle floor to the safe base;) At least, I think that's how I remember beating that level. I think I might've done most of my flying on the side of the mountains the designers didn't put any effort into designing.
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Did you ever feel guilty about calling units across the map after jettisoning just to tell your ai-teammate to jump out so you can swipe his ride?
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You should try Battlezone II. The AI was pretty terrible, but certain of its limitations actually encouraged you to jump out of the top-down command and into a tank to command some of the battle at the front.
You just need to keep an eye out on the sales, especially in unexpected places. Gas stations and convenience stores have, in my experience, had more frequent and better sales on cola products than the supermarkets. $2.50/12 was the perpetual sale on either coke or pepsi at one gas station near me for quite a while, while the Publix struggled to produce one $4/12 sale every 3 months. Although they did have better service.
Of course, if you prefer the store-brand anyway, then there's no need to watch for the sales...
Um.. The Air Force does start out pilots in Cessnas and other small aircraft. That's how training works: You start out in a machine almost small enough to take off crosswise on most runways, and slow and forgiving enough to correct your mistakes. They don't exclusively use Cessna as their aircraft supplier however.
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I think that one of the flaws is that the world is too small. In fact, it's not a world at all. It's a theme park. You could potentially walk every square inch of it, and do every quest there is.
They can't even do "find the" quests at all because after the fourth person that finds it is going to post the exact location on a web forum somewhere.
If your character walks into a tavern bragging about killing the king of the banditos and waving his severed head about, everyone else in that tavern can pull out their very own identical severed head of the banditos regent.
3-space is small and quest-space is small, and it's probably a limitation of the medium: someone has to design the world and the quests, and they aren't charging nearly enough to make private quests for every subscriber.
I know a guy that goes to Magic Kingdom every year, but I couldn't imagine doing that myself, even if they did have a whole buncha roller coasters.
Well yeah, now I do. After a couple page loads where I noticed, "Hey, That's not secure. Oops." I put in a quick bookmark to accommodate my usual method of accessing google mail: typing alt-d gmail
It IS a silly default, though. All you have to do is forget to type it manually just once and bam, plaintext. Anyone can read the subjects of emails sent to you at the very least.
I mean, yeah, some people might not care about security, but that's no reason to make the default inherently insecure. At the very least, they could have the first view not actually show the contents of the inbox, so when you log in insecurely by mistake, you can switch to secure without actually compromising anything.
But it IS still in Beta, so it is expected to be a little rough around the edges. I hope they do something about that before going live, though.
That's odd. I go to https://mail.google.com/ and at no time during the login process do I ever see the address bar go from yellow to white. Are you sure it still works the way you say? Or is it sending something unencrypted so fast that I'm just not noticing (which would be kind of worrying).
Y'know, I agree. Where are the pictures that Krawetz took with his own camera and deliberately doctored to demonstrate the technique? Not on the news site, or any site I can see. Perhaps because he didn't think of doing that.
How brief are we talkin, here? Short enough that the mantle provides protection to the lucky half?
I think so, yes. I don't think these guys have one, but someone like them might. They do have M16s and Thompsons though, and they're pretty fun to shoot.
Which is all well and good, but that's not what was implied by "picking up the clean end."
The particular word in question should be removed from the lexicon particular because it is is intended to do exactly that kind of separation. Some words become undesirable because the underlying thing they refer to is not so good: it sucks to be disabled, handicapped, or crippled and any word you use is eventually going to reflect that. Same thing with retarded, mentally challenged, and special.
But the 'N' word didn't become an insult because it refers to an undesirable condition. It is specifically used to degrade the people it refers to. If all the words we use to describe particular races become impolite because the 'turd' they refer to 'doesn't have a clean end' then we've got much bigger problems than we care to admit.
Political correctness for politics' sake is pointless, but that doesn't mean we should just keep on using words willy nilly that are deliberately degrading.
Just gonna have to bite the bullet and get a swimming pool. Or one of those continuous flow swimming machine dealys. Maybe you can get some kind of tax credit or something by calling it "medical equipment."
Do you know what you're implying by that? That's much worse than the original stupid slang inclusion.
I'm not entirely convinced that 1 and 3 are actually different. For example, given the ease of duplication of fingerprints (see the rare, actually well-done mythbusters episode) your fingerprint is with out a doubt something you have, since it's something anyone can have. Does fingerprint duplication carry into other domains, like iris or handprint scans? I suspect it probably does.
The only thing that can't be duplicated (without your knowledge, that is) is the "something you know." It's the most important security feature. If you've got a device only you have access to, only one person knows the password, YOU. You don't need any of the identification because you're identified by being the only person who uses that thing.
The reason that identification is important is so that everyone can have a *different* password. (or in the case of banks, so they can know whose money to access)
But the point is that what you need is
1) something you know.
and everything else is secondary to that.
And while they're at it, Just for a change of pace, get rid of the D20 bullsh*t. Make rock-paper-scissors style combat if they can't think of anything more inventive.
IMO, the rand() is a crutch to simulate depth of experience where there is none. If used at all, it should be used in the decision process of the NPCs. Actual combat, or anything else, should be completely deterministic: if you choose great swinging slash and the computer chooses stab&parry, you should get stabbed.
Yeah, it's probably a lot harder to code a deterministic universe that's not just a simple stat comparison, but is it really likely that the thing that succeeds WoW will do it by imitating WoW's imitation of Everquest? I think they've taken incremental improvement as far as it can go and still achieve dramatic results.
I guess I just have a different definition of grind than you. For me, whether I have to kill 100 goretusk in order to get materials for some silly soup (which incidentally gives some bonus XP), or I have to kill 100 goretusk to get enough exp to move on to the next thing, I'm still killing some boring mob 100x.
Sometimes, it's worse if they're hard to kill, forcing you into whatever fixed killing sequence happens to work for that particular beast. But after the four or five of 'em it takes to figure out that sequence, the remaining 96 are just tedious grinding.
But wireless is the best. If you can get a model with decent encryption, or don't need to care about that.
With a wireless pointing device, you can switch hands frequently, further reducing chance of repetative stress injury, without having to worry about keeping the cords untangled. With a wireless keyboard, you can put it in your lap occasionally, ameliorating a poorly matched desk height. Plus you've got no chance of spilling soda all over your skittles by catching a cord when you move an input device.
Quests whose object is... grinding.
Asbestos wasn't really that bad.. to have around. But to work with it was pretty dangerous. In fact, just about the worst thing you can do is remove it. Which is what made the whole rush to remove all the asbestos everything so absurd: It was a non-problem unless you went mucking around tearing things up. The sensible thing to do would be to require the special protection or teams to remove it before demolishing the building, and just stop installing it in new buildings.
So Asbestos isn't really a very good analogy at all: The thing that puts asbestos in the air is the deliberate and unusual act of removing it. The thing that puts toner in the air is the regular operation of a poorly designed printer.
I'm pretty sure the water doesn't do anything useful. Maybe absorbs a little of the smell while looking cool, but that's about it. When you exhale, can you see the smoke? What do you think that is, steam?
If you're using less tobacco, that's your biggest benefit, but if you're using less tobacco because you're using a certain more potent herb, you're not getting any benefit at all. The bad stuff in cigarettes doesn't come from the tobacco, it comes from the burning tobacco. Any leaf you burn is going to be just as bad.
Wine is not good at contractions, either.
Ahh, I think I remember that map. If you stick to the hills, IIRC, you'll come across a lone scion turret fairly quickly. Then you can snipe it and fly the turret across the jungle floor to the safe base ;) At least, I think that's how I remember beating that level. I think I might've done most of my flying on the side of the mountains the designers didn't put any effort into designing.
Did you ever feel guilty about calling units across the map after jettisoning just to tell your ai-teammate to jump out so you can swipe his ride?
You should try Battlezone II. The AI was pretty terrible, but certain of its limitations actually encouraged you to jump out of the top-down command and into a tank to command some of the battle at the front.
Jingoist responses? "Copernican revolution"? Wow. Just.. wow.
Interesting thing about banks. It's your gold, but they're the ones that have it...
You just need to keep an eye out on the sales, especially in unexpected places. Gas stations and convenience stores have, in my experience, had more frequent and better sales on cola products than the supermarkets. $2.50/12 was the perpetual sale on either coke or pepsi at one gas station near me for quite a while, while the Publix struggled to produce one $4/12 sale every 3 months. Although they did have better service.
Of course, if you prefer the store-brand anyway, then there's no need to watch for the sales...
Um.. The Air Force does start out pilots in Cessnas and other small aircraft. That's how training works: You start out in a machine almost small enough to take off crosswise on most runways, and slow and forgiving enough to correct your mistakes. They don't exclusively use Cessna as their aircraft supplier however.