When people are so desperate not to have to play your game that they'll write a program to do it for them, the gameplay model is broken. Try to do better next time.
Silly comment is silly.
If people were desperate to not play the game, they would not being paying to "play" the game. If the gameplay model is broken, there's no reason for them to even bother letting a bot do all the work, because in the end the gameplay is still broken.
People are lazy, plain and simple. Why spend n hours working a character to max level or farming for specific goods and gold when you can just fire up the bot software and let it run while you're in bed or at school?
For those of us who actually have gone through the grind of reaching max level (several times in my case) it's frustrating and rather unfair. I devoted my time attention to reaching that point, why should any other player not have to do the same?
Most people who find cheating acceptable and do so are those that want to have and be the best at everything, right now, without any effort on their part.
Sincerely,
A World of Warcraft subscriber who disagrees with you
First off, your comment deems that you have never driven a 18-wheeler, Most company's back in the day taught you how to cheat on your log books so you can drive more than 500 miles a day. The first day I was hired, they taught me all of this. They push your ass to drive, and if you don't produce they fire your ass. Some good companies are not this way, granted... but to generalize this isn't a good thing.
While I've never driven an 18-wheeler, a friend of mine works for a carrier company hauling chemicals, usually hazmat stuff, across the border (we're Canadian, but he goes state-side quite a bit). While it may not be indicative of all companies, his at least is quite clear that they are to go by the book on everything, especially with their logbooks. They've been cracking down on drivers and their employers when it comes to anything that could affect the safety of the driver and other people on the road.
I don't know how long ago your experience was, and I can't really speak for American companies, or even other Canadian ones, but for the company my friend works for, cheating with the logbook to get more miles in per day is a big no no.
Some of the stories I've heard from my friend, though... man, I'm glad I'm not a truck driver. The "lot lizard" stories are enough as it is...
Originally named the GNU C Compiler, because it only handled the C programming language, GCC 1.0 was released in 1987, and the compiler was extended to compile C++ in December of that year.
Perhaps the error in your assertion is a side effect of an uncleared direction flag.
I used to hear from a buddy about how much he disliked Firefox because it was a memory pig, but never saw it myself until a few days ago. I'm not sure of the why or how, but after browsing http://www.deviantart.com/ for an hour or so, opening each deviation in a new tab, my system started crawling. Checking task manager I found Firefox to be using 1.7GB of memory. Closing every tab did nothing to release it, closing Firefox did.
I agree, it should be confused with modern day religions, since all are groups of adults believing in fictional stories and allowing them to control their lives.
As my wonderful Grandmother (she'd beat me for calling her that, she's my Nan) has always said when questioned about her unwavering belief in the Christ God, she would rather believe and be wrong, than not believe and be wrong.
Or, to quote some lyrics from a Strapping Young Lad song, "Believe what you want to believe... just believe.".
You must be young though. It seems most people of my generation and younger go through a phase where they think they're so clever believing (any) God does not exist, and that anyone who believes in such a higher power is an idiot. I went through it. Then I look at my children and think there's no way they came about without some touch of divinity.
Hubbard's death had little impact upon the "Church" because, by the end of his life, Hubbard wasn't really running the show anymore. If what I've read is to be believed, Hubbard was a drug addled fool sailing about aimlessly, while the more lucid, higher standing members of the "religion" kept the ball rolling (and the money rolling in).
In other words, Hubbard had a successor, whether he liked it (or was even aware of it) or not.
Islam is OPPOSITE to tribalism. In his (sal Allahu 'alaihi wa sallam) pretty famous Farewell cermon (see e.g), the Prophet (sal Allahu 'alaihi wa sallam) said:
Every one of your posts thus far has reminded me of that episode of Black Adder, where every time someone utters the name MacBeth, the two actors must play patty cake whilst reciting a silly little poem.
So if people just keep repeating "the Prophet", do you have to keep replying with sal Allahu 'alaihi wa sallam?
... lolcats around the world are rising against their Camera Wielding Overlords, demanding higher grade catnip at reasonable prices.
How can anyone take a bunch of young Interweb addicts who spend hours mashing their F5 key seriously? Not that I'm speaking from experience here, I'm just guessing that about that. Honestly.
And when education and ridicule fail, a trip out to the back lot with good ol' Mr. Rifle isn't such a bad idea. Some of them are just so far gone into their beliefs of racial superiority that their continued existence is an insult to humanity.
Oops, I'm off-topic. Forgive me.
If the students were armed, as provided for by the 2nd amendment, someone could have dropped that guy early on and saved 30 or more people. Chalk up another bunch of deaths to the pussification of American citizens by the mommy government.
Yes, that's a great idea. Your forefathers thought that citizens should be allowed to arm themselves, and carry said arms at any time they like. They also lived in different times, with different (more or less) problems. What was applicable then isn't necessarily applicable now.
Ignoring that, however, do you honestly believe that putting guns (figuratively) in the hands of every student at every school across the United States is a great idea? One crazy guy who kills 30 people on a rampage, or thousands upon thousands all carrying a gun, all the time. Sure sure, no doubt every single one would happily swear to only use their weapon in defense of themself or other people. But how long before someone steals a parking spot, or cuts you off on the highway, or just pisses you off in any of a myriad of ways, and you kill him for whatever idiotic reason?
Sadly, people (in general) are stupid and emotional, and stupid and emotional people shouldn't be given that kind of power, nor the right to that kind of power.
Internet Explorer was originally derived primarily from Spyglass Mosaic, an early commercial proprietary web browser. In 1996, Microsoft licensed Spyglass Mosaic from Spyglass for a quarterly fee plus a percentage of Microsoft's revenues for the software. Although bearing a name similar to NCSA Mosaic, which was the first widely used browser, Spyglass Mosaic was relatively unknown in its day and used the NCSA Mosaic source code only sparingly.
Internet Explorer was not widely used until the release of version 3, which was the first version developed without Spyglass sources (although still using Spyglass "technology", so the Spyglass licensing information remained in the program's documentation).
"... emitting light pulses that last just a billion-billionth of a second." Why emit light pulses that last just a billion-billionth of a second when we could emit light pulses that last just a... million-millionth of a second? Mwa. Mwaha. Mwahahahaha.
Yeah, I found that about 15m after I hit the Submit button to my post.;)
If you're gonna grab one of 'em, I recommend the 2006-09-17 recording at The Majestic Theater. Nice mix of songs, and the quality's pretty good. #6, in particular (Soothsayer). Probably the best song (IMHO) off his new album, Crime Slunk Scene.
YouTube and Google Video are both good sites for finding Buckethead vids, and as far as I know (don't quote me here), Buckethead has a pretty generous policy regarding fans swapping bootlegs of his live concerts. There used to be a site that had a massive list of bootlegged concert recordings going back several years, but I can't seem to find the location of it. Popular BT sites should have a few up, although I've seen people posting his commercial discs too.
BSD was a free and open project before Linux and GNU existed. The term hero has become so diluted because it is thrown around at anybody someone has a fixation on.
BSD was originally a derivative of UNIX, while Linux is independent (although some parties would have the general public believe otherwise). Comparing the origins of BSD and Linux is an apples to oranges comparison.
I do, however agree with your sentiments regarding the word "hero".
Oh, and Linux wasn't created with some grand altruistic project in mind, it was created because Linus wanted a Unix-like environment for his PC. He just gave it away after that thinking nothing would come of it.
Can you cite a reference backing up this opinion? Putting thoughts in someone else's head is generally considered a Bad Thing.
Novell was a very proprietary company which improved their products v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y ('80s through mid '90s) so SCO a group of engineers and execs left Novell and begat Caldera. Caldera bought DR-DOS after the Windows incompatibility fiasco (deliberate sabotage by Microsoft), declared that "OSes want to be free" and opened up their DOS source for all to see. Caldera begat Free DOS, and it was good.
Caldera acquired "Novell DOS", after Novell bought Digital Research (and thus DR-DOS). Caldera begat OpenDOS. Pat Villani begat http://www.freedos.org/. Two separate implementations of a Microsoft DOS compatible operating system. And Caldera only opened up some of their DOS code (the kernel, basic drivers and command-line interpreter, if I recall correctly... I'd have to dig out my OpenDOS disc to be 100% certain).
Caldera looked upon the Free DOS and their gaining a decent following, and declared that open source looked promising, so they introduced a Linux distribution that was a bit ahead of its time. They looked upon their package management and update download-equipped open-source Linux operating system and saw that it was good.
In truth, Caldera hopped on the open source bandwagon, made great promises of giving the OS community a time-tested implementation of MS-DOS, then quietly faded into obscurity after releasing a little bit of code. I have their Linux distribution on disc somewhere here, too, but it didn't catch my eye well enough to make me want to switch from Slackware, so I don't really remember it as being anything special.
A 32-bit multitasking DOS could still be "light-weight". Remember DESQView? I can't imagine(*) it would be all too difficult to add some sort of a supervisor to manage multiple DOS sessions. Any DOS box (box as in hardware) running an Expanded Memory Manager (such as EMM386) is already on its way there as the EMM continues to run DOS in V86 mode.
(*) In my imagination, there's a mysterious genius out there who understands every nuance of DOS and I86 hardware who's more than willing to put time into this.:)
OTOH, my Linux box has never had all its hardware working concurrently, it crapped out when I tried to recompile my kernel, and I can't configure it the way I want. Clearly this means Linux is the paperweight, and Windows is, like, deus ex machina, right? No; it simply means that Windows is the right platform for my needs, and I know enough about it to make it work for me.
Aaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!! He spoke badly of Linux! Where's the Spanish Inquisition when you need them?
And that I'm a clueless Linux n00b.
Ahh, it's okay then. It's not Linux at fault, it must be you.
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Dear indie gamer,
When people are so desperate not to have to play your game that they'll write a program to do it for them, the gameplay model is broken. Try to do better next time.Silly comment is silly.
If people were desperate to not play the game, they would not being paying to "play" the game. If the gameplay model is broken, there's no reason for them to even bother letting a bot do all the work, because in the end the gameplay is still broken.
People are lazy, plain and simple. Why spend n hours working a character to max level or farming for specific goods and gold when you can just fire up the bot software and let it run while you're in bed or at school?
For those of us who actually have gone through the grind of reaching max level (several times in my case) it's frustrating and rather unfair. I devoted my time attention to reaching that point, why should any other player not have to do the same?
Most people who find cheating acceptable and do so are those that want to have and be the best at everything, right now, without any effort on their part.
Sincerely,
A World of Warcraft subscriber who disagrees with you
While I've never driven an 18-wheeler, a friend of mine works for a carrier company hauling chemicals, usually hazmat stuff, across the border (we're Canadian, but he goes state-side quite a bit). While it may not be indicative of all companies, his at least is quite clear that they are to go by the book on everything, especially with their logbooks. They've been cracking down on drivers and their employers when it comes to anything that could affect the safety of the driver and other people on the road.
I don't know how long ago your experience was, and I can't really speak for American companies, or even other Canadian ones, but for the company my friend works for, cheating with the logbook to get more miles in per day is a big no no.
Some of the stories I've heard from my friend, though... man, I'm glad I'm not a truck driver. The "lot lizard" stories are enough as it is...
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Compiler_Collection:
Perhaps the error in your assertion is a side effect of an uncleared direction flag.
I used to hear from a buddy about how much he disliked Firefox because it was a memory pig, but never saw it myself until a few days ago. I'm not sure of the why or how, but after browsing http://www.deviantart.com/ for an hour or so, opening each deviation in a new tab, my system started crawling. Checking task manager I found Firefox to be using 1.7GB of memory. Closing every tab did nothing to release it, closing Firefox did.
As my wonderful Grandmother (she'd beat me for calling her that, she's my Nan) has always said when questioned about her unwavering belief in the Christ God, she would rather believe and be wrong, than not believe and be wrong.
Or, to quote some lyrics from a Strapping Young Lad song, "Believe what you want to believe... just believe.".
You must be young though. It seems most people of my generation and younger go through a phase where they think they're so clever believing (any) God does not exist, and that anyone who believes in such a higher power is an idiot. I went through it. Then I look at my children and think there's no way they came about without some touch of divinity.
I'm more ashamed of our country unleashing Celine Dion than Adams. Oh, and kd lang...
However, the shame is offset by William Shatner. He's The Shat afterall!
Hubbard's death had little impact upon the "Church" because, by the end of his life, Hubbard wasn't really running the show anymore. If what I've read is to be believed, Hubbard was a drug addled fool sailing about aimlessly, while the more lucid, higher standing members of the "religion" kept the ball rolling (and the money rolling in).
In other words, Hubbard had a successor, whether he liked it (or was even aware of it) or not.
Every one of your posts thus far has reminded me of that episode of Black Adder, where every time someone utters the name MacBeth, the two actors must play patty cake whilst reciting a silly little poem.
So if people just keep repeating "the Prophet", do you have to keep replying with sal Allahu 'alaihi wa sallam?
FTA :
"Together, Microsoft and Yahoo can offer a credible alternative."Is it just me or does the word "credible" lose all meaning when used in a sentence with Microsoft.?
... lolcats around the world are rising against their Camera Wielding Overlords, demanding higher grade catnip at reasonable prices.
How can anyone take a bunch of young Interweb addicts who spend hours mashing their F5 key seriously? Not that I'm speaking from experience here, I'm just guessing that about that. Honestly.
I saw comments (cut 'n paste thread spam) about some anti-Scientology schtuff on 7 as well as 4, in between the tits here and there. GTFO!
And when education and ridicule fail, a trip out to the back lot with good ol' Mr. Rifle isn't such a bad idea. Some of them are just so far gone into their beliefs of racial superiority that their continued existence is an insult to humanity. Oops, I'm off-topic. Forgive me.
Well 'e's... pining for the fjords.
Half right. We Canadians are just like Americans, except with a hockey stick and Tim Horton's coffee.
Damn you to hell Penguinisto! Make me go all soft and reminiscy... I miss Weapons Factory, and find it a rare thing to see someone else who played.
Yes, that's a great idea. Your forefathers thought that citizens should be allowed to arm themselves, and carry said arms at any time they like. They also lived in different times, with different (more or less) problems. What was applicable then isn't necessarily applicable now.
Ignoring that, however, do you honestly believe that putting guns (figuratively) in the hands of every student at every school across the United States is a great idea? One crazy guy who kills 30 people on a rampage, or thousands upon thousands all carrying a gun, all the time. Sure sure, no doubt every single one would happily swear to only use their weapon in defense of themself or other people. But how long before someone steals a parking spot, or cuts you off on the highway, or just pisses you off in any of a myriad of ways, and you kill him for whatever idiotic reason?
Sadly, people (in general) are stupid and emotional, and stupid and emotional people shouldn't be given that kind of power, nor the right to that kind of power.
Ten bucks is ten bucks.
-- Geddy Lee
Take off, hoser.
Yeah, I found that about 15m after I hit the Submit button to my post. ;)
If you're gonna grab one of 'em, I recommend the 2006-09-17 recording at The Majestic Theater. Nice mix of songs, and the quality's pretty good. #6, in particular (Soothsayer). Probably the best song (IMHO) off his new album, Crime Slunk Scene.
Far more... "amusing"... I suppose, is Big B's ability to play. In spite of his oddities, the man can really play guitar.
Some Google video links:0 317674873 Hhighly recommended!)
1 414362975 Brief, 1m long video clip. The song is "Nottingham Lace", and used to be freely available online. It's not at the link on Buckethead's site http://www.bucketheadland.com/, but I've mirrored it http://www.amindlost.com/nottingham_lace.mp3. Be gentle, I have a limited bandwidth =)
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-825754309
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-167037306
YouTube and Google Video are both good sites for finding Buckethead vids, and as far as I know (don't quote me here), Buckethead has a pretty generous policy regarding fans swapping bootlegs of his live concerts. There used to be a site that had a massive list of bootlegged concert recordings going back several years, but I can't seem to find the location of it. Popular BT sites should have a few up, although I've seen people posting his commercial discs too.
BSD was originally a derivative of UNIX, while Linux is independent (although some parties would have the general public believe otherwise). Comparing the origins of BSD and Linux is an apples to oranges comparison.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bsd.
I do, however agree with your sentiments regarding the word "hero".
Can you cite a reference backing up this opinion? Putting thoughts in someone else's head is generally considered a Bad Thing.
Caldera acquired "Novell DOS", after Novell bought Digital Research (and thus DR-DOS). Caldera begat OpenDOS. Pat Villani begat http://www.freedos.org/. Two separate implementations of a Microsoft DOS compatible operating system. And Caldera only opened up some of their DOS code (the kernel, basic drivers and command-line interpreter, if I recall correctly... I'd have to dig out my OpenDOS disc to be 100% certain).
In truth, Caldera hopped on the open source bandwagon, made great promises of giving the OS community a time-tested implementation of MS-DOS, then quietly faded into obscurity after releasing a little bit of code. I have their Linux distribution on disc somewhere here, too, but it didn't catch my eye well enough to make me want to switch from Slackware, so I don't really remember it as being anything special.
What Wikipedia says about DR-DOS : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DR-DOS.
Turns out someone's still working on it, as well : http://www.drdosprojects.de/
And finally, Wikipedia's entry on FreeDOS : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedos.
A 32-bit multitasking DOS could still be "light-weight". Remember DESQView? I can't imagine(*) it would be all too difficult to add some sort of a supervisor to manage multiple DOS sessions. Any DOS box (box as in hardware) running an Expanded Memory Manager (such as EMM386) is already on its way there as the EMM continues to run DOS in V86 mode.
(*) In my imagination, there's a mysterious genius out there who understands every nuance of DOS and I86 hardware who's more than willing to put time into this. :)
Aaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!! He spoke badly of Linux! Where's the Spanish Inquisition when you need them?
Ahh, it's okay then. It's not Linux at fault, it must be you.