I agree with you. I played EQ for about 18 months. I played WoW for about 10 months. I've been playing a MUD for over 9 years. Stop playing for a couple months, then go back and its still there. People come and go, the game changes over time, but you can usually still see the same people time and time again. MUDs, imo, are a great social place for those who like immersing themselves in a character and immersing themselves in their own imagination.
This happened to me in soccer and tennis from when i was like 8 til highschool. I was the youngest on most of my teams since the cutoff was middle of august for most of the rec leagues since my birthday was at the end of the month. This was both bad and good however, having to play against older and more experience people made me better and when i entered high school, i was always the oldest and did better than most.
Also note that even calling and getting people to come out and mark where things are doesn't guarantee that stuff is where they say they are, that there isn't more stuff there they don't know about, that there is even stuff there, etc. A lot of it comes down to guess work and being careful while digging.
I believe the reason is due to peoples perceptions. If i'm in an elevator, even if it is going up, i'll be down sooner than if i'm waiting for an elevator. It seems to me people would rather be moving than waiting, even if moving takes longer. I see it all the time on the drive to work. The right lane is mostly empty coming up to a merging of two interstates, everybody seems to rush into that lane like it is going to be faster and then I slowly pass them as they are stuck behind all the people merging.
Could this possibly be an indirection by laziness or something more sophisticated?
I know i've modified some already working code to use inputs that would have been 'invalid' for before the modifications to add new functionality to small programs to do other things that are similiar without having to start them from scratch.
I could see this as being a way to allow unknown image formats encapsulated in WMF files to create processes to decode and display images that weren't of the type the original WMF knew about? I know this is just speculation, but it could be a neat way of doing things, a la, including the decoder along with the actual thing to be decoded, but also bad for security purposes.
My shirt says it all: If it is not broke, take it apart and fix it. It has been a game i've been playing for decades, ever since my first radio. There are way more 'games' than just video games, though they are usually called hobbies.
Didn't mean to take it off topic, but i was illustrating my point. In the end, it all comes down to a cost/risk/bendifit analysis here in the real world. In the case of banks/air traffic, the risk would require you to spend money to find more of the obscure problems. Most other things wouldn't in my opinion.
If a million dollars go missing, spending a fair amount to find it would be worth it. Spending a large amount of money to find/fix a software problem that only doesn't have a large effect on your software is also less than beneficial. If people will still buy it with faults, like almost all software, what is the benefit? It is all a matter of scale. Sure i'd prefer better software, but most people don't know any better or won't pay for better software.
My sister, who works for a small software firm had a client comment to her how she was so estatic when they spent the whole day and finally found where 2 pennies were missing. Thats what a perfectionist does.
So spending 8+ hours @ x amount of dollars to find 2 missing pennies is worth the effort? The statement of not spending a lot of time going for an additional 1/10th of point towards your gpa may not be a good statement, but the point behind it may be important.
GPA 1.9->2.0? Probably a good idea to work for it. GPA 3.6->3.7? May not be the best time spent. Spend that time interning, volunteering, interviewing or playing a sport might actually be better for you.
This: http://www.cwol.com/keyboards/sk7100.htm is a pretty decent combo keyboard mouse. Change it to use radio/blue tooth/wireless usb would be tons better. I mean, what were they thinking anyway?
You may have run up against a windows XP "anti-piracy" feature. If you install it on a certain hardware location (abc etc), then move it to a new location (or in your case something causes it to move) it could think it was being put in a new computer and refuse to start complaining about an invalid hal and blue screens. If windows xp is set to auto reboot on blue screen, you may not see it.
Most RPGs that i've played recently are of the: RPG = Roll Playing Game
If you want actual Role Playing, start a game with friends/acquantancies/random people off the street, etc, or go back to the old style mud/mush/moos and start there.
Anybody know where these phrases came from, or the problem they were trying to solve? Did a search and didn't seem to find anything about where it came from.
Aside from the cool factor, i don't see the image itself being useful outside of special circumstances like, hey look, there is my house. Now if the images were projected corrected and orthoreferenced with a statement of accuracy, then it would be a different story.
In my opinion, now that i've seen and used find while you type in firefox for a while, every program/window/object should have it. It is just too frustrating to be searching any kind of help without it. I open up text files in firefox just for this feature.
Two separate entities can copyright the same thing, as long as it was made independantly, there is no copyright violation. There can be only one patent holder for that thing, and the first to file usually wins and can rake in the money from the other. (Look up Alexander Graham Bell vs Elisha Gray)
I'm not making a judgement on whether software patents are good or bad, just a way of looking at the difference between them and why some companies think they are better.
There are controls on the steering wheel to make it easy to change songs on your iPod. Your automatic is replaced by a computer controlled transmission with manual control inputs for when you feel like taking more control. You will have adaptive cruise control to free you to pay to listen to your music. The government will still force you to pay the insurance companies for just owning the car. You will be monitored at all times by cameras along the roads to make sure you're driving safetly, er correctly, er um, driving like a good little boy. Your car will tell you where to go and know exactly where it is and alert police if its not where it should be.
The problem of having one big unit is what happens if it breaks? Having two large ones running compared to many small ones would have to be considered as well.
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I agree with you. I played EQ for about 18 months. I played WoW for about 10 months. I've been playing a MUD for over 9 years. Stop playing for a couple months, then go back and its still there. People come and go, the game changes over time, but you can usually still see the same people time and time again. MUDs, imo, are a great social place for those who like immersing themselves in a character and immersing themselves in their own imagination.
This happened to me in soccer and tennis from when i was like 8 til highschool. I was the youngest on most of my teams since the cutoff was middle of august for most of the rec leagues since my birthday was at the end of the month. This was both bad and good however, having to play against older and more experience people made me better and when i entered high school, i was always the oldest and did better than most.
Any engineer who creates a coordinate system that has themself as the origin makes the world revolve around them.
Also note that even calling and getting people to come out and mark where things are doesn't guarantee that stuff is where they say they are, that there isn't more stuff there they don't know about, that there is even stuff there, etc. A lot of it comes down to guess work and being careful while digging.
I believe the reason is due to peoples perceptions. If i'm in an elevator, even if it is going up, i'll be down sooner than if i'm waiting for an elevator. It seems to me people would rather be moving than waiting, even if moving takes longer. I see it all the time on the drive to work. The right lane is mostly empty coming up to a merging of two interstates, everybody seems to rush into that lane like it is going to be faster and then I slowly pass them as they are stuck behind all the people merging.
Could this possibly be an indirection by laziness or something more sophisticated?
I know i've modified some already working code to use inputs that would have been 'invalid' for before the modifications to add new functionality to small programs to do other things that are similiar without having to start them from scratch.
I could see this as being a way to allow unknown image formats encapsulated in WMF files to create processes to decode and display images that weren't of the type the original WMF knew about? I know this is just speculation, but it could be a neat way of doing things, a la, including the decoder along with the actual thing to be decoded, but also bad for security purposes.
My shirt says it all: If it is not broke, take it apart and fix it.
It has been a game i've been playing for decades, ever since my first radio.
There are way more 'games' than just video games, though they are usually called hobbies.
You do bring up good points. As you say, its not black and white, you have to take in both sides of almost anything.
Off topic, but the 2 pennies were input error. (not saying the software doesn't have its problems, i'm sure it does)
Didn't mean to take it off topic, but i was illustrating my point. In the end, it all comes down to a cost/risk/bendifit analysis here in the real world. In the case of banks/air traffic, the risk would require you to spend money to find more of the obscure problems. Most other things wouldn't in my opinion.
If a million dollars go missing, spending a fair amount to find it would be worth it. Spending a large amount of money to find/fix a software problem that only doesn't have a large effect on your software is also less than beneficial. If people will still buy it with faults, like almost all software, what is the benefit? It is all a matter of scale. Sure i'd prefer better software, but most people don't know any better or won't pay for better software.
My sister, who works for a small software firm had a client comment to her how she was so estatic when they spent the whole day and finally found where 2 pennies were missing. Thats what a perfectionist does.
So spending 8+ hours @ x amount of dollars to find 2 missing pennies is worth the effort? The statement of not spending a lot of time going for an additional 1/10th of point towards your gpa may not be a good statement, but the point behind it may be important.
GPA 1.9->2.0? Probably a good idea to work for it. GPA 3.6->3.7? May not be the best time spent. Spend that time interning, volunteering, interviewing or playing a sport might actually be better for you.
I had thought sony had put one out that read dvds, but i can't seem to find it anymore. A shame really.
This: http://www.cwol.com/keyboards/sk7100.htm is a pretty decent combo keyboard mouse. Change it to use radio/blue tooth/wireless usb would be tons better. I mean, what were they thinking anyway?
Maybe it is an alien playing nimoy playing a vulcan playing a psychologist... and the universe plodes.
You may have run up against a windows XP "anti-piracy" feature. If you install it on a certain hardware location (abc etc), then move it to a new location (or in your case something causes it to move) it could think it was being put in a new computer and refuse to start complaining about an invalid hal and blue screens. If windows xp is set to auto reboot on blue screen, you may not see it.
Most RPGs that i've played recently are of the:
RPG = Roll Playing Game
If you want actual Role Playing, start a game with friends/acquantancies/random people off the street, etc, or go back to the old style mud/mush/moos and start there.
Anybody know where these phrases came from, or the problem they were trying to solve? Did a search and didn't seem to find anything about where it came from.
Set up an RSS feed to your bittorrent podcast... gah, way too much.
GET YOUR FRESH RSS PodTorrents Here!
Actually i should patent sending torrent files as podcasts before some idiot thinks this is non obvious...
Army, Navy, Air Force, Net Force. Seems to work for me!
Aside from the cool factor, i don't see the image itself being useful outside of special circumstances like, hey look, there is my house. Now if the images were projected corrected and orthoreferenced with a statement of accuracy, then it would be a different story.
I used to love that vh1 show called pop up video. I would love to see that in real life.
In my opinion, now that i've seen and used find while you type in firefox for a while, every program/window/object should have it. It is just too frustrating to be searching any kind of help without it. I open up text files in firefox just for this feature.
Two separate entities can copyright the same thing, as long as it was made independantly, there is no copyright violation. There can be only one patent holder for that thing, and the first to file usually wins
and can rake in the money from the other. (Look up Alexander Graham Bell vs Elisha Gray)
I'm not making a judgement on whether software patents are good or bad,
just a way of looking at the difference between them and why some companies
think they are better.
There are controls on the steering wheel to make it easy to change songs on your iPod. Your automatic is replaced by a computer controlled transmission with manual control inputs for when you feel like taking more control. You will have adaptive cruise control to free you to pay to listen to your music. The government will still force you to pay the insurance companies for just owning the car. You will be monitored at all times by cameras along the roads to make sure you're driving safetly, er correctly, er um, driving like a good little boy. Your car will tell you where to go and know exactly where it is and alert police if its not where it should be.
me cynical? nah...
The problem of having one big unit is what happens if it breaks?
Having two large ones running compared to many small ones would have to be considered as well.