No, I have a hunter (three, actually, one per server) and warlock (two), and I don't find those to be casual classes.
Closest I've found is actually a res paladin - in that you can always find someone who wants to group with you just because you can heal and resurrect them.
But a casual class would be one where it's designed around adventures that aren't so dependent on levels, and experience comes mostly from story line (e.g. bard gathering songs, or physicians healing and saving people in battlegrounds, or some such).
Let me see, become MD like most of my colleagues, get second Ph.D., work same amount of time, get more respect and earnings, or stick in IT and have people doubt you all the time?
I'm thinking they wised up that IT is a deadend while our companies outsource like mad, and many jumped ship to "easier" professions like bioengineering and molecular biology, instead of "IT".
But that's what I see here at the UW in Seattle.
You want women to get into IT? Make it a stable well-paying profession where people treat you with respect.
Ah, but NBC doesn't have to worry about hackers out for retaliation. What with their history of partnership with Microsoft (MSNBC) they must have the most secure computer systems on Earth.
Actually, a wooden flute makes for a 1-2 damage instrument, whereas a guitar can easily stun people.
And the garrote wire of a Mandolin comes in handy during assassinations, as does the cleaning rod of a flute thru the windpipe of an unsuspecting enemy.
Sorry, I was using the economic definition of Second World.
Originally, when I got my first degree, I was not permitted to travel to communist block countries, so I am using the definition whereby the Industrialized Nations (UK, France, Germany, Italy, Canada) were part of the First World and the poor nations were the Third World.
Admittedly, India was originally in that category, and South Korea too.
But, in the 21st Century, we have nations with functional first world status, and then we have declining powers.
This is to be expected as the US continues to bleed resources due to imbalances in the balance of trade globally, while much of our money goes to Canada to repay them for their resource-rich oil wealth (our primary provider, actually), and our lack of investment in our own infrastructure, as we continue to try to prop up a worldwide global military system that merely aids other first world nations such as Japan while causing our nation to rapidly decline due to carrying costs.
The same thing happened to the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, France, and then Great Britain. We are merely the latest empire to sow the destruction of our own economic empire by our foolish lack of foresight. As the UK (Great Britain) kept focussed on coal while we switched to oil, so the EU now takes our place with diverse energy, research, and other resources while we keep our spendthrift ways and our oil-based economy.
Nothing personal. Economics and capitalist structures like the market care nothing about your ideology or your birthright as a nation. The crucible of modern society merely moves on, leaving the dead whale nations behind in the dust where they lie.
We are behind in health care (all First World nations have national health care programs that cover all citizens), in broadband (the speeds we have are those that other First World nations had ten years ago), and in many levels including how long we live.
Heck, just look at our crumbling infrastructure - bridges, airports, roads, rail (talk about a JOKE), etc.
Why should we be surprised that we have second world level in broadband?
Meanwhile the ultra-wealthy, as in Mexico and other Second World nations, are becoming more wealthy as our middle class is destroyed.
Newspaper reporters - you start gathering news items, become a town crier when not out in the field.
Battlefield surgeons - you go into the arenas not for Honor from killing but Honor from saving lives - and the chance for really neat medical equipment.
Philosophers - look, noone knows what they do anyway, even if one of my Ph.D. friends who discovered most of the Tuberculosis infection mechanisms got a degree in that, so WoW could make almost anything up about this and get away with it.
Bard - songs, stories, travelling to distant lands to get new songs and musical instruments, and so on, hanging out in bars, what more can one ask - also raises morale for parties, so people let you tag along.
Things like this that casual gamers could play and feel they are progressing no matter what else goes on.
And all you PS3 1users can just wait until it's released.
But it will release on xBox360 at the same time as the Wii, so it's not like you'll have long to wait to basejump off of the Space Needle onto the Grey's Anatomy hospital and jump on a skateboard at the new (being built right now) skateboard park that Bill G tried to kill.
Due to the large number of bike paths and pedestrian corridors, there will be a lot more carnage, of course.
so, in other words, when he makes a game where we don't have some old guy telling us what we have to do every 2 minutes in a voice over you can't turn off?
In general you are correct. Using electricity is less harmful in general than using gasoline, which is shipped here and then refined. And your points on the actual conversion loss are also pretty spot on for the different sources.
Additionally, by disconnecting the energy source (gasoline in a standard car) from the usage point, the effects of pollution can be located in areas where it causes less damage - e.g. instead of a haze-filled LA sky, you could have a clearer sky there and then put the pollution underground or run through filters as is done by scrubbers on smelters. C02 and C0 can both be run thru H20 with minimal impact, for example, and the resulting byproducts are useful in certain chemical products if done properly.
But putting a solar cell on the roof of your car is not always a good idea - it adds mass to the vehicle. Better to put the solar cells on the roof of your building at both work and home and have those generate electricity instead.
No, if Sony pushed out a Rockstar game called My Little Pony: Revenge, they would be sued by EFF on behalf of Slashdot.
After all, everyone knows that computer online representation of OMG Ponies! and derivative works belongs to them.
However, in a swift move to avoid the basic copyright and patent issues, I'm sure RockStar will release "Pony Vampires: Cute and Cuddly!" and we will all buy the PS3.
We have something like 13 major hydro dams in BC and more in WA. We provide a lot of the power for CA.
In fact, Enron cheated our local utilities by out of our power being sold at a fair price and we recently run in a suit by Puget Power against them.
They are building three new treaty dams in BC - one at Waneta literally half a mile north of the border in BC - and I know where most of that electricity goes, because I used to work in that industry as a power engineer and even did a TV show on energy for BC cable that went province-wide.
Seattle owns it's own hydro dams, and a few more. As well as a heck of a lot of wind turbines in this state.
Electric energy is best stored in whatever medium delivers the best combination of cost, density, and efficiency. Right now, that means batteries. Ultracapacitors are indeed promising, but let's not get ahead of ourselves. They still need to get orders of magnitude better before they can compete with batteries.
Actually, when you have solar or wind power, which can vary, it's best to store it in:
a. vehicle battery packs (plug-in hybrids) which can turn on when excess power is needed to store then;
b. water pumped up to storage tanks (which is why wind turbines frequently are used to pump water into water towers and up to cachement dams to run flywheel turbines for electricity generation when it is needed;
c. fuel cells (split into component parts from water supply).
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No, I have a hunter (three, actually, one per server) and warlock (two), and I don't find those to be casual classes.
Closest I've found is actually a res paladin - in that you can always find someone who wants to group with you just because you can heal and resurrect them.
But a casual class would be one where it's designed around adventures that aren't so dependent on levels, and experience comes mostly from story line (e.g. bard gathering songs, or physicians healing and saving people in battlegrounds, or some such).
Let me see, become MD like most of my colleagues, get second Ph.D., work same amount of time, get more respect and earnings, or stick in IT and have people doubt you all the time?
I'm thinking they wised up that IT is a deadend while our companies outsource like mad, and many jumped ship to "easier" professions like bioengineering and molecular biology, instead of "IT".
But that's what I see here at the UW in Seattle.
You want women to get into IT? Make it a stable well-paying profession where people treat you with respect.
Ah, but NBC doesn't have to worry about hackers out for retaliation. What with their history of partnership with Microsoft (MSNBC) they must have the most secure computer systems on Earth.
Most. Secure. Computer. Systems.
ROFLMAO.
Oh, man, that was funny!
Inquiring minds want to know.
Actually, a wooden flute makes for a 1-2 damage instrument, whereas a guitar can easily stun people.
And the garrote wire of a Mandolin comes in handy during assassinations, as does the cleaning rod of a flute thru the windpipe of an unsuspecting enemy.
Sorry, I was using the economic definition of Second World.
Originally, when I got my first degree, I was not permitted to travel to communist block countries, so I am using the definition whereby the Industrialized Nations (UK, France, Germany, Italy, Canada) were part of the First World and the poor nations were the Third World.
Admittedly, India was originally in that category, and South Korea too.
But, in the 21st Century, we have nations with functional first world status, and then we have declining powers.
This is to be expected as the US continues to bleed resources due to imbalances in the balance of trade globally, while much of our money goes to Canada to repay them for their resource-rich oil wealth (our primary provider, actually), and our lack of investment in our own infrastructure, as we continue to try to prop up a worldwide global military system that merely aids other first world nations such as Japan while causing our nation to rapidly decline due to carrying costs.
The same thing happened to the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, France, and then Great Britain. We are merely the latest empire to sow the destruction of our own economic empire by our foolish lack of foresight. As the UK (Great Britain) kept focussed on coal while we switched to oil, so the EU now takes our place with diverse energy, research, and other resources while we keep our spendthrift ways and our oil-based economy.
Nothing personal. Economics and capitalist structures like the market care nothing about your ideology or your birthright as a nation. The crucible of modern society merely moves on, leaving the dead whale nations behind in the dust where they lie.
When Americans live 10 years LESS than Canadians, you know something is wrong.
But, hey, just ask the Europeans, who live 5-8 years longer than we Americans do.
Same goes for broadband - South Korea has ten times faster broadband EVERYWHERE. Canadians laugh at our internet.
Those are not their ultra-rich, but the other 99 percent of them.
Think about it, Bill Gates is the 2nd richest man in the world, according to Forbes. The richest person lives in Mexico.
I agree, it would be nice to have a casual class or two, designed for people who aren't into grinds and quite frankly don't have the time.
Besides, gramps might like to play as a wandering minstrel bard, even having to tag along on a raid to keep up everyone's morale scores.
We are behind in health care (all First World nations have national health care programs that cover all citizens), in broadband (the speeds we have are those that other First World nations had ten years ago), and in many levels including how long we live.
Heck, just look at our crumbling infrastructure - bridges, airports, roads, rail (talk about a JOKE), etc.
Why should we be surprised that we have second world level in broadband?
Meanwhile the ultra-wealthy, as in Mexico and other Second World nations, are becoming more wealthy as our middle class is destroyed.
Newspaper reporters - you start gathering news items, become a town crier when not out in the field.
Battlefield surgeons - you go into the arenas not for Honor from killing but Honor from saving lives - and the chance for really neat medical equipment.
Philosophers - look, noone knows what they do anyway, even if one of my Ph.D. friends who discovered most of the Tuberculosis infection mechanisms got a degree in that, so WoW could make almost anything up about this and get away with it.
Bard - songs, stories, travelling to distant lands to get new songs and musical instruments, and so on, hanging out in bars, what more can one ask - also raises morale for parties, so people let you tag along.
Things like this that casual gamers could play and feel they are progressing no matter what else goes on.
Bot on Bot killings and robot rampages are up in Iraq!
And all you PS3 1users can just wait until it's released.
But it will release on xBox360 at the same time as the Wii, so it's not like you'll have long to wait to basejump off of the Space Needle onto the Grey's Anatomy hospital and jump on a skateboard at the new (being built right now) skateboard park that Bill G tried to kill.
Due to the large number of bike paths and pedestrian corridors, there will be a lot more carnage, of course.
If so, you'll rune the day I got hold of my sword!
Quite frankly, I find the lower level quests far more interesting.
It's sold to commercial firms so they can advertise to you.
Duh.
If I'm going to stare at the rear end of a character for 40+ hours, it might as well be a woman.
One hears this a lot on WoW.
On the other hand, those skinny Blood Elf ones aren't that great.
so, in other words, when he makes a game where we don't have some old guy telling us what we have to do every 2 minutes in a voice over you can't turn off?
...
that might be a while
You mean we can have female characters in Fable 2?
You were only allowed to choose guys in Fable and the expansion.
I want to put scars on my Mii and import him into Fable 2 for the Wii.
In general you are correct. Using electricity is less harmful in general than using gasoline, which is shipped here and then refined. And your points on the actual conversion loss are also pretty spot on for the different sources.
Additionally, by disconnecting the energy source (gasoline in a standard car) from the usage point, the effects of pollution can be located in areas where it causes less damage - e.g. instead of a haze-filled LA sky, you could have a clearer sky there and then put the pollution underground or run through filters as is done by scrubbers on smelters. C02 and C0 can both be run thru H20 with minimal impact, for example, and the resulting byproducts are useful in certain chemical products if done properly.
But putting a solar cell on the roof of your car is not always a good idea - it adds mass to the vehicle. Better to put the solar cells on the roof of your building at both work and home and have those generate electricity instead.
No, if Sony pushed out a Rockstar game called My Little Pony: Revenge, they would be sued by EFF on behalf of Slashdot.
After all, everyone knows that computer online representation of OMG Ponies! and derivative works belongs to them.
However, in a swift move to avoid the basic copyright and patent issues, I'm sure RockStar will release "Pony Vampires: Cute and Cuddly!" and we will all buy the PS3.
Moo!
I'm sorry, what I said is true.
We have something like 13 major hydro dams in BC and more in WA. We provide a lot of the power for CA.
In fact, Enron cheated our local utilities by out of our power being sold at a fair price and we recently run in a suit by Puget Power against them.
They are building three new treaty dams in BC - one at Waneta literally half a mile north of the border in BC - and I know where most of that electricity goes, because I used to work in that industry as a power engineer and even did a TV show on energy for BC cable that went province-wide.
Seattle owns it's own hydro dams, and a few more. As well as a heck of a lot of wind turbines in this state.
Electric energy is best stored in whatever medium delivers the best combination of cost, density, and efficiency. Right now, that means batteries. Ultracapacitors are indeed promising, but let's not get ahead of ourselves. They still need to get orders of magnitude better before they can compete with batteries.
Actually, when you have solar or wind power, which can vary, it's best to store it in:
a. vehicle battery packs (plug-in hybrids) which can turn on when excess power is needed to store then;
b. water pumped up to storage tanks (which is why wind turbines frequently are used to pump water into water towers and up to cachement dams to run flywheel turbines for electricity generation when it is needed;
c. fuel cells (split into component parts from water supply).
that is with the battery packs they have. Most plug-in hybrids use NiMH and other battery technology and can get a range of 300 miles on a charge.
I expect the production models will have different battery packs.