Wind Waker wasn't a huge leap in gameplay? I'd say purely gameplay-wise, Wind Waker has less in common with Ocarina/Majora's Mask than Ocarina has with A Link to the Past. Ocarina felt to me like reimagining of how to play A Link to the Past in 3D. For example, the concept of a Hookshot is meaningless in a game without a third dimension. A lot of the other things were similar, like themed dungeons and pushing puzzles. Wind Waker was just a completely different way to play Zelda.
Ok, so he was botting. Lets say he had to press one key every five minutes.
Now I may be a noob, but with my main character(a priest), i have a simple routine I follow on almost every mob I encounter. I press "-" for power word shield, click on the touch of weakness icon to start it up, press 1 to hit the guy with my melee until touch of weakness procs, then press 2 to start hitting him with my wand. Four buttons. Whenever I see my shield has gone away and i have taken a significant amount of damage, i hit 1 to go back to my melee, then hit - to put shield back up, then hit 2 to go back to my wand. Three buttons. So, concievably, if the mob had large enough resistance to my attacks and i had large enough resistance to his, I would have to hit four buttons once, then three every five minutes after that. Would you call that botting? The only difference between what I am doing and what he is doing is(usually) a factor of time, and the fact that he used his programmable keyboard to combine all those three/four buttons into one. I could do the same thing with the WoW macro system.
As far as the fact that he was watching movies, is multitasking botting? Half the time I play WoW, I'm doing homework at the same time. I'm sure many people are as well.
That's not really that strange of a claim. All that it means is that some of the energy put into creating the reaction induced some of the atoms to let loose some of the energy they contain in their bonds between particles. As the article says, something that "usually only occurs in nuclear reactions".
Maybe Calc does have an ancient mansion to explore, but I still can't display the equation of a trendline. As a college physics student, this means I write my lab reports in Writer and make my charts in Excel.
Watts of a battery has nothing to do with battery life. That is the maximum rate at which the battery can put out energy. What does have to do with battery life is how many watts(on average) your computer is using.
Also, it isn't like this can just replace the battery, unless you want to put in a new fuel cell after every 8 hours of use. It's not rechargeable. Unless they are planning to make it refillable, which the article says they arent.
isnt anything that is purported to be true as a result of some a mathematical proof a theorem and something that is known to be true but has no proof a postulate(Law)?
I would expect it to work in somewhat the same way in physics. a paper demonstrating some sort of reasonable explanation of why establishes a theorem. whether or not that logical proof is sound is another matter. and for something which is difficult to prove experimentally, like string theory and (some would argue)evolution, there is always debate. Evolution is just much older and well-tested than string theory.
"You can play WoW, but you'd better not let anyone know you're gay"
That is nothing like what Blizzard is doing. Blizzard is stopping this person from forming an in-game organization based on a specific sexual orientation. They are not stopping anyone from talking about being gay. Guilds have a big role in WoW gameplay, and I think Blizzard just doesn't want to see that part of the game factionalized. I don't think they would have any problem with it if someone started a guild and, somehow, got to know other GLBT players and invited them to it, and discussed their sexuality freely. But the thing is, that would never happen. I can't see any reason why I would ever end up discussing sexual orientation with another player in WoW. That's exactly why Blizzard wants to stop this. The thing they take offense with is the guild being advertised as a GLBT guild. If they let that happen, even once, they allow the system of guilds to be separated into "Straight" and "Gay". They don't want the guild system to be organized under any other influences besides WoW players who enjoy playing with each other, because of the way they play the game, and nothing else. I suppose Blizzard can't exactly remove intellectual maturity from the equation, as communication is necessary, but they don't want it to go beyond that.
They don't want WoW to be a place where, when you meet someone, they say "a/s/l" to you. They want WoW to be a place where you find someone doing a quest you need to do, ask them if they want to group up, and if he/she/it(the beauty of it is you have no idea) is a good, smart player and isnt a douchebag, you group with them again in the future. They want the game to have a social structure, but one that is based as solely on the game itself as possible. They can't do that through moderating everything everyone says, nor would they want to. No one would want to play. They just want to make sure that, although you may have a specific sexual orientation, you can't establish anything to try and alter the social organization of the game according to it.
I don't think its really a "family-friendly" thing at all. Its more like a "real-life issue that has the potential to cause disagreement and is irrelevant to the game-unfriendly" thing.
The way I see it, Blizzard isn't really discriminating against anyone. Blizzard is saying that any sort of in-game establishment with a specific ideological, philosophical, political, or relgious basis for existence is not allowed. Discrimination requires that different categories of people recieve different treatment. I don't see that happening here.
It would be interesting to know how much experience the children in this study had had with some form of negative reinforcement for not following a parent/teacher/etc.'s given method exactly.
That principle of quantum mechanics has nothing to do with whether time travel can alter the future. The key phrase in it is "has been measured". Yes, the person named Joe who is here right now's past is known and unalterable, but the Joe of five minutes ago, lacking five minutes of memories and air chemicals, has a clean future in front of him which has not been observed. They are two totally different Joe's, and may take two totally different paths.
I disagree. A couple thousand people are paying $45-$300 to go see the Stones this fall in my town, in fact so many that the concert sold out in something like 53 minutes. Many people pay $10 to go see a movie on a huge screen in a place with a nice sound system that can seat as many of their friends as they want, not to mention the chance to participate in the perfumed posse of inexperience with the world invariably gathered outside. Those who have the rights to songs are offered millions of dollars all the time for the right to use their song in a commercial. There are many ways to make a living off intellectual property that don't require monopolization and armies of lawyers to maintain, that already work and still would if the commodities were free to exchange in a less-decorated form.
wtf?
that dude should come to my neighborhood
i tell my friends just to not call me on my cell when im in there
the whole ~10x10 block place is dead
and its in the middle of a city
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You do wireless if you haven't wired your entire house with ethernet.
Wind Waker wasn't a huge leap in gameplay? I'd say purely gameplay-wise, Wind Waker has less in common with Ocarina/Majora's Mask than Ocarina has with A Link to the Past. Ocarina felt to me like reimagining of how to play A Link to the Past in 3D. For example, the concept of a Hookshot is meaningless in a game without a third dimension. A lot of the other things were similar, like themed dungeons and pushing puzzles. Wind Waker was just a completely different way to play Zelda.
UP to two years. Big difference.
Ok, so he was botting. Lets say he had to press one key every five minutes.
Now I may be a noob, but with my main character(a priest), i have a simple routine I follow on almost every mob I encounter. I press "-" for power word shield, click on the touch of weakness icon to start it up, press 1 to hit the guy with my melee until touch of weakness procs, then press 2 to start hitting him with my wand. Four buttons. Whenever I see my shield has gone away and i have taken a significant amount of damage, i hit 1 to go back to my melee, then hit - to put shield back up, then hit 2 to go back to my wand. Three buttons. So, concievably, if the mob had large enough resistance to my attacks and i had large enough resistance to his, I would have to hit four buttons once, then three every five minutes after that. Would you call that botting? The only difference between what I am doing and what he is doing is(usually) a factor of time, and the fact that he used his programmable keyboard to combine all those three/four buttons into one. I could do the same thing with the WoW macro system.
As far as the fact that he was watching movies, is multitasking botting? Half the time I play WoW, I'm doing homework at the same time. I'm sure many people are as well.
That's not really that strange of a claim. All that it means is that some of the energy put into creating the reaction induced some of the atoms to let loose some of the energy they contain in their bonds between particles. As the article says, something that "usually only occurs in nuclear reactions".
Maybe Calc does have an ancient mansion to explore, but I still can't display the equation of a trendline. As a college physics student, this means I write my lab reports in Writer and make my charts in Excel.
Watts of a battery has nothing to do with battery life. That is the maximum rate at which the battery can put out energy. What does have to do with battery life is how many watts(on average) your computer is using. Also, it isn't like this can just replace the battery, unless you want to put in a new fuel cell after every 8 hours of use. It's not rechargeable. Unless they are planning to make it refillable, which the article says they arent.
I reject OpenOffice Calc because there is no way to show the equation of a trendline on a chart.
Has much progress been made on Knight Online? I played it for a little while about a year ago and I must say it was terrible.
isnt anything that is purported to be true as a result of some a mathematical proof a theorem and something that is known to be true but has no proof a postulate(Law)? I would expect it to work in somewhat the same way in physics. a paper demonstrating some sort of reasonable explanation of why establishes a theorem. whether or not that logical proof is sound is another matter. and for something which is difficult to prove experimentally, like string theory and (some would argue)evolution, there is always debate. Evolution is just much older and well-tested than string theory.
"You can play WoW, but you'd better not let anyone know you're gay" That is nothing like what Blizzard is doing. Blizzard is stopping this person from forming an in-game organization based on a specific sexual orientation. They are not stopping anyone from talking about being gay. Guilds have a big role in WoW gameplay, and I think Blizzard just doesn't want to see that part of the game factionalized. I don't think they would have any problem with it if someone started a guild and, somehow, got to know other GLBT players and invited them to it, and discussed their sexuality freely. But the thing is, that would never happen. I can't see any reason why I would ever end up discussing sexual orientation with another player in WoW. That's exactly why Blizzard wants to stop this. The thing they take offense with is the guild being advertised as a GLBT guild. If they let that happen, even once, they allow the system of guilds to be separated into "Straight" and "Gay". They don't want the guild system to be organized under any other influences besides WoW players who enjoy playing with each other, because of the way they play the game, and nothing else. I suppose Blizzard can't exactly remove intellectual maturity from the equation, as communication is necessary, but they don't want it to go beyond that. They don't want WoW to be a place where, when you meet someone, they say "a/s/l" to you. They want WoW to be a place where you find someone doing a quest you need to do, ask them if they want to group up, and if he/she/it(the beauty of it is you have no idea) is a good, smart player and isnt a douchebag, you group with them again in the future. They want the game to have a social structure, but one that is based as solely on the game itself as possible. They can't do that through moderating everything everyone says, nor would they want to. No one would want to play. They just want to make sure that, although you may have a specific sexual orientation, you can't establish anything to try and alter the social organization of the game according to it.
I don't think its really a "family-friendly" thing at all. Its more like a "real-life issue that has the potential to cause disagreement and is irrelevant to the game-unfriendly" thing.
The way I see it, Blizzard isn't really discriminating against anyone. Blizzard is saying that any sort of in-game establishment with a specific ideological, philosophical, political, or relgious basis for existence is not allowed. Discrimination requires that different categories of people recieve different treatment. I don't see that happening here.
It would be interesting to know how much experience the children in this study had had with some form of negative reinforcement for not following a parent/teacher/etc.'s given method exactly.
That principle of quantum mechanics has nothing to do with whether time travel can alter the future. The key phrase in it is "has been measured". Yes, the person named Joe who is here right now's past is known and unalterable, but the Joe of five minutes ago, lacking five minutes of memories and air chemicals, has a clean future in front of him which has not been observed. They are two totally different Joe's, and may take two totally different paths.
I disagree. A couple thousand people are paying $45-$300 to go see the Stones this fall in my town, in fact so many that the concert sold out in something like 53 minutes. Many people pay $10 to go see a movie on a huge screen in a place with a nice sound system that can seat as many of their friends as they want, not to mention the chance to participate in the perfumed posse of inexperience with the world invariably gathered outside. Those who have the rights to songs are offered millions of dollars all the time for the right to use their song in a commercial. There are many ways to make a living off intellectual property that don't require monopolization and armies of lawyers to maintain, that already work and still would if the commodities were free to exchange in a less-decorated form.
wtf? that dude should come to my neighborhood i tell my friends just to not call me on my cell when im in there the whole ~10x10 block place is dead and its in the middle of a city