But.. it's a game. They didn't get mugged, their characters did. I can see how the company could, say, return the items to the original owners.. but charged?
This mostly compes from people who have never really gotten into an MMORPG. The time it takes for people to recieve items in these games can take up a month. That means they are spending their time earning it. It is their property. If someone took my crap in a game that I spent over a month trying to earn, i certainly would hope something bad happens to them.
I can understand where you are coming from, but still. its a huge pain. Plus if its a feature in the game, you just cant go back to the GM and say 'i lost my item after being killed, gimme it back'.
I think the only reason why they are being charged is because they exploited a "problem" with the game and then turned it into a profit.
its not necessarily a 'mugging' feature. when you die, there is a chance that you will drop something. im assuming all the bot did was kill people, and if they ended up dropping something, they would take the item. but there is not 'mug' button.
id imagine a lot of schools have simulators. i went to a really ghetto highschool and we somehow managed to get some. it wasnt really a game though. it was a machine that played a movie (same one no matter one) and it would keep a log of if you did the right things or the wrong things.
as a programming with 8 months of real world experience, SVG stands for scalable vector graphics. it allows you to show graphics and zoom in without effecting the quality of the image. You really wont have to learn many new things since its built with xml. not sure who owns it nor do i know about microsofts plans.
but its nice because you can load up a autocad file, convert it to SVG, then put it on the web for people to view. its a really nice technology.
4 gigs is REALLY pushing it. i think the lowest i would expect for $100 is 15-20 gigs. I think the only reason why I would spend that money is to help their sales and hope they come out with better things down the road.
its almost obvious. the only thing they changed was how they collected the data. i mean, of course people will follow a pattern. i bet 99% of you(the other 1% are gross) brush your teeth within 10 minutes of getting out of bed. YAY! I PREDICTED THE FUTURE! WOO!!!!.
100% of all my friends will tell you that i wake up at 8am for class monday- friday. they could also tell you that 11:00am, monday-thursday, im on my way to work, with some really clean teeth.
im sure no one will read this seeing that there are already 200+ replies, but this has been happening since the playstation 1 days. grant it they were static, but they were ads. i think the first game to do it was that quasi-futuristic jet ski/moto racer game (forget the exact name, but it was moto-something) where they had butter finger and mountain due signs all over the place.
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parents didnt give a damn that there is a game shooting and killing cops, stealing cars, and beating up random people. this is okay for a child to play. but god damn it, there better not be a nipple in there or there will be hell to pay.i would love someone on here to post(and be serious about it) something that would back up the actions of these people. i want to hold a conversation with a person that can honestly say 'you can shoot and kill all the people you like. just dont have sex because that will corrupt the children'
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someone came up to me while i was typing this (im at work now) and read it. wonder what they thought of it. hehe.
speaking for the american school system, there are far to many fingers to point. you can look at the social issues of school. its not 'cool' to be smart. i went to a rather poor/ghetto highschool and if you wanted to blend in, C's and D's was the place to be:).
you can look at the teachers. not even looking at the teachers that dont care about their students, but here is a nice fact about my school.
history class: taught by the soccer coach.
biology class: taught by the baseball coach.
typing class: taught by the football coach. PROGRAMMING CLASS: taught by the basketball coach.
think any of them knew anything about what they were teaching?? hell no. i taught the programming class, and watched movies in the other classes. you also get teachers who one semester teaches math, another semester would teach english, etc etc. some teachers at my highschool had nothing more than an AA degree.
then you can look at the parents. i couldnt begin to count how many parents wouldnt care if their kid got an A or an F. hell, they wouldnt even know if they got an A or an F. too many parents out there dont really care if their children are doing well because it takes 'too much work' to check up on them, then when they do fail, they go run and yell at the teacher.
so i suppose if you touch up on any of those subjects, you are definitely going to improve the current american school system.
are you series?? first off, you can barely trust kids now a days to bring the text book back at the end of the school year. what chance do you have of them bringing back a laptop?
also what about when the onslaught of tech support issue come up and ms marry mo, the english teacher, who thinks a mac address is the location of her ibook has to deal with it. even better, you have giving them to KIDS. kids are clumsy and dumb. they drop things. they fuck with things. they think 'format c:' is awesome. eating next to the laptop will even bring more exciting things.
aside from these obvious issues, who actually enjoys reading text books online? im sure there are people who dont mind, but the majority of people would prefer a book over scanning a monitor any time of the week.
kudos to them for trying something new. i just hope obvious issues arent overlooked. i remember when my highschool only tried to have a different classroom scheduling scheme and everything went to hell.
i can watch deadly car accidents all day on the news, Fox's Americas worst street fights, body parts laying on the ground on the news, but HOLY SHIT! ALL OF AMERICA'S YOUTH HAS BEEN RIPPED APART BY A QUARTER SECOND OF A JANET JACKSONS NIPPLE!. give me a break.
"Once again, ESRB has failed our parents,"
its always great that even though it has done lots of great work, one slip up from a game with HIDDEN code, and its now an utter failure. perhaps now the ESRB should be responsible for decompiliing the code and sift through it all for hidden, not meant for the public, code. OR MAYBE they should yell at Rockstar. they just had to delete the lines. not comment it out.
Sure, 90% of us make grammar errors and ill agree that its more prone with hax0rz, coders, l337 sp34kers, etc. but realize that english classes and what not arent exactly our strong point.
case in point, go to an english major and ask them some college algebra questions or even better, some trig questions. they (the majority, im sure there are some english/math majors out there) would sooner spit fireballs from their eye sockets before they could answer the question.
me personally, im all over the A's and B's in math classes(calc 1-3, diff eq, linear alg), but i got C's in both english 1 and 2. so i think it should be looked at from that perspective before assuming if you know computers, you cant spell:).
The feature lies in Titan's cloudiest region, which is presumably the most likely site of recent methane rainfall. (from nava.gov)
nothing like a big ol lake about the size of Lake Ontario of methane sitting around. kinda rules out the thought that life is sitting in there. unless its a new breed of methane breathing fish:).
my problem isnt with ads in general (although they are annoying) but when im forced to have an ad in my face, its a pain. especially when it has nothing to do with the page. if it was relivant to the content, i wouldnt mind. commercials on TV follow those guidelines (watch CNN, you get investing commercials. watch ESPN, get sports commercials, etc). there is a right way and a wrong way to do things. doubleclick usually takes the wrong.
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But.. it's a game. They didn't get mugged, their characters did. I can see how the company could, say, return the items to the original owners.. but charged? This mostly compes from people who have never really gotten into an MMORPG. The time it takes for people to recieve items in these games can take up a month. That means they are spending their time earning it. It is their property. If someone took my crap in a game that I spent over a month trying to earn, i certainly would hope something bad happens to them. I can understand where you are coming from, but still. its a huge pain. Plus if its a feature in the game, you just cant go back to the GM and say 'i lost my item after being killed, gimme it back'. I think the only reason why they are being charged is because they exploited a "problem" with the game and then turned it into a profit.
its not necessarily a 'mugging' feature. when you die, there is a chance that you will drop something. im assuming all the bot did was kill people, and if they ended up dropping something, they would take the item. but there is not 'mug' button.
id imagine a lot of schools have simulators. i went to a really ghetto highschool and we somehow managed to get some. it wasnt really a game though. it was a machine that played a movie (same one no matter one) and it would keep a log of if you did the right things or the wrong things.
fix the typo of programming to programmer... and here is a nice link to show an example of its power..
yosemite (plugin required. i think its built into IE though)
as a programming with 8 months of real world experience, SVG stands for scalable vector graphics. it allows you to show graphics and zoom in without effecting the quality of the image. You really wont have to learn many new things since its built with xml. not sure who owns it nor do i know about microsofts plans. but its nice because you can load up a autocad file, convert it to SVG, then put it on the web for people to view. its a really nice technology.
/. realy out did itself. dead link already.
4 gigs is REALLY pushing it. i think the lowest i would expect for $100 is 15-20 gigs. I think the only reason why I would spend that money is to help their sales and hope they come out with better things down the road.
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its almost obvious. the only thing they changed was how they collected the data. i mean, of course people will follow a pattern. i bet 99% of you(the other 1% are gross) brush your teeth within 10 minutes of getting out of bed. YAY! I PREDICTED THE FUTURE! WOO!!!!.
100% of all my friends will tell you that i wake up at 8am for class monday- friday. they could also tell you that 11:00am, monday-thursday, im on my way to work, with some really clean teeth.
if (time() == 8am && normal_location(time()) == "bedroom"){
next_task("brush teeth");
}
his legend will live on because no one will turn on his spam bots running on 238472983 boxes across the world.
im sure no one will read this seeing that there are already 200+ replies, but this has been happening since the playstation 1 days. grant it they were static, but they were ads. i think the first game to do it was that quasi-futuristic jet ski/moto racer game (forget the exact name, but it was moto-something) where they had butter finger and mountain due signs all over the place.
"you're the man now dawg"
"you're the man now dawg"
"you're the man now dawg"
"you're the man now dawg"
"you're the man now dawg"
"you're the man now dawg"
this should be called '5th element 2'... or maybe '6th element' because it looks like the same damn movie. you compare them... 5th element
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great. that means that there are 1.5 million chinese that have lost their jobs and houses because they spend all day playing this game.
parents didnt give a damn that there is a game shooting and killing cops, stealing cars, and beating up random people. this is okay for a child to play. but god damn it, there better not be a nipple in there or there will be hell to pay.i would love someone on here to post(and be serious about it) something that would back up the actions of these people. i want to hold a conversation with a person that can honestly say 'you can shoot and kill all the people you like. just dont have sex because that will corrupt the children'
then ill be happy...
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and i want that song on the soundtrack too.
how many times in the past that something like this would have been looked over.
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someone came up to me while i was typing this (im at work now) and read it. wonder what they thought of it. hehe.
speaking for the american school system, there are far to many fingers to point. you can look at the social issues of school. its not 'cool' to be smart. i went to a rather poor/ghetto highschool and if you wanted to blend in, C's and D's was the place to be :).
you can look at the teachers. not even looking at the teachers that dont care about their students, but here is a nice fact about my school.
history class: taught by the soccer coach.
biology class: taught by the baseball coach.
typing class: taught by the football coach.
PROGRAMMING CLASS: taught by the basketball coach.
think any of them knew anything about what they were teaching?? hell no. i taught the programming class, and watched movies in the other classes. you also get teachers who one semester teaches math, another semester would teach english, etc etc. some teachers at my highschool had nothing more than an AA degree.
then you can look at the parents. i couldnt begin to count how many parents wouldnt care if their kid got an A or an F. hell, they wouldnt even know if they got an A or an F. too many parents out there dont really care if their children are doing well because it takes 'too much work' to check up on them, then when they do fail, they go run and yell at the teacher.
so i suppose if you touch up on any of those subjects, you are definitely going to improve the current american school system.
are you series?? first off, you can barely trust kids now a days to bring the text book back at the end of the school year. what chance do you have of them bringing back a laptop?
also what about when the onslaught of tech support issue come up and ms marry mo, the english teacher, who thinks a mac address is the location of her ibook has to deal with it. even better, you have giving them to KIDS. kids are clumsy and dumb. they drop things. they fuck with things. they think 'format c:' is awesome. eating next to the laptop will even bring more exciting things.
aside from these obvious issues, who actually enjoys reading text books online? im sure there are people who dont mind, but the majority of people would prefer a book over scanning a monitor any time of the week.
kudos to them for trying something new. i just hope obvious issues arent overlooked. i remember when my highschool only tried to have a different classroom scheduling scheme and everything went to hell.
i can watch deadly car accidents all day on the news, Fox's Americas worst street fights, body parts laying on the ground on the news, but HOLY SHIT! ALL OF AMERICA'S YOUTH HAS BEEN RIPPED APART BY A QUARTER SECOND OF A JANET JACKSONS NIPPLE!. give me a break.
"Once again, ESRB has failed our parents,"
its always great that even though it has done lots of great work, one slip up from a game with HIDDEN code, and its now an utter failure. perhaps now the ESRB should be responsible for decompiliing the code and sift through it all for hidden, not meant for the public, code. OR MAYBE they should yell at Rockstar. they just had to delete the lines. not comment it out.
Sure, 90% of us make grammar errors and ill agree that its more prone with hax0rz, coders, l337 sp34kers, etc. but realize that english classes and what not arent exactly our strong point.
:).
case in point, go to an english major and ask them some college algebra questions or even better, some trig questions. they (the majority, im sure there are some english/math majors out there) would sooner spit fireballs from their eye sockets before they could answer the question.
me personally, im all over the A's and B's in math classes(calc 1-3, diff eq, linear alg), but i got C's in both english 1 and 2. so i think it should be looked at from that perspective before assuming if you know computers, you cant spell
The feature lies in Titan's cloudiest region, which is presumably the most likely site of recent methane rainfall. (from nava.gov)
:).
nothing like a big ol lake about the size of Lake Ontario of methane sitting around. kinda rules out the thought that life is sitting in there. unless its a new breed of methane breathing fish
my problem isnt with ads in general (although they are annoying) but when im forced to have an ad in my face, its a pain. especially when it has nothing to do with the page. if it was relivant to the content, i wouldnt mind. commercials on TV follow those guidelines (watch CNN, you get investing commercials. watch ESPN, get sports commercials, etc). there is a right way and a wrong way to do things. doubleclick usually takes the wrong.