I think you're spot on. Perhaps the only thing I'd add to the competition for entertainment time would be satellite radio. I'd guesstimate that 90-95% of my time listening to music happens in the car, and having access to consistent, high quality radio eliminates the need to bring my own CD's on trips. I still occasionally buy new CD's when I hear music new to me and I'm curious about a band, but not nearly to the extent I did 10-15 years ago.
Why don't you just make the icons and text bigger? Or is this not something supported on Macs? Reducing the resolution was a reasonable solution 10 years ago on CRT monitors when the OS and software didn't scale, but doing that on an LCD looks horrible!
... a product called MathCad 15 years ago. I seem to recall they had a free student version.
Looks like they have a 30 day trial, and a $60 student version if it suits your purposes.
The EarthDawn group I play with use a combination of Skype, Palbee (webservice for video conferencing & white-boarding), and occasionally Twiddla for whiteboarding when Palbee refuses to work. Twiddla has a die-roller built into the chat client which is nice, but no video. We're a small group scattered across 3 timezones, so we're trying to get away with free services as much as possible. I'm really hoping Wave can integrate all these elements.
They gave the UN plenty of time to verify it last time. Hans Blix was run off his damn feet inspecting Iraq, and he kept coming back saying there wasn't anything there every damn time. The US, in spite of his non-findings, chose to invent evidence where there was none to justify an attack. It was like a news station with an on-the-spot reporter telling us that it was sunny, summer day, and the anchor man correcting him by saying 'Actually, we have some anecdotal evidence that it's actually snowing there right now, so we're going to go with that.'
Blue No. 1 is called "brilliant blue" and, as is typical of modern dyes, was originally derived from coal tar, although most manufacturers now make it from an oil base. Blue No. 2, or "indigotine," on the other hand, is a synthetic version of the plant-based indigo that has a long history as a textile dye. Indigo, which comes from the indigo plant (Indigofera), has been used for probably at least 4,000 years. There is a written recipe for dying wool with indigo on a Babylonian cuneiform tablet dated to the seventh century B.C. There is evidence that it was used in neolithic Europe and in pharaonic Egypt. It also comes from the woad plant (Isatis tinctoria), and was used by the Celts in Scotland to dye their faces.
Probably the best game EA ever made. It was really quite sad that they didn't know what to do with it once it was done. It needed better marketing, more support, and a few bug fixes, but it had a fantastic community and game-play that they haven't matched since. You could really tell that they had no clue how to support an MMO. ( and I'm not sure that's changed)
"But how many games does the low end actually buy?"
Are you counting World of Warcraft? IMO, the lower barrier of entry is at least half the reason WOW outsold and continues to outsell its competitors. Even Maple Story has millions of users, and I'm guessing that has plenty to do with the fact it can be played on essentially anything (free doesn't hurt either).
The point of MMO's isn't skillful play. MMO's are more like Snakes and Ladders, keep rolling the dice until you get to the top. And yet, Snakes and Ladders is still a successful game, you can still go out to a Toys R Us or Walmart and purchase it. The real draw of Snakes and Ladders, (like MMO's) is that everyone can win, and it's something you play socially.
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I thought human was the race, and things like jewish or asian would be ethnicities.
...when you allow people to believe in magic.
Seriously. I always wanted one of those watches with the metric time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
I'd mod you up if I could.
I think you're spot on. Perhaps the only thing I'd add to the competition for entertainment time would be satellite radio. I'd guesstimate that 90-95% of my time listening to music happens in the car, and having access to consistent, high quality radio eliminates the need to bring my own CD's on trips. I still occasionally buy new CD's when I hear music new to me and I'm curious about a band, but not nearly to the extent I did 10-15 years ago.
Evolution is only a theory.
No static issues with that plastic box?
Why don't you just make the icons and text bigger? Or is this not something supported on Macs? Reducing the resolution was a reasonable solution 10 years ago on CRT monitors when the OS and software didn't scale, but doing that on an LCD looks horrible!
Or, as George Carlin suggested - a monster truck rally.
Oh yeah, "If you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to fear."
Any bets that the patch does exactly this?
Just make the fonts bigger.
I like your ideas, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
... a product called MathCad 15 years ago. I seem to recall they had a free student version. Looks like they have a 30 day trial, and a $60 student version if it suits your purposes.
The EarthDawn group I play with use a combination of Skype, Palbee (webservice for video conferencing & white-boarding), and occasionally Twiddla for whiteboarding when Palbee refuses to work. Twiddla has a die-roller built into the chat client which is nice, but no video. We're a small group scattered across 3 timezones, so we're trying to get away with free services as much as possible. I'm really hoping Wave can integrate all these elements.
Yep. I'd love to say more, but that pretty much sums up my experience as well, and personally, I think being a blacksmith would be more rewarding.
They gave the UN plenty of time to verify it last time. Hans Blix was run off his damn feet inspecting Iraq, and he kept coming back saying there wasn't anything there every damn time. The US, in spite of his non-findings, chose to invent evidence where there was none to justify an attack. It was like a news station with an on-the-spot reporter telling us that it was sunny, summer day, and the anchor man correcting him by saying 'Actually, we have some anecdotal evidence that it's actually snowing there right now, so we're going to go with that.'
We've got a plasma cutter at work purchased exclusively for this purpose.
So you'd do the same for the artists as Henry Winkler's character in Night shift did for the call-girls?
Blue No. 1 is called "brilliant blue" and, as is typical of modern dyes, was originally derived from coal tar, although most manufacturers now make it from an oil base. Blue No. 2, or "indigotine," on the other hand, is a synthetic version of the plant-based indigo that has a long history as a textile dye. Indigo, which comes from the indigo plant (Indigofera), has been used for probably at least 4,000 years. There is a written recipe for dying wool with indigo on a Babylonian cuneiform tablet dated to the seventh century B.C. There is evidence that it was used in neolithic Europe and in pharaonic Egypt. It also comes from the woad plant (Isatis tinctoria), and was used by the Celts in Scotland to dye their faces.
Probably the best game EA ever made. It was really quite sad that they didn't know what to do with it once it was done. It needed better marketing, more support, and a few bug fixes, but it had a fantastic community and game-play that they haven't matched since. You could really tell that they had no clue how to support an MMO. ( and I'm not sure that's changed)
"But how many games does the low end actually buy?" Are you counting World of Warcraft? IMO, the lower barrier of entry is at least half the reason WOW outsold and continues to outsell its competitors. Even Maple Story has millions of users, and I'm guessing that has plenty to do with the fact it can be played on essentially anything (free doesn't hurt either).
It doesn't matter how complicated we make the systems now, we have computers.
The point of MMO's isn't skillful play. MMO's are more like Snakes and Ladders, keep rolling the dice until you get to the top. And yet, Snakes and Ladders is still a successful game, you can still go out to a Toys R Us or Walmart and purchase it. The real draw of Snakes and Ladders, (like MMO's) is that everyone can win, and it's something you play socially.
... for an actual start menu?