A character with a teleport to a safe spot solves that problem, though I suspect that the issue isn't really the "quick save". Depending on the game many sorts of magic users have that. WOW provides it to everyone at level 1.
Personally, I like a high quality permanent defense mode like invisibility or a "tree form". It is also a "quick save", but perhaps better described as a "pause" button. You do have to deal with where you froze if you don't get back before your friends leave.
Every class has its advantages to the player, whether it is the ability to take a bio-break or to respond to a parental summons. You choose what works for you.
I was pretty satisfied by Gimp, but if there is something missing you feel you really need it would probably be easier to get it added to GIMP than added to Photoshop. Even starting from scratch now to learn how to code would be easier than motivating corporate policy, but a donation as big as a license fee in the right place might do the job.
My biggest complaint though, is the extra click to gain focus in a window on a Mac. If I forget about it, I think a control has been activated when it isn't and cause myself momentary confusion. Maybe, someday, I will look more closely at whether that is fixable, or just inevitable with X11.
Many years ago, I "sold" an application, with source code, that was less that 20 lines of assembler. Strictly speaking I got an extended warranty on a product my company had purchased, because I had written it to diagnose the problem with our purchase. When I asked my boss whether I could give it to the support guy, he asked me to get something for it. It was easy to negotiate extended support from the guy it had helped.
I was very proud of that hack, and agreeable to "selling" it, but my real motive was to show it off.
The whole copyright law situation as it stands irritates me because it seems to interfere with creation rather than serving the supposed intent of encouraging it. Laws need to be consistently enforceable to be meaningful, and detecting violations that invisibly use parts and pieces doesn't seem to be. A "whole" work in some sense, like a short story in an anthology or my little hack is relatively trackable. I can't propose an exact rewrite of the law, but there seems to be something wrong with it.
I love these topics, because it shows how differently people view things. My take is that it is a policy issue for the game operators, and if I don't like it I will move on.
People's differences are just what drives the market for the farmers. My friend may not want to grind, but wants to keep up, while I might find the grind relaxing. He can buy gold, and I can tease him about it.
I sure would like to see some games with different economic models. Is a pure communist game even possible? How might iit work?
I wonder how long it will take before the third world cheap labor comes into this market? It sounds more profitable than killing orcs. Maybe the required Engish skiills would be too tough though.
This kind of experiment is rather famous for being hard to get the calculations right. There is a pretty good chance this whole story will just quietly evaporate as an error is found.
No conspiracy, just nobody wanting to publicize the embarrassing conclusion.
I suspect they just couldn't debug the thing, and want us to do that for them free so they can publish a new version.
I've had that problem -- a version that kept crashing in soak with three critical releases dependent on that base. It took 18 months to identify an unchecked semaphore.
Their new release is great if you like the name Bubba.
One problem with politics is that there needs to be some return for competent people who work in the field. Otherwise it gets dominated by thieves and obsessives. Right now the thieves are winning.
The big challenge is finding a way to offer a decent lifestyle to an honest, sane politician.
The book seems to be complaining about one system for doing that.
One of the thing I like about WOW was that a new char makes money at about the rate they can spend it well. When I twinked an alt it didn't help all that much.
I have never felt the need to buy cash, though I wouldn't complain about someone who did. I thought I would to buy a mount, but reduced spending, more ah time, and a loan for a few days kept me from having to wait or buy cash.
To my mind, that is a key design feature they got right. I have played other games where some one factor became an issue that drained the fun.
YMMV I know some classes are more of cash hogs than what I picked.
Phones use different modulation schemes. Spread spectrum like CDMA is hard to even detect, much less cause interferance. GSM is time division multiplex, and a narrow band carrier is switched on and off. That switching can cause some devices to respond, usually badly.
"Back when... all it took to get an internship was... And your father knowing a guy in HR"
LOL a little nepotism is a wonderful thing. Two of my kids benefited. That may be why the system seems to have been tightened up. We had trouble here getting qualified applicants from HR and I can't believe they didn' exist.
I suggest showing up in person at the HR office of likely companies to ask what they have. Biut I bet dad could help more than that.
I wonder how big the core object is. It wasn't seen until it passed Earth orbit, and started to cook out gas.
That feels like noticing that stones are being thrown at you when they hit the water. I would sure feel better if we invested a bit more in watching and preparations to do something if targeted.
"There has never been a release by Sony Online Entertainment that has been incomplete."
What a crock! I was in the beta, and nobody I knew there thought they were within weeks of ready. It literally didn't come up at all the first day, and none of the advanced professions were playable.
There was a serious disconnect somewhere in that organization that continues in Smedley's statement.
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A character with a teleport to a safe spot solves that problem, though I suspect that the issue isn't really the "quick save". Depending on the game many sorts of magic users have that. WOW provides it to everyone at level 1.
Personally, I like a high quality permanent defense mode like invisibility or a "tree form". It is also a "quick save", but perhaps better described as a "pause" button. You do have to deal with where you froze if you don't get back before your friends leave.
Every class has its advantages to the player, whether it is the ability to take a bio-break or to respond to a parental summons. You choose what works for you.
I was pretty satisfied by Gimp, but if there is something missing you feel you really need it would probably be easier to get it added to GIMP than added to Photoshop. Even starting from scratch now to learn how to code would be easier than motivating corporate policy, but a donation as big as a license fee in the right place might do the job.
My biggest complaint though, is the extra click to gain focus in a window on a Mac. If I forget about it, I think a control has been activated when it isn't and cause myself momentary confusion. Maybe, someday, I will look more closely at whether that is fixable, or just inevitable with X11.
Many years ago, I "sold" an application, with source code, that was less that 20 lines of assembler. Strictly speaking I got an extended warranty on a product my company had purchased, because I had written it to diagnose the problem with our purchase. When I asked my boss whether I could give it to the support guy, he asked me to get something for it. It was easy to negotiate extended support from the guy it had helped.
I was very proud of that hack, and agreeable to "selling" it, but my real motive was to show it off.
The whole copyright law situation as it stands irritates me because it seems to interfere with creation rather than serving the supposed intent of encouraging it. Laws need to be consistently enforceable to be meaningful, and detecting violations that invisibly use parts and pieces doesn't seem to be. A "whole" work in some sense, like a short story in an anthology or my little hack is relatively trackable. I can't propose an exact rewrite of the law, but there seems to be something wrong with it.
SMS uses the, rather limited bandwidth, control channel for transport. That puts a lot of pressure on the kinds of applications that can be supported.
Look at the price per megabit for messages outside a package to get an idea of the cost (k$).
Not the same at all!
But some cell carriers are far from neutral on IP as well. I'm not sure they are clear on how that affects their market share.
I love these topics, because it shows how differently people view things. My take is that it is a policy issue for the game operators, and if I don't like it I will move on.
People's differences are just what drives the market for the farmers. My friend may not want to grind, but wants to keep up, while I might find the grind relaxing. He can buy gold, and I can tease him about it.
I sure would like to see some games with different economic models. Is a pure communist game even possible? How might iit work?
I wonder how long it will take before the third world cheap labor comes into this market? It sounds more profitable than killing orcs. Maybe the required Engish skiills would be too tough though.
This kind of experiment is rather famous for being hard to get the calculations right. There is a pretty good chance this whole story will just quietly evaporate as an error is found.
No conspiracy, just nobody wanting to publicize the embarrassing conclusion.
I suspect they just couldn't debug the thing, and want us to do that for them free so they can publish a new version.
I've had that problem -- a version that kept crashing in soak with three critical releases dependent on that base. It took 18 months to identify an unchecked semaphore.
Their new release is great if you like the name Bubba.
These will be great for automated decision making systems used by regulatory agencies.
True transparency in government !
That information should never have been released! The negative press will impact sales. It would have been better to pretend the bug never existed.
Oh, it isn't corporate product, nevermind.
"Then have the excess heat boil some water which is in turn run through a turbine to generate even more electricity. Win win win."
Nope, doesn't work. If the energy isn't reflected it turns into heat in the end. Take thermodynamics for more detail.
One problem with politics is that there needs to be some return for competent people who work in the field. Otherwise it gets dominated by thieves and obsessives. Right now the thieves are winning.
The big challenge is finding a way to offer a decent lifestyle to an honest, sane politician.
The book seems to be complaining about one system for doing that.
" Cover the polar ice caps with solar cells, ... to stop the ice caps from melting."
Nope, the cells would absorb more heat from the sun than the nice white ice. The temp would go up.
One of the thing I like about WOW was that a new char makes money at about the rate they can spend it well. When I twinked an alt it didn't help all that much.
I have never felt the need to buy cash, though I wouldn't complain about someone who did. I thought I would to buy a mount, but reduced spending, more ah time, and a loan for a few days kept me from having to wait or buy cash.
To my mind, that is a key design feature they got right. I have played other games where some one factor became an issue that drained the fun.
YMMV I know some classes are more of cash hogs than what I picked.
Phones use different modulation schemes. Spread spectrum like CDMA is hard to even detect, much less cause interferance. GSM is time division multiplex, and a narrow band carrier is switched on and off. That switching can cause some devices to respond, usually badly.
"Back when ... all it took to get an internship was ... And your father knowing a guy in HR"
LOL a little nepotism is a wonderful thing. Two of my kids benefited. That may be why the system seems to have been tightened up. We had trouble here getting qualified applicants from HR and I can't believe they didn' exist.
I suggest showing up in person at the HR office of likely companies to ask what they have. Biut I bet dad could help more than that.
I wonder how big the core object is. It wasn't seen until it passed Earth orbit, and started to cook out gas.
That feels like noticing that stones are being thrown at you when they hit the water. I would sure feel better if we invested a bit more in watching and preparations to do something if targeted.
"There has never been a release by Sony Online Entertainment that has been incomplete."
What a crock! I was in the beta, and nobody I knew there thought they were within weeks of ready. It literally didn't come up at all the first day, and none of the advanced professions were playable.
There was a serious disconnect somewhere in that organization that continues in Smedley's statement.
The game got pretty obvious to me when comparing the fill_out_a_card guys with the instant win coupons on fast food etc..
It's a shame it isn't as easy to have a physical junk mail address as email.
I expect that Apple will put some hard_to_duplicate features in hardware to preserve their market and margin. That's what they have done before.
That could make it nasty to port osx to non-Apple platforms without severely crippling the result.
One good place for this would be a DRM/encryption chip.
Not just those! A lot about trading on the auction house and on the street like:
Buy low,sell high.
You'll sell more units at lower prices, but you might make more in total at higher ones.
Etc.
And the more subtle ones that take experience.
Not really bluetooth. no indication that it can talk to anything other than its own adapter.