Maybe Blizzard should just re-think item classification.
Today we have 5 item classes, 2 of which are useless: - grey, useless - white, useless - green, used while leveling, or if you just dinged 80 last week. - blue, most people who do not raid/hero have some of this. considered as 'basic' items - purple, everything from entry-level-80 gear (reputation items, heroic instances) to the most hardcore-level gear you can find in raids - orange, for some special vhl items only owned by a handful of people
A lot of people complain about how everybody has epic (purple gear). why not lower the classification of low-end purple and make it blue, while keeping the same stats? Similarly some blue items could become green.
If necessary, they could even make a new class between blue and purple, or between purple and orange. A character with gear from ulduar-25 hard mode would be differenciable instantly from a character with naxx-25 gear, who would be differenciable from a character with 5-man heroics / reputation gear without having to actually know each item or even look at the ilvl.
Or you just load the VM fullscreen at startup. The boss is happy because he has the newest PC in the office AND everything is exactly as it was before, and you're happy because you didn't do any real work. win-win situation.
Shroedinger's point with the cat experiment was to explain how stupid it would be to take the quantum model for something that could work at human scale.
Too bad people took it seriously, as if the quantum model was more than what it is: a model.
I tried Sonic Rush Adventure on the DS. Took me 10 minutes of dialogs and stupid stuff before I could play a platforms level.
I never touched that game again. I usually play on my DS for short sessions, and if I want to play a sonic game I want a fast platform game. I don't care about a storyline that's as dumb as the worst teletubbies episodes.
If youtube can't start playing a hd video without buffering first, They won't be able to live stream a game with an acceptable resolution. We're talking instant video-compression and streaming to multiple users without visible lag. The technology allowing this just isn't available anywhere right now.
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Because Rowling's characters act to move the plot to the point where she wants it to be, and not for their own motivations?
Making a character actions depend on what he wants and not what a author want is what make a story believable. Making what a character wants be what the author wants for him is the first step for writing a great story.
I work as a web developper, and I had a project based on a cms (joomla). the project had a very little budget and made use of several publicly available extensions that ran unmodified. The client asked for a last minute change, putting in the top of the page a form submit button that was in the bottom, and my boss told him we would do it, as it seemed trivial. We looked at the code for this particular extension, and it was the worst code I had ever read. It had no understandable structure, and modifying this particular extension to display the submit button before the other fields. modifying the css to display the button on top broke several other pages of the site, so I did the only thing that i could to move this button in less than 5 minutes: a little javascript that took the html of the button after the page loaded and put it where the client wanted it to be.
One of my favorites techniques for creating a password is using a common word (or a short sentence), but typing the key to the right of each letter ('i' instead of 'u', 'o' instead of 'i', etc... )
I really don't know my passwords, but my hands know how to type it.
that is, until I had to type one on a qwerty keyboard (I usually use azerty) and had to "translate" the password. That's when I realised qwerty doesn't have a key for 'Ã'
I hate this feature, it has nothing to do on/./. is a site for nerds, and wow is way too mainstream to be define as a game for nerds. This kind of features can only attract pseudo-geeks who will whine about very non-game stories.
That, and my server is not in the list (Sinstralis - EU).
can suck energy or â"or suck out your powers or somethingâ¦something to do with suckingâ¦and when he overdoes it, he turns into this giant green olâ(TM) Jurassic Park thingâ¦like a dinosaurâ¦a vampire dinosaurâ¦vampire or dinosaur would have been enough, but this guy is bothâ¦which reallyâ¦is just showing off
Spiderman, The New Avengers.
Now, what about a beowulf cluster of ninja-vampire-robot-dinosaur-pirates?
Using a CMS never stopped anyone from writing HTML. In a production environnement, you can't just use the CMS default template or download one from some website. You must design your own template, unique for each website you develop. It usually starts with a client who want something between impossible and just plain stupid (My site must be round. There a too many rectangle sites out there already), followed by a salesman who want his 3% (no problem sir, everything in your site will be round), then a designer who makes a.psd without thinking or knowing about what can or can't be done with html (I think this round site would look better with a lot of shadows and fake-3d effects), and then a developper spends hours to write HTML/CSS that will make the site look like what the client asked for, only to be told "it does not look very good on my internet explorer 4.0".
In several european countries, movies are usually released on wednesday. Here in France Wolverine will be released on april 29th as well.
Worldwide releases means US gets the movie 2 days after the rest of the world.
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The core is not the problem, but you can't make a decent site without add-ons.
I work a lot with Joomla, not by choice (I would always choose Drupal or EZpublish over Joomla).
Joomla lacks some essential features such as linking a file to a content, adding a new field to a content type, managing several content types, managing access levels, user groups, etc...
This is why i always write the add-ons i need myself. I made some kind of framework (outside joomla's, because joomla framework is a piece of shit), with a simple yet solid structure, that I can use to easily do 95% of what I'll ever need, and I extend it whenever I need to. My last Joomla sites use core joomla features only for users management and authentication, and my own add-on for everything else. The client is happy because it is Joomla (and his 12 yo nephew told him joomla is good so it must be true, no matter what a 10 years web developper can say), and i'm happy because i don't really have to deal with the crappy shit joomla is.
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already in-game: http://www.wowwiki.com/Argent_Pony_Bridle
Maybe Blizzard should just re-think item classification.
Today we have 5 item classes, 2 of which are useless:
- grey, useless
- white, useless
- green, used while leveling, or if you just dinged 80 last week.
- blue, most people who do not raid/hero have some of this. considered as 'basic' items
- purple, everything from entry-level-80 gear (reputation items, heroic instances) to the most hardcore-level gear you can find in raids
- orange, for some special vhl items only owned by a handful of people
A lot of people complain about how everybody has epic (purple gear). why not lower the classification of low-end purple and make it blue, while keeping the same stats? Similarly some blue items could become green.
If necessary, they could even make a new class between blue and purple, or between purple and orange. A character with gear from ulduar-25 hard mode would be differenciable instantly from a character with naxx-25 gear, who would be differenciable from a character with 5-man heroics / reputation gear without having to actually know each item or even look at the ilvl.
Outside pvp is fun in a pvp-only oriented game.
Wow is and has always been a pve-oriented game, with some pvp thrown in for people who really want it.
That's a legend.
http://www.cdc.gov/RABIES/qanda/general.html#a3
Or you just load the VM fullscreen at startup.
The boss is happy because he has the newest PC in the office AND everything is exactly as it was before, and you're happy because you didn't do any real work. win-win situation.
Shroedinger's point with the cat experiment was to explain how stupid it would be to take the quantum model for something that could work at human scale.
Too bad people took it seriously, as if the quantum model was more than what it is: a model.
I tried Sonic Rush Adventure on the DS. Took me 10 minutes of dialogs and stupid stuff before I could play a platforms level.
I never touched that game again. I usually play on my DS for short sessions, and if I want to play a sonic game I want a fast platform game. I don't care about a storyline that's as dumb as the worst teletubbies episodes.
Won't work. Can't work.
If youtube can't start playing a hd video without buffering first, They won't be able to live stream a game with an acceptable resolution. We're talking instant video-compression and streaming to multiple users without visible lag. The technology allowing this just isn't available anywhere right now.
Because Rowling's characters act to move the plot to the point where she wants it to be, and not for their own motivations?
Making a character actions depend on what he wants and not what a author want is what make a story believable.
Making what a character wants be what the author wants for him is the first step for writing a great story.
That's a fully operationnal petrified wood!
Wikitude, while not as advanced as layar, is available since october 2008 with similar features.
Now iphones will have the same crappy apps android phones have had for months. totally worth the front page.
I work as a web developper, and I had a project based on a cms (joomla). the project had a very little budget and made use of several publicly available extensions that ran unmodified.
The client asked for a last minute change, putting in the top of the page a form submit button that was in the bottom, and my boss told him we would do it, as it seemed trivial.
We looked at the code for this particular extension, and it was the worst code I had ever read. It had no understandable structure, and modifying this particular extension to display the submit button before the other fields.
modifying the css to display the button on top broke several other pages of the site, so I did the only thing that i could to move this button in less than 5 minutes: a little javascript that took the html of the button after the page loaded and put it where the client wanted it to be.
it hasn't?
Dude, you're freaking me out.
The iphone just isn't cool anymore.
I saw it with opera (mini or mobile? don't remember) on windows mobile.
One of my favorites techniques for creating a password is using a common word (or a short sentence), but typing the key to the right of each letter ('i' instead of 'u', 'o' instead of 'i', etc... )
I really don't know my passwords, but my hands know how to type it.
that is, until I had to type one on a qwerty keyboard (I usually use azerty) and had to "translate" the password. That's when I realised qwerty doesn't have a key for 'Ã'
Right now, without Flash, Youtube does not work, period, end of story.
Except on the iPhone :-)
And android phones.
I hate this feature, it has nothing to do on /. /. is a site for nerds, and wow is way too mainstream to be define as a game for nerds. This kind of features can only attract pseudo-geeks who will whine about very non-game stories.
That, and my server is not in the list (Sinstralis - EU).
can suck energy or â"or suck out your powers or somethingâ¦something to do with suckingâ¦and when he overdoes it, he turns into this giant green olâ(TM) Jurassic Park thingâ¦like a dinosaurâ¦a vampire dinosaurâ¦vampire or dinosaur would have been enough, but this guy is bothâ¦which reallyâ¦is just showing off
Spiderman, The New Avengers.
Now, what about a beowulf cluster of ninja-vampire-robot-dinosaur-pirates?
maker of the Pleo robotic dinosaur
the company that manufactured the Pleo baby robot dinosaur
They should have used the word "toy" somewhere, just to be sure it wasn't giant rocket-launching baby dinosaur robots.
Using a CMS never stopped anyone from writing HTML. .psd without thinking or knowing about what can or can't be done with html (I think this round site would look better with a lot of shadows and fake-3d effects), and then a developper spends hours to write HTML/CSS that will make the site look like what the client asked for, only to be told "it does not look very good on my internet explorer 4.0".
In a production environnement, you can't just use the CMS default template or download one from some website. You must design your own template, unique for each website you develop.
It usually starts with a client who want something between impossible and just plain stupid (My site must be round. There a too many rectangle sites out there already), followed by a salesman who want his 3% (no problem sir, everything in your site will be round), then a designer who makes a
Then the developper commits suicide.
In several european countries, movies are usually released on wednesday. Here in France Wolverine will be released on april 29th as well.
Worldwide releases means US gets the movie 2 days after the rest of the world.
The core is not the problem, but you can't make a decent site without add-ons.
I work a lot with Joomla, not by choice (I would always choose Drupal or EZpublish over Joomla).
Joomla lacks some essential features such as linking a file to a content, adding a new field to a content type, managing several content types, managing access levels, user groups, etc...
This is why i always write the add-ons i need myself. I made some kind of framework (outside joomla's, because joomla framework is a piece of shit), with a simple yet solid structure, that I can use to easily do 95% of what I'll ever need, and I extend it whenever I need to.
My last Joomla sites use core joomla features only for users management and authentication, and my own add-on for everything else. The client is happy because it is Joomla (and his 12 yo nephew told him joomla is good so it must be true, no matter what a 10 years web developper can say), and i'm happy because i don't really have to deal with the crappy shit joomla is.