The problem is that they came down at 9pm local time for me. You didn't even try to get on for the first, what, 10 hours?
Perhaps you should try a lower population server? Or a server on your continent
I have been spawning characters on server after server and they've all had their problems. Proudmoore has my first and highest level character, therefore if I want to experience new content that's the one I want to use. I'm happy you found a server that works. Tell us all which one it is so we can all move there.
existing players now have the option to transfer to a low-pop server
Pig's arse! ONE token server has the ability to transfer characters off it to a single other pre-determined server. A dozen other servers are schedulled, none of which are the one my main characters (and guild) are trapped on.
Your point about the graph being for www.worldofwarcraft.com is valid. The rest of your post, not so much.
As I type this, servers were taken down for a patch install about 40 hours ago. I'm told some came back up 5-8 hours after going down only to have major disconnection issues for a huge proportion of the population. Some servers were not brought up while attempts were made to fix the problem. It was roughly 17 hours after the initial take-down that I was finally about to log onto Proudmoore. I personally had limited opportunity to do anything at that time. Some further 4-5 hours after that (almost at the 24 hours mark) Proudmoore went down hard again. I was past the "realm not found" point, but I hadn't acutally loaded the world. I had a social event for the next few hours, but it did seem to be back up at about the 26 hour mark. This was getting late local time so I went to bed. This morning (34-36 hour mark) I again had problems getting on, with large delays at the "Authenticating" point of login. This can mean that the realm is up but the login server is down. As far as I know it's been up for the last few hours.
The latest patch seems to have caused major technical problems for some users. In addition, login server problems have amplified problems with disconnects and crashes -- meaning that if the game locks up on you, you might not be able to log back in for a couple of hours. That said, my SLI rig appears to be more stable, not less.
Between personal committments and downtime I think I've spent about 4 hours in game in the last 48.
So, if I read this correctly, 1 in 3 people have clicked on a spam link, in the entire history of spam. Well, I'd have to say if the question were approriately rigged, I'd have to admit that back in 98 when I was wanting some fonts for my Geocities work I did follow the link from some spam advertising "scifi fonts". Turns out they'd stolen them from a bunch of stuff, including the recently released Magic: the Gathering game. I reported it to Wizards of the Coast.
So, given the thousands (tens of thousands?) of spam I've recieved, I've clicked on the link from one. Suddenly 1 in 10,000 doesn't look as good as 1 in 3.
Of course, the real way that spam is funded is through scams (which only need a minute click-through rate) and by convincing one company after another that the click-through rate isn't minute. The recipients aren't the only ones being scammed.
I bought DVD Region X with my PS2. If it hadn't been for that product I wouldn't haven bought a PS2 or any of the thousands of dollars worth of DVDs in my collection, many of which aren't available locally.
But I am looking to replace Flickr. I liked it so much I bought a Pro account at the beginning of the year. Now I hear that it's been bought by Yahoo. So I'm in the market for a new place to host my photos.
Hmm, it looks like Buzznet resizes all images to 400 pixels wide. Is there any way to make larger images available?
Don't strip the CDs out of the case...
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...or you only have to find somewhere else for the case. I pile CD towers on top of furniture, and I burn data backups to DL-DVD. For a while I had a source for normal-sized CD cases that could store 4 discs, but it dried up. Still got a bunch though.
I don't have the details on the "Starter" edition, but I'll bet it's just a crippled version of the normal edition. What I'd actually like is a small, light, fast, minimalist version of Windows XP. That would actually add value. I don't need: IE, Media Player, Zip Folders, personalised menus, a movie maker, a half-arsed disk defragger, any of the accessibility stuff, MSN Messenger, any of the bundled games, Fax services, the Indexing service, IIS, Outlook Express and who knows how much other junk that's running that I don't know about. What I need is a PC that starts quickly, runs smoothly and doesn't require me to upgrade the hardware just because the OS consumes all available resources even before I've loaded my first app.
I really loved the 95 Plus pack concept. Why can't all the bloat be moved to a Plus pack?
Our society is seriously screwed if these cars are going to be destroyed just to avoid potential liability issues. Is it really the case that no one can safely purchase these cars with their eyes open? What an awful waste of resources. Hang your head in shame, western world.
Let's see. It's by far the cheapest Series 60 mobile phone, has a great layout for games (except that the screen is portrait and all the games makers are too stupid to release games that suit the orientation) and they did respond to customers with the first revision, removing the side-talking all the sheep mocked and making the MMC slot more accessible.
The actual problem is that the range of games suck and the marketing sucks worse. The device itself is brilliant.
Given that you have Wal-Mart, I'm guessing you don't have Dick Smith Electronics. Have you got a Radio Shack or Tandy near you? I had no problem walking in to a DSE and buying a 128MB MMC card for my N-Gage.
It's so much nicer hosting your photography on a big powerful website. No worries about how popular your work is, other than how how fast you can fill your monthly quota. I've had great luck hosting with Flickr (one Gig upload per month for paying accounts, no storage maximum). And people browsing my collection don't affect my on-line gaming.
Please don't refer to "us" as "consumers". We're people, plain and simple. Some of "us" evencreatestuffwithout the luxury of being part of a huge corporation. Please go buy Make magazine, or visit a library or something.
Were I running a company, any individual could show me what they liked, but without any form of official-looking ID (think Police badge) they would not be allowed past reception as I would assume it to be false.
It's fairly unbelievable that private individuals can gain access to other people's property when a judge has heard only one side of the story. Served with papers to appear in court, sure, but search and seizure? That's a bit of a worry.
To be perfectly honest, do you really think that the average consumer has the ability or the desire to decide what is "best" for themselves?
This question is irrelivant. People should be allowed to make their own decisions, no matter how poor. If you're concerned that decisions are bad, you invest in education rather than making decisions for people.
The HVSC is a 40-50MB (compressed) collection of a huge number of small files. They provide the current version in zip and rar format, with a set of incremental upgrades as zips. I would start by looking at their model.
Though personally, I prefer 7-zip and Stuffit (can't wait for the new version).
WTF? "Game the system"? If you play D&D you realize that "gaming the system" gets you in Shitsville with the game referee (the much maligned "Dungeon Master"). So if anything, D&D players are LESS inclined to "game the system".
Sorry, that doesn't follow. D&D players, or in my case Magic: the Gathering (and other CCGs) players, gain a better understanding of operational relationships are are able to "game the system", or play within the rules to get what you want.
Such people are less desirable in an inflexible military system and more valuable in specialised operations.
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There are no servers in Australia.
As I type this, servers were taken down for a patch install about 40 hours ago. I'm told some came back up 5-8 hours after going down only to have major disconnection issues for a huge proportion of the population. Some servers were not brought up while attempts were made to fix the problem. It was roughly 17 hours after the initial take-down that I was finally about to log onto Proudmoore. I personally had limited opportunity to do anything at that time. Some further 4-5 hours after that (almost at the 24 hours mark) Proudmoore went down hard again. I was past the "realm not found" point, but I hadn't acutally loaded the world. I had a social event for the next few hours, but it did seem to be back up at about the 26 hour mark. This was getting late local time so I went to bed. This morning (34-36 hour mark) I again had problems getting on, with large delays at the "Authenticating" point of login. This can mean that the realm is up but the login server is down. As far as I know it's been up for the last few hours.
The latest patch seems to have caused major technical problems for some users. In addition, login server problems have amplified problems with disconnects and crashes -- meaning that if the game locks up on you, you might not be able to log back in for a couple of hours. That said, my SLI rig appears to be more stable, not less.
Between personal committments and downtime I think I've spent about 4 hours in game in the last 48.
So, given the thousands (tens of thousands?) of spam I've recieved, I've clicked on the link from one. Suddenly 1 in 10,000 doesn't look as good as 1 in 3.
Of course, the real way that spam is funded is through scams (which only need a minute click-through rate) and by convincing one company after another that the click-through rate isn't minute. The recipients aren't the only ones being scammed.
I bought DVD Region X with my PS2. If it hadn't been for that product I wouldn't haven bought a PS2 or any of the thousands of dollars worth of DVDs in my collection, many of which aren't available locally.
I guess I might be annoyed at the severe lack of big name titles for my N-Gage if;
- I actually liked most of the big name titles out there for other systems.
- It wasn't the cheapest way to get a well-specced Series 60 mobile phone.
- I hadn't bought it for the C64 and Gameboy emulators.
Really, this N-Gage bashing is just getting embarasing. If you really didn't like it, you wouldn't bother posting all this anti-N-Gage stuff.But I am looking to replace Flickr. I liked it so much I bought a Pro account at the beginning of the year. Now I hear that it's been bought by Yahoo. So I'm in the market for a new place to host my photos.
Excellent. I wonder if Ourmedia or Wikimedia Commons will be a suitable replacement for Flickr.
Hmm, it looks like Buzznet resizes all images to 400 pixels wide. Is there any way to make larger images available?
...or you only have to find somewhere else for the case. I pile CD towers on top of furniture, and I burn data backups to DL-DVD. For a while I had a source for normal-sized CD cases that could store 4 discs, but it dried up. Still got a bunch though.
Does anyone know of another photo hosting site with similar capacity (infinte storage, decent monthly upload) to Flickr?
I really loved the 95 Plus pack concept. Why can't all the bloat be moved to a Plus pack?
And all this time I've been buying DVDs from the ABC shop like a moron. Oo, reminds me, I should check when Opal Fever is being released...
Our society is seriously screwed if these cars are going to be destroyed just to avoid potential liability issues. Is it really the case that no one can safely purchase these cars with their eyes open? What an awful waste of resources. Hang your head in shame, western world.
I think it's a licensing issue rather than a tech one.
The actual problem is that the range of games suck and the marketing sucks worse. The device itself is brilliant.
Given that you have Wal-Mart, I'm guessing you don't have Dick Smith Electronics. Have you got a Radio Shack or Tandy near you? I had no problem walking in to a DSE and buying a 128MB MMC card for my N-Gage.
Thankfully I can't see most monitor flicker, but early 100Hz TVs looked crap.
It's so much nicer hosting your photography on a big powerful website. No worries about how popular your work is, other than how how fast you can fill your monthly quota. I've had great luck hosting with Flickr (one Gig upload per month for paying accounts, no storage maximum). And people browsing my collection don't affect my on-line gaming.
Please don't refer to "us" as "consumers". We're people, plain and simple. Some of "us" even create stuff without the luxury of being part of a huge corporation. Please go buy Make magazine, or visit a library or something.
It's fairly unbelievable that private individuals can gain access to other people's property when a judge has heard only one side of the story. Served with papers to appear in court, sure, but search and seizure? That's a bit of a worry.
The new version of Stuffit looks like it will rock. That 25-30% JPEG compression, plus a generally competitive algorithm shows great potential.
Though personally, I prefer 7-zip and Stuffit (can't wait for the new version).
Such people are less desirable in an inflexible military system and more valuable in specialised operations.