Generalizations like this are *why* people don't get the competitive nature of PVP or challenge of PVE.
The different levels of spells are affected by gear in unique ways, and cast time also is affected. Sometimes, it is actually MORE damage to toss 2 low level versions, then follow with something else. That is where skill comes in - knowing the abilities well enough that *any* situation whether it is 1 v 1 or 1 v many is survivable. Do you spam top spells, or wait a few seconds knowing you can shut down your enemies top skills with counter moves.
While talents and gear will help refine that edge, a skilled player can always shutdown an unskilled player. How do I know? I raided (PVE) and attained the top gear in the game up until just before the expansion. I had one of the highest damage outputs of my group. I stepped into PVP with the PVE mentality (maximize damage, minimize threat), and was stomped repeatedly. I had the best spec you could hope for.
I just had zero PVP skill. I didn't spend time figuring it out - understanding the dynamics.
It isn't the ISP that is the problem. The Telco's dictate where the ISP can even begin to offer service.
Yes, there is a disparity between the ISP's upstream SLAs and contracts vs. the residential user. So what? The residential user is at risk with a multi-thousand-dollar-multi-year contract(s) with the telecom and bandwidth providers.
SLA's aren't even worth a crap usually. "Great, you'll give me a discount of x% for every hour or day your service is down. When 100% of my users pay 0% of their bill, how do I afford to pay x%?"
The ISP's usually have ZERO problem announcing where they provide service. It is the telecom that won't give details.
(ie the ones with the vested interest in causing problems with the industry of 3rd party bandwidth providers).
I've spent more than a decade running ISP services for residential customers. Both big metro and extremely rural areas.
These maps would be a *boon* to the ISP's who want customers, and are willing to invest for them. We had nothing but problems trying to figure out where we COULD find customers, because the rural telco was actually doing well running lines. But they were extremely poor with giving out that information. Heck, I would have taken the information just to know where they put their DSLAMS so I could target OTHER areas they weren't.
Bottom line, rural does not mean "more than 20 miles between humans" - there are areas that have the density to support expansion. The problem is, it is tough to justify.
THAT is the real reason you don't see it going rural. It is indeed a situation of "Hmm I can pay $10k to drop a DSLAM and equipment to service a potential of $20k a month, --OR-- I can drop that SAME equipment, in an area that will support $75k/mo".
The equipment is under-powered and will need to be upgraded, but in every case that situation is a potential I was told: "Well hell my boy, we would LOVE to have that problem"... and when they DID have that problem it took a while to actually fix it.. profits ruled the roost.
As far as I am concerned, compel them to publicly post the information. Without it, there will be nobody providing service in those areas. There is no reason the public has to suffer and wait until they are "ready" (ready in this context means: "we have exploited all of the higher margin areas, time to start scraping the sides & bottom of the barrel")
Great. Now think back since the XBOX 360 has come out, and give me that same list.
I know in the *past* there have been MANY exclusive releases. But this "next-generation" group has more crossovers than exclusives. Wii is somewhat unique, mainly due to the interface differences, but I still see stuff coming to it (not so many games leaving that platform however).
It just feels to me that the exclusivity has gone towards zero recently while in the past it was the norm. (sliding scale style). On *average* it is a nice distribution, but lately not so much. IMO...
There are *very few* games coming out now that aren't ported to all three systems + PC.
I wish they'd decide on one platform so I don't have to get pissed when I find out Guitar Hero comes out a few months later on the other platform with MORE content.
Either pick a platform and marry it, or just release it to ALL of them.
I was reading through the sea of comments, and kept thinking: "Man, what the hell, no Descent?!"
In an age where 2d FPS were the norm, Descent shook *everything* up. I remember the fun of having grasped 3d MUCH quicker than my friends. Whoever said that they didn't do multiplayer very well is mistaken. Descent's multiplayer was no better or worse than anything else at the time.
Joining games in progress (far superior experience than people give credit to), complex and well laid out 3d maps, and innovative gameplay all made it serious fun.
There was nothing sweeter than hearing from the other room: "Dammit, where the HELL were you?" followed by "Dude, look up when you enter a room, I shadowed you for 2 minutes".
To this day, I look up when I enter a room. Nobody is using my tactic on me!
Its funny, Before it was us Geeks being bullied. now the Geeks in school are bulling everyone else on the web.
What sweet irony. They did it to us way back "When", and now that we've figured it out, the bully's shills in school administration (or shall I say, OUR former bullies?) start to interfere? Coincidence?
Where's my tinfoil hat, I've left my underwear at home so I can wear it this time and not get a wedgie.
You would be the exception, because you knew enough about the two to determine that you *wanted* to be at Spacely. Why do you want to be at Spacely?
Most applicants these days just blast the resume at both, hope one of em sticks and that the pay/perks/title fall within the range they can tolerate.
My point was that most employers that are actually GOOD to employees, and who want to hire quality people, will find a way to hire you if they find you desirable. So what if Spacely has no open positions? They really think your $expertise knowledge is going to help them, and they can afford the costs involved. So they hire you. Contrary to current thinking, you can indeed run a business and afford to hire good employees.
I guess part of the problem is that employees are just emulating the lemming nature of employers these days: employees are just a resource, to be stocked according to precise usage. Instead of finding knowledge, ability, and personality, employers are trying to find low cost, enough to get by, sheeples to fill the position only AFTER weeks of justification by lower level managers showing they simply NEED to hire a new $position. With employers acting that way, it is no wonder employees are applying without regard to the company.
A buddy of mine applied to some ridiculous amount of places a day. So many that he didn't even know the names. Which by extension, he didn't know the *companies* he was going to spend 1/3 to 2/3 of his daily life with. When he finally did get a job, he was amazed when he found out the company was hiring back positions that left during their bankruptcy - and that the business was an "ongoing risk for failure within 30 days". Oh well - he's getting a check (for now) - thats all that matters right?
I must be getting old. What the hell happened to the times where you looked around, researched the company you wanted to work for, and you pursued employment there?
All I ever see anymore is how people don't have time to apply at all these companies with long processes. What the hell are you doing? Just throwing your resume into the air like war propaganda, hoping some shmoe will latch on to it and call the number?
Why don't people take the time to FIND an employer and focus efforts instead of just trying to find a spot that has the right features (pay, title, responsibilities, etc)? Could this be the reason that the IT industry is viewed as poor, downtrodden, and abused?
Take pride. If you have skills, and needed abilities, find the place you want to work and PURSUE it. Call them, meet with them, invade their cafeteria.
To the "hey man, we gotta get a job, billz to pay yanno" crowd: Learn to invest, save, and NOT spend beyond your means. When you find yourself needing a new job or wanting a new job, you will have the comfort of knowing you have enough tucked away to survive the 3-6 months of actual leg-work finding that job that you will stick with for a while. Instead of that 1 to 2 year stint at the carcass of a company you blasted with your 12-gauge resume shotgun.
-b
Slashdot Mirror
Absolutely wrong.
You don't just cast the maximum until dead.
Generalizations like this are *why* people don't get the competitive nature of PVP or challenge of PVE.
The different levels of spells are affected by gear in unique ways, and cast time also is affected. Sometimes, it is actually MORE damage to toss 2 low level versions, then follow with something else. That is where skill comes in - knowing the abilities well enough that *any* situation whether it is 1 v 1 or 1 v many is survivable. Do you spam top spells, or wait a few seconds knowing you can shut down your enemies top skills with counter moves.
While talents and gear will help refine that edge, a skilled player can always shutdown an unskilled player. How do I know? I raided (PVE) and attained the top gear in the game up until just before the expansion. I had one of the highest damage outputs of my group. I stepped into PVP with the PVE mentality (maximize damage, minimize threat), and was stomped repeatedly. I had the best spec you could hope for.
I just had zero PVP skill. I didn't spend time figuring it out - understanding the dynamics.
Spec + gear = shiny pixels, not instant kills.
-bs
s/ISP/Telco/g
It isn't the ISP that is the problem. The Telco's dictate where the ISP can even begin to offer service.
Yes, there is a disparity between the ISP's upstream SLAs and contracts vs. the residential user. So what? The residential user is at risk with a multi-thousand-dollar-multi-year contract(s) with the telecom and bandwidth providers.
SLA's aren't even worth a crap usually. "Great, you'll give me a discount of x% for every hour or day your service is down. When 100% of my users pay 0% of their bill, how do I afford to pay x%?"
The ISP's usually have ZERO problem announcing where they provide service. It is the telecom that won't give details.
(ie the ones with the vested interest in causing problems with the industry of 3rd party bandwidth providers).
-bs
Wow. Have a slice of bitter pie.
I've spent more than a decade running ISP services for residential customers. Both big metro and extremely rural areas.
These maps would be a *boon* to the ISP's who want customers, and are willing to invest for them. We had nothing but problems trying to figure out where we COULD find customers, because the rural telco was actually doing well running lines. But they were extremely poor with giving out that information. Heck, I would have taken the information just to know where they put their DSLAMS so I could target OTHER areas they weren't.
Bottom line, rural does not mean "more than 20 miles between humans" - there are areas that have the density to support expansion. The problem is, it is tough to justify.
THAT is the real reason you don't see it going rural. It is indeed a situation of "Hmm I can pay $10k to drop a DSLAM and equipment to service a potential of $20k a month, --OR-- I can drop that SAME equipment, in an area that will support $75k/mo".
The equipment is under-powered and will need to be upgraded, but in every case that situation is a potential I was told: "Well hell my boy, we would LOVE to have that problem"... and when they DID have that problem it took a while to actually fix it.. profits ruled the roost.
As far as I am concerned, compel them to publicly post the information. Without it, there will be nobody providing service in those areas. There is no reason the public has to suffer and wait until they are "ready" (ready in this context means: "we have exploited all of the higher margin areas, time to start scraping the sides & bottom of the barrel")
-bs
I am happy as hell that someone finally had enough of a *real* case to smack him back.
He filed so many crap cases, and got away with it, it is high time the tables are turned!
-bs
Great. Now think back since the XBOX 360 has come out, and give me that same list.
I know in the *past* there have been MANY exclusive releases. But this "next-generation" group has more crossovers than exclusives. Wii is somewhat unique, mainly due to the interface differences, but I still see stuff coming to it (not so many games leaving that platform however).
It just feels to me that the exclusivity has gone towards zero recently while in the past it was the norm. (sliding scale style). On *average* it is a nice distribution, but lately not so much. IMO...
I don't know how much more Universal it can get.
There are *very few* games coming out now that aren't ported to all three systems + PC.
I wish they'd decide on one platform so I don't have to get pissed when I find out Guitar Hero comes out a few months later on the other platform with MORE content.
Either pick a platform and marry it, or just release it to ALL of them.
Great, let's all rush out and patent a vague application related to the gene(s) in question. We'll be rich.
I'll call it our open source money maker.
C'mon, we can do it!
I have no problem with a centralized two-factor authentication card.
I have SERIOUS problems with the "use your SSN for everything" society we have now.
Give me a card that I have the ability to password/passcode protect, with a physical chip in it.
Oh, and make sure it requires a friggin warrant to get the "logs" of its use. Warrantless searches make me sad.
And may his noodly appendage brush you with sweet buttery goodness.
Or something.
47 times? what is that in american numbers? 2?
Those pictures look great.
Suddenly I am hungry for spaghetti.
mmmMmm Food.
Damn. Windows *is* evil. It is making me fat!
I was reading through the sea of comments, and kept thinking: "Man, what the hell, no Descent?!"
In an age where 2d FPS were the norm, Descent shook *everything* up. I remember the fun of having grasped 3d MUCH quicker than my friends. Whoever said that they didn't do multiplayer very well is mistaken. Descent's multiplayer was no better or worse than anything else at the time.
Joining games in progress (far superior experience than people give credit to), complex and well laid out 3d maps, and innovative gameplay all made it serious fun.
There was nothing sweeter than hearing from the other room: "Dammit, where the HELL were you?" followed by "Dude, look up when you enter a room, I shadowed you for 2 minutes".
To this day, I look up when I enter a room. Nobody is using my tactic on me!
Your age is irrelevant.
Your desire and drive determine whether you can be successful in a career.
If you are carefree and cavalier, don't expect others to take you seriously.
If you are dedicated and driven, and capable of actually learning/applying knowledge you'll be an asset.
What sweet irony. They did it to us way back "When", and now that we've figured it out, the bully's shills in school administration (or shall I say, OUR former bullies?) start to interfere? Coincidence?
Where's my tinfoil hat, I've left my underwear at home so I can wear it this time and not get a wedgie.
-b
You missed the point.
You would be the exception, because you knew enough about the two to determine that you *wanted* to be at Spacely. Why do you want to be at Spacely?
Most applicants these days just blast the resume at both, hope one of em sticks and that the pay/perks/title fall within the range they can tolerate.
My point was that most employers that are actually GOOD to employees, and who want to hire quality people, will find a way to hire you if they find you desirable. So what if Spacely has no open positions? They really think your $expertise knowledge is going to help them, and they can afford the costs involved. So they hire you. Contrary to current thinking, you can indeed run a business and afford to hire good employees.
I guess part of the problem is that employees are just emulating the lemming nature of employers these days: employees are just a resource, to be stocked according to precise usage. Instead of finding knowledge, ability, and personality, employers are trying to find low cost, enough to get by, sheeples to fill the position only AFTER weeks of justification by lower level managers showing they simply NEED to hire a new $position. With employers acting that way, it is no wonder employees are applying without regard to the company.
A buddy of mine applied to some ridiculous amount of places a day. So many that he didn't even know the names. Which by extension, he didn't know the *companies* he was going to spend 1/3 to 2/3 of his daily life with. When he finally did get a job, he was amazed when he found out the company was hiring back positions that left during their bankruptcy - and that the business was an "ongoing risk for failure within 30 days". Oh well - he's getting a check (for now) - thats all that matters right?
-b
I must be getting old. What the hell happened to the times where you looked around, researched the company you wanted to work for, and you pursued employment there? All I ever see anymore is how people don't have time to apply at all these companies with long processes. What the hell are you doing? Just throwing your resume into the air like war propaganda, hoping some shmoe will latch on to it and call the number? Why don't people take the time to FIND an employer and focus efforts instead of just trying to find a spot that has the right features (pay, title, responsibilities, etc)? Could this be the reason that the IT industry is viewed as poor, downtrodden, and abused? Take pride. If you have skills, and needed abilities, find the place you want to work and PURSUE it. Call them, meet with them, invade their cafeteria. To the "hey man, we gotta get a job, billz to pay yanno" crowd: Learn to invest, save, and NOT spend beyond your means. When you find yourself needing a new job or wanting a new job, you will have the comfort of knowing you have enough tucked away to survive the 3-6 months of actual leg-work finding that job that you will stick with for a while. Instead of that 1 to 2 year stint at the carcass of a company you blasted with your 12-gauge resume shotgun. -b
You fail at math.
If both disks are 50% full, and one is 2x the density, the heads only need to travel 25% of the disk.