But either way, the odds are a whole lot better than with Bush^H^H^H^HMcCain running the show.
On the one hand, you have a president who believes the presidency is above the law. On the other hand, you have a president who believes the presidency is above the law.
Forgive me if I don't believe your assessment that our chances will be better with one of those men, sir.
We will never hear of the story again, mark my words.
No... we will, but no one else will. They won't hear of it this time either, of course... but why go out of your way to actively try to silence what very few will hear anyway?
Expecting people to learn the dominant language is not bigotry, it's a reasonable expectation of a person putting in effort to work with society. I don't have anything against some random immigrant into the US. Good for him, I hope he does well for himself. If he chooses, however, to not attempt to learn English, which is the de facto national language, that's just plain rude.
If you want to let rude people who don't want to put forth the effort to work together with our society be accepted in our nation, that's your problem. I, for one, want people who actually give a damn, and try to become better citizens.
Looks like the market prefers games with less story/graphics focus and more gameplay...
That's not a correct conclusion from your data, imo. Considering how many of those games are either classic games (no one really did story in the NES/SNES days), or games in genres without story at all (Gran Turismo), we can't really draw conclusions about how the market feels about story. We'd need to look at comparisons between two games in the same genre, one with an excellent story, but mediocre gameplay, and one with excellent gameplay, but a mediocre story. Then we would know something.
Not to mention that comparing sales numbers for any of the games on that list is basically a pissing contest. They're all wildly successful games, the fact that one sold more than another doesn't mean much.
I disagree. Maybe I just cherry-pick quality games, but the games I play either will have quality story, or not will not be meant to have a story at all (e.g. Civ). There is trash out there, but I have never had trouble finding games where gameplay and story were good, while also having good graphics.
I mean I fixed your statement. The only thing that props up our retarded system is the people that vote in it. If they would stop (falsely) believing that a) voting for a third party is a waste, and b) either major candidate is so much worse than the other, we might see some real change in this country.
Until then (and it may never happen, people are really stupid), all we'll have is politicians falsely promising us change. Business as usual.
Seriously though, thanks to our ridiculous attitude towards elections, voting for a third party isn't throwing your vote away, it's actually more like voting for the guy you can't stand, because he's ultimately the one that will likely win when the vote splits between the other two.
Fixed. The myth that voting for a third party may as well be a vote for the major candidate you dislike is a lie, yet it continually gets propagated. If we could get people to stop fucking listening to it already, we might see people actually voting for who they want, instead of voting for "not that asshole".
Sorry for the rant, have just watched the movie...
Well, speak for yourself... I quite enjoyed the movie, and felt it was a good portrayal of Adams' universe. I've never really been sure why other HHGTTG fans seem to hate it so much.
do not destroy the legacy of this great author.
Nothing can destroy his legacy. He's dead, and his legacy is set in stone. All they could possibly destroy would be the legacy of the guy who did a bad job (if he does a bad job, I guess, but I consider it a fair bet).
the question will be can a city (or any business or Web property) stop people from posting a link to its site?
The answer is (or damn well better be) no. This is completely obvious. When you put something up on the Web without a form of access control (meaning logging in, not meaning "I only give out the address to certain people"), it's public every bit as much as if you put an ad in the newspaper. Linking to your site is no different than me saying, "Hey, check out this newspaper ad CmdrTaco put in, it's really cool!".
Even if that weren't the case (and it very much is), this is a government web site. They have no right to keep anyone out at all. I don't know what the city was thinking, but they have no ground to stand on here. Maybe they're hoping they'll get a really clueless or corrupt judge, I dunno.
BC added just as much. New skills, balance changes, new profession (and a very useful one I might add), significant new recipes for all other professions, TONS of new areas, flying mounts... the only thing LoD had that BC didn't was new classes. Oh, and new cutscenes, but then again, WoW didn't have them in the first place (I'm not counting the intro, I mean actual cutscenes that advance the plot), so that isn't exactly a fair comparison.
Saying that BC just put a new coat of paint on WoW, while LoD made D2 a whole new game, is absolutely ludicrous, considering that BC added every bit as much content as LoD did.
vowed never to touch WoW again because BC was the same game with some new sprites...
I prefer the Diablo model, free online play and new content via expansion packs.
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Cause D2: Lord of Destruction wasn't the same game with new sprites at all. No sir, completely new game. Good grief man, at least apply your criteria consistently!
The best part is, even though CoD 5 isn't out yet, they've already decided to hire Infinity Ward for CoD 6 (I'm guessing they realized that everyone hated Treyarch, when CoD 5 was 3/4 done). What the fuck are they smoking at Activision management, and can I have some of it?
Well... that is, strictly speaking, a reason, but I don't think we can really call it a "good" reason. What you said is pretty much the definition of a bullshit reason.
16 bits of hex falls within the range of what I'd consider a pain in the ass to memorize, but I am admittedly not a good memorizer.
Anyway, it sounds like your need to memorize a whole slew of addresses is due to the incompetence of your network administrators. I'd say that is the fundamental problem that needs to be addressed. No pun intended
Yes, that's accurate, but my point wasn't that IPv6 was the problem, merely that since we already have one big problem, IPv6 makes it worse.
But regardless of all else, we're running out of IPv4 addresses.
I agree with the person who said elsewhere that NAT solves this problem much more neatly than IPv6. How many routable addresses do you really need, even at the biggest companies? It surely can't be that many (1000, tops?), and for the rest, you can use the 10.0.0.0 block, and use NAT. I can't imagine that having 16 million addresses for your internal network wouldn't be sufficient.
I've never, ever had my/etc/hosts file stop working.
That isn't what I meant when I mentioned DNS not working. I meant DNS servers not working properly.
And honestly I can't think of a reason I'd need to get to a machine by IP address rather than hostname in the first place...
Dynamic DNS. You can wind up with two entries for one host, which makes trying to get to said host problematic. Thus, you might need an IP address. Our DDNS isn't working properly where I work, so it comes up about 15% of the time I try to remote in to a computer. I'd fix the DDNS, but I don't have that ability, so I have to get an IP address over the phone from my user, who really likes it (even if they don't know it) that they can give me a nice, manageable IPv4 address, rather than an unwieldy IPv6 address.
Correction: they're a tech on a tiny network where they're used to memorizing the DNS zones. At this very moment, I'm not sure I can tell you the IP of the webserver I work on most often - not because I never access it, but because I've been accessing it via DNS for the last five years and have never once in that time needed to connect via IP.
So you've never needed to troubleshoot a network problem. Good for you.
Your assumption that anyone who needs to know an IP address must be working with a tiny, memorizable DNS zone is completely false. Like I said, DNS is something that can break. For example, where I work, our dynamic DNS is broken, and the server team refuses to work on the problem (or delete bad entries...). So, when I want to work on one of my user's machines remotely, I sometimes need to find out from the user what their IP address is. Now, I don't know about you, but I'd much rather deal with repeating "192.168.1.87" over the phone than "fe80::e1c0:5620:bc95:3c71%9" (to use the previous example).
And what if you suspect the name servers are down, but want to be sure that they are, indeed, the problem? Boy, it would sure be nice to have a nice, easy IPv4 address memorized for testing, than a long, unwieldy IPv6 address.
Your lack of ability to imagine situations where knowing IP addresses is useful does not mean that they don't exist.
I see your unwieldly addressing and raise you a DNS.
Because DNS always works properly, and there is never, ever a reason to want to get to a machine by specifying its IP, rather than resolving a hostname. Oh wait...
Your average user doesn't worry about IP addresses now, they utilize DNS. If someone cares about how easy it is to work with an IP address, they're probably a techy who needs to do so for troubleshooting purposes, so giving a smart-ass "use DNS" response doesn't help them.
You're trying to be funny, but "CAD designs" isn't redundant. The two instances of the word "design" refer to different definitions of the word (design = plan, vs design = process of making a design), so they aren't redundant.
My Blizzard Downloader has always closed on me as soon as the patch is done, don't know why. Then again, I also quit using it and use Azureus with the torrent file, so I don't really care, either.
No, they said that they're happy with the XP curve from 60 to 70, and it will go live like it currently is in beta. The curve from 70 to 80 is basically finished as well, for that matter.
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But either way, the odds are a whole lot better than with Bush^H^H^H^HMcCain running the show.
On the one hand, you have a president who believes the presidency is above the law. On the other hand, you have a president who believes the presidency is above the law.
Forgive me if I don't believe your assessment that our chances will be better with one of those men, sir.
We will never hear of the story again, mark my words.
No... we will, but no one else will. They won't hear of it this time either, of course... but why go out of your way to actively try to silence what very few will hear anyway?
Both presidential candidates voted for the recent legislation that gave immunity to the telcoms.
Point of order: McCain did not vote on that bill. No doubt he would have voted yea if he had voted, but to say he voted for it is untrue.
Expecting people to learn the dominant language is not bigotry, it's a reasonable expectation of a person putting in effort to work with society. I don't have anything against some random immigrant into the US. Good for him, I hope he does well for himself. If he chooses, however, to not attempt to learn English, which is the de facto national language, that's just plain rude.
If you want to let rude people who don't want to put forth the effort to work together with our society be accepted in our nation, that's your problem. I, for one, want people who actually give a damn, and try to become better citizens.
Looks like the market prefers games with less story/graphics focus and more gameplay...
That's not a correct conclusion from your data, imo. Considering how many of those games are either classic games (no one really did story in the NES/SNES days), or games in genres without story at all (Gran Turismo), we can't really draw conclusions about how the market feels about story. We'd need to look at comparisons between two games in the same genre, one with an excellent story, but mediocre gameplay, and one with excellent gameplay, but a mediocre story. Then we would know something.
Not to mention that comparing sales numbers for any of the games on that list is basically a pissing contest. They're all wildly successful games, the fact that one sold more than another doesn't mean much.
I disagree. Maybe I just cherry-pick quality games, but the games I play either will have quality story, or not will not be meant to have a story at all (e.g. Civ). There is trash out there, but I have never had trouble finding games where gameplay and story were good, while also having good graphics.
I mean I fixed your statement. The only thing that props up our retarded system is the people that vote in it. If they would stop (falsely) believing that a) voting for a third party is a waste, and b) either major candidate is so much worse than the other, we might see some real change in this country.
Until then (and it may never happen, people are really stupid), all we'll have is politicians falsely promising us change. Business as usual.
Seriously though, thanks to our ridiculous attitude towards elections, voting for a third party isn't throwing your vote away, it's actually more like voting for the guy you can't stand, because he's ultimately the one that will likely win when the vote splits between the other two.
Fixed. The myth that voting for a third party may as well be a vote for the major candidate you dislike is a lie, yet it continually gets propagated. If we could get people to stop fucking listening to it already, we might see people actually voting for who they want, instead of voting for "not that asshole".
I'm a dreamer, I know.
Sorry for the rant, have just watched the movie...
Well, speak for yourself... I quite enjoyed the movie, and felt it was a good portrayal of Adams' universe. I've never really been sure why other HHGTTG fans seem to hate it so much.
do not destroy the legacy of this great author.
Nothing can destroy his legacy. He's dead, and his legacy is set in stone. All they could possibly destroy would be the legacy of the guy who did a bad job (if he does a bad job, I guess, but I consider it a fair bet).
the question will be can a city (or any business or Web property) stop people from posting a link to its site?
The answer is (or damn well better be) no. This is completely obvious. When you put something up on the Web without a form of access control (meaning logging in, not meaning "I only give out the address to certain people"), it's public every bit as much as if you put an ad in the newspaper. Linking to your site is no different than me saying, "Hey, check out this newspaper ad CmdrTaco put in, it's really cool!".
Even if that weren't the case (and it very much is), this is a government web site. They have no right to keep anyone out at all. I don't know what the city was thinking, but they have no ground to stand on here. Maybe they're hoping they'll get a really clueless or corrupt judge, I dunno.
BC added just as much. New skills, balance changes, new profession (and a very useful one I might add), significant new recipes for all other professions, TONS of new areas, flying mounts... the only thing LoD had that BC didn't was new classes. Oh, and new cutscenes, but then again, WoW didn't have them in the first place (I'm not counting the intro, I mean actual cutscenes that advance the plot), so that isn't exactly a fair comparison.
Saying that BC just put a new coat of paint on WoW, while LoD made D2 a whole new game, is absolutely ludicrous, considering that BC added every bit as much content as LoD did.
vowed never to touch WoW again because BC was the same game with some new sprites...
I prefer the Diablo model, free online play and new content via expansion packs.
...
Cause D2: Lord of Destruction wasn't the same game with new sprites at all. No sir, completely new game. Good grief man, at least apply your criteria consistently!
The best part is, even though CoD 5 isn't out yet, they've already decided to hire Infinity Ward for CoD 6 (I'm guessing they realized that everyone hated Treyarch, when CoD 5 was 3/4 done). What the fuck are they smoking at Activision management, and can I have some of it?
The GP was describing a cooperative relationship, though, in which case "mano a mano" wouldn't really make much sense.
Well... that is, strictly speaking, a reason, but I don't think we can really call it a "good" reason. What you said is pretty much the definition of a bullshit reason.
And, while we're at it, "hand to hand" probably isn't a great way to describe a partnership. Maybe "mano en mano"?
21f:d0ff:fe22:b8a8
16 bits of hex falls within the range of what I'd consider a pain in the ass to memorize, but I am admittedly not a good memorizer.
Anyway, it sounds like your need to memorize a whole slew of addresses is due to the incompetence of your network administrators. I'd say that is the fundamental problem that needs to be addressed. No pun intended
Yes, that's accurate, but my point wasn't that IPv6 was the problem, merely that since we already have one big problem, IPv6 makes it worse.
But regardless of all else, we're running out of IPv4 addresses.
I agree with the person who said elsewhere that NAT solves this problem much more neatly than IPv6. How many routable addresses do you really need, even at the biggest companies? It surely can't be that many (1000, tops?), and for the rest, you can use the 10.0.0.0 block, and use NAT. I can't imagine that having 16 million addresses for your internal network wouldn't be sufficient.
I've never, ever had my /etc/hosts file stop working.
That isn't what I meant when I mentioned DNS not working. I meant DNS servers not working properly.
And honestly I can't think of a reason I'd need to get to a machine by IP address rather than hostname in the first place...
Dynamic DNS. You can wind up with two entries for one host, which makes trying to get to said host problematic. Thus, you might need an IP address. Our DDNS isn't working properly where I work, so it comes up about 15% of the time I try to remote in to a computer. I'd fix the DDNS, but I don't have that ability, so I have to get an IP address over the phone from my user, who really likes it (even if they don't know it) that they can give me a nice, manageable IPv4 address, rather than an unwieldy IPv6 address.
Correction: they're a tech on a tiny network where they're used to memorizing the DNS zones. At this very moment, I'm not sure I can tell you the IP of the webserver I work on most often - not because I never access it, but because I've been accessing it via DNS for the last five years and have never once in that time needed to connect via IP.
So you've never needed to troubleshoot a network problem. Good for you.
Your assumption that anyone who needs to know an IP address must be working with a tiny, memorizable DNS zone is completely false. Like I said, DNS is something that can break. For example, where I work, our dynamic DNS is broken, and the server team refuses to work on the problem (or delete bad entries...). So, when I want to work on one of my user's machines remotely, I sometimes need to find out from the user what their IP address is. Now, I don't know about you, but I'd much rather deal with repeating "192.168.1.87" over the phone than "fe80::e1c0:5620:bc95:3c71%9" (to use the previous example).
And what if you suspect the name servers are down, but want to be sure that they are, indeed, the problem? Boy, it would sure be nice to have a nice, easy IPv4 address memorized for testing, than a long, unwieldy IPv6 address.
Your lack of ability to imagine situations where knowing IP addresses is useful does not mean that they don't exist.
I see your unwieldly addressing and raise you a DNS.
Because DNS always works properly, and there is never, ever a reason to want to get to a machine by specifying its IP, rather than resolving a hostname. Oh wait...
Your average user doesn't worry about IP addresses now, they utilize DNS. If someone cares about how easy it is to work with an IP address, they're probably a techy who needs to do so for troubleshooting purposes, so giving a smart-ass "use DNS" response doesn't help them.
You're trying to be funny, but "CAD designs" isn't redundant. The two instances of the word "design" refer to different definitions of the word (design = plan, vs design = process of making a design), so they aren't redundant.
My Blizzard Downloader has always closed on me as soon as the patch is done, don't know why. Then again, I also quit using it and use Azureus with the torrent file, so I don't really care, either.
No, they said that they're happy with the XP curve from 60 to 70, and it will go live like it currently is in beta. The curve from 70 to 80 is basically finished as well, for that matter.
As of 3.0. It's currently the case in the beta, and will hit live realms whenever 3.0 hits.
Professions that actually make money for the player...
Alchemy. Inscription. Enchanting. Jewelcrafting. Gathering professions. All of these can make you money.
Remember when "Epic" meant something? When they didn't just drop from the last boss in a 5 man?
I raid. I enjoy it. I have raided since original WoW. That said:
If you get your enjoyment from other people not having nice gear, bye. There's the door. We won't miss you.