Nah, Ganking generally either means a group attack or someone attacking someone who is weaker and unprepared/unable to defend himself. Classic places where this takes place are "Ganklethorn Vale" and the Hillsbrad foothills since they both are contested zones and there are lots of little nooks and crannies to hide in (of course, there's always the classic "lvl 70 on epic mount chasing lower level playing on regular mount" game).
I believe the standard way to do solo gankings is as follows:
Spend an ungodly amount of time raiding and playing battlegrounds to get the best gear possible.
Enlist the help of your guildmates to further enhance your character.
Use any means possible to temporarily boost your character further (once again, guildmates are a great source of magical enhancements).
Go somewhere where there are few players from the other faction and that isn't a world PvP "hotspot" (so that they won't be ready to defend themselves.
Sneak up on the unsuspecting player and hit him/her as hard as you can, throw everything you've got at the poor bastard.
Repeat this until your temporary enhancements start to disappear.
Call in your guildmates to keep a constant corpse-camp for the next few hours, bonus points if you also station a few at the nearest graveyard (in case your victim attempts to resurrect there).
Yeah, there are way to many teenagers out there with too much time on their hands...
In a real socialist society, you would then be sent off to a work camp where either you would build infrastructure for food and board, or get beaten to death for not making quota.
Sounds more like stalinism or fascism to me, but who am I to lecture someone who most likely grew up in a country where anyone left of Thatcher is considered a "pinko" or a "commie"?
Socialism has been shown to work - just look at Sweden and Canada for two of the best examples. It just needs to be kept in check by a healthy democracy (which I believe means that more than two parties have a hope of creating a government).
Exactly, socialism in itself is not undemocratic, it is just that through the decades socialism and communism have been used to rally the support of the working class and the opressed, and once the leaders of the revolution have gained power they have shown their true nature. But don't blame this on the ideology that they claimed to support, that would be like saying liberals are all advocating murder because Pinochet fancied himself a liberal.
Strangely port 80 worked for me, but not port 8080. I just fired up Wireshark to see wtf was going on, ran it on the external interface on my BSD NAT router. It seems with both ports packets are going out but I don't get any reply when using port 8080 and the connection attempt ends up timing out.
TeliaSonera at home, TeliaSonera at work, TDC (formerly TDCSong) also at work (and with a residental DSL "lab station" we had) and Glocalnet (although that one might have used TDC's or TeliaSonera's network instead of their "regular" Telenor).
Except of course that I have never been able to use any Coral cache mirrors using swedish ISPs, I noticed that they worked fine when I was in another european country and using a connection from an ISP that used an "american" IP block though...
Is it possible they block large chunks of the internet from accessing their cached sites?
Oh really? I'm in Sweden and I haven't heard of any ISPs around here having bandwidth caps except for a handful of crappy local ones, and AFAIK very very very very few people are limited to only one of these ISPs.
Heh, all I know is that when I've recorded regular PAL video it's been uncompressed, never had access (or the need to use) a HD camera and I assumed that "real" HD cameras would also record uncompressed video.
That said, my point was that it's pretty easy to grow video projects into absurd sizes even when doing "regular" editing.
1920*1080*3 = 6,220,800 bytes per frame, at 30fps that's just under 180 MiB per second when doing uncompressed. Even uncompressed PAL video at 25 fps is 720*576*25*3 ~= 29,66 MiB/s and I have personally had projects where I've been rendering several minutes of uncompressed PAL frames from Maya. Obviously this is a bit of a special case but my point is that when you're working with video the default tends to be to use uncompressed video (even if it's just the scratch file in your video editing app's saved projects it can still be a lot).
I'd like to thank whoever modded my post "troll" because clearly I'm trolling by pointing out that the parent poster completely omitted the possibility of connecting hard drives using SATA.
Because obviously any disk not used for your operating system or applications would be connected using USB or Firewire, couldn't be that some people actually connect their SATA drives directly to the SATA bus in their computers, right?
4. When you get a CSR on the phone, immediately ask to speak to a supervisor
When/if they insist that they can help you, keeping your tone low and even, state again that you need to speak to a supervisor. Not want, need. If they again insist, state in a clear and calm, low tone, that they WILL connect you to a supervisor, now. Do not yell, shout, or raise your voice or tone. "No. You are going to get a supervisor for me. Thank you. I'll wait." Say "thank you" immediately. Do not wait for them to answer your request first. If they again insist, hang up immediately. Call back. If you get the same person, make the request again, and if they again refuse, hang up, wait one hour for a shift change, and then call back. Do not give the initial person your name. They do not need it.
As someone who has spent a lot of time dealing with end users I'd like to point out that sometimes the tech/CSR simply isn't allowed to transfer calls to a supervisor/team lead/2nd line tech, sometimes they're only allowed to transfer certain types of calls and having some asshat call over and over and over and over again asking for a supervisor will only piss them off and result in worse service for the customer in question as well as other customers who are calling on the same day.
Also, a customer immediately asking for a supervisor will most likely not get a supervisor at all, instead chances are the customer will be given the most formal and by-the-rules treatment possible to make the whole experience as painful as possible since guess what, techs/CSRs are people to and they don't like assholes trying to pull cheap tricks like that.
Always remember: Apple is a hardware company that builds high quality hardware. They only make software in order to sell that hardware in the best light.
No, Apple sells complete systems, not hardware. This seems to be a common misunderstanding. Just like the old UNIX workstation manufacturers they're not selling part of the solution, they're constructing the entire solution to ensure that the parts work together in a satisfactory fashion.
... 'if the standard to do x is using code y, but everyone is using code z to make it work in the browser, then maybe z should become part of the standard'.
Ah, methinks you are missing the points. The problem could better be described as [a_1...z_1] are the ways that people use to do [1...26], the standard then specifies that [a_2...z_2] are the proper ways to do this, and a lot of times sites will only miss out on a few of these, not everyone breaks the rules in the exact same way. In general I blame this on inexperienced and lazy developers who either don't understand why standards are good (or even that there are standards) or they simply can't be bothered since they'd be forced to relearn, I've worked in an environment where the latter attitude was fairly common, "We'll just do it with tables/frames" and "It's easier to do that with an iframe than with CSS" were typical excuses for using an inferior solution.
Perhaps that says more about the complexity of your pages than your skills.
For example, it's very difficult to get a three column fluid layout that a) works cross-platform and b) validates. But that's an extreme example to introduce my point:
Interestingly enough, I've done several sites with a three column fluid layout that validated fine on the first try and rendered the way they were supposed to in IE, Firefox and Safari. That's not to say that the design was "finished" at that point, still had a lot of little tweaks along the lines of "just how wide should the left column be?", but that's just changing values, the actual layout was rendering as intended on all three major browser families and validated.
Once you've done the work a few times you tend to know how to get things right the first time, but you'll still end up experimenting wildly when doing something out of the ordinary.
Indeed, and recent research has thrown doubt on the theory that inanimate objects have any sort of sexuality. Before long the anti-Apple trolls will have to sell their Windows boxen, buy old Amigas and go back to flinging mud at "M$" just like in the old days.
Oh, I'm well aware of this, I had the same problem when I was getting paid to do web development, but I ended up overruling my boss by arguing that usability and standards-compliance were more important than artificially inflating the stats and that if the user wanted to stay on the site in question he/she would choose to open the link in a new window/tab.
Of course, not everyone has a boss who is reasonable about this sort of thing.
Ah yes, for those special purposes it can be useful, unfortunately it has been proven that by giving developers the possibility of opening links in a new window/tab is something that will be abused, especially by people who seem to think that their site is oh-so-important and that the user couldn't possibly want to leave it.
For example, xhtml-strict does not include support for "target" attributes in links. What kind of idiotic decision was that?
A very good decision, there are two main uses for the "target" attribute:
Frame-based sites - Old-school, annoying way of designing sites that I and many others feel should not be used for new sites.
To automatically open links in a new window - Annoying behaviour by web developers who think no one could possible want to, god forbid, leave their site in favor of another site.
In my experience, with OSS 1.0 tends to mean "we completely ripped out all the old stable code in favor of new unstable code, and we changed the user interface. But don't worry, we expect it to be stable again around 1.4.x. Also, the 0.x series is now considered deprecated, all links to it on our website have been removed.".
Why would your TV be using wireless? Wouldn't it be smarter to have it connected to a wired network (smaller risk of interference) and then your "remote" connects to a WAP and controls the TV over the network, sort of how you can currently do with iTunes and an iPhone with the Remote app?
My subnet is 2001:16d8:ff70::/48. Of course, I currently only have three machines that are configured to use IPv6, and I use an internal DNS server to keep track of them at the moment...
You say the working conditions were very good, what I'd like to ask is, were you one of these agents?
My previous job was doing tech support at a large-ish call center and the following were some of the annoyances that seem to be shared by most call centers:
Two 15 minute breaks that had to be taken exactly between starting time and lunch and between lunch and quitting time, no flexibility whatsoever.
Despite the above point lunch break would move around during the weeks, so some days you'd come in at 7, work until 10, have lunch and then work for five hours after that, also no flexibility.
"Flexible" schedules in the sense that whatever hours management wants you to work are the hours you will work, unless they want you to work some crazy combination of shifts that violates labor laws, then you can call in the union.
Pay was decent at best, those paid by the hour got about $15/hr regardless of what work they did, those who were getting paid monthly got about $2,000/month, raises were the bare minimum they could get away with without being taken to court. The only ones making more than this were the telemarketers who also got paid commission.
Instead of paying someone to handle cleaning regularly the agents were ordered to clean up their own team's office and the break/lunch rooms were cleaned by different teams on a rotating schedule.
Any complaints about the work environment were dismissed with poorly disguised threats of termination.
I could go on like this forever but these are the generic points (beyond having to deal with angry, screaming idiots all day long) that seem to apply to just about every call center. My point is that while from the outside it may look like a pretty decent job the difference between a call center that looks like a decent place to work and one that doesn't could best be explained by the former simply erecting better Potemkin villages (although there are some in-house call centers that are actually quite nice, but most people working in call centers these days aren't working in-house).
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It's called a cluster, "The cloud" is a really annoying buzzword for software as a service.
/Mikael
No, but they are Bajoran war orphans!
/Mikael
Nah, Ganking generally either means a group attack or someone attacking someone who is weaker and unprepared/unable to defend himself. Classic places where this takes place are "Ganklethorn Vale" and the Hillsbrad foothills since they both are contested zones and there are lots of little nooks and crannies to hide in (of course, there's always the classic "lvl 70 on epic mount chasing lower level playing on regular mount" game).
/Mikael
I believe the standard way to do solo gankings is as follows:
Yeah, there are way to many teenagers out there with too much time on their hands...
/Mikael
In a real socialist society, you would then be sent off to a work camp where either you would build infrastructure for food and board, or get beaten to death for not making quota.
Sounds more like stalinism or fascism to me, but who am I to lecture someone who most likely grew up in a country where anyone left of Thatcher is considered a "pinko" or a "commie"?
Socialism has been shown to work - just look at Sweden and Canada for two of the best examples. It just needs to be kept in check by a healthy democracy (which I believe means that more than two parties have a hope of creating a government).
Exactly, socialism in itself is not undemocratic, it is just that through the decades socialism and communism have been used to rally the support of the working class and the opressed, and once the leaders of the revolution have gained power they have shown their true nature. But don't blame this on the ideology that they claimed to support, that would be like saying liberals are all advocating murder because Pinochet fancied himself a liberal.
/Mikael
Strangely port 80 worked for me, but not port 8080. I just fired up Wireshark to see wtf was going on, ran it on the external interface on my BSD NAT router. It seems with both ports packets are going out but I don't get any reply when using port 8080 and the connection attempt ends up timing out.
/Mikael
TeliaSonera at home, TeliaSonera at work, TDC (formerly TDCSong) also at work (and with a residental DSL "lab station" we had) and Glocalnet (although that one might have used TDC's or TeliaSonera's network instead of their "regular" Telenor).
/Mikael
Except of course that I have never been able to use any Coral cache mirrors using swedish ISPs, I noticed that they worked fine when I was in another european country and using a connection from an ISP that used an "american" IP block though...
Is it possible they block large chunks of the internet from accessing their cached sites?
/Mikael
Oh really? I'm in Sweden and I haven't heard of any ISPs around here having bandwidth caps except for a handful of crappy local ones, and AFAIK very very very very few people are limited to only one of these ISPs.
/Mikael
Heh, all I know is that when I've recorded regular PAL video it's been uncompressed, never had access (or the need to use) a HD camera and I assumed that "real" HD cameras would also record uncompressed video.
That said, my point was that it's pretty easy to grow video projects into absurd sizes even when doing "regular" editing.
/Mikael
1920*1080*3 = 6,220,800 bytes per frame, at 30fps that's just under 180 MiB per second when doing uncompressed. Even uncompressed PAL video at 25 fps is 720*576*25*3 ~= 29,66 MiB/s and I have personally had projects where I've been rendering several minutes of uncompressed PAL frames from Maya. Obviously this is a bit of a special case but my point is that when you're working with video the default tends to be to use uncompressed video (even if it's just the scratch file in your video editing app's saved projects it can still be a lot).
/Mikael
I'd like to thank whoever modded my post "troll" because clearly I'm trolling by pointing out that the parent poster completely omitted the possibility of connecting hard drives using SATA.
/Mikael
Because obviously any disk not used for your operating system or applications would be connected using USB or Firewire, couldn't be that some people actually connect their SATA drives directly to the SATA bus in their computers, right?
/Mikael
From the linked Consumerist article:
As someone who has spent a lot of time dealing with end users I'd like to point out that sometimes the tech/CSR simply isn't allowed to transfer calls to a supervisor/team lead/2nd line tech, sometimes they're only allowed to transfer certain types of calls and having some asshat call over and over and over and over again asking for a supervisor will only piss them off and result in worse service for the customer in question as well as other customers who are calling on the same day.
Also, a customer immediately asking for a supervisor will most likely not get a supervisor at all, instead chances are the customer will be given the most formal and by-the-rules treatment possible to make the whole experience as painful as possible since guess what, techs/CSRs are people to and they don't like assholes trying to pull cheap tricks like that.
/Mikael
Always remember: Apple is a hardware company that builds high quality hardware. They only make software in order to sell that hardware in the best light.
No, Apple sells complete systems, not hardware. This seems to be a common misunderstanding. Just like the old UNIX workstation manufacturers they're not selling part of the solution, they're constructing the entire solution to ensure that the parts work together in a satisfactory fashion.
/Mikael
... 'if the standard to do x is using code y, but everyone is using code z to make it work in the browser, then maybe z should become part of the standard'.
Ah, methinks you are missing the points. The problem could better be described as [a_1...z_1] are the ways that people use to do [1...26], the standard then specifies that [a_2...z_2] are the proper ways to do this, and a lot of times sites will only miss out on a few of these, not everyone breaks the rules in the exact same way. In general I blame this on inexperienced and lazy developers who either don't understand why standards are good (or even that there are standards) or they simply can't be bothered since they'd be forced to relearn, I've worked in an environment where the latter attitude was fairly common, "We'll just do it with tables/frames" and "It's easier to do that with an iframe than with CSS" were typical excuses for using an inferior solution.
/Mikael
Perhaps that says more about the complexity of your pages than your skills. For example, it's very difficult to get a three column fluid layout that a) works cross-platform and b) validates. But that's an extreme example to introduce my point:
Interestingly enough, I've done several sites with a three column fluid layout that validated fine on the first try and rendered the way they were supposed to in IE, Firefox and Safari. That's not to say that the design was "finished" at that point, still had a lot of little tweaks along the lines of "just how wide should the left column be?", but that's just changing values, the actual layout was rendering as intended on all three major browser families and validated.
Once you've done the work a few times you tend to know how to get things right the first time, but you'll still end up experimenting wildly when doing something out of the ordinary.
/Mikael
Indeed, and recent research has thrown doubt on the theory that inanimate objects have any sort of sexuality. Before long the anti-Apple trolls will have to sell their Windows boxen, buy old Amigas and go back to flinging mud at "M$" just like in the old days.
/Mikael
Oh, I'm well aware of this, I had the same problem when I was getting paid to do web development, but I ended up overruling my boss by arguing that usability and standards-compliance were more important than artificially inflating the stats and that if the user wanted to stay on the site in question he/she would choose to open the link in a new window/tab.
Of course, not everyone has a boss who is reasonable about this sort of thing.
/Mikael
Ah yes, for those special purposes it can be useful, unfortunately it has been proven that by giving developers the possibility of opening links in a new window/tab is something that will be abused, especially by people who seem to think that their site is oh-so-important and that the user couldn't possibly want to leave it.
/Mikael
For example, xhtml-strict does not include support for "target" attributes in links. What kind of idiotic decision was that?
A very good decision, there are two main uses for the "target" attribute:
/Mikael
In my experience, with OSS 1.0 tends to mean "we completely ripped out all the old stable code in favor of new unstable code, and we changed the user interface. But don't worry, we expect it to be stable again around 1.4.x. Also, the 0.x series is now considered deprecated, all links to it on our website have been removed.".
/Mikael
Why would your TV be using wireless? Wouldn't it be smarter to have it connected to a wired network (smaller risk of interference) and then your "remote" connects to a WAP and controls the TV over the network, sort of how you can currently do with iTunes and an iPhone with the Remote app?
/Mikael
My subnet is 2001:16d8:ff70::/48. Of course, I currently only have three machines that are configured to use IPv6, and I use an internal DNS server to keep track of them at the moment...
/Mikael
You say the working conditions were very good, what I'd like to ask is, were you one of these agents?
My previous job was doing tech support at a large-ish call center and the following were some of the annoyances that seem to be shared by most call centers:
I could go on like this forever but these are the generic points (beyond having to deal with angry, screaming idiots all day long) that seem to apply to just about every call center. My point is that while from the outside it may look like a pretty decent job the difference between a call center that looks like a decent place to work and one that doesn't could best be explained by the former simply erecting better Potemkin villages (although there are some in-house call centers that are actually quite nice, but most people working in call centers these days aren't working in-house).
/Mikael