quite the contrary, I'm very glad they changed their minds and learned from it... I simply think that those who are singing their praises wrt respecting privacy are naive. This was a monetary decision and nothing more, it should not be praised as if they "saw the light", they would/will reverse this decision in a heartbeat if they can find a way to make it profitable. Such is life.
I'm not privy to Bliz's finical statements... but I would bet my hat that the handful of cancellations wouldn't add up to anywhere near the millions on millions of advertising hits they get per day.
Don't think that this had anything to do with privacy, or "feedback", it was simply that when the accounting department saw just how many hits they were going to lose and the kneecapping their advertising income was about to take, the called the higer ups and put a dollar figure to this kind of bone-head move and it was called off.
and considering that we can't see IR we can assume (with all that intails) that either the mutation never happened in over 10,000 years, or that if it did it did not provide enough of an advantage to become dominant.
Humans have had other means of dealing with predators... fire being the most obvious, shelters, partially/domesticated dogs.
and besides, where are you thinking one would PUT these IR sensing rods/cones? The retina is already kinda crowded with just the daytime colour vision cells. Crowding them out to see at night (when most of us are asleep) will cut into our daytime resolution, which would make it harder to hunt/gather/evade daytime preditors.
well, evolution only favors a trait if it lets you have more babies... as humans have been diurnal pretty much from the get-go, the advantage of great night vision is lessened because we are generally asleep at that time. As for mirowave... not a lot of that makes it down to the surface of the earth, things would be quite dark at mw wavelengths.
heck, the ability to see blue is fairly recient (in evolutionary terms) whereas we have seen green and red a lot longer. This is why blue things tend to catch the eye more, and why things will not appear as bright when lit by mono-chrome blue light (try walking arounda room with a blue LED flashlight, right PITA that)
well, if they are on an EU server, you can eliminate all google hits from the americas when you are doing your stalking planns... not the best metric to remove false positives, but every bit helps.
I also bet you are one of the ones who stand on the right (or which ever side you should be where you are). YOU are not the problem, the problem are people (or group) who stand on the wrong side, know there are people who want to pass (either they said "excuse me" or something similar) and don't effing move!
this will just lead to the escalator effect... Rather then continuing to walk up or down the stairs as they move, people just get on and stand still. The same will happen with these walkways, rather then getting on and adding their own walking pace to the 9km/h, they will stand still and get in everyone elses way.
they were NOT "floating around in his head", the first three SW movies were ripped nearly line for line out of Norse myth (minus the space travel). Luke, Leia, Aniken, the emperor, Tatooine.... he didn't even bother to change their names. "Skywalker" is a direct translation of their Old Norse surname.
Credit where credit is due... 4, 5 and 6 were Norse. 1, 2 and 3 were what you get when you see what is his original work.
I moderate several forums, many of which have been targets for various semi-organized troll groups... I have seen flames FAR worse than anything bliz has had to deal with... we killed off those sprees of spam, pron, hate, and general jerk-wad-ness by doing a very simple thing...
we asked the community for new mods. In one case we had to triple the number of active mods to deal with the issue, but shortly after the troublemakers realized that with the raw number of people watching the threads their crap wouldn't stay up long, and they would get the boot in short order.
oh gods, they are WORLDS better then the aliance I played with when I first started. I maxed my ignore list before I hit lvl 40 (that was before the LFG tool too)
My server is "mostly" ok on horde side (dear gods I hated playing ali), but the LFG tool brings in all kinds. They see a female toon and I swear I get at least one a week that goes: "Durrr, are you a GIRL?!" as soon as they zone in.
When I got married it was a right pain in the arse to get my wow account name changed. I needed to get them to email me a form, fill it out, mail it with a certified copy of my marriage certificate and two other pieces of ID to prove my name changed... and that was a MARRIAGE. I would hate to see what they would want for a full change of name.
(thankfully I got it all settled when they went to the battle.net IDs, I just put in my new name and there was no hastle)
and for 99% of the time that is fine... but there have been actual MURDERS over starcraft rankings in Korea. OK, so some whacked out arena junkie you knocked out of getting their ________ Gladiator title finds your real name, looks at the post you made about your crappy ISP, figures out your timezone and region based on your posting schedules and camps out a few houses... wouldn't take long to figure out which house had a hardcore wow-head in it... load up the shotgun and get his title back.
There are precious few pros and a whole wack of cons to this idea.
go on there and try and post anything about high end raiding on a lvl 1 toon, everyone will ask to see your main to prove you actually know what you are talking about. That will not change, if you DONT associate a toon with your name then no one will take you seriously (ESPECIALLY with a female name... sorry but sexisim is alive and well in the gaming world)
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then let me just say two words: Beef Curtains.
wow, I was not aware... thanks for the info :)
quite the contrary, I'm very glad they changed their minds and learned from it... I simply think that those who are singing their praises wrt respecting privacy are naive. This was a monetary decision and nothing more, it should not be praised as if they "saw the light", they would/will reverse this decision in a heartbeat if they can find a way to make it profitable. Such is life.
I'm not privy to Bliz's finical statements... but I would bet my hat that the handful of cancellations wouldn't add up to anywhere near the millions on millions of advertising hits they get per day.
Don't think that this had anything to do with privacy, or "feedback", it was simply that when the accounting department saw just how many hits they were going to lose and the kneecapping their advertising income was about to take, the called the higer ups and put a dollar figure to this kind of bone-head move and it was called off.
yes, at 1/10th the rate... that is a good thing
we have sterioscopic vision, most birds dont, is that augmented reality too?
yes I know this... but when you read something quickly the first time m's can look like n's.
and considering that we can't see IR we can assume (with all that intails) that either the mutation never happened in over 10,000 years, or that if it did it did not provide enough of an advantage to become dominant.
Humans have had other means of dealing with predators... fire being the most obvious, shelters, partially/domesticated dogs.
and besides, where are you thinking one would PUT these IR sensing rods/cones? The retina is already kinda crowded with just the daytime colour vision cells. Crowding them out to see at night (when most of us are asleep) will cut into our daytime resolution, which would make it harder to hunt/gather/evade daytime preditors.
well, evolution only favors a trait if it lets you have more babies... as humans have been diurnal pretty much from the get-go, the advantage of great night vision is lessened because we are generally asleep at that time. As for mirowave... not a lot of that makes it down to the surface of the earth, things would be quite dark at mw wavelengths.
heck, the ability to see blue is fairly recient (in evolutionary terms) whereas we have seen green and red a lot longer. This is why blue things tend to catch the eye more, and why things will not appear as bright when lit by mono-chrome blue light (try walking arounda room with a blue LED flashlight, right PITA that)
anyone else get the impression that "Cryptochrome" should be the name of some time based encryption system when they first read it?
The well has pumped millions of gallons (liters) of oil into the Gulf
uh... one of those things is not like the other... I question the validity of any site that thinks gallons and liters are interchangable
"It says here you are predisposed to sniffing your own butt?"
well, if they are on an EU server, you can eliminate all google hits from the americas when you are doing your stalking planns... not the best metric to remove false positives, but every bit helps.
I also bet you are one of the ones who stand on the right (or which ever side you should be where you are). YOU are not the problem, the problem are people (or group) who stand on the wrong side, know there are people who want to pass (either they said "excuse me" or something similar) and don't effing move!
this will just lead to the escalator effect... Rather then continuing to walk up or down the stairs as they move, people just get on and stand still. The same will happen with these walkways, rather then getting on and adding their own walking pace to the 9km/h, they will stand still and get in everyone elses way.
they were NOT "floating around in his head", the first three SW movies were ripped nearly line for line out of Norse myth (minus the space travel). Luke, Leia, Aniken, the emperor, Tatooine.... he didn't even bother to change their names. "Skywalker" is a direct translation of their Old Norse surname.
Credit where credit is due... 4, 5 and 6 were Norse. 1, 2 and 3 were what you get when you see what is his original work.
I moderate several forums, many of which have been targets for various semi-organized troll groups... I have seen flames FAR worse than anything bliz has had to deal with... we killed off those sprees of spam, pron, hate, and general jerk-wad-ness by doing a very simple thing...
we asked the community for new mods. In one case we had to triple the number of active mods to deal with the issue, but shortly after the troublemakers realized that with the raw number of people watching the threads their crap wouldn't stay up long, and they would get the boot in short order.
problem solved.
yes, as I use the same name here as I do in game... oh wait, no I don't.
oh gods, they are WORLDS better then the aliance I played with when I first started. I maxed my ignore list before I hit lvl 40 (that was before the LFG tool too)
My server is "mostly" ok on horde side (dear gods I hated playing ali), but the LFG tool brings in all kinds. They see a female toon and I swear I get at least one a week that goes: "Durrr, are you a GIRL?!" as soon as they zone in.
ok, you know his name, his rough location, his ISP and he plays wow.... try facebook, live journal, twitter, my space, hell simple google search.
enough small things can add up to a total profile...
When I got married it was a right pain in the arse to get my wow account name changed. I needed to get them to email me a form, fill it out, mail it with a certified copy of my marriage certificate and two other pieces of ID to prove my name changed... and that was a MARRIAGE. I would hate to see what they would want for a full change of name.
(thankfully I got it all settled when they went to the battle.net IDs, I just put in my new name and there was no hastle)
and for 99% of the time that is fine... but there have been actual MURDERS over starcraft rankings in Korea. OK, so some whacked out arena junkie you knocked out of getting their ________ Gladiator title finds your real name, looks at the post you made about your crappy ISP, figures out your timezone and region based on your posting schedules and camps out a few houses... wouldn't take long to figure out which house had a hardcore wow-head in it... load up the shotgun and get his title back.
There are precious few pros and a whole wack of cons to this idea.
go on there and try and post anything about high end raiding on a lvl 1 toon, everyone will ask to see your main to prove you actually know what you are talking about. That will not change, if you DONT associate a toon with your name then no one will take you seriously (ESPECIALLY with a female name... sorry but sexisim is alive and well in the gaming world)