It's the cult of Apple, man. It's a sick, sad marketing plan. Apple routinely rapes its core of customers, who'll gladly bend over and take it rather than taking the ten minutes to learn a different way. They've been doing this since 1984, man. Remember the people who paid $8000 for a Lisa?
Apparently you didn't read the article. Typical of an Apple apologist.
Here's the Cliff's Notes for all you Mac People: When his battery went out, there was no replacement policy at Apple at any price; He tried getting a replacement through them; He purchased a battery online and tried replacing it himself, but he's not a technical person (typical mac user); He bought a new iPod; He was still ticked and wanted everyone to know that the battery might only last 18 months; He made a movie; Apple announced an extended warranty and a battery replacement program.
In the end the big horrible soulless corporation was shamed/worried-about-its-sales into doing the right thing.
Here's a paper I just happened to read a few days ago put out by bluetooth.org on the safety of bluetooth in airplanes. It's a few years old, but is still relevant.
https://www.bluetooth.org/foundry/sitecontent/do cu ment/Aircraft_Safety_Report_for_Bluetooth
If you're connecting via an ethernet port, it ain't broadband, my friend. Ethernet is a baseband network. Your school may be connected to the Internet via a broadband connection, but if you're using ethernet, you're using baseband.
Bandwidth makes zero differences when determining if a system is "broadband" or not.
Broadband only refers to the transmission method, not the throughput. All that "broadband" means is that multiple, independant network carriers are multiplexed onto a single wire. That's the definition of "broadband". Your other option is "baseband".
Anyone who argues that ADSL isn't broadband is either ignorant of the meaning of the word, or ignorant of the technical details of DSL.
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It's a terrible precedent when marketers and lawyers can define a technical term like "broadband". I wonder if they're going to define "baseband" for us as well?
Why not just use plain "C" to refer to the ISO standard, and "C-like" or "a dialect of C" to refer to the others? This definition does not suffer either drawback.
I wrote in C before the ANSI and ISO standards. Is my code not C now?
Oddly enough, I dropped my subscription a year ago because the liberal BS was getting a might bit thick for my tastes. A well spoken liberal thesis is interesting to read, but a lot of the crap they were slinging was along the lines of "conservatives are so stupid", something I'm not willing to pay for.
I used to work with one of the guys who was on the Debian install disk team. He had absolutely NO IDEA of what a 'user friendly' interface was. His idea of a good interface was Xemacs. (No Lie: He wanted to use Xemacs as the primary interface for a web and mail server product that we were developing for use by windows people. He insisted that once people took the time to get used to it they'd all see the wisdom of his ways.)
He thought that a user interface's only job was to be as functional as humanly possible with little or no effort to be expended on aesthetics or usability. As long as he knew how to use it, he figured everyone should be willing to conform to his very very narrow world view.
I admit, his Debian zealotry has painted an unfairly negative picture of the project in my eyes, but their install disks do suck much a$$.
I, for one, am glad that people of great insight like michael, are offering their intelligent commentaries so that we will konw what the truth is. I suspect that michael's team of expert intelligence gathering personnel have come across some damning evidence implicating President Bush, otherwise a snide, self-serving comment like the above would just prove his ignorant self-righteousness.
There are quests in Dark Age of Camelot that you are required to find someone to assist you. I haven't played it since the Beta, so I'm not sure how that all panned out...
Also it would be nice missions involved more than one person. For instance the game could give a high level character a mission that would take too long for him to finish by himself, but he could hire lower level people for a negotiated reward to help him along.
Obivously you're not an EQ player. There are many many quests that pretty much require the assitance of other players. Some require dozens of other players (to defeat a spectacular enemy, for instance).
Every class has an Epic Weapon, and I don't think an Epic exists that doesn't require a huge party at some point.
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And if they start asking for food and water, just tell 'em to/petition it...
"Umm, you guys just need to spend time working on your baking skill..."
If you think you can help, why not pitch in, instead of merely complaining? Your complaints, although valid, aren't of much use to anyone after the fact (and they do sound conceited and self-righteous, considering how little you've offered to the community, thusfar).
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It's the cult of Apple, man. It's a sick, sad marketing plan. Apple routinely rapes its core of customers, who'll gladly bend over and take it rather than taking the ten minutes to learn a different way. They've been doing this since 1984, man. Remember the people who paid $8000 for a Lisa?
Apparently you didn't read the article. Typical of an Apple apologist.
Here's the Cliff's Notes for all you Mac People: When his battery went out, there was no replacement policy at Apple at any price; He tried getting a replacement through them; He purchased a battery online and tried replacing it himself, but he's not a technical person (typical mac user); He bought a new iPod; He was still ticked and wanted everyone to know that the battery might only last 18 months; He made a movie; Apple announced an extended warranty and a battery replacement program.
In the end the big horrible soulless corporation was shamed/worried-about-its-sales into doing the right thing.
The last chapter sucked ass. Bigtime. The end battle was dull dull dull.
Dude, chill. Everyone responsible for Fallout left years ago to form Troika. Pick up Arcanum and wash your mouth out with soap.
Impatient?
It's easy if you're not stupid and/or lazy. I think that's your problem.
Exactly - it was rushed and that's why there's so many bugs.
I hate it when developers rus a product out the door and use the first release as the Beta.
As an adjunct to this, I've modified my prayers to include bitching about the lack of real content in this game.
Um, these are Mac people, Austad.
It is a joke, as long as the Tracker isn't flooded, which is exactly what happened.
There is a limit to what BT can do.
Here's a paper I just happened to read a few days ago put out by bluetooth.org on the safety of bluetooth in airplanes. It's a few years old, but is still relevant.
o cu ment/Aircraft_Safety_Report_for_Bluetooth
https://www.bluetooth.org/foundry/sitecontent/d
It's a PDF file.
They might be both... is that possible?
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Sadly, yes
If you're connecting via an ethernet port, it ain't broadband, my friend. Ethernet is a baseband network. Your school may be connected to the Internet via a broadband connection, but if you're using ethernet, you're using baseband.
Bandwidth makes zero differences when determining if a system is "broadband" or not.
Broadband only refers to the transmission method, not the throughput. All that "broadband" means is that multiple, independant network carriers are multiplexed onto a single wire. That's the definition of "broadband". Your other option is
"baseband".
Anyone who argues that ADSL isn't broadband is either ignorant of the meaning of the word, or ignorant of the technical details of DSL.
It's a terrible precedent when marketers and lawyers can define a technical term like "broadband". I wonder if they're going to define "baseband" for us as well?
Why not just use plain "C" to refer to the ISO standard, and "C-like" or "a dialect of C" to refer to the others? This definition does not suffer either drawback.
I wrote in C before the ANSI and ISO standards. Is my code not C now?
Oddly enough, I dropped my subscription a year ago because the liberal BS was getting a might bit thick for my tastes. A well spoken liberal thesis is interesting to read, but a lot of the crap they were slinging was along the lines of "conservatives are so stupid", something I'm not willing to pay for.
But it's been rumored that in this version of TT, Saruman will get killed, eliminating that chance.
Methinks you should watch the movie before you bitch, troll.
I used to work with one of the guys who was on the Debian install disk team. He had absolutely NO IDEA of what a 'user friendly' interface was. His idea of a good interface was Xemacs. (No Lie: He wanted to use Xemacs as the primary interface for a web and mail server product that we were developing for use by windows people. He insisted that once people took the time to get used to it they'd all see the wisdom of his ways.)
He thought that a user interface's only job was to be as functional as humanly possible with little or no effort to be expended on aesthetics or usability. As long as he knew how to use it, he figured everyone should be willing to conform to his very very narrow world view.
I admit, his Debian zealotry has painted an unfairly negative picture of the project in my eyes, but their install disks do suck much a$$.
I, for one, am glad that people of great insight like michael, are offering their intelligent commentaries so that we will konw what the truth is. I suspect that michael's team of expert intelligence gathering personnel have come across some damning evidence implicating President Bush, otherwise a snide, self-serving comment like the above would just prove his ignorant self-righteousness.
Journaling file system? Hardware detection? I think you can get qutie a bit better than that.
There are quests in Dark Age of Camelot that you are required to find someone to assist you. I haven't played it since the Beta, so I'm not sure how that all panned out...
Fortunately for around the same price you can buy the iPaq 3835 and it's available even in Canada - even in Australia!
So for those two hours that the battery works, you can be as productive as you wanna be! You go, girl!
Also it would be nice missions involved more than one person. For instance the game could give a high level character a mission that would take too long for him to finish by himself, but he could hire lower level people for a negotiated reward to help him along.
Obivously you're not an EQ player. There are many many quests that pretty much require the assitance of other players. Some require dozens of other players (to defeat a spectacular enemy, for instance).
Every class has an Epic Weapon, and I don't think an Epic exists that doesn't require a huge party at some point.
And if they start asking for food and water, just tell 'em to /petition it...
"Umm, you guys just need to spend time working on your baking skill..."
If you think you can help, why not pitch in, instead of merely complaining? Your complaints, although valid, aren't of much use to anyone after the fact (and they do sound conceited and self-righteous, considering how little you've offered to the community, thusfar).