This reminds me that you may be addressed by rank, or other identification for your name. You might not even know a persons "given" name due to formality. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but that is what I understand (and you may all ready be saying this in a diffrent way.
I have had to look at passports. Than input there name into our computer system to see if there on the list. It is hard, and I have looked like an idiot not knowing how to translate a foreign passport into our first - last name system. Start looking world wide and it isn't as easy as some are saying.
So I agree.
I forgot hyphens, so add this to above, hypen a hyphen, Smith-Jones-Johns-Davies... So if you hyphen and double hyphen with a single hyphen, Smith-Jones-Johns-Davies + Smith-Jones (Different Smiths and Jones), There are lots of those. What would you have?
Smith-Jones-Johns-Davies-Smith-Jones?
Smith-Jones-Smith-Jones-Johns-Davies?
Smith(2)-Jones(2)-Johns-Davies?
Sounds unrealistic, but I never thought I would see a hyphenated name, it never occurred to me until I saw one. As you can ask for anything you want for a name, someone could. And you would end up with what you had before, your entire genealogy in there.
Me and My other have been watching the entire x-files on netflix. We made it to end of season 5. Popped over to search, it found the movie for 5 bucks, streamed. Went back to watch season 6. Why would I want to go find a dvd/BR of the movie. That would require not being drunk.:) It looked pretty good to, I am not a big snob, so couldn't tell you what it was. But we enjoyed it just fine.
I do this. I have a 360, but if there is an emulator that will play the next gen on my pc, I might not buy it. I would buy the games, but I'm supporting the publisher of a game. I can hook my controllers up to my pc, my pc is all ready hooked to my TV. Wireless mouse and keyboard. I must say, Worms on the 54 inch tv is fun. And speaking of this, I should get an Xbox (original), playstation, playstation 2 emulator on my computer as I have discs for all these. Wonder if I could do Game cube to? I never looked into it. I bet I can get them all working. Old cartridge games wouldn't be possible like this, but no one is using cartridges for new games.
No mod points, but I have to agree. Why I like EQ for my first MMO. 8 in one was my first word processor, Doom first first person shooter (I got to play wolfenstien later). Kings quest for puzzle game. Were these the first? No, but they were MY firsts.
I do respect all the early stuff that lets me have all that I enjoy today. I do agree with someone above that the article sounds "bratty" i think they put.
Dare I say I might buy a Mac? I do computer graphics. The windows version of Adobe never has been and never will be as good as the original. Confusing me doesn't make me happy. I'm getting old and don't want to bother tinkering any more with PC's.
A fine example of things being screwed up is when a level 38 world drop costs more gold than you would be able to earn while grinding from level 1-60.
Either it is because no one plays, or that the best items in game are BOA. That being said, in LOTRO, I rarely see spam for gold. The best items in game only require a 12 man raid. The items drop every time. Now, I thought that would turn out bad, but at 12 man, with a set of 6 items (8 with weapons) you have to run the raid 13 times with one group to get everything (The weapon drops once, so you have to run that boss twice). You can only run the raid once a week, so that turns into what? 4 months? That is just one of your 5 possible characters, as most players have more than one. You end up with long grinds not counting learning curve and just bad happen. Yes even a seasoned group can wipe. And if that content wasn't enough, Turbine just added a whole bunch more dungeons that are 6 man instances that have gear one tier below the main 12 man. Just a thought, but like I said I don't get gold spam.
I think a more stable number is ratio of computers to IT staff.
I think this is a very reasonable statement. I work security for a medium sized company (~700 employees). There appears to be a large IT staff, but it should be noted that for every employee there is at least 1 computer. 95% receive a company issued laptop, probably 75% company issued blackberry. The blackberries talk to the exchange server, and the laptops all have a VPN or VRF. I think there are 4 major departments and a 5th for administration. Each of those has its own database of separate. That isn't even going into the computers running with the security equipment. Those all run on their own playground, and have a separate staff to keep up and running. If you add all that up, the large IT staff comes directly in relation to the quantity of computers and devices.
As someone above posted, the size can also relate to the company of the staff itself. When it comes to pockets of the IT staff here, they are very productive and have relatively few problems. Those IT departments are also the smallest. The larger the department, the worse the problems seem to get.
Overall I would say that both factors come into play for why IT is large or small.
That's a common failing in many games: the world is in stasis waiting for you to arrive to do quests, and beyond that, nothing ever changes, nothing has consequences. This makes most games feel very fake, and it breaks immersion.
I believe this comes from not wanting any subscriber to miss out on an event. The only way I can think that this might work is if you have time travel as an inherant part of the story in such that as you complete events. Areas of the game open up that are diffrent that previous areas. If you want to go back to the starting areas, you "time warp" back. Otherwise the world has to be static so that new players can experiance what you did at first. If you started WoW now and it had changed from what it was at launch, you would be a level 1 sourounded by level 70's and be able to survive.
I agree with the above that the chart is biased. That being said:
Web surfing encourages personal and even private use, so information that is embarrassing to inquire about elsewhere will be more strongly represented in web searches. Doesn't that prove that people are mor interested in orgy than they let on? If we all want to look at it in private, are we not all interested in it, but afraid of sociaty telling us we are bad? Now, I for one having come from a divorce where I was cheated on, I feel that orgies and open sexuality can get you in trouble. I just wonder as a sociaty how many things we have been force feed by biblicals that really aren't they way sociaty as a whole thinks.
I am sorry, but if at work please don't click the link above, I guess not all the pictures were safe. I just wanted to make a point about a parade. Guess I couldn't find a safe article about it.
There are a lot more links if you look for Seattle Fremont Solstice parade that are not SFW. But this is a comunity that obvusly thinks diffrently than you are trying to say we all think?
Yes but does a company really like its logo been smashed into thousand of pieces of scrap metal? I would say no, how long have racing games not been alowed to use real cars when they crash them all up? I don't think it was till recently that real cars are being used more.
That is because they use what is called a "M" system. That stands for Match. If you go through customs, and get a "M" marked onto your ticket, you go into the blue bag and get a secondary search. That is because there database found two things in common with a known "no fly". First Name, Last Name, Part of the birthday, Part of the SS number (or aplicaple country number if one), Part of passport information, etc. etc. I dont' know the extinsive list, but there is a long one. Two have just 2 things in common is incresingly easier as more people move and get put into the database. If you have decent people skills, you can usely talk yourself out of this problem to some degree. Ask for a "TL" or Team leader from the begining, as the first monkey you see can't help you. Make sure and get your file flagged as a "Possible match as soon as possible so that when a "TL" looks at it they see this and you can get through. Now you can always try and grab two of those tickets, and once they mark the M, you can than pull out your second one, draw a line quickly in sharpy, and when you see the second guy get waved through cause you were cleared on first.
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This reminds me that you may be addressed by rank, or other identification for your name. You might not even know a persons "given" name due to formality. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but that is what I understand (and you may all ready be saying this in a diffrent way.
I have had to look at passports. Than input there name into our computer system to see if there on the list. It is hard, and I have looked like an idiot not knowing how to translate a foreign passport into our first - last name system. Start looking world wide and it isn't as easy as some are saying. So I agree.
That would just be terrible.
I forgot hyphens, so add this to above, hypen a hyphen, Smith-Jones-Johns-Davies... So if you hyphen and double hyphen with a single hyphen, Smith-Jones-Johns-Davies + Smith-Jones (Different Smiths and Jones), There are lots of those. What would you have? Smith-Jones-Johns-Davies-Smith-Jones? Smith-Jones-Smith-Jones-Johns-Davies? Smith(2)-Jones(2)-Johns-Davies? Sounds unrealistic, but I never thought I would see a hyphenated name, it never occurred to me until I saw one. As you can ask for anything you want for a name, someone could. And you would end up with what you had before, your entire genealogy in there.
And who are you to tell someone to change there name because your computer doesn't like it?
Me and My other have been watching the entire x-files on netflix. We made it to end of season 5. Popped over to search, it found the movie for 5 bucks, streamed. Went back to watch season 6. Why would I want to go find a dvd/BR of the movie. That would require not being drunk. :) It looked pretty good to, I am not a big snob, so couldn't tell you what it was. But we enjoyed it just fine.
I do this. I have a 360, but if there is an emulator that will play the next gen on my pc, I might not buy it. I would buy the games, but I'm supporting the publisher of a game. I can hook my controllers up to my pc, my pc is all ready hooked to my TV. Wireless mouse and keyboard. I must say, Worms on the 54 inch tv is fun. And speaking of this, I should get an Xbox (original), playstation, playstation 2 emulator on my computer as I have discs for all these. Wonder if I could do Game cube to? I never looked into it. I bet I can get them all working. Old cartridge games wouldn't be possible like this, but no one is using cartridges for new games.
Even if you publish a well crafted anything, ask your lawyer to apply the black pen to it first. Your sentence comes back a little shorter.
It is a funny sentence.
Dilbert has taken an all to real meaning in my current job. I have become a drone. Yeah I don't think your supposed to think. or complain.
No mod points, but I have to agree. Why I like EQ for my first MMO. 8 in one was my first word processor, Doom first first person shooter (I got to play wolfenstien later). Kings quest for puzzle game. Were these the first? No, but they were MY firsts. I do respect all the early stuff that lets me have all that I enjoy today. I do agree with someone above that the article sounds "bratty" i think they put.
Dare I say I might buy a Mac? I do computer graphics. The windows version of Adobe never has been and never will be as good as the original. Confusing me doesn't make me happy. I'm getting old and don't want to bother tinkering any more with PC's.
Brilliant!
I say we optimize Flash out of websites. . . .
A fine example of things being screwed up is when a level 38 world drop costs more gold than you would be able to earn while grinding from level 1-60.
Either it is because no one plays, or that the best items in game are BOA. That being said, in LOTRO, I rarely see spam for gold. The best items in game only require a 12 man raid. The items drop every time. Now, I thought that would turn out bad, but at 12 man, with a set of 6 items (8 with weapons) you have to run the raid 13 times with one group to get everything (The weapon drops once, so you have to run that boss twice). You can only run the raid once a week, so that turns into what? 4 months? That is just one of your 5 possible characters, as most players have more than one. You end up with long grinds not counting learning curve and just bad happen. Yes even a seasoned group can wipe. And if that content wasn't enough, Turbine just added a whole bunch more dungeons that are 6 man instances that have gear one tier below the main 12 man. Just a thought, but like I said I don't get gold spam.
I think a more stable number is ratio of computers to IT staff.
I think this is a very reasonable statement. I work security for a medium sized company (~700 employees). There appears to be a large IT staff, but it should be noted that for every employee there is at least 1 computer. 95% receive a company issued laptop, probably 75% company issued blackberry. The blackberries talk to the exchange server, and the laptops all have a VPN or VRF. I think there are 4 major departments and a 5th for administration. Each of those has its own database of separate. That isn't even going into the computers running with the security equipment. Those all run on their own playground, and have a separate staff to keep up and running. If you add all that up, the large IT staff comes directly in relation to the quantity of computers and devices.
As someone above posted, the size can also relate to the company of the staff itself. When it comes to pockets of the IT staff here, they are very productive and have relatively few problems. Those IT departments are also the smallest. The larger the department, the worse the problems seem to get.
Overall I would say that both factors come into play for why IT is large or small.
That's a common failing in many games: the world is in stasis waiting for you to arrive to do quests, and beyond that, nothing ever changes, nothing has consequences. This makes most games feel very fake, and it breaks immersion.
I believe this comes from not wanting any subscriber to miss out on an event. The only way I can think that this might work is if you have time travel as an inherant part of the story in such that as you complete events. Areas of the game open up that are diffrent that previous areas. If you want to go back to the starting areas, you "time warp" back. Otherwise the world has to be static so that new players can experiance what you did at first. If you started WoW now and it had changed from what it was at launch, you would be a level 1 sourounded by level 70's and be able to survive.
Yet I remember a story somewhere a while back that MAC users see no reason to have anti-virus software running. Maybe you should give them the memo.
I am sorry, but if at work please don't click the link above, I guess not all the pictures were safe. I just wanted to make a point about a parade. Guess I couldn't find a safe article about it.
http://www.global-report.com/seattle/?l=en&a=302676
There are a lot more links if you look for Seattle Fremont Solstice parade that are not SFW. But this is a comunity that obvusly thinks diffrently than you are trying to say we all think?
He has to hide two girls one cup somewhere
That is because they use what is called a "M" system. That stands for Match. If you go through customs, and get a "M" marked onto your ticket, you go into the blue bag and get a secondary search. That is because there database found two things in common with a known "no fly". First Name, Last Name, Part of the birthday, Part of the SS number (or aplicaple country number if one), Part of passport information, etc. etc. I dont' know the extinsive list, but there is a long one. Two have just 2 things in common is incresingly easier as more people move and get put into the database. If you have decent people skills, you can usely talk yourself out of this problem to some degree. Ask for a "TL" or Team leader from the begining, as the first monkey you see can't help you. Make sure and get your file flagged as a "Possible match as soon as possible so that when a "TL" looks at it they see this and you can get through. Now you can always try and grab two of those tickets, and once they mark the M, you can than pull out your second one, draw a line quickly in sharpy, and when you see the second guy get waved through cause you were cleared on first.
And I thought I had heard something about beer.com selling to budwiser.