Ditto there. My main char (level 45, for the record) has almost 10 days of play time, and I have three alts with 5 - 15 hours each on them. I've never been so into a game, and I never thought I would be. It's just a great game though.
And who would that be? If the system stays in place as is, benefits will most likely be cut before I retire. If W's plan goes into effect, benefits will most likely be cut before I retire, but at least I will have *something* in a private retirement account. Either way, I will be putting a lot more into the system than I will ever get out of it. At least with W's plan I have *something*. FDR really managed to screw us over. He seemed to know what he was doing though. I believe the quote goes something like "No one will ever get rid of my Social Security."
So what you're saying is that after I've paid into the system my entire adult life, benefits will be cut just as I retire? Sounds like a great system...
They released a subset of server names? I was paying pretty close attention, and AFAIK, they didn't release any server names before launch.
I believe you're wrong about central servers being the most populated too. The last time I looked, all the most populated servers were east coast servers. Why? Because in every Blizzard game, everyone always plays on east coast servers. Why? Don't ask me. I live on the east coast, so I suffer for it.
Here's what happened to my WoW Guild: Opening day over lunch I hit the mall, hurry home, register an account, log in, and check out the server list. I pick the only East Coast PVP server with a low population, post it to the guild website, tell it to my coworkers who play, email people etc. When I get home from work at approximately 5:30, there's a huge queue to get on the server. And the queue only gets longer as the night progresses. The server is Mannoroth, which according to wowcensus.com is the sixth most populated server. Fortunately we haven't had too much unscheduled downtime. Lots of lag though in major cities. And a massive raid on Undercity took down the entire server saturday night. Wasn't down for too long though.
Good link, but apparently you didn't read it. It says that Logitech has licensed technology that will be used in a steering wheel controller which will come out for Gamecube. The article has nothing to do with Nintendo or first party gamecube controllers.
Yeah, that's what just about everyone here said last time this was posted on/. I'd like to know if that was brought up in the trial, but the article is pretty slim on details.
Yeah, the big problem now is that the floodgates have been opened to patenting all kinds of things that could never have been patented before. Since the USPTO seems to be incapable of using sources other than the existing patent database for prior art, there's all kinds of crazy patents. The other problem, being, of course that patent reviewers don't have enough education in the appropriate areas to recognize obvious patents. The infamous 1-click patent is a great example. You have parts A, B, C, and D, which all have already been done, you put them together in a trivial way to accomplishing 1-click shopping, and new patent. If you had asked any web programmer to come up with a design for a 1-click shopping app, any good programmer would have come up with a design in 15 minutes. And most of the designs would have looked very similar, because all of them would have used the kinds of technology that were available, parts A,B,C,D, etc. that I mentioned earlier. It's obvious to any programmer, but apparently not to whomever reviewed the patent.
Hehe, actually, historically, you have been able to patent processes. You're right about math though, at least historically. I'd argue that math can be patented now. How else could RSA have been patented? If RSA isn't math, what is?
Of course you can be permanently blinded. Lasers can cause temporary damage too. We had a few nice lasers in my high school physics class. Powerful enough to blind someone instantaneously. I took my teacher's word on this, as we never tried it out =]
It's my understanding that getting hit in the eye with a laser can cause a number of things short of permanent blindness, scaling from a severe headache a few hours later to blurry spots in the vision to temporary blindness. I've experienced the first, you can get that one just from staring at the "dot" of a laser hiting a wall. I had a blurry spot in my vision one day in high school. I've always suspected it was from some idiot hitting me with a laser pointer.
99.9% of laser beams are not destructive to anything other than MAYBE a retina
Perhaps you're aware of some kind of popular laser that I am not, but even laser pointers are damaging to retinas with any kind of prolonged exposure. Lasers much bigger than that will blind you instantaneously.
For example the Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) style game which are fun (yes, you can admit it) but the only game they have in that style is Donka Konga... wich has a set of bongos. Where am I going to put bongos in my apartment?
If you don't have room for a small plastic bongo drum, you certainly don't have the space for a DDR dance pad.
constant white pixel located about the middle of the top screen. I returned it. Almost didn't get a replacement for it though. The EB was sold out of DS's until January, but they called another EB which still had a few, so I drove there and exchanged it.
I said about a year ago that I was going to buy a ps2 for this game when it came out. Looks like the ps2 purchase will be delayed once again. Let's just say I'm not holding my breath for the 28th at this point.
Yet certain American leaders can justify wars as "defending our interests" when it comes to oil
That wasn't how we justified the war. I don't mind criticism. Sometimes we deserve it. But you shouldn't have to lie to criticize us. There are plenty of ways we can be criticized without lying about the arguments used by our President to invade Iraq.
If our objective in Iraq was oil, we would be pumping oil from Iraq right now. And we would have taken far fewer casualties. And there would be no provisional Iraqi government. And elections wouldn't be scheduled for January.
Go ahead and keep repeating that the war is "really about oil." It isn't. It never was. It wasn't true when it was first stated when we were making a case for the war. Repeating it over and over again doesn't make it true.
If that's the case, then this study is a useless comparison between ethanol and oil. The useful study would be:
how many gallons of ethanol does it take to produce one gallon of ethanol? (inc. planting, fertilizing, harvesting, refining, shipping, etc)
vs.
how many gallons of gasoline does it take to produce one gallon of gasoline? (inc. discovery, drilling, pumping, shipping, refining, etc)
And even if ethanol compares favorably in this study, you would still have to look into how much land and labor it takes to produce ethanol. I don't imagine labor would be a problem, but land might be.
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Ditto there. My main char (level 45, for the record) has almost 10 days of play time, and I have three alts with 5 - 15 hours each on them. I've never been so into a game, and I never thought I would be. It's just a great game though.
And who would that be? If the system stays in place as is, benefits will most likely be cut before I retire. If W's plan goes into effect, benefits will most likely be cut before I retire, but at least I will have *something* in a private retirement account. Either way, I will be putting a lot more into the system than I will ever get out of it. At least with W's plan I have *something*. FDR really managed to screw us over. He seemed to know what he was doing though. I believe the quote goes something like "No one will ever get rid of my Social Security."
So what you're saying is that after I've paid into the system my entire adult life, benefits will be cut just as I retire? Sounds like a great system...
They released a subset of server names? I was paying pretty close attention, and AFAIK, they didn't release any server names before launch.
I believe you're wrong about central servers being the most populated too. The last time I looked, all the most populated servers were east coast servers. Why? Because in every Blizzard game, everyone always plays on east coast servers. Why? Don't ask me. I live on the east coast, so I suffer for it.
Here's what happened to my WoW Guild: Opening day over lunch I hit the mall, hurry home, register an account, log in, and check out the server list. I pick the only East Coast PVP server with a low population, post it to the guild website, tell it to my coworkers who play, email people etc. When I get home from work at approximately 5:30, there's a huge queue to get on the server. And the queue only gets longer as the night progresses. The server is Mannoroth, which according to wowcensus.com is the sixth most populated server. Fortunately we haven't had too much unscheduled downtime. Lots of lag though in major cities. And a massive raid on Undercity took down the entire server saturday night. Wasn't down for too long though.
Xbox Live also has no MMO offerings. The problem of a non-mmo offering and an mmo-offering really isn't comparable.
Good link, but apparently you didn't read it. It says that Logitech has licensed technology that will be used in a steering wheel controller which will come out for Gamecube. The article has nothing to do with Nintendo or first party gamecube controllers.
Yeah, that's what just about everyone here said last time this was posted on /. I'd like to know if that was brought up in the trial, but the article is pretty slim on details.
Yeah, the big problem now is that the floodgates have been opened to patenting all kinds of things that could never have been patented before. Since the USPTO seems to be incapable of using sources other than the existing patent database for prior art, there's all kinds of crazy patents. The other problem, being, of course that patent reviewers don't have enough education in the appropriate areas to recognize obvious patents. The infamous 1-click patent is a great example. You have parts A, B, C, and D, which all have already been done, you put them together in a trivial way to accomplishing 1-click shopping, and new patent. If you had asked any web programmer to come up with a design for a 1-click shopping app, any good programmer would have come up with a design in 15 minutes. And most of the designs would have looked very similar, because all of them would have used the kinds of technology that were available, parts A,B,C,D, etc. that I mentioned earlier. It's obvious to any programmer, but apparently not to whomever reviewed the patent.
Hehe, actually, historically, you have been able to patent processes. You're right about math though, at least historically. I'd argue that math can be patented now. How else could RSA have been patented? If RSA isn't math, what is?
I haven't played my cube in awhile. Since November 23. The day WoW came out...
Of course you can be permanently blinded. Lasers can cause temporary damage too. We had a few nice lasers in my high school physics class. Powerful enough to blind someone instantaneously. I took my teacher's word on this, as we never tried it out =]
It's my understanding that getting hit in the eye with a laser can cause a number of things short of permanent blindness, scaling from a severe headache a few hours later to blurry spots in the vision to temporary blindness. I've experienced the first, you can get that one just from staring at the "dot" of a laser hiting a wall. I had a blurry spot in my vision one day in high school. I've always suspected it was from some idiot hitting me with a laser pointer.
Perhaps you're aware of some kind of popular laser that I am not, but even laser pointers are damaging to retinas with any kind of prolonged exposure. Lasers much bigger than that will blind you instantaneously.
I've always wanted one of those bikes.
Mmm, Mospeada...
You'll need two copies.
For example the Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) style game which are fun (yes, you can admit it) but the only game they have in that style is Donka Konga... wich has a set of bongos. Where am I going to put bongos in my apartment?
If you don't have room for a small plastic bongo drum, you certainly don't have the space for a DDR dance pad.
This is the one that's going to turn everyone into zombies, right?
constant white pixel located about the middle of the top screen. I returned it. Almost didn't get a replacement for it though. The EB was sold out of DS's until January, but they called another EB which still had a few, so I drove there and exchanged it.
If I can't get the CE I preordered, I'll get a normal copy. If I can't get either, I'll be pissed...
Certainly recount if there's a problem, but the machines should be randomly audited as well...
I said about a year ago that I was going to buy a ps2 for this game when it came out. Looks like the ps2 purchase will be delayed once again. Let's just say I'm not holding my breath for the 28th at this point.
In America's fastest growing industry: Litigation.
lol
Dual Screen, in case anyone is wondering what it *actually* stands for.
Not like it matters. I own a GBA SP, and I have no idea what the SP stands for.
That wasn't how we justified the war. I don't mind criticism. Sometimes we deserve it. But you shouldn't have to lie to criticize us. There are plenty of ways we can be criticized without lying about the arguments used by our President to invade Iraq.
If our objective in Iraq was oil, we would be pumping oil from Iraq right now. And we would have taken far fewer casualties. And there would be no provisional Iraqi government. And elections wouldn't be scheduled for January.
Go ahead and keep repeating that the war is "really about oil." It isn't. It never was. It wasn't true when it was first stated when we were making a case for the war. Repeating it over and over again doesn't make it true.
If that's the case, then this study is a useless comparison between ethanol and oil. The useful study would be:
how many gallons of ethanol does it take to produce one gallon of ethanol? (inc. planting, fertilizing, harvesting, refining, shipping, etc)
vs.
how many gallons of gasoline does it take to produce one gallon of gasoline? (inc. discovery, drilling, pumping, shipping, refining, etc)
And even if ethanol compares favorably in this study, you would still have to look into how much land and labor it takes to produce ethanol. I don't imagine labor would be a problem, but land might be.