Well, technically, init could do the job just as well, too. After all, it spawned off (eventually) the process that spawned the zombie (and forgot to reap them). Now, we just need to telinit to reap some zombie processes.
Init would happily let that zombie process fall into oblivion if it wasn't for the process that spawned the current zombie, still propping it up.
The 25 man content in TBC was balanced around having 25 people turn up wearing the best available equipment, using every flask/potion/food buff/weapon buff available to them and also happening to play well.
No, flasks, buffs, and so forth are shortcuts. They help you achieve your aims faster, helping you survive in those 5% situations that might otherwise outright kill you. You will progress without them, you just won't be teh hardcore and you'll progress a little slower. And even there Blizzard has provided players with non-grinding alternatives -- trash in all the large 25-man instances drop tokens redeemable for flasks that are usable in the 25-man raid dungeons which are just as good (and far easier to acquire) than the flasks that you have to farm materials for. The food daily quest provides my guildmembers with so much food that we filled up our guild bank tab for it and have started to sell it off. Several of the best players in my raid log in only at raid time to raid. After that, they're done, and they spend the rest of their time with their wives, kids, and so forth.
My thoughts exactly. I believe another poster (QuantumG?) said that he thinks that Blizzard should just hand out L70 characters to people who want them for exactly that reason.
And the quality level of level 70s would have a marked decline. You can see it pretty quickly. You can tell who has bought their level 70 character on eBay or another site. They are, overall, terrible. They don't know how to play their class. They don't know how the abilities of the class work together. By leveling up from a powerless starting point, the game introduces class abilities and talents to the player at a rate in which he can handle it, until a level 70 player has at least a marginal understanding of class mechanics, how grouping in dungeons works, and so forth. It's the same reason why Blizzard no longer allows premade level 70s to test content on the test realms -- they found that the quality of feedback they got from the 70 premades was terrible, totally failing at the goal of player feedback for the new content and new features. Granted you can still remain clueless at the max level. But there's a ton of content before then to explore and work things out, and Blizzard is still retuning that content to meet the needs of today's players (for example, leveling from 1-60 today is much faster today than when level 60 was the level cap, items are generally more useful at the lower levels than they used to be, etc).
Under some circumstances they'll experiment with premades. The Arena Tournament takes place on a special server where a team gets characters outfitted with the same gear as other teams. It should be interesting to see what comes of that.
Got them over it? Have you looked at the WoW forums recently? A more wretched hive of tards and nerdrage you will not find.
Fortunately (as I often tell new players or people who find the forums for the first time), the WoW forums in no way represent the standard in-game experience. According to the forums, everyone's class and spec requires both buffing and nerfing, everyone is now canceling their accounts (and everyone has been for the last three years), and no one is happy about anything about the game.
Woah there......"if this developer had any brains at all" is a bit harsh. I don't know that is was reasonable for him to expect being sued (probably without merit).
If you create a program whose one and only purpose is to assist people to break their license agreements by cheating in an extremely popular online game, then yes, you should expect to be sued. Blizzard had sued people for far more frivolous reasons before (see: BNetd)
It's not good for business if BioInitiative authors selling RF-shielding recommend exposure guidelines that eliminate the need for RF-shielding - so what's your point?
It's extremely good advertising. However, I do believe Sandi Maurer when she says she's electrically sensitive. It's all BS and she's crazy, but an honest crazy most likely.
I've relatives who live in Sebastopol. They are in absolutely no danger of being exposed to "excessive RF exposure."
It's still pretty bad for the people in the car though, regardless of whether they collide with another.
What happens when get a flat tire in a car going 150 mph? You die. At least, in most of today's cars. You'd have to seriously overengineer new cars to survive accidents at twice today's freeway speeds.
I smile every time I see the Bioinitiative report cited as "independent" - as one of the main authors makes a living by consulting on how to shield houses from RF-radiation. Begs the question: Independent from who?
What a coincidence (not really), the main opposition to the Sebastopol Wi-Fi is a woman with a consulting business for shielding houses from RF-radiation.
The "electrically sensitive" Sandi Maurer mentioned in the article who gathered the signatures to stop Wi-Fi was mentioned in another Press Democrat article (a companion piece to the article linked in the slashdot story in the paper edition of the PD) which said she has a consulting company that specializes in blocking EMF radiation from the home. I'd suppose in her case, banning wi-fi would be lowering the potential customers for such an enterprise, though it is incredible publicity.
He's just being an asshole. Internet anonymity encourages that sort of thing. I believe Penny Arcade decribed it as The Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.
Since most older vaccines and many current vaccines use a mercury based preservative (thimerosal), I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the link.
Mercury hasn't been used as a preservative in vaccines for many years now. Since their removal, the autism rate of young children hasn't really budged. And yet parents are "convinced" that vaccines caused their kids' autism.
That's the person you want answering the phone at 3am, not the whining candidate who was dumb enough to lie through her teeth about "running for cover under sniper fire" at the airport in Bosnia, only to have video footage appear on youtube 12 hours later showing her landing where she was greeted by the president and his daughter, who read her a poem right there on the tarmac.
In her defense, the poem might have been so long and boring that she pretended there were snipers attacking just to get away from it. Afterwards? Well, she couldn't insult the President's daughter. Could you tell a little girl her poetry sucked?
Also, does the McCain/Lieberman ticket scare anyone else? First he gets defeated handily by a democrat in his own state, and had to re run as an independent. Then he gives up his seat at the DNC, and his super delegate vote, so he can endorse McCain. Is that something that pleases independents? It is shocking how quickly he turned on his own party (he was Al Gore's running mate in 2000).
Maybe he's pulling a Ronald Reagan. "I didn't leave the party, the party left me.."
Lieberman is, and always has been a fierce pro-Israel war hawk. He'll go with whomever promises to send over the bombs.
Actually I'd say the phrase "But my guess is that you are just completely full of shit and vote republican because of your staunch, murderous, religious convictions" qualifies as either Troll or Flamebait. That's not even close to a civilized discussion.
Exactly. An agnostic doesn't believe in anything -- even that there is no god. The agnostic says "insufficient data," keeps his eyes open, and moves on.
The bursting of the bubble was the greatest primary cause for the recession, as the ripples from the implosion slowly spread into other sectors of the economy. The tech industry was going like gangbusters through the 90s and quite a bit of non-tech-industry infrastructure supported it, and when the tech companies died off or scaled back, eventually the bad times spread to that infrastructure as well.
Now, you could certainly make the argument that the recession was more pronounced than it needed to be thanks to Bush and I wouldn't argue with you there, but the recession was coming whether or not we had Bush in the White House or a 3rd-term Clinton.
Yup, after the Pegasus story arc, Season 2 lost a lot of momentum with what felt like "filler," episodes like the Black Market, the Hostage in the bar episode, a few others until the plot kicked it up to high gear again with the last 3-4 episodes of the season. Sadly, after they left the planet in Season 3 and the Collaborator subplot was taken care of, the rest of season three except for a few individual episodes (I liked Starbuck's breakdown/disappearance) felt like filler. Again, until the end of the season.
I don't know how much McCain believes that. What it did do, however, was show me how much John was willing to pander and switch his tune if it improved his odds, which was quite disappointing.
Um, the recession happened in the second half of '01, beginning in July, after the Bush Tax Cut went into effect.
Incorrect, the collapse was underway in early 2000, well before the election. The dot-com bubble burst roughly March, 2000. I worked at one of them that didn't survive to see the 2000 Presidential election.
There's plenty of evidence that in both Texas and Ohio, Republicans are voting for Hillary in order to "bloody Obama" politically. Rush Limbaugh has been urging his listeners to do that for weeks.
Who would have figured Hillary Clinton would be helped along by the "vast right-winged agenda."
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Nah, those don't happen by themselves, that's indicative of some flaw in the system, like disk corruption. Actually, hmm...
Init would happily let that zombie process fall into oblivion if it wasn't for the process that spawned the current zombie, still propping it up.
No, flasks, buffs, and so forth are shortcuts. They help you achieve your aims faster, helping you survive in those 5% situations that might otherwise outright kill you. You will progress without them, you just won't be teh hardcore and you'll progress a little slower. And even there Blizzard has provided players with non-grinding alternatives -- trash in all the large 25-man instances drop tokens redeemable for flasks that are usable in the 25-man raid dungeons which are just as good (and far easier to acquire) than the flasks that you have to farm materials for. The food daily quest provides my guildmembers with so much food that we filled up our guild bank tab for it and have started to sell it off. Several of the best players in my raid log in only at raid time to raid. After that, they're done, and they spend the rest of their time with their wives, kids, and so forth.
And the quality level of level 70s would have a marked decline. You can see it pretty quickly. You can tell who has bought their level 70 character on eBay or another site. They are, overall, terrible. They don't know how to play their class. They don't know how the abilities of the class work together. By leveling up from a powerless starting point, the game introduces class abilities and talents to the player at a rate in which he can handle it, until a level 70 player has at least a marginal understanding of class mechanics, how grouping in dungeons works, and so forth. It's the same reason why Blizzard no longer allows premade level 70s to test content on the test realms -- they found that the quality of feedback they got from the 70 premades was terrible, totally failing at the goal of player feedback for the new content and new features. Granted you can still remain clueless at the max level. But there's a ton of content before then to explore and work things out, and Blizzard is still retuning that content to meet the needs of today's players (for example, leveling from 1-60 today is much faster today than when level 60 was the level cap, items are generally more useful at the lower levels than they used to be, etc).
Under some circumstances they'll experiment with premades. The Arena Tournament takes place on a special server where a team gets characters outfitted with the same gear as other teams. It should be interesting to see what comes of that.
Fortunately (as I often tell new players or people who find the forums for the first time), the WoW forums in no way represent the standard in-game experience. According to the forums, everyone's class and spec requires both buffing and nerfing, everyone is now canceling their accounts (and everyone has been for the last three years), and no one is happy about anything about the game.
If you create a program whose one and only purpose is to assist people to break their license agreements by cheating in an extremely popular online game, then yes, you should expect to be sued. Blizzard had sued people for far more frivolous reasons before (see: BNetd)
It's extremely good advertising. However, I do believe Sandi Maurer when she says she's electrically sensitive. It's all BS and she's crazy, but an honest crazy most likely.
I've relatives who live in Sebastopol. They are in absolutely no danger of being exposed to "excessive RF exposure."
What happens when get a flat tire in a car going 150 mph? You die. At least, in most of today's cars. You'd have to seriously overengineer new cars to survive accidents at twice today's freeway speeds.
What a coincidence (not really), the main opposition to the Sebastopol Wi-Fi is a woman with a consulting business for shielding houses from RF-radiation.
At first I read that as "psychological reaction to Wi-Fi," which is the likely explanation.
The "electrically sensitive" Sandi Maurer mentioned in the article who gathered the signatures to stop Wi-Fi was mentioned in another Press Democrat article (a companion piece to the article linked in the slashdot story in the paper edition of the PD) which said she has a consulting company that specializes in blocking EMF radiation from the home. I'd suppose in her case, banning wi-fi would be lowering the potential customers for such an enterprise, though it is incredible publicity.
He's just being an asshole. Internet anonymity encourages that sort of thing. I believe Penny Arcade decribed it as The Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.
Mercury hasn't been used as a preservative in vaccines for many years now. Since their removal, the autism rate of young children hasn't really budged. And yet parents are "convinced" that vaccines caused their kids' autism.
In her defense, the poem might have been so long and boring that she pretended there were snipers attacking just to get away from it. Afterwards? Well, she couldn't insult the President's daughter. Could you tell a little girl her poetry sucked?
Maybe he's pulling a Ronald Reagan. "I didn't leave the party, the party left me.."
Lieberman is, and always has been a fierce pro-Israel war hawk. He'll go with whomever promises to send over the bombs.
Actually I'd say the phrase "But my guess is that you are just completely full of shit and vote republican because of your staunch, murderous, religious convictions" qualifies as either Troll or Flamebait. That's not even close to a civilized discussion.
Exactly. An agnostic doesn't believe in anything -- even that there is no god. The agnostic says "insufficient data," keeps his eyes open, and moves on.
I love the moderation on this AC post. Score: -1, Insightful?
Now, you could certainly make the argument that the recession was more pronounced than it needed to be thanks to Bush and I wouldn't argue with you there, but the recession was coming whether or not we had Bush in the White House or a 3rd-term Clinton.
I didn't get that sense in Season 1 as much.
I don't know how much McCain believes that. What it did do, however, was show me how much John was willing to pander and switch his tune if it improved his odds, which was quite disappointing.
Incorrect, the collapse was underway in early 2000, well before the election. The dot-com bubble burst roughly March, 2000. I worked at one of them that didn't survive to see the 2000 Presidential election.
Who would have figured Hillary Clinton would be helped along by the "vast right-winged agenda."
Politics does make strange bedfellows.
It would help if the Simpsons past 1998 were amusing.
Despite your assertion though, I see plenty of references to Futurama on Slashdot, which actually bolsters your "quality is declining" argument.
People don't like "Congress." They like individual Congressmen/women, but not as a collective.