As someone living in suburban Charlotte, it has an airport, you can go anywhere you like anytime if what you want is far far away. Granted that is not an evening out type of thing, but there is alot to do in the area if it suites your likes. I grew up in Chicago, moved to St Louis in my 30's and to Charlotte in my 40's, so I might have very different likes than younger people thinking of the area, but the history and historical sites in the area can keep me busy for years to come. Also, it is not a terribly long drive to Columbia SC, Atlanta GA, or the beach. If big city life is what you want, you are right, this might not the place for you.
What about a technician repairing those launch circuits though? Sure I would imagine taking launch ability away from a station before taking it offline for repair/maintenance, but then again, accidents do happen, and Murphy will see to it that it is at the most in-opportune time.
WoW jumped the shark when Blizzard created achievements and players started to use them as a criteria to participate in a raid.
Gear-score came along and gave the finishing blow.
I have nothing against requiring some prerequisites like completed a lower level raid or have a reasonable gear score. Unfortunately most players who spam the trade channel for a raid pug require that you've already achieved that particular raid instance or a gear score so high that requires you to have farmed that raid repeatedly.
I read an opinion, which isn't necessarily mine by the way, that basically said that Cataclysm was the answer to all of these woes introduced by the new meta-game. The theory goes like this:
1) The talents and values on gear are simplified, making the basics of the game very easy to grasp without help.
2) The difficulty is ramped way, way up. The standing intention now is mana/resource conservation along with the return crowd control. Also, there will be a progression of 'Normals > Heroics > Raids' that cannot be skipped.
3) Two deeply-critical roles are seeing huge nerfs - tanks/healing - while damage is getting a sizeable buff, creating an inherent conflict of interests.
4) Guild are getting rewards, which translate into costs when one leaves said guild.
This is said to result in a climate where you're never, ever, ever going to want to play with people you don't like. Everyone will be dieing together, a lot. Victories will be by the skin of your teeth, and only when everyone is playing at their best. The days of 'one-wipe-and-bail' will be gone, and the players who seek to judge your ability by Gearscore+Achievement won't be worth playing with. You'll be intended to foster relationships with players and keep them around. You'll guild up for the rewards, and you'll focus on doing this stuff together to get more of them. As you do so, you'll work on getting more skill for those that need it, as pugging just won't be a workable idea.
Or so the theory goes, anyway.
What this is saying to me is the game will be played by those who have time and wish to devote it to the game, everyone else will not see the value to continue to pay for it. I play more then most, but much less then those hard core raiders out there. Our guild has wiped on Litch King for weeks, it's just a hard fight for us to get the mechanics down. If every fight is going to make that look like a walk in the park, I'd suspect most will vote with their wallet and leave the game. I had been hearing how the game was going to be seriously dumbed down, which makes sense if you are trying to be entertaining to the widest audience. If you need to study all the mechanics of every encounter, I see WoW shrinking severely in the new year.
What is more plausible is China no longer wishes to buy our bonds. We are seeing this in many countries already, shifting their holdings to the Euro. as fewer are willing to purchase US Treasuries, the higher the interest rate will need to be offered to attract buyers, which in theory would cost the tax payer more, but reality shows it is just the largest ponzi in existence.
They might find more revenue with premium content only available thru subscriptions using dedicated, well designed iPhone/iPad apps.
I don't know if you just really enjoy your Apple products or not. Personally if you are going to offer something with a lock to something else, I'm not going to be interested. Let me consume your offering how I choose, not how you dictate, and then if I find it useful/valuable I will be happy to subscribe. I feel putting worry about theft over concern for subscribers only reduces subscribers.
Vinny Gambini: Is it possible the 2 defendants...
[looks at judge]
Vinny Gambini: went into the Sac-O-Suds, picked 22 specific items off of the shelf, had the clerk take the money, make change, then leave. Then 2 different men, drive up...
[Seeing Mr. Tipton shake his head no]
Vinny Gambini: Don't shake your head I'm not finished yet. Wait until you hear the whole thing you can understand what it is that I'm askin'. Then, two different men drive up in a similar looking car, do into the store, shoot the clerk, rob him, then leave?
Mr. Tipton: No. They didn't have enough time.
Vinny Gambini: Why not? How long was they in the store for?
Mr. Tipton: 5 minutes.
Vinny Gambini: 5 minutes? How do you know? Did you look at your watch?
Mr. Tipton: No.
Vinny Gambini: Oh, oh, oh, you tesitfied earlier that you saw the boys go into the store, and you had just begun to cook your breakfast and you were just getting ready to eat when you heard the shot.
Mr. Tipton: That's right.
Vinny Gambini: So obviously it takes you 5 minutes to cook your breakfast.
Mr. Tipton: That's right.
Vinny Gambini: That's right, so you knew that. You remember what you had?
Mr. Tipton: Eggs and grits.
Vinny Gambini: Eggs and grits. I like grits, too. How do you cook your grits? Do you like them regular, creamy or al dente?
Mr. Tipton: Just regular I guess.
Vinny Gambini: Regular. Instant grits?
Mr. Tipton: No self respectin' Southerner uses instant grits. I take pride in my grits.
Vinny Gambini: So, Mr. Tipton, how could it take you 5 minutes to cook your grits when it takes the entire grit eating world 20 minutes?
Mr. Tipton: I don't know, I'm a fast cook I guess.
Vinny Gambini: I'm sorry I was all the way over here I couldn't hear you did you say you were a fast cook, that's it?
Mr. Tipton: Yeah.
Vinny Gambini: Are we to believe that boiling water soaks into a grit faster in your kitchen than anywhere else on the face of the earth?
Mr. Tipton: I don't know.
Vinny Gambini: Well, I guess the laws of physics cease to exist on top of your stove. Were these magic grits? Did you buy them from the same guy who sold Jack his beanstalk beans?
The illegality of theft has been around since civilization decided to organize itself. Maybe we could chop people's hands off still? See it hasn't gotten worse, it's gotten better. Sorry you are a deadbeat and can't afford to buy music:(
If we are going to talk about history, you cannot forget to mention copyright is a new/modern concept only getting started in the 1500's, while theft has been a punishable crime thousands of years longer.
All money is just 'shiny pebbles'. It has no value except in the fact that other people value it.
Not really true. The value of a currency lies in both the willingness and requirement to make use of it.
That is why you aren't allowed to declare your incoming in ounces of gold, and why dollars are legal tender for all debt. To force you to use the currency for some things, giving it a direct value that isn't purely based on faith in the market.
The dollar, like the Euro, is a debt backed fiat currency. It has no value other then what these governments are willing to accept it as, when the population stops accepting it as a form of exchange, is when the real troubles will begin.
Fictionwise.com is a bookstore I've bought from in the past and sells short stories and books with many under $1 and I've bought many short stories under a quarter. They offer a micropay solution of their own, pay in $5 or more with paypal and draw from it as you go, as the transaction charges from paypal would make a lot of these works unavailable otherwise.
I wouldn't call any task real work, or trivial for that matter, but we have a lot of routers and switches that yes, I can telnet/ssh to them, but to configure initially requires RS232. 20 year old cisco's are still viable options for a lot of people. We just upgraded a 7507 to an RSP16, added a couple of PA-GIGE modules and 1gb of memory, works like a charm with multiple BGP views still and until we are exceeding 600mbit/s out to the net, why do we need to upgrade it?
If Spamhaus has any assets in the US, i.e. a PayPal account, eBay would be on the top of my list of places to have the Court through the local county sheriff liquidate Spamhaus' US held assets.
But since their was an appeal, I am thinking Spamhaus will satisfy the judgment since they were the only ones who could benefit from an appeal, they are obviously active in the case now, even if it was a default judgment.
Doing Culling of Stratholme enough before they allowed you to skip the beginning lore was all it took for me to realize Arthas is one big bag of hot air I loath.
We have an OC3 from TimeWarner and the service has always been great, but on the pricey side when buying higher speed links. We are replacing them with Cogent this month and doubling our bandwidth while saving a little each month. There are a number of vendors to choose from for phone service, so bundling just doesn't look good when you get to this level of service, but for the home user might be a great option. We are just over the border from Charlotte, in South Carolina.
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Firewire is dead? Really? I wonder how my 5TB or so of external storage is accessible... I must look into that.
I vote telepathy.
Debtor's Prisons were outlawed in the US in 1833
As someone living in suburban Charlotte, it has an airport, you can go anywhere you like anytime if what you want is far far away. Granted that is not an evening out type of thing, but there is alot to do in the area if it suites your likes. I grew up in Chicago, moved to St Louis in my 30's and to Charlotte in my 40's, so I might have very different likes than younger people thinking of the area, but the history and historical sites in the area can keep me busy for years to come. Also, it is not a terribly long drive to Columbia SC, Atlanta GA, or the beach. If big city life is what you want, you are right, this might not the place for you.
So true, North Carolina produces geniuses compared to South Carolina
What about a technician repairing those launch circuits though? Sure I would imagine taking launch ability away from a station before taking it offline for repair/maintenance, but then again, accidents do happen, and Murphy will see to it that it is at the most in-opportune time.
wasting time watching sports and getting mad at things he has no control over.
That is so well put.
So what you are saying is it will take you 2000 Windows server to do the work of 5 Linux servers?
WoW jumped the shark when Blizzard created achievements and players started to use them as a criteria to participate in a raid.
Gear-score came along and gave the finishing blow.
I have nothing against requiring some prerequisites like completed a lower level raid or have a reasonable gear score. Unfortunately most players who spam the trade channel for a raid pug require that you've already achieved that particular raid instance or a gear score so high that requires you to have farmed that raid repeatedly.
I read an opinion, which isn't necessarily mine by the way, that basically said that Cataclysm was the answer to all of these woes introduced by the new meta-game. The theory goes like this:
1) The talents and values on gear are simplified, making the basics of the game very easy to grasp without help.
2) The difficulty is ramped way, way up. The standing intention now is mana/resource conservation along with the return crowd control. Also, there will be a progression of 'Normals > Heroics > Raids' that cannot be skipped.
3) Two deeply-critical roles are seeing huge nerfs - tanks/healing - while damage is getting a sizeable buff, creating an inherent conflict of interests.
4) Guild are getting rewards, which translate into costs when one leaves said guild.
This is said to result in a climate where you're never, ever, ever going to want to play with people you don't like. Everyone will be dieing together, a lot. Victories will be by the skin of your teeth, and only when everyone is playing at their best. The days of 'one-wipe-and-bail' will be gone, and the players who seek to judge your ability by Gearscore+Achievement won't be worth playing with. You'll be intended to foster relationships with players and keep them around. You'll guild up for the rewards, and you'll focus on doing this stuff together to get more of them. As you do so, you'll work on getting more skill for those that need it, as pugging just won't be a workable idea.
Or so the theory goes, anyway.
What this is saying to me is the game will be played by those who have time and wish to devote it to the game, everyone else will not see the value to continue to pay for it. I play more then most, but much less then those hard core raiders out there. Our guild has wiped on Litch King for weeks, it's just a hard fight for us to get the mechanics down. If every fight is going to make that look like a walk in the park, I'd suspect most will vote with their wallet and leave the game. I had been hearing how the game was going to be seriously dumbed down, which makes sense if you are trying to be entertaining to the widest audience. If you need to study all the mechanics of every encounter, I see WoW shrinking severely in the new year.
You can have 48 cores today with a Quad G34 motherboard.
Agreed, I think the best solution is abandon India, let it revert to it's former 3rd world status.
What is more plausible is China no longer wishes to buy our bonds. We are seeing this in many countries already, shifting their holdings to the Euro. as fewer are willing to purchase US Treasuries, the higher the interest rate will need to be offered to attract buyers, which in theory would cost the tax payer more, but reality shows it is just the largest ponzi in existence.
They might find more revenue with premium content only available thru subscriptions using dedicated, well designed iPhone/iPad apps.
I don't know if you just really enjoy your Apple products or not. Personally if you are going to offer something with a lock to something else, I'm not going to be interested. Let me consume your offering how I choose, not how you dictate, and then if I find it useful/valuable I will be happy to subscribe. I feel putting worry about theft over concern for subscribers only reduces subscribers.
Vinny Gambini: Is it possible the 2 defendants...
[looks at judge]
Vinny Gambini: went into the Sac-O-Suds, picked 22 specific items off of the shelf, had the clerk take the money, make change, then leave. Then 2 different men, drive up...
[Seeing Mr. Tipton shake his head no]
Vinny Gambini: Don't shake your head I'm not finished yet. Wait until you hear the whole thing you can understand what it is that I'm askin'. Then, two different men drive up in a similar looking car, do into the store, shoot the clerk, rob him, then leave?
Mr. Tipton: No. They didn't have enough time.
Vinny Gambini: Why not? How long was they in the store for?
Mr. Tipton: 5 minutes.
Vinny Gambini: 5 minutes? How do you know? Did you look at your watch?
Mr. Tipton: No.
Vinny Gambini: Oh, oh, oh, you tesitfied earlier that you saw the boys go into the store, and you had just begun to cook your breakfast and you were just getting ready to eat when you heard the shot.
Mr. Tipton: That's right.
Vinny Gambini: So obviously it takes you 5 minutes to cook your breakfast.
Mr. Tipton: That's right.
Vinny Gambini: That's right, so you knew that. You remember what you had?
Mr. Tipton: Eggs and grits.
Vinny Gambini: Eggs and grits. I like grits, too. How do you cook your grits? Do you like them regular, creamy or al dente?
Mr. Tipton: Just regular I guess.
Vinny Gambini: Regular. Instant grits?
Mr. Tipton: No self respectin' Southerner uses instant grits. I take pride in my grits.
Vinny Gambini: So, Mr. Tipton, how could it take you 5 minutes to cook your grits when it takes the entire grit eating world 20 minutes?
Mr. Tipton: I don't know, I'm a fast cook I guess.
Vinny Gambini: I'm sorry I was all the way over here I couldn't hear you did you say you were a fast cook, that's it?
Mr. Tipton: Yeah.
Vinny Gambini: Are we to believe that boiling water soaks into a grit faster in your kitchen than anywhere else on the face of the earth?
Mr. Tipton: I don't know.
Vinny Gambini: Well, I guess the laws of physics cease to exist on top of your stove. Were these magic grits? Did you buy them from the same guy who sold Jack his beanstalk beans?
The illegality of theft has been around since civilization decided to organize itself. Maybe we could chop people's hands off still? See it hasn't gotten worse, it's gotten better. Sorry you are a deadbeat and can't afford to buy music :(
If we are going to talk about history, you cannot forget to mention copyright is a new/modern concept only getting started in the 1500's, while theft has been a punishable crime thousands of years longer.
All money is just 'shiny pebbles'. It has no value except in the fact that other people value it.
Not really true. The value of a currency lies in both the willingness and requirement to make use of it.
That is why you aren't allowed to declare your incoming in ounces of gold, and why dollars are legal tender for all debt. To force you to use the currency for some things, giving it a direct value that isn't purely based on faith in the market.
The dollar, like the Euro, is a debt backed fiat currency. It has no value other then what these governments are willing to accept it as, when the population stops accepting it as a form of exchange, is when the real troubles will begin.
Fictionwise.com is a bookstore I've bought from in the past and sells short stories and books with many under $1 and I've bought many short stories under a quarter. They offer a micropay solution of their own, pay in $5 or more with paypal and draw from it as you go, as the transaction charges from paypal would make a lot of these works unavailable otherwise.
How long before eBay marks it as a non-trusted form of payment?
I wouldn't call any task real work, or trivial for that matter, but we have a lot of routers and switches that yes, I can telnet/ssh to them, but to configure initially requires RS232. 20 year old cisco's are still viable options for a lot of people. We just upgraded a 7507 to an RSP16, added a couple of PA-GIGE modules and 1gb of memory, works like a charm with multiple BGP views still and until we are exceeding 600mbit/s out to the net, why do we need to upgrade it?
I thought the porn studios made fucking movies
If Spamhaus has any assets in the US, i.e. a PayPal account, eBay would be on the top of my list of places to have the Court through the local county sheriff liquidate Spamhaus' US held assets. But since their was an appeal, I am thinking Spamhaus will satisfy the judgment since they were the only ones who could benefit from an appeal, they are obviously active in the case now, even if it was a default judgment.
Doing Culling of Stratholme enough before they allowed you to skip the beginning lore was all it took for me to realize Arthas is one big bag of hot air I loath.
sex and the Pentium 4
Is that the new TV show for geeks?
I head CBS ordered the pilot then never picked it up, but SyFy ordered 12 episodes to air after Eureka
Which party is that? The two sponsors represents both major parties.
Yup, that's the one
We have an OC3 from TimeWarner and the service has always been great, but on the pricey side when buying higher speed links. We are replacing them with Cogent this month and doubling our bandwidth while saving a little each month. There are a number of vendors to choose from for phone service, so bundling just doesn't look good when you get to this level of service, but for the home user might be a great option. We are just over the border from Charlotte, in South Carolina.
Who have used them previously on Japan