Some games are well-designed for that. Others, notably Everquest in my experience, are sadly, not. In Everquest, there isn't really a story that you can follow throughout your character's lives. There are some quests at the beginning, for some race/class combinations, but they won't take you "all the way" like Final Fantasy does. That was definitely something missing in EQ.
EQ was all about mind-numbing tasks (pulling monsters back to a "camp" was one of the more offensive ones).
Heh. Let's hope that a huge competition develops between the two supercomputer departments, to always try to one-up the other. That'd be entertaining and beneficial!
I do not know anyone who owns a computer capable of playing these games, that cannot afford $10-15/month.
Time-wise, however, is a completely different story, and I'd agree. I don't have the time or the energy to devote to a MMORPG like I used to (I had a character on Everquest with over 90 *days* playtime. I know that's not "hardcore", but that is still a lot of time). More importantly, after seeing how many bugs the game had (mostly in quests), and seeing that none of them were fixed after repeated/bug reports, I have little patience any more when I run across bugs in newer games.
It's also convenient that they don't have to report, because it means we won't get an explanation as to who sold (looks like sold anyways) 250K shares or so of it at $1/piece at around 2:30PM.
These sued people ain't RIAA customers but potential customers of it's member.
That's a dangerous assumption.
Though I'm not one of the sued, I'll give you an example. A friend of mine had a KMFDM CD and let me listen to it. I liked it, and bought myself a copy, but I wanted to see if I'd like their other albums before I went and purchased them. I went online, downloaded some mp3s from their other albums.
At that point I was a customer of theirs, even though I was getting mp3s of other albums online. (Turns out I liked those mp3s too, so I picked up the other albums.)
In fact with increased file sharing these people won't be customers.
This is also a dangerous assumption. It assumes that everyone, everywhere, will eventually be using file sharing to get files instead of buying the CDs in stores. This is impossible under our capitalist system, because *someone* has to buy the CDs.
But the sueing will convert them into customers.
???
File sharing is illegal.
I do not believe there is any law that prevents me from lending a CD I've purchased to a friend. If there is, could you please point me in that direction?
Bookmarks are pretty sweet. Almost every modern browser supports them, I think they even have it in Netscape 2.0. Did the throbbing M have 'em? I forget.
He's saying that if everyone switched to Linux there'd be less viruses than if they all stayed on Windows.
I find that claim laughable.
The reason the mail software executes programs it receives is because a programmer designed it to do that. That same programmer, once Windows is dead and buried, will still be around writing code, maybe writing a new Linux mail program which does the exact same thing. Or, even if it's not him, somebody can, because even on Linux it is possible.
There's nothing stopping Linux developers from requiring everyone to run as root.
Of course! I'm certain that once Linux is more popular than Windows, all of the people who used to code for Windows will simultaneously implode, preventing them from writing bad code on Linux.
Heh, guess we live in different worlds. I do what I can (preventative maint, pre-built update packages, etc.) to make sure I don't have to do very many 16+ hour days, regardless of how many 600 machines we have (yep, us too). Then again I've always been salaried, I might work different if I got overtime for it.:-):-)
Heh, try being a systems admin or a network admin for a while, then you'll realize where that attitude comes from.
Basically, we're doing maintenance jobs, with an occasional upgrade. If we're doing our jobs right, the maintenance will be very minimal - and we'll look like we're lazy. If we have to work on something, it's either for a good reason (security patch), or because we got *too* lazy before and didn't do the maintenance right.
The Internet is my primary source of knowledge, and has been since I was in high school. The school never ended up teaching much that was relevant to.. oh.. anything, and the Internet had tons of freely available knowledge to eat up.
I still rely on the Internet, but it's becoming increasingly more difficult to do so as Google is the best search engine, and has become barely useful any more due to the search engine spammers.
I do think that a good search engine is key to extracting information from the Internet, and I look forward to a day when we once again have a good search engine.
Yes, the next time you guys see electronic voting on the ballot, vote against it$!#!@#% Oh wait, it isn't on the ballot. It probably never will be. Ah, shit. Now what do we do?
You live in a very different world than I. There's no way to stop junk mail here, in the states (that I know of). I receive about 3-5 ads in there per day (I receive about 5-8 legitimate letters per month!).
When I answered my landline I would receive about 2-3 telemarketing calls per day.
The AU does sound awfully nice. Now if they could get rid of that pesky Internet censorship and monopoly problem...;-) (winking in case those are already long gone).
You also have to be in a Cogent-lit building, or else you're going to need to lease a line from a lit-building to your office. Probably better off just buying transit from a Cogent-hosted ISP at that point.
Of course, many of us are still hoping they'll go out of business, after what they and a select few others have done to the bandwidth pricing market. *crosses fingers*
Not everyone wants speed, but does want easy-to-read bills (no need to have a phone line + separate ISP account, have both for potentially far less), and cheap internet access. always-on is nice, too, and doesn't require high-speed access to appreciate.
As long as it's all low latency, I'd be happy with a slower cable modem (for less money). The latency is the main thing I'm concerned with.
...that can help make mod_perl Not Suck(tm)? Until we implemented draconian IP blocking measures, the servers we have that run mod_perl (but not our perl code) ran themselves out of swap on a regular basis (several times a day). Similarly bad perl code does little to no damage to servers without mod_perl.
As an administrator rather than a developer, and as someone who cannot influence what perl goes on the server, was there anything in the book that could help me stop the huge memory footprint per child (the number one problem)?
I for one agree. The French health officials should have forseen the heatwave and erected a large barrier to protect the citizens, and maintain a safe and consistent temperature for them all. Their failure to do so is a clear indication that public health care is completely and utterly doomed for now and forever.
Betting the entire company's yearly revenues on one employee is bad business, plain and simple. Any company that does that deserves what it gets if the person decides to move on.
Letting any one business deal account for more than 5-10% of your revenues is very risky. Then again, all business is risky. Suck it up.
In the sales person's case, it could just as easily have gone south if the salesperson had not closed the Big Deal, right? Like, what if the Big Dealers backed out, through no fault of the salesperson? The executives/directors would have a lot of 'splainin to do.
Nextel really needs to get on the ball and replace the old NNNXXXYYYY@messaging.nextel.com system with user-selectable-arbitrary-64-char-string@messaging.nextel.com (on request of course).
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Some games are well-designed for that. Others, notably Everquest in my experience, are sadly, not. In Everquest, there isn't really a story that you can follow throughout your character's lives. There are some quests at the beginning, for some race/class combinations, but they won't take you "all the way" like Final Fantasy does. That was definitely something missing in EQ.
EQ was all about mind-numbing tasks (pulling monsters back to a "camp" was one of the more offensive ones).
Hahah. Yeah. That's when I'd walk. There are plenty of local stores that sell video games, without hassling me.
The only place I put up with that shit is the liquor store, because it's state-run here (WA state) and they're anal about it.
Heh. Let's hope that a huge competition develops between the two supercomputer departments, to always try to one-up the other. That'd be entertaining and beneficial!
Same here. I love my model M. Nearly indestructable.
:)
Now if only someone could hack up a wireless adapter for the plug on the back.
I do not know anyone who owns a computer capable of playing these games, that cannot afford $10-15/month.
/bug reports, I have little patience any more when I run across bugs in newer games.
Time-wise, however, is a completely different story, and I'd agree. I don't have the time or the energy to devote to a MMORPG like I used to (I had a character on Everquest with over 90 *days* playtime. I know that's not "hardcore", but that is still a lot of time). More importantly, after seeing how many bugs the game had (mostly in quests), and seeing that none of them were fixed after repeated
It's also convenient that they don't have to report, because it means we won't get an explanation as to who sold (looks like sold anyways) 250K shares or so of it at $1/piece at around 2:30PM.
How on earth did someone manage to sell about 250,000 shares for a dollar a piece (that's what it looks like anyways) when the stock is worth a dime.
These sued people ain't RIAA customers but potential customers of it's member.
That's a dangerous assumption.
Though I'm not one of the sued, I'll give you an example. A friend of mine had a KMFDM CD and let me listen to it. I liked it, and bought myself a copy, but I wanted to see if I'd like their other albums before I went and purchased them. I went online, downloaded some mp3s from their other albums.
At that point I was a customer of theirs, even though I was getting mp3s of other albums online. (Turns out I liked those mp3s too, so I picked up the other albums.)
In fact with increased file sharing these people won't be customers.
This is also a dangerous assumption. It assumes that everyone, everywhere, will eventually be using file sharing to get files instead of buying the CDs in stores. This is impossible under our capitalist system, because *someone* has to buy the CDs.
But the sueing will convert them into customers.
???
File sharing is illegal.
I do not believe there is any law that prevents me from lending a CD I've purchased to a friend. If there is, could you please point me in that direction?
Here you go:
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# mkfifo booda
# cat text > booda
in another window:
# cat booda > somefile
voila
Bookmarks are pretty sweet. Almost every modern browser supports them, I think they even have it in Netscape 2.0. Did the throbbing M have 'em? I forget.
He's saying that if everyone switched to Linux there'd be less viruses than if they all stayed on Windows.
I find that claim laughable.
The reason the mail software executes programs it receives is because a programmer designed it to do that. That same programmer, once Windows is dead and buried, will still be around writing code, maybe writing a new Linux mail program which does the exact same thing. Or, even if it's not him, somebody can, because even on Linux it is possible.
There's nothing stopping Linux developers from requiring everyone to run as root.
Of course! I'm certain that once Linux is more popular than Windows, all of the people who used to code for Windows will simultaneously implode, preventing them from writing bad code on Linux.
Heh, guess we live in different worlds. I do what I can (preventative maint, pre-built update packages, etc.) to make sure I don't have to do very many 16+ hour days, regardless of how many 600 machines we have (yep, us too). Then again I've always been salaried, I might work different if I got overtime for it. :-) :-)
Heh, try being a systems admin or a network admin for a while, then you'll realize where that attitude comes from.
Basically, we're doing maintenance jobs, with an occasional upgrade. If we're doing our jobs right, the maintenance will be very minimal - and we'll look like we're lazy. If we have to work on something, it's either for a good reason (security patch), or because we got *too* lazy before and didn't do the maintenance right.
The Internet is my primary source of knowledge, and has been since I was in high school. The school never ended up teaching much that was relevant to.. oh.. anything, and the Internet had tons of freely available knowledge to eat up.
I still rely on the Internet, but it's becoming increasingly more difficult to do so as Google is the best search engine, and has become barely useful any more due to the search engine spammers.
I do think that a good search engine is key to extracting information from the Internet, and I look forward to a day when we once again have a good search engine.
We're already under mob rule now - it's just a much smaller, more sinister version.
Yes, the next time you guys see electronic voting on the ballot, vote against it$!#!@#% Oh wait, it isn't on the ballot. It probably never will be. Ah, shit. Now what do we do?
Revolt?
You live in a very different world than I. There's no way to stop junk mail here, in the states (that I know of). I receive about 3-5 ads in there per day (I receive about 5-8 legitimate letters per month!).
;-) (winking in case those are already long gone).
When I answered my landline I would receive about 2-3 telemarketing calls per day.
The AU does sound awfully nice. Now if they could get rid of that pesky Internet censorship and monopoly problem...
You also have to be in a Cogent-lit building, or else you're going to need to lease a line from a lit-building to your office. Probably better off just buying transit from a Cogent-hosted ISP at that point.
Of course, many of us are still hoping they'll go out of business, after what they and a select few others have done to the bandwidth pricing market. *crosses fingers*
Not everyone wants speed, but does want easy-to-read bills (no need to have a phone line + separate ISP account, have both for potentially far less), and cheap internet access. always-on is nice, too, and doesn't require high-speed access to appreciate.
As long as it's all low latency, I'd be happy with a slower cable modem (for less money). The latency is the main thing I'm concerned with.
...that can help make mod_perl Not Suck(tm)? Until we implemented draconian IP blocking measures, the servers we have that run mod_perl (but not our perl code) ran themselves out of swap on a regular basis (several times a day). Similarly bad perl code does little to no damage to servers without mod_perl.
As an administrator rather than a developer, and as someone who cannot influence what perl goes on the server, was there anything in the book that could help me stop the huge memory footprint per child (the number one problem)?
I for one agree. The French health officials should have forseen the heatwave and erected a large barrier to protect the citizens, and maintain a safe and consistent temperature for them all. Their failure to do so is a clear indication that public health care is completely and utterly doomed for now and forever.
Betting the entire company's yearly revenues on one employee is bad business, plain and simple. Any company that does that deserves what it gets if the person decides to move on.
Letting any one business deal account for more than 5-10% of your revenues is very risky. Then again, all business is risky. Suck it up.
In the sales person's case, it could just as easily have gone south if the salesperson had not closed the Big Deal, right? Like, what if the Big Dealers backed out, through no fault of the salesperson? The executives/directors would have a lot of 'splainin to do.
Too late for me. I've received two.
g .nextel.com (on request of course).
Nextel really needs to get on the ball and replace the old NNNXXXYYYY@messaging.nextel.com system with user-selectable-arbitrary-64-char-string@messagin