Queue Notepad v. Vim flamewars now! Face it. You're just picky. Notepad is great for what it is... a cheap app that shows text. If you prefer something else, use something else. Using your preference for something else to talk about the stability or usability of something completely different is rather stupid.
Selling game-gold for cash is against the TOS for the majority of MMORPGs out there, including WoW. This is why it is against the rules, and why accounts that have been found to be selling gold for cash get banned.
That really is only if you're willing to do work on the side. I, for one, absolutely hate doing any "work" work during the time where I could be enjoying my life. Enjoyment counts as gaming, exercising, various activities with friends/girlfriends, eating, and sleeping. I'd rather maximize the latter, and keep the bare minimum of *time* spend on the former.
They price cards at what the market will bear. There are people who will drop $700 on a new graphics card. nVidia prices accordingly. After a while, those prices get into the $100-$150 range. Other people, who are a bit more economical, pick them up at that price. It seems a little silly to complain about a company that is trying to make money. I mean... after all, that is what they should be doing, right?
..And when some forum post I had typed up years earlier showed up, I was relieved that it worked...
...Searching on my name shows as a first result a message I posted to a club forum that I was in over six years ago...
I fail to see a major difference here. Google returns a forum post that is years old. MS returns a forums post that is years old. So, why is MS so wrong here? The UI complaints are valid, but the discussion of search results thus far has been lacking. You have nothing here to complain about, from the looks of it, much like the guy who expects search engines to read his mind, when he types in one word.
The Image search is a little too fancified, I think. It takes forever to nab the thumbnails, and there seem to be too many of them by default. The rest of it just looks exactly like http://www.google.com/ig.
There's plenty of untapped energy in our landfills already. Build an incinerator, use it to convert the styrofoam, ship off the styrene oil over to a processing plant... or do it on the spot. I see no trouble here.
SWG is a brilliant example of why games that revolve around a universe that contains a special few will never succeed. They are a special few, not everybody. If everyone were a jedi, would that even be close to what Star Wars truly is? If not everyone can be a jedi, those who are not will go play a different game. If everyone is a jedi, being a jedi is cheapened to the extreme.
There is only one thing that is "special" that requires gold alone, and that is an epic mount. The best items in the game are dropped in places that you can't pay to get to, unless there are enterprising guilds out there who are good enough to actually do that. There is also one exception, and that is buying a toon pre-made and geared. I have to say that this is just plain stupid, since the joy of the game is getting the toon to that point, and smiling, because you've earned that... it is your own accomplishment.
Heavy leather. Just skin the stuff, and auction it off. It's fairly easy to obtain, and is one of those massively consumed items, because of the Thorium Brotherhood rep turnins.
From the view of IT, all database items really *ought* to be passed through IT, and created on a real database. This serves two purposes, in the end.
1: Users that create an Access database may never pass it to IT after it becomes widely spread. You'll have someone sitting at the desk next to you, saying "hey, that's cool... hooke me up!" After a while, it may happen that everyone in the department is dependent upon this thing... and the last thing that they'll do is inform IT of it. Telling IT is an admission that they know better, and also, asking to put work on pause while the IT staff rolls out a better solution.
2: Removes bad design from a business application. There is a reason that the IT and development staff exists: to serve the users to make their job easier. I sure wouldn't trust any database that an accountant has thrown together. Who knows if they are aware of such things as ACID, or if normalization matters.
To prevent the spread of some crappy and near impossible to maintain business program, it is best to petition IT with the need for a good quality solution, and let them provide it.
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AMD Subpoenas Skype
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Hopefully, consumers just don't buy Skype. Dell is the #1 entity that people think of when they have to buy a computer. Dell & Intel have had exclusivity for ages./shrug
There is evidence of evolution everywhere. We cannot deny such a thing. There is a reason why the red squirrel population in Europe is declining, one named "Natural Selection." There is another type of squirrel that breeds faster, is sturdier and more adaptable, and remembers where it stores its stuff better. The growth of the gray squirrel population squeezes out the population of the red. It is natural selection at its finest.
Now, no one can prove or disprove that there could be an intelligence that has guided evolution along. That is a discussion best left for philosophy, though, as it has left the realm of science itself. The only thing that science has to work with, right now, is what is readily at hand. Such is the difference between Plato/Socrates and Aristotle. One is the search for significance and meaning behind the numbers, the other is the significance and meaning in the numbers. Neither is wrong, but then again, it is far easier to follow the latter.
The OP is just a well-crafted troll, meant to incite some anti-Christian debate, I imagine. With/. the way it is, I'm not surprised that so many people have fed the thing.
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Back when Nintendo and Sega were the big names, video games were primarily marketed towards children, as a toy. As the kids grew up, Nintendo was the only name that survived, for the most part. The other names (Sony, MS) have to capitalize on the now-grown people, that were kids back when Nintendo was in its heyday. Sony and MS will have more mature games, while I still think that Nintendo still markets towards kids.
I've noticed that Nintendo is what I gravitate to, when it comes to consoles. I have a PS/2, and love my Final Fantasy... but Nintendo is the king of the party game. Monkeyball, anyone?
Nice troll, but is completely useless in regards to the problem presented. The issue isn't which platform to use, the issue is the ease of migrating. I don't think that switching from.NET 1.1 to Java would be far more time consuming, and a bigger waste of resources, than going to.NET 2.0.
Another factor to consider, is that it typically takes 6 Windows servers to do the full functionality of that one or two UNIX boxen. Figure, you need a server for exchange, one for active directory, one for IIS, one for the database, one for backing things up, one for Biztalk (or whatever it's called), another one for IIS, the list goes on. I've also noticed that our Windows servers seem to get replaced every two years, whereas, you could probably hold on to a UNIX server for about four times that, or more.
To motivate people to participate in raids. If you can obtain the uber high quality gear while soloing, I imagine that many people would do just that. Then, you have the people who like to do the big raids, and they start complaining that there isn't any special reward for it.
And how, in any way, is this relevant to the topic? I would look at society's focus on love itself, as opposed to the Church's view of it. Most people in failed marriages get married while in the throes of infatuation and lust, as opposed to really being in love. Tom Cruise, anyone?
When someone says that languages are imprecise, it looks like an excuse for not being able to properly utilize the language. Every language has a mathematical basis, in any case. You can express things quite clearly with regular languages. Unfortunately, mathematics and computer languages are not verbose enough to convey actual meaning. How does one say they are sad, when using math?
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Funny, how Novell is writing a ton of stuff for .NET... They are so chained to Windows!
Queue Notepad v. Vim flamewars now! Face it. You're just picky. Notepad is great for what it is... a cheap app that shows text. If you prefer something else, use something else. Using your preference for something else to talk about the stability or usability of something completely different is rather stupid.
Selling game-gold for cash is against the TOS for the majority of MMORPGs out there, including WoW. This is why it is against the rules, and why accounts that have been found to be selling gold for cash get banned.
That really is only if you're willing to do work on the side. I, for one, absolutely hate doing any "work" work during the time where I could be enjoying my life. Enjoyment counts as gaming, exercising, various activities with friends/girlfriends, eating, and sleeping. I'd rather maximize the latter, and keep the bare minimum of *time* spend on the former.
They price cards at what the market will bear. There are people who will drop $700 on a new graphics card. nVidia prices accordingly. After a while, those prices get into the $100-$150 range. Other people, who are a bit more economical, pick them up at that price. It seems a little silly to complain about a company that is trying to make money. I mean... after all, that is what they should be doing, right?
I fail to see a major difference here. Google returns a forum post that is years old. MS returns a forums post that is years old. So, why is MS so wrong here? The UI complaints are valid, but the discussion of search results thus far has been lacking. You have nothing here to complain about, from the looks of it, much like the guy who expects search engines to read his mind, when he types in one word.
The Image search is a little too fancified, I think. It takes forever to nab the thumbnails, and there seem to be too many of them by default. The rest of it just looks exactly like http://www.google.com/ig.
There's plenty of untapped energy in our landfills already. Build an incinerator, use it to convert the styrofoam, ship off the styrene oil over to a processing plant... or do it on the spot. I see no trouble here.
Yeah, I read this, and thought of mp3.com's lockers.
SWG is a brilliant example of why games that revolve around a universe that contains a special few will never succeed. They are a special few, not everybody. If everyone were a jedi, would that even be close to what Star Wars truly is? If not everyone can be a jedi, those who are not will go play a different game. If everyone is a jedi, being a jedi is cheapened to the extreme.
There is only one thing that is "special" that requires gold alone, and that is an epic mount. The best items in the game are dropped in places that you can't pay to get to, unless there are enterprising guilds out there who are good enough to actually do that. There is also one exception, and that is buying a toon pre-made and geared. I have to say that this is just plain stupid, since the joy of the game is getting the toon to that point, and smiling, because you've earned that... it is your own accomplishment.
Heavy leather. Just skin the stuff, and auction it off. It's fairly easy to obtain, and is one of those massively consumed items, because of the Thorium Brotherhood rep turnins.
From the view of IT, all database items really *ought* to be passed through IT, and created on a real database. This serves two purposes, in the end.
1: Users that create an Access database may never pass it to IT after it becomes widely spread. You'll have someone sitting at the desk next to you, saying "hey, that's cool... hooke me up!" After a while, it may happen that everyone in the department is dependent upon this thing... and the last thing that they'll do is inform IT of it. Telling IT is an admission that they know better, and also, asking to put work on pause while the IT staff rolls out a better solution.
2: Removes bad design from a business application. There is a reason that the IT and development staff exists: to serve the users to make their job easier. I sure wouldn't trust any database that an accountant has thrown together. Who knows if they are aware of such things as ACID, or if normalization matters.
To prevent the spread of some crappy and near impossible to maintain business program, it is best to petition IT with the need for a good quality solution, and let them provide it.
Hopefully, consumers just don't buy Skype. Dell is the #1 entity that people think of when they have to buy a computer. Dell & Intel have had exclusivity for ages. /shrug
There is evidence of evolution everywhere. We cannot deny such a thing. There is a reason why the red squirrel population in Europe is declining, one named "Natural Selection." There is another type of squirrel that breeds faster, is sturdier and more adaptable, and remembers where it stores its stuff better. The growth of the gray squirrel population squeezes out the population of the red. It is natural selection at its finest.
Now, no one can prove or disprove that there could be an intelligence that has guided evolution along. That is a discussion best left for philosophy, though, as it has left the realm of science itself. The only thing that science has to work with, right now, is what is readily at hand. Such is the difference between Plato/Socrates and Aristotle. One is the search for significance and meaning behind the numbers, the other is the significance and meaning in the numbers. Neither is wrong, but then again, it is far easier to follow the latter.
Easy enough... just ignore their TLD nameservers. One has to wonder if they even will consider "hooking up" to the rest of the world, too.
The OP is just a well-crafted troll, meant to incite some anti-Christian debate, I imagine. With /. the way it is, I'm not surprised that so many people have fed the thing.
Back when Nintendo and Sega were the big names, video games were primarily marketed towards children, as a toy. As the kids grew up, Nintendo was the only name that survived, for the most part. The other names (Sony, MS) have to capitalize on the now-grown people, that were kids back when Nintendo was in its heyday. Sony and MS will have more mature games, while I still think that Nintendo still markets towards kids.
I've noticed that Nintendo is what I gravitate to, when it comes to consoles. I have a PS/2, and love my Final Fantasy... but Nintendo is the king of the party game. Monkeyball, anyone?
Eh. I meant to say I don't think the .NET->Java migration would be any easier, and would in fact be a bigger waste of time. Yeah.
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Nice troll, but is completely useless in regards to the problem presented. The issue isn't which platform to use, the issue is the ease of migrating. I don't think that switching from .NET 1.1 to Java would be far more time consuming, and a bigger waste of resources, than going to .NET 2.0.
Another factor to consider, is that it typically takes 6 Windows servers to do the full functionality of that one or two UNIX boxen. Figure, you need a server for exchange, one for active directory, one for IIS, one for the database, one for backing things up, one for Biztalk (or whatever it's called), another one for IIS, the list goes on. I've also noticed that our Windows servers seem to get replaced every two years, whereas, you could probably hold on to a UNIX server for about four times that, or more.
To motivate people to participate in raids. If you can obtain the uber high quality gear while soloing, I imagine that many people would do just that. Then, you have the people who like to do the big raids, and they start complaining that there isn't any special reward for it.
And how, in any way, is this relevant to the topic? I would look at society's focus on love itself, as opposed to the Church's view of it. Most people in failed marriages get married while in the throes of infatuation and lust, as opposed to really being in love. Tom Cruise, anyone?
Simplic8ion isnt a gud thing. Wut.
When someone says that languages are imprecise, it looks like an excuse for not being able to properly utilize the language. Every language has a mathematical basis, in any case. You can express things quite clearly with regular languages. Unfortunately, mathematics and computer languages are not verbose enough to convey actual meaning. How does one say they are sad, when using math?