Glaring holes in professions? You mean like the fact that a blacksmith can make his/her own armor but can't repair it and has to pay some NPC to do it?
I tried enchanting but it was expensive and next to impossible to level. I tried alchemy but it was expensive, time consuming (REALLY time consuming if you are gathering your own herbs) and next to impossible to level. Blacksmithing is as worthless as engineering. The only professions you make any money on with very little cost is mining, skinning, and herbalism but I usually play characters with no professions because running around picking flowers is not my idea of fun. I laughed at inscription when it was introduced....nice way to compete with alchemy for the herbs on the AH.
They won't because unfortunately as you said you are a casual player and only level 45. Blizzard doesn't care about you, they only cater to the higher levels. Case in point, all the seasonal and holiday quests that come out that are only for those close to or above level 70. The rest of us only get stupid ones like trick-or-treat at the inns. Whoopdee farking doooo!
Maybe, but as every year passes I get more and more sure that Sun is trying to backtrack on passing off Solaris and OpenSolaris as a desktop alternatives.
Not true. I liked both the books and the movies. The books are timeless classics and the only problem I had with the movies was the Arwen/Aragorn love affair which probably had Tolkien spinning in his grave. Other than that I thought the movies were excellent and Jackson did an amazing job.
The reason is simple. It is a self correction in the male/female ratio as a result of the dot com bubble burst in 2000. The only reason women started "flooding" into Comp Sci is because everyone saw IT as the "it" place to make money. What were levels like before the dot com bubble? Probably very much like they are now or will soon be. It was the same thing with every Tom, Dick, and Harry that read a single HTML book and thought that they could be programmers too. All of them are gone now as well.
Yes, I know what Diefenbaker had done. I was pointing out that the development of the Arrow pushed fighter jet technology way ahead and that those same technologies that were in the Arrow went into subsequent fighter jet designs.
The Arrow was not a total loss. A lot of the design of the Arrow went into American fighter jets...fly by wire, computer control, artificial feedback, etc.
But I am definitely not a fan of Diefenbaker for doing what he did.
Solaris is certainly not "well-rounded" for desktop tasks, unless all you want to do is office applications (ala OpenOffice or StarOffice) or browse the web. After that it falls down...HARD. Multi-media? Ya..pretty much forget it. These days everything out there is either QuickTime or in a Windows Media format. There's the Helix Player for Real Media formats but the days of Real Media supremacy are LONG gone. Audio? There are some MP3 players out there for Solaris, but they aren't very good and lack a lot of features.
Even the stuff it does do lags behind Windows, Mac and Linux. Acrobat Reader, Firefox, Flash, all lag behind in versions. In fact when it comes to Flash there isn't even a player that handles all Flash content because some point in the past there was Flash and Shockwave-Flash and the Flash player for Solaris offered by Adobe only plays Flash and not Shockwave. So you can hit "Flash" content that is unplayable. The web is becoming more and more media dominated and if Sun (or the Open Solaris community) seriously want Solaris to compete as a desktop environment they need to get off there butts and put some pressure on other companies like Adobe, Mozilla, etc. to get applications developed. I would love to see a QuickTime player for Solaris, but since I've already been waiting 10 years I doubt it will ever happen.
Then have 3 buttons. 1 for each of the real candidates and 1 button marked "Other".
If "Other" gets more votes than the other 2 candidates, everyone lumped under other participates in a cage-match battle royale to determine the winner.
Yeah but that stuff is available to the ENTIRE company. Big difference between telling every single employee in the company to enjoy the games, etc. than giving Xboxes to ONE department. As soon as someone from another department sees that, he is toast. There will be no justifying it to the higher ups.
Add to that, that he'll probably get fired as well. Someone will see all the Xboxes and complain that one department is playing games on company time. There will be no way to logically justify it to the higher up bean counters.
I know there is a whole LOT of empty land in Canada, rocky, swampy, forest covered nothing. Plowing a train route through the Canadian Shield is not just difficult, in many places it's pretty damn impossible. The hardest rocks in the world cover most of eastern Canada, and despite not being a steep as the Japanese Alps, the sheer hardness of the rocks would make blasting/tunneling prohibitively expensive. On the flip side of that, one would need MASSIVE bridges to cover many of the dips and rivers in Quebec and Ontario
This was flagged as interesting?
Read some history about the Canadian Pacific Railway and its transcontinental railway built in the late 1800s. (try "The Last Spike" by Pierre Burton) If they could do it in the 1800s why is it so impossible now?
Canada is the perfect place for bullet trains. Huge tracts of flat land from Manitoba to the other side of Alberta. Fairly dense population in the Windsor - Montreal corridor with a lot of people travelling for business on a daily basis. Also, Canada is a lot more geologically stable compared to Japan.
Change her phone number. Big deal, she's had it for 50 years. What is she worried that someone she lost touch with 40 years ago won't be able to find her?
No, the real problem here is the voters. I've watched it change over the years. People stopped voting for the MP that can do the most good in their area regardless of party to voting for the party with the leader they want as PM.
think numbers are a great guideline, and you should always understand the math behind what you're doing, but at the core, you need to follow the gut and ask "Hey, does this feel really great?" The best place classes can get, in our mind, is where everybody thinks everybody's overpowered.
Drivel. If WOW developers actually believed this then the crap changes they made in yesterday's patch wouldn't have happened. They changed the way Hunter's play so much that I canceled my account in complete and utter disgust.
Disaster? No way. That's what WOW needs more of. There is nothing in the game right now that affects the rest of the world. ie. Go kill Thrall and he respawns later....no effect on the world. The one thing that would make WOW better than every other MMO out there would be things that have world wide effects / consequences.
I never experienced the Corrupted Blood plague but it would have been great to have been a part of it. To bad they considered it a bug and "fixed" it.
To Jeffrey Kaplan (aka Tigole), game director for World of Warcraft: Currently the battlegrounds are imbalanced due to character "twinking". It makes it difficult for players without high level characters or that do not belong to a guild to play in the battlegrounds. But, what is even more imbalanced about the battlegrounds is a large organized team vs. a PUG (pick up group). When you are on the side that is a PUG there is no point in playing if the other side is composed mostly of guild members that have the advantage of talking over a vent server as well as experience playing together.
Why not make two battlegrounds? One for large organized groups to match up and one for PUGs. It would be simple to implement. If you are in a team of more than 4 people your team gets queued into one battleground. If you are part of a small team (3 or less people) or are on your own then you get queued to a completely different battleground. As I said before if you are in a battleground and your side is a PUG while the other side is composed of a guild, there is no point in playing. You will lose...badly, and most likely, in Warsong Gulch the guild side will stop at two flag captures and camp your grave yard racking up kills. Where's the fun in that for you? And where is the skill in that for the guild side?
Does the company have a right to demand their domain back?
No. Unless the participants in the survey signed some sort of contract agreeing to not reveal details about the survey, etc. Otherwise, it is not their domain to demand back.
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"A new, better armor, attainable only through micro transactions, DOES destroy PvP and with it the game for a lot of people."
Not if that armor is available to everyone. Then it is meaningless because the game rebalances.
Glaring holes in professions? You mean like the fact that a blacksmith can make his/her own armor but can't repair it and has to pay some NPC to do it?
I tried enchanting but it was expensive and next to impossible to level. I tried alchemy but it was expensive, time consuming (REALLY time consuming if you are gathering your own herbs) and next to impossible to level. Blacksmithing is as worthless as engineering. The only professions you make any money on with very little cost is mining, skinning, and herbalism but I usually play characters with no professions because running around picking flowers is not my idea of fun. I laughed at inscription when it was introduced....nice way to compete with alchemy for the herbs on the AH.
They won't because unfortunately as you said you are a casual player and only level 45. Blizzard doesn't care about you, they only cater to the higher levels. Case in point, all the seasonal and holiday quests that come out that are only for those close to or above level 70. The rest of us only get stupid ones like trick-or-treat at the inns. Whoopdee farking doooo!
Maybe, but as every year passes I get more and more sure that Sun is trying to backtrack on passing off Solaris and OpenSolaris as a desktop alternatives.
If you are in the States, watch BSG on hulu.com
My thoughts exactly. :(
"Don't read the book, it'll ruin it."
Not true. I liked both the books and the movies. The books are timeless classics and the only problem I had with the movies was the Arwen/Aragorn love affair which probably had Tolkien spinning in his grave. Other than that I thought the movies were excellent and Jackson did an amazing job.
Hmmm...women not getting jobs in IT and less women entering Comp Sci. Sounds like self correction to me.
The reason is simple. It is a self correction in the male/female ratio as a result of the dot com bubble burst in 2000. The only reason women started "flooding" into Comp Sci is because everyone saw IT as the "it" place to make money. What were levels like before the dot com bubble? Probably very much like they are now or will soon be. It was the same thing with every Tom, Dick, and Harry that read a single HTML book and thought that they could be programmers too. All of them are gone now as well.
Yes, I know what Diefenbaker had done. I was pointing out that the development of the Arrow pushed fighter jet technology way ahead and that those same technologies that were in the Arrow went into subsequent fighter jet designs.
The Arrow was not a total loss. A lot of the design of the Arrow went into American fighter jets...fly by wire, computer control, artificial feedback, etc.
But I am definitely not a fan of Diefenbaker for doing what he did.
Solaris is certainly not "well-rounded" for desktop tasks, unless all you want to do is office applications (ala OpenOffice or StarOffice) or browse the web. After that it falls down...HARD. Multi-media? Ya..pretty much forget it. These days everything out there is either QuickTime or in a Windows Media format. There's the Helix Player for Real Media formats but the days of Real Media supremacy are LONG gone. Audio? There are some MP3 players out there for Solaris, but they aren't very good and lack a lot of features.
Even the stuff it does do lags behind Windows, Mac and Linux. Acrobat Reader, Firefox, Flash, all lag behind in versions. In fact when it comes to Flash there isn't even a player that handles all Flash content because some point in the past there was Flash and Shockwave-Flash and the Flash player for Solaris offered by Adobe only plays Flash and not Shockwave. So you can hit "Flash" content that is unplayable. The web is becoming more and more media dominated and if Sun (or the Open Solaris community) seriously want Solaris to compete as a desktop environment they need to get off there butts and put some pressure on other companies like Adobe, Mozilla, etc. to get applications developed. I would love to see a QuickTime player for Solaris, but since I've already been waiting 10 years I doubt it will ever happen.
Then have 3 buttons. 1 for each of the real candidates and 1 button marked "Other".
If "Other" gets more votes than the other 2 candidates, everyone lumped under other participates in a cage-match battle royale to determine the winner.
Yeah but that stuff is available to the ENTIRE company. Big difference between telling every single employee in the company to enjoy the games, etc. than giving Xboxes to ONE department. As soon as someone from another department sees that, he is toast. There will be no justifying it to the higher ups.
Add to that, that he'll probably get fired as well. Someone will see all the Xboxes and complain that one department is playing games on company time. There will be no way to logically justify it to the higher up bean counters.
Yeah, you probably should have just read the article.
I know there is a whole LOT of empty land in Canada, rocky, swampy, forest covered nothing. Plowing a train route through the Canadian Shield is not just difficult, in many places it's pretty damn impossible. The hardest rocks in the world cover most of eastern Canada, and despite not being a steep as the Japanese Alps, the sheer hardness of the rocks would make blasting/tunneling prohibitively expensive. On the flip side of that, one would need MASSIVE bridges to cover many of the dips and rivers in Quebec and Ontario
This was flagged as interesting?
Read some history about the Canadian Pacific Railway and its transcontinental railway built in the late 1800s. (try "The Last Spike" by Pierre Burton) If they could do it in the 1800s why is it so impossible now?
Canada is the perfect place for bullet trains. Huge tracts of flat land from Manitoba to the other side of Alberta. Fairly dense population in the Windsor - Montreal corridor with a lot of people travelling for business on a daily basis. Also, Canada is a lot more geologically stable compared to Japan.
Change her phone number. Big deal, she's had it for 50 years. What is she worried that someone she lost touch with 40 years ago won't be able to find her?
Speed means nothing if the browser is unstable.
http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?locale=eu&forumId=1&comments_parentId=172574
The real problem here is the system.
No, the real problem here is the voters. I've watched it change over the years. People stopped voting for the MP that can do the most good in their area regardless of party to voting for the party with the leader they want as PM.
That's funny. The problem I've had with the Liberals is with them not realizing there is more to Canada than Quebec.
Maybe it is time for Western Canada to carry the country for a while because Ontario's been doing it for decades.
think numbers are a great guideline, and you should always understand the math behind what you're doing, but at the core, you need to follow the gut and ask "Hey, does this feel really great?" The best place classes can get, in our mind, is where everybody thinks everybody's overpowered.
Drivel. If WOW developers actually believed this then the crap changes they made in yesterday's patch wouldn't have happened. They changed the way Hunter's play so much that I canceled my account in complete and utter disgust.
Disaster? No way. That's what WOW needs more of. There is nothing in the game right now that affects the rest of the world. ie. Go kill Thrall and he respawns later....no effect on the world. The one thing that would make WOW better than every other MMO out there would be things that have world wide effects / consequences.
I never experienced the Corrupted Blood plague but it would have been great to have been a part of it. To bad they considered it a bug and "fixed" it.
To Jeffrey Kaplan (aka Tigole), game director for World of Warcraft: Currently the battlegrounds are imbalanced due to character "twinking". It makes it difficult for players without high level characters or that do not belong to a guild to play in the battlegrounds. But, what is even more imbalanced about the battlegrounds is a large organized team vs. a PUG (pick up group). When you are on the side that is a PUG there is no point in playing if the other side is composed mostly of guild members that have the advantage of talking over a vent server as well as experience playing together.
Why not make two battlegrounds? One for large organized groups to match up and one for PUGs. It would be simple to implement. If you are in a team of more than 4 people your team gets queued into one battleground. If you are part of a small team (3 or less people) or are on your own then you get queued to a completely different battleground. As I said before if you are in a battleground and your side is a PUG while the other side is composed of a guild, there is no point in playing. You will lose...badly, and most likely, in Warsong Gulch the guild side will stop at two flag captures and camp your grave yard racking up kills. Where's the fun in that for you? And where is the skill in that for the guild side?
Does the company have a right to demand their domain back?
No. Unless the participants in the survey signed some sort of contract agreeing to not reveal details about the survey, etc. Otherwise, it is not their domain to demand back.