However, just breaking the disc does not prevent you from playing WoW. Even if you reformatted your computer you can easily download the game from Blizzard's website.
The best solution would be to shout your account information in Trade chat and wait for someone to change your password. Then you just have to prevent yourself from e-mailing Blizzard that your account got stolen.
Even getting it to fucking stay minimized when I want to check something in Mozilla can be a chore. It just wants to hog the screen, no matter what. Sometimes even ALT-TAB doesn't work right out of it.
I wish more MMOs (or games in general) would support the borderless windowed mode that WoW uses. Granted WoW does not run as fast in borderless windowed as it does at full screen but the flexibility and ease of alt-tabbing more then makes up for a few FPS drop.
The one and only thing that is preventing me from even attempting to install Linux (let along getting it working) is the fact that I will not be able to play any modern game at acceptable performance. Get Fallout 3, Steam Games, Call of Duty 5, and WoW running at acceptable levels then we will talk.
Of the very few times I actually need to use the command line (ipconfig, renaming alot of files quickly) I have found it much better then the Win95/98 version.
That episode was really interesting to me. Mainly it showed that Skynet had not perfected time travel. It also showed the adaptability of the Terminator units. The Terminator in the 1920's had to blend in extremely good to build a business over 10 or so years.
I have never understood that and it feels logically backward. You are targeting a group of people for your show, you need to know how many of that group is actually watching the show. If the target audience is never polled then you only know how many of the non-target audience is watching but you do not know if the show is successful in getting viewers from the group that might want to watch the show.
They have ships that can move from planet to planet with relative ease (and seemingly great speed) and yet they still used 6-shooters and shotguns as their weapon of choice. WTF Mate?
Maybe because 6-shooters and shotguns are easy to fix, easy to maintain, and ammo is cheap and easy to make? If you watch Heart of Gold the bad guy has a laser pistol. This guy owns like half the planet so he has the money and power to buy a high tech weapon like that. Alliance solders use what I can best describe as sonic blasters. They more or less just knock you on your ass but are non-lethal (see the episode Ariel).
The tech is available, but the main characters are not exactly on the flagship of the federation. In fact, Firefly and Star Trek are just about as far apart as you can get in space sci-fi.
I thought the computer problems were a result of the T-X uploading a virus to the internet to find her targets. To me it felt like Skynet created it's self because of the T-X's virus.
I thought the real implication was telling John to man up and fight the machines because no matter what you do J-Day will happen.
Sorry, but I love the so called "shakey cam" style. It is a refreshing change from decades of smooth pans and perfectly framed shots.
The reason people like Half-Life 2's story is because they feel they are in the action (no break-away cut-scenes like Halo). The "shakey cam" helps me feel like I am part of the action, that I am in the action. That is just one reason I love BSG and the new Star Trek. I feel like I am in the universe instead of simply watching it.
On the off chance you were not going for the funny mod.
Just because it was order dependent does not mean that order could not have occurred after a number of iterations.
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Stardock has a Steam-like product called Impulse that many have said is akin to a light form of DRM, but still DRM.
Saying that you have to connect with Impulse to download a patch is like saying you need gas in your car to drive to the library.
Connecting to a server to download a update IS NOT DRM! You have to be connected to the internet to download a update anyways, so what if you can only get the patch from one website. How many MMOs (besides WoW) let you download a patch from a third party website? Complain about the speed, sure, but I have never had speed problems with Impulse or Steam.
Also, as a poster below mentioned, you do not need to have Impulse running to run the game (unlike Steam).
I think more people need this. Through middle school and high school I thought I was the only decent kid around because I would not gloat over the smallest and stupidest things.
Exactly. I for one do not understand how people can work swing shifts (3 AM days, 3 off, 3 PM days). I have been working them for a month and already I am burnt out but there are some people who have worked them for 15+ years (I also cant understand how someone can work 8hrs a day 5 days a week).
In college if I was working on a big project or paper I could only work on it for 2-3 hrs before my head started to hurt. This would go away after a hour or 2 of watching TV, playing video games or generally relaxing.
I only wish I could focus 8hrs strait every day, then work would not suck so much.
Exactly. I know just enough about some things to be dangerous with them. Because I work with PLC controls every day I am good with them, but just because I took a RC (reactance capacitance) class does not mean I can design even a basic RC circuit without looking back through some books or online for a refresher.
It is not so much a mater of retaining that knowledge as it is being able to look at something at it feeling familiar and knowing where to look to get the knowledge you need to solve a problem.
I see what you're getting at; you don't want to admit that there is actually a lasting advantage to using a drug to help learn.
No. As I explained to another poster, I wanted to know if the advantage were long-term or short.
This is exactly why more research needs to be done on these effects. As far as I know the studying while on the drug is a unintended side effect, when it was first getting developed no one thought people would use it as a study aid. This needs to be tested instead of shunned.
Before I first started taking Dextromethorphan at recreational doses I read all I could about the short and long term effects of the drug, what the different levels of the high would be like and how much to take to reach them. My first experience with the drug was life saving in a way, however if I had just taken it with out doing the proper research I have no idea how it would have turned out but most likely it would have been for the worst.
Mod parent up but [Citation Needed]. I have felt more creative when I get high but I lack the focus to bring those creative ideas to fruition. If I could take a small dose of psychoactive substance then later take a dose of Ritalin to focus enough to get those ideas on paper then I would be able to actually produce something.
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However, just breaking the disc does not prevent you from playing WoW. Even if you reformatted your computer you can easily download the game from Blizzard's website.
The best solution would be to shout your account information in Trade chat and wait for someone to change your password. Then you just have to prevent yourself from e-mailing Blizzard that your account got stolen.
Even getting it to fucking stay minimized when I want to check something in Mozilla can be a chore. It just wants to hog the screen, no matter what. Sometimes even ALT-TAB doesn't work right out of it.
I wish more MMOs (or games in general) would support the borderless windowed mode that WoW uses. Granted WoW does not run as fast in borderless windowed as it does at full screen but the flexibility and ease of alt-tabbing more then makes up for a few FPS drop.
MOD UP MORE!!!!
I sometimes triple-box when power leveling alts with a friend's account. I just double clicked on the desktop short cut to open up another instance.
I even had all graphical settings maxed and the only time I run into lag is when one character is in Dalaran.
Well I mostly play games. Don't need to use command line that much for them. I'm wondering what you use it for if you have to go there every day.
Maybe it's lack of apps.
I think you misspelled games there.
The one and only thing that is preventing me from even attempting to install Linux (let along getting it working) is the fact that I will not be able to play any modern game at acceptable performance. Get Fallout 3, Steam Games, Call of Duty 5, and WoW running at acceptable levels then we will talk.
Of the very few times I actually need to use the command line (ipconfig, renaming alot of files quickly) I have found it much better then the Win95/98 version.
That episode was really interesting to me. Mainly it showed that Skynet had not perfected time travel. It also showed the adaptability of the Terminator units. The Terminator in the 1920's had to blend in extremely good to build a business over 10 or so years.
I have never understood that and it feels logically backward. You are targeting a group of people for your show, you need to know how many of that group is actually watching the show. If the target audience is never polled then you only know how many of the non-target audience is watching but you do not know if the show is successful in getting viewers from the group that might want to watch the show.
Ouch....inverted...logic...hurts...brain.
They have ships that can move from planet to planet with relative ease (and seemingly great speed) and yet they still used 6-shooters and shotguns as their weapon of choice. WTF Mate?
Maybe because 6-shooters and shotguns are easy to fix, easy to maintain, and ammo is cheap and easy to make? If you watch Heart of Gold the bad guy has a laser pistol. This guy owns like half the planet so he has the money and power to buy a high tech weapon like that. Alliance solders use what I can best describe as sonic blasters. They more or less just knock you on your ass but are non-lethal (see the episode Ariel).
The tech is available, but the main characters are not exactly on the flagship of the federation. In fact, Firefly and Star Trek are just about as far apart as you can get in space sci-fi.
I thought the computer problems were a result of the T-X uploading a virus to the internet to find her targets. To me it felt like Skynet created it's self because of the T-X's virus.
I thought the real implication was telling John to man up and fight the machines because no matter what you do J-Day will happen.
Sorry, but I love the so called "shakey cam" style. It is a refreshing change from decades of smooth pans and perfectly framed shots.
The reason people like Half-Life 2's story is because they feel they are in the action (no break-away cut-scenes like Halo). The "shakey cam" helps me feel like I am part of the action, that I am in the action. That is just one reason I love BSG and the new Star Trek. I feel like I am in the universe instead of simply watching it.
Did the cop have probable cause to do a breath test?
iirc you can legally demand they take a blood sample if the you fail the blow test but they will still use the blow test in court.
On the off chance you were not going for the funny mod.
Just because it was order dependent does not mean that order could not have occurred after a number of iterations.
Stardock has a Steam-like product called Impulse that many have said is akin to a light form of DRM, but still DRM.
Saying that you have to connect with Impulse to download a patch is like saying you need gas in your car to drive to the library.
Connecting to a server to download a update IS NOT DRM! You have to be connected to the internet to download a update anyways, so what if you can only get the patch from one website. How many MMOs (besides WoW) let you download a patch from a third party website? Complain about the speed, sure, but I have never had speed problems with Impulse or Steam.
Also, as a poster below mentioned, you do not need to have Impulse running to run the game (unlike Steam).
You can't build missions/quest in WoW. After trying it out during the reactivation weekend, this made me resubscribe to CoX.
Playing with costumes does not happen in WoW because everyone wears what ever will give them the best stats.
There is also guild bases you can build and (until a recent patch) you could invade another guild's base.
I think more people need this. Through middle school and high school I thought I was the only decent kid around because I would not gloat over the smallest and stupidest things.
The world is cruel. What is the point in being part of it?
When was the last time you bought a dedicated sound card
6 months ago because the motherboard's sounded like shit and would not give me 5.1 correctly.
I did not go to a tea party.
I have to work for a living you insensitive clod!
Exactly. I for one do not understand how people can work swing shifts (3 AM days, 3 off, 3 PM days). I have been working them for a month and already I am burnt out but there are some people who have worked them for 15+ years (I also cant understand how someone can work 8hrs a day 5 days a week).
In college if I was working on a big project or paper I could only work on it for 2-3 hrs before my head started to hurt. This would go away after a hour or 2 of watching TV, playing video games or generally relaxing.
I only wish I could focus 8hrs strait every day, then work would not suck so much.
Exactly. I know just enough about some things to be dangerous with them. Because I work with PLC controls every day I am good with them, but just because I took a RC (reactance capacitance) class does not mean I can design even a basic RC circuit without looking back through some books or online for a refresher.
It is not so much a mater of retaining that knowledge as it is being able to look at something at it feeling familiar and knowing where to look to get the knowledge you need to solve a problem.
I see what you're getting at; you don't want to admit that there is actually a lasting advantage to using a drug to help learn.
No. As I explained to another poster, I wanted to know if the advantage were long-term or short.
This is exactly why more research needs to be done on these effects. As far as I know the studying while on the drug is a unintended side effect, when it was first getting developed no one thought people would use it as a study aid. This needs to be tested instead of shunned.
God I wish I had mod points!
Before I first started taking Dextromethorphan at recreational doses I read all I could about the short and long term effects of the drug, what the different levels of the high would be like and how much to take to reach them. My first experience with the drug was life saving in a way, however if I had just taken it with out doing the proper research I have no idea how it would have turned out but most likely it would have been for the worst.
Mod parent up but [Citation Needed]. I have felt more creative when I get high but I lack the focus to bring those creative ideas to fruition. If I could take a small dose of psychoactive substance then later take a dose of Ritalin to focus enough to get those ideas on paper then I would be able to actually produce something.