Nope, replicating the data is bad, when you deal with the number of transactions that they deal with in the amount of time that they deal with them.
There's a reason DB modelers normalize data to store it in only 1 place. And replicating it (Even if it can only be changed in 1 place) in a transactional system partially defeats that purpose.
Plus while you might think rumor control when the Forums is down is bad, the rumors floating around on the forum, while the game is down will be worse. And I'm sure they have more important things to do during that time than respond to threads in the forums.
Actually tying the Webserver to part of the game servers (particularilly authentication servers) is quite common, because to log in and post on the webserver, you need to be authenticated.
And for someone like you, that enjoys leveling toons, this sounds like a great addition.
Get to level 80 with your toon, and you unlock the ability to level another toon from 60 to 80, allowing you to see in new content you might have missed in the XPAC with your first toon.
While there's nothing wrong with enjoying playing a twitch based game, I personally don't enjoy it as much.
Currently I play WoW. As for the grind in WoW, you only have to do that as much as you want to. Only real "grinding" I ever did was leveling up to 60 and then to 70.
Most of 0 to 60 was fun, because it was new. Personally I hated leveling from 60 to 70. I will probably never reroll another toon, because I don't enjoy leveling.
But, now that I'm at the end game (and it's really not *that* hard to get a toon to 70), I do 0 grinding.
I log on 1/2 an hour or so before my raid, repair, check my mail. By regents, and then go plan.
I spend maybe another hour per week, buying Mats for Primal Cloth on the Auction House, transmute them, and sell the Cloth to pay for all of my raiding expenses: repairs and mats for pots primarily.
Most of the people in my guild are the same way. Now I don't have too many shiny toys that I've bought (no epic mount for me), but I play to have fun, and I do.
take note that HotJobs.com and other online job places are not aimed at people directly out of school.
I bet that if you found an entry level position for a job via your schools job boards, or a job fair and the exact same position on dice or hotjobs or similar, the one via your school will not have the restriction that the online one will. That's to weed out the people that have an associates degree, or an internet degree, or something similar with no experience at all. But also to be inclusive for people that have those types of degrees (or no degree) but do have 1 to 3 years work experience.
If you have a degree from a good school (any state funded school, or small accredited private college) you could probably get an interview with one of those companies without the 1 year of experience. But I still back my point that you'll be even better off with a semester or two of internships as well.
I co-oped between every semester of school while I was at school. Granted it took me 4 and a half years to finish school. But I had a job waiting for me when I graduated, and ~5 years out of school I'm making 100k. In addition if I wanted to leave my company I could get another 20k or more easily (I've been offered that by 3 companies without even looking).
I could have probably done fewer internships and come out the same way, but I needed the money to help pay for school. And I figured it was better to do IT related stuff than work at the local McDonalds or tend bar.
It also let me realize that I did not like doing Computer Setup, App installations and troubleshooting. And I didn't like doing Network Admin stuff. I really don't like laying network wire. Web design, and business applications were decent. I really liked doing DB stuff. I prefer working for a small consulting firm, rather than a large company. I now do ETL work. Based just on class work I would have never gone into DB or ETL work.
And 2 years of internships, does not equal 2 years of full time work. Usually you do those between class semesters, so maybe a full year of working. If you do it all 4 to 5 years you're in school, it'll equal 2 years of full time work.
But it is enough to get an "entry" level position. If you want something with out the requirements, look for junior or associate positions. Those are the true, "I'm just out of school with no experience" positions.
And how is this any different than teaching, getting a business masters and doing an internship, trade skills where you work under some one else, law, nurses, doctors, or many other jobs? I know my older brother did the same thing in the mining/oil industry while in school. And most of my other engineering friends did the same.
Internships also are not hard to find. Yes, it's hard to get an internship at MS or other large prestigeous company like that, but when I was in school there were plenty of smaller companies at job fairs looking for interns. More spots than we had CS/CE students. IT has it even easier, because non-IT companies still need IT people, and have IT departments. I interned for Ford, a Health Care software maker, a small computer consulting firm, a home mortgage company, and a CAD consulting company. Only 1 of those companies was programming/IT thier main business.
If your school can't find you an intership during your summer months, either you need to find a better school, or more likely you need to try harder, go to job fairs, do some work on your own to find companies that offer internships, rather than spend the summer on your parents couch during the day, and getting drunk with your friends in the evening or playing WoW.
You can find IT Jobs at 37k a year with no experience. That's about $17.50/hour.
They're called internships or co-ops.
Do those for 2 to 3 years. Preferably while you're still in school. After that you'll easily meet the requirements for the 55k entry level position you think is so far out of reach.
As to feeling scared all the time, that's just you.
I grew up in Detroit during the 80's. I went to school in Flint, MI. and lived in what most would consider a violent crime ridden ghetto. I can probably count the number of times I've felt scared of a stranger in my life with on 1 hand. And at the time, that was the "Murder Capital" of the U.S.
I've never seen a gun drawn in anger.
Most people in general are not out to kill you. Even when you're in a Ghetto full of people that look different than you.
Most people in the U.S. don't walk around carrying arms. And in general, those few that do, particularily those that legally do, have had very good training about when to pull a weapon, almost never, and how to use if if needed.
"Such is the story of the heavens and the earth at their creation. At the time when the LORD God made the earth and the heavens--
while as yet there was no field shrub on earth and no grass of the field had sprouted, for the LORD God had sent no rain upon the earth and there was no man to till the soil,
but a stream was welling up out of the earth and was watering all the surface of the ground--
the LORD God formed man out of the clay of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and so man became a living being. "
Having had 3 Senior years at the same college. I can say by far my last one was the best.
With only 1 four credit class, that I had previously taken but initialy failed. I had a blast.
I didn't even mind it too much when one of my friends informed a Freshman I was chatting up that when she started middle school, I had been starting college...
Not sure how old you are. But when I was growing up, we didn't have any of the fancy FX lightsabers that exist now to play with.
Instead, my friends and I would often play with flashlights as lightsabers.
Which also do not have anysort of collision detection. Fortunatly we're smart enough to see when the "blades" cross each other and had no problem simulating that the sabers had collided.
To put this in a different video game genre, have you ever played a car racing game?
Ever collided with a wall? The car doesn't go throught, even though I'm still pushing the game pad in that direction. Doens't seem to bother many people. I'm sure that either:
- the dev's will figure out something that is fun, and fairly
intuitive for all users.
- the dev's can't come up with something fun, and don't release
a game using the wii remote as a lightsaber.
- the dev's come up with something that is clunky, but do to
marketing, release it anyway. You'll hear about how poorly
implemented it is in reviews, or you'll rent it/play it in
store and not buy the game.
Regardless of implementation, it will almost definatly take some hand-eye co-ordination, and will not be purely force-feedback controlled.
Will require some of the massive computing power our brains already provide when we make believe.
Will have some aspect that some one can bitch about no matter how its implemented.
Also quite likely the initial games lightsaber fights will probably look and act more like the fights in Ep IV - VI than I - III.
1. Not that big of an issue. Some of the low 60 stuff might be very simple for AQ40 and Naxx geared raiders. But those are the type of people that are going to try that stuff maybe once, on their power grind up to 70, to get into the same type of end game material that they currently enjoy.
People that have recently hit 60, or don't have high end raiding gear will possibly take their time going through the low 60 stuff, increasing their gear to match what the the previous top tier raiders had at 60, and by the time they hit 70 they'll be on an even ground. Until the hardcore raiders start getting the high level 70's raid gear and recreate the gap. Similar to the way that a twinked out level 19 characters gear becomes a non-issue if the toon were to advance to 30 with no gear upgrades in comparison to an average level 30 toon.
People that don't like the end game, but prefer to level alts up from 0-60 now have 2 new races and 2 new areas to level up to 60 or 70 now.
PvPers? Who knows how Blizz's PvP changes will go.
2. Currently Blizz just rolled out a bunch of new server clusters. They are also migrating all of the original servers to new hardware. Will this be enough? We'll find out when the expansion hits.
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Nope, replicating the data is bad, when you deal with the number of transactions that they deal with in the amount of time that they deal with them.
There's a reason DB modelers normalize data to store it in only 1 place. And replicating it (Even if it can only be changed in 1 place) in a transactional system partially defeats that purpose.
Plus while you might think rumor control when the Forums is down is bad, the rumors floating around on the forum, while the game is down will be worse. And I'm sure they have more important things to do during that time than respond to threads in the forums.
Actually tying the Webserver to part of the game servers (particularilly authentication servers) is quite common, because to log in and post on the webserver, you need to be authenticated.
SimEarth, SimAnt, SimLife, SimTower, SimHealth, SimIsle, SimFarm, SimGolf, SimCopter, SimTown, SimPark, SimSafari, SimTunes, SimRefinery, Theme Park Inc, Theme Park World.
Yep, EA definately made Maxis push out mediocre sim based games.... Oh, wait all of these were released, or at least started pre EA purchase.
You must have a hard time on the simile part of the ACT or the SAT (and many other standardized tests).
Because most of us are familiar with what an iPod Shuffle is.
And in those 2 words, he was able to describe to us, what it took you a whole paragraph to describe.
If you enjoy that style of writing, read Lord Dunsany's "The King of Elflands Daughter". Which is the source of the style that Tolkien tried copying.
Real facts have nothing to do with ways to troll fanboys.
Or point out, that despite the much greater install base of the Wii both the PS3 and the 360 are selling way more units of software.
The story was linked to in a Slashdot article. Of course it's a good story, otherwise it wouldn't get past the editors and make it to the frontpage.
So pointing it out is redundant....
(and yes this is probably a troll, or flamebait. Possible Funny)
I'd assume that would be pretty high too.
End Game != raiding or even non-casual.
And for someone like you, that enjoys leveling toons, this sounds like a great addition.
Get to level 80 with your toon, and you unlock the ability to level another toon from 60 to 80, allowing you to see in new content you might have missed in the XPAC with your first toon.
I'd play an FPS.
I happen to like the game mechanics in PVE MMO's.
While there's nothing wrong with enjoying playing a twitch based game, I personally don't enjoy it as much.
Currently I play WoW. As for the grind in WoW, you only have to do that as much as you want to. Only real "grinding" I ever did was leveling up to 60 and then to 70.
Most of 0 to 60 was fun, because it was new. Personally I hated leveling from 60 to 70. I will probably never reroll another toon, because I don't enjoy leveling.
But, now that I'm at the end game (and it's really not *that* hard to get a toon to 70), I do 0 grinding.
I log on 1/2 an hour or so before my raid, repair, check my mail. By regents, and then go plan.
I spend maybe another hour per week, buying Mats for Primal Cloth on the Auction House, transmute them, and sell the Cloth to pay for all of my raiding expenses: repairs and mats for pots primarily.
Most of the people in my guild are the same way. Now I don't have too many shiny toys that I've bought (no epic mount for me), but I play to have fun, and I do.
Also,
take note that HotJobs.com and other online job places are not aimed at people directly out of school.
I bet that if you found an entry level position for a job via your schools job boards, or a job fair and the exact same position on dice or hotjobs or similar, the one via your school will not have the restriction that the online one will. That's to weed out the people that have an associates degree, or an internet degree, or something similar with no experience at all. But also to be inclusive for people that have those types of degrees (or no degree) but do have 1 to 3 years work experience.
If you have a degree from a good school (any state funded school, or small accredited private college) you could probably get an interview with one of those companies without the 1 year of experience. But I still back my point that you'll be even better off with a semester or two of internships as well.
I live on the planet that where I did that.
I co-oped between every semester of school while I was at school. Granted it took me 4 and a half years to finish school. But I had a job waiting for me when I graduated, and ~5 years out of school I'm making 100k. In addition if I wanted to leave my company I could get another 20k or more easily (I've been offered that by 3 companies without even looking).
I could have probably done fewer internships and come out the same way, but I needed the money to help pay for school. And I figured it was better to do IT related stuff than work at the local McDonalds or tend bar.
It also let me realize that I did not like doing Computer Setup, App installations and troubleshooting. And I didn't like doing Network Admin stuff. I really don't like laying network wire. Web design, and business applications were decent. I really liked doing DB stuff. I prefer working for a small consulting firm, rather than a large company. I now do ETL work. Based just on class work I would have never gone into DB or ETL work.
And 2 years of internships, does not equal 2 years of full time work. Usually you do those between class semesters, so maybe a full year of working. If you do it all 4 to 5 years you're in school, it'll equal 2 years of full time work.
But it is enough to get an "entry" level position. If you want something with out the requirements, look for junior or associate positions. Those are the true, "I'm just out of school with no experience" positions.
And how is this any different than teaching, getting a business masters and doing an internship, trade skills where you work under some one else, law, nurses, doctors, or many other jobs? I know my older brother did the same thing in the mining/oil industry while in school. And most of my other engineering friends did the same.
Internships also are not hard to find. Yes, it's hard to get an internship at MS or other large prestigeous company like that, but when I was in school there were plenty of smaller companies at job fairs looking for interns. More spots than we had CS/CE students. IT has it even easier, because non-IT companies still need IT people, and have IT departments. I interned for Ford, a Health Care software maker, a small computer consulting firm, a home mortgage company, and a CAD consulting company. Only 1 of those companies was programming/IT thier main business.
If your school can't find you an intership during your summer months, either you need to find a better school, or more likely you need to try harder, go to job fairs, do some work on your own to find companies that offer internships, rather than spend the summer on your parents couch during the day, and getting drunk with your friends in the evening or playing WoW.
I don't see what your issue is.
You can find IT Jobs at 37k a year with no experience. That's about $17.50/hour.
They're called internships or co-ops.
Do those for 2 to 3 years. Preferably while you're still in school. After that you'll easily meet the requirements for the 55k entry level position you think is so far out of reach.
As to feeling scared all the time, that's just you.
I grew up in Detroit during the 80's. I went to school in Flint, MI. and lived in what most would consider a violent crime ridden ghetto. I can probably count the number of times I've felt scared of a stranger in my life with on 1 hand. And at the time, that was the "Murder Capital" of the U.S.
I've never seen a gun drawn in anger.
Most people in general are not out to kill you. Even when you're in a Ghetto full of people that look different than you.
Most people in the U.S. don't walk around carrying arms. And in general, those few that do, particularily those that legally do, have had very good training about when to pull a weapon, almost never, and how to use if if needed.
You sir are correct.
The parent poster must have recieved all of his knowledge about Shakespearian plays from the movie Shakespeare in Love.
So we can have some more high quality Star Wars television like the The 'Star Wars' Holiday Special.
They do, it's called properly attributing your sources.
I've also read it in other versions of the bible as well.
If you are going off of the King James Bible, James in his infinite wisdom had it re-worded to make both creation stories consistent.
http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/genesis/genesis2 .htm
"Such is the story of the heavens and the earth at their creation. At the time when the LORD God made the earth and the heavens-- while as yet there was no field shrub on earth and no grass of the field had sprouted, for the LORD God had sent no rain upon the earth and there was no man to till the soil, but a stream was welling up out of the earth and was watering all the surface of the ground--
the LORD God formed man out of the clay of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and so man became a living being. "
emphasis mine.
I think you need to re-read your bible.
In the first creation story of Genesis, things occur in the order you listed.
In the second creation story of Genesis, Man was created before the plants and animals
So which one is it?
Having had 3 Senior years at the same college. I can say by far my last one was the best.
With only 1 four credit class, that I had previously taken but initialy failed. I had a blast.
I didn't even mind it too much when one of my friends informed a Freshman I was chatting up that when she started middle school, I had been starting college...
Not sure how old you are. But when I was growing up, we didn't have any of the fancy FX lightsabers that exist now to play with.
Instead, my friends and I would often play with flashlights as lightsabers.
Which also do not have anysort of collision detection. Fortunatly we're smart enough to see when the "blades" cross each other and had no problem simulating that the sabers had collided.
To put this in a different video game genre, have you ever played a car racing game?
Ever collided with a wall? The car doesn't go throught, even though I'm still pushing the game pad in that direction. Doens't seem to bother many people. I'm sure that either:
- the dev's will figure out something that is fun, and fairly
intuitive for all users.
- the dev's can't come up with something fun, and don't release
a game using the wii remote as a lightsaber.
- the dev's come up with something that is clunky, but do to
marketing, release it anyway. You'll hear about how poorly
implemented it is in reviews, or you'll rent it/play it in
store and not buy the game.
Regardless of implementation, it will almost definatly take some hand-eye co-ordination, and will not be purely force-feedback controlled.
Will require some of the massive computing power our brains already provide when we make believe.
Will have some aspect that some one can bitch about no matter how its implemented.
Also quite likely the initial games lightsaber fights will probably look and act more like the fights in Ep IV - VI than I - III.
Oh, and people that like to find things to complain about no matter what, will still find things to complain about.
1. Not that big of an issue. Some of the low 60 stuff might be very simple for AQ40 and Naxx geared raiders. But those are the type of people that are going to try that stuff maybe once, on their power grind up to 70, to get into the same type of end game material that they currently enjoy.
People that have recently hit 60, or don't have high end raiding gear will possibly take their time going through the low 60 stuff, increasing their gear to match what the the previous top tier raiders had at 60, and by the time they hit 70 they'll be on an even ground. Until the hardcore raiders start getting the high level 70's raid gear and recreate the gap. Similar to the way that a twinked out level 19 characters gear becomes a non-issue if the toon were to advance to 30 with no gear upgrades in comparison to an average level 30 toon.
People that don't like the end game, but prefer to level alts up from 0-60 now have 2 new races and 2 new areas to level up to 60 or 70 now.
PvPers? Who knows how Blizz's PvP changes will go.
2. Currently Blizz just rolled out a bunch of new server clusters. They are also migrating all of the original servers to new hardware. Will this be enough? We'll find out when the expansion hits.