Your cue should be the words "no more than" not "20 hours per week". On average I spent less than 10 although between 58 and 60 I spent about 40 hours over 2 weeks rushing through the last content. I only made it to 66 when TBC came out through lack of effort and interest and eventually cancelled my account.
No I played 20 hours some weeks. Other weeks I'd play the odd hour here and there. As for doing a bit of research I'm not sure how typing in "making gold in WoW", reading a couple of articles and spending half an hour figuring out Auctioneer made me an addict.
No more than 20 hours a week. Not 20 hours every week without fail. Sometimes I would play around 5 hours in a week and sometimes if I had nothing better to do I would play around 20.
I was a casual gamer who didn't buy gold and yet I enjoyed the game immensely. It's not that hard to make money in the game if you do a bit of research. I played no more than 20 hours a week and yet when I quit I had about 4000 gold at level 66.
Still struggling with the RT2860STA wifi driver. The configuration of that seems incredibly arcane and even doing what allegedly works leads it to claim that my router doesn't exist. It isn't broadcasting its SSID but that shouldn't be a problem.
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Then why hasn't the DS failed since piracy is ridiculously easy on it? I have no idea why people are not making PSP games but I can't see how piracy, which has singularly failed to stop the wealth of DS games being released, being primarily to blame.
Funny but I don't remember paying £3000 for my Amiga 1200 or any Apple tax either. It may not have been compatible with the Atari ST or the Macs of the time but then the computer cost me £200 and the monitor cost me £150. You would struggle to get a decent gaming PC for that money now never mind in 1993 when I bought it.
However the bad laws are not going to be repealed or amended no matter how much people complain because vested interests will not allow it. Therefore the only alternative is a mass campaign of civil disobedience.
People are always saying this on here (from NT 4.0 onwards) but how does the average user determine whether their hardware is faulty, their drivers are buggy or their OS is just a load of bloated crap? Vista is ok but I don't see any specific advantage over XP Home apart from being able to alter ACLs with a GUI instead of CACLS, and despite what apologists say, it is slower than XP.
The USB stick variety although I'm guessing it also applies to mobiles as well. I just objected to the lie that it was "unlimited" when it wasn't. However the truth in advertising watchdog didn't seem to mind.
I made a complaint to the ASA in the UK about mobile broadband providers claiming "unlimited" when in the small print it stated that a "fair use" limit of 3GB would be imposed therefore making it in no way unlimited. They told me that as it didn't affect many consumers my complaint had no merit. I wonder if the wired companies get similar freedom to mislead their customers.
That's not strictly true given that people still want to run software that doesn't have a Linux equivalent and plug in USB hardware that doesn't have Linux drivers.
Is that right? And how do you come to that stellar conclusion? Oh that's right because you live a dead exciting life coding for the love of it i.e. sitting at a computer for most of your life.
Your experience differs to mine where Vista would lock up regularly on startup with no way of determining why. I eventually gave up trying to find out and reinstalled the beast and yes it now works about as well as XP - so no particular advantage apart from not having to piss about with CACLS anymore when I want to grant a poorly written app write access to its own directory in Program Files.
Funny I don't remember those bad old days and I worked in a variety of companies on a variety of horrible old systems. It wasn't the IT department who was to blame for this mess in most cases but the belief by clueless senior management that programming was a largely simple process where hugely complex systems could be written in a matter of weeks. If the IT department dared to object or tried to insist on a realistic deadline then shoddy 3rd party software would be bought at huge expense and the next 4 years would be spent trying to get it to work.
That was my first reaction as well. Every single one of the people I worked with in IT would be excluded from that despite some of them being superbly talented and hard-working.
People will not switch to Linux while their Win32-only software won't run flawlessly if at all and they have problems getting their hardware to work. If Linux could run all the software and hardware that Windows can then it would be making significant inroads into Microsoft's sales right now. As it is the desktop will have to become irrelevant before Microsoft are removed from their position of major influence in the IT world.
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Your cue should be the words "no more than" not "20 hours per week". On average I spent less than 10 although between 58 and 60 I spent about 40 hours over 2 weeks rushing through the last content. I only made it to 66 when TBC came out through lack of effort and interest and eventually cancelled my account.
I never went raiding - never even made it to level 70.
No I played 20 hours some weeks. Other weeks I'd play the odd hour here and there. As for doing a bit of research I'm not sure how typing in "making gold in WoW", reading a couple of articles and spending half an hour figuring out Auctioneer made me an addict.
No more than 20 hours a week. Not 20 hours every week without fail. Sometimes I would play around 5 hours in a week and sometimes if I had nothing better to do I would play around 20.
I was a casual gamer who didn't buy gold and yet I enjoyed the game immensely. It's not that hard to make money in the game if you do a bit of research. I played no more than 20 hours a week and yet when I quit I had about 4000 gold at level 66.
Still struggling with the RT2860STA wifi driver. The configuration of that seems incredibly arcane and even doing what allegedly works leads it to claim that my router doesn't exist. It isn't broadcasting its SSID but that shouldn't be a problem.
Then why hasn't the DS failed since piracy is ridiculously easy on it? I have no idea why people are not making PSP games but I can't see how piracy, which has singularly failed to stop the wealth of DS games being released, being primarily to blame.
Do they feel the DS, which is just as afflicted by rampant piracy, is worth developing for?
Funny but I don't remember paying £3000 for my Amiga 1200 or any Apple tax either. It may not have been compatible with the Atari ST or the Macs of the time but then the computer cost me £200 and the monitor cost me £150. You would struggle to get a decent gaming PC for that money now never mind in 1993 when I bought it.
To prevent Linux gaining a foothold in a new market whilst getting rid of Windows XP so that customers need to switch to later editions.
However the bad laws are not going to be repealed or amended no matter how much people complain because vested interests will not allow it. Therefore the only alternative is a mass campaign of civil disobedience.
I could live with that too instead of 8Mbps/448Kbps I have here. Sweden has beautiful women and superfast porn pipes - truly it is paradise on earth.
People are always saying this on here (from NT 4.0 onwards) but how does the average user determine whether their hardware is faulty, their drivers are buggy or their OS is just a load of bloated crap? Vista is ok but I don't see any specific advantage over XP Home apart from being able to alter ACLs with a GUI instead of CACLS, and despite what apologists say, it is slower than XP.
The USB stick variety although I'm guessing it also applies to mobiles as well. I just objected to the lie that it was "unlimited" when it wasn't. However the truth in advertising watchdog didn't seem to mind.
I made a complaint to the ASA in the UK about mobile broadband providers claiming "unlimited" when in the small print it stated that a "fair use" limit of 3GB would be imposed therefore making it in no way unlimited. They told me that as it didn't affect many consumers my complaint had no merit. I wonder if the wired companies get similar freedom to mislead their customers.
Yes because that's worked so well in the UK where prices have rocketed along with profits.
Yes we need to work out how to get Windows-only software and hardware to work on Linux.
That's not strictly true given that people still want to run software that doesn't have a Linux equivalent and plug in USB hardware that doesn't have Linux drivers.
Is that right? And how do you come to that stellar conclusion? Oh that's right because you live a dead exciting life coding for the love of it i.e. sitting at a computer for most of your life.
Sort of like hating fraudsters but having a good feeling about fraudsters being scammed themselves
Your experience differs to mine where Vista would lock up regularly on startup with no way of determining why. I eventually gave up trying to find out and reinstalled the beast and yes it now works about as well as XP - so no particular advantage apart from not having to piss about with CACLS anymore when I want to grant a poorly written app write access to its own directory in Program Files.
Until Hindus become too expensive for Cheapskate International Inc and they ship the work to China.
Funny I don't remember those bad old days and I worked in a variety of companies on a variety of horrible old systems.
It wasn't the IT department who was to blame for this mess in most cases but the belief by clueless senior management that programming was a largely simple process where hugely complex systems could be written in a matter of weeks.
If the IT department dared to object or tried to insist on a realistic deadline then shoddy 3rd party software would be bought at huge expense and the next 4 years would be spent trying to get it to work.
That was my first reaction as well. Every single one of the people I worked with in IT would be excluded from that despite some of them being superbly talented and hard-working.
People will not switch to Linux while their Win32-only software won't run flawlessly if at all and they have problems getting their hardware to work.
If Linux could run all the software and hardware that Windows can then it would be making significant inroads into Microsoft's sales right now.
As it is the desktop will have to become irrelevant before Microsoft are removed from their position of major influence in the IT world.