Obama has impressed me and I hope he keeps going. I am worried, I just know Rod Sterling is waiting to spring the gotcha on everybody and that Twilight Zone music will crank up.
At first I like how it changed the world with the phasing technology. Then I encountered a very glaring problem.
Person A has a quest later in a quest chain to kill Dude X.
Nobody wants to help Person A except a few guildies who haven't even started the chain. Persons B and C want to help A kill X but because of the phasing technology X isn't visible to them and Person A vanishes when entering the area where X is and all they see are mobs from the start of the quest chain.
Getting help to do some group quests has just got a lot more difficult in World of Warcraft for quest chains that involve their phasing technology. Some of these quests require 5 people to complete and all 5 need to be on this step sometimes. You can't just get a few other guys to help you who will do it later.
The game world outside of dungeons is awesome. There's all kinds of quests and activities to get lost in messing around with. I had a goal when this came out and that was to do every quest I could find for the expansion outside of dungeons in the new zones.
After reaching that goal I realize that the dungeons themselves are too simplistic for my taste. Honestly I loved the long quest lines involved with going in and out of old dungeons like BRD, UBRS, etc. Now they feel more like a 5 minute ride at the amusement park. Just not fun anymore.
So yeah, the game world itself in the new continent is really well put together. The dungeons feel not really as involving as the older ones were, almost unfinished because when I'm done with a run I'm like, "That's it???"
[sarcasm]I could see college students loving the added cost of a music tax to their tuition. Especially those that don't do anything to warrant the music tax in today's economy.[/sarcasm]
Maybe there aren't many (or any) viruses, worms and whatnot targeting the platform today, but they will come, and when they arrive, it will be a good idea to have some protection installed beforehand.
People have been saying the same damn thing for 8 years. "Just wait, one day OS X will get a virus. You'll see."
Ok, well, after hearing this for almost a decade I'm kinda starting to get skeptical.
That is because they are on the Duke Nuke'm release schedule for Macs.
I don't like to make the operation of the code any more convoluted for the next guy. So it's my belief that Easter Eggs should stay out unless specifically in the requirements.
Besides, why have code comments if you can't put Easter Eggs there? Annoying piece of code that someone else wrote could do really well with an ASCII Homer Simpson and your pearls of wisdom from fixing the thing or something.
So yeah.. I'd keep them in the comments only for other developers to see. Even a simple comment such as, "What are you looking down here for?" half way in to the code is cute.
And Vista is faster than XP on the proper hardware ie Dual Core, 4GB+ ram
My dual core 3ghz processor with 4gb of ram says otherwise when going from XP to Vista. Intel stuff no less with up to date drivers and also a high speed SATA drive.
File copies in XP took twice as long in Vista for files of equal size on the same hardware.
It's not just pagers. I find myself looking at cell phones and wondering where there's just a simple phone with no bells, whistles, touch displays, etc. Has to be durable as well and get good signal anywhere instead of having power worked to all kinds of unused features.
* If you can work before taking classes, do it. I saved up two years worth of tuition and book costs which saved me loan interest in the long run.
* Don't use credit cards unless you absolutely have to. If you can avoid them all together, do it. Credit cards + college = DEBT CITY. There's just too much temptation in my opinion.
* Pay things down, pick one bill and put more then the minimum payment on it till it's paid of. Trust me as they start disappearing one by one you'll really feel good about yourself.
* If you absolutely need a computer for college, get a netbook. Those things are cheap around $200-300 depending on what you get. You don't need anything else for college and you can hook those up to printers and scanners if need be.
* Pay attention in class and get help if some subjects give you trouble. If you have to retake courses that will increase your debt.
If John McCain should have won the election, John McCain would have won the election.
My question would be, why didn't 95% of whites vote for Obama?
Anti-black racism in the white American community is ugly.
In my corner of the white American community I saw the following happen.
If Obama was a woman my mother would have voted for him. Instead she voted for Sarah Palin. My father and I voted for Obama. My mother told me she didn't like Obama or McCain at all and thought Mrs. Palin wouldn't take crap from men in office.
Now you can debate it was all about race, but right or wrong, based on my mothers actions and feelings. I'm willing to bet she wasn't alone in voting for McCain for the reasons she did. If Obama would have picked Hillary over Biden then there might have been a MUCH larger victory for Obama. I'm not saying that's a fact, I'm just saying that's what I feel based off what I've seen.
Neither major party candidate has mentioned addressing the crushing national debt or deficit spending. If I'm going to listen to platitudes, I want to hear about reducing spending and paying down the debt, not battles over who gets tax cuts.
This.. I don't care what each one says, the one who says AND delivers on this gets my vote all the way.
You've got it. Firstly the batteries will be destroyed by the prolonged cold. The other thing is that the entire site will be cloaked in a couple of meters of CO2 ice over winter; as it accumulates on the solar panels, the weight is expected to physically snap them off.
It would be neat if they could watch the entire process of this happening. I really wish they could build a probe that could monitor this on the ground.
"But memory in a human is much more complex than a memory in a mouse," Verghese added. "So, this experimental model, while it brings to mind all sorts of possible applications, is many steps removed from any human application."
Imagine if they got this stuff working for humans. They could really erase a criminals memory of an event and all the stuff that makes him bad. Now say in order to preserve law and order you need to make sure the family of the victim he killed is "conditioned" to not take revenge.
Say you don't like people voting for Obama or McCain? Now you can erase certain things to sway people towards voting for you in the election.
Don't like what the whistle blower in your company is about to do even though you may be poisoning the local population by doing something less then ethical or just stealing from them with extra fees? Clean that whistle blowers whistle so he/she can't remember the facts.
Yeah this will be good down the road if they ever get it perfected for humans and especially in an easy to transport size.
Ugha... me day me used rock hammer and stone chisel. Had lift disk with legs not back. Ughha... Dump in river ruined disk... buga... damn erosion. ughaaa!
I found the bastardized version of Xandros to be more pleasing then the "Windows" experience. Still that hasn't stopped me from grabbing the latest Ubuntu EEE ISO (Not official Ubuntu). Which is about 100x's more pleasing then the Xandros experience.
When the official new release of Ubuntu comes out I'm giving that a spin on my 1000 40G.
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Obama has impressed me and I hope he keeps going. I am worried, I just know Rod Sterling is waiting to spring the gotcha on everybody and that Twilight Zone music will crank up.
At first I like how it changed the world with the phasing technology. Then I encountered a very glaring problem.
Person A has a quest later in a quest chain to kill Dude X.
Nobody wants to help Person A except a few guildies who haven't even started the chain. Persons B and C want to help A kill X but because of the phasing technology X isn't visible to them and Person A vanishes when entering the area where X is and all they see are mobs from the start of the quest chain.
Getting help to do some group quests has just got a lot more difficult in World of Warcraft for quest chains that involve their phasing technology. Some of these quests require 5 people to complete and all 5 need to be on this step sometimes. You can't just get a few other guys to help you who will do it later.
The game world outside of dungeons is awesome. There's all kinds of quests and activities to get lost in messing around with. I had a goal when this came out and that was to do every quest I could find for the expansion outside of dungeons in the new zones.
After reaching that goal I realize that the dungeons themselves are too simplistic for my taste. Honestly I loved the long quest lines involved with going in and out of old dungeons like BRD, UBRS, etc. Now they feel more like a 5 minute ride at the amusement park. Just not fun anymore.
So yeah, the game world itself in the new continent is really well put together. The dungeons feel not really as involving as the older ones were, almost unfinished because when I'm done with a run I'm like, "That's it???"
[sarcasm]I could see college students loving the added cost of a music tax to their tuition. Especially those that don't do anything to warrant the music tax in today's economy.[/sarcasm]
Maybe there aren't many (or any) viruses, worms and whatnot targeting the platform today, but they will come, and when they arrive, it will be a good idea to have some protection installed beforehand.
People have been saying the same damn thing for 8 years. "Just wait, one day OS X will get a virus. You'll see."
Ok, well, after hearing this for almost a decade I'm kinda starting to get skeptical.
That is because they are on the Duke Nuke'm release schedule for Macs.
I don't like to make the operation of the code any more convoluted for the next guy. So it's my belief that Easter Eggs should stay out unless specifically in the requirements.
Besides, why have code comments if you can't put Easter Eggs there? Annoying piece of code that someone else wrote could do really well with an ASCII Homer Simpson and your pearls of wisdom from fixing the thing or something.
So yeah.. I'd keep them in the comments only for other developers to see. Even a simple comment such as, "What are you looking down here for?" half way in to the code is cute.
It's not fair to call vista a virus.
Viruses are some of the tiniest and most efficient pieces of code written.
64 Base Pairs ought to be enough for anybody!!!1!
And Vista is faster than XP on the proper hardware
ie Dual Core, 4GB+ ram
My dual core 3ghz processor with 4gb of ram says otherwise when going from XP to Vista. Intel stuff no less with up to date drivers and also a high speed SATA drive.
File copies in XP took twice as long in Vista for files of equal size on the same hardware.
It's not just pagers. I find myself looking at cell phones and wondering where there's just a simple phone with no bells, whistles, touch displays, etc. Has to be durable as well and get good signal anywhere instead of having power worked to all kinds of unused features.
* If you can work before taking classes, do it. I saved up two years worth of tuition and book costs which saved me loan interest in the long run.
* Don't use credit cards unless you absolutely have to. If you can avoid them all together, do it. Credit cards + college = DEBT CITY. There's just too much temptation in my opinion.
* Pay things down, pick one bill and put more then the minimum payment on it till it's paid of. Trust me as they start disappearing one by one you'll really feel good about yourself.
* If you absolutely need a computer for college, get a netbook. Those things are cheap around $200-300 depending on what you get. You don't need anything else for college and you can hook those up to printers and scanners if need be.
* Pay attention in class and get help if some subjects give you trouble. If you have to retake courses that will increase your debt.
After the past eight years, it's like a breath of fresh air.
So then... Linux = LCARS?
From Riker: EMACS!
From Picard: VI!
From Riker: EMACS!
From Picard: VI!
*Sounds of a leaf blower firing up*
From Riker: ...
From Picard: ...
*Millions of punch cards cover them*
From Kirk: *Turning off the leaf blower* Hole puncher.
John McCain should have won the election.
If John McCain should have won the election, John McCain would have won the election.
My question would be, why didn't 95% of whites vote for Obama?
Anti-black racism in the white American community is ugly.
In my corner of the white American community I saw the following happen.
If Obama was a woman my mother would have voted for him. Instead she voted for Sarah Palin. My father and I voted for Obama. My mother told me she didn't like Obama or McCain at all and thought Mrs. Palin wouldn't take crap from men in office.
Now you can debate it was all about race, but right or wrong, based on my mothers actions and feelings. I'm willing to bet she wasn't alone in voting for McCain for the reasons she did. If Obama would have picked Hillary over Biden then there might have been a MUCH larger victory for Obama. I'm not saying that's a fact, I'm just saying that's what I feel based off what I've seen.
From Instructor: Now we're going to practice our impact procedures. Ok everyone lean to the left.
*Whole class but one guy leans to the left*
From Instructor: Good! Now lean to the right.
*Whole class but same one guy leans to the right*
From Instructor: Excellent! Your prepared for when the ship takes damage.
From The One Guy: Uh? Why are we leaning to the left and right like that?
*Instructor hands him a red shirt*
From Instructor: Keep your insurance paid up son.
*Fires up Windows 7*
*Boot Screen: Tink tink! x 256*
OH GOD!!! 256 Clippy processes!!! AARARRGGHHHHH!!
Neither major party candidate has mentioned addressing the crushing national debt or deficit spending. If I'm going to listen to platitudes, I want to hear about reducing spending and paying down the debt, not battles over who gets tax cuts.
This.. I don't care what each one says, the one who says AND delivers on this gets my vote all the way.
You've got it. Firstly the batteries will be destroyed by the prolonged cold. The other thing is that the entire site will be cloaked in a couple of meters of CO2 ice over winter; as it accumulates on the solar panels, the weight is expected to physically snap them off.
It would be neat if they could watch the entire process of this happening. I really wish they could build a probe that could monitor this on the ground.
Scratch that.. I was thinking XP.
When Win95 came out I didn't have an alternative that was easier to install like Ubuntu is today and ran my older games.
That's easy... rejoiced that I didn't have to deal with Windows ME anymore.
"Why don't you try it again and stop basing your idea of Vista on your impression of it at launch, which was no worse than XP when it first came out."
Two reasons:
1> First impressions last a life time.
2> I'm too busy installing things that work under Wine in Ubuntu and didn't work in Vista like they did in XP.
"But memory in a human is much more complex than a memory in a mouse," Verghese added. "So, this experimental model, while it brings to mind all sorts of possible applications, is many steps removed from any human application."
Imagine if they got this stuff working for humans. They could really erase a criminals memory of an event and all the stuff that makes him bad. Now say in order to preserve law and order you need to make sure the family of the victim he killed is "conditioned" to not take revenge.
Say you don't like people voting for Obama or McCain? Now you can erase certain things to sway people towards voting for you in the election.
Don't like what the whistle blower in your company is about to do even though you may be poisoning the local population by doing something less then ethical or just stealing from them with extra fees? Clean that whistle blowers whistle so he/she can't remember the facts.
Yeah this will be good down the road if they ever get it perfected for humans and especially in an easy to transport size.
That is why 99.8% of my games don't come from EA. It all works out.
Ugha... me day me used rock hammer and stone chisel. Had lift disk with legs not back. Ughha... Dump in river ruined disk... buga... damn erosion. ughaaa!
*Beats stick on ground*
Nifty... I can see guys getting in real trouble with this. "Man that captain is hot, I wonder how she..."
*Stern look from the Captain*
"Uh umm..." *takes off helm*
I found the bastardized version of Xandros to be more pleasing then the "Windows" experience. Still that hasn't stopped me from grabbing the latest Ubuntu EEE ISO (Not official Ubuntu). Which is about 100x's more pleasing then the Xandros experience.
When the official new release of Ubuntu comes out I'm giving that a spin on my 1000 40G.