I wish they'd take the time to tune things up nicely in some aspects of World of Warcraft. I swear their maintenance process for that game is like a weekly earthquake. There are pre-quake rumblings on Monday, the earthquake of maintenance on Tuesdays, and aftershocks on Wednesdays.
You may laugh and chuckle and say it's a game but the maintenace period lasts on average 6 hours on tuesdays. Throw in a big patch day like the up and coming 1.11 Naxxaramas/Shaman/Mage review patch and your talking a whole day of downtime for bugs and upgrades it seems. Each patch blows out the game and the user has to go in and wipe their cache clean and disable/enable any custome UI mods. Now not everyone who plays WoW is a computer genius and I've seen lots of people have very difficult times dealing with things during patch days.
I'm throughly convinced that each Tuesday is a natural disaster waiting to happen as far as the game goes. It is a fun an addicting game. If the game was a piece of crap, the maintenance thing would have driven off hordes of their huge subscriber base long ago. I just wish they'd stamp out a lot of the headaches associated with the maintenance of the game.
I'd say only use an editor with syntax highlighting to help them learn better. Make sure it's pretty basic so they learn more and the IDE just helps them along. Type-o's can be a hard thing to spot for even experienced coders. That missing bracket or extra quote will stand out a lot nicer depending on the highlighting and help them see their simple mistakes quicker.
VI highlights a lot different languages, something like that to start off with wouldn't hurt I think. Easy to open, edit, and save a file. As they get better they can explore other options. Another good one is a basic version of jEdit with your languages highlight plugin installed. If your running them on Linux machines with KDE, Kate has some syntax highlighting too I believe.
* Atari 2600 * Home version of Pac Man arcade machine * TRS-80 Color Computer 2 with thermal printer and a tape cassette drive * Cassette taping my favorite TV shows, bet the MPAA and RIAA would have been after my arse for audio recording Night Rider, MASH, and Tales of the Golden Monkey on cassette as a kid. Also had a sore arm from holding the casette recorder to the TV speaker. >_> * First remote controlled 4-wheel drive truck. I promptly tore that open and cut all the wires to try and figure out how it worked. Never saw anything remote controlled again after my father came home and I had a sore arse. * Merline game, the red phone like thing. * That Dungeons and Dragons game where you had these little metal figures on an electronic game board and as you moved the dragon moved towards you and you placed wall blocks to where you bumped in to walls.
You know, the more I think about this stuff the more I remembered an old dream and I think I just realized what that dream symbolized. Walks down memory lane can be fun and enlightening.
"I have wondered if the small volumes of nuclear waste from power production should be stored in tropical forests and other habitats in need of a reliable guardian against their destruction by greedy developers".
Anyone else find that a bit troubling that its even an idea to concider?
Just upgraded to a Pentium D 3.0ghz with 2 gigs of ram, a 7900GTX Nvidia BFG card, and a 250gig SATA drive. I think I have just enough to load Solitare and Notepad at the same time, I'll let you know when I get Vista.
I've always wondered how fun and chaotic it would be if every FPS and mmorpg were to merge in to one big world. I could login my quake 3 guy and blow away priests in World of Warcraft with a railgun from the top of a mountain and make hunters cry with the plasma riffle. Or be my WoW druid and sneak up behind the railgun camper and ravage him for 1500 damage. Only 100 health there slick.;) Yeah its all kinda silly but fun to think about. Rogues with quad damage.. ouch.
Smart move, right now in order to make PvP rank in WoW for the GOOD stuff you litterly have to participate 6-8 hours a day, 7 days a week, for several weeks. Everyone I saw make the top Rank 14 spot was wished well and told to get some sleep. PvE isn't any better, it's comprised with big raids and dungeons that require huge time sinks in order to progress. The simple fun that was there early on evaporates after reaching the end of progression. The game is one huge time sink and not so much fun as it once was when it was billed to be different from other mmorpgs.
Lancaster has become a housing developement/minimall boom. Farmland thats one of the best in the country is being developed out of farming left and right. Don't see as many Amish as I used too, atleast the ones that choose the traditional life style anyway. At a certain age they have to choose between the Amish lifestyle or the modern one. I do know up in the Ephrata area there's still quite a few left.
Is wrong unless it's from the company that makes the game. There.com actually allowed cash for its online currency. That is something you can't argue with. For WoW buying gold isn't an option. I've worked only 2 druids to 60 but I earned every penny I spent by questing or farming my own stuff to sell.
Support is already a nightmare. You ever try to call Dell support? One of my student workers is a firey Korean lady who really knows how to handle support people from these places. Even with her determination it still took her three hours of transfers, callbacks, etc to get a simple set of replacement CDs under warrenty. I'm sorry, Dell's support plain sucks, no wonder the university I work for uses all Gateways. We get better support from them on our terms as customers.
The worst part is the support guy saying, "Good morning!" and it's 9 at night. You know it's not anyone local to this side of the planet.
How many people know what a warrant even looks like?
Sure we see them handed over in the movies and on tv, but they never go over them and double check them.
Is there a number we can call to confirm that a warrant is actually valid?
A determined criminal could create a fake warrant easier than most other official ID badges purely because we don't know what they look like?
Time to go to your local library and crack open a book.
- The mobs suposedly drop bug mounts because the place is so huge you need a mount. The bug mounts won't work outside AQ though except for one very special one that is labeled as legendary and works anywhere. That way anyone who is too poor to have a mount gets one in there.
- AQ is suposedly harder then the Blackwing Lair Dungeon.
- New armor sets in AQ are split between the 20 and 40 man dungeons. 3 pieces in the 20 and 5 in the 40 suposedly.
- Getting in to a group will be next to impossible unless your in a big guild or know someone in a big guild. The 20 man might be more attainable but thats still almost as much of a pain as the 40 man to get people together.
In conclusion, for those who love sleep and things outside in the real world should probebly cancel their subscriptions. End game is almost a 2nd full time job that YOU pay for. Bigger isn't always better from what I've seen and believe in my own opinion.
you could turn off the power to the house and unplug the car battery for one day to see how reliant you are to it. I wouldn't necessary be worried about addiction more so too much reliance on it.
The other thing about the wiping is maybe the computer was just purchased used. The previous owner wiped it that clean or maybe he had it wiped that clean to remove old software that wasn't licensed to him. Even I had to zero out a drive completely in order to reinstall an OS correctly a few times because old OS's or virus's just wouldn't go away.
he could have been more tactful in his choice of words. Also since he was assaulted for his expression I have a question. What happened to 'love your neighbor as your self' and 'turn the other cheek'? Sounds like the two that went after him are no better then the crazy people claiming to do things in the name of Islam over in the middle east.
The quests are rich and interesting. Being a tauren you do get the feel of being in a nomadic people who just decided to settle down but still go on hunts for great beasts. Elven quests are taxing to some but have an interesting story to them. Forsaken are just plain ruthless in some of their quests.
I play on a roleplay server, I find that to be a more rewarding experience then the PvP or PvE crowd. Still the PvP and PvE's are the biggest portion of the population. On my server we have almost a 3:1 ratio Alliance favor but the roleplay community there is strong and standing firm even with an influx of non roleplayers.
I definatly got my moneys worth. The only two things I want from it is dynamic weather and instance housing.
Out of the box, Night Elf females in WoW dance like strippers on a pole and bounce repeatedly when in idle mode. Tell me a well toned buxxom elf isn't going to keep you staring at your screen.
Nothing beats a paper back or hard back book. It's tangable and has more depth to it then electronic ones. Plus in a total power outage what are you going to be able to read if you have no batteries and only a candle?
Back in the old days they used stone tablets for that sort of thing. With the same drive technology applied to this like they used in zip drives. You could have some great fun when you press eject. Although if the disk gets stuck in the drive a paper clip won't cut it. Finally your backups will be around for quite some time baring erosion.
Simply not purchasing future products that are Steam driven. I uninstalled Half-life 2 not two days after having it because the Steam application made the game more trouble then it was worth. I am completely not satisfied by their product thanks to Steam.
If Valve can remove the Steam wrapper around Half-Life 2 and allow me to play it like any other game I'd concider installing it again. I would also concider purchasing future products from them. For now, Valve has totally lost me as a customer on future products and I have nothing but bad things to say about the one I did purchase in terms of performance an ease of use. I know how people love Counter Strike and the other mods, still I don't think it's worth the hassel that Steam bestows apon you for it.
I've played WoW for a bit now and recently since the last patch I've had times where I experienced disconnects almost 5-6 times in a row. An issue tonight at the timing of this post my game crashed and now I can't log back in. Apparently their authentication servers are down or something.
The notion that I should play on different servers just because one seems more popular is crazy for one simple reason. You can't move characters between servers. If you invested time building a character on one server and don't want to loose that, you won't move.
I seriously hope they fix their problems. I don't want to sit in queues for any length of time. Otherwise my monthly subscription will end. They made a damn fine game and it's a shame this is happening.
Seriously, they should pick up off the story line and continue to develope what happens with the technology. I think how the video game Tron 2.0 did. Later years, Alen's kid gets trapped inside. That should be whats done. This will allow new ideas to flurish a bit and also give a sense of how complex things are inside the computer with special effects magic.
Some possible ideas:
* Worms and virii killing programs. OOoh gory effects but all electronic.
* Internet travel.
* Perhaps teach actual things in how a computer works but make it more exciting (Yeah I know.)
* Technology developes further but goes out of control spilling in to the real world. (Way out there but still a neat idea.)
Also what operating system will they base things off of? The video game was strongly DOS'ish in it's references at times with security programs battle crying for the C drive. The movie seemed like a custom os'sh in a way.
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I wish they'd take the time to tune things up nicely in some aspects of World of Warcraft. I swear their maintenance process for that game is like a weekly earthquake. There are pre-quake rumblings on Monday, the earthquake of maintenance on Tuesdays, and aftershocks on Wednesdays.
You may laugh and chuckle and say it's a game but the maintenace period lasts on average 6 hours on tuesdays. Throw in a big patch day like the up and coming 1.11 Naxxaramas/Shaman/Mage review patch and your talking a whole day of downtime for bugs and upgrades it seems. Each patch blows out the game and the user has to go in and wipe their cache clean and disable/enable any custome UI mods. Now not everyone who plays WoW is a computer genius and I've seen lots of people have very difficult times dealing with things during patch days.
I'm throughly convinced that each Tuesday is a natural disaster waiting to happen as far as the game goes. It is a fun an addicting game. If the game was a piece of crap, the maintenance thing would have driven off hordes of their huge subscriber base long ago. I just wish they'd stamp out a lot of the headaches associated with the maintenance of the game.
No plot, but damn fun, Redneck Rampage.
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BFG9000? Pffff.. I gots me bowling ball!
I'd say only use an editor with syntax highlighting to help them learn better. Make sure it's pretty basic so they learn more and the IDE just helps them along. Type-o's can be a hard thing to spot for even experienced coders. That missing bracket or extra quote will stand out a lot nicer depending on the highlighting and help them see their simple mistakes quicker.
VI highlights a lot different languages, something like that to start off with wouldn't hurt I think. Easy to open, edit, and save a file. As they get better they can explore other options. Another good one is a basic version of jEdit with your languages highlight plugin installed. If your running them on Linux machines with KDE, Kate has some syntax highlighting too I believe.
* Atari 2600
* Home version of Pac Man arcade machine
* TRS-80 Color Computer 2 with thermal printer and a tape cassette drive
* Cassette taping my favorite TV shows, bet the MPAA and RIAA would have been after my arse for audio recording Night Rider, MASH, and Tales of the Golden Monkey on cassette as a kid. Also had a sore arm from holding the casette recorder to the TV speaker. >_>
* First remote controlled 4-wheel drive truck. I promptly tore that open and cut all the wires to try and figure out how it worked. Never saw anything remote controlled again after my father came home and I had a sore arse.
* Merline game, the red phone like thing.
* That Dungeons and Dragons game where you had these little metal figures on an electronic game board and as you moved the dragon moved towards you and you placed wall blocks to where you bumped in to walls.
You know, the more I think about this stuff the more I remembered an old dream and I think I just realized what that dream symbolized. Walks down memory lane can be fun and enlightening.
"I have wondered if the small volumes of nuclear waste from power production should be stored in tropical forests and other habitats in need of a reliable guardian against their destruction by greedy developers".
Anyone else find that a bit troubling that its even an idea to concider?
Instead, some form of power generation device, likely a pedal, will be attached to the AC power adapter, he said.
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Oh the millions of voices crying out in anguish if every computer in the world was powered by a foot pedal.
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Just upgraded to a Pentium D 3.0ghz with 2 gigs of ram, a 7900GTX Nvidia BFG card, and a 250gig SATA drive. I think I have just enough to load Solitare and Notepad at the same time, I'll let you know when I get Vista.
I've always wondered how fun and chaotic it would be if every FPS and mmorpg were to merge in to one big world. I could login my quake 3 guy and blow away priests in World of Warcraft with a railgun from the top of a mountain and make hunters cry with the plasma riffle. Or be my WoW druid and sneak up behind the railgun camper and ravage him for 1500 damage. Only 100 health there slick. ;) Yeah its all kinda silly but fun to think about. Rogues with quad damage.. ouch.
Smart move, right now in order to make PvP rank in WoW for the GOOD stuff you litterly have to participate 6-8 hours a day, 7 days a week, for several weeks. Everyone I saw make the top Rank 14 spot was wished well and told to get some sleep. PvE isn't any better, it's comprised with big raids and dungeons that require huge time sinks in order to progress. The simple fun that was there early on evaporates after reaching the end of progression. The game is one huge time sink and not so much fun as it once was when it was billed to be different from other mmorpgs.
Lancaster has become a housing developement/minimall boom. Farmland thats one of the best in the country is being developed out of farming left and right. Don't see as many Amish as I used too, atleast the ones that choose the traditional life style anyway. At a certain age they have to choose between the Amish lifestyle or the modern one. I do know up in the Ephrata area there's still quite a few left.
Is wrong unless it's from the company that makes the game. There.com actually allowed cash for its online currency. That is something you can't argue with. For WoW buying gold isn't an option. I've worked only 2 druids to 60 but I earned every penny I spent by questing or farming my own stuff to sell.
Support is already a nightmare. You ever try to call Dell support? One of my student workers is a firey Korean lady who really knows how to handle support people from these places. Even with her determination it still took her three hours of transfers, callbacks, etc to get a simple set of replacement CDs under warrenty. I'm sorry, Dell's support plain sucks, no wonder the university I work for uses all Gateways. We get better support from them on our terms as customers.
The worst part is the support guy saying, "Good morning!" and it's 9 at night. You know it's not anyone local to this side of the planet.
How many people know what a warrant even looks like? Sure we see them handed over in the movies and on tv, but they never go over them and double check them. Is there a number we can call to confirm that a warrant is actually valid? A determined criminal could create a fake warrant easier than most other official ID badges purely because we don't know what they look like?
Time to go to your local library and crack open a book.
AQ gets better...
- The mobs suposedly drop bug mounts because the place is so huge you need a mount. The bug mounts won't work outside AQ though except for one very special one that is labeled as legendary and works anywhere. That way anyone who is too poor to have a mount gets one in there.
- AQ is suposedly harder then the Blackwing Lair Dungeon.
- New armor sets in AQ are split between the 20 and 40 man dungeons. 3 pieces in the 20 and 5 in the 40 suposedly.
- Getting in to a group will be next to impossible unless your in a big guild or know someone in a big guild. The 20 man might be more attainable but thats still almost as much of a pain as the 40 man to get people together.
In conclusion, for those who love sleep and things outside in the real world should probebly cancel their subscriptions. End game is almost a 2nd full time job that YOU pay for. Bigger isn't always better from what I've seen and believe in my own opinion.
you could turn off the power to the house and unplug the car battery for one day to see how reliant you are to it. I wouldn't necessary be worried about addiction more so too much reliance on it.
The other thing about the wiping is maybe the computer was just purchased used. The previous owner wiped it that clean or maybe he had it wiped that clean to remove old software that wasn't licensed to him. Even I had to zero out a drive completely in order to reinstall an OS correctly a few times because old OS's or virus's just wouldn't go away.
he could have been more tactful in his choice of words. Also since he was assaulted for his expression I have a question. What happened to 'love your neighbor as your self' and 'turn the other cheek'? Sounds like the two that went after him are no better then the crazy people claiming to do things in the name of Islam over in the middle east.
The quests are rich and interesting. Being a tauren you do get the feel of being in a nomadic people who just decided to settle down but still go on hunts for great beasts. Elven quests are taxing to some but have an interesting story to them. Forsaken are just plain ruthless in some of their quests.
I play on a roleplay server, I find that to be a more rewarding experience then the PvP or PvE crowd. Still the PvP and PvE's are the biggest portion of the population. On my server we have almost a 3:1 ratio Alliance favor but the roleplay community there is strong and standing firm even with an influx of non roleplayers.
I definatly got my moneys worth. The only two things I want from it is dynamic weather and instance housing.
Out of the box, Night Elf females in WoW dance like strippers on a pole and bounce repeatedly when in idle mode. Tell me a well toned buxxom elf isn't going to keep you staring at your screen.
Nothing beats a paper back or hard back book. It's tangable and has more depth to it then electronic ones. Plus in a total power outage what are you going to be able to read if you have no batteries and only a candle?
Back in the old days they used stone tablets for that sort of thing. With the same drive technology applied to this like they used in zip drives. You could have some great fun when you press eject. Although if the disk gets stuck in the drive a paper clip won't cut it. Finally your backups will be around for quite some time baring erosion.
Simply not purchasing future products that are Steam driven. I uninstalled Half-life 2 not two days after having it because the Steam application made the game more trouble then it was worth. I am completely not satisfied by their product thanks to Steam.
If Valve can remove the Steam wrapper around Half-Life 2 and allow me to play it like any other game I'd concider installing it again. I would also concider purchasing future products from them. For now, Valve has totally lost me as a customer on future products and I have nothing but bad things to say about the one I did purchase in terms of performance an ease of use. I know how people love Counter Strike and the other mods, still I don't think it's worth the hassel that Steam bestows apon you for it.
I've played WoW for a bit now and recently since the last patch I've had times where I experienced disconnects almost 5-6 times in a row. An issue tonight at the timing of this post my game crashed and now I can't log back in. Apparently their authentication servers are down or something.
The notion that I should play on different servers just because one seems more popular is crazy for one simple reason. You can't move characters between servers. If you invested time building a character on one server and don't want to loose that, you won't move.
I seriously hope they fix their problems. I don't want to sit in queues for any length of time. Otherwise my monthly subscription will end. They made a damn fine game and it's a shame this is happening.
Seriously, they should pick up off the story line and continue to develope what happens with the technology. I think how the video game Tron 2.0 did. Later years, Alen's kid gets trapped inside. That should be whats done. This will allow new ideas to flurish a bit and also give a sense of how complex things are inside the computer with special effects magic.
Some possible ideas:
* Worms and virii killing programs. OOoh gory effects but all electronic.
* Internet travel.
* Perhaps teach actual things in how a computer works but make it more exciting (Yeah I know.)
* Technology developes further but goes out of control spilling in to the real world. (Way out there but still a neat idea.)
Also what operating system will they base things off of? The video game was strongly DOS'ish in it's references at times with security programs battle crying for the C drive. The movie seemed like a custom os'sh in a way.