Nope, sorry. I have the latest patches on a 3GS and it does not bring everything back to normal speed. For example, loading my text messaging is taking on average twice as long now. The keyboard is noticeably less responsive even. Not that I expected any different, but at least get your facts right.
In a letter to a friend in 1816, Thomas Jefferson mocked “men [who] look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the arc of the covenant, too sacred to be touched”; “who ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.” “Let us follow no such examples, nor weakly believe that one generation is not as capable as another of taking care of itself, and of ordering its own affairs,” he concluded. “Each generation is as independent as the one preceding, as that was of all which had gone before.”
That came from a Newsweek article, last week. I hope you get the gist.
I think you're ignoring a simple fact: some of us buy more e-books than normal books, and even go to such length as not reading printed books anymore given the choice. Me, personally, if I have the choice between a printed copy and an e-book, I'm going with the e-book. When I shop for books, I start with e-books. Because I want to know what I can read on my preferred medium. If I find nothing (unlikely) I may revert to paper.
So, what I'm saying is this: If a thousand people buy my e-book, and they are all people who only buy e-books and not printed books, then me getting with a publisher to have my book published isn't going to achieve a single thing for me.
And, as a related note: Your numbers quoted do not take this factor into account.
Lesson one is: Set up servers in specific geographical locations. Players do not want to play with 1200-1500ms latency. Players do not like it when they lose the competitive advantage because of something they have no control over.
Lesson two is: Do not release the game until it is finished. Finished means having end-game content on release. It is essential that the hardcore players feel comfortable from the beginning... THEY are the foundation of your game's diversity because they are the ones who truly keep the economy and community churning. This seems obvious, but a long string of MMORPG failures point to this not being followed.
Lesson three is: If players have come to expect certain things of a new MMORPG, like an in-game mail system, auction house, and custom keyboard bindings, then you had better damn well have those in your game if you hope to have the success of the current vanguards of the industry. If all you're going for is a place that fanboys can be self-delusional and happy, great, you can succeed without such things. But be aware that you're creating an insular player base and the reason you have fanboys at all is because of previous great work you did, not this current garbage. It is not sustainable, and you will go out of business.
Tell me how a war on terrorism is not, in a sense, an infrastructure battle? I seem to recall the terrorists destroyed some of our best infrastructure...
We also don't know if Man hasn't been abducted to live on a desert planet to mine for the universe's most precious mineral used in starship propulsion... where they could've made an even longer tunnel.
Seriously, this should be a holiday or something... when everyone reformats and goes back to a clean install. Good bye botnets, at least for quite a while...Too bad, as a species, we don't seem capable of this kind of synchronization.
I fail to see why this is true. I have played on Oceanic servers from Alaska, in WoW and Aion, and not experienced nearly the amount lag I experienced in FFXIV from Alaska to Japan. We're talking a difference of at least 2x.
Let's hope nobody out there is really depending on a tax return, which is the only possible scenario in which I can think this is a big deal. And by the way, if that's you, maybe don't pay so much in... in the first place?
I bought two copies of the collector's edition for pre-release fun... That's $150. Just so my gf and I could play early and 'enjoy' the less crowded newbie zones, etc.
A few hours later and we've got all the patches downloaded on one computer, but the other one refuses to download much of anything through the torrent-only source method. So, I find a way to trick the patcher into using the other computer's files, which is a complete hassle but eventually we get it working. At this point my excitement is pretty high because I still haven't even logged into the game once. I just registered through their highly suspect payment method and managed to figure out how to login, and I've created a character.
Time for the fun, right? Wrong.
After finally getting into the game I immediately get a bad feeling. I can't jump (what is this, 1999?). In a game where you can't even jump you can forget about flying, as in WoW or Aion and others. I can't bind keys to do anything.. like opening my inventory on the fly. Nothing is intuitive. Combat is slow and the lag is terrible. I come to find out through research on the net that all of the servers are located in Japan and that there are no plans to change this. Great. I press on. I find myself running through some random map area. I finally find something to kill, and do so pretty easily. I figure heck I should be able to check out the next area. The monster looks like a tiny squirrel on steroids. It one-shots me. I die, and respawn 20 minutes from where I was. So I go somewhere else... find an area with some mushrooms that I can kill. Great! But the lag is so bad that other players are seeing the mushrooms respawn seconds before I do, and they are getting first hit on the mob. I can't get any kills.
It goes on and on like this for a few hours until I log out, disgusted. I will never play it again. Well played, SE, well played. You made $150 off of me for 3 hours of gameplay (if you can even call it that). I should've learned my lesson from FFXIII. I blame only myself.
Great idea, but not exactly very Sony-like... We're talking about the same company that pushed Blu-ray, an inferior standard to HD-DVD, on consumers with everything it had until they finally won... (disclaimer: I own two blu-ray players). Sony is much, much more likely to release their own phone with their own OS than team up with Google. All IMHO.
Communist or Democratic, Socialist or Capitalist... it doesn't matter when the asteroid hits. We should do whatever we can to be prepared for that absolutely certain eventuality. Because there's nothing certain about sociopolitical stability.
I used to live in Sitka as well... Interesting about TAB... so they're basically saying, of their taxes, etc, "just put it on our tab"? *ba da dum bam* Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all night.
I would never argue against your assertion. Hell, using Windows XP, for example, while open to a network connection is a risk in and of itself. Even if you aren't using the networking it could still be hacked. You could lose everything on the drive. Sure, the odds are tiny, but it's possible.
I do however find it interesting how writers need certain very specific environments in order to be maximally creative.
I might liken it to an athlete who thinks they need to never, ever wash their lucky armband which they were wearing when they scored that amazing goal. You might think that is just silly superstition... and it might be. But it also might be something more, perhaps a placebo type effect that has measurable effect on the outcome of the person's actions.
I don't really know, and I'm hardly being scientific here. Just some observations...
This guy clearly doesn't understand that a huge reason people even try marijuana right now is that it's illegal. It's a 'stickin it to the man' sort of thing. Coupled with the fact that most everyone with a head on their shoulders knows it's relatively harmless, there's plenty of people who smoke it just for the first reason I mentioned.
Now, if you make it legal, that reason vanishes completely. Suddenly smoking it is seen for what it truly is: a bastion of the lazy (if that's all you do) and an occasional escape for others who can moderate themselves. Even more, most people who try it will find they don't even like it and stop smoking it.
What will not happen is some kind of huge laziness epidemic that crushes the US economy. We have banking deregulation and Obamacare for that, thank you very much.
Even though I'm struggling to understand why you went this route (I'm leaning towards you're a hopeless romantic, or worse), let's put that aside for a moment and focus simply on your statement about the mouse cursor. I know of no text editing/authoring/publishing software in existence that requires use of the mouse. Not a single one. You could have easily not even connected a mouse to the computer and proceeded to write with any program out there. The fact that you chose one so old and out of normal use speaks more to it being old and out of normal use, and to your romanticizing or somehow aggrandizing that facet, than the fact that it doesn't have a mouse cursor in your way.
Look, I get it, you want to write without distractions. That's fine. All I'm saying is there is something else going on here behind the scenes...
I find this is true, but only to a point. If the "IT grunt" is smart, and a good communicator they should be able to convincingly argue for a position that isn't an exact fit into one of the stereotypes or archetypes. They should be able to show a good business case for their position such that the manager can understand why their IT grunt is useful in more than one way. Naturally, it helps to have a manager who isn't just a walking suit.
Electrical insulator company Northern Electron recently held their "team building" event in the woodlands of Oregon. It was reported that the event went well, and that business in the area went up by 37% over the course of the event.
What a horrible idea. Not trying to emasculate nerds here, but I think it's pretty safe to say that the "A-Team" embodies a certain degree of testosterone-fueled machismo that just doesn't really work when you're trying to debug 30,000 lines of code by noon on a green screen.
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Nope, sorry. I have the latest patches on a 3GS and it does not bring everything back to normal speed. For example, loading my text messaging is taking on average twice as long now. The keyboard is noticeably less responsive even. Not that I expected any different, but at least get your facts right.
In a letter to a friend in 1816, Thomas Jefferson mocked “men [who] look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the arc of the covenant, too sacred to be touched”; “who ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.” “Let us follow no such examples, nor weakly believe that one generation is not as capable as another of taking care of itself, and of ordering its own affairs,” he concluded. “Each generation is as independent as the one preceding, as that was of all which had gone before.”
That came from a Newsweek article, last week. I hope you get the gist.
I should've been more clear: What I meant was if a thousand people were interested in my book, but only wanted it on e-book and not printed.
I think you're ignoring a simple fact: some of us buy more e-books than normal books, and even go to such length as not reading printed books anymore given the choice. Me, personally, if I have the choice between a printed copy and an e-book, I'm going with the e-book. When I shop for books, I start with e-books. Because I want to know what I can read on my preferred medium. If I find nothing (unlikely) I may revert to paper.
So, what I'm saying is this: If a thousand people buy my e-book, and they are all people who only buy e-books and not printed books, then me getting with a publisher to have my book published isn't going to achieve a single thing for me.
And, as a related note: Your numbers quoted do not take this factor into account.
Lesson one is: Set up servers in specific geographical locations. Players do not want to play with 1200-1500ms latency. Players do not like it when they lose the competitive advantage because of something they have no control over.
Lesson two is: Do not release the game until it is finished. Finished means having end-game content on release. It is essential that the hardcore players feel comfortable from the beginning... THEY are the foundation of your game's diversity because they are the ones who truly keep the economy and community churning. This seems obvious, but a long string of MMORPG failures point to this not being followed.
Lesson three is: If players have come to expect certain things of a new MMORPG, like an in-game mail system, auction house, and custom keyboard bindings, then you had better damn well have those in your game if you hope to have the success of the current vanguards of the industry. If all you're going for is a place that fanboys can be self-delusional and happy, great, you can succeed without such things. But be aware that you're creating an insular player base and the reason you have fanboys at all is because of previous great work you did, not this current garbage. It is not sustainable, and you will go out of business.
Tell me how a war on terrorism is not, in a sense, an infrastructure battle? I seem to recall the terrorists destroyed some of our best infrastructure...
We also don't know if Man hasn't been abducted to live on a desert planet to mine for the universe's most precious mineral used in starship propulsion... where they could've made an even longer tunnel.
Yes, did my statement "this kind" not attempt to say that?
Seriously, this should be a holiday or something... when everyone reformats and goes back to a clean install. Good bye botnets, at least for quite a while...Too bad, as a species, we don't seem capable of this kind of synchronization.
I fail to see why this is true. I have played on Oceanic servers from Alaska, in WoW and Aion, and not experienced nearly the amount lag I experienced in FFXIV from Alaska to Japan. We're talking a difference of at least 2x.
This is not slashdot. You've entered into an alternate universe, where things are slightly different, such as the word "cannon" being spelled "canon".
Let's hope nobody out there is really depending on a tax return, which is the only possible scenario in which I can think this is a big deal. And by the way, if that's you, maybe don't pay so much in... in the first place?
I bought two copies of the collector's edition for pre-release fun... That's $150. Just so my gf and I could play early and 'enjoy' the less crowded newbie zones, etc.
.. like opening my inventory on the fly. Nothing is intuitive. Combat is slow and the lag is terrible. I come to find out through research on the net that all of the servers are located in Japan and that there are no plans to change this. Great. I press on. I find myself running through some random map area. I finally find something to kill, and do so pretty easily. I figure heck I should be able to check out the next area. The monster looks like a tiny squirrel on steroids. It one-shots me. I die, and respawn 20 minutes from where I was. So I go somewhere else... find an area with some mushrooms that I can kill. Great! But the lag is so bad that other players are seeing the mushrooms respawn seconds before I do, and they are getting first hit on the mob. I can't get any kills.
A few hours later and we've got all the patches downloaded on one computer, but the other one refuses to download much of anything through the torrent-only source method. So, I find a way to trick the patcher into using the other computer's files, which is a complete hassle but eventually we get it working. At this point my excitement is pretty high because I still haven't even logged into the game once. I just registered through their highly suspect payment method and managed to figure out how to login, and I've created a character.
Time for the fun, right? Wrong.
After finally getting into the game I immediately get a bad feeling. I can't jump (what is this, 1999?). In a game where you can't even jump you can forget about flying, as in WoW or Aion and others. I can't bind keys to do anything
It goes on and on like this for a few hours until I log out, disgusted. I will never play it again. Well played, SE, well played. You made $150 off of me for 3 hours of gameplay (if you can even call it that). I should've learned my lesson from FFXIII. I blame only myself.
Great idea, but not exactly very Sony-like... We're talking about the same company that pushed Blu-ray, an inferior standard to HD-DVD, on consumers with everything it had until they finally won... (disclaimer: I own two blu-ray players). Sony is much, much more likely to release their own phone with their own OS than team up with Google. All IMHO.
You're right, compared to other nations' amazing leaders, like Ahmadinejad (sp?), Kim Jong and Chavez, our leaders are just complete "D-Bags".
I have a better idea. Go fuck yourself.
Communist or Democratic, Socialist or Capitalist... it doesn't matter when the asteroid hits. We should do whatever we can to be prepared for that absolutely certain eventuality. Because there's nothing certain about sociopolitical stability.
I used to live in Sitka as well... Interesting about TAB... so they're basically saying, of their taxes, etc, "just put it on our tab"? *ba da dum bam* Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all night.
I would never argue against your assertion. Hell, using Windows XP, for example, while open to a network connection is a risk in and of itself. Even if you aren't using the networking it could still be hacked. You could lose everything on the drive. Sure, the odds are tiny, but it's possible.
I do however find it interesting how writers need certain very specific environments in order to be maximally creative.
I might liken it to an athlete who thinks they need to never, ever wash their lucky armband which they were wearing when they scored that amazing goal. You might think that is just silly superstition... and it might be. But it also might be something more, perhaps a placebo type effect that has measurable effect on the outcome of the person's actions.
I don't really know, and I'm hardly being scientific here. Just some observations...
Mod parent down.
This guy clearly doesn't understand that a huge reason people even try marijuana right now is that it's illegal. It's a 'stickin it to the man' sort of thing. Coupled with the fact that most everyone with a head on their shoulders knows it's relatively harmless, there's plenty of people who smoke it just for the first reason I mentioned.
Now, if you make it legal, that reason vanishes completely. Suddenly smoking it is seen for what it truly is: a bastion of the lazy (if that's all you do) and an occasional escape for others who can moderate themselves. Even more, most people who try it will find they don't even like it and stop smoking it.
What will not happen is some kind of huge laziness epidemic that crushes the US economy. We have banking deregulation and Obamacare for that, thank you very much.
Even though I'm struggling to understand why you went this route (I'm leaning towards you're a hopeless romantic, or worse), let's put that aside for a moment and focus simply on your statement about the mouse cursor. I know of no text editing/authoring/publishing software in existence that requires use of the mouse. Not a single one. You could have easily not even connected a mouse to the computer and proceeded to write with any program out there. The fact that you chose one so old and out of normal use speaks more to it being old and out of normal use, and to your romanticizing or somehow aggrandizing that facet, than the fact that it doesn't have a mouse cursor in your way.
Look, I get it, you want to write without distractions. That's fine. All I'm saying is there is something else going on here behind the scenes...
It's also pronounced "Royters" and that is just plain weird. ;)
I find this is true, but only to a point. If the "IT grunt" is smart, and a good communicator they should be able to convincingly argue for a position that isn't an exact fit into one of the stereotypes or archetypes. They should be able to show a good business case for their position such that the manager can understand why their IT grunt is useful in more than one way. Naturally, it helps to have a manager who isn't just a walking suit.
Electrical insulator company Northern Electron recently held their "team building" event in the woodlands of Oregon. It was reported that the event went well, and that business in the area went up by 37% over the course of the event.
To be fair, that chair toss is so infamous it may have had the effect Steve was going for all along.
What a horrible idea. Not trying to emasculate nerds here, but I think it's pretty safe to say that the "A-Team" embodies a certain degree of testosterone-fueled machismo that just doesn't really work when you're trying to debug 30,000 lines of code by noon on a green screen.