I'm going to be downmodded to death, but isn't science about keeping an open mind? Here in my country school curricula are rigid, limited and biased government mandated crap. As long as the teacher doesn't lie/make things up, teaching the kids to question everything and see both sides of an issue will only do them good. The intelligent ones will eventually make their own decision about who's right or wrong, and the stupid ones will believe what they'll believe anyway...
And this is why the amount of comments posted in slashdot is declining. The algorithm seems to choose for moderators simple-minded idiots who can't recognize a joke they can't look up in wikipedia. No wonder people are going to be afraid of losing their precious karma...
What happens when my attempt to ping Google gets bounced out to Europe as occasionally happens?
Sorry, but what's your ISP? I live in Europe and I don't remember packets sent elsewhere in Europe ever getting bounced to america or asia... Are things that bad over there?
I'm not sure conquest followed by citizenship and peace, with no genocide or enslavement (romans in Europe) , should be compared to, er, genocide and enslavement.
Universities can provide their students with free microsoft software through the MSDN Academic Alliance ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSDN_Academic_Alliance ). Mine provides a full subscription to all students.
I've been hosting in europe longer than that, but since the beginning of this year I've been hosting with Serverloft, a german company (they also have a datacenter in the U.S.). Their european website is http://www.serverloft.eu/ . Their current datacenter located in Strasbourg, France is http://www.datadock.eu/en/highlights.php . Their mainstream hosting sister company is http://www.server4you.net/ and their managed hosting sister company is http://www.plusserver.net/ . One thing to be careful with, though - Their advertised "limited stock - 3 to 5 days delivery" isn't quite true right now, at least in europe. I've been waiting for my latest order for two weeks - They said something about delivery problems. Maybe it's the weather, I hear it's been pretty bad up north.
I'm european. I used to buy my dedicated hosting in the U.S. for several reasons - Low latency to my lots of american users, good location for international routing, prices, etc. Then after a series of setbacks caused by companies with bad business practices (read extortion), increasing prices and, yes, scary laws, I finally relented and moved to europe. Never looked back! And I'm sorry to say I also regularly convince others to move from the U.S. to europe.
I think so. The point of sponsoring the team and not the idea is that it gives the team some freedom to explore new concepts rather than requiring the big publisher to approve each idea - Because they almost always only approve old, tried concepts.
I've been to the US twice and there are a lot more places there I'd like to visit, but as long as things remain this crazy in their airports I'm spending my holidays in saner countries.
- They're adding a way to "search retainers in a ward for specific items." aka: Functionality like an auction house. It's good that they're adding this. It's not good that they launched the game with a system that was so completely and fundamentally broken at the design level that it never should have been let out of alpha. Seriously, someone thought it was a good idea to make players wander around from retainer to retainer in the hope of finding item that they need, in a game where crafting is heavily dependent on player made inputs? Have these people ever played a MMO?
- They're also adding a shortcut to reply to whisper messages directly. Which is good, since you can't right now. Again, who ever heard of a MMO where you can't reply to messages? This isn't rocket science, it's the most basic chat functionality on the planet. (While they're at it they should make message size limits something slightly larger then a twitter message.)
I never played FFXIV, but it sounds like they hired the developers of most korean MMORPGs to design and code their interfaces...
[ITARIL] FEMALE, A WOODLAND ELF, this character is one the Silvan Elves. The Silvan Elves are seen as more earthy and practical. Shorter than other elves, she is still quick and lithe and physically adept, being able to fight with both sword and bow. Showing promise as a fighter at a young age, ITARIL was chosen to train to become part of the Woodland King’s Guard. This is the only life she has ever expected to live, until she meets and secretly falls in love with a young ELF LORD. This role will require a wig and contact lenses to be worn. Some prosthetic make-up may also be required. LEAD. AGE: 17-27. ACCENT – STANDARD R.P.
I think the point you're all missing is that while in a small town everyone knows everyone else and there's a certain degree of awareness of what everyone else is up to (I live in a small town myself), you, being a part of that 'everyone', should have that awareness too. You know who the people in your community are and a few things about them, even if you aren't into gossip. If Aunt Mae thinks you're gay, you can try to sort it out with those people - this small amount of people which are people you yourself know - or you can move elsewhere, or you can even let it be known that Aunt Mae is a lesbian and then sit back and have a quiet chuckle.
This can't possibly be compared with the degree to which facebook and other such services erode your privacy. They do so on a global scale. Faster than wildfire, everything about you is sold or transmitted to complete strangers everywhere in the world and stored in databanks, public and private, for a long, long time. In this situation, if you're screwed, you truly are screwed forever.
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I'm going to be downmodded to death, but isn't science about keeping an open mind? Here in my country school curricula are rigid, limited and biased government mandated crap. As long as the teacher doesn't lie/make things up, teaching the kids to question everything and see both sides of an issue will only do them good. The intelligent ones will eventually make their own decision about who's right or wrong, and the stupid ones will believe what they'll believe anyway...
And this is why the amount of comments posted in slashdot is declining. The algorithm seems to choose for moderators simple-minded idiots who can't recognize a joke they can't look up in wikipedia. No wonder people are going to be afraid of losing their precious karma...
You maed a mistaek ther.
That's what they did by aligning it with night in the pacific ocean. There are a lot of people outside the american continent, you know?
Google sure has an impressive amount of cool people working there...
Your login info could be stored in a cookie, in which case his image request will use the cookie info and automatically log you in.
What happens when my attempt to ping Google gets bounced out to Europe as occasionally happens?
Sorry, but what's your ISP? I live in Europe and I don't remember packets sent elsewhere in Europe ever getting bounced to america or asia... Are things that bad over there?
NOBODY expects...
(That's what you wanted, right? Right?)
I wonder what happened there - was it a change in artistic team? A side effect of the Enix merger?
Yes.
Really? That's bad news for my tables in divs bug from 2003 :( World ends next year after all...
I'm not sure conquest followed by citizenship and peace, with no genocide or enslavement (romans in Europe) , should be compared to, er, genocide and enslavement.
You'd be surprised...
Universities can provide their students with free microsoft software through the MSDN Academic Alliance ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSDN_Academic_Alliance ). Mine provides a full subscription to all students.
Yeah, in other words, Notch just wants to be able to have, in the future, a "Minecraft 2"-type expansion package and charge for it...
I've been hosting in europe longer than that, but since the beginning of this year I've been hosting with Serverloft, a german company (they also have a datacenter in the U.S.). Their european website is http://www.serverloft.eu/ . Their current datacenter located in Strasbourg, France is http://www.datadock.eu/en/highlights.php . Their mainstream hosting sister company is http://www.server4you.net/ and their managed hosting sister company is http://www.plusserver.net/ .
One thing to be careful with, though - Their advertised "limited stock - 3 to 5 days delivery" isn't quite true right now, at least in europe. I've been waiting for my latest order for two weeks - They said something about delivery problems. Maybe it's the weather, I hear it's been pretty bad up north.
I'm european. I used to buy my dedicated hosting in the U.S. for several reasons - Low latency to my lots of american users, good location for international routing, prices, etc. Then after a series of setbacks caused by companies with bad business practices (read extortion), increasing prices and, yes, scary laws, I finally relented and moved to europe. Never looked back! And I'm sorry to say I also regularly convince others to move from the U.S. to europe.
Didn't they just share everything with a bunch of major newspapers and let them decide what to release? At least that's the idea I had?
He probably doesn't meet the age requirement, even though he otherwise kicks ass.
Nobody does.
I think so. The point of sponsoring the team and not the idea is that it gives the team some freedom to explore new concepts rather than requiring the big publisher to approve each idea - Because they almost always only approve old, tried concepts.
Typical of slashdot, no one read TFA? It says she stated the measures were important and fully collaborated with them.
I've been to the US twice and there are a lot more places there I'd like to visit, but as long as things remain this crazy in their airports I'm spending my holidays in saner countries.
- They're adding a way to "search retainers in a ward for specific items." aka: Functionality like an auction house. It's good that they're adding this. It's not good that they launched the game with a system that was so completely and fundamentally broken at the design level that it never should have been let out of alpha. Seriously, someone thought it was a good idea to make players wander around from retainer to retainer in the hope of finding item that they need, in a game where crafting is heavily dependent on player made inputs? Have these people ever played a MMO?
- They're also adding a shortcut to reply to whisper messages directly. Which is good, since you can't right now. Again, who ever heard of a MMO where you can't reply to messages? This isn't rocket science, it's the most basic chat functionality on the planet. (While they're at it they should make message size limits something slightly larger then a twitter message.)
I never played FFXIV, but it sounds like they hired the developers of most korean MMORPGs to design and code their interfaces...
http://www.movies.spoilertv.com/2010/01/hobbit-casting-call.html
[ITARIL] FEMALE, A WOODLAND ELF, this character is one the Silvan Elves. The Silvan Elves are seen as more earthy and practical. Shorter than other elves, she is still quick and lithe and physically adept, being able to fight with both sword and bow. Showing promise as a fighter at a young age, ITARIL was chosen to train to become part of the Woodland King’s Guard. This is the only life she has ever expected to live, until she meets and secretly falls in love with a young ELF LORD. This role will require a wig and contact lenses to be worn. Some prosthetic make-up may also be required. LEAD. AGE: 17-27. ACCENT – STANDARD R.P.
I think the point you're all missing is that while in a small town everyone knows everyone else and there's a certain degree of awareness of what everyone else is up to (I live in a small town myself), you, being a part of that 'everyone', should have that awareness too. You know who the people in your community are and a few things about them, even if you aren't into gossip. If Aunt Mae thinks you're gay, you can try to sort it out with those people - this small amount of people which are people you yourself know - or you can move elsewhere, or you can even let it be known that Aunt Mae is a lesbian and then sit back and have a quiet chuckle.
This can't possibly be compared with the degree to which facebook and other such services erode your privacy. They do so on a global scale. Faster than wildfire, everything about you is sold or transmitted to complete strangers everywhere in the world and stored in databanks, public and private, for a long, long time. In this situation, if you're screwed, you truly are screwed forever.