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I think the funniest thing about that posting from NCIS is that is a computer on Gibb's desk. The least likely place for it to be. Would love to see that explained in a backstory:)
I'm sure I could easily download games, etc... however the real value I'm taking away from this is people that have bought the microsd cards and have backed up their roms onto them. I don't know how many times I've had to scour through my wife's van to find a DS game that is just tiny and falls into all sorts of areas.
It'd be nice to be able and the the kids games, consolidate and not have to worry about that.
The geek in me says it'd be cool to develop for the DS, but the realist says I'm too damn lazy!
I'm sure when they first came up with this in the 70's during Deadly Assassin, someone was saying "Ah...12 regenerations should be enough for anyone. That'll hold the show forever!"
I was amazed the first time I stepped into Azeroth. Elywnn Forest was so peaceful. As I brought my character up, some things seemed to get so boring and annoying. "Go halfway around the world go get X and bring it back. Oh you did that...go back to where you were and get y. Oh..thanks...now go back and get z. Now that you have brought me all 3, go back and kill the mob that you killed twice already getting x,y and z"
I saw way too much of that, so when I got to lvl60, I quit, leaving my hunter standing in IronForge. A few months later I make a warlock. This was after the first expansion came out and Azeroth became a subsidiary of Nerf. It was a lot easier to bring my Warlock up, however I just couldn't see paying for the expansion to do more of the same in outland. So I quit again.
A couple months ago, I felt the call and brought a mage up to lvl60. I hit lvl50 around when WotLK came out, so it helped in that lots of Death Knights where running around doing the old end-game instances for the achievements. For my other two characters, it could take a day or two to find enough people to run Stratholme.
So, anyway, got up to lvl60, tried the Burning Crusade trial, which has all the BC content included in the current patches/installs. So now if I wanted to continue, I'd be paying $30 for a key that says "yeah...let him into other parts of the world." And then $40 for another key for WotLK.
So I guess I'll just let things lapse again, disappear from the guild I'm in and be forgotten, and probably in 6 months time level something else up to 60 and quit again.
I just can't see any reason to keep playing this game. My wife thinks it's funny, but doesn't mind as long as I know where my priorities are, but I feel stupid when running an instance and someone else is saying their parents are making them get off for bed. Or other people are talking about how they lost their job cause they overslept again after running something the night before.
Guess I'll go back to my other crack - Windows programming.
I did a lvl60 before and after the 2.1 patch. MAJOR difference. Patch 2.1 was brought to you by Nerf! Many elites for quests are now just normal mobs. Makes it much easier to solo much of the non-instanced areas.
Blizzard is constantly rolling out new content for free - new dungeons, new raid zones, new quests, new factions... My $15 is helping blizzard make a new, deadlier type of boar. I had to laugh when the first mob I found in outlands was a lvl58 HellBoar. Much different than the ones I was killing in Elwynn:) And the new dungeons have just become a new place for the Elite mobs to hang out.
Seriously, it's fun to make fun of Blizzard sometimes, but Outland did bring some serious new things to the game. The fact they are able to make these major changes in play without breaking things too bad is a testament to them.
Though like the original parent had mentioned, the grinding factor, be it in a instance or quest, does get tedious. The move from 60-70, and the move from 70-80 provides some progress, but really, once you max out, it's either the same thing or it's time to roll a new toon (ie. more of the old and new same stuff.)
Then again, I preferred to play solo, so I found most of the end-game stuff an annoyance and raids/runs of large instances a pain.
And they're shooting themselves in the head over that as well. Shows are starting to get too costly to bother, and the merchandise sold is already outrageous. $35 for a t-shirt? After paying $90 to get in (Rush) - I think not.
On the other hand, I've been to smaller shows where it was about $12 to get in, and have bought the CD's because the artist was good and the CD's weren't a ripoff. If they had other merchandise I may have even bought that, assuming the price was just a little profit for them, and not a down payment!
Looking at the release notes, many things I noticed seem to be along the lines of "here...we'll help you get up to lvl 60 quicker." Mind you, some would have helped when I was playing, specifically the nerfing of some of the elites for soloists.
My read on it is most of the players are probably tooling around outland waiting for the 3.0 release. If you're trying to level up to 60+, you are stuck in westfall asking if anyone is running deadmines over and over, and you get a bunch of lvl7's to help:) But if you quickly get up to level 60, you can buy Burning Crusade, get to level 70 before Lich King comes out in a few months, and buy it too.
Having the lower instances drop more blues is nice though - probably mostly BoP - great time to be a disenchanter:)
Glad I sold all my stuff off and left my character standing naked in IronForge or this could be tempting. Then again...
WoW is great. You get to create a vast variety of characters (okay...6 types, but they look different, at least in the facial hair.) and explore to your hearts content.
Not only do you get to complete complicated quests (such as "go talk to the guy 5 feet to my right and take him this.") you receive grand rewards which almost compete with what you sold as vendor junk three levels ago. And speaking of selling, lets not forget how expensive purple pixels are. Items with those rare pixels sell for stupid amounts because people think purple makes them so cool.
Seriously though...it was a fun game for a little bit. I am in awe just walking around looking at some of the environments. However, the repetitive nature really got to me. I understand the "kill x number of this, seek that quests." but it is sad when the this is the same as the kill x number of this quest you did 5 level ago, just with a different name and color.
However, my biggest beef was with the other players. Yeah...there are good and bad ones, but I didn't like how blizzard forces you to work with them to move forward. I like to be able to get on when I want, kill when and what I want and get off when I want (he he). But so many quests become group quests and the instances are pretty hard even if you do pick up some others. It got pretty annoying.
Still, the WoW episode of SP pretty much pegged it all and I'm glad they got an Emmy!
Eclipse is wonderful for Java. Great completion, "intellisense", etc... However, I really miss what VS has for C/C++, which is basically intellisense for the complete MSDN library. Whenever I've used Eclipse for C/C++, simple things like fopen and printf have no "help". That is the one thing that I would love to somehow see integrated into the CDT.
So many places have sales, discounts, loyalty cards and stuff, half the time I wouldn't know if the lower price was a mistake or a promotion. The clothing store Goody's was pretty bad for this - you'd find something, see it was 20% off, but it rings up even more off.
then there is the oblivious factor. If I put a dollar in a slot machine, I'm not sure I'd notice if it gave me extra credits.
Then again, one penny over the price and I'm sure we'd complain like you said.:)
Chances are that if you need the support they offer, then you are not just running some little fan site using MySQL to store what avatar's people choose. Most likely if you have support for the db, chances are you probably have some sort of support contract in place for the OS as well and the rest of your critical infrastructure. You are probably already playing by their rules using certain OS releases, etc...
Was playing WoW Saturday while my wife was xmas shopping. Kids were done cleaning up and wanted to go outside an play. Typed/quit and out we went. Was pretty simple. Didn't take the notebook outside to play it or anything.
Then again, I'm a trial member...maybe if I was paying.... nah... kids and wife come first. Not that difficult really.
(okay...I'm in a Jimmy Bufffet mood). I don't play many games anymore...my reactions are just not what they used to be. I have a collection of games I've burnt from the net. Probably played 4 of them. Mostly I'll play a bit, decide it sucks and am glad I didn't buy it. A couple I have really liked so I bought them - aka vote with the wallet. I guess in theory, I just hurt the game industry because I played two titles without buying them. But at the same time I bought two titles. Lawyers I guess would look at that as a potential los of 2 sales. Then again, I have remained a happy consumer and will be more likely to buy additional titles I like instead of becoming jaded because 50% of what I bought was crap.
Personally I find demo's a lot more useful for deciding what games I buy. Ultima Underworld and Diablo both had playable demos of the first levels. Both of those convinced me to buy the game. (Several times in several forms for UW). Diablo convinced me to buy it just running around killing things on the first level. Baldur's Gate convinced me w/ just the demo of the demon walking back and forth spitting fire:) I've always liked Unreal and the UT2004 online playable demo got me hooked on that as well. While the demos may not show how repetitive a game can get, or be like a trailer where you see all the funniest bits up front, it is a much better indicator than press releases, hype, box art, etc...
Go to a popular bittorrent site. For TV Series posted, count the number of seeders and leachers. There....that's what people are downloading. If you don't see the latest fox piece of crap out there (When toasters attack), chances are it sucks...can it.
Or go to that place we don't talk about and how what shows are being posted and requested. I don't recall seeing Dancing w/ The Stars on a.b.tv
Yes...this may be somewhat tilted, but then again, so are the mailings, etc... And if Neilsens are anything like Arbitron, I'd probably pitch the thing rather than deal with them.
When I'm looking for someone to hire, certifications don't even enter into it. All it means is you can take a test. Degree's are helpful, but really only to get HR to adjust salaries upwards. The main thing that most people miss are experience. I've had people who just graduated from college with an IT degree but their work history includes Papa John's and bartending - but they assure me they really like working with computers.
My favorite is an applicant for a position we had - a student applied, very little experience, but he was proud to let me know when he had just passed his CCNA. I think I broke his heart when I told him we don't use Cisco here.
Well at least in The Last Crusade, Jones explains that more archaelogy is in classrooms, etc... and X never marks the spot:)
Probably the best thing that has come close to hollywood's computer portrayl's is the Doom mod that let you hunt down and kill Unix processes: http://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/
And I can then say "But no...I'm french. Longitude Zero is not where you are pointing. Longitude zero is over here. No go away or I shall taunt you a second time."
So the question is, if you are going to target your application to a virtual machine, why use vmware? Why wouldn't you use java or python, for example?
Lets say you wanted an instant-on LDAP with Apache and mysql and this and that. To do it in java you would have to recreate all of those in your application. The idea is a virtual physical machine, not the abstracted machine which java uses.
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I think the funniest thing about that posting from NCIS is that is a computer on Gibb's desk. The least likely place for it to be. Would love to see that explained in a backstory :)
I'm sure I could easily download games, etc... however the real value I'm taking away from this is people that have bought the microsd cards and have backed up their roms onto them. I don't know how many times I've had to scour through my wife's van to find a DS game that is just tiny and falls into all sorts of areas.
It'd be nice to be able and the the kids games, consolidate and not have to worry about that.
The geek in me says it'd be cool to develop for the DS, but the realist says I'm too damn lazy!
I'm sure when they first came up with this in the 70's during Deadly Assassin, someone was saying "Ah...12 regenerations should be enough for anyone. That'll hold the show forever!"
Yea. AV, this massive Battleground for PVP, turns into a blitzkrieg raid that the Alliance can only lose if they screw up and are disorganized.
Guess it says a lot that I've never been on the winning side in AV - and I'm on alliance.
I was amazed the first time I stepped into Azeroth. Elywnn Forest was so peaceful. As I brought my character up, some things seemed to get so boring and annoying. "Go halfway around the world go get X and bring it back. Oh you did that...go back to where you were and get y. Oh..thanks...now go back and get z. Now that you have brought me all 3, go back and kill the mob that you killed twice already getting x,y and z"
I saw way too much of that, so when I got to lvl60, I quit, leaving my hunter standing in IronForge. A few months later I make a warlock. This was after the first expansion came out and Azeroth became a subsidiary of Nerf. It was a lot easier to bring my Warlock up, however I just couldn't see paying for the expansion to do more of the same in outland. So I quit again.
A couple months ago, I felt the call and brought a mage up to lvl60. I hit lvl50 around when WotLK came out, so it helped in that lots of Death Knights where running around doing the old end-game instances for the achievements. For my other two characters, it could take a day or two to find enough people to run Stratholme.
So, anyway, got up to lvl60, tried the Burning Crusade trial, which has all the BC content included in the current patches/installs. So now if I wanted to continue, I'd be paying $30 for a key that says "yeah...let him into other parts of the world." And then $40 for another key for WotLK.
So I guess I'll just let things lapse again, disappear from the guild I'm in and be forgotten, and probably in 6 months time level something else up to 60 and quit again.
I just can't see any reason to keep playing this game. My wife thinks it's funny, but doesn't mind as long as I know where my priorities are, but I feel stupid when running an instance and someone else is saying their parents are making them get off for bed. Or other people are talking about how they lost their job cause they overslept again after running something the night before.
Guess I'll go back to my other crack - Windows programming.
LF1M for run of VisualStudio.
They could put the Black Page into there and wear out the poor person on the drums!
I did a lvl60 before and after the 2.1 patch. MAJOR difference. Patch 2.1 was brought to you by Nerf! Many elites for quests are now just normal mobs. Makes it much easier to solo much of the non-instanced areas.
Seriously, it's fun to make fun of Blizzard sometimes, but Outland did bring some serious new things to the game. The fact they are able to make these major changes in play without breaking things too bad is a testament to them.
Though like the original parent had mentioned, the grinding factor, be it in a instance or quest, does get tedious. The move from 60-70, and the move from 70-80 provides some progress, but really, once you max out, it's either the same thing or it's time to roll a new toon (ie. more of the old and new same stuff.)
Then again, I preferred to play solo, so I found most of the end-game stuff an annoyance and raids/runs of large instances a pain.
And they're shooting themselves in the head over that as well. Shows are starting to get too costly to bother, and the merchandise sold is already outrageous. $35 for a t-shirt? After paying $90 to get in (Rush) - I think not.
On the other hand, I've been to smaller shows where it was about $12 to get in, and have bought the CD's because the artist was good and the CD's weren't a ripoff. If they had other merchandise I may have even bought that, assuming the price was just a little profit for them, and not a down payment!
Looking at the release notes, many things I noticed seem to be along the lines of "here...we'll help you get up to lvl 60 quicker." Mind you, some would have helped when I was playing, specifically the nerfing of some of the elites for soloists.
:) But if you quickly get up to level 60, you can buy Burning Crusade, get to level 70 before Lich King comes out in a few months, and buy it too.
:)
My read on it is most of the players are probably tooling around outland waiting for the 3.0 release. If you're trying to level up to 60+, you are stuck in westfall asking if anyone is running deadmines over and over, and you get a bunch of lvl7's to help
Having the lower instances drop more blues is nice though - probably mostly BoP - great time to be a disenchanter
Glad I sold all my stuff off and left my character standing naked in IronForge or this could be tempting. Then again...
WoW is great. You get to create a vast variety of characters (okay...6 types, but they look different, at least in the facial hair.) and explore to your hearts content.
Not only do you get to complete complicated quests (such as "go talk to the guy 5 feet to my right and take him this.") you receive grand rewards which almost compete with what you sold as vendor junk three levels ago. And speaking of selling, lets not forget how expensive purple pixels are. Items with those rare pixels sell for stupid amounts because people think purple makes them so cool.
Seriously though...it was a fun game for a little bit. I am in awe just walking around looking at some of the environments. However, the repetitive nature really got to me. I understand the "kill x number of this, seek that quests." but it is sad when the this is the same as the kill x number of this quest you did 5 level ago, just with a different name and color.
However, my biggest beef was with the other players. Yeah...there are good and bad ones, but I didn't like how blizzard forces you to work with them to move forward. I like to be able to get on when I want, kill when and what I want and get off when I want (he he). But so many quests become group quests and the instances are pretty hard even if you do pick up some others. It got pretty annoying.
Still, the WoW episode of SP pretty much pegged it all and I'm glad they got an Emmy!
Eclipse is wonderful for Java. Great completion, "intellisense", etc... However, I really miss what VS has for C/C++, which is basically intellisense for the complete MSDN library. Whenever I've used Eclipse for C/C++, simple things like fopen and printf have no "help". That is the one thing that I would love to somehow see integrated into the CDT.
So many places have sales, discounts, loyalty cards and stuff, half the time I wouldn't know if the lower price was a mistake or a promotion. The clothing store Goody's was pretty bad for this - you'd find something, see it was 20% off, but it rings up even more off.
:)
then there is the oblivious factor. If I put a dollar in a slot machine, I'm not sure I'd notice if it gave me extra credits.
Then again, one penny over the price and I'm sure we'd complain like you said.
Yes. Your girlfriend has no rights to distribute that episode to others. She has the right to record it for her own use, that is it.
Now, if she watches it with you, well, hell, that'll probably count as a public performance and be wrong too.
I can't be bothered to take an interest in local affairs.
Chances are that if you need the support they offer, then you are not just running some little fan site using MySQL to store what avatar's people choose. Most likely if you have support for the db, chances are you probably have some sort of support contract in place for the OS as well and the rest of your critical infrastructure. You are probably already playing by their rules using certain OS releases, etc...
That would be my guess at least.
Was playing WoW Saturday while my wife was xmas shopping. Kids were done cleaning up and wanted to go outside an play. Typed /quit and out we went. Was pretty simple. Didn't take the notebook outside to play it or anything.
Then again, I'm a trial member...maybe if I was paying.... nah... kids and wife come first. Not that difficult really.
(okay...I'm in a Jimmy Bufffet mood). I don't play many games anymore...my reactions are just not what they used to be. I have a collection of games I've burnt from the net. Probably played 4 of them. Mostly I'll play a bit, decide it sucks and am glad I didn't buy it. A couple I have really liked so I bought them - aka vote with the wallet. I guess in theory, I just hurt the game industry because I played two titles without buying them. But at the same time I bought two titles. Lawyers I guess would look at that as a potential los of 2 sales. Then again, I have remained a happy consumer and will be more likely to buy additional titles I like instead of becoming jaded because 50% of what I bought was crap.
:) I've always liked Unreal and the UT2004 online playable demo got me hooked on that as well. While the demos may not show how repetitive a game can get, or be like a trailer where you see all the funniest bits up front, it is a much better indicator than press releases, hype, box art, etc...
Personally I find demo's a lot more useful for deciding what games I buy. Ultima Underworld and Diablo both had playable demos of the first levels. Both of those convinced me to buy the game. (Several times in several forms for UW). Diablo convinced me to buy it just running around killing things on the first level. Baldur's Gate convinced me w/ just the demo of the demon walking back and forth spitting fire
Go to a popular bittorrent site. For TV Series posted, count the number of seeders and leachers. There....that's what people are downloading. If you don't see the latest fox piece of crap out there (When toasters attack), chances are it sucks...can it.
Or go to that place we don't talk about and how what shows are being posted and requested. I don't recall seeing Dancing w/ The Stars on a.b.tv
Yes...this may be somewhat tilted, but then again, so are the mailings, etc... And if Neilsens are anything like Arbitron, I'd probably pitch the thing rather than deal with them.
When I'm looking for someone to hire, certifications don't even enter into it. All it means is you can take a test. Degree's are helpful, but really only to get HR to adjust salaries upwards. The main thing that most people miss are experience. I've had people who just graduated from college with an IT degree but their work history includes Papa John's and bartending - but they assure me they really like working with computers.
My favorite is an applicant for a position we had - a student applied, very little experience, but he was proud to let me know when he had just passed his CCNA. I think I broke his heart when I told him we don't use Cisco here.
European or African Swallows?
Well at least in The Last Crusade, Jones explains that more archaelogy is in classrooms, etc... and X never marks the spot :)
Probably the best thing that has come close to hollywood's computer portrayl's is the Doom mod that let you hunt down and kill Unix processes: http://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/
Damn...I didn't know they moved NCIS. But I agree - it is an excellant series. Caught it once quite by accident and have been hooked since.
:)
Of course, in October, SciFI will be airing series 2 of Doctor Who on Fridays. Another good choice. Ah...multiple tuner DVR's
And I can then say "But no...I'm french. Longitude Zero is not where you are pointing. Longitude zero is over here. No go away or I shall taunt you a second time."
So the question is, if you are going to target your application to a virtual machine, why use vmware? Why wouldn't you use java or python, for example?
Lets say you wanted an instant-on LDAP with Apache and mysql and this and that. To do it in java you would have to recreate all of those in your application.
The idea is a virtual physical machine, not the abstracted machine which java uses.