If you gather information like this on a politician or government employee, just the act of doing so is considered a threat. The rest of us subjects are fair game, apparently.
"Grouping made gameplay more interesting, rewarding, and entertaining, although very often more frustrating."
Mostly the last. WoW is already plenty interesting enough solo, and I *most* *certainly* don't want my game playing to be anything like frustrating. It requires a group? I'll pass, thanks. I'm actually okay with groups where I'm just helping someone, but after about 20 bad experiences, I'm not interested in going into any instance I can't solo, and so when there are places that require a group in order to still be able to get XP, I'm off to do something fun, instead.
Seriously, the terms of service is a unilateral statement by the service provider of the terms under which they choose to accept your business. Nothing says you have to accept, but then, they don't have to do business with you, either.
I would like to have government spending and laws rolled back. A lot. The choice at the ballot box is always between candidates who are for increasing government spending and more draconian laws, and those who are for these things slightly less, or in different ways (this is crystal clear now even to Republicans, as Bush promised no nation building and foreign adventuring, and not only broke that, but ramped up federal spending to previously undreamt of heights). There is no choice I agree with, and every candidate that *is* on the ballot is directly opposed to everything I want, while briefly giving lip service to those things I agree with, once in a while.
What is a person in this position to do? There's no reasonable candidate to vote for, and therefore no point in voting. There's been an uninterrupted trend toward tyranny since at least the early 20th century in the US, and I don't see any chance of it suddenly turning around.
There are a lot of people out there who just don't want to game as some sort of social event. I want to blow off some steam, have some fun, etc, and having to make sure everyone else survives and gets everything they need to get turns the game into just another kind of work. It isn't as if I don't have a lot of work I could do, if I wanted to acheive things and help people, but sometimes I just want to have fun without worrying about the effects on others.
I guess I need an addon to instantly answer "No, thanks" to any guild or instance invite.:)
"They have to make it easier and easier over time, or nobody will come and start anew, knowing that they will never ever catch up and reach that supersezzy new content. "
I think you're wrong. See, Americans know that NK currently has no way to deliver nukes to the US. Also, there is the strong possibility (for red-staters) that NK will eventually sell a nuke to some terrorist(s), and that that nuke will actually be used, either in the middle east or the US.
This makes a fairly strong case for assuming that this administration will want to come down hard on NK now, while their nukes are incapable of hitting the US. The only things I can see against this are that the war in Iraq has reduced the effectiveness of a potential action elsewhere, and that politicians almost always talk more than do.
I live in Alabama near Columbus, GA, and while I don't have the most deep-south accent, people around here don't seem to have any trouble with these systems. I was talking with a friend the other day and expressed skepticism that he would manage to get through the automatic voice system he was using, and he said that he'd never had any problem with it, and rattled off a 12 digit number at normal speaking speed with his normal (GA) accent, and it just worked.
I think a lot of the mistrust of these systems is from years ago. They've improved a lot in the last year or three.
In the documentary shown with the 200th ep last Friday, it was mentioned that when Shanks auditioned for the role, he took care to copy Spader's mannerisms and acting as closely as possible, and that this is what got him the role.
"Also, you are expecting him to document it but he didn't account for that in his estimate - his estimate was only for time to code the actual lines of code."
Ah, yes. Stealth requirements. The seasoned developer will be familiar with the practice of requirements which you didn't mention, and when asked about them, will say, "Well, that goes without saying!". And it's true, it *did* go without your saying it...;)
The good guys have to succeed every time. The bad guys only have to succeed once. Eventually, the good guys will fail.
It's important to internalize that enough to prepare ahead of time for when whatever you want to do ("X"; it doesn't matter what "X" is) becomes illegal.
You waste that much time in front of a computer and you are worried about the 15 seconds it takes to wait for someone to answer the your phone call!? You're fuckin' with me, aren't you?
Yeah.
You have trouble operating fax and photo copy machines, don't you? It mean, if it doesn't have a mouse or windows you can open/close, how the hell do you work it!?
This is actually true, in a limited way. I'm one of those people who you see reading the manual for the fax machine or copy machine when they've never used it before and just want to do something simple like front-and-back copies with the front in color and the back not. From separate pages. No harder to do than printing on a computer; requires 15 minutes of reading the manual on a copy machine. If the copy machine can even do it. Caveat: my last experience with a copy machine was in 2000, so maybe they're more general-purpose now.
Anyway, i thought your post was pretty amusing whether that was your intenet or not. Cheers.
It was supposed to be obviously funny, but in a kinda serious way.:)
You people keep talking about "being chained to the computer" and there being some advantage to having to use a separate device to talk on than you do all your other communicating on. Why would I want to track down where I left my phone to make a call? I haven't had a landline for years, and when I did, had a cordless handset, so I've dealt with years of "where the heck is my phone?" and if I'm already in front of my computer (which would be most of the time), why would I want to start hunting for a phone? It's gotten where I dread receiving phone calls, since they're startling, start a mad scramble for tracking down where the phone is by listening for the ring, cut off when my battery dies, which seems like every fourth call...
Similarly, making a phone call has been a chore as well; you can't just compose what you want to say and fire it off. Instead, you have to (after finding the phone and making sure it has minutes and it's charged, and if not, hunching over unnaturally during the call to make sure you stay close to the wall plug) wait, doing effectively nothing else, hoping they're there. If not (and usually that's the case, because who sits by the phone waiting for a call?), you have to leave a message, and hope they get back to you. All this takes way longer than just firing off an email, and part of the email's convenience is that you're at your computer for the email, so if an important IM (from your server watch, for example) comes in, you can instantly handle it.
VOIP offers the chance to combine another separate thing to keep track of into the same unit. I'm sure I don't have to explain on/. that one's computer handles nearly *everything* in life, right? Work, reading, socializing, gaming, shopping... VOIP is just one more thing I can do at the computer, without having to suffer the inconveniences of getting up and finding and working with some tool that operates some other way.
Now, I'm not certain, but I'm pretty sure that almost nobody watches Stargate Atlantis
I watch it. This season of Atlantis is considerably better than this season or last season of SG1. I couldn't care less about the Ori; it's not like the deus ex machina isn't waiting overhead in every episode to save the galaxy...
Atlantis started off kinda horror-movie-esque, but has moved into being a more careful and consistent show than SG1 is. Last night's, for example, had McKay (the Carter-equivalent) monologue an explanation for about 20 seconds of an otherwise glaring plot hole that on SG1 would probably have been ignored, if the last season and a half are any guide.
In the context of the "pro" selection of Apple products, a "pro user" is someone who needs the power of the "pro" line. Nothing more. In this case, it also happens to be that she makes a good professional living partly involving Poser, which allows her to give a client an idea of how some artwork will look pretty quickly without having done all the work first. But I know little about that, and I try to stay far away from learning about Poser.:)
Anyway, she has a DC2.3 PowerMac, and, as I said, already spends more time than she would like just waiting for renders and other actions to complete. Without a universal binary of the products she uses, upgrading to Intel is out of the question for most of this year.
They aren't faster for most things that "pro" users do, because most of that software still has to use Rosetta. My wife, for example, spend much of her time waiting for Poser to render scenes, and that would be far slower on one of these new iMacs until Poser goes universal binary.
Er, I was not attacking him.:) I was making the point that while he may wish there were more game testing jobs, the result for the vast majority of us would be higher game costs to *pay* for the newly required testers.
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If you gather information like this on a politician or government employee, just the act of doing so is considered a threat. The rest of us subjects are fair game, apparently.
"Grouping made gameplay more interesting, rewarding, and entertaining, although very often more frustrating."
Mostly the last. WoW is already plenty interesting enough solo, and I *most* *certainly* don't want my game playing to be anything like frustrating. It requires a group? I'll pass, thanks. I'm actually okay with groups where I'm just helping someone, but after about 20 bad experiences, I'm not interested in going into any instance I can't solo, and so when there are places that require a group in order to still be able to get XP, I'm off to do something fun, instead.
Of course, they do that anyway...
Seriously, the terms of service is a unilateral statement by the service provider of the terms under which they choose to accept your business. Nothing says you have to accept, but then, they don't have to do business with you, either.
I would like to have government spending and laws rolled back. A lot. The choice at the ballot box is always between candidates who are for increasing government spending and more draconian laws, and those who are for these things slightly less, or in different ways (this is crystal clear now even to Republicans, as Bush promised no nation building and foreign adventuring, and not only broke that, but ramped up federal spending to previously undreamt of heights). There is no choice I agree with, and every candidate that *is* on the ballot is directly opposed to everything I want, while briefly giving lip service to those things I agree with, once in a while.
What is a person in this position to do? There's no reasonable candidate to vote for, and therefore no point in voting. There's been an uninterrupted trend toward tyranny since at least the early 20th century in the US, and I don't see any chance of it suddenly turning around.
There are a lot of people out there who just don't want to game as some sort of social event. I want to blow off some steam, have some fun, etc, and having to make sure everyone else survives and gets everything they need to get turns the game into just another kind of work. It isn't as if I don't have a lot of work I could do, if I wanted to acheive things and help people, but sometimes I just want to have fun without worrying about the effects on others.
:)
I guess I need an addon to instantly answer "No, thanks" to any guild or instance invite.
"They have to make it easier and easier over time, or nobody will come and start anew, knowing that they will never ever catch up and reach that supersezzy new content. "
Isn't that what new servers are for?
I think you're wrong. See, Americans know that NK currently has no way to deliver nukes to the US. Also, there is the strong possibility (for red-staters) that NK will eventually sell a nuke to some terrorist(s), and that that nuke will actually be used, either in the middle east or the US.
This makes a fairly strong case for assuming that this administration will want to come down hard on NK now, while their nukes are incapable of hitting the US. The only things I can see against this are that the war in Iraq has reduced the effectiveness of a potential action elsewhere, and that politicians almost always talk more than do.
I think he was talking about the TSA, as evidenced by "these people" and "jobs". :)
I live in Alabama near Columbus, GA, and while I don't have the most deep-south accent, people around here don't seem to have any trouble with these systems. I was talking with a friend the other day and expressed skepticism that he would manage to get through the automatic voice system he was using, and he said that he'd never had any problem with it, and rattled off a 12 digit number at normal speaking speed with his normal (GA) accent, and it just worked.
I think a lot of the mistrust of these systems is from years ago. They've improved a lot in the last year or three.
Made public in the 70s, but it was ended in all but name by John F. Kennedy, who was horrified after being shown a mockup of a militarized version.
In the documentary shown with the 200th ep last Friday, it was mentioned that when Shanks auditioned for the role, he took care to copy Spader's mannerisms and acting as closely as possible, and that this is what got him the role.
"Also, you are expecting him to document it but he didn't account for that in his estimate - his estimate was only for time to code the actual lines of code."
;)
Ah, yes. Stealth requirements. The seasoned developer will be familiar with the practice of requirements which you didn't mention, and when asked about them, will say, "Well, that goes without saying!". And it's true, it *did* go without your saying it...
The good guys have to succeed every time. The bad guys only have to succeed once. Eventually, the good guys will fail.
It's important to internalize that enough to prepare ahead of time for when whatever you want to do ("X"; it doesn't matter what "X" is) becomes illegal.
You waste that much time in front of a computer and you are worried about the 15 seconds it takes to wait for someone to answer the your phone call!? You're fuckin' with me, aren't you?
:)
Yeah.
You have trouble operating fax and photo copy machines, don't you? It mean, if it doesn't have a mouse or windows you can open/close, how the hell do you work it!?
This is actually true, in a limited way. I'm one of those people who you see reading the manual for the fax machine or copy machine when they've never used it before and just want to do something simple like front-and-back copies with the front in color and the back not. From separate pages. No harder to do than printing on a computer; requires 15 minutes of reading the manual on a copy machine. If the copy machine can even do it. Caveat: my last experience with a copy machine was in 2000, so maybe they're more general-purpose now.
Anyway, i thought your post was pretty amusing whether that was your intenet or not. Cheers.
It was supposed to be obviously funny, but in a kinda serious way.
You people keep talking about "being chained to the computer" and there being some advantage to having to use a separate device to talk on than you do all your other communicating on. Why would I want to track down where I left my phone to make a call? I haven't had a landline for years, and when I did, had a cordless handset, so I've dealt with years of "where the heck is my phone?" and if I'm already in front of my computer (which would be most of the time), why would I want to start hunting for a phone? It's gotten where I dread receiving phone calls, since they're startling, start a mad scramble for tracking down where the phone is by listening for the ring, cut off when my battery dies, which seems like every fourth call...
/. that one's computer handles nearly *everything* in life, right? Work, reading, socializing, gaming, shopping... VOIP is just one more thing I can do at the computer, without having to suffer the inconveniences of getting up and finding and working with some tool that operates some other way.
Similarly, making a phone call has been a chore as well; you can't just compose what you want to say and fire it off. Instead, you have to (after finding the phone and making sure it has minutes and it's charged, and if not, hunching over unnaturally during the call to make sure you stay close to the wall plug) wait, doing effectively nothing else, hoping they're there. If not (and usually that's the case, because who sits by the phone waiting for a call?), you have to leave a message, and hope they get back to you. All this takes way longer than just firing off an email, and part of the email's convenience is that you're at your computer for the email, so if an important IM (from your server watch, for example) comes in, you can instantly handle it.
VOIP offers the chance to combine another separate thing to keep track of into the same unit. I'm sure I don't have to explain on
Lucky Pierre!
Now, I'm not certain, but I'm pretty sure that almost nobody watches Stargate Atlantis
I watch it. This season of Atlantis is considerably better than this season or last season of SG1. I couldn't care less about the Ori; it's not like the deus ex machina isn't waiting overhead in every episode to save the galaxy...
Atlantis started off kinda horror-movie-esque, but has moved into being a more careful and consistent show than SG1 is. Last night's, for example, had McKay (the Carter-equivalent) monologue an explanation for about 20 seconds of an otherwise glaring plot hole that on SG1 would probably have been ignored, if the last season and a half are any guide.
In the context of the "pro" selection of Apple products, a "pro user" is someone who needs the power of the "pro" line. Nothing more. In this case, it also happens to be that she makes a good professional living partly involving Poser, which allows her to give a client an idea of how some artwork will look pretty quickly without having done all the work first. But I know little about that, and I try to stay far away from learning about Poser. :)
Anyway, she has a DC2.3 PowerMac, and, as I said, already spends more time than she would like just waiting for renders and other actions to complete. Without a universal binary of the products she uses, upgrading to Intel is out of the question for most of this year.
They aren't faster for most things that "pro" users do, because most of that software still has to use Rosetta. My wife, for example, spend much of her time waiting for Poser to render scenes, and that would be far slower on one of these new iMacs until Poser goes universal binary.
There's only half a dang byte of music? Geez.
Yeah, except now it's Apple making the TV screens with the cameras in them. Oddly.
Well, at least it was an un-elegant non-attack
:)
I plead guilty, and throw myself on the mercy of the court.
They're not once in a lifetime anymore. Darn things are popping up all over the place.
Er, I was not attacking him. :) I was making the point that while he may wish there were more game testing jobs, the result for the vast majority of us would be higher game costs to *pay* for the newly required testers.
On the bright side, it sounds like companies will need to hire new testers.
Having to raise the cost of games is the bright side? You must hate games.