Sure Wow had a lot of growing pains especially with class tweaking and server stability but there wasn't THAT much missing at launch. I don't know of any pre BC zones that were missing at launch (I could be wrong). As for dungeons, Molten Core, Dire Maul and Maraudon were added in the first 3 patches. There were no PVP battlegrounds or arenas either. On the whole though, all the initial races and classes were present with home cities. Level progression through 60 was present. Almost all pre-BC dungeons with exception to those noted above and the further end game raids (Blackwing Lair, Ahn Quiraj, Naxx) were present. There was a ton of content.
There is a port of the Basilisk II classic Mac emulator for Mac OS X. There is a universal binary although it doesn't work in '040 mode on Intel CPUs. The site recommends running the PPC version for this. Intel Mac running PPC Mac code via Rosetta to run an emulation of a 68k Mac. The mind boggles.
I'd say it's impressive that those 3 franchises have yet to produce a poor selling product. The one supposed stinker, Starcraft Ghost was cancelled. You are correct in that they don't have tons of games but every game they release is critically acclaimed and sells tons of units often over the course of many years (see Diablo 2, Starcraft 2 and World of Warcraft). A Blizzard game is the closest thing the PC game industry has to a sure thing. Valve is probably the only other PC gaming company that comes close to this track record.
Yes Diablo is in that lineage. Same one town up above, randomly generated dungeons below model. The biggest difference is that it is action oriented. The oldest game I can recall that had a similar mix was the action oriented Gateway to Apshai. Similar to earlier Temple of Apshai games but with a joystick driven interface and it ran in real time.
"If it's artwork look for an entry level graphics artist job. If it's writing look for a job with a publisher or a newspaper."
I can't think of a better way to kill passion about art or writing. Commercial art (graphic design) and journalism or even editing are far removed from writing or doing artwork outside of that context. If you want a shot at say creative writing or having your art shown in a gallery - you may actually want a job not directly related to those talents while you work on your creative development during your off hours.
You're correct but system administration is different from a software engineer position. Someone might be a good sysadmin and enjoy the work but not be a good software engineer. There are people that can do both but I'm frequently reminded of how the disciplines vary when I hear ideas from software developers that completely ignore how the underlying systems work. Often times development is oblivious to the environment the application will ultimately run in. The worst case I've seen recently was large chunks of an application with hardcoded localhost references....
Funny. My coworker just had to replace his Macbook Pro motherboard for the second time in a year. On the other hand we haven't had any issues with the other 7 MBPs in use by developers. Everyone gets a lemon from time to time.
And apparently unless you are NASA maybe that's a good thing. I oversaw a quarter of a million dollar XSAN install and dealing with Apple Enterprise was a joke. Fucked up quotes, reps (more than once) going on vacation without notice, shipping the wrong product, cocking up the install and not admitting it or sending an engineer out until legal threats were brought to the table. I found EMC to be way more professional and technically knowledgeable. Of course this is anecdotal and maybe I just got the moron squad from Apple Enterprise.
I'm not a big fan of Windows shell scripting but yes you can do stuff like:
command > redirect output to filename command | redirect output to another program
For example:
dir | clip
Would put the output from the dir command into the clipboard.
You can do stuff like this:
for/f %i in (c:\serverlist.txt) do systeminfo/s %i/fo csv/nh >> systeminfo.csv
In that case creating a csv file of server information from a list of servers in a text file.
On the Windows server operating systems there are plenty of additional command line tools used to work with active directory , ACLs and sordid system administration tasks.
There is also Windows scripting host which allows you to plug in other scripting languages such as jscript and vb and I dunno what else by now. Just as on Linux you could use perl, php, ruby etc. if you feel like it. WSH is installed on all versions of Windows by default.
And aside from powershell you can also freely install perl, php or whatever on Windows too.
You are right that there isn't a lot of good information compiled on the net. I guess this is a community difference. Most of the info you find will be in Windows books, magazines and on the MS website.
For myself, I prefer bash and administering Linux/UNIX/Mac but I don't deny that the tools aren't there for Windows admins. The funny thing is most Windows admins don't get past the gui anyway.
One of the points of Gattaca is that in their fictional world it IS illegal to discriminate based on genetics. However tissue collection for security screening, drug testing and the like were used to gain access to DNA and used to discriminate. To be fair this kind of discrimination could occur even without genetic engineering of births. The ability to analyze a person's genetics or even investigate family history is enough to discriminate against probably factors. Don't insure that person he has high family risk of cancer or heart disease. Don't hire that person he has a family history of alcoholism etc.
"One of the only reasons the MS market is so large is the fact that 90% of all computer manufacturers since the late '80's shipped their PC's with Windows pre-installed - and first time users 'learn' to use the first thing they see."
Well you could say that the clone market facilitated this. Only Apple sold Macs, only Atari sold STs, only Commodore sold Amigas. The clone market allowed many companies to sell computers and they needed an operating system to run on what they sold. DOS and Windows was there. Sure later on there was OS/2 as an option but it didn't really stand a chance once the Windows brand took hold. Linux didn't exist in the 80s and was no where near desktop ready in the early and mid 90s. Plenty of clone manufacturers were happy to sell Mac-clones when they could. Of course this almost killed Apple since they undercut Apple's hardware pricing substantially.
Same drill as any other OS. Early adopters will have to deal with bumps in the road until the patches come out. Apple usually follows up with patches pretty quickly after the initial release. I wait until the issues are known and the patches released before upgrading.
I don't think this constitutes "snooping". It's your job generally to ensure that company resources aren't being wasted by personal files such as music collections, videos, photos etc. Most of the time you are just looking for particular filetypes in excessively large profiles. As far as software installs go, it isn't important from a licensing and security standpoint to identify illegal or insecure software that an employee has installed. Just as it is to identify rogue network hardware. I don't think finding out that salesman Bob likes Britney Spears is in anyway a moral conflict. Reading through employee mail or accessing documents you have no right to (human resources for example) - now that is snooping.
So you stuck around long enough to get epic flyers and raid for tier 4-5 gear with three level 70s???? Did you consider that maybe, just maybe you got bored of the game after playing it for a considerable amount of time?
With the exception of the Mac Pro those cards are not upgradeable. So sure it may be better than a PC with integrated graphics but many of those PCs can be upgraded. Maybe not to a 9800GTX but at least to a nice mid-range card. Also on the iMac range the only way to get the 8600 is to buy the most expensive 24" model.
The bigger down side is no upgradeable video card in an iMac. Also you have buy the top of the line iMac in order to get a decent video card. The Radeon 2600 Pro gets beaten all over the map by a mid range card like an 8800GTS (about $200). It's an OK chip but Conan will look a lot better on a nicer card.
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Obviously it's not for you. I suggest the Sims.
That's what java developers said about PHP guys 5 years ago.
Money was the issue with Vanguard. Honestly having played it I'm not sure another 2-3 years of work before release could have saved it.
Well it is in the game! Just as a destroyed gnome city dungeon not a functional city.
Sure Wow had a lot of growing pains especially with class tweaking and server stability but there wasn't THAT much missing at launch. I don't know of any pre BC zones that were missing at launch (I could be wrong). As for dungeons, Molten Core, Dire Maul and Maraudon were added in the first 3 patches. There were no PVP battlegrounds or arenas either.
On the whole though, all the initial races and classes were present with home cities. Level progression through 60 was present. Almost all pre-BC dungeons with exception to those noted above and the further end game raids (Blackwing Lair, Ahn Quiraj, Naxx) were present.
There was a ton of content.
2 new player races
Since Burning Crusade came out:
something like 10 new zones
15 new 5 man dungeons
2 new 10 man dungeons
7 new 25 man dungeons
Arena pvp combat
100s of quests
If this is lame, I wonder what you would call a good expansion.
1 expansion since the game launched 4 years ago. How is this similar to the Sims with 10+ expansions?
There is a port of the Basilisk II classic Mac emulator for Mac OS X. There is a universal binary although it doesn't work in '040 mode on Intel CPUs. The site recommends running the PPC version for this.
Intel Mac running PPC Mac code via Rosetta to run an emulation of a 68k Mac. The mind boggles.
I'd say it's impressive that those 3 franchises have yet to produce a poor selling product. The one supposed stinker, Starcraft Ghost was cancelled.
You are correct in that they don't have tons of games but every game they release is critically acclaimed and sells tons of units often over the course of many years (see Diablo 2, Starcraft 2 and World of Warcraft). A Blizzard game is the closest thing the PC game industry has to a sure thing. Valve is probably the only other PC gaming company that comes close to this track record.
That broach looks mightily like a common convention name tag to me.
Yes Diablo is in that lineage. Same one town up above, randomly generated dungeons below model. The biggest difference is that it is action oriented. The oldest game I can recall that had a similar mix was the action oriented Gateway to Apshai. Similar to earlier Temple of Apshai games but with a joystick driven interface and it ran in real time.
"If it's artwork look for an entry level graphics artist job. If it's writing look for a job with a publisher or a newspaper."
I can't think of a better way to kill passion about art or writing. Commercial art (graphic design) and journalism or even editing are far removed from writing or doing artwork outside of that context.
If you want a shot at say creative writing or having your art shown in a gallery - you may actually want a job not directly related to those talents while you work on your creative development during your off hours.
You're correct but system administration is different from a software engineer position. Someone might be a good sysadmin and enjoy the work but not be a good software engineer.
There are people that can do both but I'm frequently reminded of how the disciplines vary when I hear ideas from software developers that completely ignore how the underlying systems work.
Often times development is oblivious to the environment the application will ultimately run in. The worst case I've seen recently was large chunks of an application with hardcoded localhost references....
Funny. My coworker just had to replace his Macbook Pro motherboard for the second time in a year.
On the other hand we haven't had any issues with the other 7 MBPs in use by developers.
Everyone gets a lemon from time to time.
And apparently unless you are NASA maybe that's a good thing. I oversaw a quarter of a million dollar XSAN install and dealing with Apple Enterprise was a joke. Fucked up quotes, reps (more than once) going on vacation without notice, shipping the wrong product, cocking up the install and not admitting it or sending an engineer out until legal threats were brought to the table.
I found EMC to be way more professional and technically knowledgeable.
Of course this is anecdotal and maybe I just got the moron squad from Apple Enterprise.
The CDR combo drive on the low end Macbook bugs the shit out of me. There is virtually no cost difference these days between a combo drive and a DVDR.
I'm not a big fan of Windows shell scripting but yes you can do stuff like:
command > redirect output to filename
command | redirect output to another program
For example:
dir | clip
Would put the output from the dir command into the clipboard.
You can do stuff like this:
for /f %i in (c:\serverlist.txt) do /s %i /fo csv /nh >> systeminfo.csv
systeminfo
In that case creating a csv file of server information from a list of servers in a text file.
On the Windows server operating systems there are plenty of additional command line tools used to work with active directory , ACLs and sordid system administration tasks.
There is also Windows scripting host which allows you to plug in other scripting languages such as jscript and vb and I dunno what else by now. Just as on Linux you could use perl, php, ruby etc. if you feel like it. WSH is installed on all versions of Windows by default.
And aside from powershell you can also freely install perl, php or whatever on Windows too.
You are right that there isn't a lot of good information compiled on the net. I guess this is a community difference. Most of the info you find will be in Windows books, magazines and on the MS website.
For myself, I prefer bash and administering Linux/UNIX/Mac but I don't deny that the tools aren't there for Windows admins. The funny thing is most Windows admins don't get past the gui anyway.
One of the points of Gattaca is that in their fictional world it IS illegal to discriminate based on genetics. However tissue collection for security screening, drug testing and the like were used to gain access to DNA and used to discriminate.
To be fair this kind of discrimination could occur even without genetic engineering of births. The ability to analyze a person's genetics or even investigate family history is enough to discriminate against probably factors. Don't insure that person he has high family risk of cancer or heart disease. Don't hire that person he has a family history of alcoholism etc.
"One of the only reasons the MS market is so large is the fact that 90% of all computer manufacturers since the late '80's shipped their PC's with Windows pre-installed - and first time users 'learn' to use the first thing they see."
Well you could say that the clone market facilitated this. Only Apple sold Macs, only Atari sold STs, only Commodore sold Amigas. The clone market allowed many companies to sell computers and they needed an operating system to run on what they sold. DOS and Windows was there. Sure later on there was OS/2 as an option but it didn't really stand a chance once the Windows brand took hold.
Linux didn't exist in the 80s and was no where near desktop ready in the early and mid 90s.
Plenty of clone manufacturers were happy to sell Mac-clones when they could. Of course this almost killed Apple since they undercut Apple's hardware pricing substantially.
Same drill as any other OS. Early adopters will have to deal with bumps in the road until the patches come out. Apple usually follows up with patches pretty quickly after the initial release. I wait until the issues are known and the patches released before upgrading.
I don't think this constitutes "snooping". It's your job generally to ensure that company resources aren't being wasted by personal files such as music collections, videos, photos etc. Most of the time you are just looking for particular filetypes in excessively large profiles.
As far as software installs go, it isn't important from a licensing and security standpoint to identify illegal or insecure software that an employee has installed. Just as it is to identify rogue network hardware.
I don't think finding out that salesman Bob likes Britney Spears is in anyway a moral conflict. Reading through employee mail or accessing documents you have no right to (human resources for example) - now that is snooping.
I was using preemptive multitasking just fine back in 1987 on an Amiga with 1MB of RAM.
So you stuck around long enough to get epic flyers and raid for tier 4-5 gear with three level 70s????
Did you consider that maybe, just maybe you got bored of the game after playing it for a considerable amount of time?
We call rocky planets also terrestrial or telluric. We call the other ones gas giants or jovian planets.
With the exception of the Mac Pro those cards are not upgradeable. So sure it may be better than a PC with integrated graphics but many of those PCs can be upgraded. Maybe not to a 9800GTX but at least to a nice mid-range card.
Also on the iMac range the only way to get the 8600 is to buy the most expensive 24" model.
The bigger down side is no upgradeable video card in an iMac. Also you have buy the top of the line iMac in order to get a decent video card. The Radeon 2600 Pro gets beaten all over the map by a mid range card like an 8800GTS (about $200).
It's an OK chip but Conan will look a lot better on a nicer card.