That is likely a factor, but QuantumG is more correct. EQ introduced "instant" transport, which was much less than instant due to the horrible load times, and it did indeed make the world feel smaller, and to a large degree ruined the game. EQ insisted originally on just having you run everywhere, then later introduced horses, and then the PoK portals. WoW's griffins were a great compromise in my opinion: they got rid of the tedium of manually having to navigate everywhere while maintaining the feel of a vast world. If you have instant transport everywhere, why not have instakill for mobs too, I mean all that clicking is pretty obnoxious.
You also neglected to mention mage portals and summoning stones.
I learned this myself, and just don't do it. VMWare is awesome for CPU- or memory-intensive tasks, but for IO-intensive stuff like databases it's horrible. At least that's my experience, with ESX 3.5 and an iSCSI SAN.
Serious students are serious students. Kids who are just there to hang out and have fun will dick off whether it's on Facebook or at a kegger at the frat. Correlation != causality, etc.
almost all staff with expertise on production had retired or left the agency
... a highly paid consultant! If they left but they have the knowledge, pay them 10x what they used to make to get them to tell you how to do it... I thought this is how defense contracting worked, so why haven't they thought of this?
I view server names as a permanent human-readable "serial number". You get a new server, give it a name (e.g. tauron), and that is that server's name forever, and can never be used again on another machine. This prevents the need to refer to a server as "the old sydney windows db 002 server." Tying a machine's name to its function/purpose is what I used to do, but it just sucks. If you have 30 different database servers, but there are 10 different databases, db003 and db004 may not be part of the same db, so you're gonna have to write down its function anyway. Anyway, like I said, I used to do it this way - "db1" and "db2" and "webserver1" "webserver2" but it just leads to referring to them as "old webserver1, which is now db92..."
"In this case, hackers found the hole before Microsoft did," said Rick Ferguson, senior security advisor at Trend Micro. "This is never a good thing."...
Said Mr Ferguson: "If users can find an alternative browser, then that's good mitigation against the threat."
But Microsoft counselled against taking such action.
"I cannot recommend people switch due to this one flaw," said John Curran, head of Microsoft UK's Windows group.
I am a Perl fan and have written and maintained plenty of Perl in my day, but I find it to be too "free form" for large scale projects (those with more than say 3 developers, with new people joining the project frequently). This isn't a problem with Perl per se, or even actually a problem per se, but it makes it difficult to maintain consistency as the different styles of coding can conflict.
That's why any datacenter worth putting your servers in pipes its power through a flywheel or some other electricity "cleaner". A 1-ton lead ball spinning at 10,000 RPMs isn't going to speed up that much on a spike like that.
Because marketing effectiveness is actually measurable online (tying a purchase back to an ad that was viewed or clicked on), and they don't want advertisers to know just how ineffective their ads are.
You've apparently never done data mining. Trends etc... requires years of history. Information is power, and this type of lawsuit is the only reason for them NOT to keep the data, in the face of a slew of reasons for them TO keep it.
Firstly, what you mentioned is not an attack on Citibank, it's an attack on you with the phishers playing the odds that you're a Citibank customer, and dumb enough to fall for it. Secondly, this is a factor of Citibank's being the world's largest bank, thus the scumbags have the greatest odds of the first condition being true.
On Long Island, NY, Cablevision has displaced Verizon as the #1 home phone company with their VOIP product. There are about 7 or 8 million people on Long Island. Here's a story from 2006 when they reached 1 million customers:
Agreed, this info is almost 2 months old anyway. The official post by Drysc from April 22, 2008 is here. I tried pasting it below but I kept getting a retarded error: Filter error: Please use fewer 'junk' characters.
Making things more accessible is bad... how? Ubers feel less uber? It's in Blizzard's interest to have everyone max geared in BC gear before Lich King is released. Maybe they took it a bit too far by removing "all" attunements, e.g. the Karazhan key quest wasn't really that hard to do, so removing it seems a little silly, but in general why shouldn't people have access to all the content they've paid for?
Anecdotes aside, people are clicking these like mad, and some terms gross Google upwards of US$5.00 per click. So although you may not, and your friends may not, they are certainly being clicked. This accounts for the vast majority of Google's earnings, so if you think nobody's clicking just look at their financials. People are clicking. People do click.
That's not exactly "bargain" space, Apple's Macbook is almost in that range, and last week I configured a Dell Vostro 1500 with a Core 2 Duo T7500 2.2 GHz, 3 GB ram, XP Home, a 256 MB GeForce 8600GT, and a 15" SXGA screen for $833.
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That is likely a factor, but QuantumG is more correct. EQ introduced "instant" transport, which was much less than instant due to the horrible load times, and it did indeed make the world feel smaller, and to a large degree ruined the game. EQ insisted originally on just having you run everywhere, then later introduced horses, and then the PoK portals. WoW's griffins were a great compromise in my opinion: they got rid of the tedium of manually having to navigate everywhere while maintaining the feel of a vast world. If you have instant transport everywhere, why not have instakill for mobs too, I mean all that clicking is pretty obnoxious.
You also neglected to mention mage portals and summoning stones.
I learned this myself, and just don't do it. VMWare is awesome for CPU- or memory-intensive tasks, but for IO-intensive stuff like databases it's horrible. At least that's my experience, with ESX 3.5 and an iSCSI SAN.
Bill Gates?
Serious students are serious students. Kids who are just there to hang out and have fun will dick off whether it's on Facebook or at a kegger at the frat. Correlation != causality, etc.
That's what mod_rewrite is for.
almost all staff with expertise on production had retired or left the agency
... a highly paid consultant! If they left but they have the knowledge, pay them 10x what they used to make to get them to tell you how to do it... I thought this is how defense contracting worked, so why haven't they thought of this?
They don't appreciate in value. Virtualize the rest of your servers and sell the ones you free up from doing that too.
I view server names as a permanent human-readable "serial number". You get a new server, give it a name (e.g. tauron), and that is that server's name forever, and can never be used again on another machine. This prevents the need to refer to a server as "the old sydney windows db 002 server." Tying a machine's name to its function/purpose is what I used to do, but it just sucks. If you have 30 different database servers, but there are 10 different databases, db003 and db004 may not be part of the same db, so you're gonna have to write down its function anyway. Anyway, like I said, I used to do it this way - "db1" and "db2" and "webserver1" "webserver2" but it just leads to referring to them as "old webserver1, which is now db92..."
Yeah, much to the contrary:
"In this case, hackers found the hole before Microsoft did," said Rick Ferguson, senior security advisor at Trend Micro. "This is never a good thing." ...
Said Mr Ferguson: "If users can find an alternative browser, then that's good mitigation against the threat."
But Microsoft counselled against taking such action.
"I cannot recommend people switch due to this one flaw," said John Curran, head of Microsoft UK's Windows group.
And it costs me $13.99/month.
I am a Perl fan and have written and maintained plenty of Perl in my day, but I find it to be too "free form" for large scale projects (those with more than say 3 developers, with new people joining the project frequently). This isn't a problem with Perl per se, or even actually a problem per se, but it makes it difficult to maintain consistency as the different styles of coding can conflict.
That's why any datacenter worth putting your servers in pipes its power through a flywheel or some other electricity "cleaner". A 1-ton lead ball spinning at 10,000 RPMs isn't going to speed up that much on a spike like that.
Do you work at Google?
Because marketing effectiveness is actually measurable online (tying a purchase back to an ad that was viewed or clicked on), and they don't want advertisers to know just how ineffective their ads are.
You've apparently never done data mining. Trends etc... requires years of history. Information is power, and this type of lawsuit is the only reason for them NOT to keep the data, in the face of a slew of reasons for them TO keep it.
Firstly, what you mentioned is not an attack on Citibank, it's an attack on you with the phishers playing the odds that you're a Citibank customer, and dumb enough to fall for it. Secondly, this is a factor of Citibank's being the world's largest bank, thus the scumbags have the greatest odds of the first condition being true.
On Long Island, NY, Cablevision has displaced Verizon as the #1 home phone company with their VOIP product. There are about 7 or 8 million people on Long Island. Here's a story from 2006 when they reached 1 million customers:
http://www.voipmonitor.net/2006/07/18/Cablevisions+Optimum+Voice+Surpasses+One+Million+Customers.aspx
Agreed, this info is almost 2 months old anyway. The official post by Drysc from April 22, 2008 is here. I tried pasting it below but I kept getting a retarded error: Filter error: Please use fewer 'junk' characters.
That won't even get you a 3-bedroom house on Long Island.
Making things more accessible is bad... how? Ubers feel less uber? It's in Blizzard's interest to have everyone max geared in BC gear before Lich King is released. Maybe they took it a bit too far by removing "all" attunements, e.g. the Karazhan key quest wasn't really that hard to do, so removing it seems a little silly, but in general why shouldn't people have access to all the content they've paid for?
Anecdotes aside, people are clicking these like mad, and some terms gross Google upwards of US$5.00 per click. So although you may not, and your friends may not, they are certainly being clicked. This accounts for the vast majority of Google's earnings, so if you think nobody's clicking just look at their financials. People are clicking. People do click.
That's not exactly "bargain" space, Apple's Macbook is almost in that range, and last week I configured a Dell Vostro 1500 with a Core 2 Duo T7500 2.2 GHz, 3 GB ram, XP Home, a 256 MB GeForce 8600GT, and a 15" SXGA screen for $833.
Just build both and let the market decide.