The place has really gone downhill since the median age here dropped by half a couple years ago.
Not particularly. I've been off and on myself, but the popular perception of any online forum is one of which rose-colored glasses are involved. I do not see any substantial change in "quality" since when I started. Actually as I've refined my BS filter, the quality of today's Slashdot is pretty good.
I follow the Timothy May principle - if an online forum (or mailing list) does not have the quality you wish, contribute more.
(I do not get the reference either, but perhaps that's because I do not watch TV and I've been outside the US a long time).
I've never had or seen that happen outside of the checkpoint and I fly international a lot.
"Security" in the US is a joke. If they were serious, they would have a checkpoint at the entrance and scary men patrolling the inside with jack boots and automatic rifles as in Singapore and Beijing.
For $200,000 from one person, I wonder just how many travelors are victims of robbery there are since HSA versus the number of travelors turned victims from terrorists.
There have been 0 acts of terrorism in the US since 2001 unless you count the recent US$700^H^H^H850B bailout.
I am a victim of theft of by the TSA, sometimes they leave a little piece of paper saying that they took something and sometimes they do not. They do not say what they decided to steal.
And no, no matter how many times they ask me at the border, I never lived in Oakland and why do you keep asking me that every time I go through?
Not really, the distros are binary compatible. You might have to package in binaries in both RPM and Deb package formats but there are tools to convert between one and the other automagically.
And the question is really only a strawman anyway because those of us who really really want a WoW client on Linux will go to great lengths to ensure that whatever distro we are using is compatible.
All I liked to do was raid. Having a 20man and going into a scene and trying to work as a huge team to defeat these monsters. It's NOT fun when you're all alone doing quests by yourself etc.
Well, then you're playing the wrong game and...
I wont ever play or put any of my $$ into this game again.
The rest of us who do enjoy this game will not miss you. C ya!
I see that all the Glider questions just didn't seem to be asked or answered.
What questions? Blizzard did The Right Thing there, though I disagree with how they had to approach the US Judicial system. Many folks misunderstand our own NewYorkCountryLawyer in the same way.
While I'm sure your customer base may grow some, I'm also sure that most linux users who want to play WoW already play it by other means.
Amen!
I will also add, I recommend World of Warcraft to coworkers because of your support for MacOS X (Unix is Unix). The support for Macs is excellent. Please give us Linux guys a chance too. For Christmas I want to give out World of Warcraft disks, but I will not do that without native Linux support.
They might however gain more users. If some poor soul in Blizzard has actually spent the time to create a client, why not allow him to release it, close sourced, static, whatever. Just release something.
Second, I'd like to know (out of curiosity) how long ago it was you switched to Linux on the laptop. Shattrath can be really hard on the graphics card.
Shatt and SW City are both very hard at peak load. Lagus Maximus and very difficult to even move around at times with getting disconnected.
The big question is: Will they sue the snot out of someone developing a WoW LAN server?
No, but they will delete characters played on such servers without prejudice (the account isn't suspended). I found this out the hard way when my wife played on a local server.
Odd that you can buy WoW in Manila, but the Philippines is not an officially supported place to play from.
Actually, I agree with you. The FCC and the constant state of moral panic over words and god forbid naked people is absurd.
The world did not end when Janet Jackson flashed a boob at half time in the Superbowl.
I find it very disturbing that there was so much outrage over that incident, but no one seems to care about the amount of violence on TV. Bare breast bad, gun shot through the head good. Sigh.
I miss Japanese TV. Tokyo channel 13 had this great show they played on late Friday night called Mini Skirt Police. Among other things, you could see young ladies crumpling beer cans with their breasts. Another memorable segment was when they had young ladies dressed in long dresses and tied the ends of the dresses to model rockets and fired the rockets off. Then played back the results in slow motion several times. (They were wearing panties:-( ).
I can't think of a more perfect company to hold a patent like this. And for the record, shit piss fuck cunt cocksucker motherfucker tits (RIP George Carlin).
As much as I hate to say this since I hate advertising... the ads on Google when I'm looking for a product to buy are almost always relevant.
I am not involved in purchasing decisions at work, so those results are irrelevant.
I will grant you that when I first started out in gmail my first email conversation had to do with finding preinstalled Linux notebook computers and the Google targeted ads were a spectacular success.
I always Google potential hires. I hope my boss doesn't, because this post will shortly be somewhere in the Googleplex.;-)
Yeah, so do I. I'll weigh samples of self-written code higher, but a search often reveals a flaky potential employee.
That just makes a case for people starting out to get involved in Open Source as soon as they can. In my current job, my name had dozens of hits on the _internal_ intranet search engine due to my contributions to various emacs related things. That kind of stuff can only help.
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The place has really gone downhill since the median age here dropped by half a couple years ago.
Not particularly. I've been off and on myself, but the popular perception of any online forum is one of which rose-colored glasses are involved. I do not see any substantial change in "quality" since when I started. Actually as I've refined my BS filter, the quality of today's Slashdot is pretty good.
I follow the Timothy May principle - if an online forum (or mailing list) does not have the quality you wish, contribute more.
(I do not get the reference either, but perhaps that's because I do not watch TV and I've been outside the US a long time).
(* /me hopes the mods are old enough to get that reference.)
You must be new here.
in the US it is no longer the case http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/court-says-trav.html [wired.com] as you pretty much cannot enter the airport without automatically agreeing to be searched at any time.
I've never had or seen that happen outside of the checkpoint and I fly international a lot.
"Security" in the US is a joke. If they were serious, they would have a checkpoint at the entrance and scary men patrolling the inside with jack boots and automatic rifles as in Singapore and Beijing.
If you want to travel by air
That's imprecise. If you wish to go outside of the US, a US citizen's constitutional rights ends whereever they declare the border to be.
US Embassies are considered to be under US law, but anywhere else ...
You cannot waive your constitutional rights (or ammendments therein)
<hat="Spelling and Grammar Nazi">That would be amendments.</hat>
You most certainly can. It's required when you receive a DOD security clearance.
For $200,000 from one person, I wonder just how many travelors are victims of robbery there are since HSA versus the number of travelors turned victims from terrorists.
There have been 0 acts of terrorism in the US since 2001 unless you count the recent US$700^H^H^H850B bailout.
I am a victim of theft of by the TSA, sometimes they leave a little piece of paper saying that they took something and sometimes they do not. They do not say what they decided to steal.
And no, no matter how many times they ask me at the border, I never lived in Oakland and why do you keep asking me that every time I go through?
Thank God we have the TSA watching over us to keep us safe!
(I've had stuff stolen out of my bags by TSA, sigh)
Blizzard needs to target single popular desktop distro like Ubuntu
That would work for me, even though I will probably never use Ubuntu.
Please, native Linux clients. I do not care whether you officially support them or not.
Not really, the distros are binary compatible. You might have to package in binaries in both RPM and Deb package formats but there are tools to convert between one and the other automagically.
And the question is really only a strawman anyway because those of us who really really want a WoW client on Linux will go to great lengths to ensure that whatever distro we are using is compatible.
I would love Linux support too, I'm even willing to pay double for it.
Agreed. I would pay extra for a native World of Warcraft on Linux client.
Please release for Linux...Even if it's "as is" and officially unsupported.
Amen!
MacOS X is Unix and you do a fantastic job there, please give us Linux guys a chance. Please?
All I liked to do was raid. Having a 20man and going into a scene and trying to work as a huge team to defeat these monsters. It's NOT fun when you're all alone doing quests by yourself etc.
Well, then you're playing the wrong game and ...
I wont ever play or put any of my $$ into this game again.
The rest of us who do enjoy this game will not miss you. C ya!
I see that all the Glider questions just didn't seem to be asked or answered.
What questions? Blizzard did The Right Thing there, though I disagree with how they had to approach the US Judicial system. Many folks misunderstand our own NewYorkCountryLawyer in the same way.
While I'm sure your customer base may grow some, I'm also sure that most linux users who want to play WoW already play it by other means.
Amen!
I will also add, I recommend World of Warcraft to coworkers because of your support for MacOS X (Unix is Unix). The support for Macs is excellent. Please give us Linux guys a chance too. For Christmas I want to give out World of Warcraft disks, but I will not do that without native Linux support.
Speaking of ghosts - WHY are ghosts a) so slow, and b) not able to climb infinitely steep inclines? or even fly?
Or worse, why is wisp speed a Night Elf racial?
Or even worse, why is it so bloody difficult to get a ghost/wisp underwater to get back to instances that start under water?
PLEASE fix ghost form!
Yes, please. And give Night Elves something more useful in exchange.
They might however gain more users. If some poor soul in Blizzard has actually spent the time to create a client, why not allow him to release it, close sourced, static, whatever. Just release something.
Amen!
Second, I'd like to know (out of curiosity) how long ago it was you switched to Linux on the laptop. Shattrath can be really hard on the graphics card.
Shatt and SW City are both very hard at peak load. Lagus Maximus and very difficult to even move around at times with getting disconnected.
The big question is: Will they sue the snot out of someone developing a WoW LAN server?
No, but they will delete characters played on such servers without prejudice (the account isn't suspended). I found this out the hard way when my wife played on a local server.
Odd that you can buy WoW in Manila, but the Philippines is not an officially supported place to play from.
Actually, I agree with you. The FCC and the constant state of moral panic over words and god forbid naked people is absurd.
The world did not end when Janet Jackson flashed a boob at half time in the Superbowl.
I find it very disturbing that there was so much outrage over that incident, but no one seems to care about the amount of violence on TV. Bare breast bad, gun shot through the head good. Sigh.
I miss Japanese TV. Tokyo channel 13 had this great show they played on late Friday night called Mini Skirt Police. Among other things, you could see young ladies crumpling beer cans with their breasts. Another memorable segment was when they had young ladies dressed in long dresses and tied the ends of the dresses to model rockets and fired the rockets off. Then played back the results in slow motion several times. (They were wearing panties :-( ).
I can't think of a more perfect company to hold a patent like this. And for the record, shit piss fuck cunt cocksucker motherfucker tits (RIP George Carlin).
I'm all in favor of protecting budding young minds from the use of profanity
My parents kept tight controls over what I was allowed to see/hear. Fortunately, I learned profanity from other kids on the playground at school.
So do you play monopoly or have you already done something to make the world a better place for you having existed.
I have no idea what point you are trying to make brother blackest_k, but do pass that bong over here. Thanks!
850 angry comments can't be wrong. You are currently feeling rage.
Whew! Thanks for clearing that up.
Now let me find something I can smash into tiny pieces ...
As much as I hate to say this since I hate advertising ... the ads on Google when I'm looking for a product to buy are almost always relevant.
I am not involved in purchasing decisions at work, so those results are irrelevant.
I will grant you that when I first started out in gmail my first email conversation had to do with finding preinstalled Linux notebook computers and the Google targeted ads were a spectacular success.
I always Google potential hires. I hope my boss doesn't, because this post will shortly be somewhere in the Googleplex. ;-)
Yeah, so do I. I'll weigh samples of self-written code higher, but a search often reveals a flaky potential employee.
That just makes a case for people starting out to get involved in Open Source as soon as they can. In my current job, my name had dozens of hits on the _internal_ intranet search engine due to my contributions to various emacs related things. That kind of stuff can only help.
Have you reported the problem? Memory leakage tends to be one of the easiest bugs to fix.
No, I've been lazy.
We are not going to tend to fix unreported bugs, especially ones triggered by conditions that we do not experience.
We do not provide an SLA, but unreported bugs are the most likely to never get looked at or worked on.
I know, it's a bit hypocritical to complain about free software if I don't take the time to report the issue
No, it's a lot hypocritical. Especially in the case of something appearing in a Debian stable release.
You are not being fair at all.
Whatever my personal feeling towards the Debian guys are, if you report the bug to them and work with them, it will get fixed.
Disclaimer: I work for a very big company doing internal support for their bug tracking system.
The consensus opinion was $50/year for search, $20/year for email. Take that for what you will: it's a water cooler discussion.
Interesting. Take advertising and wikipedia out of the search results and US$50 would pay for itself in a day, at work.