Probably a lot. Any bets on how long before the site get's slashdotted this time? It didn't take long last time due to the huge size of the flash file.
Exactly, if Orwell hadn't written his book, we very well might have seen Orwells vision earlier. 1984 scared some people, and it made some more vigilant. However, if you look at the way things are going all 1984 has done is gotten us a bit past that actual year, but that's still the direction we are headed. It's just takeing longer because people are aware of the idea and not everyone likes it.
I dunno if that made sense, maybe I should go back to eating my lunch now so my blood sugar goes back to normal before posting any more;)
While you are absolutly right about it being too late once you've done it, that works both ways. The war on drugs has been going on for decades now, I still remember being in elementary school and being forced to watch asinine Nancy Reagan videos that told kids to just say no, and turn in your parents if they use drugs. More of an attempt at brainwashing than education. We've seen the war on drugs do more harm than good for at least 20 years, isn't it time to step back and reevaluate what we are doing? It's already too late to reverse damage that has been done, but it's not too late to change our minds.
With prohibition we took something that was legal and made it illegal, then when we realized what a big mistake we had made we changed the laws back. Why is it so hard to do the same thing in other cases? Why not TRY out legalizing certain drugs? You can regulate it all you want, tax it all you want etc. You can still punish people smuggling drugs into the country, and you can still punish people selling "bad" drugs, but at the same time you are going to make the entire drug market much less profitable for dealers etc. Why would anyone that's looking to get high get thier high from an illegal source when a legal one is available?
The truth of the matter is we'll never know unless we try, and with the current political mindset of our nation I don't see that happening any time soon.
I've been running NWN for about 30-40 hours since it came out and I'd wait for another patch or two before using it as a benchmark of everything. The game runs beautifully at 1600x1200 with the highest anti aliasing settings I can use on a GeForce 3, and athlon xp 1800 system. For about an hour that is. After about an hour the game just starts to get choppier and choppier and choppier. After the game had been running for about 7 hours last night (to preserve the multiplayer settings on the server due to a multiplayer save issue, not because I sat there for 7 hours straight) the game was so choppy I got motion sick. Restarting the game put it back to it's normal beautifully rendered self though.
Of course I realize I'm feeding the trolls, but... this is a service release for Office on Mac OS X. Not Windows.
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Your account has to be verified before the games become available. It's a annoying way to prevent cheating in the games by people creating multiple accounts.
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In fact my good friend still maintains a BBS. It's not as complete as it used to be, but it certainly works and there are a couple of good games of BRE, L.o.R.D., and Trade Wars 2002 going.
http://answeringmachine.org telnet to bbs2.answeringmachine.org
When does the commission on providing for the safe sale of in game items and characters become more valuable to the company than the monthly income of the people that leave or won't play due to this "feature."
Trade the whole damn thing. You remove your credit card and address information from the account info screens and stop automatic monthly billing. Put your account on ebay (including a possible 5 characters on each server) and sell the whole package. Asheron's Call already is setup this way and it doesn't stop anyone from selling anything. There does seem to be one beneficial part to the selling and tradeing of accounts. You end up with people that haven't earned thier levels or equiptment and don't have a clue how to effectivly use them. They get bored quickly and leave the game in many cases which in turn reduces the number of high level characters.
Is there a better way to fool people than to tell them you are doing something innocent and getting them to believe you? How many people would just assume that this program was safe even if it wasn't? Probably a lot.
With a Radio you only tune into the station you want, and then "recieve" the information that they send, even if you don't want it all.
With email you don't have an option to tune everyone but the station you want out. You can do this somewhat with mail filters etc, but not to the same magnitude.
Also, radio is regulated quite heavily when compared with email.
and it seems that the only thing left is the community/society. The newest updates aren't that great, the expansion was a great monthly update, but not really worth $20 bucks. If it weren't for the wonderfull people I've met I would have stopped playing again.
Then there's AO which also had great people, and great potential, but was ruined by a worse release than this EQ expansion (though not by much). I played that till the free game expired and they tried to bill me. There was no way in hell I was paying for more beta software, and I would love to get the $50 bucks back I paid for the box.
DAoC had a great release, but it really seems like Dark Age of Everquest so it didn't appeal to me for long. The world is quite small and it feels like they made up for it by makeing everything slow. It's still a good game, and I know a lot of people like like it, but it hasn't been able to hold my attention... I think maybe I'll renew it now that the msn gameing zone is moving thier accounts over to.NET Passports, which I don't want.
I would also comment on WWII Online, but everyone I know hated the release (worse than AO?) becaues it was mostly unplayable so I didn't waste my money.
not corporate database servers at all (some probably, but not most). It's most likely going to hit Joe SixPack that installed his warez copy of Windows XP and SQL Server 2000 on his primary computer which is hooked up to his cable modem 24/7 and he has no idea that SQL server has a password at all.
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If you stand back and do nothing you invite the terrorists to come back and take another stab at it. If you show that you aren't affected by the tragedy at all you will also encourage them to do something worse next time.
You have to remember that by purchasing the game you have purchased a full months subscription. So, when you canceled it probably noted in the db to disallow your login when it runs the billing cycle next month. You should be able to play as much as you want till then. At least that's how other MMORPG's work (AC specifically).
Slashdot Mirror
I noticed that too, so instead of the slashdot search I used a google site search :)
http://slashdot.org/articles/02/04/16/1732252.shtm l?tid=137
Probably a lot. Any bets on how long before the site get's slashdotted this time? It didn't take long last time due to the huge size of the flash file.
Exactly, if Orwell hadn't written his book, we very well might have seen Orwells vision earlier. 1984 scared some people, and it made some more vigilant. However, if you look at the way things are going all 1984 has done is gotten us a bit past that actual year, but that's still the direction we are headed. It's just takeing longer because people are aware of the idea and not everyone likes it.
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I dunno if that made sense, maybe I should go back to eating my lunch now so my blood sugar goes back to normal before posting any more
And then it's generally too late.
While you are absolutly right about it being too late once you've done it, that works both ways. The war on drugs has been going on for decades now, I still remember being in elementary school and being forced to watch asinine Nancy Reagan videos that told kids to just say no, and turn in your parents if they use drugs. More of an attempt at brainwashing than education. We've seen the war on drugs do more harm than good for at least 20 years, isn't it time to step back and reevaluate what we are doing? It's already too late to reverse damage that has been done, but it's not too late to change our minds.
With prohibition we took something that was legal and made it illegal, then when we realized what a big mistake we had made we changed the laws back. Why is it so hard to do the same thing in other cases? Why not TRY out legalizing certain drugs? You can regulate it all you want, tax it all you want etc. You can still punish people smuggling drugs into the country, and you can still punish people selling "bad" drugs, but at the same time you are going to make the entire drug market much less profitable for dealers etc. Why would anyone that's looking to get high get thier high from an illegal source when a legal one is available?
The truth of the matter is we'll never know unless we try, and with the current political mindset of our nation I don't see that happening any time soon.
I've been running NWN for about 30-40 hours since it came out and I'd wait for another patch or two before using it as a benchmark of everything. The game runs beautifully at 1600x1200 with the highest anti aliasing settings I can use on a GeForce 3, and athlon xp 1800 system. For about an hour that is. After about an hour the game just starts to get choppier and choppier and choppier. After the game had been running for about 7 hours last night (to preserve the multiplayer settings on the server due to a multiplayer save issue, not because I sat there for 7 hours straight) the game was so choppy I got motion sick. Restarting the game put it back to it's normal beautifully rendered self though.
Of course I realize I'm feeding the trolls, but ... this is a service release for Office on Mac OS X. Not Windows.
Your account has to be verified before the games become available. It's a annoying way to prevent cheating in the games by people creating multiple accounts.
In fact my good friend still maintains a BBS. It's not as complete as it used to be, but it certainly works and there are a couple of good games of BRE, L.o.R.D., and Trade Wars 2002 going.
http://answeringmachine.org
telnet to bbs2.answeringmachine.org
When does the commission on providing for the safe sale of in game items and characters become more valuable to the company than the monthly income of the people that leave or won't play due to this "feature."
Trade the whole damn thing. You remove your credit card and address information from the account info screens and stop automatic monthly billing. Put your account on ebay (including a possible 5 characters on each server) and sell the whole package. Asheron's Call already is setup this way and it doesn't stop anyone from selling anything. There does seem to be one beneficial part to the selling and tradeing of accounts. You end up with people that haven't earned thier levels or equiptment and don't have a clue how to effectivly use them. They get bored quickly and leave the game in many cases which in turn reduces the number of high level characters.
Is there a better way to fool people than to tell them you are doing something innocent and getting them to believe you? How many people would just assume that this program was safe even if it wasn't? Probably a lot.
kdevelop
KDE Studio Gold
or just search through
apps.kde.com
Gee, you get one less node in your P4 cluster and still spend $900 dollars more... I'd say that shows savings right there.
Ten nodes with $300 Athlon 2000+ and $1500 Gb NIC = $18,000.
Ten nodes with $600 P4 2.2 GHz and $1500 Gb NIC = $21,000.
Except those of us who live here and don't use Nuclear power.
With a Radio you only tune into the station you want, and then "recieve" the information that they send, even if you don't want it all.
With email you don't have an option to tune everyone but the station you want out. You can do this somewhat with mail filters etc, but not to the same magnitude.
Also, radio is regulated quite heavily when compared with email.
and it seems that the only thing left is the community/society. The newest updates aren't that great, the expansion was a great monthly update, but not really worth $20 bucks. If it weren't for the wonderfull people I've met I would have stopped playing again.
.NET Passports, which I don't want.
Then there's AO which also had great people, and great potential, but was ruined by a worse release than this EQ expansion (though not by much). I played that till the free game expired and they tried to bill me. There was no way in hell I was paying for more beta software, and I would love to get the $50 bucks back I paid for the box.
DAoC had a great release, but it really seems like Dark Age of Everquest so it didn't appeal to me for long. The world is quite small and it feels like they made up for it by makeing everything slow. It's still a good game, and I know a lot of people like like it, but it hasn't been able to hold my attention... I think maybe I'll renew it now that the msn gameing zone is moving thier accounts over to
I would also comment on WWII Online, but everyone I know hated the release (worse than AO?) becaues it was mostly unplayable so I didn't waste my money.
We'll still have just as many morons on the Net as we have morons on the roads.
not corporate database servers at all (some probably, but not most). It's most likely going to hit Joe SixPack that installed his warez copy of Windows XP and SQL Server 2000 on his primary computer which is hooked up to his cable modem 24/7 and he has no idea that SQL server has a password at all.
only loseing $100 dollars a box.
That's exactly what he said.
If you stand back and do nothing you invite the terrorists to come back and take another stab at it. If you show that you aren't affected by the tragedy at all you will also encourage them to do something worse next time.
that Morpheus creates. You'll note that they start off kazaablahblahblah
There's two versions of the interface, you have to use the same interface that you used to register the domains. It's kind of irritating really.
You have to remember that by purchasing the game you have purchased a full months subscription. So, when you canceled it probably noted in the db to disallow your login when it runs the billing cycle next month. You should be able to play as much as you want till then. At least that's how other MMORPG's work (AC specifically).