And Buffalo make devices that ship with DD-WRT as their stock firmware too - I run dd-wrt on the wrt-600N at the moment, so with USB storage to give some extra space I can have IPv6 support and ip6tables as soon as my ISP supports it.....sadly my cable modem is Cisco.....damn...
So, I've heard this before, and used to be in the same boat. It's not true anymore - you can gear up to decent raid levels without going to raids now, especially with the recent instance additions. It'll take longer than if you were raiding the whole time, but it's not that difficult. You do have to run Heroic 5 man instances though - no way around that.
With the changes they have made to the instances though they are much, much easier to run these days than they used to be in BC. Do the daily heroic each day (30-50 minutes) and you will quickly get enough badges and rewards to be running in one of the entry level raids, keep it up and you can get well beyond the 3000 DPS you mentioned. It takes some patience if you don't have hours to devote to running instances, but one instance each day you can log in should be your first priority if gearing up is what you want to do.
I realize this might be a bit outside your realm of expertise, but you recently experienced some down time as a result of maintenance by your upstream network provider, AT&T. Given the subscriber levels and revenue (and the fact that there is frequently "scheduled" downtime anyway), how can Blizzard not have redundant network paths to avoid just such a thing?
Surely with the amount of traffic generated by WoW and associated products there are deals to be had on that front. As someone who has (helped) run a similar sized network in the past, I know it can be done - in fact it was considered a necessity.
I agree that the political aspect with regards to "allowed" apps, but honestly - with the number of geeks and hackers that will own this thing how long do we really think it will be before it is hacked?
I had similar issues with Java authentication and changing of message tones on my LG CU500, and I got around them without too much trouble. Granted, the restrictions I was getting around are more down to poor design on the part of LG rather than an actual effort on their part as espoused by Jobs, but there will be smarter people than I looking for ways around this, so fear not...........
I know for a fact that Ireland is conservative - I spent the first 25 years of my life there so the poster may be right and Irish people may want the restrictions (I for one do not).
The only problem I have with the argument is the assumption that most people want the restrictions. I doubt this has ever been put to a public vote or even a poll on a website. Surely a better starting position is to allow first and ban later (based on feedback, votes, some sort of review mechanism etc.) rather than some arbitrary censorship rules imposed by a single entity?
On the Windows front I've been using Paint.Net since Beta and am pretty pleased with it. Granted, it lacks some of the advanced features of Adobe PS and the like, but for Joe Photo Editor it does the job just fine.
wait til you see the average credit this thing gets on SETI@Home - there'll be a TBlair@10DowningSt account at the top of the list before you know it.
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Agreed - I once went to a talk given by him and even had a few drinks with him afterward. This was just before Black & White came out - after the talk I was so impressed that I bought the game immediately when it came out and never bothered with reviews and the like. It didn't live up to my expectations (or anyone else's I think). Since then I have been distrustful - Fable did not deliver and I have no reason to think that a new tool will help, though I will always hope.
He created Populous and for that we will be forever grateful, all he has done since is tarnish the memory of that great title with mediocre attempts to re-capture his previous glory. It's like when a previously great band keeps prducing album after album of dross - you keep hoping they'll get it right, just one more time........
One of the upsetting things about the DS was that it basically looked like a big chunk of ugly plastic compared tot he PSP - it was not exactly something cool to be seen with, or at least that was how I felt when I was roaming around the airports at Cristmas......this was alleviated by the fact that I was playing Mario Kart:)
The DS Lite looks like it will change all that - the hard core gamers are saying that they are getting one to replace their existing one because the screen is much improved, but everyone knows it's really bacuse it just looks swish compared to the old one and is no longer so strangely bulky. Now lets hope that Nintendo get their skates on and announce a US release date sooner rather than later.
.......Ruining Everything and making geeks look bad.
You can even buy the t-shirt - rumour has it that Mapquest just took a bulk delivery.......
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I have a four letter AOL address - I gave up counting spam a long time ago. Even with two spam filters (one on the AOL side that dumps into an IMAP based folder and one in Thunderbird) I still get between 50 and 100 pieces of spam a day......
Agh! - no doubt the grammar Nazis will attack, let's see: Their instead of They're, an a instead of an s mid-sentence and probably some more - be gentle!
These countries were once behind the US in terms of broadband adoption, speed, availibility. That gap has almost disappeared - having worked in the industry for some time on both sides of the Atlantic, it is obvious that the US is falling behind. Take the price of a 6 MB DSL line with VOIP included in France - you can get the whole thing for $30 (~20 euro). In the US you are lucky to see $30 for the VOIP alone, and my total bill with a 4MB cable connection is over $70.
While they push on with triple-play products in Europe to include Video and bump speeds up to the 20MB range with ADSL 2+ Verizon are bumping people to 2MB.......
South Korea is a world leader in broadband penetration and they started from zero just s few years ago. They're government made it a vital policy to get broadband to everyone, and it worked. The US Government needs to wake up, something needs to be done - and quickly before the US becoes a comsumer digital backwater.....
This reminds me of a story posted some time ago (which I can't find) outlining the fact that wile the rest of the world had given up on CRT development, the Russians had not and the last team working on the project had brought the fruits of their labour to the west with designs for the thin CRT.
I wonder if the models due out in 2005 are based off this design......
If Duke Nukem Forever has no release date, why does Amazon list it as being released on 8 March, 2002??
It has it on it's pre-order list....maybe there is light at the end of the tunnel.........
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And Buffalo make devices that ship with DD-WRT as their stock firmware too - I run dd-wrt on the wrt-600N at the moment, so with USB storage to give some extra space I can have IPv6 support and ip6tables as soon as my ISP supports it.....sadly my cable modem is Cisco.....damn...
So, I've heard this before, and used to be in the same boat. It's not true anymore - you can gear up to decent raid levels without going to raids now, especially with the recent instance additions. It'll take longer than if you were raiding the whole time, but it's not that difficult. You do have to run Heroic 5 man instances though - no way around that.
With the changes they have made to the instances though they are much, much easier to run these days than they used to be in BC. Do the daily heroic each day (30-50 minutes) and you will quickly get enough badges and rewards to be running in one of the entry level raids, keep it up and you can get well beyond the 3000 DPS you mentioned. It takes some patience if you don't have hours to devote to running instances, but one instance each day you can log in should be your first priority if gearing up is what you want to do.
To Paul Sams/Jeffrey Kaplan:
I realize this might be a bit outside your realm of expertise, but you recently experienced some down time as a result of maintenance by your upstream network provider, AT&T. Given the subscriber levels and revenue (and the fact that there is frequently "scheduled" downtime anyway), how can Blizzard not have redundant network paths to avoid just such a thing?
Surely with the amount of traffic generated by WoW and associated products there are deals to be had on that front. As someone who has (helped) run a similar sized network in the past, I know it can be done - in fact it was considered a necessity.
Obligatory Pony Response :)
Ran across this site a while back before WoW launched and it has been fairly regularly updated, check out that WoW impact on the 120k+ chart :)
http://www.mmogchart.com/
I agree that the political aspect with regards to "allowed" apps, but honestly - with the number of geeks and hackers that will own this thing how long do we really think it will be before it is hacked? I had similar issues with Java authentication and changing of message tones on my LG CU500, and I got around them without too much trouble. Granted, the restrictions I was getting around are more down to poor design on the part of LG rather than an actual effort on their part as espoused by Jobs, but there will be smarter people than I looking for ways around this, so fear not...........
Have to agree here, mostly.....
I know for a fact that Ireland is conservative - I spent the first 25 years of my life there so the poster may be right and Irish people may want the restrictions (I for one do not).
The only problem I have with the argument is the assumption that most people want the restrictions. I doubt this has ever been put to a public vote or even a poll on a website. Surely a better starting position is to allow first and ban later (based on feedback, votes, some sort of review mechanism etc.) rather than some arbitrary censorship rules imposed by a single entity?
On the Windows front I've been using Paint .Net since Beta and am pretty pleased with it. Granted, it lacks some of the advanced features of Adobe PS and the like, but for Joe Photo Editor it does the job just fine.
wait til you see the average credit this thing gets on SETI@Home - there'll be a TBlair@10DowningSt account at the top of the list before you know it.
Agreed - I once went to a talk given by him and even had a few drinks with him afterward. This was just before Black & White came out - after the talk I was so impressed that I bought the game immediately when it came out and never bothered with reviews and the like. It didn't live up to my expectations (or anyone else's I think). Since then I have been distrustful - Fable did not deliver and I have no reason to think that a new tool will help, though I will always hope.
He created Populous and for that we will be forever grateful, all he has done since is tarnish the memory of that great title with mediocre attempts to re-capture his previous glory. It's like when a previously great band keeps prducing album after album of dross - you keep hoping they'll get it right, just one more time........
One of the upsetting things about the DS was that it basically looked like a big chunk of ugly plastic compared tot he PSP - it was not exactly something cool to be seen with, or at least that was how I felt when I was roaming around the airports at Cristmas......this was alleviated by the fact that I was playing Mario Kart :)
The DS Lite looks like it will change all that - the hard core gamers are saying that they are getting one to replace their existing one because the screen is much improved, but everyone knows it's really bacuse it just looks swish compared to the old one and is no longer so strangely bulky. Now lets hope that Nintendo get their skates on and announce a US release date sooner rather than later.
.......Ruining Everything and making geeks look bad. You can even buy the t-shirt - rumour has it that Mapquest just took a bulk delivery.......
I have a four letter AOL address - I gave up counting spam a long time ago. Even with two spam filters (one on the AOL side that dumps into an IMAP based folder and one in Thunderbird) I still get between 50 and 100 pieces of spam a day......
Agh! - no doubt the grammar Nazis will attack, let's see: Their instead of They're, an a instead of an s mid-sentence and probably some more - be gentle!
These countries were once behind the US in terms of broadband adoption, speed, availibility. That gap has almost disappeared - having worked in the industry for some time on both sides of the Atlantic, it is obvious that the US is falling behind. Take the price of a 6 MB DSL line with VOIP included in France - you can get the whole thing for $30 (~20 euro). In the US you are lucky to see $30 for the VOIP alone, and my total bill with a 4MB cable connection is over $70.
While they push on with triple-play products in Europe to include Video and bump speeds up to the 20MB range with ADSL 2+ Verizon are bumping people to 2MB.......
South Korea is a world leader in broadband penetration and they started from zero just s few years ago. They're government made it a vital policy to get broadband to everyone, and it worked. The US Government needs to wake up, something needs to be done - and quickly before the US becoes a comsumer digital backwater.....
This book is $32.99 on the Amazon site - save yourself $17 and get it there instead. Here's the link (no value add for myself)
Now that just screams out for a Penny Arcade link :)
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http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2004-0
This reminds me of a story posted some time ago (which I can't find) outlining the fact that wile the rest of the world had given up on CRT development, the Russians had not and the last team working on the project had brought the fruits of their labour to the west with designs for the thin CRT.
I wonder if the models due out in 2005 are based off this design......
Pedantry, but just had to say:
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PSTN = Public Switch Telephony Networks
POTS = Plain Old Telephony System
So, your call might get routed to you over the PSTN and if you have a standard phone line then you use a POTS line to recieve it.
If Duke Nukem Forever has no release date, why does Amazon list it as being released on 8 March, 2002?? It has it on it's pre-order list....maybe there is light at the end of the tunnel.........