True, but what's max traffic going to be 2 weeks after launch? A month? They can't build for the max usage scenario, because that's just not going to last. Don't get me wrong, they still screwed up, but this problem occurs on just about every MMO's launch too.
It is going to be pretty low, because few people are buying the game now and many that have returned it.
I was a big fan of the game since the original and thought it odd it was one of the few mega-popular EA franchises that did not get updated frequently. I was anticipating the release, but I have learned not to pre-order any video game, nor buy it until it has been out a number of months for it either to be "fixed", for customer reviews to roll in, and beta test NDA's to expire. The bigger the game company the worse the lies become.
Professional game reviewers and magazines can simply not be trusted. Shorly after release metacritic scores showed the "professional" critics giving 90's and 100's, while no customer aside from a stockholm syndrome candidate gives a good review at all. Now that it is popular to bash the title, magazines being rolling in with the poor reviews.
Right, because Republicans would never murder a civilian or send someone to gitmo. And that's assuming the GP voted Democrat. AND that's assuming there is any difference between the two parties in the first place.
Anyhow, you got to vote so you got no grounds for complaining.
Bull. Fucking. Shit.
If you want to change the corrupt disaster that is the political landscape, you don't need to just vote, you need to get your ass out there and DO something about it. People claim "you got to vote, the other guy won, tough shit". More bullshit. If your guy lost, then you get your ass out there, and help get him (or someone better) elected next time. If your party (such as, say, the Republicans) put forward candidates that were either wholly unlikable, or bat-shit insane that there was no hope they would win... change them.
But seriously, these days, if you really want to do something about it, you need to vote with your wallet. Kickstarter is your friend; go out and buy yourself some representation.
If you mean donate to a political committee; now you are on the right track, don't just vote, do something. If you mean find someone to bribe... well... you might be more realistic, even if that makes you as cynical as I am.
People learned to avoid this town and its $105 speeding tickets ($25 to appeal, you lose anyway), and business owners began to complain they were losing business due to the get rich quick scheme. Judge sounds like a good man.
Many towns would love to force people to avoid it in order to reduce traffic. This does not make it ok to put in cameras like this. If you do not want people using your street as a through-way, get the next higher up governmental unit to put in a bypass.
...because it's not like having stronger painkillers could lead to bigger problems or anything.
Look, that alcoholic's been sober for years! Let's give him a drink!
That is a lousy comparison, as there are few medical uses for alcohol. (taken internally, at least) What do you do if the person had substance abuse, but actually is in horrifying pain due to an injury or medical condition? Let the person writhe in agony?
There are different norms in the world, like hands above the table or below. In Europe you have your hands above the table, but in the US you have your hands blow.
How can you have your hands below the table when you're eating? I don't understand.
China knows that....allies is a stretch...China would jettison N Korea in a heart beat if they could.
Right, China needs the USA for economic strength. However, if North Korea was attacked, or some other disaster happened there; China would be inundated with millions of Korean refugees, which would also hurt China's economy.
Oddly enough, many people do. You can blame everything on fast food. You can blame things on twenty-year-old advice eventually turning out to be incorrect, as it's slowly appearing.
Huh? If someone claims they are on a low fat and low sodium diet and also eats fast food regularly, they are full of shit.
But, if you wish to believe that trying to eat low fat and low sodium is what's making you fat; feel free to eat at McDonald's five times a week.
GPU acceleration might come in handy if you do any sort of video editing.
There is a lot more to GPUs than video and bitcoins.
The ever increasing power of commodity processors is what makes my business of inexpensive data crunching possible. 10 years ago the kinds of things we do would require a supercomputer. Today it requires a moderately prices server-class machine.
However I am drooling at the thought of using something like PGStrom. GPU based database queries.
I think his point is that people who wear glasses can wear Google Glasses without that big of a change. There is still something bolted to your face. People who don't wear glasses have to adjust to the idea of changing the way their face looks, adjust to being separated from the visual world by a device.
I've never worn glasses and the idea that I will have to someday just because I'm getting older is ridiculously frightening. Glasses feel like watching everything through a camera to me. I have no idea what shape or material to get, no idea how I'll carry them.
Not a scam, just a crappy business model Most group one I see are over priced and from places I would never give my business to. The good deals are long gone because any good business will have repeat customers
these glasses are going nowhere. They look stupid so they are dead on arrival. Furthermore, they only appeal to the part of the population that already wears glasses.
The hype over these nerd glasses couldn't more clearly illustrate how out of touch dorks are with regular people.
Actually this will be exactly the opposite... since the glasses-wearing population needs a custom-tailored prescription on their glasses, they would require astronomically expensive custom hardware for each user. So to use the generic for-everybody devices, on must NOT need glasses.
So, they say, but the fact of the matter is that you've bought something, their ability to put their fingers in their ears and go "NaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNa".....
- Many of these people "weren't productive," - A lot of people hid. There were all these employees [working remotely] and nobody knew they were still at Yahoo.
You do have to wonder how you could 'loose track' of your employees in this day and age...
"Lose track"?? This seems less about managers railing against remote employees and more about a company in its death throes.
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Alan Ralsky.
Like I said, if you are not picky.
Well, I suppose you could bludgeon him to death with it...
True, but what's max traffic going to be 2 weeks after launch? A month? They can't build for the max usage scenario, because that's just not going to last. Don't get me wrong, they still screwed up, but this problem occurs on just about every MMO's launch too.
It is going to be pretty low, because few people are buying the game now and many that have returned it.
Here is what Lt. Cmdr Data thinks about this.
I was a big fan of the game since the original and thought it odd it was one of the few mega-popular EA franchises that did not get updated frequently. I was anticipating the release, but I have learned not to pre-order any video game, nor buy it until it has been out a number of months for it either to be "fixed", for customer reviews to roll in, and beta test NDA's to expire. The bigger the game company the worse the lies become.
Professional game reviewers and magazines can simply not be trusted. Shorly after release metacritic scores showed the "professional" critics giving 90's and 100's, while no customer aside from a stockholm syndrome candidate gives a good review at all. Now that it is popular to bash the title, magazines being rolling in with the poor reviews.
I'm Argentine and proud that the first non-european pope is from Argentina!!! congratulations Bergolio!!
Soy argentino y es un orgullo que el primer papa no europeo sea argentino!!! felicidades Bergolio!!
Uhh, what about the first one?
Right, because Republicans would never murder a civilian or send someone to gitmo. And that's assuming the GP voted Democrat. AND that's assuming there is any difference between the two parties in the first place.
Anyhow, you got to vote so you got no grounds for complaining.
Bull. Fucking. Shit.
If you want to change the corrupt disaster that is the political landscape, you don't need to just vote, you need to get your ass out there and DO something about it. People claim "you got to vote, the other guy won, tough shit". More bullshit. If your guy lost, then you get your ass out there, and help get him (or someone better) elected next time. If your party (such as, say, the Republicans) put forward candidates that were either wholly unlikable, or bat-shit insane that there was no hope they would win... change them.
But seriously, these days, if you really want to do something about it, you need to vote with your wallet. Kickstarter is your friend; go out and buy yourself some representation.
If you mean donate to a political committee; now you are on the right track, don't just vote, do something. If you mean find someone to bribe... well... you might be more realistic, even if that makes you as cynical as I am.
People learned to avoid this town and its $105 speeding tickets ($25 to appeal, you lose anyway), and business owners began to complain they were losing business due to the get rich quick scheme. Judge sounds like a good man.
Many towns would love to force people to avoid it in order to reduce traffic. This does not make it ok to put in cameras like this. If you do not want people using your street as a through-way, get the next higher up governmental unit to put in a bypass.
...because it's not like having stronger painkillers could lead to bigger problems or anything.
Look, that alcoholic's been sober for years! Let's give him a drink!
That is a lousy comparison, as there are few medical uses for alcohol. (taken internally, at least) What do you do if the person had substance abuse, but actually is in horrifying pain due to an injury or medical condition? Let the person writhe in agony?
Sky marshal's going to have you in the penalty box tout de suite for cracking jokes about security, hoser.
2:00 minutes for boarding.
Once the plane is in the air its going to be high sticking. Very high sticking.
I, for one, welcome our hockey playing and curling overlords?
There are different norms in the world, like hands above the table or below. In Europe you have your hands above the table, but in the US you have your hands blow.
How can you have your hands below the table when you're eating? I don't understand.
Perhaps it is pie-eating contest etiquette.
In Europe you have your hands above the table, but in the US you have your hands blow.
What are you doing with your hands below the table? Can't that wait until you're in the privacy of your own room?
Yeah, you don't get a blow job with your hands. Wait, what are we talking about.
China knows that....allies is a stretch...China would jettison N Korea in a heart beat if they could.
Right, China needs the USA for economic strength. However, if North Korea was attacked, or some other disaster happened there; China would be inundated with millions of Korean refugees, which would also hurt China's economy.
Oddly enough, many people do. You can blame everything on fast food. You can blame things on twenty-year-old advice eventually turning out to be incorrect, as it's slowly appearing.
Huh? If someone claims they are on a low fat and low sodium diet and also eats fast food regularly, they are full of shit.
But, if you wish to believe that trying to eat low fat and low sodium is what's making you fat; feel free to eat at McDonald's five times a week.
I'm friends with gays, atheists, hell, at least one murderer.
And the fact that you lump these all together makes you a terrible person.
GPU acceleration might come in handy if you do any sort of video editing.
There is a lot more to GPUs than video and bitcoins.
The ever increasing power of commodity processors is what makes my business of inexpensive data crunching possible. 10 years ago the kinds of things we do would require a supercomputer. Today it requires a moderately prices server-class machine.
However I am drooling at the thought of using something like PGStrom. GPU based database queries.
I think his point is that people who wear glasses can wear Google Glasses without that big of a change. There is still something bolted to your face. People who don't wear glasses have to adjust to the idea of changing the way their face looks, adjust to being separated from the visual world by a device.
I've never worn glasses and the idea that I will have to someday just because I'm getting older is ridiculously frightening. Glasses feel like watching everything through a camera to me. I have no idea what shape or material to get, no idea how I'll carry them.
Glasses are a prosthetic. Nobody wants them.
Nobody other than hipsters wants them.
Not a scam, just a crappy business model
Most group one I see are over priced and from places I would never give my business to. The good deals are long gone because any good business will have repeat customers
The scam was the IPO, not the business model.
Yeah, it is harder to abuse american workers in seeking profit.
Bah, blew that joke! First link should be:
And a far cry from the end of 2012!
How about this?
And a far cry from the end of 2012
Bitcoins will be the end of the world in the tropics. (disclaimer: I neither played the game, nor saw the movie.)
these glasses are going nowhere. They look stupid so they are dead on arrival. Furthermore, they only appeal to the part of the population that already wears glasses.
The hype over these nerd glasses couldn't more clearly illustrate how out of touch dorks are with regular people.
Actually this will be exactly the opposite... since the glasses-wearing population needs a custom-tailored prescription on their glasses, they would require astronomically expensive custom hardware for each user. So to use the generic for-everybody devices, on must NOT need glasses.
There's a great defence when going out on a date.
"Looking down at your cleavage? Please what kind of person do you think I am! I was watching porn!"
But really, I do not understand why women place video screens between their boobs...
So, they say, but the fact of the matter is that you've bought something, their ability to put their fingers in their ears and go "NaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNa".....
BAT-MAN!
Not at all. Read this:
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-marissa-mayer-told-remote-employees-to-work-in-an-office--or-quit-2013-2
- Many of these people "weren't productive,"
- A lot of people hid. There were all these employees [working remotely] and nobody knew they were still at Yahoo.
You do have to wonder how you could 'loose track' of your employees in this day and age...
"Lose track"?? This seems less about managers railing against remote employees and more about a company in its death throes.
Silly AC. Everyone knows that Kettles can't talk.
But hippies tell me that Pod does.
My views on Sony vs Microsoft is much like vi vs emacs. I hate them all, but for different reasons.