Ok, in the review the guy seriously complained that the installation didn't set his refresh rate automatically to a number higher than recommended by his monitor.
You can produce a factory full of OR and AND gates, or you can produce just NAND gates. The NAND gates are more expensive, but from a manufacturing standpoint its more streamlined to make just one gate.
Interesting point, while I firmly believe most MMORPG players are not in it to make money, and would prefer people not buy their way into the system, and really hate the people with bots just so they can sell off good items. You do have a point that there probably is a large amount of people who do sell off their old junk, thus making the game more affordable to more users who are being suplimented by people with money to burn. It will be interesting to see how getting rid of such actions will influence the older players, and if older player simply leave the system once the game becomes less challenging and they don't have the opertunity to make money from it.
Yes, there is no obvious way to track these things. But they are threatening to delete items at the very least, and ban accounts if they have to. Personally they may not be able to prove many of them, but when they start seeing single individuals who are "giving" away many very expensive items, it won't take much investigation to prove something is up. Then when they take the items away from the buyers, people will talk, and not be willing to take the risk of loosing hundreds of dollars on something that Blizzard can take away. Yea, you may still be able to get away with selling a few small items, but large trafficing will get flagged and noticed. Not something that will be worth the time. Especially as Blizzard is also heavily pursuing bots, so noone is really going to have the time to create these expensive items in the first place. What you will end up having is a few older players will try to sell some of the items that they don't need anymore, and some of it will slip through the cracks.
Why would they need to shutdown the eBay sale. Let the sale progress, then delete the item that just got sold. Suddenly noone is buying WoW items on ebay anymore.
Oh, I'm sure they could capitalize if they want to. Other games have. Blizzard has made a concous decision that they want their game to be different. Why must you assume the worse?
Still not allowed by blizzards policy. Sugar coating the legal language isn't going to help you. If you want to trde, use the in-game trading system, which lets you trade virtual-items and virtual-money for other virtual-items and virtual-money. Blizzard can afford kick the players that are only there to make money off the system, so they will do it. The other MMORGS would do this too, but they are probably scared of turning away subsribers, when in reality, banning this activity could ulimatly bring in new subscribers.
Yea, I felt the same way at that stage in my life. Oddly enough now that I'm older with 2 kids, I suddenly have very different views. Though oddly enough I really can't figure out how and why my views have changed, guess I just got old:)
I don't know, I made a pretty picture out of the bubbled on the voluntary military apptitude test our highschool forced us to take (yes, they forced all seniors through threat of detention, on the second half of a half day to attend this test).
Well I stil got constant calls from recruits, I'm guessing because of my sat scores or whatnot. They continued to mail me, but they did stop calling me after I told the recruiter that "honestly, I really don't like this country very much".
Disclaimer, this was 8 years ago, I feel very different now, and wish I could appologize to the recruiter:)
Actually the really sick thing is that you can't buy a dual PCI-E motherboard (atleast not one with 2 16X slots, most have 1 16x slot and the rest are 1X slots) unless your buying a server motherboard, in which case it won't have some of the other features you might want in a gaming motherboard.
The Alienware ALX does though, they apparently have a special deal to have these produced just for them.
Btw no I don't work for alienware, and have never bought any of their products, though I wish I had that kinda of money.
Btw that ALX is about $5,000 for the AMD version and $6,000 for the intel version. Very affordable, cough, cough. Though not much more that a highend personal computer cost 10 years ago:)
Not nessessarly, boot sector viruses are still possible, though one coded for prewindows DOS wouldn't work with 2000 or XP they could easily be ported.
But PGP encryption takes CPU time. This would be simular to the hash-cash mentioned earlier. They would be able to send significantly less emails and it would cost them more money to send.
The idea of putting information, specifically in this case feelings, remotly into someone else. The power that could be weilded by such a device is huge.
I remember seeing something on a discovery channel the other day about how they had worked up a device that could remotly implant feelings into someones brain. But that person had to be wearing a skullcap and basically electrical impuses were directed from several directions at once at an exact part of the brain that had been mapped to be associated with a certain emotion. It worked, but obviously would be hard to accieve from a distance, but the idea is scary.
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Because the "free" download doesn't include crossover or auto updates.
Ok, in the review the guy seriously complained that the installation didn't set his refresh rate automatically to a number higher than recommended by his monitor.
Check please!
We then travel from world to world extracting all of their natural resources and enslaving their populations.
Moon Base here we come!
And that other Zappa kid too.
You can produce a factory full of OR and AND gates, or you can produce just NAND gates. The NAND gates are more expensive, but from a manufacturing standpoint its more streamlined to make just one gate.
Swish!
Interesting point, while I firmly believe most MMORPG players are not in it to make money, and would prefer people not buy their way into the system, and really hate the people with bots just so they can sell off good items. You do have a point that there probably is a large amount of people who do sell off their old junk, thus making the game more affordable to more users who are being suplimented by people with money to burn. It will be interesting to see how getting rid of such actions will influence the older players, and if older player simply leave the system once the game becomes less challenging and they don't have the opertunity to make money from it.
Yes, there is no obvious way to track these things. But they are threatening to delete items at the very least, and ban accounts if they have to. Personally they may not be able to prove many of them, but when they start seeing single individuals who are "giving" away many very expensive items, it won't take much investigation to prove something is up. Then when they take the items away from the buyers, people will talk, and not be willing to take the risk of loosing hundreds of dollars on something that Blizzard can take away. Yea, you may still be able to get away with selling a few small items, but large trafficing will get flagged and noticed. Not something that will be worth the time. Especially as Blizzard is also heavily pursuing bots, so noone is really going to have the time to create these expensive items in the first place. What you will end up having is a few older players will try to sell some of the items that they don't need anymore, and some of it will slip through the cracks.
Why would they need to shutdown the eBay sale. Let the sale progress, then delete the item that just got sold. Suddenly noone is buying WoW items on ebay anymore.
Oh, I'm sure they could capitalize if they want to. Other games have. Blizzard has made a concous decision that they want their game to be different. Why must you assume the worse?
Still not allowed by blizzards policy. Sugar coating the legal language isn't going to help you. If you want to trde, use the in-game trading system, which lets you trade virtual-items and virtual-money for other virtual-items and virtual-money. Blizzard can afford kick the players that are only there to make money off the system, so they will do it. The other MMORGS would do this too, but they are probably scared of turning away subsribers, when in reality, banning this activity could ulimatly bring in new subscribers.
Except for that whole tiny paycheck thing :)
Yea, I felt the same way at that stage in my life. Oddly enough now that I'm older with 2 kids, I suddenly have very different views. Though oddly enough I really can't figure out how and why my views have changed, guess I just got old :)
I don't know, I made a pretty picture out of the bubbled on the voluntary military apptitude test our highschool forced us to take (yes, they forced all seniors through threat of detention, on the second half of a half day to attend this test).
:)
Well I stil got constant calls from recruits, I'm guessing because of my sat scores or whatnot. They continued to mail me, but they did stop calling me after I told the recruiter that "honestly, I really don't like this country very much".
Disclaimer, this was 8 years ago, I feel very different now, and wish I could appologize to the recruiter
Actually the really sick thing is that you can't buy a dual PCI-E motherboard (atleast not one with 2 16X slots, most have 1 16x slot and the rest are 1X slots) unless your buying a server motherboard, in which case it won't have some of the other features you might want in a gaming motherboard.
:)
The Alienware ALX does though, they apparently have a special deal to have these produced just for them.
Btw no I don't work for alienware, and have never bought any of their products, though I wish I had that kinda of money.
Btw that ALX is about $5,000 for the AMD version and $6,000 for the intel version. Very affordable, cough, cough. Though not much more that a highend personal computer cost 10 years ago
Not nessessarly, boot sector viruses are still possible, though one coded for prewindows DOS wouldn't work with 2000 or XP they could easily be ported.
Not if it uses classic pre-internet era virus tricks. Obviously most anti-virus programs should know these tricks, but its still possible.
Actually I believe AlienWare sells a computer with dual PCI-E video that can run Doom3 at Max. The ALX models I believe can do this.
But PGP encryption takes CPU time. This would be simular to the hash-cash mentioned earlier. They would be able to send significantly less emails and it would cost them more money to send.
The idea of putting information, specifically in this case feelings, remotly into someone else. The power that could be weilded by such a device is huge.
Sorry I meant to say "any alien capable of space travel".
I remember seeing something on a discovery channel the other day about how they had worked up a device that could remotly implant feelings into someones brain. But that person had to be wearing a skullcap and basically electrical impuses were directed from several directions at once at an exact part of the brain that had been mapped to be associated with a certain emotion. It worked, but obviously would be hard to accieve from a distance, but the idea is scary.
As light gives off heat, and is a fairly obvious radiation source I'm sure any alien even without sight would have discovered it by now.
What really surprises me is that gamespy has a bunch of ads and they still charge a licensing free to the game maker.
Its all that alien technology we got from Roswell. :)