And in the post on the Arreat Summit they specifically list that they're making it much harder to advance beyond Level 70. It also looks like they're fiddling with the Boss monsters so that they are worth more the first time they are killed, and less subsequently. It's hard to say if this will totally eliminate rushing, but it looks like they are trying to address the problem.
All of this on a game that is over five years old. Pretty impressive considering that Blizzard's chances of making any additional revenue off of the game are near zero.
Really? How did the Swedes deliver ore to the Allies? The Baltic was a German lake. Some Swedish ore was transhipped through Germany to the Soviets before Hitler invaded, but the Swedes didn't ship any ore to the French or the British after the onset of war. They were too worried about provoking Germany.
Of course, ore-rich Sweden was shipping as much iron ore as possible to Nazi Germany because they were afraid that if they didn't, Hitler would invade and take it anyway. The Brits and the French tried to convince the Swedes not to do this, but the supposedly neutral Sweden continued to ship ore to the Germans until it became obvious that Germany had lost the war. At that point, faced with an invasion threat from the Soviets, they chose to stop shipments. Many of the tanks and U-Boats that the Allies faced in the war were built with Swedish iron.
So, you see, Churchill's plan to invade Sweden was designed to distrupt the German war effort, not simply a land-grab.
The Apollo team did have his attitude. Read up on the lightning strike during the launch of Apollo 12 and the descision to go ahead with the mission. There was a pretty good chance that the parachute pyros had been fried by the lightning, but there was no way to inspect them, and no way to fix them even if they were fried. There also was no spacecraft that could be sent up for a rescue mission before 12 would have run out of supplies. Mission Control decided to send them on to the Moon, since they'd be just as dead if they brought them back immediately.
Not through ssh tunneling over a relatively slow link. TightVNC is much more responsive in my own experience. Sitting on the local network, I see no difference, other than the fact that I also need to access X apps from Microsoft-land occasionally, and all of the Windows based X servers I've tried suck.
I was also pointing out that the overhead that X brings to the table is not necessary to get responsive remote desktop functionality. There are other approaches, and they do work.
Or you could do it three to four times as fast as a X server with VNC tunneling through SSH. The network transparency of X is not required to make this work.
I don't run remote X apps anymore. VNC is just plain faster. It's also cross platform, and free.
You are right though, the education system has very little to do with learning these days, and more about repetative busy work and babysitting. Sadly, if you make this realization too soon, it really makes the rest of high school suck.
Uh, if by "these days" you mean "since 1984" (when I graduated from HS), then I'll agree with you. I've got a feeling that someone older than I am will chip in with the fact that HS was like that in 70s as well.
I think the problem is the word you are using. "Trust" implies common ownership, which most certainly is not the case. I believe that the word that you are looking for is "cartel."
If the law decides that home addresses of business owners must be released, it will apply to all businesses, not just spammers. Try to think through the consequences here, and not let your visceral hatred of spammers override your judgement.
The law works on precedent. We need to be very careful of the kinds of precedents we set, lest they come around to bite us in the rear.
As another example, should the home addresses of people sending unsolicited political statements be released so that some yahoo can decide to go cap a "pinko terrorist" just because he got an e-mail he didn't like?
I don't agree with the threatening phone calls, but if you do something that's bad enough that it will entice someone to commit an illegal act as such in retalition, maybe you should rethink you're service and try to do something that could benifit the community.
Try the following edit on the original posting: s/spammer/abortion doctor/g
Now do you feel the same way? It's quite possible that a ruling against the spammer could have negative repercussions far in excess of the trivial benefits of ending spam. Mob rule isn't pretty, no matter how geeky the mob.
To sum it up, if you leave it alone, only the "uncurable" will still be at it. If you make it illegal, expect the immoral, uninterested money-making scum to join in (simply for the black market profits).
And the people who make money off the newly "legal" child pornography. There will still be demand, and someone with the morals of a guttersnake will still be trying to make money off of it. Many people find watching strippers to be morally objectionable, yet legal strip clubs still make money hand over fist.
1. Making something illegal, making it tough to get, making it risky to get, doesn't stop it. As long as there's demand, someone will be supplying, someone will be producing. Worse, because the supplying is done on the black market and thus prices can get steep, there isn't just 1 guy in his basement trying to be the supplier. The more money there is to be made, the more people you'll have trying to be the suppliers. Want an example? Try prohibition. Try the "war on drugs." Both failed miserably and one of them is still costing us billions of dollars a year. I'm not saying we should legalize child porn, I'm just saying that the continual "cracking down" is a futile effort because there will always be demand and thus there will always be supply.
This is an argument for no laws whatsoever. Making murder illegal does absolutely nothing to stop murderers as well. Unless you are arguing that there is no point in making anything illegal, you are implictly accepting the fact that certain acts deserve sanction, despite the fact that those sanctions will not end all such acts. From then on, it's an argument about where to draw that line, and this reasoning is not applicable.
My bank not only charges no fee, it rebates the first six "foreign transaction fees" in a month. Of course, this has also led them to push their Debit Mastercard, so that they'd pay fewer rebates. My only point was that I have no sympathy for the morons who decided to charge less for phone service than it costs to provide and expected to "make it up in volume."
It's a balance of trying to create a usable directory
Perhaps. But forgive me if I instead believe that it's the balance of trying to produce a profitable company after cooking the books for years. They can't raise prices without adding a new "service" which involves paying for something that I used to get for free.
I'm honestly not up to speed on the kernel support for ACPI or FireWire. But lets face it, there are what now, a billion computers out there? And how many of them have ACPI or FireWire? Not the majority, thats for certain.
The majority also lack SCSI, video capture, and probably USB, as well. Yet, the 2.4 kernel supports all of these. What was your point again?
One thing I find funny about this. I contracted for a very large chemical company's R&D function for a while. They were in to patenting everything they discovered. The idea they had was that if some piss-ant company tried to file a patent infringement on them, they'd have a patent on respiration or something and make the piss-ant pay licensing fees for breathing.
An interesting strategy to be sure, but here's the kicker: the company that they borrowed this strategy from was none other than IBM. I wonder if IBM is looking real hard at SCO's products for violations right now...
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Call the doctor. I think it's time to adjust your dosage.
All of this on a game that is over five years old. Pretty impressive considering that Blizzard's chances of making any additional revenue off of the game are near zero.
Even worse, there are signs that at least a few have entered TV network programming jobs.
I understand that some of them voted for Bush in Florida. Whether they meant to or not is another question.
Still, I would bet that your assumption is in fact correct in this instance.
Really? How did the Swedes deliver ore to the Allies? The Baltic was a German lake. Some Swedish ore was transhipped through Germany to the Soviets before Hitler invaded, but the Swedes didn't ship any ore to the French or the British after the onset of war. They were too worried about provoking Germany.
So, you see, Churchill's plan to invade Sweden was designed to distrupt the German war effort, not simply a land-grab.
The Apollo team did have his attitude. Read up on the lightning strike during the launch of Apollo 12 and the descision to go ahead with the mission. There was a pretty good chance that the parachute pyros had been fried by the lightning, but there was no way to inspect them, and no way to fix them even if they were fried. There also was no spacecraft that could be sent up for a rescue mission before 12 would have run out of supplies. Mission Control decided to send them on to the Moon, since they'd be just as dead if they brought them back immediately.
I was also pointing out that the overhead that X brings to the table is not necessary to get responsive remote desktop functionality. There are other approaches, and they do work.
I don't run remote X apps anymore. VNC is just plain faster. It's also cross platform, and free.
Uh, if by "these days" you mean "since 1984" (when I graduated from HS), then I'll agree with you. I've got a feeling that someone older than I am will chip in with the fact that HS was like that in 70s as well.
I think the problem is the word you are using. "Trust" implies common ownership, which most certainly is not the case. I believe that the word that you are looking for is "cartel."
The law works on precedent. We need to be very careful of the kinds of precedents we set, lest they come around to bite us in the rear.
As another example, should the home addresses of people sending unsolicited political statements be released so that some yahoo can decide to go cap a "pinko terrorist" just because he got an e-mail he didn't like?
Try the following edit on the original posting:
s/spammer/abortion doctor/g
Now do you feel the same way? It's quite possible that a ruling against the spammer could have negative repercussions far in excess of the trivial benefits of ending spam. Mob rule isn't pretty, no matter how geeky the mob.
And the people who make money off the newly "legal" child pornography. There will still be demand, and someone with the morals of a guttersnake will still be trying to make money off of it. Many people find watching strippers to be morally objectionable, yet legal strip clubs still make money hand over fist.
I remain unconvinced.
This is an argument for no laws whatsoever. Making murder illegal does absolutely nothing to stop murderers as well. Unless you are arguing that there is no point in making anything illegal, you are implictly accepting the fact that certain acts deserve sanction, despite the fact that those sanctions will not end all such acts. From then on, it's an argument about where to draw that line, and this reasoning is not applicable.
Free market? In telecom? Tell me, what is the color of the sky on your home planet, because you're obviously not from around here.
My bank not only charges no fee, it rebates the first six "foreign transaction fees" in a month. Of course, this has also led them to push their Debit Mastercard, so that they'd pay fewer rebates. My only point was that I have no sympathy for the morons who decided to charge less for phone service than it costs to provide and expected to "make it up in volume."
How stable is Shadowbane? After the POS that was Pool of Radiance 2, I put UberShite on my blacklist.
Perhaps. But forgive me if I instead believe that it's the balance of trying to produce a profitable company after cooking the books for years. They can't raise prices without adding a new "service" which involves paying for something that I used to get for free.
The majority also lack SCSI, video capture, and probably USB, as well. Yet, the 2.4 kernel supports all of these. What was your point again?
I think you may have just created the first koan for Krispy Kreme Buddhism.
And their "morality" is objective, not influenced by emotions or personal predjudices? I wonder...
It is an objective standard for them to live by
That word you keep using... I don't think it means what you think it means.
An interesting strategy to be sure, but here's the kicker: the company that they borrowed this strategy from was none other than IBM. I wonder if IBM is looking real hard at SCO's products for violations right now...