On the 10th floor of an office building, about three or four sequences of small thumps, lasted about 30 seconds total, each thumps felt slightly like when an elevator stops.
The usually employed term is 'gear'. And what the hell is SSD? I hope the article doesn't mean SSC, that place is trivial now, even at level 70. No reasons to wipe a raid there.
The use of "voices" to denote cultural/ethnic background is common and apparently accepted (at least in North-America). Some examples include stuff like "camarade, da,..." for Russian, "eh" for Canadian, cowboy lingo for Texans, etc... It's prevalent on TV, specially in sitcoms and animated shows.
If you find that offensive, fine. If you feel the need to point it, fine. But don't call people racist or accuse them of using racist slurs when they probably didn't intended like that.
You are saying that because your are bitter that your previous plan of them going "Ooh what is that?... OMG a penguin how cute! Wanna go out?" failed.
And now your new plan for "Ooh a Mac, how hip! Wanna go out?" isn't giving any results either but it was too expensive for you to admit failure yet.
All along the solution was so simple: "no one has ever not been laid because they run Windows!"
I had those bugs for a while but I play almost everyday and usually do some daily quests and never seen it happen since then I assumed they were fixed. I don't level alts though, maybe they are specific to some areas. I'm not pretending the game is bug free, like you said, with that many player and objects spawning constantly, glitches are bound to happen.
Those bug you describe were there about a year ago and have long since been resolved. WoW is relatively bug free when compared to most games nowadays. I'd say its comparable to console games when patching was not an option. Sure, when new content patches come out, some bugs slip through beta but are quickly resolved. Blizzard may have faults but releasing buggy software isn't one of them.
It's all very well saying that if the content is good people will go out and buy it anyway - but once you make it legal, mainstream hardware manufacturers will come along with P2P-enabled set-top boxes which will bring convenience to the mass market, and there will be no reason for anyone to go out and buy any content. It would destroy the content creators overnight, and then we'd get no quality content.
It would destroy the content industry not the content creators. Not that artists wouldn't be affected but it will not kill the arts.
And, in any cases, if protecting IP rights involves any of DRM, communication monitoring, restrictions on technological development, taxes that go mainly to companies and a handful of top (already rich) artists then I'd rather see the whole entertainment industry die.
I hope that beings sufficiently advanced to be able to come visit us would be immune to such silly propaganda. And the idea that we would be able to defend ourselves in any way is laughable.
The best we could do if aliens showed off today is acknowledge to them that we are relatively immature and inferior but we would like to take the opportunity to speed up our evolution so that one day we may sit as equals to them.
If they are hostile, then so be it, it was a good 200,000 years, time to die.
Meh. At the time I had a SNES my computer was an ancient Amstrad 512. So, apart from Sierra adventure games most of my gaming was done on consoles. Me and a friend rented Doom for the SNES, we kept it for 2 weeks. We played several hours a day. Each time one would die we switched player. It might not have being a great port but it was definitely a good game for me.
What do we do to protect the police from rantings of ignorant bloggers who are pissed off because they got caught breaking the law in the past and can't except the results?
We do nothing. The police doesn't need protection from rantings.
It works both ways, this guy could have easily avoided whats happening to him, IF it IS a bullying session.
The parent might have being referring to the ridiculous replacing, in Quebec, some years ago, of all, perfectly functional, stop signs that read "Arret Stop" to signs that read "Arret".
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Long live the future of humanity.
She's more of a sidekick.
It's double plus bad.
On the 10th floor of an office building, about three or four sequences of small thumps, lasted about 30 seconds total, each thumps felt slightly like when an elevator stops.
Agreed but we need a term for when non-scientist and irrational people use scientific lingo to push their ideology, i propose: scientology.
The usually employed term is 'gear'. And what the hell is SSD? I hope the article doesn't mean SSC, that place is trivial now, even at level 70. No reasons to wipe a raid there.
The use of "voices" to denote cultural/ethnic background is common and apparently accepted (at least in North-America). Some examples include stuff like "camarade, da, ..." for Russian, "eh" for Canadian, cowboy lingo for Texans, etc... It's prevalent on TV, specially in sitcoms and animated shows.
If you find that offensive, fine. If you feel the need to point it, fine. But don't call people racist or accuse them of using racist slurs when they probably didn't intended like that.
This might be just whats needed to eliminate fans that somehow survived the prequels!
Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
You are saying that because your are bitter that your previous plan of them going "Ooh what is that?... OMG a penguin how cute! Wanna go out?" failed. And now your new plan for "Ooh a Mac, how hip! Wanna go out?" isn't giving any results either but it was too expensive for you to admit failure yet. All along the solution was so simple: "no one has ever not been laid because they run Windows!"
Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Lasers...
I had those bugs for a while but I play almost everyday and usually do some daily quests and never seen it happen since then I assumed they were fixed. I don't level alts though, maybe they are specific to some areas. I'm not pretending the game is bug free, like you said, with that many player and objects spawning constantly, glitches are bound to happen.
Those bug you describe were there about a year ago and have long since been resolved. WoW is relatively bug free when compared to most games nowadays. I'd say its comparable to console games when patching was not an option. Sure, when new content patches come out, some bugs slip through beta but are quickly resolved. Blizzard may have faults but releasing buggy software isn't one of them.
This is why Stallman waited until now to propose it.
We survive because of our animal instincts. Gods forbid that one day our consciounes and intellect takes over. The future is an endless suburbia.
It's all very well saying that if the content is good people will go out and buy it anyway - but once you make it legal, mainstream hardware manufacturers will come along with P2P-enabled set-top boxes which will bring convenience to the mass market, and there will be no reason for anyone to go out and buy any content. It would destroy the content creators overnight, and then we'd get no quality content.
It would destroy the content industry not the content creators. Not that artists wouldn't be affected but it will not kill the arts. And, in any cases, if protecting IP rights involves any of DRM, communication monitoring, restrictions on technological development, taxes that go mainly to companies and a handful of top (already rich) artists then I'd rather see the whole entertainment industry die.
I hope that beings sufficiently advanced to be able to come visit us would be immune to such silly propaganda. And the idea that we would be able to defend ourselves in any way is laughable. The best we could do if aliens showed off today is acknowledge to them that we are relatively immature and inferior but we would like to take the opportunity to speed up our evolution so that one day we may sit as equals to them. If they are hostile, then so be it, it was a good 200,000 years, time to die.
Meh. At the time I had a SNES my computer was an ancient Amstrad 512. So, apart from Sierra adventure games most of my gaming was done on consoles. Me and a friend rented Doom for the SNES, we kept it for 2 weeks. We played several hours a day. Each time one would die we switched player. It might not have being a great port but it was definitely a good game for me.
What do we do to protect the police from rantings of ignorant bloggers who are pissed off because they got caught breaking the law in the past and can't except the results?
We do nothing. The police doesn't need protection from rantings.
It works both ways, this guy could have easily avoided whats happening to him, IF it IS a bullying session.
No bullying warrants a police raid.
The parent might have being referring to the ridiculous replacing, in Quebec, some years ago, of all, perfectly functional, stop signs that read "Arret Stop" to signs that read "Arret".
They're Feats of Strength.
I'll reserve my judgement on this until I read more from someone that owns a clue.
I assume you meant "powns a clue".
that a story on Slashdot's front page was announcement enough. And that the notice would spread faster this way, with more people likely to read it.
They must be new here.
What's the difference? You're their all-time best seller.
Lee Smolin is one cranky dude.