As a horde player, I feel cruelly ripped off by our having gotten Blood Elves as a new character. They're just regular old night elves with a different texture. The model looks identical. Way to go, Blizzard, you certainly put a lot of work in on that one.
And you're the sort of person *I* left WoW because of - anally retentive and completely bereft of anything that could, even given nurturing and encouragement, ever grow in to a sense of humour. What's worse is your whole "run and tell mother" attitude. "Reporting" users is an act so reprehensible as to make me feel ill. What happened to being able to deal with your own issues? Don't think you can put those two kids in their place? Why must you run off and tell mother? I don't know what disgusts me more, your weakness of character, or your hair-trigger cry baby routine. Grow some fucking backbone.
In 624 Abu Bakr (Muhammad's daily companion and one of his first believers and successor of Muhammad) gave Muhammad his daughter Aisha when she was six years old, although the actual marriage was not consummated until she was nine. This fact is uncontested by all Muslim scholars and chroniclers without exception.
No one will want to play SC3 by the time it comes out for xbox, the gamers will have moved on to the next big thing. This is yet another stupid move by game publishing companies, and indeed microsoft - how could they let a deal get negotiated where they are left in the cold like this? I thought they had more industry muscle than that.
Sure, I can do that, but a remote root hole one day and a glaring oversight in design the next has just thrown me in to paranoia mode. I don't think I'd be able to sleep at night knowing that there was such a poorly written piece of software running on my servers.
Besides which, the Java GUI never really worked all that well. I think it's time to take a look at other options.
Well well, isn't this interesting. I've had Arkeia running for a while now, backing up a number of different machines with a variety of linuxes, and I chose it because it was the only one that had any sort of support for Debian Sarge. It's been fine, apart from some unstable MySQL support, but other than that, a great piece of software. Until now.
I can't ever trust these guys again. When I first installed it, this issue occured to me, and I just assumed "no way could those guys be that stupid, they must have some internal IP restrictions" - and indeed, seeing as when you install the client it asks for the host server, I figured everything would be fine. If only I had've been wearing my tinfoil hat...
So. Who's got any better recommedations? I want some network capable, high quality backup software. Amanda doesn't cut it, and that was the best of the freeware stuff I saw. What else is out there that has support for a variety of linuxes? Veritas Netbackup wouldn't even touch a Sarge install, it was a dependency hell that I didn't have the time nor patience to get in to. I've got Redhat boxes, from 7.2 to 9, that all need backing up too... So what are the pros out there using? Is there anything that isn't rsync and a few mt commands in a bash script?
Consumers and the business advertising through these ads are two steps removed. There is a always go-between advertising agency that offers x hits for y dollars of either targeted or non-targeted traffic. That's all there is to it. And yes, the conversion rates for this sort of marketing are far lower than through more "friendly" formats (AdWords, Overture, whatever), but the cost is of course significantly lower. To be honest, most of the time the overall CPA is lower when using these nefarious ad serving methods.
That's why they still exist - because it's cheaper than PPC marketing. The day that changes, no one will bother with this sort of evil shit any longer.
I used to play mp3s quite happily on a 68020 based Amiga 1200. Don't know why you were having so many problems with a 486... it'd have what, 10 times the processing power?
I got an account a few days back now, and I joined up to the server it suggested for me, not having any actual friends nerdy enough to want to play this sort of thing already on a server.
Well, the whole experience has been fine for me. I don't want to tell you what server I landed on (God, i've been on/. long enough to know how bad an idea that is) but i've made a few "friends" and we do quests together and kill monsters and whatever the hell else these games are about, and it's all worked perfectly well. No queues, no lag, nothing but fun fun fun.
Goddamn it this game is addictive. It's enough to make me want to cash in a few weeks of annual leave...
I had one of these while I was in Frankfurt on business a few months back. It was fucking awful. The girl handing them out for a promo was quite hot, and we managed to talk her in to giving us 6 or 7 of the disgusting little things. After a sip of the first, it was all over - there's no way I'd actually pay for one. I couldn't be convinced to drink them when they were free.
This is only the case in the US. Everywhere else on the planet, MSN dominates by a few orders of magnitude. I don't know a single person who uses AIM, but almost everyone i know can be found on MSN. It's scary when you pick up a girl in a pub and end up swapping MSN addresses after you've gotten her phone number.
The reason for MSN's domination? Girls. Plain and simple. If the girls are somewhere, the boys will follow. Domination ensues.
I know it seems crazy, but it's not just the current batch of games that want you to have big, power-hungry cpu's. As the days move on, EVERYTHING will get bigger and smarter, until we reach a point where AI is king - human level intelligence on (presumably) silicon. Reckon your PII is going to keep up then? The drive for greater computing power far exceeds the limited requirements of the current moment in time. While you, personally, might not want to play new games right now, i'm pretty sure you'll be interested in running basic AI expert systems in 10 years time...
If you'd like to contribute to work studying the mysterious nature of protein folding, consider donating your spare CPU cycles to the Folding @ Home distributed project - a worthy project made even more relevant in the light of these new discoveries. I don't pretend to understand much about the biology behind it all, but this stuff fascinates me, and it looks like the more focus this field receives, the more humanity on the whole will benefit.
This has got to be the most annoying way to stretch out the playing time of a game - forcing the player to go through random battle after random battle in order to reach a sufficient level to tackle the next meaningful target. Quality games like SW:KOTOR never force you to do this, it was wonderfully balanced, there were no boring parts, and by the end, you were exactly powerful enough to defeat the big bad guy. It fills the above mentioned niche exactly, and i suppose in part the game's success can be attributed to these design features.
SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) -- Forget the image of the laid-back Aussie lifestyle, Australians now work more hours than Americans or Japanese and rank as the hardest-working people in the developed world, according to a new book.
The reputation of heavy drinking Australians is also debunked by figures showing alcohol consumption has dropped dramatically since 1980 and the country now guzzles below average amounts of wine and beer.
"Australians are now the hardest workers in the developed world. Hard to believe, but true," Ross Gittins, co-author of the book "How Australia Compares," wrote in the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper on Saturday.
Australia was measured up by the authors against 18 developed countries including the United States, Japan, Britain, Ireland, Canada and 11 European countries.
Australians now spend on average 1,855 hours in the workplace every year, just topping Americans who work on average 1,835 hours a year and beating Japanese workers' 1,821 hours.
True, economies have been reasonble this year, and the Australian economy in particular has been very strong for a number of years (remember, ARIA is the Australian Recording Industry Association). We've all got bags full of cash we use as toilet paper, and I personally use one million dollar bills to snort caviar.
how many times have you hacked something together in perl that ended up being relied on for some pretty important stuff, only to find 6 months down the track that there's some condition (db connects fine, but fails halfway through script execution as an example) you didn't consider and the whole thing just collapses in a heap - a nasty to recover heap cause you didn't write much logging code either.
This would REALLY be useful when you're connecting to services external to yourself - network glitches cause more problems with my code than ANYTHING else, and it's a pain in the arse to write code to deal with it gracefully. i'd really really like to see a universal "try this for 5 minutes" wrapper, which, if it still failed, you'd only have one exit condition to worry about. hey, what the hell, maybe i'll spend a few days and write one myself.
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As a horde player, I feel cruelly ripped off by our having gotten Blood Elves as a new character. They're just regular old night elves with a different texture. The model looks identical. Way to go, Blizzard, you certainly put a lot of work in on that one.
And you're the sort of person *I* left WoW because of - anally retentive and completely bereft of anything that could, even given nurturing and encouragement, ever grow in to a sense of humour. What's worse is your whole "run and tell mother" attitude. "Reporting" users is an act so reprehensible as to make me feel ill. What happened to being able to deal with your own issues? Don't think you can put those two kids in their place? Why must you run off and tell mother? I don't know what disgusts me more, your weakness of character, or your hair-trigger cry baby routine. Grow some fucking backbone.
In 624 Abu Bakr (Muhammad's daily companion and one of his first believers and successor of Muhammad) gave Muhammad his daughter Aisha when she was six years old, although the actual marriage was not consummated until she was nine. This fact is uncontested by all Muslim scholars and chroniclers without exception.
EVERY REPOST IS REPOST REPOST
Morpheus is fighting Neo!
No one will want to play SC3 by the time it comes out for xbox, the gamers will have moved on to the next big thing. This is yet another stupid move by game publishing companies, and indeed microsoft - how could they let a deal get negotiated where they are left in the cold like this? I thought they had more industry muscle than that.
perl -e 'while (1) { print `date +%s`; sleep 1; }'
All the fun of new years, except, well, it's way fuckin' nerdier.
Sure, I can do that, but a remote root hole one day and a glaring oversight in design the next has just thrown me in to paranoia mode. I don't think I'd be able to sleep at night knowing that there was such a poorly written piece of software running on my servers.
Besides which, the Java GUI never really worked all that well. I think it's time to take a look at other options.
Well well, isn't this interesting. I've had Arkeia running for a while now, backing up a number of different machines with a variety of linuxes, and I chose it because it was the only one that had any sort of support for Debian Sarge. It's been fine, apart from some unstable MySQL support, but other than that, a great piece of software. Until now.
I can't ever trust these guys again. When I first installed it, this issue occured to me, and I just assumed "no way could those guys be that stupid, they must have some internal IP restrictions" - and indeed, seeing as when you install the client it asks for the host server, I figured everything would be fine. If only I had've been wearing my tinfoil hat...
So. Who's got any better recommedations? I want some network capable, high quality backup software. Amanda doesn't cut it, and that was the best of the freeware stuff I saw. What else is out there that has support for a variety of linuxes? Veritas Netbackup wouldn't even touch a Sarge install, it was a dependency hell that I didn't have the time nor patience to get in to. I've got Redhat boxes, from 7.2 to 9, that all need backing up too... So what are the pros out there using? Is there anything that isn't rsync and a few mt commands in a bash script?
Consumers and the business advertising through these ads are two steps removed. There is a always go-between advertising agency that offers x hits for y dollars of either targeted or non-targeted traffic. That's all there is to it. And yes, the conversion rates for this sort of marketing are far lower than through more "friendly" formats (AdWords, Overture, whatever), but the cost is of course significantly lower. To be honest, most of the time the overall CPA is lower when using these nefarious ad serving methods.
That's why they still exist - because it's cheaper than PPC marketing. The day that changes, no one will bother with this sort of evil shit any longer.
I used to play mp3s quite happily on a 68020 based Amiga 1200. Don't know why you were having so many problems with a 486... it'd have what, 10 times the processing power?
I got an account a few days back now, and I joined up to the server it suggested for me, not having any actual friends nerdy enough to want to play this sort of thing already on a server.
/. long enough to know how bad an idea that is) but i've made a few "friends" and we do quests together and kill monsters and whatever the hell else these games are about, and it's all worked perfectly well. No queues, no lag, nothing but fun fun fun.
Well, the whole experience has been fine for me. I don't want to tell you what server I landed on (God, i've been on
Goddamn it this game is addictive. It's enough to make me want to cash in a few weeks of annual leave...
Because a script kiddy with an obvious financial motive deserves a more serious name?
I had one of these while I was in Frankfurt on business a few months back. It was fucking awful. The girl handing them out for a promo was quite hot, and we managed to talk her in to giving us 6 or 7 of the disgusting little things. After a sip of the first, it was all over - there's no way I'd actually pay for one. I couldn't be convinced to drink them when they were free.
This is only the case in the US. Everywhere else on the planet, MSN dominates by a few orders of magnitude. I don't know a single person who uses AIM, but almost everyone i know can be found on MSN. It's scary when you pick up a girl in a pub and end up swapping MSN addresses after you've gotten her phone number.
The reason for MSN's domination? Girls. Plain and simple. If the girls are somewhere, the boys will follow. Domination ensues.
I know it seems crazy, but it's not just the current batch of games that want you to have big, power-hungry cpu's. As the days move on, EVERYTHING will get bigger and smarter, until we reach a point where AI is king - human level intelligence on (presumably) silicon. Reckon your PII is going to keep up then? The drive for greater computing power far exceeds the limited requirements of the current moment in time. While you, personally, might not want to play new games right now, i'm pretty sure you'll be interested in running basic AI expert systems in 10 years time...
If you'd like to contribute to work studying the mysterious nature of protein folding, consider donating your spare CPU cycles to the Folding @ Home distributed project - a worthy project made even more relevant in the light of these new discoveries. I don't pretend to understand much about the biology behind it all, but this stuff fascinates me, and it looks like the more focus this field receives, the more humanity on the whole will benefit.
This has got to be the most annoying way to stretch out the playing time of a game - forcing the player to go through random battle after random battle in order to reach a sufficient level to tackle the next meaningful target. Quality games like SW:KOTOR never force you to do this, it was wonderfully balanced, there were no boring parts, and by the end, you were exactly powerful enough to defeat the big bad guy. It fills the above mentioned niche exactly, and i suppose in part the game's success can be attributed to these design features.
... I guess StorageTek has now lost the business of anyone who reads /.
Way to go, ST.
Australians work harder than everyone else.
SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) -- Forget the image of the laid-back Aussie lifestyle, Australians now work more hours than Americans or Japanese and rank as the hardest-working people in the developed world, according to a new book.
The reputation of heavy drinking Australians is also debunked by figures showing alcohol consumption has dropped dramatically since 1980 and the country now guzzles below average amounts of wine and beer.
"Australians are now the hardest workers in the developed world. Hard to believe, but true," Ross Gittins, co-author of the book "How Australia Compares," wrote in the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper on Saturday.
Australia was measured up by the authors against 18 developed countries including the United States, Japan, Britain, Ireland, Canada and 11 European countries.
Australians now spend on average 1,855 hours in the workplace every year, just topping Americans who work on average 1,835 hours a year and beating Japanese workers' 1,821 hours.
maybe the explanation is as simple as that: artists creating better music
Come now. no need to be silly.
True, economies have been reasonble this year, and the Australian economy in particular has been very strong for a number of years (remember, ARIA is the Australian Recording Industry Association). We've all got bags full of cash we use as toilet paper, and I personally use one million dollar bills to snort caviar.
how many times have you hacked something together in perl that ended up being relied on for some pretty important stuff, only to find 6 months down the track that there's some condition (db connects fine, but fails halfway through script execution as an example) you didn't consider and the whole thing just collapses in a heap - a nasty to recover heap cause you didn't write much logging code either.
This would REALLY be useful when you're connecting to services external to yourself - network glitches cause more problems with my code than ANYTHING else, and it's a pain in the arse to write code to deal with it gracefully. i'd really really like to see a universal "try this for 5 minutes" wrapper, which, if it still failed, you'd only have one exit condition to worry about. hey, what the hell, maybe i'll spend a few days and write one myself.
s/\salot\s/a\slot/gi;
...you could count the number of times they'd collectively had sex with a female on one hand.