A)launch with more classes that WOW has now even with removals! Sure you lose 2 tank, and 2 melee dps classes, but each faction still has 2 tanking classes, and 2 melee dps class. (F4 each type total) Wow has only druid, war, pally for tanking. And for dps rogue, war, and druid. (If you contend enhancement shammy, ret pallys count you've out of your mind, and I really hope to see you in 2v2 arena....)
B)have better capital cities that WoW does. When was the last time you were in a WoW capital city for more than quick stop at the auction house, and bank? Heck if Shat had an auction house I'd never be their. Even pre it was to pickup and drop off few quests and train. War is planning for over 100 quests in each city, and 2 dungeons. That puts WoW shame.
Yes, but he'll likely be encountering former coworker the rest of his life. The 1st couple of weeks, and the last couple of weeks are the most important for leaving a good impression.
"In Scenarios, you'll be able to jump into a "fair" fight of balanced sides (augmented by NPC's if need be)." This sounds a lot like WoW's instanced battlegrounds. It's only one of 4 types of pvp. Of the others "Campaign, and Skirmishes" don't sound instanced. "In Battlefields, you are fighting for control of a landmark or resource for the benefit of your army. It could be just you against twenty enemies or a more even fight, depending on the importance placed on the objective at that time by each army." This might be instanced, or just a separate zone.
They've been getting really really good pricing from Intel for staying loyal. That said the 2nd tier vendors have been making in roads against Dell with opteron servers. (Due as to power, and thermals as performance.) Once Intel's newer next-gen cpus (relatives of the Duo) come out things will change. The real question is will AMD's lawsuit against Intel prevent Intel from playing hard ball once the next gen cpus are out.
As far as the clicking for each swingm I've found it's not the best way to play. All you need to do is go into the keymapping screen. Look for the "select nearest foe" and map it something thing sane like tab. Now set yourself to auto-attack. Now all you need to do is make sure you are facing the nearest foe, and are in range. People who master tend to out kill the rest of the party by double the margin.
Personally the thing I don't like is that you often need a rogue for many dungeons. Once you hit 3rd level dungeons some of the trap horrible. If your mage, or cleric gets hit twice by a strength draining posion it's often mission over folks. (A caster with a 0 str can't cast, and etc...) Like wise there is an occassion door that requires a high int to open. You can't always find a blanced party with a pair of fighters, a rouge, a cleric, and a mage.
Not to mention what happens when your nice shiney new system breaks, and you can't run ls on your old system. As you compiled everything with march=nocona. It's perfectly reasonable to recompile an app like mplayer for your cpu. But for most apps i586 is as fast or faster.
The reason you want to use DC is that a computer's power supply converts AC into DC. The power supply of most computers isn't that efficient at it. This basically converts some of your electricity into heat. (Heat in a 1U server in a big rack of 1 U is really bad.) In theory the data center's big AC to DC converter is more efficient and better cooled. Thus you save money in power bills, air conditioning, and rack space (less heat, and power draw means more servers per rack). Plus in theory your servers should last longer as the power supply is one of the more likely points of failure.
Keep in mind that some people had (still have) dialup connections. It was a massive pain in the ass download things from the net. The middle men provide a service in providing the software on a cdrom. No long downloads, and no poking around to find things. (Now there are likely shady guys that just throw a lot of random crap on a cdrom, and don't make it clear that it's freely availble over the net.) Now you and I wouldn't need with our fat pipes, and knowledge of where to go to down thing, but Joe user might be interested in a cdrom full of shareware.
You really don't know anything about how programs compile do you? It's all just a few options to configure, and setting a few varibles when you run make. If you compile an rpm, or deb you can change the options you compile with. It's as simple as "rpmbuild -bb --target=i686 my.spec". Gentoo is just a lot more graceful about some of the more weird options.
But really do I care if bash, or ls is compiled for a Pentium 4 with SSE? Well maybe if my brand new P4 system dies, and now I can't run anything because my old system doesn't run any of my binaries!! Besides MOST of the time compiling with the latest optimizations doesn't help you much at all.
No thanks I'll happily run Suse, and skip Gentoo. It's not a pain in my ass, and it's got nearly everything I want to run. And anything it doesn't is fixed by adding the packman's yast repository.
Besides back when I started running Linux to be truely L33T you compiled your OS by hand. At least when they bragged they knew what they were talking about.
If you think about it's kinda of funny. Amoung other things SCO is suing over:
1)Slander of Title (Claiming Novell maliously claimed copyrights that SCO owned.) 2)That Novell failed to transfer copyrights per the APA. 3)That Novell is violating SCO's copyrights distributing Suse Linux. (Mainly by distributing code written by IBM.)
So if Novell failed to transfer copyrights per #2. How can they claim #1. Even more amusing how can they claim copyrights on code IBM wrote (in some cases has patents), and features that their version of Unix lacks. Not only that I don't see in the contract any where that would prevent Novell from asking for payment for transferring copyrights.
Actually in the server market place Linux is eating in low and midrange Unix sales in a big. It's slowed the growth of Windows mainly due to people migrating from Unix to Linux instead of to Windows. (For a lot of Unix shops the power and price of commodity PC hardware is driving the migration not the OS.) The high end server market is where companies like IBM are still showing strong sales. SCO's bread and butter is the low, and mid-end market. Plus no company in their right mind is licencing Unix any more. They are using Linux, xBSD, or windows it's cheaper and easier. Add to that SCO's unix is getting pretty stale when people think Unix they think Solaris, AIX, and the like. These Unix OSes have been almost completely rewritten over the years.
Linux is directly competing with SCO's products, and pretty much kicking SCO's ass. The real question in the sco vs novell contract dispute is does SuSE~=Unix business.
All of the best managers I ever had didn't have the slightest idea about what I did. (Some were highly technical in other areas, but some weren't.) A good manager knows how to get the best job out of his subordinants. How to get them to summarize the issues. How run interference with the rest of the company for the team.
The real question is does he take your advice when needed? Does he stick up for you guys with upper management? Do you get clear stable objectives? Do you get along with him? If the answers are yes he's better than most manager's with more technical back grounds. If not you've got to decide if the rest of the job is putting up with him.
Be aware it's very rare that you can go head to head with your manager and win. Most people who are managers tend to be good at corporate politics. Plus upper manager doesn't tend to like uppity techs. Your only hope in being able to can a manager is to document, document, and document things. Then when he's screwed up things and attempting to deflect blame you can give his detractors a bit more ammo.
It's possible that Apple made it fairly easy to hack the prerelease. Think about it. Release an easily hackable version early on. Get lots of people running it then tighten things up as time goes on.
I were Apple I'd release a preview version that installed any where.
Linus started out using Minux, and alot of the early linux guys came from the minux mailing list. Linus used minux as a development platform to write, and compile linux. Don't take my word for take Andrew's word for it.
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/rebuttal/
Book: The government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned. Simon: Now you're quoting the Captain....
Niska: I think this is not enough. Not enough for two. But sufficient, perhaps for one. Ah... you now have -- Zoe: Him. Zoe: I'm sorry. You were going to ask me to choose, right? Did you want to finish?... Mal: So. I hear you all took up arms in that little piece of action back there. How you faring with that, doctor? Simon: I, uh... I never-never shot anyone before. Book: I was there, son. I'm fair sure you haven't shot anyone yet....
And of course everyone's favorite
Jayne: (After seeing Inara meeting her female client) I'll be in my bunk.
I don't know gaming has never gotten in the way of my getting laid. (It didn't help mind you. Other than that one time I LARPed.) If you want to get laid go to bar, or an online dating service.
Every woman I dated for any length of time prefered me gaming one night a week, every week. Than going out drinking with the guys every so often. Any woman who won't date you because you are a gamer is more trouble than she's worth.
I really don't think the comment was racist. Haven't you ever heard the line. "What you give a 600 pound gorilla?" "Anything thing he wants." I've heard this used for a fair number of white guys, and companies run by white guys. All he's say ing is Shaq can get/do nearly anything he wants. As he's currently one of the best players in the NBA. He is the "big fish in the pond" so to speak. Of course now I'm likely a racist for comparing Shaq to a fish;-)
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Note that WAR is going to
A)launch with more classes that WOW has now even with removals! Sure you lose 2 tank, and 2 melee dps classes, but each faction still has 2 tanking classes, and 2 melee dps class. (F4 each type total) Wow has only druid, war, pally for tanking. And for dps rogue, war, and druid. (If you contend enhancement shammy, ret pallys count you've out of your mind, and I really hope to see you in 2v2 arena....)
B)have better capital cities that WoW does. When was the last time you were in a WoW capital city for more than quick stop at the auction house, and bank? Heck if Shat had an auction house I'd never be their. Even pre it was to pickup and drop off few quests and train. War is planning for over 100 quests in each city, and 2 dungeons. That puts WoW shame.
Yes, but he'll likely be encountering former coworker the rest of his life. The 1st couple of weeks, and the last couple of weeks are the most important for leaving a good impression.
"In Scenarios, you'll be able to jump into a "fair" fight of balanced sides (augmented by NPC's if need be)." This sounds a lot like WoW's instanced battlegrounds. It's only one of 4 types of pvp. Of the others "Campaign, and Skirmishes" don't sound instanced. "In Battlefields, you are fighting for control of a landmark or resource for the benefit of your army. It could be just you against twenty enemies or a more even fight, depending on the importance placed on the objective at that time by each army." This might be instanced, or just a separate zone.
... there were so many pedophiles on the net.
They've been getting really really good pricing from Intel for staying loyal. That said the 2nd tier vendors have been making in roads against Dell with opteron servers. (Due as to power, and thermals as performance.) Once Intel's newer next-gen cpus (relatives of the Duo) come out things will change. The real question is will AMD's lawsuit against Intel prevent Intel from playing hard ball once the next gen cpus are out.
Will they get to carry hellfire missles?
As far as the clicking for each swingm I've found it's not the best way to play. All you need to do is go into the keymapping screen. Look for the "select nearest foe" and map it something thing sane like tab. Now set yourself to auto-attack. Now all you need to do is make sure you are facing the nearest foe, and are in range. People who master tend to out kill the rest of the party by double the margin.
Personally the thing I don't like is that you often need a rogue for many dungeons. Once you hit 3rd level dungeons some of the trap horrible. If your mage, or cleric gets hit twice by a strength draining posion it's often mission over folks. (A caster with a 0 str can't cast, and etc...) Like wise there is an occassion door that requires a high int to open. You can't always find a blanced party with a pair of fighters, a rouge, a cleric, and a mage.
Not to mention what happens when your nice shiney new system breaks, and you can't run ls on your old system. As you compiled everything with march=nocona. It's perfectly reasonable to recompile an app like mplayer for your cpu. But for most apps i586 is as fast or faster.
The reason you want to use DC is that a computer's power supply converts AC into DC. The power supply of most computers isn't that efficient at it. This basically converts some of your electricity into heat. (Heat in a 1U server in a big rack of 1 U is really bad.) In theory the data center's big AC to DC converter is more efficient and better cooled. Thus you save money in power bills, air conditioning, and rack space (less heat, and power draw means more servers per rack). Plus in theory your servers should last longer as the power supply is one of the more likely points of failure.
Keep in mind that some people had (still have) dialup connections. It was a massive pain in the ass download things from the net. The middle men provide a service in providing the software on a cdrom. No long downloads, and no poking around to find things. (Now there are likely shady guys that just throw a lot of random crap on a cdrom, and don't make it clear that it's freely availble over the net.) Now you and I wouldn't need with our fat pipes, and knowledge of where to go to down thing, but Joe user might be interested in a cdrom full of shareware.
You really don't know anything about how programs compile do you? It's all just a few options to configure, and setting a few varibles when you run make. If you compile an rpm, or deb you can change the options you compile with. It's as simple as "rpmbuild -bb --target=i686 my.spec". Gentoo is just a lot more graceful about some of the more weird options.
But really do I care if bash, or ls is compiled for a Pentium 4 with SSE? Well maybe if my brand new P4 system dies, and now I can't run anything because my old system doesn't run any of my binaries!! Besides MOST of the time compiling with the latest optimizations doesn't help you much at all.
No thanks I'll happily run Suse, and skip Gentoo. It's not a pain in my ass, and it's got nearly everything I want to run. And anything it doesn't is fixed by adding the packman's yast repository.
Besides back when I started running Linux to be truely L33T you compiled your OS by hand. At least when they bragged they knew what they were talking about.
If you think about it's kinda of funny. Amoung other things SCO is suing over:
1)Slander of Title (Claiming Novell maliously claimed copyrights that SCO owned.)
2)That Novell failed to transfer copyrights per the APA.
3)That Novell is violating SCO's copyrights distributing Suse Linux. (Mainly by distributing code written by IBM.)
So if Novell failed to transfer copyrights per #2. How can they claim #1. Even more amusing how can they claim copyrights on code IBM wrote (in some cases has patents), and features that their version of Unix lacks. Not only that I don't see in the contract any where that would prevent Novell from asking for payment for transferring copyrights.
Actually in the server market place Linux is eating in low and midrange Unix sales in a big. It's slowed the growth of Windows mainly due to people migrating from Unix to Linux instead of to Windows. (For a lot of Unix shops the power and price of commodity PC hardware is driving the migration not the OS.) The high end server market is where companies like IBM are still showing strong sales. SCO's bread and butter is the low, and mid-end market. Plus no company in their right mind is licencing Unix any more. They are using Linux, xBSD, or windows it's cheaper and easier. Add to that SCO's unix is getting pretty stale when people think Unix they think Solaris, AIX, and the like. These Unix OSes have been almost completely rewritten over the years.
Linux is directly competing with SCO's products, and pretty much kicking SCO's ass. The real question in the sco vs novell contract dispute is does SuSE~=Unix business.
All of the best managers I ever had didn't have the slightest idea about what I did. (Some were highly technical in other areas, but some weren't.) A good manager knows how to get the best job out of his subordinants. How to get them to summarize the issues. How run interference with the rest of the company for the team.
The real question is does he take your advice when needed? Does he stick up for you guys with upper management? Do you get clear stable objectives? Do you get along with him? If the answers are yes he's better than most manager's with more technical back grounds. If not you've got to decide if the rest of the job is putting up with him.
Be aware it's very rare that you can go head to head with your manager and win. Most people who are managers tend to be good at corporate politics. Plus upper manager doesn't tend to like uppity techs. Your only hope in being able to can a manager is to document, document, and document things. Then when he's screwed up things and attempting to deflect blame you can give his detractors a bit more ammo.
You can go to nvidia.comand get linux drivers. Many linux distros will automate the download for you.
It's possible that Apple made it fairly easy to hack the prerelease. Think about it. Release an easily hackable version early on. Get lots of people running it then tighten things up as time goes on.
I were Apple I'd release a preview version that installed any where.
Linus started out using Minux, and alot of the early linux guys came from the minux mailing list. Linus used minux as a development platform to write, and compile linux. Don't take my word for take Andrew's word for it. http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/rebuttal/
Get the pdf download extension from the extension site. It will popup a windows ask if you want to download it or open in a new page.
I don't know War had some of my fav quotes:
...
... ...
Book: The government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned.
Simon: Now you're quoting the Captain.
Niska: I think this is not enough. Not enough for two. But sufficient, perhaps for one. Ah... you now have --
Zoe: Him.
Zoe: I'm sorry. You were going to ask me to choose, right? Did you want to finish?
Mal: So. I hear you all took up arms in that little piece of action back there. How you faring with that, doctor?
Simon: I, uh... I never-never shot anyone before.
Book: I was there, son. I'm fair sure you haven't shot anyone yet.
And of course everyone's favorite
Jayne: (After seeing Inara meeting her female client) I'll be in my bunk.
I don't know gaming has never gotten in the way of my getting laid. (It didn't help mind you. Other than that one time I LARPed.) If you want to get laid go to bar, or an online dating service.
Every woman I dated for any length of time prefered me gaming one night a week, every week. Than going out drinking with the guys every so often. Any woman who won't date you because you are a gamer is more trouble than she's worth.
Intel's still making mother boards. Their EPSD division is still a big player in the x86 server market.
http://intel.com/support/motherboards/server/
Unless it's the old bsd license it's not an issue. The old BSD license had an issue with the GPL, but it's not used much any more.
t .html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/license-list .html#GPLCompatibleLicenses
Compare orginal, and modifiedBSD licenses.
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/license-lis
Personally given the actress in question. I'm trying to block that fact out.
I really don't think the comment was racist. Haven't you ever heard the line. "What you give a 600 pound gorilla?" "Anything thing he wants." I've heard this used for a fair number of white guys, and companies run by white guys. All he's say ing is Shaq can get/do nearly anything he wants. As he's currently one of the best players in the NBA. He is the "big fish in the pond" so to speak. Of course now I'm likely a racist for comparing Shaq to a fish;-)
http://www.djack.com.pl/Suse9hlp/ch21s08.html
See 21.8.5. LDAP Server Configuration with YaST