Last Tuesday evening I ordered my copy of WoW from Blizzard's online store, after not finding it at any of the local stores. $50 plus tax and overnight shipping came out to around $60. I got it on Thursday.
Don't buy it for twice the price on Ebay, go to Blizzard's online store.
BTW, I'm a level 22 mage now and having fun. I picked a low population server and have yet to see a queue and have yet to see a server crash. In fact, every time I've gone to play the servers have been up.
I pay $12 per month for a landline phone, $45 for cable internet, that's a long way from free.
Not only that, my phone is open up for anyone to call me, but even the government has determined we can have an expectation that everybody can call. Think do not call list.
And if some individual instead of a company decided to start calling me every day, then I'd call the police and let them deal with it.
Are you just trying to argue or are you that dumb?
Grand theft in California is stealing anything over $400. It is a felony and as such is punishable by time in state prison. Other states I'm sure have grand theft statutes, although the threshold amount will vary.
Society has long ago recognized that stealing is unacceptable and jail/prison time is not too harsh a sentence.
Personally, I've spent at least 40 hours last year dealing with the company's spam. Not to mention the amount of time dealing with my own spam. All that time adds up.
People and companies are sick and tired of being stolen from with no way to fight back. Well now we can! 12 jurors sentenced this man. That's 12 people who don't think the penalty is too harsh.
If you really want to get technical, multiply the hours you spend on spam by an hourly rate, divide it by the amount of spam you receive, and arrive at a cost per spam number. Multiply that by the amount of spam a spammer sends... if it's over $400, then it's at least as bad as grand theft.
I don't remember, but it was a lot. I had mostly stopped playing after a year. For the next few months I played very little, then the last couple months hardly at all. I was all set to cancel my account when I thought to throw it on Ebay first. I made a list and screenshots of every item I had, some of which were no longer dropped in the game or harder to get, such as the manastone and box of abu-kar. I also had a ton of platinum pieces as a result of hill giant hunting. This was back before PPs were actually useful.
I didn't go into the game looking at it as a way to make money. I never farmed items for cash. Selling my account was the first and last Ebay sale I've ever made. Pretty cool to get paid $2,250 for something that was just for fun, though.
Yeah the gameplay does seem like it took a couple of steps backward. The only good thing I can see to come out of locked encounters is limiting killstealing. Canceling movement buffs? Last thing I want to do while running through a zone is get stopped every time some stupid green decides to take a whack at me.
I plan on creating a character and beating feet out of the beginner zones to some faraway zone. Any suggestions on where to head to that a level 1 player can survive?
Try getting a 10k Raptor hard drive, too. I found it much easier to play two Star Wars Galaxies clients as the hard drive was the bottleneck.
For reference, I have a P4 3GHz, 1 Gig RAM, and an ATI 9600, not sure exactly what version. The hard drive kept thrashing so I picked up a raptor and it runs much better now.
Make sure you save each driver version you download. They will undoubtedly be pressured to honor that broadcast flag eventually. I use several older versions of software because the newer versions got stupefied.
I already warned my future ex-girlfriend that this was coming out. I was there on week one of Everquest. Sold my account 18 months later for $2,250. You gotta get there early to get the good stuff before they turn off the overpowered items drops.
Like I said, software is just another front on which freedom is being attacked. I look at it this way: here I am, some Joe Blow off the street, somewhat intelligent, and I understand and can use computers effectively. Let's say I want to host my own web site on DSL or cable modem, or maybe I want to start a web hosting business. In a closed source, proprietary, non-free world, what would my options be? Spend a thousand bucks for NT or Win2000, spend a few thousand more for MSSQL Server, or much more for Oracle. Live with the security problems and slow response times from these corporations, or pay big bucks for priority support. Basically, being the little guy with a limited amount of cash, I don't have a chance.
Now, take the current situation. I can download one of many different distributions of Linux. I can use one of many quality free software packages to run a web site, e-mail, an online ordering system, or whatever else I decide I want to try. I now have many options available to me. I can grow my business little by little to compete with the big guys. This is what I call freedom. This is something I would not have in a closed source world.
As far as big corporations not being full of evil monsters, that may be the case, but you need to take a closer look at who is *running* the company, not who is in it. They are evil, and they are power-hungry, and they are the enemy. And I'm not just talking about the officers and managers of the company, I'm talking about the people who wield the true power: the shareholders. I'm not talking about you and I, with our handful of shares, I'm talking about the people who decide who runs the company. The people that elect the cutthroats because they know they'll make the maximum amount of money while exposing them to the least amount of legal risk.
You have to be pretty naive to believe that there aren't evil monsters out there, and that those people won't gravitate themselves to positions of power. Think about it, what do these people want with all that power anyway?
I'm getting pretty damn sick of this "I'll use whatever product is the best, regardless of who makes it..." attitude. Do you people know what it is like to fight for a cause? Have you ever spoken up for something that didn't directly affect you? It is this kind of apathy that continues to allow the erosion of freedom everywhere in the world, not just in this country. It is this attitude that allows power-hungry people and corporations to gain more and more control over your life.
There is a war being waged right now, as we speak, over your freedom. And guess what? You aren't fighting it. People like RMS, the FSF, the ACLU, Ralph Nader...those are the people doing the fighting. And while they're knee-deep in the battle, you're sitting at home bitching about the packetloss on your DSL or how slow Slashdot loads on your new PIII 933Mhz.
This is a war being waged on many fronts: music, privacy, software, gun control, and many others. The enemy is motivated, fanatical, financed, and numerous. They will stop at nothing to gain control over every aspect of your life.
Fanatical, idealistic, unrelenting people are necessary in order to protect our freedoms, because those same types of people are fighting on the other side. You may not appreciate and understand the work they're doing, but I do.
And by the way, I would much rather use free, inferior software than quality, closed source software. Fortunately, I don't always have to make that "sacrifice", since there is a lot of high quality free software available.
I bought a 49G several months ago and suspected it was slower today than when I bought it. Yesterday, I went to Office Depot and after a few minutes using a demo unit determined that mine was significantly slower.
After a little searching on the web, I found a HP 49 FAQ that claimed 100!*100! should take 1.5 seconds on the HP49, and about 4 seconds on the TI-89. Now, I don't know if this is a realistic benchmark or not but I know that on my 49G it took over 4 seconds. After reading the FAQ some more, I found a section about the ON-D menu.
Suspecting that my 49G was defective, I ran the ROM and RAM tests. The FullROM (7) test yielded an error, but it turns out this is a bug in the software release I'm using. Then, I tried the FROM Format (9) option, which is listed in the FAQ as "Formats (defrags?) Flash ROM." Bingo! 100!*100! took less than a second, and overall it is operating as it did when I first bought it.
If you haven't tried the FROM format command, give it a try, it might speed things up again. ON-D, then 9. Oh, then I did a Q for reboot (old habits die hard).
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You two clowns got pwned.
Amen to stable.
When shit breaks it fucks up my day. Debian has never done that to me.
Guess I should have RTFA. Looks like I got mine just in time.
Buy it from Blizzard's online store. $50 plus tax and overnight came out to $60.
Last Tuesday evening I ordered my copy of WoW from Blizzard's online store, after not finding it at any of the local stores. $50 plus tax and overnight shipping came out to around $60. I got it on Thursday.
Don't buy it for twice the price on Ebay, go to Blizzard's online store.
BTW, I'm a level 22 mage now and having fun. I picked a low population server and have yet to see a queue and have yet to see a server crash. In fact, every time I've gone to play the servers have been up.
Canceled my EQ2 account, too.
I pay $12 per month for a landline phone, $45 for cable internet, that's a long way from free.
Not only that, my phone is open up for anyone to call me, but even the government has determined we can have an expectation that everybody can call. Think do not call list.
And if some individual instead of a company decided to start calling me every day, then I'd call the police and let them deal with it.
Are you just trying to argue or are you that dumb?
Grand theft in California is stealing anything over $400. It is a felony and as such is punishable by time in state prison. Other states I'm sure have grand theft statutes, although the threshold amount will vary.
Society has long ago recognized that stealing is unacceptable and jail/prison time is not too harsh a sentence.
Personally, I've spent at least 40 hours last year dealing with the company's spam. Not to mention the amount of time dealing with my own spam. All that time adds up.
People and companies are sick and tired of being stolen from with no way to fight back. Well now we can! 12 jurors sentenced this man. That's 12 people who don't think the penalty is too harsh.
If you really want to get technical, multiply the hours you spend on spam by an hourly rate, divide it by the amount of spam you receive, and arrive at a cost per spam number. Multiply that by the amount of spam a spammer sends... if it's over $400, then it's at least as bad as grand theft.
I don't remember, but it was a lot. I had mostly stopped playing after a year. For the next few months I played very little, then the last couple months hardly at all. I was all set to cancel my account when I thought to throw it on Ebay first. I made a list and screenshots of every item I had, some of which were no longer dropped in the game or harder to get, such as the manastone and box of abu-kar. I also had a ton of platinum pieces as a result of hill giant hunting. This was back before PPs were actually useful.
I didn't go into the game looking at it as a way to make money. I never farmed items for cash. Selling my account was the first and last Ebay sale I've ever made. Pretty cool to get paid $2,250 for something that was just for fun, though.
Yeah the gameplay does seem like it took a couple of steps backward. The only good thing I can see to come out of locked encounters is limiting killstealing. Canceling movement buffs? Last thing I want to do while running through a zone is get stopped every time some stupid green decides to take a whack at me.
I plan on creating a character and beating feet out of the beginner zones to some faraway zone. Any suggestions on where to head to that a level 1 player can survive?
Try getting a 10k Raptor hard drive, too. I found it much easier to play two Star Wars Galaxies clients as the hard drive was the bottleneck.
For reference, I have a P4 3GHz, 1 Gig RAM, and an ATI 9600, not sure exactly what version. The hard drive kept thrashing so I picked up a raptor and it runs much better now.
Make sure you save each driver version you download. They will undoubtedly be pressured to honor that broadcast flag eventually. I use several older versions of software because the newer versions got stupefied.
I already warned my future ex-girlfriend that this was coming out. I was there on week one of Everquest. Sold my account 18 months later for $2,250. You gotta get there early to get the good stuff before they turn off the overpowered items drops.
http://www.domainnamebuyersguide.com
I've used Domain Discover and am now trying out Gandi. Phroggy's comments make sense.
Now, take the current situation. I can download one of many different distributions of Linux. I can use one of many quality free software packages to run a web site, e-mail, an online ordering system, or whatever else I decide I want to try. I now have many options available to me. I can grow my business little by little to compete with the big guys. This is what I call freedom. This is something I would not have in a closed source world.
As far as big corporations not being full of evil monsters, that may be the case, but you need to take a closer look at who is *running* the company, not who is in it. They are evil, and they are power-hungry, and they are the enemy. And I'm not just talking about the officers and managers of the company, I'm talking about the people who wield the true power: the shareholders. I'm not talking about you and I, with our handful of shares, I'm talking about the people who decide who runs the company. The people that elect the cutthroats because they know they'll make the maximum amount of money while exposing them to the least amount of legal risk.
You have to be pretty naive to believe that there aren't evil monsters out there, and that those people won't gravitate themselves to positions of power. Think about it, what do these people want with all that power anyway?
There is a war being waged right now, as we speak, over your freedom. And guess what? You aren't fighting it. People like RMS, the FSF, the ACLU, Ralph Nader...those are the people doing the fighting. And while they're knee-deep in the battle, you're sitting at home bitching about the packetloss on your DSL or how slow Slashdot loads on your new PIII 933Mhz.
This is a war being waged on many fronts: music, privacy, software, gun control, and many others. The enemy is motivated, fanatical, financed, and numerous. They will stop at nothing to gain control over every aspect of your life.
Fanatical, idealistic, unrelenting people are necessary in order to protect our freedoms, because those same types of people are fighting on the other side. You may not appreciate and understand the work they're doing, but I do.
And by the way, I would much rather use free, inferior software than quality, closed source software. Fortunately, I don't always have to make that "sacrifice", since there is a lot of high quality free software available.
After a little searching on the web, I found a HP 49 FAQ that claimed 100!*100! should take 1.5 seconds on the HP49, and about 4 seconds on the TI-89. Now, I don't know if this is a realistic benchmark or not but I know that on my 49G it took over 4 seconds. After reading the FAQ some more, I found a section about the ON-D menu.
Suspecting that my 49G was defective, I ran the ROM and RAM tests. The FullROM (7) test yielded an error, but it turns out this is a bug in the software release I'm using. Then, I tried the FROM Format (9) option, which is listed in the FAQ as "Formats (defrags?) Flash ROM." Bingo! 100!*100! took less than a second, and overall it is operating as it did when I first bought it.
If you haven't tried the FROM format command, give it a try, it might speed things up again. ON-D, then 9. Oh, then I did a Q for reboot (old habits die hard).