I agree that those zones are dead. I have a lvl 70 TBC Shaman and am only keyed for BWL. The only time I ever stepped into BRD was to run a guildie "twink" through. So much of that lvl 50-60 content has been thrown away.
I think they should actually re-tune those zones and quest lines to be post 60 content so that it's used. Put some rare spawns in there, give us a reason to go to WPL, Winterspring, and EPL. (I know that Nax is turning into the first lvl 80 instance)
Well then that confirms it, breeze thought the middle leveling grind and get to 70/80. That could make it more fun, you would spend a lot less time in specific zones, and get to experience fresh content as you progress. There's a lot to see and do at the lower levels, and I suppose there is a point that if you are new, it's *all* new to you anyway. It's those of us that re-roll that get more frustrated grinding up.
It's funny how Blizz seems to lament BC as if they made too many mistakes. I do appreciate that experience with the first big expansion gave them a lot of lessons learned to apply to this latest expansion.
My main bone of contention though is that the 1-70 grind is not getting much attention. Do they feel that all of that is throw-away? I understand adding new content to the end game to keep fanatics engaged. My guild is just finishing TK and getting ready for Black Temple so the timing is perfect to keep them all interested in future content. But what about adding new players, and expanding offerings for players that are new?
My upgrade installed just fine. I have my gripes, but my Lifetime Membership license was copied seamlessly to the new software. I don't know where you are getting your information.
I can now build customized directions for friends and family. So often the googlemaps or mapquest directions are correct, but not quite the best route, due to traffic, construction, or even landmarks.
I can use this now, and my friends will not have to make the awkward left turn near the railroad tracks, and / or uturn, when it's just easier to make another block.
That was one of the most annoying, dumbest, biggest debacles I can remember. For those that do not recall the Cue Cat was a bar cade reader in the form of a cat, that clever marketeers thought consumers would use by scanning barcodes on print ads in magazines and newspapers.
In my case, I'm always waiting on the page content to load due to a slow ass Doubleclick server loading the ad in my browser. I've tried putting in host file entries to block doubleclick, but sometimes that does not even let the page load.
Well obviously the advanantage is that they will be have videos of their programming and other exlusive content.
You know how during "The Office" NBC shows ads to go to nbc.com and watch extended scenes? That's the kind of content they will have on it.
I think they are also-rans on the youtube user driven content, but can really suceed with proprietary content. Also if they get into the market scheme of paying the users that contribute content, that could help as well.
I'm guessing that Blizzard has some kind of exclusive deal for guides through a publisher and is finding that competing guides violate their copyright? Could that be the case? It still doesn't make much sense to me though. I mean look at MS Office, there are dozens of books that teach users to use Office. Did each of these book publishers have to get permission from MS to produce it?
This might be slightly off-topic, but our IT department recently got new Dell PCs and these keys are so loud and clicky. And not the good clicky, a bad, cheap sounding clicky that agrevates me.
The company may fire as many workers as it did after the PeopleSoft purchase, when Oracle cut 5,000 jobs, said Andrew Brosseau, an analyst at SG Cowen Securities Corp. in Boston.
SHIT!
``Oracle is buying a more complete product portfolio from a company that's been failing to execute,'' Brosseau said. The firm doesn't have ratings on either company. ``They are getting a good asset in terms of the product line and customers.''
There are a lot of scanners on the market and they are realy not that different anymore. Your sister needs to get a TWAIN compatable scanner that is a stand-alone. Here are a few Epson scanners. A lot of these companies are really afraid of HP b/c HP offers these multi-purpose devices. Those can really suck. But for the money the Epson above should do the trick. But compare them to UMAX, Canon, etc.
Yeah the collateral damage caused by that by services like SPEWS comes to mind. Their take is to hurt you until you leave your ISP, or re-engineer another solution for sending mail.
It does little good, and is a terrific headache, since you have no way of knowing ahead of time which ISPs arein danger of being blocklisted.
First of all Here is the reg sheet on
low powered unlicensed transmitters
See Page 2 - Antenna Requirements
Changing the antenna on a transmitter can significantly increase, or decrease, the strength of the signal that is ultimately transmitted. Except for cable locating equipment, the standards in Part 15 are not based solely on output power but also take into account the antenna characteristics. Thus, a low power transmitter that complies with the technical standards in Part 15 with a particular antenna attached can exceed the Part 15 standards if a different antenna is attached. Should this happen it could pose a serious interference problem to authorized radio communications such as emergency, broadcast and air-traffic control communications.
In order to prevent such interference problems, each Part 15 transmitter must be designed to ensure that no type of antenna can be used with it other than the one used to demonstrate compliance with the technical standards. This means that Part 15 transmitters must have permanently attached antennas, or detachable antennas with unique connectors. A "unique connector" is one that is not of a standard type found in electronic supply stores.
(Section 15.203)
It is recognized that suppliers of Part 15 transmitters often want their customers to be able to replace an antenna if it should break. With this in mind, Part 15 allows transmitters to be designed so that the user can replace a broken antenna. When this is done, the replacement antenna must be electrically identical to the antenna that was used to obtain FCC authorization for the transmitter. The replacement antenna also must include the unique connector described above to ensure it is used with the proper transmitter.
Now here is the stick. So yes, technically under federal law they are.
If the operation of a non-compliant transmitter causes
interference to authorized radio communications, the user should stop operating the
transmitter or correct the problem causing the interference. However, the person (or
company) that sold this non-compliant transmitter to the user has violated the FCC
marketing rules in Part 2 as well as federal law. The act of selling or leasing, offering
to sell or lease, or importing a low-power transmitter that has not gone through the
appropriate FCC equipment authorization procedure is a violation of the Commission's
rules and federal law. Violators may be subject to an enforcement action by the
Commission's Field Operations Bureau that could result in:
Section 15.1
Section 15.5
Section 2.803
Section 2.805
Section 2.1203
o forfeiture of all non-compliant equipment
o $100,000/$200,000 criminal penalty for an
individual/organization
o a criminal fine totalling twice the gross gain obtained from sales of the non-compliant equipment
o an administrative fine totalling $10,000/day per
violation, up to a maximum of $75,000
My rates have increased. I went ahead and upped my u/l rate to 100KB/s my d/l rate is now up to around 80KB/s. I will let mine seed for a few hours as well. (Probably all night) I should be done in about 18 hours I estimate...
Mine is just the opposite. I'm uploading at 34KB/s and downloading at 4KB/s. So, It's going to take a full 6 days or so at this rate.
Meanwhile I'm also pulling the iso's off of mirrors.kernel.org at about 125KB/s. Each d/l is runnig off a seperate T1. I'm guessing that the torrent seeds are getting bogged down or something. Any thoughts on this?
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The Dranei 1-20 quest line is amazing. The whole town meeting and applauding you is a really nice touch. It keeps the quests from feeling so static.
I agree that those zones are dead. I have a lvl 70 TBC Shaman and am only keyed for BWL. The only time I ever stepped into BRD was to run a guildie "twink" through. So much of that lvl 50-60 content has been thrown away.
I think they should actually re-tune those zones and quest lines to be post 60 content so that it's used. Put some rare spawns in there, give us a reason to go to WPL, Winterspring, and EPL. (I know that Nax is turning into the first lvl 80 instance)
Well then that confirms it, breeze thought the middle leveling grind and get to 70/80. That could make it more fun, you would spend a lot less time in specific zones, and get to experience fresh content as you progress. There's a lot to see and do at the lower levels, and I suppose there is a point that if you are new, it's *all* new to you anyway. It's those of us that re-roll that get more frustrated grinding up.
It's funny how Blizz seems to lament BC as if they made too many mistakes. I do appreciate that experience with the first big expansion gave them a lot of lessons learned to apply to this latest expansion.
My main bone of contention though is that the 1-70 grind is not getting much attention. Do they feel that all of that is throw-away? I understand adding new content to the end game to keep fanatics engaged. My guild is just finishing TK and getting ready for Black Temple so the timing is perfect to keep them all interested in future content. But what about adding new players, and expanding offerings for players that are new?
My upgrade installed just fine. I have my gripes, but my Lifetime Membership license was copied seamlessly to the new software. I don't know where you are getting your information.
I can now build customized directions for friends and family. So often the googlemaps or mapquest directions are correct, but not quite the best route, due to traffic, construction, or even landmarks.
I can use this now, and my friends will not have to make the awkward left turn near the railroad tracks, and / or uturn, when it's just easier to make another block.
Yeah TFA is would fit nicely on two pages, but they spread it out to 7 pages in a small column covered in ads on all sides.
No reference to the Cue Cat?
That was one of the most annoying, dumbest, biggest debacles I can remember. For those that do not recall the Cue Cat was a bar cade reader in the form of a cat, that clever marketeers thought consumers would use by scanning barcodes on print ads in magazines and newspapers.
Cue Cat was mailed to *all* Wired magazine subscribers.
In my case, I'm always waiting on the page content to load due to a slow ass Doubleclick server loading the ad in my browser. I've tried putting in host file entries to block doubleclick, but sometimes that does not even let the page load.
We should call the Army and have them take a look.
Well obviously the advanantage is that they will be have videos of their programming and other exlusive content.
You know how during "The Office" NBC shows ads to go to nbc.com and watch extended scenes? That's the kind of content they will have on it.
I think they are also-rans on the youtube user driven content, but can really suceed with proprietary content. Also if they get into the market scheme of paying the users that contribute content, that could help as well.
TMZ.com is a pretty popular (maybe cool) site that is fully owned by aol. If they can pull it off, anyone can.
I'm guessing that Blizzard has some kind of exclusive deal for guides through a publisher and is finding that competing guides violate their copyright? Could that be the case? It still doesn't make much sense to me though. I mean look at MS Office, there are dozens of books that teach users to use Office. Did each of these book publishers have to get permission from MS to produce it?
This might be slightly off-topic, but our IT department recently got new Dell PCs and these keys are so loud and clicky. And not the good clicky, a bad, cheap sounding clicky that agrevates me.
The company may fire as many workers as it did after the PeopleSoft purchase, when Oracle cut 5,000 jobs, said Andrew Brosseau, an analyst at SG Cowen Securities Corp. in Boston.
SHIT!
``Oracle is buying a more complete product portfolio from a company that's been failing to execute,'' Brosseau said. The firm doesn't have ratings on either company. ``They are getting a good asset in terms of the product line and customers.''
Just remember: "TWAIN" not "WIA" not "All-in-one"
thanks the mod down! I really appreciate that, now no-one will be able to answer my question of:
Does iTunes offer streaming music, much like Raphosdy and MusicMatch, et al.??
Not to be overrated, lol
I'm still looking for iTunes to stream music. I can't tell if they do that yet. I use Music Match and pay my $10 per month and stream tunes all day.
It does little good, and is a terrific headache, since you have no way of knowing ahead of time which ISPs arein danger of being blocklisted.
First of all Here is the reg sheet on low powered unlicensed transmitters
See Page 2 - Antenna Requirements
Changing the antenna on a transmitter can significantly increase, or decrease, the strength of the signal that is ultimately transmitted. Except for cable locating equipment, the standards in Part 15 are not based solely on output power but also take into account the antenna characteristics. Thus, a low power transmitter that complies with the technical standards in Part 15 with a particular antenna attached can exceed the Part 15 standards if a different antenna is attached. Should this happen it could pose a serious interference problem to authorized radio communications such as emergency, broadcast and air-traffic control communications.
In order to prevent such interference problems, each Part 15 transmitter must be designed to ensure that no type of antenna can be used with it other than the one used to demonstrate compliance with the technical standards. This means that Part 15 transmitters must have permanently attached antennas, or detachable antennas with unique connectors. A "unique connector" is one that is not of a standard type found in electronic supply stores.
(Section 15.203)
It is recognized that suppliers of Part 15 transmitters often want their customers to be able to replace an antenna if it should break. With this in mind, Part 15 allows transmitters to be designed so that the user can replace a broken antenna. When this is done, the replacement antenna must be electrically identical to the antenna that was used to obtain FCC authorization for the transmitter. The replacement antenna also must include the unique connector described above to ensure it is used with the proper transmitter.
Now here is the stick. So yes, technically under federal law they are.
If the operation of a non-compliant transmitter causes interference to authorized radio communications, the user should stop operating the transmitter or correct the problem causing the interference. However, the person (or company) that sold this non-compliant transmitter to the user has violated the FCC marketing rules in Part 2 as well as federal law. The act of selling or leasing, offering to sell or lease, or importing a low-power transmitter that has not gone through the appropriate FCC equipment authorization procedure is a violation of the Commission's rules and federal law. Violators may be subject to an enforcement action by the Commission's Field Operations Bureau that could result in:
Section 15.1
Section 15.5
Section 2.803
Section 2.805
Section 2.1203
o forfeiture of all non-compliant equipment
o $100,000/$200,000 criminal penalty for an individual/organization
o a criminal fine totalling twice the gross gain obtained from sales of the non-compliant equipment
o an administrative fine totalling $10,000/day per violation, up to a maximum of $75,000
Talk about clash of the titans these two aimbots are neck and neck.
:(
171,494 to 157,090
Although, I've never gotten either to work.
Infocombot 155,873 AIM top 5%
Mod Chips and other hacks might do the trick. But the web sites will probably be shut down by Apple lawyers.... ;)
My rates have increased. I went ahead and upped my u/l rate to 100KB/s my d/l rate is now up to around 80KB/s. I will let mine seed for a few hours as well. (Probably all night) I should be done in about 18 hours I estimate...
Mine is just the opposite. I'm uploading at 34KB/s and downloading at 4KB/s. So, It's going to take a full 6 days or so at this rate.
Meanwhile I'm also pulling the iso's off of mirrors.kernel.org at about 125KB/s. Each d/l is runnig off a seperate T1. I'm guessing that the torrent seeds are getting bogged down or something. Any thoughts on this?