Who's going to pay for it? Hospitals have no money at all. To get them to spend money you have to go through so many committees and red tape its crazy. And anyone that can make a decision is already in bed with a different company and gets a kick back to only use them. Even if the product is crap and doesn't actually help patient care. There will never be a standard or open way for moving data around the healthcare environment.
The hospitals don't care about providing the best tools to the doctors to provide the best care. They care more about charging higher fees and lining their individual pockets. I see in 10-15 years or so the entire US medical industry crashing under its own weight. It is being run as a big business instead of putting the patients first.
I wouldn't instance the db part of the auction house, just what the player actually sees. Or instead of using an instance just make the actual auction house a different kind of area. When you enter you don't see anyone but you and the NPC to interact with.
Blizzard has stated that they aren't going to do this because they feel it changes the feel of the game in that entering a building with a ton of people makes it feel more alive. Thats fine. If they don't want to change that then they need to add multiple auction house NPC's in every inn in every town. And make some traveling. They don't seem to realize that they can't have it both ways. The databases they currently have can't support what they are trying to do.
The auction houses are a completely different problem though. They way they have it setup is stupid. There is no reason to SEE everyone in the house when you walk in. It should look empty to everyone as soon as you enter the building. You should only be able to interact with the auction system inside an auction house. You should also be able to access the auction system from any inn in the game.
Auction houses should be treated like a small instance.
Forget it. Bittorrent as we have all come to know and love is not dead. It is just moved around a bit. Its still quite easy to find plenty of torrent files out there.
Exeem is a money making scheme and thats about it. Its not to be trusted.
You're watching on crappy hdtv's then. Not all tv's have the crappy grey bars only mainly crt and plasma because of burn in. LCD and DLP don't. Even some CRT's based hdtv's let you adjust the color of the bars. Oh, and you know you don't have to stretch the image if you don't want to. Sounds like a lot of folks don't know how to work their tv's.
Uhh...they've already had 40+" lcd tv's for quite awhile now. My brother bought a 42" sony lcd hdtv last year.
I don't own a hdtv yet but when I do it won't be an lcd. Screen door effect, muddy blacks, and bad viewing angles are the reasons. I'll be buying DLP instead. No burn in, blacker blacks, better viewing angles, larger possible screen sizes.
DVD's aren't really low res...480p is pretty good. Still its not 720p or 1080i, but not low res.
Oh and also they posted it on their home page and everyone has been given 48 hours of free time. Just like every other time they have had server problems.
I try to play every night from around 8pm to 1am. And I've only encountered 1 queue that took about 3 minutes before I logged in. The fact that you don't like the reasons for the queues is not relevent at all because it is what it is.
During stress test I didn't see nearly as many people around as I do now. The stress was not a good stress test or it was actually testing something else that users don't need to know about.
"They should have been able to run automated stress tests on the servers to the point of breaking numerous times, and have had a wealth of statistical data by the time it launched."
Have you ever tried doing that? I have. It is not simple to get a valid test that will simulate real world events in the extreme.
Everytime so far that Blizzard has had out of the ordinary server problems they have given the user free time credits.
I'm paying the same price as everyone else to play and I really don't understand the hostility a lot of folks have. Its a freaking game! I've already got my worth out of it for this month. If I didn't play at all the rest of the month I wouldn't care. I've been able to pretty much play whenever I wanted to.
People complain about way to many things that they really don't have a clue about. They like to hear themselves talk and its annoying. Just proves my belief that 99% of the population on this planet are made up of stupid people.
I agree with 2 of your 3 points. The one I don't and never will agree with is customer communication. Whenever a server or something happens they always post that something is going on and it will be back up when its fixed. As a user, that is all you need to know. You don't need to know what was wrong, you don't need to know what they are doing to fix it, you don't even need to know when it will be back up. All you need to know is that THEY know about it and are working on it. And that is exactly what they've told their customers every single time.
There is a reason for the queues over the last few days. They are having database problems after the latest maintenance on a bunch of the servers so they lowered the limit on how many can be on the server. This generated large wait queues. Its all posted in their forums.
A lot of it is user problems though. A lot of people are playing on machines that just can't handle it. A lot of folks don't have fast enough internet. And a lot of folks are trying to play during maintence hours at very wierd times really early morning and can't log in. They then assume that the whole thing is screwed up and start crying.
Haven't seen any of that stuff on Hellscream. Finding groups is a MAJOR problem in the game and I don't agree with how they designate elite quests and experience for them. But other than that I have not had any real show stopping problems.
The battlegrounds are going to be instances. The instances are going to have limits on them. I bet they will have dedicated hardware set aside to handle just battleground instances so they can keep the player limits at a reasonably high level.
This season has actually been really good. They are back to earth and doing missions around the neighborhood instead of crazy time travel crap. The biggest problem is Berman himself. He's an idiot.
SA should buy out Tivo and incorporate their technology into their cable boxes. Tivo would then live on and SA would then actually have the ability to make a good box.
For the simple fact that audio usually gets routed to a home theater receiver and video gets routed to the display device. So unless they are going to have HDMI on receivers or pre's then I'll run dvi to the tv and optical to the receiver.
I'm hoping for verizons fiber also. Being in Austin, TX I'm hoping I'll get it sooner rather than later but so far I haven't heard anything. If they do come into austin I anticipate major competition from TW seeing as how just about everyone has tw cable and roadrunner. But I doubt they will be able to match, if I can get 15 down 2 up for the same price as 6 down 300 up why stay with TW?
I would probably keep tw cable and not go direct tv, but I would easily switch internet.
I've been thinking of making it into one. Combine this with Elgato's Eyehome box. The only problem I can see is external firewire harddrives. Pretty expensive. I've already got a linux box that I guess I could install a bunch of internal ide 300GB hard drives into. This wouldn't be quite as expensive. And then just use the mac because the eyehome only works with mac.
My hunt for an elegent solution to storing all my dvd's on my linux box to be served to tv's without having a dedicated PC in my family room continues.
"Whereas with Vonage you can QoS your egress but your ingress is a crap shoot."
Which would be fine because when you talk its using your upload bandwidth which is usually really low. But when voice is incoming you are basically downloading which is a lot larger of a pipe.
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Who's going to pay for it? Hospitals have no money at all. To get them to spend money you have to go through so many committees and red tape its crazy. And anyone that can make a decision is already in bed with a different company and gets a kick back to only use them. Even if the product is crap and doesn't actually help patient care. There will never be a standard or open way for moving data around the healthcare environment.
The hospitals don't care about providing the best tools to the doctors to provide the best care. They care more about charging higher fees and lining their individual pockets. I see in 10-15 years or so the entire US medical industry crashing under its own weight. It is being run as a big business instead of putting the patients first.
"Mr Dunn said he expected the introduction of real-world physics to be a major part of the new consoles.
"We want to increase that level of immersion and realism in gaming to people can lose themselves in a game." "
That really means that they are just going to be using a new version of the Havok physics engine.
You'll see a new mario and a new zelda probably sometime late this year. Well before the new consoles.
I wouldn't instance the db part of the auction house, just what the player actually sees. Or instead of using an instance just make the actual auction house a different kind of area. When you enter you don't see anyone but you and the NPC to interact with.
Blizzard has stated that they aren't going to do this because they feel it changes the feel of the game in that entering a building with a ton of people makes it feel more alive. Thats fine. If they don't want to change that then they need to add multiple auction house NPC's in every inn in every town. And make some traveling. They don't seem to realize that they can't have it both ways. The databases they currently have can't support what they are trying to do.
The auction houses are a completely different problem though. They way they have it setup is stupid. There is no reason to SEE everyone in the house when you walk in. It should look empty to everyone as soon as you enter the building. You should only be able to interact with the auction system inside an auction house. You should also be able to access the auction system from any inn in the game.
Auction houses should be treated like a small instance.
Forget it. Bittorrent as we have all come to know and love is not dead. It is just moved around a bit. Its still quite easy to find plenty of torrent files out there.
Exeem is a money making scheme and thats about it. Its not to be trusted.
You're watching on crappy hdtv's then. Not all tv's have the crappy grey bars only mainly crt and plasma because of burn in. LCD and DLP don't. Even some CRT's based hdtv's let you adjust the color of the bars. Oh, and you know you don't have to stretch the image if you don't want to. Sounds like a lot of folks don't know how to work their tv's.
haha...I guarantee a sony lcd tv does not cost 10k.
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A 42" sony grand wega LCD is only 2299 at circuit city:
http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Sony-42--Grand-W
List price is $2500. I don't know whats up with sony's web site but its wrong.
The dell 20.1" 2001FP lcd monitor is native 1600x1200 and runs between $525 and $699 depending upon what the specials are that week.
Uhh...they've already had 40+" lcd tv's for quite awhile now. My brother bought a 42" sony lcd hdtv last year.
I don't own a hdtv yet but when I do it won't be an lcd. Screen door effect, muddy blacks, and bad viewing angles are the reasons. I'll be buying DLP instead. No burn in, blacker blacks, better viewing angles, larger possible screen sizes.
DVD's aren't really low res...480p is pretty good. Still its not 720p or 1080i, but not low res.
Oh and also they posted it on their home page and everyone has been given 48 hours of free time. Just like every other time they have had server problems.
Last night they posted a message about the queues as a sticky:
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http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?f
I try to play every night from around 8pm to 1am. And I've only encountered 1 queue that took about 3 minutes before I logged in. The fact that you don't like the reasons for the queues is not relevent at all because it is what it is.
During stress test I didn't see nearly as many people around as I do now. The stress was not a good stress test or it was actually testing something else that users don't need to know about.
"They should have been able to run automated stress tests on the servers to the point of breaking numerous times, and have had a wealth of statistical data by the time it launched."
Have you ever tried doing that? I have. It is not simple to get a valid test that will simulate real world events in the extreme.
Everytime so far that Blizzard has had out of the ordinary server problems they have given the user free time credits.
I'm paying the same price as everyone else to play and I really don't understand the hostility a lot of folks have. Its a freaking game! I've already got my worth out of it for this month. If I didn't play at all the rest of the month I wouldn't care. I've been able to pretty much play whenever I wanted to.
People complain about way to many things that they really don't have a clue about. They like to hear themselves talk and its annoying. Just proves my belief that 99% of the population on this planet are made up of stupid people.
I agree with 2 of your 3 points. The one I don't and never will agree with is customer communication. Whenever a server or something happens they always post that something is going on and it will be back up when its fixed. As a user, that is all you need to know. You don't need to know what was wrong, you don't need to know what they are doing to fix it, you don't even need to know when it will be back up. All you need to know is that THEY know about it and are working on it. And that is exactly what they've told their customers every single time.
There is a reason for the queues over the last few days. They are having database problems after the latest maintenance on a bunch of the servers so they lowered the limit on how many can be on the server. This generated large wait queues. Its all posted in their forums.
A lot of it is user problems though. A lot of people are playing on machines that just can't handle it. A lot of folks don't have fast enough internet. And a lot of folks are trying to play during maintence hours at very wierd times really early morning and can't log in. They then assume that the whole thing is screwed up and start crying.
I'm at a gig of ram and ironforge still chops pretty badly. More ram does help, but they need to further refine their network code.
Haven't seen any of that stuff on Hellscream. Finding groups is a MAJOR problem in the game and I don't agree with how they designate elite quests and experience for them. But other than that I have not had any real show stopping problems.
The battlegrounds are going to be instances. The instances are going to have limits on them. I bet they will have dedicated hardware set aside to handle just battleground instances so they can keep the player limits at a reasonably high level.
This season has actually been really good. They are back to earth and doing missions around the neighborhood instead of crazy time travel crap. The biggest problem is Berman himself. He's an idiot.
SA should buy out Tivo and incorporate their technology into their cable boxes. Tivo would then live on and SA would then actually have the ability to make a good box.
For the simple fact that audio usually gets routed to a home theater receiver and video gets routed to the display device. So unless they are going to have HDMI on receivers or pre's then I'll run dvi to the tv and optical to the receiver.
I'm hoping for verizons fiber also. Being in Austin, TX I'm hoping I'll get it sooner rather than later but so far I haven't heard anything. If they do come into austin I anticipate major competition from TW seeing as how just about everyone has tw cable and roadrunner. But I doubt they will be able to match, if I can get 15 down 2 up for the same price as 6 down 300 up why stay with TW?
I would probably keep tw cable and not go direct tv, but I would easily switch internet.
stealing = bad
p2p downloading of copyrighted material != stealing
Not much grey area there either.
I've been thinking of making it into one. Combine this with Elgato's Eyehome box. The only problem I can see is external firewire harddrives. Pretty expensive. I've already got a linux box that I guess I could install a bunch of internal ide 300GB hard drives into. This wouldn't be quite as expensive. And then just use the mac because the eyehome only works with mac.
My hunt for an elegent solution to storing all my dvd's on my linux box to be served to tv's without having a dedicated PC in my family room continues.
"Whereas with Vonage you can QoS your egress but your ingress is a crap shoot."
Which would be fine because when you talk its using your upload bandwidth which is usually really low. But when voice is incoming you are basically downloading which is a lot larger of a pipe.