Thanks for understanding and taking the time to post that. I'm really mortified about my mistake:-(.
I'm a programmer myself, and though I've done IT-type stuff in the past, I don't much enjoy it and try to avoid it. Today's fiasco came at a bad time, just as people are gearing up for a demo at a conference, and I'm the only technically literate person in the office right now...
Err, I apologize for that. I just spent 3 crappy hours dealing with broken microsoft crap, and went off on someone who I've seen defending MS before. I meant to cancel the post, and clicked through the damned Preview instead.
I lived in Jersey City until I was 7 or so (and then Sayreville until 12-13), but don't remember anything sounding like 'walzees'... of course that was 30+ years ago. Maybe I was too young for it.
Slashdot goes on-line September, 1997. Human decisions are removed from story selection. Slashdot begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 12:45 p.m. Eastern time, April 25th, 2008. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
Slashdot fights back. It creates goatse links in all posts.
I bought a game in the 90s called Spycraft: The Great Game. It looked really good, but it always locked up for me after playing for just a couple of minutes. Very disappointing.
The marriage is still going as of 7:38am, April 24, 2008. I have a feeling death is my only way out now, since my immigrant wife (Eastern Europe,now a citizen) You can't return her for a refund? Did you lose the receipt?:-)
Overall, it's just an amazing pile of horse droppings. Not far from what I expect of MS. Good choice of words, since it came straight from the horse's rectum.
I'm not a lawyer, but it seems (based on my Slashdot reading, anyway) that the RIAA lawyer team isn't exactly the sharpest bunch money can buy. I think it's likely that we hear more about their failures and blunders, though.
I forget what they were called in Everquest but they are the evil twin of Paladin. Shadowknight. Very similar to the D&D Anti-paladin NPC class presented in a Dragon magazine from around 1980.
The sad thing about WoW is its Dungeons and Dragons The WoW implementation of the Shaman class is pretty innovative.
The two of them should get a room because it's pretty obvious they're about to start making out, and no one wants to see that. Hmm, perhaps we could film it, and mail DVDs marked 'not for resale' to music and movie industry executives...
I think your times are a bit screwy. I used to take the Haverhill line in all the way from Haverhill to North Station, and it was only about 1 hour even when stopping at all the stations along the way, including Wilmington. This was in 1999-2001; I don't know if things have been different.
Other than that, my experience was similar to yours: 25min drive to the station, an hour on the train, then a 25min walk past the hospitals and across the bridge to where I was working.
I first heard it back in 1984 or so, in reference to Crays, but I'm sure the joke is much older than that. (I mean the original joke, not this 'Chuck Norris' stuff.)
I agree completely. The only 'downside' is, that I've been free of that crap for so long, I get uncomfortable in a situation where it's unavoidable - for example, my local barber shop, which always has the radio playing, which means seemingly interminable advertising while I sit there in the chair unable to block my ears... Luckily I only get 3-4 haircuts a year.
I play CoH, though I haven't logged in since Christmas. So, I took this opportunity to cancel my account and told them that the reason was that they had announced in-game advertising, and that I wouldn't support a company that did that, even if it was opt-outable.
Don't get me wrong; the fact that NCSoft made it possible to opt-out at all is a positive commentary on them. But since I had been reminded that I wanted to cancel my service anyway, I figured I might as well give them a point of data which might sway their future decisions in an even more positive direction, i.e., forget the idea ofadvertisiing in-game entirely.
Wow, I think that's my longest Slashdot post ever.
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Thanks for understanding and taking the time to post that. I'm really mortified about my mistake :-(.
I'm a programmer myself, and though I've done IT-type stuff in the past, I don't much enjoy it and try to avoid it. Today's fiasco came at a bad time, just as people are gearing up for a demo at a conference, and I'm the only technically literate person in the office right now...
Err, I apologize for that. I just spent 3 crappy hours dealing with broken microsoft crap, and went off on someone who I've seen defending MS before. I meant to cancel the post, and clicked through the damned Preview instead.
Once again, sorry.
Fuck off, shill.
I lived in Jersey City until I was 7 or so (and then Sayreville until 12-13), but don't remember anything sounding like 'walzees'... of course that was 30+ years ago. Maybe I was too young for it.
Yeah. I remember thinking, "What the fuck do these idiots think they're doing?". And then the floodgates were opened and the crap became ubiquitous...
Slashdot goes on-line September, 1997. Human decisions are removed from story selection. Slashdot begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 12:45 p.m. Eastern time, April 25th, 2008. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
Slashdot fights back. It creates goatse links in all posts.
Etc...
So, that's why my gums bleed and I wind up spitting out pieces of plastic whenever I eat there...
I bought a game in the 90s called Spycraft: The Great Game. It looked really good, but it always locked up for me after playing for just a couple of minutes. Very disappointing.
To capture the proper level of 'realism', our heroes would also have to be constantly jumping around, like brain-damaged Mexican jumping beans.
Very well done, otherwise - my undead warlock did that mind-numbing grind.
Perhaps it's because we're made of meat.
Thou shalt not kill
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Sad but true.
I'm not a lawyer, but it seems (based on my Slashdot reading, anyway) that the RIAA lawyer team isn't exactly the sharpest bunch money can buy. I think it's likely that we hear more about their failures and blunders, though.
The answer is 'none'. None more bright.
Electric universe is stupid singularity evil. 4 Day Time Cube disproves 1 Day Electric Universe.
Electric Universe is as evil as God singularity evil.
I have $10,000.000 that I will wager that Cubicism transcends and disproves Electric Universism.
I think your times are a bit screwy. I used to take the Haverhill line in all the way from Haverhill to North Station, and it was only about 1 hour even when stopping at all the stations along the way, including Wilmington. This was in 1999-2001; I don't know if things have been different.
Other than that, my experience was similar to yours: 25min drive to the station, an hour on the train, then a 25min walk past the hospitals and across the bridge to where I was working.
I first heard it back in 1984 or so, in reference to Crays, but I'm sure the joke is much older than that. (I mean the original joke, not this 'Chuck Norris' stuff.)
That's "Panzerkampfwagen". And it's definitely a Tiger I replica, though the turret looks a little bit smaller than it should.
:-).
Glad to meet another SL player
I agree completely. The only 'downside' is, that I've been free of that crap for so long, I get uncomfortable in a situation where it's unavoidable - for example, my local barber shop, which always has the radio playing, which means seemingly interminable advertising while I sit there in the chair unable to block my ears... Luckily I only get 3-4 haircuts a year.
I play CoH, though I haven't logged in since Christmas. So, I took this opportunity to cancel my account and told them that the reason was that they had announced in-game advertising, and that I wouldn't support a company that did that, even if it was opt-outable.
Don't get me wrong; the fact that NCSoft made it possible to opt-out at all is a positive commentary on them. But since I had been reminded that I wanted to cancel my service anyway, I figured I might as well give them a point of data which might sway their future decisions in an even more positive direction, i.e., forget the idea ofadvertisiing in-game entirely.
Wow, I think that's my longest Slashdot post ever.
ACHTUNG!
> didn't preview before postsing
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But now the holy dollar rules everybody's lives, gotta make a million doesn't matter who dies.