I agree with the parent poster, they're philosophy has always been embrace, extend, and extinguish.
They already nearly destroyed Java this way, why not XML? As long as it interoperates with other versions of Office/XP/Vista, why should they give a damn?
If it's even a small improvement over the Pentium M processor, I will be happy. A 2 Ghz P-M performs on a par with at least a 2.8ghz P-4, and we're talking clock speeds on the Conroe of 2.5-3Ghz, and dual core, along with all the other architectural enchancements like the new bus, cache, and SSE3.
Also, they haven't finalized cache sizes, clock speeds, or chipsets yet, so it would be difficult to come up with hard and fast performance figures at this time.
My inner geek is praying for the potential of this chip to be realized.
Cooler, quieter, more efficient, and faster clock-for-clock than any other x86 chip on the market including the Athlon64, Pentium M, and Pentium 4. At least 30% faster per Ghz than the Pentium M, which is in turn >30% faster per Ghz than the P4. So that 3Ghz Conroe will be approximately equal to a dual-core 4.6Ghz Pentium 4 and put out 65W of heat/power.
Better cache handling, faster bus, 4-issue wide core. 35W TDP for Mobiles, 65W desktops, 85W for servers. Sounds like the best of all worlds to me.
Invisibility != Stealth. Rogues don't use invis, they use stealth which Detect Invis doesn't catch.
Soul link is nice, but I'm not sure I could give up Ruin (MD/Ruin specced right now), but i could do 13/31/7 or something along those lines. Just curious how you're specced?
PvE I don't have problems getting shards, it's in PvP where I tend to burn through them with Shadowburn/Succubus dieing/munching healthstones constantly.
You're probably right about the infernal, but still, the cooldown is too long. I'll think about respeccing again - grr there goes 15g.
I don't have to. Dozens and dozens of other players have posted all these concerns, both on the official forums and on forums.worldofwar.net. The official site forums are full of so much spam and BUFF THIS NERF THAT OMG NINJA posts that they're pointless anyway. There are hundreds of thousands posts a day there, search is a mess, and the threads expire after a week or so - good luck trying to bookmark a thread and come back in a month.
Also, not a single one of the Blizz customer service reps plays a Lock as their main. How the fuck are they ever going to understand our concerns if they do not experience the game mechanics for themselves. We're supposed to be evil mages, but at this point in time, we're crippled mages.
Let's see, druids cat form is far worse than a rogues, their Bear form is average - no better than a Pallie tanking. I *never* see a druid in any form other than Humanoid/Night Elf in an instance.
They are made to be healers which they excel at. They get the best buff in the game and are superb healers, with heals-over-time, aoe heals, and combat rez which is very nice if you Paladin/Priest dies. They also get leather which makes them more likely to survive than priests. I've never, ever heard druids called overpowered... in fact their feral forms are underpowered if anything.
When are our complaints that have existed since retail going to be resolved?
I love my class, but have a few issues.
1) soul shards - We are the only class that must go grind and collect reagents to go about daily functioning. Make them purchaseable, or perhaps give us a trinket that lets us summon one for free once every ten minutes.
2) escape spell - Mages get Polymorph and Ice Block, Priests get Insta-cast AOE fear (ours takes 2 seconds) and mind control. Please give us something to stop us getting repeatedly raped by rogues. Perhaps give us banish back like it worked in the beta, useable on everyone, perhaps cost a shard, with a cooldown
3) end game pets - Make the infernal not cost a reagent, it's a nice pet no doubt, but gets expensive. Also the cooldown time is ridiculous, how bout 30 mins. with guaranteed 10-min enslave? The doomguard is nice, but please give us a reliable way to get one. Waiting for curse of doom to proc sucks.
4) Enslave demon. Far too short to be useful for the danger envolved.
5) Voidwalker - please buff his dps - hitting for 20 is seriously gimped. Also I can break is agro very easily with a shadow bolt or Immolate crit.
6) Invisiblity - why the hell are mages getting invis. back. If they get it back, all the other casters are entitled to it as well - they already get portals and free food, water, and mana pots.
Yes i know this is more than one question. Thanks blizz.
I've only owned one maxtor, got burned on a 5400rpm 30gb way back when - received 3 faulty drives in a row - could've been the Dell system it was in, which I subsequently junked. Also had 2 WDs fail on me, one of which was my fault.
I always try to buy seagate, ~$10 price difference, and the 5-year warranty is priceless. You only get a 3-year warranty on most other drives, or 1 year if you buy retail Western Digital.
The sole purpose of BTX is to cool the blast-furnace that is the Prescott. And it's now irrelevant since every one of Intel's future processors will be based on the Pentium M.
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I agree with the parent poster, they're philosophy has always been embrace, extend, and extinguish. They already nearly destroyed Java this way, why not XML? As long as it interoperates with other versions of Office/XP/Vista, why should they give a damn?
If it's even a small improvement over the Pentium M processor, I will be happy. A 2 Ghz P-M performs on a par with at least a 2.8ghz P-4, and we're talking clock speeds on the Conroe of 2.5-3Ghz, and dual core, along with all the other architectural enchancements like the new bus, cache, and SSE3. Also, they haven't finalized cache sizes, clock speeds, or chipsets yet, so it would be difficult to come up with hard and fast performance figures at this time. My inner geek is praying for the potential of this chip to be realized.
I can't multiply today, should be 4.8ghz in the last sentence of the first paragraph.
Cooler, quieter, more efficient, and faster clock-for-clock than any other x86 chip on the market including the Athlon64, Pentium M, and Pentium 4. At least 30% faster per Ghz than the Pentium M, which is in turn >30% faster per Ghz than the P4. So that 3Ghz Conroe will be approximately equal to a dual-core 4.6Ghz Pentium 4 and put out 65W of heat/power.
Better cache handling, faster bus, 4-issue wide core. 35W TDP for Mobiles, 65W desktops, 85W for servers. Sounds like the best of all worlds to me.
Check out this Inq article:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25623
Bow before me, for I am root.
Invisibility != Stealth. Rogues don't use invis, they use stealth which Detect Invis doesn't catch.
Soul link is nice, but I'm not sure I could give up Ruin (MD/Ruin specced right now), but i could do 13/31/7 or something along those lines. Just curious how you're specced?
PvE I don't have problems getting shards, it's in PvP where I tend to burn through them with Shadowburn/Succubus dieing/munching healthstones constantly.
You're probably right about the infernal, but still, the cooldown is too long. I'll think about respeccing again - grr there goes 15g.
At least I have chicken.
New frog pets FTW!
/hug /kiss /pat
I'm never giving up my White Kitten though.
Hearthstone is your friend. So are warlocks who will summon you for 2g if you ask nicely.
I don't have to. Dozens and dozens of other players have posted all these concerns, both on the official forums and on forums.worldofwar.net. The official site forums are full of so much spam and BUFF THIS NERF THAT OMG NINJA posts that they're pointless anyway. There are hundreds of thousands posts a day there, search is a mess, and the threads expire after a week or so - good luck trying to bookmark a thread and come back in a month.
Also, not a single one of the Blizz customer service reps plays a Lock as their main. How the fuck are they ever going to understand our concerns if they do not experience the game mechanics for themselves. We're supposed to be evil mages, but at this point in time, we're crippled mages.
Let's see, druids cat form is far worse than a rogues, their Bear form is average - no better than a Pallie tanking. I *never* see a druid in any form other than Humanoid/Night Elf in an instance.
They are made to be healers which they excel at. They get the best buff in the game and are superb healers, with heals-over-time, aoe heals, and combat rez which is very nice if you Paladin/Priest dies. They also get leather which makes them more likely to survive than priests. I've never, ever heard druids called overpowered... in fact their feral forms are underpowered if anything.
When are our complaints that have existed since retail going to be resolved?
I love my class, but have a few issues.
1) soul shards - We are the only class that must go grind and collect reagents to go about daily functioning. Make them purchaseable, or perhaps give us a trinket that lets us summon one for free once every ten minutes.
2) escape spell - Mages get Polymorph and Ice Block, Priests get Insta-cast AOE fear (ours takes 2 seconds) and mind control. Please give us something to stop us getting repeatedly raped by rogues. Perhaps give us banish back like it worked in the beta, useable on everyone, perhaps cost a shard, with a cooldown
3) end game pets - Make the infernal not cost a reagent, it's a nice pet no doubt, but gets expensive. Also the cooldown time is ridiculous, how bout 30 mins. with guaranteed 10-min enslave? The doomguard is nice, but please give us a reliable way to get one. Waiting for curse of doom to proc sucks.
4) Enslave demon. Far too short to be useful for the danger envolved.
5) Voidwalker - please buff his dps - hitting for 20 is seriously gimped. Also I can break is agro very easily with a shadow bolt or Immolate crit.
6) Invisiblity - why the hell are mages getting invis. back. If they get it back, all the other casters are entitled to it as well - they already get portals and free food, water, and mana pots.
Yes i know this is more than one question. Thanks blizz.
Oh yes, nerf shamans.
Hot plugging was the chief reason I believe. Don't know who in their right mind would hot-swap an internal drive while the system was on tho...
I've only owned one maxtor, got burned on a 5400rpm 30gb way back when - received 3 faulty drives in a row - could've been the Dell system it was in, which I subsequently junked. Also had 2 WDs fail on me, one of which was my fault.
I always try to buy seagate, ~$10 price difference, and the 5-year warranty is priceless. You only get a 3-year warranty on most other drives, or 1 year if you buy retail Western Digital.
And if you see Maxtor, run like the wind!
Your child has no rights until they turn 18.
It means the same thing it's always meant. Embrace, extend, extinguish.
Solid, liquid, gas, plasma, neutron star, and now this.
Any idea how many different versions of the X800 there are? Ati's naming scheme is just as bad as Nvidia's.
X800
X800SE
X800XL
X800XT
X800XT PE
X850
X850XT
X850XT PE
X850XL
Which is easier to figure out now, smart guy?
The sole purpose of BTX is to cool the blast-furnace that is the Prescott. And it's now irrelevant since every one of Intel's future processors will be based on the Pentium M.
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Throw on a V-TEC sticker and get +5 amps on the 12V rail!
Whoops, sorry OP. Thought there was a period after NT line and you meant XP was based on linux.