Friend, that figure is off by a couple orders of magnitude. I'm pretty sure that the administration itself claims to have created(or saved) only about 60,000 jobs or so.
I've had a really bad feeling in my gut ever since that raid in that South American country turned up a computer with genuine, fake validated vote information for an election that had never taken place. We really need a transparent, verifiable means of keeping the system honest. Treating a voting machine like a black box, to the public, is a huge disservice. It also makes it harder to catch signs of tampering when nobody knows how the damn things work.
This may also be an aspect of the really odd way in which the billing system is set up, in which it is actively confusing as to how you cancel your subscription. Some people have made the mistake, in the past, of thinking that by canceling their character IDs, they cancel billing (under the reasoning that if you're being charged for individual characters already). In reality, billing is halted by canceling payments associated with the player's ID of the game itself.
This is further compounded by the fact that, as far as I know, the only way to modify your account at all is through the client itself.
Good to see the game continuing to grow and change. They've come a long way from a studio that, in 2006, was cut down to just 15 people maintaining the game.
The net gain in computing power would be negative, simply because everyone knows that heat causes computrons to decay into bogons, resulting in an overall loss of processing power.
It's a pretty legitimate gripe to have, especially once management regresses to screaming and throwing poo following the flaming death of a 'sweetheart' game they'd thrown a lot of money into.
Previous trailers for WoW have been longer than this and showcased a bunch of different classes looking awesome.. but I daresay neither of them have been as awesome as this. This is the first serious Warcraft trailer I've seen for this game.
It focuses attention directly on the central figure of this expansion: Arthas the Lich King.
Arthas is your problem. Arthas is the central figure of the conflict. No matter who you are, your entry into this expansion's content will immediately involve Arthas meeting you at the front door and welcoming you to your untimely demise.
It's because words such as this are derived from a 'lower' dialect of English than the English which was spoken by the nobility when the French took over England. A lot of the words we consider swear words today are words derived from the language of the peasants that no noble would be caught dead saying.
If you aren't doing anything wrong you don't have anything to worry about when it comes to Warden. The fact that people still persist in finding ways around it to screw with the game aggravates me no end. The only thing new that Warden is really doing is that it's hiding better, so as to prevent a standardized way of detecting, and foiling, it without breaking the hash encryption.
The sad thing is that a lot of people who make educational 'games' are following very, very simple formulas to make games. From my experiences in teaching children, I noticed that quite a few games designed around training for standardized tests have some serious, glaring flaws in how they're set up.
Children would often exploit the mechanics of the game's poor design and actually LEARN very little, while still registering a good score on a problem.
Someone should pitch this question to them differently, as they clearly aren't quite understanding it right.
INSERT CANDIDATE NAME HERE, let's imagine, for a moment, that you're the President. Now. Let's imagine that the White House gets it's internet from, I don't know, Random DC Internet Company. Hypothetically, let's say that there was a horrible nuclear accident of some sort and the Russians were freaking out. Would you be for or against an email to the Russians explaining that this was not a hostile act not getting through because Random DC Internet decided that it didn't want to deliver email to the Kremlin's servers, run by Random Moscow Internet, that day?
The problem being that 'good character' is not something that one generally hears tell about when you go for a degree. Hell, if good character were an issue 75% of pre-law guys I knew in college would've never graduated.
Another one that would've made the list, had the oldest title on it not been Mega Man, would've probably been Valis...
Valis went from one of the first platformer games, pretty much the same age as Metroid with the first undisguised female lead to, in the past couple of years, a porn title.
One of the drawbacks of suggesting this is that, by boasting it, it begs the question 'If you don't think anyone will ever use the machine's full capacity, why the hell did you overengineer it so badly?'
First people bitch at Bush for not sending in the troops to help out places like Katrina because he is NOT ALLOWED BY LAW to do so......And he gets bitched at when Congress CHANGES IT to LET him do that?
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Been a lot longer than 6 months, I've been seeing these things on end user machines for over a year.
Friend, that figure is off by a couple orders of magnitude. I'm pretty sure that the administration itself claims to have created(or saved) only about 60,000 jobs or so.
I've had a really bad feeling in my gut ever since that raid in that South American country turned up a computer with genuine, fake validated vote information for an election that had never taken place. We really need a transparent, verifiable means of keeping the system honest. Treating a voting machine like a black box, to the public, is a huge disservice. It also makes it harder to catch signs of tampering when nobody knows how the damn things work.
You assume every administration doesn't wipe its ass with the Constitution in one way or another.
This may also be an aspect of the really odd way in which the billing system is set up, in which it is actively confusing as to how you cancel your subscription. Some people have made the mistake, in the past, of thinking that by canceling their character IDs, they cancel billing (under the reasoning that if you're being charged for individual characters already). In reality, billing is halted by canceling payments associated with the player's ID of the game itself.
This is further compounded by the fact that, as far as I know, the only way to modify your account at all is through the client itself.
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Team Shanghai Alice yet in comments.
A one man development studio? Can't get much more independent than that.
I've been cleaning crap off of computers installed by ad popups for the past year now.
Good to see the game continuing to grow and change. They've come a long way from a studio that, in 2006, was cut down to just 15 people maintaining the game.
The net gain in computing power would be negative, simply because everyone knows that heat causes computrons to decay into bogons, resulting in an overall loss of processing power.
It's a pretty legitimate gripe to have, especially once management regresses to screaming and throwing poo following the flaming death of a 'sweetheart' game they'd thrown a lot of money into.
Previous trailers for WoW have been longer than this and showcased a bunch of different classes looking awesome.. but I daresay neither of them have been as awesome as this. This is the first serious Warcraft trailer I've seen for this game.
It focuses attention directly on the central figure of this expansion: Arthas the Lich King.
Arthas is your problem. Arthas is the central figure of the conflict. No matter who you are, your entry into this expansion's content will immediately involve Arthas meeting you at the front door and welcoming you to your untimely demise.
I love it.
It's because words such as this are derived from a 'lower' dialect of English than the English which was spoken by the nobility when the French took over England. A lot of the words we consider swear words today are words derived from the language of the peasants that no noble would be caught dead saying.
Excuse me, but how does a Punkbuster client relate to police operations?
If you aren't doing anything wrong you don't have anything to worry about when it comes to Warden. The fact that people still persist in finding ways around it to screw with the game aggravates me no end. The only thing new that Warden is really doing is that it's hiding better, so as to prevent a standardized way of detecting, and foiling, it without breaking the hash encryption.
There's a very simple way to handle isk farmers in 0.0, thankfully.
It involves blowing them up.
(Isk farmers drop great loot, by the way.)
The sad thing is that a lot of people who make educational 'games' are following very, very simple formulas to make games. From my experiences in teaching children, I noticed that quite a few games designed around training for standardized tests have some serious, glaring flaws in how they're set up.
Children would often exploit the mechanics of the game's poor design and actually LEARN very little, while still registering a good score on a problem.
Someone should pitch this question to them differently, as they clearly aren't quite understanding it right.
INSERT CANDIDATE NAME HERE, let's imagine, for a moment, that you're the President. Now. Let's imagine that the White House gets it's internet from, I don't know, Random DC Internet Company. Hypothetically, let's say that there was a horrible nuclear accident of some sort and the Russians were freaking out. Would you be for or against an email to the Russians explaining that this was not a hostile act not getting through because Random DC Internet decided that it didn't want to deliver email to the Kremlin's servers, run by Random Moscow Internet, that day?
It also implies that EQ2 didn't solve most of its problems in Echoes of Faydwer.
Which it did.
The problem being that 'good character' is not something that one generally hears tell about when you go for a degree. Hell, if good character were an issue 75% of pre-law guys I knew in college would've never graduated.
Considering the most common example I've seen, Todd's gonna have a very hard time covering his butt in a court.
Alar causes cancer..
Chocolate causes cancer..
Breathing the air causes cancer..
How about I seal myself in a vacuum and make myself totally safe?
What is junk for some is good for others..
Another one that would've made the list, had the oldest title on it not been Mega Man, would've probably been Valis...
Valis went from one of the first platformer games, pretty much the same age as Metroid with the first undisguised female lead to, in the past couple of years, a porn title.
After having encountered the Beta personally, I can assure you that the delay in release was a necessity. The game was NOT ready in November.
One of the drawbacks of suggesting this is that, by boasting it, it begs the question 'If you don't think anyone will ever use the machine's full capacity, why the hell did you overengineer it so badly?'
First people bitch at Bush for not sending in the troops to help out places like Katrina because he is NOT ALLOWED BY LAW to do so... ...And he gets bitched at when Congress CHANGES IT to LET him do that?