Wow's new arena system is very similar to a deathmatch.
Its setup as 2v2, 3v3 and 5v5... the team with the last man standing wins. As you win you gain points, as you lose you lose points. Depending on how high of a rank you have that week you gain arena points which can be traded for items.
Sometimes a frustrating system based on class/gear balance but much more fun than the old honor system.
Actually, Fishkill is the town a few minutes down the road from where I live. The name is actually dutch and means "Fish Creek". In this area we also have Wallkill and Catskill (most people have heard of this one). A lot of us laughed when they pulled that crap about the name. I can assure you the town and its co-town East Fishkill (where IBM makes its chips such as the Cell or the old Apple power PCs) have not changed.
She would of gotten her divorce. So she would of been entitled to pretty much whatever she wanted along with receiving the kids. Faking her death... its not like she gets a life insurance check for that. She also throws away whatever else she was entitled to.
The only possible reason I could see it is if really wanted to fuck him over, but this is a bit extreme. I guess it would be the ultimate vengence but damn... outside of that stupid double jeopardy movie I can't really think of anything like that.
September 3rd: She goes Missing September 8th: He buys the books September 12th: He gets pulled over and police note he has a passenger seat. September 19th: They impound his car, this time passenger seat is gone.
So it would seem that regardless of who did what when, he had a need to clean his car sometime between the 12th and 19th. Which is 9 + days after she went missing...
Very strange. I can't think of many fit of passion murders where it takes up to that long to dispose of a body, if it was him who did it. It suggests to me that with that kind of time, they probably will never find it. Which is a shame.
Its especially interesting because hes supposed to be a smart guy. You'd think the last thing you want to do is purchase a book about homicide investigations when you think you're the main suspect in a homicide investigation.
Yeah yeah, maybe he wanted to know how to procede and was honestly curious in a non-sinister way. It still looks extremely suspicious.
From the evidence it doesn't look like hes very innocent.
Blood found in his mother's house and a sleeping bag found in his car match his former wife's
Prior history of aggression toward her which led to a restraining order.
A motive in that he has been trying to get custody of his children and they will not give them to him.
And of course this gem from SFgate: Hans Reiser's Honda was missing its front passenger seat when police seized it Sept. 19, Cavness testified in an Oakland courtroom. After technicians removed the carpeting from the front seat area, they noticed that the floorboard had been saturated with water, Cavness said.
Inside the car, police found a 40-piece socket set, Cavness said. The tools appeared to have been used to remove four bolts that had been used to attach the passenger seat to the floor, she said.
Also found inside the car, according to police, was a roll of trash bags, masking tape, a siphon pump, absorbent towels and two books: "Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets," by David Simon, about the Baltimore police homicide squad, and "Masterpieces of Murder," by Jonathan Goodman, about notorious murder cases.
My 2003 Jeep Wrangler Sport (6 cylinder) refuses to go over 90 miles an hour. By refuses I mean... hitting 90 feels like you're driving into a lake. Gas seems to be cut to the engine causing rapid deceleration.
Its kind of annoying on roads like I-80 where traffic moves at 80 mph.
Mcdonalds lost the case because the coffee was not safe for consumption. The coffee caused 3rd degree burns. Who would want to drink something that did that? Even if you wanted to, you still could not without a hospital trip. So yes, its totally unreasonable to sell a drink made to be consumed and have it be not safe. I mean... maybe some people like to drink draino right? I should be able to sell it at bars...
Your comment is among the stupidest things I've ever read on Slashdot. Congratulations.
What Ballmer meant to say is that he has never personally thrown a chair. I mean come on, do you expect him to be able to throw a solid gold chair? Now that doesn't mean his minions weren't ordered to throw the chair.
You can have my pc when you pry it from my cold dead hands. My phone supports the web and I've used it exactly twice for this feature (mapquest for directions). Using a 3 inch screen is a drastically different situation than using a 21 inch. If I am going to leisurly browse the web, do shopping or anything that takes longer than 3 minutes its going to be on a real computer. I find looking at the phone screen for too long causes headaches.
Not to mention...
If the PC is a relic, where are documents going to be created? Not on a pda or cell phone. If the PC is a relic, where are games going to be played? Sure you've got the xbox #, ps#, nintendo systems but certain games lend themselves better to pcs.
General computers, i.e. systems that can do everything, are not going anywhere for a long time.
34 million subscribers, compared to 39 million in the United States. By the end of 2007, China is expected to have 57 million broadband subscribers, compared to 54 million in the United States, with an even wider lead in the years to follow."
39 million... out of 300 million total people. 34 million... out of 6 billion total people.
So 1/9 verse 1/20th of the overall population... hardly seems so bad now. I will say the US is slipping, but that has more to do with our geography and population spread than anything else.
If you win, you get made fun of for beating a girl. If you lose, you get made fun of for losing to a girl.
In this case, you get: But at the time he thought it would take decades before the technology was ready to match humans. This first contest suggests he may have been right.
For the first time ever I emailed that this was a dupe to the editors before it was put on the front page.
I even linked to the story and mentioned it was on the frontpage.
So now we know they not only don't read their site, but they don't read email about their site. Which leads to the question of... what do you actually do? You don't edit. You submit anything Roland whatever posts. You post shit that has already been posted. You let Michael post amaingly misleading items.
You don't walk around bitching about it like some of the idiots here.
I do support, I deal with people who use windows to do their jobs. The fact is its not user friendly and it has a lot of particular quirks that get in the way.
I'm not saying its any worse than say Linux in that regard, but at least Apple can be proud of OSX. Windows may not be a business flop but it is in terms of quality.
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Wow's new arena system is very similar to a deathmatch.
Its setup as 2v2, 3v3 and 5v5... the team with the last man standing wins. As you win you gain points, as you lose you lose points. Depending on how high of a rank you have that week you gain arena points which can be traded for items.
Sometimes a frustrating system based on class/gear balance but much more fun than the old honor system.
Actually, Fishkill is the town a few minutes down the road from where I live. The name is actually dutch and means "Fish Creek". In this area we also have Wallkill and Catskill (most people have heard of this one). A lot of us laughed when they pulled that crap about the name. I can assure you the town and its co-town East Fishkill (where IBM makes its chips such as the Cell or the old Apple power PCs) have not changed.
One more thing...
I can't see a reason for her to fake her death.
She would of gotten her divorce. So she would of been entitled to pretty much whatever she wanted along with receiving the kids. Faking her death... its not like she gets a life insurance check for that. She also throws away whatever else she was entitled to.
The only possible reason I could see it is if really wanted to fuck him over, but this is a bit extreme. I guess it would be the ultimate vengence but damn... outside of that stupid double jeopardy movie I can't really think of anything like that.
Basic timeline...
September 3rd: She goes Missing
September 8th: He buys the books
September 12th: He gets pulled over and police note he has a passenger seat.
September 19th: They impound his car, this time passenger seat is gone.
So it would seem that regardless of who did what when, he had a need to clean his car sometime between the 12th and 19th. Which is 9 + days after she went missing...
Very strange. I can't think of many fit of passion murders where it takes up to that long to dispose of a body, if it was him who did it. It suggests to me that with that kind of time, they probably will never find it. Which is a shame.
My thought exactly...
Its especially interesting because hes supposed to be a smart guy. You'd think the last thing you want to do is purchase a book about homicide investigations when you think you're the main suspect in a homicide investigation.
Yeah yeah, maybe he wanted to know how to procede and was honestly curious in a non-sinister way. It still looks extremely suspicious.
From the evidence it doesn't look like hes very innocent.
Blood found in his mother's house and a sleeping bag found in his car match his former wife's
Prior history of aggression toward her which led to a restraining order.
A motive in that he has been trying to get custody of his children and they will not give them to him.
And of course this gem from SFgate:
Hans Reiser's Honda was missing its front passenger seat when police seized it Sept. 19, Cavness testified in an Oakland courtroom. After technicians removed the carpeting from the front seat area, they noticed that the floorboard had been saturated with water, Cavness said.
Inside the car, police found a 40-piece socket set, Cavness said. The tools appeared to have been used to remove four bolts that had been used to attach the passenger seat to the floor, she said.
Also found inside the car, according to police, was a roll of trash bags, masking tape, a siphon pump, absorbent towels and two books: "Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets," by David Simon, about the Baltimore police homicide squad, and "Masterpieces of Murder," by Jonathan Goodman, about notorious murder cases.
All in all, I'd say its not looking good for him.
My 2003 Jeep Wrangler Sport (6 cylinder) refuses to go over 90 miles an hour. By refuses I mean... hitting 90 feels like you're driving into a lake. Gas seems to be cut to the engine causing rapid deceleration.
Its kind of annoying on roads like I-80 where traffic moves at 80 mph.
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Did you even read what they said?
Mcdonalds lost the case because the coffee was not safe for consumption. The coffee caused 3rd degree burns. Who would want to drink something that did that? Even if you wanted to, you still could not without a hospital trip. So yes, its totally unreasonable to sell a drink made to be consumed and have it be not safe. I mean... maybe some people like to drink draino right? I should be able to sell it at bars...
Your comment is among the stupidest things I've ever read on Slashdot. Congratulations.
What Ballmer meant to say is that he has never personally thrown a chair. I mean come on, do you expect him to be able to throw a solid gold chair? Now that doesn't mean his minions weren't ordered to throw the chair.
Plausible deniability.
Yoda?
Anyone else reminded of the old game demo (they never financed the full game from what I've heard), Rocket Jockeys?
Nothing like riding a missle equipped with nothing but a crappling hook.
Editors, we going for a new record today?
Speaking of which, what is the record for dupes in a row? I would guess 3 - 4 (April fools doesn't count).
Come on guys, you can do it... almost there.
You can have my pc when you pry it from my cold dead hands. My phone supports the web and I've used it exactly twice for this feature (mapquest for directions). Using a 3 inch screen is a drastically different situation than using a 21 inch. If I am going to leisurly browse the web, do shopping or anything that takes longer than 3 minutes its going to be on a real computer. I find looking at the phone screen for too long causes headaches.
Not to mention...
If the PC is a relic, where are documents going to be created? Not on a pda or cell phone.
If the PC is a relic, where are games going to be played? Sure you've got the xbox #, ps#, nintendo systems but certain games lend themselves better to pcs.
General computers, i.e. systems that can do everything, are not going anywhere for a long time.
I'm not sure that the head of a major Linux company would be an apple "fanboy".
But hey, ignorance about who wrote the article for the win.
Damnit, I meant 1 billion. Lack of sleep.
Thats still 1/27 verse 1/9.
34 million subscribers, compared to 39 million in the United States. By the end of 2007, China is expected to have 57 million broadband subscribers, compared to 54 million in the United States, with an even wider lead in the years to follow."
39 million... out of 300 million total people.
34 million... out of 6 billion total people.
So 1/9 verse 1/20th of the overall population... hardly seems so bad now. I will say the US is slipping, but that has more to do with our geography and population spread than anything else.
IBM is actually the largest software developer in the world. Difference is that its mostly internal stuff (damn near everything here is IBM made).
Never arm wrestle a girl.
If you win, you get made fun of for beating a girl.
If you lose, you get made fun of for losing to a girl.
In this case, you get:
But at the time he thought it would take decades before the technology was ready to match humans. This first contest suggests he may have been right.
Thats almost as bad.
Yeah but I'm not going to be paying for it.
Thats the difference.
For the first time ever I emailed that this was a dupe to the editors before it was put on the front page.
I even linked to the story and mentioned it was on the frontpage.
So now we know they not only don't read their site, but they don't read email about their site. Which leads to the question of... what do you actually do? You don't edit. You submit anything Roland whatever posts. You post shit that has already been posted. You let Michael post amaingly misleading items.
Bah I'm done. Well heres one less subscriber...
Built this for 500:
AMD 2800 xp
1 gig of pc2700 ram
60 gig harddrive
nvidia 5200
new case
new MB with integrated audio (5 channel) and lan
DVD+-RW
No monitor, keyboard or mouse. Machine runs pretty sweet... only issue is heat/noise and its not as sexy as the mini.
You don't walk around bitching about it like some of the idiots here.
I do support, I deal with people who use windows to do their jobs. The fact is its not user friendly and it has a lot of particular quirks that get in the way.
I'm not saying its any worse than say Linux in that regard, but at least Apple can be proud of OSX. Windows may not be a business flop but it is in terms of quality.
90% market share with 100% of them bitching about it...
Don't get me wrong, I'd take the money too... but you've got to have some pride in your workmanship.
Read.
Hes saying at least OSX isn't a flop for apple.
Hes alluding to the fact that Microsofts most notable product is infact a flop.
Shit, if thats the punishment I need to get my hands on the Blaster source...