So, being a EQ, EQ2 and Planetside on-again off-again player, I went out and picked this up. Figured, why not, got the Station Access account anyway.
It looks good, it plays ok, but I feel it is Beta 3 quality. I was hit with a few bugs, most minor, all annoying, within minutes of playing.
Now, I don't have the fastest system out there (P4 3Ghz, 2GB RAM, ATi Radeon 9800 Pro, if you care), but geez, audio should not go skipping at the 'design your character screen'.
Give them a few weeks to work the bugs out, then read a new review and decide for yourself.
You don't treat your customers like that, ever. It's a PR nightmare in the making.
You send a nice message and optionally lock the thread.
So, instead of a 'this is a user supported forum, you'll want to contact apple support directly' and leaving it at that, it was turned into a front page Slashdot article that pretty much says 'Apple is arrogant and doesn't fix bugs' and a few hundred less people 'switch'.
Tell me, how many people's deaths has Scientology been responsible for?
At least one that I read about (Source:Operation Clambake), so that's about one too many. So fuck you all very much, they're all in the same boat as far as I'm concerned. Hopefully they'll do the world a favor and emulate Heaven's Gate.
If there's one thing the "C++ GUI Programming" Apple commercial has taught me, it's that Apples are programmed automatically by magical fucking pixies.
Honestly, after watching those things I want to kick the Mac guy in the nuts a few dozen times. He's the asshole in Starbucks that walks up and asks for something like a grande extra hot extra ristretto shot cinnamon dolce latte with extra whipped cream. (And unfortunately isn't beaten to death)
From a business perspective, Fujitsu-Siemens would rather not advertise a extra USB port that requires a screwdriver to access when instead they can advertise 'optional bluetooth available', which is what the port is for.
We bought it, we paid for it, so we want to know what it can do and how to protect ourselves from its misuse.
Then buy the service manual.
Most appliances do not tell you everything going on inside, if you want to learn more, buy the service manual and hack away to your heart's content.
The thing about PC gaming is that games on PC don't really use the operating system at all
Except for the sound, video, keyboard, mouse, monitor, network card, hdd, cd/dvd and other drivers the OS provides.
Windows isn't just the fancy GUI, it's a standard interface to non-standard hardware. Anyone who used DOS for gaming will remember the absolute nightmare of getting sound, video, network and CD drivers all running for every game.
I figured I would take the time to correct your statement.
The developers have been able to make their statement, and another group of individuals has decided that they don't want to help the developers spread that statement by threatening a third party financially to stop the game creators.
Putting it simply:
I don't like what you're doing. I can't take action against you because I have no direct involvement with you. I am, however, involved with someone who also is involved with you. I pressure that third party to stop supporting you or I'll ruin the third party.
Now, lets come up with a hypothetical scenario:
I'm Intel, I don't like AMD. I can't take action directly against AMD. I can pressure Dell, by telling them Pentium chips will now cost twice their normal price if they continue using AMD. Dell drops AMD.
Granted, it's not quite the same, but the point is made.
Back to the original case, there is a freedom of speech issue here, but it's not a first amendment issue. As you correctly pointed out, this doesn't involve the government.
A median ice growth average over such a large landmass is a pointless statistic.
If it rains all year in Washington yet there's a severe drought in Oklahoma, the national average could be the same as if there was normal rainfall in both locations.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics"
I assume those that are protesting this "unfair" ruling are probably actively engaged in stealing third party content and have a vested interest in promoting misinformation on this issue.
I assume people like you fuck sheep for entertainment.
1. Stop being an asshole for a minute, read the article and respond like a normal person to avoid comments like this in the future. 2. Don't prejudge, I don't steal content and don't appreciate being called a thief. 3. Stop fucking sheep.
There is no difference. There is no such thing as a 'deep link', a URL is a URL is a URL.
As for blocking, I'll just type the URLs without the anchor and write a 'find url' plugin for all major browsers for those who can't be bothered to copy and paste.
If you live in the Northeast, just aim your telescope directly into the sun, the resulting blindness will be just as impressive as the shower thanks to the light polution on the eastern seaboard.
It's getting much worse too. I used to be able to see the Milky Way from about 15 miles out of NYC, now I have to drive at least 2 hours. (So, 30 miles at least, traffic sucks here too.)
FIC got lots of free advertising from Microsoft for that blurb.
Besides, you can recommend Windows XP and still be OSS friendly, despite what some idiots think. Some people actually need to use the best tool for the job.
It's still a real world transaction, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that it's taxable.
If you design graphic artwork for a website, you get taxed when you get paid for the work, even though it's not something designed to be used outside of the computer.
I'm going to take the initiative in the creation of a really good pumpkin pie recipe by giving some money to some great chefs.
I didn't invent pumpkins, pie or pumpkin pie, but I did help with the recipe and the pie was really good.
Now, if someone were to go on a news show saying 'ha ha! he said he invented pumpkin pie', to try and discredit me, I would call him a media whoring motherfucker.
Well, I for one have not seen a better bunch of media whoring motherfuckers than the RNC, which brings us back to the Al Gore story.
So, there you have it.
What have we learned:
1. Al Gore never said he invented the Internet. 2. The RNC are a bunch of media whoring motherfuckers.
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So, being a EQ, EQ2 and Planetside on-again off-again player, I went out and picked this up. Figured, why not, got the Station Access account anyway.
It looks good, it plays ok, but I feel it is Beta 3 quality. I was hit with a few bugs, most minor, all annoying, within minutes of playing.
Now, I don't have the fastest system out there (P4 3Ghz, 2GB RAM, ATi Radeon 9800 Pro, if you care), but geez, audio should not go skipping at the 'design your character screen'.
Give them a few weeks to work the bugs out, then read a new review and decide for yourself.
ZGI had a lot of potential. But the game felt rushed at the end.
I think they were under pressure to ship and rushed the game. Too bad, I would love to see a new Zork.
That's why his message was deleted.
You don't treat your customers like that, ever. It's a PR nightmare in the making.
You send a nice message and optionally lock the thread.
So, instead of a 'this is a user supported forum, you'll want to contact apple support directly' and leaving it at that, it was turned into a front page Slashdot article that pretty much says 'Apple is arrogant and doesn't fix bugs' and a few hundred less people 'switch'.
Tell me, how many people's deaths has Scientology been responsible for?
At least one that I read about (Source:Operation Clambake), so that's about one too many. So fuck you all very much, they're all in the same boat as far as I'm concerned. Hopefully they'll do the world a favor and emulate Heaven's Gate.
It is obvious that Apple, Inc believes that their iPhone is a PHONE and not a computer providing phone access to phone networks.
The whole 'running OS X' thing is going to kill them then.
It's a phone, not a computer, running a computer OS, um, with wifi, for non computer things.
Heck I'd even learn objective-C if I had to.
If there's one thing the "C++ GUI Programming" Apple commercial has taught me, it's that Apples are programmed automatically by magical fucking pixies.
Honestly, after watching those things I want to kick the Mac guy in the nuts a few dozen times. He's the asshole in Starbucks that walks up and asks for something like a grande extra hot extra ristretto shot cinnamon dolce latte with extra whipped cream. (And unfortunately isn't beaten to death)
Is this the Newton v2 or v3?
Honestly, I can't remember, how many lives has the Newton had so far?
Make up a better season opener?
From a business perspective, Fujitsu-Siemens would rather not advertise a extra USB port that requires a screwdriver to access when instead they can advertise 'optional bluetooth available', which is what the port is for.
We bought it, we paid for it, so we want to know what it can do and how to protect ourselves from its misuse.
Then buy the service manual.
Most appliances do not tell you everything going on inside, if you want to learn more, buy the service manual and hack away to your heart's content.
Yes, but Giuliani is a smug assshole who loves to see his name in the paper as much as possible.
The thing about PC gaming is that games on PC don't really use the operating system at all
Except for the sound, video, keyboard, mouse, monitor, network card, hdd, cd/dvd and other drivers the OS provides.
Windows isn't just the fancy GUI, it's a standard interface to non-standard hardware. Anyone who used DOS for gaming will remember the absolute nightmare of getting sound, video, network and CD drivers all running for every game.
I figured I would take the time to correct your statement.
The developers have been able to make their statement, and another group of individuals has decided that they don't want to help the developers spread that statement by threatening a third party financially to stop the game creators.
Putting it simply:
I don't like what you're doing.
I can't take action against you because I have no direct involvement with you.
I am, however, involved with someone who also is involved with you.
I pressure that third party to stop supporting you or I'll ruin the third party.
Now, lets come up with a hypothetical scenario:
I'm Intel, I don't like AMD.
I can't take action directly against AMD.
I can pressure Dell, by telling them Pentium chips will now cost twice their normal price if they continue using AMD.
Dell drops AMD.
Granted, it's not quite the same, but the point is made.
Back to the original case, there is a freedom of speech issue here, but it's not a first amendment issue. As you correctly pointed out, this doesn't involve the government.
Actually, as a good friend of mine points out, the average total rainfall in Washington is less than New York. (I'll take his word for it)
And as I point out, he never mentions the number of overcast days.
A median ice growth average over such a large landmass is a pointless statistic.
If it rains all year in Washington yet there's a severe drought in Oklahoma, the national average could be the same as if there was normal rainfall in both locations.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics"
Please mod parent to +5 to balance out the "Just run linux" posts whenever there is a Windows question around here.
The only problem with that analogy is that the outlet is standing in the middle of the sidewalk with a sign that says 'publicly accessible' above it.
I assume those that are protesting this "unfair" ruling are probably actively engaged in stealing third party content and have a vested interest in promoting misinformation on this issue.
I assume people like you fuck sheep for entertainment.
1. Stop being an asshole for a minute, read the article and respond like a normal person to avoid comments like this in the future.
2. Don't prejudge, I don't steal content and don't appreciate being called a thief.
3. Stop fucking sheep.
There is no difference. There is no such thing as a 'deep link', a URL is a URL is a URL.
As for blocking, I'll just type the URLs without the anchor and write a 'find url' plugin for all major browsers for those who can't be bothered to copy and paste.
So, will we be getting a discount by uploading to other clients? After all, it's my upstream bandwidth.
If not, what's to stop me from blocking the outbound connections or capping them at 1 byte/sec?
Remember:
If you live in the Northeast, just aim your telescope directly into the sun, the resulting blindness will be just as impressive as the shower thanks to the light polution on the eastern seaboard.
It's getting much worse too. I used to be able to see the Milky Way from about 15 miles out of NYC, now I have to drive at least 2 hours. (So, 30 miles at least, traffic sucks here too.)
FIC got lots of free advertising from Microsoft for that blurb.
Besides, you can recommend Windows XP and still be OSS friendly, despite what some idiots think. Some people actually need to use the best tool for the job.
It's still a real world transaction, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that it's taxable.
If you design graphic artwork for a website, you get taxed when you get paid for the work, even though it's not something designed to be used outside of the computer.
Game pieces are really no different.
I'm going to take the initiative in the creation of a really good pumpkin pie recipe by giving some money to some great chefs.
I didn't invent pumpkins, pie or pumpkin pie, but I did help with the recipe and the pie was really good.
Now, if someone were to go on a news show saying 'ha ha! he said he invented pumpkin pie', to try and discredit me, I would call him a media whoring motherfucker.
Well, I for one have not seen a better bunch of media whoring motherfuckers than the RNC, which brings us back to the Al Gore story.
So, there you have it.
What have we learned:
1. Al Gore never said he invented the Internet.
2. The RNC are a bunch of media whoring motherfuckers.
It's Scott Adams, not Andy Kaufman.
I don't see any reason why he would lie about it. It's just not his sense of humor.
I didn't ask if phone monitoring was allowed or not, I said how do you feel about it.