Oh now you were being "sarcastic" with that "Macs are 100% security through obscurity" canard.
No, seriously, for someone who just had the audacity to paint all Mac users with the same monochromatic "dumb" brush, you sure lack a pretty fundamental ability to assess the obvious technical advantages of a top-down security model over Microsoft's 20-years-of-duct-taping-superuser-functionality model.
They had "sniper-2" (with the moving circular targets) and the yellow one with the atari 2600 style Pole Position clone at the hotel...
NICE yeah, I was on a student tour in '87, in Moscow we stayed at the PIONIR (Ruskie boy/girlscouts) hotel and in the lobby they had the sniping game.. and another I can't recall.
Being 13 at the time they really left a hollow feeling in my soul... Like so-much-so I couldn't bring myself to try one. Of course this was pre-Glasnost so there wasn't any "oh-ho-ho those crazy commies" vibe to them. It was what their idea of 'fun'. Pretty sure they were in the low-kopek range to play at that point, yeah;D
Or as expressed in English: one common starting point, multiple avenues of plot advancement. The first two games were renowned for the fact that you could become.. a bare-knuckled kung fu master that slaughters every child they come across and is reviled by all... Or a pistolero do-gooder working to 'thwart the evils' of the world and fight organized crime in all forms... (etc) Yet at the end of the game accomplish the same 'scripted' goals.
I live in New Jersey suburbs, close enough to go to NYC on occassion, but I don't live or work there.
Speaking on behalf of all NYC bicycle commuters: do us all a favor and stay the hell in Jersey. You've got cable TV. Strip malls. Excellent Italian restaurants. Jug handles. What else could you possibly want?;D
P.S. Bloomberg's new 'blanket tarrif for daytime driving south of 86th' initiative gave us all major wood. Pay up or stay home! (Apologies if I took liberties with what seemed to be an admission that you're talking about driving in to our already congested streets. I suppose your statements were open-ended enough that you could have been talking about foot navigation.)
Given the WoW development team's current methodology of "for the next 3-6 months, Warlocks, Warriors and Hunters will be grossly overpowered, Shamans, Mages and Holy Priests can suck an egg" I wouldn't put much faith in Blizzard's ability to generally 'balance' a game any longer. I hope I'm proven wrong when it comes to SC2.
My greatest fear for the upcoming election is that she wins the Democratic nomination - and gets clobbered in the general election.
Clobbered by... The one-trick-pony-9/11-infidelity-guy or the war-hero-who-flip-flops-worse-than-Kerry? Seriously the Republican field isn't looking too good. Still many months to go, who knows.
I don't want Hillary to win either the primary or the general predominantly because it would be like poking in all the agitated internets pitbull's (like above sibling comments) cages with sticks. Who wants to listen to 4-8 years of incessant frothy-mouthed barking?
I'm sorry, do you think the streets of Stormwind and Orgrimmar sweep themselves (Silvermoon notwithstanding)? Who pays the battlemaster's salaries? Funds the orphanages? Disability pay for all those poor soldiers streaming in to the Stair of Destiny?
That said, uh.. Last I checked there was a sort of 'taxation' levied against auction house sales in the form of listings deposits.
Get in the habit of opening a GM harassment ticket whenever you're spammed (and don't mind a little time investment). At the very least when Blizzard realizes how much of its paid employees' time is being wasted chopping off trial account heads they'll be more reticent to do something proactive about it. I wondered why they didn't just disable the/w ability for trial accounts altogether, your idea is far more sensible.
The obvious question is: why can't they flag an account for issuing a rapid series of identical/w to other accounts and rapidly sick a GM on them? Or immediately block the outgoing channel after an arbitrary number of messages? Seems a trivially easy approach.
Anecdotally, I and a bunch of other people in Shattrath/Nagrand last week simultaneously received a/w broadcast of some fluffy proverb... Almost as if the offenders were trying to muddy the water these offenses are swimming in.
if you were to find a way to exploit the terrain to get around the portal to the blood elf area you'd probably just end up at a beach with nothing there
Verified... Tried swimming from North of Scarlet Monastery to Ghostlands before I installed BC (and after it had gone live) and all you wind up in is 5 dimensional space (shows you walking through the zone on the map, but you're actually standing on an anonymous mountain coastline). I can only presume this is still the case after having installed it. Gotta wonder what happens if you party with someone, inhabit the same space as them (in different instances) and try and buff or heal them.
Very much agreed. I was completely impressed by the very first Draenei content, even after having read about it months ago. Compared to the Troll/Orc or Dwarf/Gnome starting zones it's both aesthetically and narratively very well polished.
Perhaps the Blood Watch stuff got a little mundane, but even that gets high marks in comparison to the rest of the teen-zones... "Kill this progressively harder chain of kolkar bosses" versus "go figure out who's using Exodar's busted Vector Coil for bad stuff"? Don't really see the criticism.
Oh, silly illegalcortex! The Republicans were anticipating the congressional takeover by the Dems, thus they knew any measure they took towards a proactive, less wasteful military budget would just get flushed down the tubes anyways. (Democrats just love themselves a big, wasteful, no-bid contracting military after all) So they didn't bother. They didn't waste valuable floor time on futile measures, because Republicans honor the desires of their constituents far more often than the companies that benefit from military contracts. It's the Republican way!
*excuse me while i go throw up after that big Conservative double speak sandwich. Does that make me bullemic?
on that release, even my kids' old 400MHz G3 iMac DV was seeing an improvement over OS 9
Odd, I have that very machine on my desk next to my main display running Tygra... Had to disable Dashboard and Expose on it to make myself sane while using it. Perhaps the fact that I didn't have any experience with Jaguara or Panthro on it (and a nice dual 1.2 Ghz next door) contributes to the feelings.
Tell that to anyone who's been running an OS9-based G4, who then upgrades to the latest version of OSX.
Thinking back to my legacy Mac OS days, counting all the time waiting for reboots, 30 second system hangs due to pre-emptive threads, time spent futzing about with the extensions build... All that indubitably needs to be factored in to the total. But you're obviously talking about "teh snappy", and only that perceived measure of 'fastness'. As others have mentioned, UI responsiveness improved on each incremental release of OS X.
I would venture a guess that replacing 9.2 with 10.3 or 10.4 on a 2000-era G4 with 256MB of RAM would not result in the average cave-dwelling user remarking "AGH WHY IS THIS SO SLOW" but rather "HOLY CRAP I CAN DRAG THE WINDOWS AROUND" and perhaps "LOOK THINGS ARE HAPPENING EVEN WHEN I HOLD THE MOUSE BUTTON DOWN." I think there's a great degree of relativity involved in the 'user experience'.
then I read that you convinced your poor family to buy Macs...
Yeah because it's "such bad advice." Tell you what sonny: Why don't you go back to trolling people with your own apparent diminished level of expertise?
You might get it elevated from a county to a state level, but that is as far as it is going to go. Today it is that way in many states already so it wouldn't be that big a leap. But no way could it be taken away from the states.
That may not be necessary. Strongarm states that don't conform their own laws to national 'standard' election laws by threatening Federal funding sanctions. That's been the common practice for quite a while, as far as I understand it. For instance, when the legal drinking age was raised from 18 to 21 across the board.
Also don't fail to consider that Blizzard has traditionally built upon the work of previous endeavors from other companies. It's not as though they invented the RTS or MMORPG, they just polished the concept and as a result popularized them.
In to the realm of Sci-Fi genre MMO's, Eve Online has a role playing foundation with many RTS resource objective, star-system control aspects thrown in to the mix. Not hard to imagine a new Starcraft title that leverages that hybridized concept with a less time-intensive playability.
4. I bought a bluetooth headset that uses them ( 1 x aaa ) Motorola H300
I was glad that this thread came along as I recently bought an H300 myself, thinking that swapping out a rechargeable > waiting for an onboard to recharge. Problem being, I already find the thing pretty cumbersome with a standard alkaline powering it (plan on using it for extended periods of time as a gaming VoIP communicator). Don't you find NiMH's way too heavy to be clasping to your ear? I was just looking around for alternatives and was thinking about low-mAh NiCd (240 range) as a solution to that problem.
u'd wait until you had the technology to make self-replicating probes, and the galaxy could potentially be explored in thousands of years.
Yes, and let's hope beyond all hope that once the probes arrive they don't require vast amounts of O and/or H2O to replicate themselves. And that they'll recognize Sol 3 as a planet fostering 'advanced' life.
Never mind orbital objects, how about setting a larger one of these up out in the Nevada desert and lobbing our spent Plutonium towards the Sun instead of planting it in a really deep hole?
I'm pretty sure a carbon nanotube composite shell would pretty much ensure the content's security given a 'worst case scenario' event. It could probably slice through a 747 like butter.
See, I thought that for years, then I came to the realization that once they (Junior and Dad) crossed the "seal," the holy Paladin magic endowed by the Cup of Kings had no effect.
Now who are they going to find that's still Indy-level hawt in her mid 60's for the romantic lead... There's a few out there I'm sure.
The days of "desktop publishing = Mac" and its cousin "A/V editing = Mac" have been over for quite some time
Video editing, there's a specific realm where Windows/Linux-based Avid stations etc. have made headway.
Audio and DTP? I would be entirely surprised if the percentage of full-on professionals using Windows for those jobs breaks 2 digits. Even in the age of cross-platform VST's and OpenType fonts the reliance on Audio Units and ColorSync runs deep.
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No, seriously, for someone who just had the audacity to paint all Mac users with the same monochromatic "dumb" brush, you sure lack a pretty fundamental ability to assess the obvious technical advantages of a top-down security model over Microsoft's 20-years-of-duct-taping-superuser-functionality model.
Being 13 at the time they really left a hollow feeling in my soul... Like so-much-so I couldn't bring myself to try one. Of course this was pre-Glasnost so there wasn't any "oh-ho-ho those crazy commies" vibe to them. It was what their idea of 'fun'. Pretty sure they were in the low-kopek range to play at that point, yeah ;D
Or as expressed in English: one common starting point, multiple avenues of plot advancement. The first two games were renowned for the fact that you could become.. a bare-knuckled kung fu master that slaughters every child they come across and is reviled by all... Or a pistolero do-gooder working to 'thwart the evils' of the world and fight organized crime in all forms... (etc) Yet at the end of the game accomplish the same 'scripted' goals.
P.S. Bloomberg's new 'blanket tarrif for daytime driving south of 86th' initiative gave us all major wood. Pay up or stay home! (Apologies if I took liberties with what seemed to be an admission that you're talking about driving in to our already congested streets. I suppose your statements were open-ended enough that you could have been talking about foot navigation.)
Given the WoW development team's current methodology of "for the next 3-6 months, Warlocks, Warriors and Hunters will be grossly overpowered, Shamans, Mages and Holy Priests can suck an egg" I wouldn't put much faith in Blizzard's ability to generally 'balance' a game any longer. I hope I'm proven wrong when it comes to SC2.
I don't want Hillary to win either the primary or the general predominantly because it would be like poking in all the agitated internets pitbull's (like above sibling comments) cages with sticks. Who wants to listen to 4-8 years of incessant frothy-mouthed barking?
That said, uh.. Last I checked there was a sort of 'taxation' levied against auction house sales in the form of listings deposits.
The obvious question is: why can't they flag an account for issuing a rapid series of identical /w to other accounts and rapidly sick a GM on them? Or immediately block the outgoing channel after an arbitrary number of messages? Seems a trivially easy approach.
Anecdotally, I and a bunch of other people in Shattrath/Nagrand last week simultaneously received a /w broadcast of some fluffy proverb... Almost as if the offenders were trying to muddy the water these offenses are swimming in.
Perhaps the Blood Watch stuff got a little mundane, but even that gets high marks in comparison to the rest of the teen-zones... "Kill this progressively harder chain of kolkar bosses" versus "go figure out who's using Exodar's busted Vector Coil for bad stuff"? Don't really see the criticism.
*excuse me while i go throw up after that big Conservative double speak sandwich. Does that make me bullemic?
12 executions of iTunes in unison: "GO THAT WAY!"
I would venture a guess that replacing 9.2 with 10.3 or 10.4 on a 2000-era G4 with 256MB of RAM would not result in the average cave-dwelling user remarking "AGH WHY IS THIS SO SLOW" but rather "HOLY CRAP I CAN DRAG THE WINDOWS AROUND" and perhaps "LOOK THINGS ARE HAPPENING EVEN WHEN I HOLD THE MOUSE BUTTON DOWN." I think there's a great degree of relativity involved in the 'user experience'.
Also don't fail to consider that Blizzard has traditionally built upon the work of previous endeavors from other companies. It's not as though they invented the RTS or MMORPG, they just polished the concept and as a result popularized them. In to the realm of Sci-Fi genre MMO's, Eve Online has a role playing foundation with many RTS resource objective, star-system control aspects thrown in to the mix. Not hard to imagine a new Starcraft title that leverages that hybridized concept with a less time-intensive playability.
Never mind orbital objects, how about setting a larger one of these up out in the Nevada desert and lobbing our spent Plutonium towards the Sun instead of planting it in a really deep hole?
I'm pretty sure a carbon nanotube composite shell would pretty much ensure the content's security given a 'worst case scenario' event. It could probably slice through a 747 like butter.
Now who are they going to find that's still Indy-level hawt in her mid 60's for the romantic lead... There's a few out there I'm sure.
And imagine my dismay upon discovering, this morning, that my girlfriend had disposed of an empty tinfoil tube!! At least you have hope my friend!
Audio and DTP? I would be entirely surprised if the percentage of full-on professionals using Windows for those jobs breaks 2 digits. Even in the age of cross-platform VST's and OpenType fonts the reliance on Audio Units and ColorSync runs deep.