"Most of what you read over seas is way blown over hyperbole of small isolated events. Many mistakes that have gotten more coverage than they deserve."
I disagree a bit. As off-topic as this is, there have been several cases where US media has a clear agenda it broadcasts instead of objective journalism. I still remember the Newsweek covers, international version has a coverstory on how war in Iraq is failing while domestic US version's coverstory was about weddings or such. The UN for example is made to be an utterly useless place in US, from CNN/Fox/etc giving their subjective news views on things up to Leno et al making jokes about it. For example in Late Night there was numerous jokes about how the weapon inspectors couldn't fine a bomb if it fell on them to undermine their (and the UN's) efforts to fuel the warmachine into a running state.
Just because the language is easy is no reason to (attempt) to make it idiot proof. Numerous crappy 'security features' have already been added to the annoyance of decent programmers. Making it more secure by design would only encourage sloppy programming, which already is a big problem.
I have leveled a couple of holy priests myself, so I can relate totally. It's really boring, requires little interaction even on lower levels. Just shield+renew and wand. From level 25 to up I've always engaged a mob, then alt-tabbed to surf some pro.. CNN. Then just alt tab, loot, pick new mob.
Now me being on lower levels this took maybe 30-60 seconds, but the mobs in foremeantioned area are very low levels, so it takes them a good time to actually kill him. With some hotkeys ready to target himself, cast heal, target last enemy and autoattack, you can just alt-tab to game, press one button and continue - for sure not breaking the EULA. So it's just watching a movie/tv/whatever, then alt+tab, press key, alt+tab back again. And leveling those weapons takes loads of time, so you easily get used to pressing those couple of buttons so you don't have to pay *any* attention to anything.
Your lack of knowing people that use Quakenet most likely is a result of your nationality. Quakenet is mostly European, whereas US has gamesnet and dalnet and whatnot. I personally don't know anyone that uses either of those.
You are free to state that you think dalnet has lowest noise ratio. I am free to disagree. My experiences with dalnet has been short due to clueless dimwits that inhabit it.
My first experiences were quite similar. My father brought home a Spektrum from his job trip when I was four. I played with it and at that time a Finnish computer magazine called MikroBitti published among other languages, snippets of Basic that you cold write yourself and have small games and such. Of course at that age I didn't understand about it, but later when I was six, my parents forced me to take piano lessons and instead of playing my grammar (sic) on the piano, I wrote 10 PLAY "" type programs to do the playing for me. It was my first step into programming and inside computers.
I still remember "coding" those little programs with my father - other one did the reading from a magazine and the other did the writing. I was never into sports or anything so that was the only few of our father-son -moments:)
I'm also impressed about the game but very unimpressed of the way Blizzard does their marketing in Europe. While US has been playing retail version of the game for the second week now, us Europeans still haven't even gotten to test the beta. And it's the same product, no special patches for Europe!
So the game is great, but the launch reminds me of a pic I once saw on a site with 'goat' and 'cx' in the URI.
Red Hat is not the only product out there, though. There is a far superior server operating system called SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, and it buries Red Hat Enterprise Server 3 in every way.
Bullshit. While RH's updating system is utter crap and then some, SuSE's response is desktop-only version of linux, with from non-existant to useless CLI tools. And this on server products from SuSE, such as "openexchange server" which I personally have had the agonising pain to deal with.
Even Mandrake succeeds over these two mammoths from the past, with it's fairly well working urpmi update tool. While it's not quite apt-get or emerge, it does it's job in correctly locating dependencies and merging then into the system.. most of the time.
While the specs for minimum requirements have always been aimed at the clueless games, it is a fact that games become playable once you have a system that performs atleast twice as well as the minimum requirement (and still with lowest quality settings).
Looking for instance at the memory requirements for Quake (8MB). You have got to be kidding. Well, I guess it would run with that much memory and as some of you state, it Quake3 "ran smooth as silk" on a 233MHz system. don't know what kind of silk you guys are used to, but anything less than an equal to 1.2GHz system with around half a gig of memory in inadequate to smoothly run it.
Maybe for single player games 60fps is enough, but on multiplayer you really need to have around 100fps (independant of refreshrate, although higher is better.) Quake3 with 233MHz pII and 32MB of memory would be choppy as hell. 30fps? Inbareable.
Id's games have always been "almost playable" on a "quite new" system while top notch high-end system is "almost there". It has been so since Quake. Doom3 most likely requires twice the processing power that a 2GHz system offers today and probably more available system memory than 512MB just for the game itself. 1.5GHz just makes me smile:)
So, if I'd have two donuts that have their atoms entangeled, and I'd eat one, would it increase my bodyweight twice as much, since the other donut would have gotten eaten by me instantly also?
If not, and these two share the same state, if I would eat one and after swallowing all the fat would be vaporized somehow from the un-swallowed one, would that allow me to eat as much as I want?
Downloaded Email from hotmail to my PC. deleted my Email from my hotmail account. my Pc logs itself into hotmail DELETING my unread mail from my PC.
Yes, if you use IMAP, then thats what it's supposed to do. Use POP with option 'leave mail on server' if you wish to have unsyncronized emailboxes. Or save your d/ld mail to local mailfolders that are not included in the emailbox tree.
Landmines are not really meant to kill soldiers after all, they know what they look like and where they might be - they are often even designed not to kill, but to mutilate.
Finland is one of the countries that hasn't signed the Ottawa treaty. We have landmines all over the Eastern border that is shared with Russia. Landmines are effective slowing down fast military advancement from this direction and surely is used solely against enemy soldiers.
Finland's defense plan has for years been to make fighting exhausting and slow against enemy forces and landmines serve that purpose. I agree that mining places that an army occupies for a short amount of time isn't maybe the wisest of things, but they can also be used correctly. If a vote comes, I for one will vote for keeping the mines on our border.
How many of you that code for a living have had the same problem; Deadline is approaching, it was set by some consultant/marketer at the first place with a quick estimate of half of the features promised for the final product.
After realizing you'll never make the deadline, you have to compromise, becouse your company really needs to deliver the package. So you make it work quickly, abandoning the features not yet ready, ship it and do a bugfix that later will fix all those missing features.
This is everyday in software manufactuing. Now its becoming everyday with this sort of software too.
Actually, no-one would want such a phone. Having all those extra pieces of software don't make the phone cost more, especially, if you'd be able to flash them into it if required. If the price-tag would be lower, paying say $10 for a phone with a calendar, wap, games and such would be such a deal, that no-one would buy the dumb, cheaper version.
IIRC, in the mid 90s Nokia made a "stupid" phone such as this with very limited capabilities. It was mostly a phone, model was Ringo or something like that. It was a huge flop and at the same time people were requesting for such a phone, just not buying it. At the same time phones with SMS, calendar, multiple ringtones and games such as Snake were a big hit.
Britney Spears: Toxic
Maroon 5: This Love
Nickelback: Someday
No Doubt: It's My Life
Jessica Simpson: With You [Album Version]
Jet: Are You Gonna Be My Girl
3 Doors Down: Here Without You [Album Version]
The White Stripes: Seven Nation Army
Nickelback: Figured You Out
Eamon: I Don't Want You Back [Ultra Clean Version]
I disagree. Average three songs per user is a huge amount when considering that probably all of these songs are available via eMule and others for free.
Also the "7-day free trial" must have made a number of curious people register without purchasing anything. So I'd say an average *money paying* user has purchased an album's worth of music.
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Only if you believe the undermining done by US media. Which seems to be the case here :)
"Most of what you read over seas is way blown over hyperbole of small isolated events. Many mistakes that have gotten more coverage than they deserve."
I disagree a bit. As off-topic as this is, there have been several cases where US media has a clear agenda it broadcasts instead of objective journalism. I still remember the Newsweek covers, international version has a coverstory on how war in Iraq is failing while domestic US version's coverstory was about weddings or such. The UN for example is made to be an utterly useless place in US, from CNN/Fox/etc giving their subjective news views on things up to Leno et al making jokes about it. For example in Late Night there was numerous jokes about how the weapon inspectors couldn't fine a bomb if it fell on them to undermine their (and the UN's) efforts to fuel the warmachine into a running state.
If Chinese government can throw people with different ideas to jail or even kill them, why should the 13 year olds survive their 'wrong opinions'?
To be honest, your solution seems like the most wrong thing one could possibly do.
And submitting forms via input type img is not broken.
On so the crusades were about teaching love to your enemies? I see.
ps. Adults with imaginary friends are stupid.
Hasn't "convert or die" been the motto of christianity for centuries now?
+5 Insightful?
Yes, I can see how it is insightful to compare a programming language with nuclear weapons.
Oh wait..
Just because the language is easy is no reason to (attempt) to make it idiot proof. Numerous crappy 'security features' have already been added to the annoyance of decent programmers. Making it more secure by design would only encourage sloppy programming, which already is a big problem.
No, just not paying attention.
I have leveled a couple of holy priests myself, so I can relate totally. It's really boring, requires little interaction even on lower levels. Just shield+renew and wand. From level 25 to up I've always engaged a mob, then alt-tabbed to surf some pro.. CNN. Then just alt tab, loot, pick new mob.
Now me being on lower levels this took maybe 30-60 seconds, but the mobs in foremeantioned area are very low levels, so it takes them a good time to actually kill him. With some hotkeys ready to target himself, cast heal, target last enemy and autoattack, you can just alt-tab to game, press one button and continue - for sure not breaking the EULA. So it's just watching a movie/tv/whatever, then alt+tab, press key, alt+tab back again. And leveling those weapons takes loads of time, so you easily get used to pressing those couple of buttons so you don't have to pay *any* attention to anything.
Solution: Topless PERL coding girlies with webcams.
Your lack of knowing people that use Quakenet most likely is a result of your nationality. Quakenet is mostly European, whereas US has gamesnet and dalnet and whatnot. I personally don't know anyone that uses either of those.
You are free to state that you think dalnet has lowest noise ratio. I am free to disagree. My experiences with dalnet has been short due to clueless dimwits that inhabit it.
My first experiences were quite similar. My father brought home a Spektrum from his job trip when I was four. I played with it and at that time a Finnish computer magazine called MikroBitti published among other languages, snippets of Basic that you cold write yourself and have small games and such. Of course at that age I didn't understand about it, but later when I was six, my parents forced me to take piano lessons and instead of playing my grammar (sic) on the piano, I wrote 10 PLAY "" type programs to do the playing for me. It was my first step into programming and inside computers.
:)
I still remember "coding" those little programs with my father - other one did the reading from a magazine and the other did the writing. I was never into sports or anything so that was the only few of our father-son -moments
Thank god it doesn't, since the original site is way faster currently than your mirror.
I'm also impressed about the game but very unimpressed of the way Blizzard does their marketing in Europe. While US has been playing retail version of the game for the second week now, us Europeans still haven't even gotten to test the beta. And it's the same product, no special patches for Europe!
So the game is great, but the launch reminds me of a pic I once saw on a site with 'goat' and 'cx' in the URI.
Red Hat is not the only product out there, though. There is a far superior server operating system called SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, and it buries Red Hat Enterprise Server 3 in every way.
.. most of the time.
Bullshit.
While RH's updating system is utter crap and then some, SuSE's response is desktop-only version of linux, with from non-existant to useless CLI tools. And this on server products from SuSE, such as "openexchange server" which I personally have had the agonising pain to deal with.
Even Mandrake succeeds over these two mammoths from the past, with it's fairly well working urpmi update tool. While it's not quite apt-get or emerge, it does it's job in correctly locating dependencies and merging then into the system
While the specs for minimum requirements have always been aimed at the clueless games, it is a fact that games become playable once you have a system that performs atleast twice as well as the minimum requirement (and still with lowest quality settings).
:)
Looking for instance at the memory requirements for Quake (8MB). You have got to be kidding. Well, I guess it would run with that much memory and as some of you state, it Quake3 "ran smooth as silk" on a 233MHz system. don't know what kind of silk you guys are used to, but anything less than an equal to 1.2GHz system with around half a gig of memory in inadequate to smoothly run it.
Maybe for single player games 60fps is enough, but on multiplayer you really need to have around 100fps (independant of refreshrate, although higher is better.) Quake3 with 233MHz pII and 32MB of memory would be choppy as hell. 30fps? Inbareable.
Id's games have always been "almost playable" on a "quite new" system while top notch high-end system is "almost there". It has been so since Quake. Doom3 most likely requires twice the processing power that a 2GHz system offers today and probably more available system memory than 512MB just for the game itself. 1.5GHz just makes me smile
So, if I'd have two donuts that have their atoms entangeled, and I'd eat one, would it increase my bodyweight twice as much, since the other donut would have gotten eaten by me instantly also?
If not, and these two share the same state, if I would eat one and after swallowing all the fat would be vaporized somehow from the un-swallowed one, would that allow me to eat as much as I want?
Regards,
Homer
Downloaded Email from hotmail to my PC.
deleted my Email from my hotmail account.
my Pc logs itself into hotmail DELETING my unread mail from my PC.
Yes, if you use IMAP, then thats what it's supposed to do. Use POP with option 'leave mail on server' if you wish to have unsyncronized emailboxes. Or save your d/ld mail to local mailfolders that are not included in the emailbox tree.
Foreign keys are un-American.
Landmines are not really meant to kill soldiers after all, they know what they look like and where they might be - they are often even designed not to kill, but to mutilate.
Finland is one of the countries that hasn't signed the Ottawa treaty. We have landmines all over the Eastern border that is shared with Russia. Landmines are effective slowing down fast military advancement from this direction and surely is used solely against enemy soldiers.
Finland's defense plan has for years been to make fighting exhausting and slow against enemy forces and landmines serve that purpose. I agree that mining places that an army occupies for a short amount of time isn't maybe the wisest of things, but they can also be used correctly. If a vote comes, I for one will vote for keeping the mines on our border.
Who is this 'Adolph Hitler'? He wouldn't happen to be any relation to Adolf Hitler, would he?
:o
Sounds like a sosialist dolphin
How many of you that code for a living have had the same problem; Deadline is approaching, it was set by some consultant/marketer at the first place with a quick estimate of half of the features promised for the final product.
After realizing you'll never make the deadline, you have to compromise, becouse your company really needs to deliver the package. So you make it work quickly, abandoning the features not yet ready, ship it and do a bugfix that later will fix all those missing features.
This is everyday in software manufactuing. Now its becoming everyday with this sort of software too.
Actually, no-one would want such a phone. Having all those extra pieces of software don't make the phone cost more, especially, if you'd be able to flash them into it if required. If the price-tag would be lower, paying say $10 for a phone with a calendar, wap, games and such would be such a deal, that no-one would buy the dumb, cheaper version.
IIRC, in the mid 90s Nokia made a "stupid" phone such as this with very limited capabilities. It was mostly a phone, model was Ringo or something like that. It was a huge flop and at the same time people were requesting for such a phone, just not buying it. At the same time phones with SMS, calendar, multiple ringtones and games such as Snake were a big hit.
Top-10 downloads
.. not too many it seems :)
Britney Spears: Toxic
Maroon 5: This Love
Nickelback: Someday
No Doubt: It's My Life
Jessica Simpson: With You [Album Version]
Jet: Are You Gonna Be My Girl
3 Doors Down: Here Without You [Album Version]
The White Stripes: Seven Nation Army
Nickelback: Figured You Out
Eamon: I Don't Want You Back [Ultra Clean Version]
I disagree. Average three songs per user is a huge amount when considering that probably all of these songs are available via eMule and others for free.
Also the "7-day free trial" must have made a number of curious people register without purchasing anything. So I'd say an average *money paying* user has purchased an album's worth of music.