...putting a worthless sack of shit in prison for the rest of his life, where he can't continue to fuck people over is a bad thing...
Although letting some of his former employees get 20 unsupervised minutes alone with him would serve the same purpose... even better, when they're done with him, we wouldn't have to spend tax dollars to feed him.
...which leaves you without the ability to upgrade without buying a new machine+OS license AT ALL.
I love my Mac, but this doesn't really provide a compelling reason to switch...
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The Atari ST (as well as the earlier Atari computers, 800XL, etc) had Cartridge capability. I believe the Amiga did as well. I don't know if later models such as the TT or later kept the interface. All I had was a 520ST (non FM, without internal floppy). I never did get a cartridge port. I do know the Mac emulator that a lot of people had used the cart port.
Sure they do. The engine doesn't support procedural generation.
It's very rare that an established game makes that drastic a change to their engine. It's happened twice that I know of, and not really as drastic as that. EQL for the Luclin expansion, and DAoC for the second expansion (I think). Both times it was an engine upgrade, but nothing so advanced as procedural generation was implemented.
Definitely no XP loss, as already stated by another poster. There is some debt, but it's negligable. Repair cost, at least at level 46, isn't too bad.
There are no shard runs (larger chunks of XP loss/debt tied up at your place of death) like there were when EQ2 launched. I believe that's the case in EQ as well, but my current active account was my second account in EQ, so I don't have access to my main, and just haven't played it much recently.
I remember corpse runs in EQ (I quit playing actively shortly after the Luclin expansion), and they weren't pleasant. Sadly, I never made raiding level in that game (I think I had a Shadowknight in the early 30's, but possibly not even that high). I remember hearing about it from friends. First game I reached raiding level in was WoW, and I tired of the politics and such fairly quickly.
To the respondant below who mentioned Bards and Twisting, yea the most amazing players to actually watch (as in watch at the keyboard) were bards. I never managed to twist all that well, but a woman I know could twist like a dervish, and carry on three seperate conversations, plus guild and group chats (text, mind you, before TeamSpeak or Ventrillo were really used, if they existed at all). All without dropping a single song out of order.
Meh, I tried the PvP servers and just don't enjoy watching my ass all the time. Eventually quit altogether because I don't enjoy waiting in line to play a game. Back playing EQ2 on a non-PvP server (I'm told that the PvP servers are a little more "PvP" than WoW for those that like risk).
Different people like different things. I've never gotten entertainment by trying to "beat" someone in the way that PvP players like to compete. I also don't get entertainment by paying to be someone's victim...
They're still my current employer. The implication (and fact) was that the company would take legal action against anyone who engaged in abusive behavior towards the support personel.
Newsflash: If you talk like that on the phone, the FCC, given a complaint, can forbid you from using a phone in the future. Radio hosts and prank calls notwithstanding.
It's not defensable behavior if you initiated the call (as in you called support). If you're cursing a telemarketer, that's a different story. They called you.
In the Technical support call center I worked in nearly 10 years ago, we had a button on the phone that would be pressed as soon as the caller became abusive. The call immediately was dumped to a special recording queue, priority attention from supervisor, and disconnected. Further contact from that customer would go directly to our Legal department. At that point they would no longer be permitted to talk to support personel.
I doubt companies are that protective of their trained support techs (hell I doubt they're as highly trained in most companies anymore, all our support near me is well above "first line" type support) anymore.
I'm actually guessing that part of the need for this software is that many first-line types are not only overseas in India or the like, their understanding of English is recent enough that they don't have a grasp of the cues that a native speaker would pick up on long before the software was necessary.
Well speaking from my own experience, I've never lost an entire filesystem to a single glitch,except for the time I trusted my files to ReiserFS. The provided recovery tool/plugin to fsck destroyed what was left of the volume. Of course any question to any forum that Hans and his cronies had access to was met with "we'll answer your question for $25, but the answer just might be "you're hosed".
I'll stick with ext3 (and eventually ext4), where the developers are reasonable, sane, and not alleged murderers. I considered Hans an arrogant fuck after my first interaction with him. This situation doesn't suprise me a bit.
There's also the whole thing about it being easier to rob someone who's carrying cash. I know I don't carry more than $20-30 as a rule (usually nothing at all, unless I'm planning on dining somewhere that I don't want the serving staff to access my credit card number).
Not carrying cash also makes interactions with beggars a hell of a lot easier. "Sir do you have a dollar?" "Nope, don't carry cash. Sorry." Not that I would have given the meth addict in front of the grociery any money anyhow.
I wouldn't carry the kind of cash Hans was found with without a carry permit, and a very deadly concealed piece.
Agreed. "The Girl in the Fireplace" took the character to a new level. the tragedy of living so long you see everyone you love die has never been made so evident.
Tennant also has been excellent at introducing the Colin Baker-ish (and to a lesser extent the Patrick Troughton-ish) "Stupid Apes" vibe.
I would dearly love to read in a week's time that the scammer somehow got tracked down by the scamees in meatspace and got his head blown off.
Shitheads like the kind that pull this shit need to be removed from reality ASAP. When it has a value in meatspace money, it's not "just a game". It's a reason to introduce a fucktard to hot lead.
Go right ahead. I really like the 360 games I have, the Live Arcade, and the ability to take advantage of the 1080i widescreen set I already have.
I don't use my gamecube much because it's restricted to SDTV aspect ratio, and doesn't look as nice to me. I can't imagine Wii will be any better in that regard. I'm still likely to buy one, but it wouldn't be my primary system by any stretch of the imagination.
I use the HD set and the Home Theatre set up for more than just the 360 anyhow.
But hey, if you want to stick with the 19" CRT and keep telling yourself how much more "fun" you're having than the rest of us, knock yourself out!
It's called Barrarty, and if enough people bring it to the attention to the Florida Bar and the News Media, Jack will be serving burgers for a living, until he gets fired for incompetance.
I'd love to see Take Two rip his financial asshole out and put it around his neck. He has no authority, and no right to make such a demand. I believe there are laws against such nuisance legal actions as Jack is trying. I believe he's threatened to use those same laws against people who have complained to the Florida Bar about his conduct.
He needs to be smacked down hard and permanently, if the legal system is to retain any credibility in Florida.
Not yet, but with luck, if he continues engaging in barrartry like this (threatening to sue to get them to do what he wants qualifies), hopefully he'll not only be disbarred, but imprisoned for contempt of court.
I encourage everyone with any interest in this subject to file a complaint with his local Bar Association.
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...putting a worthless sack of shit in prison for the rest of his life, where he can't continue to fuck people over is a bad thing...
Although letting some of his former employees get 20 unsupervised minutes alone with him would serve the same purpose... even better, when they're done with him, we wouldn't have to spend tax dollars to feed him.
Agreed, although I would call it "Two little dumbshits who need to get their doors kicked in by law enforcement and their toys taken away".
I hope hit happens real soon.
...which leaves you without the ability to upgrade without buying a new machine+OS license AT ALL.
I love my Mac, but this doesn't really provide a compelling reason to switch...
The Atari ST (as well as the earlier Atari computers, 800XL, etc) had Cartridge capability. I believe the Amiga did as well. I don't know if later models such as the TT or later kept the interface. All I had was a 520ST (non FM, without internal floppy). I never did get a cartridge port. I do know the Mac emulator that a lot of people had used the cart port.
Sure they do. The engine doesn't support procedural generation.
It's very rare that an established game makes that drastic a change to their engine. It's happened twice that I know of, and not really as drastic as that. EQL for the Luclin expansion, and DAoC for the second expansion (I think). Both times it was an engine upgrade, but nothing so advanced as procedural generation was implemented.
'nuff said
Damn straight Go Bucks!
Homecoming weekend coming up!
Definitely no XP loss, as already stated by another poster. There is some debt, but it's negligable. Repair cost, at least at level 46, isn't too bad.
There are no shard runs (larger chunks of XP loss/debt tied up at your place of death) like there were when EQ2 launched. I believe that's the case in EQ as well, but my current active account was my second account in EQ, so I don't have access to my main, and just haven't played it much recently.
I remember corpse runs in EQ (I quit playing actively shortly after the Luclin expansion), and they weren't pleasant. Sadly, I never made raiding level in that game (I think I had a Shadowknight in the early 30's, but possibly not even that high). I remember hearing about it from friends. First game I reached raiding level in was WoW, and I tired of the politics and such fairly quickly.
To the respondant below who mentioned Bards and Twisting, yea the most amazing players to actually watch (as in watch at the keyboard) were bards. I never managed to twist all that well, but a woman I know could twist like a dervish, and carry on three seperate conversations, plus guild and group chats (text, mind you, before TeamSpeak or Ventrillo were really used, if they existed at all). All without dropping a single song out of order.
Meh, I tried the PvP servers and just don't enjoy watching my ass all the time. Eventually quit altogether because I don't enjoy waiting in line to play a game. Back playing EQ2 on a non-PvP server (I'm told that the PvP servers are a little more "PvP" than WoW for those that like risk).
Different people like different things. I've never gotten entertainment by trying to "beat" someone in the way that PvP players like to compete. I also don't get entertainment by paying to be someone's victim...
Ah but you could wear both a LSH Flight Ring and a GLC Power Ring, just make a Rond Vidar costume.
Of course there's been a few re-launches of the Legion since that story line...
They're still my current employer. The implication (and fact) was that the company would take legal action against anyone who engaged in abusive behavior towards the support personel.
Newsflash: If you talk like that on the phone, the FCC, given a complaint, can forbid you from using a phone in the future. Radio hosts and prank calls notwithstanding.
It's not defensable behavior if you initiated the call (as in you called support). If you're cursing a telemarketer, that's a different story. They called you.
In the Technical support call center I worked in nearly 10 years ago, we had a button on the phone that would be pressed as soon as the caller became abusive. The call immediately was dumped to a special recording queue, priority attention from supervisor, and disconnected. Further contact from that customer would go directly to our Legal department. At that point they would no longer be permitted to talk to support personel.
I doubt companies are that protective of their trained support techs (hell I doubt they're as highly trained in most companies anymore, all our support near me is well above "first line" type support) anymore.
I'm actually guessing that part of the need for this software is that many first-line types are not only overseas in India or the like, their understanding of English is recent enough that they don't have a grasp of the cues that a native speaker would pick up on long before the software was necessary.
Thank %DIETY% I'm not in Support anymore
Well speaking from my own experience, I've never lost an entire filesystem to a single glitch,except for the time I trusted my files to ReiserFS. The provided recovery tool/plugin to fsck destroyed what was left of the volume. Of course any question to any forum that Hans and his cronies had access to was met with "we'll answer your question for $25, but the answer just might be "you're hosed".
I'll stick with ext3 (and eventually ext4), where the developers are reasonable, sane, and not alleged murderers. I considered Hans an arrogant fuck after my first interaction with him. This situation doesn't suprise me a bit.
There's also the whole thing about it being easier to rob someone who's carrying cash. I know I don't carry more than $20-30 as a rule (usually nothing at all, unless I'm planning on dining somewhere that I don't want the serving staff to access my credit card number).
Not carrying cash also makes interactions with beggars a hell of a lot easier. "Sir do you have a dollar?" "Nope, don't carry cash. Sorry." Not that I would have given the meth addict in front of the grociery any money anyhow.
I wouldn't carry the kind of cash Hans was found with without a carry permit, and a very deadly concealed piece.
Agreed. "The Girl in the Fireplace" took the character to a new level. the tragedy of living so long you see everyone you love die has never been made so evident.
Tennant also has been excellent at introducing the Colin Baker-ish (and to a lesser extent the Patrick Troughton-ish) "Stupid Apes" vibe.
I would dearly love to read in a week's time that the scammer somehow got tracked down by the scamees in meatspace and got his head blown off.
Shitheads like the kind that pull this shit need to be removed from reality ASAP. When it has a value in meatspace money, it's not "just a game". It's a reason to introduce a fucktard to hot lead.
Go right ahead. I really like the 360 games I have, the Live Arcade, and the ability to take advantage of the 1080i widescreen set I already have.
I don't use my gamecube much because it's restricted to SDTV aspect ratio, and doesn't look as nice to me. I can't imagine Wii will be any better in that regard. I'm still likely to buy one, but it wouldn't be my primary system by any stretch of the imagination.
I use the HD set and the Home Theatre set up for more than just the 360 anyhow.
But hey, if you want to stick with the 19" CRT and keep telling yourself how much more "fun" you're having than the rest of us, knock yourself out!
It's called Barrarty, and if enough people bring it to the attention to the Florida Bar and the News Media, Jack will be serving burgers for a living, until he gets fired for incompetance.
I'd love to see Take Two rip his financial asshole out and put it around his neck. He has no authority, and no right to make such a demand. I believe there are laws against such nuisance legal actions as Jack is trying. I believe he's threatened to use those same laws against people who have complained to the Florida Bar about his conduct.
He needs to be smacked down hard and permanently, if the legal system is to retain any credibility in Florida.
If enough reasoned, coherent complaints regarding his conduct are sent to the Florida Bar, he will not be in good standing for much longer.
Not yet, but with luck, if he continues engaging in barrartry like this (threatening to sue to get them to do what he wants qualifies), hopefully he'll not only be disbarred, but imprisoned for contempt of court.
I encourage everyone with any interest in this subject to file a complaint with his local Bar Association.
The police are far more likely to take action in the case of felony vandalism and trespass.
Follow the parent's advice and you could wind up in jail.
Also, in my state, automated dialers are illegal.
Spoofing CID data is going to cause a serious problem for any group I catch doing it as well.
You misspelled "Fuck Off"
I don't mind at all, and here's how I handle it.
"Fuck off, your candidate just lost my vote"
*Hang up phone*
If I give a shit about the candidate, I might call or email his/her office and let them know about the problem. Otherwise, I'm not so kind.