Why? This means that you are less likely to get ripped off since Blizzard will be running it versus the third party sites where you are most likely getting scammed from. Why would you think the second choice is better?
Frankly because I don't care if people doing an explicitly forbidden activity get ripped off. Wrapping it into the game likely means that all the best items will get put in the cash auction house, and the in-game-gold AH will only have lesser items.
I'd love a separate server (cluster) for those who wanted to play in the real money economy.
I kind of have to agree... I was a hardcore D2 gamer, almost failed out of college because of that game, and I've been looking forward to D3 Very Much. But real money? No. I play games as an escape from thinking about things like my bank account.
Bliz, please rethink this. Let a real money secondary economy evolve, but for the love of Pete don't enshrine it in the game.
I have to agree. Investigated this for my last job, we did in fact end up doing SATA 1TB disks in a fireproof safe in the server room, but we had a lot less data to deal with than you do. LTO5 should be out this year with 1.5TB native space, and it compresses very well. You could probably get one of your clients per tape.
LTO's got a long lifespan, and is readable with newer LTO tech for a few generations. There's a reason it's the industry standard backup these days.
It says so in the readme file, and it's a feature not a bug to keep you from hosing your system because you didn't read the readme...
When you first fire up the new VHD it replaces the disk ID with a new one so that it's unique. This causes much trouble if the computer has two of the same disk ID at the same time when it goes to change one, as you might imagine.
Except that you're talking about a series hybrid drive, and only the Chevy Volt works that way at the moment.
The Insight and the Prius are both parallel drive hybrids, which means the gas engine turns the wheels as well as powers up the batteries. The electric turns the wheels sometimes. The Volt's big thing is that it's a series hybrid, the drive is always electric and the gas engine runs at its high-efficiency speed to charge the batteries, then shuts off again.
Meaning that your comment would be correct if all hybrids were series hybrids, but as of now your comment would only apply to the Volt which isn't in production yet.
The percentage of astronomy done with absolutely live data is a VERY small part of the whole of the field. Usually these things are found in older data, you say "hey, this is interesting" and then try to line up time on instruments to investigate them further. I'd assume that this is an anomaly found in some older data, and that no other instruments were pointing at that very tiny section of sky at the time.
No, seriously. Go re-examine the definition of beta software, and never try one again if you only want polished apps. I'll be over here cutting myself on the bleeding edge as usual.
You don't sound like a fanboi, you sound like someone without an open mind. "FF is perfect, nothing could be better therefore I won't try it."
Give it a try, it doesn't have cooties. At worst you don't like it and you close it right after opening it, having wasted less time than you did by writing the above insightful commentary.
FF will still be there sitting right next to it on the start bar (or in your VM).
Another satisfied google hosted apps customer chiming in. I have a reseller webhosting account that I keep about 10-15 domains on for myself/friends/family which does acceptable e-mail, but I advise everyone to just shove their e-mail over to gmail/a instead.
You get your own hosted mail/webmail service with (currently) 7gb of storage per/account, no preset account limit, POP and IMAP, as well as great spam-filtering. All free.
And for $50/acct/year you can have 25gb/acct storage, API access to customize it for single-signon and/or gateways, a full Postini implementation, and 99.9% uptime guarantee.
Hate to sound like a shill, but it's a fantastic service and I don't mind pimping it.
Low bandwidth != high-latency. I've gamed with plenty of people on dial-up who had totally acceptable latency, and plenty of people on broadband who had 150ms+ latency.
many, if not most of the hardcore players have multiple accounts, but there are lots of casual players who don't have known names, don't join groups/guilds, and just generally aren't on the radar of the hardcore players. These are the majority in most MMO games.
it's not that people didnt' used to take useless photos, just that since they were film shots the rest of the world wasn't exposed (hahamesopunny!) to their awful photography. With the advent of userfriendly webhosting and easy-upload photo sharing sites, the web is quickly being filled up with this dreck.
The administrators of this here interweb are going to need to add some memory or sumthin.
Slashdot Mirror
Say what?
I used to pick up my copies of 2600 at a local B&N years ago...
Sad.
No kidding.
See ya around Taco!
Because the guy who finds the BFG9000 he doesn't need/want is ALWAYS going to put it on the cash market, not the in-game one.
Why? This means that you are less likely to get ripped off since Blizzard will be running it versus the third party sites where you are most likely getting scammed from. Why would you think the second choice is better?
Frankly because I don't care if people doing an explicitly forbidden activity get ripped off.
Wrapping it into the game likely means that all the best items will get put in the cash auction house, and the in-game-gold AH will only have lesser items.
I'd love a separate server (cluster) for those who wanted to play in the real money economy.
Fuck everything about this...
I kind of have to agree...
I was a hardcore D2 gamer, almost failed out of college because of that game, and I've been looking forward to D3 Very Much.
But real money? No. I play games as an escape from thinking about things like my bank account.
Bliz, please rethink this.
Let a real money secondary economy evolve, but for the love of Pete don't enshrine it in the game.
I have to agree.
Investigated this for my last job, we did in fact end up doing SATA 1TB disks in a fireproof safe in the server room, but we had a lot less data to deal with than you do.
LTO5 should be out this year with 1.5TB native space, and it compresses very well. You could probably get one of your clients per tape.
LTO's got a long lifespan, and is readable with newer LTO tech for a few generations. There's a reason it's the industry standard backup these days.
It says so in the readme file, and it's a feature not a bug to keep you from hosing your system because you didn't read the readme...
When you first fire up the new VHD it replaces the disk ID with a new one so that it's unique. This causes much trouble if the computer has two of the same disk ID at the same time when it goes to change one, as you might imagine.
Same boat here. I have no certs, I've just been working in IT for over 10 years now with my 1337 skillz.
If a potential employeer overlooked my resume because it doesn't have any certs on it, it's likely not a place I'd want to be working anyway.
Except that you're talking about a series hybrid drive, and only the Chevy Volt works that way at the moment.
The Insight and the Prius are both parallel drive hybrids, which means the gas engine turns the wheels as well as powers up the batteries. The electric turns the wheels sometimes. The Volt's big thing is that it's a series hybrid, the drive is always electric and the gas engine runs at its high-efficiency speed to charge the batteries, then shuts off again.
Meaning that your comment would be correct if all hybrids were series hybrids, but as of now your comment would only apply to the Volt which isn't in production yet.
Surely someone so interested in Blackberries as yourself would be aware that RIM has a new touchscreen blackberry about to be released called the Storm... http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/gsm-only-blackberry-storm-thunder-leaks-out/
Whether or not it's going to compete with the iPhone obviously has yet to be seen, but they're hardly resting on their laurels.
The percentage of astronomy done with absolutely live data is a VERY small part of the whole of the field.
Usually these things are found in older data, you say "hey, this is interesting" and then try to line up time on instruments to investigate them further. I'd assume that this is an anomaly found in some older data, and that no other instruments were pointing at that very tiny section of sky at the time.
No, seriously.
Go re-examine the definition of beta software, and never try one again if you only want polished apps.
I'll be over here cutting myself on the bleeding edge as usual.
You don't sound like a fanboi, you sound like someone without an open mind.
"FF is perfect, nothing could be better therefore I won't try it."
Give it a try, it doesn't have cooties. At worst you don't like it and you close it right after opening it, having wasted less time than you did by writing the above insightful commentary.
FF will still be there sitting right next to it on the start bar (or in your VM).
Another satisfied google hosted apps customer chiming in. I have a reseller webhosting account that I keep about 10-15 domains on for myself/friends/family which does acceptable e-mail, but I advise everyone to just shove their e-mail over to gmail/a instead.
You get your own hosted mail/webmail service with (currently) 7gb of storage per/account, no preset account limit, POP and IMAP, as well as great spam-filtering.
All free.
And for $50/acct/year you can have 25gb/acct storage, API access to customize it for single-signon and/or gateways, a full Postini implementation, and 99.9% uptime guarantee.
Hate to sound like a shill, but it's a fantastic service and I don't mind pimping it.
Low bandwidth != high-latency.
I've gamed with plenty of people on dial-up who had totally acceptable latency, and plenty of people on broadband who had 150ms+ latency.
so fast, that it was patched yesterday in fact.
and posted on slashdot.
lazy CastrTroy...
because going first worked great for the nintendo DS...
many, if not most of the hardcore players have multiple accounts, but there are lots of casual players who don't have known names, don't join groups/guilds, and just generally aren't on the radar of the hardcore players.
These are the majority in most MMO games.
how ironic.
^_^
The archos is the size of a paperback and weighs 60lbs.
You can't really compare it to a nice small portable karma, ipod, iriver, etc.
there was that guy in new zealand running a server on his 128k dsl line who got slashdotted. ;o)
I think that was faster.
bad example.
she was 'fired' for her political views. not cool.
/me takes another vendor off my personal acceptable list
it's not that people didnt' used to take useless photos, just that since they were film shots the rest of the world wasn't exposed (hahamesopunny!) to their awful photography. With the advent of userfriendly webhosting and easy-upload photo sharing sites, the web is quickly being filled up with this dreck.
The administrators of this here interweb are going to need to add some memory or sumthin.
the new DRM stuff being added has nothing to do with them letting everyone have it.
*tinfoil hat*