On the other hand you can be a good or great musician and pick up a horn held together by tape and paperclips and play it well, but you can only compensate for rotted pads and leaky keys so much.
For what it's worth a friend of mine swears she got a virus on her G4 laptop browsing porn. Granted it could just be a rogue extension or something like that, but it's wreaking havoc on her computer. And, since "macs dont get viruses" she's not been able to find a scanner or cleaner type of program to get rid of it.
Once working in a small bookstore I had this happen sort of. The store didn't have a dedicated line for the credit card machine (cheapasness on the proprietor's part) and the line hooked into the machine was busy, so I had to switch it out with the front phone line for a minute so it could go through. The lady who i wa waiting on went into a paranoid fit, but I managed to convince her that all i was doing was switching cables, not stealing her children or anythihng
I was doing an interview with a friend of mine for a school grade (i was being the interviewee) via AOL instant messanger and her computer crashed (a mac. I giggled) and she lost the session. had google desktop not archived it then the whole thing would have been lost up to that point and we would have had to start over.
Mostly what I use the google desktop search for is going through instant messanger convos to find a particular link, or website, or what have you. I also use DeadAIM, which can log chats, but its search utility is pathetic as far as UI is concerned, so the GDS works better for me.
Charlotte, NC's traffic is bad enough thanks to poorly planned roads that didn't take urban growth into account. Tearing up streets to put down fibre would make things about a million times worse.
And charlotte is a SMALL city comapred to the likes of Boston, NYC, New Orleans and so on.
It goes both ways. If you look around and realize that you'll never get anywhere in the game without putting in lots of time and work, you'll get frustrated at being PK'd, being lower level than your friends and etc, and quit. That's why up until now MMOs have been horrible for casual gamers--they require a large time investment to "get anywhere" in the game. WoW's time investment to get to see worthwhile content is significantly less.
Correct.
And actually, the only reason a high level character would NEEED light leather is purely for making money (that is, selling it off in bulk) unless he's got a specific order for a low level piece of equipment
Oh sure, I can skin anything that is able to be skinned (basically any mammal) It's just that the returns change to reflect the fact that I'm killing something that's pitifully weak compared to my character.
At high levels of skinning (mine's at 221 out of 300-ish or so), your odds of getting usable material from super low level animals goes down (bunnies are level 1) --for an animal like a bunny, if you were a lower level skinner you could get light leather from it. I would be nearly guaranteed to get Leather Scraps, four of which could be made into one Light Leather.
The idea behind this is to prevent players from mowing hordes and hordes of low level animals to get stacks of low-level crafting materials which could be sold at inflated price.
I've not played SWG but my brother has, and the complaints I gathered from him were like this:
Lots of sitting around waiting on people, cause no one actually wanted to go do missions/quests/whatever (too busy crafting?)
Game ran like ass in a major population center
Economy was fubar/ hard to make money unless you were a powergamer
Personally I've played EQ, Lineage II and UO and would never even dream of going back to any of those after playing WOW. The PVP delieation (can't get PK'd if you dont want to be), quest rewards (most of your XP comes from completing quests, not grinding monsters) and treasure system (like Diablo II--items acutally drop, and you CAN find good things frequently depending on your level) I'd never dream of going back to any of those, especially EQ or lineage II, which i deeply regret spending a dime of my money on
Apparently our MMO experiecnes were a little different. Each one I've played has had 300 faceless "school bullies" trying to make a name by griefing or randomly killing players. The only way any of them ever had a name for themselves was a brief mention in a chat channel accompanied by a burst of profanity. WOW prevents this, and is one of the reasons I enjoy the game. I don't have to put up with your bullying if I don't care to.
What's more, there *never* was any reward for PVP, other than making the killer feel more adequate. Powergamers do not make MMOs more fun, except for the powergamer him or her self. They generally are more of an annoyance to the casual or semi-serious gamer than anything else
Lvl 31 hunter here, and I am lucky enough to be a member of a guild of players who don't dive for a dictionary when someone mentions tactics. Even that considered, if 3 of us group with 1 or 2 idiot players, and go do a difficult quest or instance, any screwup could easily get us all killed. Tactics and strategy are def. a large part of the game once you get into the middle range of levels (and the less forgiving quests)
Not only kill them, but skin the little bastards for leather. And yes, if i ever pass a bunny in WOW i typically take a potshot at it, even though i'm level 31 and my skinning is advanced to the point that I can't get any usable material off the corpse.
If you purchase a cellphone plan that doesn't include an allowance of SMS messages, they are horribly expensive, just as extra minutes are expensive if you go over what's allotted on your plan.
However it's trivial to pay an extra couple bucks to get several hundred or thousand SMS messages added onto your plan, just as exra minutes are cheap.
In short, this story is a non-issue, not much different from someone going over on their minutes or racking up a long distance bill by being stupid and not understanding how their phone service works.
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On the other hand you can be a good or great musician and pick up a horn held together by tape and paperclips and play it well, but you can only compensate for rotted pads and leaky keys so much.
How do you figure it's unethical? Being a pyarmid scheme has nothing to do with whether it's legit or "right" or what have you.
In fact, my "free ipod" is due to be delivered by DHL this very afternoon. I'm sorry if you don't like it, but the sites work as advertised.
For what it's worth a friend of mine swears she got a virus on her G4 laptop browsing porn. Granted it could just be a rogue extension or something like that, but it's wreaking havoc on her computer. And, since "macs dont get viruses" she's not been able to find a scanner or cleaner type of program to get rid of it.
Once working in a small bookstore I had this happen sort of. The store didn't have a dedicated line for the credit card machine (cheapasness on the proprietor's part) and the line hooked into the machine was busy, so I had to switch it out with the front phone line for a minute so it could go through. The lady who i wa waiting on went into a paranoid fit, but I managed to convince her that all i was doing was switching cables, not stealing her children or anythihng
I was doing an interview with a friend of mine for a school grade (i was being the interviewee) via AOL instant messanger and her computer crashed (a mac. I giggled) and she lost the session. had google desktop not archived it then the whole thing would have been lost up to that point and we would have had to start over.
Mostly what I use the google desktop search for is going through instant messanger convos to find a particular link, or website, or what have you. I also use DeadAIM, which can log chats, but its search utility is pathetic as far as UI is concerned, so the GDS works better for me.
Charlotte, NC's traffic is bad enough thanks to poorly planned roads that didn't take urban growth into account. Tearing up streets to put down fibre would make things about a million times worse.
And charlotte is a SMALL city comapred to the likes of Boston, NYC, New Orleans and so on.
In terms of corporate procurement it doesnt seem like 5 years is that much time.
2Wire wireless enabled ADSL modems have a 10 digit string on the bottom which is the default wireless password (and it's enabled by default IIRC)
if 2wire can do it it cant be that difficult
Who the hell are you referring to?
Then you'd have a really stupid looking tattoo with a random name...
It's not that we forgot, we just don't care.
It goes both ways. If you look around and realize that you'll never get anywhere in the game without putting in lots of time and work, you'll get frustrated at being PK'd, being lower level than your friends and etc, and quit. That's why up until now MMOs have been horrible for casual gamers--they require a large time investment to "get anywhere" in the game. WoW's time investment to get to see worthwhile content is significantly less.
Correct.
And actually, the only reason a high level character would NEEED light leather is purely for making money (that is, selling it off in bulk) unless he's got a specific order for a low level piece of equipment
If you're happier then I imagine it worked out for you. It's when it doesn't that the cynic has a point.
Oh sure, I can skin anything that is able to be skinned (basically any mammal) It's just that the returns change to reflect the fact that I'm killing something that's pitifully weak compared to my character.
At high levels of skinning (mine's at 221 out of 300-ish or so), your odds of getting usable material from super low level animals goes down (bunnies are level 1) --for an animal like a bunny, if you were a lower level skinner you could get light leather from it. I would be nearly guaranteed to get Leather Scraps, four of which could be made into one Light Leather.
The idea behind this is to prevent players from mowing hordes and hordes of low level animals to get stacks of low-level crafting materials which could be sold at inflated price.
I've not played SWG but my brother has, and the complaints I gathered from him were like this:
Lots of sitting around waiting on people, cause no one actually wanted to go do missions/quests/whatever (too busy crafting?)
Game ran like ass in a major population center
Economy was fubar/ hard to make money unless you were a powergamer
Personally I've played EQ, Lineage II and UO and would never even dream of going back to any of those after playing WOW. The PVP delieation (can't get PK'd if you dont want to be), quest rewards (most of your XP comes from completing quests, not grinding monsters) and treasure system (like Diablo II--items acutally drop, and you CAN find good things frequently depending on your level) I'd never dream of going back to any of those, especially EQ or lineage II, which i deeply regret spending a dime of my money on
Apparently our MMO experiecnes were a little different. Each one I've played has had 300 faceless "school bullies" trying to make a name by griefing or randomly killing players. The only way any of them ever had a name for themselves was a brief mention in a chat channel accompanied by a burst of profanity. WOW prevents this, and is one of the reasons I enjoy the game. I don't have to put up with your bullying if I don't care to.
What's more, there *never* was any reward for PVP, other than making the killer feel more adequate. Powergamers do not make MMOs more fun, except for the powergamer him or her self. They generally are more of an annoyance to the casual or semi-serious gamer than anything else
Well said.
Lvl 31 hunter here, and I am lucky enough to be a member of a guild of players who don't dive for a dictionary when someone mentions tactics. Even that considered, if 3 of us group with 1 or 2 idiot players, and go do a difficult quest or instance, any screwup could easily get us all killed. Tactics and strategy are def. a large part of the game once you get into the middle range of levels (and the less forgiving quests)
Not only kill them, but skin the little bastards for leather. And yes, if i ever pass a bunny in WOW i typically take a potshot at it, even though i'm level 31 and my skinning is advanced to the point that I can't get any usable material off the corpse.
If you purchase a cellphone plan that doesn't include an allowance of SMS messages, they are horribly expensive, just as extra minutes are expensive if you go over what's allotted on your plan.
However it's trivial to pay an extra couple bucks to get several hundred or thousand SMS messages added onto your plan, just as exra minutes are cheap.
In short, this story is a non-issue, not much different from someone going over on their minutes or racking up a long distance bill by being stupid and not understanding how their phone service works.
Serious question:
So what happens if the computer dies and you need to do data recovery?
I understand what you mean, but I have trouble with the idea that you should be able to get into a duel and then talk in the middle of it.
If you're fighting for your life, and have time to think of witty comebacks, you're probably about to get shot or stabbed for not concentrating.
That game was brutal on SNES, at least to me, at the time. I had no idea it was released for other systems as well.
Two maint. visits?
Maybe if you live in an area with no rain, snow, high wind, insects (i'm sure those things are treated tho) or auto traffic.
Sarcasm aside ,to the people who matter (ie, managers and lawyers) both of those are quite glowing :p