At least you got further than I've been able to. I'm using Trillian Pro 2.013, and it crashes if I try to connect to talk.google.com using the jabber plugin. And before anyone says upgrade, this is a company purchsed license, and they don't see the need to pay again for version 3.
lthough WoW doesn't seem to have a cool addictive alternate name like Evercrack.
Although not original, and I'm extremely suprised that you haven't heard this alternate name, I've often seen/heard WoW being referred to as World of Warcrack on many o msg boards/forums.
I've played quite a few other MMORPGs, and in most cases, the level cap has been increased in all instances (with appropriate quests/lands being added). This is done to keep players around in the long term. Is Blizzard going to increase the level 60 cap, when will it happen, and what content will be added in regards the the cap increase?
There's quite a difference between printing your own pictures and having digital pictures developed at a professional lab. Home printed pictures, after less than a year, will start to fade. This will not happen with pics developed at a photolab. If you wish to keep those pictures for archival purposes, get them printed professionaly.
As others have stated 0.40$ a picture is way too expensive. I pay 0.15$ CAN a picture at Costco.
I read an interview years ago with Groening(sp?) where he said that when they'd make a Simpsons movie, Bart would utter his first real swear word.. I wonder if that's still the plan.
Damn I wish I had mod points, because your statements above are very insightful and 100% of how I feel about the prequels. 22 years passed between Episode IV and Episode I; 28 years with Episode III. You are not who you were 28 years ago. Lucas aimed Episodes 1 & 2 towards kids, and those of us who can still view these movies with our inner child's eyes. Lucas never claimed that these were cerebral, serious movies. They're a throwback to the old black and white serials, and in that sense, Lucas has totally succeeded.
It's not really the first Apple store. There was one in Ottawa, but it closed down a little while ago. The facade is even still up (no other stores have rented/bought the real estate yet)
just go to Freshmeat and search for stuff like tracking system or ticket tracking, go thru the list, and try out the one that seems to fit your needs the best.
"That was an annoying. I mean. Those books were written and stamped down as the universe. Sure Lucas created it, but he also let them be published. It's like he said "I don't care about those authors" or something."
It's not "like he said I don't care". Lucas has specifically stated time and time again that all the books, comic books, RPGs, games, etc... are non canon. It's like an alternate universe Star Wars. The only official canon is the movies.
Attack of the Clones
Worldwide: $649,476,740
Opening Weekend: $80,027,814
(3161 screens $25,317 average)
Episode 2 had a bigger opening weekend, and each screen had a higher gross. Your reasoning is not really based in fact, but more personal judgement. Sure AotC made less money worldwide, but 650 million is still nothing to sneeze at (320 million domestic, which is exactly the same as each LotR movies made, to bring up a comparison).
First off, I'd like to say that I use Windows, Linux (since 94) and Solaris (5 years) equally.
Linux supports more hardware out of the box than Windows XP? Depends. Are you using a 6 CD distribution vs an old copy of WinXP (1 CD) that doesn't have any service packs?
2 weeks ago, a co-worker decided to try Linux at home. Even went out and bought a new machine. Guess what? 4 *new* distributions and couldn't get Linux working. Why? His motherboard is too new and is still not supported. Linux won't even work. Popped Windows XP in and worked like a charm.
So much for linux 'just working'. I love linux for what it does (server), but as a desktop for the everyday Joe, it's still not there yet.
The issue you mentioned affects all IMs within Trillian, and not just MSN. And it seems to affect only a small percentage of the userbase. I myself have not experienced this (and I run Trillian on 3 different computers, and have been using it since the 0.x days). However, I have experienced the issue while using MSN Messenger 6.1 itself (it seems to have disappeared in 7.0; or at least I haven't experienced it so far).
Hopefully the Cereliun Studios folks are aware of this and will finally implement MSN Messenger webcam to Trillian. It's the only thing that's been missing from Trillian.
There are plenty of reasons to group. Sometimes its pretty much necessary (like Gnomeregan, and other dungeon based quests/Elite quests). There's also always someone around to lend a hand, or join a party. Then there's Guilds. Sure there are crappy guilds out there, but there are also great ones, when you either just feel like chatting, need help, or want to offer help. There's a slew of in-game friends to be made.
The whole thing about MMORPGs is that it's the players who make it fun. If you want to socialize but don't do anything about it, then of course you're not gonna see that aspect of it. But you have to get off your @$$ and try.
Yes, I've RTFA, and I am a WoW player, and I totally disagree with this article.
World of Warcraft has quite a few things going for it. It has a rich history of 3 amazing games, and its this history that has introduced the MMORPG genre to gamers who would have previously not given it a second glance. Most of the people I've spoken with that fall in this category are not planning on leaving WoW any time soon. From this type of gamer's prospective, it allows a micro view of the previous games; building your character instead of building towns and armies, but without losing too much of the original games.
From an MMORPG player prospective, this game offers what many other MMORPGs have strived to do; have a great and interesting quest system that's not too repetitive. I played CoH and quit after a couple of months because as interesting as the concept of that game weas, the quest system was purely repetitive; something I have yet to experience in the 5 months I've been playing WoW.
Another great aspect of WoW is that if you prefer playing alone, you can. If you prefer playing in groups you can. You can hunt and level by your lonesome, even attempt dungeon quests by yourself. Something that lacked in AO. If you prefer playing in a group, WoW has one of the best and fairest party systems that I've seen (and I've played about 7 MMORPGs dating back to the launch of Asheron's Call).
Will Wow's numbers go down? Most probably. All North American/European MMORPGs suffer from this. But it's my personal opnion that it will be on top of the MMORPG list for quite a while.
Because of stupid [censored] [censored] [censored] [censored], TV shows playing at the same time on a Canadian station (this time CTV), the broadcast is preempted by the Canadian one, showing Canadian commercials. What does CTV do? Not show the Star Wars trailer, instead showing stupid [censored] Old Navy commercials instead.
Good thing I just PVR'd the episode, or else I'd be even more pissed off.
On my work PC, Google Desktop Search allows me to search, find and view what I'm looking for, spanning over 2 gigs of email, 15 gigs of data (word documents, text files, etc..) in a matter of seconds.
Show me how creating different folders is faster to give me the data that I want/looking for.
I still create folders (both in email and data) to separate stuff into common denomators, but it would someitme take me 20-30 minutes to find was I was looking for. Now it takes seconds, allowing me to be a lot more productive, or fixing issues a lot more quickly (which is important when you're talking about millions of affected end users).
You might laugh, but the Google Desktop search is a godsend. With my job, I have gigs upon gigs upon gigs of emails and documents. The Google Desktop Search has simplified searching for pertinent info a million times better.
Am I the only one that's noticed that they're using storylines from the original show, but updating them/making them better? I swear that 80% of the episodes this year are revamps of some original episodes (total revamps or borrowing heavilly from them).
This is why I havent registered with Slashdot yet. I told myself that if/. ever went 6 weeks without a dupe that I would get a paid registration. I'm still waiting.....
I wonder which printers are affected by this. I have an HP Photosmart 1115, and I've had the colour cartridge in for about a year and a half, and it's still printing fine, with no 'expiration' date. I might print 1-2 pages a month in colour (and the odd digital pic), so it hasn't ran dry yet.
Assuming/. is using a database for its article entries (and if they aren't, wow, I'm surprised), should they implement a search function of keywords, forcing a mod to search for key words before posting?
I must be dreaming though... I mean, if they can't even read their own site, I very much doubt they'd bother searching before posting.
Write your own and sell that. It's what 75% of my college teachers did. That way, you can also keep it up to date as time goes on, and you only include the stuff you want to teach.
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Wow, this is almost an exact copy of Ironport's Senderbase Reputation Score!
At least you got further than I've been able to. I'm using Trillian Pro 2.013, and it crashes if I try to connect to talk.google.com using the jabber plugin. And before anyone says upgrade, this is a company purchsed license, and they don't see the need to pay again for version 3.
lthough WoW doesn't seem to have a cool addictive alternate name like Evercrack.
Although not original, and I'm extremely suprised that you haven't heard this alternate name, I've often seen/heard WoW being referred to as World of Warcrack on many o msg boards/forums.
I've played quite a few other MMORPGs, and in most cases, the level cap has been increased in all instances (with appropriate quests/lands being added). This is done to keep players around in the long term. Is Blizzard going to increase the level 60 cap, when will it happen, and what content will be added in regards the the cap increase?
There's quite a difference between printing your own pictures and having digital pictures developed at a professional lab. Home printed pictures, after less than a year, will start to fade. This will not happen with pics developed at a photolab. If you wish to keep those pictures for archival purposes, get them printed professionaly. As others have stated 0.40$ a picture is way too expensive. I pay 0.15$ CAN a picture at Costco.
I read an interview years ago with Groening(sp?) where he said that when they'd make a Simpsons movie, Bart would utter his first real swear word.. I wonder if that's still the plan.
Damn I wish I had mod points, because your statements above are very insightful and 100% of how I feel about the prequels. 22 years passed between Episode IV and Episode I; 28 years with Episode III. You are not who you were 28 years ago. Lucas aimed Episodes 1 & 2 towards kids, and those of us who can still view these movies with our inner child's eyes. Lucas never claimed that these were cerebral, serious movies. They're a throwback to the old black and white serials, and in that sense, Lucas has totally succeeded.
It's not really the first Apple store. There was one in Ottawa, but it closed down a little while ago. The facade is even still up (no other stores have rented/bought the real estate yet)
Very easy to find something free.
just go to Freshmeat and search for stuff like tracking system or ticket tracking, go thru the list, and try out the one that seems to fit your needs the best.
"That was an annoying. I mean. Those books were written and stamped down as the universe. Sure Lucas created it, but he also let them be published. It's like he said "I don't care about those authors" or something."
It's not "like he said I don't care". Lucas has specifically stated time and time again that all the books, comic books, RPGs, games, etc... are non canon. It's like an alternate universe Star Wars. The only official canon is the movies.
I call shenanigans! Where's you proof that only Star Wars fans lined up to see Episode 2?
From Box Office Mojo:
The Phantom Menace
Worldwide: $924,488,301
Opening Weekend: $64,820,970
(2,970 screens, $21,825 average)
Attack of the Clones
Worldwide: $649,476,740
Opening Weekend: $80,027,814
(3161 screens $25,317 average)
Episode 2 had a bigger opening weekend, and each screen had a higher gross. Your reasoning is not really based in fact, but more personal judgement. Sure AotC made less money worldwide, but 650 million is still nothing to sneeze at (320 million domestic, which is exactly the same as each LotR movies made, to bring up a comparison).
It was happening to me too.. then I decided to install the adblock and flashblock plugins for Firefox, and away they went. Great little plugins :)
First off, I'd like to say that I use Windows, Linux (since 94) and Solaris (5 years) equally.
Linux supports more hardware out of the box than Windows XP? Depends. Are you using a 6 CD distribution vs an old copy of WinXP (1 CD) that doesn't have any service packs?
2 weeks ago, a co-worker decided to try Linux at home. Even went out and bought a new machine. Guess what? 4 *new* distributions and couldn't get Linux working. Why? His motherboard is too new and is still not supported. Linux won't even work. Popped Windows XP in and worked like a charm.
So much for linux 'just working'. I love linux for what it does (server), but as a desktop for the everyday Joe, it's still not there yet.
The issue you mentioned affects all IMs within Trillian, and not just MSN. And it seems to affect only a small percentage of the userbase. I myself have not experienced this (and I run Trillian on 3 different computers, and have been using it since the 0.x days). However, I have experienced the issue while using MSN Messenger 6.1 itself (it seems to have disappeared in 7.0; or at least I haven't experienced it so far).
Hopefully the Cereliun Studios folks are aware of this and will finally implement MSN Messenger webcam to Trillian. It's the only thing that's been missing from Trillian.
There are plenty of reasons to group. Sometimes its pretty much necessary (like Gnomeregan, and other dungeon based quests/Elite quests). There's also always someone around to lend a hand, or join a party. Then there's Guilds. Sure there are crappy guilds out there, but there are also great ones, when you either just feel like chatting, need help, or want to offer help. There's a slew of in-game friends to be made. The whole thing about MMORPGs is that it's the players who make it fun. If you want to socialize but don't do anything about it, then of course you're not gonna see that aspect of it. But you have to get off your @$$ and try.
Yes, I've RTFA, and I am a WoW player, and I totally disagree with this article.
World of Warcraft has quite a few things going for it. It has a rich history of 3 amazing games, and its this history that has introduced the MMORPG genre to gamers who would have previously not given it a second glance. Most of the people I've spoken with that fall in this category are not planning on leaving WoW any time soon. From this type of gamer's prospective, it allows a micro view of the previous games; building your character instead of building towns and armies, but without losing too much of the original games.
From an MMORPG player prospective, this game offers what many other MMORPGs have strived to do; have a great and interesting quest system that's not too repetitive. I played CoH and quit after a couple of months because as interesting as the concept of that game weas, the quest system was purely repetitive; something I have yet to experience in the 5 months I've been playing WoW.
Another great aspect of WoW is that if you prefer playing alone, you can. If you prefer playing in groups you can. You can hunt and level by your lonesome, even attempt dungeon quests by yourself. Something that lacked in AO. If you prefer playing in a group, WoW has one of the best and fairest party systems that I've seen (and I've played about 7 MMORPGs dating back to the launch of Asheron's Call).
Will Wow's numbers go down? Most probably. All North American/European MMORPGs suffer from this. But it's my personal opnion that it will be on top of the MMORPG list for quite a while.
Because of stupid [censored] [censored] [censored] [censored], TV shows playing at the same time on a Canadian station (this time CTV), the broadcast is preempted by the Canadian one, showing Canadian commercials. What does CTV do? Not show the Star Wars trailer, instead showing stupid [censored] Old Navy commercials instead. Good thing I just PVR'd the episode, or else I'd be even more pissed off.
On my work PC, Google Desktop Search allows me to search, find and view what I'm looking for, spanning over 2 gigs of email, 15 gigs of data (word documents, text files, etc..) in a matter of seconds.
Show me how creating different folders is faster to give me the data that I want/looking for.
I still create folders (both in email and data) to separate stuff into common denomators, but it would someitme take me 20-30 minutes to find was I was looking for. Now it takes seconds, allowing me to be a lot more productive, or fixing issues a lot more quickly (which is important when you're talking about millions of affected end users).
You might laugh, but the Google Desktop search is a godsend. With my job, I have gigs upon gigs upon gigs of emails and documents. The Google Desktop Search has simplified searching for pertinent info a million times better.
Am I the only one that's noticed that they're using storylines from the original show, but updating them/making them better? I swear that 80% of the episodes this year are revamps of some original episodes (total revamps or borrowing heavilly from them).
This is why I havent registered with Slashdot yet. I told myself that if /. ever went 6 weeks without a dupe that I would get a paid registration. I'm still waiting.....
I wonder which printers are affected by this. I have an HP Photosmart 1115, and I've had the colour cartridge in for about a year and a half, and it's still printing fine, with no 'expiration' date. I might print 1-2 pages a month in colour (and the odd digital pic), so it hasn't ran dry yet.
Assuming /. is using a database for its article entries (and if they aren't, wow, I'm surprised), should they implement a search function of keywords, forcing a mod to search for key words before posting?
I must be dreaming though... I mean, if they can't even read their own site, I very much doubt they'd bother searching before posting.
Write your own and sell that. It's what 75% of my college teachers did. That way, you can also keep it up to date as time goes on, and you only include the stuff you want to teach.