Some people do in fact learn english playing on english language servers, but unfortunately some of the examples of english they learn from are filled with slang, colloquialisms, horrible grammar and inept orthography.
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You make a good point. A MMORPG is a rather bad place to learn a language. What with abbreviations and unavoidable typos and the like. Some people argue that it's a good way to learn slang and colloquialism, but a lot of those are the kind that would never be used outside an online context.
Best way to learn them, imho, movies, tv and the written word (fiction works: novels, comic books). Of course, you might end up with an accent that's all over the place (say, a mix of Frasier and Walker Texas Ranger) but what the heck.
As to legitimate chinese users on US servers: asian servers didn't come online until several months after the US servers did, and even then they were only the Korean servers. So it's not unthinkable that a chinese player might have invested considerable time and effort in leveling his chars to simply give them up for new chars on chinese servers.
He (they) might not have a choice eventually, tho. Wasn't there a rumor that China was going to impose restrictions on online games? And then curfew them? Eve online states that they have a single universe except for a separate universe for chinese players for "legal reasons". They don't explain what those reasons are, tho, so it might be something unrelated.
At the moment I don't recommend storing your only copy of anything important on GmailFS. GmailFS is an alpha release and should be treated as such. It WILL be buggy.
Besides, how does Google feel about people using their mail system (itself in beta, and prone to timeouts and unavailability) for these uses?
I think Google might offer a similar service in the future, but in the meantime, I'd advise against using gmailfs as a viable replacement of.mac or other "internet drives".
Okay, an awesome job at Google, I can see that, but at EA? Um...
I dunno... maybe the job they got was wielding the whip instead of getting whipped. I guess it might be fun, for example, working at HR in a large company.
Imagine stopping by a cubicle and saying, "Hey, Joe, drop by my office at the end of the day, will you?". Poor Joe will start sweating and might very well be close to tears when 5pm arrives even if all you wanted was to invite him to join the company's softball team.
Well, sacrificing a few moderations, I'd also have to point out that having managment with no respect for their employees also dooms a project to failure.
If I had mod points, I'd mod you up.
If the people in charge of steering the project are not serious enough, then the project is doomed to fail.
Don't blame the disruptive guy, blame the manager who hired him and refused to let him go when all evidence of incompetence came to light.
The source of the money is irrelevant to the success/failure of the project. But it seems to me (judging by the interview, which looks a bit biased) that the financier simply gave the guy the money and told him "make me an online game". Was he overseeing? It was his money on the line, after all.
Still, this interview is the POV of one employee, who might or might not be disgruntled. I'm gonna research a bit more into the story. Never heard of that MMOG project before.
The only problem, of course, is that your idea makes sense so there's not much chance of convincing legislators to make it into law...;-)
Also, perhaps if patent ownership were restricted to 1) the inventor themselves, and 2) companies producing tangible physical products that actually utilize the patent in question?
Adding provisions, of course, for stuff like inheritance. Should the inventor die within a reasonable time of the invention, his/her heir(s) should be considered "first owners". Even then I can think of a couple of loopholes here...
Loophole: create skeleton corporations for a patent/pool of patents. Said company would buy the patent from the original inventor(s) and from there on, instead of selling patents, sell corporations.
"Paper corporations" are extremely easy to buy. There are firms that have a bunch of assetless corporations just for selling. They'll even provide the necesary board members from among their employees if you so desire.
I disagree. They aren't evil, they are just dead. The problem is that they were dominated by the Lich King in the past. That's why the game is so keen in distinguishing them from the Undead Scourge.
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And kill Perrin on the way. In fact, kill about 1/3 of your chars to clear up the plot lines. Take a hint from George R.R. Martin and get rid of some chars no matter how beloved they might be.
Email from paypal/ebay/your bank that doesn't start with your name? Delete it. Get a plausible looking email asking you to click on a link and log in? Type the URL manually anyway (I use a local homepage which just contains a bunch of links to those accounts, Slashdot etc)
Or, if possible, use the phone. If you get an unexpected e-mail from your financial institution, call them. Don't use any link or phone # in the e-mail. You should have a couple of customer service numbers with you for any bank or credit card company you use.
If you get an e-mail from a bank you've never done business with, it's a scam. If you get an e-mail from e-bay/paypal, it's most likely a scam (if you do business with them, read their e-mail communications guidelines to help identify legitimate mails from scams).
And if somebody offers you untold millions to help transfer money, it's a scam. And if it wasn't, it might be a form of money-laundering that's illegal in more jurisdictions that you care to count.
A healthy dose of mistrust goes a long way towards protecting you from phishers and scammers.
There were actually two scams of note: both the buy-in scam from some time ago, and the more recent uber-attack in which an entire corporation was taken over, its assets gutted, and it's leader killed in game -- all by a year-long setup from an assasins guild in the game. Absolutely incredible to see this kind of thing possible in a game.
I'm sort of familiar with the buy in scam (read about it a while ago). I haven't found info on that corporate takeover thing you mention. Can you provide links? Eve is offering 14 days trial. I'm gonna download that sucker and give it a whirl.
you show the nation that this news writer is a liar and a fraud, then he steps down from his job for reasons unrelated to the incident... iirc something similar happened at CBS recently
HA! In a perfect world that'd be enough. Unfortunately, we (humans) tend towards morbosity. So even if said news writer steps down, and the news company publishes a retraction/apology (hopefully, not hidden in the classifieds in microscopic type) you will have been unfairly involved in a scandal and during the time it took to solve it, you were "an alleged something" (a child rapist in this example). And unless something extraordinary happens, there will be people who believe that "where there's smoke, there's fire".
I like free speech as much as the next person. But if you throw a wild accusation *without proof*, then you deserve to be punished.
Myself, I'm in that situation. I've never done any coding professionally except to support my own work as network admin. Having started in Perl, every problem I come across I try to solve in perl (even when a simpler shell script would suffice).
Now that I'm giving rails a try, I find myself frustrated because I realize I know nothing of ruby. So next step (for me) is to put aside rails and learn some ruby. Rails will come afterwards.
If you want rapid application developement, I'd say you are better off with a tool like CodeCharge (http://www.yessoftware.com/products/product_detai l.php?product_id=1 a try. It's not free and it's not very customizable. But you will have a completed app in a very short time.
I suppose DMB, Phish, Grateful Dead, Bela Fleck, and tons of other artists who allow live recordings to be redistributed for free among their fans also support piracy?
If they own the right to the songs they sing and their performance, then no. If they already sold those rights off to someone else, then yes they are.
Besides, everybody knows K.K. Slider, like most artists, has a too high opinion of himself and no record exec will touch his music with a 10 foot pole which is why he goes from town to town giving away his "air checks". And every week a different style. It's like you are trying too hard, man! ...
Sorry. I didn't mean to rant. I'm experiencing Crossing withdrawal.
Why did he have to provide his "name, address, phone number and Social Security number"... to read a book?
You don't. He didn't provide them so they would let him read the book. According to TFA, the student wanted the original Peking version (because his professor recommended it). The info he provided was to request the book on loan from another library (some inter-library process).
Even to rent a car you need to provide id, and sometimes, at least a credit card.
I think the MSTDC or somesuch (the cause for the vulnerability) is off by default on SP1. I think. And you being behind NAT will only protect you if noone else is behind the same NAT. Say, your friend with his infected laptop drops in for a visit. Plugs his machine into your switch and out goes the virus.
These apps themselves are multi threaded. Like you are connected to two gamers, you want to process the information about these two players concurrently. So, the process will schedule these on different processors/cores if possible.
Warning: layman's wild assed guess follows
But even then the program is going to interact with known code (multiples copies of itself?) My guess is that even in multi-threaded/networked cases the programmers/designer will have a pretty good idea of what it's going to be interacting with and program and optimize accordingly.
2) I only use my American Express (AMEX). I can't tell you how many times AMEX has helped with fraudulent charges, merchants that don't deliver etc. AMEX is expensive and a pain in the ass for mechants to sign up. If they are not willing to do that, than I won't buy. I will pay a slight premium for sights that take AMEX. It's worth it.
Somehow I was under the impression that the opposite was true. I think it's because I believed that Visa and MC have to go thru a bank and Amex you deal with the institution itself (I know next to nothing of the "behind the scenes" of financial institutions so feel free to correct me). So if a company was in financial trouble, the first sign would be that their bank would cut them off credit cards transactions.
Myself, I'm paranoid when it comes to buying online. I won't buy anything over $50 (incl shipping) from someplace I don't know. And even then, I use an "e-card" (one-shot credit card number issued by my bank on demand).
My policy is, if it's too good to be true, it isn't. And if I'm buying a $2000 camera, and the savings I'm getting from a potentialy sady vendor (compared to, say, Amazon) is only $300, I'd rather pay extra or go to a "brick and mortar" store.
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next should be something from Piers Anthony.
Maybe, but not a Xanth movie. You can only take so many puns before it becomes tedious.
They deserve to suffer at the hands of consumers they treat with such contempt.
They won't tho. My guess is that the day they release the PS3, we are going to see lines even bigger than the ones at Xbox 360's launch.
Besides, how long before someone cracks this e-book, and we are left we a nifty device with a nice display running linux? For just $300.
Some people do in fact learn english playing on english language servers, but unfortunately some of the examples of english they learn from are filled with slang, colloquialisms, horrible grammar and inept orthography.
LOL. ne1 nos y?
You make a good point. A MMORPG is a rather bad place to learn a language. What with abbreviations and unavoidable typos and the like. Some people argue that it's a good way to learn slang and colloquialism, but a lot of those are the kind that would never be used outside an online context.
Best way to learn them, imho, movies, tv and the written word (fiction works: novels, comic books). Of course, you might end up with an accent that's all over the place (say, a mix of Frasier and Walker Texas Ranger) but what the heck.
As to legitimate chinese users on US servers: asian servers didn't come online until several months after the US servers did, and even then they were only the Korean servers. So it's not unthinkable that a chinese player might have invested considerable time and effort in leveling his chars to simply give them up for new chars on chinese servers.
He (they) might not have a choice eventually, tho. Wasn't there a rumor that China was going to impose restrictions on online games? And then curfew them? Eve online states that they have a single universe except for a separate universe for chinese players for "legal reasons". They don't explain what those reasons are, tho, so it might be something unrelated.
Oi, Stargate is good.
No it isn't. Unless you have a "thing" for Mcgyver.
From the site you linked:
.mac or other "internet drives".
At the moment I don't recommend storing your only copy of anything important on GmailFS. GmailFS is an alpha release and should be treated as such. It WILL be buggy.
Besides, how does Google feel about people using their mail system (itself in beta, and prone to timeouts and unavailability) for these uses?
I think Google might offer a similar service in the future, but in the meantime, I'd advise against using gmailfs as a viable replacement of
Okay, an awesome job at Google, I can see that, but at EA? Um...
I dunno... maybe the job they got was wielding the whip instead of getting whipped. I guess it might be fun, for example, working at HR in a large company.
Imagine stopping by a cubicle and saying, "Hey, Joe, drop by my office at the end of the day, will you?". Poor Joe will start sweating and might very well be close to tears when 5pm arrives even if all you wanted was to invite him to join the company's softball team.
Fun fun fun.
Nitpick: muslim is not a race. Your point is valid, tho.
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Perhaps that's why the 9th season of Stargate SG-1 is so interesting to me
So it's *not* because you like crappy shows?
Well, sacrificing a few moderations, I'd also have to point out that having managment with no respect for their employees also dooms a project to failure.
If I had mod points, I'd mod you up.
If the people in charge of steering the project are not serious enough, then the project is doomed to fail.
Don't blame the disruptive guy, blame the manager who hired him and refused to let him go when all evidence of incompetence came to light.
The source of the money is irrelevant to the success/failure of the project. But it seems to me (judging by the interview, which looks a bit biased) that the financier simply gave the guy the money and told him "make me an online game". Was he overseeing? It was his money on the line, after all.
Still, this interview is the POV of one employee, who might or might not be disgruntled. I'm gonna research a bit more into the story. Never heard of that MMOG project before.
Ah, but doesn't the official MSN client displays images without asking? I know it displays previews for some images.
(It did a couple of versions back, maybe that's changed now. Trillian user myself).
The only problem, of course, is that your idea makes sense so there's not much chance of convincing legislators to make it into law... ;-)
Also, perhaps if patent ownership were restricted to 1) the inventor themselves, and 2) companies producing tangible physical products that actually utilize the patent in question?
Adding provisions, of course, for stuff like inheritance. Should the inventor die within a reasonable time of the invention, his/her heir(s) should be considered "first owners". Even then I can think of a couple of loopholes here...
and only the FIRST buyer thereafter.
Loophole: create skeleton corporations for a patent/pool of patents. Said company would buy the patent from the original inventor(s) and from there on, instead of selling patents, sell corporations.
"Paper corporations" are extremely easy to buy. There are firms that have a bunch of assetless corporations just for selling. They'll even provide the necesary board members from among their employees if you so desire.
Er.... Mac and Linux machines are no more succeptable to Windows XP exploits than you are to kennel cough or feline leukemia. ... or bird flu
IMO, the only "evil" race in WoW is the Forsaken.
I disagree. They aren't evil, they are just dead. The problem is that they were dominated by the Lich King in the past. That's why the game is so keen in distinguishing them from the Undead Scourge.
By the Light and your hope of salvation, please, end it.
And kill Perrin on the way. In fact, kill about 1/3 of your chars to clear up the plot lines. Take a hint from George R.R. Martin and get rid of some chars no matter how beloved they might be.
Email from paypal/ebay/your bank that doesn't start with your name? Delete it. Get a plausible looking email asking you to click on a link and log in? Type the URL manually anyway (I use a local homepage which just contains a bunch of links to those accounts, Slashdot etc)
Or, if possible, use the phone. If you get an unexpected e-mail from your financial institution, call them. Don't use any link or phone # in the e-mail. You should have a couple of customer service numbers with you for any bank or credit card company you use.
If you get an e-mail from a bank you've never done business with, it's a scam. If you get an e-mail from e-bay/paypal, it's most likely a scam (if you do business with them, read their e-mail communications guidelines to help identify legitimate mails from scams).
And if somebody offers you untold millions to help transfer money, it's a scam. And if it wasn't, it might be a form of money-laundering that's illegal in more jurisdictions that you care to count.
A healthy dose of mistrust goes a long way towards protecting you from phishers and scammers.
There were actually two scams of note: both the buy-in scam from some time ago, and the more recent uber-attack in which an entire corporation was taken over, its assets gutted, and it's leader killed in game -- all by a year-long setup from an assasins guild in the game. Absolutely incredible to see this kind of thing possible in a game.
I'm sort of familiar with the buy in scam (read about it a while ago). I haven't found info on that corporate takeover thing you mention. Can you provide links? Eve is offering 14 days trial. I'm gonna download that sucker and give it a whirl.
you show the nation that this news writer is a liar and a fraud, then he steps down from his job for reasons unrelated to the incident... iirc something similar happened at CBS recently
HA! In a perfect world that'd be enough. Unfortunately, we (humans) tend towards morbosity. So even if said news writer steps down, and the news company publishes a retraction/apology (hopefully, not hidden in the classifieds in microscopic type) you will have been unfairly involved in a scandal and during the time it took to solve it, you were "an alleged something" (a child rapist in this example). And unless something extraordinary happens, there will be people who believe that "where there's smoke, there's fire".
I like free speech as much as the next person. But if you throw a wild accusation *without proof*, then you deserve to be punished.
Somebody mod this guy up!
i l.php?product_id=1 a try. It's not free and it's not very customizable. But you will have a completed app in a very short time.
Myself, I'm in that situation. I've never done any coding professionally except to support my own work as network admin. Having started in Perl, every problem I come across I try to solve in perl (even when a simpler shell script would suffice).
Now that I'm giving rails a try, I find myself frustrated because I realize I know nothing of ruby. So next step (for me) is to put aside rails and learn some ruby. Rails will come afterwards.
If you want rapid application developement, I'd say you are better off with a tool like CodeCharge (http://www.yessoftware.com/products/product_deta
I suppose DMB, Phish, Grateful Dead, Bela Fleck, and tons of other artists who allow live recordings to be redistributed for free among their fans also support piracy?
...
If they own the right to the songs they sing and their performance, then no. If they already sold those rights off to someone else, then yes they are.
Besides, everybody knows K.K. Slider, like most artists, has a too high opinion of himself and no record exec will touch his music with a 10 foot pole which is why he goes from town to town giving away his "air checks". And every week a different style. It's like you are trying too hard, man!
Sorry. I didn't mean to rant. I'm experiencing Crossing withdrawal.
Why did he have to provide his "name, address, phone number and Social Security number" ... to read a book?
You don't. He didn't provide them so they would let him read the book. According to TFA, the student wanted the original Peking version (because his professor recommended it). The info he provided was to request the book on loan from another library (some inter-library process).
Even to rent a car you need to provide id, and sometimes, at least a credit card.
I think the MSTDC or somesuch (the cause for the vulnerability) is off by default on SP1. I think. And you being behind NAT will only protect you if noone else is behind the same NAT. Say, your friend with his infected laptop drops in for a visit. Plugs his machine into your switch and out goes the virus.
Troll?? Man, we need more Niven fans with mod points.
These apps themselves are multi threaded. Like you are connected to two gamers, you want to process the information about these two players concurrently. So, the process will schedule these on different processors/cores if possible.
Warning: layman's wild assed guess follows
But even then the program is going to interact with known code (multiples copies of itself?) My guess is that even in multi-threaded/networked cases the programmers/designer will have a pretty good idea of what it's going to be interacting with and program and optimize accordingly.
2) I only use my American Express (AMEX). I can't tell you how many times AMEX has helped with fraudulent charges, merchants that don't deliver etc. AMEX is expensive and a pain in the ass for mechants to sign up. If they are not willing to do that, than I won't buy. I will pay a slight premium for sights that take AMEX. It's worth it.
Somehow I was under the impression that the opposite was true. I think it's because I believed that Visa and MC have to go thru a bank and Amex you deal with the institution itself (I know next to nothing of the "behind the scenes" of financial institutions so feel free to correct me). So if a company was in financial trouble, the first sign would be that their bank would cut them off credit cards transactions.
Myself, I'm paranoid when it comes to buying online. I won't buy anything over $50 (incl shipping) from someplace I don't know. And even then, I use an "e-card" (one-shot credit card number issued by my bank on demand).
My policy is, if it's too good to be true, it isn't. And if I'm buying a $2000 camera, and the savings I'm getting from a potentialy sady vendor (compared to, say, Amazon) is only $300, I'd rather pay extra or go to a "brick and mortar" store.