However, the ambulance service chose to purchase WidgetWorx even though they knew that it had a list of bugs six pages long, many of which directly affected their ability to perform their key tasks.
What they didn't do was purchase the X-Widget product from a rival developer, which was released with only one page of known bugs, none of which had any impact on their daily ambulance operations. That's clearly negligent and shows that the ambulance service doesn't care about their clients lives at all.
The notions that X-Widget is completely unusable and has a list of undisclosed bigs that could fill a book is nothing but hearsay and unless you can produce physical evidence to support those claims, they have no place in a court of law.
Let me see if I read this right. The forums for an online game have been overrun with loud-mouthed, small-eNis self-proclaimed board warriors who enjoy nothing quite so much as proclaiming their own superiority based on which game they play?
And the same "I am Jack's Ass" crowd is full of people with an over inflated sense of self importantce who believe that being invited to join a beta test and asked for some constructive feedback makes their voices more important than those of people who have been developing the game for years, and they regularly hold public roasts of any member of the development team who still cares enough to attempt to communicate with them?
I would be shocked and appalled if it weren't for the fact that this is exactly what has happened with every single game relased this century. The same arrogant twits infest every forum, loudly proclaiming that they now own the game and that those pinhead developers had better start doing things their way or else they're going to leave and take all six billion of their friends with them to whatever the next unreleased game is. The only thing that's surprising about this is that the writer says that Brad McQuaid is still trying to give them what they claim they want.
People often wonder just why it is that game developers often don't participate in their fora or talk directly to the players, and why they are often secretive about what they are working on. This kind of thing is exactly why they do that. Having to deal with this kind of abuse on a daily basis will turn anybody into a recluse.
The rumour that was circulating during E3 was that the Wii demos were actually run _on_ Game Cubes with the Shiny New Controllers being the only authentic parts. No matter how crazy that sounds it still got around enough to prompt this reponse, that there was a good reason why they looked like Game Cubes but they really weren't.
Sure, you laugh at it now, but just wait until you see Tiger Woods 2008 -- Not only will you be able to play golf, you can head into the clubhouse for a few drinks after, pick up hookers, and then walk through the parking lot smashing the windows of your competitor's cars.
That's not all though. If you beat the entire game on the hardest level you get to drive an M1A2 Abrams Tank as a golf cart.
It's not as exciting as something with John Carmack's name on it, but it does have the advantage of having been around long enough to get many of the kinks worked out of the system.
Or, in some cases, long enough to have the kinks worked into the system. Whichever.
Maybe you should re-read the grandparent post. Tolkien grew up in rural England, served in the army, fought in one World War and wrote the Lord of the Rings in the shadow of another. While I don't disbelieve his claim that he was not conciously trying to draw paralells between the events in LoTR and the real wars he had experienced, saying that he wasn't influenced by what was going on around him is just silly.
I think you left out all the crap that the waspy white guys who run the Federation have been involved in. Doomsday weapons, kangaroo courts, secret police, political asassinations, and the episode "Spock's Brain".
Perhaps not playing for the Alliance on a PvP server might help you to see past all the hatin'.
Who's going to gank you in the back while you are fighting a mob? The weenies who play World of Warcraft. Who's going to kill your escort quest mob? The weenies who play World of Warcraft. Who's going to camp you for hours on end?
I'll let you guess at the answer to the last one. Just for reference, I would have accepted either "Green Drazi" or "Purple Drazi" as alternate answers.
"As soon as sensitive data is viewed in any form, it may be written to disk by the virtual memory manager, which does not encrypt paged memory for obvious performance reasons."
No, I'm pretty sure that you _can_ run OpenBSD on a laptop.
"Would you buy gas at $3.00 a gallon when you could go down the street and by it for $.99? Would you pay $5 more for the same sandwhich?"
And this is why expensive coffee shops like Starbucks have failed while cheaper, smaller businesses thrive in the...
Oh, wait. Somehow paying $5 for the same sandwich seems to be very popular and the more expensive option is the only one that is making any money. There may be more to the business world than simple analogies.
The impressions were taken down for scheduled maintenance early this morning, but that ran a little bit long and they weren't back up until ten AM. After people started reading the impressions they became unstable and needed to be taken down again for emergency maintenance which will probably last until next Tuesday.
See? It's all the fun of actually playing the game without having to pay a monthly fee.
Well, that's the thing. The clock multiplier is already locked at 20x. The reason that this CPU is such a big overclocker is that it is set up for a bus clock speed of only 133 MHz, while most motherboards that support it are designed to run at 200 MHz. As long as the motherboard BIOS is willing to ignore the CPU's requested FSB speed, and most of them are, you can crank this baby up to 4 GHz without trouble. (Of course, as the article discusses, having the CPU remain stable at that speed is a bit more challenging, but boosting the voltage and cooling is left as an excercise for the reader.)
That puts it in the same boat as every Intel CPU since the Celeron 300A. The multiplier is locked inside the CPU, but the FSB speed is set by the motherboard where the CPU has no control over it. Unless Intel starts building an atomic clock into every processor they just can't stop that.
You do know that the reason that "boss" encounters are what they are is that they were designed around the staggeringly dumb and predictable AI that most MMORPG mobs use. If the AI were particularly good then ten players on a "raid" should get all the challenge they need from running into a group of ten monsters of the same level.
Since the games are all balanced around the AI, of _course_ changing the AI would unbalance them. The thing is that even if the encounter you described were to change all it would mean is that this sequence of events would follow:
1) A few hundred people will scream bloody murder on the forums since they can no longer get free candy from the Easter Bunny just for showing up and following the same script that everyone has used since November of 2004.
2) Regularly scheduled Loot Collection Visits will stop as everyone takes their toys and goes somewhere else for Ridiculously Easy Money.
3) A few People With Too Much Time On Their Hands will actually try to figure out how they can beat the new, more challenging encounter. Eventually they will come up with some loophole or flaw in the AI's logic which allows them to win.
4) The same hundred idiots will hear about this and continue to scream about how this only proves that Blizzard hates them and is in league with the girls who won't go to the Prom with them because the rewards haven't been changed.
5) Then the servers will crash. Despite what the conspiracy theorists think this won't have anything to do with steps 1) through 4), it's just something that happens a lot.
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What they didn't do was purchase the X-Widget product from a rival developer, which was released with only one page of known bugs, none of which had any impact on their daily ambulance operations. That's clearly negligent and shows that the ambulance service doesn't care about their clients lives at all.
The notions that X-Widget is completely unusable and has a list of undisclosed bigs that could fill a book is nothing but hearsay and unless you can produce physical evidence to support those claims, they have no place in a court of law.
And the same "I am Jack's Ass" crowd is full of people with an over inflated sense of self importantce who believe that being invited to join a beta test and asked for some constructive feedback makes their voices more important than those of people who have been developing the game for years, and they regularly hold public roasts of any member of the development team who still cares enough to attempt to communicate with them?
I would be shocked and appalled if it weren't for the fact that this is exactly what has happened with every single game relased this century. The same arrogant twits infest every forum, loudly proclaiming that they now own the game and that those pinhead developers had better start doing things their way or else they're going to leave and take all six billion of their friends with them to whatever the next unreleased game is. The only thing that's surprising about this is that the writer says that Brad McQuaid is still trying to give them what they claim they want.
People often wonder just why it is that game developers often don't participate in their fora or talk directly to the players, and why they are often secretive about what they are working on. This kind of thing is exactly why they do that. Having to deal with this kind of abuse on a daily basis will turn anybody into a recluse.
I would elaborate, but you seem to have already gone on with the conversation without me.
It's not so much news as it is rumour control.
That's not all though. If you beat the entire game on the hardest level you get to drive an M1A2 Abrams Tank as a golf cart.
Now that's innovation!
You are, number 932711.
I see that you are new here.
MidpSSH combined with just about any one of these?
It's not as exciting as something with John Carmack's name on it, but it does have the advantage of having been around long enough to get many of the kinks worked out of the system.
Or, in some cases, long enough to have the kinks worked into the system. Whichever.
If you were trying to install a camera on your fingernail, you might think differently.
Yes, it's WAY two hard.
Maybe you should re-read the grandparent post. Tolkien grew up in rural England, served in the army, fought in one World War and wrote the Lord of the Rings in the shadow of another. While I don't disbelieve his claim that he was not conciously trying to draw paralells between the events in LoTR and the real wars he had experienced, saying that he wasn't influenced by what was going on around him is just silly.
Now THAT'S evil.
Who's going to gank you in the back while you are fighting a mob? The weenies who play World of Warcraft. Who's going to kill your escort quest mob? The weenies who play World of Warcraft. Who's going to camp you for hours on end?
I'll let you guess at the answer to the last one. Just for reference, I would have accepted either "Green Drazi" or "Purple Drazi" as alternate answers.
That the Microkernel's what cannot help?
But if I don't know where to find such a modification, will the authors post helpful advertisements within the game to let me know?
But then someone would start editing that and you would enter your first round of "MetaWikiWars", which would need its own entry.
No, I'm pretty sure that you _can_ run OpenBSD on a laptop.
> Does the Screen Actors Guild know about this?
I thought that the SAG mostly dealt with Hollywood filmmakers. What's the connection between that and creativity?
And this is why expensive coffee shops like Starbucks have failed while cheaper, smaller businesses thrive in the...
Oh, wait. Somehow paying $5 for the same sandwich seems to be very popular and the more expensive option is the only one that is making any money. There may be more to the business world than simple analogies.
That was the polite response. The impolite one would have been to count to four.
See? It's all the fun of actually playing the game without having to pay a monthly fee.
That puts it in the same boat as every Intel CPU since the Celeron 300A. The multiplier is locked inside the CPU, but the FSB speed is set by the motherboard where the CPU has no control over it. Unless Intel starts building an atomic clock into every processor they just can't stop that.
Since the games are all balanced around the AI, of _course_ changing the AI would unbalance them. The thing is that even if the encounter you described were to change all it would mean is that this sequence of events would follow:
1) A few hundred people will scream bloody murder on the forums since they can no longer get free candy from the Easter Bunny just for showing up and following the same script that everyone has used since November of 2004.
2) Regularly scheduled Loot Collection Visits will stop as everyone takes their toys and goes somewhere else for Ridiculously Easy Money.
3) A few People With Too Much Time On Their Hands will actually try to figure out how they can beat the new, more challenging encounter. Eventually they will come up with some loophole or flaw in the AI's logic which allows them to win.
4) The same hundred idiots will hear about this and continue to scream about how this only proves that Blizzard hates them and is in league with the girls who won't go to the Prom with them because the rewards haven't been changed.
5) Then the servers will crash. Despite what the conspiracy theorists think this won't have anything to do with steps 1) through 4), it's just something that happens a lot.
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I think that says a lot right there.
Because then Apple would have you arrested for breaking into their manufacturing plant to take photographs of people assembling MacBooks.