I quit WoW when it started making the following statements...
"I HAVE to login so Bigsilly can get his 5 matches in..." "I HAVE to login, they're one short for Kara..." "I HAVE to login, I have to keep up with my dailies to purchase an epic mount.."
blech!!! No fun anymore, From what I've seen WotLK isn't breaking the mold, just a new paintjob on the same car.
I served in the Army for 7+ years. Three years of which in a PAO (Public Affairs Office), that handles press releases, photo's, etc. Most people have this idea that there is this all encompassing control in the Army, as well as a focused strategy of deception. Believe me.. there isn't, they aren't that smart (like most companies we all work for).
This picture is photoshopped badly because just like any small shop in the civilian world, some SPC or PFC got a request for a photo of Gen Whats Herface, thought it would be "cool" to use this new app on my computer. He then shows the photo to the Captain(or Major) who is the "Manager" of the office... He's technically a dud (like most Managers) and thinks it's awesome. So they hand it over.
Point is, don't forgot the U.S. Army isn't unlike most Corporations when it comes to things other than "War (Training, etc."), they have bad manager's, are poorly run, make mistakes... I've personally NEVER seen a case where they were trying to cover something up, or lie, and I was working during the Cuban Camp setups in Central America (sh!t hit the fan with that one). Nobody even thought about lying or being deceptive, there was just this idea that you just don't do it, because we're soldiers, it's a black eye when the truth does come out, and it always does. (Now, when it comes to Operational Information, ie War. that is different. You don't have press releases that will tell the enemy 'Hey we'll be there next Friday, act surprised')
On the flipside, when deceptive things happen or poor photoshop jobs are released, it's usually poor decisions by LOCAL offices or commands. It's not an all encompassing strategy.
I found it sad that "I want real territory control and player owned areas." is modded +5 Insightful... When the game in fact DOES HAVE real territory you control.
Not the posters fault, but why Mod something up, that you know nothing about?
Comparing WoW to WAR is difficult to say the least. Fundamentally at their core, they are completely different games. WoW is a PVE game, endgame content is focused on PVE Raids. WAR is a PVP/RVR game, focus is on Realm vs. Realm combat.
If you are a PVE endgame raiding junky, and NEVER PVP, then WAR isn't the game for you. Questing in WAR is no different than any other MMO.
If you like PVP, whereas you grind out Uber Gear to give yourself a distinct advantage over opponents, and you want to be a solo superstar ganking machine.. WAR is NOT FOR YOU!
If you like GROUP BASED PVP, PVP That matters to the overall goal, and battles won/lost effect the world, where you have to rely on the group and group tactics (forming lines, choke points, for one because this game contains collision dectection), WAR will be for you.
If a prospective employer cannot judge your technical ability during the interview process, and require you to take a test given your level of experience. You will be working for an organization that doesn't understand technology, nor will they trust your judgment or recommendations. More often than not Non-technical managers/directors will be making technical decisions, that you will have to implement no matter how ridiculous. When you fail to implement one of their hair brained projects, it won't be their fault for not having a clue... it will be your fault, because they will see it as your job to implement said hair brained idea.s
Wow is no longer any more casual than any other MMO. Sure you can "casually" just quest around and reach level 20 in three weeks, and chat with your friends in/g, but you can do that on any other MMO.
You can casually get to 70 and try to PVP in Greens and Blues, and every other player with casually hand your ass to you.
Spending weeks in BGs to get Tokens+Honor PVP gear != Casual Raiding nonstop for months to get PVE gear != Casual Running Heroics for a sh!tton of Badges for Badge Gear != Casual
I'm sure ppl will tell me how it takes so much longer in MMO X to get this or that, but that doesn't make Wow casual.
Bug since 2006 in an "Enterprise" Operating System. So they haven't been able to get some spare body to rebuild perl?
Maybe I'm a bit jaded as I have had extensive dealings with Redhat support. I find it funny that for the longest time Redhat pushed their certifications so damn hard, but don't require their own support technicians to know anything beyond scripted responses.
"You've run ZFS in production, yet you can't see the improvement on Linux's model? You mean the fact that md is completely broken and LVM is unreliable and slow by comparison?"
"How does it compare to other authentication systems, such as eDirectory, or Open LDAP?"
Speaking of comparison's and Openldap, has a fix been made that will allow Linux workstations authenticating with Openldap to lock their screens, and be able to "unlock" them?
I wholeheartedly agree that Apple is required to follow state work laws, and should be punished if they are not doing so.
HOWEVER.. some IT Dork that probably makes 85k+ a year calling himself a "Modern Day Slave", because he doesn't get overtime? I'm sure there a some illegals working in textile plants that would disagree.
" how long will their $25 million VC funding last at this rate?"
Based on my late 90's Start up runs in NYC, I would say the Doctor and Free Gym Personal Trainer will be gone in two weeks, the food in a month, and 75% of the employees in 3 months.
Stories like this may even bring PuD back to F**kedcompany postings.
It's simply hilarious and amazing at the same time!
Fav quotes 1. gnutls "Hey check it, I got this great idea: I want to clone a useful and carefully developed library(openssl) just so that nobody can tell me how to give the authors credit. Who's with me?" 2. KDE4 "Wow. Choice is great. Except none of these are what I want. What does "Use with care" mean? Why is there no "Use memory efficiently (and just work)" option?"
I've been using Linux since 1996 and I endorse this site wholeheartedly!!!
This reminds me of something that happened this very week at work. Local Windows Admin came by my desk and asked me for a copy of Linux, he's never tried it, wants to start learning it and playing around. I give him a copy of my Ubuntu CD and he's off an running.
He comes to me the next day disappointed. He continues to explain, "This sucks... I installed on my laptop with zero problems. First thing to tackle was an AIM client.. but it was already installed. So then I decided I need VNC for work, but it was already installed to, along with a terminal services client. Finally, I realized I needed a VPN client.. DAMMIT! It was there too! I heard all these stories about tinkering around and getting stuff to work.. I WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT! "
He then asks me if I have another version of "Unix" that is more difficult.
Linux has come a loooooong way since I was playing with 1.0.xx kernels on Slackware.
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(for those that play or have played eve you will understand)
OMFG ROTFFLMMFAO!!!!!!!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
YOU GOT OWNED!
(only played eve for three months, cool game, quit during the dev cheating scandal)
I quit WoW when it started making the following statements...
"I HAVE to login so Bigsilly can get his 5 matches in..."
"I HAVE to login, they're one short for Kara..."
"I HAVE to login, I have to keep up with my dailies to purchase an epic mount.."
blech!!! No fun anymore, From what I've seen WotLK isn't breaking the mold, just a new paintjob on the same car.
I served in the Army for 7+ years. Three years of which in a PAO (Public Affairs Office), that handles press releases, photo's, etc. Most people have this idea that there is this all encompassing control in the Army, as well as a focused strategy of deception. Believe me.. there isn't, they aren't that smart (like most companies we all work for).
This picture is photoshopped badly because just like any small shop in the civilian world, some SPC or PFC got a request for a photo of Gen Whats Herface, thought it would be "cool" to use this new app on my computer. He then shows the photo to the Captain(or Major) who is the "Manager" of the office... He's technically a dud (like most Managers) and thinks it's awesome. So they hand it over.
Point is, don't forgot the U.S. Army isn't unlike most Corporations when it comes to things other than "War (Training, etc."), they have bad manager's, are poorly run, make mistakes... I've personally NEVER seen a case where they were trying to cover something up, or lie, and I was working during the Cuban Camp setups in Central America (sh!t hit the fan with that one). Nobody even thought about lying or being deceptive, there was just this idea that you just don't do it, because we're soldiers, it's a black eye when the truth does come out, and it always does. (Now, when it comes to Operational Information, ie War. that is different. You don't have press releases that will tell the enemy 'Hey we'll be there next Friday, act surprised')
On the flipside, when deceptive things happen or poor photoshop jobs are released, it's usually poor decisions by LOCAL offices or commands. It's not an all encompassing strategy.
Just my personal experience :-)
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U.S. Yougotownnnnedownedownedowned... You got owned... owned owned owned...
You could say a bit of both. While he is arguably fighting for a just cause, he isn't doing it out of the kindness of his heart.
More than you know... this is my second account, forgot my first registered account info way back when and re-registered... lol!
To add more credibility, I concur with my fellow poster with my 4 digit ID.
What's more scary is lawmakers do this all the time and the sheep keep reelecting said lawmakers.
I found it sad that "I want real territory control and player owned areas." is modded +5 Insightful...
When the game in fact DOES HAVE real territory you control.
Not the posters fault, but why Mod something up, that you know nothing about?
Comparing WoW to WAR is difficult to say the least. Fundamentally at their core, they are completely different games. WoW is a PVE game, endgame content is focused on PVE Raids. WAR is a PVP/RVR game, focus is on Realm vs. Realm combat.
If you are a PVE endgame raiding junky, and NEVER PVP, then WAR isn't the game for you. Questing in WAR is no different than any other MMO.
If you like PVP, whereas you grind out Uber Gear to give yourself a distinct advantage over opponents, and you want to be a solo superstar ganking machine.. WAR is NOT FOR YOU!
If you like GROUP BASED PVP, PVP That matters to the overall goal, and battles won/lost effect the world, where you have to rely on the group and group tactics (forming lines, choke points, for one because this game contains collision dectection), WAR will be for you.
Just mah $0.02, ya I'm oldsk001
In my personal experience...
If a prospective employer cannot judge your technical ability during the interview process, and require you to take a test given your level of experience. You will be working for an organization that doesn't understand technology, nor will they trust your judgment or recommendations. More often than not Non-technical managers/directors will be making technical decisions, that you will have to implement no matter how ridiculous. When you fail to implement one of their hair brained projects, it won't be their fault for not having a clue... it will be your fault, because they will see it as your job to implement said hair brained idea.s
My advice.. run... run like the wind.
Wow is no longer any more casual than any other MMO. Sure you can "casually" just quest around and reach level 20 in three weeks, and chat with your friends in /g, but you can do that on any other MMO.
You can casually get to 70 and try to PVP in Greens and Blues, and every other player with casually hand your ass to you.
Spending weeks in BGs to get Tokens+Honor PVP gear != Casual
Raiding nonstop for months to get PVE gear != Casual
Running Heroics for a sh!tton of Badges for Badge Gear != Casual
I'm sure ppl will tell me how it takes so much longer in MMO X to get this or that, but that doesn't make Wow casual.
Blows!
Bug since 2006 in an "Enterprise" Operating System. So they haven't been able to get some spare body to rebuild perl?
Maybe I'm a bit jaded as I have had extensive dealings with Redhat support. I find it funny that for the longest time Redhat pushed their certifications so damn hard, but don't require their own support technicians to know anything beyond scripted responses.
"You've run ZFS in production, yet you can't see the improvement on Linux's model? You mean the fact that md is completely broken and LVM is unreliable and slow by comparison?"
Sir, I wish I had points to mod this up!
If you work in an environment that has the luxury of dismissing products and solutions because they are NOT GPL...
stick with Linux :-)
If your main concern is whether or not it runs KDE? Then stick with Linux.
Was in 2000 I believe, when I lived in NYC.
Dazed, btw not against AD, Specifically Linux workstations authenticating against Openldap on Linux server.
I'm giving it a go again as we speak. Already have slapd setup, so just editing nsswitch, and pam confs.
thx again :-)
Well I was going to provide a link to the bug, however I didn't bookmark and sifting the thru the results is daunting.
It's been a few years since I last tried it, will give it a go again :-)
Thanks for the helpful and friendly responses.
"How does it compare to other authentication systems, such as eDirectory, or Open LDAP?"
Speaking of comparison's and Openldap, has a fix been made that will allow Linux workstations authenticating with Openldap to lock their screens, and be able to "unlock" them?
I wholeheartedly agree that Apple is required to follow state work laws, and should be punished if they are not doing so.
HOWEVER.. some IT Dork that probably makes 85k+ a year calling himself a "Modern Day Slave", because he doesn't get overtime? I'm sure there a some illegals working in textile plants that would disagree.
" how long will their $25 million VC funding last at this rate?"
Based on my late 90's Start up runs in NYC, I would say the Doctor and Free Gym Personal Trainer will be gone in two weeks, the food in a month, and 75% of the employees in 3 months.
Stories like this may even bring PuD back to F**kedcompany postings.
If you have used Linux for any length of time, you will LOVE the Linux Haters blog!!
http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/
It's simply hilarious and amazing at the same time!
Fav quotes
1. gnutls
"Hey check it, I got this great idea: I want to clone a useful and carefully developed library(openssl) just so that nobody can tell me how to give the authors credit. Who's with me?"
2. KDE4
"Wow. Choice is great. Except none of these are what I want. What does "Use with care" mean? Why is there no "Use memory efficiently (and just work)" option?"
I've been using Linux since 1996 and I endorse this site wholeheartedly!!!
LMAO!
This reminds me of something that happened this very week at work. Local Windows Admin came by my desk and asked me for a copy of Linux, he's never tried it, wants to start learning it and playing around. I give him a copy of my Ubuntu CD and he's off an running.
He comes to me the next day disappointed. He continues to explain, "This sucks... I installed on my laptop with zero problems. First thing to tackle was an AIM client.. but it was already installed. So then I decided I need VNC for work, but it was already installed to, along with a terminal services client. Finally, I realized I needed a VPN client.. DAMMIT! It was there too! I heard all these stories about tinkering around and getting stuff to work.. I WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT! "
He then asks me if I have another version of "Unix" that is more difficult.
Linux has come a loooooong way since I was playing with 1.0.xx kernels on Slackware.