I play on a PVP server. Since the introduction of the battlegrounds, PVP outside of battlegrounds has become almost pointless as far as rewards are concerned. You can get more honor kills and points from a few hours in a battleground than you can all week trying to PVP in normal contested areas.
The only PVP that goes on outside of battlegrounds now are high levels ganking low levels or other grievous activities. PVP'ing for rewards has been turned into grinding sessions within battlegrounds. It seems all that was good about PVP is now gone and all that remains is the bad.
Is this a concern you are aware of and are working on? Can we that play on PVP servers get some words of hope that something will be done?
The guy uses vegetable oil not mineral oil according to his site.
I did this for a year or so using mineral oil, a plastic storage tub and a small dorm-sized fridge. I had a small electric pump that pumped mineral oil into tubing which was coiled inside the fridge (drilled and in and out hole on the side) and then back into the resevoir. I was a little worried about condensation but it ran fine for over a year before I got tired of the clutter and mess of it. I could have done it better but I didn't want to spend any money on it and just use what I had laying around.
It was mostly for fun with a few interesting things I learned from it:
* It allowed me to overclock about 30% more than I could previously squeeze out. * The mineral oil did not harm the hardware at all that I can tell from a year of being submerged(it just was a pain to clean). * If you have your resevoir higher than your mouse then your mouse will be full of oil in a few weeks (same goes for any component connected by wire I imagine). * The only component I found that could not be submerged was a hard drive. * The outside coating on the wires will harden and break away after being submerged long enough(but they will still work). * There was no connection issues with PCI cards or any peripheral device that was plugged in even if they were coated in mineral oil(even jumpers could be changed while it was submerged). * If a drop of some other liquid (that is lighter than the oil) accidently falls into the resevoir it will quickly be coated by the mineral oil and slowly fall to the bottom and can be sucked out (phew!)
Probably more but those were the most interesting things I remember of it.
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Features such as tabbed browsing, and mouse gestures come standard with Opera, where with Firefox (at least when I tried it), you're required to track down and choose what plugin you want.
Just a minor correction. Firefox comes out of the box with tabbed browsing. The plugin is just for more options in controlling the behaivor of it.
I think the thing that Opera is better than Firefox in is speed and polish. It's very fast and the UI has been well thought out. Things in the browser work in ways you didn't even know you wanted them to...
As I mentioned above though the lack of decent adblock utility with it is holding a lot of people back. I know there is an adblock.css to use and there is the filter thing but installing and using them are an eyesore compared to how nicely polished the rest of the program is and they in no way compare to the ease of adblock for firefox. I can't wait until one shows up for Opera. I'd use it and not look back.
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The real question every firefox user has is does it have an adblock replacement yet. The filter thing they have just isn't good enough. I know this is a heated subject on the Opera forums. Talks of social agreements and ads and the like but I fail to see how it's any different than a popup blocker.
I paid for Opera 7.5 and can use the 8+ series without paying for an upgrade (it's considered an upgrade to 7.54 since there was no 7.6) but I am having a hard time living without a nice adblock utility and therefore use firefox 99% of the time. I am glad to see version 8 has nice XMLHTTP request support though which was my only other reason for not using opera.
...make the install dummy proof I won't be recommending it again. I recently had the nerve to suggest that my mother-in-law try it out. She is just a regular internet user. She uses email, browses the web, and has used Microsoft Office on occassion so I thought it would be a snap for her. I emailed her a link and small description of Open Office and she was thrilled to give it a shot.
Well the downloads (even the stable) for the office suite are a zip file. The zip file extracts to a directory with a horde of different files. She had no idea what a zip file was and when I finally talked her through extracting it she was baffled by the tons of files.
Installing it this way may seem like a trivial task to the average computer geek but to your casual user this is a very intimidating process and if it weren't for me on the phone with her she would have never figured it out. I don't want to do install support to every person that I think might find use in Open Office so I'm just going to bite my tongue or suggest they shell out some cash for a CD they can pop in and have it hold their hand through the process.
I'm personally getting worse results from it than the current search engine on MSN.
I've done 3 searches this morning and both google and MSN search found what I needed from the first page of search results but this new one didn't for many pages back. I wasn't even trying to fool it.
Verant made the game. Sony bought Verant and made Everquest (and other Verant games to come) part of Sony Station. The same login/password I use to log into Everquest I can use to log into Sony Station on the web.
Since IANAL, I don't know whether they can get away with the emulated server. It certainly seems like a cool idea to "play" around with and see and do parts of the game that you haven't been able to accomplish before.
BUT, Verant/Sony provides more than just a server for you to connect. They provide GM's to help with bug/problems that arise (albeit slow sometimes). They provide a full development team to update/expand the game. Basically they have a whole lot of people that are paid to admin the game. Any public servers will be lacking here.
I'm also curious on how they will emulate quests/items/etc. that have yet to be discovered or only discovered by a few.
Although it will be very likely that I "play" around with the emulator Sony/Verant will still get my $9.99 a month.
Yes, filtering software today is flawed. Yes, pages are filtered out that could be of use to someone. But! Some sort of control needs to be taken, what would you suggest? With my kids at home I am always aware of the sites they are visiting. That's just being a good parent. I can't do that when they visit the library. Do I stop them from going to the library altogether?
Here where I work, if we try to visit a site that is being blocked then we are given a page with a request form for that page. If we request that it be unblocked then it is submitted to a staff of real people that either unblock it or email you there reasons for not doing so. So far this process has been very fast and fair for everyone that chooses to use it. And all requests are kept confidential no matter what they happen to be.
Now I understand that all such filtering systems don't work this well and it's probably frustrating to many. But there should be some sort of control in the libraries. Freedom of speech is a right, but computing in the library is a priviledge.
Until there's better ways of filtering I say let's use what we have. That way I can let my kids use the library in peace and you will just have to read The Onion at home.
Seems to me that this is a lot of grunt work for next to no pay. The job isn't going out on cool 007 type tasks. It's sitting at a desk crunching codes while you make a whopping £16-£24.
Combine the pay and the ease of finding WELLD ONE!N OWAPP LYFOR AJOB! it doesn't quite seem like a best-of-the-best type of job.
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I'm on board with this idea.
I play on a PVP server. Since the introduction of the battlegrounds, PVP outside of battlegrounds has become almost pointless as far as rewards are concerned. You can get more honor kills and points from a few hours in a battleground than you can all week trying to PVP in normal contested areas.
The only PVP that goes on outside of battlegrounds now are high levels ganking low levels or other grievous activities. PVP'ing for rewards has been turned into grinding sessions within battlegrounds. It seems all that was good about PVP is now gone and all that remains is the bad.
Is this a concern you are aware of and are working on? Can we that play on PVP servers get some words of hope that something will be done?
Bidpay is fairly popular in the ebay crowd and the buyer pays the transaction fee there.
That said, in most every business that accepts credit card the seller pays the transaction fee and covers it by adjusting the price of the item.
The guy uses vegetable oil not mineral oil according to his site.
I did this for a year or so using mineral oil, a plastic storage tub and a small dorm-sized fridge. I had a small electric pump that pumped mineral oil into tubing which was coiled inside the fridge (drilled and in and out hole on the side) and then back into the resevoir. I was a little worried about condensation but it ran fine for over a year before I got tired of the clutter and mess of it. I could have done it better but I didn't want to spend any money on it and just use what I had laying around.
It was mostly for fun with a few interesting things I learned from it:
* It allowed me to overclock about 30% more than I could previously squeeze out.
* The mineral oil did not harm the hardware at all that I can tell from a year of being submerged(it just was a pain to clean).
* If you have your resevoir higher than your mouse then your mouse will be full of oil in a few weeks (same goes for any component connected by wire I imagine).
* The only component I found that could not be submerged was a hard drive.
* The outside coating on the wires will harden and break away after being submerged long enough(but they will still work).
* There was no connection issues with PCI cards or any peripheral device that was plugged in even if they were coated in mineral oil(even jumpers could be changed while it was submerged).
* If a drop of some other liquid (that is lighter than the oil) accidently falls into the resevoir it will quickly be coated by the mineral oil and slowly fall to the bottom and can be sucked out (phew!)
Probably more but those were the most interesting things I remember of it.
Features such as tabbed browsing, and mouse gestures come standard with Opera, where with Firefox (at least when I tried it), you're required to track down and choose what plugin you want.
Just a minor correction. Firefox comes out of the box with tabbed browsing. The plugin is just for more options in controlling the behaivor of it.
I think the thing that Opera is better than Firefox in is speed and polish. It's very fast and the UI has been well thought out. Things in the browser work in ways you didn't even know you wanted them to...
As I mentioned above though the lack of decent adblock utility with it is holding a lot of people back. I know there is an adblock.css to use and there is the filter thing but installing and using them are an eyesore compared to how nicely polished the rest of the program is and they in no way compare to the ease of adblock for firefox. I can't wait until one shows up for Opera. I'd use it and not look back.
The real question every firefox user has is does it have an adblock replacement yet. The filter thing they have just isn't good enough. I know this is a heated subject on the Opera forums. Talks of social agreements and ads and the like but I fail to see how it's any different than a popup blocker.
I paid for Opera 7.5 and can use the 8+ series without paying for an upgrade (it's considered an upgrade to 7.54 since there was no 7.6) but I am having a hard time living without a nice adblock utility and therefore use firefox 99% of the time. I am glad to see version 8 has nice XMLHTTP request support though which was my only other reason for not using opera.
...make the install dummy proof I won't be recommending it again. I recently had the nerve to suggest that my mother-in-law try it out. She is just a regular internet user. She uses email, browses the web, and has used Microsoft Office on occassion so I thought it would be a snap for her. I emailed her a link and small description of Open Office and she was thrilled to give it a shot.
Well the downloads (even the stable) for the office suite are a zip file. The zip file extracts to a directory with a horde of different files. She had no idea what a zip file was and when I finally talked her through extracting it she was baffled by the tons of files.
Installing it this way may seem like a trivial task to the average computer geek but to your casual user this is a very intimidating process and if it weren't for me on the phone with her she would have never figured it out. I don't want to do install support to every person that I think might find use in Open Office so I'm just going to bite my tongue or suggest they shell out some cash for a CD they can pop in and have it hold their hand through the process.
I'm personally getting worse results from it than the current search engine on MSN.
I've done 3 searches this morning and both google and MSN search found what I needed from the first page of search results but this new one didn't for many pages back. I wasn't even trying to fool it.
Verant made the game. Sony bought Verant and made Everquest (and other Verant games to come) part of Sony Station. The same login/password I use to log into Everquest I can use to log into Sony Station on the web.
Since IANAL, I don't know whether they can get away with the emulated server. It certainly seems like a cool idea to "play" around with and see and do parts of the game that you haven't been able to accomplish before.
BUT, Verant/Sony provides more than just a server for you to connect. They provide GM's to help with bug/problems that arise (albeit slow sometimes). They provide a full development team to update/expand the game. Basically they have a whole lot of people that are paid to admin the game. Any public servers will be lacking here.
I'm also curious on how they will emulate quests/items/etc. that have yet to be discovered or only discovered by a few.
Although it will be very likely that I "play" around with the emulator Sony/Verant will still get my $9.99 a month.
It seems the article has been pulled. Due to flagrant inaccuracies this article has been pulled and is being re-written.
Here where I work, if we try to visit a site that is being blocked then we are given a page with a request form for that page. If we request that it be unblocked then it is submitted to a staff of real people that either unblock it or email you there reasons for not doing so. So far this process has been very fast and fair for everyone that chooses to use it. And all requests are kept confidential no matter what they happen to be.
Now I understand that all such filtering systems don't work this well and it's probably frustrating to many. But there should be some sort of control in the libraries. Freedom of speech is a right, but computing in the library is a priviledge.
Until there's better ways of filtering I say let's use what we have. That way I can let my kids use the library in peace and you will just have to read The Onion at home.
Seems to me that this is a lot of grunt work for
next to no pay. The job isn't going out on cool
007 type tasks. It's sitting at a desk crunching
codes while you make a whopping £16-£24.
Combine the pay and the ease of finding WELLD
ONE!N OWAPP LYFOR AJOB! it doesn't quite seem
like a best-of-the-best type of job.