I am an old skool member (as Flickr likes to call us) and I'm serriously considering ditching my Flickr account for something else, even though just last week I paid for a 1 year Pro account. I was considering doing this before I saw anything by Thomas Hawk. I have a number of reasons.
The problem is finding something else.
I've looked at Zooomr. I found it a bit slugish and unpolished. I don't mind that, but I wasn't encouraged when I could find no obvious way to contact someone with suggestions or questions, even after creating an account and logging in. One thing is what appears to be somewhat soft IE7 support (notes on photos don't work properly, for example). Whether you like IE or not, it does hold a very large part of the browser market and should be supported on any site that is even thinking about competing with the 800-lb gorillas.
What else is out there? I know Flickr is the biggest, but what other site has the community, ease of navigation and browsing (another thing a bit lacking on Zooomr, but that shouldn't be hard for them to tweak), and quality (I know no one has the quantity) of content that Flickr has?
As a 5 1/2-year vet (which I imaging will likely be disregarded) of UO and an accomplished thief, I commend you. I wish I could have been there to see it, though I have seen the screenshots.
The best a friend of mine and I managed was probably the peacemaking of the guards, for which we had GM's called on us several times for. The reaction to this was amazing. Since my partner in crime was an RL friend who I went to school with a few years prior and who actually got me started in the game, we would often play while we were on the phone and could coordinate with each other very well. We would choose a target, snoop and target an item. Hit the steal macro, run, then peacemake when the guards showed. The guards would go out of war mode and continue walking up to us and just stand on the square we occupied.
We also created various other tactics (exploits of game mechanics, rather than bugs in the code), which we've never heard of anyone else using. Most of these tactics ended up being eliminated after repetedly stealing rather, erm, 'valuable' items from OSD (a well-known Atlantic guild) as well as the characters involved in the major quest in Trinsic, if you were around for that.
Anyway, I guess I'm done with by jabbering. Well done.
It's from the Weekly World News. The publication that brings us such news as, "Bat Boy Fights In Iraq!" And, "Satan Escapes From Hell!"
Come on, people.
Does this really surprise anyone here? The vast majority of machines which have Linux are probably either installed on many machines from a single CD (set), or just downloaded for free.
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I remember when this was a tech news source and not a site that focused on politics and religion.
I miss those days.
I am an old skool member (as Flickr likes to call us) and I'm serriously considering ditching my Flickr account for something else, even though just last week I paid for a 1 year Pro account. I was considering doing this before I saw anything by Thomas Hawk. I have a number of reasons.
The problem is finding something else.
I've looked at Zooomr. I found it a bit slugish and unpolished. I don't mind that, but I wasn't encouraged when I could find no obvious way to contact someone with suggestions or questions, even after creating an account and logging in. One thing is what appears to be somewhat soft IE7 support (notes on photos don't work properly, for example). Whether you like IE or not, it does hold a very large part of the browser market and should be supported on any site that is even thinking about competing with the 800-lb gorillas.
What else is out there? I know Flickr is the biggest, but what other site has the community, ease of navigation and browsing (another thing a bit lacking on Zooomr, but that shouldn't be hard for them to tweak), and quality (I know no one has the quantity) of content that Flickr has?
As a 5 1/2-year vet (which I imaging will likely be disregarded) of UO and an accomplished thief, I commend you. I wish I could have been there to see it, though I have seen the screenshots.
The best a friend of mine and I managed was probably the peacemaking of the guards, for which we had GM's called on us several times for. The reaction to this was amazing. Since my partner in crime was an RL friend who I went to school with a few years prior and who actually got me started in the game, we would often play while we were on the phone and could coordinate with each other very well. We would choose a target, snoop and target an item. Hit the steal macro, run, then peacemake when the guards showed. The guards would go out of war mode and continue walking up to us and just stand on the square we occupied.
We also created various other tactics (exploits of game mechanics, rather than bugs in the code), which we've never heard of anyone else using. Most of these tactics ended up being eliminated after repetedly stealing rather, erm, 'valuable' items from OSD (a well-known Atlantic guild) as well as the characters involved in the major quest in Trinsic, if you were around for that.
Anyway, I guess I'm done with by jabbering. Well done.
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It's from the Weekly World News. The publication that brings us such news as, "Bat Boy Fights In Iraq!" And, "Satan Escapes From Hell!" Come on, people.
Does this really surprise anyone here? The vast majority of machines which have Linux are probably either installed on many machines from a single CD (set), or just downloaded for free.