Know anyone who owns any kind of "meeting place" business, like a pub, club, even restaurant? Are they doing very well - kind of suspiciously well? You might know one too : )
Just make sure you hightail it out of there if you ever get seated in one with a basket of oranges at your table...
and 5.) people that work in the laser marking/engraving industry - loupes are used all the time to more accurately gauge and adjust mark quality. They also run around with an extra Schmersal key on their keychains to be able to easily defeat the door interlocks.:-)
This is substantially smaller than the PC-104 form factor, which is 3.6" x 3.8". It did however remind me a bit of the old Intrinsyc CerfCube devices that used to be available a few years back, one of which I have in my collection of stuff somewhere around here.
The situation you mentioned regarding players with difficult personalities is another reason that I'm not really sticking with the game anymore - so many people forget that it's just a damn game, and it's annoying when you are doing a raid and have to take 30 minutes to wait for a couple of folks to grow back up into adults because they're throwing a tantrum about someone taking some loot they wanted or something else silly.
I agree 100% on the fishing, although it's now actually a pretty decent way to make money because so few people max out their fishing skill. Skullfish soup can sell for upwards of 60g/stack on my server, partially because it's a rather rare recipe and also because the fish only spawn near Karazhan, so the ganking risk is rather high. It takes about half an hour or so to catch a stack, so it's a fairly decent use of one's time, I guess.
I haven't actually played very much on private servers - I mostly enjoy writing/fixing code for them, so I'm not really familiar with which ones are high-population. It's fun for me to go in and work on the scripting portions of instances and whatnot, so if a boss isn't doing what he's supposed to be doing, I can bend him to my will quite easily.:-)
5K in gold isn't too bad now, since they raised the number of daily quests that can be completed each day to 25, and most of them pay around 10g or so. Also, there's lots of gold to be made by playing the auction house. The most gold I've made in a 24-hour period is about 1100, and I'm not a hardcore player by any means. Most casual players I know bring in about 200g or so in the 2 hours or so they play each day.
Having said that, I really don't have any intention of continuing to play when my subscription runs out next month. Lich King isn't coming out until November at the earliest, and while I may buy the expansion just so I can help some of the private server folks out with software changes and whatnot, I don't see myself shelling out the monthly tribute anymore. The game itself has gotten to be rather boring for me, and I don't see Lich King making fundamental changes to the game mechanics, which are the root cause for what to me makes the game more of chore to play than anything.
Michigan *law* prohibited unlicensed investigations without the need for a court order to explicitly stop each occurrence, which should have been as much legal proscription as these bozos needed. Similarly, burglars generally aren't sent subpoenas or C&Ds in connection with breaking into people's houses.
When I'd mentioned "epic mount" before, I'd meant to say "epic flyer", which costs 5000 gold for the riding skill and an additional 200g for the mount itself. Even the slow flyer is still an 800g investment just to learn the skill, and there's plenty of content that is just not available to those players that can't fly in Outland.
For my level 40 mount, I was in pretty good shape due to extracting every last penny out of the auction house that I could (was at 300 gold by lvl 30). Like you however, I had to wait a couple of levels past 60 for my epic ground mount, but in my case it was because I had a warlock and it took a couple of weeks for me to find a group willing to go to Scholomance for the one item I needed from there for the warlock epic quest. No one's interested in doing the pre-BC high-level dungeons anymore.
WoW does attempt to reward people for logged off time
Until you hit 70, and then the endgame content requires a time commitment on a whole different level. At that point it becomes quite detrimental to the player to be away from the game for any length of time because they're failing to make progress. That's when you see people spending real money on in-game gold rather than spend three solid weeks running the same damn dailies just so they can get their epic mount and not have to spend forever just getting from one place to another.
It can be quite handy when you need to use a USB device that's located physically close to the computer that's using it, but a cable run to the device would be longer than 16 feet.
I've seen too many people destroy USB 1 and 2 connectors by repeatedly wiggling the plug out of the sockets to the point where the sockets no longer hold the connector anymore
IMO it's because the standard specifies a crappy connector with almost no redeeming values mechanically, other than being easy to plug/unplug. They're practically guaranteed to work themselves loose unless the connection is absolutely left alone. There really needs to be some kind of easy, cheap locking mechanism on par with the modular RJ-45 plugs to securely hold the connector in place and prevent the stresses you're talking about. I've had to deal with USB several times in an industrial automation context, and I just hate the connectors. The only decent implementation I've seen is on the cheapest Cognex vision-system cameras, which use a mini-USB connector within a screw-on fixture that locks the connector into place on the camera body and prevents any movement.
Interesting that you mention Compute! magazine - that was back during the time when Byte was still available, and PC Magazine was actually informative and interesting instead of the glorified advertising insert it's become. Nibble was another of my faves, being an Apple II geek, but I almost mourn the loss of the Byte of the early/mid 80's - it was bar-none the best computer magazine of the time.
Well, I have a tiny little bit of trivia to offer - a few years back I had to spend some time on-site at Cherry Electrical's plant in Pleasant Prairie, WI, and the lead engineer there had previously worked for Williams, and was on the team for the High Speed pinball game. He's a big muscle car fan, and one of his cars was the source of some of the audio in the game. I really miss High Speed, and several others of the Williams titles.
Don't forget that Bush himself said he supported the 1994 assault weapons ban and would sign a bill reauthorizing it. Bush doesn't give the first damn about the Second Amendment unless it's politically expedient.
Will the engineers who actually know about these things be able to prevent this kludge from becoming operational or will NASA management and political appointee administrators strike again?
According to a friend of mine who is actually working on the Ares project, there are a lot of people that would rather go with the Jupiter or re-roll the Saturn V with some slight modifications, and believe the current design is basically a means to satiate NASA management, Morton Thiokol, and other contractors and their Congressmen who stand to lose a lot of money if Shuttle-derived components aren't used in the new system. In short, it's the most politically expedient design, not the best design, and what the engineers really think doesn't seem to factor into these kinds of decisions.
I fail to understand how a court can't order the asshole to produce the data.
They can and they did. They have physical custody of the hard disk on the laptop, and it's been examined with a fine-toothed comb. They've had the data to do whatever they want with it. The fact that the data is not in a form useful to the government's case is not the defendant's problem. Compelling the defendant to provide testimony to *make* it useful to the government is a breach of his Fifth Amendment rights.
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Know anyone who owns any kind of "meeting place" business, like a pub, club, even restaurant? Are they doing very well - kind of suspiciously well? You might know one too : )
Just make sure you hightail it out of there if you ever get seated in one with a basket of oranges at your table...
and 5.) people that work in the laser marking/engraving industry - loupes are used all the time to more accurately gauge and adjust mark quality. They also run around with an extra Schmersal key on their keychains to be able to easily defeat the door interlocks. :-)
Plus it's cool having a ring with tool marks in it and not a standard shiny one like everyone else has
Glad to see I'm not the only geeky person that thinks the little swirlies look neat.
It's not unusable - it'll still hold any door open just as effectively whether the GPU works or not.
Don't forget the mounting bracket and screw. As I understand, those have close to a 0% failure rate.
This is substantially smaller than the PC-104 form factor, which is 3.6" x 3.8". It did however remind me a bit of the old Intrinsyc CerfCube devices that used to be available a few years back, one of which I have in my collection of stuff somewhere around here.
The situation you mentioned regarding players with difficult personalities is another reason that I'm not really sticking with the game anymore - so many people forget that it's just a damn game, and it's annoying when you are doing a raid and have to take 30 minutes to wait for a couple of folks to grow back up into adults because they're throwing a tantrum about someone taking some loot they wanted or something else silly.
:-)
I agree 100% on the fishing, although it's now actually a pretty decent way to make money because so few people max out their fishing skill. Skullfish soup can sell for upwards of 60g/stack on my server, partially because it's a rather rare recipe and also because the fish only spawn near Karazhan, so the ganking risk is rather high. It takes about half an hour or so to catch a stack, so it's a fairly decent use of one's time, I guess.
I haven't actually played very much on private servers - I mostly enjoy writing/fixing code for them, so I'm not really familiar with which ones are high-population. It's fun for me to go in and work on the scripting portions of instances and whatnot, so if a boss isn't doing what he's supposed to be doing, I can bend him to my will quite easily.
5K in gold isn't too bad now, since they raised the number of daily quests that can be completed each day to 25, and most of them pay around 10g or so. Also, there's lots of gold to be made by playing the auction house. The most gold I've made in a 24-hour period is about 1100, and I'm not a hardcore player by any means. Most casual players I know bring in about 200g or so in the 2 hours or so they play each day.
Having said that, I really don't have any intention of continuing to play when my subscription runs out next month. Lich King isn't coming out until November at the earliest, and while I may buy the expansion just so I can help some of the private server folks out with software changes and whatnot, I don't see myself shelling out the monthly tribute anymore. The game itself has gotten to be rather boring for me, and I don't see Lich King making fundamental changes to the game mechanics, which are the root cause for what to me makes the game more of chore to play than anything.
Let's hope so. Also, I just noticed your new tagline URL - best of luck with the new practice!
Michigan *law* prohibited unlicensed investigations without the need for a court order to explicitly stop each occurrence, which should have been as much legal proscription as these bozos needed. Similarly, burglars generally aren't sent subpoenas or C&Ds in connection with breaking into people's houses.
When I'd mentioned "epic mount" before, I'd meant to say "epic flyer", which costs 5000 gold for the riding skill and an additional 200g for the mount itself. Even the slow flyer is still an 800g investment just to learn the skill, and there's plenty of content that is just not available to those players that can't fly in Outland.
For my level 40 mount, I was in pretty good shape due to extracting every last penny out of the auction house that I could (was at 300 gold by lvl 30). Like you however, I had to wait a couple of levels past 60 for my epic ground mount, but in my case it was because I had a warlock and it took a couple of weeks for me to find a group willing to go to Scholomance for the one item I needed from there for the warlock epic quest. No one's interested in doing the pre-BC high-level dungeons anymore.
WoW does attempt to reward people for logged off time
Until you hit 70, and then the endgame content requires a time commitment on a whole different level. At that point it becomes quite detrimental to the player to be away from the game for any length of time because they're failing to make progress. That's when you see people spending real money on in-game gold rather than spend three solid weeks running the same damn dailies just so they can get their epic mount and not have to spend forever just getting from one place to another.
Hope the best for your son - food allergies seriously suck.
It can be quite handy when you need to use a USB device that's located physically close to the computer that's using it, but a cable run to the device would be longer than 16 feet.
I've seen too many people destroy USB 1 and 2 connectors by repeatedly wiggling the plug out of the sockets to the point where the sockets no longer hold the connector anymore
IMO it's because the standard specifies a crappy connector with almost no redeeming values mechanically, other than being easy to plug/unplug. They're practically guaranteed to work themselves loose unless the connection is absolutely left alone. There really needs to be some kind of easy, cheap locking mechanism on par with the modular RJ-45 plugs to securely hold the connector in place and prevent the stresses you're talking about. I've had to deal with USB several times in an industrial automation context, and I just hate the connectors. The only decent implementation I've seen is on the cheapest Cognex vision-system cameras, which use a mini-USB connector within a screw-on fixture that locks the connector into place on the camera body and prevents any movement.
Interesting that you mention Compute! magazine - that was back during the time when Byte was still available, and PC Magazine was actually informative and interesting instead of the glorified advertising insert it's become. Nibble was another of my faves, being an Apple II geek, but I almost mourn the loss of the Byte of the early/mid 80's - it was bar-none the best computer magazine of the time.
Well, I have a tiny little bit of trivia to offer - a few years back I had to spend some time on-site at Cherry Electrical's plant in Pleasant Prairie, WI, and the lead engineer there had previously worked for Williams, and was on the team for the High Speed pinball game. He's a big muscle car fan, and one of his cars was the source of some of the audio in the game. I really miss High Speed, and several others of the Williams titles.
crushed them and put them in landfills in New Mexico near Devil's Tower
:-) The landfill where all the E.T. cartridges went to their eternal sleep is in Alamogordo, NM.
Devil's Tower is in Wyoming.
Don't forget that Bush himself said he supported the 1994 assault weapons ban and would sign a bill reauthorizing it. Bush doesn't give the first damn about the Second Amendment unless it's politically expedient.
What next, national gun ownership registration lists?
Well, why do you suppose the government forces you to fill out a 4473 anytime you'd like to purchase a gun?
Will the engineers who actually know about these things be able to prevent this kludge from becoming operational or will NASA management and political appointee administrators strike again?
According to a friend of mine who is actually working on the Ares project, there are a lot of people that would rather go with the Jupiter or re-roll the Saturn V with some slight modifications, and believe the current design is basically a means to satiate NASA management, Morton Thiokol, and other contractors and their Congressmen who stand to lose a lot of money if Shuttle-derived components aren't used in the new system. In short, it's the most politically expedient design, not the best design, and what the engineers really think doesn't seem to factor into these kinds of decisions.
They're actually at about room temperature.
I've heard you throw the BEST parties...
That said, there is a first amendment issue
Fourth Amendment issue, you mean.
I fail to understand how a court can't order the asshole to produce the data.
They can and they did. They have physical custody of the hard disk on the laptop, and it's been examined with a fine-toothed comb. They've had the data to do whatever they want with it. The fact that the data is not in a form useful to the government's case is not the defendant's problem. Compelling the defendant to provide testimony to *make* it useful to the government is a breach of his Fifth Amendment rights.