Sky rocketing markets, wars over energy rights, mass unemployment and rioting as a result of that unemployment. Yes we have a tremendous amount to lose if we're wrong. Not to mention how freaking stupid we would look to future generations for believing something so remarkable without any real proof.
I don't know if I disagree with you. I'm open to all possibilities, I however am NOT open to changing an entire world economy because some people think bad things may happen. Before disrupting the way the entire planet does business I'd like to be convinced to a reasonable degree that a threat does exist. The people who are running around screaming that the sky is falling go a long way to convincing me in the opposite direction.
"No, it's not at all interesting. Global warming is happening. That is fact. Don't try to dispute it, or you'll look like an even bigger idiot."
It is? As far as I know we barely have 60 years of factual concrete weather data. From that you people wish to extrapolate the entire warming and cooling of the planet over 4 billion years and then yell and scream when the temperature goes up 2 degrees.
You fail completely to take into account the planets warming and cooling trends. For Gods sake, the Sahara desert was once a swamp. Had that change happened in the last 100 years people like you would be crying "end of the world".
The only one here looking like an idiot is you for flaming this guy for making a reaosnable and sensible post.
If they weren't addicted to this they would be addicted to something else. It's a personality disorder not a game issue.
Nevertheless, the solution will come about with time as WoW becomes horribly boring and frustrating post level 60. Most people I know have quit or reduced their play time substantially.
I just canceled my account. I'm pretty hardcore and would have loved to stay with 1 level 60 character if I could have, but the complete lack of end game content meant I had to reroll alts all the time to continue having fun. I've now rolled enough alts that I can state with absoluet certainty that I have done every quest in the game, been to every instance and killed ever boss short of the BWL bosses.
Blizzard what do you have planned for people like me who wish to play your game but can not due to no additional content (Diremaul was a fantastic step in the right direction that just stopped, nothing new since)?
I've tried pvp but the 3-6 hour queues stopped me dead in my tracks. I've played every class to at least level 30, 4 of them to 60 and 2 others beyond level 50. PvE is now dead to me with nothing to offer other than loot grinding which holds absolutely zero appeal to me.
Professions are worthless as dropped items are better by several orders of magnitude. The unstable servers, despite what this article says, have driven myself and many others to madness. Nothing is worse than spending 5 minutes trying to loot a corpse or 20 minutes waiting for the auction house window to load. The multiple times over the last month in which servers were down for extrended maintenance was unacceptable.
Contrary to your press releases you are losing customers left and right. Many people I have played with since release, people I used to think would NEVER quit have now ended their subscriptions.
My questions and concerns are asked on your own forums every single day by people of like mind, more often than not they are ignored, flamed to death (forum moderators exist there?) or locked and deleted by your pitiful community managers saying repeatedly things like "working as intended", "please be patient", "the developers are happy with this fuctionality" etc. Why am I to believe asking questions is even worthwhile and by extension why is my continued investment of time and money in this game and your company worthwhile?
"It is the window manager and desktop environment devs who most directly determine the look and feel of what you see on the screen"
I don't give a shit about the projects. The same developers work on both and they're all the better part of a decade behind everyone else. All your excuses and apologist bullshit don't change that.
You people are like the season that doesn't change. Same old FUD about how great OSS is and yet YOUR ALMOST A DECADE BEHIND. Get it through your thick fucking skulls already. Your development model is slow as fuck, never produces a final product and caters to script kiddies and elitist wanna be hacker rejects. Don't blame me, you're the ones who made your bed. Now lie in it.
What I'm saying is that I don't give a flying f*** who's idea it was. Only OSS weenies who have their heads in the sand play the "gimme credit or gimme death" game. Quit pointing fingers and start innovating. Good lord man do you not realize how behind this stuff is? There is no excuse in the world to justify this. There is NOTHING NEW here. Nothing AT ALL. In fact it's at least 5 years old.
I'm not gonna let you take the focus off the blatant tardiness of the OSS community on this. It's pathetic that there is ZERO innovation right now. What good is it being free if your a decade behind? It's like your neighbors owning flying cars while you tool around on a friggin moped or your crank started Model A.
Hyperion is one of my favorites also. I didn't like the rest of the series even though you don't find out what happens until the end of Fall of Hyperion.
Hyperion was amazing in that it's 8 stories in one. The seven pilgrims plus the main plot. I was just astounded by the priests story, took me by total surprise. The others were almost as good.
"Which explains why romance books sell so well. They're incredibly well written."
Actually they don't sell well. One old lady buys it and passes it around to all her friends. I stand by my original statement despite your obviously uneducated and rather ignorant if not downright rude and trollish response.
I'll never understand why people like you bother posting here when all you do is name call and start shit with people. You contribute nothing.
" I'd also ask in what sense you think that "Order of the Phoenix" was "better". In sales?"
It's popular for a reason. People don't generally buy crap, especially when the books sold for almost 30$ when released. Sales reflect quality in books, perhaps not in movies or computer operating systems, but in books, people buy what they like. Obviously when the sales don't reflect the nominations, the ones doing the nominating have a bias.
"Have you actually read all of the nominees?"
Most yes. I found them dull, hashed out versions of older novels. Illium was semi original but hardly award winning.
"OotP was (IMHO) not quite so stellar as some of the previous books in the series, and not up to the quality level of those nominated competitors that I read, so it's not too suprising it didn't get nominated."
Clearly subjective, however as an english major myself I found the writing and character development top notch. It's a fantastic book, part of a fantastic series. I have a hard time seeing how anyone could nominate, for instance, Illium over OotP. Perhaps J.K. is becoming a victim of her own success. There is a growing hatred towards the books by the envious.
A book needs direction. Surprise is great but when you have no character development to speak of, are off on another planet and in an incredibly different atmosphere a reader needs something to keep them interested. Illium contains no direction, no direction = no anticipation.
I know people will bash this but why wasn't OotP on the list? It was a great book, much better than the ones that won and it out sold them by like an order of magnittude.
Illium was good but I didn't think it was anywhere near as good as Hyperion. The up coming Olympus might change my mind. My problem with Illium is that you just can't see exactly where it's going.
How is this any different than being modded down every single time someone points out even the tiniest flaw in a Democrat? Slashdot and the liberal ignorant masses it possess are pure hypocrits. Anyone with a differing viewpoint that comes to this site is flamed away and modded into oblivion, then the "editors" (for lack of a better word) have the nerve to bitch about NBC not allowing Moore to use a video clip?
I've been visiting slashdot for almost a decade, back when it was hosted on Maldas Univ. Michigan website, but this bullshit has gone on long enough. Fuck this website and all of it's hypocrisy.
I find it comical that so many people who claim to have been against the vietnam war can then bash Bush for not being a part of it, then support Kerry who faked it and killed a teenage boy in a loin cloth while fleeing, fake not one but two injuries and recreate his swift boat missions on camera for future political use. Not only that but he and Bush are in the same Yale secret society. I mean you people are so completey fucking backwards it's laughable.
Two wounds were self inflicted in non combat situations, the third was a superficial cut on his thumb. I suggest you actually read up on this man and stop buying into the fluff your friends tell you about him. Like the naked teenage boy who was fleeing that he shot dead. The man has a long career based on lies which even the vast majority of Dems have a hard time comprehending.
If the left was really so mobilized and determined to beat Bush this time around they sure picked one scummy piece of shit to do the job.
"In the US, we value money and power. We absolutely despise knowledge and intellect"
Nice generalization based in obvious bias and hate towards your own countrymen. How the hell did you get modded up?
Just because there are fewer CS majors means the entire country doesn't like education or respect innovation? You do realize there are other fields of endeavor out there no? The only dumb American I see is you.
That guy sucked on Survivor All Stars. I mean so what, he's big, he's gay, he's covered in hair, he bit a shark (ok that was kinda cool). Oh wait...... the OTHER Richard Hatch, gotcha.
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Sky rocketing markets, wars over energy rights, mass unemployment and rioting as a result of that unemployment. Yes we have a tremendous amount to lose if we're wrong. Not to mention how freaking stupid we would look to future generations for believing something so remarkable without any real proof.
I don't know if I disagree with you. I'm open to all possibilities, I however am NOT open to changing an entire world economy because some people think bad things may happen. Before disrupting the way the entire planet does business I'd like to be convinced to a reasonable degree that a threat does exist. The people who are running around screaming that the sky is falling go a long way to convincing me in the opposite direction.
The only point you made was that you are really bad at calling people idiots while assuming you know everything, which you obviously do not.
Ya I saw that movie too.
"No, it's not at all interesting. Global warming is happening. That is fact. Don't try to dispute it, or you'll look like an even bigger idiot."
It is? As far as I know we barely have 60 years of factual concrete weather data. From that you people wish to extrapolate the entire warming and cooling of the planet over 4 billion years and then yell and scream when the temperature goes up 2 degrees.
You fail completely to take into account the planets warming and cooling trends. For Gods sake, the Sahara desert was once a swamp. Had that change happened in the last 100 years people like you would be crying "end of the world".
The only one here looking like an idiot is you for flaming this guy for making a reaosnable and sensible post.
If they weren't addicted to this they would be addicted to something else. It's a personality disorder not a game issue.
Nevertheless, the solution will come about with time as WoW becomes horribly boring and frustrating post level 60. Most people I know have quit or reduced their play time substantially.
I just canceled my account. I'm pretty hardcore and would have loved to stay with 1 level 60 character if I could have, but the complete lack of end game content meant I had to reroll alts all the time to continue having fun. I've now rolled enough alts that I can state with absoluet certainty that I have done every quest in the game, been to every instance and killed ever boss short of the BWL bosses.
Blizzard what do you have planned for people like me who wish to play your game but can not due to no additional content (Diremaul was a fantastic step in the right direction that just stopped, nothing new since)?
I've tried pvp but the 3-6 hour queues stopped me dead in my tracks. I've played every class to at least level 30, 4 of them to 60 and 2 others beyond level 50. PvE is now dead to me with nothing to offer other than loot grinding which holds absolutely zero appeal to me.
Professions are worthless as dropped items are better by several orders of magnitude. The unstable servers, despite what this article says, have driven myself and many others to madness. Nothing is worse than spending 5 minutes trying to loot a corpse or 20 minutes waiting for the auction house window to load. The multiple times over the last month in which servers were down for extrended maintenance was unacceptable.
Contrary to your press releases you are losing customers left and right. Many people I have played with since release, people I used to think would NEVER quit have now ended their subscriptions.
My questions and concerns are asked on your own forums every single day by people of like mind, more often than not they are ignored, flamed to death (forum moderators exist there?) or locked and deleted by your pitiful community managers saying repeatedly things like "working as intended", "please be patient", "the developers are happy with this fuctionality" etc. Why am I to believe asking questions is even worthwhile and by extension why is my continued investment of time and money in this game and your company worthwhile?
"It is the window manager and desktop environment devs who most directly determine the look and feel of what you see on the screen"
I don't give a shit about the projects. The same developers work on both and they're all the better part of a decade behind everyone else. All your excuses and apologist bullshit don't change that.
You people are like the season that doesn't change. Same old FUD about how great OSS is and yet YOUR ALMOST A DECADE BEHIND. Get it through your thick fucking skulls already. Your development model is slow as fuck, never produces a final product and caters to script kiddies and elitist wanna be hacker rejects. Don't blame me, you're the ones who made your bed. Now lie in it.
What I'm saying is that I don't give a flying f*** who's idea it was. Only OSS weenies who have their heads in the sand play the "gimme credit or gimme death" game. Quit pointing fingers and start innovating. Good lord man do you not realize how behind this stuff is? There is no excuse in the world to justify this. There is NOTHING NEW here. Nothing AT ALL. In fact it's at least 5 years old.
I'm not gonna let you take the focus off the blatant tardiness of the OSS community on this. It's pathetic that there is ZERO innovation right now. What good is it being free if your a decade behind? It's like your neighbors owning flying cars while you tool around on a friggin moped or your crank started Model A.
"How can anyone say that Open Source software is not superior?"
Uh if being at least 5 years behind the competition is superior, I think I'll settle for inferior.
Every one of those shots are blatant rip offs of Apple. My god when will OSS developers grow a pair and go out on a limb to try something new?
Linux is a good 10 years behind in the graphics department. Everyone laughs at MS for delaying avalon yet these shots are as far as Linux can come?
Needs work boys, needs lots of work. I had high hopes for X.org but they are basically shattered now after seeing those OSX rip off screenshots.
Hyperion is one of my favorites also. I didn't like the rest of the series even though you don't find out what happens until the end of Fall of Hyperion.
Hyperion was amazing in that it's 8 stories in one. The seven pilgrims plus the main plot. I was just astounded by the priests story, took me by total surprise. The others were almost as good.
"Which explains why romance books sell so well. They're incredibly well written."
Actually they don't sell well. One old lady buys it and passes it around to all her friends. I stand by my original statement despite your obviously uneducated and rather ignorant if not downright rude and trollish response.
I'll never understand why people like you bother posting here when all you do is name call and start shit with people. You contribute nothing.
" I'd also ask in what sense you think that "Order of the Phoenix" was "better". In sales?"
It's popular for a reason. People don't generally buy crap, especially when the books sold for almost 30$ when released. Sales reflect quality in books, perhaps not in movies or computer operating systems, but in books, people buy what they like. Obviously when the sales don't reflect the nominations, the ones doing the nominating have a bias.
"Have you actually read all of the nominees?"
Most yes. I found them dull, hashed out versions of older novels. Illium was semi original but hardly award winning.
"OotP was (IMHO) not quite so stellar as some of the previous books in the series, and not up to the quality level of those nominated competitors that I read, so it's not too suprising it didn't get nominated."
Clearly subjective, however as an english major myself I found the writing and character development top notch. It's a fantastic book, part of a fantastic series. I have a hard time seeing how anyone could nominate, for instance, Illium over OotP. Perhaps J.K. is becoming a victim of her own success. There is a growing hatred towards the books by the envious.
A book needs direction. Surprise is great but when you have no character development to speak of, are off on another planet and in an incredibly different atmosphere a reader needs something to keep them interested. Illium contains no direction, no direction = no anticipation.
Its scifi OR fantasy according to this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_award
So obviously LotR qualifies. What bothers me is the best selling books on Earth right now (HP series) aren't on the list.
I know people will bash this but why wasn't OotP on the list? It was a great book, much better than the ones that won and it out sold them by like an order of magnittude.
Illium was good but I didn't think it was anywhere near as good as Hyperion. The up coming Olympus might change my mind. My problem with Illium is that you just can't see exactly where it's going.
How is this any different than being modded down every single time someone points out even the tiniest flaw in a Democrat? Slashdot and the liberal ignorant masses it possess are pure hypocrits. Anyone with a differing viewpoint that comes to this site is flamed away and modded into oblivion, then the "editors" (for lack of a better word) have the nerve to bitch about NBC not allowing Moore to use a video clip?
I've been visiting slashdot for almost a decade, back when it was hosted on Maldas Univ. Michigan website, but this bullshit has gone on long enough. Fuck this website and all of it's hypocrisy.
Yet his wifes company offshores huge amounts of it's own people. Sure buddy, we all believe what the nice democratic politicain says.
I find it comical that so many people who claim to have been against the vietnam war can then bash Bush for not being a part of it, then support Kerry who faked it and killed a teenage boy in a loin cloth while fleeing, fake not one but two injuries and recreate his swift boat missions on camera for future political use. Not only that but he and Bush are in the same Yale secret society. I mean you people are so completey fucking backwards it's laughable.
Two wounds were self inflicted in non combat situations, the third was a superficial cut on his thumb. I suggest you actually read up on this man and stop buying into the fluff your friends tell you about him. Like the naked teenage boy who was fleeing that he shot dead. The man has a long career based on lies which even the vast majority of Dems have a hard time comprehending.
If the left was really so mobilized and determined to beat Bush this time around they sure picked one scummy piece of shit to do the job.
The no child left behind act was Ted Kennedy's baby. Bush just co-signed and endorsed it. Funny how you retards seem to forget that little fact.
"In the US, we value money and power. We absolutely despise knowledge and intellect"
Nice generalization based in obvious bias and hate towards your own countrymen. How the hell did you get modded up?
Just because there are fewer CS majors means the entire country doesn't like education or respect innovation? You do realize there are other fields of endeavor out there no? The only dumb American I see is you.
That guy sucked on Survivor All Stars. I mean so what, he's big, he's gay, he's covered in hair, he bit a shark (ok that was kinda cool). Oh wait...... the OTHER Richard Hatch, gotcha.