Sold gold isnt usually farmed, its stolen from hacked accounts.
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This bug was interesting because of the actual cause. The spell deathgrip functioned the same as a jump, and because of this explot, we learned that the game engine did not recalculate your postition (in the case of a jump/deathgrip) untill you land.
I dont know if this function was known before this bug was discovered, if it was, it wasnt widely known. But ever since we're always being reminded, when moving out of 'fire', just move, dont jump, since the game wont recognize your position and youll keep taking damage untill you land.
What a stupid fucking thing to say. Pro Tools has nothing to do with why popular band's songs sound like overproduced shit. For that, you can turn to the producers, who in turn get their opinions from the marketplace. So far, people keep buying up the garbage that the major labels have been pushing, so guess what? It's going to stay that way for the foreseeable future.
Except people arent, the marketplace IS reacting. Vehemently AGAINST the crap the industry is (over)producing, but the industry refuses to pull its head out of the sand and instead blames piracy for declining sales and intrest. I cant remember the last time i bought an album by a new artist, someone i didnt already have an album or two by.
It is stupid to blame a piece of software, but the overproduction and homoginization of current music IS a major part of the problem.
I worked in a photo lab for a time, and the photo editing software behind the counter was severly lacking, which meant i prefered to do a lot of the editing work on the kodak picture maker kiosk and burn it to a disc.
Unfortunately, the KPM was a touchscreen interface, my arm would be sore after about 10 minutes of editing photos. But since i worked there and had the keys i'd always just pop the back panel off and plug in a mouse. Much quicker and more precise than the touchscreen and so much easier on my elbows and shoulders.
Since the announcement of the official Bejeweled addon (although they should use the existing gem icons for it), i've thought they should take it one step further and integrate a quick stripped down version of the original WC in the game to play before raids and things.
The problem with a company allowing RW gold sales is that suddently theyve suddently attached a real monetary value to a virtual item and opened themselves up to countless liabilities.
Say they alow gold selling, sudently all the items in your inventory are worth possibly thousands of dollars. Then what happens if your account gets hacked, or theres a server crash or something. What are you going to do? Sue the company for the value of your virtual items.
It is much easier for the companies to say, gold selling is not allowed, gold and items have no official RW value and you will be banned for buying or selling, than to deal with the headache of being responsible for possibly millions of dollars worth of virtual items on their servers.
This is good for everybody, for those who want to roll a DK right away, they can hang out in plague lands and the outland for a couple of weeks while everybody else hits the northrend, less competition for quests and resources.
If they wanted to lighten the load on their servers even more (although theyve probably learned a thing or two since the BC launch), theyd release Starcraft II on the same day.
He didnt compromise accounts, in the summary it says he tapped into land lines. That can be done with a $5 telephone handset and a pair of aligator clips, and was probably done using an actual linemans handset provided to him by the company. Google "beige box" for more info.
Wow, like 10 minutes ago i was looking for a spare phone in this box and found a case of floppy disks from my middle school computer class. If the disks are good i think there are a couple of hypercard stacks on there... Weird.
Tyranny of the majority. If we had a true 1:1 democracy, black people probably still wouldnt have rights and being gay would probably be illegal. Just because a majority of people can agree on something doesnt make it right.
I've argued this before. Double the salary, halve the term limit of every elected office and make political office a cumpulsory lottery system for every american over 30 with a HS diploma. This would reduce the power of lobbyists as they wouldnt be able to gradually buy a politician over the span of a career and it would limit the damage any an official could do.
The counter argument to this was that it would increase the power of the beurocracy and all non elected governmental positions and any lobbiing would shift focus to them.
True, but that doesnt change the fact that most of the goods around the country USED to be carried by rail, untill the automotive companies bought up the rail companies and began to ship everything with the trucks they built.
Is that you leave DNA around everywhere you go all day and this can be spread elsewhere by third parties.
That guy you passed on the street 6 hours ago... a strand of your hair that was on your shoulder was blown onto his coat by a slight breeze. He went home and murdered his wife, and in the struggle the hair found its way onto his wifes body.
Now youre being charged with murder because a hair on the victims body had a hit in the database.
Its a little different because im hourly, but the principal still applies. If im on the clock, thats their time, and vice versa, i'm a real bastard about it too.
I've been paged to the floor while on my lunch more than a few times, sometimes more than once durring my lunch break. I'm punched out for lunch (company policy) and required to take one (state law) i made my bosses fill out the apropriate paperwork for me to get paid for those interrupted lunch breaks every time. Although personally i'd rather not even take a lunch and not be stuck at work for an hour while not getting paid.
I dont even answer my phone on my days off if i see that its work. One time i was just getting in for the day and my boss said something like "Why didnt you answer your phone yesterday, we coulda really used you, so and so called in." I just laid into him, with the HR lady right there too, i was like
"My days off are MY time, if i dont show up for work on the days i AM scheduled then we have a problem, but i am not coming in other days unless you work something out with me ahead of time. I am NOT on call, and if you want me to be you're gonna have to pay me a salary, starting now."
I work for one of these companies, wont say which because i dont even like to admit it. But with our company at least, it must be isolated stores.
We had the signs on all our analog TVs since i started there a year and a half ago, and almost a year ago we stopped carrying analog sets altogether. We still have the notice up on the one analog VCR/DVD combo that we have a ton of overstock in...
Ive been fairly pleased with our stores small part in all this. Me and the other 6 people (very small store) who work in the electronics dept know all the details of the DTV switch over, and everyone i've witnessed has done a pretty good job explaining it to customers. Not to mention we have brochures about how to get the converter box coupons in about 6 locations through the department, because hey, more sales for our store. Seems to be working too, the only thing were sold out of more often is Wiis (and were only NOT sold out of those for about negative 45 minutes before UPS comes on tuesdays and customers have laid claim to them).
Since the boxes are only $10 with the coupon, and in our area people get quite a few more channels at much beter quality than with analog, most customers havnt seemed too upset about the switch.
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Sold gold isnt usually farmed, its stolen from hacked accounts.
This bug was interesting because of the actual cause. The spell deathgrip functioned the same as a jump, and because of this explot, we learned that the game engine did not recalculate your postition (in the case of a jump/deathgrip) untill you land.
I dont know if this function was known before this bug was discovered, if it was, it wasnt widely known. But ever since we're always being reminded, when moving out of 'fire', just move, dont jump, since the game wont recognize your position and youll keep taking damage untill you land.
I meant the market as a whole is in decline, not that shitty music was relatively less popular. Music, in general, is less popular.
What a stupid fucking thing to say. Pro Tools has nothing to do with why popular band's songs sound like overproduced shit. For that, you can turn to the producers, who in turn get their opinions from the marketplace. So far, people keep buying up the garbage that the major labels have been pushing, so guess what? It's going to stay that way for the foreseeable future.
Except people arent, the marketplace IS reacting. Vehemently AGAINST the crap the industry is (over)producing, but the industry refuses to pull its head out of the sand and instead blames piracy for declining sales and intrest. I cant remember the last time i bought an album by a new artist, someone i didnt already have an album or two by.
It is stupid to blame a piece of software, but the overproduction and homoginization of current music IS a major part of the problem.
If you can get over Titanic, hes actually a damn good actor.
Years ago i heard he was going to be playing tony stark in iron man (that obviously didnt happen), and i thought that was a terrible idea.
Untill i saw The Aviator.
Kevin Smith has seen a pre-screening of Watchmen and said they got it right.
http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/08/15/kevin-smith-has-seen-watchmen-its-fking-astounding/
I worked in a photo lab for a time, and the photo editing software behind the counter was severly lacking, which meant i prefered to do a lot of the editing work on the kodak picture maker kiosk and burn it to a disc.
Unfortunately, the KPM was a touchscreen interface, my arm would be sore after about 10 minutes of editing photos. But since i worked there and had the keys i'd always just pop the back panel off and plug in a mouse. Much quicker and more precise than the touchscreen and so much easier on my elbows and shoulders.
Servers'll be down for half that day, plenty of time to go vote AND stock up on cheetos.
Since the announcement of the official Bejeweled addon (although they should use the existing gem icons for it), i've thought they should take it one step further and integrate a quick stripped down version of the original WC in the game to play before raids and things.
The problem with a company allowing RW gold sales is that suddently theyve suddently attached a real monetary value to a virtual item and opened themselves up to countless liabilities.
Say they alow gold selling, sudently all the items in your inventory are worth possibly thousands of dollars. Then what happens if your account gets hacked, or theres a server crash or something. What are you going to do? Sue the company for the value of your virtual items.
It is much easier for the companies to say, gold selling is not allowed, gold and items have no official RW value and you will be banned for buying or selling, than to deal with the headache of being responsible for possibly millions of dollars worth of virtual items on their servers.
This is good for everybody, for those who want to roll a DK right away, they can hang out in plague lands and the outland for a couple of weeks while everybody else hits the northrend, less competition for quests and resources.
If they wanted to lighten the load on their servers even more (although theyve probably learned a thing or two since the BC launch), theyd release Starcraft II on the same day.
That would be a tough decision...
He didnt compromise accounts, in the summary it says he tapped into land lines. That can be done with a $5 telephone handset and a pair of aligator clips, and was probably done using an actual linemans handset provided to him by the company. Google "beige box" for more info.
The Hat McCoy memorial?
Shut up already. Why dont you just give away my ENTIRE plan for world domination...
How is this not racketeering and extortion? I mean, c'mon...
Wow, like 10 minutes ago i was looking for a spare phone in this box and found a case of floppy disks from my middle school computer class. If the disks are good i think there are a couple of hypercard stacks on there... Weird.
JW what HS you went to, i went to an IB HS too, Rufus King in Milwaukee.
Tyranny of the majority. If we had a true 1:1 democracy, black people probably still wouldnt have rights and being gay would probably be illegal. Just because a majority of people can agree on something doesnt make it right.
I've argued this before. Double the salary, halve the term limit of every elected office and make political office a cumpulsory lottery system for every american over 30 with a HS diploma. This would reduce the power of lobbyists as they wouldnt be able to gradually buy a politician over the span of a career and it would limit the damage any an official could do.
The counter argument to this was that it would increase the power of the beurocracy and all non elected governmental positions and any lobbiing would shift focus to them.
No, the highway system was also pushed by the auto makers and as a public works project and as an integral part of national defense. Link.
True, but that doesnt change the fact that most of the goods around the country USED to be carried by rail, untill the automotive companies bought up the rail companies and began to ship everything with the trucks they built.
Wait, its been done...
Is that you leave DNA around everywhere you go all day and this can be spread elsewhere by third parties.
That guy you passed on the street 6 hours ago... a strand of your hair that was on your shoulder was blown onto his coat by a slight breeze. He went home and murdered his wife, and in the struggle the hair found its way onto his wifes body.
Now youre being charged with murder because a hair on the victims body had a hit in the database.
Its a little different because im hourly, but the principal still applies. If im on the clock, thats their time, and vice versa, i'm a real bastard about it too.
I've been paged to the floor while on my lunch more than a few times, sometimes more than once durring my lunch break. I'm punched out for lunch (company policy) and required to take one (state law) i made my bosses fill out the apropriate paperwork for me to get paid for those interrupted lunch breaks every time. Although personally i'd rather not even take a lunch and not be stuck at work for an hour while not getting paid.
I dont even answer my phone on my days off if i see that its work. One time i was just getting in for the day and my boss said something like "Why didnt you answer your phone yesterday, we coulda really used you, so and so called in." I just laid into him, with the HR lady right there too, i was like
"My days off are MY time, if i dont show up for work on the days i AM scheduled then we have a problem, but i am not coming in other days unless you work something out with me ahead of time. I am NOT on call, and if you want me to be you're gonna have to pay me a salary, starting now."
They havnt called me on a day off since then.
I work for one of these companies, wont say which because i dont even like to admit it. But with our company at least, it must be isolated stores.
We had the signs on all our analog TVs since i started there a year and a half ago, and almost a year ago we stopped carrying analog sets altogether. We still have the notice up on the one analog VCR/DVD combo that we have a ton of overstock in...
Ive been fairly pleased with our stores small part in all this. Me and the other 6 people (very small store) who work in the electronics dept know all the details of the DTV switch over, and everyone i've witnessed has done a pretty good job explaining it to customers. Not to mention we have brochures about how to get the converter box coupons in about 6 locations through the department, because hey, more sales for our store. Seems to be working too, the only thing were sold out of more often is Wiis (and were only NOT sold out of those for about negative 45 minutes before UPS comes on tuesdays and customers have laid claim to them).
Since the boxes are only $10 with the coupon, and in our area people get quite a few more channels at much beter quality than with analog, most customers havnt seemed too upset about the switch.