This lawsuit has some really strange bedfellows.
First you have greenpeace which is afraid that its fellow members in ELF are bein listened in on.
Then you have Council on American-Islamic Relations who has said that terrorist suspects should have unlimited access to thier supporters back home.
There are plenty of worthwhile groups that looking into wiretapping and if it was legal, this lawsuit is not going to do anything. The only reason for the ACLU to do it is for the publicity; after all it is coming up to 1 year when they filed a suit saying that the US Government has no right to pick up and deport illegal aliens.
Germany is coming close but without thier economy tanking will not make it. They lucked out and got all the eastern germany plants counted in the 1990 column. So with them closing down some and upgrading a few others they are getting closes.
With the way it is going the US may of missed out on all the "look we care" feeling that is popular in the world. Since we did not sign up, we cannot claim we care even though no one is going to make it, and knew they could not make it when they signed the treaty.
Like every other profession I, the worker, am going to be hurt by having competition in the field of employment. However the competition is benificial to others not in that same field.
For example as a person who will probably need medical care sometime in my life I want all the people in the world working on possible medical improvements. It does not matter to me where in the world a new medical process or chemical comes from I as a paying consumer will have access to it and benfit from it. For the people working in the field of medical research the worldwide competition does effect them and they would prefer it did not exist.
I kind of think DDO will be kind of like EQ2 with the way it handles additional content.
EQ2 has 3 types the free stuff which tends to come out monthly, adventure packs which so far have cost $5-$7 and are self contained dungeons and story lines. Then you have expansion packs which are huge and have many story lines in addition to new levels. All 3 are done by seperate groups so if adventure packs do not profit then no additional ones will be added, same with expansion packs.
As for zoning it is not bad, and coming from AC it was a main thing I was worried about. Excluding log in/out and deaths I perform maybe 5-6 a day(you will zone alot more as a new characters) and the usally consists of teleporting back to home area(where I sell and put stuff in guild bank or personnal bank), zone to transportation hub and check market for stuff I am looking for, zone to main adventure area, then zoning for instances, large dungeons, or further out areas. Then probably a zone to teleport back to home.
What caused most of the hanging chap problem in florida was that the poll workers were not empting the trash boxes when the chads were suppose to fall into. There were no ice-picks or anything of that nature.
Yet some people think that the same people who had problems pulling out a tray, turning it upside down and returning it are going to be able to install the paper needed for theses machines.
Prices have majorly changed from last year, for the 2 main tax program. Theses prices are normal "Deluxe version" retail prices. If you have simple tax needs check for thier web based ones which for some will be free.
Taxcut increased $10, no across the board rebates. Includes a single state for free no need to mail in rebate. Includes a single e-file rebate.
TurboTax increased by $20 and dropped the previous almost across the board rebate. Includes a single state for free no need to mail in rebate. Does NOT include a rebate for e-file.
TaxAct. With deluxe version does not come with a state but for $7 you get the special bundle which includes a single state. Still $10 cheaper then retail Taxcut which is significaly cheaper then turbotax. Includes a single e-file no need to send in rebate; you can purchase upto 4 more per packge for $7.95 each.
I am planning to give taxact a try this year after using taxcut for 3+ years. at $12.95 + shipping it is cheap enough to just give it a try.
As for your theory that programmer interaction is part of the formula for success I have a counter example: World of Warcraft.
Blizzard got to play it different because it was blizzard, they already had a huge fan base that was going to purchase the game no matter its condition because it had thier name on it. In addition they did a smart thing in not having and NDA so they had all the fans advertising for it instead of having local customer relationship person doing it.
Also blizzard had a mindset that they would not have a central CR person, like you do with most other MMORPGs that act as go betweens devs and the customer base, because they did not want have that person to be widly known over other people. They even posted a message on this; this has kinda changed since release but they still have a terrible record on interacting with the player base.
Wasn't that whole no-bid contract stuff investiaged by the FBI and GAO and then cleared.
I work for a competator of Halliburton, while do some of the same things do they we do more different things and we earn more money from federal contracts then they do. When it came up this was dicussed around the office and know one could name an competitor that had the capabilities to do what the contract was for in the time period required, and for a significantly cheaper price.
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This was hardly a case of turbine going out of thier way to break that software.
The way the program worked was by using an offset, and that had to found out every time there was new compile of the code, this happened mostly on a monthly basis because they released a new version with new content and features.
To explain why it would take so long for people who did not play AC, designed what around 6-7 years ago. You had around 10 pieces of clothing you could wear, and a weapon. Spells exists that could buff each of thoses pieces of clothing and your weapon so you had all thoses spells that people could cast, in addition you had around 6-7 spells that you could cast on your overall body. You could duplicate most of thoses using items but that cost large amounts of money want wanted to be uber you took thoses magic classes.
Also IIRC around 3+ years ago they upped the time on thoses spells to around 1-2 hours in length.
Please read a little about statistical analysis.
Using your population number 280000000 and 6,403 people survayed that gives a 95% confidence (which is about the norm for this type of study) that the survey answers are correct and apply to people who were not surveyed. This is with an margin of error of 1.22% which means that survey results may vary by 1.22% in either direction. This is all provided that the people surveyed where a random sample of the US population.
There are actually 3 levels of service: Free version, Commercial version where you must pay, and government level where the 1cm will be available.
as for pricing since it will be close to a decade before they are ready for use prices have not yet been released.
Most modern GPS already come with the mapping software to do this already, or you can purchase it.
If I am in an area with with Garmin I just select attractions and it brings up a list of all the nearby ones I can look for a name that looks interesting and select map and I am given directions and distance to it.
wow, visual studio for free for one year man... what should i do after 366 days ?
Answered in thie FAQ. What happens in 365 from the date they announced that the software would be free microsoft will be pulling it off thier site. Any software coved by this will be free forever.
Come day 366 you will have to pay $49 for the versions of the software they are making available currently for free.
The HAM was in the top 10 of the stupid designs in SWG.
While other game have had multiple bars of various types SWG just was poorly designed and implemented. Without going into a long discussion with all its faults one of the main ones was that different weapons damaged different bars. So if you were in group with various people some would be damaging health another group mind and some more taking out the third. So battles became a race to see which of the 3 bars of the enemy would be depleted first. This lead to a sub problem in that most of the players of SWG were far to stupid to realize that, or even understand what it meant when it was explained to them. For thoses that did and when you had groups formed that focused on depleting a single bar there was nothing in the game that could come close to stopping you.
Microsoft sold AC2 to turbine after it had been released.
AC2 was a flop because it was no where near ready for release. In addition the design was done by microsoft and they were tring to turn it into a EQ/DaOC clone. If read some of the original stuff that Turbine put out when it was initially talked about it was going to be an majorily improved AC1, better graphics, more capabilities and fixing the problems of AC1.
That is common, with press releases.
Because of the buisness nature they will be copies and posted on multiple web sites so they put a link back to the original company.
It has to be money and has to goto charity orginizations, not all non-profit are charity. In addition the board of directors of Oracle has to approve the charity and it will be given in Oracle's name not ellson.
Can you have a almost completly random MMORPG, SWG kind of does.
Once you leave the cities, and if there is no other player around to lock down the area things will change.
For instance I once went far outside of town and left the game. When I left it was a plains. Log in hour later, an empiral stronhold. hour later plains and a few spawn points, later a small rebel camp, later mountains.
That type of randomness is not good.
Saw the perfect design for jogger,biker,etc.
It was designed as a single piece that slipped over the ear and basiclly looked like one of the bluetooth headsets(without the microphone) but a little bigger. It had a decent sounding speaker that while close to ear so you could hear did not put a mini plug in so that most outside sound was blocked.
Yea, the main city is global with the design that this is people will meet, socialize, form groups etc.
Then once that is done and they leave the city it will be thier group vs the NPC world like your D&D game played at someones house.
AC did not have instances outside of houses because of technology, however they did dungeons that because of the way they way you had to open the portal were basicly instances.
The WoW situation is good however EQ2 does it a little closer to AC, where you have larger dungeons that are open to all, and then when you get to the end of the dungeon is an entry to a instance where you may have a few more fights and then the boss. This is in addition to full dungeons that are instances.
However with and RFC, design pattern, spec whatever when you make references you should also inform the person, I put it header, where(URL if available), what version, author(if that applies), ISBN, title, etc that you are using. /*
Following referneces used:
[1] RFC blablabla , version bla, URL:bla
*/
Then be sure to say which of thoses references you are refering to. I usally just number then and then when used do //[1] step 3c, xor key with 0x5e
Get your dates right.
Iraq invaded on August 2,1990. US and Kuwait forced the UN Security Council to meet and have a resolution passed demanding the withdraw of troops, this was within hours.
On August 7 the US already had moved troops to the border(far from the 6 months before lifting a finger) On the 8th we had naval battle groups in place. By October the US had over 500,000 personnel in place.
Your to late for the ketchup idea.
Since 1952 the US Government has been testing ketchup. Ketchup must flow between 3-7 centimeters in 30 seconds to be considered Grade A. Ketchup that flow closer to the 3-centimeter mark receive better scores. Ketchups that are too thick or too runny receive poor grades.
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This lawsuit has some really strange bedfellows.
First you have greenpeace which is afraid that its fellow members in ELF are bein listened in on.
Then you have Council on American-Islamic Relations who has said that terrorist suspects should have unlimited access to thier supporters back home.
There are plenty of worthwhile groups that looking into wiretapping and if it was legal, this lawsuit is not going to do anything. The only reason for the ACLU to do it is for the publicity; after all it is coming up to 1 year when they filed a suit saying that the US Government has no right to pick up and deport illegal aliens.
Germany is coming close but without thier economy tanking will not make it. They lucked out and got all the eastern germany plants counted in the 1990 column. So with them closing down some and upgrading a few others they are getting closes.
With the way it is going the US may of missed out on all the "look we care" feeling that is popular in the world. Since we did not sign up, we cannot claim we care even though no one is going to make it, and knew they could not make it when they signed the treaty.
Like every other profession I, the worker, am going to be hurt by having competition in the field of employment. However the competition is benificial to others not in that same field.
For example as a person who will probably need medical care sometime in my life I want all the people in the world working on possible medical improvements. It does not matter to me where in the world a new medical process or chemical comes from I as a paying consumer will have access to it and benfit from it. For the people working in the field of medical research the worldwide competition does effect them and they would prefer it did not exist.
That little red book/homeland secureity turned out to be a frabrication of the student.
I kind of think DDO will be kind of like EQ2 with the way it handles additional content.
EQ2 has 3 types the free stuff which tends to come out monthly, adventure packs which so far have cost $5-$7 and are self contained dungeons and story lines. Then you have expansion packs which are huge and have many story lines in addition to new levels. All 3 are done by seperate groups so if adventure packs do not profit then no additional ones will be added, same with expansion packs.
As for zoning it is not bad, and coming from AC it was a main thing I was worried about. Excluding log in/out and deaths I perform maybe 5-6 a day(you will zone alot more as a new characters) and the usally consists of teleporting back to home area(where I sell and put stuff in guild bank or personnal bank), zone to transportation hub and check market for stuff I am looking for, zone to main adventure area, then zoning for instances, large dungeons, or further out areas. Then probably a zone to teleport back to home.
What caused most of the hanging chap problem in florida was that the poll workers were not empting the trash boxes when the chads were suppose to fall into. There were no ice-picks or anything of that nature.
Yet some people think that the same people who had problems pulling out a tray, turning it upside down and returning it are going to be able to install the paper needed for theses machines.
Prices have majorly changed from last year, for the 2 main tax program. Theses prices are normal "Deluxe version" retail prices. If you have simple tax needs check for thier web based ones which for some will be free.
Taxcut increased $10, no across the board rebates. Includes a single state for free no need to mail in rebate. Includes a single e-file rebate.
TurboTax increased by $20 and dropped the previous almost across the board rebate. Includes a single state for free no need to mail in rebate. Does NOT include a rebate for e-file.
TaxAct. With deluxe version does not come with a state but for $7 you get the special bundle which includes a single state. Still $10 cheaper then retail Taxcut which is significaly cheaper then turbotax. Includes a single e-file no need to send in rebate; you can purchase upto 4 more per packge for $7.95 each.
I am planning to give taxact a try this year after using taxcut for 3+ years. at $12.95 + shipping it is cheap enough to just give it a try.
As for your theory that programmer interaction is part of the formula for success I have a counter example: World of Warcraft.
Blizzard got to play it different because it was blizzard, they already had a huge fan base that was going to purchase the game no matter its condition because it had thier name on it. In addition they did a smart thing in not having and NDA so they had all the fans advertising for it instead of having local customer relationship person doing it.
Also blizzard had a mindset that they would not have a central CR person, like you do with most other MMORPGs that act as go betweens devs and the customer base, because they did not want have that person to be widly known over other people. They even posted a message on this; this has kinda changed since release but they still have a terrible record on interacting with the player base.
Wasn't that whole no-bid contract stuff investiaged by the FBI and GAO and then cleared.
I work for a competator of Halliburton, while do some of the same things do they we do more different things and we earn more money from federal contracts then they do. When it came up this was dicussed around the office and know one could name an competitor that had the capabilities to do what the contract was for in the time period required, and for a significantly cheaper price.
This was hardly a case of turbine going out of thier way to break that software.
The way the program worked was by using an offset, and that had to found out every time there was new compile of the code, this happened mostly on a monthly basis because they released a new version with new content and features.
To explain why it would take so long for people who did not play AC, designed what around 6-7 years ago. You had around 10 pieces of clothing you could wear, and a weapon. Spells exists that could buff each of thoses pieces of clothing and your weapon so you had all thoses spells that people could cast, in addition you had around 6-7 spells that you could cast on your overall body. You could duplicate most of thoses using items but that cost large amounts of money want wanted to be uber you took thoses magic classes.
Also IIRC around 3+ years ago they upped the time on thoses spells to around 1-2 hours in length.
Please read a little about statistical analysis.
Using your population number 280000000 and 6,403 people survayed that gives a 95% confidence (which is about the norm for this type of study) that the survey answers are correct and apply to people who were not surveyed. This is with an margin of error of 1.22% which means that survey results may vary by 1.22% in either direction. This is all provided that the people surveyed where a random sample of the US population.
There are actually 3 levels of service: Free version, Commercial version where you must pay, and government level where the 1cm will be available.
as for pricing since it will be close to a decade before they are ready for use prices have not yet been released.
Most modern GPS already come with the mapping software to do this already, or you can purchase it.
If I am in an area with with Garmin I just select attractions and it brings up a list of all the nearby ones I can look for a name that looks interesting and select map and I am given directions and distance to it.
wow, visual studio for free for one year man ... what should i do after 366 days ?
Answered in thie FAQ. What happens in 365 from the date they announced that the software would be free microsoft will be pulling it off thier site. Any software coved by this will be free forever.
Come day 366 you will have to pay $49 for the versions of the software they are making available currently for free.
The HAM was in the top 10 of the stupid designs in SWG.
While other game have had multiple bars of various types SWG just was poorly designed and implemented.
Without going into a long discussion with all its faults one of the main ones was that different weapons damaged different bars. So if you were in group with various people some would be damaging health another group mind and some more taking out the third. So battles became a race to see which of the 3 bars of the enemy would be depleted first. This lead to a sub problem in that most of the players of SWG were far to stupid to realize that, or even understand what it meant when it was explained to them. For thoses that did and when you had groups formed that focused on depleting a single bar there was nothing in the game that could come close to stopping you.
Microsoft sold AC2 to turbine after it had been released.
AC2 was a flop because it was no where near ready for release. In addition the design was done by microsoft and they were tring to turn it into a EQ/DaOC clone. If read some of the original stuff that Turbine put out when it was initially talked about it was going to be an majorily improved AC1, better graphics, more capabilities and fixing the problems of AC1.
That is common, with press releases.
Because of the buisness nature they will be copies and posted on multiple web sites so they put a link back to the original company.
It has to be money and has to goto charity orginizations, not all non-profit are charity. In addition the board of directors of Oracle has to approve the charity and it will be given in Oracle's name not ellson.
Can you have a almost completly random MMORPG, SWG kind of does.
Once you leave the cities, and if there is no other player around to lock down the area things will change.
For instance I once went far outside of town and left the game. When I left it was a plains. Log in hour later, an empiral stronhold. hour later plains and a few spawn points, later a small rebel camp, later mountains.
That type of randomness is not good.
Saw the perfect design for jogger,biker,etc.
It was designed as a single piece that slipped over the ear and basiclly looked like one of the bluetooth headsets(without the microphone) but a little bigger. It had a decent sounding speaker that while close to ear so you could hear did not put a mini plug in so that most outside sound was blocked.
Yea, the main city is global with the design that this is people will meet, socialize, form groups etc.
Then once that is done and they leave the city it will be thier group vs the NPC world like your D&D game played at someones house.
AC did not have instances outside of houses because of technology, however they did dungeons that because of the way they way you had to open the portal were basicly instances.
The WoW situation is good however EQ2 does it a little closer to AC, where you have larger dungeons that are open to all, and then when you get to the end of the dungeon is an entry to a instance where you may have a few more fights and then the boss. This is in addition to full dungeons that are instances.
Do most of the same things.
/*
//[1] step 3c, xor key with 0x5e
However with and RFC, design pattern, spec whatever when you make references you should also inform the person, I put it header, where(URL if available), what version, author(if that applies), ISBN, title, etc that you are using.
Following referneces used:
[1] RFC blablabla , version bla, URL:bla
*/
Then be sure to say which of thoses references you are refering to. I usally just number then and then when used do
Get your dates right. Iraq invaded on August 2,1990. US and Kuwait forced the UN Security Council to meet and have a resolution passed demanding the withdraw of troops, this was within hours.
On August 7 the US already had moved troops to the border(far from the 6 months before lifting a finger) On the 8th we had naval battle groups in place. By October the US had over 500,000 personnel in place.
Your to late for the ketchup idea.
Since 1952 the US Government has been testing ketchup. Ketchup must flow between 3-7 centimeters in 30 seconds to be considered Grade A. Ketchup that flow closer to the 3-centimeter mark receive better scores. Ketchups that are too thick or too runny receive poor grades.