So what you're saying is that if you take out the fact that others (Sony and Blizzard) designed their game well and off-loaded dungeons to separate servers then CCP are better than them?
Well I suppose if you ignored Da Vinci's genius then he was a lot more stupid than I am.
The gp is right. Blizzard gives far too much love to the under-working dweebs who can afford to waster their lives of 10 hour long 40 man raids to the dungeons of utter tedium.
The problem is "the raiders" aka "no-life dweebs" have been getting it all and it's time Blizzard re-focused and concentrated on the majority of their paying customers instead. Let's face it, "the raiders" happilly run through a dungeon that consisted of a single straight corridor for years if the boss at the end had a) sufficently epic loot and b) a wide loot table (so it takes you a long time to see it all).
What's needed is more 5 man content spread through out the levels for those of us (the VAST majority) who either play a single character casually or play multiple characters, where running through the same instance becomes a major bore.
They also need to do something about crafting: why is it that only those prepared to endure the tedium of multiple 40 man raids can ever craft the best "stuff"? That's just wrong.
Blizzard need to re-structure the game so that 1-60 is primarily PVE and the end-game is PVP orientated, not huge dungeon orientated and the focus is on the vast majority of their customers: the casual gamer.
You might ask, with equal validity, whether the problem is caused by gnomes cutting the copper on the motherboard. The flamebait article presents no real basis for suggesting it's a hardware bug and certainly none for then extending that to suggest in might affect Apples. It's pure, unadulterated, flamebait.
Interesting article but why the FUD at the end? Last I checked Apple doesn't use Microsoft drivers so how could it possibly be a a problem for the new intel macs?
There *really* needs to be moderation of articles: this deserves a -1 flamebait, or the "editors" (I use the term loosely) need to do a better job.
Subject says it all. Developing countries are doing this already, skipping the wired stage for some of their infrastructure and skipping straight to wireless: phones is the most wide spread example.
So I'm not sure what value there is in going "OMG it took two gagillion tons of copper to get us where we are today" and multiply that by everyone else and come up with a meaningless number. Even power doesnt need long transmission lines: local generators, fuel cells.
Really I see no problem. Did these "researchers" by lots of copper stock recently?
buy a Dell, or a Sony instead? It's the same hardware for the most part now.
You've obviously never used either a Dell or a Mac. Dells are made from any old crap the $5/hour assemblers find lying around in the factory and the cheapest of cheap cases, mouse nipples, keyboards etc. There's a big difference. Do yourself a favour and try them both. I own a PB and am cursed with having to use a Dell laptop for work: the difference in quality between the two is enormous. Dells are cost less but they're still seriously over-priced.
The humans have what, one base in Kalimdor. The orcs have Grom Gol and Stonard and (forget the name, place in the badlands) in the Eastern continent. And of course the Orcs don't even belong there. And they're allied to the Forsaken who are trying to create a new plague to wipe out all life.
Well the Queen's representative in Australia (Governor General? Viceroy? Not sure of his title) once stopped the labour government from voting itself an extended term in office. Would a Labour president have done the same thing?
That said monarchy is an anachronism, the problem is the alternative is something like the US model but look at the Head of State the voted himself into office! I'd take a our Queen over that corrupt dick any day.
The flaw in your argument is your presumption that you are taxed on a "thing" in order to pay for services that need to be provided in order for you to use that "thing". You aren't. Think of income tax and car/road tax. In the UK road taxes far exceed the money spent on road maintenance. By orders of magnitude.
Taxes are ways for governments to raise money in a way the least people object to. What they spend it isn't related to what they raised it on.
To give another example: here in the UK we pay "National Insurance" which, allegedly, funds the National Health Service and pays for pensions and the like. Complete rubbish. It's just another tax, It isn't ear marked for a particular area of spending, it's even collected by HM Revenue and Customs who collect pretty much every other kind of tax or duty (and not the Department of Health nor the Department for Works and Pensions).
So they increase the fine and start putting MS execs in jail. If there's one thing the law cannot afford to be it's thwarted. Why do you think contempt of court laws are so draconian.
You really think that would stop a crook? There are plenty of fake / improperly issued MOTs around. What makes you think license plates are any different.
I think you have a point but I'd throw in two things to consider: despite your argument there may well be a pattern. Second what people seem to forget is that we're not at the end of the process (well unless life on earth ends in the near, in evolutionary terms, future). Evolution doesn't appear to treat "now" as a special case where as creationism and ID seem to.
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Well I suppose if you ignored Da Vinci's genius then he was a lot more stupid than I am.
The problem is "the raiders" aka "no-life dweebs" have been getting it all and it's time Blizzard re-focused and concentrated on the majority of their paying customers instead. Let's face it, "the raiders" happilly run through a dungeon that consisted of a single straight corridor for years if the boss at the end had a) sufficently epic loot and b) a wide loot table (so it takes you a long time to see it all).
What's needed is more 5 man content spread through out the levels for those of us (the VAST majority) who either play a single character casually or play multiple characters, where running through the same instance becomes a major bore.
They also need to do something about crafting: why is it that only those prepared to endure the tedium of multiple 40 man raids can ever craft the best "stuff"? That's just wrong.
Blizzard need to re-structure the game so that 1-60 is primarily PVE and the end-game is PVP orientated, not huge dungeon orientated and the focus is on the vast majority of their customers: the casual gamer.
You might ask, with equal validity, whether the problem is caused by gnomes cutting the copper on the motherboard. The flamebait article presents no real basis for suggesting it's a hardware bug and certainly none for then extending that to suggest in might affect Apples. It's pure, unadulterated, flamebait.
There *really* needs to be moderation of articles: this deserves a -1 flamebait, or the "editors" (I use the term loosely) need to do a better job.
No, that's what you get when you build something really complicated. The clever bit is that they still work despite the errors.
So I'm not sure what value there is in going "OMG it took two gagillion tons of copper to get us where we are today" and multiply that by everyone else and come up with a meaningless number. Even power doesnt need long transmission lines: local generators, fuel cells.
Really I see no problem. Did these "researchers" by lots of copper stock recently?
As all Macs came/come with MacOs or OSX any copy of OSX you buy separately is to upgrade your existing OS.
I don't believe copyright was the issue it was the lack of attribution, hence plagarism.
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Yes because the thing that C++ really lacks is features bloat.
Why? And why would anyone choose KDE over OSX? It's like suggesting Rolls Royce should offer vinyl as an option on their car seats.
Read even the summary: KDE is *not* going to run Apple widgets. They're simpyl copying the idea. Nothing to see here, move along.
And whilst we're talking of citing sources: where's your for your alleged chinese law regarding pandas? or did you pull that out of your arse as well?
I think your view of orcs is a little blinkered.
That said monarchy is an anachronism, the problem is the alternative is something like the US model but look at the Head of State the voted himself into office! I'd take a our Queen over that corrupt dick any day.
Taxes are ways for governments to raise money in a way the least people object to. What they spend it isn't related to what they raised it on.
To give another example: here in the UK we pay "National Insurance" which, allegedly, funds the National Health Service and pays for pensions and the like. Complete rubbish. It's just another tax, It isn't ear marked for a particular area of spending, it's even collected by HM Revenue and Customs who collect pretty much every other kind of tax or duty (and not the Department of Health nor the Department for Works and Pensions).
So they'll use Apple. That way they not only stop using MS they also get a superior systems. Win-Win.
So they increase the fine and start putting MS execs in jail. If there's one thing the law cannot afford to be it's thwarted. Why do you think contempt of court laws are so draconian.
If that were true prices would be higher already.
You really think that would stop a crook? There are plenty of fake / improperly issued MOTs around. What makes you think license plates are any different.
That's because it's not a T-Rex it's a V-Rex (no, seriously). I no, I have no idea what's the difference, well apart from the arms of course :-)
I think you have a point but I'd throw in two things to consider: despite your argument there may well be a pattern. Second what people seem to forget is that we're not at the end of the process (well unless life on earth ends in the near, in evolutionary terms, future). Evolution doesn't appear to treat "now" as a special case where as creationism and ID seem to.