Actually, heroic mode offers a bit more than that. Yes, some of the loot drops are underwhelming, but the final boss drops two things you don't get on normal mode: you are guaranteed a Primal Nether which are used for epic crafting, and they will usually drop another epic item of some kind.
Also, some heroic runs are required to qualify for the new "end game" content past Karazhan.
And in the process of doing what you prescribe, he would effectively shut down the iTunes Music Store, which has added $2+ billion in revenue to the Apple books since it was opened, as well as invite the already lawsuit-happy RIAA labels to file breach of contract suits with a guarantee of winning.
You do realize he has shareholders to answer to, right? His job as CEO of Apple is to keep Apple shareholders happy and profitable - not to be your anti-DRM loose cannon.
Not a hard concept, but I'll go ahead and let you in on it:
Someone else's contract != your contract.
If you were to sign a contract to buy wingnuts from the Acme Wingnut Corporation for $0.02 / wingnut and then you see that another guy is only paying $0.01 wingnut, would you just pay $0.01 / wingnut, or do what your contract says?
What do you thing the Acme Wingnut Corporation would expect to receive?
True CDs never had DRM. Phillips wouldn't approve / license it as the Trademark holder on the Compact Disc.
There were forms of optical media that were created to be Compact Disc(TM) compatible with DRM, but they were legally distinct from a real CD. They also failed due to Sharpies and shift keys.
I've used this disc you speak of in the past, as well as a Win98 upgrade disc.
Here's the trick:
Use a DOS boot disk, format your drive, and then do the following: 1. use the copy command to copy from the console to a file named NTLDR (copy con NTLDR) 2. press Control-Z to close the file 3. Install Windows from your upgrade CD - it won't even ask to see a previous version, cause it thinks NT was there at some point.
Wonder if the new system is any "harder" to get around...
... the ability to have ringtones and pictures that don't cost you 2 bucks a pop from the phone company is a daring move for Cingular. Not really, since I've been using a MP3 that I ripped from CD as my ringer, and a picture that I took on my non-phone digital camera as a background for almost two years with my Cingular provided RAZR...
You know what I think when I see a signed driver? It's old, and I better go to the internet to get a newer one.
As someone who once worked in two different QA labs for hardware drivers (different companies) I can tell you that getting that WHQL certification is nothing but a Microsoft cash cow - $10k per submission, payable whether your drivers pass or not.
$10k+ to make sure your users don't get hassled with unnecessary and confusing dialogs. If that's not racketeering, I don't know what is.
All of this stuff you're talking about just appears to be anecdotal evidence that every organization you have been professionally involved with sucks at designing workflows.
I work for a division of a Fortune 30 company that does about $60B in revenue a year. This division contributes ~12% of that figure. I am the systems engineer that works with the Sales Promotion and Marketing team to put in the systems they use for advertising production - you know, the coupons and shit that you see in the newspapers every week, the coupons on the shelves, posters and display endcaps, etc.
The only people up there using Word are the copy writers. Everyone else is using InDesign and PDF.
As far as your editing and so on goes, I suggest looking at Acrobat 7's markup features. You can put edit marks directly in the PDF now without altering the original document permanently, and without totally screwing over the layout. Let's see Word do that.
I agree with you. However, it's important to note that corruption in the Federal Government did not start with the 2000 Presidential Election. It's been around long before that.
Never mind the fact that "more powerful" nukes are a complete waste of time and resources even to the most nuke-happy DoD shill, as highlighted in the following:
Provides greater target damage for a given missile payload. Radiation (including radiated heat) from a nuclear warhead diminishes as the square of the distance (called the inverse-square law), and blast pressure diminishes as the cube of the distance. For example at a distance of 4 km from ground zero, the blast pressure is only 1/64th that of 1 km. Due to these effects several small warheads cause much more target damage area than a single large one. This in turn reduces the number of missiles and launch facilities required for a given destruction level.
Reduces the number of missiles required to attack a given number of separate targets. With single warhead missiles, one missile must be launched for each target. By contrast with a MIRV warhead, the post-boost (or bus) stage can dispense the warheads against multiple targets across a broad area.
Reduces the impact of SALT treaty limitations. The treaty initially limited number of missiles, not number of warheads. Adding multiple warheads per missile provided more target destruction for a given number of missiles.
Reduces the effectiveness of an anti-ballistic missile system that relies on intercepting individual warheads. While a MIRVed attacking missile can have multiple (3-12 on various US missiles) warheads, interceptors can only have one warhead per missile. Thus, in both a military and economic sense, MIRVs render ABM systems less effective, as the costs of maintaining a workable defense against MIRVs would greatly increase, requiring multiple defensive missiles for each offensive one.
The first point is the most important. Nukes explode in a sphere. Cities aren't built as spheres, so you want the most force you can going North, South, East, and West - and less going into the ground and up in the atmosphere. Big massive multi-megaton bombs like the "Tsar Bomba" (50 Mt) and the B41 (25 Mt) were phased out long ago, or never entered military service because they were useless in the world of ICBMs that couldn't carry the weight, were prohibitively expensive in comparison to several smaller warheads on a single missile, and they did less damage in the end.
Area Ranked 49th
- Total 2,491 sq mi (6,452 km)
- Width 30 miles (48 km)
- Length 100 miles (161 km)
- % water 21.5
- Latitude 3827'N to 3950'N
- Longitude 752'W to 7547'W
It's far better that they blow up their own country than someone else's. Just keep saying "Nuh-uh!" long enough, and they'll waste some more of their weapons grade materiel in a mountain compression exercise...
Are you sure you'd want to install anything that comes out of Microsoft with all of 5 days of coding, testing, QA, regression testing, validation, etc?
Not about being touchy when your joke is effectively a regurgitation of Windows shill FUD.
I personally don't give a damn what OS you use, but I do give a damn when someone's sarcasm (which is easily undetectable without voice inflections and pitch / tone) could be interpreted as fact by the ignorant... of which there is plenty running around the Intarweb.
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Actually, heroic mode offers a bit more than that. Yes, some of the loot drops are underwhelming, but the final boss drops two things you don't get on normal mode: you are guaranteed a Primal Nether which are used for epic crafting, and they will usually drop another epic item of some kind.
Also, some heroic runs are required to qualify for the new "end game" content past Karazhan.
Yeah right.
And in the process of doing what you prescribe, he would effectively shut down the iTunes Music Store, which has added $2+ billion in revenue to the Apple books since it was opened, as well as invite the already lawsuit-happy RIAA labels to file breach of contract suits with a guarantee of winning.
You do realize he has shareholders to answer to, right? His job as CEO of Apple is to keep Apple shareholders happy and profitable - not to be your anti-DRM loose cannon.
Not a hard concept, but I'll go ahead and let you in on it:
Someone else's contract != your contract.
If you were to sign a contract to buy wingnuts from the Acme Wingnut Corporation for $0.02 / wingnut and then you see that another guy is only paying $0.01 wingnut, would you just pay $0.01 / wingnut, or do what your contract says?
What do you thing the Acme Wingnut Corporation would expect to receive?
True CDs never had DRM. Phillips wouldn't approve / license it as the Trademark holder on the Compact Disc.
There were forms of optical media that were created to be Compact Disc(TM) compatible with DRM, but they were legally distinct from a real CD. They also failed due to Sharpies and shift keys.
This is correct. US phone numbers are formatted in the following manner:
123-456-7890
Where the first three digits are your area code, the second three are the exchange number, and the last four are the line number.
Both my mobile and my land line are in the same area code, but different exchange numbers and line numbers.
I've used this disc you speak of in the past, as well as a Win98 upgrade disc.
Here's the trick:
Use a DOS boot disk, format your drive, and then do the following:
1. use the copy command to copy from the console to a file named NTLDR (copy con NTLDR)
2. press Control-Z to close the file
3. Install Windows from your upgrade CD - it won't even ask to see a previous version, cause it thinks NT was there at some point.
Wonder if the new system is any "harder" to get around...
As someone working in the IS department for a Fortune 30 company, I can say that I *wish* we used Exchange / Outlook, as Lotus Notes sucks worse.
The guy you describe hasn't seen the sun in quite a while as it is, so no loss there...
... the ability to have ringtones and pictures that don't cost you 2 bucks a pop from the phone company is a daring move for Cingular. Not really, since I've been using a MP3 that I ripped from CD as my ringer, and a picture that I took on my non-phone digital camera as a background for almost two years with my Cingular provided RAZR...I think you're thinking of Verizon.
You know what I think when I see a signed driver? It's old, and I better go to the internet to get a newer one.
As someone who once worked in two different QA labs for hardware drivers (different companies) I can tell you that getting that WHQL certification is nothing but a Microsoft cash cow - $10k per submission, payable whether your drivers pass or not.
$10k+ to make sure your users don't get hassled with unnecessary and confusing dialogs. If that's not racketeering, I don't know what is.
Wait... that matters?
The terms:
Industry standard
Proprietary
are not mutually exclusive.
All of this stuff you're talking about just appears to be anecdotal evidence that every organization you have been professionally involved with sucks at designing workflows.
I work for a division of a Fortune 30 company that does about $60B in revenue a year. This division contributes ~12% of that figure. I am the systems engineer that works with the Sales Promotion and Marketing team to put in the systems they use for advertising production - you know, the coupons and shit that you see in the newspapers every week, the coupons on the shelves, posters and display endcaps, etc.
The only people up there using Word are the copy writers. Everyone else is using InDesign and PDF.
As far as your editing and so on goes, I suggest looking at Acrobat 7's markup features. You can put edit marks directly in the PDF now without altering the original document permanently, and without totally screwing over the layout. Let's see Word do that.
Insightful? Yeah, nice.
Watch some crappy 80s movies please!
Well who the hell do you think is posting all those IN SOVIET RUSSIA posts?
They aren't jokes - they are nostalgia!
In the post Janet Jackson FCC gestapo tactics landscape, anchors on CNN are afraid to use the following terms:
boob
booby
boobies
tit
titties
fun bags
dirty pillows
natty-sags
I'm sure there are plenty more. This is the reason for the INAs we're hearing (Improvised Non-sensical Acronyms) such as "IEDs".
It's the SCO business plan: if you can't compete, litigate!
Your mom said all kinds of nice things about my sexual procliviwhatevers. Bitch! =P
I agree with you. However, it's important to note that corruption in the Federal Government did not start with the 2000 Presidential Election. It's been around long before that.
Never mind the fact that "more powerful" nukes are a complete waste of time and resources even to the most nuke-happy DoD shill, as highlighted in the following:
From Wikipedia:
The military purpose of a MIRV is fourfold:
Provides greater target damage for a given missile payload. Radiation (including radiated heat) from a nuclear warhead diminishes as the square of the distance (called the inverse-square law), and blast pressure diminishes as the cube of the distance. For example at a distance of 4 km from ground zero, the blast pressure is only 1/64th that of 1 km. Due to these effects several small warheads cause much more target damage area than a single large one. This in turn reduces the number of missiles and launch facilities required for a given destruction level.
Reduces the number of missiles required to attack a given number of separate targets. With single warhead missiles, one missile must be launched for each target. By contrast with a MIRV warhead, the post-boost (or bus) stage can dispense the warheads against multiple targets across a broad area.
Reduces the impact of SALT treaty limitations. The treaty initially limited number of missiles, not number of warheads. Adding multiple warheads per missile provided more target destruction for a given number of missiles.
Reduces the effectiveness of an anti-ballistic missile system that relies on intercepting individual warheads. While a MIRVed attacking missile can have multiple (3-12 on various US missiles) warheads, interceptors can only have one warhead per missile. Thus, in both a military and economic sense, MIRVs render ABM systems less effective, as the costs of maintaining a workable defense against MIRVs would greatly increase, requiring multiple defensive missiles for each offensive one.
The first point is the most important. Nukes explode in a sphere. Cities aren't built as spheres, so you want the most force you can going North, South, East, and West - and less going into the ground and up in the atmosphere. Big massive multi-megaton bombs like the "Tsar Bomba" (50 Mt) and the B41 (25 Mt) were phased out long ago, or never entered military service because they were useless in the world of ICBMs that couldn't carry the weight, were prohibitively expensive in comparison to several smaller warheads on a single missile, and they did less damage in the end.
O Rly?
Area Ranked 49th
- Total 2,491 sq mi
(6,452 km)
- Width 30 miles (48 km)
- Length 100 miles (161 km)
- % water 21.5
- Latitude 3827'N to 3950'N
- Longitude 752'W to 7547'W
( source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware )
It's far better that they blow up their own country than someone else's. Just keep saying "Nuh-uh!" long enough, and they'll waste some more of their weapons grade materiel in a mountain compression exercise...
Are you sure you'd want to install anything that comes out of Microsoft with all of 5 days of coding, testing, QA, regression testing, validation, etc?
I know I wouldn't. Give em 30 days at least.
Not about being touchy when your joke is effectively a regurgitation of Windows shill FUD.
I personally don't give a damn what OS you use, but I do give a damn when someone's sarcasm (which is easily undetectable without voice inflections and pitch / tone) could be interpreted as fact by the ignorant... of which there is plenty running around the Intarweb.
Yeah, because there are no backup solutions available for the Mac...
Take your FUD elsewhere.