The fact that you start with a lvl 55 char with next to no money, having to do the starter areas to raise your profession. It's ok if you level your profession while you play, but spending days running areas where you only meet grey - but still annoyingly aggressive - mobs while you try to get your gathering skill up to the level appropriate for the outlands is a major pita.
For the herd-players that may not be a problem, for a solo it's a real fun-killer.
I am waiting for a third faction: scourge. The DK starter quests are real fun, except the one where you get shot of your stupid flying mount. Arthas may make my fist itch, but he's still a lot better than those crusading idiots. RP-PVP ing as Scourge, now that'd be something to look forward to.
If any other news "event" has ever caused there to be such a massive amount of searching - it worries me that it is a celebrity causing this and that people aren't this into any "real" news that actually impacts them.
There's people for you. We are a social species after all. As a society we lost someone who meant something or other to everyone.
I found it rather amazing to hear all kinds of groups, temporary and permanent, talk about Jackson. I work in an office building with a lot of small companies and there was Jackson music coming from most offices on Friday, either from the Net or any local FM station.
People were talking conciliatory about him, mostly praising his music and pitying him for being such a screwed up character. As far as it is proven in court, he never hurt any child, so very few people felt the need to discuss his alleged child-abuse. We do not talk ill of the dead.
Still, I enjoyed the jokes about this demise. Humour is one way of dealing with loss.
When your test driving a car do you immediately put the car in 5th gear and expect to pull away from the curb without burning out the clutch? Why do you do the same thing when test driving a person?
By the orangutans' reaction when the researcher next appeared? Did they flee him or come to him to be tickled again? That should be a good indicator if the apes in question enjoyed it. Also, one could watch out if the orangs copied the behaviour and tickled other members of the group.
Of course, the researcher could have just looked up ook in the librarian's orangutan-human dictionary.
While on bit-torrent (at least on public trackers) there is little positive motivation for yourself to upload.
Au contraire. There is a lot of motiviation to upload since you rise faster in the queue of others.
For instance if you try to get an episode of a series you get that a lot faster if you share other episodes. Same goes for songs from an album or artist.
This might not be significant for often shared files not part of some sort of series, but it is very important if you are looking for something specific or rare.
I just finished dowloading a '79 mini-series and I made sure the completed parts stayed in the download folder. I checked my upload list and sure enough I got the missing 20MB from someone who was loading another part from me.
As the series is quite rare (max 9 sources, all but 2 incomplete) and probably to old (and a TV rip) for the content police to bother with I'm gonna seed it.
Police in Europe (at least in Germany and here in Austria) are allowed to raid your house when they believe there is imminent danger to the security of the state or other citizens ("Gefahr im Verzug"). They don't need a judge's permission/order for this.
Can't speak for our other euro colleagues, but certainly not in Spain pal.
"Gefahr im Verzug" means imminent danger to persons. Like when the police hear someone screaming for help. It's not applicable in this case and I don't think it was used.
I'm pretty sure you've got the same rule in Spain, pal. That's covered under help in an emergency.
As an aside, Downadup.C also actively fights against security-related processes: it has a list of several Anti-Virus and Anti-Malware programs that it automatically kills if the user attempts to run it.
Question: If Conficker simply kills those processes it should be easy to detect. Just try to run a process by one of the names and see if it gets killed -9. A simple test like that should be easy to roll out as a utility program preferably available from known anti-malware sites and at least reduce the number of infected machines.
For those with at least a modicum of systems lore: Just cp notepad.exe to ??? and try to run it? Got an example of ????
Personally, I'm having a hard time getting really worked up about this one way or the other. Maybe it's because I lived without satellite images for approximately 33 of my 37 years on this Earth without much of a problem, and I don't think we'd be losing much to not have them again. This is not like GPS or the internet as a whole or something where there is real utility that would be lost if you switched it off.
I suppose the point is that some political berk wants to censor information to the general public on the grounds of: You might do something with it that I - member of the ruling class - don't want you to.
Finally - everytime I want to view a video on my Vista Laptop I have to spend 5 minutes first killing stupid windows services that keep my drive at 100% activity - even though they are already turned of in the service list.
1GB mem user just for the OS...yikes.
Too bad I can't get the sound to work under Linux - everything else did straight out of the box and the video runs without hitches, too. Under Vista it drops frames or sound all the time unless I can get Windows to leave my disk in peace.
Nobody's going to listen to the talking head introduced as "Jack Thompson: Disbarred Lawyer" who wasn't already convinced that video games are evil incarnate.
Except for those who believe he was disbarred to silence him for annoying [important_group].
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Just started working with 3.5 De_de. Firebug already has an update, but the ugly dotted borders are not fixed. Sigh....my designer will lynch me.
Because you'd get lynched in the opposing factions towns before you can explain. Friend and enemy are well-defined in WoW.
It's bad enough with the DKs, when they ally with a faction. RP-wise they should get attacked, not pelted with fruit.
The fact that you start with a lvl 55 char with next to no money, having to do the starter areas to raise your profession. It's ok if you level your profession while you play, but spending days running areas where you only meet grey - but still annoyingly aggressive - mobs while you try to get your gathering skill up to the level appropriate for the outlands is a major pita. For the herd-players that may not be a problem, for a solo it's a real fun-killer.
I am waiting for a third faction: scourge. The DK starter quests are real fun, except the one where you get shot of your stupid flying mount. Arthas may make my fist itch, but he's still a lot better than those crusading idiots. RP-PVP ing as Scourge, now that'd be something to look forward to.
If any other news "event" has ever caused there to be such a massive amount of searching - it worries me that it is a celebrity causing this and that people aren't this into any "real" news that actually impacts them.
There's people for you. We are a social species after all. As a society we lost someone who meant something or other to everyone.
I found it rather amazing to hear all kinds of groups, temporary and permanent, talk about Jackson. I work in an office building with a lot of small companies and there was Jackson music coming from most offices on Friday, either from the Net or any local FM station.
People were talking conciliatory about him, mostly praising his music and pitying him for being such a screwed up character. As far as it is proven in court, he never hurt any child, so very few people felt the need to discuss his alleged child-abuse. We do not talk ill of the dead.
Still, I enjoyed the jokes about this demise. Humour is one way of dealing with loss.
Very few people get such a worldwide eulogy.
When your test driving a car do you immediately put the car in 5th gear and expect to pull away from the curb without burning out the clutch? Why do you do the same thing when test driving a person?
Because cars have value.
By the orangutans' reaction when the researcher next appeared? Did they flee him or come to him to be tickled again? That should be a good indicator if the apes in question enjoyed it. Also, one could watch out if the orangs copied the behaviour and tickled other members of the group.
Of course, the researcher could have just looked up ook in the librarian's orangutan-human dictionary.
I read lavatory.
Just call it a lab, will you. It's half past one in the night over here.
-1 showoff
-1 punning
-20/-20 sight
If this were irregular, there wouldn't be a Latin phrase for it.
in camera: in the room.
While on bit-torrent (at least on public trackers) there is little positive motivation for yourself to upload.
Au contraire. There is a lot of motiviation to upload since you rise faster in the queue of others.
For instance if you try to get an episode of a series you get that a lot faster if you share other episodes. Same goes for songs from an album or artist.
This might not be significant for often shared files not part of some sort of series, but it is very important if you are looking for something specific or rare.
I just finished dowloading a '79 mini-series and I made sure the completed parts stayed in the download folder. I checked my upload list and sure enough I got the missing 20MB from someone who was loading another part from me.
As the series is quite rare (max 9 sources, all but 2 incomplete) and probably to old (and a TV rip) for the content police to bother with I'm gonna seed it.
Au contraire.
Professor Hawking is the living proof that there is a god and that he gets thoroughly pissed from time to time.
I suppose it's time to look into the living brain project.
Quod custodiet ipso custodies is in fact a Discworld reference - to whit Thud!
The concept is important in many of the novels which center on His grace, his excellency Sir Samuel Vimes, Duke of Ankh.
30M Swedish crowns - not Euros. In Euros it's something like 1.3M - still ridiculous, but they are going to appeal anyway.
Do you think TPB can get a government bailout or weren't they wilful enough for that?
The french spell it Iznogoud.
So you think the World of Warcraft infrastructure is critical?
Panem et circensis, I think.
Mow the lawn, remove spiders, ...
You know, those things a vibrator cannot do.
Police in Europe (at least in Germany and here in Austria) are allowed to raid your house when they believe there is imminent danger to the security of the state or other citizens ("Gefahr im Verzug"). They don't need a judge's permission/order for this.
Can't speak for our other euro colleagues, but certainly not in Spain pal.
"Gefahr im Verzug" means imminent danger to persons. Like when the police hear someone screaming for help. It's not applicable in this case and I don't think it was used.
I'm pretty sure you've got the same rule in Spain, pal. That's covered under help in an emergency.
Sounds fascinating - kind of like Lovecraft.
As an aside, Downadup.C also actively fights against security-related processes: it has a list of several Anti-Virus and Anti-Malware programs that it automatically kills if the user attempts to run it.
Question: If Conficker simply kills those processes it should be easy to detect. Just try to run a process by one of the names and see if it gets killed -9. A simple test like that should be easy to roll out as a utility program preferably available from known anti-malware sites and at least reduce the number of infected machines.
For those with at least a modicum of systems lore: Just cp notepad.exe to ??? and try to run it? Got an example of ????
Terry Pratchett in "Monstrous regiment".
Personally, I'm having a hard time getting really worked up about this one way or the other. Maybe it's because I lived without satellite images for approximately 33 of my 37 years on this Earth without much of a problem, and I don't think we'd be losing much to not have them again. This is not like GPS or the internet as a whole or something where there is real utility that would be lost if you switched it off.
I suppose the point is that some political berk wants to censor information to the general public on the grounds of: You might do something with it that I - member of the ruling class - don't want you to.
Finally - everytime I want to view a video on my Vista Laptop I have to spend 5 minutes first killing stupid windows services that keep my drive at 100% activity - even though they are already turned of in the service list.
1GB mem user just for the OS...yikes.
Too bad I can't get the sound to work under Linux - everything else did straight out of the box and the video runs without hitches, too. Under Vista it drops frames or sound all the time unless I can get Windows to leave my disk in peace.
By all means - try. You'll get what's cumming to you.
An express delivery of upset pussy.
But the user backdoor is no pathway for an SQL injection.
Nobody's going to listen to the talking head introduced as "Jack Thompson: Disbarred Lawyer" who wasn't already convinced that video games are evil incarnate.
Except for those who believe he was disbarred to silence him for annoying [important_group].