Why not just leave a couple bottles of good scotch....
If they're old now, drink 'em now. If they're young now, they're not going to improve in the bottle. A bottle of 10-year-old single-malt, stored sealed in the bottle for 35 years, is not 45-year-old single malt. It's a bottle of 10-year-old single-malt in a really dusty bottle.
That said, after the zombie apocalypse, a good bottle of pre-apocalypse scotch might be quite valuable, either for trade or as an incendiary grenade. So this may be good thinking after all.
No, as far as I can tell Nokia isn't disabling tethering and probably won't. But not all phone vendors are so flexible.
And this is where I note that I've veered offtopic a smidge. iPhone can disable tethering at the drop of a firmware update (and will, apparently, at the insistence of its US network provider), and the architecture is closed so that the user can't do anything about it. (Or, at least, anything easy or permanent: "not easy" usually means a hack or jailbreak, "not permanent" usually means "unhacked and re-jailed after the NEXT firmware update.")
OTOH, it appears that the Nokia will be immune to that. Even if the net provider insists on disabling stuff in the released firmare, the open-source basis means that a moderately-clever user can fix it with minimum hackish black magic. So, yeah, the Nokia seems a better option to me, too. I won't buy an iPhone, no matter how cool, because it's just a shiny jail. The Nokia has caught my eye, and other than the eye-watering price seems like the perfect smartphone for me. We shall see.
Do you update your firmware? If so, they can. If you don't, I suppose they can't. But running old firmware seems a bit extreme. I don't know of any practical fallout, but I could imagine the possibility (unpatched security vulns, for obvious example).
By crippling the phone. But a lot of savvy users (e.g..,/.ers) will avoid phones like that. Unless it's an iPhone. They'll eat that up, crippled free tethering and all.
That was my impression, too. A brand-new DK, just exiting the starting area and initial quest chains, starts out with a set of "rare" quality gear that could only have been exceeded in the pre-Burning Crusade era by dedicated 40-man raiders. And that, just barely.
I swear if Apple starts ranting about a good mutton, lettuce, and tomato sandwich, where the mutton is so nice and lean, and the tomato is ripe... I swear... someone must "prepare to die".
I generally don't bother with this, but if you log into the Armory with your WoW or Bnet account (whichever your current WoW authentication is), you can at least view a character's calendar (the raids/events schedule thing you speak of), but I suspect Armory and other web-based (or non-WoW-client) access to server-side data is read-only on purpose, and permanently. Just guessin'.
There was a bit of novelty in the quest structure of some of the lore-ish questlines, and the "Angrathar/Battle of the Undercity" chain you mention is a premier example. To a lesser extent, the "Argent Vanguard/Argent Pinnacle" chains.
The common mechanical factor is, I think, phasing. This capability seems to have taken the chains off of the quest writers, and they've broken out with some memorable quest lines.
I suspect the question is rhetorical, just like yours seems to be.
Hmmm... would it be bad form for someone to "Whoosh!" me for pointing out rhetorical questions? It would be, on the surface, appropriate, just non-customary.
Ah, tethering. You forgot to add "as long as your cell provider isn't a money-grubbing pig about it." (i.e., disallow it unless you pay them more per month).
I dunno how Blizz will answer, but achievements like Loremaster and Explorer provide alternate incentive to go back and close out content you skipped on the accelerated run to 80. Of course, as an 80 everything pre-BC is uber lol-easymode, and BC content is soloable, so it's clearly not the same, but nothing except peer pressure ("you don't raid enough") keeps you from going back to "a lot of areas and beautiful terrain".
Yes, my main has both Loremaster and Explorer. And has caught a fair bit of trollish flamage in chat for doing that before pimping out with full raid epics. It's amusing how folks think that you're not playing the game right if you're not playing the game like they play it. But, whatever.
What does the future hold as you strive to cut out content? The ability to start at level (current expansion cap - 20)?
That's the past. Death Knights, as you know, start playing open world content at about level 60. I expect future hero classes (if there are any) will have a similar mechanic, but I don't work for Blizz and have no inside line, so that's just my speculation.
Even in places like my old job, where the entire chain of command up to director allowed employees to play WoW during downtime (Tier I call center), you still had to stop whenever work happened, which seems enough to prevent "Internet addiction" from setting in...
Sheesh, that's enough to keep WoW from setting in!
"This is great, we've got Illidan down to 35% and no deaths so far! We're gonna win this encounter!"
Why not nuclear power? They can use nuclear power on an aircraft carrier to power the conversion at minimal cost and zero extra emissions.
I'm pretty sure that's what the Navy is planning. A nuc carrier has effectively unlimited carbon-free electrical power available for years at a time. Until we can directly power warplanes with electricity, using shipboard reactor-generator electricity to create aviation fuel aboard ship at least extends the carrier's at-sea endurance (or allows it to skip unrep of aircraft fuel stores.)
Taking this one step further, and with some creativity develop a nicely controlled natural uranium-deuterium based fission reaction that could produce sufficient power to run a jet at minimal risks.
As to nuclear-powered aircraft, early research never went anywhere, largely because of issues of shielding weight and radiation pollution. And these were never aircraft small enough to be carrier-based.
Never mind cold water. Push those warm embers together, pile the hard drives (one deep) on top of them, and pour on the liquid oxygen. Data security problem solved! Now to solve the problem about retinal burns and certain strategic defense agencies misinterpreting your BBQ as a nuclear detonation event...
Alternatively, they would charge the person in the US even though they live elsewhere and then, on any visit to the US, the person would be arrested and tossed in jail.
Or can happen during a 6-hour period during the day, like at work, on peak. So, to make sure the already-overburdened-at-peak net doesn't get swamped with cars charging during the day.... what do you do? Original poster says he has access to a free daytime charge at work. If this continues to be the case, and becomes the case in any great proportion of the plug-in-electric use case, daytime loads will increase.
Assuming the car lasts 10 years I'll save $16K just on not paying for commute fuel.
Factor in battery replacements. Unless GM has also made a lifespan breakthrough in Li-Ion battery technology, so that you can use the same battery pack for 10 years of harsh all-conditions charging and discharging.
Still, my daily commute (on the same order as yours) would also be mostly on-battery. This would save a lot of gasoline.
"'I don't know what you mean by "glory,"' Alice said. Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. 'Of course you don't- till I tell you. I meant "there's a nice knock-down argument for you!"' 'But 'glory' doesn't mean "a nice knock-down argument,"' Alice objected. 'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean- neither more nor less.'
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Why not just leave a couple bottles of good scotch....
If they're old now, drink 'em now. If they're young now, they're not going to improve in the bottle. A bottle of 10-year-old single-malt, stored sealed in the bottle for 35 years, is not 45-year-old single malt. It's a bottle of 10-year-old single-malt in a really dusty bottle.
That said, after the zombie apocalypse, a good bottle of pre-apocalypse scotch might be quite valuable, either for trade or as an incendiary grenade. So this may be good thinking after all.
"Most Snarky Use of the Word 'Emetic'"
And, may I add, perfectly appropriate and accurate, when used in reference to a huge proportion of the great wasteland that is MySpace.
No, as far as I can tell Nokia isn't disabling tethering and probably won't. But not all phone vendors are so flexible.
And this is where I note that I've veered offtopic a smidge. iPhone can disable tethering at the drop of a firmware update (and will, apparently, at the insistence of its US network provider), and the architecture is closed so that the user can't do anything about it. (Or, at least, anything easy or permanent: "not easy" usually means a hack or jailbreak, "not permanent" usually means "unhacked and re-jailed after the NEXT firmware update.")
OTOH, it appears that the Nokia will be immune to that. Even if the net provider insists on disabling stuff in the released firmare, the open-source basis means that a moderately-clever user can fix it with minimum hackish black magic. So, yeah, the Nokia seems a better option to me, too. I won't buy an iPhone, no matter how cool, because it's just a shiny jail. The Nokia has caught my eye, and other than the eye-watering price seems like the perfect smartphone for me. We shall see.
Do you update your firmware? If so, they can. If you don't, I suppose they can't. But running old firmware seems a bit extreme. I don't know of any practical fallout, but I could imagine the possibility (unpatched security vulns, for obvious example).
By crippling the phone. But a lot of savvy users (e.g.., /.ers) will avoid phones like that. Unless it's an iPhone. They'll eat that up, crippled free tethering and all.
That was my impression, too. A brand-new DK, just exiting the starting area and initial quest chains, starts out with a set of "rare" quality gear that could only have been exceeded in the pre-Burning Crusade era by dedicated 40-man raiders. And that, just barely.
I swear if Apple starts ranting about a good mutton, lettuce, and tomato sandwich, where the mutton is so nice and lean, and the tomato is ripe... I swear... someone must "prepare to die".
I generally don't bother with this, but if you log into the Armory with your WoW or Bnet account (whichever your current WoW authentication is), you can at least view a character's calendar (the raids/events schedule thing you speak of), but I suspect Armory and other web-based (or non-WoW-client) access to server-side data is read-only on purpose, and permanently. Just guessin'.
If cultural sensitivity were really at issue, Blizz wouldn't have strip-mined Norse culture and lore.
That is one healer-heavy raid.
'course, with the diseases that raid boss spawns, you probably need lots of healing.
This.
Well, asides from the inflammatory tone.
There was a bit of novelty in the quest structure of some of the lore-ish questlines, and the "Angrathar/Battle of the Undercity" chain you mention is a premier example. To a lesser extent, the "Argent Vanguard/Argent Pinnacle" chains.
The common mechanical factor is, I think, phasing. This capability seems to have taken the chains off of the quest writers, and they've broken out with some memorable quest lines.
That said, there were some memorable and affecting quest lines in the old content as well.
I suspect the question is rhetorical, just like yours seems to be.
Hmmm... would it be bad form for someone to "Whoosh!" me for pointing out rhetorical questions? It would be, on the surface, appropriate, just non-customary.
Ah, tethering. You forgot to add "as long as your cell provider isn't a money-grubbing pig about it." (i.e., disallow it unless you pay them more per month).
I dunno how Blizz will answer, but achievements like Loremaster and Explorer provide alternate incentive to go back and close out content you skipped on the accelerated run to 80. Of course, as an 80 everything pre-BC is uber lol-easymode, and BC content is soloable, so it's clearly not the same, but nothing except peer pressure ("you don't raid enough") keeps you from going back to "a lot of areas and beautiful terrain".
Yes, my main has both Loremaster and Explorer. And has caught a fair bit of trollish flamage in chat for doing that before pimping out with full raid epics. It's amusing how folks think that you're not playing the game right if you're not playing the game like they play it. But, whatever.
What does the future hold as you strive to cut out content? The ability to start at level (current expansion cap - 20)?
That's the past. Death Knights, as you know, start playing open world content at about level 60. I expect future hero classes (if there are any) will have a similar mechanic, but I don't work for Blizz and have no inside line, so that's just my speculation.
The movie felt like something that was almost, but not quite there.
So, what you're saying is that the movie is "almost, but not quite, entirely unlike H2G2."
I wonder if someone at Sirius Cybernetics get an uncredited script doctoring job.
I gotta read comments more carefully. I thought you said "prodded with a boomstick to check for undead network engineers."
Come to think of it, that's probably a good idea too. Kind of a layer 3 LART.
Even in places like my old job, where the entire chain of command up to director allowed employees to play WoW during downtime (Tier I call center), you still had to stop whenever work happened, which seems enough to prevent "Internet addiction" from setting in...
Sheesh, that's enough to keep WoW from setting in!
"This is great, we've got Illidan down to 35% and no deaths so far! We're gonna win this encounter!"
<lots of phones ringing>
"Damn, where's the pause button!?!"
Why not nuclear power? They can use nuclear power on an aircraft carrier to power the conversion at minimal cost and zero extra emissions.
I'm pretty sure that's what the Navy is planning. A nuc carrier has effectively unlimited carbon-free electrical power available for years at a time. Until we can directly power warplanes with electricity, using shipboard reactor-generator electricity to create aviation fuel aboard ship at least extends the carrier's at-sea endurance (or allows it to skip unrep of aircraft fuel stores.)
Taking this one step further, and with some creativity develop a nicely controlled natural uranium-deuterium based fission reaction that could produce sufficient power to run a jet at minimal risks.
IANANP (I am not a nuclear physicist), but I'm not familiar with any uranium fission reaction which involves deuterium. Maybe you're thinking of heavy-water-moderated unenriched uranium fission reactors?
As to nuclear-powered aircraft, early research never went anywhere, largely because of issues of shielding weight and radiation pollution. And these were never aircraft small enough to be carrier-based.
Never mind cold water. Push those warm embers together, pile the hard drives (one deep) on top of them, and pour on the liquid oxygen. Data security problem solved! Now to solve the problem about retinal burns and certain strategic defense agencies misinterpreting your BBQ as a nuclear detonation event...
Alternatively, they would charge the person in the US even though they live elsewhere and then, on any visit to the US, the person would be arrested and tossed in jail.
FTFY.
Or can happen during a 6-hour period during the day, like at work, on peak. So, to make sure the already-overburdened-at-peak net doesn't get swamped with cars charging during the day.... what do you do? Original poster says he has access to a free daytime charge at work. If this continues to be the case, and becomes the case in any great proportion of the plug-in-electric use case, daytime loads will increase.
Assuming the car lasts 10 years I'll save $16K just on not paying for commute fuel.
Factor in battery replacements. Unless GM has also made a lifespan breakthrough in Li-Ion battery technology, so that you can use the same battery pack for 10 years of harsh all-conditions charging and discharging.
Still, my daily commute (on the same order as yours) would also be mostly on-battery. This would save a lot of gasoline.
A great deal of consumer relations in big business nowadays boils down to this Frederick Douglas quote:
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And if the Japanese had used jets instead of prop-driven airplanes, I bet they would have made a "Whoosh!" sound as they raced overhead.