Simply put, I use FF because I like it more than any others. I switched to FF2 because I wanted to, because playing with new toys is what appeals to me.
IE7 is installed on my PC, but I dislike it's tab configuration overall. Opera is nice but I just can't seem to really like it.
Firefox may have rare problems (I haven't seen any), but find any application anymore that doesn't have SOMETHING wrong with it, ya know?
If they post 'real' answers here, then their customers feel left out because slashdot got something more in depth than the real forums did.
If they post fluff, slashdot cries. Who cares? Given the quality of editorial service here, we'll probably see this repeated tomorrow anyway.
Real answers don't work anyway. The concept of MMORPG development requires being vague. One tiny change, etc. can change the whole thing. I demand clearly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!
What this really comes down to is that now that the media has found a great new target in computer/console games, and they've beaten down Grand Theft Auto (which I personally despise, but find the reaction to it in the mainstream silly), they need a new target!
World of Warcraft! OMG, they make billionz of bucks, they let you spend time playing a game, shoot - Blizzard will probably be accused of causing Katrina because the levy workers were busy playing it or something.
Every video game, EVERY ONE, is a fad. I happen to love WoW. That won't last. Nothing in the gaming industry does, nor should it.
In guild discussion yesterday, one of the big topics was the real world purchasing of gold. I am aware of your ToS concerning this issue, but what is being actively done about it?
This whole concept of your problem makes no sense to me. What you are implying is that you should be able to just move the CDs wherever you want, hand them out to friends, etc. and each can create their own account and not sweat it. Now, perhaps you could make an argument that the old account is no longer active... but it could be reactivated at any time. Then who owns the CD key?
Every MMORPG out there does the same thing. Eventually, they start offering free sign ups and demos that let you get around it, but usually an update or two back from whatever happens to be current. Blizzard isn't gonna do that anytime real soon.
I have a 12 year old son who loves video games. He started out playing Dark Forces sitting on my lap, back in the day.
He loves some of those old games. Perhaps not all, but I can't tell you how many times I've watched him play some of these games INSTEAD of PS2 or Gamecube current stuff. For him, graphics are pretty, but the gameplay is the real thing.
I can buy into the idea that these are 'real' quotes from these kids by the way... but not ALL they had to say - they just seem to have prompted and kept a few of the choice statements, imo.
The only fiction authors I read anymore. I didn't care much for Ringworld Throne, but still found in it something to enjoy, at least as part of the series.
Time to go back through all my Known Space books again, and get ramped up for this one:)
Anyone looked at N-Space? There's a great story in there by Niven about how to blow up the whole storyline! Makes life fun.
Quotes of importance here - before you crazy folks that think that anyone trying to protect anything is 'bad'...
"Alamo Drafthouse approached us maybe about a year ago about licensing Mr. Sinus," Mallon says. --- So they were aware that they could be infringing in the first place
"We just want them to stop using our name," he says. --- There's the point. Change the name - can't be that difficult.
Honestly, I can't see how moving from one country to another in the same basic job is going to be that much different. Perhaps it's time to look at what you're doing for a living?
Sadly, I must admit that my companies original virus notification systems sent mail to the sender and receiver whenever it detected a virus. This seemed really cool for awhile, but with the growing trend for spoofed addresses and extremely heavy 'dumps' of mail...
Anyway, we turned it off. A local administrator still gets to know about it, but that's the only place it goes now, and I think the world is a better place for it.
Acer Altos 1000 - 286 servers - still (I think) 2 of them out there, with date problems, but still running!
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How can such a question even be asked? There is no justification for destruction of someone elses property just because you don't like that property.
Now, that is an extreme statement. I accept any common, rational disagreement. But the general concept of lighting fires in a dealership is silly.
I live in Eugene, Oregon. It's a nice town. It has some bizarre problems, with a city government that occasionally wants to drive away any business or organization that could possibly cause any pollution at all, then send in the police with tear gas and beanbag guns to cut down trees in the middle of town. This is a situation that will breed radicals of all types. For those folks being affected by these people outside of our little commune/bunker, I'm sorry.
Now, I work for a software company that, among many other things, provides software for the logging and lumber industry. Are we targets? It's a small portion of our overall business, but it's something we've had to consider. Maybe even posting this here may draw attention to our little company. I hope not.
What would it do? People have already commented on the enviromental damage of these fires.
The sad part is, that the only people DIRECTLY affected with this kind of thing isn't the 'rich' people who own these businesses, put the average people from Salespeople to janitors who have a few days away from a paycheck, or even loss of their job, all caused in the name of 'Hurting those who contribute' The insurance companies profit from the increases in premiums in the long term. The business owner may even profit, especially a dealership, since the older vehicles are burned and replaced by newer models, without any long-term loss.
Recently, the eco-gestapo has begun replacing standard tree spikes with ceramic and other material. Metal detectors, which are becoming standard equipment when logging, won't pick them up.
Someone asked if someone mined your front yard and told you, who's more responsible? What if they mined it, told you, then hid the mines where you couldn't find them until it's too late. Now, you KNOW they are there, you KNOW you have to leave your house (Read: do your job so that you can eat and support your family), but can no longer do that without taking a chance with every step. In Oregon, if a survivalist group did something like that, we'd saturate the area with police and National Guard. With the environmentalists, we warn the loggers it's their problem.
Full of more mixed thoughts, but I've rambled long enough.
At high school one day, a friend tells me that I MUST turn on public radio that night. He had heard something so bizarrely funny that he couldn't even explain it.
Did anyone ever see his first Letterman interview? He told the biscuits story, and was so nervous, being on television like that, trying to be 'American' funny, that folks didn't seem to follow him.
Maybe NPR will replay the original series again, in memory.
Just before the Atlanta games, the IOC tried to get businesses in NW Washington state to change their names. Seems that the IOC feels that they own the term 'OLYMPIC' absolutely, even if you live and work in the Olympic mountain range. I guess we should be grateful that they didn't try to force us to change the name of the mountains...
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1 - You may not be as 'un-informed' as you think. You probably know more than many others that ARE voting.
2 - Get Informed! The American political process, at it's most ideal, requires the people to vote their conscience, with knowledge.
Simply put, I use FF because I like it more than any others. I switched to FF2 because I wanted to, because playing with new toys is what appeals to me.
IE7 is installed on my PC, but I dislike it's tab configuration overall.
Opera is nice but I just can't seem to really like it.
Firefox may have rare problems (I haven't seen any), but find any application anymore that doesn't have SOMETHING wrong with it, ya know?
Alright, we've hit the true rock bottom here.
Where can I find a REAL site that discusses geek-style news?
So here we go...
If they post 'real' answers here, then their customers feel left out because slashdot got something more in depth than the real forums did.
If they post fluff, slashdot cries. Who cares? Given the quality of editorial service here, we'll probably see this repeated tomorrow anyway.
Real answers don't work anyway. The concept of MMORPG development requires being vague. One tiny change, etc. can change the whole thing. I demand clearly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!
I could go on, but what's the point?
What this really comes down to is that now that the media has found a great new target in computer/console games, and they've beaten down Grand Theft Auto (which I personally despise, but find the reaction to it in the mainstream silly), they need a new target!
World of Warcraft! OMG, they make billionz of bucks, they let you spend time playing a game, shoot - Blizzard will probably be accused of causing Katrina because the levy workers were busy playing it or something.
Every video game, EVERY ONE, is a fad. I happen to love WoW. That won't last. Nothing in the gaming industry does, nor should it.
In guild discussion yesterday, one of the big topics was the real world purchasing of gold.
I am aware of your ToS concerning this issue, but what is being actively done about it?
I thought HEY! I'm getting paid to read this!
So I am not an 'engineer' as such, but I am a computer geek by profession, and my wife is a Registered Nurse.
1 girl, 1 boy
Does that make the statistics work?
This whole concept of your problem makes no sense to me. What you are implying is that you should be able to just move the CDs wherever you want, hand them out to friends, etc. and each can create their own account and not sweat it. Now, perhaps you could make an argument that the old account is no longer active... but it could be reactivated at any time. Then who owns the CD key?
Every MMORPG out there does the same thing. Eventually, they start offering free sign ups and demos that let you get around it, but usually an update or two back from whatever happens to be current. Blizzard isn't gonna do that anytime real soon.
HAHAHAHA - So true!
Still, did seem a bit on the staged side, more so than normal, I guess.
Although my boy does get off some truly amazing stuff on occassion.
I have a 12 year old son who loves video games. He started out playing Dark Forces sitting on my lap, back in the day.
He loves some of those old games. Perhaps not all, but I can't tell you how many times I've watched him play some of these games INSTEAD of PS2 or Gamecube current stuff. For him, graphics are pretty, but the gameplay is the real thing.
I can buy into the idea that these are 'real' quotes from these kids by the way... but not ALL they had to say - they just seem to have prompted and kept a few of the choice statements, imo.
The only fiction authors I read anymore. I didn't care much for Ringworld Throne, but still found in it something to enjoy, at least as part of the series.
:)
Time to go back through all my Known Space books again, and get ramped up for this one
Anyone looked at N-Space? There's a great story in there by Niven about how to blow up the whole storyline! Makes life fun.
Quotes of importance here - before you crazy folks that think that anyone trying to protect anything is 'bad'...
"Alamo Drafthouse approached us maybe about a year ago about licensing Mr. Sinus," Mallon says.
--- So they were aware that they could be infringing in the first place
"We just want them to stop using our name," he says.
--- There's the point. Change the name - can't be that difficult.
Because scratching your chin does NOT mean you are acting, Travolta!
Uh, I've seen tons of stuff on these... of course I'm in OREGON, where one of these things actually killed several members of a family.
Honestly, I can't see how moving from one country to another in the same basic job is going to be that much different. Perhaps it's time to look at what you're doing for a living?
Having to bring along (kicking and screaming) several other folks in the office that need a bit of a crutch, I'm working the Mandrake way now.
Will it stay that way? Probably, at least until I see a reason not to.
Sadly, I must admit that my companies original virus notification systems sent mail to the sender and receiver whenever it detected a virus. This seemed really cool for awhile, but with the growing trend for spoofed addresses and extremely heavy 'dumps' of mail...
Anyway, we turned it off. A local administrator still gets to know about it, but that's the only place it goes now, and I think the world is a better place for it.
Acer Altos 1000 - 286 servers - still (I think) 2 of them out there, with date problems, but still running!
How can such a question even be asked? There is no justification for destruction of someone elses property just because you don't like that property. Now, that is an extreme statement. I accept any common, rational disagreement. But the general concept of lighting fires in a dealership is silly. I live in Eugene, Oregon. It's a nice town. It has some bizarre problems, with a city government that occasionally wants to drive away any business or organization that could possibly cause any pollution at all, then send in the police with tear gas and beanbag guns to cut down trees in the middle of town. This is a situation that will breed radicals of all types. For those folks being affected by these people outside of our little commune/bunker, I'm sorry. Now, I work for a software company that, among many other things, provides software for the logging and lumber industry. Are we targets? It's a small portion of our overall business, but it's something we've had to consider. Maybe even posting this here may draw attention to our little company. I hope not. What would it do? People have already commented on the enviromental damage of these fires. The sad part is, that the only people DIRECTLY affected with this kind of thing isn't the 'rich' people who own these businesses, put the average people from Salespeople to janitors who have a few days away from a paycheck, or even loss of their job, all caused in the name of 'Hurting those who contribute' The insurance companies profit from the increases in premiums in the long term. The business owner may even profit, especially a dealership, since the older vehicles are burned and replaced by newer models, without any long-term loss. Recently, the eco-gestapo has begun replacing standard tree spikes with ceramic and other material. Metal detectors, which are becoming standard equipment when logging, won't pick them up. Someone asked if someone mined your front yard and told you, who's more responsible? What if they mined it, told you, then hid the mines where you couldn't find them until it's too late. Now, you KNOW they are there, you KNOW you have to leave your house (Read: do your job so that you can eat and support your family), but can no longer do that without taking a chance with every step. In Oregon, if a survivalist group did something like that, we'd saturate the area with police and National Guard. With the environmentalists, we warn the loggers it's their problem. Full of more mixed thoughts, but I've rambled long enough.
At high school one day, a friend tells me that I MUST turn on public radio that night. He had heard something so bizarrely funny that he couldn't even explain it.
Did anyone ever see his first Letterman interview? He told the biscuits story, and was so nervous, being on television like that, trying to be 'American' funny, that folks didn't seem to follow him.
Maybe NPR will replay the original series again, in memory.
Goodbye to the funniest writer I've ever read.
What if the rockets and such don't answer? NASA will never know if the call goes through, because in space, no one can hear you screen...
Just before the Atlanta games, the IOC tried to get businesses in NW Washington state to change their names. Seems that the IOC feels that they own the term 'OLYMPIC' absolutely, even if you live and work in the Olympic mountain range. I guess we should be grateful that they didn't try to force us to change the name of the mountains...