The difference here is that the weapons that they were buying were designed to be (and known to be) expensive and somewhat difficult to get, and they were selling for 1/1000th of their intended price. Additionally, similar weapons elsewhere were selling for proper prices. I do think ANet overreacted a touch, but I think people are blowing it way out of proportion. People who bought as many as 50 weapons (which is absurd) were given temporary bans, but there were people who bought hundreds/thousands of weapons.
Ever see that episode of the Simpsons where Mr. Burns goes to the doctor and finds out that he has a copious amount of diseases and disorders, and through some miracle their codependence keeps him alive?
Imagine. My sister's computer: an eMachines PC with a Celeron processor running Windows ME. The thing was rock solid. It never crashed. I didn't dare touch it, update it, nothing. No new hardware. Just left the thing alone and it chugged along for quite a while.
A few other people here have noted that Warhammer's population is spread very thin.
A game like WoW will suffer from a low population server. However, it is not its undoing. A WoW server can thrive despite its low population. You can do raids on a low population server.
For Warhammer, low population ruins the game, and I'm not entirely positive that they realized this in the beginning. Everything in the game depends on there being a constant avalanche of people doing things. This way you have people constantly sieging keeps, constantly in scenarios (PvP arenas), constantly doing public quests, and you're constantly fighting. The game (as I'm sure many of you know) is very PvP centric. A large population ensures that you can log into the game, find the latest war zone, and then go start busting heads. The game was designed this way, and now they're actually encouraging this. I'm hoping this makes the game more like it was envisioned. If they can keep server populations high they'll do well.
Based on my experience, here's what you should become proficient in:
- Updating monolithic systems with functionality they were never meant for. - Having lots of meetings. Lots and lots of meetings. - Looking busy without actually being busy. - Adding dots, commas, buzzwords and excessively overengineered language to technical documents. - Taking really long lunches without anybody noticing. - Getting told that you can't certain technologies because they're too new, and instead using even newer technologies because they were paid for.
That's about all I got. No, what? Of course I love my job. Why do you say that?
This is correct. PeopleSoft, which Oracle owns, makes heavy use of both WebLogic and Tuxedo. Oracle's trying to provide their own replacement options, but BEA products are more tried and true than Oracle's stuff yet. PeopleSoft is a multi-million dollar business for the software alone, not to mention actually setting it up and customizing it.
I was young when he left MST3K. Maybe I'm remembering this incorrectly, but I remember the last episode with him being horribly depressing for some reason.
I dunno how much this factors in to the low sales, but I personally have no interest in this thing simply beccause there is no reason for me to ever play a portable machine. I don't travel ever, and I'm never in a long car ride/air plane rides or anything. That is the only time I would ever play one. Gaming is like a sit down experience for me, and if I'm out of my house I'm pretty much not looking to play a video game. At home I would never play it, because I'd prefer not to be staring at some tiny little screen when I could use my TV or PC instead. If the thing ever gets a composite video adapter maybe I'll bite.
BIOTECH IS GODZILLA.
I wonder if anyone will know what this is from.
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Don't diss the product replacement plans. With only a firewire connection to the iPod, Debian Linux, and the dd command, my friend got his third gen iPod upped to a fourth gen for about nothing.
Anyone who's happy with Windows 98 obviously doesn't use Windows 98 very much.
Use it for more than half an hour! Did it crash? Yes?
If it didn't, you obviously have a virus.
IT'S A FREAKING CALCULATOR.
Do you REALLY need an open source operating system for a calculator? Was it's proprietary operating system ever really in question?
Why, I remember the days, when I said to myself,
"DAMNED BE TEXAS INSTRUMENTS! They'll rue the day! Their calculator hardware only runs their own operating system! It's a monopoly, I say!"
Linux is not a desktop OS... it's like a tweaker OS. If you don't like to really do anything to your OS... which most users don't... you're fucked.
Plus if you buy a brand new computer, most new graphics cards and sound cards don't work properly in Linux. So that was a waste.
In addition, Linux doesn't particularly have a lot of traditionally "fun" stuff to use it for anyway, so the graphics card and sound card basically were a waste.
Beh. Linux needs a lot of work before it'll ever become anything remotely like a desktop OS.
I think maybe the crackheads and quite regular shootings I see every time I drive through that asshole of a city might need a little more attention than wireless at the Inner Harbor.
I live 10 minutes from Baltimore, by the way.
Believe me when I tell you that, much like this, the Turbo Touch 360 was an interesting and potentially beneficial idea. In theory.
Theory and practice are two very, very different things.
This is a good move for DALnet. If anything's going to help stop being blasted in the ass by every group with a botnet, it'll be this.
However, I couldn't imagine why anyone would be angry with this. DAL was never that good for warez in the first place. I can equate it to getting angry with a movie place for taking out arcades. Sure, the option to play them was there. But they were all 10 year old machines that were even bad for THEIR time.
Let me start by saying that I use Windows. I've tried Linux several times in the past. I have several thousand reasons why I think Linux is a decade or two from becoming a desktop OS. This review more or less demonstrates that.
There are seldom times when I feel like trying to get a program working for more than 10 or 20 minutes. Linux, while powerful, does not help much in this department. When I'm in a bad mood (much like JWZ is) there's no way I want to fuck around with Linux. Period.
My main problem with Linux, however, is the UIs of both the programs and the desktops. I will refuse to use a program because of the UI. Mplayer may be powerful, but as far as I'm concerned, if it doesn't have a UI, I won't use it. I don't care if there is a command line option, I didn't install KDE or Gnome to make the console look pretty.
I know a lot of you have said, "He can develop his own UI for it." Well, that's not why he installed Linux, and it's not why I did, either. I didn't try it expecting to have to write my own code to get things to run acceptably, I did it because it's an alternative to windows. One of the things that will keep (and has kept) Linux from being a desktop OS are things like this.
This is probably going to be an unpopular post, but oh well.
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The difference here is that the weapons that they were buying were designed to be (and known to be) expensive and somewhat difficult to get, and they were selling for 1/1000th of their intended price. Additionally, similar weapons elsewhere were selling for proper prices. I do think ANet overreacted a touch, but I think people are blowing it way out of proportion. People who bought as many as 50 weapons (which is absurd) were given temporary bans, but there were people who bought hundreds/thousands of weapons.
That rodent is my step dad, and it costs $80k to reference him, and another $100k to use him as a news headline. You'll be hearing from my lawyers.
Maybe I'm a jerk, but I think instead of tasing her I'd have pushed her cart over.
DAMMIT!
I just scoured this whole thread hoping somebody didn't make this joke so that I could! Oh, I'll have my revenge.
Ever see that episode of the Simpsons where Mr. Burns goes to the doctor and finds out that he has a copious amount of diseases and disorders, and through some miracle their codependence keeps him alive? Imagine. My sister's computer: an eMachines PC with a Celeron processor running Windows ME. The thing was rock solid. It never crashed. I didn't dare touch it, update it, nothing. No new hardware. Just left the thing alone and it chugged along for quite a while.
A few other people here have noted that Warhammer's population is spread very thin. A game like WoW will suffer from a low population server. However, it is not its undoing. A WoW server can thrive despite its low population. You can do raids on a low population server. For Warhammer, low population ruins the game, and I'm not entirely positive that they realized this in the beginning. Everything in the game depends on there being a constant avalanche of people doing things. This way you have people constantly sieging keeps, constantly in scenarios (PvP arenas), constantly doing public quests, and you're constantly fighting. The game (as I'm sure many of you know) is very PvP centric. A large population ensures that you can log into the game, find the latest war zone, and then go start busting heads. The game was designed this way, and now they're actually encouraging this. I'm hoping this makes the game more like it was envisioned. If they can keep server populations high they'll do well.
Based on my experience, here's what you should become proficient in:
- Updating monolithic systems with functionality they were never meant for.
- Having lots of meetings. Lots and lots of meetings.
- Looking busy without actually being busy.
- Adding dots, commas, buzzwords and excessively overengineered language to technical documents.
- Taking really long lunches without anybody noticing.
- Getting told that you can't certain technologies because they're too new, and instead using even newer technologies because they were paid for.
That's about all I got. No, what? Of course I love my job. Why do you say that?
This is correct. PeopleSoft, which Oracle owns, makes heavy use of both WebLogic and Tuxedo. Oracle's trying to provide their own replacement options, but BEA products are more tried and true than Oracle's stuff yet. PeopleSoft is a multi-million dollar business for the software alone, not to mention actually setting it up and customizing it.
I was young when he left MST3K. Maybe I'm remembering this incorrectly, but I remember the last episode with him being horribly depressing for some reason.
I dunno how much this factors in to the low sales, but I personally have no interest in this thing simply beccause there is no reason for me to ever play a portable machine. I don't travel ever, and I'm never in a long car ride/air plane rides or anything. That is the only time I would ever play one. Gaming is like a sit down experience for me, and if I'm out of my house I'm pretty much not looking to play a video game. At home I would never play it, because I'd prefer not to be staring at some tiny little screen when I could use my TV or PC instead. If the thing ever gets a composite video adapter maybe I'll bite.
BIOTECH IS GODZILLA. I wonder if anyone will know what this is from.
Don't diss the product replacement plans. With only a firewire connection to the iPod, Debian Linux, and the dd command, my friend got his third gen iPod upped to a fourth gen for about nothing.
Anyone who's happy with Windows 98 obviously doesn't use Windows 98 very much. Use it for more than half an hour! Did it crash? Yes? If it didn't, you obviously have a virus.
When quickly browsing through the replies to this story, this was pretty much the last thing on the list I expected to see.
IT'S A FREAKING CALCULATOR. Do you REALLY need an open source operating system for a calculator? Was it's proprietary operating system ever really in question? Why, I remember the days, when I said to myself, "DAMNED BE TEXAS INSTRUMENTS! They'll rue the day! Their calculator hardware only runs their own operating system! It's a monopoly, I say!"
Linux is not a desktop OS... it's like a tweaker OS. If you don't like to really do anything to your OS... which most users don't... you're fucked. Plus if you buy a brand new computer, most new graphics cards and sound cards don't work properly in Linux. So that was a waste. In addition, Linux doesn't particularly have a lot of traditionally "fun" stuff to use it for anyway, so the graphics card and sound card basically were a waste. Beh. Linux needs a lot of work before it'll ever become anything remotely like a desktop OS.
I think maybe the crackheads and quite regular shootings I see every time I drive through that asshole of a city might need a little more attention than wireless at the Inner Harbor. I live 10 minutes from Baltimore, by the way.
Believe me when I tell you that, much like this, the Turbo Touch 360 was an interesting and potentially beneficial idea. In theory. Theory and practice are two very, very different things.
This is a good move for DALnet. If anything's going to help stop being blasted in the ass by every group with a botnet, it'll be this.
However, I couldn't imagine why anyone would be angry with this. DAL was never that good for warez in the first place. I can equate it to getting angry with a movie place for taking out arcades. Sure, the option to play them was there. But they were all 10 year old machines that were even bad for THEIR time.
I honestly think this is a good review.
Let me start by saying that I use Windows. I've tried Linux several times in the past. I have several thousand reasons why I think Linux is a decade or two from becoming a desktop OS. This review more or less demonstrates that.
There are seldom times when I feel like trying to get a program working for more than 10 or 20 minutes. Linux, while powerful, does not help much in this department. When I'm in a bad mood (much like JWZ is) there's no way I want to fuck around with Linux. Period.
My main problem with Linux, however, is the UIs of both the programs and the desktops. I will refuse to use a program because of the UI. Mplayer may be powerful, but as far as I'm concerned, if it doesn't have a UI, I won't use it. I don't care if there is a command line option, I didn't install KDE or Gnome to make the console look pretty.
I know a lot of you have said, "He can develop his own UI for it." Well, that's not why he installed Linux, and it's not why I did, either. I didn't try it expecting to have to write my own code to get things to run acceptably, I did it because it's an alternative to windows. One of the things that will keep (and has kept) Linux from being a desktop OS are things like this.
This is probably going to be an unpopular post, but oh well.