I never wanted to raid or do any of that stuff. I leveled to 70, doing instances along the way to get better gear. Now I'm at the point where to get better gear than what I have I either have to a) grind badges b) get PUG to do heroics lasting 3-5 hours and *maybe* get a drop I can use c) grind PVP d) grind dailies.
I love doing the quests, but none of the quests will give me any gear upgrades any more. The dailies were fun initially, but seriously they get old fast.
I just canceled my account.
I've had a similar experience to what many posted here. I had a phone interview with a fairly qualified technical manager who wanted me to debug Javascript over the phone from a website she had given me. Ok, no problem. Then she starts asking me about technologies and languages that 1) aren't on my resume at all, and 2) have nothing to do with the job I'm applying for. After stating these facts many times, she came back with "oh we're looking to hire you for a different job, not that one." Uh....considering I had none of the qualifications of what she was actually talking to me about and all of the qualifications of the job which I had initially applied for, I cut the conversation short.
Then a few months later my husband got an email from a Google recruiter (we were able to verify the email address, name, and the fact that it really was sent from a Google Recruiter) that basically said:
"John, we're hiring. You interested?"
The response he sent back was: "Dave, no".
It's amusing to constantly see articles like this, because they've been having network/server issues since the game was released, back in November '04. After putting up with it for 4 months at that point, we canceled our accounts, waiting for the day when it wouldn't be a problem anymore. 6 months later, we reactivated, only to cancel 2 months later for the same reasons.
It's honestly disgusting that this is still going on, but as many other people have said, the only way to let them know is to stop paying.
Being told an upper level manager has "resigned' usually means they were given a choice to voluntarily leave or to get fired. Most usually choose the first option. Something with keeping their dignity or whatever.
I read about this a couple of months ago, and never knew it about the time. Apparently after the got cancelled, they revealed what was going to happen:
http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue326/news.html
In a computer class I taught to middle school kids last year, I was the lucky recipient of a grant to outfit the whole class (7 groups worth of kids) with Mindstorms. I spent a semester teaching them not only the basics of Mindstorms, but how to program, how to debug, how to test, and all the other basics for computer programming. They had a blast doing the different projects, and I've never seen these kids so engaged before. Several of them actually wanted to come in after school and work on their robots which is unheard of.
This is sad if Lego is cutting back on that and all but phasing it out.
As the ex-technology administrator of a K-8 school in northern CA, I can tell you from first hand experience that no matter how many times I told teachers to change their password from the generic one they were given for things like email, 70% of them never did. (thankfully I had the administrators convinced to change theirs immediately) Basically even now if you know the name of some new teacher in the district, you could probably get into their email. It's scary honestly how little people realize how dangerous keeping the generic password is.
So this gets reported, but for obvious reasons Blizzard neglects to mention the fact that like 20 servers currently have queues to play, there's tons of server lag/crashes, and player disconnects (who then have to wait in line again to play), all this 8 months after launch.
I'm running it on my Mac, and I definitely feel like I get the spinning beach ball of death a lot more than in previous versions. I thought it was just me...
Sounds pretty cool, but what about those movies with DTS sound and higher quality? Is all that stuff going to be lost in the download? Netflix for me takes about a day or two to get a new movie (return it Tuesday, it's received Wednesday, get new one on Thursday), and for certain movies I wouldn't be willing to sacrifice my sound or quality just to get it somewhat quicker.
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I'm a school's technology teacher (previously a software engineer), and I've been on and off researching this topic, and experiencing. If used right, computers can be a great asset in student learning. The best example I've seen so far is the use of a graphic organizer (Kidspiration for example) to let the special education kids give themselves a voice. These are kids who have trouble writing paragraphs due to their disabilities, but thrive when set down using Kidspiration.
However the majority of teachers here just let the kids type up their essays on them which is sad. I've been trying to push them in a new direction, but some refuse/don't want to learn. Those that do use the technology in a creative/fun/educational way have engaged kids that are actually learning.
We have a 6th grade math teacher in our school I work with who's been using Squeak to talk about various math concepts. The kids are really into it and constantly engaged. They get into making their own objects and it's a great jumping off point for me to teach them some rudimentary programming skills too.
...many schools are still overcrowded, don't have money to make crucial repairs, and our jobs are still being outsourced leaving many people struggling. But darn it, let's find those aliens!
My watch is small, and tells time, and has a light - that's all I want it to do. My cell phone is small and let's me make phone calls. My PDA is small, and let's me use it as a PDA. All these combining of technology is getting out of hand. The form factor is too big on many of them and honestly many people (myself included) don't really want their cell phones/watches to do a million things at once.
If it were some weird electrical disturbance or whatever, wouldn't all the keyless entry systems be affected? I didn't get the assumption from the article that it was all of them, rather a small amount. I'd be curious to know whether or not all the ones that failed where in the same area, or if it was spread out over Vegas.
You also forgot that cool "quick skip" thing (at least Replay has it) that lets you skip over the commercials for recorded programs. That's my favorite thing.
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I never wanted to raid or do any of that stuff. I leveled to 70, doing instances along the way to get better gear. Now I'm at the point where to get better gear than what I have I either have to a) grind badges b) get PUG to do heroics lasting 3-5 hours and *maybe* get a drop I can use c) grind PVP d) grind dailies. I love doing the quests, but none of the quests will give me any gear upgrades any more. The dailies were fun initially, but seriously they get old fast. I just canceled my account.
I've had a similar experience to what many posted here. I had a phone interview with a fairly qualified technical manager who wanted me to debug Javascript over the phone from a website she had given me. Ok, no problem. Then she starts asking me about technologies and languages that 1) aren't on my resume at all, and 2) have nothing to do with the job I'm applying for. After stating these facts many times, she came back with "oh we're looking to hire you for a different job, not that one." Uh....considering I had none of the qualifications of what she was actually talking to me about and all of the qualifications of the job which I had initially applied for, I cut the conversation short. Then a few months later my husband got an email from a Google recruiter (we were able to verify the email address, name, and the fact that it really was sent from a Google Recruiter) that basically said: "John, we're hiring. You interested?" The response he sent back was: "Dave, no".
There's a great Wikipedia article on the video containing some of the little things you may have missed.
It's amusing to constantly see articles like this, because they've been having network/server issues since the game was released, back in November '04. After putting up with it for 4 months at that point, we canceled our accounts, waiting for the day when it wouldn't be a problem anymore. 6 months later, we reactivated, only to cancel 2 months later for the same reasons. It's honestly disgusting that this is still going on, but as many other people have said, the only way to let them know is to stop paying.
Being told an upper level manager has "resigned' usually means they were given a choice to voluntarily leave or to get fired. Most usually choose the first option. Something with keeping their dignity or whatever.
I read about this a couple of months ago, and never knew it about the time. Apparently after the got cancelled, they revealed what was going to happen: http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue326/news.html
In a computer class I taught to middle school kids last year, I was the lucky recipient of a grant to outfit the whole class (7 groups worth of kids) with Mindstorms. I spent a semester teaching them not only the basics of Mindstorms, but how to program, how to debug, how to test, and all the other basics for computer programming. They had a blast doing the different projects, and I've never seen these kids so engaged before. Several of them actually wanted to come in after school and work on their robots which is unheard of. This is sad if Lego is cutting back on that and all but phasing it out.
As the ex-technology administrator of a K-8 school in northern CA, I can tell you from first hand experience that no matter how many times I told teachers to change their password from the generic one they were given for things like email, 70% of them never did. (thankfully I had the administrators convinced to change theirs immediately) Basically even now if you know the name of some new teacher in the district, you could probably get into their email. It's scary honestly how little people realize how dangerous keeping the generic password is.
but they do not plan to release it unless they are completely satisfied with the final product.
That didn't stop them from releasing the online game....
So this gets reported, but for obvious reasons Blizzard neglects to mention the fact that like 20 servers currently have queues to play, there's tons of server lag/crashes, and player disconnects (who then have to wait in line again to play), all this 8 months after launch.
This sounds great, but the article doesn't say anything about new episodes. Assuming a "try before you buy" type of thing?
I'm running it on my Mac, and I definitely feel like I get the spinning beach ball of death a lot more than in previous versions. I thought it was just me...
Sounds pretty cool, but what about those movies with DTS sound and higher quality? Is all that stuff going to be lost in the download? Netflix for me takes about a day or two to get a new movie (return it Tuesday, it's received Wednesday, get new one on Thursday), and for certain movies I wouldn't be willing to sacrifice my sound or quality just to get it somewhat quicker.
I'm a school's technology teacher (previously a software engineer), and I've been on and off researching this topic, and experiencing. If used right, computers can be a great asset in student learning. The best example I've seen so far is the use of a graphic organizer (Kidspiration for example) to let the special education kids give themselves a voice. These are kids who have trouble writing paragraphs due to their disabilities, but thrive when set down using Kidspiration. However the majority of teachers here just let the kids type up their essays on them which is sad. I've been trying to push them in a new direction, but some refuse/don't want to learn. Those that do use the technology in a creative/fun/educational way have engaged kids that are actually learning.
We have a 6th grade math teacher in our school I work with who's been using Squeak to talk about various math concepts. The kids are really into it and constantly engaged. They get into making their own objects and it's a great jumping off point for me to teach them some rudimentary programming skills too.
...many schools are still overcrowded, don't have money to make crucial repairs, and our jobs are still being outsourced leaving many people struggling. But darn it, let's find those aliens!
My watch is small, and tells time, and has a light - that's all I want it to do. My cell phone is small and let's me make phone calls. My PDA is small, and let's me use it as a PDA. All these combining of technology is getting out of hand. The form factor is too big on many of them and honestly many people (myself included) don't really want their cell phones/watches to do a million things at once.
If it were some weird electrical disturbance or whatever, wouldn't all the keyless entry systems be affected? I didn't get the assumption from the article that it was all of them, rather a small amount. I'd be curious to know whether or not all the ones that failed where in the same area, or if it was spread out over Vegas.
You also forgot that cool "quick skip" thing (at least Replay has it) that lets you skip over the commercials for recorded programs. That's my favorite thing.