I was also in the Warcraft3: RoC and TFT betas. I agree that the multiplayer for TFT was released to soon and had major balance problems. However the single player was great and full of polish. On the half orc campaign I thought they with held what they had because it kind of sucked. I fell they only released the rest of the orc campaign later for the fans of the story not of the game play. So on release they had the single player done sans for a idea that didn't work and multiplayer that worked but wasn't balanced. Sounds a lot like Starcraft... remember operation CWAL
I am/was a Sunrocket subscriber. Everything was really great, one year and 9 months of everything just working for $200 a year. Right now the phone still works, I can call and be called by people. However, the voice mail is gone both the message box on the website and the ability to leave messages when calling me (it just rings forever). I'm guessing all my old messages are toast too. When calling customer service (800-786-0132) you get a message the last part in an almost robotic voice,
"Sunrocket! The no Gotcha phone company!... We are no longer taking customer service or sales calls. Goodbye."
Well I am out 2.5 months service, I guess they learned how to "get" me.
High dose interferon has less than a 5% chance of remmisson. So if the 2/17 ratio is realistic this more than doubles the odds of recovering from advanced melanoma. High dose interferon is the leading (read: only) non-trial treatment for advanced melanoma.
My father had/has stage 4 Melanoma. He went into remmision from high dose interferon and dmx clinical and NIH. BTW the study found no statisical improvement over just high dose interferon.
I am running KDE 3.3 on a pII 450 and it runs fine with settings turned down (it did this automagically). Further it is very useable. My wife uses it when I am using the real computer of the house. BitTorrent, openoffice, konquer, mplayer, and flash are the major uses I see and it stands up to the tasks very well (well flash has preformance problems). So try it before you assume it is that bad.
Gnome/KDE most likely are suffering from cheap HD's on the laptops you tried them on.
I would agree with you, but my mother has being successfully using linux on her desktop for the past year. Yes that means installing new software and upgrading, all the stuff she did in windows. So I fail to see your point.
False, as they are using a very large range of IP addresses the clients internal blocking will not help.
It seems to work based on haveing a lot of crap spitting clients connect to the tracker which claim 50-92% complete and then start spewing data to who ever they can. The connecting clients will receive data at about 1/2 kBps. Receiveing 3 bad chunks to ban a ip only to connect to another bad ip will slow you down considerably. Typical torrent has 5000-10000 chunks assumming they have 3000 ip's (easy) thats 9000 bad chunks of bad data they can send doubleing the download time. FYI all ips are in the range 70.85.*.*
Further advice on the depth and food for thought while playing HL2. At the end of HL1 you are given a choice of death or working for the g-man. At the start of HL2 the g-man 'wakes' you up [for work]. Note at the start of HL2 alot of people say "So soon, I expected more warning." And late game in HL2 it is implied that your 'services' can be bought. A question to pose is if the g-man sells you to the highest bidder (although unable to control you). Did the rebels pay the g-man? Do they know what your fate is? Who the fuck is the god damn g-man?! Always just ahead of me, just out of range for my guns, always watching.
Btw, the administrator is the bastard you go against in HL2. It's in the first 1min of the game.
In retrospect the game is too short, story lacks real depth. But as blizzard say, the illusion of detail is far more powerful.
First it wasn't the first generation units he is working with see this from his instructions:
It should read 'MC68000', 'MC68HC000', 'HD68HC000', et cetera. If it reads 'SCN68000', the system can most likely not be overclocked.
And Because it wasn't fully stable at higher speeds.
See his results page:
7.6 MHz - 100% Stable. Stock speed.
12.0 MHz - 100% Stable, 80% of lag removed.
13.4 MHz - Must be switched into after boot in most cases. 98% of lag removed. Minor music/sound issues, Sonic 2 Special Stage shows severe graphical glitches. Otherwise fine.
14.7 MHz - Must be switched into after boot. No lag. No glitches except Sonic 2 Special Stage.
16.0 MHz - Must be switched into after boot. No lag. No glitches except Sonic 2 Special Stage.
I can't help but ask why does it have to be a 'secret' where navy ships are docked and when they leave? The only purpose I can think of is/was during the cold war it helped assure mutial destruction. But now what is the major threat to the US that mandates that doesn't allow some sailors to tell their families when they will get home exactly or when (what day) they are leaving. So, what threat do we have to warrant this? Terrorists could and can easily find out where the ships are. Anyway these secret ports and launch dates are to protect where the vessiles are going not where they are.
So here is a noble idea why not get ride of this stupidity and waste of money on trying to keep this crap a secret and pay for our debts for the other 2 trillion dollars of military crap we have. Or even better get ride of most of our subs and really start to balance our budget, ask your self who does the US need to hide from with these things? what other nations ships do really have to sneek up on? what nation do we really need to have 10 ways to destroy?
And to those people who say we should liberate the world and expose them to our from of freedom I say, We (US) managed to free ourselves from the biggest empire in the world mostly by ourselves why can't they?
A strong military should not define a world policy
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I was also in the Warcraft3: RoC and TFT betas. I agree that the multiplayer for TFT was released to soon and had major balance problems. However the single player was great and full of polish. On the half orc campaign I thought they with held what they had because it kind of sucked. I fell they only released the rest of the orc campaign later for the fans of the story not of the game play. So on release they had the single player done sans for a idea that didn't work and multiplayer that worked but wasn't balanced. Sounds a lot like Starcraft... remember operation CWAL
I am/was a Sunrocket subscriber. Everything was really great, one year and 9 months of everything just working for $200 a year. Right now the phone still works, I can call and be called by people. However, the voice mail is gone both the message box on the website and the ability to leave messages when calling me (it just rings forever). I'm guessing all my old messages are toast too. When calling customer service (800-786-0132) you get a message the last part in an almost robotic voice,
... We are no longer taking customer service or sales calls. Goodbye."
"Sunrocket! The no Gotcha phone company!
Well I am out 2.5 months service, I guess they learned how to "get" me.
It starcraft went competitive about '99 so to their credit it has be 7 years of the same game now.
High dose interferon has less than a 5% chance of remmisson. So if the 2/17 ratio is realistic this more than doubles the odds of recovering from advanced melanoma. High dose interferon is the leading (read: only) non-trial treatment for advanced melanoma.
My father had/has stage 4 Melanoma. He went into remmision from high dose interferon and dmx clinical and NIH. BTW the study found no statisical improvement over just high dose interferon.
quick wiki link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanoma
I am running KDE 3.3 on a pII 450 and it runs fine with settings turned down (it did this automagically). Further it is very useable. My wife uses it when I am using the real computer of the house. BitTorrent, openoffice, konquer, mplayer, and flash are the major uses I see and it stands up to the tasks very well (well flash has preformance problems). So try it before you assume it is that bad.
Gnome/KDE most likely are suffering from cheap HD's on the laptops you tried them on.
I would agree with you, but my mother has being successfully using linux on her desktop for the past year. Yes that means installing new software and upgrading, all the stuff she did in windows. So I fail to see your point.
False, as they are using a very large range of IP addresses the clients internal blocking will not help.
It seems to work based on haveing a lot of crap spitting clients connect to the tracker which claim 50-92% complete and then start spewing data to who ever they can. The connecting clients will receive data at about 1/2 kBps. Receiveing 3 bad chunks to ban a ip only to connect to another bad ip will slow you down considerably. Typical torrent has 5000-10000 chunks assumming they have 3000 ip's (easy) thats 9000 bad chunks of bad data they can send doubleing the download time. FYI all ips are in the range 70.85.*.*
Further advice on the depth and food for thought while playing HL2. At the end of HL1 you are given a choice of death or working for the g-man. At the start of HL2 the g-man 'wakes' you up [for work]. Note at the start of HL2 alot of people say "So soon, I expected more warning." And late game in HL2 it is implied that your 'services' can be bought. A question to pose is if the g-man sells you to the highest bidder (although unable to control you). Did the rebels pay the g-man? Do they know what your fate is? Who the fuck is the god damn g-man?! Always just ahead of me, just out of range for my guns, always watching.
Btw, the administrator is the bastard you go against in HL2. It's in the first 1min of the game.
In retrospect the game is too short, story lacks real depth. But as blizzard say, the illusion of detail is far more powerful.
So here is a noble idea why not get ride of this stupidity and waste of money on trying to keep this crap a secret and pay for our debts for the other 2 trillion dollars of military crap we have. Or even better get ride of most of our subs and really start to balance our budget, ask your self who does the US need to hide from with these things? what other nations ships do really have to sneek up on? what nation do we really need to have 10 ways to destroy?
And to those people who say we should liberate the world and expose them to our from of freedom I say, We (US) managed to free ourselves from the biggest empire in the world mostly by ourselves why can't they?
A strong military should not define a world policy
Actually since Microsoft exercised $8 million USD in stock options on SCO I would say Microsoft did find a way.