If you process WVO using either potassium or sodium methohydroxide process, you can process the WVO into BioDiesel for anywhere from 60-80 per gallon, labor not withstading.
As to the NY guys being shut down. They didn't get shut down due to anti-trust laws, they got shut down because they weren't paying "for road use" taxes to the DOT and the State.
and wearing armor would make one vulnerable to being attacked by.50cal munitions as it is not against the Geneva Convention to aim for enemy "equipment" and armor constitutes targetable equipment....so following along with the above statements, and expanding on them: if a mob DID show up armored, they would be able to be engaged by said.50cal machine guns, and obliterated. (it's amazing to see a human body fly apart when their "equipment" is struck by a.50cal projectile...it's absolutely breathtaking...(and I don't mean that in a sense of awe, but a sense of shock....one is simply at a loss for words to see a person's body fly apart with such violent and sudden force.)
Not all Type2 sufferers are fat and lazy slobs, Mr. Sensitivity. Some Type 2 sufferers, like my father, acquired Type 2 due to Agent Orange exposure in Vietnam. While it is true to some degree, that a lot of Type 2 cases can be regulated with diet and excercise, not all Type 2 patients can do anything about it....but then again, what do you care. It's really easy to make a painting (generalization) with broad strokes when you don't know what colors you're using (uneducated.
...I've only been saying this for 10 years now. These numbers of "estimated profit losses" are completely fabricated because teenagers wouldn't be able to purchase "legit".....only took them a decade for it to sink in....so it's going to take 50 years for the RIAA to get it thru their head, they're fighting a losing battle.
....I mean look at the way these threads have been modded, and modded into the wrong category....(I mean after all, isn't it morning in India right now?)
15 friends, 1 is a mac user, the other 14 will gang up on him and say, "Hey dude. Get a REAL computer"
'nuff said.
1 out of 15 share is not enough, statisticly, to attribute to a title's success. it's a drop in the bucket and not a significant amount, no matter how much you try to give weight to it. It's still JUST 1 in 15...and that's just for mac ownership...not all groups of 15 are gamers, thus dropping your figure down even further.
Take 10 groups of 15, MAYBE 2 of those groups are gamers, so you're looking at 2 out of 150 people are Mac using gamers. 28 out of 150 people are PC gamers. (a crude example..but it points things out.) 28 vs. 2. Again..2 is not a significant number in determining the success of a game title.
Get ready to double your fun. In the coming months, every active player will get two characters per galaxy spread over four different galaxies (eight total max)! Stay tuned for more information.
This changes nothing really. You were ALREADY limited to 8 character slots, just 1 per galaxy unless you unlocked your jedi slot. If you already had your 8 characters and unlocked your jedi, you had to delete one of your pre-existing characters to make room for your jedi character.
Way to go again with the bullshit marketing Sony. This is nothing more than the same system with a different wrapper on it.
A. Licensing issues. The couldn't add more Star Wars (tm) content without first going back to LucasArts and getting approval, and or paying more royalties.
B. They didn't know how to add content so that it would be fun and enjoyable. Case in point: Death Watch Bunker. When this first launch, I know of several people who played around with it for a few days, got fed up with, and never played there again. This was a bad implimentation of a good idea. There's nothing challenging about fighting a stack of 4 mobs that can one-shot kill you. Hack'n'slash, does not a good MMORPG make alone. You had one island of content in a sea of diarhea. (and watered down diarhea at that.) You had Waddo's Shop in Mos Espa...no Waddo. You had Chewie and Han on Lok...since when did Chewie shrink? You had Leia on Corelia, but wait a minute, she beat you to yavin, dathomir, endor, and yavin simultaniously...damn that bitch is fast..(and ugly).
C. They just didn't know how.
D. When the original devs moved on, they didn't make good code notes, so the new coders looked at the old code and one of them said in a meeting, "It'd be easier to write a whole new game"...
Fuck the current community. What about the veterans who've been with the game since day one and before, who were screwed over, time and time again. The current community has very little insight into what the game USED to be, and how rich it was back then.
Back in the day...you know those stupid little faction terminal missions you run now? Back in the day you used to HAVE to get a group together to run those because it wasn't just a little camp, it was a full fledged base, complete with inquisitors in the basement. Turrets. Landmines...it was actually FUN to run faction missions. You could sneak around, and as long as you didn't get in Line of Sight..(i.e. they weren't aware of you), you could make a little ninja mission out of it. The way it is now, you get within a certain radius and the NPCs come running THRU the fucking wall...or shoot you thru it.
No, screw the current community. The veterans were the heart and soul of that game. It's time to let a deadhorse lie and bury it. Stop beating it, because it's been dead a long time now.
You've obviously never had to deal with Sony's CSR's...compared to Sony, Blizz's CSR's are better. At least you receive a reply within a few hours, compared to Sony which could be anywhere from a few minutes to a few days. (I've had a ticket that took 3 weeks to answer, and I forgot that I even had a ticket open when the CSR contacted me.)
Sure, both companies have their inept CSR's, but at least in my experience, the CSR's in WoW at least try to help you resolve your problem, or at least make you feel like its important, instead of Sony's CSR's who respond like you're "bothering" them while they're trying to play Axis and Allies.
not really.....first it was supposed to be a unique game. Then it was WoW with an SWG wrapper slapped around it. (I played EQ a few months ago when they had their free 14day trial and it's much better than when I beta tested EQ, and definatly much better than SWG.)...but they're trying to lean towards a framework where they can have similar engines, and just change the database structure and have them all play nicely together.
It's still lame. The current SWG is nothing like the original developers envisioned, in fact most of the original developers are no longer with the SWG team.
Until you can provide some hard cold numbers, I can't give your citation much weight, simply because their aren't enough Mac users to significatly change the numbers one way or the other. That being said there *are* quite a few Mac users, but Mac portability is not enough to lend creedence to a title's success.
BS.....WoW has done so much better because it's...are you ready for this?...A MUCH BETTER GAME.
1. When SWG was in Beta it was a great game. Sure there were some bugs, but they were managable. About a week before launch, SoE published a patch that TOTALLY broke the game. We the beta testers begged and pleaded with the developers and SoE management, (and some of us wrote letters to LucasArts), to the effect of: "This game is NOT ready for publish." SoE didn't listen.
2. Everyone wondered what the path to unlock their Jedi slot was. You'd see people grinding out professions, you'd see people doing "kind acts", giving noobs money, doing every quest they could find. I was on at the time when the first jedi was "born" and Lord Vader made his announcement of their being a disturbance in the force. (It turned out the secret was grinding professions). Originally it was supposed to have been 5 "secret" professions one had to master in the game, and as people discovered the method, SoE did a "ninja nerf" and upped the required professions to 8 to slow down the escape from Pandora's Box. (i.e. originally of the 28 professions, you would have to master a random 5 from those. Once SoE realized the players knew, they upped the required number to 8 secretly and without telling anyone). This whole method was just a dumb idea, but SoE didn't listen.
3. SoE has always catered to the "whiners". People that didn't understand how a master bounty hunter could "omgwtfpwn" them by saying, "But I'm a master marksman?!?"...(master marksman was a requirement of master BH at the time...naturally they WOULD be able to rage face.) The bounty hunter class was nerfed considerably. (Note: this was before Player Jedi bounties, so it wasn't so much of an issue, this put BH slightly less than equal of other master combat classes, but a good player could pull out the win.) Once player bounties came out, this put the BH at a severe disadvantage. BH's were intended to be the force in the "galaxies" that helped control the Jedi population, and they were found to be ill-equipped. BH's whined, Jedi were nerfed. (keep in mind, many of the other combat professions were nerfed in the meantime between the BH and Jedi nerfs, to the point where the class to be was melee and to master more than one melee profession, you were pretty much unstoppable and could solo most anything in the game.) What goes around, comes around...nerf after nerf after nerf...to put it simply, all the professions were being nerfed in a circular cycle, after one round of nerfs they were back to square one and were back to nerfing the BH profession. All the above changes were cited as being bad ideas, SoE wasn't listening.
3. Jedi Revamp On paper, it sounded like a good idea. It gave more diversity in jedi creation. In reality, it took away many vital skills in favor of other skills that were completely broken. It also removed all armor from Jedi and the resistance were broken. There was an uproar in the jedi community. Many accounts were canceled, jedi were sold on ebay, we tried to tell them what the problem was. SoE's attitude was, "What are you people bitching about? You have jedi robes!!". "We understand the frustration this issue is causing you...." and "Jedi are pre-balanced for the new combat system, bear with us, we'll have the new combat system in a couple months"...(It took OVER a year)..in the meantime, jedi had to suffer the insult of being reduced from the great warriors of Star Wars lore who's skills took months to level up, to being beaten by a noob with a pair of vibro-knucklers who completed their profession in 3 days. again, SoE wasn't listening.
4. Jedi Revamp = Part Deux With the new combat system, came new problems. SoE has seen the success of games like WoW, and tried to emulate that....horribly so. Professions that were once great, where all but laughable. Jedi were still the chew-toys of the masses unless they dropped their master sabre skills and picked up master defender. All in all, this was a stupid revamp,
in the words of most of the people you'd play with...."OMGWTFPWND!!! now stfu noob"..
just kidding...
Anyway, I've found that most of the GM's don't have very good critical thinking skills and aren't able to grasp what's a violation and what's not. The operate on the premiss that if someone reports something it must be wrong, and rely on the gaming community to do their job for them.
The only thing I can tell you is to start reporting every name you see that has some sort of title in the name. They won't won't bend on anything, so you might as well give them something to do. (because we all know they don't do anything but mash buttons and show you their l33t GM macro'ing skills.
I just find it amusing that whenever someone makes an Anti-MS, or Anti-Linux post, it's always moderated as "Insightful" or "Informitive"...or g-d forbid "Funny"......make one crack about a Mac or their user and you're a troll.
I guess the Slashdot mods are really closet Mac-in-trash users. lol.
To add CPU speed numbers and list technical stats would just confuse the apple user.
I mean come on, "Apple", "Tiger"...these are all simple names you'd give to a pre-schooler's computer. The Mac-in-trash has evolved into the ultimate "FisherPrice" machine.......now you're "playing" with power.
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If you process WVO using either potassium or sodium methohydroxide process, you can process the WVO into BioDiesel for anywhere from 60-80 per gallon, labor not withstading. As to the NY guys being shut down. They didn't get shut down due to anti-trust laws, they got shut down because they weren't paying "for road use" taxes to the DOT and the State.
and wearing armor would make one vulnerable to being attacked by .50cal munitions as it is not against the Geneva Convention to aim for enemy "equipment" and armor constitutes targetable equipment....so following along with the above statements, and expanding on them: if a mob DID show up armored, they would be able to be engaged by said .50cal machine guns, and obliterated. (it's amazing to see a human body fly apart when their "equipment" is struck by a .50cal projectile...it's absolutely breathtaking...(and I don't mean that in a sense of awe, but a sense of shock....one is simply at a loss for words to see a person's body fly apart with such violent and sudden force.)
...coming from the country with the largest per capta of "Donkey Shows"....I wouldn't give his comments too much weight.
....so that means there's room for expansion!
Not all Type2 sufferers are fat and lazy slobs, Mr. Sensitivity. Some Type 2 sufferers, like my father, acquired Type 2 due to Agent Orange exposure in Vietnam. While it is true to some degree, that a lot of Type 2 cases can be regulated with diet and excercise, not all Type 2 patients can do anything about it....but then again, what do you care. It's really easy to make a painting (generalization) with broad strokes when you don't know what colors you're using (uneducated.
...I've only been saying this for 10 years now. These numbers of "estimated profit losses" are completely fabricated because teenagers wouldn't be able to purchase "legit".....only took them a decade for it to sink in....so it's going to take 50 years for the RIAA to get it thru their head, they're fighting a losing battle.
I beg to differ. My hearing extends into the 28.4 kHz range, (tested). On the high end of the spectrum, but it's not that uncommon.
....I mean look at the way these threads have been modded, and modded into the wrong category....(I mean after all, isn't it morning in India right now?)
...OWNED!
1. He should be nominated for a Darwin Award.
2. That's one less chinese farmer to worry about selling Krol Blades.
That's a nice example.
Now let's look at it in the real world.
15 friends, 1 is a mac user, the other 14 will gang up on him and say, "Hey dude. Get a REAL computer"
'nuff said.
1 out of 15 share is not enough, statisticly, to attribute to a title's success. it's a drop in the bucket and not a significant amount, no matter how much you try to give weight to it. It's still JUST 1 in 15...and that's just for mac ownership...not all groups of 15 are gamers, thus dropping your figure down even further.
Take 10 groups of 15, MAYBE 2 of those groups are gamers, so you're looking at 2 out of 150 people are Mac using gamers. 28 out of 150 people are PC gamers. (a crude example..but it points things out.) 28 vs. 2. Again..2 is not a significant number in determining the success of a game title.
Get ready to double your fun. In the coming months, every active player will get two characters per galaxy spread over four different galaxies (eight total max)! Stay tuned for more information.
This changes nothing really. You were ALREADY limited to 8 character slots, just 1 per galaxy unless you unlocked your jedi slot. If you already had your 8 characters and unlocked your jedi, you had to delete one of your pre-existing characters to make room for your jedi character.
Way to go again with the bullshit marketing Sony. This is nothing more than the same system with a different wrapper on it.
I suspect there are a few reasons for that.
A. Licensing issues.
The couldn't add more Star Wars (tm) content without first going back to LucasArts and getting approval, and or paying more royalties.
B. They didn't know how to add content so that it would be fun and enjoyable. Case in point: Death Watch Bunker. When this first launch, I know of several people who played around with it for a few days, got fed up with, and never played there again. This was a bad implimentation of a good idea. There's nothing challenging about fighting a stack of 4 mobs that can one-shot kill you. Hack'n'slash, does not a good MMORPG make alone. You had one island of content in a sea of diarhea. (and watered down diarhea at that.) You had Waddo's Shop in Mos Espa...no Waddo. You had Chewie and Han on Lok...since when did Chewie shrink? You had Leia on Corelia, but wait a minute, she beat you to yavin, dathomir, endor, and yavin simultaniously...damn that bitch is fast..(and ugly).
C. They just didn't know how.
D. When the original devs moved on, they didn't make good code notes, so the new coders looked at the old code and one of them said in a meeting, "It'd be easier to write a whole new game"...
SWG is a failure, it's time to bury it.
Fuck the current community. What about the veterans who've been with the game since day one and before, who were screwed over, time and time again. The current community has very little insight into what the game USED to be, and how rich it was back then.
Back in the day...you know those stupid little faction terminal missions you run now? Back in the day you used to HAVE to get a group together to run those because it wasn't just a little camp, it was a full fledged base, complete with inquisitors in the basement. Turrets. Landmines...it was actually FUN to run faction missions. You could sneak around, and as long as you didn't get in Line of Sight..(i.e. they weren't aware of you), you could make a little ninja mission out of it. The way it is now, you get within a certain radius and the NPCs come running THRU the fucking wall...or shoot you thru it.
No, screw the current community. The veterans were the heart and soul of that game. It's time to let a deadhorse lie and bury it. Stop beating it, because it's been dead a long time now.
You've obviously never had to deal with Sony's CSR's...compared to Sony, Blizz's CSR's are better. At least you receive a reply within a few hours, compared to Sony which could be anywhere from a few minutes to a few days. (I've had a ticket that took 3 weeks to answer, and I forgot that I even had a ticket open when the CSR contacted me.)
Sure, both companies have their inept CSR's, but at least in my experience, the CSR's in WoW at least try to help you resolve your problem, or at least make you feel like its important, instead of Sony's CSR's who respond like you're "bothering" them while they're trying to play Axis and Allies.
not really... ..first it was supposed to be a unique game. Then it was WoW with an SWG wrapper slapped around it. (I played EQ a few months ago when they had their free 14day trial and it's much better than when I beta tested EQ, and definatly much better than SWG.)...but they're trying to lean towards a framework where they can have similar engines, and just change the database structure and have them all play nicely together.
It's still lame. The current SWG is nothing like the original developers envisioned, in fact most of the original developers are no longer with the SWG team.
Until you can provide some hard cold numbers, I can't give your citation much weight, simply because their aren't enough Mac users to significatly change the numbers one way or the other. That being said there *are* quite a few Mac users, but Mac portability is not enough to lend creedence to a title's success.
BS... ..WoW has done so much better because it's...are you ready for this?...A MUCH BETTER GAME.
1. When SWG was in Beta it was a great game. Sure there were some bugs, but they were managable. About a week before launch, SoE published a patch that TOTALLY broke the game. We the beta testers begged and pleaded with the developers and SoE management, (and some of us wrote letters to LucasArts), to the effect of: "This game is NOT ready for publish." SoE didn't listen.
2. Everyone wondered what the path to unlock their Jedi slot was. You'd see people grinding out professions, you'd see people doing "kind acts", giving noobs money, doing every quest they could find. I was on at the time when the first jedi was "born" and Lord Vader made his announcement of their being a disturbance in the force. (It turned out the secret was grinding professions). Originally it was supposed to have been 5 "secret" professions one had to master in the game, and as people discovered the method, SoE did a "ninja nerf" and upped the required professions to 8 to slow down the escape from Pandora's Box. (i.e. originally of the 28 professions, you would have to master a random 5 from those. Once SoE realized the players knew, they upped the required number to 8 secretly and without telling anyone). This whole method was just a dumb idea, but SoE didn't listen.
3. SoE has always catered to the "whiners". People that didn't understand how a master bounty hunter could "omgwtfpwn" them by saying, "But I'm a master marksman?!?"...(master marksman was a requirement of master BH at the time...naturally they WOULD be able to rage face.) The bounty hunter class was nerfed considerably. (Note: this was before Player Jedi bounties, so it wasn't so much of an issue, this put BH slightly less than equal of other master combat classes, but a good player could pull out the win.) Once player bounties came out, this put the BH at a severe disadvantage. BH's were intended to be the force in the "galaxies" that helped control the Jedi population, and they were found to be ill-equipped. BH's whined, Jedi were nerfed. (keep in mind, many of the other combat professions were nerfed in the meantime between the BH and Jedi nerfs, to the point where the class to be was melee and to master more than one melee profession, you were pretty much unstoppable and could solo most anything in the game.) What goes around, comes around...nerf after nerf after nerf...to put it simply, all the professions were being nerfed in a circular cycle, after one round of nerfs they were back to square one and were back to nerfing the BH profession. All the above changes were cited as being bad ideas, SoE wasn't listening.
3. Jedi Revamp
On paper, it sounded like a good idea. It gave more diversity in jedi creation. In reality, it took away many vital skills in favor of other skills that were completely broken. It also removed all armor from Jedi and the resistance were broken. There was an uproar in the jedi community. Many accounts were canceled, jedi were sold on ebay, we tried to tell them what the problem was. SoE's attitude was, "What are you people bitching about? You have jedi robes!!". "We understand the frustration this issue is causing you...." and "Jedi are pre-balanced for the new combat system, bear with us, we'll have the new combat system in a couple months"...(It took OVER a year)..in the meantime, jedi had to suffer the insult of being reduced from the great warriors of Star Wars lore who's skills took months to level up, to being beaten by a noob with a pair of vibro-knucklers who completed their profession in 3 days. again, SoE wasn't listening.
4. Jedi Revamp = Part Deux
With the new combat system, came new problems. SoE has seen the success of games like WoW, and tried to emulate that....horribly so. Professions that were once great, where all but laughable. Jedi were still the chew-toys of the masses unless they dropped their master sabre skills and picked up master defender. All in all, this was a stupid revamp,
...make one feel really REALLY stupid.
The upside of this, he's never EVER going to get laid. lol.
Get that boy a Spongebob pocket protector.
sorry I meant PATENT (I just woke up)
Coffee beers have been around for a long time, that's nothing new, in fact if it were ever patented it would be public domain by now.
in the words of most of the people you'd play with.. .."OMGWTFPWND!!! now stfu noob"..
just kidding...
Anyway, I've found that most of the GM's don't have very good critical thinking skills and aren't able to grasp what's a violation and what's not. The operate on the premiss that if someone reports something it must be wrong, and rely on the gaming community to do their job for them.
The only thing I can tell you is to start reporting every name you see that has some sort of title in the name. They won't won't bend on anything, so you might as well give them something to do. (because we all know they don't do anything but mash buttons and show you their l33t GM macro'ing skills.
I just find it amusing that whenever someone makes an Anti-MS, or Anti-Linux post, it's always moderated as "Insightful" or "Informitive"...or g-d forbid "Funny"... ...make one crack about a Mac or their user and you're a troll.
I guess the Slashdot mods are really closet Mac-in-trash users. lol.
The streets will flow with the blood of the non-believers!!!! lol.
To add CPU speed numbers and list technical stats would just confuse the apple user.
...now you're "playing" with power.
I mean come on, "Apple", "Tiger"...these are all simple names you'd give to a pre-schooler's computer. The Mac-in-trash has evolved into the ultimate "FisherPrice" machine....