I've played FFXI for the last 2 years (including the beta) and before that I use to blow through 120-140 a month (Canadian) on games easy. I haven't figured out how much I've saved by switching to the MMORPG type game but it's a lot.
I also have gotten tired of waiting for 3 hours in FFXI to do even the simplest of things. I guess I never realized until I played a MMORPG that doesn't have game mechanics coded with the purpose of wasting time (11 minutes for the airship and a 5 minute ride??) that FFXI intentionally wastes time.
Several years ago the Government of New Brunswick (The Canadian province, not some place in NJ USA) issued a bunch of "safety cards" to elementary school children. These cards had colorful pictures and good messages to warn kids about the dangers of drugs, etc, etc.
One card of interest warned about the dangers of internet strangers and had an image of a snake peeking out of a computer.
Now New Brunswick is an offical bi-lingual province (English/French) and all of the cards had to be bi-lingual. So to cut on production costs they would use words that where the same or similar in french and english when possible.
So back to the dangers of the internet. This card had the innocent looking url anaconda.com to go along with the snake in the internet theme(if it's the same as it was I don't recommend for work viewing). Well the url went to a nice S&M site with a very umm colorful splash page.
The big ISP/Telco here immediately blocked the site at the request of the government.
Personally I love these PR nightmares for the entertainment value.
A few weeks ago I was looking for a document on my company's very large file server. In fact it was a document with notes on a completitors product. So I did a document containing "company name" search. To my surprise it seemed almost ever document in our marketing department and sales departments had mentioned this company in like every second document.
Several hours later I have a very unhappy looking network admin show up at my office curious about why I have so many documents open. Apparently S&M were trying to open some docs and they were locked by me. So I close the 5 documents I had open and give him the ok. He comes back 5 minutes later. 1500 documents were "locked" for my account. MS's search told had opened, and locked every document it listed in the find window and wouldn't release them until I had shutdown my PC.
Now the moral of the story is google isnt going to need to do a lot with a desktop search tool to impress me. Maybe I just ask too much of MS:P
*points at co-workers, family and friends* I TOLD YOU THEY WERE EVIL! EEEEEVIIIIILLLLL! Who's a paranoid wacko now? oh yeah I guess there's that other stuff too, but not this!
Simple.. When you are electing the leader of your country have ONE issue being voted on. Then have the entire voting system controlled by one central agency and make a simple paper ballot:
Interesting question.. but, also to go with that I believe Tobacco is a government regulated substance, not nicoteen. So this might not matter either way.
A pack in Canada will run you around $10. Governments tax the crap out of tabacco and make a fortune doing it. In fact that's probably the only reason it's still legal in Canada and the US. Oh and of course the big donations the companies make to political causes.
I've seen a couple people bashing this. I bet they would feel different if it was battery powered caffine. Personally I can't wait for the battery powered Alcohol.
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I've played FFXI for the last 2 years (including the beta) and before that I use to blow through 120-140 a month (Canadian) on games easy. I haven't figured out how much I've saved by switching to the MMORPG type game but it's a lot.
I also have gotten tired of waiting for 3 hours in FFXI to do even the simplest of things. I guess I never realized until I played a MMORPG that doesn't have game mechanics coded with the purpose of wasting time (11 minutes for the airship and a 5 minute ride??) that FFXI intentionally wastes time.
I have a job, and I can't justify it any more.
btw - I was on Midgardsormr now on Stormrage
Several years ago the Government of New Brunswick (The Canadian province, not some place in NJ USA) issued a bunch of "safety cards" to elementary school children. These cards had colorful pictures and good messages to warn kids about the dangers of drugs, etc, etc.
One card of interest warned about the dangers of internet strangers and had an image of a snake peeking out of a computer.
Now New Brunswick is an offical bi-lingual province (English/French) and all of the cards had to be bi-lingual. So to cut on production costs they would use words that where the same or similar in french and english when possible.
So back to the dangers of the internet. This card had the innocent looking url anaconda.com to go along with the snake in the internet theme(if it's the same as it was I don't recommend for work viewing). Well the url went to a nice S&M site with a very umm colorful splash page.
The big ISP/Telco here immediately blocked the site at the request of the government.
Personally I love these PR nightmares for the entertainment value.
I do like MS's spell check and grammar tool. God I shouldn't post this early in the morning :P
Sorry to any slashdot readers who will be put off by my horrible spelling and grammar in the previous post.
A few weeks ago I was looking for a document on my company's very large file server. In fact it was a document with notes on a completitors product. So I did a document containing "company name" search. To my surprise it seemed almost ever document in our marketing department and sales departments had mentioned this company in like every second document.
:P
Several hours later I have a very unhappy looking network admin show up at my office curious about why I have so many documents open. Apparently S&M were trying to open some docs and they were locked by me. So I close the 5 documents I had open and give him the ok. He comes back 5 minutes later. 1500 documents were "locked" for my account. MS's search told had opened, and locked every document it listed in the find window and wouldn't release them until I had shutdown my PC.
Now the moral of the story is google isnt going to need to do a lot with a desktop search tool to impress me. Maybe I just ask too much of MS
"the're just another application , albeit online"
Aren't they also a verb now?
*points at co-workers, family and friends* I TOLD YOU THEY WERE EVIL! EEEEEVIIIIILLLLL! Who's a paranoid wacko now? oh yeah I guess there's that other stuff too, but not this!
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Sorry what was that you were saying? I just shit my pants, and not the good kind either.
I fail to see where the letters f,u,n ever were in the name Jeopardy. I don't think it was called Jeofunpardy before Ken started to play.
I just assumed that since my parents get smarter as I get older, I must be getting dumber as I grow old.
Simple.. When you are electing the leader of your country have ONE issue being voted on. Then have the entire voting system controlled by one central agency and make a simple paper ballot:
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http://www.elections.ca/content_youth.asp?secti
Also, the largest popular vote received, etc, etc.
Also the highest voter turn-out, and the population is also growing.
"And somehow being anti-american is a high rating grabber lately"
Maybe because 48% of American's see there's a problem.
And who told you all of this? The same people that told you Bin Ladin, and Sadam are buddies or the people who told you Iraq had stock piles of WMDs?
Interesting question.. but, also to go with that I believe Tobacco is a government regulated substance, not nicoteen. So this might not matter either way.
You should have reversed the polarity of the grill, which would have resulted in a tasty cheeze beef treat.
In your experiences, have you ever found a problem that couldn't be fixed by reversing the polarity of something?
Ok since noone has said it:
Who wouldn't be able to find 4 friends when you have a gremlin and a huge rubber band!
A pack in Canada will run you around $10. Governments tax the crap out of tabacco and make a fortune doing it. In fact that's probably the only reason it's still legal in Canada and the US. Oh and of course the big donations the companies make to political causes.
I've seen a couple people bashing this. I bet they would feel different if it was battery powered caffine. Personally I can't wait for the battery powered Alcohol.
http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2463
You know water boils at 100C right?
I think that would also get you into the Darwin Award club.
http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/categories/products/dep tpage.asp?wherefrom=search&searchword=psp
The preorder ship date on all of them is 12/20/2004.
"the red team" -- Awesome they have Halo on the XBox!