"Our society tends to ignore events with a low probability of occuring. (What are the odds a hurricane could hit New Orleans, right?)"
well considering its a southern costal us city, in proximity to other costal places that regularly get hit by hurricanes, i would say that the odds are very good?
proof once again you dont have to make, even, sensical statements to get modded up. grats
"If people choose to ignore the restrictions of the Conventions then they don't get the protection of the Conventions."
well basically, statements like this are why i have no problem with "terrorists" torturing americans and im sure many people in the world are agreeing with me. better start seeing all your favourite old world countries while you still can. itll be open season soon...
"he also discovered an additional cable, running to a camera, mounted under her desk staring into her crotch, feeding into a nearby cabinet with a VCR."
That was just his way of saying that he liked her. Everyone has different ways of showing æffection...
Seriously though, if thats true thats some ballsey shit. Id buy someone a beer for attempting to do that its so crazy out there. who would not notice a camera under their desk, and who would go to all the trouble when there SO MUCH porn out there already. its a pity you dont have to back anything up on the internets. and by pity i mean virtue. kudos!
"IP lawyers and tech executives worry that Intellectual Ventures is less interested in changing the world with big ideas, and more focused on becoming an über patent troll"
first pass i read that as vultures and thought slashdot was getting quite flamey in its article summaries. not to say its not a correct play on words, but a wee bit flamey nevertheless.
$4500 is more than most people get paid per month. He wants this done in two weeks. What kind of world do you live in where 2weeks work (probably vastly less) is worth more than 4500 USD?
Besides, would you really want your server permalinked on slashdot? daily ddos ftw i supose.
"The login server for their forums seems to be one and the same as the login server for the game itself, so when that goes down the forums tend to shut down as well."
I always figured that if the login servers go down, everyone rushes the fourms and takes them down too. Its the slashdot æffect, only with wow. its more resonable than thinking that they use the same server for two vastly different roles.
"In the original EQ, patches were just a few hours in the morning, one day a week, unless something went wrong (which generally didn't happen, despite what the boards say.)"
I guess you dont see the irony in making this statement to reinforce your point. Fourm trolls ftl
Well since you dont play, im glad youve commented! thats what we need more of. Anyways to your point;
"you subscribe to that service for it to be available just about 24x7 whenever you feel like jumping in"
This is exactly, for the most part, by and large, what happens for everyone. What the parent is saying, correctly, is that the 1% of users who have problems make 99% of the noise. This is how the phrase "fourm troll" was coined and what it generally means. People who love complaining about the game and yet are completely dependant on it to a point where a day of downtime is some kind of crazy conspiracy. Basically, the only time that anything bad happens is either 1) around patch time 2) during peak server loads. And honestly, ALL computer systems are like that.
"they're afraid of complaining in case they're denied those things completely."
Well im not afraid of complaing, or some sort of apologist, but its really NOT THAT BAD. Personally, i would complain more about the horrible GM policies (name changing on TOTALLY legit names*1, bans for casual swearing, gms suspending your account for something you did 6 hours ago when your just about to down rag, etc). The hardware problems are the least of my problems with the game. Power tripping GMs and uneven enforcement of policy is so much worse than an hour or two of downtime.
*1 They actually changed my friends name because it was ntny (anthony with some letters missing) which they said was "random characters" which is a renameable offense. what words arent collections of random letters, i ask you.
I didnt know fourm trolls get their own cnet articles now. Whats next? an article on nerfing hunters in the new york times? Ive barely even seen any issues since patch 1.10. I think patch day the servers were down all day, but thats to be expected.
Seriously, if the game goes down for a few hours, you can do other things. What about cleaning your apartment? i bet it needs it.
OH lordy yes! speaking from experience, two plugs where something can go in is ALOT more stressful to joe technophobe than 1 plug. I am not surprised at all, as i vividly remember having to colour code the telephone cable and the LINE jack to eachother and in extreme cases, fill the "phone" jack with paper and tape. This is despite of the fact that the words "phone" and "line" are printed on the brackets of most modems ive ever seen.
yeah WOW so you have a corporate edition your so cool..
anyways i have done the same things as the parent because win2k is so much more elegant and bug free compared to winxp.
i recently installed win2k on a celeron 400 slot1 with 160mb ram and it flies. i wouldnt even attempt to load winxp on anything with less than 256mb of ram... m$ peaked with win2k. i really hope they release the source one day so people can mod it. i could run win2k forever. xp offers nothing except bloat.
" and I can't steal what you're handing out for free anyway.
Much like things on a shop shelf are "free"; sure you can take them and walk out of the shop, but the business model relies on customers paying, be it cash or ad views."
So the content on the website is a product and the ads are what, some tax you have to pay for entering the store? Your saying i cant go into a store (website) and casually browse the products (view webpages) without paying some sort of tax for being there (ads)? well ill give you a bit of a hint, i can do those things in a store and i dont feel like im "stealing" from the store if i decide not to buy anything.
If you have a big sign that says come read my website (search engine listing) and people come and read it, and you have another sign that says tips apreciated (ads) but no one tips, you havent the right to be mad about that either.
Slashdot Mirror
well YES lets put all that in perspective shall we
the last year of a pandemic 34k ppl died in the us.
accoring to wikipedia;
"The United States gets on average 30,000 car crash related deaths a year (out of a 300 million population)"
wow look at that. ill take my margarita now.
"Our society tends to ignore events with a low probability of occuring. (What are the odds a hurricane could hit New Orleans, right?)"
well considering its a southern costal us city, in proximity to other costal places that regularly get hit by hurricanes, i would say that the odds are very good?
proof once again you dont have to make, even, sensical statements to get modded up.
grats
"If people choose to ignore the restrictions of the Conventions then they don't get the protection of the Conventions."
well basically, statements like this are why i have no problem with "terrorists" torturing americans and im sure many people in the world are agreeing with me. better start seeing all your favourite old world countries while you still can. itll be open season soon...
pls to be selling phone records!
hot quality! 100%!
"And my LD player is broken and I can't think of a good reason to replace it."
to play various laserdiscs?
And the student happened to have his programmable 390MHz transmitter with him?
what you dont?
ive heard the same said of centrino
2k 4 evar
FUCKIGN WHORE
theres no way winxp is faster than win2k in any situation. ever. period.
st00pid fanbois
omg hilarious
baby piking ftw!
aparently someone has never heard the phrase "book tour"
you lose
"he also discovered an additional cable, running to a camera, mounted under her desk staring into her crotch, feeding into a nearby cabinet with a VCR."
That was just his way of saying that he liked her. Everyone has different ways of showing æffection...
Seriously though, if thats true thats some ballsey shit. Id buy someone a beer for attempting to do that its so crazy out there. who would not notice a camera under their desk, and who would go to all the trouble when there SO MUCH porn out there already. its a pity you dont have to back anything up on the internets. and by pity i mean virtue. kudos!
Im pretty sure thats from the family guy not a slashdotter.
"IP lawyers and tech executives worry that Intellectual Ventures is less interested in changing the world with big ideas, and more focused on becoming an über patent troll"
first pass i read that as vultures and thought slashdot was getting quite flamey in its article summaries. not to say its not a correct play on words, but a wee bit flamey nevertheless.
$4500 is more than most people get paid per month. He wants this done in two weeks. What kind of world do you live in where 2weeks work (probably vastly less) is worth more than 4500 USD?
Besides, would you really want your server permalinked on slashdot? daily ddos ftw i supose.
Why wouldnt the OEM's just sysprep in a custom ruleset at the time of assembly, whitelisting all their addons?
"The login server for their forums seems to be one and the same as the login server for the game itself, so when that goes down the forums tend to shut down as well."
I always figured that if the login servers go down, everyone rushes the fourms and takes them down too. Its the slashdot æffect, only with wow. its more resonable than thinking that they use the same server for two vastly different roles.
"In the original EQ, patches were just a few hours in the morning, one day a week, unless something went wrong (which generally didn't happen, despite what the boards say.)"
I guess you dont see the irony in making this statement to reinforce your point. Fourm trolls ftl
Well since you dont play, im glad youve commented! thats what we need more of. Anyways to your point;
"you subscribe to that service for it to be available just about 24x7 whenever you feel like jumping in"
This is exactly, for the most part, by and large, what happens for everyone. What the parent is saying, correctly, is that the 1% of users who have problems make 99% of the noise. This is how the phrase "fourm troll" was coined and what it generally means. People who love complaining about the game and yet are completely dependant on it to a point where a day of downtime is some kind of crazy conspiracy. Basically, the only time that anything bad happens is either 1) around patch time 2) during peak server loads. And honestly, ALL computer systems are like that.
"they're afraid of complaining in case they're denied those things completely."
Well im not afraid of complaing, or some sort of apologist, but its really NOT THAT BAD. Personally, i would complain more about the horrible GM policies (name changing on TOTALLY legit names*1, bans for casual swearing, gms suspending your account for something you did 6 hours ago when your just about to down rag, etc). The hardware problems are the least of my problems with the game. Power tripping GMs and uneven enforcement of policy is so much worse than an hour or two of downtime.
*1 They actually changed my friends name because it was ntny (anthony with some letters missing) which they said was "random characters" which is a renameable offense. what words arent collections of random letters, i ask you.
I didnt know fourm trolls get their own cnet articles now. Whats next? an article on nerfing hunters in the new york times? Ive barely even seen any issues since patch 1.10. I think patch day the servers were down all day, but thats to be expected.
Seriously, if the game goes down for a few hours, you can do other things. What about cleaning your apartment? i bet it needs it.
OH lordy yes!
speaking from experience, two plugs where something can go in is ALOT more stressful to joe technophobe than 1 plug. I am not surprised at all, as i vividly remember having to colour code the telephone cable and the LINE jack to eachother and in extreme cases, fill the "phone" jack with paper and tape. This is despite of the fact that the words "phone" and "line" are printed on the brackets of most modems ive ever seen.
once again
http://www.mininova.org/tor/130051
yeah WOW so you have a corporate edition your so cool..
anyways i have done the same things as the parent because win2k is so much more elegant and bug free compared to winxp.
i recently installed win2k on a celeron 400 slot1 with 160mb ram and it flies.
i wouldnt even attempt to load winxp on anything with less than 256mb of ram...
m$ peaked with win2k. i really hope they release the source one day so people can mod it. i could run win2k forever. xp offers nothing except bloat.
"Does anyone use..." "...Video CD, or Super Video CD?"
Um yes?
I take it you dont visit chinatown very much.
So the content on the website is a product and the ads are what, some tax you have to pay for entering the store? Your saying i cant go into a store (website) and casually browse the products (view webpages) without paying some sort of tax for being there (ads)? well ill give you a bit of a hint, i can do those things in a store and i dont feel like im "stealing" from the store if i decide not to buy anything.
If you have a big sign that says come read my website (search engine listing) and people come and read it, and you have another sign that says tips apreciated (ads) but no one tips, you havent the right to be mad about that either.