I know several people who play WoW and I would like to join them, but since they're all on different servers, I will have to choose one of my friends to play with and ignore the others. That is simply not acceptable and thus WoW fails for me as a platform for interacting with my friends, which seems to be it's main purpose.
Yeah, real life fails me for the exact same reason.
>>You slashdot wise guys! Do you REALLY think PROFESSIONAL scientists would leave critical equipment exposed? That professionals paid to design and engineer a multi-billion dollar piece of equipment would forget a basic piece of covering?
I know some of the more senior geeks here will scoff, but I learned programming with BASIC back in 2004-2005. I know there's a lot of hate for Microsoft and VB, but I fondly remember the simple language that built the two.
I think you want to replace "scientist" with engineers.
They tend to have the vision and know how while scientists squabble for the next research grant.
WoW has a bad reputation from a large number of former players that realized just how bad it was for their lives. Every former player I've spoken with agrees that the game took too much time from real friends and family and since they *could* manage to manage their lives they quit.
It's a massive time sink if you want to be anything other than the mythic "casual player," which I don't think I've ever met. If you start off slow you get caught up in something, whether it be raiding, PvP, economics or guild politics.
"You are being funny right?"
No, I wasn't, and I should have proofread and been far more detailed. I was thinking along the lines of families having personal servers, one machine that would store all of their software, rather than multiple harddrives with the same program. I don't think my original post even alluded to that.
Sorry.
Google Apps are a new paradigm in software, having commonly used applications entirely on a server so that multiple users can use them. I think we'll see this on par with Open Office when it becomes more popular.
This really reminds me of an argument for HTS+ against NTFS. NTFS requires a big chunk of time to move files around (defragmentation) while the other moves files when they're openned, if it has to.
Commercial GPS devices have been making use of traffic message channels (TMCs) not long after they were introduced. This will provide similar information for low traffic streets, but does tht make it very useful?
To Jeffrey Kaplan (aka Tigole), game director for World of Warcraft: What has been driving the recent, seemingly drastic changes to World of Warcraft? Wrath of the Lich King is being released much earlier than expected and there has been a recent announcement that arenas and world PvP will be scaled back in favor of more battlegrounds.
This is off the Heinlein topic, but I think it's real interesting that you brought up the quick-exposure images. I was going through 10,000 digital documents per day at work, blazing through them via the page down key. I noticed that I read novels much faster now, thaking about half the time.
>> Why is it I thought that mecha was called an Excalibur?
It is the Excalibur, in Robotech. In the original macross series, the mecha was call the Tomahawk and in FASA's Battletech it was the Warhammer stated above.
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I know several people who play WoW and I would like to join them, but since they're all on different servers, I will have to choose one of my friends to play with and ignore the others. That is simply not acceptable and thus WoW fails for me as a platform for interacting with my friends, which seems to be it's main purpose.
Yeah, real life fails me for the exact same reason.
It happened with the Death Star...
>>You slashdot wise guys! Do you REALLY think PROFESSIONAL scientists would leave critical equipment exposed? That professionals paid to design and engineer a multi-billion dollar piece of equipment would forget a basic piece of covering?
The 'pod' in podcasting actually stands for "Product On Demand," or so Farpoint Media claims.
I hope it has Bruce making a reappearance as a grizzled TRON veteran willing to take down a despotic, orwellian virtual government.
Bruce is just like Captain John Sheridan in real life...right?
Can someone help debug my php?
20 $i = 1;
30 while ($i != 10) {
40 $i++;
50 }
I know some of the more senior geeks here will scoff, but I learned programming with BASIC back in 2004-2005. I know there's a lot of hate for Microsoft and VB, but I fondly remember the simple language that built the two.
Blimp. Right. And what happens when one of those 30+ meter fan blades creates some lift?
Transportation engineers in Boston discussed using helicopters to avoid road transit but discarded the idea for that exact reason.
"Masakari, to you freebirth scum."
There, fixed it for you.
This doesn't even tell us how the judge was biased.
If anyone's wondering, both the original judge and the reviewing judge were part of the same copyright-supporting organizations.
Sounds like your buddy played Ice Wind Dale too much.
I think you want to replace "scientist" with engineers. They tend to have the vision and know how while scientists squabble for the next research grant.
WoW has a bad reputation from a large number of former players that realized just how bad it was for their lives. Every former player I've spoken with agrees that the game took too much time from real friends and family and since they *could* manage to manage their lives they quit.
It's a massive time sink if you want to be anything other than the mythic "casual player," which I don't think I've ever met. If you start off slow you get caught up in something, whether it be raiding, PvP, economics or guild politics.
"You are being funny right?" No, I wasn't, and I should have proofread and been far more detailed. I was thinking along the lines of families having personal servers, one machine that would store all of their software, rather than multiple harddrives with the same program. I don't think my original post even alluded to that. Sorry.
Google Apps are a new paradigm in software, having commonly used applications entirely on a server so that multiple users can use them. I think we'll see this on par with Open Office when it becomes more popular.
This really reminds me of an argument for HTS+ against NTFS. NTFS requires a big chunk of time to move files around (defragmentation) while the other moves files when they're openned, if it has to.
Commercial GPS devices have been making use of traffic message channels (TMCs) not long after they were introduced. This will provide similar information for low traffic streets, but does tht make it very useful?
That's called plastic deformation.
To Jeffrey Kaplan (aka Tigole), game director for World of Warcraft: What has been driving the recent, seemingly drastic changes to World of Warcraft? Wrath of the Lich King is being released much earlier than expected and there has been a recent announcement that arenas and world PvP will be scaled back in favor of more battlegrounds.
This is off the Heinlein topic, but I think it's real interesting that you brought up the quick-exposure images. I was going through 10,000 digital documents per day at work, blazing through them via the page down key. I noticed that I read novels much faster now, thaking about half the time.
President: "I'd just like the nation to know that they still have two of the branches of government..."
The Newest issue of U.S. News and World Report is about top schools for graduate study.
Uhm...aren't there eleven dimensions according to M-Theory?
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Who's watching the watchers? Uh...the other watchers apparently. Just read your own article!
>> Why is it I thought that mecha was called an Excalibur? It is the Excalibur, in Robotech. In the original macross series, the mecha was call the Tomahawk and in FASA's Battletech it was the Warhammer stated above.