I worked the call center for my local cable provider on the Internet provider side. Likewise, I had no script, other than how to get the customer's information. It was fun to have a customer call in and tell me "I know more than you!" It was quite satisfying when they actually proved they knew as much as I did (because, then, I didn't have to put them in their place and we could converse intelligently about their problem.) It was more frustrating when they say they know more than me and I had to explain how to use the command line to run a ping.
I don't know about that. I've never noticed a difference between the eggs I've purchased from the chain grocery store and the eggs my aunt collects from her dozen chickens. I paid attention, too. Sure, the store bought eggs are the expected "white" shell variety and the eggs from my aunt range from a brown to green color.
Funny story: When my wife was young, she grew up on a farm in a farming community (upstate NY). She was
asked, with the rest of her school class, to bring in some eggs for Easter egg coloring. Of course,
she had the brown variety. The teacher told her she didn't need to color them before bringing them
to class./rolls eyes/
I think there are enough people starting to move to Linux (or there was enough people moving that way when Win Vista came out) that these people didn't care about the whole open source / closed source debate. I've wanted to move to linux completely, and have finally done so. Ubuntu 10.10 has made it very easy. I still have issues setting up some games and apps in WINE (Quicken didn't load properly, PopCap games through Steam aren't working for me and I still can't tell if I'm getting full use of my graphics card... in WoW, I can't select the top options, despite having an nVidia 8800GT which ran the top options fine in Windows XP, Half-Life, HL2, TF2, etc are running just fine as well as Flash based games).
That's just it, though. Touch screens and Kinects all have feedback, a reactive force. Perhaps, though, I'm getting older and my joints don't take to the throwing motion as well as a teen or younger.
To your point. Everquest was king. What did Blizzard do with WoW to take the crown? Did they copy the style, the gameplay mechanics, the grind? Nope, it saw where Everquest was weak (lots of sitting time waiting for mana, long grind to get to top levels including loss of XP for death, etc.) Blizzard also had a known entity, the Warcraft universe with a storyline developed over 2 RTS's and an unreleased FPS that was eventually released as a book (I think).
When I stopped playing Everquest, I had two characters, a level 25-ish Shaman that could finally do some porting and my main, a Ranger that was about 35. I had played for a year and a half. In WoW, my main is maxed in its levels and I have a half dozen other characters at various levels between 0-40 (The exception is the Death Knight which starts at 60 - she's now 75-78). I've been playing WoW for about a year and a half total.
I played the Kinect for the first time the other day. My arm was good and sore, but not in the good way. In my opinion, a person needs some resistance, pressure, some sort of feedback when performing actions. I eventually picked up a Wii-mote so that I could have something to hold similar to a javelin, paddle, or whatever it was I was supposed to be holding to the play the game.
There was another ball game, place your body in front of the ball to make sure it doesn't get past you and returns to knock bales of hay or boxes off the other wall. Hit it "harder" to make the ball go faster. Um... how do you hit air harder?
I can see uses for it, but waving my arms and contorting my body to make things happen on my computer does not seem practical. Would I get one when they come out? Most probably:) I can see uses for it on an HTPC.
WHA-aat?! The summary is incorrect, say it ain't so.
To the point being made, it appears the person summarizing the article tried to state the donation information, More than 500,000 donations averaging $22 apiece..., to 630,000 individual contributions that averaged $22. Both statements seem to indicate that there are other contributions. (Individual contribs do not include corporate contribs, do they? And "more than 500,000" could mean 630,000 or 630,000,000 or 500,001.) However, the "more than" statement is easier to read and understand that it was likely a lot more than 500,001.
It absolutely perverts the process. It happened in 2008 with the Republicans, because their sails were completely deflated when Romney bowed out due to early votes where Dems could vote in the Repubs primary. Then the Rs tried to turn the table by making the Clinton/Obama race last longer than normal.
As a conservative first and Repub second, I see Palin as an excellent endorser. If she is smart, she will not run. If she was a VP, she would then have the experience to step into office. As it is, she's a drop-out governor and media pundit... no better than Obama - a community organizer.
Actually, they did. Owners of WoW who bought Starcraft could get a little zergling and/or protoss companion pet. Apparently, when two players meet and one has their zergs and the other their protoss, they'll attack each other in a zerg rush.
/disclaimer... I may be wrong about the protoss thing. but I did see a picture of the thing happening (I'm not a starcraft player)
My high school received a number of HP 48G calculators. They gave three to students to try out and report on its findings. I was lucky to be one of them. I thoroughly enjoyed the RPN style. Since everyone learns A+B=C style, figuring out AB+=C; or more advanced: AB+D*=C versus ABD*+=C, makes you really think about order of operation and what it means. It also forces you to think about how a computer logic with push and pop.
Yes, the HP-48G and HP-48GX were too darn expensive. It wasn't long after that, that HP took a nose dive in my respectability column (consumer computers loaded with crapware and overly expensive printers and ink). I still love the HP-48 series, though.
The other problem you have that they don't is player-base size. They don't have to spend anything* to say: "To get this cool object in Farmville, join Cityville!"
* They don't have to spend advert dollars to do that. Yes, they do have to spend coding, art, and QA dollars to get said object in the game.
No, this means that Zynga has adapted to its environment by promoting its games in a way that will continue to draw users, despite roadblocks being placed in its way. Darwinian evolution is the strongest survive, or as you stated, those that best adapt. I've rarely seen "fun", "most functional", "most features" be a metric of strongest survivability or best adapted. (See Beta vs VHS war, HDDVD vs Blu-ray, Visual Basic. Why VB has been allowed to survive for so long...)
Or another example. My wife plays FrontierVille and FarmVille. In order to complete a barn or basket or something, she had to collect 6 different objects. The final object was only obtainable by starting a CityVille account.
Surprisingly, she said, "enough, I can only handle two time waster games," and didn't sign up.
I read an article many years ago about how new cars were shipped to Japan because there was a law there that mandated an individual could not own a 3 year old car. All the used cars were shipped back to the US were people are more likely to drive them into the ground before purchasing a new or used car.
Anecdotally, I never buy new. When the difference between a new car and a one or two year old used car is significant, buying new just does not seem worthwhile.
It might be common knowledge among techs. But freedom writers may not know this as they may not be technically adept. Though, at this point, I imagine a lot of them got a pretty good wake up call from this snafu by "Anonymous".
(I'll leave it up to the reader to determine whether they view my term of "freedom writer" as an anarchist or liberating term.)
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How many slashdotters support many users who refuse to use anything other than IE despite our insistence and warnings and enabling them to use another browser. So, knowing that there is a new 0 day is newsworthy and relevant to our interests.
here's the little secret... even if you are baptized by the Mormons after you are dead, you still have the right to reject that baptism when you wake up after death and find out there is more. If you don't wake up after death, then does it really matter? The Mormons are just wasting a lot of time and water.
For those who only hear about Mormons through their detractors should understand that they believe that all people are sons and daughters of God. Which means that we are one big family. As such, family is a major part of the lifestyle. As such, they have one of the best resources, along with software, for finding genealogy information.
As one post above mine has stated, if the History Center advisors become preachy, they are not following instructions. I know that the local genealogy society (not LDS related) in my area (Louisville, KY) have donated to the LDS History Center because they have members of their society use the resources and material a lot.
To carry the explanation farther... consider boot to full usability speeds. If ChromeOS is ready to use in 8 seconds or less, but Linux takes twice that long, I'll go ChromeOS if my only intention is to browse a few sites.
That's not the point of this article, is it? It's not the being out of contact for 15 minutes, it's the being able to "shop" (price compare, item/brand compare, etc).
And, yes, I would suspect that emergency personnel making a quick stop would not bear to be out of contact for fifteen minutes.
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I worked the call center for my local cable provider on the Internet provider side. Likewise, I had no script, other than how to get the customer's information. It was fun to have a customer call in and tell me "I know more than you!" It was quite satisfying when they actually proved they knew as much as I did (because, then, I didn't have to put them in their place and we could converse intelligently about their problem.) It was more frustrating when they say they know more than me and I had to explain how to use the command line to run a ping.
In your 24 hour day, when is night? In Alaska, night is almost 24 hours long, but is now decreasing.
Interestingly, Life 2.0 does feature immortality. Just not everyone living Life 1.0 believes it.
I don't know about that. I've never noticed a difference between the eggs I've purchased from the chain grocery store and the eggs my aunt collects from her dozen chickens. I paid attention, too. Sure, the store bought eggs are the expected "white" shell variety and the eggs from my aunt range from a brown to green color.
/rolls eyes/
Funny story: When my wife was young, she grew up on a farm in a farming community (upstate NY). She was asked, with the rest of her school class, to bring in some eggs for Easter egg coloring. Of course, she had the brown variety. The teacher told her she didn't need to color them before bringing them to class.
I think there are enough people starting to move to Linux (or there was enough people moving that way when Win Vista came out) that these people didn't care about the whole open source / closed source debate. I've wanted to move to linux completely, and have finally done so. Ubuntu 10.10 has made it very easy. I still have issues setting up some games and apps in WINE (Quicken didn't load properly, PopCap games through Steam aren't working for me and I still can't tell if I'm getting full use of my graphics card... in WoW, I can't select the top options, despite having an nVidia 8800GT which ran the top options fine in Windows XP, Half-Life, HL2, TF2, etc are running just fine as well as Flash based games).
Are you pondering what I'm pondering?
Why, yes, Brain! I do think it is a bad idea to eat tater tots that were saved in my pocket from this afternoon's lunch!
That's just it, though. Touch screens and Kinects all have feedback, a reactive force. Perhaps, though, I'm getting older and my joints don't take to the throwing motion as well as a teen or younger.
To your point. Everquest was king. What did Blizzard do with WoW to take the crown? Did they copy the style, the gameplay mechanics, the grind? Nope, it saw where Everquest was weak (lots of sitting time waiting for mana, long grind to get to top levels including loss of XP for death, etc.) Blizzard also had a known entity, the Warcraft universe with a storyline developed over 2 RTS's and an unreleased FPS that was eventually released as a book (I think).
When I stopped playing Everquest, I had two characters, a level 25-ish Shaman that could finally do some porting and my main, a Ranger that was about 35. I had played for a year and a half. In WoW, my main is maxed in its levels and I have a half dozen other characters at various levels between 0-40 (The exception is the Death Knight which starts at 60 - she's now 75-78). I've been playing WoW for about a year and a half total.
I played the Kinect for the first time the other day. My arm was good and sore, but not in the good way. In my opinion, a person needs some resistance, pressure, some sort of feedback when performing actions. I eventually picked up a Wii-mote so that I could have something to hold similar to a javelin, paddle, or whatever it was I was supposed to be holding to the play the game.
:) I can see uses for it on an HTPC.
There was another ball game, place your body in front of the ball to make sure it doesn't get past you and returns to knock bales of hay or boxes off the other wall. Hit it "harder" to make the ball go faster. Um... how do you hit air harder?
I can see uses for it, but waving my arms and contorting my body to make things happen on my computer does not seem practical. Would I get one when they come out? Most probably
WHA-aat?! The summary is incorrect, say it ain't so.
To the point being made, it appears the person summarizing the article tried to state the donation information, More than 500,000 donations averaging $22 apiece..., to 630,000 individual contributions that averaged $22. Both statements seem to indicate that there are other contributions. (Individual contribs do not include corporate contribs, do they? And "more than 500,000" could mean 630,000 or 630,000,000 or 500,001.) However, the "more than" statement is easier to read and understand that it was likely a lot more than 500,001.
It absolutely perverts the process. It happened in 2008 with the Republicans, because their sails were completely deflated when Romney bowed out due to early votes where Dems could vote in the Repubs primary. Then the Rs tried to turn the table by making the Clinton/Obama race last longer than normal.
As a conservative first and Repub second, I see Palin as an excellent endorser. If she is smart, she will not run. If she was a VP, she would then have the experience to step into office. As it is, she's a drop-out governor and media pundit... no better than Obama - a community organizer.
Actually, they did. Owners of WoW who bought Starcraft could get a little zergling and/or protoss companion pet. Apparently, when two players meet and one has their zergs and the other their protoss, they'll attack each other in a zerg rush.
/disclaimer... I may be wrong about the protoss thing. but I did see a picture of the thing happening (I'm not a starcraft player)
While it is still probably ASCII graphics, I sure liked Gorilla.bas
My high school received a number of HP 48G calculators. They gave three to students to try out and report on its findings. I was lucky to be one of them. I thoroughly enjoyed the RPN style. Since everyone learns A+B=C style, figuring out AB+=C; or more advanced: AB+D*=C versus ABD*+=C, makes you really think about order of operation and what it means. It also forces you to think about how a computer logic with push and pop.
Yes, the HP-48G and HP-48GX were too darn expensive. It wasn't long after that, that HP took a nose dive in my respectability column (consumer computers loaded with crapware and overly expensive printers and ink). I still love the HP-48 series, though.
The other problem you have that they don't is player-base size. They don't have to spend anything* to say: "To get this cool object in Farmville, join Cityville!"
* They don't have to spend advert dollars to do that. Yes, they do have to spend coding, art, and QA dollars to get said object in the game.
No, this means that Zynga has adapted to its environment by promoting its games in a way that will continue to draw users, despite roadblocks being placed in its way. Darwinian evolution is the strongest survive, or as you stated, those that best adapt. I've rarely seen "fun", "most functional", "most features" be a metric of strongest survivability or best adapted. (See Beta vs VHS war, HDDVD vs Blu-ray, Visual Basic. Why VB has been allowed to survive for so long...)
Or another example. My wife plays FrontierVille and FarmVille. In order to complete a barn or basket or something, she had to collect 6 different objects. The final object was only obtainable by starting a CityVille account.
Surprisingly, she said, "enough, I can only handle two time waster games," and didn't sign up.
I read an article many years ago about how new cars were shipped to Japan because there was a law there that mandated an individual could not own a 3 year old car. All the used cars were shipped back to the US were people are more likely to drive them into the ground before purchasing a new or used car.
Anecdotally, I never buy new. When the difference between a new car and a one or two year old used car is significant, buying new just does not seem worthwhile.
I think most of the time, Mythbusters is redundant. But they're still fun to watch!
It might be common knowledge among techs. But freedom writers may not know this as they may not be technically adept. Though, at this point, I imagine a lot of them got a pretty good wake up call from this snafu by "Anonymous".
(I'll leave it up to the reader to determine whether they view my term of "freedom writer" as an anarchist or liberating term.)
How many slashdotters support many users who refuse to use anything other than IE despite our insistence and warnings and enabling them to use another browser. So, knowing that there is a new 0 day is newsworthy and relevant to our interests.
here's the little secret... even if you are baptized by the Mormons after you are dead, you still have the right to reject that baptism when you wake up after death and find out there is more. If you don't wake up after death, then does it really matter? The Mormons are just wasting a lot of time and water.
For those who only hear about Mormons through their detractors should understand that they believe that all people are sons and daughters of God. Which means that we are one big family. As such, family is a major part of the lifestyle. As such, they have one of the best resources, along with software, for finding genealogy information.
As one post above mine has stated, if the History Center advisors become preachy, they are not following instructions. I know that the local genealogy society (not LDS related) in my area (Louisville, KY) have donated to the LDS History Center because they have members of their society use the resources and material a lot.
To carry the explanation farther... consider boot to full usability speeds. If ChromeOS is ready to use in 8 seconds or less, but Linux takes twice that long, I'll go ChromeOS if my only intention is to browse a few sites.
I'll feed this troll.
That's not the point of this article, is it? It's not the being out of contact for 15 minutes, it's the being able to "shop" (price compare, item/brand compare, etc).
And, yes, I would suspect that emergency personnel making a quick stop would not bear to be out of contact for fifteen minutes.