An even better way to reduce heating/cooling costs is to ensure that your renovations make your house as energy efficient as possible - look at insulation, air flow, passive solar considerations for shade in summer and exposure in winter. The more you do now to design a home that will maintain even temperatures on it's own, the less you need to intervene with heaters and air-con.
The issues I've seen with WoW on a Mac were more to do with the video codec not coping in high end instances (imps in MC, Razorgore, Vael, etc...) where there were too many items to render. I'm not sure how the intel processor is going to address the OpenGL problems.
Of course, Proudmoore would need to stay live for more than an hour at a time for this to be important at the moment...
I once had Apple Service Tech Support (the guys who support the warranty repairers) suggest sacrificing a chicken over a particularly unruly printer - because we had tried pretty much everything else.
The problem was eventually tracked down to the user's ink cartridges. The standard protocol for any printer booked in for service repair was to remove the client's cartridges and use the service centres test cartridges - so as not to run down the customer's consumables. The printer would get fixed, test fine, get handed back to the customer who would bring it back in 48 hours showing the same problem. A faulty controller on the black cartridge was shorting out the main logicboard on the printer. Fixed the printer AND replaced the cartridges and the problems went away.
I certainly have NE, Human and and undead character, and I don't have a dwarf. But I also have a Gnome rogue, and actually re-rolled it cos I didn't get the name I wanted first time around.
Sadly I look far more like the gnome than the NE in RL...:(
as a WoW player with a primary character that's a NE female, I still get a little weirded out by the way they bounce when 'bored' (as in, waiting for something to start). I don't do that as a general rule myself - it hurts to bounce my breasts like that, and I wouldn't be doing it on purpose just to fill in time....
I have even referred to closing a document without saving it as a "high level undo".
Heh. I did this yesterday, when I realised I was editing the wrong template and had deleted swathes of information that needed to be in the template I was actually in rather than the one I had thought I was in. quit without saving, no harm, no foul.
Unfortunately, this is just another example of a technically illiterate pollitician thinking with their special interest groups and not with thier brain.
They are becoming increasingly common and more impossible with thier demands as the years roll by. One day they will get someone in a position of power with a genuine appreaciation of the technical issues involved and they will marvel at how much crud got through parliment
You do get that in a relationship BOTH people need to contribute. If one party is so self-centred as to spend all their time on their own hobby and not spend any time thinking about/spending time with the other person, why the heck are they in a relationship in the first place? This applies to guys and gals.
If it's not, the non-gaming SOs should just take it as a hint that they need to move on. It's not their responsibility to force their gaming SOs to pay attention to them.
No one in a realtionship should ever have to force their SOs to pay attention to them. Paying attention to each other from time to time is part of why relationshsips exist.
If you are married and do not like your husband's video game habits, then you are a fool. If your husband is at home playing computer games, good. He's not out drinking or whoring. He's not gambling away the money he makes. He's not committing crimes. He's not hurting anyone. He's relaxing in a safe manner.
Good thing it's not summer over there, or there might be even more issues reported.
Can't wait for the Australian release - mid summer - with all the people who don't have air-conditioned homes trying to run this think in 35+ degress celcius and see what happens...
Some years ago Saturday Night Live did a skit with sponsorship from Xerox of the new Assjet Copier, with a specially moulded platten deisgned to take the weight and to 'lift and seperate' for a perfect ass shot every time... We show it to new starts as a psuedo induction training video.:)
I'm a big fan of light trace paper for layering - very useful if you want to test templates with dynamic elements.
Usually I'm trying to test a workflow rather than code. In those circumstances code gets in the way for establishing how the job SHOULD be done. It also helps develop a functional specification up front before you have such a huge investment in code that making changes when something obviously doesn't work like it should is a make or break decision.
Rimmer: [Gesturing to the plastic sheet that Lister is attacking vigorously.] That's a tension sheet, isn't it? I went to school with the guy who invented tension sheets. things certainly worked out for him all right. A millionaire at twenty-six! Fred Holden - he was in our dorm. God, he was thick. Thicky Holden, we used to call him [mimics] "Hello, Thicky! How's your acne, Thicky?". he always used to come bottom in geography. He thought a glacier was a bloke who fixed windows.
Lister: He can't have been that dense can he i mean he invented the tension sheet?
Rimmer: It's just the stuff they used to use in packing paper. All he did was to paint it red and cut it into small squares. And you know who he married - Sabrina Mulholland-JJones.
Yes, I would point out that for most WoW players I know it has displaced another displacement activity - such as watching TV or browsing the web, rather than RL activities like working, going to school, sleeping or doing the housework.
Does that make the poeple who spend 3-5 hours a night watching TV addicted? What about poeple who go to the gym every day? I spend 8+ hours, five days a week @ work - am I addicted to cubes?
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An even better way to reduce heating/cooling costs is to ensure that your renovations make your house as energy efficient as possible - look at insulation, air flow, passive solar considerations for shade in summer and exposure in winter. The more you do now to design a home that will maintain even temperatures on it's own, the less you need to intervene with heaters and air-con.
stupidly, I had it right, then changed it, because it didn't 'look' right
Clearly they should be shot on site, in case they learn to type with their elbows.
[load pedant mode]Shot on site - as in before they leave the premesis, or shot on sight - as in immediately upon being identified?[unload pedant mode]
The issues I've seen with WoW on a Mac were more to do with the video codec not coping in high end instances (imps in MC, Razorgore, Vael, etc...) where there were too many items to render. I'm not sure how the intel processor is going to address the OpenGL problems.
Of course, Proudmoore would need to stay live for more than an hour at a time for this to be important at the moment...
Ask my husband - my Powerbook is newer and more powerful than his - he simply borrows it when I'm not home...
I once had Apple Service Tech Support (the guys who support the warranty repairers) suggest sacrificing a chicken over a particularly unruly printer - because we had tried pretty much everything else.
The problem was eventually tracked down to the user's ink cartridges. The standard protocol for any printer booked in for service repair was to remove the client's cartridges and use the service centres test cartridges - so as not to run down the customer's consumables. The printer would get fixed, test fine, get handed back to the customer who would bring it back in 48 hours showing the same problem. A faulty controller on the black cartridge was shorting out the main logicboard on the printer. Fixed the printer AND replaced the cartridges and the problems went away.
I certainly have NE, Human and and undead character, and I don't have a dwarf. But I also have a Gnome rogue, and actually re-rolled it cos I didn't get the name I wanted first time around.
Sadly I look far more like the gnome than the NE in RL... :(
as a WoW player with a primary character that's a NE female, I still get a little weirded out by the way they bounce when 'bored' (as in, waiting for something to start). I don't do that as a general rule myself - it hurts to bounce my breasts like that, and I wouldn't be doing it on purpose just to fill in time....
depending on the wording, it may conflict with the patent on using buttered cats to achieve powered flight...
How long do you suppose this thread can keep going?
Is that a hypothetical question?
Also known as the Cactus Bush Theorm.
As in "Why did you jump naked into the cactus bush anyway?" "Well it seemed like a good idea at the time..."
I have even referred to closing a document without saving it as a "high level undo".
Heh. I did this yesterday, when I realised I was editing the wrong template and had deleted swathes of information that needed to be in the template I was actually in rather than the one I had thought I was in. quit without saving, no harm, no foul.
Unfortunately, this is just another example of a technically illiterate pollitician thinking with their special interest groups and not with thier brain.
They are becoming increasingly common and more impossible with thier demands as the years roll by. One day they will get someone in a position of power with a genuine appreaciation of the technical issues involved and they will marvel at how much crud got through parliment
Surely you mean 'Delay', or 'Ready versus swarm of DnD geeks'.
Incorrect assumption - he's unemployed and I am the sole breadwinner, he's too busy playing WoW to look for a job...
You do get that in a relationship BOTH people need to contribute. If one party is so self-centred as to spend all their time on their own hobby and not spend any time thinking about/spending time with the other person, why the heck are they in a relationship in the first place? This applies to guys and gals.
If it's not, the non-gaming SOs should just take it as a hint that they need to move on. It's not their responsibility to force their gaming SOs to pay attention to them.
No one in a realtionship should ever have to force their SOs to pay attention to them. Paying attention to each other from time to time is part of why relationshsips exist.
If you are married and do not like your husband's video game habits, then you are a fool. If your husband is at home playing computer games, good. He's not out drinking or whoring. He's not gambling away the money he makes. He's not committing crimes. He's not hurting anyone. He's relaxing in a safe manner.
Unfortunately, he's not working either...
Good thing it's not summer over there, or there might be even more issues reported.
Can't wait for the Australian release - mid summer - with all the people who don't have air-conditioned homes trying to run this think in 35+ degress celcius and see what happens...
Some years ago Saturday Night Live did a skit with sponsorship from Xerox of the new Assjet Copier, with a specially moulded platten deisgned to take the weight and to 'lift and seperate' for a perfect ass shot every time... We show it to new starts as a psuedo induction training video. :)
Talking to one of our engineers this morning [Xerox], this practice is know as Pressed Ham by the guys who have to fix the copiers.
I'm a big fan of light trace paper for layering - very useful if you want to test templates with dynamic elements.
Usually I'm trying to test a workflow rather than code. In those circumstances code gets in the way for establishing how the job SHOULD be done. It also helps develop a functional specification up front before you have such a huge investment in code that making changes when something obviously doesn't work like it should is a make or break decision.
Which would leave only little more then a dent in the universe.
A mostly harmless ford in the river of time, surely. ;-)
That's merely a random assumption.
*searches for hammer drill to remove image from frontal lobe...*
Rimmer: [Gesturing to the plastic sheet that Lister is attacking vigorously.] That's a tension sheet, isn't it? I went to school with the guy who invented tension sheets. things certainly worked out for him all right. A millionaire at twenty-six! Fred Holden - he was in our dorm. God, he was thick. Thicky Holden, we used to call him [mimics] "Hello, Thicky! How's your acne, Thicky?". he always used to come bottom in geography. He thought a glacier was a bloke who fixed windows.
Lister: He can't have been that dense can he i mean he invented the tension sheet?
Rimmer: It's just the stuff they used to use in packing paper. All he did was to paint it red and cut it into small squares. And you know who he married - Sabrina Mulholland-JJones.
Yes, I would point out that for most WoW players I know it has displaced another displacement activity - such as watching TV or browsing the web, rather than RL activities like working, going to school, sleeping or doing the housework.
Does that make the poeple who spend 3-5 hours a night watching TV addicted? What about poeple who go to the gym every day? I spend 8+ hours, five days a week @ work - am I addicted to cubes?