Their major complaint, from previous coverage that I've seen on the issue, is that the turbines will be visible from shore and may interfere with fishing and pleasure boating (i.e. tourism) in the area - which is just about the *only* local industry aside from domestic labor (housecleaning, cooking, etc for the filthy rich).
It's not all that peculiar. I am a student at the University of Memphis and I've already had one professor (a different one) in the business school ban laptops from his class. I can understand why, honestly, after sitting behind people playing WoW on their laptop for an hour and a half rather than paying attention...
As a long time Civ fanatic and a Mac user I found myself in a bit of a quandry with the release of the Civ III expansions that were, apparently, not ported to Mac because of incompatibilities with the operating system and the way Civ III online play was implemented. Do you - or perhaps those over you - plan on releasing Civ IV for Macintosh, Linux or even the next generation of consoles? The new Nintendo controller could make a really innovative input device for this kind of game.
I would hope that the success of World of Warcraft on the OSX platform would be enough incentive to think about the rest of the gaming world that most developers don't bother catering to. =)
If you're unhappy with dying at the hands of higher level players you're welcome to start a character on a PVE server where participating in player vs player combat is optional.
I would like to know if the company has any plans to increase end game content for high level players that can't stand nightly Molten Core/UBRS/etc runs, raiding guilds and the like. It seems like the only content for level 60 players, aside from sitting in the 3 hour que for a battleground run, is raiding the same instances over and over again for gear. I love *playing* World of Warcraft, not reliving the same instance run from the night before. I've found myself with an alt of every race and class now and, well, with two other characters approaching 60 I'm really running out of things to do.
I think the devs all wanted to buy their epic mounts and needed a way to pay for it.;) Prices on copper, iron, thorium and *especially* heavy stone went through the roof with people trying to cash in crafted items for tickets. As if 8 gold for a stack of heavy stone is worth less than the 15 minutes it would take to farm that stack... I bought 20 stacks of thorium bars and resold them for twice as much as I bought them for a few days later.
I find it entertaining that you said there were simple solutions but you refrained from offering them.
The fact of the matter is that in WoW you are playing a single soldier in the wars of the Warcraft universe. An upgraded orc of mine did not refrain from mowing down a lowly elf in the RTS games and that's the way it should be.
Do you really think of any of these call centers and server farms are going to stay in the sticks? This has been happening for years. Companies frequently take advantage of tax and free money perks and move on when the new VP or the like convinces enough shareholders or the CEO that slightly more profit could be made elsewhere and then again somewhere and then again somewhere... you get the point. Just ask Kalispell City. Four million in government incentives down the drain, an expensive upgraded infrastructure that no one is going to use, trashed wilderness from the sprawl that popped up and was abandoned, etc.
Don't sport around some snobbish $200 laptop bag. Get a $30 army surplus bag or the like and use it. It'll have more room for your books, anyways. Utility bags are rigid enough to hide the form of what's in them. There's always someone on every campus (or airport or train station...) looking for some idiot to put down his trendy look-at-me-I-can-afford-a-laptop bag.
You didn't understand his reply. I don't entirely agree with it, as I think most of the allied countries were just as bad as the US military, but he was condemning the US and defending other nations, assumably wherever he's from.
The Allies were up to similar antics in the European theatre. My grandmother was a German peasant in the field, just minding her own business and milking her cows when an American fighter circled overhead and opened fire. She managed to wedge herself under the recently dead corpse of one of the cows she was milking. She survived, obviously...
It's absurd to think that these kinds of things didn't happen in Vietnam and aren't happening now. This happens when you hate enough that you don't think of the enemy as another human being.
What a ridiculous waste of money and a preachy headline. Things that would improve the lives of people who are truly at the bottom of society in a second world nation are health care (India has 57.92 deaths per 1,000 live births), basic literary (only 59.5% of the population can read at this time! how can you justify his crap?!?!) and helping the absolutely destitute (25% of the population is below the poverty line) feed themselves.
Wow, what a realistic stance on the Kroger cards. If you're *that* concerned about your grocer knowing how much beer and tostitos you buy fill out the card info with fake information or say you forgot your card and punch some random phone numbers after hitting the Kroger button on the little pay terminal.
The site would is kinda neat, but claiming it's covering electronic music and not the history of electronic music technology is misleading. You couldn't cover the history of rock and roll by listing guitar improvements, either:P
Your local politician must be a fan of Otto von Bismarck, who coined that phrase when he said "people who enjoy eating sausage and obey the law should not watch either being made."
Bluetooth being insecure isn't exactly news (or repeated news, for that matter). A lot of the first generation blue tooth phones had Bluetooth on by default. A friend of mine used to pull all sorts of malicious crap with a Nokia N-Gage. He would just sit in a busy mall hacking away at anyone who sits in the food court. If you have a blue tooth phone with no off setting get a replacement.;)
This reeks of prestige spending. Some fat cat university head decided to outdo a competitor school or wanted his school to be at the top of a list. Students have no say in how our money is spent - I cringe every time I see my school (memphis.edu) throwing up a new water fountain in front of an administration building or a pointless clock tower a few feet taller than every other school in the area. This high speed connection may be great for a handful of geeks, but will be totally useless to 95% of students. The wireless internet is great, but come on. What the hell is a Chemistry, History or Business major supposed to do with a connection like this?
I'm sorry, but I'm more comfortable with a lack of transparency when it comes to our aerospace defense technology. It's not like we're talking about Gitmo here...;) We have much more secure unclassified bases up to some kind of mysterious shennanigans (Diego Garcia island!). I hope we have next generation fighters and bombers being readied, but I have to doubt the existence of Aurora fighter command when the V22 and YF-22 are years from combat readiness and may never see action before they're scrapped.
I should hope that a species more advanced than us wouldn't fall for creationist stories without a lick of proof. Okay, mod me down as flame bait... but if creationism wasn't so ingrained into our culture and upbringing every one of our religions would sound absolutely ludicrous.
There's a lot of statements in this thread about about Macs not being useful for science due to software support. What the hell? That's like saying that HP, Dell, etc can't be used - Mac systems can take UNIX versions just like any other computer.
Regardless, our university's physics department apparently uses nothing but Apple systems, although generally old ones due to the budget.
Slashdot Mirror
Cod, even...
How about smokestacks do you really think are visible from Cape Cop?
Their major complaint, from previous coverage that I've seen on the issue, is that the turbines will be visible from shore and may interfere with fishing and pleasure boating (i.e. tourism) in the area - which is just about the *only* local industry aside from domestic labor (housecleaning, cooking, etc for the filthy rich).
It's not all that peculiar. I am a student at the University of Memphis and I've already had one professor (a different one) in the business school ban laptops from his class. I can understand why, honestly, after sitting behind people playing WoW on their laptop for an hour and a half rather than paying attention...
As a long time Civ fanatic and a Mac user I found myself in a bit of a quandry with the release of the Civ III expansions that were, apparently, not ported to Mac because of incompatibilities with the operating system and the way Civ III online play was implemented. Do you - or perhaps those over you - plan on releasing Civ IV for Macintosh, Linux or even the next generation of consoles? The new Nintendo controller could make a really innovative input device for this kind of game. I would hope that the success of World of Warcraft on the OSX platform would be enough incentive to think about the rest of the gaming world that most developers don't bother catering to. =)
If you're unhappy with dying at the hands of higher level players you're welcome to start a character on a PVE server where participating in player vs player combat is optional.
I would like to know if the company has any plans to increase end game content for high level players that can't stand nightly Molten Core/UBRS/etc runs, raiding guilds and the like. It seems like the only content for level 60 players, aside from sitting in the 3 hour que for a battleground run, is raiding the same instances over and over again for gear. I love *playing* World of Warcraft, not reliving the same instance run from the night before. I've found myself with an alt of every race and class now and, well, with two other characters approaching 60 I'm really running out of things to do.
There's no such thing as negative publicity. =)
I think the devs all wanted to buy their epic mounts and needed a way to pay for it. ;) Prices on copper, iron, thorium and *especially* heavy stone went through the roof with people trying to cash in crafted items for tickets. As if 8 gold for a stack of heavy stone is worth less than the 15 minutes it would take to farm that stack... I bought 20 stacks of thorium bars and resold them for twice as much as I bought them for a few days later.
I find it entertaining that you said there were simple solutions but you refrained from offering them.
The fact of the matter is that in WoW you are playing a single soldier in the wars of the Warcraft universe. An upgraded orc of mine did not refrain from mowing down a lowly elf in the RTS games and that's the way it should be.
Do you really think of any of these call centers and server farms are going to stay in the sticks? This has been happening for years. Companies frequently take advantage of tax and free money perks and move on when the new VP or the like convinces enough shareholders or the CEO that slightly more profit could be made elsewhere and then again somewhere and then again somewhere... you get the point. Just ask Kalispell City. Four million in government incentives down the drain, an expensive upgraded infrastructure that no one is going to use, trashed wilderness from the sprawl that popped up and was abandoned, etc.
Don't sport around some snobbish $200 laptop bag. Get a $30 army surplus bag or the like and use it. It'll have more room for your books, anyways. Utility bags are rigid enough to hide the form of what's in them. There's always someone on every campus (or airport or train station...) looking for some idiot to put down his trendy look-at-me-I-can-afford-a-laptop bag.
You didn't understand his reply. I don't entirely agree with it, as I think most of the allied countries were just as bad as the US military, but he was condemning the US and defending other nations, assumably wherever he's from.
The Allies were up to similar antics in the European theatre. My grandmother was a German peasant in the field, just minding her own business and milking her cows when an American fighter circled overhead and opened fire. She managed to wedge herself under the recently dead corpse of one of the cows she was milking. She survived, obviously... It's absurd to think that these kinds of things didn't happen in Vietnam and aren't happening now. This happens when you hate enough that you don't think of the enemy as another human being.
What a ridiculous waste of money and a preachy headline. Things that would improve the lives of people who are truly at the bottom of society in a second world nation are health care (India has 57.92 deaths per 1,000 live births), basic literary (only 59.5% of the population can read at this time! how can you justify his crap?!?!) and helping the absolutely destitute (25% of the population is below the poverty line) feed themselves.
You have the option of going to another grocery chain that is less convenient.
Wow, what a realistic stance on the Kroger cards. If you're *that* concerned about your grocer knowing how much beer and tostitos you buy fill out the card info with fake information or say you forgot your card and punch some random phone numbers after hitting the Kroger button on the little pay terminal.
The site would is kinda neat, but claiming it's covering electronic music and not the history of electronic music technology is misleading. You couldn't cover the history of rock and roll by listing guitar improvements, either :P
Your local politician must be a fan of Otto von Bismarck, who coined that phrase when he said "people who enjoy eating sausage and obey the law should not watch either being made."
Bluetooth being insecure isn't exactly news (or repeated news, for that matter). A lot of the first generation blue tooth phones had Bluetooth on by default. A friend of mine used to pull all sorts of malicious crap with a Nokia N-Gage. He would just sit in a busy mall hacking away at anyone who sits in the food court. If you have a blue tooth phone with no off setting get a replacement. ;)
This reeks of prestige spending. Some fat cat university head decided to outdo a competitor school or wanted his school to be at the top of a list. Students have no say in how our money is spent - I cringe every time I see my school (memphis.edu) throwing up a new water fountain in front of an administration building or a pointless clock tower a few feet taller than every other school in the area. This high speed connection may be great for a handful of geeks, but will be totally useless to 95% of students. The wireless internet is great, but come on. What the hell is a Chemistry, History or Business major supposed to do with a connection like this?
I'm sorry, but I'm more comfortable with a lack of transparency when it comes to our aerospace defense technology. It's not like we're talking about Gitmo here... ;) We have much more secure unclassified bases up to some kind of mysterious shennanigans (Diego Garcia island!). I hope we have next generation fighters and bombers being readied, but I have to doubt the existence of Aurora fighter command when the V22 and YF-22 are years from combat readiness and may never see action before they're scrapped.
I've got a pile of disposable cameras lying around. The next midget or child that messes with me is going to get a nasty surprise.
I should hope that a species more advanced than us wouldn't fall for creationist stories without a lick of proof. Okay, mod me down as flame bait... but if creationism wasn't so ingrained into our culture and upbringing every one of our religions would sound absolutely ludicrous.
There's a lot of statements in this thread about about Macs not being useful for science due to software support. What the hell? That's like saying that HP, Dell, etc can't be used - Mac systems can take UNIX versions just like any other computer. Regardless, our university's physics department apparently uses nothing but Apple systems, although generally old ones due to the budget.