... maybe it's my nationality talking, but I fail to see how hockey's boring on TV. i finally went to a hockey game recently after a lifetime of finding the game infinitely boring to watch on TV, and it's definitely a lot better in person. so much of the checking and player-to-player action is going on off the screen in TV, and it's way easier to follow the puck in person than it is on the screen
getting to L70 may be considered to be grinding, but as someone who played for a long time i can tell you that there was absolutely more grinding done while already at the top level than there was in getting to the top level. grinding ingredients for tradeskill-created expendables used in raids, grinding faction for quests for nice gear (this only got worse as new areas were added to the game like Silithus), grinding easy mobs for rare drops to trade for even rarer drops off other easy mobs or expendable items for raids. most people in big guilds spent more time grinding on boring mobs between raids for items that they used during raids than they actually spent in the raid zones themselves.
Nearly as bad doesn't cut it don't worry, the same people that will argue endlessly that it's not fair to even try to compare downloading free music to stealing or that it's dishonest to call them pirates will surely pipe right up and point out that the RIAA never shot anyone
Okay, Karma be damned, but I have to say it. This new show jumped the shark when the idiot producer made the changes he did from the actual Battlestar Galactica show. This new show was never BSG, only a poser. There was nothing wrong with the original series, except for being a product of its time. they kept so much of the BSG universe though, i think they did a really good job updating it to the times. if you really want to know what was wrong with the original series though, it was Boxy and his robot dog
i had always assumed they were made out of ivory soap. given the expected lifetime of a building made out of ivory soap in a climate that sees any sort of rainfall, i was never that worried about the phenomenon
The more things change, the more things stay the same. i think you're just mistaking the oldest dupe in the history of Slashdot as a return of a technology
Sadly, none of us can probably make a useful suggestion on this topic that never stopped Slashdot readers from trying! actually, there are probably more people on Slashdot qualified to put forth an opinion on this topic than there are on topics related to the legal system, for example any of the daily submissions on the RIAA trials
Also they need a guy from Harmonix (Guitar Hero developer) if there isn't one.
Alex Rigopoulos
Harmonix
An MIT graduate, Rigopoulos and fellow classmate Eran Egozy teamed up in 1995 to mix business with their pleasure (music) and technical skills. The studio's early cult hits Frequency and Amplitude were really just the sound of the orchestra warming up. His studio's next salvo, Guitar Hero was then the opening act, creating for eventual owner Activision (which acquired GH publisher Red Octane) a $1bn franchise. Selling out to MTV at the breakthrough act point was a shrewd move. Milking the new management's music industry contacts and forging a distribution deal with EA has demonstrated a huge stroke of smart independent studio business thinking and an enviable DLC model.
Does anyone really believe they have any clue how much of their software gets pirated?
90% sounds like a nice marketing department developed figure.
no, but as long as they're the ones trumpeting the numbers, we can be free to suggest to them that now that we've reduced their pirating by 90% can they tear down their crappy Genuine Windows activation monstrosity
definitely, we already see enough of that already. the promise of the internet was that people's eyes would be opened up to new opinions and ideas, but instead it seems like it's a tool to let you reach out and connect to people that think exactly like you no matter how unusual your viewpoint is. too many blogs and online communities have become an echo chamber for people to reinforce and strengthen their opinions without competing viewpoints, so it's no surprise that when there are actual multi-viewpoint gatherings (around election time in particular) people aren't very good at interacting with people that disagree with them.
i remember it differently too. it wasn't the rootkit information that was released with the PS3, it was a rumor that the PS3 was going to lock games to the first console that played them (i.e. no used games, no loaning games, no replacing your console) that was released at the same time as the XBox 360. the rumor came completely out of nowhere at just the moment that there was a drive to get people not to wait a year to make their game console choice.
despite the actions of supposedly the smartest animal on the planet i was right there with you until you brought dolphins into it, leave dolphins alone!
"ding them" isn't strong enough of a term, it seems like using the kite was the most amazing part of the entire feat. traffic reporters are showing us aerial photographs from helicopters every day, so it's the method that would be novel. if they posted this as an article about someone building a replica camera (the challenging bit that they did do!) i'm not sure it'd make the cut on anything but a slow news day
exactly, this is why i always insist on the use of Navajo codetalkers when using Skype. so what if sometimes i order a pizza and instead they deliver buffalo [wings], it's worth it for the piece-of-mind.
at the very least he should realize that it fails the laugh test. does he assume that all users of all software are obligated to be constantly checking to see if any of the licenses of the code that they use on their system (or that programs on their system use without them knowing) has changed? can you imagine the amount of time it would take for someone who has installed even a base system to reverify all the licenses on all the software installed?
if your pointy-clicky tool doesn't work or doesn't quite cover your needs, you're going to need to do some SQL programming to cover the gap. i would expect an administrator to be able to use the pointy-clicky tool, i would also expect them to not be completely reliant on it. that sounds more like an intern
he did say free, but he also said "WoW is one of the first MMOGs I've paid to play where I actually felt I was really getting my money's worth." he's just pointing out that in some games you pay the monthly fee and you don't get much new content for that money, so compared to them what Blizzard does is something extra
a strict definition of hacking is that you're doing something with it that's not designed, so it would be impossible to design something to be hackable. i think what the grandparent poster means is that this is designed to be able to have new software and functions added to it, in contrast to other low cost devices designed to be used by kids that are really locked down. i.e. the design allows you to do things that would require a hack on another device
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trust us, we can tell from this far away that it's the same underwear you put on every other morning
maybe because they don't have a majority of the market, even this computerworld article critical of the move and claiming monopolistic tactics says they have 15% of the market
... maybe it's my nationality talking, but I fail to see how hockey's boring on TV. i finally went to a hockey game recently after a lifetime of finding the game infinitely boring to watch on TV, and it's definitely a lot better in person. so much of the checking and player-to-player action is going on off the screen in TV, and it's way easier to follow the puck in person than it is on the screengetting to L70 may be considered to be grinding, but as someone who played for a long time i can tell you that there was absolutely more grinding done while already at the top level than there was in getting to the top level. grinding ingredients for tradeskill-created expendables used in raids, grinding faction for quests for nice gear (this only got worse as new areas were added to the game like Silithus), grinding easy mobs for rare drops to trade for even rarer drops off other easy mobs or expendable items for raids. most people in big guilds spent more time grinding on boring mobs between raids for items that they used during raids than they actually spent in the raid zones themselves.
i had always assumed they were made out of ivory soap. given the expected lifetime of a building made out of ivory soap in a climate that sees any sort of rainfall, i was never that worried about the phenomenon
Harmonix
An MIT graduate, Rigopoulos and fellow classmate Eran Egozy teamed up in 1995 to mix business with their pleasure (music) and technical skills. The studio's early cult hits Frequency and Amplitude were really just the sound of the orchestra warming up. His studio's next salvo, Guitar Hero was then the opening act, creating for eventual owner Activision (which acquired GH publisher Red Octane) a $1bn franchise. Selling out to MTV at the breakthrough act point was a shrewd move. Milking the new management's music industry contacts and forging a distribution deal with EA has demonstrated a huge stroke of smart independent studio business thinking and an enviable DLC model.
i personally don't want to see the kind of damage he could cause by throwing chairs from that height
90% sounds like a nice marketing department developed figure.
no, but as long as they're the ones trumpeting the numbers, we can be free to suggest to them that now that we've reduced their pirating by 90% can they tear down their crappy Genuine Windows activation monstrositydefinitely! *puts on his robe and his wizard hat*
...but i suggest to our future overlords that Voltronic is a much snappier name than claytronic
definitely, we already see enough of that already. the promise of the internet was that people's eyes would be opened up to new opinions and ideas, but instead it seems like it's a tool to let you reach out and connect to people that think exactly like you no matter how unusual your viewpoint is. too many blogs and online communities have become an echo chamber for people to reinforce and strengthen their opinions without competing viewpoints, so it's no surprise that when there are actual multi-viewpoint gatherings (around election time in particular) people aren't very good at interacting with people that disagree with them.
i remember it differently too. it wasn't the rootkit information that was released with the PS3, it was a rumor that the PS3 was going to lock games to the first console that played them (i.e. no used games, no loaning games, no replacing your console) that was released at the same time as the XBox 360. the rumor came completely out of nowhere at just the moment that there was a drive to get people not to wait a year to make their game console choice.
"ding them" isn't strong enough of a term, it seems like using the kite was the most amazing part of the entire feat. traffic reporters are showing us aerial photographs from helicopters every day, so it's the method that would be novel. if they posted this as an article about someone building a replica camera (the challenging bit that they did do!) i'm not sure it'd make the cut on anything but a slow news day
exactly, this is why i always insist on the use of Navajo codetalkers when using Skype. so what if sometimes i order a pizza and instead they deliver buffalo [wings], it's worth it for the piece-of-mind.
at the very least he should realize that it fails the laugh test. does he assume that all users of all software are obligated to be constantly checking to see if any of the licenses of the code that they use on their system (or that programs on their system use without them knowing) has changed? can you imagine the amount of time it would take for someone who has installed even a base system to reverify all the licenses on all the software installed?
if your pointy-clicky tool doesn't work or doesn't quite cover your needs, you're going to need to do some SQL programming to cover the gap. i would expect an administrator to be able to use the pointy-clicky tool, i would also expect them to not be completely reliant on it. that sounds more like an intern
he did say free, but he also said "WoW is one of the first MMOGs I've paid to play where I actually felt I was really getting my money's worth." he's just pointing out that in some games you pay the monthly fee and you don't get much new content for that money, so compared to them what Blizzard does is something extra
a strict definition of hacking is that you're doing something with it that's not designed, so it would be impossible to design something to be hackable. i think what the grandparent poster means is that this is designed to be able to have new software and functions added to it, in contrast to other low cost devices designed to be used by kids that are really locked down. i.e. the design allows you to do things that would require a hack on another device