Video games must be the only industry around where pricing a system to make a profit is somehow seen as a bad thing.
Here's a hint: If Microsoft didn't have the Windows tax to fall back on, the 360 probably wouldn't even exist, let alone be sold at the losses it was during its first year.
The money to make these things comes from somewhere. Nintendo sells the product for what it actually costs to make, Microsoft just uses some of the money from their monopoly.
The Filesystem can't allocate a unit smaller then a Hard Drive sector without combining multiple files into a single sector, so yes. The sector size puts a lower limit on the FS block size.
Honestly on a 200GB disk, how many file systems allocate blocks smaller then 4k right now? This seems like a good thing in general.
Been using them for a while now, I'm very happy with them. If you're looking for other services you may be out of luck, they really don't do much OTHER then registrar and DNS service, but then thats what attracted me to them in the first place. (I like it when a company does one thing well, rather then doing 500 things badly.)
I beat Gears of War's single player/coop game in 10 hours... and then was left wondering what in the world I had just paid for. It wasn't nearly long enough for how expensive the game is, and it just sort of ends without explaining anything, really.
This is only a story if you make something up about them eliminating maintenance days in the first place. Thats not what they said.
What they actually said is that they were working on reducing the number of maintenance days by doing some things while the realms were live, and that they were trying it for the first time December 26.
Somehow that got morphed by people into "there will never be another maintenance day," which is flat out wrong.
Its worth noting that by version 4, they DID make a better browser then Netscape (some would argue around version 3). Netscape turned into garbage around that point.
When senior execs in the company are telling us that its a BARGAIN at $600 and that people will buy it because its Sony, then yes I am inclined to believe that they're happy to fleece people.
They deserve a good thrashing in the market this time around.
So you missed how the Blood Elves got their newfound Paladin powers by capturing and *draining* them from a Holy being?
Or about the Forsaken doing experiements on prisoners, killing sleeping Druids in barrow dens, killing people in Southshore to get innocent blood for experiements, and the whole attempt to create a new plague to destroy the living and make them all Undead?... Yeah, no evil there at all.
Its funny you should mention the price dropping. Thats not what happens when they ban farmers, although you'd think it would.
The round before this group of bans, they banned farmers using teleport hacks in Dire Maul, that were farming Quel'Serrar books. One of the side effects was that they were also getting tons of major mana potions out of the tribute chest.
When they started using the teleport hack to farm it, the price of a stack of major mana potions went from 15g to 3g. After the bans, it went back up to 15g. Not bad if you can make said potions, but really painful otherwise. (Course as someone else mentioned, those potions take dreamfoil like almost every other useful high level potion, and that stuff is worth a fortune.)
Arcanite will probably do the same thing if they ban the people farming it. While it'll be great for players who will have an easier time going out and trying to find their own, the price for those who just want to buy it will go up because the demand isn't changing but the supply is.
There were a large group of unguilded Rogues levelling up against Ogres in the Badlands just a few days ago. There was so many for a while that we couldn't do any quests involving killing those Ogres, it was totally camped. (Its empty now, they got enough levels and moved on.)
This type of action is largely pointless. They've slowed down the farmers for a little while, but they just level new accounts and go back to it. Meanwhile Blizzard is making more things that require Arcanite, which is probably the single most farmed resource on the entire server. That will just drive prices up and increase the pool of people who say "screw it" and go buy gold from some farming operation, spawning more farmers.
If they actually want to do something about this, they need to reduce the need to buy gold to get anything done in a reasonable timeframe, and/or start banning people who BUY gold. They're the problem anyway.
I can see it now, EA's new committment to innovation will result in a revolutionary new option in NHL 2007: the ability to skip the hockey and jump straight to the fights.
The problem isn't that the Horde are evil. The problem is that the Forsaken are evil.
Creating plagues to wipe out all life? Check. Experimenting with said plague on humans? Check. Killing farmers to harvest their blood? Check. Second in command of the race is a Demon (the most evil thing in Warcraft lore)? Check.
The rest of the Horde races are no more evil then any other race in the game, they just get called evil because they associate with the Forsaken.
Except that the Scarlet Crusade is controlled and corrupted by Balnazzar, a member of the Burning Legion (demons).
They don't prove anything.
We do know that the Forsaken are evil. They have quests that send you off slaughtering farmers to get innocent blood for plague experiments. Just how can you possibly NOT call that evil?
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Video games must be the only industry around where pricing a system to make a profit is somehow seen as a bad thing.
Here's a hint: If Microsoft didn't have the Windows tax to fall back on, the 360 probably wouldn't even exist, let alone be sold at the losses it was during its first year.
The money to make these things comes from somewhere. Nintendo sells the product for what it actually costs to make, Microsoft just uses some of the money from their monopoly.
The Filesystem can't allocate a unit smaller then a Hard Drive sector without combining multiple files into a single sector, so yes. The sector size puts a lower limit on the FS block size.
Honestly on a 200GB disk, how many file systems allocate blocks smaller then 4k right now? This seems like a good thing in general.
Its funny, its the lack of magic that really bothers me. Particularly Minstrels.
"Oh okay that guy is hacking your arm off. Just let me play a song to boost your morale, and its fine!" Must be quite the song.
"Wait, now he's attacking me? Let me play another song and I'll kill it!" Very off key maybe?
Its exactly the same as how a normal healer works, only without the divine intervention. They just stuck something silly in its place.
Just becausae you don't find WoW fun doesn't mean its not.
Been using them for a while now, I'm very happy with them. If you're looking for other services you may be out of luck, they really don't do much OTHER then registrar and DNS service, but then thats what attracted me to them in the first place. (I like it when a company does one thing well, rather then doing 500 things badly.)
GMail is an email app. Traditional email apps don't have tags. They do have labels.
"Label" is a perfectly consistent term in the world of email, where "tag" is not.
Honestly, was anybody now involved with this Web 2.0 stuff online more then 2 years ago?
The only thing confirmed in all these rumors is that Microsoft is changing to a smaller CPU die (65nm I think), which will put out less heat.
In theory with less heat being put out, they can put in a quieter fan at the same time and turn the thing into a console rather then a jet engine.
Thats a matter of taste.
I beat Gears of War's single player/coop game in 10 hours... and then was left wondering what in the world I had just paid for. It wasn't nearly long enough for how expensive the game is, and it just sort of ends without explaining anything, really.
Especially when players make up promises they didn't make!
Blizzard actually said they were working on having fewer maintenance days, and that they woudln't have one December 26.
That was entirely correct.
Somehow, people took that and read it as "there will be no maintence days, ever."
They never actually promised there would be no maintenance on January 2, or any time after December 26. Made up promises don't count.
This is only a story if you make something up about them eliminating maintenance days in the first place. Thats not what they said.
What they actually said is that they were working on reducing the number of maintenance days by doing some things while the realms were live, and that they were trying it for the first time December 26.
Somehow that got morphed by people into "there will never be another maintenance day," which is flat out wrong.
Those ranks will become meaningless in the next patch anyway, so its not much of a problem.
Symantec and Mcafee are more like Netscape every day. The put out slow, bloated, buggy code.
Its worth noting that by version 4, they DID make a better browser then Netscape (some would argue around version 3). Netscape turned into garbage around that point.
When senior execs in the company are telling us that its a BARGAIN at $600 and that people will buy it because its Sony, then yes I am inclined to believe that they're happy to fleece people.
They deserve a good thrashing in the market this time around.
Oh no, most Tauren, Orcs, and Trolls within the Horde are not evil. Most Forsaken are. Seems like ALL of the Blood Elves are at this point.
There's no outwardly evil races in the Alliance.
Horde aren't evil, hmm?
... Yeah, no evil there at all.
So you missed how the Blood Elves got their newfound Paladin powers by capturing and *draining* them from a Holy being?
Or about the Forsaken doing experiements on prisoners, killing sleeping Druids in barrow dens, killing people in Southshore to get innocent blood for experiements, and the whole attempt to create a new plague to destroy the living and make them all Undead?
Its funny you should mention the price dropping. Thats not what happens when they ban farmers, although you'd think it would.
The round before this group of bans, they banned farmers using teleport hacks in Dire Maul, that were farming Quel'Serrar books. One of the side effects was that they were also getting tons of major mana potions out of the tribute chest.
When they started using the teleport hack to farm it, the price of a stack of major mana potions went from 15g to 3g. After the bans, it went back up to 15g. Not bad if you can make said potions, but really painful otherwise. (Course as someone else mentioned, those potions take dreamfoil like almost every other useful high level potion, and that stuff is worth a fortune.)
Arcanite will probably do the same thing if they ban the people farming it. While it'll be great for players who will have an easier time going out and trying to find their own, the price for those who just want to buy it will go up because the demand isn't changing but the supply is.
There were a large group of unguilded Rogues levelling up against Ogres in the Badlands just a few days ago. There was so many for a while that we couldn't do any quests involving killing those Ogres, it was totally camped. (Its empty now, they got enough levels and moved on.)
This type of action is largely pointless. They've slowed down the farmers for a little while, but they just level new accounts and go back to it. Meanwhile Blizzard is making more things that require Arcanite, which is probably the single most farmed resource on the entire server. That will just drive prices up and increase the pool of people who say "screw it" and go buy gold from some farming operation, spawning more farmers.
If they actually want to do something about this, they need to reduce the need to buy gold to get anything done in a reasonable timeframe, and/or start banning people who BUY gold. They're the problem anyway.
Ethereal is at www.ethereal.com, not at www.ethereal.org.
I can see it now, EA's new committment to innovation will result in a revolutionary new option in NHL 2007: the ability to skip the hockey and jump straight to the fights.
The second highest ranking person in Undercity is a Dreadlord. You know, the Demons from the Burning Legion?
So its pretty easy to understand why they're seen as evil.
The problem isn't that the Horde are evil. The problem is that the Forsaken are evil.
Creating plagues to wipe out all life? Check.
Experimenting with said plague on humans? Check.
Killing farmers to harvest their blood? Check.
Second in command of the race is a Demon (the most evil thing in Warcraft lore)? Check.
The rest of the Horde races are no more evil then any other race in the game, they just get called evil because they associate with the Forsaken.
Except that the Scarlet Crusade is controlled and corrupted by Balnazzar, a member of the Burning Legion (demons).
They don't prove anything.
We do know that the Forsaken are evil. They have quests that send you off slaughtering farmers to get innocent blood for plague experiments. Just how can you possibly NOT call that evil?
Funny, I installed Nero yesterday and didn't reboot at all. It was run installer, click okay a few times, start burning.
GTA4 is going to be on the 360, so we know thats not an exclusive.