No, I'm afraid not. It's easy to tell on even a casual glance whether a video has nudity or pornography. It's quite awkward to search for copyright: verifying the copyrights alone is a job for a seriously large legal department, especially with "fair use" laws or policies.
What zone are they in? It looks kinda like Hillsbrad, near the internment camp, but I don't recognize the structure. Anyone with better WoW geography than me able to post a screenshot of themselves standing in front of that building?
Or did Blizzard give them a private server with unique geography? (TBC zone perhaps?)
I have 3 level 60s, one with 8/8 tier 2. Parent(tm2b) is spot on, I used to go through 6-10 games a year, now it's just one or two thanks to WoW consuming my soul.
You know what's most damning against Blizzard? When that exact same question came up on their forums, it could not be answered. You know why? One of the words was censored by the profanity filter. So it said:
Gay
!$#$%!&#$
Bi
Trans
Not only do they not allow it to be public, they censor any discussion of it. Also, the CM's have been locking and deleting the vast majority of the threads about this topic. They're doing everything they can to prevent the discussion about the issue as well.
I have very little to add to the parent other than my a rant about my experiences playing a Paladin.
Let me say this right up front: Paladins are Balanced. That's not the problem.
Paladins. Are. Not. Fun.
Here's a description of the interaction used in PvE:
Bless.
Right-click to auto-attack. Seal, Judge, Seal. Afk for a minute while you browse the forums/grab a dew/look at some pr0n. Loot.
Click+sealjudgeseal. Afk for another minute. Loot.
Click+sealjudgeseal. Afk. Loot.
Click+sealjudgeseal. Afk. Loot.
The 5-minute blessings are about up: goto Bless.
Here's a description of Paladin gameplay in MC:
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The tedious gameplay coupled with complete impotency in PvP (Test of Honor: 0% Paladin winners... hell, even broken warlocks got more than that...)
Now, a finisher and/or a real snare would be nice, as well as a mount/epic mount that wasn't worthless in PvP (I'd give up the "free" part in exchange for a mana-less mount), but I stopped playing my level 60 Paladin and canceled my account because if I wanted to hit one button over and over again regardless of the situtation, I'd work in a nuclear plant. Blizzard may be oblivious to how bad Paladins suck, but they're starting to lose customers (hard-core gamers like myself to boot) as a result.
Last week, I wrote about some of the changes Microsoft has in store for the next version of Windows, which is slated for the end of 2006. Interestingly, very few of you responded to that column, probably because so much may change in the next 19 months.
But a few of you fired off diatribes about how I'm either a Microsoft "shill" or an Apple "apologist" (or maybe it was the other way around). It's not just me, either; it's a running sardonic joke among tech columnists that you can't even USE the word "Apple" or "Microsoft" without getting hate mail from somebody or other.
It's kind of amazing that various extremists could find the same column too pro-Microsoft AND too pro-Apple. But hey--that's the nature of ideological soldiers, whether they're in the conservative-liberal war, the evolutionist-creationist war or the Hummer-Prius war.
The Mac-Windows war, though, is especially pointless, protracted, and winnerless. There will always be people on each side who are every bit as rabid and un-convincible as those in any other religious war.
Still, I'd like to suggest, as a starting point of civility, a few pointers for participants in the O.S. war. Consider it one man's version of, "Can't we all just get along?"
1. Hate something for its failings, not for its success.
It's totally fine to criticize something because of its flaws--to hate Windows because it's bloated and cryptic, for example, or the iPod because it's too easily scratched. But condemning something just because it's the dominant product is just sour grapes. Arguments along the lines of "I hate Bill Gates because he's rich" or "I hate the iPod because everyone has one" add nothing to the dialogue.
2. No condemning something until you've tried it.
If everyone abided by this idea, about 95 percent of all the Windows-Macintosh diatribes would evaporate overnight. But here it is: If you haven't tried something, then you really have no basis to comment.
3. Execution matters.
I'm so tired of reading discussions like this: Person A: "I love Mac OS X Tiger! That Spotlight thing is so cool: press a keystroke, type a few letters, and get an instantaneous listing every file, folder and program containing that text."
Person B: "You pathetic loser! It's called hard-drive indexing, and Windows XP has had it from Day One." Of course, the truth is that Windows Indexing Service is to Spotlight as Thomas the Tank Engine is to a bullet train. In Indexing Service, you can't search with a single keystroke, the speed is nothing like Spotlight's, you can't search for metadata (115 kinds of secondary information, like music genre, Photoshop layer names, camera settings in digital photos, etc.), the index isn't updated in real time as you create or delete documents, and so on.
It goes the other way, too. "I love how Windows XP lets me delete or rename files right in the Open or Save dialog boxes."
"What's the big deal? On the Mac, we just switch to the desktop and delete or rename things there."
Sorry, but that's just not as good as being able to do it within the dialog boxes.
The bottom line: How well something works and how elegantly it's been built is also relevant to the "which is better" discussion.
4. Don't make grandiose purchasing plans by guessing on technology's future.
This pointer is directed exclusively at Mac-bashers, particularly the ones on the nation's boards of education.
If you decide to standardize on Windows across all schools, fine. But make sure you have legitimate reasons like economics or the need to run some Windows-only software suite.
"We want the kids to learn what they'll one day use in the business world," however, is NOT a good reason. If you think you know what anyone will be using in 2020 (when today's first graders will graduate from college), you must have a heck of a magical crystal ball.
Truth is, by 2020, no operating system will look an
Just tell them that you're downloading the 1.3.0 patch for World of Warcraft. Blizzard uses BT to distribute it's content patches. Somebody in your IT department has got to have heard of WoW. Last I checked, transferring data from Blizzard to play a game you paid for was considered legal activity.
I hate to say this, but my Windows XP box has NEVER crashed. Let me say right up from that I'm a Mac Fanboy to the core. Hell, I've attended the last two WWDCs just for fun. But because I use my XP box like a glorified Xbox, I've never had any problems. I only turn it on to play games, I don't install anything other than games and accessories to games (TS/Ventrillo/etc.), and I turn it off when I'm done. I've still got the default desktop image on it. All my normal computing I do on a Mac, most of it from a Terminal window (I love how Apple capitalizes the Terminal.app name as if it's a proper noun. It's a friggin command line interface.). But I can't play the games I want to on it, so I have a dedicated gaming computer in addition to my Xbox.
Yup, but I went in knowing it was a troll. The guys who did it slacked off and went with ASCII goatse instead of the real thing. The sh*t on the face was a nice touch though.
Again, don't click that link unless you do, in fact, want your computer to annouce that you're looking at gay porn and pictures of a chick with sh*t on her face.
But they are an expression of how a vast number of Mac fan feels about this particular issue. That's why PA appeals to so many of us, they address the issues we're concerned about. I know I'm still upset about Microsoft's aquisition of Bungie. I dealt with it by buying an Xbox.
Second you have the Mac people. Halo was supposed to be their own. Bungie was their for them and them only. The very idea that MS bought Bungie and released Halo for the Xbox only..well..it's just too much to take.
The iTunes information is stored in a "special" way so that's it's not readily displayed on the desktop. You can enable the iPod to also act like a normal firewire drive as well, which you can copy files on and off of, however music you copy on to the iPod this way can't played on the iPod, but can be copied off normally at a different computer.
It's analogous to having two partitions on the iPod, the normal iPod/iTunes parition and the straight up firewire/usb partition. Only music imported through iTunes can be played on the iPod, but any music copied onto the firewire drive can be easily copied off. It's not really two partitions, but that's the general idea.
You want to know the best way to copy music off of an iPod for windows? Don't have iTunes installed. I plug my iPod into the USB port of my WinXP box and it pops up as a standard USB device. I simply drag and drop the contents of the iPod:/iPod_control/Music/ to my hard drive.
Granted, it's all disorganized in different folders, but then if I go and install iTunes and drag all the music in, it can sort the music for me.
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You can put your jokes in first, I'll put mine in afterwards so they get read first. Get ready to put a joke in 3... 2... 1... go! That's your cue.
What zone are they in? It looks kinda like Hillsbrad, near the internment camp, but I don't recognize the structure. Anyone with better WoW geography than me able to post a screenshot of themselves standing in front of that building? Or did Blizzard give them a private server with unique geography? (TBC zone perhaps?)
Games I've purchased in the last year:
WoW +12 month subscription
Civ IV
I have 3 level 60s, one with 8/8 tier 2. Parent(tm2b) is spot on, I used to go through 6-10 games a year, now it's just one or two thanks to WoW consuming my soul.
You know what's most damning against Blizzard? When that exact same question came up on their forums, it could not be answered. You know why? One of the words was censored by the profanity filter. So it said:
Gay
!$#$%!&#$
Bi
Trans
Not only do they not allow it to be public, they censor any discussion of it. Also, the CM's have been locking and deleting the vast majority of the threads about this topic. They're doing everything they can to prevent the discussion about the issue as well.
Amen!
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I have very little to add to the parent other than my a rant about my experiences playing a Paladin.
Let me say this right up front: Paladins are Balanced. That's not the problem.
Paladins. Are. Not. Fun.
Here's a description of the interaction used in PvE:
Bless.
Right-click to auto-attack. Seal, Judge, Seal. Afk for a minute while you browse the forums/grab a dew/look at some pr0n. Loot.
Click+sealjudgeseal. Afk for another minute. Loot.
Click+sealjudgeseal. Afk. Loot.
Click+sealjudgeseal. Afk. Loot.
The 5-minute blessings are about up: goto Bless.
Here's a description of Paladin gameplay in MC:
Blessblessblessblessblessblessblessblessblessbles
Cleansecleansecleansecleansecleansecleanseclean
The tedious gameplay coupled with complete impotency in PvP (Test of Honor: 0% Paladin winners... hell, even broken warlocks got more than that...)
Now, a finisher and/or a real snare would be nice, as well as a mount/epic mount that wasn't worthless in PvP (I'd give up the "free" part in exchange for a mana-less mount), but I stopped playing my level 60 Paladin and canceled my account because if I wanted to hit one button over and over again regardless of the situtation, I'd work in a nuclear plant. Blizzard may be oblivious to how bad Paladins suck, but they're starting to lose customers (hard-core gamers like myself to boot) as a result.
Last week, I wrote about some of the changes Microsoft has in store for the next version of Windows, which is slated for the end of 2006. Interestingly, very few of you responded to that column, probably because so much may change in the next 19 months.
But a few of you fired off diatribes about how I'm either a Microsoft "shill" or an Apple "apologist" (or maybe it was the other way around). It's not just me, either; it's a running sardonic joke among tech columnists that you can't even USE the word "Apple" or "Microsoft" without getting hate mail from somebody or other.
It's kind of amazing that various extremists could find the same column too pro-Microsoft AND too pro-Apple. But hey--that's the nature of ideological soldiers, whether they're in the conservative-liberal war, the evolutionist-creationist war or the Hummer-Prius war.
The Mac-Windows war, though, is especially pointless, protracted, and winnerless. There will always be people on each side who are every bit as rabid and un-convincible as those in any other religious war.
Still, I'd like to suggest, as a starting point of civility, a few pointers for participants in the O.S. war. Consider it one man's version of, "Can't we all just get along?"
1. Hate something for its failings, not for its success.
It's totally fine to criticize something because of its flaws--to hate Windows because it's bloated and cryptic, for example, or the iPod because it's too easily scratched. But condemning something just because it's the dominant product is just sour grapes. Arguments along the lines of "I hate Bill Gates because he's rich" or "I hate the iPod because everyone has one" add nothing to the dialogue.
2. No condemning something until you've tried it.
If everyone abided by this idea, about 95 percent of all the Windows-Macintosh diatribes would evaporate overnight. But here it is: If you haven't tried something, then you really have no basis to comment.
3. Execution matters.
I'm so tired of reading discussions like this: Person A: "I love Mac OS X Tiger! That Spotlight thing is so cool: press a keystroke, type a few letters, and get an instantaneous listing every file, folder and program containing that text."
Person B: "You pathetic loser! It's called hard-drive indexing, and Windows XP has had it from Day One." Of course, the truth is that Windows Indexing Service is to Spotlight as Thomas the Tank Engine is to a bullet train. In Indexing Service, you can't search with a single keystroke, the speed is nothing like Spotlight's, you can't search for metadata (115 kinds of secondary information, like music genre, Photoshop layer names, camera settings in digital photos, etc.), the index isn't updated in real time as you create or delete documents, and so on.
It goes the other way, too. "I love how Windows XP lets me delete or rename files right in the Open or Save dialog boxes."
"What's the big deal? On the Mac, we just switch to the desktop and delete or rename things there."
Sorry, but that's just not as good as being able to do it within the dialog boxes.
The bottom line: How well something works and how elegantly it's been built is also relevant to the "which is better" discussion.
4. Don't make grandiose purchasing plans by guessing on technology's future.
This pointer is directed exclusively at Mac-bashers, particularly the ones on the nation's boards of education.
If you decide to standardize on Windows across all schools, fine. But make sure you have legitimate reasons like economics or the need to run some Windows-only software suite.
"We want the kids to learn what they'll one day use in the business world," however, is NOT a good reason. If you think you know what anyone will be using in 2020 (when today's first graders will graduate from college), you must have a heck of a magical crystal ball.
Truth is, by 2020, no operating system will look an
I guess CowboyNeal went to OU
Just tell them that you're downloading the 1.3.0 patch for World of Warcraft. Blizzard uses BT to distribute it's content patches. Somebody in your IT department has got to have heard of WoW. Last I checked, transferring data from Blizzard to play a game you paid for was considered legal activity.
So your server is down today too?
I hate to say this, but my Windows XP box has NEVER crashed. Let me say right up from that I'm a Mac Fanboy to the core. Hell, I've attended the last two WWDCs just for fun. But because I use my XP box like a glorified Xbox, I've never had any problems. I only turn it on to play games, I don't install anything other than games and accessories to games (TS/Ventrillo/etc.), and I turn it off when I'm done. I've still got the default desktop image on it. All my normal computing I do on a Mac, most of it from a Terminal window (I love how Apple capitalizes the Terminal.app name as if it's a proper noun. It's a friggin command line interface.). But I can't play the games I want to on it, so I have a dedicated gaming computer in addition to my Xbox.
It's Rooster Teeth Productions that makes Red vs. Blue.
Chicken != cock
Rooster == cock
Yup, but I went in knowing it was a troll. The guys who did it slacked off and went with ASCII goatse instead of the real thing. The sh*t on the face was a nice touch though.
Again, don't click that link unless you do, in fact, want your computer to annouce that you're looking at gay porn and pictures of a chick with sh*t on her face.
But they are an expression of how a vast number of Mac fan feels about this particular issue. That's why PA appeals to so many of us, they address the issues we're concerned about. I know I'm still upset about Microsoft's aquisition of Bungie. I dealt with it by buying an Xbox.
Second you have the Mac people. Halo was supposed to be their own. Bungie was their for them and them only. The very idea that MS bought Bungie and released Halo for the Xbox only..well..it's just too much to take.
You're one drunken troll.
No, really, he's right.Secure Computing offers tokens that use that "best password schema" mentioned by the parent. They call 'em "SafeWord Tokens".
The iTunes information is stored in a "special" way so that's it's not readily displayed on the desktop. You can enable the iPod to also act like a normal firewire drive as well, which you can copy files on and off of, however music you copy on to the iPod this way can't played on the iPod, but can be copied off normally at a different computer.
It's analogous to having two partitions on the iPod, the normal iPod/iTunes parition and the straight up firewire/usb partition. Only music imported through iTunes can be played on the iPod, but any music copied onto the firewire drive can be easily copied off. It's not really two partitions, but that's the general idea.
You want to know the best way to copy music off of an iPod for windows? Don't have iTunes installed. I plug my iPod into the USB port of my WinXP box and it pops up as a standard USB device. I simply drag and drop the contents of the iPod:/iPod_control/Music/ to my hard drive.
Granted, it's all disorganized in different folders, but then if I go and install iTunes and drag all the music in, it can sort the music for me.