There's an entire spectrum between "surviving" and "living".
If the poster finds that owning a cellphone significantly increases his/her quality of life, then there's no reason they shouldn't report that when it's on topic.
I'd like to also point out that the reason they oversell their capacity is the same reason that parking at your local university oversells parking permits... Because they can
It doesn't have an effect on overall availability assuming people are using the service in the way that they're expected to - the way normal users do - and it keeps the services utilized during hours where they would normally see far less usage.
If you get on most ISPs in the US in the late morning on a weekday, you'll find everything to be very snappy and responsive. Same with after 3am. That's because hardly anybody is using it at that time - just the "bandwidth hogs" and stay-at-home parents, kids home "sick" from school and aforementioned granny looking up her genealogy.
Not everybody uses the internet during prime-time either, so it tends to balance out... Assuming that people use the internet the way that they are expected to - not full bore all day long.
<caranalogy>Your automobile manufacturer gives you the same warranty as anyone else on the assumption that you're not driving it at 120mph in a loop nonstop on a raceway for the first 3 years of your warranty, necessitating more repairs than should be reasonably expected.</caranalogy>
I see a lot of comments about the immersion side of things, for which I know it would probably be a lot cheaper to just pick up some nonconductive coolant.
How about other reasons for doing it - specifically shock resistance and hardening against slippage caused by vibration?
Additional value could be found in potting the board in marine/cave/jungle environments where the hardware might be exposed to caustic and humid air.
Also, presumably resin coating might get around problems with hungry insects. I'd imagine a really well designed medium-tight case suspending the components in a nonconductive coolant might work, but it seems like it would be a more bulky solution.
However, I'd be interested to hear of better solutions than coating the whole shebang in toxic goop.
Nah, time in WoW (or any MMORPG) is a marketable commodity - how many months it takes you to get sick of the game has a 1:1 correlation with how much money you give Blizzard.
Therefore time is extremely important. SOE decided that the best way to make you invest time was to make everything take forever. Blizzard just decided to make it take forever to get everything.
You're a fragile little butterfly, ain't ya? Nausea and migraines in the theater suggests that you should probably just rent the shit later, thus sparing your delicate nervous system. These days it's not even that expensive to get a better picture than you get in anything short of IMAX anyway at home.
This sort of trendy cinema thing has been happening for decades though. I still recall my dad telling me about the first (and last) time he took my grandmother to see a 3d film in the 60s.
He described a scene where a headhunter flings a spear at the audience and apparently my grandmother dove for cover behind the next row.
Er, yeah, I have to agree with the other people who are saying "So what?"
There are these things called hobbies where people do the same thing over and over because they are entertained by doing them. Some people strike small white balls across vast areas of green fields which would make good housing. Some people assemble tiny effigies of weapons of war out of solid forms of toxic chemicals, affixing the pieces together using other toxic chemicals.
Then other people play video games. The only difference between two gamers is how much variety they prefer in their stimuli.
I do have to say that I feel that Doom 3 was a step backward in gameplay from Doom and Doom 2, however. It lacked the spontaneity of the previous games, and its lack of variety in environments hurt the pacing.
No problem at all! All that is necessary is to tattoo your entire body with an electrically conductive substrate then run a current through it while immersing you in toxic polymers, and Presto! You are wearing your new self-growing clothes.
Or that deity is just tidy and doesn't like leaving a mess behind after patching holes.
Would you prefer there still be a trace of a security hole in your operating system after it had been fixed by the developers, or would you prefer that it just start working the way it should with nothing but a note in the logfile to prove it was ever there?
Note I am pretty irreligious, but I consider properly applied religion to be harmless. Note also that it is almost never properly applied.
Both funny and insightful. I certainly don't mind seeing advertising if it's relevant to my interests.
I've learned about the existence of many things that I would have missed out on without targeted advertising through channels I trust, such as internet retailers I frequent (Newegg, Tiger Direct, Amazon), gaming news sites and webcomics (Penny Arcade), and mailing lists that I subscribe to.
If Google is tracking my browsing habits so they can better advertise to me, I say more power to them. This is after all how they fund the enormously useful search and mail technologies I use, and how they continue to fund new projects which are of interest to me.
I should point out (as I have in the past) that just because a trait exists and is prevalent does not imply that it is an adaptive trait.
It merely means that it is not sufficiently maladaptive to result in the death of a significant majority of organisms who exhibit the trait, or to inhibit their reproductive potential.
If anything, it increases their reproductive potential by causing them to not learn that irresponsible casual sex may lead to unwanted pregnancies.
"Wright first invented it in 1943...." "In 1945, hoping there was a use for his new developed putty, Wright sent a sample to scientists all around the world, but no practical use was ever found." "Since 1950, more than 300 million eggs of Silly Putty have been sold, or approximately 4500 tons."
If it becomes necessary to alter my environment, buy a new monitor, and use the developer console to see the game as the designers envisioned, the designers need a new vision.
A visually dark game makes little sense when you happen to be a person with extremely good night vision, because you have an expectation to be able to fucking see what you're doing.
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There's an entire spectrum between "surviving" and "living".
If the poster finds that owning a cellphone significantly increases his/her quality of life, then there's no reason they shouldn't report that when it's on topic.
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Extremely cheap: he was going anyway, now he's just going with a great PR stunt in his carry-on.
I'd like to also point out that the reason they oversell their capacity is the same reason that parking at your local university oversells parking permits... Because they can
It doesn't have an effect on overall availability assuming people are using the service in the way that they're expected to - the way normal users do - and it keeps the services utilized during hours where they would normally see far less usage.
If you get on most ISPs in the US in the late morning on a weekday, you'll find everything to be very snappy and responsive. Same with after 3am. That's because hardly anybody is using it at that time - just the "bandwidth hogs" and stay-at-home parents, kids home "sick" from school and aforementioned granny looking up her genealogy.
Not everybody uses the internet during prime-time either, so it tends to balance out... Assuming that people use the internet the way that they are expected to - not full bore all day long.
<caranalogy>Your automobile manufacturer gives you the same warranty as anyone else on the assumption that you're not driving it at 120mph in a loop nonstop on a raceway for the first 3 years of your warranty, necessitating more repairs than should be reasonably expected.</caranalogy>
I see a lot of comments about the immersion side of things, for which I know it would probably be a lot cheaper to just pick up some nonconductive coolant.
How about other reasons for doing it - specifically shock resistance and hardening against slippage caused by vibration?
Additional value could be found in potting the board in marine/cave/jungle environments where the hardware might be exposed to caustic and humid air.
Also, presumably resin coating might get around problems with hungry insects. I'd imagine a really well designed medium-tight case suspending the components in a nonconductive coolant might work, but it seems like it would be a more bulky solution.
However, I'd be interested to hear of better solutions than coating the whole shebang in toxic goop.
There should be moderation for "+1 Comically Misplaced Rant"
Nah, time in WoW (or any MMORPG) is a marketable commodity - how many months it takes you to get sick of the game has a 1:1 correlation with how much money you give Blizzard.
Therefore time is extremely important. SOE decided that the best way to make you invest time was to make everything take forever. Blizzard just decided to make it take forever to get everything.
Pick your poison.
You're a fragile little butterfly, ain't ya? Nausea and migraines in the theater suggests that you should probably just rent the shit later, thus sparing your delicate nervous system. These days it's not even that expensive to get a better picture than you get in anything short of IMAX anyway at home.
This sort of trendy cinema thing has been happening for decades though. I still recall my dad telling me about the first (and last) time he took my grandmother to see a 3d film in the 60s.
He described a scene where a headhunter flings a spear at the audience and apparently my grandmother dove for cover behind the next row.
Maybe he meant it's like Aesop's fables.
Er, yeah, I have to agree with the other people who are saying "So what?"
There are these things called hobbies where people do the same thing over and over because they are entertained by doing them. Some people strike small white balls across vast areas of green fields which would make good housing. Some people assemble tiny effigies of weapons of war out of solid forms of toxic chemicals, affixing the pieces together using other toxic chemicals.
Then other people play video games. The only difference between two gamers is how much variety they prefer in their stimuli.
I do have to say that I feel that Doom 3 was a step backward in gameplay from Doom and Doom 2, however. It lacked the spontaneity of the previous games, and its lack of variety in environments hurt the pacing.
No problem at all! All that is necessary is to tattoo your entire body with an electrically conductive substrate then run a current through it while immersing you in toxic polymers, and Presto! You are wearing your new self-growing clothes.
...and you are a very interesting-looking corpse.
I don't, but there is a building clearly visible in this picture.
Which sounds like a Roman salad.
Deception? Concealment?
Or that deity is just tidy and doesn't like leaving a mess behind after patching holes.
Would you prefer there still be a trace of a security hole in your operating system after it had been fixed by the developers, or would you prefer that it just start working the way it should with nothing but a note in the logfile to prove it was ever there?
Note I am pretty irreligious, but I consider properly applied religion to be harmless. Note also that it is almost never properly applied.
A fact no doubt easily remedied by the determined "enthusiast."
Both funny and insightful. I certainly don't mind seeing advertising if it's relevant to my interests.
I've learned about the existence of many things that I would have missed out on without targeted advertising through channels I trust, such as internet retailers I frequent (Newegg, Tiger Direct, Amazon), gaming news sites and webcomics (Penny Arcade), and mailing lists that I subscribe to.
If Google is tracking my browsing habits so they can better advertise to me, I say more power to them. This is after all how they fund the enormously useful search and mail technologies I use, and how they continue to fund new projects which are of interest to me.
I should point out (as I have in the past) that just because a trait exists and is prevalent does not imply that it is an adaptive trait.
It merely means that it is not sufficiently maladaptive to result in the death of a significant majority of organisms who exhibit the trait, or to inhibit their reproductive potential.
If anything, it increases their reproductive potential by causing them to not learn that irresponsible casual sex may lead to unwanted pregnancies.
Silly Putty.
"Wright first invented it in 1943...."
"In 1945, hoping there was a use for his new developed putty, Wright sent a sample to scientists all around the world, but no practical use was ever found."
"Since 1950, more than 300 million eggs of Silly Putty have been sold, or approximately 4500 tons."
When, at a glance, you mistake "Wacom digitizer" for "Wurlitzer."
Neither do the worms.
Note that it took somebody around 1800 years to put the three together without requiring some sort of guide system.
They put it together.
The automobile is just wheels, an engine driven by expanding gases, and some seats bolted to a chassis.
I think you'd hardly argue that the concept of an automobile wasn't new when they first sold one.
Maybe then the world will listen to nerds.
If it becomes necessary to alter my environment, buy a new monitor, and use the developer console to see the game as the designers envisioned, the designers need a new vision.
A visually dark game makes little sense when you happen to be a person with extremely good night vision, because you have an expectation to be able to fucking see what you're doing.
I put forth, sir-or-madam, that you are clearly not the average user, as you know what Lisp is.