If Microsoft wouldn't hype their stuff up so much, maybe some folks wouldn't be so let down when it doesn't live up to all the promises.
Maybe it is the persective of the person on that one. Most people expect the next Microsoft product to add something new, or make an old task easier.
People do backflips when a release of Linux lets them install their sound card.
Microsoft has to work harder to innovate past where they already are. They do hype things up, but certainly no more than the average news article at/. hypes up anything *nix.
Yeah. I've used live and I use Team Speak when playing WoW.
Not everyone uses it though, and half of the time you want to mute the people that do use it. Any MMORPG should use voice, but I hate most of the people that talk.
Nothing makes you feel more immersed in a game than hearing "lol, that murloc was a fag" for that 10th time.
Who is going to pay $100/month for cable and hook up rabbit ears to an extra TV?
If your TV is so old it can't take a cable input, it probably isn't working so well anyway. It might be time to replace it with the $40 TV from Walmart.
I don't remember exactly where this is explained, but basically you NEED to be a Jedi to make a light saber. The Jedi needs to use the force to set the crystal properly. If they are off by even a microscopic amount, it blows up and takes out half the town with it.
On the contrary. TC is being raked over the coals by the media for his ridiculous hyping of his religion. If he wasn't already huge, he would be laughed out of Hollywood.
If it isn't dried up, we could try to land near it and do research on the liquid. We might learn more than just looking at a dried up lake. There might even be organisms of some sort in the methane.
Being a lake of methane does create unique problems I guess. It might be hard to do things around it with electrical equipment without blowing up the entire lake. I wonder if methane can blow up in a place without oxygen.
I should have included mouse when I said the keyboard would make a console an FPS machine. I agree that it is utterly impossible to compete with thumbsticks. That's why I hate playing FPS games on consoles. It's also the reason that I think Halo is a good game, but I don't love playing it. Targeting with thumbsticks is terrible.
Getting a good mouse is huge. I just got a new one and I love it. It has 8 buttons and I've programmed them for WoW. I can do a lot of things so easy now without even moving my hand. I haven't tried it on an FPS game yet, but I bet it will be nice.
Not really. A console is only out of date when the new version of the console is released. Your PC is out of date when Video Card++ comes out or Intel releases their new CPU that is 0.001% faster.
With a console, game companies have an exact target to code for. They make their game fit onto the hardware of the console because it is a standard.
With a PC, game companies push the limits for the bleeding edge graphics cards on machines with huge specs. There is no guarantee that it will work well on your PC because of compatibility issues.
In the end, it is cheaper by far to buy a new console every year or two, than upgrade to just the newest video card every 2 years.
I imagine they will have a keyboard. It would be impossible to play any MMOG without one. FFXI can be played with a controller more easily than a keyboard IMHO, but if you want to talk to anyone you need a keyboard.
If an xbox had a keyboard, it would be the ultimate FPS console. The graphics are the best by far, and you could play the state of the art games without dropping all of your money on a new video card. It's a lot easier to keep your console up to date than your PC.
That's 6, but I still don't think it's possible. The casters would be out of mana way before Drak was dead, let alone also be able to take out the bodyguards. Drak has about 80,000 HP IIRC. His DPS is more than 1 tank and 1 healer can deal with. Maybe the druid and priest can keep the main tank alive for a while, but since there isn't much DPS, they wouldn't be able to keep him alive long enough.
The warlocks can keep the guards feared for a while, but they would want either their VW out, or their imps for the STA buff. When the fear breaks, they need to take a couple of hits if the next one gets resisted. The VW can be tanking them to keep the aggro off the warlock.
I honestly don't think you can even get to Drak with 5-6 people though. The room before Draks would be about the last you could handle. With the captains and such even a 15 person raid can lose a guy or two. With your group you wouldn't be able to deal with all of the mobs in time, and there would either be too many on the main tank or some on the healers.
A system that will let me create a different playlist for each of my 3 bathrooms.
How many people need different music for different rooms anyway? Aren't most people listening to the music in the same room as the device? Plus, unless you happen to be cruising around you house with the giant remote control, you're just going to have to run to the room with the remote in it instead of the room with the stereo...
Now they're upping it to 40 people for a raid? Yeah that'll make you REALLY feel you mattered in a fight. I can't think of 40-man raids as being anything other than a zerg-fest.
If you do nothing but zerg, you literraly wouldn't make it past the first 2 giants in the zone.
Each pull takes all of your raid working well together. Every class has a specific job. All groups need to be well designed with the right mix of classes.
The bosses are absolutely insane. Each boss has a totally different tactic, and each boss makes use of a specific class in a unique way. If everyone just ran in, you would last about 10 seconds and then wipe. Even with the best strategy, you might wipe 10 times in a row.
If you couldn't get 15 people for a raid you must have been in a guild that was way too small. You can't knock the game if you didn't make enough friends to do high level things. The stuff is there. It's up to you to use it or not. Also, you can 5 man everything but UBRS, MC, and Onyxia, so you could have done any of the other instances.
You are definitely in the minority. I am by no means a power gamer, and I've done everything you listed with the exception of the last half of MC. We have gotten to Garr so far, but haven't beaten him.
Come to think of it, I haven't finished Scarlet Strath yet either. I guess I should do that too. Right now I'm trying to get flagged for Onyxia so we can go steal her l00tz.
I am hoping that this expansion comes just in time for me to finish everything and just when I'm getting tired of the current stuff.
Gartner did "research" on the 2 databases we have where I work. They produced a 200 page document citing all of the good things from one and all of the bad things from the other. In both cases, the bullet points where either exaggerated or outright lies. Never trust a research firm to investigate your own stuff. They don't know what they are talking about. They just list the things that random people say about it.
Gartner is a company that you pay to provide a report that says what you want. If I wanted to "prove" that all IT jobs are leaving the US, I would pay them whatever they asked and suddenly there would be headlines that "All IT Jobs Are Leaving the US".
They cant. Did people stop being interested in Paris Hilton, when she:
a) Shot that movie
b) Showed her tits in The Simple Life
c) had no panties
If you included a link to a virus right after those lines, you would have had me. Pavlov's dogs and bells were nothing compared to guys and links to naked celebrities.
A lot of the businesses they are talking about have site licenses. The major reason for keeping 2000 in most places is that converting hundreds of machines isn't an easy task. We finally just converted to XP at my job about 6 months ago, and the network is running much smoother. As long as we keep up on the patches we are pretty good. Since we are all behind massive firewalls, there isn't much to worry about anyway.
The same is true of most shops that run Unix. Or any major software such as Oracle for that matter. You need to wait until the release is stable, and you need to pick a time to convert when you'll get the most bang for your buck. Jumping in early rarely benefits your company. I'm a little surprised that 2000 is still that prevalent.
To be fair, it's not easy writing HTML/CSS on the screen while having a million tabs/windows open trying to hunt down the information you need.
I can probably google what I need and find an example before I'd find it in the book with the index. I know what you mean about having a reference handy, but it seems that since Google, I haven't touched a single one of my reference books. All that LISP book does is collect dust these days. I don't even want to think about what might be growing on my Computer Architecture book.
I like the rock, paper, scissors chain actually. That's a good design decision for class based games.
1) Shadow priests are not useless in PvE, but clearly they are less useful than one specced for healing. On a Molten Core raid, you NEED healers that can keep a tank alive while they are getting the beat down of their lives. A shadow priest is not necessarily good enough for that role. I know that PvE builds gimp you for PvP. That is the point of my original post. I am a warlock built for PvE. I suck at PvP, but that's ok with me since I don't do it much anyway.
2) Paladins live forever in PvP, but they are hardly excellent at it. They can't kill anything else. They can merely survive, heal and rez others. Shaman are completely overpowered in the BG but I am not horde, so I don't know about them in PvE. I don't know much about Druids in PvP either.
3)My bad. It seems like fear and seduction both work less often on mobs. I do know that those nerfs killed me in PvP. I used to be able to win about 50% of the time if not more. Now I can't do much of anything. I can't take hits very well, and my casting times are slow. My curses are nice if they run their course, but I can easily be dead in the 30 seconds it takes them to do full damage. Also, the new trinkets the instantly remove fear are great for me.
I would say that WoW is very well balanced in PvE. No class is useless, and there are many combinations of classes that work in a 5 man instance. I am not so sure about PvP though. I guess it is about as good as possible, but there are clearly some classes that win more than others.
Thank goodness someone wrote a book about HTML and CSS development. There aren't enough free sites on the internet to teach you this stuff already.
The best place to advertise this is probably/. too. Most of the readers here are probably novice developers with only basic knowledge of HTML if any at all.
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Except he can't...
If Microsoft wouldn't hype their stuff up so much, maybe some folks wouldn't be so let down when it doesn't live up to all the promises.
/. hypes up anything *nix.
Maybe it is the persective of the person on that one. Most people expect the next Microsoft product to add something new, or make an old task easier.
People do backflips when a release of Linux lets them install their sound card.
Microsoft has to work harder to innovate past where they already are. They do hype things up, but certainly no more than the average news article at
Yeah. I've used live and I use Team Speak when playing WoW.
Not everyone uses it though, and half of the time you want to mute the people that do use it. Any MMORPG should use voice, but I hate most of the people that talk.
Nothing makes you feel more immersed in a game than hearing "lol, that murloc was a fag" for that 10th time.
Who is going to pay $100/month for cable and hook up rabbit ears to an extra TV?
If your TV is so old it can't take a cable input, it probably isn't working so well anyway. It might be time to replace it with the $40 TV from Walmart.
I don't remember exactly where this is explained, but basically you NEED to be a Jedi to make a light saber. The Jedi needs to use the force to set the crystal properly. If they are off by even a microscopic amount, it blows up and takes out half the town with it.
On the contrary. TC is being raked over the coals by the media for his ridiculous hyping of his religion. If he wasn't already huge, he would be laughed out of Hollywood.
This has to be sarcastic. (I hope)
If it isn't dried up, we could try to land near it and do research on the liquid. We might learn more than just looking at a dried up lake. There might even be organisms of some sort in the methane.
Being a lake of methane does create unique problems I guess. It might be hard to do things around it with electrical equipment without blowing up the entire lake. I wonder if methane can blow up in a place without oxygen.
I should have included mouse when I said the keyboard would make a console an FPS machine. I agree that it is utterly impossible to compete with thumbsticks. That's why I hate playing FPS games on consoles. It's also the reason that I think Halo is a good game, but I don't love playing it. Targeting with thumbsticks is terrible.
Getting a good mouse is huge. I just got a new one and I love it. It has 8 buttons and I've programmed them for WoW. I can do a lot of things so easy now without even moving my hand. I haven't tried it on an FPS game yet, but I bet it will be nice.
Not really. A console is only out of date when the new version of the console is released. Your PC is out of date when Video Card++ comes out or Intel releases their new CPU that is 0.001% faster.
With a console, game companies have an exact target to code for. They make their game fit onto the hardware of the console because it is a standard.
With a PC, game companies push the limits for the bleeding edge graphics cards on machines with huge specs. There is no guarantee that it will work well on your PC because of compatibility issues.
In the end, it is cheaper by far to buy a new console every year or two, than upgrade to just the newest video card every 2 years.
I imagine they will have a keyboard. It would be impossible to play any MMOG without one. FFXI can be played with a controller more easily than a keyboard IMHO, but if you want to talk to anyone you need a keyboard.
If an xbox had a keyboard, it would be the ultimate FPS console. The graphics are the best by far, and you could play the state of the art games without dropping all of your money on a new video card. It's a lot easier to keep your console up to date than your PC.
This is how I'd try to do it with 5
1 main tank 2 warlocks 1 priest 1 druids 1 mage
That's 6, but I still don't think it's possible. The casters would be out of mana way before Drak was dead, let alone also be able to take out the bodyguards. Drak has about 80,000 HP IIRC. His DPS is more than 1 tank and 1 healer can deal with. Maybe the druid and priest can keep the main tank alive for a while, but since there isn't much DPS, they wouldn't be able to keep him alive long enough.
The warlocks can keep the guards feared for a while, but they would want either their VW out, or their imps for the STA buff. When the fear breaks, they need to take a couple of hits if the next one gets resisted. The VW can be tanking them to keep the aggro off the warlock.
I honestly don't think you can even get to Drak with 5-6 people though. The room before Draks would be about the last you could handle. With the captains and such even a 15 person raid can lose a guy or two. With your group you wouldn't be able to deal with all of the mobs in time, and there would either be too many on the main tank or some on the healers.
The next step is finding out that Darth Vader is your daddy.
A system that will let me create a different playlist for each of my 3 bathrooms.
How many people need different music for different rooms anyway? Aren't most people listening to the music in the same room as the device? Plus, unless you happen to be cruising around you house with the giant remote control, you're just going to have to run to the room with the remote in it instead of the room with the stereo...
What happened to E Pluribus Unum? It's on the back of all my coins. I always thought it meant "loose change" in Latin.
Maybe up to General Drak, but I don't see any way you could kill him and his 2 body guards with only 5-7.
Now they're upping it to 40 people for a raid? Yeah that'll make you REALLY feel you mattered in a fight. I can't think of 40-man raids as being anything other than a zerg-fest.
If you do nothing but zerg, you literraly wouldn't make it past the first 2 giants in the zone.
Each pull takes all of your raid working well together. Every class has a specific job. All groups need to be well designed with the right mix of classes.
The bosses are absolutely insane. Each boss has a totally different tactic, and each boss makes use of a specific class in a unique way. If everyone just ran in, you would last about 10 seconds and then wipe. Even with the best strategy, you might wipe 10 times in a row.
If you couldn't get 15 people for a raid you must have been in a guild that was way too small. You can't knock the game if you didn't make enough friends to do high level things. The stuff is there. It's up to you to use it or not. Also, you can 5 man everything but UBRS, MC, and Onyxia, so you could have done any of the other instances.
You are definitely in the minority. I am by no means a power gamer, and I've done everything you listed with the exception of the last half of MC. We have gotten to Garr so far, but haven't beaten him.
Come to think of it, I haven't finished Scarlet Strath yet either. I guess I should do that too. Right now I'm trying to get flagged for Onyxia so we can go steal her l00tz.
I am hoping that this expansion comes just in time for me to finish everything and just when I'm getting tired of the current stuff.
Gartner did "research" on the 2 databases we have where I work. They produced a 200 page document citing all of the good things from one and all of the bad things from the other. In both cases, the bullet points where either exaggerated or outright lies. Never trust a research firm to investigate your own stuff. They don't know what they are talking about. They just list the things that random people say about it.
Gartner is a company that you pay to provide a report that says what you want. If I wanted to "prove" that all IT jobs are leaving the US, I would pay them whatever they asked and suddenly there would be headlines that "All IT Jobs Are Leaving the US".
They cant. Did people stop being interested in Paris Hilton, when she :
a) Shot that movie
b) Showed her tits in The Simple Life
c) had no panties
If you included a link to a virus right after those lines, you would have had me. Pavlov's dogs and bells were nothing compared to guys and links to naked celebrities.
A lot of the businesses they are talking about have site licenses. The major reason for keeping 2000 in most places is that converting hundreds of machines isn't an easy task. We finally just converted to XP at my job about 6 months ago, and the network is running much smoother. As long as we keep up on the patches we are pretty good. Since we are all behind massive firewalls, there isn't much to worry about anyway.
The same is true of most shops that run Unix. Or any major software such as Oracle for that matter. You need to wait until the release is stable, and you need to pick a time to convert when you'll get the most bang for your buck. Jumping in early rarely benefits your company. I'm a little surprised that 2000 is still that prevalent.
To be fair, it's not easy writing HTML/CSS on the screen while having a million tabs/windows open trying to hunt down the information you need.
I can probably google what I need and find an example before I'd find it in the book with the index. I know what you mean about having a reference handy, but it seems that since Google, I haven't touched a single one of my reference books. All that LISP book does is collect dust these days. I don't even want to think about what might be growing on my Computer Architecture book.
I like the rock, paper, scissors chain actually. That's a good design decision for class based games.
1) Shadow priests are not useless in PvE, but clearly they are less useful than one specced for healing. On a Molten Core raid, you NEED healers that can keep a tank alive while they are getting the beat down of their lives. A shadow priest is not necessarily good enough for that role. I know that PvE builds gimp you for PvP. That is the point of my original post. I am a warlock built for PvE. I suck at PvP, but that's ok with me since I don't do it much anyway.
2) Paladins live forever in PvP, but they are hardly excellent at it. They can't kill anything else. They can merely survive, heal and rez others. Shaman are completely overpowered in the BG but I am not horde, so I don't know about them in PvE. I don't know much about Druids in PvP either.
3)My bad. It seems like fear and seduction both work less often on mobs. I do know that those nerfs killed me in PvP. I used to be able to win about 50% of the time if not more. Now I can't do much of anything. I can't take hits very well, and my casting times are slow. My curses are nice if they run their course, but I can easily be dead in the 30 seconds it takes them to do full damage. Also, the new trinkets the instantly remove fear are great for me.
I would say that WoW is very well balanced in PvE. No class is useless, and there are many combinations of classes that work in a 5 man instance. I am not so sure about PvP though. I guess it is about as good as possible, but there are clearly some classes that win more than others.
Thank goodness someone wrote a book about HTML and CSS development. There aren't enough free sites on the internet to teach you this stuff already.
/. too. Most of the readers here are probably novice developers with only basic knowledge of HTML if any at all.
The best place to advertise this is probably
You have if you read TFA.
The guy essentially makes a blog detailing his experiences with blogs.