I think you are on to something!! Instead of a utility to clear the name and address, how about replace the name with something more appropriate? I'm thinking Mitch Bainwol would be perfect--the President and CEO of the RIAA. Now who knows Mitch's email address?
Instead of teaching--providing IT support for a school district might be a viable option. The money is better than teaching, the stress is on the low end, and you'll find your professional successes leave you more fulfilled than with a Fortune 100 company.
I'm a couple years ahead of the OP. When the global outsourcing started I took the buyout and decided to change careers. Both parents are realtors so the shift into real estate was easy. Got my license, sold every my property in the big city and moved to a lake. Real estate pays the bills but I still had lots of extra time.
Then I discovered the local school district. The school system had a viable WAN but still running on an ancient version of Novell with very little disaster recovery. Working in the school system has been very enjoyable. None of the technology is cutting edge--all stuff that most in the IT field have forgotten. Upgrading the WAN, LAN, and documenting the system has been very easy to do part-time with the added bonus of everyone thinking I'm some type of computer god. Making computers work for young students has been much more fulfilling than dealing with meetings filled with mid-level project managers.
Inventory gets broken all the time in places like Wal-Mart and Home Depot--including florescent bulbs. It would seem if there truly in a risk of mercury poisoning the retails selling the bulbs would be at the highest risk. To date I have never heard of any business evacuating a store because of a florescent bulb braking. Much less a Haz-Mat team performing the clean up.
Microsoft better hurry and get Windows and Office loaded on the PC's of 3rd world countries. The way the market is moving in the USA--by 2010 Windows and Office will be a distant memory. None of the school systems in my state have any plans to upgrade and teach Vista or Office 2007. Just the opposite--my observation is new curriculums are being developed around OpenOffice, Apple, and Linux.
Most school systems run on very tight budgets. The technology directors are realizing two benefits from dumping Microsoft. The obvious advantage is not paying Microsoft's licensing fees. The not so obvious advatage is better support. The vast majority of schools have no means to access any type of assistance for Microsoft products beyond what Microsoft provides in their Knowledge Base. The support for open source software tends to be much easier and quicker to find--FAQs, Forums, and IRC come to mind.
The industry will never listen/read a bunch of slashdot posts and change. Now if every/. reader went out and bought a few Blu-Ray/HD-DVD's then returned them as unplayable and asked for money back--now that might start to get the industry's attention.
If computer history has taught us anything--it is the mighty companies get very few mistakes. Remember when IBM, Visicalc, Novell, and WordPerfect ruled the industry. Vista will never run on 90% of the machines in my county's school district. Many still run Windows 98 and many servers are Win2K--none of which are supported by Microsoft. The cost of hardware and software upgrades to support future Microsoft products is infeasible.
Next week I'll be attending a conference bringing all the state technical educators together. (I'll leave the actual state name out.) One of the themes is how to remove Microsoft from the class room. Instead of teaching MS Office, seems folks are starting to think teaching OpenOffice and/or Google Docs/Spreadsheets will do just as good of job of teaching the student's basic skills.
A few years ago the idea of a Google OS seemed crazy--now I only hope Google or someone else has a bare bones operating system in the works that could replace Windows on all classroom machines. Much of the learning has shifted to web based technologies, not much of OS would be needed.
Certain does seem as if the glory days of Microsoft are fading fast.
If eBay sales are taxable, does this mean yard sales are taxable as well? How many times does the government get tax items? Seems I paid income taxes on the money used buy the item and paid sales tax at the point of sale. What kind of tax is due after an item is sold on ebay? Or instead should everything sold be tracked for loss? i.e. the original purchase price minus the yard sale price.
I got all the proof I needed the other day... Did a quick search for the pictures that got Ms. Neveda in trouble. Google came up with family friendly versions and stock publicity photos. Had to visit Yahoo to find the money shots.
Seriously though--it isn't hard to change one's home page. Back in the day Yahoo.com was everybody's search engine of choice. Then AltaVista came on the seem and there were mass changes to the home page settings in browsers across the country. Google came along and became #1 in a short period of time. But as fast as Google became #1--the next greatest thing can take that top spot.
Wait--Microsoft wants me to spend $2K on a PC running Vista so I'll have a better gaming platform? Personally I have no desire to upgrade to Vista. XP works just fine plus there are no worries about DRM or Microsoft's wonky securtiy code.
Has M$ done something to prevent a USB mouse and keyboard from being plugged into the XBox360? Why isn't the future of PC gaming a console with a mouse and keyboard?
Most folks that bought PS/3's bought them to sell on eBay. 100% of the poeple I know bought the PS/3 with the intention of eBaying the console. They did not buy any launch titles--just the PS/3.
Another newsflash--the auctions are closing on the PS/3's in the thousands of dollars--but no one is paying for the auctions. One of the folks I know ebaying a PS/3 was estatic when his auction closed for $5,000. ($5K!! Damn--you could have bought a PC in 1981 for that kind of cash!) The win bidder though seems to have dropped off the face of the earth.
All the hardcore gamers I know have picked up a Wii and rave about how much fun they have with console. Time will tell the true victor in the console wars. Personally I have 360 now, plan to get a Wii before Christmas, and will wait until until there is amply supply of PS/3's and several top rated titles before spending my cash.
The operative word in the article is there COULD be 90 million gaming PCs running Vista by the end of 2007. The reality is Justin Murray (the article's author) needs to put down the pipe!
Just like the PS/3--no one I know is excited about Vista. Quite the opposite. The talk I hear is about switching to a Mac/OSX or trying Linux on the desktop. The DRM controls in Vista are crazy. Vista turns a PC (Personal Computer) into a CCC (Corporate Controled Computer.)
Vista will not bolster the PC gaming market--if anything Vista will help gaming on alternative platforms.
You have the right idea starting young. Your brain is much easier to train the younger you start. Personally I started coding at fourteen. My first job was in a computer store--before there was ever a Best Buy. Working in the computer store was a summer job. Once school started (sophmore year) quit the lame computer store and started working for an accountant with an IBM System34 (big woot for RPG). By December of my junior year I was hired to work at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center. The experiences were priceless. By the time I entered college I had five computer languages under my belt. When I gradutated from college I was able to list twelve languages on my resume.
Not sure what the labor laws are like now. I was able to start working part time at 14 and full time at 16. Working actually helped my school studies--taught me how to manage time very well. Finished school with top grades and was a national merit scholar.
Just be careful coding doesn't become your life. Very easy to get sucked in and burn out before you are 30. Learn an instrument and join a band. (Music and coding seem to go hand in hand--logical progression) Do something that gets you away from the computer--socializing with people is important if you don't want to become a smelly nerd.:)
Anyone know the price tag for Vista Home? The $599 price point for the Sony PS3 went over well... For all these restrictions--Home Users should be happy to pay $599 for Vista!
I'm still not sure why people are going to want to upgrade to Longhorn and Vista. All I've read are negatives. Does anyone know of a compelling reason shops should upgrade 2k servers to longhorn or swap out XP desktops for Vista?
When people ask me about the future for operating systems I tell them Microsoft is quickly moving themselves into the #2 spot behind Linux.
The time is now to start educating users about the advantages of Linux. In the last five years Linux has become more streamline, easier to install and manage, with more and more native software applications available. Compare that to Microsoft's development--Microsoft seems to have bloated the OS even more and in the proces made it more prone to problems. Anyone looked at the system requirements to run Vista? Havig to replace desktops to run Vista is not a compelling reason to switch to Vista...
Does anyone know of a reason to upgrade to Longhorn and Vista?
Has anyone ever been polled after voting? If so, did you answer honestly? Or answer in a way to help your canidate? Most smart voters know the purpose of the exit poll is to keep voters at home. What other purpose would releasing expected vote counts before the polls are closed serve? Let the folks that haven't voted watch a little TV, see their canidate is ahead, and stay at home. For that reason, anyone that tells the truth to an exit pollster is hurting their canidate.
Bottom line is a win is a win. If the ref doesn't see the foul before the game is over--there is no foul! Conspiracy theorist are going to love seeing the price of gas shoot back up to $3.00 a gallon after the mid-term elections. Amercians tend to have a very short memory. Come election tim, expect to pay $1.25 a gallon and see a bunch of ads linking our successful War on Terror to the decrease in prices. The sucker play will be when gas prices plummet a few months before the 2008 elections.
When I went to school in Boulder ther was a business set up which had students take notes from a class and then offer those notes for sale. The business was called "Class Quotes" circa 1980/81. If I remember correctly it was a subscription model. So the selling of lectures has definately been done before--just never heard of the professors offering the information.
500,000 PS/3's will be enough.
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Yawn!!! 500,000 units should be more than enough for the PS/3 launch. This time last year most of my gamer friends where debating pre-orders of the Xbox360 versus standing in line for the initial release. Fast forward to now--only one of my friends is contemplating picking up a PS/3--and he has no plans to pre-order. Personally, I'll be waiting until the PS/3 has proven to be a must have.
Umm, eBay's own privacy policy is why they don't release the details of transactions. There is no law about releasing information regarding any type of transaction. Now if you had a third party, say an auditor looking at eBay, release the transaction data--you could have something.
A toilet seat that projected a red X on the water at night when the seat was in the up postion and a green circle when the seat was down sure would be nice. Give me something to aim for in the middle of the night and the wife might not end of falling in those times I forget to lower the seat...
Have heard some slick things about the Japanese toilet seats. Some can cost over $5K. For the $5K you get a stool analyzer. Will detect blood in the stool and a myriad of other medical tests.
Microsoft probably could have gotten away with charging $599 for the Xbox360 last Novemeber. Probabaly would have solved a bunch of the early problems with massive back-orders and bad press from not being able to supply enough units. Had they done that and waited for E3 to drop the price--I am thinking there would have been a second surge of XBox360s sales.
BTW--of what use is HD-DVD/BlueRay? Why do I need it? Regular DVDs have been doing just fine. I can even make my own DVDs. Since gaining the ability to burn CDs and DVDs--I am going to be reluctant to adopt any technology where I have to depend on someone else to create my content. Is HD-DVD supposed to provide better games or higher quality movies?
There is most definately an exploit involving the Dire Maul instance that is causing the increased lag. Of the dozens of players in Dire Maul--only a few are causing the server lag. They tend to be easily identifiable by their names and lack of guild tag. i.e. the chinese farming brigade.
Regular players aren't causing the lag. On our server there are 5 to 6 of the farmers on the Horde side and double that number on the Alliance side. Our server runs lag free until these 10-15 players connect--then wham! Lagcity until they disconnect.
What they are doing to cause the problems I don't know, just that rthe exploit seems to involve Dire Maul, Hunters, and produces lots of Traverler's Knapsacks, Major Health Potions, Major Mana Potions, and Ace of Warlords. (probably more stuff I haven't noticed.)
Noticed the price of the Ace of Warlords has dropped to 2g?
According to rumors--farmers are again causing the server problems. During the high lag periods if you do a/who Dire Maul and sort by guild--the list of likely suspects will emerge.
On my server the same 5 or 6 hunters, that can't speak a bit of English, are always around Dire Maul. Let the witchhunt begin!!
For 95% of the population--skill has very little to do with success in real life. Everything takes time to learn.
Becoming a master anything in the real world is estimated to take 10,000 hours. Doesn't really matter what you do... carpentry, nursing, driving trucks...
Sure a person might have some raw skills. Compare two people: One with raw skill, the other with raw skill and 10,000 hours of experience. Who do you think is going to perform better? If both demanded the same wage--who would you be likely to hire?
The only exception to this rule would be those involved with extreme manual labor--pro athletes and coal miners, I'd think, fall into this catagory. Over time the phsyical stresses and natural aging would lead to decline in ability for most.
For the other 95% of the real world, being successful in the professional environment requires certain credentials. Doctors, lawyers, and accountants come to mind. Teenagers will show aptitude certain areas--but do you seriously think any of them would pass the certification tests on skill alone?
Hopefully everyone is still learning at least two new things every day...
In the early days NewEgg was tough to beat. Great prices, great service, fast shipping. Everything one could want in a computer parts supplier. Lately though the great prices seem to have disappeared from NewEgg. Sure there is the occasional deal--but finding a better price doesn't involve too much looking.
What do folks think about the new "pyramid" schemey shops that are popping up? http://store.ncix.com/, from what I understand, lets geeks "setup" their own personal stores. The geeks the get their friends/associates to shop from the their personal store and get a bit of a kickback. http://www.burnlounge.com/ is trying to do same thing with MP3 sales.
The NCIX system seems a little hokey to me--but I know that dozens of my friends and family use NewEgg because of my recommendation. Might be nice to start getting a little something back for all the referrals.
** I have no involvement with any of the above companies. Just curiostiy.
Ummmm.... Great thread to start on a Friday after the regular folks have gone home for the weekend. What a load of crap. Blizzard couldn't care one way or the other. The link to the GM conversation is someone's blog that doesn't even involve any of the original parties!! Sorry--but these seems more like one individials means to obtain attention more than a valid story.
I've dealt with enough GM's to know what the answer would be to someone complaining about gay marriage--"Go back to playing the game, we'll investigate..."
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I think you are on to something!! Instead of a utility to clear the name and address, how about replace the name with something more appropriate? I'm thinking Mitch Bainwol would be perfect--the President and CEO of the RIAA. Now who knows Mitch's email address?
Instead of teaching--providing IT support for a school district might be a viable option. The money is better than teaching, the stress is on the low end, and you'll find your professional successes leave you more fulfilled than with a Fortune 100 company.
I'm a couple years ahead of the OP. When the global outsourcing started I took the buyout and decided to change careers. Both parents are realtors so the shift into real estate was easy. Got my license, sold every my property in the big city and moved to a lake. Real estate pays the bills but I still had lots of extra time.
Then I discovered the local school district. The school system had a viable WAN but still running on an ancient version of Novell with very little disaster recovery. Working in the school system has been very enjoyable. None of the technology is cutting edge--all stuff that most in the IT field have forgotten. Upgrading the WAN, LAN, and documenting the system has been very easy to do part-time with the added bonus of everyone thinking I'm some type of computer god. Making computers work for young students has been much more fulfilling than dealing with meetings filled with mid-level project managers.
Inventory gets broken all the time in places like Wal-Mart and Home Depot--including florescent bulbs. It would seem if there truly in a risk of mercury poisoning the retails selling the bulbs would be at the highest risk. To date I have never heard of any business evacuating a store because of a florescent bulb braking. Much less a Haz-Mat team performing the clean up.
Microsoft better hurry and get Windows and Office loaded on the PC's of 3rd world countries. The way the market is moving in the USA--by 2010 Windows and Office will be a distant memory. None of the school systems in my state have any plans to upgrade and teach Vista or Office 2007. Just the opposite--my observation is new curriculums are being developed around OpenOffice, Apple, and Linux.
Most school systems run on very tight budgets. The technology directors are realizing two benefits from dumping Microsoft. The obvious advantage is not paying Microsoft's licensing fees. The not so obvious advatage is better support. The vast majority of schools have no means to access any type of assistance for Microsoft products beyond what Microsoft provides in their Knowledge Base. The support for open source software tends to be much easier and quicker to find--FAQs, Forums, and IRC come to mind.
The industry will never listen/read a bunch of slashdot posts and change. Now if every /. reader went out and bought a few Blu-Ray/HD-DVD's then returned them as unplayable and asked for money back--now that might start to get the industry's attention.
Next week I'll be attending a conference bringing all the state technical educators together. (I'll leave the actual state name out.) One of the themes is how to remove Microsoft from the class room. Instead of teaching MS Office, seems folks are starting to think teaching OpenOffice and/or Google Docs/Spreadsheets will do just as good of job of teaching the student's basic skills.
A few years ago the idea of a Google OS seemed crazy--now I only hope Google or someone else has a bare bones operating system in the works that could replace Windows on all classroom machines. Much of the learning has shifted to web based technologies, not much of OS would be needed.
Certain does seem as if the glory days of Microsoft are fading fast.
If eBay sales are taxable, does this mean yard sales are taxable as well? How many times does the government get tax items? Seems I paid income taxes on the money used buy the item and paid sales tax at the point of sale. What kind of tax is due after an item is sold on ebay? Or instead should everything sold be tracked for loss? i.e. the original purchase price minus the yard sale price.
I got all the proof I needed the other day... Did a quick search for the pictures that got Ms. Neveda in trouble. Google came up with family friendly versions and stock publicity photos. Had to visit Yahoo to find the money shots.
Seriously though--it isn't hard to change one's home page. Back in the day Yahoo.com was everybody's search engine of choice. Then AltaVista came on the seem and there were mass changes to the home page settings in browsers across the country. Google came along and became #1 in a short period of time. But as fast as Google became #1--the next greatest thing can take that top spot.
Wait--Microsoft wants me to spend $2K on a PC running Vista so I'll have a better gaming platform? Personally I have no desire to upgrade to Vista. XP works just fine plus there are no worries about DRM or Microsoft's wonky securtiy code.
Has M$ done something to prevent a USB mouse and keyboard from being plugged into the XBox360? Why isn't the future of PC gaming a console with a mouse and keyboard?
Most folks that bought PS/3's bought them to sell on eBay. 100% of the poeple I know bought the PS/3 with the intention of eBaying the console. They did not buy any launch titles--just the PS/3. Another newsflash--the auctions are closing on the PS/3's in the thousands of dollars--but no one is paying for the auctions. One of the folks I know ebaying a PS/3 was estatic when his auction closed for $5,000. ($5K!! Damn--you could have bought a PC in 1981 for that kind of cash!) The win bidder though seems to have dropped off the face of the earth. All the hardcore gamers I know have picked up a Wii and rave about how much fun they have with console. Time will tell the true victor in the console wars. Personally I have 360 now, plan to get a Wii before Christmas, and will wait until until there is amply supply of PS/3's and several top rated titles before spending my cash.
The operative word in the article is there COULD be 90 million gaming PCs running Vista by the end of 2007. The reality is Justin Murray (the article's author) needs to put down the pipe! Just like the PS/3--no one I know is excited about Vista. Quite the opposite. The talk I hear is about switching to a Mac/OSX or trying Linux on the desktop. The DRM controls in Vista are crazy. Vista turns a PC (Personal Computer) into a CCC (Corporate Controled Computer.) Vista will not bolster the PC gaming market--if anything Vista will help gaming on alternative platforms.
You have the right idea starting young. Your brain is much easier to train the younger you start. Personally I started coding at fourteen. My first job was in a computer store--before there was ever a Best Buy. Working in the computer store was a summer job. Once school started (sophmore year) quit the lame computer store and started working for an accountant with an IBM System34 (big woot for RPG). By December of my junior year I was hired to work at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center. The experiences were priceless. By the time I entered college I had five computer languages under my belt. When I gradutated from college I was able to list twelve languages on my resume.
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Not sure what the labor laws are like now. I was able to start working part time at 14 and full time at 16. Working actually helped my school studies--taught me how to manage time very well. Finished school with top grades and was a national merit scholar.
Just be careful coding doesn't become your life. Very easy to get sucked in and burn out before you are 30. Learn an instrument and join a band. (Music and coding seem to go hand in hand--logical progression) Do something that gets you away from the computer--socializing with people is important if you don't want to become a smelly nerd.
Anyone know the price tag for Vista Home? The $599 price point for the Sony PS3 went over well... For all these restrictions--Home Users should be happy to pay $599 for Vista!
When people ask me about the future for operating systems I tell them Microsoft is quickly moving themselves into the #2 spot behind Linux.
The time is now to start educating users about the advantages of Linux. In the last five years Linux has become more streamline, easier to install and manage, with more and more native software applications available. Compare that to Microsoft's development--Microsoft seems to have bloated the OS even more and in the proces made it more prone to problems. Anyone looked at the system requirements to run Vista? Havig to replace desktops to run Vista is not a compelling reason to switch to Vista...
Does anyone know of a reason to upgrade to Longhorn and Vista?
Has anyone ever been polled after voting? If so, did you answer honestly? Or answer in a way to help your canidate? Most smart voters know the purpose of the exit poll is to keep voters at home. What other purpose would releasing expected vote counts before the polls are closed serve? Let the folks that haven't voted watch a little TV, see their canidate is ahead, and stay at home. For that reason, anyone that tells the truth to an exit pollster is hurting their canidate.
Bottom line is a win is a win. If the ref doesn't see the foul before the game is over--there is no foul! Conspiracy theorist are going to love seeing the price of gas shoot back up to $3.00 a gallon after the mid-term elections. Amercians tend to have a very short memory. Come election tim, expect to pay $1.25 a gallon and see a bunch of ads linking our successful War on Terror to the decrease in prices. The sucker play will be when gas prices plummet a few months before the 2008 elections.
When I went to school in Boulder ther was a business set up which had students take notes from a class and then offer those notes for sale. The business was called "Class Quotes" circa 1980/81. If I remember correctly it was a subscription model. So the selling of lectures has definately been done before--just never heard of the professors offering the information.
Yawn!!! 500,000 units should be more than enough for the PS/3 launch. This time last year most of my gamer friends where debating pre-orders of the Xbox360 versus standing in line for the initial release. Fast forward to now--only one of my friends is contemplating picking up a PS/3--and he has no plans to pre-order. Personally, I'll be waiting until the PS/3 has proven to be a must have.
Umm, eBay's own privacy policy is why they don't release the details of transactions. There is no law about releasing information regarding any type of transaction. Now if you had a third party, say an auditor looking at eBay, release the transaction data--you could have something.
Have heard some slick things about the Japanese toilet seats. Some can cost over $5K. For the $5K you get a stool analyzer. Will detect blood in the stool and a myriad of other medical tests.
Microsoft probably could have gotten away with charging $599 for the Xbox360 last Novemeber. Probabaly would have solved a bunch of the early problems with massive back-orders and bad press from not being able to supply enough units. Had they done that and waited for E3 to drop the price--I am thinking there would have been a second surge of XBox360s sales. BTW--of what use is HD-DVD/BlueRay? Why do I need it? Regular DVDs have been doing just fine. I can even make my own DVDs. Since gaining the ability to burn CDs and DVDs--I am going to be reluctant to adopt any technology where I have to depend on someone else to create my content. Is HD-DVD supposed to provide better games or higher quality movies?
I should have been more clear in my first post.
There is most definately an exploit involving the Dire Maul instance that is causing the increased lag. Of the dozens of players in Dire Maul--only a few are causing the server lag. They tend to be easily identifiable by their names and lack of guild tag. i.e. the chinese farming brigade.
Regular players aren't causing the lag. On our server there are 5 to 6 of the farmers on the Horde side and double that number on the Alliance side. Our server runs lag free until these 10-15 players connect--then wham! Lagcity until they disconnect.
What they are doing to cause the problems I don't know, just that rthe exploit seems to involve Dire Maul, Hunters, and produces lots of Traverler's Knapsacks, Major Health Potions, Major Mana Potions, and Ace of Warlords. (probably more stuff I haven't noticed.)
Noticed the price of the Ace of Warlords has dropped to 2g?
According to rumors--farmers are again causing the server problems. During the high lag periods if you do a /who Dire Maul and sort by guild--the list of likely suspects will emerge.
On my server the same 5 or 6 hunters, that can't speak a bit of English, are always around Dire Maul. Let the witchhunt begin!!
For 95% of the population--skill has very little to do with success in real life. Everything takes time to learn. Becoming a master anything in the real world is estimated to take 10,000 hours. Doesn't really matter what you do... carpentry, nursing, driving trucks... Sure a person might have some raw skills. Compare two people: One with raw skill, the other with raw skill and 10,000 hours of experience. Who do you think is going to perform better? If both demanded the same wage--who would you be likely to hire? The only exception to this rule would be those involved with extreme manual labor--pro athletes and coal miners, I'd think, fall into this catagory. Over time the phsyical stresses and natural aging would lead to decline in ability for most. For the other 95% of the real world, being successful in the professional environment requires certain credentials. Doctors, lawyers, and accountants come to mind. Teenagers will show aptitude certain areas--but do you seriously think any of them would pass the certification tests on skill alone? Hopefully everyone is still learning at least two new things every day...
In the early days NewEgg was tough to beat. Great prices, great service, fast shipping. Everything one could want in a computer parts supplier. Lately though the great prices seem to have disappeared from NewEgg. Sure there is the occasional deal--but finding a better price doesn't involve too much looking. What do folks think about the new "pyramid" schemey shops that are popping up? http://store.ncix.com/, from what I understand, lets geeks "setup" their own personal stores. The geeks the get their friends/associates to shop from the their personal store and get a bit of a kickback. http://www.burnlounge.com/ is trying to do same thing with MP3 sales. The NCIX system seems a little hokey to me--but I know that dozens of my friends and family use NewEgg because of my recommendation. Might be nice to start getting a little something back for all the referrals. ** I have no involvement with any of the above companies. Just curiostiy.
Ummmm.... Great thread to start on a Friday after the regular folks have gone home for the weekend. What a load of crap. Blizzard couldn't care one way or the other. The link to the GM conversation is someone's blog that doesn't even involve any of the original parties!! Sorry--but these seems more like one individials means to obtain attention more than a valid story. I've dealt with enough GM's to know what the answer would be to someone complaining about gay marriage--"Go back to playing the game, we'll investigate..."