What's a 5 1/2 Floppy? Pretty sure you either mean "3-1/2" or "5-1/4"...
Amusingly though, the error nicely reinforces the main point of you're statement (that you're very young compared to him, and can't correctly remember floppy disk formats):)
I was under the impression that the backbones where these routers are used was never the "bottleneck" for streaming video and such. Isn't the connection from each user's home to the ISP more the issue?
I mean its great to triple the backbone bandwidth, but is it really accurate to say doing so is going to make it easier for the average user to download movies?
The scarcity arrises directly from the time it takes to acquire the items or gold. Real people (even if they are low-paid gold farmers in other countries) have to spend time getting those items to sell them to you. Your argument is akin to saying "The value of the US Dollar is arbitrary because its just little pieces of paper the government prints"
It has value because it takes time and effort to get it. If *you* could print money, it would have no value, just as if *you* could insert gold into Blizzard's database for your character, the services of the gold sellers would have no value to you either. But unless you are an accomplished counterfeiter or hacker, I suggest not implying that goods are worthless just because they are "virtual" without due consideration.
your post is misinformed in almost every regard. While you sound like you know how wow works, it is painfully obvious you have not played EQ2.
I have played both, and for your edification..
1) eq2 crafting is far far far more involved and engaging. I'm not saying wow's crafting isn't good.. cause I love being a wow alchemist/herbalist.. but there is NO comparison to the depth and complexity of the crafting encounter system designed into eq2. eq2 crafting also requires adventure zone harvesting, and strict tradeskill class interdependency (MUCH more so than wow in fact), and rare comps that drop VERY rarely but make FAR better items than players can normally acquire.. i could talk for hours on crafting, but take my word for it, you owe EQ2's system another (or first) look.
2) The server thing.. I think its legitimate to say that wow's servers were only unstable cause of the reponse to the game. its a great game and it was flooded with eager players. no knock to your post or blizz here, really.
also.. the main city zones (contrary to your statement about 15 instances) never ever instance, you are always in the city with everyone else who is there. a lot of players actually gripe they SHOULD instance, because citys are laggy, while rest of game runs beautirfully. SOE claims though, that instnacing cities would screw over the roleplay value of the many many social systems within the city. your comment there is not only uninformed, its 180 degrees the wrong direction.
3) roleplaying is what you make of it, but i assure you the instancing in eq2 is no detriment to it. its balanced so it only instances if there are REALLY to many people trying to use the area. almost never more than 2 instances of dungeons, and it really is a good thing once you see it in action.
4)pvp.. wow is the win. if you want pvp, play wow. there is none in EQ2. no arguments here, i think wow should play up its pvp as much as possible, cause it IT one of its greatest features.
5)graphics is an opinion so i won't say much. EQ2 is photorealisic graphics, wow is comic book styilized. both are beautiful in my opinion, ad i don't think either looks "Silly" when you watch combat for a while. it all looks very good, though this varies by your card. eq2 looks far better on nvidia hardware than ATI (i have both at home to play it on an compare).
6)transportation.. yea wow is pretty mucht the winner here. eq2 has griffons that seem blatantly stolen from wow hehe. everyone in eq2 gets gate to bring them backt o their home city once an hour, and other than that transp[ortation is very easy, but not very graceful like wow's.
7) The systems aren't really that dif. neither is very hard to master. the talent system in wow IS cool and important, the char traits in eq2 are not as nice, and more window dressing. the power in eq2 is largely from upgrading your spells and skills with scrolls you buy,make or find. they are differnt approaches, but nether really bears a lot on the game itself.
8) i'm sorry but wow's char customization is pathetic. to be honest, eq2's isn't really that great either, but at least eq 2 tries more. wow's is pretty shallow. if wow char creation is a 1 on scale of 1-10, and city of heroes is a 10, then eq2 is about a 3. hehe.
So anyway, just as you think their article unfairly skews to eq2, i think your post unfairly skews against EQ2, despite you never playing it. You shuldpossibly give it a shot. though honestly, unless you like cooperative hardcore group play, eq2 is not for you. wow is shallower, and rewards the casual solo player more, and has PVP. if that's what you want (and many do)then wow is your game.
but to make blanket fanboy comments like so many thousands are doing all over the intenet, without even playing both.. is silly, cause they both amazingly good games.:)
Out here in sunny california, they have already been considering legislation to require a certain percentage of new built homes to have solar panels preinstalled on the roof by the contractor.
A house with these panels can provide most of its energy, and on sunny days even feed excess back into the grid (electric company pays YOU)
Considering the enery crisis, and terror threats to centralized power, it would seem irresponsible NOT to try and push for distributed solar power generation. It makes sense in almost every way (money, eco-friendly, security)
Any one else remeber when hackers were just the type of people that hang out at slashdot? The kind of peopel that might hack into your system, but wouldn't break anything, and then leave a friendly note explaining how to secure it?
Now it seems the only image the public associates with the hacker sterotype is jerks like this writing spyware/virus/ddos bot/spam relay/etc crap. =(
all "laptops" (we should just start calling them mobile computers) come with warnings in the manuals that say you should never use it on your lap, ANYWAY. This is because modern laptops get extremely hot, but heat up fairly slowly, so you are much less likely to notice the 3rd degree burns forming on your legs for a while.
So, "don't put your laptop on your lap, it might cause infertility" is like "don't spill boiling hot coffee on your lap, we've found it might cause cancer"
The proportion of people who own (and, more importantly, WANT and will buy in the next 2 years) HDTVs is much much larger than the number of people who own (or want) high def audio disks.
Audio is just not impressive enough anymore. These days, you can download the mp3's in a quarter the time it takes to listen to the song, and it doens't sound THAT much worse than expensive high def audio formats and players.
There's not enough magic left in sound alone these days, people would rather use their 5.1 system to listen to the sound effects matched to the hd content on their hdtvs than for expensive hd audio-only disks.
But come on. I'm sure we've all backed up DVD's to DVD-R for "whatever" reason, so I'm sure most of us know, you either have to break it onto multiple discs, or compress it somehow (with a program like DVD shrink generally)and that's usually AFTER you strip out the extraneous audio channels and such.
Why would you WANT a movie that has been squeezed into 4.7gb, or for that matter an HD movie sized down to 15gb when the blu-ray can hold 50?
Go Sony Go!
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What's a 5 1/2 Floppy? Pretty sure you either mean "3-1/2" or "5-1/4"... Amusingly though, the error nicely reinforces the main point of you're statement (that you're very young compared to him, and can't correctly remember floppy disk formats) :)
I was under the impression that the backbones where these routers are used was never the "bottleneck" for streaming video and such. Isn't the connection from each user's home to the ISP more the issue? I mean its great to triple the backbone bandwidth, but is it really accurate to say doing so is going to make it easier for the average user to download movies?
The scarcity arrises directly from the time it takes to acquire the items or gold. Real people (even if they are low-paid gold farmers in other countries) have to spend time getting those items to sell them to you. Your argument is akin to saying "The value of the US Dollar is arbitrary because its just little pieces of paper the government prints"
It has value because it takes time and effort to get it. If *you* could print money, it would have no value, just as if *you* could insert gold into Blizzard's database for your character, the services of the gold sellers would have no value to you either. But unless you are an accomplished counterfeiter or hacker, I suggest not implying that goods are worthless just because they are "virtual" without due consideration.
your post is misinformed in almost every regard. While you sound like you know how wow works, it is painfully obvious you have not played EQ2. I have played both, and for your edification.. 1) eq2 crafting is far far far more involved and engaging. I'm not saying wow's crafting isn't good.. cause I love being a wow alchemist/herbalist.. but there is NO comparison to the depth and complexity of the crafting encounter system designed into eq2. eq2 crafting also requires adventure zone harvesting, and strict tradeskill class interdependency (MUCH more so than wow in fact), and rare comps that drop VERY rarely but make FAR better items than players can normally acquire.. i could talk for hours on crafting, but take my word for it, you owe EQ2's system another (or first) look. 2) The server thing.. I think its legitimate to say that wow's servers were only unstable cause of the reponse to the game. its a great game and it was flooded with eager players. no knock to your post or blizz here, really. also.. the main city zones (contrary to your statement about 15 instances) never ever instance, you are always in the city with everyone else who is there. a lot of players actually gripe they SHOULD instance, because citys are laggy, while rest of game runs beautirfully. SOE claims though, that instnacing cities would screw over the roleplay value of the many many social systems within the city. your comment there is not only uninformed, its 180 degrees the wrong direction. 3) roleplaying is what you make of it, but i assure you the instancing in eq2 is no detriment to it. its balanced so it only instances if there are REALLY to many people trying to use the area. almost never more than 2 instances of dungeons, and it really is a good thing once you see it in action. 4)pvp.. wow is the win. if you want pvp, play wow. there is none in EQ2. no arguments here, i think wow should play up its pvp as much as possible, cause it IT one of its greatest features. 5)graphics is an opinion so i won't say much. EQ2 is photorealisic graphics, wow is comic book styilized. both are beautiful in my opinion, ad i don't think either looks "Silly" when you watch combat for a while. it all looks very good, though this varies by your card. eq2 looks far better on nvidia hardware than ATI (i have both at home to play it on an compare). 6)transportation.. yea wow is pretty mucht the winner here. eq2 has griffons that seem blatantly stolen from wow hehe. everyone in eq2 gets gate to bring them backt o their home city once an hour, and other than that transp[ortation is very easy, but not very graceful like wow's. 7) The systems aren't really that dif. neither is very hard to master. the talent system in wow IS cool and important, the char traits in eq2 are not as nice, and more window dressing. the power in eq2 is largely from upgrading your spells and skills with scrolls you buy,make or find. they are differnt approaches, but nether really bears a lot on the game itself. 8) i'm sorry but wow's char customization is pathetic. to be honest, eq2's isn't really that great either, but at least eq 2 tries more. wow's is pretty shallow. if wow char creation is a 1 on scale of 1-10, and city of heroes is a 10, then eq2 is about a 3. hehe. So anyway, just as you think their article unfairly skews to eq2, i think your post unfairly skews against EQ2, despite you never playing it. You shuldpossibly give it a shot. though honestly, unless you like cooperative hardcore group play, eq2 is not for you. wow is shallower, and rewards the casual solo player more, and has PVP. if that's what you want (and many do)then wow is your game. but to make blanket fanboy comments like so many thousands are doing all over the intenet, without even playing both.. is silly, cause they both amazingly good games. :)
Out here in sunny california, they have already been considering legislation to require a certain percentage of new built homes to have solar panels preinstalled on the roof by the contractor.
A house with these panels can provide most of its energy, and on sunny days even feed excess back into the grid (electric company pays YOU)
Considering the enery crisis, and terror threats to centralized power, it would seem irresponsible NOT to try and push for distributed solar power generation. It makes sense in almost every way (money, eco-friendly, security)
Yes, "DS" is not an acronym for dual screen...
Just like "XP 2000+" was a proprietary speed reference unrelated to the clockspeeds quoted by intel processors.
right.
Any one else remeber when hackers were just the type of people that hang out at slashdot? The kind of peopel that might hack into your system, but wouldn't break anything, and then leave a friendly note explaining how to secure it? Now it seems the only image the public associates with the hacker sterotype is jerks like this writing spyware/virus/ddos bot/spam relay/etc crap. =(
My only question is can I stick a digicam on my gas powered R/C plane, and get the live video feed from it right there on the R/C controller?
The possibilities boggle me (somewhat evil) mind...
all "laptops" (we should just start calling them mobile computers) come with warnings in the manuals that say you should never use it on your lap, ANYWAY. This is because modern laptops get extremely hot, but heat up fairly slowly, so you are much less likely to notice the 3rd degree burns forming on your legs for a while.
So, "don't put your laptop on your lap, it might cause infertility" is like "don't spill boiling hot coffee on your lap, we've found it might cause cancer"
The proportion of people who own (and, more importantly, WANT and will buy in the next 2 years) HDTVs is much much larger than the number of people who own (or want) high def audio disks. Audio is just not impressive enough anymore. These days, you can download the mp3's in a quarter the time it takes to listen to the song, and it doens't sound THAT much worse than expensive high def audio formats and players. There's not enough magic left in sound alone these days, people would rather use their 5.1 system to listen to the sound effects matched to the hd content on their hdtvs than for expensive hd audio-only disks.
But come on. I'm sure we've all backed up DVD's to DVD-R for "whatever" reason, so I'm sure most of us know, you either have to break it onto multiple discs, or compress it somehow (with a program like DVD shrink generally)and that's usually AFTER you strip out the extraneous audio channels and such. Why would you WANT a movie that has been squeezed into 4.7gb, or for that matter an HD movie sized down to 15gb when the blu-ray can hold 50? Go Sony Go!