I also avoided WoW when it came out for the same reason as you - with single player games I tend to cane them really hard until I have finished or got bored. So I didn't want to get involved with an endless MMO. My friend had started playing but had unsuccessfully tried to get my to buy WoW. Then my friend came round my house "oh while I'm here I might as well install the trial..."
though I find you have to play hundreds of games to be good enough with your team to get a decent rating! but yes its a step forward from the old pvp system which was - whoever plays the most battlegrounds that week (or in fact over the last few months) wins grand marshall title for that week
Its not so much a case of someone leaving a £20 note on the pavement as it is a case of handing someone a book to read, then expecting that they can't remember the plot afterwards.
haha well prot paladins do get economies of scale due to loads taking damage at once so averaged across all of them its reasonably fast....whereas prot warriors are still mainly dpsing one target at a time
also stuff like trash -> rubbish, diaper -> nappy, freeway -> motorway, call 911 -> call 999, regular -> normal... ok these aren't really software related but there are a lot of words that are used by americans but not by the english.
Free speech in Europe? Try promoting Nazism in Germany. Try denying that the Holocaust happened in Austria. Try insulting Ataturk in Turkey (okay, let's not argue whether or not Turkey is in Europe).
Free speech is more free in the U.S.
what about free speech in Mexico (okay, let's not argue whether or not Mexico is in USA)
"It is important to note that open source developers, whether commercial or non-commercial, will not need a patent license for the development of implementations of these protocols or for the non-commercial distribution of these implementations, according to Microsoftâ(TM)s Patent Pledge for Open Source Developers."
So commercial distribution requires a microsoft tax.
But you could argue that they're talking from a naive user's perspective. If I was examining software's usability from a naive point of view I would be saying exactly the sort of things said in that email.
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"Where the law is too complex for the average person to understand, then there is something wrong with it." great point. I have been saying for some time, that as there are so many laws that its impossible for any individual to be aware of all legislation that pertains to them, how can it be possible for a well-meaning individual to obey said laws? Therefore how can this legislation be valid?
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no you don't!
(this could go on for ever)
also butt naked is an american phrase.
btw you wouldn't say "Bloody 'ell, as an avid photographer, I would say that if I took a photo of a crowd or in public, and you were in it...."
bloody hell is more like fuck or shit (but politer)
well its concerned with facebook which is american and subject to minimal (if any) data protection laws
were they extradited? if so, why?
...we just don't get this shit! the worst we have got is people abusing postal votes
do you enjoy waiting at traffic lights, waiting in queues, travelling on aeroplanes, staring at progress dialogues, etc? no?
This webserver would fit inside a medium sized LAMP...
I also avoided WoW when it came out for the same reason as you - with single player games I tend to cane them really hard until I have finished or got bored. So I didn't want to get involved with an endless MMO. My friend had started playing but had unsuccessfully tried to get my to buy WoW. Then my friend came round my house "oh while I'm here I might as well install the trial..."
+1 subtle!
though I find you have to play hundreds of games to be good enough with your team to get a decent rating! but yes its a step forward from the old pvp system which was - whoever plays the most battlegrounds that week (or in fact over the last few months) wins grand marshall title for that week
hear hear
Its not so much a case of someone leaving a £20 note on the pavement as it is a case of handing someone a book to read, then expecting that they can't remember the plot afterwards.
haha well prot paladins do get economies of scale due to loads taking damage at once so averaged across all of them its reasonably fast....whereas prot warriors are still mainly dpsing one target at a time
I find you can last a very long time but its slow going - paladins kill stuff much more quickly.
also stuff like trash -> rubbish, diaper -> nappy, freeway -> motorway, call 911 -> call 999, regular -> normal... ok these aren't really software related but there are a lot of words that are used by americans but not by the english.
very little software gets localised for proper english - we nearly always are given the american version.
Free speech in Europe? Try promoting Nazism in Germany. Try denying that the Holocaust happened in Austria. Try insulting Ataturk in Turkey (okay, let's not argue whether or not Turkey is in Europe).
Free speech is more free in the U.S.
what about free speech in Mexico (okay, let's not argue whether or not Mexico is in USA)
This is nothing new, the EU has already made this the case.
c.f. Tesco vs Levi
"It is important to note that open source developers, whether commercial or non-commercial, will not need a patent license for the development of implementations of these protocols or for the non-commercial distribution of these implementations, according to Microsoftâ(TM)s Patent Pledge for Open Source Developers."
So commercial distribution requires a microsoft tax.
it may be open source, but its not free software.
But you could argue that they're talking from a naive user's perspective. If I was examining software's usability from a naive point of view I would be saying exactly the sort of things said in that email.
and then recall those statutes
"Where the law is too complex for the average person to understand, then there is something wrong with it."
great point. I have been saying for some time, that as there are so many laws that its impossible for any individual to be aware of all legislation that pertains to them, how can it be possible for a well-meaning individual to obey said laws? Therefore how can this legislation be valid?
I'm also annoyed by firefox locking up because a page that looks up information via js times out reading an xml file in or whatever.
thats what I did to my parents :) they didn't notice the difference
They're not exactly tasteful though!