You cannot discount the power of just plain quitting. Whining that you WANNIT WANNIT WANNIT to be perfect doesn't make it so. You should have left the game a very, very long time ago.
Disclaimer: I left Ultima Online 2 months after the beta out of frustration with stability and player killing. I simply decided I would not pay anyone for the abuse of such an unstable game that was publicly endorsing player killing.
Many stores I go to ask for a phone number as an ID.
All I say is "I'd rather not, thanks." It always works.
The only time I have to give them information is when I make a return to a store. Then I have to tell them all about me, where I live, etc, and at some stores I have to let them copy down my driver's license number.
This is all to thwart shoplifting rings, or similar kinds of theft-and-return scams, I suppose. But don't they have my credit card number on file that I bought it with to track that already?
I use my Palm IIIxe constantly, and I don't travel a whole lot at all.
The built-in address book, to-do lists, and calendar are all I use it for, with two entertainment apps loaded on it. One is an app that spits out Homer-isms and Bart-isms from The Simpsons, the other is called Space Trader, very much like the old Elite from the Commodore 64 of yore.
Well duh, but with no cable available in my area, it's Covad's best attempt at hitting bandwidth numbers or Verizon's complete lack of any hard numbers or guarantees of bandwidth in either direction for MORE money. Scuh-rew that.
If you're looking for java-based MU* servers and client ideas, see what you can sniff out of the TwistedReality engine. It's apparently GPL'd.
Since I couldn't get pr1 or pr2 to work, I'll likely wait until they distribute something an end user can get running and have some fun with before I take a peek at it again.
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You cannot discount the power of just plain quitting. Whining that you WANNIT WANNIT WANNIT to be perfect doesn't make it so. You should have left the game a very, very long time ago.
Disclaimer: I left Ultima Online 2 months after the beta out of frustration with stability and player killing. I simply decided I would not pay anyone for the abuse of such an unstable game that was publicly endorsing player killing.
There was a story on CNN over the weekend about them and the suit Microsoft launched against them.
This is merely a logical extension of current advertising design trends.
I hope the folks giving up their brain chemistry and reaction information to advertiser researchers are getting paid handsomely. If not they're fools.
Many stores I go to ask for a phone number as an ID.
All I say is "I'd rather not, thanks." It always works.
The only time I have to give them information is when I make a return to a store. Then I have to tell them all about me, where I live, etc, and at some stores I have to let them copy down my driver's license number.
This is all to thwart shoplifting rings, or similar kinds of theft-and-return scams, I suppose. But don't they have my credit card number on file that I bought it with to track that already?
I use my Palm IIIxe constantly, and I don't travel a whole lot at all.
The built-in address book, to-do lists, and calendar are all I use it for, with two entertainment apps loaded on it. One is an app that spits out Homer-isms and Bart-isms from The Simpsons, the other is called Space Trader, very much like the old Elite from the Commodore 64 of yore.
Will they ever learn that we need to build a dry dock in orbit, then a moon base first?
There is a cooling fans on the side of the kiosk.
Well duh, but with no cable available in my area, it's Covad's best attempt at hitting bandwidth numbers or Verizon's complete lack of any hard numbers or guarantees of bandwidth in either direction for MORE money. Scuh-rew that.
Since I couldn't get pr1 or pr2 to work, I'll likely wait until they distribute something an end user can get running and have some fun with before I take a peek at it again.