Incidentally, my post above was done on a computer at school that I didn't have administrator access to. I downloaded Firefox to my "My Documents" folder and installed it there, and didn't create shortcuts on the desktop, start menu, or quick launch bar. Since it's stored on the individual computer, I've done this on about ten computers there now, and it only takes up about 30 seconds each time.
Basically there's no real excuse for not using multiple internet browsers.
If the article was about the fertilization process of the Eastern Canadian Brown Pine Tree, and it had a link to some random dude's web page, it would get slashdotted.
You act like people have something better to do at work. There's no threshold here, the slashdot effect applies to everything.
It is most certainly not a bad idea to get people to install firefox.
If you have trouble running it on your computer, install a post-1998 operating system. Upgrade to a 486. splurge for that extra 256MB of RAM. Get your cat out of the computer tower. Do whatever it takes, but get with the program.
You should play MMO's. World of Warcraft and Guild Wars and their likes are actually a lot more social-friendly than people give them credit for. In fact, just about the only reason they aren't considered social endeavors is because they're associated with RPG's.
Granted, everyone has their horror stories from MMO's, but an MMO beats any offline rpg for social value any day of the week.
My guess would be that these guys saw an incredibly beautiful giant mirror in the desert, and carved a hunk of glass out of the center, and then saved it for something special. It was probably used also for several other things, none of which survived for very long, since they were made out of glass.
In fact, since glass is easy to break and can be dangerous, they may have been afraid of it, thinking it punished the unworthy.
Actually, I believe that the speed is not the only factor. if it's one particle moving that fast, it might still bounce off, with no damage.
If it's the size and mass of a freight ship, then there might be a problem with it going 17,500 mph. But if that were the case, I think our satellites would have a shorter lifespan as well.
A mage can get to 60 insanely fast. If you have the cash to dump into the alt, in can be done in far far less time, simply due to engineering.
Incidentally, if it's a PvP server, the mage, if on the horde side, can get to level 50 without ever having been flagged for pvp, simply because the barrens is really that frickin huge. and razorfen kraul and razorfen downs are both in the barrens. Unless they've changed the game to where you get flagged for pvp when you enter those areas. Admittedly, it's been a while.
I imagine getting a character up to 60 in 25 hours would be no trouble at all for the people who exploit experience-gaining tricks for a living.
"As long as I can keep paying ridiculously high prices, I'm all for Apple cutting costs through sweatshops. After all, someone has to stand up to Microsoft." - Obnoxious Mac fan
And aside from the funny, has anyone else been having extreme difficulty reading slashdot through opera? I mean I was all excited when I found out you could get the RSS feeds integrated into the browser, but it's been locking up my browser trying to read articles. I had to type this up in Firefox... XD
You are supposed to let the market tell you how to price your product. Sony is really taking a shot in the dark here when they don't have to. They're going to lose over 30% of their customers just by telling them (virtually) that they aren't rich enough to play the new playstation anymore.
Seriously, every day I don't see Sony retracting their price estimates, I wonder just what the fuck their shareholders are smoking.
It's true that the engineers objected to the launch, because they weren't sure of the safety in particularly cold temperatures.
That morning, it was on the low end of their temperature safe zone.
However, at one point during the launch, Challenger was hit by an extreme blast of cold air, AND a harsh wind.
The incident cannot be blamed solely on the management at the time.
While the engineers had reservations about the launch, NOBODY at NASA was ready for what actually happened. Even if the temperature were a bit warmer that day and the entire engineer crew agreed to the launch, there still would have been a disaster.
This was not a case of "you should have listened to the engineers" and it most CERTAINLY was not a case of the engineers being right. It was a tragedy, plain and simple, and any finger-pointing about the affair only shows how naive you are.
in diablo 2 there can't be more than, was it 8? people online in your WORLD at any given moment.
in guild wars, though the game is divided into districts, you can comunicate, dance, and talk and trade with hundreds at a time.
there's also a current mission, one of the very first, that allows a whopping 16 people in.
You can say that it can't be "massively multiplayer" until you have lines waiting on spawns, but in that case it's just a stupid misnomer. the point is you're playing online with millions of other people. and if you can interact with thousands over the course of an hour, who cares if there are different rooms you have to walk through before you can do that?
*sigh* You get feedback that your OS isn't user-friendly enough, and your response is "well, it must be the user's fault."
DING DING. Something should be going off in your head that you're going about the problem all wrong.
If you're a linux fanatic, you really need to send a message to all of the linux developers of the world that they need to get their shit together and actually cater to the end-user. Because these people are the same people you need to convince to use linux. And if they see that there's a problem, then there's a problem. It might not be exactly as they said it, but it's there.
When a user chooses to install Linux, and they play around for a day, and never get past the install, they're never coming back.
When a user chooses to install linux, gets past the install, plays around for a little while and has a bit of fun but can't get major things set up like their webcam, network card, word processor, or compiler, they are going back to windows, even though windows sucks.
And even if Linux is better in every way, if it can't run games that people want to play, people will NOT run linux on their home PC's. I can't emphasize this enough. People will voluntarily do things the hard way if there's an incentive.
What we need is a version of linux that installs as simply as Windows does, and has all the important features you need in order to get your computer to work, and doesn't require ANY command line knowledge or programming on your own. And especially, remeber, PLEASE don't make the end-user search online to get the drivers for his or her network card. I can't even begin to explain how stupid it is that drivers for common network cards can't be found on base installations of most linux discs. You're lucky if the end-user HAS a computer. Don't push it and assume that they have their own home network, including a fully-working linux box that they can use as a reference.
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Incidentally, my post above was done on a computer at school that I didn't have administrator access to. I downloaded Firefox to my "My Documents" folder and installed it there, and didn't create shortcuts on the desktop, start menu, or quick launch bar. Since it's stored on the individual computer, I've done this on about ten computers there now, and it only takes up about 30 seconds each time.
Basically there's no real excuse for not using multiple internet browsers.
You don't quite understand the slashdot effect.
If the article was about the fertilization process of the Eastern Canadian Brown Pine Tree, and it had a link to some random dude's web page, it would get slashdotted.
You act like people have something better to do at work. There's no threshold here, the slashdot effect applies to everything.
...Mostly 'armless?
It is most certainly not a bad idea to get people to install firefox.
If you have trouble running it on your computer, install a post-1998 operating system. Upgrade to a 486. splurge for that extra 256MB of RAM. Get your cat out of the computer tower. Do whatever it takes, but get with the program.
You should play MMO's. World of Warcraft and Guild Wars and their likes are actually a lot more social-friendly than people give them credit for. In fact, just about the only reason they aren't considered social endeavors is because they're associated with RPG's.
Granted, everyone has their horror stories from MMO's, but an MMO beats any offline rpg for social value any day of the week.
pff, why stop there?
Let's take it all the way to trilithium.
Now THAT's a player-killer die.
"Someday these kids will need to take special classes to learn how to walk on dirt."
Yes, except it will be the dirt on the moon or mars.
latest, flashiest distro?
There's nothing flashy about linux kernels. You sir, need to go outside and light a sparkler. It will blow your mind.
http://shatneriskirk.ytmnd.com/
not mine, but as relevant as a ytmnd can possibly be. enjoy.
"to suggest that all of "pre-human evolution" was driven primarily by snakes is a bit silly." ...
Meanwhile, in a hidden laboratory in Africa, a snake wearing a labcoat stares deeply into the soft, turquoise-green glow of his computer terminal.
"Cursssessss!" he hisses, "They're onto me!"
My guess would be that these guys saw an incredibly beautiful giant mirror in the desert, and carved a hunk of glass out of the center, and then saved it for something special. It was probably used also for several other things, none of which survived for very long, since they were made out of glass.
In fact, since glass is easy to break and can be dangerous, they may have been afraid of it, thinking it punished the unworthy.
Just my guess, but I'd say that the gem was called that, and has now been exposed as yellow glass.
Apparently the level 46 archaeologist identified his possessions when Tut's curse hit him.
Actually, I believe that the speed is not the only factor. if it's one particle moving that fast, it might still bounce off, with no damage.
If it's the size and mass of a freight ship, then there might be a problem with it going 17,500 mph. But if that were the case, I think our satellites would have a shorter lifespan as well.
...But it makes for a great story.
A mage can get to 60 insanely fast. If you have the cash to dump into the alt, in can be done in far far less time, simply due to engineering.
Incidentally, if it's a PvP server, the mage, if on the horde side, can get to level 50 without ever having been flagged for pvp, simply because the barrens is really that frickin huge. and razorfen kraul and razorfen downs are both in the barrens. Unless they've changed the game to where you get flagged for pvp when you enter those areas. Admittedly, it's been a while.
I imagine getting a character up to 60 in 25 hours would be no trouble at all for the people who exploit experience-gaining tricks for a living.
"...
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(3) The game, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors.
Who makes the diecsion on whether or not games fall into this category or not?
big brother.
"As long as I can keep paying ridiculously high prices, I'm all for Apple cutting costs through sweatshops. After all, someone has to stand up to Microsoft."
- Obnoxious Mac fan
And aside from the funny, has anyone else been having extreme difficulty reading slashdot through opera? I mean I was all excited when I found out you could get the RSS feeds integrated into the browser, but it's been locking up my browser trying to read articles. I had to type this up in Firefox... XD
...followed by the "Noo, señor."
Sony's making a horrible mistake.
NEVER TELL THE CONSUMER HOW MUCH IS "CHEAP."
You are supposed to let the market tell you how to price your product. Sony is really taking a shot in the dark here when they don't have to. They're going to lose over 30% of their customers just by telling them (virtually) that they aren't rich enough to play the new playstation anymore.
Seriously, every day I don't see Sony retracting their price estimates, I wonder just what the fuck their shareholders are smoking.
d) PROFIT!
Actually, that's not the whole of it.
It's true that the engineers objected to the launch, because they weren't sure of the safety in particularly cold temperatures.
That morning, it was on the low end of their temperature safe zone.
However, at one point during the launch, Challenger was hit by an extreme blast of cold air, AND a harsh wind.
The incident cannot be blamed solely on the management at the time.
While the engineers had reservations about the launch, NOBODY at NASA was ready for what actually happened. Even if the temperature were a bit warmer that day and the entire engineer crew agreed to the launch, there still would have been a disaster.
This was not a case of "you should have listened to the engineers" and it most CERTAINLY was not a case of the engineers being right. It was a tragedy, plain and simple, and any finger-pointing about the affair only shows how naive you are.
"Nothing beats +2 minerals, +2 nutrients, and +2 energy..."
Except for anything enchanted at +3 or above...
in diablo 2 there can't be more than, was it 8? people online in your WORLD at any given moment.
in guild wars, though the game is divided into districts, you can comunicate, dance, and talk and trade with hundreds at a time.
there's also a current mission, one of the very first, that allows a whopping 16 people in.
You can say that it can't be "massively multiplayer" until you have lines waiting on spawns, but in that case it's just a stupid misnomer. the point is you're playing online with millions of other people. and if you can interact with thousands over the course of an hour, who cares if there are different rooms you have to walk through before you can do that?
*sigh*
You get feedback that your OS isn't user-friendly enough, and your response is "well, it must be the user's fault."
DING DING.
Something should be going off in your head that you're going about the problem all wrong.
If you're a linux fanatic, you really need to send a message to all of the linux developers of the world that they need to get their shit together and actually cater to the end-user. Because these people are the same people you need to convince to use linux. And if they see that there's a problem, then there's a problem. It might not be exactly as they said it, but it's there.
When a user chooses to install Linux, and they play around for a day, and never get past the install, they're never coming back.
When a user chooses to install linux, gets past the install, plays around for a little while and has a bit of fun but can't get major things set up like their webcam, network card, word processor, or compiler, they are going back to windows, even though windows sucks.
And even if Linux is better in every way, if it can't run games that people want to play, people will NOT run linux on their home PC's. I can't emphasize this enough. People will voluntarily do things the hard way if there's an incentive.
What we need is a version of linux that installs as simply as Windows does, and has all the important features you need in order to get your computer to work, and doesn't require ANY command line knowledge or programming on your own. And especially, remeber, PLEASE don't make the end-user search online to get the drivers for his or her network card. I can't even begin to explain how stupid it is that drivers for common network cards can't be found on base installations of most linux discs. You're lucky if the end-user HAS a computer. Don't push it and assume that they have their own home network, including a fully-working linux box that they can use as a reference.
massively multiplayer.
;)
check.
online.
check.
game.
check.
It's not an MMORPG, because THAT term entails long boring grinds and "the player with the most toys wins."
But it is an MMOG. or MMO for short.
Mod the parent down, -1 failed pedantry, please.