Yawn, sounds like more of the same. I enjoyed wow, but what eventually killed it for me
-People leaving pick-up-groups because their guild's raid (that they knew was coming) starting an hour after we start an instance. Leaving with nothing but "guild > pug imo". Needs a rating system of some sort, or a stats list of "uncompleted instances" vs. completed instances. Maybe if the whole group decided they wanted to quit, everybody could vote to "end instance" and not have their "uncompleted instance" count increment. But, if only one guy wants to leave, then everybody else could vote that they wanted to continue the instance, and then the guy that left for his guild, his "uncompleted instance" stat would increment.
-Blizzard's apathy towards class balance and fairness in 1v1. When another class, that you have significantly better gear than,can kill you over and over, yet you can't get to him, and he spends an hour doing this and you have to stop what you are doing, log off, and hope he goes away...then it's a big deal. Maybe I should go for warhammer.
-Idiots in general in the game. Don't know anybody in real life that likes this game, too, so I'm just stuck playing with whatever the best guild I can get into is.
In all seriousness, if they actually moved *everything* into international waters, then they could refuse to give in to the US and China's fetish for IP+searches logs.
They've got the money to defend, so if they chose to do this, they could, and I bet you nobody would be worried about the exact extent of google's IP log anonymizing.
I assume you would have to file charges at a police station in their local area. Then, you'd probably have to get the DA there to actually press the case. Finally, you'd have to have a judge willing to apply pretty harsh sentencing.
They won't do anything when someone steals your identity, breaks into your car, and, well, any other non-violent crime. What makes you guys think that the cops will go after these guys who haven't really done anything?
Identity-- I'm going to have to say your fault on this one. Don't keep your SSN card in your wallet. Keep it in your pocket. If you're in a public area, wear pants with pockets that cant be easily unbuttoned. Work out so you look like someone the pick-pocketer doesn't want to mess with. They usually just want your cash, too; and you can easily cancel your credit cards and debit cards before anybody gets to use them. Besides, a local police office isn't quite the place to go if something like this happens, you need to contest the credit on your record and go to court.
Breaks into your car-- if there is no proof, no video footage, they don't have anything to go on. What do you want them to do?
Heh, I titled it subscription, but forgot to add that a subscription model would be great-- just by your license or whatever and you could download however much you like. It'd have to be something reasonable, but, unlike music, most people watch a movie and aren't interested in seeing it again. You could still purchase the blockbusters on DVD/Blu-Ray/whatever; but I and I think most people would be happy to have a pay-a-flat-fee-and-see-once-or-twice-service.
I think media companies are shooting themselves in the foot, in the long run, by cracking down on Piracy.
Here's what's happened with me-- as I grew up, got to the real world, and started making more money, the cost of buying has been fewer and fewer %points of the amount I make. I feel less and less urge to download. All they'd have to do is offer a direct download service, or pay-for-and-be-reimbursed-some-for-using-bittorrent on their login-requiring tracker, and I'd probably just do that.
Therefor, the real thing they should be fighting for is a larger, more stable middle class of America, so that more people have disposable income, whatever actions on their part that entails. The easy solution would be to give everybody welfare checks, but then we'd become the Romans, and everybody knows how that worked out for them...
Second, for their benefit AND America's, they should focus less on fighting piracy in certain markets-- or risk being left behind when these markets take off (China, India, Russia [if their market ever takes off] and any other lower-income-no-middle-class-countries).
Why? An Italian man I met while in Florence had the absolute best English of almost any foreigners-speaking-English I've met in my [short] life. I asked him how he learned to speak so well, so fluently, and coherently-- he said he eventually stopped watching the English movies with Italian dubbing (terrible voice acting, the English voice acting is so much better he was saying), and went ahead and learned enough of it by watching American Hollywood movies, that he began switching the subtitles off, and simply listened to the dialog and eventually figured it out. What better way for them to increase their market share than let the production quality of their movies (and lets be honest, Hollywood films ARE the best, simply no one else has the capital or skill to pull off mass production of multi-hundred-million dollar movies like Matrix, Transformers, Batman, etc. on the scale that we do) speak for themselves, and once you've got the fish hooked and grown, you can start charging. Until that time though, the spread of American ideals and values (although contrary to the way our government currently operates-- privacy, freedom of speech, freedom to vote, freedom to run business and oust a competitor through sheer technical superiority and efficiency of business-- (for instance, doesn't happen in China, you've got to know who to pay off and how much, when, etc. if you want to have a chance at starting a company)) would be far more valuable to them as a multi-national media corporation. (Because people will begin to see that free-market economics, freedom of speech, freedom to vote, are superior to the alternate methods of doing business and running a country; that we would be perpetuating the "great America" idealogy, "I can make my fortune and future there and then bring my family, and all will be well with me and my family", "democracy", as in a country lead by people elected (usually) by the majority of the people, and similar values, which the furthering of in the world would be good for America, would be spread to the nations and we'd have many more allies, and many fewer enemies.)
Potentially more valuable to our government as well. I would argue that the government should pay Hollywood a stipend for a). them turning a blind eye to piracy external to English speaking countries and b). a set number of propogandic films proclaiming the wonders of a free society, free economy, free competition, freedom to love who you choose, not who your parents say, and the benefits that brings to the every day citizens (a middle class, the American dream, a house, etc.), on the grounds that it's good for the government and security of western countries to bring them to our side-- from the bottom up. Want a great way to fight militant Islam? Torture isn't quite it, and force like in Iraq (though it definitely will work in the long run) is expensive, difficult to do, and leaves the surrounding countries envious, bitte
First, Obama and Hillary had 21 debates, including four one-on-one debates. I believe it set a record for debates during the primaries.
Second, McCain and Obama just recently finished making the schedule for debates, on August 21st. Three debates and a VP debate is pretty much standard.
Third, McCain invited Obama to town halls to debate questions from normal folks, and Obama never showed up. But wait... turns out that the "town hall" was actually invite-only, and filled with only Republican supporters. (link) I wouldn't exactly trust any town hall that was set up by McCain's camp.
No, of course I'm not talking about those, I'm talking about the offer from Hillary that he never took her up on, the unscheduled 1h un-moderated debates where the real issues could have been presented and we would have found out exactly where they stand and what they know, and they would have had to argue to the bone on their stuff. Those would have been the most interesting, but would have required Obama to be on his feet, which frankly he's not without his speechwriters.
And secondly, why does going to a town hall with republicans matter? Let your words speak for themselves, if indeed they are truth. I think he feared he wouldn't have had as much support for his usual change, hope, and change for America speech that we've been hearing since A WHOLE YEAR AGO.
So what? What industry doesn't have growing pains? Hurts your profits now as you have to pay for those bandwidth lines. Might have to slim up the business a bit. But as demand (and therefor cost) rises for these expensive OC connections, it becomes profitable to lay more of them so you can sell more bandwidth. 10 years ago you reference customers barely using their interents. But 10 years ago, OC-192's didn't quite exist for the price they do now....
Might be too expensive for your ISP to handle the initial investment-- don't worry, someone else will come in and take over if you don't want to play. Verizon is dumping billions into their fiber infrastructure, because they know bandwidth demands are NOT going to decrease...
That still has the ad that changes every couple of minutes. That's horrible for ADD people...I'm not quite ADD I don't think, but every time it changes my eyes automatically glance up there, so when I'm studying review sheets, or reading an ebook, or doing basically anything that requires concentration, it's really distracting.
Adobe acrobat reader does that with version 8 too, kills me. I keep telling it to NEVER INSTALL UPDATES but each time there is a new update, it automatically downloads it in the background and tries to install it. I guess what it means by "NEVER" is "I will never install THIS patch, but every time there is another patch I will try to install it".
It's stupid because it keeps getting slower each release. 8 is terribly laggy, whereas 7 on the same computer is very very fast when naving through pdfs.
I haven't played LotRO, but from what I hear its interface closely mirrors the WoW interface which would make it pretty much unplayable without a keyboard/mouse setup
Uh, that's not a UI problem, it's a complexity "problem".
Imagine having a WoW game without 25 spells/attacks to use.
By replacing IE with *standards compliant* web browsers (Opera, which they support, and Firefox, which they give money to (Mozilla foundation) every time someone uses the FF homepage google search), they inspire innovation and new technology that displaces IE better than they ever could.
If they simply supported and developed an alternate browser, Chrome or Opera would replace IE and we wouldn't get anywhere, ust another vendor lockin.
I know Google's done some evil stuff (helping the CCCP find government dissidents), but this sort of thing makes me think they've still got their head in the game. The China fight will come later when there is a chance they'd win.
And previously, it meant they also sold you an Nvidia Chipset motherboard. And, not many people buy Nvidia chipsets just for the chipset anymore. That's why.
What you just described is nothing I didn't do in calculus-- splitting an object somewhere and calculating the volume->momentum of that piece, doing the other side, and summing the resultant vectors.
I was thinking perhaps a separate page for this kind of thing would simply be better. No need to create a whole story for it-- just put a link at the top of the page which says "3 new slashdot nastygrams!" or something similar.
Or we could have it bash.org style, post up the best ones and let us vote them up or down.
I've had times where I'd be getting 10 or so a day, and then they'd immediately stop. I figured it was somebody's spambot computer being cleaned up. On my spams now, my address is always around 2 others (alphabetically in order).
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Frist psot'ing is going to get a lot more competitive around here...
Frist psot'ing is going to get a lot more competitive around here if what you say is true...
Who needs models? Just call the Russians and ask them.
If he slanders, is he liable for committing libel.
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Yawn, sounds like more of the same. I enjoyed wow, but what eventually killed it for me
-People leaving pick-up-groups because their guild's raid (that they knew was coming) starting an hour after we start an instance. Leaving with nothing but "guild > pug imo". Needs a rating system of some sort, or a stats list of "uncompleted instances" vs. completed instances. Maybe if the whole group decided they wanted to quit, everybody could vote to "end instance" and not have their "uncompleted instance" count increment. But, if only one guy wants to leave, then everybody else could vote that they wanted to continue the instance, and then the guy that left for his guild, his "uncompleted instance" stat would increment.
-Blizzard's apathy towards class balance and fairness in 1v1. When another class, that you have significantly better gear than,can kill you over and over, yet you can't get to him, and he spends an hour doing this and you have to stop what you are doing, log off, and hope he goes away...then it's a big deal. Maybe I should go for warhammer.
-Idiots in general in the game. Don't know anybody in real life that likes this game, too, so I'm just stuck playing with whatever the best guild I can get into is.
So then she was murdered, and to seal the deal, the Brain Scanner convicted her of something?
In all seriousness, if they actually moved *everything* into international waters, then they could refuse to give in to the US and China's fetish for IP+searches logs.
They've got the money to defend, so if they chose to do this, they could, and I bet you nobody would be worried about the exact extent of google's IP log anonymizing.
Who cares. 24 hours word processing is probably at least 12 hours watching movies.
With teeth like that, I'd run home to play by myself occasionally, too.
I assume you would have to file charges at a police station in their local area. Then, you'd probably have to get the DA there to actually press the case. Finally, you'd have to have a judge willing to apply pretty harsh sentencing.
They won't do anything when someone steals your identity, breaks into your car, and, well, any other non-violent crime. What makes you guys think that the cops will go after these guys who haven't really done anything?
Identity-- I'm going to have to say your fault on this one. Don't keep your SSN card in your wallet. Keep it in your pocket. If you're in a public area, wear pants with pockets that cant be easily unbuttoned. Work out so you look like someone the pick-pocketer doesn't want to mess with. They usually just want your cash, too; and you can easily cancel your credit cards and debit cards before anybody gets to use them. Besides, a local police office isn't quite the place to go if something like this happens, you need to contest the credit on your record and go to court.
Breaks into your car-- if there is no proof, no video footage, they don't have anything to go on. What do you want them to do?
Heh, I titled it subscription, but forgot to add that a subscription model would be great-- just by your license or whatever and you could download however much you like. It'd have to be something reasonable, but, unlike music, most people watch a movie and aren't interested in seeing it again. You could still purchase the blockbusters on DVD/Blu-Ray/whatever; but I and I think most people would be happy to have a pay-a-flat-fee-and-see-once-or-twice-service.
I think media companies are shooting themselves in the foot, in the long run, by cracking down on Piracy.
Here's what's happened with me-- as I grew up, got to the real world, and started making more money, the cost of buying has been fewer and fewer %points of the amount I make. I feel less and less urge to download. All they'd have to do is offer a direct download service, or pay-for-and-be-reimbursed-some-for-using-bittorrent on their login-requiring tracker, and I'd probably just do that.
Therefor, the real thing they should be fighting for is a larger, more stable middle class of America, so that more people have disposable income, whatever actions on their part that entails. The easy solution would be to give everybody welfare checks, but then we'd become the Romans, and everybody knows how that worked out for them...
Second, for their benefit AND America's, they should focus less on fighting piracy in certain markets-- or risk being left behind when these markets take off (China, India, Russia [if their market ever takes off] and any other lower-income-no-middle-class-countries).
Why? An Italian man I met while in Florence had the absolute best English of almost any foreigners-speaking-English I've met in my [short] life. I asked him how he learned to speak so well, so fluently, and coherently-- he said he eventually stopped watching the English movies with Italian dubbing (terrible voice acting, the English voice acting is so much better he was saying), and went ahead and learned enough of it by watching American Hollywood movies, that he began switching the subtitles off, and simply listened to the dialog and eventually figured it out. What better way for them to increase their market share than let the production quality of their movies (and lets be honest, Hollywood films ARE the best, simply no one else has the capital or skill to pull off mass production of multi-hundred-million dollar movies like Matrix, Transformers, Batman, etc. on the scale that we do) speak for themselves, and once you've got the fish hooked and grown, you can start charging. Until that time though, the spread of American ideals and values (although contrary to the way our government currently operates-- privacy, freedom of speech, freedom to vote, freedom to run business and oust a competitor through sheer technical superiority and efficiency of business-- (for instance, doesn't happen in China, you've got to know who to pay off and how much, when, etc. if you want to have a chance at starting a company)) would be far more valuable to them as a multi-national media corporation. (Because people will begin to see that free-market economics, freedom of speech, freedom to vote, are superior to the alternate methods of doing business and running a country; that we would be perpetuating the "great America" idealogy, "I can make my fortune and future there and then bring my family, and all will be well with me and my family", "democracy", as in a country lead by people elected (usually) by the majority of the people, and similar values, which the furthering of in the world would be good for America, would be spread to the nations and we'd have many more allies, and many fewer enemies.)
Potentially more valuable to our government as well. I would argue that the government should pay Hollywood a stipend for
a). them turning a blind eye to piracy external to English speaking countries and
b). a set number of propogandic films proclaiming the wonders of a free society, free economy, free competition, freedom to love who you choose, not who your parents say, and the benefits that brings to the every day citizens (a middle class, the American dream, a house, etc.), on the grounds that it's good for the government and security of western countries to bring them to our side-- from the bottom up. Want a great way to fight militant Islam? Torture isn't quite it, and force like in Iraq (though it definitely will work in the long run) is expensive, difficult to do, and leaves the surrounding countries envious, bitte
First, Obama and Hillary had 21 debates, including four one-on-one debates. I believe it set a record for debates during the primaries.
Second, McCain and Obama just recently finished making the schedule for debates, on August 21st. Three debates and a VP debate is pretty much standard.
Third, McCain invited Obama to town halls to debate questions from normal folks, and Obama never showed up. But wait... turns out that the "town hall" was actually invite-only, and filled with only Republican supporters. (link) I wouldn't exactly trust any town hall that was set up by McCain's camp.
No, of course I'm not talking about those, I'm talking about the offer from Hillary that he never took her up on, the unscheduled 1h un-moderated debates where the real issues could have been presented and we would have found out exactly where they stand and what they know, and they would have had to argue to the bone on their stuff. Those would have been the most interesting, but would have required Obama to be on his feet, which frankly he's not without his speechwriters.
And secondly, why does going to a town hall with republicans matter? Let your words speak for themselves, if indeed they are truth. I think he feared he wouldn't have had as much support for his usual change, hope, and change for America speech that we've been hearing since A WHOLE YEAR AGO.
So what? What industry doesn't have growing pains? Hurts your profits now as you have to pay for those bandwidth lines. Might have to slim up the business a bit. But as demand (and therefor cost) rises for these expensive OC connections, it becomes profitable to lay more of them so you can sell more bandwidth. 10 years ago you reference customers barely using their interents. But 10 years ago, OC-192's didn't quite exist for the price they do now....
Might be too expensive for your ISP to handle the initial investment-- don't worry, someone else will come in and take over if you don't want to play. Verizon is dumping billions into their fiber infrastructure, because they know bandwidth demands are NOT going to decrease...
Huh, kinda like Obama won't go to a debate with McCain until just recently? Or how he wouldn't take Hillary up on her debate proposition?
Sure is ready.
That still has the ad that changes every couple of minutes. That's horrible for ADD people...I'm not quite ADD I don't think, but every time it changes my eyes automatically glance up there, so when I'm studying review sheets, or reading an ebook, or doing basically anything that requires concentration, it's really distracting.
Adobe acrobat reader does that with version 8 too, kills me. I keep telling it to NEVER INSTALL UPDATES but each time there is a new update, it automatically downloads it in the background and tries to install it. I guess what it means by "NEVER" is
"I will never install THIS patch, but every time there is another patch I will try to install it".
It's stupid because it keeps getting slower each release. 8 is terribly laggy, whereas 7 on the same computer is very very fast when naving through pdfs.
I haven't played LotRO, but from what I hear its interface closely mirrors the WoW interface which would make it pretty much unplayable without a keyboard/mouse setup
Uh, that's not a UI problem, it's a complexity "problem".
Imagine having a WoW game without 25 spells/attacks to use.
Just wouldn't work.
Google's primary objective is dislodging MS.
It's idealogical, not just practical.
By replacing IE with *standards compliant* web browsers (Opera, which they support, and Firefox, which they give money to (Mozilla foundation) every time someone uses the FF homepage google search), they inspire innovation and new technology that displaces IE better than they ever could.
If they simply supported and developed an alternate browser, Chrome or Opera would replace IE and we wouldn't get anywhere, ust another vendor lockin.
I know Google's done some evil stuff (helping the CCCP find government dissidents), but this sort of thing makes me think they've still got their head in the game. The China fight will come later when there is a chance they'd win.
And previously, it meant they also sold you an Nvidia Chipset motherboard. And, not many people buy Nvidia chipsets just for the chipset anymore. That's why.
I read that as "Ramma-Gay" instead of "Gamma-Ray".
Freudian slip? I hope not.
What you just described is nothing I didn't do in calculus-- splitting an object somewhere and calculating the volume->momentum of that piece, doing the other side, and summing the resultant vectors.
Why did we choose to go with 120 anyways? There's more (I^2)*R losses.
I was thinking perhaps a separate page for this kind of thing would simply be better. No need to create a whole story for it-- just put a link at the top of the page which says "3 new slashdot nastygrams!" or something similar.
Or we could have it bash.org style, post up the best ones and let us vote them up or down.
I've had times where I'd be getting 10 or so a day, and then they'd immediately stop.
I figured it was somebody's spambot computer being cleaned up.
On my spams now, my address is always around 2 others (alphabetically in order).