Myself and a few friends were very excited about the release of APB
Then we discovered that APB was not available for purchase in Australia and there were rumours we would not be able to play on the servers even if we did acquire a copy....
As far as I'm concerned they dug their own graves by limiting the release, review and playability of the game
I'd have to say that my experience with Heathrow was altogether very different
When flying in from Aus via Dubai I showed my passport in the non-british section and said I was on holiday
Following that I walked to the baggage carousel, grabbed my stuff, walked out to the bus stop and caught a bus to London
Now given that this was post-911 and post-omgwaterbottles I was incredibly surprised that at absolutely no point was I subject to a security check
I was travelling on an Emirates flight from Dubai and on this flight were a fair number of what the US govt generally refers to as 'high possibility terrorists'
So why no-one on our flight was subject to any security check is well beyond me, I'm guessing the football was on tv or something....
In contrast when leaving Heathrow and travelling back to Aus I was subject to the third degree for having some dutch cheese in my carry-on luggage... which I told them about...
I was made to wait for half an hour while they harassed some german woman over having keys in her back, which she had tried to show them however they dont let you touch your own bag around the security section
Imo if someone really wanted to make a public display of killing people it wouldnt be on the plane itself, it would be at the outgoing security checks at Heathrow
You would certainly create more fear and kill more people due to the inconsistency and snobbery of the british security system
In summary
Entering the UK and killing many people = easy
Leaving the UK and going somewhere where you might be less inclined to kill people... = hard
UK = nanny state with schizophrenia
not entirely...
that interpretation is strictly based on ordinal numbering, which isn't necessarily valid here
decade simply refers to 10 consecutive years
while it does make sense to use ordinal numbers to denote a decade
the most common and easily understood usage for a 'decade' is the collection of years with the same tenth ie, 60's, 70's etc
likewise you have Corsair RAM
which also contains images of sails on the DIMM's
should this also be obvious that they are infringing copyright on data stored on the harddrive ?:P
Given that tunnelling tests (lowerping, internode) have shown conclusively that Australian players experience an artifical ~200ms latency increase due to the network in the US, are Oceanic players ever likely to see servers actually in the Oceanic region?
Would blizzard consider forcing an across-the-board latency for all PVP encounters?
ie, a US team against an Oceanic team in Arena would have their latency artificially increased to match the Oceanic team
not only has e-tax been around for many years but it has also been windows only for as long and OHMYGOSH incompatible with AOL does this mean that AOL users should demand a version of a program made specifically for them despite the ATO having very good reasons not to ?
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Myself and a few friends were very excited about the release of APB
....
.....
Then we discovered that APB was not available for purchase in Australia and there were rumours we would not be able to play on the servers even if we did acquire a copy
As far as I'm concerned they dug their own graves by limiting the release, review and playability of the game
And I had such high hopes
I'd have to say that my experience with Heathrow was altogether very different
....
... which I told them about ...
... = hard
When flying in from Aus via Dubai I showed my passport in the non-british section and said I was on holiday
Following that I walked to the baggage carousel, grabbed my stuff, walked out to the bus stop and caught a bus to London
Now given that this was post-911 and post-omgwaterbottles I was incredibly surprised that at absolutely no point was I subject to a security check
I was travelling on an Emirates flight from Dubai and on this flight were a fair number of what the US govt generally refers to as 'high possibility terrorists'
So why no-one on our flight was subject to any security check is well beyond me, I'm guessing the football was on tv or something
In contrast when leaving Heathrow and travelling back to Aus I was subject to the third degree for having some dutch cheese in my carry-on luggage
I was made to wait for half an hour while they harassed some german woman over having keys in her back, which she had tried to show them however they dont let you touch your own bag around the security section
Imo if someone really wanted to make a public display of killing people it wouldnt be on the plane itself, it would be at the outgoing security checks at Heathrow
You would certainly create more fear and kill more people due to the inconsistency and snobbery of the british security system
In summary
Entering the UK and killing many people = easy
Leaving the UK and going somewhere where you might be less inclined to kill people
UK = nanny state with schizophrenia
not entirely ...
that interpretation is strictly based on ordinal numbering, which isn't necessarily valid here
decade simply refers to 10 consecutive years
while it does make sense to use ordinal numbers to denote a decade
the most common and easily understood usage for a 'decade' is the collection of years with the same tenth ie, 60's, 70's etc
likewise you have Corsair RAM which also contains images of sails on the DIMM's should this also be obvious that they are infringing copyright on data stored on the harddrive ? :P
To Jeffrey Kaplan (World Of Warcraft):
Given that tunnelling tests (lowerping, internode) have shown conclusively that Australian players experience an artifical ~200ms latency increase due to the network in the US,
are Oceanic players ever likely to see servers actually in the Oceanic region?
Would blizzard consider forcing an across-the-board latency for all PVP encounters?
ie, a US team against an Oceanic team in Arena would have their latency artificially increased to match the Oceanic team
is it just me or does the toms hardware site look like one giant advertisement with occasional information thrown in ?
not only has e-tax been around for many years
but it has also been windows only for as long
and OHMYGOSH incompatible with AOL
does this mean that AOL users should demand a version of a program made specifically for them despite the ATO having very good reasons not to ?