You are the type of person I have the resist the urge to stab in the back of the head with a spoon every time I'm trying to get my lunch and everyone ahead of me is taking 2-3 minutes apiece for credit card verification to buy a bag of cheetos.
The run the same rig as colleges. Both have more potential customers then they can handle, so the best solution for profit is to lower service because the loss of customers will be negligible compared to total income.
As a corellary, imagine how much they would have to spend to ensure 99.9% uptime? It would get exponentially more costly as you tacked more 9s on the end of that decimal, in a similar fashion.
if I kept performing 'urgent maintenance' and taking the service down without warning for eight-hour periods, I would be out of a job
The difference is that Blizzard sees itself as already having it's customer's money. Therefore, there's no reason to spend any more for service. Your boss needs the network up just to make money.
I think I speak for all of us when I say I'm glad that most basement nerds aren't commiting terrorism (bombing a power stations), attempted murder (attack on Rufus), and having unsafe, preparital sex (what do you think that fade-to-black with Tifa outside the highwind was?)
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Did you repeatedly tell him which way to go and point out incoming enemies like I usually do?:)
My point was that movies aren't as engrossing because you have zero control over the action.
The moral of this and the UC Berkeley story is this; don't trust a university IT dept with any of your private information
Doesn't that mean I can't go to college? I'm not worried about some warez monkey stealing my physics paper off the shared drive, I'm worried about them breaking into the bursar server and getting my SSN, bank account details, credit card number, etc. Colleges have no reason to clean up their act in that respect because it doesn't hurt them in the least if *your* security is compromised.
I see it as sort of a bonus. Especially with Diablo 2, by the time I got the full version they had changed a bunch of stuff from Shareware that I'd liked. So I found an original copy and patched it just up to the point where the bugfixes outweighed the funky balance changes.
Here's hoping they skip the white-collar gig and go directly to federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison. Heck, obstruction of justice was enough to get Martha Stewart convicted.
Why is Verizon blocking any of it's customers' mail by default and then putting the onus on them to fix any problems that arise in the first place? This should be an opt-in service for those who want to make sure they don't miss anything.
Just point at random people in line and shout "ter'ist!" Since, as we all know, Being Accused of Terrorism is now a class A felony. Department officials can simply pack 'em up to the nearest concentration... err immigration camps. And the lines get shorter, too!
The best ones had the endings derived totally on luck, where even choosing the most logical and safe path would lead to your untimely demise. I liked that Packard guy who wrote the later ones (shiny covers). The earlier editions had stuff like "To run from the bear, turn to page 37. To fight him off with your fists, turn to page 129". And you always knew the endings were in the back:)
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Where the hell do you live? Biff Tannen's 1985?
You are the type of person I have the resist the urge to stab in the back of the head with a spoon every time I'm trying to get my lunch and everyone ahead of me is taking 2-3 minutes apiece for credit card verification to buy a bag of cheetos.
You sir, are under the mistaken impression that if tax fraud were eliminated today any of the extra money would make its way to the People
They're not. You had to spend 28,000 yen (like $230) for it in Japan, so no way they'd include it for 20 bucks in the US.
The run the same rig as colleges. Both have more potential customers then they can handle, so the best solution for profit is to lower service because the loss of customers will be negligible compared to total income.
As a corellary, imagine how much they would have to spend to ensure 99.9% uptime? It would get exponentially more costly as you tacked more 9s on the end of that decimal, in a similar fashion.
Probably "size", "speed plus", and "exit", lol amirite?
if I kept performing 'urgent maintenance' and taking the service down without warning for eight-hour periods, I would be out of a job
The difference is that Blizzard sees itself as already having it's customer's money. Therefore, there's no reason to spend any more for service. Your boss needs the network up just to make money.
Hey, without her there wouldn't be such a... erm... lively doujinshi market!
he's actually completely pathetic.
I think I speak for all of us when I say I'm glad that most basement nerds aren't commiting terrorism (bombing a power stations), attempted murder (attack on Rufus), and having unsafe, preparital sex (what do you think that fade-to-black with Tifa outside the highwind was?)
Did you repeatedly tell him which way to go and point out incoming enemies like I usually do? :)
My point was that movies aren't as engrossing because you have zero control over the action.
You should've read What If?
And Crisis was pretty hardcore, too.
Because watching a FPS movie is about as much fun as watching someone else play a FPS video game.
It's easy, just find out which side is wrong, and kill them.
Except when protesting gets you arrested and jailed:
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The moral of this and the UC Berkeley story is this; don't trust a university IT dept with any of your private information
Doesn't that mean I can't go to college? I'm not worried about some warez monkey stealing my physics paper off the shared drive, I'm worried about them breaking into the bursar server and getting my SSN, bank account details, credit card number, etc. Colleges have no reason to clean up their act in that respect because it doesn't hurt them in the least if *your* security is compromised.
Because Slashdot is a website for the big boys, son. We're free to discuss humorous, adult themes in a relaxing manner.
I did :)
I see it as sort of a bonus. Especially with Diablo 2, by the time I got the full version they had changed a bunch of stuff from Shareware that I'd liked. So I found an original copy and patched it just up to the point where the bugfixes outweighed the funky balance changes.
Pretty much, yeah.
And Office Space is a friggin' great movie.
Here's hoping they skip the white-collar gig and go directly to federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison. Heck, obstruction of justice was enough to get Martha Stewart convicted.
Why is Verizon blocking any of it's customers' mail by default and then putting the onus on them to fix any problems that arise in the first place? This should be an opt-in service for those who want to make sure they don't miss anything.
Just point at random people in line and shout "ter'ist!" Since, as we all know, Being Accused of Terrorism is now a class A felony. Department officials can simply pack 'em up to the nearest concentration... err immigration camps. And the lines get shorter, too!
If by "interaction with other players" you mean "more prick-waving dick-fights", then yes.
The best ones had the endings derived totally on luck, where even choosing the most logical and safe path would lead to your untimely demise. I liked that Packard guy who wrote the later ones (shiny covers). The earlier editions had stuff like "To run from the bear, turn to page 37. To fight him off with your fists, turn to page 129". And you always knew the endings were in the back :)