Actually I solo a lot of it, I rarely get into guilds at all unless a friend or relative is already in a guild. The nice thing about the quests I've been working on in the mid-30's is that even if they're long, they're chained into smaller ones that can be accomplished fairly easily. Works for me.
That's different. U of MN does that on student accounts that are hosted on their servers. This is basically the ISP you have network connectivity to the Internet through, intercepting an html page on its way to your browser, re-writing it to include their ads, and then sending it the rest of the way to your computer.
Here's what I don't get: Language is intended to be a method for communication and exchanging ideas. The end result is important, not the exact method by which the concept was expressed. This isn't like some network protocol that needs exactingly formatted data before it will send or receive data. We, as humans, can understand concepts expressed even when the communication is jumbled (see the experiment where it has been shown that people can understand sentences even if the words contained within it are misspelled aside from the first and last letter of each). So people who get all in a tizzy about grammar and spelling are just being anal for the sake of being anal.
My personal theory is that people who are grammar nazis do it to cover up the fact that they lack the ability to understand language contextually. So, they overdo it and make lots of noise in an attempt to have others adjust their communications methods to a set of rules they've obsessively memorized. I'll grant that it is necessary for people to learn a basic set of rules to encapsulate a language (making sounds, parts of speech, etc), but once it gets to the bits where "me and my friend" is incorrect vs. "my friend and I" being correct... that's just stupid.
Actually, Mike had been head writer since season 2 IIRC. So he wasn't brought on, as much as he stepped up and got in front of the camera. His humor was there since the second Comedy Central season at least.
The humor also changed in "tone" when it went from Joel to Mike. Joel (the actor) would always ixnay a lot of the "edgier" jokes on the show behind the scenes. Even in the filming of the show itself whenever Crow would attempt to make a dirty reference, Joel would shush him up.
When Joel left and the "character Mike" got shot up into space, the jokes got a lot less generic, and started curving "blue" sometimes. Personally, I enjoyed Mike a lot more in the show, though it definitely wouldn't have been what it was if Joel hadn't been there from the start.
I think of it this way, in-universe. Joel created the bots, and so was paternal towards them, thinking of them as his children (the bots thought of it this way, too, misbehaving when he wasn't around, even at one point realizing they were "latchkey bots" because they didn't have a mother). Mike got shot into space and the bots were the veteran captives at that point, so there was more of a buddy-buddy mischief going on between them, even tho Mike was, ostensibly, the human in charge. The latter situation resulted in more of a lockerroom attitude with the riffing on the movies and the general shenanigans on the SOL.
I dunno, my main is at 34 now and I have no lack of quests or story things to go after. Maybe you might wanna go and try some of the new races or something? (The 1-20 level quests for the Drae and the BE's are *excellent*, leaps and bounds more planned out than the original races, which were already quite adequate)
Not that it isn't game-able or the ultimate solution, but Project Wonderful actually lets people bid in real-time on ad spaces, so the price per page can actually vary (and be surprisingly affordable). So the "pay a set price for x impressions" model isn't necessarily the only way to go.
Number of wires? WiFi + Bluetooth/whatever results in the only cords remaining being thepower cord and whatever usb/firewire cables you use for external drives, printers, etc (and many printers can hook up to wifi ap's). As for "box size", it's entirely variable and selectable on the part of the purchaser at this point (both the retail purchaser and the homebrew builder). No longer is the old AT-style mega-desktop or bigass tower the norm for home machines. So... wires and box size?
In my teenaged years I got randomly chatted by the sysop's daughter on a local C-64 BBS on a variety of occasions. Even began setting up "I'm gonna log in at midnight, so chat me then." Yeah, sounds like it belong in an alt.* newsgroup, etc.
I imagine it could be a situation where someone is looking on ebay for a product that isn't easy to find and finds it for cheap with eBay seller 2229891 who has an eBay store with similar products (which aren't marked to less than cost). The thought process is that the customer will be more likely to look for that eBay store next time for similar purchases, which could be more profitable than the initial one.
Yeah, from that era and having bought a 2400,14.4(skipped 9600), and 33.6 modem right about when they came out (first one was for the C64, tho), I seem to recall them having run around $150-$200 retail when they were the bee's knees.
With Comcast your PC NIC's MAC address is "memorized" by the cable modem every time it's "hard rebooted" (basically when the modem is powered down for 30s or so). There's no need to register it. You register the cable modem's MAC address, though, via their strange proxy network.
The reason we have a representative government is because there's no way every program in the federal government could be vetted by every individual in the country without us voting in a referendum every day. Think what that would do for increasing already high levels of voter apathy and government overhead.
Meanwhile, consider that all the funding for these programs is authorized by Congress. Congress is a representation of the population at large, since they are elected by the population at large. As such, in the fashion which a representative democracy works, with consultation and prior notice.
I know this might be hard to understand, since the air in your shack might be a bit musty and makes it hard to concentrate, but the facts is the facts.
1. Just wait till Al Qaeda/north Korea/Iran/Russia etc. gets their hands on this.
Okay, let us say they get their hands on a Reaper plane. Now what? They need access to a satellite network (this isn't the Tamil Tigers hijacking bandwidth on a commercial satellite in order to run the Tamil Tigers Power Hour), not to mention reprogram the thing so that they can operate it. Replacement parts? Unlikely. Then make sure that it isn't calling home to the US military so that a different bot-plane can buzz by and blow the snot out of you. And that's just the start of it.
Then again, that might not be such a bad strategy.
Sure, unregulated arms sales and trafficking is important to keep to a minimum, but comeon.
Right, but the important thing is that AFAIK it can't be relied on as precedence like it could be if there was an actual judicial decision in the RIAA's favor.
This isn't just a slashdot thing, it's an American political culture epidemic since the start of the Bush II administration. Fark (before its recent degradation into its watered down incarnation) forums had long pointed out the "B-b-b-ut Clinton!" strawman retort.
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Actually I solo a lot of it, I rarely get into guilds at all unless a friend or relative is already in a guild. The nice thing about the quests I've been working on in the mid-30's is that even if they're long, they're chained into smaller ones that can be accomplished fairly easily. Works for me.
They're thinking page views for ads.
Preemptively divorce her, immediately.
That's different. U of MN does that on student accounts that are hosted on their servers. This is basically the ISP you have network connectivity to the Internet through, intercepting an html page on its way to your browser, re-writing it to include their ads, and then sending it the rest of the way to your computer.
Why is that, again?
Here's what I don't get: Language is intended to be a method for communication and exchanging ideas. The end result is important, not the exact method by which the concept was expressed. This isn't like some network protocol that needs exactingly formatted data before it will send or receive data. We, as humans, can understand concepts expressed even when the communication is jumbled (see the experiment where it has been shown that people can understand sentences even if the words contained within it are misspelled aside from the first and last letter of each). So people who get all in a tizzy about grammar and spelling are just being anal for the sake of being anal.
My personal theory is that people who are grammar nazis do it to cover up the fact that they lack the ability to understand language contextually. So, they overdo it and make lots of noise in an attempt to have others adjust their communications methods to a set of rules they've obsessively memorized. I'll grant that it is necessary for people to learn a basic set of rules to encapsulate a language (making sounds, parts of speech, etc), but once it gets to the bits where "me and my friend" is incorrect vs. "my friend and I" being correct... that's just stupid.
Actually, Mike had been head writer since season 2 IIRC. So he wasn't brought on, as much as he stepped up and got in front of the camera. His humor was there since the second Comedy Central season at least.
No, as "The Santa Claws" revealed to us, Santa is a commie.
Deeeeeeppp hurrrtttinnnggg
Deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep HUUUURRRTTTTINNNGGGG
The humor also changed in "tone" when it went from Joel to Mike. Joel (the actor) would always ixnay a lot of the "edgier" jokes on the show behind the scenes. Even in the filming of the show itself whenever Crow would attempt to make a dirty reference, Joel would shush him up.
When Joel left and the "character Mike" got shot up into space, the jokes got a lot less generic, and started curving "blue" sometimes. Personally, I enjoyed Mike a lot more in the show, though it definitely wouldn't have been what it was if Joel hadn't been there from the start.
I think of it this way, in-universe. Joel created the bots, and so was paternal towards them, thinking of them as his children (the bots thought of it this way, too, misbehaving when he wasn't around, even at one point realizing they were "latchkey bots" because they didn't have a mother). Mike got shot into space and the bots were the veteran captives at that point, so there was more of a buddy-buddy mischief going on between them, even tho Mike was, ostensibly, the human in charge. The latter situation resulted in more of a lockerroom attitude with the riffing on the movies and the general shenanigans on the SOL.
I agree with this, especially compared to earlier games like DAoC. Plus the quest gear and storylines are head and shoulders above previous games.
Tho I seem to remember that CoH leveled a bit faster, but I didn't really have a ton of experience with that one.
I dunno, my main is at 34 now and I have no lack of quests or story things to go after. Maybe you might wanna go and try some of the new races or something? (The 1-20 level quests for the Drae and the BE's are *excellent*, leaps and bounds more planned out than the original races, which were already quite adequate)
Not that it isn't game-able or the ultimate solution, but Project Wonderful actually lets people bid in real-time on ad spaces, so the price per page can actually vary (and be surprisingly affordable). So the "pay a set price for x impressions" model isn't necessarily the only way to go.
And one of the smallest, most concentrated populations of people who want it.
Number of wires? WiFi + Bluetooth/whatever results in the only cords remaining being thepower cord and whatever usb/firewire cables you use for external drives, printers, etc (and many printers can hook up to wifi ap's). As for "box size", it's entirely variable and selectable on the part of the purchaser at this point (both the retail purchaser and the homebrew builder). No longer is the old AT-style mega-desktop or bigass tower the norm for home machines. So... wires and box size?
In my teenaged years I got randomly chatted by the sysop's daughter on a local C-64 BBS on a variety of occasions. Even began setting up "I'm gonna log in at midnight, so chat me then." Yeah, sounds like it belong in an alt.* newsgroup, etc.
I imagine it could be a situation where someone is looking on ebay for a product that isn't easy to find and finds it for cheap with eBay seller 2229891 who has an eBay store with similar products (which aren't marked to less than cost). The thought process is that the customer will be more likely to look for that eBay store next time for similar purchases, which could be more profitable than the initial one.
Ah, the oft-mentioned but rarely quantified "casual gamer".
Cover the water "tanks" (or whatever) with a clear material that prevents evaporation? This isn't an insurmountable problem here.
Yeah, from that era and having bought a 2400,14.4(skipped 9600), and 33.6 modem right about when they came out (first one was for the C64, tho), I seem to recall them having run around $150-$200 retail when they were the bee's knees.
I'll spare everyone my BBS nostalgia rant ;)
With Comcast your PC NIC's MAC address is "memorized" by the cable modem every time it's "hard rebooted" (basically when the modem is powered down for 30s or so). There's no need to register it. You register the cable modem's MAC address, though, via their strange proxy network.
The reason we have a representative government is because there's no way every program in the federal government could be vetted by every individual in the country without us voting in a referendum every day. Think what that would do for increasing already high levels of voter apathy and government overhead.
Meanwhile, consider that all the funding for these programs is authorized by Congress. Congress is a representation of the population at large, since they are elected by the population at large. As such, in the fashion which a representative democracy works, with consultation and prior notice.
I know this might be hard to understand, since the air in your shack might be a bit musty and makes it hard to concentrate, but the facts is the facts.
(American)
Okay, let us say they get their hands on a Reaper plane. Now what? They need access to a satellite network (this isn't the Tamil Tigers hijacking bandwidth on a commercial satellite in order to run the Tamil Tigers Power Hour), not to mention reprogram the thing so that they can operate it. Replacement parts? Unlikely. Then make sure that it isn't calling home to the US military so that a different bot-plane can buzz by and blow the snot out of you. And that's just the start of it.
Then again, that might not be such a bad strategy.
Sure, unregulated arms sales and trafficking is important to keep to a minimum, but comeon.
Right, but the important thing is that AFAIK it can't be relied on as precedence like it could be if there was an actual judicial decision in the RIAA's favor.
IANAL
This isn't just a slashdot thing, it's an American political culture epidemic since the start of the Bush II administration. Fark (before its recent degradation into its watered down incarnation) forums had long pointed out the "B-b-b-ut Clinton!" strawman retort.