This sounds intersting (and tasty). How do you prepare the iced tea and lemonade? From your post I think it's safe to infer that you squeeze your own lemons (best way there is). The question is do you also boil your own tea?
What is missing is the second half of the post. They are not banning these guilds, they are just against advertising them in open chat in the game. They have said that the best avenue of recruitment is through their own Guild Recruitment Forums. What they are trying to stop is Orgrimmar and Ironforge (Main capital cities for non-Azerothians) turning into huge (gay/republican/black/white/purple/democrat/straig ht/christian/Jew/Muslim/doglover/catlover/chronica llyillwithcancer) bashing centers.
In game bashing should properly be restricted to the opposing faction, n00bs, gold farmers, overpowered classes, and the hardcore guys who have no life and stand around showing all the 1337lewts you'll never get but still want.
Either way, it's still as confusing as hell to learn. My friend had a Chinese newspaper where they decided one of the characters was so obscure that they put next to it in english: (Shopping Mall). If you squinted your eyes, it actually did kind of look like a store with a parking lot.
I vote that someone buy both TiVo and Nintendo. I don't care that Microsoft is pushing for the X-Box an all-in-one media center. The holy grail of media centers will be my new NinTeVo Revolution Series 3.
I'm looking forward to the Japanese imports such as "Doodle Doodle Doodle" where you have to draw mustaches as fast as you can on the incoming TV feed.
I second this agreement. China is already growing at a breakneck speed and they aready have MSN and Yahoo for search engines. Google is not in the position to say, "Fuck you China." You have to remember we are dealing with a commmunist state. Normal laws apply as follows:
In Soviet Russia, Goverment is in position to say, "Fuck you Google." :s/Soviet Russia/Communist China/g
Let us play a game of "What if". What if you were in China. You want to look something up. Lets say it's some nice obscure technical info that doesn't concern government dissent. Would you rather have MSN search or google? What if the information was really easy to find on google.com, but using it even for non-censored items is illegal? If I was in China I would regard this as a Good Thing(TM) that I was now more connected to the world, and thanks to the little text at the bottom of the page, I would always know when the government was trying to manipulate me. I would not go "Oh damn, look at that, another corporation is endorsing our totalitarian regime, pretty soon Mao will oficially be renamed Big Brother." Even for dissenters, google.cn introduces more cracks in the Great Firewall than were there before.
Beneath the arguments on this, there seems to be two camps on/.
Camp A) Google's decisions can have huge world wide repurcusions. Refusing shows strong disagreement. Cooperating shows strong endorsement.
Camp B) Google's refusal is meaningless enough that 90%Google is still a hell of a positive for the Chinese citizenry.
I stand firmly in the second camp.
Don't forget, google already censors French and German results according to local and national laws. Do you really believe that google is backing an evil regime and promoting widespread evil in that case?
P.S. Mod this redundant if you want. This whole argument is starting to go in circles.
Although this is not some stunning-new-way-better-than-UNIX-we-thought-of-th is-all-by-ourselves feature that Microsoft makes it out to be, this is still a huge step in the right direction. I run Windows at home because of it's application support *cough*games*cough*, and I have to admit that I operate normally in admin mode. Yes, I know, naughty me. The problem is, it's a pain to run in any other mode considering the number of everyday applications that need admin for no good reason and the amount of applications I am constantly installing (followed by mental notes to buy bigger hard drives.)
Although I haven't had any malware problems for quite some time(Zone Alarm, Firefox 1.5, Avast!, etc.), I still look forward to running in admin mode without feeling guilty.
I'm not sure, but the article I read says that one of the subjects the film attacks is the MPAA ratings for sex. I'm going to guess there were a few example clips in there. Of course, I also think the clips are probably closer to R rated and the MPAA wants to slap this with the NC-17 kiss of death.
Thus the prophet Bill seized the holy Xbox and did turn once for a full three-hundred-and-sixty degrees. Neither three-hundred-and-fifty-nine nor three-hundred-and-sixty-one did he turn, for he turned the full three-hundred-and-sixty degrees. Thus did he hold aloft to his loyal followers the new Xbox 360. It's once dark exterior shone radiant white in the sun.
The followers who had camped out for days scrabbled to be the first to recieve The Good Box. Unfortunately not all were able to recieve the gift for the prophet had not antcipated the demand.
As the last Xbox was handed down, the prophet delivered one final message before his followers departed. "Abuse not thy box, for the wicked shall suffer of overheating."(Consoles 360: 1-11)
I disagree, some of the REALLY good games in most genres are known not for their graphics but their gameplay and stories.
RPG: Too many to mention. Final Fantasy and KOTOR stand out.
RTS: Warcraft 3
Not-sure-what category: GTA
Adventure: Every friggin one
If developers really needed to cut somewhere, I would cut on graphics. I would rather have great gameplay, a great story, and decent graphics over great gameplay, a crappy story, and good graphics. The exception would be FPSs. That genre lives and dies by the pixels.
Any users experience increased performance over similar browsers are asked to wait a few weeks until their machine becomes bogged down by malware and IE attempts to give you porn every time you click a button. You will then experience the familiar functionality you have come to love.
I hadn't heard of this either. If someone walked up to me and asked me if I had seen the Gizmondo they had in their pants, the thought "Portable Console" would not pop into my head.
Ahh... reminds me of the time I manually edited my boot.ini file(Don't make me explain). That was a fun day. I knew how to fix it, but the real fun was trying to fix it using the overly restrictive windows recovery console. My eventual workaround required a floppy and a second machine.
IMHO the best way to maintain a computer is to keep another computer near it so you can google what the hell just happened to your original machine.
It's just something about those white earbuds. They say to the world, "No, I'm not THAT happy to see you, it's not even a CD player, my friend I have the one and only iPod; you are free to revel in my hipness."
(FYI: I own an iRiver. I will never own an mp3 player advertised by Eminem that requires iTunes to be installed on a computer before it will talk to it.)
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I will repeat my earlier sentiment. Windows update with tabs and RSS, yipee!
Once again I will return to browsing the internet with Firefox.
This sounds intersting (and tasty). How do you prepare the iced tea and lemonade? From your post I think it's safe to infer that you squeeze your own lemons (best way there is). The question is do you also boil your own tea?
I agree on the water part. Even better, hold off on the trip to the bathroom for a little bit. I promise you will stay awake =)
Is it just me, or can you not go a day on Slashdot without hearing that google is trying to reach into a new market?
I'm already ahead of the curve; I have faced the inevitable and sewn "Google" into the tag on my underwear.
So what will this new service be named. Noogle? Gnapster? Goopster? Goosic(As in Google Music)? Or the best combination og Music+Google: Moogle!
First they tried to entice me to buy Dragon Quest VIII with the FFXII demo. Now they are guilting me into buying it.
The Blizzard text is copy pasted from a post on the WoW Forums.
g ht/christian/Jew/Muslim/doglover/catlover/chronica llyillwithcancer) bashing centers.
What is missing is the second half of the post. They are not banning these guilds, they are just against advertising them in open chat in the game. They have said that the best avenue of recruitment is through their own Guild Recruitment Forums. What they are trying to stop is Orgrimmar and Ironforge (Main capital cities for non-Azerothians) turning into huge (gay/republican/black/white/purple/democrat/strai
In game bashing should properly be restricted to the opposing faction, n00bs, gold farmers, overpowered classes, and the hardcore guys who have no life and stand around showing all the 1337lewts you'll never get but still want.
Either way, it's still as confusing as hell to learn. My friend had a Chinese newspaper where they decided one of the characters was so obscure that they put next to it in english: (Shopping Mall). If you squinted your eyes, it actually did kind of look like a store with a parking lot.
Goobuntu. That's the new Firefox porn browser extension isn't it?
I agree with parent, they probably could find a better name.
I vote that someone buy both TiVo and Nintendo. I don't care that Microsoft is pushing for the X-Box an all-in-one media center. The holy grail of media centers will be my new NinTeVo Revolution Series 3.
I'm looking forward to the Japanese imports such as "Doodle Doodle Doodle" where you have to draw mustaches as fast as you can on the incoming TV feed.
I second this agreement. China is already growing at a breakneck speed and they aready have MSN and Yahoo for search engines. Google is not in the position to say, "Fuck you China." You have to remember we are dealing with a commmunist state. Normal laws apply as follows:
:s/Soviet Russia/Communist China/g
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In Soviet Russia, Goverment is in position to say, "Fuck you Google."
Let us play a game of "What if". What if you were in China. You want to look something up. Lets say it's some nice obscure technical info that doesn't concern government dissent. Would you rather have MSN search or google? What if the information was really easy to find on google.com, but using it even for non-censored items is illegal? If I was in China I would regard this as a Good Thing(TM) that I was now more connected to the world, and thanks to the little text at the bottom of the page, I would always know when the government was trying to manipulate me. I would not go "Oh damn, look at that, another corporation is endorsing our totalitarian regime, pretty soon Mao will oficially be renamed Big Brother." Even for dissenters, google.cn introduces more cracks in the Great Firewall than were there before.
Beneath the arguments on this, there seems to be two camps on
Camp A) Google's decisions can have huge world wide repurcusions. Refusing shows strong disagreement. Cooperating shows strong endorsement.
Camp B) Google's refusal is meaningless enough that 90%Google is still a hell of a positive for the Chinese citizenry.
I stand firmly in the second camp.
Don't forget, google already censors French and German results according to local and national laws. Do you really believe that google is backing an evil regime and promoting widespread evil in that case?
P.S. Mod this redundant if you want. This whole argument is starting to go in circles.
Although this is not some stunning-new-way-better-than-UNIX-we-thought-of-th is-all-by-ourselves feature that Microsoft makes it out to be, this is still a huge step in the right direction. I run Windows at home because of it's application support *cough*games*cough*, and I have to admit that I operate normally in admin mode. Yes, I know, naughty me. The problem is, it's a pain to run in any other mode considering the number of everyday applications that need admin for no good reason and the amount of applications I am constantly installing (followed by mental notes to buy bigger hard drives.)
Although I haven't had any malware problems for quite some time(Zone Alarm, Firefox 1.5, Avast!, etc.), I still look forward to running in admin mode without feeling guilty.
I'm not sure, but the article I read says that one of the subjects the film attacks is the MPAA ratings for sex. I'm going to guess there were a few example clips in there. Of course, I also think the clips are probably closer to R rated and the MPAA wants to slap this with the NC-17 kiss of death.
It's probably more expensive than doing something about teaching them properly.
I fixed your typo. I'm just going to assume you aren't in a governmental mindframe today.
So...
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...when will this book be available on Amazon? I hope it doesn't cost much; I just bought a lot of WoW gold.
Thus the prophet Bill seized the holy Xbox and did turn once for a full three-hundred-and-sixty degrees. Neither three-hundred-and-fifty-nine nor three-hundred-and-sixty-one did he turn, for he turned the full three-hundred-and-sixty degrees. Thus did he hold aloft to his loyal followers the new Xbox 360. It's once dark exterior shone radiant white in the sun.
The followers who had camped out for days scrabbled to be the first to recieve The Good Box. Unfortunately not all were able to recieve the gift for the prophet had not antcipated the demand.
As the last Xbox was handed down, the prophet delivered one final message before his followers departed. "Abuse not thy box, for the wicked shall suffer of overheating."(Consoles 360: 1-11)
I disagree, some of the REALLY good games in most genres are known not for their graphics but their gameplay and stories.
RPG: Too many to mention. Final Fantasy and KOTOR stand out.
RTS: Warcraft 3
Not-sure-what category: GTA
Adventure: Every friggin one
If developers really needed to cut somewhere, I would cut on graphics. I would rather have great gameplay, a great story, and decent graphics over great gameplay, a crappy story, and good graphics. The exception would be FPSs. That genre lives and dies by the pixels.
All the parts of Avalon were also damn good. They need to bring back Valla.
It think this song sums it up nicely.
Any users experience increased performance over similar browsers are asked to wait a few weeks until their machine becomes bogged down by malware and IE attempts to give you porn every time you click a button. You will then experience the familiar functionality you have come to love.
OMG! Now I can use Windows Update and tabs at the same time! THE FUTURE is here.
I'm done. I'll go back to reading Slashdot with Firefox now.
I hadn't heard of this either. If someone walked up to me and asked me if I had seen the Gizmondo they had in their pants, the thought "Portable Console" would not pop into my head.
I'm all for that idiom. I will of course exercise quality contorl over who I meet. (Female, attractive)
Ahh... reminds me of the time I manually edited my boot.ini file(Don't make me explain). That was a fun day. I knew how to fix it, but the real fun was trying to fix it using the overly restrictive windows recovery console. My eventual workaround required a floppy and a second machine. IMHO the best way to maintain a computer is to keep another computer near it so you can google what the hell just happened to your original machine.
It's just something about those white earbuds. They say to the world, "No, I'm not THAT happy to see you, it's not even a CD player, my friend I have the one and only iPod; you are free to revel in my hipness."
(FYI: I own an iRiver. I will never own an mp3 player advertised by Eminem that requires iTunes to be installed on a computer before it will talk to it.)
Look at the glass half full side.
You don't have to get out of your car.
Plus, what's not to love about no sales tax?