I like WoW, but I've never liked the multiplayer aspects of it. Thus, I have liked it more, now that I play the WOTLK version on my own server. It's more fun than Skyrim, and there are so many threads of lore to immerse in.
Blizzard took a lot of time to build their world before essentially subsuming the whole thing. All they do now is create a veneer of new content to justify expansion packs and focus on instanced content that actually just detracts from the lore and the world.
It doesn't matter to me, I have my WoW all stored in a can (thanks, Trinity) and can take it out to play whenever I like. I do hope the private server work continues, because I'd really like a better Cataclysm 'WoW in a can' to play with too. And a Pandaland would be nice.
It seems like Amazon is a cultish organization. Bezos seems more like a creep all the time to me. For what it's worth, the 'defenders' of the Amazon Culture seem similar in some ways to Scientologists. I've suspected Bezos has a background with the occult, from my earliest observations of him.
I hope flying monkeys won't be set loose on me for making this post.
I bought a three year old Dell Latitude with an i7 processor in it for $250 about a month ago. The idiots crowing that a 5 year old Macbook 'holds half it's value' are clearly looking at it as the seller, not the buyer.
The Latitude I bought is even one of the more popular Hackintosh models.
I found Linux because there was a CD-ROM shop in Dinkytown that had the Yggdrasil 'Plug and Play Linux' for sale. The first edition, which had a plain manual white cover with green ink. Yggdrasil at the time were calling it 'LGX' and I suspect they intended that to be the brand name of their product, not 'Plug and Play Linux' which they later adopted.
I had a '486 machine with the whopping 16 MB of memory in it that I had spent $600 on (the '486 cpu and motherboard were an additional $600) and the Windows NT beta copy I bought the hardware because of had proven to be a real bomb.
You can also buy an Ardiuno knockoff on eBay for under $10. Pick one that uses a socketed through-hole AVR processor, and you can use it like a development system. Prototype and debug your design. When it's finished pull the chip out of the Arduino to build onto your custom board and plug in a fresh chip.
Also you can get Arduino clone boards from places like banggood.com for $3.20.
Nixon was a moderate Republican. Just like Kennedy was a moderate Democrat. Neither could be nominated today by the batshit crazy extremists of left and right that rise up out of the fever swamp to infest the American political landscape.
Fighting against 'Disney' has little at all to do with the kind of intellectual property reform that is needed. Nerds don't care that much about mainstream Hollywood shit. I wish we could get over the idea that people making copies of commercial entertainment content, which for the most part has ONLY entertainment value, is a bold move for greater communication.
Greater communication was things like open USENET threads that people could communicate through (yes, before the majority of the people 'using' USENET were using it to shuttle around binary attachments- again, more Hollywood shit). Peer-based actual communication means not sending 10,000 different copies of a Brittany Spears song this way and that. That shit has clogged up the net and actually impedes relevant communication.
Lessig is a law-type. Yes there are law nerds just as there are astronomy nerds and vintage chainsaw nerds. The fact that he champions the flavor of intellectual property law reform that would free up the Disney vaults for more, freer shuffling around of those bits takes away from his relevance here on Slashdot. Really, it does.
I'm as intrigued as the next nerd with the intellectual challenge remove copy protection and mass-producing all the mainstream content as the rest of us nerds. But like the rest of nerddom, my interest in said content evaporates as soon as it's time to actually view or listen to said content.
If you flunk out of Calculus and they won't let you into the English Department you transfer to J-School. You get to stand around the lit tables in the student union talking to cute chicks and it counts for course credit.
Your phone is probably so slim that you have to encase it in a plastic potato (that costs you an extra $40) just to feel safe carrying it. Wouldn't want it to get all bendy and stuff.
My Lumia 635 is fairly slim, and has Gorilla glass, so I carry it completely naked. If it gets damaged (not likely) it was only $70.
My wife and I both have Lumia 635s now, neither of us were coerced into buying them. They're refreshingly 'clean' compared to Android phones, and were only $70, right from the dumb clerk at Radio Shack. I know we probably could have gotten a better price somewhere else, but buying from a storefront in a strip mall a few miles from us is just convenient as all get-out. And they're great phones. Not a lot of 'apps' except for the relevant stuff that you'd want, as GP commented. Internet Explorer on a phone is a breath of relief, compared to running the Googleplex monster. I did like Firefox on Android, but IE is just more accepted by web sites everywhere.
The first few versions of Linux weren't that great. I booted Yggdrasil's "Plug and Play Linux" in early 1994. If somebody like Google had come along and coopted it entirely, they would have made Linux into something completely other than what it has turned into.
The tea baggers are all to the north, in San Francisco. But you already knew this. Their trash is in the dumpsters behind the bath houses. The dumpsters with the Biohazard stickers on them.
Republicans believe in democratic education funding. Based on local taxes collected locally. Get the big corporate national-level educational bodies completely out of our education system.
"Funding education adequately' does NOT mean giving money and heavy bias toward big national Teacher's Unions who then give part of the money back as political contributions.
The teacher's union Hack recently dropped out of the Governor's race in Indiana. We need to get the Union Hacks and National Figures entirely out of education. Eliminate the Department of Education and redistribute the money they suck up into their big bureaucracy back to the local school districts who need the funding.
Family reunification should be something that an immigrant can accomplish on their own. If they want to reunite their family, they can return to their home country to be with their family.
I bought a science fiction paperback earlier this week used, but priced higher than the cover price. It was on the clearance shelf for one dollar but since it was printed in 1965 the cover price was 75 cents.
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I like WoW, but I've never liked the multiplayer aspects of it. Thus, I have liked it more, now that I play the WOTLK version on my own server. It's more fun than Skyrim, and there are so many threads of lore to immerse in.
Blizzard took a lot of time to build their world before essentially subsuming the whole thing. All they do now is create a veneer of new content to justify expansion packs and focus on instanced content that actually just detracts from the lore and the world.
It doesn't matter to me, I have my WoW all stored in a can (thanks, Trinity) and can take it out to play whenever I like. I do hope the private server work continues, because I'd really like a better Cataclysm 'WoW in a can' to play with too. And a Pandaland would be nice.
It seems like Amazon is a cultish organization. Bezos seems more like a creep all the time to me. For what it's worth, the 'defenders' of the Amazon Culture seem similar in some ways to Scientologists. I've suspected Bezos has a background with the occult, from my earliest observations of him.
I hope flying monkeys won't be set loose on me for making this post.
I bought a three year old Dell Latitude with an i7 processor in it for $250 about a month ago. The idiots crowing that a 5 year old Macbook 'holds half it's value' are clearly looking at it as the seller, not the buyer.
The Latitude I bought is even one of the more popular Hackintosh models.
Wow. There's no reverse-Godwins Law, you know. You can't stretch the thread out into infinity by saying ludicrous shit about Hitler.
I found Linux because there was a CD-ROM shop in Dinkytown that had the Yggdrasil 'Plug and Play Linux' for sale. The first edition, which had a plain manual white cover with green ink. Yggdrasil at the time were calling it 'LGX' and I suspect they intended that to be the brand name of their product, not 'Plug and Play Linux' which they later adopted.
I had a '486 machine with the whopping 16 MB of memory in it that I had spent $600 on (the '486 cpu and motherboard were an additional $600) and the Windows NT beta copy I bought the hardware because of had proven to be a real bomb.
The US Currency scams don't cause the value of US currency to swing wildly.
For a lot of people to adopt Bitcoin as a currency, they will need to see the value of a bitcoin stabilize and not swing around wildly.
That's right. All the people 'investing' in Bitcoins need to stop getting a return. The things need to be passed around, not speculated in.
You can also buy an Ardiuno knockoff on eBay for under $10. Pick one that uses a socketed through-hole AVR processor, and you can use it like a development system. Prototype and debug your design. When it's finished pull the chip out of the Arduino to build onto your custom board and plug in a fresh chip.
Also you can get Arduino clone boards from places like banggood.com for $3.20.
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Nixon was a moderate Republican. Just like Kennedy was a moderate Democrat. Neither could be nominated today by the batshit crazy extremists of left and right that rise up out of the fever swamp to infest the American political landscape.
How would anybody download a movie from The Pirate Bay?
I went there and checked. They don't have any movies you can download from that website.
One person can't change "The System" with a giant hack.
So you're saying the jar of pickles in your refrigerator is a billionaire real estate developer?
Fighting against 'Disney' has little at all to do with the kind of intellectual property reform that is needed. Nerds don't care that much about mainstream Hollywood shit. I wish we could get over the idea that people making copies of commercial entertainment content, which for the most part has ONLY entertainment value, is a bold move for greater communication.
Greater communication was things like open USENET threads that people could communicate through (yes, before the majority of the people 'using' USENET were using it to shuttle around binary attachments- again, more Hollywood shit). Peer-based actual communication means not sending 10,000 different copies of a Brittany Spears song this way and that. That shit has clogged up the net and actually impedes relevant communication.
Lessig is a law-type. Yes there are law nerds just as there are astronomy nerds and vintage chainsaw nerds. The fact that he champions the flavor of intellectual property law reform that would free up the Disney vaults for more, freer shuffling around of those bits takes away from his relevance here on Slashdot. Really, it does.
I'm as intrigued as the next nerd with the intellectual challenge remove copy protection and mass-producing all the mainstream content as the rest of us nerds. But like the rest of nerddom, my interest in said content evaporates as soon as it's time to actually view or listen to said content.
If you flunk out of Calculus and they won't let you into the English Department you transfer to J-School. You get to stand around the lit tables in the student union talking to cute chicks and it counts for course credit.
Asbestos would only be a problem if powdered and airborne.
Which, of course, the filters would be eventually, but not while filtering water.
Your phone is probably so slim that you have to encase it in a plastic potato (that costs you an extra $40) just to feel safe carrying it. Wouldn't want it to get all bendy and stuff.
My Lumia 635 is fairly slim, and has Gorilla glass, so I carry it completely naked. If it gets damaged (not likely) it was only $70.
My wife and I both have Lumia 635s now, neither of us were coerced into buying them. They're refreshingly 'clean' compared to Android phones, and were only $70, right from the dumb clerk at Radio Shack. I know we probably could have gotten a better price somewhere else, but buying from a storefront in a strip mall a few miles from us is just convenient as all get-out. And they're great phones. Not a lot of 'apps' except for the relevant stuff that you'd want, as GP commented. Internet Explorer on a phone is a breath of relief, compared to running the Googleplex monster. I did like Firefox on Android, but IE is just more accepted by web sites everywhere.
The first few versions of Linux weren't that great. I booted Yggdrasil's "Plug and Play Linux" in early 1994. If somebody like Google had come along and coopted it entirely, they would have made Linux into something completely other than what it has turned into.
That's like 3 months worth of coffee if you make your own coffee and don't hang out in hipster coffeehouses.
Unfortunately, you just described 'the fear of thousands of unorganized Lilliputians', not 'the fear of God.'
The tea baggers are all to the north, in San Francisco. But you already knew this. Their trash is in the dumpsters behind the bath houses. The dumpsters with the Biohazard stickers on them.
Trailers? They're called tiny houses now.
Republicans believe in democratic education funding. Based on local taxes collected locally. Get the big corporate national-level educational bodies completely out of our education system.
"Funding education adequately' does NOT mean giving money and heavy bias toward big national Teacher's Unions who then give part of the money back as political contributions.
The teacher's union Hack recently dropped out of the Governor's race in Indiana. We need to get the Union Hacks and National Figures entirely out of education. Eliminate the Department of Education and redistribute the money they suck up into their big bureaucracy back to the local school districts who need the funding.
Family reunification should be something that an immigrant can accomplish on their own. If they want to reunite their family, they can return to their home country to be with their family.
Sports models will feature an Altivec unit.
And get this:
SCSI !!!
I bought a science fiction paperback earlier this week used, but priced higher than the cover price. It was on the clearance shelf for one dollar but since it was printed in 1965 the cover price was 75 cents.
You should pass on your book collection to somebody who would appreciate it. Those books will deteriorate in the basement.