Yeah no kidding. As a telco CO contractor, I was making $32k at the time, and my employer offered to send me to Iraq for $125k plus $120 a day in tax free per diem. I'm not about to profit off the blood of others, though.
the cost of continuing health care for veterans is going to run us about 1/3 the total cost of the war.
I'd replace 'is going to' with 'would' in that sentence. Work a day at a soup kitchen or homeless shelter and tell me how well we take care of the men who have fought for our country.
I see all your posts lauding Oblivion, and I'm wondering if we played the same game. Oblivion was complete garbage compared to Morrowind. Pretty, excessively bloom-riden garbage, but garbage none-the-less.
This is a very valid point. 'Linux' is little more than a kernel. There's a half dozen or so interfaces built on top of that, with a few different types of environments available.
It's not a lack of demand that's keeping commercial games from being released on Linux OSes, it's the fact that it has to conform to a number of different platforms within the Linux umbrella. With the rising costs of game development, nobody wants to bother going through the trouble.
An automated traffic system would drastically cut down on fuel consumption. If everyone was moving at the same speed, there would be no traffic to speak of, it would be like a giant sheet of ice floating across the water. Without constant deceleration and acceleration, the amount of fuel a car would consume would basically bottom out.
Also, I tend to believe that when there aren't any more car accidents, a lot less cars are going to be sold. And when cars maintain constant speeds with minimal acceleration, the engine and other components of a car would last a lot longer, thus increasing the lifetime of every car.
It's not that far fetched of an idea. Both industries have a vested interest in preventing it from happening.
This can't be a serious reply, yet it's been modded insightful for some reason. Concerts should be accessible to fans, which is precisely why when a guy like Bob Dylan plays a big market, he'll book three nights at a reasonable price instead of one night at three times the price. Sure he can probably get away with it, but that's not the point.
If what you're saying were actually true, I would think a lot more bands wouldn't even bother to tour. They'd hold one private show in a nice venue, hold a raffle for their most die hard fans to make sure they have the best possible crowd, record the whole thing and just sell double-disc live DVDs for $35 a pop. It would save them the effort of living in a bus for four months, eliminate the overhead associated with touring, and they'd still likely see as much if not more revenue than they would if they actually toured. But that's not the point of live shows.
I'd like to know which companies still use solutions from Symantec or McAfee. Both companies are jokes. As someone who works in PC repair, I can't tell you how many systems have come in my shop as a result of programs by those developers/publishers behaving badly.
In a lot of cases, normal internet usage is locked out entirely if NIS becomes damaged. And you can't uninstall NIS through the normal add/remove dialog if it's corrupted. So what do you have to do to strip it out of the system? Why, log onto Symantec's site and run their online SymNRT, of course. It used to be easy, download and store the app somewhere, run it when needed. Now it's a complete mess. Which IT department wants to deal with that?
...and don't even get me started on McAfee. It's been bloatware since day one, and so many questionable items pass right through it's "protection" unaffected that it should just be called "Federal Anti-Virus: We give you the illusion of protection, and you'll pay us well for it."
How exactly does a nitpick on a singluar typo that's completely out of the scope of the OP get modded "Insightful?" The link is still valid, there's no clarification neccessary.
We should have preliminary competence exams before you qualify for mod points. =P
It changes standard gameplay. A pistol may have gone for 650$ to buy normally could now turn into a 2000$ gun because demand is so high. It's a "feature" that wasn't there before that throws entire match strategy right out the window.
OK, I don't know where you play, but the "core" Counterstrike experience hasn't been available for oh...eight years or so. There are servers out there that start you out with $16k automatically, and spectating/rejoining your team gives you another $16k if you run out. I've played on servers where you can wager what money you've banked on which team is going to win. There's plenty of servers as well that have certain weapons disabled, like AWPs and Autos.
I'm sure that if these changes aren't indeed "optional," they will be within a week, just like the riot shield was. Nothing's going "out the window," this isn't a doomsday scenraio.
I'm sorry, but after many years working in phone company central offices, those pictures look like "Monday" to me. Maybe I'm better at my job than I thought.
also, most artists have no experience marketing, selling, or dealing with the right people that will get them the high-paying gigs they need to continue performing and feed their family and or make the rent.
Don't tell that to touring bands like Widespread Panic, moe. and the String Cheese Incident who have made a pretty healthy living doing things themselves for most of their careers.
It's really not that hard. You just need an act worth paying money to hear and a place to play. Make yourself accessible to the fans you generate, and be patient. If you're good, things will come together on their own. If you're not, then you're in the wrong line of work.
The buzz around the convention seemed to be that it is 'too much' of a World of Warcraft (WoW) ripoff. The thematic links between Warhammer and WoW are obvious, but Mythic didn't seem terribly interested in distancing itself from the millions-strong Blizzard title.
And why should they distance themselves? It was Blizzard who borrowed from the WH mythology when creating Warcraft. And outside of that, there isn't much variation in any of the fantasy-themed MMOs...skill advancement, talents and spells, quests, and low level dogs and crabs running around for new players to click on. Everything else is just execution.
Tim Roberts is no Trip Hawkins. Hawkins has a legacy of success (He founded a quaint little publisher known as Electronic Arts.) and actually has an idea of the market, despite his mistakes.
So you still have to treat WoW as a second job to play in the end-game? Great. Hopefully Blizzard will introduce some good non-set items in 5 or 10-man instances. I don't have the time to invest in raiding for 10+ hours a week, nor do I even have that desire. I do, however, have a few real-life friends that I'd love to be able to play with through the end-game. I realize Blizzard can get away with the crappy end-game WoW currently has, but it would be great if it were possible for players like me and thousands of others to still be viable without having a second job.
No offense, but you're playing the wrong game. End-game raiding content has been standard since the early days of EQ1 and the dawn of the DKP system. If you're not willing to invest the same amount of time and resources as other people, that's perfectly fine, but don't expect to be rewarded for your non-effort. If you don't like the way that works, fantastic, find another genre to occupy your time with. Plus, unless Blizzard has nerfed these places (again) since I last visited them, instances like Scholomance, Stratholme, and Blackrock Spire will provide enough opportunity to keep a five-man group on their toes for weeks, if not months, if you play as casual as you claim to.
There's a fantastic game that will do exactly what you want to do, however. It's called Baulder's Gate.
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Let the markets decide how to economically provide solutions to the issue.
You must not be good at history. We let them do that once. They decided Love Canal was the most economic solution.
Athough I would concede the point that they're all rather too forgiving.
Spelunky would like to clear something up regarding this statement.
Yeah no kidding. As a telco CO contractor, I was making $32k at the time, and my employer offered to send me to Iraq for $125k plus $120 a day in tax free per diem. I'm not about to profit off the blood of others, though.
I'd replace 'is going to' with 'would' in that sentence. Work a day at a soup kitchen or homeless shelter and tell me how well we take care of the men who have fought for our country.
Man, I love the internet. Lunatics and boneheads everywhere you look.
I see all your posts lauding Oblivion, and I'm wondering if we played the same game. Oblivion was complete garbage compared to Morrowind. Pretty, excessively bloom-riden garbage, but garbage none-the-less.
This is a very valid point. 'Linux' is little more than a kernel. There's a half dozen or so interfaces built on top of that, with a few different types of environments available. It's not a lack of demand that's keeping commercial games from being released on Linux OSes, it's the fact that it has to conform to a number of different platforms within the Linux umbrella. With the rising costs of game development, nobody wants to bother going through the trouble.
An automated traffic system would drastically cut down on fuel consumption. If everyone was moving at the same speed, there would be no traffic to speak of, it would be like a giant sheet of ice floating across the water. Without constant deceleration and acceleration, the amount of fuel a car would consume would basically bottom out.
Also, I tend to believe that when there aren't any more car accidents, a lot less cars are going to be sold. And when cars maintain constant speeds with minimal acceleration, the engine and other components of a car would last a lot longer, thus increasing the lifetime of every car.
It's not that far fetched of an idea. Both industries have a vested interest in preventing it from happening.
Where's my mod points when I need them? Internet genius talking tall about semantics when it was clearly a good jab.
...people.
Gotta earn that e-cred, though, huh? Gotta make the rest of the internet think you're a smart one?
I think you need to adjust your tinfoil hat.
This is Slashdot, not Pitchfork. They don't even have the same layout, I'm not sure how you could get so turned around.
This can't be a serious reply, yet it's been modded insightful for some reason. Concerts should be accessible to fans, which is precisely why when a guy like Bob Dylan plays a big market, he'll book three nights at a reasonable price instead of one night at three times the price. Sure he can probably get away with it, but that's not the point. If what you're saying were actually true, I would think a lot more bands wouldn't even bother to tour. They'd hold one private show in a nice venue, hold a raffle for their most die hard fans to make sure they have the best possible crowd, record the whole thing and just sell double-disc live DVDs for $35 a pop. It would save them the effort of living in a bus for four months, eliminate the overhead associated with touring, and they'd still likely see as much if not more revenue than they would if they actually toured. But that's not the point of live shows.
Where's the 'Godwin' moderation option when you need it?
"Working as intended."
...put up by aliens to prevent humans from getting too far ahead of themselves.
I'd like to know which companies still use solutions from Symantec or McAfee. Both companies are jokes. As someone who works in PC repair, I can't tell you how many systems have come in my shop as a result of programs by those developers/publishers behaving badly.
...and don't even get me started on McAfee. It's been bloatware since day one, and so many questionable items pass right through it's "protection" unaffected that it should just be called "Federal Anti-Virus: We give you the illusion of protection, and you'll pay us well for it."
In a lot of cases, normal internet usage is locked out entirely if NIS becomes damaged. And you can't uninstall NIS through the normal add/remove dialog if it's corrupted. So what do you have to do to strip it out of the system? Why, log onto Symantec's site and run their online SymNRT, of course. It used to be easy, download and store the app somewhere, run it when needed. Now it's a complete mess. Which IT department wants to deal with that?
How exactly does a nitpick on a singluar typo that's completely out of the scope of the OP get modded "Insightful?" The link is still valid, there's no clarification neccessary.
We should have preliminary competence exams before you qualify for mod points. =P
I'm sure that if these changes aren't indeed "optional," they will be within a week, just like the riot shield was. Nothing's going "out the window," this isn't a doomsday scenraio.
*runs off to Google and YouTube as fast as his little fingers will take him*
I'm sorry, but after many years working in phone company central offices, those pictures look like "Monday" to me. Maybe I'm better at my job than I thought.
Don't tell that to touring bands like Widespread Panic, moe. and the String Cheese Incident who have made a pretty healthy living doing things themselves for most of their careers.
It's really not that hard. You just need an act worth paying money to hear and a place to play. Make yourself accessible to the fans you generate, and be patient. If you're good, things will come together on their own. If you're not, then you're in the wrong line of work.
And why should they distance themselves? It was Blizzard who borrowed from the WH mythology when creating Warcraft. And outside of that, there isn't much variation in any of the fantasy-themed MMOs...skill advancement, talents and spells, quests, and low level dogs and crabs running around for new players to click on. Everything else is just execution.
Tim Roberts is no Trip Hawkins. Hawkins has a legacy of success (He founded a quaint little publisher known as Electronic Arts.) and actually has an idea of the market, despite his mistakes.
There's a fantastic game that will do exactly what you want to do, however. It's called Baulder's Gate.