I had them when I first moved in, they weren't any better. I'm in a pretty dense block, 37 floors with 8 or 9 apartments per floor. They might actually work now that most people have moved away from them (unless there are a lot of hold outs in my building).
7-10 wireless networks? Wow you poor thing. The Devil must have it in for you.
I can pick up over 65 networks from my apartment and had to go to 5.8GHz phones because 2.4GHz was completely unusable in the apartment. The interference was just ridiculous.
No they're not. Some people are good at picking whats good for them. A lot of people are good with going along with the crowd and just taking what is popular. That doesn't make the product superior or great, it makes it popular. You implied with your statement that WoW was the "best" as in a better product than any other MMO out there.
History is rife with examples of inferior products becoming popular due to marketing, backroom deals, etc. While the superior products fade in to obscurity. If people were really good at picking the "best" product as a group, this type of thing wouldn't happen. They're easily swayed by marketing and popular opinion, neither of which make something the "best".
Not really. My PC is clean, and websites are finding ways to trick the popup blocker included with it. I'd say on average once a day through my normal surfing (which does include going to random sites via./ or digg) that a site will manage to jam a popup through.
they may still. This is just one rumour, and we haven't heard BBCs reaction yet. Our speculation is pretty pointless, but given the success, I think it would be silly to let it go.
it doesn't sound like its poor support for the show, and from what I gather its quite popular there. It sounds more like the senior staff are just burnt out. I guess it would be up to the BBC and others involved in the show to decide if they want to try and go at it with different writers/producers/directors/etc. They've got lots of notice, so its not like they don't have time to mull over the options.
Tabletop will always be the best. CRPGs, you can make choices, and that is often up to the creator. Even a good NWN module can be an actual roleplaying game if someone wants to take the time, mmorpgs, generally never. Not even as good as free-form roleplaying on a forum, because some of the world is imagined while some of it is "real". Developers at best want to have some scripted story events players can take part in, but these are few and far between and players generally don't get to cause them.
Regardless of the possibilities in MMORPGs, fact is they boil down to grindfests. When have you ever played a "grind" style in single player CRPG? Diablo? Not an actual roleplaying game (a level system and a sword doesn't make it an RPG). MMORPGs have never been created as RPGs, though they took the name to lend credibility to what they are. I don't see single player RPGs being threatened by them at all.
its really only flamebait if its untrue.. perhaps the person who modded that down would actually bother to demonstrate where they thought any effort was put in to the creation of the economy?
Go to the forums and read up on sweet gelanas (unless they've "sanitized" those threads). There is nothing sane about their decisions this time around. Its knee-jerk reactions to satisfy one outcry after another. In one fell swoop they managed to entirely destroy a crafting profession, and bend over and take it from a group of people who didn't even understand what it was they were bellyaching about.
obviously the people who modded that question up never played the game. The economy in the game appears to have been dreamed up between the time it took someone to get really drunk and then fall off the stool.
There were no challenges because it seems like they didn't even try.
like @home really cared what their users did. I can't count the times I saw @home being threatened with a usenet death sentence for not dealing with spammers. To the point where it even made news in the late 90s.
its been there for at least a year since the first time I visited it and I got the impression that it had been there much longer than that. Dell has been shipping servers with linux on them for a long time.
Microsoft is probably the kind of company who can have him killed and leave no trace... just throwing that out there.. you know... as a high priority suggestion..
They're cute birds... wow..anyone who has a cute bird as a logo is ripping off linux?
First of all, they obviously look similar really? huh.. you know you're right. If someone hadn't pointed out it was the popfly website, I would have swore I was at a linux site. The resemblance is damn near perfect. I like the way the pink really brings out the black and white.... this is beyond slow news day.
The point is, if I were to do nothing Cisco related, I'd still retained all that I learned for much longer. If I hadn't taken the time to wipe my laptop and use linux for a year straight, I'd probably have already forgotten everything I learned, much like my classmates. That was the point I was making with the laptops and some core programs like word and excel.
Unless you have an opportunity to spend a significant amount of time developing those skills in lab, they're going to fade rather quickly. In the same vein, we spent 2 years of solid classes based around cisco with 6+ hours of lab per week. That will stick a lot longer than the 2 hours of lab in Linux that occurred for about a months time.
However, if now that I'm graduated, I don't get a Cisco or networking job, in a year or two, at best I'm going to have a passing familiarity with it, and my theories are going to be fuzzy.
Using Word and Excel and transitioning from daily use in to the work place keeps the familiarity up. Once in a work setting generally what you use will be what you use, so there isn't much care to keep up non-essential skills (unless you're looking at going for a promotion/another job). In a school setting, if you learn word in grade 10, and its lab use only, and you don't touch it until after you graduate except to write the odd paper, its just not going to have the same retention.
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I had them when I first moved in, they weren't any better. I'm in a pretty dense block, 37 floors with 8 or 9 apartments per floor. They might actually work now that most people have moved away from them (unless there are a lot of hold outs in my building).
7-10 wireless networks? Wow you poor thing. The Devil must have it in for you.
I can pick up over 65 networks from my apartment and had to go to 5.8GHz phones because 2.4GHz was completely unusable in the apartment. The interference was just ridiculous.
No they're not. Some people are good at picking whats good for them. A lot of people are good with going along with the crowd and just taking what is popular. That doesn't make the product superior or great, it makes it popular. You implied with your statement that WoW was the "best" as in a better product than any other MMO out there. History is rife with examples of inferior products becoming popular due to marketing, backroom deals, etc. While the superior products fade in to obscurity. If people were really good at picking the "best" product as a group, this type of thing wouldn't happen. They're easily swayed by marketing and popular opinion, neither of which make something the "best".
popular doesn't equal best. Its a common mistake to think that as a group people can really pick the "best".
Not really. My PC is clean, and websites are finding ways to trick the popup blocker included with it. I'd say on average once a day through my normal surfing (which does include going to random sites via ./ or digg) that a site will manage to jam a popup through.
even without them saying a weird name I know within their first line if they're a marketer. They're not really that sneaky.
it means they're not done raping the corpse of your memories. They'll show you in game when they're done with it in 6 months.
dailies also generally have fewer or cheesier special effects. If there are special effects, they're used few and far between (if they want quality).
they may still. This is just one rumour, and we haven't heard BBCs reaction yet. Our speculation is pretty pointless, but given the success, I think it would be silly to let it go.
it doesn't sound like its poor support for the show, and from what I gather its quite popular there. It sounds more like the senior staff are just burnt out. I guess it would be up to the BBC and others involved in the show to decide if they want to try and go at it with different writers/producers/directors/etc. They've got lots of notice, so its not like they don't have time to mull over the options.
Tabletop will always be the best. CRPGs, you can make choices, and that is often up to the creator. Even a good NWN module can be an actual roleplaying game if someone wants to take the time, mmorpgs, generally never. Not even as good as free-form roleplaying on a forum, because some of the world is imagined while some of it is "real". Developers at best want to have some scripted story events players can take part in, but these are few and far between and players generally don't get to cause them.
Regardless of the possibilities in MMORPGs, fact is they boil down to grindfests. When have you ever played a "grind" style in single player CRPG? Diablo? Not an actual roleplaying game (a level system and a sword doesn't make it an RPG). MMORPGs have never been created as RPGs, though they took the name to lend credibility to what they are. I don't see single player RPGs being threatened by them at all.
its really only flamebait if its untrue.. perhaps the person who modded that down would actually bother to demonstrate where they thought any effort was put in to the creation of the economy?
Go to the forums and read up on sweet gelanas (unless they've "sanitized" those threads). There is nothing sane about their decisions this time around. Its knee-jerk reactions to satisfy one outcry after another. In one fell swoop they managed to entirely destroy a crafting profession, and bend over and take it from a group of people who didn't even understand what it was they were bellyaching about.
him and the six other people who play it really want to know.
obviously the people who modded that question up never played the game.
The economy in the game appears to have been dreamed up between the time it took someone to get really drunk and then fall off the stool.
There were no challenges because it seems like they didn't even try.
like @home really cared what their users did. I can't count the times I saw @home being threatened with a usenet death sentence for not dealing with spammers. To the point where it even made news in the late 90s.
its been there for at least a year since the first time I visited it and I got the impression that it had been there much longer than that. Dell has been shipping servers with linux on them for a long time.
Microsoft is probably the kind of company who can have him killed and leave no trace...
just throwing that out there.. you know... as a high priority suggestion..
The same way I just bought the August edition of my favourite comic?
They're cute birds... wow..anyone who has a cute bird as a logo is ripping off linux?
First of all, they obviously look similar
really? huh.. you know you're right. If someone hadn't pointed out it was the popfly website, I would have swore I was at a linux site.
The resemblance is damn near perfect. I like the way the pink really brings out the black and white....
this is beyond slow news day.
then chris hanson would be out of a job.
It does a sufficient job: DRIV
The point is, if I were to do nothing Cisco related, I'd still retained all that I learned for much longer. If I hadn't taken the time to wipe my laptop and use linux for a year straight, I'd probably have already forgotten everything I learned, much like my classmates. That was the point I was making with the laptops and some core programs like word and excel.
Unless you have an opportunity to spend a significant amount of time developing those skills in lab, they're going to fade rather quickly.
In the same vein, we spent 2 years of solid classes based around cisco with 6+ hours of lab per week. That will stick a lot longer than the 2 hours of lab in Linux that occurred for about a months time.
However, if now that I'm graduated, I don't get a Cisco or networking job, in a year or two, at best I'm going to have a passing familiarity with it, and my theories are going to be fuzzy.
Using Word and Excel and transitioning from daily use in to the work place keeps the familiarity up.
Once in a work setting generally what you use will be what you use, so there isn't much care to keep up non-essential skills (unless you're looking at going for a promotion/another job). In a school setting, if you learn word in grade 10, and its lab use only, and you don't touch it until after you graduate except to write the odd paper, its just not going to have the same retention.