It's in the admin guide buried a ways down into it in a table of other limits. You'd think they'd have that on the web page, a petabyte is a big number!
In a way, I think I might rather have had a better developer (yes I said that) do Civ IV. It just isn't as polished as the previous three. I'd say maybe it's Firaxis's fault but seeing as the previous 3 Civ games and Alpha-C didn't have these issues...
You can't queue up moves (by hitting left/left/left rapidly) It has a slow-to-a-crawl probable memory leak (or my video/audio drivers do, which only civ hits yet wow/coh/asheron's call did not) Dialogs don't "do the right thing" by default. Ctrl-S should save the game, not look at me dumbly on the save screen waiting for me to click "ok"
The Civs used to be VERY keyboard friendly, this one is markedly less so (mainly due to it being hard to tell what dialog option you're on. White vs yellow isn't distinct enough.
You assume commercial vendors aren't already using the same model, except they expect you to pay for the box up front too.
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If the government has a right to impose speed limits in the name of public safety, they have the right to impose bans on smoking in the name of public safety.
The free market is not always best.
And if you say "well it's just a (small) health risk to the non-smokers" you ignore how it is a much greater health risk to people either with asthma or who are allergic to the smoke.
If I was blizzard, wanting to implement a system like this it would be very easy. I'd make an automated web-service to sign the mods. All you have to do to access it is sign in with your account.
Sign a mod that's used to macro/cheat/blizzard doesn't like? Bye-bye goes your account.
Pretty low turn around time, etc, but you live with the risk blizz might ban you if you do something they decide they don't like.
Female Blood Elves are already in the game, there's one in Sun Rock Retreat, Stonetalon Mountains. I forget what quest she gives (but with a 29, 25, and 42, I've seen a lot of it recently). I think she's the kill-nature-spirits up north by the alliance outpost in Stonetalon.
He came back when I joined WoW (9 months after release) for some mad PvP action.
Good times. Don't want to be bored? Get a few friends and make alliance alts. Twink yourselves up, and hit 20-29 PvP (or the 60s which run more but I'm not that high yet, but my 29 horde shaman has hit where he needs to).
Oh I'm aware Apple is very eager in this field. But we had some hardware issues with their Xserve RAIDs in the past (which caused Linux kernel bugs to corrupt the filesystem, but that's an aside) that keep those who have the pockets asking questions.
I want to say it is 16 Tbyte offhand, but I'm not sure on that.
Short research indicates this was a limitation in 10.3, but I haven't found anything confirming or denying that 10.4 still has it.
Not that we've been looking into large amounts of Xsan storage here, but our requirements are a bit different. You can't hook >600 nodes up to the storage via fibre. Our problem is scaling out the NFS servers to be able to push all this data around.
If the gold farmers in the far east -- well their parent companies -- could spend $100k and get a zone created just for them on WoW where they could farm to their heart's content and then convert that gold to $$$, you can believe they would.
I was thinking of posting the same thing as the grandparent post. Look at that list of countries, and now start listing the scientists who got the hell out of dodge and ended up where? Yup, good old U.S. of A.
Just offhand there's Einstein and Fermi and I'm sure I'm missing countless hundreds more.
The religious right is doing a good job turning the USA into the next entrant on that list of countries. Brilliant scientists aren't going to be dissuaded, they'll just end up going elsewhere in the world.
Of all my friends who did CS at about the same time, there's roughly half of us now working in real CS fields. The other half are doing odd jobs elsewhere that aren't CS.
The same people I would have said were really into CS in school are those who are now working CS related jobs. I don't buy it is all coincidence.
It's also not a diss of friends who aren't doing CS related work. I just don't think they were as passionate about it as some of the others (up till all hours programming for fun during high school).
I also should note that none of the people who are passionate about their field (mostly CS, but does include one hs/community college math/english teacher) have had trouble finding work.
In my DiffEq class that was really great. I'd already had all the basic (non-calc) physics, and as he's setting up the heat transfer equations I'm going, "I see where this is going. Now the physics equations make sense!"
But be aware: not everybody is an engineer. My fiancee (Econ PhD. student) would have gotten nothing out of the DiffEq class. Econ (at the grad level) is amazingly math heavy, well beyond what I delt with in CS. There are problems they could work that would probably be similar for them, but it won't work for everyone.
I didn't have extensive Japanese, but I had introductory and did well enough in the class. I've had incomprehensable TAs. Not just too much accent, but also too-quiet and won't speak up (I was in the second row of a 5-6 row classroom). I dropped that class like a hot potato needless to say. Oh and I'm more familiar with accents than most americans at (large university in IL): I lived in England for 2 years.
I have a friend who also complains about non-english-speaking-TAs, and she took multiple years of college Japanese (as opposed to my high school) then taught english in Japan. She's qualified to complain by your definition and does.
The real problem: Universities don't give a shit about teaching. Thus, TAs, as part of the teaching equation either get paid crap or treated like crap. Why waste your time TAing when you could RA and be getting cozy with a prof who'll be approving your thesis/dissertation? Heck, you likely can even overlap that RA work and you thesis/dissertation work.
And it isn't always the TA's fault. I'm sure I wasn't that great a TA when I got to teach the compilers course here: I was signed up as a student for the course and got told by the department to drop it. Oh and teach (assist) the intro parallel programming course too while you're at it! That's only roughly a double load of students and material you were set to learn this semester, shouldn't be a problem right?
Needless to say, I got myself a RA shortly after that.
That'd be relevant if a WSG match had run since the patch went live. I haven't seen one on Llane when I've been/whoing, and from what the queue tells me (admitedly in the 20-29 bracket, I just started a month ago and have alt-itis) there hasn't been one period.
There are already piles of lego "compatable" bricks. I have some around in theor own separate box somewhere.
Why? Because they suck. I can count on one hand the number of legos I've had break in my lifetime. I've received one defective part, ever. I've never had a set missing parts.
The lego bricks are high quality and plain old fit together way better than imitations.
And this is why I know of 1 account remaining in a former guild of friends of 8 RL players. Nerf nerf nerf your revenue stream. Not very bright.
The pathetic thing is half their nerfs were to fix herding, which wouldn't have been a problem in the first place if the'd implemented collision checking while jumping as well as while moving.
If you're a CoH player you'll have noticed when mobs run to follow you, they won't overlap, but when they jump they will. The CoH devs have come out and said "it is too computationally expensive to do it!" which is total BS since they're already doing it on walking-around collision checks and when you're herding there are a *lot* more of those.
My bet? They tried it on an internal build, had a bug nobody saw, and it always said they were in colission. Thus, can't jump, thus blasters/defenders people can use small ridges to perch on and kill in 100% safely.
Just keep that in mind. Some places you won't work without a degree -- I have a couple friends who would have liked to work at the university like I am, but can't since they didn't have their degrees finished.
They've all gotten jobs in the area, but aren't particularly happy with them.
Not that you'd expect my degree (MS in CS) to have anything to do with my job (systems administrator), but it does. My MS was in parallel computation, and now I manage a supercomputer. The degree has been useful: good for tracking down bottlenecks that are limiting performance, makes it easier to talk to & support the scientist users of the machine. (being a TA for the parallel programming course for scientists & engineers probably didn't hurt there either)
All that said, why would you want to work at a university? Pay's better in industry, but you can't beat my benefits package until you've been there years and years. (possible exception: google)
24 days paid vacation/year, plus 2 floating holidays, plus all the usual state days off. Flexable work hours, telecommuting, low stress, great bus system in town. (applicable to C/U only possibly)
Wait, you mean I don't have to spend 5 bajillion hours leveling up in order to find out I don't like the way a class plays at higher levels? I can PvP in multiple different styles any time from 20+?
The quest log is the best thing about the game practically. When I quit playing the game for a week because I need to be doing (work, wedding planning, or whatever else) and come back, why look it's all conviently arranged and remembered for me.
As for your subscription: less lag for me. Don't let the door hit you & such.
No, the idiots who had the ability to leave and did not when ordered to evacuate caused this. You cannot in any seriousness tell me that with all the cars I see floating in NO on TV that most of those couldn't have driven a few hours inland to where it would be safe.
I personally know 3 folks who got the hell out of dodge as Katrina came barreling in. They're all fine. Sure, their stuff and jobs may or may not be gone, but they were never in personal danger. Except maybe for the one who drove straight through to central IL, that's a long drive to drive alone.
It and earthquakes go hand in hand (duh). Plus a lot of land features people like, say nice geology, (mountains, etc) tend to involve stress and strain in the crust which also means earthquakes.
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It's in the admin guide buried a ways down into it in a table of other limits. You'd think they'd have that on the web page, a petabyte is a big number!
That should be Ctrl-S(return).
In a way, I think I might rather have had a better developer (yes I said that) do Civ IV. It just isn't as polished as the previous three. I'd say maybe it's Firaxis's fault but seeing as the previous 3 Civ games and Alpha-C didn't have these issues...
You can't queue up moves (by hitting left/left/left rapidly)
It has a slow-to-a-crawl probable memory leak (or my video/audio drivers do, which only civ hits yet wow/coh/asheron's call did not)
Dialogs don't "do the right thing" by default. Ctrl-S should save the game, not look at me dumbly on the save screen waiting for me to click "ok"
The Civs used to be VERY keyboard friendly, this one is markedly less so (mainly due to it being hard to tell what dialog option you're on. White vs yellow isn't distinct enough.
It'd help if iTunes supported .oggs nativly.
I know there's the quicktime component and it's recently been updated and works, but it doesn't work out of the box.
You assume commercial vendors aren't already using the same model, except they expect you to pay for the box up front too.
If the government has a right to impose speed limits in the name of public safety, they have the right to impose bans on smoking in the name of public safety.
The free market is not always best.
And if you say "well it's just a (small) health risk to the non-smokers" you ignore how it is a much greater health risk to people either with asthma or who are allergic to the smoke.
If I was blizzard, wanting to implement a system like this it would be very easy. I'd make an automated web-service to sign the mods. All you have to do to access it is sign in with your account.
Sign a mod that's used to macro/cheat/blizzard doesn't like? Bye-bye goes your account.
Pretty low turn around time, etc, but you live with the risk blizz might ban you if you do something they decide they don't like.
Female Blood Elves are already in the game, there's one in Sun Rock Retreat, Stonetalon Mountains. I forget what quest she gives (but with a 29, 25, and 42, I've seen a lot of it recently). I think she's the kill-nature-spirits up north by the alliance outpost in Stonetalon.
I had a friend do the same pattern.
He came back when I joined WoW (9 months after release) for some mad PvP action.
Good times. Don't want to be bored? Get a few friends and make alliance alts. Twink yourselves up, and hit 20-29 PvP (or the 60s which run more but I'm not that high yet, but my 29 horde shaman has hit where he needs to).
Heck, even 10-19 WSG runs nightly.
Oh I'm aware Apple is very eager in this field. But we had some hardware issues with their Xserve RAIDs in the past (which caused Linux kernel bugs to corrupt the filesystem, but that's an aside) that keep those who have the pockets asking questions.
Time will tell what occurs.
I want to say it is 16 Tbyte offhand, but I'm not sure on that.
Short research indicates this was a limitation in 10.3, but I haven't found anything confirming or denying that 10.4 still has it.
Not that we've been looking into large amounts of Xsan storage here, but our requirements are a bit different. You can't hook >600 nodes up to the storage via fibre. Our problem is scaling out the NFS servers to be able to push all this data around.
Business.
If the gold farmers in the far east -- well their parent companies -- could spend $100k and get a zone created just for them on WoW where they could farm to their heart's content and then convert that gold to $$$, you can believe they would.
Games would look better in the PC world on low cost graphics hardware if you still ran at 320x200, but who really wants to do that?
I was thinking of posting the same thing as the grandparent post. Look at that list of countries, and now start listing the scientists who got the hell out of dodge and ended up where? Yup, good old U.S. of A.
Just offhand there's Einstein and Fermi and I'm sure I'm missing countless hundreds more.
The religious right is doing a good job turning the USA into the next entrant on that list of countries. Brilliant scientists aren't going to be dissuaded, they'll just end up going elsewhere in the world.
Of all my friends who did CS at about the same time, there's roughly half of us now working in real CS fields. The other half are doing odd jobs elsewhere that aren't CS.
The same people I would have said were really into CS in school are those who are now working CS related jobs. I don't buy it is all coincidence.
It's also not a diss of friends who aren't doing CS related work. I just don't think they were as passionate about it as some of the others (up till all hours programming for fun during high school).
I also should note that none of the people who are passionate about their field (mostly CS, but does include one hs/community college math/english teacher) have had trouble finding work.
In my DiffEq class that was really great. I'd already had all the basic (non-calc) physics, and as he's setting up the heat transfer equations I'm going, "I see where this is going. Now the physics equations make sense!"
But be aware: not everybody is an engineer. My fiancee (Econ PhD. student) would have gotten nothing out of the DiffEq class. Econ (at the grad level) is amazingly math heavy, well beyond what I delt with in CS. There are problems they could work that would probably be similar for them, but it won't work for everyone.
I didn't have extensive Japanese, but I had introductory and did well enough in the class. I've had incomprehensable TAs. Not just too much accent, but also too-quiet and won't speak up (I was in the second row of a 5-6 row classroom). I dropped that class like a hot potato needless to say. Oh and I'm more familiar with accents than most americans at (large university in IL): I lived in England for 2 years.
I have a friend who also complains about non-english-speaking-TAs, and she took multiple years of college Japanese (as opposed to my high school) then taught english in Japan. She's qualified to complain by your definition and does.
The real problem: Universities don't give a shit about teaching. Thus, TAs, as part of the teaching equation either get paid crap or treated like crap. Why waste your time TAing when you could RA and be getting cozy with a prof who'll be approving your thesis/dissertation? Heck, you likely can even overlap that RA work and you thesis/dissertation work.
And it isn't always the TA's fault. I'm sure I wasn't that great a TA when I got to teach the compilers course here: I was signed up as a student for the course and got told by the department to drop it. Oh and teach (assist) the intro parallel programming course too while you're at it! That's only roughly a double load of students and material you were set to learn this semester, shouldn't be a problem right?
Needless to say, I got myself a RA shortly after that.
That'd be relevant if a WSG match had run since the patch went live. I haven't seen one on Llane when I've been /whoing, and from what the queue tells me (admitedly in the 20-29 bracket, I just started a month ago and have alt-itis) there hasn't been one period.
There are already piles of lego "compatable" bricks. I have some around in theor own separate box somewhere.
Why? Because they suck. I can count on one hand the number of legos I've had break in my lifetime. I've received one defective part, ever. I've never had a set missing parts.
The lego bricks are high quality and plain old fit together way better than imitations.
And this is why I know of 1 account remaining in a former guild of friends of 8 RL players. Nerf nerf nerf your revenue stream. Not very bright.
The pathetic thing is half their nerfs were to fix herding, which wouldn't have been a problem in the first place if the'd implemented collision checking while jumping as well as while moving.
If you're a CoH player you'll have noticed when mobs run to follow you, they won't overlap, but when they jump they will. The CoH devs have come out and said "it is too computationally expensive to do it!" which is total BS since they're already doing it on walking-around collision checks and when you're herding there are a *lot* more of those.
My bet? They tried it on an internal build, had a bug nobody saw, and it always said they were in colission. Thus, can't jump, thus blasters/defenders people can use small ridges to perch on and kill in 100% safely.
Just keep that in mind. Some places you won't work without a degree -- I have a couple friends who would have liked to work at the university like I am, but can't since they didn't have their degrees finished.
They've all gotten jobs in the area, but aren't particularly happy with them.
Not that you'd expect my degree (MS in CS) to have anything to do with my job (systems administrator), but it does. My MS was in parallel computation, and now I manage a supercomputer. The degree has been useful: good for tracking down bottlenecks that are limiting performance, makes it easier to talk to & support the scientist users of the machine. (being a TA for the parallel programming course for scientists & engineers probably didn't hurt there either)
All that said, why would you want to work at a university? Pay's better in industry, but you can't beat my benefits package until you've been there years and years. (possible exception: google)
24 days paid vacation/year, plus 2 floating holidays, plus all the usual state days off. Flexable work hours, telecommuting, low stress, great bus system in town. (applicable to C/U only possibly)
Wait, you mean I don't have to spend 5 bajillion hours leveling up in order to find out I don't like the way a class plays at higher levels? I can PvP in multiple different styles any time from 20+?
The quest log is the best thing about the game practically. When I quit playing the game for a week because I need to be doing (work, wedding planning, or whatever else) and come back, why look it's all conviently arranged and remembered for me.
As for your subscription: less lag for me. Don't let the door hit you & such.
No, the idiots who had the ability to leave and did not when ordered to evacuate caused this. You cannot in any seriousness tell me that with all the cars I see floating in NO on TV that most of those couldn't have driven a few hours inland to where it would be safe.
I personally know 3 folks who got the hell out of dodge as Katrina came barreling in. They're all fine. Sure, their stuff and jobs may or may not be gone, but they were never in personal danger. Except maybe for the one who drove straight through to central IL, that's a long drive to drive alone.
So you're saying that things will tend to balance themselves in the end, but somehow still make it sound like a complaint. I'm confused.
But hey, I play da bad guys, no queues for me.
Volcanism: Rich, fertile soil.
It and earthquakes go hand in hand (duh). Plus a lot of land features people like, say nice geology, (mountains, etc) tend to involve stress and strain in the crust which also means earthquakes.