It's par for the course for Gwinnett County... They're nothing but tax collectors who sit on i285 waiting for speeders entering the county... Now if they'd only start ticketing the people who consistently run red lights and sit in the damn intersections blocking traffic... But it's more profitable ticketing speeders under the super speeder laws in Georgia.
The time sink for leveling Artifacts, scroll drops, artifact drops, completing ML's.... Painful!
Then I think back to pre-NF and just the sheer amount of people it out to take a relic (above 300 per side)and when I left there wasn't even combined those numbers in the Frontiers. That was insane!
I've still got a screen shot of nearly 300 albs on a keep my guild had...
That aside, I still preferred to hunt outside of Emain (to much zerging) or in C-Forest (though old frontiers it was one nasty run to get to through P-Mountains).
The constant bickering though over "adding into a fight", respecting the 8v8, 1v1, etc, really was a burden on the concept of RvR.
My son was smacking Bat's in EQ back when he was 4... We had to teach him some etiquette with regards to kill stealing but other than that we've had no problems with his behavior, we take an active role in monitoring what he is playing, who is friends are, etc. It stems from what my parents always had me provide: Who are you going to be with, what are you going to be doing, when is this taking place, where are you going to be, and how going to get there ("Who, what, when, where, and how" is what my parents always said)
As a side note: My first game was Temple of Apshai at 8, and rewriting what I could shortly there after.
Here's what gets me, you pay for the game itself then you have two options http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellgate:_London#Pricing for multiplayer pricing. One is free, the other you pay $10 a month for. I don't mind the ad's funding the free subscription, but just doesn't smack me as right for a paid subscription.
Another thing to be careful with. The company I work for was in the process of getting compliant and in that process contacted a vendor to aquire licenses. This vendor actually reported the proposed transaction back to Microsoft. Shortly there after we're scrambling to produce licenses, inventory the network and report this back to Microsoft to avoid Microsoft coming into our Office to audit our network.
We scripted the uninstall of Office off 200+ machines, and after that finished requests went through the roof. We have since denied all requests until Finance cuts a check for the remaining 80 we need.
Uhm, I would say yes, he was trying to "get away" with it.... You see, they are in seperate counties and seperated by nearly 15 miles (with Acworth between the two). So more than likley he was either coming or going home from work which wouldn't surprise me as it's not uncommon for police here to take their vehicles home with them.
So I highly doubt he was trying to catch up to a drunk driver, shadowing another vehicle, etc. He might have been picking/dropping off a prisoner, but even that I highly doubt as it would have been taken care of by Cobb County Sheriff's Dept. Which takes us back to, he was probably going to or coming from work.
And whats odd about Kennesaw is you are more likley to see Kennesaw State University Police vs. Kennesaw city police. (Kennesaw is a small 1 runway airport, a university and a "mountain" that's around 500 feet tall)
For the most part in the Atlanta metro, mass transit, or public transit will, for the most part, only work inside the perimiter. With the outlying metro counties commute averaging 35 miles and 50 miles one way is not unheard of, transit lines sufficiently long enough would be a problem to create in this area. I knew people who were commuting from Aniston Alabama to the King/Queen Buildings (about 100 miles one way) as well as from Chattanooga to Downtown (about 115 miles one way).
And what gets me isn't so much as the capacity of the roads here, they've just ingeniously devised such wonderful bottlenecks (Spaghetti Junction, 75s/285e and the fact that it faces directly into the Sun during the summer months, The downtown connector where i75/i85 merge) and they work slower the poured molasses in the frozen arctic. I live up 575 and since May they've been working on an building a lane from Exit 7 to Exit 8 (1 mile) which would allow a large portion of the bottleneck there to avoid merging with continuing traffic, and they are still not done! And lets not forget GA 316... Though that's a nightmare, when they start construction on it, hell on earth would be a description...
This brings another part of the Atlanta metro area's traffic into light... The non-highway roads are extremely screwed (and most of them named Peachtree) to the point it's easier to get on the freeway for one mile and take the 10 minutes to go that one mile, than it is to drive the city streets, which can take you 5 - 10 miles to get to the same point and are a convoluted mess worse than the highways here.
And about the Norther Arc, that would have been great. I commuted 55 miles one way (I refuse to live Gwinnet County) and Highway 20, which is one lane each direction has fully loaded semi trucks driving from Canton to Lawrenceville. Couple that with school buses and it's not unheard of to take an hour and 45 minutes to go Highway 20. If an accident happens on Highway 20, you're screwed. Without GPS navigation or extremely decent maps (and the ability to read them) you will not be able to get around the accident and even if you get to a point that you can turn off to get around that accident, following the country roads can take a half hour to go a few miles up the road to get around the accident. Country/County roads here make absolutely no sense and you don't know you're coming up on the road you need/want until you have nearly passed it.
But fewer roads isn't going to work here in the Atlanta Metro Area... We could definitely use more intelligently designed interchanges.
As a side note: Some students at Georgia State created a video to see what would happen if people here drove the speed limit.... People actually pulled off on to the shoulder to get around them...
This past week, I've attempted to install Xubuntu/Kubuntu/Ubuntu 6.10 onto my system to do a little work at home.
Nvidia + Wide Screen LCD flat panel can be cumbersome, tweaking modelines, xorg.conf files, ugh! It's enough to drive one sane! And the fact that currently 6.10 (at least for a number of people) loads to a black screen of death, and CTRL-ALT-F1 to F6 didn't bring up a viewable console making it that much more of a pain.
I finally got another distro installed, downloaded the latest nvidia drivers and got my monitor up into it's native 1440x900@60, but I would say that until the installation is streamlined to where you don't have to tweak/play with conf files, examine logs/bang head against wall or threaten the system with a baseball bat, the average "user" is going to be lost, frustrated, and returning to the evil empire.
Best bet, make sure ya have a non-lcd/laptop, etc. "normal" monitor available... I'm sure that would have made life a LOT easier this past week.
Not sure about anyone else, but I definitely saw "patches" on my street while going to the store... There are quite a bit of em, all those pot holes, and also numerous cracks from semi-trucks. Yeah our roads are surely "bug" free, and "patch" free. Civil engineering projects not needing patches doesn't really make sense when you start to look at how our roads actually are and how often we complain about them.
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It's par for the course for Gwinnett County... They're nothing but tax collectors who sit on i285 waiting for speeders entering the county... Now if they'd only start ticketing the people who consistently run red lights and sit in the damn intersections blocking traffic... But it's more profitable ticketing speeders under the super speeder laws in Georgia.
The time sink for leveling Artifacts, scroll drops, artifact drops, completing ML's.... Painful!
Then I think back to pre-NF and just the sheer amount of people it out to take a relic (above 300 per side)and when I left there wasn't even combined those numbers in the Frontiers. That was insane!
I've still got a screen shot of nearly 300 albs on a keep my guild had... That aside, I still preferred to hunt outside of Emain (to much zerging) or in C-Forest (though old frontiers it was one nasty run to get to through P-Mountains).
The constant bickering though over "adding into a fight", respecting the 8v8, 1v1, etc, really was a burden on the concept of RvR.
My son was smacking Bat's in EQ back when he was 4... We had to teach him some etiquette with regards to kill stealing but other than that we've had no problems with his behavior, we take an active role in monitoring what he is playing, who is friends are, etc. It stems from what my parents always had me provide: Who are you going to be with, what are you going to be doing, when is this taking place, where are you going to be, and how going to get there ("Who, what, when, where, and how" is what my parents always said) As a side note: My first game was Temple of Apshai at 8, and rewriting what I could shortly there after.
Here's what gets me, you pay for the game itself then you have two options http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellgate:_London#Pricing for multiplayer pricing. One is free, the other you pay $10 a month for. I don't mind the ad's funding the free subscription, but just doesn't smack me as right for a paid subscription.
Just like game companies, we won't have to worry about it!
We scripted the uninstall of Office off 200+ machines, and after that finished requests went through the roof. We have since denied all requests until Finance cuts a check for the remaining 80 we need.
It's a mess to say the least...
Uhm, I would say yes, he was trying to "get away" with it.... You see, they are in seperate counties and seperated by nearly 15 miles (with Acworth between the two). So more than likley he was either coming or going home from work which wouldn't surprise me as it's not uncommon for police here to take their vehicles home with them. So I highly doubt he was trying to catch up to a drunk driver, shadowing another vehicle, etc. He might have been picking/dropping off a prisoner, but even that I highly doubt as it would have been taken care of by Cobb County Sheriff's Dept. Which takes us back to, he was probably going to or coming from work. And whats odd about Kennesaw is you are more likley to see Kennesaw State University Police vs. Kennesaw city police. (Kennesaw is a small 1 runway airport, a university and a "mountain" that's around 500 feet tall)
For the most part in the Atlanta metro, mass transit, or public transit will, for the most part, only work inside the perimiter. With the outlying metro counties commute averaging 35 miles and 50 miles one way is not unheard of, transit lines sufficiently long enough would be a problem to create in this area. I knew people who were commuting from Aniston Alabama to the King/Queen Buildings (about 100 miles one way) as well as from Chattanooga to Downtown (about 115 miles one way).
And what gets me isn't so much as the capacity of the roads here, they've just ingeniously devised such wonderful bottlenecks (Spaghetti Junction, 75s/285e and the fact that it faces directly into the Sun during the summer months, The downtown connector where i75/i85 merge) and they work slower the poured molasses in the frozen arctic. I live up 575 and since May they've been working on an building a lane from Exit 7 to Exit 8 (1 mile) which would allow a large portion of the bottleneck there to avoid merging with continuing traffic, and they are still not done! And lets not forget GA 316... Though that's a nightmare, when they start construction on it, hell on earth would be a description...
This brings another part of the Atlanta metro area's traffic into light... The non-highway roads are extremely screwed (and most of them named Peachtree) to the point it's easier to get on the freeway for one mile and take the 10 minutes to go that one mile, than it is to drive the city streets, which can take you 5 - 10 miles to get to the same point and are a convoluted mess worse than the highways here.
And about the Norther Arc, that would have been great. I commuted 55 miles one way (I refuse to live Gwinnet County) and Highway 20, which is one lane each direction has fully loaded semi trucks driving from Canton to Lawrenceville. Couple that with school buses and it's not unheard of to take an hour and 45 minutes to go Highway 20. If an accident happens on Highway 20, you're screwed. Without GPS navigation or extremely decent maps (and the ability to read them) you will not be able to get around the accident and even if you get to a point that you can turn off to get around that accident, following the country roads can take a half hour to go a few miles up the road to get around the accident. Country/County roads here make absolutely no sense and you don't know you're coming up on the road you need/want until you have nearly passed it.
For another description of Atlanta's screwed up roads..
But fewer roads isn't going to work here in the Atlanta Metro Area... We could definitely use more intelligently designed interchanges.
As a side note: Some students at Georgia State created a video to see what would happen if people here drove the speed limit.... People actually pulled off on to the shoulder to get around them...
Geforce 8800 GTX's are set to release on the 8th... There were a few places where breifly they were available early... Details on the g80 gpu
Nvidia + Wide Screen LCD flat panel can be cumbersome, tweaking modelines, xorg.conf files, ugh! It's enough to drive one sane! And the fact that currently 6.10 (at least for a number of people) loads to a black screen of death, and CTRL-ALT-F1 to F6 didn't bring up a viewable console making it that much more of a pain.
I finally got another distro installed, downloaded the latest nvidia drivers and got my monitor up into it's native 1440x900@60, but I would say that until the installation is streamlined to where you don't have to tweak/play with conf files, examine logs/bang head against wall or threaten the system with a baseball bat, the average "user" is going to be lost, frustrated, and returning to the evil empire.
Best bet, make sure ya have a non-lcd/laptop, etc. "normal" monitor available... I'm sure that would have made life a LOT easier this past week.
Not sure about anyone else, but I definitely saw "patches" on my street while going to the store... There are quite a bit of em, all those pot holes, and also numerous cracks from semi-trucks. Yeah our roads are surely "bug" free, and "patch" free. Civil engineering projects not needing patches doesn't really make sense when you start to look at how our roads actually are and how often we complain about them.