The solution is to stop asking for donations in-game, and gently remind the user that you are donation supported instead. This shouldn't be against the terms. Leave the donation link on your site. I know you say people hardly visit the site (as plug-ins tend to be made available on plug-in sites, where the distributors reaps 100% of the ad revenue). The way around that is an old "trick"- make exclusive content available on the plug-in's site. What that content could be is beyond what I could think up in the short time it took to write this message (I haven't played WoW in over a year), but if your problem is attracting visitors, then you need to tackle the web traffic issue first. One idea (off the top of my head) is if you author a plug-in that offers quest data, make the base plug-in available on the plug-in sites, but the data required for it available only via direct download on your site (this may require some policing of the distributors). If you don't want to make the players jump through hoops for basic functionality, find something you can add as a bonus to the plug-in, and make THAT available only on the site- users still get core functionality, and must visit your website (with donation requests) for more content. Tell the user in your start up message "Thank you for supporting independent plug-in developers [as a wink wink, nudge nudge]. To download [exclusive content here] please visit Quest-Helper.com"
I know it sucks that Blizzard is doing this, but I can see both sides. I hated seeing donation messages every time I logged in, regardless of whether I donated or not. In some cases, overly wordy donation requests blocked out important info in the chat box provided by other plug-ins.
If you'd like to go over some ideas, feel free to contact me off-forum. It's been a while since I've played WoW, but I do remember how much I relied on donation-supported add-ons when I did.
Silly QuantumG, it's obviously not the laws that are causing harm; Law is infallible. It's those pesky citizens that refuse to follow them that are the problem. How dare they have the gall to believe that they know better than the few elected officials that made the laws that govern the masses' every day lives?
The story i heard is that they were engineered as a cheap renewable food supply for bats...a story that sounds about as likely as the one you heard.
Honestly, after living in Florida for 4 years, i can say the only reason for a massive amount of mosquitoes and lovebugs is because you're sitting in a state that is mostly wetlands, surrounded on all sides by water. Wetlands + mosquitoes = prime breeding grounds.
Why are the mosquitoes so big? Why the hell is everything in Florida so big? The common Florida "House Spider" is about 5" across (tip-to-tip, not body size). The common Florida scorpion (I forget the name) is so big its tail flops over.
Compare any bug you see in Florida to its equivalent elsewhere, and you'll see it's a great deal larger. You live in a freaking jungle, for crying out loud.
It's television/film. How entertaining is it to sit through 2 hours of asteroids burning up in the atmosphere, never hitting earth?
How entertaining is it to watch tiny asteroids hit wastelands?
Make no mistake, the entertainment industry will never be in the business of education. They are in the business of making money, and entertainment does that much better than education.
Or were you talking about Discovery channel? The same channel that shows two Hollywood effects guys, a Battlebots champion, and some relatively mediocre-looking eye candy by the name of Kari using non-scientific "testing" methods as an excuse to blow stuff up? The same channel that shows a relatively mediocre-looking British "survival expert" who hides himself inside animal carcasses and drinks his own urine, and says "because you'll never know when this knowledge will save your life." Maybe if you're on the next season of Fear Factor, and you need the money for a heart transplant. With this kind of educational value, it's not surprising at all that Discovery (and its myriad derivatives) always show asteroids blowing up New York and LA. Though to their credit, the last one I saw also blew up Paris and London. No Chicago though.
It's entertainment, just like FOX, MTV, NBC, CBS, CNN, etc...where FOX entertains hardcore conservatives, MTV entertains pre-pubescent Atreyu fans, NBC and CBS entertains the "long day at work and I want to kill my brain and drink a beer" crowd, CNN entertains the "We're all doomed and Britney's having another baby!" group...DSC entertains the pseudo-intellectuals and the stoners. And it does a damn good job at it. But nothing on television should ever be mistaken for "science" or even an attempt at it, as every channel out there is just selling you entertainment targeted at nearly every demographic.
I don't know about you (well I guess I do;)), but Gutsy has been MUCH easier to work with than Feisty.
In Feisty, I had to give up on wireless with my USB wireless adapter, and run about 100ft of cable (and hide it so the girlfriend doesn't get put off by the wires) after fiddling with my USB for over a month- the best I was able to get was intermittent connections at best, that would get completely wiped out every update.
With Gutsy, I was able to connect immediately, but it would drop after 15-20 minutes. A quick google search and I fixed it.
Fusion is working much better than Compiz or Beryl ever did in Feisty (still a bug or two regarding snapping + wobbly windows)
The only problem I still have is with my Canon MP160...actually if I recall correctly, I fixed that too...again with better results than in Feisty (but that may be because I was teaching myself how to do it in Feisty, and this time it was much more retracing the steps...though I do seem to recall having less dependency issues this time around)
of course, YMMV...but I for one am LOVING Gutsy more than any previous release.
That's all well and good...but remember the old chart from health class? The one about having sex...when you have sex with your partner, your having sex with their ex-partners' partners...and their ex-partners' partners. In the end, we've all f***ed eachother. It's like 6 degrees of hide the sausage.
Same thing applies to social networking sites. You give trusted co-worker Roger your screen name, next thing you know you got Bob in accounting sending you a friend request, saying "hey man we work together!" because he's the one exception to Roger's one exception.
Yeah, you don't have to accept it, but then you're just the rude guy in the office.
I've gone so far (in the past, I don't care anymore since I freelance) as to have my linked in account, a facebook account, and a separate facebook account just for those i'm working with. When I leave the place of employment, I delete the account.
Yeah, it was a bit of a hassle...that's why I stopped though. I have 2 social sites and linked in. My clients only get my LinkedIn account (no exceptions), my friends get all three.
Ironically, in reference to the above Seinfeld quote, my name is George.
They're like manufactured pop stars. Maybe the key to dethroning created candidates is the same as abolishing created pop stars...Make voting booths a nightmare to use, tell us when, where, why, and how we can use our political leaders, and arrest people for showing non-state approved patrioti- ah shit, none of that worked.
Any other ideas?
(captcha: unguided...I do love/.'s sense of irony, that's for sure.)
Google-y is defined as somebody who is fairly flexible, adaptable and not focusing on titles and hierarchy, and just gets stuff done.
...we're looking for worker ants.
I have no experience with google, but it is my experience elsewhere that in HR, "fairly flexible" means "will work long hours without compensation," "adaptable" means "will not make a fuss when his/her review date comes and goes without action" and/or "will accept that any bureaucratic injustices with the company do not exist, and if he/she has a grievance, it is actually the one filing the grievance who is in the wrong". And "not focusing on titles and hierarchy"...well that just means "not focusing on titles and hierarchy while those above him/her do."
Again, I don't know much about Google in specific, but this is the way HR tends to word things in most other companies.
My wife is a lawyer and I once asked her why we seldom see these things happening in canada. That's because the justice is different in that here, to win a cause you need a damage, a fault and the correlation between the two. Most of the time, people cannot make a strong argument in the "correlation between the two" part and the case ends there.
Same thing happens here, buddy. Filing a lawsuit != winning a lawsuit. If I wanted to, I could sue you on the grounds that what you said offended me and caused me mental anguish. Does that mean I'll win? Not one bit. If you're suggesting that the state decide what lawsuits are allowed to even be filed, I'm quite scared.
monopoly/mnpli/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[muh-nop-uh-lee] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
-noun, plural -lies.
1. exclusive control of a commodity or service in a particular market, or a control that makes possible the manipulation of prices. Compare duopoly, oligopoly.
2. an exclusive privilege to carry on a business, traffic, or service, granted by a government.
3. the exclusive possession or control of something.
4. something that is the subject of such control, as a commodity or service.
5. a company or group that has such control.
6. the market condition that exists when there is only one seller.
7. (initial capital letter) a board game in which a player attempts to gain a monopoly of real estate by advancing around the board and purchasing property, acquiring capital by collecting rent from other players whose pieces land on that property.
Last I checked, Google had nothing near a monopoly. More people choose to use Google because it offers a superior product. But it is just as easy to type www.yahoo.com or www.live.com or www.msn.com or www.dogpile.com or...you get the point.
The article is FUD. If Google wants to place its services in the top results, it's their choice to. As long as they are willing to accept that they won't make as much money off of PPC (their only real source of income, outside of partnerships) for those keywords, they can do whatever they want. The law has no place there, because they aren't doing anything illegal, or even questionable.
Nuclear weapons do have a lotofuse, actually. The dropping of the atomic bomb also caused A) A huge push in technology and B) A fear of war when otherwise war may have broken out.
Also, Asbestos was used since the time of the Greeks as a non-extinguishable fuel. It was also used in blankets, tablecloths, etc. It was a pretty common part of every day life. This surely helped them move forward in civilization, bringing us where we are now. Sure, it may be useless- and even dangerous- now, but that doesn't mean that it never should have been used in the first place.
Same with these apples. We may find a way to make them better for you. Jam pack them with nutrients. Whatever. 50 years from now, we may find out it was ultimately unhealthy. Who knows? But not knowing is not a valid reason for not attempting to find out. Well, there is one community where it is...but it sure ain't the scientific one.
What is life though? Just a bunch of cells converting matter to energy until they can't do it anymore. Then it's dead. Add more cells doing the same thing in different ways with different materials, and life gets more interesting at the expense of being more fragile.
Slashdot Mirror
Why all the effort to apply DRM to free streaming content? Is it just because the networks think that everything needs to have DRM?
The solution is to stop asking for donations in-game, and gently remind the user that you are donation supported instead. This shouldn't be against the terms. Leave the donation link on your site. I know you say people hardly visit the site (as plug-ins tend to be made available on plug-in sites, where the distributors reaps 100% of the ad revenue). The way around that is an old "trick"- make exclusive content available on the plug-in's site. What that content could be is beyond what I could think up in the short time it took to write this message (I haven't played WoW in over a year), but if your problem is attracting visitors, then you need to tackle the web traffic issue first. One idea (off the top of my head) is if you author a plug-in that offers quest data, make the base plug-in available on the plug-in sites, but the data required for it available only via direct download on your site (this may require some policing of the distributors). If you don't want to make the players jump through hoops for basic functionality, find something you can add as a bonus to the plug-in, and make THAT available only on the site- users still get core functionality, and must visit your website (with donation requests) for more content. Tell the user in your start up message "Thank you for supporting independent plug-in developers [as a wink wink, nudge nudge]. To download [exclusive content here] please visit Quest-Helper.com"
I know it sucks that Blizzard is doing this, but I can see both sides. I hated seeing donation messages every time I logged in, regardless of whether I donated or not. In some cases, overly wordy donation requests blocked out important info in the chat box provided by other plug-ins.
If you'd like to go over some ideas, feel free to contact me off-forum. It's been a while since I've played WoW, but I do remember how much I relied on donation-supported add-ons when I did.
Silly QuantumG, it's obviously not the laws that are causing harm; Law is infallible. It's those pesky citizens that refuse to follow them that are the problem. How dare they have the gall to believe that they know better than the few elected officials that made the laws that govern the masses' every day lives?
I think you missed the joke yourself. It was also pretty subtle.
Sorry, that was marketing advice to DeBeers- I should have clarified.
Human blood means the diamond is worth more. The Canadian Diamonds lack the required blood, so are only worth a fraction of a "real" diamond.
The story i heard is that they were engineered as a cheap renewable food supply for bats...a story that sounds about as likely as the one you heard.
Honestly, after living in Florida for 4 years, i can say the only reason for a massive amount of mosquitoes and lovebugs is because you're sitting in a state that is mostly wetlands, surrounded on all sides by water. Wetlands + mosquitoes = prime breeding grounds.
Why are the mosquitoes so big? Why the hell is everything in Florida so big? The common Florida "House Spider" is about 5" across (tip-to-tip, not body size). The common Florida scorpion (I forget the name) is so big its tail flops over.
Compare any bug you see in Florida to its equivalent elsewhere, and you'll see it's a great deal larger. You live in a freaking jungle, for crying out loud.
They don't?
It's television/film. How entertaining is it to sit through 2 hours of asteroids burning up in the atmosphere, never hitting earth?
How entertaining is it to watch tiny asteroids hit wastelands?
Make no mistake, the entertainment industry will never be in the business of education. They are in the business of making money, and entertainment does that much better than education.
Or were you talking about Discovery channel? The same channel that shows two Hollywood effects guys, a Battlebots champion, and some relatively mediocre-looking eye candy by the name of Kari using non-scientific "testing" methods as an excuse to blow stuff up? The same channel that shows a relatively mediocre-looking British "survival expert" who hides himself inside animal carcasses and drinks his own urine, and says "because you'll never know when this knowledge will save your life." Maybe if you're on the next season of Fear Factor, and you need the money for a heart transplant. With this kind of educational value, it's not surprising at all that Discovery (and its myriad derivatives) always show asteroids blowing up New York and LA. Though to their credit, the last one I saw also blew up Paris and London. No Chicago though.
It's entertainment, just like FOX, MTV, NBC, CBS, CNN, etc...where FOX entertains hardcore conservatives, MTV entertains pre-pubescent Atreyu fans, NBC and CBS entertains the "long day at work and I want to kill my brain and drink a beer" crowd, CNN entertains the "We're all doomed and Britney's having another baby!" group...DSC entertains the pseudo-intellectuals and the stoners. And it does a damn good job at it. But nothing on television should ever be mistaken for "science" or even an attempt at it, as every channel out there is just selling you entertainment targeted at nearly every demographic.
I don't know about you (well I guess I do ;)), but Gutsy has been MUCH easier to work with than Feisty.
In Feisty, I had to give up on wireless with my USB wireless adapter, and run about 100ft of cable (and hide it so the girlfriend doesn't get put off by the wires) after fiddling with my USB for over a month- the best I was able to get was intermittent connections at best, that would get completely wiped out every update.
With Gutsy, I was able to connect immediately, but it would drop after 15-20 minutes. A quick google search and I fixed it.
Fusion is working much better than Compiz or Beryl ever did in Feisty (still a bug or two regarding snapping + wobbly windows)
The only problem I still have is with my Canon MP160...actually if I recall correctly, I fixed that too...again with better results than in Feisty (but that may be because I was teaching myself how to do it in Feisty, and this time it was much more retracing the steps...though I do seem to recall having less dependency issues this time around)
of course, YMMV...but I for one am LOVING Gutsy more than any previous release.
That's all well and good...but remember the old chart from health class? The one about having sex...when you have sex with your partner, your having sex with their ex-partners' partners...and their ex-partners' partners. In the end, we've all f***ed eachother. It's like 6 degrees of hide the sausage.
Same thing applies to social networking sites. You give trusted co-worker Roger your screen name, next thing you know you got Bob in accounting sending you a friend request, saying "hey man we work together!" because he's the one exception to Roger's one exception.
Yeah, you don't have to accept it, but then you're just the rude guy in the office.
I've gone so far (in the past, I don't care anymore since I freelance) as to have my linked in account, a facebook account, and a separate facebook account just for those i'm working with. When I leave the place of employment, I delete the account.
Yeah, it was a bit of a hassle...that's why I stopped though. I have 2 social sites and linked in. My clients only get my LinkedIn account (no exceptions), my friends get all three.
Ironically, in reference to the above Seinfeld quote, my name is George.
This is the Internet. Any topic will scratch someone's itch, somewhere.
Sad, but true.
First off I agree with you 100%.
/.'s sense of irony, that's for sure.)
They're like manufactured pop stars. Maybe the key to dethroning created candidates is the same as abolishing created pop stars...Make voting booths a nightmare to use, tell us when, where, why, and how we can use our political leaders, and arrest people for showing non-state approved patrioti- ah shit, none of that worked.
Any other ideas?
(captcha: unguided...I do love
I have no experience with google, but it is my experience elsewhere that in HR, "fairly flexible" means "will work long hours without compensation," "adaptable" means "will not make a fuss when his/her review date comes and goes without action" and/or "will accept that any bureaucratic injustices with the company do not exist, and if he/she has a grievance, it is actually the one filing the grievance who is in the wrong". And "not focusing on titles and hierarchy"...well that just means "not focusing on titles and hierarchy while those above him/her do."
Again, I don't know much about Google in specific, but this is the way HR tends to word things in most other companies.
But no, I'm not bitter at all.
The SG teams could be like rescue rangers getting silly colonists out of problems and dealing with various hostilities.
But are they mighty? And do they morph?
Teal'c
My wife is a lawyer and I once asked her why we seldom see these things happening in canada. That's because the justice is different in that here, to win a cause you need a damage, a fault and the correlation between the two. Most of the time, people cannot make a strong argument in the "correlation between the two" part and the case ends there.
Same thing happens here, buddy. Filing a lawsuit != winning a lawsuit. If I wanted to, I could sue you on the grounds that what you said offended me and caused me mental anguish. Does that mean I'll win? Not one bit. If you're suggesting that the state decide what lawsuits are allowed to even be filed, I'm quite scared.
From Dictionary.com:
Last I checked, Google had nothing near a monopoly. More people choose to use Google because it offers a superior product. But it is just as easy to type www.yahoo.com or www.live.com or www.msn.com or www.dogpile.com or...you get the point.
The article is FUD. If Google wants to place its services in the top results, it's their choice to. As long as they are willing to accept that they won't make as much money off of PPC (their only real source of income, outside of partnerships) for those keywords, they can do whatever they want. The law has no place there, because they aren't doing anything illegal, or even questionable.
Nuclear weapons do have a lot of use, actually. The dropping of the atomic bomb also caused A) A huge push in technology and B) A fear of war when otherwise war may have broken out.
Also, Asbestos was used since the time of the Greeks as a non-extinguishable fuel. It was also used in blankets, tablecloths, etc. It was a pretty common part of every day life. This surely helped them move forward in civilization, bringing us where we are now. Sure, it may be useless- and even dangerous- now, but that doesn't mean that it never should have been used in the first place.
Same with these apples. We may find a way to make them better for you. Jam pack them with nutrients. Whatever. 50 years from now, we may find out it was ultimately unhealthy. Who knows? But not knowing is not a valid reason for not attempting to find out. Well, there is one community where it is...but it sure ain't the scientific one.
What is life though? Just a bunch of cells converting matter to energy until they can't do it anymore. Then it's dead. Add more cells doing the same thing in different ways with different materials, and life gets more interesting at the expense of being more fragile.
As long as it's not your God.
I keed, I keed!
Mars is in our solar system...
Sure, if your country's first instinct to fixing a problem is to go to war...
I would also like to remind you that a lack of evidence supporting A is not always evidence supporting the inverse of A.
lately, it doesn't matter if B is acting like a freak or not, at least in the U.S.
Bother anyone for any reason these days, and you have to stop.
Political Correctness FTW!
Take that, Wikipedia! It's not just some plot device!
Errr...I mean, soon, it won't be a plot device anymore!
Crap, I mean, eventually it might not be just a plot device...
I mean...oh, fuck it. This is DARPA after all.