You have to download the vista 64-bit version (microsoft provides a direct link), since installing it otherwise installs the 32-bit version which acts screwy, but yeah, it does.
I had three of my right upper central incisor... After the baby tooth, out came this unholy twisted enamel, truly the tooth of the devil himself. Maybe.
Really? The only problems I've ever had with XP stability was when I was screwing around with things I most certainly should not have. For me, all vista ever did was run slower on superior hardware, and that's hardly a good trade for a faster, less irritating OS that hasn't bluescreened in more than two years.
Well, I don't strictly NEED an iPhone, but what I wanted was a good interface for web browsing on a phone and plan I could afford - and until the iPhone, mobile internet here in Australia was pretty damn poor. It still is, but no more do I have to pay $15 for 5MB of data.
Oh sure, there are things like the HTC touch (with windows mobile... yerk) or blackberries, but I can't get any of them for anywhere near the same price because the iPhone was subsidised by Apple. I'm a poor student, I can't afford to spend nearly a thousand dollars on a phone. Plus, my carrier unlocked mine for free.
It may have had something to do with the fact that several of the reactivations were rather close together, time-wise.
As for ubuntu, I use windows because I am a PC gamer, and unfortunately linux restrains those options. When I was only playing WoW, it was fine, but not anymore. I do have ubuntu installed on my laptop though (which came preinstalled with vista).
When I called, they were unable to help because the "servers are down". Besides, I have less problems with this one than I have with legitimate copies.
It wouldn't let me, and so I had to speak directly to a customer service representative - in a call centre in India - who told me they could do nothing because the "servers were down".
I'm using an illegitimate copy of XP right now. My genuine copy lies at the bottom of my desk drawer, rendered useless by the asshats that decided to make small hardware changes require reauthorisation, using up my allotted attempts. After getting no help at all from customer service I downloaded and installed a cracked copy in less than the time than it took for customer service to answer my bloody call...
I am now certain to exterminate WGA from any and all computers I come into contact with.
Yeah, I went into fallout 3 full of hopes and expectations, I found oblivion with guns. I've tried my best, I really have, but I really can't get into it much.
I think there's definitely an argument for monarchy. I mean, a person born into and raised to lead a country could do a lot better than the absolute tits we've got...
Of course we humans are a fickle race and so not all would be good, so that's where it all falls apart really. Maybe if we could engineer the perfect leader, but nah, probably never going to happen, we'll just continue with a majority of idiotic but charismatic people in power.
A constitutional monarchy is a form of constitutional government, wherein either an elected or hereditary monarch is the head of state, unlike in an absolute monarchy, wherein the king or the queen is the sole source of political power, as he or she is not legally bound by the constitution.
Well, viewing it rather than producing it could be viewed as less harmful, though then again without the demand there probably wouldn't be a supply, so it's the illegal drug industry all over again.
Exactly - it won't protect children at all, except the very young who shouldn't be using it without supervision anyway. Take any high school student that's been using their school's computers and they'll have a rather better than average knowledge of web-based proxies, which every one of them has been using to get around the DET's blocking of facebook, myspace, various flash games, etc. It's only a small leap from there to using a software-based solution, and I know I'll be distributing a couple of choice ones to the few people I still know in high school. >:3
Besides, it has an added benefit - if I somehow get caught and charged under whatever law for circumventing the filter, I'm taking someone down with me!
Might work in the US and other countries with good net, but it would be a stupid decision here in Australia. I mean, the average broadband plan would probably have maybe 4GB of usage. I'm paying a bundle for 40GB a month.
Unless of course they got the ISPs to host the data unmetered...
I was helping a friend out with a heroic dungeon last night. The final boss is engaged on dragon mounts, of which there are three kinds, tanking, DPS, and healing. They have three abilities each.
Five attempts later we were still trying to get the damnable druid to use his mount's time stop ability after the boss shouted and enraged. It's not that difficult, but he couldn't get it right. These are the kinds of people developers have to cater to. -_-
Before a friend convinced me to play WoW I played a myriad of free MMOs, the first to cost me anything being Guild Wars. The thing about many free games is that they are that, free, and so some of the people who play them do not care about potential repercussions because they don't play by the rules - duping, botting, hacking, etc. It being free and all also means many of their players are young - and even when I was their age I was taken aback by the immaturity displayed by these people.
By no means am I saying these issues aren't apparent in WoW and other subscription-based games, but the effect is reduced. The game costs them money so they are less likely to do such stupid things. Watching some of my younger family members play runescape, which I never thought even remotely worth my while, it was shocking to see the amount of scamming prevalent in the game world.
Oh sure, we've still got immaturity, and plenty of it. We still get complete and utter morons, we still get kids that are incredibly irritating (though plenty that aren't, too). There are still hacks and bots and scams. There's just less of them, though there is more of an attitude I put down to the average American consumer, which I haven't seen mirrored as much playing with my oceanic neighbors - a sense of entitlement, as if your 50c a day makes you the centre of the developer's universe.
If there were no subscription, everyone could get in, and while I think everyone should be able to enjoy the game, considering the quality of the majority of people I used to play with, I don't think it's ever remotely possible for them to enjoy the game and allow me to do the same.
Problem as I see it is that MMOs are by their nature social games, but gamers do have a tendency to be antisocial, so developers have to cater to solo players.
Now, a lot of the WoW players I meet are rather stupid, and wouldn't be able to handle complex team-based puzzles, as much as I would like them. The subscription aspect of the game means it does attract a better clientele as a whole, which obviously doesn't say much for MMO players.
Sure, I'd like to see some massively multiplayer games that require a bit more skill or intelligence, but it's probably not going to happen - these things are run as a business and cutting out the enormous amount of mentally challenged customers is not going to be a smart business decision.
I was at the Sydney protest, and there were definitely some/b/tards there. Among the shouted replies of "none" and so on to the question of "How many 'accidents' are we going to take from the Australian government?!" there were a few "OVER 9000!".
We also had dave the happy singer. He sang never gonna give you up and still alive. XD
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Well, this is the article I read on the subject. :\
You have to download the vista 64-bit version (microsoft provides a direct link), since installing it otherwise installs the 32-bit version which acts screwy, but yeah, it does.
Yeah, that'd be grand.
:P
"I played GTA when I was 6, so now I'm an orphan."
Who the hell thought that "ibi" would be a good replacement anyway? Some sort of tongue twister enthusiast group?
I had three of my right upper central incisor... After the baby tooth, out came this unholy twisted enamel, truly the tooth of the devil himself. Maybe.
Anyway, after that my normal one came through.
Really? The only problems I've ever had with XP stability was when I was screwing around with things I most certainly should not have. For me, all vista ever did was run slower on superior hardware, and that's hardly a good trade for a faster, less irritating OS that hasn't bluescreened in more than two years.
Well, I don't strictly NEED an iPhone, but what I wanted was a good interface for web browsing on a phone and plan I could afford - and until the iPhone, mobile internet here in Australia was pretty damn poor. It still is, but no more do I have to pay $15 for 5MB of data.
Oh sure, there are things like the HTC touch (with windows mobile... yerk) or blackberries, but I can't get any of them for anywhere near the same price because the iPhone was subsidised by Apple. I'm a poor student, I can't afford to spend nearly a thousand dollars on a phone. Plus, my carrier unlocked mine for free.
It may have had something to do with the fact that several of the reactivations were rather close together, time-wise.
As for ubuntu, I use windows because I am a PC gamer, and unfortunately linux restrains those options. When I was only playing WoW, it was fine, but not anymore. I do have ubuntu installed on my laptop though (which came preinstalled with vista).
When I called, they were unable to help because the "servers are down". Besides, I have less problems with this one than I have with legitimate copies.
It wouldn't let me, and so I had to speak directly to a customer service representative - in a call centre in India - who told me they could do nothing because the "servers were down".
I'm using an illegitimate copy of XP right now. My genuine copy lies at the bottom of my desk drawer, rendered useless by the asshats that decided to make small hardware changes require reauthorisation, using up my allotted attempts. After getting no help at all from customer service I downloaded and installed a cracked copy in less than the time than it took for customer service to answer my bloody call...
I am now certain to exterminate WGA from any and all computers I come into contact with.
I wonder if I could patent that. It would likely make somebody very, very rich.
Yeah, I went into fallout 3 full of hopes and expectations, I found oblivion with guns. I've tried my best, I really have, but I really can't get into it much.
I think there's definitely an argument for monarchy. I mean, a person born into and raised to lead a country could do a lot better than the absolute tits we've got...
Of course we humans are a fickle race and so not all would be good, so that's where it all falls apart really. Maybe if we could engineer the perfect leader, but nah, probably never going to happen, we'll just continue with a majority of idiotic but charismatic people in power.
A constitutional monarchy is a form of constitutional government, wherein either an elected or hereditary monarch is the head of state, unlike in an absolute monarchy, wherein the king or the queen is the sole source of political power, as he or she is not legally bound by the constitution.
Well, viewing it rather than producing it could be viewed as less harmful, though then again without the demand there probably wouldn't be a supply, so it's the illegal drug industry all over again.
Stupid world. Why won't you work good.
Well, it is summer down here in the southern hemisphere.
I have a two year old laptop, and my dad has a three month old laptop, and they both have absolutely terrible speakers.
Exactly - it won't protect children at all, except the very young who shouldn't be using it without supervision anyway. Take any high school student that's been using their school's computers and they'll have a rather better than average knowledge of web-based proxies, which every one of them has been using to get around the DET's blocking of facebook, myspace, various flash games, etc. It's only a small leap from there to using a software-based solution, and I know I'll be distributing a couple of choice ones to the few people I still know in high school. >:3
Besides, it has an added benefit - if I somehow get caught and charged under whatever law for circumventing the filter, I'm taking someone down with me!
Might work in the US and other countries with good net, but it would be a stupid decision here in Australia. I mean, the average broadband plan would probably have maybe 4GB of usage. I'm paying a bundle for 40GB a month.
Unless of course they got the ISPs to host the data unmetered...
I was helping a friend out with a heroic dungeon last night. The final boss is engaged on dragon mounts, of which there are three kinds, tanking, DPS, and healing. They have three abilities each.
Five attempts later we were still trying to get the damnable druid to use his mount's time stop ability after the boss shouted and enraged. It's not that difficult, but he couldn't get it right. These are the kinds of people developers have to cater to. -_-
Before a friend convinced me to play WoW I played a myriad of free MMOs, the first to cost me anything being Guild Wars. The thing about many free games is that they are that, free, and so some of the people who play them do not care about potential repercussions because they don't play by the rules - duping, botting, hacking, etc. It being free and all also means many of their players are young - and even when I was their age I was taken aback by the immaturity displayed by these people.
By no means am I saying these issues aren't apparent in WoW and other subscription-based games, but the effect is reduced. The game costs them money so they are less likely to do such stupid things. Watching some of my younger family members play runescape, which I never thought even remotely worth my while, it was shocking to see the amount of scamming prevalent in the game world.
Oh sure, we've still got immaturity, and plenty of it. We still get complete and utter morons, we still get kids that are incredibly irritating (though plenty that aren't, too). There are still hacks and bots and scams. There's just less of them, though there is more of an attitude I put down to the average American consumer, which I haven't seen mirrored as much playing with my oceanic neighbors - a sense of entitlement, as if your 50c a day makes you the centre of the developer's universe.
If there were no subscription, everyone could get in, and while I think everyone should be able to enjoy the game, considering the quality of the majority of people I used to play with, I don't think it's ever remotely possible for them to enjoy the game and allow me to do the same.
Problem as I see it is that MMOs are by their nature social games, but gamers do have a tendency to be antisocial, so developers have to cater to solo players.
Now, a lot of the WoW players I meet are rather stupid, and wouldn't be able to handle complex team-based puzzles, as much as I would like them. The subscription aspect of the game means it does attract a better clientele as a whole, which obviously doesn't say much for MMO players.
Sure, I'd like to see some massively multiplayer games that require a bit more skill or intelligence, but it's probably not going to happen - these things are run as a business and cutting out the enormous amount of mentally challenged customers is not going to be a smart business decision.
I was at the Sydney protest, and there were definitely some /b/tards there. Among the shouted replies of "none" and so on to the question of "How many 'accidents' are we going to take from the Australian government?!" there were a few "OVER 9000!".
We also had dave the happy singer. He sang never gonna give you up and still alive. XD
No way, it teaches school kids about proxies. :P