While this may stop certain kinds of spam, it will not stop other kinds of random spam.
All it takes is for a webpage displaying your e-mail address to be indexed by a search engine like google. Spam bots then harvest your e-mail address and there's no turning back. Also, use your email address to subscribe to anything and you run the chance of it getting sold or given to others. Not to mention people or friends that know you that might sign you up to a jokes website without thinking of the inevitable spam that will result. Finally, if your e-mail address is listed on a mailing list, all it takes is one person on it to subscribe it to never ending spam. Some people think it's cool to use a mailing list to subscribe to things with mailing list addresses to avoid giving out their own e-mail address.
I don't know about WoW, but in other MMORPG's I have played, there is simply too much money in the economy. The game had several ways to make money, but few ways to take it out of the economy. The effect was rampant inflation as the total amount of money in the economy kept increasing. If a new skill or event was created that would take large amounts of money off the economy, inflation and money farms would have less of an effect.
Before everyone goes nuts saying our goose is cooked. It appears that not all sources agree as to the distance of this star. While some sources claim the star is 1,950 light years away, others claim it is as much as 5,000 light years away.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060722/fob8. asp
On referring to RS Ophiuchi, ScienceNews states:
"That finding could have two interpretations, suggests the report's coauthor Richard Barry of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. If the star system resides at about 5,000 light-years from Earth, then the emissions reflect a mysterious, dense reservoir of material surrounding the two stars. If the system lies at only about one-third that distance, then the emission may for the first time be revealing a short-lived epoch during which the white dwarf, soon after its outburst, becomes as bloated as its red giant partner."
Sites like Space.com claim it is 5,000 light years away, while Wiki has it pegged at 1,950.
Meanwhile, the Harvard Gazette reports that:
"When do scientists think the Ophiuchi supernova will rock the universe? Of course, no one knows enough about what goes on out there to say. But the best guess is it will take thousands of years for the final bit of gas to accumulate and blow the white dwarf away. Meanwhile, these reports should stimulate many more astronomers to focus their attention on the constellation Ophiuchi."
So... I think it's a bit premature to claim we are doomed.
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While this may stop certain kinds of spam, it will not stop other kinds of random spam. All it takes is for a webpage displaying your e-mail address to be indexed by a search engine like google. Spam bots then harvest your e-mail address and there's no turning back. Also, use your email address to subscribe to anything and you run the chance of it getting sold or given to others. Not to mention people or friends that know you that might sign you up to a jokes website without thinking of the inevitable spam that will result. Finally, if your e-mail address is listed on a mailing list, all it takes is one person on it to subscribe it to never ending spam. Some people think it's cool to use a mailing list to subscribe to things with mailing list addresses to avoid giving out their own e-mail address.
Perhaps the submitter would like ignore the fact that AMD's stock price has also taken a beating.
I don't know about WoW, but in other MMORPG's I have played, there is simply too much money in the economy. The game had several ways to make money, but few ways to take it out of the economy. The effect was rampant inflation as the total amount of money in the economy kept increasing. If a new skill or event was created that would take large amounts of money off the economy, inflation and money farms would have less of an effect.
Consumers demanded power efficiency and performance. Imagine trying to cool a cpu running at 20ghz.
Before everyone goes nuts saying our goose is cooked. It appears that not all sources agree as to the distance of this star. While some sources claim the star is 1,950 light years away, others claim it is as much as 5,000 light years away. http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060722/fob8. asp
On referring to RS Ophiuchi, ScienceNews states:
"That finding could have two interpretations, suggests the report's coauthor Richard Barry of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. If the star system resides at about 5,000 light-years from Earth, then the emissions reflect a mysterious, dense reservoir of material surrounding the two stars. If the system lies at only about one-third that distance, then the emission may for the first time be revealing a short-lived epoch during which the white dwarf, soon after its outburst, becomes as bloated as its red giant partner."
Sites like Space.com claim it is 5,000 light years away, while Wiki has it pegged at 1,950.
Meanwhile, the Harvard Gazette reports that:
"When do scientists think the Ophiuchi supernova will rock the universe? Of course, no one knows enough about what goes on out there to say. But the best guess is it will take thousands of years for the final bit of gas to accumulate and blow the white dwarf away. Meanwhile, these reports should stimulate many more astronomers to focus their attention on the constellation Ophiuchi."
So... I think it's a bit premature to claim we are doomed.