oneplus999 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Apex of wow was Wrath of the lich king (Score 1) 276

by oneplus999 on Saturday October 22, 2011 @04:42AM (#37802502) Attached to: Blizzard Announces New WoW Expansion: Mists of Pandaria

WOTLK was pretty casual friendly, for raiding. Cata has definitely NOT been. The top guild that took down the lasts raid boss (I forget which guild) took 500+ tries to do it in. So, while they may have done it about a week after it came out, it was definitely not "casual friendly". Fortunately, with the introduction of the raid finder next tier, they will have a new mode that will be casual friendly, while keeping normal and hard mode for the hardcore raiders. Next expac, at launch, will have 3 new raids, i think 9 new 5mans, 2 revamped old 5mans, new challenge modes for those, and a new group questing scenarios thing, while pvp gets 1 new battleground and a dinky looking pokemon clone, so, while the plot might end up involving more faction-conflict (which was actually a BIG theme in WOTLK too), there's no sign that the gameplay will be more pvp focused.

Comment Re:Whole lot of meh (Score 1) 276

by oneplus999 on Saturday October 22, 2011 @04:38AM (#37802488) Attached to: Blizzard Announces New WoW Expansion: Mists of Pandaria

Pandarens as a race don't fit the world

Yeah, talking pandas? How silly... but talking cows, jamaican trolls, eskimo walruses, and fish-frog men? Totally legit.

Comment In soviet russia... (Score 0) 140

by oneplus999 on Friday October 14, 2011 @04:20PM (#37717880) Attached to: Throwable 36-Camera Ball Takes Spherical Panoramas

balls take photo of YOU!

Comment Re:Don't understand spending time/money on game as (Score 1) 171

by oneplus999 on Monday August 15, 2011 @05:14PM (#37099556) Attached to: EVE Online Ponzi Scheme Nets $50k Worth of In-Game Currency

It makes as much sense as someone paying thousands of dollars for a single club instead of buying a $100 set of clubs off ebay. They're playing the same game as everyone else either way, but some people are very competitive and willing to pay for an advantage.

Comment Re:Eh, good riddance (Score 1) 225

by oneplus999 on Tuesday September 28, 2010 @01:51PM (#33725322) Attached to: Bookmark Synchronizer Xmarks Hangs Up Their Hats

what was saved and will that be getting sold off after they "close" ?)

I've been using their service for a while, including password saves on pretty much everything but banking sites (so email, amazon, newegg, etc) with no issues. From one of their pages on the closing, http://www.xmarks.com/about/shutdown :

Privacy and Your Data We understand that you have entrusted us with the task of storing your personal browser data and we take that responsibility very seriously. * We will never sell or release your personal data, and we will make sure to delete all user data once the Xmarks service shuts down. * If you'd like to take immediate action, click here to immediately delete your account and user data. (Make sure you have all your data first!)

Comment Re:Overkill? (Score 4, Informative) 225

by oneplus999 on Tuesday September 28, 2010 @01:46PM (#33725228) Attached to: Bookmark Synchronizer Xmarks Hangs Up Their Hats

At least on Firefox, your bookmarks are no longer saved as a simple file. As such, a "very small shell script" would not do the same job.

go to about:config, change browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML to true.

Comment Re:CS classes need to be in the real world. (Score 1) 694

by oneplus999 on Monday April 19, 2010 @03:26PM (#31900708) Attached to: Why Computer Science Students Cheat

This is intro level CS classes that they are talking about. You don't graduate from GT with a CS degree (as I did) without taking several classes working on teams of at least 4, so your coworker has no excuse.
The purpose of these classes is to teach the basics of programming, not how to reuse other people's code or to work in teams, as those are obviously higher level skills taught in higher level courses.

Comment Cloning (Score 1) 201

by oneplus999 on Friday April 16, 2010 @12:29PM (#31873274) Attached to: UK Scientists Create a Three-Parent Embryo

Sounds like what they actually did was clone the baby of two parents using a second woman's egg to grow it in.

Comment Re:Ubisoft hates Troops (Score 1) 678

by oneplus999 on Friday March 05, 2010 @04:33PM (#31375226) Attached to: Ubisoft's New DRM Cracked In One Day

I hope this DRM fails and fails hard, if only to scare other publishers away from something that is truly anti-customer (not consumer).

Search and replace "assassin's creed" with "spore". No, they will not learn.

Comment Re:My wife's on fire (Score 1) 268

by oneplus999 on Wednesday February 17, 2010 @06:23PM (#31177152) Attached to: StarCraft II Closed Beta Begins

Or was it my life for A'jur?

aiur, actually, was the name of the protoss homeworld. i always thought dying dragoons sounded like they were saying "fuck you".

Comment revoke mod points? (Score 1) 200

by oneplus999 on Monday February 15, 2010 @09:27PM (#31151132) Attached to: Subversives In South Carolina Mostly Safe

does this mean we can revoke all the mod points gained by the tin-foil-hat wearers when the first story was posted?

Comment Re:Easy way to "democratically" jail and fine diss (Score 1) 849

by oneplus999 on Wednesday February 10, 2010 @09:13PM (#31093812) Attached to: Subversive Groups Must Now Register In South Carolina

Don't like someone badmouthing the government? Require them to register. Then when they (obviously) don't do it, stick 'em in jail and take their money.

badmouthing the government != subversion, since you aren't, you know, actually subverting anything. not saying the law makes sense or anything, but even if it did include that, first amendment > sc laws, so it wouldn't hold up in court anyway. try again.

Enjoy your democracy, guys.

thanks i will.

Comment people's beliefs in god are really just their own: (Score 0) 23

by oneplus999 on Monday January 04, 2010 @04:15PM (#30645322) Attached to: The Most Obvious Scientific Discoveries of 2009

they missed one. http://www.pnas.org/content/106/51/21533.short
"In particular, reasoning about God's beliefs activated areas associated with self-referential thinking more so than did reasoning about another person's beliefs. Believers commonly use inferences about God's beliefs as a moral compass, but that compass appears especially dependent on one's own existing beliefs."

Comment Re:I fear the day (Score 1) 655

by oneplus999 on Friday December 04, 2009 @11:55AM (#30324434) Attached to: Man "Beats" World of Warcraft

it was almost entirely by pugging heroics

That is, until I could run Toc10, which is also puggable.

Comment Re:I fear the day (Score 1) 655

by oneplus999 on Friday December 04, 2009 @11:54AM (#30324412) Attached to: Man "Beats" World of Warcraft

Apparently giant wall of text = insightful? You don't know what you are talking about. Any fresh 80 can get geared up in a matter of weeks to be running the current raid content, thanks to the way Blizzard uses emblems. How do I know? Cause I've done it. Got my druid to 80 at the beginning of this patch, and now I'm the best geared healer in my guild, and I it was almost entirely by pugging heroics. O well, news is a day old now so I guess no one cares.

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