Comment Re:Not sexism, but bitchiness (Score 1) 710
Bitch is often applied to males as well. For example: Male or female, you are a bitch.
Which means you're acting like a woman. How is that not sexist also?
Bitch is often applied to males as well. For example: Male or female, you are a bitch.
Which means you're acting like a woman. How is that not sexist also?
American Journalism sucks because rather than being unbiased, they have an agenda to promote. This is why nation wide targeting of certain groups by the IRS, or NSA spying on Americans is less important than a lane closure on a NJ bridge.
And why is Lois Learner talking to DOJ investigators (not taking the 5th) while taking the 5th in front of congress.
How do you we know this Japanese man isn't lying? 3 weeks ago you would have been a genius if you were the creator of Bitcoin. Remember this article was in progress for 2 months. As of this week you're a complete idiot and borderline scandalous if you invented Bitcoin.
Denials are easy to make
I almost puke this morning when I heard over BBC's news interviewing that female reporter from Newsweek.
She seems to be enjoying basking in her 15-second fame - and during the interview, she actually said that her action on "revealing the true identity of the founder of bitcoin" is not wrong, as it would not harm that Japanese guy in anyway.
We all know that journalism in America sucks, and this is one heck of a prime example how sucks American journalism can be.
As opposed to journalism in other countries which completely censor any bad news as propaganda?
Microsoft's list of reasons to upgrade include:
* Designed with the new mobile lifestyle in mind * More background designs and colors * Enhanced Bing search * A beautifully redesigned store. * Deep cloud integration with OneDrive.
With reasons like that I can't imagine why XP users aren't rushing out to drop $500 on a new PC, $100 on a new monitor and another $300 on a new printer/scanner then replacing/reinstalling all their software and trying to get everything working like it already was...
Uhh. How about the OS is 14 years old, has become deprecated and is no longer optimized for newer hardware. Those are good reasons. Apple and Linux EOL their OS's in 3 years or less. Microsoft does it after 14 (started after 9) and yet people like you still think it's stupid. You can get a solid pc package with printer/monitor for under $500.
This is a Man-in-the-Middle if the end-user is not notified of it.
It's probably covered in the Corporate Security Policy which the original poster failed to read. Most people don't bother to read these things just like an EULA and then get pissed when they realize what's happening. See NSA.
Yet... Now is probably a good time to start a Flexcoin exchange which you can then "rob" and shut down in a years time for some easy $500,000.
For all we know Flexcoin themselves could be the culprits. Get all this money, shutdown, say you were hacked and sell off the bitcoins. The whole damn thing is just a electronic ponzi scheme.
Don't they need a reason to deny it?
Of course if they deny it he may end up suing the USPTO again. So instead they do nothing.
I have no idea where this fascination of making windows boot 5 seconds faster and load up paint lighting fast comes into play, its often weeks if not months between times I reboot, and its all my space hungry big ass applications that are slow, not calculator
When you're doing presentations for customers you want your laptop to bootup fast. You want your reads in your applications to zoom because you're attempting to replicate a server class application on a desktop/laptop pc. There's all kinds of other examples but if you reboot every 3 weeks you could probably use a 4 year old machine. You're not utilizing it's potential.
NSA brought gchq in on. This because the y couldn't do it themselves (5th amendment etc.). So they have gchq do the dirty work and then gchq shares the intelligence. Welcome to the new USA.
The GCHQ has been violating personal freedoms far longer than the NSA. It's just accepted on your half of the pond.
Blizzard didn't listen to its customers. It listened to Bob Kotick and the need to cash more. When WoW was released, the Devs clearly stated that there would never be any paid extras to migrate, change class, change race, etc. Then Burning Crusade came, WoW was reset, and all previously existing content was nullified and underrated. At the initial Devs started to move on... and Blizzard was acquired by Activision... and more Devs moved on. The game is pretty dead since the second extension and most of the initial Devs left an empty shell Blizzard.
How is close to 8 million subscribers dead? If that's the case then nearly every other game is wasteland. The majority of the developers still remain. They've just expanded so it feels like they don't exist. Blizzard also funnels community feedback through a few individuals instead of the developers talking 1 on 1 with subscribers. Blizzard did remove a lot of the stale time wasting grinds. They served no purpose other than to waste time . Good riddance I say. I had enough of those in my 5 years of EQ. When you look at the big picture the game itself has changed but the core is still there. FYI: Activision has no affect on Blizzard's decisions. They are separate entities who were formerly owned by Vivendi.
Dear WoW players. Do you remember when the DKs came to be? And how everyone was moaning how, by definition, everyone who had no idea what to do seemed to play a DK?
The reason was simply that DKs started out at level 55. These people did not, like everyone else, start out small with a handful of skills, then get a few new ones every couple levels, with plenty of time to get to know them and get comfortable with them. No, they got everything dumped on their head at once with almost no time to find out what to do and how to play because, well, how would they?
Remember those raids in BRD (for the non-players, that's the first place where those DKs would get to play with the other kids in earnest) were a bit like, as a well known person put it, "a toddler driving a Leopard II tank with a faulty differential lock into a bicycle race of bi-polars"? They had no, zero, zilch, idea how to play their character.
And now, kids, it's like that all over again. Only much, much WORSE. Remember those moans you breathed whenever someone acted like he had no idea what to do, the comment "fuck, did you buy your char on EBay?" in chat? What used to be mostly unlikely will now be very likely: Someone dropped some coin to get a char they have no idea how to play with.
The group finder just got much, much more fun. To watch. Certainly not to play.
I remember playing with my 3 friends in my guild. The ones who actually read what their abilities were and researched a bit on the popular websites. Yeah, they were pro. It doesn't matter how much hand holding you give someone. If they are bad they will continue to be bad. All the resources are available and yet we still have tons of terrible players.
Everyone wanting to emulate WoW's success has absolutely destroyed PC gaming. Watered down content and gameplay that is engineered to be inordinately time consuming? No thanks.
Don't you mean WoW brought a new level of quality to PC gaming? There's so many garbage games out there released early, buggy, completely broken, etc with patches coming months later. WoW decimated those shitty companies by opening our eyes to a game that worked.
Paying your way into accomplishing some of the in-game goals without putting any effort into it sounds like pay to win to me. There is no rule that says you have to win the UltimateGoalOfTheGame (tm) to qualify.
Leveling to max level isn't an accomplishment. You can level any character while watching Gilligan's Island reruns the whole time. Players who believe it's an accomplishment are those who wasted hours of their lives leveling multiple characters before this service was announced.
I played World of Warcraft on and off for a few years. I was a pretty hardcore player from the launch of Burning Crusade through to near the end of Lich King and came back casual for a while for late Cataclysm and early Pandaria. I know the game pretty well and have friends who still play it.
So I can say with confidence that you would be absolutely mad to pay for a boost up to level 90 with prices like that (and if you are a new player, mad to pay at all).
There are two types of people now who might be starting out at level 1; new (or returning-after-a-gap-of-years) players starting their first characters, or veterans levelling an "alt" (a secondary - or indeed tertiary or beyond - character).
If you are a new player, then going through the level-up process is important and you should not skip it. First of all, this is where you learn how to play your character. Most end-game content involves group-play and if you have a brand new player at the level cap staring at a hotbar full of unfamiliar abilities, it will be a long time before you are actually competent enough to play alongside others. The level-up process, during which you are introduced to abilities one or two at a time, takes you at least part of the way along that learning curve for your character. It also exposes you to a lot of the game's lore, if that's your bag (I always found WoW's lore a bit boring and juvenile, but some people like it).
And if you're a veteran player, then there are lots and lots of things you can do to accelerate the level-up process for an alt without handing over real-money. I levelled up three alts while never taking them out of "rested" state (meaning they were getting double xp from kills). Heirlooms allow you to boost the rate of xp gain even faster, to the point where 1-80, by the launch of Pandaria, was just stupidly fast. I doubt even a brand new character takes over 100 hours of game time (or indeed, anything like it). Alts certainly take much less.
So yeah, I can't imagine Blizzard would have too many takers for this. Or at least, I hope they won't.
You learn very little in the leveling up process in today's game. People who say otherwise are stubborn and believe you should suffer the slow process like they did in 2004. Once you hit max level everything changes. There's guides, macros, priority lists, addons, etc that allow you to learn your class quickly and efficiently. Yet WoW still has tons of bad players. So forcing someone to spend extra "wasted" time leveling isn't going to fix them.
flip side: never played WoW, and I have no interest in trying because so many people have been doing it for so long that I'm pretty sure I would flounder about for a year getting killed all the time and called nooby nooby noob noob. This new way I could pay $60 and at least get my foot in the door. Much more tempting.
Your first time through would probably be better suited without using the boost. This will give you a feel for the game itself. The character on the other hand changes completely at max level so learning to play from 1-90 doesn't have much benefit.
Love may laugh at locksmiths, but he has a profound respect for money bags. -- Sidney Paternoster, "The Folly of the Wise"
