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New WoW Patch Brings Cross-Server Instances 342

ajs writes "World of Warcraft's Wrath of the Lich King expansion was staggered into 4 phases. The fourth and final phase, patch 3.3, was released on Tuesday. This patch is significant in that it will be the first introduction of one of the most anticipated new features in the game since PvP arenas: the cross-realm random dungeon, as well as the release of new end-game dungeons for 5, 10 and 25-player groups. The patch notes have been posted, and so has a trailer. The ultimate fight against the expansion's antagonist, the Lich King a.k.a. Arthas, will be gated as each of the four wings of the final dungeon are opened in turn — a process that may take several months. The next major patch after 3.3 (presumably 4.0) will be the release of Cataclysm, the next expansion."
Data Storage

Enthusiasts Convene To Say No To SQL, Hash Out New DB Breed 423

ericatcw writes "The inaugural NoSQL meet-up in San Francisco during last month's Yahoo! Apache Hadoop Summit had a whiff of revolution about it, like a latter-day techie version of the American Patriots planning the Boston Tea Party. Like the Patriots, who rebelled against Britain's heavy taxes, NoSQLers came to share how they had overthrown the tyranny of burdensome, expensive relational databases in favor of more efficient and cheaper ways of managing data, reports Computerworld."

Comment Vodka coolers? (Score 1) 327

I liked the bit about her making a point of mentioning she drank a significant amount of alcohol after the incident, and that she normally doesn't do this, but hey, I was stressed out.

For those of you who've never had to deal with things like domestic abuse, that's classical weasel talk for "I was drunk as a skunk and misbehaved as a result, but I won't admit it". It was no doubt prompted by the police smelling her breath or seeing an empty bottle, and asking uncomfortable questions as a result.

We'll never know what really happened, but I'm going with "abrasive drunk woman tears techie a new one" here. Although I can understand someone losing their cool after such a long and fruitless struggle to get their connection fixed.

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