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by chops 18y ago
Very clever, and it's probably true that "intelligent mistakes" are the keys to believable and (more importantly) to enjoyable gamer experience, especially in the domain of games where everything is known and completely predictable (such as
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by chops 18y ago
We had exactly the same problem several years ago. We had lots of bats in our attic of our vacation cottage. In an effort to lock them out, we effectively locked them in, and they started coming in to the house through openings from the a
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by chops 18y ago
If they look like they'll be remotely interested, I give them an actual quick description: "I run a business that sells websites to video game players." On the other hand, if I don't really want to talk with them, I'll just give them the ol
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by chops 18y ago
I have to agree that it's not close to "grilling." Clearly Verizon feels the sting from iPhone converts and is trying to quantify just how much of a hit it's costing them.
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by chops 18y ago
Link?
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by chops 18y ago
Maybe I'm just retarded, but I couldn't find the answer to my question on your site. Does your service just pound the exact page that's targeted, or does it follow links, submit forms, etc to try to simulate actual users?
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by chops 18y ago
This is exactly what I do. Tom's Hardware charts are so very helpful when comparing benchmarks for graphics cards (and CPUs for that matter).
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The Postmodernism Generator (hit refresh a few times)(elsewhere.org)
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by chops 18y ago
Ubuntu comes with 5.2, so I'm assuming it'll adopt 5.3 rather quickly.
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by chops 18y ago
This is especially excellent advice. For my business, I list the phone number on the "contact us" page and I've scored countless sales simply because someone was there to answer the phone (the phone number is just my cell phone, no real ne
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by chops 18y ago
I'd like to second (third, really) Startup.com. It's a great documentary showing what not to do in a startup and the problems that faced many of the poorly run Web 1.0 companies before the nasdaq tanked in 2001.
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by chops 18y ago
My friends has simply notified me that my account was hijacked, as I rarely actually logged in anymore. My friends said that they would IM my account, and get a response either in russian, or in very broken English, informing them that thi
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by chops 18y ago
About 3 years ago, my 6-digit ICQ number got hijacked without any way of getting it back (I had created it with a geocities.com email address). That was when I stopped using it.
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by chops 18y ago
That's precisely why I find sites like WebHostingTalk.com so valuable. You can talk with others who are interested in all sorts of Web Hosting-related information, moreover, you get to actually converse with some of the web hosting provide
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by chops 18y ago
I've always been inspired by Arnold's story and his dedication to whatever he was pursuing, be it Bodybuilding, movie-making, or real estate (and of course being the Governator). While I don't necessarily agree with his politics, he's an i
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by chops 18y ago
Many were upset over the whole "Supreme Court Election" thing, but once that debacle was over, it was business as usual.
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by chops 18y ago
"Hi, my name is Steve. I come from a rough area. I used to be addicted to crack, but now I am off, trying to stay clean. That is why I'm selling magazine subscriptions..."
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by chops 18y ago
Despite this post being 3-4 years old, this remains good advice. You can't please everyone, and you can't implement every feature that every user thinks they'd want for their one specific situation. Instead you take all those requests and
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by chops 18y ago
That was a fun read. Doing the same thing over and over again for years at the hours the writer says he was working is sure to induce burnout. But if you change even the industry you're writing for and/or the type of projects you're workin
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by chops 18y ago
I play Piano and Clarinet. While it's been about 8 years, I used to write orchestral and new age MIDI music for a few years ( http://gumm.8k.com )
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by chops 18y ago
In the current and former version of PalmOS, they've always had Windows based hardware (em|sim)ulators and a decent SDK (I used to develop software for old PalmOS 3.5 and 4.0). Natively, the languages they were written in were C and C++, t
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by chops 18y ago
I feel exactly as you do. I've stuck with my Treo 755p (and 700p before that) and avoided the phones you've mentioned for all those reasons. I'm completely stoked for the Pre.
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by chops 18y ago
I've been waiting for the magic bullet phone, and this is looking like it could be it. I've been (and still am) a long-time Palm user - most lately the 700p, then the 755p all with Verizon, and though the OS is clunky and old, it works well
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by chops 18y ago
Thanks. I offered the first 15 sites free on a first-come, first-serve basis, which was while I was in beta yet. In a few cases, a few people had come to my own guild's site asking where it was hosted, and I redirected them to the hosting
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by chops 18y ago
I should have specified that it is actually multiplatform. The site currently natively supports about 15 MMO games, and has an interface for customizing and specifying your own game parameters (level cap, tradeskills, classes, races, etc).
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by chops 18y ago
Hah...no. Age of Conan didn't take much of a dent at all in WoW's numbers. It had a lot of hype, but the hard core pretty much gravitated back to WoW since AoC's endgame was pretty much non-existent, at least from what I heard (I only mad
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by chops 18y ago
Oh sure, usually after a long stint of coding (several weeks), I'll take a break from coding. But regardless of what kind of week it is, I'm answering phone calls and emails and doing general support (had to do support even on my Honeymoon
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by chops 18y ago
That one, I honestly couldn't estimate. Some weeks I do no coding and just answer support emails, phone calls, and forum posts. Other weeks, I'll code seemingly nonstop over 80-90 hours/week and won't do anything else (I won't even feel l
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by chops 18y ago
I don't remember how profitable 2006 was (since the income was combined with consulting at the end for taxes), but for 2007 and 2008, it was something like $90k revenue each year. 2008 was on a course for a bigger year (March did $14k) and
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by chops 18y ago
Everyone's gotta start somewhere, and eventually, maybe one of those projects will take off and start generating a decent amount of profit. A few years ago when I was a consultant, in my free time I worked on my World of Warcraft guild's we

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