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Thursday,Apr 10 2008, 07:39:15 AMthat just cool
"Late last night, after the excitement of PuGing had worn off, I logged back over to my rogue to try to get some quests done and possibly hit 55. (It didn’t quite work out that way, though.) I was standing at the mailbox by the bank in Iron Forge, and noticed a commotion. Someone was running a TriviaBot, similar to what I’d seen in IRC channels ages and ages ago, giving out prizes to winners. The TriviaBot was running in /say, so it wasn’t disturbing any of the other chat channels (such as General, Trade, etc), and folks had gathered around to participate. (I came in 2nd during one round! ) The questions covered things such as obscure lore (for example, one question was “Who was Cenarius’s father. ”), Name the Zone (based on brief descriptions), raid bosses, tier sets, and various other game-related questions. wow gold Many of the questions came down to who could type fastest, but some were actually difficult, and all of them were fun. There were a few typos in the script, but I’m sure that’s something to get ironed out in subsequent releases. In short, it was really just a fun thing to come across. It’s a cute way to break up the monotony of questing or farming, and it was an interesting way to bring people together. I thoroughly enjoyed it. For those that are curious, the TriviaBot add-on can be found here. I would suggest, of course, that you practice courteous use of the add-on. I’m sure that’s a no-brainer to some, but it does have the potential to create unwanted spam in various chat channels in-game, so it bears mentioning. wow lvl service My suggestion (and this is likely what I will do) would be to create a separate chat channel, such as WoWTrivia, in which to run the bot, and advertise the channel for those that wish to participate, that way you’re not disturbing players that don’t wish to participate." "By now we all have a good idea of some of the fantastic badge gear that will be available in 2.4.
Along with the fantastic stats on these pieces is a frightening price tag. (I won’t argue that they are over priced, this is truly great gear and worth every badge IMO.) For a casual player, though, that’s an awful lot of badges. 150 badges can take a LONG LONG time if you only have a few hours or so a week to play. The good thing is, that just like the 5000g riding skill, with time it is doable for anyone. With that in mind, though, you better spend those badges wisely if you can’t farm 50+ per week like some more hardcore players. wow gold So, what should you spend them on. Well, I won’t pretend to know all the classes, but I thought I’d take a look at a few and suggest what I would personally spend my badges on first. Yes, I understand a lot of decisions will be based on players’ individual gear situations, so take these with a grain of salt. Resto Druid First, the class with which I am most familiar. Right now I am pretty well decked out in Kara and badge gear, and there are a few directions I could go. Should I invest in [Shroud of Nature's Harmony]. wow leveln Well, I’m currently wearing the [Windhawk Hauberk] and this chest piece is a bit of an underwhelming upgrade over it. Sure, I could care less about the spell crit on the Windhawk, but the overall bump I would get stat-wise makes it tough for me to make the plunge.The world of PvP The [Grovewalker's Leggings], though, are looking real nice compared to my [Earthsoul Leggings]. They afford me a bigger stat jump, and will certainly push my +heal after gemming and spellthread as well. One last item that is intriguing is the [Gavel of Naaru Blessings].
wow level service Right now I have [Shard of the Virtuous], and this is a big bump in +heal and stamina, at the cost of a little MP5. I also HATE how the shard looks. If pressed, right now I think I’ll shoot for the Gavel over the leggings, at least to start. (If I weren’t a LW, and didn’t have the Windhawk, I think I’d go with the chest first.) " .
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Thursday,Apr 10 2008, 07:35:43 AMMost Looking Forward to in Patch 2.4
"I have been in the dark about Patch 2.4 for a while because I started to seclude myself from the WoW news while I was sick. I just didn’t care to follow anything. Now that has all changed. I found the changes they are putting into the patch and I’m totally stoked about some of it. Here’s my list: Magister’s Terrace - There’s going to be enough well-geared people in my guild to let me run along on such a nice 5-man instance. wow gold I can’t devote the time to Kara, and I’m not geared for anything above that, so this is my end-game action for now. The end (finally!) to getting CC’d mobs broken with multiple mob actions, such as Cleave, Multi-Shot, Avenger’s Shield, and Swipe. This is going to be a major improvement in the terrible life of PUGgers who have to group with idiots who can’t play their class. For me and my pallies, I will enjoy Turn Undead working on demons, too. In groups with druids, everyone will benefit from 20% lower mana cost on Regrowth. wow lvl service Characters will now retain talented spell ranks so when they retalent they do not have to relearn the spells from trainers. Woot! From wowwiki.com, “A representative of the Keepers of Time has been spotted at the World’s End Tavern in Shattrath. Players in good standing with the faction will be granted ease of passage to the Caverns of Time.” ‘Bout time! I hate getting to Tanaris from Shattrath. Here’s to hoping it comes out Tuesday. Gitr is a full-time technical editor, database administrator, and husband... and a part-time University of South Florida student, and gamer by night. wow gold Gitr has been playing and blogging WoW since September 2005 and has several 60-plus toons and dozens of lowbies on 3 US realms due to a serious condition called ""alt-ism.""" "By studying how people behave during disease outbreaks in virtual online worlds, epidemiologists hope to uncover real-world epidemic insights. Two years ago, so-called Corrupted Blood swept the World of Warcraft.
(Wikipedia describes the outbreak here.) A new Lancet Infectious Disease study found that players responded as they might in the real world: some risked infection to save others. Some fled. And some spread the disease intentionally. As the BBC reports, it's difficult to study real-world epidemics: She said a major constraint for epidemiologists studying disease dynamics at the moment was that they were limited to observational and retrospective studies. For example, it would be unethical to release an infectious disease in real life in order to study what the consequences might be. Computer models allow for experimentation on virtual populations without such limitations, but still rely on mathematical rules to approximate human behaviour. wow leveln Of course, a virtual world is necessarily virtual -- but it's another tool in the epidemiological toolbox. " " management theory has followed a smooth trajectory, from enslavement to empowerment. The 20th century began with Taylorism — engineer Frederick Winslow Taylor's notion that workers are interchangeable cogs — but with every decade came a new philosophy, each advocating that more power be passed down the chain of command to division managers, group leaders, and workers themselves. In 1977, Robert Greenleaf's Servant Leadership argued that CEOs should think of themselves as slaves to their workers and focus on keeping them happy. Silicon Valley has always been at the forefront of this kind of egalitarianism. In the 1940s, Bill Hewlett and David Packard pioneered what business author Tom Peters dubbed ""managing by walking around,"" an approach that encouraged executives to communicate informally with their employees. wow level service In the 1990s, Intel's executives expressed solidarity with the engineers by renouncing their swanky corner offices in favor of standard-issue cubicles. And today, if Google hasn't made itself a Greenleaf-esque slave to its employees, it's at least a cruise director: The Mountain View campus is famous for its perks, including in-house masseuses, roller-hockey games, and a cafeteria where employees gobble gourmet vittles for free.
What's more, Google's engineers have unprecedented autonomy; they choose which projects they work on and whom they work with. And they are encouraged to allot 20 percent of their work week to pursuing their own software ideas. The result. Products like Gmail and Google News, which began as personal endeavors. " .
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Thursday,Apr 10 2008, 07:29:58 AMHow Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything
"One Infinite Loop, Apple's street address, is a programming in-joke — it refers to a routine that never ends. But it is also an apt description of the travails of parking at the Cupertino, California, campus. Like most things in Silicon Valley, Apple's lots are egalitarian; there are no reserved spots for managers or higher-ups. Even if you're a Porsche-driving senior executive, if you arrive after 10 am, you should be prepared to circle the lot endlessly, hunting for a space. wow gold But there is one Mercedes that doesn't need to search for very long, and it belongs to Steve Jobs. If there's no easy-to-find spot and he's in a hurry, Jobs has been known to pull up to Apple's front entrance and park in a handicapped space. (Sometimes he takes up two spaces.) It's become a piece of Apple lore — and a running gag at the company. Employees have stuck notes under his windshield wiper: ""Park Different."" They have also converted the minimalist wheelchair symbol on the pavement into a Mercedes logo. Jobs' fabled attitude toward parking reflects his approach to business: For him, the regular rules do not apply. Everybody is familiar with Google's famous catchphrase, ""Don't be evil."" It has become a shorthand mission statement for Silicon Valley, encompassing a variety of ideals that — proponents say — are good for business and good for the world: Embrace open platforms. wow lvl service Trust decisions to the wisdom of crowds. Treat your employees like gods. It's ironic, then, that one of the Valley's most successful companies ignored all of these tenets. Google and Apple may have a friendly relationship — Google CEO Eric Schmidt sits on Apple's board, after all — but by Google's definition, Apple is irredeemably evil, behaving more like an old-fashioned industrial titan than a different-thinking business of the future.
Apple operates with a level of secrecy that makes Thomas Pynchon look like Paris Hilton. It locks consumers into a proprietary ecosystem. wow gold And as for treating employees like gods. Yeah, Apple doesn't do that either. " "But by deliberately flouting the Google mantra, Apple has thrived. When Jobs retook the helm in 1997, the company was struggling to survive. Today it has a market cap of $105 billion, placing it ahead of Dell and behind Intel. Its iPod commands 70 percent of the MP3 player market. wow leveln Four billion songs have been purchased from iTunes. The iPhone is reshaping the entire wireless industry. Even the underdog Mac operating system has begun to nibble into Windows' once-unassailable dominance; last year, its share of the US market topped 6 percent, more than double its portion in 2003. It's hard to see how any of this would have happened had Jobs hewed to the standard touchy-feely philosophies of Silicon Valley. Apple creates must-have products the old-fashioned way: by locking the doors and sweating and bleeding until something emerges perfectly formed. It's hard to see the Mac OS and the iPhone coming out of the same design-by-committee process that produced Microsoft Vista or Dell's Pocket DJ music player. wow level service Likewise, had Apple opened its iTunes-iPod juggernaut to outside developers, the company would have risked turning its uniquely integrated service into a hodgepodge of independent applications — kind of like the rest of the Internet, come to think of it. And now observers, academics, and even some other companies are taking notes. Because while Apple's tactics may seem like Industrial Revolution relics, they've helped the company position itself ahead of its competitors and at the forefront of the tech industry. Sometimes, evil works. " .
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