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People discover runescape through F2P. The F2P player base declines (in the strictest sense) when one of two things happen - A F2Per quits, or becomes a member. If there are fewer and fewer F2Pers, there will be fewer and fewer new members. This is bad news for Runescape. Another thing that might be happening is that Jagex is competing with itself for its own customer base. I haven't notice Jagex advertising for its games anywhere else on the internet. They only seem to advertise within their own websites.

Seems that we have yet to learn the lessons of the last spill... I also fully appreciate the reason that Petroleum Engineers have the highest starting salary out of any of the engineering fields. In other news, oil eating microbes are now suffering obesity rates that rival the rest of the U.S.

Next time you do a lever room, stay a few squares away from that lever until everyone is there. When you get done pulling your lever, get away from it ASAP. If you're far enough away, you take no damage.

Nope. My job with this project is to learn javascript, build this platform, and teach it to others (so they can later modify it). I find the best way to learn a language is to learn to hate it with a passion first, and then become competent and skilled in it. Probably the only language I didn't outright hate is C, but I hated the editor that was required (MPLAB can kill itself). So much hatred in programming. Maybe I need to find a different hobby.

I hate skillers that AFK on medium to large dungeons. It is especially annoying when we have to wait for 1 skiller, who logged out because they AFKed too long, to log back in to end the dungeon (they were the ones keeping our combat below 90). It was worth the 10 minute wait for the extra 20k xp, but it really ticked me off. I also hate the skiller that completely AFKs on small dungeons. Can you poke your head in every 2-3 minutes, look at the map to at least know when we're close to the boss? We shouldn't have to wait the extra minute for the dungeon to autocomplete. The last thing I hate is the monolith. It takes too long, and there's nothing you can do about it. It also requires most of your teammates. During the monolith, it sucks when your team can't keep up with the ghosts. It also sucks when your team doesn't realize that everyone needs to tank, and that hitting the new spawns as quickly as possible is a must. Also, if you get in over your head, let your teammates know. There's nothing more frustrating than having a player run out of the room when they're tanking 3-4 ghosts, only to completely wipe out the charges in a turn. We can heal you, we can pile on your ghosts, but we need you to tank.

Whose God?

I don't want to put a bunch of effort into it, but some time ago a chat transcript with Zuckerberg was released, showing his complete disregard for security. I share my information on facebook with my friends, and friends only. When they changed the privacy settings, they automatically changed my settings to be as lax as possible. Lets say instead of Zuckerberg, there was a complete creeper. Everyone started blocking that creeper, but facebook decided that too many people were blocking them, so they disallowed blocking them. That isn't privacy. When my Pandora account automatically linked with my facebook account, it tweaked me. I want facebook to know as much about me as I tell it. I didn't tell facebook that I had a Pandora account, I didn't want either linked. What if facebook linked to my Amazon and Ebay accounts? What if facebook linked to those, which in turn linked it to my Paypal account? All of a sudden, there's more and more connections to what I do online that I don't want some complete creeper knowing. I deactivated my account because Facebook/Zuckerberg doesn't value my privacy in the same way I do.

You can also find another F2P friend on Runescape. Make a Lvl 3 Account, and trade your time. They get 30 minutes of your AFK time, you get 30 minutes of their AFK time. You both get the same experience as 60 minutes of solo dungeoneering (plus experience and tokens on a future account?). 30 minutes of concentration + 30 minutes of AFK is less effort than 60 minutes of soloing. It doesn't have to be a skiller either - you can train your pure (so long as your level and theirs averages less than 90). The possibilities are limitless, you don't have to break the rules.

Guide to F2P dungeoneering Step 1 - Find a friend, brother or sister. Ask them to create an account. Step 2 - Have them AFK while you dung and gain 2x the normal experience. Step 3 - ... Step 4 - Profit.

You might be surprised, but I agree with you on this point. Its exactly the reason why I deactivated my account.

You'd make your own guess, follow the mainstream number quoted in more places, or you'd keep quiet so you don't look like a fool. The company CBS hired aren't experts at this. They're experts at attaching cameras to weather balloons. http://airphotoslive.com/ If you look at the services they promote on their website, you'll notice "crowd estimation" isn't even on there. In fact, the only reference to crowd size estimation is under "Press", but that's just praising the aerial photographs they took, not the estimations they did. Not only did I provide you a reasonable number, I also provided you the method which I found that number. The only part I couldn't do on my own came from the first "Crowd estimation expert," and that was the crowd density. You can replicate and verify what I did, which is more than anyone can say about airphotoslive. Do I actually think that 410k people showed up at the rally? No, but its a reasonable guess. It's also more likely to be on the same order of magnitude as the actual number than the hack that CBS posted.

I like how your favorite president was also the most xenophobic. Say all you want about isolated hate incidents with Muslims, FDR had every Japanese American rounded up and put in camps. Luckily he died in office, otherwise he might've never gone away.

What are you having trouble understanding? Chances are there are enough math wizzes on this forum that we'd be able to explain it to you in a variety of ways, one of which you might understand (or we'd all beat it into your head through our collective repetition).

Man, you're one of the biggest hacks I've ever seen. Perhaps of the Poe's Law variety: CBS estimates 87,000 Estimates range from 78,000 to 96,000 The only one who says 350,000 is Beck, and he just keeps inching that number higher and higher as time goes on, as this graph shows: Come up with your own estimate then. A loose crowd is about 1 person per every 10 sq feet. I estimate the available room for people using: http://www.daftlogic.com/projects-google-maps-area-calculator-tool.htm First, I measured the area on the inside of the major streets (disregarding the area in the semi-circle behind the lincoln memorial : SW 23 st 17th St NW Constitution Ave NW Independence Ave SW This came out to be 4,968,196.90 feet². Then, I measured the area of the reflecting pool. This came out to be 389,638.38 feet². Then, I measured the approximate area of the Constitution Garden Pond (I drew a large rectangle around it, that was tangent to its sides). This came out to be 423,346.34 feet². I subtracted out the pool and the pond. That put the total standing area in that block to be 4,155,212.18 feet². You'll notice in the pictures I provided there are crowds going as far back as the National Mall, and the Washington Monument, we'll ignore them. That puts the crowd to be about 410k, assuming it isn't very densely packed. For the 87k figure, it would mean the crowd had to be at 1 person per 50 feet². I seriously doubt that. Furthermore, FedEx Field has a seatting capacity of 91,704.The average attendance in 2009 for a home football game was 84,794. If there were 87,000 people total at the Beck rally, why would the crowd be big enough to disrupt Washington's subway system, with service from at least 12 stops disrupted due to long lines for entry? Shouldn't they be designed to handle that kind of regular load? Way to be a sheep magekillr, following everything one news source tells you blindly.

working to make a day planner in HTML5... javascript makes my eyes bleed.

I'd like to see this as a news ticker: Glenn Beck holds Rally in DC - Conservative estimates puts attendance at 350,000, Liberal estimates at 87,000.

first :D EDIT: Read first article. In fullscreen mode, you're able to hide the chatbox, so if its chatbox spam that you don't want, you can do that. I honestly can't think of a more than two situations where I'd want to have everyone silenced - one is where I'm forming a team for dungeoneering, and the other is when I'm trying to have an obscure trade outside the GE. But even if you have 5 player mods, the chat moves slow enough that you can still grab the trades. EDIT2: Read second article. Where these written to foster discussion or make a point :blink:

So, none of you have any idea what percentage of Muslims hate America? If you want to criticize our best guess, then you should at least substitute the actual number or your best guess. If you refuse to do either then you're worse than us for only criticizing our perceived number. 18-27% percent of Adult Americans identify themselves as Liberal. So 20%?

I still want to know, what percentage of Muslims hate America. 40% seems like a reasonable number, and I haven't seen a reputable source say otherwise.

No, I really did delete my profile. Its not the CEO I'm concerned about (actually, come to think of it, it is.) Anyhow, I posted my personal information for my friends, but it found it's way to a result in Google.

I can have an opinion on anything and everything, on a slightest whim. I think most people are like me, too. You should try it sometime... start out with the words "I think", then speak whatever comes to mind. It makes opinions dangerous. Maybe we should ban them? Whether 40% of all Muslims hate America is not a matter of opinion. If you believe that, you are as objectively wrong as if you said you believe that an elephant is a type of cow. ;) So, what percentage of Muslims hate America then?

After googling myself, I found more information than I want to be known. Facebook seems to be the culprit, so I just removed myself from it. It was a real pain in the ass to do too. First I had to disassemble all the groups I'd started (removed information, removed all members, changed the name, removed myself). Then I went and removed ALL information from my profile, deleted all tags of me in pictures, removed all pictures I uploaded. Finally, I deactivated my account. You'd think this would be a simple process, but it was about as complicated as FB's security settings. First I had to provide a reason I wanted out. Then I had to expand upon that reason. Then I had to enter my password, then I had to enter in a couple of captcha's. Good fight facebook. I hope to outlast you.

I can have an opinion on anything and everything, on a slightest whim. I think most people are like me, too. You should try it sometime... start out with the words "I think", then speak whatever comes to mind. It makes opinions dangerous. Maybe we should ban them?

If a Christian said that Jesus was *only a prophet*, that would be blasphemous. In fact, Jesus said He was the Son of God. So either He was, or He was a liar. There is no middle ground.

I bet you didn't know that "That black lady" is Dr. Alveda King, MLK's niece. I'm guessing most of you haven't listened to Glenn Beck for more than 30 seconds at a time (more than a sound bite). I'll fill you in a little. Glenn Beck is not a reporter, he's an entertainer. If you wanted news, you wouldn't watch his show or listen to his radio program. You'll also notice (if you listen to him) that he has a doomsayer tendency, and that he's willing to go out on a limb. As far as the information that he brings up in his television show (and his blackboard), he does his research very well. Even with all the stuff that he brings up, he's only had to correct his show a handful of times. I also don't see how GB asking everyone to pray a bit makes him or his listeners dangerous (We all know how Christian prayer incites violence).