So this is off-schedule, but today’s post was so short I think there is room for another short one.
Have any of you Mac junkies experienced similar horribleness? Or is this just FUD from the PC camp?
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2223921,00.asp
I still say that if you’re switching from windows that linux is the way to go…
I am discovering more and more recently that Fredrick P. Brook’s “Law of Punctuality” is absolutely true. It states that:
“Traffic, construction, wrecks, weather, flat tires and running out of gas rarely server to make you late; rather, they almost always serve only to make you later”
I need to start getting up earlier…
Oh, and I made that law up and attributed it to Fred for fun. In case you don’t know and didn’t click on the link above, Fred Brooks is a very influential software developer who wrote the now legendary “The Mythical Man-Month” which is a must read for any software developer who gives a crap.
Well, the guy who has been bothering me in oGame went on vacation mode for the holidays. Then in the wee hours of the morning this morning he came back.
I’ll admit I had gotten lazy in his absence. I didn’t even bother to fleet save while I went to bed. I just sent out my fleet to attack a bunch of people at 100% speed, which meant they would be back well before i got up. When I got up… they were all gone. He had come back from vacation mode and as his first order of business, destroyed me utterly (again… for like the 15th time).
Once again, I thought about quitting. He destroyed about 600k worth of ships that I had worked hard for the last 6 days building up, and he stole a nice nice chunk of resources (about 175k).
Instead I looked five slots above me to the guy with the moon. His alliance is ranked 2nd in the universe, and he himself is ranked 24. I sent him a desperate plea for help. He responded VALIANTLY. You can take a look at the damage he inflicted here (loads really slow, so here is a screen shot):
I wasted 16 espionage probes (8 before and 8 after the battle) to witness my enemies decimation for myself:
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