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Linux boot doesn't smash Samsung laptops any more
Samsung laptops will no longer be irreparably destroyed when their users try to boot Linux on them, kernel chieftain Linus Torvalds made certain today. The brainboxes down at Ubuntu-maker Canonical penguinery issued a warning over the incompatibiity and have been tackling the nuclear bug that destroyed the whole Samusung laptop …
Re: Sorry, wrong.
Samsung (Or whoever makes the firmware for them) wrote an off-spec implementation and probably tested it only using Windows. Determining that it booted Windows fine, they apparently decided that it was done.
We've been here before. Exactly the same issue was had years back with the early days of ACPI: Many mainboards used not-fully-compliant implementations that worked for Windows, and didn't bother to test for any other OS. It's the unending curse of linux. Outside of the server space, it is such a niche OS still that there is little to no incentive for manufacturers to even test if their hardware works, much less go to the expense of releasing drivers.
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Linux code isn't always that bad. There are a lot of morons who commit bad code and think the community will fix it. But Linus keeps telling them off.
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"It seems to be the common practise."
Welcome to the world of Windows-only hardware.
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Any respectable specification *should* have a conformance test suite. Googling finds me a UEFI Self Certification Test specification, so it looks like the spec writers did their job. However, we all know what 'Self Certification' means (think CE marks). Looks like the only test Samsung did, as you say, is whether Windows boots ok.
Re: Sorry, wrong.
There may be a minority who want the effectiveness Linux can give to a system admin's, developer's or ISP operator's desktop, but Linux is still used on more desktop hardware than it is installed on. If a Windows using friend asks for help with a broken system I'm likely to boot it from a Linux USB or CD just in order to test that all the hardware works. If it does, it generally indicates a software problem, and if it doesn't it generally means hardware is at fault. Saves much wasted time. How long would it otherwise take to do a full reinstallation of Windows + applications if you needed to do this just to find out whether it's a hardware or software problem ?
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Fixed that for ya: "Worked" for windows. Quotes intended.
About 50% of what was erroneously attributed to "bad drivers" was actually bad acpi in the early days. Windows was suffering same as linux if not worse - at least on linux you could easily turn off acpi altogether.
We now have the "history repeating". I am typing this on an Asus Motherboard whose crippled UEFI implementation erroneously initializes the AMD Fusion GPU portion every 3rd or fourth boot. And that is a so called "reputable manufacturer". Everything is just like in the worst days of ACPI 10+ years ago.
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There is one. It is called the Self Certification (SCT) for the UEFI Specification Version 2.3. It is available at http:://uefi.org.
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Actually, no. The real bug is that efivars does not use QueryVariableInfo() (Section 7.2.2 UEFI Spec 2.3.1c) to check maximum size of storage for a variable. It simply assumes space is available.
Re: Sorry, wrong.
I gained about 50 downvotes for suggesting that Linux was partly to blame..
Thanks for posting........I run both Windows and Linux and as a programmer I will never consider any OS or application as being perfect.
Shit happens in IT because code is written by humans and none of us are perfect.......
We learn from our mistakes not from our success.
Uhh, well then...
"The error probably has its origin in mixing up UEFI version 1 and 2. In version 1 variable names still had a fixed size of 128 Byte. Version 2 changed this, but Samsung didn't. "
Oh, no...that means something sicking.
Would I be completely wrong stating that Samsung wrote a buggy bios, and Windows 8 only works on it because it is written to handle buggy bioses?
Sorry, I'm the biggest promoter of Linux within all my friends, and even I think that Windows is doing a better job than Ubuntu with UEFI. So, +1 to Windows 8 in the game of Windows 8 VS. Ubuntu. Sadly, that will be the last time they score.
I never read, but is other Linux distro's affecting these laptops? Is Debian affected? I only care about Debian, it's descendants are dead to me.
Re: Sorry, wrong.
@Khaptain: "I gained about 50 downvotes..."
Yeh, but what does that matter to you? For the hell of it I down voted you, I never pay attention to the voting process of this or any other site, but I noticed this text on this particular site when I down voted you...
"We're sorry you didn't like this post."
From that line, you immediately know it's bullshit. I mean, how sorry are they? On their knees sorry?
Microsoft UEFI?
They might as well name it Microsoft UEFI ..
"There does not seem to be any way to contact Samsung for reporting hard- or software related bugs"
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Why is it important.
To me personally it is not important. I have a life outside of El Reg, lol,
What is important however is the general consesus, many people vote without thinking beforehand. In the world of IT, pre-thought is vital in everything that we do. Our decision as IT Admins, Programmers or Managers, really does make a difference, we provide the tools that help or hinder our companies.
As professionals we shouold remove ourselves our Golden thrones, jump back down to earth, and consider that we are "paid hansomely" to provide solutions... When we "pretend" to know it all or pretend that one sytem is far superior to another , we are merely fooling ourselves.
Neither Windows, Apple IOS, Linux or any oher sytem holds the "complete" solution. As IT professionals we hold the solution by providing the best that we can with what we have available.
I very seldom agree with some of the "Gold Badged hacks" sense of "journalism", I won't name anyone in particular, but most of what they have to say is valid, albeit a bit theoretical and too much SMB based but it remains honest.. This is contrary to what I understand from the downvotes of the"pretend" Linux crowd, most of these downvotes probably come from neophytes hoping to make their place within the industry.. They still have a "lot" to learn".
Do down votes really mean much, of course they don't, but it does give a certain insight into the readership and their level of experience.
IT is a much as philosophy as it is a science...... We deal with people more than we deal with systems.
When we learn to become honest about what we reallly know; then we start to become usefull.
Re: Sorry, wrong.
Me, too. First test, a live linux cd, second test, UBCD for Memtest86+ and the hdd manufacturer's test utility.
Re: Sorry, wrong.
"... I mean, how sorry are they? On their knees sorry?..."
You do realise that, every time someone hits that downvote button, El Reg's masters launch a full internal enquiry, inevitably resulting in some poor trainee reporter being scapegoated as the cause of the "reader disatisfaction".
Subsequently manhandled from the building and thrown into the street, said hacklette will be lucky to ever work in
journalism copy/pasting from other websites again and often ends up descending into a world of crime, prostitution and premature death.
This carnage has taken such a toll that El Reg has recently begun sending civilians into the frontline, in its increasingly bitter war against the forces of balanced reporting.
So think, before idly hitting that button. OK?
Re: Uhh, well then...
Nope, it's the case that the buggy BIOSes are tested with Windows and made to "work" just enough to pass QA at the time. Bad coding is bad. Windows 8 does not handle buggy BIOSes better, in fact, buggy BIOSes are often so bad that OEMs release BIOS updates.
You'll often find once a workaround is created, Linux handles known bugs better.
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I'm sorry, I thought all journalists lived in a world of crime, prostitution and premature death. Because that's what sells advertising.
Big Brother, as a tribute to those fine journalists of the British Tabloid Press - especially the one who recently wrote that journalists shouldn't nark on bent coppers.
@DanceMan Re: Sorry, wrong.
Last month I had 2 infected machines in my office so I downloaded a bootable Anti Virus CD from one of the more popular companies and was shocked that it was a bootable Linux CD.
Re: Sorry, wrong.
"In the world of IT..."
You are assuming people that work in IT read this site. Judging by the comments, there are also ignorant people reading this site. It's still better than Wired though.
Re: Sorry, wrong.
I thought the majority worked in IT the rest worked at being trolls. There is also a lot of overlap too.
Re: early days of ACPI
It's not just Samsung, and it's not just Linux. Hardware vendors write a lot of stuff that doesn't quite meet published spec, but when released with a current popular OS works.
Back in the early Pentium days, before Linus had even started work on Linux there was a company that released a multiple CD drive that ran on the IDE channel. Beautiful part about was, under Windows 95, you could share each of the drives in the Caddy, and computers linked on a work group could read what was in the CD caddy. We had a client running some library software in a Windows workgroup configuration (connections to remote PCs were pretty much by modem in those days) and they depended upon this functionality. One day they had problem with an internal modem that fried the motherboard. CPU was good, so we tried to replace the MD and memory. Win95 would install just fine, find the device and initially you would see all the drives. Then you installed the Intel chipset for the MB to make all the devices accessible and all of a sudden the device stopped working. We spent hours trying to figure it out before calling the manufacturer. The driver didn't work with the new Intel chipset, and the company had no intention of updating the driver. They had even discontinued making the device, so we couldn't even just buy a replacement. Instead we had to install a SCSI card and a SCSI caddy, about tripling the bill to the customer (we discounted the labor since we should have called the vendor sooner than we did).
Years later I was in a different environment where they'd been using an IDE "tape drive" for ages to backup data from local PCs (don't ask what they were backing up, I thought it was epic fail at the time), but still in a 95 environment. But drive sizes were finally getting large enough to force us to install 98 on some systems, and the tape drives started failing on the 98 systems. Because apparently the manufacturer didn't fully meet the IDE spec for the drive.
Now, I recognize that sometimes specs come out with things that people don't really have a way to test at the time the spec was written, and that there are monetary limits on what a company can reasonably be expected to test. But cases like these always leave me scratching my head.
Re: remove ourselves our Golden thrones,
That's what we do on our jobs.
This is El Reg.
It's where we come to not have to be above suspicion, let our hair down, and talk smack about any damn thing we want to without worry about real world consequences.
Re: Sorry, wrong.
"It seems to be the common practise."
And Microsoft are delighted about this, because it effectively locks competitors out.
Side question: To what extent do the various layers of bodgery needed in Windows to correct various broken implementations of standards end up impacting on its performance?
Re: early days of ACPI
"early Pentium days, before Linus had even started work on Linux" ..... "under Windows 95"
Um. You do realise that the first Linux kernel release (5 October 1991) was made on an 80386 and predated even Windows 3.1 (6 April 1992), let alone Windows 95 (24 August 1995)?
Not that this invalidates your argument in any way. This, incidentally, is why I support giving hardware manufacturers a simple choice between releasing full annotated Source Code for drivers, or having their products banned from the market.
A hardware manufacturer changes its design without telling those who need to know.
I'm glad the real problem has been discovered, I really don't like the idea of hardware going into a coma because you put a different OS on it.
chRe: A hardware manufacturer blah blah blah...
I'm glad the real problem has been discovered
The real problem(s) has not been discovered. Tis but a scratch, not so deep as a well, nor so wide as church-door; but 'tis enough.
See James Bottomley's UEFI notes here --> http://blog.hansenpartnership.com/
Random Poking
Who would have thought that just randomly poking memory of a laptop would brick it.
Has randomly poking anything every worked out well?
Re: Random Poking
no, and writing code that assumes every error code you don't know about should be treated as "successful" doesn't work that great either.
Re: Random Poking
Yes. It has. For a teenager, causing a disk drive to seek-until-death was about as fun as it gets*.
* - provided you don't do it on your dad's new 5.25" drive.
Re: Random Poking
"Has randomly poking anything every worked out well?"
I believe it to be "HOW BABBY IS FORMED". As to the desirability of this outcome, that can remain as an exercise for the reader.
Re: Random Poking
As to the desirability of this outcome, refer to theodore's post (immediately above)
Re: Random Poking
There's some nice killer POKEs here:
The Commdore PET one was the first one I ever heard of that would destroy hardware.
Re: Random Poking
I suppose the moral here is PEEK before you POKE, it saves a lot of embarrassment the following morning.
Re: Random Poking
"Yes. It has. For a teenager"
Really thought that comment was going somewhere other than disk drives...
Re: Random Poking - A million Pis waiting to die?
The Commdore PET one was the first one I ever heard of that would destroy hardware.
Looks like the Raspberry Pi could have the same feature -
Re: every worked out well?
Back in the day it was how you found out how things worked.
Peeking and poking on a C64 provided days of amusement and learning.
Speedy fix!
It seems that the Linux community is pretty quick to respond to problems. At times I wish other vendors were as good, but it will take a while.
Re: Speedy fix!
As much as I'd like to agree with this, the problem has been known about for several months, though not the exact cause. I recall reading release notes back in October warning not to install Ubuntu on certain models of Samsung laptops with UEFI firmwares, that several had been bricked.
Re: Speedy fix!
You're having a laugh right, Herby? Bug fixes take an *age* on Linux. Just spend a couple of minutes browsing through a few bug reports if you want proof.
That's what happens when you rely on people that are not paid to do a job. They work to their own schedule, not that of the long suffering users'.
Re: Speedy fix!
>not that of the long suffering cheap tightwad whiny users'.
The code is right there for download. Its easy enough to hire someone to fix it. Plenty of other companies do so. Support isn't free for anything but the Linux community still gives more than most.
Re: Speedy fix!
"ou're having a laugh right, Herby?"
Evening RICHTO !
Re: Bug fixes take an *age* on Linux
Bug fixes take an age on any platform where the maintainer doesn't think it is a serious bug.
I'm sure you can peruse Linux bug trackers and find bugs that have been sitting around for 5 or 6 years with full proof and repro cases but no fix, just as you can find "knowledgebase" articles detailing failures in Microsoft products that are acknowledged as a bug with no workaround and no fix forthcoming.
I'm *not* sure this proves anything.
Re: Speedy fix!
"That's what happens when you rely on people that are not paid to do a job. They work to their own schedule, not that of the long suffering users'."
Funny, the same thing happens most of the time when people are paid to do a job - bugfixes don't bring in extra income. New features do.
Are you listening Eadon?
People like to slag off Windows, but for all its faults I can't remember a time when simply booting up bricked the machine!
Re: Are you listening Eadon?
I sure can but that had more to do with overclocking programs than windows itself per se.
Re: Are you listening Eadon?
I can't remember a time when simply booting up bricked the machine
No, that usually requires Windows to be fully online first :)
Re: Are you listening Eadon?
Re: Are you listening Eadon?
"but for all its faults I can't remember a time when simply booting up bricked the machine!"
You must be still in nappies (diapers) or shorts then
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i misted up :O
Last edited by Green Jets & Ham; 03-29-2010 at 01:52 AM.
i misted up :O
God, what a season :yes:
that was f**king beautiful man. i LOVED it.
I was literally moved by that.
2010......... BELIEVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:yes:
Man, that was great!!
Great Video and much better with Old Blue eye's instead of Rap..:yes:
Thought ol' rexy was gonna eat that ref when Sanchez got hit late..
[B][SIZE="5"]We're going to blow the god damn doors off the league next season.
another great video
Old Blue Eyes and King Rex!!
and the 2010-2011 NYJ Super Bowl Championship DVD's available at this time next year will probably be even BETTER
Perhaps the best JETS compilation I have ever seen.
[QUOTE=Gas2No99;3539741]I was literally moved by that.
2010......... BELIEVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:yes:[/QUOTE]
AMEN Brutha! :yes:
I'm touched, i'm coming out with one of my own later on today, it doesn't bring out the up and down emotions of our 09 season but it still makes ya proud
great video though, i loved it
when i saw "my way" as the title of a thread where there was a Jets youtube video, i figured the highlights would be accompanied by the tune of Limp Bizkit lmfao. :eek::eek::D:cool:
I didn't know Big Black from Stern who made the video was such a big Jets fan.
Good job BB.
I wasn't thrilled with it. It had a bit of a disjointed pacing to it, presumably to fit the lyrics of the song. Production was great though. It's a d00shy opinion, but it's how I feel.
Thanks for nothin'! Now I'll have to go see the doctor 'cause my erection will last longer than four hours! :D
What a run!! Next year is going to be sick.
I don't know why everyone loves this film???? It shows Peyton Manning celebrating their AFC championship game win over us???
Yeah, there's some nice highlights from the season and playoffs, but I do not understand why everyone loves it so much?!
If they make the same type of movie after next season with us winning the Lombardi?? Now THAT is something I will be shedding several tears for....
[QUOTE=The Boston Patriot;3540019]Thanks for nothin'! Now I'll have to go see the doctor 'cause my erection will last longer than four hours! :D[/QUOTE]
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The in-form striker opened the scoring in the first half and claimed an assist for Frank Lampard's strike during a 2-1 triumph.
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Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 9:58 pm
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Just one question when will it be availble in the uk
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Borders of Madness is not even an announced product.
Right now it is just a series of articles in Captains Log and other places.
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Actually, Steve has said that there will be a Borders of Madness product that will include things from the SFU/SFB that will be modified to work in Federation Commander. The intent is to allow for a wider range of possible battles. Items to be included are: scouts, maulers, and carriers/fighters. It will be done in the Briefing format.
Note that there is no release date associated with this. Until it gets a release date, it is just an idea that will likely get done eventually. However, there is currently no definition for "eventually". When its release date is set, you will see it here and in the legacy BBS. And probably in Communique and the Newletter, too.
But 'dood's broader point is completely correct. Until a release date is announced, asking for such is a pointless exercise.
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Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 2:26 pm
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Actually, it was announced last January for release in April. Then Middle Years happened, which used up all the time assigned for Borders of Madness #1, and convinced me I did not want to do another book with 72 ship cards in it, not for a long time.
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Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 4:46 pm
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I'm wondering if BoM #1 is going to contain anything more than scouts, maulers, and carriers/fighters?
If not, will these rules/systems have been changed since they were published in Communique and Captain's Log?
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Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 4:51 pm
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What is Borders of Madness Precisely? Is it a FC product which includes rules for more of the things in SFB incorporated for FC? Or is it simpler SFB made for massive fleet battles?
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It has been described previously as containing the things which it would be madness to incorporate into mainstream FC. Partly because some of those things would seriously impact on the fast play that is the reason most of us like FC in the first place.
SVC has also said in the past that at least some of the purpose of BOM is to provide additional rules to entice SFB players to use FC to resolve some of their battles.
If you search through the previous forum discussions you will find several threads describing BOM. And see plenty of discussions showing that there is a wide range of opinion about the inclusion of some things within mainstream FC.
At the end of the day it is ADB's product, and they have to and will do what makes commercial sense for them. Some of us would hate to see stuff like fighters in the main FC game, while others would like everything that was in SFB to turn up in FC. BOM is.... in-between.
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OK, forgot about that announcement.
Anyway, "Borders of Madness" is an umbrella concept that covers several things. The two main things that currently use the term are a series of articles in Captain's Log, and a potential series of products.
The series of articles in Captain's Log covers items from SFB that will not be added to Federation Commander, but can be made to work within the Federation Commander system. An example is scout channels from scout ships. Scout Channels will not be added to Federation Commander proper, but a set of rules was developed that allows for their use within the Federation Commander rules system. Other such items that have appeared are maulers and non-Hydran fighters.
Borders of Madness #1 will be (assuming the experience with Briefing #2 doesn't permanently kill it) a Briefing style product with 60+ B&W paper ship cards. This will provide (at the least) carriers/fighters, maulers, and scouts for all of the empires. Since all of the published empires have to be covered, this means each empire will likely get but a single example of each. This then provides plenty of opportunity for eventually producing a BoM #2, #3, and so on.
The rules in the articles for Captain's Log (which are then sometimes reprinted in Communique after a suitable period of time) can be thought of a "playtest" rules. They should the form and scope and operation of how the rules are to work in conjunction with Federation Commander, but are still subject to change depending on playtest and actual use. Even so, they should still be substantially unchanged unless the original rules are just flat out broken.
The hang up to producing the Borders of Madness #1 product is Briefing #2. Briefing #2 covered an entirely different subject (the Middle Years), but was similarly constructed and included 72 ship cards. It was way more time intensive to create than was expected, and the "time cost" outstripped what it is expected to earn the company. Because of that, the experience of Briefing #2 has made ADB a lot more gun-shy about any type of product that includes a massive number of ship cards.
I hope that covers the situation clearly (and correctly).
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Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:38 pm
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Ok i think that explains it but i suppose it might be done in the near future. or has previously stated using captains log for the ship cards and the core rules perhaps has a separate issue.
But one idea i have just thought of i noticed that sfb in captains log has i load of scenarios is there any way to convert these over to federation commander.
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But one idea i have just thought of i noticed that sfb in captains log has i load of scenarios is there any way to convert these over to federation commander.
There are ongoing attempts to do that by many different players, on the Legacy board they post which ones they are working on, so duplication won't happen (also to verify they haven't already been done) ---
This normally jumps into a higher gear when a product is nearing its release date, so if a scenario is needed there is more chance one is available ---
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If you're interestedin converting an SFB scenario (either from CL, one of the R-Mods, or froma core rulebook), this is the Leagcy BBS
with the sceanrios to date.
Check it out and if you want to bag one for yourself, post it there and no one else will duplicate it.
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Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 11:38 am
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Are these converted scnarios posted someplace, or are they "on deck" and waiting to be published. To be honest, since I just read this thread, I have not checked in the CLs that I own or in the Communiques files for them.
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atomic wrote:
Are these converted scnarios posted someplace, or are they "on deck" and waiting to be published. To be honest, since I just read this thread, I have not checked in the CLs that I own or in the Communiques files for them.
They are either already printed in some FC product, or "on deck" awaiting the next publication.
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The problem with converting all of those hundreds of SFB scenarios into FC is that 70% of them won't work with FC rules, but only with BoM rules.
Really, there are three separate games:
FC: the fast game.
SFB: the detailed game.
BoM: A package of SFB rules added to FC, but considered a separate entity.
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SVC's going to tell me this is in the wrong topic because it'll just get lost, but here's a scenario I proposed for SFB a long time ago. It showcases all the special crew & officer rules that "might" end up in BoM.
Background: The Federation Bureau of Ships was having a fly-off between the two best contenders for the next generation of Heavy Cruisers. They brought in the most combat-experienced ship / crew to act as observers / judges. A squadron of Klingon ships stumbles upon the test site and attack, not knowing what they're getting into.
Federation ships (all late-war refits and options):
One Command Cruiser with Outstanding Crew and one-each of all Legendary Officers.
One computer-controlled Heavy Cruiser.
One first-generation X-tech Heavy Cruiser.
Klingon ships:
A squadron of five to seven ships, one of which MUST be a D6J Penal Cruiser (with Poor crew, of course), with point totals about the same as the Federatrion ships above.
Additional ideas to spice it up: add one to three target drone ships (perhaps small frieghters), have the battle near a planet or a Base Station, turn the scenario around and have the Feds attack a Klingon squadron undergoing refueling / repair.
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On this post I'll cover basics MOP fury mechanics. We can go more practical later.
For 8 yrs I been Fury, Flurry has pretty much determined our prio on stats.
This link here used to be 'after crit -> flurry; wich means you get 3 swings on flurry after proc meaning you need 33% crit min to keep it always up as AVERAGE.
So stats prio was pretty clear; STR +CRIT +HIT all equally. This all changed on cata wich now dated the link you got overhead and you got chance to get flurry regardless of stats prio or Crit (as long as ur exp and hit are specials capped; -wich always are ofc? .
For a moment this was relaxed setting during Cata and overall, fury gameplay was fixed for cata to be more intresting then ever before allowing personal aproaches for stats prio.
(You could go max stats with low hit making big special hits or steady high hit almost hard capping)
I been roughly ~6+ months on beta MOP as fury and from that and current exp I can say is that from Vanilla -tbc times, fury only been getting more and more intresting class to play from expansion to another. (It was a bit boring at the 2 first). Fury always been the most dynamic spec from most dynamic class when it comes to stats and upgrades since they rly affect the gameplay (rotation) drastically. Now the good news is that MOP rly takes the cake! Fury is far more exciting to play then never before and they finally found way to avoid 1 stat prio. Solution was to bring up second flurry like effect to addition to first one. And so that effecting it's proc to happen more often, you got to gear for making it hit harder.
So addition to Flurry you also got new ability Enrage.
Crit will make it proc more often from Bloodthirst and the effect is more effective via mastery wich yelds 1% to 1% ratio more dmg while enraged. Example with my 15% mastery I get 15% more dmg whilst enraged.
So high crit, good mastery, and eventually hit; they all sum up. I can imagine Fury will be nerfed after 2nd tier (first tier giving haste wich is not usable alone without great +hit). But if we can take the cake - sky is limit for dps right now.
So all in all, get 7,5% exp, 8+ hit, Crit>STR >>>>Mast>>>>Hit>/haste. Don't haste misses on larger scale nor miss rage from autoattack whilst on Battle Stance (that's the reason You are on that Stance on first place -or not?
PS. (edited).
Simple verion for stats mop:
CRIT -determines how often your main buff proccs ( Enrage )
MASTERY -determines how much bonus DMG u do whilst enraged ( Mastery link doesnt work, but example 15% mastery gives 15% increased physical damage while enraged)
HIT - You get the extra dmg while procced from those above on special hits always. But on these first tiers your dmg strongly depends on your white hits aswell, same on later tiers when those 2 above get stronger, so overall white dmg will be strong. Meaning we dont have the gear for high hit atm but favouring it as we gear isn't bad option.
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Keeping Flurrry up was essential, structure body built for your rotation, anything and everything you built your gear around. 33% on average if u make infinte amounts of hits, gaussian spread; practically 40+ crit you needed on 9 mins boss fight spank.
First things first^^ Practical numbers depend on gear you can get. Numbers matter little against loot lists, specially if those are bad^^
PS. Only thing we can built on with stats prio is hoping infinite long fights making stats do some prio. On short fights you can never tell wich stat is better over one. You can get crit row simultaneusly when you just happened to blow all ur CD:s. If you didn't crit any, then maybe STR is your best friend on sheet at that moment. One is always better then the other on short burst boss fights, wich most encounters are today -sadly. In long run It's all about averages hence it's cool to built towards some prio but not taking it too seriuosly. Usually at some point of every new expansion you might find yourself with Ilvl of gear where there is kind of brake point with stats after you are good inaf versus mechanics to make rotation trivial. At that point it means dull rotation but little bit under is the point the game should keep it at all the times to keep the game intresting. I got good feeling about this expansion since we are not stacking 1 or 2 stats but way more.
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U is a letter. You is a word. There is a difference. Even in Finland there are grammar rules. I'm sure that you know how to use them. If you want to be understood, and have your advice taken seriously, then you need to write as if you are an expert. What you have been doing is writing as if you're a lazy 3rd grade dropout (which I'm sure you're not).
I'm sorry and edited few things on post/replys. This post was originally copy/pasted from semicasual raiding guild warrior forum where I posted the idea on for more experienced and for socials who might lvl up an fury warrior as an alt.
I'm sorry if I hurt any feelings in a process ;(
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your crit is low for being axe spec... optimal crit for axe is 35%. i would drop the next 60 frost badges you get on the agi cloak, for one it's bis until the 25m insanity cloak from togc. plus it will help your crit. having to gem for hit is hurting since that could be str/arp gems instead as well.
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Nobody has asked this so far from even twitter, but .... 10 slots, 11 classes? WTB char slots?
It will start from this point on I'm almost sure right now to release. Anything in the past is non-existant. Gotta start now. Might start when D3 is released.
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"Any qualifying subscription time remaining on the account at the time of accepting the Annual Pass offer may be applied toward the 12-month subscription commitment.
For example: If you had started a 6-month subscription 2 months prior to accepting the Annual Pass offer, 4 months of your remaining subscription time would be applied toward your 12-month subscription commitment."
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I see it more as a way to keep people playing UNTIL the next expansion, and get them hooked during the beta.Its almost garunteed that the next exp is going to suck. Theyre baiting people to buy a YEARS worth of wow so that they cant unsubscribe after the next expansion comes out and probably bombs.
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I dont post here very often, but here's my two cents.
Blizzard likes money. WoW used to have some lore, some story, something for most people to do. Dungeons were easy, Heroic raid bosses were hard and pvp needed (still does) skillful people whether they played in BG's or arenas.
Blizzard didn't get everything right in Cataclysm and as a result lost some of their precious money. The hardest hit were the kids and social players who now cant faceroll the only content accesible to them, the random dungeon. So, what do you do in such a situation, bring out the cute fluffy teddy bears ofc
This is awful if it is truely the focus of an expansion, except it makes excellent business sense. Kids, social players and well, thats it, a big subscriber base, only ever expanding, now have everything they want. New raid (loot) finder, ez mode dungeons according to PTR and fluffy bears to romp around china with. Great. Thus adding to the number of incompetent insta-geared clueless that we simply do not need more of.
Besides the absolute top tier hardcore raiders (a very small subscriber base) and hardcore PvPers (again, small base) I cant imagine anyone sensible wanting to see the expansion. God help those who RP. I wait with baited breath, hoping that this is a joke, to see what the outcome will be.
Lore, you said it yourself, no-one but Blizzard can kill wow. Where do you keep your crystal ball?
They arent dangling a carrot at all, they're offering an alternative for people who are going to spend the money on WoW anyway.
Note: I will NOT RP on a panda. Ever. Ew. I will, however, roll a panda and find it awesome that pandas can't be DKs.
I'm way better at holding my liquor than a panda.
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Something for the Snow - Ornament
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- April@ Natural Nester said...
Those are beyond adorable! I love everything you're creating!
- December 15, 2011 at 11:26 AM
- Monica said...
Those are great! I'm totally going to make these as next year's family oranments.
- December 15, 2011 at 1:42 PM
- Pals Place said...
I don't know how you do all this? Everything is so cute and fun! and what blows me away it's easy and affordable it is. Thank you for all the ideas I think I'll be using them for next year. And we got your adorable card! You have an adorable family.
- December 15, 2011 at 10:04 PM
- Andrea said...
I love these little sleds. Very cute, and baby durable!
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- Beth said...
I have always loved little vintage sleds, your posts are so great! (I found you on pinterest)
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Where did you get the short Popsicle sticks?
- November 15, 2012 at 9:15 PM
- Unknown said...
Love this idea! I went right out to Michael's today and got a package of the small Popsicle sticks. Craft time with the kiddos tomorrow!
- November 28, 2012 at 6:00 PM
Do you have exact measurements of each piece, I am a cub scout leader and would like to make these for the nursing home.
- December 5, 2012 at 10:19 AM
- Marie Blackburn said...
Love these Cami! Just saw them on G+. We go on a sleigh ride every year and the host of the party afterwards gives all the guests a sleigh ornament labeled with the date of the event. These are perfect!
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I just made one of these. I am going to put a scripture verse on it but it is so cute. :)
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"It might sound silly, but it's a good idea to do a test run before Sunday to make sure everything is ready to go," says Rob Roessler of Audio Video Concepts in Columbia, Ill. "There's nothing worse than finding out the day of the Super Bowl that your cable box is locked up or the picture on your big-screen looks grainy."
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Tuesday, 26 March 2013
Doctor Who - The Battle of Demon's Run: Two Days Later
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- Christel Doctor Who said...
sooo....making videos on the hop to get round our own plot holes are we now Moffat? Classy.
- 26 March 2013 19:23
- Tom Shearsmith MYP said...
Going to be honest - I feel he's had this planned a while and your POV is just biased because Moffat did it. :P
- 26 March 2013 20:38
- Cult_Of_The_Critic said...
Moffat or no, I still think it's the lamest explanation ever used in Who.
- 26 March 2013 20:52
- Christel Doctor Who said...
Perhaps it is, but you have to admit, if he did have it planned why not just not "kill" Strax off at Demons Run. Then at least it wouldnt look as half arsed as it does.
- 26 March 2013 22:02
- Christel Doctor Who said...
Here here.
- 26 March 2013 22:03
- Steve Andrew said...
Oh who cares? Can't it just be a funny little clip?
- 27 March 2013 15:01
- Steve Andrew said...
Oh who cares, can't it just be an amusing little clip?
- 27 March 2013 15:01
Totally disagreed there Tom. If this was done BEFORE The Snowmen or not at all, then it wouldn't seem so bad, but the sheer fact it is done after it signifies something that went from "Mystifying" to something that's "not very well thought out with a lame excuse to wrap it up".
- 27 March 2013 17:09
- Mike Lynch said...
Blocked by the BBC now. Ah well!
- 28 March 2013 01:30
- Jack Artagan Mackenna said...
Fans taking stuff too seriously again what a surprise
- 29 March 2013 07:43


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It's not about the Republicans. It's not about Boehner. It's not about hypocrisy.
It IS about Barack Obama [B]FAILING[/B] to take charge. It is about Barack Obama [B]FAILING[/B] to become the President of the United States. It is about Barack Obama [B]FAILING[/B] to provide focus, direction, and discipline in Washington, DC. Obama said that Washington, DC is now a three-ring circus. What an idiotic thing to say. Obama is one of those rings!! Doesn't he have the common sense to know that American voters see him as one of those rings? :dunno:
The United States government is a complete mess and Barack Obama is a significant part of this mess. Obama [B]FAILS[/B] to understand that he's supposed to get ahead of and solve problems, not exacerbate them.
The Bottom Line: Barack Obama is NOT Presidential material. He is NOT a leader or Chief Executive. He has NOT made the transition from Senator to President - and he never will. Time for Democrats to find a new candidate for President in 2012!
Just my $0.02.