Never heard of it. If it truly was that great of a film...one would figure it would begin to permeate the popular lexicon. Alas, it hasn't. Discussions in online games, around the office, and what not inevitably come around to sci-fi movies at one point or another, and I have heard nary a word regarding Serenity (or Firefly, for that matter). I'd hazard a guess that most people I know could at least quote a line or outline the plot behind every other sci-fi film on that list...except for Serenity. As an added bonus, I just asked 3 different co-workers who are sci-fi/fantasy buffs for their opinion of the movie (as I have yet to see it, as is obvious from the fact that I've never even heard of it). Two of them found it rather boring, one hadn't even heard of it before. *shrugs* Let's just say I find the poll highly suspect.
regular calling? I don't need SMS, I don't need Internet connectivity. I'm one of those rare freaks out there that actually uses the cell phone for *gasp* emergencies and quick phone calls. I don't text message people under the table during dinner (I engage in what some people call conversation with friends and family face-to-face), I don't browse the Internet (that's what I have a wireless work laptop for), and I stick with one of the pre-installed ringtones (ever notice how many people use Jingle Bells as their ringtone at Christmas?). Great, create the unlimited calling plan for $150, just don't leave those of us who only need about $25 worth of that plan in the dust.
There was this little consumer product call the cellular phone. And this little phone was used to call other people to let them know about an accident, or call a 911 operator to send medical help to a location. And it was good. And then, there came the additions. And these additions killed cell phone service to the point that the phone, one of the hallmarks of modern society, isn't used to call people anymore. And the few that remain who use the phone for its original purpose wept at the loss of their beloved product to the pre-teens who are too lazy to write notes on paper anymore.
Ok, so I used "and" too much. Mod me down, why don't ya!
Well, as avid as one can be when work is involved.
This exposes a great deal of information that was not previously obtainable including profession choices, skill levels for all skills, and the character's complete talent specification and all faction reputation data, along with all gear currently equipped. - This is the exact same as plenty of other profile sites out there. The only difference is this isn't opt-in, so the information is available by default. The last item, currently equipped gear, is something that anyone who is in the game world can see by just running up to you an inspecting you.
The complete roster of any guild or arena team is also available. - Complete guild rosters have already been available via warcraftrealms.com, thanks to the addon Census Plus. Arena teams aren't hard either, using the same addon with some slight modifications.
Some players are upset about this, such as arena PvP teams who now have all their gear and talent choices exposed to the world, or players with non-standard or less-popular talent choices who fear they will have difficulty getting into pickup groups now that people can instantly find out everything about them. - Unless you're a known ninja or gold farmer, you'll still get into PUGs with no problem. Heck, even the ninjas and gold farmers get into PUGs (and even high-end raiding guilds). On the flip side, this allows guilds to properly review the information on a particular recruit, without having to rely on that recruit's honesty in posting information about themselves on sites such as ctprofiles.net.
This isn't a privacy issue, pure and simple. If Blizzard started shelling out what your alts are named, your credit card number, or other such demographic information, then you got yourself a full-fledged privacy issue. Otherwise, WoW is not a democracy, and night elves/dwarves/etc. do NOT have a set of laws that allow them to keep their privacy. Heck, we barely have any privacy in our RLs, why expect more from a game?
Well, Dell hired back a former CEO, so the chances are good either Larry Probst will be re-hired sometime within a year or a clone will suddenly appear.
Why is your sister sharing information regarding an on-going case with you? Surely the client has some right to privacy in not having his case discussed with people outside of legal counsel.
They don't realize that the common purchaser can issue a chargeback on the second transaction by Amazon, and despite all of the action taken by Amazon, they will still lose it in arbitration. It was their responsibility to charge correctly the first time, and they failed to do such. Unless they had a policy that was adequately (note that adequately means that the common customer must be able to readily find the link, little 2-point font links at the bottom of a long-scrolling page do not count) displayed at the time of purchase that gave them specific right to do this (which they don't) and the customer accepted, they'll be stuck paying for arbitration for every single charge, in addition to giving the money back to the common purchaser.
But I really don't need to hear about the latest pill to relieve genital herpies outbreaks while I'm trying to eat dinner. Then again, along those same lines, I really don't need to hear about the latest Viagra alternative while I'm eating dessert, either.
Now I can't decide WHERE to move! Can sombody outlaw something wicked in a place that doesn't have winter? Sure, move to Florida. We have all kinds of strange laws, including one that states it is against the law to put livestock on a school bus. Guess no more cowbell for the short bus.
...but I got this great way to avoid having to use this software. GET INVOLVED! Sheesh, when I was a kid, my parents knew what I was doing without even having to look at me (I swore they had eyes in the back of their head that are just invisible to me). Parents need to raise their children, NOT the Internet.
The reality, though, is that changing your info is easy, but actually personalizing the appearance of your site requires CSS and HTML, which is certainly beyond the skillset of your average high-schooler or even college student.
Speaking as a person who works at an IT department for a college, and was a high school student during the.Com boom and bust, I can tell you that the regular highschooler/college students knows enough HTMl/CSS to be dangerous. AJAX is beyond their skillset, JSP is beyond their skillset, even PHP is beyond their skillset, but HTML/CSS keep getting easier by the day. It doesn't take much to find a WYSIWYG editor that spits out the HTML/CSS code for you, or to copy/paste and learn from enough sites to write quick and dirty webpages yourself.
And yes, copy/paste is a very dangerous way to build a page. At the same time, any web developer will admit (though some will fight admitting this to the death) that at some point in their careers, they stole code and copy/pasted it verbatim to learn how it worked before tearing it apart themselves. That's the nature of development. Just like movies, there's only about 10 original ideas, and everything else is just different variations of those 10 with extra fluff (or flair, if you're a fan of Office Space).
MySpace has the stranglehold on the niche market. Any and every person who just wants their own pegboard, office cubicle side, or office wall to decorate can do so in cyberspace, especially students who otherwise have no way to really express themselves (at least in their own opinion). It takes very little experience to develop your own page that does exactly what you want. It's the Google Gadget system for the common user, or Geektools for High Schoolers, if you want to call it that. Unless someone can find a good way to draw a significant userbase away from MySpace (and I haven't seen anything that will come close), they will continue to succeed.
No sane man would shoot himself in the foot.Tell that to people who were drafted to fight in wars and shot themselves in the foot to get out of having to kill other people.
(a)(2) "Initiate any telephone call to any residential telephone line using an artificial or prerecorded voice to deliver a message without the prior express consent of the called party, unless the call is initiated for emergency purposes or is exempted by Sec. 64.1200(c) of this section."
"The term telephone call in Sec. 64.1200(a)(2) of this section shall not include a call or message by, or on behalf of, a caller: [...]
* (4) Which is a tax-exempt nonprofit organization."
Did you just glance over the word not and pretend it wasn't there? Or did you just not read close enough?
By FCC regulation, calls from non-profits, as well as political advertisements, are exempt from laws governing unsolicited communications. I spent the better part of 2 years working with autodialers, configuring them for sending out pre-recorded messages to the homes of those who were eating a nice, quiet dinner. During my brief time doing that sort of work at that organization (I have since found employment elsewhere that doesn't make me feel like Satan at the end of the day), I became well versed in the nuances of the law regarding solicited and unsolicited telephone calls. I can assure you, if you get phone calls from George Bush advertising your local Republican candidate as the best person for the job, the ONLY recourse you have is to hang up the phone and pray for November to be over.
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Never heard of it. If it truly was that great of a film...one would figure it would begin to permeate the popular lexicon. Alas, it hasn't. Discussions in online games, around the office, and what not inevitably come around to sci-fi movies at one point or another, and I have heard nary a word regarding Serenity (or Firefly, for that matter). I'd hazard a guess that most people I know could at least quote a line or outline the plot behind every other sci-fi film on that list...except for Serenity. As an added bonus, I just asked 3 different co-workers who are sci-fi/fantasy buffs for their opinion of the movie (as I have yet to see it, as is obvious from the fact that I've never even heard of it). Two of them found it rather boring, one hadn't even heard of it before. *shrugs* Let's just say I find the poll highly suspect.
defectivebydesign and haha. Quick, someone tag it!
Someone call the best deep core driller! *cue Bruce Willis*
regular calling? I don't need SMS, I don't need Internet connectivity. I'm one of those rare freaks out there that actually uses the cell phone for *gasp* emergencies and quick phone calls. I don't text message people under the table during dinner (I engage in what some people call conversation with friends and family face-to-face), I don't browse the Internet (that's what I have a wireless work laptop for), and I stick with one of the pre-installed ringtones (ever notice how many people use Jingle Bells as their ringtone at Christmas?). Great, create the unlimited calling plan for $150, just don't leave those of us who only need about $25 worth of that plan in the dust.
There was this little consumer product call the cellular phone. And this little phone was used to call other people to let them know about an accident, or call a 911 operator to send medical help to a location. And it was good. And then, there came the additions. And these additions killed cell phone service to the point that the phone, one of the hallmarks of modern society, isn't used to call people anymore. And the few that remain who use the phone for its original purpose wept at the loss of their beloved product to the pre-teens who are too lazy to write notes on paper anymore.
Ok, so I used "and" too much. Mod me down, why don't ya!
- This exposes a great deal of information that was not previously obtainable including profession choices, skill levels for all skills, and the character's complete talent specification and all faction reputation data, along with all gear currently equipped. - This is the exact same as plenty of other profile sites out there. The only difference is this isn't opt-in, so the information is available by default. The last item, currently equipped gear, is something that anyone who is in the game world can see by just running up to you an inspecting you.
- The complete roster of any guild or arena team is also available. - Complete guild rosters have already been available via warcraftrealms.com, thanks to the addon Census Plus. Arena teams aren't hard either, using the same addon with some slight modifications.
- Some players are upset about this, such as arena PvP teams who now have all their gear and talent choices exposed to the world, or players with non-standard or less-popular talent choices who fear they will have difficulty getting into pickup groups now that people can instantly find out everything about them. - Unless you're a known ninja or gold farmer, you'll still get into PUGs with no problem. Heck, even the ninjas and gold farmers get into PUGs (and even high-end raiding guilds). On the flip side, this allows guilds to properly review the information on a particular recruit, without having to rely on that recruit's honesty in posting information about themselves on sites such as ctprofiles.net.
This isn't a privacy issue, pure and simple. If Blizzard started shelling out what your alts are named, your credit card number, or other such demographic information, then you got yourself a full-fledged privacy issue. Otherwise, WoW is not a democracy, and night elves/dwarves/etc. do NOT have a set of laws that allow them to keep their privacy. Heck, we barely have any privacy in our RLs, why expect more from a game?They'll charge even more for their bottled water, saying they had to get it out of this reservoir.
Well, Dell hired back a former CEO, so the chances are good either Larry Probst will be re-hired sometime within a year or a clone will suddenly appear.
Why is your sister sharing information regarding an on-going case with you? Surely the client has some right to privacy in not having his case discussed with people outside of legal counsel.
They don't realize that the common purchaser can issue a chargeback on the second transaction by Amazon, and despite all of the action taken by Amazon, they will still lose it in arbitration. It was their responsibility to charge correctly the first time, and they failed to do such. Unless they had a policy that was adequately (note that adequately means that the common customer must be able to readily find the link, little 2-point font links at the bottom of a long-scrolling page do not count) displayed at the time of purchase that gave them specific right to do this (which they don't) and the customer accepted, they'll be stuck paying for arbitration for every single charge, in addition to giving the money back to the common purchaser.
But I really don't need to hear about the latest pill to relieve genital herpies outbreaks while I'm trying to eat dinner. Then again, along those same lines, I really don't need to hear about the latest Viagra alternative while I'm eating dessert, either.
You mean I actually have to thank Canada for something? Ah, what the heck...thanks Canadia, and keep them movies flowing!
...but I got this great way to avoid having to use this software. GET INVOLVED! Sheesh, when I was a kid, my parents knew what I was doing without even having to look at me (I swore they had eyes in the back of their head that are just invisible to me). Parents need to raise their children, NOT the Internet.
Speaking as a person who works at an IT department for a college, and was a high school student during the .Com boom and bust, I can tell you that the regular highschooler/college students knows enough HTMl/CSS to be dangerous. AJAX is beyond their skillset, JSP is beyond their skillset, even PHP is beyond their skillset, but HTML/CSS keep getting easier by the day. It doesn't take much to find a WYSIWYG editor that spits out the HTML/CSS code for you, or to copy/paste and learn from enough sites to write quick and dirty webpages yourself.
And yes, copy/paste is a very dangerous way to build a page. At the same time, any web developer will admit (though some will fight admitting this to the death) that at some point in their careers, they stole code and copy/pasted it verbatim to learn how it worked before tearing it apart themselves. That's the nature of development. Just like movies, there's only about 10 original ideas, and everything else is just different variations of those 10 with extra fluff (or flair, if you're a fan of Office Space).
MySpace has the stranglehold on the niche market. Any and every person who just wants their own pegboard, office cubicle side, or office wall to decorate can do so in cyberspace, especially students who otherwise have no way to really express themselves (at least in their own opinion). It takes very little experience to develop your own page that does exactly what you want. It's the Google Gadget system for the common user, or Geektools for High Schoolers, if you want to call it that. Unless someone can find a good way to draw a significant userbase away from MySpace (and I haven't seen anything that will come close), they will continue to succeed.
No sane man would shoot himself in the foot.Tell that to people who were drafted to fight in wars and shot themselves in the foot to get out of having to kill other people.
But you're wrong.
(a)(2) "Initiate any telephone call to any residential telephone line using an artificial or prerecorded voice to deliver a message without the prior express consent of the called party, unless the call is initiated for emergency purposes or is exempted by Sec. 64.1200(c) of this section."
"The term telephone call in Sec. 64.1200(a)(2) of this section shall not include a call or message by, or on behalf of, a caller: [...]
* (4) Which is a tax-exempt nonprofit organization."
Did you just glance over the word not and pretend it wasn't there? Or did you just not read close enough?
By FCC regulation, calls from non-profits, as well as political advertisements, are exempt from laws governing unsolicited communications. I spent the better part of 2 years working with autodialers, configuring them for sending out pre-recorded messages to the homes of those who were eating a nice, quiet dinner. During my brief time doing that sort of work at that organization (I have since found employment elsewhere that doesn't make me feel like Satan at the end of the day), I became well versed in the nuances of the law regarding solicited and unsolicited telephone calls. I can assure you, if you get phone calls from George Bush advertising your local Republican candidate as the best person for the job, the ONLY recourse you have is to hang up the phone and pray for November to be over.