that's the REAL anti-piracy measure. They're lying about changing tactics. The strategy all along has been to make Vista suck so bad nobody would pirate it. And if you don't believe me ask yourself right now if someone paid you to run an illegal copy...or any copy of Vista, would you? I wouldn't! That's practically bricking my computer. I wouldn't be able to use half my software and hardware
Yeah they're a bunch of loser patent trolls but I hate Apple so I'm gonna go the other way with it. Why the hell don't they open the stupid patent database and see all the voicemail related patents. You'd think they'd find it and say "hey, maybe we shouldn't this." Whenever anyone ever comes up with a fantastic, patentable idea, they should check if someone else patented it first. That's just common sense!
Maybe it has extremely high resistance so it "consumes" volts lol. The real question is WTF happened to GDDR4? I bet some other company is in the process of making 4 so they named theirs 5 just to be dicks lol. Well I'm gonna go make some Super Ultra GDDR3000 with hypthreadingtransport bus speedination! It's actually not ram at all, it's a cologne lol.
1. you're a douche
2. I knew that already
3. they're barely enforcing it because US citizens aren't cooperating and turning people in enough because they think it's mean
not really cuz without oil they'll start raising terrorist funds primarily through fraud and drugs. You think they're gonna "shut down the entire terrorism program" because of lack of funds? lol
People who for whatever reason cross the border illegally will never get a "terrorist profile".
How do you know those people don't automatically get a ridiculously high rating when they're discovered in the country. This could all be a ploy to get rid of illegal immigrants in the name of terrorism. Let's say on the way back from Mexico some guy gets +10 points for failing to show a vehicle registration, the next guy behind him gets +30 for being arabic, and I get +50 for having a 50 pound barrel of potassium nitrate in the back of the truck. But if someone is discovered to have snuck in they get +100 which is over the limit and can be immediately arrested or deported or something. It's all speculation but it's possible.
I guess they modded you down cuz they couldn't find the "amen to that" mod category. I mean seriously, what are they gonna do, FDIC insure it? Give me a break.
Well fan-fricken-tastic for them. Pardon me if I don't care since my 2 year old account just got stolen in SRO because of some idiotic glitch in the company's website or something. It let anyone change your account's password AND e-mail on file so you can't recover it. I was one of the richest people in the entire game. Basically all the famous high level people's accounts are trashed now so everyone's quitting and pissed and threatening to blow up all of South Korea etc. I wouldn't be surprised in the least of the entire game goes under now.
So what's the point of me telling you all this? Because this is what could have happened.
even my USB flash drives can be synced with WMP so there's always that. Plus and synchronization software can be used with any MP3 player that shows up as a drive
:-O I assumed all geeks love smashing cars! Why the heck wouldn't we?! I sure do!!! Although looking around me in the bleachers at a demolition derby kinda makes me think it's more of a hick/redneck thing lol. Still fun though.
forget the battery, how long do you think your mobile carrier would keep you on with constant data usage. Currently you pretty much have to "be there" to use mobile phone bandwidth. Like I have to be sending a picture or downloading something with the phone open and in my hands. I used like 9 MB in a month. With bittorrent nobody just sits there and watches it so you can use maxed out bandwidth off the tower pretty much 24/7 in theory. And I remember a story here about how all cell phone companies can kick the highest bandwidth users off their network and suspend their contract whenever they want because it's part of the contract.
plus, phones don't have much storage usually. I got a 1GB card in mine but not many other people do.
But I hate iTunes. And so does like all of Europe and actually most of the US lol. It's too locked down and "BUY SOMETHING OR ELSE!" you know what I mean. It's like the aol homepage in music download program form. Now I dunno anything about the Zune really so I dunno if it does this or not but the only MP3 player that's going to super dominate every other one is one where:
you plug it in and it shows up in My Computer as a drive and you drop MP3s on it or any other file.
It doesn't have any major problems or defects
it's high capacity
It's cheap
And if it could play games, watch out! If Creative or Sandisk made a player that fit all those characteristics, they'd blow the locked down iPod and Zune and iTunes and Napster and all them away.
in the case of visual basic for example, Microsoft made almost all the functions and objects used so you can't do some little code snippet using them and say somehow now you own it. That's like a company making cars and they sell one to you and you patent demolition derbies because you discovered a new thing to do with their tools. Now big, long programs or large, specialized modules that would have the same structure in any language and actually represent some logical idea that someone created are a different story. But if I go to vbforums.com and ask a good way to do something and someone shows me 20 lines for it and I use it, nobody should be complaining about me stealing someone's code. Yet, if I steal a DLL and use it for myself so I don't have to write any of it, that's different.
Now that that's established, to answer the final question posed on the summary, it's caleld the MSDN library and it failed miserably. Its main purpose isn't this, but it does in fact strive to have a realistic example of how every function and object would be used...and it's gigabytes of un-navigateable garbage that doesn't tell you anything 95% of the time.
You can't forget the severe damage to your vocal chords if you have to talk to your computer all day. I'd give the average person about a month before they'd have to have surgery on their vocal chords, especially during winter. That's especially because of the way you have to talk, all loud and slow and clear instead of lazy and low energy and slightly slurred so that a computer can understand you. Studies show that damages your vocal chords waaaay more. Then there's the whole motion based thing. If typing and moving a mouse can give you carpal tunnel and tendonitis, just think what waving your arm around or basically any other repeated, detectable movement would cause. Tennis elbow x 10!
Oh and PS, old people work at the hospital where I also do (old = 40+ lol) and they're finally just getting settled using the keyboard and mouse and don't hate them anymore. If you try and tell them to suddenly get retrained on something completely different and still do their job, they'll either not use it or quit. Seriously, we swapped out a noteboook with a tablet and the doctor stopped using it because it had to be held differently. Even in the IT department, I don't think we'd wanna relearn some dumb interface. We can type and mouse as fast as we can think or at least as fast as the computer can react so there's no advantage to switching to a new interface system. When I use a laptop touchpad even the speed at which I can do tasks on the computer drops to about 1/5th. Nothing is more quick and effective as a mouse in my hands.
But I would use a DDR pad as input just for fun when I wasn't in a hurry...that's it though lol
I was gonna post about how hard could it possibly be to detect that the reset packets are coming from a different source than the rest of the data and block it but what you said makes me wonder. So they're impersonating someone else's IP to mask where the packets are really coming from? Isn't that not just bad and nasty but completely illegal?
Oh don't give me that fix it later crap. It's a massive catastrofuck no matter how fast they patch it. Time for MY RANT! (which I can do cuz I'm a programmer.) I work at a hospital and guess what! The heart monitoring software never fails. It's perfect. No glitches, no bugs, no crashes EVER. Same with standalone solution in a box medical equipment and other complicated software that serves important purposes like keeping people alive. It all works perfectly because it has to work perfectly!
Remember back in the N64 days before patching? What the hell was a crash glitch? 99% of the games weren't capable of just locking up or writing garbage data over your whole memory card. They couldn't fix the games later so they released them so close to perfect that they were acceptable. And now today we have the original Xbox's Splinter Cell whose online play had so many glitches it was a crime against gaming. But the "just release it so we can get money now, we'll patch it later" crap is unacceptable! Programmers are getting lazy or worse yet, sabotaging programs so they're ensured work to do later fixing it. I say put in some damn effort and release software that's actually good!
well if we're going this far with it...if you had a helicopter, you'd have GPS onboard. Plus you're not supposed to use cell phones on helicopters I don't think. Even if it was safe, it's too loud.
Okay let's see...I typed badly spelled sentences on a typwriter when i was 2 3/4 years old, potty trained myself, learned to talk and walk earlier than most kids, and grew up to be really smart. I'm gonna have to vote for "have genes that make you smart" as the answer to raising smart kids. Oh and eating fish lol.
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lol that's not what it will tell you. When you're inside a building it will tell you you're 2 miles away from the tower. And in the elevator it will tell you you're 4 miles away from the tower. And as soon as you walk out, you're suddenly one mile from the tower! All it can go by is the signal strength as far as I know. That's so stupid. With one tower, it can tell you you're somewhere on a ring around the tower. With two it can approximate a linear area that you're in. With 3 towers it can tell you where you are. Even with 3, it won't be accurate because signal strength goes up and down. Plus with multiple towers, they'd kinda have to be owned by the same network and have the same radio tower technology and receivers or it wouldn't work very well.
Just get a damn GPS phone, people.
I just got upped to 7 megabits on road runner from 5 lol. Too bad I'M ONLY GETTING 1-2 AT ANY TIME OF THE DAY! And before you're all like oh you've got ______ the reply is no lol. No networking problems, bad cabling, or spyware. I spent days troubleshooting those already. It's RR's fault.
What's wrong with copper? I'd freakin love even 100 MBPS at my house! That's like a minute and a half for a good quality DVD movie instead of hours. And copper can do gigabit so geeze. They just need more of it and better network switches and routers instead of cheaping out and giving crap service to everyone to save a buck
lol and by "professional sports" you mean Wii Sports:D I smell a Wii2 Wiisuit controller! w00t! Do you know how much ass that would kick to be playing a fighting game and actually have to do a spinning kick with realistic force? People would be so skinny it would be ridiculous. Either that or in the hospital lol.
Well duh, it would be MMail lol. Or Microsoft + e-mail = MeMail and they could have a little dancing leprochaun cuz it sounds Irish. But really they'd probably just sneak in a stealth windows update that removes Outlook and re-routes your home page to their mail site. And in case you don't believe me, at my work we're having a problem with IE7. Microsoft somehow snuck some sort of adware onto the computers that will randomly once in a while load up the Get It Now page for IE7 instead of the actual homepage. It doesn't get any more adware than that. Since the homepage is our important intranet hub, we're considering suing.
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that's the REAL anti-piracy measure. They're lying about changing tactics. The strategy all along has been to make Vista suck so bad nobody would pirate it. And if you don't believe me ask yourself right now if someone paid you to run an illegal copy...or any copy of Vista, would you? I wouldn't! That's practically bricking my computer. I wouldn't be able to use half my software and hardware
Yeah they're a bunch of loser patent trolls but I hate Apple so I'm gonna go the other way with it. Why the hell don't they open the stupid patent database and see all the voicemail related patents. You'd think they'd find it and say "hey, maybe we shouldn't this." Whenever anyone ever comes up with a fantastic, patentable idea, they should check if someone else patented it first. That's just common sense!
Maybe it has extremely high resistance so it "consumes" volts lol. The real question is WTF happened to GDDR4? I bet some other company is in the process of making 4 so they named theirs 5 just to be dicks lol. Well I'm gonna go make some Super Ultra GDDR3000 with hypthreadingtransport bus speedination! It's actually not ram at all, it's a cologne lol.
1. you're a douche
2. I knew that already
3. they're barely enforcing it because US citizens aren't cooperating and turning people in enough because they think it's mean
not really cuz without oil they'll start raising terrorist funds primarily through fraud and drugs. You think they're gonna "shut down the entire terrorism program" because of lack of funds? lol
I guess they modded you down cuz they couldn't find the "amen to that" mod category. I mean seriously, what are they gonna do, FDIC insure it? Give me a break.
Well fan-fricken-tastic for them. Pardon me if I don't care since my 2 year old account just got stolen in SRO because of some idiotic glitch in the company's website or something. It let anyone change your account's password AND e-mail on file so you can't recover it. I was one of the richest people in the entire game. Basically all the famous high level people's accounts are trashed now so everyone's quitting and pissed and threatening to blow up all of South Korea etc. I wouldn't be surprised in the least of the entire game goes under now.
So what's the point of me telling you all this? Because this is what could have happened.
even my USB flash drives can be synced with WMP so there's always that. Plus and synchronization software can be used with any MP3 player that shows up as a drive
:-O I assumed all geeks love smashing cars! Why the heck wouldn't we?! I sure do!!! Although looking around me in the bleachers at a demolition derby kinda makes me think it's more of a hick/redneck thing lol. Still fun though.
forget the battery, how long do you think your mobile carrier would keep you on with constant data usage. Currently you pretty much have to "be there" to use mobile phone bandwidth. Like I have to be sending a picture or downloading something with the phone open and in my hands. I used like 9 MB in a month. With bittorrent nobody just sits there and watches it so you can use maxed out bandwidth off the tower pretty much 24/7 in theory. And I remember a story here about how all cell phone companies can kick the highest bandwidth users off their network and suspend their contract whenever they want because it's part of the contract.
plus, phones don't have much storage usually. I got a 1GB card in mine but not many other people do.
But I hate iTunes. And so does like all of Europe and actually most of the US lol. It's too locked down and "BUY SOMETHING OR ELSE!" you know what I mean. It's like the aol homepage in music download program form.
Now I dunno anything about the Zune really so I dunno if it does this or not but the only MP3 player that's going to super dominate every other one is one where:
you plug it in and it shows up in My Computer as a drive and you drop MP3s on it or any other file.
It doesn't have any major problems or defects
it's high capacity
It's cheap
And if it could play games, watch out! If Creative or Sandisk made a player that fit all those characteristics, they'd blow the locked down iPod and Zune and iTunes and Napster and all them away.
in the case of visual basic for example, Microsoft made almost all the functions and objects used so you can't do some little code snippet using them and say somehow now you own it. That's like a company making cars and they sell one to you and you patent demolition derbies because you discovered a new thing to do with their tools. Now big, long programs or large, specialized modules that would have the same structure in any language and actually represent some logical idea that someone created are a different story. But if I go to vbforums.com and ask a good way to do something and someone shows me 20 lines for it and I use it, nobody should be complaining about me stealing someone's code. Yet, if I steal a DLL and use it for myself so I don't have to write any of it, that's different.
Now that that's established, to answer the final question posed on the summary, it's caleld the MSDN library and it failed miserably. Its main purpose isn't this, but it does in fact strive to have a realistic example of how every function and object would be used...and it's gigabytes of un-navigateable garbage that doesn't tell you anything 95% of the time.
You can't forget the severe damage to your vocal chords if you have to talk to your computer all day. I'd give the average person about a month before they'd have to have surgery on their vocal chords, especially during winter. That's especially because of the way you have to talk, all loud and slow and clear instead of lazy and low energy and slightly slurred so that a computer can understand you. Studies show that damages your vocal chords waaaay more. Then there's the whole motion based thing. If typing and moving a mouse can give you carpal tunnel and tendonitis, just think what waving your arm around or basically any other repeated, detectable movement would cause. Tennis elbow x 10!
Oh and PS, old people work at the hospital where I also do (old = 40+ lol) and they're finally just getting settled using the keyboard and mouse and don't hate them anymore. If you try and tell them to suddenly get retrained on something completely different and still do their job, they'll either not use it or quit. Seriously, we swapped out a noteboook with a tablet and the doctor stopped using it because it had to be held differently. Even in the IT department, I don't think we'd wanna relearn some dumb interface. We can type and mouse as fast as we can think or at least as fast as the computer can react so there's no advantage to switching to a new interface system. When I use a laptop touchpad even the speed at which I can do tasks on the computer drops to about 1/5th. Nothing is more quick and effective as a mouse in my hands.
But I would use a DDR pad as input just for fun when I wasn't in a hurry...that's it though lol
I was gonna post about how hard could it possibly be to detect that the reset packets are coming from a different source than the rest of the data and block it but what you said makes me wonder. So they're impersonating someone else's IP to mask where the packets are really coming from? Isn't that not just bad and nasty but completely illegal?
Oh don't give me that fix it later crap. It's a massive catastrofuck no matter how fast they patch it. Time for MY RANT! (which I can do cuz I'm a programmer.) I work at a hospital and guess what! The heart monitoring software never fails. It's perfect. No glitches, no bugs, no crashes EVER. Same with standalone solution in a box medical equipment and other complicated software that serves important purposes like keeping people alive. It all works perfectly because it has to work perfectly!
Remember back in the N64 days before patching? What the hell was a crash glitch? 99% of the games weren't capable of just locking up or writing garbage data over your whole memory card. They couldn't fix the games later so they released them so close to perfect that they were acceptable. And now today we have the original Xbox's Splinter Cell whose online play had so many glitches it was a crime against gaming. But the "just release it so we can get money now, we'll patch it later" crap is unacceptable! Programmers are getting lazy or worse yet, sabotaging programs so they're ensured work to do later fixing it. I say put in some damn effort and release software that's actually good!
yeah, what a rip! It so got my hopes up! Dammit. Who designed Area 51 anyway? We should find him and ask if the project was F'ed up lol
I don't even need to read it to know #1 is move to the US lol
well if we're going this far with it...if you had a helicopter, you'd have GPS onboard. Plus you're not supposed to use cell phones on helicopters I don't think. Even if it was safe, it's too loud.
Okay let's see...I typed badly spelled sentences on a typwriter when i was 2 3/4 years old, potty trained myself, learned to talk and walk earlier than most kids, and grew up to be really smart. I'm gonna have to vote for "have genes that make you smart" as the answer to raising smart kids. Oh and eating fish lol.
lol that's not what it will tell you. When you're inside a building it will tell you you're 2 miles away from the tower. And in the elevator it will tell you you're 4 miles away from the tower. And as soon as you walk out, you're suddenly one mile from the tower! All it can go by is the signal strength as far as I know. That's so stupid. With one tower, it can tell you you're somewhere on a ring around the tower. With two it can approximate a linear area that you're in. With 3 towers it can tell you where you are. Even with 3, it won't be accurate because signal strength goes up and down. Plus with multiple towers, they'd kinda have to be owned by the same network and have the same radio tower technology and receivers or it wouldn't work very well.
Just get a damn GPS phone, people.
I just got upped to 7 megabits on road runner from 5 lol. Too bad I'M ONLY GETTING 1-2 AT ANY TIME OF THE DAY! And before you're all like oh you've got ______ the reply is no lol. No networking problems, bad cabling, or spyware. I spent days troubleshooting those already. It's RR's fault.
What's wrong with copper? I'd freakin love even 100 MBPS at my house! That's like a minute and a half for a good quality DVD movie instead of hours. And copper can do gigabit so geeze. They just need more of it and better network switches and routers instead of cheaping out and giving crap service to everyone to save a buck
lol and by "professional sports" you mean Wii Sports :D I smell a Wii2 Wiisuit controller! w00t! Do you know how much ass that would kick to be playing a fighting game and actually have to do a spinning kick with realistic force? People would be so skinny it would be ridiculous. Either that or in the hospital lol.
Well duh, it would be MMail lol. Or Microsoft + e-mail = MeMail and they could have a little dancing leprochaun cuz it sounds Irish. But really they'd probably just sneak in a stealth windows update that removes Outlook and re-routes your home page to their mail site. And in case you don't believe me, at my work we're having a problem with IE7. Microsoft somehow snuck some sort of adware onto the computers that will randomly once in a while load up the Get It Now page for IE7 instead of the actual homepage. It doesn't get any more adware than that. Since the homepage is our important intranet hub, we're considering suing.