They argue that nearly a third of consumers already change carriers on a regular basis, and the new rule will only cause the provider-switching phenomenon to grow and, in turn, lead to more loss of customers and more damage to their bottom lines.
How ignorant can they possibly be? It just means that competition within cell phone companies will be growing, and prices and deals on cell phones/air time will be drastically decreasing because of this. It's only helping to create perfect competition in the cell phone industry. To the consumer, this is a good thing. To the company, not so much. This is a very company-oriented point of view, and is ignorant of the consumer.
The only real problems with cheating in EverQuest was when ShowEQ came out. Of course, sony gave the owners of the website distributing it a "cease and desist" and it went down immediately, and if I recall correctly, patched EverQuest to look for this running and then ban their account, as it's a violation of their EULA (in short: cannot use third party software to aid EverQuest).
Then of course there's the infamous EverQuest Simulator where you can make any character how powerful you want without a subscription to EverQuest.
There was also a scripting program which the name of dosen't occurr to me at the moment, but it allowed you to sit by a vendor overnight, buy items from him, make something with the items, and sell it back to the vendor at a greater cost than you bought the supplies to make it for, and pretty much let you made a sick amount of EverQuest money (Platinum) overnight. I'm not sure they ever found a way to detect this one, but they made sure that if they found out you were banned for this one as well.
I'm somewhat of a java noob, but from what I've seen with it, it's pretty damned hard to buffer overflow in java. Considering that if you try overloading strings/arrays and whatnot, you're thrown Overflow and IndexOutOfBounds exceptions. Although java is pretty shoddy when it comes to performance, it does well with error handling.
I picked up a Virtual Boy at Toys 'r Us about 5-6 years ago (I think) when they stopped producing them on clearance for $20. It was a steal, so I couldn't pass it up, and I went ahead and bought a bunch of $5 games along with it.
It provided for a good amount of quality game time.
They're releasing 4 episodes free, and the last 5 you have to probably buy the DVD to get. Unless they release them ala Flight of the Osiris (shorts before feature films), you'll have to buy the DVD if you want to finish the series.
what CS servers do you play on? people don't actually say letters over voice com. Actually the most mature people use voicecom, because all the noob kids are too afraid to actually use their voice, because it adds another element of social-relaism that they're not ready for.
But I do have to say, once in a while, you do get an annoying kid on voicecom, and then I just go ahead and mute him.
I'd be willing to bet that the extra $200 you pay isn't so much for the software as it is for the linux training they're going to have to do for their tech support phone staff.
God knows I wouldn't want to be the one to give "Joe business Consumer" linux tech support (assuming they lack an in-house linux tech) coming off of a switch from Windows servers.
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In related news, there was an apparent attack on Iraqi government servers this evening after a link to their website was posted on slashdot.org. No reports as of yet as to if this was an official government decision part of the American "bombing" campaign.
I'm not quite sure what that slashdot story was about... but I've always been a fan of computer recycling ala mr. baseball bat (see Office Space) or thrown out of high speed moving vehicle.
couldn't possibly agree more. if i had moderator points today, i'd definately mod this one up. There really is no good reason there should be limits on bandwidth until we run out of.. oil or whatever the hell we use to make optic pipes.
I think you missed the point of what the author of the comment was trying to say. He acknowledged that net access is indeed a comodity, which seemed to be a point that you were refuting (maybe you didn't mean to come across the way, but that's how i percieved it).
I would think though, that by adding more pipes throught the U.S., would just create more tech jobs and that internet would eventually come to the point where phone service is now, that companies actually start to compete over high-speed lines (in my city the only service you can really get it roadrunner, or pay a FORTUNE for a high-end dsl line).
We just need to keep laying those fiberoptic wires across america, and it'll come, all in good time.
there's no way that could be more effective than using a standard x86 processor on a box to compile your audio filters. You'd have to send way too much data over a pipe, and this is to distributed users as well.. which means that someone doing a few cycles of your compilation will be on a 56k modem...
See where i'm goign with this? Just a bad bottleneck.
most microsoft software that you install requires that you have a CD key to install it, and I'm not sure about you.. but my office XP key is that no-registration one that corporate offices use.
personally, I'm all for reading off of paper books. It gives me a chance to give my eyes a rest from the gleam of the monitor (I'm a poor college student who can't afford an LCD at the moment) and honestly, I can read books easier than I can read text on the screen.
What would be a nice feature of the website would be if you were able to print off a book in its entirety (Acrobat PDF format or Word document or something), buy a binder or something for it.
Although I would miss the softcover after a while, and miss out on the chance to build up a book collection.
In that case they could identify everyone that visits their website, not just windows update. hell, slashdot could figure out who i am.. and quite frankly i don't give a shit
Did you know if you combine equal parts of gasoline and frozen-concentrate orange juice you can make napalm? one can make all sorts of explosives out of common household items.. if one were so inclined.
The low framerate can also help small flaws actors make from being very noticeable, so it's a framerate that I always use, even when making home movies for spanish class or something.. it makes them look more "professional", if that makes any sense.
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don't forget Pokemon: the movie. also known as the GREATEST ANIME EVAR CREATED!!!!!!
worst anime ever.
The only real problems with cheating in EverQuest was when ShowEQ came out. Of course, sony gave the owners of the website distributing it a "cease and desist" and it went down immediately, and if I recall correctly, patched EverQuest to look for this running and then ban their account, as it's a violation of their EULA (in short: cannot use third party software to aid EverQuest).
Then of course there's the infamous EverQuest Simulator where you can make any character how powerful you want without a subscription to EverQuest.
There was also a scripting program which the name of dosen't occurr to me at the moment, but it allowed you to sit by a vendor overnight, buy items from him, make something with the items, and sell it back to the vendor at a greater cost than you bought the supplies to make it for, and pretty much let you made a sick amount of EverQuest money (Platinum) overnight. I'm not sure they ever found a way to detect this one, but they made sure that if they found out you were banned for this one as well.
I'm somewhat of a java noob, but from what I've seen with it, it's pretty damned hard to buffer overflow in java. Considering that if you try overloading strings/arrays and whatnot, you're thrown Overflow and IndexOutOfBounds exceptions. Although java is pretty shoddy when it comes to performance, it does well with error handling.
This is the first time i've heard of the project, does anyone have a description of what the project is all about?
Thanks in advance
I picked up a Virtual Boy at Toys 'r Us about 5-6 years ago (I think) when they stopped producing them on clearance for $20. It was a steal, so I couldn't pass it up, and I went ahead and bought a bunch of $5 games along with it.
It provided for a good amount of quality game time.
They're releasing 4 episodes free, and the last 5 you have to probably buy the DVD to get. Unless they release them ala Flight of the Osiris (shorts before feature films), you'll have to buy the DVD if you want to finish the series.
Good marketing on their part.
what CS servers do you play on? people don't actually say letters over voice com. Actually the most mature people use voicecom, because all the noob kids are too afraid to actually use their voice, because it adds another element of social-relaism that they're not ready for.
But I do have to say, once in a while, you do get an annoying kid on voicecom, and then I just go ahead and mute him.
I'd be willing to bet that the extra $200 you pay isn't so much for the software as it is for the linux training they're going to have to do for their tech support phone staff.
God knows I wouldn't want to be the one to give "Joe business Consumer" linux tech support (assuming they lack an in-house linux tech) coming off of a switch from Windows servers.
In related news, there was an apparent attack on Iraqi government servers this evening after a link to their website was posted on slashdot.org. No reports as of yet as to if this was an official government decision part of the American "bombing" campaign.
I'm not quite sure what that slashdot story was about... but I've always been a fan of computer recycling ala mr. baseball bat (see Office Space) or thrown out of high speed moving vehicle.
I don't suppose anyone happened to mirror/cache it? (since it was taken down before it was posted on /.)
couldn't possibly agree more. if i had moderator points today, i'd definately mod this one up. There really is no good reason there should be limits on bandwidth until we run out of.. oil or whatever the hell we use to make optic pipes.
I think you missed the point of what the author of the comment was trying to say. He acknowledged that net access is indeed a comodity, which seemed to be a point that you were refuting (maybe you didn't mean to come across the way, but that's how i percieved it).
I would think though, that by adding more pipes throught the U.S., would just create more tech jobs and that internet would eventually come to the point where phone service is now, that companies actually start to compete over high-speed lines (in my city the only service you can really get it roadrunner, or pay a FORTUNE for a high-end dsl line).
We just need to keep laying those fiberoptic wires across america, and it'll come, all in good time.
the google translation actually states that they put it in sunflower oil. Possibly a mistranslation or just incorrect summary from /.?
I don't, i use a popup blocker.. but some people might be. It was just a warning to those that might get them.
there's no way that could be more effective than using a standard x86 processor on a box to compile your audio filters. You'd have to send way too much data over a pipe, and this is to distributed users as well.. which means that someone doing a few cycles of your compilation will be on a 56k modem...
See where i'm goign with this? Just a bad bottleneck.
most microsoft software that you install requires that you have a CD key to install it, and I'm not sure about you.. but my office XP key is that no-registration one that corporate offices use.
Kazaa really f'd its users over with its adware, and that other thing as was mentioned in that slashdot article.
this is the exact reason that i use kazaa lite (caution, popups)
don't forget the porn... fark looooves the porn
personally, I'm all for reading off of paper books. It gives me a chance to give my eyes a rest from the gleam of the monitor (I'm a poor college student who can't afford an LCD at the moment) and honestly, I can read books easier than I can read text on the screen.
What would be a nice feature of the website would be if you were able to print off a book in its entirety (Acrobat PDF format or Word document or something), buy a binder or something for it.
Although I would miss the softcover after a while, and miss out on the chance to build up a book collection.
Still a good service
In that case they could identify everyone that visits their website, not just windows update. hell, slashdot could figure out who i am.. and quite frankly i don't give a shit
Yeah.. but I just wanted to see who would figure it out first, make someone feel special :P
Did you know if you combine equal parts of gasoline and frozen-concentrate orange juice you can make napalm? one can make all sorts of explosives out of common household items.. if one were so inclined.
action simply looks terrible at 24fps
The low framerate can also help small flaws actors make from being very noticeable, so it's a framerate that I always use, even when making home movies for spanish class or something.. it makes them look more "professional", if that makes any sense.