I knew it! I knew it! You sons of whores Bell! $70 fucking dollars a month!! I'm coming down to your HQ and throwing a cinderblock through your front window!
I have a feeling they're going to discover something that they really wouldn't want to know. Like Chocolate is 99% the same genetically as poop.
Next week: Genome tests for chocolate have been canceled. One representative was heard to say 'Well, I don't think anybody's interested in this. Let's talk about something else.. Uhh... Free candy bars for everybody!'
Wow! Thanks for the info! I'll be canceling my service with Bell very soon and signing up with Teksavvy. Just looking at the info for their highspeed internet is mind boggling. It completely illustrates how crooked those vampires at Bell are. Bell doesn't even offer unlimited bandwidth with any of their packages!
I'm having an epiphany! I've been fooled all these years! DAMN YOU!! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!! (I mean Bell)
Yes considering how astute government bureaucracies are I'm sure they'll really make a lot of difference
Government: We're having some issues with this 'notepad' program. You can't include it, it's anti-competitive. Microsoft: Are you crazy?! Nobody uses that for actual word processing! Government: That may be so, but including a word program with your operating system is unfair to the people who make MSOffice Microsoft: Oh.. Okay... Well, what if we struck some sort of deal with the 'MSOffice' people as a gesture of good will? Maybe bundle their software with our OS? Government: Why that sounds like a wonderful idea. I'm sure the MSOffice people would really appreciate such a brotherly gesture.
It is unfortunate to say the least. As of late Scientists had made some real progress with AI. For example there's the wise cracking robot the South Koreans were working on. They canceled the project when they determined the robot wasn't wise cracking at all, it was just mean. Wound up costing them their Olympic bid when it called the commissioner a coward and threw a bottle at him.
Considering one of their supposed traffic shaping methods is deep packet inspection, the 'competitive reason' would be they'd be sued till their arms and legs were bloody stumps and they were just rolling around on the street while angry former customers beat them with shovels. Thus allowing the likes of Rogers to get the upper hand.
-Also on an unrelated note, I just received my internet bill, and I got hit with an extra $25 for 'bandwidth usage'. Thanks Bell
This is surprising. Maybe I'll have to start learning German if I want to get honest game reviews now. I have a feeling the North American game reviewers will probably be a lot more accommodating to Atari's threats.
I recall the same thing happened with Anarchy online. They released the game for sale but then told reviewers to hold off on their reviews because the game wasn't actually 'final'. Sure enough, reviewers didn't do their job and waited around till the Anarchy folks actually felt their game was 'ready'. This all boils down to game companies not wanting to be accountable for their lousy work. Really if you're going to be spending millions and millions of dollars on a game, you should at the very least make sure it's actually worth playing.
Not likely. Since game companies are making money off the images of the cars. It doesn't seem like a particularly big deal for game companies to get brand name cars in their games though. It's just a matter of paying for the licenses, which considering the kind of money game companies pull in these days is a pittance.
School districts shouldn't be taking sides and forcing religion into classrooms. A lot of schools offer religion classes, which is fine if you want to take them. Also a lot of churches offer Sunday school, which teach all the religion you could ever want. They're perfectly free to teach children creationism in that environment if they feel like it.
This may not exactly be on the topic, but I've noticed every Microsoft run website that I try to access with Firefox gives me trouble, even with previous versions of Firefox. The Xbox live site never recognizes passwords the first time when they're inputted with Firefox. I tried accessing the same sites with Internet Explorer and lowe and behold the passwords work properly every time. I try not to get into that mindset that the Microsoft people are actually petty enough to pull stunts like that, but from my own experience and reading stories like this it starts to get difficult.
What an asinine comment
"In the creation/evolution debate both require faith"
Faith is believing in something despite lack of evidence. There's more than enough evidence to support evolution. There is absolutely none supporting creationism.
"Ultimately the creation/evolution debate need not be answered. Our educational system need only focus on teaching skills. Creation and evolution are not skills we can directly control"
We should teach our children to write but not actually make them read Shakespeare?
If the US government gave a rats ass about Science they'd crush creationism once and for all. It seems like a hypocritical gesture to dole out hundreds of millions of dollars for science R&D and allowing creationism to be taught in science classes. Which is effectively sabotaging the next generation of scientists. Teach the controversy and all that crap. Isn't the expanding earth theory a viable alternative to gravity? Crystals work better for treating cancer than Chemo Therapy, sin causes Aids. It's all valid when you don't think about it.
A while ago I read an article about how 33.6 modems would go extremely fast if the infrastructure of the internet was more up to date hardware wise. Is there any truth to that?
It seems like the ISP's are on one hand limiting bandwidth to limit any sort of competition in the media department they may have, and on the other hand limiting their speeds because they don't have the technology in place to handle people using the internet. At least that's what I've gleaned from the various articles on ISP connection throttling.
I'm getting sick and tired of people constantly referencing George Orwell whenever some government institutes a wire tapping law. There wasn't any bloody wire tapping in Animal Farm!
Just curious. Would this mean that software companies would have to make different versions of their software for the Canadian market? Since the bill only applies to the spying on and infringing of the rights of Americans. I would assume that these sorts shenanigans would be fairly illegal here in Canada because of our privacy laws.
If worse comes to worse you could start buying your software from Canada, or it might be as easy as ticking Canada as your country during the installation process...
It's just a first step. Give them some time and I'm sure they'll be producing much more impressive stuff. Though I don't really give a rats ass about the applications real time raytracing has for video games. I'm more interested in what it can do for 3D graphics and animation. As it stands now in 3D you have to render everything out to see what it looks like properly lit. It'd mainly be a workflow improvement, but it'd be a welcome one. It's extremely annoying and time consuming to render out a test image that can take 10 minutes just to see how everything looks. That would also cleave through final render times. As it stands now with most projects it can take weeks or even months to render everything out. In theory with this a single desktop computer could be on par with a render farm. Suddenly all those jerks over at CORE won't be so smug.
Does this mean the French government is encouraging people to search for child pornography? Because really, you have to go looking for that stuff specifically if you want to find it to report it.
What if you're dealing with a Road Rash type game where you can get out of your car and run around on the track? Would the AI simulate the driver running around on the track swinging a chain at the other drivers as they speed by him or what? I think this is an issue that needs to be addressed.
From what I understand this bill is being tabled ridiculously close to the summer break up in Ottawa. In all likelihood it won't pass just based on that (picture the House of Commons full of MPs in their swimming trunks and camping gear looking at the clock counting down...) and also the Harper government isn't doing too well these days so it's difficult to say if an unpopular bill written only for the interests of some big companies will win him any votes come election day. You can see how much trouble they're having with disgruntled Auto Workers who happen to be the people who helped elect the finance minister.
But then again you never ever know about these things. I hope the fear of not getting re-elected is enough to stop the Harper crowd from throwing Canada to the vampires of the recording and movie industry.
Damn! I tells ya, with the amount I spent on getting my Xbox repaired I may as well have bought a PS3. Then I could have been able to play the latest installment of dead faced Japanese toffs and their ostentatious getups go bananas.
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I knew it! I knew it! You sons of whores Bell! $70 fucking dollars a month!! I'm coming down to your HQ and throwing a cinderblock through your front window!
I have a feeling they're going to discover something that they really wouldn't want to know. Like Chocolate is 99% the same genetically as poop.
Next week: Genome tests for chocolate have been canceled. One representative was heard to say 'Well, I don't think anybody's interested in this. Let's talk about something else.. Uhh... Free candy bars for everybody!'
Wow! Thanks for the info! I'll be canceling my service with Bell very soon and signing up with Teksavvy. Just looking at the info for their highspeed internet is mind boggling. It completely illustrates how crooked those vampires at Bell are. Bell doesn't even offer unlimited bandwidth with any of their packages!
I'm having an epiphany! I've been fooled all these years! DAMN YOU!! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!! (I mean Bell)
Again, thanks for the info.
Yes considering how astute government bureaucracies are I'm sure they'll really make a lot of difference
Government: We're having some issues with this 'notepad' program. You can't include it, it's anti-competitive.
Microsoft: Are you crazy?! Nobody uses that for actual word processing!
Government: That may be so, but including a word program with your operating system is unfair to the people who make MSOffice
Microsoft: Oh.. Okay... Well, what if we struck some sort of deal with the 'MSOffice' people as a gesture of good will? Maybe bundle their software with our OS?
Government: Why that sounds like a wonderful idea. I'm sure the MSOffice people would really appreciate such a brotherly gesture.
It is unfortunate to say the least.
As of late Scientists had made some real progress with AI. For example there's the wise cracking robot the South Koreans were working on. They canceled the project when they determined the robot wasn't wise cracking at all, it was just mean. Wound up costing them their Olympic bid when it called the commissioner a coward and threw a bottle at him.
Considering one of their supposed traffic shaping methods is deep packet inspection, the 'competitive reason' would be they'd be sued till their arms and legs were bloody stumps and they were just rolling around on the street while angry former customers beat them with shovels. Thus allowing the likes of Rogers to get the upper hand.
-Also on an unrelated note, I just received my internet bill, and I got hit with an extra $25 for 'bandwidth usage'. Thanks Bell
This is surprising. Maybe I'll have to start learning German if I want to get honest game reviews now. I have a feeling the North American game reviewers will probably be a lot more accommodating to Atari's threats.
I recall the same thing happened with Anarchy online. They released the game for sale but then told reviewers to hold off on their reviews because the game wasn't actually 'final'. Sure enough, reviewers didn't do their job and waited around till the Anarchy folks actually felt their game was 'ready'. This all boils down to game companies not wanting to be accountable for their lousy work. Really if you're going to be spending millions and millions of dollars on a game, you should at the very least make sure it's actually worth playing.
Not likely. Since game companies are making money off the images of the cars. It doesn't seem like a particularly big deal for game companies to get brand name cars in their games though. It's just a matter of paying for the licenses, which considering the kind of money game companies pull in these days is a pittance.
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School districts shouldn't be taking sides and forcing religion into classrooms. A lot of schools offer religion classes, which is fine if you want to take them.
Also a lot of churches offer Sunday school, which teach all the religion you could ever want. They're perfectly free to teach children creationism in that environment if they feel like it.
They also work fine for me. But I always have to do my login twice because the first time it always says I put in the incorrect password
This may not exactly be on the topic, but I've noticed every Microsoft run website that I try to access with Firefox gives me trouble, even with previous versions of Firefox. The Xbox live site never recognizes passwords the first time when they're inputted with Firefox. I tried accessing the same sites with Internet Explorer and lowe and behold the passwords work properly every time. I try not to get into that mindset that the Microsoft people are actually petty enough to pull stunts like that, but from my own experience and reading stories like this it starts to get difficult.
What an asinine comment "In the creation/evolution debate both require faith" Faith is believing in something despite lack of evidence. There's more than enough evidence to support evolution. There is absolutely none supporting creationism. "Ultimately the creation/evolution debate need not be answered. Our educational system need only focus on teaching skills. Creation and evolution are not skills we can directly control" We should teach our children to write but not actually make them read Shakespeare?
If the US government gave a rats ass about Science they'd crush creationism once and for all. It seems like a hypocritical gesture to dole out hundreds of millions of dollars for science R&D and allowing creationism to be taught in science classes. Which is effectively sabotaging the next generation of scientists. Teach the controversy and all that crap. Isn't the expanding earth theory a viable alternative to gravity? Crystals work better for treating cancer than Chemo Therapy, sin causes Aids. It's all valid when you don't think about it.
probably in the neighborhood of 10 years
A while ago I read an article about how 33.6 modems would go extremely fast if the infrastructure of the internet was more up to date hardware wise. Is there any truth to that? It seems like the ISP's are on one hand limiting bandwidth to limit any sort of competition in the media department they may have, and on the other hand limiting their speeds because they don't have the technology in place to handle people using the internet. At least that's what I've gleaned from the various articles on ISP connection throttling.
I'm guessing the company that made this game will be sued into oblivion
'That's not a penis! My species reproduces asexually! It's merely a defense mechanism that spurts a viscous liquid when we're threatened!'
I'm getting sick and tired of people constantly referencing George Orwell whenever some government institutes a wire tapping law. There wasn't any bloody wire tapping in Animal Farm!
Just curious. Would this mean that software companies would have to make different versions of their software for the Canadian market? Since the bill only applies to the spying on and infringing of the rights of Americans. I would assume that these sorts shenanigans would be fairly illegal here in Canada because of our privacy laws.
If worse comes to worse you could start buying your software from Canada, or it might be as easy as ticking Canada as your country during the installation process...
It's just a first step. Give them some time and I'm sure they'll be producing much more impressive stuff. Though I don't really give a rats ass about the applications real time raytracing has for video games. I'm more interested in what it can do for 3D graphics and animation. As it stands now in 3D you have to render everything out to see what it looks like properly lit. It'd mainly be a workflow improvement, but it'd be a welcome one. It's extremely annoying and time consuming to render out a test image that can take 10 minutes just to see how everything looks. That would also cleave through final render times. As it stands now with most projects it can take weeks or even months to render everything out. In theory with this a single desktop computer could be on par with a render farm. Suddenly all those jerks over at CORE won't be so smug.
Does this mean the French government is encouraging people to search for child pornography? Because really, you have to go looking for that stuff specifically if you want to find it to report it.
Build a fort! (in case you didn't read the subject)
What if you're dealing with a Road Rash type game where you can get out of your car and run around on the track? Would the AI simulate the driver running around on the track swinging a chain at the other drivers as they speed by him or what? I think this is an issue that needs to be addressed.
From what I understand this bill is being tabled ridiculously close to the summer break up in Ottawa. In all likelihood it won't pass just based on that (picture the House of Commons full of MPs in their swimming trunks and camping gear looking at the clock counting down...) and also the Harper government isn't doing too well these days so it's difficult to say if an unpopular bill written only for the interests of some big companies will win him any votes come election day. You can see how much trouble they're having with disgruntled Auto Workers who happen to be the people who helped elect the finance minister.
But then again you never ever know about these things. I hope the fear of not getting re-elected is enough to stop the Harper crowd from throwing Canada to the vampires of the recording and movie industry.
Damn! I tells ya, with the amount I spent on getting my Xbox repaired I may as well have bought a PS3. Then I could have been able to play the latest installment of dead faced Japanese toffs and their ostentatious getups go bananas.
:(
If only I'd known at the time