Every single person I have personally known that has had cancer (several people), was able to take care of the issue. [...] I've heard of others that have died from cancer, but nobody I personally knew, and definitely not as frequent as the successes that must be happening.
I could introduce you to my Mother-in-Law; but you'd have to hurry, the aggressive breast cancer...
yeah, the problem with 2 IP's is multiple gateways, or more specifically, traffic coming into 192.168.1.40 goes out 192.168.1.20 and doesn't get to its destination or something. The answer is in the LARTC under iproute2 source routing.
Basically, edit/etc/iproute2/rt_tables to show a number of arbitrary table names with which you can add rules.
Then use the ip command (ip rule add blah blah table blah and ip route add default via blah device blah table blah) to specify where traffic goes when it hits a certain IP.
Seriously, though, just buy one of those linksys 4 port VPN router thingies - they have 2 wan ports and a fancy web interface. They're $300, but meh, you'll spend that on a linux router, plus the time setting it up.
Set it up with iproute two such that assuming 1.2.3.4 is your link to ISP1 and 4.3.2.1 is your link to ISP2: up both these IP's on eth0 and eth1. set your default gateway to one or the other, i guess edit/etc/iproute2/rt_tables such that there's a table called ISP1 and ISP2 /sbin/ip rule add from 1.2.3.4/32 table ISP1 /sbin/ip rule add from 4.3.2.1/32 table ISP2 /sbin/ip route add default via 1.2.3.4 dev eth0 table ISP1 /sbin/ip route add default via 4.3.2.1 dev eth1 table ISP2
then ip route flush cache for good measure
Sorry 'bout that, slashdot formatting got me. up your 192.168.1.1 address on eth2 set up a DHCP server that serves out 192.168.1.0/24 addresses...
You can probably do some sort of ghetto load balancing with ipvs/keepalived and iproute2.
I'm just thinking out loud... all in all, you can probably do this without a whole lot of difficulty, but it really is probably going to require a linux router and 3 network interfaces... unless you want to plug both internet connections into a switch with all your other computers and use a bunch of static IPs and routes and whatnot...
Probably [the internet x 2] --$gt; [linux router] --- switch ==== other pc's.
Set it up with iproute two such that assuming 1.2.3.4 is your link to ISP1 and 4.3.2.1 is your link to ISP2: up both these IP's on eth0 and eth1. set your default gateway to one or the other, i guess edit/etc/iproute2/rt_tables such that there's a table called ISP1 and ISP2/sbin/ip rule add from 1.2.3.4/32 table ISP1/sbin/ip rule add from 4.3.2.1/32 table ISP2/sbin/ip route add default via 1.2.3.4 dev eth0 table ISP1/sbin/ip route add default via 4.3.2.1 dev eth1 table ISP2 then ip route flush cache for good measure up your 192.168.1.1 address on eth2 set up a DHCP server that serves out 192.168.1.0/24 addresses...
Then I guess you can set up ipvs on the linux router in some sort of NAT mode (i think it can do this)... so you can make 192.168.1.1 your "virtual server", and set up... see this is where I'm not really sure about it, but i guess the remote gateway of both your ISP's to be the "real servers", set it up either weighted least connections or something, add persistence if you want, adjust the weights. Add keepalived to that, and tell it to ping the remote gateway and if it's not responsive to ping, to fail over to the other link (it'll insert and remove stuff out of the ipvsadm -L -n table).
Yeah, something like that. That's a metric asston of work, though, and i'm not sure it'd all work. You probably should just buy one of these: http://tinyurl.com/5v5b8g I mean, they're a couple hundred bucks on froogle: http://www.google.com/products?q=RV042&btnG=Search+Products and they've got 2 internet ports, four switchports (i mean, gigabit plox, but whatever), and a fancy web interface.
Exactly. I am against guns. But, the cat's out of the bag. So, while I am "against guns", at this point I'm only against guns to the extent that I'd like to see them all gone - and that includes hunting rifles, hand guns, guns that criminals have, AND guns that law enforcement carry.
I'm even more against the government having guns and the people not having guns, if you get where I'm going.
I used to own http://fredrock.org/, a site on which I ran a PHPNuke site that catered to the local music scene of Fredericksburg, VA. There was nothing of value there; I ran it out of pocket as a community service. No ads, just a message board, a calendar, and an announcement "news" thing on the front page (it was just a CMS). It had a pretty vibrant community.
Then, I forgot to register it one year. As soon as it went out of registration, it was purchased by someone else - some dude in Belgium. They've owned it for 5 years now. Check what they're doing with it - "sponsored links". Ad revenue from people hitting the site thinking it was something else.
Well, not only that, but usually if you get the tarball from getfirefox, it's a binary, you don't have to compile - just untar, cd into the directory, and./firefox.
Is this where I insert my story about "the killall command in Solaris doesn't take subsequent arguments."? I mean, when you come from linux first, to a position where someone wants you to admin some old SunOS / Solaris 5.5 boxes... Hey, what did I know?
I've lived in 0.0 for a year at a time in Eve and have a Kara keyed Wow character, so I've been around. But this factional warfare thing that Eve is doing? Yeah, the low sec piracy is going to get worse and worse because of it. Should be fun. That is, if you don't mind the occasional loss of a couple months of work.
Woot, patch day. I should have T2 Sentries for my Moros on the flip side of it; maybe I'll camp some stations in low sec, near where the agents are.
As for joking about death, murder, mayhem, genocide - as far as I am concerned, the worst atrocities our species are capable of are definitely worth humor. Humor may be the only thing that even comes close to standing up to the very real and unpleasant reality of our own mortality. There is a big difference between joking about this or any other serious event, and somehow taking pleasure in other peoples' loss. Humor takes a little of the wind out of tragedy. Or it's supposed to, anyway.
Humor is also a way that a lot of people, myself included, deal with tragedy. Even when it affects us. Sometimes some shit happens, and it's really hard to grasp the gravity or understand the reason behind it - there's just no way you can wrap your head around some of the things that happen in the world.
Case in point; I was a mile from the Va Tech shootings last April. I was friends with one of the victims, and as an alumnus and employee of the University (at the time) was second-hand connected to many of the people involved. My department was one of the ones that scrambled to provide equipment and space to the people displaced by the closure of the building after it happened. And yet, I chuckled after seeing some of the 4chan "new high score!" or "rule34vatech" pics. Sometimes, the situation begs an emotional response, and morbid laughter is one of the only things standing between you and emotional meltdown.
In the end, there's not a whole lot we can do about the worldwide epidemic of tragic events; might as well laugh about them. It keeps you sane, where dwelling on it would wreck most people.
Oh, wow, you don't check slashdot for a day, and 18 people reply to your post =P.
All I meant was:
the company is far from dead, but it ain't exactly the powerhouse it once was, when OEMs and most software devs trembled at the sound of the phrase: "Microsoft has announced that..."
This, to me, and it's entirely likely that I misinterpreted, was a weasel-word way of saying "Microsoft is dying, open source will crush them". Now, while I make my living with OSS, and manage a network of over 800 servers, every single one of them running linux, I'm not under the illusion that some day soon, Microsoft will just go "Whelp," and close their doors. OSS is good stuff, and it's better than anything Microsoft puts out for a vast number of situations, but to imply that Microsoft-the-company is in any trouble (and really, the only trouble a company can be in is financial, when you get down to it) as a direct result of OSS is sort of disingenuous.
the company is far from dead, but it ain't exactly the powerhouse it once was, when OEMs and most software devs trembled at the sound of the phrase: "Microsoft has announced that..."
Pffft. Get over yourself, pl0x.
At peak, Microsoft held $64,000,000,000 in LIQUID CASH ASSETS. Think about that. (source)
At the time of that article, they hold $28,900,000,000 in cash reserves. In terms of gross domestic product, that puts Microsoft's cash reserves 80th (out of 180 sovereign nations) when compared worldwide to yearly GDP. (wikipedia). And it's only dropped to that level because Microsoft, after it won all the antitrust battles, instituted a stock buy-back.
If Microsoft were to never, ever sell another product or acquire a business or accept a licensing fee, and simply put that money into a money market account at a bank pulling 8% interest, they would make 2,300,000,000 yearly. Wikipedia lists Microsoft as having 79,000 employees. Just with the interest they could make without any strategic investing, they could pay each employee at the company $30,000 a year. For nothing. Before the stock buyback, that number was around $70,000.
Think about that. The interest on their LIQUID CASH could pay EIGHTY THOUSAND EMPLOYEES over SEVENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS A YEAR.
That's how "not in trouble" Microsoft is. Microsoft is still a powerhouse, and they're quite unconcerned that you think they aren't. Microsoft is not in danger.
Do you -really- believe that all they do is post homes to the MLS and then sit on their asses jerking off?
Between 2002 and 2006? Yeah.
Seriously, I worked with a guy who quit his job as a computer tech when he got his real estate license, and worked one day a week. He would answer the telephone in the real estate office. Someone would say "I want to sell my home". He'd say "ok". He'd go take a pic, get the specs, and put it on MLS. 8 hours after it listed? Contracted, money in the bank.
This is a very simplistic view of what the Realtor provides to the transaction, market comparisons that no automate system can match, advise about home inspections, mortgage advice, other local issues such as oil leases etc. that the average buyer an a zillow (or whatever site) search will not provide.
Yeah, because there's no such thing as the internet. Wouldn't it be great if everyone had a tool for looking up information and sharing experiences related to this kind of thing?
You also are not taking into account the 3% commission the agent would receive is split between the brokerage and the agent also.
Cry me a fucking river. Someone gets a piece of the HUGE PIE that the real estate agent got for doing a search in the national database. It probably takes 10 hours of honest hard work to sell a house on the part of the realtor. 3% of $250,000 is $7500. $7500/10 = $750/hr. $750/hr is $assload. I'm crying if they have to split their pay with someone else.
The DOJ is missing the entire problem with the industry in there suit unfortunately, which is lack of data standards that make it impossible to use data from multiple sources in custom applications without doing expensive and often prohibited modifications and cleanup.
Bullshit. There is only one database that matters. The problem went like this:
Online Realtors: "We'd like to have MRIS database logins." NRA: "No." (launches nationwide television ad campaign about how "only a member of the National Association of Realtors can help you").
It's bullshit. I used to have a login to MRIS, and during the boom, I supported umpteen dumbass realtors who all had logins, doing their computer work. With MRIS, there's no work involved. A 5 minute query and you print out everything in the price range / area, show it to the customer, and they point with their chubby finger to the one they want.
And I still hear realtors crying about how down on their luck they are. One guy, no kidding, had to sell his CANARY YELLOW HUMMER H2 because the market is taking a dip. Waaaa, some of us are having trouble buying groceries, and YOU CREATED THIS BULLSHIT ECONOMIC CRISIS.
I'm glad their monopoly got broken up. Having a national country-club of realtors is like taking a random sample of people in the 2nd standard deviation below normal intelligence, and handing them assloads of money and enough influence to adjust international economic policy. Fuck realtors. I have never, not once in my life, met a realtor that I thought wasn't 1.) of below average intelligence, and 2.) a complete sheister, who would screw over anyone and everyone if it made them a profit. Fuck the lot of them.
On the question of retroactive immunity for telecoms that participated in warrantless surveillance by the National Security Agency, Fish sought to reassure the civil libertarian-leaning audience that McCain did not support "indulgences" (an allusion to the medieval church's practice of selling absolution for sins) and surprised many by saying that hearings should be conducted to determine the scope and extent of NSA acquisitions. (The campaign later walked back from that position, leaving it unclear just where Fish was coming from.)
Fish was substantially vaguer on the question of what sort of checks and oversight should be imposed on future surveillance, and reiterated McCain's condemnation of Democrats in the House for "fail[ing] to address" the problem of reforming the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. (The House has, in fact, twice passed bills reforming FISA, both of which have been deemed unacceptable by the White House.) He did, however, articulate a more general philosophy of "privacy as security." This, he explained, meant that "just as liberty is not licentiousness [sic]," privacy should not be conceived as absolute control over personal information, but rather as protection from harms accruing from the use or disclosure of information.
Yeah, no thanks. I'd take pretty much any other option than this guy.
Privacy IS actually privacy. It's not privacy (most of the time, sometimes it's ok if the government knows what you're doing, they won't abuse it I promise, and no you can't know what they're doing).
Yeah, with Eve, you basically create the account (which is a Username/Password combo tied to your info and CC), and you can download the software from their site for free. It just doesn't get you very far without the login. Same thing with expansions (new content) - they're free, and there's no CD keys. It's all contingent on the account u/p. I've often downloaded the software at a friend's computer and logged in.
I wholeheartedly disagree in the case of Final Fantasy VI / IIIUS.
The GBA version I found to be much harder than it is on SNES / Emulation. It really feels like gold is harder to come by, as well as the fact that some tricks (vanish+doom) that people relied on in the original have been "fixed", making it harder to (for instance) fight Intangir to gain experience while still in the World of Balance without doing a lot of level grinding. Plus, some of the boss fights have really been boosted (Vargas was difficult, even with a good bit of grinding ahead of time). And add to that the relative scarcity of gold with which to buy potions and tents and ethers with which to heal your party while inside a dungeon - I think it was a spectacular remake, and definitely more difficult.
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Every single person I have personally known that has had cancer (several people), was able to take care of the issue. [...] I've heard of others that have died from cancer, but nobody I personally knew, and definitely not as frequent as the successes that must be happening.
I could introduce you to my Mother-in-Law; but you'd have to hurry, the aggressive breast cancer...
yeah, the problem with 2 IP's is multiple gateways, or more specifically, traffic coming into 192.168.1.40 goes out 192.168.1.20 and doesn't get to its destination or something. The answer is in the LARTC under iproute2 source routing.
Basically, edit /etc/iproute2/rt_tables to show a number of arbitrary table names with which you can add rules.
Then use the ip command (ip rule add blah blah table blah and ip route add default via blah device blah table blah) to specify where traffic goes when it hits a certain IP.
Seriously, though, just buy one of those linksys 4 port VPN router thingies - they have 2 wan ports and a fancy web interface. They're $300, but meh, you'll spend that on a linux router, plus the time setting it up.
~W
~X
This section should be more like:
Sorry 'bout that, slashdot formatting got me.
up your 192.168.1.1 address on eth2
set up a DHCP server that serves out 192.168.1.0/24 addresses...
You can probably do some sort of ghetto load balancing with ipvs/keepalived and iproute2.
I'm just thinking out loud... all in all, you can probably do this without a whole lot of difficulty, but it really is probably going to require a linux router and 3 network interfaces... unless you want to plug both internet connections into a switch with all your other computers and use a bunch of static IPs and routes and whatnot...
Probably [the internet x 2] --$gt; [linux router] --- switch ==== other pc's.
Set it up with iproute two such that assuming 1.2.3.4 is your link to ISP1 and 4.3.2.1 is your link to ISP2: /etc/iproute2/rt_tables such that there's a table called ISP1 and ISP2 /sbin/ip rule add from 1.2.3.4/32 table ISP1 /sbin/ip rule add from 4.3.2.1/32 table ISP2 /sbin/ip route add default via 1.2.3.4 dev eth0 table ISP1 /sbin/ip route add default via 4.3.2.1 dev eth1 table ISP2
up both these IP's on eth0 and eth1.
set your default gateway to one or the other, i guess
edit
then ip route flush cache for good measure
up your 192.168.1.1 address on eth2
set up a DHCP server that serves out 192.168.1.0/24 addresses...
Then I guess you can set up ipvs on the linux router in some sort of NAT mode (i think it can do this)...
so you can make 192.168.1.1 your "virtual server", and set up... see this is where I'm not really sure about it, but i guess the remote gateway of both your ISP's to be the "real servers", set it up either weighted least connections or something, add persistence if you want, adjust the weights. Add keepalived to that, and tell it to ping the remote gateway and if it's not responsive to ping, to fail over to the other link (it'll insert and remove stuff out of the ipvsadm -L -n table).
Yeah, something like that. That's a metric asston of work, though, and i'm not sure it'd all work. You probably should just buy one of these:
http://tinyurl.com/5v5b8g
I mean, they're a couple hundred bucks on froogle:
http://www.google.com/products?q=RV042&btnG=Search+Products
and they've got 2 internet ports, four switchports (i mean, gigabit plox, but whatever), and a fancy web interface.
Meh.
~W
Exactly. I am against guns. But, the cat's out of the bag. So, while I am "against guns", at this point I'm only against guns to the extent that I'd like to see them all gone - and that includes hunting rifles, hand guns, guns that criminals have, AND guns that law enforcement carry.
I'm even more against the government having guns and the people not having guns, if you get where I'm going.
~W
I know a guy who has a 36" waist. He's 200lbs. And 6'4".
He's definitely a porker.
~
A squatter, by example:
I used to own http://fredrock.org/, a site on which I ran a PHPNuke site that catered to the local music scene of Fredericksburg, VA. There was nothing of value there; I ran it out of pocket as a community service. No ads, just a message board, a calendar, and an announcement "news" thing on the front page (it was just a CMS). It had a pretty vibrant community.
Then, I forgot to register it one year. As soon as it went out of registration, it was purchased by someone else - some dude in Belgium. They've owned it for 5 years now. Check what they're doing with it - "sponsored links". Ad revenue from people hitting the site thinking it was something else.
It sucks.
~W
Well, not only that, but usually if you get the tarball from getfirefox, it's a binary, you don't have to compile - just untar, cd into the directory, and
~W
Because I'm using Linux (Ubuntu) it's more convenient for me to wait until the most recent version is in the repositories
Seriously?
Like, open a command prompt, then:
wget $firefox_tarball
tar -xzvf $firefox_tarball
cd $firefox_dir
That's significantly harder than waiting for the repo, right?
~W
Actually, the above article is kind of thick on fluff (??), but here's the video:
http://www.fastcompany.tv/video/rackspace-tears-new-headquarters
~W
Here's another inside peek, and a spam for my employer:
http://scobleizer.com/2008/03/13/a-real-business-leader/
It's about Rackspace's new datacenter in San Antonio.
~W
Is this where I insert my story about "the killall command in Solaris doesn't take subsequent arguments."? I mean, when you come from linux first, to a position where someone wants you to admin some old SunOS / Solaris 5.5 boxes... Hey, what did I know?
~W
Yeah, two of those are APNIC addresses (whois.arin.net). The third is African.
~W
I've lived in 0.0 for a year at a time in Eve and have a Kara keyed Wow character, so I've been around. But this factional warfare thing that Eve is doing? Yeah, the low sec piracy is going to get worse and worse because of it. Should be fun. That is, if you don't mind the occasional loss of a couple months of work.
Woot, patch day. I should have T2 Sentries for my Moros on the flip side of it; maybe I'll camp some stations in low sec, near where the agents are.
~Wx
As for joking about death, murder, mayhem, genocide - as far as I am concerned, the worst atrocities our species are capable of are definitely worth humor. Humor may be the only thing that even comes close to standing up to the very real and unpleasant reality of our own mortality. There is a big difference between joking about this or any other serious event, and somehow taking pleasure in other peoples' loss. Humor takes a little of the wind out of tragedy. Or it's supposed to, anyway.
Humor is also a way that a lot of people, myself included, deal with tragedy. Even when it affects us. Sometimes some shit happens, and it's really hard to grasp the gravity or understand the reason behind it - there's just no way you can wrap your head around some of the things that happen in the world.
Case in point; I was a mile from the Va Tech shootings last April. I was friends with one of the victims, and as an alumnus and employee of the University (at the time) was second-hand connected to many of the people involved. My department was one of the ones that scrambled to provide equipment and space to the people displaced by the closure of the building after it happened. And yet, I chuckled after seeing some of the 4chan "new high score!" or "rule34vatech" pics. Sometimes, the situation begs an emotional response, and morbid laughter is one of the only things standing between you and emotional meltdown.
In the end, there's not a whole lot we can do about the worldwide epidemic of tragic events; might as well laugh about them. It keeps you sane, where dwelling on it would wreck most people.
~W
*sigh* it was a comparison.
Do you like it better this way?
"Microsoft holds 28.9 Billion USD in cash reserves. This is more than Liberia will pull in via GDP in 40 years."
Here's something to think about - Microsoft's cash assets have decreased by more than half in four years.
Way to read the source. The reason the reserves have decreased is because they spent them buying back stock. kthxbai.
~Wx
Oh, wow, you don't check slashdot for a day, and 18 people reply to your post =P.
All I meant was:
the company is far from dead, but it ain't exactly the powerhouse it once was, when OEMs and most software devs trembled at the sound of the phrase: "Microsoft has announced that..."
This, to me, and it's entirely likely that I misinterpreted, was a weasel-word way of saying "Microsoft is dying, open source will crush them". Now, while I make my living with OSS, and manage a network of over 800 servers, every single one of them running linux, I'm not under the illusion that some day soon, Microsoft will just go "Whelp," and close their doors. OSS is good stuff, and it's better than anything Microsoft puts out for a vast number of situations, but to imply that Microsoft-the-company is in any trouble (and really, the only trouble a company can be in is financial, when you get down to it) as a direct result of OSS is sort of disingenuous.
~W
the company is far from dead, but it ain't exactly the powerhouse it once was, when OEMs and most software devs trembled at the sound of the phrase: "Microsoft has announced that..."
Pffft. Get over yourself, pl0x.
At peak, Microsoft held $64,000,000,000 in LIQUID CASH ASSETS. Think about that. (source)
At the time of that article, they hold $28,900,000,000 in cash reserves. In terms of gross domestic product, that puts Microsoft's cash reserves 80th (out of 180 sovereign nations) when compared worldwide to yearly GDP. (wikipedia). And it's only dropped to that level because Microsoft, after it won all the antitrust battles, instituted a stock buy-back.
If Microsoft were to never, ever sell another product or acquire a business or accept a licensing fee, and simply put that money into a money market account at a bank pulling 8% interest, they would make 2,300,000,000 yearly. Wikipedia lists Microsoft as having 79,000 employees. Just with the interest they could make without any strategic investing, they could pay each employee at the company $30,000 a year. For nothing. Before the stock buyback, that number was around $70,000.
Think about that. The interest on their LIQUID CASH could pay EIGHTY THOUSAND EMPLOYEES over SEVENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS A YEAR.
That's how "not in trouble" Microsoft is. Microsoft is still a powerhouse, and they're quite unconcerned that you think they aren't. Microsoft is not in danger.
~Wx
Do you -really- believe that all they do is post homes to the MLS and then sit on their asses jerking off?
Between 2002 and 2006? Yeah.
Seriously, I worked with a guy who quit his job as a computer tech when he got his real estate license, and worked one day a week. He would answer the telephone in the real estate office. Someone would say "I want to sell my home". He'd say "ok". He'd go take a pic, get the specs, and put it on MLS. 8 hours after it listed? Contracted, money in the bank.
~X
This is a very simplistic view of what the Realtor provides to the transaction, market comparisons that no automate system can match, advise about home inspections, mortgage advice, other local issues such as oil leases etc. that the average buyer an a zillow (or whatever site) search will not provide.
Yeah, because there's no such thing as the internet. Wouldn't it be great if everyone had a tool for looking up information and sharing experiences related to this kind of thing?
You also are not taking into account the 3% commission the agent would receive is split between the brokerage and the agent also.
Cry me a fucking river. Someone gets a piece of the HUGE PIE that the real estate agent got for doing a search in the national database. It probably takes 10 hours of honest hard work to sell a house on the part of the realtor. 3% of $250,000 is $7500. $7500/10 = $750/hr. $750/hr is $assload. I'm crying if they have to split their pay with someone else.
The DOJ is missing the entire problem with the industry in there suit unfortunately, which is lack of data standards that make it impossible to use data from multiple sources in custom applications without doing expensive and often prohibited modifications and cleanup.
Bullshit. There is only one database that matters. The problem went like this:
Online Realtors: "We'd like to have MRIS database logins."
NRA: "No." (launches nationwide television ad campaign about how "only a member of the National Association of Realtors can help you").
It's bullshit. I used to have a login to MRIS, and during the boom, I supported umpteen dumbass realtors who all had logins, doing their computer work. With MRIS, there's no work involved. A 5 minute query and you print out everything in the price range / area, show it to the customer, and they point with their chubby finger to the one they want.
And I still hear realtors crying about how down on their luck they are. One guy, no kidding, had to sell his CANARY YELLOW HUMMER H2 because the market is taking a dip. Waaaa, some of us are having trouble buying groceries, and YOU CREATED THIS BULLSHIT ECONOMIC CRISIS.
I'm glad their monopoly got broken up. Having a national country-club of realtors is like taking a random sample of people in the 2nd standard deviation below normal intelligence, and handing them assloads of money and enough influence to adjust international economic policy. Fuck realtors. I have never, not once in my life, met a realtor that I thought wasn't 1.) of below average intelligence, and 2.) a complete sheister, who would screw over anyone and everyone if it made them a profit. Fuck the lot of them.
~X
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_DSS
Ask me how I know... ClamAV and I have become more familiar than I ever thought possible.
Fish is McCain's guy.
Yeah, no thanks. I'd take pretty much any other option than this guy.
Privacy IS actually privacy. It's not privacy (most of the time, sometimes it's ok if the government knows what you're doing, they won't abuse it I promise, and no you can't know what they're doing).
~Wx
Yeah, with Eve, you basically create the account (which is a Username/Password combo tied to your info and CC), and you can download the software from their site for free. It just doesn't get you very far without the login. Same thing with expansions (new content) - they're free, and there's no CD keys. It's all contingent on the account u/p. I've often downloaded the software at a friend's computer and logged in.
~W
I wholeheartedly disagree in the case of Final Fantasy VI / IIIUS.
The GBA version I found to be much harder than it is on SNES / Emulation. It really feels like gold is harder to come by, as well as the fact that some tricks (vanish+doom) that people relied on in the original have been "fixed", making it harder to (for instance) fight Intangir to gain experience while still in the World of Balance without doing a lot of level grinding. Plus, some of the boss fights have really been boosted (Vargas was difficult, even with a good bit of grinding ahead of time). And add to that the relative scarcity of gold with which to buy potions and tents and ethers with which to heal your party while inside a dungeon - I think it was a spectacular remake, and definitely more difficult.
~W