What exactly is your definition of a bank, then? Ginko provided deposit and withdrawal of currency and issued loans. Everyone from Reuters to Philip Linden called it a bank. Regardless, any economy with such a capital system (the Lindens frequently mess with it without respect for economic consequences) will ultimately fail, content ban or not.
As someone who has been quite directly involved in Second Life (or at least griefing it), I know SL pretty thoroughly, and I especially know there are two attractions to Second Life: sex and money. They're readily interchangeable, and they're the only reasons anyone uses it, despite claims to the contrary by media-whorish Linden Labs. You're either renting land, throwing cash into a bizarro stock market, or going to a furry cybersex sim. News about security problems is common because there's so much money going through the system and a lot of people looking to exploit it, as well as a wealth of disorganized, terrible code.
A bank called "Ginko" that recently went insolvent sent shockwaves through the economy lately. Yes - there are Second Life banks, (multiple) Second Life stock exchanges, and all sorts of economic institutions: however, the operators of these venues often don't know the difference between an interest rate and their shoe so most people that end up dumping their funds into them lose all their money. Some people have thousands if not tens of thousands of dollars tied up in the game. As the Linden (the currency of Second Life) is not based on anything, Linden Labs simply dumps currency into the market whenever they feel like it. So economic problems are pretty common. Guaranteeing anything is a difficult proposition for the companies running the games: most have simply said "the *unit of currency here* is not money, nothing is guaranteed" to avoid lawsuits when someone messes up and loses a grand because a sim went down. So it's a dangerous game and the only real winners in "investing" in Second Life are LL.
This can be done in virtually all clients..for example, in uTorrent, set Encryption to "Forced" in your preferences.
This isn't 100% foolproof but it seems to help a lot of Comcast users, among others with throttling and other P2P blocking measures forced on them from their ISP.
The total Iraqi casualties number somewhere from 500,000 to 1.3 million, depending on what studies you use. I'd say it's more like 'having the most powerful military in the world decide to bomb your country is a bad idea'.
I recently installed Ubuntu on another computer hoping to use it for IM and internet stuff, the HD was wiped but I wasn't going to sell it as fast I thought so I figured, "why not have another one around the house and mess around with this super-hyped OS?"
Yeah, so it doesn't like my wireless network adapter and all the instructions are based on downloading things from the Internet, among a lot of other things (weird UI, outdated manuals, dozens of command line commands to get the simplest of hardware to work etc) despite there supposedly being support natively. There's a ton of problems with Ubuntu, and I would consider myself seriously in the know about software and hardware.
I figure I'm going to wipe the hard drive AGAIN (not going to bother messing with partitions and the MBR) and stick XP on it, and have ruled out dual-booting on my main rig. It may be slower but I'm not willing to have to go through the crap I have to now any time I want to add hardware. I was more comfortable back in the day with MS-DOS...at least I can play Sudoku, though.
The 2.3GHz Phenom 9600 benchmarks on average 13.5% lower than Intel's Q6600 quad-core CPU...and the MSRP for the Phenom is about 13.6% less as well.
So..another second-fiddle AMD chip? Are they going to try to release something better than the competition at some point or stay the cheaper #2 for another few years? I don't really understand their marketing scheme here. Gamers will pay more for better performance. Nobody is buying quad-cores just on a whim. Intel could cut their quad-core prices at any time - they've already got most of the market with them. So who wants to buy a slightly cheaper quad when they're still so expensive enough to be primarily for the people that have money to throw around? Not me - compatibility be damned.
On a slightly off-topic note: you had a chance to fix your chip naming schemes and you wasted it!
- Series' length is small enough to let people that don't like sitting around for days on torrents download them, yet large enough to cause a impact - Large fansubbing community, some of which compete (so a lot of different versions of the same thing floating around) - Community that rabidly encourages watching new shows, partially because a lot of anime is so similar, and again, partially because of the short series length of each - Otaku have the time and devotion to put into managing daily torrents/downloads - Generality of the genre - it's like saying "there's a lot of people that watch sitcoms" - There are a lot of nerds on the Internet, period!
I don't care for most anime (most of it seems to be robots, ninjas, and loli) but the people that do are very devoted to the genre. I'm not surprised that it would account for a lot of traffic.
This is why the entire concept of tinyURL is stupid. If I'm going to go to a complex link, I'm not going to remember seven random letters and numbers any better than the complex link - if anything I'll just say "post a link", copypaste it into my address bar, or go to the root site and get to it myself.
If it's automatically linked (like in IRC, MSN, whatever) then I can just click it regardless of length.
The only reason people have used tinyurl in my experience is for shock links like Last Measure and Goatse.
I've been saying this for a long time - consoles, PCs, media centers, they're all going to be the same box. It's cheap enough and standardized enough that you can make one device do everything, and do it well (as long as it's big enough - and people just won't use the badly implemented functions if they're "duh, this is a stupid thing to do" like video on a 2" screen).
Gaming, internet, movies (disc or from file), file storage, homebrew applications, music, streaming video like YouTube, camera functionality, and phone functionality. The only difference is screen size and storage space (ever-increasing solid-state and hard disk space in the same or less amount of physical space renders the latter relatively moot). Integrate the screen in the bigger ones and bam, it's all the same.
So, you want the 8" screen gadget that does everything for a portable console, then the 2" one for your bag, and the 20" one for watching in your living room.:)
Agreeing with the AC. DSL here is just crap. I remember thinking it was pretty awesome when I got cable and my pings went from 200+ to 50 on most game servers. DSL was slow and unstable and while I hate Comcast I figure at least I'm getting slightly better service for the same price.
I assume it would be unlikely the system would be in place in the actual vehicle itself (too slow) - rather, it would be used in the production facilities and hydrogen would be the input fuel.
If they were really nice, they'd donate SC2000..and SimCopter, and Streets of SimCity.
I had so much fun playing those when I was younger, never mind the infamous atrocious player models and gay kissing scandal in SimCopter. Making crazy cities with custom bitmap textures in the construction kit then driving around in 'em in SoSC..I played the original SimCity years later and it just didn't compare.
Although getting the latter two to work on *nix might be a bit trickier than the classic SimCity..heh heh.
Server rooms are now being built with really long corridors to prevent the spies from cloaking and getting in, pyros are stationed at various checkpoints, and all workers are usually given baseball bats to hit people trying to enter to see if they bleed.
Oh yes, this too. Keep in mind that Wikipedia receives dozens of new articles a second and more than three quarters of those are deleted, most on reasonable grounds. If I were in the business of new page patrol as an admin, I'd probably miss a couple well-intentioned articles as well, especially when improperly formatted. Making a claim to notability helps though - speedy deletion only works if notability is not asserted.
What I am saying is that Jimbo's statement is at odds with both the encyclopedia model and all of WP's accepted core policies. All human knowledge != all knowledge written down in a reliable source, because not all humans are reliable sources! I suspect it was more of a press blurb than a explanation of how Wikipedia really works, which is acceptable but I can't help not being able to shake the feeling that these kind of statements give credence to the "let's make an article about the deli down the street!" mentality that ends off pissing off tons of would-be new editors.
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What exactly is your definition of a bank, then? Ginko provided deposit and withdrawal of currency and issued loans. Everyone from Reuters to Philip Linden called it a bank. Regardless, any economy with such a capital system (the Lindens frequently mess with it without respect for economic consequences) will ultimately fail, content ban or not.
As someone who has been quite directly involved in Second Life (or at least griefing it), I know SL pretty thoroughly, and I especially know there are two attractions to Second Life: sex and money. They're readily interchangeable, and they're the only reasons anyone uses it, despite claims to the contrary by media-whorish Linden Labs. You're either renting land, throwing cash into a bizarro stock market, or going to a furry cybersex sim. News about security problems is common because there's so much money going through the system and a lot of people looking to exploit it, as well as a wealth of disorganized, terrible code.
A bank called "Ginko" that recently went insolvent sent shockwaves through the economy lately. Yes - there are Second Life banks, (multiple) Second Life stock exchanges, and all sorts of economic institutions: however, the operators of these venues often don't know the difference between an interest rate and their shoe so most people that end up dumping their funds into them lose all their money. Some people have thousands if not tens of thousands of dollars tied up in the game. As the Linden (the currency of Second Life) is not based on anything, Linden Labs simply dumps currency into the market whenever they feel like it. So economic problems are pretty common. Guaranteeing anything is a difficult proposition for the companies running the games: most have simply said "the *unit of currency here* is not money, nothing is guaranteed" to avoid lawsuits when someone messes up and loses a grand because a sim went down. So it's a dangerous game and the only real winners in "investing" in Second Life are LL.
This can be done in virtually all clients..for example, in uTorrent, set Encryption to "Forced" in your preferences. This isn't 100% foolproof but it seems to help a lot of Comcast users, among others with throttling and other P2P blocking measures forced on them from their ISP.
Sounds like a simple overheating problem to me.
Nope, just "50% Underrated" and "50% Overrated". I think the mods are a little confused.
The total Iraqi casualties number somewhere from 500,000 to 1.3 million, depending on what studies you use. I'd say it's more like 'having the most powerful military in the world decide to bomb your country is a bad idea'.
I recently installed Ubuntu on another computer hoping to use it for IM and internet stuff, the HD was wiped but I wasn't going to sell it as fast I thought so I figured, "why not have another one around the house and mess around with this super-hyped OS?"
..at least I can play Sudoku, though.
Yeah, so it doesn't like my wireless network adapter and all the instructions are based on downloading things from the Internet, among a lot of other things (weird UI, outdated manuals, dozens of command line commands to get the simplest of hardware to work etc) despite there supposedly being support natively. There's a ton of problems with Ubuntu, and I would consider myself seriously in the know about software and hardware.
I figure I'm going to wipe the hard drive AGAIN (not going to bother messing with partitions and the MBR) and stick XP on it, and have ruled out dual-booting on my main rig. It may be slower but I'm not willing to have to go through the crap I have to now any time I want to add hardware. I was more comfortable back in the day with MS-DOS.
Well, since peers also share pieces of the file, you could technically get busted even for running a download.
Some (possible) reasons:
- Series' length is small enough to let people that don't like sitting around for days on torrents download them, yet large enough to cause a impact
- Large fansubbing community, some of which compete (so a lot of different versions of the same thing floating around)
- Community that rabidly encourages watching new shows, partially because a lot of anime is so similar, and again, partially because of the short series length of each
- Otaku have the time and devotion to put into managing daily torrents/downloads
- Generality of the genre - it's like saying "there's a lot of people that watch sitcoms"
- There are a lot of nerds on the Internet, period!
I don't care for most anime (most of it seems to be robots, ninjas, and loli) but the people that do are very devoted to the genre. I'm not surprised that it would account for a lot of traffic.
This is why the entire concept of tinyURL is stupid. If I'm going to go to a complex link, I'm not going to remember seven random letters and numbers any better than the complex link - if anything I'll just say "post a link", copypaste it into my address bar, or go to the root site and get to it myself. If it's automatically linked (like in IRC, MSN, whatever) then I can just click it regardless of length. The only reason people have used tinyurl in my experience is for shock links like Last Measure and Goatse.
This already exists in pretty much all Intel processors
I've been saying this for a long time - consoles, PCs, media centers, they're all going to be the same box. It's cheap enough and standardized enough that you can make one device do everything, and do it well (as long as it's big enough - and people just won't use the badly implemented functions if they're "duh, this is a stupid thing to do" like video on a 2" screen).
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Gaming, internet, movies (disc or from file), file storage, homebrew applications, music, streaming video like YouTube, camera functionality, and phone functionality. The only difference is screen size and storage space (ever-increasing solid-state and hard disk space in the same or less amount of physical space renders the latter relatively moot). Integrate the screen in the bigger ones and bam, it's all the same.
So, you want the 8" screen gadget that does everything for a portable console, then the 2" one for your bag, and the 20" one for watching in your living room.
Agreeing with the AC. DSL here is just crap. I remember thinking it was pretty awesome when I got cable and my pings went from 200+ to 50 on most game servers. DSL was slow and unstable and while I hate Comcast I figure at least I'm getting slightly better service for the same price.
I assume it would be unlikely the system would be in place in the actual vehicle itself (too slow) - rather, it would be used in the production facilities and hydrogen would be the input fuel.
I seem to remember a certain Monty Python's Black Knight declaring the match a draw after he had all his appendages cut off.
If they were really nice, they'd donate SC2000..and SimCopter, and Streets of SimCity. I had so much fun playing those when I was younger, never mind the infamous atrocious player models and gay kissing scandal in SimCopter. Making crazy cities with custom bitmap textures in the construction kit then driving around in 'em in SoSC..I played the original SimCity years later and it just didn't compare. Although getting the latter two to work on *nix might be a bit trickier than the classic SimCity..heh heh.
Server rooms are now being built with really long corridors to prevent the spies from cloaking and getting in, pyros are stationed at various checkpoints, and all workers are usually given baseball bats to hit people trying to enter to see if they bleed.
Then you have to hire a bunch of pyros to watch for spies. Excuse me, spah's sappin mah sentry.
Good to hear someone's using WP the way it should be used - as a starting point for further research and citable material.
There is no cabal.
Oh yes, this too. Keep in mind that Wikipedia receives dozens of new articles a second and more than three quarters of those are deleted, most on reasonable grounds. If I were in the business of new page patrol as an admin, I'd probably miss a couple well-intentioned articles as well, especially when improperly formatted. Making a claim to notability helps though - speedy deletion only works if notability is not asserted.
What I am saying is that Jimbo's statement is at odds with both the encyclopedia model and all of WP's accepted core policies. All human knowledge != all knowledge written down in a reliable source, because not all humans are reliable sources! I suspect it was more of a press blurb than a explanation of how Wikipedia really works, which is acceptable but I can't help not being able to shake the feeling that these kind of statements give credence to the "let's make an article about the deli down the street!" mentality that ends off pissing off tons of would-be new editors.