This is in full accordance with slashdot's "only post stuff that was originally submitted more thn a week ago" policy. I can't tell you how many times I've submitted stuff only to see it rejected and then later posted (often MUCH later). It makes you wonder what kind of catchy title you have to have to get your submissions read.:)
It hasn't been cancelled in the sense that they won't show it anymore, just that they won't buy any new episodes. The 13 episodes slated to start airing in January are the last 13, they were the ones being finished up when the word came down that sci-fi wasn't ordering anymore.
Comcast has been a significant dissapoint for me. When I first got the service, I was able to upload at 150K/s and download at 400K/s. Thats KiloBYTES a second, not kilobits. So you can imagine my dissapointment when the price went up and the service was capped so that my downloads were roughly 1/3 of the previous amount and the uploads a mere 1/10th.
Perhaps if comcast had started me out at this service level I would not complain, after all, that was far more than the speed levels offered by most of their competitors. But Comcast wasn't through yet. You see, I pay for an extra IP address. There are two people in my house and 3 computers, since only two need be connected to the internet at any given time, there should be no need for a third ip address. However comcast must disagree, because they've recently changed my modem configuration so that it will only remember two mac addresses at any give time. Meaning that in order switch from one PC to another, I would need to restart my cable modem every time. And did I mention that the price keeps going up?
There is very little seperating me right now from DSL. I'm not getting better speeds; I'm sure as hell not getting better service. So what does comcast have to offer me? I will switch as soon as the inconveinance of doing so outweighs the inconveinance of not doing so. Be warned Comcast, you can only push a llama around so much. ..
I suspect your mixing some terms there. A 256kbps is 256 kiloBITS per second, thats the equivelent of only 32 KILOBYTES (which is what most programs measure downloads in) per second. My guess is that you were saying you only get 70-100k (kilobytes, not bits) in which case you're getting much more than your gaurenteed amount.
If you were truly only getting 70kbps or 100kbps, that would be extremely sad. 70 kilobits per second is just under 9 Kilobytes per second, thats slower than shotgun 56k, and just a hair faster than a single 56k modem.
If you're honestly getting downloads at only 9-13 kilobytes per second, then you definately need to find a new ISP and fast.
I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I recall when divx first came out and people said there would NEVER be a commercially available stand-alone divx player becuase divx 3 was cobbled together from bits of microsoft code and thus violated their copyrights. Since then it became an open source project and has been rewritten from scracth. Hence, although versions 4 and 5 would be legal, a divx 3 decoding player would not be.
From what little I can gather, that portable seems to be a shinco OEM. My guess is it's probably the Dvd-960 model which has been sold by RCA for around 400 dollars in the states for some time (I think it can be had for as little as 300 now though). I own one of these units and I must say it's quite impressive for the price, ESPECIALLY if you're into downloading anime (fansubbed and unlicensed of course, nothing illegal) and you'd like to watch it away from your computer. I actually bought mine JUST for vcds/svcds and consider the DVD capabillity to be a bonus. Just don't buy it for the mp3 playback, it bites (all songs start about 4-5 seconds into it, no idea why it skips first few seconds, and the on-screen display only shows 8.3 filenames).
I'm sorry, but as an artist, your rights end when you get paid. What someone does to your work after that is their buisness; If you don't like it, don't sell your art. The copyright law in this country is already stifling and archaic, the last thing we need is to set a precedent stating that artists can tell us what to do with art after its been purchased. The artists in this instance are making the SAME AMOUNT OF MONEY as if this was a plain old blockbluster rental, so what this all boils down to is artists simply not wanting people "mutilate" their art. A reasonable seeming desire, but not when it puts the right of the artists over the art owner.
Thats like telling me that if I buy a picasso, paint stick figures in the background, I can't resell it. It would be one thing if I resold and told everyone that it was an untouched original Picaso, but another entirely if my buyer is fully aware of my "alterations".
Who does it hurt if people want to purchase (rent) a mutilated copy of a movie to watch? While I think most would agree they are short-changing themselves, I hardly see how this could be hurting anyone else. A legitimate copy of the movie has been purchased, so Royalties have been paid. A disclaimer is shown so people don't blame the inevitable crappiness of the movie on the directory. Honestly, I ask, what is wrong with this?
I frankly don't see any victims(other than the suckers renting this watered-down crap). And if you do see a problem with this, What about other movie edittings (I recall a certain edit of Star Wars Episode 1 that was rather popular involving, or should I say lacking, in a certain Mr. Binks)?
Well thats not so much a question of "where is the energy" as it is a problem reconciling newtonian physics with relativity. The sun exploding would be an event too far away to be accurately depicted by newtonian physics alone.
I know its not 100% on topic, but Farscape has also been cancelled. When the "best sci-fi show" on television on a Sci-fi only network can't make it, what hope is there for finding quality televsion anywhere?
Where does the energy come from? That's like asking where the light comes from. It's already on it's way. Its in space en reute to its destination, earth.
"I could care less" is properly worded. Meaning should be taken from the implication, not the words themselves.
When spoken aloud, there would be emphasis on the word "could". The implication being that while it is possible to care less, it would not be feasible.
If they ever need to find new, even more irritating ways of advertising, they need merely look at the wealth of ways in use on the world wide web. Banner ads on the top of the screen while you watch, pop-up ads as you flip through channels that you must close before moving to another channel or any of several other equally irritating ideas.
In the long run though, simple things like product placement should do it. This would allow them correct the percieved losses as a rusult of PVR tv viewing (which is a small majority that likely won't be large enough to impact anything for quite some time).
I just checked the website and it says linux *SERVER* port". I can't find anywhere where it just says "linux port" so I see no indication of any possible client version for linux.
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I, like many other eBay users, will only accept paypal with my auctions because like many others, I have been jilted by the poor quality of service of ebay's own service, Billpoint. While PayPal is certainly not known for being big on customer service, it has always had one thing going for it that kept it alive: It wasn't billpoint.
Paypal's service survived until simply because, shocking as it seems given the horror stories, it was better than the eBay offered alternative. Now with eBay having snagged it, it seems unlikely that they will abstain from changing and likely ruining the service.
Not to flame, but what you say is only true when you're a newbie. As you're skills progress you'll discover that the game has quite a bit more depth than you seem to think it does. And, while heroes are important (one might go as far as to say essential since no good strategy will function without one), they are definately not so dominating as your skills progress.
Strategy games should not do this - It's like playing a game of chess where when you capture the oponents pieces you get to put them on your side. Fun ? Maybe once or twice for the low-attention span crowd, but it's not strategy.
If that doesn't involve strategy, then I know a bunch of dissapointed shougi players.
As for upkeep, I'd argue that it promotes strategy. Conisder Starcraft, because there was a high unit cap and no upkeep, there was really no question about what you would do. You would keep building units constantly until you either won the game or hit the unit cap. There wasn't any "strategy" that involved building fewer units.
The addition of upkeep rectifies this. It gives players a choice. They can choose to go into high upkeep and use more units, or they can choose to stay in lower upkeep and use fewer units. By creating a choice where there was none, upkeep adds a level of strategy depth that Starcraft did not have.
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I was in the same boat as you until the Warcraft III beta; I was actually pretty suprised that I got in.
Not so much a crock as you might think. There is actually some pretty solid research backing this up. . .
"Mmmmm....That *IS* malty. . . But he'll never know!"
This is in full accordance with slashdot's "only post stuff that was originally submitted more thn a week ago" policy. I can't tell you how many times I've submitted stuff only to see it rejected and then later posted (often MUCH later). It makes you wonder what kind of catchy title you have to have to get your submissions read. :)
Now you can write a virus that actually infects you. . .
The right data "saved" creates some sort of deadly super-bacteria.
Ok, maybe not. But it still seems like a bad idea for reasons I can't quite think of right now. . .
If I recall correctly, the technology generated too much intereference to comply with existing FCC regulations. I don't recall the specifics. . .
It hasn't been cancelled in the sense that they won't show it anymore, just that they won't buy any new episodes. The 13 episodes slated to start airing in January are the last 13, they were the ones being finished up when the word came down that sci-fi wasn't ordering anymore.
Comcast has been a significant dissapoint for me. When I first got the service, I was able to upload at 150K/s and download at 400K/s. Thats KiloBYTES a second, not kilobits. So you can imagine my dissapointment when the price went up and the service was capped so that my downloads were roughly 1/3 of the previous amount and the uploads a mere 1/10th.
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Perhaps if comcast had started me out at this service level I would not complain, after all, that was far more than the speed levels offered by most of their competitors. But Comcast wasn't through yet. You see, I pay for an extra IP address. There are two people in my house and 3 computers, since only two need be connected to the internet at any given time, there should be no need for a third ip address. However comcast must disagree, because they've recently changed my modem configuration so that it will only remember two mac addresses at any give time. Meaning that in order switch from one PC to another, I would need to restart my cable modem every time. And did I mention that the price keeps going up?
There is very little seperating me right now from DSL. I'm not getting better speeds; I'm sure as hell not getting better service. So what does comcast have to offer me? I will switch as soon as the inconveinance of doing so outweighs the inconveinance of not doing so. Be warned Comcast, you can only push a llama around so much. .
I suspect your mixing some terms there. A 256kbps is 256 kiloBITS per second, thats the equivelent of only 32 KILOBYTES (which is what most programs measure downloads in) per second. My guess is that you were saying you only get 70-100k (kilobytes, not bits) in which case you're getting much more than your gaurenteed amount.
If you were truly only getting 70kbps or 100kbps, that would be extremely sad. 70 kilobits per second is just under 9 Kilobytes per second, thats slower than shotgun 56k, and just a hair faster than a single 56k modem.
If you're honestly getting downloads at only 9-13 kilobytes per second, then you definately need to find a new ISP and fast.
I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I recall when divx first came out and people said there would NEVER be a commercially available stand-alone divx player becuase divx 3 was cobbled together from bits of microsoft code and thus violated their copyrights. Since then it became an open source project and has been rewritten from scracth. Hence, although versions 4 and 5 would be legal, a divx 3 decoding player would not be.
From what little I can gather, that portable seems to be a shinco OEM. My guess is it's probably the Dvd-960 model which has been sold by RCA for around 400 dollars in the states for some time (I think it can be had for as little as 300 now though). I own one of these units and I must say it's quite impressive for the price, ESPECIALLY if you're into downloading anime (fansubbed and unlicensed of course, nothing illegal) and you'd like to watch it away from your computer. I actually bought mine JUST for vcds/svcds and consider the DVD capabillity to be a bonus. Just don't buy it for the mp3 playback, it bites (all songs start about 4-5 seconds into it, no idea why it skips first few seconds, and the on-screen display only shows 8.3 filenames).
I'm sorry, but as an artist, your rights end when you get paid. What someone does to your work after that is their buisness; If you don't like it, don't sell your art. The copyright law in this country is already stifling and archaic, the last thing we need is to set a precedent stating that artists can tell us what to do with art after its been purchased. The artists in this instance are making the SAME AMOUNT OF MONEY as if this was a plain old blockbluster rental, so what this all boils down to is artists simply not wanting people "mutilate" their art. A reasonable seeming desire, but not when it puts the right of the artists over the art owner.
Thats like telling me that if I buy a picasso, paint stick figures in the background, I can't resell it. It would be one thing if I resold and told everyone that it was an untouched original Picaso, but another entirely if my buyer is fully aware of my "alterations".
Who does it hurt if people want to purchase (rent) a mutilated copy of a movie to watch? While I think most would agree they are short-changing themselves, I hardly see how this could be hurting anyone else. A legitimate copy of the movie has been purchased, so Royalties have been paid. A disclaimer is shown so people don't blame the inevitable crappiness of the movie on the directory. Honestly, I ask, what is wrong with this?
I frankly don't see any victims(other than the suckers renting this watered-down crap). And if you do see a problem with this, What about other movie edittings (I recall a certain edit of Star Wars Episode 1 that was rather popular involving, or should I say lacking, in a certain Mr. Binks)?
Well thats not so much a question of "where is the energy" as it is a problem reconciling newtonian physics with relativity. The sun exploding would be an event too far away to be accurately depicted by newtonian physics alone.
I know its not 100% on topic, but Farscape has also been cancelled. When the "best sci-fi show" on television on a Sci-fi only network can't make it, what hope is there for finding quality televsion anywhere?
Where does the energy come from? That's like asking where the light comes from. It's already on it's way. Its in space en reute to its destination, earth.
Strange, I don't recall thier even being any sort of debate on the subject. Gravity travels at the speed of light.
"I could care less" is properly worded. Meaning should be taken from the implication, not the words themselves.
When spoken aloud, there would be emphasis on the word "could". The implication being that while it is possible to care less, it would not be feasible.
If they ever need to find new, even more irritating ways of advertising, they need merely look at the wealth of ways in use on the world wide web. Banner ads on the top of the screen while you watch, pop-up ads as you flip through channels that you must close before moving to another channel or any of several other equally irritating ideas.
In the long run though, simple things like product placement should do it. This would allow them correct the percieved losses as a rusult of PVR tv viewing (which is a small majority that likely won't be large enough to impact anything for quite some time).
Are you sure this would really be chaper?
. . . I could get a PC version of Dead to Rights I'd be all set. . .
I just checked the website and it says linux *SERVER* port". I can't find anywhere where it just says "linux port" so I see no indication of any possible client version for linux.
I, like many other eBay users, will only accept paypal with my auctions because like many others, I have been jilted by the poor quality of service of ebay's own service, Billpoint. While PayPal is certainly not known for being big on customer service, it has always had one thing going for it that kept it alive: It wasn't billpoint.
Paypal's service survived until simply because, shocking as it seems given the horror stories, it was better than the eBay offered alternative. Now with eBay having snagged it, it seems unlikely that they will abstain from changing and likely ruining the service.
Sad indeed.
Not to flame, but what you say is only true when you're a newbie. As you're skills progress you'll discover that the game has quite a bit more depth than you seem to think it does. And, while heroes are important (one might go as far as to say essential since no good strategy will function without one), they are definately not so dominating as your skills progress.
Strategy games should not do this - It's like playing a game of chess where when you capture the oponents pieces you get to put them on your side. Fun ? Maybe once or twice for the low-attention span crowd, but it's not strategy.
If that doesn't involve strategy, then I know a bunch of dissapointed shougi players.
As for upkeep, I'd argue that it promotes strategy. Conisder Starcraft, because there was a high unit cap and no upkeep, there was really no question about what you would do. You would keep building units constantly until you either won the game or hit the unit cap. There wasn't any "strategy" that involved building fewer units.
The addition of upkeep rectifies this. It gives players a choice. They can choose to go into high upkeep and use more units, or they can choose to stay in lower upkeep and use fewer units. By creating a choice where there was none, upkeep adds a level of strategy depth that Starcraft did not have.
I believe NwN is an Atari game. Am I mistaken? Atari doesn't do so much hardware anymore, but they still have a hand in many popular games.