I agree. Anyone have any idea how much it costs to take a cybersquatter to court? My band's domain name is currently being squatted on. There are alternatives but nothing that's any good is available. I registered something that's a mediocre replacement at best just as a back up, but it'd be nice to be able get the name I want seeing as how no one is actually using it.
It's nothing like TF2. TF2 is fun and amazing and BH is not. I'm not sure how much it's changed since I played it at PAX last year but back then we got bored playing it pretty fast and moved on and tried something else. It's an interesting idea but it's just not that fun.
Maybe if the Iranians are lucky the gov't downloaded a pirated copy of the trilogy from the Internet. Don't worry Iranians, no fighting necessary! The MAFIAA will take out the government for you!
Maybe DSLR is different, or they've changed recently. When I was looking about a year ago they were all Memory Stick only. I ignored them entirely because of that. Everything I have has an SD card reader; why would I want to bother with some format I can't use in anything else?
I'd like to thank Microsoft for continuing to price their OS in a way that encourages piracy. If it were reasonably priced there'd be no excuse. But as it stands, it's like CS4 -only businesses and successful freelancers can really afford it. Everyone else is either getting screwed or pirating it. ~
As an aside, the pricing makes me wonder if it's not based purely on the fact that Microsoft gives deep discounts to OEMs and volume licensees. Do they jack up retail just so that they can justify a minor increase in the price for their real customers? Anyone have any stats on what percentage of their OS sales are retails vs OEM / Volume License? (waits for LetMeGoogleThatForYou)
Ugh. I can't wait for the day when they start only accepting CameraBrandNameHere memory cards. It's easy enough to ignore Sony and find something that uses SD.... but if they try to turn the memory card market into the ink cartridge market we geeks will need to organize a riot.
Frames aren't a replacement. There's a reason people dropped frames. Layout limitations, limited scaling, poor bookmarking, broken back button, etc. I, for one, appreciate partial page refreshes - when done correctly. Full page postbacks suck.
Actually it was a perfectly legitimate technique that worked great for a long time. Spammers aren't interested in wasting a ton of time to get the 1% of email addresses that developers have obfuscated. This is a numbers game. Spend a few minutes to write a snippet of code that collects emails on all websites that are in plaintext and works on 99% of pages. Spending hours or more coming up with something that will handle all the different jacked up versions of javascript just to get a few more addresses doesn't make much sense.
I agree and I think it will only continue to get worse. Consider the possibility of quantum computing - is that really something you're ever even going to have a hope of explaining to the majority of the populace? The same is true in other fields, genetics, biochemistry, etc. As fields of study grow more and more specialized it will become increasingly difficult to have an in-depth knowledge of more than a handful of fields.
I agree that this is both beneficial and detrimental. I think some people too quickly resign themselves to always perceiving everything as "magic". It also becomes more difficult to do the interdisciplinary work that was easier to do when the fields weren't as specialized.
Sadly this attitude disappeared after WWII. We stayed out of WWII for a long time. Pearl Harbor dragged us into it (yes, we helped arm some allies and such, but for the most part we were on the sidelines). Since then we seem to have taken to gallivanting around the globe doing whatever we want.
It would be nice to see a return to focusing on our own domestic problems rather than bothering other countries. Geographically we're pretty far removed from most problems. I realize that we're in a "global whatever" these days but the fact is that Canada and Mexico are the only countries we share a land border with. We don't need to be getting involved in border disputes and civil wars in countries that are literally on the other side of the planet. Maybe if we'd spent as much time and money on developing energy independence as we have on grasping at oil we wouldn't be "fighting terrorists" all over the planet.
I dunno why you have to bring political parties into it. Tax and spend is absolute garbage regardless of your party. Oregon is primarily a democratic state and they just train wrecked themselves - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124545298617532789.html
Good job Oregon government. Way to help out your citizens by jacking up taxes and chasing away businesses rather than cutting back on government crap. We're in a recession. Citizens have no money because they have no jobs. That means the state government gets less money. That means government should also get to spend less money, but in fact it usually means they just invent new taxes.
No nightlife!? During the summer it's light outside nearly 24 hours a day. You could play outside for 24 hours and barely notice. There are summer solstice parties and such. During the winter you can enjoy additional night hours for those nocturnal activities (e.g. insert your favorite nighttime shenanigans here). It also gives you an excuse to stay in your basement - it's dark and cold outside.
Also, is this an ad for Toyota? What's with the two mentions of "costs as much as a Toyota"... why not car? or, even better, how about a real dollar amount! Toyota prices range from cheap 15k cars up to a Lexus that costs 100k. Saying it costs as much "as a Toyota" is completely meaningless. You might as well say it costs as much as a Senator.
Yay deceiving articles. Let's get more of them on slashdot!
Seriously though, the reason BluRay sales are slow is because they're ridiculously priced. Anything over $20 is ridiculous for a movie. I regularly see BluRays for as much as $39. Sometimes you'll see a special edition or something for FIFTY. That's insane. It's far too much. People aren't going to pay those prices. I don't. I only buy bluray when I can get it for $20 or less. Otherwise I just rent it from Netflix.
Seriously, can we make the PC train stop? It's ruining comedy. I can't believe comedians are apologizing for half of what they say now. It makes you wonder if Richard Pryor, as he was, could even exist in 2009.
Yeah, it only took 9 months for that connector to show up. It was supposed to work out of the box but Microsoft made last minute changes to x64 that broke the WHS team's work.
We need more term limits. Life long politicians are just ridiculous. They start out somewhat normal and by the time they've been in it for 40 years they're corrupt and crazy and named Ted Stevens. Nothing changes because the people don't change because the incumbent has an insane advantage. It's well known that the incumbent almost always wins. I have no idea why this is but it's gotten to the point where neither party really even bothers with a district if the incumbent is running.
Personally, I've voted for someone new just because I hated the incumbent so much and I wanted them to realize that if you suck you will be voted out. Sadly, I have as yet to have seen someone other than the incumbent win in any of my local elections.
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I agree. Anyone have any idea how much it costs to take a cybersquatter to court? My band's domain name is currently being squatted on. There are alternatives but nothing that's any good is available. I registered something that's a mediocre replacement at best just as a back up, but it'd be nice to be able get the name I want seeing as how no one is actually using it.
It's nothing like TF2. TF2 is fun and amazing and BH is not. I'm not sure how much it's changed since I played it at PAX last year but back then we got bored playing it pretty fast and moved on and tried something else. It's an interesting idea but it's just not that fun.
Only the sort of people that would hand over their information to a company like this would be surprised to find out that they're going to sell it.
Yeah, that really cut to the heart. Almost like a stingray.
Maybe if the Iranians are lucky the gov't downloaded a pirated copy of the trilogy from the Internet. Don't worry Iranians, no fighting necessary! The MAFIAA will take out the government for you!
Maybe DSLR is different, or they've changed recently. When I was looking about a year ago they were all Memory Stick only. I ignored them entirely because of that. Everything I have has an SD card reader; why would I want to bother with some format I can't use in anything else?
I'd like to thank Microsoft for continuing to price their OS in a way that encourages piracy. If it were reasonably priced there'd be no excuse. But as it stands, it's like CS4 -only businesses and successful freelancers can really afford it. Everyone else is either getting screwed or pirating it. ~
As an aside, the pricing makes me wonder if it's not based purely on the fact that Microsoft gives deep discounts to OEMs and volume licensees. Do they jack up retail just so that they can justify a minor increase in the price for their real customers? Anyone have any stats on what percentage of their OS sales are retails vs OEM / Volume License? (waits for LetMeGoogleThatForYou)
Apparently you missed the first reply to the first comment in the thread...
Ugh. I can't wait for the day when they start only accepting CameraBrandNameHere memory cards. It's easy enough to ignore Sony and find something that uses SD.... but if they try to turn the memory card market into the ink cartridge market we geeks will need to organize a riot.
Hiding it with CSS is quite clever. I've obviously used it for UI reasons but I hadn't considered its usefulness as a bot fighting strategy. Good tip.
Frames aren't a replacement. There's a reason people dropped frames. Layout limitations, limited scaling, poor bookmarking, broken back button, etc. I, for one, appreciate partial page refreshes - when done correctly. Full page postbacks suck.
Actually it was a perfectly legitimate technique that worked great for a long time. Spammers aren't interested in wasting a ton of time to get the 1% of email addresses that developers have obfuscated. This is a numbers game. Spend a few minutes to write a snippet of code that collects emails on all websites that are in plaintext and works on 99% of pages. Spending hours or more coming up with something that will handle all the different jacked up versions of javascript just to get a few more addresses doesn't make much sense.
I agree and I think it will only continue to get worse. Consider the possibility of quantum computing - is that really something you're ever even going to have a hope of explaining to the majority of the populace? The same is true in other fields, genetics, biochemistry, etc. As fields of study grow more and more specialized it will become increasingly difficult to have an in-depth knowledge of more than a handful of fields.
I agree that this is both beneficial and detrimental. I think some people too quickly resign themselves to always perceiving everything as "magic". It also becomes more difficult to do the interdisciplinary work that was easier to do when the fields weren't as specialized.
Sadly this attitude disappeared after WWII. We stayed out of WWII for a long time. Pearl Harbor dragged us into it (yes, we helped arm some allies and such, but for the most part we were on the sidelines). Since then we seem to have taken to gallivanting around the globe doing whatever we want.
It would be nice to see a return to focusing on our own domestic problems rather than bothering other countries. Geographically we're pretty far removed from most problems. I realize that we're in a "global whatever" these days but the fact is that Canada and Mexico are the only countries we share a land border with. We don't need to be getting involved in border disputes and civil wars in countries that are literally on the other side of the planet. Maybe if we'd spent as much time and money on developing energy independence as we have on grasping at oil we wouldn't be "fighting terrorists" all over the planet.
I dunno why you have to bring political parties into it. Tax and spend is absolute garbage regardless of your party. Oregon is primarily a democratic state and they just train wrecked themselves - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124545298617532789.html
Good job Oregon government. Way to help out your citizens by jacking up taxes and chasing away businesses rather than cutting back on government crap. We're in a recession. Citizens have no money because they have no jobs. That means the state government gets less money. That means government should also get to spend less money, but in fact it usually means they just invent new taxes.
No nightlife!? During the summer it's light outside nearly 24 hours a day. You could play outside for 24 hours and barely notice. There are summer solstice parties and such. During the winter you can enjoy additional night hours for those nocturnal activities (e.g. insert your favorite nighttime shenanigans here). It also gives you an excuse to stay in your basement - it's dark and cold outside.
Also, your signature is awesome.
Also, is this an ad for Toyota? What's with the two mentions of "costs as much as a Toyota"... why not car? or, even better, how about a real dollar amount! Toyota prices range from cheap 15k cars up to a Lexus that costs 100k. Saying it costs as much "as a Toyota" is completely meaningless. You might as well say it costs as much as a Senator.
Yay deceiving articles. Let's get more of them on slashdot!
Seriously though, the reason BluRay sales are slow is because they're ridiculously priced. Anything over $20 is ridiculous for a movie. I regularly see BluRays for as much as $39. Sometimes you'll see a special edition or something for FIFTY. That's insane. It's far too much. People aren't going to pay those prices. I don't. I only buy bluray when I can get it for $20 or less. Otherwise I just rent it from Netflix.
Mom says it's dangerous to leave the basement.
Seriously, can we make the PC train stop? It's ruining comedy. I can't believe comedians are apologizing for half of what they say now. It makes you wonder if Richard Pryor, as he was, could even exist in 2009.
That is *awesome*. How is this not on TV anymore? Anyone know if it's on the Internet someplace? (other than really awful shaky YouTube crap.)
I am simultaneously scared, impressed and jealous. I bet you have a killer zombie plan.
Seriously, 1993!? Is this chick a hardcore nerd or what?
Yeah, it only took 9 months for that connector to show up. It was supposed to work out of the box but Microsoft made last minute changes to x64 that broke the WHS team's work.
We need more term limits. Life long politicians are just ridiculous. They start out somewhat normal and by the time they've been in it for 40 years they're corrupt and crazy and named Ted Stevens. Nothing changes because the people don't change because the incumbent has an insane advantage. It's well known that the incumbent almost always wins. I have no idea why this is but it's gotten to the point where neither party really even bothers with a district if the incumbent is running.
Personally, I've voted for someone new just because I hated the incumbent so much and I wanted them to realize that if you suck you will be voted out. Sadly, I have as yet to have seen someone other than the incumbent win in any of my local elections.