Eagerly anticipated games... will feature the technology that continuously collects 'anonymous' information about users, sends them to the Massive database for analysis...
My money is my vote; I vote, "No".
Haven't bought a game since HL2 & Steam made me register online to play. I do not play online w/ cheaters & idjits. Now no LAN without WAN on Starcraft 2? I doubt they're giving away the vehicle to profit off me and my habits, so my entertainment budget will be spent elsewhere. No, I haven't and won't be downloading any cracked, infested copies, either.
Great book on this very subject, very insightful. Don't let the title dissuade you, it is actually chock full of empirical data and good lessons in anatomy and the psyche. A General Theory Of Love
Re:Still Cheaper... (Score:11, Insightful) by Bogtha (906264) on Wednesday August 19, @05:25PM (#29125509) So wait, you got screwed by PayPal, so at the first available opportunity, you gave them your credit card details so you could continue to use their service? This kind of thing is exactly why corporations continue to screw people over - they know they can keep doing it time and time again, and people will just keep coming back for more.
The benefits are too numerous to list for being untethered from a res land line, most importantly I am single, travel out of town 50+ days a year and have an innate fear of public telephones. Verizon reception has been unbelievably good in over 10 states, even in rural areas of Western Carolina and the Northwest backwoods.
Also, US West was my landline provider in the 90's, anyone who remembers their unjustified billing practices back then(or participated in the class-action suit) knows what a shit operation they ran. Can't say anything personally about Qwest since the merger, but I have to ask: will Nacchio ever start serving his sentence?
You might like to actually test it, people have been telling good things about Windows 7...
I've been doing just that for about 10 weeks now.
3 unanticipated super-duper fast power-offs. Despite the fact I unchecked "Auto restart" in Startup & Recovery... no log files to be found, my ATI chip has a known & ongoing issue with all Mojave drivers. And Linux, too! Didn't do my homework before buying, my fault(?). The drama continues...
Despite disabling the encryption services, a couple html files became encrypted when transferring to a flash drive. Strange and scary b/c I had no cert or key. I enabled the services, started encryption on the folder, then de-encrypted and I got the files transferred. Don't know if it was drive wide, but my slave/data drive was accessible un-encrypted on the LAN. Disabled services again.
The new taskbar seems counter-intuitive; you have to chase around a target icon if another app bar is resizing on open/close. Then Show Desktop is waaaayyyy over by the clock, where you rarely scroll anyway. Easy Fix: Disable and reinstate Quick Launch.
The UAC(User Allow Conditioner)is more tune-able. I prefer it to join the other Windows "Security" Features: disabled and/or replaced.
Worst of the worst is the gawd awful indexing/calculating anytime you move/copy/paste/delete any file bigger than ~100 MB to another drive. Whether it be to a different internal drive, a USB drive or a network share it wastes alot of time(then gives a max of 100Kb/s transfer speed across LAN???). It's faster to use a USB Flash drive on Vista... remember? This is NOT Vista. Wink, wink.
All in all, it's a decent OS. It does shave a few seconds off shutdown and even more noticeably on the start up compared w. XP SP3. Less skill required to manage than a Linux install, alot of the Vista re-organizing of files and features was/is a bit counter-intuitive, IMO. For the Tech deficient it will be a challenge. Alot of unnecessary features, but MS has to justify new licensing and keep themselves relevant in the market place. Their market share will probably suffer less than Vista debacle, I hope they know a 3rd "candy-coated" non-upgrade will not save them from the next iceberg.
Don't know why I keep going, (it's 2 blocks from the house, the staff rarely has a clue when I call and letdown is 99.9% assured), but I've been in the Shack 3 times in the last year or so. Every time they did not have what I needed(LED, Cap, ps jack) in that store, but they had the part at another store in another part of town. Rather than run around like a rat looking for the cheese, however, Fry's and Capital Supply are closer than the other stores.
After all, its not fort knox, its just a fucking parking place.
It may not be Ft Knox, but it's definitely a mint for city coffers. If the gangstas are taking 120k from a % of meters, just think what's still coming in. It's all about producing the revenue stream, growing the revenue stream, protecting the revenue stream. And the greater good, if it fits in with the 1st 3 priorities. And as a bonus, the citizens will get to pay for the additional fees AND more taxes because some politico's wife/brother-in-law/shell company will get the lucrative contract and do a half-assed implementation, so the cameras will be broken and replaced a few times until they eventually become abandoned for the next expensive produce/grow/protect scheme in a few years anyway.
If you live in a sandbox, you can't bitch about not having functionality.
I've used SandboxIE to surf pr0n virus free for almost two years. I will continue to do so, it's only a matter of time until FF & IE private modes get gamed. I do run NoScript when not sandboxed.
all web sites have a perfectly usable non-flash variant of the site
I've found a more than a few that did not have Non-flash alternatives, sadly it's becoming less rare. Maybe w/ the proliferation of pages designed for mobile device displays we can see smaller pages w/ less bells & whistles loading all the time.
Anyone find a good aggregate of functional mobile web pages? I've found the basics, would like to try more of these at home. Goog Msn/Live/Bing/... yahoo
Your money is your only vote that counts. I refuse to let them swipe my ID when I buy alcohol or tobacco, I even accidentally road-rashed the mag strip & bar code off the back. Oops.
I recommend them for anyone who doesn't like loose wires. A tad pricey, but they last forever.
Awesome stuff, easy to cut, easy to install and a clean finish.
Panduit
My "Smart" thermostat turned the A/C on 45 minutes before my set time at 7pm, beginning of off-peak rates. It's called "Smart Response Technology" and it's "thinking for me"; aka: costing me money. Couldn't get the manual/specs off honeywell.com without registering but luckily it was loose on the tubes. So now Setting 13 has been switched to 0, the dumber response of activating at the time I chose to activate!
I'm finding smart appliances are just like the cloud, great in theory but painful in practice.
They are my only hardline option where I live... so I'm using Alltel Broadband. Swapped from VZW and have faster down/up and unlimited bandwidth, using the same network. Go figure.
GodJesusBuddhaAllah help me, but I have to give the snakes over at Qwerst some credit. They are the only arm of the FCC's oligopoly who refused to set-up the monitoring services on their equipment/property.
Strange things happen by random chance, I guess. Or maybe they thought it was a blatant trap/sting... they were new foreign owners taking over after a major scandal.
Actually, I thought the the last 4 DVDs was a steady descent from it's glorious 4 seasons on the tube. I doubt any of the original flare will be restored from further meddling.
Look at what it takes to get ahead in the Corporate World: A huge ego, a shitload of apathy and the never-wavering pursuit of unlimited growth margins(at any cost). Apply that criteria to politics and you can see what a brave new world it really is.
That's T Boone, the Electric Faerie! All you have to do is build them thar local transmission lines with tax payer money or else he'll drop it to focus on his water monopoly already in place!
Haven't seen any wind turbines on Fl-Ebay yet, but when they do I'm gonna "Buy It Now"!
I write out a cheat sheet and let the users pick their favorite words: mother, fluffy, camaro69, whatever... then instruct them to add letters or numbers until it exceeds 8 characters, cap the 1st letter and replace letters w/ corresponding numbers below:
1=L
3=E
4=A
5=S
7=T
8=B
0=O
When the user can comprehend the password, it goes a long way to remembering said password. It's pretty night & day how fast they adjust. Now we're all L337!
Slashdot Mirror
If I had mod points I'd fix your Score to Insightful.
RIP my 2-stroke friends.
Eagerly anticipated games... will feature the technology that continuously collects 'anonymous' information about users, sends them to the Massive database for analysis...
My money is my vote; I vote, "No".
Haven't bought a game since HL2 & Steam made me register online to play. I do not play online w/ cheaters & idjits. Now no LAN without WAN on Starcraft 2? I doubt they're giving away the vehicle to profit off me and my habits, so my entertainment budget will be spent elsewhere. No, I haven't and won't be downloading any cracked, infested copies, either.
Great book on this very subject, very insightful. Don't let the title dissuade you, it is actually chock full of empirical data and good lessons in anatomy and the psyche.
A General Theory Of Love
Let me make a suggestion for /.'s rating system:
Re:Still Cheaper... (Score:11, Insightful)
by Bogtha (906264) on Wednesday August 19, @05:25PM (#29125509)
So wait, you got screwed by PayPal, so at the first available opportunity, you gave them your credit card details so you could continue to use their service? This kind of thing is exactly why corporations continue to screw people over - they know they can keep doing it time and time again, and people will just keep coming back for more.
The benefits are too numerous to list for being untethered from a res land line, most importantly I am single, travel out of town 50+ days a year and have an innate fear of public telephones. Verizon reception has been unbelievably good in over 10 states, even in rural areas of Western Carolina and the Northwest backwoods.
Also, US West was my landline provider in the 90's, anyone who remembers their unjustified billing practices back then(or participated in the class-action suit) knows what a shit operation they ran. Can't say anything personally about Qwest since the merger, but I have to ask: will Nacchio ever start serving his sentence?
You might like to actually test it, people have been telling good things about Windows 7...
I've been doing just that for about 10 weeks now.
3 unanticipated super-duper fast power-offs. Despite the fact I unchecked "Auto restart" in Startup & Recovery... no log files to be found, my ATI chip has a known & ongoing issue with all Mojave drivers. And Linux, too! Didn't do my homework before buying, my fault(?). The drama continues...
Despite disabling the encryption services, a couple html files became encrypted when transferring to a flash drive. Strange and scary b/c I had no cert or key. I enabled the services, started encryption on the folder, then de-encrypted and I got the files transferred. Don't know if it was drive wide, but my slave/data drive was accessible un-encrypted on the LAN. Disabled services again.
The new taskbar seems counter-intuitive; you have to chase around a target icon if another app bar is resizing on open/close. Then Show Desktop is waaaayyyy over by the clock, where you rarely scroll anyway. Easy Fix: Disable and reinstate Quick Launch.
The UAC(User Allow Conditioner)is more tune-able. I prefer it to join the other Windows "Security" Features: disabled and/or replaced.
Worst of the worst is the gawd awful indexing/calculating anytime you move/copy/paste/delete any file bigger than ~100 MB to another drive. Whether it be to a different internal drive, a USB drive or a network share it wastes alot of time(then gives a max of 100Kb/s transfer speed across LAN???). It's faster to use a USB Flash drive on Vista... remember? This is NOT Vista. Wink, wink.
All in all, it's a decent OS. It does shave a few seconds off shutdown and even more noticeably on the start up compared w. XP SP3. Less skill required to manage than a Linux install, alot of the Vista re-organizing of files and features was/is a bit counter-intuitive, IMO. For the Tech deficient it will be a challenge. Alot of unnecessary features, but MS has to justify new licensing and keep themselves relevant in the market place. Their market share will probably suffer less than Vista debacle, I hope they know a 3rd "candy-coated" non-upgrade will not save them from the next iceberg.
Don't know why I keep going, (it's 2 blocks from the house, the staff rarely has a clue when I call and letdown is 99.9% assured), but I've been in the Shack 3 times in the last year or so. Every time they did not have what I needed(LED, Cap, ps jack) in that store, but they had the part at another store in another part of town. Rather than run around like a rat looking for the cheese, however, Fry's and Capital Supply are closer than the other stores.
After all, its not fort knox, its just a fucking parking place.
It may not be Ft Knox, but it's definitely a mint for city coffers. If the gangstas are taking 120k from a % of meters, just think what's still coming in. It's all about producing the revenue stream, growing the revenue stream, protecting the revenue stream. And the greater good, if it fits in with the 1st 3 priorities. And as a bonus, the citizens will get to pay for the additional fees AND more taxes because some politico's wife/brother-in-law/shell company will get the lucrative contract and do a half-assed implementation, so the cameras will be broken and replaced a few times until they eventually become abandoned for the next expensive produce/grow/protect scheme in a few years anyway.
If you live in a sandbox, you can't bitch about not having functionality.
I've used SandboxIE to surf pr0n virus free for almost two years. I will continue to do so, it's only a matter of time until FF & IE private modes get gamed.
I do run NoScript when not sandboxed.
What did YOU do to my post? Or maybe I forgot to add h t t p : / / and /. fixed it for me.
should have been:
http://google.com/m
http://m.bing.com/
http://m.yahoo.com/
all web sites have a perfectly usable non-flash variant of the site
I've found a more than a few that did not have Non-flash alternatives, sadly it's becoming less rare. Maybe w/ the proliferation of pages designed for mobile device displays we can see smaller pages w/ less bells & whistles loading all the time.
Anyone find a good aggregate of functional mobile web pages? I've found the basics, would like to try more of these at home.
Goog
Msn/Live/Bing/...
yahoo
Not wearing a bra makes them firmer.
And funner to look at.
Don't stare!
Your money is your only vote that counts. I refuse to let them swipe my ID when I buy alcohol or tobacco, I even accidentally road-rashed the mag strip & bar code off the back. Oops.
Too funny, within minutes of posting, same item same FTW.
You beat me this time, igloonaut.
I recommend them for anyone who doesn't like loose wires. A tad pricey, but they last forever.
Awesome stuff, easy to cut, easy to install and a clean finish. Panduit
My "Smart" thermostat turned the A/C on 45 minutes before my set time at 7pm, beginning of off-peak rates. It's called "Smart Response Technology" and it's "thinking for me"; aka: costing me money. Couldn't get the manual/specs off honeywell.com without registering but luckily it was loose on the tubes. So now Setting 13 has been switched to 0, the dumber response of activating at the time I chose to activate!
I'm finding smart appliances are just like the cloud, great in theory but painful in practice.
They are my only hardline option where I live... so I'm using Alltel Broadband. Swapped from VZW and have faster down/up and unlimited bandwidth, using the same network. Go figure.
GodJesusBuddhaAllah help me, but I have to give the snakes over at Qwerst some credit. They are the only arm of the FCC's oligopoly who refused to set-up the monitoring services on their equipment/property.
Strange things happen by random chance, I guess. Or maybe they thought it was a blatant trap/sting... they were new foreign owners taking over after a major scandal.
Damn, I did not rta... maybe I just wanted it to be psycho so I could vent.
Good news for the schizos, kinda.
Actually, I thought the the last 4 DVDs was a steady descent from it's glorious 4 seasons on the tube. I doubt any of the original flare will be restored from further meddling.
RIP Planet Express.
Look at what it takes to get ahead in the Corporate World: A huge ego, a shitload of apathy and the never-wavering pursuit of unlimited growth margins(at any cost). Apply that criteria to politics and you can see what a brave new world it really is.
. ... why don't we throw a few bankers on it and see what happens.
Epic.
The current mod economy prevents me from modding you up.
That's T Boone, the Electric Faerie! All you have to do is build them thar local transmission lines with tax payer money or else he'll drop it to focus on his water monopoly already in place!
Haven't seen any wind turbines on Fl-Ebay yet, but when they do I'm gonna "Buy It Now"!
I write out a cheat sheet and let the users pick their favorite words: mother, fluffy, camaro69, whatever... then instruct them to add letters or numbers until it exceeds 8 characters, cap the 1st letter and replace letters w/ corresponding numbers below:
1=L
3=E
4=A
5=S
7=T
8=B
0=O
When the user can comprehend the password, it goes a long way to remembering said password. It's pretty night & day how fast they adjust. Now we're all L337!
And if you _have_ to use MSIE, use SandboxIE.
Cripes, whatever you surf with, use SandboxIE! Especially when surfing Pr0n!!!!
Best program since sliced.bread.2.0, IMO.