I use it to stay in constant contact with my team. Rather then run down the hall or pick up the phone I can jot a quick note and get an immediate response.
I use it to keep in touch with friends. It's more real time than email but less than straight chat. Perfect for carrying on a conversation while working on something else.
I use it to notify me when my coworkers in the VA, CA and WA offices get in and are at their desks.
So no, it's not just a toy. No more so than Email is.
"I send my child to a private school, but does my tax money still fund the pathetic public school down the street pumping out ignorant future welfare recipients? "
Give me a break! Chances are you send your child to a private school so they can be indoctrinated into your belief system instead of being "corrupted" by viewpoints that don't match with yours.
I myself went to public school as did most of my co-workers. Amazingly enough we make 6 figures a year at a minimum. We also have the ability to think for ourselves instead of blindly following the rhetoric .
Of course it is! Just because one person managed to screw up his order with Loki Linux is going to fall. I mean hell NO windows vendor EVER has any kind of distribution problem. Microsoft and those who write software for it never have delays finsishing a product.
I dropped out after my first quarter and started working in the industry. I had to overcome a lot of snobbish attitudes but by proving I knew my stuff I earned the respect of my peers. I routinely act as a mentor and deprogrammer to those who have done the college route.
I'm 30 now and will be retired by the time I'm 35 ( God I love stock options! ). Having the degree might have helped me gain acceptance faster but would only have delayed my retirement.
If the game was static pay for play would really suck. But the game has new content added to the world on a regular basis. Not to mention special events, live GM run quests and the like that all require real live people to run.
The amount of money per month to play EQ is less than I pay for lunch. And even though I rarely play these days I still think I'm getting my money's worth.
"And also, under the 9th Circuit law, neither computers nor hard drives are audio home recording devices, nor is there anything else in this case that involves Napster that is an audio home recording device within the meaning of the statute"
Guess what folks... Based on this line in the judges decision usage of a mini-disc recorder to record tracks of your CDs is probably now illegal after all. When the laws were written mini-discs didn't exist as a home recording device either.
So it's perfectly ok and legal to change someones post as long as you provide them an opt-out that they know nothing about unless they happen to use deja?
If a game has no challange then it's NOT going to be played long by many people. It doens't have to be chessmaster to be challenging.
I found Diablo to get really boring really fast and now that i've learned that Diablo II is more of the same I'll skip it. Diablo II has huge advance sales I wonder how much it will get as reccomendations from players?
My question is why did something that's basicly an expansion pack take so long to release? And then release with a massive amount of crash bugs?
Since viewing ads is part of the TOS I seriosuly doubt they'll settle out of court. What I'd LOVE to see is a lawsuit against the jerk who started this frivleous waste of tax payer dollars!
Actually the ads do help the consumer. Commerce on AOL is big business why? Becasue they show ads to consumers for things they want!
Top it off with the fact that you can turn off pop-ups in the prefernces and you've got nothing more than a bunch of opertunistic little parsites trying to make a buck off some judge without a clue.
Did your friends both to mention that there were clear rules for names?
If they had their identities stripped it's becasue they were breaking a known rule.
Verant has it's problems ( horrible customer service, the desire to scan machines, faulty design, bad QA, etc ) but the nameing rule is one of the things they got right.
And YOU (nor I) are their target audience. Bottom line: MILLIONS of memebers find that AOL offers evertyhing they want and more in an easy to use package. Would I use it? No. Would I reccomend it to my mother? You bet! AOL does not equal windows only. As Steve Case has said his "vision" is for AOL Anywhere. Multi platform AOL is coming soon I imagine. AOL does not mean the AOL client. They've already stated that RoadRunner will not require their client. What does AOL mean? AOL means mass-market media. That's it, no catering to frige groups like us geeks, pure raw commericialism. People LOVE to slam the large companies as "clueless" and evil.. But they obviously know something we don't or they wouldn't be big and rich.
#1 They did NOT ask their entire customer base. They asked less than 10% of it and then at a time when adults were offline.
#2 The have been far less than admirable about this. Publicly insulting people who raised privacy concerns.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: They over reached. Instead of saying we were wrong they say "A bunch of hackers, crackers and paranoids caused us to change our mind"
Ahh yes! Classes don't exist! There are zero fundimental differances in people at all!
Now I'm all for treating everyone fairly and kindly, however there are classes. I have very little in common with your average Jock, yuppie, or biker. Does that mean I'm nasty to them? No! But to deny that classes of people exist is ludicris.
It's kind of like people who get up in arms if a difference between the races is pointed out. Diversity is a good thing! Without diveresty there is no balance. An unbalanced system in unhealthy.
hrm..... The dreamcast comes with Mail, Usenet and WWW access as well. So it's $528 for 2 years of Internet access and a free kick ass game system.. Not a bad deal if you don't have an ISP. I'd rather see Dreamcast users invading the net than the WebTV minions.
Why don't we write a new encryption system for files that uses the same scheme and keys as CSS? Then we all it's just an unfortuante side effect that it also happens to be able to decrypt DVDs.... After all the judge mentioned that there was no use for DeCSS expect for decrypting DVDs. Why not give it other uses?
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I use it to stay in constant contact with my team. Rather then run down the hall or pick up the phone I can jot a quick note and get an immediate response.
I use it to keep in touch with friends. It's more real time than email but less than straight chat. Perfect for carrying on a conversation while working on something else.
I use it to notify me when my coworkers in the VA, CA and WA offices get in and are at their desks.
So no, it's not just a toy. No more so than Email is.
"I send my child to a private school, but does my tax money still fund the pathetic public school down the street pumping out ignorant future welfare recipients? "
Give me a break! Chances are you send your child to a private school so they can be indoctrinated into your belief system instead of being "corrupted" by viewpoints that don't match with yours.
I myself went to public school as did most of my co-workers. Amazingly enough we make 6 figures a year at a minimum. We also have the ability to think for ourselves instead of blindly following the rhetoric .
Of course it is! Just because one person managed to screw up his order with Loki Linux is going to fall. I mean hell NO windows vendor EVER has any kind of distribution problem. Microsoft and those who write software for it never have delays finsishing a product.
LOL I'd pull the gaming link out of your sig... Unless of course you're trying to point out what a little twit Maynard was in that article.
This whole thing cracks me up!
ISP: We want to provide high speed access to our customers using the Time Warner netork.
TW: Well ok guys welll let you in but since we're shouldering the majority of the costs we want the majority of the profits from those customers.
ISP: ARE YOU NUTS?!!?! I'm gonna go complain to all the people who think profit is a dirty word and get you blacklisted!
People in Hell *settle* for ice water. What they really want is a day off or even a 5 minute break...
I dropped out after my first quarter and started working in the industry. I had to overcome a lot of snobbish attitudes but by proving I knew my stuff I earned the respect of my peers. I routinely act as a mentor and deprogrammer to those who have done the college route.
I'm 30 now and will be retired by the time I'm 35 ( God I love stock options! ). Having the degree might have helped me gain acceptance faster but would only have delayed my retirement.
If the game was static pay for play would really suck. But the game has new content added to the world on a regular basis. Not to mention special events, live GM run quests and the like that all require real live people to run. The amount of money per month to play EQ is less than I pay for lunch. And even though I rarely play these days I still think I'm getting my money's worth.
I've used Helix Gnome and KDE 2.0 as an end user. Both have their strong points.
I'm currently using KDE 2.0 and it marginaly has an edge over Gnome for me but from the user perspective it's not "all that and a side of fries"..
I will say the I absolutly loved working with Qt.. I haven't tried GTK though.
I had also thought a public key system... Spam me and I inform all the other nodes that know and trust me not to trust packets with your sig...
"And also, under the 9th Circuit law, neither computers nor hard drives are audio home recording devices, nor is there anything else in this case that involves Napster that is an audio home recording device within the meaning of the statute"
Guess what folks... Based on this line in the judges decision usage of a mini-disc recorder to record tracks of your CDs is probably now illegal after all. When the laws were written mini-discs didn't exist as a home recording device either.
So it's perfectly ok and legal to change someones post as long as you provide them an opt-out that they know nothing about unless they happen to use deja?
If a game has no challange then it's NOT going to be played long by many people. It doens't have to be chessmaster to be challenging.
I found Diablo to get really boring really fast and now that i've learned that Diablo II is more of the same I'll skip it. Diablo II has huge advance sales I wonder how much it will get as reccomendations from players?
My question is why did something that's basicly an expansion pack take so long to release? And then release with a massive amount of crash bugs?
Since viewing ads is part of the TOS I seriosuly doubt they'll settle out of court. What I'd LOVE to see is a lawsuit against the jerk who started this frivleous waste of tax payer dollars!
Actually the ads do help the consumer. Commerce on AOL is big business why? Becasue they show ads to consumers for things they want!
Top it off with the fact that you can turn off pop-ups in the prefernces and you've got nothing more than a bunch of opertunistic little parsites trying to make a buck off some judge without a clue.
Really? I haven't seen another IM client that matches AIM feature for feature.
ICQ 2000 comes close but doesn't quite match it.
GAIM is almost a joke. Same with GnomeICU.
If they had their identities stripped it's becasue they were breaking a known rule.
Verant has it's problems ( horrible customer service, the desire to scan machines, faulty design, bad QA, etc ) but the nameing rule is one of the things they got right.
Did he make the posts? Nope!
Did a Compuserve member make the posts? Nope!
Did the servers reside in Germany? Nope!
Did the news servers of their own (state run) ISP carry the smae posts? Yep!
Did CompuServe respond and yank posts within hours of being notified of their existance? Yep!
But yet they STILL convicted him...
However... Felix Somm was aquitted on appeal.
And YOU (nor I) are their target audience. Bottom line: MILLIONS of memebers find that AOL offers evertyhing they want and more in an easy to use package. Would I use it? No. Would I reccomend it to my mother? You bet! AOL does not equal windows only. As Steve Case has said his "vision" is for AOL Anywhere. Multi platform AOL is coming soon I imagine. AOL does not mean the AOL client. They've already stated that RoadRunner will not require their client. What does AOL mean? AOL means mass-market media. That's it, no catering to frige groups like us geeks, pure raw commericialism. People LOVE to slam the large companies as "clueless" and evil.. But they obviously know something we don't or they wouldn't be big and rich.
For me it wasn't about what they WERE doing but about what they COULD do.
Had the EULA change taken place they could have doen ANY cans, taken ANY data.
I'm sorry but NO game is worth allowing the company that makes it free access to my data with no legal recourse for me
They were planning on ammending theit EULA to give them the right to scan and retreive ANYTHING they wanted....
/. get it wrong?
So how did
#1 They did NOT ask their entire customer base. They asked less than 10% of it and then at a time when adults were offline.
#2 The have been far less than admirable about this. Publicly insulting people who raised privacy concerns.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: They over reached. Instead of saying we were wrong they say "A bunch of hackers, crackers and paranoids caused us to change our mind"
Ahh yes! Classes don't exist! There are zero fundimental differances in people at all!
Now I'm all for treating everyone fairly and kindly, however there are classes. I have very little in common with your average Jock, yuppie, or biker. Does that mean I'm nasty to them? No! But to deny that classes of people exist is ludicris.
It's kind of like people who get up in arms if a difference between the races is pointed out. Diversity is a good thing! Without diveresty there is no balance. An unbalanced system in unhealthy.
hrm..... The dreamcast comes with Mail, Usenet and WWW access as well. So it's $528 for 2 years of Internet access and a free kick ass game system.. Not a bad deal if you don't have an ISP. I'd rather see Dreamcast users invading the net than the WebTV minions.
Why don't we write a new encryption system for files that uses the same scheme and keys as CSS? Then we all it's just an unfortuante side effect that it also happens to be able to decrypt DVDs.... After all the judge mentioned that there was no use for DeCSS expect for decrypting DVDs. Why not give it other uses?