If they hold down a job and remember to eat and have the occasional friend over they're not really addicted are they?
A game addict (or a TV addict) will generally be unemployed simply because leaving the house to work will be less important to them than playing/watching. Or eating. Or anything for that matter. Addiction takes over your life.
Trying to describe people who watch excessive amounts of TV as addicts just because that's what they do in the evenings doesn't work. Same for Wow players or anyone else. That doesn't mean that addiction doesn't exist - it's real and it's painful to watch people go through it.
You're so lucky you got out in 6 months. Coping with someone at 5 years plus is really touch. They played FFXI too.. and had 3 level 75 characters before defecting to Wow (where they have 5 level 70 characters and another 2 on the way).
In a way it's not entirely the games.. some people just seem to find it hard to prioritise properly.. if gambling could be done for $10 a month they'd be addicted to that too... probably alchohol too for the same reasons. Getting out is realizing that although 'X makes me happy' and 'more of X makes me more happy' sometimes 'lots and lots of X makes me miserable' is true.
No they're not. They don't give up their lives to sit in front of the TV. They go to work, cook dinner, talk to each other.. normal things.. like non-addicted people do.
Game addicts do none of these things. I'm sure TV addicts exist but don't trivialise the term by confusing it with normal behaviour.
If it wasn't fun there wouldn't be a risk of addiction. Nobody ever got addicted to filling out time sheets, for example.
My wife freely admits to being addicted.. she sometimes looks back and wonders where the last 5 years went, tries to stop for a couple of days then back to raiding - she plays 18-20 hours a day, never leaves the house, or even the desk for that matter.. Not a lot you can do about it, except wait for the victim to get their act together and come out of it.
Well it's missing the largest cellphone company in the world - Nokia - and within that the most popular phone in the world - the 3310.
So no, they are not the most common ones. (You'd need Sony Erricson and LG in there as well for the popular ones, even if you limited it to phones in the last year or two).
The connector on it looks like a Nokia handsfree connector, so it'll only work on those phones that have that sort of connector... and even then only those that have a data port there (very few in fact.. most have the data port under the battery these days).
A single device that would get data off *any* phone is impossible - there are too many differences in them. You need a device per phone model, and even then you'd need the data format which is often proprietary (connecting to an iphone is totally unlike connecting to a 3310 for example).
Dress hire is going to be about half that $5000. Then you have to factor in the reception, the honeymooon, etc. not to mention the ring.
If you really have a limit that low get used to being single. Marriage is *expensive*. Ours cost around $20,000 and it was in a registry office with only about a dozen people.
Technically bits of wire (beyond the first hub anyway) are shared as well.. they just have a much higher bandwidth so you don't notice.
This article could have been written 5 years ago.. don't see what's new - everyone knows wifi doesn't really scale, which is why you keep it to small defined areas like a room per AP (and keep your important infrastructure wired as far as possible). If that's news to an admin then they probably skipped a few classes...
I think the point is that text can queue and be delivered when it's ready (the most obvious example being you can text someone when their phone is switched off with no issues). Voice doesn't, so is unsuitable for a network with questionable reliability.
Javascript certainly isn't - everything is treated as a string most (but not all) of the time, which is a pain in the bleeding neck when suddenly 1+1 == 11.
Hmm.. "Sleny operators on the line Lenovo was very beautiful. After hearing my requirement m chtly refused, but after I odcitoval píslunou part of the licence, the vyádaly few days to zjitní current state of company management. Thus I got the viditeln level amount, or now, followed by round of telephone interview."
Still don't know what it means, but I agree with you.
It's necessary. You've be surprised at how people don't know how the web works.. Before I put up a similar statement (used the debian one actually) I actually had someone threaten me with lawyers because he'd written on a public mailing list with his private email address. He not only wanted his message removing but every single quoted line (ie. all the replies) and said it was my responsibility to contact people like google and get their caches cleaned out.
All for one fucking message.
Of course I merely ignored him and pointed out that (a) it was his mistake, and (b) he had no rights at all over the replies as they were copyright their respective authors, and (c) if he thought I was going to chase all over the web for him he was fucking retarted.
It's not worth running a site without a ToS. Too many idiots.
Your cell phone number and home address are definately not private information... pretty much by definition - if you don't tell anyone about them then they lose a large part of their use.
Some bank account information is private - passwords, etc. Other things like sort code and account number you give freely to anyone who asks for a cheque or direct debit, and anyone who wants to give you money.. so they're not private.
Well you could complain to the ITC, which is what was done here. They'd then decide whether the hotels advertising was misleading and direct them to make the necessary changes.
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If they hold down a job and remember to eat and have the occasional friend over they're not really addicted are they?
A game addict (or a TV addict) will generally be unemployed simply because leaving the house to work will be less important to them than playing/watching. Or eating. Or anything for that matter. Addiction takes over your life.
Trying to describe people who watch excessive amounts of TV as addicts just because that's what they do in the evenings doesn't work. Same for Wow players or anyone else. That doesn't mean that addiction doesn't exist - it's real and it's painful to watch people go through it.
You're so lucky you got out in 6 months. Coping with someone at 5 years plus is really touch. They played FFXI too.. and had 3 level 75 characters before defecting to Wow (where they have 5 level 70 characters and another 2 on the way).
In a way it's not entirely the games.. some people just seem to find it hard to prioritise properly.. if gambling could be done for $10 a month they'd be addicted to that too... probably alchohol too for the same reasons. Getting out is realizing that although 'X makes me happy' and 'more of X makes me more happy' sometimes 'lots and lots of X makes me miserable' is true.
How utterly clueless can you be? Of course they're addictive. Just because the majority control it doesn't mean they're not.
No they're not. They don't give up their lives to sit in front of the TV. They go to work, cook dinner, talk to each other.. normal things.. like non-addicted people do.
Game addicts do none of these things. I'm sure TV addicts exist but don't trivialise the term by confusing it with normal behaviour.
No but unemployment, no social life and a health problems due to the lack of exercise might cause you a few problems.
If it wasn't fun there wouldn't be a risk of addiction. Nobody ever got addicted to filling out time sheets, for example.
My wife freely admits to being addicted.. she sometimes looks back and wonders where the last 5 years went, tries to stop for a couple of days then back to raiding - she plays 18-20 hours a day, never leaves the house, or even the desk for that matter.. Not a lot you can do about it, except wait for the victim to get their act together and come out of it.
I figured they were doing something with IR remote controls, which are universally called 'zapppers' in this country.
It's a guess.. and a pretty poor one on anything other than a simple home network.
Once you have multiple IP ranges it falls apart and just assumes everything is internet.
Nothing at all that I can see. And it's only for a limited number of phones at that.
I'm sure it has a use in its field but to sell it as a general use device is just silly.
Well it's missing the largest cellphone company in the world - Nokia - and within that the most popular phone in the world - the 3310.
So no, they are not the most common ones. (You'd need Sony Erricson and LG in there as well for the popular ones, even if you limited it to phones in the last year or two).
Possibly easiest to hack.
So it doesn't support even most phones let alone all phones. Not even the common ones, even. Seems a bit of a waste.
The connector on it looks like a Nokia handsfree connector, so it'll only work on those phones that have that sort of connector... and even then only those that have a data port there (very few in fact.. most have the data port under the battery these days).
A single device that would get data off *any* phone is impossible - there are too many differences in them. You need a device per phone model, and even then you'd need the data format which is often proprietary (connecting to an iphone is totally unlike connecting to a 3310 for example).
Our pizza hut no longer delivers. Pizza delivery seems to be a dying art.
Curry, however, you can get to your door 24/7. They even take credit cards at the door...
That's the problem with democracy... any idiot can vote, and often does.
Dress hire is going to be about half that $5000. Then you have to factor in the reception, the honeymooon, etc. not to mention the ring.
If you really have a limit that low get used to being single. Marriage is *expensive*. Ours cost around $20,000 and it was in a registry office with only about a dozen people.
When you consider who traditionally pays for the wedding, it's not too surprising it's all about their little girl...
What century are you living in? Everyone pays for their own wedding, unless they're royalty or something.
Technically bits of wire (beyond the first hub anyway) are shared as well.. they just have a much higher bandwidth so you don't notice.
This article could have been written 5 years ago.. don't see what's new - everyone knows wifi doesn't really scale, which is why you keep it to small defined areas like a room per AP (and keep your important infrastructure wired as far as possible). If that's news to an admin then they probably skipped a few classes...
Texting is free on most plans these days... Costs the earth on pay and go of course, but so does calling.
I think the point is that text can queue and be delivered when it's ready (the most obvious example being you can text someone when their phone is switched off with no issues). Voice doesn't, so is unsuitable for a network with questionable reliability.
Javascript certainly isn't - everything is treated as a string most (but not all) of the time, which is a pain in the bleeding neck when suddenly 1+1 == 11.
Hmm.. "Sleny operators on the line Lenovo was very beautiful. After hearing my requirement m chtly refused, but after I odcitoval píslunou part of the licence, the vyádaly few days to zjitní current state of company management. Thus I got the viditeln level amount, or now, followed by round of telephone interview."
Still don't know what it means, but I agree with you.
It's necessary. You've be surprised at how people don't know how the web works.. Before I put up a similar statement (used the debian one actually) I actually had someone threaten me with lawyers because he'd written on a public mailing list with his private email address. He not only wanted his message removing but every single quoted line (ie. all the replies) and said it was my responsibility to contact people like google and get their caches cleaned out.
All for one fucking message.
Of course I merely ignored him and pointed out that (a) it was his mistake, and (b) he had no rights at all over the replies as they were copyright their respective authors, and (c) if he thought I was going to chase all over the web for him he was fucking retarted.
It's not worth running a site without a ToS. Too many idiots.
Your cell phone number and home address are definately not private information... pretty much by definition - if you don't tell anyone about them then they lose a large part of their use.
Some bank account information is private - passwords, etc. Other things like sort code and account number you give freely to anyone who asks for a cheque or direct debit, and anyone who wants to give you money.. so they're not private.
Nobody except apple is saying thay can access all of the internet.
They lied. They got called on it. There's really no story here.
I guess if I were in the UK, I could sue.
Well you could complain to the ITC, which is what was done here. They'd then decide whether the hotels advertising was misleading and direct them to make the necessary changes.
Suing over something like that is a bit OTT.