If you look on the reviews of a lot of apps the first few are glowing reports - no matter how crappy the app is, or even whether it works or not. It's common practice.
The crappy apps tend to get buried under an increasing number of bad reviews though.
I have a habit of finding the lowest/most scathing reviews and looking to see if the criticisms are something that would affect me, before looking at the good reviews.
99% probability it's just an embedded USB Serial and will work just like any others. These have been supported out of the box since before there were any 3G Dongles to attach them to..
The first bits were.. "Oh, generic scifi CGI ship.". Followed by "That's computer animation not live action.. Shrek with Mechs?". Followed by "My god, they're on Endor!"
First time a trailer has made me go from mildly interested to "Wait until it's show on TV" in such a short time.
Sounds like your ISP is overselling its bandwidth.
In the UK it's the same sort of situation.. you can get up to 24Mbps* (theoretically.. most people get around 16 due to distance from the exchange) but not all ISPs are equal. There are some *really* cheap deals out there eg. £9.99 'unlimited' (subject to limits**), but if you go with such an ISP be prepared to deal with nonexistant customer support, huge latency and massive slowdowns especially in the evenings. Alternatively you can go with a more pricy ISP and pay £30ish but get excellent support and able to download at your sync rate at all times.
I have dual lines bonded so I'm not the typical user.. I pay £40 per month for that (my ISP throws in as many IPs as I can justify and routed ipv6 for that price as well).
* I'm excluding the 20% of people not on LLU exchanges here - out in the sticks you have 8Mb only. ** In this country Unlimited means the same as Limited.
ie. the new expansion pushes the target to 85. That's a whole 25 extra levels from the old WoW game.. it's a hard slog for someone not prepared to devote 8 hours a day to it, so they try to ease it a bit.
Unfortunately it doesn't quite remove the "Holy shit.. 85 levels before I can play properly? Screw that" that new players experience.
If slashdot went ipv6 then presumably so would their DNS service.. so 1 and 2 are somewhat linked..org is already on ipv6.
2a works for me. 2b works provided the Co-Lo is ipv6 aware, and that implies 2c.
It's up to slashdot to pull their finger out and implement the damned thing.. it's not the fault of ipv6 they haven't. This is geek site.. if they don't do it why expect anyone else to?
The potaroo exhaustion counter that these dates come from hasn't changed significantly in the last year that I've been following it. It dips somethimes to 650 days or so, then climbs over 1000 days sometimes.. but the average stays around the 700 mark.
If the prediction had been remotely accurate when it said 700 last year it should be at around 350 this year, and it just isn't.
It's free, but don't expect reliablility... routed IPV6 is definately the way to go.
Of course actually implementing routed ipv6 is rather technical. You get an ISP that does it.. great.. now find a modem that does it.. that's either hacked linksys or a cisco, or a linux box talking PPPoE to a bridged modem like I have - these require knowledge to set up. Then setup RA, which isn't automatic (you need to pick a network from your ISP supplied/48 since RA only works on a/64).
*then* it's plug and play. Mostly. You've still got to learn about ipv6 firewalling (which isn't that different but the icmp options are all changed).
These are countries that have no problems with providing arms to both sides of a conflict.. so providing both censorship and the means to defeat it is business as usual.
As you hear sometimes.. follow the money - the truth is there.
You started playing your first ever character in March and by July you're level 60+ and haven't yet learned even what an alt is? An experienced player can level that fast, but a new player would struggle.. and as you level you learn now to fight bosses etc. that's why levelling is supposed to be hard.
You do see real newbs at level 60-70.. those are the ones that have bought accounts and don't have the first idea how to do their job as they didn't level with it. They generally get ignored.
I *still* don't 'get' Eve. Played it for a week, so *no* other players online during that time.. the quests sucked (take package to this planet, now take message to that planet, etc. etc.). It struck me as a poor clone of Elite, and Elite was more fun.
) Why should anyone who sunk 4+ years into WoW abandon it, there's no need. The game is still offering what it always offered, the people are still around, they managed to avoid pretty much everything that fu..ed up other MMOs in the past, why switch?
Because they're bored.. because the game has changed significantly in the last few years - it's now heavily PvP based whereas that was barely a factor 4 years ago. Because the graphics engine is a good 5 years out of date and performs like crap on a modern graphics card.. because half the playerbase is now level 80 and just sits around waiting for the next expansion..
2) Why should anyone who went away from WoW in disgust play a game that is way too similar to WoW?
That's sort of true. No game should be replicating WoW, just taking some of the best elements and coming up with something new. The ones released so far seem to have taken the *worst* elements.
Or the third option, they alter their botnets to sniff out centmail registered users and send the spam through that.. 80 year old grannies suddenly get hit with $100,000 email bills and lots of bad publicity ensues.
You're forgetting that most spammers do *not* send email. They have botnets for that.. and the botnets are just naive Windows users. Much as I like the concept of taxing people for not securing their computers it's not exactly fair.
Similarly, the day after this becomes widespread the linux kernel mailing list would have to declare itself bankcrupt. It wouldn't surprise me at all if that shifts a million emails a day.
If I was a spammer and this system was a way to get past spam filters, sure as hell I'd find every compromised box with an account on it and relay a few million messages straight through the yahoo mailserver.
Actually they're not.. their share of the vote is going up because fewer and fewer people are voting, and members of minority parties are more likely to vote than people who are just voting for one of the mainstream parties, realize the futility of it all, and stop voting.
We have an BNP european councillor. He got fewer votes than last year, but won because nobody else could be arsed to vote.
Hopefully more people will realize that although the system sucks, all the main parties have virtually identical policies and are just snouts in the trough, you need to vote.. because the alternative is worse.
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So what about orbital decay?
10 trillion pieces of broken glass raining on us from the sky sounds pretty bad.
If you look on the reviews of a lot of apps the first few are glowing reports - no matter how crappy the app is, or even whether it works or not. It's common practice.
The crappy apps tend to get buried under an increasing number of bad reviews though.
I have a habit of finding the lowest/most scathing reviews and looking to see if the criticisms are something that would affect me, before looking at the good reviews.
I'm sure you can get Android porn - just not on the Google Marketplace.
Google have no problems with you setting up an alternative Marketplace and distributing through that.
99% probability it's just an embedded USB Serial and will work just like any others. These have been supported out of the box since before there were any 3G Dongles to attach them to..
The first bits were.. "Oh, generic scifi CGI ship.". Followed by "That's computer animation not live action.. Shrek with Mechs?". Followed by "My god, they're on Endor!"
First time a trailer has made me go from mildly interested to "Wait until it's show on TV" in such a short time.
Sounds like your ISP is overselling its bandwidth.
In the UK it's the same sort of situation.. you can get up to 24Mbps* (theoretically.. most people get around 16 due to distance from the exchange) but not all ISPs are equal. There are some *really* cheap deals out there eg. £9.99 'unlimited' (subject to limits**), but if you go with such an ISP be prepared to deal with nonexistant customer support, huge latency and massive slowdowns especially in the evenings. Alternatively you can go with a more pricy ISP and pay £30ish but get excellent support and able to download at your sync rate at all times.
I have dual lines bonded so I'm not the typical user.. I pay £40 per month for that (my ISP throws in as many IPs as I can justify and routed ipv6 for that price as well).
* I'm excluding the 20% of people not on LLU exchanges here - out in the sticks you have 8Mb only.
** In this country Unlimited means the same as Limited.
They drop the difficulty and increase the target.
ie. the new expansion pushes the target to 85. That's a whole 25 extra levels from the old WoW game.. it's a hard slog for someone not prepared to devote 8 hours a day to it, so they try to ease it a bit.
Unfortunately it doesn't quite remove the "Holy shit.. 85 levels before I can play properly? Screw that" that new players experience.
If slashdot went ipv6 then presumably so would their DNS service.. so 1 and 2 are somewhat linked. .org is already on ipv6.
2a works for me.
2b works provided the Co-Lo is ipv6 aware, and that implies 2c.
It's up to slashdot to pull their finger out and implement the damned thing.. it's not the fault of ipv6 they haven't. This is geek site.. if they don't do it why expect anyone else to?
Problem with that prediction is it's bollocks.
The potaroo exhaustion counter that these dates come from hasn't changed significantly in the last year that I've been following it. It dips somethimes to 650 days or so, then climbs over 1000 days sometimes.. but the average stays around the 700 mark.
If the prediction had been remotely accurate when it said 700 last year it should be at around 350 this year, and it just isn't.
It's free, but don't expect reliablility... routed IPV6 is definately the way to go.
Of course actually implementing routed ipv6 is rather technical. You get an ISP that does it.. great.. now find a modem that does it.. that's either hacked linksys or a cisco, or a linux box talking PPPoE to a bridged modem like I have - these require knowledge to set up. Then setup RA, which isn't automatic (you need to pick a network from your ISP supplied /48 since RA only works on a /64).
*then* it's plug and play. Mostly. You've still got to learn about ipv6 firewalling (which isn't that different but the icmp options are all changed).
Not really.. They don't index the ipv6 address space and 90% of the google pages are still ipv4 only.
The key is indexing ipv6 sites. Until google start that they haven't 'gone ipv6' at all.
No, they're really not. They don't add any security except a tiny bit of obscurity.
Vodafone do, but they charge *you* for the privilege of them using your own bandwidth to transfer traffic.
I wouldn't be surprised if that's true of the others.. mobile phone companies never miss a chance to rake in more cash.
These are countries that have no problems with providing arms to both sides of a conflict.. so providing both censorship and the means to defeat it is business as usual.
As you hear sometimes.. follow the money - the truth is there.
Something doesn't ring true here.
You started playing your first ever character in March and by July you're level 60+ and haven't yet learned even what an alt is? An experienced player can level that fast, but a new player would struggle.. and as you level you learn now to fight bosses etc. that's why levelling is supposed to be hard.
You do see real newbs at level 60-70.. those are the ones that have bought accounts and don't have the first idea how to do their job as they didn't level with it. They generally get ignored.
I *still* don't 'get' Eve. Played it for a week, so *no* other players online during that time.. the quests sucked (take package to this planet, now take message to that planet, etc. etc.). It struck me as a poor clone of Elite, and Elite was more fun.
Forced grouping sucks. As an ex FFXI player let me tell you I've had enough of that to last a lifetime.
If you *want* to spend 18 hours doing nothing but staring at an avatar with its LFG flag on, then go ahead. I don't pay 15 bucks to do that either.
In fact I was put off from it so much I've never even done so much as an instance in WoW in 3 years.. 100% solo for me.
) Why should anyone who sunk 4+ years into WoW abandon it, there's no need. The game is still offering what it always offered, the people are still around, they managed to avoid pretty much everything that fu..ed up other MMOs in the past, why switch?
Because they're bored.. because the game has changed significantly in the last few years - it's now heavily PvP based whereas that was barely a factor 4 years ago. Because the graphics engine is a good 5 years out of date and performs like crap on a modern graphics card.. because half the playerbase is now level 80 and just sits around waiting for the next expansion..
2) Why should anyone who went away from WoW in disgust play a game that is way too similar to WoW?
That's sort of true. No game should be replicating WoW, just taking some of the best elements and coming up with something new. The ones released so far seem to have taken the *worst* elements.
I'd like to see the US Government try to tax me.. they can swivel for it.
Wow. So what this does is *encourage* spam, but yahoo get a cut of the profits.
Or the third option, they alter their botnets to sniff out centmail registered users and send the spam through that.. 80 year old grannies suddenly get hit with $100,000 email bills and lots of bad publicity ensues.
You're forgetting that most spammers do *not* send email. They have botnets for that.. and the botnets are just naive Windows users. Much as I like the concept of taxing people for not securing their computers it's not exactly fair.
Similarly, the day after this becomes widespread the linux kernel mailing list would have to declare itself bankcrupt. It wouldn't surprise me at all if that shifts a million emails a day.
Wanna bet?
If I was a spammer and this system was a way to get past spam filters, sure as hell I'd find every compromised box with an account on it and relay a few million messages straight through the yahoo mailserver.
Just like that haiku idea that was tried a few years back, which rapidly became a near 100% reliable spam sign as it was too easy to forge.
Actually they're not.. their share of the vote is going up because fewer and fewer people are voting, and members of minority parties are more likely to vote than people who are just voting for one of the mainstream parties, realize the futility of it all, and stop voting.
We have an BNP european councillor. He got fewer votes than last year, but won because nobody else could be arsed to vote.
Hopefully more people will realize that although the system sucks, all the main parties have virtually identical policies and are just snouts in the trough, you need to vote.. because the alternative is worse.