Or just make it a utility since the tax payers are already paying for it.
Here in Texas we got one company that manages the actual power lines then resellers that sell directly to the consumer and have to compete with each other.
I live in the heart of Houston, one of the biggest cities in the world. My only high speed option is a local reseller monopoly that charges $90/mth for around 5mbps real world speed. Seems they make exclusivity deals with local Apt Complexes, and change names every few years due to the bad rep they keep getting from their piss poor service.
As much as they may want to, they simply cannot take on every case that crops up. They have to go for higher profile ones, at least in part because it helps get them donations that they obviously use to take on other cases; plus they no doubt vet a case before agreeing to take it on, just because someone is decrying the end of free speech does not mean that there are not other facts in play that they simply aren't telling people in the news articles.
I was not going to go into the difficulties of IP Addresses being used as an identifier for piracy as it's pretty much assumed anyone reading this probably has already read 100+ other articles about just that thing and I was not going to waste my time and effort re-explaining it.
It's pretty clear from the summary what they want.
They want the IP Addresses then will cross check then against their list of IP Addresses of people who have pirated stuff then go after those guys.
Sure the cases may be dismissed, but some will pay and others will hire a lawyer out of their own pocket to fight it. Either way he pirates who visited the site will pay.
Plus we've already given up on the rest of the world as some heathen Atheist haven, why would we care if they make porn for us to jack off to after church?
In any case yes, it's been widely reported that it will NOT have a real money auction house and will NOT require an always on internet connection like the PC which is a crock of shit given that they said it needed it since the servers would handle some portion of the game; but of course being on the PS3 most mid range PCs now are way past them.
Exactly... that was the same thing Blizzard said about Diablo 3, it needs to be always on for some server work when released on the PC; then came out on the Xbox and it's got an offline mode. Only thing they needed it for on the PC was for DRM and the auction house.
> your PC is not doing the backend work for the city simulation - its cloud based now.
Which is a crock of shit.
They found that in reality your computer was sending around 40MB/hr and receiving about 3MB/hr back. That 3MB can't be much more then basic calculations, which if it can drive the graphics it could easily do some extra back-end calculations.
YEa I read an article recently about how the college degree is the new HS diploma.
Lot's of places that would not and did not previously need them, now do. THe job is the same, it's just degrees are so common why not get someone with a degree over someone without for the same pay?
YEa, back in the Clinton years they got tax money from users and tax breaks from the Government with the expectation that they would beef up the infrastructure to keep us as #1... Now we've fallen way behind and they pocketed the money.
The thing is though, it's the higher ups who make the decisions and THEY don't know any better.
Who in their right mind would let some CCNA Sys Admin with 30yrs of experience make a recommendation on buying Cisco Routers, when you could have some PHB whose having lunch with the salesperson?
There are capable people that probably did voice their objection, there just isn't any benefit for the company or decision maker to act on that objection.
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Also I think it was BMW or someone who is looking into 3D printing using metal.
It's not as strong but it's still printed metal.
Or just make it a utility since the tax payers are already paying for it.
Here in Texas we got one company that manages the actual power lines then resellers that sell directly to the consumer and have to compete with each other.
Well also don't forget we have already paid for this service via taxes to these companies for decades, since the early Clinton years.
All those little fees got paid to the service providers to keep the network updated, in the end though they just pocketed the money.
Don't you have to show ID when picking them up?
If it's prescribed for Joe Bob then the pharmacist will want to see the ID of Joe Bob.
I live in the heart of Houston, one of the biggest cities in the world.
My only high speed option is a local reseller monopoly that charges $90/mth for around 5mbps real world speed. Seems they make exclusivity deals with local Apt Complexes, and change names every few years due to the bad rep they keep getting from their piss poor service.
Even then you hear the same complaints at Reddit as well.
Is it really that hard to just ignore an article?
EFF has limited resources, money, man power.
As much as they may want to, they simply cannot take on every case that crops up. They have to go for higher profile ones, at least in part because it helps get them donations that they obviously use to take on other cases; plus they no doubt vet a case before agreeing to take it on, just because someone is decrying the end of free speech does not mean that there are not other facts in play that they simply aren't telling people in the news articles.
Now you're just being pedantic.
I was not going to go into the difficulties of IP Addresses being used as an identifier for piracy as it's pretty much assumed anyone reading this probably has already read 100+ other articles about just that thing and I was not going to waste my time and effort re-explaining it.
They are going after visitor IP Addresses and comparing it to the list of pirating IP Addresses they already have.
It's pretty clear from the summary what they want.
They want the IP Addresses then will cross check then against their list of IP Addresses of people who have pirated stuff then go after those guys.
Sure the cases may be dismissed, but some will pay and others will hire a lawyer out of their own pocket to fight it. Either way he pirates who visited the site will pay.
And therein lies the problem with what Yahoo was doing.
They had few performance metric and feel that by having the seats warm they will get more productivity.
So they just moved the slackers from the home to the office.
YEa, lot's of America's porn comes from overseas.
Plus we've already given up on the rest of the world as some heathen Atheist haven, why would we care if they make porn for us to jack off to after church?
Or maybe I just got the console wrong?
In any case yes, it's been widely reported that it will NOT have a real money auction house and will NOT require an always on internet connection like the PC which is a crock of shit given that they said it needed it since the servers would handle some portion of the game; but of course being on the PS3 most mid range PCs now are way past them.
http://www.joystiq.com/2013/02/25/diablo-3-on-ps3-and-ps4-will-allow-offline-play/
"You can have four people on the same screen - no split-screen, we just zoom the camera out. Or if you're offline,"
Sorry it was PS3 and yes, they stated very clearly it will NOT require an always on internet connection like the PC does.
Exactly... that was the same thing Blizzard said about Diablo 3, it needs to be always on for some server work when released on the PC; then came out on the Xbox and it's got an offline mode. Only thing they needed it for on the PC was for DRM and the auction house.
> your PC is not doing the backend work for the city simulation - its cloud based now.
Which is a crock of shit.
They found that in reality your computer was sending around 40MB/hr and receiving about 3MB/hr back. That 3MB can't be much more then basic calculations, which if it can drive the graphics it could easily do some extra back-end calculations.
At the tail end, so we're talking like a year and a couple months... big whoop.
Games are still being taken down when new ones are released.
> The root functionality in this version is that people divvy up chunks of a region and build.
Exactly, the game is made with multiplayer in mind.
You can play it without any other players, but the mechanics then become annoying and are obtuse.
List of servers EA took down in '11, notice there are a few '10 games on there.
http://flawedgaming.com/2011/07/12/ea-shutting-down-15-game-servers-in-august-and-october-2011/
They don't... standard RF one would get say 500ft, and this thing was around 1750ft.
Worst case for a hobbyist, it was flying and got out of range and just kept going and was sheer luck it got so close to this plane.
YEa I read an article recently about how the college degree is the new HS diploma.
Lot's of places that would not and did not previously need them, now do. THe job is the same, it's just degrees are so common why not get someone with a degree over someone without for the same pay?
I have always wondered why places like Libraries and many stores are open during the time when most people are at school or work?
My bank keeps such short hours that I have to take off work early just to visit.
Exactly...
If some niche channel can't support itself why should I have to pay out to support them when I don't use them?
YEa, back in the Clinton years they got tax money from users and tax breaks from the Government with the expectation that they would beef up the infrastructure to keep us as #1... Now we've fallen way behind and they pocketed the money.
The thing is though, it's the higher ups who make the decisions and THEY don't know any better.
Who in their right mind would let some CCNA Sys Admin with 30yrs of experience make a recommendation on buying Cisco Routers, when you could have some PHB whose having lunch with the salesperson?
There are capable people that probably did voice their objection, there just isn't any benefit for the company or decision maker to act on that objection.