As long as I am actively/daily reading the site, I quite commonly get 15 points daily to spend. Sometimes back to back as soon as I spend the first 15, a new batch is handed out.
I have excellent karma, and have had that for most of my many years on/. I consistently get mod points almost daily, as long as I'm actively reading the site. If life takes over and I only stop by once a week or so, the frequency drops. I always get 15 points to spend.
FLAC is for idiots who think they have superhuman hearing.
FLAC is also for users that want to store the original audio without any losses.
You can always encode and compress the audio again to suit your purposes, but you can't go backwards from a lossy format into a lossless one. Whether this is for permanent future compatibility or because you wish to work with, edit, mix the audio in some way is another story.
But there's no reason to support what is essentially a worldwide standard for losslessly compressed audio, except of course because it doesn't support DRM..
How about doing what has been done in the US, and is being done successfully all over the world:
Let the local government own the network.
Either the local government makes their own infrastructure company for maintenance and development of the network itself, or let an established company do it. The point being of course, that everyone can buy access and then sell services in the network. Whoever runs the network publicly document costs, and charges everyone the same, cost based, non-profit fee.
Meaning you have close to the perfect competitive environment, in a future proof network environment that will benefit the consumer/citizen AND corporations alike, no matter what the current size of the corporation happens to be.
It's proven successful, easy, fast and functional everywhere it's been tried. Why not try it yourselves?
Any chance of you being involved in some form of spaced based show in the near, not-so-near, or entirely not near future at all? I would probably kickstart the hell out of some more Farscape being brought back to life with you as a writer. How about some of that?
Religions aren't things you make up to get around laws in order to steal property.
So it's just something you adhere to for protection when you're caught raping children?
Cool.
Why someone creates a religion or belongs to it in the first place is a complex issue.
I very much doubt their reasons are quite as lofty as we like to imagine though.
You are not forced to sign up with paypal.
Paying works perfectly fine without it.
This is made clear on the site and in several comments to this thread.
Google doesn't suspend Gmail and Picasa when it disables Google+ profile, only Google+ and unfortunately Google Reader gets suspended. And in case of Dylan - well, just don't put anything resembling child porno in Picasa, and you'd be ok.
Now he certainly got all his google services suspended or removed entirely, all due to an image automatically flagged on picasa.
No human oversight, no appeals process or means of proving innocence. He was automatically assumed guilty and data being deleted, services terminated.
That sounds a little bit different from what you're describing.
"... found out why. A Google bot that automatically scans Picasa for illegal images flagged something Marcheschi had posted as child pornography......
The fact that he also broke all traces of the image now kinda makes it suspicious to me. (Not to mention that its prolly copyright infringement too, but that's unrelated).
Clearly the way you got about storing and concealing your child pornography is by creating an on line web album of it on picasa.
Also, I find it very strange indeed that Google can make these claims, highly dangerous claims to make about anyone considering what they can do to your reputation or indeed your life, and then refuse to give you a single reason why they did it. Not even a hint of a reason, just a brick wall.
It's strange how a highly public company that we trust with most of our data can act this way and get away with it, that it in fact can even be legal.
There should be some form of due process or consumer right involved her that couldn't legally be signed away with a simple EULA. Free service or no free service, both parties should have certain obligations as long as they're in business. Whether that business be eyeballs for emails or any other form of relationship, especially a commercial one such as this.
So basically what you're saying is that in spite of having a society that almost in every way favors white males, as long as you can still find instances of prejudice against the favored, privileged men, inequalities is not a problem for you?
Basically what this amounts to is actively discouraging anyone in the technology sector, anywhere in the world, to do business in the USA.
You're clearly showing that what works and is successful in the rest of the world is an unwanted development in your country.
As someone is pointing out, this has reduced, almost eliminated the need for music piracy in a lot of European countries, which apparently isn't something you're interested in either.
On top of that, you're considering not paying the interest on the money you borrowed from the rest of the world.
This would of course end people betting on your country as a safe investment. Money flowing into your economy from the rest of the world appears to be something to avoid as well. Reducing the number of people in your country that can actually pay their mortgage or stay employed at all seems to be no cause for concern either.
The only thing I can really see you doing that would cause your status as an ally and first rate investment opportunity to go into decline any faster, would perhaps be to start senseless wars that ran on for decades mainly to keep the price of oil up.
Because whatever's left in my inbox is a task i've yet to do. Ask tasks are done, mails are moved to an archive folder entirely unsorted which can be easily searched, often tagged in one way or the other. But my inbox remains clean and empty when my work is done.
Then check out the current changes on the PTS, which is evolving every day with user feedback.
They're gearing up for a very decent revamp of the RvR. Some of your points will be adressed there, some look like the will be in the not so distant future.
It won't be perfect, but it'll be another of a lot of steps in the right direction.
The game was where it should've been at launch about 6 months ago, but it took a year and a half to get there. If you ignore that time and pretend that the game is only about a year old, the game is looking pretty decent.
It's still not for everyone and there's a lot of rough edges, but it's certainly worth a second shot if you're at all interested in the PvP aspect of an MMO.
The game actually is quite a lot of fun and it's finally been going in the right direction for the last 8 months or so.
They've focused entirely on the PvP/RvR experience though, so those looking for updates to the PVE aspect of the game should probably look elsewhere.
As for the dull keep-taking in T4, that's being overhauled in the patch that's currently on the test server.
They did a similar overhaul of the end game that's city invasion which turn out to be quite good.
They're definitely on the right track these days, but it be too little too late. I know me and my friends will stick around for a while longer though, there's simply no pvp experience that gets close elsewhere.
Pricing might have a little something to do with it as well.
I believe titles are quite a bit more expensive in at least parts of Europe. Picking up one of the latest Pokemons here in Sweden will set me back about $55. At those prices I expect a pretty fantastic game as it's more than I've spent on any game in the last 10 years. Normally I pick up bargains on Steam or one or two almost-launch titles at just below $50.
I own a DS and I'd like to sample and play quite a number of games, but the DS for me is a much more casual platform and something I'll mostly use when I travel. I gave up sampling games at $55 and gave up the DS altogether, quite a few others went with pirating instead.
I have no clue why Nintendo thinks this sort of pricing is actually anywhere near the perceived worth for these games. We have less disposable income than the average American.
I've been using Gmail since it came out. Except for a few short periods in history, Opera has worked pretty well. For the last...I don't know how many years, it's worked without me noticing a single issue. What exactly are you missing when trying to use Gmail in Opera? It certainly isn't just reading your mail.
Because that's a false dichotomy? They're going to need to go color eventually and there's no reason that research into both cheaper, bigger monochrome displays and color displays can't be done simultaneously.
Yes they will, about the same time as books are forced to go color to meet popular demand.
Of course research can be done into both sets of technology at the same time, I just don't know why you'd want to. Currently, not a single soul is thinking about ditching books in favor of any current technology. Making people even consider picking up a piece of popular electronics rather than a paperback is the holy grail. Why would you want to invest research dollars into anything else?
Why aim for a Zune when you could very well be making an iPod?
Operas philosophy, which I belive is true for other browser as well, is that by default the browser should use some of the available *free* RAM to speed up browsing.
This means that when other applications starts gobbling up RAM, Opera will release the RAM it uses and start reducing its footprint.
This is why I find numbers regarding memory usage to be highly suspicious.
I meant to mod you up but, as I'm sitting with my burnt finger in a cup of cold water, I accidentally modded you down. The only way I know to remedy this is to post and null my mods, I believe.
Sorry about the mis-mod and i wholeheartedly agree with your post. Well put!:)
No, I'd tell them to play the game however they want. The presence of a cheater doesn't change your character, you can just go elsewhere and find your own random monsters.'
That reasoning doesn't sit well with me.
This is an MMO after all. Players, and bots, actions affect the economy and the climate of *your* game. Bots aren't just used to powerlevel. Bots are used to grind money and items and sit through endless pvp battles. These game elements, even when they're not totally overdone, is made extremely frustating by the presence of never-tiring grinding and idling bots that steal your mobs, crowd your areas and make for braindead pvp-compadres. They provide the added service of allowing you to get fisted by the opposite team non-stop for a ten hour pvp bout on your day off or god forbid on a rainy day on your vacation.
Other people actions affect you, just ignoring them won't do much good in an involved MMO.
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As long as I am actively/daily reading the site, I quite commonly get 15 points daily to spend. Sometimes back to back as soon as I spend the first 15, a new batch is handed out.
I have excellent karma, and have had that for most of my many years on /.
I consistently get mod points almost daily, as long as I'm actively reading the site.
If life takes over and I only stop by once a week or so, the frequency drops.
I always get 15 points to spend.
FLAC is for idiots who think they have superhuman hearing.
FLAC is also for users that want to store the original audio without any losses.
You can always encode and compress the audio again to suit your purposes, but you can't go backwards from a lossy format into a lossless one.
Whether this is for permanent future compatibility or because you wish to work with, edit, mix the audio in some way is another story.
But there's no reason to support what is essentially a worldwide standard for losslessly compressed audio, except of course because it doesn't support DRM..
Isn't that exactly what Google Fiber is doing ?
How about doing what has been done in the US, and is being done successfully all over the world:
Let the local government own the network.
Either the local government makes their own infrastructure company for maintenance and development of the network itself, or let an established company do it.
The point being of course, that everyone can buy access and then sell services in the network. Whoever runs the network publicly document costs, and charges everyone the same, cost based, non-profit fee.
Meaning you have close to the perfect competitive environment, in a future proof network environment that will benefit the consumer/citizen AND corporations alike, no matter what the current size of the corporation happens to be.
It's proven successful, easy, fast and functional everywhere it's been tried. Why not try it yourselves?
Any chance of you being involved in some form of spaced based show in the near, not-so-near, or entirely not near future at all?
I would probably kickstart the hell out of some more Farscape being brought back to life with you as a writer. How about some of that?
Religions aren't things you make up to get around laws in order to steal property.
So it's just something you adhere to for protection when you're caught raping children?
Cool.
Why someone creates a religion or belongs to it in the first place is a complex issue.
I very much doubt their reasons are quite as lofty as we like to imagine though.
You are not forced to sign up with paypal. Paying works perfectly fine without it. This is made clear on the site and in several comments to this thread.
Google doesn't suspend Gmail and Picasa when it disables Google+ profile, only Google+ and unfortunately Google Reader gets suspended. And in case of Dylan - well, just don't put anything resembling child porno in Picasa, and you'd be ok.
I know that this goes beyond TFA, but in the TFA the following article is linked: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/bt5akp
Now he certainly got all his google services suspended or removed entirely, all due to an image automatically flagged on picasa. No human oversight, no appeals process or means of proving innocence. He was automatically assumed guilty and data being deleted, services terminated.
That sounds a little bit different from what you're describing.
From the article
"... found out why. A Google bot that automatically scans Picasa for illegal images flagged something Marcheschi had posted as child pornography. .....
The fact that he also broke all traces of the image now kinda makes it suspicious to me. (Not to mention that its prolly copyright infringement too, but that's unrelated).
Clearly the way you got about storing and concealing your child pornography is by creating an on line web album of it on picasa.
Also, I find it very strange indeed that Google can make these claims, highly dangerous claims to make about anyone considering what they can do to your reputation or indeed your life, and then refuse to give you a single reason why they did it. Not even a hint of a reason, just a brick wall.
It's strange how a highly public company that we trust with most of our data can act this way and get away with it, that it in fact can even be legal. There should be some form of due process or consumer right involved her that couldn't legally be signed away with a simple EULA. Free service or no free service, both parties should have certain obligations as long as they're in business. Whether that business be eyeballs for emails or any other form of relationship, especially a commercial one such as this.
So basically what you're saying is that in spite of having a society that almost in every way favors white males, as long as you can still find instances of prejudice against the favored, privileged men, inequalities is not a problem for you?
On top of that, you're considering not paying the interest on the money you borrowed from the rest of the world. This would of course end people betting on your country as a safe investment. Money flowing into your economy from the rest of the world appears to be something to avoid as well. Reducing the number of people in your country that can actually pay their mortgage or stay employed at all seems to be no cause for concern either.
The only thing I can really see you doing that would cause your status as an ally and first rate investment opportunity to go into decline any faster, would perhaps be to start senseless wars that ran on for decades mainly to keep the price of oil up.
Oh wait...
Because whatever's left in my inbox is a task i've yet to do. Ask tasks are done, mails are moved to an archive folder entirely unsorted which can be easily searched, often tagged in one way or the other. But my inbox remains clean and empty when my work is done.
As others have pointed out, the middle mouse button works. Otherwise, ctrl+shift clicking will also open a tab in the background.
It won't be perfect, but it'll be another of a lot of steps in the right direction.
The game was where it should've been at launch about 6 months ago, but it took a year and a half to get there. If you ignore that time and pretend that the game is only about a year old, the game is looking pretty decent. It's still not for everyone and there's a lot of rough edges, but it's certainly worth a second shot if you're at all interested in the PvP aspect of an MMO.
The game actually is quite a lot of fun and it's finally been going in the right direction for the last 8 months or so. They've focused entirely on the PvP/RvR experience though, so those looking for updates to the PVE aspect of the game should probably look elsewhere. As for the dull keep-taking in T4, that's being overhauled in the patch that's currently on the test server. They did a similar overhaul of the end game that's city invasion which turn out to be quite good. They're definitely on the right track these days, but it be too little too late. I know me and my friends will stick around for a while longer though, there's simply no pvp experience that gets close elsewhere.
Pricing might have a little something to do with it as well.
I believe titles are quite a bit more expensive in at least parts of Europe.
Picking up one of the latest Pokemons here in Sweden will set me back about $55.
At those prices I expect a pretty fantastic game as it's more than I've spent on any game in the last 10 years.
Normally I pick up bargains on Steam or one or two almost-launch titles at just below $50.
I own a DS and I'd like to sample and play quite a number of games, but the DS for me is a much more casual platform and something I'll mostly use when I travel.
I gave up sampling games at $55 and gave up the DS altogether, quite a few others went with pirating instead.
I have no clue why Nintendo thinks this sort of pricing is actually anywhere near the perceived worth for these games.
We have less disposable income than the average American.
I've been using Gmail since it came out. Except for a few short periods in history, Opera has worked pretty well. For the last...I don't know how many years, it's worked without me noticing a single issue.
What exactly are you missing when trying to use Gmail in Opera? It certainly isn't just reading your mail.
Because that's a false dichotomy? They're going to need to go color eventually and there's no reason that research into both cheaper, bigger monochrome displays and color displays can't be done simultaneously.
Yes they will, about the same time as books are forced to go color to meet popular demand.
Of course research can be done into both sets of technology at the same time, I just don't know why you'd want to.
Currently, not a single soul is thinking about ditching books in favor of any current technology. Making people even consider picking up a piece of popular electronics rather than a paperback is the holy grail. Why would you want to invest research dollars into anything else?
Why aim for a Zune when you could very well be making an iPod?
My workday just got "slashdotted"...
Gee thanks!
Operas philosophy, which I belive is true for other browser as well, is that by default the browser should use some of the available *free* RAM to speed up browsing.
This means that when other applications starts gobbling up RAM, Opera will release the RAM it uses and start reducing its footprint.
This is why I find numbers regarding memory usage to be highly suspicious.
If you shoot someone breaking into your house with you there, it's probably not murder.
Or maybe it is.
I might be missing something, but I'm not quite sure why you're being modded 'Troll' here, isn't this simply valid and on topic information?
I meant to mod you up but, as I'm sitting with my burnt finger in a cup of cold water, I accidentally modded you down. The only way I know to remedy this is to post and null my mods, I believe.
Sorry about the mis-mod and i wholeheartedly agree with your post. Well put! :)
Bruce Banner did this, like, a million years ago. Changes user color to green. Incompatible with mood stabilizers. Lame.
I was a lot more amused until I realized it didn't actually say 'Perens'.
No, I'd tell them to play the game however they want. The presence of a cheater doesn't change your character, you can just go elsewhere and find your own random monsters.'
That reasoning doesn't sit well with me.
This is an MMO after all. Players, and bots, actions affect the economy and the climate of *your* game. Bots aren't just used to powerlevel. Bots are used to grind money and items and sit through endless pvp battles. These game elements, even when they're not totally overdone, is made extremely frustating by the presence of never-tiring grinding and idling bots that steal your mobs, crowd your areas and make for braindead pvp-compadres. They provide the added service of allowing you to get fisted by the opposite team non-stop for a ten hour pvp bout on your day off or god forbid on a rainy day on your vacation.
Other people actions affect you, just ignoring them won't do much good in an involved MMO.