I wonder how that works, since the government doesn't actually own that money. It is legal tender, provided by the Federal Reserve (which isn't "federal" at all, it's a private bank). It is loaned, at interest, to the government and, by extension, everyone who lives in the USA.
Before we start talking about space flight and getting us all excited, lets get that whole living to 150 years old thing figured out first so we can all enjoy the awesomeness of space travel before we die of over population!
While I generally agree with you, if they did that ALL the time, we wouldn't have stuff from them like the Xbox (and even though I am not a console gamer, I understand the value and contribution to gaming that Microsoft has given by providing an alternative to Sony's once-monopoly on the high-end console market). A lot of people were skeptical and predicted the XBOX would fail when they first announced it, and could have easily turned into a money-pit.
I honestly don't get why anybody would still use Yahoo. The only thing I know people still use it for is fantasy baseball/football/etc. Other than that, there really isn't a reason to stay with them. I have 1 friend who refuses to leave yahoo mail, when infinitely better web based mail solutions exist. Also, Bing and Google have the search market on lockdown. Why would you not use one of those? Any listing from another lesser search engine is going to just get you less complete and/or reliable results.
Say what you will, but I think Yahoo should just slip into the history books along with AOL and Netscape. Even in 2008, I laughed when I saw that Microsoft was going to pay $44Billion for a slowly dying search engine with mediocre webmail. Now since they didn't buy them, they get to laugh all the way to the bank. $44Billion spent on Yahoo would have most likely spelled trouble for even Microsoft, unless they could have somehow turned Yahoo into a money maker (which judging by Steve Ballmer's comments, they wouldn't have).
The real cause of death was that he found an old Dorito 3D chip behind his couch and, like all Dorito's 3D's, it cut the crap out of his mouth and throat and he bled to death.
In my book, "real world testing" doesn't mean "take it home and fiddle around with it as if you're using it."
Agreed. But it also doesn't mean "go get wasted at the bar with the new prototype and then leave it there...AGAIN". UNLESS they are doing it on purpose. Hence, my initial comment.
You conveniently cut off the rest of my sentence. It read: 'But "real world testing" can be done BEFORE going out to the bar and getting wasted enough to leave your phone there...especially if it's a prototype.' The ending is key. I'm not saying that testing shouldn't be done in a bar. But when you are carrying a prototype device that has already once been lost in a bar once before, just last year, you'd think it could be done responsibly or without incident. And is a bar the best place for "real world" tests? I think "real world" tests implies that tests should be done all over the "real world". Seems these testers they are giving these prototypes to have a penchant for going to the bar and forgetting they have a prototype device in their pocket that CAN'T GET LEFT IN THE BAR.
...the German economy is the last stable, and largest, economy in Europe: they haven't been introduced to the FPS yet. They'll be eating Cheetos and shitting in bed pans while screaming "M-M-M-M-Monster Kill!!!!!!" before you know it now.
Wouldn't you think that Apple would have immediately made it against policy to leave Apple grounds with a prototype if they were serious about preventing them from being lost? Unless Apple announces that in accordance with their policy set in place last year, WHEN THE EXACT SAME THING HAPPENED, the employee who lost the phone this time is fired, and then ask the public for assistance in returning of the phone, it is a marketing strategy in my opinion.
You beat me to it. Was just writing to point this out as well. The fact that it was "discovered on the internet" seems pretty shady to me. Way too convenient timing for this to happen considering it's associated with OpenLeaks and that douche DDB. OpenLeaks is a joke and only trying to ride the coattails of Wikileaks while at the same time beating it in the head with a brick to try and take it down. Seems rather counter productive. If your true goal as a leaking site is to leak stuff to show corruption or to help inform the uninformed, then having MORE leaks is good, not the other way around.
I admit to having that urge too. But then I remembered that I can get stuff from newegg in less than 2 days, and that is with standard shipping. It never takes more than 2. And if you can't wait a measly 48 hours to play a video game, you are either an impatient child or you get everything you deserve when you head to a local shop. Also, Steam downloads your game instantly. Faster than than it would take you to head to your local shop in most cases. My steam games never download slower than 2.0 MB/s
This is wasteful corporate stupidity at it's best. First, pay employees to spend time opening factory sealed new games to remove a voucher for a free ~$50 game from a competing service included in something they are selling. Then, when people find out about it, claim to have done nothing wrong at first, alienating and forcing people to question their trust in GameStop, and then after people have ample time to stew over it, follow it up by sheepishly offering a free $50 game purchase AND a Buy 2 get 1 Free purchase to help "earn back your trust and confidence in the GameStop experience". Which winds up costing GameStop the original cost of the employees pay to spend time removing the vouchers PLUS the $50 game PLUS the possible additional free used game (which most won't use and will just use the Free voucher, thereby netting GameStop no positive sales from the offer), all to fight the THEORETICAL purchase of a game from OnLine.
Brilliant.
But really, anyone who still shops @ brick and mortar stores is asking for this sort of thing. Steam and NewEgg don't remove vouchers. Nor do they require gas $ to take a trip to the store. Or charge tax. Or require you to deal with annoying sales people. Used games and console games? Yea you can get those online too. *sigh*
But even the "unlimited" plan is capped @ 5 GB. How is that unlimited? And that is going away so no new customers can sign up for it. 4G speeds (which are pretty decent) plus any cap is just trolling for overage fees by Verizon. They refuse to upgrade their infrastructure to support more downloading at increased speeds. I deal with Verizon directly all the time because I work for Public Safety in my city, and some of the crap they pull on their own network amazes me to this day.
Right. Because IP's can't be spoofed or masked. Trying to combat gold farmers and botters in MMO's is like trying to kill mosquitoes on a warm summer night: the longer you stay outside, the more you are going to get bit. For every 1 that flies into the bug zapper, 10 more show up to replace them, attracted by the bright shiny light that just killed their friend.
I thought about doing that but to be honest it was too much trouble. Time Warner is the only cable broadband in the area because they own all the telephone poles and cable in the whole county. And they aren't willing to let other companies come in and rent space on their poles because they'd rather have a monopoly on the market. Probably make more $ that way.
Not complaining. Just comparing. @ 1.7 MB/s that is about 13.6 Megabits/s. Also remember I am paying for a TURBO connection. Meaning I am paying extra for more speed. Standard Time Warner connections max out around 1.0 MB/s (8 Megabits/s) but still cost around $50/month. For less money than TW, you can get a STANDARD tier connection on Optimum and exceed 2.0 MB/s down stream, in my experience, and for still less than my Turbo connection, Optimum Boost gets you over 3.0 MB/s (24 Megabits/s), usually bursting up past 4.0 MB/s. The Optimum bandwidth has been 50-150% faster in my experiences. And remember, I'm not trying to just arbitrarily talk-up Optimum's service. I can't even get it where I am located! But I wish I could.
No. The second Moon was the home to the Lunarians. The Lunarians are a race of beings from a world destroyed which became the asteroid belt, and are identified by a moon-shape crest on their foreheads. They created this artificial moon, resting until a time they believe their kind can co-exist with humans. But the whole second moon thing got screwed up for everyone, because after Cecil whooped Zeromus' ass, the Lunarians decided to throw that moon into gear and get the hell away from us.
That most likely has more to do with there being less subscribers on an ADSL line than cable. Also, if you are hitting your max down speed advertised, you are most likely very close to a DSLAM, where people who are a few more kilometers out would not reach that maximum. Also, even if you are on the most current ADSL standard, your maximum theoretical downstream bandwidth still can't excceed 24 Mbit/s (w/ ADSL2+) which I doubt you even have since there are very few ADSL2+ services, especially in the US. And @ 24 Mbits/s, you are still in the realm of standard-tier cable services, especially "boost" or "turbo" cable, which have a far superior upload speed as well.
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I wonder how that works, since the government doesn't actually own that money. It is legal tender, provided by the Federal Reserve (which isn't "federal" at all, it's a private bank). It is loaned, at interest, to the government and, by extension, everyone who lives in the USA.
...are idiots.
If you dislike Pandora, try Grooveshark.
Before we start talking about space flight and getting us all excited, lets get that whole living to 150 years old thing figured out first so we can all enjoy the awesomeness of space travel before we die of over population!
While I generally agree with you, if they did that ALL the time, we wouldn't have stuff from them like the Xbox (and even though I am not a console gamer, I understand the value and contribution to gaming that Microsoft has given by providing an alternative to Sony's once-monopoly on the high-end console market). A lot of people were skeptical and predicted the XBOX would fail when they first announced it, and could have easily turned into a money-pit.
I honestly don't get why anybody would still use Yahoo. The only thing I know people still use it for is fantasy baseball/football/etc. Other than that, there really isn't a reason to stay with them. I have 1 friend who refuses to leave yahoo mail, when infinitely better web based mail solutions exist. Also, Bing and Google have the search market on lockdown. Why would you not use one of those? Any listing from another lesser search engine is going to just get you less complete and/or reliable results.
Say what you will, but I think Yahoo should just slip into the history books along with AOL and Netscape. Even in 2008, I laughed when I saw that Microsoft was going to pay $44Billion for a slowly dying search engine with mediocre webmail. Now since they didn't buy them, they get to laugh all the way to the bank. $44Billion spent on Yahoo would have most likely spelled trouble for even Microsoft, unless they could have somehow turned Yahoo into a money maker (which judging by Steve Ballmer's comments, they wouldn't have).
The real cause of death was that he found an old Dorito 3D chip behind his couch and, like all Dorito's 3D's, it cut the crap out of his mouth and throat and he bled to death.
In my book, "real world testing" doesn't mean "take it home and fiddle around with it as if you're using it."
Agreed. But it also doesn't mean "go get wasted at the bar with the new prototype and then leave it there...AGAIN". UNLESS they are doing it on purpose. Hence, my initial comment.
You conveniently cut off the rest of my sentence. It read: 'But "real world testing" can be done BEFORE going out to the bar and getting wasted enough to leave your phone there...especially if it's a prototype.' The ending is key. I'm not saying that testing shouldn't be done in a bar. But when you are carrying a prototype device that has already once been lost in a bar once before, just last year, you'd think it could be done responsibly or without incident. And is a bar the best place for "real world" tests? I think "real world" tests implies that tests should be done all over the "real world". Seems these testers they are giving these prototypes to have a penchant for going to the bar and forgetting they have a prototype device in their pocket that CAN'T GET LEFT IN THE BAR.
But "real world testing" can be done BEFORE going out to the bar and getting wasted enough to leave your phone there...especially if it's a prototype.
...the German economy is the last stable, and largest, economy in Europe: they haven't been introduced to the FPS yet. They'll be eating Cheetos and shitting in bed pans while screaming "M-M-M-M-Monster Kill!!!!!!" before you know it now.
Wouldn't you think that Apple would have immediately made it against policy to leave Apple grounds with a prototype if they were serious about preventing them from being lost? Unless Apple announces that in accordance with their policy set in place last year, WHEN THE EXACT SAME THING HAPPENED, the employee who lost the phone this time is fired, and then ask the public for assistance in returning of the phone, it is a marketing strategy in my opinion.
You beat me to it. Was just writing to point this out as well. The fact that it was "discovered on the internet" seems pretty shady to me. Way too convenient timing for this to happen considering it's associated with OpenLeaks and that douche DDB. OpenLeaks is a joke and only trying to ride the coattails of Wikileaks while at the same time beating it in the head with a brick to try and take it down. Seems rather counter productive. If your true goal as a leaking site is to leak stuff to show corruption or to help inform the uninformed, then having MORE leaks is good, not the other way around.
I admit to having that urge too. But then I remembered that I can get stuff from newegg in less than 2 days, and that is with standard shipping. It never takes more than 2. And if you can't wait a measly 48 hours to play a video game, you are either an impatient child or you get everything you deserve when you head to a local shop. Also, Steam downloads your game instantly. Faster than than it would take you to head to your local shop in most cases. My steam games never download slower than 2.0 MB/s
This is wasteful corporate stupidity at it's best. First, pay employees to spend time opening factory sealed new games to remove a voucher for a free ~$50 game from a competing service included in something they are selling. Then, when people find out about it, claim to have done nothing wrong at first, alienating and forcing people to question their trust in GameStop, and then after people have ample time to stew over it, follow it up by sheepishly offering a free $50 game purchase AND a Buy 2 get 1 Free purchase to help "earn back your trust and confidence in the GameStop experience". Which winds up costing GameStop the original cost of the employees pay to spend time removing the vouchers PLUS the $50 game PLUS the possible additional free used game (which most won't use and will just use the Free voucher, thereby netting GameStop no positive sales from the offer), all to fight the THEORETICAL purchase of a game from OnLine.
Brilliant.
But really, anyone who still shops @ brick and mortar stores is asking for this sort of thing. Steam and NewEgg don't remove vouchers. Nor do they require gas $ to take a trip to the store. Or charge tax. Or require you to deal with annoying sales people. Used games and console games? Yea you can get those online too. *sigh*
But even the "unlimited" plan is capped @ 5 GB. How is that unlimited? And that is going away so no new customers can sign up for it. 4G speeds (which are pretty decent) plus any cap is just trolling for overage fees by Verizon. They refuse to upgrade their infrastructure to support more downloading at increased speeds. I deal with Verizon directly all the time because I work for Public Safety in my city, and some of the crap they pull on their own network amazes me to this day.
Joey. I need you to drop your viruses, go after the worm. You're the closest. It's root slash period workspace slash period garbage period.
Herpes, the new arch nemesis of Heart Disease?
Right. Because IP's can't be spoofed or masked. Trying to combat gold farmers and botters in MMO's is like trying to kill mosquitoes on a warm summer night: the longer you stay outside, the more you are going to get bit. For every 1 that flies into the bug zapper, 10 more show up to replace them, attracted by the bright shiny light that just killed their friend.
...when you have employees like them?
I thought about doing that but to be honest it was too much trouble. Time Warner is the only cable broadband in the area because they own all the telephone poles and cable in the whole county. And they aren't willing to let other companies come in and rent space on their poles because they'd rather have a monopoly on the market. Probably make more $ that way.
Not complaining. Just comparing. @ 1.7 MB/s that is about 13.6 Megabits/s. Also remember I am paying for a TURBO connection. Meaning I am paying extra for more speed. Standard Time Warner connections max out around 1.0 MB/s (8 Megabits/s) but still cost around $50/month. For less money than TW, you can get a STANDARD tier connection on Optimum and exceed 2.0 MB/s down stream, in my experience, and for still less than my Turbo connection, Optimum Boost gets you over 3.0 MB/s (24 Megabits/s), usually bursting up past 4.0 MB/s. The Optimum bandwidth has been 50-150% faster in my experiences. And remember, I'm not trying to just arbitrarily talk-up Optimum's service. I can't even get it where I am located! But I wish I could.
No. The second Moon was the home to the Lunarians. The Lunarians are a race of beings from a world destroyed which became the asteroid belt, and are identified by a moon-shape crest on their foreheads. They created this artificial moon, resting until a time they believe their kind can co-exist with humans. But the whole second moon thing got screwed up for everyone, because after Cecil whooped Zeromus' ass, the Lunarians decided to throw that moon into gear and get the hell away from us.
Thanks for nothing, Lunarians.
That most likely has more to do with there being less subscribers on an ADSL line than cable. Also, if you are hitting your max down speed advertised, you are most likely very close to a DSLAM, where people who are a few more kilometers out would not reach that maximum. Also, even if you are on the most current ADSL standard, your maximum theoretical downstream bandwidth still can't excceed 24 Mbit/s (w/ ADSL2+) which I doubt you even have since there are very few ADSL2+ services, especially in the US. And @ 24 Mbits/s, you are still in the realm of standard-tier cable services, especially "boost" or "turbo" cable, which have a far superior upload speed as well.
I think you are talking Mbps (Megabits), my figures are real-world figures, listed in MBps (Megabytes). 1 megabit = 0.125 megabytes