Tell your "favorite hosting service" to pull their dick out of your ass.
With the volume envisioned here, you should pay no more than about 10-15c per gigabyte, plus server costs, which you'd only need one server for that volume, it'd easily handle it.
So you're going to let your 12 year old self that later in life he has a complete and total mental collapse?
Not very nice to him, you'll get him all depressed and he'll kill himself.
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Statistics and damn lies, a man once said.
Ok, they're seven times this, and twice that. Now, is that because there's more than 7 times as many of them? What is the percentage in each group?
Here's a quote from you that seems indicative of the interpretation of your statistics:
"In fact, there are more white high school students who have used crystal methamphetamine (the most addictive drug on the streets) than there are black students who smoke cigarettes."
That's a total number comparison, which I suspect all of your numbers are.
If there are 100 white students in the sample, and 10 black students, and 3 of the black students smoke crack, while 21 of the white students smoke crack, why that makes whitey 7 times more likely to be a crack smoker now doesn't it?
Please don't quote racist stats (one way or the other) without properly quoting them.
Except that it WAS Hollywood schtick. You can't objectively look at this movie, see the changes and tell me that it's NOT hollywood schtick to make the heroes flawed, the hobbits and Gimli comedy relief, and give Aragorn a "love interest".
Not to mention all the MUCH LARGER plot changes that were made for no apparent reason other than Hollywood can't touch anything without making it shit.
Perhaps the 35,000 illegally copied music disks was actually 20000, but quite a few of them were Britney Spears and Eminem disks, so they are "effectively" 2 disks each, unlike the Garth Brooks disks, which are only effectively.65 disks.
Calm down Junior, I didn't disagree with you. My point was related - it has to do with Verants unchecked greed. 8 free zones doesn't excuse them, it might as well be zero.
He has a VERY valid point - EQ makes a TON of profit, every month. MORE than enough to justify a lot of new content, every month and still have a ridiculous amount of profit. Do they do it? Not when I was playing.
If you named what, 8 zones that were free over the X years that EQ has been out - don't you think that's a bit pathetic? How many hundreds of millions of dollars later, and 8 free zones?
It's just sheer greed that keeps these bastards charging for expansions - they know they can, so they do. It's not like the cost of the expansions development isn't paid for after quite a bit less than one month of fees.
The next generation of MOGs will have to turn to a better competitive model - the client will be free, with a free 3day-1wk trial, and they will make their money on the fees. Charging for the box is just greedy.
Vigilante justice would be killing him and all his immediate family, which would be Oh, so sad. Especially if they wrote spammer on his forehead. And stuffed his mouth full of junk mail. Yes, that would be bad.
And it's some of the poorest writing I've ever seen.
Every episode I've watched there's been some cheezy Hollywood bullshit.. Like the flipping car that runs into the propane tank and explodes, etc, etc..
One major problem - stop thinking megabyte. Raw costs for a GIG of transfer are something like 10-20c for these big guys. I'm a small fish and I pay less than 50c per.
Saying "per megabyte" is playing into their hands. Start saying "per gigabyte".
If Federal legislation gets passed that causes all of the scummy little spammers to move their operations offshore, or to stop spamming, that puts them all in other, easily definable regions, now doesn't it?
China suddenly becomes even more of a hotbed for spammers than it is now? Let's see how they like it when every RBL out there blacklists all of their IP blocks. I think they'd get that corrected pretty fast.
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Signs and Unbreakable were awful. Especially Signs. I didn't think you could get Mel Gibson to act in B movies any more, but he did it.
I've been thinking the same thing myself.
Perhaps a hybrid SMTP/SMTP-New server, but with the SMTP half by default doing the whitelist-only (TMPA?) thing.
That way you get backwards compatibility, and in the whitelist message you can bug people emailing you to upgrade their mail servers.
Pay those corrupt police a little more to kill the spammers.
Tell your "favorite hosting service" to pull their dick out of your ass.
With the volume envisioned here, you should pay no more than about 10-15c per gigabyte, plus server costs, which you'd only need one server for that volume, it'd easily handle it.
Cheers,
Backov
So you're going to let your 12 year old self that later in life he has a complete and total mental collapse?
Not very nice to him, you'll get him all depressed and he'll kill himself.
Statistics and damn lies, a man once said.
Ok, they're seven times this, and twice that. Now, is that because there's more than 7 times as many of them? What is the percentage in each group?
Here's a quote from you that seems indicative of the interpretation of your statistics:
"In fact, there are more white high school students who have used crystal methamphetamine (the most addictive drug on the streets) than there are black students who smoke cigarettes."
That's a total number comparison, which I suspect all of your numbers are.
If there are 100 white students in the sample, and 10 black students, and 3 of the black students smoke crack, while 21 of the white students smoke crack, why that makes whitey 7 times more likely to be a crack smoker now doesn't it?
Please don't quote racist stats (one way or the other) without properly quoting them.
Cheers,
Backov
So why should I opt out?
Note to poster: Slashdot is not a homogenous community. There are people that read/post that could give a rats ass about the MPAA/RIAA.
Not all nerd were created equal, so clue in.
Except that it WAS Hollywood schtick. You can't objectively look at this movie, see the changes and tell me that it's NOT hollywood schtick to make the heroes flawed, the hobbits and Gimli comedy relief, and give Aragorn a "love interest".
Not to mention all the MUCH LARGER plot changes that were made for no apparent reason other than Hollywood can't touch anything without making it shit.
Peter Jackson: "Pah, that fool Tolkien couldn't write his way out of a paper bag! Faramir is boring, let's kick him up a notch!"
I agree, horrible mistake. And from the sounds of it, PJs head got WAY big this movie.
Cheers,
Backov
Perhaps the 35,000 illegally copied music disks was actually 20000, but quite a few of them were Britney Spears and Eminem disks, so they are "effectively" 2 disks each, unlike the Garth Brooks disks, which are only effectively .65 disks.
Cheers,
Backov
We can only hope and pray.
Pray with us now, Children.
Calm down Junior, I didn't disagree with you. My point was related - it has to do with Verants unchecked greed. 8 free zones doesn't excuse them, it might as well be zero.
Cheers,
Backov
He has a VERY valid point - EQ makes a TON of profit, every month. MORE than enough to justify a lot of new content, every month and still have a ridiculous amount of profit. Do they do it? Not when I was playing.
If you named what, 8 zones that were free over the X years that EQ has been out - don't you think that's a bit pathetic? How many hundreds of millions of dollars later, and 8 free zones?
It's just sheer greed that keeps these bastards charging for expansions - they know they can, so they do. It's not like the cost of the expansions development isn't paid for after quite a bit less than one month of fees.
The next generation of MOGs will have to turn to a better competitive model - the client will be free, with a free 3day-1wk trial, and they will make their money on the fees. Charging for the box is just greedy.
Cheers,
Backov
And to think, when I advocate the violent murder of spammers, I get modded as flamebait.
Cheers,
Backov
Poetic Justice.
Vigilante justice would be killing him and all his immediate family, which would be Oh, so sad. Especially if they wrote spammer on his forehead. And stuffed his mouth full of junk mail. Yes, that would be bad.
Is a great concept, with great acting.
And it's some of the poorest writing I've ever seen.
Every episode I've watched there's been some cheezy Hollywood bullshit.. Like the flipping car that runs into the propane tank and explodes, etc, etc..
EVERY SINGLE EPISODE.
To compare it to Firefly is an insult to Firefly.
Seriously, how many times do we need to have the same damn article on slashdot in less than a week.
Article Mod: -1 Redundant. Really Redundant.
5.60 a minute.. That sounds like you got hit by a porn dialer. If you do your internet access by phone, that's probably what it was.
Cheers,
Backov
Wow, what a bad attempt at a solution..
So basically, you want to take the 1/4 of 1% of COMPLETE MORONS in the world that respond to spam - and somehow make them not morons?
Isn't a much simpler solution simply to "remove" the spammers - and by remove, I mean painfully and messily kill them.
Yes, I do advocate this.
Cheers,
Backov
Please provide your email, I will make sure you get plenty of gems in the rough.
Dumbass.
The more you contribute to the problem, the more you pay for the solution.
Sounds a lot more rational now doesn't it?
Cheers,
Backov
One major problem - stop thinking megabyte. Raw costs for a GIG of transfer are something like 10-20c for these big guys. I'm a small fish and I pay less than 50c per.
Saying "per megabyte" is playing into their hands. Start saying "per gigabyte".
Cheers,
Backov
Now put this into perspective. At decent today bandwidth prices, that puts your (raw bandwidth) cost to the company at ~$642 (.50c per gig).
;>
Now, it's likely you cost them money. But think about the other 95% that made them money.
Cheers,
Backov
Easy one really.
If Federal legislation gets passed that causes all of the scummy little spammers to move their operations offshore, or to stop spamming, that puts them all in other, easily definable regions, now doesn't it?
China suddenly becomes even more of a hotbed for spammers than it is now? Let's see how they like it when every RBL out there blacklists all of their IP blocks. I think they'd get that corrected pretty fast.
Cheers,
Backov