...that IF Duke Nukem Forever ever ACTUALLY sees a full release then the world as we know it is DOOMED? It will end... just like that. Gone. In a hail of hookers and blackjack.
...how it's possible to go over 250GB/month without filesharing (which, you know, is illiegal and stuff). And if you ARE somehow managing to go over that limit, then maybe a "home/personal" broadband connection is not for you, and you should be getting a business class internet connection instead.
I'm a very heavy gamer, I am constantly downloading demos/patches and I have never ever been cautioned by my ISP despite being on a 40GB/month cap which I know I regularly go over, with game downloads regularly being several GB in size. (I'm on Sky BB in the UK).
Another Antivirus software package (COMODO) has caused problems of this nature for me at work - it updated, asked to reboot and on rebooting we were just presented with a black screen, the desktop wouldn't load. Fortunately we were able to reboot into safe mode and just uninstall it until there was an update issued, but it was still part of a morning lost...
While it's impossible to test every configuration ever, I'd have thought that something that would affect EVERY system in an office using this software should have been picked up during testing...
Well you learn from your mistakes. If it happens again, there will be hell to pay, I'm sure.
...that the problem is not with the facilities provided (in this case WiFi/Internet) but instead with the people abusing the facilities?
If the media companies want these things to be policed they THEY should be paying for it and it should be policed in a way that does not impact services in any way (e.g. slowing things down).
Where money is involved, you are guilty until proven innocent, it seems
I read this over the weekend and went mental.
This seriously upset me.
I'm off to a massive LAN in the UK in 3 weeks and there's talk of Activision being there to sponsor/promote an MW2 tournament to be held there. (the LAN runs from 13th-16th November, just a few days after the game launches).
If they are, they are getting 1500 gamers in their faces telling then to take their shitty console game and FUCK OFF. I'm seriously tempted to run around with people spotting people playing it and removing it from their PCs.
We'll stick with CoD4.
This also affects the Gamer Server Providers too... alot of them have had preorders for MW2 servers up for a while and now they will have to cancel and refund every single preorder, all becuase some stupid asshat wants to turn my PC into a games console.
I finished University at the University of Southampton in England 3 years ago.
There were two IT departments, one for the whole University, which used only Windows, and then a separate one for all of the CS/Electronics students.
I was a CS student and as most of my lecturers preferred either Mac/Linux, basically UNIX-based systems. Because of this we had a 50/50 split of Windows and Linux machines in our computing lab (running Red Hat Linux). We then had various Linux-based servers that we could screw with in pretty much any way we wanted, and use to host various bits (like mysql databases) that we could use with our own personal webspace.
If it wasn't for the fact that some programs we needed to use for our courses ran on Windows only, I think the whole computing lab would have been using Linux:)
Consequently, the very first lectures we had were a primer on basic Linux usage. I needed it too as I'd never used Linux in my life at that point:D
Being from England, the one thing that always confused me is why you should pay to receive a call at all...
If I am getting some unsolicited call from someone trying to sell me phone insurance I DO NOT want to be charged for it.
Is there some kind of process where you can call your operator and have them recover from the people calling you the cost that YOU incur through receiving unsolicited calls???
The summary mentions a "large marketing campaign" for Bing... I had never heard of it since the/. article that went up on the day it was released and since then have never used it nor seen an ad for it or read anything about it anywhere.
Am I missing something????
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...that IF Duke Nukem Forever ever ACTUALLY sees a full release then the world as we know it is DOOMED? It will end... just like that. Gone. In a hail of hookers and blackjack.
...how it's possible to go over 250GB/month without filesharing (which, you know, is illiegal and stuff). And if you ARE somehow managing to go over that limit, then maybe a "home/personal" broadband connection is not for you, and you should be getting a business class internet connection instead. I'm a very heavy gamer, I am constantly downloading demos/patches and I have never ever been cautioned by my ISP despite being on a 40GB/month cap which I know I regularly go over, with game downloads regularly being several GB in size. (I'm on Sky BB in the UK).
Another Antivirus software package (COMODO) has caused problems of this nature for me at work - it updated, asked to reboot and on rebooting we were just presented with a black screen, the desktop wouldn't load. Fortunately we were able to reboot into safe mode and just uninstall it until there was an update issued, but it was still part of a morning lost... While it's impossible to test every configuration ever, I'd have thought that something that would affect EVERY system in an office using this software should have been picked up during testing... Well you learn from your mistakes. If it happens again, there will be hell to pay, I'm sure.
...that the problem is not with the facilities provided (in this case WiFi/Internet) but instead with the people abusing the facilities? If the media companies want these things to be policed they THEY should be paying for it and it should be policed in a way that does not impact services in any way (e.g. slowing things down). Where money is involved, you are guilty until proven innocent, it seems
I read this over the weekend and went mental. This seriously upset me. I'm off to a massive LAN in the UK in 3 weeks and there's talk of Activision being there to sponsor/promote an MW2 tournament to be held there. (the LAN runs from 13th-16th November, just a few days after the game launches). If they are, they are getting 1500 gamers in their faces telling then to take their shitty console game and FUCK OFF. I'm seriously tempted to run around with people spotting people playing it and removing it from their PCs. We'll stick with CoD4. This also affects the Gamer Server Providers too... alot of them have had preorders for MW2 servers up for a while and now they will have to cancel and refund every single preorder, all becuase some stupid asshat wants to turn my PC into a games console.
I finished University at the University of Southampton in England 3 years ago. There were two IT departments, one for the whole University, which used only Windows, and then a separate one for all of the CS/Electronics students. I was a CS student and as most of my lecturers preferred either Mac/Linux, basically UNIX-based systems. Because of this we had a 50/50 split of Windows and Linux machines in our computing lab (running Red Hat Linux). We then had various Linux-based servers that we could screw with in pretty much any way we wanted, and use to host various bits (like mysql databases) that we could use with our own personal webspace. If it wasn't for the fact that some programs we needed to use for our courses ran on Windows only, I think the whole computing lab would have been using Linux :)
Consequently, the very first lectures we had were a primer on basic Linux usage. I needed it too as I'd never used Linux in my life at that point :D
Being from England, the one thing that always confused me is why you should pay to receive a call at all... If I am getting some unsolicited call from someone trying to sell me phone insurance I DO NOT want to be charged for it. Is there some kind of process where you can call your operator and have them recover from the people calling you the cost that YOU incur through receiving unsolicited calls???
The summary mentions a "large marketing campaign" for Bing... I had never heard of it since the /. article that went up on the day it was released and since then have never used it nor seen an ad for it or read anything about it anywhere.
Am I missing something????