It doesn't recall a physical "ship it back to the factory" recall. A guy on a NYC based list I'm on has one - he mentioned planning to go down to a Holiday Inn near Wall St. to get his patched.
Prosecutor Jerry Wilson says he isn't abusing the law, which defines chemical weapons of mass destruction as "any substance that is designed or has the capability to cause death or serious injury" and contains toxic chemicals.
Doesn't gasoline qualify? If so, it's time to start prosecuting the entire oil and petrochemical industry, is it not? Oh wait, they've got buddies in high places.:P
'If mail filters send out one message for every copy of Sobig.F received, they are in effect doubling the amount of traffic. This makes them a part of the problem, not a part of the solution.'
Not quite. Fortunately the alert emails are (usually) just text, and not some several-kilobyte attachment. They may be doubling the messages, but certainly nowhere *near* the bandwidth used.
One would hope the anti-virus tool folks could build in ways to sniff out "Oh, this is a SoBig-laden email" and *not* send out the completely useless alert to someone's address that happened to be the random "From" address used.
...the music the RIAA puts out *could* be used by pedophiles to draw kids into their homes for easy molestation. Therefore, the RIAA is guilty of attempted child molestation by association.
1) The proposed system is by mileage, not by driving time. Don't see your first point.
2) Of course there's a reason to buy a compact over an SUV still - gas mileage. Even if you're not paying $.XX per gallon from the get go, you're still paying for more gallons for the miles driven.
True, but considering the sheer size of the game city/world, no one's going to be able (or want to!) go into every building, every floor, every room.
I saw this at E3.
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I know the publisher's community guy who's now on the TMO project. Managed to get a private demo of the game while at E3 a couple of weeks ago.
Some of the neat stuff: * The game world will be freaking HUGE. They illustrated this by pointing at a piece of the wall in the demo room, which was a bunch of square pieces, each about... hmm, 1.5 ft on each side. "This is the size of the game world." Then the fellow uses his finger and draws off one corner of the square wall piece, and says "This is the size of Sydney." i.e. game world city will be at least 20x the square footage of Sydney, Australia. * "Bullet Time" is in - and beyond that, the multiple-blurry effect as well (i.e. when an agent dodges the gunshots on the roof of the first movie, or when Neo/Smith are fighting). How they'll keep the time continuity between the two chars (the target will experience Bullet Time, the attacking character won't), I'm not sure yet. * Every damn building in the game world will (so they say) be fully accessable - not just empty boxes for looks. 80-story buildings you see across town will have 80 floors, that you can get up into, rooms, "desks with Coke cans", etc.
How much of all of this they can pull off, we'll see.
Nice to see folks keeping Myth alive.
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Back in the day, I was often near the top of the bungie.net ladder (even had an eclipse for a bit a couple of times), was a bungie.net volunteer admin, and contributed to one of the main Myth-centric websites... it's nice to see that folks are keeping Myth going and extending it. Sweet.:)
I played the ATITD beta a couple of times...
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... a couple of months back. While there's no combat - not even PvE (critter-whackin') - it's still a very, VERY involved game. It's the achiever's/tradeskiller's wet dream come true. I'd play it come release, if it wasn't such an addicting game. I don't *want* to be growing roots in front of my computer.:)
Don't knock it 'til you've tried it, gang. I believe there's going to be a free trial made available.
"Jessop cautioned that GRid is not designed, nor is it intended for, keeping track of songs that wind up on online file-sharing networks, a major source of music piracy."
All this is is a way to track online sales of individual tracks. Nothing to do with CDs, P2P, etc.
...if nobody (companies offering software, etc.) pre-checked the "send me spam" choices for their users. Let the users truly check these options *for themselves* if they want.
Yes, it will, but it's a mere shadow of it's normal self. The schedule listings (what you get with the subscription) are, IMHO, one of the core goodies. You can still manually schedule recordings and watch them, but they all show up as (this isn't verbatim) "Manual Recording (date/time)" in the recorded program listing, as opposed to what the show name is. Makes finding the one show out of however many you've got sitting a real pain.
On the HDTV thing... I wonder if they'll make this available to the old Series 1 units. I kind of doubt it... I imagine there's hardware issues involved. *sigh* Hopefully they'll offer some sort of half-decent trade-up program though.
...maybe for most folks, but not everyone. Some of us remember that there was a MIB comic years before - the same comic the movie is (somewhat) based on. I met the guy behind it (Lowell Cunningham) eons ago, back in Atlanta in a now-extinct bookstore. It was an independent B comic... no Marvel/DC/etc.
U.S. District Court Judge Marsha Pechman issued a preliminary injunction last December blocking use of "Express Lane" unless it was significantly modified. In granting the injunction, Pechman ruled the Amazon.com patent was probably valid and infringed by Barnes&Noble.com. The judge found Amazon.com would be harmed during the 1999 Christmas shopping season without the injunction.
Now... how would Amazon be "harmed"? I see two scenarios:
1) Customer goes to Amazon first. Either they're looking to buy, or they're price shopping. If they went to Amazon to buy, they're not going to know/care B&N has a one-click option. They're going to buy from Amazon. If they're price shopping, they don't CARE about one-click hoo-ha. They care about the price.
2) Customer goes to B&N first. Again, if they went to B&N, they're either looking to buy right then, or they're price shopping. I sincerly doubt anyone would be on B&N's site, see their "Express Lane" option, and say to themselves "Gosh! If it wasn't for this option, I'd be shopping at Amazon!" They went to B&N for OTHER reasons.
I love how bloodsuc... er, lawyers love to try and portray Joe Consumer as so completely gullible and idiotic that they can't figure out the difference between Amazon and B&N (or FuckedCompany and idealab!, etc etc).
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...be able to play more than *one* game...? :P
It doesn't recall a physical "ship it back to the factory" recall. A guy on a NYC based list I'm on has one - he mentioned planning to go down to a Holiday Inn near Wall St. to get his patched.
That's because SoBig was supposedly set to quit spewing out crap on September 16th.
From the article:
:P
Prosecutor Jerry Wilson says he isn't abusing the law, which defines chemical weapons of mass destruction as "any substance that is designed or has the capability to cause death or serious injury" and contains toxic chemicals.
Doesn't gasoline qualify? If so, it's time to start prosecuting the entire oil and petrochemical industry, is it not? Oh wait, they've got buddies in high places.
I'll only go as high as $50 billion and not a penny more!
'If mail filters send out one message for every copy of Sobig.F received, they are in effect doubling the amount of traffic. This makes them a part of the problem, not a part of the solution.'
Not quite. Fortunately the alert emails are (usually) just text, and not some several-kilobyte attachment. They may be doubling the messages, but certainly nowhere *near* the bandwidth used.
One would hope the anti-virus tool folks could build in ways to sniff out "Oh, this is a SoBig-laden email" and *not* send out the completely useless alert to someone's address that happened to be the random "From" address used.
"Economically, I don't believe there is going to be much of a market for resold music...We just don't see it as that much of an issue," he said.
Gee, tell that to the used CD stores I've bought dozens and dozens of CDs from over the years.
what if they want to look into your wallet? is that ok?
You're not using your wallet to surf porn on the 'net, are you? Unless you're plugging in a credit card #...
Slight difference between your use of your personal property (wallet) and your use of THEIR property (computer).
...the music the RIAA puts out *could* be used by pedophiles to draw kids into their homes for easy molestation. Therefore, the RIAA is guilty of attempted child molestation by association.
That coin has two sides, RIAA.
Darl McBride and the Iraqi Information Minister?
:)
*You* be the judge.
Keep It Simple, Stupid.
Gas tax is the easiest, simplest, error-free way to generate revenue.
Doing a GPS or other device-required method introduces points of failure, ways to cheat the system, etc. etc.
1) The proposed system is by mileage, not by driving time. Don't see your first point.
2) Of course there's a reason to buy a compact over an SUV still - gas mileage. Even if you're not paying $.XX per gallon from the get go, you're still paying for more gallons for the miles driven.
True, but considering the sheer size of the game city/world, no one's going to be able (or want to!) go into every building, every floor, every room.
I know the publisher's community guy who's now on the TMO project. Managed to get a private demo of the game while at E3 a couple of weeks ago.
Some of the neat stuff:
* The game world will be freaking HUGE. They illustrated this by pointing at a piece of the wall in the demo room, which was a bunch of square pieces, each about... hmm, 1.5 ft on each side. "This is the size of the game world." Then the fellow uses his finger and draws off one corner of the square wall piece, and says "This is the size of Sydney." i.e. game world city will be at least 20x the square footage of Sydney, Australia.
* "Bullet Time" is in - and beyond that, the multiple-blurry effect as well (i.e. when an agent dodges the gunshots on the roof of the first movie, or when Neo/Smith are fighting). How they'll keep the time continuity between the two chars (the target will experience Bullet Time, the attacking character won't), I'm not sure yet.
* Every damn building in the game world will (so they say) be fully accessable - not just empty boxes for looks. 80-story buildings you see across town will have 80 floors, that you can get up into, rooms, "desks with Coke cans", etc.
How much of all of this they can pull off, we'll see.
SB Catacombs is my site. :/
Back in the day, I was often near the top of the bungie.net ladder (even had an eclipse for a bit a couple of times), was a bungie.net volunteer admin, and contributed to one of the main Myth-centric websites... it's nice to see that folks are keeping Myth going and extending it. Sweet. :)
... a couple of months back. While there's no combat - not even PvE (critter-whackin') - it's still a very, VERY involved game. It's the achiever's/tradeskiller's wet dream come true. I'd play it come release, if it wasn't such an addicting game. I don't *want* to be growing roots in front of my computer. :)
Don't knock it 'til you've tried it, gang. I believe there's going to be a free trial made available.
Met the man once, years ago, when he and Sterling were doing the Difference Engine book tour... he was completely hammered drunk. Classically funny. :)
"Jessop cautioned that GRid is not designed, nor is it intended for, keeping track of songs that wind up on online file-sharing networks, a major source of music piracy."
All this is is a way to track online sales of individual tracks. Nothing to do with CDs, P2P, etc.
...if nobody (companies offering software, etc.) pre-checked the "send me spam" choices for their users. Let the users truly check these options *for themselves* if they want.
You can.
http://www.9thtee.com/
Look for the TurboNet card. Cheap, a snap to install. I don't even have a home phone line anymore.
Yes, it will, but it's a mere shadow of it's normal self. The schedule listings (what you get with the subscription) are, IMHO, one of the core goodies. You can still manually schedule recordings and watch them, but they all show up as (this isn't verbatim) "Manual Recording (date/time)" in the recorded program listing, as opposed to what the show name is. Makes finding the one show out of however many you've got sitting a real pain.
On the HDTV thing... I wonder if they'll make this available to the old Series 1 units. I kind of doubt it... I imagine there's hardware issues involved. *sigh* Hopefully they'll offer some sort of half-decent trade-up program though.
...maybe for most folks, but not everyone. Some of us remember that there was a MIB comic years before - the same comic the movie is (somewhat) based on. I met the guy behind it (Lowell Cunningham) eons ago, back in Atlanta in a now-extinct bookstore. It was an independent B comic... no Marvel/DC/etc.
U.S. District Court Judge Marsha Pechman issued a preliminary injunction last December blocking use of "Express Lane" unless it was significantly modified. In granting the injunction, Pechman ruled the Amazon.com patent was probably valid and infringed by Barnes&Noble.com. The judge found Amazon.com would be harmed during the 1999 Christmas shopping season without the injunction.
Now... how would Amazon be "harmed"? I see two scenarios:
1) Customer goes to Amazon first. Either they're looking to buy, or they're price shopping. If they went to Amazon to buy, they're not going to know/care B&N has a one-click option. They're going to buy from Amazon. If they're price shopping, they don't CARE about one-click hoo-ha. They care about the price.
2) Customer goes to B&N first. Again, if they went to B&N, they're either looking to buy right then, or they're price shopping. I sincerly doubt anyone would be on B&N's site, see their "Express Lane" option, and say to themselves "Gosh! If it wasn't for this option, I'd be shopping at Amazon!" They went to B&N for OTHER reasons.
I love how bloodsuc... er, lawyers love to try and portray Joe Consumer as so completely gullible and idiotic that they can't figure out the difference between Amazon and B&N (or FuckedCompany and idealab!, etc etc).
from the Myth I bungie.net days, by chance...?