Actually you're wrong. I had to stay in hotels for a few weekends while I worked in the (remote) data center. Guess what? I paid cash at the front desk! Wow, what a concept. Simultaneously I raised stink that I had to do this in the first place and made it clear to management, that this is not acceptable. To which they eventually responded and took care of the hotel from their side. I also got reimbursed for expenses already occurred.
Actually, I'm right. I work for a multi-billion dollar, global corporation that does not believe in making life easy for it's employees. We're given corporate Visa spending cards, but they can NOT be used for travel or entertainment purposes, so we have to pay all our travel and entertainment expenses out of our pocket and wait to get reimbursed for expenses the following week. Period. That really sucks when your boss comes to you and says "pack your stuff, you're going to Germany/Switzerland/India/New Zealand/Belgium/Etc. next week" and you don't happen to have that kind of cash money laying around.
You really are a fucking moron, aren't you? What an asinine comment...
Maybe, but at least I have balls enough to log into the system and use a (pseudo)name as opposed to be an ignorant AC like yourself.
My brother was convicted of credit card fraud. He was using his Commodore 64 to dial into credit reporting companies and look up people's credit history and then using that information to order stuff over the phone.
The police came to our house and took his computer, floppy drive, modem, hundreds of floppy disks, TV he used as a monitor, phone that was plugged into the modem, phone cable that was connected between the modem and the wall, an MPS-801 dot matrix printer, an old Vic-20 computer that was in the closet, all the game cartridges for the Vic-20, an ancient 300 baud portable terminal that was in the closet, a cordless phones that was in the closet, a cordless phone that was in *my* bedroom, and more.
Out of all that, we got the TV set back. Nothing else.
The computer equipment was donated to the local zoo and the rest was sold at a police auction we were never notified of.
Don't assume that the police will only take items related to the case or that you'll ever see them again if they do.
Simple solution: Use Mozilla, and turn off unrequested popups. I haven't seen one in months.
Or if you want to keep using the IE engine for compatibility, you can try out Crazy Browser (http://www.crazybrowser.com/). It's a tabbed browser using the IE engine and it can easily disable popup ads.
Or you can install Proxomitron (http://www.proxomitron.org), it's a wonderful free http proxy that filters out most ads including the annoying pop ups.
I use both when I'm forced to use Windows (at work).
Man Claims Development of Invulnerability Fabric
John Q. Public writes, "I just developed a new kind of fabric that renders the wearer invulnerable. I can be found at 123 Main Street, Smalltown, USA and I'll be wearing a suit made from this fabric in case anyone who reads this wants to drive by and take a shot at me."
What about the people who fight and die over who gets to be the dealer in your neighborhood?
What about the people who die trying to illegally smuggle drugs into the country?
Unless you're making your own drugs for your own personal use, you're contributing to a large criminal network that does result in the death of many people every day.
My second point would be - what on earth is this for?
I was thinking the exact same thing. Although I don't particularly like Apple computers, they do have characteristics that make them ideal for certain industries (specificially the publishing industry) but why would you ever need/want an Apple brand server?
What does having an Apple server gain you that having an Intel/Linux server wouldn't?
Not trying to be a smart ass (honest!) just curious...
Based on what I could find online, Meridian 59 was launched in Sept. 1996. UO didn't start winning awards until 1997, but I can't find a launch date for it.
I was pretty sure that I played Meridian 59 *before* I participated in the beta for UO, because I ran into a friend from Meridian 59 in UO.
Your $10-15 per month covers not only the fees for the servers and bandwidth, but for monthly additions in the form of new items, new areas to explore, new monsters, etc. At least that's how Anarchy Online and Asheron's Call justify their monthly subscription. That means that the companies have to pay artists, 3D modelers, programmers, story writers, etc. each month to keep your interest in the game.
EverQuest, OTOH, charges you the same for a monthly fee and makes you pay extra for upgrade packs.
$10-15 sounds like a lot, but considering before I got into MMORPGs, I used to spend a lot more than $170 ($10 x 12 months + $50 game) per year on game software because I would get bored with it so quickly, the $10 charge now seems pretty cheap.
The irony of it, at least as I remember it, was that it played Disney's Pirates of the Carribean theme ("Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me!") over the screen that reminded you to not use it for copying software for illegal purposes...
How about charging some nominal yet affordable fee?
I'd gladly pay $1 - $3 to download a utility like Bearshare or Kazaa that is completely spyware free.
How much can the spyware people be paying per download?
I prefer to use Bearshare simply because they give the me the option to opt out of installing the adware... they make you feel guilty about it, but they give you the option.
Funny you would mention this. I brought this issue to the attention of our legal dept and some of our core IT people who contacted Microsoft, and here's the response we got from the evil empire...
"Yes- Windows XP EULA does not prohibit end users from using third-party remote access applications. We are working on evaluating the Product Use rights to determine if further clarification on this issue is necessary on this issue. Our goal is to enable a customer to conduct a single interactive user session at a time from a remote device, whether the customer chooses to use the Microsoft Remote Desktop, Remote Access and NetMeeting technologies or third party remote access software."
I worked for BestBuy for about 60 days many years ago, and was told on a Saturday evening to be sure to bring a white shirt to work on Sunday.
Sunday morning I was given a micro-cassette recorder and was told to change into the white shirt and head off to a local competitor (H.H. Gregg's) to record all the prices on equipment that we sold at BestBuy as well.
Then when I got back, I had to fill out a form of all the items I had seen, compare our prices to their prices, and if necessary print up new signs with prices that matched our competitor.
Kind of sad that they would arrest someone for doing something that they pay their employees to do!
I have with MPEG-2. A friend had a Hi-8 camcorder tape of him playing with his dogs (when they were still alive - the dogs, not my friend) that he wanted to transfer to a digital format.
I had just recently purchased and installed an AIW Radeon 8500DV on my machine running Win2K and thought this would be a perfect opportunity to check it out.
I captured at 720x480 at around 30fps (IIRC) in MPEG-2 format. I used Cyberlink's PowerDirector Pro software (free with my DVD burner) rather than the crappy Ulead software that ATI packages with the card and it turned out great.
I then used that data file to burn a SVCD (Super Video CD) in MPEG-1 (480x480) format and a standard video DVD in MPEG-2 (720x480) format, both of which turned out with much better quality than I would have ever expected.
If there were any dropped frames, they were not visible to my untrained eye. My friend and his wife were both very happy with the quality of the video.
I have also transferred video from my JVC DV Camcorder with the included Firewire ports, and it's just as easy to use.
Again, I recommend using the Cyberlink software over the Ulead software that comes with the card, but then when was the last time that the SE (special edition) softare that came packed with hardware was any good anyways?
...rather than giving a convicted felon a government-enforced monopoly
Especially a monopoly that will gladly track all your credit card information, shopping habits, etc... Does anyone else think that maybe in return for giving this contract to MS, that MS might in turn give the gov. some of the other Passport information back to them in return?
Slashdot Mirror
Actually you're wrong. I had to stay in hotels for a few weekends while I worked in the (remote) data center. Guess what? I paid cash at the front desk! Wow, what a concept. Simultaneously I raised stink that I had to do this in the first place and made it clear to management, that this is not acceptable. To which they eventually responded and took care of the hotel from their side. I also got reimbursed for expenses already occurred.
Actually, I'm right. I work for a multi-billion dollar, global corporation that does not believe in making life easy for it's employees. We're given corporate Visa spending cards, but they can NOT be used for travel or entertainment purposes, so we have to pay all our travel and entertainment expenses out of our pocket and wait to get reimbursed for expenses the following week. Period. That really sucks when your boss comes to you and says "pack your stuff, you're going to Germany/Switzerland/India/New Zealand/Belgium/Etc. next week" and you don't happen to have that kind of cash money laying around.
You really are a fucking moron, aren't you? What an asinine comment...
Maybe, but at least I have balls enough to log into the system and use a (pseudo)name as opposed to be an ignorant AC like yourself.
Spoken like someone who's employer doesn't require them to pay all travel expenses out of their own pocket and then wait for reimbursement.
Or someone who lives in a small shack in the mountains and writes manifestos and sends explosive packages through the mail.
will the cops come and take all my phones away?
My brother was convicted of credit card fraud. He was using his Commodore 64 to dial into credit reporting companies and look up people's credit history and then using that information to order stuff over the phone.
The police came to our house and took his computer, floppy drive, modem, hundreds of floppy disks, TV he used as a monitor, phone that was plugged into the modem, phone cable that was connected between the modem and the wall, an MPS-801 dot matrix printer, an old Vic-20 computer that was in the closet, all the game cartridges for the Vic-20, an ancient 300 baud portable terminal that was in the closet, a cordless phones that was in the closet, a cordless phone that was in *my* bedroom, and more.
Out of all that, we got the TV set back. Nothing else.
The computer equipment was donated to the local zoo and the rest was sold at a police auction we were never notified of.
Don't assume that the police will only take items related to the case or that you'll ever see them again if they do.
Simple solution: Use Mozilla, and turn off unrequested popups. I haven't seen one in months.
Or if you want to keep using the IE engine for compatibility, you can try out Crazy Browser (http://www.crazybrowser.com/). It's a tabbed browser using the IE engine and it can easily disable popup ads.
Or you can install Proxomitron (http://www.proxomitron.org), it's a wonderful free http proxy that filters out most ads including the annoying pop ups.
I use both when I'm forced to use Windows (at work).
Guess I should mention a crazy little thing call sarchasm now...
Sarchasm: (n) The gap between reality and the information implied.
Future Slashdot story:
Man Claims Development of Invulnerability Fabric
John Q. Public writes, "I just developed a new kind of fabric that renders the wearer invulnerable. I can be found at 123 Main Street, Smalltown, USA and I'll be wearing a suit made from this fabric in case anyone who reads this wants to drive by and take a shot at me."
The greatet right given is the right to be wrong...
And the greatest gift is a free education, wherein you should have learned that 'greatet' is supposed to have an 'S' in it.
/me hopes he didn't spell anything incorrectly and ends up looking like even more of an ass than he deserves
Access to the ROMs requiers a membership of the Palm OS Developer Program. to bad...
Gee, when I signed up for the Palm OS Developer Program it was free and only took a very short while.
It's not a terribly big inconvenience...
What about the people who fight and die over who gets to be the dealer in your neighborhood?
What about the people who die trying to illegally smuggle drugs into the country?
Unless you're making your own drugs for your own personal use, you're contributing to a large criminal network that does result in the death of many people every day.
/gets down off his soapbox
My second point would be - what on earth is this for?
I was thinking the exact same thing. Although I don't particularly like Apple computers, they do have characteristics that make them ideal for certain industries (specificially the publishing industry) but why would you ever need/want an Apple brand server?
What does having an Apple server gain you that having an Intel/Linux server wouldn't?
Not trying to be a smart ass (honest!) just curious...
Based on what I could find online, Meridian 59 was launched in Sept. 1996. UO didn't start winning awards until 1997, but I can't find a launch date for it.
I was pretty sure that I played Meridian 59 *before* I participated in the beta for UO, because I ran into a friend from Meridian 59 in UO.
Compaq has the very popular iPaq line of PPCs, HP has the less popular Jornada line.
Will they continue to make both, or will one get dropped in favor of the other?
Your $10-15 per month covers not only the fees for the servers and bandwidth, but for monthly additions in the form of new items, new areas to explore, new monsters, etc. At least that's how Anarchy Online and Asheron's Call justify their monthly subscription. That means that the companies have to pay artists, 3D modelers, programmers, story writers, etc. each month to keep your interest in the game. EverQuest, OTOH, charges you the same for a monthly fee and makes you pay extra for upgrade packs. $10-15 sounds like a lot, but considering before I got into MMORPGs, I used to spend a lot more than $170 ($10 x 12 months + $50 game) per year on game software because I would get bored with it so quickly, the $10 charge now seems pretty cheap.
I'm pretty sure that Meridian 59 came out before UO and it was a graphical MUD and it was 3D. It was crappy 3D, but it was 3D.
I imagine you're referring to the RPG they had on their online service
*cough cough geek alert* it was called Shadows of Yserbius
Further proof that Slashdot is the root of all evil.
Wrong.
Money is root of all evil.
Send me $9.95 for additional information.
I think it was called "Mirror" IIRC.
The irony of it, at least as I remember it, was that it played Disney's Pirates of the Carribean theme ("Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me!") over the screen that reminded you to not use it for copying software for illegal purposes...
How about charging some nominal yet affordable fee?
I'd gladly pay $1 - $3 to download a utility like Bearshare or Kazaa that is completely spyware free.
How much can the spyware people be paying per download?
I prefer to use Bearshare simply because they give the me the option to opt out of installing the adware... they make you feel guilty about it, but they give you the option.
Funny you would mention this. I brought this issue to the attention of our legal dept and some of our core IT people who contacted Microsoft, and here's the response we got from the evil empire...
"Yes- Windows XP EULA does not prohibit end users from using third-party remote access applications. We are working on evaluating the Product Use rights to determine if further clarification on this issue is necessary on this issue. Our goal is to enable a customer to conduct a single interactive user session at a time from a remote device, whether the customer chooses to use the Microsoft Remote Desktop, Remote Access and NetMeeting technologies or third party remote access software."
Wow, that's a scary story!
I worked for BestBuy for about 60 days many years ago, and was told on a Saturday evening to be sure to bring a white shirt to work on Sunday.
Sunday morning I was given a micro-cassette recorder and was told to change into the white shirt and head off to a local competitor (H.H. Gregg's) to record all the prices on equipment that we sold at BestBuy as well.
Then when I got back, I had to fill out a form of all the items I had seen, compare our prices to their prices, and if necessary print up new signs with prices that matched our competitor.
Kind of sad that they would arrest someone for doing something that they pay their employees to do!
I have with MPEG-2. A friend had a Hi-8 camcorder tape of him playing with his dogs (when they were still alive - the dogs, not my friend) that he wanted to transfer to a digital format.
I had just recently purchased and installed an AIW Radeon 8500DV on my machine running Win2K and thought this would be a perfect opportunity to check it out.
I captured at 720x480 at around 30fps (IIRC) in MPEG-2 format. I used Cyberlink's PowerDirector Pro software (free with my DVD burner) rather than the crappy Ulead software that ATI packages with the card and it turned out great.
I then used that data file to burn a SVCD (Super Video CD) in MPEG-1 (480x480) format and a standard video DVD in MPEG-2 (720x480) format, both of which turned out with much better quality than I would have ever expected.
If there were any dropped frames, they were not visible to my untrained eye. My friend and his wife were both very happy with the quality of the video.
I have also transferred video from my JVC DV Camcorder with the included Firewire ports, and it's just as easy to use.
Again, I recommend using the Cyberlink software over the Ulead software that comes with the card, but then when was the last time that the SE (special edition) softare that came packed with hardware was any good anyways?
We need a new moderation tag "-1: Quit looking in my windows and telling everyone about my life"
Of course, that would dispute the reassuring reminder that "no information about your PC is being sent to Microsoft" (or something like that).
...rather than giving a convicted felon a government-enforced monopoly
Especially a monopoly that will gladly track all your credit card information, shopping habits, etc... Does anyone else think that maybe in return for giving this contract to MS, that MS might in turn give the gov. some of the other Passport information back to them in return?
How much do you need and where do I send the check? Or would it be easier to just FedEx you a box of cash?