No really a new idea, these are on the XBOX 360 as well. I have a few lying around already, in fact the precision screwdriver set I bought last year has one that looks like it will work just fine. Any regular DIY is not going to be deterred by this change. So the real loss here is the $0.002 cost to apple for pentalobular screws over phillips.
Easier to just block the signals in class rooms, or provide special testing rooms with said technology. Probably a lot cheaper than an analytical service.
The relevant patent is US Patent No. 6,034,652 on an "attention manager for occupying the peripheral attention of a person in the vicinity of a display device".
I pretty sure you could apply this definition to TVs, Dashboards (Cars, Planes, etc), Phones, Planes, Toasters, Tickers (Banks, ESPN, Weather Channel, Ads), Operating Systems (Windows Sidebar), Signs (Street, Construction, Hwy Advisory), and on and on.
So good luck with that. I'm still waiting for someone to patent storing data in a binary format.
1.23 is a joke, they must be sampling retired people or something. I have FIOs with fiber right to the house. 20 Mbps all the time rock solid for 4 years with no outages. I've had busts speeds in excess of 30Mbps. This is not to be confused with DSL, this is fiber with an ONT and battery backup in the garage or in a box on the side of your house.
They offer 50/25 Mbps in my area as well, but I cant' see the need. I have download in the gigs/hour range as it is.
A further consequence of the small player base is that CCP, the company that makes Eve, needs to make sure that they can retain as many players as possible and not run the risk of making the player base so angry with any mistake so as to lose a significant amount of players.
As a player of Eve for several years I find this comment amusing to say the least. CCP, their devs, and the elitist jerks who are the 5-6% of the player base that control everything constantly either go out of the way to alienate, make life exceedingly difficult, or turn a blind eye on player established hazing that kills off a majority of the new player base whenever a new expansion comes out. Ever wonder why the active online player levels drop off from 50-60k at expansions and a month or two later barely hover around 30-32k?
There are conspiracy theories that Eve's growth is groomed this way on purpose so that they don't have to expand the horsepower needed to support a larger player base. I'm not sure how much of that I'd believe, but after several years its still the same core group in control and the occasional cannon fodder.
But as you said, don't hold your breath on the CSM's elevated status bearing any fruit. CSM is largely ignored and I doubt this will change that short of some profound revelation. The next expansion will roll out soon and population will expand, markets will spike and get turned on their head for a couple months, the gank teams and competitions (hulkaggedon) will open for another season of mayhem and then everything will go back to its tightly controlled and highly calculated norm.
So if I purchased a first gen PS3 for $600 I can march down to my local retailer and demand a full refund of the original purchase or will I be compensated for the cost of the current iteration?
"My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Microsoft ban 600,000 consoles last night. I guess it's pretty serious."
Will tomorrow bring us a story how MS's holiday goal is 1,000,000? Internet journalism at it's finest.
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An entrepreneur might take advantage of this situation and start offering VPN services.
Sorry just pulled out my XBOX kit, and they are Torx, my bad
No really a new idea, these are on the XBOX 360 as well. I have a few lying around already, in fact the precision screwdriver set I bought last year has one that looks like it will work just fine. Any regular DIY is not going to be deterred by this change. So the real loss here is the $0.002 cost to apple for pentalobular screws over phillips.
Easier to just block the signals in class rooms, or provide special testing rooms with said technology. Probably a lot cheaper than an analytical service.
http://www.thesignaljammer.com/products/Prison-Cell-Phone-Jammer-62W.html
"Our most popular prison cell phone jammer, and also a favorite for learning institutions."
Which is why I'd make a lousy patent troll.
From TFA:
The relevant patent is US Patent No. 6,034,652 on an "attention manager for occupying the peripheral attention of a person in the vicinity of a display device".
I pretty sure you could apply this definition to TVs, Dashboards (Cars, Planes, etc), Phones, Planes, Toasters, Tickers (Banks, ESPN, Weather Channel, Ads), Operating Systems (Windows Sidebar), Signs (Street, Construction, Hwy Advisory), and on and on.
So good luck with that. I'm still waiting for someone to patent storing data in a binary format.
1.23 is a joke, they must be sampling retired people or something. I have FIOs with fiber right to the house. 20 Mbps all the time rock solid for 4 years with no outages. I've had busts speeds in excess of 30Mbps. This is not to be confused with DSL, this is fiber with an ONT and battery backup in the garage or in a box on the side of your house.
They offer 50/25 Mbps in my area as well, but I cant' see the need. I have download in the gigs/hour range as it is.
A further consequence of the small player base is that CCP, the company that makes Eve, needs to make sure that they can retain as many players as possible and not run the risk of making the player base so angry with any mistake so as to lose a significant amount of players.
As a player of Eve for several years I find this comment amusing to say the least. CCP, their devs, and the elitist jerks who are the 5-6% of the player base that control everything constantly either go out of the way to alienate, make life exceedingly difficult, or turn a blind eye on player established hazing that kills off a majority of the new player base whenever a new expansion comes out. Ever wonder why the active online player levels drop off from 50-60k at expansions and a month or two later barely hover around 30-32k?
There are conspiracy theories that Eve's growth is groomed this way on purpose so that they don't have to expand the horsepower needed to support a larger player base. I'm not sure how much of that I'd believe, but after several years its still the same core group in control and the occasional cannon fodder.
But as you said, don't hold your breath on the CSM's elevated status bearing any fruit. CSM is largely ignored and I doubt this will change that short of some profound revelation. The next expansion will roll out soon and population will expand, markets will spike and get turned on their head for a couple months, the gank teams and competitions (hulkaggedon) will open for another season of mayhem and then everything will go back to its tightly controlled and highly calculated norm.
So if I purchased a first gen PS3 for $600 I can march down to my local retailer and demand a full refund of the original purchase or will I be compensated for the cost of the current iteration?
"CARS is funded by Volkswagen, Bosch, Honda, Toyota and Nissan."
Audi being a subsidiary of VW.
Made my afternoon, thank you.
"My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Microsoft ban 600,000 consoles last night. I guess it's pretty serious."
Will tomorrow bring us a story how MS's holiday goal is 1,000,000? Internet journalism at it's finest.
http://team-xecuter.com/forums/showthread.php?t=51518
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