This is the so-manieth post about cheating in single player mode gets you banned.
No, cheating in single player mode does NOT get you banned. It's allowed, been implemented and done.
Cheating to get ACHIEVEMENTS however, is an entirely different matter. Since you're bypassing the built-in system that when you cheat (which can be a hell-lot-of-fun) achievements are disabled for you... It's honestly not _that_ hard to see the difference between those two.
True, but it's all a bit one-sided... In July 2009 the US owed China 772 _billion_. Good thing they lack morality enough to loan hundreds of millions, but have just enough to crack down on protectionism. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_public_debt
It works for Android, none of the consumers know and purposefully buy Android, they just buy 'a' smartphone that's not a Blackberry and not an iPhone. Nobody knows RIM, iOS, Android with all the versions, etc. Only the technical people do, and we hardly make up or even affect the consumer market (or Linux would've made it a _long_ time ago)
I wonder what this will do to the development of Chrome OS, as now Android is also a tablet operating system, what will the market be for Chrome OS? I hope they're not shooting for desktop applications...
Also, no WiFi as of yet (and as far as I can tell no release date set either). I wonder what this will do to battery life, and well, everything else. Surfing on 3G is acceptable on my phone when I'm stuck in traffic, at home I tend never to use my phone because of the slow connection.
Sure, they're losing marketshare in general, but sales keep going up in numbers, they haven't slowed down. Hardly something I would worry about.
Also, because Android happens to be on a bunch of phones people use, doesn't mean it's 'winning' any sort of battle. The battle is entirely up to the fans if you ask me, Apple doesn't much care, their sales are going up. And working as a consultant in a couple of large corporations, people will have either a Blackberry and be happy, an iPhone and be happy/wanting a Blackberry or an Android-based mobile and not caring. The people in the last category don't really know they use the 'competitor' to iOS, it just 'happened to be' on the phone they got from IT when they picked it from a selection. I've yet to meet a non technical profile who conciously chose an Android based phone. Whereas I meet tons who consciously chose an iPhone or Blackberry...
The whole Android - iOS debate is pretty senseless in the way that Apple doesn't see declining sales numbers, people who use Android based phone (generally) don't know they do, unless they're techie (and trust me, you're in the minority) and the marketplace _really_ is big enough for Android, iOS and RIM to coexist...
Personally I have an iPhone, which I enjoy using. I wouldn't care if I were given a Blackberry or an Android based phone instead. Most people wouldn't.
In Belgium all Bachelor IT studies have an intership in the last half year or year before graduating.
They're unpaid, though included in your schooling so no harm done there. In most of the cases the interns are hired as full employees. For companies this just is common sense. They shorten the official trial period a new employee has to go through by the duration of the intership.
The company where I work now I was able to get promoted a year before schedule, and since I worked here 3 interns were hired as employees, 2 more interns will start in Q1/2010 and those will likely be hired when they finish their internship (assuming they don't screw up;))
I don't know about the US of course, but taxes on employees is ridiculously high in Belgium, so a 3 or 6 months free employee is a great way to start their training and put them on new projects where the technology still has to be discovered. This then gives the intern a step up on other people as they spent their internship exploring and working with the new technology, without being bothered by a full planning with regular work on clients.
I doubt if the appearance suddenly inspired a lot of people to switch to Linux. Doesn't this basically mean that the Linux oriented crowd is the one going for Netbooks whereas the usual Windows/Mac crowd is sticking to 'regular' laptops and desktops?
Of course doing a study on what the Netbook users used prior to getting a Netbook would be next to pointless as the survey would either be on a Microsoft oriented site, or a more technical oriented side. Each yielding a study saying that Windows users are the majority of the Netbook owners and Linux users are (respectively).
I've used both Macs and Windows machines for quite a while now, though I always used a Mac in my private life. I'm in IT, so not using a Windows machine is simply not an option in many cases.
However, at home, ever since I started using iTunes and Mac OS X I noticed that when no sound is playing from my laptop (first a Powerbook, then a Macbook) it started zooming. This was probably because my stereo wasn't properly grounded at the time. As soon as the computer made noise however, it stopped. If I turned on iTunes it stopped! When the album I was playing was finished, it started up again.
I've always guessed that this is because of the way Mac OS X will manage memory. If something isn't used, why bother supplying power to it? Since, interestingly, this phenomenon doesn't occur when I boot up Windows XP or Vista, meaning power is always supplied to a jack not used.
If they turn off many other things 'not used' atm and switch them on as soon as a cable is detected or something similar, imagine how much power you could save...
It seems to me you're overvalueing the amount of users of Macbooks are people who do A/V stuff? The majority of the Macbook users are people who just switched, and home users willing to spend a bit more cash on a cool laptop.
Most professional audio users have MBPs (which doesn't mean there are still a lot who use normal MBs, they are by far the "majority" of the users)
Normal customers are buying MBs by the dozens, not the audio makers. (and as soon as they make money they'll be buying Pros, and the ones making good money are the ones most interesting for Apple anyways)
Yes, and "postnatal" is commonly referred to what happens to the mother after her child is born (like a postnatal depression) whereas the correct medical term is "postpartal". Since of course "postnatal" mean "after birth", not "after giving birth"...
The mother is not born, the child is. A postnatal depression is the depression of the baby, after being born (and it does happen). "Postpartal" means after seperation (from the child), and is the correct term.
But after thousands of wrong uses because postnatal makes more sense it is now adopted as correct, instead of postpartal.
The original meaning of words and abbreviations changes over time. A PC is a Windows computer to 99% of the world, so a PC is a Windows computer, regardless the original intention of the abbreviation. Language lives and evolves just like everything else.
Don't go kicking and screaming in the future, there's probably little if nothing you can do. Postnatal depression is wrongly explain in Wikipedia, I'll survive, but the word postpartal has died.
Just close all the Windows in the Finder, swap programs. DVD should be running in the background, take a screenshot, and use whatever you got around to remove the menu bar, since there's always black bars on top and below the movie anyway...
Several European Banks (including mine, Belgium) offer consumer protection if you pay using Visa.
If I'd be victim to fraud on eBay, and I payed with Visa, they would cover it for me, get my money back to me, and probably go after the seller (that's what they say, but I assume they just let their insurance cover it unless it's large amoutns of money).
The same situation has been present in Belgium ever since cable and *DSL made the market. There is simply no choice to get an ISP that doesn't limit your monthly bandwidth usage.
Recently however, a new company surfaced offering low prices (30 euros / month) for a 100 Gb / month limit and a normal price (50 euros / month) for an unlimited connection. This new ISP is limited to a very small region in Belgium though, the services they offer outside their home city is similar to the other ISP's (more max download/upload, less speed).
There is however no throttling, an almost 100% uptime (varying on location of course, but if you live anywhere near a city you can expect uptime of 100%... Me I've never had my internet go down, and when I do play a game I tend to get a ping between 20-25 so it's all about what's important to you I guess.
Most ISP's offer a nighttime discount too. Everything you download/upload between midnight and 10 AM only goes half towards the download limit.
Also, the default option if you cross your limit is not to make you pay extra per Gb, but to put you on "smallband" which is (if I remember correctly) 64Kbit Up/Down. In other words: hell compared to the 20Mbit / 2Mbit (Down/Up) we usually get. You can change that default option to paying extra for Gbs of course...
Also I'd like to point out that Belgium is the only country in Europe where there is no viable option to choose for an ISP without transfer limit.
Here in Belgium we have a system called Proton. I don't know about the US, but Proton is just a chip on your credit card where you can put a limited amount of Euros on. (125 if I'm not mistaken, about 128 Dollars). Once the money is on the chip there's no way to take it off other than spending it. The advantage is you never have to type a code for your smaller spendings...
This is a great system, you don't have to have any cash on you, you can track where your money is spent if somebody steals your card... However, you can't block the Protonchip, you can block the account of course, but since the money is on the chip and not the account...
All true, I myself also have a Powerbook 5300ce... A little better than the normal 5300's but I got it for free after the local computer store lost my old Powerbook DUO 280c (now THAT was a great machine).
BTW, not all of the batteries were replaced I think and all PB5300 users have a 7-year warranty so it shouldn't cost you anything to repair it (well, at least something is good about them...)
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This is the so-manieth post about cheating in single player mode gets you banned.
No, cheating in single player mode does NOT get you banned. It's allowed, been implemented and done.
Cheating to get ACHIEVEMENTS however, is an entirely different matter. Since you're bypassing the built-in system that when you cheat (which can be a hell-lot-of-fun) achievements are disabled for you ... It's honestly not _that_ hard to see the difference between those two.
And here I am sitting with my Fallout 3 Collector's edition, slam in the middle of Ghent, slam in the middle the Benelux.
Good deal? Yes. Did I want to buy it? Yes. Did I try to order it? Yes. Can I? Yes. Do I have it? Yes.
Why? Because there is such a thing as Amazon. Also, Amazon Germany ships for free to Belgium *cough*
True, but it's all a bit one-sided ... In July 2009 the US owed China 772 _billion_. Good thing they lack morality enough to loan hundreds of millions, but have just enough to crack down on protectionism. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_public_debt
Why so aggressive? Nobody is 'making' you 'do' anything.
Your job, your paycheck, your money, your acquisition, your choice.
It works for Android, none of the consumers know and purposefully buy Android, they just buy 'a' smartphone that's not a Blackberry and not an iPhone. Nobody knows RIM, iOS, Android with all the versions, etc. Only the technical people do, and we hardly make up or even affect the consumer market (or Linux would've made it a _long_ time ago)
I wonder what this will do to the development of Chrome OS, as now Android is also a tablet operating system, what will the market be for Chrome OS? I hope they're not shooting for desktop applications ...
Also, no WiFi as of yet (and as far as I can tell no release date set either). I wonder what this will do to battery life, and well, everything else. Surfing on 3G is acceptable on my phone when I'm stuck in traffic, at home I tend never to use my phone because of the slow connection.
Sure, they're losing marketshare in general, but sales keep going up in numbers, they haven't slowed down. Hardly something I would worry about.
Also, because Android happens to be on a bunch of phones people use, doesn't mean it's 'winning' any sort of battle. The battle is entirely up to the fans if you ask me, Apple doesn't much care, their sales are going up. And working as a consultant in a couple of large corporations, people will have either a Blackberry and be happy, an iPhone and be happy/wanting a Blackberry or an Android-based mobile and not caring. The people in the last category don't really know they use the 'competitor' to iOS, it just 'happened to be' on the phone they got from IT when they picked it from a selection. I've yet to meet a non technical profile who conciously chose an Android based phone. Whereas I meet tons who consciously chose an iPhone or Blackberry ...
The whole Android - iOS debate is pretty senseless in the way that Apple doesn't see declining sales numbers, people who use Android based phone (generally) don't know they do, unless they're techie (and trust me, you're in the minority) and the marketplace _really_ is big enough for Android, iOS and RIM to coexist ...
Personally I have an iPhone, which I enjoy using. I wouldn't care if I were given a Blackberry or an Android based phone instead. Most people wouldn't.
They don'teven work!
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/06/25/2132218/Experts-Explain-iPhone-4-Antenna-Problem?art_pos=10
In Belgium all Bachelor IT studies have an intership in the last half year or year before graduating.
They're unpaid, though included in your schooling so no harm done there. In most of the cases the interns are hired as full employees. For companies this just is common sense. They shorten the official trial period a new employee has to go through by the duration of the intership.
The company where I work now I was able to get promoted a year before schedule, and since I worked here 3 interns were hired as employees, 2 more interns will start in Q1/2010 and those will likely be hired when they finish their internship (assuming they don't screw up ;))
I don't know about the US of course, but taxes on employees is ridiculously high in Belgium, so a 3 or 6 months free employee is a great way to start their training and put them on new projects where the technology still has to be discovered. This then gives the intern a step up on other people as they spent their internship exploring and working with the new technology, without being bothered by a full planning with regular work on clients.
I doubt if the appearance suddenly inspired a lot of people to switch to Linux. Doesn't this basically mean that the Linux oriented crowd is the one going for Netbooks whereas the usual Windows/Mac crowd is sticking to 'regular' laptops and desktops?
Of course doing a study on what the Netbook users used prior to getting a Netbook would be next to pointless as the survey would either be on a Microsoft oriented site, or a more technical oriented side. Each yielding a study saying that Windows users are the majority of the Netbook owners and Linux users are (respectively).
I've used both Macs and Windows machines for quite a while now, though I always used a Mac in my private life. I'm in IT, so not using a Windows machine is simply not an option in many cases.
However, at home, ever since I started using iTunes and Mac OS X I noticed that when no sound is playing from my laptop (first a Powerbook, then a Macbook) it started zooming. This was probably because my stereo wasn't properly grounded at the time. As soon as the computer made noise however, it stopped. If I turned on iTunes it stopped! When the album I was playing was finished, it started up again.
I've always guessed that this is because of the way Mac OS X will manage memory. If something isn't used, why bother supplying power to it? Since, interestingly, this phenomenon doesn't occur when I boot up Windows XP or Vista, meaning power is always supplied to a jack not used.
If they turn off many other things 'not used' atm and switch them on as soon as a cable is detected or something similar, imagine how much power you could save ...
Just a thought.
They did, it's called iMovie 2008.
Apple pays licenses for their own product? Firewire is licensed by Apple? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FireWire)
It seems to me you're overvalueing the amount of users of Macbooks are people who do A/V stuff? The majority of the Macbook users are people who just switched, and home users willing to spend a bit more cash on a cool laptop.
Most professional audio users have MBPs (which doesn't mean there are still a lot who use normal MBs, they are by far the "majority" of the users)
Normal customers are buying MBs by the dozens, not the audio makers. (and as soon as they make money they'll be buying Pros, and the ones making good money are the ones most interesting for Apple anyways)
Yes, and "postnatal" is commonly referred to what happens to the mother after her child is born (like a postnatal depression) whereas the correct medical term is "postpartal". Since of course "postnatal" mean "after birth", not "after giving birth"...
The mother is not born, the child is. A postnatal depression is the depression of the baby, after being born (and it does happen). "Postpartal" means after seperation (from the child), and is the correct term.
But after thousands of wrong uses because postnatal makes more sense it is now adopted as correct, instead of postpartal.
The original meaning of words and abbreviations changes over time. A PC is a Windows computer to 99% of the world, so a PC is a Windows computer, regardless the original intention of the abbreviation. Language lives and evolves just like everything else.
Don't go kicking and screaming in the future, there's probably little if nothing you can do. Postnatal depression is wrongly explain in Wikipedia, I'll survive, but the word postpartal has died.
I generally like http://abap.wikiprog.com/ for ABAP most, though SAP's own SDN works fine most of the time.
Just close all the Windows in the Finder, swap programs. DVD should be running in the background, take a screenshot, and use whatever you got around to remove the menu bar, since there's always black bars on top and below the movie anyway ...
Isn't that information protected by Privacy? Hence unusable in court?
Several European Banks (including mine, Belgium) offer consumer protection if you pay using Visa.
If I'd be victim to fraud on eBay, and I payed with Visa, they would cover it for me, get my money back to me, and probably go after the seller (that's what they say, but I assume they just let their insurance cover it unless it's large amoutns of money).
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What do you expect from a country that has Asbolut Vodka as their main export product. And it's a state company at that...
The same situation has been present in Belgium ever since cable and *DSL made the market. There is simply no choice to get an ISP that doesn't limit your monthly bandwidth usage.
... Me I've never had my internet go down, and when I do play a game I tend to get a ping between 20-25 so it's all about what's important to you I guess.
...
Recently however, a new company surfaced offering low prices (30 euros / month) for a 100 Gb / month limit and a normal price (50 euros / month) for an unlimited connection. This new ISP is limited to a very small region in Belgium though, the services they offer outside their home city is similar to the other ISP's (more max download/upload, less speed).
There is however no throttling, an almost 100% uptime (varying on location of course, but if you live anywhere near a city you can expect uptime of 100%
Most ISP's offer a nighttime discount too. Everything you download/upload between midnight and 10 AM only goes half towards the download limit.
Also, the default option if you cross your limit is not to make you pay extra per Gb, but to put you on "smallband" which is (if I remember correctly) 64Kbit Up/Down. In other words: hell compared to the 20Mbit / 2Mbit (Down/Up) we usually get. You can change that default option to paying extra for Gbs of course
Also I'd like to point out that Belgium is the only country in Europe where there is no viable option to choose for an ISP without transfer limit.
Sorry bob, didn't get that e-Mail, I'll see you on monday!
Here in Belgium we have a system called Proton. I don't know about the US, but Proton is just a chip on your credit card where you can put a limited amount of Euros on. (125 if I'm not mistaken, about 128 Dollars). Once the money is on the chip there's no way to take it off other than spending it. The advantage is you never have to type a code for your smaller spendings ...
... However, you can't block the Protonchip, you can block the account of course, but since the money is on the chip and not the account ...
This is a great system, you don't have to have any cash on you, you can track where your money is spent if somebody steals your card
All true, I myself also have a Powerbook 5300ce ... A little better than the normal 5300's but I got it for free after the local computer store lost my old Powerbook DUO 280c (now THAT was a great machine).
BTW, not all of the batteries were replaced I think and all PB5300 users have a 7-year warranty so it shouldn't cost you anything to repair it (well, at least something is good about them ...)