I used to think that voice chat was a really cool thing, until they introduced it in counterstrike a few years back.
People carrying on conversations totally not related to the game, morons piping dreadfully low quality music in, children yelling racial slurs and giggling and other really stupid, inane and annoying stuff was a constant problem.
The vast majority of people are just too immature. After a while I stopped blocking people and just turned voice off completely.
I love universities who send out mean emails, bitch and moan about downloaders but do nothing to actually improve the quality of their archaic networks.
It would seem to be much easier to have the phone record to its internal memory and then transmit later. Transmitting needs a fair bit of power (while recording to memory from the microphone doesn't take much and can be compressed) and I would think people would start to notice that their phone would be dead after powering it off for several hours. The amount of memory and processors in some modern phones makes this a possibility...
What are you talking about? NASA had to hire hundreds of people to write the communications out by hand in binary and send over 200,000 pigeons to deliver it to the spacecraft (where they had significant issues with packet loss). Those numbers are extremely conservative!
You should go to Canada, where loonies and toonies ($1 and $2 coins) are everywhere. I can't really explain how annoying it is to find out that you have $42 in change in your pocket.
No, you're still a piece of shit whose only duty is to buy more Universal Music. The only thing you will get out of this is a higher price tag for your next ipod.
No worries, just add some vomit on the seat, an unidentified sticky substance on the floor, a recording of a crying baby and a fucking kid sitting behind you kicking in the back and you'll have an Authentic Theater Experience (tm).
And the media hypes / shills the mediocre sales that the stores have today. Problem is that most people really have no clue as to what actually is a good deal, they see a sale jpeg or whatever and buy like mouthbreathers...
Then turn your brightness and contrast down until it looks more or less like a piece of paper. I know it's the "in thing to do" to run your monitor at 100% and at 9300k, but turning it down (way down) will be a lot easier on your eyes. It's not like you're playing a dark FPS...
All of which fails rather quickly if you poke a hole in the side of a microwave oven opposite the magnetron and turn on your new 1200W transmitter (how many db is that?).
"Implied consent" sounds great, but as a citizen of one state or country, you agree to the law regarding testing procedures and the such in your home state or country, not what applies in other jurisdictions.
I did the math and pissing on your average male cop (taking into account height and weight) will not actually put out the fire, but will extend the agony by approximately 5.2 seconds, and smell really bad.
I wouldn't be surprised if he was using one - the clarity of the recordings on my jukebox v2 is simply amazing. Hmm... I wonder how hard would it be to create an adapter for the archos to tape phone calls...
From the other side of the fence... $750 is nothing if you, as a individuals are looking at actually taking someone to court.
Copyright issues are dealt with in federal court and copyright attorneys are incredibly expensive. Sure, if you register the copyright within 3 months of publication (assuming you find out) you can collect attorneys fees. That doesn't always happen - people who steal stock photos often use them in ad campaigns, etc on the other side of the country, in the hopes that you never find out.
But even if you go to a potential lawyer with the registration certificate (which takes fucking forever to get) and clear evidence of the infringement (say a copy of the book that is being published with your photograph in it), it is a struggle to find a copyright lawyer who will want to take on a small case - they're too busy dealing with bigger stuff and they make it clear that if you lose, you'll personally be on the hook for ~$10,000 of fees. That makes it a real bitch to pursue something if you're a little guy. $750 isn't all that much. Yes, that's the minimum, but taking someone to court and getting $750 is a lot of work for not that much money.
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I used to think that voice chat was a really cool thing, until they introduced it in counterstrike a few years back.
People carrying on conversations totally not related to the game, morons piping dreadfully low quality music in, children yelling racial slurs and giggling and other really stupid, inane and annoying stuff was a constant problem.
The vast majority of people are just too immature.
After a while I stopped blocking people and just turned voice off completely.
I love universities who send out mean emails, bitch and moan about downloaders but do nothing to actually improve the quality of their archaic networks.
It would seem to be much easier to have the phone record to its internal memory and then transmit later. Transmitting needs a fair bit of power (while recording to memory from the microphone doesn't take much and can be compressed) and I would think people would start to notice that their phone would be dead after powering it off for several hours.
The amount of memory and processors in some modern phones makes this a possibility...
What are you talking about? NASA had to hire hundreds of people to write the communications out by hand in binary and send over 200,000 pigeons to deliver it to the spacecraft (where they had significant issues with packet loss).
Those numbers are extremely conservative!
You should go to Canada, where loonies and toonies ($1 and $2 coins) are everywhere. I can't really explain how annoying it is to find out that you have $42 in change in your pocket.
Deer and bears aren't people...
Bear burgers are damn tasty!
No, you're still a piece of shit whose only duty is to buy more Universal Music.
The only thing you will get out of this is a higher price tag for your next ipod.
You can, however, use multiple FAEs and place them to increase the intensity of the pressure waves they generate.
AnyDVD will also generally remove that annoying shit too.
No worries, just add some vomit on the seat, an unidentified sticky substance on the floor, a recording of a crying baby and a fucking kid sitting behind you kicking in the back and you'll have an Authentic Theater Experience (tm).
And the media hypes / shills the mediocre sales that the stores have today.
Problem is that most people really have no clue as to what actually is a good deal, they see a sale jpeg or whatever and buy like mouthbreathers...
Then turn your brightness and contrast down until it looks more or less like a piece of paper.
I know it's the "in thing to do" to run your monitor at 100% and at 9300k, but turning it down (way down) will be a lot easier on your eyes.
It's not like you're playing a dark FPS...
Have you heard of chronic cubicle syndrome?
The nanny state knife laws (and the people pushing for 5 year sentences for carrying a knife) are pretty fucking stupid too.
Just don't use a discover card because they will deny pretty much any chargeback and rule in favor of the merchant.
So you will either have to get out of that business, or release substandard software for that platform.
Oh no, not more substandard software!
No, but everything you register....
All of which fails rather quickly if you poke a hole in the side of a microwave oven opposite the magnetron and turn on your new 1200W transmitter (how many db is that?).
"Implied consent" sounds great, but as a citizen of one state or country, you agree to the law regarding testing procedures and the such in your home state or country, not what applies in other jurisdictions.
Except both cities are kind of shitholes. SF is much nicer.
I did the math and pissing on your average male cop (taking into account height and weight) will not actually put out the fire, but will extend the agony by approximately 5.2 seconds, and smell really bad.
I wouldn't be surprised if he was using one - the clarity of the recordings on my jukebox v2 is simply amazing. Hmm... I wonder how hard would it be to create an adapter for the archos to tape phone calls...
From the other side of the fence... $750 is nothing if you, as a individuals are looking at actually taking someone to court.
Copyright issues are dealt with in federal court and copyright attorneys are incredibly expensive.
Sure, if you register the copyright within 3 months of publication (assuming you find out) you can collect attorneys fees. That doesn't always happen - people who steal stock photos often use them in ad campaigns, etc on the other side of the country, in the hopes that you never find out.
But even if you go to a potential lawyer with the registration certificate (which takes fucking forever to get) and clear evidence of the infringement (say a copy of the book that is being published with your photograph in it), it is a struggle to find a copyright lawyer who will want to take on a small case - they're too busy dealing with bigger stuff and they make it clear that if you lose, you'll personally be on the hook for ~$10,000 of fees. That makes it a real bitch to pursue something if you're a little guy. $750 isn't all that much. Yes, that's the minimum, but taking someone to court and getting $750 is a lot of work for not that much money.
Nah, they'd use mind control to turn the FEMA heads into robots who will do their bidding.
You have to hire some guy to follow them videotaping the cops heading in so you can enjoy it ;)