This process appears to use more energy than it delivers. This lowers pollution how? Seems to me it not only increases it, it just moves it to another location.
This is just an attempt by them to get their names out there, and hopefully increase sales. I can't say I blame them, and if it works, good for them. But from my sources in the publishing industry, the jury is still out on this technique.
And please don't quote the Baen Free library at me. Jim Baen does talk a good game, but he has yet to show any actual proof to the publishing industry that his library has brought him in any more money than traditional sales methods for the same cost.
I do have the latest and greatest. It still took forever to install, then it had to download like TWO GIGS of updates (yeah where I'm currently living SBC won't give me a great connection), then on top of that they game tells me I need to load the latest video driver. If I -hadn't- loaded the driver the game would have played fine, but with the latest driver the game hosed itself.
So I had to go install my backup and then -reinstall- the entire fucking thing all over again. That's like 6 hours right there and I haven't even started to play the game yet.
Woo Fucking Hoo. It's coded like a piece of shit. And you can quote me on that.
I tried to play this game. The install was painful, it took hours, and in the end Valve's suggested video upgrade prevented the game from ever running on my system. Which I then had to format and reinstall.
All in all, what good is a game if you can't play it? At 50 bucks, and 4 to 5 hours just to install it, this game is a serious waste of money. And poorly designed to boot.
Well I make well over a hundred a day at work as well. Yeah monetarily I could dump that and a lot more into the game and not even flinch.
But I guess I just have different values. You're not getting any physical tangible thing for your money. You don't have something you can take home or put on the shelf as it where.
I suspect some of my issues is that in a fairly old (+10 years) on going online game I 'own' one of the prime pieces of the game. I built it, and through careful use and design got it to the point where nearly everyone uses it and sooner or late hangs out or visits there. Everyone who plays the game knows about it.
But the thought of someone paying cash to build something as popular (or to even try and buy it from me?) I don't know, I just really can't imagine it.
And as for the Chess player, well he -owns- a physical object which is not dependant on a third party for it's existance. And he can sell it to whomever he wants, regardless of if they play chess or not, anywhere.
In most states you can go to DMV and get their entire database for 50 or so bucks. In Oregon one guy used to post it online, so they made posting it online illegal. (Of course they didn't STOP selling the information!).
They pretty much give you everything you need to commit identity fraud: License plate number, Car type, DL license, address, banking information, vin number, DOB, and supposedly you can even get the license database which includes driver photos!
Wow, the price has dropped a lot since I stopped playing. I checked it out a while ago out of curiosity and was shocked by how much people were paying.
Why do people spend as much money as they do to buy gold from these people! Really, have you looked at the price of gold on WOW? If it was say 20 bucks for 500 gold I could see people doing it, but it's more like 200 dollars! Why would anyone spend that kind of money for something in an online game? Something that you'll probably only have for a few weeks before you get something better?
Are Mommy and Daddy really not paying that much attention to the credit card? For the price of 500 Gold on WOW you could have a pretty good night on the town, even get laid! You could just get so much more out of your money and life than 500 gold will ever get you in an online game.
If someone could really explain this to me, someone who's done it, I'd really love to know why. It just doesn't make fiscal sense.
Yeah I swam out to that island too after I heard about the bottle. Wasn't there anymore though, and there were a few creatures out there, but nothing outrageous.
If you swim down the eastern shore of the eastern contienent (Sorry I can't remember the names, but I quit WOW a few weeks ago), there are two interesting places. One is a small little village with nothing in it. The other (hidden in the hills) is a huge valley with absolutely nothing at all in it but the base world texture grid. I ran around that place for about an hour checking it out, it was pretty sizeable.
I spent quite some time swimming around everything and doing some investigation. Found a lot of small things, but never anything really big and cool like the airfield, which is only place I never made it too, just not -that- good at climbing I guess!
After WOW made their 'get caught exploring and we'll ban you' rule, I stopped looking around. (which was one of the many things that led to my eventual quitting).
No I'm not trolling, but you sure seem to be. You didn't name a country that would be better, instead you brought some entirely different arguments to the table. A lot of which were strawmen.
Yeah, haven't you ever noticed how when ever a post comes out tht might be anti-America (I submitted this yesterday, but my wording wasn't anti-Bush/America enough, so -my- post got rejected), all the 'slam US' posts get modded up? No matter how stupid? And the whole psycopathic anti-Bush crowd immediatly starts slamming?
What all my posts on this subject get modded troll. Cause I'm sticking up for US control. The anti-US bias of Slashdot, and several of its editors, has become extremely blatent.
Yeah after all, the UN supports Genocide, Dictator's, suppression of free speech, slavery, and is the most corrupt world body in the history of the world!
Yes, why don't we let the UN look after it? Then they can silence all those stories of their soldiers raping children and Koffi Anann taking bribes to help prop up a sadistic dictator who likes to drop people into shredders feet first.
Really? Who would do as good a job as the USA has?
You're all so quick to insult the United States over this, but who is censoring the internet these days? No one in the USA is, but China does, France does, several other countries as well. Do you want Them to run it? Or the UN, on which those two countries sit on the Security Council? How about all the other countries in the UN that are opposed to free speech? You want those people to run it?
Really now.
I see a lot of folks here screaming to take it from the USA, but the fact is, the USA built it, and under the USA it has florished and grown. Any other country could have done this, but they didn't. Why? Because no one else has the freedoms that we enjoy here in the US.
With everything that has happened, saying that you 'do not think that having the root domains under US control' shows that you 'do not think' at all. The internet could only have happened with the US control. The fact that it did is simple proof of that. Give that control to someone else, and the internet will no longer be free.
Do you really want China, who sits on the Security Council, making decisions about the internet? Under the control of the USA, the internet has florished, under the control of the UN, it would be strangled.
Look at all the scandels that constantly plague the UN, all the corruption. And you have no say at all in anything the UN does. You want them to control the internet? This isn't dick waving, this is just common sense. If you think anyone in the international community can do a better job than the USA, please, by all means, tell us who you have in mind and why they can do a better job.
And maybe the US is afraid to 'cooperate', as you put it, because we do all the work, spend all the money, and then get screwed by those we 'cooperate' with, when they don't cooperate back. Just look at the Human Rights commission!
And all I had to buy was a cable to connect my phone (blue tooth users don't even need that). Yeah the bandwidth isn't always stellar, but hey, unlimited internet for 20 a month anywhere in the USA?
It was a really good show over all. At first I thought it was just 'cowboys in space' but as I started to watch it I could see there was a lot more going on there. I STILL want to know just what the heck is up with Ron Glass's character.
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Jughead didn't last. I honestly can't even remember what Jughead's function was.
Excellent link. This explains why some people I used to work with hated this guy so. I had never heard the full story.
Or Jughead and Veronica?
I wonder how many people on the web even heard of those servers/services, much less remember them.
But you're right about one thing, Mosaic -was- first.
This process appears to use more energy than it delivers. This lowers pollution how? Seems to me it not only increases it, it just moves it to another location.
How come I've never heard of them?
This is just an attempt by them to get their names out there, and hopefully increase sales. I can't say I blame them, and if it works, good for them. But from my sources in the publishing industry, the jury is still out on this technique.
And please don't quote the Baen Free library at me. Jim Baen does talk a good game, but he has yet to show any actual proof to the publishing industry that his library has brought him in any more money than traditional sales methods for the same cost.
I do have the latest and greatest. It still took forever to install, then it had to download like TWO GIGS of updates (yeah where I'm currently living SBC won't give me a great connection), then on top of that they game tells me I need to load the latest video driver. If I -hadn't- loaded the driver the game would have played fine, but with the latest driver the game hosed itself.
So I had to go install my backup and then -reinstall- the entire fucking thing all over again. That's like 6 hours right there and I haven't even started to play the game yet.
Woo Fucking Hoo. It's coded like a piece of shit. And you can quote me on that.
I tried to play this game. The install was painful, it took hours, and in the end Valve's suggested video upgrade prevented the game from ever running on my system. Which I then had to format and reinstall.
All in all, what good is a game if you can't play it? At 50 bucks, and 4 to 5 hours just to install it, this game is a serious waste of money. And poorly designed to boot.
Well I make well over a hundred a day at work as well. Yeah monetarily I could dump that and a lot more into the game and not even flinch.
But I guess I just have different values. You're not getting any physical tangible thing for your money. You don't have something you can take home or put on the shelf as it where.
I suspect some of my issues is that in a fairly old (+10 years) on going online game I 'own' one of the prime pieces of the game. I built it, and through careful use and design got it to the point where nearly everyone uses it and sooner or late hangs out or visits there. Everyone who plays the game knows about it.
But the thought of someone paying cash to build something as popular (or to even try and buy it from me?) I don't know, I just really can't imagine it.
And as for the Chess player, well he -owns- a physical object which is not dependant on a third party for it's existance. And he can sell it to whomever he wants, regardless of if they play chess or not, anywhere.
In most states you can go to DMV and get their entire database for 50 or so bucks. In Oregon one guy used to post it online, so they made posting it online illegal. (Of course they didn't STOP selling the information!).
They pretty much give you everything you need to commit identity fraud: License plate number, Car type, DL license, address, banking information, vin number, DOB, and supposedly you can even get the license database which includes driver photos!
I think you have just given birth to a new cottage industry!
:-)
step 2: Tk for hire!
step 3: Profit!
Excuse me while I go start up a farm in China!
Wow, the price has dropped a lot since I stopped playing. I checked it out a while ago out of curiosity and was shocked by how much people were paying.
200 dollars isn't a lot of money for me either, but still I don't see anything in WOW or any MMO being worth 200 dollars of RL cash to buy.
I guess I just have a better understanding of the value of a dollar than those people do?
Why do people spend as much money as they do to buy gold from these people! Really, have you looked at the price of gold on WOW? If it was say 20 bucks for 500 gold I could see people doing it, but it's more like 200 dollars! Why would anyone spend that kind of money for something in an online game? Something that you'll probably only have for a few weeks before you get something better?
Are Mommy and Daddy really not paying that much attention to the credit card? For the price of 500 Gold on WOW you could have a pretty good night on the town, even get laid! You could just get so much more out of your money and life than 500 gold will ever get you in an online game.
If someone could really explain this to me, someone who's done it, I'd really love to know why. It just doesn't make fiscal sense.
Yeah I swam out to that island too after I heard about the bottle. Wasn't there anymore though, and there were a few creatures out there, but nothing outrageous.
If you swim down the eastern shore of the eastern contienent (Sorry I can't remember the names, but I quit WOW a few weeks ago), there are two interesting places. One is a small little village with nothing in it. The other (hidden in the hills) is a huge valley with absolutely nothing at all in it but the base world texture grid. I ran around that place for about an hour checking it out, it was pretty sizeable.
I spent quite some time swimming around everything and doing some investigation. Found a lot of small things, but never anything really big and cool like the airfield, which is only place I never made it too, just not -that- good at climbing I guess!
After WOW made their 'get caught exploring and we'll ban you' rule, I stopped looking around. (which was one of the many things that led to my eventual quitting).
No I'm not trolling, but you sure seem to be. You didn't name a country that would be better, instead you brought some entirely different arguments to the table. A lot of which were strawmen.
Yeah, haven't you ever noticed how when ever a post comes out tht might be anti-America (I submitted this yesterday, but my wording wasn't anti-Bush/America enough, so -my- post got rejected), all the 'slam US' posts get modded up?
No matter how stupid?
And the whole psycopathic anti-Bush crowd immediatly starts slamming?
What all my posts on this subject get modded troll. Cause I'm sticking up for US control. The anti-US bias of Slashdot, and several of its editors, has become extremely blatent.
Yeah after all, the UN supports Genocide, Dictator's, suppression of free speech, slavery, and is the most corrupt world body in the history of the world!
Yes, why don't we let the UN look after it? Then they can silence all those stories of their soldiers raping children and Koffi Anann taking bribes to help prop up a sadistic dictator who likes to drop people into shredders feet first.
Really? Who would do as good a job as the USA has?
You're all so quick to insult the United States over this, but who is censoring the internet these days? No one in the USA is, but China does, France does, several other countries as well. Do you want Them to run it? Or the UN, on which those two countries sit on the Security Council? How about all the other countries in the UN that are opposed to free speech? You want those people to run it?
Really now.
I see a lot of folks here screaming to take it from the USA, but the fact is, the USA built it, and under the USA it has florished and grown. Any other country could have done this, but they didn't. Why? Because no one else has the freedoms that we enjoy here in the US.
With everything that has happened, saying that you 'do not think that having the root domains under US control' shows that you 'do not think' at all. The internet could only have happened with the US control. The fact that it did is simple proof of that. Give that control to someone else, and the internet will no longer be free.
And the rest of the world doesn't?
Do you really want China, who sits on the Security Council, making decisions about the internet? Under the control of the USA, the internet has florished, under the control of the UN, it would be strangled.
Look at all the scandels that constantly plague the UN, all the corruption. And you have no say at all in anything the UN does. You want them to control the internet? This isn't dick waving, this is just common sense. If you think anyone in the international community can do a better job than the USA, please, by all means, tell us who you have in mind and why they can do a better job.
And maybe the US is afraid to 'cooperate', as you put it, because we do all the work, spend all the money, and then get screwed by those we 'cooperate' with, when they don't cooperate back. Just look at the Human Rights commission!
Why is this on /. ?
anyone?
Bueller?
And all I had to buy was a cable to connect my phone (blue tooth users don't even need that). Yeah the bandwidth isn't always stellar, but hey, unlimited internet for 20 a month anywhere in the USA?
Great deal for people who travel!
I'll lone you my lower UID too. Yours was a very good response.
Yeah, that's what I'm hoping too! :-)
It was a really good show over all. At first I thought it was just 'cowboys in space' but as I started to watch it I could see there was a lot more going on there. I STILL want to know just what the heck is up with Ron Glass's character.
I also like 'Beware of the hair!'
That's what I'd like to know. Maybe if Serenity does well in the theaters?