Reading through the posts, I come across a post from someone at EA responsible for the board (or support in general, I'm not sure which), in response to one customer who got so annoyed they returned the game:
There is no conspiracy of silence. I've seen posts from people running Nero and CloneCD who aren't having problems with the game and those that are. We can look into it, but I don't have any answers for you today.
And murronrose, since you returned your game, that means that you are no longer a product-registered owner of the game. Which means you shouldn't even be using this BBS... I'm most likely going to have to remove your posting priveledges if you don't cancel your account yourself.
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Absolutely wonderful customer relations... "You have a complaint, so instead of trying to fix the problem and get a few customers back, we're just going to remove you from this board and pretend it never happened."
So you're saying it should be something like this:
"What makes them think video games are more harmful than say a gun or even a gun?"
I'm sorry, but that makes no sense. He wasn't glorifying gun violence. He was saying that video games lead to violence - gun violence or simply throwing a punch - no more than other forms of media, on average. Your rant on gun violence was sadly misplaced here.
Did the parent poster say anything about defense? Or protectin one's home? No. He just used guns as an example, being the most obvious form of violence and killing.
The idea is not for the $10M to pay for the cost of it with some left over, but to offset the costs of the R&D.
The main idea was that once the R&D was done, there would be one or several methods of reaching space that have relatively inexpensive launch costs. This, so the idea went, would lead to someone actually coming up with commercial applications for them.
Actually, some of the teams that probably won't win could turn a profit before the ones that stand a chance of winning because they're not focusing on just R&D, but also commercial ideas and are using their contendership in the X-Prize as advertisement.
The BACKBONE. If your provider only uses one backbone, there's still a choke point. If the backbone goes down, for whatever reason (it can happen, and has happened), you've got the same effect as being redundant at your end but not at theirs... "theirs" is just further down the line.
There are providers that have multiple backbones, from different providers. I worked for an ISP that at the time had 4 different backbone providers. While there, I saw one of the backbones fail, stay down for several days because the backbone provider dragged their feet in fixing it. Everything else kept working, though, and the only difference was that during absolute peak useage, servers were very slightly slower in responding due to the missing bandwidth.
Being redundant between you and your provider isn't enough... ask if your provider's connection is redundant as well.
When you think about it, most younger gamers get their games as gifts, generally for birthdays and christmas. So for that target audience, christmas is the right time for most releases.
My guess is that publishers are still stuck on that "games are for kids" thought when it comes to release dates, even if they're over that for content. For any target audience that buys their own games, spread the releases around a bit! Some more in the summer, some around late February or early March for that late winter drag, a few in mid or late september, for those who have grown tired of their purchases from early June...
It's not the governments... it's the media. For the most part, the candidates answered the questionnaires sent to them about tech issues. It's just the smaller issues don't rate high enough to take valuable airtime. Print media might have enough space if the news day is slow enough, but that's about it.
The problem with your idea is that nobody wants to go into a voting booth and have to make 50 choices instead of ONE (in the case of Canada).
it's surprising that these important issues have attracted little or no debate
Compared to things like health care, government waste, gay rights, etc, tech issues aren't really that important on a national scale. We might like to think they are, but they aren't top issues.
Uhh... as has been stated many times, the police in the US need a reason as well. And if they have a reasonable suspicion (that'd be commonly known as a reason), you're committing a crime (essentially impeding an investigation) by not complying. I'm pretty sure that's the way it is in Canada.
The fact of the matter is that the bank is not responsible for the person already being overdue on their payments, but it's being used as an excuse now.
Frankly, I'm not very good at getting my bills payed on time either. I know this. I also know for a fact that RBC calls you to tell you that you're overdue at ONE month. That's a pretty strong reminder, and "I'm not so good with bills" isn't an excuse after that point, no matter HOW bad you are with bills.
I'm in the person's court if there's a remotely reasonable chance they're right. In this case, I don't see any real chance, no matter how remote or reasonable.
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Absolutely wonderful customer relations... "You have a complaint, so instead of trying to fix the problem and get a few customers back, we're just going to remove you from this board and pretend it never happened."
3 words:
Dynamic IP addresses
Most of the non-Shakespeare books I had to read in high school english classes are on that list...
Dreamcast, maybe. But the patent application predates X-Box Live.
But the biggest example for the DC would be PSO, and that came out after the patent application as well.
So you're saying it should be something like this:
"What makes them think video games are more harmful than say a gun or even a gun?"
I'm sorry, but that makes no sense. He wasn't glorifying gun violence. He was saying that video games lead to violence - gun violence or simply throwing a punch - no more than other forms of media, on average. Your rant on gun violence was sadly misplaced here.
Did the parent poster say anything about defense? Or protectin one's home? No. He just used guns as an example, being the most obvious form of violence and killing.
The idea is not for the $10M to pay for the cost of it with some left over, but to offset the costs of the R&D.
The main idea was that once the R&D was done, there would be one or several methods of reaching space that have relatively inexpensive launch costs. This, so the idea went, would lead to someone actually coming up with commercial applications for them.
Actually, some of the teams that probably won't win could turn a profit before the ones that stand a chance of winning because they're not focusing on just R&D, but also commercial ideas and are using their contendership in the X-Prize as advertisement.
I haven't seen them show anything on the da Vinci Project... sure you aren't thinking about The Canadian Arrow project out of London?
The BACKBONE. If your provider only uses one backbone, there's still a choke point. If the backbone goes down, for whatever reason (it can happen, and has happened), you've got the same effect as being redundant at your end but not at theirs... "theirs" is just further down the line.
There are providers that have multiple backbones, from different providers. I worked for an ISP that at the time had 4 different backbone providers. While there, I saw one of the backbones fail, stay down for several days because the backbone provider dragged their feet in fixing it. Everything else kept working, though, and the only difference was that during absolute peak useage, servers were very slightly slower in responding due to the missing bandwidth.
Being redundant between you and your provider isn't enough... ask if your provider's connection is redundant as well.
When you think about it, most younger gamers get their games as gifts, generally for birthdays and christmas. So for that target audience, christmas is the right time for most releases.
My guess is that publishers are still stuck on that "games are for kids" thought when it comes to release dates, even if they're over that for content. For any target audience that buys their own games, spread the releases around a bit! Some more in the summer, some around late February or early March for that late winter drag, a few in mid or late september, for those who have grown tired of their purchases from early June...
Considering the low gravity, transporting that shielding along with the base wouldn't be that difficult.
You're probably right about the cost though, and weight would certainly come into play with actually GETTING the sheilding there.
It would certainly put spammers out of a job if that's the case.
Funny that, out of a job because they were too good at it...
The way I understood it, that doesn't apply to adding content, just to fixing bugs.
The term can also be applied to wiring.
Or, slightly off topic, anything made of fabric.
It's not the governments... it's the media. For the most part, the candidates answered the questionnaires sent to them about tech issues. It's just the smaller issues don't rate high enough to take valuable airtime. Print media might have enough space if the news day is slow enough, but that's about it.
The problem with your idea is that nobody wants to go into a voting booth and have to make 50 choices instead of ONE (in the case of Canada).
"Oh, I spotted a blind spot!"
When you're sitting at the computer, you can get up, walk over to the camera and re-position it.
SSH only helps for software maintenance, not hardware.
Compared to things like health care, government waste, gay rights, etc, tech issues aren't really that important on a national scale. We might like to think they are, but they aren't top issues.
You'd also have very little time to make it flex compared to conventional ballistics.
Uhh... as has been stated many times, the police in the US need a reason as well. And if they have a reasonable suspicion (that'd be commonly known as a reason), you're committing a crime (essentially impeding an investigation) by not complying. I'm pretty sure that's the way it is in Canada.
Psst... That's a pretty standard law the world over... Last I heard, Canada has it too, and has for quite some time, probably well before 1984.
Interfering with an investigation, maybe? As others have said, there needs to be a REASON for them to ask you who you are.
You forget one thing. You're only talking about programming for a PC. Pretty narrow view.
Considering that imbedded processors, where every single bit of performance is important, outnumber PCs by a LARGE margin it's still applicable.
Sure, most of the code for them would be done in C as well, those habits you gained out of assembly would come in handy.
I finished Theif 3 last week, on my PC. Cranked up all the settings too.
Yes, you could sue. And for winning you would get... a patched copy of the game, which you would have gotten out of a recall with MUCH less effort.
Try suing for damages, and you'd be laughed out of court and forced to pay for the defendant's legal costs.
Every piece of hardware in my computer except the video card is older than the oldest retail X-Box, and the video card is 2 years old.
A 2 year old computer that can outperform a 2 1/2 year old console.
Wow, guess there goes your theory.
The fact of the matter is that the bank is not responsible for the person already being overdue on their payments, but it's being used as an excuse now.
Frankly, I'm not very good at getting my bills payed on time either. I know this. I also know for a fact that RBC calls you to tell you that you're overdue at ONE month. That's a pretty strong reminder, and "I'm not so good with bills" isn't an excuse after that point, no matter HOW bad you are with bills.
I'm in the person's court if there's a remotely reasonable chance they're right. In this case, I don't see any real chance, no matter how remote or reasonable.