For $90 you can get the business FiOS, and you'll have 15MB down, 2MB(!) up, and 5 statics, all with no PPPoE and latencies that would make your cable modem drool. Plus, the ToS lets you do pretty much whatever you want except spam, and there are no blocked ports. If you were willing to pay $128/month before...
For me, it's totally worth it, and I'm never going back.
Unlike their crappy copper network, my FiOS connection has 2mbit upstream. I generally get 220KBps transfer rates between home and work. Latencies for gaming are practically non-existant. VPN usage is actually pleasent now.
Sure, DSL is fine compared to comcast, but compared to Verizon's FiOS, they're only telling half the story.
If you are the type that ends up compulsively looking at pornography, you'd be the type that would pick some other non-pornographic compulsive activity were the pornography not available. The fact that pornography is mentioned in the title just keeps the grant money flowing for studies, etc...
Also: If you're in a relationship where you are ashamed or embarrassed about some of your behavior, so you have to hide it from your signifigant other, or feel like you have to hide it, you've got a problem that is probably much more serious then whatever it is that you're doing. Is the guy from the article's wife going to be more upset that the guy has been looking at porn for the last five years, or that he's been doing it in secret and hiding it? His wife may not even mind porn... I mean, women like sexual activity too, but nobody likes feeling like their trust was betrayed. He's betrying his wife's trust by hiding something about himself from her.
Yes, you were, and in context it doesn't mean what you're implying it means.
You said:
you shouldn't play the "kneejerk racism" card every time one side of the conflict is a majority of one race
Which doesn't make any sense really, since there's no conflict. We're discussing the difference between making informed decisions, or making a one sided judgement (there has to be at least two involved parties for conflict, BTW) based solely on the fact that somebody (or some corporation) is foreign.
I don't understand how you make the leap from there to what I said being an assumption that somebody was racist. Show me where I assumed or accused anybody of anything other than not thinking through the alternative when making a flipant comment.
How do you figure? Isn't this what they should *actually* be doing, so we make rational decisions instead of using kneejerk racisim to eliminate foreign business? They should investigate, so we can base decisions on facts for a change.
Ok, first of all, I dug out the manual and double checked just now because I did read it before, and F1-4 aren't even documented in there. Only F5 and F9. Same goes for most of the other "shortcuts" listed in this thread.
Second, yes. I'm suggesting that an immersive game world that austensably contains a built in tutorial should have a user interface that stays out of the way so much that you shouldn't need a manual to figure out how to play it. Other games manage it. Morrowind managed it. So yes. You shouldn't have to RTFM.
Not just an install guide that most games come with these days.
That's a joke, right? Have you seen what's been happening to game manuals for all but the most complex of games lately?
In fact, the state with the best divorce rate is Massachusetts, which started the wingnuts on their crusade in the first place.
Have you seen how divorces work in Massachusetts? They've got some puritanical divorce judges to go along with their silly ultra-concervative blue laws.
Be careful how you draw the line between red and blue. It's not as black and white as the mainstream entertainment networks wish it was.
Oddly enough, it seems to be most prevalent in the Red States that are so incredibly vocal about...
Oh, please. I'm guessing that you only pay attention to negative details about people you disagree with. Look around some blue states now and then. Tell me why back-woods suburbs need a fleet of SUV patrol "cars" and a million dollar 4" thick bullet-proof vestibule in their police station lobby when the only violent crime in town in the last decade involved a drunk guy and a knife. Pick a party... Pick a state... They're all guilty of the pork.
Also, your last sentence doesn't seem to mean what you wanted it to mean... Either that or you have a really screwy vision of who needs the funds.
Now all you have to do is associate competence with IQ and you'll be on to something... But you can't.
You see, even stupid people can be good at things.
Anyway, IQ tests results are gaussian because the results are normalized. In other words, the results are made to fit the curve, like in highschool science class.
There is already an interface mod that (among others, like making fonts smaller and displaying 12 items/page instead of 6) gives you a much larger map (map basically takes the whole screen). Not resizable though.
I've seen that particular mod, and it seems sketchy.. It also is an all or nothing deal.
not say 'Loading Area...' every six seconds in huge-ass text
There are already, like, 3 mods for that.
And it kicks ass. Thanks.
Still... Morrowind worked the way you'd expect. You didn't need to know any tricks because the way you interact with just about every other PC everything was the way you interacted with the game. You shouldn't have to read the release notes to figure out how to play... And F[1-4]? What the hell? Is this a Sierra game from 1988? Why do they insist on me moving my hand when there are already plenty of useful but unmapped keys near my fingers already? And why not do whay, oh, every other PC game does and let me map those keys myself... Or even let me map them to a mouse button?
It's a great game, and I've played it for many hours already, but it doesn't live up to it's predecessor. As far as I'm concerned they could just make a whole new batch of content for that engine, perhaps with some updated textures, and I'd be happy for another 300 hours.
As an aside... Morrowind had official add-ons within days after release, but not so for Oblivion. I wonder if this is because they want to cater to those anti-competitive bastards at Microsoft who are bribing them to keep both versions the same...
You feel like a moron because you didn't think to shift click on the map? Shift clicking doesn't do anything, else, so why would you have thought to try it? It's not your fault the interface is so poorly designed.
Now all it needs is a way to resize the map, zoom in and out on the map, have the map on the game screen, allow you to drag items out of your inventory without closing the menu, get to your inventory from anywhere with a single button, drop things without having to close and re-open the menu several times because you happen to be standing close to something, have tool-tips or some easy way to figure out what on-screen status icons stand for, not say 'Loading Area...' every six seconds in huge-ass text, have font sizes that scale with resolution, allow you to haggle in shops without 4 clicks and a dialog between every attempt, select all items in a stack by holding shift, select one item in a stack by holding control, converse and persuade people without having them repeat the same four annoying lines over and over again, have a conversation history on screen while you're talking to somebody, and... [gasp for air]... Oh, hell. Just give me the Morrowind user interface back please.
The Oblivion interface is remarkably deficient. It's as far from perfect as it can get without crashing (and it does that sometimes too. Don't hit shift too many times in a row.)
You put on nice ironed clothing to lounge around the house on a weekend?
Yes.
I can go to TJ Maxx and get a pair of CK or Chaps jeans for under $20.
You can go to TJ Maxx and get a nice pair of Khakis for the same price as the jeans they sell. Do you ever even bother looking at that rack?
And I crawl around under desks, etc..
If you do blue collar work, then you should wear blue-collar clothes, and we're not talking about you. Programmers and engineers don't crawl under desks typically.
Aren't retailers going to be slightly annoyed that they're selling this hardware for next-to-no margin, just so the software can ultimately be sold directly via downloads?
Game retailers have rolled over and taken it up the... well... you know.. for publishers thus far. Why should they think they won't continue to do otherwise? There isn't a single big gaming retailer that hasn't done whatever the publishers have asked out of fear that they'll go WalMart only and cut the game stores out. Places like EB and Gamestop are willing to shit on their customers to appease the random restrictions imposed by the publishers. They'll roll over for low margins too (just like they did last generation).
You can get a very nice suit for around $300, but who said you have to wear a suit. A decent button down shirt ($15 on sale) and a nice pair of pants (the same price as jeans.. $30 range...) is all you need to not dress like a slob. You don't need to wear a suit.
you couldn't do mine in a million years. You need the product I, and people like me, provide; and good luck finding someone who dresses like you who can provide it.
They can hire a replacement for you in a matter of weeks.
I don't know you, or what you do, but statistically speaking I can say with a fair level of confidence that you're fully replaceable, even if the list of candidates is narrowed down to people who shower and shave. No matter how brilliant you are, there are many more like you or better.
Also, you couldn't do their job, not in a million years, if you have an attitude like that. You don't even know what it takes. Their world is as foreign to you as yours is to theirs.
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Yeah. Though it checks the cap when you log in, so you can download as much as you want as long as you do it in a single usenet session...
It is.
I've had FiOS for 6 months, and I had cable for 6 months.
I haven't had any FiOS downtime yet. None. I had my cable modem go down for a few seconds several times per day.
Plus, 2Mbit upstream!
Get the business version. It's worth it.
For $90 you can get the business FiOS, and you'll have 15MB down, 2MB(!) up, and 5 statics, all with no PPPoE and latencies that would make your cable modem drool. Plus, the ToS lets you do pretty much whatever you want except spam, and there are no blocked ports. If you were willing to pay $128/month before...
For me, it's totally worth it, and I'm never going back.
Too bad comcast cuts you off after 800MB of usenet in a month. Nothing like hitting your cap in under 10 Minutes.
Unlike their crappy copper network, my FiOS connection has 2mbit upstream. I generally get 220KBps transfer rates between home and work. Latencies for gaming are practically non-existant. VPN usage is actually pleasent now.
Sure, DSL is fine compared to comcast, but compared to Verizon's FiOS, they're only telling half the story.
That's exactly right.
If you are the type that ends up compulsively looking at pornography, you'd be the type that would pick some other non-pornographic compulsive activity were the pornography not available. The fact that pornography is mentioned in the title just keeps the grant money flowing for studies, etc...
Also: If you're in a relationship where you are ashamed or embarrassed about some of your behavior, so you have to hide it from your signifigant other, or feel like you have to hide it, you've got a problem that is probably much more serious then whatever it is that you're doing. Is the guy from the article's wife going to be more upset that the guy has been looking at porn for the last five years, or that he's been doing it in secret and hiding it? His wife may not even mind porn... I mean, women like sexual activity too, but nobody likes feeling like their trust was betrayed. He's betrying his wife's trust by hiding something about himself from her.
Oh, and yes... I spelled flippant wrong too... Oops. It was a typo.
Yes, you were, and in context it doesn't mean what you're implying it means.
You said:
you shouldn't play the "kneejerk racism" card every time one side of the conflict is a majority of one race
Which doesn't make any sense really, since there's no conflict. We're discussing the difference between making informed decisions, or making a one sided judgement (there has to be at least two involved parties for conflict, BTW) based solely on the fact that somebody (or some corporation) is foreign.
I don't understand how you make the leap from there to what I said being an assumption that somebody was racist. Show me where I assumed or accused anybody of anything other than not thinking through the alternative when making a flipant comment.
For you to make that assumption makes you the racist by automatically assuming the intentions of that side based on its predominant race.
You seriously need a lesson in reading comprehension I think.
You seem to think I'm saying exactly the opposite of what I said.
Uh, actually it came out last week.
The $40 price tag on games that cost $20 for the PS2 is what's killing the PSP. Who wants to pay $40 for something you can get cheaper elsewhere?
How do you figure? Isn't this what they should *actually* be doing, so we make rational decisions instead of using kneejerk racisim to eliminate foreign business? They should investigate, so we can base decisions on facts for a change.
Ok, first of all, I dug out the manual and double checked just now because I did read it before, and F1-4 aren't even documented in there. Only F5 and F9. Same goes for most of the other "shortcuts" listed in this thread.
Second, yes. I'm suggesting that an immersive game world that austensably contains a built in tutorial should have a user interface that stays out of the way so much that you shouldn't need a manual to figure out how to play it. Other games manage it. Morrowind managed it. So yes. You shouldn't have to RTFM.
Not just an install guide that most games come with these days.
That's a joke, right? Have you seen what's been happening to game manuals for all but the most complex of games lately?
In fact, the state with the best divorce rate is Massachusetts, which started the wingnuts on their crusade in the first place.
Have you seen how divorces work in Massachusetts? They've got some puritanical divorce judges to go along with their silly ultra-concervative blue laws.
Be careful how you draw the line between red and blue. It's not as black and white as the mainstream entertainment networks wish it was.
Oddly enough, it seems to be most prevalent in the Red States that are so incredibly vocal about...
Oh, please. I'm guessing that you only pay attention to negative details about people you disagree with. Look around some blue states now and then. Tell me why back-woods suburbs need a fleet of SUV patrol "cars" and a million dollar 4" thick bullet-proof vestibule in their police station lobby when the only violent crime in town in the last decade involved a drunk guy and a knife. Pick a party... Pick a state... They're all guilty of the pork.
Also, your last sentence doesn't seem to mean what you wanted it to mean... Either that or you have a really screwy vision of who needs the funds.
Now all you have to do is associate competence with IQ and you'll be on to something... But you can't.
You see, even stupid people can be good at things.
Anyway, IQ tests results are gaussian because the results are normalized. In other words, the results are made to fit the curve, like in highschool science class.
There is already an interface mod that (among others, like making fonts smaller and displaying 12 items/page instead of 6) gives you a much larger map (map basically takes the whole screen). Not resizable though.
I've seen that particular mod, and it seems sketchy.. It also is an all or nothing deal.
not say 'Loading Area...' every six seconds in huge-ass text
There are already, like, 3 mods for that.
And it kicks ass. Thanks.
Still... Morrowind worked the way you'd expect. You didn't need to know any tricks because the way you interact with just about every other PC everything was the way you interacted with the game. You shouldn't have to read the release notes to figure out how to play... And F[1-4]? What the hell? Is this a Sierra game from 1988? Why do they insist on me moving my hand when there are already plenty of useful but unmapped keys near my fingers already? And why not do whay, oh, every other PC game does and let me map those keys myself... Or even let me map them to a mouse button?
It's a great game, and I've played it for many hours already, but it doesn't live up to it's predecessor. As far as I'm concerned they could just make a whole new batch of content for that engine, perhaps with some updated textures, and I'd be happy for another 300 hours.
As an aside... Morrowind had official add-ons within days after release, but not so for Oblivion. I wonder if this is because they want to cater to those anti-competitive bastards at Microsoft who are bribing them to keep both versions the same...
You feel like a moron because you didn't think to shift click on the map? Shift clicking doesn't do anything, else, so why would you have thought to try it? It's not your fault the interface is so poorly designed.
Now all it needs is a way to resize the map, zoom in and out on the map, have the map on the game screen, allow you to drag items out of your inventory without closing the menu, get to your inventory from anywhere with a single button, drop things without having to close and re-open the menu several times because you happen to be standing close to something, have tool-tips or some easy way to figure out what on-screen status icons stand for, not say 'Loading Area...' every six seconds in huge-ass text, have font sizes that scale with resolution, allow you to haggle in shops without 4 clicks and a dialog between every attempt, select all items in a stack by holding shift, select one item in a stack by holding control, converse and persuade people without having them repeat the same four annoying lines over and over again, have a conversation history on screen while you're talking to somebody, and... [gasp for air]... Oh, hell. Just give me the Morrowind user interface back please.
The Oblivion interface is remarkably deficient. It's as far from perfect as it can get without crashing (and it does that sometimes too. Don't hit shift too many times in a row.)
You put on nice ironed clothing to lounge around the house on a weekend?
Yes.
I can go to TJ Maxx and get a pair of CK or Chaps jeans for under $20.
You can go to TJ Maxx and get a nice pair of Khakis for the same price as the jeans they sell. Do you ever even bother looking at that rack?
And I crawl around under desks, etc..
If you do blue collar work, then you should wear blue-collar clothes, and we're not talking about you. Programmers and engineers don't crawl under desks typically.
Aren't retailers going to be slightly annoyed that they're selling this hardware for next-to-no margin, just so the software can ultimately be sold directly via downloads?
Game retailers have rolled over and taken it up the... well... you know.. for publishers thus far. Why should they think they won't continue to do otherwise? There isn't a single big gaming retailer that hasn't done whatever the publishers have asked out of fear that they'll go WalMart only and cut the game stores out. Places like EB and Gamestop are willing to shit on their customers to appease the random restrictions imposed by the publishers. They'll roll over for low margins too (just like they did last generation).
What price is that, exactly?
Do you have information that nobody else has and only a few dare to make-up authoritatively?
You can get a very nice suit for around $300, but who said you have to wear a suit. A decent button down shirt ($15 on sale) and a nice pair of pants (the same price as jeans.. $30 range...) is all you need to not dress like a slob. You don't need to wear a suit.
you couldn't do mine in a million years. You need the product I, and people like me, provide; and good luck finding someone who dresses like you who can provide it.
They can hire a replacement for you in a matter of weeks.
I don't know you, or what you do, but statistically speaking I can say with a fair level of confidence that you're fully replaceable, even if the list of candidates is narrowed down to people who shower and shave. No matter how brilliant you are, there are many more like you or better.
Also, you couldn't do their job, not in a million years, if you have an attitude like that. You don't even know what it takes. Their world is as foreign to you as yours is to theirs.
'Color' should have said 'collar' in that post. Damnit.