Nah. This is one of those MMO based announcements. It was supposed to be the MMO that killed WoW, lots of people switched for all of about 2mo, before they realized that the grind was so heavy you needed to dedicate your life to it. Not as bad as FF or anything, but plenty bad enough. The reality is everyone has been spoiled, for lack of a better word because of WoW. They know playing it, that if you stop for 3mo and you're way under the gear cap you can run heroics and get the gear. If you only want to play for 2hrs a week, you can, and still get somewhere at the end of the game without grouping with anyone.
We do something similar via the RCMP and MP's from the military and RAD here in Canada, but it's aimed for kids and takes 7mins. If you're interested look up, but 20mins is far too long. If you can do it in under 10 and make it easy enough a grade schooler can figure it out then you're all set.
Was going to mention this, but glad to see someone beat me to it. It's really not that hard to make your own scanner, in fact when I was in high school(over 15yrs ago), we built our own OBDI/II computer diagnostic scanner for our shop, hooked upto an Amiga1000. And you're talking about a bunch of guys(and one girl); who knew nothing about computer programing at the time. Or the basic understanding of the system. But we could follow directions, and knew how to wire breadboards. If there's someone here on/. who doesn't know how to wire a breadboard, turn in your geek card now.
I see I struck a few nerves. Remember mods, there's a difference between trolling and telling the truth as it is; and the truth you don't want to hear.
Hah. Right you are, been about 15yrs since I've played with one when I was in high school freaking brilliant transmission. I never did like the turbo-hydromatics. Too much could go wrong with them.
Half the people on/. are environuts, another part don't know the science and claim that they do. Don't expect it to change overnight as in the US they've had 30 odd years of anti-nuclear BS shoved down their throats by environmentalists who want the world back in the stone age.
They were used in cars, back in the '60's. The actual name of the transmission escapes me right now, but they came in both mechanical and hydraulic flavors. One gave you more torque, the other more power. Bah, and I'm sure they weren't called hydrostatic, but they could do exactly the same things. GM put them on their super-blocks.
Seriously, that's the biggest problem in Ontario(cdn), stripped VIN's from junkers onto another car. With the riveting to match. Not only that, there have been a few cases where the VIN on the engines have been ground and re-stamped as well. Body frames, usually they'll just grind them off. These of course are vehicals all having been stolen, and they're trying to be sold out of country.
But, it's also become big business in the province ala this: Thief buys junker from wrecker($300-1k cost) Goes out steals matching vehicle ($0 cost) Lists vehicle in paper/auto trader/whatever for $10k or whatever Individual gets vin runs normal check, sees that it's a wrecker Bells and lights go off in persons head, thief replies it's an excellent repair(buddy, of a friend who does repairs/etc) Sells vehicle, net profit $9600ish.
That in itself is the problem. If I wrote down everything I did, I'd be more capable then most IT admins these days, the problem is I don't have that fancy piece of paper floating in front of my name. I do have a couple of others, but companies put far too much trust in the paper then the individual. The whole big push of 4yr uni/college/whatever for 20-80k/debt is messing up the job market when you're getting into a job that pays $38-65k/yr.
Where I live(that mystical place called Canada), they figured out that it cost businesses more money if there were meters then 2hr free parking, along with 15min errand spots. When we switched from meters to non, business downtown went up by 40%, and so did the available tax revenue.
I don't. It looks like someone puked down half the screen. I'm not normally a person to care too much as long as I have an option, I have no option. Much like youtube, where their redesign is personally hated as a facebook rip-off. It's seems that in both cases, the redesigns are universally disliked, but good ol' google is being evil by not responding to consumer complaints over it. Other than "screw, you."
Outside of the browser type stuff, there would be more people switching to other OS's myself included; if developers for games wrote stuff in more then just the DX API, or there was native support for DX in 'nix.
The first time I used steam was when HL came with my video card, and I got a free download for it. Sometimes I don't want to patch a game, because I like it the way it is. Sometimes it introduces new bugs. The offline mode sucks, especially when it randomly decides to kick back on and authenticate, minimizing the game; leading to a wonderful crash. Have had a few backups for all the games, they majority refused to restore. And those that did, automatically applied the patches.
The game prices are about the only benefit to the entire system. There's still no physical media where I can sell my games if I get tired of it. There's no chance for a turn around either. I enjoy my physical media, besides there's nothing stopping them from turning around and nuking your account, and all your games along with it. It's pretty hard to stop someone from saying I can't play my physical media games.
Bell.ca is the homepage, but let us not forget that in the last year Bell has attempted to launch their own "by the show/by the movie" download service too.
I don't know where you're from, but even my ancient ISP way back when, when it was by-the-hour(remember BTH was to ensure you didn't clog the piss out of the nodes), had very generous connection times. 220/hr a month. Unlimited came out for them right after radius became dirt cheap, and they were the only game in town. Infact the price went from $29/mo, to 24/mo, to 19/mo as they got more subscribers. And this was back in 1990...and I lived in the middle of no-where ontario.
What's wrong is UBB is applied at the GAS level. Which means that independent ISP's who use their own network are also forced to pass this onto their customers even if they in turn have their own private network, and have paid Bell/Rogers/Telus/etc for access to the line. It's been proven in the past that the amount of service per node is way under what compaines like Bell are actually telling the CRTC. The problem is the CRTC is full of former industry execs. The majority of Canadians also know that the CRTC screws over the average customer through this, and via other things.
Originally the CRTC was meant to ensure that the market remained fair. Now it exists to screw the consumer, and maximize the profit of corporations. An interesting point, Bell for example is building a "next generation network" aka FFTN/FFTH, and they receive the majority of the funding through... you guessed it GAS.
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Nah. This is one of those MMO based announcements. It was supposed to be the MMO that killed WoW, lots of people switched for all of about 2mo, before they realized that the grind was so heavy you needed to dedicate your life to it. Not as bad as FF or anything, but plenty bad enough. The reality is everyone has been spoiled, for lack of a better word because of WoW. They know playing it, that if you stop for 3mo and you're way under the gear cap you can run heroics and get the gear. If you only want to play for 2hrs a week, you can, and still get somewhere at the end of the game without grouping with anyone.
Actually when CO2 and temperature are at their highest, you get the most green growth and a full reversal of desertification.
That's not marketing to liberals. That's marketing to the soccer mom's and dads who feel guilty.
That's because it's hard to create mods that are malicious when they have no executable code, and run in a sandbox.
We do something similar via the RCMP and MP's from the military and RAD here in Canada, but it's aimed for kids and takes 7mins. If you're interested look up, but 20mins is far too long. If you can do it in under 10 and make it easy enough a grade schooler can figure it out then you're all set.
Good to see you know next to nothing about the order in standing of policing. Carry on.
Was going to mention this, but glad to see someone beat me to it. It's really not that hard to make your own scanner, in fact when I was in high school(over 15yrs ago), we built our own OBDI/II computer diagnostic scanner for our shop, hooked upto an Amiga1000. And you're talking about a bunch of guys(and one girl); who knew nothing about computer programing at the time. Or the basic understanding of the system. But we could follow directions, and knew how to wire breadboards. If there's someone here on /. who doesn't know how to wire a breadboard, turn in your geek card now.
I see I struck a few nerves. Remember mods, there's a difference between trolling and telling the truth as it is; and the truth you don't want to hear.
Hah. Right you are, been about 15yrs since I've played with one when I was in high school freaking brilliant transmission. I never did like the turbo-hydromatics. Too much could go wrong with them.
Half the people on /. are environuts, another part don't know the science and claim that they do. Don't expect it to change overnight as in the US they've had 30 odd years of anti-nuclear BS shoved down their throats by environmentalists who want the world back in the stone age.
They were used in cars, back in the '60's. The actual name of the transmission escapes me right now, but they came in both mechanical and hydraulic flavors. One gave you more torque, the other more power. Bah, and I'm sure they weren't called hydrostatic, but they could do exactly the same things. GM put them on their super-blocks.
Seriously, that's the biggest problem in Ontario(cdn), stripped VIN's from junkers onto another car. With the riveting to match. Not only that, there have been a few cases where the VIN on the engines have been ground and re-stamped as well. Body frames, usually they'll just grind them off. These of course are vehicals all having been stolen, and they're trying to be sold out of country.
But, it's also become big business in the province ala this:
Thief buys junker from wrecker($300-1k cost)
Goes out steals matching vehicle ($0 cost)
Lists vehicle in paper/auto trader/whatever for $10k or whatever
Individual gets vin runs normal check, sees that it's a wrecker
Bells and lights go off in persons head, thief replies it's an excellent repair(buddy, of a friend who does repairs/etc)
Sells vehicle, net profit $9600ish.
Yeah, it's shitty. It's also a pain.
That in itself is the problem. If I wrote down everything I did, I'd be more capable then most IT admins these days, the problem is I don't have that fancy piece of paper floating in front of my name. I do have a couple of others, but companies put far too much trust in the paper then the individual. The whole big push of 4yr uni/college/whatever for 20-80k/debt is messing up the job market when you're getting into a job that pays $38-65k/yr.
Where I live(that mystical place called Canada), they figured out that it cost businesses more money if there were meters then 2hr free parking, along with 15min errand spots. When we switched from meters to non, business downtown went up by 40%, and so did the available tax revenue.
MS never released it for XP64, this kinda leaves XP64 w/sp2 users going wtf.
I don't. It looks like someone puked down half the screen. I'm not normally a person to care too much as long as I have an option, I have no option. Much like youtube, where their redesign is personally hated as a facebook rip-off. It's seems that in both cases, the redesigns are universally disliked, but good ol' google is being evil by not responding to consumer complaints over it. Other than "screw, you."
Because it is. It's a hands, wrapping around your head, weeping type of funny.
What makes consoles so special?
It's easier to screw owners over.
Outside of the browser type stuff, there would be more people switching to other OS's myself included; if developers for games wrote stuff in more then just the DX API, or there was native support for DX in 'nix.
Not only their own TV-over-IP service, but their own PPV/POD service for movies.
The first time I used steam was when HL came with my video card, and I got a free download for it. Sometimes I don't want to patch a game, because I like it the way it is. Sometimes it introduces new bugs. The offline mode sucks, especially when it randomly decides to kick back on and authenticate, minimizing the game; leading to a wonderful crash. Have had a few backups for all the games, they majority refused to restore. And those that did, automatically applied the patches.
The game prices are about the only benefit to the entire system. There's still no physical media where I can sell my games if I get tired of it. There's no chance for a turn around either. I enjoy my physical media, besides there's nothing stopping them from turning around and nuking your account, and all your games along with it. It's pretty hard to stop someone from saying I can't play my physical media games.
Bell.ca is the homepage, but let us not forget that in the last year Bell has attempted to launch their own "by the show/by the movie" download service too.
I don't know where you're from, but even my ancient ISP way back when, when it was by-the-hour(remember BTH was to ensure you didn't clog the piss out of the nodes), had very generous connection times. 220/hr a month. Unlimited came out for them right after radius became dirt cheap, and they were the only game in town. Infact the price went from $29/mo, to 24/mo, to 19/mo as they got more subscribers. And this was back in 1990...and I lived in the middle of no-where ontario.
What's wrong is UBB is applied at the GAS level. Which means that independent ISP's who use their own network are also forced to pass this onto their customers even if they in turn have their own private network, and have paid Bell/Rogers/Telus/etc for access to the line. It's been proven in the past that the amount of service per node is way under what compaines like Bell are actually telling the CRTC. The problem is the CRTC is full of former industry execs. The majority of Canadians also know that the CRTC screws over the average customer through this, and via other things.
Originally the CRTC was meant to ensure that the market remained fair. Now it exists to screw the consumer, and maximize the profit of corporations. An interesting point, Bell for example is building a "next generation network" aka FFTN/FFTH, and they receive the majority of the funding through ... you guessed it GAS.
Looks like via a quick search on TV news, that would be Fox as they had Michael Geist on. No one else has reported on it.