I play *with* my friends in a casino... big difference, if we're at the same table. Not necessarily colluding, but staying out of each other's way taking the fish's money.
Sprint doesn't use GSM/GPRS, they use CDMA/EVDO, which can piggyback on Verizon and Alltel towers in certain markets. Since Verizon recently rolled out EVDO in all their markets, that helps a lot.
Season passes let you pad the recordings by up to 5 minutes early or two hours (!) late. Not usually an issue except on Sundays during football season when the simpsons gets pushed back.
If you buy a DVR without a subscription, and use it as a solid state VCR, you take away everything that's remotely advantageous of having a DVR, in my opinion.
Season Pass (or the equivalent) makes recording all new showings of your favorite programs hassle free. If you're using it as a VCR, and the show ends up swapping time slots without your knowledge (you're probably ffwing through commercials that would warn you...) you risk missing the show in it's new time slot. Or if it's pre-empted by another program, or delayed, etc.
If you're not looking to pay a subscription, just download the shows off bittorrent or usenet.
Just go get a money order from the post office or even a convenience store.
Doing everything in cash, imo, is sort of retarded. I don't particularly trust banks either, but when inconvenience impacts me regularly, I make concessions.
We did much the same thing at one of my past jobs. We had contests among the IT staff to see who could make the prettiest designs in hard drive platters.
Data can still be recovered. It may only be bits and pieces of files, but it can still be recovered. Clean room data recovery can do some pretty amazing things now.
The only "sure" way is to melt down the platters and make pretty jewelry with them.
Go there instead. Makes a nice, pdf posting, including userpics and comments. Granted, you do have to give them your login/pw, but I use them every six months and haven't seen anything out of sorts with them yet.
I'm the same way regarding michael bay, but then I realize that it's being produced by spielberg, so that sort of counteracts my distaste for michael bay.
Same thing with pirates of the caribbean...I hate most jerry bruckheimer movies, but johnny depp sort of cancels him out too.
A lot of places are running "Specials" right now, giving you a relatively decent piece of iron but very little bandwidth for ~$100/mo
Other places give you less impressive hardware but more bandwidth for about the same price.
I personally host with Cyberwurx, a p4 3.0, 512mb ram, 80gb hd and 500gb bandwidth for $95/mo, and they'll install your choice of Linux on it, or even boot you into a gentoo live cd so you can roll your own.
If you go that route, put "vanamar" in your referral code!
There's plenty of oil in the united states, it's just that extracting and processing this crude is expensive, and a lot of it is on "protected land" in Alaska. There's also many oil wells in the Gulf that are going unprocessed due to environmentalist concerns.
The only reason we still provide money to the Middle East cartels is because it's more economically feasible... the average american doesn't want to pay $5/gallon for gasoline.
I ran into more than my fair share of UAC prompts in the 3-4 days following my Vista install, mostly because I was installing programs (openoffice, etc etc) and it prompted me.
After that, I haven't received any, except when running windows update.
Difficulty? WoW is made for casual gamers. I've gotten an alt to level sixty (pre BoC) in less than 96 hours played time.
Community? In EQ, you were forced to group, unless you played one of a handful of classes. Being forced to interact with other people built up a sense of community. All I saw in WoW were random names that happened to be going the same places I was.
Competition? The prevalence of instancing in WoW basically destroyed the idea of competition. All that you have is who is first to beat new content. There's no more racing for big named mobs, which was part of the fun of EQ, imo.
Yes, but then you're in deep doodoo when people who've never met you nor him hear or read what he's said and they take it as truth, then when you need that person, it comes back to haunt you.
Character assassination is wrong, and should be punished. That's why there are defamation lawsuits.
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You play against your friends in a casino? tsk.
I play *with* my friends in a casino... big difference, if we're at the same table. Not necessarily colluding, but staying out of each other's way taking the fish's money.
The main difference between poker and blackjack...
Blackjack is a game of luck that involves skill.
Poker is a game of skill that involves luck.
"Application deadline is April 1, 2007"
So why is this even being submitted now? It's not like it has any relevance for the rest of the year.
Sprint doesn't use GSM/GPRS, they use CDMA/EVDO, which can piggyback on Verizon and Alltel towers in certain markets. Since Verizon recently rolled out EVDO in all their markets, that helps a lot.
It worked outside of the game genre for Nine Inch Nails' new album "Year Zero"
I haven't seen one that can automatically detect it, but the padding is an option in every recording you set up, including season passes.
My Tivo is sitting gathering dust because it won't change channels reliably on my hd receiver, so I dunno if they've updated the software recently.
Season passes let you pad the recordings by up to 5 minutes early or two hours (!) late. Not usually an issue except on Sundays during football season when the simpsons gets pushed back.
Hm, lessee.
If you buy a DVR without a subscription, and use it as a solid state VCR, you take away everything that's remotely advantageous of having a DVR, in my opinion.
Season Pass (or the equivalent) makes recording all new showings of your favorite programs hassle free. If you're using it as a VCR, and the show ends up swapping time slots without your knowledge (you're probably ffwing through commercials that would warn you...) you risk missing the show in it's new time slot. Or if it's pre-empted by another program, or delayed, etc.
If you're not looking to pay a subscription, just download the shows off bittorrent or usenet.
What are you going to do when your TV listing service for Myth cuts their free access?
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Well, see...
If you provide the receipt, the payee can then contact western union (say) or the post office (say) or whoever issued the money order.
"Where and when was this money order deposited from, and who endorsed it?"
Easily proving fraud, eh.
Just go get a money order from the post office or even a convenience store.
Doing everything in cash, imo, is sort of retarded. I don't particularly trust banks either, but when inconvenience impacts me regularly, I make concessions.
I haven't run into the spyware yet that the adaware/spybot/cwshredder combo won't fix, when you run the aforementioned in safe mode.
We did much the same thing at one of my past jobs. We had contests among the IT staff to see who could make the prettiest designs in hard drive platters.
Data can still be recovered. It may only be bits and pieces of files, but it can still be recovered. Clean room data recovery can do some pretty amazing things now.
The only "sure" way is to melt down the platters and make pretty jewelry with them.
we've slashdotted livejournal!
o noez, teh h0rr0r!
http://www.ljbook.com/
Go there instead. Makes a nice, pdf posting, including userpics and comments. Granted, you do have to give them your login/pw, but I use them every six months and haven't seen anything out of sorts with them yet.
Livejournal is no longer the company that it was was.
once danga got bought out by sixapart, things started falling to shit.
Just use a good tracker that hosts the original files from the release group, Sample/ subdirectory included, and download the sample first...
I'm the same way regarding michael bay, but then I realize that it's being produced by spielberg, so that sort of counteracts my distaste for michael bay.
Same thing with pirates of the caribbean...I hate most jerry bruckheimer movies, but johnny depp sort of cancels him out too.
Getting rid of most std's is easier than getting rid of some spyware/viruses...
Consider your average spyware/virus akin to chlamydia or syph, while the really nasty stuff is more like aids/herpes...
Granted, you can't reformat your body and get rid of it, but if you consider a reformat more along the lines of reincarnation...
How much are you willing to pay?
A lot of places are running "Specials" right now, giving you a relatively decent piece of iron but very little bandwidth for ~$100/mo
Other places give you less impressive hardware but more bandwidth for about the same price.
I personally host with Cyberwurx, a p4 3.0, 512mb ram, 80gb hd and 500gb bandwidth for $95/mo, and they'll install your choice of Linux on it, or even boot you into a gentoo live cd so you can roll your own.
If you go that route, put "vanamar" in your referral code!
There's plenty of oil in the united states, it's just that extracting and processing this crude is expensive, and a lot of it is on "protected land" in Alaska. There's also many oil wells in the Gulf that are going unprocessed due to environmentalist concerns.
The only reason we still provide money to the Middle East cartels is because it's more economically feasible... the average american doesn't want to pay $5/gallon for gasoline.
Agreeing with you completely.
I ran into more than my fair share of UAC prompts in the 3-4 days following my Vista install, mostly because I was installing programs (openoffice, etc etc) and it prompted me.
After that, I haven't received any, except when running windows update.
Difficulty? WoW is made for casual gamers. I've gotten an alt to level sixty (pre BoC) in less than 96 hours played time.
Community? In EQ, you were forced to group, unless you played one of a handful of classes. Being forced to interact with other people built up a sense of community. All I saw in WoW were random names that happened to be going the same places I was.
Competition? The prevalence of instancing in WoW basically destroyed the idea of competition. All that you have is who is first to beat new content. There's no more racing for big named mobs, which was part of the fun of EQ, imo.
Yes, but then you're in deep doodoo when people who've never met you nor him hear or read what he's said and they take it as truth, then when you need that person, it comes back to haunt you.
Character assassination is wrong, and should be punished. That's why there are defamation lawsuits.