We have these Vax's at work, biggest single computer I've ever seen in my life. 7 feet talk, 5 feet wide, 5 feet back. You walk by it and your fillings hurt.
"Report: I have no idea if you'll get this message. While ice fishing, the penquins broke in and did something to the computer. I really have no idea what they did, but the dominant male of the group tells me he's coming back tomorrow to finish configuring X, whatever that means."
EXACTLY. The farther you go back, the better(stability wise) software gets. Legacy hardware is even better. The only way you're getting a Vax machine to crash is if you push it off a table.
Faster mana regeneration..one of the few mana regenerating items that can be traded, hence the value.
The Manastone is an item that no longer drops in the game that allowed you to sacrifice health for mana..but if you had healing spells you could quickly fill up both health and mana, making you more or less a walking god.
You're smoking cherry-flavored crack. I play the game regularly, and the highest priced item in the game(except for people trying to charge laughable amounts for manastones) are boots of the flowing slime, and they NEVER go for more than 200k. Give me an example of an item you're talking about.
Quite the opposite in fact. Had they actually been allowed here, they would have been able to defend themselves and maybe create more attention for their case. I suppose it's good they won't be in a situation to face jail or stiff fines, but I wish they could've been allowed to have their voices heard in court.
Rotation of the planet below? You are aware planes fly, right? And whatever gravitational forces are at work on that plane should be equal on the plane at all times. Distance is distance, my only conclusion is that for some reason the plane doesn't fly as fast on the way back, but I have no idea why.
I must be missing something. Why is it quicker getting there than coming back? And no, it doesn't have shit to do with the date line, overall flight time is overall flight time.
I'm assuming then that if you're not buying it, you don't have it, in any form, correct? If you're downloading the music you want whenever you want, you really don't have a leg to stand on to call anyone on how they conduct their business in the digital world, do you?
I really don't know why, but your line of thinking in this thread really bothered me. You call this new format all but evil without citing one example, then when asked the legitamite question of "what will you do when it's all that's left?" you basically say "it doesn't matter, because I don't buy cd's anyway". Then what does it matter if this new format releases ebola in to the air? Are you really the self-appointed champion of a cause that you don't even participate in? At best you're simply stirring up bland and tasteless controversy in a shallow attempt to karma whore, and at worst you're a worthless music pirate that has the potential to do more harm than good in this fight against this format, if even a fight is to be had. More likely than not, it's barely above laughable.
If these mod chips become any more difficult to obtain, I might have to buy the games I want...alright, fuck that, how much does a plane ticket to Hong Kong cost? Can't be that much, right?
Every time I see those damn free CD's, the amount of free time goes up. The last time I saw them I think it was 1250 hours, which has probably gone up by now. Give it another year or two, and it will be something like "6 decades free!".
First of all, thank you for the comment about my posts being usually more intelligent. I was getting modded down for making serious anti-piracy posts, so I made a humorous one, and it got modded up. Big suprise.
As for your comments, this is exactly what I'm talking about. I, myself, commit piracy. Not on any grand scale, but maybe a program here or there, and a song if I heard it on the radio and liked it. The thing that seperates me from the majority of/. users is the fact that I don't attempt to justify it to myself using shallow logic. It is NOT your decision which laws you are going to obey(and please don't bring up people like Ghandi or Martin Luther King Jr., you're stealing movies, not fighting for the rights of a race of people). "I'm happy, isn't that enough?" I honestly cannot believe you said that. No, it's not enough. That movie, and all it's rights belong to someone. You pay for the privalige of watching it. If you don't like the price, or can't afford it, tough. Watching a movie is not something you need to live, it's a privalige.
Your moral compass holds no weight in a court room. While I wonder if "I'm letting my conscious be my guide" has worked for you before, remember it doesn't mean jack shit in the world of actual laws.
Damn, I thought I was alone. Don't let it get you down, though. In the world technology and computing,/. is a joke. No one takes this site seriously anymore, and it's dismissed as a haven of wanna-be hackers and software pirates. What's funny is, watch how the posts die down during weekends. My bet is it's because/. is generally "tolerable-browsing" in the workplace, so you'll notice higher numbers during weekdays.
You've done it now. Don't you know that all of us at Slashdot can justify ANY type of action with ANY type of media? Lemme whip out my magic 8 ball of "why I pirated this movie"..(SHAKING)..ahh, haven't seen that one in a while: "I wasn't going to pay to see it in the theatre anyways, so I can download it because Lucas isn't losing money either way"..any oldie but goody. Maybe next time you'll think twice before you bring your "laws" in here. I mean honestly, I didn't like the last Star Wars movie, so I have to be entitled to download burn this one to divx for compensation, right? It's only fair.
I agree, I'm just saying it would be EXTREMELY difficult to enforce on a scale as large as Ebay. Another example of a website that's pretty damn Shady is IBill.Com. Roughly two months ago I was feeling a little, uh, eager, so I sign up for this pr0n site, 3 day trial. 10 seconds later my online banking statement shows a $49.99 withdrawl. So I freak, call them, and they say that for the 3 days they "hold" the money for me. After I flip out on them like a ninja for 5 minutes, they agree to cancel the subscription. Appeased, I hang up, check my account. Still there. So I go to bed, get up the next day at noonish, still gone. Call them back, they tell me it takes 15 days for the money to go back in. What kind of bullshit is this? It's an electronic transfer! They can take it out in 10 fucking seconds but putting it back in takes 2 weeks?
As much as it sucks, I don't know what Ebay could do about it. They aren't a police force, so their investigations wouldn't be admissable in any form, and obviously they don't have the resources to hire the real police whenever someone complained of fraud, so they're more or less helpless to prove it. As much I would LOVE to see the policy of "If Seller A takes Buyer A's money and doesn't deliver the product, we'll take that amount of money from Seller A's credit card and give it to Buyer A" I know it could never work, because for every honest case of fraud, you would the people who actually got the product, and then lied and said they never did. Obviously not everyone ships using FedEx or UPS, so package tracking would be pretty hard, and downright impossible on a massive scale.
As much as it sucks, Ebay will never be able to play policeman. It's not what they do, and they don't have the time or money to do it. The best advice is just look at someone's rating and hope for the best. Another good tip is if you can find the item in the real world, or even through a site that specializes in that product, go through them. It may be a little more money, but you know it's going to get there.
I fail to see how the economic well being of this generation is faltering for any reason save poor money habits. The article speaks of this "great depression" and yet all the replies are littered with sob stories that equate to nothing more than "I have to buy everything I see and I can't save shit." The whining about the DOT com industry fallout is even more pathetic/funny. Oh boo-friggin-hoo, you can't find a job where you get a BMW, 100k a year, and free privaliges to shoot your co-workers with nerf-guns. Of course, no buisiness plan, but who needs a buisiness plan when you have vision, right? Listen babies, save your money, set up a debt payment system, and quit going to Best Buy 4 times a week.
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We have these Vax's at work, biggest single computer I've ever seen in my life. 7 feet talk, 5 feet wide, 5 feet back. You walk by it and your fillings hurt.
For future reference, == tests a relationship, = assigns a value.
"Report: I have no idea if you'll get this message. While ice fishing, the penquins broke in and did something to the computer. I really have no idea what they did, but the dominant male of the group tells me he's coming back tomorrow to finish configuring X, whatever that means."
EXACTLY. The farther you go back, the better(stability wise) software gets. Legacy hardware is even better. The only way you're getting a Vax machine to crash is if you push it off a table.
If you had bothered to test them you would've seen he was mecha.
Faster mana regeneration..one of the few mana regenerating items that can be traded, hence the value.
The Manastone is an item that no longer drops in the game that allowed you to sacrifice health for mana..but if you had healing spells you could quickly fill up both health and mana, making you more or less a walking god.
You're smoking cherry-flavored crack. I play the game regularly, and the highest priced item in the game(except for people trying to charge laughable amounts for manastones) are boots of the flowing slime, and they NEVER go for more than 200k. Give me an example of an item you're talking about.
Quite the opposite in fact. Had they actually been allowed here, they would have been able to defend themselves and maybe create more attention for their case. I suppose it's good they won't be in a situation to face jail or stiff fines, but I wish they could've been allowed to have their voices heard in court.
Mr. Garrison: You wait the whole god-damned movie to see an alien and it ends up looking like her god-damned father!
Rotation of the planet below? You are aware planes fly, right? And whatever gravitational forces are at work on that plane should be equal on the plane at all times. Distance is distance, my only conclusion is that for some reason the plane doesn't fly as fast on the way back, but I have no idea why.
I must be missing something. Why is it quicker getting there than coming back? And no, it doesn't have shit to do with the date line, overall flight time is overall flight time.
I'm assuming then that if you're not buying it, you don't have it, in any form, correct? If you're downloading the music you want whenever you want, you really don't have a leg to stand on to call anyone on how they conduct their business in the digital world, do you?
I really don't know why, but your line of thinking in this thread really bothered me. You call this new format all but evil without citing one example, then when asked the legitamite question of "what will you do when it's all that's left?" you basically say "it doesn't matter, because I don't buy cd's anyway". Then what does it matter if this new format releases ebola in to the air? Are you really the self-appointed champion of a cause that you don't even participate in? At best you're simply stirring up bland and tasteless controversy in a shallow attempt to karma whore, and at worst you're a worthless music pirate that has the potential to do more harm than good in this fight against this format, if even a fight is to be had. More likely than not, it's barely above laughable.
That all depends. From a gadgets standpoint, I be there are some pretty cool warehouses in Hong Kong, chocked full of toys.
If these mod chips become any more difficult to obtain, I might have to buy the games I want...alright, fuck that, how much does a plane ticket to Hong Kong cost? Can't be that much, right?
Every time I see those damn free CD's, the amount of free time goes up. The last time I saw them I think it was 1250 hours, which has probably gone up by now. Give it another year or two, and it will be something like "6 decades free!".
First of all, thank you for the comment about my posts being usually more intelligent. I was getting modded down for making serious anti-piracy posts, so I made a humorous one, and it got modded up. Big suprise.
/. users is the fact that I don't attempt to justify it to myself using shallow logic. It is NOT your decision which laws you are going to obey(and please don't bring up people like Ghandi or Martin Luther King Jr., you're stealing movies, not fighting for the rights of a race of people). "I'm happy, isn't that enough?" I honestly cannot believe you said that. No, it's not enough. That movie, and all it's rights belong to someone. You pay for the privalige of watching it. If you don't like the price, or can't afford it, tough. Watching a movie is not something you need to live, it's a privalige.
As for your comments, this is exactly what I'm talking about. I, myself, commit piracy. Not on any grand scale, but maybe a program here or there, and a song if I heard it on the radio and liked it. The thing that seperates me from the majority of
My point is this site wouldn't get half as much traffic that it does if it security cracked down on it more.
Your moral compass holds no weight in a court room. While I wonder if "I'm letting my conscious be my guide" has worked for you before, remember it doesn't mean jack shit in the world of actual laws.
Damn, I thought I was alone. Don't let it get you down, though. In the world technology and computing, /. is a joke. No one takes this site seriously anymore, and it's dismissed as a haven of wanna-be hackers and software pirates. What's funny is, watch how the posts die down during weekends. My bet is it's because /. is generally "tolerable-browsing" in the workplace, so you'll notice higher numbers during weekdays.
You've done it now. Don't you know that all of us at Slashdot can justify ANY type of action with ANY type of media? Lemme whip out my magic 8 ball of "why I pirated this movie"..(SHAKING)..ahh, haven't seen that one in a while: "I wasn't going to pay to see it in the theatre anyways, so I can download it because Lucas isn't losing money either way"..any oldie but goody. Maybe next time you'll think twice before you bring your "laws" in here. I mean honestly, I didn't like the last Star Wars movie, so I have to be entitled to download burn this one to divx for compensation, right? It's only fair.
A dog that's been on the phone for 20 minutes might arouse some suspicion.
What would you have them do? Open a federal investigation everytime some kid screws another kid out of a Transformer?
I agree, I'm just saying it would be EXTREMELY difficult to enforce on a scale as large as Ebay. Another example of a website that's pretty damn Shady is IBill.Com. Roughly two months ago I was feeling a little, uh, eager, so I sign up for this pr0n site, 3 day trial. 10 seconds later my online banking statement shows a $49.99 withdrawl. So I freak, call them, and they say that for the 3 days they "hold" the money for me. After I flip out on them like a ninja for 5 minutes, they agree to cancel the subscription. Appeased, I hang up, check my account. Still there. So I go to bed, get up the next day at noonish, still gone. Call them back, they tell me it takes 15 days for the money to go back in. What kind of bullshit is this? It's an electronic transfer! They can take it out in 10 fucking seconds but putting it back in takes 2 weeks?
As much as it sucks, I don't know what Ebay could do about it. They aren't a police force, so their investigations wouldn't be admissable in any form, and obviously they don't have the resources to hire the real police whenever someone complained of fraud, so they're more or less helpless to prove it. As much I would LOVE to see the policy of "If Seller A takes Buyer A's money and doesn't deliver the product, we'll take that amount of money from Seller A's credit card and give it to Buyer A" I know it could never work, because for every honest case of fraud, you would the people who actually got the product, and then lied and said they never did. Obviously not everyone ships using FedEx or UPS, so package tracking would be pretty hard, and downright impossible on a massive scale.
As much as it sucks, Ebay will never be able to play policeman. It's not what they do, and they don't have the time or money to do it. The best advice is just look at someone's rating and hope for the best. Another good tip is if you can find the item in the real world, or even through a site that specializes in that product, go through them. It may be a little more money, but you know it's going to get there.
I fail to see how the economic well being of this generation is faltering for any reason save poor money habits. The article speaks of this "great depression" and yet all the replies are littered with sob stories that equate to nothing more than "I have to buy everything I see and I can't save shit." The whining about the DOT com industry fallout is even more pathetic/funny. Oh boo-friggin-hoo, you can't find a job where you get a BMW, 100k a year, and free privaliges to shoot your co-workers with nerf-guns. Of course, no buisiness plan, but who needs a buisiness plan when you have vision, right? Listen babies, save your money, set up a debt payment system, and quit going to Best Buy 4 times a week.