I work for a large cable internet provider. I bet you can all guess which one without me saying so.
The top 10% of our internet users use 99% of our bandwidth. We have to draw the line somewhere, since it's those users who can swamp a node so that everyone else connected to that node is trashed. We don't have set bandwidth limits because bandwidth varies between nodes. However, we have so much bandwidth available, any node that goes over 50% capacity is reviewed to see if someone is sucking it or if we need to upgrade the hardware.
Our office may suspend internet, sales may ask them if they want to upgrade to a higher level service, or the business office will call if someone is in the top 10%. You'd have to be in the top 10% or exceed the 50% capacity for a while for anyone to notice, by the way. If you don't want to upgrade then we ask you to cut down so that they're no longer affecting everyone else on the node. These are typically people running servers and/or up/downloading a huge amount (as a side note I talked to a customer last year who told me his server was slashdotted and we gave him a call the same day). If they refuse, and continue to suck all the bandwidth, we shut them off. We'd rather keep the other customers connected to that node happy than alienate one jerkoff who is inconveniencing the customers around him.
You are assuming that the amount of bandwidth available is static in all areas, and it's not. This is the reason why there's no set limit as to how much bandwidth you can or cannot use. It's variable. As such, there may be a high limit in one area and a lower limit in another area. The basic idea is, If you start topping the charts in bandwidth, you're sinking your own ship, as well as all the other ships around you.
I know this is meant to be funny, but to Lucas' credit, this is an automated factory. If I made the factory, and Alliance showed up, I'd want a really obvious button on every console for the one bug/robot on station to press to immediately melt the whole place.
If you compare 8 megabit cable to 128k dsl, yeah, there's going to be a big price difference. If you look at the pricing with no contract, dsl is the within a dollar of cable...
1. In WoW, you cannot put anything on the ground for someone else to pick up. The only way for players to trade with each other is player to player through the trade window, through the mail, or buying from the action house. 2. Auctions are not completely anonymous, your name is attached to the aution. I use an alt to post my auctions though, so for the most part it is anonymous, except that Blizzard can still trace the auction back to your account. 3. All good quality (green and blue) items are bind on equip, and so they cannot be used by one player and then sold to another for them to use. Once you use it, it's bound to you forever, so if you don't want the item anymore, you must destroy/sell to a vendor/disenchant the item. 4. Many good quality (green and blue) items are bind on pickup, but there are still a lot of items that are bind on equip, and can be sold. For example, 3 pieces of my Druid's Wildheart armor set are bind on equip, but the rest of the set, 5 pieces, are bind on equip. So, I bought the gloves, bracers, and belt on the auction house, but I have to farm for myself the rest of the set.
Blizzard and players are both concerned about farmers and their negative impact on the game economy. From the bannings, I can already see the prices on the auction house are going down on my server. Wildheart gloves for the past month have been going for a completely ludicrus 50 gold, and I bought them at their "normal" price off the auction house 3 days ago at 15 gold.
One problem with Microsoft's Linux love believability factor is that on the one hand, you have the chief executive of Microsoft saying, "Linux is a cancer," and on the other hand you have technologists inside Microsoft saying, "Linux is great."
If all you constantly hear from Microsoft in the public is "OSS=Evil" then it's logical to assume that that is Microsoft's actual position. The General's opinion stated in public (press) typically wins out over the Corporal's opinions in private (slashdot).
What I wonder is why, with so many brilliant people working at Microsoft, can't they come out with a better OS?
Wink! (now "OpenTV") has been doing this for years on cable and satellite. I worked as a customer service loon for Wink! from 2000-2002. You would click on Wink!-enabled ads and get free stuff or coupons in the mail, etc. They even had contests for who could click on the most Wink!-enabled ads in a month.
As an aside, we had one old lady constantly calling us who religiously watched for Wink! ad content (which was only on specific channels) so she could get free stuff. She would call us when her cable went out (which was often), because when we sent a ticket to her provider to check for Wink! service outage, she would get her cable service back on faster than if she called her provider herself. Fun times.
I sure as hell will. I need to upgrade my system now, and this news does not make all G5 computers obsolete instantly. I'm not going to wait a year to buy a new computer, that's just silly talk.
I'm going from an AMD PC to a Mac G5 dual desktop. Strangely, when I upgrade again in a few years, I'll be going from PPC to Intel. Go figure.
Before Tiger, you could not import tab-delimited or comma-separated files into Address Book. Since most mail programs and address book programs could export as these two formats, this is a big step forward for Address Book.
These two new features may be minor to you as compared to Spotlight, but for a lot of users, including switchers, these are very important features that they've been waiting for for a long time.
Yes, the average global temperature is warming. But, it would be warming whether or not humans were even on the planet. Scientists used to all agree that the Earth was flat and that if people went too far to the edge, the world would tip over and we'd all fall off. Do you see how silly those scientists were?
Selling in-game items outside of the game for real money is against Blizzard's TOS. Money farmers have destroyed several other MMORPGs, and I'd rather that not happen to any other game.
It is Blizzard who is limiting what can be done in and to their game. They are protecting the players and their own interests.
My opinion here actually makes no difference. If banning Pokemon cards is what you want to do with your time, hey, more power to ya.
There is already a mechanism in World of Warcraft for buying and selling in-game items, it's called the Auction House, and there are three of them on each server. One of them is even neutral so that both Alliance and Horde can buy and sell to and from each other.
Outside (in the "real world") auction houses are not necessary, since players can use the in-game AH to keep the in-game economy moving. Outside auction houses do not keep the in-game economy moving. Outside auctions tend to bring people into the economy specifically in order to get real-world money out of it.
As a player of WoW, I agree with Blizzard. I do not want money farmers in game.
It is very interesting that Darl & Co haven't yet mentioned this new worm. Why? Perhaps Darl & Co put it out there in the first place to make SCO look even more like a victim of the eeeeevil open source community.
I think there needs to be ad blocking built into the TVs themselves. If ad blocking was in TVs (replace ads with a black screen and no sound maybe) I'd actually go out and buy a TV today. Right now I watch TV via downloading the shows I want to see from Bittorrent (already ad free!).
Heck, I'd pay $20 a month to get TV without ads. Ads are the one thing preventing me from watching TV. Well, that and the crappy programming.
My husband and I found our wedding rings though a Google ad.
After searching for weeks in stores and catalogs, and days and days through Google's results (simply enough, for "wedding ring"), I started clicking on the (many) ads, and found the perfect matching wedding rings after just a few clicks. I bought a ring sizer from one company and the rings from another. I've ordered from two other merchants this year from Google ads too.
Lurve Google ads. Simple text, good results, no (or very little) crap.
Back in March 2003, a friend at university got his net connection cut off for hosting a counterstrike server in the dorms. That's all well and good, but the violation was back in November. He had long since stopped playing CS.
Not only is it odd that it took the school 5 months to do something about his server, but when he called networking to find out when he would get his connection back, the clerk told him that they were scheduled to send him an email about it Monday, and that he'd get his connection back in a week!?!
I'm a happy Mandrake user, and while the current round of ads don't bother me, I am indeed concerned about what the future will bring. What ads are they considering for the next release? Ads on the desktop? Ads within programs? Popups? Ads in email? Flash ads I can't easily get rid of or turn off?
I just hope Mandrake it's going down the slippery slope into obtrusive ads.
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I work for a large cable internet provider. I bet you can all guess which one without me saying so.
The top 10% of our internet users use 99% of our bandwidth. We have to draw the line somewhere, since it's those users who can swamp a node so that everyone else connected to that node is trashed. We don't have set bandwidth limits because bandwidth varies between nodes. However, we have so much bandwidth available, any node that goes over 50% capacity is reviewed to see if someone is sucking it or if we need to upgrade the hardware.
Our office may suspend internet, sales may ask them if they want to upgrade to a higher level service, or the business office will call if someone is in the top 10%. You'd have to be in the top 10% or exceed the 50% capacity for a while for anyone to notice, by the way. If you don't want to upgrade then we ask you to cut down so that they're no longer affecting everyone else on the node. These are typically people running servers and/or up/downloading a huge amount (as a side note I talked to a customer last year who told me his server was slashdotted and we gave him a call the same day). If they refuse, and continue to suck all the bandwidth, we shut them off. We'd rather keep the other customers connected to that node happy than alienate one jerkoff who is inconveniencing the customers around him.
You are assuming that the amount of bandwidth available is static in all areas, and it's not. This is the reason why there's no set limit as to how much bandwidth you can or cannot use. It's variable. As such, there may be a high limit in one area and a lower limit in another area. The basic idea is, If you start topping the charts in bandwidth, you're sinking your own ship, as well as all the other ships around you.
I know this is meant to be funny, but to Lucas' credit, this is an automated factory. If I made the factory, and Alliance showed up, I'd want a really obvious button on every console for the one bug/robot on station to press to immediately melt the whole place.
All bitterness aside, I'm sure the article you speak of was archived, not deleted.
FYI: It's true that Apple frontline support does not take care of the G3s anymore, but the Applecare Legacy group does.
If you compare 8 megabit cable to 128k dsl, yeah, there's going to be a big price difference. If you look at the pricing with no contract, dsl is the within a dollar of cable...
1. AT&T: 3-6 megabit, no contract, $44.99/month
2. Comcast: 6 megabit, no contract, $45.95/month
This is in zip code 95831.
...they lock you into a long term contract. The pricing for DSL without a contract is about the same as Cable.
A few notes about WoW items...
1. In WoW, you cannot put anything on the ground for someone else to pick up. The only way for players to trade with each other is player to player through the trade window, through the mail, or buying from the action house.
2. Auctions are not completely anonymous, your name is attached to the aution. I use an alt to post my auctions though, so for the most part it is anonymous, except that Blizzard can still trace the auction back to your account.
3. All good quality (green and blue) items are bind on equip, and so they cannot be used by one player and then sold to another for them to use. Once you use it, it's bound to you forever, so if you don't want the item anymore, you must destroy/sell to a vendor/disenchant the item.
4. Many good quality (green and blue) items are bind on pickup, but there are still a lot of items that are bind on equip, and can be sold. For example, 3 pieces of my Druid's Wildheart armor set are bind on equip, but the rest of the set, 5 pieces, are bind on equip. So, I bought the gloves, bracers, and belt on the auction house, but I have to farm for myself the rest of the set.
Blizzard and players are both concerned about farmers and their negative impact on the game economy. From the bannings, I can already see the prices on the auction house are going down on my server. Wildheart gloves for the past month have been going for a completely ludicrus 50 gold, and I bought them at their "normal" price off the auction house 3 days ago at 15 gold.
God forbid that there are people out there will different opinions than you! I mean, really!
I don't get it. You're hiding porn from your wife? If my husband stopped sharing his porn with me, he'd get the couch for a week.
One problem with Microsoft's Linux love believability factor is that on the one hand, you have the chief executive of Microsoft saying, "Linux is a cancer," and on the other hand you have technologists inside Microsoft saying, "Linux is great."
If all you constantly hear from Microsoft in the public is "OSS=Evil" then it's logical to assume that that is Microsoft's actual position. The General's opinion stated in public (press) typically wins out over the Corporal's opinions in private (slashdot).
What I wonder is why, with so many brilliant people working at Microsoft, can't they come out with a better OS?
Dude! You've been VISTA'D!
Wink! (now "OpenTV") has been doing this for years on cable and satellite. I worked as a customer service loon for Wink! from 2000-2002. You would click on Wink!-enabled ads and get free stuff or coupons in the mail, etc. They even had contests for who could click on the most Wink!-enabled ads in a month.
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As an aside, we had one old lady constantly calling us who religiously watched for Wink! ad content (which was only on specific channels) so she could get free stuff. She would call us when her cable went out (which was often), because when we sent a ticket to her provider to check for Wink! service outage, she would get her cable service back on faster than if she called her provider herself. Fun times.
I sure as hell will. I need to upgrade my system now, and this news does not make all G5 computers obsolete instantly. I'm not going to wait a year to buy a new computer, that's just silly talk.
I'm going from an AMD PC to a Mac G5 dual desktop. Strangely, when I upgrade again in a few years, I'll be going from PPC to Intel. Go figure.
Most every error message you may get while using Apple operating systems are listed in the Apple Knowledge Base (in the Support tab from apple.com).
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A search for "-36" finds article# 301580:
Mac OS X 10.4: Error -36 alert displays when connecting to a Windows server
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=30
Before Tiger, you could not import tab-delimited or comma-separated files into Address Book. Since most mail programs and address book programs could export as these two formats, this is a big step forward for Address Book.
These two new features may be minor to you as compared to Spotlight, but for a lot of users, including switchers, these are very important features that they've been waiting for for a long time.
"The most recent glaciation, 20,000 years ago, is called the Laurentide, and Earth is still recovering from it."
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Yes, the average global temperature is warming. But, it would be warming whether or not humans were even on the planet. Scientists used to all agree that the Earth was flat and that if people went too far to the edge, the world would tip over and we'd all fall off. Do you see how silly those scientists were?
Selling in-game items outside of the game for real money is against Blizzard's TOS. Money farmers have destroyed several other MMORPGs, and I'd rather that not happen to any other game.
It is Blizzard who is limiting what can be done in and to their game. They are protecting the players and their own interests.
My opinion here actually makes no difference. If banning Pokemon cards is what you want to do with your time, hey, more power to ya.
There is already a mechanism in World of Warcraft for buying and selling in-game items, it's called the Auction House, and there are three of them on each server. One of them is even neutral so that both Alliance and Horde can buy and sell to and from each other.
Outside (in the "real world") auction houses are not necessary, since players can use the in-game AH to keep the in-game economy moving. Outside auction houses do not keep the in-game economy moving. Outside auctions tend to bring people into the economy specifically in order to get real-world money out of it.
As a player of WoW, I agree with Blizzard. I do not want money farmers in game.
It is very interesting that Darl & Co haven't yet mentioned this new worm. Why? Perhaps Darl & Co put it out there in the first place to make SCO look even more like a victim of the eeeeevil open source community.
Food for thought (if nothing more).
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The pictures show tangerines, not oranges. Tangerines are smaller, flattened at the poles, fatter at the equator, and darker orange.
I think there needs to be ad blocking built into the TVs themselves. If ad blocking was in TVs (replace ads with a black screen and no sound maybe) I'd actually go out and buy a TV today. Right now I watch TV via downloading the shows I want to see from Bittorrent (already ad free!).
Heck, I'd pay $20 a month to get TV without ads. Ads are the one thing preventing me from watching TV. Well, that and the crappy programming.
not_anne
My husband and I found our wedding rings though a Google ad.
After searching for weeks in stores and catalogs, and days and days through Google's results (simply enough, for "wedding ring"), I started clicking on the (many) ads, and found the perfect matching wedding rings after just a few clicks. I bought a ring sizer from one company and the rings from another. I've ordered from two other merchants this year from Google ads too.
Lurve Google ads. Simple text, good results, no (or very little) crap.
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Back in March 2003, a friend at university got his net connection cut off for hosting a counterstrike server in the dorms. That's all well and good, but the violation was back in November. He had long since stopped playing CS.
Not only is it odd that it took the school 5 months to do something about his server, but when he called networking to find out when he would get his connection back, the clerk told him that they were scheduled to send him an email about it Monday, and that he'd get his connection back in a week!?!
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In order to understand 2001: A Space Odyssey, you should watch the film and read the book.
In order to understand the Matrix, you should watch the films, watch the shorts, and play the game.
Rince, repeat.
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I'm a happy Mandrake user, and while the current round of ads don't bother me, I am indeed concerned about what the future will bring. What ads are they considering for the next release? Ads on the desktop? Ads within programs? Popups? Ads in email? Flash ads I can't easily get rid of or turn off?
I just hope Mandrake it's going down the slippery slope into obtrusive ads.