Yes, but you can easily assume that the only person that sees you is the person you're doing the transaction with who is "trusted". I certainly expect governments to track bills of "suspects" which quickly becomes everyone when technology allows.
Personally I don't worry, because money is only used because people assign value to it. People can just as easily assign value to paper without RFID tags, or little glass beads. In the end people that want to make anonymous transactions will.
The 'condecending' tone likely is part of the translation. Japanese language is pretty complex, and mixed in the the complex culture, he was likely using the form of words to not belittle the interviewer, which translated sounds condecending.
I don't know. I personally dislike optical mice. I have a nasty habit of turning my mouse [as it will be detected as minute movement in one direction or another depending on which side the mouse rollers is on] and lifting the mouse up occasionally to reorient it. Optical mice don't like that much.
Furthermore I don't find optical mice to be as responsive or as sensitive as a good ball mouse. I have a razer boomslang [www.razerzone.com] and they are exceptional mice once you get used to their absurd sensitivity at the desktop.
Note that all of this is for gaming only. Optical mice are certainly snazzy for desktop use and technologically are far advanced. Just like LCDs are a big jump over CRT, but... not for what I use them for...
Many of the underdogs links/ads are of a questionable nature. Gator [lords of spyware] was one of the things form the site if I remember correctly.
As long as you don't actually install anything you should be fine. For those of you that are more paranoid [and you probably should be] set your browser to prompt you about cookies [which the underdogs' ads create tons of] and to prompt you about popups [for those of you/us with IE, ask google about nopopie; it works okay]
And all of the software listed for download on the site is pretty much abandoned, and they're [actually there's just one woman running the site iirc...] very good about pulling things down if they're not supposed to be there.
I've also used teamspeak with my tribes 2... tribe, and it is okay. Works like it's supposed to though I wish it could/would do proper adjustment of volume depending on who's speaking.
Often times a few people cannot be heard properly. IMO the best use of it is for communication in case someone gets dropped from the game. Otherwise the ingame voice chat it good enough. And indeed imo the tribes voicechat [also in NWN iirc] is one of the absolute best methods of communication. A few keystrokes for alot of information. Very good with the modpack which textchats the message rather than speaking it [as the speech can interfere with sounds needed to react to like rocket noises and the such]
Personally I'd take something like that over even a properly working headset/mic sort of thing any day of the week.
Actually the only reason it may be a one time thing is because now it's more difficult to do. Why do something that's difficult when something easy will get the same results... Like say hijacking a truck with jet fuel rather than a plane with jet fuel in it?
There's more ways to cause destruction than this if that's someone's goal.
Oh and to clarify, it wasn't bad tech support. It was bad sales support. Pacbell [when I had them they were still pacbell] always provided me with good technical support, if delayed a bit because of call volume/understaffing.
I concur, and no knock against pacbell [at least when they *were* pacbell]. The actual DSL that was provided was top notch, and when I did get to a tech I was pretty much always provided with ample support. Working for a large company myself [albeit not that large] they seem very much to be... unimaginative.
I've been a speakeasy customer for 2 years now [after pac bell wouldn't transfer IPs between CO's for me, and their service wasn't great anyways]
So on my 2nd install [I've been through 3 now, all via moves] I actually had a 1st level tech IM a 2nd level tech so that we could manually configure the dsl modem [which was set to dynamic via a covad logistics error]. Spent less time waiting for the 2nd level tech to IM back than any pacbell on-hold time.
As for their terms of service: My townhouse is exceptionally close to the CO, and thus we were able to get 1.1 sdsl. My GF pretty is currently complaining because she's running low on CD's from burning things off of her full 140 gig machine [all legit btw seriously!]. We've never gotten so much as an inquiry.
Oh and did I mention you can 'purchase' more IPs via their website, a happy automated script makes it so the ip is up and working/routing for you within minutes/seconds of order. Just nice little things that no other ISP has ever come close to.
Actually the best terms I've seen have been ones that allow the site to share my information with partners, have an opt in for any unsolicited information, and *REQUIRE* any partner to have the same terms of service regarding the information.
I went to college in upstate NY [Clarkson] and then moved to SFbay. Basically I did it myself. Original packaging for the computer [no monitor] and ploped it in my car with the rest of my belongings. 4 days later it arrived in tip top condition.
If you're going to college you likely have a bit of time to spend, and you'll need to get used to road trips anyways:]
In all seriousness though, this is the best way to do it. If you're flying then use UPS/fedex and bundle the puppy up nice, take the hdd out and insure it.
do *NOT* do this, unless you happen to live in an area that never ever gets hot. Assuming you have modern hardware [say... ghz or better] there needs to be proper cooling for the hot days [or nights, you don't leave the AC on full blast 24/7 do you?] or else you'll eventually see oddness pop into the machine, and it'll die 2-4 years earlier than it should. Speaking from experience of course...
The best thing for people that wish to replace Exchange/Outlook is to replace email.
No, seriously... There's no possible way you can satisfy the demands of salesguys who will not accept an email/calendar solution that isn't Outlook; and nothing will integrate with outlook well unless it's from Microsoft.
What else then? How about IM/calendar?
Certainly the infrastructure for IM is in place. Users don't need retrained, because nearly everyone has used it [and if not they've probably used textmessaging]. And nearly all IM protocols allow for 'different' message like calendar requests and the such. Plop a gateway that can translate IM email [or eventually do authenticated messaging between companies/servers] and you're set. No more outlook; no more exchange. And salesguys can accept it because while it does the same function it's "different".
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Immagine, spending time on something will leave you with less time for other things!
We have enough nuclear weapons to extinct the entirety of human life. If that's not intimidating enough, carriers won't help...
Is it reasonable to have 13 50+ plane carriers when no other country in the world even has one?
The more appropriate question is more likely "What prevents artists from hooking up with those indie labels?"
Yes, but you can easily assume that the only person that sees you is the person you're doing the transaction with who is "trusted". I certainly expect governments to track bills of "suspects" which quickly becomes everyone when technology allows.
Personally I don't worry, because money is only used because people assign value to it. People can just as easily assign value to paper without RFID tags, or little glass beads. In the end people that want to make anonymous transactions will.
That would be against EA's code of conduct: "bleed em til their dry"
A shame given their history
It's that evolving robots and humanity don't mix!
You mean like the innumerable japanese imports [most of which support subtitling these days]?
The 'condecending' tone likely is part of the translation. Japanese language is pretty complex, and mixed in the the complex culture, he was likely using the form of words to not belittle the interviewer, which translated sounds condecending.
I hope the original poster was referring to quake1 on the palm/whatever not being able to do wasd+mouse.
After all wasn't wasd+mouse popularized by Thresh and his quake 1 config posts after winning Carmack's Ferrari?
[despite the fact I've never used wasd... keyboarder until q3, and now mouse + q/w+alt/space]
Doesn't California have the same requirement, albeit with a lower fine, and the requirement of ADV:ADLT for XXXspam?
That died on me too, though after sitting for a little bit it started working again, spring just got caught somewhere or something.
Logitech dual optical you say? hrm, perhaps I'll look into it if this mouse dies and razer hasn't gotten back on their feet yet.
I don't know. I personally dislike optical mice. I have a nasty habit of turning my mouse [as it will be detected as minute movement in one direction or another depending on which side the mouse rollers is on] and lifting the mouse up occasionally to reorient it. Optical mice don't like that much.
Furthermore I don't find optical mice to be as responsive or as sensitive as a good ball mouse. I have a razer boomslang [www.razerzone.com] and they are exceptional mice once you get used to their absurd sensitivity at the desktop.
Note that all of this is for gaming only. Optical mice are certainly snazzy for desktop use and technologically are far advanced. Just like LCDs are a big jump over CRT, but... not for what I use them for...
Many of the underdogs links/ads are of a questionable nature. Gator [lords of spyware] was one of the things form the site if I remember correctly.
As long as you don't actually install anything you should be fine. For those of you that are more paranoid [and you probably should be] set your browser to prompt you about cookies [which the underdogs' ads create tons of] and to prompt you about popups [for those of you/us with IE, ask google about nopopie; it works okay]
And all of the software listed for download on the site is pretty much abandoned, and they're [actually there's just one woman running the site iirc...] very good about pulling things down if they're not supposed to be there.
I've also used teamspeak with my tribes 2... tribe, and it is okay. Works like it's supposed to though I wish it could/would do proper adjustment of volume depending on who's speaking.
Often times a few people cannot be heard properly. IMO the best use of it is for communication in case someone gets dropped from the game. Otherwise the ingame voice chat it good enough. And indeed imo the tribes voicechat [also in NWN iirc] is one of the absolute best methods of communication. A few keystrokes for alot of information. Very good with the modpack which textchats the message rather than speaking it [as the speech can interfere with sounds needed to react to like rocket noises and the such]
Personally I'd take something like that over even a properly working headset/mic sort of thing any day of the week.
Actually the only reason it may be a one time thing is because now it's more difficult to do. Why do something that's difficult when something easy will get the same results... Like say hijacking a truck with jet fuel rather than a plane with jet fuel in it?
There's more ways to cause destruction than this if that's someone's goal.
Oh and to clarify, it wasn't bad tech support. It was bad sales support. Pacbell [when I had them they were still pacbell] always provided me with good technical support, if delayed a bit because of call volume/understaffing.
I concur, and no knock against pacbell [at least when they *were* pacbell]. The actual DSL that was provided was top notch, and when I did get to a tech I was pretty much always provided with ample support. Working for a large company myself [albeit not that large] they seem very much to be... unimaginative.
I've been a speakeasy customer for 2 years now [after pac bell wouldn't transfer IPs between CO's for me, and their service wasn't great anyways]
So on my 2nd install [I've been through 3 now, all via moves] I actually had a 1st level tech IM a 2nd level tech so that we could manually configure the dsl modem [which was set to dynamic via a covad logistics error]. Spent less time waiting for the 2nd level tech to IM back than any pacbell on-hold time.
As for their terms of service: My townhouse is exceptionally close to the CO, and thus we were able to get 1.1 sdsl. My GF pretty is currently complaining because she's running low on CD's from burning things off of her full 140 gig machine [all legit btw seriously!]. We've never gotten so much as an inquiry.
Oh and did I mention you can 'purchase' more IPs via their website, a happy automated script makes it so the ip is up and working/routing for you within minutes/seconds of order. Just nice little things that no other ISP has ever come close to.
It's hard for NASA to spends billions of dollars on a project when they've only got $15b budgeted.
Actually the best terms I've seen have been ones that allow the site to share my information with partners, have an opt in for any unsolicited information, and *REQUIRE* any partner to have the same terms of service regarding the information.
Perhaps we need a GPL privacy policy?
I went to college in upstate NY [Clarkson] and then moved to SFbay. Basically I did it myself. Original packaging for the computer [no monitor] and ploped it in my car with the rest of my belongings. 4 days later it arrived in tip top condition.
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If you're going to college you likely have a bit of time to spend, and you'll need to get used to road trips anyways
In all seriousness though, this is the best way to do it. If you're flying then use UPS/fedex and bundle the puppy up nice, take the hdd out and insure it.
One thing I noticed after trying out a few cases after my machine got crashy after one particularly hot day...
Aluminum cases are good. Very good even. Very light, and they dissipate heat tons better than 'normal' cases.
[and of course good airflow is important to dissipation as well]
do *NOT* do this, unless you happen to live in an area that never ever gets hot. Assuming you have modern hardware [say... ghz or better] there needs to be proper cooling for the hot days [or nights, you don't leave the AC on full blast 24/7 do you?] or else you'll eventually see oddness pop into the machine, and it'll die 2-4 years earlier than it should. Speaking from experience of course...
The best thing for people that wish to replace Exchange/Outlook is to replace email.
No, seriously... There's no possible way you can satisfy the demands of salesguys who will not accept an email/calendar solution that isn't Outlook; and nothing will integrate with outlook well unless it's from Microsoft.
What else then? How about IM/calendar?
Certainly the infrastructure for IM is in place. Users don't need retrained, because nearly everyone has used it [and if not they've probably used textmessaging]. And nearly all IM protocols allow for 'different' message like calendar requests and the such. Plop a gateway that can translate IM email [or eventually do authenticated messaging between companies/servers] and you're set. No more outlook; no more exchange. And salesguys can accept it because while it does the same function it's "different".