...because there's too many bad ISP's here. From Verizon to CAIS to Adelphia to Telocity to EarthLink, people change e-mail addresses too often. Not to mention the police here can't even keep a simple sex offender registry updated.
Sure, Michigan looks like a vanguard in this area, but it won't last for long.
I'm glad they're setting a precedent for the biotech companies (remove the "e" from biotech to see what I think of them). This really hits home because, as my genome reads, I'm slated to have prostate problems at middle age. My grandfather had BPH, and my uncle just had surgery on his enlarged prostate, so I know what to expect once I hit 35. Fortunately, that's 16 years away.
Add to that the fact that Id Software has NEVER marketed any of its first-person shooter games to anyone under 17 (with the exception of Wolfenstein, which was voluntarily rated "PC-13: Profound Carnage"), right up to this day (before Q3 got an ESRB rating, the demotest said right on it: "For Mature Audiences").
I believe that Id is doing a good job of controlling this (after all, that's the most they can do; the stores control who buys the game), and the IDSA really needs to open their eyes. In my opinion, companies like Epic, SquareSoft, Capcom, and Midway are all doing a really bad job at audience control, and they're the ones who should be penalized.
Once again, the actions of two teenagers with a mammoth arsenal happen to motivate the government to spoil it for all of us. The Columbine effect has not ceased.
I think the ultimate goal of the IDSA is to prevent a new DOOM from being produced. We as FPS gamers should take a stand against this form of censorship.
All water under the bridge now, of course. NV20 rocks.:-)
How do you know? Have you been tweaking around with a prototype? I'd sure like to hear NVidia's announcement on the NV20 being named and released, or at least know when to expect it to be released.
Of course your opinion of a company will dramatically change when you get issued a pink slip by them. Of course his writings would change from, "I wish that every e-commerce company would adopt Amazon.com's practices," to, "DIE, BEZOS! DIE!"
"Why are they doing this?" asks Harvey Silverglate, a prominent Boston criminal defense attorney. "I think the answer is that political correctness has infected the FBI."
Damn right. "Our FBI" can't even nab an elderly mob boss, and we're all paying for the FBI's mistakes. Forget about all the damned secrets, I want to know about the FBI's blunders, and I want to believe that they're trying to stop being so clumsy.
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What's wrong with DSL in the United States? I'll tell you what's wrong with it in two words: BABY BELLS.
Of course, we all know about how Verizon is stiffing all the CLECs and the customers it can possibly harass. But so are Pacific Bell and Southwestern Bell. Both of those companies use PPPoE, fail to calculate loop distances correctly, practice improper routing, and overcharge their customers. It's why they're all in the red zone of the DSLReports weekly ratings chart.
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Sure, your routers could log in to the PPPoE system, but what will you do when Verizon boots you off every half-hour? Your router will have to log in again. And again. And...
Take it from me, Verizon is a non-option. Until they learn that they're doing it all wrong, the DSL world will forever have a scar on its chest. A big, V-shaped scar...
It was so bad, I cancelled it on Halloween Night. Every 30 minutes, it would disconnect for no reason at all, regardless of the amount of network activity (most of the time it would disconnect in the middle of Counter-Strike). By mid-October, the routing on Verizon's side had gone haywire, and on the Saturday before Halloween, I couldn't connect for 2 hours (and then for only 10 seconds, after which I was plunged into another hour of "Request timed out.").
Needless to say, I now have Covad (though it took 69 days to get it running), and it's much more reliable than the Verizon DSL ever was.
When I was young (and before I saw ST:TMP), I always knew that William Shatner and the gang wouldn't stoop down to the lows of the late 70's. Boy, was I proven wrong when I first saw Star Trek 1. Those pantsuit uniforms with bell bottoms, Shatner with sideburns, Uhura with a 'fro, and a totally bald woman. And I thought the style in Star Trek 2 was bad (though that one introduced the standard red uniforms, which I liked).
Well, can't we just change it to CGA (Computer Generated Art)? Color Graphics Array has been dead and obsolete for over ten years, so I think that it's safe to do so.
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Lag. From loading custom browser skins to loading Java classes to compiling broken JavaScripts to the nature of the browser itself, just going to a webpage can become a chore. Netscape 6 only exacerbated the problems (skins and a notoriously slow Java library). Just go to http://www.dslreports.com/stest, choose a speed test site, and look at the warning above the Java applet used to calculate the rate of a DSL connection: "Netscape Java on some platforms gives an inaccurate and slow result, compared to IE." Netscape's implementation of Java is so slow, it's inaccurate and not recommended for time-sensitive operations!
Also, Netscape tends to be a memory hog, sometimes usurping 32 megabytes all for itself (in contrast, I've never seen IE peak above 14MB). Furthermore, Netscape is so notorious for crashing (and causing lockups), that Microsoft has joked about it (type "about:mozilla" in the IE Address bar sometime). That means you won't want to browse to a Red Faction walkthrough on Netscapewhile actually playing the game; Netscape might take up too much memory and then crash, ruining both the walkthrough and the game!
IMHO, if Microsoft can keep things in IE simple and functional, they'll gain the acclaim of former Netscape 6 users. Until Netscape rewrites their entire codebase to clean up the mess they've made, they're doomed.
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Sure, Michigan looks like a vanguard in this area, but it won't last for long.
...but BlueLight is no longer free. See here for the details.
I wonder how many instances of "GATTACA" are in my genome. Hmmm...
I'm glad they're setting a precedent for the biotech companies (remove the "e" from biotech to see what I think of them). This really hits home because, as my genome reads, I'm slated to have prostate problems at middle age. My grandfather had BPH, and my uncle just had surgery on his enlarged prostate, so I know what to expect once I hit 35. Fortunately, that's 16 years away.
In SoF, after a kill, I usually take out the shotgun and shoot away at the body, hacking off limbs and spilling out the intestines. It's fun!
I believe that Id is doing a good job of controlling this (after all, that's the most they can do; the stores control who buys the game), and the IDSA really needs to open their eyes. In my opinion, companies like Epic, SquareSoft, Capcom, and Midway are all doing a really bad job at audience control, and they're the ones who should be penalized.
I think the ultimate goal of the IDSA is to prevent a new DOOM from being produced. We as FPS gamers should take a stand against this form of censorship.
How do you know? Have you been tweaking around with a prototype? I'd sure like to hear NVidia's announcement on the NV20 being named and released, or at least know when to expect it to be released.
Of course your opinion of a company will dramatically change when you get issued a pink slip by them. Of course his writings would change from, "I wish that every e-commerce company would adopt Amazon.com's practices," to, "DIE, BEZOS! DIE!"
Dumbass Control System.
Damn right. "Our FBI" can't even nab an elderly mob boss, and we're all paying for the FBI's mistakes. Forget about all the damned secrets, I want to know about the FBI's blunders, and I want to believe that they're trying to stop being so clumsy.
Click here to sign the petition against Verizon, Southwestern Bell, PacBell, and EarthLink. I call upon them to replace PPPoE with DHCP!
Of course, we all know about how Verizon is stiffing all the CLECs and the customers it can possibly harass. But so are Pacific Bell and Southwestern Bell. Both of those companies use PPPoE, fail to calculate loop distances correctly, practice improper routing, and overcharge their customers. It's why they're all in the red zone of the DSLReports weekly ratings chart.
Take it from me, Verizon is a non-option. Until they learn that they're doing it all wrong, the DSL world will forever have a scar on its chest. A big, V-shaped scar...
Geeze, no wonder Verizon's going to hell in a handbasket, all of their techs failed geography in elementary school!
Needless to say, I now have Covad (though it took 69 days to get it running), and it's much more reliable than the Verizon DSL ever was.
When I was young (and before I saw ST:TMP), I always knew that William Shatner and the gang wouldn't stoop down to the lows of the late 70's. Boy, was I proven wrong when I first saw Star Trek 1. Those pantsuit uniforms with bell bottoms, Shatner with sideburns, Uhura with a 'fro, and a totally bald woman. And I thought the style in Star Trek 2 was bad (though that one introduced the standard red uniforms, which I liked).
Will this spin doctor try to spin this spin on himself in about three weeks?
Well, can't we just change it to CGA (Computer Generated Art)? Color Graphics Array has been dead and obsolete for over ten years, so I think that it's safe to do so.
STeyr : Tactical Machine Pistol.
To the rest of us in the human race, CGI really stands for "Common Gateway Interface."
Also, Netscape tends to be a memory hog, sometimes usurping 32 megabytes all for itself (in contrast, I've never seen IE peak above 14MB). Furthermore, Netscape is so notorious for crashing (and causing lockups), that Microsoft has joked about it (type "about:mozilla" in the IE Address bar sometime). That means you won't want to browse to a Red Faction walkthrough on Netscapewhile actually playing the game; Netscape might take up too much memory and then crash, ruining both the walkthrough and the game!
IMHO, if Microsoft can keep things in IE simple and functional, they'll gain the acclaim of former Netscape 6 users. Until Netscape rewrites their entire codebase to clean up the mess they've made, they're doomed.
...but does it have a brighter and better picture in pitch black?
"To win the game you must hack ME, Bill Gates."
Wolbachia. Nature's DMCA.