Of course it won't. Just this weekend I was watching some DVDs that my roommate bought. And watching DVDs was an inferior experience to that of watching DVD rips on the same hardware (XBMC'd XBox). There are no unskippable advertisements or warnings, and they're cheaper that way!
So, not only are illegal copies a better product, they're generally cheaper. Way to go content middle men. You fail again.
No one out of combat needs to be clicking once every 1000ms. To even begin to have a good bot it would be cool down time + 25ms+random amount and some random movements
Erm... I was still referring to my Diablo II example.
If you think overcoming the warden is easy, then by all means do it. I don't even play WoW so I couldn't care less.
Yes they can, easily. Simply by the predictability and repetition of your automated actions.
I don't play WoW anymore, but I played a lot of Diablo II back in the day. That game was hacked to pieces bot exploiting users and bot runners. There was a actually a bot program that made it to slashdot because it let you play tetris while your bot was running.
Blizzard learned a great deal from Diablo II that they applied to WoW. They were good at cheat detection then, and they've only gotten better.
I always got a kick out of people's delusions about trivial things like delay randomizers to try and hide the bot. They would allow you to put in a minimum and maximum random delay value. So if you let your bot run for a week straight, don't you think that just maybe they'd be able to detect the fact that you never once clicked more than once every 100ms and never once clicked less frequently than once every 1000ms? Or simply based on the fact that you played continuously for 168 hours?
Instead of punishing the gamblers, they need to go after the casinos themselves. And if they're offshore, or outside MA, then too bad. That's outside your jurisdiction. If a person wants to gamble from the privacy of their own home, why can't they? It's none of the state or federal government's business. If he ruins his life and even his family's that still their business. Neither the state nor the federal government, nor even the local government should be telling someone what to do and what not to do inside their own home.
Personally, I think gambling is a tax on those who don't understand how probability works. If you want to throw your money away that's your prerogative, but I don't see why MA thinks they need to step in. Especially since it's online gambling. MA, you neither own, nor control the internet or what people do on it. Attempting to is futile.
The Facepunch Studios forums already have these guys beat with their forums' Smartness filter. It's awesome. Wish all forums used it. And/.'s discussions while we're at it.
Because it's pretty badass. At the outset they didn't intend to break new LCD technological ground with the OLPC, but they ended up doing so to meet the requirements. Also, because it's a good cause? That, and you won't get trampled on black Friday obtaining one.
Sure they give you a discount on a phone. But over the life of the contract you end up paying them a MINIMUM of about $1,200. You can bet your ass they're not losing money over it. I once saw an add for a "FREE Blackberry!" where, if you looked at the terms and contract would actually cost you $2,160 over the life of the 2 year contact. Minimum!
And what does this article, or my post have to do with Apple? I never once mentioned apple. If you don't like what Apple did with the iPhone, DON'T BUY AN IPHONE.
I fail to see how "wresting power from the carriers" is a bad thing. They do evil things with it. Two year contracts with "early termination fees". Phones locked into their service. Phones with software or hardware they've deliberately crippled (Verizon I'm looking at you). Phones that have had a nice GUI replaced with their branded crap. Charging absurd prices for downloads. Padding HTTP headers with data so you use more of their outrageously overpriced data plans. I could go on and on. But if you ask me, the more power the phones wrest from the carriers, the better off we'll be.
Sounds like a great idea until you realize the kids are the ones that are already asked to set the VCR clock by the parents. I think we'll see children cutting off their parents as much as the other way around. There's no technological solution to poor parenting. I mean, we don't have ResponsibilityImplants(TM)...yet.
Sorry, but you already are a commodity. Just ask the credit reporting bureaus. They charge businesses for access to your private financial history. Hell they even charge you for access to your own information.
I think you're right and the users should be the ones getting paid. But, just like individuals, corporations can always be trusted to act in their own best interests before anyone else's. If they can benefit from it and get away with it you bet they'll do it. The solution is to put in place an equally powerful opposing force. That's going to be difficult.
I think if advertising is found to be even the tiniest bit misleading the sponsoring company and the advertising company should be held liable for fraud and fined severely enough such that the fines aren't simply considered a cost of doing business.
The base two thing is a low-level technical detail. It has no relevance to consumers.
It suddenly becomes very relevant when their computer tells them that the 2GB SD card they just bought and plugged in is actually only 1.87GB.
It's deceptive advertising. HDD manufacturers and flash memory manufacturers seem to be the only ones to do this. Even system memory is measured in powers of 2. A 2GB stick of ram is 2048MB, not 1914.88MB.
Ignore those stupid disc doctor contraptions and bizarre quack-style methods I've seen youtube videos of (like holding a CD directly in an open candle flame - I kid you not). Just get some Brasso and a soft cloth like a glasses cleaning rag, car chamois, or shoe polishing rag and polish the scratches out. Be careful not to polish the label side of the disc and be careful to do it evenly because you are literally removing CD material and you don't want to unbalance the disc.
Trying to force it on users by making it required in office (a separate product) is an anti-competitive.
Behavior like this is why Microsoft is despicable, not the quality if their code.
I remember the good old days when everyone used Winamp. Nowadays WMP seems to be the most common. Not because it's won out against winamp by being better, but because it's bundled with Windows XP, and Microsoft will try to force it on you through windows update. That's right, Windows update forces new versions of Microsoft's browser and media player on you.
So now IE and WMP are the most common applications in their respective fields, not through any virtues of actually being superior products, but simply by bundling them. This is an anticompetitive practice if I've ever seen one.
It's no surprise that they're doing it again with their crappy Desktop Search product. It didn't even exist until MS Google Desktop came out. Until then people were pretty much stuck with the built in search and "Indexing". Which sucked horribly.
See what happens when you have an artificial monopoly? Horrible stagnation that only benefits the one in control.
Internet Explorer, the most common browser was completely stagnant until Firefox started becoming popular and MS started losing market share. Windows' search functions was completely stagnant until Google Desktop came on the scene. Windows Media player has sucked since version 7 but was dead for years before that.
Monopolies are bad for everyone that uses the products.
Could Comcast be found guilty of fraud law or violating some computer usage law because of this?
On one hand, they're deliberately pretending to be the person you're communicating with (fraud?). On the other they're deliberately degrading performance of a person's internet connection (vaguely DOS-ish) - a person one who isn't necessarily their customer and isn't necessarily doing anything illegal. (WoW patches, Linux distros etc)
Media outlets like newspaper, radio and TV are notoriously inaccurate, skewed to one political persuation or another or outright wrong. CNN and Fox news in particular should have warning banners 24/7 that read: "For entertainment purposes only."
I don't read newspapers. I watch very little tv (I don't have cable tv, just internet access). I don't listen to the radio. I find it's a blissful existence. Far less bullshit, and far, far fewer advertisements reach me. Especially with Firefox and Adblock.
When I do watch TV at the gym I'm disgusted at how awful it is. Three minute strings of commercials every eight minutes and typically 30 minutes of build up to the one interesting thing they have to show, and it lasts less than a minute.
The engaging content to filler ratio is MUCH better on youtube. The news is much more trustworthy and newsworthy on Google news. Craigslist is perfect for want/sell ads. If some local news event matters enough, I'll hear about it from coworkers and friends.
Divest yourselves of banal, ad-ridden, politically swayed media folks. It's not hard, and it's not ignorance, but it is bliss.
Could Comcast be found guilty of fraud law or violating some computer usage law because of this?
On one hand, they're deliberately pretending to be the person you're communicating with (fraud?). On the other they're deliberately degrading performance of a person's internet connection (vaguely DOS-ish), a person one who isn't necessarily their customer.
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Of course it won't. Just this weekend I was watching some DVDs that my roommate bought. And watching DVDs was an inferior experience to that of watching DVD rips on the same hardware (XBMC'd XBox). There are no unskippable advertisements or warnings, and they're cheaper that way!
So, not only are illegal copies a better product, they're generally cheaper. Way to go content middle men. You fail again.
Isn't it obvious that the band is just attempting to squeeze money out of the makers of guitar hero?
I guess if you can't get rich, you can sue someone who is.
Metamaterials? If they're not actual materials, then WTF are they?
If you think overcoming the warden is easy, then by all means do it. I don't even play WoW so I couldn't care less.
Yes they can, easily. Simply by the predictability and repetition of your automated actions.
I don't play WoW anymore, but I played a lot of Diablo II back in the day. That game was hacked to pieces bot exploiting users and bot runners. There was a actually a bot program that made it to slashdot because it let you play tetris while your bot was running.
Blizzard learned a great deal from Diablo II that they applied to WoW. They were good at cheat detection then, and they've only gotten better.
I always got a kick out of people's delusions about trivial things like delay randomizers to try and hide the bot. They would allow you to put in a minimum and maximum random delay value. So if you let your bot run for a week straight, don't you think that just maybe they'd be able to detect the fact that you never once clicked more than once every 100ms and never once clicked less frequently than once every 1000ms? Or simply based on the fact that you played continuously for 168 hours?
Instead of punishing the gamblers, they need to go after the casinos themselves. And if they're offshore, or outside MA, then too bad. That's outside your jurisdiction. If a person wants to gamble from the privacy of their own home, why can't they? It's none of the state or federal government's business. If he ruins his life and even his family's that still their business. Neither the state nor the federal government, nor even the local government should be telling someone what to do and what not to do inside their own home.
Personally, I think gambling is a tax on those who don't understand how probability works. If you want to throw your money away that's your prerogative, but I don't see why MA thinks they need to step in. Especially since it's online gambling. MA, you neither own, nor control the internet or what people do on it. Attempting to is futile.
The Facepunch Studios forums already have these guys beat with their forums' Smartness filter. It's awesome. Wish all forums used it. And /.'s discussions while we're at it.
Because it's pretty badass. At the outset they didn't intend to break new LCD technological ground with the OLPC, but they ended up doing so to meet the requirements. Also, because it's a good cause? That, and you won't get trampled on black Friday obtaining one.
Pure FUD.
Sure they give you a discount on a phone. But over the life of the contract you end up paying them a MINIMUM of about $1,200. You can bet your ass they're not losing money over it. I once saw an add for a "FREE Blackberry!" where, if you looked at the terms and contract would actually cost you $2,160 over the life of the 2 year contact. Minimum!
And what does this article, or my post have to do with Apple? I never once mentioned apple. If you don't like what Apple did with the iPhone, DON'T BUY AN IPHONE.
I fail to see how "wresting power from the carriers" is a bad thing. They do evil things with it. Two year contracts with "early termination fees". Phones locked into their service. Phones with software or hardware they've deliberately crippled (Verizon I'm looking at you). Phones that have had a nice GUI replaced with their branded crap. Charging absurd prices for downloads. Padding HTTP headers with data so you use more of their outrageously overpriced data plans. I could go on and on. But if you ask me, the more power the phones wrest from the carriers, the better off we'll be.
Sounds like a great idea until you realize the kids are the ones that are already asked to set the VCR clock by the parents. I think we'll see children cutting off their parents as much as the other way around. There's no technological solution to poor parenting. I mean, we don't have ResponsibilityImplants(TM)...yet.
Sorry, but you already are a commodity. Just ask the credit reporting bureaus. They charge businesses for access to your private financial history. Hell they even charge you for access to your own information.
I think you're right and the users should be the ones getting paid. But, just like individuals, corporations can always be trusted to act in their own best interests before anyone else's. If they can benefit from it and get away with it you bet they'll do it. The solution is to put in place an equally powerful opposing force. That's going to be difficult.
Hear hear!
I think if advertising is found to be even the tiniest bit misleading the sponsoring company and the advertising company should be held liable for fraud and fined severely enough such that the fines aren't simply considered a cost of doing business.
It suddenly becomes very relevant when their computer tells them that the 2GB SD card they just bought and plugged in is actually only 1.87GB.
It's deceptive advertising. HDD manufacturers and flash memory manufacturers seem to be the only ones to do this. Even system memory is measured in powers of 2. A 2GB stick of ram is 2048MB, not 1914.88MB.
What really bothers me about this is George fucking Washington warned us all to stay away from political parties. Yet here we are.
Also, America isn't a democracy. It's a republic.
Permit Cookies is a more user friendly version of your last two steps.
Turn off cookies for all sites, then to permit a site (session or permanently) you just hit alt+c and choose one, then hit enter.
Brasso also works great.
Ignore those stupid disc doctor contraptions and bizarre quack-style methods I've seen youtube videos of (like holding a CD directly in an open candle flame - I kid you not). Just get some Brasso and a soft cloth like a glasses cleaning rag, car chamois, or shoe polishing rag and polish the scratches out. Be careful not to polish the label side of the disc and be careful to do it evenly because you are literally removing CD material and you don't want to unbalance the disc.
The voluminous methane cows produce is from burping. Your tube would just get clogged at the end of the cow you chose.
Internet providers are not common carriers. In this case I wish they were.
Google Desktop integrates just fine with Outlook.
Trying to force it on users by making it required in office (a separate product) is an anti-competitive.
Behavior like this is why Microsoft is despicable, not the quality if their code.
I remember the good old days when everyone used Winamp. Nowadays WMP seems to be the most common. Not because it's won out against winamp by being better, but because it's bundled with Windows XP, and Microsoft will try to force it on you through windows update. That's right, Windows update forces new versions of Microsoft's browser and media player on you.
So now IE and WMP are the most common applications in their respective fields, not through any virtues of actually being superior products, but simply by bundling them. This is an anticompetitive practice if I've ever seen one.
It's no surprise that they're doing it again with their crappy Desktop Search product. It didn't even exist until MS Google Desktop came out. Until then people were pretty much stuck with the built in search and "Indexing". Which sucked horribly.
See what happens when you have an artificial monopoly? Horrible stagnation that only benefits the one in control.
Internet Explorer, the most common browser was completely stagnant until Firefox started becoming popular and MS started losing market share.
Windows' search functions was completely stagnant until Google Desktop came on the scene.
Windows Media player has sucked since version 7 but was dead for years before that.
Monopolies are bad for everyone that uses the products.
Could Comcast be found guilty of fraud law or violating some computer usage law because of this?
On one hand, they're deliberately pretending to be the person you're communicating with (fraud?). On the other they're deliberately degrading performance of a person's internet connection (vaguely DOS-ish) - a person one who isn't necessarily their customer and isn't necessarily doing anything illegal. (WoW patches, Linux distros etc)
This just in, flying through the air at high velocities not completely safe.
Media outlets like newspaper, radio and TV are notoriously inaccurate, skewed to one political persuation or another or outright wrong. CNN and Fox news in particular should have warning banners 24/7 that read: "For entertainment purposes only."
I don't read newspapers. I watch very little tv (I don't have cable tv, just internet access). I don't listen to the radio. I find it's a blissful existence. Far less bullshit, and far, far fewer advertisements reach me. Especially with Firefox and Adblock.
When I do watch TV at the gym I'm disgusted at how awful it is. Three minute strings of commercials every eight minutes and typically 30 minutes of build up to the one interesting thing they have to show, and it lasts less than a minute.
The engaging content to filler ratio is MUCH better on youtube. The news is much more trustworthy and newsworthy on Google news. Craigslist is perfect for want/sell ads. If some local news event matters enough, I'll hear about it from coworkers and friends.
Divest yourselves of banal, ad-ridden, politically swayed media folks. It's not hard, and it's not ignorance, but it is bliss.
Could Comcast be found guilty of fraud law or violating some computer usage law because of this?
On one hand, they're deliberately pretending to be the person you're communicating with (fraud?). On the other they're deliberately degrading performance of a person's internet connection (vaguely DOS-ish), a person one who isn't necessarily their customer.
Thoughts?