Actually at one mall here in AZ that I have worked for, having a press badge would get you evicted even faster than just taking pictures (Though taking pictures was enough)...
They had issues with people taking pictures due to a stabbing that had occured some time prior, as well as not wanting to make it easier for insurance or lawyer related photography...
Yeah thats something else that annoys me about their set top box, since its running Linux, there should be no problem at all technologically to allow it to do so under a desktop environment
I have a 7mb download (dsl) and dont generally have issues with their streaming... even at work with a 3mb connection I rarely get it pausing to download a bit ahead... but I do have to say it doesnt like to give a big margin ahead of the play point.
One thing to consider regarding the set top box, the instant play movie count is considerably less than the DVD based one.. thats the main thing holding me back from getting the box.
I use Trillian on windows for multi-protocol, and it works great. Admittedly I did pay for the pro version to get a couple more tweaks I wanted, but it wasn't that bad a price and is quite functional for most people in just the free form.
I actually switched off of pidgen a few months back because I didn't like how they did some things, and have been happy with trillian.
Nah, I dont think that Google did anything wrong, but my point is that before, when this happened, the message that was put across was "dont use links to perform actions like delete, use a POST and a form".... now, even that isnt a guarantee of safety.
I think that the programmers of the website have full responsibility to properly protect against stuff like this, but, being a realist, I know there is going to be enough that dont, that I will be properly entertained as a result.:)
I remember an article while back where someone had cut/pasted some articles from one section of their site to another.. and as a result had edit and delete links in the live content instead of on their internal web interface.
And a search engine (I think it was google) crawled the site, hit the delete links and deleted all the pages of the site. At that time it was stated that any link that performs an action, such as delete, should be a post, via form so that search engines wouldnt do that very thing..
And now, they are gonna start submitting forms? the fallout is gonna be entertaining.
I just transfered a domain from godaddy yesterday. Since I had originally registered it with them, they had the auth code already, so I didn't need to do anything to get it.
Funny thing was, I had to check a box that said I agreed that the person I was transferring it to was obligated to accept the 60 day lockdown after the transfer.
Walmart tends to pressure vendors to regularly reduce their prices.. and helpfully suggest to some that they produce a substandard model just for walmart if it will help them to reduce prices... so what may have happened simply was that the manufacturer of the computer just couldnt get the price low enough for Walmart on the second round.
Paypay does do recurring charges.. its just hard to change an existing recurring charge after it is established.. so it would mean people would have to unsubscribe and resub under a new plan.
Same here... using a mouse gives me a lot of pain in my wrist.. luckily it takes a week or two to build up to where I notice it.. but the thumb-trackball (Trackman wheel is the one I am using) works great.. and I find I have better and more precise control over the cursor with the trackball than with the mouse.. especially since I dont have to lift and move the mouse...
If you are going to play FPS's or MMOs I dont recomend the battery ones, I tended to burn out the charge a lot faster than average due to the number of mouse clicks and moving I was doing..
"Oh yes, takes less than a day to charge the credit card, but a few days to refund"
no comment on efax... but... some companies (and the one I work for is one of them) trust the general customer service agent to charge your card but not to give money back.. because they dont want extra fraud going on by employees.. such as putting money back onto their own cards out of the company accounts...
Its a hassle because then the companies typically only have one or a small number of people authorized to put money back on to a card and thats part of what delays the refund.
I always wondered if it would work to put rockets on them. Bottle rockets for example.. or take small engines for model rockets and put fins and a cone (or a blasting cap, etc) on the front and launch them by remote spark...
Not all survey calls are benign.. some companies use them to first verify their call list is good and then try to get you to say you are interested in more information.. which then gets you a sales call followup.
"If you don't return a book, the library fines you. Eventually, they charge you for the book. I would imagine that at some point, a library takes some kind of collections action to recover their costs"
Yup, I have seen a Sheriff sent to someones door with a subpoena over overdue library books.. with the basic message of "return the books or pay what we deem their cost to replace"
WWIV code was "acquired" by the original programmer of telegard. Telegard was programed for a while then that person (I can't recall his name) ended up not being able to work on it.. I vaguely remember legal problems of some sort, but I may be wrong.
After that Eric Oman (I believe) took over, worked on it til the 2.5x era and then Martin Pollard got involved...
There was a falling out of sorts, Eric said to heck with it and publically told people they could work on the code and released one of the 2.5 versions to the public.
Martin Pollard continued programming and released a 2.7 version or two... and eventually it got passed on to someone else.
Renegade was conceived and worked on originally by Cott Lang, who took the code that Eric released and continued in his own direction. Eventually Cott decided to no longer work on it, and handed it off to Patrick Spence (Me) and I worked on it for a while with some assistance from Gary Hall.
After I got tired of not getting volunteers to actually do the work they volunteered to do, I said to heck with it and passed it off to Jeff Herrings.
Jeff gave up after a while (hard to work on RG when you don't have time free) and I took it back.
Eventually I gave it to Corey Snow to work on and he has started a "write from scratch" version that he has listed on SourceForge.
Thats the 25 cent version.
Needless to say, I do not believe that Telegard or Renegade (not counting the new SourceForge project) come even close to qualifying for GPL status:)
Yes you could animate.. you could do more stuff than with ANSI.. including changing directions of text flow in any of the four directions and lots of other stuff..
The problem was that many term programs didn't support all the newer stuff that Avatar could do.
Sci fi will get it, show four episodes, then wait six months to show the rest all while re-running the FIRST four episodes over and over.. then cancelling the series halfway into showing the rest...
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Wait, there was another Everquest?
I thought the 2 was cosmetic, for effect..
They introduced voice chat into everquest 2 recently.. it went very smoothly and works great.. so I think they have the voice chat angle covered.
Actually at one mall here in AZ that I have worked for, having a press badge would get you evicted even faster than just taking pictures (Though taking pictures was enough)...
They had issues with people taking pictures due to a stabbing that had occured some time prior, as well as not wanting to make it easier for insurance or lawyer related photography...
Yeah thats something else that annoys me about their set top box, since its running Linux, there should be no problem at all technologically to allow it to do so under a desktop environment
I have a 7mb download (dsl) and dont generally have issues with their streaming... even at work with a 3mb connection I rarely get it pausing to download a bit ahead... but I do have to say it doesnt like to give a big margin ahead of the play point.
One thing to consider regarding the set top box, the instant play movie count is considerably less than the DVD based one.. thats the main thing holding me back from getting the box.
I can buy a copy of XP, upgrade or full install, retail or OEM at newegg with no problems.
I use Trillian on windows for multi-protocol, and it works great. Admittedly I did pay for the pro version to get a couple more tweaks I wanted, but it wasn't that bad a price and is quite functional for most people in just the free form.
I actually switched off of pidgen a few months back because I didn't like how they did some things, and have been happy with trillian.
Yup, thats the one... I tried a quick search for it when I posted before, but couldn't find it right away... my google-fu failed me. ;)
Nah, I dont think that Google did anything wrong, but my point is that before, when this happened, the message that was put across was "dont use links to perform actions like delete, use a POST and a form".... now, even that isnt a guarantee of safety.
:)
I think that the programmers of the website have full responsibility to properly protect against stuff like this, but, being a realist, I know there is going to be enough that dont, that I will be properly entertained as a result.
I remember an article while back where someone had cut/pasted some articles from one section of their site to another.. and as a result had edit and delete links in the live content instead of on their internal web interface.
And a search engine (I think it was google) crawled the site, hit the delete links and deleted all the pages of the site. At that time it was stated that any link that performs an action, such as delete, should be a post, via form so that search engines wouldnt do that very thing..
And now, they are gonna start submitting forms? the fallout is gonna be entertaining.
I just transfered a domain from godaddy yesterday. Since I had originally registered it with them, they had the auth code already, so I didn't need to do anything to get it.
Funny thing was, I had to check a box that said I agreed that the person I was transferring it to was obligated to accept the 60 day lockdown after the transfer.
Walmart tends to pressure vendors to regularly reduce their prices.. and helpfully suggest to some that they produce a substandard model just for walmart if it will help them to reduce prices... so what may have happened simply was that the manufacturer of the computer just couldnt get the price low enough for Walmart on the second round.
Paypay does do recurring charges.. its just hard to change an existing recurring charge after it is established.. so it would mean people would have to unsubscribe and resub under a new plan.
Same here... using a mouse gives me a lot of pain in my wrist.. luckily it takes a week or two to build up to where I notice it.. but the thumb-trackball (Trackman wheel is the one I am using) works great.. and I find I have better and more precise control over the cursor with the trackball than with the mouse.. especially since I dont have to lift and move the mouse...
If you are going to play FPS's or MMOs I dont recomend the battery ones, I tended to burn out the charge a lot faster than average due to the number of mouse clicks and moving I was doing..
"Oh yes, takes less than a day to charge the credit card, but a few days to refund"
no comment on efax... but... some companies (and the one I work for is one of them) trust the general customer service agent to charge your card but not to give money back.. because they dont want extra fraud going on by employees.. such as putting money back onto their own cards out of the company accounts...
Its a hassle because then the companies typically only have one or a small number of people authorized to put money back on to a card and thats part of what delays the refund.
thats why you need to keep the telemarketer counter script handy... http://www.xs4all.nl/~egbg/counterscript.html
I always wondered if it would work to put rockets on them. Bottle rockets for example.. or take small engines for model rockets and put fins and a cone (or a blasting cap, etc) on the front and launch them by remote spark...
Not all survey calls are benign.. some companies use them to first verify their call list is good and then try to get you to say you are interested in more information.. which then gets you a sales call followup.
"If you don't return a book, the library fines you. Eventually, they charge you for the book. I would imagine that at some point, a library takes some kind of collections action to recover their costs"
Yup, I have seen a Sheriff sent to someones door with a subpoena over overdue library books.. with the basic message of "return the books or pay what we deem their cost to replace"
WWIV code was "acquired" by the original programmer of telegard. Telegard was programed for a while then that person (I can't recall his name) ended up not being able to work on it.. I vaguely remember legal problems of some sort, but I may be wrong.
:)
After that Eric Oman (I believe) took over, worked on it til the 2.5x era and then Martin Pollard got involved...
There was a falling out of sorts, Eric said to heck with it and publically told people they could work on the code and released one of the 2.5 versions to the public.
Martin Pollard continued programming and released a 2.7 version or two... and eventually it got passed on to someone else.
Renegade was conceived and worked on originally by Cott Lang, who took the code that Eric released and continued in his own direction. Eventually Cott decided to no longer work on it, and handed it off to Patrick Spence (Me) and I worked on it for a while with some assistance from Gary Hall.
After I got tired of not getting volunteers to actually do the work they volunteered to do, I said to heck with it and passed it off to Jeff Herrings.
Jeff gave up after a while (hard to work on RG when you don't have time free) and I took it back.
Eventually I gave it to Corey Snow to work on and he has started a "write from scratch" version that he has listed on SourceForge.
Thats the 25 cent version.
Needless to say, I do not believe that Telegard or Renegade (not counting the new SourceForge project) come even close to qualifying for GPL status
Yes you could animate.. you could do more stuff than with ANSI.. including changing directions of text flow in any of the four directions and lots of other stuff..
The problem was that many term programs didn't support all the newer stuff that Avatar could do.
Sci fi will get it, show four episodes, then wait six months to show the rest all while re-running the FIRST four episodes over and over.. then cancelling the series halfway into showing the rest...
sigh.
I loved the episodes I could see.. but since the local fox affiliate couldn't seem to play the show, its no wonder they are canceling it...
You could only do that "hack" if the sysop misconfigured his security settings from the default.. or gave access to some twit who shouldn't have it..