There's too much revisionist history in the Boss's statement for my tolerance.
Boss- "First they take our subscribers now they're forcing to upgrade our equipment... well fuck em!"
First they had subscribers, then Netflix introduced the online version of their service (circa 2008) bringing in more subscribers, then Xfinity got added (circa 2010) offering the speeds demonstrated by Netflix carried by Comcast but with a selection of Comcast's cable offerings. fast forward a few years and Netflix is still the better offering so Comcast strategically decides to upgrade in ways that improve Xfinity on-demand services without accepting offers from Netflix to likewise maintain the quality of service Netflix customers experienced in the past and presumably would still get to experience if the dollars spent on monthly connection fees to Comcast actually went into improving total network quality instead of just promoting Xfinity services.
It would be nice if it were just friendly competition going on, but it's Comcast trying to cut in on the streaming market after Netflix showed it was profitable.
Making the toll road operator look even better, one of the competing toll road projects decides that those who car-pool should either pay more or drive at reduced speeds.
When a toll road sells 10.000 people a monthly pass for a lane each, and then offers up to 5 lanes at a time during peak hours due to "maintenance", and yet has another 9,995 lanes constructed, uncluttered, and for sale in advertisements to other bidders I would certainly complain.
I was hoping you were talking about research in Sid Meier's Alpha Centaur or Alien Crossfire. Please don't go, the drones need you, they look up to you.
First translate the algorithm into Perl, and then run it on a Perl interpreter written in BrainFuck, of which the BrainFuck interpreter is written in APL, which runs on a machine language written for a drum-based OS from the early 1960's.
Knowing what both the NSA and Snowden claim to have known during the discourse, why would Snowden use such an insecure channel of communication as email to voice objections? Other countries' government agents would likely have taken notice if he'd used something as insecure even as "internal" email.
It was hard and required some skill. Thats what made it enjoyable.
It was easy and required less skill than its precursors like Everquest, Ultima Online, and Anarchy Online. That's what made it enjoyable to players under the age of 8. About the only thing at the time requiring less skill and with less difficulty was Asheron's Call.
And zero evidence of any of the prior roughly 100 billion (your estimate again, going with your thought experiment) having gotten out alive. You're off by about 6% for the running average. Classic gambler's fallacy.
too long, read against my better judgement
Wading through the patent, it just seems to describe the process of converting a vector image to a raster image. I don't see anything novel.
However when you forget once for several thousand customers all at once, each one is likely to take it as a seperate occasion. It's also perfectly normal to treat a mistake that affects orders of magnitude more people as orders of magnitude more irritating. Also it wasn't amusing for anyone affected that I've talked to, it was a combination or irritating and annoying.
Sincerely,
Someone who worked around the issue himself, but then got to spend hours via ventrilo and skype helping other players adjust their DNS settings so they could play the game they'd paid for.
P.S. Dear Sony: I would gladly maintain correspondence with your name / hosting providers in exchange for continued all-access membership during such periods.
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PartedMagic , because no one has ever used a euphamism for a project name.
How about a point of sale system called Metro, or Luna?
For $25 worth of service.
To be fair, EA has committed far more horrible atrocities against EA's profits.
There's too much revisionist history in the Boss's statement for my tolerance. Boss- "First they take our subscribers now they're forcing to upgrade our equipment... well fuck em!" First they had subscribers, then Netflix introduced the online version of their service (circa 2008) bringing in more subscribers, then Xfinity got added (circa 2010) offering the speeds demonstrated by Netflix carried by Comcast but with a selection of Comcast's cable offerings. fast forward a few years and Netflix is still the better offering so Comcast strategically decides to upgrade in ways that improve Xfinity on-demand services without accepting offers from Netflix to likewise maintain the quality of service Netflix customers experienced in the past and presumably would still get to experience if the dollars spent on monthly connection fees to Comcast actually went into improving total network quality instead of just promoting Xfinity services. It would be nice if it were just friendly competition going on, but it's Comcast trying to cut in on the streaming market after Netflix showed it was profitable.
Making the toll road operator look even better, one of the competing toll road projects decides that those who car-pool should either pay more or drive at reduced speeds.
When a toll road sells 10.000 people a monthly pass for a lane each, and then offers up to 5 lanes at a time during peak hours due to "maintenance", and yet has another 9,995 lanes constructed, uncluttered, and for sale in advertisements to other bidders I would certainly complain.
Or worse, ponies.
Limits that could probably be solved using the money they were paid for such services?
I was hoping you were talking about research in Sid Meier's Alpha Centaur or Alien Crossfire. Please don't go, the drones need you, they look up to you.
The solution is a referendum declaring the Supreme Court is an abortion clinic, problem solved.
I don't know about you, but all email I get with ebola goes into the spam folder.
"Buddy" is punctuation?
Nutmeg is a gateway spice.
First translate the algorithm into Perl, and then run it on a Perl interpreter written in BrainFuck, of which the BrainFuck interpreter is written in APL, which runs on a machine language written for a drum-based OS from the early 1960's.
You shouldn't knock Visual BASIC like that...
Good point. It's like the lawyer is just randomly suing Google for hosting inappropriate pictures.
Correction. Not necessarily hosting, but providing a method to obtain access to those images.
Time to sue the electricity providers then?
The books did a decent job portraying the original radio broadcast as well.
Now iTunes users get to experience what it's like having Phil Collins / Genesis appear in any given Pandora playlist given sufficient time.
Knowing what both the NSA and Snowden claim to have known during the discourse, why would Snowden use such an insecure channel of communication as email to voice objections? Other countries' government agents would likely have taken notice if he'd used something as insecure even as "internal" email.
It was hard and required some skill. Thats what made it enjoyable.
It was easy and required less skill than its precursors like Everquest, Ultima Online, and Anarchy Online. That's what made it enjoyable to players under the age of 8. About the only thing at the time requiring less skill and with less difficulty was Asheron's Call.
And zero evidence of any of the prior roughly 100 billion (your estimate again, going with your thought experiment) having gotten out alive. You're off by about 6% for the running average. Classic gambler's fallacy.
The traditional name for sufficient bug fixes or other code contributions to justify getting a commercial license free is called a "fork".
Unless spying for a foreign power counts.
too long, read against my better judgement Wading through the patent, it just seems to describe the process of converting a vector image to a raster image. I don't see anything novel.
Sincerely,
Someone who worked around the issue himself, but then got to spend hours via ventrilo and skype helping other players adjust their DNS settings so they could play the game they'd paid for.
P.S. Dear Sony: I would gladly maintain correspondence with your name / hosting providers in exchange for continued all-access membership during such periods.