I believe in the Doctor Who theory. Obviously he got a few chunks of meteorites, brought them to the Egyptians for some crucial purpose, and left them. I mean really, how else do you think they found so many?
Personally I like both models when done completely seperately, but what Microsoft is doing here is taking worst of both worlds.
As someone else said, Steam is nice and convenient. They have more aggressive pricing, immediate downloads(that can go faster than 500Kbyte/s, unlike Xbox Live), and no need for annoying disks that you'll eventually end up losing
Microsoft appears to be combining the physical aspect with the virtual aspect. Sure, being able to sell your game is nice, but if you take that ability away you damn well better keep me content with your service in other ways. Steam does that, Xbox doesn't.
I already see the trolls coming to say "So what if Microsoft does it, Steam's been doing it for years". Well, look at Steam's prices and sales. I saw a game that came out a few months ago for $20 on Steam in a sale. The best "sale" of new-ish games on the Xbox (online) market is a $60 game being sold at $50. Steam's prices are competitive, Microsoft's isn't.
In fact, if they are making used game activations fixed at ~$35, this is basically price fixing. Here's to hope that some publishers will see that they can offer new copies for $35 or $40, instead of the typical $60. If they allowed distribution across the internet, this would *completely* destroy the used games market, which I wouldn't say is a super terrible thing if the pricing will be fixed. This would lead to a chain reaction of the used game market fighting to have non-fixed prices.
Yep. This. I'm originally from Oklahoma, but living in Ohio. It seems like when all my friends from Oklahoma are complaining about the weather, I'll have that same weather the next day. This proved extremely true this winter, like 90% of the times it rained/snowed there, it'd rain/snow here a day later. It's proving less true though now in Spring though. The thing that really throws me off is here bands of rain seem to not quite move west to east. In Oklahoma though, it moves almost perfect west to east in almost all cases.
Here's a better idea that wouldn't make as many people angry. Keep long yellows and remove the redlight detection. Instead, just have a camera. It takes pictures of every plate. Each hour it plays a lottery between the plates. Whoever's plate gets pulled out gets the $138 ticket.
Sounds a bit ridiculous, but the politicians would still be getting their kick backs from the manufacturers of the lottery system, the state would still be getting income without all the bad publicity of raising taxes, and drivers would be happy not crashing into the person that slams on their brakes to stop at the light the instant it turns yellow. It's a win for everyone
I actually saw my first auto-play HTML5 video/audio ad a few weeks ago on my Linux machine(without flash). Even advertisers are starting to understand that Flash is dead, sadly.
Rather you like it or not, this may be where we are going. With the advent of ad blockers and general desensitization to ads by the constant bombardment of horrible ones, ads aren't all that profitable anymore... unless they're extremely well targeted, which is an issue by itself.
That being said, assuming that it's only mining when I'm actively engaged in the application(to not waste excessive amounts of electricity), I'd approve of this as a replacement to ads. The only downside in comparison to ads is using more power(ie, less battery life in mobile).
Also, this is assuming we have smart and pleasant miners that don't peg CPU/GPU to 100% and cause my computer to crawl, but rather target 80% or less resource utilization. And, of course, not mining in the background. Only mining when I'm actively engaging with the application.
Space is scary and dangerous. I do wonder how fast this projectile was probably going though? I'd assume the hull is pretty thick, but how fast would a projectile have to go to cut through it?
They basically give people who aren't 90% of users the middle finger. Use Linux? that's too bad, live without or pirate it. We don't want your money
I think this is especially pitiful that they are doing this with their own shows they are now producing. It's not even the MPAA demanding them to DRM everything to license it, they are stupid enough that they are doing it for the hell of it..
I'm going to be changing my TOS on my website if this passes. I think something along the lines of "if you view my website, you must give me all of the money in your bank account". I will then be forwarding it in a massive email campaign to everyone with an inkling of political influence.
That is what I use. It's a rare month when I use more than 100M of data (I'm always close to wifi), so the data constraints don't matter much to me. I've heard of a $30 plan by an AT&T reseller that is like 500 minutes, unlimited text and data, but you'll have to do research if you want a better plan with significant amounts of data
Why not just use T-Mobile's prepaid plans? They're the best I've seen so far. $50/month for unlimited everything. I put the $20-40 I save every month into a savings account to buy a new phone periodically even.
Not sure the exact brand and model or anything, but it was a blue laser. As a joke my friend sent me a text message "look up" and I could see a blue ambiance in a cloud. Definitely visible. He was at his house, so yes, about 20 miles away. It's a handheld laser also.
Get a powerful laser. Mount it with a spinning set of mirrors. Put it into a "grenade" form with a time delayed trigger. After spinning it around a room for say 5 seconds, everyone should be either sufficiently blind or at least keeping their eyes closed to prevent blindness.
I have a friend who has a laser pointer in the watt range. He apparently ordered it online, which I could have swore was not strictly legal. That thing is more powerful than any laser used for reading media. It will heat up dark surfaces quickly and it's bright enough that if you point it straight up, you can see it from at least 20 miles away, especially when it's cloudy.
I recently upgraded from a very old Android(300M of RAM) phone to a Nexus 4 and it amazes me how long it will keep an application at the same point. On my old phone, it recycled memory so quickly that going from an app, to home, and then launching calculator or something and going back to the app, it would be a fresh session. On the Nexus though I've launched an app in the evening with it keeping the same state that it had in the morning when I launched it without reloading anything.
That being said, YES it is extremely annoying that it only downloads 1 thing at a time, despite clearly being capable of downloading many things at once. (oddly enough this rule is kept in place when downloading with Chrome as well)
Heh, the last string of flights I was on consisted of some hilarious safety presentations. I mean, to make the traditional boring instructions interesting to listen to is true comedic talent. "SMOKINNNNN'.... is not allowed. " "OXYGEN.... We got it. And if you so happen to need it we attendants will wish we would have called in sick"
I use to recommend Arch to everyone, then they switched to systemd. Since then, I've been looking for a similar distro that doesn't use systemd.
And no, I'm not one of those "it's different, so it's bad" types. It's crap like the owner of the project introducing breaking changes on purpose with his solution being "well, every driver is wrong" or other bullshit excuses. It has terrible error handling, like did you know if you have an invalid mount in your fstab(even if it's non-essential), it will render your system unbootable with only "check journal" as being the error reported. You then have to boot into rescue mode and remove the invalid mount
The worst part is, any complaint about systemd behavior on the Arch Linux forums is instantly closed as "systemd is like that, we're not changing it, it's a feature". With the supposed best property about systemd is faster boot times, which 99% of people could care less about
...And so the "Remember Me" option for logging in is pointless then because after 16 hours you'll have to login again. Unless you mean they create a new session token automatically or bump the expiry... oh wait, an attacker could do that same thing as well if they have a copy of the cookie
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I believe in the Doctor Who theory. Obviously he got a few chunks of meteorites, brought them to the Egyptians for some crucial purpose, and left them. I mean really, how else do you think they found so many?
It's so stupid that they say "works in any browser" as well, assuming that everyone is either using a mobile browser or has flash player.
And... still no support for machines without Flash player. HTML5 video is quite stable and drastically more performant. Why are you not using it?
Personally I like both models when done completely seperately, but what Microsoft is doing here is taking worst of both worlds.
As someone else said, Steam is nice and convenient. They have more aggressive pricing, immediate downloads(that can go faster than 500Kbyte/s, unlike Xbox Live), and no need for annoying disks that you'll eventually end up losing
Microsoft appears to be combining the physical aspect with the virtual aspect. Sure, being able to sell your game is nice, but if you take that ability away you damn well better keep me content with your service in other ways. Steam does that, Xbox doesn't.
I already see the trolls coming to say "So what if Microsoft does it, Steam's been doing it for years". Well, look at Steam's prices and sales. I saw a game that came out a few months ago for $20 on Steam in a sale. The best "sale" of new-ish games on the Xbox (online) market is a $60 game being sold at $50. Steam's prices are competitive, Microsoft's isn't.
In fact, if they are making used game activations fixed at ~$35, this is basically price fixing. Here's to hope that some publishers will see that they can offer new copies for $35 or $40, instead of the typical $60. If they allowed distribution across the internet, this would *completely* destroy the used games market, which I wouldn't say is a super terrible thing if the pricing will be fixed. This would lead to a chain reaction of the used game market fighting to have non-fixed prices.
Yep. This. I'm originally from Oklahoma, but living in Ohio. It seems like when all my friends from Oklahoma are complaining about the weather, I'll have that same weather the next day. This proved extremely true this winter, like 90% of the times it rained/snowed there, it'd rain/snow here a day later. It's proving less true though now in Spring though. The thing that really throws me off is here bands of rain seem to not quite move west to east. In Oklahoma though, it moves almost perfect west to east in almost all cases.
weather is hard.
Let's look back at what made Lotus Notes GREAT. Lotus Sucks use to show some of the best examples. Apparently the website is offline now though. Here is a wayback archive though http://web.archive.org/web/20080531232948/http://lotusnotessucks.4t.com/lnEx01.html
Here's a better idea that wouldn't make as many people angry. Keep long yellows and remove the redlight detection. Instead, just have a camera. It takes pictures of every plate. Each hour it plays a lottery between the plates. Whoever's plate gets pulled out gets the $138 ticket.
Sounds a bit ridiculous, but the politicians would still be getting their kick backs from the manufacturers of the lottery system, the state would still be getting income without all the bad publicity of raising taxes, and drivers would be happy not crashing into the person that slams on their brakes to stop at the light the instant it turns yellow. It's a win for everyone
That is all.
I actually saw my first auto-play HTML5 video/audio ad a few weeks ago on my Linux machine(without flash). Even advertisers are starting to understand that Flash is dead, sadly.
That being said, assuming that it's only mining when I'm actively engaged in the application(to not waste excessive amounts of electricity), I'd approve of this as a replacement to ads. The only downside in comparison to ads is using more power(ie, less battery life in mobile).
Also, this is assuming we have smart and pleasant miners that don't peg CPU/GPU to 100% and cause my computer to crawl, but rather target 80% or less resource utilization. And, of course, not mining in the background. Only mining when I'm actively engaging with the application.
is that Intel provides very nice open source drivers for their integrated GPUs
Space is scary and dangerous. I do wonder how fast this projectile was probably going though? I'd assume the hull is pretty thick, but how fast would a projectile have to go to cut through it?
I think this is especially pitiful that they are doing this with their own shows they are now producing. It's not even the MPAA demanding them to DRM everything to license it, they are stupid enough that they are doing it for the hell of it..
Sounds like a perfect excuse for a preemptive strike
I'm going to be changing my TOS on my website if this passes. I think something along the lines of "if you view my website, you must give me all of the money in your bank account". I will then be forwarding it in a massive email campaign to everyone with an inkling of political influence.
That is what I use. It's a rare month when I use more than 100M of data (I'm always close to wifi), so the data constraints don't matter much to me. I've heard of a $30 plan by an AT&T reseller that is like 500 minutes, unlimited text and data, but you'll have to do research if you want a better plan with significant amounts of data
Why not just use T-Mobile's prepaid plans? They're the best I've seen so far. $50/month for unlimited everything. I put the $20-40 I save every month into a savings account to buy a new phone periodically even.
Not sure the exact brand and model or anything, but it was a blue laser. As a joke my friend sent me a text message "look up" and I could see a blue ambiance in a cloud. Definitely visible. He was at his house, so yes, about 20 miles away. It's a handheld laser also.
Get a powerful laser. Mount it with a spinning set of mirrors. Put it into a "grenade" form with a time delayed trigger. After spinning it around a room for say 5 seconds, everyone should be either sufficiently blind or at least keeping their eyes closed to prevent blindness.
I have a friend who has a laser pointer in the watt range. He apparently ordered it online, which I could have swore was not strictly legal. That thing is more powerful than any laser used for reading media. It will heat up dark surfaces quickly and it's bright enough that if you point it straight up, you can see it from at least 20 miles away, especially when it's cloudy.
I recently upgraded from a very old Android(300M of RAM) phone to a Nexus 4 and it amazes me how long it will keep an application at the same point. On my old phone, it recycled memory so quickly that going from an app, to home, and then launching calculator or something and going back to the app, it would be a fresh session. On the Nexus though I've launched an app in the evening with it keeping the same state that it had in the morning when I launched it without reloading anything.
That being said, YES it is extremely annoying that it only downloads 1 thing at a time, despite clearly being capable of downloading many things at once. (oddly enough this rule is kept in place when downloading with Chrome as well)
Heh, the last string of flights I was on consisted of some hilarious safety presentations. I mean, to make the traditional boring instructions interesting to listen to is true comedic talent. "SMOKINNNNN'.... is not allowed. " "OXYGEN.... We got it. And if you so happen to need it we attendants will wish we would have called in sick"
I use to recommend Arch to everyone, then they switched to systemd. Since then, I've been looking for a similar distro that doesn't use systemd.
And no, I'm not one of those "it's different, so it's bad" types. It's crap like the owner of the project introducing breaking changes on purpose with his solution being "well, every driver is wrong" or other bullshit excuses. It has terrible error handling, like did you know if you have an invalid mount in your fstab(even if it's non-essential), it will render your system unbootable with only "check journal" as being the error reported. You then have to boot into rescue mode and remove the invalid mount
The worst part is, any complaint about systemd behavior on the Arch Linux forums is instantly closed as "systemd is like that, we're not changing it, it's a feature". With the supposed best property about systemd is faster boot times, which 99% of people could care less about
...And so the "Remember Me" option for logging in is pointless then because after 16 hours you'll have to login again. Unless you mean they create a new session token automatically or bump the expiry... oh wait, an attacker could do that same thing as well if they have a copy of the cookie