Its called a UPS. Put your router, cable modem, and VOIP device on the UPS and you'll stay up even during power outages. The cable company has the cable modem infrastructure on battery backup just in case of a power failure so you should to.
As far as the actual quality of your cable modem service, that another issue entirely.
There is something big that annoys me with 2 card SLI. With 1 card you use the 16x slot as a 16x slot. With 2 cards though they throttle back to be 2 8x slots instead of 2 16x slots. Why do that? Maybe next generation pci express will let you have 2 full bandwith 16x slots on the mb. Throttling back to 8x for 2 cards does impact performance. SLI is pretty awesome but I view the current implementation as version 1.5 (version 1 being 3dfx's attempt).
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Oh and you have to qualify, ie, make hardly nothing and only use the 1040ez form. Anything else (like the majority of the population) forget about filing for free electronically.
I use the turbotax online as a double check to my doing it by hand. Then I just mail it in. If you are actually PAYING taxes in April then you are doing something wrong. The goal is to technically break even but I kinda like getting a rebate.
"It appears that Time Warner auto-updated the DVR with a new software release, but along with all that auto-updating goodness came a bug which freezes video playback for 3-4 seconds at a time. According to one subscriber, Patrick Menton, "It can happen maybe eight to 10 times during a program and it's very aggravating." nod to TV Harmony"
This is a well known bug and can be fixed with a reformat of the DVR's hard drive. I did it myself before Christmas and the problem went away.
"What kind of fairy land do you live in? These sites were CLEARLY offering illegal content. "
Really, what kind of fairy land do you live in? These sites were not offering anything illegal. Unless you call posting a binary file on a website for download that contains nothing but even more links in it an illegal file.
If thats illegal then we might as well just shut the entire web down. No point in making web pages anymore for fear that someone may think your linked to file or page contains illegal material. Doesn't matter if you created that file yourself, if someone doesn't like it then chances are you'll get caught eventually.
Technically its not about the sites being shutdown. Its the precendence it sets that dangerous. Look a little further out instead of walking around dodging what is about to hit you in the face.
I guess we need to go after google as well, you can find torrent file links via google searching. Hell do a search for torrent files on google and all the sponsored links are for torrent download sites.
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You agree to a certain number of very specific rules in order to play games like this. One is no selling of in game stuff for real money. If you violate this rule they can and will ban you very quickly. He doesn't have to play the game if he doesn't want to, and it is not designed to provide a source of income to the player.
The player does NOT own their character. They are basically renting space and time from the blizzard servers for the benefit of entertaining themselves. Thats basically all it boils down to. At any time in the contract Blizzard may ban the user and terminate the user paying Blizzard. The user really can't do anything except open a new account.
Can't pay the mortgage with stock options. I'd rather not get them. I'll take care of saving for my retirment instead of relying on the company's "good will".
Disclaimers or not. That doesn't stop a really large group of companies from attacking a site run by a small fish and freaking the small fish out enough to get the fish to give them a ton of money to go away.
Who cares. I mean really! The thing just came out, so its still under warranty. Just return it to the place of purchase and swap it with another one. Its not like its been on the street for 30-60 days and you can get a replacement from the store it was bought at.
Yeah I guess that box that I picked up that contained the product actually wasn't there. I also guess I really wasn't in the store and didn't feel it with my own hands. It must have been a DS and PS2 boxes filled with some extremely heavy packing material to give the illusion of an actual product that you can buy.
On a side note that has nothing to do with availability, I cannot stand those small game stores. Jacked up prices, lack of inventory, and shady used game sales and purchase practices.
Hate to say it but thats one more reason not to buy things at those small game stores. All 3 best buys around me all have the DS in stock. They also all have the slim ps2 in stock. In fact over the past few days I haven't been in a store that hasn't had these 2 items in stock.
You are basing your opinion of an entire system on a commercial that showed one possible use for a color touch screen?
Have you even tried one yet? They've got the demo units out in stores to try.
Yeah the PSP LOOKS great, but battery life is going to be horrible. Looks aren't everything. Companies have tried in the past to de-trone nintendo with better looking portables and they have all failed so far.
DSL still has its bottleneck, its just further down the pipe. DSL speeds are generally slower than cable also. In the lifetime of high speed internet I've only known 2 people to have dsl, one absolutely hated it, nothing but problems and ditched it for cable as soon as cable was available. The other person still has it now but is paying such a low price and doesn't really use the internet much so thats not a good representation.
According to them no linux version for a long time. This probably means no open source either. Forget it.
Some other stuff:
"The main problem with kazaa is that it doesn't have hash system which means that if you make MP3 with same name and same size that's already on the network and someone downloads one part of this file from you the MP3 will be corrupted. (This is exactly what RIAA did to kazaa). And since people don't delete bad MP3's from their computer you have more and more of this files in the network. And here is where our client is different you wont be able to corrupt files in the network because they have hash.
One more difference from kazaa is that we wont have entire folders of files on the network only those that will be manually uploaded from users. Kazaa has so many viruses because users don't even know they have them on there computer. So I personally think that we will have a lot less fake files on our network and we also plan to implement rate system so that if people find fakes, viruses, spyware in one of the files they will vote it as bad so hopfully not many people will download that file.
What we are trying to do is bring best of P2P world and best of bittorrent together."
About eXeem replacing suprnova:
"That's a reporters view on it. Remember, they probably know next to nothing about eXeem, and are doing what reporters do best: bullshit./. will give eXeem a pretty big audience though."
I keep hearing about these queues, I've yet to encounter one. Also, the people that want to play PvP is a small group. A lot of folks don't want to have to worry about wandering around and getting beaten down by some 12 year old kid.
The problem is that if you don't specifically say "Canada" all the Canadians start yelling and screaming about why they don't get the game also or why are they being lumped in with those crazy Americans. Don't blame the writers, blame the citizens.
Really it is. I played the stress test for a week and was hooked but didn't want to play the open beta. I didn't want to play it so much that I wouldn't want to play it when the masses logged on to play when it went live. I enjoy soloing more than group work unless its folks that I personally know, and WoW is great for this.
Can't wait for christmas vacation, going to be doing nothing but playing.
The same people who want to go to the movies but don't know what they want to see so they just drive to the local mall and look at whats playing and decide based on what time it is and the title and poster. This happens a lot more than you think.
more than help. A good title is everything. Serenity is not a good title for a movie. What is their target audience? I don't care how good it may or may not be, people are going to see the title Serenity on the movie listings and go, "huh? I don't want to see that, lets go see something else".
"An LCD makes it possible to actually see the individual pixels."
Why would you want to see individual pixels? Thats not a benefit. I want to see a complete image, not the components that make up the image.
"An LCD consistently displays the image in the same place, without losing pixels off the edge."
Unless you have an LCD with pixels that don't work or are frozen in one color which happens on most LCD monitors. CRT's don't get stuck pixels.
"An LCD image doesn't flicker."
But an LCD has ghosting unless you spend the extra money to get a fast lcd monitor. A CRT won't flicker if you set the refresh rate higher. I've never had a problem with CRT's flickering but I have had problems with LCD's ghosting.
CRT's show blacker blacks instead of the muddy blacks that LCD's show. CRT's cost less also.
Hmmm...maybe its just be but I don't get any ads in steam. Oh maybe you are talking about the 1 time it popped up a window saying you could now order HL2. If you got a problem with that then thats your problem, not steam. You don't have to buy anything through it either if you don't want to. I also didn't get any pressure when I ordered HL2 through it to upgrade to a larger package. I picked what I wanted and that was it.
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Its called a UPS. Put your router, cable modem, and VOIP device on the UPS and you'll stay up even during power outages. The cable company has the cable modem infrastructure on battery backup just in case of a power failure so you should to.
As far as the actual quality of your cable modem service, that another issue entirely.
There is something big that annoys me with 2 card SLI. With 1 card you use the 16x slot as a 16x slot. With 2 cards though they throttle back to be 2 8x slots instead of 2 16x slots. Why do that? Maybe next generation pci express will let you have 2 full bandwith 16x slots on the mb. Throttling back to 8x for 2 cards does impact performance. SLI is pretty awesome but I view the current implementation as version 1.5 (version 1 being 3dfx's attempt).
Options also don't put food on the table, pay for heat and electricity or put gas in my car to get to the job that issued the options instead of cash.
Until the day comes where I can go to the grocery store and pay with stock options instead of cash they will continue to be worthless.
Take your own advice:
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Oh and you have to qualify, ie, make hardly nothing and only use the 1040ez form. Anything else (like the majority of the population) forget about filing for free electronically.
I use the turbotax online as a double check to my doing it by hand. Then I just mail it in. If you are actually PAYING taxes in April then you are doing something wrong. The goal is to technically break even but I kinda like getting a rebate.
Forget it, never again will my house have SBC anything in it. Contracts, high prices, horrible customer support, and incompetant employees.
In the process of finally purging the last piece of SBC from my life by moving to Vonage for my phone.
"It appears that Time Warner auto-updated the DVR with a new software release, but along with all that auto-updating goodness came a bug which freezes video playback for 3-4 seconds at a time. According to one subscriber, Patrick Menton, "It can happen maybe eight to 10 times during a program and it's very aggravating." nod to TV Harmony"
This is a well known bug and can be fixed with a reformat of the DVR's hard drive. I did it myself before Christmas and the problem went away.
"What kind of fairy land do you live in? These sites were CLEARLY offering illegal content. "
Really, what kind of fairy land do you live in? These sites were not offering anything illegal. Unless you call posting a binary file on a website for download that contains nothing but even more links in it an illegal file.
If thats illegal then we might as well just shut the entire web down. No point in making web pages anymore for fear that someone may think your linked to file or page contains illegal material. Doesn't matter if you created that file yourself, if someone doesn't like it then chances are you'll get caught eventually.
Technically its not about the sites being shutdown. Its the precendence it sets that dangerous. Look a little further out instead of walking around dodging what is about to hit you in the face.
I guess we need to go after google as well, you can find torrent file links via google searching. Hell do a search for torrent files on google and all the sponsored links are for torrent download sites.
You agree to a certain number of very specific rules in order to play games like this. One is no selling of in game stuff for real money. If you violate this rule they can and will ban you very quickly. He doesn't have to play the game if he doesn't want to, and it is not designed to provide a source of income to the player.
The player does NOT own their character. They are basically renting space and time from the blizzard servers for the benefit of entertaining themselves. Thats basically all it boils down to. At any time in the contract Blizzard may ban the user and terminate the user paying Blizzard. The user really can't do anything except open a new account.
Can't pay the mortgage with stock options. I'd rather not get them. I'll take care of saving for my retirment instead of relying on the company's "good will".
Disclaimers or not. That doesn't stop a really large group of companies from attacking a site run by a small fish and freaking the small fish out enough to get the fish to give them a ton of money to go away.
Who cares. I mean really! The thing just came out, so its still under warranty. Just return it to the place of purchase and swap it with another one. Its not like its been on the street for 30-60 days and you can get a replacement from the store it was bought at.
Yeah I guess that box that I picked up that contained the product actually wasn't there. I also guess I really wasn't in the store and didn't feel it with my own hands. It must have been a DS and PS2 boxes filled with some extremely heavy packing material to give the illusion of an actual product that you can buy.
On a side note that has nothing to do with availability, I cannot stand those small game stores. Jacked up prices, lack of inventory, and shady used game sales and purchase practices.
Hate to say it but thats one more reason not to buy things at those small game stores. All 3 best buys around me all have the DS in stock. They also all have the slim ps2 in stock. In fact over the past few days I haven't been in a store that hasn't had these 2 items in stock.
You are basing your opinion of an entire system on a commercial that showed one possible use for a color touch screen?
Have you even tried one yet? They've got the demo units out in stores to try.
Yeah the PSP LOOKS great, but battery life is going to be horrible. Looks aren't everything. Companies have tried in the past to de-trone nintendo with better looking portables and they have all failed so far.
DSL still has its bottleneck, its just further down the pipe. DSL speeds are generally slower than cable also. In the lifetime of high speed internet I've only known 2 people to have dsl, one absolutely hated it, nothing but problems and ditched it for cable as soon as cable was available. The other person still has it now but is paying such a low price and doesn't really use the internet much so thats not a good representation.
According to them no linux version for a long time. This probably means no open source either. Forget it.
/. will give eXeem a pretty big audience though."
Some other stuff:
"The main problem with kazaa is that it doesn't have hash system which means that if you make MP3 with same name and same size that's already on the network and someone downloads one part of this file from you the MP3 will be corrupted. (This is exactly what RIAA did to kazaa). And since people don't delete bad MP3's from their computer you have more and more of this files in the network. And here is where our client is different you wont be able to corrupt files in the network because they have hash.
One more difference from kazaa is that we wont have entire folders of files on the network only those that will be manually uploaded from users. Kazaa has so many viruses because users don't even know they have them on there computer. So I personally think that we will have a lot less fake files on our network and we also plan to implement rate system so that if people find fakes,
viruses, spyware in one of the files they will vote it as bad so hopfully not many people will download that file.
What we are trying to do is bring best of P2P world and best of bittorrent together."
About eXeem replacing suprnova:
"That's a reporters view on it. Remember, they probably know next to nothing about eXeem, and are doing what reporters do best: bullshit.
I keep hearing about these queues, I've yet to encounter one. Also, the people that want to play PvP is a small group. A lot of folks don't want to have to worry about wandering around and getting beaten down by some 12 year old kid.
The problem is that if you don't specifically say "Canada" all the Canadians start yelling and screaming about why they don't get the game also or why are they being lumped in with those crazy Americans. Don't blame the writers, blame the citizens.
Really it is. I played the stress test for a week and was hooked but didn't want to play the open beta. I didn't want to play it so much that I wouldn't want to play it when the masses logged on to play when it went live. I enjoy soloing more than group work unless its folks that I personally know, and WoW is great for this.
Can't wait for christmas vacation, going to be doing nothing but playing.
The same people who want to go to the movies but don't know what they want to see so they just drive to the local mall and look at whats playing and decide based on what time it is and the title and poster. This happens a lot more than you think.
more than help. A good title is everything. Serenity is not a good title for a movie. What is their target audience? I don't care how good it may or may not be, people are going to see the title Serenity on the movie listings and go, "huh? I don't want to see that, lets go see something else".
Its not fair but its fact.
"Once Valve 'moves on' there is no way to play the $50 game I paid for (or in this case won't). This is why I find Steam so onerous."
You know what they say when you assume something...right?
"An LCD makes it possible to actually see the individual pixels."
Why would you want to see individual pixels? Thats not a benefit. I want to see a complete image, not the components that make up the image.
"An LCD consistently displays the image in the same place, without losing pixels off the edge."
Unless you have an LCD with pixels that don't work or are frozen in one color which happens on most LCD monitors. CRT's don't get stuck pixels.
"An LCD image doesn't flicker."
But an LCD has ghosting unless you spend the extra money to get a fast lcd monitor. A CRT won't flicker if you set the refresh rate higher. I've never had a problem with CRT's flickering but I have had problems with LCD's ghosting.
CRT's show blacker blacks instead of the muddy blacks that LCD's show. CRT's cost less also.
Hmmm...maybe its just be but I don't get any ads in steam. Oh maybe you are talking about the 1 time it popped up a window saying you could now order HL2. If you got a problem with that then thats your problem, not steam. You don't have to buy anything through it either if you don't want to. I also didn't get any pressure when I ordered HL2 through it to upgrade to a larger package. I picked what I wanted and that was it.