Good to hear. I wasn't looking forward to the fax spam we'd start getting. It would be funny, though, to come into the office in the morning and have a bunch of freshly printed salesmen locked in the fax room.
just have to wonder why they don't release the game, and only allow new character creations to be done on a lower population server.
I wish they would do that. I played for 10 days using the guest pass from a friend's collector's edition account, only to find that when I wanted to buy the game and get a real account, it was not available in local stores or online. This was almost two weeks ago. It looks like it may have been a good thing, though, since I've missed out on most of the server mishaps.
Porn to the rescue, yet again! We have that industry to thanks for many things: rapidly accelerating the advance and acceptance of new media technologies, keeping First Amendment lawyers employed, and giving sorority girls a shot at fame during Spring Break, to name a few.
Wait--you want to run a web server to deliver high-bandwith items like photos, and a 384 kbps upload speed is what you consider adequate? Hope you don't have a lot of load, and some patient people at the other end of the line.
For my purposes, 384 kbps is totally adequate. I have an audience of at most 20 friends and family that normally look at our photos. Plus, even it it was slow, the intended audience of my content would be patient. That's the nature of viewing personal photos of someone you care about.
Currently, I have no technical issues keeping me from serving up web pages from my home server, and I do have an online photo gallery for my family. It's just Comcast's ToS that I'm not too fond of. I have been considering switching over to Speakeasy or similar, but with this bandwidth hike, I may stick with Comcast for a bit longer.
True, my port 80 can be accessed without a problem and I do run a small webserver from my basement, but I'd still like it to not be against the ToS to do so.
As it has hiked speeds, Comcast has been giving customers more to do with that bandwidth. Its Comcast.net home page has become more of a media portal, with emphasis on higher-bandwidth services such as video news clips, on-demand video games, a flashier interface and more personalization tools.
That's all well and good, but will they let us do something actually useful with our service like run a web server? Not that I'm trying to run a big website out of my home, but I'd rather to be officially allowed to run my own photo gallery on my linux box for my family rather than have "a flashier interface," whatever that means.
The 22-foot-long fuselage section represents the fruit of years of development by Boeing engineers in composite technology. At 19 feet in diameter, it is the largest pressurized composite airliner fuselage section ever built by Boeing or any aerospace company....
The huge structure is just one piece, not the thousands of pieces of aluminum and fasteners it would have been had Boeing made it of metal.
I rarely even bother reading any product/service information that comes from the producer of that product or service, since it is so often full of non-information and spin that it practically useless. Thankfully, the web tends to be a good source of info, than, when taken with a grain of salt and compiled from various places, can lead to much more informed decisions than buzzword-laden marketing materials.
I do not doubt that a lot of people have bought this game and didn't sign up. All those twelve year olds whose parents won't let them have a credit card for the game.
Bah, so it's the 12 year olds who are hoarding all the WoW retail boxes. I drove all over town trying to find one today. It's too bad for Blizzard that they didn't have any more available when my guest account ran out. Now I'll be able to kick the habit before I'll be able to buy a box and start my account back up.
Very true. I thought I would; I'm a fairly introverted guy and able to focus pretty well on things, so when I had the opportunity to work remotely for my company, I did for about a year and a half. It was great at first, but after a while I found myself longing for more of a division between work. Working from home, for me at least, led to a feeling that I was never not at work; if I had some spare time, there was a small feeling prodding me to spend it finishing up some project for my job.
I finally had enough, so I found a new job, in which I work for a relatively large company in a large room with 10 or so other developers in it. It's actually quite refreshing to have those other folks around. Just having some other ideas floating around me has greatly increased my motivation. Plus, when I get home, I'm now only at home, not at work.
I wouldn't say it stops spam. It does reduce it, however. I just checked my mail after a few days away and it dropped 200 or so messages into my Junk folder, but a good number of phishing scam emails made it through to my inbox.
Plus, I still had to wait for it to download all of those spam messages and then process them. Even with my broadband connection, it took a decent amount of time.
We recently had a discussion at work over whether or not to label something as "Beta". One side said users will think beta == crappy. The other side said users think beta == cutting-edge. I'm sure, as with most two-sided issues, reality lies somewhere in the middle.
My wife usually lets me know when it's time to stop by saying "I just don't understand why this game is more important than I am." Last night she said maybe I should work on accumulating some marital XP.
I had that problem with Everquest. Luckily, I was able to kick the habit quite a while ago. Unluckily, I just started playing WoW. My wife's biggest complaint about it is that I can't just hit pause or turn it off whenever she wants me to do something. I'm now only allowed to play it when she's sleeping.:)
Heh, like after going on a Gran Turismo binge, I could see myself using the guardrails and other cars to help me make that next turn in the highway a bit faster.
Yeah, but, "Availability: Usually ships within 1 to 2 weeks," and my guest account runs out in 2 days. Oh well, maybe it will give me an excuse to stop playing and save my soul.
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Well, it does sort of make sense. With Microsoft having such a hold many different software markets, an easy way to compete with them is on price.
:)
Linux has just taken it to the extreme.
No.
Good to hear. I wasn't looking forward to the fax spam we'd start getting. It would be funny, though, to come into the office in the morning and have a bunch of freshly printed salesmen locked in the fax room.
You'll just need to drink a six-pack or two before training the voice recognition.
just have to wonder why they don't release the game, and only allow new character creations to be done on a lower population server.
I wish they would do that. I played for 10 days using the guest pass from a friend's collector's edition account, only to find that when I wanted to buy the game and get a real account, it was not available in local stores or online. This was almost two weeks ago. It looks like it may have been a good thing, though, since I've missed out on most of the server mishaps.
The solution is fairly obvious: Soylent Green.
Porn to the rescue, yet again! We have that industry to thanks for many things: rapidly accelerating the advance and acceptance of new media technologies, keeping First Amendment lawyers employed, and giving sorority girls a shot at fame during Spring Break, to name a few.
Wait--you want to run a web server to deliver high-bandwith items like photos, and a 384 kbps upload speed is what you consider adequate? Hope you don't have a lot of load, and some patient people at the other end of the line.
For my purposes, 384 kbps is totally adequate. I have an audience of at most 20 friends and family that normally look at our photos. Plus, even it it was slow, the intended audience of my content would be patient. That's the nature of viewing personal photos of someone you care about.
Currently, I have no technical issues keeping me from serving up web pages from my home server, and I do have an online photo gallery for my family. It's just Comcast's ToS that I'm not too fond of. I have been considering switching over to Speakeasy or similar, but with this bandwidth hike, I may stick with Comcast for a bit longer.
True, my port 80 can be accessed without a problem and I do run a small webserver from my basement, but I'd still like it to not be against the ToS to do so.
As it has hiked speeds, Comcast has been giving customers more to do with that bandwidth. Its Comcast.net home page has become more of a media portal, with emphasis on higher-bandwidth services such as video news clips, on-demand video games, a flashier interface and more personalization tools.
That's all well and good, but will they let us do something actually useful with our service like run a web server? Not that I'm trying to run a big website out of my home, but I'd rather to be officially allowed to run my own photo gallery on my linux box for my family rather than have "a flashier interface," whatever that means.
Hehe, that's what happens when I post at 5:49 AM before my first cup of coffee. My apologies!
In somewhat related news, Boeing recently unveiled a prototype section of its 7E7 Dreamliner:
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http://www.thenewstribune.com/business/aerospac
From that article:
The 22-foot-long fuselage section represents the fruit of years of development by Boeing engineers in composite technology. At 19 feet in diameter, it is the largest pressurized composite airliner fuselage section ever built by Boeing or any aerospace company....
The huge structure is just one piece, not the thousands of pieces of aluminum and fasteners it would have been had Boeing made it of metal.
I rarely even bother reading any product/service information that comes from the producer of that product or service, since it is so often full of non-information and spin that it practically useless. Thankfully, the web tends to be a good source of info, than, when taken with a grain of salt and compiled from various places, can lead to much more informed decisions than buzzword-laden marketing materials.
Yep, from the article:
Reaction to "Episode I": "I've pretty much blocked it out of my mind." Too much "blah, blah, blah, yacky-schmacky"
Reaction to "Episode II": Better. He liked the lightsaber duels and angst
'rouge nations' like China, North Korea and Cuba? Hehe, the typo actually makes sense here, sort of. :)
I do not doubt that a lot of people have bought this game and didn't sign up. All those twelve year olds whose parents won't let them have a credit card for the game.
Bah, so it's the 12 year olds who are hoarding all the WoW retail boxes. I drove all over town trying to find one today. It's too bad for Blizzard that they didn't have any more available when my guest account ran out. Now I'll be able to kick the habit before I'll be able to buy a box and start my account back up.
Not everybody *enjoys* working from home.
Very true. I thought I would; I'm a fairly introverted guy and able to focus pretty well on things, so when I had the opportunity to work remotely for my company, I did for about a year and a half. It was great at first, but after a while I found myself longing for more of a division between work. Working from home, for me at least, led to a feeling that I was never not at work; if I had some spare time, there was a small feeling prodding me to spend it finishing up some project for my job.
I finally had enough, so I found a new job, in which I work for a relatively large company in a large room with 10 or so other developers in it. It's actually quite refreshing to have those other folks around. Just having some other ideas floating around me has greatly increased my motivation. Plus, when I get home, I'm now only at home, not at work.
That would be against the Geneva Convention.
I wouldn't say it stops spam. It does reduce it, however. I just checked my mail after a few days away and it dropped 200 or so messages into my Junk folder, but a good number of phishing scam emails made it through to my inbox.
Plus, I still had to wait for it to download all of those spam messages and then process them. Even with my broadband connection, it took a decent amount of time.
...The Mini Cooper...
The Mini Cooper's been around since the early sixties, I believe, so it's not really a part of some new marketing trend.
I think it allows your average high school student to control the weather, evil genius style, but with an easy PC interface.
We recently had a discussion at work over whether or not to label something as "Beta". One side said users will think beta == crappy. The other side said users think beta == cutting-edge. I'm sure, as with most two-sided issues, reality lies somewhere in the middle.
My wife usually lets me know when it's time to stop by saying "I just don't understand why this game is more important than I am." Last night she said maybe I should work on accumulating some marital XP.
:)
I had that problem with Everquest. Luckily, I was able to kick the habit quite a while ago. Unluckily, I just started playing WoW. My wife's biggest complaint about it is that I can't just hit pause or turn it off whenever she wants me to do something. I'm now only allowed to play it when she's sleeping.
Heh, like after going on a Gran Turismo binge, I could see myself using the guardrails and other cars to help me make that next turn in the highway a bit faster.
Oh well, better stop reading so much slashdot ;)
:)
You should read more slashdot, since if this keeps happening, you'll have less and less time per day in the future to read it.
Yeah, but, "Availability: Usually ships within 1 to 2 weeks," and my guest account runs out in 2 days. Oh well, maybe it will give me an excuse to stop playing and save my soul.