If it's trying to represent a "second world" then is there a bank so the character does not carry linden "cash" with them? Because Banks do not protect cash once you've pulled it from an ATM, if you are robbed you are robbed. Gunpoint or buffer overflow. Now, if it's a bank transaction, then yes, they should attempt to protect it with a PIN or password or some other signature, but the players "avatar" should not be carrying it around.
Exactly. The state of the nation is very anti-capitalism right now, even if they call it such. Kids 30 years from now will be complete socialists/communists. Having one company for everything is not the way to go, and government subsidies to support this free market(given only to the company in power) doesn't help either.
In the OS and Browser war, yeah. I still can't even find the famed Google Kernel and if you whois gbrowser.com it doesn't appear to be google anymore, so yeah, piddly little player in a non-existent way. Same as I am a piddly little dictator in Minnesota.:)
Not everyone wants a permanent position, contractors are not necessarily unhappy or those who have been laid off, some of us do this for a living and enjoy it. It is a permanent job, just not for everyone. It's good bad, in which it changes the playing field and is bad in some circumstances, and good in others(permanent job). Unfortunately, I can't see it being very good because of 49 others states, india, russia, and others.
Thank you!!! Hell, I'd be glad to have a phone that didn't act or look like a phone. Just text and email(yes, i know it exists, but I can't have it, work doesn't let you give up voice communication).
Crappy Camera == Gives almost no weight, great for car accidents and hilarious at the moment shots Email == Firkin' Email, means I don't have to stop at home. My friend had to go home every 2 hrs to check his email wherever we were so he appeared to be on top of things. All the while I just answered emails and texts and had no problems. Putty! -- Yeah, they have it for windows mobile. You have to be a unix geek I guess, and it's a pain to use, but it means you don't have to leave the bar to fix the server.:)
But yes, I'm over it, "I wish they had phones that were phones" when so many people have them. And thank you for posting the counter examples.
To each their own, if you don't want a PDA/Smartphone, you don't have to get one, you can get a phone phone.
I like ign's reviews, I'm not a heavy gamer but I know what I like, I know what they like, and I know how their up to 10 reviews match mine, and I know that anything under 6 really isn't worth it (they give them: http://pc.ign.com/articles/831/831573p1.html ) I know when it sounds like they were paid, I know when the score is too high that it's either great or a total bust. It's all a matter of learning with the reviews you are dealing with. Do I want to read the whole review? Not really, I'm very picky. I want to see the score. Too low, or too high, I check online and google for reviews from forums, and go from there. I know what types of games I like and just because it's a 9 or even a 8 doesn't mean I'll think it's more than a 1 or 2 if it's not what I like. You just learn as time goes by. There's no perfect solution. I think the numbers work well, and failing that, forums with actual people, remembering that most people hate stuff, if for no other reason than to hate. So expect 75% it sucks 25% it's sooo awesome, look for the inbetweens and look for changes to that ratio.
Not true, in Dallas many apartment complexes were signed exclusively to Joe Blow Cable Co or something similar, which existed primarily to let the deal rise and then sell to the big boys(Comcast). So, you paid $20-$40 more per month if you wanted cable, and got about 1/3 the channels, and that was it. Internet? Few offered it, and few had any bandwidth worth having. Hell, this is good because it lets you get to the actual cable co, monopoly though it may be, there are worse off things out there!
Make sure the apps don't kill the phone! Badly programmed iexplorer.exe on my windows mobile can loop requiring a hard reboot(hit reset button next to the battery behind the case). Until that reboot it will not let me answer calls, will sometimes ring, will sometimes display that a call is incoming, and not acknowledge that I've hit the answer button. I always thought this was why the iphone was closed, until they can solve that problem.
I've played male and female chars in mmo's and have had no problems. It depends on the person playing, if they are going to cause trouble they are going to cause trouble no matter what gender.
Also, no matter how hard you beg the developer, that hot elven chick just won't be that way in real life. And this step doesn't get you closer to that.
Do they have an extra 150 rides built specifically because no one will ride them and then use that as an excuse to increase the ticket price? Oh, and that _one_ you want to ride, you have to buy the advanced pass where you get access to another 49 channels you don't want so you can get to your ride.
Amusement parks are a lower flat rate thing, cable forces you to buy even more and more channels just to get access to the one you want to begin with.
Agreed. The bag(freely given to him) and the purchased items are now private property, just like your wallet and the contents of your pants. If they have the right to search your private property then they have the right, whether it's a bad or a wallet or a purse.
Agreed. I just finished. From install to the auto-patch to completion, I've had no trouble. Civ IV, Oblivion, and all those other great games can't say that. They took weeks to become playable. BioShock just worked. I had no trouble installing or playing it.
Not so easy. Here in Dallas it's Time Warner or AT&T. That's it. Cable or DSL. Or pay 3x as much for Speakeasy. Oh yeah, that's what I do. DSL is unreliable in my building but Speakeasy was able to get it to work where the other guys couldn't. Cable? Oh yeah, Time warner was down for over a week(9 days) and their support line and billing line was a busy signal the whole time.
So we have it with the government forcing the monopolies already, and customer service is the last thing on their minds. Since you don't have other options, either A or B, you're pretty much screwed. When I tell people how much I pay for DSL they are flabbergasted and don't believe that I'd pay so much. But the service is there.
Hey. As long as multiple theories of creationism are presented in the classroom I'm all for it. For example, I stepped in some dog sh-t and cleaned it off with a towel. That towel got trapped in my toilet and through a bizarre rift in time/space it disappeared and created all life and the universe as we know it.
What? You don't like it? It's bad if it's me but it's ok if it's some weird mythical g-d creation that pulled us all out of his ass? At least my shoe, the towel, and dog sh-t are real and provable. That's much more evidence than some weird mythical g-d pulling us out of his ass. I have evidence, they don't. My theory should clearly be represented over any other creationist theory.
Politics isn't about intelligence, it's about representing the least intelligent among the populace(rep or dem). The question, no matter how great, will be shot down with a small blurb and you will be left unfulfilled.
Not after this, but that's a good thing, he won't miss anything but the worst cliche ridden movie made since Rocky Horror, and Rocky Horror was trying to be terrible. Transformers just excelled at it without trying.
Why use a virus? That sounds official enough to get them to fill out the attached form with their social and just sell that info for identity theft purposes. Damn russians, not even a little capitalistic! Or heck, they could be doing both!
Yes, I know it doesn't sound official, have you ever seen a person desperate for work? They'll take any response and run with it.
Meh, if someone has access to my computer physically anyways they can get all my passwords by installing a keylogger anyways. The vulnerability only affects the sites that let people post custom html/javascript. Those sites are just social sites like myspace and other stuff and who cares if someone gets your password for that.
Why do people keep getting this "if you cheat but win you still won" kind of attitude? It's clearly theft, not that the casinos should care about $500k since it's less than a drop in the bucket to them. Every machine I've seen says "Malfunction voids all plays" and clearly it was malfunctioning. Slots are a game with rules, plainly laid out and simple to understand/follow if you've ever played one before and easy to catch onto.
Legally it's a whole different issue, because you can win or lose money in a slot machine, but here you are getting money without playing. Clearly the money is coming from a malfunctioning ATM machine, or at least it's basically acting like one. Casinos do file federal income tax for people who win over a certain amount of money, but this money comes from nowhere.
Depends on what type of machine, if it's a quarter machine a $1 will give you 4 credits, if it's a dollar machine $1 will give you 1 credit. Gamblers are very good at this though, so there is no confusion. I've seen my grandmother look at a machine with some bizarre number of credits(over 7,000) on a nickel machine and tell me exactly how much it was worth in a matter of seconds.
I know they had that for Jedi Knight the original, that's exactly how much I paid with my disc (have to return the original, broken one, in this case in two pieces) and $5 and they would send you a new one.
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If it's trying to represent a "second world" then is there a bank so the character does not carry linden "cash" with them? Because Banks do not protect cash once you've pulled it from an ATM, if you are robbed you are robbed. Gunpoint or buffer overflow. Now, if it's a bank transaction, then yes, they should attempt to protect it with a PIN or password or some other signature, but the players "avatar" should not be carrying it around.
Exactly. The state of the nation is very anti-capitalism right now, even if they call it such. Kids 30 years from now will be complete socialists/communists. Having one company for everything is not the way to go, and government subsidies to support this free market(given only to the company in power) doesn't help either.
In the OS and Browser war, yeah. I still can't even find the famed Google Kernel and if you whois gbrowser.com it doesn't appear to be google anymore, so yeah, piddly little player in a non-existent way. Same as I am a piddly little dictator in Minnesota. :)
"For every positive review I can find a negative that refutes it."
Welcome to the net, new here? Everyone hates something, even the best stuff that never fails someone has a problem with.
Not everyone wants a permanent position, contractors are not necessarily unhappy or those who have been laid off, some of us do this for a living and enjoy it. It is a permanent job, just not for everyone. It's good bad, in which it changes the playing field and is bad in some circumstances, and good in others(permanent job). Unfortunately, I can't see it being very good because of 49 others states, india, russia, and others.
Well, except about a month ago or so they opened up free IMAP for gmail.
Free IMAP on Gmail slashdot article. And I believe they already have POP3 support(I could be wrong, or maybe it's inwards only).
Thank you!!! Hell, I'd be glad to have a phone that didn't act or look like a phone. Just text and email(yes, i know it exists, but I can't have it, work doesn't let you give up voice communication).
:)
Crappy Camera == Gives almost no weight, great for car accidents and hilarious at the moment shots
Email == Firkin' Email, means I don't have to stop at home. My friend had to go home every 2 hrs to check his email wherever we were so he appeared to be on top of things. All the while I just answered emails and texts and had no problems.
Putty! -- Yeah, they have it for windows mobile. You have to be a unix geek I guess, and it's a pain to use, but it means you don't have to leave the bar to fix the server.
But yes, I'm over it, "I wish they had phones that were phones" when so many people have them. And thank you for posting the counter examples.
To each their own, if you don't want a PDA/Smartphone, you don't have to get one, you can get a phone phone.
I like ign's reviews, I'm not a heavy gamer but I know what I like, I know what they like, and I know how their up to 10 reviews match mine, and I know that anything under 6 really isn't worth it (they give them: http://pc.ign.com/articles/831/831573p1.html ) I know when it sounds like they were paid, I know when the score is too high that it's either great or a total bust. It's all a matter of learning with the reviews you are dealing with. Do I want to read the whole review? Not really, I'm very picky. I want to see the score. Too low, or too high, I check online and google for reviews from forums, and go from there. I know what types of games I like and just because it's a 9 or even a 8 doesn't mean I'll think it's more than a 1 or 2 if it's not what I like. You just learn as time goes by. There's no perfect solution. I think the numbers work well, and failing that, forums with actual people, remembering that most people hate stuff, if for no other reason than to hate. So expect 75% it sucks 25% it's sooo awesome, look for the inbetweens and look for changes to that ratio.
Not true, in Dallas many apartment complexes were signed exclusively to Joe Blow Cable Co or something similar, which existed primarily to let the deal rise and then sell to the big boys(Comcast). So, you paid $20-$40 more per month if you wanted cable, and got about 1/3 the channels, and that was it. Internet? Few offered it, and few had any bandwidth worth having. Hell, this is good because it lets you get to the actual cable co, monopoly though it may be, there are worse off things out there!
Make sure the apps don't kill the phone! Badly programmed iexplorer.exe on my windows mobile can loop requiring a hard reboot(hit reset button next to the battery behind the case). Until that reboot it will not let me answer calls, will sometimes ring, will sometimes display that a call is incoming, and not acknowledge that I've hit the answer button. I always thought this was why the iphone was closed, until they can solve that problem.
I've played male and female chars in mmo's and have had no problems. It depends on the person playing, if they are going to cause trouble they are going to cause trouble no matter what gender.
Also, no matter how hard you beg the developer, that hot elven chick just won't be that way in real life. And this step doesn't get you closer to that.
Do they have an extra 150 rides built specifically because no one will ride them and then use that as an excuse to increase the ticket price? Oh, and that _one_ you want to ride, you have to buy the advanced pass where you get access to another 49 channels you don't want so you can get to your ride.
Amusement parks are a lower flat rate thing, cable forces you to buy even more and more channels just to get access to the one you want to begin with.
Agreed. The bag(freely given to him) and the purchased items are now private property, just like your wallet and the contents of your pants. If they have the right to search your private property then they have the right, whether it's a bad or a wallet or a purse.
Agreed. I just finished. From install to the auto-patch to completion, I've had no trouble. Civ IV, Oblivion, and all those other great games can't say that. They took weeks to become playable. BioShock just worked. I had no trouble installing or playing it.
Gay marriage is legal in ONE state (no federal benefits)
"civil unions is legal in some states now"(less than 10, and you never get federal benefits).
Not so easy. Here in Dallas it's Time Warner or AT&T. That's it. Cable or DSL. Or pay 3x as much for Speakeasy. Oh yeah, that's what I do. DSL is unreliable in my building but Speakeasy was able to get it to work where the other guys couldn't. Cable? Oh yeah, Time warner was down for over a week(9 days) and their support line and billing line was a busy signal the whole time.
So we have it with the government forcing the monopolies already, and customer service is the last thing on their minds. Since you don't have other options, either A or B, you're pretty much screwed. When I tell people how much I pay for DSL they are flabbergasted and don't believe that I'd pay so much. But the service is there.
Hey. As long as multiple theories of creationism are presented in the classroom I'm all for it. For example, I stepped in some dog sh-t and cleaned it off with a towel. That towel got trapped in my toilet and through a bizarre rift in time/space it disappeared and created all life and the universe as we know it.
What? You don't like it? It's bad if it's me but it's ok if it's some weird mythical g-d creation that pulled us all out of his ass? At least my shoe, the towel, and dog sh-t are real and provable. That's much more evidence than some weird mythical g-d pulling us out of his ass. I have evidence, they don't. My theory should clearly be represented over any other creationist theory.
Politics isn't about intelligence, it's about representing the least intelligent among the populace(rep or dem). The question, no matter how great, will be shot down with a small blurb and you will be left unfulfilled.
Not after this, but that's a good thing, he won't miss anything but the worst cliche ridden movie made since Rocky Horror, and Rocky Horror was trying to be terrible. Transformers just excelled at it without trying.
Why use a virus? That sounds official enough to get them to fill out the attached form with their social and just sell that info for identity theft purposes. Damn russians, not even a little capitalistic! Or heck, they could be doing both!
Yes, I know it doesn't sound official, have you ever seen a person desperate for work? They'll take any response and run with it.
Meh, if someone has access to my computer physically anyways they can get all my passwords by installing a keylogger anyways. The vulnerability only affects the sites that let people post custom html/javascript. Those sites are just social sites like myspace and other stuff and who cares if someone gets your password for that.
Why do people keep getting this "if you cheat but win you still won" kind of attitude? It's clearly theft, not that the casinos should care about $500k since it's less than a drop in the bucket to them. Every machine I've seen says "Malfunction voids all plays" and clearly it was malfunctioning. Slots are a game with rules, plainly laid out and simple to understand/follow if you've ever played one before and easy to catch onto.
Legally it's a whole different issue, because you can win or lose money in a slot machine, but here you are getting money without playing. Clearly the money is coming from a malfunctioning ATM machine, or at least it's basically acting like one. Casinos do file federal income tax for people who win over a certain amount of money, but this money comes from nowhere.
Depends on what type of machine, if it's a quarter machine a $1 will give you 4 credits, if it's a dollar machine $1 will give you 1 credit. Gamblers are very good at this though, so there is no confusion. I've seen my grandmother look at a machine with some bizarre number of credits(over 7,000) on a nickel machine and tell me exactly how much it was worth in a matter of seconds.
There's really no confusion.
You've mistaken the poster for the scientist
"so no chance of life there"
but in the article it clearly says:
"This is a far from habitable world," she adds.
Which means it's a no for us. As well:
"Although the planet is an unlikely candidate in the search for life"
Which is no the same as "no chance"
Your post makes perfect sense but to assume that it is a scientist saying that there can't be life is incorrect.
I know they had that for Jedi Knight the original, that's exactly how much I paid with my disc (have to return the original, broken one, in this case in two pieces) and $5 and they would send you a new one.