A company called MoonPod has released a game with the Internet being its primary distribution method.
You can pay more for a boxed copy if you want, but they have an instant-access online purchasing system that turns the crippleware demo into the full version.
The game is an asteroids-style 2d shooter with some turn based strategy mixed in.
I hope to see projects like this in the future from larger game developers. If the savings is passed on to me, I'm all for purchasing games, music, movies, or whatever else I could want, with no hard copy.
I have one question though. Can you tell me whether to buy a toaster oven or a microwave? I just can't decide!
Also, should I get a television or a PC monitor?
When you suddenly see the same object in two directions, it means you will have a very finite estimation of the size of the universe, not necessarily its lifespan.
I do imagine that one image would be redshifted and the other blueshifted.
I would buy this as soon as possible if it played OGG. I suppose we need to make it clear to the manufacturers that OGG support would be beneficial to sales.
Perhaps we just need to give OGG time to become more pervasive.
Apparently, it is to prevent those with dubious intentions from inflating their own rankings.
It would be easy to set up a nearly unlimited number of virtual hosts which all link to the same site.
There may be more sophisticated ways to discern whether normal site is served using virtual hosting or it's just someone looking to boost his ranking, so the above question should still be considered.
Your first point is reasonable and, therefore, my previous advice is shoddy.
However, if someone calls your 800 number, and it takes your support department one minute and thirty seconds to even find the customer's account records, there is room for improvement with your internal tools.
You are totally right, in that the exaggeration is blazingly obvious. However, your second observation is off the mark. Internal tools can benefit customers measurably.
How about: "Helped to improved customer satisfaction by building and updating Intranet tools for the organization's customer service staff."
Anyway, thanks for the criticism. It was valid and refreshingly constructive. I think the next time I work on my resume, I think I'll be better for it because of your feedback.
I agree completely. (begin sarcasm) But also, my tax dollars help pay for the space shuttle, so I should be able to ride in it. Also, my tax money helps pay for government cars and farm subsidies, so I should be able to drive any government car, and eat for free.
May I ask that someone clarify why this is any different?
If NASA needs better software to ensure that the space shuttle, and the billions of dollars that have been sunk in it, doesn't explode, well, let them pay for it.
Is there an open source alternative which delivers the same quality? Please point out my ignorance.
I'm not sure if this will help you much, but I got my first decent job with a small company doing email based tech support. The company provided a web based email solution.
My superiors looked to train me rather than hire someone new because it would be cheaper (you work for peanuts, too, right?), and I was already very familiar with the system and code base. The whole operation was on a shoestring budget, and I had luck on my side at that point, but you may wish to pursue a relationship with a smaller company. Of course, consider the high risks involved.
It seems like you've already demonstrated that you're competent and would probably do well with more programming-oriented tasks, so perhaps you should pitch a customer service automation intranet service. Tell your boss you'll work for two weeks on the same pay, developing an automation intranet site.
Work up some figures and show him you can save him money (by giving your co-workers better tools) if he pulls you out of the customer service trenches. From there, he'll either see that he got some great tools for next-to nothing and put you back in the trenches anyway, or he'll try to create a new position for you.
Either way, "Revolutionized customer relations department with innovative Intranet solutions" would probably look good on your résumé.
A dedicated music partition would probably have files dumped on to it in large chunks, without much deletion or other write activities being performed on it otherwise.
So, just making sure files aren't fragmented when they're dumped on the partition, and maybe caching things like ID3 tags would be useful.
One thing about the ocean is that it's made up of cold water.
You could cool a sealed box with heatsinks which are underwater. Or set up a water pump to move a lot of that grimey salty crap around the case in order to cool it.
I now realize that my post office analogy was incorrect.
I still think anyone angry at Road Runner has nothing to do about it except use another mail service (assuming they have no problems with the rest of the ISP). As long as a company discloses that they have filtering going on and rougly what that filtering entails, they're not doing anything wrong.
However, they're NOT disclosing why these messages have been blocked, and while there may not be legal consequences, the PR consequences will be Bad Stuff. Not many customers will like a company that has loose policies regarding disclosure of business practices.
One note I have is that the filtering of electronic messages is not comparable to reading physical letters, unless the filter is very sophisticated.
I'll look into the ECPA. The text I've found so far seems to rely on electronic communications being "intercepted."
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If I had mod points I would give one to you.
Your opinion seems to me that it is based on reason instead of anti-MS trendiness.
I have been trying to think of a way to break it to everyone that Windows CAN be reliable, though I'll limit my claims to versions based on the NT code base.
It seems like every time you try to mention that properly configured, and with tested hardware, windows isn't all that bad, you are called a microlemming or some such term and modded for being a troll or something. Windows is much happier with 128 or 256 MB of ram. With the price of RAM these days, why not get a few extra 128MB modules?
My NT Server 4 box had been running for two months without a reboot*. I use it for memory-intensive applications like graphics work and visual studio programming (insert bloated application joke here).
* Well, I did have to take it down yesterday to apply the two new IE hotfixes...
(Of course everyone will love that last sentence.)
I think people opt to use forwarding instead so their POP3 credentials aren't sent over the Internet.
A well designed ISP will have a mail server that is close to the homes using it, so the credentials are only flying in plain text over "trusted" networks.
However, because email is always sent in plain text (unless user encrypts the mail with a middle-man, or all of his contacts encrypt their mail), most people aren't gaining much in the way of privacy (it's just harder to obtain all of their email at once)
They provide a service, at a cost to the customer, very similar to a post office box.
You'd better believe that the post office might not put a parcel it doesn't like in your post office box. Of course, unless the parcel appears to be dangerous, the post office does not use this option.
However, Road Runner can choose to discard mail because there are too many occurences of the letter "q," it's in all caps, or it was received at 7:31 PM.
I think they should feel obligated to disclose to customers what criteria are used to decide which messages make it through. (Obviously they shouldn't give exact info, as spammers would probably love that.)
If customers, don't want Road Runner's filtering, they can get their own POP3 (or POP3/IMAP over SSL, webmail, or whatever -- email is inherently insecure anyway) account
You've actually got some hope here. Because the @home network was bought up by different isps, some addresses will have changed to @attbi.com, some to @cox.net, some to @comcast.net, and others of course.
If they were mildly intelligent, they could find out which were which, but you may just be free from all of that.
If Comcast provides comparable service, you would be able to manage 4 other email accounts. You could always use those (remembering to change addresses every few months) instead if the spam gets out of hand.
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A company called MoonPod has released a game with the Internet being its primary distribution method.
You can pay more for a boxed copy if you want, but they have an instant-access online purchasing system that turns the crippleware demo into the full version.
The game is an asteroids-style 2d shooter with some turn based strategy mixed in.
I hope to see projects like this in the future from larger game developers. If the savings is passed on to me, I'm all for purchasing games, music, movies, or whatever else I could want, with no hard copy.
Google Search: pop goes perfection
The only way a woman will love you is if you spend all of your money on her, and bow to her every whim!
Sheesh!
I have one question though. Can you tell me whether to buy a toaster oven or a microwave? I just can't decide! Also, should I get a television or a PC monitor?
When you suddenly see the same object in two directions, it means you will have a very finite estimation of the size of the universe, not necessarily its lifespan.
I do imagine that one image would be redshifted and the other blueshifted.
I think if the post constains the string "cmdrtaco," it's automatically downmodded.
Let's see!
I think it's completely asinine that a company thinks it can charge a fee for a product or service they provide.
Greedy bastards!
Don't.
I would buy this as soon as possible if it played OGG. I suppose we need to make it clear to the manufacturers that OGG support would be beneficial to sales.
Perhaps we just need to give OGG time to become more pervasive.
Huzzah for proofreading!
Apparently, it is to prevent those with dubious intentions from inflating their own rankings.
It would be easy to set up a nearly unlimited number of virtual hosts which all link to the same site.
There may be more sophisticated ways to discern whether normal site is served using virtual hosting or it's just someone looking to boost his ranking, so the above question should still be considered.
Your first point is reasonable and, therefore, my previous advice is shoddy.
However, if someone calls your 800 number, and it takes your support department one minute and thirty seconds to even find the customer's account records, there is room for improvement with your internal tools.
You are totally right, in that the exaggeration is blazingly obvious. However, your second observation is off the mark. Internal tools can benefit customers measurably.
How about: "Helped to improved customer satisfaction by building and updating Intranet tools for the organization's customer service staff."
Anyway, thanks for the criticism. It was valid and refreshingly constructive. I think the next time I work on my resume, I think I'll be better for it because of your feedback.
I agree completely. (begin sarcasm) But also, my tax dollars help pay for the space shuttle, so I should be able to ride in it. Also, my tax money helps pay for government cars and farm subsidies, so I should be able to drive any government car, and eat for free.
May I ask that someone clarify why this is any different?
If NASA needs better software to ensure that the space shuttle, and the billions of dollars that have been sunk in it, doesn't explode, well, let them pay for it.
Is there an open source alternative which delivers the same quality? Please point out my ignorance.
I'm not sure if this will help you much, but I got my first decent job with a small company doing email based tech support. The company provided a web based email solution.
My superiors looked to train me rather than hire someone new because it would be cheaper (you work for peanuts, too, right?), and I was already very familiar with the system and code base. The whole operation was on a shoestring budget, and I had luck on my side at that point, but you may wish to pursue a relationship with a smaller company. Of course, consider the high risks involved.
It seems like you've already demonstrated that you're competent and would probably do well with more programming-oriented tasks, so perhaps you should pitch a customer service automation intranet service. Tell your boss you'll work for two weeks on the same pay, developing an automation intranet site.
Work up some figures and show him you can save him money (by giving your co-workers better tools) if he pulls you out of the customer service trenches. From there, he'll either see that he got some great tools for next-to nothing and put you back in the trenches anyway, or he'll try to create a new position for you.
Either way, "Revolutionized customer relations department with innovative Intranet solutions" would probably look good on your résumé.
This post should be at +5. It's a solution to the problem with minimal ass-reaming.
(registration required) Here's an article at the New York Times with a little more detail.
(Write-Once-Read-Many)
A dedicated music partition would probably have files dumped on to it in large chunks, without much deletion or other write activities being performed on it otherwise.
So, just making sure files aren't fragmented when they're dumped on the partition, and maybe caching things like ID3 tags would be useful.
Is there really a problem to address, though?
One thing about the ocean is that it's made up of cold water.
You could cool a sealed box with heatsinks which are underwater. Or set up a water pump to move a lot of that grimey salty crap around the case in order to cool it.
When a key is pressed on an Apple keyboard, chemicals are released which make the user more open to suggestion.
Subliminal messages hidden throughout the GUI assert that Mac OS is superior.
http://www.sony.com/clie/
I now realize that my post office analogy was incorrect.
I still think anyone angry at Road Runner has nothing to do about it except use another mail service (assuming they have no problems with the rest of the ISP). As long as a company discloses that they have filtering going on and rougly what that filtering entails, they're not doing anything wrong.
However, they're NOT disclosing why these messages have been blocked, and while there may not be legal consequences, the PR consequences will be Bad Stuff. Not many customers will like a company that has loose policies regarding disclosure of business practices.
One note I have is that the filtering of electronic messages is not comparable to reading physical letters, unless the filter is very sophisticated.
I'll look into the ECPA. The text I've found so far seems to rely on electronic communications being "intercepted."
Your opinion seems to me that it is based on reason instead of anti-MS trendiness.
I have been trying to think of a way to break it to everyone that Windows CAN be reliable, though I'll limit my claims to versions based on the NT code base.
It seems like every time you try to mention that properly configured, and with tested hardware, windows isn't all that bad, you are called a microlemming or some such term and modded for being a troll or something. Windows is much happier with 128 or 256 MB of ram. With the price of RAM these days, why not get a few extra 128MB modules?
My NT Server 4 box had been running for two months without a reboot*. I use it for memory-intensive applications like graphics work and visual studio programming (insert bloated application joke here).
* Well, I did have to take it down yesterday to apply the two new IE hotfixes...
(Of course everyone will love that last sentence.)
I think people opt to use forwarding instead so their POP3 credentials aren't sent over the Internet.
A well designed ISP will have a mail server that is close to the homes using it, so the credentials are only flying in plain text over "trusted" networks.
However, because email is always sent in plain text (unless user encrypts the mail with a middle-man, or all of his contacts encrypt their mail), most people aren't gaining much in the way of privacy (it's just harder to obtain all of their email at once)
I think they certainly do have the right.
They provide a service, at a cost to the customer, very similar to a post office box.
You'd better believe that the post office might not put a parcel it doesn't like in your post office box. Of course, unless the parcel appears to be dangerous, the post office does not use this option.
However, Road Runner can choose to discard mail because there are too many occurences of the letter "q," it's in all caps, or it was received at 7:31 PM.
I think they should feel obligated to disclose to customers what criteria are used to decide which messages make it through. (Obviously they shouldn't give exact info, as spammers would probably love that.)
If customers, don't want Road Runner's filtering, they can get their own POP3 (or POP3/IMAP over SSL, webmail, or whatever -- email is inherently insecure anyway) account
You've actually got some hope here. Because the @home network was bought up by different isps, some addresses will have changed to @attbi.com, some to @cox.net, some to @comcast.net, and others of course.
If they were mildly intelligent, they could find out which were which, but you may just be free from all of that.
If Comcast provides comparable service, you would be able to manage 4 other email accounts. You could always use those (remembering to change addresses every few months) instead if the spam gets out of hand.