If you look at the Something Awful website, they have a bunch that are just like that. They also have some that, while hilarious, indicate an alarming criminal intent by the searcher. So one wonders how long before some agency gets a whiff of this and demands access to the whole thing, mapped to the names and addresses of the account holders...
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Indeed. All this entertainment kind of stuff should be free to active-duty servicemen. Give the poor bastards whatever they need, I say. Especially with a frickin war on.
On the one hand, without the influx of money from car commercials it would not be possible to have television as we know it (certainly rather than scale back profits they would scale back any semblance of quality or competence). On the other hand, without the car $$ it would also not be possible for major league baseball to continue to be a viable business (every major sport has TV revenue but only baseball has the empty stadiums). So I have mixed feelings as per usual.
Actually from the consecutive ridiculous quarterly profits of Exxon ($10 BILLION in profit for 1 quarter? I know they are big but that is kinda nuts) and the others, I would say we are mostly funding them.
The only solution to the problems in the middle east is for there to be one or two states in the region, total. There currently are too many countries with too many borders and too many moron offshoot-religions that preclude living with any other sects nearby. So I think you are correct, but not in the dumb joke you were trying to make - if the Nazis had taken over and consolidated the area it would have peace. Of course, their idea of consolidation was total and worldwide so that would never work. But it doesn't stop George from trying to do it on a smaller scale.
Phhht child's play compared to the people/stuff the US is accidentally blowing up at any given moment with my tax dollars. Wherever the big, dumb muscle of the military is applied there will always be unintended death and mayhem (applies to pretty much anybody's military from what I can tell). Some would say the intentions of a suicide bomber and those of a less-than-competent Israeli unit are irrelevant if the result is the same (civilian casualties). Sometimes I wonder if they aren't right about that.
I remember at one store the person manning the busy self-checkout lines' "supervisor" station was just standing there talking to another employee and clearing the (frequent) self-scan errors ("please place item","please remove item","please wait for assistance", etc) as they came up without even looking at the screen.
- They are not adding a new tax (which would be illegal), they are including a new business under an old tax. - Only affects carriers who access the phone system, hence not the same as peer-to-peer calls or video game chat, etc, etc.
Don't know what to tell ya, I got my 624 from verizon in january and it is a POS. Tried updating the firmware etc. There are apparently 2 reboot problems, the every-5-seconds one was solved by D-link a while back whereas mine was not. Some say it has to do with wireless interference causing it to automatically reconfigure to a new channel (and thus reboot) periodically, but I have not had any luck trying to tackle it from that angle.
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Yeah it's pretty lame. Ever since then I tend to blow through my ammo earlier, which gets you in trouble in some games...
And let me warn you: the D-link router is a POS. It reboots itself way too much (daily at a minimum, compared to never with my old Linksys). Very painful when you play WoW or work at home. I finally got around to switching back to the Linksys I had, but I had to get rid of the Sveasoft firmware I'd installed in order to get above 4mbps (and get 15mbps). It turns out the Linksys gets almost 1mpbs better throughput than the D-link in my tests as well, so if you get fiber do yourself a favor and ditch the D-link. Oh sure, you could go the customer service route, but I for one am too lazy to sit there pretending to empty my temp internet files while some stooge reads a troubleshooting script.
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A lot of recent FPS games seem to have done something like this in the middle somewhere ever since HL1 did it (when Freeman gets captured and you lose all your weapons).
My mom has comcast digital cable with 2 boxes, and only one is plugged in. She downgraded her movie package at one point, yet the box that is not connected via phone line still recieves everything. So I am thinking it finds out about service changes when it phones home (although there could be some other explanantion).
One thing I enjoyed was the secrets, although most were pretty easy some still have me scratching my head. I will probably play it again just to try and get the ones I couldn't figure out the first time (where you see something you can't access but you know there is a way).
I was gonna get a display-model PB for my first PC at Best Buy, lucky for me the employees there knew enough to run a scandisk on it. They found a bunch of bad sectors and said they couldn't sell it to me... (wound up getting a low-end IBM Aptiva which was probably for the best).
Heretic was the bomb, when they did Heretic II 3rd person I couldn't get into it though. Hexen was also greatness, especially in co-op mode. The weapons in those games were actually fun to use. Memories...
Having used both services and numerous others I can say 1.5Mbps is noticeably slower than the 6Mbps, and the FIOS is just way faster than both for pretty much everything. By "way" I mean usually double the download speed. And for me it's cheaper than cable was by $10/mo, which is wonderful. Obviously you can hit some bottlenecks outside anyone's control, but these are actually pretty rare. Also, it's probably not relevant, but I also have a much more consistent low latency connection to the World of Warcraft servers now. I think that's more of an issue with the shared-bandwidth nature of the cable connection I had though. Anyway, that AT&T guy is incorrect as far as I can tell about there being no discernable difference, the difference between 1.5 and 6 is noticeable and from 6 to 15 is huge.
It also runs on TBS along with Family Guy, but I doubt it was the cable ratings, I'm sure it was (like Family Guy) the DVD sales. That caused them to say "lets make more DVDs", which Family Guy did successfully, and 4 Futurama DVD movies were scheduled. But now that Family Guy is alive again on FOX they probably said "you know what, we get new DVDs to sell either way, and FG is doing all right, lets just bring Futurama back and stick it in some out-of-the-way time slot, nothing to lose". And thus I predict that the show will get screwed by FOX again....
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Agreed, and its not even the same show anymore by season 9. As far as I can tell "The Simpsons" has been off the air since the 90's.
And then there is the storyline for the Forsaken, the ending of which seems to be up in the air. An NPC who seemed to know what the banshee queen is really up to is in a cage in SoS but dies before revealing anything (at least in the quest line I found). Clearly the Forsaken are out for themselves and this will come to a head at some point, but I wonder if Blizz has the stones to really make some kind of world event that will radically alter their faction\reputation\etc.
Yeah they might have to make a zone a mile wide instead of 500 yds, wow... And you would also have to ride a mount at actual real world mount speeds to get around, that would be too much fun, we can't have that. No, let's stick with tiny zones, oddly undersized player models, and a running speed equal to most games' walking speed.
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This technique requires no such special tools and is easily learned by an 11 year old. Hence it is news.
If you look at the Something Awful website, they have a bunch that are just like that. They also have some that, while hilarious, indicate an alarming criminal intent by the searcher. So one wonders how long before some agency gets a whiff of this and demands access to the whole thing, mapped to the names and addresses of the account holders...
Indeed. All this entertainment kind of stuff should be free to active-duty servicemen. Give the poor bastards whatever they need, I say. Especially with a frickin war on.
On the one hand, without the influx of money from car commercials it would not be possible to have television as we know it (certainly rather than scale back profits they would scale back any semblance of quality or competence). On the other hand, without the car $$ it would also not be possible for major league baseball to continue to be a viable business (every major sport has TV revenue but only baseball has the empty stadiums). So I have mixed feelings as per usual.
Actually from the consecutive ridiculous quarterly profits of Exxon ($10 BILLION in profit for 1 quarter? I know they are big but that is kinda nuts) and the others, I would say we are mostly funding them.
The only solution to the problems in the middle east is for there to be one or two states in the region, total. There currently are too many countries with too many borders and too many moron offshoot-religions that preclude living with any other sects nearby. So I think you are correct, but not in the dumb joke you were trying to make - if the Nazis had taken over and consolidated the area it would have peace. Of course, their idea of consolidation was total and worldwide so that would never work. But it doesn't stop George from trying to do it on a smaller scale.
Phhht child's play compared to the people/stuff the US is accidentally blowing up at any given moment with my tax dollars. Wherever the big, dumb muscle of the military is applied there will always be unintended death and mayhem (applies to pretty much anybody's military from what I can tell). Some would say the intentions of a suicide bomber and those of a less-than-competent Israeli unit are irrelevant if the result is the same (civilian casualties). Sometimes I wonder if they aren't right about that.
The difference is that what Bush did was ostensibly legal...
I remember at one store the person manning the busy self-checkout lines' "supervisor" station was just standing there talking to another employee and clearing the (frequent) self-scan errors ("please place item","please remove item","please wait for assistance", etc) as they came up without even looking at the screen.
- They are not adding a new tax (which would be illegal), they are including a new business under an old tax.
- Only affects carriers who access the phone system, hence not the same as peer-to-peer calls or video game chat, etc, etc.
Don't know what to tell ya, I got my 624 from verizon in january and it is a POS. Tried updating the firmware etc. There are apparently 2 reboot problems, the every-5-seconds one was solved by D-link a while back whereas mine was not. Some say it has to do with wireless interference causing it to automatically reconfigure to a new channel (and thus reboot) periodically, but I have not had any luck trying to tackle it from that angle.
Yeah it's pretty lame. Ever since then I tend to blow through my ammo earlier, which gets you in trouble in some games...
And let me warn you: the D-link router is a POS. It reboots itself way too much (daily at a minimum, compared to never with my old Linksys). Very painful when you play WoW or work at home. I finally got around to switching back to the Linksys I had, but I had to get rid of the Sveasoft firmware I'd installed in order to get above 4mbps (and get 15mbps). It turns out the Linksys gets almost 1mpbs better throughput than the D-link in my tests as well, so if you get fiber do yourself a favor and ditch the D-link. Oh sure, you could go the customer service route, but I for one am too lazy to sit there pretending to empty my temp internet files while some stooge reads a troubleshooting script.
A lot of recent FPS games seem to have done something like this in the middle somewhere ever since HL1 did it (when Freeman gets captured and you lose all your weapons).
My mom has comcast digital cable with 2 boxes, and only one is plugged in. She downgraded her movie package at one point, yet the box that is not connected via phone line still recieves everything. So I am thinking it finds out about service changes when it phones home (although there could be some other explanantion).
One thing I enjoyed was the secrets, although most were pretty easy some still have me scratching my head. I will probably play it again just to try and get the ones I couldn't figure out the first time (where you see something you can't access but you know there is a way).
I was gonna get a display-model PB for my first PC at Best Buy, lucky for me the employees there knew enough to run a scandisk on it. They found a bunch of bad sectors and said they couldn't sell it to me... (wound up getting a low-end IBM Aptiva which was probably for the best).
Heretic was the bomb, when they did Heretic II 3rd person I couldn't get into it though. Hexen was also greatness, especially in co-op mode. The weapons in those games were actually fun to use. Memories...
Less so when you are covered in their goo...
Having used both services and numerous others I can say 1.5Mbps is noticeably slower than the 6Mbps, and the FIOS is just way faster than both for pretty much everything. By "way" I mean usually double the download speed. And for me it's cheaper than cable was by $10/mo, which is wonderful. Obviously you can hit some bottlenecks outside anyone's control, but these are actually pretty rare. Also, it's probably not relevant, but I also have a much more consistent low latency connection to the World of Warcraft servers now. I think that's more of an issue with the shared-bandwidth nature of the cable connection I had though. Anyway, that AT&T guy is incorrect as far as I can tell about there being no discernable difference, the difference between 1.5 and 6 is noticeable and from 6 to 15 is huge.
It also runs on TBS along with Family Guy, but I doubt it was the cable ratings, I'm sure it was (like Family Guy) the DVD sales. That caused them to say "lets make more DVDs", which Family Guy did successfully, and 4 Futurama DVD movies were scheduled. But now that Family Guy is alive again on FOX they probably said "you know what, we get new DVDs to sell either way, and FG is doing all right, lets just bring Futurama back and stick it in some out-of-the-way time slot, nothing to lose". And thus I predict that the show will get screwed by FOX again....
Agreed, and its not even the same show anymore by season 9. As far as I can tell "The Simpsons" has been off the air since the 90's.
And then there is the storyline for the Forsaken, the ending of which seems to be up in the air. An NPC who seemed to know what the banshee queen is really up to is in a cage in SoS but dies before revealing anything (at least in the quest line I found). Clearly the Forsaken are out for themselves and this will come to a head at some point, but I wonder if Blizz has the stones to really make some kind of world event that will radically alter their faction\reputation\etc.
Not really, the tram zone is by itself with a loading screen of its own to get in/out of it.
Yeah they might have to make a zone a mile wide instead of 500 yds, wow... And you would also have to ride a mount at actual real world mount speeds to get around, that would be too much fun, we can't have that. No, let's stick with tiny zones, oddly undersized player models, and a running speed equal to most games' walking speed.