we may not be able to watch webcasts of games, but thanks to thoose crazy canucks we can find Olympic pr0n on the net. Seems their transparent bodysuits they choose for speedskating are gonna be fun to watch!
1. If this game caught on, it may be possible to earn an actual income from this game...
It is *allready* possible, the value for credits in Everquest (credits==currency in the Everquest economy) on Ebay, is better than the value of many third world countries.
I personally know a few people who have been able to make several thousands of dollars a month off "farming" items in game. Of course if they actually calculated how much time they spent doing it (far more than a typical 8 hour day at an office), it wouldn't seem all that special to the typical middle class American...but to someone in a economically challenged area or country, it could feasibly be a serious windfall to them!
If you have the bandwidth to use a better file system (ie. lossless) whats wrong with using it?
i regularly download complete concerts in.SHN format just because i have the bandwidth to do so relatively quickly (assuming i can get in my favorite FTP that can really deliver it)
everyone seems to agree that the price for this while seeming high, is really only a bit over what you would allready pay for cable TV, broadband internet, and phone service.
paying a bit more and getting a "all inclusive" package is great, but they have to offer more than the competition in my eyes to justify the price increase. sending out 3 checks instead of 1 is really not that much work.
so the big question is what will they offer that traditional services dont? The "movies on demand" thing sounds just like PPV to me, if you recieved a certain preset number of viewings per month that would be a nice perk. What about upstream bandwidth, if they could really deliver here that would also be a nice addition, but frankly does anyone expect AOL/TW to give people this, they are probably to concerned that they would be rippin em off with P2P apps.
There is only one place i can see this service delivering a improvement over using indivdual companies for each utility, and thats the phone service, if they can deliver this in their package and not have individual charges for each call that would be a huge item. I'm by no means sure they will offer that, but as i see it thats the only way they can justify the higher price. They have to offer *something* for the extra money, or do they?
How will reducing software licensing costs transform china in 30 years, when its been an agrarian society for thousands, and poverty stricken for a couple hundred, at least ?
In fact how can they reduce licensing costs at all, they were allready runnin pirated software according to the article...now they will pay about the same price (very little)
Computer software is becoming easier and easier to use (even Linux), it doesn't take a whole lot of time to learn how to use a word processor and spreadsheet or do a google search these days. It's much more important to teach kids to read, write, and do math
When i took AP computer science in high school, we sure weren't learnin how to use google. I got some (admittedly) basic instruction in Pascal, Cobol, and Fortran in a 2 semester class (ya this dates me, it was a while back).
Im sure there are equally usefull skills being taught in some of the higher end computer classes now.
Sure schools need more teachers (and you are right on with it needing to be a more attractive profession), all the best books, and to teach the basics well. But its not such a bad thing to offer more than just that if they can do it.
If you ever "go bad" and decide to start screwing people, Paypal is your weapon of choice. If you are a scrupulous merchant, Paypal is probably the best way to go because there will be few complaints on either side of the transaction
There is actually a little less here than a "win-win" situation if you ask me.
Sure if the seller is scrupulous every transaction with pay-pal is likely to be a very smooth operation. As a buyer who has never dealt with his website for instance, how does one know he is scrupulous however?
If its that easy for the seller to not deliver on transactions, and pay-pal takes long enough to investigate transgressions for the seller to be gone after a few months of takin in the cash, i would be hesistant to purchase from any small business i dont know of with it.
Losing prospective business due to pay-pal is less than "win-win" in my eyes
This time, MS had gone way too far, they shall pay dearly for this
They are supposed to be paying, but due to this way settlement is structured it's not really gonna happen.
If it bugs you that it's not gonna happen, they give you an e-mail to voice your opinion. Take 5 minutes out of your day and write one. It may not make one bit of difference if you do, but if you don't, then you *know* you didn't make one bit of difference.
the company that went bust did so because of the enormous cost of settin the network up in the first place. Theese guys now have the same network without the billion dollar debt associated with setting it up.
It seems to be a common trend now, whoever sets up a large network like this goes bankrupt and whoever comes in behind em and takes over the fiber can clean up.
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it is pretty darned clear, that even though the cold-war is long over, the need for advanced equipment that helps our military/national security certainly isnt.
we have some great scientific minds in america, they can come up with some pretty damm cool ideas, some are gonna be a total bust, most will be mediocre, and every once in a while they probably just stumble on to something that is amazing. Without throwin money their way though, you will get none of it.
It may cost a lot of money, and sometimes you recieve some really useless returns on that money (im not saying that will be the case here, who knows what thoose laser advances may actually end up usefull in, maybe even usefull eventually as a weapon or anti-weapon weapon)
The thing is, would you rather not fund some of this work and wait until some other countries have access to technology more advanced than ours and try to catch up, or would you rather stay on the leading edge? The price to stay there may be high, and may result in spendin some cash on garbage here and there...but i'm personally willing to accept that cost
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when i was in the military this is what i was told regarding this topic.
while trained on a 50 cal+ weapon they will make a very strong point of the fact that you cannot shoot people with them.
they will then almost always point out just following this that it is certainly OK to shoot at a persons gear like the canteen on his belt or his backpack he's wearing.
take it as you will but thats my firsthand experience
is that @Home is trying to get a better buyout deal from AT&T... they get a better contract from local cable companies and voila they are worth more.
AT&T of course doesnt want their value to be worth anything more than the pittance they offered so they take some customers with em and voila all that extra money that @home negotiated for is now offset by a large number of lost customers
this all seems to be just run of the mill business practices i would suppose.
the funny part though, is why the heck didn't @home think of it before. I mean...if you have X million customers and are losing X million a month providing service to them, how much of a genious does it take to realize that charging each local cable company a few bucks more a customer will keep your business not only afloat but possibly profitable. Seems like @home finally figured out the answer, but they figured it out too late
lots of interesting stuff they had in the x-box breakdown. The 2 blank slots for ram for instance and wondering if u could solder some in, the possibilites for replacin the HDD...it was a pretty neat look at a new type of console game.
This on the other hand was just basically a take out all the screws we can and see how many pieces we end up with type thing. Nothin wrong with that, heck who doesnt enjoy rippin perfectly good electronics apart and seein if it will still work when you throw it back together....but the x-box one seemed a heck of a lot more interesting
i dont think any program which is required to mess with the registry to remove spyware should be unknowingly installed to anyones box, no matter how good the motives. But i do wish more people knew of the ad-aware program which is great for killin spyware and used it on their own.
i dont want any software on my computer that keeps track of what i do while on the net, and who's to say that this is ALL they monitor.
Some of these spyware programs (most in fact) are installed during the installation of shareware programs and most people dont even pay close enough attention during the install to notice it.
I'm sure most people who read here aren't so unaware of what goes on with ther boxes, but Joe Q. Public i'm sure would be surpised to find out how much spyware they have running, if they made a trip to www.lavasoftusa.com and downloaded ad-aware and scanned for this kinda crap
sure this is one hell of a rig, and you can plug in all the theoretical numbers you like to predict what would happen if these theoretical numbers are *accurate*
But the reason they actually tested nukes is because they needed to find out if the theoretical numbers are coorect in the first place right?
I mean if they allready knew what percentage of errors would occur and why they occured they wouldnt need to test in the first place, unless im missing something really big this will be the worlds most advanced *garbage in - garbage out* dependent system. but hey its still one hell of a cool toy!
"Do real world economic class/social issues translate to the virtual world? "
considering that the PP (currency of EQ) is literally worth more than the "real" currencies of some countries when the PP is sold on E-bay or whatever i would have to say it sure does.
in fact someone who realy knows what they are doing can make a better living by "playing" this game then they could in some jobs the avg person is qualified for. i would suppose this would be a serious pay-raise for people in some areas frankly
i recently purchased a nice new digital camera by sony...instead of using stupid mem chips that cost a ton it uses 8cm CDs (note this mem chip cost is certainly offset by the price of the cam...over 1k usd)
the cd's are fairly cheap and readily available. Frankly i would say that a player that uses these in order to be a smaller player does have some inherent advantages.
One has to consider that its also probably just an attempt by phillips to place more demand on a product they market which has very small demand IE. the 8cm cd's. If they really want to produce a smaller player with full features that implements the 8cm cd's then its a great idea. If it's just an attempt to create demand for their otherwise limited use cd's by producing a substandard (sound quality, reliability , etc) then it wouldnt impress me a bit, only time will tell
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It must be an evil school to attract this much attention from Arnie, but here's directions to Columbia University
we may not be able to watch webcasts of games, but thanks to thoose crazy canucks we can find Olympic pr0n on the net. Seems their transparent bodysuits they choose for speedskating are gonna be fun to watch!
1. If this game caught on, it may be possible to earn an actual income from this game...
It is *allready* possible, the value for credits in Everquest (credits==currency in the Everquest economy) on Ebay, is better than the value of many third world countries.
I personally know a few people who have been able to make several thousands of dollars a month off "farming" items in game. Of course if they actually calculated how much time they spent doing it (far more than a typical 8 hour day at an office), it wouldn't seem all that special to the typical middle class American...but to someone in a economically challenged area or country, it could feasibly be a serious windfall to them!
If you have the bandwidth to use a better file system (ie. lossless) whats wrong with using it?
.SHN format just because i have the bandwidth to do so relatively quickly (assuming i can get in my favorite FTP that can really deliver it)
i regularly download complete concerts in
everyone seems to agree that the price for this while seeming high, is really only a bit over what you would allready pay for cable TV, broadband internet, and phone service.
paying a bit more and getting a "all inclusive" package is great, but they have to offer more than the competition in my eyes to justify the price increase. sending out 3 checks instead of 1 is really not that much work.
so the big question is what will they offer that traditional services dont? The "movies on demand" thing sounds just like PPV to me, if you recieved a certain preset number of viewings per month that would be a nice perk. What about upstream bandwidth, if they could really deliver here that would also be a nice addition, but frankly does anyone expect AOL/TW to give people this, they are probably to concerned that they would be rippin em off with P2P apps.
There is only one place i can see this service delivering a improvement over using indivdual companies for each utility, and thats the phone service, if they can deliver this in their package and not have individual charges for each call that would be a huge item. I'm by no means sure they will offer that, but as i see it thats the only way they can justify the higher price. They have to offer *something* for the extra money, or do they?
How will reducing software licensing costs transform china in 30 years, when its been an agrarian society for thousands, and poverty stricken for a couple hundred, at least ?
In fact how can they reduce licensing costs at all, they were allready runnin pirated software according to the article...now they will pay about the same price (very little)
Computer software is becoming easier and easier to use (even Linux), it doesn't take a whole lot of time to learn how to use a word processor and spreadsheet or do a google search these days. It's much more important to teach kids to read, write, and do math
When i took AP computer science in high school, we sure weren't learnin how to use google. I got some (admittedly) basic instruction in Pascal, Cobol, and Fortran in a 2 semester class (ya this dates me, it was a while back).
Im sure there are equally usefull skills being taught in some of the higher end computer classes now.
Sure schools need more teachers (and you are right on with it needing to be a more attractive profession), all the best books, and to teach the basics well. But its not such a bad thing to offer more than just that if they can do it.
If you ever "go bad" and decide to start screwing people, Paypal is your weapon of choice. If you are a scrupulous merchant, Paypal is probably the best way to go because there will be few complaints on either side of the transaction
There is actually a little less here than a "win-win" situation if you ask me.
Sure if the seller is scrupulous every transaction with pay-pal is likely to be a very smooth operation. As a buyer who has never dealt with his website for instance, how does one know he is scrupulous however?
If its that easy for the seller to not deliver on transactions, and pay-pal takes long enough to investigate transgressions for the seller to be gone after a few months of takin in the cash, i would be hesistant to purchase from any small business i dont know of with it.
Losing prospective business due to pay-pal is less than "win-win" in my eyes
That's the whole point of this.
This time, MS had gone way too far, they shall pay dearly for this
They are supposed to be paying, but due to this way settlement is structured it's not really gonna happen.
If it bugs you that it's not gonna happen, they give you an e-mail to voice your opinion. Take 5 minutes out of your day and write one. It may not make one bit of difference if you do, but if you don't, then you *know* you didn't make one bit of difference.
actually it does make sense.
the company that went bust did so because of the enormous cost of settin the network up in the first place. Theese guys now have the same network without the billion dollar debt associated with setting it up.
It seems to be a common trend now, whoever sets up a large network like this goes bankrupt and whoever comes in behind em and takes over the fiber can clean up.
it is pretty darned clear, that even though the cold-war is long over, the need for advanced equipment that helps our military/national security certainly isnt.
we have some great scientific minds in america, they can come up with some pretty damm cool ideas, some are gonna be a total bust, most will be mediocre, and every once in a while they probably just stumble on to something that is amazing. Without throwin money their way though, you will get none of it.
It may cost a lot of money, and sometimes you recieve some really useless returns on that money (im not saying that will be the case here, who knows what thoose laser advances may actually end up usefull in, maybe even usefull eventually as a weapon or anti-weapon weapon)
The thing is, would you rather not fund some of this work and wait until some other countries have access to technology more advanced than ours and try to catch up, or would you rather stay on the leading edge? The price to stay there may be high, and may result in spendin some cash on garbage here and there...but i'm personally willing to accept that cost
when i was in the military this is what i was told regarding this topic.
while trained on a 50 cal+ weapon they will make a very strong point of the fact that you cannot shoot people with them.
they will then almost always point out just following this that it is certainly OK to shoot at a persons gear like the canteen on his belt or his backpack he's wearing.
take it as you will but thats my firsthand experience
is that @Home is trying to get a better buyout deal from AT&T ... they get a better contract from local cable companies and voila they are worth more.
AT&T of course doesnt want their value to be worth anything more than the pittance they offered so they take some customers with em and voila all that extra money that @home negotiated for is now offset by a large number of lost customers
this all seems to be just run of the mill business practices i would suppose.
the funny part though, is why the heck didn't @home think of it before. I mean...if you have X million customers and are losing X million a month providing service to them, how much of a genious does it take to realize that charging each local cable company a few bucks more a customer will keep your business not only afloat but possibly profitable. Seems like @home finally figured out the answer, but they figured it out too late
lots of interesting stuff they had in the x-box breakdown. The 2 blank slots for ram for instance and wondering if u could solder some in, the possibilites for replacin the HDD...it was a pretty neat look at a new type of console game.
This on the other hand was just basically a take out all the screws we can and see how many pieces we end up with type thing. Nothin wrong with that, heck who doesnt enjoy rippin perfectly good electronics apart and seein if it will still work when you throw it back together....but the x-box one seemed a heck of a lot more interesting
i dont think any program which is required to mess with the registry to remove spyware should be unknowingly installed to anyones box, no matter how good the motives. But i do wish more people knew of the ad-aware program which is great for killin spyware and used it on their own.
i dont want any software on my computer that keeps track of what i do while on the net, and who's to say that this is ALL they monitor.
Some of these spyware programs (most in fact) are installed during the installation of shareware programs and most people dont even pay close enough attention during the install to notice it.
I'm sure most people who read here aren't so unaware of what goes on with ther boxes, but Joe Q. Public i'm sure would be surpised to find out how much spyware they have running, if they made a trip to www.lavasoftusa.com and downloaded ad-aware and scanned for this kinda crap
sure this is one hell of a rig, and you can plug in all the theoretical numbers you like to predict what would happen if these theoretical numbers are *accurate*
But the reason they actually tested nukes is because they needed to find out if the theoretical numbers are coorect in the first place right?
I mean if they allready knew what percentage of errors would occur and why they occured they wouldnt need to test in the first place, unless im missing something really big this will be the worlds most advanced *garbage in - garbage out* dependent system. but hey its still one hell of a cool toy!
"Do real world economic class/social issues translate to the virtual world? "
considering that the PP (currency of EQ) is literally worth more than the "real" currencies of some countries when the PP is sold on E-bay or whatever i would have to say it sure does.
in fact someone who realy knows what they are doing can make a better living by "playing" this game then they could in some jobs the avg person is qualified for. i would suppose this would be a serious pay-raise for people in some areas frankly
i recently purchased a nice new digital camera by sony...instead of using stupid mem chips that cost a ton it uses 8cm CDs (note this mem chip cost is certainly offset by the price of the cam...over 1k usd) the cd's are fairly cheap and readily available. Frankly i would say that a player that uses these in order to be a smaller player does have some inherent advantages. One has to consider that its also probably just an attempt by phillips to place more demand on a product they market which has very small demand IE. the 8cm cd's. If they really want to produce a smaller player with full features that implements the 8cm cd's then its a great idea. If it's just an attempt to create demand for their otherwise limited use cd's by producing a substandard (sound quality, reliability , etc) then it wouldnt impress me a bit, only time will tell