When I'm not blowing $18-21 at a time to rent a whole season of a tv show at the local video store(yes, I know I should go netflix), I give Comcast VOD a try.
So let's go watch Constantine.. Wait, it's not listed. Okay, let's go watch Hellboy..wait. No, wait, the only have bottom-of-the box office barrel movies available.
Comcast's offerings of VOD is incredibly pathetic for being such a mega-corp. You would think DVD distributors would lend them a few episodes of a TV show they just released for free viewing. Then,if you like the show so much you could buy it. Free advertising. Give 'em a taste.
Heck, let me pay a small fee to VOD the HBO/Showtime premium tv shows, without having to subscribe to said premiums.
1. Support xbox 360 controllers on Vista. Full driver support. (er, is the connector USB?)
2. Improved support for old-ass PC emulation(which is already in some extent in XP). Have a wizard ask you "okay, what year was this game made in?", you pop in 1982 for a year, and for that game, emulate a PC in '82(some quasi-vmware or something). Have support for manual SB sound card specs(remember the fun of that?). Niche support, but now MS can sell their oldest games for years to come!
3. Server support for xbox 360 games? Forget using an xbox 360 for a dedicated server, use Windows Server 2003(vista, whatever) for Halo2, and any other xb360 network games. Sell more copies of server maybe?
I too tried turning off some non-essential services and ended up with>
1. The system taking FOREVER To start up 2. Some increidbly bizarre quirks. 3. Turning services back on didn't resolve the problem.
I realized it just wasn't worth my time on Win2K. darn, and I honestly didn't need to be running fax services either.
Later on in life I found myself having to do it on WinXP when it was pretty much running at 100% CPU power, just about every minute of operation for no reason.
Don't numerous ISPs throw some free web page space, quite often WITHOUT pop-up ads or such ad-related garbage?
I mean with Comcast and its millions of customers, you get some web page space to hotlink images, etc. Sure, you can't do certain questionable web pages(hacking, porn, etc), but still it is included with the cost of your monthly bill.
Heck, even AOL has web page space.
Again, if there's malware being sent out on free web page sites, perhaps its time for them to go.
Wow, PSP hasn't been out on the market long, and firmware updates are coming out as fast as hacks can be made for them.
To me, that is funny. The endless waltz of people releasing useful software for them(emulators), and then Sony does an upate soon after, with an incentive like a browser, etc.
Perhaps if laws cannot stop them(or they just overturn them), and by "them" I mean telemarketers, maybe it's time to fight fire with fire.
If we're talking regular office lines that can take incoming calls(oviously they make outgoing calls), let's phone mob them. Let's give 'em a good cactusing. let's ask THEM if THEY want aluminum siding. Or if they want to buy a ticket to MY ball!(er, that didnt' sound right, which makes it even funnier).
I honestly wish you could do a "block sender" in newsgroups. Really, it would make usenet a little bit more bearable. But all the blocking features seem to be reserved for email.
I tried messing around with the rules & such for newsgroups(filters?) but they never came close to working.
What Thunderbird really needs is to support uuencode/decode. Why does only Freeagent and some freeware newsreader support this, yet is wideley used on usenet? What's the difficulty here?
If Thunderbird supported that, it could steal some users away from the ungodly complicated FreeAgent.
I mastered Burnout 2 with lots of practice, and enjoyed it. I was able to power slide aronud intersections easily once i learned the tracks.
Burnout 3, that's where I got stuck short of the top-level cars & tracks. I tried a preview race with the F1 racecar and was literally crashing every 6 seconds. Or I was doing donuts just trying to get the hang of the car.
Online mode was incredibly bad. You got booted out of rooms(ie when the race is about to start) due to communications problems as often as i crashed. EIther that, or players kicked you out since you didn't have the F1 racecar.
It wasn't like this in Burnout 2. The game got so frustrating to find the right spot to do drift turns, that i never got the hang of it(either too soon or too late).
My very last race was in the docks area and I slammed straight into Optimus Prime. That's when I got rid of it for store credit. Only to see a copy 2 months later used at my video store for 2/5ths the price I paid.
I better rent it first. If it's too hard, no money lost.
1. Customer calls tech suppport(level 1) 2. Level 1 can't fix it. Fills out an escalation form to level 2. The unseen beings of level 2 are supposed to call back. A "trouble ticket" is made to great detail by level 1 tech, apologizes to customer. 3. Time passes by 4. The unseen overlords of level 2(or escalation department) forget about the trouble ticket, hoping the customer and level 1 forget about the trouble ticket 5. level 1 prays customer never calls back, since he/she heard nothing from level 2 about it, and never will.
That's at least what happened when I did tech support for an ISP. I think I later checked on the customers with escalations, and they, well, weren't customers anymore.
With all these hacks/innovations with google maps, I am reminded of all the neat things done with maps,etc in Max Headroom. Lookin' around in a building? let's just bring up a wireframe floorplan and walk through it.
Perhaps this tv show is now one step closer to reality.
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Coworker of mine said on the various crimes going on in the city, one is "attempted rape". Upon visiting the crime in progress, you see one character try to hump another. I haven't played the game enough to see it, and yet I see no press outrage over it.
I mean heck, that's not even consentual, and yet it's the same thing as what everyone's crying about in a hidden part of a video game!
Where has TETRIS evolved over the years? Every single port I have seen of Tetris(ranging from the TI-99/4A on up) has always had the same boring pieces. Never have I seen an incarnation with different pieces, etc.
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...at least for Comcast.
When I'm not blowing $18-21 at a time to rent a whole season of a tv show at the local video store(yes, I know I should go netflix), I give Comcast VOD a try.
So let's go watch Constantine.. Wait, it's not listed. Okay, let's go watch Hellboy..wait. No, wait, the only have bottom-of-the box office barrel movies available.
Comcast's offerings of VOD is incredibly pathetic for being such a mega-corp. You would think DVD distributors would lend them a few episodes of a TV show they just released for free viewing. Then,if you like the show so much you could buy it. Free advertising. Give 'em a taste.
Heck, let me pay a small fee to VOD the HBO/Showtime premium tv shows, without having to subscribe to said premiums.
So far, VOD to me is a dud.
We all know the stats on how violent crime and violent crime among children/teens have gone down since Doom was released.
Hey c'mon that's not anything to joke about. My cousin was killed last week in Detroit by a flaming-skull shooting hell demon.
I think you just came up with a great way to scam the spammers, AND make money...fast!
1. Sell your website's email addresses to a spamming company*
2. Block all mail from company you just sold out to
3. Profit!!
* cook up some contract where they can't sue if the email doesn't go through
I just hope this isn't doomed to bomb like the TapWave that was just reported last week.
With no DRM and such, it just might work, or have a really good long life cycle with indie developers.
Of course, you report this now, 3 days after I bought a 1.50 fw PSP.
Microsoft could buy the drives from Matsushita or any of the other manufacturers supporting the platform.
:)
So Matsushita would in effect be supplying weapons to both sides of the war? Sounds like they would be the winners of the console battle.
1. Support xbox 360 controllers on Vista. Full driver support. (er, is the connector USB?)
2. Improved support for old-ass PC emulation(which is already in some extent in XP). Have a wizard ask you "okay, what year was this game made in?", you pop in 1982 for a year, and for that game, emulate a PC in '82(some quasi-vmware or something). Have support for manual SB sound card specs(remember the fun of that?). Niche support, but now MS can sell their oldest games for years to come!
3. Server support for xbox 360 games? Forget using an xbox 360 for a dedicated server, use Windows Server 2003(vista, whatever) for Halo2, and any other xb360 network games. Sell more copies of server maybe?
I too tried turning off some non-essential services and ended up with>
1. The system taking FOREVER To start up
2. Some increidbly bizarre quirks.
3. Turning services back on didn't resolve the problem.
I realized it just wasn't worth my time on Win2K. darn, and I honestly didn't need to be running fax services either.
Later on in life I found myself having to do it on WinXP when it was pretty much running at 100% CPU power, just about every minute of operation for no reason.
Unix in the backend, handling all computery stuff(services, servers, etc).
A nice, pretty GUI up front(Macintosh, Windows, whatever you like), that grandma can use.
IIRC OSX does this to an extent already.
Thus, the reverse mullet approach. Party in the front, business in the back.
Apparently the best way to develop a "visually intuitive" user interface is glass and more animation!
And any time KDE gets some visual gizmo, it somehow becomes worthy of being a Slashdot article in and of itself.
Don't numerous ISPs throw some free web page space, quite often WITHOUT pop-up ads or such ad-related garbage?
I mean with Comcast and its millions of customers, you get some web page space to hotlink images, etc. Sure, you can't do certain questionable web pages(hacking, porn, etc), but still it is included with the cost of your monthly bill.
Heck, even AOL has web page space.
Again, if there's malware being sent out on free web page sites, perhaps its time for them to go.
Wow, PSP hasn't been out on the market long, and firmware updates are coming out as fast as hacks can be made for them.
To me, that is funny. The endless waltz of people releasing useful software for them(emulators), and then Sony does an upate soon after, with an incentive like a browser, etc.
Maybe I'll get a PSP when the dust settles.
(x) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
I assume you mean it feels good to administer the punishment to the spammer, not the feelings said(dead) spammer received?
Heck, I'm wondering how this is going to turn out. If other spammers are now fearing for their lives in places such as Russia. Hmm...
Perhaps if laws cannot stop them(or they just overturn them), and by "them" I mean telemarketers, maybe it's time to fight fire with fire.
If we're talking regular office lines that can take incoming calls(oviously they make outgoing calls), let's phone mob them. Let's give 'em a good cactusing. let's ask THEM if THEY want aluminum siding. Or if they want to buy a ticket to MY ball!(er, that didnt' sound right, which makes it even funnier).
I honestly wish you could do a "block sender" in newsgroups. Really, it would make usenet a little bit more bearable. But all the blocking features seem to be reserved for email.
I tried messing around with the rules & such for newsgroups(filters?) but they never came close to working.
What Thunderbird really needs is to support uuencode/decode. Why does only Freeagent and some freeware newsreader support this, yet is wideley used on usenet? What's the difficulty here?
If Thunderbird supported that, it could steal some users away from the ungodly complicated FreeAgent.
I mastered Burnout 2 with lots of practice, and enjoyed it. I was able to power slide aronud intersections easily once i learned the tracks.
Burnout 3, that's where I got stuck short of the top-level cars & tracks. I tried a preview race with the F1 racecar and was literally crashing every 6 seconds. Or I was doing donuts just trying to get the hang of the car.
Online mode was incredibly bad. You got booted out of rooms(ie when the race is about to start) due to communications problems as often as i crashed. EIther that, or players kicked you out since you didn't have the F1 racecar.
It wasn't like this in Burnout 2. The game got so frustrating to find the right spot to do drift turns, that i never got the hang of it(either too soon or too late).
My very last race was in the docks area and I slammed straight into Optimus Prime. That's when I got rid of it for store credit. Only to see a copy 2 months later used at my video store for 2/5ths the price I paid.
I better rent it first. If it's too hard, no money lost.
This might also come in handy for forensics. You know, a skeleton found in the ditch.
Sure, it won't prevent people from being killed, but we can now correctly identify the victims!
Here's how escalation works...
1. Customer calls tech suppport(level 1)
2. Level 1 can't fix it. Fills out an escalation form to level 2. The unseen beings of level 2 are supposed to call back. A "trouble ticket" is made to great detail by level 1 tech, apologizes to customer.
3. Time passes by
4. The unseen overlords of level 2(or escalation department) forget about the trouble ticket, hoping the customer and level 1 forget about the trouble ticket
5. level 1 prays customer never calls back, since he/she heard nothing from level 2 about it, and never will.
That's at least what happened when I did tech support for an ISP. I think I later checked on the customers with escalations, and they, well, weren't customers anymore.
It's nice to see quickies WITHOUT mailto: links sprinkled between every relevant link. A slashdot first! Like I really wanna email someone.
With all these hacks/innovations with google maps, I am reminded of all the neat things done with maps,etc in Max Headroom. Lookin' around in a building? let's just bring up a wireframe floorplan and walk through it.
Perhaps this tv show is now one step closer to reality.
Coworker of mine said on the various crimes going on in the city, one is "attempted rape". Upon visiting the crime in progress, you see one character try to hump another. I haven't played the game enough to see it, and yet I see no press outrage over it.
I mean heck, that's not even consentual, and yet it's the same thing as what everyone's crying about in a hidden part of a video game!
* Having only one floppy drive on a Amiga, and having to switch between an application disk & workbench disk numerous times, in the same session.
* My first box of disks from the brand "Bonus" for my TI-99/4A in 1986. EVERY single disk failed.
-> Do not come out with 9e99 printer models, all which seem to do relatively the same thing(at least with the Injket series).
I mean, my ghod. I ask for a HP deskjet 648, and I'm like, 8 numbers off from what the drivers have(I think. I'm not at home right now).
My hangup was that the network card never got an ipv4 address no matter what I tried, yet ipv6 was there(which I didn't want).
After a few reinstalls with 2 experienced friends(had problems with the ATA100 drive), it finally works.
Where has TETRIS evolved over the years? Every single port I have seen of Tetris(ranging from the TI-99/4A on up) has always had the same boring pieces. Never have I seen an incarnation with different pieces, etc.
Block out to me is a different game entirely.
This is a very audio game. If you're deaf, I'm not sure it's even possible to play.
I'm glad to see Gerry Todd's(of SCTV fame) "Audiogames" is now a reality in 2005.