Most likely, the phones would be polled every few minutes to see what they're attached to. In much the same way that the cell towers check to see if your phone is still within range when you're not using it. This is the reason your phone sets off your speakers or makes your monitor twitch randomly
So the system sends out a signal to find the phone based on its last known location. Or the phone checks in with the system every few minutes to give an update on how to reach it.
Doesn't sound like much of a stretch from the current method of locating a cell phone.
(Balmer on stage sweating like a pig, with playboy bunnies.)
You are a bad bad man. It's really too bad you can't wash a mind out with soap...
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Did you even read the article? Oh wait, this is/. Your "description" of how it works is utterly and completely wrong. In fact, it's near opposite to how this program works.
I'd tell you to RTFA, but it seems clear you're just trolling. As someone already commented, I'd hate to work at your company.
And the "crap" is not just my opinion, it is supported by scores of comments on this story, hundreds of comments and posts on other websites, and hundreds and hundreds of Better Business complaints within the past couple years. If thousands of people can attest to their products and service being crap, that's not opinion, that's a fact.
Actually I think I got a B+ in Econ... but that was many years ago.
Goody goody for Alienware on making an "economically sound" business of ripping people off. My point was more about the stupidity of consumers, not "if someone buys it, it must be a valid economic strategy."
Unlike said consumer, I know Alienware is overpriced crap. therefore, I would not be stupid enough to waste my money on it. My point is still valid.
That's because you are a showcase example. You undoubtedly got better equipment, better testing, and better support. If only for the fact that now Alienware can say, "Look at this! Our stuff is used by a top university to teach your children how to do cool and important things!!"
Meanwhile, the regular consumers get screwed. The product in the window is always in better shape than the one on the shelf.
Yes. They are. Just because a small percentage of consumers are too stupid to know it, doesn't make them not overpriced.
You can build an exact copy of an Alienware laptop, minus the little alien head and flashy paint job, for $1800 LESS! This is proven - http://www.legitreviews.com/article/228/1/
You didn't watch the video did you? Wright explicitly explains multiple times that the other creatures you come into contact with are created by OTHER PLAYERS. And the system plays them based on how the OTHER PLAYER created them and modified them. Direct multiplayer? No. But the other creatures you run into were created by people, and all behavior is based on how those people created them, modified them and whatever behavioral quirks the player gave them.
I predict massive losses of "real" productivity and family time for this game...
As long as it is not more efficient than oil... otherwise they'll have to cut the funding and bury the results due to pressuring from Auto manufacturers and oil companies.
So the composition of said "campfire" being made of a pile of wood and possibly some flammable compound don't count as energy put in? E=mc^2 all matter can be converted to energy.
Sounds like someone flunked basic physics. The energy from a campfire doesn't come solely from the match. Hell, I'd say you flunked basic common sense if you think that.
Funny... my internet comes from my cable company. And that same cable company could give me Digital phone (which works without having broadband) if I wanted it. The phone company (Verizon here) has no services in my house and gets no money from me.
but I did actually get a line added into my divorce decree that guaranteed me three days a week that I could get on the computer with my kids, via web cam. I think we're going to be seeing a lot more of this in divorce papers. Especially if the parent with the kids moves across the country, such that personal visits are not practical. On a related note, restraining orders are probably going to start having sections on internet contact, if they don't already. "I never came within 1000 yards of her, officer." "but you harassed her 4 hrs a day on AIM, off to jail"
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But he's not even in Avenue Q... they have an actor PLAYING him as himself... In the show I saw, it was an actRESS, even...
Still a damned good show. Remember kids, the internet is for porn!
And if my having a BA in biology is any indication... He'll be back doing tech support in 2 years. (I have said BA, and i've been doing various tech jobs for 7 years)
And that's _before_ you drill into an abcessed tooth that has been decomposing happily for the past 2-3 months. I was working on a network at a dentist's office on a day they're normally closed. They brought in a patient on a special appointment because he had the above problem. Less than 2 minutes after he started drilling, the entire office from lobby to back room smelled of DEATH. It was NASTY. He and the nurse were taking regular breaks just so they could breathe.
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Most likely, the phones would be polled every few minutes to see what they're attached to.
In much the same way that the cell towers check to see if your phone is still within range when you're not using it. This is the reason your phone sets off your speakers or makes your monitor twitch randomly
So the system sends out a signal to find the phone based on its last known location. Or the phone checks in with the system every few minutes to give an update on how to reach it.
Doesn't sound like much of a stretch from the current method of locating a cell phone.
What's this "mile" thing?? We use leagues, by golly. And speed is measured in furlongs per fortnight, by jove.
Of course he is!
Everyone loves a train wreck!
All the crashing, and sceeching and maybe even some blowing stuff up!
Who doesn't love a train wreck?
Didn't read the whole article did ya...?
At the bottom you find-
Mr. Laflamme says in his examination that his father had savings of $500,000 from an inheritance.
So at least one of them will barely be affected.
Thank you. I was wondering why the heck someone tagged this "microsoft" :)
(Balmer on stage sweating like a pig, with playboy bunnies.)
You are a bad bad man.
It's really too bad you can't wash a mind out with soap...
Did you even read the article? Oh wait, this is /.
Your "description" of how it works is utterly and completely wrong. In fact, it's near opposite to how this program works.
I'd tell you to RTFA, but it seems clear you're just trolling.
As someone already commented, I'd hate to work at your company.
Never heard of fake IDs?
So basically they showed the inside of a club?
Amen. You see teenagers doing this and more in pretty much any popular dance club/rave scene.
So you're saying that charging $3500 for something that has been proven to be worth $1600 is not overpriced? That is the very definition of overpriced. http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=overprice d
And the "crap" is not just my opinion, it is supported by scores of comments on this story, hundreds of comments and posts on other websites, and hundreds and hundreds of Better Business complaints within the past couple years. If thousands of people can attest to their products and service being crap, that's not opinion, that's a fact.
Do what this guy did...
http://bash.org/?127039
Actually I think I got a B+ in Econ... but that was many years ago.
Goody goody for Alienware on making an "economically sound" business of ripping people off.
My point was more about the stupidity of consumers, not "if someone buys it, it must be a valid economic strategy."
Unlike said consumer, I know Alienware is overpriced crap. therefore, I would not be stupid enough to waste my money on it. My point is still valid.
That's because you are a showcase example.
You undoubtedly got better equipment, better testing, and better support. If only for the fact that now Alienware can say, "Look at this! Our stuff is used by a top university to teach your children how to do cool and important things!!"
Meanwhile, the regular consumers get screwed.
The product in the window is always in better shape than the one on the shelf.
Yes. They are.
Just because a small percentage of consumers are too stupid to know it, doesn't make them not overpriced.
You can build an exact copy of an Alienware laptop, minus the little alien head and flashy paint job, for $1800 LESS!
This is proven - http://www.legitreviews.com/article/228/1/
No... THIS is a Winnebago!
19" widescreen, Dual 7800 in SLI, "laptop"
You didn't watch the video did you?
Wright explicitly explains multiple times that the other creatures you come into contact with are created by OTHER PLAYERS. And the system plays them based on how the OTHER PLAYER created them and modified them.
Direct multiplayer? No.
But the other creatures you run into were created by people, and all behavior is based on how those people created them, modified them and whatever behavioral quirks the player gave them.
I predict massive losses of "real" productivity and family time for this game...
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http://www.pvponline.com/archive.php3?archive=200
As long as it is not more efficient than oil... otherwise they'll have to cut the funding and bury the results due to pressuring from Auto manufacturers and oil companies.
What?!?!
So the composition of said "campfire" being made of a pile of wood and possibly some flammable compound don't count as energy put in?
E=mc^2 all matter can be converted to energy.
Sounds like someone flunked basic physics.
The energy from a campfire doesn't come solely from the match.
Hell, I'd say you flunked basic common sense if you think that.
Funny... my internet comes from my cable company.
And that same cable company could give me Digital phone (which works without having broadband) if I wanted it.
The phone company (Verizon here) has no services in my house and gets no money from me.
but I did actually get a line added into my divorce decree that guaranteed me three days a week that I could get on the computer with my kids, via web cam.
I think we're going to be seeing a lot more of this in divorce papers. Especially if the parent with the kids moves across the country, such that personal visits are not practical.
On a related note, restraining orders are probably going to start having sections on internet contact, if they don't already. "I never came within 1000 yards of her, officer." "but you harassed her 4 hrs a day on AIM, off to jail"
But he's not even in Avenue Q... they have an actor PLAYING him as himself...
In the show I saw, it was an actRESS, even...
Still a damned good show.
Remember kids, the internet is for porn!
And if my having a BA in biology is any indication... He'll be back doing tech support in 2 years.
(I have said BA, and i've been doing various tech jobs for 7 years)
But did you get PAID???
If he ran out of your office with no indication of coming back... then you're quite the nice guy to run the job anyway.
And that's _before_ you drill into an abcessed tooth that has been decomposing happily for the past 2-3 months.
I was working on a network at a dentist's office on a day they're normally closed. They brought in a patient on a special appointment because he had the above problem. Less than 2 minutes after he started drilling, the entire office from lobby to back room smelled of DEATH. It was NASTY.
He and the nurse were taking regular breaks just so they could breathe.