I made themfb.com (now themfb.net) back in the day, it was very well thought out. But there is no reason to even bother anymore. Sure you can do a lot better job content wise than the big guys, but when someone goes to google and types in mechwarrior or whatnot, they are going to get the super mega dupe sites that are low on content, high on reg fees, but look really fancy!
The only site that I still know of thats completeley fan run that gets almost all traffic for the game is www.mektek.net which NEARLY owns the mechawarrior online community with a small bit in other sites.
I helped that site come to being, and I am still glad it hasnt let itself get bought out. Gamespy made a big bid for all their IP, and luckily they didnt cave and they are better for it.
All of those things have been done by others. Vista isnt exciting because it doesnt bring anything NEW to the table that cant be done with moderate interface changes that wont require a 2 gig upgrade for your Ram.
The browser is litterally COPYING another browser that was copying opera.
The media player? You can find a media player specifically tailored to your tastes, and it will work just fine and be nicely skinned. What are they going to do... make it more skinnable? WTF?
Hotmail? I got Gmail;_) People already can get most of what they want, and HOTMAIL has been covered.
MSN Search hmmm, I think I will google info on that, it might be interesting.
I essentially agree with you, but there are some things I do not think are being taken into account.
Infrastructure. The United States is really "spread out" compaired to the countries mentioned (with exception of Canada), and Canada operates under a different economic model.
The infrastructure is hard to place down, and hard to justify the expenditure without high payback rates on the service. Take Kansas City for example, the city is very spread out, you have to lay miles of infrastructure to get to small groups of people, then go another mile or 2 or 3 or 4 etc... to get to the next group, the density is only slightly more than rural communities in some of the places that are dubbed as being in the "greater kansas city area"
THough I do think the cost is extremely expensive for the consumers, I think some of the cost is definately justified, also considering the cost of repair when your repair person may have to drive 20 miles to get to a customer.
Hmm, My ass wasnt particularly making any noise that I know of.
This will not kill small business, even though it is a blatant attempt at tax revenue, people that give their items over for consignment will have one more avenue to attack those that take advantage of the situation.
I think this is a good idea. These individuals are running an auctioning business by taking peoples items for consignment. As long as it does not spread to those just selling their own private goods, this seems like an incredibly good idea.
It provides protections to the people who give their goods over for sale, as well as provides a link to the individual that is selling, and a person can prove that they are a bonded seller as well.
Obviously the classes would have to change slightly for internet retailers, mentioning talking fast is sort of moot if this were to go ahead.
Shouldnt the labels be paying google for the advertising, not google paying them to advertise? Google doesnt make any money, intrinsicly, by advertising. They get money from those that they advertise FOR.
SO, if the labels wanted money from the adds, then Google could just drop the adverts that were music related.
There is an ebook reader called the Rebel that is simplistic like this, but it costs 99 bucks or so. I really wanted to get into ebooks but I could find no way to make it simple. In the end I wantd something I could use plain text documents on, because at the time i also wanted to use it for carrying NOTES! Think about it, having class notes at your hand for every class that you have typed them in for without having to dig through your backpack.
I thought this would be simple, and after weeks of effort came to the rebel, unfortunately it lacked the ability to be cheap!
Find individual on-line competitions first, if you are good in those, then start looking to were major lan gaming events are being held and getting a plane ticket.
If you want to see how good you are at a specific game, try joining on online league like the CPL and then see if you can get into their top tier leagues. If you cant, then you probably arent good enough to play at a major lan event where you have to invest a lot of money to play.
Having played games at the high level, all it takes is joining and winning small sponsored tourneys until you get invitations or are able to get into the large tourneys through some kind of lower level speed tourney.
This isnt insightful, but its quite obvious that your a dick. I know some real dicks, and even when they are right, no one wants to hear them. Maybe you are right, perhaps your not, but because your such a dick about it, who cares?
Penny Arcade has FLARE, and the flare exudes into other realms.
How many Sluggy expos have you been to? How many Childs Play drives to help children have you seen?
This coupled with the fact that penny-arcade is essentially a great editorial page coupled with a comic that is, usually, intwined to the comic itself makes it good.
You can read the front page, find out interesting things, and then find a comic that is related to that page, and in some ways related too tightly in that it does not stand on its own.
Many times the comics are unrelated, but in there own are comedy gold. See the 8-29 strip, i mean its JESUS talking about the REVOLUTION man.
Now that this has a sidebar, will this replace the functionality that many seek with programs such as Samurize, and object desktop?
Some of the plug-ins created do what I use samurize to monitor for already, now if they could make a reliable plug-in that can un-obtrusively track wi-fi signal strength I would be happy.
You sir are not versed in the fact that firearms were the space age weapons of the day. Requiring funding from the military in massive orders of magnitude to increase their effectiveness.
The willingness to allow them to threaten your life and cause you to live in fear is what threatens freedom. Not the threat of death itself.
The fact that you may feel your life is under threat, and you allow that fear to control you, is what has caused the kind of bullshit you just posted.
Security does not ensure freedom, when that security comes at the PRICE of freedom. Terrorists gained a whole hearted victory by showing American that it was too weak to stand up to terrorist ideology on its own terms.
The patriot act was an act of fear, it was a victory for terrorism as a tactic, it showed the world that 20 highly determined men can bring the United States to its knees and give up the very principles it was founded upon out of fear.
On July 21st we were shown that this victory was whole and complete, and they defeated the United States from an ideological standpoint with a stark thoroughness.
The United States did not buckle so easily when the same goals were intended by Timothy McVeigh, because at that time there was a strong beleif in American beleifs and values being strong enough to overcome such things without stripping the rights of the American people. Unfortunately our government is weaker now when it comes to protecting the American people, and neither political side is exempt from that statement.
Even though this is a late response, there are some major flaws with what you are posting.
1. You assume that someone has Microsoft anti spyware installed.
2. Its not integral to the Internet Explorer Application.
3. The other methods posted involve knowing the microsoft operating system in depth.
Firefox has none of these problems, and it does not judge based on spyware, since the applications isntalled are already whitelisted, it would be difficult to argue that what you are getting is spyware, and if you are unsure, you can easily uninstall it.
Firefoxes management deals strictly with interaction within firefox.
That is incredibly uninformed. IE can run Browser Helper Objects, and they can (many times) be installed completely silently. A cleverly written BHO can steal all information you are entering into your computer, even if it is unrelated to actual browsing, depending how clever the person is in writing it. They are a pain to uninstall as well. Extensions for firefox are uninstallible from a menu, and they are whitelisted before they ever get to you, so that you can avoid some of the fly by installs that BHOS enjoy.
So, what is the refresh rate on the paper, how long does it take to completely go from one image to the next? Would it benefit from some kind of algorithm that determined the minimum amount of pixels needed to change it?
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I made themfb.com (now themfb.net) back in the day, it was very well thought out. But there is no reason to even bother anymore. Sure you can do a lot better job content wise than the big guys, but when someone goes to google and types in mechwarrior or whatnot, they are going to get the super mega dupe sites that are low on content, high on reg fees, but look really fancy!
The only site that I still know of thats completeley fan run that gets almost all traffic for the game is www.mektek.net which NEARLY owns the mechawarrior online community with a small bit in other sites.
I helped that site come to being, and I am still glad it hasnt let itself get bought out. Gamespy made a big bid for all their IP, and luckily they didnt cave and they are better for it.
All of those things have been done by others. Vista isnt exciting because it doesnt bring anything NEW to the table that cant be done with moderate interface changes that wont require a 2 gig upgrade for your Ram.
;_) People already can get most of what they want, and HOTMAIL has been covered.
The browser is litterally COPYING another browser that was copying opera.
The media player? You can find a media player specifically tailored to your tastes, and it will work just fine and be nicely skinned. What are they going to do... make it more skinnable? WTF?
Hotmail? I got Gmail
MSN Search hmmm, I think I will google info on that, it might be interesting.
I essentially agree with you, but there are some things I do not think are being taken into account.
Infrastructure. The United States is really "spread out" compaired to the countries mentioned (with exception of Canada), and Canada operates under a different economic model.
The infrastructure is hard to place down, and hard to justify the expenditure without high payback rates on the service. Take Kansas City for example, the city is very spread out, you have to lay miles of infrastructure to get to small groups of people, then go another mile or 2 or 3 or 4 etc... to get to the next group, the density is only slightly more than rural communities in some of the places that are dubbed as being in the "greater kansas city area"
THough I do think the cost is extremely expensive for the consumers, I think some of the cost is definately justified, also considering the cost of repair when your repair person may have to drive 20 miles to get to a customer.
Hmm, My ass wasnt particularly making any noise that I know of.
This will not kill small business, even though it is a blatant attempt at tax revenue, people that give their items over for consignment will have one more avenue to attack those that take advantage of the situation.
I think this is a good idea. These individuals are running an auctioning business by taking peoples items for consignment. As long as it does not spread to those just selling their own private goods, this seems like an incredibly good idea.
It provides protections to the people who give their goods over for sale, as well as provides a link to the individual that is selling, and a person can prove that they are a bonded seller as well.
Obviously the classes would have to change slightly for internet retailers, mentioning talking fast is sort of moot if this were to go ahead.
Shouldnt the labels be paying google for the advertising, not google paying them to advertise? Google doesnt make any money, intrinsicly, by advertising. They get money from those that they advertise FOR.
SO, if the labels wanted money from the adds, then Google could just drop the adverts that were music related.
Some wierd logic there.
different CSS themes?
My favorite is "Team Killing Fucktard" thus giving credence to the context argument!
There is an ebook reader called the Rebel that is simplistic like this, but it costs 99 bucks or so. I really wanted to get into ebooks but I could find no way to make it simple. In the end I wantd something I could use plain text documents on, because at the time i also wanted to use it for carrying NOTES! Think about it, having class notes at your hand for every class that you have typed them in for without having to dig through your backpack.
I thought this would be simple, and after weeks of effort came to the rebel, unfortunately it lacked the ability to be cheap!
Find individual on-line competitions first, if you are good in those, then start looking to were major lan gaming events are being held and getting a plane ticket.
If you want to see how good you are at a specific game, try joining on online league like the CPL and then see if you can get into their top tier leagues. If you cant, then you probably arent good enough to play at a major lan event where you have to invest a lot of money to play.
Having played games at the high level, all it takes is joining and winning small sponsored tourneys until you get invitations or are able to get into the large tourneys through some kind of lower level speed tourney.
This isnt insightful, but its quite obvious that your a dick. I know some real dicks, and even when they are right, no one wants to hear them. Maybe you are right, perhaps your not, but because your such a dick about it, who cares?
Penny Arcade has FLARE, and the flare exudes into other realms.
;_)
How many Sluggy expos have you been to? How many Childs Play drives to help children have you seen?
This coupled with the fact that penny-arcade is essentially a great editorial page coupled with a comic that is, usually, intwined to the comic itself makes it good.
You can read the front page, find out interesting things, and then find a comic that is related to that page, and in some ways related too tightly in that it does not stand on its own.
Many times the comics are unrelated, but in there own are comedy gold. See the 8-29 strip, i mean its JESUS talking about the REVOLUTION man.
Good stuff
Maybe they will make an Ipod Thin Mini. Shaped like a Mini... but thin. l;-)
To be fair those were for the war in North Korea, the president didnt expect many casulties in this war.
Now that this has a sidebar, will this replace the functionality that many seek with programs such as Samurize, and object desktop?
Some of the plug-ins created do what I use samurize to monitor for already, now if they could make a reliable plug-in that can un-obtrusively track wi-fi signal strength I would be happy.
You sir are not versed in the fact that firearms were the space age weapons of the day. Requiring funding from the military in massive orders of magnitude to increase their effectiveness.
The willingness to allow them to threaten your life and cause you to live in fear is what threatens freedom. Not the threat of death itself.
The fact that you may feel your life is under threat, and you allow that fear to control you, is what has caused the kind of bullshit you just posted.
Security does not ensure freedom, when that security comes at the PRICE of freedom. Terrorists gained a whole hearted victory by showing American that it was too weak to stand up to terrorist ideology on its own terms.
The patriot act was an act of fear, it was a victory for terrorism as a tactic, it showed the world that 20 highly determined men can bring the United States to its knees and give up the very principles it was founded upon out of fear.
On July 21st we were shown that this victory was whole and complete, and they defeated the United States from an ideological standpoint with a stark thoroughness.
The United States did not buckle so easily when the same goals were intended by Timothy McVeigh, because at that time there was a strong beleif in American beleifs and values being strong enough to overcome such things without stripping the rights of the American people. Unfortunately our government is weaker now when it comes to protecting the American people, and neither political side is exempt from that statement.
Even though this is a late response, there are some major flaws with what you are posting.
1. You assume that someone has Microsoft anti spyware installed.
2. Its not integral to the Internet Explorer Application.
3. The other methods posted involve knowing the microsoft operating system in depth.
Firefox has none of these problems, and it does not judge based on spyware, since the applications isntalled are already whitelisted, it would be difficult to argue that what you are getting is spyware, and if you are unsure, you can easily uninstall it.
Firefoxes management deals strictly with interaction within firefox.
That is incredibly uninformed. IE can run Browser Helper Objects, and they can (many times) be installed completely silently. A cleverly written BHO can steal all information you are entering into your computer, even if it is unrelated to actual browsing, depending how clever the person is in writing it. They are a pain to uninstall as well. Extensions for firefox are uninstallible from a menu, and they are whitelisted before they ever get to you, so that you can avoid some of the fly by installs that BHOS enjoy.
But china has Americas balls in the vice to speak, and American cant afford to stop buying from them.
Isnt life grand!
So, what is the refresh rate on the paper, how long does it take to completely go from one image to the next? Would it benefit from some kind of algorithm that determined the minimum amount of pixels needed to change it?
What kind of resolution does it get?
Lots of questions.
You would have been my personal Jesus in high school if that was implemented then ;-(
I agree, Bulgaria cant be that bad.
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