You, my friend, need Pith Helmet. The ruleset it provides out of the box has been great as far as I'm concerned, although you can tweak the hell out of things if you'd like...
Casinos have games in them, with people losing to the house all the time. Yet they are still profitable and people still come in the bus loads.
The big difference is that in a casino, people are there to try to win real money. Make a MMORPG where there are actual (legal) cash payouts and I guarantee it'll draw a different type of crowd than it currently does...
The combined company will continue to be committed to the needs of both the FlashPlayer and Adobe Reader users.
Combine this with the story the other day about dual-core systems running different processes on each core and we've got the logical conclusion -- your computer will still be bogged down because the Flash plugin will be running on one core with the Acrobat plugin on the other...
I bought a lite-on cd-rw drive a couple of years ago because everyone was going on about how they were great burners for the money. It burned fine for the first few months, then started having problems writing. This was fixed a few times by reflashing the firmware. Now, however, the thing doesn't even read/recognize discs at all...
Wow, after reading through all the comments posted in response to the parent so far, not a single one pointed out the fucking obvious. THESE FILES ARE USELESS WITHOUT GARAGEBAND. If you have Garageband, you already have a Mac, and hence, stuffit expander...Yeah yeah, don't feed the trolls...
It is absolutely true. I live in DC, too. When I first moved here and signed up with them I was having one or two day turnarounds. After about 6 months it lagged to the 6 days I mentioned above (that was the extreme - average was about 3-4 days). Blockbuster online's distro center is also in Gaithersburg, so you may want to consider them when Netflix starts lagging on you.
Short Answer - Tying the OS and hardware is a large part of the reason why things work so well on a Mac. Or conversely, the sheer number of parts that MS needs to support are a large part of the reason why Windows has many of the support problems it has...
No, I'm not. I'm talking about movies being in my queue that are listed as "available now" that they didn't bother sending out for 6 days after receiving the last one. There's the separate issue of different availability for different subscribers (even in the same household). I've also watched movies go from "available now" to "very long wait" in a matter of minutes.
Actually (sadly), I think it was added to the local list by someone here. There seems to be a very strong NBMS mentality here. Not to mention the MCSEs who don't have the slightest clue what they're doing...
I have no doubt that Blockbuster online will turn to absolute shit sometime soon. They've never been concerned about the customer. I figure when that time comes I'll go ahead and give GreenCine a try. Hopefully by that point they'll have more distribution centers (I live on the east coast). Or maybe I'll give Netflix another chance, or just dump the rental thing entirely for six months or so...
I couldn't care less if Netflix ends up dying. I gave up my subscription a few months ago when they decided to take 6 days to send out the next movie in my queue after receiving the last one. Artificial delay bullshit is the reason I listed when they asked why I was leaving. Since then I've joined Blockbuster online and am quite pleased. Smaller selection, but I now get two free game rental coupons a month. Considering those go for $6.99/each, it's really not a bad deal.
Is this really the case, are is it yet another attempt by corporations to subtly supress their employee's reading habits???
Well, being an employee of a company that uses WebSense's filtering product, there is absolutely nothing subtle about it. Hell, at one point linux.slashdot.org was blocked due to being a freeware/shareware distribution point (along with getfirefox.com - still blocked)! Of course this all comes down to how the company has set it up. And nevermind that our braindead IT department blocks webmail as a major security vector, but then has all of us running as admin, with improperly secured share points on many of the machines (earlier today I noticed that anyone can mount the C drive of the main gov't affairs machine here)...Alright, enough of my ranting for now. IE vulnerabilities grumble grumble grumble...
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You, my friend, need Pith Helmet. The ruleset it provides out of the box has been great as far as I'm concerned, although you can tweak the hell out of things if you'd like...
The next globalr war, if it ever happens, will start with a wave of pre-emptive infastructure hacks.
I guess it's already started...
Casinos have games in them, with people losing to the house all the time. Yet they are still profitable and people still come in the bus loads.
The big difference is that in a casino, people are there to try to win real money. Make a MMORPG where there are actual (legal) cash payouts and I guarantee it'll draw a different type of crowd than it currently does...
The combined company will continue to be committed to the needs of both the FlashPlayer and Adobe Reader users.
Combine this with the story the other day about dual-core systems running different processes on each core and we've got the logical conclusion -- your computer will still be bogged down because the Flash plugin will be running on one core with the Acrobat plugin on the other...
It probably means they'll sell Freehand off to Corel. This naturally means that in another 5-10 years Adobe will end up purchasing Corel. : p
Adobe did have their own Flash creation app for a while called LiveMotion.
I can't wait for the first accident report to come in because someone forget to fill it up...
Today's devices require the use of two hands; Microsoft wants to reduce this to one.
Who says porn doesn't drive innovation in the computer industry?
Seriously, the one time they could've used that category in a way that makes sense and they didn't...
I bought a lite-on cd-rw drive a couple of years ago because everyone was going on about how they were great burners for the money. It burned fine for the first few months, then started having problems writing. This was fixed a few times by reflashing the firmware. Now, however, the thing doesn't even read/recognize discs at all...
Wow, after reading through all the comments posted in response to the parent so far, not a single one pointed out the fucking obvious. THESE FILES ARE USELESS WITHOUT GARAGEBAND. If you have Garageband, you already have a Mac, and hence, stuffit expander...Yeah yeah, don't feed the trolls...
I don't actually notice any flickering from fluorescent bulbs, but an uncovered one will kick off a migraine in me in no time...
NBMS = nothing but microsoft
It's no more a violation of a social contract than having a popup blocker built into the browser...
MOD PARENT UP! Very cool housing search tool.
The one benefit with radio: You have a much better chance hearing a song you've never heard before.
Where do live that you have this bizarro-radio?
It is absolutely true. I live in DC, too. When I first moved here and signed up with them I was having one or two day turnarounds. After about 6 months it lagged to the 6 days I mentioned above (that was the extreme - average was about 3-4 days). Blockbuster online's distro center is also in Gaithersburg, so you may want to consider them when Netflix starts lagging on you.
Short Answer - Tying the OS and hardware is a large part of the reason why things work so well on a Mac. Or conversely, the sheer number of parts that MS needs to support are a large part of the reason why Windows has many of the support problems it has...
No, I'm not. I'm talking about movies being in my queue that are listed as "available now" that they didn't bother sending out for 6 days after receiving the last one. There's the separate issue of different availability for different subscribers (even in the same household). I've also watched movies go from "available now" to "very long wait" in a matter of minutes.
Does the online WSJ sub include access to any sort of backissue archive or anything? Does that have anything to do with their increase in subscribers?
Actually (sadly), I think it was added to the local list by someone here. There seems to be a very strong NBMS mentality here. Not to mention the MCSEs who don't have the slightest clue what they're doing...
I have no doubt that Blockbuster online will turn to absolute shit sometime soon. They've never been concerned about the customer. I figure when that time comes I'll go ahead and give GreenCine a try. Hopefully by that point they'll have more distribution centers (I live on the east coast). Or maybe I'll give Netflix another chance, or just dump the rental thing entirely for six months or so...
I couldn't care less if Netflix ends up dying. I gave up my subscription a few months ago when they decided to take 6 days to send out the next movie in my queue after receiving the last one. Artificial delay bullshit is the reason I listed when they asked why I was leaving. Since then I've joined Blockbuster online and am quite pleased. Smaller selection, but I now get two free game rental coupons a month. Considering those go for $6.99/each, it's really not a bad deal.
Too bad I can't see the site...
Your organization's Internet use policy restricts access to this web page at this time.
Reason:
The Websense category "Tasteless" is filtered.
Is this really the case, are is it yet another attempt by corporations to subtly supress their employee's reading habits???
Well, being an employee of a company that uses WebSense's filtering product, there is absolutely nothing subtle about it. Hell, at one point linux.slashdot.org was blocked due to being a freeware/shareware distribution point (along with getfirefox.com - still blocked)! Of course this all comes down to how the company has set it up. And nevermind that our braindead IT department blocks webmail as a major security vector, but then has all of us running as admin, with improperly secured share points on many of the machines (earlier today I noticed that anyone can mount the C drive of the main gov't affairs machine here)...Alright, enough of my ranting for now. IE vulnerabilities grumble grumble grumble...