Well, you're one of at least 4 (you, two other people who also made jokes about Intel on the first page, since I believe it's tradition to only read the first page, and me.)
I definitely wondered from the headline what danger Intel sharing information could possibly have (making computers more open to hardware-based viruses, perhaps?)
Hi, fellow KoLer! Though I knew about Super Meat Boy through my old OCRemix connections, so I knew that's what it would be about. Anyway, I'd argue KoL as a whole isn't really "meat-based", just its economy. But yay for KoL.
You can get a mobile authenticator for free. If you don't have an iPhone or any devices running Android, there's at least a couple unofficial PC ports of the mobile authenticator, too (obviously not as secure, if you run it on the same computer you're playing WoW on, but still way more secure than not having one at all.)
I say this as someone who thought having an authenticator sounded like way too much work, and who was going to hack my WoW account anyway? My WoW account got hacked (most likely password-guessed; I didn't put that secure a password on it either, cause it was "just a game"), and after having to deal with Blizzard's insanely busy support line... I put a more secure password on it and added an authenticator. (I have an Android-running mp3 player.)
Fun fact: to anyone who knows about The Game, any request to not think about [pretty much anything at all] will be converted into a request to not think about the game. I just lost.
At least in California, I believe you *aren't* actually required to have insurance - if you're rich enough to put away 35k into an account you can prove will not be used for anything other than to pay for car accidents, the dmv will let you drive without insurance. That is, after all, the American way (to be fair, it's the way just about everywhere): more choices the wealthier you are.
Well, the site I'm on, isn't *truly* private in the "you can't find it on google" sense - we're under no promise not to tell people what it's called, we're just under a promise not to actually invite anyone we don't trust. So there's never been a problem with activity. And there's never been a problem with content, at least not for what it focuses on (mostly newish movies and tv shows, though it does have some other stuff people feel like uploading). The neat thing is that there's an inherent incentive to upload new content: it's free ratio, since you're uploading content you never downloaded (from that tracker, which is all that matters). Shows I watch, new episodes generally appear within minutes after they've aired (often in both HD and non-HD formats).
If I got paid, I'd be happy too. I just got called last week, and while it was nice sitting around all day on Thursday reading a book instead of working, and I agree it would have been interesting had I actually been called to sit on a trial... work made me use sicktime. If I'd actually been called to sit on a trial, I would have run out of sicktime quite quickly, and I just wouldn't get paid. (And, $50 a day? It's 15, here. Might as well be nothing.)
I torrent things, and I feel pretty safe doing it: I just only use a small private tracker, the sort where copyright-sniffers wouldn't be given access even if they did know about it. Course, I had to be in the right place at the right time to get invited, myself, but still. Torrenting isn't inherently unsafe; just *public* torrenting.
Being that the vast majority of all SMS messages I've received have been spam... I'm not sure I'd want to go this far, as I have received maybe two or three legitimate text messages that I cared about the contents of, but it wouldn't bother me all that much if I couldn't receive texts. To be honest, this phone sounds pretty great. Though I generally just get my little sister's hand-me-down cell phones when she upgrades to the newest model because she cares about that sort of thing. "Free" is a powerful motivator.
As someone who's been sporadically harassed by two different groups, one for somebody else who shares my first and last name, and another for someone who presumably previously held my phone number... I say screw them all. And if they decide to look my mom up on facebook and harass her too... well, my mom's always been better at getting through to people, maybe she could convince them to stop it; I certainly haven't been able to.
On the other hand, if we perfected both this *and* cold storage technologies... assuming neither of them broke midway through the journey, it *would* be as if we had instant teleportation from both interior and exterior perspectives. Of course, even without that, it could still be used to transport inanimate objects "instantly" via robotic ship... I do, however, get the impression that this is one of those cool hypothetical ideas that would change everything if it worked, but probably never will.
Nifty. I honestly believed Kingdom of Loathing was the only MMO that understood the concept; cool to hear there's another (I've heard of Puzzle Pirates, but haven't ever actually played it). KoL definitely does do the same thing - 10 bucks gets you the current Item of the Month, which is generally extremely powerful, and which you can then either use, or sell in the in-game mall to someone who wants to buy it with in-game currency. (Some of the IotMs are bound to you once you've used it, some can be used and then sold again.) They also promise that if any IotM opens significant new zones to explore, players who don't own the IotM will always be able to purchase the ability to temporarily explore that content from those who do own it (also with in-game currency).
The way they did it, any profit they've lost from not forcing everyone to buy every item, is more than made up for by the people buying several of a given month's item to invest and sell later, when prices have gone up due to decreased supply. It's a fantastic system. (I've given them... quite a lot of money at this point.
If a doctor you've never heard of calls you up on your cell phone to tell you, I'm sorry, but you have cancer, and if you don't want to die at an early age, you should visit his office immediately and take these expensive pills he just happens to have, and you do it, then, yes, in fact, that makes you an idiot. It's not about having computer knowledge, it's about being excruciatingly gullible.
My mom was almost hit by one of these scams a couple years ago, but she had the good sense to ask me before clicking on it. My mom has *also* asked me about a couple *other* obviously-scams she was tempted to reply to, that had absolutely nothing to do with computers. (Other than that she could have googled them herself, I suppose, instead of asking me to do it.)
I hate the look of Skype 4. I hate the look of Skype 5. So I'm still using Skype 3. I just got a new computer; apparently Win7 x64 doesn't get along with the final release of Skype 3, so I went back to oldversion.com and grabbed the penultimate version instead, which worked.
I liked AIM back in the day, but they kept adding more ugly bloat and more ads everywhere, so at a certain point I just stopped letting it upgrade. I'm still running an AIM install from about 2004, and guess what? It still works great. I still have Office 2003 installed, too (with the compatibility pack to view 2007/2010 docs). Boom, no more ugly screen-realestate-eating ribbon. You can run XP's no-ribbon paint and wordpad in Win7, too - just copy the executables over from a different computer.
My point is, companies try to convince you that the only proper way to use their software is to upgrade every time they release a new version, but sometimes "upgrades"... aren't. So why not just use the pre-Oracle version you liked, until LibreOffice is up to your standards?
You were able to hack the real google marketplace into running on the Archos 5 for ages... but it's actually been officially supported for a few months, now.
I have one, too. It is, indeed, kind of buggy, and the UI's a bit weird. I've never seen it randomly reboot, but I *have* seen it go into sleep mode and refuse to come back out until it was hard-shutdown. But you can't complain about the lack of the marketplace anymore.
Where by "real life" I don't mean "not fictional", just "only doing things a real person could actually do": Dexter Morgan, Dark Defender. (I'm almost surprised we don't see more vigilante serial killer copycats, in the wake of that truly awesome show.;))
I finally upgraded to Win7 by virtue of buying a new computer a week ago. I've spent the last week tinkering to get it to work properly for my tastes (which, in the end, involved switching out the entire freaking file manager, in addition to several other things). Linux doesn't have a monopoly on that particular issue, sadly. Though perhaps releases happen more frequently than they do in Microsoft-land.
I'm a bit late to this, but for the record, "show with magic and robots (and magic robots) in which kids deal with real-life problems"... sounds a whole heck of a lot like the pitch for Buffy. Buffy was an excellent show. I'm not seeing the problem.
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Well, you're one of at least 4 (you, two other people who also made jokes about Intel on the first page, since I believe it's tradition to only read the first page, and me.)
I definitely wondered from the headline what danger Intel sharing information could possibly have (making computers more open to hardware-based viruses, perhaps?)
Libraries generally have computers with internet connections, so yes, we could.
Hi, fellow KoLer! Though I knew about Super Meat Boy through my old OCRemix connections, so I knew that's what it would be about. Anyway, I'd argue KoL as a whole isn't really "meat-based", just its economy. But yay for KoL.
There is. It's called BitTorrent. I haven't seen a commercial in my tv in a long time.
You can get a mobile authenticator for free. If you don't have an iPhone or any devices running Android, there's at least a couple unofficial PC ports of the mobile authenticator, too (obviously not as secure, if you run it on the same computer you're playing WoW on, but still way more secure than not having one at all.)
I say this as someone who thought having an authenticator sounded like way too much work, and who was going to hack my WoW account anyway? My WoW account got hacked (most likely password-guessed; I didn't put that secure a password on it either, cause it was "just a game"), and after having to deal with Blizzard's insanely busy support line... I put a more secure password on it and added an authenticator. (I have an Android-running mp3 player.)
Fun fact: to anyone who knows about The Game, any request to not think about [pretty much anything at all] will be converted into a request to not think about the game. I just lost.
No... Ontario is *in* California. It's near Riverside.
(I was also momentarily confused as to why California was suing.)
In Soviet Russia, and by Soviet Russia I mean the fourth episode of Dollhouse, Echo's personal phone remote-wiped *her*.
At least in California, I believe you *aren't* actually required to have insurance - if you're rich enough to put away 35k into an account you can prove will not be used for anything other than to pay for car accidents, the dmv will let you drive without insurance. That is, after all, the American way (to be fair, it's the way just about everywhere): more choices the wealthier you are.
Well, the site I'm on, isn't *truly* private in the "you can't find it on google" sense - we're under no promise not to tell people what it's called, we're just under a promise not to actually invite anyone we don't trust. So there's never been a problem with activity. And there's never been a problem with content, at least not for what it focuses on (mostly newish movies and tv shows, though it does have some other stuff people feel like uploading). The neat thing is that there's an inherent incentive to upload new content: it's free ratio, since you're uploading content you never downloaded (from that tracker, which is all that matters). Shows I watch, new episodes generally appear within minutes after they've aired (often in both HD and non-HD formats).
If I got paid, I'd be happy too. I just got called last week, and while it was nice sitting around all day on Thursday reading a book instead of working, and I agree it would have been interesting had I actually been called to sit on a trial... work made me use sicktime. If I'd actually been called to sit on a trial, I would have run out of sicktime quite quickly, and I just wouldn't get paid. (And, $50 a day? It's 15, here. Might as well be nothing.)
I torrent things, and I feel pretty safe doing it: I just only use a small private tracker, the sort where copyright-sniffers wouldn't be given access even if they did know about it. Course, I had to be in the right place at the right time to get invited, myself, but still. Torrenting isn't inherently unsafe; just *public* torrenting.
Being that the vast majority of all SMS messages I've received have been spam... I'm not sure I'd want to go this far, as I have received maybe two or three legitimate text messages that I cared about the contents of, but it wouldn't bother me all that much if I couldn't receive texts. To be honest, this phone sounds pretty great. Though I generally just get my little sister's hand-me-down cell phones when she upgrades to the newest model because she cares about that sort of thing. "Free" is a powerful motivator.
As someone who's been sporadically harassed by two different groups, one for somebody else who shares my first and last name, and another for someone who presumably previously held my phone number... I say screw them all. And if they decide to look my mom up on facebook and harass her too... well, my mom's always been better at getting through to people, maybe she could convince them to stop it; I certainly haven't been able to.
On the other hand, if we perfected both this *and* cold storage technologies... assuming neither of them broke midway through the journey, it *would* be as if we had instant teleportation from both interior and exterior perspectives. Of course, even without that, it could still be used to transport inanimate objects "instantly" via robotic ship... I do, however, get the impression that this is one of those cool hypothetical ideas that would change everything if it worked, but probably never will.
Nifty. I honestly believed Kingdom of Loathing was the only MMO that understood the concept; cool to hear there's another (I've heard of Puzzle Pirates, but haven't ever actually played it). KoL definitely does do the same thing - 10 bucks gets you the current Item of the Month, which is generally extremely powerful, and which you can then either use, or sell in the in-game mall to someone who wants to buy it with in-game currency. (Some of the IotMs are bound to you once you've used it, some can be used and then sold again.) They also promise that if any IotM opens significant new zones to explore, players who don't own the IotM will always be able to purchase the ability to temporarily explore that content from those who do own it (also with in-game currency).
The way they did it, any profit they've lost from not forcing everyone to buy every item, is more than made up for by the people buying several of a given month's item to invest and sell later, when prices have gone up due to decreased supply. It's a fantastic system. (I've given them... quite a lot of money at this point.
Nope, I thought the same thing - "console dev for Diablo-related concept"... wouldn't that just be another roguelike?
I'd totally buy a Blizzard roguelike.
If a doctor you've never heard of calls you up on your cell phone to tell you, I'm sorry, but you have cancer, and if you don't want to die at an early age, you should visit his office immediately and take these expensive pills he just happens to have, and you do it, then, yes, in fact, that makes you an idiot. It's not about having computer knowledge, it's about being excruciatingly gullible.
My mom was almost hit by one of these scams a couple years ago, but she had the good sense to ask me before clicking on it. My mom has *also* asked me about a couple *other* obviously-scams she was tempted to reply to, that had absolutely nothing to do with computers. (Other than that she could have googled them herself, I suppose, instead of asking me to do it.)
For appropriately large values of "edge", launching a paper airplane from the roof of my (3-story) apartment would be as accurate, too.
I hate the look of Skype 4. I hate the look of Skype 5. So I'm still using Skype 3. I just got a new computer; apparently Win7 x64 doesn't get along with the final release of Skype 3, so I went back to oldversion.com and grabbed the penultimate version instead, which worked.
I liked AIM back in the day, but they kept adding more ugly bloat and more ads everywhere, so at a certain point I just stopped letting it upgrade. I'm still running an AIM install from about 2004, and guess what? It still works great. I still have Office 2003 installed, too (with the compatibility pack to view 2007/2010 docs). Boom, no more ugly screen-realestate-eating ribbon. You can run XP's no-ribbon paint and wordpad in Win7, too - just copy the executables over from a different computer.
My point is, companies try to convince you that the only proper way to use their software is to upgrade every time they release a new version, but sometimes "upgrades"... aren't. So why not just use the pre-Oracle version you liked, until LibreOffice is up to your standards?
You were able to hack the real google marketplace into running on the Archos 5 for ages... but it's actually been officially supported for a few months, now.
I have one, too. It is, indeed, kind of buggy, and the UI's a bit weird. I've never seen it randomly reboot, but I *have* seen it go into sleep mode and refuse to come back out until it was hard-shutdown. But you can't complain about the lack of the marketplace anymore.
Where by "real life" I don't mean "not fictional", just "only doing things a real person could actually do": Dexter Morgan, Dark Defender. (I'm almost surprised we don't see more vigilante serial killer copycats, in the wake of that truly awesome show. ;))
I finally upgraded to Win7 by virtue of buying a new computer a week ago. I've spent the last week tinkering to get it to work properly for my tastes (which, in the end, involved switching out the entire freaking file manager, in addition to several other things). Linux doesn't have a monopoly on that particular issue, sadly. Though perhaps releases happen more frequently than they do in Microsoft-land.
I'm a bit late to this, but for the record, "show with magic and robots (and magic robots) in which kids deal with real-life problems"... sounds a whole heck of a lot like the pitch for Buffy. Buffy was an excellent show. I'm not seeing the problem.
No, that would be "sheikh". He means the thing Zelda will transform into in the next version of Smash Bros.