Between this honest (and correctly spelled!) posting as promised, and the new CSS update, my faith in Slashdot is starting to rise a bit. I'll be back more often, and may even start Medamodding more. Keep it up:)
Oh, also, just reread your post, and with Sprint at least, you get:
- Your very own dynamic IP
- No ports blocked
- Notification of calls coming in (well, on my phone)
- No time limitation
However, AFAIK Sprint doesn't offer any service plan like Verizon does; with Sprint, you buy a USB cord (get one that also charges the phone from USB) from a 3rd party and use it, and they don't mind as long as you're not a bandwidth hog (this is what I heard from the forums I searched, and it rings true with me.)
(Mods can ignore this post, don't need karma and it'll be seen under my other without + )
It works; the latency is bad, but not as bad as satellite. I get about 450ms ping to most servers in my country (US).
The bandwidth is limited by two things: Network throughput and network load. I believe that the fastest (non-major-city) cell phones go up to 155kbps (I get 15.2 max kBps.) I'm using Sprint because, when I researched it a year ago, they and Verizon had the fastest networks for this sort of thing. Network load just means that if there are lots of people on the same tower as you, your connection will not run at full speed. I've rarely seen that happen with mine.
Run a search on different types of cell networks and make sure you have a signal with a fast one. I used to use Nextel, and it was like 1/5 the speed of dialup with 1000msec latency and downtime. That was on the old analog network.
Also, you know you can buy powered signal boosters for every type of signal? If you're in the boonies and want more signal, you might get one of those.
Email me if you want, put slashdot into the subject:)
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Troll post. There's no way to tell what's stored on your side.
I have you on my red list, which means I was pretty certain you were trolling at some point, but thanks for the reply, and sorry I've been kinda short.
I'm interested in anything related to computing; mostly I code games, and while I find the game section articles here interesting (mostly the comments in them, actually,) I learn a lot from the comments in any stories that catch my interest.
So any site or any number of sites centered around tech, with a fair number of comments per story, and a moderation system, is what I'm looking for. I haven't run across any like that except Slashdot, but I haven't searched, either.
Slashdot IS a damn troll itself, for continuing to post that lamer's blog plugs. I am going to actively begin searching out another tech site with comments; I like a lot of the comments here at/., but the editors SUCK.
A "thank you" goes out to the author of this article, from me. At my college, we have two different version of OS history: The one where Windows was the first real OS, and the one where Linux is the newbie version of the first real OS, which is really UNIX. (note this was sarcasm)
Those are the two versions our Win32/UNIX teachers preach. Neither bothers to look at the facts or the history of any other OS. *growl*
I'll be showing this to some of them who aren't totally hopeless.
It still was my favorite game, too. I say 'was' because I agree that the game is ruined, and I no longer play...
I've played a few of the offline servers; I can give you advice on which ones are fun if you'd like. Also, I'm working with a team of people at my college on making a game with similar *principles* to UO (not similar story, gameplay, graphics, or anything.)
I'd love to hear what you liked about UO in the old days (so I can make sure I capture it in our game!) Shoot me an email if you want to be involved:) Put "slashdot" in the subject line
You sound like you enjoyed the PvE aspect of UO too...I was there purely for the PvP;)
The PvP went downhill later on, and I don't play anymore because it got to be too lame. But it was a great game!
You got me laughing about the tower - did you ever see Crazy Joe's comics about camping decaying houses? It always sounded like a lot of fun to me (but I was busy pvping...)
"It's a chance for us to consider some of the moments in our lives as game players that made us feel strongly about something that, in the grand scheme of things, is probably pretty trivial."
For me it's an opposite experience, but still applicable to the article's request, I think:)
I was playing UO, which is an MMORPG, set in a 2d top-down view of the world. I was in a town called Bucaneer's Den, fighting evil players around the town, and having a good time. Sometimes it can be frustrating fighting people, though; frustration and cursing are trademarks of the town.
Anyway, I was mounted on my horse, standing by a bridge, when suddenly more than three people starting casting damage spells at me! I ran, of course - northeast, toward a cluster of buildings I thought I could hide behind.
I ran behind one of the buildings (in 2d,) and two of my pursuers gave up the chase. But one kept following me, ripping around the building's corners toward me. I ran to the other side of the building.
For *45 minutes* this guy and I dodged around the building, me staying on the far side of it away from him whenever he moved toward me. We were both really determined; he could have given up, and I could have run away, but the chase was too fun. Every few minutes he would get a crossbow shot off on me, but I'd be gone around that building's corner before it really hurt much, and healed up by the next time he could shoot.
It was so hilarious that we both spent so much time playing around that silly building, that I was giggling after 30 minutes, and at 45 minutes I said "LOL" with my character and came out in to the open. He started to kill me, then stopped before I died, and said "lol" too:-P
We both thought it was great, funny and fun, and became friends - what an experience! What I took from it was that while I'm a hardcore gamer who takes games pretty seriously, sometimes interacting with people in a sketchy virtual world can show how trivial the whole thing is-
This may be a dupe post by the time I write it, but why would Halo 2 get an award? It seemed to me and most of the people I've talked to that it's just a slight improvement on Halo...and there was nothing revolutionary about the gameplay.
Unless they're just focusing on the financial success:
"Halo 2 made $125 million on its first day of release. By contrast, the biggest opening weekend in film history was Spider-Man, which netted a mere $114 million over three days."
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Known troll, see parent's posting history.
I'd like to know what mods modded up an anecdotal post that had no collaboration, from a troll with a history like that!
As far as anecdotes - 24k of RAM on Win2k, opening 20 new blank tabs barely increases the amount of RAM it uses.
There are commercial repeaters that are fairly cheap you can use. It depends on what you consider "cheap"...
I completely agree with the poster Kehl above, we need more info! We don't even know what kind of cell phone you have.
Since the question is so vague, all I can provide is a vague answer: To get started, Google "Cell Phone Repeater" and Froogle it to see what kind of items and prices you're looking at.
And you're right the poster was planning ahead, but there was no need to make it Republican/Democrat. Both comments you linked talked about "Bush" and the "Bush administration"; in my opinion, dividing it into parties is useless (since party definitions are so vague and candidates vary widely.)
He was defending the Republican party, when really he needed to defend Bush to be effective in the main thread. Luckily I think we've avoided a useless party-war thread here...
Um, why did you already divide this into a Republican/Democrat debate? No one else has done any bashing yet, even the article submitter didn't (amazingly.)
What really bothered me about your post, though, was this:
"1. In the last 15 years, the majority of most of these scientist's time has been spend under a Democratic president;"
What, can we all just pick an arbitrary number of past years, whichever happens to overlap the point we want to push? Try 4 years? 20?:-P
Agree completely. You can rarely pick away enough of the amazing amount of junk people amass on their installations. I usually just take a hard drive, hook it up on an IDE cable in their computer (firewire etc. I can do too, but everyone has IDE ports,) and copy everything onto the drive as a backup.
Then wipe, fresh install, give them as much quality freeware as they'll accept, scan and clean the backup (anti-virus and anti-malware,) then copy everything back for them.
This takes between 1-3 hours and is 100% reliable in fixing *all* of their OS corruption problems. It can also be done in a housecall (family mostly, doh) or with their box at the shop.
1) True, though it would probably have been too complicated to put up on the subject line at Ebay. When I first saw the story here, I assumed he would be selling in a normal fasion on Ebay, not flaunting the Red Cross thing.
2) If he said in an auction that the money went straight to Red Cross (would have to check his wording carefully,) yeah, that *is* deceptive, despite his being a nice guy.
3) The money had to go to him because of the (clever) way in which he collected the game gold. The game gold was anonymously dropped by people at his house locations; so he is left with a bunch of game gold. He sells that game gold (for cash...unless Ebay's system lets you sell things with the money going to charity?) And then he uses the money to donate (or refund himself for his donation.)
*shrug* He probably didn't go about it quite right. I'd be suspicious of him too, except I've 'known' him for too long...seen pics of his family on vacation, know people who know his address, etc.
I know why. Also I used to play UO, and this guy was well known within the community even back then, and known to be a good (and real) person.
He's purposefully collecting the money himself because he *already* donated $3000 of his own to charity, and is just reimbursing himself. Given what I know about him, and that people know him in RL, I'm inclined to trust him. He also has a scan of a receipt. On his site, he says:
"Forth, I put my money where my faith is. I have already donated $3,000, while sitting on a virtual nest egg of $1,500. Here is a scan of my (link)printed receipt from Red Cross Website(/link). In a month I can post the credit card bill. Click on the image to enlarge it if you like. If these auctions net more than $3,000 then I will make another donation. If we don't make $3,000 - the remainder is my personal donation."
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Between this honest (and correctly spelled!) posting as promised, and the new CSS update, my faith in Slashdot is starting to rise a bit. I'll be back more often, and may even start Medamodding more. Keep it up :)
[my friend-who-is-a-girl]: kilts are hawt!
I can tell you why - because Microsoft is cheap. Makes me glad I'm not a console guy...
Parent is a troll. The AC reply is correct.
What's wrong, I'm not sure. I could be apathy, or something more scary like this (mercury in immunity shots.)
way to not understand sarcasm!
Oh, also, just reread your post, and with Sprint at least, you get:
- Your very own dynamic IP
- No ports blocked
- Notification of calls coming in (well, on my phone)
- No time limitation
However, AFAIK Sprint doesn't offer any service plan like Verizon does; with Sprint, you buy a USB cord (get one that also charges the phone from USB) from a 3rd party and use it, and they don't mind as long as you're not a bandwidth hog (this is what I heard from the forums I searched, and it rings true with me.)
(Mods can ignore this post, don't need karma and it'll be seen under my other without + )
It works; the latency is bad, but not as bad as satellite. I get about 450ms ping to most servers in my country (US).
:)
The bandwidth is limited by two things: Network throughput and network load. I believe that the fastest (non-major-city) cell phones go up to 155kbps (I get 15.2 max kBps.) I'm using Sprint because, when I researched it a year ago, they and Verizon had the fastest networks for this sort of thing. Network load just means that if there are lots of people on the same tower as you, your connection will not run at full speed. I've rarely seen that happen with mine.
Run a search on different types of cell networks and make sure you have a signal with a fast one. I used to use Nextel, and it was like 1/5 the speed of dialup with 1000msec latency and downtime. That was on the old analog network.
Also, you know you can buy powered signal boosters for every type of signal? If you're in the boonies and want more signal, you might get one of those.
Email me if you want, put slashdot into the subject
Troll post. There's no way to tell what's stored on your side.
"A much easier to execute Denial-of-Service would be to slash the tires, doncha think? Only takes about 45 seconds to get to all four of 'em,..."
:)
Well, yeah, except that one DOS unit in a parking garage that contained 10 bluetooth cars, could disable all 10, and is not detectable.
I have you on my red list, which means I was pretty certain you were trolling at some point, but thanks for the reply, and sorry I've been kinda short.
I'm interested in anything related to computing; mostly I code games, and while I find the game section articles here interesting (mostly the comments in them, actually,) I learn a lot from the comments in any stories that catch my interest.
So any site or any number of sites centered around tech, with a fair number of comments per story, and a moderation system, is what I'm looking for. I haven't run across any like that except Slashdot, but I haven't searched, either.
Screw that: Another Roland Piquepaille article.
/., but the editors SUCK.
Slashdot IS a damn troll itself, for continuing to post that lamer's blog plugs. I am going to actively begin searching out another tech site with comments; I like a lot of the comments here at
A "thank you" goes out to the author of this article, from me. At my college, we have two different version of OS history: The one where Windows was the first real OS, and the one where Linux is the newbie version of the first real OS, which is really UNIX. (note this was sarcasm)
Those are the two versions our Win32/UNIX teachers preach. Neither bothers to look at the facts or the history of any other OS. *growl*
I'll be showing this to some of them who aren't totally hopeless.
It still was my favorite game, too. I say 'was' because I agree that the game is ruined, and I no longer play...
:) Put "slashdot" in the subject line
I've played a few of the offline servers; I can give you advice on which ones are fun if you'd like. Also, I'm working with a team of people at my college on making a game with similar *principles* to UO (not similar story, gameplay, graphics, or anything.)
I'd love to hear what you liked about UO in the old days (so I can make sure I capture it in our game!) Shoot me an email if you want to be involved
You sound like you enjoyed the PvE aspect of UO too...I was there purely for the PvP ;)
The PvP went downhill later on, and I don't play anymore because it got to be too lame. But it was a great game!
You got me laughing about the tower - did you ever see Crazy Joe's comics about camping decaying houses? It always sounded like a lot of fun to me (but I was busy pvping...)
"It's a chance for us to consider some of the moments in our lives as game players that made us feel strongly about something that, in the grand scheme of things, is probably pretty trivial."
:)
:-P
For me it's an opposite experience, but still applicable to the article's request, I think
I was playing UO, which is an MMORPG, set in a 2d top-down view of the world. I was in a town called Bucaneer's Den, fighting evil players around the town, and having a good time. Sometimes it can be frustrating fighting people, though; frustration and cursing are trademarks of the town.
Anyway, I was mounted on my horse, standing by a bridge, when suddenly more than three people starting casting damage spells at me! I ran, of course - northeast, toward a cluster of buildings I thought I could hide behind.
I ran behind one of the buildings (in 2d,) and two of my pursuers gave up the chase. But one kept following me, ripping around the building's corners toward me. I ran to the other side of the building.
For *45 minutes* this guy and I dodged around the building, me staying on the far side of it away from him whenever he moved toward me. We were both really determined; he could have given up, and I could have run away, but the chase was too fun. Every few minutes he would get a crossbow shot off on me, but I'd be gone around that building's corner before it really hurt much, and healed up by the next time he could shoot.
It was so hilarious that we both spent so much time playing around that silly building, that I was giggling after 30 minutes, and at 45 minutes I said "LOL" with my character and came out in to the open. He started to kill me, then stopped before I died, and said "lol" too
We both thought it was great, funny and fun, and became friends - what an experience! What I took from it was that while I'm a hardcore gamer who takes games pretty seriously, sometimes interacting with people in a sketchy virtual world can show how trivial the whole thing is-
-Sahrs (Sonoma UO)
For the curious, some more info on Strawberry:
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Copies:
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This may be a dupe post by the time I write it, but why would Halo 2 get an award? It seemed to me and most of the people I've talked to that it's just a slight improvement on Halo...and there was nothing revolutionary about the gameplay.
Unless they're just focusing on the financial success:
"Halo 2 made $125 million on its first day of release. By contrast, the biggest opening weekend in film history was Spider-Man, which netted a mere $114 million over three days."
Known troll, see parent's posting history.
I'd like to know what mods modded up an anecdotal post that had no collaboration, from a troll with a history like that!
As far as anecdotes - 24k of RAM on Win2k, opening 20 new blank tabs barely increases the amount of RAM it uses.
There are commercial repeaters that are fairly cheap you can use. It depends on what you consider "cheap"...
I completely agree with the poster Kehl above, we need more info! We don't even know what kind of cell phone you have.
Since the question is so vague, all I can provide is a vague answer: To get started, Google "Cell Phone Repeater" and Froogle it to see what kind of items and prices you're looking at.
Agree with your last point.
And you're right the poster was planning ahead, but there was no need to make it Republican/Democrat. Both comments you linked talked about "Bush" and the "Bush administration"; in my opinion, dividing it into parties is useless (since party definitions are so vague and candidates vary widely.)
He was defending the Republican party, when really he needed to defend Bush to be effective in the main thread. Luckily I think we've avoided a useless party-war thread here...
Um, why did you already divide this into a Republican/Democrat debate? No one else has done any bashing yet, even the article submitter didn't (amazingly.)
:-P
What really bothered me about your post, though, was this:
"1. In the last 15 years, the majority of most of these scientist's time has been spend under a Democratic president;"
What, can we all just pick an arbitrary number of past years, whichever happens to overlap the point we want to push? Try 4 years? 20?
Thanks for the interesting tidbit though.
Agree completely. You can rarely pick away enough of the amazing amount of junk people amass on their installations. I usually just take a hard drive, hook it up on an IDE cable in their computer (firewire etc. I can do too, but everyone has IDE ports,) and copy everything onto the drive as a backup.
Then wipe, fresh install, give them as much quality freeware as they'll accept, scan and clean the backup (anti-virus and anti-malware,) then copy everything back for them.
This takes between 1-3 hours and is 100% reliable in fixing *all* of their OS corruption problems. It can also be done in a housecall (family mostly, doh) or with their box at the shop.
1) True, though it would probably have been too complicated to put up on the subject line at Ebay. When I first saw the story here, I assumed he would be selling in a normal fasion on Ebay, not flaunting the Red Cross thing.
2) If he said in an auction that the money went straight to Red Cross (would have to check his wording carefully,) yeah, that *is* deceptive, despite his being a nice guy.
3) The money had to go to him because of the (clever) way in which he collected the game gold. The game gold was anonymously dropped by people at his house locations; so he is left with a bunch of game gold. He sells that game gold (for cash...unless Ebay's system lets you sell things with the money going to charity?) And then he uses the money to donate (or refund himself for his donation.)
*shrug* He probably didn't go about it quite right. I'd be suspicious of him too, except I've 'known' him for too long...seen pics of his family on vacation, know people who know his address, etc.
I know why. Also I used to play UO, and this guy was well known within the community even back then, and known to be a good (and real) person.
He's purposefully collecting the money himself because he *already* donated $3000 of his own to charity, and is just reimbursing himself. Given what I know about him, and that people know him in RL, I'm inclined to trust him. He also has a scan of a receipt. On his site, he says:
"Forth, I put my money where my faith is. I have already donated $3,000, while sitting on a virtual nest egg of $1,500. Here is a scan of my (link)printed receipt from Red Cross Website(/link). In a month I can post the credit card bill. Click on the image to enlarge it if you like. If these auctions net more than $3,000 then I will make another donation. If we don't make $3,000 - the remainder is my personal donation."