Honestly the best torrent sites are the semi-private ones. There are quite a few non-public bit torrent sites that are very easy to get into but are not directly available to anyone who goes to their web page.
I find that public BT sites are too slow becuase nobody cares to share much.
But those fixed time intervals are almost always faster than the lag time you run into from non-realtime OS'es. Windows is of course the clunker we think of first but my linux machine is sometimes not completely responsive and snappy when i clink something.
Radio waves travel through the "ether". Thats why around the equator cell phones don't work. There is a cosmic "wind" in the ether caused by the rotation of the earth.
Unless you obsessivly follow exloit trackers you wont be informed for most exploits of any programs IE and firefox both. You can't just say "well i trust it untill its proven unsafe" when its something important like your computer security which leads to your identity security.
It is not the end users that are deciding to keep IE. There are still many public libraries and schools that only use IE and do not let you install software such as firefox on them. Also many business' use IE still and the corporate inertia leads to very slow adoption of something like a browser when your company is not a tech company and couldn't care less what browser you use as long as it mostly works.
So before you write off supporting IE remember that there are many linux on the desktop users at home that can't always get their fix of the green glow at home and want to kharma whore from work/school too.
The problem with the system you describe is people will figure out the best trees to persue and everyone else will get owned if they are actually creative and make a unique charecter.
I find that i personally dont need more than 1GB of ram so i purchased the fastest/lowest latency ram i could get and i still probably spent less than many people do on ram. I know 1GB is nto enough for many people but its all i ahve ever needed and i notice quite a system performance boost with FAST ram instead of just a LOT of ram.
You are absolutly correct that you can get through the entire game only using X. The reason i chose Ninja Gaiden was becuase it was a "hard" game where you essentially spam one button to fight. My main point of my post was that one single button gives a variety of attacks and its not even based on how you use the button, it just does all kinds of sweet combos while you sit and watch.
It is hard becuase there is very little you can do to control the combat. All you do is hit the same button, the difficulty is finding the unique gimmik in each boss fight. The gimmiks are things like how you have to only attack after a boss makes a certain attack and the entire time int he fight you are waiting for him to make himself vulnerable.
Im pretty sure they left out druids and priests becuase they know that the healer classes are completely screwed with all the other new talents and still ahve not figured out a gimmik to keep the healbots happy enough to not stop paying.
First off let me say i am a video game tester for a living and have played every single xbox and xbox 360 game to ever come onto the market (and many that never made it). Let me tell you video games are not getting harder, they are getting easier. The trend in video games is to make them into an interactive movie.
The biggest money makers in video games are sports games, second to that are the titles based on movies. I realized this one time when I was testing Ninja Gaiden. I realized that there was a single attack button that you just hit over and over during combat. The game made you do all kinds of cool looking moves including decapitations and wicked slashing combos. You as the player did nothinhg but hit 1 button and watch.
Another game that was just an interactive movie was the xbox King Kong game. The game was extremely linear and the combat was based of learning a gimmick that once you knew you would not die. There was no difficulty in finding your way around becuase the game resembled a tunnel and all the fights were so easy that as i said before, you were simply watch a movie and your controlle rwas along for the ride.
You are absolutly right. I now watch no TV at all. It's not becuase its not entertaining. Snorting cocaine is entertaining to me but it has it drawbacks just like TV. I would prefer to not waste my time on tv.
I personally think the worst chanels are the discovery chanel and history chanel. They really give a skewed version of history and science (mostly crime, war, cars/guns in that order). The difference with the edu-tainment chanels is that they pretend to be real education but are far from it. They do not exercise your mind at all. You dont really learn anything other than pure trivia.
Microsoft does not need to be more evil to make money. They just need to quit working on security updates. They have proven that you do not need to sell a secure OS to make money so why even make it more secure at all?
The fact of the matter is that MS has been working on security for a long time now and makiong real progress. Windows 2000 was a huge leap over its predecessors in security. Windows XP was even more secure than that. Vista is looking to be even more secure than XP and for strictly desktop purposes windows is nearing the security of linux. Of course I say that becuase with a dedicated hacker attacking your windows servers your much more likely to be taken down than Linux but thats not what most copies of windows are for.
Wind power is not viable in most areas of the USA. A nuclear plant can be built almost anywhere and the supplies and waste can be shipped in and out. Wind power requires huge areas of land devoted to wind power generation.
Very few people argue that nuclear power is bad anymore. It has had a much better safety record than many other forms of power other than the highly publiced but rare nuclear accidents. Some people still are left in the 1960's which was the last time their brain could think for themselves before they were indoctrinated but even the founder of Greenpeace has spoken out in favor of nuclear power as a viable alternative to fossil fuels and the global warming that comes with it.
It's called comparative advantage. Basically it's an economic term that means that vertain people are better at making certain things and certain people are just better, therefore they deserve an un-fair share.
Obviously its worth it to them but that doesn't mean its ok. Just becuase the options are your children starving or you work 80 hours a week does not mean its really a choice.
The sad thing is that many people think this is the price of progress, it's not. Maybe people are too greedy if we have to enslave other people so we can have enough cheap electronics in our homes.
Record labels pay MTV to push their videos. They are paying for MTV making their song popular with the kids. Youtube probably wont have much going on other than featured videos.
Hes takes his points a bit too far but he brings up good points about learning linux. Let me first say that learning windows is not easy, but the key thing here is that there are billions of people who know how to use it. When you switch from windows to linux there are quite a few annoying things that keep windows users from converting.
One of the things i think he was correct about was the directory structure. Although it is probably a better system to have so many predefined folders it is confusing to a windows convert. More people would adopt linux if everyone quit calling people who didn't understand it "stupid".
His comments about productivity and linux users additudes are way off though. I think this is becuase he had a bad experiance but unfortunatly if more people get burned like him its only hurting linux being adopted on the desktop.
Its not technically feasible for every to route all traffic through anonymous proxies. It is feasible to send a message to website companies that we dont want this crap by blocking google traffic.
At the same time however the article says that your search' you send to google are your business but in fact they really are Google's business.
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I should have mentioned that one thing that bothers me the most about public torrent sites is all of the duped torrents and broken torrents.
Honestly the best torrent sites are the semi-private ones. There are quite a few non-public bit torrent sites that are very easy to get into but are not directly available to anyone who goes to their web page.
I find that public BT sites are too slow becuase nobody cares to share much.
But those fixed time intervals are almost always faster than the lag time you run into from non-realtime OS'es. Windows is of course the clunker we think of first but my linux machine is sometimes not completely responsive and snappy when i clink something.
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goodlukc transfering so many times and gaduating before your 80.
Radio waves travel through the "ether". Thats why around the equator cell phones don't work. There is a cosmic "wind" in the ether caused by the rotation of the earth.
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Unless you obsessivly follow exloit trackers you wont be informed for most exploits of any programs IE and firefox both. You can't just say "well i trust it untill its proven unsafe" when its something important like your computer security which leads to your identity security.
It is not the end users that are deciding to keep IE. There are still many public libraries and schools that only use IE and do not let you install software such as firefox on them. Also many business' use IE still and the corporate inertia leads to very slow adoption of something like a browser when your company is not a tech company and couldn't care less what browser you use as long as it mostly works.
So before you write off supporting IE remember that there are many linux on the desktop users at home that can't always get their fix of the green glow at home and want to kharma whore from work/school too.
The problem with the system you describe is people will figure out the best trees to persue and everyone else will get owned if they are actually creative and make a unique charecter.
I find that i personally dont need more than 1GB of ram so i purchased the fastest/lowest latency ram i could get and i still probably spent less than many people do on ram. I know 1GB is nto enough for many people but its all i ahve ever needed and i notice quite a system performance boost with FAST ram instead of just a LOT of ram.
You are absolutly correct that you can get through the entire game only using X. The reason i chose Ninja Gaiden was becuase it was a "hard" game where you essentially spam one button to fight. My main point of my post was that one single button gives a variety of attacks and its not even based on how you use the button, it just does all kinds of sweet combos while you sit and watch.
It is hard becuase there is very little you can do to control the combat. All you do is hit the same button, the difficulty is finding the unique gimmik in each boss fight. The gimmiks are things like how you have to only attack after a boss makes a certain attack and the entire time int he fight you are waiting for him to make himself vulnerable.
Im pretty sure they left out druids and priests becuase they know that the healer classes are completely screwed with all the other new talents and still ahve not figured out a gimmik to keep the healbots happy enough to not stop paying.
First off let me say i am a video game tester for a living and have played every single xbox and xbox 360 game to ever come onto the market (and many that never made it). Let me tell you video games are not getting harder, they are getting easier. The trend in video games is to make them into an interactive movie.
The biggest money makers in video games are sports games, second to that are the titles based on movies. I realized this one time when I was testing Ninja Gaiden. I realized that there was a single attack button that you just hit over and over during combat. The game made you do all kinds of cool looking moves including decapitations and wicked slashing combos. You as the player did nothinhg but hit 1 button and watch.
Another game that was just an interactive movie was the xbox King Kong game. The game was extremely linear and the combat was based of learning a gimmick that once you knew you would not die. There was no difficulty in finding your way around becuase the game resembled a tunnel and all the fights were so easy that as i said before, you were simply watch a movie and your controlle rwas along for the ride.
You are absolutly right. I now watch no TV at all. It's not becuase its not entertaining. Snorting cocaine is entertaining to me but it has it drawbacks just like TV. I would prefer to not waste my time on tv.
I personally think the worst chanels are the discovery chanel and history chanel. They really give a skewed version of history and science (mostly crime, war, cars/guns in that order). The difference with the edu-tainment chanels is that they pretend to be real education but are far from it. They do not exercise your mind at all. You dont really learn anything other than pure trivia.
Microsoft does not need to be more evil to make money. They just need to quit working on security updates. They have proven that you do not need to sell a secure OS to make money so why even make it more secure at all?
The fact of the matter is that MS has been working on security for a long time now and makiong real progress. Windows 2000 was a huge leap over its predecessors in security. Windows XP was even more secure than that. Vista is looking to be even more secure than XP and for strictly desktop purposes windows is nearing the security of linux. Of course I say that becuase with a dedicated hacker attacking your windows servers your much more likely to be taken down than Linux but thats not what most copies of windows are for.
Your forgetting about all of the tariff's and taxes' that the Australian govt. collects off trade with the USA.
Wind power is not viable in most areas of the USA. A nuclear plant can be built almost anywhere and the supplies and waste can be shipped in and out. Wind power requires huge areas of land devoted to wind power generation.
Very few people argue that nuclear power is bad anymore. It has had a much better safety record than many other forms of power other than the highly publiced but rare nuclear accidents. Some people still are left in the 1960's which was the last time their brain could think for themselves before they were indoctrinated but even the founder of Greenpeace has spoken out in favor of nuclear power as a viable alternative to fossil fuels and the global warming that comes with it.
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It's called comparative advantage. Basically it's an economic term that means that vertain people are better at making certain things and certain people are just better, therefore they deserve an un-fair share.
Obviously its worth it to them but that doesn't mean its ok. Just becuase the options are your children starving or you work 80 hours a week does not mean its really a choice.
The sad thing is that many people think this is the price of progress, it's not. Maybe people are too greedy if we have to enslave other people so we can have enough cheap electronics in our homes.
Record labels pay MTV to push their videos. They are paying for MTV making their song popular with the kids. Youtube probably wont have much going on other than featured videos.
Hes takes his points a bit too far but he brings up good points about learning linux. Let me first say that learning windows is not easy, but the key thing here is that there are billions of people who know how to use it. When you switch from windows to linux there are quite a few annoying things that keep windows users from converting.
One of the things i think he was correct about was the directory structure. Although it is probably a better system to have so many predefined folders it is confusing to a windows convert. More people would adopt linux if everyone quit calling people who didn't understand it "stupid".
His comments about productivity and linux users additudes are way off though. I think this is becuase he had a bad experiance but unfortunatly if more people get burned like him its only hurting linux being adopted on the desktop.
Its not technically feasible for every to route all traffic through anonymous proxies. It is feasible to send a message to website companies that we dont want this crap by blocking google traffic.
At the same time however the article says that your search' you send to google are your business but in fact they really are Google's business.