in my experience (As a Canadian tech support rep) E-mailed tech support requests are muuuch more likely to go to Indian tech center's, because then the language issue is pretty much null. Also I've found most of the Indian tech's are actually pretty decent at what they do, but the language barrier make's their knowledge irrelevant, most people get frustrated very quickly with them, and I wouldn't doubt a lot of them just stick to the script to try and avoid the language problem.
Traditionally though, those boxes are not getting owned every 10 minutes, so allowing them to connect to others is not a problem, As well Windows has a history of not only straight up getting taken over, but also having lots of nosy app's that connect for nefarious reasons.
New chips are ALWAY'S coming, why worry? By time this really affects prices, anyone currently currently running a top of the line system will probably be wanting to upgrade again anyway's,
Simply use Thunderbird with the Enigmail extension, it uses PGP to encrypt/sign your messages, then just send them through SMTP, that way your e-mail is also not stored on the gmail servers unencrypted, and your private key never leaves your computer.
As far as I know, the MiniDisc format is owned by SONY, meaning your Sharp player is licensed by Sony and probably has the same restrictions as anything else SONY, it's just constructed by someone else so you may have better or worse durability.
As someone who's been getting increasingly into OpenGL programming, I can tell you GlxInfo isn't everything, just because it say's it supports opengl doesn't mean it won't randomly segfault when you throw a supposedly supported feature at it:(
I would think that running linux on it would be the first step towards this, To write their own 'game' someone needs to either be able to bypass the copyprotection and know enough about the hardware to program an efficient node, Or they need to be able to sign code and still know enough about the hardware, Since it's unlikely MS will be letting homebrew coders sign code, the only option is to get familiar with xbox hardware and copy protection, and the fastest way I can see to do that is to port Linux to it.
As someone who works in a callcenter (In Canada, not india), I can tell you it's NOT usually in their best interests to keep you on hold, Most places are rated on their volume of call's, Not the time of them, in fact it's considered bad to have a long call time. though yes, I have heard a lot of complaints about indian call centers, ("Oh thank god you speak american!"), Also there are a lot of people just reading scripts, and a lot of people who actually know what they are doing, it's hit or miss.
Why should company's censor their work? I agree that gaming has an image problem, but making all games "Family Friendly" is not the way to do it, instead the family friendly games should be made more well known, but also mainstream is just gonna have to learn to accept violent and graphic games, just like they learned to accept graphic movies, TV and music.
If you want to give them feedback, Don't do it over the phones, not to their marketting agents, I work tech support on the phones, and if someone has a problem with their computer that's fine, I'll fix it, but if they have a problem with the manufacturer (Who shall remain nameless), that's really not my concern, if you voice your complaint to me in a civil manner, I'll accept it kindly and make you feel better, then forget about it in 5 seconds, otherwise if you get mad and scream, I might do something to annoy you, otherwise I'll just hang up and move on, Those on the phones have little to no sway on a company, and even their sup's don't usually have any sway, write an honest to god snail mail letter and you might actually get someone's attention.
as far as I know it works with "miserable failure" too, (again without the quotes), see also, "french military victories", "anti-war peace protesters", "arabian gulf", check the wikipedia article on googlebombing for more.
It's not actually hidden to the OS, it's hidden to the user, and yes, there are many good reasons to let software be invisible to a user, I agree though that there should be an easier way to audit processes as the super user.
On a LAN you can use shortforms, things like,::::21:20, But on the net you should probably be using DNS anyway's, Any version of IP is not meant to be easy for YOU to read, they are made for COMPUTERS, the fact that IPV4 is a little more convenient for a human to remember is just coincidence.
That's a quick fix, While your right IMO that IP masq is the way to go, it can only last so long for a few reasons, The first is that as more and more people get online, the complexity of everyone and everything being behind a NAT Firewall is going to really be a pain, the second is that eventually even being stingy with IP's we will run out, (Not for a long long time I'm sure, but it will happen eventually), We may as well be proactive with this problem, rather than wait until we're actually in a crisis situation, ("I'm sorry, you cannot check your e-mail because there is no IP available for you today, Please try again tomorrow"), Also IPV6 has more features than just increased length.
Nope, Much more likely they will continue to charge for a static IP because... Why change in such a way that would reduce income, when they can continue unnecessarily charging consumers for silly reasons.
My point was, (And I'm sorry that I have to spell this out) Why should one have to look like the other? The use chooses their service, and should gmail hop to and provide a look and function that mirror's yahoo's? Why?
I don't think it's arrogant at all, that's choice in itself, their choice.
I think it would be much more likely that if MS was going to strongarm them, they would just not sell blank systems, rather than sell useless systems that no one will buy.
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in my experience (As a Canadian tech support rep) E-mailed tech support requests are muuuch more likely to go to Indian tech center's, because then the language issue is pretty much null. Also I've found most of the Indian tech's are actually pretty decent at what they do, but the language barrier make's their knowledge irrelevant, most people get frustrated very quickly with them, and I wouldn't doubt a lot of them just stick to the script to try and avoid the language problem.
Traditionally though, those boxes are not getting owned every 10 minutes, so allowing them to connect to others is not a problem, As well Windows has a history of not only straight up getting taken over, but also having lots of nosy app's that connect for nefarious reasons.
New chips are ALWAY'S coming, why worry? By time this really affects prices, anyone currently currently running a top of the line system will probably be wanting to upgrade again anyway's,
Simply use Thunderbird with the Enigmail extension, it uses PGP to encrypt/sign your messages, then just send them through SMTP, that way your e-mail is also not stored on the gmail servers unencrypted, and your private key never leaves your computer.
As far as I know, the MiniDisc format is owned by SONY, meaning your Sharp player is licensed by Sony and probably has the same restrictions as anything else SONY, it's just constructed by someone else so you may have better or worse durability.
As someone who's been getting increasingly into OpenGL programming, I can tell you GlxInfo isn't everything, just because it say's it supports opengl doesn't mean it won't randomly segfault when you throw a supposedly supported feature at it :(
And then you'd promptly get services offering to add a dozen signatures for one low low fee.
I would think that running linux on it would be the first step towards this, To write their own 'game' someone needs to either be able to bypass the copyprotection and know enough about the hardware to program an efficient node, Or they need to be able to sign code and still know enough about the hardware, Since it's unlikely MS will be letting homebrew coders sign code, the only option is to get familiar with xbox hardware and copy protection, and the fastest way I can see to do that is to port Linux to it.
As someone who works in a callcenter (In Canada, not india), I can tell you it's NOT usually in their best interests to keep you on hold, Most places are rated on their volume of call's, Not the time of them, in fact it's considered bad to have a long call time. though yes, I have heard a lot of complaints about indian call centers, ("Oh thank god you speak american!"), Also there are a lot of people just reading scripts, and a lot of people who actually know what they are doing, it's hit or miss.
Why should company's censor their work? I agree that gaming has an image problem, but making all games "Family Friendly" is not the way to do it, instead the family friendly games should be made more well known, but also mainstream is just gonna have to learn to accept violent and graphic games, just like they learned to accept graphic movies, TV and music.
If you want to give them feedback, Don't do it over the phones, not to their marketting agents, I work tech support on the phones, and if someone has a problem with their computer that's fine, I'll fix it, but if they have a problem with the manufacturer (Who shall remain nameless), that's really not my concern, if you voice your complaint to me in a civil manner, I'll accept it kindly and make you feel better, then forget about it in 5 seconds, otherwise if you get mad and scream, I might do something to annoy you, otherwise I'll just hang up and move on, Those on the phones have little to no sway on a company, and even their sup's don't usually have any sway, write an honest to god snail mail letter and you might actually get someone's attention.
patent expires? for big oil?
heh... that's a good one.
as far as I know it works with "miserable failure" too, (again without the quotes), see also, "french military victories", "anti-war peace protesters", "arabian gulf", check the wikipedia article on googlebombing for more.
It's not actually hidden to the OS, it's hidden to the user, and yes, there are many good reasons to let software be invisible to a user, I agree though that there should be an easier way to audit processes as the super user.
Yeah, Your right, we should ignore any local issues and work on problems in other country's first.
Why should they have to hide their identity from their SCHOOL?
On a LAN you can use shortforms, things like, ::::21:20, But on the net you should probably be using DNS anyway's, Any version of IP is not meant to be easy for YOU to read, they are made for COMPUTERS, the fact that IPV4 is a little more convenient for a human to remember is just coincidence.
That's a quick fix, While your right IMO that IP masq is the way to go, it can only last so long for a few reasons, The first is that as more and more people get online, the complexity of everyone and everything being behind a NAT Firewall is going to really be a pain, the second is that eventually even being stingy with IP's we will run out, (Not for a long long time I'm sure, but it will happen eventually), We may as well be proactive with this problem, rather than wait until we're actually in a crisis situation, ("I'm sorry, you cannot check your e-mail because there is no IP available for you today, Please try again tomorrow"), Also IPV6 has more features than just increased length.
Nope, Much more likely they will continue to charge for a static IP because... Why change in such a way that would reduce income, when they can continue unnecessarily charging consumers for silly reasons.
My point was, (And I'm sorry that I have to spell this out) Why should one have to look like the other? The use chooses their service, and should gmail hop to and provide a look and function that mirror's yahoo's? Why? I don't think it's arrogant at all, that's choice in itself, their choice.
Does Yahoo mail let you use an interface like gmails? Or do they 'arrogantly' deny us that choice?
Then it's a game, Find the eye!
They used a P90, so yes heh, it's pretty fast firing.
I think it would be much more likely that if MS was going to strongarm them, they would just not sell blank systems, rather than sell useless systems that no one will buy.
Why doesn't he blurb link to the LSB website at all? it's here Anyway's.