I'm a prototypical dork: I'm into computers, I'm geeky, and I'm not exactly good looking. I was picked on off and on in grade school and junior high, but mostly I was just ignored because I didn't make an effort to be highly visible (and therefore draw the ire of the assholes that derive their self-esteem through belittling and torturing others).
The fact that you think you were picked on more than others, and don't want to kill anyone over it, should be a good indicator to you that you are capable of dealing with the emotional abuse in a rational fashion, and should help highlight the fact that the Columbine kids were emotionally and socially retarded.
Why does there not appear to be any work from TransGaming to support FFXI? Issues with SE itself, or just general lack of interest on the part of TransGaming? There seems to be enough interest in running FFXI on Cedega as indicated by the popularity rating on TransGaming's site, and I know I'd certainly buy a subscription if it meant I could play FFXI.
It would certainly be social retardation since they were incapable of dealing, socially, with the "emotional abuse" they recieved.
Everyone deals with insults slung at them by their peers in school at one point or another. The fact that an extremely small subset of the overall population apparently is not capable of dealing with it in a rational, socially acceptable fashion indicates that they are socially retarded with respect to their peers.
I think replicating the mechs in the BattleTech universe would be a bad first step. They're too large, too unwieldy, and balanced by sophisticated gyro systems (which I see no mention of) hooked up to the mechwarrior via a freaking brain-wave scanner.
Personally, I think that Gears from Dream Pod 9's Heavy Gear universe would be a much better first step. They seem more inline with what he's doing anyway; roughly the same height, tonnage, drive and power systems.
Because Apple was the first to release a portable mp3 player.
...oh wait, I got my Diamond Rio500 in 2000, and it certainly wasn't the first portable mp3 player.
The mp3 player market was already there, Apple was not innovative nor the first to market in that regards, and everyone with eyes could see the market for buying music online. The DRM business really royally screwed it up, but it obviously not enough to kill it.
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It'd probably help if you deobfuscated it. It's really not all that complex, it just looks like hell to save on bandwidth (and to make the average looky-loo just quit).
I think Google just sells the email addresses. The likelihood that spammers managed to guess my GMail address is relatively low, yet it gets more spam than my obvious email addresses attached to my domain.
At my last job we did we did the same basic thing for essentially a specialized RSS aggregator for the product. The client software would always do a HEAD request first, then compare the value of the Last Modified header to the timestamp of the last item. If it was newer, it would do a GET request with the timestamp of the last item it had as part of the URL in the request. The server would then run an XSL-T stylesheet on the RSS file on the server, copying out only items that would be new for the client, and send those. The client itself would then merge those items into its local version of the RSS feed.
There were some other things (such as the server could indicate when an RSS item was considered dropped from the feed, or even modified), and aside from using XSL-T, instead of a servlet like we used for most everything else in the project, it was a good solution that saved on bandwidth.
With a decent sized hard-disk based portable music player (20-30 GB is reasonable, and relatively standard, though, for instance, Archos makes an 80 GB player), the only time (most) anyone needs to connect the device to their computer is to add new music to it, not to fiddle with playlists, or move audio files off to make room for new.
With a DVD bases solution, you wouldn't be able to generate playlists on the fly and store them (unless the player has built-in RAM to store the playlist), and it wouldn't have the storage capacity of an average hard-disk player. Certainly cheaper, but I know that I am not opposed to spending $200-$500 on a good hard-disk player that will last 3-4 years, rather than $50 every 6 months or so on a new optical player because the last one broke (as seems to be very common with them; their cost is so low that it is likely manufacturers don't bother to make them to last, as that would be damaging to continued sales).
This isn't even to mention the unignorable benefit of not having to deal with easily damaged optical media when using a hard-disk player, or not having to carry discs around and swap them. 8 GB is a decent amount of storage, but not even half of a standard hard-disk player.
Instead of downloading the entire RSS feed every time, why not have aggregators indicate to the server the timestamp of the last time the RSS feed was downloaded, or the timestamp of the last item in the feed the aggregator knows about, and then the server can dynamically generate the RSS with only new content for that client. Increases processing load while reducing bandwidth, but processing time is what most servers have lots of, not to mention it's far cheaper to increase than bandwidth.
I think one of the best examples of an (partially) ad-supported site would be Penny-Arcade. How many people notice that the ads are ads, or even care that much, let alone have them blocked by Adblock? The ads on PA almost always fit right in with the page look and feel, as well as being topical to the site itself. They're nonintrusive (which probably means that many people won't even notice they're there most of the time), and generally at least visually appealing, which is certainly more than can be said for nearly any other site's ads.
If more sites did their ads like PA, or even Google, plugins like Adblock probably wouldn't be nearly as widely used, merely because the ads would not be so intrusive and annoying as to warrant preemptive removal from the site by the user.
And as time went on, the stories in the bible were written by different people. It's just as likely that the time measurement changed as culture changed.
They won't ever really be able to say that, especially as more p2p networks move to encrypting traffic as a pre-emptive form of self-defense from these kinds of tactics. With traffic encrypted, no software will ever be able to (reasonably) pick recognizable patterns in packets, so the whole thing would be moot (that is of course assuming anyone in a position of power realizes that).
More likely "killed" by undercutting the competition by taking what were likely negligable profit losses for them due to overall size, though would likely translate to large profit losses for their local competition.
Of course, the lawyers have already figured this out. They merely buy up patents and swing them around with impudence because they do nothing but litigate, therefore they have no fear of patent infringment. It's a win-win situation for law firms, which guarantees this will situation will be repeated ad infinitum.
An example of a game going to far would be a game that causes a direct, linkable physical effect on players. This is just people getting bent out of shape because they still have the mentality of a 10 year old.
Political Correctness is an example immaturity, and these people railing against something that has no effect on them except through their self-deluded state of being offended is not what anyone should classify as news.
I suppose the sad part of all this is that currently you are the only person who thinks that the W3C doesn't set the standards. Reality is, everyone (Microsoft included) defers to the W3C in terms of what is standard, but that does not (obviously) prevent them from implementing functionality not defined in the standards.
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I'm a prototypical dork: I'm into computers, I'm geeky, and I'm not exactly good looking. I was picked on off and on in grade school and junior high, but mostly I was just ignored because I didn't make an effort to be highly visible (and therefore draw the ire of the assholes that derive their self-esteem through belittling and torturing others).
The fact that you think you were picked on more than others, and don't want to kill anyone over it, should be a good indicator to you that you are capable of dealing with the emotional abuse in a rational fashion, and should help highlight the fact that the Columbine kids were emotionally and socially retarded.
Why does there not appear to be any work from TransGaming to support FFXI? Issues with SE itself, or just general lack of interest on the part of TransGaming? There seems to be enough interest in running FFXI on Cedega as indicated by the popularity rating on TransGaming's site, and I know I'd certainly buy a subscription if it meant I could play FFXI.
It would certainly be social retardation since they were incapable of dealing, socially, with the "emotional abuse" they recieved.
Everyone deals with insults slung at them by their peers in school at one point or another. The fact that an extremely small subset of the overall population apparently is not capable of dealing with it in a rational, socially acceptable fashion indicates that they are socially retarded with respect to their peers.
Wow, way to get into it at mainstream. I started using it at Phoenix 0.4 (hope the jab at the silliness of the comment comes across...)
Fight fire with fire.
Amusing. I thought that was what the RIAA and MPAA was doing.
I think replicating the mechs in the BattleTech universe would be a bad first step. They're too large, too unwieldy, and balanced by sophisticated gyro systems (which I see no mention of) hooked up to the mechwarrior via a freaking brain-wave scanner.
Personally, I think that Gears from Dream Pod 9's Heavy Gear universe would be a much better first step. They seem more inline with what he's doing anyway; roughly the same height, tonnage, drive and power systems.
Because Apple was the first to release a portable mp3 player.
...oh wait, I got my Diamond Rio500 in 2000, and it certainly wasn't the first portable mp3 player.
The mp3 player market was already there, Apple was not innovative nor the first to market in that regards, and everyone with eyes could see the market for buying music online. The DRM business really royally screwed it up, but it obviously not enough to kill it.
It'd probably help if you deobfuscated it. It's really not all that complex, it just looks like hell to save on bandwidth (and to make the average looky-loo just quit).
I think Google just sells the email addresses. The likelihood that spammers managed to guess my GMail address is relatively low, yet it gets more spam than my obvious email addresses attached to my domain.
At my last job we did we did the same basic thing for essentially a specialized RSS aggregator for the product. The client software would always do a HEAD request first, then compare the value of the Last Modified header to the timestamp of the last item. If it was newer, it would do a GET request with the timestamp of the last item it had as part of the URL in the request. The server would then run an XSL-T stylesheet on the RSS file on the server, copying out only items that would be new for the client, and send those. The client itself would then merge those items into its local version of the RSS feed.
There were some other things (such as the server could indicate when an RSS item was considered dropped from the feed, or even modified), and aside from using XSL-T, instead of a servlet like we used for most everything else in the project, it was a good solution that saved on bandwidth.
With a decent sized hard-disk based portable music player (20-30 GB is reasonable, and relatively standard, though, for instance, Archos makes an 80 GB player), the only time (most) anyone needs to connect the device to their computer is to add new music to it, not to fiddle with playlists, or move audio files off to make room for new.
With a DVD bases solution, you wouldn't be able to generate playlists on the fly and store them (unless the player has built-in RAM to store the playlist), and it wouldn't have the storage capacity of an average hard-disk player. Certainly cheaper, but I know that I am not opposed to spending $200-$500 on a good hard-disk player that will last 3-4 years, rather than $50 every 6 months or so on a new optical player because the last one broke (as seems to be very common with them; their cost is so low that it is likely manufacturers don't bother to make them to last, as that would be damaging to continued sales).
This isn't even to mention the unignorable benefit of not having to deal with easily damaged optical media when using a hard-disk player, or not having to carry discs around and swap them. 8 GB is a decent amount of storage, but not even half of a standard hard-disk player.
Instead of downloading the entire RSS feed every time, why not have aggregators indicate to the server the timestamp of the last time the RSS feed was downloaded, or the timestamp of the last item in the feed the aggregator knows about, and then the server can dynamically generate the RSS with only new content for that client. Increases processing load while reducing bandwidth, but processing time is what most servers have lots of, not to mention it's far cheaper to increase than bandwidth.
I think one of the best examples of an (partially) ad-supported site would be Penny-Arcade. How many people notice that the ads are ads, or even care that much, let alone have them blocked by Adblock? The ads on PA almost always fit right in with the page look and feel, as well as being topical to the site itself. They're nonintrusive (which probably means that many people won't even notice they're there most of the time), and generally at least visually appealing, which is certainly more than can be said for nearly any other site's ads.
If more sites did their ads like PA, or even Google, plugins like Adblock probably wouldn't be nearly as widely used, merely because the ads would not be so intrusive and annoying as to warrant preemptive removal from the site by the user.
And as time went on, the stories in the bible were written by different people. It's just as likely that the time measurement changed as culture changed.
They won't ever really be able to say that, especially as more p2p networks move to encrypting traffic as a pre-emptive form of self-defense from these kinds of tactics. With traffic encrypted, no software will ever be able to (reasonably) pick recognizable patterns in packets, so the whole thing would be moot (that is of course assuming anyone in a position of power realizes that).
More likely "killed" by undercutting the competition by taking what were likely negligable profit losses for them due to overall size, though would likely translate to large profit losses for their local competition.
Everyone wants to be the next Wal*Mart!
Of course, the lawyers have already figured this out. They merely buy up patents and swing them around with impudence because they do nothing but litigate, therefore they have no fear of patent infringment. It's a win-win situation for law firms, which guarantees this will situation will be repeated ad infinitum.
An example of a game going to far would be a game that causes a direct, linkable physical effect on players. This is just people getting bent out of shape because they still have the mentality of a 10 year old.
Political Correctness is an example immaturity, and these people railing against something that has no effect on them except through their self-deluded state of being offended is not what anyone should classify as news.
I suppose the sad part of all this is that currently you are the only person who thinks that the W3C doesn't set the standards. Reality is, everyone (Microsoft included) defers to the W3C in terms of what is standard, but that does not (obviously) prevent them from implementing functionality not defined in the standards.
Because communicating with a PHP backend via SOAP from a script is outside the realm of possibility?