In their original filing to the sec they clearly state 'There can be no assurance that we will not discover defects in other MCP or GPU products.'. Also, they do not specify a closed list, but just that so far notebook MCP/GPU have been found detective, thus if they've used them in their slimline pc range, it's not really any news...
They might have gotten rid of the monetary debt, but by how much did they damage their environment ? What would have happened to the debt if they would not have had Harper get rid of kyoto ?
Exploiting their petroleum sand like this, with almost no regulations, got them tons of money. Any other responsible governement should not have allowed that to go through.
Think about closing the servers.. Save X per months. Cost of the future lawsuits, evaluate to something maybe greater than X, maybe smaller. Add in the bad publicity about closing them and the lawsuit, total losses are greater than the inital X.
Then wonder, what if we'd announce we'd close them, and shortly after get good free publicity about us catering to our users ? So we keep paying for X, but we get 5 * X in return just in the first month!
There was previously addons that were doing a lot of the work for the user. Pre-TBC, some addons were healing automagically with the best spell in your inventory, talking with the other addons to make sure none would overheal, auto-dispelling if there was a bad debuff on select target, again, all automated between accounts, checking for range in the decision making to minimise the total time until everyone would have been dispelled.
There also was automated kill button, which were chosing the best attacks and stuff. If you would expand the API further, almost no user interaction would be needed at all steps of the game, and you would end up with a brain dead game.
Get the correct addons and mash a button for 4 hours, end up with tons of epic loot. There might be a market for that, but I don't think it could last =)
The problem with providing such thing is that even non-disabled people could use those to trivialize the game. At that point subscription would start dropping and that's certainly not what blizzard has in mind. Actually, since WoW has been released we've seen the exactly opposite trend.
Actually, I was using it yesterday... I wish there was javascript support in lynx, I could not manage to login to gmail, even using the basic interface:(
I had bought Half life for 60$ when it got out in 98, and Half life 2 for about the same amount. I would not have bought another pack to just get the old one (I had not taken the pack since I already owned half life..)
I went back to my email archives, and it`s in 2005 that I tried to get the cd key assigned to my account. Someone had randomly found that key over a year before to register it.
For the amount, you are right, it was 10$ US, which for me was 16$ can + 2.50$ for converting the money, for a total of 18.50$, explaining why I remembered 20$ or so. And that doesn`t include the shipping of the box in the US.
Considering I live in Canada, that I would have had to challenge the eula I allegedly agreed upon by opening the content etc etc, that I would most probably have had to go fight them somewhere in the US, that I didn't had any proof of purchase anymore, it would not have been worth my time..
Someone randomly found the CD Key of my old half life game before I finally got to install steam. When I did, wanted to play back half life along with the updates, I was denied access to online play because I could not register the game.
I contacted them and the reply was to send them the cd & box, along with a proof of purchase (I had bought the games over 8 years before!) and 20 bucks to cover the replacement.
That would have been the only solution, short of buying again. I'm not using anything in steam or that I might think might end up in steam again.
As for his question, World of Warcraft is DRM free, and the upcoming WOTLK is also supposed to be free of it too!
I guess that count as a particularly major title:)
Beside, the companies could have an ID on their battery and know to whom it had been sold. If the ID has been tampered with they won't pay for the batteries (but will still recycle them) and if not, they have to validate it's the correct owner..
There's no such place as "the Smithsonian Institute." There's no 207 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, and the Zip Code of 207 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE, is 20003.
it might be because the characters aren't normal for her, since english is my second language and it's not a problem at all, but I use the same set of letters.
If you check the probability that the site you are using will get hacked in the lifetime usage of it that you will do, in most case the first usage of the website will be on the valid one, and you will then learn about a Man-in-the-middle attack when it will say that there's a new certificate to accept (every other time it had not asked you).
If you don't accept the certificate, you'll be clicking all the steps everytime for that website anyway, so you won't notice the different MD5/SHA1 hash, and in fact won't even look at it.
If it happened to you that you first used it on a day with an attack, then the next day or so, when it's fixed, you'll have a new certificate, and know that there's been something wrong (site will most probably talk about it) and you will be able to react fast, since you know you were subject to the man in the middle attack.
The difference is that your bot can be tapping a node for 24h/24h. I've had problems with bots doing that previously, and I've had to report them to be able to complete part of the quests.
Yes, that was a small server, so almost no one else than the bots in the zone, thus a very slow respawn rate. That was a PITA.
Actually, as they said in TFA, preventing copies from reaching out is mostly helpfull when you have a dud in your hands. If the movie's bad, and people learn it before the weekend, the opening event will be very bad and you lose tons of money. If they don't know about it yet, they'll all go to the theater and get ripped off...
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In their original filing to the sec they clearly state 'There can be no assurance that we will not discover defects in other MCP or GPU products.'. Also, they do not specify a closed list, but just that so far notebook MCP/GPU have been found detective, thus if they've used them in their slimline pc range, it's not really any news...
They might have gotten rid of the monetary debt, but by how much did they damage their environment ? What would have happened to the debt if they would not have had Harper get rid of kyoto ?
Exploiting their petroleum sand like this, with almost no regulations, got them tons of money. Any other responsible governement should not have allowed that to go through.
Or this evil plan...
Think about closing the servers .. Save X per months. Cost of the future lawsuits, evaluate to something maybe greater than X, maybe smaller. Add in the bad publicity about closing them and the lawsuit, total losses are greater than the inital X.
Then wonder, what if we'd announce we'd close them, and shortly after get good free publicity about us catering to our users ? So we keep paying for X, but we get 5 * X in return just in the first month!
Anyway =)
There was previously addons that were doing a lot of the work for the user. Pre-TBC, some addons were healing automagically with the best spell in your inventory, talking with the other addons to make sure none would overheal, auto-dispelling if there was a bad debuff on select target, again, all automated between accounts, checking for range in the decision making to minimise the total time until everyone would have been dispelled.
There also was automated kill button, which were chosing the best attacks and stuff. If you would expand the API further, almost no user interaction would be needed at all steps of the game, and you would end up with a brain dead game.
Get the correct addons and mash a button for 4 hours, end up with tons of epic loot. There might be a market for that, but I don't think it could last =)
Similarly easy question means that any 2 bits bot running on an 8 bit os could answer it ;)
So I take it that Kasparov just proved that he was human and not a computer ?
The problem with providing such thing is that even non-disabled people could use those to trivialize the game. At that point subscription would start dropping and that's certainly not what blizzard has in mind. Actually, since WoW has been released we've seen the exactly opposite trend.
Actually, I was using it yesterday ... I wish there was javascript support in lynx, I could not manage to login to gmail, even using the basic interface :(
I had bought Half life for 60$ when it got out in 98, and Half life 2 for about the same amount. I would not have bought another pack to just get the old one (I had not taken the pack since I already owned half life..)
I went back to my email archives, and it`s in 2005 that I tried to get the cd key assigned to my account. Someone had randomly found that key over a year before to register it.
For the amount, you are right, it was 10$ US, which for me was 16$ can + 2.50$ for converting the money, for a total of 18.50$, explaining why I remembered 20$ or so. And that doesn`t include the shipping of the box in the US.
Anyway..
Considering I live in Canada, that I would have had to challenge the eula I allegedly agreed upon by opening the content etc etc, that I would most probably have had to go fight them somewhere in the US, that I didn't had any proof of purchase anymore, it would not have been worth my time..
but I'm certainly not buying it up again.
Someone randomly found the CD Key of my old half life game before I finally got to install steam. When I did, wanted to play back half life along with the updates, I was denied access to online play because I could not register the game.
I contacted them and the reply was to send them the cd & box, along with a proof of purchase (I had bought the games over 8 years before!) and 20 bucks to cover the replacement.
That would have been the only solution, short of buying again. I'm not using anything in steam or that I might think might end up in steam again.
As for his question, World of Warcraft is DRM free, and the upcoming WOTLK is also supposed to be free of it too!
I guess that count as a particularly major title :)
Worst thing is that if you RTFA you see that it was from last year. How come the editors could not even see that ?
Beside, the companies could have an ID on their battery and know to whom it had been sold. If the ID has been tampered with they won't pay for the batteries (but will still recycle them) and if not, they have to validate it's the correct owner..
Easy solution ;)
The best thing for those with a facebook account would be to do nothing. Let facebook die of a slow, painfull death. =)
It's sad that I have to do that but ...
this letter has been around since the beginning of the internet (maybe sooner) and it was debunked, reasons were as such:
Newsgroups: sci.skeptic,talk.origins
Subject: Re: [Fwd: barbie]
From: huston@access4.digex.net (Herb Huston)
Date: 27 Jan 1997 22:12:41 -0500
[...]
There's no such place as "the Smithsonian Institute." There's no 207
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, and the Zip Code of 207 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE,
is 20003.
Anyway, it was a nice read :)
Well, if you are using an iphone, 2 inches by 2 inches is like almost all of the screen estate ... so, why are you complaining ? ;)
Just use an external raid hard drive rack, with 4 HD pushing over 1.5 gbs you'll max out the incoming bus speed already..
it might be because the characters aren't normal for her, since english is my second language and it's not a problem at all, but I use the same set of letters.
Except that it's actually the secure thing to do.
If you check the probability that the site you are using will get hacked in the lifetime usage of it that you will do, in most case the first usage of the website will be on the valid one, and you will then learn about a Man-in-the-middle attack when it will say that there's a new certificate to accept (every other time it had not asked you).
If you don't accept the certificate, you'll be clicking all the steps everytime for that website anyway, so you won't notice the different MD5/SHA1 hash, and in fact won't even look at it.
If it happened to you that you first used it on a day with an attack, then the next day or so, when it's fixed, you'll have a new certificate, and know that there's been something wrong (site will most probably talk about it) and you will be able to react fast, since you know you were subject to the man in the middle attack.
Anyway ..
They do both by banning them -- and get extra money in the process!
The difference is that your bot can be tapping a node for 24h/24h. I've had problems with bots doing that previously, and I've had to report them to be able to complete part of the quests.
Yes, that was a small server, so almost no one else than the bots in the zone, thus a very slow respawn rate. That was a PITA.
... beyond Earth ...
Would not that mean past earth, like mars ++ ?
Venus is closer to the sun than the earth.
Well, in '99 VIA bought Cyrix, which used to make reverse engineered 80386/80486 in the old time, so I guess it was to get out of via by now :)
Wow... can't you just understand you were wrong ?
Actually, as they said in TFA, preventing copies from reaching out is mostly helpfull when you have a dud in your hands. If the movie's bad, and people learn it before the weekend, the opening event will be very bad and you lose tons of money. If they don't know about it yet, they'll all go to the theater and get ripped off...