I live in Sweden. I have a 100 Mbps connection (that is always 100mbps) I pay roughly 20 US bucks a month for. It is not capped (explicitly or implicitly) it is always connected, it has the same up and down speed. Though I only have one IP.
The funny part is that we too have those crappy deals in Sweden where you pay 40 bucks a month for a 10 Mbps ADSL connection. And people eat the crap those ISPs feed them with a healthy appetite.
It is an oligopoly. DSL ISPs can take ridiculous prices for substandard products because there often is no real alternative. Which sucks.
the addiction industry is out of control in this country. somebody ought to stage an intervention.
I predict that the intervention intervention industry will emerge in the near future, and escalate into a point where intervention intervention interventions are necessary.
I never understood why the borg had the Earth at coordinates 0,0,1. I mean, they didn't even know about humans before Q launched the Enterprise D into Borg space.
Are we back to the dark ages? The Earth as the center of the Universe?
I have no idea what radix and endianness the Borg are using. In decimal, 0 0 1 could be 10^23 digits long.
When you count how many cards you have in quantum poker, you no longer know which cards you hold. Conversely, if you check what cards you are holding, you no longer know how many they are.
1) Stray residual gamma rays knocks more electrons out of circuit A than circuit B. 2) Resulting potential difference induces current. 3) Resutling current flips a bit. 4) Bit is saved on hard drive. 5) Data is corrupted. 7) ??? 8) (Absence of) Profit!
How would you know if someone successfully hid their smoking? While indoors chain smoking is hard to hide, a stick of gum and a hand wash goes a long way for the casual smoker.
I would suggest: seal kb and/or mouse in a plastic pouch, and use a chemical method to sterilize the outside of the pouch (bleach, etc). To change batteries, cut pouch open, put new batteries in, place in new pouch and repeat.
The flaw in your plan with sealing a computer in plastic is the fact that it relies on a fan to cool itself. Cut off the air, and it burns.
Yes, but look at the hour to price ratio. A CD is about an hour long, whereas a game is usually at least 30 hours if not more. A CD costs around $20 and a game around $50. The CD costs a whole lot more per hour than the game does.
But a CD has more replay value than most games. Many games you play just once or twice, but you can easily listen to a good record more than 30 times during the time you own it.
But why are they using paying PC customers as beta testers?
If you look at the forums, there are hundreds of people that can't play because of crashes, installation issues and other nasty problems.
The PC version should have obviously been delayed and tested, now more than 50% (judging by the forums) of people can't even play the game.
I know the parent is borderline troll, but I'll respond anyways.
I think it's the state of affairs today, when it comes to PC gaming. You can't write code that works on all systems, because there are so ludicrously many configurations to consider. And there is only so many systems you can beta test on, especially in this sort of game that really doesn't lend itself well to public beta testing (95% of the fun is the explorations, spoilers leaking would be devastating.) Furthermore, many of the issues seem to stem from misconfigured systems: I had troubles playing that were related to codec problems that the developers clearly could not have predicted.
The tech support forums are also a typically bad place to gather crash statistics on, since people generally won't go there if they don't have troubles with the game.
You've almost got it. The real reason though, that continuity has never been one of Doctor Who's strong points is that time travel itself is often self-contradictory.
Actually, time travel is what saves continuity. Any change in time is bound to have effects in the future, so it's at least feasible that all that meddling in time can allow for one thing to be true in one episode, and another contradictory thing true in another.
Con-ti-nu-ity? What is this strange and alien concept? And what does it have to do with Doctor Who?
He's been out of generations for quite a while, if you count the fact that the serial "The Brain of Morbius" indicates that he's had several regenerations before the first doctor.
The illegal exports bound for Iran have involved such items as missile guidance systems, Improvised Explosive Device (IED) components, military aircraft parts, night vision systems and other materials.
Doesn't having specialized components for improvised explosives sort of kill the whole point with improvised explosives? I thought improvised explosives was the whole MacGyver deal, where you build an ICBM out of some shoelaces, pen sharpener shavings and a paper clip.
Most of the time, the types of scientists who carry cards to verify their being scientists also have a cards with a dozen other titles, including Rev., M.D., M.P., Prof., Press, etc.
They also often peddle perpetual motion machines in infomercials, or run some sort of pyramid scheme.
Pfft. Coddled kids. In my day, we used to telnet to port 80, then render the page with pencil and paper-- and that's the way we liked it!
Luxury! We used to bypass the computer all together and manually send data down the Cat-5 with a battery made out of a pair of soggy old socks and some coins.
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I live in Sweden. I have a 100 Mbps connection (that is always 100mbps) I pay roughly 20 US bucks a month for. It is not capped (explicitly or implicitly) it is always connected, it has the same up and down speed. Though I only have one IP.
The funny part is that we too have those crappy deals in Sweden where you pay 40 bucks a month for a 10 Mbps ADSL connection. And people eat the crap those ISPs feed them with a healthy appetite.
It is an oligopoly. DSL ISPs can take ridiculous prices for substandard products because there often is no real alternative. Which sucks.
the addiction industry is out of control in this country. somebody ought to stage an intervention.
I predict that the intervention intervention industry will emerge in the near future, and escalate into a point where intervention intervention interventions are necessary.
That wasn't too hard. I'm not even American, I really don't care about politics, economics or social sciences and I scored 70%.
Don't forget the extra fuel to carry the extra fuel.
Don't forget the extra fuel being burned to carry the extra fuel!
Is that a challenge I hint?
You say tomato, I say potato. I call upon my license to fail I paid "Bob" 30 bucks for.
J.R. "Bob" Dobbs explains it eloquently: "You know how dumb the average person is? Well, by definition, half of 'em are even dumber than THAT."
EAL12+ includes an HAL9000:esque AI that preemptively triggers a global nuclear holocaust, to ensure it will never be hacked.
I never understood why the borg had the Earth at coordinates 0,0,1. I mean, they didn't even know about humans before Q launched the Enterprise D into Borg space.
Are we back to the dark ages? The Earth as the center of the Universe?
I have no idea what radix and endianness the Borg are using. In decimal, 0 0 1 could be 10^23 digits long.
When you count how many cards you have in quantum poker, you no longer know which cards you hold. Conversely, if you check what cards you are holding, you no longer know how many they are.
And the moral of this story is, don't pray, you just look like a stalker.
... don't stalk, it makes you look religious.
1) Stray residual gamma rays knocks more electrons out of circuit A than circuit B.
2) Resulting potential difference induces current.
3) Resutling current flips a bit.
4) Bit is saved on hard drive.
5) Data is corrupted.
7) ???
8) (Absence of) Profit!
How would you know if someone successfully hid their smoking? While indoors chain smoking is hard to hide, a stick of gum and a hand wash goes a long way for the casual smoker.
I would suggest: seal kb and/or mouse in a plastic pouch, and use a chemical method to sterilize the outside of the pouch (bleach, etc). To change batteries, cut pouch open, put new batteries in, place in new pouch and repeat.
The flaw in your plan with sealing a computer in plastic is the fact that it relies on a fan to cool itself. Cut off the air, and it burns.
Yes, but look at the hour to price ratio. A CD is about an hour long, whereas a game is usually at least 30 hours if not more. A CD costs around $20 and a game around $50. The CD costs a whole lot more per hour than the game does.
But a CD has more replay value than most games. Many games you play just once or twice, but you can easily listen to a good record more than 30 times during the time you own it.
Not all that hard to understand, considering how much they charge for a video game.
I know the parent is borderline troll, but I'll respond anyways.
I think it's the state of affairs today, when it comes to PC gaming. You can't write code that works on all systems, because there are so ludicrously many configurations to consider. And there is only so many systems you can beta test on, especially in this sort of game that really doesn't lend itself well to public beta testing (95% of the fun is the explorations, spoilers leaking would be devastating.) Furthermore, many of the issues seem to stem from misconfigured systems: I had troubles playing that were related to codec problems that the developers clearly could not have predicted.
The tech support forums are also a typically bad place to gather crash statistics on, since people generally won't go there if they don't have troubles with the game.
Actually, time travel is what saves continuity. Any change in time is bound to have effects in the future, so it's at least feasible that all that meddling in time can allow for one thing to be true in one episode, and another contradictory thing true in another.
1,000,000 lemmings can't all be wrong.
Isn't the Doctor out of regenerations now?
Con-ti-nu-ity? What is this strange and alien concept? And what does it have to do with Doctor Who?
He's been out of generations for quite a while, if you count the fact that the serial "The Brain of Morbius" indicates that he's had several regenerations before the first doctor.
Doesn't having specialized components for improvised explosives sort of kill the whole point with improvised explosives? I thought improvised explosives was the whole MacGyver deal, where you build an ICBM out of some shoelaces, pen sharpener shavings and a paper clip.
Most of the time, the types of scientists who carry cards to verify their being scientists also have a cards with a dozen other titles, including Rev., M.D., M.P., Prof., Press, etc.
They also often peddle perpetual motion machines in infomercials, or run some sort of pyramid scheme.
Pfft. Coddled kids. In my day, we used to telnet to port 80, then render the page with pencil and paper-- and that's the way we liked it!
Luxury! We used to bypass the computer all together and manually send data down the Cat-5 with a battery made out of a pair of soggy old socks and some coins.
Their speeds all suck next to lynx!
Which is left coughing up the gravel "wget -O- URL" kicks up in it's face.
An adolescent captain just looks wrong...
On the other hand, it's not less ridiculous than the geriatric Enterprise crew in Star Trek VI.