Actually you can speculate in them (I think). Couldn't someone just buy up the companies who already own some large blocks of addys? It would be hecka expensive though.
Anything less than around 33 or so cents goes to to paypal from fees. So just keep in mind that you are donating to paypal not the indy game developer if you do that. There's a lot of people who donated 1 cent to paypal. On the other hand, if you WANT to cost paypal money, donating 1 cent with visa card probably costs paypal money.
Like no one bought and used shoddy electronic voting machines despite a shoddy past history (even at the time of purchase) in last few elections? Oh wait...
I think bethesda was pretty much ignoring them until fallout 1/2/tactics started being sold with labeling of "trilogy" That implies it includes FO3, which it doesn't. The reason beth put that part into the contract was they didn't want interplay screwing up beth's marketing for FO3, and it looks like interplay just ignored that part of the contract and tried to screw them anyway.
Actually I'm impressed. From my experiance most other sites go the route of MS when they did they Hotmail EULA change that said anything you sent through their servers belongs to MS, and if its proprietary then it now belongs to them with all rights going to MS. Theoretically if you sent patent PDFs through hotmail during that time, they would then own the patent.
Anyway, seeing twitter go the other way and up front say that the tweets belong to the authors is impressive to me.
Remember how the NFL has been going after places that have TV's showing thier matches? Saying they need to buy a broadcaster license to show it on larger than a certain number of inches, or more than certain number of people watching, etc.
Well if this becomes reality, now they will be able to go after anyone they thing is violating that kinda thing.
FAT32 has a 4 GB max file size. This can be somewhat inconveniant if you have say a linux dvd ISO thats larger than that, or if you record HD video, etc.
I would suggest going with NTFS, there are ways now to use the actual microsoft NTFS driver in a wrapper with linux, then you get full native compatability if thats what you are thinking (it used to be that NTFS compatability was an issue with linux).
The cheapest solution for backup would probably be an external USB drive. And you may also want to have 2 of them that you swap out for off site storage, or something like that, depending on how important your data is to you.
Yeah you are right, if they just ban it entirely (presuming enforcement), it puts lots more people out of a job than if just 1 game company say went under.
I've seen things happen in real time chat that were NOT contrived that are as funny as any on bash. In chat some people can say some really stupid/funny things sometimes. I imagine some on bash is contrived or made up, but I think a lot isn't.
http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/41219/Left-4-Dead-DLC-Promised "Chet Faliszek said that Valve plans to get the DLC rolling much more quickly with Left 4 Dead than it has been able to for Team Fortress 2. Plans already in the works call for new campaigns, weapons, and boss infected (the game's zombie enemies). In addition, there were strong hints at a flamethrower coming not long after launch."
Yes, the valve team promised L4D 1 content, including new special infected AND weapons AND new campaigns. Turns out they saved all that for L4D2 instead. L4D2 will have a new special infected (charger), new weapons, and new campaigns. And no, they didn't add any new campaigns in L4D1, just tweaked versions of the old ones for versus, and a single new mini map for survival (the rest of the survival levels are just portions of the old maps in old campaigns)
That same guy at valve in an interview said they have been working on L4D2 since the launch of L4D1. http://www.shacknews.com/featuredarticle.x?id=1138 "Shack: When did development on Left 4 Dead 2 start?
Chet Faliszek: Pretty much after Left 4 Dead launched."
"Updated Tue May 19, 2009 12:28pm AEST" "-Editor's note: The original version of this story was amended to reflect the fact that the unit can be turned off by the driver."
The original story didn't have it, so perhaps the submission didn't either. I don't know about the editors, or why they haven't added an UPDATE line by now.
I've seen it happen when a construction zone didn't warn of a low shoulder at night, and the wheel dropped down the inch at one point and started swinging. The truck was going UNDER the speed limit, which was something like 55 mph (it shoulda been lower IMHO).
1) No sudden stopping started it swinging 2) no going downhill 3) no high winds.
Trailer wasn't misloaded, it was a well designed high end boat trailer.
I consider that a cop out. Kilobytes were originally 1024 bytes, megabytes were 1024^2 bytes, gigabytes were 1024^3 bytes, etc. You can look at the windows file explorer for instance. When you look at EEPROM chips or IC's with memory, if they say 1K memory they are 1024 bytes. Look at old computers like 286 or 486, when they go through memory tests if it tests a megabyte its 1024 KB.
Then hdd manufactures came along and started calling a megabyte 1 million bytes (well I dunno if they started it or just took advantage of it) so thier hdds would look bigger. And the average joe probably assumes its an even 1 million (which generally didn't hurt anyone since it was approximately the case). So rather than stick up for what it actually means, the NIST decided to adopt differant terminology. Cop out:)
So I still consider the proper definition of a megabyte to be 1024^2 bytes, but if the masses and hdd companies wish to think otherwise with improper values they can:)
Turns out it wasn't for a photoshoot, it was just for a SINGLE PHOTO!!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090427/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_low_flying_plane_purpose "WASHINGTON An administration official says a presidential Boeing 747 and a fighter jet flew low near ground zero in New York City Monday because the White House Military Office wanted to update its file photo of the president's plane near the Statue of Liberty."
4500 megabytes isn't 4.5 gigabytes, despite what hdd manufactures want you to think:) However, if you said "approximately" or "around" or "about" it could be overlocked:)
Ok, but how about the books? http://www.amazon.com/Best-Destiny-Star-Diane-Carey/dp/0671795880 The best star trek book ever written. Tells about his father and kirk, and an experiance they had together that shaped kirk's entire life. Has a number of moving scenes of self sacrifice on the part of both kirk and his dad (after kirk starts to get over his teenage issues with his dad). It would be a TRUELY great star trek movie if they used that book. Unfortunately, the movie seems to be going in a totally differant direction (from watching the trailers).
It doesn't even do that. All this does is allow you to really uninstall now.
In other words, if you get say 3 installs from Spore, before, if you had to reinstall from a hdd wipe or because the install screwed up, each install could use up one of the 3 install activations. Then after those are used up, you have to call to be able to install the game you bought.
Now, when you uninstall, you run the deactivation tool to raise the allowed activations up by 1. So if you install, it goes to 2. Uninstall it stays at 2. Run de-activation tool, goes back to 3.
The tools change NOTHING about the securom other than letting you REALLY uninstall the game now.
For years now, since the FCC said CPNI was opt out, EVERY phone company (mobile and landline) could sell/trade ALL your information. Name, address, billing info, numbers you call, time you call them, how often you call them, essentially every single thing the phone company knows about you. The kinda stuff that normally requires a warrant, they can just give it away. The name for that info is CPNI (customer proprietary network information).
This was changed in 2002, because of a court case (previously it was opt in only). The FCC decided rather than fight it, they would just switch to opt out. (Yeah there are a few restrictions, like they have to be a telecommunications related company... hmm if I sell cell phone batteries, I must be telecommunications related, right?)
Everyone should have already opted out years ago to prevent this kinda thing, if they were paying attention. No one did, so this kinda thing wasn't stopped. If you haven't already you should call up every phone company you use and ask them not to share CPNI.
"1) Opt-Out Your company sends you a notice saying it will consider you to have given your approval to use your customer information for marketing unless you tell it not to do so (usually within 30 days.)" "How to Help Prevent Unauthorized Disclosure of Your Customer Information"
"Read your telephone bill and any other notices you receive from your company carefully. Determine if your company is seeking opt-in or opt-out permission to use or share your customer information for marketing."
Only problem is, next number in the sequence of 2000 and 2003 isn't 2007, its 2006. And E and P aren't roman numerals, and my version of excel doesn't show any roman numeral formatting option.
But aside from that:) You did have me going for half a second there.
And its loaded with secret laws and crap. For instance, the IRS is allowed to pose undercover as a tax preparer.
And there's a giant loophole that allows banks to say buy $50 billion of those "toxic" debts one day and the next day sell them for a profit to the treasure for $100 billion.
Oh and the $700 billion figure is only stuff held at one time. So the gov can buy up $700 billion of the debt, sell it at a loss, buy up another $700 billion, sell it at a loss, lather, rinse, repeat, every time at a loss to tax payer (and profit to the banks). So the total cost from this single bill could be far more than $700 billion.
Comcast had already dropped newsgroups/usenet a long time ago and instead offered a free 2 gigs a month of giganews service (probably trying to save money since they didn't have to store anything on thier own servers). Now they've dropped giganews as well. I'm glad I dont use comcast, but I wish FIOS was in my area.
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Actually you can speculate in them (I think). Couldn't someone just buy up the companies who already own some large blocks of addys? It would be hecka expensive though.
Anything less than around 33 or so cents goes to to paypal from fees. So just keep in mind that you are donating to paypal not the indy game developer if you do that. There's a lot of people who donated 1 cent to paypal. On the other hand, if you WANT to cost paypal money, donating 1 cent with visa card probably costs paypal money.
Like no one bought and used shoddy electronic voting machines despite a shoddy past history (even at the time of purchase) in last few elections?
Oh wait...
I think bethesda was pretty much ignoring them until fallout 1/2/tactics started being sold with labeling of "trilogy"
That implies it includes FO3, which it doesn't. The reason beth put that part into the contract was they didn't want interplay screwing up beth's marketing for FO3, and it looks like interplay just ignored that part of the contract and tried to screw them anyway.
Actually I'm impressed. From my experiance most other sites go the route of MS when they did they Hotmail EULA change that said anything you sent through their servers belongs to MS, and if its proprietary then it now belongs to them with all rights going to MS. Theoretically if you sent patent PDFs through hotmail during that time, they would then own the patent.
Anyway, seeing twitter go the other way and up front say that the tweets belong to the authors is impressive to me.
I'm pretty sure apple charges a fee for iphone developement stuff.
Remember how the NFL has been going after places that have TV's showing thier matches? Saying they need to buy a broadcaster license to show it on larger than a certain number of inches, or more than certain number of people watching, etc.
Well if this becomes reality, now they will be able to go after anyone they thing is violating that kinda thing.
FAT32 has a 4 GB max file size.
This can be somewhat inconveniant if you have say a linux dvd ISO thats larger than that, or if you record HD video, etc.
I would suggest going with NTFS, there are ways now to use the actual microsoft NTFS driver in a wrapper with linux, then you get full native compatability if thats what you are thinking (it used to be that NTFS compatability was an issue with linux).
The cheapest solution for backup would probably be an external USB drive. And you may also want to have 2 of them that you swap out for off site storage, or something like that, depending on how important your data is to you.
Yeah you are right, if they just ban it entirely (presuming enforcement), it puts lots more people out of a job than if just 1 game company say went under.
And thats differant from what they are doing by banning it entirely, how? :)
I've seen things happen in real time chat that were NOT contrived that are as funny as any on bash. In chat some people can say some really stupid/funny things sometimes. I imagine some on bash is contrived or made up, but I think a lot isn't.
http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/41219/Left-4-Dead-DLC-Promised
"Chet Faliszek said that Valve plans to get the DLC rolling much more quickly with Left 4 Dead than it has been able to for Team Fortress 2. Plans already in the works call for new campaigns, weapons, and boss infected (the game's zombie enemies). In addition, there were strong hints at a flamethrower coming not long after launch."
Yes, the valve team promised L4D 1 content, including new special infected AND weapons AND new campaigns. Turns out they saved all that for L4D2 instead. L4D2 will have a new special infected (charger), new weapons, and new campaigns. And no, they didn't add any new campaigns in L4D1, just tweaked versions of the old ones for versus, and a single new mini map for survival (the rest of the survival levels are just portions of the old maps in old campaigns)
That same guy at valve in an interview said they have been working on L4D2 since the launch of L4D1.
http://www.shacknews.com/featuredarticle.x?id=1138
"Shack: When did development on Left 4 Dead 2 start?
Chet Faliszek: Pretty much after Left 4 Dead launched."
Likely because from TFA:
"Updated Tue May 19, 2009 12:28pm AEST"
"-Editor's note: The original version of this story was amended to reflect the fact that the unit can be turned off by the driver."
The original story didn't have it, so perhaps the submission didn't either. I don't know about the editors, or why they haven't added an UPDATE line by now.
I've seen it happen when a construction zone didn't warn of a low shoulder at night, and the wheel dropped down the inch at one point and started swinging. The truck was going UNDER the speed limit, which was something like 55 mph (it shoulda been lower IMHO).
1) No sudden stopping started it swinging
2) no going downhill
3) no high winds.
Trailer wasn't misloaded, it was a well designed high end boat trailer.
Didn't AMD break the 1ghz desktop CPU "barrier" too? ;)
I consider that a cop out. Kilobytes were originally 1024 bytes, megabytes were 1024^2 bytes, gigabytes were 1024^3 bytes, etc. You can look at the windows file explorer for instance.
When you look at EEPROM chips or IC's with memory, if they say 1K memory they are 1024 bytes. Look at old computers like 286 or 486, when they go through memory tests if it tests a megabyte its 1024 KB.
Then hdd manufactures came along and started calling a megabyte 1 million bytes (well I dunno if they started it or just took advantage of it) so thier hdds would look bigger. And the average joe probably assumes its an even 1 million (which generally didn't hurt anyone since it was approximately the case). So rather than stick up for what it actually means, the NIST decided to adopt differant terminology. Cop out :)
So I still consider the proper definition of a megabyte to be 1024^2 bytes, but if the masses and hdd companies wish to think otherwise with improper values they can :)
Turns out it wasn't for a photoshoot, it was just for a SINGLE PHOTO!!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090427/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_low_flying_plane_purpose
"WASHINGTON An administration official says a presidential Boeing 747 and a fighter jet flew low near ground zero in New York City Monday because the White House Military Office wanted to update its file photo of the president's plane near the Statue of Liberty."
4500 megabytes isn't 4.5 gigabytes, despite what hdd manufactures want you to think :) However, if you said "approximately" or "around" or "about" it could be overlocked :)
I'm pretty sure even dialup can download a couple gigs or more a month
Ok, but how about the books?
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Destiny-Star-Diane-Carey/dp/0671795880
The best star trek book ever written. Tells about his father and kirk, and an experiance they had together that shaped kirk's entire life. Has a number of moving scenes of self sacrifice on the part of both kirk and his dad (after kirk starts to get over his teenage issues with his dad).
It would be a TRUELY great star trek movie if they used that book. Unfortunately, the movie seems to be going in a totally differant direction (from watching the trailers).
It doesn't even do that. All this does is allow you to really uninstall now.
In other words, if you get say 3 installs from Spore, before, if you had to reinstall from a hdd wipe or because the install screwed up, each install could use up one of the 3 install activations. Then after those are used up, you have to call to be able to install the game you bought.
Now, when you uninstall, you run the deactivation tool to raise the allowed activations up by 1. So if you install, it goes to 2. Uninstall it stays at 2. Run de-activation tool, goes back to 3.
The tools change NOTHING about the securom other than letting you REALLY uninstall the game now.
For years now, since the FCC said CPNI was opt out, EVERY phone company (mobile and landline) could sell/trade ALL your information. Name, address, billing info, numbers you call, time you call them, how often you call them, essentially every single thing the phone company knows about you. The kinda stuff that normally requires a warrant, they can just give it away. The name for that info is CPNI (customer proprietary network information).
This was changed in 2002, because of a court case (previously it was opt in only). The FCC decided rather than fight it, they would just switch to opt out.
(Yeah there are a few restrictions, like they have to be a telecommunications related company... hmm if I sell cell phone batteries, I must be telecommunications related, right?)
Everyone should have already opted out years ago to prevent this kinda thing, if they were paying attention. No one did, so this kinda thing wasn't stopped.
If you haven't already you should call up every phone company you use and ask them not to share CPNI.
Get the Facts (google up CPNI, and here's a place to start)
http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/phoneaboutyou.html
"1) Opt-Out Your company sends you a notice saying it will consider you to have given your approval to use your customer information for marketing unless you tell it not to do so (usually within 30 days.)"
"How to Help Prevent Unauthorized Disclosure of Your Customer Information"
"Read your telephone bill and any other notices you receive from your company carefully. Determine if your company is seeking opt-in or opt-out permission to use or share your customer information for marketing."
Thats whats been going on here.
Only problem is, next number in the sequence of 2000 and 2003 isn't 2007, its 2006. And E and P aren't roman numerals, and my version of excel doesn't show any roman numeral formatting option.
But aside from that :) You did have me going for half a second there.
Actually, total cost of bailouts over last couple months is more likely to exceed $1.8 trillion, not $700 billion:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10057618-38.html?tag=nl.e433
And its loaded with secret laws and crap. For instance, the IRS is allowed to pose undercover as a tax preparer.
And there's a giant loophole that allows banks to say buy $50 billion of those "toxic" debts one day and the next day sell them for a profit to the treasure for $100 billion.
Oh and the $700 billion figure is only stuff held at one time. So the gov can buy up $700 billion of the debt, sell it at a loss, buy up another $700 billion, sell it at a loss, lather, rinse, repeat, every time at a loss to tax payer (and profit to the banks). So the total cost from this single bill could be far more than $700 billion.
Comcast had already dropped newsgroups/usenet a long time ago and instead offered a free 2 gigs a month of giganews service (probably trying to save money since they didn't have to store anything on thier own servers).
Now they've dropped giganews as well.
I'm glad I dont use comcast, but I wish FIOS was in my area.