What are you talking about? Let's just compare/contrast the last two leaders (and for this purpose we are going to say POTUS) of the DNC and GOP. Just pick two random speeches; any two. Please tell me which one you think is deranged.
I'm getting really sick of this tribal mentality nonsense. We don't discuss issues anymore. Politics has degraded into the equivalent of WWE smack talk.
Wasn't two years ago when health insurance became mandatory in MA? Pretty sure if you're unemployed you can go through Mass Health or Neighborhood Healthplan. What's silly is that I can't choose to get those if my employer provides a group policy (even if that group policy is much worse, and much more expensive). le sigh
Well... none of it is really private property per se. The MBTA is a public entity running a public service entirely financed by the public and its customers (who are also the public). Moreover, these fiber "closets" aren't even closets and anyone who has had any networking experience at all would be rather appalled just walking around the T-stops. Most of the break-out boxes are either wide open or unlocked and are not even secured behind a door. At just about every stop you can find a fiber "closet" mounted on a supporting strut in the middle of the station.
To the other person that replied to you though. The MBTA system most likely didn't belong to the MIT students at all since I very much doubt the majority of them were even from the Boston area.
Either way, the MBTA system is stupidly easy to circumvent and with the amount of fiber they have running throughout the T they really should've built a more reliable system. The buses and commuter rail could've been covered too with either a radio or satellite based network (which is currently in place on most MBCR coaches).
ISPs lease you a line, sometimes private, sometimes shared. Most businesses, especially those that do video streaming, etc. get a private (non-shared line) and in their contract with the ISPs their bandwidth is guaranteed. Most consumers have shared lines but their bandwidth isn't guaranteed, it just usually is available because most subscribers don't use up their available bandwidth on their leased lines. ISPs sell a company or private individual a line with x available bandwidth of x' available throughput on the line. The line will always have the same capacity but because they oversubscribe they can get away with selling 20 4mbps/384kbps lines per say a DS3 (so near double the throughput of the line itself).
If everyone used the their connections the downstream would be completely saturated but the upstream would still be ok, and then consumers would be in outrage over not getting their money's worth. But consumers are already not getting their money's worth because most of them don't use the entirety of their line, and on top of that are getting nickle and dimed for every bit over X bytes/month on an already overpriced 'net connection.
This is roughly equivalent to a transportation service selling 150-200 seats on a 75 seat vehicle and then expecting the people who frequently use their service to pay more and/or turning away everyone that doesn't get on the vehicle. Either way the company is at fault and they need to pay for their mistakes, not their customers.
It's not that they just accept it and keep on paying these companies. It's that they cannot fight it. Internet service is pretty much a neccessity nowadays. In most areas you only have one or two choices for an ISP.
Here in the Boston area I'm lucky to have 3: RCN, Comcast, and Verizon. Unfortunately, RCN utilizes Comcast's networks so paying RCN is essentially paying Comcast and on top of that their business practices are almost as bad. Verizon DSL has horrendously low throughput for the price and FIOS still isn't available in most parts of the city, just a couple of suburbs. There are some other hard to use alternatives such as the less often than available municipal WiFi or the point-to-point WiFi program MIT setup where you have to let anyone access your AP and bridge to another AP within range, but this most often requires roof access (which most residents do not have); and those options aren't really accessible to the average consumer.
So essentially you only have 2 choices, pay one company and you get crapped on. Pay another company and you get a lower quality service (and that's assuming you can convince Verizon to give you a naked DSL line).
The problem not that people keep paying these companies and are therefore letting themselves get screwed. The problem is that these companies are allowed to have exclusive (or near exclusive) contracts with municipalities and literally shut out any potential competition; forcing the consumer to use only one provider instead of have competition.
AFAIK UT games have always supported different versions playing with each other. At least those running newer versions could connect to older version servers and play with older version clients but not vice versa.
It doesn't take a change of OS to keep your PC clean of AdWare and Spyware. My WinXP install was up and running for 3 years and had no viri, no spyware, no adware, etc. In fact the only issues it did have were cookies which were known as used for tracking purposes across sites and even those would be prevalent across ANY OS (unless you have cookies disabled on your browser).
And saying that gaming is a weak argument is just silly. What do you think drives the industry? Do you really think we need more and more power so we can make spreadsheets or browse the web faster? You honestly think the PC enthusiast builds a top of the line rig in order to do something the average Joe does? Hell, it's doubtful the PC enthusiast will run anything other than next-gen game in order to bring his rig to its knees.
It's arena matches (especially among top-ranked players) that people care about. It's very different to know that 3 of the 5 opponents have engineering, therefore some crazy trinkets, and oh, that rogue is mutilate-build vs combat, or that mage is frost/fire/arcane spec'd.
This whole point about arena matches is rather moot. When an arena match starts you have 60 seconds to hand out food, water, health stones, buffs, etc. During this time, however, you are given absolutely no information about the other team except for how many there are. You cannot target them, you cannot query their names, races, class, etc. Ergo, unless you feel like losing your rating to scout for the teams you have no time to look up what spec they are or what gear they have. Furthermore, given the existent of battle groups and how the arena system works you have very little chance of fighting the same team over and over again unless you are in the top or bottom percentiles of your respective league.
On top of this, many people already have their profiles available on Allakhazam or Thottbot and hopefully most are honest when using CTProfiles. Any guild roster information is freely available on WarcraftRealms. Just because this data now comes directly from the source as opposed to gathered by many third parties doesn't mean it didn't exist in the public scope before. I really don't see the problem and I hope Blizzard goes even further with this by showing things I can craft with my professions as well, just so I don't have to keep an updated list myself!
Anyone complaining about their privacy being violated doesn't really know the meaning of the term. Perhaps if Blizzard displayed the account name your character was associated then a privacy concern would be valid. However, this is not, and will never be, the case.
Seeing as how a $300 CPU and a $200 video card out perform the 360 at higher settings and resolutions by a long shot, yeah I would say the 360 is pretty weak. Moreover, Crysis is a DX10 game and will not run on anything but Vista.
Video games have some truly good music, especially RPGs. But yeah, what a bad idea it would be to have an orchestratedvideogameconcert. I mean, who in their right mind would attend such a thing? Obviously they are never soldout, right?
You do not need a liscence to drive a vehicle on private roads and/or tracks. You can get in accidents all day long and the law can't do anything about it. You can however, get your ass sued off by the other party.
Soon, the internet will be rendered a privilage in which you need a license to access. We've seen it happen with roads, its only a matter of time before it happens to the net. Also prepare for internet taxes.
That's just silly. There is a reason it happened with roads! The government did not build the internet infastructure, and taxes did not fund it. At least not wholly. The road infastructure, however, is funded by taxes and built by the local, state, and federal governments and/or they contract a company to do so using the aforementioned funds. That is why it is required to be licensed to drive on public roads and also why you pay such a high tax on your petrol.
The internet, however, is financed by private entities and built by private entities. Therefore, requring an access license and/or taxing internet accesss just wouldn't fly.
Sadly, you don't know that "thru" and "nite" are the informal spellings of "through" and "night." Moreover, they are also valid spelling which can be found in any dictionary.
How does Japanese have the some problem? Sure, if all you do is read Romaji or Kana all day long. However, once you get into Kanji the problems seem to go away. After all, the characters may read the same, but they look totally different.
There simply isn't enough time to be actively involved in MMOs and play other games at more than a less than casual level. A lot of people who play WoW and are in raiding guilds easily spend 20-40 hours a week if not more playing WoW!
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What are you talking about? Let's just compare/contrast the last two leaders (and for this purpose we are going to say POTUS) of the DNC and GOP. Just pick two random speeches; any two. Please tell me which one you think is deranged. I'm getting really sick of this tribal mentality nonsense. We don't discuss issues anymore. Politics has degraded into the equivalent of WWE smack talk.
Cable companies have contracts? I don't even think DTV or Dish have contracts unless you get "free" equipment from them.
This is absolutely shocking coming from an industry founded on violating IP laws in order to avoid paying licensing fees for patented technology.
Wasn't two years ago when health insurance became mandatory in MA? Pretty sure if you're unemployed you can go through Mass Health or Neighborhood Healthplan. What's silly is that I can't choose to get those if my employer provides a group policy (even if that group policy is much worse, and much more expensive). le sigh
Well... none of it is really private property per se. The MBTA is a public entity running a public service entirely financed by the public and its customers (who are also the public). Moreover, these fiber "closets" aren't even closets and anyone who has had any networking experience at all would be rather appalled just walking around the T-stops. Most of the break-out boxes are either wide open or unlocked and are not even secured behind a door. At just about every stop you can find a fiber "closet" mounted on a supporting strut in the middle of the station.
To the other person that replied to you though. The MBTA system most likely didn't belong to the MIT students at all since I very much doubt the majority of them were even from the Boston area.
Either way, the MBTA system is stupidly easy to circumvent and with the amount of fiber they have running throughout the T they really should've built a more reliable system. The buses and commuter rail could've been covered too with either a radio or satellite based network (which is currently in place on most MBCR coaches).
ISPs lease you a line, sometimes private, sometimes shared. Most businesses, especially those that do video streaming, etc. get a private (non-shared line) and in their contract with the ISPs their bandwidth is guaranteed. Most consumers have shared lines but their bandwidth isn't guaranteed, it just usually is available because most subscribers don't use up their available bandwidth on their leased lines. ISPs sell a company or private individual a line with x available bandwidth of x' available throughput on the line. The line will always have the same capacity but because they oversubscribe they can get away with selling 20 4mbps/384kbps lines per say a DS3 (so near double the throughput of the line itself). If everyone used the their connections the downstream would be completely saturated but the upstream would still be ok, and then consumers would be in outrage over not getting their money's worth. But consumers are already not getting their money's worth because most of them don't use the entirety of their line, and on top of that are getting nickle and dimed for every bit over X bytes/month on an already overpriced 'net connection. This is roughly equivalent to a transportation service selling 150-200 seats on a 75 seat vehicle and then expecting the people who frequently use their service to pay more and/or turning away everyone that doesn't get on the vehicle. Either way the company is at fault and they need to pay for their mistakes, not their customers.
It's not that they just accept it and keep on paying these companies. It's that they cannot fight it. Internet service is pretty much a neccessity nowadays. In most areas you only have one or two choices for an ISP.
Here in the Boston area I'm lucky to have 3: RCN, Comcast, and Verizon. Unfortunately, RCN utilizes Comcast's networks so paying RCN is essentially paying Comcast and on top of that their business practices are almost as bad. Verizon DSL has horrendously low throughput for the price and FIOS still isn't available in most parts of the city, just a couple of suburbs. There are some other hard to use alternatives such as the less often than available municipal WiFi or the point-to-point WiFi program MIT setup where you have to let anyone access your AP and bridge to another AP within range, but this most often requires roof access (which most residents do not have); and those options aren't really accessible to the average consumer.
So essentially you only have 2 choices, pay one company and you get crapped on. Pay another company and you get a lower quality service (and that's assuming you can convince Verizon to give you a naked DSL line).
The problem not that people keep paying these companies and are therefore letting themselves get screwed. The problem is that these companies are allowed to have exclusive (or near exclusive) contracts with municipalities and literally shut out any potential competition; forcing the consumer to use only one provider instead of have competition.
AFAIK UT games have always supported different versions playing with each other. At least those running newer versions could connect to older version servers and play with older version clients but not vice versa.
It doesn't take a change of OS to keep your PC clean of AdWare and Spyware. My WinXP install was up and running for 3 years and had no viri, no spyware, no adware, etc. In fact the only issues it did have were cookies which were known as used for tracking purposes across sites and even those would be prevalent across ANY OS (unless you have cookies disabled on your browser).
And saying that gaming is a weak argument is just silly. What do you think drives the industry? Do you really think we need more and more power so we can make spreadsheets or browse the web faster? You honestly think the PC enthusiast builds a top of the line rig in order to do something the average Joe does? Hell, it's doubtful the PC enthusiast will run anything other than next-gen game in order to bring his rig to its knees.
Oh well, can't change a zealot's mind though.
End process does not do the same thing as kill -9. If you want something like kill under a Win* environment get pskill.
Last I heard HackCam was integrated as part of VAC2. Gotta code up some really good AI for your aimbot in order to beat it.
Seeing as how a $300 CPU and a $200 video card out perform the 360 at higher settings and resolutions by a long shot, yeah I would say the 360 is pretty weak. Moreover, Crysis is a DX10 game and will not run on anything but Vista.
Video games have some truly good music, especially RPGs. But yeah, what a bad idea it would be to have an orchestrated video game concert. I mean, who in their right mind would attend such a thing? Obviously they are never sold out, right?
Deus Ex: Invisible War. That is all >.
The PS3 GPU is made by NVidia
That is all.
You do not need a liscence to drive a vehicle on private roads and/or tracks. You can get in accidents all day long and the law can't do anything about it. You can however, get your ass sued off by the other party.
That's just silly. There is a reason it happened with roads! The government did not build the internet infastructure, and taxes did not fund it. At least not wholly. The road infastructure, however, is funded by taxes and built by the local, state, and federal governments and/or they contract a company to do so using the aforementioned funds. That is why it is required to be licensed to drive on public roads and also why you pay such a high tax on your petrol.
The internet, however, is financed by private entities and built by private entities. Therefore, requring an access license and/or taxing internet accesss just wouldn't fly.
Screen Capture. Sleep. Write. It will take forever, but you can cap all of the images and reproduce a 24-30FPS stream.
Sadly, you don't know that "thru" and "nite" are the informal spellings of "through" and "night." Moreover, they are also valid spelling which can be found in any dictionary.
How does Japanese have the some problem? Sure, if all you do is read Romaji or Kana all day long. However, once you get into Kanji the problems seem to go away. After all, the characters may read the same, but they look totally different.
There simply isn't enough time to be actively involved in MMOs and play other games at more than a less than casual level. A lot of people who play WoW and are in raiding guilds easily spend 20-40 hours a week if not more playing WoW!
Didn't they have similar paint on toy cars in the 80s and 90s?
Sim City FTW =D