I don't see my undead priest flying my EVE ship more than I see myself using my/. karma to impress people on Fark.
Anyway, after RTFA, it seems more like someone had a pot induced idea than anything serious.
Microsoft announced today that they have achieved a full annoyance oscillator and generator on a single virtual piece of bent metal. The findings titled "How to make Clippy more annoying" will be published next week in the Mr. Ballmer's Journal of IBM Bashing
From what you hear? If you didn't try...WOW PvP is certainly better than a lot of MMORPG out there, if not all of them. Its no FPS, but its pretty solid as far as MMORPG goes.
As for Dark Fall, the article is talking about current market leaders. And beside, to have cool PvP you need to have other players to kill... Which do not lack in WOW.
The site got on Digg, Fark.com and/. all within the same 2-3 days. I went to it sunday following a link from someone in WOW, and they already had a "help us pay our bandwidth" banner, without having even been hit yet. Hopefully the exposure will produce someone who want to host them...
I don't see whats the problems. An anti virus is like rust-proofing your car. Its needed and its your own damn fault if you never had it made. And you can't accuse the manufacturer of not doing it for you either Microsoft claim that Vista is so secure, wouldn't it seem redundant to include an antivirus? You know, just like people (some of them, no one on/. of course) laugh at the built-in firewall?
And beside, wouldn't they expose themselve to Anti-Monopoly law if they were to include an antivirus?
They will prefer being ignorant than calling this number... (its not a racist comment. Its one from a guy who worked at a cell phone CS, taking call from Vancouver.)
Not sure what you are going on about. The server crashed because of human nature, nothing a simulation could have predicted. People flocked to the Medvish server, hoping to see the cutscene that happen when a world event occur. Creating new character in masse, moving their existing character from another server, etc.
I do feel for Blizzard, and they probably should have reacted faster (they knew after all that the "war effort" was nearly fulfilled) but I feel because they had to work overtime, not because they couldn't predict it. Simulating a browser load, where you assume that not one of the clients have the web site's picture/animation/content loaded, and you don't know which browser, OS or plugin they have from is quite different from simulating a fixed client from a fixed OS with nearly no media content to download.
But yeah, people should stop complaining, or at least find something else than the tired "I paid to be able to play, Blizzard owe me" tirade.
No it won't, at least with SP2. My Compaq laptop run XP and when I change my wireless network to remove encryption (because my Nintendo DS doesn't connect if its enabled, but I live in the woods, so I don't worry much) Windows refuse to connect AUTOMATICALY, even if I keep the same SSID. It will connect if I tell him to though (by clicking OK on a dialog that warn me that the connection is not secure and encrypted).
Yes they should show a study to your mom that "reveal the role that digital games play in keeping minds sharp, especially those of the aging." Hopefully she doesn't take it too personnaly.
1. Each game must be made in less than seven days,
2. Each game must be made by exactly one person,
3. Each game must be based around a common theme i.e. "gravity", "vegetation", "swarms", etc.
That sounded cool until I saw the 2nd game listed... It uses ripped sprites.
And most of the game on that site do no look like they were made by 1 person only... I've seen programmer's art. its not pretty
claims which were almost immediately viewed with skepticism in the scientific community
Of course they did. I love when someone play the "I told you so" card.
All the "We knew no WMD were in Irak, it wasn't the reason for the war", "I knew you shouldn't have bought that brand", "My mother warned me about you" and "I had a feeling" people will now feel validated. Scientist do the same after all!.
But photo printed in a photo printer degrade over time too. I have pictures of the birth of my 2 years old daughter (so the pics are 2 years old;) ) and if I compare the home printed photos to the studio printed one, the home printed pics' colors aren't that great...
Some printer claim to have a color protection layer now, but I am effraid to scrap some pictures again...
Because people lives on memory. Everything is better in the past. And just like most music album out there, some episode "grow" on you. You figure its funny after you see it for the 20th time at the cartoon network. Why do you think Fox release the DVD set 5 years late?
But hey, most people on slashdot (and a lot of other places) think they are connoisseur if they ditch what is mainstream and glorify the underdogs.
You are right, the article is not clear. Still, stolen and cloned is not the same thing. And depending of if the phone was here or overseas she might not have a case.
What is weird is that Quebec's small claim court is limited to 7000$. (Drummond is a french name). If she is from Ontario, the limit is 10k. Thats probably why Rogers offered her 2000$, she would need to pay that anyway. One way or the other, the 2000$ offer sounds more than good.
I just love YOUR attitude. She lost her phone, didn't say anything, came back, didn't say anything, received the bill and THEN called the company. How dumb is she? SHE sound like the scammer. 2000$ seems like a fair offer for someone who didn't take her responsabilities in the first place.
And even dumber, she will now go to court and compare apples to oranges.
A situation where a phone that was brought by the user is used oversea and another one where unusual long distance are made from a cloned phone from here just seems like a pretty shaky argument to me. I'm sorry to say, but its a different matter to enforce a pattern recognition software on your own network and to enforce it when the phone is on a foreign network. The roaming partners don't usually feed "live" data to the parent company.
You pad invoices, you are a crook. You charge a user for service that was used on her phone... You might not be a crook.
Yes and how will you prove that they never had plan to build anything? There is such a thing as licensing you know.
In a perfect world it would work like you said. But not everyone with a brain has deep pockets. And it would be very hard to demonstrate that the intention to build something wasn't there.
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I don't see my undead priest flying my EVE ship more than I see myself using my /. karma to impress people on Fark.
Anyway, after RTFA, it seems more like someone had a pot induced idea than anything serious.
Microsoft announced today that they have achieved a full annoyance oscillator and generator on a single virtual piece of bent metal.
The findings titled "How to make Clippy more annoying" will be published next week in the Mr. Ballmer's Journal of IBM Bashing
Wouldn't it be possible to have a system with 2 keys? One who decrypts your file and one who wipe them all up?
I never used encryption for my personnal data, but this would be a good trick. They ask for your key, you give the 2nd one, they erase everything.
And then you sue them for screwing up and erasing all your important files that were never child porn to start with.
No. There is no historical statistical correlation between the lifespan of women based on number of children (or even if they had children).
No data doesn't mean its not the case. It mean that no one tested it that way.
From what you hear? If you didn't try...WOW PvP is certainly better than a lot of MMORPG out there, if not all of them. Its no FPS, but its pretty solid as far as MMORPG goes.
As for Dark Fall, the article is talking about current market leaders. And beside, to have cool PvP you need to have other players to kill... Which do not lack in WOW.
Their "Computer connected to the internet" picture is one of IE saying there is no connection.
The site got on Digg, Fark.com and /. all within the same 2-3 days. I went to it sunday following a link from someone in WOW, and they already had a "help us pay our bandwidth" banner, without having even been hit yet. Hopefully the exposure will produce someone who want to host them...
I don't see whats the problems. An anti virus is like rust-proofing your car. Its needed and its your own damn fault if you never had it made. And you can't accuse the manufacturer of not doing it for you either /. of course) laugh at the built-in firewall?
Microsoft claim that Vista is so secure, wouldn't it seem redundant to include an antivirus? You know, just like people (some of them, no one on
And beside, wouldn't they expose themselve to Anti-Monopoly law if they were to include an antivirus?
(not that it dether MS usually but still...)
They will prefer being ignorant than calling this number... (its not a racist comment. Its one from a guy who worked at a cell phone CS, taking call from Vancouver.)
And KFC would be in trouble.
/Although one might now want to know whats in there.
I saw it done on CSI!
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Not sure what you are going on about. The server crashed because of human nature, nothing a simulation could have predicted. People flocked to the Medvish server, hoping to see the cutscene that happen when a world event occur. Creating new character in masse, moving their existing character from another server, etc.
I do feel for Blizzard, and they probably should have reacted faster (they knew after all that the "war effort" was nearly fulfilled) but I feel because they had to work overtime, not because they couldn't predict it. Simulating a browser load, where you assume that not one of the clients have the web site's picture/animation/content loaded, and you don't know which browser, OS or plugin they have from is quite different from simulating a fixed client from a fixed OS with nearly no media content to download.
But yeah, people should stop complaining, or at least find something else than the tired "I paid to be able to play, Blizzard owe me" tirade.
No it won't, at least with SP2. My Compaq laptop run XP and when I change my wireless network to remove encryption (because my Nintendo DS doesn't connect if its enabled, but I live in the woods, so I don't worry much) Windows refuse to connect AUTOMATICALY, even if I keep the same SSID. It will connect if I tell him to though (by clicking OK on a dialog that warn me that the connection is not secure and encrypted).
Yes they should show a study to your mom that "reveal the role that digital games play in keeping minds sharp, especially those of the aging." Hopefully she doesn't take it too personnaly.
;)
/I am kidding. I'm 29 myself...
At 27, it would apply more to you
1. Each game must be made in less than seven days,
2. Each game must be made by exactly one person,
3. Each game must be based around a common theme i.e. "gravity", "vegetation", "swarms", etc.
That sounded cool until I saw the 2nd game listed... It uses ripped sprites.
And most of the game on that site do no look like they were made by 1 person only... I've seen programmer's art. its not pretty
claims which were almost immediately viewed with skepticism in the scientific community
Of course they did. I love when someone play the "I told you so" card.
All the "We knew no WMD were in Irak, it wasn't the reason for the war", "I knew you shouldn't have bought that brand", "My mother warned me about you" and "I had a feeling" people will now feel validated. Scientist do the same after all!.
But photo printed in a photo printer degrade over time too. I have pictures of the birth of my 2 years old daughter (so the pics are 2 years old ;) ) and if I compare the home printed photos to the studio printed one, the home printed pics' colors aren't that great...
Some printer claim to have a color protection layer now, but I am effraid to scrap some pictures again...
Because people lives on memory. Everything is better in the past. And just like most music album out there, some episode "grow" on you. You figure its funny after you see it for the 20th time at the cartoon network. Why do you think Fox release the DVD set 5 years late?
But hey, most people on slashdot (and a lot of other places) think they are connoisseur if they ditch what is mainstream and glorify the underdogs.
Woot! you made the first Phantom/Duke jove of the year 2006!
Ah! Or you could just say that they act like the chandelier sprites in Doom.
You are right, the article is not clear. Still, stolen and cloned is not the same thing. And depending of if the phone was here or overseas she might not have a case.
What is weird is that Quebec's small claim court is limited to 7000$. (Drummond is a french name). If she is from Ontario, the limit is 10k. Thats probably why Rogers offered her 2000$, she would need to pay that anyway. One way or the other, the 2000$ offer sounds more than good.
I just love YOUR attitude. She lost her phone, didn't say anything, came back, didn't say anything, received the bill and THEN called the company. How dumb is she? SHE sound like the scammer. 2000$ seems like a fair offer for someone who didn't take her responsabilities in the first place.
And even dumber, she will now go to court and compare apples to oranges.
A situation where a phone that was brought by the user is used oversea and another one where unusual long distance are made from a cloned phone from here just seems like a pretty shaky argument to me. I'm sorry to say, but its a different matter to enforce a pattern recognition software on your own network and to enforce it when the phone is on a foreign network. The roaming partners don't usually feed "live" data to the parent company.
You pad invoices, you are a crook. You charge a user for service that was used on her phone... You might not be a crook.
Yes and how will you prove that they never had plan to build anything? There is such a thing as licensing you know.
In a perfect world it would work like you said. But not everyone with a brain has deep pockets. And it would be very hard to demonstrate that the intention to build something wasn't there.
Here is a better article (with more explanations at least) than the one posted on /.
/. did. And they did it With a much better headline.
And the sad thing this is the link posted on fark.com a full day before
"Slashdot.org : News for non-inquisitive Nerds"