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Tin foil doesn't protect against radio waves. Studies have shown it either does nothing or it acts as an antenna. You should go with lead if you really want safety.
From what I've seen (I read ~100 webcomics on a regular basis), the most successful, money-wise, webcomic artists are the ones that don't use micro-payments. Despite all the comics I read, I don't read any that require micropayments, because I could never get enough into the comic to justify it. If a comic I already enjoyed moved to micropayments, I wouldn't mine paying for it, but to pay for a comic before I know if I'll enjoy it just seems silly, especially with the huge number of free ones out there. The best approach I've seen to this was Narbonic, which had a significant portion of the early comics available for free, which got me to pay for it (though it is all free now), since I had an emotional investment in the characters.
Really though, most webcomic artists that do it for a living use advertising and merchandise sales, and are very successful at it. I was a bit astounded at the trend toward micropayments that started about 2 years ago. The big question to me is "why?" Why automatically alienate a large portion of your potential audience when the alternative has been proven successful many times?
My only thought is that maybe it's better for those mid-sized comics that don't have enough readers to pull in a lot of money in advertising, but I can't see that micropayments would really be much better, when it would be a significant barrier to the growth of that audience.
Not necessarily true... Some of us just don't do well at mornings. I get 8-9 hours of sleep a night generally, and I'm still terrible at getting up in the morning.
"Cry bias all you want, but Zune's lack of ability to play PlaysForSure content is completely preposterous. This is the absolute, objective truth."
The "bias" is that there's no real proof that it won't support it, and, in fact, almost certainly will support it. The whole issue comes from a list of "additionally supported formats," meaning in addition to protected WMA and WMV. This whole thing is just an excuse for people to complain about Microsoft.
If you read TFA (or even just the summary), you'll notice that it takes quakes of a certain frequency to create a tsunami. High frequency quakes don't cause tsunamis, they just cause a vibration of the water.
I've never messed around with AV Corporate. I had Norton AV eat a computer and freeze a couple others and have refused to use anything related since. I was just responding to his earlier post about his computer having a memory leak and blaming it on XP.
Then you should've been fired from your job, cause you were doing something wrong. I work for an oil company, and we do very data-intensive work with our workstations (3D seismic/geological modeling), and they have uptimes of 60 days (we deploy windows patches bi-monthly). If you were having to shut down at night and turn on in the morning, something was very, very wrong.
Also, as many people have said before, if you're using Norton, you don't get to call yourself an IT guy. That is pretty much one of the worst programs ever. It leaks memory like a sieve and isn't even very good at finding viruses.
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Damn. I'm sorry. Your son's school sucks. =P
Most schools have deals with Microsoft so the students can buy copies of Windows and Office for ~$20.
Your list is awesome. That is all.
Starcraft, Final Fantasy III (I think I've played through this game 20+ times), Chrono Trigger, EverQuest, and Techmo Superbowl.
The only true way to have a secure computer is to leave it turned off, put it in a safe, immediately burn the combination, and drop it into Mariana's Trench.
Tin foil doesn't protect against radio waves. Studies have shown it either does nothing or it acts as an antenna. You should go with lead if you really want safety.
Yeah, I've got a 500 mhz G4 with 640 megs of RAM, and it really fights to run Panther.
I used unsigned Audigy drivers with Vista 64-bit RC1 and they installed after asking to okay unsigned drivers.
Granted, they didn't work because they were for the build before RC1 (they hadn't released RC1 drivers yet), but they installed.
"So, Brian, what's the plural of box?"
"Boxen?"
Gotta love Brian Regen.
Wouldn't surprise me. Intel does that. Consumers have very short memories when it comes to marketing.
From what I've seen (I read ~100 webcomics on a regular basis), the most successful, money-wise, webcomic artists are the ones that don't use micro-payments. Despite all the comics I read, I don't read any that require micropayments, because I could never get enough into the comic to justify it. If a comic I already enjoyed moved to micropayments, I wouldn't mine paying for it, but to pay for a comic before I know if I'll enjoy it just seems silly, especially with the huge number of free ones out there. The best approach I've seen to this was Narbonic, which had a significant portion of the early comics available for free, which got me to pay for it (though it is all free now), since I had an emotional investment in the characters.
Really though, most webcomic artists that do it for a living use advertising and merchandise sales, and are very successful at it. I was a bit astounded at the trend toward micropayments that started about 2 years ago. The big question to me is "why?" Why automatically alienate a large portion of your potential audience when the alternative has been proven successful many times?
My only thought is that maybe it's better for those mid-sized comics that don't have enough readers to pull in a lot of money in advertising, but I can't see that micropayments would really be much better, when it would be a significant barrier to the growth of that audience.
I'm not sure if you've watched too much Kevin Smith or not enough. It's "snoochie boochies."
Odd comment to post as an AC.
Not necessarily true... Some of us just don't do well at mornings. I get 8-9 hours of sleep a night generally, and I'm still terrible at getting up in the morning.
I totally read that as "why wouldn't people upgrade their existing PC and buy a velociraptor." I agree completely.
"640x480 ought to be enough for any*whack*."
No, I require porn at higher than 640x480.
I stand corrected then. Sounds like they're drying to directly mimic the iPod. Interesting.
"Cry bias all you want, but Zune's lack of ability to play PlaysForSure content is completely preposterous. This is the absolute, objective truth."
The "bias" is that there's no real proof that it won't support it, and, in fact, almost certainly will support it. The whole issue comes from a list of "additionally supported formats," meaning in addition to protected WMA and WMV. This whole thing is just an excuse for people to complain about Microsoft.
"(for there is truly no greater use of a widescreen, HDTV with full surround sound than NFL Football in HD.)"
I disagree. The list is as such:
1) HD porn
2) HD hockey
3) HD games
4) HD football
"In summary, we determined that the Core 2 Quadro requires the same amount of power in no-load operation that the Core 2 Extreme needs at full load."
Jesus. You say it as a joke, but you're not kidding. Seems they could have done better with power stepping when idle.
Also, I want the video card they say they're using on the test rig: "ATI X19800XTX - 512 MB"
Unfortunately, not everyone's as cool as Ben Franklin. Especially with his use of 'd instead of ed. I love that.
If you read TFA (or even just the summary), you'll notice that it takes quakes of a certain frequency to create a tsunami. High frequency quakes don't cause tsunamis, they just cause a vibration of the water.
I've never messed around with AV Corporate. I had Norton AV eat a computer and freeze a couple others and have refused to use anything related since. I was just responding to his earlier post about his computer having a memory leak and blaming it on XP.
You "can do" a lot of things to a computer. Doesn't mean you should.
I don't sell snake oil, I sell bridges. I've got one that runs Linux, so it never collapses. You want it? I'll sell it real cheap.
Then you should've been fired from your job, cause you were doing something wrong. I work for an oil company, and we do very data-intensive work with our workstations (3D seismic/geological modeling), and they have uptimes of 60 days (we deploy windows patches bi-monthly). If you were having to shut down at night and turn on in the morning, something was very, very wrong.
Also, as many people have said before, if you're using Norton, you don't get to call yourself an IT guy. That is pretty much one of the worst programs ever. It leaks memory like a sieve and isn't even very good at finding viruses.