I play TF2 quite a bit. Nothing that can actually give you an advantage is buy-only. This includes someone else buying something, and you trading for it. You can get every game-changing item without paying a cent. I bought the game, so I have never had a free-only account, but it's my understanding that you need to have a premium account to trade, which means you have to spend at least 50 cents on a item. Once you've done that, however, you can basically get any game-changing item you want. Things randomly drop while you are playing, but there are 9 classes. Trade any two weapons, and you can get any one weapon you want, generally. It is VERY easy to become competitively equipped with one class, and only takes a month or so of playing to become competitively equipped for all classes you would likely play regularly. TF2 is without a doubt the model of Free-to-Play gaming, from a business perspective. I have bought a few keys, but the impact has been nothing but cosmetic.
Bah. I meant Webkit when I said Gecko. I think I alluded to everything you said in my post, which may have been clearer had I not substituted the word Gecko when I meant webkit. But I fully agree, that nobody seems to use Konqueror anymore.
He didn't claim Firefox used Gecko (it does), he did claim that Linux's competitor to Firefox used WebKit. Konqueror is where WebKit came from, but I'd hardly call it a competitor. I wouldn't call it anything more than KDE systems' default browser. I highly doubt many linux users actually use it as anything more than a fallback.
I'm not arguing that 100 downloads justify the damages, just saying that the assertion that nobody has the bandwidth necessary to upload a song hundreds of times per day is absurd. Almost every internet connection available today has the ability to upload a song hundreds, if not thousands of times per day.
Are you fucking retarded? 56k connection, 7kB/s, 420kB/minute, 25.2MB/hour, 604MB/day. I know this is download bandwidth, but I guarantee most consumer internet connections could feed a 56k connection. This is at least 100 uploads.
lol, my signature is what it is not because I hate grammar Nazis, but because I am an asshole. I am actually kind of a grammar Nazi myself. My intentionally incorrect plural, "Nazi's," is actually a huge pet peeve of mine. And I wouldn't say I'm being a math nazi. I think there are more horrible lawyers than amazing lawyers, and the vast majority of lawyers are rather average. I had to take a defensive driving class as a teen to get a ticket off of my record, and the "teacher" stated that 90% of drivers consider themselves above average in driving ability. Considering the number of people who have never been in accidents versus the number of people who have been in multiple accidents, I would not find it hard to believe that 90% are better than average. The defensive driving class did nothing to my driving habits, but it made me a stickler for honest statistics.
Half are below average?
1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 11
What is the average of these numbers?
What percentage of them is below that average?
(Answers: 2, and 90%)
I'm going to double fist this one.
It returns a 404 when it's overloaded because Microsoft doesn't gaf about standards.
Also, "Refreshing" doesn't refer to refreshing a MS site, it refers to refreshing a page that has an auto-incrementing iframe of some sort that tries codes over and over again.
Both of you should have known better.
I've never accidentally deleted something, because I always shift-delete; deletion is a no-turning-back event all of the time for me. On a side note, is there any equivalent shortcut in OSX? I loathe having to delete things in two steps in the GUI. (If I want to delete something, I normally ssh in from my phone and rm it).
Alright, so tens of millions? Let's be nice and say by "tens" they meant "ten".
10,000,000 x.05 = 500,000. So at a bare minimum, assuming they are stretching, they are going to throttle for 500,000 people. Now for some Google-fu, looks like Verizon is at about 92,000,000 customers. They plan to throttle 4,600,000 users, with a throttle that lasts over a month, regardless of changes in behavior.
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This is already the method the RIAA and MPAA are using.
I play TF2 quite a bit. Nothing that can actually give you an advantage is buy-only. This includes someone else buying something, and you trading for it. You can get every game-changing item without paying a cent. I bought the game, so I have never had a free-only account, but it's my understanding that you need to have a premium account to trade, which means you have to spend at least 50 cents on a item. Once you've done that, however, you can basically get any game-changing item you want. Things randomly drop while you are playing, but there are 9 classes. Trade any two weapons, and you can get any one weapon you want, generally. It is VERY easy to become competitively equipped with one class, and only takes a month or so of playing to become competitively equipped for all classes you would likely play regularly. TF2 is without a doubt the model of Free-to-Play gaming, from a business perspective. I have bought a few keys, but the impact has been nothing but cosmetic.
Bah. I meant Webkit when I said Gecko. I think I alluded to everything you said in my post, which may have been clearer had I not substituted the word Gecko when I meant webkit. But I fully agree, that nobody seems to use Konqueror anymore.
lol, anymore?
He didn't claim Firefox used Gecko (it does), he did claim that Linux's competitor to Firefox used WebKit. Konqueror is where WebKit came from, but I'd hardly call it a competitor. I wouldn't call it anything more than KDE systems' default browser. I highly doubt many linux users actually use it as anything more than a fallback.
Yes.
Good to know you would notice JPEG artifacts resulting from a VGA cable.
Grah, was just about to ninja correct myself after having read the article.
They are already having capacity problems. Sending everything via HTTPS would crush the servers.
It scrolls. Its method for scrolling? Pagination.
Two primary desktop environments:
Windows and OSX
Four browsers:
Win: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome
OSX: Safari, Firefox, Chrome
Two primary mobile environments: iOS, Android
Android Browser, iOS browser
8 Total.
What the fuck are you smoking?
Why do you feel that your opinions are valuable enough to be archived for posterity, but not so valuable that they are worth maintaining a website?
"AGW "scientists" only share data with pals of like minds..."
What?
Same here. Why would you put your 10 key on the same side of your desk as your phone anyway? How cluttered do you want your workspace?
Thanks for the update submitter! (OP? Not what we call that here) If you ever need to find my username, it will be on your freaks list.
I'm not arguing that 100 downloads justify the damages, just saying that the assertion that nobody has the bandwidth necessary to upload a song hundreds of times per day is absurd. Almost every internet connection available today has the ability to upload a song hundreds, if not thousands of times per day.
Are you fucking retarded? 56k connection, 7kB/s, 420kB/minute, 25.2MB/hour, 604MB/day. I know this is download bandwidth, but I guarantee most consumer internet connections could feed a 56k connection. This is at least 100 uploads.
Or a constant packet size.
You forgot to point out that microsoft isn't. a basketball player, either.
lol, my signature is what it is not because I hate grammar Nazis, but because I am an asshole. I am actually kind of a grammar Nazi myself. My intentionally incorrect plural, "Nazi's," is actually a huge pet peeve of mine. And I wouldn't say I'm being a math nazi. I think there are more horrible lawyers than amazing lawyers, and the vast majority of lawyers are rather average. I had to take a defensive driving class as a teen to get a ticket off of my record, and the "teacher" stated that 90% of drivers consider themselves above average in driving ability. Considering the number of people who have never been in accidents versus the number of people who have been in multiple accidents, I would not find it hard to believe that 90% are better than average. The defensive driving class did nothing to my driving habits, but it made me a stickler for honest statistics.
Half are below average? 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 11 What is the average of these numbers? What percentage of them is below that average? (Answers: 2, and 90%)
Or just select the option to left click. I helped you with this, so you'll have to get someone else to wipe your ass.
I'm going to double fist this one. It returns a 404 when it's overloaded because Microsoft doesn't gaf about standards. Also, "Refreshing" doesn't refer to refreshing a MS site, it refers to refreshing a page that has an auto-incrementing iframe of some sort that tries codes over and over again. Both of you should have known better.
I've never accidentally deleted something, because I always shift-delete; deletion is a no-turning-back event all of the time for me. On a side note, is there any equivalent shortcut in OSX? I loathe having to delete things in two steps in the GUI. (If I want to delete something, I normally ssh in from my phone and rm it).
Stop being a pussy.
Alright, so tens of millions? Let's be nice and say by "tens" they meant "ten". 10,000,000 x .05 = 500,000. So at a bare minimum, assuming they are stretching, they are going to throttle for 500,000 people. Now for some Google-fu, looks like Verizon is at about 92,000,000 customers. They plan to throttle 4,600,000 users, with a throttle that lasts over a month, regardless of changes in behavior.