Terabytes? Seriously, what exactly are they downloading?
I'm a Time Warner customer and - assuming "terabytes" means a minimum of at least two - I would have to download 24/7 at my connection's top actual speed (~830 KB/s) for an entire month in order to hit that number.
Looking at my download logs I only recently hit 1 TB after 2+ plus years of being a "heavy user" by Time Warner's reckoning. The whole thing's just a smoke screen to raise prices.
What Time Warner loses to me not having cable TV and using Hulu et al. they make back with my internet service. And if they switch to downloads caps they won't even have that.
I guess I don't get it. What makes that "logical"? If I have a big stack of paperwork where the dates all begin with 15 it could not only be *any* year, it could be *any* month within that year. In terms of sorting and filing, it's the least useful method.
Why? Dealing with a lot of daily paperwork and having to reference back to some that's weeks or months old I would rank YYYY/MM/DD the most useful and DD/MM/YYYY the least in terms of efficiency. You want to start with large divisions which you can bypass or zero your search in on rather than small ones.
I won't make any apologies for a two sentence post on Slashdot not being a comprehensive guide to website security. It was a simple, common example.
You presented robots.txt as some kind of solution to what happened when it not only *isn't*, it could have easily made the situation much worse by pointing a big, blinking arrow to where the sensitive information is.
I'm not the only person who interpreted it that way and your overreaction to it suggests you aren't as confident in your knowledge as you pretend to be.
You'll also need an htaccess file. Otherwise you're telling any spiders who don't obey robots.txt and malicious users exactly where to go (though you shouldn't be storing credit card numbers on a web server anyway).
I find the exact opposite: written communication tends to be much slower. At my work I've spent days shooting emails back and forth with customers when a simple three minute call would have accomplished the same thing.
And unless you can text more than 150 words per minute, it's going to be faster to call even with the excruciating agony of having to wait for the phone to ring a couple times.
Gamers shall have the right to demand that download managers and updaters not force themselves to run or be forced to load in order to play a game.
Has anyone at GPG actually tried using GPGnet? It's easily the worst online experience I've ever had.
GPGnet really does need a massive overhaul but they're not violating the rule since you don't need to load it to play the single player campaign.
I just went through GPG's website to check if you could download updates without the GPGnet client, and unless the page simply doesn't work under Firefox, you can't.
The patches and technical support are through the publisher, THQ (I find that's common for the games THQ publishes).
Don't all GPG games come with SecureROM?
They shipped with it but it was patched out of the game. The last time I had the DVD in for SC/FA was when I installed them.
It has been two thousand years since some girl claimed that she got knocked up by a burning bush rather then her boyfriend and millions of people worship her as a virgin.
In Mary's defense the nativity story was almost certainly fabricated by later followers who wanted to bolster the claim of Jesus' divinity. The idea of a son of a god being born to a virgin mother was fairly common.
It always amazes me when people call the W3C slow. As a web developer, there is one main thing holding me back. That is Internet Explorer.
While MS is certainly glacial slow, developers deserve better standards than they've got, particularly when it comes to layout. CSS is a step above tables but it's still being used far beyond its scope. Even using it for a simple layout can be overly complex and counter-intuitive. Just look at the insanity it takes to get a proper CSS footer.
You've got to remember that they tried to stand up and speak for all musicians. No they didn't. Lars explicitly said it should be up to the artist to decide:
"I don't have a problem with any artist voluntarily distributing his or her songs through any means the artist elects-- at no cost to the consumer, if that's what the artist wants. But just like a carpenter who crafts a table gets to decide whether to keep it, sell it or give it away, shouldn't we have the same options?"
Wow, I've been interpreting that saying incorrectly my whole life according to Bartleby. I always interpreted "The road to hell is paved with good intentions" as good actions leading to the exact opposite results. Bartleby says it's attending to do good but never getting off your butt and actually doing it.
I'm sorry, but this whole thing is a farce. Circuit City didn't search his person or riffle through his vehicle. They asked to see a receipt. It's not uncommon and it certainly isn't unreasonable. The entire case escalated out of control from there.
That a police officer would look for state issued identification doesn't strike me as outrageous either. Are police supposed to start taking people's word for who they are during an investigation? They'd never be able to nab those with a warrant out against them.
It's not bad enough that Righi wasted the time of the justice system and put his family through hell, but he's damaging the real fight for our rights. We're fighting to keep the government from checking what books we read and listening to our phone calls without a warrant, to restore habeas corpus itself, and this guy makes a federal case out of a receipt. It makes the whole movement look petty.
"Now I ask the questions for new products I'm learning. That, and the fact that I've realized how much I've "given away" and not gotten anything back from."
So no one's ever answered any of your questions then?
Windows users have very little useful software that is free.
That's just not true. At one point SourceForge had several thousand more Windows projects than any other type (I can't find the stats since the redesign). You can get free software to surf the web, read email, edit pictures, write a term paper, unzip an archive, rip a CD, listen and organize your music, watch a video, scan for viruses and spyware, IM, and on and on and on. For the home user this really is a golden age of free software.
The only things you really need to purchase these days are games and specialized business software, neither of which I have any problem with.
It takes a special kind of person to be a jerk who causes a huge scene and be proud of it.
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The company I work for takes purchase orders and while we haven't been screwed out of money, getting cash out of a number of schools has been worse than pulling teeth. I can definitely see why a large company wouldn't want to have to deal with it.
Irrelevant either way, because in order to demonstrate the worth of their beliefs, atheists need to disprove the existence of ANY Divine Being, regardless of whether any theist believes in that God or not.
The burden of proof is on the claimant, not the skeptic. It is not my job to make someone else's argument then disprove it.
In all of human history no one has provided any factual or even compelling evidence for god or gods. Furthermore, theism is not based on observance but mysticism, emotionalism, and ritual; it's is an inherently irrational system. Finding religion wrong does not require counter-evidence, it requires an examination of its own axioms.
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Terabytes? Seriously, what exactly are they downloading?
I'm a Time Warner customer and - assuming "terabytes" means a minimum of at least two - I would have to download 24/7 at my connection's top actual speed (~830 KB/s) for an entire month in order to hit that number.
Looking at my download logs I only recently hit 1 TB after 2+ plus years of being a "heavy user" by Time Warner's reckoning. The whole thing's just a smoke screen to raise prices.
What Time Warner loses to me not having cable TV and using Hulu et al. they make back with my internet service. And if they switch to downloads caps they won't even have that.
I guess I don't get it. What makes that "logical"? If I have a big stack of paperwork where the dates all begin with 15 it could not only be *any* year, it could be *any* month within that year. In terms of sorting and filing, it's the least useful method.
Why? Dealing with a lot of daily paperwork and having to reference back to some that's weeks or months old I would rank YYYY/MM/DD the most useful and DD/MM/YYYY the least in terms of efficiency. You want to start with large divisions which you can bypass or zero your search in on rather than small ones.
I won't make any apologies for a two sentence post on Slashdot not being a comprehensive guide to website security. It was a simple, common example. You presented robots.txt as some kind of solution to what happened when it not only *isn't*, it could have easily made the situation much worse by pointing a big, blinking arrow to where the sensitive information is. I'm not the only person who interpreted it that way and your overreaction to it suggests you aren't as confident in your knowledge as you pretend to be.
No. Why would you jump to that conclusion?
You'll also need an htaccess file. Otherwise you're telling any spiders who don't obey robots.txt and malicious users exactly where to go (though you shouldn't be storing credit card numbers on a web server anyway).
Why couldn't Earth be the first? Some planet's got to be.
Companies are often very resistant to high upfront costs even when it can provide significant long-term savings.
I find the exact opposite: written communication tends to be much slower. At my work I've spent days shooting emails back and forth with customers when a simple three minute call would have accomplished the same thing. And unless you can text more than 150 words per minute, it's going to be faster to call even with the excruciating agony of having to wait for the phone to ring a couple times.
I hope you don't plan on having children. They just might kill you.
Gamers shall have the right to demand that download managers and updaters not force themselves to run or be forced to load in order to play a game.
Has anyone at GPG actually tried using GPGnet? It's easily the worst online experience I've ever had.
GPGnet really does need a massive overhaul but they're not violating the rule since you don't need to load it to play the single player campaign.
I just went through GPG's website to check if you could download updates without the GPGnet client, and unless the page simply doesn't work under Firefox, you can't.
The patches and technical support are through the publisher, THQ (I find that's common for the games THQ publishes).
Don't all GPG games come with SecureROM?
They shipped with it but it was patched out of the game. The last time I had the DVD in for SC/FA was when I installed them.
It has been two thousand years since some girl claimed that she got knocked up by a burning bush rather then her boyfriend and millions of people worship her as a virgin.
In Mary's defense the nativity story was almost certainly fabricated by later followers who wanted to bolster the claim of Jesus' divinity. The idea of a son of a god being born to a virgin mother was fairly common.
If a shipping manager told one of his drivers to hand over the keys to his delivery vehicle would it be legal for the driver to refuse?
Intellectual property is still property. The network belongs to those who paid for it, not the person who created it.
While MS is certainly glacial slow, developers deserve better standards than they've got, particularly when it comes to layout. CSS is a step above tables but it's still being used far beyond its scope. Even using it for a simple layout can be overly complex and counter-intuitive. Just look at the insanity it takes to get a proper CSS footer.
Wow, I've been interpreting that saying incorrectly my whole life according to Bartleby. I always interpreted "The road to hell is paved with good intentions" as good actions leading to the exact opposite results. Bartleby says it's attending to do good but never getting off your butt and actually doing it.
That a police officer would look for state issued identification doesn't strike me as outrageous either. Are police supposed to start taking people's word for who they are during an investigation? They'd never be able to nab those with a warrant out against them.
It's not bad enough that Righi wasted the time of the justice system and put his family through hell, but he's damaging the real fight for our rights. We're fighting to keep the government from checking what books we read and listening to our phone calls without a warrant, to restore habeas corpus itself, and this guy makes a federal case out of a receipt. It makes the whole movement look petty.
"Now I ask the questions for new products I'm learning. That, and the fact that I've realized how much I've "given away" and not gotten anything back from."
So no one's ever answered any of your questions then?
That's just not true. At one point SourceForge had several thousand more Windows projects than any other type (I can't find the stats since the redesign). You can get free software to surf the web, read email, edit pictures, write a term paper, unzip an archive, rip a CD, listen and organize your music, watch a video, scan for viruses and spyware, IM, and on and on and on. For the home user this really is a golden age of free software.
The only things you really need to purchase these days are games and specialized business software, neither of which I have any problem with.
The only other one I'm familiar with is MoCap Boxing.
It takes a special kind of person to be a jerk who causes a huge scene and be proud of it.
The company I work for takes purchase orders and while we haven't been screwed out of money, getting cash out of a number of schools has been worse than pulling teeth. I can definitely see why a large company wouldn't want to have to deal with it.
The burden of proof is on the claimant, not the skeptic. It is not my job to make someone else's argument then disprove it.
In all of human history no one has provided any factual or even compelling evidence for god or gods. Furthermore, theism is not based on observance but mysticism, emotionalism, and ritual; it's is an inherently irrational system. Finding religion wrong does not require counter-evidence, it requires an examination of its own axioms.