Great in theory but in practice we'll still be told what to do with our bandwidth and that information will still be handed over to the feds/riaa/mpaa on a whim. Our arguments were never worth anything to them to begin with this won't change anything.
As for the infrastructure, of course there's not enough to give everyone everything they want. We're using yesteryears technology at great cost to the consumer. Less overall bandwidth is good for telcom's as it gives them an excuse to charge more. If we had a modern infrastructure there would be less of a reason to charge as much.
Just like the BigPharma there's no money in a cure only in nickel and diming the customers to death.
I can't put my finger on it but there is still an issue with rogues being required vs not required.
In World of Warcraft there are parts of instances that are made much easier by having a rogue in your party but then for the rest of the run the rogue is pretty useless. Damage can be picked up by a warrior or a hunter, hell even a feral spec druid will do pretty close to the damage of your average rogue.
So bringing along a trinket rogue to open doors and unlock chests makes rogues requires not wanted. And all the crying in the rogue community currently is that rogues want to be wanted not required.
Is this a step in the right direction or a leap in the wrong direction?
I use to work at Gamestop and this one day has stuck in my mind forever since. A lady walked in and milled around the store for what must have been 15 minutes, finally she walked up to the counter and asked "What's the most violent , bloody videogame you have?" I answered Manhunt, thinking she was a goth chick or something who was into that kind of thing. I pointed it out to her on the wall and gave her a brief discription of the game. This is when she dropped the bombshell.
She said and I quote(to the best of my memory)"I need something really bloody! I took my son to see (some disney movie) and he was bored out of his skull, but he saw the poster for Gothica so we went and saw it, he LOVED the blood and gore! so I figure I would get him a game he might like!" I told her about the ESRB rating and that it was not for kids under the age of 17. She said.. Now get this "Oh well he's 3 but he's very mature!"
She knew full well what she was getting and that she was getting it for a 3 yearold, we cannot refuse service just because she's getting it for her 3 yearold so she bought the game and left the store to cultivate a very screwed up kid.
When you sign on to the game it lists X number of realms, the first two are always medium and the others are always low, FFXI's load balance only worked so well when you could get people server passes to get around it the idea kinda flew out the window.
Sounds like a great idea and I will even consider getting one if my college scholarship comes through, but $199 is a lot to pay and not recieve a physical book. Don't get me wrong I'm just as techi as anyone else out there but I still enjoy a good physical book over the digital version any day.
Any weight capable of counterbalancing such a "ribbon" would need to be pretty big. What's to keep us from just pulling it down from this end or earths gravity from pulling it back down to earth?
When I was very young and thought I knew everything there was to know about computers I went with my stepdad to work one day. He worked, at the time in a heating and cooling distributor company where they sell parts and services to places like McDonalds and Taco Bell. Well the place was huge and the warehouse was a playhouse to someone of my age.
I ran around jumping off things and generally being annoying. Until I found the door to the basement.
In the basement was one of them absolutly huge mainframe systems and for some reason I thought pushing buttons on the control panel was a good idea. The thing started making weird noises and I thought "I know I will save the day by unplugging the system!" So I yanked on the giant power supply and the system went off. I went back upstairs and continued playing in the warehouse, using bits of pipes and stuff to build robots.
Well apparently the entire company intranet had died that day. All parts and inventory were lost and they could no longer conduct business that day so everyone went home. Later that week I heard my stepdad talking about the incident saying something like "The main computer crashed and took almost everything with it. We called out the tech guy and he was able to save most of it but we are really set back a good coupla $K"
I never told.
I hate to say it but more drastic steps are needed to put even a dent in the spyware/malware problem. All laws can be loopholed and the average PC user will not patch their system against such things.
Until someone takes the law into their own hands and starts distributing spyware/malware destruction tools the same way that spyware and malware are delivered, there will never be an end to it.
I seriously wonder just how much the the worlds bandwidth is taken by spyware, malware and spam. I bet the number would surprise a lot of people.
I would love to see nothing more than every record lable in the country go belly up. But I SERIOUSLY doubt it will be because of ring tones.
It's getting to the point that no one can inovate in an area that has anything to do with music without the music companies wanting their cut as if they earned it. And even IF they are given their (un)fair cut they always seem to want more and use their $billions to get it using legal trickery that the small guys can't match.
What have we learned from this? Do not invent, or take your inventions to another country because in America if you don't have enough money to take on the big guys, you get ripped out of your invention or worse, jail time.
Seriously, this article is all about playing with a new destructive toy and not much about using the toy in question to do interesting science-related experiments.
How much stuff is there in the urban world that hasnt been burnt? What scientific experiement could be preformed that would be of any use? The only thing one could do with a giant lens like that is burn things, be it food, water for power or just random crap.
I have yet to see a game that accuratly depicts going to a 9 to 5 job all week to make endsmeat to come home and live in depressing debt.
There are levels of realisim that we want in our games and there are levels we don't.
Men are not accuractly portrayed in videogames either. The only difference is we don't complain about it the way women do.
You dont have to be on Windows to get 100 NETSKY emails a day. I would say this is a problem for all platforms no matter what platform the virus is aimed at.
The UN has no business with the Internet they just want to control everything. Their biggest backers are the CFR who already control every bit of major media in America. If you look at the list of CFR members you will see them holding very powerful positions in every broadcast station, magazine and newspaper. Now if they control the internet than we have no recourse but to listen to their propaganda. The UN makes its actions clear that it is indeed trying to establish a world government it's written up in their own documentation. Just recently the UN asked countries to make their armies available for action with the only authority being the UN. They want the governments that own these armies to basically "sign them over" to the UN. The only reason this stuff happens is because we as a people roll over for every thing the government does. Back in the 60's they would have been picketing every day of the last 4 years.
Damnit, can't big companies leave our stuff alone? Why do they feel they have a right to stick their money grubbing hands into everything on the internet like its their right to make money off of everything.
Indeed, I find it annoying that american consumers won't stand up for their right to not be ripped off.
It costs the companies less to offer the same product yet they charge the same:/ come on people take a stand! My friend in HongKong is getting Broadband over the power system for an equiv of $15.
I could have swore the point of broadband over powerlines was both to make it
A) cheaper and
B) easily available to everyone.
While B is met, A is still not being realized.
Everywhere else in the world is getting broadband over powerlines for somewhere around $20 a month however here they ask $50. This is just sad, so much for cheap broadband.
Go to your control panel > Administrative Tools > Open Services > Find iPodService.exe and right click on it. Stop the service and set it from Auto or manual whichever its on to Disabled. This will keep it from starting and attacking CPUs and killing god or whatever it does.
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Great in theory but in practice we'll still be told what to do with our bandwidth and that information will still be handed over to the feds/riaa/mpaa on a whim.
Our arguments were never worth anything to them to begin with this won't change anything.
As for the infrastructure, of course there's not enough to give everyone everything they want. We're using yesteryears technology at great cost to the consumer. Less overall bandwidth is good for telcom's as it gives them an excuse to charge more. If we had a modern infrastructure there would be less of a reason to charge as much.
Just like the BigPharma there's no money in a cure only in nickel and diming the customers to death.
I can't put my finger on it but there is still an issue with rogues being required vs not required. In World of Warcraft there are parts of instances that are made much easier by having a rogue in your party but then for the rest of the run the rogue is pretty useless. Damage can be picked up by a warrior or a hunter, hell even a feral spec druid will do pretty close to the damage of your average rogue. So bringing along a trinket rogue to open doors and unlock chests makes rogues requires not wanted. And all the crying in the rogue community currently is that rogues want to be wanted not required. Is this a step in the right direction or a leap in the wrong direction?
I use to work at Gamestop and this one day has stuck in my mind forever since.
A lady walked in and milled around the store for what must have been 15 minutes, finally she walked up to the counter and asked "What's the most violent , bloody videogame you have?" I answered Manhunt, thinking she was a goth chick or something who was into that kind of thing. I pointed it out to her on the wall and gave her a brief discription of the game.
This is when she dropped the bombshell.
She said and I quote(to the best of my memory)"I need something really bloody! I took my son to see (some disney movie) and he was bored out of his skull, but he saw the poster for Gothica so we went and saw it, he LOVED the blood and gore! so I figure I would get him a game he might like!" I told her about the ESRB rating and that it was not for kids under the age of 17. She said.. Now get this "Oh well he's 3 but he's very mature!"
She knew full well what she was getting and that she was getting it for a 3 yearold, we cannot refuse service just because she's getting it for her 3 yearold so she bought the game and left the store to cultivate a very screwed up kid.
When you sign on to the game it lists X number of realms, the first two are always medium and the others are always low, FFXI's load balance only worked so well when you could get people server passes to get around it the idea kinda flew out the window.
There is a very nice extension for viewing and enabling old extensions, which I would link too if the site wasn't /.ed
Sounds like a great idea and I will even consider getting one if my college scholarship comes through, but $199 is a lot to pay and not recieve a physical book. Don't get me wrong I'm just as techi as anyone else out there but I still enjoy a good physical book over the digital version any day.
Accept that someone has to write those API's and I bet the job doesn't pay so bad. Besides a good foundation in ASM is never not usefull.
or don't.
Any weight capable of counterbalancing such a "ribbon" would need to be pretty big. What's to keep us from just pulling it down from this end or earths gravity from pulling it back down to earth?
Yeah humans tried this once before and look what happened.
When I was very young and thought I knew everything there was to know about computers I went with my stepdad to work one day. He worked, at the time in a heating and cooling distributor company where they sell parts and services to places like McDonalds and Taco Bell. Well the place was huge and the warehouse was a playhouse to someone of my age. I ran around jumping off things and generally being annoying. Until I found the door to the basement. In the basement was one of them absolutly huge mainframe systems and for some reason I thought pushing buttons on the control panel was a good idea. The thing started making weird noises and I thought "I know I will save the day by unplugging the system!" So I yanked on the giant power supply and the system went off. I went back upstairs and continued playing in the warehouse, using bits of pipes and stuff to build robots. Well apparently the entire company intranet had died that day. All parts and inventory were lost and they could no longer conduct business that day so everyone went home. Later that week I heard my stepdad talking about the incident saying something like "The main computer crashed and took almost everything with it. We called out the tech guy and he was able to save most of it but we are really set back a good coupla $K" I never told.
If he was /.ed before why would he not set up mirrors in anticipation of this event?
I hate to say it but more drastic steps are needed to put even a dent in the spyware/malware problem. All laws can be loopholed and the average PC user will not patch their system against such things. Until someone takes the law into their own hands and starts distributing spyware/malware destruction tools the same way that spyware and malware are delivered, there will never be an end to it. I seriously wonder just how much the the worlds bandwidth is taken by spyware, malware and spam. I bet the number would surprise a lot of people.
I would love to see nothing more than every record lable in the country go belly up. But I SERIOUSLY doubt it will be because of ring tones. It's getting to the point that no one can inovate in an area that has anything to do with music without the music companies wanting their cut as if they earned it. And even IF they are given their (un)fair cut they always seem to want more and use their $billions to get it using legal trickery that the small guys can't match. What have we learned from this? Do not invent, or take your inventions to another country because in America if you don't have enough money to take on the big guys, you get ripped out of your invention or worse, jail time.
Seriously, this article is all about playing with a new destructive toy and not much about using the toy in question to do interesting science-related experiments. How much stuff is there in the urban world that hasnt been burnt? What scientific experiement could be preformed that would be of any use? The only thing one could do with a giant lens like that is burn things, be it food, water for power or just random crap.
I would say you should go into self employment. You set the timeframes and people will pay what you ask because they don't know any better.
I have yet to see a game that accuratly depicts going to a 9 to 5 job all week to make endsmeat to come home and live in depressing debt. There are levels of realisim that we want in our games and there are levels we don't. Men are not accuractly portrayed in videogames either. The only difference is we don't complain about it the way women do.
You dont have to be on Windows to get 100 NETSKY emails a day. I would say this is a problem for all platforms no matter what platform the virus is aimed at.
The UN has no business with the Internet they just want to control everything. Their biggest backers are the CFR who already control every bit of major media in America. If you look at the list of CFR members you will see them holding very powerful positions in every broadcast station, magazine and newspaper. Now if they control the internet than we have no recourse but to listen to their propaganda. The UN makes its actions clear that it is indeed trying to establish a world government it's written up in their own documentation. Just recently the UN asked countries to make their armies available for action with the only authority being the UN. They want the governments that own these armies to basically "sign them over" to the UN. The only reason this stuff happens is because we as a people roll over for every thing the government does. Back in the 60's they would have been picketing every day of the last 4 years.
Damnit, can't big companies leave our stuff alone? Why do they feel they have a right to stick their money grubbing hands into everything on the internet like its their right to make money off of everything.
Indeed, I find it annoying that american consumers won't stand up for their right to not be ripped off. It costs the companies less to offer the same product yet they charge the same :/ come on people take a stand! My friend in HongKong is getting Broadband over the power system for an equiv of $15.
I could have swore the point of broadband over powerlines was both to make it A) cheaper and B) easily available to everyone. While B is met, A is still not being realized. Everywhere else in the world is getting broadband over powerlines for somewhere around $20 a month however here they ask $50. This is just sad, so much for cheap broadband.
Go to your control panel > Administrative Tools > Open Services > Find iPodService.exe and right click on it. Stop the service and set it from Auto or manual whichever its on to Disabled. This will keep it from starting and attacking CPUs and killing god or whatever it does.
I dont know if you can call it windows without Solitaire
Looks like its the recording company is the one ripping you off not us. Unless I missed the sarcasm or anything.