I don't see how Blizzard would earn more money going after cheaters? It probably cost them more money to look thru replays and such. Sure if someone is permanently banned they may buy the game again, but except in that scenario? For WoW I can get it since it's a subscription game.
Yeah, I really appreciate Blizzards hard work to ban all the cheaters, it would suck if they didn't cared. (And the same actually goes for farmers in WoW if they ruin the game experience for everyone else.)
An opposit would be Nintendo there they don't seem to implement some sort of cheating test (for instance control which bricks come in tetris and see if they fit in the location the game claim they fit in tetris, or that you can really walk where the client claim, or that it have the amount of resources, and so on and so on.)
Their lame trust of the client because they know the game can't be modified (unless there was flashcarts..) has led to videos on youtube there people play for instance Tetris DS vs someone who only get 4x1 bricks.. Talk about a ruined experience. They could just had sent an array of say 20 bricks at a time and see if the current game state allowed position such a brick in the position claimed.
Anyway, hurray for Blizzard trying to make online gaming an enjoyable experience. If only there was some way to vote for ban of a player in random team games in WC3 or such if they team kill / just leave the game /..
Because reading on a screen suck? This may have more comfortable contrast, higher resolution, don't heat up your lap to 80 degrees while sitting in the bed, is probably silent, don't distract you from your reading,...
Not that weird that something trying to be something else may fail. Just look at synths instead, which gives much better music than that acoustic resonance stuff;)... or transvestites!:D
I think the reason the later part doesn't work that good over here is because the electricity is sold on a scandinavian/nordic "market place" anyway, so someone have already bought the electricity for the best price I believe and therefor they remain quite similar.
I can't do shit to change the fixed fee but I can pick any company in the country for the energy bill. Most often you can lock the cost for 1, 2 or 3 years which give both them and you more safety in what you know what the price is but it usually cost somewhat more than getting "the market price" if you use around the same electricty amount each month.
If you let the price vary the whole time you pay the price for the electricity on that "electricity market" + a small markup and this is the one you can affect by switching between companies. But we are talking like 5% or something so it's no huge difference.
Generally swinging price works better for appartments and locked up prices for houses because a house with electrical heating will use most electricity during winter and because the demands is higher then so is the price.
Over here in Sweden the telephone system was made by the government of course, social democratic as we are. In the 90:s it was sold out however and since quite a few years it has been a free market for the providers.
The lines does obviously still belong to a single owner, I don't know who sets the price but usually you pay one fee for subscription and then you pay another one for the calls you actually make. Same for electricity where you pay one net fee and one power fee.
There is various companies to select from when it comes to the phone call fee but they are quite similar but I don't think the original company has an advantage when it comes to the price for the phone calls.
Also if you get ADSL I think you can pay for ADSL + phone (don't know if it's SIP or old analogue) and get around the regular land based phone line cost.
Personally I wish the government had decided to dig down fibre to everyone five years ago and killed the old telephone network and never built the DVB-T bullshit and just delivered Internet, phone and TV over IP instead.
(And then the fibre would, once again, be owned by the government but any company would be free to put end to end equipment and try to get costumers for whatever price.)
Some people probably think it's stupid to dig such things down to people who live in areas where it cost a lot and that one should let the market handle it and people pay for themself. But I guess scale of economics kicks in somewhat and eventually makes somewhat cheaper to do it for everyone to (more expensive to dig your own one for 2 km than if your four neighbours will get it at the same time to.)
Though I don't think electricity become cheaper by opening up the market, I don't know about telephone but there is no warranty I guess..
complete with backwards compatibility going back over ten years even in the drivers (compare with linux where I struggle to compile modules from six months ago against new releases)
Reminds me when an upgrade to ArchLinux just removed whatever USB-device handling stuff there was earlier and replaced it with something else which made it so no USB-devices worked. Awesome stuff! I will never try ArchLinux again. Or Yoper, or plenty of shitty Linux dists.
At least with things like Debian and the BSDs things keep on working, I have no interest in spending my time with a by the distribution developers voluntarily messed up machine. And I do assume that there would be much less mess in Solaris once things is up and running.
lol, yeah, leenucks is so much like the better one! Everything must be leenucks! Linus = god, Sun = shit. Why would one want to have a choice when it comes to OSes!?! Linux is like so much the best in everything!! We don't need no other OS or development.
Have you used OpenSolaris? Have you had issues with hardware support yourself? Have you used the BSDs or Linux 10 years ago?
Why burn cash and developers time on Gnome!?! Why on Firefox? Anything except Amarok? Another terminal than aterm!?!
We need plenty more of you! Windows, IE, WMP and MSN 'ought to be enough for everyone!
As long as you don't overclock, care about a stable motherboard (not a flamebait, you need a 790FX one for the best phenom or your system is very likely to get unstable) and temperatures AMD do offer decent alternatives at the low end.
Comparing a Phenom 9950 with the E8500 or Q6600 seems reasonable for me (I may have get some number wrong.) Q9550 or whatever it's called is more expensive. Of these I think I would go with the quad Q6600 even though games may get more benefits from the faster cores in the E8500. But in terms of speed there isn't that much difference in them (Q6600 and Phenom 9950 that is) is there? But the 9950 is a 130 or 135 watt chip, is probably pushed quite hard since AMD had to increase the voltages for each modell and don't overclock much. The Q6600 got plenty of juice left if you want to trust anyone which overclock their chips, so it seems like a much safer bet anyway.
But un-clocked the difference isn't that huge. Just more advantages with the Intel chip.
I'm aware of that, and when it comes to things like upgraded roads, plantations, new road lighting, cleaning up graffiti and such I may not like it.
(Or as they did in this city, built a fucking wooden bridge over a road, probably to help elder and children cross it safer than using red lights or something. But will people really take the fucking stairs up to that bridge, cross it and go down again then they can just walk over the road? Also it gets wet, icy and snowy in rain or in the winter so it's pretty useless for parts of the years for other reasons to. Good investment! Except no-one use it..)
Maybe they should hold the people deciding that such projects should get OK:ed responsible for their poor decisions. (Which they indeed are less likely to be when it's done in a non-private way.)
Anyway, NASA is one of few places I would accept giving charities to because they rock:D
Medicine, sewer/water treatment, cleaning up in cities, care of elder people or children, fire departments,.. all useless? (Except if fire men focus on expensive items, doctors only save important money generating people, and so on.. ?)
Yeah, I haven't got the logic by offering money for the banks either.
In my limited view of things a bank earn money from the misery of the poor to make more money for the rich, and now when they fuck up the poor people is supposed to back them up thru their government and tax payments?
I'd just let them be responsible for their own mess.
But then I don't know much about how these kinds of things works so maybe I've go it all wrong. I haven't studied economics:D
I heard on TV that we would spend 1.000.000.000 SEK more on military support in Afghanistan and 500.000.000 SEK in humanitary support. 21.4 $ / person in Sweden. This stuff would be around 7 dollar / american I guess.
I don't know what Nasa would be doing with that money, I didn't see it mentioned, but at least they use it for something which in the end gives us lots of knowledge thru exploration, new physics, new engines, material science and so on.
Afghanistan? I don't give a shit, I didn't even knew we had people there:D. War and humans is retarded, why bother with it, let it settle itself thru the power of fail instead.
2 billion dollar is a drop in the ocean if it's split on 300 million people anyway so I don't see why one should remove it.
Sure one could say that people should be free to tell which projects they want to give their money to, if any, but personally I have no problem at all with spending lots of money for greater knowledge of humankind.
Wasn't the problem that there is so few employers/works for the people with enough knowledge that you can't just let them go and then later get new ones with similar skills? Doesn't matter if it's a single private company or one single government run organisation, same problem.
And in this case the government run factor probably raise the budget somewhat and don't demand any profit in $. Would it be done more money efficient with private companies? Certainly, because the stuff not generating income wouldn't be done at all.
I doubt it's really not allowed where I live (not in USA though), and the first three months I had only plugged in the TP-cable without signing any paper or anything. No login required, just plug the machine in and voila Internet with DHCP.
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I don't see how Blizzard would earn more money going after cheaters? It probably cost them more money to look thru replays and such. Sure if someone is permanently banned they may buy the game again, but except in that scenario? For WoW I can get it since it's a subscription game.
Yeah, I really appreciate Blizzards hard work to ban all the cheaters, it would suck if they didn't cared. (And the same actually goes for farmers in WoW if they ruin the game experience for everyone else.)
An opposit would be Nintendo there they don't seem to implement some sort of cheating test (for instance control which bricks come in tetris and see if they fit in the location the game claim they fit in tetris, or that you can really walk where the client claim, or that it have the amount of resources, and so on and so on.)
Their lame trust of the client because they know the game can't be modified (unless there was flashcarts ..) has led to videos on youtube there people play for instance Tetris DS vs someone who only get 4x1 bricks .. Talk about a ruined experience. They could just had sent an array of say 20 bricks at a time and see if the current game state allowed position such a brick in the position claimed.
Anyway, hurray for Blizzard trying to make online gaming an enjoyable experience. If only there was some way to vote for ban of a player in random team games in WC3 or such if they team kill / just leave the game / ..
Introducing the Amazon Kindle 2.0 - Now with emergency scraper!
After having introduced the Amazon Kindle we noticed a huge demand for ...
Because reading on a screen suck? This may have more comfortable contrast, higher resolution, don't heat up your lap to 80 degrees while sitting in the bed, is probably silent, don't distract you from your reading, ...
.. and usable as emergency toilet paper in case you didn't noticed you had ran out.
Not that weird that something trying to be something else may fail. Just look at synths instead, which gives much better music than that acoustic resonance stuff ;) ... or transvestites! :D
I think the reason the later part doesn't work that good over here is because the electricity is sold on a scandinavian/nordic "market place" anyway, so someone have already bought the electricity for the best price I believe and therefor they remain quite similar.
I can't do shit to change the fixed fee but I can pick any company in the country for the energy bill. Most often you can lock the cost for 1, 2 or 3 years which give both them and you more safety in what you know what the price is but it usually cost somewhat more than getting "the market price" if you use around the same electricty amount each month.
If you let the price vary the whole time you pay the price for the electricity on that "electricity market" + a small markup and this is the one you can affect by switching between companies. But we are talking like 5% or something so it's no huge difference.
Generally swinging price works better for appartments and locked up prices for houses because a house with electrical heating will use most electricity during winter and because the demands is higher then so is the price.
If it all collapses, do the people with no money lose anything?
Also, why is it collapsing? Because no-one pays back their loans?
For the same reason that you write your post: It feels nice to complain.
Over here in Sweden the telephone system was made by the government of course, social democratic as we are. In the 90:s it was sold out however and since quite a few years it has been a free market for the providers.
The lines does obviously still belong to a single owner, I don't know who sets the price but usually you pay one fee for subscription and then you pay another one for the calls you actually make. Same for electricity where you pay one net fee and one power fee.
There is various companies to select from when it comes to the phone call fee but they are quite similar but I don't think the original company has an advantage when it comes to the price for the phone calls.
Also if you get ADSL I think you can pay for ADSL + phone (don't know if it's SIP or old analogue) and get around the regular land based phone line cost.
Personally I wish the government had decided to dig down fibre to everyone five years ago and killed the old telephone network and never built the DVB-T bullshit and just delivered Internet, phone and TV over IP instead.
(And then the fibre would, once again, be owned by the government but any company would be free to put end to end equipment and try to get costumers for whatever price.)
Some people probably think it's stupid to dig such things down to people who live in areas where it cost a lot and that one should let the market handle it and people pay for themself. But I guess scale of economics kicks in somewhat and eventually makes somewhat cheaper to do it for everyone to (more expensive to dig your own one for 2 km than if your four neighbours will get it at the same time to.)
Though I don't think electricity become cheaper by opening up the market, I don't know about telephone but there is no warranty I guess ..
The question is if kids really gets corrupted of seeing sex? And why that would be so?
I think a harsh stressful world with to little time for the kids is much worse than a TV showing porn when they is asleep anyway.
complete with backwards compatibility going back over ten years even in the drivers (compare with linux where I struggle to compile modules from six months ago against new releases)
Reminds me when an upgrade to ArchLinux just removed whatever USB-device handling stuff there was earlier and replaced it with something else which made it so no USB-devices worked. Awesome stuff! I will never try ArchLinux again. Or Yoper, or plenty of shitty Linux dists.
At least with things like Debian and the BSDs things keep on working, I have no interest in spending my time with a by the distribution developers voluntarily messed up machine. And I do assume that there would be much less mess in Solaris once things is up and running.
lol, yeah, leenucks is so much like the better one! Everything must be leenucks! Linus = god, Sun = shit. Why would one want to have a choice when it comes to OSes!?! Linux is like so much the best in everything!! We don't need no other OS or development.
Have you used OpenSolaris? Have you had issues with hardware support yourself? Have you used the BSDs or Linux 10 years ago?
Why burn cash and developers time on Gnome!?! Why on Firefox? Anything except Amarok? Another terminal than aterm!?!
We need plenty more of you! Windows, IE, WMP and MSN 'ought to be enough for everyone!
Ford T is the best!
I don't think they see it as much as giving stuff away as potentially getting developers for free.
They need further development, they can't afford it right now, open source code offers a solution.
They earn their money on supported versions, hardware and also support of running the systems I assume.
But isn't Intel supposed to catch up when it comes to integrated memory controllers and maybe FSB speeds to when it comes to this next generation?
As long as you don't overclock, care about a stable motherboard (not a flamebait, you need a 790FX one for the best phenom or your system is very likely to get unstable) and temperatures AMD do offer decent alternatives at the low end.
Comparing a Phenom 9950 with the E8500 or Q6600 seems reasonable for me (I may have get some number wrong.) Q9550 or whatever it's called is more expensive. Of these I think I would go with the quad Q6600 even though games may get more benefits from the faster cores in the E8500. But in terms of speed there isn't that much difference in them (Q6600 and Phenom 9950 that is) is there? But the 9950 is a 130 or 135 watt chip, is probably pushed quite hard since AMD had to increase the voltages for each modell and don't overclock much. The Q6600 got plenty of juice left if you want to trust anyone which overclock their chips, so it seems like a much safer bet anyway.
But un-clocked the difference isn't that huge. Just more advantages with the Intel chip.
I'm aware of that, and when it comes to things like upgraded roads, plantations, new road lighting, cleaning up graffiti and such I may not like it.
(Or as they did in this city, built a fucking wooden bridge over a road, probably to help elder and children cross it safer than using red lights or something. But will people really take the fucking stairs up to that bridge, cross it and go down again then they can just walk over the road? Also it gets wet, icy and snowy in rain or in the winter so it's pretty useless for parts of the years for other reasons to. Good investment! Except no-one use it ..)
Maybe they should hold the people deciding that such projects should get OK:ed responsible for their poor decisions. (Which they indeed are less likely to be when it's done in a non-private way.)
Anyway, NASA is one of few places I would accept giving charities to because they rock :D
There are values besides money.
Medicine, sewer/water treatment, cleaning up in cities, care of elder people or children, fire departments, .. all useless? (Except if fire men focus on expensive items, doctors only save important money generating people, and so on.. ?)
Yeah, I haven't got the logic by offering money for the banks either.
In my limited view of things a bank earn money from the misery of the poor to make more money for the rich, and now when they fuck up the poor people is supposed to back them up thru their government and tax payments?
I'd just let them be responsible for their own mess.
But then I don't know much about how these kinds of things works so maybe I've go it all wrong. I haven't studied economics :D
I heard on TV that we would spend 1.000.000.000 SEK more on military support in Afghanistan and 500.000.000 SEK in humanitary support. 21.4 $ / person in Sweden. This stuff would be around 7 dollar / american I guess.
I don't know what Nasa would be doing with that money, I didn't see it mentioned, but at least they use it for something which in the end gives us lots of knowledge thru exploration, new physics, new engines, material science and so on.
Afghanistan? I don't give a shit, I didn't even knew we had people there :D.
War and humans is retarded, why bother with it, let it settle itself thru the power of fail instead.
2 billion dollar is a drop in the ocean if it's split on 300 million people anyway so I don't see why one should remove it.
Sure one could say that people should be free to tell which projects they want to give their money to, if any, but personally I have no problem at all with spending lots of money for greater knowledge of humankind.
Wasn't the problem that there is so few employers/works for the people with enough knowledge that you can't just let them go and then later get new ones with similar skills? Doesn't matter if it's a single private company or one single government run organisation, same problem.
And in this case the government run factor probably raise the budget somewhat and don't demand any profit in $. Would it be done more money efficient with private companies? Certainly, because the stuff not generating income wouldn't be done at all.
What's the problem with passing the DHCP request when needed?
Replace? Why would you need to replace anything? (Ok, people have mentioned some routers is crap and can't handle IP v6, but except that?)
I doubt it's really not allowed where I live (not in USA though), and the first three months I had only plugged in the TP-cable without signing any paper or anything. No login required, just plug the machine in and voila Internet with DHCP.