Ahh now I see, good solution. Actually I'll bet that a cop could see your immigration/wanted/legal status just from your driving licence anyway if they could be bothered to type it in to the PC in their car.
I live in Phoenix. You need to understand this isn't about work. Its about massive rise in flop houses, drugs, house breakins, car thefts etc etc. Trust me its real.
It doesn't take a genius to see that the catholic church hides behind a thin facade of Christianity but is in fact a self-serving money-grabbing regime and tool of the establishment.
The Vatican's actions speak for themselves, especially like now when even the Pope uses weasel words to advocate against truth, openness and honesty, which the bible clearly details as the most fundamental principles of being a Christian.
"We have a responsibility to our kids and our communities to protect against the effects of games that depict ultra-violent actions, just as we already do with movies"...said the man who got fame and fortune from making violent movies...
>> what he calls a "rather scary" new data protection law from Massachusetts:
Why is this scary? It seems like absolute common-sense to me. I imagine the only people this is scary to are the sloppy and incompetent corporations, db admins & web programmers that haven't already been properly encrypting personal info. Anyone still not encrypting personal info must have been living under a rock for the last 10 years.
Congratulations you managed to avoid answering every one my points in defending your idea, so I'll take that as justification that you really don't have any good answers for them, which means your idea actually does suck balls.
Perfect for who? Not the end-user. What about people that want to play the game they already paid for without an internet connection? What about all the delays and crap when your link is slow or goes down? Or more accurately, when Ubisoft's own servers are down and they don't give a crap as we've already seen. What about wanting to play the game in maybe 5 years time or if ubisoft go bust?, ubisoft won't be paying to keep their servers up forever.
Thanks for sharing. I feel sorry for you working there. If I were you, I'd be looking for alternative employment, as Ubisoft seem hell-bent on driving their own business into the ground.
By your comment I can tell that you really don't have any experience with Linux package management. You're not really suggesting that the lame windows uninstaller thing is better package management than Linux are you?
Actually I have to agree with him. Every windows-based computer I've ever used suffers performance degradation and bitrot over time. Every company I've every worked at that has a windows-based infrastructure suffers with slow systems and ongoing 'issues'. Comapnies with windows based infrastructure seem to need significantly more IT staff than other comapnies with Linux or Unix infrastructure too. They also seem to have to make much more significant investment in new infrastructure hardware too. No idea why.
He won't laugh when you tell him how much you could save by not having to keep paying Microsoft licencing and/or being forced to upgrade everything to Windows 7.
It seems this guy's issues are ultimately mostly Windows-specific rather than anything specific to computers in general. He even takes time out to say how good OSX and Linux's package management is compared to Windows, yet he clearly still uses Windows as his primary OS.
Basically this guys problems are mostly self-inflicted, as he clearly knows about the alternatives yet still forces himself to keep going with the crappiest option.
The point was not to prove that some early people came over that way, it was to prove that the Havasupai specifically are definately decendents of them.
What happens to your hundreds or even thousands of dollars worth of games software when EA accidentally lose your account details of even decide to end Steam? Dont say that this can never happen. Microsoft have already done it. http://www.audioholics.com/news/industry-news/drm-plays-for-sure
>> Ubisoft will be ditching the trend of printing instruction manuals for new games under the 'green' initiative...and of course its just coincidence that it also happens to save them a lot of money.
So I guess they will be passing thew savings onto us then? No I thought not...
DSL isn't as fast and doesn't come with TV so if I switched my internet to DSL my TV+internet monthly bill would be greater and I would have less bandwidth. For all I know, DSL doesn't come with USENET either.
Unfortunately Cox has a monopoly on cable in my hood.
Personally I'd prefer a (free) comprehensive and up-to-date ftp or web-based version of all the content on alt.binaries.emulators but there isn't one that I've found.
Bittorrent is just too damn slow and annoying, especially if no-one is seeding the file you really want.
Seriously, what resources? I hardly think that running a USENET server is a massive drain. Its probably some old box that they're already re-purposed from an earlier upgrade. Maybe $100/yr for electricity? Even all the client->server connections are local to the Cox subnet so USENET doesn't even put a load on their internet backbone.
Wrong wrong wrong. Yours is a pitiful argument. Just because you or even the majority of users don't use some aspect of the internet is not a good excuse to make a blanket assumption that no-one uses or wants it.
Your points sound similarly misguided to the malicious blurring that the RIAA and MPAA are trying to make around P2P, in that all P2P is by definition illegal regardless of the fact there are many legitimate P2P sites and P2P is simply an efficient distribution protocol, not a DRM circumvention mechanism in itself.
I use USENET legally and Google Groups and other free sources just don't provide what I want. Firstly, they dont cover binary groups and secondly they aren't nearly as easy/convenient to use, so your argument that other things have superseded USENET is entirely wrong.
In real terms it probably costs Cox next to nothing to have a USENET server sat in a rack, so the real savings of cutting it off are going to be minimal, probably just the electricity for an old server box that they've already re-tasked from other upgrades.
I'm surprised you really expect to see any noticeable improvement in other service areas as a result of Cox no longer suporting USENET. I seriously doubt it. All that this will mean is (probably literally) a few tens of dollars of extra corporate profit that we the users will never see the benefit of.
Personally I hate the idea that ISPs are being allowed to redefine "internet service" to just mean port 80 traffic. Cox's own advertising confirms I paid for an internet connection not just a web connection. I don't see why I should now be obliged to pay extra to keep the same level of service that I've had for the last 5 years.
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Ahh now I see, good solution.
Actually I'll bet that a cop could see your immigration/wanted/legal status just from your driving licence anyway if they could be bothered to type it in to the PC in their car.
I live in Phoenix. You need to understand this isn't about work. Its about massive rise in flop houses, drugs, house breakins, car thefts etc etc. Trust me its real.
...and how exactly does that stop or even discourage illegal immigrants?
>> For someone who believes us to be made in God's image, and to have free will,
A person is known by their actions. What does the pope's actions tell you about what he really believes?
It doesn't take a genius to see that the catholic church hides behind a thin facade of Christianity but is in fact a self-serving money-grabbing regime and tool of the establishment.
The Vatican's actions speak for themselves, especially like now when even the Pope uses weasel words to advocate against truth, openness and honesty, which the bible clearly details as the most fundamental principles of being a Christian.
"We have a responsibility to our kids and our communities to protect against the effects of games that depict ultra-violent actions, just as we already do with movies" ...said the man who got fame and fortune from making violent movies...
>> what he calls a "rather scary" new data protection law from Massachusetts:
Why is this scary? It seems like absolute common-sense to me.
I imagine the only people this is scary to are the sloppy and incompetent corporations, db admins & web programmers that haven't already been properly encrypting personal info.
Anyone still not encrypting personal info must have been living under a rock for the last 10 years.
Congratulations you managed to avoid answering every one my points in defending your idea, so I'll take that as justification that you really don't have any good answers for them, which means your idea actually does suck balls.
Perfect for who? Not the end-user.
What about people that want to play the game they already paid for without an internet connection?
What about all the delays and crap when your link is slow or goes down?
Or more accurately, when Ubisoft's own servers are down and they don't give a crap as we've already seen.
What about wanting to play the game in maybe 5 years time or if ubisoft go bust?, ubisoft won't be paying to keep their servers up forever.
Thanks for sharing. I feel sorry for you working there.
If I were you, I'd be looking for alternative employment, as Ubisoft seem hell-bent on driving their own business into the ground.
By your comment I can tell that you really don't have any experience with Linux package management.
You're not really suggesting that the lame windows uninstaller thing is better package management than Linux are you?
Actually I have to agree with him. Every windows-based computer I've ever used suffers performance degradation and bitrot over time. Every company I've every worked at that has a windows-based infrastructure suffers with slow systems and ongoing 'issues'. Comapnies with windows based infrastructure seem to need significantly more IT staff than other comapnies with Linux or Unix infrastructure too. They also seem to have to make much more significant investment in new infrastructure hardware too. No idea why.
In other news... incidences of attractive pedestrians getting run over has gone up 99999%
He won't laugh when you tell him how much you could save by not having to keep paying Microsoft licencing and/or being forced to upgrade everything to Windows 7.
Great now he has time for that Bilbo Baggins concept album :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ballad_of_Bilbo_Baggins
It seems this guy's issues are ultimately mostly Windows-specific rather than anything specific to computers in general. He even takes time out to say how good OSX and Linux's package management is compared to Windows, yet he clearly still uses Windows as his primary OS.
Basically this guys problems are mostly self-inflicted, as he clearly knows about the alternatives yet still forces himself to keep going with the crappiest option.
>> We don't accept ..... that sex with virgins cures disease
Hell yeah it does if the disease is depression caused by lack of sex.
The point was not to prove that some early people came over that way, it was to prove that the Havasupai specifically are definately decendents of them.
What happens to your hundreds or even thousands of dollars worth of games software when EA accidentally lose your account details of even decide to end Steam? Dont say that this can never happen. Microsoft have already done it. http://www.audioholics.com/news/industry-news/drm-plays-for-sure
>> Ubisoft will be ditching the trend of printing instruction manuals for new games under the 'green' initiative ...and of course its just coincidence that it also happens to save them a lot of money.
So I guess they will be passing thew savings onto us then? No I thought not...
DSL isn't as fast and doesn't come with TV so if I switched my internet to DSL my TV+internet monthly bill would be greater and I would have less bandwidth. For all I know, DSL doesn't come with USENET either.
Unfortunately Cox has a monopoly on cable in my hood.
Nothing other than availability.
Personally I'd prefer a (free) comprehensive and up-to-date ftp or web-based version of all the content on alt.binaries.emulators but there isn't one that I've found.
Bittorrent is just too damn slow and annoying, especially if no-one is seeding the file you really want.
That would be my choice if Cox didn't have a complete monopoly in the city I live in (Phoenix AZ).
Seriously, what resources?
I hardly think that running a USENET server is a massive drain. Its probably some old box that they're already re-purposed from an earlier upgrade. Maybe $100/yr for electricity?
Even all the client->server connections are local to the Cox subnet so USENET doesn't even put a load on their internet backbone.
Wrong wrong wrong.
Yours is a pitiful argument. Just because you or even the majority of users don't use some aspect of the internet is not a good excuse to make a blanket assumption that no-one uses or wants it.
Your points sound similarly misguided to the malicious blurring that the RIAA and MPAA are trying to make around P2P, in that all P2P is by definition illegal regardless of the fact there are many legitimate P2P sites and P2P is simply an efficient distribution protocol, not a DRM circumvention mechanism in itself.
I use USENET legally and Google Groups and other free sources just don't provide what I want. Firstly, they dont cover binary groups and secondly they aren't nearly as easy/convenient to use, so your argument that other things have superseded USENET is entirely wrong.
In real terms it probably costs Cox next to nothing to have a USENET server sat in a rack, so the real savings of cutting it off are going to be minimal, probably just the electricity for an old server box that they've already re-tasked from other upgrades.
I'm surprised you really expect to see any noticeable improvement in other service areas as a result of Cox no longer suporting USENET. I seriously doubt it. All that this will mean is (probably literally) a few tens of dollars of extra corporate profit that we the users will never see the benefit of.
Personally I hate the idea that ISPs are being allowed to redefine "internet service" to just mean port 80 traffic. Cox's own advertising confirms I paid for an internet connection not just a web connection. I don't see why I should now be obliged to pay extra to keep the same level of service that I've had for the last 5 years.