The question that always springs to mind when I read something like Of course, those consoles weren't design to be running 12 hours a days is "why the hell not?" You HAVE to be prepared for stuff like that as a manufacturer. I'm on my computer 12 hours a day, which is probably less than quite a few people reading this. I don't expect my box to turn off when I'm in the middle of an email. And I'll tell you, working on my computer is a hell of a lot more boring than playing Burnout for 10 hours.
One of the first comments I read from someone with a defective machine was something like "well, I guess it's good that it's powering off after two hours. It makes me get up at least." No! Not good! Very bad! It's my constitutional right to play video games for 40 hours straight if I want, dammit. That's what freedom is all about. God Bless America!
with Bill Gates's "new" house. (hah. You thought that was going to be a dupe joke, didn't you?) Anyway, he had/has a little tag you wear, and the TVs change as you move, only the closest phone rings, etc. Same thing? I don't know how far his "preferences" extended.
That's strange. I find it's just the opposite. FedEx has always come through for me, while UPS almost always destroys my stuff, regardless of how it's packed (ever seen a cardboard box fall 5 storeys?). Last one that came in had two forklift holes in it. Four, I guess, counting the exit wounds.
...used in places where terrorists could disrupt services, they are also perfect for power outages...
Because we all know that terrorist attacks are way more common than power outages. I hate this "War on Terror." It's the major reason for doing anything at this point, and it's not a particularly good one.
"Never took off?" Doom 3? This is the Doom 3 that debuted at number one on PC, debuted at number one on consoles, became Activision's biggest seller EVER, and basically made a trillion dollars, as expected? That Doom 3?
What the hell does "taking off" mean? Everybody on Earth (and half of those on Mars) bought TWO each?
Cablevision (Optimum Offline) in NY I'd give a 6, maybe. The speeds are pretty awesome for residential access. I routinely get about 1100K (big K) down.
That's the pro. Cons are obvious and widespread.
CV caps - if you upload for over an hour straight, there's a decent chance they'll limit your rate to 150k (small k) up. That kills your download rate naturally. Even better, they won't even tell you about it, so if you're wondering all of a sudden why your speeds suck, you have to phone customer support, and then they get an "engineer" to phone you back 24 hours later, re-read the ToS, make sure you agree to them, and remove the cap. It's a total pain in the ass.
Email sucks. It's common to get errors trying to send mail. Incoming mail bounces frequently. Mail's disappeared completely before. There's a stupid virus scanner that you can't turn off, so if you subscribe to groups like Bugtraq, expect to only be able to read about 75% of posts.
Newsgroup access sucks worse than email, although it's not quite as bad as it was. It's limited to ~120K download, and for years, the retention was about 2 days. Timeouts are common.
They block ports. 80's blocked, as is 25, for the obvious ones.
Stability's not bad. My IP address changes once a year, maybe. But that's just network connection. Actually trying to do anything with it (see email/NG) can result in problems.
Pricewise, it's $50/month if you don't have cable TV through them, and $45 otherwise. Used to be cheaper, but it's crept up over the last few years.
Customer service is generally clueless. I emailed them when I was having intermittent trouble accessing sites. Figured out a couple minutes later that one of their nameservers had died. TWO WEEKS LATER, I got a reply telling me to unplug the modem and reboot my computer, which of course would have done nothing.
As soon as FIOS comes into my area (should be this year sometime), I'm bailing. I hate Verizon, but not as much as Cablevision.
I'd rather a hundred million dollars get spent on nerdish boondoggles than an hour and a half of military. And at least on these videos, when stuff blows up there won't be some moron in the background screaming "take that you camel jockeys!"
Schadenfreude, I think they call it. Testing for how long, and now this? Ah well. It'll get worked out. Gotta release at some point to find all the ugly bugs.:-P
Why is that funny? It's not exactly a presentation for Mr. Uber-leet Linux Admin, is it? If you wanted to learn Swahili, and I gave you a primer that was written entirely in Swahili, how useful would that be?
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The question that always springs to mind when I read something like Of course, those consoles weren't design to be running 12 hours a days is "why the hell not?" You HAVE to be prepared for stuff like that as a manufacturer. I'm on my computer 12 hours a day, which is probably less than quite a few people reading this. I don't expect my box to turn off when I'm in the middle of an email. And I'll tell you, working on my computer is a hell of a lot more boring than playing Burnout for 10 hours.
One of the first comments I read from someone with a defective machine was something like "well, I guess it's good that it's powering off after two hours. It makes me get up at least." No! Not good! Very bad! It's my constitutional right to play video games for 40 hours straight if I want, dammit. That's what freedom is all about. God Bless America!
A self-powered X-Box that fits into a discman-size form factor would be a killer app, and is close to being achievable today.
Yeah, but the power supply is the size of a mini-fridge.
We don't shout and scream about single ID, we shout and scream about mandatory single ID. Go ahead, if you want it. Just don't make me get one.
with Bill Gates's "new" house. (hah. You thought that was going to be a dupe joke, didn't you?) Anyway, he had/has a little tag you wear, and the TVs change as you move, only the closest phone rings, etc. Same thing? I don't know how far his "preferences" extended.
I only eat free-range bubbles.
And Gaim latest (yep, heard of it). I don't know what that post was about. Why would it matter what client you're running?
Add me to the "immediately-deleted-and-moderately-annoyed" list.
Who has a sixty-character passphrase?
heh. I do, apparently. Just checked, and it's 94 chars, including spaces. As a poster above mentioned, motor memory helps immensely.
"...so we can now deliver the moon at 66 feet (66 feet) of resolution."
That better?
They didn't even Photoshop out the tennis courts on the right. I knew these things were faked!
Not if they search your house when you're not home! No inconvenience for anyone! In fact, you might not even know they've been there. Everybody wins.
That's because overnight is by far the most expensive. He probably can't afford it.
That's strange. I find it's just the opposite. FedEx has always come through for me, while UPS almost always destroys my stuff, regardless of how it's packed (ever seen a cardboard box fall 5 storeys?). Last one that came in had two forklift holes in it. Four, I guess, counting the exit wounds.
...used in places where terrorists could disrupt services, they are also perfect for power outages...
Because we all know that terrorist attacks are way more common than power outages. I hate this "War on Terror." It's the major reason for doing anything at this point, and it's not a particularly good one.
"Never took off?" Doom 3? This is the Doom 3 that debuted at number one on PC, debuted at number one on consoles, became Activision's biggest seller EVER, and basically made a trillion dollars, as expected? That Doom 3?
What the hell does "taking off" mean? Everybody on Earth (and half of those on Mars) bought TWO each?
"It's no different if I went out and bought a Microsoft program and started sharing it with everyone in my apartment. It's theft."
No it isn't. It's not even a copyright problem. What, now I need an extra license if somebody's visiting and they want to check their mail?
It remains unclear what Smith was using the Wi-Fi for, to surf, play online video games, send e-mail to his grandmother...
Don't let that stop you from closing out the article with wild speculation though.
"I'm mainly worried about what the guy may have uploaded or downloaded, like kiddie porn," Dinon said.
That's the pro. Cons are obvious and widespread.
- CV caps - if you upload for over an hour straight, there's a decent chance they'll limit your rate to 150k (small k) up. That kills your download rate naturally. Even better, they won't even tell you about it, so if you're wondering all of a sudden why your speeds suck, you have to phone customer support, and then they get an "engineer" to phone you back 24 hours later, re-read the ToS, make sure you agree to them, and remove the cap. It's a total pain in the ass.
- Email sucks. It's common to get errors trying to send mail. Incoming mail bounces frequently. Mail's disappeared completely before. There's a stupid virus scanner that you can't turn off, so if you subscribe to groups like Bugtraq, expect to only be able to read about 75% of posts.
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Newsgroup access sucks worse than email, although it's not quite as bad as it was. It's limited to ~120K download, and for years, the retention was about 2 days. Timeouts are common.
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They block ports. 80's blocked, as is 25, for the obvious ones.
Stability's not bad. My IP address changes once a year, maybe. But that's just network connection. Actually trying to do anything with it (see email/NG) can result in problems.Pricewise, it's $50/month if you don't have cable TV through them, and $45 otherwise. Used to be cheaper, but it's crept up over the last few years.
Customer service is generally clueless. I emailed them when I was having intermittent trouble accessing sites. Figured out a couple minutes later that one of their nameservers had died. TWO WEEKS LATER, I got a reply telling me to unplug the modem and reboot my computer, which of course would have done nothing.
As soon as FIOS comes into my area (should be this year sometime), I'm bailing. I hate Verizon, but not as much as Cablevision.
I'd rather a hundred million dollars get spent on nerdish boondoggles than an hour and a half of military. And at least on these videos, when stuff blows up there won't be some moron in the background screaming "take that you camel jockeys!"
Thank $DEITY I run Gentoo :-)
A family of about 10 went, all below the age of 10? They're not even breeding properly anymore. Damn these clones! Noooooooooooooooooo!!!
Schadenfreude, I think they call it. Testing for how long, and now this? Ah well. It'll get worked out. Gotta release at some point to find all the ugly bugs. :-P
Why is that funny? It's not exactly a presentation for Mr. Uber-leet Linux Admin, is it? If you wanted to learn Swahili, and I gave you a primer that was written entirely in Swahili, how useful would that be?
So many difficult questions, I know...
It's a strong word, but the word is "libel." Slander's spoken.
If looking at hentai tentacle pr0n is filthy, I don't wanna be clean!