Sure. I propose 'Slowband' for connections under 5mbps. I can see the marketing now: "Get your new AT&T Slowband connection for only 15 dollars a month or move up to Quickband for 39.99! Its Bandtastic!"
I'm glad you know what you like. To me these one-player shooter games are not much fun. The AI is terrible and will never compare to the skills of a real human opponent, not to mention the thrill of fragging a real human player. This is why I love BF2 so much.
I do understand the complaints about these very short deathmatch games. There's no strategy in these "everyone run out and shoot" games where the round is over in 2 minutes. Then again, there's almost no strategy in halo. Its just a fun dumb shoot 'em up in a sci-fi setting. In my world its a fun rental. That's it.
Landlords? That's funny because in the three articles Ive read so far about this the judge uses various examples all of which are roommates asking for specific things, not landlords. Arguably the fair housing act applies to them, but roommates.com is being railroaded for roommate postings because of a law that protects tenants from landlords, not roommates. The ruling:
1. Doesnt make sense because no landlords are involved in these transactions (at least from the examples given)
2. This is the 9th circuit (google for it)
3. And shows a complete disregard for basic safe haven protections.
I feel sorry for well-meaning enterprauners who take a chance with the web and think they have basic 1st amendment protections, but get punished by litigious politically correct entities and get ruled against by technology-clueless judges.
Between the politically correct morons on the left and the "protect our children" nutters on the right, I'm surprised we still can post *anything* on the internet. Well, we're okay, its the people with money (like CL and roommates) that have to worry, get lawyered up, and pass the lawyer fees onto us, thus justifying the litigious society we complain about.
In america you still have the right to say unpopular speech such as "I prefer a gay roommate." Well, at least if its not on the web.
I'm really getting tired of these "fair housing" groups' bullshit. I cant see whats wrong with "Female looking for female." Wasnt this the same group that sued Craigslist? Sounds like they're just interested in the money. As a tenant looking for a roommate I now have less rights because I cant specify male or female. Sexual orientation I can see as being iffy (such things should be talked about in person, not publically posted on forums for privacy reasons), but gender? You've got to be kidding me.
It should. They are running a program with admin rights on a box, and we're supposed to be scared about what it can do to windows update? It can pretty much do anything its coded to do. Of course the slashdot blurb implies that someone has hacked wu.
Me too. Only 409 people clicked on it, not 400,000. His click-through rate was terrible. As much as we're supposed to mock n00bs here, I wouldnt be surprised if most of these clicks (if not all) were from curious geeks.
The study Ballmer quoted isnt from MS, its from Open source risk management group who are asking a valid question: if linux does potentially violate 283 patents than what should we do about it?
This also means that WIndows and the rest violate as many, if not more, themselves.
Your rant is just saying 'PHB will ruin everything!!!' Its hysterical. Do yuo honestly think there are not the equivalants of PHB in all areas of human endeavours including OSS? Well, let me break it to you: there are. That doesnt mean the sky is falling.
That's almost meaningless. Even in the "best" areas dropped calls, oversubscription, and wireless interference (leading to low-bitrate 'wha did you just say' calls) happens. What good is that great coverage near your apartment if I'm callign you from a back alley somewhere and you can't understand most of the things I say?
Wireless communications will never be like a landline by their nature. At best you can get a certain expectation of coverage and lower expectations for sound quality.
I'm still blown away at how terrible cell phone conversations sound unless both users have good devices and make excellent connections with their respective towers.
Lastly, where I live, paying for a landline + DSL is cheaper than the cable modem monopoly. Most people get their internet from DSL, and with some phone companies forcing service on them, I have a feeling the phone line will outlive us all.
AMD competes on price, not necessarily performance. If they lose the enthusiast market completely they will still remain pretty profitable. Their strategy has always been price and courting OEMs with their cheap chips, and now graphics cards.
The price of the 8800 right now is what most people pay for a desktop computer and monitor. All this hand-wringing over high-end performance marginal gains is no different than the "Ford vs Chevy' nonsense the pickup-truck crowd is always going off about.
No, its automatic updates, thats the process in svchosts thats causing this. disabling the automatic updates service fixes this bug, but thats just a temporary workaround. google around for this, you'll see its happening everywhere. supposedly MS has 'top people' on it.
The issue as I see it is that a sysadmin enforces rules. SOme people just have not matured enough to handle this. As children they resented their parents for enforcing rules and slowly learned how to become adults. As young adults they resented society/police for enforcing rules and slowly learned how to be good citizens. At school they resented teachers/profs for enforcing rules but learned how to be good students. At corporate jobs they still resent sysadmins/IT and some have not learned how to be a good employee or a good person, thus this tension. Its funny how its only the younger crowd (usually first job) that have this sense of priveldge and are always seemingly pissed at IT because they cant install warcraft (or whatever) on their PCs. Eventually they grow up, or get fired.
Patch day was started because administrators didnt want random patches being pushed out at random times. Its supposed to help the process by giving people a schedule, especially for people who arent using SUS.
The real question is when are they going to patch the patch system. The 100% CPU svchost bug is killing me and KB916089 (and its predecessor) doesnt do squat.
>Some day people will be complaining about how you don't need a help desk, and desktop support teams.
Dunno about that. The computer is a programmable device, thus its always changing (running different apps). The TV runs one app (the tv) and has very simple functions (on/off, channel change) etc. Its interesting to see the low levels of tech adoption when it comes to tivo, 5.1 or HDTV. A lot of people dont care for the added complexity of a TV system, a PC system a 100x worse. I think its osmething of a minor miracle that we've gotten all the slovenly TV types using internet-enabled PCs. Its not something they would have demanded on their own, but with the right push from various vendors and the hype, they aer learning that a PC in the home is actually a good idea.
Lastly, the TV and PC have little in common. One is strictly an entertainment device the other can be a lot of things. Its like comparing a swiss army knife to a rock and wondering why the swiss army knife cant be as easy to use as the rock.
I'm thinking the same thing. There are some notable exceptions like van halen and some metal bands, but I wouldnt pay much for this. This would make a nice free (or very cheap) expansion disk or downloadable xbox live content. As another 60 dollar game just, meh. They can add a few token 80s songs to GH III and be done with it.
No trailers? We need this 'punishment' where I live. Make children under the age of 18 unable to see movies after 9pm and I'll be at the theater a lot more often.
But its very moving. After reading it, I slapped my grandma in the face while screaming, "THE GOD DAMN CiceroUIWndFrame ERROR I KEEP GETTING IS ALL YOUR FAULT!!!!!!!!!"
The 360 is much less ballsy. Essentially, they should have aimed for a 400 price mark and not done an elite or a core. If that means wired controllers and a smaller drive, then fine. Right now, MS's strategy is to hobble the premium by making sure everything works with the core. They should have just hafd one system with a HD and a damn wifi adapter. Instead, the MS wireless adapter is 100 MSRP. The 20 gig drive costs that much and the damn VGA cable is 40 dollars. This is just price gouging. This tiered pricing is not good for anyone and only leads to gouging. One system would have solved all these problems, especially when this thing is advertised as a 'live' system.
I really hope the developers push MS to let them cut core users out of the equation if they choose to and that MS starts offering saner prices on their accessories. Because when its all said and done, I could have blown another 100+ dollars and gotten a PS3.
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Sure. I propose 'Slowband' for connections under 5mbps. I can see the marketing now: "Get your new AT&T Slowband connection for only 15 dollars a month or move up to Quickband for 39.99! Its Bandtastic!"
>They may have lost sales of a game or two from him but they are now going to loose his annual live subscription
In other words:We should allow automobile theft because thieves buy gas too.
Yeah, thats just perfect.
GRANDMA, LISTEN ITS ABOUT:CONFIG
ABOUT WHO NOW?
CONFIG!!!
KENNY FIG???
Seriously, the devs should ship the product with a low memory footprint to begin with and let the power users tweak this as they like.
I'm glad you know what you like. To me these one-player shooter games are not much fun. The AI is terrible and will never compare to the skills of a real human opponent, not to mention the thrill of fragging a real human player. This is why I love BF2 so much.
I do understand the complaints about these very short deathmatch games. There's no strategy in these "everyone run out and shoot" games where the round is over in 2 minutes. Then again, there's almost no strategy in halo. Its just a fun dumb shoot 'em up in a sci-fi setting. In my world its a fun rental. That's it.
Landlords? That's funny because in the three articles Ive read so far about this the judge uses various examples all of which are roommates asking for specific things, not landlords. Arguably the fair housing act applies to them, but roommates.com is being railroaded for roommate postings because of a law that protects tenants from landlords, not roommates. The ruling:
1. Doesnt make sense because no landlords are involved in these transactions (at least from the examples given)
2. This is the 9th circuit (google for it)
3. And shows a complete disregard for basic safe haven protections.
I feel sorry for well-meaning enterprauners who take a chance with the web and think they have basic 1st amendment protections, but get punished by litigious politically correct entities and get ruled against by technology-clueless judges.
Between the politically correct morons on the left and the "protect our children" nutters on the right, I'm surprised we still can post *anything* on the internet. Well, we're okay, its the people with money (like CL and roommates) that have to worry, get lawyered up, and pass the lawyer fees onto us, thus justifying the litigious society we complain about.
In america you still have the right to say unpopular speech such as "I prefer a gay roommate." Well, at least if its not on the web.
I'm really getting tired of these "fair housing" groups' bullshit. I cant see whats wrong with "Female looking for female." Wasnt this the same group that sued Craigslist? Sounds like they're just interested in the money. As a tenant looking for a roommate I now have less rights because I cant specify male or female. Sexual orientation I can see as being iffy (such things should be talked about in person, not publically posted on forums for privacy reasons), but gender? You've got to be kidding me.
>That makes me feel so much safer.
It should. They are running a program with admin rights on a box, and we're supposed to be scared about what it can do to windows update? It can pretty much do anything its coded to do. Of course the slashdot blurb implies that someone has hacked wu.
Me too. Only 409 people clicked on it, not 400,000. His click-through rate was terrible. As much as we're supposed to mock n00bs here, I wouldnt be surprised if most of these clicks (if not all) were from curious geeks.
Yeah arent college pranks supposed to be stuff of legend?
"Lets drop some things and then set our overpriced RC toys at him!"
"Genius!"
"Yep, we're MIT students!"
>fundamentals patents claimed by Microsoft.
The study Ballmer quoted isnt from MS, its from Open source risk management group who are asking a valid question: if linux does potentially violate 283 patents than what should we do about it?
This also means that WIndows and the rest violate as many, if not more, themselves.
Your rant is just saying 'PHB will ruin everything!!!' Its hysterical. Do yuo honestly think there are not the equivalants of PHB in all areas of human endeavours including OSS? Well, let me break it to you: there are. That doesnt mean the sky is falling.
>but here we have excellent coverage and quality.
That's almost meaningless. Even in the "best" areas dropped calls, oversubscription, and wireless interference (leading to low-bitrate 'wha did you just say' calls) happens. What good is that great coverage near your apartment if I'm callign you from a back alley somewhere and you can't understand most of the things I say?
Wireless communications will never be like a landline by their nature. At best you can get a certain expectation of coverage and lower expectations for sound quality.
I'm still blown away at how terrible cell phone conversations sound unless both users have good devices and make excellent connections with their respective towers.
Lastly, where I live, paying for a landline + DSL is cheaper than the cable modem monopoly. Most people get their internet from DSL, and with some phone companies forcing service on them, I have a feeling the phone line will outlive us all.
>the only safe software to use will be Free/Open Source.
Then you'll be accused of violating dozens if not hundreds of patents. Patent violators are treated like pedophiles in the prisons of the future!
AMD competes on price, not necessarily performance. If they lose the enthusiast market completely they will still remain pretty profitable. Their strategy has always been price and courting OEMs with their cheap chips, and now graphics cards.
The price of the 8800 right now is what most people pay for a desktop computer and monitor. All this hand-wringing over high-end performance marginal gains is no different than the "Ford vs Chevy' nonsense the pickup-truck crowd is always going off about.
No, the actual solution is to buy Butler for the treo which kills the LED. Yes, this is a conspiracy. Even black marker on a treo doesnt help.
Yeah, in 5 minutes you cant really consult with a lawyer/business savvy friend. Sounds like hustling to me.
This policy isnt written in stone. MS has many times pushed out an out of cycle patch if it was urgent.
No, its automatic updates, thats the process in svchosts thats causing this. disabling the automatic updates service fixes this bug, but thats just a temporary workaround. google around for this, you'll see its happening everywhere. supposedly MS has 'top people' on it.
The issue as I see it is that a sysadmin enforces rules. SOme people just have not matured enough to handle this. As children they resented their parents for enforcing rules and slowly learned how to become adults. As young adults they resented society/police for enforcing rules and slowly learned how to be good citizens. At school they resented teachers/profs for enforcing rules but learned how to be good students. At corporate jobs they still resent sysadmins/IT and some have not learned how to be a good employee or a good person, thus this tension. Its funny how its only the younger crowd (usually first job) that have this sense of priveldge and are always seemingly pissed at IT because they cant install warcraft (or whatever) on their PCs. Eventually they grow up, or get fired.
Patch day was started because administrators didnt want random patches being pushed out at random times. Its supposed to help the process by giving people a schedule, especially for people who arent using SUS.
The real question is when are they going to patch the patch system. The 100% CPU svchost bug is killing me and KB916089 (and its predecessor) doesnt do squat.
>Some day people will be complaining about how you don't need a help desk, and desktop support teams.
Dunno about that. The computer is a programmable device, thus its always changing (running different apps). The TV runs one app (the tv) and has very simple functions (on/off, channel change) etc. Its interesting to see the low levels of tech adoption when it comes to tivo, 5.1 or HDTV. A lot of people dont care for the added complexity of a TV system, a PC system a 100x worse. I think its osmething of a minor miracle that we've gotten all the slovenly TV types using internet-enabled PCs. Its not something they would have demanded on their own, but with the right push from various vendors and the hype, they aer learning that a PC in the home is actually a good idea.
Lastly, the TV and PC have little in common. One is strictly an entertainment device the other can be a lot of things. Its like comparing a swiss army knife to a rock and wondering why the swiss army knife cant be as easy to use as the rock.
I'm thinking the same thing. There are some notable exceptions like van halen and some metal bands, but I wouldnt pay much for this. This would make a nice free (or very cheap) expansion disk or downloadable xbox live content. As another 60 dollar game just, meh. They can add a few token 80s songs to GH III and be done with it.
>I'd rather support our godawful tobacco taxes
You dont pay tax on cuban cigars. Cuban cigars are smuggled in, no cuban items are allowed for sale in the US.
No trailers? We need this 'punishment' where I live. Make children under the age of 18 unable to see movies after 9pm and I'll be at the theater a lot more often.
>This article is basically content free.
But its very moving. After reading it, I slapped my grandma in the face while screaming, "THE GOD DAMN CiceroUIWndFrame ERROR I KEEP GETTING IS ALL YOUR FAULT!!!!!!!!!"
The 360 is much less ballsy. Essentially, they should have aimed for a 400 price mark and not done an elite or a core. If that means wired controllers and a smaller drive, then fine. Right now, MS's strategy is to hobble the premium by making sure everything works with the core. They should have just hafd one system with a HD and a damn wifi adapter. Instead, the MS wireless adapter is 100 MSRP. The 20 gig drive costs that much and the damn VGA cable is 40 dollars. This is just price gouging. This tiered pricing is not good for anyone and only leads to gouging. One system would have solved all these problems, especially when this thing is advertised as a 'live' system.
I really hope the developers push MS to let them cut core users out of the equation if they choose to and that MS starts offering saner prices on their accessories. Because when its all said and done, I could have blown another 100+ dollars and gotten a PS3.