I had Bell South internet service once - until I realized they were purposely blocking my router from working. In the same phone call they offered to unblock my router for an extra monthly fee. I quit them immediately.
I'm still working on getting rid of their $65/month phone bill (doesnt include long distance)
Bell South is a greedy, awful corporation. I hope this latest attempt hurts them terribly.
You think this is a good idea? This is the dumbest thing I ever heard. A web site that's all ad space, selling by the pixel? THIS gets into the news? THIS stupid idea makes a million dollars?
It just goes to show, the quality of an idea doesnt matter at all. What matters is the media coverage you get. I could put a web site up that's a picture of a dog turd and people have to pay $10 to see it. If CNN and the other news sites post a story on it, I'll be rich!
And here I am, spending years working on artificial intelligence. I must be an idiot.
The story I heard was that Greenland and Iceland were named as they were to attract navigators to icy Greenland (who would of course leave) and repel them from habitable Iceland, which they wanted to keep for themselves.
They are illegal. I think that nonprofits can make them, and companies you have a relationship in (for example, Eckerd leaving an automated message that your prescription is in), but unsolicited pre-recorded calls are 100% illegal.
The problem is, the people making them generally know this and dont disclose their company name (also illegal) and hide their phone number.
I agree with the original poster. You have accepted a job being the selfish voice of some corporation and annoying hundreds of people every night. There are lots of jobs out there.
When I was nearly broke and temping a few years ago, the agency tricked me and my wife into taking a telemarketing job- actually, it was doing phone surveys about golf balls. After working there for four hours, we were so digsuted with the system and with ourselves for annoying so many people that we gave the manager a piece of our mind and quit right then and there. The next day the agency set us up with a better job.
Yep, it's true. When I was checking the druid forums for a while, I saw maybe one or two official responses a month. When thousands of posts go up each day, that means that very few questions are answered. Far fewer than should be, in my opinion. And the answers are pretty lacking in substance for the most part. Like what you saw above.
It looks bad on the single-player content end of the game for level 60 players. It appears Blizzard HAS finally been listening to the requests for more single-player and small-group content for level 60 and above, but miss the point. This is from their "Under Development" setion:
The redesign of this zone includes high-end outdoor quest area for both the solo players and 5-man groups, focusing on repeatable quests players can complete to gain epic items as a casual alternative to raid dungeons.
Repeatable quests? How tedious! The idea is to give us new places to explore, new quest chains and world events, new ways to develop our characters. This is just grinding, which is so NOT fun. It's clear the goal is to keep you busy so that Blizzard can keep making monthly profits from you.
I'm hoping the expansion makes the game fun again; that the undeveloped areas are completed, new continents or islands are made available, along with character customization, Hero Classes, new quests, events, etc. THEN I'll be back for more.
One reason might be the hordes of screaming immature people posting on the WoW boards. It's an endless series of complaints, insults, attacks, whining, and rudeness. When I read that the average age of the WoW player is 32, I was shocked. I read the boards for maybe a week before it just began to disgust me, and I havent been back.
If I was a developer, I'd REQUIRE insulation from that kind of thing.
Sorry, but that's absolutely retarded. You clearly have no experience of or real knowledge of pot. No drug I've ever tried (and that's a fair number) has ever changed my personality. No one who wouldnt rape or assault withOUT the influence of a drug would do so under the influence of that drug. That's just throwing a red herring into the mix so the guy committing the crime can divest himself of responsibility. Or so that you can do it for him.
No, he's right. I have every console out now, and I play Playstation 70%, X-Box 20%, and Nintendo 10%. They've turned their awesome Mario and Yoshi lines towards kids. I used to play them, every one, and those games alone would sell the system for me.
But the kiddie-mario and kiddie-yoshi are just simply not fun for someone who's been playing games forever. They're clearly tailoring to kids, and while that it great, it does take them out of the market for older fans like myself. My Nintendo days are over.
Regarding the lag, it's not all from the servers. When Crossroads got busy early on, it would really slow things down and the framerate could drop to nearly a slideshow. At first I chalked this up to lag, but an upgrade to more RAM foxed this right up and everything was smooth as silk.
256 MB RAM is barely enough. If you're experiencing "lag" and slow framerates, that might be your problem.:)
I've never had to wait in line for access, and the downtime is almost nonexistent on my server. What you're hearing is from people on the few servers that have had lots of problems. And surely they have good reason to be sore, but nobody should get the impression here that it's all like that.
That game was loads of fun. What a blast from the past to hear about GammaWorld again. I remember one of my characters was a psychic panther with body armor and mounted weapons. Wild stuff.
The truth is that 100% of mutations caused by random bombardment from high-energy waves is bad.
To illustrate, try this little experiment. Take a CD walkman and hit it with a hammer until it becomes an mp3 player. Didnt work? Try it with another one. When it works, you've got yourself a successful random beneficial mutation.
I see no reason why "intelligent design" implies or supports creationism. Obviously every living thing is an intelligent design. Nearly every tiny part of any living organism has a known purpose. This is not the result of randomness. There is intelligence here, whether it be the combined intelligence of the physical parts involved, the intelligence of a being who could design new creatures (that could be us in 100 years), or some mass consciousness (god?).
Science's unscientific view that random mutations fuel evolution is as ridiculous as religion's personification of god. Both are wrong and the answer lies somewhere in the middle: development and change through time, according to intelligent design, perhaps guided by the collective consciousness of a species, or of all the life on the world.
The history of science and religion reveal where these ideas came from. Science, in order to exist alongside religion, had to divide the world into the physical and the spiritual. And it's that old old habitual materialist view which gave birth to the idea that evolution had to be random. There wasnt any other option! Admitting intelligent design was treading in the realms of religion. And religion's all-powerful god HAD to have created the world, or else it might seem that there was a power greater than god. So we landed in this bizarre in-between land of two theories that both hold clearly wrong but ancient beliefs.
Personally now, I believe the rest of the theory of evolution is pretty sound. And creationism doesnt hold much validity beyond the idea of intelligent design, which I hold to be an all-important addition to the theory of evolution.
Nobody learns from "mistakes" when they arent mistakes in the first place.
Take this lovely example of manipulating the democratic process: Jeb Bush is ONCE AGAIN using the same felon-list he did four years ago- the one they hired an outside company to sloppily produce to have the widest range of (mostly african-american, democrat-voting) names match those on the list, so that every T. Jackson (for example) in the state was flagged as a felon. This is intentional voter intimidation and is a BIG problem.
How can two photons clear across the universe communicate instantaneously?
One idea I've heard is that they're actually just ONE photon, showing its face in two different points in spacetime simultaneously.
And regarding the challenge of getting information out of quantum-entangled particles, if we could get the Dutch freezing process down, we could: alter-freeze-read-alter-freeze-read
Say CEO Craig at Music Supercorporation has the idea to use these "worms" for his own advantage. He tells Lackey Larry to see if he can put a stop to P2P networks, and "Larry, keep this off the books". So Larry digs into the virus community on his own and hires some kid to modify a worm to take down his perceived enemies: the P2P filesharing community and serial-cracking web sites.
It seems like an obvious background story for this worm...or am I watching too much Alias?
Oooh I've been waiting for something like this to come along. A total bio-feedback device (or as total as current technology allows). I can watch the effects of what I eat, attribute my mood to biological factors when necessary.. In fact the psychological potential is huge.
If it's the level of self-awareness that makes humans unique, then this can only lead us further in the right direction.
How do I buy one? ThinkGeek- are you working on this?
Oh there are a LOT of awesome bands out there. But you dont hear them on the radio or MTV. I've been introduced to them via mix CDs of MP3s from friends. If not for that I'd be sick of all the pop music out there and what's on the radio.
Another reason it's ridiculous for the RIAA to get so stringent with fair-use policies.
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I had Bell South internet service once - until I realized they were purposely blocking my router from working. In the same phone call they offered to unblock my router for an extra monthly fee. I quit them immediately.
I'm still working on getting rid of their $65/month phone bill (doesnt include long distance)
Bell South is a greedy, awful corporation. I hope this latest attempt hurts them terribly.
You think this is a good idea? This is the dumbest thing I ever heard. A web site that's all ad space, selling by the pixel? THIS gets into the news? THIS stupid idea makes a million dollars?
It just goes to show, the quality of an idea doesnt matter at all. What matters is the media coverage you get. I could put a web site up that's a picture of a dog turd and people have to pay $10 to see it. If CNN and the other news sites post a story on it, I'll be rich!
And here I am, spending years working on artificial intelligence. I must be an idiot.
The story I heard was that Greenland and Iceland were named as they were to attract navigators to icy Greenland (who would of course leave) and repel them from habitable Iceland, which they wanted to keep for themselves.
They are illegal. I think that nonprofits can make them, and companies you have a relationship in (for example, Eckerd leaving an automated message that your prescription is in), but unsolicited pre-recorded calls are 100% illegal.
The problem is, the people making them generally know this and dont disclose their company name (also illegal) and hide their phone number.
I agree with the original poster. You have accepted a job being the selfish voice of some corporation and annoying hundreds of people every night. There are lots of jobs out there.
When I was nearly broke and temping a few years ago, the agency tricked me and my wife into taking a telemarketing job- actually, it was doing phone surveys about golf balls. After working there for four hours, we were so digsuted with the system and with ourselves for annoying so many people that we gave the manager a piece of our mind and quit right then and there. The next day the agency set us up with a better job.
Hear hear.
This is marketing shlock, not news.
"Something big is about to happen?"
Man, they got you hook, line and sinker.
Yep, it's true. When I was checking the druid forums for a while, I saw maybe one or two official responses a month. When thousands of posts go up each day, that means that very few questions are answered. Far fewer than should be, in my opinion. And the answers are pretty lacking in substance for the most part. Like what you saw above.
It looks bad on the single-player content end of the game for level 60 players. It appears Blizzard HAS finally been listening to the requests for more single-player and small-group content for level 60 and above, but miss the point. This is from their "Under Development" setion:
The redesign of this zone includes high-end outdoor quest area for both the solo players and 5-man groups, focusing on repeatable quests players can complete to gain epic items as a casual alternative to raid dungeons.
Repeatable quests? How tedious! The idea is to give us new places to explore, new quest chains and world events, new ways to develop our characters. This is just grinding, which is so NOT fun. It's clear the goal is to keep you busy so that Blizzard can keep making monthly profits from you.
I'm hoping the expansion makes the game fun again; that the undeveloped areas are completed, new continents or islands are made available, along with character customization, Hero Classes, new quests, events, etc. THEN I'll be back for more.
One reason might be the hordes of screaming immature people posting on the WoW boards. It's an endless series of complaints, insults, attacks, whining, and rudeness. When I read that the average age of the WoW player is 32, I was shocked. I read the boards for maybe a week before it just began to disgust me, and I havent been back.
If I was a developer, I'd REQUIRE insulation from that kind of thing.
Sorry, but that's absolutely retarded. You clearly have no experience of or real knowledge of pot. No drug I've ever tried (and that's a fair number) has ever changed my personality. No one who wouldnt rape or assault withOUT the influence of a drug would do so under the influence of that drug. That's just throwing a red herring into the mix so the guy committing the crime can divest himself of responsibility. Or so that you can do it for him.
No, he's right. I have every console out now, and I play Playstation 70%, X-Box 20%, and Nintendo 10%. They've turned their awesome Mario and Yoshi lines towards kids. I used to play them, every one, and those games alone would sell the system for me.
But the kiddie-mario and kiddie-yoshi are just simply not fun for someone who's been playing games forever. They're clearly tailoring to kids, and while that it great, it does take them out of the market for older fans like myself. My Nintendo days are over.
It's justice in a way.
If you added up all the time he wasted in other people's lives and subtracted it from his own, he'd probably have expired long ago.
You know what realtime crime mapping will lead to???
The dawn of SUPER HEROES
Regarding the lag, it's not all from the servers. When Crossroads got busy early on, it would really slow things down and the framerate could drop to nearly a slideshow. At first I chalked this up to lag, but an upgrade to more RAM foxed this right up and everything was smooth as silk.
:)
256 MB RAM is barely enough. If you're experiencing "lag" and slow framerates, that might be your problem.
I've never had to wait in line for access, and the downtime is almost nonexistent on my server. What you're hearing is from people on the few servers that have had lots of problems. And surely they have good reason to be sore, but nobody should get the impression here that it's all like that.
I love World of Warcraft!
That game was loads of fun. What a blast from the past to hear about GammaWorld again. I remember one of my characters was a psychic panther with body armor and mounted weapons. Wild stuff.
The truth is that 100% of mutations caused by random bombardment from high-energy waves is bad.
To illustrate, try this little experiment. Take a CD walkman and hit it with a hammer until it becomes an mp3 player. Didnt work? Try it with another one. When it works, you've got yourself a successful random beneficial mutation.
I see no reason why "intelligent design" implies or supports creationism. Obviously every living thing is an intelligent design. Nearly every tiny part of any living organism has a known purpose. This is not the result of randomness. There is intelligence here, whether it be the combined intelligence of the physical parts involved, the intelligence of a being who could design new creatures (that could be us in 100 years), or some mass consciousness (god?).
Science's unscientific view that random mutations fuel evolution is as ridiculous as religion's personification of god. Both are wrong and the answer lies somewhere in the middle: development and change through time, according to intelligent design, perhaps guided by the collective consciousness of a species, or of all the life on the world.
The history of science and religion reveal where these ideas came from. Science, in order to exist alongside religion, had to divide the world into the physical and the spiritual. And it's that old old habitual materialist view which gave birth to the idea that evolution had to be random. There wasnt any other option! Admitting intelligent design was treading in the realms of religion. And religion's all-powerful god HAD to have created the world, or else it might seem that there was a power greater than god. So we landed in this bizarre in-between land of two theories that both hold clearly wrong but ancient beliefs.
Personally now, I believe the rest of the theory of evolution is pretty sound. And creationism doesnt hold much validity beyond the idea of intelligent design, which I hold to be an all-important addition to the theory of evolution.
Nobody learns from "mistakes" when they arent mistakes in the first place.
Take this lovely example of manipulating the democratic process: Jeb Bush is ONCE AGAIN using the same felon-list he did four years ago- the one they hired an outside company to sloppily produce to have the widest range of (mostly african-american, democrat-voting) names match those on the list, so that every T. Jackson (for example) in the state was flagged as a felon. This is intentional voter intimidation and is a BIG problem.
It looks like that dog is giving a bj during a particular part in the animation.
How can two photons clear across the universe communicate instantaneously?
One idea I've heard is that they're actually just ONE photon, showing its face in two different points in spacetime simultaneously.
And regarding the challenge of getting information out of quantum-entangled particles, if we could get the Dutch freezing process down, we could: alter-freeze-read-alter-freeze-read
Does anyone else see this as scary?
..or am I watching too much Alias?
Say CEO Craig at Music Supercorporation has the idea to use these "worms" for his own advantage. He tells Lackey Larry to see if he can put a stop to P2P networks, and "Larry, keep this off the books". So Larry digs into the virus community on his own and hires some kid to modify a worm to take down his perceived enemies: the P2P filesharing community and serial-cracking web sites.
It seems like an obvious background story for this worm.
Lo, for it must be said that if God slew all, he'd have nobody left to punish, and that would not be pelasing to God.
Oooh I've been waiting for something like this to come along. A total bio-feedback device (or as total as current technology allows). I can watch the effects of what I eat, attribute my mood to biological factors when necessary.. In fact the psychological potential is huge.
If it's the level of self-awareness that makes humans unique, then this can only lead us further in the right direction.
How do I buy one? ThinkGeek- are you working on this?
Oh there are a LOT of awesome bands out there. But you dont hear them on the radio or MTV. I've been introduced to them via mix CDs of MP3s from friends. If not for that I'd be sick of all the pop music out there and what's on the radio.
Another reason it's ridiculous for the RIAA to get so stringent with fair-use policies.