The data stored on my local system does not have to go through the Internet before it's stored or retrieved. Every time you access your cloud data, it passes through multiple servers which you have no control over. The hacker may not have to get to your data... it may come to him.
They keep using this word "robot". I think it does not mean what they think it means.
It seems to be, at best, a sort of hydraulic/pneumatic marionette. If its pneumatic cricket conscience can help it wish upon a star, perhaps the Blue Fairy will turn it into a real robot.
I don't see why we need DNS any more. Who types URLs in these days? The search engines can find your content and serve it up via IP address.
So when you want to put up a new website, you start the server and wait three days before the search engine crawls it... oh, wait, you'll need to link to it from another page and wait three days for the search engine to crawl that page...
Ignore that problem for now. Assume that all the search engines will accept requests to immediately crawl your IP address.
Your website is really generic at this point (ipse lorem and all that) so it's on the 10,000,000 page of any search term you can think of. Really hard to test. So what do you do? You somehow create a unique identifier and have the search engine crawl the site again. Now it's on top of the search! Are you feeling lucky? Of course you are, you've just invented DNS!
This is also true in the US.
Not only does the price include all the services of the audiologist (the initial fitting, the setup, any number of adjustments), you can give it back to the audiologist within 30 days and not pay a thing even though the device can't be sold to someone else, i.e. the manufacturer has to eat the cost of any devices that the consumer doesn't like on a whim not just defective ones.
If pro gamers are boring because they're just like us ("you could do just as well as the elite players" with enough practice), then pro athletes are fascinating because they are some kind of genetic freaks?
No, that's not mah jongg. Real mah jongg is like a rummy-style card game - you draw tiles and discard tiles trying to collect certain patterns/groups to maximize the number of points in your hand.
Must depend on where you live...
I just checked Cingular's site for my zip code (Dallas, TX).
Unlimited Data Connect is $44.99
Laptop Connect Unlimited is $79.99
In both cases, $19.99 only buys you 5M.
How does incredibly offensive get modded "Insightful"?
I hope than when your city is demolished by a hurricane and then flooded up to the rooftops that someone will be critical of your behavior and blame your entire country for it.
Since the city of Galveston is situated on the rather smallish Galveston Island, it is unlikely that it would have ever kept up with Houston (or any other city for that matter). It's growth is bounded by the amount of land available. While it could be a bigger than it is now (bulldoze Galveston Island State Park, replace existing buildings with New York-style skyscrapers, etc.), it doesn't seem fair to compare its growth potential with that of a mainland city.
The sweatshop just buys 2 more copies of the game for each copy they have now. 3 hours logged in on copy, 3 hours logged in on copy 2, 3 hours logged in on copy 3. Now 6 hours have passed and copy 1 is usable again.
The farmers have one "slow" month due to buying more copies and leveling up the characters on them, but after that it's business as usual.
The game company gets more income and can claim even more users - win/win.
The Chinese game costs about $3 instead of $50, then they buy cards for about $3.70 that let them play for 4000 hours before they need another card or less than 6 cents an hour.
This is money that goes to The 9 Interactive, not Blizzard. I think they paid Blizzard a single amount up front, but the deal isn't public. Similarly, I think Blizzard only gets a percentage of the Korean business.
In at least of the Might & Magic series, [spoiler alert] the end game involves discovering that the "demons" are really aliens, so you end up learning to fight with sci-fi blasters.
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Unfortuneately, a large portion of the market for MMORPG's is non-RPG players.
They receive a quest that says "Walk five paces directly south to coordinate 102, 41 and talk to the bright pink guy with the huge yellow question mark over his head."
Immediately, they go to the General chat channel and say "Where's the bright pink guy?", followed by "What color is he?, and if this is a level 20 or higher quest "How do I talk to him?"
They aren't interested in having fun or playing the game that is there. They want to either beat the game, or get to the part where they can play it like it was CounterStrike.
A truly worthwhile "quest system" should come close to what people expect from a pen-and-paper RPG. True adventures with adventure hooks, clues, the thrill of the chase, and a real reward at the end.
But how are we going to carpet the entire Middle East first?
Maybe this has something to do with all that carpet bombing I keep hearing so much about - now it makes sense!
Well, let's see... my guess is that MacGuyver is more macho than a pineapple.
Si! Correcto! MacGuyver es mas macho que pineapple.
La segunda pregunta es: que es mas macho, gum wrapper fuse or chocolate leak stopper?
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The data stored on my local system does not have to go through the Internet before it's stored or retrieved. Every time you access your cloud data, it passes through multiple servers which you have no control over. The hacker may not have to get to your data... it may come to him.
They keep using this word "robot". I think it does not mean what they think it means. It seems to be, at best, a sort of hydraulic/pneumatic marionette. If its pneumatic cricket conscience can help it wish upon a star, perhaps the Blue Fairy will turn it into a real robot.
I don't see why we need DNS any more. Who types URLs in these days? The search engines can find your content and serve it up via IP address.
So when you want to put up a new website, you start the server and wait three days before the search engine crawls it... oh, wait, you'll need to link to it from another page and wait three days for the search engine to crawl that page... Ignore that problem for now. Assume that all the search engines will accept requests to immediately crawl your IP address. Your website is really generic at this point (ipse lorem and all that) so it's on the 10,000,000 page of any search term you can think of. Really hard to test. So what do you do? You somehow create a unique identifier and have the search engine crawl the site again. Now it's on top of the search! Are you feeling lucky? Of course you are, you've just invented DNS!
This is also true in the US. Not only does the price include all the services of the audiologist (the initial fitting, the setup, any number of adjustments), you can give it back to the audiologist within 30 days and not pay a thing even though the device can't be sold to someone else, i.e. the manufacturer has to eat the cost of any devices that the consumer doesn't like on a whim not just defective ones.
If pro gamers are boring because they're just like us ("you could do just as well as the elite players" with enough practice), then pro athletes are fascinating because they are some kind of genetic freaks?
No, that's not mah jongg. Real mah jongg is like a rummy-style card game - you draw tiles and discard tiles trying to collect certain patterns/groups to maximize the number of points in your hand.
Must depend on where you live...
I just checked Cingular's site for my zip code (Dallas, TX).
Unlimited Data Connect is $44.99
Laptop Connect Unlimited is $79.99
In both cases, $19.99 only buys you 5M.
How does incredibly offensive get modded "Insightful"? I hope than when your city is demolished by a hurricane and then flooded up to the rooftops that someone will be critical of your behavior and blame your entire country for it.
A person with a mental disorder plays a lot of video games, therefore people who play a lot of video games all have mental disorders - QED'oh!
Since the city of Galveston is situated on the rather smallish Galveston Island, it is unlikely that it would have ever kept up with Houston (or any other city for that matter). It's growth is bounded by the amount of land available. While it could be a bigger than it is now (bulldoze Galveston Island State Park, replace existing buildings with New York-style skyscrapers, etc.), it doesn't seem fair to compare its growth potential with that of a mainland city.
The sweatshop just buys 2 more copies of the game for each copy they have now. 3 hours logged in on copy, 3 hours logged in on copy 2, 3 hours logged in on copy 3. Now 6 hours have passed and copy 1 is usable again. The farmers have one "slow" month due to buying more copies and leveling up the characters on them, but after that it's business as usual. The game company gets more income and can claim even more users - win/win.
Chinese players of most (all?) MMORPG's are already paying by the hour rather than by the month like US players.
Wow! Thanks for pulling that info, "years" is so much more exact than "a long time"! I was afraid it might take "millenia" or "eons".
The Chinese game costs about $3 instead of $50, then they buy cards for about $3.70 that let them play for 4000 hours before they need another card or less than 6 cents an hour. This is money that goes to The 9 Interactive, not Blizzard. I think they paid Blizzard a single amount up front, but the deal isn't public. Similarly, I think Blizzard only gets a percentage of the Korean business.
In at least of the Might & Magic series, [spoiler alert] the end game involves discovering that the "demons" are really aliens, so you end up learning to fight with sci-fi blasters.
Now our high school graduate applies for a job...
Can you use Excel?
No
Can you use Word?
No, Kedit
Can you use Windows?
No, Linux
Thanks, we'll get back to you (in a million years)...
Oops wrong button Unfortuneately, a large portion of the market for MMORPG's is non-RPG players.
They receive a quest that says "Walk five paces directly south to coordinate 102, 41 and talk to the bright pink guy with the huge yellow question mark over his head."
Immediately, they go to the General chat channel and say "Where's the bright pink guy?", followed by "What color is he?, and if this is a level 20 or higher quest "How do I talk to him?"
They aren't interested in having fun or playing the game that is there. They want to either beat the game, or get to the part where they can play it like it was CounterStrike.
But how are we going to carpet the entire Middle East first?
Maybe this has something to do with all that carpet bombing I keep hearing so much about - now it makes sense!
Well, let's see... my guess is that MacGuyver is more macho than a pineapple.
Si! Correcto! MacGuyver es mas macho que pineapple.
La segunda pregunta es: que es mas macho, gum wrapper fuse or chocolate leak stopper?
I can even say 'cddr' with a Lisp!
Methanol-Ethanol - who cares! It's practically the same... HEY - who turned off the sun!!!
Of course, this puts your rear channel speakers somewhere inside your neighbor's house...
On the other hand, if someone were to have $650 laying around and bought 915 shares of Akamai in September of 2002, they would have $12,746 now.