There was a book where they kept building bigger and bigger experiments, the latest one with a diamater of part of the solar system - and one of the characters postulates that that was how the big bang always started. Scientists of an advanced civilization solving the only problems left to solve would eventually try to re create the big bang out of a search for knowledge.
"I went a TechNet meeting last week on Vista. After sitting in an auditorium for 4 hours, listening and watching what Vista can do, I can't wait to upgrade."
Yeah somehow I don't think you reflect the majority of computer users. They won't have the benifit(?) of being blasted by M$ PR for 4 hours. Heck after that, I would say anything they wanted me to say so that I would never have to experience that again. A condition of your release I am sure.
"The problem is that this guy and his company accepted money from US citizens who were on US soil in exchange for providing a service that is illegal in the US"
Um no your have that backwards. The problem is US citizens, on US soil, gave this guy and his company money BREAKING THEIR OWN COUNTRIES LAWS. No one forced them to use his services. Why are these americans not being arrested?
Lesson here: Do not go to the USA or you will be arrested and possibly (probably) tortured.
"WoW suffers from the internet problem of complete anonymity. Be an asshole all you want, if you end up getting the ramifications for it then you just switch to an alt."
Wow.. Theres no way i would play a game where i was personally identifiable with the character. This is not a problem with the internet, this is a strength of the internet. It teaches people how to deal with assholes (obviously you never bothered to hone this skill). There will always be assholes, personally identifiable or not. If all you can do is/report them, then how will you ever be able to survive ANYWHERE online?
The ramifications may be that the person learns their lesson, not to ninja shit, and when they re roll an alt, they wont do it anymore. You get a reputation for being an asshole quite quick in a game like wow and people do spread the word that someone is a ninja.
The assholes in wow were your biggest problem with wow? wow. I never met someone i couldn't out talk and if i ever did, there is always/ignore . Your basically arguing for a dumbed down G rated online experience and if that ever happened I would gag off of all the niceness and courtesy. Its like the torah says, timshel. thou mayest act like a retard, but at the say time, thou mayest not. Its not up to god or the GM's to dictate responsible behavior.
For the record I only ever reported one person besides the Gold selling spammers. That one person just thrived on any attention. The main thing is, if you don't give the trolls attention, then they disapear. Just like advertising and monsters in your closet.
I also quit a while ago but engineering and also alchemy were invaluable while i was leveling. There are some of the engineering caps/goggles that i had on for 10+ levels from when i made them. It totally depends what class your playing whether or not the gear will be relevant. Engineering makes some sweet rogue gear and potions are quite invaluable to a mage.
I doubt people who just have a landline phone would need wireless internet in downtown toronto. Theres not many old people with laptops crusing the CBD are there?
If you haven't lived in toronto, the area they are talking about covering is pretty much all commerical. There are very few residential buildings in that area. The ones that are residential, start in the rent range of $2000+ per month. I doubt someone who rented a 2000 dollar condo would not have a cel phone.
I have a geforce 6800 GT which i purchased around this time last year. Would it be so much to ask that they append reviews of older cards, 1 or perhaps 2 years back, so that we can see where our cards would rank in relation to the new shit? I would really like to know if there has been a significant performance increase so that what is now a budget card, could outperform my one year old highend card.
If any reviewer is reading this please please put more context in the form of older models into your reviews. Comparing them against the current mid/high range cards does nothing for someone who doesnt obsessively follow video card benchmarks.
"In any case with this log of users who actually click on spam links you could then A compile an overview of what kind of user actually is stupid enough to respond, B educate them or C ban them for being to stupid to live."
What if you occasionally click on spam blog links, as I do, in the vein hope that its some information you want? How do you know that the person clicking on the link intends to buy the product, and is not just gathering more information on the spammer? I often visit spam websites/domains before i block them. You can look for trends and spammer techniques which you can use to fight them.
To sum up, clicking on a link does not make you spammer prey.
Besides most of us can't even see what they are talking about because we don't have these facebook thingies. I hate social networking. It's like how people linkjack and shit to get people to visit their shitty blogs. I want the *NEWS story* or article, not how it relates to some dumbasses meaningless life.
"The #1 reason cables aren't included in most peripheral devices is because the user most likely already has a cable just like the one needed."
Thats a good guess but your wrong. Having worked in retail computer sales, I can say with absolute certainty that with printers, scanners, etc... the store makes shit money markup wise (10-$30 most printers). Most cables COST less than $3. The stores mark them up 1000% or more. So you get a A-B usb cable costing $15, instead of the 50cents it costs the store to purchase it. If you dont believe me, go to any dollar store. You can find all sorts of computer cables selling for a dollar. Those stores are still making money selling it for a dollar.
This is also why you get crazy $100+ DVI cables that are "gold plated" which cost wholesale like $10. This is where computer stores make the most percentage profits. Think about it. When you make a cable, your basically taking rolls of cable that cost pennies a foot, crimping it and sticking ends on.
"To the people who just have a home ISP and may not have much choice, I say: don't worry about it. Somebody will come in to provide the service eventually."
Well I've had the telephone company and the cable company for about 10 years in my area. Currently i subscribe to the cable company because a few years ago the telephone company started blocking ports 80/53/25, so i switched to the cable company.
I'd love to live in the magical universe that you live in where there are infinte choices and the great market will provide all the answers, but then i woke up in the real world with the monopolies cockslapping me all the way to the bank.
But then i guess you ARE right. Maybe in 10 or 20 more years, someone will come along and offer better service. I mean *eventually* is a long ass time right?
"People pretend to be stupid in school, just because in nowadays' broken culture it's _cool_ to be stupid and ignorant, and is waay uncool to show any academic effort or ability"
Says you! I always pretended to be stupid in school to throw off suspicion and catch people off guard. Not to mention people dont ask you as many annoying questions if they think you are dumb. Infact I do this in real life as well. The coolness is just an aftereffect.
Ziggy predicts a 98.9% probability that these awards suck ass!
Also predicting a 89% probability that this thread will contain, in its entirety, posts talking about how their favourite game wasn't listed. AL get me out of this thread! *leaps into linux vs osx flamewar* Oh boy...
"As Batman said, find some common interests with your coworkers"
Um what movie was that in? Batman in a batman original: 'BATMAN: The behind a desk years'
Watch in horor as he battles the deadly stacks of TPS reports.. Marvel at his ingenuity as he uses smoke bombs to evade customer inquries! Feel his pain at having to refill the water cooler... again...
Comming soon! from the makers of 'BATMAN: Batman builds a deck' and 'BATMAN: Journey to the bottom of a case of beer'
"Then there were a couple of graphical MUD's, then EQ, which was the bee's knees. EQ ruled. Ultima Online and Asheron's Call broke after, and developed major followings"
UO - Released on September 30, 1997, by Origin Systems.
EQ - EverQuest (EQ) is a 3D fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) that was released on March 16, 1999
I will not have your revisionist history. UO pioneered the genre.
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pff eq i beta'ed that. It sucked so hard. Not as good as UO and not as good as WoW. Why dont you just say anarchy online or swg defined the genre since you seem to have absolutely no standards for quality.
"Since her daughter's death Mrs Longhurst, 74, from Reading..."
So she has to live under this new law, which doesnt aeffect her at all, for maybe 10 or 20 years. The rest of the country has to live with it forever. All because no one can die meaninglessly. If you don't have many years left in this world, you shouldnt be able to go around making laws that you will not have to experience first hand. Who doesnt have a few S&M pics on their pc that it is now a three year jail term to possess?
I also think you should not be able to make any sexual morality laws unless you are currently able and willing to have sex. How would you ever control for peoples resentment at losing their sex drive? ( you could do the same with wars, forcing presidents to fight along side soldiers, but good luck with that!)
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There was a book where they kept building bigger and bigger experiments, the latest one with a diamater of part of the solar system - and one of the characters postulates that that was how the big bang always started. Scientists of an advanced civilization solving the only problems left to solve would eventually try to re create the big bang out of a search for knowledge.
Forget the name of the book though.
Once someone has broken the moral trust, you are free to hold them to their new self imposed morality -- or lack there of.
Fuck this guy.
"I went a TechNet meeting last week on Vista. After sitting in an auditorium for 4 hours, listening and watching what Vista can do, I can't wait to upgrade."
Yeah somehow I don't think you reflect the majority of computer users. They won't have the benifit(?) of being blasted by M$ PR for 4 hours. Heck after that, I would say anything they wanted me to say so that I would never have to experience that again. A condition of your release I am sure.
"The problem is that this guy and his company accepted money from US citizens who were on US soil in exchange for providing a service that is illegal in the US"
Um no your have that backwards. The problem is US citizens, on US soil, gave this guy and his company money BREAKING THEIR OWN COUNTRIES LAWS. No one forced them to use his services. Why are these americans not being arrested?
Lesson here: Do not go to the USA or you will be arrested and possibly (probably) tortured.
"WoW suffers from the internet problem of complete anonymity. Be an asshole all you want, if you end up getting the ramifications for it then you just switch to an alt."
/report them, then how will you ever be able to survive ANYWHERE online?
/ignore . Your basically arguing for a dumbed down G rated online experience and if that ever happened I would gag off of all the niceness and courtesy. Its like the torah says, timshel. thou mayest act like a retard, but at the say time, thou mayest not. Its not up to god or the GM's to dictate responsible behavior.
Wow.. Theres no way i would play a game where i was personally identifiable with the character. This is not a problem with the internet, this is a strength of the internet. It teaches people how to deal with assholes (obviously you never bothered to hone this skill). There will always be assholes, personally identifiable or not. If all you can do is
The ramifications may be that the person learns their lesson, not to ninja shit, and when they re roll an alt, they wont do it anymore. You get a reputation for being an asshole quite quick in a game like wow and people do spread the word that someone is a ninja.
The assholes in wow were your biggest problem with wow? wow. I never met someone i couldn't out talk and if i ever did, there is always
For the record I only ever reported one person besides the Gold selling spammers. That one person just thrived on any attention. The main thing is, if you don't give the trolls attention, then they disapear. Just like advertising and monsters in your closet.
I also quit a while ago but engineering and also alchemy were invaluable while i was leveling. There are some of the engineering caps/goggles that i had on for 10+ levels from when i made them. It totally depends what class your playing whether or not the gear will be relevant. Engineering makes some sweet rogue gear and potions are quite invaluable to a mage.
"So for people who rely on a land-line telephone"
I doubt people who just have a landline phone would need wireless internet in downtown toronto. Theres not many old people with laptops crusing the CBD are there?
If you haven't lived in toronto, the area they are talking about covering is pretty much all commerical. There are very few residential buildings in that area. The ones that are residential, start in the rent range of $2000+ per month. I doubt someone who rented a 2000 dollar condo would not have a cel phone.
I have a geforce 6800 GT which i purchased around this time last year. Would it be so much to ask that they append reviews of older cards, 1 or perhaps 2 years back, so that we can see where our cards would rank in relation to the new shit? I would really like to know if there has been a significant performance increase so that what is now a budget card, could outperform my one year old highend card.
If any reviewer is reading this please please put more context in the form of older models into your reviews. Comparing them against the current mid/high range cards does nothing for someone who doesnt obsessively follow video card benchmarks.
Your right. I'll make sure to give you 20 dollars once i go down to the atm machine and withdraw it. Hopefully i wont forget my pin number this time!
(symantics trolls make me sick. please kindly die)
(i bet misspelling semantics really ground your gears didnt it)
Theres no way this could possibly make any difference in speed.
The test must be flawed. They should have used a seperate 3com nic or something not onboard.
Theres no way that there is a 65% performance gain becuase of the nic card. thats impossible.
"In any case with this log of users who actually click on spam links you could then A compile an overview of what kind of user actually is stupid enough to respond, B educate them or C ban them for being to stupid to live."
What if you occasionally click on spam blog links, as I do, in the vein hope that its some information you want? How do you know that the person clicking on the link intends to buy the product, and is not just gathering more information on the spammer? I often visit spam websites/domains before i block them. You can look for trends and spammer techniques which you can use to fight them.
To sum up, clicking on a link does not make you spammer prey.
This whole news story is stupid.
Besides most of us can't even see what they are talking about because we don't have these facebook thingies. I hate social networking. It's like how people linkjack and shit to get people to visit their shitty blogs. I want the *NEWS story* or article, not how it relates to some dumbasses meaningless life.
Why do you want to bake the worlds future children?
"The #1 reason cables aren't included in most peripheral devices is because the user most likely already has a cable just like the one needed."
Thats a good guess but your wrong. Having worked in retail computer sales, I can say with absolute certainty that with printers, scanners, etc... the store makes shit money markup wise (10-$30 most printers). Most cables COST less than $3. The stores mark them up 1000% or more. So you get a A-B usb cable costing $15, instead of the 50cents it costs the store to purchase it. If you dont believe me, go to any dollar store. You can find all sorts of computer cables selling for a dollar. Those stores are still making money selling it for a dollar.
This is also why you get crazy $100+ DVI cables that are "gold plated" which cost wholesale like $10. This is where computer stores make the most percentage profits. Think about it. When you make a cable, your basically taking rolls of cable that cost pennies a foot, crimping it and sticking ends on.
"I will never pay a monthly fee for a game."
Enjoy your no gaming future gramps...
On the plus side I pay way less for game subscriptions than i do for the cable tv that i used to subscribe to, the weekly movies I used to go to...
The international association of razorbat trolls?
"To the people who just have a home ISP and may not have much choice, I say: don't worry about it. Somebody will come in to provide the service eventually."
Well I've had the telephone company and the cable company for about 10 years in my area. Currently i subscribe to the cable company because a few years ago the telephone company started blocking ports 80/53/25, so i switched to the cable company.
I'd love to live in the magical universe that you live in where there are infinte choices and the great market will provide all the answers, but then i woke up in the real world with the monopolies cockslapping me all the way to the bank.
But then i guess you ARE right. Maybe in 10 or 20 more years, someone will come along and offer better service. I mean *eventually* is a long ass time right?
why? in euorpe and asia they have crazy faster speeds for crazy lower prices..
I guess this is what people who don't have jobs make web pages about.
"People pretend to be stupid in school, just because in nowadays' broken culture it's _cool_ to be stupid and ignorant, and is waay uncool to show any academic effort or ability"
Says you! I always pretended to be stupid in school to throw off suspicion and catch people off guard. Not to mention people dont ask you as many annoying questions if they think you are dumb. Infact I do this in real life as well. The coolness is just an aftereffect.
I'm basically exactly like keyser soze.
Ziggy predicts a 98.9% probability that these awards suck ass!
Also predicting a 89% probability that this thread will contain, in its entirety, posts talking about how their favourite game wasn't listed.
AL get me out of this thread!
*leaps into linux vs osx flamewar*
Oh boy...
"As Batman said, find some common interests with your coworkers"
Um what movie was that in?
Batman in a batman original: 'BATMAN: The behind a desk years'
Watch in horor as he battles the deadly stacks of TPS reports..
Marvel at his ingenuity as he uses smoke bombs to evade customer inquries!
Feel his pain at having to refill the water cooler... again...
Comming soon! from the makers of 'BATMAN: Batman builds a deck' and 'BATMAN: Journey to the bottom of a case of beer'
UO - Released on September 30, 1997, by Origin Systems.
EQ - EverQuest (EQ) is a 3D fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) that was released on March 16, 1999
I will not have your revisionist history. UO pioneered the genre.
pff eq i beta'ed that. It sucked so hard. Not as good as UO and not as good as WoW. Why dont you just say anarchy online or swg defined the genre since you seem to have absolutely no standards for quality.
"Since her daughter's death Mrs Longhurst, 74, from Reading..."
So she has to live under this new law, which doesnt aeffect her at all, for maybe 10 or 20 years. The rest of the country has to live with it forever. All because no one can die meaninglessly. If you don't have many years left in this world, you shouldnt be able to go around making laws that you will not have to experience first hand. Who doesnt have a few S&M pics on their pc that it is now a three year jail term to possess?
I also think you should not be able to make any sexual morality laws unless you are currently able and willing to have sex. How would you ever control for peoples resentment at losing their sex drive? ( you could do the same with wars, forcing presidents to fight along side soldiers, but good luck with that!)