Facebook is unique and the greatest thing out there. I'm just saying that *any* social platform should *not* going to lower your human-to-human interactions. If used properly, it will make them easier to organize and should in fact increase their likeliness of happening.
What a bland statement, that essentially applies to any technology that allows communications - shared calendars, journals, e-mail, internet relay chat etc.
Sorry, but my point (and the grand-parent's) went way above your head.
Your point was perfectly clear to me and my response is simply that I don't require Facebook for doing the same things you mentioned you do with Facebook.
My human-to-human interaction is greatly facilitated by Facebook. I can keep track of more friends at a time, easily organize events, and I know that most likely they'll have an email notification for all these things.
I do the same thing with my account on a server running Zimbra opensource edition. I don't need Facebook to do that.
I get the impression the whole account is flagged as cheating and that applies to all games on the account. I may have misinterpreted this however.
No, only for games that have the same engine. So if you are caught cheating on games based on the Source engine, you end up flagged as a cheater on all Source-based games you own.
Sorry, but I don't consider greater amounts of errata, processors advertising they're supporting they support SSE3 specification when they don't support certain opcodes from it - which means they don't support the spec etc 'just as good'.
Remember how much Intel cheats on benchmarks?
AMD has cheated on benchmarks too.
BTW, I've been Intel and Nvidia-free since 2001. I'm working on the windows part. (I'm a gamer)
Good for you. I'm sticking with Intel and nVidia for other reasons, I don't care about the business side. What I care about is following specifications properly, low errata. Things like proper OpenGL support (which ATi do not have) and actually having technology that works despite platform issues.
I consider however AMD and ATi existence necessary. Without competition Intel's and nVidia's innovations would stall.
Left 4 Dead still isn't available as a Mac title...and now this. Which is completely bizarre, because Alien Swarm was originally available for the Mac; it's based on UT2004...available for, oh, you know, 6 years?
Not to worry! I read this on Apple's website:
Leopard is the world's most advanced operating system. So advanced, it even lets you run Windows if there's a PC application you need to use. Just get a copy of Windows and start up Boot Camp, now included with Leopard. Setup is simple and straightforward -- just as you'd expect with a Mac.
They have decided that the US will impose the harshest penalty on this man when they have not imposed any penalty at all yet.
When you consider that most US prisons don't meet the UK's minimum prison standards (which many prisons in the UK try to go above, not just stay at the minimum), it's understandable.
Strange that no press has been given to the updating to iOS4 resulting in many 3g, 3gs and touch owners losing functionality of the apple supplied head set and it's controls.
No, no, no! That's not how you upgrade an Apple product!
This is how you do it:
Step one: Order new version of Apple product. Step two: When new version arrives, backup data from old version. Step three: Restore back up on to new version. Step four: If data is missing, shrug it off as Apple getting rid of backwards compatibility, it's really for your best interests. Step five: Throw old version in bin.
If you followed these steps correctly, you have upgraded your Apple product correctly.
I was under the impression that prepaid credit cards were available in various stores (gas stations, drug stores, etc) in Europe, though I don't know if that also holds true in the UK.
I have not seen anything here with the "Visa" or "Mastercard" logos, the closest thing I could find was what they call "prepaid cards", but those require you to register your personal details and then let you transfer money via phone credits, bank account transfers etc.
I haven't noticed these abroad either, but I haven't exactly looked for them abroad. I did ask some friends who are currently in Germany, Poland and Denmark - They've all told me that they don't have those there either.
That's not to say there aren't gift cards, there are gift cards, however, I doubt any worthwhile site will accept a Starbucks gift card.
Don't worry about those "lost" sales from people pirating the game, most of them wouldn't have bought the game anyways.
You'd be surprised. Effective copy protection can make it more difficult to pirate and thus easier to get it legitimately. See how Egosoft did it with X3: Reunion, pirates had to physically disconnect their optical disc drives to get it to work, meanwhile legitimate users could download it from steam and play or purchase it from a shop.
You haven't had a phone with reception problems in 7 years? That's great! What carrier do you use?
Due to the fact I moved around, went abroad often:
Telia DE Telia SE GSMPlus EraGSM Idea Orange PL Orange FR Orange UK Three O2 T-mobile UK T-mobile DE Vodafone
And.. That's all I can remember off the top of my head.
I guess I should have also mentioned that I live in a very challenging area for RF communication.
I lived in Poland for a good period of time, I would say it was very challenging for RF considering the laws, politics making it difficult to deploy towers. Large surface area to cover, loads of forests, loads of tall grey apartment buildings all over the cities... I some how still managed to have mobile phone signals smack dead in the middle of a forest and I can only recall a few dead zone spots close to the German border.
I have no idea how the iPhone deals, but I don't intend to get one. I can say that internal antennas have worked well for me previously.
I've been using cell phones heavily since the bricks of the early 90's.
I've been using GSM mobile phones since the mid nineties.
if the antennas were internal. I definitely noticed a decrease in signal quality when this move happened. As a heavy cell phone user, I also have always noticed that phones with internal antennas can have big changes in reception performance based on how you hold the phone. I've been re-learning the "optimal holding position" for every Nokia, Motorolla, and Samsung I've owned. It's just basic RF.
Honestly, I owned quite a few Nokia business phones, when I got a Nokia 6310i with it's internal antenna, I had much better signal than the previous Nokias that had external, semi-external. I never had to flip the phone around to figure out the best signal, it was generally the same no matter what way I rotated it.
Since then, I've not really had a phone that ever had poor reception issues.
The markets, 'pirates', and modern distribution channels have changed much since then. In 1982 it was just a given in the 'scene' that stuff was copied( the way it had always been done).
My own flash movie maker software was pirated to hell and used across thousands up on thousands of websites - I had only sold 15 copies. I think pirates have more efficient distribution channels now, yes.
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What a bland statement, that essentially applies to any technology that allows communications - shared calendars, journals, e-mail, internet relay chat etc.
Your point was perfectly clear to me and my response is simply that I don't require Facebook for doing the same things you mentioned you do with Facebook.
No, you get a book instead.
I do the same thing with my account on a server running Zimbra opensource edition. I don't need Facebook to do that.
No, only for games that have the same engine. So if you are caught cheating on games based on the Source engine, you end up flagged as a cheater on all Source-based games you own.
I would be more inclined to believe you if you were not an Anonymous Coward.
Got benchmarks to show this?
Sure there is, how does the grandpa die from something that never existed? That's a paradox.
It's actually fine when smaller companies do that.
Sorry, but I don't consider greater amounts of errata, processors advertising they're supporting they support SSE3 specification when they don't support certain opcodes from it - which means they don't support the spec etc 'just as good'.
AMD has cheated on benchmarks too.
Good for you. I'm sticking with Intel and nVidia for other reasons, I don't care about the business side. What I care about is following specifications properly, low errata. Things like proper OpenGL support (which ATi do not have) and actually having technology that works despite platform issues.
I consider however AMD and ATi existence necessary. Without competition Intel's and nVidia's innovations would stall.
FYI: I am platform agnostic.
Sounds to me more like you don't know how to get the better deal. Instead you appear to be doing something some of us call "brand loyalty".
Not to worry! I read this on Apple's website:
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See? It's simple and straightforward!
Probably after genuine advantage will be detected as adware and spyware by AV vendors.
When you consider that most US prisons don't meet the UK's minimum prison standards (which many prisons in the UK try to go above, not just stay at the minimum), it's understandable.
This has got to be the worst excuse I have ever heard for anything.
No, no, no! That's not how you upgrade an Apple product!
This is how you do it:
Step one: Order new version of Apple product.
Step two: When new version arrives, backup data from old version.
Step three: Restore back up on to new version.
Step four: If data is missing, shrug it off as Apple getting rid of backwards compatibility, it's really for your best interests.
Step five: Throw old version in bin.
If you followed these steps correctly, you have upgraded your Apple product correctly.
I have not seen anything here with the "Visa" or "Mastercard" logos, the closest thing I could find was what they call "prepaid cards", but those require you to register your personal details and then let you transfer money via phone credits, bank account transfers etc.
I haven't noticed these abroad either, but I haven't exactly looked for them abroad. I did ask some friends who are currently in Germany, Poland and Denmark - They've all told me that they don't have those there either.
That's not to say there aren't gift cards, there are gift cards, however, I doubt any worthwhile site will accept a Starbucks gift card.
Apple does the same thing on product releases, funny enough.
I can't find anything like that in the UK.
Then you better be paying your property taxes (DLC) too.
You'd be surprised. Effective copy protection can make it more difficult to pirate and thus easier to get it legitimately. See how Egosoft did it with X3: Reunion, pirates had to physically disconnect their optical disc drives to get it to work, meanwhile legitimate users could download it from steam and play or purchase it from a shop.
Due to the fact I moved around, went abroad often:
Telia DE
Telia SE
GSMPlus
EraGSM
Idea
Orange PL
Orange FR
Orange UK
Three
O2
T-mobile UK
T-mobile DE
Vodafone
And.. That's all I can remember off the top of my head.
I lived in Poland for a good period of time, I would say it was very challenging for RF considering the laws, politics making it difficult to deploy towers. Large surface area to cover, loads of forests, loads of tall grey apartment buildings all over the cities... I some how still managed to have mobile phone signals smack dead in the middle of a forest and I can only recall a few dead zone spots close to the German border.
I have no idea how the iPhone deals, but I don't intend to get one. I can say that internal antennas have worked well for me previously.
I've been using GSM mobile phones since the mid nineties.
Honestly, I owned quite a few Nokia business phones, when I got a Nokia 6310i with it's internal antenna, I had much better signal than the previous Nokias that had external, semi-external. I never had to flip the phone around to figure out the best signal, it was generally the same no matter what way I rotated it.
Since then, I've not really had a phone that ever had poor reception issues.
My own flash movie maker software was pirated to hell and used across thousands up on thousands of websites - I had only sold 15 copies. I think pirates have more efficient distribution channels now, yes.
No, but you could use Skype's Skype for SIP to do it, one of the SIP Skype gateway software combos out there or even a SIP service provider that I am too lazy to Google right now.
Being that Skype is providing this functionality directly, I honestly don't see the issue.