I've given that quite a bit of thought... but realistically, what new genre could you devise that would be fun to play?
A Sci-Fi setting is about as close as you can get for that sort of gameplay... and that's stretching it. It's Fantasy-Sci-Fi at that point. As AO amply demonstrated, the whole Sci-Fi themed RPG on a computer doesn't work out so well, and ends up being pretty silly.
Fantasy is really the only theme you can have and be "believable," as far as believability in that sort of setting goes.
Once you move up technologically/time period wise, you have something completely different. Why, you ask? Simply because combat becomes something less personal (which personal is the whole focus of MMORPGs) and more destructive.
Any time period set in current day and the future has the potential to have weapons of mass destruction, making game play decidedly un-fun when a nuke comes in and wipes out your whole city without you being able to do anything about it. The fact is, medieval/fantasy is about the only realm you can safely have interactive person-to-person RPGs (note I said RPG, not FPS) and have them remain fun. That's simply because it's more of a drawn out conflict between people, whereas anything set in modern day or the future is a conflict between equipment and wars of attrition, not skill.
I dislike fantasy books, but love SF books. I would love to see a game based on SF... but the more I've thought about it, there's not one single SF themed multiplayer game that I think would be fun without borrowing heavily from fantasy. It's all about personal combat, in the end, and nothing caters to that like fantasy.
I had been looking at Satellite radio for awhile, but always concluded that I did not want to pay $10 - $13 a month for the service... So I never bothered to purchase the equipment.
While cruising one of my daily sites, someone had posted a message that Sears had a Sirius radio package deal... everything you need to get Sirius up and running for $50. I figured, for that price, I couldn't lose.
It tooks 2 months, and Sears finally cancled my order because they realized that the demand for the box set had exceeded the order. I was pissed off. Not because they misjudged the amount of orders that would come in... That's somewhat understandable. I would have let the subject drop right there if that was the problem. But no.. they had CHARGED my card two months ago, and I was thus paying interest (actually, it was a debit card, but Sears didn't know that) for two months on a product I didn't have. That's what really ticked me off... they took my money, used it for 2 months, and then said "oh... sorry, here's your money back, and we won't pay you interest." I wasn't about to stand for that.
I stomped down to my local Sears and bitched up a storm. They finally agreed to cobble together a similar Sirius system and give it to me for the $50 price.
The next day, I installed the system, via the FM modulator and got it hooked up. It was pretty easy to install myself. I had never installed any radio equipment in a vehicle before. Learned quite a bit, actually. Anyway, it fired right up and sounded a lot better than I was expecting considering it was via FM modulator. In fact, it sounded just like my stock head unit.
I'm not a big fan of stock head units, but I have not replaced my current head unit in my vehicle, even though I've had it 3.5 years. Boy... am I glad I waited.
I'm going to be getting a Sirius head unit, so I can plug directly into it. I love the Sirius, and I won't ever be going back to "regular" FM radio again. I will happily pay the $13/mo that I was reluctant to pay after actually using the system. The lack of commercials is so liberating. It's so frigging nice to turn on the radio, and listen without hearing all the bullshit I hear on FM stations. I have about 6 channels I listen to regularly, and I can usually find someone on one of the 6 that I like at any given time. There are a few occasions when all six channels suck, and I will jump around and experiment with other stations.
There are a few nitpicks that I have, though.
First, the fact that Kenwood Sirius tuners are not compatible with Panasonic Sirius tuners is ridiculous. They are both Sirius tuners, they should be compatible with any Sirius head unit. The upside of this is, the Kenwood Sirius tuner is $150, and is what I currently have. The Panasonic tuner is $50. Why is that important? Because all but the most expensive ($500) Kenwood Head Units suck. Really bad. Their LCD displays are like 10 Character, vintage 1990's displays. On the other hand, the Panasonic head unit (983 I think?) has a nice Active Matrix display for $200. That's the head unit I'm going to be buying here after Christmas... but I'm going to have to plunk down an additional $50 for the Panasonic Sirius tuner... which kind of irks me.
The other nitpick I have, which may or may not go away with the new head unit is the fact that channel surfing is exceptionally difficult. It's hard to find the stations you might want to listen to, and skip over the junk you know for sure you don't want to listen to. Currently, on the FM modulator, there's only 6 preset buttons, with 4 different positions. So you can have a total of 24 presets. However, getting to the 2, 3 and 4th position pre-sets is a pain in the ass. So I pretty much stick with the first 6 pre-sets.
Couple the fact that the FM modulator is a Kenwood unit, with it's 10 character display, and it's impossible to have the information you want on the screen up at any given time. You are limited to a portion of the song title, OR
So... did they have a lottery on who the first person through was?
Was there a line of people/cars?
14.6 billion for a tunnel. Someone from that project needs to talk to Sprint and let them know the ins and outs about them building their tunnel from India to Overland Park, KS.
I see... so because they don't want to learn a new skill that will help the state make sure they are getting their moneies worth... they should throw the baby out with the bathwater.
I did RTFA, and I stand by my comments. The idiots bitching about the new system (which is actually pretty simple) are the ones bilking the state for money, plain and simple.
While it sounds cool and all... nifty gadgets and all that. There's no F'ing way I'd want something like that in my field of vision.
I like my guages where they are, and putting something like that in my helmet is just a recipe for disaster as my eyes try to focus in and out between the display and the road and the horizon. It would lead to a lot of eye strain, which directly translates to extreme danger for a motorcycle.
Thanks... but no. The only time a motorcyclist could safely view data like that is when he or she doesn't need it.
Somebody call the waaaaambulance for the poor, well paid snow plow operators.
If they are on the job, their employer, in this case the state, has every right to know where they are and what they are doing. They are getting paid to do a job, and they have the gaul to say it's not the states right to know if they are doing the job they are being paid for?
What a load of crap. The only ones complaining about this are the ones that slack off and get paid for work they haven't done. I'm all for slacking, god knows I do it enough at my job, but I *know* that I'm suppose to be doing XXX job, if my boss chooses to audit whether I'm doing it or not, then that's his right.
I'm salaried, so as long as my work gets done, no one cares when I actually do the work, so long as it gets done by the deadline. But if I was getting paid by the hour, you can bet your ass my boss would make sure they are getting their hourly wages worth.
If I were the state, I'd be doing the exact same thing, and the ones bitching and complaining would be marked as the slackers bilking the state for work they never performed.
Piss of whiney bitches. It's my tax dollars paying your salary, so suck it up and drive (plow)on... if you don't like it, someone else will do it.
The username/password of qnc only applies to 2G data calls (14.4k).
Just wanted to clarify that. If you want "Vision" or the 3G data calls, you need to use your own 3G login/password.
Unless something is broken with Sprint, and they are allowing QNC calls to connect via the 3G path. If that's the case, that opens some interesting possibilities.
I realize that Canada is like... America's half brother, or just another American state. But damn, it feels good that some other country is making or propsing idiotic laws.
I don't feel so isolated now, even if it is just a illusion.
It's easy... and sort of touched on in the article itself.
Instead of installing the Connection Manager from Sprint, call you need to do in is make a new PPP connection, and for the phone number, put in the #777.
This directs the base station at the cell site to direct the call to the PDSN and make a data connection. Then your phone acts just like a 70k modem. This will work in any OS that can make a PPP connection, no proprietary software needed.
To quote the article:
But ratings faded, and the show ended with a whimper early last year.
Didn't this article enrage anyone else? Ok, perhaps enrage is a bit strong of a word... but it sure chaps my hide when networks say total bullshit like this.
Ratings faded? What the hell are they talking about? Everyone I know and over heard speaking about Family Guy loved it. I've never heard anyone say they didn't like it, if they had seen it and actually watched a full episode or two.
The people they get to define their "ratings" really piss me off. Trailer park, white trash, Rossane Barr watching morons are the aparent demographic of Fox and most other networks. I know I'm not saying anything new to anyone here... but it still pisses me off. They cancle all the good shows (John Doe, Fire Fly, Family Guy, etc...) but they leave the dross on TV? I mean really... who the F*ck wants to watch stupid shows like "The OC" or "A minute with Stan Hooper" or... wait! Better yet, lets watch "Joe Millionaire."
F*ck you Fox. I'm going to go set my Tivo so I can skip your commercials and watch the few shows I do watch ('70's show!) on your network, all the while, I will be laughing like a pirate, because I am leeching off your bread and butter while not giving any payback. Yes... I will be essentially pirating your shows, because I don't watch your commericials to fund more stupid, mindless, moronic shows.
HO HO HAR! And a bottle of RUM matey! I feel righteous in my TIVOISTAISM! Stick it to the man!
Ok, I'm done now... but seriously. Who the hell are the demographic audenience that Fox uses to gauge whether a show is good or not? Because it sure as hell isn't *educated* white or black America.
WTFMonkey, get over it... you look like a 'tard. Suck it up and move on, man!
1UP's cab looks pretty good and is a cool concept. If you don't like it, fine... but saying it's something from Sanford and Sons is totally ridiculous and is a blatantly obvious attempt to deride someone elses work for no better reason that some sort of twisted inferiority complex on your part.
Move along before you make yourself look even more stupid.
You can sue anyone for anything... so yes, you can sue. Can you win? That's another story.
The bottom line to ask yourself anytime you consider sueing someone is "How have I been hurt?"
If you can prove you've been hurt in any way, then yes, you have a good chance of winning. But only you and your lawyer can decide if it's a viable case with how you've been hurt.
You have to show damages to win a settlement. If there are no damages, then you won't win... even if it's slimey and unethical.
We all agree that most commercials are crap. We don't want to watch them, etc...
Most of us can agree that the commercials generally pay for the programming (at least for the networks)...
BUT... we have pay channels like HBO, Skinimax, etc... they have no commercials, yet they have series and shows that people pay for.
It's not A La carte, unfortunately, which brings me to my point. The next step in TV evolution is a la carte programming.
I am MORE than willing to pay a REASONABLE fee to have a "season" subscription to my favorite show. I'll pay say $15 or $20 EACH for a season of Enterprise, SG-1, Family Guy, Simpsons, Futurama, etc... as long as there are no commercials.
That is the key to future programming. Piecemeal subscriptions to a season of your favorite show. Magazines work this way, some of them are even weekly, just like a lot of shows. It can be done, and it can be lucrative, even more so than the current advertising based structure.
As an added bonus to switching to an A la carte method, the "networks" can get direct and unquestionable feedback on what type of show is "good" and what type of show "sucks." If they don't get very many subscriptions to a show, chances are it sucks. This eliminates the "Trailer Park Syndrom" of Neilson ratings. TV shows would be beholden to the mighty dollar and those people that are willing and able and wanting to watch that show, instead of 90% of the nation being shackled to the whims and desires of the stupidest 10% of the nation's TV watching populance.
It's a win/win situation if handled properly, but the paradigm shift will be painful, and I don't expect the networks to go willingly. They've never been good at looking to the future, no reason to think they'll start now. Fortunately, they won't have a choice once people stop watching completely.
I find this so laughable. It's the typical response of the lazy sysadmin who can't be bothered to impliment real spam prevention... so they throw in a blocklist like SPEWS and hope for the best.
SPEWS is nothing but a crutch for moronic/idiotic system administrators who have no clue how to administer their system(s) in an effective way.
SPEWS is fine, if it's LEFT UP TO THE INDIVIDUAL user. When you, as a sysadmin, start making that decision for YOUR USERS, you are WRONG. Period. End of Story. It's not your job, duty or right to censor content for your users. You can give them the option to use SPEWS or any other spam blocking method, but when you refuse mail outright off your server, your users are the ones that suffer for your laziness.
Blocklists are a crutch, I'm glad they are being taken down. I don't agree with the methods, but I do agree with the results. It's time for you shitty sysadmins to step up to the plate and actually do what you get paid to do.
Think about what you just said, brainiac... "Spews isn't dead idiot.. there's still tens of mirrors out there."
Either Spews is alive or it's dead... mirrors are MIRRORS, not SPEWS. Duh. What are they going to mirror at this point, now that it's dead? A dead SPEWS? The list will stagnate and languish until no one uses it anymore.
Go buy a clue before you call people idiots. You just make yourself look like the fool you apparently are!
I'm an anti-spam nazi, and SPEWS gave us all a bad name. I'm glad SPEWS is dead, and it needs to stay dead. It did nothing good for the anti-spam movement, only exacerbated the situation. With no appeal process and the total lack of caring for innocents leaves me with nothing but happiness to see this travesty of justice get blown into oblivion.
Sometimes, the enemy of my enemy is my friend...
Goodbye Spews... we won't miss you, you hulking piece of ill-thought out crap. Let me wave goodbye with my middle finger.
Now, maybe System Admins without a clue will be forced to take real steps to protect their users from spam, instead of playing the lazy asshole and taking the Hail Mary approach that is SPEWS and hoping for the best.
I feel greasy, now... to have agreed with spammers. I think I'll go take a shower.
Sprint is about to launch a PTT VoIP solution as well, if they can overcome the technical issues. PTT VoIP is harder than it sounds, given the need for authentication, etc... unless you like waiting 30 seconds after you push the button to talk:)
Longmont, Colorado Columbus, OH Aberdeen, UK Brisbane, Australia Sunnyvale, CA Kalamazoo Dover, NH Switzerland
Yea... ok. Those people are physically near me. NOT. I could probably get a better physical location on people by picking them randomly from an ICQ list.
I mean... Australia? Can you possibly get any farther from Kansas, USA? I mean... is that even possible without being off the planet, somewhere?
I wish I could switch to Postgres... the problem is, though, that a lot of the applications that fall into the 99% range as mentioned above only work with MySQL, or possibly MySQL and MSSQL... not Postgres:( At least the applications I use, don't...
Which is sad. I would switch to Postgres for the subselects if nothing else.
Check out a book called "Time Travel in Einsteins Universe" I forget the name of the author though.
Anyway, this idea is explored fairly in depth, and explains how it would be done... and how it would allow people to travel in time, or at the very least, see into the past.
With a sufficiently powered telescope, you could see what was *actually happening* during the big bang, if the universe is indeed shaped like torus or the universe is mapped out onto a sphere (as opposed to being an expanding sphere that we are inside of).
It's a very interesting book, and a fairly quick read. Has a lot of nice explanations for the physics challenged as well.
Those numbers may be "used to make" a single microchip, but it doesn't say those numbers are what is CONSUMED. That's what's important... how much of that material is consumed in making a single chip.
I suspect that 32kg of water is reused for many, many chips. Same with the other material. Obviously, you'll have SOME material consumed when making a single chip, but I find it difficult to believe all that is CONSUMED when creating a single chip.
More info needs to be presented about the consumption of materials to make a chip that what is "used" to make a chip.
If you already have one of these Xboxes, then fine, do what you can with it. But I say why support microsoft? It's what you're doing when you buy one, or buy one of their games. When you finally get your xbox modded to your taste, microsoft will shut it down.
Actually, if you want to bring down Microsoft, this is the way to do it. Buy XBoxes... and lots of them. But never buy the games.
Xboxes being sold at a loss, with no return revenue from the games = money going out, no money coming in...
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I've given that quite a bit of thought... but realistically, what new genre could you devise that would be fun to play?
A Sci-Fi setting is about as close as you can get for that sort of gameplay... and that's stretching it. It's Fantasy-Sci-Fi at that point. As AO amply demonstrated, the whole Sci-Fi themed RPG on a computer doesn't work out so well, and ends up being pretty silly.
Fantasy is really the only theme you can have and be "believable," as far as believability in that sort of setting goes.
Once you move up technologically/time period wise, you have something completely different. Why, you ask? Simply because combat becomes something less personal (which personal is the whole focus of MMORPGs) and more destructive.
Any time period set in current day and the future has the potential to have weapons of mass destruction, making game play decidedly un-fun when a nuke comes in and wipes out your whole city without you being able to do anything about it. The fact is, medieval/fantasy is about the only realm you can safely have interactive person-to-person RPGs (note I said RPG, not FPS) and have them remain fun. That's simply because it's more of a drawn out conflict between people, whereas anything set in modern day or the future is a conflict between equipment and wars of attrition, not skill.
I dislike fantasy books, but love SF books. I would love to see a game based on SF... but the more I've thought about it, there's not one single SF themed multiplayer game that I think would be fun without borrowing heavily from fantasy. It's all about personal combat, in the end, and nothing caters to that like fantasy.
I had been looking at Satellite radio for awhile, but always concluded that I did not want to pay $10 - $13 a month for the service... So I never bothered to purchase the equipment.
While cruising one of my daily sites, someone had posted a message that Sears had a Sirius radio package deal... everything you need to get Sirius up and running for $50. I figured, for that price, I couldn't lose.
It tooks 2 months, and Sears finally cancled my order because they realized that the demand for the box set had exceeded the order. I was pissed off. Not because they misjudged the amount of orders that would come in... That's somewhat understandable. I would have let the subject drop right there if that was the problem. But no.. they had CHARGED my card two months ago, and I was thus paying interest (actually, it was a debit card, but Sears didn't know that) for two months on a product I didn't have. That's what really ticked me off... they took my money, used it for 2 months, and then said "oh... sorry, here's your money back, and we won't pay you interest." I wasn't about to stand for that.
I stomped down to my local Sears and bitched up a storm. They finally agreed to cobble together a similar Sirius system and give it to me for the $50 price.
The next day, I installed the system, via the FM modulator and got it hooked up. It was pretty easy to install myself. I had never installed any radio equipment in a vehicle before. Learned quite a bit, actually. Anyway, it fired right up and sounded a lot better than I was expecting considering it was via FM modulator. In fact, it sounded just like my stock head unit.
I'm not a big fan of stock head units, but I have not replaced my current head unit in my vehicle, even though I've had it 3.5 years. Boy... am I glad I waited.
I'm going to be getting a Sirius head unit, so I can plug directly into it. I love the Sirius, and I won't ever be going back to "regular" FM radio again. I will happily pay the $13/mo that I was reluctant to pay after actually using the system. The lack of commercials is so liberating. It's so frigging nice to turn on the radio, and listen without hearing all the bullshit I hear on FM stations. I have about 6 channels I listen to regularly, and I can usually find someone on one of the 6 that I like at any given time. There are a few occasions when all six channels suck, and I will jump around and experiment with other stations.
There are a few nitpicks that I have, though.
First, the fact that Kenwood Sirius tuners are not compatible with Panasonic Sirius tuners is ridiculous. They are both Sirius tuners, they should be compatible with any Sirius head unit. The upside of this is, the Kenwood Sirius tuner is $150, and is what I currently have. The Panasonic tuner is $50. Why is that important? Because all but the most expensive ($500) Kenwood Head Units suck. Really bad. Their LCD displays are like 10 Character, vintage 1990's displays. On the other hand, the Panasonic head unit (983 I think?) has a nice Active Matrix display for $200. That's the head unit I'm going to be buying here after Christmas... but I'm going to have to plunk down an additional $50 for the Panasonic Sirius tuner... which kind of irks me.
The other nitpick I have, which may or may not go away with the new head unit is the fact that channel surfing is exceptionally difficult. It's hard to find the stations you might want to listen to, and skip over the junk you know for sure you don't want to listen to. Currently, on the FM modulator, there's only 6 preset buttons, with 4 different positions. So you can have a total of 24 presets. However, getting to the 2, 3 and 4th position pre-sets is a pain in the ass. So I pretty much stick with the first 6 pre-sets.
Couple the fact that the FM modulator is a Kenwood unit, with it's 10 character display, and it's impossible to have the information you want on the screen up at any given time. You are limited to a portion of the song title, OR
So... did they have a lottery on who the first person through was?
Was there a line of people/cars?
14.6 billion for a tunnel. Someone from that project needs to talk to Sprint and let them know the ins and outs about them building their tunnel from India to Overland Park, KS.
I see... so because they don't want to learn a new skill that will help the state make sure they are getting their moneies worth... they should throw the baby out with the bathwater.
I did RTFA, and I stand by my comments. The idiots bitching about the new system (which is actually pretty simple) are the ones bilking the state for money, plain and simple.
While it sounds cool and all... nifty gadgets and all that. There's no F'ing way I'd want something like that in my field of vision.
I like my guages where they are, and putting something like that in my helmet is just a recipe for disaster as my eyes try to focus in and out between the display and the road and the horizon. It would lead to a lot of eye strain, which directly translates to extreme danger for a motorcycle.
Thanks... but no. The only time a motorcyclist could safely view data like that is when he or she doesn't need it.
Somebody call the waaaaambulance for the poor, well paid snow plow operators.
If they are on the job, their employer, in this case the state, has every right to know where they are and what they are doing. They are getting paid to do a job, and they have the gaul to say it's not the states right to know if they are doing the job they are being paid for?
What a load of crap. The only ones complaining about this are the ones that slack off and get paid for work they haven't done. I'm all for slacking, god knows I do it enough at my job, but I *know* that I'm suppose to be doing XXX job, if my boss chooses to audit whether I'm doing it or not, then that's his right.
I'm salaried, so as long as my work gets done, no one cares when I actually do the work, so long as it gets done by the deadline. But if I was getting paid by the hour, you can bet your ass my boss would make sure they are getting their hourly wages worth.
If I were the state, I'd be doing the exact same thing, and the ones bitching and complaining would be marked as the slackers bilking the state for work they never performed.
Piss of whiney bitches. It's my tax dollars paying your salary, so suck it up and drive (plow)on... if you don't like it, someone else will do it.
The username/password of qnc only applies to 2G data calls (14.4k).
Just wanted to clarify that. If you want "Vision" or the 3G data calls, you need to use your own 3G login/password.
Unless something is broken with Sprint, and they are allowing QNC calls to connect via the 3G path. If that's the case, that opens some interesting possibilities.
I realize that Canada is like... America's half brother, or just another American state. But damn, it feels good that some other country is making or propsing idiotic laws.
I don't feel so isolated now, even if it is just a illusion.
Don't spoil my fantasies. Shush.
It's easy... and sort of touched on in the article itself.
Instead of installing the Connection Manager from Sprint, call you need to do in is make a new PPP connection, and for the phone number, put in the #777.
This directs the base station at the cell site to direct the call to the PDSN and make a data connection. Then your phone acts just like a 70k modem. This will work in any OS that can make a PPP connection, no proprietary software needed.
To quote the article:
But ratings faded, and the show ended with a whimper early last year.
Didn't this article enrage anyone else? Ok, perhaps enrage is a bit strong of a word... but it sure chaps my hide when networks say total bullshit like this.
Ratings faded? What the hell are they talking about? Everyone I know and over heard speaking about Family Guy loved it. I've never heard anyone say they didn't like it, if they had seen it and actually watched a full episode or two.
The people they get to define their "ratings" really piss me off. Trailer park, white trash, Rossane Barr watching morons are the aparent demographic of Fox and most other networks. I know I'm not saying anything new to anyone here... but it still pisses me off. They cancle all the good shows (John Doe, Fire Fly, Family Guy, etc...) but they leave the dross on TV? I mean really... who the F*ck wants to watch stupid shows like "The OC" or "A minute with Stan Hooper" or... wait! Better yet, lets watch "Joe Millionaire."
F*ck you Fox. I'm going to go set my Tivo so I can skip your commercials and watch the few shows I do watch ('70's show!) on your network, all the while, I will be laughing like a pirate, because I am leeching off your bread and butter while not giving any payback. Yes... I will be essentially pirating your shows, because I don't watch your commericials to fund more stupid, mindless, moronic shows.
HO HO HAR! And a bottle of RUM matey! I feel righteous in my TIVOISTAISM! Stick it to the man!
Ok, I'm done now... but seriously. Who the hell are the demographic audenience that Fox uses to gauge whether a show is good or not? Because it sure as hell isn't *educated* white or black America.
I'm gonna have to go with option number 1, Monty!
WTFMonkey, get over it... you look like a 'tard. Suck it up and move on, man!
1UP's cab looks pretty good and is a cool concept. If you don't like it, fine... but saying it's something from Sanford and Sons is totally ridiculous and is a blatantly obvious attempt to deride someone elses work for no better reason that some sort of twisted inferiority complex on your part.
Move along before you make yourself look even more stupid.
You can sue anyone for anything... so yes, you can sue. Can you win? That's another story.
The bottom line to ask yourself anytime you consider sueing someone is "How have I been hurt?"
If you can prove you've been hurt in any way, then yes, you have a good chance of winning. But only you and your lawyer can decide if it's a viable case with how you've been hurt.
You have to show damages to win a settlement. If there are no damages, then you won't win... even if it's slimey and unethical.
We all agree that most commercials are crap. We don't want to watch them, etc...
Most of us can agree that the commercials generally pay for the programming (at least for the networks)...
BUT... we have pay channels like HBO, Skinimax, etc... they have no commercials, yet they have series and shows that people pay for.
It's not A La carte, unfortunately, which brings me to my point. The next step in TV evolution is a la carte programming.
I am MORE than willing to pay a REASONABLE fee to have a "season" subscription to my favorite show. I'll pay say $15 or $20 EACH for a season of Enterprise, SG-1, Family Guy, Simpsons, Futurama, etc... as long as there are no commercials.
That is the key to future programming. Piecemeal subscriptions to a season of your favorite show. Magazines work this way, some of them are even weekly, just like a lot of shows. It can be done, and it can be lucrative, even more so than the current advertising based structure.
As an added bonus to switching to an A la carte method, the "networks" can get direct and unquestionable feedback on what type of show is "good" and what type of show "sucks." If they don't get very many subscriptions to a show, chances are it sucks. This eliminates the "Trailer Park Syndrom" of Neilson ratings. TV shows would be beholden to the mighty dollar and those people that are willing and able and wanting to watch that show, instead of 90% of the nation being shackled to the whims and desires of the stupidest 10% of the nation's TV watching populance.
It's a win/win situation if handled properly, but the paradigm shift will be painful, and I don't expect the networks to go willingly. They've never been good at looking to the future, no reason to think they'll start now. Fortunately, they won't have a choice once people stop watching completely.
I find this so laughable. It's the typical response of the lazy sysadmin who can't be bothered to impliment real spam prevention... so they throw in a blocklist like SPEWS and hope for the best.
SPEWS is nothing but a crutch for moronic/idiotic system administrators who have no clue how to administer their system(s) in an effective way.
SPEWS is fine, if it's LEFT UP TO THE INDIVIDUAL user. When you, as a sysadmin, start making that decision for YOUR USERS, you are WRONG. Period. End of Story. It's not your job, duty or right to censor content for your users. You can give them the option to use SPEWS or any other spam blocking method, but when you refuse mail outright off your server, your users are the ones that suffer for your laziness.
Blocklists are a crutch, I'm glad they are being taken down. I don't agree with the methods, but I do agree with the results. It's time for you shitty sysadmins to step up to the plate and actually do what you get paid to do.
Think about what you just said, brainiac... "Spews isn't dead idiot.. there's still tens of mirrors out there."
Either Spews is alive or it's dead... mirrors are MIRRORS, not SPEWS. Duh. What are they going to mirror at this point, now that it's dead? A dead SPEWS? The list will stagnate and languish until no one uses it anymore.
Go buy a clue before you call people idiots. You just make yourself look like the fool you apparently are!
YAY you!
Somebody call the waaaaambulance.
I'm an anti-spam nazi, and SPEWS gave us all a bad name. I'm glad SPEWS is dead, and it needs to stay dead. It did nothing good for the anti-spam movement, only exacerbated the situation. With no appeal process and the total lack of caring for innocents leaves me with nothing but happiness to see this travesty of justice get blown into oblivion.
Sometimes, the enemy of my enemy is my friend...
Goodbye Spews... we won't miss you, you hulking piece of ill-thought out crap. Let me wave goodbye with my middle finger.
Now, maybe System Admins without a clue will be forced to take real steps to protect their users from spam, instead of playing the lazy asshole and taking the Hail Mary approach that is SPEWS and hoping for the best.
I feel greasy, now... to have agreed with spammers. I think I'll go take a shower.
Sprint is about to launch a PTT VoIP solution as well, if they can overcome the technical issues. PTT VoIP is harder than it sounds, given the need for authentication, etc... unless you like waiting 30 seconds after you push the button to talk :)
Then I fire it up on a windows machine...
I live in Kansas, people near me:
Longmont, Colorado
Columbus, OH
Aberdeen, UK
Brisbane, Australia
Sunnyvale, CA
Kalamazoo
Dover, NH
Switzerland
Yea... ok. Those people are physically near me. NOT. I could probably get a better physical location on people by picking them randomly from an ICQ list.
I mean... Australia? Can you possibly get any farther from Kansas, USA? I mean... is that even possible without being off the planet, somewhere?
... it's a windows only App.
Yay.
Next?
All those pages look pretty bland to me. I wasn't very impressed with them. They are functional, I guess.
Eye candy please. No, I'm not talking about Flash and all that junk, just need to splash the page with graphics or something. Way to plain.
Oh well, back to my MTV and Shiney things.
I wish I could switch to Postgres ... the problem is, though, that a lot of the applications that fall into the 99% range as mentioned above only work with MySQL, or possibly MySQL and MSSQL... not Postgres :( At least the applications I use, don't...
Which is sad. I would switch to Postgres for the subselects if nothing else.
Check out a book called "Time Travel in Einsteins Universe" I forget the name of the author though.
Anyway, this idea is explored fairly in depth, and explains how it would be done... and how it would allow people to travel in time, or at the very least, see into the past.
With a sufficiently powered telescope, you could see what was *actually happening* during the big bang, if the universe is indeed shaped like torus or the universe is mapped out onto a sphere (as opposed to being an expanding sphere that we are inside of).
It's a very interesting book, and a fairly quick read. Has a lot of nice explanations for the physics challenged as well.
Pick it up!
Those numbers may be "used to make" a single microchip, but it doesn't say those numbers are what is CONSUMED. That's what's important... how much of that material is consumed in making a single chip.
I suspect that 32kg of water is reused for many, many chips. Same with the other material. Obviously, you'll have SOME material consumed when making a single chip, but I find it difficult to believe all that is CONSUMED when creating a single chip.
More info needs to be presented about the consumption of materials to make a chip that what is "used" to make a chip.
If you already have one of these Xboxes, then fine, do what you can with it. But I say why support microsoft? It's what you're doing when you buy one, or buy one of their games. When you finally get your xbox modded to your taste, microsoft will shut it down.
Actually, if you want to bring down Microsoft, this is the way to do it. Buy XBoxes... and lots of them. But never buy the games.
Xboxes being sold at a loss, with no return revenue from the games = money going out, no money coming in...
I guess the logic is: if an atheist states that God does exist it is a far more credible statement than a sermon from Jerry Falwell.
Preach on brother! Amen and Hallejula!