The sad thing is, they're not indirectly helping them - they ARE helping them. In TFA they state that they have reported their findings to the Chinese Computer Emergency Response Team. I assume these are the goons in charge of government censorship over there. I'm surprised after all the flak that Yahoo has caught for their chinese censorship assistance, that Cambridge would leap off that cliff as well by helping China to further block any ways for citizens to bypass the firewall and obtain information about "sensitive" topics. It really bothers me that so many in the U.S. who claim to value freedom so much (who are out blowing up fireworks today to celebrate such - fireworks mostly bought from China I might add), will help a country who values freedom so little.
But doesn't the higher pricing for short-term demand imply that a digital delivery system is somehow tied to the economics of supply and demand, when it isn't? Supply is unlimited, everyone can have a copy downloaded to their machine in the entire world if they so chose as iTunes would just keep copying it over and over. If a similar system were implemented at say, Wal-Mart when they started selling out of a certain CD, they jack the price up to $20 a CD instead of $13.99, wouldn't the FTC cry foul and consumers issue claims of price gouging? How is doing that in the digital sense any different?
Note the statement I made about hoping for a "high speed" video. Haven't you ever seen those videos of a bullet smashing through an apple? Let me assure you that occurs in half a second and yet is more of a video than what they showed.
"No console owners care a bit about Windows online gaming."
Darn, guess me and several of my friends count as "no console owners" since we each own 2 or more consoles and all are also avid windows gamers who wish we could play cross-platform with those console gamers who (like you apparently) solely play consoles. Sometimes a keyboard and mouse feel like the best control scheme and other times I love control pads.
As far as $50 a year not being worth it, I think it is or else I wouldn't pay for it. Having an integrated system is worth it to me. Yes, it would be great for it to be cheaper or even free but I do understand that bandwidth costs money - just try running a few popular files on a website that get downloaded a few times - you'll pay out the wazoo for bandwidth costs if you start getting a lot of traffic.
No one cares about achievements? Guess those hundreds of thousands of gamers who are trying to earn as many as possible are wrong. Gabe and Tycho of the oft-lauded-by-Slashdot-readers do as well. Lets see, achievements are like Badges in BF2 which make that game continue to be fun, they are also just like badges in City of Heroes/Villains which is the entire reason some people play! They try to earn every badge just because they can. Now, for me, its not as big a deal but I do feel like i've accomplished something when I get an achievement or badge unlocked. Its like a way of having persistent character advancement in any type of game, instead of just RPGs.
It's fine if you don't like something, but stop trying to speak for the entire world with blanket statements that don't contain as much truth as you like to present.
1) As TFA says, why bother including functionality that consumers may not want and jacking up your price because of it (see Sony). Also, the HD Protection Bit has been going back and forth on if it is a 1-year hiatus or until 2010, I have yet to see anything definite stating one way or another. Regardless, I wouldn't trust the MPAA to let it be HDCP free until 2010 - you'll just shoot yourself in the foot if you do.
2) By BC i'm going to hazard a guess you mean background content updates for Xbox Live? It is still in the works and coming eventually, yeah its been delayed a bunch but it doesnt seem relevant to this topic.
3) PGR3 looks pretty good to me when i've played it for several hours, not sure which version you are looking at. When you compare it to actual consoles that are out there (Gamecube and PS2), sure does look a lot better. But maybe you are comparing it to "coming soon" consoles?
4) I've heard of overheating but not of some massive defects, wouldn't this be in some of the regular gaming news sites if there were (IGN, Gamespy etc)?
5) Xbox Live has always been different than what Sony and Nintendo have been doing in the online arena (which is a whole lot of nothing atm). Sony's service probably won't have the same functionality as Xbox Live - which will now run cross-platform gaming with Windows gamers (big plus), have same tag and friends list across platforms, and you know that every game that you buy that is Live-enabled - which I think all 360 games are required to have at least friends list functionality included - will work in the same fashion and work well. Without an integrated system, if you leave it up to each publisher it will be a mess and not nearly as useful as what Microsoft has come up with. This is one area where I think Microsoft has been kicking the tail of Sony and Nintendo - people want multiplayer gaming, co-op experiences, and also love earning "achievements" (just look at BF2's popular badge system which is why many still play almost a year after release).
6) Expect to see the Core version dropped this fall and price drop on the premium version (just my strong theory and that of many gaming mags). Are you still whining about background content or is BC something else? Please don't use acronyms that aren't clearly defined by context. Thanks.
Yeah, so PS2 still sells a lot - b/c you can get one for $100 now and it has a bazillion games. Also, what would the 360's sell numbers have been if they actually had millions in stock on store shelves instead of there being constant supply shortages?
And oh yeah, if you're going to rant at least have the courtesy to login instead of being a typical AC (Anonymous Coward). And a note, i'm planning on buying a Nintendo Wii first and foremost so i'm not a Microsoft Fanboy. I currently own a Gamecube and Xbox and played a PS2 for about a year before I wanted to claw my eyes out from the total lack of anti-aliasing capabilities on that console.
Contrary to what the media and Bill Gates or Steve Jobs would like you to believe, sometimes technology in the classroom can be a distraction.
I graduated just a year ago from a decent size University (10,000 students) and since I was getting a Computer Science degree I saw laptops in use in a lot of my classes. I'd say that 50% of the time people were playing video games of some sort or another, playing FreeCell or Solitaire, watching DVDs and generally using the laptop to do anything *but* take notes. This in turn distracted everyone else around them as they focused on whatever the person on the laptop was screwing around doing instead of on class.
I'll be honest, some of these classes were boring and I was occasionally envious of the people with laptops, but when I went to do homework or study for a test, I actually had some notes since with just pen and paper there is not a lot you can do to amuse yourself unless you have a really active imagination or like doing the box game or playing Tic-Tac-Toe for hours on end.
Now, some will say "but not everyone will use the laptop to screw around", and that's not my point. The point is, SOMEONE will, and that will distract everyone else. I've seen it happen and anyone claiming that it doesn't happen is lying.
So basically, I applaud her move and think that not every class should allow laptops in the classroom as sometimes technology is more of a hindrance than a help.
Whoops, bad typo there, sorry. I know typos aren't allowed on/. and have NEVER ever occurred here before:-). And yes, I did understand what they meant - but if they are trying to show the U.S. is doing way less text messaging, why not just say so instead of using a statistic right after another one when they aren't directly comparable. Its roughly as useful as me saying "50 oranges were sold last week in the U.S. while 50 apples were sold in the U.K. - the fruit market is indeed doing well!". Ok, so maybe not to that extent but it is still a mis-usage of statistics. At least do the multiplication for us to make the stats comparable.
I hate it when people place two statistics side by side as if they are comparable when they really aren't. It is misleading to say U.K. does "73 million messages per day" while U.S. estimate is "700 million per year". The mind tends to think, wow, the U.S. must text message a whole lot more! When, of course, this is not the case. Since, of course, one is a per year statistic and the other a per day statistic.
Yes, research points accumulate while your account is inactive:-P My friend earned about 50k RPs during the 10 months we both quit, then we got a T2 BPO in the last round of seeds from those points.
Offline skill-based "leveling". The author of this article needs to check out EVE. Your character trains while you're asleep, while you're playing, heck, even if you cancel your account and leave a long skill running it will keep training!
It really makes for great gameplay because no matter how much someone grinds the game, they won't train any faster than me (unless they can get some uber implants which assist slightly in the speed at which you can train skills). But basically in EVE I can start a new character and within about 2 months or so compete and kill players that have been playing for 3 years because you can specialize - take many things to level 4 in a specific subset of skills (there are 5 levels to every skill) intead of that last "level 5" that takes eons to train (like over 23 days for some skills).
Don't count your chickens before they hatch. IBM's chip is theoretical and not in production, Intel's is here now. The better question is, why didn't Apple switch to Intel chips earlier?
In other breaking news, Jimmy Hoffa was found today on a park bench clutching a newspaper whose headline read "Sun found to be hot!" and "Sky really is blue!".
I'll probably get flamed a lot knowing the general liberal slant of/. but let me at least try to present a valid response to some of your points.
First of all, i'd like to make it clear that believing in Intelligent Design or in Creationism does NOT in any way prohibit ideas such as evolution, understanding how bees fly, or any other scientific fact that you want to explain. I don't understand why people constantly claim that creationism and science seem to be unable to co-exist! I believe God created the world, but what if he did so through the means of evolution and when "night became day" the big bang occurred? Does it really matter if I interpret the Genesis story to be a bit less literal than some ID proponents might claim?
Also, the thing about say studying stem cells has NOTHING to do with Intelligent Design. It has to do with something called medical ethics - and something called the Hippocratic oath. The issue at stake is when is a person a person by legal rights - does using stem cells from aborted fetuses or harvesting them constitute abuse of someone's human rights or are they not really a human yet because they haven't been born?
Basically my point is before making blanket inflammatory statements about Intelligent Design, Creationism, and their detrimental effect on science, at least stop to think that many of us love Science and desire for them to co-exist. Even some of the most scientifically minded individuals such as C.S. Lewis were turned to God in their pursuit of "evidence" to disprove his existence.
FTFA:
The Radeon X800 XL with Catalyst 5.12 failed miserably on both of these tests. The Radeon X1800 XL with Catalyst 5.13 flies through these tests with flying colors. Both XGI and ATI require a little bit of extra time to detect the 3:2 cadence in comparison to NVIDIA, but it's still fast enough to score a perfect score.
Their verdict from this:
Score
Tied 3rd place: ATI, NVIDIA, XGI (10 points)
So apparently their scoring system favors ATI from the get-go (read the article and you will see they knock Nvidia and XGI back if they take longer than the other, but as shown above they ignore the same discrepancy when it applies to ATI). Also, why are they tied for third!? Wouldn't that be tied for first?
I think this article is poorly written and i'm not going to trust the results until I see something from some other sites once a final release driver is out.
But is it possible that the reason Nvidia is discontinuing their high-end card in February of 2006, is because they are releasing a NEW card that will probably trounce anything ATI has out.
Just a thought..considering that it seems about time for Nvidia to release a new GPU in the next 3 months or so.
I don't work for AIT, I work for a large local jewelry store. And yes, AIT support is horrible. One thing that impressed me though is that when I e-mailed the President of the company, he responded within one hour and sent someone out (since we are local) to resolve our issue. However, we have a long history of not having our phone calls returned from support or ever reaching a real person - so I can feel the pain. I've tried to convince my boss to switch web hosts, but he is too lazy.
If I worked for AIT would I say all that? As far as the building stuff, yes they haven't been fulfilling their obligation under the terms of the tax break they got etc. Don't assume just because one person has a different opinion on something that they are a press puppet for the company. I just happen to have had *some* good experiences dealing with them (not many).
I live in Fayetteville and have dealt with AIT for hosting stuff ever since they came into existence. The business was started by a ex-soldier (Clarence Briggs) and is now one of the world's largest web hosts as far as number of domains hosted. They are not just some "random" company as other people have said.
However, the point that the article linked is in our local newspapers online site is valid. Also, probably the reason that it talks about AIT's plans for expansion into storefronts is because Fayetteville has a vested interest in what is going on with AIT as they provide good high-tech, high-paying jobs for our area. People reading the newspaper (which the online article is a clone of what was in our newspaper), want to know what is going on with that company (which is smack in the middle of our attempt to revitalize our downtown area).
Another interesting tidbit is that AIT is also suing the newspaper (that was linked in the/. article) as of last week over advertising fraud. They claim that the newspaper is advertising a lot higher # of unique visitors to their wesbite than what they actually receive (they are hosted with AIT). It's interesting in that to me it seems AIT is revealing private information about a website they are hosting (not for much longer I bet!).
So, basically, you all are getting a look into my town's petty politicking by one of the largest companies that is based out of here. Enjoy.
So if all the ages in the Bible add up to X years ago, all that would imply is that people were made then. Last time I checked in Genesis God waited to make people last and the common belief by most Christians is that "7 Days" could refer to millions of years (evolution for ya), because a biblical day has often meant more than what we now consider to be a 24-hour time period. So basically the spider could have been made on day "3" which is 20 million years ago, and day 4 may have been 10 million years ago etc all the way up to when humans were created. Also, the ages in the Bible may not be years as we determine years now either.
Must be why they got class-action sued over their late-fees policies and they lost!
The funny thing about their current system is that a "2-day rental" is due back the third day by noon. However, there are no "late" fees now. 7 days past the due date they will just charge you an additional $12-$15 and you own the movie. Within 30 days of that charge you can reverse the purchase for a $1.25 "restocking fee". I read their fine print and didn't see anything about that 7-day period between when the rental is due and when they charge me for buying the movie. So, long story short all of my blockbuster rentals are now 9-day rentals for $4.
I didn't say that the people are just a joke to you. The point I was trying to make is that what you or someone else finds funny may not be all that funny to those closely involved.
As you and other posters have said in response to my comments, humor is a way to deal with stressful situations. Perhaps i'm one of those people who doesn't deal with stressful situations by going to humor. And trust me, i'm not the only one.
As to the statistics poster who talked about more dying from car accidents or smoking related illnesses, I'd like to point out that there is some difference in the deaths. Those who got in their car to drive to work chose to take that risk, and those who smoked for 20 years, well, we won't even get into that. Those killed by terrorists had their lives yanked away as they went about their daily business.
I don't think many people "choose" to die, their life either fades away naturally or it is taken from them in a tragic instance such as this. For me, that the number of deaths is less than 9/11 or othe terrorist incidents doesn't mean it is any less tragic. I think 1 death caused by terrorists is one too many.
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The sad thing is, they're not indirectly helping them - they ARE helping them. In TFA they state that they have reported their findings to the Chinese Computer Emergency Response Team. I assume these are the goons in charge of government censorship over there. I'm surprised after all the flak that Yahoo has caught for their chinese censorship assistance, that Cambridge would leap off that cliff as well by helping China to further block any ways for citizens to bypass the firewall and obtain information about "sensitive" topics. It really bothers me that so many in the U.S. who claim to value freedom so much (who are out blowing up fireworks today to celebrate such - fireworks mostly bought from China I might add), will help a country who values freedom so little.
But doesn't the higher pricing for short-term demand imply that a digital delivery system is somehow tied to the economics of supply and demand, when it isn't? Supply is unlimited, everyone can have a copy downloaded to their machine in the entire world if they so chose as iTunes would just keep copying it over and over. If a similar system were implemented at say, Wal-Mart when they started selling out of a certain CD, they jack the price up to $20 a CD instead of $13.99, wouldn't the FTC cry foul and consumers issue claims of price gouging? How is doing that in the digital sense any different?
Note the statement I made about hoping for a "high speed" video. Haven't you ever seen those videos of a bullet smashing through an apple? Let me assure you that occurs in half a second and yet is more of a video than what they showed.
The video is more of a 19 second slideshow of 6 pictures. I was hoping to see an actual high-speed video of the event not a "video" of pictures.
"No console owners care a bit about Windows online gaming."
Darn, guess me and several of my friends count as "no console owners" since we each own 2 or more consoles and all are also avid windows gamers who wish we could play cross-platform with those console gamers who (like you apparently) solely play consoles. Sometimes a keyboard and mouse feel like the best control scheme and other times I love control pads.
As far as $50 a year not being worth it, I think it is or else I wouldn't pay for it. Having an integrated system is worth it to me. Yes, it would be great for it to be cheaper or even free but I do understand that bandwidth costs money - just try running a few popular files on a website that get downloaded a few times - you'll pay out the wazoo for bandwidth costs if you start getting a lot of traffic.
No one cares about achievements? Guess those hundreds of thousands of gamers who are trying to earn as many as possible are wrong. Gabe and Tycho of the oft-lauded-by-Slashdot-readers do as well. Lets see, achievements are like Badges in BF2 which make that game continue to be fun, they are also just like badges in City of Heroes/Villains which is the entire reason some people play! They try to earn every badge just because they can. Now, for me, its not as big a deal but I do feel like i've accomplished something when I get an achievement or badge unlocked. Its like a way of having persistent character advancement in any type of game, instead of just RPGs.
It's fine if you don't like something, but stop trying to speak for the entire world with blanket statements that don't contain as much truth as you like to present.
1) As TFA says, why bother including functionality that consumers may not want and jacking up your price because of it (see Sony). Also, the HD Protection Bit has been going back and forth on if it is a 1-year hiatus or until 2010, I have yet to see anything definite stating one way or another. Regardless, I wouldn't trust the MPAA to let it be HDCP free until 2010 - you'll just shoot yourself in the foot if you do.
2) By BC i'm going to hazard a guess you mean background content updates for Xbox Live? It is still in the works and coming eventually, yeah its been delayed a bunch but it doesnt seem relevant to this topic.
3) PGR3 looks pretty good to me when i've played it for several hours, not sure which version you are looking at. When you compare it to actual consoles that are out there (Gamecube and PS2), sure does look a lot better. But maybe you are comparing it to "coming soon" consoles?
4) I've heard of overheating but not of some massive defects, wouldn't this be in some of the regular gaming news sites if there were (IGN, Gamespy etc)?
5) Xbox Live has always been different than what Sony and Nintendo have been doing in the online arena (which is a whole lot of nothing atm). Sony's service probably won't have the same functionality as Xbox Live - which will now run cross-platform gaming with Windows gamers (big plus), have same tag and friends list across platforms, and you know that every game that you buy that is Live-enabled - which I think all 360 games are required to have at least friends list functionality included - will work in the same fashion and work well. Without an integrated system, if you leave it up to each publisher it will be a mess and not nearly as useful as what Microsoft has come up with. This is one area where I think Microsoft has been kicking the tail of Sony and Nintendo - people want multiplayer gaming, co-op experiences, and also love earning "achievements" (just look at BF2's popular badge system which is why many still play almost a year after release).
6) Expect to see the Core version dropped this fall and price drop on the premium version (just my strong theory and that of many gaming mags). Are you still whining about background content or is BC something else? Please don't use acronyms that aren't clearly defined by context. Thanks.
Yeah, so PS2 still sells a lot - b/c you can get one for $100 now and it has a bazillion games. Also, what would the 360's sell numbers have been if they actually had millions in stock on store shelves instead of there being constant supply shortages?
And oh yeah, if you're going to rant at least have the courtesy to login instead of being a typical AC (Anonymous Coward). And a note, i'm planning on buying a Nintendo Wii first and foremost so i'm not a Microsoft Fanboy. I currently own a Gamecube and Xbox and played a PS2 for about a year before I wanted to claw my eyes out from the total lack of anti-aliasing capabilities on that console.
Contrary to what the media and Bill Gates or Steve Jobs would like you to believe, sometimes technology in the classroom can be a distraction.
I graduated just a year ago from a decent size University (10,000 students) and since I was getting a Computer Science degree I saw laptops in use in a lot of my classes. I'd say that 50% of the time people were playing video games of some sort or another, playing FreeCell or Solitaire, watching DVDs and generally using the laptop to do anything *but* take notes. This in turn distracted everyone else around them as they focused on whatever the person on the laptop was screwing around doing instead of on class.
I'll be honest, some of these classes were boring and I was occasionally envious of the people with laptops, but when I went to do homework or study for a test, I actually had some notes since with just pen and paper there is not a lot you can do to amuse yourself unless you have a really active imagination or like doing the box game or playing Tic-Tac-Toe for hours on end.
Now, some will say "but not everyone will use the laptop to screw around", and that's not my point. The point is, SOMEONE will, and that will distract everyone else. I've seen it happen and anyone claiming that it doesn't happen is lying.
So basically, I applaud her move and think that not every class should allow laptops in the classroom as sometimes technology is more of a hindrance than a help.
Whoops, bad typo there, sorry. I know typos aren't allowed on /. and have NEVER ever occurred here before :-). And yes, I did understand what they meant - but if they are trying to show the U.S. is doing way less text messaging, why not just say so instead of using a statistic right after another one when they aren't directly comparable. Its roughly as useful as me saying "50 oranges were sold last week in the U.S. while 50 apples were sold in the U.K. - the fruit market is indeed doing well!". Ok, so maybe not to that extent but it is still a mis-usage of statistics. At least do the multiplication for us to make the stats comparable.
I hate it when people place two statistics side by side as if they are comparable when they really aren't. It is misleading to say U.K. does "73 million messages per day" while U.S. estimate is "700 million per year". The mind tends to think, wow, the U.S. must text message a whole lot more! When, of course, this is not the case. Since, of course, one is a per year statistic and the other a per day statistic.
/rant off
1024x768 resolution on your CELL PHONE's 2" screen would look pretty darn nice don't you think? We're not talking about laptop graphics chips here :-)
Yes, research points accumulate while your account is inactive :-P My friend earned about 50k RPs during the 10 months we both quit, then we got a T2 BPO in the last round of seeds from those points.
Offline skill-based "leveling". The author of this article needs to check out EVE. Your character trains while you're asleep, while you're playing, heck, even if you cancel your account and leave a long skill running it will keep training!
It really makes for great gameplay because no matter how much someone grinds the game, they won't train any faster than me (unless they can get some uber implants which assist slightly in the speed at which you can train skills). But basically in EVE I can start a new character and within about 2 months or so compete and kill players that have been playing for 3 years because you can specialize - take many things to level 4 in a specific subset of skills (there are 5 levels to every skill) intead of that last "level 5" that takes eons to train (like over 23 days for some skills).
Don't count your chickens before they hatch. IBM's chip is theoretical and not in production, Intel's is here now. The better question is, why didn't Apple switch to Intel chips earlier?
In other breaking news, Jimmy Hoffa was found today on a park bench clutching a newspaper whose headline read "Sun found to be hot!" and "Sky really is blue!".
Patents..wrong..who would've thunk it?
I seem to recall that an article was posted on /. a few months ago about this as found here: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/ 07/1241216
And here is the company's webpage: http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page5.html
See! Proof that Quantum-Optical computing has already been done!
Ok, so maybe this would be the first non-vaporware quantum chip...
I'll probably get flamed a lot knowing the general liberal slant of /. but let me at least try to present a valid response to some of your points.
First of all, i'd like to make it clear that believing in Intelligent Design or in Creationism does NOT in any way prohibit ideas such as evolution, understanding how bees fly, or any other scientific fact that you want to explain. I don't understand why people constantly claim that creationism and science seem to be unable to co-exist! I believe God created the world, but what if he did so through the means of evolution and when "night became day" the big bang occurred? Does it really matter if I interpret the Genesis story to be a bit less literal than some ID proponents might claim?
Also, the thing about say studying stem cells has NOTHING to do with Intelligent Design. It has to do with something called medical ethics - and something called the Hippocratic oath. The issue at stake is when is a person a person by legal rights - does using stem cells from aborted fetuses or harvesting them constitute abuse of someone's human rights or are they not really a human yet because they haven't been born?
Basically my point is before making blanket inflammatory statements about Intelligent Design, Creationism, and their detrimental effect on science, at least stop to think that many of us love Science and desire for them to co-exist. Even some of the most scientifically minded individuals such as C.S. Lewis were turned to God in their pursuit of "evidence" to disprove his existence.
FTFA: The Radeon X800 XL with Catalyst 5.12 failed miserably on both of these tests. The Radeon X1800 XL with Catalyst 5.13 flies through these tests with flying colors. Both XGI and ATI require a little bit of extra time to detect the 3:2 cadence in comparison to NVIDIA, but it's still fast enough to score a perfect score.
Their verdict from this:
Score
Tied 3rd place: ATI, NVIDIA, XGI (10 points)
So apparently their scoring system favors ATI from the get-go (read the article and you will see they knock Nvidia and XGI back if they take longer than the other, but as shown above they ignore the same discrepancy when it applies to ATI). Also, why are they tied for third!? Wouldn't that be tied for first?
I think this article is poorly written and i'm not going to trust the results until I see something from some other sites once a final release driver is out.
But is it possible that the reason Nvidia is discontinuing their high-end card in February of 2006, is because they are releasing a NEW card that will probably trounce anything ATI has out.
Just a thought..considering that it seems about time for Nvidia to release a new GPU in the next 3 months or so.
I don't work for AIT, I work for a large local jewelry store. And yes, AIT support is horrible. One thing that impressed me though is that when I e-mailed the President of the company, he responded within one hour and sent someone out (since we are local) to resolve our issue. However, we have a long history of not having our phone calls returned from support or ever reaching a real person - so I can feel the pain. I've tried to convince my boss to switch web hosts, but he is too lazy.
If I worked for AIT would I say all that? As far as the building stuff, yes they haven't been fulfilling their obligation under the terms of the tax break they got etc. Don't assume just because one person has a different opinion on something that they are a press puppet for the company. I just happen to have had *some* good experiences dealing with them (not many).
I live in Fayetteville and have dealt with AIT for hosting stuff ever since they came into existence. The business was started by a ex-soldier (Clarence Briggs) and is now one of the world's largest web hosts as far as number of domains hosted. They are not just some "random" company as other people have said.
/. article) as of last week over advertising fraud. They claim that the newspaper is advertising a lot higher # of unique visitors to their wesbite than what they actually receive (they are hosted with AIT). It's interesting in that to me it seems AIT is revealing private information about a website they are hosting (not for much longer I bet!).
However, the point that the article linked is in our local newspapers online site is valid. Also, probably the reason that it talks about AIT's plans for expansion into storefronts is because Fayetteville has a vested interest in what is going on with AIT as they provide good high-tech, high-paying jobs for our area. People reading the newspaper (which the online article is a clone of what was in our newspaper), want to know what is going on with that company (which is smack in the middle of our attempt to revitalize our downtown area).
Another interesting tidbit is that AIT is also suing the newspaper (that was linked in the
So, basically, you all are getting a look into my town's petty politicking by one of the largest companies that is based out of here. Enjoy.
So if all the ages in the Bible add up to X years ago, all that would imply is that people were made then. Last time I checked in Genesis God waited to make people last and the common belief by most Christians is that "7 Days" could refer to millions of years (evolution for ya), because a biblical day has often meant more than what we now consider to be a 24-hour time period. So basically the spider could have been made on day "3" which is 20 million years ago, and day 4 may have been 10 million years ago etc all the way up to when humans were created. Also, the ages in the Bible may not be years as we determine years now either.
Just a thought..
Will this finally allow me to run multiple programs on Windows XP? With that much ram it should be able to handle the ram-hungry Windows XP.
Of course, maybe by "TB" they don't mean tera-byte, but instead 'tiny-byte', a brand new term meaning really, really freaking small.
I don't think it is an issue because as thousands join, thousands of us quit.
WoW is a boring game when you get to the higher levels, and it is at it's heart just another game of "grind to spend time".
In the short term it might have an effect, but in the long-term it will just be a bump in the road.
Must be why they got class-action sued over their late-fees policies and they lost!
The funny thing about their current system is that a "2-day rental" is due back the third day by noon. However, there are no "late" fees now. 7 days past the due date they will just charge you an additional $12-$15 and you own the movie. Within 30 days of that charge you can reverse the purchase for a $1.25 "restocking fee". I read their fine print and didn't see anything about that 7-day period between when the rental is due and when they charge me for buying the movie. So, long story short all of my blockbuster rentals are now 9-day rentals for $4.
I didn't say that the people are just a joke to you. The point I was trying to make is that what you or someone else finds funny may not be all that funny to those closely involved.
As you and other posters have said in response to my comments, humor is a way to deal with stressful situations. Perhaps i'm one of those people who doesn't deal with stressful situations by going to humor. And trust me, i'm not the only one.
As to the statistics poster who talked about more dying from car accidents or smoking related illnesses, I'd like to point out that there is some difference in the deaths. Those who got in their car to drive to work chose to take that risk, and those who smoked for 20 years, well, we won't even get into that. Those killed by terrorists had their lives yanked away as they went about their daily business.
I don't think many people "choose" to die, their life either fades away naturally or it is taken from them in a tragic instance such as this. For me, that the number of deaths is less than 9/11 or othe terrorist incidents doesn't mean it is any less tragic. I think 1 death caused by terrorists is one too many.