If you're ever pissed off about how oil and power companies are ruining the environment, you can get rid of your car and get a bicycle.
You will have trouble getting to work, picking up the kids, buying groceries and getting around, but BY GEORGE you stuck to your principles and the oil and power companies... didn't notice at all.
I have a 448/96 kbps ADSL connection. I live so far from the DSLAM that literally nothing else is available.
I am thankful on a daily basis that I took so many steps to prevent Win10 from getting installed on either computer in this house, because those update sizes, at times I don't get to decide, would render the internet effectively unavailable. Last I heard was 4 GB of updates getting pushed at one time, to two computers... yeah, that's three solid days of downloading.
If Microsoft pays for putting fiber in the ground here, THEN we can talk about Windows 10, but until the world is unambiguously covered in 20 mbps or above connections they are cordially invited to traverse and autofornicate.
I haven't seen the image or the tweet, but if it gets masked as something simple and innocent, say a video claiming to be source material for whatever he's working on - he's an author, after all - which suddenly cuts to a strobe light... That's deliberate.
But the point is they claim they didn't have FULL access: Deaf? You need captions. Blind? You need all the stuff written on the board spelled out. Both? Hoo boy.
This. Programs like Skype, TeamSpeak, Discord etc. FOCUS on the VoIP functionality. Having WotC roll their own into a client for something else is going to turn out the same way voice chat in MMOs did: Disabled and replaced with, yes, Skype, TeamSpeak, Discord etc. Even Blizzard, at the height of WoW's popularity, could only make a half-assed VoIP function that no one ever used. That should really tell you something.
We were heading into the dotcom bubble back then, economy looked extremely healthy and things were looking up as we were heading into a new millenium. You can see the same thing with computer games from around that time, lots of experimentation (some better than others...) as 3D graphics were becoming the norm.
Now, though, everyone is afraid of screwing up and bankrupting the company on one miss because that is all it will take. And what do we get? Movie rehashes and half of all AAA games desperate to get in on the E-sports market because that could prove to be a sustainable business model if it works. The rest are, again, rehashes. You don't see groundbreakers like Portal or Everquest and WoW now - which is surprising considering those were all so successful in their heyday, actually.
Without having commercials to teach you that companies consider you a never-ending open wallet, and that they WILL lie to you to get your money, will these Netflix-only kids grow up to be or more less naive about the honesty of other people and companies?
Oh yeah, he revealed on the day he started that working beyond the official hours would come with a caveat.
How HORRIBLE of him! He didn't bring a sleeping bag and a toothbrush to work after divorcing his dying wife before leaving his home for the last time!
Respect goes both ways, sure - but due to the insane power difference between employer and employee that respect has to start at the TOP, otherwise it's bootlicking and grovelling in the hopes of being thrown a treat and a kind word one day.
While some of the list of security features is not that important to most people, being able to have a chat client that Just Works is.
I miss Trillian from... a decade ago? Has it been that long? It was basically a container program with plugins for the at the time widely used chat protocols: It did AIM, ICQ, YIM, MSN, IRC, Jabber, likely a bunch of other ones I never used. All in one reasonably light-weight program. Click it in your taskbar, check if the friend you're looking for is online, and click his name. That was all the user had to think about.
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If you're ever pissed off about how oil and power companies are ruining the environment, you can get rid of your car and get a bicycle.
You will have trouble getting to work, picking up the kids, buying groceries and getting around, but BY GEORGE you stuck to your principles and the oil and power companies ... didn't notice at all.
I have a 448/96 kbps ADSL connection. I live so far from the DSLAM that literally nothing else is available.
I am thankful on a daily basis that I took so many steps to prevent Win10 from getting installed on either computer in this house, because those update sizes, at times I don't get to decide, would render the internet effectively unavailable. Last I heard was 4 GB of updates getting pushed at one time, to two computers ... yeah, that's three solid days of downloading.
If Microsoft pays for putting fiber in the ground here, THEN we can talk about Windows 10, but until the world is unambiguously covered in 20 mbps or above connections they are cordially invited to traverse and autofornicate.
But this is the internet. Someone in New York just has to load Trump's timeline and BAM, jurisdiction.
Hovering over the only link in the summary the only thing I see is ... a clean link with no referral tags. What are you seeing?
So basically the Frames Per Outside Second drops, but the Frames Per Inside Second remains constant?
I haven't seen the image or the tweet, but if it gets masked as something simple and innocent, say a video claiming to be source material for whatever he's working on - he's an author, after all - which suddenly cuts to a strobe light ... That's deliberate.
But the point is they claim they didn't have FULL access: Deaf? You need captions. Blind? You need all the stuff written on the board spelled out. Both? Hoo boy.
Original Group, basically the Closed Beta group of most things these days, like people who got their GMail accounts back when they were invite only.
This. Programs like Skype, TeamSpeak, Discord etc. FOCUS on the VoIP functionality. Having WotC roll their own into a client for something else is going to turn out the same way voice chat in MMOs did: Disabled and replaced with, yes, Skype, TeamSpeak, Discord etc. Even Blizzard, at the height of WoW's popularity, could only make a half-assed VoIP function that no one ever used. That should really tell you something.
You mean in 50-100 years every REMAINING disease will be HIV-class. There's a very big difference.
So it's roll20 and MythWeavers - but only for 5e?
10 for IT? I assume this isn't Stephen King's IT, then? I find it hard to believe that would get a 10/100.
If the court order says to hand over the identities of these users, we have to assume the court currently doesn't KNOW the identities of these users.
How, then, has the court heard both sides of the case?
Guarantee? No. But just as correlation don't imply causation, correlation DOES imply you should look closer.
Because it was a different time back then.
We were heading into the dotcom bubble back then, economy looked extremely healthy and things were looking up as we were heading into a new millenium. You can see the same thing with computer games from around that time, lots of experimentation (some better than others ...) as 3D graphics were becoming the norm.
Now, though, everyone is afraid of screwing up and bankrupting the company on one miss because that is all it will take. And what do we get? Movie rehashes and half of all AAA games desperate to get in on the E-sports market because that could prove to be a sustainable business model if it works. The rest are, again, rehashes. You don't see groundbreakers like Portal or Everquest and WoW now - which is surprising considering those were all so successful in their heyday, actually.
A faithful BTTF set in 20151985 could have been rather amusing.
Of course, a faithful reboot of anything is rarer than anything else.
That's because all of this has happened before and it will all happen again.
Wait .. Wait, was that the wrong franchise?
Don't expect coherency, honesty, or fairness if the non-integrated muslims throughout Europe ever get any real power, either.
You appear to be a racist terrorist misogynist pedophile.
And if you appear to be then you are.
iTunes gift cards and Steam gift cards will go a LONG way today.
Without having commercials to teach you that companies consider you a never-ending open wallet, and that they WILL lie to you to get your money, will these Netflix-only kids grow up to be or more less naive about the honesty of other people and companies?
Oh yeah, he revealed on the day he started that working beyond the official hours would come with a caveat.
How HORRIBLE of him! He didn't bring a sleeping bag and a toothbrush to work after divorcing his dying wife before leaving his home for the last time!
Respect goes both ways, sure - but due to the insane power difference between employer and employee that respect has to start at the TOP, otherwise it's bootlicking and grovelling in the hopes of being thrown a treat and a kind word one day.
Full gentrification? That shouldn't be necessary, but maybe you should look at why your country allows its citizens to get THAT desperate.
While some of the list of security features is not that important to most people, being able to have a chat client that Just Works is.
I miss Trillian from ... a decade ago? Has it been that long? It was basically a container program with plugins for the at the time widely used chat protocols: It did AIM, ICQ, YIM, MSN, IRC, Jabber, likely a bunch of other ones I never used. All in one reasonably light-weight program. Click it in your taskbar, check if the friend you're looking for is online, and click his name. That was all the user had to think about.
Who still uses 21" monitors for their computers?