First rule of business: there's no such things as friends in business. Really, friends is a strong term. In a supply chain, one person is always trying to be the dominate player, be it the retailers, suppliers, or the warehouses and logistics players.
It might surprise you but what you described happens among friends also.
I guess it's great for the content providers and their DRM, but when I can't play a single player game because either their servers are down, or I don't happen to have a connection at the time is annoying and stupid. (I don't have a Playstation, but several single player games on Steam behave in the same, or similar, way; e.g. f1-2010 I can't save progress without the internet because apart from steam, which launches the game just fine, there is the crazy Live-Games for Windows (or whatever it's called). Why I can't save progress is beyond me as the save games appear to be local files, but that's just how it is.
Guess next time consider this before buying a system that requires internet for most of it's stuff.
>Windows developers that were already ignoring WP7
Really? How did you come to know of that? By reading Slashdot?
The developer tools were downloaded over 1.5 million times and there are over 13,000 apps in the WP7 marketplace (faster growth rate than Android and iPhone at that stage).
Yes, and how many of those 13k apps are just recompiled IOS/Android apps?
The market (smart phone app market) has been running for several years now. Most the apps have versions that run on various smartphone OS's.
In my opinion, the 13k don't really mean shit, lets see sales numbers of apps.
Well, keep in mind that there is a difference between being asked and being told to do something. If a cop asks you:
"Can I see your cellphone?"
Then, you're under no obligation to answer in the affirmative. However, if he says:
"Hand over your cellphone."
That's a demand and you're legally required (with some exceptions) to comply. Although cops are well-trained and they know how to phrase a question such that it sounds like a demand:
"I'm going to take a look at your cellphone. Would you hand it to me?"
The point is that when talking to the police, stay calm and listen to exactly what they're saying. If you're not clear if something is a question or a demand, then ask for clarification.
I suggest you say No to any of there questions. If they start getting pissed, ask if you are under arrest. When they say no, then tell them you are leaving.
If they say yes, then don't say anything at all. Get a lawyer and have him/her handle it.
And the cops will try to make you seem like your a criminal and they will lie to you, because it's part of their training.
Never, ever cooperate with the police, because it will be used against you.
Honestly, what i see are game server farms like Onlive or something.
It keeps all the game on the server side, so they don't have to worry about peeps pirating it. They way they bitch about pirates and stuff, would seem to me it would be better to keep it all on their end and just stream the shit to us.
Which of course, sucks currently, but they they did bitch slap some fiber optics to the home peeps, would probably be more doable.
Do I want this? Fuck no. Just seems like this is how shit is going, imo
Transferring information faster than the speed of light through the use of quantum entanglement is impossible. Only through the use of a second, traditionally light-speed-bound communication channel one make any use of the oddness that is quantum entanglement.
That said, it might still have practical uses, but instantaneous communication to the other side of the galaxy is not one of them.
Of course not, we don't have anything on the other side of the galaxy yet.
Which the US also signed. Care to explain how they're moving towards disarmenent, as the treaty obligates them to?
I think you must've missed the whole thing about the U.S. going from over 30,000 nukes just a few decades back to under 10,000 today (of which under 2,000 are active). Kinda a big deal, but hey, why keep track of annoying facts like that?
Yes, and I trust whatever my government says it will do. After all that worked great for the native americans.
For a nation made up of 'We The People', Corporations have the one and only voice.
There is absolutely nothing stopping you from starting your own broadband company, and then charging a flat rate with absolutely no limits on usage. There may be some trouble with you keeping that going, though, because you'll have to charge higher than the ongoing rates to keep it alive, or will go out of business.
bullshit. there has already been studies on how much it cost to use the internet, like netflix (http://blog.streamingmedia.com/the_business_of_online_vi/2011/03/netflixs-streaming-costs-drop-50-from-2009-expected-to-spend-50m-in-2011.html)
So, if the cost of streaming netflix is dropping, how exactly is the cost for users using the internet increasing?
It's not. It's bullshit on the part of ISP to charge more money. And look, 250gb cap is bigger then the ones they tried previously, like the 50gb caps, etc.
But it isn't that bad.I haven't come close to maxing it out and I tried. I don't know, how exactly do you use more than 250GB in a month?
There is no speed cap and its the fastest internet available in my area so why not use it? It's not perfect but it beats DSL.
I disagree.
I had comcast, and I gladly switch to qwest dsl.
Sure, my speed is lower, but I do NOT get stupid fishing notices saying I download copyrighted materials. I do not get hassles over the fact that I used a lot of bandwidth every month.
250gb cap? Ya. I can download more then that in a month.
I liked 720p & 1080p movies. Easy 5-10gb each there. Games? Good 5-10gb each there, usually about 5-6gb though. I play eq2, have 3 account, play 5 accounts alot, so boom, got info coming down the line for 5 accounts, probably not a whole huge amount, but i play every day.
Oh, shit, is that copyrighted crap I am downloading? Yes. Do I care? No.
Not sure if you noticed, but the studio's get richer, they used what is morally wrong accounting to justify ripping peeps off. They do not pay their actors/musicians decently, and all the huff and puff about copyright is stealing is the biggest bunch of bullshit around.
Fuck them, and anyone who pays for their bullshit. At least, thats my take on it.
And that being said, I have peeps who trade me $5 worth of goods for each AVCHD copy of a Bluray movie I do for them. Which is funny, seeing as if the movies were like $10 each, the person already told me he wouldn't have a problem buying them, but pay $20 each for something he might watch once? Fuck that. And thank you for giving me something to barter with.
The point is, I pay for my internet, I use it how i want, and the ISP can fuck off regarding that.
Bad enough you took away usenet, dumbass's. Honestly, I would of left usenet, put it on a seperate pipe and let peeps use it to their hearts content without it affecting other users. But it's not about how much data is being downloaded as it's about how much extra money can we get out of our suckers, er, customers.
Many documents are composed of parts of other documents. If I write an essay I might quote from source texts, scientific papers, other people's work on the subject, interviews I've conducted, etc, and I'll add my own ideas around this. At the moment, I duplicate (retype) any source material and provide a link to it. The material I've linked to doesn't automatically link back. Instead, I could make a link using his system which includes the text from the version of the document I look at, and provides a two-way link.
It's a nice idea, but unless you can make it easy to create documents with all these links (and ensure they don't need any maintenance) I don't see how it would catch on.
Wikipedia's software is close in some respects -- you can include pages (but not, AFAIIA, selected bits of pages) in other pages. There aren't links in the UI, but it would be trivial to add them.
www.afterdawn.com does that when you put in a post. Even if the word you use doesn't actually link back to the meaning of the word. Honestly, it's really fuckiing annoying to have links to the meaning of words and other crap when they aren't even actually the right meaning.
I'll bet dude was a teacher that was a stickler for footnotes and other crap in reports.
Um, apparently you don't realize that stories have a way of exaggerating what really happen. Sure, it sound great to say it was 30 peeps in the book, but really? It was probably like 2 dudes, enough to lift the gates open.
Let's be real. Some force has been camped outside your gates, trying to break in and kill you. They aren't able to, so over night, they dissappear and put a "horse" that can hold 30 peeps outside the gate? How fucking stupid would you have to be, to roll that bad boy in your fucking city and think that you won? Now something that might only be able to hold 2 men, you'd be more trusting of it, because it's smaller and obviously couldn't hold a big trap.
And anyways, isn't this story fiction? Do we have other accounts that back this story, and the 30 man horse?
While you might think the students suck because they didn't follow make believe land close enough, I give them props for making something unusual and keeping it a secret from their teacher.
Sweet, and now peeps can teach them gamepad fps players a lesson on what works best. Of course, cries of PC & MAC players cheating because they will mop the floor against the gamepad fps playing retard peeps.
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First rule of business: there's no such things as friends in business. Really, friends is a strong term. In a supply chain, one person is always trying to be the dominate player, be it the retailers, suppliers, or the warehouses and logistics players.
It might surprise you but what you described happens among friends also.
I guess it's great for the content providers and their DRM, but when I can't play a single player game because either their servers are down, or I don't happen to have a connection at the time is annoying and stupid. (I don't have a Playstation, but several single player games on Steam behave in the same, or similar, way; e.g. f1-2010 I can't save progress without the internet because apart from steam, which launches the game just fine, there is the crazy Live-Games for Windows (or whatever it's called). Why I can't save progress is beyond me as the save games appear to be local files, but that's just how it is.
Guess next time consider this before buying a system that requires internet for most of it's stuff.
I love the implication that Anonymous has a representative that can "disavow knowledge of such an attack."
Anonymous is not an organization! It's a bunch of jerks on the internet.
Sony isn't a company that cares for it's customers, it's just a bunch of jerks in business suits.
Generalization is great, isn't it?
>Windows developers that were already ignoring WP7
Really? How did you come to know of that? By reading Slashdot?
The developer tools were downloaded over 1.5 million times and there are over 13,000 apps in the WP7 marketplace (faster growth rate than Android and iPhone at that stage).
Yes, and how many of those 13k apps are just recompiled IOS/Android apps?
The market (smart phone app market) has been running for several years now. Most the apps have versions that run on various smartphone OS's.
In my opinion, the 13k don't really mean shit, lets see sales numbers of apps.
... that there's an App for that.
Thanks for summarizing that, I tried to read it but found myself unable to stop laughing at his photo.
The sad part is, it's probably the best photo they have of him.
Well, keep in mind that there is a difference between being asked and being told to do something. If a cop asks you:
"Can I see your cellphone?"
Then, you're under no obligation to answer in the affirmative. However, if he says:
"Hand over your cellphone."
That's a demand and you're legally required (with some exceptions) to comply. Although cops are well-trained and they know how to phrase a question such that it sounds like a demand:
"I'm going to take a look at your cellphone. Would you hand it to me?"
The point is that when talking to the police, stay calm and listen to exactly what they're saying. If you're not clear if something is a question or a demand, then ask for clarification.
I suggest you say No to any of there questions. If they start getting pissed, ask if you are under arrest. When they say no, then tell them you are leaving.
If they say yes, then don't say anything at all. Get a lawyer and have him/her handle it.
And the cops will try to make you seem like your a criminal and they will lie to you, because it's part of their training.
Never, ever cooperate with the police, because it will be used against you.
Technology can be hacked and used against you? Dang.
..Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe...
That game rocks.
Honestly, what i see are game server farms like Onlive or something.
It keeps all the game on the server side, so they don't have to worry about peeps pirating it. They way they bitch about pirates and stuff, would seem to me it would be better to keep it all on their end and just stream the shit to us.
Which of course, sucks currently, but they they did bitch slap some fiber optics to the home peeps, would probably be more doable.
Do I want this? Fuck no. Just seems like this is how shit is going, imo
Transferring information faster than the speed of light through the use of quantum entanglement is impossible. Only through the use of a second, traditionally light-speed-bound communication channel one make any use of the oddness that is quantum entanglement.
That said, it might still have practical uses, but instantaneous communication to the other side of the galaxy is not one of them.
Of course not, we don't have anything on the other side of the galaxy yet.
Which the US also signed. Care to explain how they're moving towards disarmenent, as the treaty obligates them to?
I think you must've missed the whole thing about the U.S. going from over 30,000 nukes just a few decades back to under 10,000 today (of which under 2,000 are active). Kinda a big deal, but hey, why keep track of annoying facts like that?
Yes, and I trust whatever my government says it will do. After all that worked great for the native americans.
The vast majority don't understand "Fukushima-style" radiation either ;-)
Is that what the next Stalker game is going to be called?
I'll use Hanlon's razor on your reply and merely point out that at least half the population are of above average intelligence.
I'll use Hanlon's razor on your reply and merely point out that all studies and stats are flawed.
Now i have to google Hanlon's razor. Wonder if it had 3 blades or 5?
Ahh, i see. even though I didn't know what it means, i think i used it okay.
I was under the impression that Apple could do no wrong and the ipads & iphones are perfect. Maybe your just holding it wrong?
I'm sorry, this is a new idea? Really?
Talk about a fucking slow news day.
Look the problem is the industry, it's the fucked up laws that the industry paid for.
Why don't we fix the copyright problem, stick it back to 7 years, take away the copy right on all things greater then 7 years.
That would be progress.
And better for us.
For a nation made up of 'We The People', Corporations have the one and only voice.
There is absolutely nothing stopping you from starting your own broadband company, and then charging a flat rate with absolutely no limits on usage. There may be some trouble with you keeping that going, though, because you'll have to charge higher than the ongoing rates to keep it alive, or will go out of business.
bullshit. there has already been studies on how much it cost to use the internet, like netflix (http://blog.streamingmedia.com/the_business_of_online_vi/2011/03/netflixs-streaming-costs-drop-50-from-2009-expected-to-spend-50m-in-2011.html)
So, if the cost of streaming netflix is dropping, how exactly is the cost for users using the internet increasing?
It's not. It's bullshit on the part of ISP to charge more money. And look, 250gb cap is bigger then the ones they tried previously, like the 50gb caps, etc.
It's bullshit and your buying into it.
But it isn't that bad.I haven't come close to maxing it out and I tried. I don't know, how exactly do you use more than 250GB in a month?
There is no speed cap and its the fastest internet available in my area so why not use it? It's not perfect but it beats DSL.
I disagree.
I had comcast, and I gladly switch to qwest dsl.
Sure, my speed is lower, but I do NOT get stupid fishing notices saying I download copyrighted materials. I do not get hassles over the fact that I used a lot of bandwidth every month.
250gb cap? Ya. I can download more then that in a month.
I liked 720p & 1080p movies. Easy 5-10gb each there. Games? Good 5-10gb each there, usually about 5-6gb though. I play eq2, have 3 account, play 5 accounts alot, so boom, got info coming down the line for 5 accounts, probably not a whole huge amount, but i play every day.
Oh, shit, is that copyrighted crap I am downloading? Yes. Do I care? No.
Not sure if you noticed, but the studio's get richer, they used what is morally wrong accounting to justify ripping peeps off. They do not pay their actors/musicians decently, and all the huff and puff about copyright is stealing is the biggest bunch of bullshit around.
Fuck them, and anyone who pays for their bullshit. At least, thats my take on it.
And that being said, I have peeps who trade me $5 worth of goods for each AVCHD copy of a Bluray movie I do for them. Which is funny, seeing as if the movies were like $10 each, the person already told me he wouldn't have a problem buying them, but pay $20 each for something he might watch once? Fuck that. And thank you for giving me something to barter with.
The point is, I pay for my internet, I use it how i want, and the ISP can fuck off regarding that.
Bad enough you took away usenet, dumbass's. Honestly, I would of left usenet, put it on a seperate pipe and let peeps use it to their hearts content without it affecting other users. But it's not about how much data is being downloaded as it's about how much extra money can we get out of our suckers, er, customers.
Now they are going to be without a place to play, and might actually do something constructive with their lives.
Wait? What? There's more online poker games for them to go play?
Great work again, Gov. I see my tax money is being used responsibly, mainly in this time of buget cuts.
Stupid twats.
I think what he's suggesting is this:
Many documents are composed of parts of other documents. If I write an essay I might quote from source texts, scientific papers, other people's work on the subject, interviews I've conducted, etc, and I'll add my own ideas around this. At the moment, I duplicate (retype) any source material and provide a link to it. The material I've linked to doesn't automatically link back. Instead, I could make a link using his system which includes the text from the version of the document I look at, and provides a two-way link.
It's a nice idea, but unless you can make it easy to create documents with all these links (and ensure they don't need any maintenance) I don't see how it would catch on.
Wikipedia's software is close in some respects -- you can include pages (but not, AFAIIA, selected bits of pages) in other pages. There aren't links in the UI, but it would be trivial to add them.
www.afterdawn.com does that when you put in a post. Even if the word you use doesn't actually link back to the meaning of the word. Honestly, it's really fuckiing annoying to have links to the meaning of words and other crap when they aren't even actually the right meaning.
I'll bet dude was a teacher that was a stickler for footnotes and other crap in reports.
Yes I did. I've never been to the webpage, or subscribe to it, or used it's services. So it's apparent that my lack of interest killed it off.
Wait, it's not dead? Another stupid article? what a shock.
nm, carry on. Ignore the smoking gun in my hand.
And actually, if you bothered to read the wiki article you used as proof, you'd see the number was challenged by different sources.
you sir, failed.
This horse only holds 12 people. The original Trojan horse held 30 people, according to Wikipedia.
So it doesn't exactly sound "life-sized" to me.
Um, apparently you don't realize that stories have a way of exaggerating what really happen. Sure, it sound great to say it was 30 peeps in the book, but really? It was probably like 2 dudes, enough to lift the gates open.
Let's be real. Some force has been camped outside your gates, trying to break in and kill you. They aren't able to, so over night, they dissappear and put a "horse" that can hold 30 peeps outside the gate? How fucking stupid would you have to be, to roll that bad boy in your fucking city and think that you won? Now something that might only be able to hold 2 men, you'd be more trusting of it, because it's smaller and obviously couldn't hold a big trap.
And anyways, isn't this story fiction? Do we have other accounts that back this story, and the 30 man horse?
While you might think the students suck because they didn't follow make believe land close enough, I give them props for making something unusual and keeping it a secret from their teacher.
Sweet, and now peeps can teach them gamepad fps players a lesson on what works best. Of course, cries of PC & MAC players cheating because they will mop the floor against the gamepad fps playing retard peeps.