It's good that the patch is available, but what percentage do you actually think will get fixed?
Your average user isn't even going to know how to apply a firmware update much less be aware that they have a vulnerable router and need to update it.
Kind of off topic - I was buddies with a guy in the air force that worked on the caffeinated stuff. He came to visit one time and brought some caffeine pudding with him. Hell of a drug.
I'd say it can lead to ignorance of certain events. I get the vast majority of my news from my RSS feeds from sites that have stuff on them that I care about. I will occasionally miss out on really important things like celebrity gossip or some random white girl killed in some random place. But you know what? I am ok with that. Those things do not affect my life in any way and I could care less if I hear about them.
This will cuase tons of problems for the small to medium size american farmer. They are trying to do the same thing with cattle. This has the potential to cause many americans to loose their ways of life. Farming is already a negative growth industry, and prices are still near those of the 1950's. If you start adding in tons more cost to the process, many of these small family businesses will go belly up and the people running them will loose the only thing they have ever known to do.
I liked the first Resident Evil movie. The second one was a steaming pile, but the first one was actually pretty good if you got to see it in the theatre.
This game failed to keep my interest after a few hours. It had sub-par graphics, a clumsy interface, and the story did not seem that great to me. It was a lot more linear that the first game, what I played of this one anyway. You walked through the jungle, but there was really only one path you could follow. In the first game right off the bat there were wide open spaces with little hidden caves in em. There was also a very steep power curve. You went from being killed by more than a handful of monsters to utterly wiping everything out with no problem over the course of a few levels. And thats where the game got dull instead of frustrating. I do not recomend buying this game for the full forty dollar price tag. Wait til it goes down in price if you want to play it very bad.
I think there is too much whining and complaining and fretting over this. It's not like this hasn't happened before and it's not like it isn't going to happen again. If my house got destroyed every ten years or so, I would move. It would have to be cheaper than rebuilding and starting over from scratch every few years.
Any word on when Gmail is going to go public? Last I heard google news was waiting because of it's inability to create revenue because they were using other peoples news or some such. But the mail portion has adds and the like, so I guess it is able to make revenue.
Has anyone on here actually ever bought anything from one of these mass market emails? I myself haven't, and I don't know anyone off hand who has. What I wonder is how they stay in business. Money has to be coming in from somewhere.
How about someone does a study on the parents of the kids who commit crimes that are supposedly caused by video games. I bet you would get some conclusive results from that one.
When the Xbox fist came out me and my buds picked up a bunch of aftermarket controllers cuz they were about $10 cheaper a piece. After that we never bought anything non-MS branded. The aftermarket controllers were crap. DOA 3 had button sensitive moves, and you could NOT perform the lighter touch moves in the controller. It was so bad that whoever had the 'real' controller won every time.
"Online games have the potential to transform entertainment into a global-community exercise, breaking down borders, cultural and language barriers, and even political prejudices..."
Have you ever played a mmo and happened to wander upon someone from another nation playing it? I once grouped with what I assumed to be a Korean or Chineese gold farmer on WoW. It was crazy. The guy kept telling me 'I have all stones'. When I would inquire about the stones all I got was "I have all stones." Then he demanded I go to the nearest town. I do not think any barriers were tore down that day.
A while back I was using netscape. It was good and all. Then I had to reformat my computer (good ole windows) and when I went to put netscape back on, something happened and it would not start no matter what I did. Even reisntalled an wiped the registry from it. So, I download firefox, and it works good for a week or so, then does the same thing. I end up re-wiping my box and starting fresh. Havent had any problems since then though. Anyone else get this kind of prob with netscape/firefox?
There was a similar problem. I had major issues getting the sound to work right. It sounded like there was constant stuttering and repeats of the sounds. I searched all over the web for a way to fix it before finding one. All I had to do was type in a small console command, and everything worked great. Of course, I have had to do the same thing everytime I have re-installed it over the years.
Its funny how Halo 2's launch was flawless. People could get it at midnight on the release night, in my home town the local radio made a big deal out of it and held a party at the game stop here, and when they got home they could plug it in and play the single player mode no problem. If they had friends over with x-box they could all network it and play it together right out of the box, not everyone waiting to connect to steam and get the network running, and plugging up 10-000 cables. THe multiplayo n X-b0x live worked better than any other recent massive multiplay online game (massive amounts of players).
It just seems a striking difference, maybe a testemant to microsoft.
Do you think that 90% of the population even realize the war that is being fought on the internet to protect their basic rights? The invasion of big corporation into our homes is a serious problem that the vast majority of americans would not want to have happen to them, yet they are wholly unaware that this almost happens on a daily basis because of big corporations.
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It's good that the patch is available, but what percentage do you actually think will get fixed? Your average user isn't even going to know how to apply a firmware update much less be aware that they have a vulnerable router and need to update it.
Kind of off topic - I was buddies with a guy in the air force that worked on the caffeinated stuff. He came to visit one time and brought some caffeine pudding with him. Hell of a drug.
I'd say it can lead to ignorance of certain events. I get the vast majority of my news from my RSS feeds from sites that have stuff on them that I care about. I will occasionally miss out on really important things like celebrity gossip or some random white girl killed in some random place. But you know what? I am ok with that. Those things do not affect my life in any way and I could care less if I hear about them.
There will never be a $7 calculator in the future...
I kinda think there already is one.....
This will cuase tons of problems for the small to medium size american farmer. They are trying to do the same thing with cattle. This has the potential to cause many americans to loose their ways of life. Farming is already a negative growth industry, and prices are still near those of the 1950's. If you start adding in tons more cost to the process, many of these small family businesses will go belly up and the people running them will loose the only thing they have ever known to do.
I liked the first Resident Evil movie. The second one was a steaming pile, but the first one was actually pretty good if you got to see it in the theatre.
This game failed to keep my interest after a few hours. It had sub-par graphics, a clumsy interface, and the story did not seem that great to me. It was a lot more linear that the first game, what I played of this one anyway. You walked through the jungle, but there was really only one path you could follow. In the first game right off the bat there were wide open spaces with little hidden caves in em. There was also a very steep power curve. You went from being killed by more than a handful of monsters to utterly wiping everything out with no problem over the course of a few levels. And thats where the game got dull instead of frustrating. I do not recomend buying this game for the full forty dollar price tag. Wait til it goes down in price if you want to play it very bad.
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Is land really cheap down there or something?
I think there is too much whining and complaining and fretting over this. It's not like this hasn't happened before and it's not like it isn't going to happen again. If my house got destroyed every ten years or so, I would move. It would have to be cheaper than rebuilding and starting over from scratch every few years.
Any word on when Gmail is going to go public? Last I heard google news was waiting because of it's inability to create revenue because they were using other peoples news or some such. But the mail portion has adds and the like, so I guess it is able to make revenue.
This reminds me of Minority Report where the billboards were scanning peoples eyes and addressing them by name. Is this a case of life imitating art?
Has anyone on here actually ever bought anything from one of these mass market emails? I myself haven't, and I don't know anyone off hand who has. What I wonder is how they stay in business. Money has to be coming in from somewhere.
How about someone does a study on the parents of the kids who commit crimes that are supposedly caused by video games. I bet you would get some conclusive results from that one.
Too bad they didn't parter with ID to make a Math Blaster FPS. Or maybe an American McGee's Reader Rabbit.
When the Xbox fist came out me and my buds picked up a bunch of aftermarket controllers cuz they were about $10 cheaper a piece. After that we never bought anything non-MS branded. The aftermarket controllers were crap. DOA 3 had button sensitive moves, and you could NOT perform the lighter touch moves in the controller. It was so bad that whoever had the 'real' controller won every time.
"Online games have the potential to transform entertainment into a global-community exercise, breaking down borders, cultural and language barriers, and even political prejudices..."
Have you ever played a mmo and happened to wander upon someone from another nation playing it? I once grouped with what I assumed to be a Korean or Chineese gold farmer on WoW. It was crazy. The guy kept telling me 'I have all stones'. When I would inquire about the stones all I got was "I have all stones." Then he demanded I go to the nearest town. I do not think any barriers were tore down that day.
A while back I was using netscape. It was good and all. Then I had to reformat my computer (good ole windows) and when I went to put netscape back on, something happened and it would not start no matter what I did. Even reisntalled an wiped the registry from it. So, I download firefox, and it works good for a week or so, then does the same thing. I end up re-wiping my box and starting fresh. Havent had any problems since then though. Anyone else get this kind of prob with netscape/firefox?
There was a similar problem. I had major issues getting the sound to work right. It sounded like there was constant stuttering and repeats of the sounds. I searched all over the web for a way to fix it before finding one. All I had to do was type in a small console command, and everything worked great. Of course, I have had to do the same thing everytime I have re-installed it over the years.
Its funny how Halo 2's launch was flawless. People could get it at midnight on the release night, in my home town the local radio made a big deal out of it and held a party at the game stop here, and when they got home they could plug it in and play the single player mode no problem. If they had friends over with x-box they could all network it and play it together right out of the box, not everyone waiting to connect to steam and get the network running, and plugging up 10-000 cables. THe multiplayo n X-b0x live worked better than any other recent massive multiplay online game (massive amounts of players). It just seems a striking difference, maybe a testemant to microsoft.
Do you think that 90% of the population even realize the war that is being fought on the internet to protect their basic rights? The invasion of big corporation into our homes is a serious problem that the vast majority of americans would not want to have happen to them, yet they are wholly unaware that this almost happens on a daily basis because of big corporations.