They're not the only ISP that doesn't pay attention to accounts. A friend with a dial-up account back in the mid nineties closed her account when she moved. She discovered that she still had email access to it, and even dial-up was still available. Her boyfriend shared the dial-up info with a bunch of their friends and they all had free net access for several years. Last I checked it was still active.
Maybe they should have been listening to 'As It Happens' on CBC radio last night (available via Satellite and Shortwave outside Canada.)
They interviewed a pastor who put on a religious play at the public theatre in Pictou, Nova Scotia. The city had denied him a permit because they didn't want a religious morality play, intended to "save" people from being put on in place intended for the general public.
So he put on the play anyway, after notifying the local police of his intentions. The play went on, he was charged (with loitering), and it went to court.
A complaint was filed over violation of the charter of rights regarding religious freedom, and he was immediately vindicated, because under Canadian law you DO have full rights to freedom of religion, provided it does not harm another. The catholic church still refuses to ordain women, and though that might be considered discrimination in any other sector of society, that choice is protected in the Canadian charter of rights.
I'm an atheist, and I have absolutely no use for religion in any form. But I applaud the fact that our government will defend the rights of this pastor so that he may have freedom of religious expression.
I also applaud the fact that our government is able to separate church and state so that scientists may continue research that religious groups deem morally reprehensible.
Rogers Cable in Canada has some on-demand services that are looking promising, but are still quite buggy.
The DVR uses badly designed software, and the on-demand service itself is unavailable half the time, but you can find many different series available, although nothing the three big networks carry. If you're an anime fan, last time I checked there were 26 different titles available to view, at $1.99 CDN per episode. Not bad when you could spend a small fortune on Neon Genesis Evangelion or another series on DVD.
Movie network series, like Huff, Regenesis, The Sopranos, etc. are available on another on-demand channel offered by the Movie Network.
Still, when all is said and done, to have the DVR and the channels it's going to cost you 120 bucks CDN a month for the service anyway. And I *still* find myself having to grab torrents of shows I watch because the DVR software is unstable and unreliable.
They were going to market the Scotty Pippin, but found that the funny walk he had after they installed the mainboard was a big turn-off for the focus group.
If I was looking at the prices of potions and saw a number of them going for 20 silver, and say you selling yours for 8, then you'd definitely have sales within minutes.
Because knowing what the market tolerates, I would buy up every single one of your potions, and resell them with a significant markup.
I don't even have to go out and collect items to sell any more to make money for training. I just watch for people who use the auction house to dump things at ridiculously low prices and buy them all up.
They sit in my mailbox until such time as it looks good to sell them at a profit and then back they go into the system.
Lowballing someone by too much can actually assist that person in making a profit.
At least this process will make it easier to purchase a mount at level 40.
The hyper-inflation is going to start happening shortly anyway. I've been doing some tests within the auction system regarding monopolies and price fixing, and it is quite easy to drive up the value of any item type substantially with some startup money and a 5 minute login twice a day.
For an expenditure of 10 silver I can usually get back a return of 20 to 50 silver. That's a significant ROI.
As more people clue in to how the market operates, the inflation is going to go through the roof.
You can get around rollbacks by logging out and in again after completing a quest, or every few minutes. Yes, it sucks, but while the threat is there relogging helps. Not a great solution if you're on one of the servers with queues either.
I've been lucky. The game has been rock solid stable for me client wise. Only time I have issues with it is when testing out new interface addons. Strangely some of the scripts cause a total meltdown of the game.
So you're basing the entire society on the actions of the current government in power.
Seeing as the current government doesn't apprise it's own people of disasters within it's territories, why would the people be any wiser about the situation following the tsunami, and how would they be able to donate.
Just what country do you happen to be from? Is it Utopia?
But the whole point of starting your own company is so you can work for yourself and do the projects that you want to do. (well, that and become fantastically rich)
Sure, they could get hired at Apple, but then they'd have to start listening to the people above them.
I'll typically look at reviews for games I already have, and see which reviewers tend to look for the same things in a game.
When I lived on the east coast, one of the few stations we received (rural, no cable) had a movie reviewer named Tom New who I trusted implicitly, because I never found myself in disagreement with any movie I watched. If he said it wasn't worth paying for in a theatre, I'd catch it on TV eventually, and lo and behold he'd be right. His opinions obviously wouldn't be useful to everyone but they suited me just fine.
It doesn't hurt to find reviewers who aren't getting free copies of games from companies as well. The Shacknew review system comes in handy, although sometimes you'd be hard pressed to make sense of what the person was trying to say:)
I don't understand what people are hoping to achieve withi this EA Petition in your signature. The NFL would have a hell of a lot more to lose if they committed breach of contract and got sued for millions (and in today's litigious insanity, possible billions) by EA by backing out after the deal is signed.
Wasn't there a link to a site on how to do this posted here a couple of years ago? The site in question recommended doing it with similar models and such, and not going overboard.
The concept definitely isn't new. Surprising they managed to get away with that much before being caught though.
Yes, but Congress is owned by corporations, not the general public. This is not meant as a troll, but as an observation of the power of corporate lobbies versus consumer lobby.
It doesn't matter how much ten people or a hundred bitch and moan about the injustice of new law, if a corporation is backing it with the promise of 200,000 dollars to a politicians election fund, who are they going to listen to.
Independent volunteers who can't profit or even be elected from their positions on a law review board might provide a system that has a less corporate bent.
If a group of politicians or their financial supporters stands to profit from keeping an unreasonable law on the books, the chances of that law being amended to something reasonable are slim to none. Look at the number of people in prison in the US for possession of pot. Supposedly it's one million people. Now if someone possesses or uses a drug without infringing on the rights of others, then what business is it of the government. But the "War on Drugs" generates rather substantial incomes for some pretty big companies. Refer to the National Geographic article on the cocoa growers of Columbia. They're giving up growing any subsistence crops because Roundup gets dumped indiscriminately on the hillsides to destroy cocoa plantations. Despite the fact that the new cocoa strains are roundup resistant, and the farmers food crops are not. Companies like Monsanto get big contracts, little people get fucked.
The concept of amendments is fine, but the power of the people to influence them seems to decrease as time goes on.
Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be an efficient system for removing outdated laws.
I'd like to see laws expire after a predetermined amount of time, with a national review board populated by volunteers who determine if the law is still applicable given the current climate.
Such volunteers would be required to have working knowledge of the subjects up for review.
Of course this is a pure pipe dream, but it's something I would like to see happen. Unfortunately, bureacracy poisons everything it touches and it would probably turn into something as twisted and dysfunctional as the US patent system.
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Recycled? From wood splinters and industrial castoffs right? Imagine it in TP rolls:
"Microsofts Rambo Brand Toilet Paper! It's rough and tough, and doesn't take shit from anyone!"
This post made entirely from recycled jokes.
They're not the only ISP that doesn't pay attention to accounts. A friend with a dial-up account back in the mid nineties closed her account when she moved. She discovered that she still had email access to it, and even dial-up was still available. Her boyfriend shared the dial-up info with a bunch of their friends and they all had free net access for several years. Last I checked it was still active.
Wait until they travel through time and land in America in the late 1970s!
Oh wait, that was the old BSG.
I like the new crud much better.
Maybe they should have been listening to 'As It Happens' on CBC radio last night (available via Satellite and Shortwave outside Canada.)
They interviewed a pastor who put on a religious play at the public theatre in Pictou, Nova Scotia. The city had denied him a permit because they didn't want a religious morality play, intended to "save" people from being put on in place intended for the general public.
So he put on the play anyway, after notifying the local police of his intentions. The play went on, he was charged (with loitering), and it went to court.
A complaint was filed over violation of the charter of rights regarding religious freedom, and he was immediately vindicated, because under Canadian law you DO have full rights to freedom of religion, provided it does not harm another. The catholic church still refuses to ordain women, and though that might be considered discrimination in any other sector of society, that choice is protected in the Canadian charter of rights.
I'm an atheist, and I have absolutely no use for religion in any form. But I applaud the fact that our government will defend the rights of this pastor so that he may have freedom of religious
expression.
I also applaud the fact that our government is able to separate church and state so that scientists may continue research that religious groups deem morally reprehensible.
I don't know which is worse...
:)
Being a Skid Row fan, or writing songs about Linux.
Not that I have anything against Linux.
Rogers Cable in Canada has some on-demand services that are looking promising, but are still quite buggy.
The DVR uses badly designed software, and the on-demand service itself is unavailable half the time, but you can find many different series available, although nothing the three big networks carry. If you're an anime fan, last time I checked there were 26 different titles available to view, at $1.99 CDN per episode. Not bad when you could spend a small fortune on Neon Genesis Evangelion or another series on DVD.
Movie network series, like Huff, Regenesis, The Sopranos, etc. are available on another on-demand channel offered by the Movie Network.
Still, when all is said and done, to have the DVR and the channels it's going to cost you 120 bucks CDN a month for the service anyway. And I *still* find myself having to grab torrents of shows I watch because the DVR software is unstable and unreliable.
They were going to market the Scotty Pippin, but found that the funny walk he had after they installed the mainboard was a big turn-off for the focus group.
What about Slashdot's sponsored links?
:P
They're called "articles"
Try looking under Kryptos :)
If I was looking at the prices of potions and saw a number of them going for 20 silver, and say you selling yours for 8, then you'd definitely have sales within minutes.
Because knowing what the market tolerates, I would buy up every single one of your potions, and resell them with a significant markup.
I don't even have to go out and collect items to sell any more to make money for training. I just watch for people who use the auction house to dump things at ridiculously low prices and buy them all up.
They sit in my mailbox until such time as it looks good to sell them at a profit and then back they go into the system.
Lowballing someone by too much can actually assist that person in making a profit.
At least this process will make it easier to purchase a mount at level 40.
The hyper-inflation is going to start happening shortly anyway. I've been doing some tests within the auction system regarding monopolies and price fixing, and it is quite easy to drive up the value of any item type substantially with some startup money and a 5 minute login twice a day.
For an expenditure of 10 silver I can usually get back a return of 20 to 50 silver. That's a significant ROI.
As more people clue in to how the market operates, the inflation is going to go through the roof.
You can get around rollbacks by logging out and in again after completing a quest, or every few minutes. Yes, it sucks, but while the threat is there relogging helps.
Not a great solution if you're on one of the servers with queues either.
I've been lucky. The game has been rock solid stable for me client wise. Only time I have issues with it is when testing out new interface addons. Strangely some of the scripts cause a total meltdown of the game.
I think we could have a new idiom here:
"Milking a dead horse."
I christen it a "Bermanism".
So you're basing the entire society on the actions of the current government in power.
Seeing as the current government doesn't apprise it's own people of disasters within it's territories, why would the people be any wiser about the situation following the tsunami, and how would they be able to donate.
Just what country do you happen to be from? Is it Utopia?
Go back under your bridge, stupid little troll.
Check the revisions of the page.
:)
Someone edited the Wiki page to say "Slashdot Sux" and put some hand drawn porn on it.
But it being a Wiki, it was quickly reverted to the original content
But the whole point of starting your own company is so you can work for yourself and do the projects that you want to do. (well, that and become fantastically rich)
Sure, they could get hired at Apple, but then they'd have to start listening to the people above them.
I'll typically look at reviews for games I already have, and see which reviewers tend to look for the same things in a game.
:)
When I lived on the east coast, one of the few stations we received (rural, no cable) had a movie reviewer named Tom New who I trusted implicitly, because I never found myself in disagreement with any movie I watched. If he said it wasn't worth paying for in a theatre, I'd catch it on TV eventually, and lo and behold he'd be right. His opinions obviously wouldn't be useful to everyone but they suited me just fine.
It doesn't hurt to find reviewers who aren't getting free copies of games from companies as well. The Shacknew review system comes in handy, although sometimes you'd be hard pressed to make sense of what the person was trying to say
Thank you.
I've been in a bad mood for the last couple of hours, and that made me laugh.
Cheers.
Yes, it's called "a kick in the ass".
:)
And it works!
But in that case it was free to download/use, not free to develop. Articles on the game have mentioned the development cost was around $7 million.
It wasn't created out of the goodness of someone's heart, it was a well funded, and extremely well executed marketing campaign.
Off-topic:
I don't understand what people are hoping to achieve withi this EA Petition in your signature. The NFL would have a hell of a lot more to lose if they committed breach of contract and got sued for millions (and in today's litigious insanity, possible billions) by EA by backing out after the deal is signed.
Wasn't there a link to a site on how to do this posted here a couple of years ago? The site in question recommended doing it with similar models and such, and not going overboard.
The concept definitely isn't new. Surprising they managed to get away with that much before being caught though.
Yes, but Congress is owned by corporations, not the general public. This is not meant as a troll, but as an observation of the power of corporate lobbies versus consumer lobby.
It doesn't matter how much ten people or a hundred bitch and moan about the injustice of new law, if a corporation is backing it with the promise of 200,000 dollars to a politicians election fund, who are they going to listen to.
Independent volunteers who can't profit or even be elected from their positions on a law review board might provide a system that has a less corporate bent.
If a group of politicians or their financial supporters stands to profit from keeping an unreasonable law on the books, the chances of that law being amended to something reasonable are slim to none. Look at the number of people in prison in the US for possession of pot. Supposedly it's one million people. Now if someone possesses or uses a drug without infringing on the rights of others, then what business is it of the government. But the "War on Drugs" generates rather substantial incomes for some pretty big companies. Refer to the National Geographic article on the cocoa growers of Columbia. They're giving up growing any subsistence crops because Roundup gets dumped indiscriminately on the hillsides to destroy cocoa plantations. Despite the fact that the new cocoa strains are roundup resistant, and the farmers food crops are not. Companies like Monsanto get big contracts, little people get fucked.
The concept of amendments is fine, but the power of the people to influence them seems to decrease as time goes on.
Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be an efficient system for removing outdated laws.
I'd like to see laws expire after a predetermined amount of time, with a national review board populated by volunteers who determine if the law is still applicable given the current climate.
Such volunteers would be required to have working knowledge of the subjects up for review.
Of course this is a pure pipe dream, but it's something I would like to see happen. Unfortunately, bureacracy poisons everything it touches and it would probably turn into something as twisted and dysfunctional as the US patent system.
Wouldn't the extortion attempt also fall under the jurisdiction of Interpol?