$20 says at least one of these things will get stolen. I don't know where it will go from there, but one will definatly be stolen.
maybe sold on E-bay, or held for "ransom" so Microsoft will pay up not to have their "secrets" revealed (wait... that was nintendo who didn't want their secret let out... but it could still apply)
parent has a great point... for the MMO I play (Ragnarok Online) there is even an open source bot. In the past there were several, and well documented cases of people from everywhere running farm bots on trial accounts, gaining ~9mil per character in 2 weeks time (e-bay price was ~$6/mil at that time). And this was with paying no money for a subscription as well... if they had bought a subscription (which some had) they were able to make a lot more.
the problem with bots is they can act realy dumb, (for instance, in Ragnarok, moster locations were changed drasticly, making it hard to bot without significant setbacks and making it horrably obvious that you are botting) and may not stand up to whatever test the GM's of a particular game have to detect that someone is not using a modified client or something other than the client I suppose a single person could watch over several bots, but unless they were graphical representations and took into account the way the real client handles packets, it would probably be easier for one person to watch over several machines running the game using the macro option (or even, one machine using a splitter program, though I don't know of one)
I know this is kinda late, but to answer your question about protection: you are only protected for ~6 months, which is why shots are given at that age
My father was almost SUSPENDED from school for MOVING A DESK to work on something in a lab after hours. A union rep (i think) saw him and informed him that a union worker would have to get overtime pay for that and that he must NEVER do it again. He even moved it back after he was done (before he was talked to)
so I wouldnt go screwing around doing work that is unionized
a great summary of the history of drugs. I remember specificly why for opium, its because the chinese were able to work insane hours taking jobs away from whites. Given most are very harmfull, but as it was said by someone else commenting... it depends on who does the study. there is only one study that says pot smoking reduces intelegence... I speculate that its just the way the person is REGARDLESS of weather they smoke pot or not
BTW I don't do any drugs, but I hate misinformation
...which is bogus, because they can change the contract to something like "all your purchases will have an additional $100 fee attached to them" (or maybe something a little less serious, I'm just making an example) at the beginning of the month, and no one would know until the end of that month. (usually they say they don't have to inform you of the change either)
yea... remember, when that drive is advertized as (say) 5GB, thats 5,000,000,000 bytes, which converts to ~4.7GB to the computer (or in this case, my MP3 player)
THIS is the statistic that needs to be looked at. Looking at Miles/gal and polutants/gal is not right... there are some strange mixtures of fuel that give less polutant/gal but do not give the same power (and therefore milage), and when you look at polutants/mile, its higher. I think the California regs on car emmissions actually demonstrates this (more polutant/mile but less polutant/gal)
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Exactly. You don't see Microsoft trying to sue window companies, or Apple trying to sue supermarkets.
And it is easier to pay a couple thousand insted of actually going to court. A similar thing happens when botnet controllers ask for small-medium ammounts of money, since it costs less to pay them than to face downtime (article on slashdot a wile ago)
You're programming your brain with tactics, responces and behaviors in order to operate in that environment
your programmed responce would be 'press this sequence of buttons'. its considerably different to actually drive a car, swing a bat, aim/shoot a gun etc. than it is to hold a controler and watch things on screen
I actually used to have fantasies where I had telekenesis and would squish my tormentors like bugs, or maybe shoot lasers out of my nipples;)
just make sure you don't do this while in a public place, it will give them more ammo
as for me, I'm lucky enough to go to a magnet school for HS so its not (that) bad. Basicly, the deviding lines are just different degrees of nerdhood:P
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$20 says at least one of these things will get stolen. I don't know where it will go from there, but one will definatly be stolen.
maybe sold on E-bay, or held for "ransom" so Microsoft will pay up not to have their "secrets" revealed (wait... that was nintendo who didn't want their secret let out... but it could still apply)
parent has a great point... for the MMO I play (Ragnarok Online) there is even an open source bot. In the past there were several, and well documented cases of people from everywhere running farm bots on trial accounts, gaining ~9mil per character in 2 weeks time (e-bay price was ~$6/mil at that time). And this was with paying no money for a subscription as well... if they had bought a subscription (which some had) they were able to make a lot more.
the problem with bots is they can act realy dumb, (for instance, in Ragnarok, moster locations were changed drasticly, making it hard to bot without significant setbacks and making it horrably obvious that you are botting) and may not stand up to whatever test the GM's of a particular game have to detect that someone is not using a modified client or something other than the client
I suppose a single person could watch over several bots, but unless they were graphical representations and took into account the way the real client handles packets, it would probably be easier for one person to watch over several machines running the game using the macro option (or even, one machine using a splitter program, though I don't know of one)
I know this is kinda late, but to answer your question about protection: you are only protected for ~6 months, which is why shots are given at that age
Does that program require a licence to be bought?
"....but always, you are ENGINEER!"
Absolutly right. Remember kids, they arn't garbage men, they're "Sanitation Engineers"
My father was almost SUSPENDED from school for MOVING A DESK to work on something in a lab after hours. A union rep (i think) saw him and informed him that a union worker would have to get overtime pay for that and that he must NEVER do it again. He even moved it back after he was done (before he was talked to)
so I wouldnt go screwing around doing work that is unionized
a great summary of the history of drugs. I remember specificly why for opium, its because the chinese were able to work insane hours taking jobs away from whites. Given most are very harmfull, but as it was said by someone else commenting... it depends on who does the study. there is only one study that says pot smoking reduces intelegence... I speculate that its just the way the person is REGARDLESS of weather they smoke pot or not
BTW I don't do any drugs, but I hate misinformation
...which is bogus, because they can change the contract to something like "all your purchases will have an additional $100 fee attached to them" (or maybe something a little less serious, I'm just making an example) at the beginning of the month, and no one would know until the end of that month. (usually they say they don't have to inform you of the change either)
"most ups waveforms outputs are sawtooth rather than sine wave"
in the specs, it says this one (the one he is using) is sine wave
likewize. wish I had modpoints
that marketing plan sounds like those iPOD earphone covers that keep coming off
nitpick:
If only the quality of the article were directly proportional to the amount of traffic he received today...
seems it is inversly proportional here...
yea... remember, when that drive is advertized as (say) 5GB, thats 5,000,000,000 bytes, which converts to ~4.7GB to the computer (or in this case, my MP3 player)
"...will weigh just 750 kg (1,650 lb) and measures the size of a large fridge."
thats a bit to heavy
then again... suppose 2 sharks carry it together... (to lazy to check monty python quote)
yes, but it does the hoop-jumping automatically, and you do not need to get new hardware right now (except for region codes)
my guess is, just like there are ways of decoding DVD's, there will be ways of breaking this (eventually becoming very easy)
THIS is the statistic that needs to be looked at. Looking at Miles/gal and polutants/gal is not right... there are some strange mixtures of fuel that give less polutant/gal but do not give the same power (and therefore milage), and when you look at polutants/mile, its higher. I think the California regs on car emmissions actually demonstrates this (more polutant/mile but less polutant/gal)
so first we convict them of being a monopoly, then we give them another one?
"interface would be a bitch"
I would like it better than having no screen (*coughipodshufflecough*)
and it costs less than ipod shuffle with the same ammount of storage space.
However, I prefer my Rio Carbon (Pearl) because of the space, currently using 4.5+ of the 4.7 GB of space on it
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<anamexis> ALMOST all over my keyboard
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Parent is exactly right. R&D labs can create some optimizations, but original ideas come from outside sources
some people who don't know what the problem is, wont try this because they
1. don't know how
2. don't think it will fix it
either way, they pretty much know a new computer wont have those problems (at least to start)
Exactly. You don't see Microsoft trying to sue window companies, or Apple trying to sue supermarkets.
:P
And it is easier to pay a couple thousand insted of actually going to court. A similar thing happens when botnet controllers ask for small-medium ammounts of money, since it costs less to pay them than to face downtime (article on slashdot a wile ago)
and as a sidenote, "IsNot"
You're programming your brain with tactics, responces and behaviors in order to operate in that environment
your programmed responce would be 'press this sequence of buttons'. its considerably different to actually drive a car, swing a bat, aim/shoot a gun etc. than it is to hold a controler and watch things on screen
I actually used to have fantasies where I had telekenesis and would squish my tormentors like bugs, or maybe shoot lasers out of my nipples ;)
:P
just make sure you don't do this while in a public place, it will give them more ammo
as for me, I'm lucky enough to go to a magnet school for HS so its not (that) bad. Basicly, the deviding lines are just different degrees of nerdhood
slashdot:
Faster than a gag order, more powerfull than a botnet
I probably horrably mangled that quote, but whatever