Sometimes it's worth it to go for broke at the start. You can assume that the Slashdotters know what working free countywide net access could mean, but it's not until it's there and usable that the general population will learn its advantages. After that, when WiMax or whatever else comes along to supercede 802.11 becomes viable and cheap enough, Average Joe and the Sixpack family will be more willing to support the upgrades (through taxes or otherwise) since they'll have been grooving on the WiFi for a while and will be receptive to a better version.
Imagine if they'd held off building any telegraph networks in the 19th Century, on basis that it would be just a matter of time before a voice-transmission network could be done instead.
I can point out every event, every location and every item in Final Fantasy. I played it so much then, there is noting new in it to discover.
That's what player-created mods are for. Get a decent patch, load up the old game, and revisit the games you love with whatever new twists ROM hackers brought forth from their addled minds. Sure, lots of them suck, but there are some real gems to be found, and all for the low low price of free.
People in their right minds won't put anything sensitive onto the 'puters at least for a few weeks after they've started using it.
Exactly! Regardless of whether the OS is open or closed, free or not, anyone who puts their sensitive data on a machine running a brand new OS anywhere near launch day is really just asking for trouble. Even if Billy G. knocked on my door on launch day and handed me a free legal copy of Vista Platinum Professional Megazord edition, it wouldn't get installed on anything more vital than a spare "hack the crap out of this" box in the corner of my workshop for at least a year.
I think the MPAA is much more touchy on this. They're not concerned with the fact that you own they've been paid already for your DVD (which is really just a license to watch the material encoded on it, blah blah) They want to sell it to you again on different media. The idea of some upstart retailer pocketing the money they could be making from your forced purchase of a UMD or an iTunes purchase or something else "legit" for your fancy gadgets doesn't terribly appeal to them.
The only way I can imagine this being allowed to continue legally is if they work out a way to give the MPAA (or the particular copyright holder of whatever DVD is being ripped) a cut of each purchase of the service.
Ok.. the term "brat pack" wasn't at all funny when they were using it to describe the teen stars of "The Breakfast Club" in the 1980s. Could we please not resurrect this particular dead lingo?
Maybe I'm strange, but I never got into the Castlevania games apart from the versions on the original Game Boy. I've had the music from Castlevania: The Adventure stuck in my head for something like 17 years now. Sadly, the GB series get overlooked in TFA.
Does nobody remember FreePC? In the late 90s, they would give you a free Windows-based PC bordered with ads, which constantly phoned home with your demographic info and surfing habits. IIRC you'd get a 1024x768 desktop, but the usable area was the 800x600 in the middle, and the rest was ad banners. It was basically consensual spyware in the vein of those purchase-tracking store club cards.
I always wanted to get one to just run as a monitorless file server, but they stopped answering my emails after I asked what was being done to stop me just reformatting the thing. Oddly enough, they disappeared when the bubble burst. Can't imagine why...
Rockastar is, of course, the Italian-based wing of Rockstar, headed by Senior Vice President Chico Marx. When approached for comment regarding the successful outcome to the lawsuit, Chico beamed and replied "Atsa good, boss!" before excusing himself to flirt with a passing blonde woman while playing an elaborate ragtime tune on a conveniently nearby piano.
Somewhat similar to Traceroute, the software uses spoof packets that appear to be from a potentially throttled source and compares the transmission time to that of neutral traffic.
This brings forth a very serious issue I haven't seen brought up elsewhere.. if net neutrality does get squashed, how much of a serious crime will something like this be? If we move to a tiered Internet, how many huge companies (and their respective purchased government officials) will cry "fraud" every time someone dares to make a packet appear as though it came from a higher tier? The mind boggles.
I've already got my personally accepted spinoff continuation of the original "Star Trek," and it's written, produced, and acted by real fans with talent. Those guys produce winning, pro-grade Star Trek while Paramount has displayed a complete lack of knowing what the hell to do with it.
I DO want other companies doing this. I want as many as possible to try their hand at their own version. Because, as in any other element of commerce, the competition will force them all to provide the best service they can to their customers at the best value, and whoever provides it the consumers will win better service as a result. I don't feel Amazon has any right to be the *only* one doing anything other than writing their own logo on their packages, and hoping that they do their job better than the competition.
A clerk with the USPTO released the following response:
"OK, Amazon, I get it! You like patents. You like them a lot. Everywhere I turn in my crappy office, it's "Amazon!" "Amazon!" "AMAZON!" Well screw it, you can just have all the goddamn patents! Yes, all of them,! They're all yours! Just LEAVE ME ALOOOOONE!!!"
Said clerk followed up by darting into a shadowy corner of the file room, and crying for several hours.
This looks good in principle, but I wonder about the chemical safety concerns of certain plastics. What happens when a fire breaks out on the bridge? Will we have toxic fumes along the lines of the DEHP that makes vinyl siding your house a public safety risk?
Yes, hair gel, and guess what... It worked!
I applied it in much the same way as the toothpaste, except I didn't dribble water on it. I rubbed it first. Even though I applied it to one area, it ended up evenly spread around the whole disc. I then dribbled water on to loosen it up so I could rub the excess off.
I wonder if Real Doll would consider partnering with Microsoft in creating a new type of chassis?
I can barely get Microsoft products to load a webaite, email message, or.DOC file without crashing or getting virused, and you want me to trust it with my what now?
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..Microsoft says exaggerated nasty things about their competition in order to sway people their way.
In other news, there will be weather today.
I heard he wasn't feeling too well a while back.. has Carmack's condition improved?
..and she lies about her age.
Sometimes it's worth it to go for broke at the start. You can assume that the Slashdotters know what working free countywide net access could mean, but it's not until it's there and usable that the general population will learn its advantages. After that, when WiMax or whatever else comes along to supercede 802.11 becomes viable and cheap enough, Average Joe and the Sixpack family will be more willing to support the upgrades (through taxes or otherwise) since they'll have been grooving on the WiFi for a while and will be receptive to a better version.
Imagine if they'd held off building any telegraph networks in the 19th Century, on basis that it would be just a matter of time before a voice-transmission network could be done instead.
The only way I can imagine this being allowed to continue legally is if they work out a way to give the MPAA (or the particular copyright holder of whatever DVD is being ripped) a cut of each purchase of the service.
Ok.. the term "brat pack" wasn't at all funny when they were using it to describe the teen stars of "The Breakfast Club" in the 1980s. Could we please not resurrect this particular dead lingo?
Maybe I'm strange, but I never got into the Castlevania games apart from the versions on the original Game Boy. I've had the music from Castlevania: The Adventure stuck in my head for something like 17 years now. Sadly, the GB series get overlooked in TFA.
Someone warn the Ice Warriors, giant nostalgia robots, Selenites, fey yet lovable ant things, bungling green men with swimming caps, Servants of the Dark Lord Xenu, and all the rest that we'll be coming by for dinner.
Does nobody remember FreePC? In the late 90s, they would give you a free Windows-based PC bordered with ads, which constantly phoned home with your demographic info and surfing habits. IIRC you'd get a 1024x768 desktop, but the usable area was the 800x600 in the middle, and the rest was ad banners. It was basically consensual spyware in the vein of those purchase-tracking store club cards.
I always wanted to get one to just run as a monitorless file server, but they stopped answering my emails after I asked what was being done to stop me just reformatting the thing. Oddly enough, they disappeared when the bubble burst. Can't imagine why...
You're absolutely right I saw some smoke it's time for lunch look at the street.
I did, however, swap its story ID into the reply URL from another one, and load the reply box directly. Yay for fraud!
I've already got my personally accepted spinoff continuation of the original "Star Trek," and it's written, produced, and acted by real fans with talent. Those guys produce winning, pro-grade Star Trek while Paramount has displayed a complete lack of knowing what the hell to do with it.
A clerk with the USPTO released the following response:
"OK, Amazon, I get it! You like patents. You like them a lot. Everywhere I turn in my crappy office, it's "Amazon!" "Amazon!" "AMAZON!" Well screw it, you can just have all the goddamn patents! Yes, all of them,! They're all yours! Just LEAVE ME ALOOOOONE!!!"
Said clerk followed up by darting into a shadowy corner of the file room, and crying for several hours.
This looks good in principle, but I wonder about the chemical safety concerns of certain plastics. What happens when a fire breaks out on the bridge? Will we have toxic fumes along the lines of the DEHP that makes vinyl siding your house a public safety risk?
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If any gamers are going to choose to get into Magic: The Crack Addiction, they may as well be "gamers with jobs."
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