I wonder if Brad McQuaid wakes up some days and kicks himself repeatedly.
All EQ had to do to be WoW was to be a teensy bit easier. But they fell in love with the 1% of hardcore players and repeatedly screwed over the 99% of customers who couldn't afford to play 14 hour chunks.
Don't get me wrong- I thought WoW was too easy when it started but that difficulty level was where the money was.
Gawd EQ was hard with corpse runs, losing ALL your gear, losing a week's play worth of EXP in an hour if things went badly, the "ubers" owning the top end of the game with some zones you might never see (I got one trip into mischief before it was redone), 3 week respawn cycles, weekday afternoon spawn times, FEAR. It was hard- it was cool if you had a certain attitude but over time it became clear unless you were retired, wealthy, or a student, you would have a hard time keeping up with the 50 hour a week play schedule.
Still- I saw everything up to just shy of Crystallos at which point my right hand blew out and I was done.
No. If you go into a chinese buffet and eat several meals worth of food, they will refuse your business. They may even stop you mid meal and say "that's it".
It's rare and only happens if someone is being truly excessive-- like say the 20 users out of several thousand who are each consuming more bandwidth than the rest combined.
Just keep pushing them hard- they'll put in the proper legalese (in many cases they already have) and drop your business or put you on metered billing.
I am a heavy internet user (downloading including linux live disks and openoffice, videos, online gaming) and I've never come close to the limit in my life.
What's happening is more like what was happening at Cornell back in 2001.
20 users were using more bandwidth than several thousand other users combined.
Just like the chinese buffet, at the end of the month, the ISP can say, "Sorry, we will not do business with you any more" and set you FREE to go find cheap internet elsewhere.
I get a lot of tips on music from "Questionable Content" webcomic.
The artist/writer adds little comments about the new indie bands he's listening to and likes.
I like less music as I go from the 60's to the 00's. The indie stuff is often quite good and is maybe 50/50.
Many of the songs from the older days you can recognize from the first riff-- some songs today, it's really hard for me too tell which song it is for 30 seconds and even when it starts being different, it still sounds the same.
There is a lot less experimentation with instruments these days. That's part of why I like "Blue October".
Ironically, I was introduced to them via a pirated CD-- and have sense bought a lot of product / concert items.
Aye... the taxi driver is saying, "You are going to see a block buster movie in my cab. The people that made the movie owe me some money!"
So your charge for the ride is different depending on if you are going to pick up groceries (the farmers owe the cab driver money) or to a lawyer (the lawyer owes the cab driver money) or for a tryst with your mistress (your mistress owes the cab driver oral sex).
I think "unlimited" is understood to be "unlimited" in the same sense as a buffet restaurant.
However, it's been *several* years now. While the ISP's might have a right to bitch about 200gb a month downloaders, they really have no right to bitch about 40gb per month downloaders any more. And they should be upgrading for larger capacity in the future.
And we have to pay for those upgrades in our regular bills.
I use the internet heavily (online TV, torrents) and I've never come close to irritating comcast so I can't imagine what people must do to hit those levels.
Perhaps adblock and flashblock are saving more bandwidth than I thought.
I get the feeling that for a site like slashdot, the advertising bandwidth is now way over the data bandwidth.
Both may be true (Microsoft unfair/illegal behavior & EU selectively picking on American companies*) - or we may just not be hearing about the EU companies that the EU is jumping down the throats thereof.
Could someone in the EU enlighten us as to whether the EU has had similar actions towards large EU Corporations and provide a few examples?
* Microsoft (and IBM) are basically not American companies any more. 75% of IBM's employees are over seas and Microsoft is at about 50/50 and headed towards IBM. I think this is going to bite them a bit as the rupee/lahk and the yuan appreciate sharply over the next few years an wages continue to inflate at 20% annual rates.
If the person coming from the other direction runs the red, you are going to have a nearly 1.6x net speed T-Bone collision. 50/50 whether they hit you or you hit them but less protection on the side so someone will probably be badly injured or killed.
The crowd overwhelmingly seems to support drug dealers who sell to adults.
Especially pot... which should be legalized.
But also cocaine (which could be argued either way).
Probably not meth.
my point is that there are drug dealers and there are drug dealers. Depending on their target market (kids vs adults) and their product (pot, cocaine, heroin, hash, crystal meth, crank, crack). Your local drug dealer could be a dangerously crazy type or it could be someone's nice grandmother.
Cigarettes and alchohol are also drugs.. and they are legal.
submission, erotic, dominance, curiosity, unresolved issues, and... because it feels good-- strike that DAMN good.
a) use lots of lubrication b) start small (for some reason a huge market for butt plugs exists-- who could be buying them?) c) motion generates sensation- a plug generates a lot less sensation (even virtually no sensation- easy to sleep with smaller ones). d) start *after* aroused (if you are aroused, it is a multiplier- making the arousal already there more intense) e) if the dirty aspects turn you off (as they do with many), then play with enema's first and get clean. f) use lots of lubrication
And yes, gay men and gay women also screw each other in the ass.
When I was 15 I had a 15 year old girl with C cups.
I started having sex at 13.
Heck, I didn't have my first cigarette until I was 16. It tasted nasty. Just now getting back into smoking (quality tobacco tastes *gooooood*) after over thirty years.
Just like content wouldn't exist without copyright.
oh... it does. people create all the time. humans create- perhaps higher quality or lower quality- but they always make things and they always enjoy people sharing them and enjoying them.
They may not get it that last 10% perfect without money, but they still create.
There is a huge glut of content being created. When I was growing up, you could keep up with everything.
Today, if you didn't work and consumed content 18 hours a day - you still would only fall further behind every day of your life.
There is also the issue of downloading huge amounts of ad data -- which all go against your 5gb (matters here) or 250gb (not so big here) per month limit. The advertisers are using *MY* download quota without paying me for it.
Ads take up my allotted amount of data i can download per month. If I hit 5gb on my phone or 250gb on my land line- I get penalized- not the advertising company.
I am okay with small, polite ads. I'm not okay with large ads, flash ads, etc.
They had an ad on another site which downloaded 30 jpg's and then flipped between them to make a rolling banner ad of different products. Every time I went to that page, it redownloaded every image. I didn't notice it for the first few weeks but one day it was screwed up and it displayed the images all at once as they downloaded and I went "holy crap, that's downloading a lot of pictures!" So I blocked it.
And since then anything that moves a lot- I block the entire ad domain.
I don't like company "A" saying, "keep your usage down" and then company "B" says, "here's a few megabytes of data every time you browse this page".
It's popular in the US too. They even have live culture yogart at walmart these days.
Twice in my life I've gotten mildly sick and without taking antibiotics, something slaughtered my gut bacteria.
The first time I suffered for a couple months with poor digestion and then finally took some acidopholis pills (yellow and purple labeled bottles) from Whole foods. They sell them by the bottle full but it only took 1 of each pill. It was a miracle cure- less than 24 hours I was completely back to normal.
The second time, I recognized what had happened and took one of those "acidopholis pearls" they sell at walgreen's and it also cured the problem instantly.
After antibiotics, I've taken them proactively.
They are dirt cheap.
Oddly, two friends I've recommended them to (who have lactose intolerance) said taking acidpholis pills caused them a lot of discomfort. Not sure why- but it makes me wonder if they have some weird flora inside of them.
It seems to me that eating seaweed would help develop the flora over time. So it's not uniquely japanese-- just a result of the japanese diet.
Of course a more fun way to get it might be making out with a japanese woman and/or rimming her.
That's still on my to do list. Tho korean has been checked off.
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A 15 hour day is evidence of a non-fair wage.
We are essentially using them as slaves or batteries.
They have no time to live as humans.
I wonder if Brad McQuaid wakes up some days and kicks himself repeatedly.
All EQ had to do to be WoW was to be a teensy bit easier. But they fell in love with the 1% of hardcore players and repeatedly screwed over the 99% of customers who couldn't afford to play 14 hour chunks.
Don't get me wrong- I thought WoW was too easy when it started but that difficulty level was where the money was.
Gawd EQ was hard with corpse runs, losing ALL your gear, losing a week's play worth of EXP in an hour if things went badly, the "ubers" owning the top end of the game with some zones you might never see (I got one trip into mischief before it was redone), 3 week respawn cycles, weekday afternoon spawn times, FEAR. It was hard- it was cool if you had a certain attitude but over time it became clear unless you were retired, wealthy, or a student, you would have a hard time keeping up with the 50 hour a week play schedule.
Still- I saw everything up to just shy of Crystallos at which point my right hand blew out and I was done.
No. If you go into a chinese buffet and eat several meals worth of food, they will refuse your business. They may even stop you mid meal and say "that's it".
It's rare and only happens if someone is being truly excessive-- like say the 20 users out of several thousand who are each consuming more bandwidth than the rest combined.
Just keep pushing them hard- they'll put in the proper legalese (in many cases they already have) and drop your business or put you on metered billing.
No it's not.
I am a heavy internet user (downloading including linux live disks and openoffice, videos, online gaming) and I've never come close to the limit in my life.
What's happening is more like what was happening at Cornell back in 2001.
http://www2.cit.cornell.edu/computer/students/bandwidth/charts.html
20 users were using more bandwidth than several thousand other users combined.
Just like the chinese buffet, at the end of the month, the ISP can say, "Sorry, we will not do business with you any more" and set you FREE to go find cheap internet elsewhere.
I get a lot of tips on music from "Questionable Content" webcomic.
The artist/writer adds little comments about the new indie bands he's listening to and likes.
I like less music as I go from the 60's to the 00's. The indie stuff is often quite good and is maybe 50/50.
Many of the songs from the older days you can recognize from the first riff-- some songs today, it's really hard for me too tell which song it is for 30 seconds and even when it starts being different, it still sounds the same.
There is a lot less experimentation with instruments these days. That's part of why I like "Blue October".
Ironically, I was introduced to them via a pirated CD-- and have sense bought a lot of product / concert items.
When you walk into a chinese buffet, there is about 400 pounds of food sitting on the buffet. You eat less than 1% of the food on the buffet.
There is "all you can eat" and there is "all you can eat".
Obsessing over the word "unlimited" would be like obsessing over the fact they said "all you can eat" but also "reserve the right to refuse service".
You know... they attract too much attention to this the EU will realize this is a cash substitute and hit them with a vat.
Aye... the taxi driver is saying, "You are going to see a block buster movie in my cab. The people that made the movie owe me some money!"
So your charge for the ride is different depending on if you are going to pick up groceries (the farmers owe the cab driver money) or to a lawyer (the lawyer owes the cab driver money) or for a tryst with your mistress (your mistress owes the cab driver oral sex).
I think "unlimited" is understood to be "unlimited" in the same sense as a buffet restaurant.
However, it's been *several* years now. While the ISP's might have a right to bitch about 200gb a month downloaders, they really have no right to bitch about 40gb per month downloaders any more. And they should be upgrading for larger capacity in the future.
And we have to pay for those upgrades in our regular bills.
I use the internet heavily (online TV, torrents) and I've never come close to irritating comcast so I can't imagine what people must do to hit those levels.
Perhaps adblock and flashblock are saving more bandwidth than I thought.
I get the feeling that for a site like slashdot, the advertising bandwidth is now way over the data bandwidth.
Both may be true (Microsoft unfair/illegal behavior & EU selectively picking on American companies*) - or we may just not be hearing about the EU companies that the EU is jumping down the throats thereof.
Could someone in the EU enlighten us as to whether the EU has had similar actions towards large EU Corporations and provide a few examples?
* Microsoft (and IBM) are basically not American companies any more. 75% of IBM's employees are over seas and Microsoft is at about 50/50 and headed towards IBM. I think this is going to bite them a bit as the rupee/lahk and the yuan appreciate sharply over the next few years an wages continue to inflate at 20% annual rates.
As you say... there is risk.
If the person coming from the other direction runs the red, you are going to have a nearly 1.6x net speed T-Bone collision. 50/50 whether they hit you or you hit them but less protection on the side so someone will probably be badly injured or killed.
The crowd overwhelmingly seems to support drug dealers who sell to adults.
Especially pot... which should be legalized.
But also cocaine (which could be argued either way).
Probably not meth.
my point is that there are drug dealers and there are drug dealers. Depending on their target market (kids vs adults) and their product (pot, cocaine, heroin, hash, crystal meth, crank, crack). Your local drug dealer could be a dangerously crazy type or it could be someone's nice grandmother.
Cigarettes and alchohol are also drugs.. and they are legal.
I think you missed the part where we dropped over half a million dollars and the result wasn't usable.
That's not "can do".
Um.
Men screw women in the ass.
Women screw men in the ass ("Pegging").
Why?
submission, erotic, dominance, curiosity, unresolved issues, and... because it feels good-- strike that DAMN good.
a) use lots of lubrication
b) start small (for some reason a huge market for butt plugs exists-- who could be buying them?)
c) motion generates sensation- a plug generates a lot less sensation (even virtually no sensation- easy to sleep with smaller ones).
d) start *after* aroused (if you are aroused, it is a multiplier- making the arousal already there more intense)
e) if the dirty aspects turn you off (as they do with many), then play with enema's first and get clean.
f) use lots of lubrication
And yes,
gay men and gay women also screw each other in the ass.
Troll, how?
When I was 15 I had a 15 year old girl with C cups.
I started having sex at 13.
Heck, I didn't have my first cigarette until I was 16. It tasted nasty. Just now getting back into smoking (quality tobacco tastes *gooooood*) after over thirty years.
Just like content wouldn't exist without copyright.
oh... it does. people create all the time. humans create- perhaps higher quality or lower quality- but they always make things and they always enjoy people sharing them and enjoying them.
They may not get it that last 10% perfect without money, but they still create.
There is a huge glut of content being created. When I was growing up, you could keep up with everything.
Today, if you didn't work and consumed content 18 hours a day - you still would only fall further behind every day of your life.
I don't expect them to reimburse me, I expect them to die.
There is also the issue of downloading huge amounts of ad data -- which all go against your 5gb (matters here) or 250gb (not so big here) per month limit.
The advertisers are using *MY* download quota without paying me for it.
I've had a consistent problem with indian programmers.
Regardless of quality level, they say "yes" to the most insane requirements by executives.
We had a project which three groups had internally estimated at 2400 to 4000 hours (and a couple million in new hardware).
The VP said, "it's a 600 hour project without needing new hardware!"
They said yes.
They did about $600,000 work on it- and now everyone (including the executive) is quietly ignoring it. It will never see production. It's "complete".
The indians *never* stop the executives when this comes up.
And the executives are happy because
a) they were not told no.
b) the people who worked on the project are anonymous or gone/transferred elsewhere.
Meanwhile the company just dropped 2-3% of the annual budget down a hole.
Wierd.
I can't see where you got "upset" out of that post.
There isn't an emotional word in it- it's a series of questions and a statement.
It's a counter example you can use with your sister (in law?) who's upset about GWTW.
Many of Disney's movies would never have been made if Snow White was still locked up by some 13th century family.
What? Does it make you Grumpy instead of horny?
So who is the guardian of snow white?
Jack Horner?
The 9 tailed demon fox?
The skin walkers of indian lore?
Pride and Prejudice?
"Fables" comic book (which is excellent) wouldn't even exist if all the characters in it were locked up. and it's an excellent *new* creation.
When did our culture become the exclusive property of "royal" families?
If you own snakes, then you feed them a lot of mice too.
Some folks kill the mice first-- some folks don't.
The problem I have is this...
Ads take up my allotted amount of data i can download per month.
If I hit 5gb on my phone or 250gb on my land line- I get penalized- not the advertising company.
I am okay with small, polite ads. I'm not okay with large ads, flash ads, etc.
They had an ad on another site which downloaded 30 jpg's and then flipped between them to make a rolling banner ad of different products. Every time I went to that page, it redownloaded every image. I didn't notice it for the first few weeks but one day it was screwed up and it displayed the images all at once as they downloaded and I went "holy crap, that's downloading a lot of pictures!" So I blocked it.
And since then anything that moves a lot- I block the entire ad domain.
I don't like company "A" saying, "keep your usage down" and then company "B" says, "here's a few megabytes of data every time you browse this page".
It's popular in the US too. They even have live culture yogart at walmart these days.
Twice in my life I've gotten mildly sick and without taking antibiotics, something slaughtered my gut bacteria.
The first time I suffered for a couple months with poor digestion and then finally took some acidopholis pills (yellow and purple labeled bottles) from Whole foods. They sell them by the bottle full but it only took 1 of each pill. It was a miracle cure- less than 24 hours I was completely back to normal.
The second time, I recognized what had happened and took one of those "acidopholis pearls" they sell at walgreen's and it also cured the problem instantly.
After antibiotics, I've taken them proactively.
They are dirt cheap.
Oddly, two friends I've recommended them to (who have lactose intolerance) said taking acidpholis pills caused them a lot of discomfort. Not sure why- but it makes me wonder if they have some weird flora inside of them.
It seems to me that eating seaweed would help develop the flora over time. So it's not uniquely japanese-- just a result of the japanese diet.
Of course a more fun way to get it might be making out with a japanese woman and/or rimming her.
That's still on my to do list. Tho korean has been checked off.