It'll take years to roll out a stable LTE network that is as large as their 3G CDMA network. In iPhone time that is over 2 generations of iPhones that they'd lose sales on. Believe me, if there is a Verizon iPhone out within the next year it will either be CDMA only or both CDMA and GSM.
What ports did you need to open on your firewall? In which direction? I've played a dozen games so far on Steam and none of them have required me to touch anything to do with my firewall settings. Even the awful GTA IV works fine other than wanting to launch the fucking annoying Rockstar Social Club piece of garbage all the time before playing the game.
Oh it's just not.con, they want to let you use any unicode characters in the domains so you'll essentially have characters that look exactly like ".com", but they're different unicode characters. THAT will be when the phishing gets nasty if someone slips something like that through.
I remember the good old days back around 1998 when people used to bitch about Slashdot using the.org TLD when they should have been a.com because they were commercial and had advertising. Now the Internet is going to be totally fucked and non-hierarchical. This plan must have been approved by the same kind of people that see no problem injecting/29 subnets into the global BGP routing tables.
What is it with World of Warcraft anyway? Am I the only person in the world left who hasn't played that game? It looked like some cheap Ultima Online or Everquest clone.
Google was never ambiguous that the reason they are threatening to leave is because the government was hacking their servers. The removal of the filtering was just an extra "fuck you!" to the Chinese government. They tried playing nicely with the Chinese and they still took advantage of them.
It looks like if you don't live within a 15-20 mile radius of a major city you're lucky if you can even get EDGE service. There are vast portions of Ohio that have *no* coverage at all, not even GSM voice. Their entire network clusters around the six "big" cities in Ohio and trickles along the interstate highway system, but if you stray away from those areas you get absolutely no coverage at all.
One of my friends heard from his friend that his uncle's coworker heard that the Courier will be offered at a significantly marked-down price of $99 to people that have a Hotmail account that is at least 3 years old (the device will be $529 for everyone else). They will be partnering with T-Mobile to offer unlimited data service for the device starting at $20/month. They're also going to be announcing a new VOIP service that offers free unlimited calling to and from anywhere in the United States for a flat rate of 0.1 cents per minute and the VOIP software built-in to the Courier will be able to work over WiFi or T-Mobile's data network. You can use any compatible Bluetooth headset or there will be a port for a wired headset that is included. Let's see Apple try to top this announcement! Wouldn't that be cool if this was all true??
Unless you're hosting a server on your internal network you shouldn't need to be forwarding any ports anywhere. I suggest trying a different router because yours is apparently severely broken if you need to do anything to get Team Fortress 2 to work on it. All those ports you list are outbound to the server and your firewall needs to allow stateful replies to come back in... which every consumer-grade router already should do by default.
Because you can't run MacOS X on a generic laptop (easily or legally). On the other hand, Windows 7 is magnificent and if I have to replace my Macbook Pro I'll probably just buy a Windows 7 based laptop and dual boot with Ubuntu.
Why on Earth would I use this with a portable device? A lot of the times I'm on my notebook I don't have a network connection, but I can still use my applications and be productive until I get around to a net connection and waste my time on the web.
You probably will never see a dime from it. Face it, guys like Steve Demeter got in very early when there was really nothing else to buy on the store so they got most of the purchases. What did he really create anyway... it looks like another god damn puzzle game. There's 10 million different variations of the same "match 3 or 4 like colors in an area to eliminate those objects from the screen" games out there that I can't believe anyone would even pay for that. If the iPhone had Flash support there'd be zero reason to buy 99% of these little puzzle games since you could just play them online via Flash for free.
I won't walk, I'll run away from games that employ strategies like this in the future. I got into a browser game a few years ago called Travian that promised to be "free" and you could buy "gold" if you wanted extras like instant builds or NPC merchant trading or +25% resource production boosts. I quickly realized that if you wanted to be in the top 500 players on a server of about 1500 active players you HAD to buy and use gold or else there was no way to keep up. I got so addicted to it that rather than wait 15 minutes for a resource to build I'd just insta-build it so I could move on to the next building level.
The problem was that by abstracting the currency it made it far easier to spend out of control. You'd pay $25 for 600 gold (~4 cents for each piece of gold) and you'd spend 3 gold (12 cents) to NPC trade, 2 gold (8 cents) to instabuild your queue of up to 2 things at a time (if you had the "plus" feature which added the queue for 15 gold (60 cents) a week), 5 gold x 4 (80 cents) to boost production of iron, wood, clay, and wheat, 3 gold x 2 (24 cents) to boost attack and defense bonuses by 10%, etc. The NPC trading was by far the worst money sink since it was so easy to abuse. You *could* trade with normal players, but nobody really does past the first few weeks of game play (the game round lasts a year) since it is impractical to try and find a trade for tens of thousands of resources... so you NPC trade it instantly for 3 gold (12 cents).
So, at a minimum you'd spend $6.56 a month for the Travian Plus feature plus +25% resource boosts, +10% offensive and defensive bonuses. That at first seems reasonable for running such a cool game, but I was averaging around $100 a month on gold because of NPC trading and instabuilding. My coworker had it worse because his two sons were playing and he was even worse with the instabuilding. His monthly Travian habit, including his two sons' costs were running him around $300/month. FOR A GAME!
So no thanks, I'll take a $15/month subscription fee ANY DAY over a microtransaction arrangement where you need to eventually spend obscene amounts of money just to be in the top players.
So they can keep running Windows Vista until it is EOL'd then. Nobody is forcing you to upgrade to Windows 7 and you could have just as well have waited until after October 22nd to buy your new PC to receive it pre-installed with Windows 7 if it worried you that much that you needed to have it.
Who the hell uses their college e-mail account for anything important unless you're part of the staff? When I was in school I just forwarded my university address to my home account.
That's very confusing. Apparently more than one person in the world is named "Matthew Barton". Why would parents choose such an obviously non-unique name for their child? Isn't this a problem that leads to identity theft and credit problems? I suppose I'm just lucky to be blessed with a name nobody else in the world or the history of the world has ever had so my name is more unique than my social security number.
It specifically excludes music you've purchased from being listed as illegal in the explanation if you pick the choice it doesn't want you to pick. The only thing I see wrong with their explanation is that it excludes legitimately "free" music such as stuff released into the public domain or under something like a Creative Commons license, but for the most part their definition is perfectly acceptable to the target audience (non-technical DoD users).
His point though is that unless you plan on being kidnapped anytime soon, you're probably going to know ahead of time which areas of the country you'll need GPS maps for and would be able to pre-load those for a trip. The sad fact of the matter is that I don't believe the iPhone offers any way to have "map packs" like a traditional GPS so it's an all-or-nothing type deal. I'll stick with a standalone GPS.
What we really need is an open source project to create a newer, better filter so that China can protect its children from porn and smut. If everyone in the open source community worked together I bet we could come up with a much better product that is more cross platform than the over-priced crap they tried to implement.
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It comes down to the simple fact that Americans want good cell phone coverage, but they don't want a tower in their neighborhood. It's a catch-22.
It'll take years to roll out a stable LTE network that is as large as their 3G CDMA network. In iPhone time that is over 2 generations of iPhones that they'd lose sales on. Believe me, if there is a Verizon iPhone out within the next year it will either be CDMA only or both CDMA and GSM.
Also, what about all of us that can't use anything other than IE6 because that's the latest version that Windows98 supports?
What ports did you need to open on your firewall? In which direction? I've played a dozen games so far on Steam and none of them have required me to touch anything to do with my firewall settings. Even the awful GTA IV works fine other than wanting to launch the fucking annoying Rockstar Social Club piece of garbage all the time before playing the game.
Oh it's just not .con, they want to let you use any unicode characters in the domains so you'll essentially have characters that look exactly like ".com", but they're different unicode characters. THAT will be when the phishing gets nasty if someone slips something like that through.
I remember the good old days back around 1998 when people used to bitch about Slashdot using the .org TLD when they should have been a .com because they were commercial and had advertising. Now the Internet is going to be totally fucked and non-hierarchical. This plan must have been approved by the same kind of people that see no problem injecting /29 subnets into the global BGP routing tables.
What is it with World of Warcraft anyway? Am I the only person in the world left who hasn't played that game? It looked like some cheap Ultima Online or Everquest clone.
What do you mean component just doesn't cut it? I watch HDTV perfectly fine with component cables on my HDTV. In fact, I'm not using HDMI anywhere.
Google was never ambiguous that the reason they are threatening to leave is because the government was hacking their servers. The removal of the filtering was just an extra "fuck you!" to the Chinese government. They tried playing nicely with the Chinese and they still took advantage of them.
Don't you watch the AT&T commercials? It's a limitation of the network that you can't use data at the same time as voice. You need AT&T to do that.
It looks like if you don't live within a 15-20 mile radius of a major city you're lucky if you can even get EDGE service. There are vast portions of Ohio that have *no* coverage at all, not even GSM voice. Their entire network clusters around the six "big" cities in Ohio and trickles along the interstate highway system, but if you stray away from those areas you get absolutely no coverage at all.
One of my friends heard from his friend that his uncle's coworker heard that the Courier will be offered at a significantly marked-down price of $99 to people that have a Hotmail account that is at least 3 years old (the device will be $529 for everyone else). They will be partnering with T-Mobile to offer unlimited data service for the device starting at $20/month. They're also going to be announcing a new VOIP service that offers free unlimited calling to and from anywhere in the United States for a flat rate of 0.1 cents per minute and the VOIP software built-in to the Courier will be able to work over WiFi or T-Mobile's data network. You can use any compatible Bluetooth headset or there will be a port for a wired headset that is included. Let's see Apple try to top this announcement! Wouldn't that be cool if this was all true??
Unless you're hosting a server on your internal network you shouldn't need to be forwarding any ports anywhere. I suggest trying a different router because yours is apparently severely broken if you need to do anything to get Team Fortress 2 to work on it. All those ports you list are outbound to the server and your firewall needs to allow stateful replies to come back in... which every consumer-grade router already should do by default.
Because you can't run MacOS X on a generic laptop (easily or legally). On the other hand, Windows 7 is magnificent and if I have to replace my Macbook Pro I'll probably just buy a Windows 7 based laptop and dual boot with Ubuntu.
Why on Earth would I use this with a portable device? A lot of the times I'm on my notebook I don't have a network connection, but I can still use my applications and be productive until I get around to a net connection and waste my time on the web.
Apple already sells a Netbook. They call it the Macbook Air and it starts at $1500. LOL!
You probably will never see a dime from it. Face it, guys like Steve Demeter got in very early when there was really nothing else to buy on the store so they got most of the purchases. What did he really create anyway... it looks like another god damn puzzle game. There's 10 million different variations of the same "match 3 or 4 like colors in an area to eliminate those objects from the screen" games out there that I can't believe anyone would even pay for that. If the iPhone had Flash support there'd be zero reason to buy 99% of these little puzzle games since you could just play them online via Flash for free.
I won't walk, I'll run away from games that employ strategies like this in the future. I got into a browser game a few years ago called Travian that promised to be "free" and you could buy "gold" if you wanted extras like instant builds or NPC merchant trading or +25% resource production boosts. I quickly realized that if you wanted to be in the top 500 players on a server of about 1500 active players you HAD to buy and use gold or else there was no way to keep up. I got so addicted to it that rather than wait 15 minutes for a resource to build I'd just insta-build it so I could move on to the next building level.
The problem was that by abstracting the currency it made it far easier to spend out of control. You'd pay $25 for 600 gold (~4 cents for each piece of gold) and you'd spend 3 gold (12 cents) to NPC trade, 2 gold (8 cents) to instabuild your queue of up to 2 things at a time (if you had the "plus" feature which added the queue for 15 gold (60 cents) a week), 5 gold x 4 (80 cents) to boost production of iron, wood, clay, and wheat, 3 gold x 2 (24 cents) to boost attack and defense bonuses by 10%, etc. The NPC trading was by far the worst money sink since it was so easy to abuse. You *could* trade with normal players, but nobody really does past the first few weeks of game play (the game round lasts a year) since it is impractical to try and find a trade for tens of thousands of resources... so you NPC trade it instantly for 3 gold (12 cents).
So, at a minimum you'd spend $6.56 a month for the Travian Plus feature plus +25% resource boosts, +10% offensive and defensive bonuses. That at first seems reasonable for running such a cool game, but I was averaging around $100 a month on gold because of NPC trading and instabuilding. My coworker had it worse because his two sons were playing and he was even worse with the instabuilding. His monthly Travian habit, including his two sons' costs were running him around $300/month. FOR A GAME!
So no thanks, I'll take a $15/month subscription fee ANY DAY over a microtransaction arrangement where you need to eventually spend obscene amounts of money just to be in the top players.
So they can keep running Windows Vista until it is EOL'd then. Nobody is forcing you to upgrade to Windows 7 and you could have just as well have waited until after October 22nd to buy your new PC to receive it pre-installed with Windows 7 if it worried you that much that you needed to have it.
Who the hell uses their college e-mail account for anything important unless you're part of the staff? When I was in school I just forwarded my university address to my home account.
That's very confusing. Apparently more than one person in the world is named "Matthew Barton". Why would parents choose such an obviously non-unique name for their child? Isn't this a problem that leads to identity theft and credit problems? I suppose I'm just lucky to be blessed with a name nobody else in the world or the history of the world has ever had so my name is more unique than my social security number.
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It specifically excludes music you've purchased from being listed as illegal in the explanation if you pick the choice it doesn't want you to pick. The only thing I see wrong with their explanation is that it excludes legitimately "free" music such as stuff released into the public domain or under something like a Creative Commons license, but for the most part their definition is perfectly acceptable to the target audience (non-technical DoD users).
His point though is that unless you plan on being kidnapped anytime soon, you're probably going to know ahead of time which areas of the country you'll need GPS maps for and would be able to pre-load those for a trip. The sad fact of the matter is that I don't believe the iPhone offers any way to have "map packs" like a traditional GPS so it's an all-or-nothing type deal. I'll stick with a standalone GPS.
Yes, we get it, you're old and you want us to get off your lawn.
What we really need is an open source project to create a newer, better filter so that China can protect its children from porn and smut. If everyone in the open source community worked together I bet we could come up with a much better product that is more cross platform than the over-priced crap they tried to implement.