It's been a while, but I remember they also had a console parameter changed as well. In the "lobby" for Quake, the doors leading to the Episodes past 1 were locked by this parameter. If you had the shareware version, and entered in the right console code, you could get past these doors, but then the level wouldn't load if you tried to hit the trigger.
Even better, it didn't fail to the console, it just said "Failed to load [map filename]" at the top of the screen, and let you continue wandering around the lobby.
It's entirely possible to provide three. The actual triangle is "Cheap, fast, good. Pick two." In this case, I'd rather see "good" as a given, and let people decide between "fast" and "cheap". That way, the average consumer would have a cheap connection that's open and has no caps, but might be a little slow. Then if you want to use BitTorrent on that connection, it works, but it's slow. If you want 20Mbps speeds, to increase your BitTorrent performance, or enable faster NetFlix downloads, or upload family movies faster, or whatever, you pay extra.
This isn't about throttling types of traffic, this is about throttling based on the source of the traffic. To copy an analogy from up above, net neutrality isn't about tollbooths charging more for trucks than cars; this is about charging more for trucks owned by Staples than trucks owned by Office Max.
Where do you live where it is possible to just "switch" to a different ISP?
From what I hear, in some big cities you have a dozen options to choose from, as opposed to the majority of the country, where if you live in a duopoly, you're lucky.
I wouldn't know either extreme, personally; I grew up in a built-up rural area, and moved to suburbia when I got a job. I've never had any better or worse than a duopoly.
It isn't just a "cheat" to get more money from the customers. On some devices (like printers) running at a higher speed increases the wear and the resulting maintenance requirements. Similarly, in the CPU case, running more CPUs increases the heating and shortens the life, while having less spares shortens the time until / increases the probability that you actually have to pull something out and replace it.
Memory and CPU manufacturers usually "bin" their parts for this reason. The good parts get the higher clock speed, because they can handle it, while the not-so-good parts get clocked to a lower speed that they can reliably handle, and get sold at a cheaper price.
If a manufacturer has good consistency in their manufacturing process, then the consumer can buy the lowest priced part, and in theory it'll be nearly as good as the highest priced one, so you can easily overclock the low-binned part to match performance with the high-binned part.
I believe I'm staring at pieces of prior art in the form of a pair of Hypervisors which 'unlock' features after entering a key (stating that I purchased it).
I think this dates back to Doom and Quake, personally, possibly earlier.
Many people stop smoking. The reduction in healthcare costs caused by fewer people smoking balances out the reduction in tobacco tax revenues.
Plus the fact that people quitting smoking actually doesn't reduce healthcare costs, because it generally means that they live longer, and die of something far more expensive to fight.
The pistols are awesome because the ammo is unlimited. The pistols really aren't much worse than the AR at most things, and with the exception of close-range Tank combat, the pistols are better than the shotgun.
Healing someone when you have less than 10 life is done easily, and without wasting your health pack, when one of your teammates was just brought back from incapacitation. Their health is lower than yours in this case, in every sense but numerically.
I once drove home from work, a 40 minute drive, taking lots of stop signs and lots of turns, without being able to remember anything about the journey when I got home.
That was on a quiet, rural road in New Hampshire. Unfortunately, this could never happen here in California, since the other drivers do stupid, unpredictable things so often that if you're not "actively driving" 100% of the time, you'll be killed to death.
This was my first thought: if you don't like the results Google gives you, work to change them. You don't have to be malicious, but getting your name, and your work, more visible to the public is easy to do, even while avoiding obnoxious advertising techniques.
Chicken is more expensive than beef, so we rarely buy it, which is why I could be way off on the price of chicken breast.
Honestly, I don't really have a memory for grocery prices, so I can't comment too much. I know that I'm used to spending between $2.50 to $3.50 for a gallon of milk, but I have no idea how much I paid for it most recently, especially since I moved to California within the past year from New Hampshire, and I haven't learned to factor in sales tax yet.
I know ground beef prices though: 90% lean is about $4.50, and 96% lean is about $5.50. 80% lean is cheaper, but I don't know how much. I'll estimate $3.50? I don't have a Sam's/Costco membership, so I can't comment on any difference between wholesale and retail.
I don't know Minnesota law, but in most states you can opt for a blood test in lieu of a breath test, without penalty. Personally, I'd rather do this, despite not liking needles.
You can buy whole chickens normally for about $0.79/lb...on sale usually for like $0.49/lb.
Same with where I live, but boneless chicken breast is about $5/lb. The more processing that must be done, the more expensive the food will be. All that's needed to sell a whole chicken is basically decapitation, followed by defeathering (or at least, I hope it's in that order).
Buying a whole glazed ham is also usually under $1/lb, but who wants to have the oven running for 8 hours every day?
I can eat raw carrots without dip, but after a certain number (about 7 for baby carrots, or the equivalent amount of carrot sticks), I get tired of them.
To eat a whole bagful, I'd need something else to go with them.
Not to mention that not too many people can just sit down and eat a whole bag of carrots; to make the carrots palatable, most people eat them with a dip, which is usually high in fat. One of my friends from college even went so far as to use cake frosting as her carrot dip!
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But if you mix cola and uncola, they annihilate each other, producing huge amounts of pure energy. Be careful!
"They're breaking our standard, but we won't tell you how; that's a secret."
the wires leading from a phonograph's cartridge through the amplifier to the speakers are transiently storing a portion of the copyrighted signal.
That's known as the "analog hole". Please do try to keep up with the discussion.
It's been a while, but I remember they also had a console parameter changed as well. In the "lobby" for Quake, the doors leading to the Episodes past 1 were locked by this parameter. If you had the shareware version, and entered in the right console code, you could get past these doors, but then the level wouldn't load if you tried to hit the trigger.
Even better, it didn't fail to the console, it just said "Failed to load [map filename]" at the top of the screen, and let you continue wandering around the lobby.
Cheap internet. Open internet. No usage caps.
It's entirely possible to provide three. The actual triangle is "Cheap, fast, good. Pick two." In this case, I'd rather see "good" as a given, and let people decide between "fast" and "cheap". That way, the average consumer would have a cheap connection that's open and has no caps, but might be a little slow. Then if you want to use BitTorrent on that connection, it works, but it's slow. If you want 20Mbps speeds, to increase your BitTorrent performance, or enable faster NetFlix downloads, or upload family movies faster, or whatever, you pay extra.
This isn't about throttling types of traffic, this is about throttling based on the source of the traffic. To copy an analogy from up above, net neutrality isn't about tollbooths charging more for trucks than cars; this is about charging more for trucks owned by Staples than trucks owned by Office Max.
Where do you live where it is possible to just "switch" to a different ISP?
From what I hear, in some big cities you have a dozen options to choose from, as opposed to the majority of the country, where if you live in a duopoly, you're lucky.
I wouldn't know either extreme, personally; I grew up in a built-up rural area, and moved to suburbia when I got a job. I've never had any better or worse than a duopoly.
It isn't just a "cheat" to get more money from the customers. On some devices (like printers) running at a higher speed increases the wear and the resulting maintenance requirements. Similarly, in the CPU case, running more CPUs increases the heating and shortens the life, while having less spares shortens the time until / increases the probability that you actually have to pull something out and replace it.
Memory and CPU manufacturers usually "bin" their parts for this reason. The good parts get the higher clock speed, because they can handle it, while the not-so-good parts get clocked to a lower speed that they can reliably handle, and get sold at a cheaper price.
If a manufacturer has good consistency in their manufacturing process, then the consumer can buy the lowest priced part, and in theory it'll be nearly as good as the highest priced one, so you can easily overclock the low-binned part to match performance with the high-binned part.
I believe I'm staring at pieces of prior art in the form of a pair of Hypervisors which 'unlock' features after entering a key (stating that I purchased it).
I think this dates back to Doom and Quake, personally, possibly earlier.
When I need to run PC apps, XP does everything I need with the least overhead.
As long as you don't need more than 4GB of addressing space...
Posting this for the second time in the past week, because it's apt:
Could you grimace so I know you're working?
Duke Nukem Forever had this problem. They spent so much time saying "THIS GAME IS GOING TO BE SO AWESOME" that they never wrote any code!
Many people stop smoking. The reduction in healthcare costs caused by fewer people smoking balances out the reduction in tobacco tax revenues.
Plus the fact that people quitting smoking actually doesn't reduce healthcare costs, because it generally means that they live longer, and die of something far more expensive to fight.
The labels on my wine collection
Congratulations, you overpay for wine.
Buy cheap wine, drink it, and have fun with your friends, and stop pondering about whether you can detect the subtleties of your expensive wine.
The pistols are awesome because the ammo is unlimited. The pistols really aren't much worse than the AR at most things, and with the exception of close-range Tank combat, the pistols are better than the shotgun.
Healing someone when you have less than 10 life is done easily, and without wasting your health pack, when one of your teammates was just brought back from incapacitation. Their health is lower than yours in this case, in every sense but numerically.
What good is a phone if you cannot... speak?
Really? I can think of plenty:
Exactly.
I once drove home from work, a 40 minute drive, taking lots of stop signs and lots of turns, without being able to remember anything about the journey when I got home.
That was on a quiet, rural road in New Hampshire. Unfortunately, this could never happen here in California, since the other drivers do stupid, unpredictable things so often that if you're not "actively driving" 100% of the time, you'll be killed to death.
Could you grimace so I know you're working?
This was my first thought: if you don't like the results Google gives you, work to change them. You don't have to be malicious, but getting your name, and your work, more visible to the public is easy to do, even while avoiding obnoxious advertising techniques.
Chicken is more expensive than beef, so we rarely buy it, which is why I could be way off on the price of chicken breast.
Honestly, I don't really have a memory for grocery prices, so I can't comment too much. I know that I'm used to spending between $2.50 to $3.50 for a gallon of milk, but I have no idea how much I paid for it most recently, especially since I moved to California within the past year from New Hampshire, and I haven't learned to factor in sales tax yet.
I know ground beef prices though: 90% lean is about $4.50, and 96% lean is about $5.50. 80% lean is cheaper, but I don't know how much. I'll estimate $3.50? I don't have a Sam's/Costco membership, so I can't comment on any difference between wholesale and retail.
I don't know Minnesota law, but in most states you can opt for a blood test in lieu of a breath test, without penalty. Personally, I'd rather do this, despite not liking needles.
You can buy whole chickens normally for about $0.79/lb...on sale usually for like $0.49/lb.
Same with where I live, but boneless chicken breast is about $5/lb. The more processing that must be done, the more expensive the food will be. All that's needed to sell a whole chicken is basically decapitation, followed by defeathering (or at least, I hope it's in that order).
Buying a whole glazed ham is also usually under $1/lb, but who wants to have the oven running for 8 hours every day?
I can eat raw carrots without dip, but after a certain number (about 7 for baby carrots, or the equivalent amount of carrot sticks), I get tired of them.
To eat a whole bagful, I'd need something else to go with them.
Not to mention that not too many people can just sit down and eat a whole bag of carrots; to make the carrots palatable, most people eat them with a dip, which is usually high in fat. One of my friends from college even went so far as to use cake frosting as her carrot dip!