I think you totally miss the point. Why is a ISP even offering 15Mb access when it can't provide 10Mb, or 5Mb or even 2Mb in some areas? Hell I hate DSL for this very reason, I pay for a up to 5Mb connection, because of distance I sync up at 2.6Mb, and I pay the same, or would if I didn't get it free from work, which is also how I know exactly what I'm syncing up at, where as 99% of the customers out there have no idea. The only reason they offer these higher speeds is to sound good for marketing purposes only, because once you start using those speeds for more than a burstable period of time you start getting notices about abuse.
Working for a small ISP we flat out tell people that we don't actively monitor bandwidth usage, but if we do notice large amount of usage we may ask you to calm it down a little which happens very rarely. We provide a hard cap on the amount of usage, and we wouldn't even offer 5Mb connections, except Bell Canada forces us to (we can over 512Kb or 5Mb, there is no other tier's for residential access). We would have loved if the rates had stayed at 1.5Mb, we had a lot less support calls back then (since a larger portion of the city can get 1.5Mb).
Well you talked about blank bill boards, they won't be blank, they'll have the old static images. So that hardly breaks the immersion, or are you saying the game was breaking the immersion by having their fake ads?
I may have to give this one to you, but since I use it through Google Mail, once again more ads.
And a provider of shared calendaring services.
I had to login cause its been a while, but here there was no ads, kudos to them.
And a provider of domain-wide hosting of the above.
Using the standard edition we also get to see some ads.
And a supporter of numerous Open Source software projects.
And one of the movers and shakers in the press for green technology.
I'll give these to you.
And the only search giant to refuse a federal request for all search records.
But has no problems giving them to a foreign government on request.
So yes google has a lot of cool things going for it, but never forget that their money comes from advertising, why would they be not looking for more ways to make money doing it?
Sometimes I think the most innovative element a new MMORPG could introduce was permanent death upon achieving the top level. Reach say 100 and you got time for a few epic quests that end your characters heroic journey, before fading away and forcing you to start a new character. Gone would be the mad rush to end game, the constant demand for insanely high level extra content, the need for increased levels AND you would have a constant stream of people in all levels of the game to make newcomers feel less lonely. Welcome to LORD (Legend of the Red Dragon) from the good old days. Basically you would reach max level, defeat the Red Dragon, and then you start over at level 1 with a few of your skills a bit better (I think... it has been a while).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_Red_Dragon
I haven't read any posts but I figure the same thing will happen for those "video" games that start not working right as what happens with art. Older working cards will cost a lot more money as support "dies" in the newer ones. Just as art, nothing makes something more valuable then when something(one) dies:)
Maybe he explained it wrong. Think of looking at someone and the pumping a shot gun, with the zapper you you go to pump the shotgun you'll also changing where your looking.
At least thats how I read it.
Oh god don't give them ideas. I can't wait to start visiting web pages and having to agree to a EULA, verifying my age, in case they have a article that may talk about "naughty" things that people will be upset about letting minors see (talking about anything sexual/violent is evil remeber).
That works well for a single person, or someone who has control of their mail server. Now say you send a salesman to a tradeshow, durning this time he hands out 100's of business cards. Do you think when these people get a bounce back the first time that they will be happy to send another? Most will just give up and never contact your company again.
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I know internet humor is hard, and I could be wrong, but I think his posting was "modified" by comcast to let us know how good they are ;)
I think you totally miss the point. Why is a ISP even offering 15Mb access when it can't provide 10Mb, or 5Mb or even 2Mb in some areas? Hell I hate DSL for this very reason, I pay for a up to 5Mb connection, because of distance I sync up at 2.6Mb, and I pay the same, or would if I didn't get it free from work, which is also how I know exactly what I'm syncing up at, where as 99% of the customers out there have no idea. The only reason they offer these higher speeds is to sound good for marketing purposes only, because once you start using those speeds for more than a burstable period of time you start getting notices about abuse. Working for a small ISP we flat out tell people that we don't actively monitor bandwidth usage, but if we do notice large amount of usage we may ask you to calm it down a little which happens very rarely. We provide a hard cap on the amount of usage, and we wouldn't even offer 5Mb connections, except Bell Canada forces us to (we can over 512Kb or 5Mb, there is no other tier's for residential access). We would have loved if the rates had stayed at 1.5Mb, we had a lot less support calls back then (since a larger portion of the city can get 1.5Mb).
Well you talked about blank bill boards, they won't be blank, they'll have the old static images. So that hardly breaks the immersion, or are you saying the game was breaking the immersion by having their fake ads?
Well this would make sense if Microsoft was releasing games on HD-DVD, and hadn't stop producing HD-DVD drives for the system.
I think this is the episode your referring to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_of_Nature_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)
It allows you to run programs that are poorly written because no one needs optimize the more GHz you get.
What if you remove the hard drive to do the format? (mac newb)
I haven't read any posts but I figure the same thing will happen for those "video" games that start not working right as what happens with art. Older working cards will cost a lot more money as support "dies" in the newer ones. Just as art, nothing makes something more valuable then when something(one) dies :)
Maybe he explained it wrong. Think of looking at someone and the pumping a shot gun, with the zapper you you go to pump the shotgun you'll also changing where your looking. At least thats how I read it.
Oh god don't give them ideas. I can't wait to start visiting web pages and having to agree to a EULA, verifying my age, in case they have a article that may talk about "naughty" things that people will be upset about letting minors see (talking about anything sexual/violent is evil remeber).
Yes who doesn't want to use their credit card at a public library?
That would be why it says different families. Unless you happen to believe that Perl/PHP is a language?
Its not his fault he can't spell, it is slashdot after all. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0768212/
At least thats what we do. Could be cause we are a smaller ISP, but we've never been contacted besides these generic form e-mail that they send out.
Going File->Delete File works just file in Windows Explorer as well, and all with the use of the left mouse button.
Well then in that case a dead man's switch will certinaly have no purpose then.
That works well for a single person, or someone who has control of their mail server. Now say you send a salesman to a tradeshow, durning this time he hands out 100's of business cards. Do you think when these people get a bounce back the first time that they will be happy to send another? Most will just give up and never contact your company again.