I brought a just an internal sata hard drive to Canada from the US, while in Canada I wiped it clean. On the way back into the US they stopped me for a few hours.. They seemed to not get the concept of bring just a hard drive, I think if it would have been an external drive they wouldn't have gave me so much grief. When I got home there were large files all over the drive.. I can only assume they did that to overwrite anything hidden on the drive, which there wasn't. I found it to be a long waste of time and the people to be a bit clueless.....
Guess what. They don't care. The sort of folks who obsessively block ads aren't good customers anyway, and they aren't interested in random traffic, they are only interested in traffic from potential consumers.
That is true to a good extent. However, I can see many people who currently put up with current normal ads who would not put up with Captcha Ads. Then again I am sure they would make much more from Captcha Ads than they would from normal ads so maybe it would work itself out, at least in the short run..
Fork now, go 100% anonymous, and every time you dump the data, immediately tip off at the same time the various news media contacts you have internationally, providing each with a redundant encrypted access avenue that is detached from the main 'body' of Wikileaks 2.0. No one person should ever be known by name. Cultural war is war, after all. Act like it.
Depends on how it's done, but I like the idea. Problem I see is that wikileaks only gets much of their data because of their site existing, people have to have a way to get them the data to begin with and know who to give it to. Every day people that run across the data to start with need a easy place to go...
Years ago I had a single T1 line. I truly needed about 20 IPs, I could have done it on 2 or 3 if I had to. I ended up getting 3 Class C (/24s). A few weeks into using it, they realized they assigned me IPs they intended for use in Dallas area instead of Houston area. So they gave me 3 more to move to. I never moved and just kept all 6. I sort of did make use of all my IPs, but I never should have been assigned that many... (i do not have these anymore)
I think the ISPs have enough IPs left over to make it for a while. In many cases a server doesnt need an external IP, neither does a normal user, but having one is nice.
my solution: Continue to download the shows in XviD format like I have been doing since it was an option using one of the only two broad band providers in my area.. Im more concerned about the fact I only have 2 usable ISP choices than I am about what Fox does.
My work blocks all outgoing calls except to 800 numbers. Google 411 would also connect you to the number so I would use Google 411 to make calls to other businesses.. Anyone know of a service I can do this with still?
Ive been using their service since it came out, gave the number to several people who still use it.
I just went to their site, was going to try the game.. There is no trial I can just click on and start using.. You have to be invited by someone who is already playing 3+ months to get a trial... Seems a bit lame I cant even try the game before I buy it..
I plated UO for far too long, I logged in about a week ago and saw the game had pretty much died.. Played WoW off and on, always get bored once I get maxed out... The PvP in UO kept me playing, it doesnt in WoW.. Guild Wars was sort of interesting and fun, but I didnt keep playing..
if someone can send a trial id like to check it out.. uolamer at gmail. ty
My netbook setup with Windows XP, 2GB ram, Atom processor runs 720p x264 mkv scene standard video about 98% good using CoreAVC. Without CoreAVC it wasnt watchable from anything I tried with ffdshow, VLC, Media Player Classic (GPU one) etc...
I also have Adobe Creative Suite 5 & MS Office 2010 on it. They both seem to work just fine.. Not the speed of my desktop of course but quite usable..
I think the cops should be treated the same as someone who kidnaps a person and puts them in their own homemade prison. Plus some stuff dealing with falsifying docs, etc. If he wouldnt have covered up after the fact it wouldnt look nearly as bad.. I do not believe the DA should have the choice to not charge them, actually they should charge them on a state or federal level not local. I know it wont happen but i can dream. Hopefully he gets a nice civil suit out of this.
Apple puts out some great products here and there. The iPhone is/was a good product in many ways. They always have to control everything.. Their hardware, with their OS, with their apps they approve. LG, Samsung, HTC, etc have to compete with them, Apple will not allow them to use their OS.. Google and others will... The Droid is already better in many aspects than the iPhone, there is several more Android OS phones coming out. iPhone is one of many now and many more to come. They will end up having a 5% share of the market over time just like the PC market..
They should license their OS and open things up a little if they wish to avoid that..
There is a new brand in the US called Straight Talk (owned by Tracfone)that is only sold at Wal-Mart, has the same coverage as Verizon. $45/mo for unlimited $30/mo for 1k min, 1k txt, 30MB data. It seems to have forced many of the pre-paid plans get a bit more reasonable in price. While there was plans around this price they usually didnt have the coverage to go with it, these do... Their phone selection sort of blows but other than that its been a good service.
I do work where they sell these.. At first people were weary of them, rapidly people are coming in asking for them.. Had some problems keeping some of the better phones in stock at times.. All I know is once this was released all the major carriers suddenly had a better price for their unlimited pre-paid plans... Price fixing garbage..
As far as realistic options my town of around 120k people has DSL from 1 provider or Cable from 1 provider. That is all. Next best thing is something along the lines of a Cricket 3g card.. I envy people living in places like you with your choices..
Even if the DRM wasnt circumvented, in 12 to 18 months piracy of the game will be pretty irrelevant all their money would have been made already. They really cant demand money anyway.. Before they do that they would simply release a patch where those servers were not needed and allow you to download your save game.
exactly how else would they learn. Trial and error isnt that terrible of a way to learn to an extent... lol.
just dont take it too far... or..
"If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor." Nikola Tesla, New York Times, October 19, 1931
I believe that is the real problem, the people buying the product are ignorant of what DRM is and does. These are generally the same people that are ignorant of security on the internet running Windows, IE and click the bouncing monkey to win a Wii on popup ads while obliviously being part of three botnets at once and still waiting for that Nigerian price to send him his money.
Unfortunately the only real solution to this is education, which is what I consider the major problem with the whole world in general. I do not believe a company could sell a DRM product really if the majority of the people were educated.
People forget, I really did, how stupid the general public is. I mean I knew on paper how dumb they were. But recently my job changed and I have to deal with the general public constantly and it is impressive how stupid they are.. Its one thing to know on paper x% of people cant read.. Its another to tell see it in action..
I know this might sound terrible.. But Its hard for me to imagine having a 80 or 90 I.Q. I do not see how those people survive, much less the people that are down in the 60s and 70s.. I know that sounds bad;p..
Housing that is part of the landscape. That is something I never really saw in other games. You could have a house outside the entrance of dungeon, town or off in the middle of no where.. People ended up building player towns, GMs decorated the towns (back in the day at least). When you were a newbie you lived out of your bank, then maybe a boat or small house. Some people had a castle with a large tower behind it, etc. Houses also served as storage for items, I really never used the bank I kept everything (besides gold) in my castle.
Skill based PvP.. Before the Age of Shadows expansion you really could not gain an item advantage to speak of. There was many times I took on 3 and 4 people at once and killed them all never running away to hide or heal, etc. After AoS it was really not feasible to do that anymore. It was hard enough taking on 2 people. But even after AoS the harrower battles & spawn fights made for some of the best PvP ever. Imagine WoW without the instances.. People fight their way all the way to the end boss then some other guild comes in, kills them all, the boss and the loot. Sorrta like anyway. Some times you had 3 or 4 guilds fighting over one, made for some real fun.
You could also trade everything in UO. Best armor and weapons in the game for sale.. There was only around 2 items you could trade but werent usable by others, personal bless deed and newbie tickets.
There was bad things about UO of course. They would release a new patch, unbalance things way way too far and take a year to fix it.. Several times they put in a small 'fix' to stop something somewhat irrelevant and caused all sorts of issues. Their bug testing was just terrible. I found bugs on the test servers reported them and it still went live. (inscription with level 1 cost mana to scribe a level 8 scroll when they changed the menu one time)
UO could have used an auction house like WoW.. We had vendors we could put in the houses making houses close or even in towns worth much more but it still was annoying compared to WoW. The economy in UO got screwed terribly all the time also.. It slowly dropped down to $20 a mill which wasnt bad. By the time I left it was $1 or $2 a mill, making it near worthless in some aspects.
Travel in UO was great.. You had runes (later on runebooks) you could mark anywhere. One book would have all the dungeons, one spell and 2 sec later your outside (or inside before one of the patches) your favorite dungeon. So even if I only had 20 minutes to play I could get where I wanted to instantly and actually accomplish something, unlike WoW (although it improved some).
But... The reason there isnt more games like UO is it was Skill based.. period.. The day tram came out 98% of the population went there and almost never came back. So you had 98% of players playing a non pvp social networking 2nd life with dragons... aka WoW with housing. They had little insensitive to fix pvp issues and other issues we had when those things didnt effect 98% of their customers at all and those customers had their own problems they needed fixed.. So.. here we are talking about glory days of UO..
sry I like to ramble about UO, it provided me so much fun. notice my name uolamer;)
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I brought a just an internal sata hard drive to Canada from the US, while in Canada I wiped it clean. On the way back into the US they stopped me for a few hours.. They seemed to not get the concept of bring just a hard drive, I think if it would have been an external drive they wouldn't have gave me so much grief. When I got home there were large files all over the drive.. I can only assume they did that to overwrite anything hidden on the drive, which there wasn't. I found it to be a long waste of time and the people to be a bit clueless.....
Guess what. They don't care. The sort of folks who obsessively block ads aren't good customers anyway, and they aren't interested in random traffic, they are only interested in traffic from potential consumers.
That is true to a good extent. However, I can see many people who currently put up with current normal ads who would not put up with Captcha Ads. Then again I am sure they would make much more from Captcha Ads than they would from normal ads so maybe it would work itself out, at least in the short run..
Fork now, go 100% anonymous, and every time you dump the data, immediately tip off at the same time the various news media contacts you have internationally, providing each with a redundant encrypted access avenue that is detached from the main 'body' of Wikileaks 2.0. No one person should ever be known by name. Cultural war is war, after all. Act like it.
Depends on how it's done, but I like the idea. Problem I see is that wikileaks only gets much of their data because of their site existing, people have to have a way to get them the data to begin with and know who to give it to. Every day people that run across the data to start with need a easy place to go...
Years ago I had a single T1 line. I truly needed about 20 IPs, I could have done it on 2 or 3 if I had to. I ended up getting 3 Class C (/24s). A few weeks into using it, they realized they assigned me IPs they intended for use in Dallas area instead of Houston area. So they gave me 3 more to move to. I never moved and just kept all 6. I sort of did make use of all my IPs, but I never should have been assigned that many... (i do not have these anymore)
I think the ISPs have enough IPs left over to make it for a while. In many cases a server doesnt need an external IP, neither does a normal user, but having one is nice.
my solution: Continue to download the shows in XviD format like I have been doing since it was an option using one of the only two broad band providers in my area.. Im more concerned about the fact I only have 2 usable ISP choices than I am about what Fox does.
My work blocks all outgoing calls except to 800 numbers. Google 411 would also connect you to the number so I would use Google 411 to make calls to other businesses.. Anyone know of a service I can do this with still?
Ive been using their service since it came out, gave the number to several people who still use it.
"However, as more websites, particularly smaller ones, use content distribution networks via embedded ads, widgets, and other assets..."
Like many people reading this site I block most the crap mention here at a level where the DNS is never resolved.
I just went to their site, was going to try the game.. There is no trial I can just click on and start using.. You have to be invited by someone who is already playing 3+ months to get a trial... Seems a bit lame I cant even try the game before I buy it..
I plated UO for far too long, I logged in about a week ago and saw the game had pretty much died.. Played WoW off and on, always get bored once I get maxed out... The PvP in UO kept me playing, it doesnt in WoW.. Guild Wars was sort of interesting and fun, but I didnt keep playing..
if someone can send a trial id like to check it out.. uolamer at gmail. ty
My netbook setup with Windows XP, 2GB ram, Atom processor runs 720p x264 mkv scene standard video about 98% good using CoreAVC. Without CoreAVC it wasnt watchable from anything I tried with ffdshow, VLC, Media Player Classic (GPU one) etc...
I also have Adobe Creative Suite 5 & MS Office 2010 on it. They both seem to work just fine.. Not the speed of my desktop of course but quite usable..
I think ipad hype is funny..
So when there is a car accident on the side of the road... everyone will just drive into it?..
I think the cops should be treated the same as someone who kidnaps a person and puts them in their own homemade prison. Plus some stuff dealing with falsifying docs, etc. If he wouldnt have covered up after the fact it wouldnt look nearly as bad.. I do not believe the DA should have the choice to not charge them, actually they should charge them on a state or federal level not local. I know it wont happen but i can dream. Hopefully he gets a nice civil suit out of this.
Apple puts out some great products here and there. The iPhone is/was a good product in many ways. They always have to control everything.. Their hardware, with their OS, with their apps they approve. LG, Samsung, HTC, etc have to compete with them, Apple will not allow them to use their OS.. Google and others will... The Droid is already better in many aspects than the iPhone, there is several more Android OS phones coming out. iPhone is one of many now and many more to come. They will end up having a 5% share of the market over time just like the PC market..
They should license their OS and open things up a little if they wish to avoid that..
There is a new brand in the US called Straight Talk (owned by Tracfone)that is only sold at Wal-Mart, has the same coverage as Verizon. $45/mo for unlimited $30/mo for 1k min, 1k txt, 30MB data. It seems to have forced many of the pre-paid plans get a bit more reasonable in price. While there was plans around this price they usually didnt have the coverage to go with it, these do... Their phone selection sort of blows but other than that its been a good service.
I do work where they sell these.. At first people were weary of them, rapidly people are coming in asking for them.. Had some problems keeping some of the better phones in stock at times.. All I know is once this was released all the major carriers suddenly had a better price for their unlimited pre-paid plans... Price fixing garbage..
Alternatively, users can download Release Candidate builds of Firefox 3.6.2 which contains the fix from here:
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/3.6.2-candidates/build3/
In fact... forget the Park and the Black Jack!
Agh... Screw the whole thing.
As far as realistic options my town of around 120k people has DSL from 1 provider or Cable from 1 provider. That is all. Next best thing is something along the lines of a Cricket 3g card.. I envy people living in places like you with your choices..
A.I. Gore did yes...
Even if the DRM wasnt circumvented, in 12 to 18 months piracy of the game will be pretty irrelevant all their money would have been made already. They really cant demand money anyway.. Before they do that they would simply release a patch where those servers were not needed and allow you to download your save game.
exactly how else would they learn. Trial and error isnt that terrible of a way to learn to an extent... lol.
just dont take it too far... or..
"If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor."
Nikola Tesla, New York Times, October 19, 1931
I believe that is the real problem, the people buying the product are ignorant of what DRM is and does. These are generally the same people that are ignorant of security on the internet running Windows, IE and click the bouncing monkey to win a Wii on popup ads while obliviously being part of three botnets at once and still waiting for that Nigerian price to send him his money.
Unfortunately the only real solution to this is education, which is what I consider the major problem with the whole world in general. I do not believe a company could sell a DRM product really if the majority of the people were educated.
People forget, I really did, how stupid the general public is. I mean I knew on paper how dumb they were. But recently my job changed and I have to deal with the general public constantly and it is impressive how stupid they are.. Its one thing to know on paper x% of people cant read.. Its another to tell see it in action..
I know this might sound terrible.. But Its hard for me to imagine having a 80 or 90 I.Q. I do not see how those people survive, much less the people that are down in the 60s and 70s.. I know that sounds bad ;p..
If the brain starts being considered just another data storage device might they start issuing warrants for information stored on it?
Either use encryption on those 'files' or delete them in such a way they cant be recovered... lol
Would you like to guess the color of my red car?
My algorithm says
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2.6% white
1.7% blue
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What were your characters on LS? I bet I knew you lol..
i (just that letter), Akira, Bozo, Tom Hanks, were some of my more popular characters.
UOF, T C, *S*, A K, T69, and a few other guilds i was in.
Housing that is part of the landscape. That is something I never really saw in other games. You could have a house outside the entrance of dungeon, town or off in the middle of no where.. People ended up building player towns, GMs decorated the towns (back in the day at least). When you were a newbie you lived out of your bank, then maybe a boat or small house. Some people had a castle with a large tower behind it, etc. Houses also served as storage for items, I really never used the bank I kept everything (besides gold) in my castle.
;)
Skill based PvP.. Before the Age of Shadows expansion you really could not gain an item advantage to speak of. There was many times I took on 3 and 4 people at once and killed them all never running away to hide or heal, etc. After AoS it was really not feasible to do that anymore. It was hard enough taking on 2 people. But even after AoS the harrower battles & spawn fights made for some of the best PvP ever. Imagine WoW without the instances.. People fight their way all the way to the end boss then some other guild comes in, kills them all, the boss and the loot. Sorrta like anyway. Some times you had 3 or 4 guilds fighting over one, made for some real fun.
You could also trade everything in UO. Best armor and weapons in the game for sale.. There was only around 2 items you could trade but werent usable by others, personal bless deed and newbie tickets.
There was bad things about UO of course. They would release a new patch, unbalance things way way too far and take a year to fix it.. Several times they put in a small 'fix' to stop something somewhat irrelevant and caused all sorts of issues. Their bug testing was just terrible. I found bugs on the test servers reported them and it still went live. (inscription with level 1 cost mana to scribe a level 8 scroll when they changed the menu one time)
UO could have used an auction house like WoW.. We had vendors we could put in the houses making houses close or even in towns worth much more but it still was annoying compared to WoW. The economy in UO got screwed terribly all the time also.. It slowly dropped down to $20 a mill which wasnt bad. By the time I left it was $1 or $2 a mill, making it near worthless in some aspects.
Travel in UO was great.. You had runes (later on runebooks) you could mark anywhere. One book would have all the dungeons, one spell and 2 sec later your outside (or inside before one of the patches) your favorite dungeon. So even if I only had 20 minutes to play I could get where I wanted to instantly and actually accomplish something, unlike WoW (although it improved some).
But... The reason there isnt more games like UO is it was Skill based.. period.. The day tram came out 98% of the population went there and almost never came back. So you had 98% of players playing a non pvp social networking 2nd life with dragons... aka WoW with housing. They had little insensitive to fix pvp issues and other issues we had when those things didnt effect 98% of their customers at all and those customers had their own problems they needed fixed.. So.. here we are talking about glory days of UO..
sry I like to ramble about UO, it provided me so much fun. notice my name uolamer
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