Yes that is a good point with the through-put. Say my firewall is the last hop they see doing a route trace to me. Even tho I'm connected to an Intranet of 5000+ computers the last IP address attached to the file is mine. Did I download the material? HTF can you prove that I did? was there some guy with a mapped image of my drive with the materials on there? what about the botnet puters that are rampant with malware/spyware? they spam out millions of emails a day from random computers who happened to be infected. I have a song that I share out to 1000 people effectively what they are saying is that any computer that the file passed through on the network path to its ultimate destination is now liable for damages for transporting the information even tho my computer which is hidden from direct view by a spoof or something is not visible. Then is the ISP now liable for the hosting file? what about the hop it made in china or los angeles or texas or florida? Are all these computers now liable for file trafficing? If so then why is it legal for radio stations to broadcast music that is copyrighted to my stereo via wireless signals and I make a TAPE or CD of the audio that is freely and publicly distributed via an OPEN signal to anyone in the area now suddenly wrong? I know any and all of the people who grew up with tape decks recorded songs from the radio. That being said now the **AA's can essentially come along and sue you for making a tape of there material that is distributed via TV, Radio, Satellite, Internet, ETC. Yet they offer it to you openly? Hypocritical socialists. If it were up to me I would download every video and song ever made broadcast via a remote host or hosts everywhere in the world and post a disclaimer that states that the **AA's can universally kiss my ass because I'm doing nothing more then what you do on a daily basis, I'm just making it easier to do for everyone. Think about that when you are watching CBS,NBC,ABC etc and they have this wonderful movie that was in the theatre that you loved. I didn't pay anything to watch this movie they are showing yet if I make a video tape of it I'm essentially now liable for the movies gross income over its lifetime? Fuck them. Sue me all you want I make 20k a year and if you think you can get 100k outta me I would love to see it.
Quote "We the unwilling, Lead by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful"
Albert Einstein.
Yes and now that man who "produces from nature" we now call this pollution. Which his original thought? Ok so the REMAKE of War of the Worlds a SECOND time is creative?! I have a wooden dildo with many nails in it you can borrow to glorify your sentiments please use graciously and I don't need it back since your philosophy seems to mean EVERYONE has to create from ideas inherently there own yet most people even the so called visionaries recycle the same old shit in a different package and tell us because we made it it costs more then the original version did.
HM.
Ok now I understand why the music industry said they have won the war on piracy. They are passing off the invasive tactics to a seedier ally. Yea I pirate stuff, I don't think anyone who has a PC and internet access has not. The fact of the matter is that there is so much complete garbage coming from both Movie and Music industry that I refuse to spend hard earned money on something that I cannot confirm that I like. I'm not going to purchase a car without testing it out first. Yea they complain about people downloading movies still in theatres, WTF as much as it costs for a single person to go see the movie let alone a family DAMN right I'm going to want to know what my money is buying before I dump 100 bux into the pocket of some half assed movie producer/director cause of his name. You can also blame the people in the movies for this to a degree too. 20+ million to make a movie as lame ass as war of the worlds?! You should have paid this out to people for the time they invested in seeing this atrocity(nothing personal Steven). With the current sequel a year tactics of movies and such, most of which don't deserve the first movie let alone a sequel, why do I even bother with over glorified TV shows with digital sound? Again I stress, its not that everyone wants to be a pirate, although I'm sure that some do, its that you leave little options to the contrary. Movie downloads should be widely accepted by now yet you stifel them for your "DVD" sales. WTF do I need to go to a video store to get a movie when my HIGH SPEED internet connection has wonderful delivery method built-in. If holywood wants to crucify someone start with its own. Make an example of the halfassed movies that come out in groves and make more people weep with disgust then creating a witch hunt out of everyday people to proclaim that you are losing 250bn a year on shit like "the da vinci code" (great book, lackluster movie). If you start asking a reasonable fee for the GOLD plated tin foil you're passing off as pure I'm sure that we will return in kind. Heaven knows the 2k a month I make which almost covers my place to live and just my bills let alone my car payment and other stuff just ain't worth trying to divey up a share to some guy who makes 20mil just to look good in front of a camera and wince when a bright light that he is told is an explosion. Please sue me for piracy you can have the 3.75c I have left at the end of each month till hell freezes over cause you sure as hell won't get more then that out of me no matter how much you stomp and stare. Holywood can kiss my ass just like the record companies. Make something I want and then make it affordable and we'll talk till then SUE ME.. can't get blood from a turnip...
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Look at it this way. He is stepping down as CSA, meaning he's relinquishing his authority (not completely) on design aspects of MS software. Whereas he will still in an overall sense be in control of the company. Yes he has the mark of shame associated with him for his past trangressions which many will not let him live down. However 2/3's of the country and possibly the world's day to day lives are only possible because of his software and developments (indirectly). Even you Linux/Unix and Mac people. Your system is still contributed from Bill's innovation. Like it or not he does make your day to day lives possible in some fashion. Look at this website. I'm willing to bet within the chain of servers that this site is on is an MS box or between you and them is an MS box or some other software package that is. Love him hate him, you still have to give him respect for making the PC industry the monster it is today in that regard. Without some of his pioneering software developments we wouldn't have the Xbox, yea Windows has always had issues, but still run on more pc's then any other OS combined. Have a good pseudo retirement Bill and wether we love or hate you you have to get credit for the monster the computer industry has become.
HM
RIAA, has won over a stalemate over the P2P networks. Based on facts that they alone are privey too? Well I did a bit of fact collecting as well and 75% of people questioned about music sharing had this to say " Piracy is so rampant I mean I have a stero and a tape recorder that works right". So 3 out of 4 people I surveyed do not use P2P networks to Pirate music now. Get with the program. You the 1000's of RIAA members and lobbiest vs the BILLIONS of P2P and avid music buffs. And you claim victory? You are losing and can never in any feasible manner hope to control something that you can't fathom to start with. With that said eat drink be merry and please pass me a couple bags of what ever you are smoking to get this delusion cause I could use a bit of a vacation from the egomanaical sociopaths running most of the government and making these laws that completely go against anything and everything that we want. Heaven forbid the corporate entities listen to the general populace and understand that we do not want your bureacratic bullshit smeared in our faces cause you refuse to accept that what we do is not ordained by your flimsy excuses of control. Threats and coercion do nothing to sway my efforts to do as I please on the internet as was intended. If you really want to fight something of importance go after the rampant spy/malware creators/distrbutors and make an example of them and leave the common person to what few lesiures are left now. When you get that part of worked out then come to me about paying for something to help you combat that front and I will be more then happy to assist you. MPAA follow suit. instead of allowing theatres to charge 10+ a pop for a cut rate half assed movie that you spit out at the rate of 10 a month use reality a minute. 5.00 a pop for any media type would be more then enough to help curb piracy and file shaing. I for one just love to take my family to a movie (5 people) and spend nearly $100 just to get in and get some popcorn. Record co's 50c per song online is reasonable and as soon as you remove the DRM (not that it matters) and charge that price I'm willing to bet that piracy will decline. Winning on this front is not possible for you. Defeat is not something you will admit to so compromise and give us what we have been asking for for nearly 10 years. Digital media downloads are here to stay regardless of what you may think or tell people any bullshit you thrown at us to the contrary is out right lying and with Bush we have enough scandals and lying we can tolerate now. Go to the board room tell them we're SOL and we need to adapt instead of trying to punish everyone you can that you know have neither the means or facility to combat you and get over yourself.
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would you prefer vaseline or KY with this information? Either way I think we are going to be screwed by big business looking for a higher bottom line at our expense.. kinda like long distance phone calls from land lines.. been greased by that one for years and still we let them do it.
Umm... pardon me for being scientific but foam as a whole is an insulator. PC's main combatant is heat.... I understand the need for noise reduction but why would you put an insulator in an item that has severe issues with heat? I'm sure the 20-50dB difference is nice but why risk a system failure or system burn out on a bit of noise? If any of the major fans in the system fail you could be buying another CPU/HDD memory or video card in short time. If you want quiet. Aluminum case double walled with plastic line and yes Insulated panels. true it is insulated but the aluminum is a natural heat sink since it is double layered the aluminum will help to transfer some of he excess heat. Water cooler. they are cheap enough now and the pump noise is next to NIL. you can even go as far as replacing the video heatsink/fan with water block cooling. now ports on the system face all ports out the bottom and intake from the front. sounds weird but think about it. Heat rises anyway so the down force if you have a carpeted or padded room will help with the noise. Powersupply go with the ANTEC fanless model and that should remedy all the issues you have. I'm guessing at this point short of some 10k WD raptor or scsi drives over 10k the system will be nearly silent regardless. Some still fear a liquid running around an electronic device and I sympathize with you. its all a matter of what degree of noise you will tolerate. Mine sounds like a freight train derailing in a firework factory during a new years day parade.... so as you can guess noise isn't an issue. (OC CPU requires some compromises).
I was wondering how long it would be before someone invented Console SPAM..!! YAY microsoft and ea for making my dreams a reality.... someone shoot me now so I can die happy or something like that.. what's next OO I know lets do bulk mailers for prostetic repro organs......../cry
I'm not sure about cost meaning that the product or the quality of service being directly linked. I've payed for service from several companies for this quality and have still been berated by idiots who "pay to do this". I don't think its a matter of price = quality. Its more of a game balance and development limitations. Some how I don't think that games like Tony Hawk and Burnout will be so much better if you pay to play them online. My 2 cents and that's bout all I would pay for a console based service for online gaming. Why would I want to pay for a game I've purchased to play to begin with, now MMO's have a distinct advantage there as you're playing for support and quality of product not quality of patronage.
In most cases I've seen the loser has to compensate the winner of the case for fees and loss of monies from the case and revenue lost as well. Why should the state be exempt from this? Yea it hurts the public, yes it hurts the economy, however it may set an example to other idiots who attempt this. Think before you speak. Its better to be silent and thought a fool then to speak and remove all doubt. Censorship is rampant enough in this country. Most major company's now try to ban or censor anything that is negative to them using the severely skewed laws in place now. Until we stand up and say you bunch of F'n idiots quit spending our money and wasting our time on irrelevent things and actually do what you were initially voted for to do. I've seen good and bad elected officials in office and the sad but true fact is the deceitful ones seem to win out over the honorable ones more often then not, simple fact is the liars will promise everything and deliver nothing, and still tell you its what you wanted to begin with. Yet we put them back in power time and time again. Personally the decrepit old farts in the high offices need to be either put out in the pasture most times for younger people with more interest in the public and less in the price of the legacy they leave their children. Reminds me of the recent "OIL/GAS" prices that have risen over 20% in the last years. Still the companies who own and sell these products are reporting a nearly 30% increase of revenue for each phiscal quarter. We pay more for something that they don't and they get to benefit from this and our Govt. that is designed to protect us from this is simply taking the money from them and telling us that they are working to help curb this atrocity........ Strange, wait isn't our president an old world Oil Tycoon?..... O the Irony of the whole thing....
Personally the variation between both cards in performance is ususally BARELY discernable by pretty much anyone. Another key point isn't the processor on the GFX cards but the system itself. I could have a nice 3000+ amd cpu with 256mb ram running the 7900 SLI config or 1900XFX and have total CRAP performance. the other aspect is personal preference. both cards are fairly evenly matched from the specs and benches yes one has a bit better then the other in everyother catagory but bottom line is. If you can afford the pretty 5K computer then Yea the SLI/XFX performance is going to be phenonimal. Now the question is who's going to make the first Quad SLI single display push? now with extreme highend box like a dual or quad CPU dual core chip like maybe the 4800+ amd's with 4 or gigs o Ram and hell Quad SLI piped through a single display 1920x1080./cry I want one now dammit...
The simple days when atari was king.. Play Pong with her. simple elegant and skill in this is minimal and after 10 or 15 minutes of playing this with her she'll be come bored and leave you alone so you can play the things you really want to play and if she complains, you have the "I Was playing a game with you, and you left". Now if you truely want a game you can both play look into card/board type games. There are several co's out there that make Java and other crappy games.
Point taken. But according to the forums listed at Blizzard this kbd is legal and used by numerous GM's that play there. It does allow for multiple keystrokes mapped to a single Key. so again there comes the multi function button of/macro 1/pause/macro 2. which puts the blame game in overdrive. If you allow for the device in its current condition and ban people for using the tools which you have given them then hypocracy is truly running the company and its rules are suspect based upon the mood at the time of incident. Blizzard, I put this question to you IF this kbd is not allowed on the game then answer why GM's state they use this device. Furthermore Define Botting in your game setting so that perma banning someone who is attempting to ascertain his fault can actually SEE what they are violating in the ToS or other agreement you "have" set in effect. I'm tired of seeing the you're wrong and we're right and we don't have to prove it from the major co's out there. and the canned email response that is generally given out to EVERYONE is superficial and rather childish. I understand the need for initial email repsonse to be automated but, and this is purely on the facts that are visible, since you won't respond, that you NEVER even looked at the emails or any corespondence that was sent to you. you simply slapped the "macro" for cheesy email response to the guy and that was all.
True this does effectively work within the confines of the TOS based upon the forums. The definition of botting is what is left to spectulation here I think. Botting to me means a "looping" as you said of repetitive keystokes in an unattended manner. I remember the days past when EZ-macro was used in UO to auto mine stuff and you just slap it on put a series of patterned keystrokes that repeat infinitely. This KBD doesn't appear to do that. Again I sympathize with the guy about being perma banned and don't think that is fair but, Is this the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth (so help me bill) or are we missing some key information. Either way if what he was doing is botting then I'm guilty of doing that in every MMO I've ever played. Repetition in a MMO is common practice now as "skills" are mundane and boring, yet virtually everyone (SWG is and exception) has a mundane grind pattern that begs macroing and or botting. Yea that's lazy or why play if you just do that or etc, I'm sure there are millions of reasons for and for not playing MMO's bottom line is they are meant as a way to enjoy ourselves and distance ourselves from the reality around us. Many a time I wish I could grab a nice fat blade and start hacking away at things around me just to releave tension/grin. I think we need to point some fingers at Blizzard for the key points to this story and smack that auto response script from there email servers and get an actual answer from them.
O joy another intelligent response. They message him he doesn't reply he's guilty. perma ban!? I'm in mid fight or a heavy populated area with massive spam on my screen with my music up or the audio off. GM msg's me I sneeze at the same time and miss the message and I'm perma banned.. DAMN I shouldn't have sneezed.. Or one better. I watch TV all the time when I play MMO's so this is evil? I'm still manually smashing keys with macro's attached to them.. QUICK perma ban me... I'm multi tasking that's against the laws of nature.... think before you speak. they incorporate macros into a game then bitch when you use them. and if you aren't intelligent enough to create a macro that can cast multiple spells at once don't blame the people who have that ability. (easy way to do it) Macro spell1, macro spell2 Macro 3 = activate macro 1, pause X, Activate macro 2.. Wow I'm botting now I just cast 2 spells with one key... ban me quick I've got an advantage o no.. the world is going to end. again I state PROVE I was botting, can you prove it? find the program I was using that automated every instance of my char online. If they didn't want you taking short cuts on the game then they shouldn't have implemented macros in the first place. Botting basic definition would be essentially having an automated process that negates the need for human interaction. Macro is just a way to compile numerous tasks in one simple action. 2 Completely different things all together. Yes blizzard has to make a point towards cheating but putting inherently damning items in the game interface and then pointing fingers at people for using them is bit assinine I would say. Hey what do I know tho. I've only been playing mmo's for 7 or so years give or take. I've used macros and shortcuts in every single one that I've played but Nonetheless I was still present at the computer during these uses. Auctioning in bazaar areas not withstanding but he I'd get banned for that I'm sure having my toon repeat the same phrase over and over at set intervals is giving me some sort of distinct advantage over the other million people here selling shit.......
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=w ow-tech-support&t=747609&tmp=1#post747609 that is the link to forum page that states that the Logitech KBD is acceptable for use in the the game and that several ADMIN'S/GM'S use this item as well. if it is the kbd that is the factor then they need to ban all that use this function of it. However if he was using a "botting" program then they need to prove that this was the case and that smacking a key every so often which since I don't play WoW but have done EQ/EQ2 AC, AO, UO and bout 100 other MMORPG's and used macros to break the tedium of the nonsensicle smack rock pickup item repeat or the auto macro's in EQ2's crafting tools (yes I used them) still required some interaction on the user's part. Macros from all I've read about in almost all MMO's are common practice. Most games have in-game keystroke macro keys built in. If he was abusing the macros by not being coherent but still being at the machine how can this be considered botting? He's although not attentive still manually activating the macros by a key. If bliz wants to throw accusations at people they should specify what exactly he is doing that is considered a bot. If macros are botting then 99% of the community would be banned based on that definition. I've got several friends who play WoW and I watch them smack 1 or 2 keys for multiple actions (that's a macro) yet these are ingame made macros. so according to what is considered a ban-able offense then the game itself should be stricken from its on accord and all accounts banned for just using the front end on the software. How if any advantage is gained by using a standard macro to eliminate certain repetitive actions such as target self/heal/target last target? O no I don't have to use my mouse to click on 3 different buttons at once.../cringe. EVEN if what he did is "unfair ", or illegal then they should by all means ban him for a duration. guilty until proven innocent seems to be blizzards mentality and there complete lack of anything resemebling Respect for the player makes me wonder how they will treat me if I were to join in the fray. if I were blizzard I would re examine my business practices before someone ban's blizzard from operating in general because of bad practices and unfair treatment. I would find a great irony if someone did bring a class action suit against them for this BS and smack them for millions because they want to prove a point with no proof to back that point up with. If you want to ban someone for doing something wrong then at least have the courtesy to give them a specific reason and/or warning. its like getting a ticket driving. imagine if everyone who speeded was slapped in jail for a life sentence just cause the were driving to fast... makes ya think. and I don't need any analagy tards going that's not the same. stfu ahead of time its the same damned thing if he was yes a fine is acceptable not life in jail. Personally software industry is getting as bad as movie/music industry. they assume they are gods of the domain and can act as the see fit based on the time of the month it is.
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Yes that is a good point with the through-put. Say my firewall is the last hop they see doing a route trace to me. Even tho I'm connected to an Intranet of 5000+ computers the last IP address attached to the file is mine. Did I download the material? HTF can you prove that I did? was there some guy with a mapped image of my drive with the materials on there? what about the botnet puters that are rampant with malware/spyware? they spam out millions of emails a day from random computers who happened to be infected. I have a song that I share out to 1000 people effectively what they are saying is that any computer that the file passed through on the network path to its ultimate destination is now liable for damages for transporting the information even tho my computer which is hidden from direct view by a spoof or something is not visible. Then is the ISP now liable for the hosting file? what about the hop it made in china or los angeles or texas or florida? Are all these computers now liable for file trafficing? If so then why is it legal for radio stations to broadcast music that is copyrighted to my stereo via wireless signals and I make a TAPE or CD of the audio that is freely and publicly distributed via an OPEN signal to anyone in the area now suddenly wrong? I know any and all of the people who grew up with tape decks recorded songs from the radio. That being said now the **AA's can essentially come along and sue you for making a tape of there material that is distributed via TV, Radio, Satellite, Internet, ETC. Yet they offer it to you openly? Hypocritical socialists. If it were up to me I would download every video and song ever made broadcast via a remote host or hosts everywhere in the world and post a disclaimer that states that the **AA's can universally kiss my ass because I'm doing nothing more then what you do on a daily basis, I'm just making it easier to do for everyone. Think about that when you are watching CBS,NBC,ABC etc and they have this wonderful movie that was in the theatre that you loved. I didn't pay anything to watch this movie they are showing yet if I make a video tape of it I'm essentially now liable for the movies gross income over its lifetime? Fuck them. Sue me all you want I make 20k a year and if you think you can get 100k outta me I would love to see it. Quote "We the unwilling, Lead by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful" Albert Einstein.
Yes and now that man who "produces from nature" we now call this pollution. Which his original thought? Ok so the REMAKE of War of the Worlds a SECOND time is creative?! I have a wooden dildo with many nails in it you can borrow to glorify your sentiments please use graciously and I don't need it back since your philosophy seems to mean EVERYONE has to create from ideas inherently there own yet most people even the so called visionaries recycle the same old shit in a different package and tell us because we made it it costs more then the original version did. HM.
Ok now I understand why the music industry said they have won the war on piracy. They are passing off the invasive tactics to a seedier ally. Yea I pirate stuff, I don't think anyone who has a PC and internet access has not. The fact of the matter is that there is so much complete garbage coming from both Movie and Music industry that I refuse to spend hard earned money on something that I cannot confirm that I like. I'm not going to purchase a car without testing it out first. Yea they complain about people downloading movies still in theatres, WTF as much as it costs for a single person to go see the movie let alone a family DAMN right I'm going to want to know what my money is buying before I dump 100 bux into the pocket of some half assed movie producer/director cause of his name. You can also blame the people in the movies for this to a degree too. 20+ million to make a movie as lame ass as war of the worlds?! You should have paid this out to people for the time they invested in seeing this atrocity(nothing personal Steven). With the current sequel a year tactics of movies and such, most of which don't deserve the first movie let alone a sequel, why do I even bother with over glorified TV shows with digital sound? Again I stress, its not that everyone wants to be a pirate, although I'm sure that some do, its that you leave little options to the contrary. Movie downloads should be widely accepted by now yet you stifel them for your "DVD" sales. WTF do I need to go to a video store to get a movie when my HIGH SPEED internet connection has wonderful delivery method built-in. If holywood wants to crucify someone start with its own. Make an example of the halfassed movies that come out in groves and make more people weep with disgust then creating a witch hunt out of everyday people to proclaim that you are losing 250bn a year on shit like "the da vinci code" (great book, lackluster movie). If you start asking a reasonable fee for the GOLD plated tin foil you're passing off as pure I'm sure that we will return in kind. Heaven knows the 2k a month I make which almost covers my place to live and just my bills let alone my car payment and other stuff just ain't worth trying to divey up a share to some guy who makes 20mil just to look good in front of a camera and wince when a bright light that he is told is an explosion. Please sue me for piracy you can have the 3.75c I have left at the end of each month till hell freezes over cause you sure as hell won't get more then that out of me no matter how much you stomp and stare. Holywood can kiss my ass just like the record companies. Make something I want and then make it affordable and we'll talk till then SUE ME.. can't get blood from a turnip... HM
Look at it this way. He is stepping down as CSA, meaning he's relinquishing his authority (not completely) on design aspects of MS software. Whereas he will still in an overall sense be in control of the company. Yes he has the mark of shame associated with him for his past trangressions which many will not let him live down. However 2/3's of the country and possibly the world's day to day lives are only possible because of his software and developments (indirectly). Even you Linux/Unix and Mac people. Your system is still contributed from Bill's innovation. Like it or not he does make your day to day lives possible in some fashion. Look at this website. I'm willing to bet within the chain of servers that this site is on is an MS box or between you and them is an MS box or some other software package that is. Love him hate him, you still have to give him respect for making the PC industry the monster it is today in that regard. Without some of his pioneering software developments we wouldn't have the Xbox, yea Windows has always had issues, but still run on more pc's then any other OS combined. Have a good pseudo retirement Bill and wether we love or hate you you have to get credit for the monster the computer industry has become. HM
RIAA, has won over a stalemate over the P2P networks. Based on facts that they alone are privey too? Well I did a bit of fact collecting as well and 75% of people questioned about music sharing had this to say " Piracy is so rampant I mean I have a stero and a tape recorder that works right". So 3 out of 4 people I surveyed do not use P2P networks to Pirate music now. Get with the program. You the 1000's of RIAA members and lobbiest vs the BILLIONS of P2P and avid music buffs. And you claim victory? You are losing and can never in any feasible manner hope to control something that you can't fathom to start with. With that said eat drink be merry and please pass me a couple bags of what ever you are smoking to get this delusion cause I could use a bit of a vacation from the egomanaical sociopaths running most of the government and making these laws that completely go against anything and everything that we want. Heaven forbid the corporate entities listen to the general populace and understand that we do not want your bureacratic bullshit smeared in our faces cause you refuse to accept that what we do is not ordained by your flimsy excuses of control. Threats and coercion do nothing to sway my efforts to do as I please on the internet as was intended. If you really want to fight something of importance go after the rampant spy/malware creators/distrbutors and make an example of them and leave the common person to what few lesiures are left now. When you get that part of worked out then come to me about paying for something to help you combat that front and I will be more then happy to assist you. MPAA follow suit. instead of allowing theatres to charge 10+ a pop for a cut rate half assed movie that you spit out at the rate of 10 a month use reality a minute. 5.00 a pop for any media type would be more then enough to help curb piracy and file shaing. I for one just love to take my family to a movie (5 people) and spend nearly $100 just to get in and get some popcorn. Record co's 50c per song online is reasonable and as soon as you remove the DRM (not that it matters) and charge that price I'm willing to bet that piracy will decline. Winning on this front is not possible for you. Defeat is not something you will admit to so compromise and give us what we have been asking for for nearly 10 years. Digital media downloads are here to stay regardless of what you may think or tell people any bullshit you thrown at us to the contrary is out right lying and with Bush we have enough scandals and lying we can tolerate now. Go to the board room tell them we're SOL and we need to adapt instead of trying to punish everyone you can that you know have neither the means or facility to combat you and get over yourself. HM
would you prefer vaseline or KY with this information? Either way I think we are going to be screwed by big business looking for a higher bottom line at our expense.. kinda like long distance phone calls from land lines.. been greased by that one for years and still we let them do it.
Umm... pardon me for being scientific but foam as a whole is an insulator. PC's main combatant is heat.... I understand the need for noise reduction but why would you put an insulator in an item that has severe issues with heat? I'm sure the 20-50dB difference is nice but why risk a system failure or system burn out on a bit of noise? If any of the major fans in the system fail you could be buying another CPU/HDD memory or video card in short time. If you want quiet. Aluminum case double walled with plastic line and yes Insulated panels. true it is insulated but the aluminum is a natural heat sink since it is double layered the aluminum will help to transfer some of he excess heat. Water cooler. they are cheap enough now and the pump noise is next to NIL. you can even go as far as replacing the video heatsink/fan with water block cooling. now ports on the system face all ports out the bottom and intake from the front. sounds weird but think about it. Heat rises anyway so the down force if you have a carpeted or padded room will help with the noise. Powersupply go with the ANTEC fanless model and that should remedy all the issues you have. I'm guessing at this point short of some 10k WD raptor or scsi drives over 10k the system will be nearly silent regardless. Some still fear a liquid running around an electronic device and I sympathize with you. its all a matter of what degree of noise you will tolerate. Mine sounds like a freight train derailing in a firework factory during a new years day parade.... so as you can guess noise isn't an issue. (OC CPU requires some compromises).
I was wondering how long it would be before someone invented Console SPAM..!! YAY microsoft and ea for making my dreams a reality.... someone shoot me now so I can die happy or something like that.. what's next OO I know lets do bulk mailers for prostetic repro organs........ /cry
I'm not sure about cost meaning that the product or the quality of service being directly linked. I've payed for service from several companies for this quality and have still been berated by idiots who "pay to do this". I don't think its a matter of price = quality. Its more of a game balance and development limitations. Some how I don't think that games like Tony Hawk and Burnout will be so much better if you pay to play them online. My 2 cents and that's bout all I would pay for a console based service for online gaming. Why would I want to pay for a game I've purchased to play to begin with, now MMO's have a distinct advantage there as you're playing for support and quality of product not quality of patronage.
In most cases I've seen the loser has to compensate the winner of the case for fees and loss of monies from the case and revenue lost as well. Why should the state be exempt from this? Yea it hurts the public, yes it hurts the economy, however it may set an example to other idiots who attempt this. Think before you speak. Its better to be silent and thought a fool then to speak and remove all doubt. Censorship is rampant enough in this country. Most major company's now try to ban or censor anything that is negative to them using the severely skewed laws in place now. Until we stand up and say you bunch of F'n idiots quit spending our money and wasting our time on irrelevent things and actually do what you were initially voted for to do. I've seen good and bad elected officials in office and the sad but true fact is the deceitful ones seem to win out over the honorable ones more often then not, simple fact is the liars will promise everything and deliver nothing, and still tell you its what you wanted to begin with. Yet we put them back in power time and time again. Personally the decrepit old farts in the high offices need to be either put out in the pasture most times for younger people with more interest in the public and less in the price of the legacy they leave their children. Reminds me of the recent "OIL/GAS" prices that have risen over 20% in the last years. Still the companies who own and sell these products are reporting a nearly 30% increase of revenue for each phiscal quarter. We pay more for something that they don't and they get to benefit from this and our Govt. that is designed to protect us from this is simply taking the money from them and telling us that they are working to help curb this atrocity........ Strange, wait isn't our president an old world Oil Tycoon?..... O the Irony of the whole thing....
Personally the variation between both cards in performance is ususally BARELY discernable by pretty much anyone. Another key point isn't the processor on the GFX cards but the system itself. I could have a nice 3000+ amd cpu with 256mb ram running the 7900 SLI config or 1900XFX and have total CRAP performance. the other aspect is personal preference. both cards are fairly evenly matched from the specs and benches yes one has a bit better then the other in everyother catagory but bottom line is. If you can afford the pretty 5K computer then Yea the SLI/XFX performance is going to be phenonimal. Now the question is who's going to make the first Quad SLI single display push? now with extreme highend box like a dual or quad CPU dual core chip like maybe the 4800+ amd's with 4 or gigs o Ram and hell Quad SLI piped through a single display 1920x1080. /cry I want one now dammit...
The simple days when atari was king.. Play Pong with her. simple elegant and skill in this is minimal and after 10 or 15 minutes of playing this with her she'll be come bored and leave you alone so you can play the things you really want to play and if she complains, you have the "I Was playing a game with you, and you left". Now if you truely want a game you can both play look into card/board type games. There are several co's out there that make Java and other crappy games.
Point taken. But according to the forums listed at Blizzard this kbd is legal and used by numerous GM's that play there. It does allow for multiple keystrokes mapped to a single Key. so again there comes the multi function button of /macro 1 /pause /macro 2. which puts the blame game in overdrive. If you allow for the device in its current condition and ban people for using the tools which you have given them then hypocracy is truly running the company and its rules are suspect based upon the mood at the time of incident. Blizzard, I put this question to you IF this kbd is not allowed on the game then answer why GM's state they use this device. Furthermore Define Botting in your game setting so that perma banning someone who is attempting to ascertain his fault can actually SEE what they are violating in the ToS or other agreement you "have" set in effect. I'm tired of seeing the you're wrong and we're right and we don't have to prove it from the major co's out there. and the canned email response that is generally given out to EVERYONE is superficial and rather childish. I understand the need for initial email repsonse to be automated but, and this is purely on the facts that are visible, since you won't respond, that you NEVER even looked at the emails or any corespondence that was sent to you. you simply slapped the "macro" for cheesy email response to the guy and that was all.
True this does effectively work within the confines of the TOS based upon the forums. The definition of botting is what is left to spectulation here I think. Botting to me means a "looping" as you said of repetitive keystokes in an unattended manner. I remember the days past when EZ-macro was used in UO to auto mine stuff and you just slap it on put a series of patterned keystrokes that repeat infinitely. This KBD doesn't appear to do that. Again I sympathize with the guy about being perma banned and don't think that is fair but, Is this the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth (so help me bill) or are we missing some key information. Either way if what he was doing is botting then I'm guilty of doing that in every MMO I've ever played. Repetition in a MMO is common practice now as "skills" are mundane and boring, yet virtually everyone (SWG is and exception) has a mundane grind pattern that begs macroing and or botting. Yea that's lazy or why play if you just do that or etc, I'm sure there are millions of reasons for and for not playing MMO's bottom line is they are meant as a way to enjoy ourselves and distance ourselves from the reality around us. Many a time I wish I could grab a nice fat blade and start hacking away at things around me just to releave tension /grin. I think we need to point some fingers at Blizzard for the key points to this story and smack that auto response script from there email servers and get an actual answer from them.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=w ow-tech-support&t=747609&tmp=1#post747609
Read that and ask the same question again...... kinda discredits everything you basically said.
O joy another intelligent response. They message him he doesn't reply he's guilty. perma ban!? I'm in mid fight or a heavy populated area with massive spam on my screen with my music up or the audio off. GM msg's me I sneeze at the same time and miss the message and I'm perma banned.. DAMN I shouldn't have sneezed.. Or one better. I watch TV all the time when I play MMO's so this is evil? I'm still manually smashing keys with macro's attached to them.. QUICK perma ban me... I'm multi tasking that's against the laws of nature.... think before you speak. they incorporate macros into a game then bitch when you use them. and if you aren't intelligent enough to create a macro that can cast multiple spells at once don't blame the people who have that ability. (easy way to do it) Macro spell1, macro spell2 Macro 3 = activate macro 1, pause X, Activate macro 2.. Wow I'm botting now I just cast 2 spells with one key... ban me quick I've got an advantage o no.. the world is going to end. again I state PROVE I was botting, can you prove it? find the program I was using that automated every instance of my char online. If they didn't want you taking short cuts on the game then they shouldn't have implemented macros in the first place. Botting basic definition would be essentially having an automated process that negates the need for human interaction. Macro is just a way to compile numerous tasks in one simple action. 2 Completely different things all together. Yes blizzard has to make a point towards cheating but putting inherently damning items in the game interface and then pointing fingers at people for using them is bit assinine I would say. Hey what do I know tho. I've only been playing mmo's for 7 or so years give or take. I've used macros and shortcuts in every single one that I've played but Nonetheless I was still present at the computer during these uses. Auctioning in bazaar areas not withstanding but he I'd get banned for that I'm sure having my toon repeat the same phrase over and over at set intervals is giving me some sort of distinct advantage over the other million people here selling shit.......
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=w ow-tech-support&t=747609&tmp=1#post747609 /or warning. its like getting a ticket driving. imagine if everyone who speeded was slapped in jail for a life sentence just cause the were driving to fast... makes ya think. and I don't need any analagy tards going that's not the same. stfu ahead of time its the same damned thing if he was yes a fine is acceptable not life in jail. Personally software industry is getting as bad as movie/music industry. they assume they are gods of the domain and can act as the see fit based on the time of the month it is.
that is the link to forum page that states that the Logitech KBD is acceptable for use in the the game and that several ADMIN'S/GM'S use this item as well. if it is the kbd that is the factor then they need to ban all that use this function of it. However if he was using a "botting" program then they need to prove that this was the case and that smacking a key every so often which since I don't play WoW but have done EQ/EQ2 AC, AO, UO and bout 100 other MMORPG's and used macros to break the tedium of the nonsensicle smack rock pickup item repeat or the auto macro's in EQ2's crafting tools (yes I used them) still required some interaction on the user's part. Macros from all I've read about in almost all MMO's are common practice. Most games have in-game keystroke macro keys built in. If he was abusing the macros by not being coherent but still being at the machine how can this be considered botting? He's although not attentive still manually activating the macros by a key. If bliz wants to throw accusations at people they should specify what exactly he is doing that is considered a bot. If macros are botting then 99% of the community would be banned based on that definition. I've got several friends who play WoW and I watch them smack 1 or 2 keys for multiple actions (that's a macro) yet these are ingame made macros. so according to what is considered a ban-able offense then the game itself should be stricken from its on accord and all accounts banned for just using the front end on the software. How if any advantage is gained by using a standard macro to eliminate certain repetitive actions such as target self/heal/target last target? O no I don't have to use my mouse to click on 3 different buttons at once.../cringe. EVEN if what he did is "unfair ", or illegal then they should by all means ban him for a duration. guilty until proven innocent seems to be blizzards mentality and there complete lack of anything resemebling Respect for the player makes me wonder how they will treat me if I were to join in the fray. if I were blizzard I would re examine my business practices before someone ban's blizzard from operating in general because of bad practices and unfair treatment. I would find a great irony if someone did bring a class action suit against them for this BS and smack them for millions because they want to prove a point with no proof to back that point up with. If you want to ban someone for doing something wrong then at least have the courtesy to give them a specific reason and