Not so much amazed. I feel it is in fact the point of playing an MMO.
Heck, even with me paying for 2-3 accounts on average, I still save money.
I don't buy games that I get bored with after a few hours at $50 a pop. I don't go to many movies (aside for a select few I'm happy to wait for em to show up on cable/ppv) I tend to eat in rather than getting takeout all the time
I save tons of money. And oddly talk to people far more often than I used to. All my friends play, we have a vent server, so we chat all night, and end up arranging more get togethers as a result of it than we used to.
MMORPGs were a bad idea for the entertainment industry;p
Yep, I let google's ads live because they are non-intrusive and generally relevant (to the point I click them on occasion).
Graphics show up and they'll get thrown in adblock. If for no other reason than if they've caved on graphics how long before they cave on flash and other annoyances. Soon I'll have to deal with relevant pop-unders.
Most aren't. I have a couple that are and I've been horribly disappointed with the trash quality.
Most are quite well packaged euro releases.
If they are bootlegs/copies of us releases they certainly went through enough effort stripping out logos and bonus content and writing up nice case insert books that describe the series and give some historical info to help keep some of the more odd shows in context.
I just bypass ADV entirely and buy imports. Can get english subtitles from almost anywhere these days, and I don't care about the dubbing, I'd rather hear it in Japanese anyway.
Find something region free and buy a season for $30.
If ADV gets their prices to the $45ish that most seasons of tv cost in the US these days I'll buy their products since they tend to be a bit better quality, but $150? I can survive with a little bit of engrish for $120 savings.
I won one of the every10minutes.com xbox360s. Mine won't be here til saturday (before the official release yet), but it wouldn't surprise me if others got theirs sooner.
Your IP and upload/download rations are all recorded by the tracker anyway. All the registration does is lets the operator weed out undesireables easier.
I'm sure he meant on windows. Nothing wrong with the hardware, and alsa is swell for linux, but on windows creaf installs a TON of misc addons and about 4 different mixers and auto updaters and sound editor demos and all sorts of other crap that invariably has a negative effect on system stability.
You can avoid MOST of it by doing a custom install, but not everything.
If you are in Russia you are fine. If you are not you are subject to your local laws.
MP3s from allofmp3.com are not legal in the US and are no better than using Kazaa (except, of course, that you get consistant quality). The labels still don't get money. The artists still don't get money. It's not an RIAA licensed download service.
Actually, it's more accuratly saying that even though you bought the music doesn't make it legal in your country, so use it at your own risk.
If the RIAA stormed your house, and found your mp3 collection, you'd still be liable for copyright infringement. Paying someone in Russia for unlicensed music doesn't magically make it legal.
You are on no safer legal ground using Allofmp3 than you are just getting the music from kazaa.
I change the channel whenever ads come on, so not hearing your ad is not necessarily an indication that the medium is dead.
If I could be assured that the ads wouldn't be so annoying as to make me want to swerve into oncoming traffic I'd not bother surfing channels, but I've had one too many HIGHLY irritating commercials to take that chance anymore.
While the new controller throws me off a bit, I'll still be first in line to get a Revolution.
Why? Nintendo still has the best games of the lot. I own all three of the current consoles, and while the graphics are shinier on the ps2 and the xbox, the games themselves aren't so much. I enjoy splinter cell, but most of the games I play for a couple hours then forget I own. The developers of those seem to fall into the trap of "if its pretty enough, most of the public won't notice that the game is crap".
When my friends come over we still play Smash Brothers or Bomberman or Monkey Ball or any of the other fun, fast, easy, multiplayer games that Nintendo has out. The cube just has more party games and that's where most of my playtime comes in. I see no reason to believe that the Revolution won't be more of the same.
Technically by the wording of that, wouldn't it only prevent, say, the US from sending people to Mars and declaring it the 51st state?
If I, ferat, lord of all I survey, decide to wander out there and hole up in the giant face of Mars and declare it my personal domain, the agreement doesn't really apply.
Nor would it apply to anyone that isn't a signee of that treaty for that matter.
The new research shows it to be about 7000 light years longer than previously thought, and at a 45 degree angle. That is what was new, not that the bar was there in the first place. I agree, poorly written blurb.
It's my opinion that there will, at least in the mid-long term, not be a cure for AIDS.
Why?
Treating the disease is more profitable than curing the disease.
After all the patents run out, and the treatment drugs become publicly reproducable, then, like a miracle, the company will come out with a real cure, and they can keep those profits up. Keep the shareholders happy.
Couldn't ya just do a web form with logs stored in a ramdisk that is recycled ever 10 minutes? No bits on disk to be undeleted, the login name wouldn't mean anything, and no traceback.
Meet your contact someplace anonymous the first time. Some place like an adult theatre. Do what you can to acertain their credentials without actually getting a name. Give them a login to the aforementioned system. Never meet again.
Best anyone could say is "I got all this info from anony12431 whom I met at a glory hole".
How does life of the patent work for anything? How does that fix the problem? So many patents are just there to stifle competition. What's the penalty for failure to bring the product to market? Lose the patent? But as the "reasonable time" is the entire life of the patent you no longer have the patent at the end anyway.
Us geeks have more power than you give us credit for. Nobody in my extended family buys anything computer related without asking me first. Its annoying, I end up being tech support for all the aunts and uncles and cousins, but its the way it is.
They come to me and say "Hey, I want to do X with my computer, will *something they configured somewhere* do the job".
I'll say, "No, that's an EFI box, you don't want that", and they'll get something else I recommend.
Even non technical folks can understand a simple comment like "The only thing this 'new and exciting' technology gives you over the old tech is the ability to have someone else tell you what you can and can not do with your computer".
I turned everyone that asked me away from Divx (and the reason I mentioned above was the driving force behind people's decision to go with my recommendation), and I'll do the same with any trusted computing platform. And I'll advocate boycotting any company that tries to force it on us (hell, I still don't buy anything from Circuit City).
Uh.. wouldn't you only be aiding and abetting if it was your FRIEND under infestigation?
If your friend refused to give up the key, then he'd be in trouble, but if you can say "I really have no access, talk to so and so" I don't see how its your fault.
by and large I blanket accept any cookie set by the site i'm visiting unless it is obviously for an ad server, in which case I block it.
I block any cookie set by a third party, and any cookie that is assigned to a numeric address (I figure if they're too lazy to create a DNS entry for the server I can't be bothered to accept their cookie).
It's rare I actually delete cookies that are set since I authorize each and every one manually. As long as your cookies are internal and specific to your site I don't really care. The day you start setting them to track other things is when you'll stop getting permission, and depending on how irritated I am, my business.
So stick to site-only cookies and keep em benign and we can still be friends.
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Not so much amazed. I feel it is in fact the point of playing an MMO.
;p
Heck, even with me paying for 2-3 accounts on average, I still save money.
I don't buy games that I get bored with after a few hours at $50 a pop.
I don't go to many movies (aside for a select few I'm happy to wait for em to show up on cable/ppv)
I tend to eat in rather than getting takeout all the time
I save tons of money. And oddly talk to people far more often than I used to. All my friends play, we have a vent server, so we chat all night, and end up arranging more get togethers as a result of it than we used to.
MMORPGs were a bad idea for the entertainment industry
Ah, good old Kerm. He still teaches, fyi. MacOSX Server stuff these days.
http://www.fija.org/
Since you are uninformed, become informed. It is the jury's right (and duty) to judge both the law and the evidence.
Yep, I let google's ads live because they are non-intrusive and generally relevant (to the point I click them on occasion).
Graphics show up and they'll get thrown in adblock. If for no other reason than if they've caved on graphics how long before they cave on flash and other annoyances. Soon I'll have to deal with relevant pop-unders.
I found adium to be a little too... ducky.
Partial to Psi personally. Supports just about everything. Not quite as compact however.
Most aren't. I have a couple that are and I've been horribly disappointed with the trash quality.
Most are quite well packaged euro releases.
If they are bootlegs/copies of us releases they certainly went through enough effort stripping out logos and bonus content and writing up nice case insert books that describe the series and give some historical info to help keep some of the more odd shows in context.
I just bypass ADV entirely and buy imports. Can get english subtitles from almost anywhere these days, and I don't care about the dubbing, I'd rather hear it in Japanese anyway.
Find something region free and buy a season for $30.
If ADV gets their prices to the $45ish that most seasons of tv cost in the US these days I'll buy their products since they tend to be a bit better quality, but $150? I can survive with a little bit of engrish for $120 savings.
I won one of the every10minutes.com xbox360s. Mine won't be here til saturday (before the official release yet), but it wouldn't surprise me if others got theirs sooner.
Could be legit.
Your IP and upload/download rations are all recorded by the tracker anyway. All the registration does is lets the operator weed out undesireables easier.
BitTorrent isn't even vaguely anonymous.
I'm sure he meant on windows. Nothing wrong with the hardware, and alsa is swell for linux, but on windows creaf installs a TON of misc addons and about 4 different mixers and auto updaters and sound editor demos and all sorts of other crap that invariably has a negative effect on system stability.
You can avoid MOST of it by doing a custom install, but not everything.
Yes, it's legal.. IN RUSSIA.
If you are in Russia you are fine. If you are not you are subject to your local laws.
MP3s from allofmp3.com are not legal in the US and are no better than using Kazaa (except, of course, that you get consistant quality). The labels still don't get money. The artists still don't get money. It's not an RIAA licensed download service.
It's basically just financing the Russian Mafia.
Actually, it's more accuratly saying that even though you bought the music doesn't make it legal in your country, so use it at your own risk.
If the RIAA stormed your house, and found your mp3 collection, you'd still be liable for copyright infringement. Paying someone in Russia for unlicensed music doesn't magically make it legal.
You are on no safer legal ground using Allofmp3 than you are just getting the music from kazaa.
I change the channel whenever ads come on, so not hearing your ad is not necessarily an indication that the medium is dead.
If I could be assured that the ads wouldn't be so annoying as to make me want to swerve into oncoming traffic I'd not bother surfing channels, but I've had one too many HIGHLY irritating commercials to take that chance anymore.
While the new controller throws me off a bit, I'll still be first in line to get a Revolution.
Why? Nintendo still has the best games of the lot. I own all three of the current consoles, and while the graphics are shinier on the ps2 and the xbox, the games themselves aren't so much. I enjoy splinter cell, but most of the games I play for a couple hours then forget I own. The developers of those seem to fall into the trap of "if its pretty enough, most of the public won't notice that the game is crap".
When my friends come over we still play Smash Brothers or Bomberman or Monkey Ball or any of the other fun, fast, easy, multiplayer games that Nintendo has out. The cube just has more party games and that's where most of my playtime comes in. I see no reason to believe that the Revolution won't be more of the same.
It's just gonna have a goofier controller.
Technically by the wording of that, wouldn't it only prevent, say, the US from sending people to Mars and declaring it the 51st state?
If I, ferat, lord of all I survey, decide to wander out there and hole up in the giant face of Mars and declare it my personal domain, the agreement doesn't really apply.
Nor would it apply to anyone that isn't a signee of that treaty for that matter.
The new research shows it to be about 7000 light years longer than previously thought, and at a 45 degree angle. That is what was new, not that the bar was there in the first place. I agree, poorly written blurb.
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Saw it on the tribune earlier:
http://www.startribune.com/stories/1556/5564676.h
It's my opinion that there will, at least in the mid-long term, not be a cure for AIDS.
Why?
Treating the disease is more profitable than curing the disease.
After all the patents run out, and the treatment drugs become publicly reproducable, then, like a miracle, the company will come out with a real cure, and they can keep those profits up. Keep the shareholders happy.
You've clearly never used MacOSX.
Couldn't ya just do a web form with logs stored in a ramdisk that is recycled ever 10 minutes? No bits on disk to be undeleted, the login name wouldn't mean anything, and no traceback.
Meet your contact someplace anonymous the first time. Some place like an adult theatre. Do what you can to acertain their credentials without actually getting a name. Give them a login to the aforementioned system. Never meet again.
Best anyone could say is "I got all this info from anony12431 whom I met at a glory hole".
How does life of the patent work for anything? How does that fix the problem? So many patents are just there to stifle competition. What's the penalty for failure to bring the product to market? Lose the patent? But as the "reasonable time" is the entire life of the patent you no longer have the patent at the end anyway.
#2 Imagine that my machine is maxed on ram and I still encounter swapping issues. A 4gb hyper fast swap space would really help.
Not for $500 tho.
Us geeks have more power than you give us credit for. Nobody in my extended family buys anything computer related without asking me first. Its annoying, I end up being tech support for all the aunts and uncles and cousins, but its the way it is.
They come to me and say "Hey, I want to do X with my computer, will *something they configured somewhere* do the job".
I'll say, "No, that's an EFI box, you don't want that", and they'll get something else I recommend.
Even non technical folks can understand a simple comment like "The only thing this 'new and exciting' technology gives you over the old tech is the ability to have someone else tell you what you can and can not do with your computer".
I turned everyone that asked me away from Divx (and the reason I mentioned above was the driving force behind people's decision to go with my recommendation), and I'll do the same with any trusted computing platform. And I'll advocate boycotting any company that tries to force it on us (hell, I still don't buy anything from Circuit City).
Uh.. wouldn't you only be aiding and abetting if it was your FRIEND under infestigation?
If your friend refused to give up the key, then he'd be in trouble, but if you can say "I really have no access, talk to so and so" I don't see how its your fault.
by and large I blanket accept any cookie set by the site i'm visiting unless it is obviously for an ad server, in which case I block it.
I block any cookie set by a third party, and any cookie that is assigned to a numeric address (I figure if they're too lazy to create a DNS entry for the server I can't be bothered to accept their cookie).
It's rare I actually delete cookies that are set since I authorize each and every one manually. As long as your cookies are internal and specific to your site I don't really care. The day you start setting them to track other things is when you'll stop getting permission, and depending on how irritated I am, my business.
So stick to site-only cookies and keep em benign and we can still be friends.
slang from the show. I tend to think of it in the same way as someone saying "cool".