How's that different than the time sink that is WoW? Instead of spending my time, which is worth more to me than a few bucks, I spend some money and get the upgrades? I know WoW isn't a huge time sink in terms of levels, but it's a MASSIVE time sink in the grinding aspect to get the latest and greatest weapons and armor etc. Or EVE (which is a great game) but require a MASSIVE amount of time to get to a competitive level. All the companys that do f2p WELL are doing is exchanging the TIME sink for a MONEY sink. It's up to you which you would rather have. Me personnally, I would rather have a money sink as I don't have the time to put into getting a properly skilled up character but still enjoy playing the games.
If your going to quote someone, at least use the whole part of whatever they wrote/said that is in reference to what your trying to contradict seeing as how he wrote:
"Ugg, I'm getting tired of hearing this misunderstanding. The iPhone OS is completely, 100% capable of full multitasking and uses multithreading extensively. Apple has chosen to restrict most of its own and all 3rd party applications to run only 1 at a time. Several built-in applications run in the background instead of exiting, such as Safari, Mail and the Phone applications."
You seemed to miss the whole last line, as right there he is saying that it does have serveral built-in applications that run in the background, even naming them. Now if you had been saying that as a developer you want that capability that's one thing, but stating that it doesn't allow it at all is false.
Awesome, thanks for the link, I must have missed that story. My wife has MS and will be very interested in reading about that. If I could I would mod you up as that should be at the least 3 insightfull
Have they already put a price tag on this battery somewhere? If not who cares how much $20,000 worth of fuel will get you? Might as well just make up numbers since there is nothing to compare it to. If there is and I missed reading it in the article, my bad, but I didn't see it there. Not to mention even if the battery was say $20,000, it's a onetime expense followed by significantly cheaper electricity costs to charge it then the ongoing fuel costs.
With my javascript disabled and cookies off I'm still unique! Just based off my user agent and http_accept strings, I'd guess it's due to my.net versions and such of which I need specific versions for different applications we run.
"Your example, multiple sclerosis, actually results from the immune system attacking myelin, which is an unrelated problem. The immune system looks for markers to know what belongs and what doesn't, so it's probable that MS is normally caused by damage to the genes that are responsible for the creation of these markers in the first place."
While this is true this could lead to a treatment that could possibly regrow/repair the Myelin sheath around the nerves in those that have MS, one of the big problems in this disease is that as the immune system attacks it causes scars to form in the myelin which stay, and then on further attacks get re-aggravated, while this treatment may not cure MS it may cut down on the relapses and prevent disability's due to previous attacks.
True but if they are smart they would just hire the mod teams (for anything truly successfull), I mean look at Counter-Strike. Started as a mod just a couple guys and then valve saw what they had done and the following they had and purchased it all, turned around and resold it and put new life back in a game that had passed it's selling peak.
True IE 6 hasn't but if you read the microsoft bulletin it also says that IE 7 and 8 share the vulnerability.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/979352.mspx
"Our investigation so far has shown that Internet Explorer 5.01 Service Pack 4 on Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 is not affected, and that Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 on Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, and Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8 on supported editions of Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2 are vulnerable."
It just struck me, and yes this is completely off topic, that we should have a "Troll Feeding" mod, cause this guy isn't really a troll, but he is definatly feeding them. ah well, just my random thought for the day
First I didn't say they were mostly hags, though I can see how you might read that into what I did say. What I meant is that the attractivness in that group is going down as time goes on, that was all, not that they are all or even mostly ugly now. Also as for your high school analogy, most of those relationship's aren't serious, I assume that by the age of 31 he's probably looking for a serious relationship not just one to help find out what you want, which is most of what the high school relationships are.
I think 5% is a reasonable number. Keep in mind when thinking about the number, he's 31, that means the dating pool of women is shrinking, I would think the majority of those are from the end of the pool that the general public is going to find attractive, which means that the available women keep getting "uglier". There is also the possibility that he doesn't think the "standard women" is attractive, hell for all we know he has a pegleg fetish( though i'm sure the number would be considerably lower if that were the case.). Not to mention he may have done a precalculation on that number of the number of women he finds attractive (lets say 15%), minus the number of women he feels are out of his league(lets say 10% of those he finds attractive), and yes, if that's the case he should have shown his work.
He's set personal standards that are virtually impossible to meet. That would be his problem, not the female population's.
Are you kidding me? All he wants is a person around his age, living in the same city, with a university education, and that he finds attractive. That is not "virtually impossible" the only thing there that is probably different than 90+% of what everyone is looking for is the university education, and I wouldn't even be sure it's that different. Now, having said that I don't think using math like this is all that great an idea, though it could work.
while your most likely joking, it's hard to tell and some may not know, POV = Point of View, for instance a Blowjob movie where the camera view is where your head(the one on your neck) would be.
It's one post on one forum. Does anyone have any other evidence that ASCAP is doing this? I'm all for getting rid of them, and copyright altogeather, but let's at least make sure we are arguing about things that are actually happening. I would like to see if there is any other people that report the same thing. I mean the post in response to the linked one is from someone else that runs GH Arcade and hasn't had any problems. Anyone else in the St Louis area that can confirm this is happening? or are we just going to fly off the handle over things we have no evidence of now? *cue "this is/.", "your new here" etc.
I read the ruling as well and while I agree it was a clarification and not a new law there are a few things about the wording that bother me. For instance the part where it states "The offender need not meet or intend to meet the victim with a view to committing any of the specified secondary offences. “Facilitating”, in this context, includes helping to bring about and making easier or more probable. "(now this seemed to be contradicted later in the ruling where it stated " What matters is whether the evidence as a whole establishes beyond a reasonable doubt that the accused communicated by computer with an underage person for the purpose of facilitating the commission of a specified secondary offence in respect of that person. [42]" so I'm not sure which part the judge would have to pay attention to as IANAL. But if they only have to listen to the first part that is indeed troubling.
The only "protection" that *nix/mac systems have over Windows is that no one gives a rats ass about infecting you
Ok, could we please stop with this troll now ?
At one side of the range, Linux has ratter good market shares in the servers and scientific clusters domains.
At the other side of the range, Linux has achieved quasi-monopoly in the embed domain, specially on home routers, wireless access points, small NAS/SAN, no-brand multimedia player/harddisk-enclosures, etc.
That's a lot of Linux running machines. The later are always connected to network, the former have even access to high-speed connections. This should make them more desirable to be infected isn't it ? Yet, there has not been an outbreak similar to Code Red on Linux. Simply because the default security settings, and the heterogeneity of distributions making it a hard to read moving target.
There are a lot of reasons while blackhats would be interested in attacking Linux, but despite this Windows is still the low-hanging fruit.
Okay I agree with you in principle, there are a lot of *nix devices out there, but the ones you are highlighting are the ones that are most likely to not get infected no matter what OS they are running. The server/scientific clusters are going to be run by knowledgeable people that are able to secure their servers. The embedded devices are generally built to only accept software by either the device maker (i.e. home router firmware) or built specifically for them and vetted by a either the device creator (i.e. Iphone) or less then likely to be installed by any average user (i.e. putting Linux on a home router) The kind of person that is going to get malware on their *nix box is the same kind of person that get's their windows machines infected. They click okay on anything/everything and (for instance) the ubuntu security box that pop's up and asks for a password is going to be no more of a deterrent then the vista/win7 security box is going to be. The problem with it as well is that as distrib's like Ubuntu try to get more of the market share of the average user they will make a few more concessions and the number of "tips" that tell people to run apt-get and download this, run this etc will increase and it will be that much easier to have people that don't know better installing malware.
No one should be surprised, but that doesn't mean it's not a big deal. What you have here is an entire industry (PC Repair) that apparently specializes in ripping off its customers and preying on their ignorance.
While I agree with most of your post I have to disagree with this statement. I work in the industry and have for years, yet I have never ripped off or preyed on anyone's ignorance. The majority of people I have worked with are the same way.
Depending on what it is (ie. how powerfull etc.) You could give it to your local schools. In the high school I went to we had a local course developed by the computer science teacher on how to repair computers and how to build them. He was always happy to take discards from people of the community and it didn't really matter how powerfull they were as the kids more often than not destroyed them. If the systems/parts are of suffienct power you could give them to an old folks home or a charity.
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How's that different than the time sink that is WoW? Instead of spending my time, which is worth more to me than a few bucks, I spend some money and get the upgrades? I know WoW isn't a huge time sink in terms of levels, but it's a MASSIVE time sink in the grinding aspect to get the latest and greatest weapons and armor etc. Or EVE (which is a great game) but require a MASSIVE amount of time to get to a competitive level. All the companys that do f2p WELL are doing is exchanging the TIME sink for a MONEY sink. It's up to you which you would rather have. Me personnally, I would rather have a money sink as I don't have the time to put into getting a properly skilled up character but still enjoy playing the games.
If your going to quote someone, at least use the whole part of whatever they wrote/said that is in reference to what your trying to contradict seeing as how he wrote:
"Ugg, I'm getting tired of hearing this misunderstanding. The iPhone OS is completely, 100% capable of full multitasking and uses multithreading extensively. Apple has chosen to restrict most of its own and all 3rd party applications to run only 1 at a time. Several built-in applications run in the background instead of exiting, such as Safari, Mail and the Phone applications."
You seemed to miss the whole last line, as right there he is saying that it does have serveral built-in applications that run in the background, even naming them. Now if you had been saying that as a developer you want that capability that's one thing, but stating that it doesn't allow it at all is false.
Awesome, thanks for the link, I must have missed that story. My wife has MS and will be very interested in reading about that. If I could I would mod you up as that should be at the least 3 insightfull
Have they already put a price tag on this battery somewhere? If not who cares how much $20,000 worth of fuel will get you? Might as well just make up numbers since there is nothing to compare it to. If there is and I missed reading it in the article, my bad, but I didn't see it there. Not to mention even if the battery was say $20,000, it's a onetime expense followed by significantly cheaper electricity costs to charge it then the ongoing fuel costs.
With my javascript disabled and cookies off I'm still unique! Just based off my user agent and http_accept strings, I'd guess it's due to my .net versions and such of which I need specific versions for different applications we run.
"Your example, multiple sclerosis, actually results from the immune system attacking myelin, which is an unrelated problem. The immune system looks for markers to know what belongs and what doesn't, so it's probable that MS is normally caused by damage to the genes that are responsible for the creation of these markers in the first place." While this is true this could lead to a treatment that could possibly regrow/repair the Myelin sheath around the nerves in those that have MS, one of the big problems in this disease is that as the immune system attacks it causes scars to form in the myelin which stay, and then on further attacks get re-aggravated, while this treatment may not cure MS it may cut down on the relapses and prevent disability's due to previous attacks.
True but if they are smart they would just hire the mod teams (for anything truly successfull), I mean look at Counter-Strike. Started as a mod just a couple guys and then valve saw what they had done and the following they had and purchased it all, turned around and resold it and put new life back in a game that had passed it's selling peak.
damn i had forgotten all about those games, those were awesome!
It's a little more cerebral than your average RPG but alot of it is the politics, and learning where danger zones are, etc.
True IE 6 hasn't but if you read the microsoft bulletin it also says that IE 7 and 8 share the vulnerability. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/979352.mspx "Our investigation so far has shown that Internet Explorer 5.01 Service Pack 4 on Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 is not affected, and that Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 on Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, and Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8 on supported editions of Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2 are vulnerable."
It just struck me, and yes this is completely off topic, that we should have a "Troll Feeding" mod, cause this guy isn't really a troll, but he is definatly feeding them. ah well, just my random thought for the day
First I didn't say they were mostly hags, though I can see how you might read that into what I did say. What I meant is that the attractivness in that group is going down as time goes on, that was all, not that they are all or even mostly ugly now. Also as for your high school analogy, most of those relationship's aren't serious, I assume that by the age of 31 he's probably looking for a serious relationship not just one to help find out what you want, which is most of what the high school relationships are.
I think 5% is a reasonable number. Keep in mind when thinking about the number, he's 31, that means the dating pool of women is shrinking, I would think the majority of those are from the end of the pool that the general public is going to find attractive, which means that the available women keep getting "uglier". There is also the possibility that he doesn't think the "standard women" is attractive, hell for all we know he has a pegleg fetish( though i'm sure the number would be considerably lower if that were the case.). Not to mention he may have done a precalculation on that number of the number of women he finds attractive (lets say 15%), minus the number of women he feels are out of his league(lets say 10% of those he finds attractive), and yes, if that's the case he should have shown his work.
He's set personal standards that are virtually impossible to meet. That would be his problem, not the female population's.
Are you kidding me? All he wants is a person around his age, living in the same city, with a university education, and that he finds attractive. That is not "virtually impossible" the only thing there that is probably different than 90+% of what everyone is looking for is the university education, and I wouldn't even be sure it's that different. Now, having said that I don't think using math like this is all that great an idea, though it could work.
while your most likely joking, it's hard to tell and some may not know, POV = Point of View, for instance a Blowjob movie where the camera view is where your head(the one on your neck) would be.
not to mention they link different articles
He was referring to those cities in particular as they were referenced by the person he was replying to.
The ratio he used does factor population size as it is per 100,000 people.
I mean ISOHunt is in Canada, can this be used to shutdown ISOHunt? or is this mostly about posturing?
It's one post on one forum. Does anyone have any other evidence that ASCAP is doing this? I'm all for getting rid of them, and copyright altogeather, but let's at least make sure we are arguing about things that are actually happening. I would like to see if there is any other people that report the same thing. I mean the post in response to the linked one is from someone else that runs GH Arcade and hasn't had any problems. Anyone else in the St Louis area that can confirm this is happening? or are we just going to fly off the handle over things we have no evidence of now? *cue "this is /.", "your new here" etc.
I read the ruling as well and while I agree it was a clarification and not a new law there are a few things about the wording that bother me. For instance the part where it states "The offender need not meet or intend to meet the victim with a view to committing any of the specified secondary offences. “Facilitating”, in this context, includes helping to bring about and making easier or more probable. "(now this seemed to be contradicted later in the ruling where it stated " What matters is whether the evidence as a whole establishes beyond a reasonable doubt that the accused communicated by computer with an underage person for the purpose of facilitating the commission of a specified secondary offence in respect of that person. [42]" so I'm not sure which part the judge would have to pay attention to as IANAL. But if they only have to listen to the first part that is indeed troubling.
The only "protection" that *nix/mac systems have over Windows is that no one gives a rats ass about infecting you
Ok, could we please stop with this troll now ?
At one side of the range, Linux has ratter good market shares in the servers and scientific clusters domains. At the other side of the range, Linux has achieved quasi-monopoly in the embed domain, specially on home routers, wireless access points, small NAS/SAN, no-brand multimedia player/harddisk-enclosures, etc.
That's a lot of Linux running machines. The later are always connected to network, the former have even access to high-speed connections. This should make them more desirable to be infected isn't it ? Yet, there has not been an outbreak similar to Code Red on Linux. Simply because the default security settings, and the heterogeneity of distributions making it a hard to read moving target.
There are a lot of reasons while blackhats would be interested in attacking Linux, but despite this Windows is still the low-hanging fruit.
Okay I agree with you in principle, there are a lot of *nix devices out there, but the ones you are highlighting are the ones that are most likely to not get infected no matter what OS they are running. The server/scientific clusters are going to be run by knowledgeable people that are able to secure their servers. The embedded devices are generally built to only accept software by either the device maker (i.e. home router firmware) or built specifically for them and vetted by a either the device creator (i.e. Iphone) or less then likely to be installed by any average user (i.e. putting Linux on a home router) The kind of person that is going to get malware on their *nix box is the same kind of person that get's their windows machines infected. They click okay on anything/everything and (for instance) the ubuntu security box that pop's up and asks for a password is going to be no more of a deterrent then the vista/win7 security box is going to be. The problem with it as well is that as distrib's like Ubuntu try to get more of the market share of the average user they will make a few more concessions and the number of "tips" that tell people to run apt-get and download this, run this etc will increase and it will be that much easier to have people that don't know better installing malware.
I love AC's that call out other AC's.
No one should be surprised, but that doesn't mean it's not a big deal. What you have here is an entire industry (PC Repair) that apparently specializes in ripping off its customers and preying on their ignorance. While I agree with most of your post I have to disagree with this statement. I work in the industry and have for years, yet I have never ripped off or preyed on anyone's ignorance. The majority of people I have worked with are the same way.
Depending on what it is (ie. how powerfull etc.) You could give it to your local schools. In the high school I went to we had a local course developed by the computer science teacher on how to repair computers and how to build them. He was always happy to take discards from people of the community and it didn't really matter how powerfull they were as the kids more often than not destroyed them. If the systems/parts are of suffienct power you could give them to an old folks home or a charity.