I have recently quit rift, but the 4.99 price was always on some holiday special and the free weekend (believe there has only been one) was due to a major patch (which they have had 5 already in 6 months)... so rift is pretty strong if you ask me. Rift has the majority of the concepts of MMO figured out. Doesn't really matter if the game is only 5 bucks... they make more money on subscriptions anyways. They have "contracts" essentially for your monthly subsciption so I imagine they make a shit ton from people saying "yeah I will play for a year, why not throw 100+ at them all at one time"
I don't have any references to show but I have lived in 3 different continents and multiple countries (so my experiance is what I am referencing). The avarage american city/county/state is by far exceedingly more spread out than any town/country I have ever lived in (outside the US) We build houses on acres of land while many countries have a fraction of our property sizes. The reason I say all that is it is a whole lot simpler/easier to get connections to 100's or 1000's of homes in non US countries then it is in the US.
Do you think an ISP would be willing to spend 1000s of dollars to connect 2/3 rural homes in the country? I doubt it. Those users then use their trusty old analog (maybe even digital) telephone line to get very slow speed DSL or even worse... dial up. Down goes our average speeds. With every town like New York City, you have 100's of 1000's of rural homes in the US that are miles from any kind of "real" internet. I know in japan, entire cities have been lined with fiber making the intra country internet connection gigabit to the home. While in the US we share copper cable lines and deal with slower speed DSL/etc.
I don't know everything about how it all works and I may have explained/misunderstood a few concepts here.... but overall the idea, I think, is pretty simple on why we are so low on the list.
So your mentality is that if the average person doesn't know a bunch of random historical characters then our education system is messed up? I believe you sir are the fail in this situation. I guess you haven't heard of people that don't enjoy/care about history.
Honestly your list seems long but if you factor it down you have a simple list:
People who run credit checks on you...
Doctors
College
Work
The credit check people (verizon, cable companies, etc) will need it to credit check you so they assure to themselves that you are a good paying customer. The doctor would use it most likely as a unique ID and proof of a unique record or even to file your health insurance claims. College... same and work... well work is probably the most obvious... they pay you and would need it to do their paperwork. I am sure there are times where it isn't necessary, but I think you blew it out of proportion.
That alone proves to me that the social security numbers are pretty secure the way they are. If you put your social on public television and you have "some" problems... you're doing pretty good. Everyone I know who has had there identity stolen was not because their social was easily accessible. Just my two cents.
Personally, like many others, MSE is the best no nonsense out there. Why try and fix what isn't broken? MSE allows for very seemless antivirus integration that updates through the OS automatically. My experiance with AVAST/AVG/Antivir/etc all end up being too bloated or nagging to warrant using them over a very well design program like MSE.
Also I can't say how suprised I am that almost no one has negative things to say about MSE. Except for maybe NOD32 or Kapersky, MSE has to be one the most highly aclaimed antivirus software programs in a long time.
He did mention that he gets some sort of points off his gas due to the purchase. Interesting idea if it works. I once rember seeing gold dollars being sold for 1 dollar and free shipping. People were talking about buying 1000+ in gold dollars to get the points and then redepositing into their bank... probably some law against that kind of transaction but ianal
Although I somewhat agree with your comment, just because something is "the best" doesn't make people use it. Without trying to start a huge discussion about products just look at "the best" of something where there is a better alternative that people don't use just because something else is more popular.
Android/Iphone... MAC OSX/Windows... one or the other (depending on the person) will be "the best" but it doesn't mean anything. If the nook made an amazing book store, people may still use amazon because they have a bunch of purchases already or they have another device they want to use all their books on as well.
"risk of losing data during an upgrade to tough economic times"
So wait for SP1 because you're technically unsavvy? or because you don't have enough money to live the way you want?
Sure! I bet SP1 will definitely fix both of those problems. Seriously though, WTF issues does SP1 need to fix? I have been using RC 7100 for over 4 months now with little to absolutely no problems... what needs fixing?
You could of just called him a douchebag for saying "SEO-optimized"...
Maybe after the site was "SEO-optimized" he could go to the "ATM machine" to get some cash out. Then go pick up a "NIC card" to increase his SEO abilities.
But your comment was rediculous anyways, because SEO would increase its probability of being more acurating archived/crawled by search bots.
Welcome to 1995, they have been doing this shit for years... it never went away (geocities used to be the biggest pirate site on the planet). If it is just now being noticed as a trend then I would say they are about 5 years behind the curve.
Funny... I will just compare this to sports (since its another competitive field of play). NASCAR wins by having more money to pump into car mods and engineers... NBA/NFL/NHL all make more money and have better teams if they pump money into someone that another team can't afford. I don't see the difference here. Its virtual, I can give you that, but who cares? People like you are the reason this world is so messed up. A company has a decent plan to try and level the playing field and get farmers out of games and you just call them "pathetic losers." Look around you, this kind of stuff happens all over the "real" world.
First off, i think your overusing parenthesis =) looks like you need a sentence.
Really though... 5-10 years of being insanely popular in the world of MP3 players... don't you think they would change now if anyone in the company cared? Just like Macintosh would be willing to allow there operating system to work on any Intel based system right... right?!
looks like Slashdot users don't like reality since i am right about this but i am getting flame baited and trolled.
The reality is your wrong... Sony has the right to sue for modifying there firmware and potentially making them loose millions of billions blah blah blah. I really don't care that sony looses money but i do care that you have lost touch with reality.
Reality == Piracy
Fluff cover up that you call software development == Wrong
just brings me back to the reasoning why i usually only read slashdot so back in the whole i go...
Did that make you feel better about yourself?
Firmware modification == illegal breaking of EULA
If you want to get technical then yeah. I used modified firmware in my PSP to play games (that i don't always own) but until the game companies start sueing EB Games/Gamestop and all the other reselling places then me pirating games will never effect them. I guess i am really argueing two issues here but your reply is pathetic to say the least.
I like the/. promotes piracy now. Me personally have no issues with piracy since its no different then buying a used game from EB games or Gamestop but still funny they would post something like this.
While we are at patents i am going to apply for one for "using a flat horizontal surface for placing items on display, storing items or utilizing the surface for serving food or other demonstrations"
my science department has come up with a clever name for this invention called a table... you may have heard of it, if you have one please pay me dues now.
really didn't play it too much but the graphics at the time were amazing compared to any game out. but i just wanted to continue with im right your wrong mentality since that what seems to work. suprised he didn't add a 1st post WOOT! comment at the end
is there a reasoning behind your pompous bullshit comment or you just wanting to thread crap?
killzone had amazing graphics and a great concept, good all around gameplay. what are you looking for? i am guessing you want to go play pokemon arena or something along those lines... if you don't think killzone is a great game your wrong
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I have recently quit rift, but the 4.99 price was always on some holiday special and the free weekend (believe there has only been one) was due to a major patch (which they have had 5 already in 6 months)... so rift is pretty strong if you ask me. Rift has the majority of the concepts of MMO figured out. Doesn't really matter if the game is only 5 bucks... they make more money on subscriptions anyways. They have "contracts" essentially for your monthly subsciption so I imagine they make a shit ton from people saying "yeah I will play for a year, why not throw 100+ at them all at one time"
I don't have any references to show but I have lived in 3 different continents and multiple countries (so my experiance is what I am referencing). The avarage american city/county/state is by far exceedingly more spread out than any town/country I have ever lived in (outside the US) We build houses on acres of land while many countries have a fraction of our property sizes. The reason I say all that is it is a whole lot simpler/easier to get connections to 100's or 1000's of homes in non US countries then it is in the US.
Do you think an ISP would be willing to spend 1000s of dollars to connect 2/3 rural homes in the country? I doubt it. Those users then use their trusty old analog (maybe even digital) telephone line to get very slow speed DSL or even worse... dial up. Down goes our average speeds. With every town like New York City, you have 100's of 1000's of rural homes in the US that are miles from any kind of "real" internet. I know in japan, entire cities have been lined with fiber making the intra country internet connection gigabit to the home. While in the US we share copper cable lines and deal with slower speed DSL/etc.
I don't know everything about how it all works and I may have explained/misunderstood a few concepts here.... but overall the idea, I think, is pretty simple on why we are so low on the list.
So your mentality is that if the average person doesn't know a bunch of random historical characters then our education system is messed up? I believe you sir are the fail in this situation. I guess you haven't heard of people that don't enjoy/care about history.
Honestly your list seems long but if you factor it down you have a simple list:
People who run credit checks on you...
Doctors
College
Work
The credit check people (verizon, cable companies, etc) will need it to credit check you so they assure to themselves that you are a good paying customer. The doctor would use it most likely as a unique ID and proof of a unique record or even to file your health insurance claims. College... same and work... well work is probably the most obvious... they pay you and would need it to do their paperwork. I am sure there are times where it isn't necessary, but I think you blew it out of proportion.
I think people have put this whole Social Security number thing on some pedestal. The life lock guy put his social security number on TV and got his identity stolen 13 times? http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/05/lifelock-identity-theft/
That alone proves to me that the social security numbers are pretty secure the way they are. If you put your social on public television and you have "some" problems... you're doing pretty good. Everyone I know who has had there identity stolen was not because their social was easily accessible. Just my two cents.
Personally, like many others, MSE is the best no nonsense out there. Why try and fix what isn't broken? MSE allows for very seemless antivirus integration that updates through the OS automatically. My experiance with AVAST/AVG/Antivir/etc all end up being too bloated or nagging to warrant using them over a very well design program like MSE.
Also I can't say how suprised I am that almost no one has negative things to say about MSE. Except for maybe NOD32 or Kapersky, MSE has to be one the most highly aclaimed antivirus software programs in a long time.
He did mention that he gets some sort of points off his gas due to the purchase. Interesting idea if it works. I once rember seeing gold dollars being sold for 1 dollar and free shipping. People were talking about buying 1000+ in gold dollars to get the points and then redepositing into their bank... probably some law against that kind of transaction but ianal
Although I somewhat agree with your comment, just because something is "the best" doesn't make people use it. Without trying to start a huge discussion about products just look at "the best" of something where there is a better alternative that people don't use just because something else is more popular.
Android/Iphone... MAC OSX/Windows... one or the other (depending on the person) will be "the best" but it doesn't mean anything. If the nook made an amazing book store, people may still use amazon because they have a bunch of purchases already or they have another device they want to use all their books on as well.
Too bad I can't pay "Up to" 100% of my cable/internet bill.
So you basically said what PC users do everyday (the ones that don't ever get viruses)...
"risk of losing data during an upgrade to tough economic times" So wait for SP1 because you're technically unsavvy? or because you don't have enough money to live the way you want?
Sure! I bet SP1 will definitely fix both of those problems. Seriously though, WTF issues does SP1 need to fix? I have been using RC 7100 for over 4 months now with little to absolutely no problems... what needs fixing?
You could of just called him a douchebag for saying "SEO-optimized"... Maybe after the site was "SEO-optimized" he could go to the "ATM machine" to get some cash out. Then go pick up a "NIC card" to increase his SEO abilities. But your comment was rediculous anyways, because SEO would increase its probability of being more acurating archived/crawled by search bots.
You just got done watching "21" didn't you... it's alright, you don't have to lie.
Welcome to 1995, they have been doing this shit for years... it never went away (geocities used to be the biggest pirate site on the planet). If it is just now being noticed as a trend then I would say they are about 5 years behind the curve.
don't say that too loud, christopher reeves will get jealous
Funny... I will just compare this to sports (since its another competitive field of play). NASCAR wins by having more money to pump into car mods and engineers... NBA/NFL/NHL all make more money and have better teams if they pump money into someone that another team can't afford. I don't see the difference here. Its virtual, I can give you that, but who cares? People like you are the reason this world is so messed up. A company has a decent plan to try and level the playing field and get farmers out of games and you just call them "pathetic losers." Look around you, this kind of stuff happens all over the "real" world.
wasn't really fighting his grammer... just forgot how the sentence started by the time I got done reading through the middle thought.
First off, i think your overusing parenthesis =) looks like you need a sentence. Really though... 5-10 years of being insanely popular in the world of MP3 players... don't you think they would change now if anyone in the company cared? Just like Macintosh would be willing to allow there operating system to work on any Intel based system right... right?!
If you take the site down then your admitting you did something wrong. I don't know much about the case, but thats how i see it.
looks like Slashdot users don't like reality since i am right about this but i am getting flame baited and trolled.
The reality is your wrong... Sony has the right to sue for modifying there firmware and potentially making them loose millions of billions blah blah blah. I really don't care that sony looses money but i do care that you have lost touch with reality.
Reality == Piracy
Fluff cover up that you call software development == Wrong
just brings me back to the reasoning why i usually only read slashdot so back in the whole i go...
Did that make you feel better about yourself? Firmware modification == illegal breaking of EULA If you want to get technical then yeah. I used modified firmware in my PSP to play games (that i don't always own) but until the game companies start sueing EB Games/Gamestop and all the other reselling places then me pirating games will never effect them. I guess i am really argueing two issues here but your reply is pathetic to say the least.
I like the /. promotes piracy now. Me personally have no issues with piracy since its no different then buying a used game from EB games or Gamestop but still funny they would post something like this.
While we are at patents i am going to apply for one for "using a flat horizontal surface for placing items on display, storing items or utilizing the surface for serving food or other demonstrations"
my science department has come up with a clever name for this invention called a table... you may have heard of it, if you have one please pay me dues now.
http://pds.roushimsx.com/
really didn't play it too much but the graphics at the time were amazing compared to any game out. but i just wanted to continue with im right your wrong mentality since that what seems to work. suprised he didn't add a 1st post WOOT! comment at the end
is there a reasoning behind your pompous bullshit comment or you just wanting to thread crap? killzone had amazing graphics and a great concept, good all around gameplay. what are you looking for? i am guessing you want to go play pokemon arena or something along those lines... if you don't think killzone is a great game your wrong