No, it's competition.. If I'm charging $1.35/litre, and the guy across the street jumps up to $1.40, I'd be a fool to stay at $1.35. I'll go to $1.39 because I can still sell more gas than the guy across the street and make better profit than I was. If he drops to $1.25 I'd better drop too, otherwise people will get their gas at his place instead of mine. This is just common sense, why does everyone have to scream conspiracy at everything?
People knew? Which people? I suppose you mean the ones reading message boards about the game beforehand, watching and waiting for rumors and spending time sorting out fact from fiction. The rest of us with lives merely assumed there would be some form of DRM but not specifically The Great Beast SecuROM. "Made public" just means "posted somewhere on the internet", and not necessarily where *I* will see it.
I can indeed say that I had no idea it would ship with SecuROM, and so can many thousands of others.
Forgot about the less-than/greater-thans and html parsing, oh well, should have used preview... [unknown] has caused an error in [unknown] is what I meant.
Oh and you know what else... "Slow down cowboy! Slashdot requires you to wait between each successful posting of a comment to allow everyone a fair chance at posting a comment. It's been 49 minutes since you last successfully posted a comment"
"The structures responsible for this motion have been pushed so far away by inflation, I would guesstimate they may be hundreds of billions of light years away, that we cannot see even with the deepest telescopes because the light emitted there could not have reached us in the age of the universe," Kashlinsky said in a telephone interview.
If these super structures are so far away that their light would not have reached us in the whole age of our universe, then how would their gravitational fields, which supposedly also travel at the speed of light, have any effect on our universe?
And if gold pieces did refer to actual unique objects, your game database would have to have reservations for billions or perhaps trillions of these discrete units. And several thousand "slots" on each character to hold said pieces. There's no way that would work.
While your perspective appears to be good in principle, the fact remains that when an activity (or workload) is fun, you tend to learn how to do it much better, giving it more of your attention and energy. You make more of an honest effort to master it. If we do not strive to make more things fun, people will continue to do those un-fun things half-assed and in a hurry to get them over with, which doesn't help those activities ever get any better, or more well-learned.
I think they just want to make sure they can keep overselling their bandwidth while being able to restrict it from all the evil pirates under the guise of controls for "just in case" there's some big calamity.
I'd agree with all of that, except that it wasn't particularly funny. The BBC TV miniseries was far better in spite of being, you know, a BBC TV miniseries.
Not so. I abide by certain Laws whether I agree with them or not, because there are penalties I would face if I broke them. I don't have to agree with them, but I'll abide by them if I know what's good for me. A license agreement is less of an issue in terms of actual real-world penalties, but the language still applies. I don't have to agree with Mozilla's lawyers but that doesn't mean I won't play nice anyway.
But if you have a disability, you need to accept that you cannot do just any given job in the world, you have to go for what is not prevented by your disability. Why is that so difficult to understand? If the job you're applying for involves mostly brain power, and your disability only involves your body, then no problem. But if you can't think straight on a good day, you need to be doing something more within your abilities. Plenty of able-bodied people in the world are NOT qualified for the jobs they do, and you don't feel sorry for them when they get fired once somebody realizes they should never have been hired in the first place. The "sympathy card" gets played way too often.
They have a "hyperdrive". And it would also seem that they go "only" at light speed, given various quotes from the movies. The Enterprise could probably kick the Empire's ass single-handedly.
And it is somehow wrong to refuse to hire someone that has a disability which will directly affect their ability to perform the job at hand? I presume by ageist, you mean revealing a poor memory, or frequent bouts of confusion, things like that. If the job I'm hiring you for requires that you stay mentally organized and don't have to be told everything three times, then I should not have to hire you if it appears you can't do that. I don't care if your disability is a sore hip or something, we can work with that, but if it directly impacts your ability to do the job, you need to be changing fields, sorry. I wouldn't feel obligated to hire you as a bus driver if age gave you cataracts on your eyes, this isn't any different.
My bone of contention with the conspiracy theorists is this: If GWB wanted it to look like terrorists attacked the WTC, wouldn't just the flying of jets into the buildings be enough? What was the point of intentionally collapsing the buildings with explosives AS WELL? None whatsoever, you get the same result either way, he's got his pretext to go to war whether they fell down after the planes hit or not. So to my way of thinking, there is no reason to assume the buildings had explosives planted in them other than extreme paranoia.
I'm hearing you, but the copy you'd get from that wouldn't be as nice as the original. It would be better if it could somehow be captured right from the video cable, still not as good but better than dealing with light absorption in the room you're doing this in.
Dude, do some research. It's totally a money-grab that enslaves its members and controls their lives. This is the very definition of a cult, harmful in and of itself. Your spouse has to join too, or you are required to leave him/her. Try to leave the cult and it gets worse. You haven't "seen anything", but you obviously have not looked or paid attention. I suggest you go in to one of their offices for a "free personality and IQ test" and see how they come on strong with their sales pitch and insistance.
The post I was responding to was not about troubleshooting an already-suspected infection, but casually noticing from modem activity that there could possibly be something amiss based on the assumption that you were not intentionally opening/maintaining connections. If Bittorrent has been closed within the past half-hour or so, modem activity lights won't give useful hints.
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No, it's competition.. If I'm charging $1.35/litre, and the guy across the street jumps up to $1.40, I'd be a fool to stay at $1.35. I'll go to $1.39 because I can still sell more gas than the guy across the street and make better profit than I was. If he drops to $1.25 I'd better drop too, otherwise people will get their gas at his place instead of mine. This is just common sense, why does everyone have to scream conspiracy at everything?
People knew? Which people? I suppose you mean the ones reading message boards about the game beforehand, watching and waiting for rumors and spending time sorting out fact from fiction. The rest of us with lives merely assumed there would be some form of DRM but not specifically The Great Beast SecuROM. "Made public" just means "posted somewhere on the internet", and not necessarily where *I* will see it. I can indeed say that I had no idea it would ship with SecuROM, and so can many thousands of others.
Forgot about the less-than/greater-thans and html parsing, oh well, should have used preview... [unknown] has caused an error in [unknown] is what I meant.
Oh and you know what else... "Slow down cowboy! Slashdot requires you to wait between each successful posting of a comment to allow everyone a fair chance at posting a comment. It's been 49 minutes since you last successfully posted a comment"
WTF was THAT all about??
My favorite from ME was: has caused an error in and will now close.
"The structures responsible for this motion have been pushed so far away by inflation, I would guesstimate they may be hundreds of billions of light years away, that we cannot see even with the deepest telescopes because the light emitted there could not have reached us in the age of the universe," Kashlinsky said in a telephone interview.
If these super structures are so far away that their light would not have reached us in the whole age of our universe, then how would their gravitational fields, which supposedly also travel at the speed of light, have any effect on our universe?
And if gold pieces did refer to actual unique objects, your game database would have to have reservations for billions or perhaps trillions of these discrete units. And several thousand "slots" on each character to hold said pieces. There's no way that would work.
TFA says 2.5mm x 2.5mm playing field, so I'm not sure what kind of crack the summary writer was smoking, that's not even decimal misplacement!
While your perspective appears to be good in principle, the fact remains that when an activity (or workload) is fun, you tend to learn how to do it much better, giving it more of your attention and energy. You make more of an honest effort to master it. If we do not strive to make more things fun, people will continue to do those un-fun things half-assed and in a hurry to get them over with, which doesn't help those activities ever get any better, or more well-learned.
Hey! Your sig offends me, speak english this is America buddy!
I think they just want to make sure they can keep overselling their bandwidth while being able to restrict it from all the evil pirates under the guise of controls for "just in case" there's some big calamity.
I'd agree with all of that, except that it wasn't particularly funny. The BBC TV miniseries was far better in spite of being, you know, a BBC TV miniseries.
Not so. I abide by certain Laws whether I agree with them or not, because there are penalties I would face if I broke them. I don't have to agree with them, but I'll abide by them if I know what's good for me. A license agreement is less of an issue in terms of actual real-world penalties, but the language still applies. I don't have to agree with Mozilla's lawyers but that doesn't mean I won't play nice anyway.
But if you have a disability, you need to accept that you cannot do just any given job in the world, you have to go for what is not prevented by your disability. Why is that so difficult to understand? If the job you're applying for involves mostly brain power, and your disability only involves your body, then no problem. But if you can't think straight on a good day, you need to be doing something more within your abilities. Plenty of able-bodied people in the world are NOT qualified for the jobs they do, and you don't feel sorry for them when they get fired once somebody realizes they should never have been hired in the first place. The "sympathy card" gets played way too often.
They have a "hyperdrive". And it would also seem that they go "only" at light speed, given various quotes from the movies. The Enterprise could probably kick the Empire's ass single-handedly.
And it is somehow wrong to refuse to hire someone that has a disability which will directly affect their ability to perform the job at hand? I presume by ageist, you mean revealing a poor memory, or frequent bouts of confusion, things like that. If the job I'm hiring you for requires that you stay mentally organized and don't have to be told everything three times, then I should not have to hire you if it appears you can't do that. I don't care if your disability is a sore hip or something, we can work with that, but if it directly impacts your ability to do the job, you need to be changing fields, sorry. I wouldn't feel obligated to hire you as a bus driver if age gave you cataracts on your eyes, this isn't any different.
It really was a commercial about nothing.
Why not just call it a chip? Because you don't want to give non-technical people the wrong idea - they don't really go very good with salsa.
My bone of contention with the conspiracy theorists is this: If GWB wanted it to look like terrorists attacked the WTC, wouldn't just the flying of jets into the buildings be enough? What was the point of intentionally collapsing the buildings with explosives AS WELL? None whatsoever, you get the same result either way, he's got his pretext to go to war whether they fell down after the planes hit or not. So to my way of thinking, there is no reason to assume the buildings had explosives planted in them other than extreme paranoia.
It's just like that function call in BeOS: IsComputerOn() - returns a 1 if the computer is in fact on. It's funny, laugh.
I'm hearing you, but the copy you'd get from that wouldn't be as nice as the original. It would be better if it could somehow be captured right from the video cable, still not as good but better than dealing with light absorption in the room you're doing this in.
Dude, do some research. It's totally a money-grab that enslaves its members and controls their lives. This is the very definition of a cult, harmful in and of itself. Your spouse has to join too, or you are required to leave him/her. Try to leave the cult and it gets worse. You haven't "seen anything", but you obviously have not looked or paid attention. I suggest you go in to one of their offices for a "free personality and IQ test" and see how they come on strong with their sales pitch and insistance.
Umm yeah, much like Americans who brought over the slaves from Africa. Hey! Does that mean we can get intergalactic reparations?
The post I was responding to was not about troubleshooting an already-suspected infection, but casually noticing from modem activity that there could possibly be something amiss based on the assumption that you were not intentionally opening/maintaining connections. If Bittorrent has been closed within the past half-hour or so, modem activity lights won't give useful hints.
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