My advice: use a real browser.
Mozilla Firefox
Google Chrome
Opera
Firefox add-ons:
- syn :: Add-ons for Firefox: Mozilla is kind enough to keep a list of my add-ons for me.
Greasemonkey scripts:
- Google Enhanced Black: This Google Black script enhances all Google service pages with an inverted color-scheme for reduced eye fatigue; it also removes ads & clutter and improves page layout and readability by widening search results.
- Facebook Dark-N-Grey 4.0: This theme is best viewed in higher desktop resolutions and on widescreen monitors.
- Youtube Black: A style to make Youtube.com black/gray made for the new youtube design.
- YousableTubeFix: Removes ads and unwanted sections (configurable), allows downloading and resizing videos, displays all comments on video page, expands the description, can prevent autoplay and autodownload, adds a HD (High Definition) select, etc...
- Facebook Fixer: Enhancements for Facebook: bigger profile pictures and photos, easier viewing of albums, links to download videos, showing people's age and sign, google calendar integration, keyboard shortcuts & more. Compatible with new Facebook and fully customizable!
- Facebook Fixer Black: Makes facebook fixer's popups match facebook dark-n-black's theme.
- Grooveshark Ad Remover: Removes the side banner advertisements on Grooveshark.
Feel free to post your must have add-ons and userscripts in the comments. If I like them, I'll add them to the list above.
]]>The article says you can't even start the game without Internet, as you will be greeted by an error message. Making matters even worse, you are still kicked back to the main menu if the game loses connection to the "Ubisoft Master servers," which may not even be your fault.
'Assassin's Creed 2' DRM will require constant Internet connection
..and when people pirate the game to "fix" their copy, Ubisoft will undoubtedly cry foul. Have a glance at some of the comments from the above link.
geestar20 18 February 2010: Where is the benefit of buying?
Hard 18 February 2010: This is extremely laughable. All they are doing is hurting the honest paying customer. It's only a matter of time until someone figures out how to make the game playable. People who want to pirate it will get it for free, without restrictions. While the honest paying guy is forced to his inconvenient copy.
emugamer 19 February 2010: Not a company I will ever purchase from again. So long Prince of Persia.
Can't they learn a lesson that the music industry has already suffered to obtain? DRM is a flawed concept.
As I've stated before, DRM does not work.
Repeat, "Yes, You must have a constant internet connection to play a single player game." aloud a few times. Feel silly? Not Ubisoft.
In soviet entertainment, game plays you!
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I have two lines, both sharing one plan. an exert of the bill (with personal information removed) is below.
Shared Plan
Everything Data - 1500 Shared Anytime Minutes Included $129.99
(###) ###-####
Total Equipment Protection - $3 insurance premium & $4 service/repair $7.00
1 International Text Message - Liechtenstein @ $.20/msg $0.20
1 International Text Message - Russia @ $.20/msg $0.20
(###) ###-####
Everything Data - 1500 Shared Anytime Minutes Included $0.00
Total Equipment Protection - $3 insurance premium & $4 service/repair $7.00
93 International Text Message - Liechtenstein @ $.20/msg $18.60
16 International Text Message - INDIA @ $.20/msg $3.20
1 International Text Message - Romania @ $.20/msg $0.20Sprint Surcharges $4.49
Show DetailsShow Details And Explanation of Charges
Sprint Surcharges are rates we choose to collect from you to help defray costs imposed on us. Surcharges are not taxes on you or amounts we are required to collect from you by law. Surcharges other charges incurred to recover costs associated with governmental programs, and certain taxes imposed upon Sprint. The amounts, and the components used to calculate Surcharge amounts, are subject to change.
Federal-Univ Serv Assess Non-LD $2.11
Administrative Charge $1.98
Regulatory Charge $0.40
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$4.49
Government Fees & Taxes $14.21
Show DetailsShow Details And Explanation of Charges
Taxes and fees Sprint is required to collect from customers on behalf of the government.
XXX State-911 Tax $2.00
XXX State-Sales Tax $9.12
XXX County-Other taxes/fees $0.24
XXX County-Sales Tax $2.85
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$14.21
Total Due by January 10 $182.11
Relevant links to others with the same problem:
http://androidforums.com/samsung-moment/27711-warning-check-intl-text-message-charges.html
http://androidforums.com/samsung-moment/30675-international-text-messages-because-agps.html
I too have issues with AGPS. While I am skeptical of the correlation between the phone's internal location and the tower's/carrier's destination of the message, I can see no other possibility.
All of my contacts are in standard international calling format using Contacts Clean-Up (market link).
Note:
After speaking with a Sprint representative, the above international text charges have been credited to my account and an investigation case has been opened. Details to follow.
Additional: after another month, more international text charges have appeared. We've added an additional line, and it also has international charges.
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Last year my wife and I purchased two HP Pavilions (DV 9830-US). Fine laptops, aside from my ram being bad, her hard drive's death, and, one month out of warranty, the video chip on mine decided it had enough of the poor cooling and took a permanent break. This model of laptop was a portable furnace. This was a known issue, but this specific model wasn't in the class action lawsuit... lucky me. They refused to replace it. Rather than argue any more through a language barrier made of water and sand, I purchased a new model that boasted it ran cool. It did.Enter the HP Pavilion (will update model later). I named it synlap. Faster, cooler, and is still a piece of shit. Last month I decided to update my BIOS using a softpaq (HP code for zip2exe) explicitly for my model of laptop.
It stopped booting. Wouldn't even post. FUBAR. I renamed it poopoo.
I sent the laptop back to HP after explaining that it doesn't matter what OS I am using, failure to post is very clearly a hardware issue. Had I not,through sand and water, educated them, they threatened to void my warranty for using a non-crapware bloated OS (OEM). They shipped me a box, I packed away my laptop, and got it back eight days later... broken. After five attempts to power it on, poopoo had boot beyond post twice, and not even the BIOS would register numpad input. When the doorstop did boot, my HP unapproved OS informed me that my battery needed to be replaced. Funny, that was fine when I shipped it off.
It has been shipped off again. They'll likely re-image my drive (that fixes every hardware issue, right?), and send it back in two pieces.
I'll update this post without warning as the story unfolds...
The HP puppy is trying to kill my Christmas.
p.s. Apparently Adobe and HP use the same call centers.
Additional: I received my laptop back. The motherboard had been replaced. The battery now says it is dead. I guess I should just live with that, seeing as the alternative is to ship back my laptop.. again.
]]>ACPI\ENE0100\3&33FD14CA&0 == IR receiver.
Open device manager, show hidden devices, select above, and select update driver, "browse my computer". Point to the folder created when extracting this archive. Do not run the EXEs contained within the archive. ]]>
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#!/bin/bash
Y="\033[1;33m"; R="\033[0;31m"; E="\033[0m"
function cleanapt(){ apt-get clean; }
function emptytrash(){ rm -rf /home/*/.local/share/Trash/*/** &> /dev/null && rm -rf /root/.local/share/Trash/*/** &> /dev/null && rm -rf /home/*/.Trash* && rm -rf /root/.Trash*; }
function removeconffiles(){ dpkg -P `dpkg -l|grep "^rc"|awk '{print $2}'`; }
function removeoldkernels(){ apt-get remove --purge $(dpkg -l|awk '{print $2}'|grep -E $LINUXPKG |grep -vE $METALINUXPKG|grep -v `uname -r|cut -d. -f1,2`-`uname -r |cut -d\- -f3,4`|grep -v `uname -r|cut -d\- -f1,2`); }
if [ $UID != '0' ]; then
echo -e $R"Error: must be root, cleaning user's trash"$E
rm -rf $HOME/.Trash* $HOME/.local/share/Trash/*/**
exit 1
else
echo -ne $Y"Cleaning apt cache ..."$E && cleanapt 2>/dev/null ; echo -ne $R" Done\n"$E
echo -ne $Y"Removing old config files ..."$E && removeconffiles 2>/dev/null ; echo -ne $R" Done\n"$E
echo -ne $Y"Emptying trashes ..."$E && emptytrash 2>/dev/null ; echo -ne $R" Done\n"$E
echo -ne $Y"Removing old kernels ..."$E && cleanapt 2>/dev/null ; echo -ne $R" Done\n"$E
fi
(Lawrence Lessig)
I googled, and found:
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OMG U SHIT! FIRST!
orckaiwin you get a twitter account yet?
godsyn no
godsyn i no tweet
orckaiwin you should tweet. You know what you're missing.
godsyn ... absolutely nothing
orckaiwin Minimalistic status updates with practical uses shortened to 140 characters with @ commands and # topics.
godsyn ... I don't care what others are doing...
orckaiwin Others care what you are doing! 
godsyn I'm annoyed by the 160 character limit on SMS.. You can barely complete a sentence.
Thought becomes broken, and conveyed opinions and thoughts are near-impossible.
I speak and type long winded, and prefer the whole story, instead of just the headline.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was a wonderful book, but I wouldn't give two shits about it if all I read was the title.
Twitter appeals to "first"
There is no substance. I'll pass, for a more in-depth internets.
godsyn or in twiterspeek: twtrsux lol.