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Exactly.

But Lookout has ballooned in size over the years, 9Meg!!, and is not particularly stealthy. (Crooks will find it easily).
There are dozens of these apps on the Play market, and virtually all of them take less room than Lookout. (often less than 1/10 the space).

Then there is Plan B. (also in the app store at above link), for when you forget to install any of these ahead of time.

Except that this feature has been in available for Android from a couple dozen different sources for years.

Now who would you rather trust? Joe Small Company, hosting overseas, or Google or Apple in bed with the NSA?

"I only found out about that silly limitation when we sent an employee out to do a preliminary wireless site survey. Since he had an iphone he could not." ...but he actually could, unless you sent him out there without even knowing if he had an app for that...something like one of these maybe?

https://www.google.com/search?q=wifi+scanner+for+ios&oq=wifi+scanner+for+ios&aqs=chrome.0.69i57.2781j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Why were you doing a survey with a crappy phone antenna, anyway? Oh right, you weren't, and you didn't send anybody anywhere to do anything. You're just making crap up to back your rabid fanboidism.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/116477973057408152462/posts/6eAyT6P5twA

Go ahead and try those suggestions with something like Chrominum. https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chromium-dev/c16gosC3wm8 If your suggestions are true, a lot can be gained. If you are suggesting not using stl, or boost, what do you want people to use? There is overhead with doing large projects with C++, but as far as I have seen C++ is still the best way to write performance intensive code.

Southern Cross and Satanism Inverted Cross:

http://www.christian-restoration.com/occult/symbols.htm

Sometimes called 'Southern Cross' it symbolizes mockery and rejection of the Cross of Jesus Christ. It is often seen in the form of earrings and necklaces

Masonic top 5% & Luciferiasm:

http://www.google.com/#bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&fp=a66b124a18d19552&psj=1&q=%22masons%22+and+%22luciferian%22

Baraq (lightning) O (from) Bahmah (heaven) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzSzZDPiPOw Luke 10:18 again http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4045497&cid=44455997

NSA Prism = Crystal Ball? Used for CLAIRVOYANCE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clairvoyance [wikipedia.org] = the ability to gain information about an object, person, location or physical event through means other than the known human senses - sounds like PRISM to me!)

Lucifer = Light Bearer (as in a PRISM perhaps?) http://maejaunmcqueen313.hubpages.com/hub/Secrets-of-the-Illuminati

Wake the crystal ball (seems they have right when the summer falls per the lyric) or break the crystal ball (Up to you).

Do the ILLUMINATI (your top 5% masons) always feel obligated to BROADCAST TO THE WORLD what they're about to do, somehow? Yes. Weird, for an occult fraternity (meaning both hidden and yet at the same time luciferian as well).

(Maybe it was via that tune??)

The mod down indicates someone wants that surpressed or got scared. It was meant to "enlighten" (see above) you is all. Take it as a journey of the imagination if it spooks you. "I can't accept it, anymore" Ronnie James Dio (how odd that last name yet front man for Black Sabbath, eh?) from that tune.

Go on, call me crazy. I just found it amazingly "coincidental" from all the above.

I could post links to historical and actual data, but it is far more educating for you to go out and find them yourself.

This is really just another way of saying that you are firm in your view. I never trust someone who is confident in their knowledge. Confidence breeds ignorance. Maybe you should post your links since I find this rather easily. You can argue about any of the sources but then you didn't really put any up of your own.

To verify http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081223191048AAj982v

"Break the Crystal Ball" (from the song lyric earlier) = A crystal ball is a crystal or glass ball believed by some people to aid in the performance of clairvoyance" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clairvoyance = the ability to gain information about an object, person, location or physical event through means other than the known human senses

Where's "Lightning from the heavens" come from? 8 miles high (per the song lyrics again) http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&q=%228+miles+high%22+and+%22clouds%22&oq=%228+miles+high%22+and+%22clouds%22&gs_l=hp.3...73817.73817.3.74988.1.1.0.0.0.0.60.60.1.1.0....0...1c.1.23.hp..5.22.2186.p-HvGHz0aKU&psj=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.50165853,d.aWM&fp=fd7dc74d2b92b341&biw=1600&bih=897

Clouds? Like these -> http://www.google.com/#output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=NSA+and+Cloud&oq=NSA+and+Cloud&gs_l=hp.3..0l2j0i22i30l4j0i22i10i30j0i22i30l3.1314.4736.1.5458.13.13.0.0.0.0.105.1064.12j1.13.0....0...1c.1.23.hp..0.13.1064.Lns73id6IUI&psj=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.50165853,d.aWM&fp=a66b124a18d19552&biw=1600&bih=897

"BUT NO ONE'S THERE TO CATCH YOU (look for the sign, the time, the sign of the southern cross (prism & 'rainbows that shimmer' when the summer falls) per inverted crosses in satanic luciferian rituals http://www.google.com/#bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&fp=a66b124a18d19552&psj=1&q=%22masons%22+and+%22luciferian%22 )

("Hell" of a coincidence? Song's almost prophetic, and concidering the above was from "Black Sabbath" too...)

To verify http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081223191048AAj982v

"Break the Crystal Ball" (from the song lyric earlier) = A crystal ball is a crystal or glass ball believed by some people to aid in the performance of clairvoyance" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clairvoyance = the ability to gain information about an object, person, location or physical event through means other than the known human senses

Where's "Lightning from the heavens" come from? 8 miles high (per the song lyrics again) http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&q=%228+miles+high%22+and+%22clouds%22&oq=%228+miles+high%22+and+%22clouds%22&gs_l=hp.3...73817.73817.3.74988.1.1.0.0.0.0.60.60.1.1.0....0...1c.1.23.hp..5.22.2186.p-HvGHz0aKU&psj=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.50165853,d.aWM&fp=fd7dc74d2b92b341&biw=1600&bih=897

Clouds? Like these -> http://www.google.com/#output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=NSA+and+Cloud&oq=NSA+and+Cloud&gs_l=hp.3..0l2j0i22i30l4j0i22i10i30j0i22i30l3.1314.4736.1.5458.13.13.0.0.0.0.105.1064.12j1.13.0....0...1c.1.23.hp..0.13.1064.Lns73id6IUI&psj=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.50165853,d.aWM&fp=a66b124a18d19552&biw=1600&bih=897

"BUT NO ONE'S THERE TO CATCH YOU (look for the sign, the time, the sign of the southern cross (prism & 'rainbows that shimmer' when the summer falls) per inverted crosses in satanic luciferian rituals http://www.google.com/#bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&fp=a66b124a18d19552&psj=1&q=%22masons%22+and+%22luciferian%22 )

("Hell" of a coincidence? Song's almost prophetic, and concidering the above was from "Black Sabbath" too...)

To verify http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081223191048AAj982v

"Break the Crystal Ball" (from the song lyric earlier) = A crystal ball is a crystal or glass ball believed by some people to aid in the performance of clairvoyance" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clairvoyance = the ability to gain information about an object, person, location or physical event through means other than the known human senses

Where's "Lightning from the heavens" come from? 8 miles high (per the song lyrics again) http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&q=%228+miles+high%22+and+%22clouds%22&oq=%228+miles+high%22+and+%22clouds%22&gs_l=hp.3...73817.73817.3.74988.1.1.0.0.0.0.60.60.1.1.0....0...1c.1.23.hp..5.22.2186.p-HvGHz0aKU&psj=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.50165853,d.aWM&fp=fd7dc74d2b92b341&biw=1600&bih=897

Clouds? Like these -> http://www.google.com/#output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=NSA+and+Cloud&oq=NSA+and+Cloud&gs_l=hp.3..0l2j0i22i30l4j0i22i10i30j0i22i30l3.1314.4736.1.5458.13.13.0.0.0.0.105.1064.12j1.13.0....0...1c.1.23.hp..0.13.1064.Lns73id6IUI&psj=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.50165853,d.aWM&fp=a66b124a18d19552&biw=1600&bih=897

"BUT NO ONE'S THERE TO CATCH YOU (look for the sign, the time, the sign of the southern cross (prism & 'rainbows that shimmer' when the summer falls) per inverted crosses in satanic luciferian rituals http://www.google.com/#bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&fp=a66b124a18d19552&psj=1&q=%22masons%22+and+%22luciferian%22 )

("Hell" of a coincidence? Song's almost prophetic, and concidering the above was from "Black Sabbath" too...)

Tell me, is a positive longitude east or west? I assume that positive latitude is north.

Go to Google Maps and zoom in on your location. The city itself should be enough. Click on the Link button and copy the link. Open that link in a new tab, and you should get the lat/long coords of your map's center to show up in the search field.

Or better yet, a fun surprise, this picture is worth a thousand words !

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Congrats, you've just won a fun surprise. It will be delivered anally by the TSA when you will attempt to board your next flight.

$i = 0 while $i = 0 wget ”http://www.google.com/search?q=Pressure+Cooker" wget ”http://www.google.com/search?q=backpack"

'Nuff Said

Hold on there fella. Make sure you use https://www.google.com./ This way you can completely rule out anyone between your door and Google's door. That way, when they come knocking on your door, you subpoena their information so that you can determine whether you get to sue Google, or the Federal government.

> what value is there to > 24-bit color?

TL:DR; The eye can clearly see more then 256 levels of primary colors.

There are 3 big problems with 24-bpp.

1. Mach Banding (or Gradients)
2. Blending
3. Limited Gamut

10-bit, 12-bit, or even 16-bit per channel provides more headroom for finer gradients.

The problem is exemplified when you do multiple blends. Since most display devices are still only 24-bit the maximum error we want with 8-bit-per-channel is 1/255 = 0.00392156862745. Using 16-bit per channel means we can literally add/blend/multiply 256 images before we would start to see quantization artifacts.

Another way to think about this is that for every image you add ("process) you need 1 more bit of precision. i.e. Assuming we are "processing" 8-bit per channels, you need a total of n-bits:
  9-bit if you add a total of 2 images,
10-bit if you add a total of 4 images,
11-bit if you add a total of 8 images,
12-bit if you add a total of 16 images,
13-bit if you add a total of 32 images,
14-bit if you add a total of 64 images,
15-bit if you add a total of 128 images,
16-bit if you add a total of 256 images,

Keep in mind that part of the problem is _caused_ by the fact that we are stuck with shitty 100 dpi resolution so 24-bit images are fugly. With 333+ dpi images 24-bit is OK. One of my close photography friend argues that with 1200 dpi you could get away with 6 or 7-bit per channel and I almost inclined to believe him.

With crappy 24-bit one is forced to do Tone Mapping (aka HDR) to get around the limitations of 24-bit to better utilize the color gamut. It is a huge "Hack" / "Kludge" which better approximates what the eye can see but it is still a hack.

There are 10-bit-per-channel monitors but at $1,000 the demand just isn't there. :-( http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/accessories/10bit.shtml

Now with all that said and done the BIGGER problem is "True Blacks" - the state of the industry is even more pathetic compared to 10-bit displays. ;-(( If you google "Pioneer Kuro Black" you'll see that Kuro set the "gold" standard for blacks back in 2007 and it has largely been ignored. :-( https://www.google.com/search?q=pioneer+black

In the audio word we use 24-bit DACS to provide headroom when we add 16-bit audio signals because if you only used 16-bits for A + B you could potentially get clipping. With 24-bits you have more than enough head room to minimize overflow and underflow.

Does this help?

The idea of "Standing" comes from the constitution, according to SCOTUS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_(law)

Lot of interesting PDFs & papers on Google about the history but some seem rather biased, even in the titles.

https://www.google.com/search?ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=The+standing+doctrine+history

* (beware the FBI, known terrorists sometimes stand when not sitting or sleeping)

The police didn't intercept her Google searches.
She posted pictures of M-66 explosives publicly on her Facebook account.

Google Plus posting on the topic
The facebook photo in question

The metadata stores the query:

https://www.google.com/search?q=my+search+string+is+in+the+http+header

They don't care about the results of the query.

You're supposed to go to https://encrypted.google.com/ - you're using the wrong subdomain.

Go to https://encrypted.google.com/ and it should stay SSL, even when not logged in.

He could consider moving to the Tunguska meteor site living off of fish from Lake Cheko and living in some abandoned cabins in the area. Or he could consider the Russian Far East. Maybe the area north of Lake Baikal where the ruins of some WWII era gulags still exist. Maybe Olekminsk or Yakutsk. There are plenty of interesting places to live in Russia. But it may be less safe for Snowden to move to a remote area. From time to time he's going to want to ride his reindeer into town for supplies and an American in that neck of the woods is bound to draw attention. If he ends up in the news, he could be an easy target for the CIA. they could shoot him and bury him somewhre so remote that no one would ever find his bones. Plus he'd have to learn Russian fairly well before he could really do any of it and Russian is not easy.

He could consider moving to the Tunguska meteor site living off of fish from Lake Cheko and living in some abandoned cabins in the area. Or he could consider the Russian Far East. Maybe the area north of Lake Baikal where the ruins of some WWII era gulags still exist. Maybe Olekminsk or Yakutsk. There are plenty of interesting places to live in Russia. But it may be less safe for Snowden to move to a remote area. From time to time he's going to want to ride his reindeer into town for supplies and an American in that neck of the woods is bound to draw attention. If he ends up in the news, he could be an easy target for the CIA. they could shoot him and bury him somewhre so remote that no one would ever find his bones. Plus he'd have to learn Russian fairly well before he could really do any of it and Russian is not easy.

Google does not default to https. It only does that if you are signed in with an account. If these people weren't, then anybody could have seen their searches with relative ease.

The test I just tried says otherwise: navigating to www.google.com redirected to https://www.google.com/ even though I was not logged into any Google services.

That being said, perhaps they used the search bar on IE or Firefox (or whatever) and it used vanilla non-secure www.google.com to conduct the search.

Serious question(s): What sites have you been to that don't allow you to zoom and what phone are you using? I've never had this issue on the last two phones I've had that have this type of zoom (Galaxy S3 and HD2).

There are some problems with this zooming in. But it depends on the capabilities of the browser.

The Android Stock Browser works well to reflow text when you zoom into a page (assuming you haven't turned that off). So when you zoom into a page, you will zoom up the text and reflow the text so that it fits on the screen.

But Google's newer Chrome browser for Android, (with which they would like to replace the stock Android browser) does not reflow, so in order to read wide pages, you end up scrolling left and right to read full lines.

Both of my phones and my Tablet work this way. Obviously its less of a problem on my tablet, but there are certain sites that use overly small text. (Like almost anything you will find on www.gpo.gov ).

Stock Android browser also has "Read Mode" (box icon at left edge of the URL bar) which rips the text out of any page and renders it in easy to read size. A godsend for aging eyes.

Unless or until reflow gets added to Chrome, these two features I can't see it surviving as the new Stock browser. Supposedly Firefox for Android does reflow.

Even https://encrypted.google.com/ won't save you!

I'm guessing it's this:

Office Mobile for Office 365

Nexus 4, Nexus 7 & ZTE Blade here but doesn't support any of them?

At a guess, you're not in the USA...

I'm guessing it's this:

Office Mobile for Office 365

Nexus 4, Nexus 7 & ZTE Blade here but doesn't support any of them?

I still cannot find any thing for Microsoft Office, except maybe Onenote.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.office.officehub

those American's that sit in Congress.

Slashdot, news for greengrocers, stuff that matters to aliterates*. Sorry, son, I can't take a high school dropout seriously. When you graduate junior high let me know. Read a fucking book once in a while, you uneducated redneck. Sheesh, this used to be a nerd hangout, where did all you uneducated morons come from?

* Not a misspelling, look it up.

Microsoft has already released several applications for Android, as is evidenced here https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Microsoft+Corporation. I still cannot find any thing for Microsoft Office, except maybe Onenote.

MSN Messenger for Android was released in 2012.

What would that be? http://www.google.com/

https://www.google.com/search?q=saddam+weapons+france

For a perspective, this is a list of releases in the first 9 months, side-by-side, for the Wii U, PS3 and Xbox 360.

No, the uncertainty principle is not due to technological limitations. The uncertainty relationship is a fundamental property of all phenomena characterized by finite-length wave trains, quantum mechanical or no.

I paraphrased Feynman's explanation as well as the mathematical reasoning in another comment

Feynman sez:

Here we encounter a strange thing about waves; a very simple thing which has nothing to do with quantum mechanics strictly. It is something that anybody who works with waves, even if he knows no quantum mechanics, knows: namely, we cannot define a unique wavelength for a short wave train. Such a wave train does not have a definite wavelength; there is an indefiniteness in the wave number that is related to the finite length of the train, and thus there is an indefiniteness in the momentum.

The simplest way to explain the uncertainty principle is this: if you have a wave train of finite length L, then the uncertainty in the wavenumber is at least 2*Pi/L. To see this imagine (or draw) a wave packet which attenuates to zero at either end (like an infinite wave convolved with a Gaussian). Now count the number of waves in the interval L - not so easy, is it?

Mathematically, one would Fourier transform the wave to obtain its frequency (the FT of the wave is a delta function, one point exactly at the frequency of the wave). But the FT of the wave packet has the delta function of the wave, convolved with the FT of the Gaussian - which is also a Gaussian. This leads to a Guassian in frequency space, and thus an uncertainty in the frequency of the wave packet. This type of uncertainty is a property of all wave-type phenomena, from sound waves to probability amplitudes.

Indeed, this is how Feynman treats the principle in Vol III, Ch. 2 of his mighty lecture series.

I feel like I need to click lower left, and then travel right to click what I want. Like clicking lower left brings the menu on the right.

like this:

https://www.google.com/search?q=windows+8+start+menu&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=AW35UeewCoj54AOG-4C4BQ&biw=1150&bih=802&sei=A235Ud2sI_LB4APq04GgCg#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=hVTDQDiCK-lUfM%3A%3BcKkEGX7Dp-2snM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.soluto.com%252Fkb%252Fwp-content%252Fuploads%252F2012%252F10%252Fcontrol-panel.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.soluto.com%252Fkb%252Fwindows-8%252Fwhere-is-the-start-menu-and-start-button-on-windows-8%252F%3B1680%3B1050

Let's have a look at ALU stock
https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3AALU
Price: 2.51
EPS: -1.62

Now let pay attention to this thing called EARNINGS. This is a company losing money.

Do you expect it to act like the government and magically go into more debt and print money and tax other people to keep itself going and pay its employees?

By all means, let's lobby government to fund engineering jobs and bailout companies the same way we fund the public sector and other fields (healthcare, education...). Let's lobby government to keep out competition like lawyers do. Bbut how do you get angry at a company for layoffs when they're losing money and have been for a long time... and get +5 insightful?

It wouldn't take much to circumvent that - Compaq used to get around that limitation (albeit w/ WinCE and their iPAQ PDA product) by providing an "unsupported" bootloader. (sadly, the original HP/Compaq page is no longer available).

Basically, Asus only needs to build and provide an "unofficial" and "unsupported" replacement for their UEFI that turns off the BS Microsoft lockdown, and boom - all set.

Now will they do it? Dunno.

The equivalent on Chrome is "ScriptSafe".

this is a specs comparison between the ubuntu edge, the new iphone and the new samsung android: http://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1USDawP-A7PucBDhpJbi6gXlfe1HaKerS7bs3FiTNIbo/edit

"Leeching" bandwidth? They are paying for a service advertised as unlimited gigabit. Now Google is arguing after the fact that they don't like certain people doing certain things on that connection because it means they can tier their service and charge those same people people more. Google is running a bait-and-switch.

The funny part is that AT&T and other ISPs were also claiming that Google was "leeching" their bandwidth which is why they were trying to get tiered Internet service. Now Google is doing exactly what they were arguing against just a few years ago:

But the phone and cable monopolies, who control almost all Internet access, want the power to choose who gets access to high-speed lanes and whose content gets seen first and fastest. They want to build a two-tiered system and block the on-ramps for those who can't pay.

Strange how the two-tiered system is perfectly fine now that they are one of the ISPs...

I can't think of too many situations where a cow would be best suited as a work animal. So we eat cows, same with most kinds of pig.

Got your causality backwards: we can't think of situations where bred for consumption cows would be good at work.

OTOH, you surely must have seen photos like this before.

The fact that an airport as busy as SFO doesn't have VASI/PAPI lights strikes me as fundamentally stupid. This is one of the busiest airports in the world. Yes, pilots should be able to land the sucker without lights, but SFO airspace is very busy and very dense. It's silly to think that not providing something as basic as approach lights will have no effect.

A quick google for reveals a cost that might be $50,000 which, for something as busy as SFO, probably compares to the toilet paper budget, or the cost of waxing the floors every week. I've flown (small plane pilot!) in the SFO airspace and ANYTHING you can do to reduce pilot work load is a good thing. Certainly, the cost of fixing the !@#$% lights pales compared to the cost of an emergency response.

You misunderstand. All single phone pledge levels are the same product (aside from the $10k level), just different prices. The original plan was to have 5000 phones at $600, then the rest at $830. It hit a brick wall after the $600 level ran out, so they decided to add a bunch of other tiers with slowly increasing prices. It's actually pretty neat to look at how linear the funding rates were at the different prices (link).

YOUR bill is itemized, the government's bill isn't.

This is absolutely untrue. Medicare receives a standard HCFA form from a doctor or a UB92/04 from an institution like a hospital, the same form that would be sent to your insurance company. If this form is incorrectly or incompletely filled out, you can bet dollars to donuts it will not be paid. Not only does it list, item by item, every procedure done and every drug administered (including a line item cost of each of them), it also includes coded diagnosis information and information to allow Medicare / Medicaid to identify the beneficiary. If anything, these forms have a lot more information than the EOB (explanation of benefits) letter that gets sent to you.

YOUR bill is itemized, the government's bill isn't.

This is absolutely untrue. Medicare receives a standard HCFA form from a doctor or a UB92/04 from an institution like a hospital, the same form that would be sent to your insurance company. If this form is incorrectly or incompletely filled out, you can bet dollars to donuts it will not be paid. Not only does it list, item by item, every procedure done and every drug administered (including a line item cost of each of them), it also includes coded diagnosis information and information to allow Medicare / Medicaid to identify the beneficiary. If anything, these forms have a lot more information than the EOB (explanation of benefits) letter that gets sent to you.

but there's SOO much downtime in between PVP fights

I reopened my account a little under a month ago (originally quit when Diablo 3 came out, THAT game was a waste of time and money.). After two weeks back with my old alliance, spinning ships, AFKing in station, I joined a new one. Night and day. I have seen more action every day in the new alliance than all 2 weeks with the old one. The problem for me was that the old alliance had largely faded from glory and the remaining members are 80% people in a 12 hour different time zone, and located way out in the middle of where there was nothing for a lone player to shoot at. The remaining 20% were insulated in their own system 15 jumps away and own teamspeak server. They invited no one else to come with them. The new one is right in the sweet spot for my time zone, and in a much better location for PVP and quite active. There is so much PVP going on I haven't had as much time to try out the new exploration mechanics as I would like, and best of all I don't feel like I need to be on all the time so that I don't miss what little action there is.

Ultimate lesson: A new corp solved your situation in my case.

I felt barely competent after 4 months of play.

But competent nonetheless... Mastering a game ultimately makes it boring. Four months would be quite a short time scale to master any decent MMO. The deeper the game, the longer it takes.

The curve is just too high for people looking to have fun and not turn the game into a way of life

I assume you have seen this, but I will post it for the amusement of others: EVE Learning Curve

Unrelated comment: I have only recently come to realize that EVE is only cosmetically a game about space ships. Its true nature is more a game of risk versus reward. You can mine in 0.5 space and make money faster... but those suicide gankers are 2 jumps away, or you can mine in 0.9 space and make less. Make your choice and live with the consequences. Trust no one, and never undock anything you cannot afford to lose.

Companies like that hand you a long form with lots of fine print, relying on the fact that most people will never bother to read them. But that means people aren't really agreeing to them, either. If there is not mutual understanding, there is no binding contract.

So back to my original point: the paper is not the contract. The agreement is the contract. The paper is merely evidence of it. They don't get to have that both ways. If they didn't read my amendment, then they didn't agree and there is no contract.

You instructors did not teach you this.

Your conclusion is shockingly wrong.

You need to stop spouting egregiously wrong bullshit on Slashdot before someone files a complaint with your state's disciplinary officials. They won't care that YANAL; they will care that you're practicing law very badly without a license.

That's why I *THEN* wrote "I suppose it's remotely possible that the patients were trading their copyright for dentistry, but that seems a pretty thin argument."

I'm not going to deconstruct your argument for you. You declared that the consideration for the copyright "Clearly [] isn't dentistry." Then at the last minute you hedged and declared that it "seems a pretty thin argument" without any explanation as to why. The only way to interpret what you wrote is that something had to be provided in exchange for the copyright other than dentistry, or that the dentist would be making the "thin argument" that (part of) the dentistry was paid for an assignment of future copyright. If you believed something else, you should have written it.

Your blanket statement that "Courts do not analyze consideration with that degree of detail" is a generalization that is not true in all cases. It depends on the case, the contract, and the surrounding circumstances.

Citation needed. Here's mine A severe imbalance of consideration may be evidence supporting other reasons to invalidate a contract, but those other reasons also have to be supported by other facts. "All I got for my money and copyright was dentistry" cannot by itself invalidate a contract.

You didn't bother to quote the more specific point that "Courts do not break apart the transaction to say which consideration was exchanged for what part -- if there is a single contract, it's a single package." Yet you vaguely claim that "[i]t depends on the case, the contract, and the surrounding circumstances." Provide an example of the case, the contract, and the surrounding circumstances. Show me where a court has played Match Game with consideration in a single contract and voided one obligation, out of many others actually supported by consideration, merely because it was not tied to specific consideration. I already know what you'll find -- cases in which someone attempted to amend a contract without offering any additional consideration (the amendment is itself a contract, therefore...), and cases in which the case, the contract, and the surrounding circumstances support an entirely different theory such as fraud in the formation.

Handwaving about supposed exceptions to "broad generalizations" is an even more egregious generalization. Which exception? Medical Justice's contracts were the height of stupidity, and the copyright claims potentially unenforceable as against public policy, yet claiming that there was no consideration given to the patient, and therefore no contract, was utterly, totally, and incontrovertably wrong.

The quickest way to do a back of envelope, order of magnitude estimate, is to just look at the orbital speeds for 0 km altitude orbit: 7905 m/s and say a 200 km altitude orbit: 7784 m/s. There is only a 120 m/s difference here, and although transfer orbits aren't perfectly efficient with delta-v, they aren't that far off for small changes in radius, and you would only need second half of the typical transfer orbit delta-v, as you start in the elliptical orbit.

Or you could just say use the actual formula from some transfer orbit, and get that the delta-v_2 = 60 m/s (this is for twice the altitude change of the previous comment). Now if you were trying to fire directly into geostationary orbit, the delta-v needed in space would be on the larger order of 1.5 km/s, although you would also now need to deal with a 10 km/s launch instead of 7 km/s...

The quickest way to do a back of envelope, order of magnitude estimate, is to just look at the orbital speeds for 0 km altitude orbit: 7905 m/s and say a 200 km altitude orbit: 7784 m/s. There is only a 120 m/s difference here, and although transfer orbits aren't perfectly efficient with delta-v, they aren't that far off for small changes in radius, and you would only need second half of the typical transfer orbit delta-v, as you start in the elliptical orbit.

Or you could just say use the actual formula from some transfer orbit, and get that the delta-v_2 = 60 m/s (this is for twice the altitude change of the previous comment). Now if you were trying to fire directly into geostationary orbit, the delta-v needed in space would be on the larger order of 1.5 km/s, although you would also now need to deal with a 10 km/s launch instead of 7 km/s...