Positive results? It got me to stop playing WoW. Probably saved me a boatload of money on Diablo 3 micro transaction because of how trash that game is long term.
Dog breeding is an ongoing controlled experiment in evolution that has produced multiple intentional traits in dogs originally sourced from extremely different starting stock.
Then again, you could also say that that is clear evidence that Intelligent design is possible.
From my point of view, these are excuses. They are things that only become an issue if you are already dissatisfied. It is very hard to tell what your exact reason for quitting really is. The reason I think I quit is a general lack of fun brought about by a focus on repetitive tasks that I didn't want to be doing. You may say that that is the point of MMO, but I hadn't had a problem with it up until the point where I quit.
The trouble with design by statistics is that it creates the average, which means 50% of products out there will be better almost by definition. Given variance in taste, this number is likely to be even more inflated.
I've read that they moved the site to wyoming - a coal powered area - instead of their much greaner existing HQ in Boulder colorado. Reason? The electricity is cheaper.
Well yeah, but when was the last time you had a conversation with your cat? Animals can clearly communicate by reaction but it is definitely in question whether they intend to communicate or are simply reacting to stimulii.
PETA's campaign becomes a little weirder when you realise that the pokemon as presented in the cartoon series aren't even animals - they are sentient and even able to directly communicate with humans.
Sure the analogy is still there, I mean they look like cute fluffy bunnies after all but most of the time the relationship is shown as voluntary and symbiotic. Pokemon isn't promoting animal abuse, it's promoting slavery through stockholm syndrome.
My housemate got one of these things, after mocking him for about a month about how huge it is and then getting an S2 for myself, I really wish I'd gone with the note.
It may look huge, but that is the point and there really is no difficulty fitting it in a pocket.
Actually, yes. The entire purpose of copyright is to allow a creator a reasonable period of time to make profit on their work to promote the creation and distribution of that work. If a work is not actively being distributed anywhere, then logically it is past the reasonable period of making profit on it and should not be covered by copyright.
Actually, it's only recently that serial killers have begun getting facebook accounts just to hide form this kind of profiling. It is clearly traceable that even as recently as 2004, 100% of known serial killers did not have facebook accounts.
I will never buy a 99c app sight unseen - In fact I have NEVER purchased an app, nor have a pirated one. I might try a free app even if I'm not interested in it. If I am very interested in an app, I might pirate it.
The only time I'll pay for an app is if I use a free/pirated version enough to need extra features or to want to support the creator. Tell me now how I am a lost sale if I pirate an app.
Format shifting is perfectly legal in Australia - Such as copying a TV broadcast to VHS. So these programs are completely legal in every way here. Does the US not have something similar? Are you guys really that backward about copyright?
I think what is important here is that they applied evolutionary alogirthms to music A LOT for A LONG TIME. Somehting that I personally haven't heard of being done anywhere else.
On the US dollar issue:
When we were at $0.5 AU to $1 US, AAA games were $100. Now we are $1 AU to $1 US AAA games are $100. If the game was priced in USD, then the price doubled. I'll probably be spending more than that for Diablo 3 because of taxes and I'll be buying that through digital distribution, getting the same copy as everyone else.
It's more marked with expensive products, but we really do pay significantly more for software here in Aus.
I'd support a device that could tell me when the government was doing something wrong. On the assumption that I drive my vehicle legally, any black box I had would only ever help me.
"Central" as a synonym to "Core" and "Inteligence" as a Euphemism for Espionage
I would certainly hope the CIA was focused on being the US's Core Agency for Espionage. Government names are usually meant to be descriptive. Business names less so.
And glass, gas, wire and electricity were all quite old when someone put them together into a working invention. The questions are - Did they make a novel product? Yes, despite the components being old, the whole was greater than the sum of the parts. And was it non-obvious? Arguable, but since every one seemed to have been struggling to get it to work, I'd go with yes.
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Which states have that law? I was under the impression that your first amendment rights precluded the restriction of filming in any public place.
It's pretty common usage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2x4
Positive results? It got me to stop playing WoW. Probably saved me a boatload of money on Diablo 3 micro transaction because of how trash that game is long term.
"Oh damn, I appear to have caused some kind of loop and now all the traffic on the network has jammed. Guess I don't get the job huh?"
Only people I don't want to work for let potential hires play with production environments.
Dog breeding is an ongoing controlled experiment in evolution that has produced multiple intentional traits in dogs originally sourced from extremely different starting stock.
Then again, you could also say that that is clear evidence that Intelligent design is possible.
From my point of view, these are excuses. They are things that only become an issue if you are already dissatisfied. It is very hard to tell what your exact reason for quitting really is. The reason I think I quit is a general lack of fun brought about by a focus on repetitive tasks that I didn't want to be doing. You may say that that is the point of MMO, but I hadn't had a problem with it up until the point where I quit.
The trouble with design by statistics is that it creates the average, which means 50% of products out there will be better almost by definition. Given variance in taste, this number is likely to be even more inflated.
Which is using copyright to achieve the exact opposite of copyright's stated intention - the advancement of arts and science.
I've read that they moved the site to wyoming - a coal powered area - instead of their much greaner existing HQ in Boulder colorado. Reason? The electricity is cheaper.
Well yeah, but when was the last time you had a conversation with your cat? Animals can clearly communicate by reaction but it is definitely in question whether they intend to communicate or are simply reacting to stimulii.
PETA's campaign becomes a little weirder when you realise that the pokemon as presented in the cartoon series aren't even animals - they are sentient and even able to directly communicate with humans.
Sure the analogy is still there, I mean they look like cute fluffy bunnies after all but most of the time the relationship is shown as voluntary and symbiotic. Pokemon isn't promoting animal abuse, it's promoting slavery through stockholm syndrome.
My housemate got one of these things, after mocking him for about a month about how huge it is and then getting an S2 for myself, I really wish I'd gone with the note.
It may look huge, but that is the point and there really is no difficulty fitting it in a pocket.
Actually, yes. The entire purpose of copyright is to allow a creator a reasonable period of time to make profit on their work to promote the creation and distribution of that work. If a work is not actively being distributed anywhere, then logically it is past the reasonable period of making profit on it and should not be covered by copyright.
Actually, it's only recently that serial killers have begun getting facebook accounts just to hide form this kind of profiling. It is clearly traceable that even as recently as 2004, 100% of known serial killers did not have facebook accounts.
Which means that each ripple takes years to cross the cup, Plenty of time to adjust for tehm on a human scale. Bad analogy remains bad.
I will never buy a 99c app sight unseen - In fact I have NEVER purchased an app, nor have a pirated one. I might try a free app even if I'm not interested in it. If I am very interested in an app, I might pirate it.
The only time I'll pay for an app is if I use a free/pirated version enough to need extra features or to want to support the creator.
Tell me now how I am a lost sale if I pirate an app.
Format shifting is perfectly legal in Australia - Such as copying a TV broadcast to VHS. So these programs are completely legal in every way here. Does the US not have something similar? Are you guys really that backward about copyright?
I think what is important here is that they applied evolutionary alogirthms to music A LOT for A LONG TIME. Somehting that I personally haven't heard of being done anywhere else.
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Except that Collector editions of Diablo 3 sold out about a month ago. At least here is AU.
Kind of hard to not pre-order it and still get one since it was released today. Now, you could argue that collector additions are pointless anyway.
you missed the "educational ecosystem" Which I assume to mean "actually helpful software"
On the US dollar issue: When we were at $0.5 AU to $1 US, AAA games were $100. Now we are $1 AU to $1 US AAA games are $100. If the game was priced in USD, then the price doubled. I'll probably be spending more than that for Diablo 3 because of taxes and I'll be buying that through digital distribution, getting the same copy as everyone else.
It's more marked with expensive products, but we really do pay significantly more for software here in Aus.
I'd support a device that could tell me when the government was doing something wrong. On the assumption that I drive my vehicle legally, any black box I had would only ever help me.
"Central" as a synonym to "Core" and "Inteligence" as a Euphemism for Espionage
I would certainly hope the CIA was focused on being the US's Core Agency for Espionage. Government names are usually meant to be descriptive. Business names less so.
Wait, this is satire right? You just described Apple pretty perfectly.
And glass, gas, wire and electricity were all quite old when someone put them together into a working invention. The questions are - Did they make a novel product? Yes, despite the components being old, the whole was greater than the sum of the parts. And was it non-obvious? Arguable, but since every one seemed to have been struggling to get it to work, I'd go with yes.