I suspect this would most likely be tied to content and not actual products apple produces. what if, instead of paying 2 bucks at the iTunes store for an episode of a TV show you could download it with for free with 4 forced 30 second ads (not that much different from hulu but you cant get around it at all). Would you consider that option? I think I would.
wait, I thought the only way to get an app on to the phone was to go through apples app store which they have locked down in a draconian manner!
are you telling me that all this time, with all this bitching about the app store there are other ways to load applications on to the iphone? Where has this information been every time Slashdot goes into a wild ferver when apple turns down an app for the app store.
I suspect that apple might implement a way for applications to show these kinds of ads, with the iphone software forcing the user to watch them. This would be a boon to app developers who want to distribute free versions of complicated applications. Of course it would be the users choice to use these apps or not. I suspect many would balk, but I could see putting up with an ad that came up every time I lunched some application that I didnt use very often if the alternative was to pay a large chunk of money for an ad free version of the same app.
And rider error is the most common cause of motorcycle accidents. I have been riding for almost a decade and I know that I wouldn't want everyone on a motorcycle. Its a lot harder than driving a car.
But I love those guys. Without people like that I wouldn't be able to buy a 2 year old Harley with no miles on it, practically never ridden, for far less than it cost new.
Besides, these aren't the people you see out on the street riding, most of these clowns never get out of their driveways.
that would be paying for the materials necessary to catch the theif. Costs incurred while investigating someone breaking into your house.
This situation is more akin to you catching him and then the judge ordering him to pay for a new steel reinforced garage door with a retinal scanner for access.
If they were trying to get the hacker to pay for the expense of having caught him I might buy that. If, say, they spent a bunch of money on a new server and network setup to act as a honey pot to catch the hacker that might be reasonable.
no... absolutely not. Its would be my fault for having an open skylight.
Sure, he should be punished, he should pay for any grease damage he caused to my socks but he should not have to pay to remove a perfectly functional sky light and re-roof my house
Go ahead. Name a Massachusetts tech company. Now name one that hasn't either moved someplace else or gone out of business.
Avid Technology.
We also have a large Adobe facility here, Sun and Oracle just down the street from it. There are many many others. Massachusetts has one of the strongest tech economies of any state. The pharmaceutical industry here is absolutely huge. Don't talk about stuff you clearly know nothing about.
The MIT student was shit on by airport security, nothing at all to do with the state government. The linux incident, Campus cops under a college policy, nothing to do with state law.
Now, Ill give you the incident with Gates and the one with the viral marketing. Both of those were handled poorly, but there are poorly handed situations in every single state of the union if you spend the time to look for them. Ones you can actually blame on the state government too.
Meanwhile this is one of the few states in the union where employers are not allowed to drug test you unless impairment on the job could lead to injury and loss of life.
Because other men will pay ungodly amounts of money to watch slathering ape-beasts play a sport better than any other slathering ape-beasts, but nobody really wants to watch scientists do much of anything no matter how good they are at it.
Seriously, given the range is only 6 miles, I don't see why you wouldn't bike. I could see the advantages of a powered vehicle over longer distances where I might get tired, but 6 miles just isn't that far.
One of my coworkers at a previous company had a nice little fold up bike. He took the train every day and biked from the station to his house. Seemed like a pretty good solution. It was cheeper, faster and had better range. Probably lighter than 22lbs too.
Of course regular parents take this chance every time the conceive a child.
I'm not sure I see the ethical dilemma in using this technology to allow a couple with fertility problems to reproduce. Sure, in this case you don't know what the odds are, and its possible something will go wrong that couldn't go wrong normally. But everyone who has a child takes the chance that the child might be deformed or sick or die shortly after birth. Its part of the human condition.
so patch the game so that the teleport power cant teleport an enemy into your safe zone (or a friendly into the enemies safe zone). Or give the teleport power a sufficiently limited range that its not an issue
This is a common problem with super powers. The people who come up with the ideas dont think them through and what seems like a simple power can become totally dominating when applied properly.
The game is broken, you can say that he shouldn't use a power that is so out of wack, but really its the game devs that should get the grief for allowing it.
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I suspect this would most likely be tied to content and not actual products apple produces. what if, instead of paying 2 bucks at the iTunes store for an episode of a TV show you could download it with for free with 4 forced 30 second ads (not that much different from hulu but you cant get around it at all). Would you consider that option? I think I would.
It is a martini made by Microsoft after all.
that should be thier slogan
Windows 7: decent
and only half a decade late
wait, I thought the only way to get an app on to the phone was to go through apples app store which they have locked down in a draconian manner!
are you telling me that all this time, with all this bitching about the app store there are other ways to load applications on to the iphone? Where has this information been every time Slashdot goes into a wild ferver when apple turns down an app for the app store.
your assuming it asks before it phones home.
How many pirates would there be if he provided a free, limited demo?
How many sales would he loose to people who found out the game sucked before they bought it?
I suspect that apple might implement a way for applications to show these kinds of ads, with the iphone software forcing the user to watch them. This would be a boon to app developers who want to distribute free versions of complicated applications. Of course it would be the users choice to use these apps or not. I suspect many would balk, but I could see putting up with an ad that came up every time I lunched some application that I didnt use very often if the alternative was to pay a large chunk of money for an ad free version of the same app.
And rider error is the most common cause of motorcycle accidents. I have been riding for almost a decade and I know that I wouldn't want everyone on a motorcycle. Its a lot harder than driving a car.
Proof that MySQL ruins threesomes.
The painters house always needs paint. The gardeners house always needs gardening.
Doubt that? Buy a house from an electrician.
But I love those guys. Without people like that I wouldn't be able to buy a 2 year old Harley with no miles on it, practically never ridden, for far less than it cost new.
Besides, these aren't the people you see out on the street riding, most of these clowns never get out of their driveways.
that would be paying for the materials necessary to catch the theif. Costs incurred while investigating someone breaking into your house.
This situation is more akin to you catching him and then the judge ordering him to pay for a new steel reinforced garage door with a retinal scanner for access.
If they were trying to get the hacker to pay for the expense of having caught him I might buy that. If, say, they spent a bunch of money on a new server and network setup to act as a honey pot to catch the hacker that might be reasonable.
no... absolutely not. Its would be my fault for having an open skylight.
Sure, he should be punished, he should pay for any grease damage he caused to my socks but he should not have to pay to remove a perfectly functional sky light and re-roof my house
no, this is like someone entering your house through an open window and then making him pay for a new set of locks and an alarm system.
Go ahead. Name a Massachusetts tech company. Now name one that hasn't either moved someplace else or gone out of business.
Avid Technology.
We also have a large Adobe facility here, Sun and Oracle just down the street from it. There are many many others. Massachusetts has one of the strongest tech economies of any state. The pharmaceutical industry here is absolutely huge. Don't talk about stuff you clearly know nothing about.
The MIT student was shit on by airport security, nothing at all to do with the state government. The linux incident, Campus cops under a college policy, nothing to do with state law.
Now, Ill give you the incident with Gates and the one with the viral marketing. Both of those were handled poorly, but there are poorly handed situations in every single state of the union if you spend the time to look for them. Ones you can actually blame on the state government too.
Meanwhile this is one of the few states in the union where employers are not allowed to drug test you unless impairment on the job could lead to injury and loss of life.
Because other men will pay ungodly amounts of money to watch slathering ape-beasts play a sport better than any other slathering ape-beasts, but nobody really wants to watch scientists do much of anything no matter how good they are at it.
Much better than the competitor, Holly, with the slogan "the closest thing to infullable you can get."
yea, and their rides get them laid all the time I'm sure.
Seriously, given the range is only 6 miles, I don't see why you wouldn't bike. I could see the advantages of a powered vehicle over longer distances where I might get tired, but 6 miles just isn't that far.
One of my coworkers at a previous company had a nice little fold up bike. He took the train every day and biked from the station to his house. Seemed like a pretty good solution. It was cheeper, faster and had better range. Probably lighter than 22lbs too.
Gravity
wait, is that what people mean by knowing someone "in the biblical sense?"
ahhh medium pulse lasers.
Of course regular parents take this chance every time the conceive a child.
I'm not sure I see the ethical dilemma in using this technology to allow a couple with fertility problems to reproduce. Sure, in this case you don't know what the odds are, and its possible something will go wrong that couldn't go wrong normally. But everyone who has a child takes the chance that the child might be deformed or sick or die shortly after birth. Its part of the human condition.
so patch the game so that the teleport power cant teleport an enemy into your safe zone (or a friendly into the enemies safe zone). Or give the teleport power a sufficiently limited range that its not an issue
This is a common problem with super powers. The people who come up with the ideas dont think them through and what seems like a simple power can become totally dominating when applied properly.
The game is broken, you can say that he shouldn't use a power that is so out of wack, but really its the game devs that should get the grief for allowing it.
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