By that logic, Fuck Ford for making the compact Focus and copying the Civic. They just ripped off a more popular car in detail in order to make money off its success. The Civic shouldn't have to compete in the marketplace because they were there first.
So, these games aren't fun, they're digital crack? Is that what you're trying to assert? Well, let's get the FDA involved, then. We need legislation to protect people from being forced to play games that aren't fun and are making a ton of cash for Zynga!
So many people have chimed in to say that the games aren't fun, but their longevity and population completely refutes such spurious assertions. The games are fun and that's why people play them, not because of the games mesmerizing effect on people, and not because of Zynga's constant and annoying advertisements. The games are considered fun by a lot of people (obviously not those who responded to my first post, though).
So it's unethical to copy a decent unpatented idea that's been ineptly marketed and turn it into a titan of the industry? I disagree. If they were so concerned, they could have applied for a design patent or a trademark. Problem is: there are already farming games out there in the world. FarmTown is just as derivative as Farmville, just marketed and developed poorly. Simply moving the farming game paradigm to a social network hardly counts as innovation worthy of protection, IMO.
People may learn about these games because of their inherent social networking hooks, but they're playing them and spending money on them because they're fun. No amount of advertising is going to make a boring game fun.
There may be more fun games out there, but if their designers fail to get the word out, then they screwed up. There's nothing stopping the originators from taking a page right out of Zynga's book and adding the social network hooks to their "original" games. They don't, and Zynga drinks their milkshake. They screwed up. No tears here.
You can patent a game, or get a design patent for the distinctive board design. That's why free Scrabble games don't have a board layout identical to the original game.
In the US, at least on the West coast, they have decent 2G coverage in the city, but if you leave it's bad. Also, they didn't even have a 3G network anywhere in the US until May-2008, and it's really small even now.
I'm drinking without drinking alcohol. I'm gaming without gambling. My adult media content is not adolescent gratuitousness, but challenging and informative content that requires some life experience to appreciate. My adult language is educated and domain terminology that children might not understand yet.
Ooh, is this a riddle? Lemme guess: you're a troll!
It's absurd this notion that tracking a user only benefits business doing the tracking. I don't mind getting junk mail if it germaine to my interests. Similarly, I don't mind being tracked if it means that the ads in my browser/internet broadcast/streamed media are more relevent to my proximity. I'm getting something that may be useful to me, and they're not wasting their advertising money trying to sell me something I don't want in a place that I'll never go. Google has been particularly useful in this manner because searches for businesses take in to account location making them even more accurate than previously. For instance, I searched for a restaurant called "Friar Tucks", and the first one on the list was the restaurant in my town, despite there being a restaurant called "Friar Tucks" in just about every major metropolitan area in the US. Potential for abuse != abuse.
Used to have a mac mini for the home theater, but it died suddenly last week.
Macs don't die. If it's not working, you must be holding it wrong. Hold it correctly, say a prayer to Steve Jobs for forgiveness, turn it on again, remember how lucky you are that you aren't a Micro$oft drone, and sneer.
As for running a linux gaming console with minimal copy protection, who will make games for it?
Why the massive Linux game development community for one! I'm surprised no one has thought of this yet! What kid wouldn't want to play Tuxracer and... well just Tuxracer, on Christmas morning?
Lining something that large with tinfoil would be problematic. At that size, the tinfoil itself will be relatively rather heavy. I doubt you could rely on wrapping it around the back to hold up such a large amount of foil. Silver paint would probably be more realistic, even though it wouldn't reflect as well as foil, I'd assume.
In the episode Wargames, it's clear that the Wargames are taking part in some alternate dimension, and by travelling from zone to zone the Doctor is not travelling through time but rather from one zone that is set up to emulate a certain time period to another zone which is set up to emulate a different time period. On the spreadsheet, it shows the Doctor making several journeys through time during this episode which isn't what happened.
The hum comes from a ground loop. There are much cheaper ways to mitigate that. Some as low as $10. Easiest solution: plug the subwoofer into a different circuit then the TV.
I love making you skinny bitches pay for my extra weight. I also demand that they give me more food during in flight service, because I need it. You have to pay for that, too! LOL!
When I accidentally left my iPod Nano in the pouch of my UnderArmour hoodie when I sent it through the wash over the weekend and now it won't turn on at all -- that's bricked.
It'll probably be fine. Put it in a ziplock bag with dry rice and as many of those dessecant packets as you can scrounge up and leave it for a few days. If you can open it up, do that and make sure it's all dry inside. I've done similar things with lots of electronic devices, and as long as you didn't blow any caps (unlikely with surface mount technology) and there is no hard drive, you're probably going to be OK. Had the same thing happen with an iPod Touch, and it turned out just fine.
I'm sure in the fictional world of Star Trek that a PADD decoupled from a super computer probably still blows the hell out of the iPad as far as functionality goes, but the perception of utility is greatly diminished in the hands of the jaded user.
There is no way an iPad would compare in utility (other than "poorly") with a tablet computer from three years from now, let alone from 300 years from now.
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By that logic, Fuck Ford for making the compact Focus and copying the Civic. They just ripped off a more popular car in detail in order to make money off its success. The Civic shouldn't have to compete in the marketplace because they were there first.
So, these games aren't fun, they're digital crack? Is that what you're trying to assert? Well, let's get the FDA involved, then. We need legislation to protect people from being forced to play games that aren't fun and are making a ton of cash for Zynga!
So many people have chimed in to say that the games aren't fun, but their longevity and population completely refutes such spurious assertions. The games are fun and that's why people play them, not because of the games mesmerizing effect on people, and not because of Zynga's constant and annoying advertisements. The games are considered fun by a lot of people (obviously not those who responded to my first post, though).
So, because Blizzard has made games that you like, they're above reproach?
So it's unethical to copy a decent unpatented idea that's been ineptly marketed and turn it into a titan of the industry? I disagree. If they were so concerned, they could have applied for a design patent or a trademark. Problem is: there are already farming games out there in the world. FarmTown is just as derivative as Farmville, just marketed and developed poorly. Simply moving the farming game paradigm to a social network hardly counts as innovation worthy of protection, IMO.
People may learn about these games because of their inherent social networking hooks, but they're playing them and spending money on them because they're fun. No amount of advertising is going to make a boring game fun.
There may be more fun games out there, but if their designers fail to get the word out, then they screwed up. There's nothing stopping the originators from taking a page right out of Zynga's book and adding the social network hooks to their "original" games. They don't, and Zynga drinks their milkshake. They screwed up. No tears here.
You can patent a game, or get a design patent for the distinctive board design. That's why free Scrabble games don't have a board layout identical to the original game.
In the US, at least on the West coast, they have decent 2G coverage in the city, but if you leave it's bad. Also, they didn't even have a 3G network anywhere in the US until May-2008, and it's really small even now.
I'm drinking without drinking alcohol.
I'm gaming without gambling.
My adult media content is not adolescent gratuitousness, but challenging and informative content that requires some life experience to appreciate.
My adult language is educated and domain terminology that children might not understand yet.
Ooh, is this a riddle? Lemme guess: you're a troll!
They single-handedly saved Javascript.
Tiny baby, we were trading porn on BBSs way before the mass of humanity was allowed to use the interwebs. GOML!
It's absurd this notion that tracking a user only benefits business doing the tracking. I don't mind getting junk mail if it germaine to my interests. Similarly, I don't mind being tracked if it means that the ads in my browser/internet broadcast/streamed media are more relevent to my proximity. I'm getting something that may be useful to me, and they're not wasting their advertising money trying to sell me something I don't want in a place that I'll never go. Google has been particularly useful in this manner because searches for businesses take in to account location making them even more accurate than previously. For instance, I searched for a restaurant called "Friar Tucks", and the first one on the list was the restaurant in my town, despite there being a restaurant called "Friar Tucks" in just about every major metropolitan area in the US. Potential for abuse != abuse.
So say you. If you live in the West, it sucks.
I do not understand why the N900 is not more popular. I'd love to have one, from what I've read, yet typical reviews I've seen pan it. WTF? :-(
Because it only has 3G on T-Mobile, America's worst 3G network.
Used to have a mac mini for the home theater, but it died suddenly last week.
Macs don't die. If it's not working, you must be holding it wrong. Hold it correctly, say a prayer to Steve Jobs for forgiveness, turn it on again, remember how lucky you are that you aren't a Micro$oft drone, and sneer.
Splitting hairs much?
As for running a linux gaming console with minimal copy protection, who will make games for it?
Why the massive Linux game development community for one! I'm surprised no one has thought of this yet! What kid wouldn't want to play Tuxracer and... well just Tuxracer, on Christmas morning?
Lining something that large with tinfoil would be problematic. At that size, the tinfoil itself will be relatively rather heavy. I doubt you could rely on wrapping it around the back to hold up such a large amount of foil. Silver paint would probably be more realistic, even though it wouldn't reflect as well as foil, I'd assume.
In the episode Wargames, it's clear that the Wargames are taking part in some alternate dimension, and by travelling from zone to zone the Doctor is not travelling through time but rather from one zone that is set up to emulate a certain time period to another zone which is set up to emulate a different time period. On the spreadsheet, it shows the Doctor making several journeys through time during this episode which isn't what happened.
The hum comes from a ground loop. There are much cheaper ways to mitigate that. Some as low as $10. Easiest solution: plug the subwoofer into a different circuit then the TV.
It's so you can't have your (sober) buddy blow into the interlock so you can start your car to drive home drunk anyways.
I love making you skinny bitches pay for my extra weight. I also demand that they give me more food during in flight service, because I need it. You have to pay for that, too! LOL!
You forget the easiest option C: don't drink and drive. Thanks a million, MADD.
When I accidentally left my iPod Nano in the pouch of my UnderArmour hoodie when I sent it through the wash over the weekend and now it won't turn on at all -- that's bricked.
It'll probably be fine. Put it in a ziplock bag with dry rice and as many of those dessecant packets as you can scrounge up and leave it for a few days. If you can open it up, do that and make sure it's all dry inside. I've done similar things with lots of electronic devices, and as long as you didn't blow any caps (unlikely with surface mount technology) and there is no hard drive, you're probably going to be OK. Had the same thing happen with an iPod Touch, and it turned out just fine.
I'm sure in the fictional world of Star Trek that a PADD decoupled from a super computer probably still blows the hell out of the iPad as far as functionality goes, but the perception of utility is greatly diminished in the hands of the jaded user.
There is no way an iPad would compare in utility (other than "poorly") with a tablet computer from three years from now, let alone from 300 years from now.
I've stopped going to the store and take my girls someplace else.
Fortunately, there are probably 4 dozen other Starbucks locations within walking distance of the one usurped by the scrap-bookers...