I hope this doesn't signal a new "I'll get my bill auto-approved by saying it addresses _____" era. While I support almost any thing to stop bullying, I worry that this is just a "well we tried bill".
This game should be released right around the time my son will be gaining the fine motor skills needed to operate a Dualshock controller...assuming that it is not a PC exclusive.
I can count on zero (0) hands how many times I have been to those three sites in the last five years, and I can count on one hand the number of Captchas I have been forced to interact with in the last month. I get the feeling that most of the sites I visit, and would expect to see a captcha at, aren't going to want to use such an off-putting system. The sites that I really care about blocking ads on are sites that I hardly visit.
When encountering a new site I usually block the most annoying ads and leave the static image and less annoying ads alone. It is only when a site gets douchey with its advertising that I start to block entire domains. If EA, Wrigley and Disney (and almost all other big-name company sites) could provide a less annoying advertisment experiance on their sites I would not feel compelled to block all ads.
I am the only one who thought that writing an article, and one of questionable news value for that matter, from the point of view of some one who has played that game for years was a bad idea?
How is "some guy does some thing, apparently, dumb in-game" news that is interesting or relevant to non-players of that game?
Personally I like to watch those sites do there thing on my Linux Laptop. I get an odd sense of satisfaction out of it. Some times I even click 'OK' just to watch them struggle with Wine.
Perhaps I just don't understand all the complicated factors involved with this type of situation, but I was wondering why BP couldn't have just slid a larger tube over the rupture and essentially funnel much of the oil some place contained. If you can divert the oil to another tube you could then pump it to a taker-barge and then deal with it there *before* it gets into the Gulf.
Perhaps Yahoo! has built a large city destroying robot, or created some sort of Google employee targeting bio-weapon that they and are looking to get MS as a 50/50 partner in the upcoming mayhem and destruction.
You know, I don't think I will be bothered by all this restrictions on pre-owned games, and for that matter DRM, registration, mandatory network connections etc. It seems to me that the games that get the "We need to get every penny possible out of this" focus from the publishers are the types of games that IMO suck. Personally I don't get all that bothered by it since, with a few exceptions, I am really sick of the Madden *Insert Year Here*, Generic Space Marine Kills a Ton of Aliens, or Overly Bloody FPS games that every one is making these days. I am sure that some of them are actually a quality product, but until the video game industry gets its creativity and soul back, I wont be sending much of my money their way.
This is a little off topic, but if there is one industry that desperately needs some Truth In Advertising laws enforced, its the wireless industry. I don't know why AT&T is so pissed. All the major carriers play up the smallest advantage they have over competitors as 'THE' deciding factor in who is the best carrier. How can Sprint AT&T and Verizon all have the best 3G networks like they each claim in their commercials?
This might work for friends, but people tend to forget those infant years of their life when their parents did literally every thing for them, and then in your school-age years when they still provided for nearly all of your daily needs. As frustrating as it is for me, I do it with out too much griping because I know it was my parents that bought me my first computer, let me have the freedom to explore it, fed and housed me for 19 years, and never once asked for any thing more than an occasional chore. A few hours of annoyance one or twice a month seems like a small price to pay when all things are considered.
I think the issue here is more akin to trademarks rather than IP. It sounds to me like the inventors of Go! are not claiming that Google just ripped off their language, but are upset that the new Google language was named in a confusingly similar manner to theirs. This can then confuse people generally looking for Go! rather than Go.
I assume that the logic there would be that the mathematics existed prior to the discovery of it. The Pythagorean theorem is a law of nature governing right triangles, Pythagoras didn't just sit down one day and "invent" an equation that solved for triangle side lengths, he discovered it. On the other hand, if I write a new snippet of code to solve a problem I am having, I invented a solution to the problem.
They're making lots of money from all those iPhone users, they can afford to upgrade their network.
When I worked in the wireless industry (about 9 months ago) the income for the actual company wasn't that great. It took the company I worked for a little over a year to actually start making profit on an average customer. Even when I worked for the industry I tried not to buy their kool-aid, but this figure I actually believed since I worked for a smaller local company who's owners and executives were quite open and, at times, honestly blunt with us.
While processing the comment in your brain, you violated the terms of Mother Nature's "Neural Pathway EULA" by not securing transmission permission first.
Commander: Go to Iraq, soldier!
Soldier: No sir, I don't want to.
Commander: Then get out of the military.
RIAA: Hi lawyer, would you like to sue people for us?
Lawyer: No, I only accept legitimate cases.
RIAA: Okay then.
Lawyers can turn down cases and keep their job.
So the Law profession is the exact opposite of every other industry? Every employer I've heard of fires you when you tell your boss you refuse to do what the company has set forth as policy.
You can safely bet that if I tell my boss that I'm going to turn down supporting a new application because I don't believe in promoting horrible products, I'd be out the door by lunch.
I agree...its neat. But why not spend all that time, money and effort into research on making faster chips that are actually usable by a normal person?
IANAL, but the school officials were not conducting a search, but confiscating a something per a school regulation, so the chain of custody of the phone is not an issue, but the students right to privacy my have been violated if the official looked through the phones pictures with out some sort of cause, ie suspected the kids of cheating.
169A.52 Sub 3: Test refusal; license revocation.
(a) Upon certification by the peace officer that there existed probable cause to believe the person had been driving, operating, or in physical control of a motor vehicle in violation of section 169A.20 (driving while impaired), and that the person refused to submit to a test, the commissioner shall revoke the person's license or permit to drive, or nonresident operating privilege, for a period of one year even if a test was obtained pursuant to this section after the person refused to submit to testing.
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I hope this doesn't signal a new "I'll get my bill auto-approved by saying it addresses _____" era. While I support almost any thing to stop bullying, I worry that this is just a "well we tried bill".
"not a complete solution" Nor is it a realistic solution for most of the world.
Running a mail server from home would violate just about every ISP ToS I have seen as well.
Unfortunately if you are being arrested or they have a warrant you don't have the right to tell them to fuck off...for the most part.
This game should be released right around the time my son will be gaining the fine motor skills needed to operate a Dualshock controller...assuming that it is not a PC exclusive.
I can count on zero (0) hands how many times I have been to those three sites in the last five years, and I can count on one hand the number of Captchas I have been forced to interact with in the last month. I get the feeling that most of the sites I visit, and would expect to see a captcha at, aren't going to want to use such an off-putting system. The sites that I really care about blocking ads on are sites that I hardly visit.
When encountering a new site I usually block the most annoying ads and leave the static image and less annoying ads alone. It is only when a site gets douchey with its advertising that I start to block entire domains. If EA, Wrigley and Disney (and almost all other big-name company sites) could provide a less annoying advertisment experiance on their sites I would not feel compelled to block all ads.
I am the only one who thought that writing an article, and one of questionable news value for that matter, from the point of view of some one who has played that game for years was a bad idea?
How is "some guy does some thing, apparently, dumb in-game" news that is interesting or relevant to non-players of that game?
Personally I like to watch those sites do there thing on my Linux Laptop. I get an odd sense of satisfaction out of it. Some times I even click 'OK' just to watch them struggle with Wine.
Perhaps I just don't understand all the complicated factors involved with this type of situation, but I was wondering why BP couldn't have just slid a larger tube over the rupture and essentially funnel much of the oil some place contained. If you can divert the oil to another tube you could then pump it to a taker-barge and then deal with it there *before* it gets into the Gulf.
Perhaps Yahoo! has built a large city destroying robot, or created some sort of Google employee targeting bio-weapon that they and are looking to get MS as a 50/50 partner in the upcoming mayhem and destruction.
You know, I don't think I will be bothered by all this restrictions on pre-owned games, and for that matter DRM, registration, mandatory network connections etc. It seems to me that the games that get the "We need to get every penny possible out of this" focus from the publishers are the types of games that IMO suck. Personally I don't get all that bothered by it since, with a few exceptions, I am really sick of the Madden *Insert Year Here*, Generic Space Marine Kills a Ton of Aliens, or Overly Bloody FPS games that every one is making these days. I am sure that some of them are actually a quality product, but until the video game industry gets its creativity and soul back, I wont be sending much of my money their way.
I want my SNES/Gensis glory days back damn-it!
This is a little off topic, but if there is one industry that desperately needs some Truth In Advertising laws enforced, its the wireless industry. I don't know why AT&T is so pissed. All the major carriers play up the smallest advantage they have over competitors as 'THE' deciding factor in who is the best carrier. How can Sprint AT&T and Verizon all have the best 3G networks like they each claim in their commercials?
This might work for friends, but people tend to forget those infant years of their life when their parents did literally every thing for them, and then in your school-age years when they still provided for nearly all of your daily needs. As frustrating as it is for me, I do it with out too much griping because I know it was my parents that bought me my first computer, let me have the freedom to explore it, fed and housed me for 19 years, and never once asked for any thing more than an occasional chore. A few hours of annoyance one or twice a month seems like a small price to pay when all things are considered.
Hmm...I suppose you are correct then. Perhaps I should have consulted the almighty Wikipedia before posting.
I think the issue here is more akin to trademarks rather than IP. It sounds to me like the inventors of Go! are not claiming that Google just ripped off their language, but are upset that the new Google language was named in a confusingly similar manner to theirs. This can then confuse people generally looking for Go! rather than Go.
I assume that the logic there would be that the mathematics existed prior to the discovery of it. The Pythagorean theorem is a law of nature governing right triangles, Pythagoras didn't just sit down one day and "invent" an equation that solved for triangle side lengths, he discovered it. On the other hand, if I write a new snippet of code to solve a problem I am having, I invented a solution to the problem.
The Onion's opinion.
I some times forget that the internet has adds thanks to ABP. I am reminded how much I love ABP when I use some one else's computer.
They're making lots of money from all those iPhone users, they can afford to upgrade their network.
When I worked in the wireless industry (about 9 months ago) the income for the actual company wasn't that great. It took the company I worked for a little over a year to actually start making profit on an average customer. Even when I worked for the industry I tried not to buy their kool-aid, but this figure I actually believed since I worked for a smaller local company who's owners and executives were quite open and, at times, honestly blunt with us.
While processing the comment in your brain, you violated the terms of Mother Nature's "Neural Pathway EULA" by not securing transmission permission first.
There's a key difference here, mate:
Commander: Go to Iraq, soldier! Soldier: No sir, I don't want to. Commander: Then get out of the military.
RIAA: Hi lawyer, would you like to sue people for us? Lawyer: No, I only accept legitimate cases. RIAA: Okay then.
Lawyers can turn down cases and keep their job.
So the Law profession is the exact opposite of every other industry? Every employer I've heard of fires you when you tell your boss you refuse to do what the company has set forth as policy.
You can safely bet that if I tell my boss that I'm going to turn down supporting a new application because I don't believe in promoting horrible products, I'd be out the door by lunch.
God schmod. I want my monkey man!
that seems a bit redundant...
I agree...its neat. But why not spend all that time, money and effort into research on making faster chips that are actually usable by a normal person?
It seems to me that if the earth is going to be destroyed by the LHC, from what I've read, it wont happen in a slow painful way...
IANAL, but the school officials were not conducting a search, but confiscating a something per a school regulation, so the chain of custody of the phone is not an issue, but the students right to privacy my have been violated if the official looked through the phones pictures with out some sort of cause, ie suspected the kids of cheating.
169A.52 Sub 3: Test refusal; license revocation. (a) Upon certification by the peace officer that there existed probable cause to believe the person had been driving, operating, or in physical control of a motor vehicle in violation of section 169A.20 (driving while impaired), and that the person refused to submit to a test, the commissioner shall revoke the person's license or permit to drive, or nonresident operating privilege, for a period of one year even if a test was obtained pursuant to this section after the person refused to submit to testing.