That would be all well and good if pricing reflected that fact. Instead a single 160 character packet of information costs me about as much as a 5-minute voice conversation.
The problem with Supreme Commander is that the online updater downloads the patches in little teeny-tiny version increments and seems to take a dozen or two to go from release to current.
I think recording you taking out a bunch of loans that you never did is defamatory. I also think the permanence of the record especially given it's tendency to heal from the other two agencies when deleted makes it a permanent public record, hence libel rather than slander. I chose the word carefully.
Hacking something together from cheap hotshoe-to-pc adapters and cords and some switches is still not exactly rocket science and good flashes are actually pretty cheap to come by.
Flat lighting is still pretty easy to come by. Some call it shadow, photographers call it skylight. Beyond that it's pretty easy to buy some diffusers and lights if not cheap in this day and age. To me this looks generally applicable to any pseudosurface flat enough that inverse-square on the flash is negligible. The low equipment cost on this is the key, now if only we could get them to cough up source code it would make for some kick-but amateur game development tech.
I've heard estimates of pigment inkjet prints lasting centuries protected from light in a photo album. Most good archival processes are rated and something like 60-74 years under gallery-level lighting. As long as you don't accidentally discover some strange gasfastness issue a good inkjet print on acid free paper in inert gas sealed away from light and potentially protected from a limited amount of background radiation by being buried wouldn't surprise me to much to last a millennium.
Yes, yes it would. You see photographers actually care about their prints lasting (or at least they have since Wilhelm started doing permanence testing on color materials and discovered they all sucked at the time). A pigment inkjet print on acid-free paper or a good B&W silver halide print will probably outlast most digital media you can easily come up with. And the print is it's own reader.
That said in 2012 we will still be able to find hardware to read 3.5in floppies from 1987 so it's perfectly reasonable to believe there will still be drives that can read archival gold CD-R and DVD+-R's in 25 years.
Personally I prefer to hope for technological solutions like nuclear power and decentralized society (or re-centralized in arcologies), instead of massive population purges.
The cultural impact might be the same or greater. Buildings are more than just places where people live. They landmarks and a part of the identity of the culture. When you terrorize a landmark people respond.
The advertising supplement at least can make up it's weight in coupons. If you archive them some frequently become incredible deals just before they expire.
If as some people have said, the investigation is the value of newspapers, then really the modern newspaper should consist mostly of reporters, a billing department, a legal team, and a website. That way they can charge license fees to syndicate their content, advertising for consumers who view it directly, and a legal team to sue those who steal the articles. Thanks to the wayback machine, the internet never forgets evidence.
In my experience anything is fun with people you know, and nothing makes playing with a bunch of strangers talking gibberish or by yourself very entertaining. That's why I stopped playing, it wasn't actually FUN.
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We're at an impasse here, maybe we can compromise.
That would be all well and good if pricing reflected that fact. Instead a single 160 character packet of information costs me about as much as a 5-minute voice conversation.
The problem with Supreme Commander is that the online updater downloads the patches in little teeny-tiny version increments and seems to take a dozen or two to go from release to current.
The creationsists are going to MILK this.
Also I'd like to mention the term "Pain and suffering".
I think recording you taking out a bunch of loans that you never did is defamatory. I also think the permanence of the record especially given it's tendency to heal from the other two agencies when deleted makes it a permanent public record, hence libel rather than slander. I chose the word carefully.
I was under the impression that the courts generally say any unfair contract is invalid.
USB floppy drives are still common. Just because the purpose built interface is dead doesn't mean they're extinct.
To be honest the credit reporting agency and the bank filing the report should be liable for libel every time they record a false entry.
Makes the game more enjoyable and helps prevent tilt.
Hacking something together from cheap hotshoe-to-pc adapters and cords and some switches is still not exactly rocket science and good flashes are actually pretty cheap to come by.
Flat lighting is still pretty easy to come by. Some call it shadow, photographers call it skylight. Beyond that it's pretty easy to buy some diffusers and lights if not cheap in this day and age. To me this looks generally applicable to any pseudosurface flat enough that inverse-square on the flash is negligible. The low equipment cost on this is the key, now if only we could get them to cough up source code it would make for some kick-but amateur game development tech.
I've heard estimates of pigment inkjet prints lasting centuries protected from light in a photo album. Most good archival processes are rated and something like 60-74 years under gallery-level lighting. As long as you don't accidentally discover some strange gasfastness issue a good inkjet print on acid free paper in inert gas sealed away from light and potentially protected from a limited amount of background radiation by being buried wouldn't surprise me to much to last a millennium.
Which in the case of mineral oil would mean you'd need an explosion just to TURN it into an explosive.
Yes, yes it would. You see photographers actually care about their prints lasting (or at least they have since Wilhelm started doing permanence testing on color materials and discovered they all sucked at the time). A pigment inkjet print on acid-free paper or a good B&W silver halide print will probably outlast most digital media you can easily come up with. And the print is it's own reader. That said in 2012 we will still be able to find hardware to read 3.5in floppies from 1987 so it's perfectly reasonable to believe there will still be drives that can read archival gold CD-R and DVD+-R's in 25 years.
Personally I prefer to hope for technological solutions like nuclear power and decentralized society (or re-centralized in arcologies), instead of massive population purges.
If this was text it would be creepy. We're talking 2 or three large novels of information for every man woman and child on the planet.
The cultural impact might be the same or greater. Buildings are more than just places where people live. They landmarks and a part of the identity of the culture. When you terrorize a landmark people respond.
Exactly. The selection pressure may be much too high to develop life in the first place.
It's pretty simple. Politicians, at least at the national level, want power. Therefore none of them can be trusted, at all.
The advertising supplement at least can make up it's weight in coupons. If you archive them some frequently become incredible deals just before they expire.
My brain wasn't working right.
If as some people have said, the investigation is the value of newspapers, then really the modern newspaper should consist mostly of reporters, a billing department, a legal team, and a website. That way they can charge license fees to syndicate their content, advertising for consumers who view it directly, and a legal team to sue those who steal the articles. Thanks to the wayback machine, the internet never forgets evidence.
Yes, but universities pay like crap anyway so it doesn't matter. Am I wrong?
In my experience anything is fun with people you know, and nothing makes playing with a bunch of strangers talking gibberish or by yourself very entertaining. That's why I stopped playing, it wasn't actually FUN.