The corollary to that is that when private corporations have enough power and can choose that level of allocation of resources we officially have bigger problems on our hands.
We tend to forget that we already had Libertarian Paradise with Corporations as rulers. It was the Dutch West Indies company and they "employed" about 1/4 of the world because the British monarchy decreed it. THEY were the ones that agreed to Tea Taxes for their Boston Employees and that was just warming up till they TRUELY ran whole countries "under contract" to the Crown... All perfectly Constitutional under Britain's laws.
If I'm a Dev, I would be trying to use the FIXED features as much as possible, especially for desktops. So if I was working on a win 8.1 app, I just got nicked at the last minute. So when my customer upgrades at 12:01am I got no chance to get a patch in place. Behavior like that is Microsoft throwing their devs under the bus (of pissed off customers) for no good reason at all.
I think Apple still gives Devs a few days between releasing "Gold" to them and the package for general release. That way they have lead time to load up the App Store for release day.
The law was used with its limits. But this is profiling... If this was Osama bin Laden's little Arab wife, they would shake her down for secret messages, the sand on her shoes, and anything else that might lead to intelligence, even now that he's dead.
Like it or not, the guy is partner to a reporter playing the "leaking game" he's just as likely to know "something" as if he was a "wife"... The "leaking" happens from inside his house too. His being sent around the world can be seen as acting like a courier.
I'll take the highest road, that this gentleman is not involved with leaking at all. That doesn't mean he won't have confidential documents slipped into his luggage by his "boyfriend" WITHOUT his knowledge to be dead dropped to mailboxes in other countries. Or that information on USB keys "finds its way" into his bags and his buddies set up a meeting later.
These reporters and agents in the "leaking games" aren't all to chivalrous.. They seem more concerned about their OWN ASSES than getting somebody else hooked. This was just like busting a Drug Dealer's girlfriend hoping to find drugs she didn't even know about, because a dealer can't help themselves not to get a free carry and screw the partner.
The NSA will just set up shop in Dubai, with their other Haliburton friends... They will import labor that can barely speak English, and with Dubai's labor laws they can literally padlock the employees to the desks.
Manning and Snowden both prove anybody not an "Inquisitor" for the team is a liability to the cause. They consider themselves OUTSIDE the law, don't expect them to learn the lessons we think they should.
The problem with Games on Windows is that Microsoft keeps redeciding that Windows gaming is "second class" to Xbox gaming. The only keep it alive because certain PC games just don't work in a console setup yet. Steam does everything better and isn't "demon spawn incarnate". The founders are all ex-microsofties and the company on the beginning was run just like a "baby Microsoft".
If this guy had business sense at all he'd just close down Microsoft's pitiful attempt and move all their PC games to Steam. Microsoft has way to much NIH Syndrome to let that happen... I guess some lucky guy can happily take their money until they decide to grow up. PC gaming on Windows is a niche product.. They have no intention of ever supporting it properly, but just cannot let it go. Microsoft was almost as laughable trying to deal with outing their software on iPads via the Apple App Store...
It's not necessarily a failure at all, just different. A 2009 MacBook (especially with the removable battery) used older technology, but did not store nearly as much energy per cm^3.
A 2012 Air uses a much more compact battery, that holds more power, and gets hit a lot harder by newer processor features. (Cause a new processor uses more juice when running, but then sleeps more often) The overall curve of usage isn't going to be the same with all those tech changes.
Legally, Microsoft has to tell everybody about a write down at the same time. They certainly aren't going to discuss a price drop with investors while still selling them at stores... That would be stupid. They aren't going to publish news of poor sales 2 quarters early while paying for a media blitz either.. The Internet laughs at that stuff.
What Microsoft did was correct. Hang on as long as possible and drop the price when they are forced to cut their losing streak off.
My take is that its a lot like paying somebody to build a house. There are expectations of meeting building codes and energy efficiencies you would "just expect" a builder to follow. The model house had all those things... So a middle manager signs to start building the house... And gets a structure with no plumbing and no windows... The bathroom is in the glossy picture, but the document didn't say "plumbing to utilities" so they come back and ave to chop up your basement with a NEW QUOTE to put the plumbing in. When they get the permission to put Windows in, they chop all the electrical lines because "nobody told them" windows were going in... The whole thing becomes an expensive comedy of errors.
Matt Smith's Doctor has been running around over 200 years in the storyline. He was traveling with Amy and Rory over 10 of their years so much they joked about showing they were noticibly older than their same aged friends.
Something similar, I don't think they KNOW what they want to build yet... And certainly don't want to pay consulting fees for porting "every prototype" to "every version" of Android. Just sitting here typing thick realize a contracting firm is going to charge extra for testing every Android version x screen. While the iPhone/iPad ecosystem is now pretty straight forward and expected for an app to be developed for both devices.
Do students pay 1099 or W2 and other EMPLOYMENT TAXES on their full scholarships??? No? Then they are not PAID and the NCAA is dodging a serious amount of Employer Taxes that the IRS should collect!
By EA PAYS for the stats and the TEAM livery because the NCAA sues people HARD for not doing that. The whole issue is that the NCAA has no right to ask STUDENTS for image licensing, so EA used that illegally.
The NFL makes them sign over every detail the lawyers can think of...
The NCAA is amature, so under that definition PLAYERS don't have the right to exercise their INDIVIDUAL image rights under NCAA rules. Because they are "amature" the NCAA probably can't force the players to sign those rights over to them.. Even player names are probably pushing the NCAA's use of "amature". The NCAA represents the SCHOOL because the school owns the team, mascots, stadiums, etc.. But not the STUDENT images.
The jersey and number and stats are generally from taxpayer funded PUBLIC schools... But EA can't use THOSE without license... Just watch how fast they get sued.
The NCAA doesn't have rights to player images because the players are legally amateurs. So otherwise the individual players could have their own licensing for their images and make money!!! But the NCAA doesn't allow PLAYERS to use that right in their league and the NCAA hasn't sold that to EA.
I agree, the court basically ruled the athletes are the same as other celebrities. Put a character in a PAID video game with Johnny Depp's face (or voice for South Park or Simpsons) or Harrison Ford, etc and watch just how fast their lawyers slap you with royalties.
Even your local newspaper photographer knows to publish COMMERCIALLY you need a "release" or at least permission just taking a picture of somebody on the street.
Basically EA is just taking the likenesses because they are college kids and don't know any better... It's OK, next season EA will have the NCAA add "likeness" to the release info all the players have to sign to play and keep their scholarships and they'll be back on track legally.
And once that happens, the players will be able to argue they "individually" have commercial rights (because the NCAA just forced you to sign tgem over) and the NCAA not allowing other people to give them gifts and such is illegaly interfering with their personal affairs.(business)
National Secrets "contracts" are really one way... You sign one to get a job, and Uncle Sam then is free to change the deal at will. Once you sign the oath to keep national secrets they own your ass. The CIA/NSA are legally defined levels above what normal guys like Manning are made to sign.
You are told, upfront, they can and will cut you into pieces and leave you in a ditch with no identifying marks (or worse, and to your family too) for breaking your oath to their agency. The minute Snowden got on a plane and checked in with a foreign power while carrying national secrets he committed High Treason... There's no "whistleblower" provision anywhere allowing you to run to an enemy government.
Boy is dead man walking... Putin gave the NSA several weeks to bag him at the airport before he was actually "inside" Russia... But again, the NSA/CIA are a failure because they are supposed to clean these messes up on their own... Or fall on their swords... That this got left at Obama's feet means they SEVERELY disrespected him. Obama needs to be "Darth Vader" -ing his security chiefs (and families if needed) and fast-tracking promotions till the Snowden problem is fixed... Note, I didn't SAY Obama order Snowden killed... Whatever NSA policies are for this should NEVER REACH the President to make that call.... If it gets in the open... NSA directors fall on their swords and accept responsibility.
The ability granted to spy on everybody comes with the expectation that the NSA/CIA Directors fall on their swords when their agency screws up. Why haven't those directors "terminated" their employment (and yes i mean killed themselves like men) so Obama can replace them already?
This was brought up in the other crash, that ATC keeps giving exceedingly difficult directions because the AIRPORT has allowed the nearby area to be unsafe... Don't disturb suburbs, malls, and factories that weren't built and shouldnt have been zoned when the runway was built because "they'll feel bad".
So they issue increasingly dangerous commands to pilots and just expect them to turn on the robot. Then the airport doesn't keep it's maintenance up or scheduled construction and TURNS OFF some the electronic aids used by the robot... Yet doesn't modify the instructions to make them safer.
The previous crash brought up that this standard approach is more like somebody screaming "TURN NOW!" From the backseat...as a matter of "common practice" again, because it "upsets" neighbors zoning allowed in the flight path not because of technical need.
4000 players is WAY more than 4000 PIECES on the board because large ships carry and command individual small fleets... So tens of thousands of pieces were in play.
That is an interesting idea to simulate combat confusion by reducing the amount of data you get back as the shooting gets worse. Except you are not commanding one ship, issuing orders to dozens of smaller ones.
It's all about QUALITY. TSMC is firmly a second string player because they can't hit high-specs at near-perfect rates Every time. Intel and Samsung get to "hide" their startup failures in their personal R&D budgets... When you are "working the line" for somebody else you don't get that slack.
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The only REAL handwriting is Gothic Textura Quadrata... Everything else is phony!
I might let you slide on Insular Majuscule though.
The corollary to that is that when private corporations have enough power and can choose that level of allocation of resources we officially have bigger problems on our hands.
We tend to forget that we already had Libertarian Paradise with Corporations as rulers. It was the Dutch West Indies company and they "employed" about 1/4 of the world because the British monarchy decreed it. THEY were the ones that agreed to Tea Taxes for their Boston Employees and that was just warming up till they TRUELY ran whole countries "under contract" to the Crown... All perfectly Constitutional under Britain's laws.
There is "certain" and then there is "what's in the box".
How often in MICROSOFT releases do those match? In a bet-your-job kind of way?
If I'm a Dev, I would be trying to use the FIXED features as much as possible, especially for desktops. So if I was working on a win 8.1 app, I just got nicked at the last minute. So when my customer upgrades at 12:01am I got no chance to get a patch in place. Behavior like that is Microsoft throwing their devs under the bus (of pissed off customers) for no good reason at all.
I think Apple still gives Devs a few days between releasing "Gold" to them and the package for general release. That way they have lead time to load up the App Store for release day.
The law was used with its limits. But this is profiling... If this was Osama bin Laden's little Arab wife, they would shake her down for secret messages, the sand on her shoes, and anything else that might lead to intelligence, even now that he's dead.
Like it or not, the guy is partner to a reporter playing the "leaking game" he's just as likely to know "something" as if he was a "wife"... The "leaking" happens from inside his house too. His being sent around the world can be seen as acting like a courier.
I'll take the highest road, that this gentleman is not involved with leaking at all. That doesn't mean he won't have confidential documents slipped into his luggage by his "boyfriend" WITHOUT his knowledge to be dead dropped to mailboxes in other countries. Or that information on USB keys "finds its way" into his bags and his buddies set up a meeting later.
These reporters and agents in the "leaking games" aren't all to chivalrous.. They seem more concerned about their OWN ASSES than getting somebody else hooked. This was just like busting a Drug Dealer's girlfriend hoping to find drugs she didn't even know about, because a dealer can't help themselves not to get a free carry and screw the partner.
SILLY RABBIT!
The NSA will just set up shop in Dubai, with their other Haliburton friends... They will import labor that can barely speak English, and with Dubai's labor laws they can literally padlock the employees to the desks.
Manning and Snowden both prove anybody not an "Inquisitor" for the team is a liability to the cause. They consider themselves OUTSIDE the law, don't expect them to learn the lessons we think they should.
That was my first thought as well.
The problem with Games on Windows is that Microsoft keeps redeciding that Windows gaming is "second class" to Xbox gaming. The only keep it alive because certain PC games just don't work in a console setup yet. Steam does everything better and isn't "demon spawn incarnate". The founders are all ex-microsofties and the company on the beginning was run just like a "baby Microsoft".
If this guy had business sense at all he'd just close down Microsoft's pitiful attempt and move all their PC games to Steam. Microsoft has way to much NIH Syndrome to let that happen... I guess some lucky guy can happily take their money until they decide to grow up. PC gaming on Windows is a niche product.. They have no intention of ever supporting it properly, but just cannot let it go. Microsoft was almost as laughable trying to deal with outing their software on iPads via the Apple App Store...
It's not necessarily a failure at all, just different. A 2009 MacBook (especially with the removable battery) used older technology, but did not store nearly as much energy per cm^3.
A 2012 Air uses a much more compact battery, that holds more power, and gets hit a lot harder by newer processor features. (Cause a new processor uses more juice when running, but then sleeps more often) The overall curve of usage isn't going to be the same with all those tech changes.
Legally, Microsoft has to tell everybody about a write down at the same time. They certainly aren't going to discuss a price drop with investors while still selling them at stores... That would be stupid. They aren't going to publish news of poor sales 2 quarters early while paying for a media blitz either.. The Internet laughs at that stuff.
What Microsoft did was correct. Hang on as long as possible and drop the price when they are forced to cut their losing streak off.
My take is that its a lot like paying somebody to build a house. There are expectations of meeting building codes and energy efficiencies you would "just expect" a builder to follow. The model house had all those things... So a middle manager signs to start building the house... And gets a structure with no plumbing and no windows... The bathroom is in the glossy picture, but the document didn't say "plumbing to utilities" so they come back and ave to chop up your basement with a NEW QUOTE to put the plumbing in. When they get the permission to put Windows in, they chop all the electrical lines because "nobody told them" windows were going in... The whole thing becomes an expensive comedy of errors.
Matt Smith's Doctor has been running around over 200 years in the storyline. He was traveling with Amy and Rory over 10 of their years so much they joked about showing they were noticibly older than their same aged friends.
Something similar, I don't think they KNOW what they want to build yet... And certainly don't want to pay consulting fees for porting "every prototype" to "every version" of Android.
Just sitting here typing thick realize a contracting firm is going to charge extra for testing every Android version x screen. While the iPhone/iPad ecosystem is now pretty straight forward and expected for an app to be developed for both devices.
Do students pay 1099 or W2 and other EMPLOYMENT TAXES on their full scholarships??? No? Then they are not PAID and the NCAA is dodging a serious amount of Employer Taxes that the IRS should collect!
By EA PAYS for the stats and the TEAM livery because the NCAA sues people HARD for not doing that. The whole issue is that the NCAA has no right to ask STUDENTS for image licensing, so EA used that illegally.
The NFL makes them sign over every detail the lawyers can think of...
The NCAA is amature, so under that definition PLAYERS don't have the right to exercise their INDIVIDUAL image rights under NCAA rules. Because they are "amature" the NCAA probably can't force the players to sign those rights over to them.. Even player names are probably pushing the NCAA's use of "amature". The NCAA represents the SCHOOL because the school owns the team, mascots, stadiums, etc.. But not the STUDENT images.
The jersey and number and stats are generally from taxpayer funded PUBLIC schools... But EA can't use THOSE without license... Just watch how fast they get sued.
The NCAA doesn't have rights to player images because the players are legally amateurs. So otherwise the individual players could have their own licensing for their images and make money!!! But the NCAA doesn't allow PLAYERS to use that right in their league and the NCAA hasn't sold that to EA.
I agree, the court basically ruled the athletes are the same as other celebrities. Put a character in a PAID video game with Johnny Depp's face (or voice for South Park or Simpsons) or Harrison Ford, etc and watch just how fast their lawyers slap you with royalties.
Even your local newspaper photographer knows to publish COMMERCIALLY you need a "release" or at least permission just taking a picture of somebody on the street.
Basically EA is just taking the likenesses because they are college kids and don't know any better... It's OK, next season EA will have the NCAA add "likeness" to the release info all the players have to sign to play and keep their scholarships and they'll be back on track legally.
And once that happens, the players will be able to argue they "individually" have commercial rights (because the NCAA just forced you to sign tgem over) and the NCAA not allowing other people to give them gifts and such is illegaly interfering with their personal affairs.(business)
But NCAA sports aren't "professional" that's why they can't accept any favors or outside help paying for school, etc...
So why would he expect his face in a video game?
National Secrets "contracts" are really one way... You sign one to get a job, and Uncle Sam then is free to change the deal at will. Once you sign the oath to keep national secrets they own your ass. The CIA/NSA are legally defined levels above what normal guys like Manning are made to sign.
You are told, upfront, they can and will cut you into pieces and leave you in a ditch with no identifying marks (or worse, and to your family too) for breaking your oath to their agency. The minute Snowden got on a plane and checked in with a foreign power while carrying national secrets he committed High Treason... There's no "whistleblower" provision anywhere allowing you to run to an enemy government.
Boy is dead man walking... Putin gave the NSA several weeks to bag him at the airport before he was actually "inside" Russia... But again, the NSA/CIA are a failure because they are supposed to clean these messes up on their own... Or fall on their swords... That this got left at Obama's feet means they SEVERELY disrespected him. Obama needs to be "Darth Vader" -ing his security chiefs (and families if needed) and fast-tracking promotions till the Snowden problem is fixed... Note, I didn't SAY Obama order Snowden killed... Whatever NSA policies are for this should NEVER REACH the President to make that call.... If it gets in the open... NSA directors fall on their swords and accept responsibility.
The ability granted to spy on everybody comes with the expectation that the NSA/CIA Directors fall on their swords when their agency screws up. Why haven't those directors "terminated" their employment (and yes i mean killed themselves like men) so Obama can replace them already?
They lose TWO INTERNETS today!
Don't make us take away another one.
This was brought up in the other crash, that ATC keeps giving exceedingly difficult directions because the AIRPORT has allowed the nearby area to be unsafe... Don't disturb suburbs, malls, and factories that weren't built and shouldnt have been zoned when the runway was built because "they'll feel bad".
So they issue increasingly dangerous commands to pilots and just expect them to turn on the robot. Then the airport doesn't keep it's maintenance up or scheduled construction and TURNS OFF some the electronic aids used by the robot... Yet doesn't modify the instructions to make them safer.
The previous crash brought up that this standard approach is more like somebody screaming "TURN NOW!" From the backseat...as a matter of "common practice" again, because it "upsets" neighbors zoning allowed in the flight path not because of technical need.
4000 players is WAY more than 4000 PIECES on the board because large ships carry and command individual small fleets... So tens of thousands of pieces were in play.
That is an interesting idea to simulate combat confusion by reducing the amount of data you get back as the shooting gets worse. Except you are not commanding one ship, issuing orders to dozens of smaller ones.
There's a little gathering in the Pennsylvania hills this week.. but they use sticks.
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It's all about QUALITY. TSMC is firmly a second string player because they can't hit high-specs at near-perfect rates Every time. Intel and Samsung get to "hide" their startup failures in their personal R&D budgets... When you are "working the line" for somebody else you don't get that slack.