I certainly hope so. I don't mind dying, but the thought of slowly slipping into a state of confusion where I forget my friends and family is what I fear most.
What? Have you heard of the bookmark bar? To go to your favorites you don't HAVE to always use that default page that displays every time you create a new tab...I never do.
I have the exact same feelings as you when comparing Chrome and Firefox. The key difference I tend to focus on more though, other than speed, is the obtrusiveness of their plugin and download screens. After using Chrome and going back to Firefox, I've become increasingly annoyed by the little window that pops up telling you about plugin upgrades when starting firefox. Additionally, I've never been too savy with the seperate window it opens when you want to download something. To me, these are on par with pop up ads.
I disagree. Wind and solar power are completely at the mercy of the weather and not necessarily active during peak hours when you want them to be. They actually prove to be much less reliable than coal and nuclear plants. I work for the electic company for mid-Michigan and we're being forced to become %20 renewable by 2015. Because we experience winter (among other reasons) solar was out of the question, so we opted for wind power. Our weather isn't ideal for those either because the wind turbines that will be placed by Michigan shores will only be running 25% of the time. Dams are a great alternative, but again, weather can affect energy output. Renewable may be a great alternative for states in the south or west, but not here.
To answer your last part, yes, pump facilities for reservoirs work pretty well with very little energy being lost. What our company is doing now is putting the responsibility to the consumers for using electricity in off-peak hours. We'll be implementing a system where the meters will phone home hourly the energy consumption. This presents the consumer with chargeback by hiking prices during the day and making them cheaper at night. It's a model that will work with electric cars if they become more popular. Some people may actually have the ability to store electricity at night and feed it back mid-day (making a profit).
Previously the focus has been on energy production, but it's equally important that we control energy consumption too.
Perfect for playing even if you don't have that much time for it - just check every few days and issue some orders to queue.
Wrong. It always starts out like this, but as you build your empire/character/whatever, you find yourself having to pay more and more attention to the game. Slowly your life starts to revolve around the game rather than the other way around. Every second you don't play gives your opponents an opportunity to move ahead. Truly nerve-racking.
I had a friend who joined the peace corps who is now stationed in Honduras. She single-handedly created programs to improve the education of the youth within the village she worked. Problem was, while the kids enjoyed her work, she was the only one willing to offer help and continue the programs. Her time with the Peace Corps will be ending soon and she feels that she'll be leaving them in the state that they were before she got there. It's as if the folks in this particular village accepted aid but weren't willing to pick themselves up off the ground.
tvshack.net is a site that links to shows that are uploaded somewhere on the internet. This episode was uploaded several hours after it aired. If it's on the internet, generally tvshack has a link to it.
Adobe Acrobat Connect is an excellent tool that seemlessly combines what you seem to be asking for, including the ability to record sessions for later viewing. There's a free trial, but the full service costs $39/month.
Lets assume the number was accurate to the cost of the all the pirated apps...how then can they assume, given the ability to not be able to jailbreak the phone, that the pirate would pay full price for the apps that they would have potentially pirated?
The pirated market is grossly misrepresented. Most pirated movies/music/games are pirated because of availability. If it wasn't available, the pirate still wouldn't pay the original price for it. Recent success in said industries proves this.
It's easy to say "just don't spend the money" when you haven't played the game. I've been a casual player of the game since April, and I must say, this is the definition of bait-and-switch. The business model of cheapening everything, but forcing players to buy them, is a horrible one to go buy. Given it's accessibility and cartoony environment, this game attracts many younger kids who find paying for items online a huge hurdle.
Also, to suggest that they weren't making money before is simply wrong. I had mentioned this in another response here on/., but I'll say it again. In the actual forum post, Ben Cousins has clearly stated that it's not an issue with money but rather with a sustainable business model. Also not mentioned here was a previous interview where he had stated that only 5% of players would need purchase clothing items for them to turn a profit. As a player, I can tell you they clearly were not in the negative. Most likely, some corporate heads at EA called DICE and said "Hey, we're losing money from our other shitty games, so you need to pick up the slack".
To do what they did is not illegal, but it sure as hell is professionally unethical. It's a great game, but doesn't have enough to offer to keep it's fan base. Trust me, the fans aren't going to just swallow this one.
You're making a lot of assumptions here. In the actual forum post, Ben Cousins has clearly stated that it's not an issue with money but rather with a sustainable business model. Also not mentioned here, was a previous interview where he had stated that only 5% of players would need purchase clothing items for them to turn a profit. They clearly were not in the negative. Most likely, some corporate heads at EA called DICE and said "Hey, we're losing money from our other shitty games, so you need to pick up the slack".
I can tell you (personally) that the Christian gathering I go to has zero intention of either. Our group gathers in the basement of someones home and we all pitch in if we want to put on an event, but no one is ever pressured to give money. Our group, and I'm sure most other Christians, believe in the inevitability of an armageddon, therefore prompting us to seperate ourselves from society rather than controlling it. If we try to control it, then we WILL become the problem (See just about any religion that has come into power). I believe Buddhism follows the same format.
That said, not all churches "strive" for power and control. This is one of the key factors that makes Scientology a frighteningly real problem.
I'm going to go ahead and judge a book by it's cover. Given how primitive the summary is, I have doubts that this "supercomputer" matches a kitty's cerebral cortex 1-to-1. Having the "power" is one thing, but the learning aspect is another.
Don't confuse ethics with law. While one may believe that all software should be free, the government says that the software owner deserves a huge sum of money because you illegally used their software that they intended to get paid for. It's the difference between "what should be" and "what is". That's assuming that you believe free software is the ethical choice. Some may assume the other way around.
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I certainly hope so. I don't mind dying, but the thought of slowly slipping into a state of confusion where I forget my friends and family is what I fear most.
I was thinking more along the lines of "Deet", which is pretty good at repelling bugs :)
He could have gotten a whole lot more...
Microsoft hides extension in awkward zipper malfunction.
(Sorry, it's one of those mornings)
What? Have you heard of the bookmark bar? To go to your favorites you don't HAVE to always use that default page that displays every time you create a new tab...I never do.
I have the exact same feelings as you when comparing Chrome and Firefox. The key difference I tend to focus on more though, other than speed, is the obtrusiveness of their plugin and download screens. After using Chrome and going back to Firefox, I've become increasingly annoyed by the little window that pops up telling you about plugin upgrades when starting firefox. Additionally, I've never been too savy with the seperate window it opens when you want to download something. To me, these are on par with pop up ads.
I disagree. Wind and solar power are completely at the mercy of the weather and not necessarily active during peak hours when you want them to be. They actually prove to be much less reliable than coal and nuclear plants. I work for the electic company for mid-Michigan and we're being forced to become %20 renewable by 2015. Because we experience winter (among other reasons) solar was out of the question, so we opted for wind power. Our weather isn't ideal for those either because the wind turbines that will be placed by Michigan shores will only be running 25% of the time. Dams are a great alternative, but again, weather can affect energy output. Renewable may be a great alternative for states in the south or west, but not here. To answer your last part, yes, pump facilities for reservoirs work pretty well with very little energy being lost. What our company is doing now is putting the responsibility to the consumers for using electricity in off-peak hours. We'll be implementing a system where the meters will phone home hourly the energy consumption. This presents the consumer with chargeback by hiking prices during the day and making them cheaper at night. It's a model that will work with electric cars if they become more popular. Some people may actually have the ability to store electricity at night and feed it back mid-day (making a profit). Previously the focus has been on energy production, but it's equally important that we control energy consumption too.
Perfect for playing even if you don't have that much time for it - just check every few days and issue some orders to queue.
Wrong. It always starts out like this, but as you build your empire/character/whatever, you find yourself having to pay more and more attention to the game. Slowly your life starts to revolve around the game rather than the other way around. Every second you don't play gives your opponents an opportunity to move ahead. Truly nerve-racking.
I had a friend who joined the peace corps who is now stationed in Honduras. She single-handedly created programs to improve the education of the youth within the village she worked. Problem was, while the kids enjoyed her work, she was the only one willing to offer help and continue the programs. Her time with the Peace Corps will be ending soon and she feels that she'll be leaving them in the state that they were before she got there. It's as if the folks in this particular village accepted aid but weren't willing to pick themselves up off the ground.
You mean banana peels DON'T make cars spin out?!
Isn't this similar to how the old Game Genie and Gameshark systems used to work on console games, or am I way off mark here?
tvshack.net is a site that links to shows that are uploaded somewhere on the internet. This episode was uploaded several hours after it aired. If it's on the internet, generally tvshack has a link to it.
...Wait, you're serious? Why would you prevent people from having the choice to hear or see just to keep your "culture" intact?
I guess we should be upset with cars because they destroyed the horse-and-buggy culture.
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Adobe Acrobat Connect is an excellent tool that seemlessly combines what you seem to be asking for, including the ability to record sessions for later viewing. There's a free trial, but the full service costs $39/month.
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatconnect/
Lets assume the number was accurate to the cost of the all the pirated apps...how then can they assume, given the ability to not be able to jailbreak the phone, that the pirate would pay full price for the apps that they would have potentially pirated?
The pirated market is grossly misrepresented. Most pirated movies/music/games are pirated because of availability. If it wasn't available, the pirate still wouldn't pay the original price for it. Recent success in said industries proves this.
Seriously? Before either of those, it's the Insert key that needs to go first.
It's easy to say "just don't spend the money" when you haven't played the game. I've been a casual player of the game since April, and I must say, this is the definition of bait-and-switch. The business model of cheapening everything, but forcing players to buy them, is a horrible one to go buy. Given it's accessibility and cartoony environment, this game attracts many younger kids who find paying for items online a huge hurdle. Also, to suggest that they weren't making money before is simply wrong. I had mentioned this in another response here on /., but I'll say it again. In the actual forum post, Ben Cousins has clearly stated that it's not an issue with money but rather with a sustainable business model. Also not mentioned here was a previous interview where he had stated that only 5% of players would need purchase clothing items for them to turn a profit. As a player, I can tell you they clearly were not in the negative. Most likely, some corporate heads at EA called DICE and said "Hey, we're losing money from our other shitty games, so you need to pick up the slack".
To do what they did is not illegal, but it sure as hell is professionally unethical. It's a great game, but doesn't have enough to offer to keep it's fan base. Trust me, the fans aren't going to just swallow this one.
You're making a lot of assumptions here. In the actual forum post, Ben Cousins has clearly stated that it's not an issue with money but rather with a sustainable business model. Also not mentioned here, was a previous interview where he had stated that only 5% of players would need purchase clothing items for them to turn a profit. They clearly were not in the negative. Most likely, some corporate heads at EA called DICE and said "Hey, we're losing money from our other shitty games, so you need to pick up the slack".
I can tell you (personally) that the Christian gathering I go to has zero intention of either. Our group gathers in the basement of someones home and we all pitch in if we want to put on an event, but no one is ever pressured to give money. Our group, and I'm sure most other Christians, believe in the inevitability of an armageddon, therefore prompting us to seperate ourselves from society rather than controlling it. If we try to control it, then we WILL become the problem (See just about any religion that has come into power). I believe Buddhism follows the same format. That said, not all churches "strive" for power and control. This is one of the key factors that makes Scientology a frighteningly real problem.
I'm going to go ahead and judge a book by it's cover. Given how primitive the summary is, I have doubts that this "supercomputer" matches a kitty's cerebral cortex 1-to-1. Having the "power" is one thing, but the learning aspect is another.
Don't confuse ethics with law. While one may believe that all software should be free, the government says that the software owner deserves a huge sum of money because you illegally used their software that they intended to get paid for. It's the difference between "what should be" and "what is". That's assuming that you believe free software is the ethical choice. Some may assume the other way around.
Takes you two hours to upgrade RAM? The amount of time I've spent upgrading RAM in the past 5 years must have been 5-10 minutes tops!
This interview gives a brief glimpse as to how Facebook's office dynamic is like. Surprised they get anything done.
Not to mention people are confusing swine flu symptoms with meningitis, allergies, and even the common cold.
I wonder how many of these deaths ARE actually swine flu.