My point is that the value per hour depends entirely on the specific game, the purchase price, and how much replay the individual owner gets out of it. Some games like an FPS with strong multiplier features, or a sports game, can have very high values (unless there's a new version every 6 months that everyone switches to). Other games with finite story driven play (like the first Assassin's Creed) have a very low replay value, and so the price-per-hour can be quite high.
AAA titles fall in price because most people have bought them near release at full cost.
The funny thing is that if you look it as dollar spent per hour enjoyed, it's not a waste of money.
That's really hard to evaluate. $60 for that AAA game which gets a total of 5-10 hours of play is far more expensive than the $7-15 admission for an afternoon at a museum, or $120 for an annual pass to the zoo.
If you don't load images, they have no way to tell that you viewed the email.
That's the whole point of unique tracking single-pixel images. Google Analytics works basically the same way (but they inject this pixel image via javascript).
I grew up in San Diego with coyotes in my yard. I also lived in southern New Mexico for several years (just as arid as southern Arizona) and experienced a record heat wave of 115-120 temperatures for about 2-3 weeks.
Stop exaggerating. The Phoenix heat only peaks in the middle of the day. Most of the year is quite pleasant, and even in the hottest part of the summer, it's still nice outside before 10 and after 5-6. The evenings are beautiful and there's more than enough light to play outside safely. Evening is even the best time for catching the wildlife. Coyotes are primarily nocturnal and are more scared of the kids than the kids are of them. If your kid is old enough to play outside unsupervised, they're sure as hell old enough not be bothered by coyotes.
And believe it or not, even in Phoenix there's a lot of wildlife if you'd just stop to look. Lots of cool insects, birds, lizards. I'm sure there's rabbits and squirrels as well (hint, the coyotes eat something, and it ain't bugs). Sure, you don't have anything as big as a deer, but there's a lot morde wildlife than you realize.
But you probably miss all that because you assume it's hostile out there and instead spend your evenings watching prime-time TV or playing video games.
Oh, and one last thing. Explain the exploding flashlight bombs? Let me guess, something like exploding a mailbox or the like? The people pulling those pranks like to do it when no-one is around to see them. If people are out of doors, actually using their yards and public spaces, then miscreants wouldn't be able to do the shit they do.
ISPs could push back and set themselves as common carriers if they wanted to, but the temptation of selling content to their customers in addition to dumb pipes is just too tempting.
Comcast - planning (or already has) their own streaming music service, and owns NBC Universal Cablevision - has a streaming video service, and also makes their bread and butter off of Cable TV Verizon - sells TV via their FiOS bundles Time Warner Cable - Not associated with Time Warner Media anymore, but any time spent on the internet is time not spent watching their Cable TV offerings.
Notice any patterns here? Bandwidth is a cost to these companies, and they all operate other significant revenue streams that are in direct competition with unmetered data service when it comes to what customers are doing.
If the raise described is the volume of one supertanker, that means 1 supertanker filled with water would (fully dispersed) raise worldwide ocean levels by.77mm.
Sure, less weight for oil than water, so the total displacement for working supertankers is lower, but still... with the armada of supertankers around the world, this should be measurable effect in total.
No, the race to the bottom in an overly-saturated market is why there is so much crapware.
As manufacturer, if you are selling the same machine, built with all the same parts, from the same vendors, with the same costs as your competitors, how do you beat your competitor's price? You offset your costs by charging crapware vendors to include their products on your machines. And then you claim that crapware is actually a "feature" that sets your product apart from your competitors.
operating systems are not cars and absolutely can be engineered to not allow OEM CrapWare®
Um, how exactly? Short of dial-home authentication that prevents the installation of anything not certified by MS, how could they possibly prevent OEMs from loading up crapware on the machines that the OEMs built.
You do realize MS only provides the actual distribution package of Windows right?
If you want consumers to be able to install software, then OEMs can too. It's that simple.
If you have a Mac, you have a license for whatever version of OSX it came with, and whichever versions you have purchased subsequently. Buying a Mac has never granted you a license to all OS versions.
Wrong. Apple clearly sold both Snow Leopard in 2 forms. Full license ($129) and Upgrade from Leopard ($29).
Previous to that, Apple did sell full boxed licenses. There was no "upgrade license" versions for anything other than machines that shipped around the same time as the OS release.
You already have user access groups setup on the filesystem level. If you need different people to have different access to the password database, then split it into multiple databases, and take advantage of your existing filesystem (and hopefully domain) permission structure.
KeePass2 is Windows-only (unless you really want to deal with Mono). The original version is now forked and maintained as KeePassX with OSX and Linux builds available, along with the source.
We have a great photo my wife shot of wet concrete that looks like an abstracting painting to begin with. Blown up and printed on an 8 foot canvas, everyone who's seen it has thought that it was an abstract oil painting. I't an incredible piece of wall art.
Now, if you're talking the usual family portrait or vacation landscape, I agree with you.
2nd this. Costco actually has relatively decent color quality (compared to other 1-hour photomats) and it will be much much cheaper than printing yourself. Just take in your burned disc or thumbdrive. Be careful about scaling though if you've played at all with cropping your photos.
If you want to splurge, see if there's a local professional film lab around (like A&I in Los Angeles). Thats where you'll find the best digital printing available. But, if your photos aren't professional quality in composition, color adjustment, etc, you probably won't perceive the difference.
and Italy only matters because the Vatican is functionally an Italian state even if they are allowed to claim sovereignty.
Hmmm... they have their own currency, stamps, armed security forces, ambassadors, and have permanent observer status at the UN (self chosen, as opposed to being a formal voting member).
How are they functionally an Italian state? They operate on the world stage with formal diplomatic ties and global recognition as an independent country, whereas they are not participant entities in the Italian governing system.
By your logic, San Marino (completely land-locked by Italy) would not be it's own country either.
Shareholders are offering up their capital. By taking this risk, they get a share of the rewards, either in the form of profits, or higher value for their share of ownership.
Employees get their compensation as wages. If you want a bigger payout, you have 2 options: get off your ass and negotiate a better wage package, or put your money where your mouth is and buy a share of ownership in the company.
And by the way, there are many companies out there that are "employee owned and operated". Which means the employees are the shareholders.
The RAND corporation is huge. They're a research-based think tank. The US government is their biggest customer because they get hired to do research on public policy.
When you have a question like "I want to roll out new computers for all grade school students in California. Will this actually improve education and will it have an impact on jobs in NY in 15 years?", the RAND corporation is who you call to get an answer.
The county is already paying for legal counsel. Whether that's a full-time employee or an outside firm on retainer, they are paying for this service. The submitter needs to talk to them. Then he can help the legal team do the legwork for collecting appropriate licenses or such if they aren't sufficiently "knowledgeable in the field".
I'm sure the fear is that a commercial company will simply copy their work, and then go around selling it to other agencies without substantial improvement.
Stuff like this happens all the time in government contracting.
If the county wants to share but is concerned about liability, THEY SHOULD TALK TO THEIR ON-STAFF/ IN-HOUSE/ ON-RETAINER legal counsel!
They have them, I guarantee it. Use them. The last they want is a tech guy (who has already admitted he doesn't know the implications of the various licenses) fumbling around to figure this out.
If they really really don't want to talk to their own legal counsel, then just prepare an instruction list that other municipalities could follow and publish that instead of trying to distribute the whole kit-and-kaboodle.
My MBPro was affected by the problem. I knew about it, and a little over 3 years after purchase (extended warranty had expired) the telltale symptoms started appearing (horizontal stripes on the screen). I scheduled an appointment, took my machine in to the Apple Store, and Apple replaced the video card, no questions asked. Took about 2 days because they didn't have the part on hand in-store.
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My point is that the value per hour depends entirely on the specific game, the purchase price, and how much replay the individual owner gets out of it. Some games like an FPS with strong multiplier features, or a sports game, can have very high values (unless there's a new version every 6 months that everyone switches to). Other games with finite story driven play (like the first Assassin's Creed) have a very low replay value, and so the price-per-hour can be quite high.
AAA titles fall in price because most people have bought them near release at full cost.
That's really hard to evaluate. $60 for that AAA game which gets a total of 5-10 hours of play is far more expensive than the $7-15 admission for an afternoon at a museum, or $120 for an annual pass to the zoo.
If you don't load images, they have no way to tell that you viewed the email.
That's the whole point of unique tracking single-pixel images. Google Analytics works basically the same way (but they inject this pixel image via javascript).
I grew up in San Diego with coyotes in my yard.
I also lived in southern New Mexico for several years (just as arid as southern Arizona) and experienced a record heat wave of 115-120 temperatures for about 2-3 weeks.
Stop exaggerating. The Phoenix heat only peaks in the middle of the day. Most of the year is quite pleasant, and even in the hottest part of the summer, it's still nice outside before 10 and after 5-6. The evenings are beautiful and there's more than enough light to play outside safely. Evening is even the best time for catching the wildlife. Coyotes are primarily nocturnal and are more scared of the kids than the kids are of them. If your kid is old enough to play outside unsupervised, they're sure as hell old enough not be bothered by coyotes.
And believe it or not, even in Phoenix there's a lot of wildlife if you'd just stop to look. Lots of cool insects, birds, lizards. I'm sure there's rabbits and squirrels as well (hint, the coyotes eat something, and it ain't bugs). Sure, you don't have anything as big as a deer, but there's a lot morde wildlife than you realize.
But you probably miss all that because you assume it's hostile out there and instead spend your evenings watching prime-time TV or playing video games.
Oh, and one last thing. Explain the exploding flashlight bombs? Let me guess, something like exploding a mailbox or the like? The people pulling those pranks like to do it when no-one is around to see them. If people are out of doors, actually using their yards and public spaces, then miscreants wouldn't be able to do the shit they do.
ISPs could push back and set themselves as common carriers if they wanted to, but the temptation of selling content to their customers in addition to dumb pipes is just too tempting.
Comcast - planning (or already has) their own streaming music service, and owns NBC Universal
Cablevision - has a streaming video service, and also makes their bread and butter off of Cable TV
Verizon - sells TV via their FiOS bundles
Time Warner Cable - Not associated with Time Warner Media anymore, but any time spent on the internet is time not spent watching their Cable TV offerings.
Notice any patterns here? Bandwidth is a cost to these companies, and they all operate other significant revenue streams that are in direct competition with unmetered data service when it comes to what customers are doing.
Something seems off there.
If the raise described is the volume of one supertanker, that means 1 supertanker filled with water would (fully dispersed) raise worldwide ocean levels by .77mm.
Sure, less weight for oil than water, so the total displacement for working supertankers is lower, but still... with the armada of supertankers around the world, this should be measurable effect in total.
The line between crapware and useful software can be very hard to define since it all depends on what the particular end user wants.
4 antivirus packages - probably crapware
1 antivirus package - probably not
Media library manager/player - depends on the user
Driver packages - not crapware
Scanning software? Image editing software? Online photo printing?
Games?
Bluray player?
Firefox or Chrome?
No, the race to the bottom in an overly-saturated market is why there is so much crapware.
As manufacturer, if you are selling the same machine, built with all the same parts, from the same vendors, with the same costs as your competitors, how do you beat your competitor's price? You offset your costs by charging crapware vendors to include their products on your machines. And then you claim that crapware is actually a "feature" that sets your product apart from your competitors.
Um, how exactly? Short of dial-home authentication that prevents the installation of anything not certified by MS, how could they possibly prevent OEMs from loading up crapware on the machines that the OEMs built.
You do realize MS only provides the actual distribution package of Windows right?
If you want consumers to be able to install software, then OEMs can too. It's that simple.
Deep key press means less space inside for hardware, which means a thicker laptop.
Ever notice that the entire base of a modern laptop is thinner than a classic full-motion keyboard?
Wrong.
If you have a Mac, you have a license for whatever version of OSX it came with, and whichever versions you have purchased subsequently. Buying a Mac has never granted you a license to all OS versions.
Wrong. Apple clearly sold both Snow Leopard in 2 forms. Full license ($129) and Upgrade from Leopard ($29).
Previous to that, Apple did sell full boxed licenses. There was no "upgrade license" versions for anything other than machines that shipped around the same time as the OS release.
You already have user access groups setup on the filesystem level. If you need different people to have different access to the password database, then split it into multiple databases, and take advantage of your existing filesystem (and hopefully domain) permission structure.
KeePass2 is Windows-only (unless you really want to deal with Mono). The original version is now forked and maintained as KeePassX with OSX and Linux builds available, along with the source.
We have a great photo my wife shot of wet concrete that looks like an abstracting painting to begin with. Blown up and printed on an 8 foot canvas, everyone who's seen it has thought that it was an abstract oil painting. I't an incredible piece of wall art.
Now, if you're talking the usual family portrait or vacation landscape, I agree with you.
2nd this. Costco actually has relatively decent color quality (compared to other 1-hour photomats) and it will be much much cheaper than printing yourself. Just take in your burned disc or thumbdrive. Be careful about scaling though if you've played at all with cropping your photos.
If you want to splurge, see if there's a local professional film lab around (like A&I in Los Angeles). Thats where you'll find the best digital printing available. But, if your photos aren't professional quality in composition, color adjustment, etc, you probably won't perceive the difference.
And this is the kind of reason why IBM sold of the POS division that was doomed to irrelevancy and thin profit margins.
Hmmm... they have their own currency, stamps, armed security forces, ambassadors, and have permanent observer status at the UN (self chosen, as opposed to being a formal voting member).
How are they functionally an Italian state? They operate on the world stage with formal diplomatic ties and global recognition as an independent country, whereas they are not participant entities in the Italian governing system.
By your logic, San Marino (completely land-locked by Italy) would not be it's own country either.
I'm pretty sure there was even an /. article about the patent back in the 99-00 time period.
Shareholders are offering up their capital. By taking this risk, they get a share of the rewards, either in the form of profits, or higher value for their share of ownership.
Employees get their compensation as wages. If you want a bigger payout, you have 2 options: get off your ass and negotiate a better wage package, or put your money where your mouth is and buy a share of ownership in the company.
And by the way, there are many companies out there that are "employee owned and operated". Which means the employees are the shareholders.
The RAND corporation is huge. They're a research-based think tank. The US government is their biggest customer because they get hired to do research on public policy.
When you have a question like "I want to roll out new computers for all grade school students in California. Will this actually improve education and will it have an impact on jobs in NY in 15 years?", the RAND corporation is who you call to get an answer.
The county is already paying for legal counsel. Whether that's a full-time employee or an outside firm on retainer, they are paying for this service. The submitter needs to talk to them. Then he can help the legal team do the legwork for collecting appropriate licenses or such if they aren't sufficiently "knowledgeable in the field".
I'm sure the fear is that a commercial company will simply copy their work, and then go around selling it to other agencies without substantial improvement.
Stuff like this happens all the time in government contracting.
If the county wants to share but is concerned about liability, THEY SHOULD TALK TO THEIR ON-STAFF/ IN-HOUSE/ ON-RETAINER legal counsel!
They have them, I guarantee it. Use them. The last they want is a tech guy (who has already admitted he doesn't know the implications of the various licenses) fumbling around to figure this out.
If they really really don't want to talk to their own legal counsel, then just prepare an instruction list that other municipalities could follow and publish that instead of trying to distribute the whole kit-and-kaboodle.
As anecdotal examples go...
My MBPro was affected by the problem. I knew about it, and a little over 3 years after purchase (extended warranty had expired) the telltale symptoms started appearing (horizontal stripes on the screen). I scheduled an appointment, took my machine in to the Apple Store, and Apple replaced the video card, no questions asked. Took about 2 days because they didn't have the part on hand in-store.