You identify criteria by which you can divide data into activity categories. Say data from within the warranty period for whatever you're selling has a 30 percent likelihood of being needed again (if, for instance, you're selling Xbox 360s), but things from outside that period have less than 1 percent, you keep them both available, but the least likely data to be needed gets stored by cheaper means. Occasionally, you will have slower access to data you need right now, but most of the time what you need will be available by the quickest means. It isn't about knowing with absolute certainty which data is important and which is not.
"In the past, what stopped folks from getting too uppety was buy offs. Most folks are pretty pragmatic, and will take 25% or 50% of what they're owed rather than going through the long, arduous and expensive process of actually moving a lawsuit all the way to the courtroom. "
Yeah, they've just delved too greedily and too deep. Someone might settle for half of what they're owed if the amount is tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, but for tens or hundreds of millions of dollars, that years-long court battle might be worth it.
After this generation of consoles, this makes a lot of sense. This is the first time since before the Saturn and Playstation, possibly since before the SNES, that it has been unambiguously better to play games on the PC than on consoles.
First of all, there have been no absolute must-have awesome games on any system that have not also appeared...BETTER...on the PC.
Then there's the fact that this is the first generation of consoles where patches have been common. Why even bother with uniform hardware if you can't get the damn game right on the first release? On the PC, there's an excuse...there are millions, maybe billions, of possible hardware configurations, and you can't be compatible with all of them. On consoles, there are what, maybe half a dozen? I don't know whose fault this is, though...is it Sony and Microsoft (have there been any such incidents on the Wii?), is it the developers, or is it both?
Then there's the cost. PC gaming always used to be more expensive than consoles. When this generation of consoles came out, it was possible to get a credible gaming PC for about the same cost as the PS3, and a little bit more than an Xbox 360. That's total. When you consider that most people already have a computer of some kind, that gap narrows, because the cost of going from an internet-and-office PC to a gaming PC is less than the cost of one of those systems NOW. There really isn't much reason why the 360 and PS3 couldn't fill the non-gaming roles of a PC, but hey, as long as they don't, the advantage goes to the PC.
You may notice that most of this doesn't apply to Nintendo. But the Wii has the distinction of being the shittiest gimmicky shovelware platform in history. Imagine if most of the NES's games had revolved around R.O.B. or the Power Glove. That is the Wii.
So yeah, screw consoles. They have abandoned their traditional advantages, and taken on the disadvantages of the PC.
Then, assuming we don't find some other bullshit reason for staying involved in their internal affairs and bringing further misery to them, they can be pissed off for first world abandonment, and denial of opportunities. Like in "Planetes."
Cops in most jurisdictions in the US don't give bullshit tickets. Speed cameras have no discretion, and have even stronger incentives to hand out tickets.
Swamp coolers use a LOT of water. Is this better than them in terms of water use? If not, it's just trading one environmental ill for another. The places that have water to spare also have humidity high enough that even this system might not do so well with its evaporative cooling, and the places where evaporative cooling works best don't have the water to spare.
That's the source of zero tolerance for (not really a problem) and tough on (convenient scapegoat).
You also get judges becoming corrupt and unethical in ways that would otherwise only apply to legislators and executives. Like this.
They aren't even going to make it to Fairbanks without having to have the thing flatbedded.
They are starting their trip with 400 miles of rough gravel road. In a track car.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/smailtronic/1430466628/
400 miles of that. In a track car.
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Because home taping killed it.
You identify criteria by which you can divide data into activity categories. Say data from within the warranty period for whatever you're selling has a 30 percent likelihood of being needed again (if, for instance, you're selling Xbox 360s), but things from outside that period have less than 1 percent, you keep them both available, but the least likely data to be needed gets stored by cheaper means. Occasionally, you will have slower access to data you need right now, but most of the time what you need will be available by the quickest means. It isn't about knowing with absolute certainty which data is important and which is not.
as patenting someone else's work. Microsoft's very existence is living proof of that.
Baby, at what point would you quit botherin to look for your two million dollars?
"In the past, what stopped folks from getting too uppety was buy offs. Most folks are pretty pragmatic, and will take 25% or 50% of what they're owed rather than going through the long, arduous and expensive process of actually moving a lawsuit all the way to the courtroom. "
Yeah, they've just delved too greedily and too deep. Someone might settle for half of what they're owed if the amount is tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, but for tens or hundreds of millions of dollars, that years-long court battle might be worth it.
Nothing has changed in 31 years.
After this generation of consoles, this makes a lot of sense. This is the first time since before the Saturn and Playstation, possibly since before the SNES, that it has been unambiguously better to play games on the PC than on consoles.
First of all, there have been no absolute must-have awesome games on any system that have not also appeared...BETTER...on the PC.
Then there's the fact that this is the first generation of consoles where patches have been common. Why even bother with uniform hardware if you can't get the damn game right on the first release? On the PC, there's an excuse...there are millions, maybe billions, of possible hardware configurations, and you can't be compatible with all of them. On consoles, there are what, maybe half a dozen? I don't know whose fault this is, though...is it Sony and Microsoft (have there been any such incidents on the Wii?), is it the developers, or is it both?
Then there's the cost. PC gaming always used to be more expensive than consoles. When this generation of consoles came out, it was possible to get a credible gaming PC for about the same cost as the PS3, and a little bit more than an Xbox 360. That's total. When you consider that most people already have a computer of some kind, that gap narrows, because the cost of going from an internet-and-office PC to a gaming PC is less than the cost of one of those systems NOW. There really isn't much reason why the 360 and PS3 couldn't fill the non-gaming roles of a PC, but hey, as long as they don't, the advantage goes to the PC.
You may notice that most of this doesn't apply to Nintendo. But the Wii has the distinction of being the shittiest gimmicky shovelware platform in history. Imagine if most of the NES's games had revolved around R.O.B. or the Power Glove. That is the Wii.
So yeah, screw consoles. They have abandoned their traditional advantages, and taken on the disadvantages of the PC.
FTGE.
Then, assuming we don't find some other bullshit reason for staying involved in their internal affairs and bringing further misery to them, they can be pissed off for first world abandonment, and denial of opportunities. Like in "Planetes."
+1 flamebait
A lot of that is regional, too. (And a lot of what you think is spring water isn't.) You need some worldwide brand that comes from a single source.
Play it again with commentary on. Valve are really seriously thinking about this stuff.
The problem with this situation, though, is that all of a sudden something that you usually can do is not allowed.
Most of which is just municipal water from a source near you. The only way around this is to drink amazingly environmentally unsound imported water.
So this probably isn't going to help with Rongorongo, then.
Unless it's a randomly generated password, omit some letters. You shouldn't need the whole password to remind yourself what it was.
But good luck, they're behind 7 proxies.
Cops in most jurisdictions in the US don't give bullshit tickets. Speed cameras have no discretion, and have even stronger incentives to hand out tickets.
Swamp coolers use a LOT of water. Is this better than them in terms of water use? If not, it's just trading one environmental ill for another. The places that have water to spare also have humidity high enough that even this system might not do so well with its evaporative cooling, and the places where evaporative cooling works best don't have the water to spare.
"For example, in one embodiment" This phrase alone means the patent is over-broad.
Hmm...that guy looks like the sort who might be inclined to build bombs, I'll give him TWO copies of the list.
That's the source of zero tolerance for (not really a problem) and tough on (convenient scapegoat). You also get judges becoming corrupt and unethical in ways that would otherwise only apply to legislators and executives. Like this.
Power companies and clothing companies don't break people's legs. Car companies don't do so intentionally.
They aren't even going to make it to Fairbanks without having to have the thing flatbedded. They are starting their trip with 400 miles of rough gravel road. In a track car. http://www.flickr.com/photos/smailtronic/1430466628/ 400 miles of that. In a track car.
Sumo wrestlers definitely eat better.