I have a dream of when my children, and my children's children, can read/listen/watch recordings of extremely important public cultural events over the internet and not be committing copyright infringement.
Sorry - knee jerk response to the dream phrase made it as far as the keyboard.
It'd be a nice feature - or even to have a work/home bubbles (you too Amazon). Bubbling is the term that duckduckgo.com uses to describe anticipated search intent. They don't bubble and tend to be decent with their results. I'll often switch to them if Google (or Amazon) seems stuck in a paradigm of what they think I want.
It's a nice system, but as I understand it - your friend will be booted out of game A from your library when you launch any other game from your library. Again, a great improvement from where Steam started, but a little "grass was greener" from my perspective. I think back about how weird it would have been if my friend would have been booted off of the Crystalis cartridge I loaned him any time I ran Zelda II on my NES. Perhaps I've interpreted the Steam library sharing erroneously though. Again - a great improvement and one of those ways Steam has leaned to leverage it's market dominance in favor of its customers.
Good move, but doesn't address useful (but subjective) claims like satisfaction guaranteed. I remember as a kid saving for most of a year to buy one of the later KQ games. I played through it fast, (but probably more than two hours, but not by much) and wasn't challenged/entertained as the past KQ games (or other Sierra titles like the QFG series) indicated I should be - in light of past experiences, I felt pretty mislead about the experience which should have been in that box. Overall, I was pretty bummed out - both about the game and the price. I was able to take it back to the store (Sears I think), explain the experience, and get my money back.
These days it's easy to find out info/reviews of a game - and experience will help you evaluate something within that two hour window, but I think fears of abuse may have curtailed the usefulness of this program. Obviously there's a line between "I'm taking my money back because I don't like the ending/plot/fact that they killed Data-but-not-really" and "I'm asking for my money back because the product was clearly broken/unfinished/incomplete," but neither can be evaluated within that two hour play window. Personally, it's still a tough call for me to buy a full price game on Steam - what with the DRM and non-transferability of the software. Steam sales are nice, but my kids will never get the chance to loan their game disks to a friend or pick through bins at a garage sale or pawn shop for interesting game titles. The grass was greener when DRM meant looking up something in Fodor's guide too. Ok, ok... I'll toddle along now, but do try to stay off the lawn.
I think it was the Rehnquist court that developed a "conviction test" that was pretty useful. (i.e. It was something like not bending your conviction even when faced with pressures or threats by all of the following: state, peers, family, death, etc...). By that test, many people do not hold religious convictions - especially with respect to the law. I could be thinking of another Justice though... IANAL. It's got me curious again, I'll have to hit Google later, or perhaps one of my books to find that test.
In college I lived with a few guys who had one (brand unknown - nameplate had fallen off) built when faux wood and analog control dials were the thing of the future. It still worked just fine - whether or not the door was open.
...is good enough "transparent aluminum" for me. Plus, it's easy to make and nearly as hard as diamond.
If you think it's easy to make (on an industrial scale for optical grade large pieces), I've got some real estate and investing advice to sell you, right after I switch out my polycarbonate lenses.
Yeah - single crystal aluminum oxide (sapphire) is also used on tank windows, missile radar domes, satellite parts, etc... Basically anything actually worth enough to pay for it. Smartphones and tablets may actually drive production of sapphire into "reasonable" price ranges for consumers. Spinnel is too soft to be "scratch proof" - resistant maybe, but proof? No. Lots of other good uses though.
Hey - go light on the ACs here. It's easy to mistake Netflix and network. They both start the same way and it's hard to imagine a media delivery service surviving which doesn't function like the first;)
Now there's a loaded question. Which cause would you identify as "root"? I can see many causal factors: parental responsibility, cultural priority of education, teacher pay (i.e. competitive with industry/business talent pools), outcome based rewards/penalties, curriculum cost/availability, politicization of academia, fundamental conflict between 9th, 10th, amendments and DOE, etc... or something else?
Sure, but the pipeline has been declined in the past by people in WA for the simple reason that they've already declined to divert water for their own use (The Columbia Basin irrigation project has zones - and there's plenty of farmers who live in zones that aren't guaranteed water that would really like it). The residents of WA have already decided to limit their own consumption for ecological reasons - I don't see them sacrificing their streams, rivers, and ecology just because CA has poorly managed its own resources. If the drought doesn't break and CA doesn't get a handle on it's resources - we're about to see some modern ghost towns.
Ever hear of a mutual fund, 401k, 403b, IRA, etc... When an auto-trade algorithm hits an action point - lots of people far removed from the system are affected. The effects can be quite serious when one trader's algorithm triggers another's... etc. There have been some very bad days on the stock market triggered by such events.
1% in a day is more than enough for a pump and dump! I'd love a portfolio which could make me 1% per day. Generally I'm happy with anything above 7% in a year. Good news here is that the increased volume didn't trigger additional artificial pumping by other auto-buyers.
Yeah - they'd have to skate between the government and investors, and I'd bet that's a razor edge. Subsidiaries wouldn't protect someone as they'd have to pay on their "gains" based off of the main corps. "loss". Off shore holdings wouldn't work either since that's still going to be reflected in the corporations market value. The main philosophical problem is taxing what's already been taxed, unless you only tax based on the change in market valuation (also possible, but more volatile).
Absolutely correct. Just like a good pecan pie, nobody lets a pile of money get stale on the counter - it all goes somewhere. Finance is zero sum - everything else if figuring out the optimal way of getting work out of that pie before it's processed and flushed. If you do it wrong you either have a situation where the baker doesn't have enough energy to make more pie or the baker gets fat while everyone else starves - at least until people can't afford pie anymore, then the baker starves too.
Not a bad idea, but you'd have to find a way to tax vertical monopolies/integration. A value added tax system may help with that... but I've never figured out how that works with service companies (i.e. what's the valuation of entropic reduction?).
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Yeah - but a geosynchronous orbit at 2 meters is really hard ;)
I have a dream of when my children, and my children's children, can read/listen/watch recordings of extremely important public cultural events over the internet and not be committing copyright infringement.
Sorry - knee jerk response to the dream phrase made it as far as the keyboard.
It'd be a nice feature - or even to have a work/home bubbles (you too Amazon). Bubbling is the term that duckduckgo.com uses to describe anticipated search intent. They don't bubble and tend to be decent with their results. I'll often switch to them if Google (or Amazon) seems stuck in a paradigm of what they think I want.
It's a nice system, but as I understand it - your friend will be booted out of game A from your library when you launch any other game from your library. Again, a great improvement from where Steam started, but a little "grass was greener" from my perspective. I think back about how weird it would have been if my friend would have been booted off of the Crystalis cartridge I loaned him any time I ran Zelda II on my NES. Perhaps I've interpreted the Steam library sharing erroneously though. Again - a great improvement and one of those ways Steam has leaned to leverage it's market dominance in favor of its customers.
Good move, but doesn't address useful (but subjective) claims like satisfaction guaranteed. I remember as a kid saving for most of a year to buy one of the later KQ games. I played through it fast, (but probably more than two hours, but not by much) and wasn't challenged/entertained as the past KQ games (or other Sierra titles like the QFG series) indicated I should be - in light of past experiences, I felt pretty mislead about the experience which should have been in that box. Overall, I was pretty bummed out - both about the game and the price. I was able to take it back to the store (Sears I think), explain the experience, and get my money back.
These days it's easy to find out info/reviews of a game - and experience will help you evaluate something within that two hour window, but I think fears of abuse may have curtailed the usefulness of this program. Obviously there's a line between "I'm taking my money back because I don't like the ending/plot/fact that they killed Data-but-not-really" and "I'm asking for my money back because the product was clearly broken/unfinished/incomplete," but neither can be evaluated within that two hour play window. Personally, it's still a tough call for me to buy a full price game on Steam - what with the DRM and non-transferability of the software. Steam sales are nice, but my kids will never get the chance to loan their game disks to a friend or pick through bins at a garage sale or pawn shop for interesting game titles. The grass was greener when DRM meant looking up something in Fodor's guide too. Ok, ok... I'll toddle along now, but do try to stay off the lawn.
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5:you insensitive profiting clod!
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I think it was the Rehnquist court that developed a "conviction test" that was pretty useful. (i.e. It was something like not bending your conviction even when faced with pressures or threats by all of the following: state, peers, family, death, etc...). By that test, many people do not hold religious convictions - especially with respect to the law. I could be thinking of another Justice though... IANAL. It's got me curious again, I'll have to hit Google later, or perhaps one of my books to find that test.
In college I lived with a few guys who had one (brand unknown - nameplate had fallen off) built when faux wood and analog control dials were the thing of the future. It still worked just fine - whether or not the door was open.
I have a feeling that the mixing strategies are part of that IP talked about (or rather not talked about).
How do you follow up on "The Motion Picture" without vast improvement?
...is good enough "transparent aluminum" for me. Plus, it's easy to make and nearly as hard as diamond.
If you think it's easy to make (on an industrial scale for optical grade large pieces), I've got some real estate and investing advice to sell you, right after I switch out my polycarbonate lenses.
What's wrong with poly(methyl methacrylate)? That at least may be made from dead plants, dinosaurs, and whales - helps them feel more at home!
The only way to do that for me is if Spock was somehow made un-funny.
Yeah - single crystal aluminum oxide (sapphire) is also used on tank windows, missile radar domes, satellite parts, etc... Basically anything actually worth enough to pay for it. Smartphones and tablets may actually drive production of sapphire into "reasonable" price ranges for consumers. Spinnel is too soft to be "scratch proof" - resistant maybe, but proof? No. Lots of other good uses though.
Hey - go light on the ACs here. It's easy to mistake Netflix and network. They both start the same way and it's hard to imagine a media delivery service surviving which doesn't function like the first ;)
Now there's a loaded question. Which cause would you identify as "root"? I can see many causal factors: parental responsibility, cultural priority of education, teacher pay (i.e. competitive with industry/business talent pools), outcome based rewards/penalties, curriculum cost/availability, politicization of academia, fundamental conflict between 9th, 10th, amendments and DOE, etc... or something else?
Sure, but the pipeline has been declined in the past by people in WA for the simple reason that they've already declined to divert water for their own use (The Columbia Basin irrigation project has zones - and there's plenty of farmers who live in zones that aren't guaranteed water that would really like it). The residents of WA have already decided to limit their own consumption for ecological reasons - I don't see them sacrificing their streams, rivers, and ecology just because CA has poorly managed its own resources. If the drought doesn't break and CA doesn't get a handle on it's resources - we're about to see some modern ghost towns.
Encrypt everything! Bummer about the decryption man pages...
You mean like Sindarin or Quenya? Tengwar is aesthetically pleasing and I think it has a Unicode section already reserved for it.
Ever hear of a mutual fund, 401k, 403b, IRA, etc... When an auto-trade algorithm hits an action point - lots of people far removed from the system are affected. The effects can be quite serious when one trader's algorithm triggers another's... etc. There have been some very bad days on the stock market triggered by such events.
1% in a day is more than enough for a pump and dump! I'd love a portfolio which could make me 1% per day. Generally I'm happy with anything above 7% in a year. Good news here is that the increased volume didn't trigger additional artificial pumping by other auto-buyers.
Yeah - they'd have to skate between the government and investors, and I'd bet that's a razor edge. Subsidiaries wouldn't protect someone as they'd have to pay on their "gains" based off of the main corps. "loss". Off shore holdings wouldn't work either since that's still going to be reflected in the corporations market value. The main philosophical problem is taxing what's already been taxed, unless you only tax based on the change in market valuation (also possible, but more volatile).
Absolutely correct. Just like a good pecan pie, nobody lets a pile of money get stale on the counter - it all goes somewhere. Finance is zero sum - everything else if figuring out the optimal way of getting work out of that pie before it's processed and flushed. If you do it wrong you either have a situation where the baker doesn't have enough energy to make more pie or the baker gets fat while everyone else starves - at least until people can't afford pie anymore, then the baker starves too.
Not a bad idea, but you'd have to find a way to tax vertical monopolies/integration. A value added tax system may help with that... but I've never figured out how that works with service companies (i.e. what's the valuation of entropic reduction?).