Ooh, wow... IP's aren't good indicators of uniqueness... I'm sure the Slashdot editors will tell you how valid that is when they're troll hunting.
But I don't think dynamic DSL IPs are that big of a problem. What about DSL users that are connected 24/7? My DSL provider rarely kicks me off and I can hold the same IP address for weeks.
What about laptop users at wireless cafes or users who post/read from work? Surely the same IP that reads a tiny website from home is likely also the "same IP" that reads it from a nearby workplace.
to just tax the transaction point at which point you have to convert the virtual currency into the real thing. For instance, an EBay or paypal sale. It's easier (and more profitable) to tax all of EBay sales or paypal transactions.
If virtual currency ever gains real value (that is... you'd accept your paycheck in WoW gold instead of cash) then you might see taxation systems required to be in the game. But I doubt that will ever happen (Okay that's 50 gold pieces for the broadsword and I see you live in California so that'll be an 8% sales tax rounded up or 54 gold pieces.)
If my health insurance provider wanted to provide a one-stop shop website where I could track that, that'd be good.
It (theoretically) would provide me all the info I need and provide a gateway back to the company about what health information they could get on me.
Putting the company in-the-loop for this is just a bad idea in terms of privacy. (Although I've been in companies where you had to paper file the insurance claims for doctor's visits through the HR department... though I don't know if that was required or just provided as a convenience)
Call me crazy but I don't want my corporate business to "know" if/when/where I'm doing followup for my healthcare or what healthcare conditions I need follow up for.
The whole home theater industry has been moving in that direction for quite some time. You have a home media storage "furnace" that serves up video and then a small client box for your TV.
You see that already with the XBox hacks, XBox 360 and Windows Media Center, and networked DVD players
Now VIIV may help that along but the technology has already been in existence (and in use) for years.
Well... except for maybe the DRM controls that VIIV will provide...
It's the *company's* information. Just as if you took out your file folders and TPS reports before you quit work and burned them, it's a violation of law.
The viruses need the single celled organisms to replicate... but the single celled organisms couldn't realy evolve into proper single celled organisms until the viruses came along to do it...
... we let all the other pioneers get the arrows strategy.
Microsoft sees what "wheat" floats to the top separating it from the chaff and, if it's viable, they make it themselves and starve off the competition.
"Quite often when you see an IE patch coming out, it's not actually a patch to IE code. It's a patch to kill the ActiveX control that's no longer needed, which we've determined has a vulnerability in it. ActiveX Opt-in is designed to reduce that surface area of attack by turning off most of those controls by default and letting users only turn them on if they need them. The feature makes it not interesting for the hackers to go after this legacy code that shouldn't be exposed to the Internet in the first place."
So we've enhanced the functionality of IE by ramping up the number of programmers on the project, which is a normal function of software development at Microsoft but I can't give you specifics, to add new features to IE7... new features like... ActiveX Opt-In (tm), with ActiveX Opt-In, we've enhanced the rich browsing experience the users are used to by increasing the security model of the IE7 browser functionality through better security measures.
Didja ever consider that Nintendogs might be good practice before getting the real thing? (Y'know, before the adopter decides the dog is too much of a hassle and drops it off at the shelter but not before letting it run loose so it makes another litter of 20 puppies?)
In a time where you have other industry elites saying the video game market has topped out (EA), there's no room for growth in MMOG (Richard Garriott), many companies are just going belly up (Atari), Microsoft can't get is product to the street, the PSP is nothing more than a mini-DVD player and one of the major selling points of the PS3 is that it's a HI-DEF DVD player, Nintendo OPENED UP a new market and sold 1.5 million copies of a game to WOMEN in 4 months.
Claptrap? Nah... I think I'd listen to what the guy has to say.
"Things have changed, of course. Book content now runs the gamut from kid-friendly titles like Curious George and The Ewok Adventure to adult-themed offerings such as Lolita and A Clockwork Orange to the highly socialized plays of Les Miserable and Romeo & Juliet or the largely adult-populated operas of Mozart. Over the years, books and writers have recognized the artistic and expressive potential of the written word, along with their power to enlighten and entertain readers from four to ninety-four. But there are also millions who missed that particular cultural bus."
Books are containers for written content. Games are containers for interactive content.
I don't see the problem here other than to separate the "good" stuff from the "bad" stuff to help offset political restrictions.
But I have yet to find any government links to back up that assertation.
I'm not even aware of any CURRENT rules that state that HR departments have to keep applications stored for x amount of years to verify EEOC/Diversity requirements.
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You can have it fast, cheap or done right.
You may pick 2 of the 3.
He's picking fast and done right and screw the amount of cash it'll take.
Ooh, wow... IP's aren't good indicators of uniqueness... I'm sure the Slashdot editors will tell you how valid that is when they're troll hunting.
But I don't think dynamic DSL IPs are that big of a problem. What about DSL users that are connected 24/7? My DSL provider rarely kicks me off and I can hold the same IP address for weeks.
What about laptop users at wireless cafes or users who post/read from work? Surely the same IP that reads a tiny website from home is likely also the "same IP" that reads it from a nearby workplace.
But I was thinking of a sales/transaction tax above and beyond income sources. (Though I guess that makes this whole thing a moot argument...)
to just tax the transaction point at which point you have to convert the virtual currency into the real thing. For instance, an EBay or paypal sale. It's easier (and more profitable) to tax all of EBay sales or paypal transactions.
If virtual currency ever gains real value (that is... you'd accept your paycheck in WoW gold instead of cash) then you might see taxation systems required to be in the game. But I doubt that will ever happen (Okay that's 50 gold pieces for the broadsword and I see you live in California so that'll be an 8% sales tax rounded up or 54 gold pieces.)
Rainbow/Haloing... that sort of thing?
So... this isn't something I should use as a cat toy?
... they DON'T carry Barbie Horse Adventures... Maybe they really don't carry truly evil stuff!
Obligatory Penny Arcade link...
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/01/09
They're dictating to us our content!
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We won't be able to sell games like Dead or Alive because of the bouncing boobies!
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product
Or Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas because of the violence and cop killing!
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product
Or even that really truly EVIL game, Bully!
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product
If my health insurance provider wanted to provide a one-stop shop website where I could track that, that'd be good.
It (theoretically) would provide me all the info I need and provide a gateway back to the company about what health information they could get on me.
Putting the company in-the-loop for this is just a bad idea in terms of privacy. (Although I've been in companies where you had to paper file the insurance claims for doctor's visits through the HR department... though I don't know if that was required or just provided as a convenience)
Call me crazy but I don't want my corporate business to "know" if/when/where I'm doing followup for my healthcare or what healthcare conditions I need follow up for.
The whole home theater industry has been moving in that direction for quite some time. You have a home media storage "furnace" that serves up video and then a small client box for your TV.
You see that already with the XBox hacks, XBox 360 and Windows Media Center, and networked DVD players
Now VIIV may help that along but the technology has already been in existence (and in use) for years.
Well... except for maybe the DRM controls that VIIV will provide...
So somebody went and formalized the theory of "the users are the beta testers"...
of "open source" in this instance.
Learn somethin' new everyday. thx!
So "open source" is now anything that's a free/community project?
Do the Amish then have "open source" barn raisings?
It's the *company's* information. Just as if you took out your file folders and TPS reports before you quit work and burned them, it's a violation of law.
The viruses need the single celled organisms to replicate... but the single celled organisms couldn't realy evolve into proper single celled organisms until the viruses came along to do it...
... we let all the other pioneers get the arrows strategy.
Microsoft sees what "wheat" floats to the top separating it from the chaff and, if it's viable, they make it themselves and starve off the competition.
"Quite often when you see an IE patch coming out, it's not actually a patch to IE code. It's a patch to kill the ActiveX control that's no longer needed, which we've determined has a vulnerability in it. ActiveX Opt-in is designed to reduce that surface area of attack by turning off most of those controls by default and letting users only turn them on if they need them. The feature makes it not interesting for the hackers to go after this legacy code that shouldn't be exposed to the Internet in the first place."
So we've enhanced the functionality of IE by ramping up the number of programmers on the project, which is a normal function of software development at Microsoft but I can't give you specifics, to add new features to IE7... new features like... ActiveX Opt-In (tm), with ActiveX Opt-In, we've enhanced the rich browsing experience the users are used to by increasing the security model of the IE7 browser functionality through better security measures.
And these security measures are?
We turned the problematic ActiveX controls off.
But wait how this is new functionali...
Top. Men.
Didja ever consider that Nintendogs might be good practice before getting the real thing? (Y'know, before the adopter decides the dog is too much of a hassle and drops it off at the shelter but not before letting it run loose so it makes another litter of 20 puppies?)
"Yeah, it's just more advertising claptrap"
In a time where you have other industry elites saying the video game market has topped out (EA), there's no room for growth in MMOG (Richard Garriott), many companies are just going belly up (Atari), Microsoft can't get is product to the street, the PSP is nothing more than a mini-DVD player and one of the major selling points of the PS3 is that it's a HI-DEF DVD player, Nintendo OPENED UP a new market and sold 1.5 million copies of a game to WOMEN in 4 months.
Claptrap? Nah... I think I'd listen to what the guy has to say.
"Things have changed, of course. Book content now runs the gamut from kid-friendly titles like Curious George and The Ewok Adventure to adult-themed offerings such as Lolita and A Clockwork Orange to the highly socialized plays of Les Miserable and Romeo & Juliet or the largely adult-populated operas of Mozart. Over the years, books and writers have recognized the artistic and expressive potential of the written word, along with their power to enlighten and entertain readers from four to ninety-four. But there are also millions who missed that particular cultural bus."
Books are containers for written content.
Games are containers for interactive content.
I don't see the problem here other than to separate the "good" stuff from the "bad" stuff to help offset political restrictions.
But I have yet to find any government links to back up that assertation.
I'm not even aware of any CURRENT rules that state that HR departments have to keep applications stored for x amount of years to verify EEOC/Diversity requirements.
(Current employees yes... applications? No.)
GEEZ...
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This applies to contractors who are going to provide employees/contractors to FEDERAL GOVERNMENT JOBS. Not all business in the US. http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/esa/ESA2005195
Water is wet!
Although I think calling the new Legend of Zelda "vaporware" is off as its only late by... ooh...3 months.
But thanks for playing.
My first 'OS' was GEOS (unless you count Commodore64 basic as an OS)
After that it was PC Dos (not MS Dos although I switched to that later)
THEN Windows OS/2, THEN Windows 95.