No contracts may open the door for me to see what offerings they have. I'm never going to sign a 2 year contract for anything ever again. Burned by those a couple times, that's it. They're simply a legal document allowing a company to take money from me for service I haven't used.
My guess is the latter due to Sequestration. Look out the US Government is going to start severe spending cuts which will trickle down to the bubble...
Whoops! They passed spending until September, without further cuts. Guess that shoots a big ol' Fearless Fosdick-size hole in that theory.
Does the more impulsive decision-making mean they're more likely to commit new crimes, or simply more likely to get caught?
And how is this impulsive decision-making different between committing crimes or other impuslive behavior (like going shopping for bananas and coming how with four bags of groceries?)
Consider PayPal, they may just be tired of sharing their vast revenue. Someone at the top wants to buy an island or new yacht and all those VMware fees would come in handy.
Pfft. Just mix in some of the bills in the US House every few pages and the Chinese government will become so encumbered and gridlocked they won't know if they are coming or going.
Yeah, but suppose I want a smart watch that keeps the display oriented so I can read it, now matter which direction my arm is pointing, that's the stuff of patents.
The reality was the concentrations of these compounds were in like 5 ppb (parts per billion), when checked on by DNR and others. Put into perspective it was like a football field, a mile high and one marble sitting in the end zone. Pretty mild
5PPB is "mild"?!
You're talking about compounds with an LD50 in the micrograms/kilogram.
Safe exposure is 4 picograms/kilogram/day
5 ppb in your drinking water would get you about 18 micrograms/day, or 60,000-ish times that.
Do keep in mind there are hundreds of compounds catagorized as "Dioxins" Very few of these are actually known toxins or carcenogens.
I asked my father about what was going on in the news and he directed me to the obituary page in the local paper. "What do you see there?" "A lot of people dead in their 70s, 80s and 90s with the rare centenarian." "Not a lot of people dying in their teens, 20s, 30s, which you would see if there were rampant cancer brought on by these compounds." It was a vivid lesson in viewing readily available empirical data.
I suggest someone spread around the idea that coal power plants endager the health those nearby. A bonus is that this might actually be true.
Before scrubbers and such, one of the deadly elements thrown into the air from burning coal was Mercury.
But that's nothing. Really.
You've no doubt seen how hazardous Asbestos is to the lungs. People were tearing apart buildings, because floor tiling, ventillation and insulation was loaded with it. BUT... Never mind that, all cars were whizzing around for decades with Asbestos brake linings, filling cities with the fine dust of from these as motorists slowed down or stopped here and there by the tens of millions.
People are still just as gullible as they've always been...
FTFY
Back in the late 1970's (showing my fossilage here) Sixty Minutes (I sat about 20 feet from Ed Bradley) and other news orgs came to Midland, Michigan, after a Jack Anderson Confidential claimed Midland was awash with Carcinogenic Dioxins, spewed into the air and dumped into the Tittabawasee River by Dow Chemical.
People suddenly queued up to claim they were suffering many ills as brought on by these dioxins. The nation's media swarmed to the small midwestern city prepared for the worst (and to tell it all in gory detail.) Midland was alleged to have people with open sores and massive turmors lurching down the streets like some Dawn of the Dead scene. The reality was the concentrations of these compounds were in like 5 ppb (parts per billion), when checked on by DNR and others. Put into perspective it was like a football field, a mile high and one marble sitting in the end zone. Pretty mild and not the Love Canal the media were looking for. Within days it was all gone, nothing mentioned on Sixty Minutes or any other national news.
The discussion is about tech, no about content. No one is saying games have the most detailed content, only that it requires the best/most reliable/highest quality tech.
Atari was building multi processor arcade machines years before PCs got even close.
You got plenty of oil. It's cold but we will fix that soon enough. Copyright is so much easier than manned wars. For your cooperation, we will let you keep your name.
-owners of the US
It's the Intellectual Property invasion of Canada..
OTTAWA - Following sporadic cross border raids into Canada from the United States, Intellectual Property lobbyists and lawyers, along with cadres of lackeys have fully invaded the Canadian capitol city. Should they succeed most Canadians would be tried for criminal conduct where formerly a minor citation and the firm words "Don't do it again, eh!" would have been uttered. Should ACTA pass into law bystanders expect a further invasion of prison builders.
I think it is a fair statement. Unlike most business software, games actually have to be high quality in order for people to use / want to use them. Compare this to trying to pay your verizon bill online. Talk about phoning it in, hahaha.
And yet game authors are among the biggest plagiarists out there. Not many original ideas, but lots redecorating of old ideas.
I worked on this spaceship for ~3 years. Let me say that it's very gratifying that it found something, and especially that it found something nobody was expecting. I'm much relieved.
It's always a plus to find something you weren't looking for. Hope it succeeds on its primary mission as well.
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No contracts may open the door for me to see what offerings they have. I'm never going to sign a 2 year contract for anything ever again. Burned by those a couple times, that's it. They're simply a legal document allowing a company to take money from me for service I haven't used.
What civil right do you believe is threatened here? The one where you control Google's data about you? Not a civil right.
I'll simply make my data worthless.
I am the king of Pittsburgh, I invented the game of Association Football and I possess half the global supply of Gogo's Crazy Bones.
Hide yourself behind a wall of obfuscation.
"shows many smaller businesses that it is possible" assuming you have a dedicated department of people to make it happen.
I'm sure they do - offshore somewhere.
My guess is the latter due to Sequestration. Look out the US Government is going to start severe spending cuts which will trickle down to the bubble...
Whoops! They passed spending until September, without further cuts. Guess that shoots a big ol' Fearless Fosdick-size hole in that theory.
Hold on there pard, I just upgraded the old desktop machine and bought a new DSLR camera ... I didn't mean to stimulate the economy!
Does the more impulsive decision-making mean they're more likely to commit new crimes, or simply more likely to get caught?
And how is this impulsive decision-making different between committing crimes or other impuslive behavior (like going shopping for bananas and coming how with four bags of groceries?)
Open source winning again....
Consider PayPal, they may just be tired of sharing their vast revenue. Someone at the top wants to buy an island or new yacht and all those VMware fees would come in handy.
well, that's shitty.
Pfft. Just mix in some of the bills in the US House every few pages and the Chinese government will become so encumbered and gridlocked they won't know if they are coming or going.
Prior art:
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Yeah, but suppose I want a smart watch that keeps the display oriented so I can read it, now matter which direction my arm is pointing, that's the stuff of patents.
Can't wait to see all old ideas re-patented by adding the language "on a watch".
Wondering if anyone hast been in contact with the Pebble crew. I wouldn't be surprised if they had some patents lined up already.
are we supposed to fight the sharks?
Just claim to be a member of the NRA and any attempt by the gummint to lower power is infringing your 2nd amendment rights.
It's the NLA, the National LASER Association, and we do have a serious lobbying effort underway.
If the founding fathers had had lasers, then they'd have done fine without France's support.
We of the NRGA (National Rail Gun Association) salute you.
I'll see your 30 round clip and raise you 10 pounds of 10 penny finishing nails.
are we supposed to fight the sharks?
Just claim to be a member of the NRA and any attempt by the gummint to lower power is infringing your 2nd amendment rights.
Let's face it, nothing will ever be secure as long as people are involved.
Time to start getting rid of them. ;)
Does windmill construction require pumping undisclosed "trade secret" chemicals into the ground water?
There are no doubt people who think the Muppets were actual live creatures.
The reality was the concentrations of these compounds were in like 5 ppb (parts per billion), when checked on by DNR and others. Put into perspective it was like a football field, a mile high and one marble sitting in the end zone. Pretty mild
5PPB is "mild"?!
You're talking about compounds with an LD50 in the micrograms/kilogram.
Safe exposure is 4 picograms/kilogram/day
5 ppb in your drinking water would get you about 18 micrograms/day, or 60,000-ish times that.
Do keep in mind there are hundreds of compounds catagorized as "Dioxins" Very few of these are actually known toxins or carcenogens.
I asked my father about what was going on in the news and he directed me to the obituary page in the local paper. "What do you see there?" "A lot of people dead in their 70s, 80s and 90s with the rare centenarian." "Not a lot of people dying in their teens, 20s, 30s, which you would see if there were rampant cancer brought on by these compounds." It was a vivid lesson in viewing readily available empirical data.
I suggest someone spread around the idea that coal power plants endager the health those nearby. A bonus is that this might actually be true.
Before scrubbers and such, one of the deadly elements thrown into the air from burning coal was Mercury.
But that's nothing. Really.
You've no doubt seen how hazardous Asbestos is to the lungs. People were tearing apart buildings, because floor tiling, ventillation and insulation was loaded with it. BUT ... Never mind that, all cars were whizzing around for decades with Asbestos brake linings, filling cities with the fine dust of from these as motorists slowed down or stopped here and there by the tens of millions.
People are still just as gullible as they've always been...
FTFY
Back in the late 1970's (showing my fossilage here) Sixty Minutes (I sat about 20 feet from Ed Bradley) and other news orgs came to Midland, Michigan, after a Jack Anderson Confidential claimed Midland was awash with Carcinogenic Dioxins, spewed into the air and dumped into the Tittabawasee River by Dow Chemical.
People suddenly queued up to claim they were suffering many ills as brought on by these dioxins. The nation's media swarmed to the small midwestern city prepared for the worst (and to tell it all in gory detail.) Midland was alleged to have people with open sores and massive turmors lurching down the streets like some Dawn of the Dead scene. The reality was the concentrations of these compounds were in like 5 ppb (parts per billion), when checked on by DNR and others. Put into perspective it was like a football field, a mile high and one marble sitting in the end zone. Pretty mild and not the Love Canal the media were looking for. Within days it was all gone, nothing mentioned on Sixty Minutes or any other national news.
Power of suggestion can be a powerful thing.
The discussion is about tech, no about content. No one is saying games have the most detailed content, only that it requires the best/most reliable/highest quality tech.
Atari was building multi processor arcade machines years before PCs got even close.
You got plenty of oil. It's cold but we will fix that soon enough. Copyright is so much easier than manned wars. For your cooperation, we will let you keep your name.
-owners of the US
It's the Intellectual Property invasion of Canada..
OTTAWA - Following sporadic cross border raids into Canada from the United States, Intellectual Property lobbyists and lawyers, along with cadres of lackeys have fully invaded the Canadian capitol city. Should they succeed most Canadians would be tried for criminal conduct where formerly a minor citation and the firm words "Don't do it again, eh!" would have been uttered. Should ACTA pass into law bystanders expect a further invasion of prison builders.
And call yourself a Ham.
;o)
I think it is a fair statement. Unlike most business software, games actually have to be high quality in order for people to use / want to use them. Compare this to trying to pay your verizon bill online. Talk about phoning it in, hahaha.
And yet game authors are among the biggest plagiarists out there. Not many original ideas, but lots redecorating of old ideas.
I worked on this spaceship for ~3 years. Let me say that it's very gratifying that it found something, and especially that it found something nobody was expecting. I'm much relieved.
It's always a plus to find something you weren't looking for. Hope it succeeds on its primary mission as well.
We've got the Van Allen belt... what are the other two, Van Morrison and Van Johnson?
the one responsible for lightning is Van de Graaff
...could go wrong?
This is how the Borg begins.