Isn't one click purchasing obvious? What I don't get though is: Why didn't they patent two click, three click, and so on? I think they could effectively crush any competition from the Internet if they patented up to a thousand click buying. No one is gonna wanna click a thousand times to buy anything.
Isn't the best Antivirus Russian? And aren't they working on their own OS now? It'd be hilarious if Windows gets replaced with an OS that would have never been if only Windows secured their OS to begin with.
I know you're just trying to jab at me, but I made no mistake. This is actually part of the design, I just left it out of my initial post to have a more compact post and maximize on readability. Well maybe I did make a mistake in not being verbose in my initial post. Heh.
No doubt the registry was a huge mistake. I think Microsoft was working from the idea: The more of a mess we make the operating system, the more obfuscated it is, and the more obfuscated it is, the more security we have! QED: Its the perfect DRM.
Fine fine, I left out a detail, you can have a shared memory location, where you share information between programs, but its just details. Most programs don't need to share data with other programs. I didn't want to write a design document, just give an idea.
Windows needs to make "future" applications unable to get out of their install directory, and unable to write to a global registry.
Viruses can't do a whole lot if they can't get to system files, can't modify anything but themselves.
Windows would suddenly catch up with this whole Internet fad if they secured their OS from viruses finally.
Sure allow trusted legacy aps an option to be run, but aps for the future should be basically sandboxed.
I believe if Microsoft made their OS secure against viruses, they'd actually be a step ahead of Apple. The main old reason Apple doesn't have a lot of viruses is that it had a lower market share for a long time.
All kidding aside, Angband is one of the best games I've ever played to date still. After about 1000 tries, I did an ironman noupstairs win.
The learning curve is moderate to learn all the keystrokes and commands, but the game itself is really indepth and pure fun if you know what depths to get your resists. Make sure you download a version of Angband that has autosquelch in it. The guy who wrote autosquelch did it mostly out of a kind gesture for me! It shows you how cool Open Source guys can be. I wish I had his name, but I don't because I lost that data with a hard drive crash. I thought it was Dr. Andrew White, but Angband's page is saying: Dave Blackston.
I actually encountered something REALLY cool in Zangband once. I charmed some monsters who were spawning and polymorphing themselves. So half the dungeon was a bunch of monsters I owned, and the other half was a bunch of monsters that spawned as enemies. It was like one giant war around me. I have been making video games on my own, on the off chance I can recreate the scene, because it is incredibly... interesting.
Of course Angband's learning curve is about too much for anyone under 9. But if you've never played it, you can find it Here. It is the predecessor to games like Torchlight. Compared to Nethack, you actually do a lot more hack and slash in Angband because you're fighting tons of monsters. If you want ez mode imo, go half-troll/warrior.
You'd think people would just order another pop. "I'd like to order another pop please. " Subway employee,"Sorry sir, you look visibly hydrated. I can't serve you more beverage."
I am writing a video game by myself. I don't have money to pay a lawyer for a EULA. Can I copy/paste a game similar to mine's EULA, and make modifications by hand?
Is it better to have a bad and hacky EULA than no EULA at all?
Either find an artist on the Internet, or teach yourself how to draw. Then make aps for iPad and Android. It doesn't matter what you make, as long as you make something of decent quality. The platform I am making aps with is Flash Builder 4.6. Coding in AS3/Flash is really nice for the programmer, and you also get more done with less code.
If you ever want to boast about something you're unable to do, point out a professional in the field. Then say,"I taught that guy everything he knows, then I forget it all."
The idea that the patent system was founded on was protecting an idea so it can get to market without being stolen.
I think we've found with software patents, the opposite holds true. Software patents protect the big guys so little guys can't make any product.
Lets face it: Programming software is illegal. If you make any non trivial software, you trip over dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of patents you're not even aware even exist! This is because people are awarded patents on trivial things that everyone else already knows how to do. So programming is illegal, we just try and make aps with the hopes that no one is going to sue us. But at any time, someone could sue if they wanted to.
Because the big guys patents so many trivial things, non-trivial software trips over many patents. Patents do not protect the little guy. Patents protect the big guy from the little guy having a chance to compete.
You should write your Senator if you are civilly minded and regularly do this.
Tell them,"DMCA is being abused, and it should be repealed or give penalties for abusing it."
Also explain how DMCA is similar to SOPA/PIPA.
Explain just as SOPA/PIPA are against free speech, so is DMCA
Maybe explain companies are using it to be anti-competitive for example, Microsoft's goal is to issue as many takedown notices as it can just to make Google jump through hoops. It is part of Microsoft's attack policy, just like Apple's policy is suing people. Oh yeah, writing about software patents being beyond useless is good too.
My teacher knew as much about being cool as I did though: So in computer class, he let me write my own code while the rest of the class did the standard projects. The best thing I did in computer class was write a random sentence maker. Everyone loved that. Also, you'd be surprised how much abuse 5 1/2" floppies can take before they don't work. We punched holes in them, scratched them. What finally had them completely stop though was when we stapled them.:P I predicted that one was gonna kill it.
I hate even saying "believe" in evolution because it sounds like an act of faith, and it isn't. Evolution has many different meanings, and I think that is a point of contingency on both sides. I won't argue the many different ideas of evolution from natural selection, to speciation, to implied origin of species.
It isn't difficult to believe me when I say it is close minded people that are causing the problem. There are people who can't understand that God can exist, yet one of their theologies can be flawed. If people opened their minds and just accept the fact that,"God is so wondrous you can't know everything about him or how he did things." the world would be better off. I mean that is the reason there are different denominations in Christianity. We all accept Jesus saving us and wanting to live together in love, but because God is so big, we can't know everything about him.
In conclusion, don't listen to close minded people who say God can't exist when evolution is true.
So what you're saying is Verizon's network is designed around dropping low priority calls. Do you think because I was on a low minutes plan that they rated me less of a customer and this is why I was dropped non stop?
Well consider yourself lucky then. I told the company 50% of my calls drop making it next to impossible to talk to anyone, and they didn't offer me ANYTHING. They just offered to upgrade my plan for more minutes greedily. You'd think the company would have let me exit the contract since their service was grossly faulty. It didn't matter where I was or how many bars I had, I'd drop calls all day long. So I had bad experience with their cell phone coverage, and bad experience with their customer support.
Verizon touts it has great coverage, but they dropped my calls maybe 50% of the time, no exaggeration. I couldn't cancel because they had me in a contract. I even was going on a first date with a pretty girl, but she wanted me to pick her up instead of meet at the place. She called me, I asked who it was, and then the phone dropped. I thought she hung up on me. She thought I hung up on her. Then she didn't want to talk to me again.
I eventually cancelled Verizon and went to Google Voice with a smart phone, and wifi. Turns out Google Voice isn't good though because it didn't have good enough call quality and often you couldn't understand what the person was saying. This was a land line "solution" anyway.
Last Christmas, my mom bought me a trak phone from Walmart and I haven't had a dropped call I remember. Verizon dropped hundreds of calls, but the Trak Phone dropped close to 0! Also Trak Phones are maybe 1/3 to 1/10 as expensive depending on your minutes use.
Now if you need a data plan for a smart phone so you basically have a mobile computer, I can't help you sir.
The craters are only half the temperature of their better-lit surroundings, but they still reach an average of 175 kelvin — hot enough to boil water in the moon's thin atmosphere
175 kelvin is deeply in the negatives. Maybe sublimation is possible, but not boiling. Did they typo on the boiling or in the temperature? I should be able to educate guess this, but I'm not in the mood.
Facebook took the old adage from the late 90s: Attract eyes and ears then you'll make money somehow.
Nowadays there are ad networks that you can cash easy with this, but back in Google's time, it was like the underpants gnomes equation.
The irony is Classmates.com was first on the scene for meeting your fellow highschoolers, but they charged you for the privilege!
This teaches us one thing: Don't put any barriers in your website for adoption, even if the barrier is a paywall to profit you in the short run.
I think this is why freemium games are coming into their own. You have more people playing, money from ads and some money from premium good sales, and if your game is good, more people will come play it than a traditional 60$ game.
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Isn't one click purchasing obvious? What I don't get though is: Why didn't they patent two click, three click, and so on? I think they could effectively crush any competition from the Internet if they patented up to a thousand click buying. No one is gonna wanna click a thousand times to buy anything.
Isn't the best Antivirus Russian? And aren't they working on their own OS now? It'd be hilarious if Windows gets replaced with an OS that would have never been if only Windows secured their OS to begin with.
I know you're just trying to jab at me, but I made no mistake. This is actually part of the design, I just left it out of my initial post to have a more compact post and maximize on readability. Well maybe I did make a mistake in not being verbose in my initial post. Heh.
No doubt the registry was a huge mistake. I think Microsoft was working from the idea: The more of a mess we make the operating system, the more obfuscated it is, and the more obfuscated it is, the more security we have! QED: Its the perfect DRM.
Fine fine, I left out a detail, you can have a shared memory location, where you share information between programs, but its just details. Most programs don't need to share data with other programs. I didn't want to write a design document, just give an idea.
Windows needs to make "future" applications unable to get out of their install directory, and unable to write to a global registry.
Viruses can't do a whole lot if they can't get to system files, can't modify anything but themselves.
Windows would suddenly catch up with this whole Internet fad if they secured their OS from viruses finally.
Sure allow trusted legacy aps an option to be run, but aps for the future should be basically sandboxed.
I believe if Microsoft made their OS secure against viruses, they'd actually be a step ahead of Apple. The main old reason Apple doesn't have a lot of viruses is that it had a lower market share for a long time.
Except the true God can deal with blasphemers as he sees fit. He doesn't need a bunch of idiots enforcing blasphemy laws.
No to blasphemy laws! Yes to free speech!
Roguelikes will teach you your ABC too, great for a young kid
All kidding aside, Angband is one of the best games I've ever played to date still. After about 1000 tries, I did an ironman noupstairs win.
The learning curve is moderate to learn all the keystrokes and commands, but the game itself is really indepth and pure fun if you know what depths to get your resists. Make sure you download a version of Angband that has autosquelch in it. The guy who wrote autosquelch did it mostly out of a kind gesture for me! It shows you how cool Open Source guys can be. I wish I had his name, but I don't because I lost that data with a hard drive crash. I thought it was Dr. Andrew White, but Angband's page is saying: Dave Blackston.
I actually encountered something REALLY cool in Zangband once. I charmed some monsters who were spawning and polymorphing themselves. So half the dungeon was a bunch of monsters I owned, and the other half was a bunch of monsters that spawned as enemies. It was like one giant war around me. I have been making video games on my own, on the off chance I can recreate the scene, because it is incredibly... interesting.
Of course Angband's learning curve is about too much for anyone under 9. But if you've never played it, you can find it Here. It is the predecessor to games like Torchlight. Compared to Nethack, you actually do a lot more hack and slash in Angband because you're fighting tons of monsters. If you want ez mode imo, go half-troll/warrior.
You'd think people would just order another pop. "I'd like to order another pop please. " Subway employee,"Sorry sir, you look visibly hydrated. I can't serve you more beverage."
I am writing a video game by myself. I don't have money to pay a lawyer for a EULA. Can I copy/paste a game similar to mine's EULA, and make modifications by hand? Is it better to have a bad and hacky EULA than no EULA at all?
Either find an artist on the Internet, or teach yourself how to draw. Then make aps for iPad and Android. It doesn't matter what you make, as long as you make something of decent quality. The platform I am making aps with is Flash Builder 4.6. Coding in AS3/Flash is really nice for the programmer, and you also get more done with less code.
If you ever want to boast about something you're unable to do, point out a professional in the field. Then say,"I taught that guy everything he knows, then I forget it all."
Every time I learn something new it pushes something out of my brain
The counterfeits have some surprising benefits, for example, you can have a snack while you wait for police with the Jiffy Pop air bag.
The idea that the patent system was founded on was protecting an idea so it can get to market without being stolen.
I think we've found with software patents, the opposite holds true. Software patents protect the big guys so little guys can't make any product.
Lets face it: Programming software is illegal. If you make any non trivial software, you trip over dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of patents you're not even aware even exist! This is because people are awarded patents on trivial things that everyone else already knows how to do. So programming is illegal, we just try and make aps with the hopes that no one is going to sue us. But at any time, someone could sue if they wanted to.
Because the big guys patents so many trivial things, non-trivial software trips over many patents. Patents do not protect the little guy. Patents protect the big guy from the little guy having a chance to compete.
You should write your Senator if you are civilly minded and regularly do this. Tell them,"DMCA is being abused, and it should be repealed or give penalties for abusing it." Also explain how DMCA is similar to SOPA/PIPA. Explain just as SOPA/PIPA are against free speech, so is DMCA Maybe explain companies are using it to be anti-competitive for example, Microsoft's goal is to issue as many takedown notices as it can just to make Google jump through hoops. It is part of Microsoft's attack policy, just like Apple's policy is suing people. Oh yeah, writing about software patents being beyond useless is good too.
My teacher knew as much about being cool as I did though: So in computer class, he let me write my own code while the rest of the class did the standard projects. The best thing I did in computer class was write a random sentence maker. Everyone loved that. Also, you'd be surprised how much abuse 5 1/2" floppies can take before they don't work. We punched holes in them, scratched them. What finally had them completely stop though was when we stapled them. :P I predicted that one was gonna kill it.
I hate even saying "believe" in evolution because it sounds like an act of faith, and it isn't. Evolution has many different meanings, and I think that is a point of contingency on both sides. I won't argue the many different ideas of evolution from natural selection, to speciation, to implied origin of species.
It isn't difficult to believe me when I say it is close minded people that are causing the problem. There are people who can't understand that God can exist, yet one of their theologies can be flawed. If people opened their minds and just accept the fact that,"God is so wondrous you can't know everything about him or how he did things." the world would be better off. I mean that is the reason there are different denominations in Christianity. We all accept Jesus saving us and wanting to live together in love, but because God is so big, we can't know everything about him.
In conclusion, don't listen to close minded people who say God can't exist when evolution is true.
I authored an article that explains one of the alternate literal Creationism that also accepts evolution: Long Day Theory"
The only way this could happen is if the guy in sector 7g was grossly incompetent.
I wrote an email to Bob Casey (Sen PA) telling him it was a matter of free speech to let Hollywood censor the Internet.
Bob Casey wrote back,"No it isn't about free speech."
I wrote back,"Yes, it is about free speech."
Then he sends a form letter out to everyone,"I'm changing my stance on this issue because it is about free speech."
Is there anyway we can retroactively get rid of DMCA? That stuff is being abused now.
So what you're saying is Verizon's network is designed around dropping low priority calls. Do you think because I was on a low minutes plan that they rated me less of a customer and this is why I was dropped non stop?
Well consider yourself lucky then. I told the company 50% of my calls drop making it next to impossible to talk to anyone, and they didn't offer me ANYTHING. They just offered to upgrade my plan for more minutes greedily. You'd think the company would have let me exit the contract since their service was grossly faulty. It didn't matter where I was or how many bars I had, I'd drop calls all day long. So I had bad experience with their cell phone coverage, and bad experience with their customer support.
Verizon touts it has great coverage, but they dropped my calls maybe 50% of the time, no exaggeration. I couldn't cancel because they had me in a contract. I even was going on a first date with a pretty girl, but she wanted me to pick her up instead of meet at the place. She called me, I asked who it was, and then the phone dropped. I thought she hung up on me. She thought I hung up on her. Then she didn't want to talk to me again.
I eventually cancelled Verizon and went to Google Voice with a smart phone, and wifi. Turns out Google Voice isn't good though because it didn't have good enough call quality and often you couldn't understand what the person was saying. This was a land line "solution" anyway.
Last Christmas, my mom bought me a trak phone from Walmart and I haven't had a dropped call I remember. Verizon dropped hundreds of calls, but the Trak Phone dropped close to 0! Also Trak Phones are maybe 1/3 to 1/10 as expensive depending on your minutes use.
Now if you need a data plan for a smart phone so you basically have a mobile computer, I can't help you sir.
The craters are only half the temperature of their better-lit surroundings, but they still reach an average of 175 kelvin — hot enough to boil water in the moon's thin atmosphere
175 kelvin is deeply in the negatives. Maybe sublimation is possible, but not boiling. Did they typo on the boiling or in the temperature? I should be able to educate guess this, but I'm not in the mood.
Facebook took the old adage from the late 90s: Attract eyes and ears then you'll make money somehow.
Nowadays there are ad networks that you can cash easy with this, but back in Google's time, it was like the underpants gnomes equation.
The irony is Classmates.com was first on the scene for meeting your fellow highschoolers, but they charged you for the privilege!
This teaches us one thing: Don't put any barriers in your website for adoption, even if the barrier is a paywall to profit you in the short run.
I think this is why freemium games are coming into their own. You have more people playing, money from ads and some money from premium good sales, and if your game is good, more people will come play it than a traditional 60$ game.