Right, because that is what the people at Google are interested in, manually reviewing millions and millions of pages of grocery lists and angsty teenage prose.
Sure, correctly pricing the warranties is essentially their entire business model (or anyway, knowing what the warranties will cost them, I'm sure they are happy to overcharge if people are willing to overpay); not accounting for substantial differences in quality between brands would likely make this quite difficult. I was intending more of a comparison to something like Maytag or whatever, where they are selling the warranty as part of the product, and if they decide they are spending too much on warranty service, they can actually go and try to address the problems directly.
The article says that Palm has made the app store distribution channel somewhat hostile to free apps (because the developer has to jump through this hoop and that hoop, one of which is having a verified paypal account, which means giving paypal unfettered access to a bank account, which I agree is a bad idea); he is aware that there are other ways to get stuff installed, but doesn't understand why Palm is using the process they are using, and thinks that his free apps would see wider distribution if they were in the store.
You can make plastic out of lots of things. If you have lots of energy, you can pretty much make it from air (but it is easier to start with something like corn).
That list of moves is a narrative, but I'm not ready to call it a story (hence my use of the word awkward).
Also, I'm not saying that random chance is not a viable way to ensure that a story is written, I'm saying that when 60% of what happens falls to random chance, it is specious to talk about those happenings as having been written.
Your last paragraph is just mud slinging, it isn't an argument. To wit: Just because you do 'see' it as a setting - does not mean it is there.
The comparison between chess and writing a story is rather awkward. It's even worse for games that involve a deck of cards (a game like cribbage has a huge solution space, similar to chess, but much of the activity that takes place is entirely a result of how each shuffle comes out).
The notion of a written plot especially faces trouble in games that involve plenty of chance (so cards, dice, etc.). And personally, I don't see 'the kitchen table' as an element of story when I am playing card games, so I'm not sure that setting works very well either.
Maybe. It seems that finding new bodies to send to Afghanistan is already a problem, I'm not sure the UN could mount a similarly sized operation in Iran.
(Just glancing at Wikipedia, it looks like more than 50% of the soldiers in Afghanistan or U.S. soldiers, and I have a feeling the bias is even greater if you consider combat troops alone, instead of together with logistical support)
All of those things you are listing would pretty much be limited to pages and information stored on reddit.com (things get worse if the user has ActiveX up and working in their browser), beyond that there are some irritating DOS attacks, and some resource discovery (but anyone browsing the internet with javascript turned on really better have the idea of turning off valuable resources when they are not actively using them, or even partitioning that activity). I didn't spell it out, but I did start from the presumption that the GGP didn't even have a reddit account (as they seem to be happy to block it entirely), so any of the attacks against reddit itself aren't going to be very revealing in his case.
I don't really see why you felt the need to sarcastically repeat the point from the GP post that I was sarcastically mocking with my statement about companies going out of business, as you proceed to spend 3 paragraphs agreeing with me. I suppose your point might be that software backed up by a company is often a safer bet than some open source software, but I didn't really making any assertions about one category being safer or not, so your sarcasm is misplaced.
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The United States cannot afford, nor provide the soldiers for, another war.
Yes, no company has ever gone out of business, or been bought out and had operations shut down. Ever.
Whoever you do business with, you are taking a risk, it doesn't matter if it is some rather odd guy on the internet or if it is IBM, you assess the risks and benefits and go forward when the one outweighs the other.
You can reasonably argue that software costs 25% of what people pay for it, but it is a little tough to argue that it is worth less than they are paying for it, when confronted with a situation like that, people usually just keep their money.
I would argue that most software is worth far more than people are willing to pay for it, it is a happy benefit of general purpose computers and cheap storage.
What exactly are you worried about? The worst thing that could happen is that reddit did a poor job of closing the hole (the nasty comment has stopped spreading and is being mass deleted...) and someone could post some JS that tries to access some information of yours on another site, but the only way they will succeed is if the server side implementation of that other site is terribly flawed.
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If a couple of hundred people are using it on a regular basis, that's peanuts.
They are concerned that they will crush it.
till they have a chance to look it over
Right, because that is what the people at Google are interested in, manually reviewing millions and millions of pages of grocery lists and angsty teenage prose.
Sure, correctly pricing the warranties is essentially their entire business model (or anyway, knowing what the warranties will cost them, I'm sure they are happy to overcharge if people are willing to overpay); not accounting for substantial differences in quality between brands would likely make this quite difficult. I was intending more of a comparison to something like Maytag or whatever, where they are selling the warranty as part of the product, and if they decide they are spending too much on warranty service, they can actually go and try to address the problems directly.
The article says that Palm has made the app store distribution channel somewhat hostile to free apps (because the developer has to jump through this hoop and that hoop, one of which is having a verified paypal account, which means giving paypal unfettered access to a bank account, which I agree is a bad idea); he is aware that there are other ways to get stuff installed, but doesn't understand why Palm is using the process they are using, and thinks that his free apps would see wider distribution if they were in the store.
Do I get to choose the prison and the cars in the question?
Actually, I did quite well at a respected engineering school and still have most of my books. Perhaps you are overly literal.
Mostly, I was pushing someone's buttons, textbooks are not precious artifacts, over time, they are worth little.
I'll be fair here: I saw how long this was and did not read it.
You can make plastic out of lots of things. If you have lots of energy, you can pretty much make it from air (but it is easier to start with something like corn).
They are basically just an insurance company. Same idea.
The one thing they can't do is attempt to control warranty service costs by increasing product quality at manufacture.
I burned my textbooks when I was done with them.
That list of moves is a narrative, but I'm not ready to call it a story (hence my use of the word awkward).
Also, I'm not saying that random chance is not a viable way to ensure that a story is written, I'm saying that when 60% of what happens falls to random chance, it is specious to talk about those happenings as having been written.
Your last paragraph is just mud slinging, it isn't an argument. To wit: Just because you do 'see' it as a setting - does not mean it is there.
I was just making a stupid play on some words in your subject.
Depending on the liquid, it might be hotter.
Each time you argue instead of just walking out of the store, you are tolerating the behavior.
The comparison between chess and writing a story is rather awkward. It's even worse for games that involve a deck of cards (a game like cribbage has a huge solution space, similar to chess, but much of the activity that takes place is entirely a result of how each shuffle comes out).
The notion of a written plot especially faces trouble in games that involve plenty of chance (so cards, dice, etc.). And personally, I don't see 'the kitchen table' as an element of story when I am playing card games, so I'm not sure that setting works very well either.
How disappointing to find out we live in such a pussy-ass universe. I want some fire and brimstone, or at least a few nuclear detonations.
Maybe. It seems that finding new bodies to send to Afghanistan is already a problem, I'm not sure the UN could mount a similarly sized operation in Iran.
(Just glancing at Wikipedia, it looks like more than 50% of the soldiers in Afghanistan or U.S. soldiers, and I have a feeling the bias is even greater if you consider combat troops alone, instead of together with logistical support)
All of those things you are listing would pretty much be limited to pages and information stored on reddit.com (things get worse if the user has ActiveX up and working in their browser), beyond that there are some irritating DOS attacks, and some resource discovery (but anyone browsing the internet with javascript turned on really better have the idea of turning off valuable resources when they are not actively using them, or even partitioning that activity). I didn't spell it out, but I did start from the presumption that the GGP didn't even have a reddit account (as they seem to be happy to block it entirely), so any of the attacks against reddit itself aren't going to be very revealing in his case.
I don't really see why you felt the need to sarcastically repeat the point from the GP post that I was sarcastically mocking with my statement about companies going out of business, as you proceed to spend 3 paragraphs agreeing with me. I suppose your point might be that software backed up by a company is often a safer bet than some open source software, but I didn't really making any assertions about one category being safer or not, so your sarcasm is misplaced.
The United States cannot afford, nor provide the soldiers for, another war.
Our troops are spread rather thin as it is.
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Yes, no company has ever gone out of business, or been bought out and had operations shut down. Ever.
Whoever you do business with, you are taking a risk, it doesn't matter if it is some rather odd guy on the internet or if it is IBM, you assess the risks and benefits and go forward when the one outweighs the other.
You can reasonably argue that software costs 25% of what people pay for it, but it is a little tough to argue that it is worth less than they are paying for it, when confronted with a situation like that, people usually just keep their money.
I would argue that most software is worth far more than people are willing to pay for it, it is a happy benefit of general purpose computers and cheap storage.
What exactly are you worried about? The worst thing that could happen is that reddit did a poor job of closing the hole (the nasty comment has stopped spreading and is being mass deleted...) and someone could post some JS that tries to access some information of yours on another site, but the only way they will succeed is if the server side implementation of that other site is terribly flawed.