With all these request I would have to assume Google and other companies have quite a few people dedicated to the process. How much is this sapping from industry as a whole to comply and at times refuse to comply with all these attempts to gather information? Call it a privacy tax or whatever, neither the loss of privacy or monies should be acceptable. Seems far too often in the US that the Constitution is only a reminder and not the law.
its having to connect to their servers to play the game single player and worse, you can lose access to your game which you are in no way playing with other people should their authentication servers have an issue or be down for maintenance.
Let alone if your on a plane or somewhere without access to an internet connection you cannot use the software you purchased.
There was ZERO requirement to maintain any legitimacy of items for characters wholly off the net. As in, they could have very easily made it so you had characters on their service and characters not on the service with no chance for either to interact.
They chose not to. They chose that because they wanted to increase their revenue stream by any method they could envision.
As for keeping cheaters/etc/out... good luck, the game is a classic Exploit Early Exploit Often. What you may find a neat gimmick one day could be ban worthy, but you won't mind will you?
because with it you can sell that two year old computer still covered by at least one year more. It goes a long way to making it easy to pass it to the next guy when the latest model catches your eye.
Been there, done that, through three iMacs and a Macbook Pro.
they became political far too long ago making a mockery of the prize.
The areas of hard science are still doing well, time will tell if they become as corrupted.
and yes, I too shook my head when President elect Obama received one, if anything it probably had the complete opposite effect those who rewarded wanted it too. As in, they are as connected to the opinion of the world as Washington DC is to the rest of America
The display beats my 27 inch iMac which has 2560x1440!
I am really curious how well that Nvidia chip can push 5 million plus pixels in a game because you know games will/have gone there.
I was fully expecting a 2499 entry price, the 2199 is an amazing price for what they have packaged.
Granted your going to be buying an external optical drive if you want for around a hundred, a three year warranty for at least 250 or 350 more... so it will quickly hit 3k
You like to bungee jump? What about parachuting? Rock climber? Do you walk in the city? Do you...
Its so easy to make other people pay isn't it, well it is when you have the force of government to make people do what is good for them. After all, you know what is good for them don't you. You should fear people who know what is good for you because your next.
Well on systems I work with we accept ten and it is restricted to alpha first and some simple rules after, most of the special characters are not valid.
But guess what, you don't have unlimited tries. You don't have unrestricted access. Most of these password stories work if you have unrestricted access. Still if you did get a list of users from us the password is not stored, when you enter a password it is encrypted and compared to what is stored.
So if you know the encryption method your pretty much in control anyway.
or these approvals are nothing more than rubber stamps.
either situation is nothing to be proud of.
Can we throw this guy out too? Perhaps after enough "you get four years to earn our trust" Presidents they might take the American public seriously again.
Of course Congress needs a good flushing as well, the Tea Party puts the fear in Republicans, the Democrats seriously need their equivalent - a group powerful enough and outside of most of their control who can threaten even old timers.
Yes I live in the USA but for the most part how is it a copy and/or counterfeiting when your but an extension of the society you migrated from? A large portion of the building and such that occurred in the USA can be explained away by pointing to the migrants wanting it to feel like home.
The Chinese example here is none of that. A simple copy for business purposes. This wasn't about extending ones heritage to a new home, it was about copying the heritage of another instead of reveling in their own.
it takes years to get any large structure built and while you read about politicians and community activist bemoaning the lack of affordable housing you never see real progress. Instead you get locals doing the classic NIMBY maneuver. Oh its fine and dandy if you build it OVER THERE!... which of course the over there crowd don't want it either. Lots of lip service and little action, the point being that the type of construction needed for truly affordable and sustainable housing is not the type that occurs.
then there is the whole concept of what affordable housing really means.
the world seems to end for the missing blonde "innocent" white girl who vanishes in a foreign country... not so much for all the residents of the same country who face similar problems on nearly a daily basis.
I am all for the US keeping "control". Yeah I live there, but that list of other countries who want to either control or influence it really doesn't give me a warm and fuzzy...
Honestly, while there are many issues with my country some of the other choices are truly worse. The UN has clearly shown it is beyond redemption by the make up of the Human Rights Council, it is almost as if the UN is in permanent parody mode.
As for Congress, they are way too big to flush and while I trust them as much as I would trust the UN at least we have a chance of affecting the make up of Congress more than the UN
since a Government employee can use Office in the course of their job affecting you would that mean that Microsoft must provide the source for viewing?
At what level would we set a limit? As the person you replied stated, most times government contracts are for making minor changes, many soft coded at that, to adapt existing proprietary software to the customer's needs.
I would agree with software created expressly for the government, as in it was the original customer.
Some sites put the cost of refueling and refitting a nuclear submarine at nearly a billion dollars so I would expect in current day dollars Seawolfs which is the class that followed LA class ships were North of two billion each.
I would expect the costs to repair one have to be close a new one, the difference being it might be easier to fund a repair instead of a new ship. Still I would have expected a fire to cause damage to the hull to be sufficient enough that major sections would have to be replaced. Let alone I have seen what fires that don't even burn the entire interior of a vehicle do to what remains and frankly the clean up would involve gutting any area smoke reached.
I don't think it is fair to classify them based on who is paying for the ride.
Lockheed Martin never had a goal of standing on their own, they always relied on the government to pick up the tab.Space X seems to be going from the direction of "We take the risk" more so than true defense contractors.
Space X also can provide services to other commercial and national interests. They certainly do not have the cost structure the truly government funded launches used.
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With all these request I would have to assume Google and other companies have quite a few people dedicated to the process. How much is this sapping from industry as a whole to comply and at times refuse to comply with all these attempts to gather information? Call it a privacy tax or whatever, neither the loss of privacy or monies should be acceptable. Seems far too often in the US that the Constitution is only a reminder and not the law.
Give them a political office and they can rob both.
the 99% can take a hike.
Get your rights trampled while they pursue someone or something, well too bad. Its called collateral damage and the little people simply have no say.
As the saying goes, "A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have"
It also goes without saying a government big enough to give you everything want could care less what you want or what it takes from you.
why?
because they have such a large pool to error with and there are more than enough sycophants to dismiss the claims of anyone truly banned unfairly.
its having to connect to their servers to play the game single player and worse, you can lose access to your game which you are in no way playing with other people should their authentication servers have an issue or be down for maintenance.
Let alone if your on a plane or somewhere without access to an internet connection you cannot use the software you purchased.
There was ZERO requirement to maintain any legitimacy of items for characters wholly off the net. As in, they could have very easily made it so you had characters on their service and characters not on the service with no chance for either to interact.
They chose not to. They chose that because they wanted to increase their revenue stream by any method they could envision.
As for keeping cheaters/etc/out... good luck, the game is a classic Exploit Early Exploit Often. What you may find a neat gimmick one day could be ban worthy, but you won't mind will you?
because with it you can sell that two year old computer still covered by at least one year more. It goes a long way to making it easy to pass it to the next guy when the latest model catches your eye.
Been there, done that, through three iMacs and a Macbook Pro.
they became political far too long ago making a mockery of the prize.
The areas of hard science are still doing well, time will tell if they become as corrupted.
and yes, I too shook my head when President elect Obama received one, if anything it probably had the complete opposite effect those who rewarded wanted it too. As in, they are as connected to the opinion of the world as Washington DC is to the rest of America
Who else on the market is doing that?
Let alone in the same form factor
and only 4.4 lbs?
The display beats my 27 inch iMac which has 2560x1440!
I am really curious how well that Nvidia chip can push 5 million plus pixels in a game because you know games will/have gone there.
I was fully expecting a 2499 entry price, the 2199 is an amazing price for what they have packaged.
Granted your going to be buying an external optical drive if you want for around a hundred, a three year warranty for at least 250 or 350 more... so it will quickly hit 3k
Ride a bike, pay more taxes.
Ride a motorcycle, pay double!
You like to bungee jump? What about parachuting? Rock climber? Do you walk in the city? Do you...
Its so easy to make other people pay isn't it, well it is when you have the force of government to make people do what is good for them. After all, you know what is good for them don't you. You should fear people who know what is good for you because your next.
Well on systems I work with we accept ten and it is restricted to alpha first and some simple rules after, most of the special characters are not valid.
But guess what, you don't have unlimited tries. You don't have unrestricted access. Most of these password stories work if you have unrestricted access. Still if you did get a list of users from us the password is not stored, when you enter a password it is encrypted and compared to what is stored.
So if you know the encryption method your pretty much in control anyway.
When it is described as that it removes all obligation of those making the declaration from having to be right.
As in, they won't be around to admit they were wrong. Sounds like typical consultant work.
or these approvals are nothing more than rubber stamps.
either situation is nothing to be proud of.
Can we throw this guy out too? Perhaps after enough "you get four years to earn our trust" Presidents they might take the American public seriously again.
Of course Congress needs a good flushing as well, the Tea Party puts the fear in Republicans, the Democrats seriously need their equivalent - a group powerful enough and outside of most of their control who can threaten even old timers.
Yes I live in the USA but for the most part how is it a copy and/or counterfeiting when your but an extension of the society you migrated from? A large portion of the building and such that occurred in the USA can be explained away by pointing to the migrants wanting it to feel like home.
The Chinese example here is none of that. A simple copy for business purposes. This wasn't about extending ones heritage to a new home, it was about copying the heritage of another instead of reveling in their own.
it takes years to get any large structure built and while you read about politicians and community activist bemoaning the lack of affordable housing you never see real progress. Instead you get locals doing the classic NIMBY maneuver. Oh its fine and dandy if you build it OVER THERE!... which of course the over there crowd don't want it either. Lots of lip service and little action, the point being that the type of construction needed for truly affordable and sustainable housing is not the type that occurs.
then there is the whole concept of what affordable housing really means.
Do not taunt happy fun shuttle.
Well maybe they would be Kill Kittens? A fun little encounter in Arduin.
Damn am I showing my age and ....
http://mrlizard.com/dungeons-and-dragons/dungeons-and-dragons-4th-edition/kill-kittens/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduin
the world seems to end for the missing blonde "innocent" white girl who vanishes in a foreign country... not so much for all the residents of the same country who face similar problems on nearly a daily basis.
obviously it was the last time the planet Mongo passed close enough for Ming to be interested in us.
Really?
What would constitute really gross as compared to mostly gross or just plain "damn, doesn't that hurt?"
I am all for the US keeping "control". Yeah I live there, but that list of other countries who want to either control or influence it really doesn't give me a warm and fuzzy...
Honestly, while there are many issues with my country some of the other choices are truly worse. The UN has clearly shown it is beyond redemption by the make up of the Human Rights Council, it is almost as if the UN is in permanent parody mode.
As for Congress, they are way too big to flush and while I trust them as much as I would trust the UN at least we have a chance of affecting the make up of Congress more than the UN
since a Government employee can use Office in the course of their job affecting you would that mean that Microsoft must provide the source for viewing?
At what level would we set a limit? As the person you replied stated, most times government contracts are for making minor changes, many soft coded at that, to adapt existing proprietary software to the customer's needs.
I would agree with software created expressly for the government, as in it was the original customer.
There were a number of stories of man/boy issues as well and the problem is caused foreign servicemen and women.
As in the culture has never had to advance so why should we be so shocked?
I can pretty much find a bunch of equivalent expenditures and compensate in one manner or another.
If you want to see real money then figure the hours spent gaming instead being used towards a second income. That might make you wince.
Some sites put the cost of refueling and refitting a nuclear submarine at nearly a billion dollars so I would expect in current day dollars Seawolfs which is the class that followed LA class ships were North of two billion each.
I would expect the costs to repair one have to be close a new one, the difference being it might be easier to fund a repair instead of a new ship. Still I would have expected a fire to cause damage to the hull to be sufficient enough that major sections would have to be replaced. Let alone I have seen what fires that don't even burn the entire interior of a vehicle do to what remains and frankly the clean up would involve gutting any area smoke reached.
I don't think it is fair to classify them based on who is paying for the ride.
Lockheed Martin never had a goal of standing on their own, they always relied on the government to pick up the tab.Space X seems to be going from the direction of "We take the risk" more so than true defense contractors.
Space X also can provide services to other commercial and national interests. They certainly do not have the cost structure the truly government funded launches used.