I know how to make it "news for nerds" and simultaneously make it something a little different than just ANOTHER game sequel, with copy/paste gameplay.
Make it GTA, but in the future! Yes yes, I remember that's what GTA2 was, but a modern GTA-type game that takes place in a sci-fi, future city would be *awesome*. Flying cars, robot cops, side missions on a moon base (which would take mere seconds to reach, a-la Futurama), etc. etc.
Hell--this lead to an even better idea: A Futurama GTA game where you play as Bender!
Yeah this really isn't a big deal. A while back some popular emulators were pulled from the Android store. What did I do? I just went to the developers website and downloaded from there. Just a direct download of the apks. No root or anything required.
That's what I love about Android. It actually feels like a PC in my pocket where I can do whatever.
Records that concern *my* body are my property. This is a more sacred right than any copyright or patent, no matter what the laws or any pill pushers say.
The purchase was completed just last year. But even at the time of the purchase, the internal "gears" of Motorola were still turning, indifferent to the purchase. They had like at least a year's worth of pre-Google roadmap to complete.
Those gears are winding down finally, and Google will be free to turn them any way they want. It's already happening, with the "Nexus X" phone rumored to come out this year.
As for the layoffs... my sympathy to the workers and their families, but this was Motorola's doing, not Google's. Motorola was in an unprofitable state when Google bought it. Motorola had nothing successful for years between the Razr, and the original Droid. The original Droid was a great spike in business for them, but then they let HTC (and later Samsung) take their business away.
Man, this sucks. I remember when I loved Blizzard, but now I can't even get excited about this news, not even a little bit.
I know that this new project, no matter what, will (1) Be always online and require an account and (2) Will have its gameplay heavily influenced, driven, or impacted by a means to make money after the initial ($60!) sale, via micro transactions or a monthly fee or whatever.
Who would want gigabit speeds when it just means you'll hit your bandwidth cap sooner; you'll get a six strikes warning; there's a lack of 1080p content to stream because the media companies that own the ISPs (or vice versa) will fight tooth and nail to hold onto old distribution means, etc etc.?
Also, given the conversion rate of energy to biomass, For every 1 unit of animal-based food you used up 10 units of plant-based food. Anything "bad" you may think of in regards to plants is nullified by the fact that by eating meat, it's 10 times worse.
In the book called "The Omnivore's Dilemma" the author details (among other things) his stay at a farm called "Polyface Farms."
You'd think it to just be common sense, but at this farm the cows eat the grass, then poop on the ground (thus fertilizing it), and are then moved to another grassy area, where the process repeats while the previously consumed grass gets to grow back. Chickens are then passed through, feeding on the various insects that now populate the field due to the cow poop. The whole thing indefinitely reuses the same land, all powered by nothing but the sun.
It's really quite a elegant, beautiful cycle. A perfect machine of food creation.
It's too bad it doesn't "fit in" with the ridiculous industrial food system of fattening cows up with corn in animal concentration camps, where they stand knee deep in shit all day.
Just like farmers get sued by Monsanto because their crops are inadvertently cross pollinated due to nearby Monsanto crops, one day people will be sued because they inherited patented genes from their parents and didn't pay their own licensing fee.
How about starting the day with a big glass of water? Your body just spent all night repairing/performing maintenance, and it would really appreciate having the water it used (that stuff you peed out first thing after wakingup) replenished. Certainly more so than dehydrating beverages such as coffee and sugary juices.
I ran it through this software I have at work called "Mobile Internet Testing Environment" and it got a "MITE score" of 68/100. It's based on best practices for performance of a mobile site. The slashdot mobile site got penalized for things such as not having the JS at the bottom, for having iframes, not combining css/js, one http request error, no alt tags for images, and others.
I too am a long time SimCity fan who will not buy this game because of the DRM.
Perhaps I should send a letter letting EA know that I voted with my wallet. See, that's a problem with "voting with your wallet" in that there's really no way to tell what someone voted with their wallet for/against. If the game sells badly because people voted with their wallets against always-on DRM, it's more likely that the higher-ups at EA conclude "There isn't a big enough market for city simulation games. Let's just not greenlight any such future games, and focus on Medal of Madden XXVI!"
You could send an email, but realistically, those things will never really be read. An actual paper letter though; that's something someone *will* look at.
"In 1991, after receiving an anonymous industry complaint, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) labeled stevia as an "unsafe food additive" and restricted its import.[39][71][72] The FDA's stated reason was "toxicological information on stevia is inadequate to demonstrate its safety.""
So the FDA will ban imports based on anonymous complaints, with no evidence? I wonder who made that brib--I mean, complaint. Corn growers, or whoever made Aspartame at the time?
Around the end of January I made the leap into Dvorak, rewriting some 15 years of muscle memory. I still feel I'm in the process of learning it, despite having gotten back some 95% keyboard typing effectiveness. Some notes:
1. Your right pinkie is underdeveloped. With qwerty, your right pinkie doesn't do nearly as much typing as the rest of the fingers. Under Dvorak, it's new responsibilities will include 'S', one of the most used letters in the alphabet. In addition, 'L', question marks, 'Z', hyphens, and others. You will notice that your right pinkie being a bit of a bottleneck at first.
2. You'll be somewhat "dyslexic" when typing, as you learn Dvorak. I think this because each half of the brain have gotten used to always being in charge of a letter. The right side always handled 'S' for example, but now the left side will handle it. That's just one example, but you'll find yourself making weird typos until your brain gets used to the new layout.
3. Keyboard shortcuts will require some work. Things like Ctrl C, Ctrl V, etc are now undoable with your right hand. This was unacceptable to me, so I downloaded a custom keyboard layout called "US - Dvorak - QWERTY" that basically makes it so that when you hold down Ctrl, the keyboard is mapped as QWERTY again. This works pretty good 99% of the time. But keep in mind Windows doesn't have this built in.
4. The social aspect. One of the biggest 'challenges' to the new layout is the social aspect. People won't be able to just jump on your machine and start typing, and you won't be able to get anyone else's computer and type without looking at the keyboard, making typos, etc. If they don't know about your alternate keyboard, they may make the assumption that you don't know how to type, which can be a bit embarrassing. In addition, I hear growls from my wife when she starts typing on my computer, and realizes she needed to switch back to qwerty (which, thankfully, can easily be done from the taskbar with the language toolbar)
So, was the switch worth it? Yes. I'm still learning, but when I see others type, it almost looks ridiculous how their fingers are going crazy on the keyboard, smacking almost randomly. Whereas when I type, 70% of everything I write is done without my fingers ever leaving the home row:) This best illustrates what I mean:
"It has been estimated that in an average eight-hour day, a typist's hands travel 16 miles on a QWERTY keyboard, but only 1 mile on a Dvorak keyboard."
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I know how to make it "news for nerds" and simultaneously make it something a little different than just ANOTHER game sequel, with copy/paste gameplay.
Make it GTA, but in the future! Yes yes, I remember that's what GTA2 was, but a modern GTA-type game that takes place in a sci-fi, future city would be *awesome*. Flying cars, robot cops, side missions on a moon base (which would take mere seconds to reach, a-la Futurama), etc. etc.
Hell--this lead to an even better idea: A Futurama GTA game where you play as Bender!
"It's a UNIX system! I know this!"
Yeah this really isn't a big deal. A while back some popular emulators were pulled from the Android store. What did I do? I just went to the developers website and downloaded from there. Just a direct download of the apks. No root or anything required.
That's what I love about Android. It actually feels like a PC in my pocket where I can do whatever.
Fuck you.
Records that concern *my* body are my property. This is a more sacred right than any copyright or patent, no matter what the laws or any pill pushers say.
The purchase was completed just last year. But even at the time of the purchase, the internal "gears" of Motorola were still turning, indifferent to the purchase. They had like at least a year's worth of pre-Google roadmap to complete.
Those gears are winding down finally, and Google will be free to turn them any way they want. It's already happening, with the "Nexus X" phone rumored to come out this year.
As for the layoffs... my sympathy to the workers and their families, but this was Motorola's doing, not Google's. Motorola was in an unprofitable state when Google bought it. Motorola had nothing successful for years between the Razr, and the original Droid. The original Droid was a great spike in business for them, but then they let HTC (and later Samsung) take their business away.
Man, this sucks. I remember when I loved Blizzard, but now I can't even get excited about this news, not even a little bit.
I know that this new project, no matter what, will (1) Be always online and require an account and (2) Will have its gameplay heavily influenced, driven, or impacted by a means to make money after the initial ($60!) sale, via micro transactions or a monthly fee or whatever.
Who would want gigabit speeds when it just means you'll hit your bandwidth cap sooner; you'll get a six strikes warning; there's a lack of 1080p content to stream because the media companies that own the ISPs (or vice versa) will fight tooth and nail to hold onto old distribution means, etc etc.?
Yup, no point in amazing, fast internet.
It just threatened the Corporate Mafia that controlled every aspect of music and its distribution.
Plants don't have nervous systems.
Also, given the conversion rate of energy to biomass, For every 1 unit of animal-based food you used up 10 units of plant-based food. Anything "bad" you may think of in regards to plants is nullified by the fact that by eating meat, it's 10 times worse.
In the book called "The Omnivore's Dilemma" the author details (among other things) his stay at a farm called "Polyface Farms."
You'd think it to just be common sense, but at this farm the cows eat the grass, then poop on the ground (thus fertilizing it), and are then moved to another grassy area, where the process repeats while the previously consumed grass gets to grow back. Chickens are then passed through, feeding on the various insects that now populate the field due to the cow poop. The whole thing indefinitely reuses the same land, all powered by nothing but the sun.
It's really quite a elegant, beautiful cycle. A perfect machine of food creation.
It's too bad it doesn't "fit in" with the ridiculous industrial food system of fattening cows up with corn in animal concentration camps, where they stand knee deep in shit all day.
There's three sides to every story: the first person's side, the second person's side, and the truth somewhere in the middle.
Just like farmers get sued by Monsanto because their crops are inadvertently cross pollinated due to nearby Monsanto crops, one day people will be sued because they inherited patented genes from their parents and didn't pay their own licensing fee.
How about starting the day with a big glass of water? Your body just spent all night repairing/performing maintenance, and it would really appreciate having the water it used (that stuff you peed out first thing after wakingup) replenished. Certainly more so than dehydrating beverages such as coffee and sugary juices.
Hey Mike Rogers and Dutch Ruppersberger, can I borrow a few bucks? Come on, I know you've 'run in' to some money recently! ;)
I ran it through this software I have at work called "Mobile Internet Testing Environment" and it got a "MITE score" of 68/100. It's based on best practices for performance of a mobile site. The slashdot mobile site got penalized for things such as not having the JS at the bottom, for having iframes, not combining css/js, one http request error, no alt tags for images, and others.
I too am a long time SimCity fan who will not buy this game because of the DRM.
Perhaps I should send a letter letting EA know that I voted with my wallet. See, that's a problem with "voting with your wallet" in that there's really no way to tell what someone voted with their wallet for/against. If the game sells badly because people voted with their wallets against always-on DRM, it's more likely that the higher-ups at EA conclude "There isn't a big enough market for city simulation games. Let's just not greenlight any such future games, and focus on Medal of Madden XXVI!"
You could send an email, but realistically, those things will never really be read. An actual paper letter though; that's something someone *will* look at.
The best feature of the password is that it's in your head. You carry it around everywhere, and it can never be physically taken from you.
This proposed plan just makes cellphones that much more attractive to steal.
Yeah, GRAS status after years of 'controversy'
"In 1991, after receiving an anonymous industry complaint, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) labeled stevia as an "unsafe food additive" and restricted its import.[39][71][72] The FDA's stated reason was "toxicological information on stevia is inadequate to demonstrate its safety.""
So the FDA will ban imports based on anonymous complaints, with no evidence? I wonder who made that brib--I mean, complaint. Corn growers, or whoever made Aspartame at the time?
I'm throwing this damned mechanical pencil away.
When they stop being the patented and wholly owned product of megacorperations simply trying to control the world's food supply.
That's exactly what I thought.
"A three mile tall supercomputer? You're damned right that poses some unique challenges!"
It's only a matter of time before this ends up in Spencer's Gifts.
It's like a car dealership sueing anyone that shares the street address of the car dealership.
Around the end of January I made the leap into Dvorak, rewriting some 15 years of muscle memory. I still feel I'm in the process of learning it, despite having gotten back some 95% keyboard typing effectiveness. Some notes:
:) This best illustrates what I mean:
1. Your right pinkie is underdeveloped. With qwerty, your right pinkie doesn't do nearly as much typing as the rest of the fingers. Under Dvorak, it's new responsibilities will include 'S', one of the most used letters in the alphabet. In addition, 'L', question marks, 'Z', hyphens, and others. You will notice that your right pinkie being a bit of a bottleneck at first.
2. You'll be somewhat "dyslexic" when typing, as you learn Dvorak. I think this because each half of the brain have gotten used to always being in charge of a letter. The right side always handled 'S' for example, but now the left side will handle it. That's just one example, but you'll find yourself making weird typos until your brain gets used to the new layout.
3. Keyboard shortcuts will require some work. Things like Ctrl C, Ctrl V, etc are now undoable with your right hand. This was unacceptable to me, so I downloaded a custom keyboard layout called "US - Dvorak - QWERTY" that basically makes it so that when you hold down Ctrl, the keyboard is mapped as QWERTY again. This works pretty good 99% of the time. But keep in mind Windows doesn't have this built in.
4. The social aspect. One of the biggest 'challenges' to the new layout is the social aspect. People won't be able to just jump on your machine and start typing, and you won't be able to get anyone else's computer and type without looking at the keyboard, making typos, etc. If they don't know about your alternate keyboard, they may make the assumption that you don't know how to type, which can be a bit embarrassing. In addition, I hear growls from my wife when she starts typing on my computer, and realizes she needed to switch back to qwerty (which, thankfully, can easily be done from the taskbar with the language toolbar)
So, was the switch worth it? Yes. I'm still learning, but when I see others type, it almost looks ridiculous how their fingers are going crazy on the keyboard, smacking almost randomly. Whereas when I type, 70% of everything I write is done without my fingers ever leaving the home row
"It has been estimated that in an average eight-hour day, a typist's hands travel 16 miles on a QWERTY keyboard, but only 1 mile on a Dvorak keyboard."
Hey, if FOX is reporting on Climate change, then you *know* we're in trouble.