I've never played an fps either, and so I have absolutely no desire to camp in a dark corner outside your house and blow your head off with a sniper rifle. Repeatedly.
They don't make a point of marketing it to end customers - and in this case, the governments are the purchasers - until they're ready to sell it though. In particular, they don't boast about how much cheaper it'll be than the current model. Really, there's not much else Negroponte could do to kill sales of the XO 1 other than boasting that the XO "1.75" will cause 30% less cancer.
The name escapes me, but I read a SF story that speculated on that. With super intelligent mice, rats, cats and dogs, the rats and cats ate the mice, the dogs ate the cats, then the really smart ones teamed up with people against the rats and other dogs.
Fair point, they'd be smart enough to realise the value of opposable thumbs. Using can openers for one thing.
What's that you say? You have a better version coming next year? Well, thanks for being so honest - we'll put our checkbook back in our pocket rather than giving you money for the obsolescent model now.
Oh, what? There'll be an another new version soon after that? Well, that's just great! Give us a call back if and when it's ever available - we'll do lunch.
Since "Mickey" is best "known" for writing God-awful swords-and-dragons wank fantasy, I think we should slap a dynamo on Asimov's grave and power a major conurbation from the spinning.
You'd like that, wouldn't you? No chance, buddy. You're going to get at least 50 identical "absorb != adsorb" replies, each one more original than the last.
That's because they're not "rebels". They're the Man, man. Afshar don't play by nobody's rules. Afshar don't care about no jive ass "experiments", fool. He be tripping mad physics skillz.
How would you characterise someone who has the time and inclination to reply to a total moron? While you compose your stinging rejoinder from your parent's basement, I'll be off nailing my wife.
Pro gay marriage, pro Islam. You know, the usual liberal agenda. When they start defending the right to buy firearms online, I might throw some money their way.
That's crazy talk! If you don't get to see the movie the instant that it's available, then it'll totally, utterly suck rancid donkey balls. What are you, some kind of commie, listening to your Robert Palmer music in your funky bluejean-denim-Levis?
The significant difference is that we know that the Co$ was started with express intention of fleecing money from its drones. With the others, we just have to use common sense to infer it.
Pretend that I don't work in marketing, and thus don't enjoy the frisson of hearing new terms for old rope. If one provider offers me "cloud computing" and the other offers "software as a service", what does that tell me about the likely functional differences in their offerings?
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I've never played an fps either, and so I have absolutely no desire to camp in a dark corner outside your house and blow your head off with a sniper rifle. Repeatedly.
They don't make a point of marketing it to end customers - and in this case, the governments are the purchasers - until they're ready to sell it though. In particular, they don't boast about how much cheaper it'll be than the current model. Really, there's not much else Negroponte could do to kill sales of the XO 1 other than boasting that the XO "1.75" will cause 30% less cancer.
That's the fellow! Well recalled, sir.
The name escapes me, but I read a SF story that speculated on that. With super intelligent mice, rats, cats and dogs, the rats and cats ate the mice, the dogs ate the cats, then the really smart ones teamed up with people against the rats and other dogs.
Fair point, they'd be smart enough to realise the value of opposable thumbs. Using can openers for one thing.
What's that you say? You have a better version coming next year? Well, thanks for being so honest - we'll put our checkbook back in our pocket rather than giving you money for the obsolescent model now.
Oh, what? There'll be an another new version soon after that? Well, that's just great! Give us a call back if and when it's ever available - we'll do lunch.
See also: 1984 is not an instruction manual!!!!1!!.
Since "Mickey" is best "known" for writing God-awful swords-and-dragons wank fantasy, I think we should slap a dynamo on Asimov's grave and power a major conurbation from the spinning.
Presumably they like to earn enough to enjoy the luxuries of life, like putting their kids through college, health care, food, that sort of thing.
What do the goats eat once they've finished the kudzu?
Ask Africa. They eat everything. Then you get desert. Then come the sandworms. Nice, you've doomed us all.
To be fair, I think you have to mix it in a 20:1 ratio with top grade atomised snake oil.
Earth pounds or lunar pounds? Seriously, when are NASA going to stop dicking around with English units and switch to Metric - like the English use.
We can either choose to fight them with our microbes over there, or be forced to fight them with our microbes here.
You'd like that, wouldn't you? No chance, buddy. You're going to get at least 50 identical "absorb != adsorb" replies, each one more original than the last.
i can haz foe???
That's because they're not "rebels". They're the Man, man. Afshar don't play by nobody's rules. Afshar don't care about no jive ass "experiments", fool. He be tripping mad physics skillz.
Replace taxi with bus and we're already living in the Future.
How would you characterise someone who has the time and inclination to reply to a total moron? While you compose your stinging rejoinder from your parent's basement, I'll be off nailing my wife.
To be fair, it wasn't just a get rich quick scheme: he also got to score with tons of hot cult chick groupies.
Pro gay marriage, pro Islam. You know, the usual liberal agenda. When they start defending the right to buy firearms online, I might throw some money their way.
That's crazy talk! If you don't get to see the movie the instant that it's available, then it'll totally, utterly suck rancid donkey balls. What are you, some kind of commie, listening to your Robert Palmer music in your funky bluejean-denim-Levis?
The significant difference is that we know that the Co$ was started with express intention of fleecing money from its drones. With the others, we just have to use common sense to infer it.
Fixed that for you.
Preach it, bro! Tell you what, you make a principled stand, and I'll film it from a safe distance.
You're among friends here: it's OK to say "I have no idea".
Pretend that I don't work in marketing, and thus don't enjoy the frisson of hearing new terms for old rope. If one provider offers me "cloud computing" and the other offers "software as a service", what does that tell me about the likely functional differences in their offerings?