Hello? They have been speaking English in India for a very long time. And installing a language tutor isn't going to instantly create a population of fluent English speakers. Extensive fluency in a population requires a that they converse in that language.
Telus (also Canadian) doesn't actually enforce their bandwidth caps. They do have a nice page where you can confirm that you are 378% over, but in the end I imagine they realize that the cost of tech support calls from capping cost more than the bandwidth saved. I honestly believe this is the future. Sure ISPs can/do pick on the "power users" but when you average user is using gdrive and utube bandwith caps will directly hit the ISPs bottom line. And the customers $30/month actually buys an ISP an absurd amount of bandwidth at the backbone level.
In any political election the probability of your vote tipping the balance, and therefore having any real meaning in the electoral system is so close to zero it is absolutely irrational to assign value to it. For that matter, being within 1 vote in a large election will trigger a recount, which will then end up with a random result due to error. So I'd happily sell my vote for $1. That's likely a good reason it's illegal.
I'm looking forward to a GFaceMail world, just so I don't have a social network constantly emailing me just to log in and read the equivalent of email that was posted there. Avoiding this simple usability headache is worth it alone.
the Facebook crowd will care when they see a nifty new plug-in
Many Facebook users are really sick of the apps on Facebook. I get 5 content-free messages every day that would require me to install some juvenile piece of shit just to confirm that I didn't care about it's content, and I'm thinking the mountain of stupid apps could be the death of Facebook. Considering Facebook's initial popularity was based on not being as stupid as Myspace.
Perhaps Google is late to the party on this one. We already have "app fatigue."
"And the reality is they probably even fuck up less."
Yeah because all that learning from your mistakes makes people more error prone. This story makes me think Google doesn't know how to "replicate" it's success and is stuck trying psychological experiments. And needing to "stalk" management to get a green-light sounds dysfunctional, not like a flat management structure.
What Google *really* needs to do is accept that it's core business is going to mature, and look at ways of growing new business in a separate more flexible structure.
Worse yet, not only will you have non-lawyers posting legal advice to these kinds of questions, many of them will forget that there are other countries than the USA. E.g. the question asks for legal advice without telling us what country either of them are in.
way off topic here, but at least in canada, when you try and commit suicide that is considered attempted murder. of course trying to kill yourself is crazy so you also have an automatic insanity defence.
The GNU project has tended to embrace and extend things. Not to the point of extinguishing them.
Yeah, like almost any project that implements a standard. At some point they will add something... Ok...
The GNU project is an extend/embrace/extinguish operation, much like Microsoft
And now you contradict yourself in your conclusion. Anyway, if you want to avoid compiler dependency *you* should be testing on more than one from the start. Anyone who knows to complain about compiler portability should know that.
It's also possible that everyone who would be buying games now has a wii and things couldn't get any better for game developers. "Installed base" is much more important than current hardware sales. And finally, *the amount of people buying wii games* is what really matters. As a developer thats all I'd look at. Anyone got the numbers for that in Japan?
In separate cases I have now had my publisher, my parent company and my franchise licence bought by them. And this is why I'm thinking zombies instead of Borg. The Borg travels in a pack and pulls people in, whereas zombies (like EA) spread in all kinds of unexpected ways... I'm starting to think the real way to make money in games is to start a studio by hiring people fleeing from EA and then sell it back to EA for a 100 million.
Lots of people are bashing Sony here, but considering the price of a PS2, how many people *actually need* a machine that plays PS2 games and don't have have one? Whereas the price tag of a PS3 *really is* a deal breaker. And they are even still selling backwards compatibility for those who want to pay for it. I can't see how this is bad, I mean if it allows them to actually sell real numbers of PS3s for a change.
Of course I'm secretly rooting for something to save the PS3 because I'm hoping in a few years developers will actually fully exploit the cell. You know, when Sony finally ships decent developer tools and developers wrap their heads around the madness that is SPU programming.
"Do you want the Linux that works with Windows? Or the one that doesn't?"
This just seems like typical marketing to me. If Ubuntu sunk a huge pile of cash into Windows computability and asked the same question I suspect this forum would be full of congratulations. We would be celebrating the diversity of Linux and the value of competition. Not that I support what Novell is doing, but this just doesn't really seem like a big deal.
The whole "people don't care about what technology they are using" argument fails the moment users realize they can get free stuff. For example the mainstream adoption of bittorent to download movies. All of a sudden everyone knows how it works and where to look for torrents etc.
And when Linux means that their laptop costs 1/2 as much, all of a sudden everyone will be recommending packages out of Ubuntu.
The one flaw with this whole thing is that it is absurd to think that Microsoft would blindly price themselves out of the market. Microsoft will sell XP for the next 10 years at $15 a pop if that is what they have to do to stay dominant. They charge $100/machine only because the market will bear it.
Err, my read was the Americans are trying to get Russia and Europe to pick up more of the tab, and using an early withdrawal as a threat. Of course the EUA is already refusing to admit it could scrape together a few more dollars. Regardless the relative financial clout between the partners has changed a lot since the Americans promised to pick up 70% of the tab.
Sure, he might not have said these things back when Pretty Hate Machine was about to be released
I'm told he took a long break from recording after Pretty Hate Machine until his record contract expired because he didn't like the terms he signed. No love for the system from that guy.
I can recall their updater running without my say so a few times now. So I figure my still running Windows is implicit consent. And frankly as someone "technical" yes it seems offensive, but if you consider Microsofts position when faced with a potential security melt-down all over the news vs. a little whining on/. it seems like an easy thing for them to do. And it wouldn't surprise me if their updater was remotely exploitable. Actually it would surprise me if it wasn't.
A random idea and a sack of money will get you a lot further than the people with great ideas lots of experience and no money. And I'm not saying this to be flippant, they are called executives and in large part they are running the industry.
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Hello? They have been speaking English in India for a very long time. And installing a language tutor isn't going to instantly create a population of fluent English speakers. Extensive fluency in a population requires a that they converse in that language.
Telus (also Canadian) doesn't actually enforce their bandwidth caps. They do have a nice page where you can confirm that you are 378% over, but in the end I imagine they realize that the cost of tech support calls from capping cost more than the bandwidth saved. I honestly believe this is the future. Sure ISPs can/do pick on the "power users" but when you average user is using gdrive and utube bandwith caps will directly hit the ISPs bottom line. And the customers $30/month actually buys an ISP an absurd amount of bandwidth at the backbone level.
Same as for levels in games, they represent a discrete section of the narrative. For games with a linear narrative, this makes a lot of sense.
In any political election the probability of your vote tipping the balance, and therefore having any real meaning in the electoral system is so close to zero it is absolutely irrational to assign value to it. For that matter, being within 1 vote in a large election will trigger a recount, which will then end up with a random result due to error. So I'd happily sell my vote for $1. That's likely a good reason it's illegal.
I'm looking forward to a GFaceMail world, just so I don't have a social network constantly emailing me just to log in and read the equivalent of email that was posted there. Avoiding this simple usability headache is worth it alone.
Many Facebook users are really sick of the apps on Facebook. I get 5 content-free messages every day that would require me to install some juvenile piece of shit just to confirm that I didn't care about it's content, and I'm thinking the mountain of stupid apps could be the death of Facebook. Considering Facebook's initial popularity was based on not being as stupid as Myspace.
Perhaps Google is late to the party on this one. We already have "app fatigue."
Yeah because all that learning from your mistakes makes people more error prone. This story makes me think Google doesn't know how to "replicate" it's success and is stuck trying psychological experiments. And needing to "stalk" management to get a green-light sounds dysfunctional, not like a flat management structure.
What Google *really* needs to do is accept that it's core business is going to mature, and look at ways of growing new business in a separate more flexible structure.
Worse yet, not only will you have non-lawyers posting legal advice to these kinds of questions, many of them will forget that there are other countries than the USA. E.g. the question asks for legal advice without telling us what country either of them are in.
way off topic here, but at least in canada, when you try and commit suicide that is considered attempted murder. of course trying to kill yourself is crazy so you also have an automatic insanity defence.
Or they just aren't American. I know, you guys just forget about us from time to time, it's ok.
But Apple pissing all over 1/4 million affluent and discerning customers... Where is the sense in that?
It's also possible that everyone who would be buying games now has a wii and things couldn't get any better for game developers. "Installed base" is much more important than current hardware sales. And finally, *the amount of people buying wii games* is what really matters. As a developer thats all I'd look at. Anyone got the numbers for that in Japan?
In separate cases I have now had my publisher, my parent company and my franchise licence bought by them. And this is why I'm thinking zombies instead of Borg. The Borg travels in a pack and pulls people in, whereas zombies (like EA) spread in all kinds of unexpected ways... I'm starting to think the real way to make money in games is to start a studio by hiring people fleeing from EA and then sell it back to EA for a 100 million.
Lots of people are bashing Sony here, but considering the price of a PS2, how many people *actually need* a machine that plays PS2 games and don't have have one? Whereas the price tag of a PS3 *really is* a deal breaker. And they are even still selling backwards compatibility for those who want to pay for it. I can't see how this is bad, I mean if it allows them to actually sell real numbers of PS3s for a change.
Of course I'm secretly rooting for something to save the PS3 because I'm hoping in a few years developers will actually fully exploit the cell. You know, when Sony finally ships decent developer tools and developers wrap their heads around the madness that is SPU programming.
The whole "people don't care about what technology they are using" argument fails the moment users realize they can get free stuff. For example the mainstream adoption of bittorent to download movies. All of a sudden everyone knows how it works and where to look for torrents etc.
And when Linux means that their laptop costs 1/2 as much, all of a sudden everyone will be recommending packages out of Ubuntu.
The one flaw with this whole thing is that it is absurd to think that Microsoft would blindly price themselves out of the market. Microsoft will sell XP for the next 10 years at $15 a pop if that is what they have to do to stay dominant. They charge $100/machine only because the market will bear it.
Err, my read was the Americans are trying to get Russia and Europe to pick up more of the tab, and using an early withdrawal as a threat. Of course the EUA is already refusing to admit it could scrape together a few more dollars. Regardless the relative financial clout between the partners has changed a lot since the Americans promised to pick up 70% of the tab.
I'm told he took a long break from recording after Pretty Hate Machine until his record contract expired because he didn't like the terms he signed. No love for the system from that guy.
Here is the wiki section on his issues with the cooperate world:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Inch_Nails#Corporate_entanglements
I can recall their updater running without my say so a few times now. So I figure my still running Windows is implicit consent. And frankly as someone "technical" yes it seems offensive, but if you consider Microsofts position when faced with a potential security melt-down all over the news vs. a little whining on /. it seems like an easy thing for them to do. And it wouldn't surprise me if their updater was remotely exploitable. Actually it would surprise me if it wasn't.
A random idea and a sack of money will get you a lot further than the people with great ideas lots of experience and no money. And I'm not saying this to be flippant, they are called executives and in large part they are running the industry.
it's "the nutrient-rich seed cake left after oil is pressed from its nuts."
Region coding or even format doesn't matter. You will be able to rip any foreign disk either way in the end.
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