Or viewing RIM as having deep pockets at this point. They're relying on RIM's "on its last leg" status to settle out of court all that much faster to keep direly-needed sales flowing. Scummy patent troll behavior, independent of the validity of any legitimate patent issues.
I also find Google's cache-page to be a useful mediocre wayback machine. Often a site with info I need is down or completely gone, and the cached page is the only way to get at it.
There is some use for preserving what used to be there, but if a guy is being shot at they should probably deal with special requests, at least if the original page has since changed.
No that's only partly it. I stopped watching Survivor and Big Brother on CBS.com because some asshat there decided to take the video quality choice out of my hands. They put in an auto function to send you the best video that would fit on your bandwidth.
Which from them (as opposed to YouTube) was shitty.
I'd rather hit play, then pause, and let the buffer build up and watch high quality in a minute or two than be forced to watch shit quality because some jerkoff decided I wanted to watch shit quality, but NOW NOW NOW.
So obviously massive toolage is misreading this "2-second" thing and confusing it with raw hatred of forced 30s ads. I can barely stand YouTube's partial ads you can then skip after the first 6s. If 30s usually I hit reload or switch to a different browser window until it's done.
I 've often wondered why Rolex knockoff makers don't come up with their own awesome designs and sell them the normal way. If they can still turn a profit at $10, why not?
Anyone with the money to buy overpriced "premium" stuff, and wants to, more power to you. The rest of you go hoof it to K-Mart.
Exactly. Don't "You, Mr. America", remember "demanding" all this stuff be brought under one agency in your panic after 9/11? Trillions of extra dollars have been spent on it, money that would have been much better spent on medical technology, saving-lives-wise.
Many of the fun parts of online MMOs involve trying to figure out creative ways to do things.
In modern ones, using terrain and obstacles to block line-of-sight is a standard part of battle strategy, but it wasn't always so. EverQuest used to ban people who did that -- anything other than a tank standing there getting a bloody nose was verboten. Stand on a bridge and shoot down -- EXPLOIT ZOMG....and EverQuest & friends are now in the also-ran category, you'll note.
They wouldn't even declare the 9/11 attack itself an act of war because that would mess up all the insurance policies which have act-of-war escape clauses.
It's called "rent seeking" -- using the power of government to force an economic advantage to yourself, or a disadvantage to your competitors. These often use cover rationalizations. Just follow the money.
One of the side effects of law enforcement is loud, public punishment, to hopefully deter future criminals. This sounds more like an extortion plot they want kept hidden hoping, hoping, hoping it continues.
If it walks like a scam and talks like a scam and involves lawyers like a scam...
Rainbows End, by Vernor Vinge, has a good layout of future direction of this.
The glasses understand the entire reality around you, and can erase objecs and replace them. People thus put on virtual costumes, or put them on other people. People also have huge battles using virtual weapons.
Also, people "tag" places, ala Google Earth, and wherever you go you can "see" tag indicators. Some places have spam cluttering things up.
So an incident in a subsidiary branch 6000 miles away from the US should induce major headaches for a US-based organization at the hands of the US government.
Well, if it's good enough to tear down all of Acorn over one jackass office...
Back in the vacuum tube days, engineers wrote estimates on the maximium size of computers given the half-life of a vacuum tube. 50,000 tubes later, it's running for minutes only between breakdowns.
Brazil is objecting to.amazon being taken by amazon.com.
Let's hope Microsoft can't claim windows.com. 1. It was arrogant for them to name their custom windowing system that, and 2. The product is now more accurately described as.primaryColorTiles.
Christmas was deliberately placed here to assume festivities from other religions' holidays, already here, as part of its memetic growth. Those religions, in turn, were all glomming onto the winter solstice.
However, even within the Christian mileau, it isn't supposed to be Jesus' birthday. They chose it as Jesus' birth anniversary, an arbitrary day to celebrate when an actual birthdate is not known.
In "roleplay" terms, in other words, it's not even the actual birthday.
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Or viewing RIM as having deep pockets at this point. They're relying on RIM's "on its last leg" status to settle out of court all that much faster to keep direly-needed sales flowing. Scummy patent troll behavior, independent of the validity of any legitimate patent issues.
Inventing a wireless network may be patentable.
Doing something wirelessly that is already done over wire networks should not be.
He isn't the one traveling:
> Different articles are reporting that his mother is the one traveling to the U.S. to finalize the deal.
She is better equipped to handle "backroom negotiations" than he is.
I also find Google's cache-page to be a useful mediocre wayback machine. Often a site with info I need is down or completely gone, and the cached page is the only way to get at it.
There is some use for preserving what used to be there, but if a guy is being shot at they should probably deal with special requests, at least if the original page has since changed.
No that's only partly it. I stopped watching Survivor and Big Brother on CBS.com because some asshat there decided to take the video quality choice out of my hands. They put in an auto function to send you the best video that would fit on your bandwidth.
Which from them (as opposed to YouTube) was shitty.
I'd rather hit play, then pause, and let the buffer build up and watch high quality in a minute or two than be forced to watch shit quality because some jerkoff decided I wanted to watch shit quality, but NOW NOW NOW.
So obviously massive toolage is misreading this "2-second" thing and confusing it with raw hatred of forced 30s ads. I can barely stand YouTube's partial ads you can then skip after the first 6s. If 30s usually I hit reload or switch to a different browser window until it's done.
> two Hubble-class space telescopes donated to the civilian space agency
"First rule of government spending: Why build one when you can have three for three times the price?"
I 've often wondered why Rolex knockoff makers don't come up with their own awesome designs and sell them the normal way. If they can still turn a profit at $10, why not?
Anyone with the money to buy overpriced "premium" stuff, and wants to, more power to you. The rest of you go hoof it to K-Mart.
Exactly. Don't "You, Mr. America", remember "demanding" all this stuff be brought under one agency in your panic after 9/11? Trillions of extra dollars have been spent on it, money that would have been much better spent on medical technology, saving-lives-wise.
And you see nothing wrong with your conclusion? "It's a broken, difficult pile of shit because it's supposed to be a broken, difficult pile of shit?"
"Anti-science"? I prefer the term differently enmemed.
Many of the fun parts of online MMOs involve trying to figure out creative ways to do things.
In modern ones, using terrain and obstacles to block line-of-sight is a standard part of battle strategy, but it wasn't always so. EverQuest used to ban people who did that -- anything other than a tank standing there getting a bloody nose was verboten. Stand on a bridge and shoot down -- EXPLOIT ZOMG. ...and EverQuest & friends are now in the also-ran category, you'll note.
They wouldn't even declare the 9/11 attack itself an act of war because that would mess up all the insurance policies which have act-of-war escape clauses.
It's called "rent seeking" -- using the power of government to force an economic advantage to yourself, or a disadvantage to your competitors. These often use cover rationalizations. Just follow the money.
Yes, he was making a joke.
Now get back to your console that's so old you have to hold a tool when waving your hand around, that probably has gyros and accelerometers in it.
I wonder about the nondisclosure agreememt, too.
One of the side effects of law enforcement is loud, public punishment, to hopefully deter future criminals. This sounds more like an extortion plot they want kept hidden hoping, hoping, hoping it continues.
If it walks like a scam and talks like a scam and involves lawyers like a scam...
Rainbows End, by Vernor Vinge, has a good layout of future direction of this.
The glasses understand the entire reality around you, and can erase objecs and replace them. People thus put on virtual costumes, or put them on other people. People also have huge battles using virtual weapons.
Also, people "tag" places, ala Google Earth, and wherever you go you can "see" tag indicators. Some places have spam cluttering things up.
Third article in as many days. Gattaca! Gattaca! Gattaca!
So an incident in a subsidiary branch 6000 miles away from the US should induce major headaches for a US-based organization at the hands of the US government.
Well, if it's good enough to tear down all of Acorn over one jackass office...
Alternatively...
Haw haw haw!
Back in the vacuum tube days, engineers wrote estimates on the maximium size of computers given the half-life of a vacuum tube. 50,000 tubes later, it's running for minutes only between breakdowns.
Brazil is objecting to .amazon being taken by amazon.com.
Let's hope Microsoft can't claim windows.com. 1. It was arrogant for them to name their custom windowing system that, and 2. The product is now more accurately described as .primaryColorTiles.
This is a joke, mod it up nerds!
It's funny, dammit!
Some jokes are so full of awesome it's too bad funny is limited to +5.
Christmas was deliberately placed here to assume festivities from other religions' holidays, already here, as part of its memetic growth. Those religions, in turn, were all glomming onto the winter solstice.
However, even within the Christian mileau, it isn't supposed to be Jesus' birthday. They chose it as Jesus' birth anniversary, an arbitrary day to celebrate when an actual birthdate is not known.
In "roleplay" terms, in other words, it's not even the actual birthday.
Technically, he doesn't know.
It's cover to look at who they want, like a cop pulling you over because he "transposed digits" on your license plate.
"Software made me!"