4 hours?!! I find that boggling. But then, I'm a math tutor so my skills are fairly sharp. If I had some idea of what you were doing during those four hours, I'd probably be a better tutor.
Okay, so this one's probably a stinker. But it's a cool idea, more so than you may realize. It's a video game that requires no hands. No hands, understand?...
Okay, maybe it's not obvious yet. But just remember, every new technology is driven by porn.
It's a little known fact that, according to the official NFL rulebook, if the coin lands on its edge the game is decided by a lightning round of hopscotch between the quarterbacks of each team.
Powering a miraculous transportation device by bleeding off the Earth's angular momentum? That sounds suspiciously familiar... anyone else read "Signal to Noise" by Eric Nylund?
I'll be keeping my ears open for any reference to "Wheeler."
Just what we need. Single player pay-per-play video games. Um, no-thanks. Asside from the lack of a cap on the total price
So put a cap on the total price. Sort of like rent to own, without the usury.
suddenly your favorite game would stop working when it wasn't profitable to run the billing server anymore.
Which is why there needs to be enough micropayment activity to support third-party billing as an industry unto itself.
One thing you're ignoring is the reasonably compelling argument that when products, services, and/or creative works are available via micropayments, the overall cost to the consumer can go down dramatically. In a market where a product costs dollars, potential customers who only have cents' worth of interest in the product just keep their money. With micropayments, the barrier to entry is miniscule, so more consumers are accessible. With the right kind of product (creative works whose chief expense is in the creation, with minimal reproduction costs are ideal for this), this dynamic can drive prices lower at the same times as profits increase. Ponder.
Because you didn't back it up in triplicate. Shows how much you value it.
Incidentally, I think triplicate is the magic number for ensuring long-term data integrity. If you have two copies of something, and one flips a bit, which one is right? With a third, you'll only lose data if two of them flip the same bit, or if all of them simply lose the bit to unreadability, or some combination thereof I guess.
What a traitorous notion. Paranoia is nothing like the Matrix or Terminator. Those are communist fictions which pit humans against machines. As we all know, The Computer Is Your Friend!
I've seen several suggestions along the lines of "route the moderately angry callers to immediate support, but disconnect the super-angry ones and tell them to call back when they've calmed down," or the like. Here's my idea for what to do with the super-angry ones who are cursing up a storm: have a Real Person pick up the line right when they're in the middle of a stream of profanity. The Real Person can act all offended and get rid of the person without any damage to the company's image -- nobody's obliged to stay on the line with a prank caller, after all.
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1 to the power of googolplex? Also known as... 1. Perhaps you were joking?
"When it's done," right?
Can we do your kid's homework, too?
I want to kill you.
O_o
4 hours?!! I find that boggling. But then, I'm a math tutor so my skills are fairly sharp. If I had some idea of what you were doing during those four hours, I'd probably be a better tutor.
Oh, I don't know... it went down pretty fast.
lalalalalalalala i can't hear you
Okay, so this one's probably a stinker. But it's a cool idea, more so than you may realize. It's a video game that requires no hands. No hands, understand? ...
Okay, maybe it's not obvious yet. But just remember, every new technology is driven by porn.
Ahhhh, now you see.
Well, presumably if you type it twice, then you're sure you want it and don't need a warning.
$160M is a funny way to spell "two bit."
Congratulations, you're the last person to realize that everybody already knows that fucking joke.
You get a toaster. And a lifetime supply of kitty litter. And a staple gun.
It's a little known fact that, according to the official NFL rulebook, if the coin lands on its edge the game is decided by a lightning round of hopscotch between the quarterbacks of each team.
Funny thing -- we already knew that. Did you already know that an American would never in any case use the phrase "go have a toss?"
Powering a miraculous transportation device by bleeding off the Earth's angular momentum? That sounds suspiciously familiar... anyone else read "Signal to Noise" by Eric Nylund?
I'll be keeping my ears open for any reference to "Wheeler."
The one click lawsuit.
I've got a good feeling about this one.
So put a cap on the total price. Sort of like rent to own, without the usury.
suddenly your favorite game would stop working when it wasn't profitable to run the billing server anymore.
Which is why there needs to be enough micropayment activity to support third-party billing as an industry unto itself.
One thing you're ignoring is the reasonably compelling argument that when products, services, and/or creative works are available via micropayments, the overall cost to the consumer can go down dramatically. In a market where a product costs dollars, potential customers who only have cents' worth of interest in the product just keep their money. With micropayments, the barrier to entry is miniscule, so more consumers are accessible. With the right kind of product (creative works whose chief expense is in the creation, with minimal reproduction costs are ideal for this), this dynamic can drive prices lower at the same times as profits increase. Ponder.
I was only talking about double redundancy. That's three copies -- one of them isn't redundant.
Because you didn't back it up in triplicate. Shows how much you value it.
Incidentally, I think triplicate is the magic number for ensuring long-term data integrity. If you have two copies of something, and one flips a bit, which one is right? With a third, you'll only lose data if two of them flip the same bit, or if all of them simply lose the bit to unreadability, or some combination thereof I guess.
Can I read aloud in public? What if I just move my lips?
That strikes me as a particularly ill-chosen adjective to describe a lullaby.
I've been having fun converting moles to baker's dozens -- what else ya got?
What a traitorous notion. Paranoia is nothing like the Matrix or Terminator. Those are communist fictions which pit humans against machines. As we all know, The Computer Is Your Friend!
Regarding your last point... I got some strange looks from my friends in Austria when I floated the idea that Austria is the Canada of Germany.
I've seen several suggestions along the lines of "route the moderately angry callers to immediate support, but disconnect the super-angry ones and tell them to call back when they've calmed down," or the like. Here's my idea for what to do with the super-angry ones who are cursing up a storm: have a Real Person pick up the line right when they're in the middle of a stream of profanity. The Real Person can act all offended and get rid of the person without any damage to the company's image -- nobody's obliged to stay on the line with a prank caller, after all.