Satellite Internet: Very limited uplink/downlink capability based on the very high cost of putting things in orbit, and maintaining a geosynch.
Terrestrial Internet: Limited to how much bandwidth can you get your peering partners to provide to you, low overhead once all the hardware is in place.
Its not a bad idea, but most people would end up sitting at the 'slow' part and accepting it, rather than the 'fast as advertised' speed. Anytime a company has leeway, expect them to go for profit rather than satisfaction and service.
The game shouldn't be so dark its hard to see. It should be slightly shadowy in some areas, but otherwise alright as far as seeing goes. Torches/lights should overbright the area a little, rather than making it normally lit. If it were real, you'd be pretty used to the dark, but torches would damn ear blind you.
Halo was NOT revolutionary in terms of the game industry.
It WAS revolutionary for the X-Box, however, and has done wonders to sell it and the 360.
Now Microsoft has a decision. Another smash hit or something to pay the bills. Most companies would prefer the last one, although, without some major innovation, the Halo series is dead. The only thing they can do at this point is make minor improvements like the sports games do and add a new item here or there.
Why not a Halo RPG, based on someone's life after the apocolypse? Not Fallout, but immediately after things turn to shit. More like parts of FFX. Or, maybe a game where you're with the police force back on soil? You could use the Halo name for a lot of games that would work, or you can use the Halo name for the same damn thing.
How about spending money on something with a better cost-benefit ratio? Like free designer flu-masks for the sick? Turning all water fountains into GOOD filtered water rather than shitty chlorine water?
If they want me to pay monthly for a game, its not out of my budget.
Nor is it out of the budget of MOST dedicated gamers.
However, they have to earn it. I don't consider 'Gun +1' to be worthy of buying. So count that out. If they REALLY want my money, what they can do is give my characters a chance to build up. Not just unlock items. Even farther, I demand moderation and active cheat protection..not just a program that loads into the background if any, but a fast and timely response to banning cheaters. Lets go another step, since I like money..I want free content. New maps semi-regularly, maybe new talents, new customization options, etc, for free. I'll pay for an expansion in the future, if it offers a LOT of content.
But I expect that a LOT of content also be released, over time, for free, if I'm paying monthly for the game.
Direct hardware programming has always been the best in terms of performance. However, it is the worst in terms of compatibility. If you're programming consoles, this is just fine. If you're programming for PCs, not so much.
It will never go back to programming for specific pieces of graphical hardware. I'd say that each vendor MIGHT make a major chipset, and that those chipsets would be coded for, and everything else gets API'd, but even this is unlikely. If a company had to have two or three sets of programmers for their graphics, each team for a different major chipset, we'd see more expensive games or prettier games with crappier gameplay.
Even the OpenGL/DirectX split takes a heavy toll on programming resources for game developers.
They're correct in that there are business reasons.
For example, they don't want the bottom to fall out of the market of their other cars, because they know that this would be their top #1 seller, and most of their other cars would become a lot less popular.
Also, there's probably some kind of collusion going on. We could make a 45mpg car that has decent numbers back in the 80's, but we can't make anything comparable now? Bullshit. There's something behind the scenes.
Legislate that all authentication mechanisms like this be phased out if the company is going under, or face serious consequences, like full refunds to EVERYONE who bought the game, even if it were ten years ago. This will be complied with when a few people are forced into homelessness forever due to 100% garnishment of wages from what equates to THEFT from everyone who bought it.
Its not hard to do. They could patch it away, set up a fake auth-server within the runtime file, pay another company to run their auth server (it could be very small deal, a server with a basic challenge-response-auth setup)
In fact, crackers do it all the time when they write their cracks. There's very little difference between a CD check and an off-system authentication anyway, in terms of coding.
In reality, the bacteria would need a multitude of different things besides 'food'. Like it might need either a raw source of vitamin A, or facilities to convert something else into vitamin A..
Biology takes a shotgun approach more than a selected one. Think of a brute force password cracker run by a protein-based computer. It has to find the right 'password' consisting of modules that might give it a competitive edge when it comes to other bacteria. Every correct module is locked in, and every incorrect module dies out.
There's a huge difference to leveling up in the game, or ranking up in your guild, and being promoted in your job.
Companies have a limited amount of funds. Each employee needs to be paid, as do taxes, fees, etc.
This means that you can only employ a limited number of people. A company is a balancing act between staffing, production, and profit. In a company that seldom ever changes, many people will not get promoted but once every few years. Its common for people to work 5+ years in an entry level position, unless they clearly and obviously stand out.
Most employees have to deal with a glass ceiling, as well. If you make it up to middle management, you will NOT make it up to upper management without a college degree, in most cases.
Sounds like they'd be perfect for a stereotypical office job. Serve others so that you can make them way more money than you're making, and can take four weeks of vacation a year while you sit at your desk and grind away those work units and look forward to your one week staycation because you can't afford gas for your '93 Oldsmobile with irregular paint.
Having resistance to something takes up resources. So this bacteria might need x food, whereas its paint-resistant form might need x+3 food. If there's only x+3 food available to the bacteria, that's all it can do. It can't even reproduce because x+3 isn't enough for the cells to divide. Now, what if you slathered the wall with antibacterial soap? The bacteria would need to have soap-resistance at another +2 food, which isn't there.
It would likely die out.
The point isn't making the wall completely sterile, but is just making it a hostile environment for bacteria. The more a bacteria has to invest to protect itself, the less it can invest in its other traits, given a limited amount of food.
I don't think that Linux would be able to protect its own trademark in a court of law, since its used EVERYWHERE. Its become too common.
Firefox, however, takes steps to protect its trademark. This prevents companies like Dell from loading up Firefox full of adware bars and 'phone home' software on their computers, and just calling it Firefox, instead of Firefox + malware.
Even if you're at.04% BAC in a.08% BAC limit state, they can still arrest you for DUI if they think that you're not driving safely. Which kind of makes sense, as a 100 pound borderline anorexic girl is going to feel more drunk on less alcohol and probably less BAC, than would a hardened male alcoholic at twice her weight.
However, what does not make sense, is that they DO NOT NEED PROOF to convict you of a DUI if you blow under the limit. They can send you to jail on the cop's word alone. If they say that you were swerving, or changed lanes without a blinker, then it happened. Unless they have it on tape, which will likely end up lost or destroyed if needed to clear you from guilt.
Imagine all of the things you do on the road that could get you pulled over for a DUI: Changing stations on your radio causing you to have to slightly correct your steering, changing lanes on an empty highway with no blinker, driving under the limit, driving over the limit, having a tail/headlight out, talking on the phone, beating your kids, etc. Every single one of these has been used as evidence in DUI cases.
So, my best advice I can possibly give, is to not be an asshole to the cop, dispute everything, and check your laws regarding the use of breath tests vs blood tests. For example, some areas give you a breath test and if you fail, its go directly to the station, where they give you a blood test. Some areas you have to request a blood test when you're being booked, and some areas they can get you with the breath test alone.
These searches are fast, free, and can give insight into someone's personal life.
You have 20 candidates applying for the job. You have a few hours to decide which candidates get the full-fledged background checks and assuming they clear, which ones are best to hire for the company.
You narrow it down to five people.
Only one of them isn't drinking, smoking possibly illegal substances, or wearing two shirts with popped collars and backwards visor.
The world of HR is different from the normal world. If you choose to hire someone or give the checkmark on the 'background info' box and the new hire makes off with $20k in computer equipment, well, that's a pretty big screwup on your part. Your co-workers will be glad to point out that he was snorting a line of cocaine in his facebook pictures, which you ignored or didn't check out.
And HR people know that everyone is only an inch from being let go.
Its not the hardware that's the problem. Its middle management.
The message from on high is that to stay afloat, everyone needs to pull their own weight! The economy sucks but the company needs more money! Money, as far as management is concerned, doesn't come from incidental or possible charges, but rather by plans. They'd rather you spend $10/mo on a plan than $20/mo on incidental charges.
So they make the incidental charges prohibitively expensive, and are somewhat lenient on enforcing them if the customer asks them to be removed. Win win situation for them, lose-lose situation for the consumer.
How to make what he created better? How to make the technology viable to the military? How to make the technology profitable?
The second part sounds a lot more like a function of quantum mechanics than it does religion. God wouldn't be so obvious if they were trying to remain incognito.
Believe me, plumbing pays decently since its a skilled profession. With about $40k/year median in most areas. At $40k/year, you can live pretty comfortably and still have money to buy the ladies drinks over the weekend. You could probably afford a half-decent car, too. Throw in some classier things and some good music and getting laid is inevitable.
Besides, some mushrooms are quite the aphrodisiac. At least, before the kidney and liver failure set in.
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Apples to oranges.
Satellite Internet: Very limited uplink/downlink capability based on the very high cost of putting things in orbit, and maintaining a geosynch.
Terrestrial Internet: Limited to how much bandwidth can you get your peering partners to provide to you, low overhead once all the hardware is in place.
Its not a bad idea, but most people would end up sitting at the 'slow' part and accepting it, rather than the 'fast as advertised' speed. Anytime a company has leeway, expect them to go for profit rather than satisfaction and service.
The game shouldn't be so dark its hard to see. It should be slightly shadowy in some areas, but otherwise alright as far as seeing goes. Torches/lights should overbright the area a little, rather than making it normally lit. If it were real, you'd be pretty used to the dark, but torches would damn ear blind you.
They've been financially damaged in a similar way as Kmart is financially damaged whenever Walmart puts out advertising.
Halo was NOT revolutionary in terms of the game industry.
It WAS revolutionary for the X-Box, however, and has done wonders to sell it and the 360.
Now Microsoft has a decision. Another smash hit or something to pay the bills. Most companies would prefer the last one, although, without some major innovation, the Halo series is dead. The only thing they can do at this point is make minor improvements like the sports games do and add a new item here or there.
Why not a Halo RPG, based on someone's life after the apocolypse? Not Fallout, but immediately after things turn to shit. More like parts of FFX. Or, maybe a game where you're with the police force back on soil? You could use the Halo name for a lot of games that would work, or you can use the Halo name for the same damn thing.
How about spending money on something with a better cost-benefit ratio? Like free designer flu-masks for the sick? Turning all water fountains into GOOD filtered water rather than shitty chlorine water?
If they want me to pay monthly for a game, its not out of my budget.
Nor is it out of the budget of MOST dedicated gamers.
However, they have to earn it. I don't consider 'Gun +1' to be worthy of buying. So count that out. If they REALLY want my money, what they can do is give my characters a chance to build up. Not just unlock items. Even farther, I demand moderation and active cheat protection..not just a program that loads into the background if any, but a fast and timely response to banning cheaters. Lets go another step, since I like money..I want free content. New maps semi-regularly, maybe new talents, new customization options, etc, for free. I'll pay for an expansion in the future, if it offers a LOT of content.
But I expect that a LOT of content also be released, over time, for free, if I'm paying monthly for the game.
I disagree.
Direct hardware programming has always been the best in terms of performance. However, it is the worst in terms of compatibility. If you're programming consoles, this is just fine. If you're programming for PCs, not so much.
It will never go back to programming for specific pieces of graphical hardware. I'd say that each vendor MIGHT make a major chipset, and that those chipsets would be coded for, and everything else gets API'd, but even this is unlikely. If a company had to have two or three sets of programmers for their graphics, each team for a different major chipset, we'd see more expensive games or prettier games with crappier gameplay.
Even the OpenGL/DirectX split takes a heavy toll on programming resources for game developers.
They're correct in that there are business reasons.
For example, they don't want the bottom to fall out of the market of their other cars, because they know that this would be their top #1 seller, and most of their other cars would become a lot less popular.
Also, there's probably some kind of collusion going on. We could make a 45mpg car that has decent numbers back in the 80's, but we can't make anything comparable now? Bullshit. There's something behind the scenes.
Its all about track record.
Microsoft has a track record for shady business practices.
Google does not.
Of course people are going to be quicker to bash Microsoft than Google.
Easy fix for this.
Legislate that all authentication mechanisms like this be phased out if the company is going under, or face serious consequences, like full refunds to EVERYONE who bought the game, even if it were ten years ago. This will be complied with when a few people are forced into homelessness forever due to 100% garnishment of wages from what equates to THEFT from everyone who bought it.
Its not hard to do. They could patch it away, set up a fake auth-server within the runtime file, pay another company to run their auth server (it could be very small deal, a server with a basic challenge-response-auth setup)
In fact, crackers do it all the time when they write their cracks. There's very little difference between a CD check and an off-system authentication anyway, in terms of coding.
Spore has a nice way of simplifying things.
In reality, the bacteria would need a multitude of different things besides 'food'. Like it might need either a raw source of vitamin A, or facilities to convert something else into vitamin A..
Biology takes a shotgun approach more than a selected one. Think of a brute force password cracker run by a protein-based computer. It has to find the right 'password' consisting of modules that might give it a competitive edge when it comes to other bacteria. Every correct module is locked in, and every incorrect module dies out.
There's a huge difference to leveling up in the game, or ranking up in your guild, and being promoted in your job.
Companies have a limited amount of funds. Each employee needs to be paid, as do taxes, fees, etc.
This means that you can only employ a limited number of people. A company is a balancing act between staffing, production, and profit. In a company that seldom ever changes, many people will not get promoted but once every few years. Its common for people to work 5+ years in an entry level position, unless they clearly and obviously stand out.
Most employees have to deal with a glass ceiling, as well. If you make it up to middle management, you will NOT make it up to upper management without a college degree, in most cases.
Sounds like they'd be perfect for a stereotypical office job. Serve others so that you can make them way more money than you're making, and can take four weeks of vacation a year while you sit at your desk and grind away those work units and look forward to your one week staycation because you can't afford gas for your '93 Oldsmobile with irregular paint.
Its all about resources.
Having resistance to something takes up resources. So this bacteria might need x food, whereas its paint-resistant form might need x+3 food. If there's only x+3 food available to the bacteria, that's all it can do. It can't even reproduce because x+3 isn't enough for the cells to divide. Now, what if you slathered the wall with antibacterial soap? The bacteria would need to have soap-resistance at another +2 food, which isn't there.
It would likely die out.
The point isn't making the wall completely sterile, but is just making it a hostile environment for bacteria. The more a bacteria has to invest to protect itself, the less it can invest in its other traits, given a limited amount of food.
I don't think that Linux would be able to protect its own trademark in a court of law, since its used EVERYWHERE. Its become too common.
Firefox, however, takes steps to protect its trademark. This prevents companies like Dell from loading up Firefox full of adware bars and 'phone home' software on their computers, and just calling it Firefox, instead of Firefox + malware.
Doesn't matter even if you below the limit.
Even if you're at .04% BAC in a .08% BAC limit state, they can still arrest you for DUI if they think that you're not driving safely. Which kind of makes sense, as a 100 pound borderline anorexic girl is going to feel more drunk on less alcohol and probably less BAC, than would a hardened male alcoholic at twice her weight.
However, what does not make sense, is that they DO NOT NEED PROOF to convict you of a DUI if you blow under the limit. They can send you to jail on the cop's word alone. If they say that you were swerving, or changed lanes without a blinker, then it happened. Unless they have it on tape, which will likely end up lost or destroyed if needed to clear you from guilt.
Imagine all of the things you do on the road that could get you pulled over for a DUI: Changing stations on your radio causing you to have to slightly correct your steering, changing lanes on an empty highway with no blinker, driving under the limit, driving over the limit, having a tail/headlight out, talking on the phone, beating your kids, etc. Every single one of these has been used as evidence in DUI cases.
So, my best advice I can possibly give, is to not be an asshole to the cop, dispute everything, and check your laws regarding the use of breath tests vs blood tests. For example, some areas give you a breath test and if you fail, its go directly to the station, where they give you a blood test. Some areas you have to request a blood test when you're being booked, and some areas they can get you with the breath test alone.
These searches are fast, free, and can give insight into someone's personal life.
You have 20 candidates applying for the job. You have a few hours to decide which candidates get the full-fledged background checks and assuming they clear, which ones are best to hire for the company.
You narrow it down to five people.
Only one of them isn't drinking, smoking possibly illegal substances, or wearing two shirts with popped collars and backwards visor.
The world of HR is different from the normal world. If you choose to hire someone or give the checkmark on the 'background info' box and the new hire makes off with $20k in computer equipment, well, that's a pretty big screwup on your part. Your co-workers will be glad to point out that he was snorting a line of cocaine in his facebook pictures, which you ignored or didn't check out.
And HR people know that everyone is only an inch from being let go.
It wasn't about the money, but rather, control. Like you said.
If she didn't defend her copyright, it'd be that much weaker in future cases.
Its not the hardware that's the problem. Its middle management.
The message from on high is that to stay afloat, everyone needs to pull their own weight! The economy sucks but the company needs more money! Money, as far as management is concerned, doesn't come from incidental or possible charges, but rather by plans. They'd rather you spend $10/mo on a plan than $20/mo on incidental charges.
So they make the incidental charges prohibitively expensive, and are somewhat lenient on enforcing them if the customer asks them to be removed. Win win situation for them, lose-lose situation for the consumer.
As usual.
Questions?
How to make what he created better?
How to make the technology viable to the military?
How to make the technology profitable?
The second part sounds a lot more like a function of quantum mechanics than it does religion. God wouldn't be so obvious if they were trying to remain incognito.
This is CERTAINLY illegal under provisions of the DMCA.
Mario can, in fact, improve your sex life.
Believe me, plumbing pays decently since its a skilled profession. With about $40k/year median in most areas. At $40k/year, you can live pretty comfortably and still have money to buy the ladies drinks over the weekend. You could probably afford a half-decent car, too. Throw in some classier things and some good music and getting laid is inevitable.
Besides, some mushrooms are quite the aphrodisiac. At least, before the kidney and liver failure set in.
As a supporter of chaos theory and all things quantum..
My answer is, "Yes there will be long-term effects, and no there will not be any long-term effects.
The free market will work it out.
It always does.
That's why we have so much broadband across the US, and why its so affordable.
Every day, service improves, prices drop, flowers grow, and gas prices never go above $1.00/gallon.