the problem is not good imagination, the problem is to hold the universe consistent enough over time as you make your own details. I found it much easier to buy 1 or 2 additional campaign ruleset and let my imagination run rampant. The core stay then consistent.
"Upon ordering, McDonaldâ(TM)s employees at 140, Avenue Champs Elysees, Paris accosted Mann and tried to tear the glasses out of his head"
It does not sound like a random attack but employee action. Which brings me to think there was a prior history we were not told, for example he telling them it is a camera, them asking him to remove it, and not believing him when he refuses to switch it off or remove it. It does not excuse employee behavior if they assaulted him really, or manhandled him, but OTOH he cannot film random passerby or customer in a premise at will. And I am willing to bet that it was the bone the employee had. OTOH it could be simply dumb people doing dumb things, but I am always very very warry when somebody tell employee attacked them without reason. Random thug attack without reason. Employee not so much. (again i am not saying those reason were not valid, but that we hear only one side here).
* use standard media instead of hardware media (DVD/blue ray vs cartridge)
* Better distribution channel.
* Bigger market
* Development cost (code) lower due to library / engine / plug in software solutions
* re-usage of some artisitic/texture
* better software practice, standard, and sof forth
That made game much cheaper to produce than it was a long time ago. In fact, you have to wonder why the price stay fixed at 50$ rather than go lower, seeing the poor quality of certain products and obvious , VERY obvious reusage of assets (dragon age 2 for example).
"One of his thoughts would be to require a patent holder to produce the patented item within a certain time"
And thus you make patent the SOLE ballpark of big firm which can afford lose a few dollar setting up a quick-n-dirty item production, whereas the small guy, the garage inventor is royally screwed, because he won't be able to produce the items, and the industry can dictate their term while buying the patent from him, when not outright stealing, because he can't protect himself due to the production requirement.
In fact I contend there is no way whatsoever you can both protect the small inventor and avoid patent troll. The only way out is to enforce non obviousness and repell software patent outright.
The funny things is , widespread distrust and fear of the governement is typically an US thing, most people I know from other countries (European) do not distrust or fear the governement (on the contrary they trust it too much IMHO) and we do not have the right to bear arm.
make sure it is required in judgment that the money do not go to the guardian, but is stored on an account which can't be touched until 18, and on which the guardian has no procuration.
Whetehr you drink your coke (your contract with the school for X semester) twice as fast or half as slow as other you will still pay the same price : 50 cent (the full tuition). That is a contractual things. You pay what you are contracted with/for, and you can avoid paying only if penalty to go out are forseen. For example some of our client can go out of year contract if they pay 3 month in full.
My understanding of the german article is that the problem seeems to be contractually he was supposed to pay/studay for X semester a *full* studium, finished before, and now the university want him to pay for the rest he was contractually bound to. Which is perfectely fine IMHO, if I am bound to pay for 3 month rent, and I go out after 2 month, too bad for me I have to pay the third month anyway. Naturally that depend on the extact wording of the contract, but knowing the contract from other university where friends were (Dresden) , they say pay up for X semester, they don't say pay up "until" you finished your studium.
I mean at least muslim have the balls to explode THEMSELVES, rather than blackmail people into doing it the cowards : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_bomb
old cracker (first crack was ultima 5, nice XOR encryption of the copy protection, increasing the key by 3 after each byte, the code jumpted to the adress where INT 3 is located in an attempt to break stuff up (litteraly put a jump byte at where INT 3 address was supposed to be) and then made some INT 10h drive checks, which I simply bypassed by replacing the following CMP with a NOP, and re-encrypting it with a XOR of the correct position. Good time finding the crack. I shame myself I had more fun finding the crack than finishing the game). Now working at an IT/ISV outfit.
But whereas I came to the similar/same conclusion as you "me copying won't make a cent for the indy dev", I went one further "but me not buying his/her stuff won't make a cent to them either". So often I download "shotgun like" music, video, and games. Then I try, and what I like I visit the web page to buy. Like minecraft I enjoyed so much the first day, I immediately bought in the beta a long time ago. Like some CD I bought from a german group (they were in the game gothic 1 , it was the band you saw inside the first city).
The ultimate fact is, if I do not plan to buy, me downloading DO NOT remove any money from the indy dev. I do a try-and-buy model. Sure some people are cheapstake and don't buy, but they would not have bought ANYWAY. So from those two group of people (the "cheapsake" and the "tryer") there is no financial drain.
No the only group which IS a financial rain, are those which would have brought the game otherwise but instead sicne it is available for free they don't buy it. I have yet to find a study which quantify that group properly. Because they are the one on which indy will lose money. My gut feeling is that they are a relative minority, but it is not something I could formulate as an hypotheses properly and falsify. But ifI had to place a bet I would say there is 74% cheapsake, 25% try-and-buy and 1% of "would have bought but found it for free". Simply because you don't use download service accidentaly.
If the technology was adopted in a form respecting the privacy of people, I would agree with you. But it is not the case and the more those devices can, the more private and public entities attempt to track us. Contrary to US slashdotter I don't mind public tracking, because we effectively limit it by law and (unless it is police stuff) we can check what we are tracked for and correct data (Privacy law and right to correction in EU). Heck they might be people spying onto us, but they are our LOCAL thug obey a modicum of respect of the law. Whereas private entity in mobile device, are often in another country not respecting the privacy of people in the slightiest bit (USA), meaning if that data go there , your control on it is GONE forever in the hand of some foreign governement and private thug your own law has no effect on.
So yes, I see that progress as a sort of 1984 in worst : not only the telescreen is portable, but the data is sent to private entity you cannot even do a bloody revolution against. At least in 1984 even if revolution was unlikely, the dictature and spying was governemental.
Even in rural germany (Hessen/Pferdekopf/Taunus, Sachsen), in deep mountain, the most I see are the high voltage transportation (the big metal tree you see as high as 10 or 20 meter). As soon as a new line is put or an old one renovated , it get buried. There is an excellent reason for that with respect to some very harsh winter with lotta snow. That even happens for phone line. As for France, even there all the poles which were there in my youth in the rural zone (north of compiegne, and another zone west of macif central) are gone.
"The radiation is too high-frequency to excite any of the electrons orbiting the atoms in the human body (which is how UV causes damage)"
You meant too LOW frequency , as terahertz is about order of magnitude of micrometer of wavelength : it is in the infrared part of the spectra (far or near depending on how many THz we are speaking of). In fact frequency is going from very low (VHF->FIF->NIF->Visible) to very high (Blue->UV->X->Gamma). Higher frequency=High energy is bad as it can easily knock electron off orbits. Low Frequency=Low Energy less dangerous, to even inactive on our body. Which is the invert with wavelength (short wave =very dangerous , very long wave think radio BHV etc harmless). Then there is also the question of quantity, but as a rule of thumb it is enough.
And indeed the reason for why it is better to cocnentrate and swallow the private amrket is simple. Mostly, enterprise are cheapstake. They will buy the cheapest hardware for the job, make various hardware go in concurrence, and drop any fidelity to a mark for 10% discount. Margin are razor thin when it comes for the bulk of enterprise hardware. Sure there is the crackberry for some manager, but let us get realitst, most enterprise have 20+ worker with dumb phone and dumb PC for 1 crackberry and 1 SSD laptop shiny.
On the other hand we have the consummer market with shiny toy for the one "in", the hippster and so forth. With consumer friendly usage. And they sell like hotcake at a premium price, BECAUSE the market is willing to bear that pricwe.
Enterprise buy in bulk but are cheapo. Consumer buy in single quanity, but you can sell them hot expansive device with Facebook itnegration for 500+$. The choice is easy and apple made the right one.
You are not immunized against by watching a lot of it. In fact I would contend that the chance is that some of it work on you because you watch it rather than reject it outright. Anyway, I haven't seen ads for a long long time, but when I see one accidentaly, I simply apply the plain old rule "it is an ad: all of it is a lie to make you buy a product you did not need in the first place".
They prretend that HOTS is a relabelling of OBE and oppose it because of that. But they being politician, I would not be surprised they are against HOTS because it imply thinking, but rather than openly admit it, they cast it as an OBE reform. We have an old saying around here "If you want to get ride of a dog, pretend he has the rabbies then you shoot it".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagfish
"They are the only living animals that have a skull but not a vertebral column. Along with lampreys, hagfish are jawless and are living fossils; hagfish are basal to vertebrates, and living hagfish remain similar to hagfish 300 million years ago"
Then there is our friend Coelacanth :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coelacanth
and I pass many others which did not evolve much since those time.
Creationist don't do such things to convince others anyway, but rather to make their own rank solid.
Yes we were less coddled. But it is also true that many more of us went paralyzed, dead, or even drooling idiot. Heck in my own friend circle I can speak of 1 dead 1 semi crippled (hand still work partially but is a horrible mess). And if I increase to my acquaintance, the number of dead and crippled rise. On the other hand my nephew and my 2 nieces, grand cousins, and a few good friend have heard of no such death. And whereas it is true none of them can hunt and open a rabbit like I do, they aren't worst off since in the west you rarely need to know how to open an animal to prepare it for consumption, walk in the wood or all the shit I see cited above. You all sound like people crying for the loss of buggy whipping skills really.
Make a choice : coddle up or break some eggs in a very definitive and final manner. Most parents goes for coddled and I betcha in our generation if there had been a choice, a lot of parent would have too.
Utter failure to live to hype can mean fastest selling together. This simply means it sold like hot cake, but people after a few bites were finding the content bland and forgettable. In fact I contend that even if Blizzard were developing Diablo 4 now, no matter the hype, a lot of people would WAIT before buying it.
"Uh, because there would be no point? What does the CEO's location have to do with stock performance? "
Let us put it that way if his location is at home, there would not be a bump. But if his location is at the cancer ward in a patient room outside of visiting hour ? You can betcha there will be repercution on stock, warranted or not.
Then sue the pant off any software which convert MP4 to MP3 leaving the sound track only, and finally sue the shirt off anybody else for having ears receiving sound signal, ear bones which convert that song into a new format : brain signals.
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the problem is not good imagination, the problem is to hold the universe consistent enough over time as you make your own details. I found it much easier to buy 1 or 2 additional campaign ruleset and let my imagination run rampant. The core stay then consistent.
The things is, it was indeed a historical issue : those gettho as you call them were not really arab gettho. They were place (mostly bar buildings) with very low rent (HLM=habitation à loyer modéré=Housing with limited rent). Those became inhabited with a high proportion of north african and central african people, but there is a lot (and initally a majority) of non-african people in them. But due to the fact that most immigrant at least initally had low pay job, there was a concentration which happened. So it was NOT that arabic minority were confined intentionally, it just happened that they went to the lowest rent. Heck, my mother told me when those HLM were started , she went in with my father, arab was a minorities. When they moved onn 20 years later Arabic/central african were the majority in the particular building. But then again which gettho is initially intended ? probably not many.
"Upon ordering, McDonaldâ(TM)s employees at 140, Avenue Champs Elysees, Paris accosted Mann and tried to tear the glasses out of his head"
It does not sound like a random attack but employee action. Which brings me to think there was a prior history we were not told, for example he telling them it is a camera, them asking him to remove it, and not believing him when he refuses to switch it off or remove it. It does not excuse employee behavior if they assaulted him really, or manhandled him, but OTOH he cannot film random passerby or customer in a premise at will. And I am willing to bet that it was the bone the employee had. OTOH it could be simply dumb people doing dumb things, but I am always very very warry when somebody tell employee attacked them without reason. Random thug attack without reason. Employee not so much. (again i am not saying those reason were not valid, but that we hear only one side here).
* use standard media instead of hardware media (DVD/blue ray vs cartridge)
* Better distribution channel.
* Bigger market
* Development cost (code) lower due to library / engine / plug in software solutions
* re-usage of some artisitic/texture
* better software practice, standard, and sof forth
That made game much cheaper to produce than it was a long time ago. In fact, you have to wonder why the price stay fixed at 50$ rather than go lower, seeing the poor quality of certain products and obvious , VERY obvious reusage of assets (dragon age 2 for example).
"One of his thoughts would be to require a patent holder to produce the patented item within a certain time"
And thus you make patent the SOLE ballpark of big firm which can afford lose a few dollar setting up a quick-n-dirty item production, whereas the small guy, the garage inventor is royally screwed, because he won't be able to produce the items, and the industry can dictate their term while buying the patent from him, when not outright stealing, because he can't protect himself due to the production requirement.
In fact I contend there is no way whatsoever you can both protect the small inventor and avoid patent troll. The only way out is to enforce non obviousness and repell software patent outright.
The funny things is , widespread distrust and fear of the governement is typically an US thing, most people I know from other countries (European) do not distrust or fear the governement (on the contrary they trust it too much IMHO) and we do not have the right to bear arm.
make sure it is required in judgment that the money do not go to the guardian, but is stored on an account which can't be touched until 18, and on which the guardian has no procuration.
Whetehr you drink your coke (your contract with the school for X semester) twice as fast or half as slow as other you will still pay the same price : 50 cent (the full tuition). That is a contractual things. You pay what you are contracted with/for, and you can avoid paying only if penalty to go out are forseen. For example some of our client can go out of year contract if they pay 3 month in full.
Yellow journalist. Here is the originala rticle : http://www.bild.de/regional/ruhrgebiet/universitaet/uni-verklagt-studenten-weil-er-zu-schnell-studierte-24966622.bild.html
Anyway as I said in another post I think there is nothing wrong with the university depending on how the contract was made.
My understanding of the german article is that the problem seeems to be contractually he was supposed to pay/studay for X semester a *full* studium, finished before, and now the university want him to pay for the rest he was contractually bound to. Which is perfectely fine IMHO, if I am bound to pay for 3 month rent, and I go out after 2 month, too bad for me I have to pay the third month anyway. Naturally that depend on the extact wording of the contract, but knowing the contract from other university where friends were (Dresden) , they say pay up for X semester, they don't say pay up "until" you finished your studium.
I mean at least muslim have the balls to explode THEMSELVES, rather than blackmail people into doing it the cowards : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_bomb
old cracker (first crack was ultima 5, nice XOR encryption of the copy protection, increasing the key by 3 after each byte, the code jumpted to the adress where INT 3 is located in an attempt to break stuff up (litteraly put a jump byte at where INT 3 address was supposed to be) and then made some INT 10h drive checks, which I simply bypassed by replacing the following CMP with a NOP, and re-encrypting it with a XOR of the correct position. Good time finding the crack. I shame myself I had more fun finding the crack than finishing the game). Now working at an IT/ISV outfit.
But whereas I came to the similar/same conclusion as you "me copying won't make a cent for the indy dev", I went one further "but me not buying his/her stuff won't make a cent to them either". So often I download "shotgun like" music, video, and games. Then I try, and what I like I visit the web page to buy. Like minecraft I enjoyed so much the first day, I immediately bought in the beta a long time ago. Like some CD I bought from a german group (they were in the game gothic 1 , it was the band you saw inside the first city).
The ultimate fact is, if I do not plan to buy, me downloading DO NOT remove any money from the indy dev. I do a try-and-buy model. Sure some people are cheapstake and don't buy, but they would not have bought ANYWAY. So from those two group of people (the "cheapsake" and the "tryer") there is no financial drain.
No the only group which IS a financial rain, are those which would have brought the game otherwise but instead sicne it is available for free they don't buy it. I have yet to find a study which quantify that group properly. Because they are the one on which indy will lose money. My gut feeling is that they are a relative minority, but it is not something I could formulate as an hypotheses properly and falsify. But ifI had to place a bet I would say there is 74% cheapsake, 25% try-and-buy and 1% of "would have bought but found it for free". Simply because you don't use download service accidentaly.
If the technology was adopted in a form respecting the privacy of people, I would agree with you. But it is not the case and the more those devices can, the more private and public entities attempt to track us. Contrary to US slashdotter I don't mind public tracking, because we effectively limit it by law and (unless it is police stuff) we can check what we are tracked for and correct data (Privacy law and right to correction in EU). Heck they might be people spying onto us, but they are our LOCAL thug obey a modicum of respect of the law. Whereas private entity in mobile device, are often in another country not respecting the privacy of people in the slightiest bit (USA), meaning if that data go there , your control on it is GONE forever in the hand of some foreign governement and private thug your own law has no effect on.
So yes, I see that progress as a sort of 1984 in worst : not only the telescreen is portable, but the data is sent to private entity you cannot even do a bloody revolution against. At least in 1984 even if revolution was unlikely, the dictature and spying was governemental.
Even in rural germany (Hessen/Pferdekopf/Taunus, Sachsen), in deep mountain, the most I see are the high voltage transportation (the big metal tree you see as high as 10 or 20 meter). As soon as a new line is put or an old one renovated , it get buried. There is an excellent reason for that with respect to some very harsh winter with lotta snow. That even happens for phone line. As for France, even there all the poles which were there in my youth in the rural zone (north of compiegne, and another zone west of macif central) are gone.
"The radiation is too high-frequency to excite any of the electrons orbiting the atoms in the human body (which is how UV causes damage)"
You meant too LOW frequency , as terahertz is about order of magnitude of micrometer of wavelength : it is in the infrared part of the spectra (far or near depending on how many THz we are speaking of). In fact frequency is going from very low (VHF->FIF->NIF->Visible) to very high (Blue->UV->X->Gamma). Higher frequency=High energy is bad as it can easily knock electron off orbits. Low Frequency=Low Energy less dangerous, to even inactive on our body. Which is the invert with wavelength (short wave =very dangerous , very long wave think radio BHV etc harmless). Then there is also the question of quantity, but as a rule of thumb it is enough.
http://creation.com/about-us#what_we_believe
You gotta kidding me , right ? You are DAMN fucking me ? "Creation magazine" ? Pleeease.
And indeed the reason for why it is better to cocnentrate and swallow the private amrket is simple. Mostly, enterprise are cheapstake. They will buy the cheapest hardware for the job, make various hardware go in concurrence, and drop any fidelity to a mark for 10% discount. Margin are razor thin when it comes for the bulk of enterprise hardware. Sure there is the crackberry for some manager, but let us get realitst, most enterprise have 20+ worker with dumb phone and dumb PC for 1 crackberry and 1 SSD laptop shiny.
On the other hand we have the consummer market with shiny toy for the one "in", the hippster and so forth. With consumer friendly usage. And they sell like hotcake at a premium price, BECAUSE the market is willing to bear that pricwe.
Enterprise buy in bulk but are cheapo. Consumer buy in single quanity, but you can sell them hot expansive device with Facebook itnegration for 500+$. The choice is easy and apple made the right one.
You are not immunized against by watching a lot of it. In fact I would contend that the chance is that some of it work on you because you watch it rather than reject it outright. Anyway, I haven't seen ads for a long long time, but when I see one accidentaly, I simply apply the plain old rule "it is an ad: all of it is a lie to make you buy a product you did not need in the first place".
They prretend that HOTS is a relabelling of OBE and oppose it because of that. But they being politician, I would not be surprised they are against HOTS because it imply thinking, but rather than openly admit it, they cast it as an OBE reform. We have an old saying around here "If you want to get ride of a dog, pretend he has the rabbies then you shoot it".
If youa re accompagned by adult you can have a beer at 14 and spirits / winebrand at 16 IIRC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagfish
;)
"They are the only living animals that have a skull but not a vertebral column. Along with lampreys, hagfish are jawless and are living fossils; hagfish are basal to vertebrates, and living hagfish remain similar to hagfish 300 million years ago"
Then there is our friend Coelacanth :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coelacanth
and I pass many others which did not evolve much since those time.
Creationist don't do such things to convince others anyway, but rather to make their own rank solid.
anyway : http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAC3481305829426D&feature=plcp
Yes we were less coddled. But it is also true that many more of us went paralyzed, dead, or even drooling idiot. Heck in my own friend circle I can speak of 1 dead 1 semi crippled (hand still work partially but is a horrible mess). And if I increase to my acquaintance, the number of dead and crippled rise. On the other hand my nephew and my 2 nieces, grand cousins, and a few good friend have heard of no such death. And whereas it is true none of them can hunt and open a rabbit like I do, they aren't worst off since in the west you rarely need to know how to open an animal to prepare it for consumption, walk in the wood or all the shit I see cited above. You all sound like people crying for the loss of buggy whipping skills really.
Make a choice : coddle up or break some eggs in a very definitive and final manner. Most parents goes for coddled and I betcha in our generation if there had been a choice, a lot of parent would have too.
Utter failure to live to hype can mean fastest selling together. This simply means it sold like hot cake, but people after a few bites were finding the content bland and forgettable. In fact I contend that even if Blizzard were developing Diablo 4 now, no matter the hype, a lot of people would WAIT before buying it.
"Uh, because there would be no point? What does the CEO's location have to do with stock performance? "
Let us put it that way if his location is at home, there would not be a bump. But if his location is at the cancer ward in a patient room outside of visiting hour ? You can betcha there will be repercution on stock, warranted or not.
Next step for RIAA : sue the pant of firefox off for having the possibility of addon like this one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/easy-youtube-video-downl-10137/
or this one https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/
Then sue the pant off any software which convert MP4 to MP3 leaving the sound track only, and finally sue the shirt off anybody else for having ears receiving sound signal, ear bones which convert that song into a new format : brain signals.