5 million dollars a month may not be much, but 40 per cent gross profit margins are rather attractive.
Seriously though, the market will only expand if it offers differing types of online game. If they are all D&D/Star Wars type universes, they'll be competing for the same market. The Sims looks like a promising idea for tapping a different section of the online population.
Re:Where is the punchline?
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Next week, when I'll see
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Not everyone would agree with you on that - some say the culture has changed. As for the government - remember, President Kim Dae Jung was the first opposition leader to be elected Korean president. So blaming him and his government for what had happened before is a little unfair...
No, they stated that criminal fraud has occured, which it clearly has (trained monkeys, let alone trained accountants, can tell the difference between expenses and investments). They haven't said who is responsible. What you are saying is that if you find a body with 47 knife wounds in its back, the head six foot away, and "Die you scum" scrawled in blood is that you can't say they were murdered...
The teeth were treated with 10% sodium hydroxychloride for 10 min and then stored in
formalin. Teeth used for pulp cavity temperature measurements were sliced longitudinally in half with the pulp scraped out.
What, they took them out first? Ah, that's no fun...
The idea of lasers in dentistry is old news, but "Discover" won't have had the details of this latest improvement (which is published in the 15th August 2002 edition of the Journal of Applied Physics (subscription required to read articles), so it is brand new news. Admittedly it isn't a huge advance, as subpicosecond lasers have been used before, but what they have done is work out exactly which wavelength, pulse duration and intensity is required to obtain fast ablation with no thermal collateral damage.
Hold on, they are saying that criminal fraud was committed at a company where people have been arrested for securities fraud. How exactly is that libelous? The company reported expenses as investment. Are you saying that isn't criminal fraud?
The South Korean government started cracking down on their notoriously corrupt companies some time ago. Compare their overall stock market performance to that of the US recently. You'll wish you'd had your money in Seoul...
You see it all the time whenever a declaration of wealth would cost the company. So sports teams are barely breaking even (so no payrise to the players), few films ever make their money back (what, you took a share of the profit), and no Mister taxman, we didn't make a profit this year...
and however you look at it big EU spacerockets are just plain laughable.
If you are willing to say that, you clearly haven't looked at it. Arianespace relies entirely on the international launching market for its business (unlike US firms which get regular US Defense Department business), and is only asking for money from the EU because the worldwide market has plummeted by 30%. As for the previous mars lander missions, the Viking landers only took samples from the surface of the soil, where they would have been exposed to oxidation. BeagleII will take samples from up to a metre down. It also has a corer/grinder to expose the interior of rocks for analysis. And no-one has measured the UV flux on the surface of Mars before. This mission is doing things that no-one has done before. And as for the cost of the entire Mars Express mission - well, divide it by everyone in the EU and it is less than 33 pence. More of my tax money goes in subsidising opera (not the browser, the large people singing) than that... More details here.
There must be a free and rational debate about the ethical and social aspects of potential uses of technology, and government must provide an arena for these debates that is most conducive to results that benefit humans.
In other words, here are the options, now let's debate them. That's definitely the right approach.
If you've ever looked at an unfiltered list of search entries on Google, then the last thing you'd want to do is link your mind to a thousand other people...
Sorry, but how is a regulated transfer of land to people who don't know how to farm better than an unregulated transfer to people who don't know how to farm? If the aim was to transfer the land away from the whites without severely damaging the agricultural business, the simple thing to do would have been to give the land to the farmworkers (who can then either run it as a co-operative, or split it amongst themselves, although splitting large sophisticated farms into small plots is a bad idea). Instead, much of the redistributed land has ended up in the hands of cabinet ministers and other government officials.
If you read the article, it states that from each position in Go, there are a lot more available options - Chess will have about 25-30, Go 240. So it takes a hell of a lot more computational power to look ten moves ahead in Go than it does in Chess.
Hmm, I used to make up my own rules. Or even better, ignore them altogether. The best games were when I decided that what happened was basically what I felt like happening. Bar room brawls were the best, pulling out a crossbow got you a bottle in the face, while beating someone to the ground with a stuffed fish (still in the sturdy glass case) was more useful. Of course, this only works when the players trust the DM (or are at least having fun).
Of course, that's the current generation of formats. Remember the Blu-ray format will be emerging in the future, which has a larger storage capacity (details in link).
TV reception over an antenna does not have to be analogue only. Well, not in the UK at least. Admittedly, the company that was doing it has gone bust, and the licenses have now been sold to the BBC, but if I bought a digital box (for 99 pounds), I could pick up free-to-air digital services through my antenna. Digital through satellite or cable is also available of course.
If you haven't already guessed, they don't care. By making it a pdf file, they can ensure that it will appear in the layout they wish it to appear. Since the majority of people with access to the internet have no problem reading pdf files, they clearly see no problem in ignoring the few who choose to access the net in a way that will give them problems.
I mean, I can't access Britain's motorway system on a unicycle either, but I'm not complaining.
I didn't see anyone claiming it was a squat, merely that it was illogical. www.unix.com would (to most people anyway) indicate a company, and where one company has the trademark to unix, you'd expect to find them there. On the other hand, unix.org or unix.net would indicate non-commercial companies discussing unix. So to have the decisions go in the opposite direction indicates that the whole thing isn't decided by logic, it's not decided by who gets there first, it's decided by hordes of rampaging lawyers.
Indeed, it makes no more sense to say "We should ignore the asteroid, if it hits it was meant to be" than to say "There's no point eating food, if I starve to death it was meant to be".
Re:Believe it or not, we ARE killing the Earth !
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Silly question, but what the hell is the Earth's atmosphere dragging on, apart from satellites and the odd passing rock?
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Seriously though, the market will only expand if it offers differing types of online game. If they are all D&D/Star Wars type universes, they'll be competing for the same market. The Sims looks like a promising idea for tapping a different section of the online population.
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Do I need to be connected to the internet to use it? And does it honestly think I'm going to let it past my firewall to report its findings?
Not everyone would agree with you on that - some say the culture has changed. As for the government - remember, President Kim Dae Jung was the first opposition leader to be elected Korean president. So blaming him and his government for what had happened before is a little unfair...
No, they stated that criminal fraud has occured, which it clearly has (trained monkeys, let alone trained accountants, can tell the difference between expenses and investments). They haven't said who is responsible. What you are saying is that if you find a body with 47 knife wounds in its back, the head six foot away, and "Die you scum" scrawled in blood is that you can't say they were murdered...
The teeth were treated with 10% sodium hydroxychloride for 10 min and then stored in formalin. Teeth used for pulp cavity temperature measurements were sliced longitudinally in half with the pulp scraped out.
What, they took them out first? Ah, that's no fun...
Ahem. Demonstrating the reason for the preview button, the journal is here (subscription required to read articles)
The idea of lasers in dentistry is old news, but "Discover" won't have had the details of this latest improvement (which is published in the 15th August 2002 edition of the Journal of Applied Physics (subscription required to read articles), so it is brand new news. Admittedly it isn't a huge advance, as subpicosecond lasers have been used before, but what they have done is work out exactly which wavelength, pulse duration and intensity is required to obtain fast ablation with no thermal collateral damage.
Hold on, they are saying that criminal fraud was committed at a company where people have been arrested for securities fraud. How exactly is that libelous? The company reported expenses as investment. Are you saying that isn't criminal fraud?
The South Korean government started cracking down on their notoriously corrupt companies some time ago. Compare their overall stock market performance to that of the US recently. You'll wish you'd had your money in Seoul...
You see it all the time whenever a declaration of wealth would cost the company. So sports teams are barely breaking even (so no payrise to the players), few films ever make their money back (what, you took a share of the profit), and no Mister taxman, we didn't make a profit this year...
If you are willing to say that, you clearly haven't looked at it. Arianespace relies entirely on the international launching market for its business (unlike US firms which get regular US Defense Department business), and is only asking for money from the EU because the worldwide market has plummeted by 30%.
As for the previous mars lander missions, the Viking landers only took samples from the surface of the soil, where they would have been exposed to oxidation. BeagleII will take samples from up to a metre down. It also has a corer/grinder to expose the interior of rocks for analysis. And no-one has measured the UV flux on the surface of Mars before. This mission is doing things that no-one has done before. And as for the cost of the entire Mars Express mission - well, divide it by everyone in the EU and it is less than 33 pence. More of my tax money goes in subsidising opera (not the browser, the large people singing) than that...
More details here.
There must be a free and rational debate about the ethical and social aspects of potential uses of technology, and government must provide an arena for these debates that is most conducive to results that benefit humans.
In other words, here are the options, now let's debate them. That's definitely the right approach.
If you've ever looked at an unfiltered list of search entries on Google, then the last thing you'd want to do is link your mind to a thousand other people...
Sorry, but how is a regulated transfer of land to people who don't know how to farm better than an unregulated transfer to people who don't know how to farm? If the aim was to transfer the land away from the whites without severely damaging the agricultural business, the simple thing to do would have been to give the land to the farmworkers (who can then either run it as a co-operative, or split it amongst themselves, although splitting large sophisticated farms into small plots is a bad idea). Instead, much of the redistributed land has ended up in the hands of cabinet ministers and other government officials.
The simple reason is that milling adds an extra delay. Zimbabwe is out of food now.
Hmm, a discontinued games platform? I'd say the main point of using a Dreamcast was - it's cheap.
If you read the article, it states that from each position in Go, there are a lot more available options - Chess will have about 25-30, Go 240. So it takes a hell of a lot more computational power to look ten moves ahead in Go than it does in Chess.
Hmm, I used to make up my own rules. Or even better, ignore them altogether. The best games were when I decided that what happened was basically what I felt like happening. Bar room brawls were the best, pulling out a crossbow got you a bottle in the face, while beating someone to the ground with a stuffed fish (still in the sturdy glass case) was more useful. Of course, this only works when the players trust the DM (or are at least having fun).
Of course, that's the current generation of formats. Remember the Blu-ray format will be emerging in the future, which has a larger storage capacity (details in link).
TV reception over an antenna does not have to be analogue only. Well, not in the UK at least. Admittedly, the company that was doing it has gone bust, and the licenses have now been sold to the BBC, but if I bought a digital box (for 99 pounds), I could pick up free-to-air digital services through my antenna. Digital through satellite or cable is also available of course.
I mean, I can't access Britain's motorway system on a unicycle either, but I'm not complaining.
I didn't see anyone claiming it was a squat, merely that it was illogical. www.unix.com would (to most people anyway) indicate a company, and where one company has the trademark to unix, you'd expect to find them there. On the other hand, unix.org or unix.net would indicate non-commercial companies discussing unix. So to have the decisions go in the opposite direction indicates that the whole thing isn't decided by logic, it's not decided by who gets there first, it's decided by hordes of rampaging lawyers.
Indeed, it makes no more sense to say "We should ignore the asteroid, if it hits it was meant to be" than to say "There's no point eating food, if I starve to death it was meant to be".
Silly question, but what the hell is the Earth's atmosphere dragging on, apart from satellites and the odd passing rock?