My father's fighting multiple myeloma. He beat it into remission once with a marrow treatment, and after 5 years (which is about par for the course), it came back. Enough chemo pills to bankrupt a horse later, he's teetering on the brink of remission #2, but likely going to be taking a prophylactic/maintenance dose of chemo drugs until the next time it comes out of remission - which might be the cycle he's on for the rest of his life (which we now measure in +-5 year blocks).
There's a certain point in the process at which a painful year of chemo treatments or inpatient marrow treatments gambling for a 5-year remission in a 70-year old becomes a losing proposition, but knowing you can possibly press the snooze button on cancer through normal methods enough times that perhaps, perhaps, just get your Super Measles! shot someday for your next 5-years snooze is promising.
That said, all you've done is repeat what the poster above you said while trying to chide him.
He said, very clearly, that a sticker on your car espousing something the police in your neighborhood might find unpopular in and of itself wasn't something that would get you pulled over, but could certainly be the trigger that caused police to scrutinize your car and behavior until they found some nitpicking reason to pull you over.
You can install FindMyWhatever on some items, but for the most part, you're wasting your time.
Thieves look for targets of opportunity. Make your home less friendly. Place a camera in plain view and out of reach. Put up a beware of Doug sign and get a Glock window decal.
If someone comes for your electronics specifically, it's an inside job. You can avoid that by screening your friends better.
Your insurer might require that, but that's between you and your insurer.
I assure you that, should you be delivered unconscious to a hospital needing "major procedures" like an MRI in an emergency setting, you'll still have it performed without someone calling BCBSCA.
If you're not already an all BlackBerry shop, or you're not big enough that you can dedicate resources to running BES in addition to your other solution, you need a different solution to manage your mobile devices before someone loses a phone on a plane and you're writing HIPAA checks.
None of the good multi-platform enterprise class solutions support BlackBerry
So you implement Mobile Iron as your one mobile management solution, and tell people they can't have a BlackBerry if they want enterprise mail, and the 3% of your people with BB's becomes 0% as you issue them Androids and iPhones. [Because giving everyone who actually has a personal BlackBerry a new Galaxy costs less than the server for BES.] And like that, BlackBerry's market share goes from 3% to 2.99%.
Say what you want about the giant fuck-you-a-rama that is medical billing, but emergency care (unconscious people brought to the hospital) is done by people who aren't in the billing department.
There are plenty of times when I'd have liked to have rented a hotspot for $5 for the day - one day only - especially if it was a different provider than the one my phone already used.
I own a little FreedomPop (Sprint) device for emergencies now (on the $4 "rollover" plan), and my personal phone is a GPE HTC One on T-Mo, so I've got the spectrum reasonably well covered in case of emergency.
Which one of those five things are the three things that happen with F2P games?
Some games are fairly reasonable about this. Lets look at a few heavy hitters in the freemium space.
Candy Crush - never demands a purchase, ever, if you allow it to use Facebook data, and asks for $0.99 for new blocks of levels if you don't. Every level is beatable without assistance. [I have three stars without money, on every level through the high 300's.] Simpson's Tapped Out - similarly, no pressure to ever buy anything for cash unless you're completely impatient or just have to have something. The entire game is available for free unless you want completely optional items that offer little advantage over just playing.
I just started playing the Marvel Puzzle Quest game. Well worth the $10 I decided to give them to open the game up to a point where I could easily earn the rest through play....and if I hadn't liked the game, I would have never had to give them the 10.
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...and while you're at it, Firefox should disable any support of passwords, of any kind, for anything, as it is a tool for digital rights management.
https, of course, should be next.
Multiple myeloma is forever.
My father's fighting multiple myeloma. He beat it into remission once with a marrow treatment, and after 5 years (which is about par for the course), it came back. Enough chemo pills to bankrupt a horse later, he's teetering on the brink of remission #2, but likely going to be taking a prophylactic/maintenance dose of chemo drugs until the next time it comes out of remission - which might be the cycle he's on for the rest of his life (which we now measure in +-5 year blocks).
There's a certain point in the process at which a painful year of chemo treatments or inpatient marrow treatments gambling for a 5-year remission in a 70-year old becomes a losing proposition, but knowing you can possibly press the snooze button on cancer through normal methods enough times that perhaps, perhaps, just get your Super Measles! shot someday for your next 5-years snooze is promising.
Here's hoping.
First, it doesn't beg the question.
*whew*
That said, all you've done is repeat what the poster above you said while trying to chide him.
He said, very clearly, that a sticker on your car espousing something the police in your neighborhood might find unpopular in and of itself wasn't something that would get you pulled over, but could certainly be the trigger that caused police to scrutinize your car and behavior until they found some nitpicking reason to pull you over.
You then said that, no, he was totally correct.
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Yeah, don't.
You can install FindMyWhatever on some items, but for the most part, you're wasting your time.
Thieves look for targets of opportunity. Make your home less friendly. Place a camera in plain view and out of reach. Put up a beware of Doug sign and get a Glock window decal.
If someone comes for your electronics specifically, it's an inside job. You can avoid that by screening your friends better.
In the meantime, just do regular backups offsite.
Anyone who can support a microwave and an oven now, can support a ovenmicrowave in the future, although it might need a two-plug dongle.
...could be worse.
Group messages on iPhones are sent as MMS and routinely discarded by Google Voice.
Receipt is strictly a Google Voice problem, but iPhones decide secretly how to send messages :/
You could turn off the electric motors easily and just coast for a while to ride the air currents...
...if you weren't loaded up with a giant pile of batteries, sure.
We still get some kosher beef by making sure it bleeds out...
I've been using black nail polish for years to cover blue LEDs on consumer electronics.
You can grab NRC tag rings fairly cheaply at most of the Hong Kong importers.
One of many examples:
http://www.dx.com/p/smart-nfc-...
Your insurer might require that, but that's between you and your insurer.
I assure you that, should you be delivered unconscious to a hospital needing "major procedures" like an MRI in an emergency setting, you'll still have it performed without someone calling BCBSCA.
Obligatory Onion:
http://www.theonion.com/articl...
Perfect health has always been the slowest possible way to die.
This is the real issue.
If you're not already an all BlackBerry shop, or you're not big enough that you can dedicate resources to running BES in addition to your other solution, you need a different solution to manage your mobile devices before someone loses a phone on a plane and you're writing HIPAA checks.
None of the good multi-platform enterprise class solutions support BlackBerry
So you implement Mobile Iron as your one mobile management solution, and tell people they can't have a BlackBerry if they want enterprise mail, and the 3% of your people with BB's becomes 0% as you issue them Androids and iPhones. [Because giving everyone who actually has a personal BlackBerry a new Galaxy costs less than the server for BES.] And like that, BlackBerry's market share goes from 3% to 2.99%.
...then you're 100% wrong.
Say what you want about the giant fuck-you-a-rama that is medical billing, but emergency care (unconscious people brought to the hospital) is done by people who aren't in the billing department.
If you're unconscious at the hospital, they're going to treat you first and settle with your insurer later.
And every Russian with a phone made by anyone other than a Russian phone-maker would be SOL.
There are plenty of times when I'd have liked to have rented a hotspot for $5 for the day - one day only - especially if it was a different provider than the one my phone already used.
I own a little FreedomPop (Sprint) device for emergencies now (on the $4 "rollover" plan), and my personal phone is a GPE HTC One on T-Mo, so I've got the spectrum reasonably well covered in case of emergency.
Right. Because the national debt is equivalent to climate change.
The idea that putting off today's problem for 100 years because it won't bite anyone in the ass until after we're dead, however, is equivalent.
What "advantage" do you get in a single-player game?
Over whom do you get this advantage, what what would you use it for?
I get Candy Crush Saga lives every 30 minutes or so, rain or shine. It doesn't "demand" anything.
Your other argument is that Facebook costs the price of a text message?!?
Microtransactions make them money, so they bet on them.
I don't see what's any less true about that statement if non-microtransaction games are being pirated.
Which one of those five things are the three things that happen with F2P games?
Some games are fairly reasonable about this. Lets look at a few heavy hitters in the freemium space.
Candy Crush - never demands a purchase, ever, if you allow it to use Facebook data, and asks for $0.99 for new blocks of levels if you don't. Every level is beatable without assistance. [I have three stars without money, on every level through the high 300's.]
Simpson's Tapped Out - similarly, no pressure to ever buy anything for cash unless you're completely impatient or just have to have something. The entire game is available for free unless you want completely optional items that offer little advantage over just playing.
I just started playing the Marvel Puzzle Quest game. Well worth the $10 I decided to give them to open the game up to a point where I could easily earn the rest through play. ...and if I hadn't liked the game, I would have never had to give them the 10.
Does CMU have a monospace to proportional project to donate to?
You don't invent patents. You patent inventions. The patents list the inventors. The inventors [names] are ON the patents.