Sure you do, only the form of currency is different. You pay Facebook with access to your personal information in exchange for their service. Just because you don't value that information the same way that you value money doesn't mean that there isn't an exchange taking place.
Putting up a program like this - your kids will see a challenge and go out of their way to break/circumvent it. It's what I would have done as a kid...
Where's the downside here? I'm teaching my toddler to effectively reason in an arguement by playfully arguing with her when she wants something that I would probably say "yes" to anyway until she persuades me to agree with her by making her case. I'll do the same sort of thing with network access when she gets a little older (in addition to teaching her about good online practices) and start teaching her the basics of how our network works. I'd love it if the thrill of unrestricted access was enough of a motivator for her to learn how to circumvent our security.
So what? One more guy ahead of you. Big deal. So F'ing What if someone sneaks in between you and the next car. Did your manhood just get dissed?
Well, no, but then you slow down more to put a comfortable amount of distance between yourself and the new car in front of you...which causes everyone behind you to brake and/or pass you on the right. Rinse and repeat as soon as there's room in front of you again. The ongoing chain of braking/acceleration/lane changing of all the cars behind you with each iteration is more of a problem than a lane full of people who are all moving at a constant speed and paying attention, especially when a number of the cars behind you are being driven by someone more interested in their smartphone than they are in what's happening in front of them.
I try to opt out by staying in a lane that's appropriate to my driving habits. I'd rather be cruising along with room in front of me in the right or middle lane than try to make the fast lane conform to some ideal of safe driving that just isn't practiced by most of the people who spend all their time there.
Designing a game that would be fun for beginners/casual players and challenging for experts at the same time is extremely difficult. Ten or twenty years ago there were no games like that. Now, with the popularization of things like tutorials and achievements, we are getting closer, but we still aren't there in most genres.
Go? Scrabble? Checkers? Chess? Backgammon? Baseball? Cribbage? Risk? Ping Pong? I'm sure there are others. If a game isn't fun enough to keep playing past the beginner/casual level, it doesn't survive long enough to have expert players.
You forgot us former WoW players, who are cautiously curious, but still keeping our distance.
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Exactly. I stopped playing over a year ago for good reasons, but the whole Cataclysm thing is still kind of tempting in ways I can't even explain properly. The closest parallel I can come up with is the sensation I get as an ex-smoker from time to time where I feel like I would really enjoy a cigarette, even though I know that it would probably just turn my stomach and leave a bad taste in my mouth were I actually to give in to that impulse.
The passenger has plenty of opportunity to make it worse for the TSA goon since the pat down happens in front of all of the other passengers unless a request is made to go to a private area. I can't wait to see the first news stories start rolling in about situations where the TSA agent blows their cool and attacks a passenger after being publicly humiliated and laughed at by a line full of travelers.
"Over already? Do you always finish first when you do this sort of thing at home too?"
Sometime soon in America..."I got gold. I got gold. Yeah, what kind of gold do you want? I got yellow gold. I got white gold. 18 carat? Yeah, that's all right...but this 24 carat stuff from Germany is real, real, real good stuff. You'll know where that extra money went when you need it. I got gold. Gold here. Get your gold."
It looks like they opted for non-scarce materials according to the official site:
The Very Light Car is a more sustainable vehicle. Not just efficient to drive, but cradle-to-grave environmentally responsible. Less mass means fewer material inputs. Energy intensive materials and hazardous or scarce materials are largely avoided in favor of conventional materials, such as aluminum and steel, that are readily available, easily made in volume, and completely recyclable.
No kidding. And where do you think all those bits go when the operator pulls out one of the tubes to shoot the lotto balls through? They go all over the floor, that's where. The room starts to fill up with 1s and 0s. They get all over the place, impossible to clean up. You'll be picking little 0s out of your beard for weeks and smell like web 1.0 sites for twice that long. Have you ever tried to get bits from a myspace page out of a sweater?
Guess what people will do when they can't buy a used copy and don't have money for a new copy?
Either go without or infringe copyright by using an unauthorized copy. To the publishers, having their work pirated and seeing it sold second-hand are typically the same thing because they don't get paid in either of those two scenarios.
Viggo Mortensen could probably pull off Roland. I always thought of Palance as more of the man in black type. Clint should get a part somewhere to pay respect to how much of an influence his early work had on the series, but I can't see him wanting to sign up to do all three movies plus a miniseries as a major character.
You can buy a replenishment card with cash at a convenience store. The card has a code on it which can either be entered into your phone directly or associated with your account online to add minutes to your balance.
Yes, this is still the case. You can buy prepaid phones and replenishment cards with cash at a convenience store and then activate or add minutes online without having to provide proof of identity. Paranoid types will do this at an open wi-fi access point to avoid leaving an IP trail. I know TracFone operates this way, but the other carriers may have a similar policy.
> That's the whole point - to make the novel more dynamic and involved than a pile of printed pages.
I feel like this takes a lot out of the experience. My relationship with the novel is already a dynamic one because my understanding and appreciation of the work changes over time. Reading Orwell's 1984 as a junior high school student was an entirely different experience compared to reading it near middle age. Appreciating those differences was a big part of what made re-reading the book worthwhile.
Well written novels are already involving because they engage your curiosity and imagination. I can't see how an endless amount of commentary, illustration, or supplementary material can do anything other than distract from the core of the work.
> $10/year isn't bad, but that's $200 to be able to review/reread the book over the next 20 years is.
Exactly...and what happens if the business model doesn't work out and the platform goes offline ten years from now? At that point you would be out $100 in subscription charges with nothing more to show for it than your memory of experiencing the content.
I'd rather just buy the hardback and be able to enjoy it whenever and however I choose to...something that I've done for all of Stephenson's books following Snow Crash.
Give a hacker physical access to any device and they will eventually find a way to crack it....In fact wouldn't it be easier to plug the phone in via USB and hack it that way, perhaps by mounting it as a hard drive and messing with the contents?
True, but at least my android phone defaults to charge only mode when plugged in via USB (default action is user-configurable). I need to unlock it after plugging it in to mount it as a drive.
Facebook only shows and knows as much as you tell it. If you fill out nothing but your name and age, that's all that will show.
True, but if actually use their service then you're building up a friend list, allowing someone with the appropriate level of access to do things like profile you based on the characteristics of the people you choose to associate with.
The same could probably be said for things like remotely stored address books on web mail accounts, but the bigger players in that space don't have the same track record of turning private data into public data the way Facebook has.
Time to start uploading pictures of other people with a dummy account and tagging them as yourself. If you can't get lost in the system, might as well try to get lost in the noise.
It really depends on if the thief wants to break into a house or if they want to break into your house specifically. Dogs are like thorn bushes under your windows...they won't stop someone who really wants in, but they can be enough of a deterrent to convince someone less motivated to rob someone else instead.
A lot about World of Warcraft still doesn't make sense to my videogame-loving brain, but I'm not sure that the people who stick with WoW for years really love videogames to begin with.
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Sure you do, only the form of currency is different. You pay Facebook with access to your personal information in exchange for their service. Just because you don't value that information the same way that you value money doesn't mean that there isn't an exchange taking place.
Putting up a program like this - your kids will see a challenge and go out of their way to break/circumvent it. It's what I would have done as a kid...
Where's the downside here? I'm teaching my toddler to effectively reason in an arguement by playfully arguing with her when she wants something that I would probably say "yes" to anyway until she persuades me to agree with her by making her case. I'll do the same sort of thing with network access when she gets a little older (in addition to teaching her about good online practices) and start teaching her the basics of how our network works. I'd love it if the thrill of unrestricted access was enough of a motivator for her to learn how to circumvent our security.
So what? One more guy ahead of you. Big deal. So F'ing What if someone sneaks in between you and the next car. Did your manhood just get dissed?
Well, no, but then you slow down more to put a comfortable amount of distance between yourself and the new car in front of you...which causes everyone behind you to brake and/or pass you on the right. Rinse and repeat as soon as there's room in front of you again. The ongoing chain of braking/acceleration/lane changing of all the cars behind you with each iteration is more of a problem than a lane full of people who are all moving at a constant speed and paying attention, especially when a number of the cars behind you are being driven by someone more interested in their smartphone than they are in what's happening in front of them.
I try to opt out by staying in a lane that's appropriate to my driving habits. I'd rather be cruising along with room in front of me in the right or middle lane than try to make the fast lane conform to some ideal of safe driving that just isn't practiced by most of the people who spend all their time there.
Designing a game that would be fun for beginners/casual players and challenging for experts at the same time is extremely difficult. Ten or twenty years ago there were no games like that. Now, with the popularization of things like tutorials and achievements, we are getting closer, but we still aren't there in most genres.
Go? Scrabble? Checkers? Chess? Backgammon? Baseball? Cribbage? Risk? Ping Pong? I'm sure there are others. If a game isn't fun enough to keep playing past the beginner/casual level, it doesn't survive long enough to have expert players.
You forgot us former WoW players, who are cautiously curious, but still keeping our distance.
~D
Exactly. I stopped playing over a year ago for good reasons, but the whole Cataclysm thing is still kind of tempting in ways I can't even explain properly. The closest parallel I can come up with is the sensation I get as an ex-smoker from time to time where I feel like I would really enjoy a cigarette, even though I know that it would probably just turn my stomach and leave a bad taste in my mouth were I actually to give in to that impulse.
The passenger has plenty of opportunity to make it worse for the TSA goon since the pat down happens in front of all of the other passengers unless a request is made to go to a private area. I can't wait to see the first news stories start rolling in about situations where the TSA agent blows their cool and attacks a passenger after being publicly humiliated and laughed at by a line full of travelers.
"Over already? Do you always finish first when you do this sort of thing at home too?"
Sometime soon in America..."I got gold. I got gold. Yeah, what kind of gold do you want? I got yellow gold. I got white gold. 18 carat? Yeah, that's all right...but this 24 carat stuff from Germany is real, real, real good stuff. You'll know where that extra money went when you need it. I got gold. Gold here. Get your gold."
The frame is made out of steel, not titanium.
It looks like they opted for non-scarce materials according to the official site:
The Very Light Car is a more sustainable vehicle. Not just efficient to drive, but cradle-to-grave environmentally responsible. Less mass means fewer material inputs. Energy intensive materials and hazardous or scarce materials are largely avoided in favor of conventional materials, such as aluminum and steel, that are readily available, easily made in volume, and completely recyclable.
No kidding. And where do you think all those bits go when the operator pulls out one of the tubes to shoot the lotto balls through? They go all over the floor, that's where. The room starts to fill up with 1s and 0s. They get all over the place, impossible to clean up. You'll be picking little 0s out of your beard for weeks and smell like web 1.0 sites for twice that long. Have you ever tried to get bits from a myspace page out of a sweater?
Guess what people will do when they can't buy a used copy and don't have money for a new copy?
Either go without or infringe copyright by using an unauthorized copy. To the publishers, having their work pirated and seeing it sold second-hand are typically the same thing because they don't get paid in either of those two scenarios.
the US isn't a corrupt 3rd world country that you can bribe epople to get your way.
True...we're a first world country where you can have lobbyists bribe people for you to get your way instead.
Viggo Mortensen could probably pull off Roland. I always thought of Palance as more of the man in black type. Clint should get a part somewhere to pay respect to how much of an influence his early work had on the series, but I can't see him wanting to sign up to do all three movies plus a miniseries as a major character.
I can't buy $SomeTitle for PS3 because Sony has turned it down. What should the developer of $SomeTitle do about this?
Stop developing for platforms that offer no guarantee that their product will ever be available to their target audience.
> Texting and talking at 90 mph is going to get people killed.
Texting at any speed is dangerous, if not necessarily for the driver then for nearby pedestrians, people on bicycles, etc.
...because you don't fuck with love, love is a sociopath.
This is pretty much consistent with every relationship I've ever been in.
You can buy a replenishment card with cash at a convenience store. The card has a code on it which can either be entered into your phone directly or associated with your account online to add minutes to your balance.
Yes, this is still the case. You can buy prepaid phones and replenishment cards with cash at a convenience store and then activate or add minutes online without having to provide proof of identity. Paranoid types will do this at an open wi-fi access point to avoid leaving an IP trail. I know TracFone operates this way, but the other carriers may have a similar policy.
> That's the whole point - to make the novel more dynamic and involved than a pile of printed pages.
I feel like this takes a lot out of the experience. My relationship with the novel is already a dynamic one because my understanding and appreciation of the work changes over time. Reading Orwell's 1984 as a junior high school student was an entirely different experience compared to reading it near middle age. Appreciating those differences was a big part of what made re-reading the book worthwhile.
Well written novels are already involving because they engage your curiosity and imagination. I can't see how an endless amount of commentary, illustration, or supplementary material can do anything other than distract from the core of the work.
> $10/year isn't bad, but that's $200 to be able to review/reread the book over the next 20 years is.
Exactly...and what happens if the business model doesn't work out and the platform goes offline ten years from now? At that point you would be out $100 in subscription charges with nothing more to show for it than your memory of experiencing the content.
I'd rather just buy the hardback and be able to enjoy it whenever and however I choose to...something that I've done for all of Stephenson's books following Snow Crash.
Give a hacker physical access to any device and they will eventually find a way to crack it....In fact wouldn't it be easier to plug the phone in via USB and hack it that way, perhaps by mounting it as a hard drive and messing with the contents?
True, but at least my android phone defaults to charge only mode when plugged in via USB (default action is user-configurable). I need to unlock it after plugging it in to mount it as a drive.
Facebook only shows and knows as much as you tell it. If you fill out nothing but your name and age, that's all that will show.
True, but if actually use their service then you're building up a friend list, allowing someone with the appropriate level of access to do things like profile you based on the characteristics of the people you choose to associate with.
The same could probably be said for things like remotely stored address books on web mail accounts, but the bigger players in that space don't have the same track record of turning private data into public data the way Facebook has.
Time to start uploading pictures of other people with a dummy account and tagging them as yourself. If you can't get lost in the system, might as well try to get lost in the noise.
It really depends on if the thief wants to break into a house or if they want to break into your house specifically. Dogs are like thorn bushes under your windows...they won't stop someone who really wants in, but they can be enough of a deterrent to convince someone less motivated to rob someone else instead.
A lot about World of Warcraft still doesn't make sense to my videogame-loving brain, but I'm not sure that the people who stick with WoW for years really love videogames to begin with.