I thought it was more like being told that you can run any app you wanted (with an asterisk saying as long as you can find it in one single store) with flat out being told that no, there really are no good apps for it.
Of course, simple solutions never survive politics.
It won't even survive Slashdot.
Is that $10,000 per idea? Per character? Per story? Per song? Album? Lyric?
Does Disney have to pay $10,000 to copyright Mickey, and another $10,000 to copyright Steamboat Willie? What about that song he sang during the short?
Not that I'd mind making Disney pay for an infinite amount of $10,000 copyright units... But I'm also curious what I personally can expect to have to pay.
* You're not in the same room as the person or people you're playing with (for the network games) * You don't have room for 100 (board) games, but one iPad with 100 games is small. * The game is difficult to score (or easy to score incorrectly) but otherwise fun (example: Carcassonne) * You don't have time to complete the game so would like to easily save it to continue another time. * You own a pet, or have children and are afraid of them disturbing the pieces.
It works really well in Britain... In the US, I expect they're reluctant to compel TV stations to provide universal service at all.
To be fair, what "they" are reluctant about is forcing every TV owner in the country to pay a yearly fee dictated by the government for the privilege of watching the programming.
Which I don't mind at all, being a TV owner who doesn't have any form of paid (or over-the-airwaves) service. I watch DVDs and play XBox on it. And Hulu, but if they killed my Hulu I'd not mind that much.
Someone with better art skills than I (Way better) needs to draw a comic of River on ice skates, with Mal (Or Joni Mitchell, though Mal would probably make the comic more obvious) on her back.
Here, in Taiwan, the most I've had to pay in taxes is about 10%. That includes health insurance. It makes me wonder how the heck the US spends all the taxes it brings in
How many troops did Taiwan send to Iraq?
I'm not saying it's right. I'm just saying that's where a decent amount of the money's going.
"You didn't give us enough free money for providing us with free advertising for our cash cow that we didn't even put work into in the first place, so no deal. Come back when you've got even more free money than what you gave us last time."
Oh woe is me! How will we ever survive if all print media dies from the internet? Where will we get our hard-hitting, guaranteed-factual news from then?/Yes, I know Wired isn't a newspaper.
This seems more of a limit on a jetpack than I'd be willing to accept. I mean, cruising along 100 feet over the ground (Well, the water) is fine until you hit a dock, or accidentally go over land. Then you've got 100 feet of free-fall.
As a bonus, you're almost guaranteed for this thing to ONLY fail when you're NOT over water, eliminating the only chance you have of surviving that big of a fall.
I'd be most interested in seeing a YouTube clip of it trying to avoid a hail of bullets fired from different angles.
I wouldn't want to be wearing it in that scenario.
I wouldn't want to be in the scenario in any case. Though, if I was, I'd want as many things trying to protect me as possible.
I'm not saying *this* suit would be preferable, but if it could avoid some of the bullets and absorb the rest, what possible reason could you have for preferring getting killed?
If the fact that we live in a society that values toilet paper more than theater offends you, then you need to make the decisions in your life that reflect this.
Um, I consider myself a pretty artsy person, but I value toilet paper pretty highly.
So, assuming this study is accurate, there are two conclusions one could come to:
1) Downloading opens people to things they would not know about, causing them to buy more. So, downloading should be allowed as advertisement. 2) The people who download are the most fervent fans. So, downloading should be allowed as a means to not drive them away.
Any others?/I was a a 1) when I stopped downloading, and consuming, all RIAA media.
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I absolutely love how this comment directly follows this comment currently in my view. Couldn't be better timed, guys. Thanks!
I thought it was more like being told that you can run any app you wanted (with an asterisk saying as long as you can find it in one single store) with flat out being told that no, there really are no good apps for it.
Of course, simple solutions never survive politics.
It won't even survive Slashdot.
Is that $10,000 per idea? Per character? Per story? Per song? Album? Lyric?
Does Disney have to pay $10,000 to copyright Mickey, and another $10,000 to copyright Steamboat Willie? What about that song he sang during the short?
Not that I'd mind making Disney pay for an infinite amount of $10,000 copyright units... But I'm also curious what I personally can expect to have to pay.
Pick one:
* You're not in the same room as the person or people you're playing with (for the network games)
* You don't have room for 100 (board) games, but one iPad with 100 games is small.
* The game is difficult to score (or easy to score incorrectly) but otherwise fun (example: Carcassonne)
* You don't have time to complete the game so would like to easily save it to continue another time.
* You own a pet, or have children and are afraid of them disturbing the pieces.
I'm sure you can think of more.
It's a joke, taking advantage of the fact that "resemble" and "resent" both start with the same 4 letters.
The common phrase is "I resent that remark" which means "I take offense at your implying that I am ... whatever"
The joke is "I resemble that remark" which means "I am exactly like how you describe, but don't like it."
It's always done in a joking manner, feigning that you are angry when in fact you realize that you are guilty of whatever is described.
If you concede that heterosexuality is similarly comparable to pedophilia then I'll at least grant you're consistent.
I still won't agree with you, but you'll look like less of an ass.
That's totally Photoshopped. I can see the streak marks.
It works really well in Britain ... In the US, I expect they're reluctant to compel TV stations to provide universal service at all.
To be fair, what "they" are reluctant about is forcing every TV owner in the country to pay a yearly fee dictated by the government for the privilege of watching the programming.
Which I don't mind at all, being a TV owner who doesn't have any form of paid (or over-the-airwaves) service. I watch DVDs and play XBox on it. And Hulu, but if they killed my Hulu I'd not mind that much.
Someone with better art skills than I (Way better) needs to draw a comic of River on ice skates, with Mal (Or Joni Mitchell, though Mal would probably make the comic more obvious) on her back.
Here, in Taiwan, the most I've had to pay in taxes is about 10%. That includes health insurance. It makes me wonder how the heck the US spends all the taxes it brings in
How many troops did Taiwan send to Iraq?
I'm not saying it's right. I'm just saying that's where a decent amount of the money's going.
"You didn't give us enough free money for providing us with free advertising for our cash cow that we didn't even put work into in the first place, so no deal. Come back when you've got even more free money than what you gave us last time."
Oh woe is me! How will we ever survive if all print media dies from the internet? Where will we get our hard-hitting, guaranteed-factual news from then? /Yes, I know Wired isn't a newspaper.
That's amazing. Thanks for posting that video.
At that point, the Internet was one typo away from disaster.
I wonder how long that took?
That very same graph with a third axis (axee? axen? Arg!) that shows this burst/time graph relative to an energy source I can somewhat comprehend.
The plural of axis is axes.
That said, you're talking about a single one (the third in a set, but it's still singular) so axis is correct.
This seems more of a limit on a jetpack than I'd be willing to accept. I mean, cruising along 100 feet over the ground (Well, the water) is fine until you hit a dock, or accidentally go over land. Then you've got 100 feet of free-fall.
As a bonus, you're almost guaranteed for this thing to ONLY fail when you're NOT over water, eliminating the only chance you have of surviving that big of a fall.
I'd be most interested in seeing a YouTube clip of it trying to avoid a hail of bullets fired from different angles.
I wouldn't want to be wearing it in that scenario.
I wouldn't want to be in the scenario in any case. Though, if I was, I'd want as many things trying to protect me as possible.
I'm not saying *this* suit would be preferable, but if it could avoid some of the bullets and absorb the rest, what possible reason could you have for preferring getting killed?
I absolutely LOVED Pinball Construction Set when I was a kid. I had it on my Apple //c in probably '84 or '85 and I made so many pinball games on it.
I also loved Lode Runner for the same reason: User created levels. Too bad back then it was just me and one other friend doing the "sharing."
Good times. Good times.
The argument isn't that we evolved intelligence quicker than anybody else could, therefore we're first.
The argument is that if we weren't first, someone would have come along and colonized our planet long before we even got fur.
If the fact that we live in a society that values toilet paper more than theater offends you, then you need to make the decisions in your life that reflect this.
Um, I consider myself a pretty artsy person, but I value toilet paper pretty highly.
So, assuming this study is accurate, there are two conclusions one could come to:
1) Downloading opens people to things they would not know about, causing them to buy more. So, downloading should be allowed as advertisement.
2) The people who download are the most fervent fans. So, downloading should be allowed as a means to not drive them away.
Any others? /I was a a 1) when I stopped downloading, and consuming, all RIAA media.
Gee, someone should have thought of this YEARS AGO!
Oh wait they did.
I'm on dialup, so got tired of waiting for TFA to load. Maybe it's graphical and awesome and whatever.
Nono! Tie it into the GPS.
I see - you're near - a - Starbucks.
Don't you - want - to get - a - latte?
It would be entertaining to see Oprah give very wide and mainstream publicity to the abuses enabled by our current patent system.
It's more likely she'd just give him a car.
Yeah, the man's been president for OVER NEGATIVE TWENTY DAYS already, when's he going to start running the country!?
Jeez.