I have used Comcast at 3 different locations and they all required that their router be activated via a web browser. I could guess that the software that they use to activate the router was written in IE 5.5 and they are just too lazy to bother checking to see if anything else works with it.
They may be applying for a trademark for Gmail now, but don't be the person who trademarks the gPhone or gCar or gSearch. They may decide to go into that market and then sue you on the basis that it MIGHT confuse the customer and the courts take it away.
It is just too easy to abuse the courts and the laws. I don't if Google has to pay millions of dollars to buy the trademark in every country in the world. If it were that obvious then maybe they should try a little harder to find an actual unique trademark instead of expecting the courts to say "Your a big company so we will give it too you."
I suppose that it would be true until a few bugs hitch a ride on the back of some freight
It is true that you cannot totally control infestation, but when you have limited access to the crop, it is easier and less likely for your crops become infested with pests.
Imagine you are a cotton farmer in Georgia who sprays pesticide on your fields once a week( due to cost ). You can still suffer from pests coming from your neighbors land through no fault of your own. At least with the controlled environment you have a better chance of dealing with the carnage some insects can do to crops.
This is more likely to get the law thrown out then get this guy put in prison. It is unreasonably broad for this officer to be applying this law in this way.
I could think of three good reasons for moving from Redmond.
Keep Microsoft from poaching their staff
Increased access to talented employees
Improved access to clients
The fact that 90% of their employees seem unwilling to move seems to indicate that their options in Redmond seem pretty good and that they don't really love Nintendo that much anyways.
Warhammer 40K plastic models. You were give pieces that could be put together not just for different poses but different weapons.
Punch-out toy is vehicle or robot Punch-out toy can be customized with accessories that help it in its battles
40K models also had different kits for putting together stuff like dreadnoughts and there were a ton of vehicles too.
There are definite, codified rules -- not something where we build models on our own and decide to battle them
Warhammer and Warhammer 40K
The model kits and/or accessories are distributed in packs randomly These toys existed before 2003
I fail to see how randomly distributing accessories constitute a new concept that provides patent protection. This is more of a marketing gimmick that has nothing to do with the game itself. You want random, how about the toys that McDonald's give out in their kids meals. Does THAT deserve patent protection? Hell Cracker Jack has been that for decades.
This deserves as much patent protection as the eraser on he end of a pencil.
I did a study on Monsanto and its business model and it is a very novel idea. They GM seeds that are tolerant to their pesticides. If you want to use their pesticides, you HAVE to buy their seed to get the benefits.
The problem with people buying so called generic seeds is that they cannot use those pesticides so they may to use pesticides that are either A) more toxic to the environment; B) pesticides that are not as effective. Both of these are negatives to society as a whole.
Another problem with commercialization of seeds, you are crowding out the market for generic seeds. If you are a poor farmer, you cannot go anywhere to get seeds; you can only work with large companies like Monsanto because they only the ones who can financially bring their product to the market. They are basically a monopoly.
If this was a fair market, no problem but the fact of the matter is, it is not a fair market. It is changing drastically as much as other industries are trying to create artificial monopolies( electric utilities, phone companies, copyright businesses) why do you think that farms and seeds going to be any different?
Now we only have to install two in the US. One in the Capital Building (where Congress meets), and the White House (where Bush lives). All the hot air and excess sound should surely power the US for years to come.
I was talking with a recruiter the other week who worked in as a recruiter in the area I was moving too for a couple of years. About 3 years companies started demanding Java programming skills, however there were not a lot of Java programmers in the area, and the ones that were there only had 1 or 2 years of experience. The companies said, "not enough experience" so those potential Java programmers moved out of the area.
Fast forward to today, the recruiter said there is a huge demand for, you guessed it, Java programmers with 3 to 5 years of experience. He could not find anyone to fill these positions. Why? Because these same companies were unwilling to hire anyone with little experience and let them grow into a position.
I hate it when companies complain that they cannot find anyone. Somehow they expect IT people to appear out of thin air with 3 to 5 years of experience. If there is a shortage of technical workers and skill sets how about these companies,
Invest in their employees to get the skills they need
Pay more to keep their competent employees that have the skills they already want
It boils down to money with companies being too cheap. Is it any real surprise that they cannot get effective IT?
Considering how many internal memos, legal documents and news reports that I have read follow the same structure; I fail to see how their understanding is any different from a persons.
You point an inherit flaw that the government and businesses work. It is your responsibility to figure out if "THEY" gave out fraudulent credit cards, SSN cards, birth certificates, drivers license.
I would say, if businesses and the government had to pay for hardships they caused someone else they would not be so quick to shrug their shoulders when an obviously questionable situation arises.
I also love how they put in 'Adblock' and 'Adblock Plus'. They say, well we don't like it being an advertising web site, but trust us, it is not very good.
I thought 'Adblock' was a great extension and very effective.
I also like 'Noscript', it is simple to prevent sites that insist that they and every site they connect to should be allowed to run javascript on your browser. 'Noscript' allows me to specify only the sites, like the one I am browsing, to actually run Javascript instead of every ad aggregator that wants information on you.
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That is why I use button fly, much harder for dangling bits to expose themselves.
I have used Comcast at 3 different locations and they all required that their router be activated via a web browser. I could guess that the software that they use to activate the router was written in IE 5.5 and they are just too lazy to bother checking to see if anything else works with it.
Or Microsoft...
They may be applying for a trademark for Gmail now, but don't be the person who trademarks the gPhone or gCar or gSearch. They may decide to go into that market and then sue you on the basis that it MIGHT confuse the customer and the courts take it away.
It is just too easy to abuse the courts and the laws. I don't if Google has to pay millions of dollars to buy the trademark in every country in the world. If it were that obvious then maybe they should try a little harder to find an actual unique trademark instead of expecting the courts to say "Your a big company so we will give it too you."
I don't know what OS he would use, but it would definitely be written in something Evil!
Trendy, but not too trendy. Popular, but not too popular. Definitely superior, yet always a minority.
Macs!
He said it needs 'mass.'
We need to send American women!
Did universities in the United States become part of the FBI?
a more traditionally violent video game premise: one man's struggle to stay alive in an insane asylum gone mad."
Translation: You are a peon who works for the federal government...
No wonder the Feds want to regulate these sorts of games!
I suppose that it would be true until a few bugs hitch a ride on the back of some freight
It is true that you cannot totally control infestation, but when you have limited access to the crop, it is easier and less likely for your crops become infested with pests.
Imagine you are a cotton farmer in Georgia who sprays pesticide on your fields once a week( due to cost ). You can still suffer from pests coming from your neighbors land through no fault of your own. At least with the controlled environment you have a better chance of dealing with the carnage some insects can do to crops.
This is more likely to get the law thrown out then get this guy put in prison. It is unreasonably broad for this officer to be applying this law in this way.
I could think of three good reasons for moving from Redmond.
The fact that 90% of their employees seem unwilling to move seems to indicate that their options in Redmond seem pretty good and that they don't really love Nintendo that much anyways.
Because the costing of living in NYC and San Francisco is incredibly high?
your punch-out toy versus my punch-out toy
Warhammer 40K plastic models. You were give pieces that could be put together not just for different poses but different weapons.
Punch-out toy is vehicle or robot
Punch-out toy can be customized with accessories that help it in its battles
40K models also had different kits for putting together stuff like dreadnoughts and there were a ton of vehicles too.
There are definite, codified rules -- not something where we build models on our own and decide to battle them
Warhammer and Warhammer 40K
The model kits and/or accessories are distributed in packs randomly
These toys existed before 2003
I fail to see how randomly distributing accessories constitute a new concept that provides patent protection. This is more of a marketing gimmick that has nothing to do with the game itself. You want random, how about the toys that McDonald's give out in their kids meals. Does THAT deserve patent protection? Hell Cracker Jack has been that for decades.
This deserves as much patent protection as the eraser on he end of a pencil.
I did a study on Monsanto and its business model and it is a very novel idea. They GM seeds that are tolerant to their pesticides. If you want to use their pesticides, you HAVE to buy their seed to get the benefits.
The problem with people buying so called generic seeds is that they cannot use those pesticides so they may to use pesticides that are either A) more toxic to the environment; B) pesticides that are not as effective. Both of these are negatives to society as a whole.
Another problem with commercialization of seeds, you are crowding out the market for generic seeds. If you are a poor farmer, you cannot go anywhere to get seeds; you can only work with large companies like Monsanto because they only the ones who can financially bring their product to the market. They are basically a monopoly.
If this was a fair market, no problem but the fact of the matter is, it is not a fair market. It is changing drastically as much as other industries are trying to create artificial monopolies( electric utilities, phone companies, copyright businesses) why do you think that farms and seeds going to be any different?
Now we only have to install two in the US. One in the Capital Building (where Congress meets), and the White House (where Bush lives). All the hot air and excess sound should surely power the US for years to come.
He sounds exactly like the man he wants to replace. Why he thinks anyone would want to vote for him I don't know.
Why not skip to the source and just burn Ann Coulter?
I was talking with a recruiter the other week who worked in as a recruiter in the area I was moving too for a couple of years. About 3 years companies started demanding Java programming skills, however there were not a lot of Java programmers in the area, and the ones that were there only had 1 or 2 years of experience. The companies said, "not enough experience" so those potential Java programmers moved out of the area.
Fast forward to today, the recruiter said there is a huge demand for, you guessed it, Java programmers with 3 to 5 years of experience. He could not find anyone to fill these positions. Why? Because these same companies were unwilling to hire anyone with little experience and let them grow into a position.
I hate it when companies complain that they cannot find anyone. Somehow they expect IT people to appear out of thin air with 3 to 5 years of experience. If there is a shortage of technical workers and skill sets how about these companies,
It boils down to money with companies being too cheap. Is it any real surprise that they cannot get effective IT?
I have to put away my Virtual Wizard Hat now?
Quick! Everyone hold your breath before the oxygen runs out!
and that Earth is not gay like the bible says.
Considering how many internal memos, legal documents and news reports that I have read follow the same structure; I fail to see how their understanding is any different from a persons.
You point an inherit flaw that the government and businesses work. It is your responsibility to figure out if "THEY" gave out fraudulent credit cards, SSN cards, birth certificates, drivers license.
I would say, if businesses and the government had to pay for hardships they caused someone else they would not be so quick to shrug their shoulders when an obviously questionable situation arises.
I also love how they put in 'Adblock' and 'Adblock Plus'. They say, well we don't like it being an advertising web site, but trust us, it is not very good.
I thought 'Adblock' was a great extension and very effective.
I also like 'Noscript', it is simple to prevent sites that insist that they and every site they connect to should be allowed to run javascript on your browser. 'Noscript' allows me to specify only the sites, like the one I am browsing, to actually run Javascript instead of every ad aggregator that wants information on you.