I can't imagine that the magazines were even close as good a promotional vehicle as the (again, super efficient) downloading of video motion captures of the games.
Yes--because those grainy movie files the company websites give me look so much better than the printed higher-definition screenshots in magazines. And the best part is that I can't show anyone any content from the game unless I have quick access to an internet connection and the patience to sift through convoluted website designs!
".mobi," in reference to the Mobius Strip, representing the eternal stream of pop-up ads that will assault the cell users that try to access those sites.
For the small number of things I have downloaded and particularly liked, I have actually bought. If I didn't find them on the Internet I would have never been exposed to them.
I know exactly what you're talking about. The music I like isn't really supported by popular media. If I hadn't downloaded the music I listen to I never would have been exposed to it and wouldn't have bought anywhere near the number of albums I have. The fact is that I found every band I listen to through P2P and Bittorrent. And now that Bittorrent is catching on I'm finding myself doing the same thing with movies; frankly, the DVDs offer special features and such that I just can't get online or aren't at near the quality a good old fashioned MPAA-brand DVD, so I usually buy those, too.
The industry needs to understand that P2P networks and the like are a tool to spread culture and product awareness. Because of 'illegal' file sharing skeptical consumers (like me) are able to try before they buy. And more than likely, if the consumers don't go out and buy the CD with the song they downloaded or DVD of the movie they watched they probably weren't going to buy it, anyway.
Actually, while the value of the Chinese yen to the American Dollar has been at the same rate for months, the Yuan's value compared to the Japanese Yen has started to climb, approaching even exchange. This means much better profits for Chinese companies in Japan.
Also, the ASEAN is preparing to admit China, leading to the world's largest free trade bloc. They'll have improved access to markets in China, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia and New Zealand. The Chinese know that business is about to improve in China as well as the entire East.
That's not competition, that's a tax-funded program. How is verizon (or any other carrier) supposed to compete against that? Verizon can't take the money from you against your will, like the government can. Verizon can't force you to be a customer.
Exactly.
This legislation is nothing new. We're not slipping down any kind of dangerous slope because of this legislation. Is your phone service provided by the government? What about your current internet access?
This bill prevented the government from dominating internet access in the state of Pennsylvania. We should be happy that the government didn't gain this kind of control. Yes, a massive Wi-Fi grid would be nice, but do you really want the government to provide your internet and, hence, have more control over its content?
"What's your problem ? Just take the money and still make that lawsuit. I bet MS won't ask you to return the money."
Nope, you can't do that. A settlement is a contractual agreement saying, "we give you money and you can't sue us."
A person close to the CCIA said, "if anything, this may boost the CCIA's ability to recruit new members." This settlement sounds less like a financial move and more like the CCIA just wanted to improve its relations with Microsoft and make their organization a 'safer investment.' Companies are more likely to join them now that they are no longer fighting the #1 software developer.
"[Electronic voting's] impact was was proportional to the
Democratic support in the county, i.e., it was especially large in Broward, Palm Beach, and Miami-Dade. This evidence for this is the statistical signifigance of terms in our model that gauge the average impact of e-voting accross Florida's 67 counties and statistical interaction effects that gauge it's larger-than-life effect in counties where Vice President Gore did best in 2000...."
So, if it's the hurricane effect, why did this anomaly occur only in states with electronic voting machines? Wouldn't the entire state come out in greater numbers for Bush if the hurricane effect is to blame? If this wasn't voting fraud, it was at least an horrid fault in the machines.
While they aren't about to end the world, they are becoming an unsettling risk. For example, superbug salmonella is on the rise--resistant to 9 different antibiotics. And chicken in Spain is getting nasty, resistant to the antibiotic Vancomycin, a powerful drug used to clear out horrid infections.
So, while the general human population may not be harboring the superbugs right now they could commute from the animal population. Maybe instead of watching human resistance to viruses we should be keeping check on our domestic animals, since the superbugs may come from them.
Sure, each label will cost 20 to 50 cents to manufacture individually, but let's think about the big picture:
1) Each company will have to set up a process (buya new machine, assembly line, etc...) to apply each label. 2) To combat fraud pharmacies will have to develop and purchase systems to read and catalogue the RFID signatures. More money. 3) The pharmacies will have to train employees to use this system. This means developing a training program which means--you guessed it--more money.
So, in the end, this is going to cost the consumers much more than 20 to 50 cents per label. Look for a noticeable drug price hike if this happens.
I would, but the Imps and zombies make awful sounding howls that echo throughout Mars City, not to mention the serious firepower I'm constantly dishing out. After all, how do I silence a BFG?!
IANAL, but I do work around and with lawyers. I've read their documents, I've heard them talk, and they can be just as charming as Mr. Thompson, especially if they're not billing hours. These are people that are totally absorbed in their work and probably have little time or care for what a small gaming website has to say.
Unluckily for Mr. Thompson/. found these e-mails, which definately doesn't make him look very intelligent. Not that this will affect his case much, though.
Some people are just stubborn to change, even if it's good change. A tech-saavy friend of mine introduced me to Mozilla a few years ago, saying that it was far superior to IE. Eventually, though, he drifted back to IE, citing all the little things about Mozilla that annoyed him.
Now I'm using Firefox--a browser which has everything Internet Explorer has and fixed all the little problems with Mozilla my friend complained about. Yet, when I tell him what's been fixed he continues to find new problems with Firefox--little things, like "this button is in the wrong place," or the non-descript, "I just... I don't know." Heck, he'll even clog up his Windows tray with tens of instances of IE instead of using tabbed browsing!
Really, some people just don't care about having a better browser; they like IE because they've had it for years and are afraid or too set in their ways to switch. Even if every installation of Firefox came with a complimentary $20 check some people would still turn their nose and use IE--that's just how they are.
And as long as IE is installed with Windows it will continue to have some ground in the browser wars... but that's another topic.;D
Ok, this is pretty off topic, but I just have to throw this in:
A guy I know had his little brother shove a giant chocolate-chip cookie into his PSX. The guy was in another room when the kid did this, so he was startled by a noise that sounded like a lawn mower. He dashed into the room to see bits of cookie spewing out of the Playstation and the kid cackling with glee. Guess what? It didn't play games anymore.
Ah, but you see, they're not targeting your demographic--any 15 to 16 year old that knows what Linux even is wouldn't be touching this.
Only the pittiful "AOL is my operating system" kids will be looking at the Hip-e and drooling because they just want something that looks like the Mac the local computer geek bought but more edgy. Digital Lifestyles is banking on the tendancy for teens to try to out-cool one another.
When I look at this thing I think of Mountain Dew commercials, and I think that's exactly what they want.
Speaking of History of the World Part I, notice that the French movie poster for Spaceballs calls the movie "The Insane History of Space." Maybe we will see Jews in Space some day; I've been singing the song for years....
I remember a time when CDs were contained in jewel case-like plastic containers, which you would then insert into the drive with the CD still in the case. This way you didn't have to worry about the CD getting scratched, and if the plastic case ever became smeared or scratched, you would just replace the case, leaving the CD intact.
I imagine that this method of packaging would be an easy solution to something as fragile as the holographic disks.
Maybe we should stop and think about the wonderful applications this could have. Systems that are meant to monitor information for years, like space satellites or Yucca Mountain systems (http://www.ocrwm.doe.gov/ymp/index.shtml), could be equipped with these chips and last many more times longer than they would have before. And what about equipping space shuttles with these? Or public utilities like power grids?
I've found the AverTV Studio card to be absolutely wonderful. It has great picture quality, S-video input, an FM radio, and a remote. And don't say you won't use the remote--after you use it for a while, you won't be able to go without it.:P You should be able to find it on NewEgg for a good price--that's what I did.
Of course, that's assuming that the average Tom Techie ever gets this technology for personal use. The coporations would just love this technology, and would probably fight for it in courts till the bitter end.
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But shouldn't any domains under .ads, .pop, or .spy be regarded as "organized crime," as well?
".mobi," in reference to the Mobius Strip, representing the eternal stream of pop-up ads that will assault the cell users that try to access those sites.
Does anyone know the name of the website that was shut down? The article didn't appear to mention a name.
The industry needs to understand that P2P networks and the like are a tool to spread culture and product awareness. Because of 'illegal' file sharing skeptical consumers (like me) are able to try before they buy. And more than likely, if the consumers don't go out and buy the CD with the song they downloaded or DVD of the movie they watched they probably weren't going to buy it, anyway.
Actually, while the value of the Chinese yen to the American Dollar has been at the same rate for months, the Yuan's value compared to the Japanese Yen has started to climb, approaching even exchange. This means much better profits for Chinese companies in Japan.
Also, the ASEAN is preparing to admit China, leading to the world's largest free trade bloc. They'll have improved access to markets in China, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia and New Zealand. The Chinese know that business is about to improve in China as well as the entire East.
As Trickofperspective pointed out, Philidelphia is going to continue its plans for city-wide Wi-Fi, except that the ISP will be Verizon instead of the state of Pennsylvania.
Innovation isn't stifled by corporations, it just goes a different direction.
Couldn't they just have arranged an "accident" for him?
Why didn't he send his army of evil monkeys after him and the CCIA?
"What's your problem ? Just take the money and still make that lawsuit. I bet MS won't ask you to return the money."
Nope, you can't do that. A settlement is a contractual agreement saying, "we give you money and you can't sue us."
A person close to the CCIA said, "if anything, this may boost the CCIA's ability to recruit new members." This settlement sounds less like a financial move and more like the CCIA just wanted to improve its relations with Microsoft and make their organization a 'safer investment.' Companies are more likely to join them now that they are no longer fighting the #1 software developer.
So, if it's the hurricane effect, why did this anomaly occur only in states with electronic voting machines? Wouldn't the entire state come out in greater numbers for Bush if the hurricane effect is to blame? If this wasn't voting fraud, it was at least an horrid fault in the machines.
While they aren't about to end the world, they are becoming an unsettling risk. For example, superbug salmonella is on the rise--resistant to 9 different antibiotics. And chicken in Spain is getting nasty, resistant to the antibiotic Vancomycin, a powerful drug used to clear out horrid infections.
So, while the general human population may not be harboring the superbugs right now they could commute from the animal population. Maybe instead of watching human resistance to viruses we should be keeping check on our domestic animals, since the superbugs may come from them.
Sure, each label will cost 20 to 50 cents to manufacture individually, but let's think about the big picture:
1) Each company will have to set up a process (buya new machine, assembly line, etc...) to apply each label.
2) To combat fraud pharmacies will have to develop and purchase systems to read and catalogue the RFID signatures. More money.
3) The pharmacies will have to train employees to use this system. This means developing a training program which means--you guessed it--more money.
So, in the end, this is going to cost the consumers much more than 20 to 50 cents per label. Look for a noticeable drug price hike if this happens.
"Could you try to go to hell a little quieter"
I would, but the Imps and zombies make awful sounding howls that echo throughout Mars City, not to mention the serious firepower I'm constantly dishing out. After all, how do I silence a BFG?!
IANAL, but I do work around and with lawyers. I've read their documents, I've heard them talk, and they can be just as charming as Mr. Thompson, especially if they're not billing hours. These are people that are totally absorbed in their work and probably have little time or care for what a small gaming website has to say.
/. found these e-mails, which definately doesn't make him look very intelligent. Not that this will affect his case much, though.
Unluckily for Mr. Thompson
Some people are just stubborn to change, even if it's good change. A tech-saavy friend of mine introduced me to Mozilla a few years ago, saying that it was far superior to IE. Eventually, though, he drifted back to IE, citing all the little things about Mozilla that annoyed him.
;D
Now I'm using Firefox--a browser which has everything Internet Explorer has and fixed all the little problems with Mozilla my friend complained about. Yet, when I tell him what's been fixed he continues to find new problems with Firefox--little things, like "this button is in the wrong place," or the non-descript, "I just... I don't know." Heck, he'll even clog up his Windows tray with tens of instances of IE instead of using tabbed browsing!
Really, some people just don't care about having a better browser; they like IE because they've had it for years and are afraid or too set in their ways to switch. Even if every installation of Firefox came with a complimentary $20 check some people would still turn their nose and use IE--that's just how they are.
And as long as IE is installed with Windows it will continue to have some ground in the browser wars... but that's another topic.
And that, my friend, was the quip that broke the llama's ass.
Ok, this is pretty off topic, but I just have to throw this in:
A guy I know had his little brother shove a giant chocolate-chip cookie into his PSX. The guy was in another room when the kid did this, so he was startled by a noise that sounded like a lawn mower. He dashed into the room to see bits of cookie spewing out of the Playstation and the kid cackling with glee. Guess what? It didn't play games anymore.
Needless to say, the warranty didn't cover that.
Ah, but you see, they're not targeting your demographic--any 15 to 16 year old that knows what Linux even is wouldn't be touching this.
Only the pittiful "AOL is my operating system" kids will be looking at the Hip-e and drooling because they just want something that looks like the Mac the local computer geek bought but more edgy. Digital Lifestyles is banking on the tendancy for teens to try to out-cool one another.
When I look at this thing I think of Mountain Dew commercials, and I think that's exactly what they want.
Speaking of History of the World Part I, notice that the French movie poster for Spaceballs calls the movie "The Insane History of Space." Maybe we will see Jews in Space some day; I've been singing the song for years....
I remember a time when CDs were contained in jewel case-like plastic containers, which you would then insert into the drive with the CD still in the case. This way you didn't have to worry about the CD getting scratched, and if the plastic case ever became smeared or scratched, you would just replace the case, leaving the CD intact.
I imagine that this method of packaging would be an easy solution to something as fragile as the holographic disks.
Maybe we should stop and think about the wonderful applications this could have. Systems that are meant to monitor information for years, like space satellites or Yucca Mountain systems (http://www.ocrwm.doe.gov/ymp/index.shtml), could be equipped with these chips and last many more times longer than they would have before. And what about equipping space shuttles with these? Or public utilities like power grids?
This is a huge accomplishment!
I've found the AverTV Studio card to be absolutely wonderful. It has great picture quality, S-video input, an FM radio, and a remote. And don't say you won't use the remote--after you use it for a while, you won't be able to go without it. :P You should be able to find it on NewEgg for a good price--that's what I did.
"a prankster's dream come true"
Of course, that's assuming that the average Tom Techie ever gets this technology for personal use. The coporations would just love this technology, and would probably fight for it in courts till the bitter end.
Oh no... now you've given them ideas!
The horror!
Simply encode the instructions to send the phone to an infected URL. Scary, indeed.