I'm still quite sure that eBay fully cooperates with those seeking to take action against other users who post libelous feedback.
The court obviously made the correct decision in throwing out the lawsuit. I do hope the judge told the plaintiff(s) to take it up with the people responsible for the poor feedback. That's where justice lies in these cases.
You can develop any application you want, but you must abide by the Google Web APIs terms of service. One condition is you cannot create a commercial service using Google Web APIs without first obtaining written consent from Google. Another is that you can only create one account for your personal use.
Do what it says - obtain written permission. That written permission will be in the form of a commercial contract/license.
I'm not disputing whether or not the advertising is effective in fulfilling its purpose of promoting the advertiser's site. I am simply stating that Google would not a very viable company if they relied on advertising alone to make their money.
I won't argue with you on how much Google makes off the ads, as I am willing to bet that about 80% or more of their funds comes from advertising, however, advertising has always proven as an ineffective means of remaining viable. You simply have to have other sources of income.
You can always use the Google API for more than 2,000 searches per day if you pay licensing fees for it. That's just Google ensuring that it can remain a viable company. Little text-box advertisements just don't cut it in this day and age where blatant pop-ups and colorful banner ads don't even have much turn-around. That's not the point though.
The point is that I wouldn't look anytime soon for LookSmart to allow unlimited usage of this API. It's too large of a project for them to just let people use it. It's simple economics. They may not be investing the computing resources into this projects web spidering software, but it's still using TONS of resources to keep this data catalogued and readily accessible.
This has been done before. There used to be a company called Bloodmoney that you could play games for money on. I think the company bottomed out, mainly due to the fact that they couldn't get their software working with more popular games, but it was there and I still have a T-shirt.
This was a known fact as soon as EA cancelled the Xbox version of Battlefield 1942. They didn't go on record saying it or anything, but EA had no other titles in the pipeline for Xbox live.
It's too bad too, as a developer I find that Xbox Live is by far and away the easiest online platform to develop for among any of the consoles.
As for Eidos... Tomb Raider Online never sounded very appealling anyways.
We are going to come home with our CD's and try to rip them only to have the damn Xbox not read it because it is a CD-R. That would piss me off to all hell if that happened to me. Fortunately, it hasn't yet.
How long do you think it will take for crackers to work around this technology?
Sure, it will take a lot more work than something like a simpler like disabling Windows Activation or a NO-CD crack for your favorite game, but when it is something as powerful as this there will most certainly be those who make their attempts at disabling this function.
Not really to state that it would be better, just that it generally comes out easier to use. Having something work out of the box is much easier than having to mod and then hack your Xbox into a media player.
Not necessarily a standard key, but if one of those keyboards with one-touch Internet buttons would add a "Pornography" button it would save me some effort.
RIAA and MPAA, Please see to it that your brochures are delivered to the proper suggestions box. They can be located out behind the offices, just find the B.F.I. logo and throw them in.
What the hell are you supposed to do when someone decides to be an ass and demagnetize your card? Does your money just vanish since you can't scan it and it carries no identifying information?
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You are a genious!!!!!
I'm still quite sure that eBay fully cooperates with those seeking to take action against other users who post libelous feedback.
The court obviously made the correct decision in throwing out the lawsuit. I do hope the judge told the plaintiff(s) to take it up with the people responsible for the poor feedback. That's where justice lies in these cases.
Michael Moore can't speak out on an event nobody attends.
- You can develop any application you want, but you must abide by the Google Web APIs terms of service. One condition is you cannot create a commercial service using Google Web APIs without first obtaining written consent from Google. Another is that you can only create one account for your personal use.
Do what it says - obtain written permission. That written permission will be in the form of a commercial contract/license.I'm not disputing whether or not the advertising is effective in fulfilling its purpose of promoting the advertiser's site. I am simply stating that Google would not a very viable company if they relied on advertising alone to make their money.
I won't argue with you on how much Google makes off the ads, as I am willing to bet that about 80% or more of their funds comes from advertising, however, advertising has always proven as an ineffective means of remaining viable. You simply have to have other sources of income.
You can always use the Google API for more than 2,000 searches per day if you pay licensing fees for it. That's just Google ensuring that it can remain a viable company. Little text-box advertisements just don't cut it in this day and age where blatant pop-ups and colorful banner ads don't even have much turn-around. That's not the point though.
The point is that I wouldn't look anytime soon for LookSmart to allow unlimited usage of this API. It's too large of a project for them to just let people use it. It's simple economics. They may not be investing the computing resources into this projects web spidering software, but it's still using TONS of resources to keep this data catalogued and readily accessible.
This has been done before. There used to be a company called Bloodmoney that you could play games for money on. I think the company bottomed out, mainly due to the fact that they couldn't get their software working with more popular games, but it was there and I still have a T-shirt.
I guess if we had the infamous 'nude code' make an appearance then it would be worthwhile.
This was a known fact as soon as EA cancelled the Xbox version of Battlefield 1942. They didn't go on record saying it or anything, but EA had no other titles in the pipeline for Xbox live.
It's too bad too, as a developer I find that Xbox Live is by far and away the easiest online platform to develop for among any of the consoles.
As for Eidos... Tomb Raider Online never sounded very appealling anyways.
then it better be able to make me a sandwich.
We are going to come home with our CD's and try to rip them only to have the damn Xbox not read it because it is a CD-R. That would piss me off to all hell if that happened to me. Fortunately, it hasn't yet.
Of course the use of them will be illegal. Why wouldn't it be?
but true.
How long do you think it will take for crackers to work around this technology?
Sure, it will take a lot more work than something like a simpler like disabling Windows Activation or a NO-CD crack for your favorite game, but when it is something as powerful as this there will most certainly be those who make their attempts at disabling this function.
Thoughts?
Not really to state that it would be better, just that it generally comes out easier to use. Having something work out of the box is much easier than having to mod and then hack your Xbox into a media player.
There's just something about knowing that some of the greatest achievements in recent technology have been accidents. Quite unsettling.
Even better, Valve will announce the same about Team Fortress 2
Not necessarily a standard key, but if one of those keyboards with one-touch Internet buttons would add a "Pornography" button it would save me some effort.
RIAA and MPAA,
Please see to it that your brochures are delivered to the proper suggestions box. They can be located out behind the offices, just find the B.F.I. logo and throw them in.
A Lawsuit? Withholding vital information certainly sounds like grounds for suing the living crap out of 'em.
We already have these so called "Smart Cards" with microchips in them. However, they still utilize a magnetic strip when you use them.
The day strippers let you swipe plastic will be a day for celebration
What the hell are you supposed to do when someone decides to be an ass and demagnetize your card? Does your money just vanish since you can't scan it and it carries no identifying information?
In all my stupidity I submitted the last one as HTML.
CORRECTED FORMAT:
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