Let's be honest here. Simple earlier games are going to be ported to Android, sans java layers of course it's Linux and of course being early non-java games why stuff about with java. So now there is going to be a lot of shoe horning, squeezing and 'er' homogenising to get it all to work, that Android market just can't be ignored.
Duty of care by the Bank should have warranted a check of unusual transaction. Bank was too lazy and cheap to make a single phone call to check out of pattern transactions, especially in the case of the most vulnerable in the community, pensioners.
Bank should should have been held at least 50% liable for the fraudulent transactions.
The focus on fracking though is getting as much methane gas out of the well as possible and generating a profit. Clearly in the US they knew most wells would fail which is why the had Darth Cheney arrange a get out of jail free card, basically legislation which allows them to pollute.
Fracking is all about turning rock formations into giant soda fountains and hoping to draw enough methane out at the 'designed' pressure drop point to generate a profit. Everyone by now must have seen the water from a tap burnings vids, well exactly how much methane a more severe greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide is being released into the atmosphere in a relative short time at these sites or has no one bothered to check.
Why do they bother? Is it all one big money churn, where a bunch of people scheme together to suck as much money out of it as possible, it obviously has very little to do with education.
As for research, well realistically undergraduate and post graduate education could very well do with a complete cut. Undergraduate Universities should be pretty much education only environment with no research and with post graduate facilities having a high focus on research.
As for sports, dump it out all together and let it sink on swim all on it's own, if it is marketing to promote schools seriously you are doing schools a disservice, basically promoting physical prowess "I can lift a hundred pounds" over mental prowess "I can spell a hundred pounds", the message you're sending out to future generations is perverse and stupid.
Unless Americans really enjoy living in a country where they can't trust anything, not the government, not the banks, not corporations and especially not mass media.
When you go to http://hdr.undp.org/en/data/build/ and add in inequality you get a more accurate picture. Yeah, some are doing well in the US, it seems they are just climbing over the bodies of those who are failing and are happy to do so.
Exactly right. Facebook paid M$ nothing for 650 patents. M$ who already owns a chunk of Facebook, helped to create the illusion of wealth by accepting $? worth of Facebook junk shares prior to IPO. Seems like M$ is going to bail on it's investment of Facebook not long after the IPO, it's working to fatten the calf for the slaughter that follows.
These stories should make a clear distinction between paying for somehow with hard cash and making junk share payments prior to IPO. What is the SEC asleep at the wheel again, this kind of pre-IPO marketing tactic is really pushing the bounds of acceptable behaviour.
Zuckerberg is a type, he wants them young naive and gullible and that will suck up his bullshit and worship him. A lot of management in the get rich quick businesses fall into that type as well. Plot and scheme 24/7 to take credit for other peoples work and then working assiduously at blaming other people for their mistakes, snakes in suites, psychopaths.
Stable companies, with skilled managers, will go for skilled staff that will be able to grind out tight bug free code. Not bash away tons of bloated bug riddled code. First one looks like not much is being generated, second one looks really good, reality is only skilled managers will be able to tell the difference. Dicks like Zuckerberg just see tons of code with no understanding of the difference by tight and bloated code, more time spent producing bug free code and more time spent debugging code.
M$ went through the same crap paying bonuses on the number of lines of code written, which of course produced code bloat, rather than on solutions and algorithms provided, simply bad unskilled management, more skilled at getting promoted than in actually doing the job.
Long way off, seriously where were we in 1912, where were we in 1812. The leaps humanity has made in two hundreds years have been enormous. Just look at computing in the last 25 years, in fact if it wasn't for computers you could say the last thirty years were wasted in bloated stagnation of adulation of psuedo celebrities and the rich and greedy or own little utterly pathetic and pointless dark ages. A mini dark age that the internet is lifting us out of by spreading the truth and exposing the lies.
'ER' when you sell yourself on 'HOPE AND CHANGE' that instead becomes 'TRAPPED IN DESPAIR', well, you're pretty much gonna mark yourself up as a fuckup. Promise too much and deliver too little and not only do you lose any chance or re-election you end up looking like a back stabbing betraying arse hole.
So while it can be said the current administration is better than the previous one, the previous one seemed more closely aligned with what people expected from it than does the current one. In fact the current one seems wildly at divergence to it's main core promises.
When it comes to elections you never vote a person in, by then it is too late already. In the US you vote people in during the primaries, when it comes to the actual elections you vote people out. To put it simply the Democrats fucked up when they didn't offer an alternative to Obama, their choice, their doom.
If we don't get off this rock, we will follow the path of the dinosaurs or even worse. Whether by interplanetary impact or a hugely destructive solar storm or a disastrous disease mutation etc.
On this world we live in borrowed time and probability will catch up to use sooner or later, suck it up, extinction is inevitable when you are bound to a planet, it is just the way of things.
So reality, why worry about the abstract notion of an asteroid they capture crashing into the planet. They have got so much else to do before they even get there, leaving basically decades to discuss the issues. Getting into orbit cheaply being the first issue. Low cost space stations next (obviously capable of far more than just asteroid mining). Accurately mapping and scanning surrounding asteroids, your doing far more than scanning suitable for mining ones, that level of scanning could map every single high risk of impact asteroid. Then there is the non-nuclear shifting of the orbit of the asteroid, that some propulsion method would get as cheaply around the solar system.
You know what really pisses me off, narcissistic fuckwits wasting the planets resources on supercars, mansions, mega yachts, jewellry etc. etc. etc. all those wasted resources, all that pollution for what. Seriously what the fuck are those morons proving, how big a pollution pushog they can be or being the winner in the race to be the most wastefully useless arsehole on the planet.
Those resources being spent on expanding the future of humanity seems a whole lot wiser than using to try to feed the insatiable ego of psychopathic arse holes.
Get real, in this case the headline should read M$ patents delusion. Have you ever heard of speech recognition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_recognition, after all these years and all the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on it it still sucks. To get anywhere near accurate you have to train the person and software, the person has to remain sober and always speak in the manner they have been trained by the software to maintain. Open speech recognition is still many years off.
This patent claim is about taking what you've typed in and based upon passed wildly intrusive privacy invasion, guess what your actually searching for.
I have helped people search, in fact doing it for them and they often struggle to provide a clear verbal description of what they are really after, even after personally knowing them and listening to them for a few minutes. Only once the search is being done and results come up can you compare the results to what they are telling you to finally really understand what they are after.
M$ is simply filing a patent on something they are incapable of doing just in case someone can do it. A quick review of the patent indicates that it wildly infringes upon privacy laws. Reading it seems, this patent seems to be more about throwing out a patent net for each of the described functions rather than the whole patent. A whole bunch of submarine patents.
In this case the threat was to demand visa for all travel to the US. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face. The EU countries were stupid in fact EU tourism initiatives should be screaming at their reps, Requiring visa to travel to the US would have done even more damage to their tourism industry and sent more money to Europe.
Uncle Sam ain't project force, they are projecting hate and the harder the squeeze the more they loose their grip.
Don't need space for the greenest structure of them all, 'tents'. I thought the victims of Americas record breaking corporate wealth were the ones showing the way to green living. Get foreclosed on, tossed out onto the street and put up a tent in a public space, no power and, no water, now thats green.
The only problem with this green technology is for some reason it seems to really upset the doughnut munching, lard arse crowd in uniform who get all uppity and horny by tearing down those green structures and beating up the residents as well as torturing the residents with chemical and electric weapons.
The feds under Uncle Tom Obama put a lot of money into green but when it comes to tents they seem to see 'RED' for some reason and coordinate mass attacks;D.
'They' are quite simply psychopaths, now through the use of science readily and infallibly detectable. What real change then simply keep them from positions of power, control and influence. It really is that simple, now getting there will be difficult, as psychopaths will lie, cheat, steal and kill to keep and gain the ego and lust driven positions of power. They absolutely will not go down peacefully, they have killed millions upon millions to get where they are now and they will kill to stay there. They will also kill while being there as a demonstration of their power to feed their ego, so we might as get the struggle over and done with.
Fuel stations will not be able to compete with, smart shops, malls, restaurants, parking stations charge you car while parked and add it to the bill, every minute counts and it's not a large price, spend enough and have the charge thrown in for free (induction charging). Even kerb side parking can incorporate induction charging. You can of course charge up when you visit family/friends if your running low (wouldn't abuse that too often).
The whole idea of filling up is just so last millennium and disposable battery thinking versus rechargeable battery thinking. Think of it more as keeping your charge levels up, rather than filling from empty. Think smart parking slogan 'We Help Keep You Going'. So fuel stations D E A D, in commercial applications (taxis, delivery vehicles) they'll just swap batteries in house.
That's stupid when all youtube has to do is install an efficient filter system.
So yotube sets up a site, where a volunteer army of content review for copyright content, reviews all uploaded content. In order to ensure mistakes are minimised more than one person reviews each piece of content. This service can not be replicated as an automated service, as the amount of content produced that is copyrighted, basically under law, 'ALL OF IT', and the question is about unauthorised content, which GEMA should be required to produce a free example of so that it can be filtered without infringing the rights of legal content distributors choosing to distribute through that channel.
First answer to the cour should be to filter 'what' exactly, no namby pamby bullshit description, you want me to filter fine, give me exactly what you want filtered out and it will be filtered keeping in mind it can not infringe other works that are legally distributable.
Of course the public review site does that, which is what Google is doing already.
F2P, everyone always ignores the most important difference PVP or PVE or a combination. Player versus player always seems to be a suck in driven by nothing but which player is willing to spend the most money to win, hint, it is always the spoilt brat, jackasses that make multi-player gaming unbearable unless you can avoid them.
Simplest route to keeping multi-player games going, incorporate player versus enemy 'only', that people can play only against enemies and never have to encounter spoilt brats. If players choose to make use of player versus player elements they can but it should never be a requirement.
Team fortress 2 for example might be even more fun with three and fourway battles, with the third and fourth teams being robots, just to add chaos. Even in regular team fortress, rather than adding players to a game, replacing robots would likely work better thus maintaining numbers in the game.
Especially in this case when the 'big guys' are the pension funds with executives going for off shore tax haven purchasing commissions. So actually targeting the little guys, don't worry if your missing out, the scheme is coming for your social security cheque real soon. Maybe that's what they're waiting for when it comes to the Facebook IPO, the big 'Social Security Rip Off', when the US social security funds get privatised and dumped in all the worst investments imaginable, Goldman Sachs style.
The vehicle is question is a rocket powered glider, so in this case it is all about re-entry, so basically nothing but weapons technology.
Launch over your own territory, get to required altitude over international territory and then initiate attack run.
attack is done at high speed, target need not necessarily be fixed before hand, given range to target and time allowed to shift, vehicle is either the warhead or drops the warhead/s.
So US is back to weaponising space again. At these high speeds you don't even have to bother with a warhead kinetic impact will be enough, unless of course you want to go nuclear, then a blatant first strike weapon.
Nah, the real problem here, the actually truly factual problem is, 'REPLAY VALUE', most current games just don't fucken have it. Play it once, zip right through it, meh, same old same old, who the fuck want's to play it again, might as well dump it on the second hard market and get some of 'MY MONEY' back.
Want to fix the problem in the second hand market start designing better games again, games that people want to keep and replay again and again and again. Stop the PR=B$ (lies for profit) of spending more on marketing and franchise licences, than on game development, to suck people in on first day game sales buying crappy games.
This has nothing to do with game development and everything to do with the endless stream of bullshit corporate marketing. First day sales is all about marketing strategies and basically sucking people in to buy shit games that they won't ever want to play again. Of course once arsehole game publishers get into that kind of shithead thinking, game replay value becomes an anathema to them as well.
'We don't want them to play the same game over and over again. where's the profit in that, we want them to get sick of it and buy another one', so game re-playability often sucks on purpose as does length of single player games. The benefit of psychopaths in industry, nothing to do with providing customer service and everything is about how best to rip of the customer as much and as quickly as possible (a lot of this thinking was straight out of M$ and the ballmerites).
That claim by Oracle means they can sue each and every developer using Java. Major alarm bells should be going off here, Java is now a poisoned language, whilst Google should be able to fight off the battle how many other companies would be destroyed by the cash fight in court. Time to give Java the boot and go elsewhere Ruby for example.
Of course taken literally, Google needed to get 'a', one, single, not plural, just one licence, for the whole of Google and all of it's customers. So smoking gun all right, clearly a euphemism, no claim that google needed to get hundreds millions of licences to distribute it to all of it's customers.
I will give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you fail to grasp common uses of English literature, unless of course you're being a cheeky sod and using en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire back against me.
I use the illuminated keyboard so I can 'dim' the lights watching a big screen TV whilst using that computer, reality quite a bit of power being used. I conserve elsewhere to make up for it, 'a small four cylinder car, who gives a crap about ego machines, the infernal combustion engine sucks'.
So the next question is, can you use dark screen background in a dark room or is the contrast uncomfortable versus a white screen background. From personal experience a lighter background is far more usable in a darker room, the lights not turned on, this is really dependent on whether you have an illuminated keyboard or not.
So is an illuminated keyboard an energy waste or an energy saving? How much power does it use versus a light bulb?
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I gather you missed the part about the cost of one phone call and you callous disregard for the elderly ensures you will inevitably suffer the same.
Let's be honest here. Simple earlier games are going to be ported to Android, sans java layers of course it's Linux and of course being early non-java games why stuff about with java. So now there is going to be a lot of shoe horning, squeezing and 'er' homogenising to get it all to work, that Android market just can't be ignored.
Duty of care by the Bank should have warranted a check of unusual transaction. Bank was too lazy and cheap to make a single phone call to check out of pattern transactions, especially in the case of the most vulnerable in the community, pensioners.
Bank should should have been held at least 50% liable for the fraudulent transactions.
The focus on fracking though is getting as much methane gas out of the well as possible and generating a profit. Clearly in the US they knew most wells would fail which is why the had Darth Cheney arrange a get out of jail free card, basically legislation which allows them to pollute.
Fracking is all about turning rock formations into giant soda fountains and hoping to draw enough methane out at the 'designed' pressure drop point to generate a profit. Everyone by now must have seen the water from a tap burnings vids, well exactly how much methane a more severe greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide is being released into the atmosphere in a relative short time at these sites or has no one bothered to check.
Why do they bother? Is it all one big money churn, where a bunch of people scheme together to suck as much money out of it as possible, it obviously has very little to do with education.
As for research, well realistically undergraduate and post graduate education could very well do with a complete cut. Undergraduate Universities should be pretty much education only environment with no research and with post graduate facilities having a high focus on research.
As for sports, dump it out all together and let it sink on swim all on it's own, if it is marketing to promote schools seriously you are doing schools a disservice, basically promoting physical prowess "I can lift a hundred pounds" over mental prowess "I can spell a hundred pounds", the message you're sending out to future generations is perverse and stupid.
To prove grandparents wrong the finer point is this one article seems a direct conflict with another mass media article, specifically http://www.cnngo.com/explorations/life/united-nations-announces-world%E2%80%99s-happiest-country-247768. So according to CNN America is the fourth happiest country, this survey kind of stunk after seeing the way politics is going in the country, just didn't ring true at all.
Unless Americans really enjoy living in a country where they can't trust anything, not the government, not the banks, not corporations and especially not mass media.
When you go to http://hdr.undp.org/en/data/build/ and add in inequality you get a more accurate picture. Yeah, some are doing well in the US, it seems they are just climbing over the bodies of those who are failing and are happy to do so.
Exactly right. Facebook paid M$ nothing for 650 patents. M$ who already owns a chunk of Facebook, helped to create the illusion of wealth by accepting $? worth of Facebook junk shares prior to IPO. Seems like M$ is going to bail on it's investment of Facebook not long after the IPO, it's working to fatten the calf for the slaughter that follows.
These stories should make a clear distinction between paying for somehow with hard cash and making junk share payments prior to IPO. What is the SEC asleep at the wheel again, this kind of pre-IPO marketing tactic is really pushing the bounds of acceptable behaviour.
Zuckerberg is a type, he wants them young naive and gullible and that will suck up his bullshit and worship him. A lot of management in the get rich quick businesses fall into that type as well. Plot and scheme 24/7 to take credit for other peoples work and then working assiduously at blaming other people for their mistakes, snakes in suites, psychopaths.
Stable companies, with skilled managers, will go for skilled staff that will be able to grind out tight bug free code. Not bash away tons of bloated bug riddled code. First one looks like not much is being generated, second one looks really good, reality is only skilled managers will be able to tell the difference. Dicks like Zuckerberg just see tons of code with no understanding of the difference by tight and bloated code, more time spent producing bug free code and more time spent debugging code.
M$ went through the same crap paying bonuses on the number of lines of code written, which of course produced code bloat, rather than on solutions and algorithms provided, simply bad unskilled management, more skilled at getting promoted than in actually doing the job.
Long way off, seriously where were we in 1912, where were we in 1812. The leaps humanity has made in two hundreds years have been enormous. Just look at computing in the last 25 years, in fact if it wasn't for computers you could say the last thirty years were wasted in bloated stagnation of adulation of psuedo celebrities and the rich and greedy or own little utterly pathetic and pointless dark ages. A mini dark age that the internet is lifting us out of by spreading the truth and exposing the lies.
'ER' when you sell yourself on 'HOPE AND CHANGE' that instead becomes 'TRAPPED IN DESPAIR', well, you're pretty much gonna mark yourself up as a fuckup. Promise too much and deliver too little and not only do you lose any chance or re-election you end up looking like a back stabbing betraying arse hole.
So while it can be said the current administration is better than the previous one, the previous one seemed more closely aligned with what people expected from it than does the current one. In fact the current one seems wildly at divergence to it's main core promises.
When it comes to elections you never vote a person in, by then it is too late already. In the US you vote people in during the primaries, when it comes to the actual elections you vote people out. To put it simply the Democrats fucked up when they didn't offer an alternative to Obama, their choice, their doom.
If we don't get off this rock, we will follow the path of the dinosaurs or even worse. Whether by interplanetary impact or a hugely destructive solar storm or a disastrous disease mutation etc.
On this world we live in borrowed time and probability will catch up to use sooner or later, suck it up, extinction is inevitable when you are bound to a planet, it is just the way of things.
So reality, why worry about the abstract notion of an asteroid they capture crashing into the planet. They have got so much else to do before they even get there, leaving basically decades to discuss the issues. Getting into orbit cheaply being the first issue. Low cost space stations next (obviously capable of far more than just asteroid mining). Accurately mapping and scanning surrounding asteroids, your doing far more than scanning suitable for mining ones, that level of scanning could map every single high risk of impact asteroid. Then there is the non-nuclear shifting of the orbit of the asteroid, that some propulsion method would get as cheaply around the solar system.
You know what really pisses me off, narcissistic fuckwits wasting the planets resources on supercars, mansions, mega yachts, jewellry etc. etc. etc. all those wasted resources, all that pollution for what. Seriously what the fuck are those morons proving, how big a pollution pushog they can be or being the winner in the race to be the most wastefully useless arsehole on the planet.
Those resources being spent on expanding the future of humanity seems a whole lot wiser than using to try to feed the insatiable ego of psychopathic arse holes.
Get real, in this case the headline should read M$ patents delusion. Have you ever heard of speech recognition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_recognition, after all these years and all the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on it it still sucks. To get anywhere near accurate you have to train the person and software, the person has to remain sober and always speak in the manner they have been trained by the software to maintain. Open speech recognition is still many years off.
This patent claim is about taking what you've typed in and based upon passed wildly intrusive privacy invasion, guess what your actually searching for.
I have helped people search, in fact doing it for them and they often struggle to provide a clear verbal description of what they are really after, even after personally knowing them and listening to them for a few minutes. Only once the search is being done and results come up can you compare the results to what they are telling you to finally really understand what they are after.
M$ is simply filing a patent on something they are incapable of doing just in case someone can do it. A quick review of the patent indicates that it wildly infringes upon privacy laws. Reading it seems, this patent seems to be more about throwing out a patent net for each of the described functions rather than the whole patent. A whole bunch of submarine patents.
In this case the threat was to demand visa for all travel to the US. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face. The EU countries were stupid in fact EU tourism initiatives should be screaming at their reps, Requiring visa to travel to the US would have done even more damage to their tourism industry and sent more money to Europe.
Uncle Sam ain't project force, they are projecting hate and the harder the squeeze the more they loose their grip.
Don't need space for the greenest structure of them all, 'tents'. I thought the victims of Americas record breaking corporate wealth were the ones showing the way to green living. Get foreclosed on, tossed out onto the street and put up a tent in a public space, no power and, no water, now thats green.
The only problem with this green technology is for some reason it seems to really upset the doughnut munching, lard arse crowd in uniform who get all uppity and horny by tearing down those green structures and beating up the residents as well as torturing the residents with chemical and electric weapons.
The feds under Uncle Tom Obama put a lot of money into green but when it comes to tents they seem to see 'RED' for some reason and coordinate mass attacks ;D.
'They' are quite simply psychopaths, now through the use of science readily and infallibly detectable. What real change then simply keep them from positions of power, control and influence. It really is that simple, now getting there will be difficult, as psychopaths will lie, cheat, steal and kill to keep and gain the ego and lust driven positions of power. They absolutely will not go down peacefully, they have killed millions upon millions to get where they are now and they will kill to stay there. They will also kill while being there as a demonstration of their power to feed their ego, so we might as get the struggle over and done with.
Fuel stations will not be able to compete with, smart shops, malls, restaurants, parking stations charge you car while parked and add it to the bill, every minute counts and it's not a large price, spend enough and have the charge thrown in for free (induction charging). Even kerb side parking can incorporate induction charging. You can of course charge up when you visit family/friends if your running low (wouldn't abuse that too often).
The whole idea of filling up is just so last millennium and disposable battery thinking versus rechargeable battery thinking. Think of it more as keeping your charge levels up, rather than filling from empty. Think smart parking slogan 'We Help Keep You Going'. So fuel stations D E A D, in commercial applications (taxis, delivery vehicles) they'll just swap batteries in house.
That's stupid when all youtube has to do is install an efficient filter system.
So yotube sets up a site, where a volunteer army of content review for copyright content, reviews all uploaded content. In order to ensure mistakes are minimised more than one person reviews each piece of content. This service can not be replicated as an automated service, as the amount of content produced that is copyrighted, basically under law, 'ALL OF IT', and the question is about unauthorised content, which GEMA should be required to produce a free example of so that it can be filtered without infringing the rights of legal content distributors choosing to distribute through that channel.
First answer to the cour should be to filter 'what' exactly, no namby pamby bullshit description, you want me to filter fine, give me exactly what you want filtered out and it will be filtered keeping in mind it can not infringe other works that are legally distributable.
Of course the public review site does that, which is what Google is doing already.
F2P, everyone always ignores the most important difference PVP or PVE or a combination. Player versus player always seems to be a suck in driven by nothing but which player is willing to spend the most money to win, hint, it is always the spoilt brat, jackasses that make multi-player gaming unbearable unless you can avoid them.
Simplest route to keeping multi-player games going, incorporate player versus enemy 'only', that people can play only against enemies and never have to encounter spoilt brats. If players choose to make use of player versus player elements they can but it should never be a requirement.
Team fortress 2 for example might be even more fun with three and fourway battles, with the third and fourth teams being robots, just to add chaos. Even in regular team fortress, rather than adding players to a game, replacing robots would likely work better thus maintaining numbers in the game.
Especially in this case when the 'big guys' are the pension funds with executives going for off shore tax haven purchasing commissions. So actually targeting the little guys, don't worry if your missing out, the scheme is coming for your social security cheque real soon. Maybe that's what they're waiting for when it comes to the Facebook IPO, the big 'Social Security Rip Off', when the US social security funds get privatised and dumped in all the worst investments imaginable, Goldman Sachs style.
The vehicle is question is a rocket powered glider, so in this case it is all about re-entry, so basically nothing but weapons technology.
Launch over your own territory, get to required altitude over international territory and then initiate attack run.
attack is done at high speed, target need not necessarily be fixed before hand, given range to target and time allowed to shift, vehicle is either the warhead or drops the warhead/s.
So US is back to weaponising space again. At these high speeds you don't even have to bother with a warhead kinetic impact will be enough, unless of course you want to go nuclear, then a blatant first strike weapon.
Nah, the real problem here, the actually truly factual problem is, 'REPLAY VALUE', most current games just don't fucken have it. Play it once, zip right through it, meh, same old same old, who the fuck want's to play it again, might as well dump it on the second hard market and get some of 'MY MONEY' back.
Want to fix the problem in the second hand market start designing better games again, games that people want to keep and replay again and again and again. Stop the PR=B$ (lies for profit) of spending more on marketing and franchise licences, than on game development, to suck people in on first day game sales buying crappy games.
This has nothing to do with game development and everything to do with the endless stream of bullshit corporate marketing. First day sales is all about marketing strategies and basically sucking people in to buy shit games that they won't ever want to play again. Of course once arsehole game publishers get into that kind of shithead thinking, game replay value becomes an anathema to them as well.
'We don't want them to play the same game over and over again. where's the profit in that, we want them to get sick of it and buy another one', so game re-playability often sucks on purpose as does length of single player games. The benefit of psychopaths in industry, nothing to do with providing customer service and everything is about how best to rip of the customer as much and as quickly as possible (a lot of this thinking was straight out of M$ and the ballmerites).
That claim by Oracle means they can sue each and every developer using Java. Major alarm bells should be going off here, Java is now a poisoned language, whilst Google should be able to fight off the battle how many other companies would be destroyed by the cash fight in court. Time to give Java the boot and go elsewhere Ruby for example.
Of course taken literally, Google needed to get 'a', one, single, not plural, just one licence, for the whole of Google and all of it's customers. So smoking gun all right, clearly a euphemism, no claim that google needed to get hundreds millions of licences to distribute it to all of it's customers.
I will give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you fail to grasp common uses of English literature, unless of course you're being a cheeky sod and using en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire back against me.
I use the illuminated keyboard so I can 'dim' the lights watching a big screen TV whilst using that computer, reality quite a bit of power being used. I conserve elsewhere to make up for it, 'a small four cylinder car, who gives a crap about ego machines, the infernal combustion engine sucks'.
So the next question is, can you use dark screen background in a dark room or is the contrast uncomfortable versus a white screen background. From personal experience a lighter background is far more usable in a darker room, the lights not turned on, this is really dependent on whether you have an illuminated keyboard or not.
So is an illuminated keyboard an energy waste or an energy saving? How much power does it use versus a light bulb?