Each to his own, I found it a quite enjoyable break. Something appealing about going home at the crack of dawn.
Let's be real, no one invented daylights savings, clocks un-invented it. We all did it quite normally prior to the interference of, clocks and other peoples greed and demands.
Just look at all the productivity gains over the last fifty years, where did it all go, not shared around at all, most of it went to feed the greed of a psychopathic minority. Reality is we should already be down to a 4 day 6 hour per day week but the greedy are never ever satiated, no matter how much they have and more importantly how little the rest of us have.
Yes, I know the whole world can burn. Which is why such a tiny nothing country causes so many problems. As for institutionalised racism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_and_the_apartheid_analogy. Idiots like you are poison for multi-culturalism.
The bulk of the population will spend money on phones and big screen TVs, then a notebook and then on everything else other than a tablet. Unless that tablet is throw away cheap.
Worse when some shit eating ass hat in an office decides it's a one person job. Even the smallest accident can be life threatening, when you have no one to help. Yeah, terrible Unions making sure enough people are employed to improve safety, that wages reflect effort and risk and age limitations. Those greedy evil unions they just don't appreciate a percentage of workers have to die every year to maintain higher corporate profits.
Apparently it appealed to the insurance salesman in Steve Uncle Fester Ballmer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvonM04ecnc. Something PR and Marketing people learnt long ago when selling themselves to M$. You don't need to be successful (M$ adds speak for themselves) you just need to successfully stroke Uncle Festers ego.
Basically yes. They are more competitive on the limited Apple market and on Android due to greater competition they make less money. Reality is of course dropping Android support does not change the level of competition from the Android market.
For them, there are basically too many free games on Android for them to make money out of, tiny only play when bored games.
Reality is, although they don't seem to realise it yet, they are doomed because by their own admission their games do not cut it in a more competitive market.
From a consumer point of view, this means go Android to access a far more competitive app market and avoid Apple, not only do you pay more for hardware, you pay more for software and you pay more for apps, not surprising it's the phone of choice for unthinking spoilt brats,
It seems like 'Anonymous' did the job that was required to ensure the flow on off multi-million dollar contracts. A new corporate protection racket is born, what's the bet anyone who doesn't pay get a visit from 'Anonymous'. Don't forget we are talking contracts in the ten's of millions, even hundreds of millions.
Doesn't a racist apartheid government already have nuclear weapons in the region, a nation that denies all access by nuclear regulatory authorities and has between 100 and 300 warheads, far more than is required for threats within that region and would seem to be targeted far beyond the middle east. This being the nation that triggered the nuclear arms race and that has spent decades lying, prevaricating, disrupting all attempts at peaceful diplomacy.
A country that is the epitome on having an ally that is for more an abusive enemy than an ally.
God forbid those arse hats should use caramelised sugar cane syrup, which is what they are pretending to sell.
Truth in products, shouldn't all artificial chemicals be banned unless they a clearly listed in bold right along side the label.
If their greed drives them to sell addictive chemical cocktails, they should be forced to label what they are selling honestly and their commercials should really reflect what people are actually buying and nothing else.
The number of players and the amount of time they play is also limited. TF2 soon gets boring for the majority of players, fine for twitch playing teens but it soon gets pretty repetitious for everyone else.
Underlying the unified interface is Software Licensing, that is the one and only reason for a unified interface. Both of the having established monopoly online sales where they are the only publisher demanding a large fee from the consumer per purchase.
You don't get it and in fact Carmack doesn't get it. There are numbers at work here but they ain't about resolution, they are about people and how much they will spend.
So making today's high powered gaming PC's cheaply available is the goal. The resolution is more than good enough for the majority and that majority will drive down costs for the most desirable units and will draw in enough of the gamer oriented market to push the fussy gamer further into the minority.
A shrinking number base to pay for higher performance hardware and software, blowing out the per unit cost of both. Think wii versus xbox on day one, then start increasing that gap as time goes by whilst the low end unit keeps increasing in capability. High end performance will price itself out of existence.
There is more to free to play, there is a big difference between player versus enemy and player vs player. In the player versus enemy, paying cash makes the game quicker and easier (those with less time on hand are more likely to spend than those with more time available to play).
Player versus player is a whole different. Underlying that game is the ability of publisher agents to enter the game fully kitted out to kick the arses of players not spending enough. Player versus player, the inevitable winners are those willing to spend the most hard cash.
So the flops in free to play are trending as the player versus player rather than player versus enemy. Everyone learnt from childhood spoilt brats make crappy play mates and free to play, player versus player favours spoilt brats, with the expected turn off for the majority of players.
Free to play requires the ability to avoid player versus player interaction in order to maintain a larger player base.
Lord of the Rings game play is boosted by the sales of expansion packs, revenue for them and game improvements for the players. Basically bringing infinite upgrades of operating systems and commercial software to the gaming environment. Works well for LOTRO, an enjoyable MMO without the need for a monthly subscription fee (sort of, more like a six monthly expansion pack fee, still a lot of game play per dollar).
That is one crappy article, utterly meaningless plucked from the sky 12% value. Lets see some hard data. Cost to prepare digital proof (the electronic copy to be converted to the printed copy). Printing, packing, warehousing, picking, distribution, unpacking, stocking, retail. Lets see the costs, not a make believe percentage. Plus unlike the unreality of the article author, company generate a profit on all their costs.
So total up all cost then add a profit margin. Not take one cost, add profit, then add in all other costs, that's B$.
Basically they are currently trying to maximise profit margin by the good old corporate stand bys lie, cheat and steal and guess who is at the centre of it all 'APPLE'. Nothing but a pure greed play.
The idea is actually become involved in the primaries. Forget a third party, do exactly what the tea baggers managed to do, take over an existing party. A third party has been effectively blocked in the US via corrupt anti-democratic US state laws.
By far the majority of Americans routinely ignore the primaries, then act surprised and confused, when it comes to the election and find they have to pick from red corporate candidate or the blue corporate candidate, dumbo or the jackass, the pretend conservative or the pretend progressive and both of them literally jumping ready to jump in bed with Hollywood hopefuls, sex, drugs and campaign dollars (with long term blackmail for compliance) for legislation.
When it comes to seeking public opinion, well, everyone knows exactly what that is all about. Negotiations to drive up the price, the candidate keeps his public opinion and vote open whilst negotiating with all sides.
Windows 7, I didn't really appreciate how bad it was until I started using it. Solution 'Welcome to Classic Shell' http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/. All that fucking hassle just to browse the net and play a bunch of games, I'll bet you see a windows 8 version before long. M$ seems to go out of it way to be annoying.
All of it aimed at forcing xbox style licensing on windows.
As for having 'USED' anything, has any told you to politely fuck off lately. Never forget the underlying reality, 'My computer and I will use and interact with it they way I prefer too', I will not be a company bug tester, I will not change use to suit their ulterior motives, no choice then the company can fuck off, not the user has to suck it up.
iWallet making life simpler for iMuggers. Losing you wallet ain't the problem having your tender fragile body at the same remote location as access to all your accounts is the problem. "The iWallet would certainly be a "killer app" on the iPhone 5" I mean they don't even stop to think how that could literally be true.
The mind well and truly boggles as to why they didn't contact the parents. School punishment is pretty much limited to detention and even that has to be with parental consent. Beyond that, it really is impossible to imagine what got into those idiots heads. This is what happens when you have county rather than state managed schools. Lack of reasonable sensible management principles across the whole state. Tiny nothing local admin drunk on their own power over children.
The ultimate punishment by a school is to require a meeting between the school principle, the parent and the child. So that issues can be resolved prior to suspension and detention.
Now would that be the Fucking, Bloody, Idiots crew or Homeland Insecurity, or some foreign government agency. These days it's getting really hard to tell who is doing what under the title of 'Anonymous'. Don't forget those Fucking, Bloody, Idiots involved in the Lulsec debacle also want to remain 'Anonymous'.
I would hope that you comment does not refer to the disturbing trend amongst the right of US politics of the desirability of homosexual rape in prisons, seriously you are aware of how truly sick that concept truly is. Not being American perhaps you can explain to me why you believe there is a benefit in promoting homosexual rape in US prisons.
Speaking of kids, you would think the FBI would have some sympathy for his. They way they outed it all for maximum publicity with total disregard to the impact on his children. Kids are cruel and you can imagine the kind of attacks his kids will suffer as the children and such a publicly exposed betrayer.
Also one has to wonder at how those victims of the FBI orchestrated attacks over many months must feel. If I was one of those victims I'd be lawyering up to sue the hell out of the FBI for the crimes they orchestrated, not only allowing them to occur but initiating them. Easy money to make because the FBI will be forced to settle rather than battle out their criminal actions in court and considering wilful damages and penalties as well as loss of reputation and long term harm settlements could readily blow out to the millions.
So you feel that some level of children starving to death is an acceptable population control. Just for interests sake what percentage of the global population starving to death do you deem acceptable. Me, personally, I go with zero and would like to see some population controls implemented to ensure that happens.
That ludicrous claim would only be valid if people buying an Android device believed they were buying an Apple device, this being the original intent of the law.
Clearly people were buying those device because the hardware outperformed the Apple hardware for the same price and the Android software was and is superior. So Apple intentionally distorted application of the law to prevent competition, using legal literal ambiguities.
Regardless of delusional thinking, some form selected and limited breeding controls need to be implemented. Wars, plagues, mass starvation are really a rather untidy way of keeping control and tend to spread rather disastrously.
So breeding and parenting licences are more likely to have a positive rather than negative impact.
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Each to his own, I found it a quite enjoyable break. Something appealing about going home at the crack of dawn.
Let's be real, no one invented daylights savings, clocks un-invented it. We all did it quite normally prior to the interference of, clocks and other peoples greed and demands.
Just look at all the productivity gains over the last fifty years, where did it all go, not shared around at all, most of it went to feed the greed of a psychopathic minority. Reality is we should already be down to a 4 day 6 hour per day week but the greedy are never ever satiated, no matter how much they have and more importantly how little the rest of us have.
Yes, I know the whole world can burn. Which is why such a tiny nothing country causes so many problems. As for institutionalised racism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_and_the_apartheid_analogy. Idiots like you are poison for multi-culturalism.
The bulk of the population will spend money on phones and big screen TVs, then a notebook and then on everything else other than a tablet. Unless that tablet is throw away cheap.
Bong water in spray bottles applied to the wheels of police cars could solve that problem ;D.
Worse when some shit eating ass hat in an office decides it's a one person job. Even the smallest accident can be life threatening, when you have no one to help. Yeah, terrible Unions making sure enough people are employed to improve safety, that wages reflect effort and risk and age limitations. Those greedy evil unions they just don't appreciate a percentage of workers have to die every year to maintain higher corporate profits.
Apparently it appealed to the insurance salesman in Steve Uncle Fester Ballmer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvonM04ecnc. Something PR and Marketing people learnt long ago when selling themselves to M$. You don't need to be successful (M$ adds speak for themselves) you just need to successfully stroke Uncle Festers ego.
Basically yes. They are more competitive on the limited Apple market and on Android due to greater competition they make less money. Reality is of course dropping Android support does not change the level of competition from the Android market.
For them, there are basically too many free games on Android for them to make money out of, tiny only play when bored games.
Reality is, although they don't seem to realise it yet, they are doomed because by their own admission their games do not cut it in a more competitive market.
From a consumer point of view, this means go Android to access a far more competitive app market and avoid Apple, not only do you pay more for hardware, you pay more for software and you pay more for apps, not surprising it's the phone of choice for unthinking spoilt brats,
It seems like 'Anonymous' did the job that was required to ensure the flow on off multi-million dollar contracts. A new corporate protection racket is born, what's the bet anyone who doesn't pay get a visit from 'Anonymous'. Don't forget we are talking contracts in the ten's of millions, even hundreds of millions.
A country that is the epitome on having an ally that is for more an abusive enemy than an ally.
God forbid those arse hats should use caramelised sugar cane syrup, which is what they are pretending to sell.
Truth in products, shouldn't all artificial chemicals be banned unless they a clearly listed in bold right along side the label.
If their greed drives them to sell addictive chemical cocktails, they should be forced to label what they are selling honestly and their commercials should really reflect what people are actually buying and nothing else.
Save pennies to spend pounds.
The number of players and the amount of time they play is also limited. TF2 soon gets boring for the majority of players, fine for twitch playing teens but it soon gets pretty repetitious for everyone else.
Underlying the unified interface is Software Licensing, that is the one and only reason for a unified interface. Both of the having established monopoly online sales where they are the only publisher demanding a large fee from the consumer per purchase.
You don't get it and in fact Carmack doesn't get it. There are numbers at work here but they ain't about resolution, they are about people and how much they will spend.
So making today's high powered gaming PC's cheaply available is the goal. The resolution is more than good enough for the majority and that majority will drive down costs for the most desirable units and will draw in enough of the gamer oriented market to push the fussy gamer further into the minority.
A shrinking number base to pay for higher performance hardware and software, blowing out the per unit cost of both. Think wii versus xbox on day one, then start increasing that gap as time goes by whilst the low end unit keeps increasing in capability. High end performance will price itself out of existence.
There is more to free to play, there is a big difference between player versus enemy and player vs player. In the player versus enemy, paying cash makes the game quicker and easier (those with less time on hand are more likely to spend than those with more time available to play).
Player versus player is a whole different. Underlying that game is the ability of publisher agents to enter the game fully kitted out to kick the arses of players not spending enough. Player versus player, the inevitable winners are those willing to spend the most hard cash.
So the flops in free to play are trending as the player versus player rather than player versus enemy. Everyone learnt from childhood spoilt brats make crappy play mates and free to play, player versus player favours spoilt brats, with the expected turn off for the majority of players.
Free to play requires the ability to avoid player versus player interaction in order to maintain a larger player base.
Lord of the Rings game play is boosted by the sales of expansion packs, revenue for them and game improvements for the players. Basically bringing infinite upgrades of operating systems and commercial software to the gaming environment. Works well for LOTRO, an enjoyable MMO without the need for a monthly subscription fee (sort of, more like a six monthly expansion pack fee, still a lot of game play per dollar).
That is one crappy article, utterly meaningless plucked from the sky 12% value. Lets see some hard data. Cost to prepare digital proof (the electronic copy to be converted to the printed copy). Printing, packing, warehousing, picking, distribution, unpacking, stocking, retail. Lets see the costs, not a make believe percentage. Plus unlike the unreality of the article author, company generate a profit on all their costs.
So total up all cost then add a profit margin. Not take one cost, add profit, then add in all other costs, that's B$.
Basically they are currently trying to maximise profit margin by the good old corporate stand bys lie, cheat and steal and guess who is at the centre of it all 'APPLE'. Nothing but a pure greed play.
The idea is actually become involved in the primaries. Forget a third party, do exactly what the tea baggers managed to do, take over an existing party. A third party has been effectively blocked in the US via corrupt anti-democratic US state laws.
By far the majority of Americans routinely ignore the primaries, then act surprised and confused, when it comes to the election and find they have to pick from red corporate candidate or the blue corporate candidate, dumbo or the jackass, the pretend conservative or the pretend progressive and both of them literally jumping ready to jump in bed with Hollywood hopefuls, sex, drugs and campaign dollars (with long term blackmail for compliance) for legislation.
When it comes to seeking public opinion, well, everyone knows exactly what that is all about. Negotiations to drive up the price, the candidate keeps his public opinion and vote open whilst negotiating with all sides.
Windows 7, I didn't really appreciate how bad it was until I started using it. Solution 'Welcome to Classic Shell' http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/. All that fucking hassle just to browse the net and play a bunch of games, I'll bet you see a windows 8 version before long. M$ seems to go out of it way to be annoying.
All of it aimed at forcing xbox style licensing on windows.
As for having 'USED' anything, has any told you to politely fuck off lately. Never forget the underlying reality, 'My computer and I will use and interact with it they way I prefer too', I will not be a company bug tester, I will not change use to suit their ulterior motives, no choice then the company can fuck off, not the user has to suck it up.
iWallet making life simpler for iMuggers. Losing you wallet ain't the problem having your tender fragile body at the same remote location as access to all your accounts is the problem. "The iWallet would certainly be a "killer app" on the iPhone 5" I mean they don't even stop to think how that could literally be true.
The mind well and truly boggles as to why they didn't contact the parents. School punishment is pretty much limited to detention and even that has to be with parental consent. Beyond that, it really is impossible to imagine what got into those idiots heads. This is what happens when you have county rather than state managed schools. Lack of reasonable sensible management principles across the whole state. Tiny nothing local admin drunk on their own power over children.
The ultimate punishment by a school is to require a meeting between the school principle, the parent and the child. So that issues can be resolved prior to suspension and detention.
Now would that be the Fucking, Bloody, Idiots crew or Homeland Insecurity, or some foreign government agency. These days it's getting really hard to tell who is doing what under the title of 'Anonymous'. Don't forget those Fucking, Bloody, Idiots involved in the Lulsec debacle also want to remain 'Anonymous'.
I would hope that you comment does not refer to the disturbing trend amongst the right of US politics of the desirability of homosexual rape in prisons, seriously you are aware of how truly sick that concept truly is. Not being American perhaps you can explain to me why you believe there is a benefit in promoting homosexual rape in US prisons.
Speaking of kids, you would think the FBI would have some sympathy for his. They way they outed it all for maximum publicity with total disregard to the impact on his children. Kids are cruel and you can imagine the kind of attacks his kids will suffer as the children and such a publicly exposed betrayer.
Also one has to wonder at how those victims of the FBI orchestrated attacks over many months must feel. If I was one of those victims I'd be lawyering up to sue the hell out of the FBI for the crimes they orchestrated, not only allowing them to occur but initiating them. Easy money to make because the FBI will be forced to settle rather than battle out their criminal actions in court and considering wilful damages and penalties as well as loss of reputation and long term harm settlements could readily blow out to the millions.
So you feel that some level of children starving to death is an acceptable population control. Just for interests sake what percentage of the global population starving to death do you deem acceptable. Me, personally, I go with zero and would like to see some population controls implemented to ensure that happens.
That ludicrous claim would only be valid if people buying an Android device believed they were buying an Apple device, this being the original intent of the law.
Clearly people were buying those device because the hardware outperformed the Apple hardware for the same price and the Android software was and is superior. So Apple intentionally distorted application of the law to prevent competition, using legal literal ambiguities.
'Erm' yeah, 7 billion people and counting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_of_earth. Kind of already gone past the limits of what is really sustainable as measured starvation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starvation and poverty http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty.
Regardless of delusional thinking, some form selected and limited breeding controls need to be implemented. Wars, plagues, mass starvation are really a rather untidy way of keeping control and tend to spread rather disastrously.
So breeding and parenting licences are more likely to have a positive rather than negative impact.