Same reason department stores make sure they place the price tag on clothes in an area that is not easily hideable.. too many people were "buying" clothes, wearing them once or twice, and returning them as unused.
Any good faith effort a company makes at being consumer friendly will be abused by a few asshats and ruined for everyone else.
You have proof for that broad, demeaning statement? Were you beat up a lot in school and that bully ended up becoming a cop?
If I had to generalize cops, I would say it was more of the opposite.. that people with self esteem issues through high school would be more likely to pursue a career in law enforcement. Deserved or not, cops typically command more respect than your average Joe walking down the street.
Ever stop to think that cops become jaded very quickly because people automatically assume they are ass hats and treat them rudely because they were doing their job? Who's fault is it that you got pulled over for speeding? In today's society, since no one likes to take the blame for their own mistakes, it must be the bully cop.
The current that runs through almost of the postings and comments on Slashdot is that music, once released, is in the public commons. It isn't. It never has been. Musicians are losing a lot of money because copyright is ignored and most need that money desperately. Grow up people. Pay for your entertainment and stop whining!
APRIL FOOLS!!!!..
right?
You're two weeks too late...
By the way, musicians aren't losing much.. musicians are most hurt when people stop paying to see them in concert.
It's the number of former RIAA lawyers that worries me. Even if these individuals are no longer getting paid by the RIAA, they either had to believe in the RIAA arguments or lie through their teeth while in court. Either way it doesn't look good for them as a person. Sure they bullied some people into paying a settlement and won a few cases here and there.. but do you want bullies running the Justice Department in a time we're worried about our rights being eroded?
One former RIAA lawyer.. fine. FIVE?!?! There's a conflict of interest somewhere.
Regardless of the school, if those that took the survey were in Soc 101 chances are they have had enough time to really screw up their GPA. Even when I was an Aerospace Engineer student my first year was spent in gen ed classes. I never studied my first year and was out binge drinking every weekend.. . still had a 3.5.
The problem was when the 2nd year rolled around and I still didn't study.. my GPA took a very quick dive!
I know it's a joke and all... but where I work we have somewhat flexible hours, have to be here between the core hours 9:30am and 3:30pm and also put in your 8 hours a day. It's no coincidence the two programmers in our group both get here right at 9:30am and usually require 1 or 2 coffee breaks before settling in at their computers...
The difference is GM made a name for itself before asking for government money (the bailout is still technically a loan, isn't it? maybe that's just the financial sector).
The gov't shouldn't loan money to start-ups unless it gets a share of the company... just like any other VC.
Until I saw this article I really hadn't given it much thought... but subtle changes they've made to WoW seem to have limited gold farming/selling in the game.
As we know, the best gear typically drops in instances or is gathered through pvp achievements, not stuff you can simply buy (unless you buy the whole account). The newest expansion only has 1 or 2 rep turn ins, whereas in the past just about every faction had a collectable (and tradeable) item that could be turned in for rep. Also, gold is easy to come by on it's own, daily quests can be completely rather quickly in most cases, and grind materials appear to drop in greater abundance.
The end result is the game has been made easier, but it's also taken away much of the alure gold famers may have had. Sure there are still some, there will always be a market.. but to be honest if you can only spend 30 minutes a day playing, it's still enough time to make around 100g.
4e is the first time I played D&D (other than some brief extent 16 years ago when I didn't know what was going on). My first and only character so far is a healing Cleric, about to hit lvl 4. One thing I do not like is how easy it is (and maybe this changes a bit as my character progresses) to miss on encounter and daily powers. Sure, sometimes there's an effect that still helps out a little bit.. but when the group is counting on me to keep them up and my encounter power fails and has no effect... that sort of sucks. Plus there really isn't much in terms of healing spells except the Healing Word which every Cleric receives.
Anyway, back on the subject of PDFs. Why not make the PDFs free? I have a couple of them, while they are good quality PDFs it's not nearly as easy as flipping through the actual book to look something up. I think they'd find a good portion of gamers would still buy the book. Maybe they should focus on the continued creation of encounters and make most of their money through that. Possibly develop some official software that makes a touch screen, table top game viable.
Before my friends and I aged, with most getting married and having a kid or two by now, we use to LAN about once a month. At first we'd have a few cases of Mt. Dew in order to stay up all night... but I'd start getting headaches around 3 or 4am which I usually attributed to being tired.
Then once I decided to just drink water all night. I was able to game til 7am and still feel pretty good. While I have no actual evidence, I think my headaches and drowsiness were caused more by becoming dehydrated than by being tired. What I learned that is I should go with water first if I'm feeling fatigued. I still enjoy a coke once or twice a week, along with a couple cups a tea once or twice a week.. but drinking 80-100oz of water a day normally keeps me feeling good and alert.
I've never had a sip of coffee in my life (29 now) and also try to limit my caffeine intake... having 1 or 2 20oz bottles of coke a week (maybe 1 a day on really bad weeks).. but I've also gone weeks without having any.
But even drinking that little, and that infrequently.. if I have a soda 2 or 3 mornings in a row it gets harder and harder to not get one the next morning. For me, the best way to not ingest caffeine is to keep no money in my pockets, that keeps me from buying stuff out of the vending machines:). I also only keep teas at home. Earl Grey and Green tea if it's early enough in the day, Chamamille if I want some before bed (it's caffeine free).
Wouldn't there be some point where a DDOS would stop being effective because there's already too much traffic... therefore keeping up a small amount of the backbone?
If you're able to take down 80% of the servers, it's possible you wouldn't have a chance to even reach the other 20%. You'd probably lose a significant portion of your botnet if you took out that much of the backbone.
The thing is N. Korea keeps doing stupid shit that annoys the rest of the world, even nations that normally stick up for them like China and Russia are probably rolling their eyes thinking "what do they hope to accomplish?". No global power wants one of their "protected nations" causing problems around the world because inevitably they'd get pulled in as well.
I do agree that N. Korea has been a bigger threat all this time. I think the world has wished Kim Jong Il would eventually just fade away if people ignored him long enough.
Maybe the planet is sick of the human infestation and is doing this in order to lower our numbers. We've got people living in freezing conditions year round, and people living in tropical climates year round, and people who have to deal with cold winters and hot summers... unless the global temperature drops or rises significantly (meaning the entire planet becomes so extreme in either direction) we'll continue to survive and prosper... maybe a bit more compacted than we're use to.
It's also worth remembering that some of the most populated parts of the Earth are also very close to sealevel. It wouldn't take much of a rise to displace very, very large numbers of people --- like, billions, and they're not just going to sit there and drown.
I'm in Ohio, I've always wanted to be closer to the ocean!
If this ever happens, you're going to have an extremely large number of intelligent, highly motivated people looking, in order, for (a) somewhere to live and (b) someone to blame.
I have the same reservations about the Chevy Volt. How many people (especially people who typically buy a Chevrolet) would be able to afford a car the premium that car is going to cost in order to save a few $$ on gas each week. I'm sure something like that would be great for my daily commute to work (about 4 miles each way) but as soon as I leave town I'll be burning through the gasoline probably at a higher rate than a normal car of compariable size.
The Tesla Model S seems a bit more practicle since it has a longer range.
There's a difference between hitting the gas to beat a yellow light and just plain ignoring the red because your selfish attitude thinks waiting 30 seconds is a worse outcome than placing other drivers at risk.
Actually there isn't much of a difference. If you need to accelerate to get through a yellow light, you should have stopped in the first place.
Wasn't one of the points of his documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" that everyone needs to do their part to conserve? His idea is everyone else needs to conserve, he'll use what he wants to and just pay extra money to "offset" his luxurious lifestyle.
I don't care if 10,000 kwH/month is normal for a house that size in Tennessee, it's excessive for Al and Tipper when Al's claim to fame (these days) is global warming.
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Same reason department stores make sure they place the price tag on clothes in an area that is not easily hideable.. too many people were "buying" clothes, wearing them once or twice, and returning them as unused.
Any good faith effort a company makes at being consumer friendly will be abused by a few asshats and ruined for everyone else.
Did you just call yourself the only educated and intelligent one in your current locale?
Seems to me your attitude could be the problem.
I think Jack Thompson should co-write Kevin Smith's next movie...
You have proof for that broad, demeaning statement? Were you beat up a lot in school and that bully ended up becoming a cop?
If I had to generalize cops, I would say it was more of the opposite.. that people with self esteem issues through high school would be more likely to pursue a career in law enforcement. Deserved or not, cops typically command more respect than your average Joe walking down the street.
Ever stop to think that cops become jaded very quickly because people automatically assume they are ass hats and treat them rudely because they were doing their job? Who's fault is it that you got pulled over for speeding? In today's society, since no one likes to take the blame for their own mistakes, it must be the bully cop.
APRIL FOOLS!!!!..
right?
You're two weeks too late...
By the way, musicians aren't losing much.. musicians are most hurt when people stop paying to see them in concert.
It's the number of former RIAA lawyers that worries me. Even if these individuals are no longer getting paid by the RIAA, they either had to believe in the RIAA arguments or lie through their teeth while in court. Either way it doesn't look good for them as a person. Sure they bullied some people into paying a settlement and won a few cases here and there.. but do you want bullies running the Justice Department in a time we're worried about our rights being eroded?
One former RIAA lawyer.. fine. FIVE?!?! There's a conflict of interest somewhere.
Regardless of the school, if those that took the survey were in Soc 101 chances are they have had enough time to really screw up their GPA. Even when I was an Aerospace Engineer student my first year was spent in gen ed classes. I never studied my first year and was out binge drinking every weekend.. . still had a 3.5.
The problem was when the 2nd year rolled around and I still didn't study.. my GPA took a very quick dive!
It's no coincidence that Mr. Freeze was played by the current governor of California...
I know it's a joke and all... but where I work we have somewhat flexible hours, have to be here between the core hours 9:30am and 3:30pm and also put in your 8 hours a day. It's no coincidence the two programmers in our group both get here right at 9:30am and usually require 1 or 2 coffee breaks before settling in at their computers...
The difference is GM made a name for itself before asking for government money (the bailout is still technically a loan, isn't it? maybe that's just the financial sector).
The gov't shouldn't loan money to start-ups unless it gets a share of the company... just like any other VC.
Who were they trying to undercut? What other retail productivity suites are still on the shelves?
Until I saw this article I really hadn't given it much thought... but subtle changes they've made to WoW seem to have limited gold farming/selling in the game.
As we know, the best gear typically drops in instances or is gathered through pvp achievements, not stuff you can simply buy (unless you buy the whole account). The newest expansion only has 1 or 2 rep turn ins, whereas in the past just about every faction had a collectable (and tradeable) item that could be turned in for rep. Also, gold is easy to come by on it's own, daily quests can be completely rather quickly in most cases, and grind materials appear to drop in greater abundance.
The end result is the game has been made easier, but it's also taken away much of the alure gold famers may have had. Sure there are still some, there will always be a market.. but to be honest if you can only spend 30 minutes a day playing, it's still enough time to make around 100g.
4e is the first time I played D&D (other than some brief extent 16 years ago when I didn't know what was going on). My first and only character so far is a healing Cleric, about to hit lvl 4. One thing I do not like is how easy it is (and maybe this changes a bit as my character progresses) to miss on encounter and daily powers. Sure, sometimes there's an effect that still helps out a little bit.. but when the group is counting on me to keep them up and my encounter power fails and has no effect... that sort of sucks. Plus there really isn't much in terms of healing spells except the Healing Word which every Cleric receives.
Anyway, back on the subject of PDFs. Why not make the PDFs free? I have a couple of them, while they are good quality PDFs it's not nearly as easy as flipping through the actual book to look something up. I think they'd find a good portion of gamers would still buy the book. Maybe they should focus on the continued creation of encounters and make most of their money through that. Possibly develop some official software that makes a touch screen, table top game viable.
Before my friends and I aged, with most getting married and having a kid or two by now, we use to LAN about once a month. At first we'd have a few cases of Mt. Dew in order to stay up all night... but I'd start getting headaches around 3 or 4am which I usually attributed to being tired.
Then once I decided to just drink water all night. I was able to game til 7am and still feel pretty good. While I have no actual evidence, I think my headaches and drowsiness were caused more by becoming dehydrated than by being tired. What I learned that is I should go with water first if I'm feeling fatigued. I still enjoy a coke once or twice a week, along with a couple cups a tea once or twice a week.. but drinking 80-100oz of water a day normally keeps me feeling good and alert.
I've never had a sip of coffee in my life (29 now) and also try to limit my caffeine intake... having 1 or 2 20oz bottles of coke a week (maybe 1 a day on really bad weeks).. but I've also gone weeks without having any.
:). I also only keep teas at home. Earl Grey and Green tea if it's early enough in the day, Chamamille if I want some before bed (it's caffeine free).
But even drinking that little, and that infrequently.. if I have a soda 2 or 3 mornings in a row it gets harder and harder to not get one the next morning. For me, the best way to not ingest caffeine is to keep no money in my pockets, that keeps me from buying stuff out of the vending machines
Wouldn't there be some point where a DDOS would stop being effective because there's already too much traffic... therefore keeping up a small amount of the backbone?
If you're able to take down 80% of the servers, it's possible you wouldn't have a chance to even reach the other 20%. You'd probably lose a significant portion of your botnet if you took out that much of the backbone.
The thing is N. Korea keeps doing stupid shit that annoys the rest of the world, even nations that normally stick up for them like China and Russia are probably rolling their eyes thinking "what do they hope to accomplish?". No global power wants one of their "protected nations" causing problems around the world because inevitably they'd get pulled in as well.
I do agree that N. Korea has been a bigger threat all this time. I think the world has wished Kim Jong Il would eventually just fade away if people ignored him long enough.
Screw that... how will I make it to my WoW raid on time?!?!
Now where'd I put that pitchfork and torch?
Maybe the planet is sick of the human infestation and is doing this in order to lower our numbers. We've got people living in freezing conditions year round, and people living in tropical climates year round, and people who have to deal with cold winters and hot summers... unless the global temperature drops or rises significantly (meaning the entire planet becomes so extreme in either direction) we'll continue to survive and prosper... maybe a bit more compacted than we're use to.
I'm in Ohio, I've always wanted to be closer to the ocean!
Not looking so intelligent now!
(i'm joking)
You are worried about privacy yet have an email address listed?
Just feed them some of the pet food that's manufactured in China... that seems to do the job.
I have the same reservations about the Chevy Volt. How many people (especially people who typically buy a Chevrolet) would be able to afford a car the premium that car is going to cost in order to save a few $$ on gas each week. I'm sure something like that would be great for my daily commute to work (about 4 miles each way) but as soon as I leave town I'll be burning through the gasoline probably at a higher rate than a normal car of compariable size.
The Tesla Model S seems a bit more practicle since it has a longer range.
Actually there isn't much of a difference. If you need to accelerate to get through a yellow light, you should have stopped in the first place.
Wasn't one of the points of his documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" that everyone needs to do their part to conserve? His idea is everyone else needs to conserve, he'll use what he wants to and just pay extra money to "offset" his luxurious lifestyle.
I don't care if 10,000 kwH/month is normal for a house that size in Tennessee, it's excessive for Al and Tipper when Al's claim to fame (these days) is global warming.