Try reading harder. They want to change what the money can be officially allotted towards. There is no new fee being added, just the destination of the current one. No new tax is being levied against you.
The issue with the "real internet" at the time is AOL was selling dialup for 20$ a month and the local phone company was selling it for 50$.
Although we learned as soon as we got a working Windows 95 computer that we could just connect in AOL, minimize the window, and fire up the browser/etc seperately.. not something that was really possible on the ol' Win 3.1 computer due to low RAM.
The issue is that
1) One of the largest retailers, Wal-Mart, will not sell an AO rated game. So even if MS, Sony and Nintendo allowed AO games to be licensed, you'd sell like 10 copies.
2) But on the other hand, they will sell unrated (ie, no ESRB involvement whatsoever) PC games.
3) You have to try REALLY REALLY hard to even get an AO rating from the ESRB.
4) So if you're making a game that you know for sure is going to be AO from the start, you might as well just make it for PC/Mac and sell it online anyway.
However, I still do agree that a ratings system is kind of pointless when the "worst" rating isn't even usable.
They can't stop you from making a homebrew porn Kinect game. They don't have to sign your code with their private licensee-only key though to let you sell it to unmodded 360s, on the other hand.
PBS has -always- had ads. They just had fewer back then.
I vastly prefer the calmly narrated ads for Sears and so on that air on PBS versus the loud obnoxious INSERT BAD SONG COVER AND GRAPHICS. Strangely, I can remember more PBS ads than I do mainstream ads..
I'd throw in a bunch of money to support that AC. Unfortunately, it seems people that are usually "i hate region restrictions!" and "open source everything!" all just live with GlovePIE for some silly reason.
While I agree with what you are saying about Microsoft, the idea that Apple was "forced" to include DRM was laughable. If Apple refused to include DRM-ed songs in iTunes what would the record companies do?
The rib thing is already wrong, because it insinuates that women can be created from men, when it's been proven that the natural default gender of a human is female, and you become male later.
The passage is mostly used to 'justify' that women are 'inferior' to men.
An accurate Bible would state that Adam was created from Eve's rib, since she would have all the genes needed. Adam would not have the genes to create Eve.
Enjoyed watching him as a kid and into adulthood. He never talked down to the viewer and just had that genuine interest in astronomy that made you want to go out and look at the sky (as best you could inside heavy city light pollution)
I thought the whole point of the iMac is that you're buying a small form factor, which will inherently always be behind a tower in terms of power:cost.
Then fix it by increasing the jail time for the actual crime of rape or immediately lock them up in the loony bin. Don't pull the unconstitutional bullshit of basically punishing someone AGAIN after serving their time. Having the registry just proves the fact that we don't even trust our jail system to rehabilitate people, but we'll never be able to fix it because someone that does is "soft on crime"
On the other hand, it'll be easier to block the known spammers because fewer of them will be able to afford the hardware/sweatshop/botnet setups once the computational brute force needed increases.
Just because the copyright expired doesn't mean you could no longer make money off selling the book to people that waited. You can continue selling your version of the book. Slap "Official Version" on it. You could make sequels to the book that would be newly copyrighted.
This is why I don't understand Disney sometimes. They can keep Mickey as a trademark, but they're spending $texas to protect Steamboat Willy. As far as I know, Steamboat Willy is probably a misplaced smudge somewhere in their accounting books.
They don't have to provide a clean copy of Steamboat Willy. People will be able to dissect, study, and show Steamboat Willy to future generations so that we can actually see the history of American animation evolve over time. They'll just have to get it out of existing sources.
They also have the ability to make NEW Mickey cartoons which will have full copyright protection! Cartoons that would bring in much more money than SW does.
I mean, it's not like our copyright laws are stopping China and Taiwan from making Disney knockoff merchandise. People know they are fake. If you are truly putting out the best version of your product, people will know that it's the "real" version. Instead of going after daycares that paint Mickey on their outside wall, you can make money selling your official stencils so that he's on-model. Instead of keeping Steamboat under key, how about you create and sell a curriculum centered around studying it for animation students that you can sell to colleges.
Oh wait, that would require actually getting up off your ass and making new material centered around your IP instead of just sitting on it.
Having worked at a public library, people don't actually want to FUND the libraries. We had times where there were subjects you could not check books out on at my branch because we had none left and no money to replace them.
It's possible, it's just not a good use of money to just stick ads whereever.
Do you think they just stick billboards up next to a highway because they like to? Those ads you see on highway billboards were bought because the company that paid for them had data on the local population, like income level/political leaning/religion/language and so on.
If you can't tell a company who is coming to your site, they're less likely to buy ads if they do at all.
Definitely need some controls over tracking, though.
Well if you get the credit for C and above and no credit if you got an F, why not just make a simple pass/fail? Either you understood the material or you didn't.
But then again, I was in a school district where they moved me on to Spanish 7-8 even though I straight-F'd Spanish 5-6. A relative of mine basically straight-F'd all his classes in 7th grade and they STILL pushed him on to 8th grade for the sake of their numbers. That's when he was pulled out and homeschooled, because the school clearly didn't give a shit about actually teaching him at that point.
At this point, the A-F system seems more politically justified than logically justified. This seems like the school super doesn't like kids being pushed forward and basically left to rot, so he's working inside the system by removing the 'you failed but showed up enough to justify giving you the credit' so kids that need help actually get it.
I hate it when people make scales to grade something on, and then never use the damn entirety of the scale. See also game sites that have a 1-10 rating for a game but never really use anything below 7.
It's legal language. They aren't saying they were permitted before or permitted afterwards. They're saying that Twitter is basically on probation for the next 20 years, and now if they do it again the FTC can fine them since they've now warned them.
It'd be like say (ignore all other laws for a moment), a store advertising 20$ iPhones and they're 400$ when you get in the store. They would be told that they can't mislead customers for another 20 years, or else face heavy fines.
I would imagine in those areas, there wouldn't be an onramp between the entrance to the shoulder and the next exit? The cyclist would never have to actually deal with merging or truly interacting with the highway traffic.
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Try reading harder. They want to change what the money can be officially allotted towards. There is no new fee being added, just the destination of the current one. No new tax is being levied against you.
I had a forum on a relatively small site that just started getting HAMMERED by spammers.. it was like the reCAPTCHA wasn't even there.
I switched to the forum's default scambled letter captcha and that stopped the flood for now.
The issue with the "real internet" at the time is AOL was selling dialup for 20$ a month and the local phone company was selling it for 50$.
Although we learned as soon as we got a working Windows 95 computer that we could just connect in AOL, minimize the window, and fire up the browser/etc seperately.. not something that was really possible on the ol' Win 3.1 computer due to low RAM.
The issue is that 1) One of the largest retailers, Wal-Mart, will not sell an AO rated game. So even if MS, Sony and Nintendo allowed AO games to be licensed, you'd sell like 10 copies. 2) But on the other hand, they will sell unrated (ie, no ESRB involvement whatsoever) PC games. 3) You have to try REALLY REALLY hard to even get an AO rating from the ESRB. 4) So if you're making a game that you know for sure is going to be AO from the start, you might as well just make it for PC/Mac and sell it online anyway. However, I still do agree that a ratings system is kind of pointless when the "worst" rating isn't even usable.
They can't stop you from making a homebrew porn Kinect game. They don't have to sign your code with their private licensee-only key though to let you sell it to unmodded 360s, on the other hand.
PBS has -always- had ads. They just had fewer back then. I vastly prefer the calmly narrated ads for Sears and so on that air on PBS versus the loud obnoxious INSERT BAD SONG COVER AND GRAPHICS. Strangely, I can remember more PBS ads than I do mainstream ads..
I'd throw in a bunch of money to support that AC. Unfortunately, it seems people that are usually "i hate region restrictions!" and "open source everything!" all just live with GlovePIE for some silly reason.
Weren't they talking about restricting it to their customers though (I believe 4.1.1.x is owned by Level3). Or did they change their mind on that?
While I agree with what you are saying about Microsoft, the idea that Apple was "forced" to include DRM was laughable. If Apple refused to include DRM-ed songs in iTunes what would the record companies do?
Not license their music to Apple?
A silly reply is the only thing that fits a silly question.
The rib thing is already wrong, because it insinuates that women can be created from men, when it's been proven that the natural default gender of a human is female, and you become male later.
The passage is mostly used to 'justify' that women are 'inferior' to men.
An accurate Bible would state that Adam was created from Eve's rib, since she would have all the genes needed. Adam would not have the genes to create Eve.
Enjoyed watching him as a kid and into adulthood. He never talked down to the viewer and just had that genuine interest in astronomy that made you want to go out and look at the sky (as best you could inside heavy city light pollution)
I thought the whole point of the iMac is that you're buying a small form factor, which will inherently always be behind a tower in terms of power:cost.
It's essentially a unportable laptop.
Then fix it by increasing the jail time for the actual crime of rape or immediately lock them up in the loony bin. Don't pull the unconstitutional bullshit of basically punishing someone AGAIN after serving their time. Having the registry just proves the fact that we don't even trust our jail system to rehabilitate people, but we'll never be able to fix it because someone that does is "soft on crime"
On the other hand, it'll be easier to block the known spammers because fewer of them will be able to afford the hardware/sweatshop/botnet setups once the computational brute force needed increases.
Just because the copyright expired doesn't mean you could no longer make money off selling the book to people that waited. You can continue selling your version of the book. Slap "Official Version" on it. You could make sequels to the book that would be newly copyrighted.
This is why I don't understand Disney sometimes. They can keep Mickey as a trademark, but they're spending $texas to protect Steamboat Willy. As far as I know, Steamboat Willy is probably a misplaced smudge somewhere in their accounting books.
They don't have to provide a clean copy of Steamboat Willy. People will be able to dissect, study, and show Steamboat Willy to future generations so that we can actually see the history of American animation evolve over time. They'll just have to get it out of existing sources.
They also have the ability to make NEW Mickey cartoons which will have full copyright protection! Cartoons that would bring in much more money than SW does.
I mean, it's not like our copyright laws are stopping China and Taiwan from making Disney knockoff merchandise. People know they are fake. If you are truly putting out the best version of your product, people will know that it's the "real" version. Instead of going after daycares that paint Mickey on their outside wall, you can make money selling your official stencils so that he's on-model. Instead of keeping Steamboat under key, how about you create and sell a curriculum centered around studying it for animation students that you can sell to colleges.
Oh wait, that would require actually getting up off your ass and making new material centered around your IP instead of just sitting on it.
Having worked at a public library, people don't actually want to FUND the libraries. We had times where there were subjects you could not check books out on at my branch because we had none left and no money to replace them.
It's possible, it's just not a good use of money to just stick ads whereever.
Do you think they just stick billboards up next to a highway because they like to? Those ads you see on highway billboards were bought because the company that paid for them had data on the local population, like income level/political leaning/religion/language and so on.
If you can't tell a company who is coming to your site, they're less likely to buy ads if they do at all.
Definitely need some controls over tracking, though.
Well if you get the credit for C and above and no credit if you got an F, why not just make a simple pass/fail? Either you understood the material or you didn't.
But then again, I was in a school district where they moved me on to Spanish 7-8 even though I straight-F'd Spanish 5-6. A relative of mine basically straight-F'd all his classes in 7th grade and they STILL pushed him on to 8th grade for the sake of their numbers. That's when he was pulled out and homeschooled, because the school clearly didn't give a shit about actually teaching him at that point.
At this point, the A-F system seems more politically justified than logically justified. This seems like the school super doesn't like kids being pushed forward and basically left to rot, so he's working inside the system by removing the 'you failed but showed up enough to justify giving you the credit' so kids that need help actually get it.
But that would make too much sense!
I hate it when people make scales to grade something on, and then never use the damn entirety of the scale. See also game sites that have a 1-10 rating for a game but never really use anything below 7.
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It's legal language. They aren't saying they were permitted before or permitted afterwards. They're saying that Twitter is basically on probation for the next 20 years, and now if they do it again the FTC can fine them since they've now warned them.
It'd be like say (ignore all other laws for a moment), a store advertising 20$ iPhones and they're 400$ when you get in the store. They would be told that they can't mislead customers for another 20 years, or else face heavy fines.
I don't think the inventor of freaking Quicktime is going to ruin his reputation by going for a pump-and-dump scheme.
There's a tag that IE8 uses to go into "super standards" mode. Chromeframe uses the same tag. Compliant browsers don't need to worry about said tag.
I would imagine in those areas, there wouldn't be an onramp between the entrance to the shoulder and the next exit? The cyclist would never have to actually deal with merging or truly interacting with the highway traffic.