That could be the purpose of your company or of some other companies. But in general, the purpose of a company is to provide a product or service, and in most cases to limit the personal liability of the person providing that product or service. The mark of a successfull company is often the size of a profit it brings in, but even that is sometimes a bad statistic to use in judgement.
That's too bad. She actually developed quite well. She gets kidnapped, and comes back a little less chipper. Eventually she becomes quite powerfull, as does everyone. Being as you are an "old school RPG player" I'm surprised you found the situation as troublesome and lost hope for the entire game.
Tetris on the Playstation from atleast 4 years back is great for varying skill levels of players. As one person starts doing better, they move up in levels and the other person usually stays the same (depending on how many games in the 3-game round are won). This goes on indefinately until someone tops out. It's one of the most addicting games to play. My sister and I can curse at each other for hours at abou the same skill level. Then my dad, of significantly lesser skill, can play either of us and because of the way it works, have equal amounts of cursing;)
Yeah, calling someone childish is positively productive. Thanks.
I agree the griffon example is pretty clear. But what about the others? Letting low level monsters beat on you to increase defense while you sit back and watch t.v.? Is that a bannable offense?
A lot of the stuff in WoW can be considered interacting with the environment unattended. Is taking a flight path and going to the kitchen for a drink one of them? Is putting your mount on run and going to the bathroom one of them? Or is it only things that increase skills, experience, or inventory? Gaining geographical location doesn't count? What about if I stand in the middle of a group of lvl 6 murlocs while they all beat on me. That will increase my defense over time, but I'm not interacting with them. They are doing something to me, but not vice-versa.
Am I required to answer someone if they claim to be a GM? What if I don't even speak english?
I neither agree with the actions of the person who got banned, nor do I agree with the punishment Blizzard decided upon.
Right on. If you don't like what the company is doing, if you don't trust what the company is doing, don't invest. I'd expect to see the price continue to drop as Wall Street loses patience. That might limit the number of aquisitions Google can make, but it won't limit the talent they attract. Google is the IBM and MS of the past, the company talented people want to work for. A few Wall Street analysts won't wrangle Google.
So you cannot copyright an algorithm, but you can copyright the expression of that algorithm in computer source code?
Is that true? Just wondering if this whole debate can work itself back to software and source code. One clearly (it seems) could not patent the ideas that make up a book. Neither could you then patent the idea that makes up an algorithm, right? I'm just asking, I don't assume to know anything about this. I am especially not a lawyer.
I pay Speakeasy to connect my computer as a webserver to the Internet. Who does Google pay for the same thing? They are connected, I imagine they pay someone. And that someone is probably paying something to BellSouth if BS owns some of the lines. So why does BS think it needs to go straight to Google?
Sony warned weeks ahead? Yeah, in was probably in the requirements document that they gave to First 4 Internet.
How come there is so little talk about the corporate connection between Sony and First 4 Internet? I'm glad that Sont hasn't shaken the blame off themselves and onto First 4, but the two were in cahoots as they say. A "You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" kind of thing.
Hold fast? What, like their patching methods have proven so solidly tested and deployed, havn't been rushed to the live servers?
They should spend some of this profit to add more login/authentication machines so Tuesdays aren't a multi-hour wait for the pipes to get unclogged. Also spend some money fixing bugs and stop "rebalancing" characters.
Yeha, they do some work. But it seems significantly less than what they should be doing given the size of the audience and profit they are making.
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In so doing, [the caller] assumed the risk that the company would reveal to police the numbers he dialed
Did the police in that last line have a warrant for searching the company's property?
Did the NSA?
Nope, that's the Clerk of Evasion, a result of a Monster Summoning II spell
The purpose of a _Company_ is to make a profit
Bwuahahah. No.
That could be the purpose of your company or of some other companies. But in general, the purpose of a company is to provide a product or service, and in most cases to limit the personal liability of the person providing that product or service. The mark of a successfull company is often the size of a profit it brings in, but even that is sometimes a bad statistic to use in judgement.
They could also take a gamble and buy SCO. In addition to all the high quality Tools (like Darl), they might end up owning linux entirely ;)
I kid, I kid!
I bet their electronic game reviewers won't let this see the light of day.... yeah, that's the reason it's so late.
That's too bad. She actually developed quite well. She gets kidnapped, and comes back a little less chipper. Eventually she becomes quite powerfull, as does everyone. Being as you are an "old school RPG player" I'm surprised you found the situation as troublesome and lost hope for the entire game.
Anyway, to each their own.
World of Warcraft also has a "Buy it now" feature in their Auction House.
Tetris on the Playstation from atleast 4 years back is great for varying skill levels of players. As one person starts doing better, they move up in levels and the other person usually stays the same (depending on how many games in the 3-game round are won). This goes on indefinately until someone tops out. It's one of the most addicting games to play. My sister and I can curse at each other for hours at abou the same skill level. Then my dad, of significantly lesser skill, can play either of us and because of the way it works, have equal amounts of cursing ;)
Yeah, calling someone childish is positively productive. Thanks.
I agree the griffon example is pretty clear. But what about the others? Letting low level monsters beat on you to increase defense while you sit back and watch t.v.? Is that a bannable offense?
A lot of the stuff in WoW can be considered interacting with the environment unattended. Is taking a flight path and going to the kitchen for a drink one of them? Is putting your mount on run and going to the bathroom one of them? Or is it only things that increase skills, experience, or inventory? Gaining geographical location doesn't count? What about if I stand in the middle of a group of lvl 6 murlocs while they all beat on me. That will increase my defense over time, but I'm not interacting with them. They are doing something to me, but not vice-versa.
Am I required to answer someone if they claim to be a GM? What if I don't even speak english?
I neither agree with the actions of the person who got banned, nor do I agree with the punishment Blizzard decided upon.
Right on. If you don't like what the company is doing, if you don't trust what the company is doing, don't invest. I'd expect to see the price continue to drop as Wall Street loses patience. That might limit the number of aquisitions Google can make, but it won't limit the talent they attract. Google is the IBM and MS of the past, the company talented people want to work for. A few Wall Street analysts won't wrangle Google.
Subspace had a spectator mode in, what, 1997? You could control the camera (it was 2d though). There was no replay though.
So you cannot copyright an algorithm, but you can copyright the expression of that algorithm in computer source code?
Is that true? Just wondering if this whole debate can work itself back to software and source code. One clearly (it seems) could not patent the ideas that make up a book. Neither could you then patent the idea that makes up an algorithm, right? I'm just asking, I don't assume to know anything about this. I am especially not a lawyer.
Chapter 1. How to poorly implement Common Lisp
Chapter 2. Please See http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/
Have you ever seen a female Night Elf dance (or many other races for that matter)? Sexuality is coded in to the game.
/silly of a male troll character?
Or heard the
I pay Speakeasy to connect my computer as a webserver to the Internet. Who does Google pay for the same thing? They are connected, I imagine they pay someone. And that someone is probably paying something to BellSouth if BS owns some of the lines. So why does BS think it needs to go straight to Google?
They need to get over it. Information wants to be freeeeeeeee!
Labeling 99.9% of the televised content as "Information" is just plain wrong.
But anyway... If I crank the handcrank faster, can I overclock it to give me more PPS in POV-Ray?
What, no inline images in that article?
phht.
Honorable of you.
However, what are the chances that the 17 year old behind the counter did anything with the information you gave him besides cancelling your account?
No? Not interested. (sips latte)
this is where we slap you with a wet trout...
Sony warned weeks ahead? Yeah, in was probably in the requirements document that they gave to First 4 Internet.
How come there is so little talk about the corporate connection between Sony and First 4 Internet? I'm glad that Sont hasn't shaken the blame off themselves and onto First 4, but the two were in cahoots as they say. A "You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" kind of thing.
Is it possible to put a rootkit on on television?
In Soviet Russia, rootkits put you on television.
Hold fast? What, like their patching methods have proven so solidly tested and deployed, havn't been rushed to the live servers?
They should spend some of this profit to add more login/authentication machines so Tuesdays aren't a multi-hour wait for the pipes to get unclogged. Also spend some money fixing bugs and stop "rebalancing" characters.
Yeha, they do some work. But it seems significantly less than what they should be doing given the size of the audience and profit they are making.
screw jpeg 2000.