Whether the overall job situation in this country has improved or gotten worse is a subjective question, but whether the number of jobs has increased or decreased is a matter of objective fact. The percentage of working-age people able to find employment is more relevant for many purposes, but that was not the question.
"There is an old network saying: Bandwidth problems can be cured with money. Latency problems are harder because the speed of light is fixed - you can't bribe God."
A beam of light takes roughly 1/7 of a second to travel around the world. That means that if you're playing on a server on the other side of the world, your ping will always be at least 143 ms. That's a hard physical limit: the only way to decrease that time would be to drill a hole through the Earth, or move closer.
There is only one way forward. NVIDIA should fund the effort to rewrite their firmware/drivers, providing only the hardware register descriptions and nuances.
Be that as it may, most crooks are not smart. Most crimes are spur of the moment rather than carefully planned, and have a low payoff relative to their risk. Most crimes are committed within 1 mile of the criminal's home. Most petty criminals average 20 crimes before they are caught: those are the ones who think they are smart, not realizing they're playing a fool's game for what amounts to chump change.
"He says the failure to open-source Java means that it can't be used on millions of $100, Linux-powered PCs envisioned under Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child project, to bring affordable computing to children in developing nations. Negroponte wants only open source software on the machines, according to Red Hat, which is a member of the project."
Well then that's Negroponte's problem, not Sun's. There's nothing in Sun's license that would prevent someone from bundling the JVM with whatever hardware you please.
"Critics wonder what kind of an effect it would have on a victim not to work through the pain like people have traditionally done."
People said the same thing when anaesthesia was invented. There were those who worried that people would suffer from missing out on the "transformative experience of pain." Guess what? It turns out that biting a stick while a surgeon sawed off your leg wasn't that crucial to enriching the human experience after all.
These criticisms don't have any rational basis. People who have suffered post-traumatic stress disorder aren't better adjusted than other humans -- quite the opposite. Irrational fear of change runs deep, it seems.
A Central Tower Power Plant is basically that, except it works by heating liquid and turning a turbine with the vapor instead of using photovoltaic cells.
11. In Apple's ethics document posted on their website, Apple states, "In some cases, the law may also view our resellers as our competitors when we are actually competing for the same types of customers in the marketplace." Why is Apple competing against their independent resellers?
This question is idiotic. By definition, a store is competing with all other stores that try to sell the same things to the same people. A legitimate question would be "Why does Apple run its own retail stores?" to which the obvious answer is: because they make money. Somehow, I'm having difficulty envisioning the shareholder outrage.
The point is, contrary to what you seem to think, you don't need to give the source to everyone who asks. To break it down:
Someone asks you for the source code. If you already gave them the binary then you also have to give them the source; if you didn't give them the binary then you don't have to give them anything.
That is a terrible idea, at least for traditional EverClone level grinds. To quote a poster from a previous article:
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That's why economically rational game companies must try to prevent gil-farming (to use the FFXI-specific term). They're selling an experience, and revealing that there's a shortcut to the endpoint removes the fun, and will cost customers.
Imagine how profitable a casino would be if they just gave you a number at the door and just instantly gave you 94.3% of whatever money you gave them. Its more honest, and require less investment from them as a business, but without the mystique and pagentry of gambling, nobody will pay for it.
MMORPGs, like casino gambling, is a businessm model dependent on the customer's willingly ignoring what's really going on. Gil-sellers threaten to pull back that curtain, and reveal the time-sink straighaway. Some potential customers won't even bother to play- others will spend $50 for a high level character, play for 2 months, and then quit feeling they've experienced the whole game in less time.
If those dangers didn't exist, then you can be sure game companies would be in the gil-selling business themselves- as they can obviously undercut the business of anyone who actually needs to play to earn gil, but simply punch numbers into the database.
Don't pretend that there is any large element of skill in MMORPGs. Achieving your goals just by logging enough hours (which you pay for) is no nobler than cutting out the wasted step and buying the end product directly.
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Whether the overall job situation in this country has improved or gotten worse is a subjective question, but whether the number of jobs has increased or decreased is a matter of objective fact. The percentage of working-age people able to find employment is more relevant for many purposes, but that was not the question.
"There is an old network saying: Bandwidth problems can be cured with money. Latency problems are harder because the speed of light is fixed - you can't bribe God."
A beam of light takes roughly 1/7 of a second to travel around the world. That means that if you're playing on a server on the other side of the world, your ping will always be at least 143 ms. That's a hard physical limit: the only way to decrease that time would be to drill a hole through the Earth, or move closer.
There is only one way forward. NVIDIA should fund the effort to rewrite their firmware/drivers, providing only the hardware register descriptions and nuances.
What is NVIDIA's incentive to do this?
Be that as it may, most crooks are not smart. Most crimes are spur of the moment rather than carefully planned, and have a low payoff relative to their risk. Most crimes are committed within 1 mile of the criminal's home. Most petty criminals average 20 crimes before they are caught: those are the ones who think they are smart, not realizing they're playing a fool's game for what amounts to chump change.
I would call spending 1/3 of every day cleaning excessive, unless you are a janitor.
"He says the failure to open-source Java means that it can't be used on millions of $100, Linux-powered PCs envisioned under Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child project, to bring affordable computing to children in developing nations. Negroponte wants only open source software on the machines, according to Red Hat, which is a member of the project."
Well then that's Negroponte's problem, not Sun's. There's nothing in Sun's license that would prevent someone from bundling the JVM with whatever hardware you please.
"Critics wonder what kind of an effect it would have on a victim not to work through the pain like people have traditionally done."
People said the same thing when anaesthesia was invented. There were those who worried that people would suffer from missing out on the "transformative experience of pain." Guess what? It turns out that biting a stick while a surgeon sawed off your leg wasn't that crucial to enriching the human experience after all.
These criticisms don't have any rational basis. People who have suffered post-traumatic stress disorder aren't better adjusted than other humans -- quite the opposite. Irrational fear of change runs deep, it seems.
Now I want to hear more about washing powders!
You aren't actually invulnerable during the intro. Use a console command to turn on the HUD, and you can see that you take damage.
Sadly, I'm not interested in eMule's "wait two weeks to start your download" technology. Plus, there is no official support for non-Windows platforms.
If you don't like it, you don't have to use it.
You mean like this?
A Central Tower Power Plant is basically that, except it works by heating liquid and turning a turbine with the vapor instead of using photovoltaic cells.
11. In Apple's ethics document posted on their website, Apple states, "In some cases, the law may also view our resellers as our competitors when we are actually competing for the same types of customers in the marketplace." Why is Apple competing against their independent resellers?
This question is idiotic. By definition, a store is competing with all other stores that try to sell the same things to the same people. A legitimate question would be "Why does Apple run its own retail stores?" to which the obvious answer is: because they make money. Somehow, I'm having difficulty envisioning the shareholder outrage.
The point is, contrary to what you seem to think, you don't need to give the source to everyone who asks. To break it down:
Someone asks you for the source code. If you already gave them the binary then you also have to give them the source; if you didn't give them the binary then you don't have to give them anything.
That is a terrible idea, at least for traditional EverClone level grinds. To quote a poster from a previous article:
----
That's why economically rational game companies must try to prevent gil-farming (to use the FFXI-specific term). They're selling an experience, and revealing that there's a shortcut to the endpoint removes the fun, and will cost customers.
Imagine how profitable a casino would be if they just gave you a number at the door and just instantly gave you 94.3% of whatever money you gave them. Its more honest, and require less investment from them as a business, but without the mystique and pagentry of gambling, nobody will pay for it.
MMORPGs, like casino gambling, is a businessm model dependent on the customer's willingly ignoring what's really going on. Gil-sellers threaten to pull back that curtain, and reveal the time-sink straighaway. Some potential customers won't even bother to play- others will spend $50 for a high level character, play for 2 months, and then quit feeling they've experienced the whole game in less time.
If those dangers didn't exist, then you can be sure game companies would be in the gil-selling business themselves- as they can obviously undercut the business of anyone who actually needs to play to earn gil, but simply punch numbers into the database.
Why should I care about supporting the little guy when the little guy is an asshole?
How else do you propose to name the associate of an associate?
You don't seem to have a clear idea of what the prefix means.
Being able to "remember what he was taught" is about the last thing I'd be concerned about in a manager.
Don't pretend that there is any large element of skill in MMORPGs. Achieving your goals just by logging enough hours (which you pay for) is no nobler than cutting out the wasted step and buying the end product directly.
Would you say that child abuse is worse than child abuse followed by murder? After all, in the latter case the victim doesn't have to remember it.
Also, since you believe sexually abused children would be better off if they were dead, do you think they should be euthanized?
Skype is created by the original developers of Kazaa, but the original developers did not include any spyware/adware in KaZaa.
You're right, they just sold it to people who did. That doesn't sound like the kind of person I'd trust.
The joke in the AC's comment was the difference between effect (spelt with an e) and affect (spelt with an a).
To affect is to influence. A tear in a sail has an influence on its efficiency. To effect is to cause. A tear in a sail causes inefficiency.
Anymore?
consider the story of the old lady who thought her CD-Rom was really a drink holder. Does that mean CD-Roms should be removed from computers?
;)
When's the last time you saw a Macintosh with an external CD-ROM tray?
It's slow and ugly, at least in comparison to native apps.
This news is really a pity.