I know a couple of employers who offers internships that checks in on individuals via these popular sites. They often check facebook and see what groups they associate with and photos they have posted. While they dont use this information to remove someone from consideration, it is considered information to strengthen ones application. What an employee does on their own time can affect a business, so employers do check this sort of thing.
I mean who would look more like a qualified canidate: the one who has pictures and stories about their drinking experiences or someone who has a well rounded profile. If you publish it, you need to remember that it does reflect upon yourself.
Granted situations that pictures are published without your approval does shed different light on this situation, but i know with facebook, you can remove your name from it.
wasnt he originally designed to be a military robot with a laser weapon system. Just wait till one of these things goes nutty and wanders off and joins up with Steve Guttenberg. THe HORROR, oh please wont anyone think of the children.
While there is great debate about googles master plan or if it has one. The whole concept that they make things and then try to make them profitable. The more i see their actions the more a threat to almost every element of the PC industry they present.
1-Online Storage
2-Office Suite Program
3-Data Search
4-E-Mail, Chat
5-Entertainment (Video, Photos)
6-Online Sales
?7?-Games?? (is this a possibility down the line) A large sector with big potential
I'll be honest I am one who thinks that eventually we are going to be returning to dummy terminals, a lot of these items would support that. I think they have a bigger plan, and I think we are beginning to see pieces that fit together. But also they have one or two more cards they havent played yet.
Eh, Carmen Sandiego and the Original Civilization did that too, then came the era that you had to have the CD in the drive to play the game.
Just keep it with the online activation. Sign up online, enter the registration number, get your product activated, but make sure there is a way to deactivate it later on. Its a simple way to do it and if you dont have internet well that sucks (but then again you wouldnt be reading this...)
Funny note would be that the markmonitor website is about making the internet safer for your business. I cant see how the proposed gdrive would do such a thing.
Could you publish results, I think that this sort of challenge is as news worthy if not more so than this parent story. I would love to hear the results of your challenge and see what people were able to do.
stress has many different meanings for different cultures and by different groups. Typically in medicine stress is looked at as something that will stimulate a physiological response. Stress is a needed part of our lives. without stress muscles would not grow, with out stress we would not learn, etc. The challenge is how much stress can one tolerate. Many people find that they become more effective when they are "stresses" the body is reacting to this stimuli, but eventually there is a point where even the most adaptive body will not be able to adquately respond to the stress.
While I think this is very useful, I think that there are quite a few simplier solutions out there. I have for many years kept many print outs in different languages of common medical questions and terms to work with patients. The other part is that having someone speak the language is still much more effective, yes there are plenty of languages that present at a hospital that it is not feesible to have a translator for, but at the same time someone that knows their language might also have a better understanding of their culture and their perceptions of medicine.
I think this touched upon one key part though the portable media player market. While the growth seen there has been tremendous, it has been largely focused on one product the iPod. Dont get me wrong I love my iPod and think it is an excelent designed product but there are some other items out there that have caught my eye but I would not be as interested in because they dont play well with the music collect that I have bought (stupid me) and my computer (a mac, although remarkably usually less of an issue). If there was an open format without DRM i might be able to explore some of these items, and might end up with another one or two MP3 players, i had to ditch last two MP3 players because they didnt work with iTunes.
Now that the consumer perspective has been voiced, my reality is that I dont see any of these companies removing the DRM anytime soon especially since it promotes sales of its own product (iTunes and iPod is the perfect example). I dont pay for music, and all the MP3 i have i have created (or acquired...) so they are in a format I can work with. Nice idea of all the companies playing nice with each other and the consumer but I am quite skeptical at the same time. it is in their best interest for the time being to continue with the path they have created.
Because some companies may view this as another potential income stream. Sadly they dont always work the best for their customers, there are some companies that will refuse to disable text messaging on a phone and refuse to disable the ability to receive them. Because they will charge you for each one you receive even if it is unsolicited. So viruses that use up network time? Maybe another revenue stream with premium services to protect your phone. Now granted this is slightly a draconian view and many companies out there due try to protect their customers and protect against spam messaging that goes on, but I am sure there is one or two companies.
Sadly i think your right about John Q Public and the antivirus market. But luckily there are some people out there that realize that maybe purchasing a product to protect you from the flaws in another one of their product might be a bad idea. Hopefully enough IT individuals out there who control corporate networks etc, will not be bullied by ignorant management to install the microsoft product. We'll see.
i am skeptical, especially since they cap so many people's speed. I have friends with the verizon fios service. They have a fiber optic line comning into their house, and they only are slightly faster than broadband. They are not using their networks to capacity by a long shot. So you expect me to beleive that the rest of thier network is taxed out?
Give me a break its the telecoms trying to get more tax breaks.
Didnt the original Gameboy have some form of keyboard and software package out. If i remember correctly the productivity software was a cartridge, and the keyboard pluggged into the serial port on the side.
It depends, here in the US the image is not copyrighted but is protected under federal law because of the US signing the gevena convention. You misuse it and they can have you go to jail. It is about protecting what the image stands for. If people become accustom to the image and seeing it in everyday life it will not guarantee the protection that it is suppose to have on a battle field. Attacking a Red Cross worker is a war crime.
Also on a side note there are only two companies exempt from this law in the US because the companies were using the symbol prior to the US signing of the geneva convention
to a certain extent I agree... but I also think that there is currently no victors and that what we are seeing is an attempt to become such. Information equals power today and a battle is looming on who controls it.
Especially with the fact that game systems are becoming more complex to program, people loose focus on making the games fun and ground breaking and not as realistic as possible. I agree that many good ideas have been done and that it makes it harder to develop new game ideas, but I think also that the industry is expanding to cover new demographics and a single game now wont spark the interest of everyone who plays that system. But i do not think that we are anywhere close to the end of creativism, and that the designers should strive to be more creative and break the molds.
This is a problem that I think is plaguing the entertainment industry in general. They are not putting out new stuff. If game X did well well then why not try Game X 2.0. Or my personal favorite is making movies out of video games. Some have been good, some have not.
But to be honest the real reason sales are down, is no one wants to spend tons of money for games on a system that is going to be obsolete in a couple of months.
While many people may cry foul, thinking that this is an expensive price tag, think about the people who would benefit most from this. Companies who have traditionally relied on mass mailings to announce things or update there customers will benefit from this substantially. Authentication that the e-mail is from who it says it is, and at a fraction of the price of snail mail. Although i do forsee that there will be several bugs to work out on this.
thats it... PS3 just won the console war going to have to get like one of these for each room (after I make a couple million to be able to afford that...)
def agree, especially for the price. I have dozens of games for some of my older systems and I only end up using like 3 or 4 of them regularly. Some of them i cant remember when I last used them. And if your shelling out $60 per game, you can very quickly spend more than what you did on the system. I dont have $700 bucks to spend on games.
I still prefer games that allow for good multiplayer action in the home.
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I know a couple of employers who offers internships that checks in on individuals via these popular sites. They often check facebook and see what groups they associate with and photos they have posted. While they dont use this information to remove someone from consideration, it is considered information to strengthen ones application. What an employee does on their own time can affect a business, so employers do check this sort of thing. I mean who would look more like a qualified canidate: the one who has pictures and stories about their drinking experiences or someone who has a well rounded profile. If you publish it, you need to remember that it does reflect upon yourself. Granted situations that pictures are published without your approval does shed different light on this situation, but i know with facebook, you can remove your name from it.
wasnt he originally designed to be a military robot with a laser weapon system. Just wait till one of these things goes nutty and wanders off and joins up with Steve Guttenberg. THe HORROR, oh please wont anyone think of the children.
Ok crack break is done, back to work.
While there is great debate about googles master plan or if it has one. The whole concept that they make things and then try to make them profitable. The more i see their actions the more a threat to almost every element of the PC industry they present.
1-Online Storage
2-Office Suite Program
3-Data Search
4-E-Mail, Chat
5-Entertainment (Video, Photos)
6-Online Sales ?7?-Games?? (is this a possibility down the line) A large sector with big potential
I'll be honest I am one who thinks that eventually we are going to be returning to dummy terminals, a lot of these items would support that. I think they have a bigger plan, and I think we are beginning to see pieces that fit together. But also they have one or two more cards they havent played yet.
Eh, Carmen Sandiego and the Original Civilization did that too, then came the era that you had to have the CD in the drive to play the game.
Just keep it with the online activation. Sign up online, enter the registration number, get your product activated, but make sure there is a way to deactivate it later on. Its a simple way to do it and if you dont have internet well that sucks (but then again you wouldnt be reading this...)
A quick search on gdrive.com comes up with this info.
Registrant:
Data Docket Inc. (DOM-1291683)
391 N Ancestor Pl.
boise ID 83704 US
Domain Name: gdrive.com
Registrar Name: Markmonitor.com
Registrar Whois: whois.markmonitor.com
Registrar Homepage: http://www.markmonitor.com/
Funny note would be that the markmonitor website is about making the internet safer for your business. I cant see how the proposed gdrive would do such a thing.
any one find the followig line a little scary.
"one goal of Google was to "store 100 percent" of consumer information."
Im sorry there just some of my info I trust to ME, MYSELF, and I.
Could you publish results, I think that this sort of challenge is as news worthy if not more so than this parent story. I would love to hear the results of your challenge and see what people were able to do.
eh, you might have better luck with ill tempered mutant sea-bass
stress has many different meanings for different cultures and by different groups. Typically in medicine stress is looked at as something that will stimulate a physiological response. Stress is a needed part of our lives. without stress muscles would not grow, with out stress we would not learn, etc. The challenge is how much stress can one tolerate. Many people find that they become more effective when they are "stresses" the body is reacting to this stimuli, but eventually there is a point where even the most adaptive body will not be able to adquately respond to the stress.
While I think this is very useful, I think that there are quite a few simplier solutions out there. I have for many years kept many print outs in different languages of common medical questions and terms to work with patients. The other part is that having someone speak the language is still much more effective, yes there are plenty of languages that present at a hospital that it is not feesible to have a translator for, but at the same time someone that knows their language might also have a better understanding of their culture and their perceptions of medicine.
I think this touched upon one key part though the portable media player market. While the growth seen there has been tremendous, it has been largely focused on one product the iPod. Dont get me wrong I love my iPod and think it is an excelent designed product but there are some other items out there that have caught my eye but I would not be as interested in because they dont play well with the music collect that I have bought (stupid me) and my computer (a mac, although remarkably usually less of an issue). If there was an open format without DRM i might be able to explore some of these items, and might end up with another one or two MP3 players, i had to ditch last two MP3 players because they didnt work with iTunes.
Now that the consumer perspective has been voiced, my reality is that I dont see any of these companies removing the DRM anytime soon especially since it promotes sales of its own product (iTunes and iPod is the perfect example). I dont pay for music, and all the MP3 i have i have created (or acquired...) so they are in a format I can work with. Nice idea of all the companies playing nice with each other and the consumer but I am quite skeptical at the same time. it is in their best interest for the time being to continue with the path they have created.
Because some companies may view this as another potential income stream. Sadly they dont always work the best for their customers, there are some companies that will refuse to disable text messaging on a phone and refuse to disable the ability to receive them. Because they will charge you for each one you receive even if it is unsolicited. So viruses that use up network time? Maybe another revenue stream with premium services to protect your phone. Now granted this is slightly a draconian view and many companies out there due try to protect their customers and protect against spam messaging that goes on, but I am sure there is one or two companies.
Sadly i think your right about John Q Public and the antivirus market. But luckily there are some people out there that realize that maybe purchasing a product to protect you from the flaws in another one of their product might be a bad idea. Hopefully enough IT individuals out there who control corporate networks etc, will not be bullied by ignorant management to install the microsoft product. We'll see.
i am skeptical, especially since they cap so many people's speed. I have friends with the verizon fios service. They have a fiber optic line comning into their house, and they only are slightly faster than broadband. They are not using their networks to capacity by a long shot. So you expect me to beleive that the rest of thier network is taxed out? Give me a break its the telecoms trying to get more tax breaks.
Didnt the original Gameboy have some form of keyboard and software package out. If i remember correctly the productivity software was a cartridge, and the keyboard pluggged into the serial port on the side.
of those 4 million pieces of content were updates for the x-box?
It depends, here in the US the image is not copyrighted but is protected under federal law because of the US signing the gevena convention. You misuse it and they can have you go to jail. It is about protecting what the image stands for. If people become accustom to the image and seeing it in everyday life it will not guarantee the protection that it is suppose to have on a battle field. Attacking a Red Cross worker is a war crime.
Also on a side note there are only two companies exempt from this law in the US because the companies were using the symbol prior to the US signing of the geneva convention
to a certain extent I agree... but I also think that there is currently no victors and that what we are seeing is an attempt to become such. Information equals power today and a battle is looming on who controls it.
and I am sure that the Chinese government would allow that.
politically motivated. History is written by the victors. Wikipedia just gets the scrutinization because it is in the spot light.
Very true, (pity you hid as an anonymous coward).
Especially with the fact that game systems are becoming more complex to program, people loose focus on making the games fun and ground breaking and not as realistic as possible. I agree that many good ideas have been done and that it makes it harder to develop new game ideas, but I think also that the industry is expanding to cover new demographics and a single game now wont spark the interest of everyone who plays that system. But i do not think that we are anywhere close to the end of creativism, and that the designers should strive to be more creative and break the molds.
This is a problem that I think is plaguing the entertainment industry in general. They are not putting out new stuff. If game X did well well then why not try Game X 2.0. Or my personal favorite is making movies out of video games. Some have been good, some have not.
But to be honest the real reason sales are down, is no one wants to spend tons of money for games on a system that is going to be obsolete in a couple of months.
While many people may cry foul, thinking that this is an expensive price tag, think about the people who would benefit most from this. Companies who have traditionally relied on mass mailings to announce things or update there customers will benefit from this substantially. Authentication that the e-mail is from who it says it is, and at a fraction of the price of snail mail. Although i do forsee that there will be several bugs to work out on this.
thats it... PS3 just won the console war going to have to get like one of these for each room (after I make a couple million to be able to afford that...)
def agree, especially for the price. I have dozens of games for some of my older systems and I only end up using like 3 or 4 of them regularly. Some of them i cant remember when I last used them. And if your shelling out $60 per game, you can very quickly spend more than what you did on the system. I dont have $700 bucks to spend on games.
I still prefer games that allow for good multiplayer action in the home.