No, because most of the customers really won't care. They'll get their choice of some new applications using an interface that they're used to using anyway (iTunes). Some will be free. Some won't. They're not developers - to them, what's the difference?
It's not necessarily the will of the majority, but the will of the majority of people that actually come out to vote or the will of the groups that have the organization to get their candidates into office. The people for some of the "nanny laws" are usually far more organized and dedicated to their point of view than the folks that aren't.
The text of bills and their authors, sponsors and cosponsors is already published and freely available - if you're willing to look for it.
The THOMAS information system of the Library of Congress has information on all bills heard before the US Senate and House. You can also ask your member of Congress for information on any specific bill that interests you.
It isn't balanced now. I've had a retaliatory feedback from the seller when I sent them an e-mail to them (not feedback) asking whether they had mis shipped my item because it had absolutely no relationship to what they had published in the auction. I was still new to the game, so the negative rating took me from 100% positive to 75% positive.
Happily, I was eventually able to get it reversed, but how would you recommend buyers point out bad sellers when the process is slanted toward the sellers?
Except that the cheapest MSDN subscription (MSDN Operating Systems) is $699. The cost goes up rapidly from there. If you're not doing development or testing, it's cheaper to buy a cheap PC with Vista than a MSDN license.
These people should switch to FIOS when it gets rolled out.
Yeah, and if you're in California and aren't in the counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino or Ventura - which means most of California - you'll get it Real Soon Now.
Other than filing fees, none of the money that candidates spend on campaigning goes to the governments of the states that the elections are held in. If you're advocating some type of "election fee", wouldn't that disproportionately affect campaigns with a smaller war chest, like lesser-known and third party candidates?
No, the assault gun weapons ban was intentionally made to be so specific that a minor modification to an "assault weapon" would mean that the new weapon was no longer banned. The sponsors realized that a wide reaching law would never get sufficient votes to pass - thanks to the NRA - so they made it so narrow that it was, for all intents and purposes, meaningless. The Congresspeople who voted for it got to say to their constituents that they were "doing something" to limit access to weapons and the NRA got (minor) props for backing a bloodless, toothless law that meant nothing. Everybody won.
As little as people may like it, the only way that the games industry can get a "positive" message in edgewise is through paid lobbyists. As it is, the only message that most politicians are likely to hear is "games are evil" because the groups that are pushing that message are very well organized.
BART out here on the west coast is a colossal joke. It did almost work temporarily when the earthquake broke the bridge, but as soon as they repaired the bridge, they crippled the train system again.
Why is it a joke? Because it doesn't run all night because the costs for security will skyrocket just to serve a few customers? Because it can't extend into new cities because nobody is really interested in paying for it to do so? Given its reliance on the feeder transit systems that are only loosely tied to it and lack of funding for all transit, it works pretty well. Is it perfect? No. Is it better than spending up to an hour traveling the seventeen miles to my job in San Francisco during the commute from Hell? Absolutely.
It worked quite well for more than a few people after the earthquake. They certainly got a huge increase in ridership - most trains filled up long before they got to the stations before the Trans-Bay Tube. After the bridge reopened, the people who used BART because they couldn't drive went back to their cars. It didn't make financial sense to keep the extended schedule and longer trains with fewer people riding them, so BART went back to the old schedule. BART didn't cripple service, they just went back to pre-earthquake service levels.
I wouldn't, but don't you think it's a bit risky (no pun intended) to make a game that looks almost exactly like Scrabble and call it a name that is clearly derived from Hasbro's trademarked name? Would they have run into the same problems if they had called it, say, "WordBlox"?
I hate to feed the trolls, but Barak Obama wasn't even on the ballot in New Hampshire. Neither was John Edwards. The national Democratic party punished New Hampshire for holding their primary early by disallowing all of the delegates. The choices on the Democratic ballot were either Hillary Clinton or uncommitted.
The Apollo spacesuits were designed over forty years ago for a completely different purpose. Unless something's terribly different about Japanese farming methods, I don't think that they need to carry around an air supply with them nor do they need to be protected from the vacuum of space.
Or Major Corporations decide to cut back on their licensing-expenses, search compatible Opensource alternatives and assign a few employees to them to make it "Just Work". I'm sure a (US) recession could affect Open-Source, but it in the long term, it will be good. Sure some projects will fall, but only because they had inadequate backing in the first place. Recession is bad from many perspectives, but it does a great job in weeding out inefficient, ineffective or otherwise poorly performing projects/businesses/...
Doubtful. When they look at total wages (health insurance, retirement pay, etc), it's almost always more justifiable to management and shareholders to reduce their employee count and contract with a third party to do support than change to Opensource alternativies. If your company is already reducing its headcount, it's going to be unlikely that they'll be interested in reassigning staff to make something new work.
Besides, projects have political backing that people don't - it's easier to save face by removing "unproductive" staff than to kill a project that shouldn't have been started in the first place...
Guilty of what? If McDonalds sold nothing but "healthy" foods starting tomorrow, they would be out of business within a couple of months - if that long. Restaurants that sell what people aren't interested in eating don't stay around long. If people were truly interested in eating better, restaurants would notice this and change their menus. Society as a whole will have to change first.
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And the materials will get to you how?
They just missed a number. From O'Reilly's site: ISBN 10: 0-596-52952-X | ISBN 13:9780596529529.
Electroconvulsive Therapy has nothing to do with Scientology.
It's not necessarily the will of the majority, but the will of the majority of people that actually come out to vote or the will of the groups that have the organization to get their candidates into office. The people for some of the "nanny laws" are usually far more organized and dedicated to their point of view than the folks that aren't.
The THOMAS information system of the Library of Congress has information on all bills heard before the US Senate and House. You can also ask your member of Congress for information on any specific bill that interests you.
Most states have similar systems.
Happily, I was eventually able to get it reversed, but how would you recommend buyers point out bad sellers when the process is slanted toward the sellers?
Except that the cheapest MSDN subscription (MSDN Operating Systems) is $699. The cost goes up rapidly from there. If you're not doing development or testing, it's cheaper to buy a cheap PC with Vista than a MSDN license.
The amendments - with who submitted them - are here
No, that'd be a diplomat.
Documentation is for the weak. Real geeks never use it.
Yeah, and if you're in California and aren't in the counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino or Ventura - which means most of California - you'll get it Real Soon Now.
Other than filing fees, none of the money that candidates spend on campaigning goes to the governments of the states that the elections are held in. If you're advocating some type of "election fee", wouldn't that disproportionately affect campaigns with a smaller war chest, like lesser-known and third party candidates?
After which I could say "Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto"?
No, the assault gun weapons ban was intentionally made to be so specific that a minor modification to an "assault weapon" would mean that the new weapon was no longer banned. The sponsors realized that a wide reaching law would never get sufficient votes to pass - thanks to the NRA - so they made it so narrow that it was, for all intents and purposes, meaningless. The Congresspeople who voted for it got to say to their constituents that they were "doing something" to limit access to weapons and the NRA got (minor) props for backing a bloodless, toothless law that meant nothing. Everybody won.
As little as people may like it, the only way that the games industry can get a "positive" message in edgewise is through paid lobbyists. As it is, the only message that most politicians are likely to hear is "games are evil" because the groups that are pushing that message are very well organized.
Why is it a joke? Because it doesn't run all night because the costs for security will skyrocket just to serve a few customers? Because it can't extend into new cities because nobody is really interested in paying for it to do so? Given its reliance on the feeder transit systems that are only loosely tied to it and lack of funding for all transit, it works pretty well. Is it perfect? No. Is it better than spending up to an hour traveling the seventeen miles to my job in San Francisco during the commute from Hell? Absolutely.
It worked quite well for more than a few people after the earthquake. They certainly got a huge increase in ridership - most trains filled up long before they got to the stations before the Trans-Bay Tube. After the bridge reopened, the people who used BART because they couldn't drive went back to their cars. It didn't make financial sense to keep the extended schedule and longer trains with fewer people riding them, so BART went back to the old schedule. BART didn't cripple service, they just went back to pre-earthquake service levels.
I wouldn't, but don't you think it's a bit risky (no pun intended) to make a game that looks almost exactly like Scrabble and call it a name that is clearly derived from Hasbro's trademarked name? Would they have run into the same problems if they had called it, say, "WordBlox"?
Funny (or scary) thing is, my massively incorrect post got modded "Informative".
Read. Think. Research. Post. Not the other way around.
WHOOPS! Michigan was yesterday. /goes off somewhere to hide
I hate to feed the trolls, but Barak Obama wasn't even on the ballot in New Hampshire. Neither was John Edwards. The national Democratic party punished New Hampshire for holding their primary early by disallowing all of the delegates. The choices on the Democratic ballot were either Hillary Clinton or uncommitted.
The Apollo spacesuits were designed over forty years ago for a completely different purpose. Unless something's terribly different about Japanese farming methods, I don't think that they need to carry around an air supply with them nor do they need to be protected from the vacuum of space.
Doubtful. When they look at total wages (health insurance, retirement pay, etc), it's almost always more justifiable to management and shareholders to reduce their employee count and contract with a third party to do support than change to Opensource alternativies. If your company is already reducing its headcount, it's going to be unlikely that they'll be interested in reassigning staff to make something new work.
Besides, projects have political backing that people don't - it's easier to save face by removing "unproductive" staff than to kill a project that shouldn't have been started in the first place...
Guilty of what? If McDonalds sold nothing but "healthy" foods starting tomorrow, they would be out of business within a couple of months - if that long. Restaurants that sell what people aren't interested in eating don't stay around long. If people were truly interested in eating better, restaurants would notice this and change their menus. Society as a whole will have to change first.