This isn't a free webmail account, this is something customers pay for. Some people could have lost a lot of business. And what if someone has been searching for a job for the last 6 months and their monster.com etc contact info has only this email address?
Hmm, just checked my account activity, and my minutes last month were $0.25 (hadn't talked for over 10 minutes in any one day). Guess I'm on the old version of the plan. Wonder if I should call to switch... but $0.07 per minute isn't much when I rarely talk, and if the day comes when I need to be on the phone for hours, I guess my current plan would save quite a bit of money.
I'm happy with Virgin Mobile as well. For some reason I had some trouble registering my credit card with it, so right now it auto-tops up from my paypal account, costing an extra $1 each time. Ah well, it's no biggie. After 8 months with the service I already have a surplus of about $60 since I almost never talked.
But when I signed up, the minute-to-minute plan was $0.25/min for first 10 minutes of the day, and $0.10/min thereafter. I just checked their website, and you're right that it's $0.18/min now. What's up with that? I don't remember being notified of the change!
Technology gets cheaper with time, we all know that. But the cost of the necessities - food and housing - are skyrocketing. How many full-time jobs at minimum wage must a man hold to even afford the rent?
I live in the US, and I understand the tax brackets, and yet I still hear stories of people who got a small raise or a bonus which causes them to get less money after taxes. How does that happen?
It's all about the graphics. Why do people spend $1500+ on gaming PCs when a $500 PC will play virtually all of the newest games at playable speeds (>15fps) once you turn the graphics down to bare minimum?
Huh? What gave you that idea? I'd think that very few people go to college for the "enjoyment" of it. They go there to learn, but for not for the sake of the process of learning. I'd think that if people could press a button and upload into their brains Matrix style all the information/skills they would have learned/acquired in college, by far the vast majority would choose that option.
The results of entering my books are kind of interesting. Apparently Christians and feminists can agree on at least one thing - they don't like fantasy and sci-fi.
I personally don't see how this is any different than, say, taxing sales of Beenie Babies, whose value (like so many things) is also largely virtual.
I point you to the end of the first sentence of the second paragraph of the article, which also appears in the summary: even when those players don't convert the assets into cash.
This seems to imply an analogue to paying tax when you aquire a Beenie Babie by trading a Cabbage Patch doll for it.
So far, the closest "recent" game that I've found to MoM is Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic. AoW games always had some similarity to MoM, and this latest incarnation includes a random scenario generator which brings it that much closer. Too bad the AI isn't all that great (why does it refuse to use unit enchantments?), but online multiplayer capability covers that!
It's also all right for a game to be relatively short, if there's enough replay value. A great example is Master of Magic. A single game, even with the maximum of 4 opponents and a large world, would usually only take a few hours or less. And yet I must have spent at least 150 hours on that game.
We won't have a tiny black hole eating the Earth from the inside until the AIs decide that the planet needs to be done away with. I just hope the farcaster network will be complete before the final evacuation.
I wouldn't if I were you. In his blog, Scott Adams has repeatedly stated that we should always go with the majority opinion, no matter what that opinion is.
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You haven't seen The Matrix, have you....
No one who speaks German can be an evil man.
This isn't a free webmail account, this is something customers pay for. Some people could have lost a lot of business. And what if someone has been searching for a job for the last 6 months and their monster.com etc contact info has only this email address?
I think Pic #1 and #4 look authentic for the resolution. The rest ... don't.
Yes, and the point here is that eyewitness testimony of events that occured in VR is even more unreliable than usual.
Hmm, just checked my account activity, and my minutes last month were $0.25 (hadn't talked for over 10 minutes in any one day). Guess I'm on the old version of the plan. Wonder if I should call to switch... but $0.07 per minute isn't much when I rarely talk, and if the day comes when I need to be on the phone for hours, I guess my current plan would save quite a bit of money.
I'm happy with Virgin Mobile as well. For some reason I had some trouble registering my credit card with it, so right now it auto-tops up from my paypal account, costing an extra $1 each time. Ah well, it's no biggie. After 8 months with the service I already have a surplus of about $60 since I almost never talked. But when I signed up, the minute-to-minute plan was $0.25/min for first 10 minutes of the day, and $0.10/min thereafter. I just checked their website, and you're right that it's $0.18/min now. What's up with that? I don't remember being notified of the change!
Basically children in VR classrooms will be more susceptible to a psychiatrist helping them "remember" that they were abused by the VR teacher.
I think the article means that the people working with VR cameras remembered doing more things in VR than they actually did.
Technology gets cheaper with time, we all know that. But the cost of the necessities - food and housing - are skyrocketing. How many full-time jobs at minimum wage must a man hold to even afford the rent?
I live in the US, and I understand the tax brackets, and yet I still hear stories of people who got a small raise or a bonus which causes them to get less money after taxes. How does that happen?
Actually it could probably be managed with the right filter (hq10x? hq5x?)
It's all about the graphics. Why do people spend $1500+ on gaming PCs when a $500 PC will play virtually all of the newest games at playable speeds (>15fps) once you turn the graphics down to bare minimum?
They won't be using this instead of machine guns. They'll be using this instead of firehoses.
College is not, thankfully, a means to end.
Huh? What gave you that idea? I'd think that very few people go to college for the "enjoyment" of it. They go there to learn, but for not for the sake of the process of learning. I'd think that if people could press a button and upload into their brains Matrix style all the information/skills they would have learned/acquired in college, by far the vast majority would choose that option.
The results of entering my books are kind of interesting. Apparently Christians and feminists can agree on at least one thing - they don't like fantasy and sci-fi.
There's always the possibility that it will relieve its boredom by merely using the satellite defense grid lasers to doodle on the Earth's surface.
I personally don't see how this is any different than, say, taxing sales of Beenie Babies, whose value (like so many things) is also largely virtual.
I point you to the end of the first sentence of the second paragraph of the article, which also appears in the summary: even when those players don't convert the assets into cash.
This seems to imply an analogue to paying tax when you aquire a Beenie Babie by trading a Cabbage Patch doll for it.
Why won't they remake it for a modern system?
So far, the closest "recent" game that I've found to MoM is Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic. AoW games always had some similarity to MoM, and this latest incarnation includes a random scenario generator which brings it that much closer. Too bad the AI isn't all that great (why does it refuse to use unit enchantments?), but online multiplayer capability covers that!
If you're the kind of company that is subject to these retention rules
Which U.S. companies would not be subject to these retention rules? Those who know for a fact that they will never be involved in federal litigation?
It's also all right for a game to be relatively short, if there's enough replay value. A great example is Master of Magic. A single game, even with the maximum of 4 opponents and a large world, would usually only take a few hours or less. And yet I must have spent at least 150 hours on that game.
It's true. Even if you succeed, those pesky dolphins will ruin everything.
We won't have a tiny black hole eating the Earth from the inside until the AIs decide that the planet needs to be done away with. I just hope the farcaster network will be complete before the final evacuation.
I wouldn't if I were you. In his blog, Scott Adams has repeatedly stated that we should always go with the majority opinion, no matter what that opinion is.
Well I'm satisfied with my P3-800, so there!