Except the purpose of advertising is to make people want to buy your product. Advertising free patches will only apply to people who've already forked over, and might drive away people who haven't decided to buy yet.
You could have a registration process and keep track of how much individual users vote.
Some would probably object to having to log on every time they want to search for something, and I agree, but the people who would be willing to keep themselves perpetually logged in at home would be able to make a difference on their own.
There would have to be other measures to prevent abuses, but having one of those "prove you're a human" tests at registration and requiring a valid email address would be a start. Again, seems rather intrusive just to use a search engine, but that's why they'd have to still allow unregistered users to SEARCH but not VOTE if they choose.
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Which begs the question, "How the hell was she typing parentheses and asterisks if she didn't use the SHIFT key?"
Used to be the way to terminate a BASIC program
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"CTRL-Break" was rather useful when programming in BASIC if you were like me as a kid and regularly made infinite loops by mistake. =)
Long run? Won't even work in the SHORT run
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Yes, let's pay people to spam. Then a bunch of businesses and individuals who wouldn't even touch spam before now see a business opportunity.
"Today, one of the Spice Girls' backup singers...wait, backup singers? They don't play instruments. They don't write their songs. There are five of them. And they have backup singers."
It seems to me that companies ought to have a right to exchange services with people on terms that both sides agree on
-Some of the things people are whining about may also affect anyone who so much as sends a message to a Gmail user.
-A great many laws are made to outlaw "voluntary" undesirable agreements, because when companies can't propose those types of agreements they tend to offer something better. Example: Minimum wage laws.
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Entire books have been written on how to play video poker at positive expectation. You can get kicked out of casinos for doing too well at blackjack.
There's also playing poker against other people, but that probably requires even more skill than regular poker unless you play against bad players and leave quickly.
I'm sure there's an equal number of right-wing pages citing examples of Fox's left-wing bias.
Most of my maternal relatives are so conservative they border on fascism, and they think FOX is the most balanced news program ever.
Liberals think FOX is biased while conservatives think it's peachy. DAMN NEAR EVERYONE thinks the rest of the networks are biased, but don't agree on which direction. That tells me FOX is probably the most skewed of them all.
...back when I was working at Subway, I had one day where I literally went:
-Throw up in trash can (in view of customers, no less!) -Wash hands -Go back to making sandwiches
Before you go on some "boycott Subway!" rampage, I don't think that was any kind of Subway policy...just the fact that this particular boss refused to be shorthanded in a mall store in the Christmas season. I'm so glad I've moved on.
Advertisements and political statements are not the same thing. What you're talking about would be more appropriate if this was "LL Bean gets pissed off that Google searches on LL Bean are returning competitors".
...it will be interesting to see what happens with spyware that inserts links to ads in actual webpages.
I've already had forums-admin friends talking about how they get all these posts from people asking "WHY ARE THERE POSTS IN MY ADS NOW?" when it turns out to be adware.
Then again, I suppose the "defamation" approach might apply to websites as well; maddox had a disclaimer recently that basically said "I did not get popups you morons, go download Spybot/Adaware and leave me alone."
The first spyware I ever "installed" had a little link at the bottom saying "This is a [company] offer and is not sponsored by the websites you are visiting." If the law gets involved in this scumware at all those should be mandatory.
-Yes, you are right that you can copyright a number, but you cannot trademark it. (grandparent really shouldn't have mentioned copyright since it doesn't apply here at all)
-Whether you can copyright something or not is partially determined by its complexity/length. You cannot copyright a word, but you can copyright a book, which is just a collection of words. Similarly, you can't copyright "1001", but you can copyright a piece of software even though fundamentally it's just a long-ass binary string.
As usual, it's the few bad ones that makes it all look bad.
As a 'blogger, I don't feel at all uncomfortable saying most blogs are bad.
Anytime you have an art form where creation and distribution are easy but editorial staffs are nonexistent, you're going to end up with a lot of bad art. That's also half the reason why fanfiction is generally awful.
Most weblogs suck. Most websites suck. Most books would suck if you could essentially print and distribute them for free like you can with a website.
That's assuming a relatively constant rate of death.
Also, as people start living longer, the kind of people who keep having kids as long as they are physically able will have more kids overall. When you have bicentennial people having double-digit numbers of children, that will make up for the couples who have less than two kids.
If stuff like this really causes overpopulation to be a problem, I would imagine people would start having fewer children.
At one time six or seven kids was normal, now more than two or three is rather unusual. If people start living for centuries, it's only a matter of time before 0-1 is the standard.
No, that's a mistake a lot of people make. If Apple really did do it first then no one else can patent it anyway (prior art).
Ideally, that's what's supposed to happen. In the real world, someone might get a patent passed even if they're not legally entitled to it, then force Apple into a litigation battle to prove prior art that will cost them money whether they win or lose...whereas if they get the "defensive" patent, they can simply say, "We patented this too, and we patented it first," which is simpler.
"Why cloud the issue with talk about secure this and security that when the basis for the policy has absolutely nothing to do with security?"
I think what they're trying to get across is, "If your PC is insecure because you pirated our software, tough shit. Buy it next time and you can stay secure." I don't know that I like that attitude, since these unpatched machines as a whole also affect the people who do practice good security (usually through network traffic), but they're trying to equate "OS piracy" and "security risk", and just might succeed if new worms increase.
Seriously, the point I was trying to make was that if the vg hotties were coming to US rather than staying in their booths, aggressively marketing a handheld that had basically no competition at the time, I can only imagine what will be going on when two companies are trying to outdo the other.
Apparently both a mod and the other replier didn't quite get it...no, I wasn't saying I'd rather be playing the GBA than being with the hottie, but having a videogame in such a strategic location kicks the hell out of peanut butter and chocolate.
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Except the purpose of advertising is to make people want to buy your product. Advertising free patches will only apply to people who've already forked over, and might drive away people who haven't decided to buy yet.
Some would probably object to having to log on every time they want to search for something, and I agree, but the people who would be willing to keep themselves perpetually logged in at home would be able to make a difference on their own.
There would have to be other measures to prevent abuses, but having one of those "prove you're a human" tests at registration and requiring a valid email address would be a start. Again, seems rather intrusive just to use a search engine, but that's why they'd have to still allow unregistered users to SEARCH but not VOTE if they choose.
Which begs the question, "How the hell was she typing parentheses and asterisks if she didn't use the SHIFT key?"
"CTRL-Break" was rather useful when programming in BASIC if you were like me as a kid and regularly made infinite loops by mistake. =)
Yes, let's pay people to spam. Then a bunch of businesses and individuals who wouldn't even touch spam before now see a business opportunity.
8:00 - Sushi bar patrons are staring at 10-12 people drinking sake bombs
9:00 - Sushi bar patrons are wondering what the hell "naive set theory" is and why the hell all my drunken buddies are talking about it
"Today, one of the Spice Girls' backup singers...wait, backup singers? They don't play instruments. They don't write their songs. There are five of them. And they have backup singers."
-Some of the things people are whining about may also affect anyone who so much as sends a message to a Gmail user.
-A great many laws are made to outlaw "voluntary" undesirable agreements, because when companies can't propose those types of agreements they tend to offer something better. Example: Minimum wage laws.
There's also playing poker against other people, but that probably requires even more skill than regular poker unless you play against bad players and leave quickly.
Most of my maternal relatives are so conservative they border on fascism, and they think FOX is the most balanced news program ever.
Liberals think FOX is biased while conservatives think it's peachy. DAMN NEAR EVERYONE thinks the rest of the networks are biased, but don't agree on which direction. That tells me FOX is probably the most skewed of them all.
Me: Oh, looks like the battery was loose.
Customer: No, it wasn't, I'm sure.
Me: Oh...(grasping)...were you near a window when you put the battery in?
Customer: Maybe...
Me: That's it. Sometimes sunlight can corrupt the internal settings of the wireless mouse, which can be reset by removing and replacing the battery.
Customer: Oh, THANK YOU!
...back when I was working at Subway, I had one day where I literally went:
-Throw up in trash can (in view of customers, no less!)
-Wash hands
-Go back to making sandwiches
Before you go on some "boycott Subway!" rampage, I don't think that was any kind of Subway policy...just the fact that this particular boss refused to be shorthanded in a mall store in the Christmas season. I'm so glad I've moved on.
Yeah, a surfing scene is always a great way to spice up a sequel.
For awhile everyone thought it was going to be called "The Creeping Fear".
Advertisements and political statements are not the same thing. What you're talking about would be more appropriate if this was "LL Bean gets pissed off that Google searches on LL Bean are returning competitors".
I've already had forums-admin friends talking about how they get all these posts from people asking "WHY ARE THERE POSTS IN MY ADS NOW?" when it turns out to be adware.
Then again, I suppose the "defamation" approach might apply to websites as well; maddox had a disclaimer recently that basically said "I did not get popups you morons, go download Spybot/Adaware and leave me alone."
The first spyware I ever "installed" had a little link at the bottom saying "This is a [company] offer and is not sponsored by the websites you are visiting." If the law gets involved in this scumware at all those should be mandatory.
Or ET...that's actually a better example since:
-ET was a stupid movie tie-in
-It also helped cause the ATARI crash (PacMan is guilty as well)
-Whether you can copyright something or not is partially determined by its complexity/length. You cannot copyright a word, but you can copyright a book, which is just a collection of words. Similarly, you can't copyright "1001", but you can copyright a piece of software even though fundamentally it's just a long-ass binary string.
Anytime you have an art form where creation and distribution are easy but editorial staffs are nonexistent, you're going to end up with a lot of bad art. That's also half the reason why fanfiction is generally awful.
Most weblogs suck. Most websites suck. Most books would suck if you could essentially print and distribute them for free like you can with a website.
Also, as people start living longer, the kind of people who keep having kids as long as they are physically able will have more kids overall. When you have bicentennial people having double-digit numbers of children, that will make up for the couples who have less than two kids.
At one time six or seven kids was normal, now more than two or three is rather unusual. If people start living for centuries, it's only a matter of time before 0-1 is the standard.
Ideally, that's what's supposed to happen. In the real world, someone might get a patent passed even if they're not legally entitled to it, then force Apple into a litigation battle to prove prior art that will cost them money whether they win or lose...whereas if they get the "defensive" patent, they can simply say, "We patented this too, and we patented it first," which is simpler.
Isn't imitation the sincerest form of flattery? Isn't the purpose of a business to make money, not compliments?
I think what they're trying to get across is, "If your PC is insecure because you pirated our software, tough shit. Buy it next time and you can stay secure." I don't know that I like that attitude, since these unpatched machines as a whole also affect the people who do practice good security (usually through network traffic), but they're trying to equate "OS piracy" and "security risk", and just might succeed if new worms increase.
Apparently both a mod and the other replier didn't quite get it...no, I wasn't saying I'd rather be playing the GBA than being with the hottie, but having a videogame in such a strategic location kicks the hell out of peanut butter and chocolate.