AFAIK the radiation hardness is affected by the channel size, the modern 40nm or whatever chips operate at very, VERY tiny voltages which are lower than the noise space tends to add while the really old stuff is so big you need a significant voltage to switch a bit.
Special equipment like that always runs old OSes. I've seen ATMs use Windows ME when XP has been out for a few years already. I'm surprised they aren't still on DOS.
AFAIK land in SL costs real money to "own" and there are tons of real money transactions all over the "game" so promising someone co-ownership of a paid-for piece of ingame property does sound like they were taking it seriously.
Does cybersex count as actual sex? Seems more like regular talking to me. After all phone sex operators don't really engage in sex on the job either.
It's not really a game or at least not the easy, consequence free kind and that becomes clear the moment you load real money into your avatar's pockets. When you throw chips on the betting area of a roulette table you can't say you were just playing miniature frisbee.
Other MMOs however state in their TOS that you're only given the items for playing purposes and that they remain property of the game operator, just like you would be given any play tokens in a physical game (you don't own the monopoly money you were handed by the host).
As it has been stated in an earlier story about luring a cat on the keyboard to press that the cat is considered an object for that purpose and cannot enter contracts. If the cat walked across the keyboard without your ability to interfere you're probably off the hook as long as your actions afterwards don't indicate that you accepted the terms anyway (e.g. for a software EULA that you proceed with the installation and use anyway instead of cancelling the install/uninstalling), if you consciously manipulated the cat into walking across the keyboard in a way that triggers the "I accept" button that's like building a Rube goldberg device to hit the button, in the end you still initiated the click,t he complexity of your input device is irrelevant.
And a fine isn't going to alter that one either (besides it's still an optimum price, while the customer doesn't decide between your product and a competing product he still decides between your product and simply not getting a product).
Fines are fixed costs, if raising their product prices would increase the total profit then why didn't they do it already? Fines don't change the optimal price.
They kept AMD in the niche, especially during the days when AMD was indeed making better chips for cheaper. AFAIK the practices they were accused of were stuff like forcing retailers to carry only PCs with Intel CPUs so AMD couldn't get any OEM system sales and was unable to expand its market presence while Intel could prepare better chips to make the money on.
I should probably store it somewhere copy-pastable but here it goes:
I'd prefer an approach that's based on usage, you get a 10 year or so free period after the publication (or creation if not published), after that you lose the copyright to a work if you fail to keep it or a sufficiently close derivative available to the public at a reasonable price (based on the original publication's price orthe average price of works in that market) and under reasonable terms for two consecutive years, burden of proof that it was available is on the rightsholder (should not be hard to document). This way a work either must be preserved by the rightsholder (and that costs money to do so they will probably cut stuff noone cares about anymore) or the public can do that job so stuff doesn't become public domain only long after the last copy has decayed.
More likely they turned around because the public prefers to read stuff that affirms their bias. Dead (even better: held hostage) reporters make great headlines, then you just hire some more cannonfodder and send it down there.
And it had fireballs like we know them from movies. None of that "grainy footage of some burned down barely recognizable buildings" or boring flash and smoke war weapons produce, live destruction. Actual footage of the damage ocurring, not just the scattered debries. You don't get to see that with tornadoes or tsunamis and especially not as quickly and highlight reel friendly as with that attack. I mean, even with regular attacks, even if they're worse than that you usually don't see them caught on camera.
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AFAIK the radiation hardness is affected by the channel size, the modern 40nm or whatever chips operate at very, VERY tiny voltages which are lower than the noise space tends to add while the really old stuff is so big you need a significant voltage to switch a bit.
Special equipment like that always runs old OSes. I've seen ATMs use Windows ME when XP has been out for a few years already. I'm surprised they aren't still on DOS.
There's still the infection vector of laptops and USB sticks being plugged into the closed network by employees.
People happily shell out money for Garbage Truck Simulator 2009, Construction Crane Simulator 2009 and the most notorious Microsoft Train Simulator...
AFAIK land in SL costs real money to "own" and there are tons of real money transactions all over the "game" so promising someone co-ownership of a paid-for piece of ingame property does sound like they were taking it seriously.
Does cybersex count as actual sex? Seems more like regular talking to me. After all phone sex operators don't really engage in sex on the job either.
It's not really a game or at least not the easy, consequence free kind and that becomes clear the moment you load real money into your avatar's pockets. When you throw chips on the betting area of a roulette table you can't say you were just playing miniature frisbee.
Other MMOs however state in their TOS that you're only given the items for playing purposes and that they remain property of the game operator, just like you would be given any play tokens in a physical game (you don't own the monopoly money you were handed by the host).
As it has been stated in an earlier story about luring a cat on the keyboard to press that the cat is considered an object for that purpose and cannot enter contracts. If the cat walked across the keyboard without your ability to interfere you're probably off the hook as long as your actions afterwards don't indicate that you accepted the terms anyway (e.g. for a software EULA that you proceed with the installation and use anyway instead of cancelling the install/uninstalling), if you consciously manipulated the cat into walking across the keyboard in a way that triggers the "I accept" button that's like building a Rube goldberg device to hit the button, in the end you still initiated the click,t he complexity of your input device is irrelevant.
1/3 to 1/10 of the original period would be between 1.5 and 5 years.
And a fine isn't going to alter that one either (besides it's still an optimum price, while the customer doesn't decide between your product and a competing product he still decides between your product and simply not getting a product).
That's why it's a court case, no? I suppose that's where the evidence gets presented.
No, you either crush them as well or just buy them out.
Fines are fixed costs, if raising their product prices would increase the total profit then why didn't they do it already? Fines don't change the optimal price.
They kept AMD in the niche, especially during the days when AMD was indeed making better chips for cheaper. AFAIK the practices they were accused of were stuff like forcing retailers to carry only PCs with Intel CPUs so AMD couldn't get any OEM system sales and was unable to expand its market presence while Intel could prepare better chips to make the money on.
Make it too short and people can just sit back a bit and wait for the copyright to expire.
I should probably store it somewhere copy-pastable but here it goes:
I'd prefer an approach that's based on usage, you get a 10 year or so free period after the publication (or creation if not published), after that you lose the copyright to a work if you fail to keep it or a sufficiently close derivative available to the public at a reasonable price (based on the original publication's price orthe average price of works in that market) and under reasonable terms for two consecutive years, burden of proof that it was available is on the rightsholder (should not be hard to document). This way a work either must be preserved by the rightsholder (and that costs money to do so they will probably cut stuff noone cares about anymore) or the public can do that job so stuff doesn't become public domain only long after the last copy has decayed.
I think many people here would have voted Cthulhu.
So where DID you stick it into the pig then?
More likely they turned around because the public prefers to read stuff that affirms their bias. Dead (even better: held hostage) reporters make great headlines, then you just hire some more cannonfodder and send it down there.
We bought a tabloid on 12 Sep 2001, the only part that didn't make us laugh loudly were the funny pages.
That man should've gotten a Ph D in physics, that would've sounded WAY more intimidating.
And it had fireballs like we know them from movies. None of that "grainy footage of some burned down barely recognizable buildings" or boring flash and smoke war weapons produce, live destruction. Actual footage of the damage ocurring, not just the scattered debries. You don't get to see that with tornadoes or tsunamis and especially not as quickly and highlight reel friendly as with that attack. I mean, even with regular attacks, even if they're worse than that you usually don't see them caught on camera.
Micro vs. Macroevolution; there is a difference
A made up one, at least...
Or is this '5' using a different scale?
Yeah, it goes to 11.
Why would the stars and black hole change their trajectory significantly?
Gravity?