Not that I disagree with the main thrust of your argument, but if the price for smuggled cell phones does go up due to a smaller supply it would probably push it out of range of some prisoners. So there's that at least.
Actually, the moment they change the terms of service, the original contract is NULL and VOID. They changed the terms, now you can re-negotiate the payment.
Just send them a email saying "I accept the New AUP terms and agree to adjust my payment to $0 immediately for the duration of this change in service level. Receiving this email constitutes acceptance of the new terms by both parties."
If they can change the terms arbitrarily, then so can you. Make it hurt. Stupid should hurt.
Of course, then they'll just disconnect you for "uninvited" communications.
"[I]t is a violation of the Agreement and this AUP to[...] (b) transmit uninvited communications, data or information"
Not that I'm surprised -- women will navigate first by landmarks and familiarity, and if that fails they fall back on maps. Men, on the other hand, rarely use anything but a map.
As with all generalizations, it's just that: a generalization. There are lots of members of both sexes that follow the trend to one degree or another, but in general, if you had to guess a strategy used and were only given their sex for information, you can do better than chance.
It sounds like the GP hasn't played it, but I have. The character creation is better, but not by a tonne. Here are the key differences I noticed: 1) Asymetrical choice for things like gloves, armbands, eyes, etc. You choose things that can be mirrored independantly if you want. 2) You can save the costume and load it again later. I imagine it's a jpeg with some metadata, I haven't looked, but it's really handy. Similar to Spore 3) You can only wear capes with tights or skin. No capes and armor or robot arms or anything like that. You can have wings and stuff with whatever though. 4) Seem to be less choices for cool armor/skin/jackets. 5) No auras 6) Still buggy a bit
So, it's a bit better for the asymetrics and costume saving, but there are a bunch of things that are worse. Like Champions in general, really. I had it pre-ordred, but I don't think I'm going to pick it up. CoH was a lot more fun.
On one hand, you can try out a new power before you have to lock it in. On the other hand, you can't actually see what powers are avaliable later without having one ready to choose and going to the trainer. When you create a character you have no way of knowing what's in the future.
The combat system is neat, having attack that gives energy rather having to stand around doing nothing. It's gives you an absurd amount though, you just stop your main for like a second or two and you're back to full. Not even worth worrying about for the most part.
The UI in Champions is what really did it in. It doesn't have a compas icon on your minimap to point to any missions, much less the current one. Same for team mates. You can't set a mission to be the active one for the group very well. There really doesn't seem to be much point in grouping for the most part anyway, everything is just killing things outside with other people. Too easy to quest-steal. The few indoor missions I ran into were really short, like two rooms.
I wanted to like it, I even thought about the lifetime subscription (you get a lot of benifits). I figured it was a sure thing as long as they didn't make it worse than the game they made before. They did. The whole time I was playing, I was like.. Why am I playing this when I could play CoH instead?
Absolutely. I buy more games than I can keep up with on Steam because they keep putting great ones on sale. If you want me to play your game at full price, it's going to have to be amazingly awesome. Otherwise I'm just going to wait for it to be on sale on Steam. If that never happens, I'll probably just forget about it, because there are way too many others.
No matter how silly the movie is they'll at least get my money for sheer nostalgia.
Do not give Disney your money, they will only use it to steal your culture
Not only that, but it's that sort of sentiment that encourages publishers to just churn out cheap crap on an established universe rather than make something that lives up to, and even surpasses the original.
I refuse to see any revivals that aren't at least as good as the original.
Another factor usually overlooked is that lotteries can be FUN. You spend a dollar, and you can the thrill of comparing the numbers, getting a few right, that sort of thing. On that dollar, how much is accounted for by the entertainment value alone? When I spend $50 on a computer game, that's just money down a hole. At least with a lottery ticket you're having fun and potentially changing your life.
Seriously, this is one of the best Ask Slashdots in a while. People are throwing up tonnes of neat, low-cost electronics projects. This is exactly the sort of thing you should ask a group of geeks.
Actually, it seems more like intelligence. In order to reward it properly you'd need something that could pass the Turing Test. But if you had that, you'd be able to "script" it by using your fancy-pants Strong AI.
Except all it takes is one page that links previous names to new names, and the cat is back out of the bag again.
We as a society will be better off if we just learn to accept that people do stupid things when they are young, and not worry about it. Everyone does. I think it's rather unhealthy to deny it. Everyone turns into a hypocrite.
And you have come to that conclusion based on exhaustive research of the preferences and use-patterns of all the people who are currently wearing your underwear.
That list is significantly larger than one might think.
To be fair, they're all free, and you can start with any one of those versions and move to any other without formatting and starting over.
It'd be one thing if all the Windows versions cost the same, and you could switch between them freely. The differences here are non-obvious, and it's easy to get yourself into trouble with buying something that doesn't do everything you wanted.
They all have password locks of them, if you want to use it. The device locks itself after a timeout you specify, and wipes itself if a password is entered incorrectly a set number of times. And you can do the same remotely if it gets lost.
Blackberries are designed for secure business use, and as such this sort of thing has come up before.
To be fair, RIM released it's first device, the Inter@ctive Pager, in 1995, while the iPod came out in 2001. Unless there are some other devices Apple would have been making before that.
Still not quite getting it. Community service is supposed to be a choice, that's it.
Why? There's shit that, if it gets done, will improve the community as a whole. Doing this accomplishes two things: 1) It gets some good accomplished, and 2) It can force students to go out and try something they might not otherwise do. Who knows, maybe they'd like it.
I went through the community service requirements in Ontario. It seemed reasonable, except that a lot of things didn't count that should have. If it was in any way related to school, or anything you were already doing you were SOL pretty much.
Spoiling your ballot would have the same effect, demonstrating a conscious choice that everyone is pants. Simply not voting would look like you don't care one way or the other if not enough people do it.
But they don't really have a choice. PC games are already on the honour system. If you don't want to pay for a game, it's already been cracked and you can just download it for free, regardless of DRM.
The only difference is the paying customers aren't treated like crooks.
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Not that I disagree with the main thrust of your argument, but if the price for smuggled cell phones does go up due to a smaller supply it would probably push it out of range of some prisoners. So there's that at least.
Actually, the moment they change the terms of service, the original contract is NULL and VOID. They changed the terms, now you can re-negotiate the payment.
Just send them a email saying "I accept the New AUP terms and agree to adjust my payment to $0 immediately for the duration of this change in service level. Receiving this email constitutes acceptance of the new terms by both parties."
If they can change the terms arbitrarily, then so can you. Make it hurt. Stupid should hurt.
Of course, then they'll just disconnect you for "uninvited" communications.
"[I]t is a violation of the Agreement and this AUP to[...] (b) transmit uninvited communications, data or information"
I stopped when he used the "word" "ppl". We have a full keyboard here, use it.
Not that I'm surprised -- women will navigate first by landmarks and familiarity, and if that fails they fall back on maps. Men, on the other hand, rarely use anything but a map.
[Citation needed]
http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1090513897001074
As with all generalizations, it's just that: a generalization. There are lots of members of both sexes that follow the trend to one degree or another, but in general, if you had to guess a strategy used and were only given their sex for information, you can do better than chance.
It sounds like the GP hasn't played it, but I have. The character creation is better, but not by a tonne. Here are the key differences I noticed:
1) Asymetrical choice for things like gloves, armbands, eyes, etc. You choose things that can be mirrored independantly if you want.
2) You can save the costume and load it again later. I imagine it's a jpeg with some metadata, I haven't looked, but it's really handy. Similar to Spore
3) You can only wear capes with tights or skin. No capes and armor or robot arms or anything like that. You can have wings and stuff with whatever though.
4) Seem to be less choices for cool armor/skin/jackets.
5) No auras
6) Still buggy a bit
So, it's a bit better for the asymetrics and costume saving, but there are a bunch of things that are worse. Like Champions in general, really. I had it pre-ordred, but I don't think I'm going to pick it up. CoH was a lot more fun.
On one hand, you can try out a new power before you have to lock it in. On the other hand, you can't actually see what powers are avaliable later without having one ready to choose and going to the trainer. When you create a character you have no way of knowing what's in the future.
The combat system is neat, having attack that gives energy rather having to stand around doing nothing. It's gives you an absurd amount though, you just stop your main for like a second or two and you're back to full. Not even worth worrying about for the most part.
The UI in Champions is what really did it in. It doesn't have a compas icon on your minimap to point to any missions, much less the current one. Same for team mates. You can't set a mission to be the active one for the group very well. There really doesn't seem to be much point in grouping for the most part anyway, everything is just killing things outside with other people. Too easy to quest-steal. The few indoor missions I ran into were really short, like two rooms.
I wanted to like it, I even thought about the lifetime subscription (you get a lot of benifits). I figured it was a sure thing as long as they didn't make it worse than the game they made before. They did. The whole time I was playing, I was like.. Why am I playing this when I could play CoH instead?
It doesn't matter. Either one will likely cause the other shortly thereafter.
Absolutely. I buy more games than I can keep up with on Steam because they keep putting great ones on sale. If you want me to play your game at full price, it's going to have to be amazingly awesome. Otherwise I'm just going to wait for it to be on sale on Steam. If that never happens, I'll probably just forget about it, because there are way too many others.
Do not give Disney your money, they will only use it to steal your culture
Not only that, but it's that sort of sentiment that encourages publishers to just churn out cheap crap on an established universe rather than make something that lives up to, and even surpasses the original.
I refuse to see any revivals that aren't at least as good as the original.
Another factor usually overlooked is that lotteries can be FUN. You spend a dollar, and you can the thrill of comparing the numbers, getting a few right, that sort of thing. On that dollar, how much is accounted for by the entertainment value alone? When I spend $50 on a computer game, that's just money down a hole. At least with a lottery ticket you're having fun and potentially changing your life.
Seriously, this is one of the best Ask Slashdots in a while. People are throwing up tonnes of neat, low-cost electronics projects. This is exactly the sort of thing you should ask a group of geeks.
Actually, it seems more like intelligence. In order to reward it properly you'd need something that could pass the Turing Test. But if you had that, you'd be able to "script" it by using your fancy-pants Strong AI.
Except all it takes is one page that links previous names to new names, and the cat is back out of the bag again.
We as a society will be better off if we just learn to accept that people do stupid things when they are young, and not worry about it. Everyone does. I think it's rather unhealthy to deny it. Everyone turns into a hypocrite.
Drilling out the magnet will prevent it from going to sleep when you stick it in there, fyi. Bad for the battery life.
And you have come to that conclusion based on exhaustive research of the preferences and use-patterns of all the people who are currently wearing your underwear.
That list is significantly larger than one might think.
I do believe twins actually have different IR signatures. Furthermore, I doubt they're too broken up about wasting the time in the morning.
To be fair, they're all free, and you can start with any one of those versions and move to any other without formatting and starting over.
It'd be one thing if all the Windows versions cost the same, and you could switch between them freely. The differences here are non-obvious, and it's easy to get yourself into trouble with buying something that doesn't do everything you wanted.
They all have password locks of them, if you want to use it. The device locks itself after a timeout you specify, and wipes itself if a password is entered incorrectly a set number of times. And you can do the same remotely if it gets lost.
Blackberries are designed for secure business use, and as such this sort of thing has come up before.
This is also why stars are dimmer when you look directly at them, if you have noticed.
To be fair, RIM released it's first device, the Inter@ctive Pager, in 1995, while the iPod came out in 2001. Unless there are some other devices Apple would have been making before that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter@ctive_Pager
Just out of curiosity, what do you use to do SSH on your Blackberry?
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Still not quite getting it. Community service is supposed to be a choice, that's it.
Why? There's shit that, if it gets done, will improve the community as a whole. Doing this accomplishes two things: 1) It gets some good accomplished, and 2) It can force students to go out and try something they might not otherwise do. Who knows, maybe they'd like it.
I went through the community service requirements in Ontario. It seemed reasonable, except that a lot of things didn't count that should have. If it was in any way related to school, or anything you were already doing you were SOL pretty much.
Spoiling your ballot would have the same effect, demonstrating a conscious choice that everyone is pants. Simply not voting would look like you don't care one way or the other if not enough people do it.
But they don't really have a choice. PC games are already on the honour system. If you don't want to pay for a game, it's already been cracked and you can just download it for free, regardless of DRM.
The only difference is the paying customers aren't treated like crooks.
The point is, videos on YouTube are free. If it's not as good as something that is already free, why should it be worth money?
Not that I necessarily agree or disagree.