This one isn't an ad. as much as it's a game-part to a tv-show. While you can say it's an ad and I'd agree with you to a point, I can say they're not all ads or tv/movie extentions.
For instance, I was involved with Urban Hunt, which ended yesterday (10/25) and it was definetly NOT an ad. Chasing the Wish was also not an ad. Project Zyzygy is also not an ad.
I think it's ok if they're extentions to movies or whatnot, in some cases, it might make the story more cohesive *cough* UH *cough* and follow the standard "arc".
There are other web-trail games that have less little to no story, and are just puzzles or something like puzzles. Those are definetly not advertisements. Those include szlamp and mikekerrigan.
Obviously, I don't know, but I can speculate. At least here in MN, I have: Best Buy, Circuit City, Media Play, Ultimate Electronics, CompUSA, Computer City, Microcenter, Sears, Walmart, Target, K-Mart that all sell either just computers, or all types of electronics and media. Hell, I can go to any of those stores within a 15min drive. Within a 30min drive, I can find multiple of each store.
I don't know what you have in Canada, or other countries, but maybe this is a factor?
Talk to a lawyer:) Especially if they cur your connection permanantly. May be a good lawsuit in this BS. I'm guessing in their agreement they say they can cut you for any reason, but lawyers can usually find some place someone has screwed up and exploit that to your benefit.
Yea I can see that working really well. I mean private accounting firms (Arthur Anderson) and banks (Citibank) would never try to hide the problems that Enron had would they?
I imagine that in the perfect world where people voluntarily follow the rules and are not driven by greed, would gladly be audited by honest private regulatory companies.
What would be in the best interest of all, is to do some back-room dealings with all the big private SECs. So they can hide the majority of your problems. Go to one of the other private SECs that are in on it. Look what happens where there is government regulation, what happens when there isn't really any at all.
I'd like to know how private SECs will not want to co into cahoots with the people they are auditing. It would be REALLY easy for say MCI to give some nice stock options secretly to high-ups in these firms. That way they'll not look for problems, you know always look on the bright side of everything.
Good, I'm glad they're doing whatever they do to that bastard. While I support most if not all of his idiology and policies I can not vote for him because it's just voting for Bush and I won't do that. Nader completely falls on his ass in the politics and diplomacy region. He could get far more done, supporting Kerry and going to the EPA end or something, than what he's doing now. Unless his plan is to hope everyhting gets so bad, that it basically collapses then I guess keep on doing what he's doing.
Personally, I don't think it is sour grapes at all. The Democrats are worried and doubly so. They might not win this election and with Nader there, it'll bleed off some votes from the stupid Democrats that vote for him. Those extra votes could make the difference -- I think they could have in 2000.
I think Nader's big problem is that he can't and won't play ball. Its an "all or nothing" game with him, and he's content at nothing I guess.
I don't know if there's a Bush Conspiracy or not, but it wouldn't suprise me if he's getting money from them. Not because he's knowingly doing it, but they're disguising the money. On an interview he flatly denied he was getting any support from them, but he said he's not receiving any support from them knowingly. From a political strategy, it would be stupid for Bush not to. The people working his campaign and the party internals aren't stupid. I think there's a problem when I hear of someone in the Nader campaign praising the Bush campaign for helping them with something you're stating the Dems have done. Biggset mistake is "the enemy of my enemy is my friend".
See this is what I've been telling all my buds in Congress... We absolutely need tougher laws on piracy. People like you are going to cause us to law off thousands of highly-paid workers. Then if the minority is growing, god help us.
Well that's fine, I use to do all my development in Joe either on the "pure" CLI or through RXVT or Konsole. Now I've switched to Kate which is really nice actually. If I'm in Windows then I use Eclipse.
What you say is where Linux kind of fails... the "scratch an itch" type of development. Its why the desktop environments are a mishmash of about 45% Windows, 40% Mac, and 10% other unix de's, and 5% new. They were all created to fill the OSS void of Windows or Mac and is why commerical software is more "innovative" on that front.
If most computer users were developers, most computer users would probably use Linux and/or BSD because that's what they're good for. There are TONS of libraries, the source code is mostly there, and it kind of gives you the "feel" like you have control of you computer.
For usability of day-to-day BS, you can't beat Mac and Windows is decent too. For just browsing and using my music applications, Windows is SOO much better. BTW I primarly use Firefox and Thunderbird and they work better here than under Linux.
Well, I think what the article is really stating, is that the competition between cell-phone providers is high. The providers, like Sprint, are trying to provide the same or equivalent phones cheaper than say Verizon, so they're demanding the phones at a lower and lower price from the phone manufactures like Nokia. The problem for the phone manufactures is that in order so one of their competitors doesn't "take" the market, they all have to keep their phones at a VERY low price to Sprint, so low that it costs them money and does not generate them a profit. The "loss" is a real and virtual loss. The real loss or very low profit margin is from selling the phones cheap to the providers. The virtual loss is from people saying that they'll just use their low-cost cell phone that can take pictures or play MP3s instead of buying a stand-alone digital camera or mp3 player.
Its a thing were all phone manufactures have to raise their prices or none of them can.
It seems to be the case of a monopolistic racket is causing problems for another monopolistic racket.
Assuming that this insurance really does protect you from all litigation for only $3500/yr. It still doesn't really protect you from it, all it means is the insurance company will do is reimburse you for your loses that you agreed to ahead of time in the contract. I'm no lawyer and certainly not an insurance agent, but I'd be very suprised if $3500/yr gave you absolute protection against being sued (reimbursed). I doubt their attorneys are going to be yours -- wouldn't want them they're probably not specialized in the field the company is in.
Yea the fat little penguin Tux should be replaced by a mean penguin. Maybe even a penguin skeleton kinda like the Brisk snowman skeleton. He then should be surrounded by guns, women, and alcohol -- ALWAYS.
That nylug picture, if it's the one I'm thinking of, is funny as hell. Everyone of those guys could be the poster child for joining a gym and going on this show. Although maddog is cool. I think if he was paraded around dressed like some insane old guy in a red beanie with a bottle of whisky in his hand, Linux would be a lot more cool.
I'd be HIGHLY skeptical about this. Insurance companies are notorius for weaseling or trying to weasel out of contracts. They look at every little detail to try to find a way not to pay out (from their greedy POV, of course right). Sometimes they have fague clauses that you could end up in court over. This type of insurance, to me, seems really shady. I'd get my mits on their contract and have an attorney look it over. One that deals with insurance claims and one that deals in IT/tech issues or something.
Asside from the shifty insurance companies, you have another problem. You will rely on your insurance and assume it will pay out. So your company will probably build "policy" on it. Dangeous if it won't pay out.
Another problem is even if it does pay out for say network outages, what will it pay? If your internet access it down for 2 days because some homeless man lit a fire and it melted the fiber under a bridge (happened in d/t Minneapolis about 8yrs ago) will it pay then? Will it make up for lost revenue from a network outage? Doubtful.
It's obviously worth looking into it, but $3500/yr seems a lot if it won't help when you need it.
My father is an amature astronomer and bought a CCD camera kit this Richard Berry guy put together. The CCD chip is mounted on an aluminum block that fits inside an aluminum "eyepiece". There is a peltier device mounted (cold side) to the bottom of that. Then the hot side of the peltier has another aluminum block mounted to it where water flows through.
Just go lookup "Richard Berry CCD camera kit" in google and you could probably find something.
Oh by whatever god you want...Canada Loves it's taxes. How else do we pay for blowing billions on useless programs? And throwing money away on 'legacy' and 'unity' projects
Then my friend, you haven't heard of the U.S. Government yet.
I don't understand why it's so sad. I bet of all the games in the world, card games are the most popular and most played. You can play them on a computer or in real life. Hell there's a whole town revolving around card games.
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This one isn't an ad. as much as it's a game-part to a tv-show. While you can say it's an ad and I'd agree with you to a point, I can say they're not all ads or tv/movie extentions.
For instance, I was involved with Urban Hunt, which ended yesterday (10/25) and it was definetly NOT an ad. Chasing the Wish was also not an ad. Project Zyzygy is also not an ad.
I think it's ok if they're extentions to movies or whatnot, in some cases, it might make the story more cohesive *cough* UH *cough* and follow the standard "arc".
There are other web-trail games that have less little to no story, and are just puzzles or something like puzzles. Those are definetly not advertisements. Those include szlamp and mikekerrigan.
Obviously, I don't know, but I can speculate. At least here in MN, I have: Best Buy, Circuit City, Media Play, Ultimate Electronics, CompUSA, Computer City, Microcenter, Sears, Walmart, Target, K-Mart that all sell either just computers, or all types of electronics and media. Hell, I can go to any of those stores within a 15min drive. Within a 30min drive, I can find multiple of each store.
I don't know what you have in Canada, or other countries, but maybe this is a factor?
Talk to a lawyer :) Especially if they cur your connection permanantly. May be a good lawsuit in this BS. I'm guessing in their agreement they say they can cut you for any reason, but lawyers can usually find some place someone has screwed up and exploit that to your benefit.
Nothing, but I'm guessing those will be reviewed by a human and if found to be for fraudulent use, will not be added.
Hmm, maybe people ought to learn about the word "sarcasm".
Yea I can see that working really well. I mean private accounting firms (Arthur Anderson) and banks (Citibank) would never try to hide the problems that Enron had would they?
I imagine that in the perfect world where people voluntarily follow the rules and are not driven by greed, would gladly be audited by honest private regulatory companies.
What would be in the best interest of all, is to do some back-room dealings with all the big private SECs. So they can hide the majority of your problems. Go to one of the other private SECs that are in on it. Look what happens where there is government regulation, what happens when there isn't really any at all.
I'd like to know how private SECs will not want to co into cahoots with the people they are auditing. It would be REALLY easy for say MCI to give some nice stock options secretly to high-ups in these firms. That way they'll not look for problems, you know always look on the bright side of everything.
Good, I'm glad they're doing whatever they do to that bastard. While I support most if not all of his idiology and policies I can not vote for him because it's just voting for Bush and I won't do that. Nader completely falls on his ass in the politics and diplomacy region. He could get far more done, supporting Kerry and going to the EPA end or something, than what he's doing now. Unless his plan is to hope everyhting gets so bad, that it basically collapses then I guess keep on doing what he's doing.
Personally, I don't think it is sour grapes at all. The Democrats are worried and doubly so. They might not win this election and with Nader there, it'll bleed off some votes from the stupid Democrats that vote for him. Those extra votes could make the difference -- I think they could have in 2000.
I think Nader's big problem is that he can't and won't play ball. Its an "all or nothing" game with him, and he's content at nothing I guess.
I don't know if there's a Bush Conspiracy or not, but it wouldn't suprise me if he's getting money from them. Not because he's knowingly doing it, but they're disguising the money. On an interview he flatly denied he was getting any support from them, but he said he's not receiving any support from them knowingly. From a political strategy, it would be stupid for Bush not to. The people working his campaign and the party internals aren't stupid. I think there's a problem when I hear of someone in the Nader campaign praising the Bush campaign for helping them with something you're stating the Dems have done. Biggset mistake is "the enemy of my enemy is my friend".
Sounds great... Theft really should have physical punishments. Theft of all kinds, including IP theft.
Hahaha, dork. Just admit you didn't read the question. It's ok you know, this is only slashdot.
haha freudian-slip of sorts :)
- Jack
See this is what I've been telling all my buds in Congress... We absolutely need tougher laws on piracy. People like you are going to cause us to law off thousands of highly-paid workers. Then if the minority is growing, god help us.
- Jack
Well maybe...
First of all, you have to get this management position. Last I heard, most people are not in management (jokes aside).
Secondly, what if he doesn't want to be in management. Maybe he'll hate it completely. Maybe he's not cut out for managament.
Well that's fine, I use to do all my development in Joe either on the "pure" CLI or through RXVT or Konsole. Now I've switched to Kate which is really nice actually. If I'm in Windows then I use Eclipse.
... the "scratch an itch" type of development. Its why the desktop environments are a mishmash of about 45% Windows, 40% Mac, and 10% other unix de's, and 5% new. They were all created to fill the OSS void of Windows or Mac and is why commerical software is more "innovative" on that front.
What you say is where Linux kind of fails
If most computer users were developers, most computer users would probably use Linux and/or BSD because that's what they're good for. There are TONS of libraries, the source code is mostly there, and it kind of gives you the "feel" like you have control of you computer.
For usability of day-to-day BS, you can't beat Mac and Windows is decent too. For just browsing and using my music applications, Windows is SOO much better. BTW I primarly use Firefox and Thunderbird and they work better here than under Linux.
Well, I think what the article is really stating, is that the competition between cell-phone providers is high. The providers, like Sprint, are trying to provide the same or equivalent phones cheaper than say Verizon, so they're demanding the phones at a lower and lower price from the phone manufactures like Nokia. The problem for the phone manufactures is that in order so one of their competitors doesn't "take" the market, they all have to keep their phones at a VERY low price to Sprint, so low that it costs them money and does not generate them a profit. The "loss" is a real and virtual loss. The real loss or very low profit margin is from selling the phones cheap to the providers. The virtual loss is from people saying that they'll just use their low-cost cell phone that can take pictures or play MP3s instead of buying a stand-alone digital camera or mp3 player.
Its a thing were all phone manufactures have to raise their prices or none of them can.
It seems to be the case of a monopolistic racket is causing problems for another monopolistic racket.
Assuming that this insurance really does protect you from all litigation for only $3500/yr. It still doesn't really protect you from it, all it means is the insurance company will do is reimburse you for your loses that you agreed to ahead of time in the contract. I'm no lawyer and certainly not an insurance agent, but I'd be very suprised if $3500/yr gave you absolute protection against being sued (reimbursed). I doubt their attorneys are going to be yours -- wouldn't want them they're probably not specialized in the field the company is in.
I might be completely off here, but I doubt it.
Yea the fat little penguin Tux should be replaced by a mean penguin. Maybe even a penguin skeleton kinda like the Brisk snowman skeleton. He then should be surrounded by guns, women, and alcohol -- ALWAYS.
That nylug picture, if it's the one I'm thinking of, is funny as hell. Everyone of those guys could be the poster child for joining a gym and going on this show. Although maddog is cool. I think if he was paraded around dressed like some insane old guy in a red beanie with a bottle of whisky in his hand, Linux would be a lot more cool.
I'd be HIGHLY skeptical about this. Insurance companies are notorius for weaseling or trying to weasel out of contracts. They look at every little detail to try to find a way not to pay out (from their greedy POV, of course right). Sometimes they have fague clauses that you could end up in court over. This type of insurance, to me, seems really shady. I'd get my mits on their contract and have an attorney look it over. One that deals with insurance claims and one that deals in IT/tech issues or something.
Asside from the shifty insurance companies, you have another problem. You will rely on your insurance and assume it will pay out. So your company will probably build "policy" on it. Dangeous if it won't pay out.
Another problem is even if it does pay out for say network outages, what will it pay? If your internet access it down for 2 days because some homeless man lit a fire and it melted the fiber under a bridge (happened in d/t Minneapolis about 8yrs ago) will it pay then? Will it make up for lost revenue from a network outage? Doubtful.
It's obviously worth looking into it, but $3500/yr seems a lot if it won't help when you need it.
My father is an amature astronomer and bought a CCD camera kit this Richard Berry guy put together. The CCD chip is mounted on an aluminum block that fits inside an aluminum "eyepiece". There is a peltier device mounted (cold side) to the bottom of that. Then the hot side of the peltier has another aluminum block mounted to it where water flows through.
Just go lookup "Richard Berry CCD camera kit" in google and you could probably find something.
Then my friend, you haven't heard of the U.S. Government yet.
I don't understand why it's so sad. I bet of all the games in the world, card games are the most popular and most played. You can play them on a computer or in real life. Hell there's a whole town revolving around card games.