Legal online gambling is a bad idea. When casino's open theft crimes go up. With the rise of indian gaming casino's we've done this experiment over and over. It's not arguable that casino's drain money out of a community in a way that is harmful. The only people who gain, are the big mecca casino's that get money from people outside of their local community.
If you legalize it on-line, it will flow over seas. Which direction will if flow? it doesn't matter. All it does is hurt most communities.
These two paragraphs are at odds. Do casinos help communities and now that money will be gone (flowing overseas) or do casinos fuck everything and everyone around them and don't give back?
The Ignite piece on O'Reilly media from an app dev (I saw it last week I think) had a guy whip up a board game score calculator as his first failed app attempt.
I'm a very heavy board gamer with a lot of disposable income. I would be THE target market for it, and I can't even see it as practical. *shrug*
I think the Surface is more practical for this than this device (if any) but the real device is probably already in most living rooms: XBox/PS3 with a marketplace.
Even maintains purity of purpose, can serve content, and isn't at risk of spilling beer on it.
I can play every board game that I've paid for and Apple's approved.
In fact, everything YOU mentioned are things that Apple may or may not approve.
My point was just that looking at it as a "board game player" is silly and unrealistic.
Particularly with the whole "ooooh then you can link the iPhones to it!" line of reasoning - now everyone who comes over to my place to play games needs some sort of smart phone? Lots of my friends are broke mofos.
I wouldn't trust any closed device as my content repository; too much about copyright is nebulous right now to trust any company to "look out for my interests" which is where Apple leaves you - Trust Me, Steve says.
So for only $499 + $299/phone, you can play a $75 board game electronically! No messy setup, and you don't have to worry about where to put that almost $1000 in cash you would still have!
My last employer was a private company, and was the sickest culture I've ever had the displeasure of working in.
Yes-men everywhere, rampant nepotism, and a level of incompetence at the officer level I've never seen in my professional career. (This is the only place I've worked where I had a sneaking, sinking suspicion I was the smartest guy in the room.)
The company made the top 20 worst places to work in America this year.
I don't think a company's work environment is driven by private vs public; it might be size driven (larger companies trend public) but I'm in a public company now and couldn't be happier.
TQ's demo crashed my entire computer on exit, which meant I didn't even attempt to buy it until Steam offered it and expansion for $10. I assume they'd worked out the bugs by then.
I mean, and this isn't even hypothetical, if no Notepad came with Windows, there'd be many, dozens of alternatives with marginally more features. This was the case even when Windows just came out, that applications with hardly more features were on the market. I don't know about the state of calculators, but certainly Notepad and Wordpad killed an entire marketplace.
And that's not including universal text editors like emacs and vi (as gVim).
The examples I just threw out are considered the best in a big market, not the only replacements for notepad.
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These two paragraphs are at odds. Do casinos help communities and now that money will be gone (flowing overseas) or do casinos fuck everything and everyone around them and don't give back?
These fuckers are not only corrupt, but shamelessly corrupt.
(P.s. his causality is 100% wrong)
It's simply the wrong tool. It's too tightly coupled to a secondary device for any game that has "secret" information.
The Ignite piece on O'Reilly media from an app dev (I saw it last week I think) had a guy whip up a board game score calculator as his first failed app attempt.
I think the Surface is more practical for this than this device (if any) but the real device is probably already in most living rooms: XBox/PS3 with a marketplace.
Even maintains purity of purpose, can serve content, and isn't at risk of spilling beer on it.
I haven't been able to let go of it since puberty
In fact, everything YOU mentioned are things that Apple may or may not approve.
My point was just that looking at it as a "board game player" is silly and unrealistic.
Particularly with the whole "ooooh then you can link the iPhones to it!" line of reasoning - now everyone who comes over to my place to play games needs some sort of smart phone? Lots of my friends are broke mofos.
I wouldn't trust any closed device as my content repository; too much about copyright is nebulous right now to trust any company to "look out for my interests" which is where Apple leaves you - Trust Me, Steve says.
I'm already at +5 Insightful! I can't wait to tell my wife, ACTION FOR SURE!
Race For The Galaxy + 2 expansions was in that neighborhood or higher.
Euros trend expensive.
So for only $499 + $299/phone, you can play a $75 board game electronically! No messy setup, and you don't have to worry about where to put that almost $1000 in cash you would still have!
The idea he wants to care for his family in the event of his untimely passing isn't criminal.
The idea that he's set up trusts for his kids is funny though, keep dreaming big I guess.
Yes-men everywhere, rampant nepotism, and a level of incompetence at the officer level I've never seen in my professional career. (This is the only place I've worked where I had a sneaking, sinking suspicion I was the smartest guy in the room.)
The company made the top 20 worst places to work in America this year.
I don't think a company's work environment is driven by private vs public; it might be size driven (larger companies trend public) but I'm in a public company now and couldn't be happier.
TQ's demo crashed my entire computer on exit, which meant I didn't even attempt to buy it until Steam offered it and expansion for $10. I assume they'd worked out the bugs by then.
Arthur C. Clarke said "Any technology. . . " which is what you were referring to. Heinlein ain't a factor here.
I mean, and this isn't even hypothetical, if no Notepad came with Windows, there'd be many, dozens of alternatives with marginally more features. This was the case even when Windows just came out, that applications with hardly more features were on the market. I don't know about the state of calculators, but certainly Notepad and Wordpad killed an entire marketplace.
Worst Example Ever.
And that's not including universal text editors like emacs and vi (as gVim). The examples I just threw out are considered the best in a big market, not the only replacements for notepad. Source
Married a couple of them.
You're doing it wrong.
You have an orange, and are telling me it's a fruit and therefore it's an apple.
It's not.
Waterfall is ONE WAY. Iterative waterfalls are actually named different things because they're different.
You'd be better served saying "Waterfall is a strawman, and iterative models similar to waterfall DO work". Which is closer to the truth.
interface is shit
Free Tibet App: $99
It's annoying because the political correspondents on NPR seem even-handed, but it's all in the framing of their questions.
They start from a really favorable (for the Right) framing, and then pretend to take a balanced approach on the arguments.
DnD 4ed makes an awesome miniatures combat game, but I'm not so sure about its robustness as an RPG.
Fourth edition has "pointing" for your characters. None of that random crap
That book stunk on ice.
is a way to shoot lawn darts from a gun.