I'm sure he has a reserved spot closest to his office. However, I imagine he occasionally meets with people at one of the other 6 buildings on campus and I can believe that he doesn't have a reserved spot at each of those.
The campus has multiple buildings and my guess is that while he does have his own parking spot just outside his personal office, he occasionally parks just outside one of the neighboring buildings when he is meeting with people there.
If it was a simple matter of disagreeing with him, then a flamebait moderation is inappropriate. The flamebait moderation is how people's comments are silenced.
It depends. There are a lot of factors that could influence price.
Time. How long does this last? Does $30 mil get them a years worth of access? 5 years? 10 years? Exclusivity. Is Netflix going to be the only ones who have access to these movies via streaming? Do others get rights, too, but Netflix gets to show first? How long before someone else can show the movies? Same price for each movie or average? Are some new release movies costing them $50mil while others only $3 mil?
People keep bringing up the loss of Starz but I suspect that once that contract expired Starz started asking for a much larger (undisclosed) amount. The amount they paid Starz for movies was undoubtedly going to go up now that they have many more subscribers.
It's true that comics have been doing this for ages. Sometimes it annoys me and sometimes I'm fine with it. Green Lantern has long been a character that can and should have replacements (and I think it's fine to use various races, genders, species, etc.). It works for that character. I welcome replacements now and again.
alternate universes are kind of hit or miss for me. I enjoy an occasional "what if" type of comic that explores alternative possibilities, but I find the reboots used in comics with alternate universes incredibly annoying and lazy way to slightly mix things up. I see comic movies somewhat in between. I recognize movies have to make some changes for it to work on the big screen in 90-130 minutes. I'm okay with the continuity being off in movies. However, it is just jarring if a serious character is turned into a funny guy or a romantic relationship is created between characters that never were into each other simply to attract another demographic. At least be true to the heart of the characters/story.
Spider-Man seems like a jarring character to have a replacement for. Except for webslinging, his abilities don't come from gadgets. I guess it could be replicated to some extent, just like giving another character Captain America's Super Soldier Serum...but Spidey's origin always came across as incredibly random and nearly impossible to replicate (different spider, different level of radiation, different amount of time before the bite, all might have had much different effects on a person). It's not like putting on the Green Lantern ring or Batman's hood and utility belt.
What if the new Spidey was white but still not an established friend/ally/confidant? Would you still be on/. arguing that Marvel "pulled him out of the ether" for the sake of being "politically correct"?
I think it depends on the friends/allies/confidants/enemies in the comic so far. If the Ultimate Spiderman line is chock full of blacks, whites, latinos, asians, bis, straights, gays, trans, etc. then for a new character to appear that happens to have one or more of those characteristics is not particularly worth commenting about.
However, if the Ultimate Spiderman line is centered in a black neighborhood where Spiderman is black and the vast majority of his friends and enemies are also black, then yes, it would feel like Marvel "pulled him out of the ether" to make some sort of statement.
I haven't read the Ultimate Spiderman line so I can't really say either way. Maybe in that line MJ is asian, J. Jonah Jamison is black, Dr. Ock is hispanic, Electro is white, black cat is bi, Eddie Brock is gay, etc. In that universe it wouldn't be particularly PC for the new spiderman to be a new character that happens to be half-black, half-latino, maybe gay. Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me that much given other comics I've read from the Ultimate universe.
Perhaps he was copying DC. Lex Luthor, Lois Lane, Lana Lang, Clark Kent (okay, a stretch), Gorilla Grodd, Guy Gardner, etc. Or maybe from Disney. Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, etc.
Internet radio is a great example of an exception. Another is when a video has a commercial. I'll click to another tab for a bit to do other things but use the audio from that tab as a cue for when the commercial's over and I can get back to my show.
I can see how a lot of people might be confused/upset if audio went out by default without any clear and obvious way to change the default.
When I was gaming regularly on Facebook, I would have -loved- to restrict game posts to only fellow game-players.
You actually can, although the process is a bit convoluted.
Say your game gives you some popup to share something (perhaps a request to help in the game, or some bonus to share). You can click the little lock that lists the options, Everyone, Friends Only, Friends of Friends, etc. Pick "Customize" Then from the customize menu select "Specific People". Then you can type in individual people or whatever groupings you've created. For instance, I created a "Game Friends" list that I add people to when they become involved in games I play. When you're done typing in lists, click "Save Settings" and then "Share"
Aside from a few hits, I don't think the PC market has had much success with that. Sure, they've reduced used game sales but they've also reduced overall sales and had to drop prices. Now all the money is in things like Farmville where the new/used issue is a nonfactor.
I think your parent poster got it right that there is considerable risk in doing this to console games. There is a chunk of used gamers who will start to buy SOME new games once used games is no longer an option. But there is another chunk of used gamers (in my opinion a much larger chunk) who will stop buying console games altogether once used games are not an option...at least until the prices of new games drops significantly. Finally, there is a another chunk of gamers that buy new and sell used that will reduce the games they buy once selling games is no longer an option. It is not clear but wouldn't surprise me if the reduction from these gamers is greater than the increase in new game sales from previously used gamers.
If the PC market is any indication, this blocking of resales may simply result in console games dropping in price from $50-60 to $30-50 and a bit of a drop in sales overall.
Personally, I buy almost exclusively used games. The exceptions are the games that I know aren't going to drop much in price on the used market anyway. A high rated Mario/Donkey Kong game? The used prices are going to be so close to new prices for years, I might as well just buy new. Nintendo has found the best way to reduce used game sales. Create quality games with a lot of replay value.
If the used game market suddenly disappeared tomorrow, I'd probably reduce my game buying to the occasional Mario type game on birthdays/christmas along with an occasional game that got raved about via word of mouth.from personal friends I trust. I simply don't have the money to buy all my used games at new game prices.
I think if the car industry tried to do something similar in blocking resales of new cars, there'd be a lot of used car buyers that simply decide to get a motorcycle or use public transportation rather than pay $20,000+ for a new car that they could never sell.
Well, I haven't RTFA yet but from the summary it doesn't sound like a matter of agreed contractual language between corporations but rather a demand from the DoJ to the merged corporations. While it doesn't go so far as to assert an inherent right to a free internet, it does seem to acknowledge that potential harm can come from an ISP also being a content provider.
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CarrierIQ is confirmed to be found on the iPhone
Not directly in the article but in the links within the article.
Here's the direct link: http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/how-much-of-your-phone-is-yours-20111115/
I'm sure he has a reserved spot closest to his office. However, I imagine he occasionally meets with people at one of the other 6 buildings on campus and I can believe that he doesn't have a reserved spot at each of those.
The campus has multiple buildings and my guess is that while he does have his own parking spot just outside his personal office, he occasionally parks just outside one of the neighboring buildings when he is meeting with people there.
How long was he dying of cancer? The article states that he'd been doing this since at least the early 80s.
If it was a simple matter of disagreeing with him, then a flamebait moderation is inappropriate. The flamebait moderation is how people's comments are silenced.
There's nothing wrong with the way their house was built. It's just what happens when you forget to type in 4 8 15 16 23 42.
That was my first thought, too. I think it's a catchy name but the headline was confusing at first glance.
It depends. There are a lot of factors that could influence price.
Time. How long does this last? Does $30 mil get them a years worth of access? 5 years? 10 years?
Exclusivity. Is Netflix going to be the only ones who have access to these movies via streaming? Do others get rights, too, but Netflix gets to show first? How long before someone else can show the movies?
Same price for each movie or average? Are some new release movies costing them $50mil while others only $3 mil?
People keep bringing up the loss of Starz but I suspect that once that contract expired Starz started asking for a much larger (undisclosed) amount. The amount they paid Starz for movies was undoubtedly going to go up now that they have many more subscribers.
You've got a point. Any man watching a Hugh Grant movie should just walk out. Perverts.
It's true that comics have been doing this for ages. Sometimes it annoys me and sometimes I'm fine with it. Green Lantern has long been a character that can and should have replacements (and I think it's fine to use various races, genders, species, etc.). It works for that character. I welcome replacements now and again.
alternate universes are kind of hit or miss for me. I enjoy an occasional "what if" type of comic that explores alternative possibilities, but I find the reboots used in comics with alternate universes incredibly annoying and lazy way to slightly mix things up. I see comic movies somewhat in between. I recognize movies have to make some changes for it to work on the big screen in 90-130 minutes. I'm okay with the continuity being off in movies. However, it is just jarring if a serious character is turned into a funny guy or a romantic relationship is created between characters that never were into each other simply to attract another demographic. At least be true to the heart of the characters/story.
Spider-Man seems like a jarring character to have a replacement for. Except for webslinging, his abilities don't come from gadgets. I guess it could be replicated to some extent, just like giving another character Captain America's Super Soldier Serum...but Spidey's origin always came across as incredibly random and nearly impossible to replicate (different spider, different level of radiation, different amount of time before the bite, all might have had much different effects on a person). It's not like putting on the Green Lantern ring or Batman's hood and utility belt.
What if the new Spidey was white but still not an established friend/ally/confidant? Would you still be on /. arguing that Marvel "pulled him out of the ether" for the sake of being "politically correct"?
I think it depends on the friends/allies/confidants/enemies in the comic so far. If the Ultimate Spiderman line is chock full of blacks, whites, latinos, asians, bis, straights, gays, trans, etc. then for a new character to appear that happens to have one or more of those characteristics is not particularly worth commenting about.
However, if the Ultimate Spiderman line is centered in a black neighborhood where Spiderman is black and the vast majority of his friends and enemies are also black, then yes, it would feel like Marvel "pulled him out of the ether" to make some sort of statement.
I haven't read the Ultimate Spiderman line so I can't really say either way. Maybe in that line MJ is asian, J. Jonah Jamison is black, Dr. Ock is hispanic, Electro is white, black cat is bi, Eddie Brock is gay, etc. In that universe it wouldn't be particularly PC for the new spiderman to be a new character that happens to be half-black, half-latino, maybe gay. Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me that much given other comics I've read from the Ultimate universe.
Perhaps he was copying DC. Lex Luthor, Lois Lane, Lana Lang, Clark Kent (okay, a stretch), Gorilla Grodd, Guy Gardner, etc. Or maybe from Disney. Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, etc.
Internet radio is a great example of an exception. Another is when a video has a commercial. I'll click to another tab for a bit to do other things but use the audio from that tab as a cue for when the commercial's over and I can get back to my show.
I can see how a lot of people might be confused/upset if audio went out by default without any clear and obvious way to change the default.
I think it would be funny if Lulzsec/Anonymous also hacked Zurich American for the lulz. Hopefully their security is better than Sony's
When I was gaming regularly on Facebook, I would have -loved- to restrict game posts to only fellow game-players.
You actually can, although the process is a bit convoluted.
Say your game gives you some popup to share something (perhaps a request to help in the game, or some bonus to share). You can click the little lock that lists the options, Everyone, Friends Only, Friends of Friends, etc. Pick "Customize" Then from the customize menu select "Specific People". Then you can type in individual people or whatever groupings you've created. For instance, I created a "Game Friends" list that I add people to when they become involved in games I play. When you're done typing in lists, click "Save Settings" and then "Share"
Aside from a few hits, I don't think the PC market has had much success with that. Sure, they've reduced used game sales but they've also reduced overall sales and had to drop prices. Now all the money is in things like Farmville where the new/used issue is a nonfactor.
I think your parent poster got it right that there is considerable risk in doing this to console games. There is a chunk of used gamers who will start to buy SOME new games once used games is no longer an option. But there is another chunk of used gamers (in my opinion a much larger chunk) who will stop buying console games altogether once used games are not an option...at least until the prices of new games drops significantly. Finally, there is a another chunk of gamers that buy new and sell used that will reduce the games they buy once selling games is no longer an option. It is not clear but wouldn't surprise me if the reduction from these gamers is greater than the increase in new game sales from previously used gamers.
If the PC market is any indication, this blocking of resales may simply result in console games dropping in price from $50-60 to $30-50 and a bit of a drop in sales overall.
Personally, I buy almost exclusively used games. The exceptions are the games that I know aren't going to drop much in price on the used market anyway. A high rated Mario/Donkey Kong game? The used prices are going to be so close to new prices for years, I might as well just buy new. Nintendo has found the best way to reduce used game sales. Create quality games with a lot of replay value.
If the used game market suddenly disappeared tomorrow, I'd probably reduce my game buying to the occasional Mario type game on birthdays/christmas along with an occasional game that got raved about via word of mouth.from personal friends I trust. I simply don't have the money to buy all my used games at new game prices.
I think if the car industry tried to do something similar in blocking resales of new cars, there'd be a lot of used car buyers that simply decide to get a motorcycle or use public transportation rather than pay $20,000+ for a new car that they could never sell.
yeah, 12 Billion is more like it. I'm not sure that is even enough.
Sounds like porcine-ography.
I can't wait for all the wii games to start appearing in the discount bins.
To prevent them from getting slashdotted?
Mod parent up. This is informative.
Well, I haven't RTFA yet but from the summary it doesn't sound like a matter of agreed contractual language between corporations but rather a demand from the DoJ to the merged corporations. While it doesn't go so far as to assert an inherent right to a free internet, it does seem to acknowledge that potential harm can come from an ISP also being a content provider.
I've been frustrated with the same problem ever since the new layout. Many +5 comments are unseen until I happen to click on the parent post.
So is it our turn now to steal their patents?
Let me guess. GPS is their next move for DRM? Hackers will have to disable that first in a crowded public place before moving on. =)