The amount of people willing to pay a monthly fee to play a game is not that large. Unless they are willing to make online games that have free servers - SquareEnix-run or not - they will be chasing after the same small pool as everyone else.
I'd rather pay an extra $10 for faster internet;)
It always does. Though the complement of RAM in an average system has stalled over the past few years due to heavier disk caching and the moving of a lot of heavy graphic processing to subsystems, 16 GB of RAM will inevitably become less unusual. It will take a stable environment and software complement to break the 4 GB barrier, though.
Just plain insane. Completely banning municipalities from communications? What about police CBs? What about 911 dispatch? And for what purpose? To keep towns from competing with for-profit Wi-Fi? Bogus.
Sorry if I'm stating the obvious, but it's television. Signals broadcast through the air. Sorry to burst the bubbles of the folks in Hollywood, but you can't control the genie if you're throwing it out of the bottle at the speed of light. Accept the fact that people have the right to record their television shows, and don't complain when they trade them.
With a vengeance, too. I doubt AT&T in its heyday was less scrupulous than these guys. Next thing you know they'll be charging us for long distance Internet.
Repairing the Hubble might be prohibitively expensive, but a simpler retrieval mission shouldn't cost much more than your average shuttle mission. That thing belongs in the Smithsonian once it's out of service, not vaporized in reentry.
I think a really good idea is Canada becoming a commonwealth of the U.S., like Puerto Rico.
Puerto Ricans are stuck in a lovely political loophole that's not quite statehood and not quite independence. The US Government can basically run roughshod over Puerto Rico with nothing but the occasional referendum to maybe change the situation.
A better idea would be for Canada to look at joining the European Union (it's already a member of ESA) and making that kind of transnational governance take hold over more of the world than a teensie continent.
I'm more concerned with what Google itself wants to do with all that information on me at this point. Though it certainly doesn't help to think what would happen if it got into even more hands!
The Patriot Act was the result of Paranoia... Of people willing to endorse anything if it was security-related.
I would still like to count Canada as a US friend, even if half the politicians down here call it "Canuckistan"...
Not yet, but foreign nationals and dual citizens living in Canada have to get tagged at the crossing.
The way Dubya acts, I'm surprised they haven't broken out the chickenwire yet like they did on the Mexican border.
European national sovereignty has been on the way out since the end of the Second World War, and with good reason. Wouldn't you agree that it's a lot more fun and easy to live when London and Berlin aren't carpet bombing each other?
The whole point of the European Union is to establish a tolerant, comprehensive framework for multilateral coordination of tasks common to each nation. This naturally includes patent law. I'm sure the United Kingdom can continue to regulate the length of bagpipe drones if it so desires.
Perhaps that's being a tad overly cute about it, but the situation is fairly grim. If Europe can't hold out on software patents, then the entire developed world is pretty much SOL as far as technology innovation goes.
As far as I'm concerned, software should be just like the halcyon days of pure research science, when discoveries were freely available to anyone who wanted to apply themselves. It's from that sort of spirit that you truly make progress.
If it's all about the Benjamins, you just put enough work in so that you don't lose your job. Just like Linus Torvalds alludes to.
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They seem to be cracking down on their most enthusiatic community members lately.
The amount of people willing to pay a monthly fee to play a game is not that large. Unless they are willing to make online games that have free servers - SquareEnix-run or not - they will be chasing after the same small pool as everyone else. ;)
I'd rather pay an extra $10 for faster internet
That's three strikes out for Nintendo. I was REALLY, REALLY hoping they would get their act together this time.
It was 1961 and some dude named Yuri Gagarin flew all the way around the world and he never needed refueling...
It always does. Though the complement of RAM in an average system has stalled over the past few years due to heavier disk caching and the moving of a lot of heavy graphic processing to subsystems, 16 GB of RAM will inevitably become less unusual. It will take a stable environment and software complement to break the 4 GB barrier, though.
Just plain insane. Completely banning municipalities from communications? What about police CBs? What about 911 dispatch? And for what purpose? To keep towns from competing with for-profit Wi-Fi? Bogus.
Sorry if I'm stating the obvious, but it's television. Signals broadcast through the air. Sorry to burst the bubbles of the folks in Hollywood, but you can't control the genie if you're throwing it out of the bottle at the speed of light. Accept the fact that people have the right to record their television shows, and don't complain when they trade them.
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With a vengeance, too. I doubt AT&T in its heyday was less scrupulous than these guys. Next thing you know they'll be charging us for long distance Internet.
Repairing the Hubble might be prohibitively expensive, but a simpler retrieval mission shouldn't cost much more than your average shuttle mission. That thing belongs in the Smithsonian once it's out of service, not vaporized in reentry.
I think a really good idea is Canada becoming a commonwealth of the U.S., like Puerto Rico. Puerto Ricans are stuck in a lovely political loophole that's not quite statehood and not quite independence. The US Government can basically run roughshod over Puerto Rico with nothing but the occasional referendum to maybe change the situation. A better idea would be for Canada to look at joining the European Union (it's already a member of ESA) and making that kind of transnational governance take hold over more of the world than a teensie continent.
I'm more concerned with what Google itself wants to do with all that information on me at this point. Though it certainly doesn't help to think what would happen if it got into even more hands!
The Patriot Act was the result of Paranoia... Of people willing to endorse anything if it was security-related. I would still like to count Canada as a US friend, even if half the politicians down here call it "Canuckistan"...
Not yet, but foreign nationals and dual citizens living in Canada have to get tagged at the crossing. The way Dubya acts, I'm surprised they haven't broken out the chickenwire yet like they did on the Mexican border.
When you get paranoid, your friends suffer more than your enemies...
:P It's just a phrase. A phrase I probably do need to wean myself off.
European national sovereignty has been on the way out since the end of the Second World War, and with good reason. Wouldn't you agree that it's a lot more fun and easy to live when London and Berlin aren't carpet bombing each other? The whole point of the European Union is to establish a tolerant, comprehensive framework for multilateral coordination of tasks common to each nation. This naturally includes patent law. I'm sure the United Kingdom can continue to regulate the length of bagpipe drones if it so desires.
Perhaps that's being a tad overly cute about it, but the situation is fairly grim. If Europe can't hold out on software patents, then the entire developed world is pretty much SOL as far as technology innovation goes. As far as I'm concerned, software should be just like the halcyon days of pure research science, when discoveries were freely available to anyone who wanted to apply themselves. It's from that sort of spirit that you truly make progress. If it's all about the Benjamins, you just put enough work in so that you don't lose your job. Just like Linus Torvalds alludes to.