The smaller the number of people you can cover, the less you can amortize fixed costs. Finland's size works against providing cheap cell phone service, not for it.
No, really, it does. The writing is uniformly atrocious, the information content close to zero, and what isn't a PR blurb is an uninformed editorial. Like the one referenced in the story. Not to mention that game magazines are generally 2 months behind the news.
There is nothing in game magazines that can't be done better by any joe schmoe on a forum or game blog.
I miss the days of the old Next Generation, when they actually scored some interesting interviews and had some solid business information in there. It's the only game magazine I ever subscribed to. I'll buy a game magazine if it ever manages to get serious about what it puts out. Otherwise, I'll stick with the source that's not only free, but never worse than the print edition.
At this point, I always direct people to NPR. 10% comes from the government, 35% from corporate sponsors, the rest from listeners. It doesn't get much more directly supported than this. If you don't like their programming, tell them you won't support them anymore. If there's more like you, watch them change the programming. Amazing how that has created some kick-ass reporting.
You seem to be under the mistaken assumption that Blizzard will give up what could be the closest thing that will ever exist to uncrackable DRM because some people on the Internet are unhappy about Blizzard's approach to getting that DRM.
Newsflash: Blizzard will change their approach if and only if SC2 becomes a miserable failure, and it can unquestionably be traced to their requirement for LAN.
Intelligent people do not need the kind of rubberstamp advice you find in self-help books.
I'd be very careful with that advice. Intelligence does not correlate with knowing how to navigate relationship issues, personal issues and building a life together. Why do you think there's a separate roll for wisdom and for intelligence?
Warning: that last sentence is a joke. Please do not take it literally. Instead, focus on the fact that even intelligent people can learn from others.
I don't understand the male obsession with 20 year olds. They don't know shit!
For the same reason they like virgins - they don't know enough to realize you suck at intercourse..... Or, alternatively,because they don't know what's normal.
Monica Lewinsky was broken by a blogger? Really? Which one? Kenneth Starr had a blog? Maybe Linda Tripp? Neither was the firing of the US prosecutors broken by bloggers - that was just an old-fashioned shit-storm.
Bloggers are sometimes useful, but really not in the majority of the cases.
Good grief, AC. Take your Sony glasses off. Region free is completely unrelated to how locked down a console is. All consoles support third party peripherals, and is again strictly a question of licensing, not how locked down a console is. Finally, let me know how it goes playing PS3 games on your Linux install. When you get Home running on it, you can come back and talk about openness.
You're spot on, but about 8 years late. This was MS' goal ever since the XBox. A locked down PC that MS has complete control over is MS last chance at regaining some of its past monopolistic swagger. And before anyone brings up the Playstation, Sony is playing the same game. They're just a bit behind.
You're completely underestimating the magnitude of the coming change. There are some island nations that are shipping all their inhabitants off their islands, because they're already having an increasingly difficult time with the rising ocean.
If you think global climate change will not drastically alter how business is done world-wide, I'd like you to consider the latest NSC reports, which explicitly incorporate security risks that are triggered by climate change.
You do realize that at some point, people don't repeat known information? The sun's energy output that you quote is the sun's energy output as averaged over known cycles.
Sure Greenland and Siberia might become great agricultural centers. Go tell that to the midwest farmers. Furthermore, there ARE negative changes that will happen. Part of Siberia might become open for farming, but a good chunk of it will turn into a permanent bog. Diseases and vermin will reach parts that have been safe from them so far. West Nile is one, and the boring beetle is another.
The point is not that global climate change is going to destroy us. The point is that it is change that will cost us an enormous amount of money, suffering, and a complete overhaul of global political situations. It's unlikely that it will kill us. But it will completely change how we live. Are you prepared for that?
Dear shithead who thinks that hearing about a study makes you knowledgeable, I politely ask you to read the rest of the entry. You might realize that Cooper ligament is quite unlike dense connective tissue, such as you might find in the leg. It is more like the connective tissue present in skin. As a result, a bra does not work in a similar fashion as a cast does for a leg.
And studies done on 11 people (Japan), 25 (France) and similar small samples make it very hard to extrapolate to worldwide female populations of all ages and types. Which is what your post did.
In short, your original post is still nonsense, and your response is more nonsense wrapped in shitheadery.
Yes, some people take it as a religion. But to argue that this is so for everyone.... sigh. You do cherry pick just as much as the ones you accuse of cherry picking.
Uh, what do you suggest the rational means would be?
1) Pass a new law. Let's see, a congress critter goes for... however much Disney is willing to pay, +$1. 2) ?? 3) Profit. Or jail. Or something like that.
Sorry, in this case, the rational mean is vastly outgunned by specific corporate interests.
What defense would you suggest that goes beyond a plea-bargain? How do you propose to work with a system that is so completely balanced in favor of corporate copyright holders?
Sometimes, it does take an act of rebellion to set things right.
You experience all life has to offer? Really? You're experiencing a very limited subset of what life has to offer. Different strokes indeed, but don't delude yourself. You've traded one set of experiences for another.
Complete nonsense. There are no ligaments in the breast. There is also no muscle tissue.
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Wow - it's not paranoia if everyone really is out to get you, right? Get at least your facts straight. Republicans and Democracts voted for the bill, and Republicans and Democrats voted against it. Not to mention that Gates, a Republican, Air Force and Joint Chief of Staffs didn't want to continue the purchase program. I don't know how you lump those people into the group of Obama's lunatic lefties.
As others pointed out, this is a perfect example of why certain things should be supported by public money. Sometimes, society benefits more when a certain thing, process or idea is widely available to everyone.
To further reduce your argument to absurdity, why should Promethius get a free ride on all the free technology it is using? The free knowledge it used to create its patent? I'm sure the government wouldn't mind some revenue from Promethius employees using free roads to get to work, Promethius not paying its fair share of GMOs that support its work force.....
This idea that everything that can be monetized should be monetized will reduce the world to a new feudalism.
Troll? Seriously? Whoever modded this troll ought to look up personality profiles of executives, characteristics of sociopaths and behavior of corporations.
I'm a big believer in corporations being part of a successful economy, but that doesn't we have to be blind to their behaviors.
Yeah, but how do you make money from end-users when you're an infrastructure provider? After all, not breaking standards to avoid making money is just not right.
Remember: only quitters quit. Winners never quit. And not winning would just be anti-American. So in fact, all these companies are just trying to be as american as apple pie!
Or something. Maybe I'm just getting too cynical for this stuff. But for some reason, I can't fathom that the original Internet (intelligence at the nodes, dumb pipes in between) will survive all the concerted attempts at reducing it to the equivalent of TV.
Corporate personhood: the notion that a corporation is a person entitled to the same rights as a natural person, or some subset of those rights (e.g. due process, free speech, etc.)
Correct. However, I think if we give corporations personhood and all rights that come with it (or at least the significant parts), we ought to realize what kind of person corporations are: sociopaths. In other words, they would be the kind of person that would throw their grandmother down the stairs to collect insurance, cry many tears in court over their beloved grandma, then on the way home from court run a red light and drive over a blind girlscout because it got them home 10 seconds faster.
As such, I would like to propose that if corporations are given personhood, they are also slapped with the label "menace to society" the first time they are caught doing something illegal.
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The smaller the number of people you can cover, the less you can amortize fixed costs. Finland's size works against providing cheap cell phone service, not for it.
There is nothing in game magazines that can't be done better by any joe schmoe on a forum or game blog.
I miss the days of the old Next Generation, when they actually scored some interesting interviews and had some solid business information in there. It's the only game magazine I ever subscribed to. I'll buy a game magazine if it ever manages to get serious about what it puts out. Otherwise, I'll stick with the source that's not only free, but never worse than the print edition.
At this point, I always direct people to NPR. 10% comes from the government, 35% from corporate sponsors, the rest from listeners. It doesn't get much more directly supported than this. If you don't like their programming, tell them you won't support them anymore. If there's more like you, watch them change the programming. Amazing how that has created some kick-ass reporting.
You seem to be under the mistaken assumption that Blizzard will give up what could be the closest thing that will ever exist to uncrackable DRM because some people on the Internet are unhappy about Blizzard's approach to getting that DRM.
Newsflash: Blizzard will change their approach if and only if SC2 becomes a miserable failure, and it can unquestionably be traced to their requirement for LAN.
Intelligent people do not need the kind of rubberstamp advice you find in self-help books.
I'd be very careful with that advice. Intelligence does not correlate with knowing how to navigate relationship issues, personal issues and building a life together. Why do you think there's a separate roll for wisdom and for intelligence?
Warning: that last sentence is a joke. Please do not take it literally. Instead, focus on the fact that even intelligent people can learn from others.
For the same reason they like virgins - they don't know enough to realize you suck at intercourse..... Or, alternatively,because they don't know what's normal.
Monica Lewinsky was broken by a blogger? Really? Which one? Kenneth Starr had a blog? Maybe Linda Tripp? Neither was the firing of the US prosecutors broken by bloggers - that was just an old-fashioned shit-storm.
Bloggers are sometimes useful, but really not in the majority of the cases.
Good grief, AC. Take your Sony glasses off. Region free is completely unrelated to how locked down a console is. All consoles support third party peripherals, and is again strictly a question of licensing, not how locked down a console is. Finally, let me know how it goes playing PS3 games on your Linux install. When you get Home running on it, you can come back and talk about openness.
You're spot on, but about 8 years late. This was MS' goal ever since the XBox. A locked down PC that MS has complete control over is MS last chance at regaining some of its past monopolistic swagger. And before anyone brings up the Playstation, Sony is playing the same game. They're just a bit behind.
You're completely underestimating the magnitude of the coming change. There are some island nations that are shipping all their inhabitants off their islands, because they're already having an increasingly difficult time with the rising ocean.
If you think global climate change will not drastically alter how business is done world-wide, I'd like you to consider the latest NSC reports, which explicitly incorporate security risks that are triggered by climate change.
You do realize that at some point, people don't repeat known information? The sun's energy output that you quote is the sun's energy output as averaged over known cycles.
Sure Greenland and Siberia might become great agricultural centers. Go tell that to the midwest farmers. Furthermore, there ARE negative changes that will happen. Part of Siberia might become open for farming, but a good chunk of it will turn into a permanent bog. Diseases and vermin will reach parts that have been safe from them so far. West Nile is one, and the boring beetle is another.
The point is not that global climate change is going to destroy us. The point is that it is change that will cost us an enormous amount of money, suffering, and a complete overhaul of global political situations. It's unlikely that it will kill us. But it will completely change how we live. Are you prepared for that?
Dear shithead who thinks that hearing about a study makes you knowledgeable, I politely ask you to read the rest of the entry. You might realize that Cooper ligament is quite unlike dense connective tissue, such as you might find in the leg. It is more like the connective tissue present in skin. As a result, a bra does not work in a similar fashion as a cast does for a leg.
And studies done on 11 people (Japan), 25 (France) and similar small samples make it very hard to extrapolate to worldwide female populations of all ages and types. Which is what your post did.
In short, your original post is still nonsense, and your response is more nonsense wrapped in shitheadery.
Yes, some people take it as a religion. But to argue that this is so for everyone.... sigh. You do cherry pick just as much as the ones you accuse of cherry picking.
If a juror even mentions jury nullification, they'll be off the bench in no time flat. Stop getting legal advice from pamphlets.
Uh, what do you suggest the rational means would be?
1) Pass a new law. Let's see, a congress critter goes for... however much Disney is willing to pay, +$1.
2) ??
3) Profit. Or jail. Or something like that.
Sorry, in this case, the rational mean is vastly outgunned by specific corporate interests.
What defense would you suggest that goes beyond a plea-bargain? How do you propose to work with a system that is so completely balanced in favor of corporate copyright holders?
Sometimes, it does take an act of rebellion to set things right.
You experience all life has to offer? Really? You're experiencing a very limited subset of what life has to offer. Different strokes indeed, but don't delude yourself. You've traded one set of experiences for another.
Complete nonsense. There are no ligaments in the breast. There is also no muscle tissue.
Wow - it's not paranoia if everyone really is out to get you, right? Get at least your facts straight. Republicans and Democracts voted for the bill, and Republicans and Democrats voted against it. Not to mention that Gates, a Republican, Air Force and Joint Chief of Staffs didn't want to continue the purchase program. I don't know how you lump those people into the group of Obama's lunatic lefties.
How's the weather on your little planet?
As others pointed out, this is a perfect example of why certain things should be supported by public money. Sometimes, society benefits more when a certain thing, process or idea is widely available to everyone.
To further reduce your argument to absurdity, why should Promethius get a free ride on all the free technology it is using? The free knowledge it used to create its patent? I'm sure the government wouldn't mind some revenue from Promethius employees using free roads to get to work, Promethius not paying its fair share of GMOs that support its work force.....
This idea that everything that can be monetized should be monetized will reduce the world to a new feudalism.
Why is this an either or proposition? The beauty of conservation is that it is completely technology independent.
Troll? Seriously? Whoever modded this troll ought to look up personality profiles of executives, characteristics of sociopaths and behavior of corporations.
I'm a big believer in corporations being part of a successful economy, but that doesn't we have to be blind to their behaviors.
Yeah, but how do you make money from end-users when you're an infrastructure provider? After all, not breaking standards to avoid making money is just not right.
Remember: only quitters quit. Winners never quit. And not winning would just be anti-American. So in fact, all these companies are just trying to be as american as apple pie!
Or something. Maybe I'm just getting too cynical for this stuff. But for some reason, I can't fathom that the original Internet (intelligence at the nodes, dumb pipes in between) will survive all the concerted attempts at reducing it to the equivalent of TV.
Corporate personhood: the notion that a corporation is a person entitled to the same rights as a natural person, or some subset of those rights (e.g. due process, free speech, etc.)
Correct. However, I think if we give corporations personhood and all rights that come with it (or at least the significant parts), we ought to realize what kind of person corporations are: sociopaths. In other words, they would be the kind of person that would throw their grandmother down the stairs to collect insurance, cry many tears in court over their beloved grandma, then on the way home from court run a red light and drive over a blind girlscout because it got them home 10 seconds faster.
As such, I would like to propose that if corporations are given personhood, they are also slapped with the label "menace to society" the first time they are caught doing something illegal.