The whole blame everyone else but myself has really taken off over the past ten years at least in the states. Every time there is some incident everyone looks to blame something other then the person who was the cause of the incident. Remember the Virgina Tech Massacre? Every news outlet had some expert on blabbing their mouth about how it was wrestling, video games, depression, lack of strict gun laws, lack of loose gun laws, etc, etc, no one was just blaming the gun man as being crazy and it was his fault.
Who would have thought that posting something to a vast world wide network could result in many people seeing it? It's getting so you can't shout out your front door without people hearing you. You also can't post secrets on billboards without them being read by passers by. What is the world coming to?
Does the billboard have a locked door in front of it that only certain people have a key to?
Facebook does but you know what they did? They decided to allow a second door, this second door didn't require a key but it only let you see a portion of the board. A portion that was previously behind a locked door that you already restricted access to.
Even if you're precise on the exact time of day and year you'll still be in space. the solar system moves too!
You both believe time travel occurs within our dimension. Time travel occurs on the time line which is outside of our dimension. When time travel occurs you simple bend the time line backwards to a snapshot of time and arrive there. By bending time you don't need to account for where Earth is because the time line knows that. It will drop you off at that moment of time. The flux capacitor was the device that allowed them to enter the dimension of time travel, bend the time line, and drop off. Those few seconds they were in warp, they were really in the dimension of time and bending it.
Going forward in time is a little bit more confusing and is explained by movie magic.
I see this problem with other open source projects also. You download what you believe is everything but you need X,Y,Z also downloaded and installed. Why cant this crap just come together as one single download?
Thats because the town voted against a taxed based municipal fire department and instead opted into paying a monthly fee to another department outside of local government. The guy refused to pay the fee, they warned him, and his house burned down. To paint a broad picture that this says a lot about the USA is pretty ignorant. Most of the country has a fire service provided by paying proper taxes and or fees to another department. This one particular town decided to go with the fee based route, a citizen refused to go along with even that payment and he got burned (no pun intended).
The owner should have gone back into his house. I think the fire fighters would have felt an obligation to put out the fire when there's a human life on the line.
Every industry has made a fuss about something that might potentially hurt the bottom line. The best one I heard was the car industry refusing seat belts early on because they argued it would give the perception that their automobiles were not safe.
I would say if an Alien race were to make contact with us they would have studied our language so they can properly communicate with us. Otherwise first contact would be them crashing or making an emergency landing.
By your logic Netflix should have never went into business.
Netflix, Redbox, and Blockbuster all offer the same product. The only thing that is different is cost and how they deliver the product to you. Netflix entered the market with a new delivery method (straight to home) at a low cost and it worked. Redbox entered the market with a low cost and instead of stores they have kiosks positioned strategically through out towns and cities.
For Blockbuster to convert to those two models probably wouldn't cost much. The real cost is regaining lost customers. At this point they're so far behind in a customer base that it might be impossible to regain customers unless they can offer something that no competitor can, and I don't think lowering the price of the product will help.
People like this man Hurd should be thankful to God for enabling the possibility for making millions come to light.
The money is not what drives Hurd. At this point its about having power and control, being considered a higher class worker or member of society, that's what drives him, he's already wealthy.
Wealth drives the poor to work. Power drives the wealthy.
Politicians are perfect examples, Richard Burris is a perfect example, already a well established Chicago politician who didn't need the paycheck from being senator, he just wanted the senate seat to fulfill his power drive.
They might have had 130,000 on release or the first month but that doesn't mean they retained them. The game was complete garbage, even if someone were to buy it out they would have to invest a good amount into it just to put some actual game play into it. How do you revive a game that is pretty much seen as a joke from the gaming community?
On a side note, had they focused more on the game play and not their stupid character editor they might have survived. The character editor was probably the most polished part of the game and it was most designed so you would spend extra cash on giving your character a hat.
The answer isn't to keep cracking these "protection" schemes, it's to stop buying into them at all until the companies behind them realize that customers are tired of paying for hardware that actively works against their interests.
Let them make stronger protection, let them put the hundreds of millions into the R&D to make something they think is nearly unbreakable. Then when its cracked and a top manager is called into explain why they spent all that capital on R&D to have it rendered useless they might reconsider their business strategy.
Well to be fair almost nothing recognizable survived from the WTC, I wouldn't say "lost" as much as vaporized. I remember an interview from a fire fighter who said the most recognizable thing outside of twisted metal and concrete that he saw in the debris was a mostly charred dial pad to a desk phone. Even the body parts they find are just fragments.
The impact zone had immense heat from the jet fuel for several minutes followed by the hydrocarbon burning of all the plastics (this was the real contributor to the collapse next to the plane impact force tearing the fire resistance material off the steel). Everything below it was obliterated cause the buildings collapsed in a pancake style, one floor over the other, and as it collapsed it kept speeding up and basically doubling its weight with every floor that went.
Its possible if the building collapsed to the side we would have seen more survivors and more recognizable debris.
And food for thought, its possible if the Titanic slammed the iceberg dead on, the metal would have collapsed on itself, still flooding but not as much and the water tight compartments would have been more useful.
Also research that leads nowhere initially might lead to somewhere later. Fleming tried to make penicillin work but figured that you couldn't produce enough of it to be workable in a person. It wasn't until about ten years later that two guys figured out a way to adequately culture it and create dosages that could cure. Heck, even their first patient died cause they couldn't produce enough to clear him of the infection.
Maybe Fleming should have burned all his work since it lead him nowhere.
They weren't laser weapons. The source of energy was concentrated gas that was fired from the weapon at high speeds that while burning looked like a laser.
With that logic you could say all books, films, and games based on any war is profiteering.
Heck you could say Senator McCain is profiteering when he talks about his military experience when campaigning which ultimately lands him a job which he makes an income from.
I remember seeing a letter sent to iD Software back when Wolfenstein 3D came out that was from a Vietnam vet. He explained that the game had actually helped him with his PTSD.
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The customer uses Windows, thus we need to make our solutions work on Windows.
The whole blame everyone else but myself has really taken off over the past ten years at least in the states. Every time there is some incident everyone looks to blame something other then the person who was the cause of the incident. Remember the Virgina Tech Massacre? Every news outlet had some expert on blabbing their mouth about how it was wrestling, video games, depression, lack of strict gun laws, lack of loose gun laws, etc, etc, no one was just blaming the gun man as being crazy and it was his fault.
Who would have thought that posting something to a vast world wide network could result in many people seeing it? It's getting so you can't shout out your front door without people hearing you. You also can't post secrets on billboards without them being read by passers by. What is the world coming to?
Does the billboard have a locked door in front of it that only certain people have a key to?
Facebook does but you know what they did? They decided to allow a second door, this second door didn't require a key but it only let you see a portion of the board. A portion that was previously behind a locked door that you already restricted access to.
Even if you're precise on the exact time of day and year you'll still be in space. the solar system moves too!
You both believe time travel occurs within our dimension. Time travel occurs on the time line which is outside of our dimension. When time travel occurs you simple bend the time line backwards to a snapshot of time and arrive there. By bending time you don't need to account for where Earth is because the time line knows that. It will drop you off at that moment of time. The flux capacitor was the device that allowed them to enter the dimension of time travel, bend the time line, and drop off. Those few seconds they were in warp, they were really in the dimension of time and bending it.
Going forward in time is a little bit more confusing and is explained by movie magic.
I see this problem with other open source projects also. You download what you believe is everything but you need X,Y,Z also downloaded and installed. Why cant this crap just come together as one single download?
Thats because the town voted against a taxed based municipal fire department and instead opted into paying a monthly fee to another department outside of local government. The guy refused to pay the fee, they warned him, and his house burned down. To paint a broad picture that this says a lot about the USA is pretty ignorant. Most of the country has a fire service provided by paying proper taxes and or fees to another department. This one particular town decided to go with the fee based route, a citizen refused to go along with even that payment and he got burned (no pun intended).
The owner should have gone back into his house. I think the fire fighters would have felt an obligation to put out the fire when there's a human life on the line.
Every industry has made a fuss about something that might potentially hurt the bottom line. The best one I heard was the car industry refusing seat belts early on because they argued it would give the perception that their automobiles were not safe.
I would say if an Alien race were to make contact with us they would have studied our language so they can properly communicate with us. Otherwise first contact would be them crashing or making an emergency landing.
By your logic Netflix should have never went into business.
Netflix, Redbox, and Blockbuster all offer the same product. The only thing that is different is cost and how they deliver the product to you. Netflix entered the market with a new delivery method (straight to home) at a low cost and it worked. Redbox entered the market with a low cost and instead of stores they have kiosks positioned strategically through out towns and cities.
For Blockbuster to convert to those two models probably wouldn't cost much. The real cost is regaining lost customers. At this point they're so far behind in a customer base that it might be impossible to regain customers unless they can offer something that no competitor can, and I don't think lowering the price of the product will help.
The downfall of Blockbuster was not Netflix or Redbox. It was the operating CEO(s) and investors.
People like this man Hurd should be thankful to God for enabling the possibility for making millions come to light.
The money is not what drives Hurd. At this point its about having power and control, being considered a higher class worker or member of society, that's what drives him, he's already wealthy.
Wealth drives the poor to work. Power drives the wealthy.
Politicians are perfect examples, Richard Burris is a perfect example, already a well established Chicago politician who didn't need the paycheck from being senator, he just wanted the senate seat to fulfill his power drive.
Remember when we had to wait a month to get reviews? What was with that?
They might have had 130,000 on release or the first month but that doesn't mean they retained them. The game was complete garbage, even if someone were to buy it out they would have to invest a good amount into it just to put some actual game play into it. How do you revive a game that is pretty much seen as a joke from the gaming community?
On a side note, had they focused more on the game play and not their stupid character editor they might have survived. The character editor was probably the most polished part of the game and it was most designed so you would spend extra cash on giving your character a hat.
The answer isn't to keep cracking these "protection" schemes, it's to stop buying into them at all until the companies behind them realize that customers are tired of paying for hardware that actively works against their interests.
Let them make stronger protection, let them put the hundreds of millions into the R&D to make something they think is nearly unbreakable. Then when its cracked and a top manager is called into explain why they spent all that capital on R&D to have it rendered useless they might reconsider their business strategy.
I would rather have another "Live Free, Die Hard" then another Transformers, Twilight, or another M. Night Shyamalan movie.
"it's not what you know, its who knows you"
Well to be fair almost nothing recognizable survived from the WTC, I wouldn't say "lost" as much as vaporized. I remember an interview from a fire fighter who said the most recognizable thing outside of twisted metal and concrete that he saw in the debris was a mostly charred dial pad to a desk phone. Even the body parts they find are just fragments.
The impact zone had immense heat from the jet fuel for several minutes followed by the hydrocarbon burning of all the plastics (this was the real contributor to the collapse next to the plane impact force tearing the fire resistance material off the steel). Everything below it was obliterated cause the buildings collapsed in a pancake style, one floor over the other, and as it collapsed it kept speeding up and basically doubling its weight with every floor that went.
Its possible if the building collapsed to the side we would have seen more survivors and more recognizable debris.
And food for thought, its possible if the Titanic slammed the iceberg dead on, the metal would have collapsed on itself, still flooding but not as much and the water tight compartments would have been more useful.
Also research that leads nowhere initially might lead to somewhere later. Fleming tried to make penicillin work but figured that you couldn't produce enough of it to be workable in a person. It wasn't until about ten years later that two guys figured out a way to adequately culture it and create dosages that could cure. Heck, even their first patient died cause they couldn't produce enough to clear him of the infection.
Maybe Fleming should have burned all his work since it lead him nowhere.
Couldn't you say this for any developer working on any console?
I believe Nintendo and Playstation require any software coded to be certified by them, and of course they also have licensing and developer fees.
The only real difference is that Microsoft owns Windows which happens to be a preferred developer environment for all these consoles.
- Star Wars uses laser weapons.
They weren't laser weapons. The source of energy was concentrated gas that was fired from the weapon at high speeds that while burning looked like a laser.
Everyone's a hypocrite once you involve money.
With that logic you could say all books, films, and games based on any war is profiteering.
Heck you could say Senator McCain is profiteering when he talks about his military experience when campaigning which ultimately lands him a job which he makes an income from.
This is a typical fuss over nothing.
I remember seeing a letter sent to iD Software back when Wolfenstein 3D came out that was from a Vietnam vet. He explained that the game had actually helped him with his PTSD.
And charge them every time.