The Glass-Steagall Act prohibited a bank from offering investment, commercial banking, and insurance services. The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) allowed commercial and investment banks to consolidate.
Bear Stearns and Merrill Lynch were both pure investment banks. Neither company performed commercial banking services before or after the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.
Please do some research before you repeat a talking point. Gramm-Leach-Bliley allowed traditional banks to engage in investment bank activities. It allowed JP Morgan to buy Bear Stearns and Bank of America to buy Merrill Lynch, instead of allowing those two investment banks to crash. That may have softened the crash instead of worsening it.
See more here:
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/who_caused_the_economic_crisis.html
The postmortem is mostly about how an independent developer developed a game for Google Android, and has a blurb about developing for the iPhone. From TFA:
I won't discuss the details of developing for the iPhone. I'm a bit unsure of the NDA so I better keep my mouth shut.
But this is a great post-mortem about how to go from idea to finished game.
It's not so much that he's repetitive, it's just that he has a well-defined style and way of approaching stories. You wouldn't call Stanley Kubrick repetitive because all his characters go nuts.
Hear hear. It's much better to spend $100 each year for three years, and run all new games at 1680x1050 / Max Quality, than spend $300 upfront and have it at 1440x900 in two and a half years.
I bought the game on Steam. I was a little underwhelmed by the gameplay. The combat system, for example, is almost exactly like Super Mario RPG -- from 1996 -- except it's kind of in real-time. A lot of waiting to click, and guessing when to hit the space-bar to block an attack.
Then again, I'm not a follower of the comic, so I guess a lot of the other selling points of the game (i.e., the in-jokes) were lost on me.
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what is this "outside" you speak of? i don't see the link.
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I don't think any of them are major plot holes, in the sense that they don't break the story.
1. Joker presumably fled after he tossed Rachel off the room. It's a little flimsy, but not impossible: his henchmen had been beaten pretty badly, and the police were no doubt on their way.
2. This could have easily been set up by his henchmen. Joker could have orchestrated every aspect of the plan without physically witnessing its execution.
Don't discount the value of a piece of trash. I read crap like "Goosebumps" as a kid and I loved it then, but I wouldn't say I read crap fiction today. If anything, it helped me understand the difference between good scenework and inelegant scenework. People need to experience it to recognize quality, much like sleeping on 200 thread-count sheets makes one appreciate 1000 thread-count sheets.
According to the summary, the people were polled in late February / early March. Mike Huckabee dropped out March 4th, and Ron Paul is still running even though he cannot mathematically win the nomination.
It's two GPUs on one PCB. It's different than two single-GPU cards in SLI, because you can put two dual-GPU cards into SLI, which would theoretically be 4x the graphics power.
I realize that it might be smarter to wait a month or two for the real technology upgrade, but for the deep-pocketed got-to-have-it-now consumer, a $700 dual-GPU card might be the right frosting on their top-of-the-line cake.
Now if only I were a deep-pocketed got-to-have-it-now consumer...
And I've written text-based ads for Google, MSN, Yahoo, etc.
But I can't imagine anyone would want to purchase a product based on an ad with their name on it. "Hey Morley! Buy some laundry detergent!" I'd get freaked out, and I'd forever associate that creepy feeling with the product. And I'd never buy it.
I imagine most people would feel the same way. And I imagine most copywriters -- who are less like the oily marketeers you're thinking of -- would feel the same.
I say, if some oily marketeer wants to use this feature -- and it is only at most my first name -- he deserves to scare off his customers.
Google Street View: Hey, we want to update Google Maps so ordinary citizens can more easily find their way around cities. Can we go into your military base with this car mounted with cameras in every direction? Seeing as so many ordinary citizens are going to and from the Starbucks next to Colonel Hapablap's quarters. Even though it's against Google policy to do this in military bases.
Military Base: I see no problem with that.
Seriously, how did this happen in the first place? Doesn't the military have security?
In addition to being able to traverse a wide variety of terrain, the robot can also climb poles, the inside of pipes and conduits, small grooves in walls, and probably more. It can also swim.
Oh, so real snakes aren't scary enough? I have to worry about robot snakes too?
When you add an application, it asks you quite clearly:
[ ] Know who I am and access my information.
It's the first checkbox.
Or, even better: you don't need to use applications! Hell, you don't even need to use Facebook! There are services like Hushmail for people who want privacy in their communications.
I think the ACLU's point is that technology isn't bad for the election process: its bad process and accountability.
There's nothing wrong per se with touch-screen machines, punch ballots, e-voting machines, or even raising your hand to count your vote. Its being able to verify that your voted for who you voted for. It's being able to verify that your vote was counted. That's important.
The ACLU is trying to say that the solution to problems with touchscreen voting isn't to take a step backward technologically. We should be finding better solutions, like using technology to make votes verifiable, and making it easier to do so.
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Bear Stearns and Merrill Lynch were both pure investment banks. Neither company performed commercial banking services before or after the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.
Please do some research before you repeat a talking point. Gramm-Leach-Bliley allowed traditional banks to engage in investment bank activities. It allowed JP Morgan to buy Bear Stearns and Bank of America to buy Merrill Lynch, instead of allowing those two investment banks to crash. That may have softened the crash instead of worsening it. See more here: http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/who_caused_the_economic_crisis.html
But this is a great post-mortem about how to go from idea to finished game.
It's not so much that he's repetitive, it's just that he has a well-defined style and way of approaching stories. You wouldn't call Stanley Kubrick repetitive because all his characters go nuts.
Hear hear. It's much better to spend $100 each year for three years, and run all new games at 1680x1050 / Max Quality, than spend $300 upfront and have it at 1440x900 in two and a half years.
Now let's all eat some food from Altria and enjoy free, adless software authored by Claria.
I bought the game on Steam. I was a little underwhelmed by the gameplay. The combat system, for example, is almost exactly like Super Mario RPG -- from 1996 -- except it's kind of in real-time. A lot of waiting to click, and guessing when to hit the space-bar to block an attack. Then again, I'm not a follower of the comic, so I guess a lot of the other selling points of the game (i.e., the in-jokes) were lost on me.
what is this "outside" you speak of? i don't see the link.
I don't think any of them are major plot holes, in the sense that they don't break the story. 1. Joker presumably fled after he tossed Rachel off the room. It's a little flimsy, but not impossible: his henchmen had been beaten pretty badly, and the police were no doubt on their way. 2. This could have easily been set up by his henchmen. Joker could have orchestrated every aspect of the plan without physically witnessing its execution.
Don't discount the value of a piece of trash. I read crap like "Goosebumps" as a kid and I loved it then, but I wouldn't say I read crap fiction today. If anything, it helped me understand the difference between good scenework and inelegant scenework. People need to experience it to recognize quality, much like sleeping on 200 thread-count sheets makes one appreciate 1000 thread-count sheets.
This article doesn't take into account accidental resonance cascades that open up portals to bizarre alien.
According to the summary, the people were polled in late February / early March. Mike Huckabee dropped out March 4th, and Ron Paul is still running even though he cannot mathematically win the nomination.
It's two GPUs on one PCB. It's different than two single-GPU cards in SLI, because you can put two dual-GPU cards into SLI, which would theoretically be 4x the graphics power.
I realize that it might be smarter to wait a month or two for the real technology upgrade, but for the deep-pocketed got-to-have-it-now consumer, a $700 dual-GPU card might be the right frosting on their top-of-the-line cake.
Now if only I were a deep-pocketed got-to-have-it-now consumer...
And I've written text-based ads for Google, MSN, Yahoo, etc.
But I can't imagine anyone would want to purchase a product based on an ad with their name on it. "Hey Morley! Buy some laundry detergent!" I'd get freaked out, and I'd forever associate that creepy feeling with the product. And I'd never buy it.
I imagine most people would feel the same way. And I imagine most copywriters -- who are less like the oily marketeers you're thinking of -- would feel the same.
I say, if some oily marketeer wants to use this feature -- and it is only at most my first name -- he deserves to scare off his customers.
By "rise like Frankenstein," the author meant it would get up like a mad scientist and construct an bigger robot monster, that's also afraid of fire.
...if the first extraterrestrial message we get from outer space is a response to this.
And the message is, "No thanks, we prefer Sun Chips."
Google Street View: Hey, we want to update Google Maps so ordinary citizens can more easily find their way around cities. Can we go into your military base with this car mounted with cameras in every direction? Seeing as so many ordinary citizens are going to and from the Starbucks next to Colonel Hapablap's quarters. Even though it's against Google policy to do this in military bases.
Military Base: I see no problem with that.
Seriously, how did this happen in the first place? Doesn't the military have security?
Oh, so real snakes aren't scary enough? I have to worry about robot snakes too?
During the cosmic Dark Ages, was there an interstellar search for the Holy Grail?
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DUH. That's why my Norton Antivirus lights up when I click on those helpful "GET RID OF SPYWARE" ads?
I wonder how the person who wrote that title feels about Microsoft?
Next up: "Microsoft cruising seedy bars on the hunt for fresh start-up action."
When you add an application, it asks you quite clearly:
[ ] Know who I am and access my information.
It's the first checkbox.
Or, even better: you don't need to use applications! Hell, you don't even need to use Facebook! There are services like Hushmail for people who want privacy in their communications.
...because Saddam Hussein is no longer in power.
PCs may disappear from your desk by 2033 when the superintelligent robots vaporize your desk and everything underneath it.
there, fixed that for you.
I think the ACLU's point is that technology isn't bad for the election process: its bad process and accountability.
There's nothing wrong per se with touch-screen machines, punch ballots, e-voting machines, or even raising your hand to count your vote. Its being able to verify that your voted for who you voted for. It's being able to verify that your vote was counted. That's important.
The ACLU is trying to say that the solution to problems with touchscreen voting isn't to take a step backward technologically. We should be finding better solutions, like using technology to make votes verifiable, and making it easier to do so.