The solution is that everyone should have a Facebook profile, simply enter as much erroneous and false information as possible. Become Facebook friends with strangers, and upload doctored pictures that are a collage of various unrelated things.
Privoxy is setup such that you can download blocklists from whomever you prefer, or you can roll your own. Why isn't their solution so simple, and flexible enough to allow choice? Why is it assumed that one blocklist fits all preferences?
They don't want that mark on the brand. They've always charged a premium for Final Fantasy games (usually $5 or $10 more than other games on the same platform) and they want you to keep paying that amount and they want to keep moving millions of copies. They want the brand to be so strong that gamers keep buying the remakes and the other peripheral FF games in droves as well (Dissidia, Crystal Chronicles, Mystery Dungeon, etc).
Personally I think they should have left the online games out of the main-line numbered series. I think everyone wants it that way. But they're a Japanese developer, if they make a mistake they would rather keep working at it until you support their actions. Kinda like FF XIV.
What difference does it make if you're logged in or not? They shouldn't be collecting these things either way. Data from their own site, ok, but they should not collect your data pertaining to sites and services outside of Facebook at any time. "Likes" should be anonymized as well. The only time it would be unavoidable is when you "Share [URL] with facebook friends," since at that point the user explicitly understands what is happening.
Shareware was more akin to receiving the first actual complete game for free, and required you to pay for the sequels. Consider Doom, Keen, Duke Nukem, etc.
...which is why consoles are more successful, and even console versions of arcade games that tuned the gameplay experience for longer play sessions with balanced difficulty as opposed to quarter munching. Classics such as Contra, Bionic Commando, etc. have much more popular console adaptations. Racing games are no longer check-point affairs. Only fighting games have more or less remained the same. People don't want to keep paying a rate, they would rather own.
That's why I wait for "Game of the Year" editions
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Consider Fallout 3: GotY edition. Costs less than the full product at launch, includes all the DLC. I get twice the game at half the price. I don't give a fuck if I get it two years late. Anything I buy is at least two years old for that reason, movies, games, etc. Gives enough time for the hype to die down too, so I can make a more reasonable decision. Caveat: I don't play multiplayer, don't care for competition.
Hacking is only portrayed as evil because a lot of reporters don't know what it means, they just base their ideas on crackers, phreakers, and black hats. This is truly a hack in every sense. Own it and give the word back its original meaning. Hacking is not a negative or positive thing, it's a term for an act that may lead to negative, positive, or neutral results.
I just bought a laptop off the shelf, wiped it, and installed Ubuntu. Everything worked automagically, from the wifi to the webcam, to the noise cancelling mic, SD card slot, even the brightness/volume keys worked. Sleep worked without a hitch. I really didn't have to do anything at all apart from installing a few apps I wanted, such as VLC, Chromium, and that's it, I was good to go. Scanner/printer/fax was detected and worked great. Battery life is great too. Sorry you had so much trouble, I guess it's that last 1% that will really make the difference. Glad we're almost there!
Your friends are already doing it for you. They're tagging you in pictures, and writing about what you did with them, who you're with, who your friends are, and certain other details about your personal life.
The reason is that Metro has not yet proven itself, and companies are still holding on to the promises of.NET as a stable platform, write once run everywhere, universal look and feel, faster development, and security. That may or may not be the reality, but that's how it was pitched, and that's what the companies believe. They're not going to move their programmers over to a new platform that is unproven in these fields and sacrifice the experience in a platform that they have already invested their code and research into which supposedly already suits their needs. They're just wondering how Metro improves on that, and right now it all seems like hyperbole and pie in the sky promises, not to mention that it has no traction right now in the commercial market.
I was about to post the same, I don't play online, so why should I have to pay for the online component? Used game prices will eventually reflect the missing multiplayer aspect, and that's good for me. They're essentially driving people like me to used games.
If these politicians are happy with minimum wage, then why are their salaries more than minimum wage? Clearly they believe minimum wage is sufficient, and therefore that is what they should be paid. The value of being a politician is the position to improve, not the riches.
Being conservative doesn't mean dealing in facts. Being a rational human being means dealing in facts. How you get the facts and what you do with the facts after you have them is the crucial point. Do you get them from studies funded by lobbyists, and are you bound conditionally by their support or are you free to observe and implement in an unbiased manner?
Nope. I don't subscribe to anything. I don't need services, all I need is tools. While I may want the occasional product, at least that can be re-used or sold/passed on, unlike a service that can be snatched away and take all of its wares with it.
Police most certainly do not have public opinion on their side in these cases. They only have jingoistic alarmists on their side, which tend to heatedly yell over those with reasonable speaking voices, who make rational statements which take slightly more time to parse and absorb than the knee-jerk reactions provoked by the noisy hyperbole.
Not gonna fly. All these guys want their branding everywhere, and they're not going to participate if users aren't constantly made aware of who is serving them. Besides, each of these services have different options and functionality, and one generic "photos" function won't do 'em all.
Sure, they can raise their prices if they want netflix to die and no longer be a revenue stream. If they don't want money anymore then that's a great idea.
Dreamworks must realize that for netflix to be a viable option then they need to allow for netflix to pay their competitors as well. Netflix can't survive as a Dreamworks-only outfit; So if Dreamworks raises their fees and netflix continues as a client then Dreamworks' competitors will start to fall off and so will customers. Then netflix will die and Dreamworks won't get money from them.
Another startup may take their place but the same thing will happen again, and customers will tire of constantly switching to new services to pick up the catalog they want, and then the whole streaming thing will be dead. What may happen is that studios will start their own services to supply the customer directly, and then it will be up to generic hardware providers (media streaming TVs, roku, etc) to be compatible with their services directly. But that probably won't work since customers would rather pay a flat fee than subscribe to multiple distributors each at their own rate.
If it's ad driven, count me out. If it's affordable, they'll raise the price, and if you still want to listen/watch, you can't do anything about it. You no longer own any media so you have no alternatives. It's like saying "shackles please." Indie is where it's at.
Replace them with private entities, but if the TSA will be dismantled, scanners won't be used in airports since it has been proven ineffective. Nobody's been held liable for the cancer-causing scanners with current oversight anyway so what more could you be afraid of? At least if they're privatized, those companies will be held liable and could collapse if they make errors. Right now it's like there's no consequence...
Video game developers receive such a rich assortment of incentives that even oil companies have questioned why the government should subsidize such a mature and profitable industry whose main contribution is to create amusing and sometimes antisocial entertainment.
Maybe the oil companies should clean up their messes before they start casting stones...
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The solution is that everyone should have a Facebook profile, simply enter as much erroneous and false information as possible. Become Facebook friends with strangers, and upload doctored pictures that are a collage of various unrelated things.
Privoxy is setup such that you can download blocklists from whomever you prefer, or you can roll your own. Why isn't their solution so simple, and flexible enough to allow choice? Why is it assumed that one blocklist fits all preferences?
They don't want that mark on the brand. They've always charged a premium for Final Fantasy games (usually $5 or $10 more than other games on the same platform) and they want you to keep paying that amount and they want to keep moving millions of copies. They want the brand to be so strong that gamers keep buying the remakes and the other peripheral FF games in droves as well (Dissidia, Crystal Chronicles, Mystery Dungeon, etc).
Personally I think they should have left the online games out of the main-line numbered series. I think everyone wants it that way. But they're a Japanese developer, if they make a mistake they would rather keep working at it until you support their actions. Kinda like FF XIV.
What difference does it make if you're logged in or not? They shouldn't be collecting these things either way. Data from their own site, ok, but they should not collect your data pertaining to sites and services outside of Facebook at any time. "Likes" should be anonymized as well. The only time it would be unavoidable is when you "Share [URL] with facebook friends," since at that point the user explicitly understands what is happening.
Shareware was more akin to receiving the first actual complete game for free, and required you to pay for the sequels. Consider Doom, Keen, Duke Nukem, etc.
...which is why consoles are more successful, and even console versions of arcade games that tuned the gameplay experience for longer play sessions with balanced difficulty as opposed to quarter munching. Classics such as Contra, Bionic Commando, etc. have much more popular console adaptations. Racing games are no longer check-point affairs. Only fighting games have more or less remained the same. People don't want to keep paying a rate, they would rather own.
Consider Fallout 3: GotY edition. Costs less than the full product at launch, includes all the DLC. I get twice the game at half the price. I don't give a fuck if I get it two years late. Anything I buy is at least two years old for that reason, movies, games, etc. Gives enough time for the hype to die down too, so I can make a more reasonable decision. Caveat: I don't play multiplayer, don't care for competition.
Hacking is only portrayed as evil because a lot of reporters don't know what it means, they just base their ideas on crackers, phreakers, and black hats. This is truly a hack in every sense. Own it and give the word back its original meaning. Hacking is not a negative or positive thing, it's a term for an act that may lead to negative, positive, or neutral results.
I just bought a laptop off the shelf, wiped it, and installed Ubuntu. Everything worked automagically, from the wifi to the webcam, to the noise cancelling mic, SD card slot, even the brightness/volume keys worked. Sleep worked without a hitch. I really didn't have to do anything at all apart from installing a few apps I wanted, such as VLC, Chromium, and that's it, I was good to go. Scanner/printer/fax was detected and worked great. Battery life is great too. Sorry you had so much trouble, I guess it's that last 1% that will really make the difference. Glad we're almost there!
You could adjust the tint on your windows with a dimmer switch to let more/less light in.
...and I guess that doesn't include the iPod Touch 3rd Generation 8GB model?
Your friends are already doing it for you. They're tagging you in pictures, and writing about what you did with them, who you're with, who your friends are, and certain other details about your personal life.
The reason is that Metro has not yet proven itself, and companies are still holding on to the promises of .NET as a stable platform, write once run everywhere, universal look and feel, faster development, and security. That may or may not be the reality, but that's how it was pitched, and that's what the companies believe. They're not going to move their programmers over to a new platform that is unproven in these fields and sacrifice the experience in a platform that they have already invested their code and research into which supposedly already suits their needs. They're just wondering how Metro improves on that, and right now it all seems like hyperbole and pie in the sky promises, not to mention that it has no traction right now in the commercial market.
I was about to post the same, I don't play online, so why should I have to pay for the online component? Used game prices will eventually reflect the missing multiplayer aspect, and that's good for me. They're essentially driving people like me to used games.
If these politicians are happy with minimum wage, then why are their salaries more than minimum wage? Clearly they believe minimum wage is sufficient, and therefore that is what they should be paid. The value of being a politician is the position to improve, not the riches.
Being conservative doesn't mean dealing in facts. Being a rational human being means dealing in facts. How you get the facts and what you do with the facts after you have them is the crucial point. Do you get them from studies funded by lobbyists, and are you bound conditionally by their support or are you free to observe and implement in an unbiased manner?
Nope. I don't subscribe to anything. I don't need services, all I need is tools. While I may want the occasional product, at least that can be re-used or sold/passed on, unlike a service that can be snatched away and take all of its wares with it.
Police most certainly do not have public opinion on their side in these cases. They only have jingoistic alarmists on their side, which tend to heatedly yell over those with reasonable speaking voices, who make rational statements which take slightly more time to parse and absorb than the knee-jerk reactions provoked by the noisy hyperbole.
Not gonna fly. All these guys want their branding everywhere, and they're not going to participate if users aren't constantly made aware of who is serving them. Besides, each of these services have different options and functionality, and one generic "photos" function won't do 'em all.
If you have to qualify it, it's discrimination! They're basically saying "It's not racism as long as it's reasonable"
Sure, they can raise their prices if they want netflix to die and no longer be a revenue stream. If they don't want money anymore then that's a great idea.
Dreamworks must realize that for netflix to be a viable option then they need to allow for netflix to pay their competitors as well. Netflix can't survive as a Dreamworks-only outfit; So if Dreamworks raises their fees and netflix continues as a client then Dreamworks' competitors will start to fall off and so will customers. Then netflix will die and Dreamworks won't get money from them.
Another startup may take their place but the same thing will happen again, and customers will tire of constantly switching to new services to pick up the catalog they want, and then the whole streaming thing will be dead. What may happen is that studios will start their own services to supply the customer directly, and then it will be up to generic hardware providers (media streaming TVs, roku, etc) to be compatible with their services directly. But that probably won't work since customers would rather pay a flat fee than subscribe to multiple distributors each at their own rate.
If it's ad driven, count me out. If it's affordable, they'll raise the price, and if you still want to listen/watch, you can't do anything about it. You no longer own any media so you have no alternatives. It's like saying "shackles please." Indie is where it's at.
Replace them with private entities, but if the TSA will be dismantled, scanners won't be used in airports since it has been proven ineffective. Nobody's been held liable for the cancer-causing scanners with current oversight anyway so what more could you be afraid of? At least if they're privatized, those companies will be held liable and could collapse if they make errors. Right now it's like there's no consequence...
Ok, so cluster = cloud now? Even though they both serve very different purposes?
Video game developers receive such a rich assortment of incentives that even oil companies have questioned why the government should subsidize such a mature and profitable industry whose main contribution is to create amusing and sometimes antisocial entertainment.
Maybe the oil companies should clean up their messes before they start casting stones...