No, now you -can't- buy the crap that doesn't even exist. And what does this even have to do with "the" country? I do commend you, however, on your successful bait to get some karma.
Simple. They just delist all items that look similar. When in doubt in legal issues, you err on the side of safety. When in doubt on delisting on eBay, you err on the side of not having to read more than the auction title. Either that, or any company comes in and claims a potential dispute, then Vero just cancels your listing on their behalf. See? Simple.
Most businessmen use Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and even more important... Microsoft Office. We already know we won't have 3rd party apps, is Apple going to volunteer these compatabilities?
that anyone suspected of illegal activity immediately has their account canceled.
From TFA, I know I've been hurt by this before, and I think a lot of other people have, too. Suspected... pft.
When I was young, my even younger sister was dying of cancer. We didn't have fancy video games at that time, but we had TONS of donated board games, and they made all the difference. They didn't only make times easier on my sister, but they made my last days with her happier and allowed us to spend quality time together even if we were in such a dreary place.
In general, for Blu-Ray and HD-DVD, as a move in the direction of high definition disc media... I think this is what its going to take to move beyond the DVD.
As a game developer, I can say with some confidence that Apple's decisions are NOT influenced by difficulty incurred by developers to get their software to run properly on any number of different versions floating around, which are in many ways incompatible with each other
I think this might be useful and feasible for maybe a regional astronomy club? or maybe a nice school or to be suitable for a community college. A little step above amateur... I'd rate it as "entry level"
In my opinion, I think this is the format's only hope of ever becoming popularized. It'll need to get its bugs worked out, get into production and drive the price down some... then maybe, just maybe... people in general will be interested in buying content of this nature. This is the first step though, and to be honest... I didn't expect it to get this far. I hope they continue to surprise me!
I have played MoM extensively. The entire "staff" of the game consists of 2 people. Their accomplishments are... amazing. I'll go ahead and admit my bias upfront: I'm also a community volunteer for the game. I'm a guardian, moderator and developer. It is definitely better than old school EQ in my opinion (I played from just past launch til mid-Kunark era), but is much more community and player driven than WoW. A lot of player input is taken and adapted into the game... a lot of mods that people have made for their own uses have been incorporated into the main servers. There's all kinds of cool little things in there... lets see... its officially supported on both OSX and Windows, but I know we have some Linux players too. Hm... no monthly fees! One time payment. You can play a single player version off-line as well as the MMO aspect online. Through quests, you can unlock monster templates you can play (ie, you can be a bear character, or even as high as a dragon!) And you can multiclass into as many as 3 classes... and you can even play a fair amount of the game for free. It is MORE than enough to decide if its worth buying or not hmm, guess thats the basics of what I think are some of the most interesting bullet points:) Then again, I admit my bias;) But maybe my bias says something too. I started as a player, bought the game quickly, played and played... was enlisted to help with moderation, and then volunteering for game development as well. I wouldn't commit, devote myself to and support something that was shy of greatness.
At least I didn't see a pic! I hate when they put up a screenshot of some amazing futuristic HD quality for me to see on my old CRT monitor or in a commercial on TV. I obviously can't view those pictures in their amazing futuristic HD quality... so what do they do? Blur and mute the comparisons.
"'If Mauna Loa is a valid terrestrial analog, our findings suggest that volcanic activity is not a significant source of methane to the Martian atmosphere.'"
Man, I wish more of our scientific quotes sounded like this one. It lays it out straight and simple. Here is our source of info: analogy with Mauna Loa. Here is our assumption: we can project info from it onto Olympus Mons. Here is our conclusion: there is something else other than volcanic activity producing methane on Mars. I like how all that info was neatly packaged into a simple sentence. I also like how he admits the assumption... if. The thing that comes to mind are all the dinosaur shows explaining their day to day lives, zodiac signs and favorite take-out places.
Maybe he'll get the world record for most video recorded bathroom breaks in a row by a 60 year old man. When was the last time anyone checked out the Guiness Book of World Records? Those are the types of records they're looking for.
I just *knew* someone was going to bring something like this up. Scientifically, it is generally accepted that viruses are not alive. Check it out here. However, some people's intuition tells them that the virus appears to be alive... and so the question is not necessarily whether or not it is alive, but whether we need to redefine our parameters for life to include the virus. Our current definition excludes it.
The DNA matching isn't a 100% match. For example, most DNA matching techniques are highly accurate... say they're accurate to 1 in 250 million. Still, if you run a sample only by the USA database... on average, you'd have a wrong match every single search. Sure, it narrows it down... but it just isn't as simple as it sounds.
I graduated only about a year ago with a BS (yeah, haha) in Biochemistry. You know, just for fun. I remember this being in my textbooks. Did they just offer some additional proof to a theory or something? We've known about double stranded RNA, RNA enzymes (ribozymes) and RNA proteins... these sorts of molecules have been to known in RNA interference for awhile now. Its predicted that the world was first RNA based, not DNA. A sequence of RNA molecules can be programmed to cleave another RNA sequence (or even its own) at a specific site, and can be programmed to degrade RNA sequences of certain patterns (or can be of similar patterns)
Cells have already been known to use this method rarely, and we've been provoking cells to do it for our own purposes for years.
Well, I remember back on my 14.4 modem... those text pages loaded like the wind. I was on top of the world... Then those damned pictures started cropping up on websites. Pictures on the internet? Ha! Then came the 56.6k modem which showed those pictures who were boss. No problems. Oh wait, online gaming? File sharing? Cable and DSL save the day. More than adequate... so now this time it seems we got the good speed coming up before the need for it. Its like always being busy all week and never having time to do anything, and then they make you cash in your vacation time. Now we have to find something to fill it up!
If you checked the internet archive link for LJ's social contract... don't they have any responsibility for something like that? Quoted: "we promise to never offer advertising space in our service or on our pages."
They may not have a legal responsibility, but what about a moral responsibility? I dream of a world where people are held accountable for the things they say.
"Russian jamming systems are publicly known -- the Air Force destroyed such a system deployed to Iraq to keep American GPS guided bombs from finding their targets during the 2003. The site was destroyed by GPS guided bombs."
From TFA
Maybe I've just been unlucky, but I've been looking around for a new career for the past couple months, done something like 75 interviews... but I haven't seen any job listings for a Futurologist! I wonder what the benefits are like.
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No, now you -can't- buy the crap that doesn't even exist. And what does this even have to do with "the" country? I do commend you, however, on your successful bait to get some karma.
Simple. They just delist all items that look similar. When in doubt in legal issues, you err on the side of safety. When in doubt on delisting on eBay, you err on the side of not having to read more than the auction title. Either that, or any company comes in and claims a potential dispute, then Vero just cancels your listing on their behalf. See? Simple.
Technically, utilities are supposed to be non-profit, aren't they?
Most businessmen use Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and even more important... Microsoft Office. We already know we won't have 3rd party apps, is Apple going to volunteer these compatabilities?
When I was young, my even younger sister was dying of cancer. We didn't have fancy video games at that time, but we had TONS of donated board games, and they made all the difference. They didn't only make times easier on my sister, but they made my last days with her happier and allowed us to spend quality time together even if we were in such a dreary place.
In general, for Blu-Ray and HD-DVD, as a move in the direction of high definition disc media... I think this is what its going to take to move beyond the DVD.
As a game developer, I can say with some confidence that Apple's decisions are NOT influenced by difficulty incurred by developers to get their software to run properly on any number of different versions floating around, which are in many ways incompatible with each other
I think this might be useful and feasible for maybe a regional astronomy club? or maybe a nice school or to be suitable for a community college. A little step above amateur... I'd rate it as "entry level"
In my opinion, I think this is the format's only hope of ever becoming popularized. It'll need to get its bugs worked out, get into production and drive the price down some... then maybe, just maybe... people in general will be interested in buying content of this nature. This is the first step though, and to be honest... I didn't expect it to get this far. I hope they continue to surprise me!
I have played MoM extensively. The entire "staff" of the game consists of 2 people. Their accomplishments are... amazing. I'll go ahead and admit my bias upfront: I'm also a community volunteer for the game. I'm a guardian, moderator and developer. It is definitely better than old school EQ in my opinion (I played from just past launch til mid-Kunark era), but is much more community and player driven than WoW. A lot of player input is taken and adapted into the game... a lot of mods that people have made for their own uses have been incorporated into the main servers. There's all kinds of cool little things in there... lets see... its officially supported on both OSX and Windows, but I know we have some Linux players too. Hm... no monthly fees! One time payment. You can play a single player version off-line as well as the MMO aspect online. Through quests, you can unlock monster templates you can play (ie, you can be a bear character, or even as high as a dragon!) And you can multiclass into as many as 3 classes... and you can even play a fair amount of the game for free. It is MORE than enough to decide if its worth buying or not :) Then again, I admit my bias ;) But maybe my bias says something too. I started as a player, bought the game quickly, played and played... was enlisted to help with moderation, and then volunteering for game development as well. I wouldn't commit, devote myself to and support something that was shy of greatness.
hmm, guess thats the basics of what I think are some of the most interesting bullet points
At least I didn't see a pic! I hate when they put up a screenshot of some amazing futuristic HD quality for me to see on my old CRT monitor or in a commercial on TV. I obviously can't view those pictures in their amazing futuristic HD quality... so what do they do? Blur and mute the comparisons.
"'If Mauna Loa is a valid terrestrial analog, our findings suggest that volcanic activity is not a significant source of methane to the Martian atmosphere.'"
Man, I wish more of our scientific quotes sounded like this one. It lays it out straight and simple. Here is our source of info: analogy with Mauna Loa. Here is our assumption: we can project info from it onto Olympus Mons. Here is our conclusion: there is something else other than volcanic activity producing methane on Mars. I like how all that info was neatly packaged into a simple sentence. I also like how he admits the assumption... if. The thing that comes to mind are all the dinosaur shows explaining their day to day lives, zodiac signs and favorite take-out places.
Maybe he'll get the world record for most video recorded bathroom breaks in a row by a 60 year old man. When was the last time anyone checked out the Guiness Book of World Records? Those are the types of records they're looking for.
I just *knew* someone was going to bring something like this up. Scientifically, it is generally accepted that viruses are not alive. Check it out here. However, some people's intuition tells them that the virus appears to be alive... and so the question is not necessarily whether or not it is alive, but whether we need to redefine our parameters for life to include the virus. Our current definition excludes it.
I am very sure that there are more than a few examples of things that grow but aren't alive. Though... I can't think of anything off the top of my head.
The DNA matching isn't a 100% match. For example, most DNA matching techniques are highly accurate... say they're accurate to 1 in 250 million. Still, if you run a sample only by the USA database... on average, you'd have a wrong match every single search. Sure, it narrows it down... but it just isn't as simple as it sounds.
I graduated only about a year ago with a BS (yeah, haha) in Biochemistry. You know, just for fun. I remember this being in my textbooks. Did they just offer some additional proof to a theory or something? We've known about double stranded RNA, RNA enzymes (ribozymes) and RNA proteins... these sorts of molecules have been to known in RNA interference for awhile now. Its predicted that the world was first RNA based, not DNA. A sequence of RNA molecules can be programmed to cleave another RNA sequence (or even its own) at a specific site, and can be programmed to degrade RNA sequences of certain patterns (or can be of similar patterns)
Cells have already been known to use this method rarely, and we've been provoking cells to do it for our own purposes for years.
Your winnings, sir.
Maybe my point is that LJ shouldn't have been so shortsighted when they wrote they'd never have ads ever anywhere.
Well, I remember back on my 14.4 modem... those text pages loaded like the wind. I was on top of the world... Then those damned pictures started cropping up on websites. Pictures on the internet? Ha! Then came the 56.6k modem which showed those pictures who were boss. No problems. Oh wait, online gaming? File sharing? Cable and DSL save the day. More than adequate... so now this time it seems we got the good speed coming up before the need for it. Its like always being busy all week and never having time to do anything, and then they make you cash in your vacation time. Now we have to find something to fill it up!
This isn't Apple's first step, but previous steps involved a lot of pushing... check here http://www.texasenvironment.org/news_story.cfm?IID =217
If you checked the internet archive link for LJ's social contract... don't they have any responsibility for something like that? Quoted: "we promise to never offer advertising space in our service or on our pages." They may not have a legal responsibility, but what about a moral responsibility? I dream of a world where people are held accountable for the things they say.
"Russian jamming systems are publicly known -- the Air Force destroyed such a system deployed to Iraq to keep American GPS guided bombs from finding their targets during the 2003. The site was destroyed by GPS guided bombs." From TFA
Maybe I've just been unlucky, but I've been looking around for a new career for the past couple months, done something like 75 interviews... but I haven't seen any job listings for a Futurologist! I wonder what the benefits are like.