No, it's actually a very smart thing to do:
1. Introduce a new spelling system.
2. Everyone needs new dictionaries, and you happen to sell them.
3. Profit!
If I want to search for something called "Los Angeles Store", I enter it with quotation marks.
As for product/city names -- I guess "they" have to have a list of cities and popular products and "we", as product makers, have to call our products distinctively, so that the product name won't be confused with anything else.
>But what loop holes will I have to jump thru if I'm in SF and want to search for a store in LA? How frickin' hard is it to type in... "San Fransisco Store"... as opposed to just "Store"?
How frickin' hard is it to type in... "Los Angeles Store"?:P
Nope, because "If the nearest Mini convertible is booked until 3 p.m., the customer might postpone plans by an hour to get it...", and if the current Mini driver decides to hold it for another day or two, it won't be possible to make this kind of planning -- which means the whole system is somewhat useless.
Power plants' pollution (and plants themselves) are localized and any technological improvements can be applied "instantly" to a small number of power plants -- unlike the painful process of changing the whole infrastructure we have to go through when changing car fuel type.
The biggest problem is still _storing_ energy, especially in some compact enough way to be suitable for cars... and boats;)
A spark plug may be more or less generic, but transmission, engine, engine-controlling computer, etc. are more specialized and tend to be expensive just because the owners of an expensive car are supposed to be able to pay some more.
And speaking of hummers, a set of those shiny rotating wheel covers costs around 5 or 10 thousand, I think.
But the cell phone is something you always carry around, so I think it does make sense to put in all these additional features beyond voice communication. I actually use notepad and calendar applications frequently on my phone, and I'd really love to see them improved.
>What is the "fair market value" for a +15 sword of the undead?
Why, 500 mana crystals, of course! This isn't a new problem, actually -- what's the fair market value of a "The Ybarra 'Don Quixote', 1780 (four volumes)", for example?
Son: They're no use to Father, not anymore. His games were his own little world. Now it's just a painful memory.
Daughter-in-law: Unbearably painful.
Corso picks up a notebook, adjusts his glasses with an instinctive, habitual movement, taps the notebook with his pencil.
Corso: Well, at a rough, preliminary estimate, you have a collection here worth around two hundred thousand dollars... See, these little +5
daggers -- they are not particularly valuable, but this +15 sword of the undead I can take off your hands for... 4 thousand dollars
I don't think the Bible says so.
By the way, this is exactly how you tell laymen about the importance of space exploration: "Think of those poor aliens how haven't had a chance to read the Bible, the Quran, etc."
Hopefully it won't end up as that South Park episode...
Well, I'm sure pretty much _all_ companies agree that they should have the right to enslave workers. If that's "where the market wants to go", shall we abandon any attempts to regulate employer-employee relationships?
On the other hand, people who use their brains more extensively get Alzheimer's less often then those who don't. And once you get it, you're screwed anyway, so any change _not_ to get it should be exploited.
However, I have to agree that banning learning and climbing back on trees will solve _all_ of the current world's problems, not just Altzheimers;)
Yeah, and even though I don't use tabs (such a pervert I am), but have, like, 10 windows open instead, firefox still tends to eat all of the system's memory, so I have to restart ff from time to time. So annoying.
They'll just say the photo is edited to include the evidence. And when they'll be able to actually go there and see, they'll claim it's planted by the first colonists (like if they would have nothing else to do). They're called whack-jobs for a reason;)
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But wii?
No, it's actually a very smart thing to do: 1. Introduce a new spelling system. 2. Everyone needs new dictionaries, and you happen to sell them. 3. Profit!
If I want to search for something called "Los Angeles Store", I enter it with quotation marks.
As for product/city names -- I guess "they" have to have a list of cities and popular products and "we", as product makers, have to call our products distinctively, so that the product name won't be confused with anything else.
>But what loop holes will I have to jump thru if I'm in SF and want to search for a store in LA? How frickin' hard is it to type in ... "San Fransisco Store" ... as opposed to just "Store"?
... "Los Angeles Store"? :P
How frickin' hard is it to type in
>Who made the stronger case?
If you thought reading TFA was hard, how about listening to TFR broadcast two days ago!
And who will enforce this laws in, say, China?
As long as providers charge 1-2-3 cents per kilobyte, I really doubt any new fancy TLDs will affect the mobile web usage.
>unless some really amazing battery advances come about in less than two years
Two words: Wind-up powered. Double kudos from happy parents for both keeping their kids busy and fighting obesity by requiring physical activity!
Nope, because "If the nearest Mini convertible is booked until 3 p.m., the customer might postpone plans by an hour to get it...", and if the current Mini driver decides to hold it for another day or two, it won't be possible to make this kind of planning -- which means the whole system is somewhat useless.
Power plants' pollution (and plants themselves) are localized and any technological improvements can be applied "instantly" to a small number of power plants -- unlike the painful process of changing the whole infrastructure we have to go through when changing car fuel type.
;)
The biggest problem is still _storing_ energy, especially in some compact enough way to be suitable for cars... and boats
...no more talking about Linux on the radio, eh?
A spark plug may be more or less generic, but transmission, engine, engine-controlling computer, etc. are more specialized and tend to be expensive just because the owners of an expensive car are supposed to be able to pay some more.
And speaking of hummers, a set of those shiny rotating wheel covers costs around 5 or 10 thousand, I think.
But the cell phone is something you always carry around, so I think it does make sense to put in all these additional features beyond voice communication. I actually use notepad and calendar applications frequently on my phone, and I'd really love to see them improved.
>What is the "fair market value" for a +15 sword of the undead?
Why, 500 mana crystals, of course! This isn't a new problem, actually -- what's the fair market value of a "The Ybarra 'Don Quixote', 1780 (four volumes)", for example? Son: They're no use to Father, not anymore. His games were his own little world. Now it's just a painful memory. Daughter-in-law: Unbearably painful. Corso picks up a notebook, adjusts his glasses with an instinctive, habitual movement, taps the notebook with his pencil. Corso: Well, at a rough, preliminary estimate, you have a collection here worth around two hundred thousand dollars... See, these little +5 daggers -- they are not particularly valuable, but this +15 sword of the undead I can take off your hands for... 4 thousand dollars
I don't think the Bible says so. By the way, this is exactly how you tell laymen about the importance of space exploration: "Think of those poor aliens how haven't had a chance to read the Bible, the Quran, etc." Hopefully it won't end up as that South Park episode...
Well, I'm sure pretty much _all_ companies agree that they should have the right to enslave workers. If that's "where the market wants to go", shall we abandon any attempts to regulate employer-employee relationships?
Yes, but only those that run Windows.
Because, unlike them ugly gray SunFire boxes, iPod gear is so cute! :P
You mean, as in "Xbox LIVE"?
On the other hand, people who use their brains more extensively get Alzheimer's less often then those who don't. And once you get it, you're screwed anyway, so any change _not_ to get it should be exploited. However, I have to agree that banning learning and climbing back on trees will solve _all_ of the current world's problems, not just Altzheimers ;)
Ever fired a real RPG? ;)
Yeah, and even though I don't use tabs (such a pervert I am), but have, like, 10 windows open instead, firefox still tends to eat all of the system's memory, so I have to restart ff from time to time. So annoying.
>We could put disemboweled torsos...because that's what bullets do.
Pfft. What if I always go for headshots?!
>It should be put on armor packs.
;)
And on ammo we should put what, flowers?
They'll just say the photo is edited to include the evidence. And when they'll be able to actually go there and see, they'll claim it's planted by the first colonists (like if they would have nothing else to do). They're called whack-jobs for a reason ;)