Heya, Tom' itâ(TM)s Bob from the office down the hall
Good to see you, buddy; howâ(TM)ve you been?
Thing have been OK for me except that Iâ(TM)m a zombie now...
Now I'm going to have:"All we want to do is eat your brains" in my head all day, thanks.
And all this time I was almost certain that it was based on sound scientific research proving that 160 characters was the maximum amount of text a cell phone user could read before completely losing interest.
Considering the number of TVs with VGA inputs, I'd argue that at this point convergence happened. I can (and do) use my 40inch TV as a monitor regularly.
Since so few PC gamers have screens larger than that, could the world of high-end PC graphics simply go away?
.... This statement boggles my mind. Resolution does not, and never has equaled screen size.
Heck, we just now have tv's that do above 640x480.. but all the old sd sets came in all sorts of sizes. It did not mean your 54inch tv was capable of displaying any more pixels then your 7 inch handheld.
At my current workplace, I'm tasked with creating a rather complicated and metastasizing web-database application.
I don't think that word means what you think it means, unless the "web-database application" moves to new hosts on it's own..
Metastasis
a. the transference of disease-producing organisms or of malignant or cancerous cells to other parts of the body by way of the blood or lymphatic vessels or membranous surface.
b. the condition produced by this.
Wait, you're trying to tell us you work for skynet, aren't you? Carry on, then.
I argued this in the D&D PDF article. Basically it depends on what price you set and how many copies you want to sell. As you sell more of a digitially distributed game, your cost will head towards 0. The problem is, finding the audience to sell enough copies to make whatever price you set cost effective.
....mounts at 150 to 200% of the "real money" a newbie at level 30 has? 45G is not that much at level 30. If you'd pick up a couple gathering professions at the lower levels. Skinning and mining or herbalism are a great combo. Even copper goes easily for 2-5G per stack, some of the herbs go for far more (7-10G easily per stack).
As a new player when I hit level 30 I had over 200G, and regularly outfitted myself with greens or better from the AH. It isn't that hard. Most of this (especially with skinning) is while you're doing your normal "quest, kill, turn in" grind anyway.
Looking over http://help.twcable.com/html/policies.html it looks like they have already written into it that if "your tier" of service has bandwidth limitations they may cut you off or charge more as applicable.
However.. I know I, as a current subscriber, didn't agree to sign up for a class of service that has such limitations, and no class seems to currently be advertised as having them that I can find on the time warner web site. That being the case, any such change would require notification and a period in which I can accept and continue or cancel and find another ISP..
Hey Time Warner, guess which one I'm likely to do. Oh, and if you charge me for it first without notification, guess who's in breach of contract.
Prices are set by supply and demand, not by direct cost per unit.
Yes, Supply and demand. When you have a book in a digital format which can be copied for the huge cost of $0, the supply (ie: number of available copies) is infinite.
Now what happens when the supply approaches infinity? The traditional model breaks down and no longer applies.
The best you can do at that point is set a price that you think people will pay. It's entirely using the demand curve, since the supply curve no longer matters.
So if you price yourself too high, people will either not buy (or pirate, since we are assuming digital products) your product. If you price yourself too low, you don't make as much off your product. The hard part is finding the highest price you can charge to make the money you need/wish to, and keep piracy at an acceptable level. While this isn't direct cost per unit (which now can't be determined until you sell some, and will approach 0 as you sell more) it isn't traditional supply vs demand..
This is so very true. It's been a long while since I've bought a single printed RPG book. Having them avialable in PDF is much much easier.
I also wonder what effect if any this will have on the D20 "Open" license.
In all seriousness, since Gmail I have not used any other mail client for email outside of my job.
My first client was pine which "just worked" and got most things right for me.. I finally moved to using thunderbird and then evolution around 2000. I tried hotmail/yahoo and wasn't that impressed. When I finally got a gmail account.. that was it, I stopped using my other mail clients. The interface was just that good.
TIME's Sarah N. Lynch contacted the group's founder, Taylor Leming, 21, of Round Hill, Va., who submitted her responses via e-mail
Either that's a typo or my eyes just aren't working today. I keep reading her last name as "Lemming"
Either way, heading mindlessly to certain death, indeed.
I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
As to why they are marketing to the 14 year olds.. it's all about control. The 18-35 crowd may have more disposable income, but the 12-14 year olds have mommy and daddy to buy whatever crap mtv says is good for them. Control them early enough and they'll keep going after the crap, and the artists tend to be younger (heck quite a few aren't 18 themselves) and therefore the hooks get in deeper and the artists (manufactured or not) will take whatever scraps because it's more money then they've ever seen.
I've seen the same thing happen to kids out of college in the IT industry. They'll get hired for peanuts because the company can "train them up" and then has a hook of control to under pay the entire time they are with the company.
My Hp laptop with the broadcom wireless chipset in it works fine with FC if you use ndiswrapper. RHEL kernels on the other hand, tend to have issues with ndiswrapper.
For the record, it's a zd7xxx series, but it should be the same one. They tend to (over)use it in everything.
Looking over the FA and even the post, I kinda noticed that this is a senate commitee that decided "Sure, we can vote on this bill, and while we're at it, we'll approve a bill taking the exact opposite position". The general reaction here (and elsewhere) seems to be "OMG! They passed the bill! Wiretaps without a warrant are now legal!". Nothing of the sort has happened (yet), instead of decrying our decaying rights or which party is worse, now is the time to actually *DO* something and write your congress-critter to vote for the "Warrantless Wiretaps are illegal" bill, and vote down the one that says it's ok.
Enough letters and they'll get the idea that voting for this is political suicide.. The commitee is just letting the controversy get to the floor.
Heck, even if a bill like this did get passed, how far do you think it would get in the courts? I bet it would get smacked down pretty quickly.
To play devil's advocate and look at it from his perspective:
He released the search results "in the course of doing his job", apparently cleared it with the executives, followed proper procedure, etc, etc. and now has his name associated with the PR disaster and was fired publically for it. In his eyes, he has done nothing wrong, and if anything it should be the execs that approved it who get the boot, not him. Instead, they use him a convient scapegoat. Not to mention, it could be possible that someone decides to sue over the release of thier information, and name him in the suit. (ya know, the classic "name everyone and let a judge sort it out" type of lawsuit)
If anything he's probably suing for severance, including back-pay until he either finds another job or the whole thing is concluded. I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know which he could go for. I highly doubt it's to simply "keep his job", due to the obviously hostile enviroment should he attempt to return.
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We would hate to remove your revenue stream by not allowing you to sue keys on the keyboard :)
Seriously, I'd like a keyboard that reads my mind and knows what I'm typing... although it would fail miserably in high-schools across the country.
Indeed. I was much more excited when I thought they meant an airplane.
Heya, Tom' itâ(TM)s Bob from the office down the hall
:"All we want to do is eat your brains" in my head all day, thanks.
Good to see you, buddy; howâ(TM)ve you been?
Thing have been OK for me except that Iâ(TM)m a zombie now...
Now I'm going to have
You did it wrong. It's "our n4w numb4r subst1tut10n 0v4rl0rd5", or did you not get the memo?
And all this time I was almost certain that it was based on sound scientific research proving that 160 characters was the maximum amount of text a cell phone user could read before completely losing interest.
TL; DR.
Considering the number of TVs with VGA inputs, I'd argue that at this point convergence happened. I can (and do) use my 40inch TV as a monitor regularly.
Since so few PC gamers have screens larger than that, could the world of high-end PC graphics simply go away?
Heck, we just now have tv's that do above 640x480.. but all the old sd sets came in all sorts of sizes. It did not mean your 54inch tv was capable of displaying any more pixels then your 7 inch handheld.
Forget Jedi Beer Pong.. I want to make the bottle of Ol' Janx spirit into my opponent's glass.
Then maybe I'll learn to fly...
At my current workplace, I'm tasked with creating a rather complicated and metastasizing web-database application.
I don't think that word means what you think it means, unless the "web-database application" moves to new hosts on it's own..
Metastasis
a. the transference of disease-producing organisms or of malignant or cancerous cells to other parts of the body by way of the blood or lymphatic vessels or membranous surface.
b. the condition produced by this.
Wait, you're trying to tell us you work for skynet, aren't you? Carry on, then.
I argued this in the D&D PDF article. Basically it depends on what price you set and how many copies you want to sell. As you sell more of a digitially distributed game, your cost will head towards 0. The problem is, finding the audience to sell enough copies to make whatever price you set cost effective.
You sir, deserve a +1 Giant Freakin battlemech mod point :)
Alas, I have no mod points.
....mounts at 150 to 200% of the "real money" a newbie at level 30 has? 45G is not that much at level 30. If you'd pick up a couple gathering professions at the lower levels. Skinning and mining or herbalism are a great combo. Even copper goes easily for 2-5G per stack, some of the herbs go for far more (7-10G easily per stack).
As a new player when I hit level 30 I had over 200G, and regularly outfitted myself with greens or better from the AH. It isn't that hard. Most of this (especially with skinning) is while you're doing your normal "quest, kill, turn in" grind anyway.
Looking over http://help.twcable.com/html/policies.html it looks like they have already written into it that if "your tier" of service has bandwidth limitations they may cut you off or charge more as applicable.
However.. I know I, as a current subscriber, didn't agree to sign up for a class of service that has such limitations, and no class seems to currently be advertised as having them that I can find on the time warner web site. That being the case, any such change would require notification and a period in which I can accept and continue or cancel and find another ISP..
Hey Time Warner, guess which one I'm likely to do. Oh, and if you charge me for it first without notification, guess who's in breach of contract.
Welcome our new terminator exo-skeleton wearing overlords. Well.. for 5 hours a day anyway.
Prices are set by supply and demand, not by direct cost per unit.
Yes, Supply and demand. When you have a book in a digital format which can be copied for the huge cost of $0, the supply (ie: number of available copies) is infinite.
Now what happens when the supply approaches infinity? The traditional model breaks down and no longer applies.
The best you can do at that point is set a price that you think people will pay. It's entirely using the demand curve, since the supply curve no longer matters.
So if you price yourself too high, people will either not buy (or pirate, since we are assuming digital products) your product. If you price yourself too low, you don't make as much off your product. The hard part is finding the highest price you can charge to make the money you need/wish to, and keep piracy at an acceptable level. While this isn't direct cost per unit (which now can't be determined until you sell some, and will approach 0 as you sell more) it isn't traditional supply vs demand..
In all seriousness, since Gmail I have not used any other mail client for email outside of my job. My first client was pine which "just worked" and got most things right for me.. I finally moved to using thunderbird and then evolution around 2000. I tried hotmail/yahoo and wasn't that impressed. When I finally got a gmail account.. that was it, I stopped using my other mail clients. The interface was just that good.
That's "Boo-kay". It's french.
... now get off my glass!
Fixed for you or at least those who live close to the mythbusters.
Either that's a typo or my eyes just aren't working today. I keep reading her last name as "Lemming" Either way, heading mindlessly to certain death, indeed.
I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
As to why they are marketing to the 14 year olds.. it's all about control. The 18-35 crowd may have more disposable income, but the 12-14 year olds have mommy and daddy to buy whatever crap mtv says is good for them. Control them early enough and they'll keep going after the crap, and the artists tend to be younger (heck quite a few aren't 18 themselves) and therefore the hooks get in deeper and the artists (manufactured or not) will take whatever scraps because it's more money then they've ever seen.
I've seen the same thing happen to kids out of college in the IT industry. They'll get hired for peanuts because the company can "train them up" and then has a hook of control to under pay the entire time they are with the company.
... While I don't intend to feed the troll, am I the only one who's having Monty Python flashbacks here?
Every sperm is sacred.
Every sperm is great.
If a sperm is wasted,
God gets quite irate.
Feel free to sing along!
My Hp laptop with the broadcom wireless chipset in it works fine with FC if you use ndiswrapper. RHEL kernels on the other hand, tend to have issues with ndiswrapper.
For the record, it's a zd7xxx series, but it should be the same one. They tend to (over)use it in everything.
Looking over the FA and even the post, I kinda noticed that this is a senate commitee that decided "Sure, we can vote on this bill, and while we're at it, we'll approve a bill taking the exact opposite position". The general reaction here (and elsewhere) seems to be "OMG! They passed the bill! Wiretaps without a warrant are now legal!". Nothing of the sort has happened (yet), instead of decrying our decaying rights or which party is worse, now is the time to actually *DO* something and write your congress-critter to vote for the "Warrantless Wiretaps are illegal" bill, and vote down the one that says it's ok.
Enough letters and they'll get the idea that voting for this is political suicide.. The commitee is just letting the controversy get to the floor.
Heck, even if a bill like this did get passed, how far do you think it would get in the courts? I bet it would get smacked down pretty quickly.
To play devil's advocate and look at it from his perspective: He released the search results "in the course of doing his job", apparently cleared it with the executives, followed proper procedure, etc, etc. and now has his name associated with the PR disaster and was fired publically for it. In his eyes, he has done nothing wrong, and if anything it should be the execs that approved it who get the boot, not him. Instead, they use him a convient scapegoat. Not to mention, it could be possible that someone decides to sue over the release of thier information, and name him in the suit. (ya know, the classic "name everyone and let a judge sort it out" type of lawsuit)
If anything he's probably suing for severance, including back-pay until he either finds another job or the whole thing is concluded. I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know which he could go for. I highly doubt it's to simply "keep his job", due to the obviously hostile enviroment should he attempt to return.