There are plenty of family reasons to be tied to an area, typically they're called "kids." Having school age children makes it much harder to just up and move to a completely different area. You also have to take into consideration your spouse, their family and your family. Do you live close to either one or both? Is that important to you to be close to them?
That aside, I am a single and young, with no real family ties in the area I'm at already. This idea of contracting intrigues me.
Microsoft is just as against these guidelines as the Linux community. Imagine if Microsoft was held accountable for every bug present in their software?
I can't remember the link offhand, but there was a study of two similarly sized towns, one in Kentucky and one in Illinois (I believe). The one in Illinois banned carrying guns out in public, while the one in Kentucky passed a city ordinance requiring the head of every household to have a gun. Guess which one crime dropped in?
Actually, its been shown that the Pyramids were largely built by Egyptian farmers. They would plant their crops, go work on the pyramid for a while, then go back to harvest their crops.
I talked to a guy who works at Blizzard, and he said that they were building some big Tournament feature into Battle.net, where the organizer would input the names of all the competitors, and the system would take care of the matchmaking and bracketing. Seemed kinda cool, but its not like there are other systems out there for running tournaments of all kinds, not to mention just regular pen & paper.
Given their history, I'd think Blizzard is one of the last companies you have to worry about "Planned Obsolescence" from. They still support online play for their earlier titles, and for most of their games, remove CD-Key checking after a while. There may be plenty of reasons to hate the decision on LAN play, but worry over planned obsolescence isn't really one of them.
Down here in LA/Orange County, several parking lots have special spots for electric cars, complete with charging stations. I last saw one at the hospital parking lot, and with waiting and all, it typically takes more than half an hour. There's an 80% charge right there.
Amazon didn't have the right to distribute the book, however, I don't believe they had the right to delete something off my device that I've already paid for. If they paid damages to the rightsholders, then those should have been paid on condition that they wouldn't be able to remove the book from the devices.
Not entirely on topic, but there was that court case in Iowa regarding Japanese sex comics. I can't imagine a zealous prosecutor being too hesitant to make the jump from comics to video games should it serve his interests.
That's what this is about; Gas tax revenues are going to decrease in the near future, with the advent of electric cars, hybrid cars, and higher efficiency cars. They're looking for a way to offset the decline in revenue from a gas tax so they can still have the funds needed to maintain roads.
I think the group involved said that something like this wouldn't have to be implemented til 2020 or something like that. It makes sense that they're looking at what to do before road tax revenues get too low, but its scary that they seem to have immediately jumped on the GPS idea.
It's naive to think that every open source alternative to a commercial product is a good one, just because it's open source.
No, but if people couldn't easily pirate, say MS Office, then they might look harder at Open Source alternatives, which would then get more users, and possibly more talented contributors to improve the quality of the product.
Of course both sides are going to try and make everyone believe that someone is going to become rich, and rocket straight up to the top 1%. Nobody is going to vote for someone who's message is that you are not a beautiful and unique snowflake, you are just like everyone else.
"Chasing criminals and stolen property is the job of the police."
"They often have bigger things to worry about than random petty thieves"
So he should just let his phone go? Let the bad guys win? You just said that he should leave this to police, and that the police won't give a shit about it.
Its their store. They are allowed to determine the products they sell in their store. If you don't like it, don't get the phone, or if you get the phone, jailbreak and put the app on Cydia.
Given that their mobile phone platform has gotten more than 50,000 apps on it in less than 9 months, and has the most of any of the other mobile platforms, I don't think its affecting them too terribly.
There is, however, a much lower barrier to entry on the iPhone/iPod Touch than there is for the DS. Nintendo requires you to get approval for your game before you start, and you have to be a registered, paid developer to get a look at their Dev Kit. In part, this is to try and keep the overall quality of software on the platform high, and it has been since the NES days.
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There are plenty of family reasons to be tied to an area, typically they're called "kids." Having school age children makes it much harder to just up and move to a completely different area. You also have to take into consideration your spouse, their family and your family. Do you live close to either one or both? Is that important to you to be close to them?
That aside, I am a single and young, with no real family ties in the area I'm at already. This idea of contracting intrigues me.
Microsoft is just as against these guidelines as the Linux community. Imagine if Microsoft was held accountable for every bug present in their software?
I can't remember the link offhand, but there was a study of two similarly sized towns, one in Kentucky and one in Illinois (I believe). The one in Illinois banned carrying guns out in public, while the one in Kentucky passed a city ordinance requiring the head of every household to have a gun. Guess which one crime dropped in?
Actually, its been shown that the Pyramids were largely built by Egyptian farmers. They would plant their crops, go work on the pyramid for a while, then go back to harvest their crops.
I talked to a guy who works at Blizzard, and he said that they were building some big Tournament feature into Battle.net, where the organizer would input the names of all the competitors, and the system would take care of the matchmaking and bracketing. Seemed kinda cool, but its not like there are other systems out there for running tournaments of all kinds, not to mention just regular pen & paper.
Given their history, I'd think Blizzard is one of the last companies you have to worry about "Planned Obsolescence" from. They still support online play for their earlier titles, and for most of their games, remove CD-Key checking after a while. There may be plenty of reasons to hate the decision on LAN play, but worry over planned obsolescence isn't really one of them.
If they didn't open it up to a public bidding process, then they have no idea what possible solutions were out there that could fit their needs.
Down here in LA/Orange County, several parking lots have special spots for electric cars, complete with charging stations. I last saw one at the hospital parking lot, and with waiting and all, it typically takes more than half an hour. There's an 80% charge right there.
They asked for that roll of toilet paper that I bought from them back.
Amazon didn't have the right to distribute the book, however, I don't believe they had the right to delete something off my device that I've already paid for. If they paid damages to the rightsholders, then those should have been paid on condition that they wouldn't be able to remove the book from the devices.
For conversations, yes. However, for a quick question, text messages are better, because I can get straight to the point, and get a direct answer.
Not entirely on topic, but there was that court case in Iowa regarding Japanese sex comics. I can't imagine a zealous prosecutor being too hesitant to make the jump from comics to video games should it serve his interests.
So breaking the law is freedom now?
That's what this is about; Gas tax revenues are going to decrease in the near future, with the advent of electric cars, hybrid cars, and higher efficiency cars. They're looking for a way to offset the decline in revenue from a gas tax so they can still have the funds needed to maintain roads.
I think the group involved said that something like this wouldn't have to be implemented til 2020 or something like that. It makes sense that they're looking at what to do before road tax revenues get too low, but its scary that they seem to have immediately jumped on the GPS idea.
And that defense worked so well for them.
It's naive to think that every open source alternative to a commercial product is a good one, just because it's open source.
No, but if people couldn't easily pirate, say MS Office, then they might look harder at Open Source alternatives, which would then get more users, and possibly more talented contributors to improve the quality of the product.
Maybe Tesla only needed 500 Mil, and didn't want to take more than they needed.
The battery technology they're developing could go pretty far in getting our cars off gasoline, and stopping our dependency on foreign oil.
Of course both sides are going to try and make everyone believe that someone is going to become rich, and rocket straight up to the top 1%. Nobody is going to vote for someone who's message is that you are not a beautiful and unique snowflake, you are just like everyone else.
"Chasing criminals and stolen property is the job of the police."
"They often have bigger things to worry about than random petty thieves"
So he should just let his phone go? Let the bad guys win? You just said that he should leave this to police, and that the police won't give a shit about it.
Its their store. They are allowed to determine the products they sell in their store. If you don't like it, don't get the phone, or if you get the phone, jailbreak and put the app on Cydia.
"Arbitrary code" as in code that doesn't necessarily come from the App Store.
Given that their mobile phone platform has gotten more than 50,000 apps on it in less than 9 months, and has the most of any of the other mobile platforms, I don't think its affecting them too terribly.
There is, however, a much lower barrier to entry on the iPhone/iPod Touch than there is for the DS. Nintendo requires you to get approval for your game before you start, and you have to be a registered, paid developer to get a look at their Dev Kit. In part, this is to try and keep the overall quality of software on the platform high, and it has been since the NES days.