I think it is infringing on the rights of the company (i.e. defamation), especially if the game is not "up to par" with the series, or if it adds some non-canon story.
Yesterday, I saw a presentation by Dr. Luis Von Ahn (developer of the ESP Game, and other CAPTCHA type games). He claimed that spammers and porn companies are willing to pay about $2.50 an hour for 720 CAPTCHAs an hour, or about 1/3 cent per CAPTHCA. (The CAPTCHA solcing is needed to create more free email spamcounts.) I don't know why people would solve them for so much less...
You, Opie. I am quite confident in saying that not all, or even a plurality, of Muslims are as ignorant and retrowishing as you proclaim them all to be. There are a fair number of wackos who are Muslim and back up their twisted ideas by perverting their religion, but that is not the perspective _anyone_ should have of an entire religious group. What is this, high school? ("The athletes get all the girls, get plastered all the time, and never do any work. They're all dumb.") I think it would be important for you to realize that backwards sects exist in almost every group of people.
It's pretty funny how browzar is getting nailed for having ads mixed in with search results. Personally, I'm not too disturbed by this (but it would be nice if they pulled the ads aside). The more concerning part: the "selling point" of the browser is the anonymity and "no trace", which it allegedly fails to accomplish. Talking about false advertising....
Even if we do get a "Space Elevator" working, what would the point be? We wouldn't be able to send anything massive up the cable due to weight. That means no people, few satelites. So is NASA really intending to spend _billions_ of dollars on something to simplify satelite launching? Or are they betting that the elevator could support 2.5 tons of weight?
Reminded me of my last job: One of my co-workers got a "your really really close to being fired" talk for "sexual harassment." What did he do? Call a "woman" a "girl." (The girl quit maybe 3 days later.)
It would be nice to get rid of big bulky HDs in laptops. However, does anyone know the power consumption of a flash drive vs. standard HD? I'd assume flash is less, but I aint sure.
Was Radioshack lazy enough to simply list all the fired employees as reccipients of the same email? IANAL, but I'd call that a violation of privacy. As if the violation of common courtesy wasn't enough....
Back in my years of youth, I applied to work at RadioShack. During the interview, I showed some knowledge of technology, and the interviewer (a manager, I believe) said he was honestly surprised I knew something about the products before working there. (They ended up not giving me the job due to a lack of people skills.... Maybe people skills and tech intelligence are inversely proportional....it would explain a lot about those stores.)
Let's get a hand for RadioShack and their PR skills! I've always wondered when things along this line would start to happen. I'm surprised it didn't become popular to fire people by voicemail when that was the "new" thing. Firings can become a very confrontational situation (especially since the messenger didn't always have a hand in the process), so I wonder if the messenger decided that email would be better than hell.
I'm not. Frankly, I would have guessed this, especially considering that this is _corporate_ america, where looking busy can be more beneficial than doing good work. It is interesting how people would send an email and then keep checking "constantly" for a response. Why not just pick up a phone (or walk to the next cubicle in some cases) if you are that concerned about the message? Reciprocating, however, is... odd; What do all the OCD emailers do the first time they contact someone?
Being under 18, I couldn't vote in 2004. However, I was not surprised to see Bush win again. Not because he seemed especially good during the debates, or had a sound platform. It seems to me that Kerry's position was so vague that it would be hard to vote for him in good confidence. And on top of that, Kerry was scary looking, not monkey-ish.
I think the article is saying that the yield has so far improved to 30% from the x% it was during R&D. But 30% yield does not create enough to meet the expected demand, so the companies aren't willing to release such a small # of HD drives.
I must have missed that article in the Constitution protecting people's rights to digitally copy and distribute other people's work.
Yea, and I missed the article about limiting the use of something purchased. (What if you bought a toaster, but were forced to use it in a specific, predertermined outlet of your house? You'd be fine, as long as that was in your kitchen, but what would you do with a toaster in the garage or the bathroom?)
if MS decided to allow the Zune to share more than "promotional" copies of songs? I'm not talking about getting free music (already got that; thanks, Pirate Bay); but if MS were to enable the device to share _all_ media, then the RIAA would surely throw a fit. Microsoft vs. RIAA!! And look at it this way: No matter who wins the fight, the rest of the world benefits:)
Maybe all the cows in the universe should have a massive fight to the death. I mean, we get two, count 'em, _two_ bonuses from it: Lotsa beef laying around; better beef to be served later.
Just because we've been doing something for a long time doesn't make it right, just customary or traditional. While I don't have too many issues with the raising of cattle as food, due to their really low intelligence (I wonder if cows are inbred to the point of this absolute retardation, or if tearing off your own udders by stepping on them is instictual), the whole force-feeding and use of hormones is kinda sketchy. The cows don't have to do anything anymore, so their time on the ranch is about as personally meaningful to the cow as their time in my mouth.
Do the electric impulse "muscle stimulizers" actually work? Maybe an electric pulse through the mythical "vat" could get some muscles to grow...
And if we're actually engineering the meat to grow in small sections, we should be able to make the natural muscle:fat ratio a bit more ideal.
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I think it is infringing on the rights of the company (i.e. defamation), especially if the game is not "up to par" with the series, or if it adds some non-canon story.
Yesterday, I saw a presentation by Dr. Luis Von Ahn (developer of the ESP Game, and other CAPTCHA type games). He claimed that spammers and porn companies are willing to pay about $2.50 an hour for 720 CAPTCHAs an hour, or about 1/3 cent per CAPTHCA. (The CAPTCHA solcing is needed to create more free email spamcounts.) I don't know why people would solve them for so much less...
Yours is pretty bad too. (Title, also)
You, Opie. I am quite confident in saying that not all, or even a plurality, of Muslims are as ignorant and retrowishing as you proclaim them all to be. There are a fair number of wackos who are Muslim and back up their twisted ideas by perverting their religion, but that is not the perspective _anyone_ should have of an entire religious group. What is this, high school? ("The athletes get all the girls, get plastered all the time, and never do any work. They're all dumb.") I think it would be important for you to realize that backwards sects exist in almost every group of people.
Same for me. Except there were a _lot_ of sandals on the page too. Who knew sandals came in bluetooth variety?
It's pretty funny how browzar is getting nailed for having ads mixed in with search results. Personally, I'm not too disturbed by this (but it would be nice if they pulled the ads aside). The more concerning part: the "selling point" of the browser is the anonymity and "no trace", which it allegedly fails to accomplish. Talking about false advertising....
Even if we do get a "Space Elevator" working, what would the point be? We wouldn't be able to send anything massive up the cable due to weight. That means no people, few satelites. So is NASA really intending to spend _billions_ of dollars on something to simplify satelite launching? Or are they betting that the elevator could support 2.5 tons of weight?
Yea, I couldn't even grasp what it truly meant here. Is Williams looking for an algorithm to break SHA1 and RSA? Did he prove P = NP yet?
Nothing for you to see here. I don't know about that. If we're lucky, we can all see the fiery explosion that will be the downfall of M$.
Reminded me of my last job: One of my co-workers got a "your really really close to being fired" talk for "sexual harassment." What did he do? Call a "woman" a "girl." (The girl quit maybe 3 days later.)
It would be nice to get rid of big bulky HDs in laptops. However, does anyone know the power consumption of a flash drive vs. standard HD? I'd assume flash is less, but I aint sure.
Was Radioshack lazy enough to simply list all the fired employees as reccipients of the same email? IANAL, but I'd call that a violation of privacy. As if the violation of common courtesy wasn't enough....
Back in my years of youth, I applied to work at RadioShack. During the interview, I showed some knowledge of technology, and the interviewer (a manager, I believe) said he was honestly surprised I knew something about the products before working there. (They ended up not giving me the job due to a lack of people skills. ... Maybe people skills and tech intelligence are inversely proportional....it would explain a lot about those stores.)
Let's get a hand for RadioShack and their PR skills! I've always wondered when things along this line would start to happen. I'm surprised it didn't become popular to fire people by voicemail when that was the "new" thing. Firings can become a very confrontational situation (especially since the messenger didn't always have a hand in the process), so I wonder if the messenger decided that email would be better than hell.
I'm not. Frankly, I would have guessed this, especially considering that this is _corporate_ america, where looking busy can be more beneficial than doing good work. It is interesting how people would send an email and then keep checking "constantly" for a response. Why not just pick up a phone (or walk to the next cubicle in some cases) if you are that concerned about the message? Reciprocating, however, is ... odd; What do all the OCD emailers do the first time they contact someone?
Being under 18, I couldn't vote in 2004. However, I was not surprised to see Bush win again. Not because he seemed especially good during the debates, or had a sound platform. It seems to me that Kerry's position was so vague that it would be hard to vote for him in good confidence. And on top of that, Kerry was scary looking, not monkey-ish.
I think the article is saying that the yield has so far improved to 30% from the x% it was during R&D. But 30% yield does not create enough to meet the expected demand, so the companies aren't willing to release such a small # of HD drives.
Got my vote ;)
If my memory serves me correctly, isn't Gates leaving M$ so he can give away more money (a la Andrew Carnegie)?
if MS decided to allow the Zune to share more than "promotional" copies of songs? I'm not talking about getting free music (already got that; thanks, Pirate Bay); but if MS were to enable the device to share _all_ media, then the RIAA would surely throw a fit. Microsoft vs. RIAA!! And look at it this way: No matter who wins the fight, the rest of the world benefits :)
Maybe all the cows in the universe should have a massive fight to the death. I mean, we get two, count 'em, _two_ bonuses from it: Lotsa beef laying around; better beef to be served later.
Just because we've been doing something for a long time doesn't make it right, just customary or traditional. While I don't have too many issues with the raising of cattle as food, due to their really low intelligence (I wonder if cows are inbred to the point of this absolute retardation, or if tearing off your own udders by stepping on them is instictual), the whole force-feeding and use of hormones is kinda sketchy. The cows don't have to do anything anymore, so their time on the ranch is about as personally meaningful to the cow as their time in my mouth.
Do the electric impulse "muscle stimulizers" actually work? Maybe an electric pulse through the mythical "vat" could get some muscles to grow... And if we're actually engineering the meat to grow in small sections, we should be able to make the natural muscle:fat ratio a bit more ideal.
... And when the cows decide to start jumping from buildings...damn, that would hurt!