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To me that in itself is very unappealing, but that is what is "missing" from the game. If that has been cracked already then that just goes to show that good DRM can at best delay cracking the game, meanwhile there is a saying "Whenever DRM prevents a customer willing to buy the game form buying it, a pirate gets his wings"
Now look the argument is "oh its just a few algorithms used in a certain way, that should not be patented". however how is that any different than creating a ammo holder for .45mm bullets which can be put into any gun that can use .45mm bullets? Its just taking some metal and springs and putting them together in some novel way which has not yet been done before.
Remember once you see the invention that is TRULY innovative AND simple but nobody quite thought of using it that way before, it becomes a no-brainer. You start to think "yea given a few hrs I can make one of these myself without any special training or anything, without even looking at schematics, or even taking the one I have apart" but the fact is that nobody thought of it before.
The fact is, it was mentioned in a '96 letter, we must decide what part of programming is the "words" and what part is the "innovation" so that people can't do the equivalent of copyrighting words, but they can copyright books (the end product). (yes I am aware that patent != copyright, but try to see the analogy)
The fact is, while you chose Rhino to get access to Java libs and frameworks for SSJS development, there is still NO WAY for me to write an open source JS framework that will work in any environment. Not to mention anything I run will probably have tons of different implementation of the same few bits of code, not referring to common libraries for inclusion or whatever. Even how files are included is different depending on your environment. We seriously need a standard. Even if half of it is implemented in javascript like Java Standard Libs are implemented in java (ok lots use java native interfacing).
The real problem why I can't find missing kids is because I don't know which ones are missing in my area. The down side is that I won't get to see kids missing in CA while I am in NY and the CA kid was taken to NY.
The idea is: we need a service where given a person's location we can generate the right set of missing children (those who are from the area, or might have gone to the area).
After that we just need to put this information everywhere where important information is not displayed (free areas) like 404 pages, or anything or "please wait while we process xyz data, o and look at these missing children vs this progress bar"
AIM, Google Talk, Browser, Brickbreaker possibly, Google Maps, Facebook (a killer). Yea its easy to tell whats running (alt-tab of sorts) but she never made that leap. Hey maybe its just facebook.
I am considering just looking through anything, if its a wire that has a 60% chance of being usused forever, scrapped, a cd, scrapped, a tv, scrapped. I want to do the same with my kid's toys (she has lots but plays with a key few (3year old), I mean really the biggest things we use are our computers.
Although I found a use for old textbooks: Computer monitor stands.
Enterprise software needs to be at least $1,000 per alien per shot.
FTFY.
Edit: Other reasons why its not enterprisie enough:
1) It does not run in a server cluster.
2) It does not run using a oracle tripple-redundant database.
3) It does not have a recovery plan in case the city is nuked to ensure that the game can continue playing from just where you left off by restoring from backups.
4) It does not have an audit trail so that any time the spaceship shoots an alien we can point to which accountant did it.
Remember power corrupts, and absolute power is just more fun. -- Benny Hill
The only question is: to the program, does it matter that you are god? Does it make any bit of a difference if it believes in you or not? Will the outcome change depending on that fact? Do you care if the program worships you? (unless you wrote a program to worship you)
The point is a religion that does not teach "treat all human beings regardless of believes or values as human beings and as your own people, try to figure out what is right and what is wrong together rather than impose values from an ancient book and it's infinite interpretations on everyone. As a human being you can make mistakes but you must take responsibiltiy for them." or something to that extent. Since I have yet to see one religion state this I cannot subscribe to any religion nor can I believe any notions of god. Remember the notion of "god" is christian/muslim/jewish. Other religions believe in many gods, or spirits, or something that is not quite what our "god" is. Who is to say that "god" is what I should believe in, vs "gods" of the hindus, etc.
My grandmother just played a Wii for the first time. Now my Grandmother has NEVER seen the thrill of video games since she first saw them 16 years ago. I mean she had no desire to play any whatsoever. When she saw me with the Wii she actually said "looks like fun, can I try?" and we played a game of bowling on the Wii. She didn't quite get the buttons but the motions she did and she had an absolute blast.
Its all about interaction with the computer, and letting people interact with it in a natural way. Geeks care about "multitasking" on a computer, non-geeks care about their computers always running at top speed for any application they use. They don't care that you can have 100 windows open at a given time, just the fact that 1 is open and works well and they'll close it an open another. How many people here enjoy the fact that the blackberry allows multi-tasking and you have to spend time worrying about background processes sucking up your cpu?
I think this is the reason why the chrome os has tons of potential.
However if he can reproduce this quite easily then there is probably a software bug. And Toyota can't afford a recall. Honestly this just has to be taken to courts, its the driving force of our economy.
The point is that you can arm a British nuke in 98 with a bicycle lock key and no tamper-proof mechanism was there. So if you got a warhead detonation was easy. In the US having a warhead is pointless, you need the codes or the bomb is worthless.
Basically non t-mobile, verizon or whatever stores are independent stores. They buy a phone, say for $500. Then a contract gives them a spiff for it, say $250. So the store charges you $300 for the phone and makes $50 off the sale. IF you terminate the contract with t-mobile or any of these companies before your contract is up AT ANY TIME, that $250 is not paid to the store, or is deducted from what the carrier owes the store. Basically the store (like google) MUST charge you $250 or they lose more money than they made off of your sale.
This is why the little cellphone stores make you sign similar agreements. Now how the company recoups the "price of the phone" by early termination fee, I don't know. The fee is pure profit for the carrier.