quackerhacker

If you think in app purchases are bad, you haven't seen skylanders (activision) or infinity (Disney). These games require action figures to experience the game...wouldn't be so bad if each action figure wasn't over $10!

Hmmm, makes me think twice about the beeping sounds I hear when my phone is right next to my radio. I know it's data being transmitted/received, but I wonder if it can be deciphered in this manner.

I know failure...tasted it about 3-4 times. I guess I'm cold hearted, I would've pursued success and burnt the bridge with my friend, if I did all the footwork in the beginning till the end. I'm starting to learn, nice people get stomped on in business.

Personally, I can't get past the fact of falling for someone online. Just today I met one of my online professors and it was awkward, yet online we're both very chatty.

1. I passed the resume and chat portion

2. I passed the telephone questionnaire and got along great with the interviewer

3. (Fail) I scheduled my interview on a Friday at 4:30pm and there is a 30 min travel time. I left 1hr early...still it was Memorial Day weekend, so I thought the streets would be quicker than the freeway since it was at a stand still. I was so stressed that I literally had an anxiety attack and couldn't even find the address. Never happened to me before, so I'll never forget it.

Makes me happy that companies are moving towards text authentication since emails are easy (or at least well practiced) to compromise.

Note: Time to change my Time To Lives on my MX records and up my security.

I think Amazon can be successful in the gaming industry, given the fact of their customer base, model of free to play, but I think the gold in this plan is the internal game dev teams.

I'd be very curious to see if they will allow indie devs.

If Microsoft could have, I think they would've offered their subsidized consoles (like they did the 360), and launch with Halo as their premiere title....

(this will probably get a lot of hate) then again Playstation actually decided to play video games this time and xbox one is trying to be a super Roku.

In regards to the latest consoles, I have a ps4...and while most "anticipated," games are still on preorder, I don't think it's fair yet to call the hardware a joke, I don't feel the studios have taken full advantage of the hardware.....now the games offerings right now....yeah I agree, but I think the studios really compiled their games (at least the ones I play :: COD: Ghosts, and Battlefield 4) for previous gen consoles.

I am interested to see how the new halo plays though...just can't get past the fact that the xbox one requires kinect to be...ummm, connected to play.

First I remember everyone driving the price up of an AMD video card just because bitcoin mining.

Second they got the backing in PS4 and Xbox One hardware.

Now an Arm 8-core CPU...although I find the clock speed (2GHz) kinda underwhelming, still AMD's pricing would entice me to buy 2 for the price of 1 Intel i7

1. Wouldn't it be more cost effective to run livecd's or even cloud host an os?

2. Refurbished computers are still needed for this campaign, seems expensive.

3. $7 does NOT equal a computer, it's a usb stick which end users will still need to utilize only the refurbished computers, because I can't name one "non-tech-savvy," person that knows how to change boot orders in the bios (let alone get to the bios at startup).

Speaking from experience, these boards are awesome, and smallest ones I've ever used (other than a mac mini/or rPI)!

That phone's design looks so slick too!

I think it's a great demonstration of css and it's capabilities (as well as the devs skills).

This is one of my own downfalls, I'll spend hours (sometimes days) on css UI when there is always a faster and easier method to implement.

It's awesome to see some innovation coming to Bitcoin. This model (instant purchasing) is similar to Paypal's Instant payment, and even accounting for the risk/reward, I think it's an absolutely great method to help push Bitcoin adoption and position Coinbase for a goto for merchants and more importantly customers.

http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/local/talks-between-bart-union...

Since she's an ex-googler, I would hope it wasn't broad speculation, those are her sources.

My stand on BART though is that they provide a very critical service to the Bay Area. So they have a lot leverage in their hands since the strike is being felt throughout the entire bay and all professional classes. I disagree that it should be happening if their pay is that high.

@cjc: Average BART employee salary is $83K/yr. A teacher with 10 years of experience in San Francisco makes $50K/yr. Who's striking again?

I speculate that the purpose of this publicized cease and desist letter was just to send a message about DFI's disapproval of Bitcoin and ward off adopters of the awesome crypto.

Does this frivolous spending of tax payer money get categorized under marketing expenses or operating losses? [sarcasm]

[0] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2297934/IRS-apologiz...

A general abstract patent that I can think of in relation is one I researched recently that Comcast filed, patenting online video playlists[0].

[0] http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H...