Comment Re:Won't be complete until we're all borg (Score 1) 291
It is gonna suck when you accidentally violate the ToS.
It is gonna suck when you accidentally violate the ToS.
Duh, lease time on it to the CIA -I mean "Dale's Import/Export Yarn and Sewing Works LLC" of Langley, VA.
Was there a Facebook App I could click on that would automatically create a Google+ account for me? I can't recall such a thing, but it seems like it would be easy to implement.
Google was reaching too far with G+. They wanted to become the lord proprietors of your online identity and that is a quixotic task that wastes user's time and effort.
You left out disruptive.
I was always under the impression that Roddenberry went out of his way to make sure there was an exception for "Tricorder" so that it wasn't trademark incumbered (hoping that the term would gain traction); though you can't violate the "look & feel" of Paramount's IP. I could be wrong though.
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This, the DS was probably the worst offender. How am I supposed to use the control pad and write at the same time? It was easier to lay the thing on the table, direct the D-pad with my pinkie and write with the same hand. Definitely a design flaw.
Other than that, guns and guitars are the only things that give me problems, keyboards and mice, not so much. Actually I think southpaws may come out a little ahead. Few people draw with a mouse, so it leave you with an advantage when picking out keys and navigating.
Though I entirely agree with the sentiment and it was the first thing I thought (would love to see 2K get the rights to System Shock and let Irrational do a SS title whenever they felt like it), I'm not sure if that is even possible.
EA only owns the trademark "System Shock", but they don't own the rights, that belongs to the Meadowbrook Insurance Group, Inc.. No idea how this works, but it has prevented there being another System Shock game.
Nah, Ubi has a special level of disdain for their customers.
EA, thinks you are a stupid mouth hole who will eat anything, but they also think of themselves as professional mouth hole feeders.
Ubi thinks you are a stupid mouth hole, but they also resent you for being fat.
I think you are looking at this from the wrong angle. They can pull in billions and still fail at their mission. All of that money would just flow back into Congress (whether this is right or wrong is another debate entirely).
You can't have a product to sell unless you have sane means of effectively generating that product.
If I'm running a lemonade stand and my only investor demands that I buy their hydroponic lemons from Alaska and I can only use beet sugar from North Dakota my business is going to have some serious issues. This is the real problem, not licensing on mattresses.
IRL the stereotypical Rubyista can be a little annoying, but you have to remind yourself that you were probably that guy/girl at some point, bolting frameworks down to the depths of Hell and carrying your cargo code with pride.
The big problem is that old hands are intimidated by the hipster trappings and aren't around to remind them that they made a lot of the same mistakes in their past.
Had one of the live streams and solarsystem.nasa.gov/eyes/ running the simulation. Gotta say, even if it was all fluff PR, it was the best piece of PR I've seen in decades. Just perfect.
And that is how Obamney is leading in the polls.
I think there's a world market for about five computers. -- attr. Thomas J. Watson (Chairman of the Board, IBM), 1943