Comment Wouldn't be good for any game (Score 2) 141
There goes your excuse for calling the umpire an idiot.
What should I say to him when we talk about this again?
That should at least give you:
Can I drop a hint about the patent office having no credibility any more?
Actually , the Patent Office does have crecibility in a few places. Unfortunately, courts of law are among them...
I used OS/2 for a while. When I set up shop as an independent contractor in early 1995, I needed an OS that was:
At that time there was exactly one candidate.
I got a chess set when I was about ten. I learned the moves and when a chess-club was created at school, I joined immediately. Here I got an opponent that was a couple of years older and who beat ten times out of ten. This is not very enjoyable when you are ten years old so I dropped out and have not played chess since.
Lego on the other hand... I got my first Lego bricks when I was about three years old and I played with Lego at times almost daily until I was about sixteen. I built anything from Lego: planes, spacecraft, cars, you name it. I still have all my Lego from back then and I'm at it again at the ripe age of 54 - I've got two Lego Mindstorms sets.
This is not to belittle chess, which is indeed a very challenging game. But you run the risk of putting the kid in a situation where he loses all the time which is not very good for that kid's self confidence.
Your hypothesis IS interesting, but doesn't seem supported by the facts. Apple does wield a lot of control over apps on iPhones, but they do it as a differentiator to make customers happy and sell more hardware. Apple doesn't limit apps because app sales are so profitable. They do it because people who aren't geeks don't want to have to go multiple places to get apps, don't want to deal with malware apps, don't want to worry about security, don't want their kids having access to porn apps, etc.
But in doing that, they impose American morals and standards on the rest of the world. There is a Danish tabloid newspaper (Ekstrabladet) that has had to censor their iPhone app in order to get it approved. This paper has for last thirty years or so published a picture of a very lightly dressed girl on page nine in every issue (known as "the page nine girl") and no one in Denmark takes offense of that. But you won't find a "page nine girl" in their iPhone app - because Cupertino doesn't like that.
The real question is: what will Apple block next? Unfavorable descriptions of Apple products? Articles that are critical of US politics?
I'd say that you Americans should be worried about how Apple may limit your free speech - because in my opinion, they are well on their way.
I had a prof once who shall remain nameless, though he claims to have "invented" modules. But he did have some good advice. He said, even if you just hacked together some code (or someone else did), you can retrofit software engineering standards onto it by going through it and writing the design document after the fact.
Easy. David Lorge Parnas.
They buy a house with their new found fortunes with a $1800 a month mortage.
Taxes are to blame?
They ea tout more and their food costs $500 a month.
Taxes are to blame??
They get a nicer car and their lease is now $500.
Taxes are to blame???
No, bad budgeting skills are to blame.
'What do you know that he doesn't?'
A couple of the answers, that I would give:
I'm 52 and I still do programming for a living. Mostly because I love it but also because I don't want to be a manager.
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