Get to the point. Few words as possible.

I usually explain what the end product is and assume they will ask if they're interested details.

Ok, fine. You want to build an AI. Whatever.

Just refrain from hooking it up to a fscking infinite power source or building it in some underground super fortress please.

Make that shit run on AA's and sit inside of a glass case, please.

But.... you don't have to leave the USA. There aren't really any downsides to being an illegal alien here right now. They have the "right" to taxpayer sponsored health care, education, and welfare programs. You can even score a driver's license and vote in some places, too. Other than getting elected President and smoothing over security clearances (which most of us aren't going to ever do/need anyway), there aren't a whole lot of benefits to remaining classified as an Ugly American any more. I've been half waiting for some smaller country to figure out they can score some easy income by simply offering free citizenship to ex-USAans and a reasonable income tax rate of like, oh, say, 10%.

Just pay your renunciation tax, open up a new checking account at Bank of Mozambique so you can get paid directly by your company's Irish office, and shine on you crazy diamond. You don't even have to learn to drive on the wrong side of the road or get involved with that Communist metric conspiracy crap, either!

Are you saying that there's at least one law that the NSA isn't too big to obey?

There appear to be quite a few in San Antonio alone. The entire back row of the Silverado 16 theater parking lot was converted to EV recharge stations, and I'd put that at around 30 spots. I have yet to see even one in use.

Are there Linux drivers?

Yeah, it's kind of hard to find something with which to relate.

Maybe... "For the crew, it would be like getting ganked by 7,000,000,000,000 retadins (or 7 terarets) in WoW, all at once."

Over the past couple of months, WoW has suffered from the "additional instances" problem caused by the instance servers basically becoming resource starved due to the number of people trying to launch instances. A "temporary fix" was put in place back after WotLK launch to prevent the instance lag and crashes that would trap players in dead/crashed instances, but it turned out to be not so "temporary" as here we are 8 months later, it's still in place, and the population in certain battlegroups has grown enough to cause the "additional instances can't be launched" message to become a common sight for many players. Despite knowing that this day would come, when the problem first started showing up in June Blizzard told people who complained about it "working as intended", and indeed avoided doing anything other than explaining how the instance caps works up until mid July. The current solution appears to be hardware reconfiguration of database servers, but even that is a stop gap measure as it only opens up a few more slots... people on "patched" servers are still seeing this error message during "peak hours".

The entire situation has been a failure of capacity planning/engineering and managing customer relations, and while I can't speak for everyone else affected by it, personally I've lost a lot faith in Blizzard's overall competence at a time when you guys are apparently moving to a subscription model where customers will be heavily reliant on your competence to play their purchased games.

What steps are you guys taking to make sure that this isn't repeated in the future? Have you addressed the instance capacity issue in the expansion by creating a high availability system for the instance servers? Have your customer support policies been modified in any way to provide players with more information on service failures in a timely (ie, less than 3 months) manner? Have your program managers at least learned that they should pay attention to their developers when they say stuff like, "This could end up biting us in the ass in 6 months. I'd like to take some time and a team and improve this code..."?

In short: why should I, as a customer, trust you with a subscription payment ever again?

Apps have two "flags" that can be set:
  * Paid -- a payment is required.
  * Copy Protected -- The user isn't allowed to copy the app.

With ADP1.1, you can see and download applications as long as they don't have the copy protection flag turned on.

This means you can purchase apps or download the free ones; unless the app is copy protected.

This is because the copy protection is simply filesystem based: the apps are placed in a directory only root can access.

If you have an ADP1.1, the you can access this copy protected directory.

Google claimed that they deliberately didn't do "forward-locking" because it was error prone and ruined the experience for users.

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Here's another one I found in the only other book I've read that wasn't the Bible:

banal

l2facetiousness

O_o

New Yorkers are Texans.

We annexed the United States back in 1845, but decided to let ya'll keep the old name to soften the blow.

Alright... time to break up this party before it evolves into another bad pun thread.

That is one of the best suggested ways to use PHP I have EVER heard of. That is truely a good tip.

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