Sometime on Friday morning, Dragon Age: Origins players who booted up the game for a session of single-player dungeon crawling were greeted with a nasty surprise: all of the downloadable content (DLC) that they had purchased for the game had been flagged as "unauthorized," so their saved games wouldn't load. Again, these were vanilla, single-player saved games, representing untold hours of gameplay and investment, that users were suddenly unable to load.And that's why I won't buy games with terrible DRM schemes.
Its owners — the parents of ABC, Fox and NBC — fear the TV website may hurt their bottom lines.
A team led by a Libyan-American telecom executive has helped rebels hijack Col. Moammar Gadhafi's cellphone network and re-establish their own communications.Awesome.
The new network, first plotted on an airplane napkin and assembled with the help of oil-rich Arab nations, is giving more than two million Libyans their first connections to each other and the outside world after Col. Gadhafi cut off their telephone and Internet service about a month ago.
In my opinion, most accountants do a terrible job of explaining their work in an accessible way; it's a field full of jargon, acronyms and weird historical legacies. Eventually I figured it out: basic accounting is just graph theory.It's just about the flow of money from one account to another.
A society ... where each individual seeks their own success, by their own definition would truly be a great one. Rather than be envious of what others have and what others have done, and thus motivated to take from their lot so as to make ours larger absolutely and by comparison, we would be inspired to create our own triumphs. A society where people are more concerned with themselves and their improvement, rather than the affairs of others, would certainly be a more respectful and harmonious one. This was the American ideal.There are so many more good words in here on creation, consumption, government, individualism, thought, and triumph.
Depends on the conditions...
When it comes to content, we rarely compare the experience with other content at a similar price. We compare it to perfect.
I suspect that [in the future] we may be able to look back and see something shift right around now—see the point at which the way we read broke ranks with the way the news is made. We are no longer monogamous readers, loyal to a single source; rather, we read voraciously, looking for patterns, teasing out the things that matter to us, making connections, and then (often) writing about them ourselves. We are consumers of news, not The News.
This is a metaphor for running a software company. You can either see founding a company as something you're doing because you want to produce good software, or you can see it as something you do so you can sell your stock and make a killing and move on.
Your ideas are worth nothing unless you labor behind them to actually create something.