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Greed 1 (Windows)

Greed is a single-player game, competing against the computer to capture territory. The territory is a tiled board. Groups of tiles in edge-to-edge contact with yours are captured when you left-click them. As each game ends, the score is calculated as a percentage of the board captured. The scores accumulate....

Tags: Greed, Territory, Board, Julian Bury, Corporate Governance, Games, Microsoft Windows, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-06-26

Greed, Arrogance, Inexperience, and Stupidity

Greed, Arrogance, Inexperience, and StupidityWhen customers and vendors try to take advantage of one anotherMicrosoft or some of their henchmen are usually being profiled.It's just business as usual, you understand? Nothing personal as long as you shut up and sit down.

Tags: inexperience

Discussion threads 2008-06-19

How artificial is the crude oil price? Have we passed peak oil?

How artificial is the crude oil price? Have we passed peak oil?What's wrong with walking to workAlthough I accept that "nobody wants to sit in the dark" the notion that "nobody wants to walk to work" is ridiculous.It is the car addiction of countries like USA that has led...

Tags: Self-Interest, Oil Prices, oil

Discussion threads 2008-05-12

Is success ruining open source?

Is success ruining open source?Hard-wired for selfishnessCommunal systems can flourish for a time, but people eventually revert to self-centeredness. After all, there is not a mortgage company around that accepts open source software in lieu of cash.There are many motivationsThe most efficient business models harness all types of motivations, not...

Tags: Leadership, greed, open source

Discussion threads 2007-11-12

Canon wins patent suit over recycled ink cartridge

Canon wins patent suit over recycled ink cartridgeGreedy sleazebagsI wonder how long it'll be before you won't be able to use 3rd-party sparkplugs in your car.RE: Canon wins patent suit over recycled ink cartridgeIts hard to know whether the lawsuit and decision are reasonable without knowing what they are about....

Tags: greed, cartridge, Canon Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-11-08

Microsoft blocks FairUse4WM v2 after 3 months of DRM free music

Microsoft blocks FairUse4WM v2 after 3 months of DRM free musicYou have to love Tit for Tat battlesSpam is another great example, just on the flip side. The consumer is trying to keep something stopped whereas with Microsoft, they are trying to keep something stopped here. It's always more...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), FairUse4WM, DRM-Free Music, Microsoft Corp., greed, digital-rights management

Discussion threads 2007-10-29

Does suing customers make business sense?

Does suing customers make business sense?Victory for crime!This so called victory by the RIAA is only one more proof that there is only on kind of justice in the good old USA: the one you buy yourself! When obvious criminal cartel proven more then once guilty of countless crimes win...

Tags: greed, BEST THING, RIAA, citizenship

Discussion threads 2007-10-05

Does Sony finally have an iTunes answer?

Does Sony finally have an iTunes answer?RE: Does Sony finally have an iTunes answer?As not only a conduit for purchasing, but a media provider as well, sony has to be careful here.If Sony tries to man-handle the market by owning not only the media rights to the content, but the...

Tags: Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, greed, NBC Universal Inc., Sony Corp., Sony PlayStation Portable

Discussion threads 2007-09-05

Dingoo Snake 1.0 (Mobile)

You can not stop eating cause it is just greed! Simple control 5 different maps Plenty of items to aid you in the game, and bring much more fun Funny comic graphics and special effects Ranking System

Tags: Greed, Mobile, DingooGames, Games, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Marketing

Software downloads 2007-01-23

To Deal OR Not To Deal 1.31 (Mobile)

Choose a case to keep, then let the action begin! Outwit the banker as he tries to lowball you into submission! But be careful...greed can be your enemy! Highly addictive!

Tags: Greed, Mobile, Banker, IntrepidX, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2007-01-01

Photos: In search of clues on 'Last Call Poker'

Behind the poker game is a saga of violence and greed told through video, text, audio and "Tombstone Hold 'Em" tournaments.

Tags: greed, tournament, violence, audio, game, video

Image galleries 2005-12-15

Photos: In search of clues on 'Last Call Poker'

Behind the poker game is a saga of violence and greed told through video, text, audio and "Tombstone Hold 'Em" tournaments.

Tags: greed, tournament, violence, audio, video, game

Image galleries 2005-12-15

Fear and greed drive social software adoption, says expert

Ross Mayfield Socialtext says that the primary driver for corporate blogging is fear, while greed is driving adoption of social software. "The emergent attention forming structure of the blogosphere can take a fit message and self-organize around it with a moment's notice. While extremely rare, this pattern gives employees the...

Tags: Mayfield, greed

Blog posts 2005-05-26

Additional Resources

Absolute Farkle 4.0 (Mac)

Farkle is a very addictive dice game that can be played with the whole family. In this version you play against a computer opponent just waiting to give you a run for your money. Or you can play with someone else on the same computer. You can play games using...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Family, Computer, Gammonsoft, Farkle, Productivity, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-20

HP Pavilion Elite owner resorts to lawsuit over 'inherently defective' PC

My HP Pavilion Elite... / HP quality controlMy HP Pavilion Elite came with an obviously defective, and defectively designed, video card. After about eight months, the video card model was finally recalled.My previous HP desktop computer went for about five years without a problem.HP's quality control is clearly going down...

Tags: Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows XP, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP Pavilion Elite, HP Pavilion, Linux, Core i7, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., PC

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

The emergency room myth busted

ok Dana 1 troll 0 This is a real sucker punch that i never saw coming ....Dana you are getting nastier by each post what next chomsky on the reading list :)thx for they excellent link well its hurt Racism at the heart of healhcare reform opposition.Who are more likely...

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, health care, emergency room myth, Odds Ratio

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Should search engines pay tribute to content?

Why?Why should Google have to pay "royalties" for showing people their way to content on the internet? Should Digg.com and Delicious.com have to do the same thing? If I put a link or links on my website, to say Foxnews.com, does that mean I should have to pay Murdoch royalties...

Tags: INTERNET, Web site development, Web technology, search engine, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

How we think, and perhaps lie, about the oil supply

Oil is naturally occurring...Scientist do not understand why oil wells that we'pumped dry' are now full of oil.So in other words, it has been proven to manyscientist oil is naturally occurring substance.It is all about greed and money, if people had commonsense and used their brain instead oflistening to politicians...

Tags: oil, Bakken

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

Rupert Murdoch and the dirty little secret about Google traffic...

Dangerous generalisationsNEWCASTLE UK - While I might agree with your argument in the special case of WSJ your logic breaks down for newspapers in general. The WSJ is a broadsheet for a very small sector,the Financial World, as opposed to The Times or The SUN where the aim is the...

Tags: Rupert, Rupert Murdoch, Washington Post Co., Google Inc., music

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Sony to charge $24.95 for Bravia owners to rent "Chance of Meatballs" before DVD release

Meteor, please!I'm still hoping for an early arrival of the meteor that will finally make dinosaurs like Sony extinct! ;)These companies just don't get it. And I doubt they ever will.Sony when will you learnNo wonder Sony is bleeding money, they live in a fantasy world where they think...

Tags: LIKE IT, DVD, Sony Corp., Bravia owner, Bravia

Discussion threads 2009-11-10