>Games that are sparse, minimal, and full of atmosphere and character?
I'm not certain what type of game you want. The obvious suggestions in terms of well-crafted atmosphere and high-quality narrative might be Portal and the follow-on to the above, Deus Ex: HR and Bioshock.
It depends. If all they have is unreliable, inconsistent eyewitness testimony, then it's acceptable to ignore. If they have physical samples they've not tested or electromagnetic readings they've not had analysed, then it's an incompetent blind spot.
"Health spending will rise by 5.8% each year from 2010 to the end of 2020, according to actuaries at the Centres for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). In 2020 health care will account for one-fifth of America’s economy."
The article goes on to point out that surveys suggest that the Federal government will be liable for a huge amount of medical obligations... and all this will occur in the country which has the most expensive healthcare in the world.
However, this system also blunts such 'radical edges' as civil unions, equalizing the age of consent, reform of drug laws and large infrastructure reforms.
I would first note that more 'voyages of discovery' were prompted by the desire to establish new or improved trade or resource exploration routes, and we've pretty-much established that there's no one to trade with and nothing to exploit within reach.
And I would like to see the cost comparisons, but I'd bet that just as pan-oceanic trips were an order of magnitude more expensive than explorations before, space journeys (especially manned), would require an exceptional economic incentive to be at all viable.
A system could create, manage and automate a 'cloud' of several hundred wallets, all shifting small amounts of money around at random intervals. When the owner decided to make a particular payment, he could set a target sum to be accumulated by a single wallet, and within a few hours (or days), make payment from there.
Once this system had a few users, the difficulty of tracing any particular wallet 'owner' would be significant.
C Drive for OS and program installs.
D Drive for Music, Pictures and all general life files except those on
F drive for films, ISOs and other large media files.
The goal for the future will be that C drive could be formatted for OS reinstalls with minimal data loss, beyond the backup of user profile folders to another drive.
Beyond that, files are organised for ease of backup: 'Pictures' for images, 'Music', 'Written work' etc.
Ease of navigation is achieved through the copious use of shortcuts.
I passed this 'test'/suggested a clever way of solving it at a relatively early age, but have always been pretty poor at Maths.
I think it's more indicative of a problem-solving intuition than maths skill, or even thew child's conception of integers.
Large, reputable company which people already pay a monthly/annual fee to (such as an antivirus service) offers free no-script and ad-block install to customers; something continually updated and intelligently moderated to remove adverts except on sites the user green-lights. Animated and flash-based adverts are the primary targets, while text and static images are left alone. This encourages websites to use these forms of advertising. If a video requires an unskippable video longer than 5 seconds to play before the feature video, a pop-up box with a list of alternate links to the video is generated; again, to push advertisers into short or static advertising.
The average user knows they need an antivirus program, and one brand in particular is recommended above all others because it helps keep the internet 'clean', in a sense.
an idea: Post a job offer on a local/graduate website, interview 20 applicants, trial run 8 of them. Offer them a probationary period of employment at a very low rate, with a commission (which you reserve the right to vary at the end of each month.)
Think about your selling strategy. Are you cold calling, sending mail-outs, or arranging face-to-face meetings with clients? Each requires different sales skills (persuasiveness and the ability to bounce-back from rejection, marketing sense, and charisma, respectively.)
>2. the .co.uk/.de etc, should only get a bonus in their own countries.
A flawed rule. I deal with websites based in other countries and written in other languages. I also access websites from my home country when overseas.
I would argue that it was industrialisation, not transport, that led to home/workplace segregation. Large mills, running on water or steam power, could not exist on a small scale or too near to residences.
But if they had nurtured their talent so that they didn't have to re-train testers, programmers and designers every 12 months, they might have finished it in three-quarters of the time.
The only word-processed files that might be non-confidential I can think of are contracts made in the past couple of decades between companies that have both declared bankruptcy. Either that or public EULAs.
It becomes unethical when someone who doesn't know about Ponzi schemes are gets involved. If someone has to tick a box saying that they read the wikipedia (for example) page on Ponzi schemes, they assume responsibility for any loss... assuming that they own the resources being staked, and that they are of sound mind.
It's the kind of thing that will attract smug dicks as early investors, though, and you'll get some desperate people at the bottom of the pyramid.
I'm not certain what type of game you want. The obvious suggestions in terms of well-crafted atmosphere and high-quality narrative might be Portal and the follow-on to the above, Deus Ex: HR and Bioshock.