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I'm assuming there's no malicious intent here, but tteck explicitly warns against these kinds of copycat sites.
However, "Smalahove" is placed more or less exactly on the Norwegian town of Voss, which - among other things - is known (in Norway at least) for the dish "Smalahove", seared and boiled sheeps head.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vossevangen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalahove
Broader picture the majors want Spotify to succeed, because the alternative is having the business run by Apple and Google, who only have an ancillary interest in music.
As for Women's football, there's a reason it's not really appreciated and that is the fact that the skill level is significantly lower. Far fewer women play, which results in less competition and less highly talented individuals. Another problem is that the goals are sized for men, while the women keepers statistically speaking are smaller and can cover a smaller area, which means it's far easier to score with cheap shots. It all makes for rather dull spectating, sadly.
However, what Google are trying to do is essentially turn Youtube into a fully fledged music streaming service, but they're framing it as the same old video sharing service to justify continued abyssmal payouts. They can do this because they know that artists will put pressure on their labels to get back on Youtube if they're ever blocked. It's a classic monopolist move, and the only solace is that Google will likely fuck up yet again like they do every time they try to enter different markets.
It sets a very dangerous precedent for the value of music, which can be incredibly damaging for already struggling indie artists (not so much for the three majors who have received _massive_ advances)
Switching to the onboard Intel GPU works as well, but that means foregoing hardware decoding which means a bunch of things run like glue. I actually ended up just replacing the fan which solved the issue for at least another year until I can get a new copmuter.
Needless to say, next time I'll be buying something a bit more practical, and likely for a lot less money.
- Few games use it in any meaningful way. - It's bulky and unfamiliar. - It muddies the image of what the console is (is the tablet the Wii U?) - It raised the price of the console significantly. - It threw away the momentum they had for something none of their install-base wanted.
While I love my Wii U, it's destined to become another 20m failure. I hope that I'm wrong and that with time they can really iterate on their online functionality and get some better 3rd party support, but I'm not optimistic. If nothing else the 3DS is killing it, so it's not like they're going broke any time soon.
In that particular case, which was regarding a ridiculously broad patent for offsite network-backups, the plaintiff lost on a technicality; there was proof of a co-inventor who hadn't been included in the patent-filing. If it wasn't for that oversight they would almost certainly have won the case.
The only thing I'll miss from O12 is Dragonfly. Probably just a habit, but I found it much more intuitive and well designed.
How about coming back in a year and telling us how it turned out instead? Actual case-studies and analysis are interesting, fashion statements are not.
From what I've gathered the dragon will be dealt with in the second movie (hence the name), while the third movie will deal with the aftermath, as well as being padded with content from the LOTR appendix. Personally I think the first movie will make more sense in light of the sequels, though that of course doesn't really defend the somewhat lackluster nature of it.
And arguably it isn't. There's little doubt there's money in it, but not enough money to make it worth a large publisher's time.