There have been more than 25 crashes involving Navy aircraft on or near the base over the past four decades.
Only 25 crashes of high-performance military hardware in four decades is a staggeringly low number to me if even the B2 can have a glitch caused by a little water on takeoff and crash,
Sounds more like a dig for free marketing. "Hey people! Big nasty Microsoft is suing us because we're a wholesome little company! You should totally give us your business!"
Nobody stops to think maybe it's because no big game titles or movies came out this week?
Way to declare victory when your opponent is off taking a nap.
I don't see moly transistors replacing the entirety of silicon transistor applications in the same way that graphene will never replace silicon.
I can, however, see moly transistors stepping in for the power regulation side of a chip and system where efficiency is demanded, and graphene-based 'burst processing' cores that are shut down completely when not in use on the performance side.
Everything is about application, adaptation, and integration of technologies, not seeking out a replacement for every end of the spectrum at once. Silicon is the Jack in the middle, while the specialists should be looked upon as integrable to the whole of transistor arrangement.
Or maybe you've had a single dose of Nyquil, or even something as simple as rinsed your mouth with Listerine, and the residue on your fingers (stabilized by the other ingredients of these products) is enough to trip the device. Describing them as 'Unfailingly Accurate' sounds like a recipe for false positives in bad situations.
In an amusing reversal of the standard trope, this is like DRM cutting your access to something you legally purchased and legally make use of because you have a Torrent client installed. I'm sure there will be 'Circumvention' clauses associated with the devices as well.
And concert tickets...jesus, if you even have to ask. I can remember paying $25 for good concert tickets (for mainstream bands) just 20 years ago. Today it's crazy what you pay even for tickets to no-name bands' concerts.
I saw Apocalyptica for just $25 a few weeks ago by buying the ticket at the door. What you're likely encountering is Ticketmaster's runabout scam, which after fees turns that '$25 at the door' into $48 or more. They even intentionally put their site into maintenance mode just as new tickets are released and link to a site that has no mention of Ticketmaster, yet is owned by them, which sells the tickets at up to 10x their box-office price.
The tickets themselves haven't gotten more expensive, really to the contrary, but the fees and greed of the company who monopolizes them has indeed gotten out of hand.
I'm going to stick my neck out and say that I pirate games I don't want to pay for because generally too expensive to purchase. If I could pay $10 for each of a dozen games that I've pirated in the past year instead of $120 for two, I probably would.
In my case, they are losing a sale to fixing the price too high for too long, especially in this age of Price != Quality. On the flipside, I'll buy titles on Steam for $9 on-sale and secondary to that reason never have to worry about losing access to it because of some shady DRM scheme.
I think a lot of pirating of games is for the same reason as pirating of movies still in theatres: They simply cost too f*cking much to access legitimately on a regular basis.
Except we've been waiting for this 'Rocket Racing League' to [i]take off[/i], pun or not, for the last [b]six years[/b].
It is the Duke Nukem Forever of motor^H^H^H^Hsports.
Being within 860 miles puts it 8 degrees above the horizon. This is where Seattle will catch it on the first possible attempt, but if it goes to the second attempt it will be much more overhead at a 50 degree angle.
Similar to this, my dad thought he was being smart by buying an $85 power cable with a keyed 'on-off' switch in it. The failing, however, was that we were very much a computer operating household and had dozens of regular power cables lying about. I switched a regular one in, left it there when I was done for my brother to use. Sometimes the keyed power cable would be back in place, and we'd just swap it out again. It was rather insultingly naive, and eventually it was thrown over the fence out back.
Funnily enough theres a literature example of that. Persons with nanotechnologic eye implants in The Diamond Age are frequently hacked to show spam and advertisements at all waking hours, even when trying to sleep. Its cited as the biggest reason they aren't very popular.
I suppose contact lenses with much the same function wouldn't be so hard to be rid of in such a case though.
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Especially in a different goddamn country than what that second 'A' entails.
From TFA:
There have been more than 25 crashes involving Navy aircraft on or near the base over the past four decades.
Only 25 crashes of high-performance military hardware in four decades is a staggeringly low number to me if even the B2 can have a glitch caused by a little water on takeoff and crash,
Sounds more like a dig for free marketing. "Hey people! Big nasty Microsoft is suing us because we're a wholesome little company! You should totally give us your business!"
Totally not gonna backfire...
Seriously, how long until Jeb Corliss gets up there (after his ankles heal, ouch!)
Because that's not all that's in the First Amendment. See also the Freedom of Assembly.
Would 'virtual eating' feed hungry children in Africa? Didn't think so.
Nobody stops to think maybe it's because no big game titles or movies came out this week? Way to declare victory when your opponent is off taking a nap.
All sorts of different sharks seem to differ on laying eggs versus live birth. Why would dinosaurs be pigeonholed into one birth method or another?
It will never see the counter or even a perscription pad, because treating makes more money than curing.
Forget mining! I wanna get at those whales!
Technology is amazing!
It's the goddamn TVTropes that inhibits my good sleep...
I don't see moly transistors replacing the entirety of silicon transistor applications in the same way that graphene will never replace silicon.
I can, however, see moly transistors stepping in for the power regulation side of a chip and system where efficiency is demanded, and graphene-based 'burst processing' cores that are shut down completely when not in use on the performance side.
Everything is about application, adaptation, and integration of technologies, not seeking out a replacement for every end of the spectrum at once. Silicon is the Jack in the middle, while the specialists should be looked upon as integrable to the whole of transistor arrangement.
Or maybe you've had a single dose of Nyquil, or even something as simple as rinsed your mouth with Listerine, and the residue on your fingers (stabilized by the other ingredients of these products) is enough to trip the device. Describing them as 'Unfailingly Accurate' sounds like a recipe for false positives in bad situations. In an amusing reversal of the standard trope, this is like DRM cutting your access to something you legally purchased and legally make use of because you have a Torrent client installed. I'm sure there will be 'Circumvention' clauses associated with the devices as well.
And concert tickets...jesus, if you even have to ask. I can remember paying $25 for good concert tickets (for mainstream bands) just 20 years ago. Today it's crazy what you pay even for tickets to no-name bands' concerts.
I saw Apocalyptica for just $25 a few weeks ago by buying the ticket at the door. What you're likely encountering is Ticketmaster's runabout scam, which after fees turns that '$25 at the door' into $48 or more. They even intentionally put their site into maintenance mode just as new tickets are released and link to a site that has no mention of Ticketmaster, yet is owned by them, which sells the tickets at up to 10x their box-office price.
The tickets themselves haven't gotten more expensive, really to the contrary, but the fees and greed of the company who monopolizes them has indeed gotten out of hand.
I could still one-up you with Aardsma.
This borders on oxymoron almost as much as 'Gaming Laptop'.
Don't forget Toady making $16,104 in a month just by releasing a new version.
Indeed, its a 'donation' system, but thats about as close as you get to 'Pay what you want' without the same words.
I'm going to stick my neck out and say that I pirate games I don't want to pay for because generally too expensive to purchase. If I could pay $10 for each of a dozen games that I've pirated in the past year instead of $120 for two, I probably would.
In my case, they are losing a sale to fixing the price too high for too long, especially in this age of Price != Quality. On the flipside, I'll buy titles on Steam for $9 on-sale and secondary to that reason never have to worry about losing access to it because of some shady DRM scheme.
I think a lot of pirating of games is for the same reason as pirating of movies still in theatres: They simply cost too f*cking much to access legitimately on a regular basis.
Curse the ubiquity of BBCode.
Except we've been waiting for this 'Rocket Racing League' to [i]take off[/i], pun or not, for the last [b]six years[/b]. It is the Duke Nukem Forever of motor^H^H^H^Hsports.
Being within 860 miles puts it 8 degrees above the horizon. This is where Seattle will catch it on the first possible attempt, but if it goes to the second attempt it will be much more overhead at a 50 degree angle.
Similar to this, my dad thought he was being smart by buying an $85 power cable with a keyed 'on-off' switch in it. The failing, however, was that we were very much a computer operating household and had dozens of regular power cables lying about. I switched a regular one in, left it there when I was done for my brother to use. Sometimes the keyed power cable would be back in place, and we'd just swap it out again. It was rather insultingly naive, and eventually it was thrown over the fence out back.
pointless government bureaucracy
This is redundant in three different ways.
Funnily enough theres a literature example of that. Persons with nanotechnologic eye implants in The Diamond Age are frequently hacked to show spam and advertisements at all waking hours, even when trying to sleep. Its cited as the biggest reason they aren't very popular.
I suppose contact lenses with much the same function wouldn't be so hard to be rid of in such a case though.
The real tricky bit is going to be proving that it isn't flying once it gets up to speed.