Most smartphone GPS software - TomTom, NavMan, CoPilot, etc - ships with a mapset to install locally.
3G phones have a data-rate fast enough to be able to use Google Maps or equivalent, but if you lose data connectivity, you lose you mapping. In addition, if your 3G signal happens to fall-back to GPRS, you can actually be driving faster than the map segments can download - not fun.
Actually, the first 6 series all have real laughter - the studio sequences had a live audience, and the exterior stuff was played to the audience and their laughter recorded.
The remainder (and these new episodes) were shot without audience, and suffered for it. To me, they're very sterile and cold.
I can understand the objection to canned laughter - I cannot watch an episode of MASH with it (in the UK we were lucky, as the BBC showed it without). On the other hand, I'd rather have canned laughter than the gibbon-like whooping and screeching on shows like Married With Children.
FWIW, it's very easy to tell the difference between a laugh track and "live" laughter, as actors will wait to deliver their next line until the audience can hear it.
It's the same adaptor as all the other HTC phones use, and have done for the past n years - converters can be had for trivial money if you bother to look...
Further, no DRM is involved as the converters/adapters contain no proprietary logic, and the connector specification is published with no restrictions on it's use.
"Digital distribution" and "on-line stores" are not synonymous.
I buy most of my games and movies from on-line stores, but I still get physical media for my cash. This is also true for AAA titles - my copy of MutantExploder7 will land on my doormat on the day of release.
It is the prevalence of low-overhead (and sales tax avoiding) on-line retailers that has been killing bricks-and-mortar establishments for the last 10 years.
Simply stated, if companies stop selling their games on physical media, then I shall stop buying their games.
I've been fucked over by DRM-laden downloads on the 360, thanks very much. Every time mine goes back for repair, none of my paid-for-DLC works on the new box I get back, and I have to get into an hour-long argument with tele-bozos to sort it out. I have no interest in extending that process to every game I own.
With all the time spent dealing with the licensing, a company could probably save money if Microsoft had a 'dumptruck licensing plan' where you simply drove them a dump truck full of money every 6 months and you could use whatever software in whatever situation.
This does actually exist, although not quite in the terms you describe, as the enterprise licensing agreement.
The investment bank I recently worked for paid MS a fixed amount per "seat" per year, which gave them carte blanche to deploy as much end-user and server software (Office, Server OS, MS-SQL, Exchange, Sharepoint, Virtual Server, HyperVisor and so forth) as they wanted.
Developers are handled in a similar fashion - you pay x per developer, and that gives you MSDN access, all the dev tools, documentation, and support.
In passing, this is why VMWare ended up making their server editions no-cost - any company on the enterprise deal gets as much virtualisation as they want for effectively free... the VMWare reps would turn up and ask what it would take for us to use their product in our server consolidation projects, and the answer was always "be the same price..."
"... the process of restructuring and cutting their costs."
Which means that while there may well be new stickers and boxes for any existing inventory, USI get to kill Abit completely and no longer support anything with that name on it.
I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that in 6 months time there's a big furore about Abit boards having leaking capacitors or some such - and the consumers will be out in the cold with no-one to sue.
Pardon me for asking, but how does your description of the USSR (a political union which no longer exists - perhaps you meant Russia)
-its essentially a country run by a large mafia
-they, an infitismal number of "interests" in comparison to the total population control the
vast majority of wealth, politics and policy
-despite the so called "redistribution of wealth" nonsense, there are still the weatlhy and
uber powerfull differ in any meaningful way from the USA as it is today?
The hardware doesn't have to be PCI, and it doesn't have to go into "professional" video post-prod tin. Further, the sale of such equipment is not restricted, so "somehow" getting hold of it should present no difficulty.
I, for example, have a very nice external component/RBG/S-Video/composite/stereo audio -> IEEE1394 box that works very well with all manner of Windows (and OSX and *nix) variants. It cost me slightly under GBP100.
So, by your argument, if I go and make a cup of tea during the adverts (something you can do in the UK because there's one long break in the middle of a 30 minute show, rather than 5 or 6 short ones) then I'm "stealing" the show?
How about if I pause my VCR during the advert breaks when taping a show? Stealing too?
Just a point about the BBC World Service - this is not funded by the BBC License Fee, it is actually funded by the Foriegn Office, which is in turn funded by general taxation of the populace.
Oh, and regarding point two, the License Fee is quite possible the simplest tax in Britain to collect. It is (for >80% of the taxed) a single yearly flat payment based on premesis not person, plus every retail purchaser of receiving equipment - and this is true too for a tuner card bought at PC World - has their name and address submitted to the collectors *by law*.
Compare that to the several hundred income tax codes, plus exceptions and allowances... or VAT and the incredible paperwork that entails for everyone except the consumer.
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That's unpossible!
3G phones have a data-rate fast enough to be able to use Google Maps or equivalent, but if you lose data connectivity, you lose you mapping. In addition, if your 3G signal happens to fall-back to GPRS, you can actually be driving faster than the map segments can download - not fun.
Media Monkey?
Actually, the first 6 series all have real laughter - the studio sequences had a live audience, and the exterior stuff was played to the audience and their laughter recorded.
The remainder (and these new episodes) were shot without audience, and suffered for it. To me, they're very sterile and cold.
I can understand the objection to canned laughter - I cannot watch an episode of MASH with it (in the UK we were lucky, as the BBC showed it without). On the other hand, I'd rather have canned laughter than the gibbon-like whooping and screeching on shows like Married With Children.
FWIW, it's very easy to tell the difference between a laugh track and "live" laughter, as actors will wait to deliver their next line until the audience can hear it.
It's the same adaptor as all the other HTC phones use, and have done for the past n years - converters can be had for trivial money if you bother to look...
Further, no DRM is involved as the converters/adapters contain no proprietary logic, and the connector specification is published with no restrictions on it's use.
BTW, perhaps you should not behave like a twat.
"Digital distribution" and "on-line stores" are not synonymous.
I buy most of my games and movies from on-line stores, but I still get physical media for my cash. This is also true for AAA titles - my copy of MutantExploder7 will land on my doormat on the day of release.
It is the prevalence of low-overhead (and sales tax avoiding) on-line retailers that has been killing bricks-and-mortar establishments for the last 10 years.
Simply stated, if companies stop selling their games on physical media, then I shall stop buying their games.
I've been fucked over by DRM-laden downloads on the 360, thanks very much. Every time mine goes back for repair, none of my paid-for-DLC works on the new box I get back, and I have to get into an hour-long argument with tele-bozos to sort it out. I have no interest in extending that process to every game I own.
With all the time spent dealing with the licensing, a company could probably save money if Microsoft had a 'dumptruck licensing plan' where you simply drove them a dump truck full of money every 6 months and you could use whatever software in whatever situation.
This does actually exist, although not quite in the terms you describe, as the enterprise licensing agreement.
The investment bank I recently worked for paid MS a fixed amount per "seat" per year, which gave them carte blanche to deploy as much end-user and server software (Office, Server OS, MS-SQL, Exchange, Sharepoint, Virtual Server, HyperVisor and so forth) as they wanted.
Developers are handled in a similar fashion - you pay x per developer, and that gives you MSDN access, all the dev tools, documentation, and support.
In passing, this is why VMWare ended up making their server editions no-cost - any company on the enterprise deal gets as much virtualisation as they want for effectively free... the VMWare reps would turn up and ask what it would take for us to use their product in our server consolidation projects, and the answer was always "be the same price..."
"... the process of restructuring and cutting their costs."
Which means that while there may well be new stickers and boxes for any existing inventory, USI get to kill Abit completely and no longer support anything with that name on it.
I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that in 6 months time there's a big furore about Abit boards having leaking capacitors or some such - and the consumers will be out in the cold with no-one to sue.
-they, an infitismal number of "interests" in comparison to the total population control the vast majority of wealth, politics and policy
-despite the so called "redistribution of wealth" nonsense, there are still the weatlhy and uber powerfull differ in any meaningful way from the USA as it is today?
Er... didn't an American bridge that needed replacing collapse recently and kill a number of people?
Exactly whose ability are we talking about?
You need to pull your head out of your arse.
The hardware doesn't have to be PCI, and it doesn't have to go into "professional" video post-prod tin. Further, the sale of such equipment is not restricted, so "somehow" getting hold of it should present no difficulty.
I, for example, have a very nice external component/RBG/S-Video/composite/stereo audio -> IEEE1394 box that works very well with all manner of Windows (and OSX and *nix) variants. It cost me slightly under GBP100.
stop making shoulder-launched missles?
if you RTFA, the artist in question *is* the owner of the venue.
The point is, if you chose not to lock your car or your house, your insurance company will laugh in your face when you try to make a claim for theft.
Does this mean you're going to leave your credit cards on the front lawn?
So, by your argument, if I go and make a cup of tea during the adverts (something you can do in the UK because there's one long break in the middle of a 30 minute show, rather than 5 or 6 short ones) then I'm "stealing" the show?
How about if I pause my VCR during the advert breaks when taping a show? Stealing too?
How about if I change channels?
what happens to a touch-screen coffee table when you place a cup of coffee on it?
So... I wonder how they're going to deal with laptops and PDAs? One license per household means it's cheap to collect, but...
Next time you need to claim on your household - or car - theft insurance, tell them that you left the doors unlocked...
Well, I would object to adding to the ISP charges, as I have both a TV and a PC - why should I pay twice?
Just a point about the BBC World Service - this is not funded by the BBC License Fee, it is actually funded by the Foriegn Office, which is in turn funded by general taxation of the populace.
Oh, and regarding point two, the License Fee is quite possible the simplest tax in Britain to collect. It is (for >80% of the taxed) a single yearly flat payment based on premesis not person, plus every retail purchaser of receiving equipment - and this is true too for a tuner card bought at PC World - has their name and address submitted to the collectors *by law*.
Compare that to the several hundred income tax codes, plus exceptions and allowances... or VAT and the incredible paperwork that entails for everyone except the consumer.
And that's just another example of Americans getting things wrong...
'comPARable' derives from the word 'comPARE'. The emphasis on the second syllable in both cases.
'COMparable' derives from the word 'COMpare', and is used when likening someone to a game-show host.
Thank you, I'll be here all week - try the veal...
Pick a different course, or a school...
What's needed is a DRM Prevention Act.
Saying that moon-dust is toxic because it could cause silicosis is like saying water is toxic becuase you can drown in it.