Whatever happened after the 2nd Death Star blew up should be rebooted. There never was a 'first order' that was able to amass an army without anyone knowing about it. Or that weird weaponry.
I can believe an Imperial Remnant. I can believe the Emperor lying about the entire fleet being there. I can even believe task forces (a dreadnought with several Star Destroyers and auxiliary vessels) being sent on secretive missions and being too far away to recall. But I believe NONE of that First Order stuff they're trying to push down our throats.
Hopefully Disney will sell the franchise and we'll see a reboot.
China is making smart speakers but Chinese users aren't buying them: There are now over 100 smart speaker developers in the country (including all of the tech giants), but demand isn't there yet -- in 2017, only 350,000 smart speakers were sold in China, compared to 25 million in the US.
Maybe the Chinese term is Listens-all-the-time? We-hear-all-you-say? Or smart microphones? That is what we should start calling them, they will sell a lot less in North America too.
The whole point is that, before all the mining craziness, the MSRP was about that maximum price (a few exceptions like "Golden Sample" super-overclock cards) you'd see. The so-called "street price" was under MSRP and as soon as the next iteration of cards hit the market, the previous generation went for well under MSRP. 2-year old cards went for clearance prices.
Patrick Stewart stars as Captain Picard in a 10-episode spin-off where the retired Starfleet dignitary will engage us in the art of wine-making. It's sponsored by the California winemaking industry, so it comes as no surprise the locale is California, Earth. A former SF training facility was gifted to Picard in recognition of his outstanding services, which was remade in to a 21st Century-style winery, dubbed Chateau Picard. Together with his Akkorexian assistant, Bh'arf, the duo will take us on an exciting journey which takes us from growing grapes to the bottling process. Four out of five stars.
[****O]
"as far as Norid was concerned, because.bv was being opened up for Dutch users, its use should be dictated by Dutch law" = non-Rocket Scientists at work. No, just let's raise taxes instead to generate revenue! Great thinking! Simple solution: just operate the domain under Norwegian law, open it up for *all* users, domestic and foreign, and use WIPO/UDRP to resolve conflicts. And don't give the domain registrations away "on the cheap", just charge 1,000 euros a year for regular domains, 10,000 euros for premium domains (4 and 5 letter) domains and 25,000 euros a year for super-premium domains (3 letter). Then leave 2-letter domains open for one-on-one contract discussions (may end up costing north of 50,000 euros a year). As well, registering and paying for 5-year or 10-year contracts will give you a nice discount, you can put in a guarantee prices will not go up by more that x % etc. which will give registrants some sureties they won't be looking at huge increases to keep their domain (a/k/a/ extortion), etc.
Didn't Darth Vader actor David Prowse tell us that Return of the Jedi also never made a profit?
So box office returns are below estimates. But we still have to go through the PPV, the DVD/BD disc releases, streaming service, TV, then there's all the merchandise/toys, etc. etc.
...and how about private keys? Especially in the console world, that would come in quite handy so paying for quantum computer time via crowdfunding to discover Sony's, Nintendo's, etc. private signing keys could become a thing.
"a higher-than-normal rejection rate for loans for a group doesn't result in a lower-than-normal default rate on those loans"
If the higher-than-normal rejection rate is correct, it SHOULD lead to a "normal" default rate on loans for that group, not significantly more (too lenient) nor significantly lower (too stringent). Managing risks is the whole point and the risk involved should be at a base level for whatever group you look at.
For those that still don't get it, and say "oh well, the lender should just accept the higher losses for those groups" as the price for Looking Decent in the Eyes of the Public, think again. They're not going to absorb that, it's just coming out of the pockets of their other customers. So they'll increase your rate by 0.5% to offset the "Decency Tax".
The four inductees span multiple decades, countries of origin, and gaming platforms,
One can only hope this is a happenstance noticed after the inductees were selected rather than an important selection criterium to somehow validate the "World" in World VG HoF...
The proposed settlement agreement with the FTC does not include any financial penalty or consumer restitution over the alleged issues with affected phones, because in first offense matters such as this, the FTC lacks the power to levy such financial penalties.
IANAL but a class-action lawsuit would be your best bet.
The less players in the oligarchy, the easier it is to have "informal understandings" among the Oligarchs and aside from that, the less choice consumers have. So it's a double-whammy. The ONLY circumstance this would be beneficial if a number of very large new players entered the market and played the long game of pricing the incumbents out (at severe losses), THEN tightening the noose and start raising prices, etc.
That's why it should be called "Recording Industry" not "Music Industry". In Canada, RIAA Local 2, a/k/a CRIA, changed it's name to "Music Canada" but only pricks call it that. It'll be CRIA and CRIAA if you want to be funny.
Yeah... when a microwave can seriously mess up a Cylon, but they're hardened against even the most powerful EMPs... wait, the humans DID try to take out the Cylon fleet with EMPs, right?
Indeed. He's standing there with an "IP Chapter" that the rest of the countries (most of them) do not want nor need, but that he is being told has to push down everyone's throat. He thought of doing one-by-ones, starting with the easiest and then pointing to "new International standards" with the more difficult ones, but it's clear that is not going to work.
If your April Fools stunt is delayed from some reason, that's not to be taken as releasing it later. These jokes are only funny on the morning of April 1st.
The only reason you might want this is for emails that are only relevant for a short period of time e.g. "Want to go for supper tonight?" and put a cancel-by time of 5:30pm, if you haven't heard back by then you can make other arrangements and your email will be gone so you won't have to worry, sitting at the fast food place putting a way a burger, gettting an email at 5:55pm saying "I'd be delighted! Pick me up at 6:30?". You can think of your own other scenarios for limited-time-relevancy emails that you don't want a whole thread about after-the-fact.
And that's exactly NASA's problem. NASA needs to realize they are taxpayer-funded, and that taxpayers want to see (literally) something for their money. And you don't do that with fuzzy 1950's black-and-white pictures or pictures of the "LSD trip" kind (*cough* colour-enhanced *cough*) and certainly not with fancy graphs.
Part of the planetery missions need to be sacrificed to keep the paymasters happy. A visible-light human-visible-spectrum HD colour camera with zoom quite nicely fits that job. That's why people love Hubble. I doubt there will be much excitement among taxpayers for the pictures Webb is going to provide.
PR-wise, one human walking around on Mars is worth 100 landers on Enceladus and Europa (but a submersible probe that breaks through the ice and gets quality video footage of any life forms in the oceans will beat anything, of course).
and they are very, very vocal about it, but somehow he loves them, and their bosses in particular. Strange huh? Wonder what is going on there, but there is more going on than meets the eye. Perhaps it's just Copyright Industry lobbyists somehow being handed the reins?
Why can't this be treated the same way old time BIOSes were developed: one team wrote the specs by RE, the other "clean room" team wrote original code based on the specs. The open up your server (using your own DNS servers, so games connect to gamerserver.mygame.mycompany.com as per usual, just get your IP address back) to people that assert to never to have accepted the game's EULA.
Let me see, 20 pounds for a cabbie to take me from point A to point B for 20 pounds but without GPS, or 10 pounds for an Uber driver who uses a GPS device and it may take 10 minutes longer (or less, if the GPS helps to avoid a traffic jam)... hmmm... decisions, decisions.
Not even that! Just tell users theyr'e on their own finding the patch files. Which OTHER volunteers in OTHER jurisdictions *where this is legal* are happy to supply.
I didn't know there was a Windows 10 Desktop. Only for tablets/surface type systems (with Mobile disappearing). Oh, yeah, there's that "legacy mode" but even that's still 75% tablet-ified. Maybe that's what they are refering to?
So we got that HORRIBLE "phone/tablet" UI in Windows 8, and still in 8.1 and 10, because of the one-platform-for-all idea (classic desktop + mobile), and now MS is dropping mobile? Does that mean we're getting Windows 11 which is basically an updated Windows 7 (driver models, CPU support, DX12, etc.) or what?
Perhaps the poster is suffering from multiple personality disorder, so he can be Edit or Dave. When the Edit personality is dominant, everything is checked for spelling, style, punctuation and grammar. When Dave is dominant, less so.
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Whatever happened after the 2nd Death Star blew up should be rebooted. There never was a 'first order' that was able to amass an army without anyone knowing about it. Or that weird weaponry.
I can believe an Imperial Remnant. I can believe the Emperor lying about the entire fleet being there. I can even believe task forces (a dreadnought with several Star Destroyers and auxiliary vessels) being sent on secretive missions and being too far away to recall. But I believe NONE of that First Order stuff they're trying to push down our throats.
Hopefully Disney will sell the franchise and we'll see a reboot.
Would it help if ISPs phrase their TOS repeat infringer policy to read: multiple CONVICTIONS for copyright infringement and they will be disconnected?
The UFOs are real! The government knows and keeps quiet! Men in Black come and make people who know too much disappear!!!
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China is making smart speakers but Chinese users aren't buying them: There are now over 100 smart speaker developers in the country (including all of the tech giants), but demand isn't there yet -- in 2017, only 350,000 smart speakers were sold in China, compared to 25 million in the US.
Maybe the Chinese term is Listens-all-the-time? We-hear-all-you-say? Or smart microphones? That is what we should start calling them, they will sell a lot less in North America too.
The whole point is that, before all the mining craziness, the MSRP was about that maximum price (a few exceptions like "Golden Sample" super-overclock cards) you'd see. The so-called "street price" was under MSRP and as soon as the next iteration of cards hit the market, the previous generation went for well under MSRP. 2-year old cards went for clearance prices.
Patrick Stewart stars as Captain Picard in a 10-episode spin-off where the retired Starfleet dignitary will engage us in the art of wine-making. It's sponsored by the California winemaking industry, so it comes as no surprise the locale is California, Earth. A former SF training facility was gifted to Picard in recognition of his outstanding services, which was remade in to a 21st Century-style winery, dubbed Chateau Picard. Together with his Akkorexian assistant, Bh'arf, the duo will take us on an exciting journey which takes us from growing grapes to the bottling process. Four out of five stars.
[****O]
"as far as Norid was concerned, because .bv was being opened up for Dutch users, its use should be dictated by Dutch law" = non-Rocket Scientists at work. No, just let's raise taxes instead to generate revenue! Great thinking! Simple solution: just operate the domain under Norwegian law, open it up for *all* users, domestic and foreign, and use WIPO/UDRP to resolve conflicts. And don't give the domain registrations away "on the cheap", just charge 1,000 euros a year for regular domains, 10,000 euros for premium domains (4 and 5 letter) domains and 25,000 euros a year for super-premium domains (3 letter). Then leave 2-letter domains open for one-on-one contract discussions (may end up costing north of 50,000 euros a year). As well, registering and paying for 5-year or 10-year contracts will give you a nice discount, you can put in a guarantee prices will not go up by more that x % etc. which will give registrants some sureties they won't be looking at huge increases to keep their domain (a/k/a/ extortion), etc.
So box office returns are below estimates. But we still have to go through the PPV, the DVD/BD disc releases, streaming service, TV, then there's all the merchandise/toys, etc. etc.
...and how about private keys? Especially in the console world, that would come in quite handy so paying for quantum computer time via crowdfunding to discover Sony's, Nintendo's, etc. private signing keys could become a thing.
"a higher-than-normal rejection rate for loans for a group doesn't result in a lower-than-normal default rate on those loans"
If the higher-than-normal rejection rate is correct, it SHOULD lead to a "normal" default rate on loans for that group, not significantly more (too lenient) nor significantly lower (too stringent). Managing risks is the whole point and the risk involved should be at a base level for whatever group you look at.
For those that still don't get it, and say "oh well, the lender should just accept the higher losses for those groups" as the price for Looking Decent in the Eyes of the Public, think again. They're not going to absorb that, it's just coming out of the pockets of their other customers. So they'll increase your rate by 0.5% to offset the "Decency Tax".
The four inductees span multiple decades, countries of origin, and gaming platforms,
One can only hope this is a happenstance noticed after the inductees were selected rather than an important selection criterium to somehow validate the "World" in World VG HoF...
From TFA:
The proposed settlement agreement with the FTC does not include any financial penalty or consumer restitution over the alleged issues with affected phones, because in first offense matters such as this, the FTC lacks the power to levy such financial penalties.
IANAL but a class-action lawsuit would be your best bet.
The less players in the oligarchy, the easier it is to have "informal understandings" among the Oligarchs and aside from that, the less choice consumers have. So it's a double-whammy. The ONLY circumstance this would be beneficial if a number of very large new players entered the market and played the long game of pricing the incumbents out (at severe losses), THEN tightening the noose and start raising prices, etc.
That's why it should be called "Recording Industry" not "Music Industry". In Canada, RIAA Local 2, a/k/a CRIA, changed it's name to "Music Canada" but only pricks call it that. It'll be CRIA and CRIAA if you want to be funny.
Yeah... when a microwave can seriously mess up a Cylon, but they're hardened against even the most powerful EMPs... wait, the humans DID try to take out the Cylon fleet with EMPs, right?
Indeed. He's standing there with an "IP Chapter" that the rest of the countries (most of them) do not want nor need, but that he is being told has to push down everyone's throat. He thought of doing one-by-ones, starting with the easiest and then pointing to "new International standards" with the more difficult ones, but it's clear that is not going to work.
If your April Fools stunt is delayed from some reason, that's not to be taken as releasing it later. These jokes are only funny on the morning of April 1st.
The only reason you might want this is for emails that are only relevant for a short period of time e.g. "Want to go for supper tonight?" and put a cancel-by time of 5:30pm, if you haven't heard back by then you can make other arrangements and your email will be gone so you won't have to worry, sitting at the fast food place putting a way a burger, gettting an email at 5:55pm saying "I'd be delighted! Pick me up at 6:30?". You can think of your own other scenarios for limited-time-relevancy emails that you don't want a whole thread about after-the-fact.
And that's exactly NASA's problem. NASA needs to realize they are taxpayer-funded, and that taxpayers want to see (literally) something for their money. And you don't do that with fuzzy 1950's black-and-white pictures or pictures of the "LSD trip" kind (*cough* colour-enhanced *cough*) and certainly not with fancy graphs.
Part of the planetery missions need to be sacrificed to keep the paymasters happy. A visible-light human-visible-spectrum HD colour camera with zoom quite nicely fits that job. That's why people love Hubble. I doubt there will be much excitement among taxpayers for the pictures Webb is going to provide.
PR-wise, one human walking around on Mars is worth 100 landers on Enceladus and Europa (but a submersible probe that breaks through the ice and gets quality video footage of any life forms in the oceans will beat anything, of course).
and they are very, very vocal about it, but somehow he loves them, and their bosses in particular. Strange huh? Wonder what is going on there, but there is more going on than meets the eye. Perhaps it's just Copyright Industry lobbyists somehow being handed the reins?
Why can't this be treated the same way old time BIOSes were developed: one team wrote the specs by RE, the other "clean room" team wrote original code based on the specs. The open up your server (using your own DNS servers, so games connect to gamerserver.mygame.mycompany.com as per usual, just get your IP address back) to people that assert to never to have accepted the game's EULA.
Let me see, 20 pounds for a cabbie to take me from point A to point B for 20 pounds but without GPS, or 10 pounds for an Uber driver who uses a GPS device and it may take 10 minutes longer (or less, if the GPS helps to avoid a traffic jam)... hmmm... decisions, decisions.
Not even that! Just tell users theyr'e on their own finding the patch files. Which OTHER volunteers in OTHER jurisdictions *where this is legal* are happy to supply.
I didn't know there was a Windows 10 Desktop. Only for tablets/surface type systems (with Mobile disappearing). Oh, yeah, there's that "legacy mode" but even that's still 75% tablet-ified. Maybe that's what they are refering to?
So we got that HORRIBLE "phone/tablet" UI in Windows 8, and still in 8.1 and 10, because of the one-platform-for-all idea (classic desktop + mobile), and now MS is dropping mobile? Does that mean we're getting Windows 11 which is basically an updated Windows 7 (driver models, CPU support, DX12, etc.) or what?
Perhaps the poster is suffering from multiple personality disorder, so he can be Edit or Dave. When the Edit personality is dominant, everything is checked for spelling, style, punctuation and grammar. When Dave is dominant, less so.