(or perhaps Amazon benefited from not being 'first', same as when Apple pioneered online music with iTunes and got AES AAC while Amazon later had plain MP3)
Based on lots of reviews, AAC sounds better at the same bitrate. How is that being worse?
I don't have a Wii, but have considered getting one largely to play the old relatively old cheap games from the Wii store, plus a few Wii specific games.. and thought this cheaper one would be a good fit, but nope..
Recently as in when? I've been using svn for at LEAST a few years, and it's been the same as long as I've been using it.
svn merge -c NUM URL is what I use the vast majority of the time.
I still don't know what you mean by "painful", unless it means merge conflicts.. and as I said in my original reply, at least anecdotally, I saw merge conflicts far less often in svn than cvs⦠and I say this as someone who prefers cvs.
True, though in the Nordic countries you typically get ~6 weeks' vacation anyway, so there's less incentive to misuse sick days. It's mainly in the US where you'd want to, and there, they can't require you to see a doctor, because you might not even have health insurance.
Why couldn't they require you to see a doctor? How is having or not having health insurance relevant? If you're a salary worker, it seems perfectly valid to confirm you actually are sick. If you're hourly, you don't get paid when you're sick, so faking being sick is only a way to get laid off sooner if you do it too often.
The only thing I think painful about it is all of the freaking URLs you have to use all over the place.. Then again, I'm comparing it to the mostly easier cvs⦠and from a currently non-git user point of view, you go from rev #s in cvs to big URLs in svn to completely incomprehensible long hex #s in git. But at least I seem to have fewer merge conflicts with svn than I do with cvs.
It doesn't help that "free shipping" didn't come until recently, so the fact you had to pay tax AND shipping meant that the prices were often equivalent to retail, so you might as well just buy it locally and get the benefit of immediate satisfaction and cheaper returns.
Even if the total prices were equivalent, aren't there times when you DON'T need it right away, where getting it shipped directly to you for the same price is more convenient?
In other words, people often pay MORE for more convenience. In this case, it seems to me that you're paying the same for more convenience, unless you need it NOW, so you're in effect getting a better value.
But your link does NOT have the same content. Your article doesn't mention anything regarding "chang[ing] the recipe to make it more healthy". The original article (at least the article I read after googling the headline, which presumably is the same article) only VAGUELY mentions that, but at the very least, it's different content than your article.
Then do scientifically controlled double-blind studies about it, publish the results, and make tons of money for curing diseases that we can't currently cure. Leave out all of the "chi" junk too.
But the morality that government arbitrates is behavior, not thought.
That's wrong. We have "hate crime" laws. Those are by definition punishing thought rather than actions. I can come up with very unlikely edge case scenarios where I *might* vote guilty for a "hate crime" verdict, but in realistic cases, I think I would vote not guilty (but of course guilty for the ACTUAL crime of murder or whatever the person did if the evidence supports it).
This is absolutely not supporting their thought. I can *think* they're more of a scumbag for murdering people who are X instead of a random person, but they shouldn't be punished more for it. (BTW, I voted NO on 34, to keep the death penalty. I'm very tough on crime, and if you want to raise my taxes to build more prisons, GREAT. I'm still not for punishing thought crime.)
Again, the fact that you hate ads just means you aren't receiving the good ones
No, I hate even the good ones(*), after I've seen them once. Even though I FF or 30 second skip (depending on show, since some shows like Jeopardy once in a while put an extra show bit in the commercial break so I might miss it 30 second skipping), I still end up seeing most ads once⦠but then I skip them from then on.
(*) Jack in the Box ads, many Apple ads, and others. Heck, I record the Super Bowl *for* the ads, and FF through the boring "game". Then I record basically everything else through the year to avoid the ads.
That doesn't say either way, but I think a reasonable assumption would be that they were referring to regular end users, not businesses/business accounts.
Yet, if someone thinks that was violated, they should sue.
I have to agree. If anything, we'll split into two groups, those who while away their lives watching reality TV, and the rest of us, grimly fighting to keep science alive and hold our infrastructure together.
I watch a lot of TV and movies (yes, including reality TV), and ALSO am very much a scientist and keep myself informed about the latest goings on in science. (Went on a SLAC tour as part of the Bay Area Science festival, and went to a lecture at Stanford.)
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I'm not going to reject it *if you provide scientific evidence that it exists* (that is reproducible by other people too).
So "life force" is a real thing? Give me proof that it exists. It sounds like you are believing the mumbo jumbo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi
Based on lots of reviews, AAC sounds better at the same bitrate. How is that being worse?
I don't have a problem with making it cheaper, or even taking out features WHEN you make it cheaper.. as long as those are made clear.
It is fairly clear (standard disclaimer at the bottom of the page) that it doesn't play GameCube games.
Not just no WiFi, but
I don't have a Wii, but have considered getting one largely to play the old relatively old cheap games from the Wii store, plus a few Wii specific games.. and thought this cheaper one would be a good fit, but nope..
Recently as in when? I've been using svn for at LEAST a few years, and it's been the same as long as I've been using it.
svn merge -c NUM URL
is what I use the vast majority of the time.
I still don't know what you mean by "painful", unless it means merge conflicts.. and as I said in my original reply, at least anecdotally, I saw merge conflicts far less often in svn than cvs⦠and I say this as someone who prefers cvs.
Why couldn't they require you to see a doctor? How is having or not having health insurance relevant? If you're a salary worker, it seems perfectly valid to confirm you actually are sick. If you're hourly, you don't get paid when you're sick, so faking being sick is only a way to get laid off sooner if you do it too often.
Why do you call merging painful in svn?
The only thing I think painful about it is all of the freaking URLs you have to use all over the place.. Then again, I'm comparing it to the mostly easier cvs⦠and from a currently non-git user point of view, you go from rev #s in cvs to big URLs in svn to completely incomprehensible long hex #s in git. But at least I seem to have fewer merge conflicts with svn than I do with cvs.
Even if the total prices were equivalent, aren't there times when you DON'T need it right away, where getting it shipped directly to you for the same price is more convenient?
In other words, people often pay MORE for more convenience. In this case, it seems to me that you're paying the same for more convenience, unless you need it NOW, so you're in effect getting a better value.
Isn't that true for all companies that have regional versions?
But your link does NOT have the same content. Your article doesn't mention anything regarding "chang[ing] the recipe to make it more healthy". The original article (at least the article I read after googling the headline, which presumably is the same article) only VAGUELY mentions that, but at the very least, it's different content than your article.
Then do scientifically controlled double-blind studies about it, publish the results, and make tons of money for curing diseases that we can't currently cure. Leave out all of the "chi" junk too.
No pun intended..?
That's wrong. We have "hate crime" laws. Those are by definition punishing thought rather than actions. I can come up with very unlikely edge case scenarios where I *might* vote guilty for a "hate crime" verdict, but in realistic cases, I think I would vote not guilty (but of course guilty for the ACTUAL crime of murder or whatever the person did if the evidence supports it).
This is absolutely not supporting their thought. I can *think* they're more of a scumbag for murdering people who are X instead of a random person, but they shouldn't be punished more for it. (BTW, I voted NO on 34, to keep the death penalty. I'm very tough on crime, and if you want to raise my taxes to build more prisons, GREAT. I'm still not for punishing thought crime.)
Apple has the new two year contract (optionally now), but updates the iPhones for at least a few years for each model.
I use my iPhone in the bathtub all the time (check email, play Words with Friends, etc).
No, I'm not an AC, and I have high karma, so I have the checkbox enabled to disable ads.
(Actually, it was unchecked a second ago, but I still wasn't seeing ads.. Just turned the ads off.)
No, I hate even the good ones(*), after I've seen them once. Even though I FF or 30 second skip (depending on show, since some shows like Jeopardy once in a while put an extra show bit in the commercial break so I might miss it 30 second skipping), I still end up seeing most ads once⦠but then I skip them from then on.
(*) Jack in the Box ads, many Apple ads, and others. Heck, I record the Super Bowl *for* the ads, and FF through the boring "game". Then I record basically everything else through the year to avoid the ads.
I don't watch something "because it's on". I actively seek it out (and my Tivo seeks out future episodes).
Even if he was a Dirty Old Man, wasn't he intelligent? People quote the 3 Laws of Robotics all over the place.
All I'm trying to say is that you CAN enjoy junky shows and still be intelligent. Call it a rationalization if you want, but I don't think it is.
(Plus, Shakespeare, which people consider the most high falutin' thing around, has tons of dirty jokes.)
Yes, I think all sentences are punishment. That's why you get fined or put in prison.. for punishment.
No. BTW, Isaac Asimov wrote an article for TV Guide in the 1970s about how "Three's Company" was his favorite TV show.
That doesn't say either way, but I think a reasonable assumption would be that they were referring to regular end users, not businesses/business accounts.
Yet, if someone thinks that was violated, they should sue.
You're just doing the same thing as those who act all holier than thou about not watching TV (made fun of in
http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mentioning-he-doesnt-own-a-tel,429/).
I watch a lot of TV and movies (yes, including reality TV), and ALSO am very much a scientist and keep myself informed about the latest goings on in science. (Went on a SLAC tour as part of the Bay Area Science festival, and went to a lecture at Stanford.)
No, that's just uncle Lenny.