My son got a new Dell laptop over the summer. For various reasons he rarely takes it anywhere, so it's pretty much been parked on his desk attached to the charger full-time. Is that going to kill his battery life? Should he unhook the power cord just for the sake of running it on battery power?
One young man I know, who requires a wheelchair to get around, finds the Wii version of Madden much more satisfying, not to mention possible, than your suggestion.
Plus, it's the NFLPA that licenses the players' names; the NFL licenses the team names and logos. Without both you either get Tom Brady playing for "Boston" or the Patriots have Joe Schlabotnik at QB.
One word of warning: the walk from the Tube stop to the Imperial War Museum is long. Or maybe we just picked an entirely wrong stop to get off at. Incidentally, the building that houses the IWM is the former Our Lady of Bethlehem Hospital, more familiarly known as Bedlam Asylum.
It may not be particularly geeky, but visiting the Tower of London should be right up there with Westminster Abbey on the list of "things you absolutely have to do in London." You don't have to take the tour if you just want to run to the Jewel House to see diamonds the size of golf balls, but you'll learn a lot more if you do.
It's not that the government is unwilling to regulate it. It's that government grants them the monopoly. Your local government prohibits other companies from competing with the "authorized" cable franchisee. Get rid of this and allow companies to compete and at least you'll have an option to switch when one of them does something stupid.
While I haven't read every cable TV franchise in the USA, the portion I bolded is probably wrong in most cases. Every franchise agreement I have read specifies that it is "non-exclusive"; i.e., any other qualified operator who comes into your town and who wants to set up a system should be able to get a franchise from the town. The issue is that, with a very few exceptions, the population density in a given area isn't great enough to make it profitable to run side-by-side systems, so the first operator in winds up being the only one. The only places I have heard of which had multiple systems available were a section of Manhattan Island (i.e., central New York City) and some places where people were so fed up with their service that a municipal system was set up to compete (which sidesteps the profitability argument).
Note: IANAL, but I have served on a municipal Cable TV committee.
Plus, we can use any TV receiver we want to receive over-the-air broadcast programming with no direct* out-of-pocket expenses at all except for buying the set in the first place. This entire discussion only involves receiving signals from private, closed transmission systems (i.e., cable and/or satellite).
* "Direct" being a weasel word so we don't digress into a "but you pay for the ads when you buy the advertised stuff" conversation.
Big, heavy, rotary Western Electric phone for the win, baby! Not only does it sound great, it's great fun to watch the kids' friends try to figure out how to dial the phone using an actual dial.
Not to mention... when it rings, you hear an actual bell!
Didn't Nikola Tesla not only develop that theory (of the Earth as a giant capacitor), but also propose harnessing the potential difference to provide power to those of us on the surface? I'm not sure that we would fully understand the ramifications of discharging the planet, but still...
This one started even earlier than usual, and the primary schedule (Iowa and New Hampshire excepted) tends to change every 4 years as states jockey for position. Other than that, and of course the particular candidates and issues in play, it's about the same.
One word of advice: vote for the candidate whose judgment in a crisis you trust most. Whatever they are promising will be so hacked by Congress that it usually doesn't matter in the long run. MHO, YMMV.
The maps are the best part, as you can see which parts of the country provided the closest margins. It's also interesting that, in 1976, Hawaii had a smaller number of votes needed to flip it than Delaware (Hawaii is generally considered safely Democratic).
This sounds a lot like the idea that you can derive all of electromagnetic physics from Maxwell's equations. It may be true, but don't try to do it during the test.
More howling, imo, needs to happen in regards to them releasing this with a lot of Windows specific code. The way I understand things, you try to keep your source as posix as possible from the start and not write a Windows application for beta, then slowly rework your code to something more Linux friendly. I could be wrong.
Given that their largest userbase is going to be Windows users (just by force of numbers), it doesn't seem reasonable to me to want to start by writing for an entirely different API, especially for a GUI application. Just because it's open source doesn't mean that it has to be written for the Unix* world.
And please don't get me started on "how I could do that in five minutes." If you think like that then you actually don't understand art.
This comment -- and the response -- comes up frequently in discussions of art. Can you point to a resource which would serve as a primer on what makes "foo" art and "bar" not, for the benefit of those of us who never took an art (-creation or -appreciation) course?
Historically, the price of a vote has been a lot less than a million dollars; at one time, people would vote for whichever candidate was handing out the best rum on Election Day.
I doubt that your vote would be that much more powerful if you didn't sell it; in fact, I think the opposite. No one is going to be buying votes for a million apiece unless they can buy enough to guarantee a victory, so your opposition vote would presumably be moot. And paying people not to vote, as opposed to paying them to support your candidate, is just a silly premise.
It's still the case as well that quite a few large enterprise-type applications have adopted the "Wrap our fat client in an ActiveX blanket and call it 'web-enabled'" methodology, which means that even if someone uses FF as their daily browser they will still need to use IE for those.
I would also submit that for an IE-only site, the relevant number is not "How many people using FF hit your site?" but rather "How many people using FF hit your site but aren't interested enough to come back with IE?"
Radio and television utilize the broadcast airwaves that are considered to be owned by the public. POTS has long been considered to be something akin to a necessity of life, and has been regulated that way. However, the overall political climate in this country is farther to the right than it was in the 1930's, and it's doubtful that internet access will be given the same "essential" status as POTS.
Given that, then the concept of "the internet" resolves to the physical layer: the backbones and T3's and switchers and NICs that IP needs in order to a place to exist and travel across. And each of those blinky lights is owned by someone who has all the rights that that ownership implies, which include the right to try to extract as large a profit as you legally can from your property.
The other thing to bear in mind is that, of the "useful arts" the Constitution mentions in the patents and copyrights clause, it is generally the unspoken rule that the most useful of them all is the art of getting someone to pay you for something that they used to get for free.
No, this predated the karma bonus and any public announcements of comment moderation. It seemed more like Taco and Hemos and whoever was hanging around Taco's office when he left his machine unlocked could personally assign points to comments they deemed [James Earl Jones voice]impressive[/JEJ voice].
I realize that you are trying to recap years of history in a short story, but there was one thing I recall from the early days, pre-moderation: some comments would get point scores, usually 1 or sometimes (rarely) 2. I remember hoping that some day, something I had written would be considered useful / funny / striking enough to get a point, but I don't think it ever happened. How did that work? Also, where does the great password caper, where CmdrTaco discovers that even if There's More Than One Way To Do It, keeping user info in a plaintext flatfile is Not One Of Them, come into the story?
Ogg was funny as hell, and MEEPT at least made some interesting points, a far cry from those whose posts wind up at -1 automatically. Ah, for the old days. OGG THE OPEN-SOURCE CAVEMAN! OGG BREAK HEAD WITH OPEN-SOURCE CD!
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...now they're aping Human Target !
My son got a new Dell laptop over the summer. For various reasons he rarely takes it anywhere, so it's pretty much been parked on his desk attached to the charger full-time. Is that going to kill his battery life? Should he unhook the power cord just for the sake of running it on battery power?
One young man I know, who requires a wheelchair to get around, finds the Wii version of Madden much more satisfying, not to mention possible, than your suggestion.
Plus, it's the NFLPA that licenses the players' names; the NFL licenses the team names and logos. Without both you either get Tom Brady playing for "Boston" or the Patriots have Joe Schlabotnik at QB.
One word of warning: the walk from the Tube stop to the Imperial War Museum is long. Or maybe we just picked an entirely wrong stop to get off at. Incidentally, the building that houses the IWM is the former Our Lady of Bethlehem Hospital, more familiarly known as Bedlam Asylum.
It may not be particularly geeky, but visiting the Tower of London should be right up there with Westminster Abbey on the list of "things you absolutely have to do in London." You don't have to take the tour if you just want to run to the Jewel House to see diamonds the size of golf balls, but you'll learn a lot more if you do.
While I haven't read every cable TV franchise in the USA, the portion I bolded is probably wrong in most cases. Every franchise agreement I have read specifies that it is "non-exclusive"; i.e., any other qualified operator who comes into your town and who wants to set up a system should be able to get a franchise from the town. The issue is that, with a very few exceptions, the population density in a given area isn't great enough to make it profitable to run side-by-side systems, so the first operator in winds up being the only one. The only places I have heard of which had multiple systems available were a section of Manhattan Island (i.e., central New York City) and some places where people were so fed up with their service that a municipal system was set up to compete (which sidesteps the profitability argument). Note: IANAL, but I have served on a municipal Cable TV committee.
Plus, we can use any TV receiver we want to receive over-the-air broadcast programming with no direct* out-of-pocket expenses at all except for buying the set in the first place. This entire discussion only involves receiving signals from private, closed transmission systems (i.e., cable and/or satellite).
* "Direct" being a weasel word so we don't digress into a "but you pay for the ads when you buy the advertised stuff" conversation.
Not to mention... when it rings, you hear an actual bell!
Didn't Nikola Tesla not only develop that theory (of the Earth as a giant capacitor), but also propose harnessing the potential difference to provide power to those of us on the surface? I'm not sure that we would fully understand the ramifications of discharging the planet, but still...
I'll go with "We apologize for the inconvenience." DNA quoting DNA.
Even when I was in school 20+ years ago, a BBA was a laughable degree. A B[AS] in Management was considered far more credible.
This one started even earlier than usual, and the primary schedule (Iowa and New Hampshire excepted) tends to change every 4 years as states jockey for position. Other than that, and of course the particular candidates and issues in play, it's about the same.
One word of advice: vote for the candidate whose judgment in a crisis you trust most. Whatever they are promising will be so hacked by Congress that it usually doesn't matter in the long run. MHO, YMMV.
So, Bush 41 beat someone named "Dukasis"?
The maps are the best part, as you can see which parts of the country provided the closest margins. It's also interesting that, in 1976, Hawaii had a smaller number of votes needed to flip it than Delaware (Hawaii is generally considered safely Democratic).
I bet he'll be outbid by NBC.
You mean besides Tim?
This sounds a lot like the idea that you can derive all of electromagnetic physics from Maxwell's equations. It may be true, but don't try to do it during the test.
Given that their largest userbase is going to be Windows users (just by force of numbers), it doesn't seem reasonable to me to want to start by writing for an entirely different API, especially for a GUI application. Just because it's open source doesn't mean that it has to be written for the Unix* world.
That would probably be CmdrTaco, Slashdot's foremost proponent of Grammar 2.0.
Wrong Symphony. They recycled the name for what appears to be IBM Lotus OOo-Works. IOW, a stripped-down office suite.
Historically, the price of a vote has been a lot less than a million dollars; at one time, people would vote for whichever candidate was handing out the best rum on Election Day.
I doubt that your vote would be that much more powerful if you didn't sell it; in fact, I think the opposite. No one is going to be buying votes for a million apiece unless they can buy enough to guarantee a victory, so your opposition vote would presumably be moot. And paying people not to vote, as opposed to paying them to support your candidate, is just a silly premise.
It's still the case as well that quite a few large enterprise-type applications have adopted the "Wrap our fat client in an ActiveX blanket and call it 'web-enabled'" methodology, which means that even if someone uses FF as their daily browser they will still need to use IE for those.
I would also submit that for an IE-only site, the relevant number is not "How many people using FF hit your site?" but rather "How many people using FF hit your site but aren't interested enough to come back with IE?"
Radio and television utilize the broadcast airwaves that are considered to be owned by the public. POTS has long been considered to be something akin to a necessity of life, and has been regulated that way. However, the overall political climate in this country is farther to the right than it was in the 1930's, and it's doubtful that internet access will be given the same "essential" status as POTS.
Given that, then the concept of "the internet" resolves to the physical layer: the backbones and T3's and switchers and NICs that IP needs in order to a place to exist and travel across. And each of those blinky lights is owned by someone who has all the rights that that ownership implies, which include the right to try to extract as large a profit as you legally can from your property.
The other thing to bear in mind is that, of the "useful arts" the Constitution mentions in the patents and copyrights clause, it is generally the unspoken rule that the most useful of them all is the art of getting someone to pay you for something that they used to get for free.
No, this predated the karma bonus and any public announcements of comment moderation. It seemed more like Taco and Hemos and whoever was hanging around Taco's office when he left his machine unlocked could personally assign points to comments they deemed [James Earl Jones voice]impressive[/JEJ voice].
I realize that you are trying to recap years of history in a short story, but there was one thing I recall from the early days, pre-moderation: some comments would get point scores, usually 1 or sometimes (rarely) 2. I remember hoping that some day, something I had written would be considered useful / funny / striking enough to get a point, but I don't think it ever happened. How did that work? Also, where does the great password caper, where CmdrTaco discovers that even if There's More Than One Way To Do It, keeping user info in a plaintext flatfile is Not One Of Them, come into the story?
Ogg was funny as hell, and MEEPT at least made some interesting points, a far cry from those whose posts wind up at -1 automatically. Ah, for the old days. OGG THE OPEN-SOURCE CAVEMAN! OGG BREAK HEAD WITH OPEN-SOURCE CD!