They're not exactly space-wasting - the same spot was filled with the path before. It's just that it's now clickable as shortcuts. Or, click to the right, and it's an editable path again. Control Panel still has an all items view.
But that's OK, Obama passed a law mandating that we be able to afford healthcare. Since we have to buy health insurance by 2014, we are somehow saved! I'm not sure where the money's coming from...
Or cover more than a 1/3 of the screen with bright colors when you're watching a dark scene and you can't even make out the 2/3 that aren't covered up.
And it makes the content sound like crap. In actuality, it just over-compresses the main program so it's as bad as the commercials. Sure, it's all the same loudness, but you just lost the dynamic range in your show or movie.
First thing I turn off on a new TV. Actually, the second. Dynamic contrast ratio is worse.
Wow - and for cheaper than the Internet, they can just have a CD mailed to them. No computer needed, just take it to the pharmacy and look through them and make prints if you want. Seems dumb to pay for a computer and "That Internet" for just that.
But I actually LIKE going to shops to check out stuff physically before I buy in IT THE SHOP so I have somewhere to take it back to if it fails instead of having to parcel it up and go down the post office and pay money to send it back and then find out it got lost in the post and they never received it.
That's really great and people who go to a physical shop to check something out before buying online cheaper are really cheating the shops out of a return on the service they provide. On the other hand, there's a lot of products that are in a box and you can't see before you buy anyway. Even paying return shipping once in a while, the online price is so much lower that you still save money. If you use a trackable courier to return your product, and buy insurance on that shipment you have nothing to worry about. And again, you still save money.
I LIKE sending cheques instead of using direct debit so *I* can choose on what day I pay, not have the money taken out regardless of how much is left in my account.
You do realize you can pay some bills online with same day direct debit without signing up for automatic payments, right? Checks take time to arrive and process. If you want to pick the exact day for a payment to post, you do it online.
I LIKE speaking to a human on the end of a phone, not having to navigate through some feckin useless website which doesn't solve my problem anyway.
Netflix ONLY offers phone support. It's terrible, and sometimes I just wish I could send an email - only type it once, so when the problem is escalated I don't have to repeat myself.
I LIKE using cash because I don't want my bank/CC company knowing about every single goddamn transaction I make.
They don't care.
And to sum up , I LIKE not having to be reliant on a sometimes unreliable piece of kit called a computer to run my entire feckin life.
That's more a matter of cultural or geographical identity. If you were from London, you wouldn't say you were from England - London is well enough recognized and a major cultural distinction. You would say you were from London. Personally, I think that's just how US-centric we Americans are - not realizing that people outside the U.S. may not know the names of individual states. If I lived in Chicago, I would probably say I'm from Chicago - not Illinois or the United States. It's very precise, and I would presume it to be well-enough recognized.
No - it's more than that. Obnoxius commercials have added compression effects added to the audio. Even if you normalize it to the TV show, the relative loudness of the commercial is quieter. In a TV Show, you only hit the max waveform height once in a while. Commercials mix sound so that the waveform is hitting the top level almost all the time. Record part of a TV show and then record part of a commercial. The TV show will have lots of waves and curves in the overall waveform. The commercial will look like a solid rectangle until you zoom in.
Must be thinking of eBay fees + Paypal fees (the double dipping that happens on ebay purchases). Makes me avoid Paypal sometimes before I forget that all the big losses are from eBay.
The main install for Firefox is now 14MB in the latest version, but it's not a stub install. I've run the installer just fine on an unconnected PC. On the other hand, updates come out so fast, that you could almost consider the download copy a "stub install" that also happens to be a full install of Firefox that then auto-updates over the Internet.
No. Freedom of speech - the spirit of that doesn't depend on technology. The letter of it does. But communication becoming more pervasive due to that technology might cause the spirit of the law to come into question. That need for clarification wouldn't hit the whole of the law at once - and honestly would be rather rare. But could congress pass a 2-sentence amendment without including a 1 billion dollar highway project, a new statue built in some other constituent state, and other random riders?
And if you're the type who likes to replay games 10 years or even 20 years later, you'll find that the hard drive died and so has the download service. That's very short-sighted.
That brings back memories of the CD-ROM version of Riven: The Sequel to Myst. Each of 5 islands was on a separate disc. You had to go back and forth from one island to another rather frequently.
For some people it's a budget priority. Some people want to go further than public transit can take them. I, for one, don't live in a metro area, though, so a car is fairly essential. My car insurance is more than your bus ticket, but it's well within most people's budget here.
OK - so if I order pizza delivered to her home every night it's the pizza guy that's harassing her and not me. That makes me OK, right? If someone's acting as your agent, it might as well be you. Oh I just hired a hit man, I didn't commit murder.
When did we get our dream judges that uphold the spirit of the law and not the letter? The only incidents of that I've seen lately are judges that say the "spirit of the law" is somehow different than what it would have been when written (in the case of older laws). The spirit of the law shouldn't change over time. That's what new legislation is for. If only our legislative system were efficient enough that small edits to existing law were reasonably possible.
Exactly - our freedom of speech in the U.S. is lax to an extreme level for a good reason, and it beats the alternative. Still, there's no way not to construe what he did as not harassment (regardless of what words were said).
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They're not exactly space-wasting - the same spot was filled with the path before. It's just that it's now clickable as shortcuts. Or, click to the right, and it's an editable path again. Control Panel still has an all items view.
That would require admin privileges under the new security model. Have you installed the VB6 runtime files and tried running as administrator?
Why would you pay $200 for a full version, when you can upgrade 3 XP machines for under $150 (with a 3-pack upgrade disc).
But that's OK, Obama passed a law mandating that we be able to afford healthcare. Since we have to buy health insurance by 2014, we are somehow saved! I'm not sure where the money's coming from...
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Or cover more than a 1/3 of the screen with bright colors when you're watching a dark scene and you can't even make out the 2/3 that aren't covered up.
And it makes the content sound like crap. In actuality, it just over-compresses the main program so it's as bad as the commercials. Sure, it's all the same loudness, but you just lost the dynamic range in your show or movie.
First thing I turn off on a new TV. Actually, the second. Dynamic contrast ratio is worse.
Wow - and for cheaper than the Internet, they can just have a CD mailed to them. No computer needed, just take it to the pharmacy and look through them and make prints if you want. Seems dumb to pay for a computer and "That Internet" for just that.
That's really great and people who go to a physical shop to check something out before buying online cheaper are really cheating the shops out of a return on the service they provide. On the other hand, there's a lot of products that are in a box and you can't see before you buy anyway. Even paying return shipping once in a while, the online price is so much lower that you still save money. If you use a trackable courier to return your product, and buy insurance on that shipment you have nothing to worry about. And again, you still save money.
You do realize you can pay some bills online with same day direct debit without signing up for automatic payments, right? Checks take time to arrive and process. If you want to pick the exact day for a payment to post, you do it online.
Netflix ONLY offers phone support. It's terrible, and sometimes I just wish I could send an email - only type it once, so when the problem is escalated I don't have to repeat myself.
They don't care.
Buy two. They're cheap.
That's more a matter of cultural or geographical identity. If you were from London, you wouldn't say you were from England - London is well enough recognized and a major cultural distinction. You would say you were from London. Personally, I think that's just how US-centric we Americans are - not realizing that people outside the U.S. may not know the names of individual states. If I lived in Chicago, I would probably say I'm from Chicago - not Illinois or the United States. It's very precise, and I would presume it to be well-enough recognized.
Relative loudness of the commercial is louder. The rest is correct.
No - it's more than that. Obnoxius commercials have added compression effects added to the audio. Even if you normalize it to the TV show, the relative loudness of the commercial is quieter. In a TV Show, you only hit the max waveform height once in a while. Commercials mix sound so that the waveform is hitting the top level almost all the time. Record part of a TV show and then record part of a commercial. The TV show will have lots of waves and curves in the overall waveform. The commercial will look like a solid rectangle until you zoom in.
Must be thinking of eBay fees + Paypal fees (the double dipping that happens on ebay purchases). Makes me avoid Paypal sometimes before I forget that all the big losses are from eBay.
True, the IP's value isn't based on the sales it generates this year. It's at the very least spread over the number of years of a patent.
The main install for Firefox is now 14MB in the latest version, but it's not a stub install. I've run the installer just fine on an unconnected PC. On the other hand, updates come out so fast, that you could almost consider the download copy a "stub install" that also happens to be a full install of Firefox that then auto-updates over the Internet.
I know nothing about this, but with X being a display protocol, couldn't you run X in 64-bit and connect to it from a 32-bit app just fine?
No. Freedom of speech - the spirit of that doesn't depend on technology. The letter of it does. But communication becoming more pervasive due to that technology might cause the spirit of the law to come into question. That need for clarification wouldn't hit the whole of the law at once - and honestly would be rather rare. But could congress pass a 2-sentence amendment without including a 1 billion dollar highway project, a new statue built in some other constituent state, and other random riders?
And if you're the type who likes to replay games 10 years or even 20 years later, you'll find that the hard drive died and so has the download service. That's very short-sighted.
That brings back memories of the CD-ROM version of Riven: The Sequel to Myst. Each of 5 islands was on a separate disc. You had to go back and forth from one island to another rather frequently.
For some people it's a budget priority. Some people want to go further than public transit can take them. I, for one, don't live in a metro area, though, so a car is fairly essential. My car insurance is more than your bus ticket, but it's well within most people's budget here.
Well - a few chemicals might be for dissolving weaker stone. Water does a pretty good job of that, though.
OK - so if I order pizza delivered to her home every night it's the pizza guy that's harassing her and not me. That makes me OK, right? If someone's acting as your agent, it might as well be you. Oh I just hired a hit man, I didn't commit murder.
Although I'm sure they did that by interpreting that the constitution says they had that power - and circular logic in a closed loop can't be broken.
When did we get our dream judges that uphold the spirit of the law and not the letter? The only incidents of that I've seen lately are judges that say the "spirit of the law" is somehow different than what it would have been when written (in the case of older laws). The spirit of the law shouldn't change over time. That's what new legislation is for. If only our legislative system were efficient enough that small edits to existing law were reasonably possible.
Exactly - our freedom of speech in the U.S. is lax to an extreme level for a good reason, and it beats the alternative. Still, there's no way not to construe what he did as not harassment (regardless of what words were said).