Your concise summary is exactly why I refuse to use Steam or any service like it.
Unfortunately, you are quickly losing the choice because even boxed retail games now use Steam for the DRM. So you can either play the game using Steam DRM, or you can not - you have no third legal option. If you don't buy the game in protest of the DRM the developer will decide that PC games have no market any longer, if you do buy the game you validate their DRM, and if you pirate the game you give them the excuse they needed for the DRM in the first place. They really have all the angles covered now.
The problem is that boxed games are no longer any less restrictive than the downloaded version. Down of War 2 and Empire Total War are two recent examples of games where the boxed game was basically a preloaded version of the Steam game. They install through Steam and use Steam for DRM - forever locking your CD key to your Steam account. The nice part of that for the producer - no used market for those games, whether purchased in box form or not.
"(Silicon Alley Insider recently calculated that the New York Times could save more than $300 million a year by shutting down its presses and buying every subscriber a Kindle)." Except the Kindle 2 doesn't do color. Also, they assume there would be no costs for distributing newspaper electronically. I'm not saying it wouldn't be cheaper, but their analysis is way off.
And your analysis of their analysis is based on what? The summary posted on Slashdot?
Once again, these trees are not from clear-cut tropical forests made into farmland for subsistence farming. These trees are most likely in areas managed by forestry companies who plant at least as many trees as they cut.
There are regulations in western countries and the forestry companies would be putting themselves out of business if they cut down all the trees.
Do police need a warrant to look at the front desk's guest log?
The hotel room analogy also explains why IP addresses are insufficient evidence of criminal activity. If they know that criminal activity took place in room 128 last week, and arrest whomever is staying in that room this week, they don't necessarily have the person responsible. Could it in fact be the criminal? Sure, it's possible. But hotel rooms change occupants on a regular basis.
I'm not a cop, but the guy sitting next to me is, and he says the answer to your first question is no - he can ask a hotel for the name of the occupant of the room in question on the day in question without a warrant, as long as there is reasonable suspicion that the person was invoved in a crime.
And on the second point, I doubt the police were dumb enough to not account for the fact that IPs are dynamic and get the information who had the IP address at the time in question.
When a medicine taken by a patient costs $100 per month, and costs $5 in Cuba, you know there's someone paying off a loan on a 100 foot yacht, and it;s not the person taking the medicine.
Either that, or the rest of the population is paying to subsidise the true cost - hence the term subsidised medicine.
Maybe they changed their policy in later years (after I stopped visiting their stores), I don't know, but the negative perception I developed about them persists to this day. And now they're gone. I wonder if they learned anything?
Apparently they've learned how to drive a company into bankruptcy. Now let's see if any other companies can apply that lesson in a positive way.
Seriously, I understand that RTFA is so 1990's, but before you post foolish comments at least make some effort.
Our power usage is unusually high for a typical, four person nuclear family. A big part of that is because I have a PC lab and network in the basement. Both my wife and I work out of the house much of the time, with her time almost 100% in the home office. Plus, we have two teenage girls and a pretty beefy HDTV and home audio setup in the family room.
Huh? The Visa Waiver program is a bilateral deal - the waiver applies going both ways. You don't need a waiver to travel to Japan from the US, just like you don't need a visa to travel to the US from Japan. Same goes for the other waiver countries. You need to fill out entry/exit forms, but that is not the same as a visa.
The claim that the initial "depressurization" would make the crew "incapacitated within seconds" relies on the common perception that exposure to the vacuum of space makes your face explode. That's not the case, as has been explained over and over -- you can't breathe (" respiration ceased after the depressurization" in the report), but not breathing hasn't been the criteria for "death" since the Middle Ages.
The concept there is Time of Useful Consciousness - which is how long a human can remain conscious when exposed to high altitudes. For someone taken from essentially sea level (whatever the shuttle normally is) to 200,000 feet that time is going to be very, very short - probably on the order of seconds. Even at normal fighter altitudes of 40-50,000 feet the TUC is 9-12 seconds, and it is even lower (up to 50% lower) in the case of a rapid decompression, which this almost certainly was.
It appears that the pressure suits worn by the crew required user input to "configure the suit for full protection from loss of cabin pressure." Pardon my ignorance, but shouldn't a certain pressure be set as minimum survivable pressure, and a "dead-man switch" set to activate at that point? Not that it would have saved them, but though.
I think in this case it means that some individuals were not in the full pressure suit - they weren't wearing the gloves and they didn't have the visors down, so they would have had to manually correct those deficiencies to get full protection.
Why would the battery (okay, ultra-cap) storage area of an electric car be at 85C? There's no engine making heat, and the electric motors would likely be at the wheels, separate from the storage area.
The median tuition for their member private day schools in 2005-2006 in the United States was close to $14,000 for grades 1 to 3, $15,000 for grades 6 to 8 and $16,600 for grades 9 to 12. Public schools average cost per student is $13340, and they take everyone, including the very expensive special-needs kids.
I think you need to factor in the quality of the education you receive as well. I'm not saying private school is always better, but the difference between the private school I used to send my kids to and the public school they go to now is pretty dramatic.
The beauty of the system is that it doesn't really need to work outside of Waikiki. If they could get all the tourists who visit and rent cars into electric cars, with charging stations at the hotels, that alone would be a significant improvement. Hawaii is perfect for electric cars because range is not a factor - the farthest most drivers would go is from their hotel in Waikiki up to the North Shore and back, which should be easy range for an electric car. Then they plug the car in at the hotel garage and let it charge up, ready for the next day.
The renewable energy thing is really a different discussion - whether the electric is generated by oil or renewable, it is still more efficient than burning it in the rental cars.
That being said, it really is crazy that they aren't getting more renewable energy here - from geothermal if nothing else.
Anyone who said that we weren't in a recession on any day before today was right, at that time, because only today did anyone find out we really were in a recession. Did you expect all those people to have time machines to find out back in January what the NBER just announced today?
For anyone who still thinks there could have possibly been a legitimate reason for this, think again. What's been confirmed to me is that roughly seven employees from a store in eastern Massachusetts (I know where, but there's no need to get THAT specific) were goofing around and were interested in Obama's records. They apparently didn't realize how seriously this would be taken. The (unconfirmed) rumor is that they were just bored at work, and someone thought it might be funny to look it up. They did not have any malicious intentions, but at the same time they had no legitimate reason to access the account. They are all suspended, and they will all be fired after the investigation confirms what the accused have already shared with other VZW employees. Don't worry about how I know, I just do.
Sorry, I'm always suspicious when someone tells me something and then says "Don't worry about how I know, I just do." Didn't Colin Powell use those exact words at the UN?
Seriously, dude, Obama is not a socialist, and Bush put an end to more liberties than Obama would ever have any inclination to end.
Maybe, but it's not like people on Nov 5, 2000 were saying, oh shit, this Bush guy is going to take away all our liberties. Obama hasn't yet taken away any liberties, but he also hasn't taken office yet. Hopefully things will be all good, but it is a little premature to divine Obama's inclination.
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Your concise summary is exactly why I refuse to use Steam or any service like it.
Unfortunately, you are quickly losing the choice because even boxed retail games now use Steam for the DRM. So you can either play the game using Steam DRM, or you can not - you have no third legal option. If you don't buy the game in protest of the DRM the developer will decide that PC games have no market any longer, if you do buy the game you validate their DRM, and if you pirate the game you give them the excuse they needed for the DRM in the first place. They really have all the angles covered now.
The problem is that boxed games are no longer any less restrictive than the downloaded version. Down of War 2 and Empire Total War are two recent examples of games where the boxed game was basically a preloaded version of the Steam game. They install through Steam and use Steam for DRM - forever locking your CD key to your Steam account. The nice part of that for the producer - no used market for those games, whether purchased in box form or not.
"(Silicon Alley Insider recently calculated that the New York Times could save more than $300 million a year by shutting down its presses and buying every subscriber a Kindle)." Except the Kindle 2 doesn't do color. Also, they assume there would be no costs for distributing newspaper electronically. I'm not saying it wouldn't be cheaper, but their analysis is way off.
And your analysis of their analysis is based on what? The summary posted on Slashdot?
Once again, these trees are not from clear-cut tropical forests made into farmland for subsistence farming. These trees are most likely in areas managed by forestry companies who plant at least as many trees as they cut. There are regulations in western countries and the forestry companies would be putting themselves out of business if they cut down all the trees.
Wow, way to kill a joke, Poindexter.
Do police need a warrant to look at the front desk's guest log? The hotel room analogy also explains why IP addresses are insufficient evidence of criminal activity. If they know that criminal activity took place in room 128 last week, and arrest whomever is staying in that room this week, they don't necessarily have the person responsible. Could it in fact be the criminal? Sure, it's possible. But hotel rooms change occupants on a regular basis.
I'm not a cop, but the guy sitting next to me is, and he says the answer to your first question is no - he can ask a hotel for the name of the occupant of the room in question on the day in question without a warrant, as long as there is reasonable suspicion that the person was invoved in a crime. And on the second point, I doubt the police were dumb enough to not account for the fact that IPs are dynamic and get the information who had the IP address at the time in question.
Actually the EU just finished the first test flight of their unmanned automated transfer vehicle, the Jules Verne.
It will never land by itself. Yeah, I said 'never'.
Why not? The Global Hawk already does.
Broadband has obvious, quantifiable benefits that are apparent basically as soon as you have it.
For you and me, yes. For my 65 year old parents, not so much. Don't project your own habits onto others.
When a medicine taken by a patient costs $100 per month, and costs $5 in Cuba, you know there's someone paying off a loan on a 100 foot yacht, and it;s not the person taking the medicine.
Either that, or the rest of the population is paying to subsidise the true cost - hence the term subsidised medicine.
Maybe they changed their policy in later years (after I stopped visiting their stores), I don't know, but the negative perception I developed about them persists to this day. And now they're gone. I wonder if they learned anything?
Apparently they've learned how to drive a company into bankruptcy. Now let's see if any other companies can apply that lesson in a positive way.
Perhaps they are trying to imply to no one of importance reads USA Today, so their publishing of it is what made it big news.
Our power usage is unusually high for a typical, four person nuclear family. A big part of that is because I have a PC lab and network in the basement. Both my wife and I work out of the house much of the time, with her time almost 100% in the home office. Plus, we have two teenage girls and a pretty beefy HDTV and home audio setup in the family room.
Huh? The Visa Waiver program is a bilateral deal - the waiver applies going both ways. You don't need a waiver to travel to Japan from the US, just like you don't need a visa to travel to the US from Japan. Same goes for the other waiver countries. You need to fill out entry/exit forms, but that is not the same as a visa.
The claim that the initial "depressurization" would make the crew "incapacitated within seconds" relies on the common perception that exposure to the vacuum of space makes your face explode. That's not the case, as has been explained over and over -- you can't breathe (" respiration ceased after the depressurization" in the report), but not breathing hasn't been the criteria for "death" since the Middle Ages.
The concept there is Time of Useful Consciousness - which is how long a human can remain conscious when exposed to high altitudes. For someone taken from essentially sea level (whatever the shuttle normally is) to 200,000 feet that time is going to be very, very short - probably on the order of seconds. Even at normal fighter altitudes of 40-50,000 feet the TUC is 9-12 seconds, and it is even lower (up to 50% lower) in the case of a rapid decompression, which this almost certainly was.
It appears that the pressure suits worn by the crew required user input to "configure the suit for full protection from loss of cabin pressure." Pardon my ignorance, but shouldn't a certain pressure be set as minimum survivable pressure, and a "dead-man switch" set to activate at that point? Not that it would have saved them, but though.
I think in this case it means that some individuals were not in the full pressure suit - they weren't wearing the gloves and they didn't have the visors down, so they would have had to manually correct those deficiencies to get full protection.
Why would the battery (okay, ultra-cap) storage area of an electric car be at 85C? There's no engine making heat, and the electric motors would likely be at the wheels, separate from the storage area.
In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics.
And yet we use two of them on the Shuttle every time it gets launched.
The median tuition for their member private day schools in 2005-2006 in the United States was close to $14,000 for grades 1 to 3, $15,000 for grades 6 to 8 and $16,600 for grades 9 to 12. Public schools average cost per student is $13340, and they take everyone, including the very expensive special-needs kids.
I think you need to factor in the quality of the education you receive as well. I'm not saying private school is always better, but the difference between the private school I used to send my kids to and the public school they go to now is pretty dramatic.
The renewable energy thing is really a different discussion - whether the electric is generated by oil or renewable, it is still more efficient than burning it in the rental cars.
That being said, it really is crazy that they aren't getting more renewable energy here - from geothermal if nothing else.
Anyone who said that we weren't in a recession on any day before today was right, at that time, because only today did anyone find out we really were in a recession. Did you expect all those people to have time machines to find out back in January what the NBER just announced today?
For anyone who still thinks there could have possibly been a legitimate reason for this, think again. What's been confirmed to me is that roughly seven employees from a store in eastern Massachusetts (I know where, but there's no need to get THAT specific) were goofing around and were interested in Obama's records. They apparently didn't realize how seriously this would be taken. The (unconfirmed) rumor is that they were just bored at work, and someone thought it might be funny to look it up. They did not have any malicious intentions, but at the same time they had no legitimate reason to access the account. They are all suspended, and they will all be fired after the investigation confirms what the accused have already shared with other VZW employees. Don't worry about how I know, I just do.
Sorry, I'm always suspicious when someone tells me something and then says "Don't worry about how I know, I just do." Didn't Colin Powell use those exact words at the UN?
Maybe it was really reverse vampires?
Why do we care about "defending Israel"?
Call it the collective guilt of 6 million deaths.
Nanotech grey goo is doomed to impossibility. Why? Power. You can't extract energy from your environment by chewing up concrete and dirt and stuff.
But by the time we have nanobots that are self-replicating, we'll also be able to tap into zero point energy - then we'll see about impossibility.
Seriously, dude, Obama is not a socialist, and Bush put an end to more liberties than Obama would ever have any inclination to end.
Maybe, but it's not like people on Nov 5, 2000 were saying, oh shit, this Bush guy is going to take away all our liberties. Obama hasn't yet taken away any liberties, but he also hasn't taken office yet. Hopefully things will be all good, but it is a little premature to divine Obama's inclination.