About five years ago I, spent about $75 on a low power FM transmitter from CanaKit. I can get music anywhere in my house (or at close neighbors' houses) with a simple radio. CanaKit's transmitters cost from $20 up to $300 and have about a 150 meter range (about 500 feet).
Recently I added the "Remote" app to my iPhone. Now I can chose songs and playlists without needing to walk over to the computer. Obviously this will not work if you can't, or won't, use iTunes.
If the story in the example is true, then t's painfully obvious that the coder(s) in the example didn't understand some core concepts in math and computer science
Wrong! Firewire 800 is on all Apple desktops and all but one of their notebooks. Apple has dropped Firewire from exactly one model: their cheapest notebook, the 13" macbook.
How is this not obvious? There are already devices that lock you out until you watch some advertising. DVD players, for example. This is just a case of grafting something like "in a computer operating system" onto the description of something that's already common.
BTW - It could be argued that DVD players have a "primative" operating system
You also have the advantage of less than 15 million people voting, whereas in the last election in the US about 136.6 million voted. Hand counting ballots is a just a bit harder if there are 10 times as many of them to count
Not if you have 10 times as many people to count them. These massively parallel systems scale rather well you know.
If restraining orders include Internet contact, then it means you can send someone to jail if you can forge a packet from their machine.
It's no different from someone calling using the restrainee's phone... or spoofing that phone. That's even easier than forging packets. Again, no special "internet law" is needed
It's REALLY REALLY hard to work off weight. Like multi-day 12 hour a day grueling death march up the side of a mountain with 60 pounds of gear hard.
That's only half true: It's REALLY REALLY hard to work off weight QUICKLY, but it's easy to work off weight slowly. Unfortunately far too many people won't commit the time. They don't understand that getting to a healthy weight isn't about starving yourself in a semi-magical series of rituals, it's about how you live your life. The reality is that what you eat and don't burn gets stored as fat.
If you don't want to move and you want to lose weight, you go hungry. If you move, you burn more. If you eat for "comfort" and convenience, instead of for fuel and pleasure, you'll probably eat more than you burn.
You're missing the point. Canadians *BUY* things via debit, and the transaction is FREE because our bank plans cover the debit card transactions. 50 cents is a lot more than free, especially if it's that small transaction we all carry around that $20 for. Secondly, Canadians don't use debit cards to pay each other.... and it's very unlikely that they'll spend 50 cents to RECEIVE a few bucks
If they're hoping to take over a significant share of transactions between private individuals (aka "consumers"), they're in for a rude shock. The service is grossly overpriced. Cash is free and most people get a certain number of free cheques / free withdrawls on their bank plans. Ten cents a transaction *might* be cheap enough
1) Content not purchased on iTunes may be played on iTunes/iPod 2) Car parts may be reverse-engineered and manufactured by someone other than the car maker 3) Ink cartridges may be refilled and/or reverse engineered
A moments thought after reading TFA suggest that you'd probably need to buy several readers (for hundreds of dollars each) because there'll be multiple competing devices and not every publisher will not be "allowed" on every device. There may also be an artificial separation by "format" (for example: Kindle for books, Hearst for magazines, Sony for ?)
Do they really believe that people will willingly own multiple e-readers? People will pick one reader and they will expect ALL content to be "readable" on it. E-reader manufacturers will need to set licensing fees low enough for publishers to distribute across multiple platforms (i.e. their reader and their competitors readers) or they will drive away attractive content... and nobody will want to buy a device without content.
Right now I'm in a market for a 15" MBP to replace a PPC Powerbook but the glossy screen is preventing me from purchasing it.
Anti-glare covers only about $35 and might do the job, but Techrestore is offering a $199 matte screen swap for the 15" MBP. Here's the arstechnica article.
Someone once said, "The difference between a european and an american is that the european thanks that 100 miles is a long way and an american thinks that 100 years is a long time"
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Puss or Poos... I don't know which is more disturbing
About five years ago I, spent about $75 on a low power FM transmitter from CanaKit. I can get music anywhere in my house (or at close neighbors' houses) with a simple radio. CanaKit's transmitters cost from $20 up to $300 and have about a 150 meter range (about 500 feet).
Recently I added the "Remote" app to my iPhone. Now I can chose songs and playlists without needing to walk over to the computer. Obviously this will not work if you can't, or won't, use iTunes.
If the story in the example is true, then t's painfully obvious that the coder(s) in the example didn't understand some core concepts in math and computer science
The mini has Firewire 800 http://www.apple.com/ca/macmini/specs.html
Wrong! Firewire 800 is on all Apple desktops and all but one of their notebooks. Apple has dropped Firewire from exactly one model: their cheapest notebook, the 13" macbook.
In this case it's already being done on other devices, such as a DVD player. This is just moving a common function to a new device/new medium.
How is this not obvious? There are already devices that lock you out until you watch some advertising. DVD players, for example. This is just a case of grafting something like "in a computer operating system" onto the description of something that's already common. BTW - It could be argued that DVD players have a "primative" operating system
Not if you have 10 times as many people to count them. These massively parallel systems scale rather well you know.
It's no different from someone calling using the restrainee's phone... or spoofing that phone. That's even easier than forging packets. Again, no special "internet law" is needed
....they should use use iKB, iMB, and iGB, rather than KiB, MiB, and GiB or KB, MB, and GB
That's only half true: It's REALLY REALLY hard to work off weight QUICKLY, but it's easy to work off weight slowly. Unfortunately far too many people won't commit the time. They don't understand that getting to a healthy weight isn't about starving yourself in a semi-magical series of rituals, it's about how you live your life. The reality is that what you eat and don't burn gets stored as fat.
If you don't want to move and you want to lose weight, you go hungry. If you move, you burn more. If you eat for "comfort" and convenience, instead of for fuel and pleasure, you'll probably eat more than you burn.
Your sig is probably too cheeky
It won't end well.
Hey! Somebody had to say it!
You're missing the point. Canadians *BUY* things via debit, and the transaction is FREE because our bank plans cover the debit card transactions. 50 cents is a lot more than free, especially if it's that small transaction we all carry around that $20 for. Secondly, Canadians don't use debit cards to pay each other.... and it's very unlikely that they'll spend 50 cents to RECEIVE a few bucks
If they're hoping to take over a significant share of transactions between private individuals (aka "consumers"), they're in for a rude shock. The service is grossly overpriced. Cash is free and most people get a certain number of free cheques / free withdrawls on their bank plans. Ten cents a transaction *might* be cheap enough
Not only that ...but it might make policemen harder too
Who could ever have imagined American prudes saving American liberty?
The article should have read, "Apparently this is BEING EXCUSED BY PRETENDING THAT IT IS an effective way of going after casual piracy."
All of the following are legal:
1) Content not purchased on iTunes may be played on iTunes/iPod
2) Car parts may be reverse-engineered and manufactured by someone other than the car maker
3) Ink cartridges may be refilled and/or reverse engineered
A moments thought after reading TFA suggest that you'd probably need to buy several readers (for hundreds of dollars each) because there'll be multiple competing devices and not every publisher will not be "allowed" on every device. There may also be an artificial separation by "format" (for example: Kindle for books, Hearst for magazines, Sony for ?)
Do they really believe that people will willingly own multiple e-readers? People will pick one reader and they will expect ALL content to be "readable" on it. E-reader manufacturers will need to set licensing fees low enough for publishers to distribute across multiple platforms (i.e. their reader and their competitors readers) or they will drive away attractive content... and nobody will want to buy a device without content.
Hopefully, this reminder will have the Effect of Affecting your poor spelling and will also help you to distinguish between common vowels in english.
Anti-glare covers only about $35 and might do the job, but Techrestore is offering a $199 matte screen swap for the 15" MBP. Here's the arstechnica article.
Someone once said, "The difference between a european and an american is that the european thanks that 100 miles is a long way and an american thinks that 100 years is a long time"
Great explanation. Thanx