Our wonderful, conservative-activist Supreme Court just ruled today that any company may stick a line in their EULA stating that by using their product, you forfeit the right to sue, and must instead use a private arbiter of the corporation's choice. They based this decision on a 90 year old law that was written to cover maritime shipping disputes.
Of course, since most contracts these days state that the corporation has the right to change the terms at any time without notice, this basically means that you can no longer sue a company that you've entered into a contract with.
Still think you have rights? Not as long as a Republican holds office!
No one should pity the Adobe Reader devs, after the plague that they've unleashed upon the world. Thank God that Foxit and Sumatra have finally gotten good enough to free us from Adobe's clutches.
Incidentally, that same fact tends to make a MS-supplied reader redundant. I wonder if they just repackaged Sumatra?
The ribbon is a marked improvement over the old style file menus. People just didn't like it at first because it meant they needed to re-learn the locations of the commands they use. I'm having to relearn where to find certain things on the new Firefox GUI, but that doesn't make it bad.
If someone had been brought up using the ribbon, and you showed them an old-style menu, they'd think it was designed by amateurs. Where do you change settings.... edit>preferences, or tools>options? Find is under edit, not view? And print preview is under file, instead of view? Why is print a file command at all? And why is import, when paste is under edit? Come on, towards the end they were just cramming in new commands wherever they'd fit.
Since my household has no shortage of food but we have a desperate shortage of funds in the bank, our budget for gas to get to work should not be funded. Let a less bankrupt person take my job.
What could possibly go wrong?
(For the obtuse: you need to spend money to make money.)
What the hell do you mean, am I an expert in this? Since when do you need a PhD in knowing that beating up little girls isn't okay?
The reviews of incidents like this are a joke. The cop gets a two week paid vacation while his buddies from work get to decide that, "nah, that bitch was asking for it". Meanwhile, they plant evidence or make up lies to charge the victim with some crime. The victim, desperate to get their life back and by now fully aware of just how corrupt the cops are, gives up and begs forgiveness, even though they've done nothing wrong. Not that their pleading matters... the inhuman bastards punish them for "assaulting a cop's knuckles" all the same.
Bad news.... if you replace all the parts, you're dead. Sure, there may now be a robotic doppelganger out there, but it's not you. You don't get to share in its experiences simply because it looks and acts like you. Unless they come up with a way to perform soul transplants, you're screwed. And if there is no soul to transplant, then you're really screwed.
I see posts like this all the time. "We can't punish the companies, because they'll just jack up prices to push the cost on to us!" That's what the companies want you to think, because that way they don't get punished.
The truth is that the price of a good has very little to do with the cost to make it. The price is set based on how much people are willing to pay -- and if that price isn't high enough to turn a profit, the product doesn't get made.
People are willing to pay $50 to $60 for a video game. If Sony tries to jack up prices, they'll just lose market share because people aren't willing to pay that much.
No, Sony will eat this loss and avoid incurring it in the future, just as the GP suggested.
I think a reasonable police officer should respond with reasonable force. A seventeen year old girl grabbing the wrist of a trained adult man does not warrant a full-on punch to the face.
And where's your defense of the first video? That girl, only fifteen years old, kicked her shoe off in the direction of the cop -- with an amount of force that a 90 year old cancer patient could shrug off -- and how does he respond? Throws her head first into a wall, grabs her by the hair and yanks her backwards onto the ground, sticks his knee in her back, and proceeds to beat the everloving shit out of her. Is that your idea of a reasonable response?
To answer your question, you should fear going to Seattle only if you're a teenage girl. The Seattle cops aren't racist, they just prefer to beat on people who can't defend themselves.
Baseball: MLB.tv, $100 a year, regional blackouts apply, but as soon as the game ends, it becomes available everywhere
Hockey: NHL Game Center, $80 a year, same restrictions as baseball
Soccer: MLS Game Day Live, $60 a year, blackouts are for 48 hours, but easy to avoid spoilers because no one talks about soccer in this country anyway
Football: NFL Game Rewind, $15/month, games are only available the day after they end, which makes it hard to avoid spoilers. The NFL has a contract with DirectTV until 2014, so don't expect this to get better any time soon.
Basketball: NBA League Pass, $190 a year (!!), and unless something has changed, blacked out games never become available.
Note that championship games are usually blacked out nationwide. The only partial exception is that the MLB will let you pay $20 extra to watch the raw stadium feeds with radio broadcasts overlaid.
I've done this. I use the following services: Netflix (1 DVD at a time, $10/month) Hulu (free version) MLB.tv ($100/year) PlayOn (I got a lifetime license for $30 by getting in early. Now it's $80 for a lifetime.)
PlayOn allows streaming of new shows (Hulu), old shows and movies (Netflix), MLB games, and individual channel sites (like Comedy Central) to my XBox at a total annual cost of $220, or under $20 a month. The only cable service I could get at that price is the super-restricted version that only gives about a dozen channels, most of which I could get OTA anyway.
I get the added advantages of being able to watch everything on my own schedule, and also watch while travelling -- unless I leave the country, which unfortunately blacks out most services. But that's what the Netflix DVDs are for. I rip them to my harddrive as fast as I can get them, and now have a nice stockpile of movies to watch while overseas.
Why on earth would you use metric for cooking -- the one thing where the imperial system is so much easier? Teaspoons, tablespoons, cups... you can't make a system easier than that. Sure, you can weigh everything out in grams, but unless you're making confections, it's needless precision, akin to measuring your weight out to eight significant figures.
Actually, you pretty much describe the system as it exists. The 1 year period the GP refers to is for a provisional patent. You file the provisional patent saying "I'm about to release a cool new invention that does X" and then you have one year to release it and file for a non-provisional patent, which lasts for 20 (or 14 if it's a design patent covering the form rather than the function).
Sorry, but you're the one who knows nothing about the subject. Jobs weren't lost, just moved? Yeah, to China maybe. What are you gonna tell all the people who worked at Borders? That they should relocate to Taiwan and work on the iPad assembly line? You're saying something about "Where are you going to buy e-books... we've moved from brick-and-mortar distribution to digital". Do you really think that Amazon's ebook store requires even 10% of the staff that Border's employed? If so, then you truly know nothing about the subject.
Look, I'm big on technology. I fully understand and appreciate the benefits it has for society. But pretending there are no costs is stupid, and insulting to those people who are suffering the costs.
The team was lead by Michael Fuhrer, not Andrew Geim. The only relationship Geim has to this article is that he received a Nobel for discovering a process to create the material that these researched used (i.e. graphene)
It's not electric current that magnetizing the graphene, it's small impurities - specifically, gaps in the lattice. The magnetism is controllable by tuning the number and location of the impurities, which is what makes this potentially useful
This doesn't have anything to do with spin, except insofar as all electromagnetism topics do. Spintronics is only mentioned at the very end of the article as something this "could also have interesting applications in".
It's almost like the summary is describing a different article.
Let's imagine a world where you don't pay for the "unearned security" of others. The kid next door, through no fault of his own, has irresponsible parents. Maybe he gets knocked around. He certainly can't afford college. He tries to get a job, but the antics of the super-rich (in their efforts to become double-ultra-super-rich) have sent a lot of them overseas. He has no access to food or medicine or shelter, because you're too greedy to toss some money his way.
So he breaks into your home, robs, and murders you.
Taxes are what the rich people pay in exchange for the poor letting them continue to be rich. Doesn't seem fair? Tough shit. Life isn't fair. Just ask that starving kid next door.
Don't be naive. That may work on some people, but a lot of people in government are already millionaires in their own right - often because they've already been bought.
The outcome of the Milgram experiment doesn't mean that it's OK to do bad things. It simply shows that a disappointly large percentage of people are immoral and will do immoral things when told to. TSA agents groping little girls fall into that category.
Because FPGAs are very expensive. The top end ones cost more than people want to spend on their entire desktop, just for that one chip. Custom logic will always be cheaper, because it only gives you what you need.
Also, your idea of shutting it down to save power doesn't really help. All chips go to sleep when not in use, there's nothing special about FPGAs in that respect.
"FPGAs are very expensive because they are large pieces of silicon," says Teig, "and silicon [wafer] costs roughly $1 billion an acre."
Then again, you should never argue with a man who buys his ink by the gallon, or his wafers by the acre.
Especially when he's so incredibly wrong. Silicon costs more like $10 million per acre right now (I had to look up the conversion, it's a kinda weird unit). The reason FPGAs are expensive is because of all the crap you need to implant and deposit and remove in order to make that silicon into a chip. And then you have the added cost of testing every single transistor in the chip to make sure that no little dust particle floated by and ruined the chip. That's where the size really hurts you, because one tiny defect wastes a large chunk of your wafer (though at least in FPGAs you can sell a partially damaged chip at a lower price).
The silicon itself is only a small portion of the price.
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Our wonderful, conservative-activist Supreme Court just ruled today that any company may stick a line in their EULA stating that by using their product, you forfeit the right to sue, and must instead use a private arbiter of the corporation's choice. They based this decision on a 90 year old law that was written to cover maritime shipping disputes.
Of course, since most contracts these days state that the corporation has the right to change the terms at any time without notice, this basically means that you can no longer sue a company that you've entered into a contract with.
Still think you have rights? Not as long as a Republican holds office!
No one should pity the Adobe Reader devs, after the plague that they've unleashed upon the world. Thank God that Foxit and Sumatra have finally gotten good enough to free us from Adobe's clutches.
Incidentally, that same fact tends to make a MS-supplied reader redundant. I wonder if they just repackaged Sumatra?
The ribbon is a marked improvement over the old style file menus. People just didn't like it at first because it meant they needed to re-learn the locations of the commands they use. I'm having to relearn where to find certain things on the new Firefox GUI, but that doesn't make it bad.
If someone had been brought up using the ribbon, and you showed them an old-style menu, they'd think it was designed by amateurs. Where do you change settings.... edit>preferences, or tools>options? Find is under edit, not view? And print preview is under file, instead of view? Why is print a file command at all? And why is import, when paste is under edit? Come on, towards the end they were just cramming in new commands wherever they'd fit.
Since my household has no shortage of food but we have a desperate shortage of funds in the bank, our budget for gas to get to work should not be funded. Let a less bankrupt person take my job.
What could possibly go wrong?
(For the obtuse: you need to spend money to make money.)
What the hell do you mean, am I an expert in this? Since when do you need a PhD in knowing that beating up little girls isn't okay?
The reviews of incidents like this are a joke. The cop gets a two week paid vacation while his buddies from work get to decide that, "nah, that bitch was asking for it". Meanwhile, they plant evidence or make up lies to charge the victim with some crime. The victim, desperate to get their life back and by now fully aware of just how corrupt the cops are, gives up and begs forgiveness, even though they've done nothing wrong. Not that their pleading matters... the inhuman bastards punish them for "assaulting a cop's knuckles" all the same.
Bad news.... if you replace all the parts, you're dead. Sure, there may now be a robotic doppelganger out there, but it's not you. You don't get to share in its experiences simply because it looks and acts like you. Unless they come up with a way to perform soul transplants, you're screwed. And if there is no soul to transplant, then you're really screwed.
I see posts like this all the time. "We can't punish the companies, because they'll just jack up prices to push the cost on to us!" That's what the companies want you to think, because that way they don't get punished.
The truth is that the price of a good has very little to do with the cost to make it. The price is set based on how much people are willing to pay -- and if that price isn't high enough to turn a profit, the product doesn't get made.
People are willing to pay $50 to $60 for a video game. If Sony tries to jack up prices, they'll just lose market share because people aren't willing to pay that much.
No, Sony will eat this loss and avoid incurring it in the future, just as the GP suggested.
I think a reasonable police officer should respond with reasonable force. A seventeen year old girl grabbing the wrist of a trained adult man does not warrant a full-on punch to the face.
And where's your defense of the first video? That girl, only fifteen years old, kicked her shoe off in the direction of the cop -- with an amount of force that a 90 year old cancer patient could shrug off -- and how does he respond? Throws her head first into a wall, grabs her by the hair and yanks her backwards onto the ground, sticks his knee in her back, and proceeds to beat the everloving shit out of her. Is that your idea of a reasonable response?
I, for one, am glad that the Seattle PD is finally going after actual criminals instead of beating the shit out of teenage girls and punching jaywalkers.
To answer your question, you should fear going to Seattle only if you're a teenage girl. The Seattle cops aren't racist, they just prefer to beat on people who can't defend themselves.
Baseball: MLB.tv, $100 a year, regional blackouts apply, but as soon as the game ends, it becomes available everywhere
Hockey: NHL Game Center, $80 a year, same restrictions as baseball
Soccer: MLS Game Day Live, $60 a year, blackouts are for 48 hours, but easy to avoid spoilers because no one talks about soccer in this country anyway
Football: NFL Game Rewind, $15/month, games are only available the day after they end, which makes it hard to avoid spoilers. The NFL has a contract with DirectTV until 2014, so don't expect this to get better any time soon.
Basketball: NBA League Pass, $190 a year (!!), and unless something has changed, blacked out games never become available.
Note that championship games are usually blacked out nationwide. The only partial exception is that the MLB will let you pay $20 extra to watch the raw stadium feeds with radio broadcasts overlaid.
I've done this. I use the following services:
Netflix (1 DVD at a time, $10/month)
Hulu (free version)
MLB.tv ($100/year)
PlayOn (I got a lifetime license for $30 by getting in early. Now it's $80 for a lifetime.)
PlayOn allows streaming of new shows (Hulu), old shows and movies (Netflix), MLB games, and individual channel sites (like Comedy Central) to my XBox at a total annual cost of $220, or under $20 a month. The only cable service I could get at that price is the super-restricted version that only gives about a dozen channels, most of which I could get OTA anyway.
I get the added advantages of being able to watch everything on my own schedule, and also watch while travelling -- unless I leave the country, which unfortunately blacks out most services. But that's what the Netflix DVDs are for. I rip them to my harddrive as fast as I can get them, and now have a nice stockpile of movies to watch while overseas.
Why on earth would you use metric for cooking -- the one thing where the imperial system is so much easier? Teaspoons, tablespoons, cups... you can't make a system easier than that. Sure, you can weigh everything out in grams, but unless you're making confections, it's needless precision, akin to measuring your weight out to eight significant figures.
Actually, you pretty much describe the system as it exists. The 1 year period the GP refers to is for a provisional patent. You file the provisional patent saying "I'm about to release a cool new invention that does X" and then you have one year to release it and file for a non-provisional patent, which lasts for 20 (or 14 if it's a design patent covering the form rather than the function).
But it won't make a point. All it will do is reinforce the belief that file-sharers are greedy kids who think they should be above consequences.
Do you really think that even a single person, upon hearing of "Kopimism" and its holy shortcut keys will think "Gee, they have a point!"?
Sorry, but you're the one who knows nothing about the subject. Jobs weren't lost, just moved? Yeah, to China maybe. What are you gonna tell all the people who worked at Borders? That they should relocate to Taiwan and work on the iPad assembly line? You're saying something about "Where are you going to buy e-books... we've moved from brick-and-mortar distribution to digital". Do you really think that Amazon's ebook store requires even 10% of the staff that Border's employed? If so, then you truly know nothing about the subject.
Look, I'm big on technology. I fully understand and appreciate the benefits it has for society. But pretending there are no costs is stupid, and insulting to those people who are suffering the costs.
It's almost like the summary is describing a different article.
How many people are even using Vista? It's like announcing that the new version of Office doesn't support Windows ME.
Let's imagine a world where you don't pay for the "unearned security" of others. The kid next door, through no fault of his own, has irresponsible parents. Maybe he gets knocked around. He certainly can't afford college. He tries to get a job, but the antics of the super-rich (in their efforts to become double-ultra-super-rich) have sent a lot of them overseas. He has no access to food or medicine or shelter, because you're too greedy to toss some money his way.
So he breaks into your home, robs, and murders you.
Taxes are what the rich people pay in exchange for the poor letting them continue to be rich. Doesn't seem fair? Tough shit. Life isn't fair. Just ask that starving kid next door.
Don't be naive. That may work on some people, but a lot of people in government are already millionaires in their own right - often because they've already been bought.
What I want to start is a non-profit BANK!
So you want to start a credit union. Incidentally, it can never be said enough: do your business with credit unions, not banks.
Only if it's exactly a million to one. Quick, somebody get Larry Page to make the announcement while standing on one foot and wearing a fuzzy hat!
So why should we put up with their theatre?
Because it makes money to somebody.
I never said it was a reason you'd like.
Bingo. I don't even want to know how much we taxpayers got soaked for on those idiotic x-ray machines.
The outcome of the Milgram experiment doesn't mean that it's OK to do bad things. It simply shows that a disappointly large percentage of people are immoral and will do immoral things when told to. TSA agents groping little girls fall into that category.
Because FPGAs are very expensive. The top end ones cost more than people want to spend on their entire desktop, just for that one chip. Custom logic will always be cheaper, because it only gives you what you need.
Also, your idea of shutting it down to save power doesn't really help. All chips go to sleep when not in use, there's nothing special about FPGAs in that respect.
Then again, you should never argue with a man who buys his ink by the gallon, or his wafers by the acre.
Especially when he's so incredibly wrong. Silicon costs more like $10 million per acre right now (I had to look up the conversion, it's a kinda weird unit). The reason FPGAs are expensive is because of all the crap you need to implant and deposit and remove in order to make that silicon into a chip. And then you have the added cost of testing every single transistor in the chip to make sure that no little dust particle floated by and ruined the chip. That's where the size really hurts you, because one tiny defect wastes a large chunk of your wafer (though at least in FPGAs you can sell a partially damaged chip at a lower price).
The silicon itself is only a small portion of the price.