Don't tell your friends to crack the game. Tell them to go to the store and demand their money back.
The software is fundamentally broken. You haven't gotten what you've paid for. Returns will be a lot more painful for Ubisoft. Pose 90% returned games vs 90% pirated games at a stock holders meeting, and they'd probably prefer 90% pirated, as the 90% returned will be more expensive in the long run.
I'll wait for when it can be done as a replacement for TN screens of larger sizes (14", 15", (17"?))
With you on this - mostly because I don't have a netbook.
and proves to be better at quality than *-IPS panels.
What? You want to replace a TN-quality display with something that's better than the best on the market? And that's stand-alone display market - there are NO laptops on the market today, that has an IPS-display. There aren't even any that have MVA/PVA displays. Why the hell not settle for replacing it with something that's better than TN-quality?
I haven't seen any tests on this. I don't doubt it'll match a regular TN screen in all ways, but how do they compare to the better IPS, MVA, PVA technologies?
From what I understood about the PixelQI displays, they should be as easy to make as regular displays, so it ought to be possible to get them in high colour and viewing angle versions as well.
We have dramatically different engineering challenges than European nations. Comparing the two is impossible.
You also have significant advantages, that we do not. As for comparing the whole of the USA to a single European country, yes, that's stupid. But you can do it on a state to state basis. For example California and Sweden aren't entirely different when you look at size and geography, but California has much larger metro areas (and 5 times as many citizens).
The advantage the US companies have, is they have a massive market to aim at. * You don't need to set up a new company for every single state you wish to work in. You do in Europe. * You can start in one state and expand without having to set up another call centre - unless you start in the UK and expand to Ireland you are going to expand into another language area. * You don't need to have a large team of professional translators on staff, just to work in more than four markets. * You aren't going to run into language problems across your offices in different states. ** Even setting up shop in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, you are going to have language problems, even though those three language are very similar - you are very likely to end up with English as the lingua franca in any kind of inter-office communication, and even then you'll have people who are rubbish at English leading to very bad communication. Granted, the US has its share of Americans who are rubish at English.
Of course it isn't reasonable to spend a billion dollars to keep someone alive for another six months. Unless they pay it themselves. But it's still an obscene amount of money to spend on one person.
What the billion dollars buys is another question entirely. For example, I'm pretty sure that my sister could have been kept alive for another six months for a lot less than that, but it wouldn't have been any kind of useful life. She'd have to be kept in a sterile room at the hospital, as the ECMO procedure itself has a high risk of killing you off due to infections and bleeding complications. I'm sure having five banana bags provide IV fluids into each hand isn't healthy either.
She'd likely have to remain in the artificial coma, which doesn't exactly make a good argument for quality of life. And even if she was kept alive for another six months as a piece of meat, it wouldn't really get her any closer to survivign, as Sharp's syndrome doesn't have a cure, and while I don't know the transplant rules, I don't think they'll give new lung, heart and kidneys to people with that kind of auto immune disease, and without those, she'd never get off the ECMO.
So... spend a billion dollars to keep my sister alive for another six months? Not worth it. A million dollars? Still not worth it. Ten thousand dollars? Impossible at that price, but I still don't think it'd be worth it. There'd be nothing in it for her, and I don't think either of her kids nor her husband would get anything from it. It was murder on my dad, who already saw both his parents die while hooked up to machines, and mom, and it wasn't exactly a dance of roses for my other sister. It's difficult enough watching someone you love die. Making it last longer won't help. To be honest, I suspect it makes it worse. The first couple of days you can sort of put of work, but the longer it lasts, the more you need to get a bit of normality back in your life.
I'd rather see that billion dollars or million or ten thousand be spent on working on a cure for the next person who is afflicted by this. My sister, her husband and her son (the daughter is five, so not much say) all felt the same way, which is why her body was given over to science to get a better understanding of how that particular disease works. Sharp's syndrome is quite rare, affecting less than 2.7 patients out of 100,000 according to a Japanese study. Basic research is better way to spend the money than trying to keep people alive beyond the point of no return.
The article is talking about stuff that's available today. They aren't saying "SSDs will never be suitable", they're saying they aren't suitable today. Why? Because none of the hardware infrastructure available is fast enough.
National Health Care = forfeiting of personal freedoms such as what you can eat, drink, smoke, and other physical or mental activities you enjoy doing.
Umm, what socialized healthcare system in the world stops you from doing any of those?
All of them? The same is true for the US as well of course. You'll have a hard time finding countries where it's legal for you to eat psilocybin mushrooms, drink poppy juice or smoke cocaine, even if you're producing it yourself, eating/drinking/smoking it on your own, not selling to anyone etc.
Not to mention that it's probably against the law to just think of having sex with children, even if you never touch them. And I think most places even outlaw physical activities like sex (depending on the locale), scaling buildings and many other things that I'm too bored and unimaginative to think up.
But I'm sure the original poster didn't mean stuff like THAT. Those are OBVIOUSLY against the law, so that doesn't count.
Your pictures, your copyright. And we've already seen that they are responsible for massive damages for each infringement. And unlike P2P it's very easy to tell just how many times your copyrighted item has been distributed to others.
Just imagine how much fun it'll be to send a second letter to them, pointing out that the 300 dollars you originally charged as a settlement has now been changed to a much more reasonable 1,000 dollars per infringement.
Ever notice that the colder it is, the less it snows? Or that the colder it is, the more static electricity you develop? Both of these are functions of humidity, and the colder it is, the less humidity the air can contain. So yes - when it's really cold around here, the air is really dry.
Actually, it's probably better to be frozen for several days at least - to make sure that the battery is totally dead
If you're very worried about small bits of ice and snow inside it, just pop it in your freezer for a while. The water will slowly sublimate. Simplest way of testing this, is to make a really good snowball and leave it in your freezer for a couple of days.
With a bit bad luck (in a big city), you couldnt even pay for a car
Depending on the big city, a car isn't a good investment anyway. Quite a lot of the large EU cities have excellent public transport options, respect for cyclists and parking that costs close to that of renting a studio flat...
Essentially you can pretty much compare most large EU cities to that of Manhattan. You can own a car, but unless you work outside the city it's a waste of money
To me though, it really shows how he cannot be completely intimate with someone. He has to warn the girl before having sex with her, and for good reason. She doesn't listen, and he saves her life by tossing her aside before his ejaculation punches holes in the ceiling.
And of course she's now scared out of her mind and runs away through the bathroom window.
If that's how all your intimate encounters progress... you'd probably shy away from it completely.
The trouble is, everyone assumes that "superman" is supposed to be something like "superior human". Superman is in fact an abbreviation. Just like IBM is actually International Business Machines.
Strong Unstoppable Powerful Empathic Red-caped Male Anthropomorphic Neo-earthling
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Don't tell your friends to crack the game. Tell them to go to the store and demand their money back.
The software is fundamentally broken. You haven't gotten what you've paid for. Returns will be a lot more painful for Ubisoft. Pose 90% returned games vs 90% pirated games at a stock holders meeting, and they'd probably prefer 90% pirated, as the 90% returned will be more expensive in the long run.
You answered the question yourself, I've just emphasized the relevant bit.
With you on this - mostly because I don't have a netbook.
What? You want to replace a TN-quality display with something that's better than the best on the market? And that's stand-alone display market - there are NO laptops on the market today, that has an IPS-display. There aren't even any that have MVA/PVA displays. Why the hell not settle for replacing it with something that's better than TN-quality?
I haven't seen any tests on this. I don't doubt it'll match a regular TN screen in all ways, but how do they compare to the better IPS, MVA, PVA technologies?
From what I understood about the PixelQI displays, they should be as easy to make as regular displays, so it ought to be possible to get them in high colour and viewing angle versions as well.
The difference is, you only get to look at those tanned hotties in thong bikinis, whereas we get to play with our pale hotties.
You also have significant advantages, that we do not. As for comparing the whole of the USA to a single European country, yes, that's stupid. But you can do it on a state to state basis. For example California and Sweden aren't entirely different when you look at size and geography, but California has much larger metro areas (and 5 times as many citizens).
The advantage the US companies have, is they have a massive market to aim at.
* You don't need to set up a new company for every single state you wish to work in. You do in Europe.
* You can start in one state and expand without having to set up another call centre - unless you start in the UK and expand to Ireland you are going to expand into another language area.
* You don't need to have a large team of professional translators on staff, just to work in more than four markets.
* You aren't going to run into language problems across your offices in different states.
** Even setting up shop in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, you are going to have language problems, even though those three language are very similar - you are very likely to end up with English as the lingua franca in any kind of inter-office communication, and even then you'll have people who are rubbish at English leading to very bad communication. Granted, the US has its share of Americans who are rubish at English.
Of course it isn't reasonable to spend a billion dollars to keep someone alive for another six months. Unless they pay it themselves. But it's still an obscene amount of money to spend on one person.
What the billion dollars buys is another question entirely. For example, I'm pretty sure that my sister could have been kept alive for another six months for a lot less than that, but it wouldn't have been any kind of useful life. She'd have to be kept in a sterile room at the hospital, as the ECMO procedure itself has a high risk of killing you off due to infections and bleeding complications. I'm sure having five banana bags provide IV fluids into each hand isn't healthy either.
She'd likely have to remain in the artificial coma, which doesn't exactly make a good argument for quality of life. And even if she was kept alive for another six months as a piece of meat, it wouldn't really get her any closer to survivign, as Sharp's syndrome doesn't have a cure, and while I don't know the transplant rules, I don't think they'll give new lung, heart and kidneys to people with that kind of auto immune disease, and without those, she'd never get off the ECMO.
So ... spend a billion dollars to keep my sister alive for another six months? Not worth it. A million dollars? Still not worth it. Ten thousand dollars? Impossible at that price, but I still don't think it'd be worth it. There'd be nothing in it for her, and I don't think either of her kids nor her husband would get anything from it. It was murder on my dad, who already saw both his parents die while hooked up to machines, and mom, and it wasn't exactly a dance of roses for my other sister. It's difficult enough watching someone you love die. Making it last longer won't help. To be honest, I suspect it makes it worse. The first couple of days you can sort of put of work, but the longer it lasts, the more you need to get a bit of normality back in your life.
I'd rather see that billion dollars or million or ten thousand be spent on working on a cure for the next person who is afflicted by this. My sister, her husband and her son (the daughter is five, so not much say) all felt the same way, which is why her body was given over to science to get a better understanding of how that particular disease works. Sharp's syndrome is quite rare, affecting less than 2.7 patients out of 100,000 according to a Japanese study. Basic research is better way to spend the money than trying to keep people alive beyond the point of no return.
They are a company. That limits their copyrights not to 'lifetime' but to 50 years.
Relativity: June, 1914, page 434
Quantum mechanics: February 1927, page 22
Atomic bomb: October 1945, page 80
Integrated circuits: September 1966, page 96
Yes, because 15k RPM SAS drives are OH so inexpensive, right?
Starting out at 1.9$/GB for a 73.5 GB drive is certainly inexpensive. Especially when you have to pay an insane 9.332 cent/GB for a 750 GB hard drive.
By your definition, you could NEVER EVER use RAID on expensive hard drives. Which obviously means that you are an idiot.
The article is talking about stuff that's available today. They aren't saying "SSDs will never be suitable", they're saying they aren't suitable today. Why? Because none of the hardware infrastructure available is fast enough.
He's 87 and Japanese. Someone already tried that. Twice.
All of them? The same is true for the US as well of course. You'll have a hard time finding countries where it's legal for you to eat psilocybin mushrooms, drink poppy juice or smoke cocaine, even if you're producing it yourself, eating/drinking/smoking it on your own, not selling to anyone etc.
Not to mention that it's probably against the law to just think of having sex with children, even if you never touch them. And I think most places even outlaw physical activities like sex (depending on the locale), scaling buildings and many other things that I'm too bored and unimaginative to think up.
But I'm sure the original poster didn't mean stuff like THAT. Those are OBVIOUSLY against the law, so that doesn't count.
Your pictures, your copyright. And we've already seen that they are responsible for massive damages for each infringement. And unlike P2P it's very easy to tell just how many times your copyrighted item has been distributed to others.
Just imagine how much fun it'll be to send a second letter to them, pointing out that the 300 dollars you originally charged as a settlement has now been changed to a much more reasonable 1,000 dollars per infringement.
If you're really 'paranoid' about storage time get a thin aluminium or steel shim the size of a credit card and etch onto the back of that.
The USA: Celebrating Mediocrity Since $year
Then you could pick your own year and be done with it.
Then losing your phone in lot of snow doesn't really sound like an issue you'd end up having ...
Ever notice that the colder it is, the less it snows? Or that the colder it is, the more static electricity you develop? Both of these are functions of humidity, and the colder it is, the less humidity the air can contain. So yes - when it's really cold around here, the air is really dry.
If you're very worried about small bits of ice and snow inside it, just pop it in your freezer for a while. The water will slowly sublimate. Simplest way of testing this, is to make a really good snowball and leave it in your freezer for a couple of days.
Because knowledge is a good thing? As it happens, Copernicium_285 has a halflife that is higher than elements 109 and up.
I find it interesting, but apparently you seem to think that knowledge is a bad thing.
Why? Who cares.
Could finding out possibly be of use? Who cares.
Suppose we find perfectly stable elements? Why bother?
Depending on the big city, a car isn't a good investment anyway. Quite a lot of the large EU cities have excellent public transport options, respect for cyclists and parking that costs close to that of renting a studio flat ...
Essentially you can pretty much compare most large EU cities to that of Manhattan. You can own a car, but unless you work outside the city it's a waste of money
That's only a problem
Ahhhhh.
That one didn't come up in my searches. I got Mobile Network Operator and .MNO (file type) :)
That's actually something they paid credit to in Hancock (DVD only). Some of my friends thought it was a really tacky scene:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-tcxZ5VOBM
To me though, it really shows how he cannot be completely intimate with someone. He has to warn the girl before having sex with her, and for good reason. She doesn't listen, and he saves her life by tossing her aside before his ejaculation punches holes in the ceiling.
And of course she's now scared out of her mind and runs away through the bathroom window.
If that's how all your intimate encounters progress ... you'd probably shy away from it completely.
The trouble is, everyone assumes that "superman" is supposed to be something like "superior human". Superman is in fact an abbreviation. Just like IBM is actually International Business Machines.
Strong
Unstoppable
Powerful
Empathic
Red-caped
Male
Anthropomorphic
Neo-earthling
But it's a lot easier just to say superman.