ok, name a pc with a 10 hours battery and a core i5, 1650x900 screen and a geforce 330M under 2000$
A Fujitsu Lifebook NH570 has those specs (only with a bigger screen and better resolution), except the battery for $1,079 from newegg, almost half the price. Are you really arguing that a 10-hour battery is worth nearly $1,000? And let's be honest, it's 9 hours, not 10, and according to Apple's own website that's just with browsing and text editing with the monitor at 50% brightness.
We like to imagine that every Microsoft OS installation will work just as well as the company promises.
Actually around here people like to imagine that every MS OS installation will miserably crash, because then they strut around feeling good about using Linux.
But, even then, my wife, who is an attorney here in St. Louis, advised me against paying the ticket. It turns out that the ticket is issued by a 3rd party that operates the cameras, and not by the city police. There will be no impact on my driving record. The worst that can happen is it will be turned over to collections and placed on my credit report. At that time, I will simply hand it over to my wife and she will challenge the reporting agencies to provide proof that it was me driving the car, and that the debt is mine. Being unable to do that, they will be forced to drop it from my credit report.
Well you don't challenge the reporting agencies, you challenge the purported debtor; if they produce these photographs, the reporting agency might just accept their version and not remove it. Why not just pay it, considering you actually broke the law? I've been caught by these cameras, and never fought it because honestly the camera was right and I was wrong.
Well an aesthetic criticism is not necessarily a criticism of a business model. There are plenty of stupid product names that have done well, but that doesn't mean the name isn't still stupid. World History Grand Champion in the Mind-numbingly Stupid Name Category, for example, is the Nintendo Wii--and that's done pretty successfully.
Anyway, a free market WOULD fix in this case, because when Comcast pulls this shit, you would then be able to switch to Cox cable or Time-Warner cable or AppleTV or Verizon TV or anybody else you desired.
Yep, and all these companies have to do is lay a few hundred miles of cable first.
Would someone playing your game who had played the other one realize yours is based on the older? If not then I don't see what the big deal is, as far as I know you can adapt general gaming ideas (though IANACL).
(basically saying that they implied unlimited transfer based on the main advertisement)?
Speaking as a lawyer I wouldn't want to go argue to a judge that my client should be allowed to use every available bit of bandwidth he can and the ISP is stuck with it perpetually. There's a sort-of analogy that you could draw with requirements contracts ("We agree to provide you with what you need of what we sell"), and courts have traditionally found that those are supposed to be reasonable on both sides.
Of course there is, it's not a binary proposition, either you're biased or not, it's a question of degrees. This guy is one of the parties in the dispute. The bias is pretty much insurmountable at that level.
He proposed giving artists an income according to the cube root of their popularity, so smaller artists are better supported and larger ones much less supported.
If his plan goes through I shall be the richest violinist in the world! And I don't even have to learn to play.
The fact is, you have unreasonable expectations regarding life expectancy of computers. 12 years old is old. Heck even XP is 8 years old and is showing its age.
And you have been tricked into accepting inferior construction quality from both software and hardware manufacturers. There's no reason a 12-year old computer shouldn't still be working, at least for all components other than a hard drive.
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The WePad runs Linux: there's no reason to stick with the legacy x86 architecture.
If you're running Linux, you're sticking with legacy x86 architecture.
Copernicus risked personal safety by advocating a heliocentric theory of the universe
From who? Powerful churchmen like....Copernicus?
ok, name a pc with a 10 hours battery and a core i5, 1650x900 screen and a geforce 330M under 2000$
A Fujitsu Lifebook NH570 has those specs (only with a bigger screen and better resolution), except the battery for $1,079 from newegg, almost half the price. Are you really arguing that a 10-hour battery is worth nearly $1,000? And let's be honest, it's 9 hours, not 10, and according to Apple's own website that's just with browsing and text editing with the monitor at 50% brightness.
We like to imagine that every Microsoft OS installation will work just as well as the company promises.
Actually around here people like to imagine that every MS OS installation will miserably crash, because then they strut around feeling good about using Linux.
But, even then, my wife, who is an attorney here in St. Louis, advised me against paying the ticket. It turns out that the ticket is issued by a 3rd party that operates the cameras, and not by the city police. There will be no impact on my driving record. The worst that can happen is it will be turned over to collections and placed on my credit report. At that time, I will simply hand it over to my wife and she will challenge the reporting agencies to provide proof that it was me driving the car, and that the debt is mine. Being unable to do that, they will be forced to drop it from my credit report.
Well you don't challenge the reporting agencies, you challenge the purported debtor; if they produce these photographs, the reporting agency might just accept their version and not remove it. Why not just pay it, considering you actually broke the law? I've been caught by these cameras, and never fought it because honestly the camera was right and I was wrong.
Well an aesthetic criticism is not necessarily a criticism of a business model. There are plenty of stupid product names that have done well, but that doesn't mean the name isn't still stupid. World History Grand Champion in the Mind-numbingly Stupid Name Category, for example, is the Nintendo Wii--and that's done pretty successfully.
It lasted 50 years, and turned a backwards agrarian society into a world superpower and put the first man in space.
What's really newsworthy here is that the competition is between Apple and Google, Microsoft is nowhere to be found.
I don't know if "Microsoft maintains its 30-year tradition of not entering the consumer PC market" really counts as "newsworthy."
Anyway, a free market WOULD fix in this case, because when Comcast pulls this shit, you would then be able to switch to Cox cable or Time-Warner cable or AppleTV or Verizon TV or anybody else you desired.
Yep, and all these companies have to do is lay a few hundred miles of cable first.
The Adjustment Bureau adaptation follows news that Terry Gilliam will adapt Dick's novel The World Jones Made
Woo, Terry Gilliam's in charge? Then we can look forward to a movie 10 years late, substantially overbudget, yet still looks half-done.
Please, you think 95% of Warcraft 1 and 2 players knew, or cared, anything about the world beyond the absolute basics necessary to play?
Would someone playing your game who had played the other one realize yours is based on the older? If not then I don't see what the big deal is, as far as I know you can adapt general gaming ideas (though IANACL).
WoW is by no means the first MMO, but its because of its predecessors that it did so well.
Ultima Online had more stuff to draw on from its predecessors than WoW ever did, and it still ultimately lost out to WoW.
IAAL. Don't mess with a Federal Judge.
Sure, but "my client followed his end of the contract in good faith" is a different argument.
(basically saying that they implied unlimited transfer based on the main advertisement)?
Speaking as a lawyer I wouldn't want to go argue to a judge that my client should be allowed to use every available bit of bandwidth he can and the ISP is stuck with it perpetually. There's a sort-of analogy that you could draw with requirements contracts ("We agree to provide you with what you need of what we sell"), and courts have traditionally found that those are supposed to be reasonable on both sides.
Of course there is, it's not a binary proposition, either you're biased or not, it's a question of degrees. This guy is one of the parties in the dispute. The bias is pretty much insurmountable at that level.
Yeah, definitely; I kind of have been thinking of getting an ipad but I'm not going for it at LEAST until the second revision.
I think Lucas is so pissed the he will forever be remembered for Star Wars and nothing else
Indiana who and the lost what?
I mean it's a cultural thing at this point.
In Jordan?
." I have to agree: from where I sit, IBM likes Open Source only as long as they don't have to compete with it."
Not like you'd have any bias here or anything...
Instead of a weekly paycheck, RMS should work for free and accept donations.
Isn't that what he does?
He proposed giving artists an income according to the cube root of their popularity, so smaller artists are better supported and larger ones much less supported.
If his plan goes through I shall be the richest violinist in the world! And I don't even have to learn to play.
Remember when people used to say paid DLC would never catch on because we were to used to free patches?
Nope. I don't remember that. They've had game add-ons for decades, nothing particularly crazy about selling it online.
The fact is, you have unreasonable expectations regarding life expectancy of computers. 12 years old is old. Heck even XP is 8 years old and is showing its age.
And you have been tricked into accepting inferior construction quality from both software and hardware manufacturers. There's no reason a 12-year old computer shouldn't still be working, at least for all components other than a hard drive.