How can you conclude this "appears to have less precise control than a Wiimote"? I own a Wii and the precision of controls is pretty awful. In the Move demo yesterday the controls looked far more accurate. Plus it senses rotation, which I don't think is the case with the Wii. The Move boxing game wasn't great, but the Wii game is just horrible. The Move looks far, far better, IMO.
The US has limits on individual donations as well. $2400. And corporations are prohibited from donating anything.
http://www.fec.gov/pages/brochures/citizens.shtml
Perhaps Canada isn't all that much better than the USA after all...
I too was trying to think of where the 800 hours of "footage" figure could possibly have come from. Then it hit me. World of Warcraft. Duh. 800 hours is a slow month to those guys...
I've watched both DVR and live FiOS feeds, and both have quite a bit of compression flaws. I DVR most often, but I did catch The Dark Knight a couple days ago and half the film was blocky. It's just night-and-day compared to Blu-ray.
I couldn't agree more on the quality of Blu-ray v/s cable. I have FiOS and occasionally DVR movies off the premium channels. Action scenes are a joke. Pixelation everywhere. Compression artifacts. It's aggravating. And FiOS offers the best quality HD of any provider. Blu-ray is the only true perfect picture available. If somebody doesn't see a huge difference between DVD and Blu-ray, they either need a new TV or a new set of eyes.
It's kinda difficult to measure how often something doesn't happen, unless you just track uptime. You'd need to do that on a per-workstation basis to get some idea how few calls come in. I don't think the speed of closed tickets should be the only measure. Customer satisfaction should also be tracked, both in terms of service calls and system reliability.
I said "for the most part." It'd actually be a lot more effort to cheat and do enough to get away with it, than it would to just write the paper correctly. The people who are cheating seem to be doing it out of laziness or desperation. They run out of time to complete the assignment, so they Google something and use whatever pops up.
My wife teaches for Phoenix. Probably 90% of the plagiarism she sees is from students copying and pasting whole papers word-for-word from random cheat sites. Occasionally she'll get someone who fails to properly quote sources, but that's very much the minority. For the most part, the cheaters aren't all that bright, nor do they try to hide their cheating. They're just hoping they get away with it.
I doubt that there are really 6.5 million households out there that won't have any TV in two weeks. I think many, MANY technologically illiterate people who have cable TV are being suckered into thinking they need a converter. There are many predatory outfits out there hocking converter boxes under false pretenses. This is the sort of thing you just need to do as quick as possible. Rip it off like a band-aid. That way everyone who legitimately needs a converter will KNOW they need one, and they can be taken care of. And millions of confused consumers who don't really need one won't be dropping federal vouchers for unnecessary hardware.
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How can you conclude this "appears to have less precise control than a Wiimote"? I own a Wii and the precision of controls is pretty awful. In the Move demo yesterday the controls looked far more accurate. Plus it senses rotation, which I don't think is the case with the Wii. The Move boxing game wasn't great, but the Wii game is just horrible. The Move looks far, far better, IMO.
They'd be all for that, since the corporate tax rate is significantly higher than the individual tax rate.
The US has limits on individual donations as well. $2400. And corporations are prohibited from donating anything. http://www.fec.gov/pages/brochures/citizens.shtml Perhaps Canada isn't all that much better than the USA after all...
Well, sure... but they're not going to re-up next year now, are they?
Kinda funny they are preventing these 600,000 people from buying the only thing Microsoft was getting any money from them for.
Talk about suicidal. Sentiments within the gaming community are critical when it comes to consoles. Many will see this as an attack on them.
Every online game with voice chat is rated M for mature. Every online xbox360 game with voice chat is rated RPWK for racist pre-pubescent white kids.
Heaven's Gate the 1980 box office bomb, not the religious cult.
I too was trying to think of where the 800 hours of "footage" figure could possibly have come from. Then it hit me. World of Warcraft. Duh. 800 hours is a slow month to those guys...
I've watched both DVR and live FiOS feeds, and both have quite a bit of compression flaws. I DVR most often, but I did catch The Dark Knight a couple days ago and half the film was blocky. It's just night-and-day compared to Blu-ray.
I couldn't agree more on the quality of Blu-ray v/s cable. I have FiOS and occasionally DVR movies off the premium channels. Action scenes are a joke. Pixelation everywhere. Compression artifacts. It's aggravating. And FiOS offers the best quality HD of any provider. Blu-ray is the only true perfect picture available. If somebody doesn't see a huge difference between DVD and Blu-ray, they either need a new TV or a new set of eyes.
It was reported that Criterion uses the Playstation3 as their reference Blu-ray player. So I'd say it's up there in terms of quality.
It's kinda difficult to measure how often something doesn't happen, unless you just track uptime. You'd need to do that on a per-workstation basis to get some idea how few calls come in. I don't think the speed of closed tickets should be the only measure. Customer satisfaction should also be tracked, both in terms of service calls and system reliability.
If you just put that in quotes and added a footnote you'd be golden. ;-)
I said "for the most part." It'd actually be a lot more effort to cheat and do enough to get away with it, than it would to just write the paper correctly. The people who are cheating seem to be doing it out of laziness or desperation. They run out of time to complete the assignment, so they Google something and use whatever pops up.
My wife teaches for Phoenix. Probably 90% of the plagiarism she sees is from students copying and pasting whole papers word-for-word from random cheat sites. Occasionally she'll get someone who fails to properly quote sources, but that's very much the minority. For the most part, the cheaters aren't all that bright, nor do they try to hide their cheating. They're just hoping they get away with it.
I doubt that there are really 6.5 million households out there that won't have any TV in two weeks. I think many, MANY technologically illiterate people who have cable TV are being suckered into thinking they need a converter. There are many predatory outfits out there hocking converter boxes under false pretenses. This is the sort of thing you just need to do as quick as possible. Rip it off like a band-aid. That way everyone who legitimately needs a converter will KNOW they need one, and they can be taken care of. And millions of confused consumers who don't really need one won't be dropping federal vouchers for unnecessary hardware.