How could you write a blurb about the "Bilski patent" without explaining what the Bilski patent actually is? How could the editors pass on such a terrible blurb unmodified?
Uh huh, and because you had that experience, it always works that way under all conditions for everyone, despite all the documented claims to the contrary?
In fact I have personally spent several evenings unable to play Steam games for exactly the reasons I stated. It is a fact that Steam's DRM works this way. If you haven't encountered it, then either they don't apply it consistently or you are merely lucky.
You cannot always play steam games offline. When steam servers are down, or when you have no internet connection, you cannot go into offline mode. Your games become unplayable in that case. Steam's DRM is another case where pirates have a better gaming experience than paying customers.
I have a huge box of cables of every sort of connection I'm likely to encounter. I would love to throw it out and keep only ethernet, HDMI, USB3, TOSLINK, and standard audio connectors around. Having fewer types of ports also makes devices cheaper, smaller, and more likely to interoperate.
China and Russia are both trying to expand their influence (effective borders). Neither nation is a fan of western liberalism, and either could reproduce our advanced military technology if the schematics were leaked.
That's because reverse age discrimination is even more common than age discrimination.
How many job postings do you see which ask for 0 years of experience? That's right, almost none. They all say "minimum 7 years experience with..." or something to that affect. A company like IBM usually posts things like "requires minimum 10 years experience with working on a team." What does that mean? Nothing other than "NO YOUNG PEOPLE ALLOWED!"
The job stats prove this. Unemployment for people in their early twenties is absolutely through the roof.
Companies may not like to hire the old, but they absolutely hate to hire the young. People in their thirties are the only ones with reasonable job prospects.
Electromagnetism is extremely well-described. There certainly unanswered questions about it and other fundamental forces, though. Which means the definition of the term "understand" starts to matter.
I think the point is that the fundamental forces are getting to the point in physics where things can't necessarily entirely be explained in terms of simpler phenomenon.
Ebooks are generally cheaper than dead tree, but I would buy them even if they were more expensive. The convenience of having an entire library available to you anywhere is simply amazing. The ability to get a new book without getting out of bed is valuable in itself.
The Kindle just brings a better overall experience, therefore it is "worth" more.
That said, I do expect competition to eventually bring the price of these books down to something significantly below print costs (rather than slightly below print costs). But in the meantime, I will keep buying books on my Kindle (also reading them on my iPhone and PC when the Kindle isn't at hand).
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Difficult? No. Needlessly inconvenient? Yes.
There is good writing and there is bad writing. If you need to send your readers off for even the basics, you are a bad writer.
How could you write a blurb about the "Bilski patent" without explaining what the Bilski patent actually is? How could the editors pass on such a terrible blurb unmodified?
It's Republicans that want more state control of peoples' personal lives; conservatives do not. (Liberals want less and libertarians want none.)
Subway is the single most popular restaurant in the United States. And it has vegetarian food. Every manner of person eats there.
Uh huh, and because you had that experience, it always works that way under all conditions for everyone, despite all the documented claims to the contrary?
You are a sharp one!
In fact I have personally spent several evenings unable to play Steam games for exactly the reasons I stated. It is a fact that Steam's DRM works this way. If you haven't encountered it, then either they don't apply it consistently or you are merely lucky.
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P.S. I secretly rub bacon in all the other ingredients at Subway.
You cannot always play steam games offline. When steam servers are down, or when you have no internet connection, you cannot go into offline mode. Your games become unplayable in that case. Steam's DRM is another case where pirates have a better gaming experience than paying customers.
Your facts are wrong on USB. It's 125hz, not 125ms. HUGE difference.
You're also wrong to call VGA "universal." HDMI is much more common than VGA in new display tech.
I think there may be something wrong with your TV. HDMI should be decoded in milliseconds.
I have a huge box of cables of every sort of connection I'm likely to encounter. I would love to throw it out and keep only ethernet, HDMI, USB3, TOSLINK, and standard audio connectors around. Having fewer types of ports also makes devices cheaper, smaller, and more likely to interoperate.
Some people do "real work" with 10BASE2 networks. It's would still be stupid to put 10BASE2 adapters on every motherboard.
USB and bluetooth serial ports are available for freaks like you who need to do anachronistic "work."
Can we get rid of PS/2, VGA, parallel, and serial ports now, too? Hell, let's axe DVI in favor if HDMI while we're at it!
Oh, and can someone tell the shitty mobo makers to stop requiring MS DOS floppy disks to flash their BIOSs?
By your logic, it is perfectly fine to discriminate against the old, because they don't have the same attitudes and inclinations of the young. Nice.
China and Russia are both trying to expand their influence (effective borders). Neither nation is a fan of western liberalism, and either could reproduce our advanced military technology if the schematics were leaked.
Irrelevant. The effect is exactly, the same: discrimination against all people of certain age.
That's because reverse age discrimination is even more common than age discrimination.
How many job postings do you see which ask for 0 years of experience? That's right, almost none. They all say "minimum 7 years experience with..." or something to that affect. A company like IBM usually posts things like "requires minimum 10 years experience with working on a team." What does that mean? Nothing other than "NO YOUNG PEOPLE ALLOWED!"
The job stats prove this. Unemployment for people in their early twenties is absolutely through the roof.
Companies may not like to hire the old, but they absolutely hate to hire the young. People in their thirties are the only ones with reasonable job prospects.
Electromagnetism is extremely well-described. There certainly unanswered questions about it and other fundamental forces, though. Which means the definition of the term "understand" starts to matter.
Um.. no. This has never been documented happening. Not once.
I think the point is that the fundamental forces are getting to the point in physics where things can't necessarily entirely be explained in terms of simpler phenomenon.
Also, look up what "begs the question" means.
Ebooks are generally cheaper than dead tree, but I would buy them even if they were more expensive. The convenience of having an entire library available to you anywhere is simply amazing. The ability to get a new book without getting out of bed is valuable in itself.
The Kindle just brings a better overall experience, therefore it is "worth" more.
That said, I do expect competition to eventually bring the price of these books down to something significantly below print costs (rather than slightly below print costs). But in the meantime, I will keep buying books on my Kindle (also reading them on my iPhone and PC when the Kindle isn't at hand).
Just because we have the vocabulary to describe something does not mean we "understand" it.
Spoken like someone who has never studied AI and hasn't even considered the definitions of the words he used.
Expert systems are classified as AI.