Anyone know the tumbling terminal velocity of an iPhone? After a certain height it's all the same (until you start getting high enough that the iPhone will burn up in the atmosphere).
I'm guessing that they are recuperating the cost of each item by selling the item above that cost, not like with the Xbox and PS3 where they expect to recuperate the cost from sales of games.
Its probably given XBox (and games) sales a second wind, especially as the XBox has been seen as an also-ran to the PS3 and even the Wii until the Kinect came out
Should be able to manipulate images like in Minority Report with it.
Does seem to be one device from Microsoft that it is hard to criticize. If only their mobile phones were as innovative....
Also, You have to wait *gasp* THREE WHOLE DAYS longer than Johnny over in the USA before you can play your game? Poor kid. Sometimes life just isn't fair.
In actual fact, it may not be fair in the case of online games which have global servers. US addicts to a new game will have a 3 day head start to amass game experience/money/whatever over their brethren worldwide, and therefore will be forever at an advantage because they may be several levels ahead/ have better equipment in PvP combat etc
Well spotted; I was going to say provided an application didn't extend the kernal and didn't incorporate GPL libraries, it was on safe ground anyway, but the parent clears it up further.
I was pretty certain anyway; if Florian Mueller has an opinion, I automatically know that the opposite is more likely to be correct
One would presume that Limewire was a separate company from the others and it can separately go bankrupt, It is difficult to pierce the corporate veil to drag the assets of parent companies into play.
In other words, I'd be highly surprised if Lime Group was held liable for the actions of Limewire. Also see "Hollywood accounting" for how this works
The problem with the minor browsers is perhaps perception. Chrome has been successfully marketed as a leading edge "shiny" must have browser, and it's market share has risen accordingly. Opera on the other hand with its "we're the most compliant" attitude is perhaps perceived as a slightly dowdy tech-heads choice, and its market share has been a bit flat.
Paris Hilton is independently wealthy and whilst she may trade off the association with the rest of her family, does not receive any significant income from it.
Reports of her earnings vary wildly but even the lowest figure of about $7 million means she isn't going to be seen flipping burgers in a MacDonalds near you anytime soon.
Who needs to burn through 20 feet of steel? Or even 2 feet of steel?
Well, not so much 20 feet of steel directly, but there's a lot to be said for a weapon that could punch through 1-2 feet of layered tank armour, or melt a substantial hole in a warship. While many warships are not heavily armored nowadays, there are still exceptions.
Someone explain to me why I should pick one over a similarly specced Notion Ink Adam.( $375-549).
The comparison to silver is ridiculous; most of the cost of devices is the R&D, manufacturing (not to mention the slick marketing). None of these are components of the cost of silver ingots.
This is very typical crap from Timothy. He always posting articles on how Google can do nothing right, Android is horrible and I how I want to have Steve Jobs' iBabies.
Who doesn't want to have Steve Jobs iBabies? (grin)
You find a reason to purchase an Android table/phone to be that Apple wants all iOS developers to play by the same rules? Would you like to explain that one?
Because of the rules, and assuming that developers produce equivalent apps for Android phones, you'll be paying 30% less whenever you purchase something on your Android phone as you will be on an iPhone/iPad
I would hazard a guess that most animals on the endangered list aren't there because of human over-consumption but rather habitat destruction due to increased human population. So I imagine that whilst this tech allows us to continue feeding ourselves with presumably less resources, this will confound the habitat destruction due to human overpopulation. Oh well... there's always soylent green.
Habitat destruction and human consumption go hand in hand - tigers and gorillas are hunted equally for skins and meat, as well as their habitat getting smaller. As for this technology feeding ourselves with less resources, all this appears to do is allow the human population to increase with the extra food supply - witness the increase from 4bill to over 6bill in about 40 years, with the improvements in agriculture.
I find it incredibly difficult to see how people concerned for the welfare of animals could possibly be against this technology. Besides this opens up other exciting culinary possibilities... like long pork!;)
If there is no reason for human cultivation of said animals, there will be no need to keep a population of any size and the same animals will join the panda on the endangered list....
As the other poster on this thread states, no matter how good you are, getting an achievement unlock outside gameplay would be some trick no matter how autistic or savant you were.
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Anyone know the tumbling terminal velocity of an iPhone? After a certain height it's all the same (until you start getting high enough that the iPhone will burn up in the atmosphere).
(monty)An African or European iPhone? (/monty)
I'm guessing that they are recuperating the cost of each item by selling the item above that cost, not like with the Xbox and PS3 where they expect to recuperate the cost from sales of games.
Its probably given XBox (and games) sales a second wind, especially as the XBox has been seen as an also-ran to the PS3 and even the Wii until the Kinect came out
Should be able to manipulate images like in Minority Report with it. Does seem to be one device from Microsoft that it is hard to criticize. If only their mobile phones were as innovative....
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Also, You have to wait *gasp* THREE WHOLE DAYS longer than Johnny over in the USA before you can play your game? Poor kid. Sometimes life just isn't fair.
In actual fact, it may not be fair in the case of online games which have global servers. US addicts to a new game will have a 3 day head start to amass game experience/money/whatever over their brethren worldwide, and therefore will be forever at an advantage because they may be several levels ahead/ have better equipment in PvP combat etc
To oldly go where noone has gone before
Well spotted; I was going to say provided an application didn't extend the kernal and didn't incorporate GPL libraries, it was on safe ground anyway, but the parent clears it up further. I was pretty certain anyway; if Florian Mueller has an opinion, I automatically know that the opposite is more likely to be correct
One would presume that Limewire was a separate company from the others and it can separately go bankrupt, It is difficult to pierce the corporate veil to drag the assets of parent companies into play. In other words, I'd be highly surprised if Lime Group was held liable for the actions of Limewire. Also see "Hollywood accounting" for how this works
The problem with the minor browsers is perhaps perception. Chrome has been successfully marketed as a leading edge "shiny" must have browser, and it's market share has risen accordingly. Opera on the other hand with its "we're the most compliant" attitude is perhaps perceived as a slightly dowdy tech-heads choice, and its market share has been a bit flat.
A guy can dream, can't he?
Indeed he can, but why waste such dreams on just flipping burgers? ;-)
Paris Hilton is independently wealthy and whilst she may trade off the association with the rest of her family, does not receive any significant income from it. Reports of her earnings vary wildly but even the lowest figure of about $7 million means she isn't going to be seen flipping burgers in a MacDonalds near you anytime soon.
Fricken' sharks not impressed.
Fricken' sharks are checking in for an upgrade...
Who needs to burn through 20 feet of steel? Or even 2 feet of steel?
Well, not so much 20 feet of steel directly, but there's a lot to be said for a weapon that could punch through 1-2 feet of layered tank armour, or melt a substantial hole in a warship. While many warships are not heavily armored nowadays, there are still exceptions.
Would he not just have deleted anything to do with Sony along time ago? Or better yet, worked from removable media.
This is a civil case, however deleting evidence after being told to hand it over is a criminal offence
Someone explain to me why I should pick one over a similarly specced Notion Ink Adam.( $375-549). The comparison to silver is ridiculous; most of the cost of devices is the R&D, manufacturing (not to mention the slick marketing). None of these are components of the cost of silver ingots.
This is very typical crap from Timothy. He always posting articles on how Google can do nothing right, Android is horrible and I how I want to have Steve Jobs' iBabies.
Who doesn't want to have Steve Jobs iBabies? (grin)
You find a reason to purchase an Android table/phone to be that Apple wants all iOS developers to play by the same rules? Would you like to explain that one?
Because of the rules, and assuming that developers produce equivalent apps for Android phones, you'll be paying 30% less whenever you purchase something on your Android phone as you will be on an iPhone/iPad
...to purchase an Android based tablet/phone
That this is not related to the bunkum about wearing magnetic bracelets etc
Is it called the intersect?
No, its going to be bought out by a certain search company and renamed Google Crime
Hitler Died, He was a tool.
Yes, but he's still used frequently as a tool in Internet conversations.(/godwin)
If they develop the technology, we can purchase the reactors from China. Sounds good. :)
..we can take a leaf from the Chinese and purchase a batch, sub assemble the next lot, and then completely copy the design :-)
I would hazard a guess that most animals on the endangered list aren't there because of human over-consumption but rather habitat destruction due to increased human population. So I imagine that whilst this tech allows us to continue feeding ourselves with presumably less resources, this will confound the habitat destruction due to human overpopulation. Oh well... there's always soylent green.
Habitat destruction and human consumption go hand in hand - tigers and gorillas are hunted equally for skins and meat, as well as their habitat getting smaller. As for this technology feeding ourselves with less resources, all this appears to do is allow the human population to increase with the extra food supply - witness the increase from 4bill to over 6bill in about 40 years, with the improvements in agriculture.
I find it incredibly difficult to see how people concerned for the welfare of animals could possibly be against this technology. Besides this opens up other exciting culinary possibilities... like long pork! ;)
If there is no reason for human cultivation of said animals, there will be no need to keep a population of any size and the same animals will join the panda on the endangered list....
I am not a gas passer. I am a drug pusher. Get it right.
+1 Informative/Funny (if I had mod points)
As the other poster on this thread states, no matter how good you are, getting an achievement unlock outside gameplay would be some trick no matter how autistic or savant you were.