Hard to blame voter apathy when every single candidate for every single office in my lifetime has been a man or woman who will bow down to the MPAA at every opportunity. Unless you think people should vote off-ticket for some nobody, which is incredibly hard to organize.
There are 2 reasons that possession of stolen goods is a crime. First, so that you can't just claim someone gave it to you when you're found with it. Second, so that the police have legal ground to return it to its rightful owner.
In this case, not only is there nothing to return, but no one gave you the "stolen" software to begin with.
Let me ask this. If the Dept. of Transportation was using a pirated version of Excel while they built a bridge, would anyone who drove over that bridge from now until forever be required to give a kickback to Microsoft? Should they get a portion of every toll?
It's very easy to browse the comments and see which are fake and which are not. People only download the real ones.
How about look at seeder/leecher total numbers for fake files vs real ones?
Because our government is almost entirely made up of lawyers? We may have representation by place of residence, but not by social or economic class, or profession.
I think you're assuming that Netflix pays the same amount to stream the movie as you would to rent it individually from a site like iTunes. This may also be why they don't carry new releases, because studios know they can get you to actually rent those movies, or buy them. It may be that once Netflix can stream anything, they may have to charge per movie since the new ones will be closer to $1 and the older ones may still be closer to 10 cents.
I bought a Dell Mini about a year ago, came with Ubuntu. Haven't tried Windows, but I did try putting OSX on it (10.5.8 to be exact) and it out-performed Ubuntu in every area but start-up time. The especially nice thing was that it ran movies that were H264 720p without stuttering, under both Quicktime and VLC. On Ubuntu I couldn't get them to run that well no matter what video software I used.
DLC doesn't (often) have a trial where you can see if it's shit or not, so you buy DLC based on the original game, and if it sucks too bad everyone already bought it.
It depends on how you view the act of time travel. It's not unrealistic, if you've already conceded the possibility of time travel in the first place, to imagine you still adhering to the physics of the world you're in and spinning with the earth as it moves. You still might end up say, a few inches above or below the ground, or stuck half-way in a house or something.
In your example ending with...8 means you're no longer dealing with an infinite sequence.
Therefore comparing 0.9999...8 to 0.9999... is incorrect.
FYI, the correct designation of an infinite is 0.9 where the 9 has a flat bar across the top, but I am unable to produce this in this post. But please, we're dealing with an infinite string. You can't just replace the last number with anything you want and still have it be equal to anything but itself.
Just FYI, you don't need a warrant to simply follow someone, which is the excuse for not needing one for a GPS. I'm assuming because you're not requesting to enter their home or access private data (like phone records or something).
That's why movie companies make so much money. Because for whatever reason, teens do nothing else together except go to the movies every single weekend. That's why there's always a push to get movies to be PG-13. That's why really bad movies like Transformers 2 still make $300 million before even getting to DVD sales.
It's also partially because every time the world population goes up by 1%, your income goes up by 1% with no additional effort.
Seriously, if you can open a business that caters to teens and be even remotely successful, you can tap into that weekly movie-money. Good luck though. Movies are great for dating when you're 15. It's too difficult to get hand jobs at the batting cages or arcades.
Currently, I run a DVI + mini-jack to my TV and just use my computer. That's about $10 for the wires and the DVI goes about 30 feet. It might go more, I haven't tried, but at 30 feet I have no observable signal loss. Add in the possible cost of a second (or third) video card, and a TV box has to beat that to be worth it. Add in other $20-ish for a media remote for your computer.
The best part is it plays every single format with no start-up time (even a DVD takes a while to load, skip commercials, etc.).
Been playing since early 2005. I leave the game for months at a time every summer. And I've never been a 24/7 kind of player. I also don't get into the gear race and nitpicking about every little talent level of play. The content is extremely fun but gets old when you've done it a few times. But every expansion or sometimes just the release of a new dungeon makes it fun again for a little while.
I get the feeling a lot of players will be playing SOME kind of game every night no matter what, so they're on WoW a lot but that's just their night's entertainment. I don't really game at all unless I'm playing WoW so I realize I'm not typical of other people who've been playing since (near) release.
I also have several real life friends that play who keep me coming back more than the new content.
It's not small. I have the TV at a level I can barely hear, then a commercial comes on and my roommate at the other end of the hall with her door closed is woken up. It's ridiculous.
There's a Mac program called Little Snitch which tells you which apps are sending out data, and what kind, and where it's headed. Any idea if there's a similar program for Android?
I don't so much mind that some apps can do things they don't need to. But if users can identify which ones it would help a lot.
"Necessary" can be defined however you like it. Is stealing food to feed your starving family "necessary"? No, because it's not necessary that any of you live. But you would likely disagree.
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Hard to blame voter apathy when every single candidate for every single office in my lifetime has been a man or woman who will bow down to the MPAA at every opportunity. Unless you think people should vote off-ticket for some nobody, which is incredibly hard to organize.
There are 2 reasons that possession of stolen goods is a crime. First, so that you can't just claim someone gave it to you when you're found with it. Second, so that the police have legal ground to return it to its rightful owner.
In this case, not only is there nothing to return, but no one gave you the "stolen" software to begin with.
Let me ask this. If the Dept. of Transportation was using a pirated version of Excel while they built a bridge, would anyone who drove over that bridge from now until forever be required to give a kickback to Microsoft? Should they get a portion of every toll?
Please.
You don't need "revolution", only violence.
Except many of us consider Christianity a cult as well.
It's very easy to browse the comments and see which are fake and which are not. People only download the real ones. How about look at seeder/leecher total numbers for fake files vs real ones?
Because our government is almost entirely made up of lawyers? We may have representation by place of residence, but not by social or economic class, or profession.
I think you're assuming that Netflix pays the same amount to stream the movie as you would to rent it individually from a site like iTunes. This may also be why they don't carry new releases, because studios know they can get you to actually rent those movies, or buy them. It may be that once Netflix can stream anything, they may have to charge per movie since the new ones will be closer to $1 and the older ones may still be closer to 10 cents.
Sign up for a job with the TSA. All the kiddy-groping you could want, fully legal.
I bought a Dell Mini about a year ago, came with Ubuntu. Haven't tried Windows, but I did try putting OSX on it (10.5.8 to be exact) and it out-performed Ubuntu in every area but start-up time. The especially nice thing was that it ran movies that were H264 720p without stuttering, under both Quicktime and VLC. On Ubuntu I couldn't get them to run that well no matter what video software I used.
DLC doesn't (often) have a trial where you can see if it's shit or not, so you buy DLC based on the original game, and if it sucks too bad everyone already bought it.
We're already using the money we borrow from China to protect Asia from China.
Why have second class citizenship?
Because then you can make illegal things that certain people like to do, people you don't want voting.
It depends on how you view the act of time travel. It's not unrealistic, if you've already conceded the possibility of time travel in the first place, to imagine you still adhering to the physics of the world you're in and spinning with the earth as it moves. You still might end up say, a few inches above or below the ground, or stuck half-way in a house or something.
Huh? How can price be part of the definition of what something is?
I can sell you a pack of gum for $50, it's still gum!
You are wrong.
...8 means you're no longer dealing with an infinite sequence.
0.9999... means infinite 9's.
In your example ending with
Therefore comparing 0.9999...8 to 0.9999... is incorrect.
FYI, the correct designation of an infinite is 0.9 where the 9 has a flat bar across the top, but I am unable to produce this in this post. But please, we're dealing with an infinite string. You can't just replace the last number with anything you want and still have it be equal to anything but itself.
Just FYI, you don't need a warrant to simply follow someone, which is the excuse for not needing one for a GPS. I'm assuming because you're not requesting to enter their home or access private data (like phone records or something).
I would argue every nation has bigger things to deal with, but that's just me.
Teenagers.
That's why movie companies make so much money. Because for whatever reason, teens do nothing else together except go to the movies every single weekend. That's why there's always a push to get movies to be PG-13. That's why really bad movies like Transformers 2 still make $300 million before even getting to DVD sales.
It's also partially because every time the world population goes up by 1%, your income goes up by 1% with no additional effort.
Seriously, if you can open a business that caters to teens and be even remotely successful, you can tap into that weekly movie-money. Good luck though. Movies are great for dating when you're 15. It's too difficult to get hand jobs at the batting cages or arcades.
Currently, I run a DVI + mini-jack to my TV and just use my computer. That's about $10 for the wires and the DVI goes about 30 feet. It might go more, I haven't tried, but at 30 feet I have no observable signal loss. Add in the possible cost of a second (or third) video card, and a TV box has to beat that to be worth it. Add in other $20-ish for a media remote for your computer.
The best part is it plays every single format with no start-up time (even a DVD takes a while to load, skip commercials, etc.).
That's my real name, and I have the EXACT same problem.
Been playing since early 2005. I leave the game for months at a time every summer. And I've never been a 24/7 kind of player. I also don't get into the gear race and nitpicking about every little talent level of play. The content is extremely fun but gets old when you've done it a few times. But every expansion or sometimes just the release of a new dungeon makes it fun again for a little while.
I get the feeling a lot of players will be playing SOME kind of game every night no matter what, so they're on WoW a lot but that's just their night's entertainment. I don't really game at all unless I'm playing WoW so I realize I'm not typical of other people who've been playing since (near) release.
I also have several real life friends that play who keep me coming back more than the new content.
It's not small. I have the TV at a level I can barely hear, then a commercial comes on and my roommate at the other end of the hall with her door closed is woken up. It's ridiculous.
There's a Mac program called Little Snitch which tells you which apps are sending out data, and what kind, and where it's headed. Any idea if there's a similar program for Android? I don't so much mind that some apps can do things they don't need to. But if users can identify which ones it would help a lot.
"Necessary" can be defined however you like it. Is stealing food to feed your starving family "necessary"? No, because it's not necessary that any of you live. But you would likely disagree.
Sounds like a great photoshop contest to imagine all of them showing up at the same party.