or the value of proofreading before hitting submit...
Oh well, that's what I hate about touch typing sometimes, since you're not directly concentrating on each letter you type, sometimes your brain slips in silly substitutions like that.
I'm glad to see I'm not the only excited about this upcoming switch! I mean, sure, Ku band, QPSK and MPEG-2 are alright. But Ka band, 8PSK and MPEG-4 are clearly going to blow them all away! (At least until Ko Band, ¥PSK and MPEG-7 come out...)
I had no I idea what this act was either, so I recommend checking out the Wikipedia entry.
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (officially titled the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002), signed into law on 30 July 2002 by President Bush, is considered the most significant change to federal securities laws in the United States since the New Deal.... The goal of the act was to protect investors by improving the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures. The act covers issues such as establishing a public company accounting oversight board, auditor independence, corporate responsibility and enhanced financial disclosure.
Haha, yeah, THE MIGHTY IGLOO CREW! I got a real laugh the first time I saw it. And those were first put up quite a while ago, before web culture starting cracking into the mainstream like it has today.
Depends which remote you have. They appear to have gone through some changes, but on this style of remote control that my mother's DirecTiVo uses, the TV power button is indeed directly below (and about the same size and shape as) the instant reply button. I have accidently done this myself on many occasions, it's very annoying.
I must say overall that I much perfer the Sony TiVo remote control. The rounded portion at the bottom fits nicely in your hand, it's evenly weighted, there's no confusion about which end is up and there are lots of variations in button color, size, shape, feel and orientation to make it easy to find the one you want.
No, they don't, and from what I heard, they aren't planning on it for a while, since they the face price on back balcony tickets are only $20.
It is possible to get tickets if you keep trying. Telecharge's pages are pretty nice, you can try to get tickets for a range of dates and if you leave the window open you only have to enter the captcha once. I left it up on the dates I wanted and tried it periodically and managed to get two tickets on the 5th or 6th try.
Ah. That's unfortunate, I rather enjoyed Lemmings Revolution. I thought it was clever how they basically took the classic 2d game and make it buzzword compliant by wrapping it around a cylinder, thus making it "3d" without making the game overly complex and awkward like the original Lemmings 3D.
Well, it depends. I have a friend who is on his third MP3 player. Each time he went to buy a new one, he got an extended warrenty, and each time it broken in 2-3 years, he got enough credit from the original purchase price that he ended up with a higher capacity. If the technology of what you're buying is changing fast enough, it can work out to be a good deal.
Lemmings was written by DMA Design and published for most platforms (including all PC platforms) by Psygnosis. The only thing Take-Two had to do with them was publishing the Game Boy Color version.
Yes, but if you wanted to later unveil the media PC plan, you would want it to be a standard option now. Otherwise people are going to be upset when they didn't know that they should have gotten Bluetooth when they ordered it.
Besides, viewers will tolerate non-real-time movie downloads -- as long as they take less time than driving to Blockbuster and back
For most people living in urban areas, video stores are all over the place. It's no more than a 15 minute trip the nearest Blockbuster, and I could walk down the street to the local place quicker than that. Even at a generously small estimate of a 1G download for a full length, full res HDTV over the average 1.5mb line is about an hour and a half. It's perhaps tolerable but it's not that near to the instant gratification of popping down to the shop to watch it "right now".
Well, that's a good point, but this is really their own problem. They're the one that decided to introduce a new distribution channel that would threaten the traditional brick & mortar store system and thus their relationship with B&M chains like Best Buy. So instead of pissing off Best Buy, they're pissing off the consumers. Great.
Besides, it seems like plenty of retail stores are already selling HL2 (that's what started the whole problem is the first place). If they let people play, then all of them will start selling them, at least within a day or two. For most people, it's still faster to drive to the store and buy it than download it from Steam. I don't imagine they would really cut into the retail sales that much more.
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or the value of proofreading before hitting submit...
Oh well, that's what I hate about touch typing sometimes, since you're not directly concentrating on each letter you type, sometimes your brain slips in silly substitutions like that.
What does this say about the field of Sociology? :P
about the feel of Sociology? :P
I'm glad to see I'm not the only excited about this upcoming switch! I mean, sure,
Ku band, QPSK and MPEG-2 are alright. But
Ka band, 8PSK and MPEG-4 are clearly going to blow them all away! (At least until Ko Band, ¥PSK and MPEG-7 come out...)
Haha, yeah, THE MIGHTY IGLOO CREW! I got a real laugh the first time I saw it. And those were first put up quite a while ago, before web culture starting cracking into the mainstream like it has today.
Is the term you're looking for Otaku?
E! Online and Gamespy... hard to say which company's game reviewing I respect most...
Depends which remote you have. They appear to have gone through some changes, but on this style of remote control that my mother's DirecTiVo uses, the TV power button is indeed directly below (and about the same size and shape as) the instant reply button. I have accidently done this myself on many occasions, it's very annoying.
I must say overall that I much perfer the Sony TiVo remote control. The rounded portion at the bottom fits nicely in your hand, it's evenly weighted, there's no confusion about which end is up and there are lots of variations in button color, size, shape, feel and orientation to make it easy to find the one you want.
No, they don't, and from what I heard, they aren't planning on it for a while, since they the face price on back balcony tickets are only $20.
It is possible to get tickets if you keep trying. Telecharge's pages are pretty nice, you can try to get tickets for a range of dates and if you leave the window open you only have to enter the captcha once. I left it up on the dates I wanted and tried it periodically and managed to get two tickets on the 5th or 6th try.
Holding enormous amounts of data becomes less and less useful in practical situations if you can't access a decent sized chunk of it quickly.
Ah. That's unfortunate, I rather enjoyed Lemmings Revolution. I thought it was clever how they basically took the classic 2d game and make it buzzword compliant by wrapping it around a cylinder, thus making it "3d" without making the game overly complex and awkward like the original Lemmings 3D.
Well, it depends. I have a friend who is on his third MP3 player. Each time he went to buy a new one, he got an extended warrenty, and each time it broken in 2-3 years, he got enough credit from the original purchase price that he ended up with a higher capacity. If the technology of what you're buying is changing fast enough, it can work out to be a good deal.
Lemmings was written by DMA Design and published for most platforms (including all PC platforms) by Psygnosis. The only thing Take-Two had to do with them was publishing the Game Boy Color version.
Yet clearly Google Images already goes out and retrieves each individual image - after all, they have to generate the thumbnails.
A whole article, and yet not a single word about how Snood is a straight rip-off of Puzzle Bobble...
You sign up for one single offer. Personally, I thought the free one month Blockbuster online trial was worth doing anyway.
Nothing, but I figure it doesn't hurt to try...
Hannibal Lector also uses this trick in Red Dragon. A bit more of a mainstream movie.
Yes, but if you wanted to later unveil the media PC plan, you would want it to be a standard option now. Otherwise people are going to be upset when they didn't know that they should have gotten Bluetooth when they ordered it.
4200 RPM is just fine. That's 15-30Mb/s rate. Even for a 2 hour DVD, that's just around 68Mb/_minute_.
I don't necessarily think he's right, but the hardware is feasible.
For most people living in urban areas, video stores are all over the place. It's no more than a 15 minute trip the nearest Blockbuster, and I could walk down the street to the local place quicker than that. Even at a generously small estimate of a 1G download for a full length, full res HDTV over the average 1.5mb line is about an hour and a half. It's perhaps tolerable but it's not that near to the instant gratification of popping down to the shop to watch it "right now".
3. Since #2 results in things like this happening, maybe we should consider doing something about #1.
Er, in the text of the Kyoto Protocol available from the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change webpage*, the phrase "developing country" or "developing countries" appears 9 times. The text of the Convention itself, which is referenced in the Protocol, uses these phrases over two dozen times. You are correct, however, that China does not appear by name once.
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* I would kill for the domain name 31337.int
Well, that's a good point, but this is really their own problem. They're the one that decided to introduce a new distribution channel that would threaten the traditional brick & mortar store system and thus their relationship with B&M chains like Best Buy. So instead of pissing off Best Buy, they're pissing off the consumers. Great.
Besides, it seems like plenty of retail stores are already selling HL2 (that's what started the whole problem is the first place). If they let people play, then all of them will start selling them, at least within a day or two. For most people, it's still faster to drive to the store and buy it than download it from Steam. I don't imagine they would really cut into the retail sales that much more.