Are you sure they didn't lower quality to increase volume? Wasn't part of their stated intent to support their independent retailers and avoid selling in a nationwide store?
They told WalMart to go to hell so they could continue to support their smaller distributors. After a few years they realized that they failed miserably and rolled over for Sears/K-Mart instead since WalMart won't take them back.
Sony says PS3 manufacturing costs are down below $400/unit now. Looks like the only company losing money on their console sales these days is Microsoft....
If they are afraid to tell the truth, then something is seriously amiss
In Michigan we recently had an election where two candidates stood up and talked about how they were going to help the state's economy. One said he would train the workers to do economically sustainable jobs, and the other lied out his ass about how he was going to bring back jobs that our economy can't possibly support when competing with cheap labor from China. The liar won the election.
So yes. Things are seriously amiss. But make sure you point that finger in the right direction.
Stop voting for the guy who tells you what you want to hear instead of the guy who tells the truth, and then maybe we can start to reverse the decades of this kind of crap.
It shouldn't come as a shock that the people who simply post their opinions that nobody reads would want a cut of the action from the revenues generated by the successful bloggers.
When the local factory is the only way to earn a living, organized labor helps a lot. It's monopoly of labor balancing out monopoly of employment. In cases like this it's merely the people who suck at their "job" wanting to ride the gravy train of those that succeed. If they can't make a living at blogging, they should go get one of the countless other jobs that pay fairly.
With the latest update to the series 3 tivos, you can download shows onto your computer and then burn them to DVD in faster than real-time. They force you to run Windows and by DVD burning software from Sonic to do it, but it's still cheaper than buying a standalone DVD recorder. It reduces the shows to SD resolution when you burn them to DVD, but a standalone recorder would do that too...
Your accusation is not supported by the "evidence". Please prove that the kid in question actually drank any of the drinks he was pictured holding.
In a criminal trial, perhaps the lack of physical proof that the beverages in the cans labeled as alcohol really were alcohol, you may have a case that there is "reasonable" doubt. But it is unlikely that a jury would agree with you.
Regardless, this is *not* a criminal trial. This is the court of general opinion. (Read: Real life). Now is the time for these kids to learn that the real world doesn't play by the rules of a court of law. Apparently you never learned this.
The fact of the matter is that the chances these kids were "pretend" drinking is so slim to be sufficient for almost everybody to make the assumption that they were drinking, and judge these kids appropriately. The fact of the matter is that it is the job of the school these kids attend to teach them that lesson. There needs to be a high level of certainty when you're talking about a government removing the rights of a citizen, thus the "reasonable doubt" rule. However, since we live in a free country, each individual has the right, and everybody does it, to judge these people by their own standard.
Now, let's just talk plain practicality for a moment. People who are younger than other people tend to lose sight (or never realize in the first place) that older people lived through largely the same experiences that they are living through now already. When you are a high-school kid, it's easy for you to think that the guy on the other side of the desk handing out the punishments doesn't understand you at all. But the fact of the matter is that guy went to high school, went to parties like that, and knows what really goes on when you get your picture taken with a drink in both hands. I've been there. I know how it works. And the odds are high enough for me to tell you that I *know* these kids were drinking, even though I can't prove it to the standards of the criminal justice system or any pedantic mathematician.
These kids, and most people their age, and *you* need to learn that occam's razor is built into everybody's brain. When you get caught with your pants down, everybody is going to assume the obvious reasons, no matter how innocent the situation really was, or how innocent you play it off to be, no matter what the actual evidence. They're the facts of life. You are never going to change it or talk your way out of them.
The crux of the writers strike is that they would rather work on a continuing revenue basis that with a living wage paid up front. Game companies pay their writers a salary, not a fraction of each sale.
"Hey gaming industry! If you want to be on our awards list, you better hire yourself some union writers. You're a bunch of chumps for paying writers a salary. Let us hold you hostage for continuing payments like we're doing with the TV studios."
"Us slags" don't buy trendy micro-notebooks that aren't appropriate for their needs. It's pretty clear that there is a market for this type of device, even if you aren't in it.
That's the same type of thing as when you get a pile of work dumped on you because a co-worker has to drop everything to take care of their kids and you don't have any... So congratulations, you get his/her shit-work.
Many telecommuters don't realize/admit that some of what makes their telecommuting so nice for them are the little annoyances that get passed on to their office-dwelling co-workers because they're not around. If you point them out though, the rabid telecommuters will come out of the woodwork to defend themselves lest they lose their sweet gig.
As someone who has been telecommuting for about a decade, let me give my thoughts:
As somebody who has been telecommuting for more than a decade, don't you think you're probably seriously out of touch with how the guys back at the office feel about the matter?
Since you felt it necessary to trot out the same old stereotypical arguments about why you're just as/more productive than the guys in the office, aren't you basically confirming this story to the best of your ability?
Personally, if I bought a 500bhp car, I'd want the power for acceleration more than for top speed. For starters, there's a speed limit, but no acceleration limit. Also, there are few practical places to drive where it is safe to exceed 100mph, much less 155mph. Lastly, even if the drive train and body are capable of going 155mph, almost no stock car ships with tires rated for speeds higher than that. The highst you'll find on a stock care is likely to be Z-rated, which shouldn't really be used above 160mph for extended periods.
All the "extras" on the HD-DVD version that aren't on the BluRay version are the bits they cut out of the original to make more room for ads when they aired it on Discovery. The BluRay version has those bits integrated, and has narration by David Attenborough. It makes the HD-DVD version (and the Discovery Channel version) seem un-watchable.
Whatever store she bought it at will likely exchange it for you.
Ford or Ford's licensees probably have produced calendars using the Ford marks. Just like they've probably put out t-shirts, towels, computer programs, pens, toilet seats, etc.
I really need to just stop reading any I.P. posts that come across Slashdot. Most of the posts that are moderated up just get it all wrong.
That's true, and in that situation Ford would have a case, but only if a reproduction of the trademark was the primary focus of the item. It becomes fuzzy, and would probably go to the car club if they could afford the suit, when the focus of the calendar is something other than the trademark. For example, "me and my black mustang". Or probably even "my customized mustang".
Ford only has the right to prevent others form using their trademarks in an inaccurate or misleading manner. You are completely free to use Ford's marks to refer to Ford products and the Ford Motor Company itself. Even in a derogatory manner if it's true, or in a commercial manner as part of an original work. (For example, a book called "The History of the Ford Motor Company", or "Ford Cars from 1958-2008 in Photos")
The pictures of the cars are copyrighted to the person who took the picture.
The only thing Ford is in the right about here is that they are perfectly allowed to send cease and desist letters to anybody they'd like, and they can even file suit. They would almost certainly lose, though.
This works the same way with people too. A newspaper can sell 10,000 copies with the picture of (insert your favorite NFL football player here) on the front page if their photographer took the photo out on the street where he wasn't under any NFL ticket/press contract.
I have to call BS on this. Modern games that will play on consoles like the PS3 and Xbox 360 will easily fit on a DVD9. With over 8GB to work with you can fit pretty much anything you want
Several PS2 games exceeded the size of a DVD9 and came on multiple discs. It should be obvious that these didn't contain any HD pre-rendered video.
Specifically that a large number of PSP owners would rather forgo updates and the ability to play new boxed titles in order to be able to continue to run homebrew applications on their console.
Bluetooth isn't UWB for starters. You couldn't really make this "backwards compatible" without dual implementations. The only reason to "update Bluetooth" for this would be to leverage the branding.
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Are you sure they didn't lower quality to increase volume? Wasn't part of their stated intent to support their independent retailers and avoid selling in a nationwide store?
They told WalMart to go to hell so they could continue to support their smaller distributors. After a few years they realized that they failed miserably and rolled over for Sears/K-Mart instead since WalMart won't take them back.
Sony says PS3 manufacturing costs are down below $400/unit now. Looks like the only company losing money on their console sales these days is Microsoft....
McCain and Obama seem to be better than the rest in that department. Too bad neither will win the primary.
In Michigan we recently had an election where two candidates stood up and talked about how they were going to help the state's economy. One said he would train the workers to do economically sustainable jobs, and the other lied out his ass about how he was going to bring back jobs that our economy can't possibly support when competing with cheap labor from China. The liar won the election.
So yes. Things are seriously amiss. But make sure you point that finger in the right direction.
Stop voting for the guy who tells you what you want to hear instead of the guy who tells the truth, and then maybe we can start to reverse the decades of this kind of crap.
It'll never happen though.
It shouldn't come as a shock that the people who simply post their opinions that nobody reads would want a cut of the action from the revenues generated by the successful bloggers.
When the local factory is the only way to earn a living, organized labor helps a lot. It's monopoly of labor balancing out monopoly of employment. In cases like this it's merely the people who suck at their "job" wanting to ride the gravy train of those that succeed. If they can't make a living at blogging, they should go get one of the countless other jobs that pay fairly.
I started playing in November. I don't have a 70 yet, and I have just under 10,000 gold.
You can make about 5000g a month playing the auction house fairly easily.
With the latest update to the series 3 tivos, you can download shows onto your computer and then burn them to DVD in faster than real-time. They force you to run Windows and by DVD burning software from Sonic to do it, but it's still cheaper than buying a standalone DVD recorder. It reduces the shows to SD resolution when you burn them to DVD, but a standalone recorder would do that too...
The makers of the cheap product which damaged the expensive product are blaming the makers of the expensive product.
There. Filled in your undefined variables for you. Hopefully that helps you understand the outrage.
In a criminal trial, perhaps the lack of physical proof that the beverages in the cans labeled as alcohol really were alcohol, you may have a case that there is "reasonable" doubt. But it is unlikely that a jury would agree with you.
Regardless, this is *not* a criminal trial. This is the court of general opinion. (Read: Real life). Now is the time for these kids to learn that the real world doesn't play by the rules of a court of law. Apparently you never learned this.
The fact of the matter is that the chances these kids were "pretend" drinking is so slim to be sufficient for almost everybody to make the assumption that they were drinking, and judge these kids appropriately. The fact of the matter is that it is the job of the school these kids attend to teach them that lesson. There needs to be a high level of certainty when you're talking about a government removing the rights of a citizen, thus the "reasonable doubt" rule. However, since we live in a free country, each individual has the right, and everybody does it, to judge these people by their own standard.
Now, let's just talk plain practicality for a moment. People who are younger than other people tend to lose sight (or never realize in the first place) that older people lived through largely the same experiences that they are living through now already. When you are a high-school kid, it's easy for you to think that the guy on the other side of the desk handing out the punishments doesn't understand you at all. But the fact of the matter is that guy went to high school, went to parties like that, and knows what really goes on when you get your picture taken with a drink in both hands. I've been there. I know how it works. And the odds are high enough for me to tell you that I *know* these kids were drinking, even though I can't prove it to the standards of the criminal justice system or any pedantic mathematician.
These kids, and most people their age, and *you* need to learn that occam's razor is built into everybody's brain. When you get caught with your pants down, everybody is going to assume the obvious reasons, no matter how innocent the situation really was, or how innocent you play it off to be, no matter what the actual evidence. They're the facts of life. You are never going to change it or talk your way out of them.
The crux of the writers strike is that they would rather work on a continuing revenue basis that with a living wage paid up front. Game companies pay their writers a salary, not a fraction of each sale.
"Hey gaming industry! If you want to be on our awards list, you better hire yourself some union writers. You're a bunch of chumps for paying writers a salary. Let us hold you hostage for continuing payments like we're doing with the TV studios."
Or that they were born to parents that were HIV positive and contracted it at or before childbirth...
"Us slags" don't buy trendy micro-notebooks that aren't appropriate for their needs. It's pretty clear that there is a market for this type of device, even if you aren't in it.
That's the same type of thing as when you get a pile of work dumped on you because a co-worker has to drop everything to take care of their kids and you don't have any... So congratulations, you get his/her shit-work.
Many telecommuters don't realize/admit that some of what makes their telecommuting so nice for them are the little annoyances that get passed on to their office-dwelling co-workers because they're not around. If you point them out though, the rabid telecommuters will come out of the woodwork to defend themselves lest they lose their sweet gig.
As somebody who has been telecommuting for more than a decade, don't you think you're probably seriously out of touch with how the guys back at the office feel about the matter?
Since you felt it necessary to trot out the same old stereotypical arguments about why you're just as/more productive than the guys in the office, aren't you basically confirming this story to the best of your ability?
Personally, if I bought a 500bhp car, I'd want the power for acceleration more than for top speed. For starters, there's a speed limit, but no acceleration limit. Also, there are few practical places to drive where it is safe to exceed 100mph, much less 155mph. Lastly, even if the drive train and body are capable of going 155mph, almost no stock car ships with tires rated for speeds higher than that. The highst you'll find on a stock care is likely to be Z-rated, which shouldn't really be used above 160mph for extended periods.
The BluRay version is 1000x better.
All the "extras" on the HD-DVD version that aren't on the BluRay version are the bits they cut out of the original to make more room for ads when they aired it on Discovery. The BluRay version has those bits integrated, and has narration by David Attenborough. It makes the HD-DVD version (and the Discovery Channel version) seem un-watchable.
Whatever store she bought it at will likely exchange it for you.
That's true, and in that situation Ford would have a case, but only if a reproduction of the trademark was the primary focus of the item. It becomes fuzzy, and would probably go to the car club if they could afford the suit, when the focus of the calendar is something other than the trademark. For example, "me and my black mustang". Or probably even "my customized mustang".
Ford only has the right to prevent others form using their trademarks in an inaccurate or misleading manner. You are completely free to use Ford's marks to refer to Ford products and the Ford Motor Company itself. Even in a derogatory manner if it's true, or in a commercial manner as part of an original work. (For example, a book called "The History of the Ford Motor Company", or "Ford Cars from 1958-2008 in Photos")
The pictures of the cars are copyrighted to the person who took the picture.
The only thing Ford is in the right about here is that they are perfectly allowed to send cease and desist letters to anybody they'd like, and they can even file suit. They would almost certainly lose, though.
This works the same way with people too. A newspaper can sell 10,000 copies with the picture of (insert your favorite NFL football player here) on the front page if their photographer took the photo out on the street where he wasn't under any NFL ticket/press contract.
Several PS2 games exceeded the size of a DVD9 and came on multiple discs. It should be obvious that these didn't contain any HD pre-rendered video.
I didn't say it failed. I said it had "failings".
Specifically that a large number of PSP owners would rather forgo updates and the ability to play new boxed titles in order to be able to continue to run homebrew applications on their console.
There's only 1cm between my components (just measured).
Why is 3cm too much for connecting stereo components?
Bluetooth isn't UWB for starters. You couldn't really make this "backwards compatible" without dual implementations. The only reason to "update Bluetooth" for this would be to leverage the branding.