You don't even need to have a message sent or a call. Speakers (and hell, my old CRT) can pick up the signal every so often. For the longest time, it would drive me nuts, until I finally figured out what was causing the noise (and interference on my monitor).
Well, the NBA has caps on the max individual player salaries, though it's a recent development and there are a number of players that were grandfathered in (i.e. their salaries were already above the max amounts and they can keep getting raises off their current salaries).
It's generally okay for the smaller company to mention the bigger company in their ads; everyone knows the bigger company. The goal there is to say "we're better than ". People already have the point of reference.
Now, when you're the 800lb gorilla, you do not generally want to mention the little guy; you've just given them credibility.
Now when the companies are neck and neck (neither really dominating the other marketshare wise), that's also a different story (there's no real rule* there).
My father was in advertising, and he always spoke, as if it were a rule, that you NEVER respond to criticism in an advertisement, only assert your strengths. The fact that Microsoft feels cornered like this speaks volumes. While they're still the 800lb gorilla, they perceive Apple as a real threat now.
One of the big reasons on why this is the case is that now the 800lb gorilla has acknowledged the competitor, which in turn may make more people aware of the competitor and realize there's another option. It's a big no-no when you're the top dog by a wide margin.
The parent mentioned Hawaiian, I take to mean Hawaiian Air. Air Hawaii was a different airline that went out of business in the mid 80s.
Now, you possibly could have meant Hawaiian Air (they were around back in the 80s, too), but they are two different airlines. According to Wiki (take that with a grain of salt), HAL hasn't had a fatal accident ever (IIRC, the plane that had the roof flew off had a flight attendant die? I could be wrong on that...my memory is a little hazy).
(I've been on Hawaiian Air once; it was fine. I was in coach, though)
Of course, the really stupid thing is, if there was some sort of reason why a terrorist is taking pictures of a mall (for some plan), they wouldn't be using a DSLR, as it draws too much attention in the first place. They'd be using a cell phone camera or a small point and shoot, because it's inconspicuous. You don't want to draw attention to yourself if you're planning something. The lone dude with a DSLR is going to be the most harmless person, because he's already attracting so much attention on his own (because he sticks out from the crowd).
Thats one of the reasons I will never buy another apple product ever. They cheat you out of a real warranty (90 day warranty on a $500 ipod?!?!) and there rationelle is "oh you should have baught the extended waranty". Um NO THANKS apple... how about you provide regular standards of support? such as 3 years on a HARD DRIVE based mp3 player. At least 1 god damn year.. jeez..
whats next apple, forcing me to pay for "service packs" to your OS?
when your product is so crap that you NEED to buy an extended warranty because it WILL fail, you know that there is something very wrong there
You do realize that the iPod warranties are one year...and have been for quite some time. Phone support is limited to 90 days, but actual warranty is 1 year. This was the case when I bought my first iPod back in 2003.
IIRC, it was a Kenwood 72X drive... There may have been others, but that was the most common.
And it worked its magic by utilizing multiple lasers. It was expensive to build and from what I hear, a pain to design, as well. I seem to recall some long term reliability issues, too (more moving parts). It wasn't worth the cost (as in, no one wanted to pay that much for 72x speeds).
You forgot the one that really got them into the deeper mess, Spindler. Sure, the end of Scully's reign had them trying to live off the fat profits too much, but it was Spindler that gave them the 12 gajillion crappy models of Performas with tons of inventory left in the channel. Amelio gets a bit of a bum rap; he had to slog through all the crap Spindler left him with. Amelio got the ball rolling; remember who was there when the decision to buy NeXT was made.
Yeah, they should watch some Law & Order episodes. At least maybe like depraved indifference or something. This should have violated an existing law and should be prosecuted as that way.
It does seem like an awful lot of money. At $1/track they'd have to sell more than one track to every man, woman, and child in the US to recoup it. Are the boomers really buying that much music online?
They do have a few other places to sell it; there are 20+ stores worldwide and the Beatles do have worldwide appeal. Sure, it's still a lot of money, but there is a wider market than the US for it.
(then again, we aren't going to be privy to all the contract details, so there may be things we're not seeing that make much more monetary sense).
Exactly. However, its a little nebulous when to apply the rule with regards to software. Some companies are more anal about it than others. So Apple can use that rule to increase its profits while hiding behind an interpretation of the rule that not everyone would agree with -- "to be on the safe side".
More like they've been seriously burned on one scandal (back-dating options) and A. know they are under greater scrutiny because of it and B. would like to not get burned again. They've been burned once; they're being overly cautious now because of it.
And laser power is definitely not the major driver in laptop battery life - the big power draws are the CPU, large LCD panels and WiFi.
In the scope of playing DVD or Blu-ray, the optical drive is going to be a significant factor. However, I believe the laser itself isn't as a big a power draw as physically powering the spindle motor.
So, in the scope of disc playing, ignoring the LCD and WiFi draw (which was happening anyways, because you have the laptop on), why Blu-ray uses up more power is down to the optical drive (in comparison DVD) and CPU. I think the laser in the drive isn't that big of a deal; it might require more juice (since it's a blue laser; they might not be all that efficient with powering that kind of laser), but it's going to be insignificant to the drive spinning the disc (which shouldn't be all that different than DVD). So, really, it is down to the CPU; decoding 1920x1080 h.264 streams are very heavy tasks for a CPU. It's going to be the (more efficient compared to the CPU) GPU assist; the later nVidia and ATi GPUs have hardware decoders for this, though I don't know if the mobile variants have them yet. Why these analysts seem to think the laser itself is the problem is a bit beyond me. Though to be fair, the article says "That laser is one of the main things that conspire to raise power consumption." (the other being decoding). Seeing as decoding and the different laser is really the *only* 2 things that change from DVDs, I guess that's right. *sigh*
Considering it would be pretty tough to sweep Miami.
Well, it's not out of the realm of impossibility. Since there's a precedent for a team to switch leagues (i.e. Brewers from the American League to the National), maybe the Marlins (technically play in Miami) could be forced to jump leagues. Seeing as the Marlins have 2 World Series already (they have to wait for that perfect storm of good young players and cheap salaries), the hard part appears to really be the Cubs making it to the World Series.:P
Just as a comment about region encoding, the PS3 isn't region encoded for Blu-Ray films (I've yet to try games). I've got a couple of region 1 Blu-Ray films for my region 2 PS3 and they work perfectly fine.
The PS3 is only region encoded for DVDs and PS2 games.
Seeing as Region 1 and Region 2 aren't the Blu-ray regions, I'll have to ask where the discs and PS3 are from?
For example, if by Region 1, you mean USA and by Region 2, you mean Japan, be aware that those two areas are now in the same region, for Blu-ray (Region A). The region coding can be found at Wiki. Believe me, it wouldn't fly for the PS3 to not enforce region coding on Blu-ray.
The other thing to keep in mind that not all studios are using region coding.
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That is a cool feature; you get advanced warning (subtle) that the phone is going to ring.
It used to also give me interference on my CRT, if I left my phone near it, which was the norm. I thought my monitor was dying.
Anyone know how to start a fire?
Move to Southern California and wait for the Santa Ana winds.
(I smell smoke outside)
He's called a barbarian and they already showed him off. :P
I'm waiting for the long ranged weapon class (maybe a ranger? How about an elf ranger?) and some sort of defensive style class (a knight, perhaps?).
You don't even need to have a message sent or a call. Speakers (and hell, my old CRT) can pick up the signal every so often. For the longest time, it would drive me nuts, until I finally figured out what was causing the noise (and interference on my monitor).
Well, the NBA has caps on the max individual player salaries, though it's a recent development and there are a number of players that were grandfathered in (i.e. their salaries were already above the max amounts and they can keep getting raises off their current salaries).
Yeah, it's struggling to gain consumer acceptance. It can't possibly have anything to do failing economy in the US, it must be consumer acceptance.
It's generally okay for the smaller company to mention the bigger company in their ads; everyone knows the bigger company. The goal there is to say "we're better than ". People already have the point of reference.
Now, when you're the 800lb gorilla, you do not generally want to mention the little guy; you've just given them credibility.
Now when the companies are neck and neck (neither really dominating the other marketshare wise), that's also a different story (there's no real rule* there).
My father was in advertising, and he always spoke, as if it were a rule, that you NEVER respond to criticism in an advertisement, only assert your strengths. The fact that Microsoft feels cornered like this speaks volumes. While they're still the 800lb gorilla, they perceive Apple as a real threat now.
One of the big reasons on why this is the case is that now the 800lb gorilla has acknowledged the competitor, which in turn may make more people aware of the competitor and realize there's another option. It's a big no-no when you're the top dog by a wide margin.
Air Hawaii
The parent mentioned Hawaiian, I take to mean Hawaiian Air. Air Hawaii was a different airline that went out of business in the mid 80s.
Now, you possibly could have meant Hawaiian Air (they were around back in the 80s, too), but they are two different airlines. According to Wiki (take that with a grain of salt), HAL hasn't had a fatal accident ever (IIRC, the plane that had the roof flew off had a flight attendant die? I could be wrong on that...my memory is a little hazy).
(I've been on Hawaiian Air once; it was fine. I was in coach, though)
Of course, the really stupid thing is, if there was some sort of reason why a terrorist is taking pictures of a mall (for some plan), they wouldn't be using a DSLR, as it draws too much attention in the first place. They'd be using a cell phone camera or a small point and shoot, because it's inconspicuous. You don't want to draw attention to yourself if you're planning something. The lone dude with a DSLR is going to be the most harmless person, because he's already attracting so much attention on his own (because he sticks out from the crowd).
We call that "Congress"
It'll be available in 100 years. It'll take a year to get the appointment for them to wire you up.
Thats one of the reasons I will never buy another apple product ever. They cheat you out of a real warranty (90 day warranty on a $500 ipod?!?!) and there rationelle is "oh you should have baught the extended waranty". Um NO THANKS apple... how about you provide regular standards of support? such as 3 years on a HARD DRIVE based mp3 player. At least 1 god damn year.. jeez..
whats next apple, forcing me to pay for "service packs" to your OS?
when your product is so crap that you NEED to buy an extended warranty because it WILL fail, you know that there is something very wrong there
You do realize that the iPod warranties are one year...and have been for quite some time. Phone support is limited to 90 days, but actual warranty is 1 year. This was the case when I bought my first iPod back in 2003.
Quote from the Apple website:
Your iPod comes with single-incident telephone support for the first 90 days and a one-year limited warranty. Purchase the AppleCare Protection Plan for iPod to extend your service and support to two years from your iPod purchase date.
IIRC, it was a Kenwood 72X drive... There may have been others, but that was the most common.
And it worked its magic by utilizing multiple lasers. It was expensive to build and from what I hear, a pain to design, as well. I seem to recall some long term reliability issues, too (more moving parts). It wasn't worth the cost (as in, no one wanted to pay that much for 72x speeds).
You forgot the one that really got them into the deeper mess, Spindler. Sure, the end of Scully's reign had them trying to live off the fat profits too much, but it was Spindler that gave them the 12 gajillion crappy models of Performas with tons of inventory left in the channel. Amelio gets a bit of a bum rap; he had to slog through all the crap Spindler left him with. Amelio got the ball rolling; remember who was there when the decision to buy NeXT was made.
Dear Mr. Capone,
You did evade taxes, which was still illegal.
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The IRS
Yeah, they should watch some Law & Order episodes. At least maybe like depraved indifference or something. This should have violated an existing law and should be prosecuted as that way.
The 1900Mhz band isn't for 3g; if you followed the link to the T-Mobile USA's wiki entry, you would have seen the 3g plans.
It does seem like an awful lot of money. At $1/track they'd have to sell more than one track to every man, woman, and child in the US to recoup it. Are the boomers really buying that much music online?
They do have a few other places to sell it; there are 20+ stores worldwide and the Beatles do have worldwide appeal. Sure, it's still a lot of money, but there is a wider market than the US for it.
(then again, we aren't going to be privy to all the contract details, so there may be things we're not seeing that make much more monetary sense).
Exactly. However, its a little nebulous when to apply the rule with regards to software. Some companies are more anal about it than others. So Apple can use that rule to increase its profits while hiding behind an interpretation of the rule that not everyone would agree with -- "to be on the safe side".
More like they've been seriously burned on one scandal (back-dating options) and A. know they are under greater scrutiny because of it and B. would like to not get burned again. They've been burned once; they're being overly cautious now because of it.
And laser power is definitely not the major driver in laptop battery life - the big power draws are the CPU, large LCD panels and WiFi.
In the scope of playing DVD or Blu-ray, the optical drive is going to be a significant factor. However, I believe the laser itself isn't as a big a power draw as physically powering the spindle motor.
So, in the scope of disc playing, ignoring the LCD and WiFi draw (which was happening anyways, because you have the laptop on), why Blu-ray uses up more power is down to the optical drive (in comparison DVD) and CPU. I think the laser in the drive isn't that big of a deal; it might require more juice (since it's a blue laser; they might not be all that efficient with powering that kind of laser), but it's going to be insignificant to the drive spinning the disc (which shouldn't be all that different than DVD). So, really, it is down to the CPU; decoding 1920x1080 h.264 streams are very heavy tasks for a CPU. It's going to be the (more efficient compared to the CPU) GPU assist; the later nVidia and ATi GPUs have hardware decoders for this, though I don't know if the mobile variants have them yet. Why these analysts seem to think the laser itself is the problem is a bit beyond me. Though to be fair, the article says "That laser is one of the main things that conspire to raise power consumption." (the other being decoding). Seeing as decoding and the different laser is really the *only* 2 things that change from DVDs, I guess that's right. *sigh*
You can just buy one foot sections of "extension" cable that allow you to use all the outlets on your strip...plus they're cheap.
I was just thinking about that before I clicked to see how much they were selling this. The price ($120) doesn't make me think any different.
Considering it would be pretty tough to sweep Miami.
:P
Well, it's not out of the realm of impossibility. Since there's a precedent for a team to switch leagues (i.e. Brewers from the American League to the National), maybe the Marlins (technically play in Miami) could be forced to jump leagues. Seeing as the Marlins have 2 World Series already (they have to wait for that perfect storm of good young players and cheap salaries), the hard part appears to really be the Cubs making it to the World Series.
Just as a comment about region encoding, the PS3 isn't region encoded for Blu-Ray films (I've yet to try games). I've got a couple of region 1 Blu-Ray films for my region 2 PS3 and they work perfectly fine.
The PS3 is only region encoded for DVDs and PS2 games.
Seeing as Region 1 and Region 2 aren't the Blu-ray regions, I'll have to ask where the discs and PS3 are from?
For example, if by Region 1, you mean USA and by Region 2, you mean Japan, be aware that those two areas are now in the same region, for Blu-ray (Region A). The region coding can be found at Wiki. Believe me, it wouldn't fly for the PS3 to not enforce region coding on Blu-ray.
The other thing to keep in mind that not all studios are using region coding.
I can put the controller down whenever I want!
I just don't want to right now.