Uninstall from the registry. The primary entry is usually in something like HKLM -> SYSTEM -> CurrentControlSet -> Services. It has always worked for me.
Breaking: Web site links games with mental disorders. A gaming site has been found with an anchor tag and href attribute containing a URL to a mental disorders website.
I would have to say that they are probably idiots. I may be wrong but I have a strong suspicion if implemented incorrectly the result will be identity fraud leading to defamation on a large scale with people claiming ownership of profiles that aren't theirs.
A tenuous argument could be made that this is identity fraud because the information is being used to create activity under other people's identification credentials. Being in the public domain does not mean you can use it in anyway that you like.
The company is right to look for solutions to protect against fraudsters and scam artists. However this solution is dangerously close to crossing the line regarding what is an acceptable way to use public information. A better way to use this information would be to have it largely hidden and to instead use it to provide a set of questions to allow an individual to identify themselves. I suspect they may create an environment where it is easier for criminals to operate in.
One of the greatest risks is if they do what a variety of large dating sites do an automate accounts to feign interest. These bot accounts are usually made to look like a real user and will even use a real set of photos. If this happens using harvested data the potential for a defamation law suit is great. The company may automatically generate messages between users that look suited using the contact details in the harvested data. This would be doomed to eventually fail. Some guy will get eventually find himself embarrassed after a dating email or similar is automatically sent to his sister or his mother from the site and sue the site for identity theft.
I stream video, download, fetch email, use maps and browse the web casually on my phone. I was surprised to find that my monthly usage has not yet exceeded 200MB and rarely exceeds 100MB. It is not easy to use 500MB on a phone and very difficult to use the 1-2GB some providers offer.
I would have to say the HTC Touch Pro2 is my favorite. Good sized screen, port of putty amongst other things, and excellent keyboard. However, you will want to cook a ROM for best results and install the keyboard driver from XDA to allow you to fully map all of your keys.
The days of the Z80 based Home PCs were the best for BASIC. Persuading or motivating a child to learn a written language by copying from the board can be difficult. However, teaching a child programming the same way was once easy. Typing in a basic program from a book was just another way to load a game.
I started out like this from the age of around 7. You would be amazed how much you pick up just from copying like that and the line numbers do help with understanding. In fact I would argue that for someone very young and with no initial understanding of programming that GOTO and line numbers are far better as they are more explicit than functions. I totally agree, its horrible to have to write a program like that. But when I was 7 and read GOTO 50 the intention was immediately clear and the program's flow could easily be deduced. It's also worth noting that GOTO and line numbers more closely resemble what goes on under the hood. If I had to do the same for a more modern procedural language I wouldn't have found it so obvious. It would not be so clear that systemproc() and definedproc() are separate or change the flow of a program.
I never had any intention of learning basic and never did in any big way. However, when I got something a little more substantial than a Z80 machine, thanks to the passive learning I received from loading programs from book into a Spectrum or an Amstrad CPC I was able to master any programming language I needed to use extremely quickly.
This isn't really presenting the teaching merits of BASIC according to the teaching method you have in mind but I think it's a nice way to teach. Sadly this is no longer such a viable teaching scenario. Why would someone type in a tiny program that does very little when it takes less than a minute for their Nintendo DS to boot up a massive ROM cartridge?
Actually, you can often ignore lines like that. Contract law protects you from unfair, extortionate and unreasonable contracts. If they cancelled your contract under that clause without any proof of phone alteration that line would not necessarily prevent you from taking them to court on the matter, however you would first have to legally battle them on the fairness of their consumer contract.
The real problem of fairness that arises with this line is whether or not the contract fee for some term is actually paying for the phone or not. In some cases it would be fair, but not obviously so and in other cases it would be unfair.
The government (or perhaps the people in the government aren't human but alien invaders and don't deserve human rights), and everyone, has some right to secrecy and privacy. The alternative is well, in your signature. The problem about secrecy, is that secrets are impossible to vet. It would be nice to have someone trustworthy doing this who knows what to turn a blind eye to. Unfortunately, I do not believe that such a thing exists, yet a need for it does.
I don't think the war leaks are that bad, but I do think that wikileaks has a worrying agenda (I could be wrong, it's just my viewpoint). I do not believe that it is entirely objective, and in the long run this may cause problems. It is obvious that there is some "leftist" (in a general respect to the word) element to wikileaks. Leftism isn't always bad, I like some of those ideals of liberty myself, but can result in things such as an attitude that all war and conflict is unnecessary, the strong are always in the wrong and that authoritative bodies unconditionally have a malign motive. You end up with the bizarre form of desperate pacifism that delivers violent emotional manipulation you see in bodies such as PETA.
I believe that the activities of wikileaks are not simply intended to enlighten people about some of the aspects of reality usually hidden to us for example the realities of war, but to affect our allegiance to its will with the goal of specifically raising public support against the west to undermine its military endeavours and government unconditionally. Why? Well much like the Devil (good thing for him he's fictional), people love to blame their difficulties in life on the government, or whoever is "at the top". People love to herd scape goats. This is more problematic because unlike the devil, the government is sometimes to blame, but not as often as you might hear it. Objection to governmental control can even make things worse, if the government is on the whole benevolent and attempting to control to constructive ends. To those who complain at every iota of control they must endure, answer this: What else? Lawlessness? Anarchy? You for President? I personally don't agree with every military action the west takes, however I am not fooled by information about the suffering at the front line. Because if there's one reality that wikileaks cannot provide, it is what the future reality would be without certain military action, that is, taking no action against aggressors, one which in some cases my imagination permits to be far worse.
In respect to this, you have to be very careful about releasing "secrets" and leaks. First, consider that not everyone is perfect. Those receiving secret information are imperfect, and instead of recognising this as a human characteristic, they're going to assume that decision making in retrospect is identical to decision making in the present situation of such an incident, and hold the "wrong doers" to a standard of perfection beyond that the human species exhibits and use these random mistakes to bolster their personal opinions. Those on either side of the front line, up the chain of command; they're all human, they're going to make mistakes. Even in retrospect you're rarely going to fully understand the situation they were in. In short, the right information doesn't always lead to a reaction that is synchronous with its reality. Anyone in such a position should take care not to fall into the trap of using information to manipulate especially using the natural static that human error causes.
The reason to be careful when arguing these matters... You can't justify releasing everything that is leaked. Sometimes you can justify the leak, but not the motive for it. Things are much more complicated than two lines in a comment box would permit. Could you honestly justify it if wikileaks release hundreds of thousands of a nation's private criminal records, or medical records? People would be out for blood. I would be if appropriate action weren't taken by the government in such a case even if not affected
The government (or perhaps the people in the government aren't human but alien invaders and don't deserve human rights), and everyone, has some right to secrecy and privacy. The alternative is well, in your signature. The problem about secrecy, is that secrets are impossible to vet. It would be nice to have someone trustworthy doing this who knows what to turn a blind eye to. Unfortunately, I do not believe that such a thing exists, yet a need for it does.
I don't think the war leaks are that bad, but I do think that wikileaks has a worrying agenda (I could be wrong, it's just my viewpoint). I do not believe that it is entirely objective, and in the long run this may cause problems. It is obvious that there is some "leftist" (in a general respect to the word) element to wikileaks. Leftism isn't always bad, I like some of those ideals of liberty myself, but can result in things such as an attitude that all war and conflict is unnecessary, the strong are always in the wrong and that authoritative bodies unconditionally have a malign motive. You end up with the bizarre form of desperate pacifism that delivers violent emotional manipulation you see in bodies such as PETA.
I believe that the activities of wikileaks are not simply intended to enlighten people about some of the aspects of reality usually hidden to us for example the realities of war, but to affect our allegiance to its will with the goal of specifically raising public support against the west to undermine its military endeavours and government unconditionally. Why? Well much like the Devil (good thing for him he's fictional), people love to blame their difficulties in life on the government, or whoever is "at the top". People love to herd scape goats. This is more problematic because unlike the devil, the government is sometimes to blame, but not as often as you might hear it. Objection to governmental control can even make things worse, if the government is on the whole benevolent and attempting to control to constructive ends. To those who complain at every iota of control they must endure, answer this: What else? Lawlessness? Anarchy? You for President? I personally don't agree with every military action the west takes, however I am not fooled by information about the suffering at the front line. Because if there's one reality that wikileaks cannot provide, it is what the future reality would be without certain military action, that is, taking no action against aggressors, one which in some cases my imagination permits to be far worse.
In respect to this, you have to be very careful about releasing "secrets" and leaks. First, consider that not everyone is perfect. Those receiving secret information are imperfect, and instead of recognising this as a human characteristic, they're going to assume that decision making in retrospect is identical to decision making in the present situation of such an incident, and hold the "wrong doers" to a standard of perfection beyond that the human species exhibits and use these random mistakes to bolster their personal opinions. Those on either side of the front line, up the chain of command; they're all human, they're going to make mistakes. Even in retrospect you're rarely going to fully understand the situation they were in. In short, the right information doesn't always lead to a reaction that is synchronous with its reality. Anyone in such a position should take care not to fall into the trap of using information to manipulate especially using the natural static that human error causes.
The reason to be careful when arguing these matters... You can't justify releasing everything that is leaked. Sometimes you can justify the leak, but not the motive for it. Things are much more complicated than two lines in a comment box would permit. Could you honestly justify it if wikileaks release hundreds of thousands of a nation's private criminal records, or medical records? People would be out for blood. I would be if appropriate action weren't taken by the government in such a case even if not affected by such a leak, litera
This does sound like a scam (at the expense of some journalists). Such a system isn't practical. Although some protocols are predominantly used for distributing controlled data streams, you still need a deep level of inspection to confirm in any case that such use is occurring. Such inspection if done with no restriction could lead to an invasion of privacy that would result in violent student rioting. On a campus network, anyone you piss off need only take a 5 minute march to reach you. Either way the net result would be some possibly large number of users migrating to alternate broadband services. The university network wouldn't be very popular.
In general I recommend avoiding networks provided by a university. Often, someone on some University staff will have an attitude akin to a religious dictator. An attitude that anything other than learning is a distraction from it. This attitude leads to a Taliban like regime or influence guarding network resources. No entertainment, no pleasure, nothing other than the task at hand. Indeed, these nazis believe that those undertaking an academic course must shun all temptation and devote every waking millisecond to their academic pursuits. It doesn't matter that you pay your student fees, rent and accommodation, they own you, you're born with the original sin of being uneducated and must be punished by being committed to a forced regimen of ceaseless study. As far as such people are concerned, you should not be permitted to drink, play games, listen to music, watch tv or engage in any such leisurely activities until you have succeeded in your higher education course. They are few, but that's all you need to ruin your day.
I am starting to lose faith in the prospect of SGU turning out appreciable. It is using too many replicated neo-trends none of which have actually been tried and fully proven. The novelty may have pulled in crowds to begin with but I suspect that may be wearing thin as more and more find themselves disappointed. The lost style habit of jumping to some soap opera of a character's past life or fantasy meat and potatoes life has successfully ruined two or three SGU episodes for me. These don't do anything but try to force a story into a story which is barely related or productive. It's like watching two programs at once, one of which is totally uninteresting, and all you want is the actual real story to progress.
In fact, either way, nothing much seems to progress. Series are dragging out story lines and episodes more, which makes it quite risky for the viewer to waste their time on especially when they have experiences unsatisfactory conclusions. BSG started ok, it got a bit annoying at times, but also had some interesting things. Then it farted out a joke of an ending so boring in my perspective that I'm not entirely convinced that I definitely saw it, and perhaps was mistaken. At least with conventional Science Fiction such as Star Trek, Stargate SG1/A, B5/Excalibur, Starhunter, Red Dward, Lexx, Farscape, Space above and Beyond, pretty much everything and so on, most episodes stand alone while the overall store line blends in to this well or only takes a bit of an episode here or there. This formula is ubiquitous because it works well. What neo-sci-fi is doing is replacing many of these atomic sci-fi stories that give use quick satisfaction with pointless soap-operas that do nothing but beat a dead donkey around the bush ad infinitum. The result is that stories drag on for ages and seem to torture the viewer while providing no satisfaction. Every time something is finally resolved, there are a handful of new mysteries and hopeless situations facing the characters with the overall result of the story appearing to barely progress at all. You start to wonder if you're watching yet another show that turns out to be purgatory, or if perhaps you yourself are in purgatory because the drag of these shows is intolerable.
I consider this a "noise" problem. These styles add a huge amount of detail, but not all of it is truly relevant or interesting. I don't really want to have to wait weeks and weeks to get the conclusion of some interesting Sci-Fi story so that some pretend space pilot can have a tantrum having arbitrarily found out that their partner cheated on them. I don't want every single character's vain psychosis's and traumas to be explored in excruciating detail sprawling several seasons to the extent that you feel more like a psychologist or therapist than a casual viewer. If I wanted that, I would go watch a soap opera or get a degree in psychology or apply for a job at the suicide hotline or date an angsty teenage emo-girl. It's not that I want shows with nothing but robots, it's that there's too much human drama for anything else to actually ever happen.
Having being disappointed by BSG, losing interest in Lost after it lost the plot a couple of series in, not being able to tolerate more than two hours of FF13 I am now very reluctant to invest my time or interest in entertainment following these new paradigms. You can accuse me of being ADHD or "not giving things a chance" if you want. As I see it, if I have to commit so much in terms of time sitting there bored waiting for some interesting development that may never occur, even if the result is entertaining, it sucks. This is why I never even gave Caprica a second thought and committed my self to not getting into it.
Perhaps I am confused, but I remember buying my copy from the shop with relative ease. I don't think this particular excuse is valid for piracy in general. It's too specific.
I don't believe the problem is 0.999...
It's how the hell to represent things like the result from 1/3. In computing at least, this kind of thing is a common cause of precision loss.
Addendum:
The lower centre of gravity, ties in with the economy of increasing size rather than DPI. As you make a screen bigger, the greater you make it vertically, the greater provision you must take to stabilise the unit. Think of it from a designers perspective. Increasing the width, may be simpler and cheaper than adjusting the stand.
PS. This comments system is on crack.
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Uninstall from the registry. The primary entry is usually in something like HKLM -> SYSTEM -> CurrentControlSet -> Services. It has always worked for me.
Breaking: Web site links games with mental disorders. A gaming site has been found with an anchor tag and href attribute containing a URL to a mental disorders website.
In other words, this is nonsense.
I would have to say that they are probably idiots. I may be wrong but I have a strong suspicion if implemented incorrectly the result will be identity fraud leading to defamation on a large scale with people claiming ownership of profiles that aren't theirs.
A tenuous argument could be made that this is identity fraud because the information is being used to create activity under other people's identification credentials. Being in the public domain does not mean you can use it in anyway that you like.
The company is right to look for solutions to protect against fraudsters and scam artists. However this solution is dangerously close to crossing the line regarding what is an acceptable way to use public information. A better way to use this information would be to have it largely hidden and to instead use it to provide a set of questions to allow an individual to identify themselves. I suspect they may create an environment where it is easier for criminals to operate in.
One of the greatest risks is if they do what a variety of large dating sites do an automate accounts to feign interest. These bot accounts are usually made to look like a real user and will even use a real set of photos. If this happens using harvested data the potential for a defamation law suit is great. The company may automatically generate messages between users that look suited using the contact details in the harvested data. This would be doomed to eventually fail. Some guy will get eventually find himself embarrassed after a dating email or similar is automatically sent to his sister or his mother from the site and sue the site for identity theft.
That's why my next phone will be a linux phone.
I stream video, download, fetch email, use maps and browse the web casually on my phone. I was surprised to find that my monthly usage has not yet exceeded 200MB and rarely exceeds 100MB. It is not easy to use 500MB on a phone and very difficult to use the 1-2GB some providers offer.
I would have to say the HTC Touch Pro2 is my favorite. Good sized screen, port of putty amongst other things, and excellent keyboard. However, you will want to cook a ROM for best results and install the keyboard driver from XDA to allow you to fully map all of your keys.
GOTO is basically jmp. Don't learn GOTO, you can never learn assembly.
The days of the Z80 based Home PCs were the best for BASIC. Persuading or motivating a child to learn a written language by copying from the board can be difficult. However, teaching a child programming the same way was once easy. Typing in a basic program from a book was just another way to load a game.
I started out like this from the age of around 7. You would be amazed how much you pick up just from copying like that and the line numbers do help with understanding. In fact I would argue that for someone very young and with no initial understanding of programming that GOTO and line numbers are far better as they are more explicit than functions. I totally agree, its horrible to have to write a program like that. But when I was 7 and read GOTO 50 the intention was immediately clear and the program's flow could easily be deduced. It's also worth noting that GOTO and line numbers more closely resemble what goes on under the hood. If I had to do the same for a more modern procedural language I wouldn't have found it so obvious. It would not be so clear that systemproc() and definedproc() are separate or change the flow of a program.
I never had any intention of learning basic and never did in any big way. However, when I got something a little more substantial than a Z80 machine, thanks to the passive learning I received from loading programs from book into a Spectrum or an Amstrad CPC I was able to master any programming language I needed to use extremely quickly.
This isn't really presenting the teaching merits of BASIC according to the teaching method you have in mind but I think it's a nice way to teach. Sadly this is no longer such a viable teaching scenario. Why would someone type in a tiny program that does very little when it takes less than a minute for their Nintendo DS to boot up a massive ROM cartridge?
Actually, that doesn't count if the user is a female or a child.
Actually, you can often ignore lines like that. Contract law protects you from unfair, extortionate and unreasonable contracts. If they cancelled your contract under that clause without any proof of phone alteration that line would not necessarily prevent you from taking them to court on the matter, however you would first have to legally battle them on the fairness of their consumer contract.
The real problem of fairness that arises with this line is whether or not the contract fee for some term is actually paying for the phone or not. In some cases it would be fair, but not obviously so and in other cases it would be unfair.
The government (or perhaps the people in the government aren't human but alien invaders and don't deserve human rights), and everyone, has some right to secrecy and privacy. The alternative is well, in your signature. The problem about secrecy, is that secrets are impossible to vet. It would be nice to have someone trustworthy doing this who knows what to turn a blind eye to. Unfortunately, I do not believe that such a thing exists, yet a need for it does.
I don't think the war leaks are that bad, but I do think that wikileaks has a worrying agenda (I could be wrong, it's just my viewpoint). I do not believe that it is entirely objective, and in the long run this may cause problems. It is obvious that there is some "leftist" (in a general respect to the word) element to wikileaks. Leftism isn't always bad, I like some of those ideals of liberty myself, but can result in things such as an attitude that all war and conflict is unnecessary, the strong are always in the wrong and that authoritative bodies unconditionally have a malign motive. You end up with the bizarre form of desperate pacifism that delivers violent emotional manipulation you see in bodies such as PETA.
I believe that the activities of wikileaks are not simply intended to enlighten people about some of the aspects of reality usually hidden to us for example the realities of war, but to affect our allegiance to its will with the goal of specifically raising public support against the west to undermine its military endeavours and government unconditionally. Why? Well much like the Devil (good thing for him he's fictional), people love to blame their difficulties in life on the government, or whoever is "at the top". People love to herd scape goats. This is more problematic because unlike the devil, the government is sometimes to blame, but not as often as you might hear it. Objection to governmental control can even make things worse, if the government is on the whole benevolent and attempting to control to constructive ends. To those who complain at every iota of control they must endure, answer this: What else? Lawlessness? Anarchy? You for President? I personally don't agree with every military action the west takes, however I am not fooled by information about the suffering at the front line. Because if there's one reality that wikileaks cannot provide, it is what the future reality would be without certain military action, that is, taking no action against aggressors, one which in some cases my imagination permits to be far worse.
In respect to this, you have to be very careful about releasing "secrets" and leaks. First, consider that not everyone is perfect. Those receiving secret information are imperfect, and instead of recognising this as a human characteristic, they're going to assume that decision making in retrospect is identical to decision making in the present situation of such an incident, and hold the "wrong doers" to a standard of perfection beyond that the human species exhibits and use these random mistakes to bolster their personal opinions. Those on either side of the front line, up the chain of command; they're all human, they're going to make mistakes. Even in retrospect you're rarely going to fully understand the situation they were in. In short, the right information doesn't always lead to a reaction that is synchronous with its reality. Anyone in such a position should take care not to fall into the trap of using information to manipulate especially using the natural static that human error causes.
The reason to be careful when arguing these matters... You can't justify releasing everything that is leaked. Sometimes you can justify the leak, but not the motive for it. Things are much more complicated than two lines in a comment box would permit. Could you honestly justify it if wikileaks release hundreds of thousands of a nation's private criminal records, or medical records? People would be out for blood. I would be if appropriate action weren't taken by the government in such a case even if not affected
The government (or perhaps the people in the government aren't human but alien invaders and don't deserve human rights), and everyone, has some right to secrecy and privacy. The alternative is well, in your signature. The problem about secrecy, is that secrets are impossible to vet. It would be nice to have someone trustworthy doing this who knows what to turn a blind eye to. Unfortunately, I do not believe that such a thing exists, yet a need for it does. I don't think the war leaks are that bad, but I do think that wikileaks has a worrying agenda (I could be wrong, it's just my viewpoint). I do not believe that it is entirely objective, and in the long run this may cause problems. It is obvious that there is some "leftist" (in a general respect to the word) element to wikileaks. Leftism isn't always bad, I like some of those ideals of liberty myself, but can result in things such as an attitude that all war and conflict is unnecessary, the strong are always in the wrong and that authoritative bodies unconditionally have a malign motive. You end up with the bizarre form of desperate pacifism that delivers violent emotional manipulation you see in bodies such as PETA. I believe that the activities of wikileaks are not simply intended to enlighten people about some of the aspects of reality usually hidden to us for example the realities of war, but to affect our allegiance to its will with the goal of specifically raising public support against the west to undermine its military endeavours and government unconditionally. Why? Well much like the Devil (good thing for him he's fictional), people love to blame their difficulties in life on the government, or whoever is "at the top". People love to herd scape goats. This is more problematic because unlike the devil, the government is sometimes to blame, but not as often as you might hear it. Objection to governmental control can even make things worse, if the government is on the whole benevolent and attempting to control to constructive ends. To those who complain at every iota of control they must endure, answer this: What else? Lawlessness? Anarchy? You for President? I personally don't agree with every military action the west takes, however I am not fooled by information about the suffering at the front line. Because if there's one reality that wikileaks cannot provide, it is what the future reality would be without certain military action, that is, taking no action against aggressors, one which in some cases my imagination permits to be far worse. In respect to this, you have to be very careful about releasing "secrets" and leaks. First, consider that not everyone is perfect. Those receiving secret information are imperfect, and instead of recognising this as a human characteristic, they're going to assume that decision making in retrospect is identical to decision making in the present situation of such an incident, and hold the "wrong doers" to a standard of perfection beyond that the human species exhibits and use these random mistakes to bolster their personal opinions. Those on either side of the front line, up the chain of command; they're all human, they're going to make mistakes. Even in retrospect you're rarely going to fully understand the situation they were in. In short, the right information doesn't always lead to a reaction that is synchronous with its reality. Anyone in such a position should take care not to fall into the trap of using information to manipulate especially using the natural static that human error causes. The reason to be careful when arguing these matters... You can't justify releasing everything that is leaked. Sometimes you can justify the leak, but not the motive for it. Things are much more complicated than two lines in a comment box would permit. Could you honestly justify it if wikileaks release hundreds of thousands of a nation's private criminal records, or medical records? People would be out for blood. I would be if appropriate action weren't taken by the government in such a case even if not affected by such a leak, litera
This does sound like a scam (at the expense of some journalists). Such a system isn't practical. Although some protocols are predominantly used for distributing controlled data streams, you still need a deep level of inspection to confirm in any case that such use is occurring. Such inspection if done with no restriction could lead to an invasion of privacy that would result in violent student rioting. On a campus network, anyone you piss off need only take a 5 minute march to reach you. Either way the net result would be some possibly large number of users migrating to alternate broadband services. The university network wouldn't be very popular. In general I recommend avoiding networks provided by a university. Often, someone on some University staff will have an attitude akin to a religious dictator. An attitude that anything other than learning is a distraction from it. This attitude leads to a Taliban like regime or influence guarding network resources. No entertainment, no pleasure, nothing other than the task at hand. Indeed, these nazis believe that those undertaking an academic course must shun all temptation and devote every waking millisecond to their academic pursuits. It doesn't matter that you pay your student fees, rent and accommodation, they own you, you're born with the original sin of being uneducated and must be punished by being committed to a forced regimen of ceaseless study. As far as such people are concerned, you should not be permitted to drink, play games, listen to music, watch tv or engage in any such leisurely activities until you have succeeded in your higher education course. They are few, but that's all you need to ruin your day.
I am starting to lose faith in the prospect of SGU turning out appreciable. It is using too many replicated neo-trends none of which have actually been tried and fully proven. The novelty may have pulled in crowds to begin with but I suspect that may be wearing thin as more and more find themselves disappointed. The lost style habit of jumping to some soap opera of a character's past life or fantasy meat and potatoes life has successfully ruined two or three SGU episodes for me. These don't do anything but try to force a story into a story which is barely related or productive. It's like watching two programs at once, one of which is totally uninteresting, and all you want is the actual real story to progress. In fact, either way, nothing much seems to progress. Series are dragging out story lines and episodes more, which makes it quite risky for the viewer to waste their time on especially when they have experiences unsatisfactory conclusions. BSG started ok, it got a bit annoying at times, but also had some interesting things. Then it farted out a joke of an ending so boring in my perspective that I'm not entirely convinced that I definitely saw it, and perhaps was mistaken. At least with conventional Science Fiction such as Star Trek, Stargate SG1/A, B5/Excalibur, Starhunter, Red Dward, Lexx, Farscape, Space above and Beyond, pretty much everything and so on, most episodes stand alone while the overall store line blends in to this well or only takes a bit of an episode here or there. This formula is ubiquitous because it works well. What neo-sci-fi is doing is replacing many of these atomic sci-fi stories that give use quick satisfaction with pointless soap-operas that do nothing but beat a dead donkey around the bush ad infinitum. The result is that stories drag on for ages and seem to torture the viewer while providing no satisfaction. Every time something is finally resolved, there are a handful of new mysteries and hopeless situations facing the characters with the overall result of the story appearing to barely progress at all. You start to wonder if you're watching yet another show that turns out to be purgatory, or if perhaps you yourself are in purgatory because the drag of these shows is intolerable. I consider this a "noise" problem. These styles add a huge amount of detail, but not all of it is truly relevant or interesting. I don't really want to have to wait weeks and weeks to get the conclusion of some interesting Sci-Fi story so that some pretend space pilot can have a tantrum having arbitrarily found out that their partner cheated on them. I don't want every single character's vain psychosis's and traumas to be explored in excruciating detail sprawling several seasons to the extent that you feel more like a psychologist or therapist than a casual viewer. If I wanted that, I would go watch a soap opera or get a degree in psychology or apply for a job at the suicide hotline or date an angsty teenage emo-girl. It's not that I want shows with nothing but robots, it's that there's too much human drama for anything else to actually ever happen. Having being disappointed by BSG, losing interest in Lost after it lost the plot a couple of series in, not being able to tolerate more than two hours of FF13 I am now very reluctant to invest my time or interest in entertainment following these new paradigms. You can accuse me of being ADHD or "not giving things a chance" if you want. As I see it, if I have to commit so much in terms of time sitting there bored waiting for some interesting development that may never occur, even if the result is entertaining, it sucks. This is why I never even gave Caprica a second thought and committed my self to not getting into it.
Everyone knows that the real term for it is owning.
Perhaps I am confused, but I remember buying my copy from the shop with relative ease. I don't think this particular excuse is valid for piracy in general. It's too specific.
I don't believe the problem is 0.999... It's how the hell to represent things like the result from 1/3. In computing at least, this kind of thing is a common cause of precision loss.
Addendum: The lower centre of gravity, ties in with the economy of increasing size rather than DPI. As you make a screen bigger, the greater you make it vertically, the greater provision you must take to stabilise the unit. Think of it from a designers perspective. Increasing the width, may be simpler and cheaper than adjusting the stand. PS. This comments system is on crack.