That leaves you only.34 cm cushion, or.17 cm cushion per side.
A 5.25" enclosure fits a drive for reading 5.25" floppy disks. The enclosure is close to 6" wide. These new discs are only 5.1" wide. Why couldn't a drive be made that fits 5.25" enclosures?
See TFA's mention of 'sunk cost'. It's hard to take your agreement with the parent seriously with that statement.
Yeah, you're right.
As for advertising, you do have to factor in *continued* advertising, but you seem to identify the advertising costs as those that they originally expended to build the Mindstorm brand, which represent further sunk costs.
No, I was thinking of continued advertising. I'm just not sure how much continued advertising there has been.
To be honest, it looks like someone's just completed an economics course and decided to try applying their knowledge to a real-world problem.
Have to agree. And I don't think the cost analysis of the RIS brick was very good either. For a start the author seemed to completely forget or ignore the quality aspect. I've owned one of those "brick game" things and the quality is shit. But it's cheap so you throw it away and it's no big deal. OTOH, have you ever heard of an RIS brick failing (other than due to abuse)? It's stupid compare the manufacturing costs of two items which are so disparate in terms of quality.
Another problem is the lack of consideration of the need to recoup R&D and other non-manufacturing costs. A huge amount of R&D went into Mindstorms. And a fair bit of advertising. Those things are not free, they add to the cost of every set. The "brick game" has no such costs.
You're right that the tape is a bad idea. If someone does try it though, at least put a balancing slice on the opposite side of the disc. You don't know strange and loud until a CD EXPLODES in your CDROM drive. I've seen the remaining disc after an explosion, and sand almost has bigger pieces than some of what's left.
Just don't rip the disc at 52x and you'll be fine.
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Yup, it has a limited shelf life according to what is stamped on the box - usually November, 2009. But from my understanding, it is rare that a drug will actually become inert on the date of expiration
Yes, I've heard that too. And 2009 is a fair way away anyhow.
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As one of those researchers, I've got to ask -- given that Taiwan is already breaking the Tamiflu patent, what makes you think my bosses are insane enough to invest that research money when the product is going to be confiscated?
What makes you think your bosses (or private enterprise in general) are the only ones capable of investing in research?
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I do not have to worry so much about the government restricting sales of Tamiflu, as I acquired a personal stockpile well over a year ago now.
Doesn't Tamiflu have a limited shelf life? When does your stockpile expire?
As soon as I heard of this, I immediately realized how to do it. But I would not have thought to do it on my own. This kind of smart thinking is why we have a patent system. The patent system was not designed to protect business methods, such as completing a sale using n clicks instead of n+1.
The patent system is not meant to protect an idea either. It's meant to protect a non-obvious implementation of an idea.
I expected the mesasgeboards there to be filled with "I disagree with what Jerk says, but I respect his right to say it in a fair way", instead it is full of Vigilante Logic such as pointing to Jerk's supposed jerk activities in a vein of "two wrongs make a right" logic criticizing the guy for asking for amazon to play by its own rules.
I don't see anyone saying that he shouldn't be allowed to write and publish the book (in marked contrast to Thompson's own statements about many games). There is nothing unreasonable about commenting on an author's character.
You're probably right, but it doesn't matter because Jack Thompson doesn't actually files lawsuits he only threatens to. The guy is a scumbag, all he does is invoke the stereotypical "do what I want or I'll sue you".
Your progressive DVDs are in fact interlaced on the disc...you admitted this.
Read it again. He said most DVD content that was originally video (i.e. VHS) is interlaced on the disc. Most film content is interlaced on NTSC discs. But most PAL discs (from film) are progressive. The GP claimed that all DVDs were interlaced.
So basically, as far as the actual video data is concerned, everything is indeed interlaced.
Sony won't need to install a rootkit, because the Microsoft DRM will be designed specifically to help enforce things like Sony's EULA. Why should Sony bother with a rootkkit when the OS itself will impose the limits by design?
I for one won't be installing Vista so Sony will still need to bother with a rootkit.
Because calling law enforcement would lead to a court case: YOU vs SONY.
No, it wouldn't. If you sued Sony (i.e. a civil case) it would be you vs Sony. If you call law enforcement and they decided to prosecute (i.e. a criminal case) it would be "the people" vs Sony. You might be involved as a witness, but that would be all.
Fine, but as parent mentioned, as soon as the engine starts powering the electrolysis you'll be below break-even.
No. You are only thinking in terms of the energy put into the system by burning the hydrogen compared to the energy removed by making the hydrogen. What you are not considering is the energy put into the system by burning the diesel more efficiently. It's a similar sort of prinicple to using a supercharger: just because the supercharger is being powered by the engine doesn't mean you can get a net power gain. In case of a supercharger the extra power is due to increased fuel and air consumption, in this case it is due to increased efficiency combustion of the diesel fuel.
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I think MMO's are replacing most table top games, I don't think table top games will ever die but, people want to experience and see and feel "real" things, instead of just imagining them.
Tabletop RPGs and computer based RPGs, particularly MMOs, are fundamentally different experiences and neither one will replace the other. The richness of player interaction and flexibility of a tabletop RPG will never be fully duplicated by a computer game and the real time play of MMOs doesn't work for tabletop games.
Sir Peter Blakes problem was that he was on a yacht and he fought back at the wrong time. He had already lost before he began fighting.
Sure, but I was replying to a blanket statement:
Screw that. That just encourages them to continue attacking. If people would fight back, maybe this would end.
In some cases it might be possible to repel the attackers but in general it is safer not to attempt it.
Being on a cruise ship with the pirates at a safe distance...totally different tactical situation.
It only takes one stray bullet to kill a passenger. What would that do to the cruise line as a business? It's probably not worth the risk, even in that situation.
In any event, we're told to just do whatever the pirates say, and don't try to act like a hero.
Screw that. That just encourages them to continue attacking. If people would fight back, maybe this would end.
One of New Zealand's most famous sailors, Sir Peter Blake, was on a yacht anchored off the mouth of the Amazon delta. When pirates boarded the yacht he fought back. He was shot and killed. Fighting back is not going to stop these attacks, it's just going to result in more victims' deaths.
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Having a genuinely health safe cigarette would reduce the bans to being about the bad odors, and would probably get them overturned in most of the places they have been established.
IANAL, but I doubt it would make any difference. Even if anti-smoking laws were just about bad odors that is still a perfectly legitimate reason to have such legislation. It'd be in the same category as laws restricting the amount of noise you can produce. In fact most jurisdictions have laws restricting the strengths of odors that (e.g.) businesses can discharge, so we'd really only be talking about thresholds.
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No. The definition of "market share" is "share of sales over a period". Total share of users is something else entirely.
My opinion is based part on the characters not being scifi and part based on their depth (or lack of)
I don't see what not being SF has to do with those characters' strengths as role models. As for depth, Buffy is a very complex character, who experienced immense growth over the seven series. Xena was more static in terms of growth (Gabrielle is a better example of character development in that show). I wonder if you've actually watched much of Buffy and Xena or if you've written them off because you perceive the shows to be "lightweight"?
I just got more of a sense of self-worth and true character personality from Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping) and Aeyrn Sun (Claudia Black) whenever I saw either show, and both seemed to grow with the depth of story lines from each season. If I had to choose role models from the mainstream visual media - as we must increasingly do - then I am drawn much more to these characters than to Buffy, Xena, and Lara Croft.
I can't comment on those two as characters because I haven't watched a lot of Farscape or Stargate. However my opinion that Buffy and Xena are strong role models is based on the effect they had on audiences, particularly the female part of their audiences. Both Buffy and Xena are noted pop culture phenomena (as is Lara Croft). And ultimately what makes them role models is that people obviously treat them as role models. I haven't seen any evidence of that in the case of Lara Croft, Samantha Carter, or Aeyrn Sun.
Buffy has also received a significant amount of academic attention. According to this there are now six North American universities offering Buffy courses and several peer reviewed academic journals.
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Another problem is the lack of consideration of the need to recoup R&D and other non-manufacturing costs. A huge amount of R&D went into Mindstorms. And a fair bit of advertising. Those things are not free, they add to the cost of every set. The "brick game" has no such costs.
You're probably right, but it doesn't matter because Jack Thompson doesn't actually files lawsuits he only threatens to. The guy is a scumbag, all he does is invoke the stereotypical "do what I want or I'll sue you".
Buffy has also received a significant amount of academic attention. According to this there are now six North American universities offering Buffy courses and several peer reviewed academic journals.