I think it's a bit much to say you're replying to a post riddled with ad hominems, I see a single one in the subject line, the rest looks looks conditional.
I also think it's a natural response when we're used to seeing politically motivated people dance around a simple claim.
In the case of online retailers, all of the convenient forms of payment have a roughly 3% fee, the playing field is pretty level on that front. People might try to pay by mailing a check or money order, but that's going to delay shipping and adds points of failure.
One thing that isn't level is the rewards part. I don't like that the rewards cards tend to charge a little extra, but they also tend to have higher interest for the users too.
Not surprised, camera shops are one of those things that are commonly operated by scammers. Camera scammers tend to give you a low price for the camera, but try to make you pay extra for the battery that was already included. Sometimes they sell units with no domestic warranty (gray market), and sometimes they won't sell you the camera unless you buy extra warranties or extra accessories. If you refuse to buy the things, they might just not sell it to you. Or just take your money and run.
For all the people bitching out there, smoking has been demonstrated to cause premature failure to humans, particularly second-hand smoke which contains a Noah's Ark of nasty bacteria and pathogens.
Emphasis mine.
Really? Please tell me what bacteria can survive being lit into a smoldering fire like that.
That's the problem, IE and Windows has historically required numerous patches, it would be nice if MS would do better to get their software fixed first. Finding flaws in someone else's software is not something I want to see when they don't really have their own house in order yet.
The states are due the tax, but it's their citizens that owe it to the state.
The states are whining, but really, the states aren't doing what they are supposed to do, which is harmonize what is taxed and not taxed. Only after they do that can they be allowed to make demands of internet retailers. There may be other stipulations, but that's the big one that the states can't complete.
I went through his posting, I'm still not understanding why Mark Cuban is discussing it.
It sounds like Rupert wants the benefits of the web but not the downside, but that's nearly impossible because they are intertwined. If you want to benefit from the web's ability to spread the news, that news has to be out there to be spread.
Murder isn't a mistake, the definition of the term involves premeditation, but the people that commit murder might not be the same as they were then. The deed is done, which can't be undone, and the punishment has been served. It seems to me that 20 years is a lot of time, a lot of things can change in 20 years, and I think people can change a lot in that time period too.
I can understand that the victim's family would probably never be able to forgive or forget, but I don't think that should necessarily mean that the entire society has to have the same sentiment.
I've heard of a video editing keyboard that was a lot like that. I didn't see it for myself, I was told of this from a person that made a living selling high end computers for video editing. He could have been kidding, but it seemed plausible to me.
It's $40-$60/yr., and do you really think that Witopia would be willing to give any of that up if they could avoid it?
Though a subscription idea to remove ads would be very interesting to me, as long as it removes all the video ads and doesn't have overlays on what I want to watch.
I guess it doesn't pass the cat Turing test for "actual animal".
That's hardly any indicator. I've seen cats play for a long time with a fabric ball with a tail. Same for a piece of plastic dangling on a string. A lot of them chase laser pointers too. Seems the cat's Animal Turing Test is a bit jacked.
From what I understand, Blockbuster pays a percentage but the up-front cost is much lower as a result.
As far as I can tell, there is no way to prevent the rental of video. There are copyright law exceptions that prohibit the rental of audio recordings and software without permission of the copyright holders, the movie industry wasn't able to get their exception. In the VHS age, they got around this by having two phases of tape sales, rental pricing and sell-through pricing, they sold the tape for around $80, and generally only renters paid that, and they had a virtual exclusive too, most people didn't buy tapes at those prices, and the studios got their extra money from the rental industry. After several months, they dropped the tape price to around $20, which I think was called sell-through.
But no they had to put hard ass crypto on it so bad the players required huge processors just to do the crypto and of course for the JAVA bullcrap. Most BD players have frickin' cooling fans!
What, you think it's just cryptography that makes Blu-Ray hard to play? Never mind the 6x as many pixels as DVD, up to 5x the bit rate as DVD and a codec that might be twice as processor intensive? Of course, it can't be that because that would be inconvenient to your comment. A lot of PCs had a hard time playing unencrypted 8Mbps h.264 and VC1 in 1080p.
I just ran the numbers, CFLs do seem to save money. Even assuming one dies at half its stated lifetime (still, I just replaced a CFL bulb that lasted roughly 17k hours on a 10k hour rated bulb), a 100W equivalent CFL still saves $30 in electricity over its lifetime compared to tungsten. Then there's the cost and inconvenience saved in not having to replace bulbs so often. It's not a universal thing though, if you only use a bulb for minutes at a time, then a tungsten bulb will do better, fluorescents tend to have a limited number of starts.
I'm interested in LED, I guess I should try one, but they seem pretty expensive compared to CFL, more than 10x more expensive and I don't think the additional lifetime, if any, pays back for that.
I'm curious how you would know the quality of the engineering on any supercar. Do you have actual access to the products in question? Anything can be made to look good or seem pretty fancy, it's one of those things that I would think requires some quality time.
Drives can and do die prematurely, but the failure rate isn't so terribly high. Even when I get an SSD for my boot drive & applications, I'll still be using hard drives for the data for several years after that.
Why is it that liberals say that a woman has the right to decide whether or not she gets an abortion because it's her body, but say that health care workers don't have the right to decide whether or not they get vaccines, even though it's their body?????
I don't think the comparison holds quite so simply. Abortion isn't a viral disease, the flu bug is something a health care worker can spread by getting infected before they're aware that they are infected. In that case, it's not just the health care worker's body, it's everyone they come in contact with, and a lot of those they come in contact with may have compromised immune systems. I don't think it's just a matter of washing, if you do get infected, your body becomes a walking factory for the virus.
Going into crazy paranoia zone here now, but how long until RFID chips (which have already been linked to cancer) will be mandatory for government employees for "security reasons?"
I only found one study. That study was in Sept 2007, no news stories since then. Until it's confirmed by an independent study, I don't know if it's legitimate to say there is a link. Besides, RFID works using non-ionizing radiation (i.e. doesn't break molecules or DNA), not sure how there can be cancer, at least with the RF part.
It's not even necessarily outside their expertise, I thought I read somewhere that people in the finance industry fell for the Nigerian scams at a disproportionate level, or at least, a lot more than you'd think.
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I think it's a bit much to say you're replying to a post riddled with ad hominems, I see a single one in the subject line, the rest looks looks conditional.
I also think it's a natural response when we're used to seeing politically motivated people dance around a simple claim.
In the case of online retailers, all of the convenient forms of payment have a roughly 3% fee, the playing field is pretty level on that front. People might try to pay by mailing a check or money order, but that's going to delay shipping and adds points of failure.
One thing that isn't level is the rewards part. I don't like that the rewards cards tend to charge a little extra, but they also tend to have higher interest for the users too.
Not surprised, camera shops are one of those things that are commonly operated by scammers. Camera scammers tend to give you a low price for the camera, but try to make you pay extra for the battery that was already included. Sometimes they sell units with no domestic warranty (gray market), and sometimes they won't sell you the camera unless you buy extra warranties or extra accessories. If you refuse to buy the things, they might just not sell it to you. Or just take your money and run.
Check this shop's ratings at resellerratings.com: http://www.resellerratings.com/store/ButterFly_Photo
For all the people bitching out there, smoking has been demonstrated to cause premature failure to humans, particularly second-hand smoke which contains a Noah's Ark of nasty bacteria and pathogens.
Emphasis mine.
Really? Please tell me what bacteria can survive being lit into a smoldering fire like that.
That's the problem, IE and Windows has historically required numerous patches, it would be nice if MS would do better to get their software fixed first. Finding flaws in someone else's software is not something I want to see when they don't really have their own house in order yet.
What I don't get is why a time stamp is needed to focus. Most cameras don't seem to need to know what time it is in order to do that.
This is my understanding as well.
The states are due the tax, but it's their citizens that owe it to the state.
The states are whining, but really, the states aren't doing what they are supposed to do, which is harmonize what is taxed and not taxed. Only after they do that can they be allowed to make demands of internet retailers. There may be other stipulations, but that's the big one that the states can't complete.
I went through his posting, I'm still not understanding why Mark Cuban is discussing it.
It sounds like Rupert wants the benefits of the web but not the downside, but that's nearly impossible because they are intertwined. If you want to benefit from the web's ability to spread the news, that news has to be out there to be spread.
Murder isn't a mistake, the definition of the term involves premeditation, but the people that commit murder might not be the same as they were then. The deed is done, which can't be undone, and the punishment has been served. It seems to me that 20 years is a lot of time, a lot of things can change in 20 years, and I think people can change a lot in that time period too.
I can understand that the victim's family would probably never be able to forgive or forget, but I don't think that should necessarily mean that the entire society has to have the same sentiment.
It seems that OS X is actually a little more consistent about what the hot keys mean.
If you want to control what the menu hot keys are, you can add/change them in the Keyboard Preferences, by app or globally across all apps.
I've heard of a video editing keyboard that was a lot like that. I didn't see it for myself, I was told of this from a person that made a living selling high end computers for video editing. He could have been kidding, but it seemed plausible to me.
I can see there could be official sequels, all they need is the stated blessing from one of the nearest surviving relatives.
It's $40-$60/yr., and do you really think that Witopia would be willing to give any of that up if they could avoid it?
Though a subscription idea to remove ads would be very interesting to me, as long as it removes all the video ads and doesn't have overlays on what I want to watch.
I guess it doesn't pass the cat Turing test for "actual animal".
That's hardly any indicator. I've seen cats play for a long time with a fabric ball with a tail. Same for a piece of plastic dangling on a string. A lot of them chase laser pointers too. Seems the cat's Animal Turing Test is a bit jacked.
From what I understand, Blockbuster pays a percentage but the up-front cost is much lower as a result.
As far as I can tell, there is no way to prevent the rental of video. There are copyright law exceptions that prohibit the rental of audio recordings and software without permission of the copyright holders, the movie industry wasn't able to get their exception. In the VHS age, they got around this by having two phases of tape sales, rental pricing and sell-through pricing, they sold the tape for around $80, and generally only renters paid that, and they had a virtual exclusive too, most people didn't buy tapes at those prices, and the studios got their extra money from the rental industry. After several months, they dropped the tape price to around $20, which I think was called sell-through.
So I don't know how they can block Redbox.
Couldn't they just make bulk orders through a distributor such as Ingram Micro? Or is Ingram Micro being prohibited from selling to Redbox?
But no they had to put hard ass crypto on it so bad the players required huge processors just to do the crypto and of course for the JAVA bullcrap. Most BD players have frickin' cooling fans!
What, you think it's just cryptography that makes Blu-Ray hard to play? Never mind the 6x as many pixels as DVD, up to 5x the bit rate as DVD and a codec that might be twice as processor intensive? Of course, it can't be that because that would be inconvenient to your comment. A lot of PCs had a hard time playing unencrypted 8Mbps h.264 and VC1 in 1080p.
I just ran the numbers, CFLs do seem to save money. Even assuming one dies at half its stated lifetime (still, I just replaced a CFL bulb that lasted roughly 17k hours on a 10k hour rated bulb), a 100W equivalent CFL still saves $30 in electricity over its lifetime compared to tungsten. Then there's the cost and inconvenience saved in not having to replace bulbs so often. It's not a universal thing though, if you only use a bulb for minutes at a time, then a tungsten bulb will do better, fluorescents tend to have a limited number of starts.
I'm interested in LED, I guess I should try one, but they seem pretty expensive compared to CFL, more than 10x more expensive and I don't think the additional lifetime, if any, pays back for that.
Great point. I think electronic infrastructure security should be beefed up, but I doubt it would be done in an intelligent manner.
I'm curious how you would know the quality of the engineering on any supercar. Do you have actual access to the products in question? Anything can be made to look good or seem pretty fancy, it's one of those things that I would think requires some quality time.
Drives can and do die prematurely, but the failure rate isn't so terribly high. Even when I get an SSD for my boot drive & applications, I'll still be using hard drives for the data for several years after that.
Why is it that liberals say that a woman has the right to decide whether or not she gets an abortion because it's her body, but say that health care workers don't have the right to decide whether or not they get vaccines, even though it's their body?????
I don't think the comparison holds quite so simply. Abortion isn't a viral disease, the flu bug is something a health care worker can spread by getting infected before they're aware that they are infected. In that case, it's not just the health care worker's body, it's everyone they come in contact with, and a lot of those they come in contact with may have compromised immune systems. I don't think it's just a matter of washing, if you do get infected, your body becomes a walking factory for the virus.
OK, never mind, I found information on some older studies. I think it
s odd that there aren't any newer ones.
Going into crazy paranoia zone here now, but how long until RFID chips (which have already been linked to cancer) will be mandatory for government employees for "security reasons?"
I only found one study. That study was in Sept 2007, no news stories since then. Until it's confirmed by an independent study, I don't know if it's legitimate to say there is a link. Besides, RFID works using non-ionizing radiation (i.e. doesn't break molecules or DNA), not sure how there can be cancer, at least with the RF part.
It's not even necessarily outside their expertise, I thought I read somewhere that people in the finance industry fell for the Nigerian scams at a disproportionate level, or at least, a lot more than you'd think.