I was partly incorrect. I was wrong about Thursday. But if you look at the wiki link you provided, FDR did move up Thanksgiving one week to give retailers a longer shopping season:
With the country still in the midst of The Great Depression, Roosevelt thought an earlier Thanksgiving would give merchants a longer period to sell goods before Christmas.
That sort of manipulation is quite common. Just a couple examples:
Thanksgiving was moved up a week so to add another week to the Christmas shopping season, at the request of retailers. I think Thanksgiving also used to be celebrated on Friday. "Black Friday" may well have been one of those manufactured events. As it is, it really isn't the biggest shopping day of the year, I think the Friday and Saturday before Christmas is even bigger.
The tradition of using diamonds for engagement rings and such is pretty new, a "tradition" that is only about a hundred years old or so, manufactured by a DeBeers marketing campaign.
Changing the size of text is the biggest cause that I've seen for showing problems in software UI design. Dialogue boxes are often fixed in size, they won't "grow" based on the contents of the window, so text just gets cropped. Other items, such as scroller width, window border width, don't seem to cause problems.
Apple's resolution independence initiative appears to be a good step, but right now, their tools to adjust the window control buttons (close, minimize & zoom) and the scroll bars are almost non-existent, if existent, are hard to find.
Apparently still not showing much judgment in whether to run a story.
It's not really a folding screen anyway like flexible paper. It uses two borderless screens connected with a thin hinge. If you're going to show off a render, might as well make the panel itself fold.
This is why judgments on corporations or people should be made on what they do, not what they say. It's easy to say anything. It's harder to make actions lie.
That said, people that believe corporations aren't out to make the most money that they can really don't understand how corporations generally work. They're not out to improve the world unless that's where they make the most money. I think you can blame stockholders for that, and maybe more specifically, day traders on the part where corporations look for the quickest bang for the buck, those people are often the kind that are eager to make a quick buck, not build wealth over the long term.
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That newer posting is two days old too. The story on the original letter was posted a week ago.
HQV equipped home video devices generally cost a lot of money. As it is, there aren't a lot of devices that have it. There aren't any DVD players with them that I can tell, but there are two reasonably priced HD disc players that have it, Toshiba's XA2, which is an HD DVD player with upconverter, and Samsung BDP-1200. The Toshiba might be good, but the Samsung is still a Samsung, known for problems with Blu-Ray. Marantz and Denon have players for $2000.
Eventually we'll find ourselves in a world where it's not sufficient to have done some valuable work at some point, and then sit around and collect money for the rest of your life.
As far as I can tell, the times that does happen are already aberrations, not the norm. For most content creators of any kind, they have to continue to work. This is especially so with the internet. Viral videos tend to bring pocket change (relatively speaking) to their creators, not necessarily anything that looks like supplemental income.
It's nice, but I don't think the ability to overclock with extreme measures necessarily indicates that it is better at handling more conventional tasks in benign conditions.
That is hardly surprising, the Wii is using much less powerful chips too, Wii's graphics are crude in comparison to the 360 and PS3. In terms of energy per FLOPS or energy per triangle per second, I think they're probably comparable.
I think it's an adaptation of certain kinds of motor drives that have already been in use for some time, where changing the "gear" means changing which taps are powered on the motor.
[quote]Many Indie bands advocate people sharing purchased copies of their albums, because musicians know that this freely sharing of music creates more fans.[/quote]
They do that until they get big, then they often start complaining about all this sharin' goin' on. Most people generally advocate what they think is best for them right now, even if that's different than what helped them get where they are.
I think this story points out that it has to be a market that values convenience to such a point that nothing else matters, that cost matters not at all. Even then, convenience is traded for convenience, because the book can't be traded, given away or resold. Personally, I don't see the point, not for what I want. It's a nice product, but it's just another very expensive piece of electronics that can easily be damaged or lost before it pays for itself, and it's a bit limited use because it only renders static text very well, I don't think I'd like to use it to read the web. I'm not often away from a power tap long enough that the battery life of a notebook computer to be a factor. I don't carry more than one book at a time.
My understanding: The thing that the designers had decided was that the weight of a dust removal system was not worth removing a scientific instrument to do so, because they had a weight and size budget to deal with. They didn't think there was an effective means to clean the dust to extend the lifetime of the rover vs. less data recovered.
At Jameco (for me, an online & catalog store, they may have a retail shop somewhere), I've bought resistors $1 for a pack of 100. Radio shack sells resistors of the same resistance, tolerance and power rating $1 for a 5 pack.
However, it's a dinky low-resolution image one could have captured with a CCTV camera. Come on, you can do better than that.
I'm sorry, but what? The second link in the story has links to 6480 x 4236 JPGs and TIFs, which calculates to 27MP, the file sizes are 31MB and 79MB, respectively.
Normally, I would agree that web stories normally fall short with photos and multimedia, but it's just not true here.
Contrary to myth copyrights don't promote creation, all they do is force the market to center around creation controls instead of creation services.
The part I don't get about this talking point is, instead of using someone else's work, why not make your own? Isn't that more creative than just copying someone else's work?
The kind of talking point you use is the same kind given by pro-P2P people. They repeat such statements often, despite the fact that copying & P2P in themselves are among the least creative thing that can be done.
From what I've heard, a twin engine plane is harder to fly. Even more so if you have a failed engine, the engine is so far off to one side that if you can manage it, it's tighter margins.
Not only that, a single engine plane can sail a good distance without an engine.
I think that does make a good amount of sense, because computers can easily play just about any file format, given an easy installation of a driver or decoder program. Getting a typical phone, car audio head unit, iPod or ipod-like device to play them generally isn't going to be so easy. If you offer to install the player, I would bet the resistance would be low, but people without that kind of acquaintance would probably just forgo it.
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I was partly incorrect. I was wrong about Thursday. But if you look at the wiki link you provided, FDR did move up Thanksgiving one week to give retailers a longer shopping season:
With the country still in the midst of The Great Depression, Roosevelt thought an earlier Thanksgiving would give merchants a longer period to sell goods before Christmas.
That sort of manipulation is quite common. Just a couple examples:
Thanksgiving was moved up a week so to add another week to the Christmas shopping season, at the request of retailers. I think Thanksgiving also used to be celebrated on Friday. "Black Friday" may well have been one of those manufactured events. As it is, it really isn't the biggest shopping day of the year, I think the Friday and Saturday before Christmas is even bigger.
The tradition of using diamonds for engagement rings and such is pretty new, a "tradition" that is only about a hundred years old or so, manufactured by a DeBeers marketing campaign.
Changing the size of text is the biggest cause that I've seen for showing problems in software UI design. Dialogue boxes are often fixed in size, they won't "grow" based on the contents of the window, so text just gets cropped. Other items, such as scroller width, window border width, don't seem to cause problems.
Apple's resolution independence initiative appears to be a good step, but right now, their tools to adjust the window control buttons (close, minimize & zoom) and the scroll bars are almost non-existent, if existent, are hard to find.
Apparently still not showing much judgment in whether to run a story.
It's not really a folding screen anyway like flexible paper. It uses two borderless screens connected with a thin hinge. If you're going to show off a render, might as well make the panel itself fold.
This is why judgments on corporations or people should be made on what they do, not what they say. It's easy to say anything. It's harder to make actions lie.
That said, people that believe corporations aren't out to make the most money that they can really don't understand how corporations generally work. They're not out to improve the world unless that's where they make the most money. I think you can blame stockholders for that, and maybe more specifically, day traders on the part where corporations look for the quickest bang for the buck, those people are often the kind that are eager to make a quick buck, not build wealth over the long term.
That newer posting is two days old too. The story on the original letter was posted a week ago.
HQV equipped home video devices generally cost a lot of money. As it is, there aren't a lot of devices that have it. There aren't any DVD players with them that I can tell, but there are two reasonably priced HD disc players that have it, Toshiba's XA2, which is an HD DVD player with upconverter, and Samsung BDP-1200. The Toshiba might be good, but the Samsung is still a Samsung, known for problems with Blu-Ray. Marantz and Denon have players for $2000.
Eventually we'll find ourselves in a world where it's not sufficient to have done some valuable work at some point, and then sit around and collect money for the rest of your life.
As far as I can tell, the times that does happen are already aberrations, not the norm. For most content creators of any kind, they have to continue to work. This is especially so with the internet. Viral videos tend to bring pocket change (relatively speaking) to their creators, not necessarily anything that looks like supplemental income.
Did you even read the articles?
Evidently, you are new here.
It's nice, but I don't think the ability to overclock with extreme measures necessarily indicates that it is better at handling more conventional tasks in benign conditions.
Why does anyone even need something as powerful as the Wii? More fun can be had on a NES.
That is hardly surprising, the Wii is using much less powerful chips too, Wii's graphics are crude in comparison to the 360 and PS3. In terms of energy per FLOPS or energy per triangle per second, I think they're probably comparable.
I think it's an adaptation of certain kinds of motor drives that have already been in use for some time, where changing the "gear" means changing which taps are powered on the motor.
[quote]Many Indie bands advocate people sharing purchased copies of their albums, because musicians know that this freely sharing of music creates more fans.[/quote]
They do that until they get big, then they often start complaining about all this sharin' goin' on. Most people generally advocate what they think is best for them right now, even if that's different than what helped them get where they are.
I think this story points out that it has to be a market that values convenience to such a point that nothing else matters, that cost matters not at all. Even then, convenience is traded for convenience, because the book can't be traded, given away or resold. Personally, I don't see the point, not for what I want. It's a nice product, but it's just another very expensive piece of electronics that can easily be damaged or lost before it pays for itself, and it's a bit limited use because it only renders static text very well, I don't think I'd like to use it to read the web. I'm not often away from a power tap long enough that the battery life of a notebook computer to be a factor. I don't carry more than one book at a time.
I agree, I think your car would run pretty darn well if you had a dozen scientists and engineers continually operating and maintaining it.
My understanding: The thing that the designers had decided was that the weight of a dust removal system was not worth removing a scientific instrument to do so, because they had a weight and size budget to deal with. They didn't think there was an effective means to clean the dust to extend the lifetime of the rover vs. less data recovered.
Wow. Monospaced? And what the heck crummy old font is that? Too bad the article is formatted like a piece of crap on an old typewriter.
One of the chief responsibilities the government has is to protect its people, and without training on the sonar the government can't do that.
Yes, because Al Queda is looking to bomb us using their fleet of submarines.
whats the profit margin on a resistor?
At Jameco (for me, an online & catalog store, they may have a retail shop somewhere), I've bought resistors $1 for a pack of 100. Radio shack sells resistors of the same resistance, tolerance and power rating $1 for a 5 pack.
However, it's a dinky low-resolution image one could have captured with a CCTV camera. Come on, you can do better than that.
I'm sorry, but what? The second link in the story has links to 6480 x 4236 JPGs and TIFs, which calculates to 27MP, the file sizes are 31MB and 79MB, respectively.
Normally, I would agree that web stories normally fall short with photos and multimedia, but it's just not true here.
Contrary to myth copyrights don't promote creation, all they do is force the market to center around creation controls instead of creation services.
The part I don't get about this talking point is, instead of using someone else's work, why not make your own? Isn't that more creative than just copying someone else's work?
The kind of talking point you use is the same kind given by pro-P2P people. They repeat such statements often, despite the fact that copying & P2P in themselves are among the least creative thing that can be done.
A three GPU notebook is actually Toshiba's way of making triple damn sure that nerds don't reproduce.
From what I've heard, a twin engine plane is harder to fly. Even more so if you have a failed engine, the engine is so far off to one side that if you can manage it, it's tighter margins.
Not only that, a single engine plane can sail a good distance without an engine.
I think that does make a good amount of sense, because computers can easily play just about any file format, given an easy installation of a driver or decoder program. Getting a typical phone, car audio head unit, iPod or ipod-like device to play them generally isn't going to be so easy. If you offer to install the player, I would bet the resistance would be low, but people without that kind of acquaintance would probably just forgo it.