During gaming the Razer did very well though there was no major difference between it and the Viper or even the Diamondback (aside the Diamondback's extra buttons)...
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In summary, I liked the Viper and I like the Krait. It is tough to tell them apart...
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According to Razer, these styles require a high amount of actions per minute, something which is Krait is tailored to do. Razer was not able to convince me that the Krait was any better at this than the Copperhead or the Viper, and I don't really see how less buttons (the Copperhead has seven) could lead to more actions per minute. It seems more likely that it was time to revamp Razer's entry level optical mouse and they wanted to capitalize on the explosive growth of MMO games.
According to the article, the mouse is not really distinguishable from previous mice by the same manufacturer, and probably not from $1 mice by $TAIWANESE_SWEATSHOP either, even though the review doesn't mention this.
Looks like a non-product: an expensive mouse, with a small form factor and nondescript design, with a 300 gram paperweight to prevent drag on the cable, where you could just have used a book instead, and from a manufacturer making a nonsensical argument about how this mouse was specifically suited to a specific style of computer game.
In 1902, Kaiser Wilhelm introduced a champagne tax (which actually affects everything above a certain alcohol level) to finance the German navy. It was abolished 1933 but reintroduced 1939 (again, to pay for the fleet and the war in general). It still exists...:)
And in 1938 our national rail company, the then Deutsche Reichsbahn, issued new terms of service stating that Deutsche Reichsbahn could be in no way held responsible or liable for the consequences of any delay in passenger transport. So if you were stuck overnight on some changeover because your train was delayed, you got nothing back from Deutsche Reichsbahn. The reason was, of course, the imminent war and possibly also the mass deportations of Jews by train, which were expected to result in major disruptions in regular rail service.
The new regulations were found so convenient after the war that they're effectively still in force. So judging from their terms of service, the then Deutsche Bundesbahn and now Deutsche Bahn was still happily deporting Jews. Only two years ago did they introduce regulations where you could get 20% of your ticket price refunded if you were delayed more than 61 minutes. (A one-hour delay and a missed changeover are apparently considered normal.)
Microsoft is once again leveraging their monopoly in their Windows domain to control unfairly users' choice to some other market or product, in this case, search engine choice. It could be problematic, maybe even legally, that Microsoft sets the default search to theirs, even though they offer other choices.
MS could probably argue that nobody is forced to install IE 7 and that this particular version therefore has no monopoly in the browser market. Remember that after IE 6 was released in 2001, it took quite some time before the relative percentage of IE 6 installations overtook that of older versions (data e.g. here). In this particular situation, MS could argue that IE 7 is competing against older versions of the same browser and that a function present in only this particular version therefore does not constitute abuse of their monopoly on operating systems.
Google also has a de facto monopoly on web search services. Microsoft would probably claim that they are only protecting their own search engine product, while offering customers the choice of other search engines.
"This was causing by the extra investments and the USD taking a dive in value."
And the value of the United States Dollar affects a corporation traded in Japanese Yen in what way?
Simple economics 101. Remember that Nintendo is keeping its books in yen.
Assume a game costs 1000 yen in Japan where it's produced and that $1 is 100 yen. You can sell the game for $10. Suddenly the dollar takes a dive and $1 drops to 50 yen. As of now, either you have to sell the game for $20, or you lose 50% on every game sold. Either way, you lose money. A weak dollar and a strong yen hurt Japanese exporters.
It's the same thing with any export product. It's why Europeans rely on a weak dollar to buy gas, because oil is traded in USD and a weak dollar drives prices down, and it's why Japan as a net exporter is traditionally interested in a weak yen, because it lowers the prices of Japanese product in foreign markets.
molested AND killed, nor OR killed. read up on your boolean logic plz.
That makes even less sense. As per your OR statement, you claim that there are only 1.5 children per year in the USA who are either molested by strangers, or killed by strangers, or both? I can't believe that. Please provide a reference.
Note, also, that being killed by a baseball should really qualify as being killed by a stranger. Your metrics are all screwed up.
Most Macs I've come across (Performas, LC II, Quadras, PowerMacs) have been very easy to open and work on.
Then you've never opened a Mac 128, Mac Plus, Classic or SE/30. Back then Apple had a policy that Macs should be difficult to open. In the beginning Jobs was against making expandable Macs at all, the Mac Plus was basically Gassée's idea. It's still difficult to service if you don't have a Torx T15 driver with an eight-inch shaft and the special case-opening tool, and this is not a Viagra advert.
For whatever Apple may be doing now, don't assume they've always been doing it that way.
fined the companies involved about $2.4 million. The settlement doesn't shut down the businesses and, based on the financial records of the defendants, the judgment will be suspended upon payment of $475,000
Maybe it's just me, but I have trouble understanding how this fine works. Do I understand correctly that the company was fined $FINE, yet the fine will be suspended upon payment of $FINE/5 and everybody can go on as they please? If you can get away with paying $100, why fine $500 in the first place? Or is this just another peculiarity of the law system?
Spindler was the man behind several Road Apples, crippled Apple models that the company isn't particularly proud of.
Basically, with the pressure to produce low-cost Apple models, Apple stripped high-end designs in retarded ways (such as the narrow data bus on the Classic II which made it 30% slower than the SE/30 released several years earlier) or designed new models by producing technically absurd add-ons to older models (like the Performa 5200 that was basically the motherboard from one of the last 32-bit 680x0 series with a 64-bit PowerPC 603 on top of it that ran at half the effective clock speed and all the multiplexing on the resulting two 32-bit system buses had to be done by the CPU in software). Definitely suboptimal, and Apple fans today aren't particularly fond either to remember these all-time lows in Apple product history.
Anybody who spends any real time on a computer knows that there's no substitute for screen real estate. We're finally able to get some decent 17" widescreen laptop screens. However, most of these laptop cases aren't designed for anything but the typical 14" or 15" laptop.
My experience is exactly the other way roun d, but the result is the same. There is no substitute for low weight. I just ordered a Thinkpad X60 weighing at about 1.4 kg because if you carry your computer everywhere, the extra 1.5 to 2 kg for a 17" model do make a difference. If I need screen real estate, I'm probably sitting at a desk anywhay where I can be dual-screening with a large external screen. But on the road, a 17" display is the weight equivalent of two extra bottles of beer, in your bag, on your back, all the time.
The bag problem is similar with small machines, though. I used to use a Thinkpad 240 for some time (Celeron 300, 10" screen, 1.4 kg) and I had real trouble finding a bag for it. I did half a year of fieldwork in Uzbekistan where I regularly carried the machine in a plastic bag, it had the added advantage of being completely unobtrusive and making you blend in perfectly (no foreign tourist ever carries a grocery bag), but it was somewhat unwieldy and I had to be careful with it. Now that I'm back I wanted to switch to a messenger bag, but the generic Timbuk2 laptop models were suboptimal regarding size, ease of use, comfort and price/performance ratio [you pay for the name] and the more professional Ortlieb models (which are a lot better) aren't really that functional with a laptop. I ended up getting a technical support messenger bag from Bagjack (warning, flash site alert). They're handmade in Berlin and thus expensive, but completely customizable regarding accessories as well as looks. They have a laptop compartment that fits in using a double velcro system that is both tough and completely customizable in size. The subnotebook snugs in nicely, and you'd have no problems fitting a 17" machine in there either. The bag protects you in a fall, is functional due to its clever strap length adjustment mechanism, and it looks good.
LaTeX is in no way an open document format suitable for storing, let alone archiving data, for a variety of reasons:
Firstly, LaTeX gets its usefulness and power from packages. Unless you want to standardise on a given reference set of packages, it can't be used sensibly for archival purposes. because you'll have to store all possible packages in all versions along with your data. If you're willing to do that, you could run Word in an emulator, too.
There is no universal method for package versioning, for resolving package dependencies and for maintaining backward and forward compatibility between package versions. This creates lots of problems when you use older documents on a newer TeX system. An example was the rather popular geometry package for easier page geometry setup where version 3 of the package broke compatibility with older versions. The author added a simple switch to make the new version behave like the old ones, but you had to add the switch to the \usepackage declaration to make your documents compile. If you have to modify your documents to keep them useable, you're missing the point of a document archive.
There is no consistent way of using Unicode in TeX documents. Basically, with the existing solutions such as Lambda/Omega, UTF-8 inputenc, ucs.sty and proprietary packages, it's "choose two out of: compatibility with most LaTeX packages, compatibility with the Unicode standard, large character repertoire". It's somehow useable, but not really well enough to be called universal.
LaTeX documents are really difficult to parse on a computer, making them even more ill-suited for archival storage on a large scale. Try talking to the developers of the TeX->LyX conversion scripts one day. Someone stated that the only good TeX parser is TeX itself. A good archival document format should be parseable using third-party tools.
LaTeX is a typesetting system. It's designed for getting a nicely formatted PDF or PostScript file out of a source file that you can alter and modify on the spot. Typesetting is what it does really well. If you try to shove and bend it into other roles, it starts to get kludgy, especially when it concerns data exchange between large numbers of users with inconsistent package versions, automated processing of LaTeX documents with third-party tools or heavy use of international character sets.
For the record, that hammas (sp?) was elected as the majority in Palestine makes me think I need to disagree with you on this point. Maybe it's localized by geo or something, but at least in that part of the world I do not think the minority is so minor.
Hamas' election victory is due to two main factors:
The Palestinian authorities have acquired a terrible corruption record while Arafat's Fatah was in power. It was simply impossible to vote these people into office again.
The population of Palestine largely perceives themselves as under Israeli occupation, which, frankly, isn't so far from the truth. When your country is under occupation by your neighbor and acts of violence are taking place every day from both sides, what we would label a terrorist can easily and credibly claim to be a freedom fighter. Hamas rhetorics sound different to Palestinian ears than to our peaceful US or Western European perspective. The other poster's comment about terrorists = freedom fighters is dead on.
Both of this ultimately has little or nothing to do with Islam and everything with frustration and a situation of occupation and civil war.
Coptic is the surviving language closest to ancient Egyptian, if memory serves.
It is, except it didn't really survive. Coptic is in usage today only as a ritual language within religious ceremonies of the Coptic Christian denomination, mostly in Egypt. Estimates for the death of Coptic as a spoken language vary between the late 18th and early 20th century. It's really only as much alive as Church Slavonic, and certainly less so than Latin (where a large body of classical literature is being read) or Sanskrit (which is still a minority spoken language in India).
Those bullies you had to deal with? Oh yea, they went on to found an Internet Startup... wait, I'm thinking of all your dork friends. The bullies are now working at the hat store in the mall.
Now I consider myself an IT and role-playing geek. I don't know about your dork friends, but most of my dork friends are now either unemployed, got hooked up into role playing to the point where they can't distinguish between their elf prince alter ego and their loser reality any more, or are pot-bellied system admins working for mediocre salaries. I studied both CS and Middle Eastern history, and I think it says something that some of my dork friends actually envy me for going into the humanities afterwards. At the same time, the guys that bullied us at school went off to study law and economy.
In your scenario, the dorks win in the end. I can't confirm this from my own experience. It looks like we've got some skewed perceptions here.
This show avenges us just a little bit for every person that cuts us off because they don't understand how a four way stop works, and for all the government employees we have to deal with.
I don't think this show avenges anybody, least of all any reasonably intelligent person. This type of show isn't geared at an intelligent audience. In your terminology, it's geared at idiots who enjoy watching other idiots stumble into misery. This is a show for the socially retarded.
ps: your post a bit difficult to quote because it contains so many caps that the lameness filter complains about me yelling while, ironically enough, i'm actually only quoting someone else's yell.
Um, kristallnacht was in 1933. The Nazis were already very controversial by the time of the 1936 olympic games. So the statement "in 1938 that the Nazi party and Hitler were fairly new, and were not yet seen as that bad" is bollocks.
The Kkristallnacht was in 1938, the night of November 9 to November 10. It says so in the article you were linking to. Did you actually bother to read it? Not that I disagree with your point.
Under German law, it's basically loser pays, but the winning party can't enforce their claims unless they get an extra statement from the judge ("Kostenfestsetzungsbeschluss"). The Kostenfestsetzungsbeschluss specifies a percentage of the winner's legal fees ("Prozesskosten") that has to be paid by the losing party. In practice, this works rather well; if the little guy sues the car company and loses, he only has to pay a part of their legal fees, usually a comparatively small one.
Not half as annoying as spam would be. Imagine a constant ad for enlargment products continuously scrolling right at the edge of your peripheral vision. In Russian. Blinking. No spyware in the world could be as annoying as that.
And the first one is almost irrelevant. Who cares if nobody contributes to your OSS project?
I guess the project developer certainly does.
But the GPL says nothing about somebody taking an OSS product, incorporating it into a different (preferably better) OSS product, and thus obsoleting the original OSS product.
If I understand correctly, the competition wasn't exactly from competing OSS projects, rather from companies providing services around the system that he built. In effect, he had a hard time competing with them, because he had to develop the software, while his competitors in the service arena just used the software he developed. As far as I can see, this is a perfectly legitimate point.
The Nessus guy just doesn't believe in the OSS model, it's that simple.
You could also put it that way: he tried the "OSS model", it cost him while providing zero benefit, so he drops it again.
Open source really should be a two-way street. If the community only takes your work to profit from it and provides very little in return, there's no incentive for a developer to do open-source work.
Imagine not having to learn a language when moving your business into a new country, because all you have to do is carry your PSP around.
So I guess the market is ripe for an English/Hindi version, then;)
But seriously: whom would you prefer to do business with - the guy who constantly tinkers with his PSP, or the other guy who actually bothered to learn your language?
Whoah! That would rule out just about any scientist. Or anybody else doing any kind of work they care about.
I guess there's still a difference between a scientist doing research that he cares about (most of us do) and a biologist working with a cell culture that is technically his or her daughter.
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According to the article, the mouse is not really distinguishable from previous mice by the same manufacturer, and probably not from $1 mice by $TAIWANESE_SWEATSHOP either, even though the review doesn't mention this.
Looks like a non-product: an expensive mouse, with a small form factor and nondescript design, with a 300 gram paperweight to prevent drag on the cable, where you could just have used a book instead, and from a manufacturer making a nonsensical argument about how this mouse was specifically suited to a specific style of computer game.
The new regulations were found so convenient after the war that they're effectively still in force. So judging from their terms of service, the then Deutsche Bundesbahn and now Deutsche Bahn was still happily deporting Jews. Only two years ago did they introduce regulations where you could get 20% of your ticket price refunded if you were delayed more than 61 minutes. (A one-hour delay and a missed changeover are apparently considered normal.)
Google also has a de facto monopoly on web search services. Microsoft would probably claim that they are only protecting their own search engine product, while offering customers the choice of other search engines.
Assume a game costs 1000 yen in Japan where it's produced and that $1 is 100 yen. You can sell the game for $10. Suddenly the dollar takes a dive and $1 drops to 50 yen. As of now, either you have to sell the game for $20, or you lose 50% on every game sold. Either way, you lose money. A weak dollar and a strong yen hurt Japanese exporters.
It's the same thing with any export product. It's why Europeans rely on a weak dollar to buy gas, because oil is traded in USD and a weak dollar drives prices down, and it's why Japan as a net exporter is traditionally interested in a weak yen, because it lowers the prices of Japanese product in foreign markets.
Note, also, that being killed by a baseball should really qualify as being killed by a stranger. Your metrics are all screwed up.
For whatever Apple may be doing now, don't assume they've always been doing it that way.
Maybe it's just me, but I have trouble understanding how this fine works. Do I understand correctly that the company was fined $FINE, yet the fine will be suspended upon payment of $FINE/5 and everybody can go on as they please? If you can get away with paying $100, why fine $500 in the first place? Or is this just another peculiarity of the law system?
Spindler was the man behind several Road Apples, crippled Apple models that the company isn't particularly proud of.
Basically, with the pressure to produce low-cost Apple models, Apple stripped high-end designs in retarded ways (such as the narrow data bus on the Classic II which made it 30% slower than the SE/30 released several years earlier) or designed new models by producing technically absurd add-ons to older models (like the Performa 5200 that was basically the motherboard from one of the last 32-bit 680x0 series with a 64-bit PowerPC 603 on top of it that ran at half the effective clock speed and all the multiplexing on the resulting two 32-bit system buses had to be done by the CPU in software). Definitely suboptimal, and Apple fans today aren't particularly fond either to remember these all-time lows in Apple product history.
The bag problem is similar with small machines, though. I used to use a Thinkpad 240 for some time (Celeron 300, 10" screen, 1.4 kg) and I had real trouble finding a bag for it. I did half a year of fieldwork in Uzbekistan where I regularly carried the machine in a plastic bag, it had the added advantage of being completely unobtrusive and making you blend in perfectly (no foreign tourist ever carries a grocery bag), but it was somewhat unwieldy and I had to be careful with it. Now that I'm back I wanted to switch to a messenger bag, but the generic Timbuk2 laptop models were suboptimal regarding size, ease of use, comfort and price/performance ratio [you pay for the name] and the more professional Ortlieb models (which are a lot better) aren't really that functional with a laptop. I ended up getting a technical support messenger bag from Bagjack (warning, flash site alert). They're handmade in Berlin and thus expensive, but completely customizable regarding accessories as well as looks. They have a laptop compartment that fits in using a double velcro system that is both tough and completely customizable in size. The subnotebook snugs in nicely, and you'd have no problems fitting a 17" machine in there either. The bag protects you in a fall, is functional due to its clever strap length adjustment mechanism, and it looks good.
LaTeX is a typesetting system. It's designed for getting a nicely formatted PDF or PostScript file out of a source file that you can alter and modify on the spot. Typesetting is what it does really well. If you try to shove and bend it into other roles, it starts to get kludgy, especially when it concerns data exchange between large numbers of users with inconsistent package versions, automated processing of LaTeX documents with third-party tools or heavy use of international character sets.
Both of this ultimately has little or nothing to do with Islam and everything with frustration and a situation of occupation and civil war.
So, how did they justify it back then, when the USA wasn't at war yet?
In your scenario, the dorks win in the end. I can't confirm this from my own experience. It looks like we've got some skewed perceptions here.
I don't think this show avenges anybody, least of all any reasonably intelligent person. This type of show isn't geared at an intelligent audience. In your terminology, it's geared at idiots who enjoy watching other idiots stumble into misery. This is a show for the socially retarded.ps: your post a bit difficult to quote because it contains so many caps that the lameness filter complains about me yelling while, ironically enough, i'm actually only quoting someone else's yell.
Under German law, it's basically loser pays, but the winning party can't enforce their claims unless they get an extra statement from the judge ("Kostenfestsetzungsbeschluss"). The Kostenfestsetzungsbeschluss specifies a percentage of the winner's legal fees ("Prozesskosten") that has to be paid by the losing party. In practice, this works rather well; if the little guy sues the car company and loses, he only has to pay a part of their legal fees, usually a comparatively small one.
(*runs off to the patent office*)
Open source really should be a two-way street. If the community only takes your work to profit from it and provides very little in return, there's no incentive for a developer to do open-source work.
But seriously: whom would you prefer to do business with - the guy who constantly tinkers with his PSP, or the other guy who actually bothered to learn your language?
Great! Engrish for everybody! (At least judging from the spoken English skills of the average Japanese or Korean...)
Xbox 540 - "You've got it all backwards!"