Well, yes, but it is designed to kill a very specific target. Sometimes this is seen as neccesary in war, and war can be just (e.g. The American War of Independence, World War 2 and the Star Wars trilogy).
You may argue specific ethics of each event, but surely arbitrarily dropping harmful chemicals over a large area, is less ethical.
Indeed. But I didn't say they dominated. I said they were "A dominant player". MS, Sony and Nintendo dominate the market. Not one of these does so individually.
It's not a loss. It's an investment. It's a 4 billion dollar avertisement for the XBox360. The Xbox has become a dominant player in the console market from nothing.
Microsoft has only just started, and they managed to produce what took youTube well over a year to achieve.
Certainly it isn't quite there. There will be a few bugs to sort out, and a few issues to resolve while they deal with technology to prevent users for flagrantly stealing music tracks and then selling them as videos, but Microsoft will get there. And it will be the best.
Why do I think this? Because Microsoft care about Quality.
They already have the worlds finest OS and the best office environment. Their search technology is second to none, and their entire online presense is increasing in leaps and bounds. Who could cope in today's online world without MSN messsenger or Outlook? They will soon dominate online videos, and then we'll see an amazing imprvement in this industry segment.
But I can't see where this strategy has been hugely successful. Possibly with the XBox, but they haven't dominated in any area online, nor do they seem likely to. As a company, they have the agility to put something like this up quickly and easily, but lack something that would allow them to take risks and try something new.
I totally agree. The precision standards for lego are very high. It's strong enough to withstand children playing with it and the Mindstorms system was based on a prototype created by robotics researchers.
And there's a whole swathe of alternative programming languages.
That is a problem. The more miles you do, the more of a gas guzzler you want. Bigger cars tend to come with better features, more room for the driver, and all the more expensive mod cons. Better performance is probably important for those who drive more as well.
This is probably why the big cars are so much morepopular in America.
My Pug 206 diesel will do that (my high score is 70mpg), can manage 90mph easily enough, and is quite affordable.
The downside is thta it's a bit of a crappy car with panels made from tin foil and a leaky roof, but there are better cars with excellent fuel efficiency and decent performance. There's a lot lot be said for turbo diesels, and even a quite old small petrol car will get better than 30mpg.
I spent 4 years living in London, not paying high gas prices because the public transport was so good.
Other taxes are much higher, but on the whole, people don't actually mind paying more for worthwhile public services. There are very few who would agree to the abolition of the NHS for the equivalent reduction in income tax.
You'd still sell the different format discs, encoded for the appropriate country. Just not the region coding. I don't think it would matter though. Australia (PAL) and Mexico (NTSC) are in the same region. And Europe (PAL/SECAM) is in the same region as Japan(NTSC). There have even been a few NTSC region 2 encoded discs sold in Europe. Many people in England import US discs, and they don't complain about the drop in quality.
Perhaps, but I'd imagine there will be other ways to circumvent it. Even if the DVD manufacturers do play ball, I expect there will be a software component to the system. Quite a lot of chips these days do have a substantial software component.
That won't work. The DVD player will look at the disc information, see that it has an RFID tag, look for the tag, and then refuse to play on account of it not being there.
Does Tyco sell the magic 8 ball as a spam blocking tool?
Do people use magic 8 balls to block spam?
Is a magic 8 ball predudiced towards some addresses oer others?
Did I say anything about suing anyone?
So, if a magic 8 ball was sold as a spam blocking tool, and it always said "No way" to certain adresses based on arbitrary and slighlty subjective criteria, and it was actually a popular tool to block spam, no, I wouldn't sue Tyco toys.
But I'd say that anyone who defended them as just a toy manufacturer was weaselling out of it.
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No, silly.
The Apache's a helicopter. Not a plane.
Well, yes, but it is designed to kill a very specific target. Sometimes this is seen as neccesary in war, and war can be just (e.g. The American War of Independence, World War 2 and the Star Wars trilogy).
You may argue specific ethics of each event, but surely arbitrarily dropping harmful chemicals over a large area, is less ethical.
The ultimate problem is hypothetical.
The actual genuine problem is lack of competition.
Find a way to increase competition, and both problems go away.
Well, it's about time we got some decent peripherals for the difference engine.
I was trying to be funny :b
Me too. Maybe my pedantic nitpicking didn't come across that way, but that was my intnet. (n.b MS standard spelling again)
That will be Microsoft standard spelling. The rest of the tech industry hasn't caught up yet.
Sigh. +3 funny, and 3 witty responses.
When did it get so hard to troll here? Is being Pro MS too obvious?
So, where were the spelling errors? "worlds" and "care" are both correctly spelled words in the English language.
I did. There are no spelling mistakes in my previous comment. Clearly your opinion of spelling is a unique one not shared by the experts in the field.
Indeed. But I didn't say they dominated. I said they were "A dominant player". MS, Sony and Nintendo dominate the market. Not one of these does so individually.
It's not a loss. It's an investment. It's a 4 billion dollar avertisement for the XBox360. The Xbox has become a dominant player in the console market from nothing.
Microsoft has only just started, and they managed to produce what took youTube well over a year to achieve.
Certainly it isn't quite there. There will be a few bugs to sort out, and a few issues to resolve while they deal with technology to prevent users for flagrantly stealing music tracks and then selling them as videos, but Microsoft will get there. And it will be the best.
Why do I think this? Because Microsoft care about Quality.
They already have the worlds finest OS and the best office environment. Their search technology is second to none, and their entire online presense is increasing in leaps and bounds. Who could cope in today's online world without MSN messsenger or Outlook? They will soon dominate online videos, and then we'll see an amazing imprvement in this industry segment.
But I can't see where this strategy has been hugely successful. Possibly with the XBox, but they haven't dominated in any area online, nor do they seem likely to. As a company, they have the agility to put something like this up quickly and easily, but lack something that would allow them to take risks and try something new.
I totally agree. The precision standards for lego are very high. It's strong enough to withstand children playing with it and the Mindstorms system was based on a prototype created by robotics researchers.
And there's a whole swathe of alternative programming languages.
That is a problem. The more miles you do, the more of a gas guzzler you want. Bigger cars tend to come with better features, more room for the driver, and all the more expensive mod cons. Better performance is probably important for those who drive more as well.
This is probably why the big cars are so much morepopular in America.
Yeah. But software hacks make the foil trick redundant.
My Pug 206 diesel will do that (my high score is 70mpg), can manage 90mph easily enough, and is quite affordable.
The downside is thta it's a bit of a crappy car with panels made from tin foil and a leaky roof, but there are better cars with excellent fuel efficiency and decent performance. There's a lot lot be said for turbo diesels, and even a quite old small petrol car will get better than 30mpg.
Yes... That will mostly be the shops, and the auomated systems for London's congestion charge, which is largely self funding.
But you can get a car that does 50mpg.
I spent 4 years living in London, not paying high gas prices because the public transport was so good.
Other taxes are much higher, but on the whole, people don't actually mind paying more for worthwhile public services. There are very few who would agree to the abolition of the NHS for the equivalent reduction in income tax.
and use only BGA chips.
Is this just for tamper resistance? They're extremely fiddly to solder, but apparently it can still be done by hand.
You'd still sell the different format discs, encoded for the appropriate country. Just not the region coding. I don't think it would matter though. Australia (PAL) and Mexico (NTSC) are in the same region. And Europe (PAL/SECAM) is in the same region as Japan(NTSC). There have even been a few NTSC region 2 encoded discs sold in Europe. Many people in England import US discs, and they don't complain about the drop in quality.
Perhaps, but I'd imagine there will be other ways to circumvent it. Even if the DVD manufacturers do play ball, I expect there will be a software component to the system. Quite a lot of chips these days do have a substantial software component.
That won't work. The DVD player will look at the disc information, see that it has an RFID tag, look for the tag, and then refuse to play on account of it not being there.
Does Tyco sell the magic 8 ball as a spam blocking tool?
Do people use magic 8 balls to block spam?
Is a magic 8 ball predudiced towards some addresses oer others?
Did I say anything about suing anyone?
So, if a magic 8 ball was sold as a spam blocking tool, and it always said "No way" to certain adresses based on arbitrary and slighlty subjective criteria, and it was actually a popular tool to block spam, no, I wouldn't sue Tyco toys.
But I'd say that anyone who defended them as just a toy manufacturer was weaselling out of it.