Well, I agree with you, but it seems that the police take DNA samples for the very slightest justification, and even if the police acted totally illegally, and you're totally innnocent, they still have no requirement to destroy the DNA sample.
There was a big push to beautify boxes just after Apple started their resurgance. It had an impact, but not a big one. People still looked for the same thing...the cheapest price.
I think this was part of the problem. The pretty cases were still cheap and they looked it. They usually looked like cheap knock-offs of the iMac.
There are some nice PC cases. Many people go for ITX purely because they like the design.
Another potential minefield is the cost of the OS. If Windows accounts for 25% of the cost of the PC, Lindows/StarOffice will start to look very attractive. I've no idea how cheaply MS licences Vista to OEMs, but I expect most of the smaller manufacturers pay at least $50.
But I'm not the only one to do the sums. Nintendo and MS both know that they'll do well if they can undercut the PS3 with their combined prices. MS deny that they'll reduce the price, but hardware manufacturers always deny price reductions.
Draw around the disc with a marker. Replace the power cable with a solid silver cable and plugs. Get video cables spun from the finest unobtanium by tibetan monks. It all makes a difference.
Square and boxy. It's a good shape. the insides are easily accesible, and I can pile things on top of it, and it makes it fit snugly between my wall and my desk.
It was 2 hours vs 1 hour for the early tapes. It was essential that you could fit at least 1 movie on a tape. The increased popularity at the start made it the dominant format. Betamax would have needed considerable improvement to compete after VHS developed a lead.
The quality improvement of Blu-Ray over DVD is not as significant as the improvement of DVD over VHS. HD is not seen as the must have that DVD was. Also, most people don't have high definition televisions, making Blu-Ray unneccesary at the moment.
We also have to consider wheher the PS3 will actually sell that well. Current rumours of pricing suggest that by the time of release, people it will be cheaper to buy an XBox 360 AND a Wii.
So if the PS3 sells, and if a lot of the buyers also have HDTV, and the buyers haven't already chosen their format and bought a decent player, then blu-ray will win.
I'm sure I heard some people commenting that there were issues with producing dual layer Blu-Ray discs, whereas HD-DVD has no such issues. Training Day is a 2 layer HD disc, so has 5GB extra capacity.
No, but there are laws regarding selling BBFC rated games to kids below the rating (BBFC rated games would include GTA, and Hitman). And unlike the ESRB, the BBFC ratings are bright primary colours, very clear and distinctive, and well publicised.
But are you saying there's no reason to start a sentence with a conjunction? And are you sure there's never any exception? Granted, as a rule, you should avoid doing so, but there are cases where it's perfectly acceptable, and possibly even preferable.
If they do anything illegal they've exceeded their authority. Either this law allows the police to do anything without you preventing them, or it has no effect whatsoever. Both of which seem ludicrous.
English seems to have countless rules that don't have any justification apart from "This is the way it is because this is the way it has always been". Sentence can start with 'and' and 'but'. There is no reason not to split an infinitive. Sentences can end on a preposition. These should usually be avoided, it's true, but for reasons of good style, not because it's the law.
It's a shame that that meant the police were down a quarter of a million dollars, that just goes to some rich kid. I'd have prefered to hear that the officers responsible were severely disciplined.
Yeah, but if the police report states that the criminals broke into the car, and drove it to wherever it went, the insurance company will probably assume that that's the only way it could possibly happen.
It's likely, and it's possible. In which case, the police should have made sure that they covered everyone's face with a hood, and made took as many measures as possible to protect their men in the extremely likely event that a photographer will take a photo of an interesting scene. Especially because the type of photographer who is most likely to take a photo of the scene will publish.
What if it was a press photographer. Does the first amendment cease to apply because there's a slight possibility that somebody could get hurt?
It's a little more specificl, in that it is specifically based on targetted advertising. But looking through the patent, it seems - like most business method patents - to be pretty obvious. The only reason we don't have prior art is that remarkably similar schemes have been tried and failed dismally.
But who am I to argue. I think business method patents are fundamentally stupid anyway. They don't promote the art of business. They only serve to create artificial barriers to the competition (this is after all what a petent is for). Competition is generally good for businesses.
This is the problem with slashdot. People get an analogy and seem to think that because there are similarities, the treatment should be exactly the same.
The retarded child analogy was perfectly valid. It's simply a reducto ad absurdum of the premise that anything equipment that a person is responsible for can grant permission on behalf of that person. This does not prove that people do not have permission. It simply invalidates the existing argument that we can assume - in all cases - that permission has been given. Other analogies do not make the retarded child example any more or less valid. The original premise has still been disproved by a counter example. You can't counter a counter example by a counter-counter example. Logic doesn;t work like that.
India is not a stone age country. They have a stable elected government, a transport infrastructure, cars, paved roads, cities, a software industry, and even a pharmecutical industry. Poverty is a problem, but they don't really need substantial help to survive. They need help to develop.
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Thaw me out for 8/02/86. Then freeze me again until the year 6502.
Huh? What do guns have to do with anything?
Well, I agree with you, but it seems that the police take DNA samples for the very slightest justification, and even if the police acted totally illegally, and you're totally innnocent, they still have no requirement to destroy the DNA sample.
Count sets of 250 ballots. Use some variant of double entry book keeping to prevent miscounting. Recount random sample to check for cheating.
There was a big push to beautify boxes just after Apple started their resurgance. It had an impact, but not a big one. People still looked for the same thing...the cheapest price.
I think this was part of the problem. The pretty cases were still cheap and they looked it. They usually looked like cheap knock-offs of the iMac.
There are some nice PC cases. Many people go for ITX purely because they like the design.
Another potential minefield is the cost of the OS. If Windows accounts for 25% of the cost of the PC, Lindows/StarOffice will start to look very attractive. I've no idea how cheaply MS licences Vista to OEMs, but I expect most of the smaller manufacturers pay at least $50.
But I'm not the only one to do the sums. Nintendo and MS both know that they'll do well if they can undercut the PS3 with their combined prices. MS deny that they'll reduce the price, but hardware manufacturers always deny price reductions.
Draw around the disc with a marker. Replace the power cable with a solid silver cable and plugs. Get video cables spun from the finest unobtanium by tibetan monks. It all makes a difference.
Square and boxy. It's a good shape. the insides are easily accesible, and I can pile things on top of it, and it makes it fit snugly between my wall and my desk.
It was 2 hours vs 1 hour for the early tapes. It was essential that you could fit at least 1 movie on a tape. The increased popularity at the start made it the dominant format. Betamax would have needed considerable improvement to compete after VHS developed a lead.
It depends.
The quality improvement of Blu-Ray over DVD is not as significant as the improvement of DVD over VHS. HD is not seen as the must have that DVD was. Also, most people don't have high definition televisions, making Blu-Ray unneccesary at the moment.
We also have to consider wheher the PS3 will actually sell that well. Current rumours of pricing suggest that by the time of release, people it will be cheaper to buy an XBox 360 AND a Wii.
So if the PS3 sells, and if a lot of the buyers also have HDTV, and the buyers haven't already chosen their format and bought a decent player, then blu-ray will win.
I'm sure I heard some people commenting that there were issues with producing dual layer Blu-Ray discs, whereas HD-DVD has no such issues. Training Day is a 2 layer HD disc, so has 5GB extra capacity.
Oh, and UK != MN, btw. So "here in the UK" means jack for this discussion.
So it's of no interest to anyone in the entire US what another country does in a similar situation.
I wonder why the US has such a reputation for being insular.
No, but there are laws regarding selling BBFC rated games to kids below the rating (BBFC rated games would include GTA, and Hitman). And unlike the ESRB, the BBFC ratings are bright primary colours, very clear and distinctive, and well publicised.
But are you saying there's no reason to start a sentence with a conjunction? And are you sure there's never any exception? Granted, as a rule, you should avoid doing so, but there are cases where it's perfectly acceptable, and possibly even preferable.
Sure it will. You just have to scale everything accordingly.
If they do anything illegal they've exceeded their authority. Either this law allows the police to do anything without you preventing them, or it has no effect whatsoever. Both of which seem ludicrous.
English seems to have countless rules that don't have any justification apart from "This is the way it is because this is the way it has always been". Sentence can start with 'and' and 'but'. There is no reason not to split an infinitive. Sentences can end on a preposition. These should usually be avoided, it's true, but for reasons of good style, not because it's the law.
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It's a shame that that meant the police were down a quarter of a million dollars, that just goes to some rich kid. I'd have prefered to hear that the officers responsible were severely disciplined.
Yeah, but if the police report states that the criminals broke into the car, and drove it to wherever it went, the insurance company will probably assume that that's the only way it could possibly happen.
It's likely, and it's possible. In which case, the police should have made sure that they covered everyone's face with a hood, and made took as many measures as possible to protect their men in the extremely likely event that a photographer will take a photo of an interesting scene. Especially because the type of photographer who is most likely to take a photo of the scene will publish.
What if it was a press photographer. Does the first amendment cease to apply because there's a slight possibility that somebody could get hurt?
It's a little more specificl, in that it is specifically based on targetted advertising. But looking through the patent, it seems - like most business method patents - to be pretty obvious. The only reason we don't have prior art is that remarkably similar schemes have been tried and failed dismally.
But who am I to argue. I think business method patents are fundamentally stupid anyway. They don't promote the art of business. They only serve to create artificial barriers to the competition (this is after all what a petent is for). Competition is generally good for businesses.
This is the problem with slashdot. People get an analogy and seem to think that because there are similarities, the treatment should be exactly the same.
The retarded child analogy was perfectly valid. It's simply a reducto ad absurdum of the premise that anything equipment that a person is responsible for can grant permission on behalf of that person. This does not prove that people do not have permission. It simply invalidates the existing argument that we can assume - in all cases - that permission has been given. Other analogies do not make the retarded child example any more or less valid. The original premise has still been disproved by a counter example. You can't counter a counter example by a counter-counter example. Logic doesn;t work like that.
India is not a stone age country. They have a stable elected government, a transport infrastructure, cars, paved roads, cities, a software industry, and even a pharmecutical industry. Poverty is a problem, but they don't really need substantial help to survive. They need help to develop.