Depends how you segment the market. Eliminate the areas where the Mac isn't competing (office desktops) and I bet their market share is remarkable for a system that's more expensive and is in some respects inferior.
I don't mind ads that are that well targetted to their demographic. Personally, as someone who likes movies, I feel I benefit from being told what movies are coming. And the actual trailers are usually quite enjoyable in their own right. It's not a zero sum game. They benefit. I benefit.
He distanced himself form themovie because of the butchering of Constantine and League of Extroadinary Gentlemen. The movie of V for Vendetta is reasonably faithful in comparison.
(Please not: I have no idea what I'm talking about. This is speculation)
I don't think you were truly addicted to EQ if it simply "wore off". Perhaps a bit obsessed with it, yes. Unless of course, you've substituted something else in place of EQ that similarly destroys your life.
I think people get addicted to the brain chemicals produced by playing the game. They're just addicted to happiness and soical interaction and the feeling of progression. Then there's some sort of association where they feel the need to play the game to get the buzz even though the initial thrill has worn off.
If I understand it correctly, there's nothing wrong with the addiction to endorphins. It's what they call "Being happy". The problem is the cause of the endorphins. The WoW addict needs to spend time socialising with people in the real world, having other enjoyable hobbies, enjoying work, and so on. Eventually the MMO will just seem less interesting.
Perhaps. But there's always the possibility that when they say they can't verify the integrity of their machines after unknown users have tampered with them, they mean that they can't verify the integrity of their machines after unknown users have tampered with them.
Even if the are out to rig an election, this doesn't mean everything they do, every day is entirely dedicated to rigging an election.
If the chips inside and the circuitry were better, the games would be better. The graphics would have better quality texturing, the PAL version would never have to be letterboxed, and the developers would spend less time working on idiosynchrasies fo the system rather than game issues.
Or do you judge the quality of an mp3 player by how much you enjoy the music available for it?
Even the PS2 is cheap crap. I mean the build quality is okay (but most mainstream electronics is), but the architecture has a lot of cheap fudges designed to keep the cost down.
:) Actually it's more inspired by a crazy who keeps posting on the uk.legal newsgroup with subjects along the lines of "M-I,5 Persecutio n (plaint) - Eye Say, and Lord Gnome Answers"
I don't think they're over the top at all. Diebold have delivered a machine they consider secure. I don't trust them. Black Box have inspected the machines. Why should Diebold trust them? They clearly have an agenda. There is no reason to believe they're politically neutral, and they've had direct access to the machine. They want to test to be sure that BBV haven't tampered,. and they want to be compensated for the test.
No. It's written in a peculiar dialect. Let me translate.
Diebold has sold voting machines to Utah. Diebold is evil. They want to bully a poor innocent election clerk. Anything they do is eeeevil and their only aim in life is to subjugate democracy so that the evil Republicans win. They want to take away our democracy!!!11!!! The CIA is SPYING on us. And the president is a LIZARD!! A LIZZZARD I tell YoU. HE's frOm anOTHeR diMesSsniOPn and Thjhey're TAking away My Brain.
Well, I use a CD player to play music, a DVD player to play DVDs, a games console to play games, a PC to do spreadsheets and manipulate photgraphs, and a PDA to send emails. The PC is primarily used for editting data. I could use a PC to do a lot of other stuff, but dedicated equipment does the job a lot better. My PC only has a 19" monitor, or a composite video output, and it's a hell of lot noisier than my DVD player. I'd quite like a device that I could plug my camera into and rotate, crop and print the photos as well.
The computer industry seems to have this idea that we want to combine all our gadgetry into a single box. There's always bee this assumption. The fact is, people prefer separate dedicated equipment.
Just because somethign can be used for several purposes doesn't mean people want it to. They have a dedicated TV for a games console, and generally don't even use a DVD player as a CD player. If a device has a single dedicated purpose, it becomes a lot easier to use, and usualy does the job its designed to do a lot better.
Hell, i might even have to get myself a fangled 'DVD player' instead of the much smarter long term investment of a PC"
In what way is it smarter? Or long term for that matter? A PC costs a fortune, and unless you only use it for a limited number of uses, will require a certain amount of maintenance just to keep it running smoothly. On top of that, there's the additional start time, and you need the right hardware to get a decent picture on the screen. And the remote control isn't as good.
Base 2 units make more sense, as your software and RAM use them for measurements, and the disk size inherently is based on a power of two. 80 GB gets put on the box though because it's a larger number.
No they don't. Using the same prefixes to mean the same things for distance, weight, volume, current, power, time, and most other derived units, and using the same one to mean something different for storage, data transmission rates, and binary addressable storage, especially when there's a valid alternative makes no sense at all.
However, the industry is by far the more moral here. It's their music. They choose the license (just as, ahem, most here would agree that a programmer should have the right to choose the GPL rather than only Public Domain). You either respect their license, or you are in the wrong.
I disagree with over what's moral. It isn't moral to use a monopoly to gouge customers on prices. It isn't moral to prevent people from having access to music. We have the technical ability to allow everybody to have a copy of a creative work. I see no reason why this - in itself - would be a bad thing.
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No, he got a new Mac Mini because there is a statutory minimum 12 month warranty within the UK,
No there isn't.
Depends how you segment the market. Eliminate the areas where the Mac isn't competing (office desktops) and I bet their market share is remarkable for a system that's more expensive and is in some respects inferior.
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He'd decided he'd have nothing to do with it long before.
I don't want trailers(which are ads).
I don't mind ads that are that well targetted to their demographic. Personally, as someone who likes movies, I feel I benefit from being told what movies are coming. And the actual trailers are usually quite enjoyable in their own right. It's not a zero sum game. They benefit. I benefit.
He distanced himself form themovie because of the butchering of Constantine and League of Extroadinary Gentlemen. The movie of V for Vendetta is reasonably faithful in comparison.
(Please not: I have no idea what I'm talking about. This is speculation)
I don't think you were truly addicted to EQ if it simply "wore off". Perhaps a bit obsessed with it, yes. Unless of course, you've substituted something else in place of EQ that similarly destroys your life.
I think people get addicted to the brain chemicals produced by playing the game. They're just addicted to happiness and soical interaction and the feeling of progression. Then there's some sort of association where they feel the need to play the game to get the buzz even though the initial thrill has worn off.
If I understand it correctly, there's nothing wrong with the addiction to endorphins. It's what they call "Being happy". The problem is the cause of the endorphins. The WoW addict needs to spend time socialising with people in the real world, having other enjoyable hobbies, enjoying work, and so on. Eventually the MMO will just seem less interesting.
Yes you are. Become the sole supplier of a specific product to a government, and remember to allocate a spare office for all the money.
You're absolutely right! Just because they've privatized voting is no reason to suspect anything could be amiss.
It's no reason to suspect everything is amiss.
Why do people have so much faith in BBV? I don't trust them or Diebold.
Perhaps. But there's always the possibility that when they say they can't verify the integrity of their machines after unknown users have tampered with them, they mean that they can't verify the integrity of their machines after unknown users have tampered with them.
Even if the are out to rig an election, this doesn't mean everything they do, every day is entirely dedicated to rigging an election.
If the chips inside and the circuitry were better, the games would be better. The graphics would have better quality texturing, the PAL version would never have to be letterboxed, and the developers would spend less time working on idiosynchrasies fo the system rather than game issues.
Or do you judge the quality of an mp3 player by how much you enjoy the music available for it?
There's a difference between being wary and being paranoid.
Even the PS2 is cheap crap. I mean the build quality is okay (but most mainstream electronics is), but the architecture has a lot of cheap fudges designed to keep the cost down.
:) Actually it's more inspired by a crazy who keeps posting on the uk.legal newsgroup with subjects along the lines of "M-I,5 Persecutio n (plaint) - Eye Say, and Lord Gnome Answers"
No. You're confusing ballads with ballets. I've never seen anyone dance ballet to a ballad, but I'm sure it s an artisitic delight.
I don't think they're over the top at all. Diebold have delivered a machine they consider secure. I don't trust them. Black Box have inspected the machines. Why should Diebold trust them? They clearly have an agenda. There is no reason to believe they're politically neutral, and they've had direct access to the machine. They want to test to be sure that BBV haven't tampered,. and they want to be compensated for the test.
Well, I use a CD player to play music, a DVD player to play DVDs, a games console to play games, a PC to do spreadsheets and manipulate photgraphs, and a PDA to send emails. The PC is primarily used for editting data. I could use a PC to do a lot of other stuff, but dedicated equipment does the job a lot better. My PC only has a 19" monitor, or a composite video output, and it's a hell of lot noisier than my DVD player. I'd quite like a device that I could plug my camera into and rotate, crop and print the photos as well.
The computer industry seems to have this idea that we want to combine all our gadgetry into a single box. There's always bee this assumption. The fact is, people prefer separate dedicated equipment.
Just because somethign can be used for several purposes doesn't mean people want it to. They have a dedicated TV for a games console, and generally don't even use a DVD player as a CD player. If a device has a single dedicated purpose, it becomes a lot easier to use, and usualy does the job its designed to do a lot better.
Hell, i might even have to get myself a fangled 'DVD player' instead of the much smarter long term investment of a PC"
In what way is it smarter? Or long term for that matter? A PC costs a fortune, and unless you only use it for a limited number of uses, will require a certain amount of maintenance just to keep it running smoothly. On top of that, there's the additional start time, and you need the right hardware to get a decent picture on the screen. And the remote control isn't as good.
Still says apple in the title. Although iPod and iTunes are now such strong brand names, it might make sense to disassociate them from Apple entirely.
Not really. Missiles have got to get to the target and hit it before it runs out of fuel.
No. (2 and 3 and 4) gives 0 according to my Pascal compiler.
Base 2 units make more sense, as your software and RAM use them for measurements, and the disk size inherently is based on a power of two. 80 GB gets put on the box though because it's a larger number.
No they don't. Using the same prefixes to mean the same things for distance, weight, volume, current, power, time, and most other derived units, and using the same one to mean something different for storage, data transmission rates, and binary addressable storage, especially when there's a valid alternative makes no sense at all.
I'm Spartacus!
However, the industry is by far the more moral here. It's their music. They choose the license (just as, ahem, most here would agree that a programmer should have the right to choose the GPL rather than only Public Domain). You either respect their license, or you are in the wrong.
I disagree with over what's moral. It isn't moral to use a monopoly to gouge customers on prices. It isn't moral to prevent people from having access to music. We have the technical ability to allow everybody to have a copy of a creative work. I see no reason why this - in itself - would be a bad thing.