The article seems to imply that the record labels were the ones who were asking for the higher prices, but it doesn't offer any particular evidence for that inference. In fact, the whole article seems very short on evidence, even in the form of quotes from their unnamed sources.
I suspect that the reporters found out that the price is going up, but have no real clue what happened in the negotiations.
Isn't it possible that Apple wanted to increase their profit margins just as much as the record labels did?
RCW 46.37.190 Warning devices on vehicles -- Other drivers yield and stop.
(4) The lights described in this section shall not be mounted nor used on any vehicle other than a school bus, a private carrier bus, or an authorized emergency or law enforcement vehicle. Optical strobe light devices shall not be installed or used on any vehicle other than an emergency vehicle authorized by the state patrol, a publicly owned law enforcement or emergency vehicle, a department of transportation, city, or county maintenance vehicle, or a public transit vehicle.
There is a backup solution that can back up 100GB and costs about the same as a 100GB hard drive. It's called a 100GB hard drive. The article points out that disk-to-disk backup is taking the place of tape backup at many companies.
I can't comment on whether the 100GB drive manufacturers "make loads" or not, you'll have to check their financial statements for yourself.
"They" did invent a new medium, namely SACD. The public just didn't care. My theory is that people switched to CD for convenience, not for quality, so offering them a higher quality medium won't induce them to switch again unless there is a convenience factor (and that convenience is not offset by inconvenient DRM). As a case in point, everybody is downloading music of lesser quality than what is on a CD. In some cases, they are even willing to pay nearly CD prices for it.
It is also true that it was very difficult to "rip" one's LPs onto CDs when CDs first came out. Now, you can simply rip your CD into an audio file and transfer that file to whatever medium or device you find most useful. Hence, even if the industry were to create a great new format, it wouldn't spur another buying spree.
If the company has no EU offices, then there isn't a lot the EU can do to enforce the VAT requirement. This is much the same as the problem the states have now; if a company has no presence in a state, the state has little authority over that company.
If a company does have EU offices, they could presumably be sued in the EU for failing to collect VAT, even on their US site. All of the companies I saw mentioned in the news article have some kind of physical presence in Europe.
I disagree that "ANY ONE CAN BREAK COPY PROTECTION!".
For any given protection scheme, a few people can create a crack for it, and many other people can use that crack. But many non-technical people will find the idea of applying special patches to their camera/DVD player/stereo confusing and scary, and just won't do it.
The media companies know they can't make something impossible to copy. They want to make it difficult to copy, or even just inconvenient to copy, because that will significantly reduce the amount of copying that occurs.
Many people complain about the fact that an LCD has a "native" resolution and all other have to be interpolated. But I don't understand why this isn't equally true of CRT monitors. I can empirically see the difference, but I want to understand the theory.
A CRT monitor, like an LCD monitor, has discrete pixels, at least in the horizontal direction. These are defined by color dots or stripes on the front of the tube, and the distance between dots/stripes of the same color defines dot pitch. The drive signal for the tube is analog, but ultimately it has to energize these fixed resolution phosphors.
If I'm doing my math right, a 20" viewable monitor with a 4:3 aspect ratio is about 16" wide, which is 406mm. At a typical dot pitch of.25mm, it would have just over 1600 horizontal pixels. How then does it support resolutions like 1280x1024?
If you look here you will see that an Arizona reporter was charged with trespass. He approached a house, opened a gate labeled "no trespassing", went up to the front door and knocked. When somebody came out and told him to leave, he did. If he can get charged for that, the Wired reporter can surely be charged for sneaking onto government property.
According to the gravitational force equation F = G*m1*m2 / d^2, two negative masses would attract each other in the same way as two positive masses. However, an attractive force would cause the two negative masses to accelerate away from each other, since a = F/m.
Running through the cases shows that either a positive or negative mass will accelerate toward a postive mass, and either will accelerate away from a negative mass.
The most interesting application of this is to have equal positive and negative masses, at which point they will both accelerate along the line from the negative to the postive mass at the same rate, maintaining the same distance but increasing velocity indefinitely. Since the net mass is 0, the system has no net momentum or kinetic energy, so this infinite acceleration doesn't violate any conservation laws.
I know one person who got paid to write reviews of Amazon products (DVDs in this case). All of his reviews appeared under the editorial reviews section rather than the customer reviews section. However, he hasn't done anything recently and I understand Amazon.com is scaling back the number of paid reviewers.
As for the customer reviewers, just because Amazon.com doesn't pay them doesn't mean they don't get any tangible benefits. I've heard secondhand that top reviewers sometimes get onto publishers mailing lists for advance review copies of upcoming works.
I'd like to see a 3D version of the original Castle Wolfenstein. I always resented the fact that Wolfenstein 3D took the name, but none of the cool game play of the original.
You haven't lived until you stick up an SS guard with an empy pistol, steal his ammo, and shoot him with it. Or used a hand grenade to remove an inconvenient wall.
I fail to see how this decision will affect the volume of SMS spam in any significant way. All that this decision means is that any political parties which send out election propoganda will not have to say who sponsored the ad. Spammers who are not politicians have never had any such requirement, so they are not affected. Political spam seems to me to be a very small part of the general spam problem.
If you want to see regulation of SMS spam, you would need to look to the FCC or Congress, not the FEC.
The article you cite is very sparse on detail, but it sounds as if Mr Sabzali's Canadian company was still exporting purification equipment to Cuba while Mr Sabzali was a US resident. If I am reading this correctly, he was not prosecuted for his actions while in Canada, but for his actions while in the US.
Without a lot more detail, it is hard to judge just how much involvement and control Mr Sabzali had with the exporting which happened after he moved to the US, which in my mind is key to determining how much legal merit this case has.
Mind you, I think the whole Cuba embargo law is extremely silly, so I don't think there is any moral merit to this case, but I'm just trying to figure out the legalities.
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You should look up "Shannon's Law" if you really want a detailed answer to your question. In essence, the reason you can't put an unlimited number of bits into a sine wave is that the bandwidth prevents you from changing the signal too rapidly, and the noise floor prevents you from changing it by too small an amount (if you try to indicate the difference between 0 and 1 by too tiny of a change in the sine wave, the receiver will not be able to distinguish them from the natural fluctuations in the signal).
Shannon created a mathematical formula which describes precisely how much information you can transmit given a certain bandwidth and a certain amount of noise.
Precisely: C = W log2(1 + S/N )
C = capacity (bits/second) W = bandwidth ( hertz ) S/N = signal to noise ratio
If I read the article correctly, the FBI was alerted to the advertisements a few months before the rocks were stolen. Unless you expect the FBI to be prescient, I don't see why they would have thought to search google for moon rocks back in March.
I vaguely recall that on the VAX there was actually a signal for power failure, and it was a very low priority signal at that. Compared to something like disk I/O, the CPU could take all the time in the world to deal with a power crisis.
My point is that if your heatsink fails, there is really plenty fo time for the OS to respond. I don't know exactly how long it takes to damage the CPU if the heatsink fails, but what if the BIOS sent a signal, then killed the power 500ms later? How much damage could heat do in 500ms, or even 1s? That's not enough time to do a full shutdown, but it is enough time to do an emergency flush of critical disk buffers.
Amazon never guaranteed absolute privacy, so I fail to see why people got upset when they actually tightened their policy. Originally, they said they had no plans to sell anything but stated right in the policy that they reserved the right to change the policy. Then they made a new policy that spelled out exactly under what conditions customer info could be released, namely if Amazon sold part or all of their business.
For EPIC to say they were fine with the original policy, which effectively guaranteed nothing, but not with the revised policy, which put specific conditions on the release of customer info, seems very strange to me. If they are truly concerned about privacy, they should have objected equally to both policies.
The phone used in the Saint was a Nokia 9000, the direct ancestor of the 9290. Of course it looks similar. The implementation is entirely different, but the basic physical and UI design is the same.
I'd love to have a notebook with a 10' to 12' screen. Sure, it would be difficult to carry around, but imagine what Quake would be like if you could stand between the screens.
Technically, it is the wholesalers who are doing the guessing, which explains why lots of vendors have the same date. Amazon.com does not have enough staff to be able to manually edit every product listing they receive from their suppliers.
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Outlook 2002:
0 \O utlook\Options\Mail\ReadAsPlain
To suppress all HTML rendering, add this key as a DWORD with value 1.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.
Outlook 2003:
I don't use this, but I understand there are preference settings in the app itself to suppress external images and possibly even turn off HTML.
The article seems to imply that the record labels were the ones who were asking for the higher prices, but it doesn't offer any particular evidence for that inference. In fact, the whole article seems very short on evidence, even in the form of quotes from their unnamed sources.
I suspect that the reporters found out that the price is going up, but have no real clue what happened in the negotiations.
Isn't it possible that Apple wanted to increase their profit margins just as much as the record labels did?
I believe the $30 million is the budget for the three year planning process, not the construction itself.
These are already illegal in Washington state.
RCW 46.37.190
Warning devices on vehicles -- Other drivers yield and stop.
(4) The lights described in this section shall not be mounted nor used on any vehicle other than a school bus, a private carrier bus, or an authorized emergency or law enforcement vehicle. Optical strobe light devices shall not be installed or used on any vehicle other than an emergency vehicle authorized by the state patrol, a publicly owned law enforcement or emergency vehicle, a department of transportation, city, or county maintenance vehicle, or a public transit vehicle.
There is a backup solution that can back up 100GB and costs about the same as a 100GB hard drive. It's called a 100GB hard drive. The article points out that disk-to-disk backup is taking the place of tape backup at many companies.
I can't comment on whether the 100GB drive manufacturers "make loads" or not, you'll have to check their financial statements for yourself.
"They" did invent a new medium, namely SACD. The public just didn't care. My theory is that people switched to CD for convenience, not for quality, so offering them a higher quality medium won't induce them to switch again unless there is a convenience factor (and that convenience is not offset by inconvenient DRM). As a case in point, everybody is downloading music of lesser quality than what is on a CD. In some cases, they are even willing to pay nearly CD prices for it.
It is also true that it was very difficult to "rip" one's LPs onto CDs when CDs first came out. Now, you can simply rip your CD into an audio file and transfer that file to whatever medium or device you find most useful. Hence, even if the industry were to create a great new format, it wouldn't spur another buying spree.
If the company has no EU offices, then there isn't a lot the EU can do to enforce the VAT requirement. This is much the same as the problem the states have now; if a company has no presence in a state, the state has little authority over that company.
If a company does have EU offices, they could presumably be sued in the EU for failing to collect VAT, even on their US site. All of the companies I saw mentioned in the news article have some kind of physical presence in Europe.
I disagree that "ANY ONE CAN BREAK COPY PROTECTION!".
For any given protection scheme, a few people can create a crack for it, and many other people can use that crack. But many non-technical people will find the idea of applying special patches to their camera/DVD player/stereo confusing and scary, and just won't do it.
The media companies know they can't make something impossible to copy. They want to make it difficult to copy, or even just inconvenient to copy, because that will significantly reduce the amount of copying that occurs.
Many people complain about the fact that an LCD has a "native" resolution and all other have to be interpolated. But I don't understand why this isn't equally true of CRT monitors. I can empirically see the difference, but I want to understand the theory.
.25mm, it would have just over 1600 horizontal pixels. How then does it support resolutions like 1280x1024?
A CRT monitor, like an LCD monitor, has discrete pixels, at least in the horizontal direction. These are defined by color dots or stripes on the front of the tube, and the distance between dots/stripes of the same color defines dot pitch. The drive signal for the tube is analog, but ultimately it has to energize these fixed resolution phosphors.
If I'm doing my math right, a 20" viewable monitor with a 4:3 aspect ratio is about 16" wide, which is 406mm. At a typical dot pitch of
If you look here you will see that an Arizona reporter was charged with trespass. He approached a house, opened a gate labeled "no trespassing", went up to the front door and knocked. When somebody came out and told him to leave, he did. If he can get charged for that, the Wired reporter can surely be charged for sneaking onto government property.
According to the gravitational force equation F = G*m1*m2 / d^2, two negative masses would attract each other in the same way as two positive masses. However, an attractive force would cause the two negative masses to accelerate away from each other, since a = F/m.
Running through the cases shows that either a positive or negative mass will accelerate toward a postive mass, and either will accelerate away from a negative mass.
The most interesting application of this is to have equal positive and negative masses, at which point they will both accelerate along the line from the negative to the postive mass at the same rate, maintaining the same distance but increasing velocity indefinitely. Since the net mass is 0, the system has no net momentum or kinetic energy, so this infinite acceleration doesn't violate any conservation laws.
Why fansubs? A lot of what shows on TV is also available subtitled on DVD.
I know one person who got paid to write reviews of Amazon products (DVDs in this case). All of his reviews appeared under the editorial reviews section rather than the customer reviews section. However, he hasn't done anything recently and I understand Amazon.com is scaling back the number of paid reviewers.
As for the customer reviewers, just because Amazon.com doesn't pay them doesn't mean they don't get any tangible benefits. I've heard secondhand that top reviewers sometimes get onto publishers mailing lists for advance review copies of upcoming works.
If you look here you'll see that the center of gravity is 1000 miles below the surface, not 100 miles.
I'd like to see a 3D version of the original Castle Wolfenstein. I always resented the fact that Wolfenstein 3D took the name, but none of the cool game play of the original.
You haven't lived until you stick up an SS guard with an empy pistol, steal his ammo, and shoot him with it. Or used a hand grenade to remove an inconvenient wall.
I fail to see how this decision will affect the volume of SMS spam in any significant way. All that this decision means is that any political parties which send out election propoganda will not have to say who sponsored the ad. Spammers who are not politicians have never had any such requirement, so they are not affected. Political spam seems to me to be a very small part of the general spam problem.
If you want to see regulation of SMS spam, you would need to look to the FCC or Congress, not the FEC.
Who has been arrested for giving a speech at an academic conference?
Who has received an injunction against releasing their findings?
There may be examples of these I'm not aware of, but I couldn't find them in a quick search of the EFF's website.
The article you cite is very sparse on detail, but it sounds as if Mr Sabzali's Canadian company was still exporting purification equipment to Cuba while Mr Sabzali was a US resident. If I am reading this correctly, he was not prosecuted for his actions while in Canada, but for his actions while in the US.
Without a lot more detail, it is hard to judge just how much involvement and control Mr Sabzali had with the exporting which happened after he moved to the US, which in my mind is key to determining how much legal merit this case has.
Mind you, I think the whole Cuba embargo law is extremely silly, so I don't think there is any moral merit to this case, but I'm just trying to figure out the legalities.
You should look up "Shannon's Law" if you really want a detailed answer to your question. In essence, the reason you can't put an unlimited number of bits into a sine wave is that the bandwidth prevents you from changing the signal too rapidly, and the noise floor prevents you from changing it by too small an amount (if you try to indicate the difference between 0 and 1 by too tiny of a change in the sine wave, the receiver will not be able to distinguish them from the natural fluctuations in the signal).
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Shannon created a mathematical formula which describes precisely how much information you can transmit given a certain bandwidth and a certain amount of noise.
Precisely:
C = W log2(1 + S
C = capacity (bits/second)
W = bandwidth ( hertz )
S/N = signal to noise ratio
If I read the article correctly, the FBI was alerted to the advertisements a few months before the rocks were stolen. Unless you expect the FBI to be prescient, I don't see why they would have thought to search google for moon rocks back in March.
I vaguely recall that on the VAX there was actually a signal for power failure, and it was a very low priority signal at that. Compared to something like disk I/O, the CPU could take all the time in the world to deal with a power crisis.
My point is that if your heatsink fails, there is really plenty fo time for the OS to respond. I don't know exactly how long it takes to damage the CPU if the heatsink fails, but what if the BIOS sent a signal, then killed the power 500ms later? How much damage could heat do in 500ms, or even 1s? That's not enough time to do a full shutdown, but it is enough time to do an emergency flush of critical disk buffers.
Amazon never guaranteed absolute privacy, so I fail to see why people got upset when they actually tightened their policy. Originally, they said they had no plans to sell anything but stated right in the policy that they reserved the right to change the policy. Then they made a new policy that spelled out exactly under what conditions customer info could be released, namely if Amazon sold part or all of their business.
For EPIC to say they were fine with the original policy, which effectively guaranteed nothing, but not with the revised policy, which put specific conditions on the release of customer info, seems very strange to me. If they are truly concerned about privacy, they should have objected equally to both policies.
The phone used in the Saint was a Nokia 9000, the direct ancestor of the 9290. Of course it looks similar. The implementation is entirely different, but the basic physical and UI design is the same.
I'd love to have a notebook with a 10' to 12' screen. Sure, it would be difficult to carry around, but imagine what Quake would be like if you could stand between the screens.
Oh, wait, you probably meant 10" to 12".
Technically, it is the wholesalers who are doing the guessing, which explains why lots of vendors have the same date. Amazon.com does not have enough staff to be able to manually edit every product listing they receive from their suppliers.