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These are their top 50 DVDs of all time, not the top 50 movies on DVD. They are rating these on video quality, sound quality, amount and quality of extras, etc.
I don't think I've seen the "Citizen Kane" DVD, but it probably wouldn't rate high on their scale since the video is probably from an old print, the sound might be mono, and there is probably not an insightful commentary track by Orson Wells.
Maybe, maybe not. IMDb is associated with or owned by Amazon, hence the Amazon links everywhere. If Tivo gathered info from IMDb, but had a "Buy this movie/TV Series on DVD" link, that might be a good arrangement.
If you are in the right market, the new Motorola DVRs from Comcast do everything you mention, in HD. They may not have quite as refined an interface and they don't make suggestions like Tivo, but I'm quite happy with mine.
It probably wouldn't bother me either, but as I recall this was a sort of recent development. We also hear about pop-up ads while you are fast forwarding through real commercials. If their profits fall apart, what else might they try? How far do your good graces extend?
Exactly. And my friends Tivo will tape something that Tivo HQ tells it to tape, some new show someone is paying to promote. My Comcast Dual Tuner HDTV DVR doesn't do that.
Oh, did I mention that I rent the DVR and get HD service added to my account for less than just the monthly cost of Tivo?
Tivo has DirectTV, which is good for them, but cable subscribers are giving up Tivos and Replay TV for a cheaper, more integrated solution, albeit one that's not quite as feature rich.
Of course, that's the classic definition. But, it may not be adequate. What about the "anthrax mailer." Can we not determine if that's terrorism or not because we don't know the person's motive? What about the una-bomber? He didn't have a political motive, per se, but a desire to change culture or society. What about those who target civilians *just* to terrorize society? The laser guy may fit into this last category.
Dictionary.com has several definitions, some of which may apply to the laser case (and one which is even broader).
Why is trying to crash a plane loaded with civilians into the ground, where it will hurt civiliansnot terrorism? Just because a well-defined political motive is (apparently) missing?
I think many of us in the U.S. have recently redefined terrorism to "any action those Islamists take against us," which is just not accurate.
Yup, me too. I can see the advantage of something like Skype for calling from a foreign country back home. Finding a phone card, then a public phone, then figuring out how to dial, maybe listening in foreign languages can be a pain. Usually Internet is easier to find.
But for calling foreign countries from home, I find a phone card is much easier. Buy on the web, get the access #'s in e-mail, and dial away.
They probably made up bar codes for similar items. Say you stick a barcode for a $40 microwave on a $200 microwave.
As for returns, most places take a return for credit with receipt. They give the lowest price in the last 90 days or so, but it's still not bad. I would guess that's where the gift cards mentioned came from.
Or they just aren't as knowledgable programmers. This is not an unreasonable attitude. I have a project that is 95%+ my code. I don't want someone adding a snippet or two here and there without understanding a lot more about the whole project. If they do, they can screw it up. It's GPL'ed, so they can take it and do whatever they want, but I don't want to incorporate just anyone's changes into the "official" version.
For the same reasons, Linux et. al. wouldn't be very interested in my kernel modifications.
Part of the problem is that it took too long for them to come out with this pricing. By the time they announced this, we were well on our migration plan away from RH 7.2.
RH got one Enterprise license out of us for the server. The other 30 machines are on Scientific Linux, a "free-as-in-beer" version of RHEL 3.
There are numerous places that will do this for under $1 a shot. PhotoCD for under $2 a shot. Depending on what he wants them for, this could be completely adequate. I've scanned plenty of slides this way and 8x10 prints of them look just fine.
Nashville, TN. But, hey, it's great. There is no income tax, so if you make a fair bit of money, you can save knowing that the poor are paying a higher share of their income in taxes than you are.
BTW, you pay sales tax almost everywhere on restaurant meals. But we pay 8.75% on our groceries.
I pay 8.75% on food and 9.75% on everything else, so 15% isn't that much higher. I agree with you completely about the poor. This isn't to help them at all.
Funny, when the federal government tells states to enforce environmental or "American's with Disabilities" laws, it's called an unfunded mandate. When they forbid states to collect revenue from some source, it's suddenly good.
Yup, much better to add a sales tax to their food, as my state does. Being able to get online is so much more important than being able to eat.
Frankly, this bill is horrible. I can afford $4/month tacked onto my cable modem bill. A family at the poverty line has a much harder time affording $40/month tacked onto their grocery bill.
Coke is exactly the right analogy. Tons of people know how it'd made, the formula isn't really a secret at all. Add to that, that it's really only worth about $0.05 a can, the rest is marketing and the analogy gets better. Then consider that it's really just sugar water/coated for the unknowing masses, and his statement is complete!
That's two meters, of course, but you're right. On the other hand, it may be that the distance dragged is known more accurately than that but that the prediction is only accurate to 10%. But, I doubt it. (I haven't read the FA.)
I did this in college. We had an annoying guy who would bring his own remote to the TV lounge and channel surf during commercials of ST:TNG. (Ok we were geeks, but we all wanted to watch it, and not miss any of it.) One night there was black electrical tape over the receiver. You couldn't see it from a few feet away, so he looked like a fool trying to see if the batteries were dead. A few days later the tape disappeared (surprise), but soon after that, the TV was opened with a screw driver and the remote sensor was disconnected.
I said:
to measure with an accuracy of 1% of the predicted value.
which is not the same as saying they are measuring the predicted value. After "measure" there is an implied "(the actual value)"
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I don't think I've seen the "Citizen Kane" DVD, but it probably wouldn't rate high on their scale since the video is probably from an old print, the sound might be mono, and there is probably not an insightful commentary track by Orson Wells.
Maybe, maybe not. IMDb is associated with or owned by Amazon, hence the Amazon links everywhere. If Tivo gathered info from IMDb, but had a "Buy this movie/TV Series on DVD" link, that might be a good arrangement.
If you are in the right market, the new Motorola DVRs from Comcast do everything you mention, in HD. They may not have quite as refined an interface and they don't make suggestions like Tivo, but I'm quite happy with mine.
It probably wouldn't bother me either, but as I recall this was a sort of recent development. We also hear about pop-up ads while you are fast forwarding through real commercials. If their profits fall apart, what else might they try? How far do your good graces extend?
Oh, did I mention that I rent the DVR and get HD service added to my account for less than just the monthly cost of Tivo?
Tivo has DirectTV, which is good for them, but cable subscribers are giving up Tivos and Replay TV for a cheaper, more integrated solution, albeit one that's not quite as feature rich.
Dictionary.com has several definitions, some of which may apply to the laser case (and one which is even broader).
I think many of us in the U.S. have recently redefined terrorism to "any action those Islamists take against us," which is just not accurate.
But for calling foreign countries from home, I find a phone card is much easier. Buy on the web, get the access #'s in e-mail, and dial away.
As for returns, most places take a return for credit with receipt. They give the lowest price in the last 90 days or so, but it's still not bad. I would guess that's where the gift cards mentioned came from.
For the same reasons, Linux et. al. wouldn't be very interested in my kernel modifications.
RH got one Enterprise license out of us for the server. The other 30 machines are on Scientific Linux, a "free-as-in-beer" version of RHEL 3.
We recently had a replace a 486DX2 in a computer controlled milling machine we use. It's not 10 years old though, I wouldn't think.
There are numerous places that will do this for under $1 a shot. PhotoCD for under $2 a shot. Depending on what he wants them for, this could be completely adequate. I've scanned plenty of slides this way and 8x10 prints of them look just fine.
Those movies are the only reason I haven't given up my LaserDisc player. I guess I should look for these bittorrent movies.
BTW, you pay sales tax almost everywhere on restaurant meals. But we pay 8.75% on our groceries.
Funny, when the federal government tells states to enforce environmental or "American's with Disabilities" laws, it's called an unfunded mandate. When they forbid states to collect revenue from some source, it's suddenly good.
Frankly, this bill is horrible. I can afford $4/month tacked onto my cable modem bill. A family at the poverty line has a much harder time affording $40/month tacked onto their grocery bill.
Coke is exactly the right analogy. Tons of people know how it'd made, the formula isn't really a secret at all. Add to that, that it's really only worth about $0.05 a can, the rest is marketing and the analogy gets better. Then consider that it's really just sugar water/coated for the unknowing masses, and his statement is complete!
No, it's a search engine.
No idea why they might have done this, but I don't want google making judgements on what it thinks I should see.
Something else I saw had mention of $5M for expert witnesses. With contingency, that might come to $6.4M (or court fees as another poster mentions).
Thanks again for helping us out.
Nevada.
That's two meters, of course, but you're right. On the other hand, it may be that the distance dragged is known more accurately than that but that the prediction is only accurate to 10%. But, I doubt it. (I haven't read the FA.)
I have no idea how that happened. :-)
I said: to measure with an accuracy of 1% of the predicted value. which is not the same as saying they are measuring the predicted value. After "measure" there is an implied "(the actual value)"