If you liked the narrative of TLJ, get it. You may be frustrated with the rudimentary combat, you may feel it's too short - but when you look back at it, all that is eclipsed by the story and characters.
But the thing is, they're not starting at the beginning, they're changing almost the entire premise. Insted of dropping people into season 3 of Lost, they're going to drop people into season 1 of Miami Vice.
I fear it's too optimistic to assume that this type of behaviour will hurt them. In practice, I doubt the majority of the buying public connects the RIAA to the shiny CDs on the shelf.
It's probably not that they'll actually do it - they know they can't - but if it stops just one consumer from attempting a chargeback, it's worth putting it in there. Given that some people STILL buy from spammers, I'm sure there are also some who're deterred by this type of language.
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Chickens have always been sneezing - it's a fairly common occurence, even in healthy chickens, as a way to clear the sinuses of irritants (which is nice to be able to do when you forage by pecking at loose dirt).
The opportunity cost for me sitting around playing games in the evening isn't what I could've made consulting or flipping burgers, because I need time off in order to be able to work my day job. If I could make money doing it, it wouldn't matter how little money it was, it would still be more than my cost (the cost of my equipment and subscription being sunk).
I agree that it's not hard at all. The reason people are annoyed is that many other operations are incredibly easy in Gmail, and deleting then becomes harder than it should have to be.
The problem isn't big - it can be easily solved by a Greasemonkey script - but I think Google's arguments for keeping the functionality away are flawed.
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Ah, but the more irrelevant mails I have lying around, the higher the risk that a search will come up with more results than I need, requiring me to sift through them. That's a whole lot more work than deciding whether to press "y" for archive or "d" for delete.
You misunderstand the parent. It's not a question of people buying PS3 because of Blu-Ray. The argument is that they'll buy it for the games, and after having bought one will be unlikely to also invest in an HD-DVD player. This is based on the assumption that the next gen consoles will be adopted by consumers before these same consumers start thinking about HD formats.
I'm entirely with you, especially on international sales. I own at least seven full season DVD box sets which are series I would've never even watched one episode of, were it not for having been able to download them and check them out.
Give me a way to pay for the downloads, and I'll pay for those and for a set of higher-quality DVDs. There is a win/win for the studios here, if they'd only open their fucking eyes!
I have little doubt they'll shout that IRC is evil until they're blue in the face, but given that a sued IRC server operator is able to fight the suit in court, the question isn't what the *AA will say, but what the court will say. A reasonably competent jusdge should be able to see that it's different.
There is a big difference: Napster's servers held the list of files. This is not the case with IRC, where programs running on clients hold the file lists.
I think it's a brilliant idea for old people with failing eyesight to zip around at 18 mph.
They won't have to, though. The Segway comes with three different keys allowing different top speeds. It's as simple as not giving them the keys for fast speeds.
A good open book test is a question of achieving the proper balance between the tasks and the time given, such that it resembles a real working situation as closely as possible. This will force you to learn some things, because you won't have time to look up everything.
However, I think dictating exactly what you should remember is counter productive. If you can remember a bunch of good algorithms and can do complex pointer arithmetic in your head, you'll still come out ahead of the guy who remembers all the parameters to malloc and friends, but has to derive the algorithm he wants to implement, and make little sketches to figure out the pointer arithmetic.
Of course some things do need to be memorized, at least to within a certain margin, if you ever hope to carry on a conversation or meeting. You can't start looking up 20th century history in the middle of a drunken discussion about alternate outcomes of WWII:)
Since I can't tell the difference between an athlete lucking out in mitosis or having a team of smart bio-engineers to help them, why should I care which it is? The net result is that one athlete will be able to push the human body farther than the others, and that's where the entertainment value lies.
You claim that "...the bottleneck is thinking time", well to write as a professional you have to put all your thoughts down on paper at every step of the way. And you won't be able to do that if you type less than 100 WPM.
I would pay good money to see Byron jotting down 100 WPM with a quill!
1) People who live and die by their cellphone think everybody does too. Perhaps this is generational, but most people don't take *any* devices when they go someplace. The idea that more than a minority of people think they need to be always connected is shortsighted.
Not generational: regional. Almost all Asians and Europeans carry cells anywhere and everywhere. Demographically, that trend doesn't even start to decline until you get above 50 years - and those older demographics aren't very relevant to the development of the entertainment market over the next several decades.
I agree that people won't forget they can own music, except perhaps for the very youngest - the teens of the 2010's. This is why the RIAA's best bet would be to heavily promote really cheap pay-to-listen services, focusing on artists popular with the pre-teen demographic. In fact, these artists should be available only on radio, MTV and pay-to-listen. No CDs or iTMS. That's the only way they can hope to turn the consumers of tomorrow towards a rental model. Fortunately, they appear to be too short sighted to see this.
Take away half the cows and chickadees and you could go far in solving the starvation problem.
No you couldn't. The problem with starvation is not that there is not enough food produced on a global scale, it's that the food that is produced is not distributed equally. If you combine the food we overeat and the food we throw away in the Western world, we could feed most of the starving people in the world. The reason this doesn't happen is very simple: we don't want to pay for sending it there (also, in some cases, it wouldn't help because of regional conflicts or corrupt systems). It has nothing to do with meat production.
If ashcroft actually cared about doing right, he would not be worried about porn or drugs, he would be trying to establish marriage counseling centers accross the nation to help couples work through their differences and to prevent the high divorce rate from going up any further!
You haven't caught on to Ashcroft's MO, I see. He would not be establishing any kind of centers except detention centers for those Godless heathens violationg his new felony crime of divorce.
The xxAA will still be thoroughly convinced that you're ripping them off to the tune of eleven copies, and that there are no "ifs", "ands" or "buts" about it.
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If you liked the narrative of TLJ, get it. You may be frustrated with the rudimentary combat, you may feel it's too short - but when you look back at it, all that is eclipsed by the story and characters.
But the thing is, they're not starting at the beginning, they're changing almost the entire premise. Insted of dropping people into season 3 of Lost, they're going to drop people into season 1 of Miami Vice.
Seed is promising to be something new entirely, with combat completely missing from the gameplay.
I fear it's too optimistic to assume that this type of behaviour will hurt them. In practice, I doubt the majority of the buying public connects the RIAA to the shiny CDs on the shelf.
It's probably not that they'll actually do it - they know they can't - but if it stops just one consumer from attempting a chargeback, it's worth putting it in there. Given that some people STILL buy from spammers, I'm sure there are also some who're deterred by this type of language.
Chickens have always been sneezing - it's a fairly common occurence, even in healthy chickens, as a way to clear the sinuses of irritants (which is nice to be able to do when you forage by pecking at loose dirt).
The opportunity cost for me sitting around playing games in the evening isn't what I could've made consulting or flipping burgers, because I need time off in order to be able to work my day job. If I could make money doing it, it wouldn't matter how little money it was, it would still be more than my cost (the cost of my equipment and subscription being sunk).
The problem isn't big - it can be easily solved by a Greasemonkey script - but I think Google's arguments for keeping the functionality away are flawed.
Ah, but the more irrelevant mails I have lying around, the higher the risk that a search will come up with more results than I need, requiring me to sift through them. That's a whole lot more work than deciding whether to press "y" for archive or "d" for delete.
You misunderstand the parent. It's not a question of people buying PS3 because of Blu-Ray. The argument is that they'll buy it for the games, and after having bought one will be unlikely to also invest in an HD-DVD player. This is based on the assumption that the next gen consoles will be adopted by consumers before these same consumers start thinking about HD formats.
This is religion: it doesn't have to make sense, just be approved.
I'm entirely with you, especially on international sales. I own at least seven full season DVD box sets which are series I would've never even watched one episode of, were it not for having been able to download them and check them out. Give me a way to pay for the downloads, and I'll pay for those and for a set of higher-quality DVDs. There is a win/win for the studios here, if they'd only open their fucking eyes!
I also like the diagram showing latency measured in celsius.
I have little doubt they'll shout that IRC is evil until they're blue in the face, but given that a sued IRC server operator is able to fight the suit in court, the question isn't what the *AA will say, but what the court will say. A reasonably competent jusdge should be able to see that it's different.
There is a big difference: Napster's servers held the list of files. This is not the case with IRC, where programs running on clients hold the file lists.
If Kazaa won't work without it, most consumers would.
However, I think dictating exactly what you should remember is counter productive. If you can remember a bunch of good algorithms and can do complex pointer arithmetic in your head, you'll still come out ahead of the guy who remembers all the parameters to malloc and friends, but has to derive the algorithm he wants to implement, and make little sketches to figure out the pointer arithmetic.
Of course some things do need to be memorized, at least to within a certain margin, if you ever hope to carry on a conversation or meeting. You can't start looking up 20th century history in the middle of a drunken discussion about alternate outcomes of WWII :)
Since I can't tell the difference between an athlete lucking out in mitosis or having a team of smart bio-engineers to help them, why should I care which it is? The net result is that one athlete will be able to push the human body farther than the others, and that's where the entertainment value lies.
I would pay good money to see Byron jotting down 100 WPM with a quill!
Not generational: regional. Almost all Asians and Europeans carry cells anywhere and everywhere. Demographically, that trend doesn't even start to decline until you get above 50 years - and those older demographics aren't very relevant to the development of the entertainment market over the next several decades.
I agree that people won't forget they can own music, except perhaps for the very youngest - the teens of the 2010's. This is why the RIAA's best bet would be to heavily promote really cheap pay-to-listen services, focusing on artists popular with the pre-teen demographic. In fact, these artists should be available only on radio, MTV and pay-to-listen. No CDs or iTMS. That's the only way they can hope to turn the consumers of tomorrow towards a rental model. Fortunately, they appear to be too short sighted to see this.
No you couldn't. The problem with starvation is not that there is not enough food produced on a global scale, it's that the food that is produced is not distributed equally. If you combine the food we overeat and the food we throw away in the Western world, we could feed most of the starving people in the world. The reason this doesn't happen is very simple: we don't want to pay for sending it there (also, in some cases, it wouldn't help because of regional conflicts or corrupt systems). It has nothing to do with meat production.
Or just wear the shoulder bag with the strap across your body, which is safer than a backpack since you can see your bag.
You haven't caught on to Ashcroft's MO, I see. He would not be establishing any kind of centers except detention centers for those Godless heathens violationg his new felony crime of divorce.
The xxAA will still be thoroughly convinced that you're ripping them off to the tune of eleven copies, and that there are no "ifs", "ands" or "buts" about it.