So now the bullies who would grab kids' $50 books and throw then around now will grab kids' $1500 laptops and throw them around. And of course, the parents of the bullied kids will have to pay for damage.
Whatever the benefits, grade schools are NOT a safe place for individual electronics. The suggestions to put textbooks on a server, or distribute CD-ROMS, is a good one. Giving everyone a laptop, isn't.
...The editor's choice among the models compared includes Apple iPod Mini and iRiver iFP-390T. The editors...
As you admit in the second snippet, there was more than one editor. And these editors made more than one choice. Plus, the decision was already made before publication. So you while you said "the editor's choice... includes", you SHOULD have said "the editors' choices... included".
If Metal Gear is more popular in the states, then why do they publish a special edition with lots of bonuses like soundtracks and dogtags in Japan and not in the US?
If something is not selling well, you try and add extra incentives to drive sales. If it is already selling well, well, why change something that seems to be working?
I doubt a la carte plans will destroy package programming. The key is, choice.
Where's the choice? According to the story, "Sen. John McCain wants to require a la carte pricing on digital cable." If the cable companies are forced to price everything a la carte, there will be no package option.
The difference is, the "Faces of Death" people went around to all of the folks they had committing suicide on camera and got them to sign over permission to use the video.
In this case, nobody asked the dead guy for permission.
Why bother struggling through conventional strategy guides by reading Perhaps because your TV is already in use due to the fact that you're playing a game?
What good does it do ANYONE to opt out of road maintence? Even if you don't drive the products and services that you depend on use the nation's road network. And if you don't keep it up to date things get more expensive. And if it's old and cruddy then it's easier for people to get into accidents which will drive up insurance rates and use up more medicare money and such.
No, no, a useage fee would would have various degrees of directness.
If you drive a car, you pay for the upkeep of the roads through a fee attached to gas or tolls (both of which are usage-metered).
If you don't have your own transportation, you pay for roads as a portion of your bus/taxi fee (again, proportional to usage).
Transport for goods, which also wear and tear the roads, are paid by the transport companies, and ultimately would comprise a portion of the cost of the goods themselves.
The fairest system is for ALL taxes to be usage fees directly related to the amount of usage, and the cost of providing such services.
official reviews of the game Official? Uhh...these were just a few fan websites with delusions of grandeur. Just because something appears on the web doesn't suddenly make it "professional".
Why? Because development of games towards multiple targets is going to favour developing for the lowest common denominator. Games will be targeted to run within the resolution capabilities, or memory requirements, or storage requirements of the minimal system -- likely the console; instead of specifcally taking advantage of the resources which a powerful PC can offer.
Games will be targeted to the limited set of buttons on the console controllers, when keyboards can offer additional control and complexity.
We've seen this very same thing before. Think back to when the Voodoo cards were popular. Games were developed only to the specific texture sizes and video resoultions these games offered; so even when more powerful cards were available from other vendors, many games weren't able to benefit from the power. Likewise, all the CGA games that were still coming out even when some people had VGA/EGA capability.
This may help developers, but it can only hurt consumers.
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less confusion for the elderly
That's rather rude. There are plenty of older people perfectly confortable with compuers, and at least as many young luddites.
So now the bullies who would grab kids' $50 books and throw then around now will grab kids' $1500 laptops and throw them around. And of course, the parents of the bullied kids will have to pay for damage.
Whatever the benefits, grade schools are NOT a safe place for individual electronics. The suggestions to put textbooks on a server, or distribute CD-ROMS, is a good one. Giving everyone a laptop, isn't.
I love how Ashcroft and his Copyright Enforcement Militia
uhh...DMCA was Clinton's. You remember Clinton? The same asshole who supported Clipper, the CDA, Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell, etc., etc.?
example of legal use that is on the rise is people streaming their own music to other computers they happen to be in.
Computers they happen to be IN? Is this another Tron story, in disguise?
unpleasant? that sounds absolutely apropos. and a free magazine. hey!
...The editor's choice among the models compared includes Apple iPod Mini and iRiver iFP-390T. The editors ...
... includes", you SHOULD have said "the editors' choices ... included".
As you admit in the second snippet, there was more than one editor. And these editors made more than one choice. Plus, the decision was already made before publication. So you while you said "the editor's choice
If Metal Gear is more popular in the states, then why do they publish a special edition with lots of bonuses like soundtracks and dogtags in Japan and not in the US?
If something is not selling well, you try and add extra incentives to drive sales. If it is already selling well, well, why change something that seems to be working?
I've been giving some thought to search engine referencing, and how XxX was a huge mistake, because searching for it would be difficult.
.NET or similiar.
You think that's bad, try searching for something like
Search engine handling of punctuation is (at the very least) very inconsistent and unpredictable.
Is it art, or marketing ploy?
I gave a bit of a double-take to the web address for this. Calling it "great american novel" speaks a lot more of ego than of substance.
I doubt a la carte plans will destroy package programming. The key is, choice.
Where's the choice? According to the story, "Sen. John McCain wants to require a la carte pricing on digital cable." If the cable companies are forced to price everything a la carte, there will be no package option.
And then the punchline...
Tongue firmly in cheek, Iomega's response to all the bad publicity is to call their next product the Iomega Click Dive.
Oh, how we laughed....
use cron!
The difference is, the "Faces of Death" people went around to all of the folks they had committing suicide on camera and got them to sign over permission to use the video.
In this case, nobody asked the dead guy for permission.
Soul Calimeter? That's awful.
Soul [b]Caliper[/b] would have been a much better name.
Why bother struggling through conventional strategy guides by reading
Perhaps because your TV is already in use due to the fact that you're playing a game?
What good does it do ANYONE to opt out of road maintence? Even if you don't drive the products and services that you depend on use the nation's road network. And if you don't keep it up to date things get more expensive. And if it's old and cruddy then it's easier for people to get into accidents which will drive up insurance rates and use up more medicare money and such.
No, no, a useage fee would would have various degrees of directness.
If you drive a car, you pay for the upkeep of the roads through a fee attached to gas or tolls (both of which are usage-metered).
If you don't have your own transportation, you pay for roads as a portion of your bus/taxi fee (again, proportional to usage).
Transport for goods, which also wear and tear the roads, are paid by the transport companies, and ultimately would comprise a portion of the cost of the goods themselves.
The fairest system is for ALL taxes to be usage fees directly related to the amount of usage, and the cost of providing such services.
elided words.
(his imagination) [along] with (plaster, (drinking straw (up nose)), vaseline)
Apparently someone used his imagination -- with plaster, some time, a drinking straw up his nose and vaseline, combining these four elements
That's FIVE.
1 - Imagination.
2 - Plaster.
3 - Time.
4 - Straw.
4.5 - Nose
5 - Vaseline
Not exactly elements either, are they?
It was similar to the iPaq in these respects, and neither succeeded
Huh?
The iPaq is considered by many to be a bit pricy, but still a reasonably good product.
game console hackers as software pirates who use mod chips and damage game industry revenue.
Oh, they're providing revenue to the game industry, all right. They're just supporting the Japanese game industry, not the domestic one.
official reviews of the game
Official? Uhh...these were just a few fan websites with delusions of grandeur. Just because something appears on the web doesn't suddenly make it "professional".
What other options are out there for someone who doesn't want to fiddle around with tiny web pages on his phone while driving?"
Trains.
Busses.
Taxis.
Bicycles.
Feet.
This is only going to hurt game development.
Why? Because development of games towards multiple targets is going to favour developing for the lowest common denominator. Games will be targeted to run within the resolution capabilities, or memory requirements, or storage requirements of the minimal system -- likely the console; instead of specifcally taking advantage of the resources which a powerful PC can offer.
Games will be targeted to the limited set of buttons on the console controllers, when keyboards can offer additional control and complexity.
We've seen this very same thing before. Think back to when the Voodoo cards were popular. Games were developed only to the specific texture sizes and video resoultions these games offered; so even when more powerful cards were available from other vendors, many games weren't able to benefit from the power. Likewise, all the CGA games that were still coming out even when some people had VGA/EGA capability.
This may help developers, but it can only hurt consumers.
With PheonixBIOS reading your email
phOEnix. And why are they reading my email, might I ask?
Huh. I clicked on your the random link and got...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows_
Interesting.