Hmmm -- let's see. An industry is dominated by five (5) big companies, who all belong to a trade association. Said trade association has already been been caught, fined, etc. for price fixing.
Now "the Association" approaches a major customer of said companies and attempts to dictate an increase in prices with the threat of all of its members shutting off said customer in concert.
Please, please, PLEASE do it, RIAA. I'm begging you, don't chicken out. Jobs and Apple have lawyers and aren't afraid to use them, and this one might even qualify for Section One treatment.
Jack up the unregulated DSL price by enough that the discount for both DSL and voice makes the voice basically free.
That way, nobody worth worrying about will even consider alternatives. That keeps the alternatives from getting big enough for network effects to make them attractive.
I'm in Germany right now and have been comparing DSL rates with my colleagues. They complain about Deutsche Telekom pretty much as we do about the BabyBells, but a DSL line here costs about half what I pay in Arizona, with voice separate. No ISP required, so instead of $30/mo for the DSL and $20/mo for the (mandatory) ISP they pay about €15/mo total.
Since a land-line here doesn't save you from per-minute charges, half of them don't even bother and just use the mobiles for everything.
In more common terms (to Brits and US citizens at least), the mpg ratings from the tests on page 4 are 26.1 with the device versus 22.4 according to the manufacturer standard mileage rating. Impressive if true
I'd be a lot more impressed if the comparison had been for the same vehicle under the same conditions instead of whatever-test-they-used against another vehicle running on a DOT dynamometer.
The big problem with water injection is that it lowers the combustion temperature, thus the engine's efficiency.
However, if you have an engine designed for low temperatures (esp. with a lean mix) via valve timing, etc. you can make it efficient w/o the water and then at full throttle boost the torque without burning a valve, knock, etc.
I suppose you could consider water injection to be an antiknock additive, sort of.
People regularly ridicule the USPTO for awarding patents for "[something which has been done for years]... over the Internet!", yet it seems that the vast majority of open source software operates on a model of "[rewrite a piece of existing software]... and give it away for free!", which is equally uninnovative.
The key difference is that the USPTO acts to keep innovators from doing routine things, and thus from building upon the state of the art.
Even the most imitative F/OSS, however, acts to allow innovators to freely build upon the state of the art and thus advance it. glibc may not be sexy, but without it a lot of sexy work would face serious hurdles.
Intellectual property: Corporate employees contributing to F/OSS generally do so as a part of their duties and their work licensed by their employers, e.g. IBM.
Leadership: Riiiight. Tell it to the Linux design team, or to the crew working for Miguel de Icaza. The only difference is that in F/OSS, "leadership" is earned, not assigned.
Professionalism: Argued strictly from stereotyped strawmen. How about some examples of "unprofessional" standards among, say, the Apache team?
Innovation: I especially love this, given the way that Microsoft and others have taken to imitating F/OSS projects as their "innovative solution" sources.
Just once I'd like to see a "cogent" criticism that wasn't a rehash of long-discredited FUD,.
His character development is far far better --- while sophie lost her magic, she got a spine;
As in the book, except that in the book she developed, not just changed spontaneously.
He cut a bunch of details that didn't touch with the deeper moral issues; his gratuitis air raid scenes hammered the theme "war is bad";
Hammering a theme that wasn't in the book to begin with isn't exactly something to be proud of.
Or perhaps should Spirited Away also have had an antiwar theme grafted on and "hammered" home?
He gave the witch of the wastes redemption;
Yeah, by turning Howl's old teacher into a one-dimensional villain and completely removing the entire moral theme of giving up your humanity for power. There's a real "deeper moral theme" for you, with an in-depth development far more profound than "war is bad."
Whoopie -- war is bad. I'm writing now from Hamburg, where they keep a burned-out church steeple as a reminder of that theme. Much more profound than Miyazaki-san's thin, cliche'd air raids.
He cut 60% of the boring material that didn't move the plot along
Hate to break it to you laddie, but that "boring material" was precisely the "character development" and "deeper moral theme" that did move the plot along. Without them, the movie is just a shallow excuse for lots of flash-bang eye candy.
Visually stunning, no question. About as much substance as cotton candy, too.
Movies may be based on books, that does not mean they should be textually accurate.
Trite. There is a difference between the kind of editing dictated by the length (LOTR, for instance) and format constraints [1] of a movie and what Miyazaki-san did. Cuts are necessary -- but he inserted a completely foreign theme, warped the plot around it, and cut most of the original story to make room.
That is not the kind of "adaptation" that is compatible with any kind of artistic integrity.
[1] Catch-22 relies so much on narrative that it makes a crappy movie, IMHO always will.
As for the air raid scenes - this is a war we're talking about. Unfortunately, air raids on civilians are an inevitability of any modern war. But seeing it from the perspective of the victim in such explicit horrible detail really emphasis to the viewer that this war really really sucks.
Well, yes -- except that in the book there was no war! Miyazaki-san took a perfectly good story and, rather than tell it, forced it into his own obsession.
You can't justify the air raids as a necessary consequence of the war when the war was created as a justification for the air raids.
Probably one of the most respected directors in anime had to actually fly in and demand not to mess with his stuff. Forget keeping the material intact or respecting the creator's vision when our marketing research drones tell us we can "potentially" make 2 or 3 bucks more by screwing with it till marketing, rather than the creator, approves it.
That's a bit of a double standard, isn't it?
He certainly "screwed with" Howl's Moving Castle so that it was barely recognizable. Maybe he did it for idiological reasons instead of marketing -- or maybe he did it because the idiology is good marketing in Japan. Either way, he certainly was "messing with" Diana Wynn-Jone's "stuff."
Yeah, I have a BSCS. I also have a boatload of physics and maths that weren't required for the degree.
Very few of my classes turned out to be useful right out of school. However, the ones that I use most now are the ones I thought would be least useful at the time. Those theory classes don't do you any good right away, but they're utterly indispensible as a foundation for staying current for the rest of your life.
I promise you, the vocational stuff will all be in a landfill fifteen years from now, but the theory will be keeping bread on the table.
If you ever have to choose, I'll second every single professor that my children have asked (physics, EE, psychology -- unanimous): you can never get too much maths!
$EMPLOYER has been reluctant to buy hardware half this potent for engineering workstations. Now we can get the good stuff as the $COMPANY_STANDARD_BOX and load it with Linux to get some real work done.
Plus, the boy might get angry if he doesn't get his full feed - he has a lot of potential to cause me sleepless nights and so must be appeased.
You're not going to cut into his supply worth mentioning.
HOWEVER, speaking as someone who knows, I have a suggestion that will pay off more than you can imagine in the future [1]:
You be the one to handle night feedings. When Junior's "empty" alarm goes off, You get up and bring him to the filling station, plug him in, and wait for the pump to stop. Then You burp him, clean him, and put him back to bed. My oldest are twins, my youngest is 20 -- and I guarantee you it was worth every second of lost sleep.
What "transparent, seamless" DRM does is to conceal the real nature of the bargain from the customer until it is too late for it to affect their buying decision.
is that there is too much case law on the books limiting the terms a vendor can demand of a purchaser of paper goods. Back in the 19th century a publisher tried to attach a "EULA" to a book and that's where the original "Doctrine of First Sale" came from -- they Supreme Court understood paper and smacked him, hard.
The case law today is being made by judges who have swallowed the "digital is different" line and are allowing vendors to do with bits what the Bobbs-Merrill Court wouldn't let them do with paper.
Under the circumstances, vendors have a powerful incentive to replace paper with bits.
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The author admits that the headline was inadvertently applied from a post he intends to do tomorrow.
Now "the Association" approaches a major customer of said companies and attempts to dictate an increase in prices with the threat of all of its members shutting off said customer in concert.
Please, please, PLEASE do it, RIAA. I'm begging you, don't chicken out. Jobs and Apple have lawyers and aren't afraid to use them, and this one might even qualify for Section One treatment.
That way, nobody worth worrying about will even consider alternatives. That keeps the alternatives from getting big enough for network effects to make them attractive.
Since a land-line here doesn't save you from per-minute charges, half of them don't even bother and just use the mobiles for everything.
No, I don't take it seriously. In fact, have a look at the (how did I do that?) first post.
I'd be a lot more impressed if the comparison had been for the same vehicle under the same conditions instead of whatever-test-they-used against another vehicle running on a DOT dynamometer.
Of course -- it's water. You know what fish do in water, don't you?
Hey, RTFA -- according to him, gasoline engines only burn 35% of their fuel, the rest goes out the tailpipe.
However, if you have an engine designed for low temperatures (esp. with a lean mix) via valve timing, etc. you can make it efficient w/o the water and then at full throttle boost the torque without burning a valve, knock, etc.
I suppose you could consider water injection to be an antiknock additive, sort of.
It's another perpetual-motion machine, people.
Nothing to see here, move along.
The key difference is that the USPTO acts to keep innovators from doing routine things, and thus from building upon the state of the art.
Even the most imitative F/OSS, however, acts to allow innovators to freely build upon the state of the art and thus advance it. glibc may not be sexy, but without it a lot of sexy work would face serious hurdles.
Just once I'd like to see a "cogent" criticism that wasn't a rehash of long-discredited FUD,.
There are any number of parties who will headline "Vulnerability in BitTorrent!" and cound on most readers never bothering to get the facts.
As in the book, except that in the book she developed, not just changed spontaneously.
He cut a bunch of details that didn't touch with the deeper moral issues; his gratuitis air raid scenes hammered the theme "war is bad";
Hammering a theme that wasn't in the book to begin with isn't exactly something to be proud of.
Or perhaps should Spirited Away also have had an antiwar theme grafted on and "hammered" home?
He gave the witch of the wastes redemption;
Yeah, by turning Howl's old teacher into a one-dimensional villain and completely removing the entire moral theme of giving up your humanity for power. There's a real "deeper moral theme" for you, with an in-depth development far more profound than "war is bad."
Whoopie -- war is bad. I'm writing now from Hamburg, where they keep a burned-out church steeple as a reminder of that theme. Much more profound than Miyazaki-san's thin, cliche'd air raids.
He cut 60% of the boring material that didn't move the plot along
Hate to break it to you laddie, but that "boring material" was precisely the "character development" and "deeper moral theme" that did move the plot along. Without them, the movie is just a shallow excuse for lots of flash-bang eye candy.
Visually stunning, no question. About as much substance as cotton candy, too.
Trite. There is a difference between the kind of editing dictated by the length (LOTR, for instance) and format constraints [1] of a movie and what Miyazaki-san did. Cuts are necessary -- but he inserted a completely foreign theme, warped the plot around it, and cut most of the original story to make room.
That is not the kind of "adaptation" that is compatible with any kind of artistic integrity.
[1] Catch-22 relies so much on narrative that it makes a crappy movie, IMHO always will.
Well, yes -- except that in the book there was no war! Miyazaki-san took a perfectly good story and, rather than tell it, forced it into his own obsession.
You can't justify the air raids as a necessary consequence of the war when the war was created as a justification for the air raids.
That's a bit of a double standard, isn't it?
He certainly "screwed with" Howl's Moving Castle so that it was barely recognizable. Maybe he did it for idiological reasons instead of marketing -- or maybe he did it because the idiology is good marketing in Japan. Either way, he certainly was "messing with" Diana Wynn-Jone's "stuff."
On the other hand, management sees the documentation you write. Care to guess who they're likely to see as most valuable?
Very few of my classes turned out to be useful right out of school. However, the ones that I use most now are the ones I thought would be least useful at the time. Those theory classes don't do you any good right away, but they're utterly indispensible as a foundation for staying current for the rest of your life.
I promise you, the vocational stuff will all be in a landfill fifteen years from now, but the theory will be keeping bread on the table.
If you ever have to choose, I'll second every single professor that my children have asked (physics, EE, psychology -- unanimous): you can never get too much maths!
$EMPLOYER has been reluctant to buy hardware half this potent for engineering workstations. Now we can get the good stuff as the $COMPANY_STANDARD_BOX and load it with Linux to get some real work done.
You're not going to cut into his supply worth mentioning.
HOWEVER, speaking as someone who knows, I have a suggestion that will pay off more than you can imagine in the future [1]:
You be the one to handle night feedings. When Junior's "empty" alarm goes off, You get up and bring him to the filling station, plug him in, and wait for the pump to stop. Then You burp him, clean him, and put him back to bed. My oldest are twins, my youngest is 20 -- and I guarantee you it was worth every second of lost sleep.
[1] Future, not excluding later this week.
Not to be worried -- it's a bit thin and sweet, but harmless.
That said, it's not easy to get more than a few drops. Your 2do is working for his calories.
Bingo.
I think Disney is prepared lose a handful of sales worldwide.
The case law today is being made by judges who have swallowed the "digital is different" line and are allowing vendors to do with bits what the Bobbs-Merrill Court wouldn't let them do with paper.
Under the circumstances, vendors have a powerful incentive to replace paper with bits.