I have to agree with this. Too many people still stick to the old adage "you get what you pay for", and are wary of free things.
Plus I have a large suspicion that there is some sort of kickback for professors enforcing textbook requirements. It might be a bit of a conspiracy theory, but it all fits together too well...
Sorry, I could have worded it better. I'm not claiming intelligent design put Jupiter there, merely that Jupiter is doing what Jupiter does, and that this event is nothing out of the ordinary.
Coming to the next version of WoW...reward based rewards. When you complete your quest to collect 17 butt plugs of doom or whatever, the screen will flash in a precise way, leaving the player high and content.
We know random reward systems in games are as addictive as those in real life (eg. slot machines), but we can take it to the next level and introduce physical rewards.
1. It doesn't get any more ideological than censoring the most basic (and essential) of all human activities. Any censorship at all is solely done for ideological reasons.
2. The Pirate Bay are lucky that weren't in Asutralia
3. Heller and Kafka were right. THe perfect law is one in which trying to defend yourself results in you breaking yet more laws.
They are still trying to lock you into their crappy products, or 3rd party products that have paid the Apple tax for certification and pass those costs onto you.
Why does it always get so complicated every time Apple try to reinvent simplicity?
Just ask my wife. She's convinced her 8mp phone camera is better than my 6mp DSLR.
'fixed' (ie. 'broken') focus, no lens cover so it's always coated in grease, CA up the wazoo, enough flash power to only highlight the grease on the lens.
I've got big issues with artifically crippled software, where all versions come on the same install media.
It's like buying a car with 12 cylinders and having a switch hidden under the hood somewhere that controls the number of cylinders used. You buy the budget model, still have to cart around the weight of all 12 cylinders, but only get to use 4 of them.
TV is a luxury item, absolutely non-essential. So why is the government paying for people to be able to receive TV?
The people who should be paying for it are the TV companies, and the advertisers, ie. those who profit from millions of slack-jawed yokels staring at the tube all day.
Fundamentally, the guovernment seems to be guaranteeing access to TV for all. So what if you don't own one, should they provide you with a unit? Or if yours breaks down, should they pay to repair it?
I just don't get how and why the gov't got involved.
Here in Australia, politicians are having the same debate.
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See the 7 pointed star underneath the Union Jack? Thats's the federeation star, each of the points represents a state, and the 7th is for territories
I have to agree with this. Too many people still stick to the old adage "you get what you pay for", and are wary of free things.
Plus I have a large suspicion that there is some sort of kickback for professors enforcing textbook requirements. It might be a bit of a conspiracy theory, but it all fits together too well...
Sorry, I could have worded it better. I'm not claiming intelligent design put Jupiter there, merely that Jupiter is doing what Jupiter does, and that this event is nothing out of the ordinary.
Very cool that it was captured (by an Aussie)
The gas giants are there to act as a magnet for comets/asteroids etc, so they don't end up near us.
And when he takes his shirt off you can see the backlit apple logo they installed, which also mysteriously doubled the cost of the operation.
The more endangered an animal is, the better it tastes.
Cowon players are more expensive than an equivalent ipod, which is the obvious benchmark in the category.
Not everything made in Aisa is cheap and nasty
But look at what ended up on our blacklist here in Australia (it's also on wikileaks). It too was set up to counter the scourge of child porn.
But we ended up with blocked sites containing
euthanasia
abortion
malware
online gambling
It's not much of a stretch to see other politically sensitive topics being blocked.
...about the HP Scanjet 3C?
(not that there's anything wrong with that)
5+ years old, and they still haven't ironed out the bugs, erm I mean features.
Beer with a inidescent blue head, or maybe one that resembles the tail of a peacock.
I too spend many hours in the shed making beer from grain, and this would be the stuff of furtunes.
I don't know about that. 9/11 springs to mind.
Sure it sounds cool, but what the hell is it going to do with it?
Call em strange, but I prefer my 2d displays to be 2d
The blurring has almost hidden them, but put the image through a gaussian filter, and all is revealed.
Plus you can see the tiles missing from the space shuttle
Things here in Australia are rarely put to the people, as the pollies don't want the unwashed masses disturbing their plans.
Instead there is the concept of a 'mandate', ie. a party is voted in, and can do whatever the hell it wants, until they get voted out.
Politics here is far less robust than in the USA. We have the massive paradox of compulsory voting, and astounding voter apathy.
Coming to the next version of WoW...reward based rewards. When you complete your quest to collect 17 butt plugs of doom or whatever, the screen will flash in a precise way, leaving the player high and content.
We know random reward systems in games are as addictive as those in real life (eg. slot machines), but we can take it to the next level and introduce physical rewards.
1. It doesn't get any more ideological than censoring the most basic (and essential) of all human activities. Any censorship at all is solely done for ideological reasons.
2. The Pirate Bay are lucky that weren't in Asutralia
3. Heller and Kafka were right. THe perfect law is one in which trying to defend yourself results in you breaking yet more laws.
Yes, but you need to remember the ranking.
Less evil than Google
More evil than Microsoft
What I mean is the standard 3.5mm jack is simple, and works brilliantly for it's intended role. So why mess with it?
"Made for 3rd generation iPod shuffle" is fairly simple, but 99% of people would have no idea what generation their iclod is (/. crowd aside).
"Plug these in, hear music" is even more simple, and how it should be.
So...no DRM, only ARM.
They are still trying to lock you into their crappy products, or 3rd party products that have paid the Apple tax for certification and pass those costs onto you.
Why does it always get so complicated every time Apple try to reinvent simplicity?
Just ask my wife. She's convinced her 8mp phone camera is better than my 6mp DSLR.
'fixed' (ie. 'broken') focus, no lens cover so it's always coated in grease, CA up the wazoo, enough flash power to only highlight the grease on the lens.
pfft, just copy and paste the number.
It doesn't get any more basic than that, does it?
Tell me about the King Kong defence. Please compare and contrast it to the Chewbacca defence, to provide an adequate frame of reference.
I've got big issues with artifically crippled software, where all versions come on the same install media.
It's like buying a car with 12 cylinders and having a switch hidden under the hood somewhere that controls the number of cylinders used. You buy the budget model, still have to cart around the weight of all 12 cylinders, but only get to use 4 of them.
TV is a luxury item, absolutely non-essential. So why is the government paying for people to be able to receive TV?
The people who should be paying for it are the TV companies, and the advertisers, ie. those who profit from millions of slack-jawed yokels staring at the tube all day.
Fundamentally, the guovernment seems to be guaranteeing access to TV for all. So what if you don't own one, should they provide you with a unit? Or if yours breaks down, should they pay to repair it?
I just don't get how and why the gov't got involved.
Here in Australia, politicians are having the same debate.