It is to the eternal dismay of record executives worldwide that there's no way for them to let you hear a song (to encourage you to buy it) without the possibility of you hearing it multiple times for free.
Singles these days get so much repeated airplay for so many weeks on the radio that by the time they're actually available to buy legally, by any means, I'm sick to death of hearing them. This is actually a good idea, though it will doubtless result in less "successful" singles (chart-wise) because the purchases will be spread over a longer period, as opposed to the usual first week rush.
Maybe because the Placebo and Nocebo effects have been repeatedly shown to exist in rigorously controlled double-blind scientific studies, we just don't really understand the mechanism by which they operate, whereas people saying that they use their psychic powers to cure people never stand up under rigorously controlled double-blind scientific studies?
To put it another way; just because taking a homoeopathic remedy gets rid of your headache doesn't mean that homoeopathic remedies work, because taking a sugar pill that you've been *told* was a homoeopathic remedy for headaches would have the same effect.
I'm not sure what you're saying here; are you saying that we shouldn't wish well those who are being raped and killed? Or that we shouldn't wish well those who are rich and successful? Or that we shouldn't have news stories about significant events in the life of multinational tech companies?
Or is it simply a case of the usual "You're doing X while more important thing Y is happening, so you're a bad person"?
Your house is not the world. Sometimes it snows over your house, but that doesn't mean it's snowing over my house. It might even be sunny over my house.
Frankly you'd have to be a special kind of stupid to claim that global temperature averages aren't on the increase. That it's all our fault and we're all going to die? I'm still waiting to be convinced.
Not only that, it's pretty much exactly what Andrew Wakefield did; find a bunch of kids with autism, look for common factors, conclude that any common factors must be the cause of autism.
That's something I'd like to know as a UK customer of Vodafone; certainly some of their back end infrastructure is shared across regions as their web-based account management is universally badly designed and subject to frequent and random failures if their various national support forums are anything to go by,
Ah, the classic "We never claimed that [discredited evidence] supported our position, you must have been imagining things. *hastily edits old articles*" approach.
Steam is currently selling BF:BC2 for £19.99; when it was released back in May it was £39.99, so while it's going for £12.99 on Amazon & Play, it's still halved in price on Steam since its release (and it was available for under a tenner during the Christmas sales).
I guess it's a trade-off; on the one hand, you get slightly higher prices on new-ish games unless you're willing to wait for special offers (though to be fair Steam usually do pre-order discounts on new titles), but to counter that you get cheap access to older games that simply wouldn't be sold in traditional stores because it's not profitable to keep copies lying unsold around just in case someone wants it.
That said, one of the most useful "features" Steam have added of late is automatic notification if any of the games on your wishlist are on sale - it makes it much harder to miss special offers on things you want.
But if you're still here then you can't actually know stuff, therefore your comment can't be taken as accurate, which means that the people who actually know stuff must still be here!
But then that would mean that you could be one of the people who know stuff...
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It is to the eternal dismay of record executives worldwide that there's no way for them to let you hear a song (to encourage you to buy it) without the possibility of you hearing it multiple times for free.
Singles these days get so much repeated airplay for so many weeks on the radio that by the time they're actually available to buy legally, by any means, I'm sick to death of hearing them. This is actually a good idea, though it will doubtless result in less "successful" singles (chart-wise) because the purchases will be spread over a longer period, as opposed to the usual first week rush.
Maybe because the Placebo and Nocebo effects have been repeatedly shown to exist in rigorously controlled double-blind scientific studies, we just don't really understand the mechanism by which they operate, whereas people saying that they use their psychic powers to cure people never stand up under rigorously controlled double-blind scientific studies?
To put it another way; just because taking a homoeopathic remedy gets rid of your headache doesn't mean that homoeopathic remedies work, because taking a sugar pill that you've been *told* was a homoeopathic remedy for headaches would have the same effect.
At which point you might as well just have a Laptop.
I'm not sure what you're saying here; are you saying that we shouldn't wish well those who are being raped and killed? Or that we shouldn't wish well those who are rich and successful? Or that we shouldn't have news stories about significant events in the life of multinational tech companies?
Or is it simply a case of the usual "You're doing X while more important thing Y is happening, so you're a bad person"?
I'm not sure that a vending machine that is essentially playing Guess Who can be classified as having "Facial Recognition Technology".
The Immunet Community has over 0 members protected from 0 threats.
Whatever it is they do, the Immunet Community appears to rely too much on Javascript.
Linux can't fix stupid; there'd still be call for Trend Micro's services.
Your house is not the world. Sometimes it snows over your house, but that doesn't mean it's snowing over my house. It might even be sunny over my house.
Frankly you'd have to be a special kind of stupid to claim that global temperature averages aren't on the increase. That it's all our fault and we're all going to die? I'm still waiting to be convinced.
I'm sorry, I must have misheard that; did you just say that Flash works, universally, on all browsers?
Not only that, it's pretty much exactly what Andrew Wakefield did; find a bunch of kids with autism, look for common factors, conclude that any common factors must be the cause of autism.
That's something I'd like to know as a UK customer of Vodafone; certainly some of their back end infrastructure is shared across regions as their web-based account management is universally badly designed and subject to frequent and random failures if their various national support forums are anything to go by,
Yes, armed and ready to respond to her being shot, by which point she's already been shot.
Well duh, the people being taxed are Real Americans, whereas the people being detained are filthy treasonous terrorists who hate America.
Nah, the best option in these situations is always to print out the records and have them couriered to the government agency who requested them.
Generally, when the numbers are bigger...
...the conspiracy must be bigger?
Ah, the classic "We never claimed that [discredited evidence] supported our position, you must have been imagining things. *hastily edits old articles*" approach.
Steam is currently selling BF:BC2 for £19.99; when it was released back in May it was £39.99, so while it's going for £12.99 on Amazon & Play, it's still halved in price on Steam since its release (and it was available for under a tenner during the Christmas sales).
I guess it's a trade-off; on the one hand, you get slightly higher prices on new-ish games unless you're willing to wait for special offers (though to be fair Steam usually do pre-order discounts on new titles), but to counter that you get cheap access to older games that simply wouldn't be sold in traditional stores because it's not profitable to keep copies lying unsold around just in case someone wants it.
That said, one of the most useful "features" Steam have added of late is automatic notification if any of the games on your wishlist are on sale - it makes it much harder to miss special offers on things you want.
Or even Steam on the Mac, come to that.
He got the merit badge a long time ago, I'm pretty sure he's working on his asshat doctorate these days.
An initialism is not an acronym.
Doesn't work here in the UK, they'll just jail you for 5 years under RIPA for not disclosing your decryption key to the authorities.
If we hit that bullseye the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.
But if you're still here then you can't actually know stuff, therefore your comment can't be taken as accurate, which means that the people who actually know stuff must still be here!
But then that would mean that you could be one of the people who know stuff...
No, he's saying that if you own a PC then you're more likely to go around burgling other people.