That it's worth saving to someone doesn't mean that their slowing down the emergency disembarkment is worth the lives of the people killed by that selfish act.
Which is why on every flight anywhere, everyone is explicitly instructed not to take any items with them at evacuation.
I'm with GP.
The difference between stereographic 3D as compared to 48 FPS or surround sound is that the two latter successfully make the presentation more like real life - increasing the immersion. A "real" 3D solution would do the same, but when your eyes need to change how they focus, and frequently find that focusing no longer works - immersion is gone. Therein lies the gimmickness and the failureness for those of us who have issues with this tech. No amount of quality workmanship can change that - although well executed stereoscopic 3D is a lot less painful than poorly executed stereoscopic 3D.
Stereo cinematogrophy does _not_ magically give the director or cinematographer the ability to make me look at exacly what they want me to see. But unfortunately, it makes them believe that, so they make frequent use of it. As a result, whenever you happen to look somewhere else, your brain goes "OMG, I'M GOING BLIND". Now, maybe for some people that holds entertainment value, but I prefer to not support a medium in which directors and cinematographers use negative reinforcement to teach the audience to view their work EXACTLY as they intend it.
It is beyond me how americans can complain about gas prices. In Sweden people pay more than twice as much, and everyone seems to be fine with it. On top of that, americans have even more money to spend than do swedes. So, are americans cheap, or just spoiled?
Neither. We're just a terribly spread-out and need lots of fuel.
Your fuel consumption has nothing to do with the size of your country. It is caused simply by a lack of (willingness to introduce) any form of requirements for providing commercial facilities alongside new residential developments, combined with the general mindset that you need a car to get anywhere that this has produced.
My Czech friend's parents marveled constantly while here about how distant everything was from everything else. "You need to drive just to get a loaf of bread?" Yep.
This is where you have a point: the combination of urban sprawl and lack of (use of) public transit means you need to do many short trips.
But that doesn't mean I agree with grandparent... obviously the price of anything increasing that much over such a short period of time is painful.
I don't think Europeans understand just how large the USA relative to Europe and how less populated it is (perhaps a result of seeing Mercator projection maps that exaggerate Europe's size).
I don't think you understand that Europe is a fairly large group of sovereign nations, of wildly different geographical size and layout. Sweden has a population density of 20.6/km2, yet is larger than California (population density 93.3/km2). Certainly people commute comparable distances around Stockholm to what people do around Silicon Valley.
Consider this: the distance from San Diego, California, USA to Bangor, Maine, USA is greater than the distance from Stockholm, Sweden to Delhi, India.
And how many times per year do you usually drive from San Diego to Bangor?
Yes, the US is a huge country, but that is unrelated. People in the US tend to fly instead.
The peace prize is not a scientific award, not awarded by the same committee and not even handed out at the same ceremony, or indeed in the same country.
The only commonality is that it was also created by Alfred Nobel, allegedly to compensate for the "unexpected" uses of dynamite.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize
WMV9 is the one that has the nice "feature" where it will open up a browser window and load an arbitary page from the web simply by trying to view a movie.
Yes, you have described what law enforcement agencies can already do (and have been able to to since at least 1997).
Why does this mean it's a good thing for parents to go all Big Brother (Orwell kind) on their kids?
Then again - it's more expensive for both the record stores and the RIAA-members if you simply return the defective album to the store for a refund.
I usually ask the staff at the store if I can return the album if it turns out it wasn't a CD. If they say no, I don't buy it (and probably never go back to that store).
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That it's worth saving to someone doesn't mean that their slowing down the emergency disembarkment is worth the lives of the people killed by that selfish act. Which is why on every flight anywhere, everyone is explicitly instructed not to take any items with them at evacuation. I'm with GP.
Is the mandatory homeplug encryption scheme that poor, or were you simply unaware of its existence? Your statement makes either possibility an option.
The difference between stereographic 3D as compared to 48 FPS or surround sound is that the two latter successfully make the presentation more like real life - increasing the immersion. A "real" 3D solution would do the same, but when your eyes need to change how they focus, and frequently find that focusing no longer works - immersion is gone. Therein lies the gimmickness and the failureness for those of us who have issues with this tech. No amount of quality workmanship can change that - although well executed stereoscopic 3D is a lot less painful than poorly executed stereoscopic 3D.
Stereo cinematogrophy does _not_ magically give the director or cinematographer the ability to make me look at exacly what they want me to see. But unfortunately, it makes them believe that, so they make frequent use of it. As a result, whenever you happen to look somewhere else, your brain goes "OMG, I'M GOING BLIND". Now, maybe for some people that holds entertainment value, but I prefer to not support a medium in which directors and cinematographers use negative reinforcement to teach the audience to view their work EXACTLY as they intend it.
It is beyond me how americans can complain about gas prices. In Sweden people pay more than twice as much, and everyone seems to be fine with it. On top of that, americans have even more money to spend than do swedes. So, are americans cheap, or just spoiled?
Neither. We're just a terribly spread-out and need lots of fuel.
Your fuel consumption has nothing to do with the size of your country. It is caused simply by a lack of (willingness to introduce) any form of requirements for providing commercial facilities alongside new residential developments, combined with the general mindset that you need a car to get anywhere that this has produced.
My Czech friend's parents marveled constantly while here about how distant everything was from everything else. "You need to drive just to get a loaf of bread?" Yep.
This is where you have a point: the combination of urban sprawl and lack of (use of) public transit means you need to do many short trips. But that doesn't mean I agree with grandparent ... obviously the price of anything increasing that much over such a short period of time is painful.
I don't think Europeans understand just how large the USA relative to Europe and how less populated it is (perhaps a result of seeing Mercator projection maps that exaggerate Europe's size).
I don't think you understand that Europe is a fairly large group of sovereign nations, of wildly different geographical size and layout. Sweden has a population density of 20.6/km2, yet is larger than California (population density 93.3/km2). Certainly people commute comparable distances around Stockholm to what people do around Silicon Valley.
Consider this: the distance from San Diego, California, USA to Bangor, Maine, USA is greater than the distance from Stockholm, Sweden to Delhi, India.
And how many times per year do you usually drive from San Diego to Bangor? Yes, the US is a huge country, but that is unrelated. People in the US tend to fly instead.
Which is why there are secret tribunals.
The peace prize is not a scientific award, not awarded by the same committee and not even handed out at the same ceremony, or indeed in the same country. The only commonality is that it was also created by Alfred Nobel, allegedly to compensate for the "unexpected" uses of dynamite. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize
Yes, you have described what law enforcement agencies can already do (and have been able to to since at least 1997). Why does this mean it's a good thing for parents to go all Big Brother (Orwell kind) on their kids?
Then again - it's more expensive for both the record stores and the RIAA-members if you simply return the defective album to the store for a refund.
;)
I usually ask the staff at the store if I can return the album if it turns out it wasn't a CD.
If they say no, I don't buy it (and probably never go back to that store).
They can hardly claim I copied it, right?
A different implementation with a (flash) demo on site:
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http://www.spacecoin.com/en/
No ecash - just your plain old currency.
Of course, you probably shouldn't trust me since i spent a few months at the beginning of this year programming on it (as a consultant)
There have been some discussions lately about Swedish newspapers using this system for their online publications.