By international agreement, absolute zero is defined as precisely 0 K on the Kelvin scale, which is a thermodynamic (absolute) temperature scale, and -273.15 degrees on the Celsius scale. Absolute zero is also precisely equivalent to 0 degrees R on the Rankine scale (also a thermodynamic temperature scale), and -459.67 degrees on the Fahrenheit scale.
I was there, too. The coolest it got was approximately -242 degrees C; the warmest was approximately -218 degreesC, at least while I was watching.
The party was the XtremeSystems.org party at its LV headquarters, and it was sponsored primarily by AMD, DFI, Gigabyte, Cooler Master, and Thermaltake. It seems to me that Commodore had a presence there, too.
They could host the videos themselves, use another site that doesn't use cookies, or use an alternative version of YouTube's creation that would not use cookies.
There are lots of options, this is simply the easiest.
I thought about it some more (haven't checked the video yet).
If I recall correctly, she did say that her daughter was away at a summer camp and called, saying she'd sent several pieces of mail on different days. Wolf didn't receive any of this mail for weeks, and when she did receive it, all of it was visibly opened by a letter opener or other device (i.e. it wasn't mangled by the scanner). A neighbor or friend's daughter was there, too, and that person received her daughter's mail immediately.
Didn't Naomi Wolf, author of The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot say that she had significant evidence that she was being bugged and her mail being intercepted? I distinctly recall hearing her say this at the Revolution March in DC on July 12, 2008.
I think I got it on video--I'll have to find the video tonight and put it on YouTube.
There's one band in particular whose entire discography I downloaded. I couldn't find anyone who has the CDs and the previews on Amazon were insufficient. Within a month, I liked it so much that I wanted to have higher-quality, lossless rips and to support the band, so I bought every album the band, and have bought every one since.
I know I'm certainly in the minority in my desire to support the band for its efforts, but there are more people out there like me.
Right on. A switch from income tax, including capital gains and inheritance taxes, to a sales tax is the only way to ensure that the government gets its taxes.
The fair tax reduces the points of failure. Each entity (person, company, etc.) who pays tax is a point of failure: if an entity neglects to pay taxes, the government loses money (of course, the government can choose to pursue that entity for tax evasion, but that requires that more money be spent on forcibly collecting taxes).
By removing individuals and families from tax responsibilities, there are few points of failure, i.e. only entities which sell something (goods, services, etc.) actually pay tax. Of course, the purchaser—the individuals and families, plus other businesses—pays for that sales tax directly, and is thus still a tax payer, so they can still use the excuse to their elected officials, "I'm a taxpayer, listen to me."
In this way, we also collect tax from illegal aliens, legal resident aliens, and foreign visitors, who don't pay any taxes except local and state sales taxes on the things they (don't) buy.
It's also a far better stimulus than any package Congress could ever pass. These stimulus packages might trickle down so we taxpayers see $300-$600 per person, tops $1500. Imagine not paying any federal income tax. For me, that's another $10,000 in my pocket per year. I could turn around and spend more money on actual goods and services, which would have tax on them, and the government would probably make $6,000 of that back in sales taxes.
Combine my savings with the additional sales tax gains from the aforementioned people, plus the high-class folks who spend more in a day than I make in a year, and everyone is paying their share according to what they buy!
People are given an incentive to save, to build up their nest egg so they can spend more down the line.
It's not a perfect system—I would like to see federal taxes abolished altogether and the federal government get its operating budget from the states (300 million points of failure to perhaps ~25 million points of failure, to 50 points of failure). However, it's certainly a start.
I would say yes, game demos can kill a game for these reasons:
Folks play the demo and realize they probably won't like the game
Folks play the demo and have "had enough," feeling no need to purchase the full version
Folks play the demo and realize their system can't handle it, so they'll wait until they have a new system that can handle it (and by then have forgotten about the game
If you can try before you buy, of course sales are going to go down. Those who buy include those who tried and liked and those who didn't try but gave it a shot in the dark. The publisher/developer isn't really going to care what the user's opinion of the game is after the sale, lest a patch break the game or something like that.
A buyer of a game may or may not tell others about that game, and if he or she does tell others, he may support a purchase or warn against the purchase.
Demos serve a primary purpose: a test drive. If you like it, buy it and use it more. If you don't like it, don't buy it.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
This will certainly test the amendment not unlike a toothpick tests against a hurricane.
Windows 7 still doesn't have virtual desktops. OSX has had them for a few releases and every major desktop environment for Linux has had them since the beginning.
If Twitter is smart, it will end its auth api or modify it so that folks have to go to twitter to authorize an application. This is the way that Facebook, Yahoo, and OpenID do it, as well.
IANAL. I think the murky issue is the licensing. If Capitol Records put the mp3s on some site and said, "Come get free mp3s" and didn't have any terms or conditions, what's a reasonable assumption? Those mp3s are downloadable and distributable by everyone and anyone? Or that only consumers are permitted to download them? Without a license or terms of use/download, it's unclear to me.
IANAL. I think I can summarize the patent like this: a system which displays the player's avatar and a limited number of other players' avatar based on virtual presence, plus the server software which tells the client what to display.
I would think that depending on the interpretation of "display", this patent could be invalidated by any text-based MUD. I could easily display the location of other players avatars, and I'm sure there's a MUD out there which could render the character's image in ASCII text.
Exactly. The consumer will direct the market based on the availability of competing, cheaper services.
The $200 billion that the telecoms got in the 1990s to wire America was squandered, and very little was actually done with it (arguably kept prices for existing services at the same level instead of having them go up, but not more than that).
This is where municipal government--boroughs, villages, city sections--could play a hand in essentially buying groups--"aggregate individual choices"-- for broadband service, but still allow residents to choose their own provider.
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I have yet to hear/see a rational reason why marijuana is still illegal.
Both I and Wikipedia disagree (edited to make the degrees and negatives display correctly):
I was there, too. The coolest it got was approximately -242 degrees C; the warmest was approximately -218 degreesC, at least while I was watching.
The party was the XtremeSystems.org party at its LV headquarters, and it was sponsored primarily by AMD, DFI, Gigabyte, Cooler Master, and Thermaltake. It seems to me that Commodore had a presence there, too.
See ThinkComputers' blog for some more pictures (disclosure: my article).
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In Soviet Russia, operating systems develop YOU!
They could host the videos themselves, use another site that doesn't use cookies, or use an alternative version of YouTube's creation that would not use cookies.
There are lots of options, this is simply the easiest.
I thought about it some more (haven't checked the video yet).
If I recall correctly, she did say that her daughter was away at a summer camp and called, saying she'd sent several pieces of mail on different days. Wolf didn't receive any of this mail for weeks, and when she did receive it, all of it was visibly opened by a letter opener or other device (i.e. it wasn't mangled by the scanner). A neighbor or friend's daughter was there, too, and that person received her daughter's mail immediately.
Didn't Naomi Wolf, author of The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot say that she had significant evidence that she was being bugged and her mail being intercepted? I distinctly recall hearing her say this at the Revolution March in DC on July 12, 2008.
I think I got it on video--I'll have to find the video tonight and put it on YouTube.
There's one band in particular whose entire discography I downloaded. I couldn't find anyone who has the CDs and the previews on Amazon were insufficient. Within a month, I liked it so much that I wanted to have higher-quality, lossless rips and to support the band, so I bought every album the band, and have bought every one since.
I know I'm certainly in the minority in my desire to support the band for its efforts, but there are more people out there like me.
Right on. A switch from income tax, including capital gains and inheritance taxes, to a sales tax is the only way to ensure that the government gets its taxes.
The fair tax reduces the points of failure. Each entity (person, company, etc.) who pays tax is a point of failure: if an entity neglects to pay taxes, the government loses money (of course, the government can choose to pursue that entity for tax evasion, but that requires that more money be spent on forcibly collecting taxes).
By removing individuals and families from tax responsibilities, there are few points of failure, i.e. only entities which sell something (goods, services, etc.) actually pay tax. Of course, the purchaser—the individuals and families, plus other businesses—pays for that sales tax directly, and is thus still a tax payer, so they can still use the excuse to their elected officials, "I'm a taxpayer, listen to me."
In this way, we also collect tax from illegal aliens, legal resident aliens, and foreign visitors, who don't pay any taxes except local and state sales taxes on the things they (don't) buy.
It's also a far better stimulus than any package Congress could ever pass. These stimulus packages might trickle down so we taxpayers see $300-$600 per person, tops $1500. Imagine not paying any federal income tax. For me, that's another $10,000 in my pocket per year. I could turn around and spend more money on actual goods and services, which would have tax on them, and the government would probably make $6,000 of that back in sales taxes.
Combine my savings with the additional sales tax gains from the aforementioned people, plus the high-class folks who spend more in a day than I make in a year, and everyone is paying their share according to what they buy!
People are given an incentive to save, to build up their nest egg so they can spend more down the line.
It's not a perfect system—I would like to see federal taxes abolished altogether and the federal government get its operating budget from the states (300 million points of failure to perhaps ~25 million points of failure, to 50 points of failure). However, it's certainly a start.
I would say yes, game demos can kill a game for these reasons:
If you can try before you buy, of course sales are going to go down. Those who buy include those who tried and liked and those who didn't try but gave it a shot in the dark. The publisher/developer isn't really going to care what the user's opinion of the game is after the sale, lest a patch break the game or something like that.
A buyer of a game may or may not tell others about that game, and if he or she does tell others, he may support a purchase or warn against the purchase.
Demos serve a primary purpose: a test drive. If you like it, buy it and use it more. If you don't like it, don't buy it.
Computer...yep.
Notebook...yep.
Bacon...yep.
Coat...yep.
Lamp...yep.
Prostitute...ehhh...yep.
Congressional Seat and Vote...hmm...nope.
Can you go a year without DRM?
http://www.yearwithoutdrm.com/
This will certainly test the amendment not unlike a toothpick tests against a hurricane.
I think he'll go for a walk.
Windows 7 still doesn't have virtual desktops. OSX has had them for a few releases and every major desktop environment for Linux has had them since the beginning.
Domain phishing like the access-urls thing in the article picture could be best fixed by ssl logins...
If Twitter is smart, it will end its auth api or modify it so that folks have to go to twitter to authorize an application. This is the way that Facebook, Yahoo, and OpenID do it, as well.
IANAL. I think the murky issue is the licensing. If Capitol Records put the mp3s on some site and said, "Come get free mp3s" and didn't have any terms or conditions, what's a reasonable assumption? Those mp3s are downloadable and distributable by everyone and anyone? Or that only consumers are permitted to download them? Without a license or terms of use/download, it's unclear to me.
I sooo hope this is related to the DRM on the device. That would totally make my day/year, as well as that of every other anti-DRM person.
http://www.gnupg.org/
One could also consider that the most prevalent restraint system for humans—gravity—was also a factor.
On Google Patent Search: 7,181,690.
IANAL. I think I can summarize the patent like this: a system which displays the player's avatar and a limited number of other players' avatar based on virtual presence, plus the server software which tells the client what to display.
I would think that depending on the interpretation of "display", this patent could be invalidated by any text-based MUD. I could easily display the location of other players avatars, and I'm sure there's a MUD out there which could render the character's image in ASCII text.
Exactly. The consumer will direct the market based on the availability of competing, cheaper services.
The $200 billion that the telecoms got in the 1990s to wire America was squandered, and very little was actually done with it (arguably kept prices for existing services at the same level instead of having them go up, but not more than that).
This is where municipal government--boroughs, villages, city sections--could play a hand in essentially buying groups--"aggregate individual choices"-- for broadband service, but still allow residents to choose their own provider.
If RIM had a division in California, they could hire anyone they wanted since California law essentially forbids non-compete clauses.
There was a recent Slashdot discussion about this when a Former IBM Exec Ordered To Stop Working For Apple.