Which kind of reminds me, instead of purchasing works directly, this could a several magnitudes of an order more free stuff if the guy decides to "purchase" a few key senators and representatives to fix some of that legislation Disney&Co have pushed through over the years.....
In his ruling yesterday, Judge Michael Fysh found that Lik-Sang - which offered Japanese PSPs to European consumers via its website - was in breach of intellectual property rights.
I'm not buying Sony anyway, but how would I (as the US is going in the same direction) change things here? I wish I could "vote with my wallet" on politicians and their policies, but the IRS does not take kindly to the most effective way of doing that. The best I can do is support other politicians, most of whom will break their promises to the common man once in office and side with the corporations.
Moving out of the country won't matter, the US and other nations are strongarming everyone else to comply. How can we change things for the better, because this ruling seems completely out of line with basic freedom and capitalism.
Tying it to a franchise is no guarantee of failure or success, just that more people will be aware of it and receptive to it.
A movie still has to be good in it's own right to succeed. Many filmmakers/studios seem to forget that, stick the entire budget into buying the rights, and then fail to get a decent writer/director/actors for it.
Dell sells in two weeks what Apple sells in a year.
Apple has 4.6% market share versus Dell's 16.5%. I'm sure I could find more precise figures of actual computers shipped, but it seems it would take dell roughly 14.5 weeks to make the same amount of computer shipments that Apple does in a year.
"The Round Rock, Texas-based PC maker saw shipments rise worldwide by 10.2 percent from the first quarter of 2005, resulting in a decline in market share from 16.9 percent to 16.5 percent."
This used to be the standard advice given when Apple was ailing in the 90's. Back then it was slightly different, as they were suggesting that Apple license out their OS and let others handle the hardware side.
But controlling the hardware is good for Apple. When none of the PC manufacturers jumped onto USB, Apple did. The same with Firewire.
This is why hardware is good for Apple. Because they can innovate like that with the least amount of Red Tape.
Without hardware, they would not have had their successes no matter how awesome Mac OS X - iPod, iMac, their notebooks in general.
Hell, I think they should produce more hardware - like a Newton successor, preferably something small and that can slide into a PCMIA slot to do the syncing and charging.
Anybody who suggests Apple gets out of hardware is smoking something. And it's not the good stuff either.
O/T: I still do not understand the obsession people have with anime. What do the Japanese know about making shitty cartoons that we don't?
Oh, I agree. We know about as more (I'd say even more) about making shitty cartoons than the japanese.
It's in the area of good ones we need catching up.
(BTW, the answer here begins in the attitude. Here, it's cartoons, as in primarily for kids, there it is an accepted medium for all kinds of entertainment.)
Lest people think that Eugenics could only happened under the Nazis, various mental health places in America and other countries were practicing forms of it until the 1960-70s with practices like sterilizing the mentally handicapped:
"Despite the changed postwar attitude towards eugenics in the U.S. and some European countries, a few nations, notably, Canada and Sweden, maintained large-scale eugenics programs, including forced sterilization of mentally handicapped individuals, as well as other practices, until the 1970s. In the United States, sterilizations capped off in the 1960s, though the eugenics movement had largely lost most popular and political support by the end of the 1930s.[27]"
If you ever watched "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", there seems to have been other practices (Lobotomy) that lived until recently as well that seem barbaric today....
You realize that you are still relying on labeling in this case ("organic"), and relying on federal guidelines to meet the definition of that label (I suppose organic has federal guidelines, like the other things like the meaning of "light", "diet", etcetera - otherwise a manufacturer is free to define it themselves which makes it essentially meaningless).
I never used photoshop and I'm hardly a professional, but the other program I use is PhotoImpact. Easy operations in PhotoImpact can be done in Gimp, but to me, even after several years using it, is that it's just counterintuitive or just not intuitive at all.
In Photoimpact, I just explored and found what I was looking for, in Gimp, I have to look everything up. It could be easier, but then maybe, I'm not the target audience.
I do this and this is the best she can do: have a private (like Gmail, from what I have seen, they have the best filters) account only given to trusted friends with the instructions that they never give it out to anyone else, and an open account to give out to anybody else, including various sign-ups. If she is careful, she will have no problems on the one account. If she is not. Well....... she will see that even google can't stop spam for her.
I don't think there is much you can do with such a stubborn person: but next time she calls you incompetent, ask her if she has ever recieves junkmail in her snailmail and why it all isn't eradicated yet.
Yes, BMI makes no fat/muscle distinction and recognizes a body builder as "obese." (BTW, how much weight do you gain to go from "normal" to "obese"? Because there is an "overweight" level between, under 30 BMI IIRC).
But I think it is safe to say, that the overall trend is that people with a higher BMI have a higher fat %.
I know, from personal experience, when I'm significantly thinner, my brain is less occupied with food. I feel mentally and physically faster. Of course, more studies are necessary to make an actual link or whether my anecdotal evidence is just that.
Of course 1st class letters are dropping, who sends letters these days besides junkmail and bills? Not many. I can only think of birthday/holiday/invitation cards being the only regular use these days.
But the sending of priority mail and boxes must be up with ebay and all that. I wish the post office opened more small kiosks around the place, in strip malls, supermarkets and such, every time I go into a main branch it is a long wait. It would be profitable for them, especially as they are cheaper than the competition.
Oh, I know it happening to friends who didn't know better, but if you want a cited case, I can give you enough without looking to far on google, here's one:
That seems very hard because they are arbitrary/relative in every situation.
Regularly, you wouldn't pound on a guy's chest. But if they meant to save humans in trouble, they'd have to give the heimlich manuever to a choking man and CPR to a man pulled out of the pool and not breathing - both acts which can break ribs, etcetera - thus being acts they can't perform lightly.
One shouldn't have to explain the reason for having cash on their person. Europeans regularly have more cash on them because it makes them feel more secure while in America it's normal to run to the ATM before buying a $10 Pizza, unless they use their credit card.
It's just a cultural difference. Maybe it mainly stems from the fact that here the police can consider you a drug pusher if you have $X,000 on you and confiscate said monies without any other proof. Then you have to prove it was yours to get it back. You know, guilty until proven innocent.
In 200 years will an antique 20th century reproduction of a 19th century masterpiece be worth much less than the original?
Um, yes. "Fake" or "reproduction" paintings are nothing new. Throughout the ages, many students of art copied the old masters just to get better at their craft.
This is not to impact your point as a whole, but I just thought this particular line weakened it. Anybody who buys a reproduction Van Gogh as such for their living room is obviously not concerned about the value 200 years from now.
taught me that short and to the point works, under 2 pages, is preferred. Incidentally, my English professor shares this same attitude about good writing (using the book "On Writing Well" by Zinsser).
My experience bore this out. Of course, a resume is only to get a foot in the door. You can use (or prospective future employees) can bypass that step and use contacts to land an interview.
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And it would have the benefit of actually motivating people going and voting (to help win their bet).
Which kind of reminds me, instead of purchasing works directly, this could a several magnitudes of an order more free stuff if the guy decides to "purchase" a few key senators and representatives to fix some of that legislation Disney&Co have pushed through over the years.....
I'm not buying Sony anyway, but how would I (as the US is going in the same direction) change things here? I wish I could "vote with my wallet" on politicians and their policies, but the IRS does not take kindly to the most effective way of doing that. The best I can do is support other politicians, most of whom will break their promises to the common man once in office and side with the corporations.
Moving out of the country won't matter, the US and other nations are strongarming everyone else to comply. How can we change things for the better, because this ruling seems completely out of line with basic freedom and capitalism.
Tying it to a franchise is no guarantee of failure or success, just that more people will be aware of it and receptive to it.
A movie still has to be good in it's own right to succeed. Many filmmakers/studios seem to forget that, stick the entire budget into buying the rights, and then fail to get a decent writer/director/actors for it.
Though phasing out those technologies is a good thing longterm for the user as well.
Trying to connect devices other than a printer on the serial part always drove me nuts and USB seems more reliable here.
Not to mention that floppy hung around forever..... I'm glad it got it's death blow finally a few years back.
No, he wasn't.
Apple has 4.6% market share versus Dell's 16.5%. I'm sure I could find more precise figures of actual computers shipped, but it seems it would take dell roughly 14.5 weeks to make the same amount of computer shipments that Apple does in a year.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/print.htm?T
"Apple increased its share of the PC market to around 4.6 percent in July this year, according to analyst figures."
http://news.com.com/PC+shipments+up,+but+Dell+los
"The Round Rock, Texas-based PC maker saw shipments rise worldwide by 10.2 percent from the first quarter of 2005, resulting in a decline in market share from 16.9 percent to 16.5 percent."
This used to be the standard advice given when Apple was ailing in the 90's. Back then it was slightly different, as they were suggesting that Apple license out their OS and let others handle the hardware side.
But controlling the hardware is good for Apple. When none of the PC manufacturers jumped onto USB, Apple did. The same with Firewire.
This is why hardware is good for Apple. Because they can innovate like that with the least amount of Red Tape.
Without hardware, they would not have had their successes no matter how awesome Mac OS X - iPod, iMac, their notebooks in general.
Hell, I think they should produce more hardware - like a Newton successor, preferably something small and that can slide into a PCMIA slot to do the syncing and charging.
Anybody who suggests Apple gets out of hardware is smoking something. And it's not the good stuff either.
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him"
-Cardinal Richelieu (French Minister and Cardinal. 1585-1642)
Oh, I agree. We know about as more (I'd say even more) about making shitty cartoons than the japanese.
It's in the area of good ones we need catching up.
(BTW, the answer here begins in the attitude. Here, it's cartoons, as in primarily for kids, there it is an accepted medium for all kinds of entertainment.)
DNA Powered Computer?
Must resist pron masturbation infinite energy loop joke..... must resist....
Lest people think that Eugenics could only happened under the Nazis, various mental health places in America and other countries were practicing forms of it until the 1960-70s with practices like sterilizing the mentally handicapped:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics#Eugenics_an
"Despite the changed postwar attitude towards eugenics in the U.S. and some European countries, a few nations, notably, Canada and Sweden, maintained large-scale eugenics programs, including forced sterilization of mentally handicapped individuals, as well as other practices, until the 1970s. In the United States, sterilizations capped off in the 1960s, though the eugenics movement had largely lost most popular and political support by the end of the 1930s.[27]"
If you ever watched "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", there seems to have been other practices (Lobotomy) that lived until recently as well that seem barbaric today....
But the Xbox Post Millenium Edition will be just like the previous release, just buggier.
You realize that you are still relying on labeling in this case ("organic"), and relying on federal guidelines to meet the definition of that label (I suppose organic has federal guidelines, like the other things like the meaning of "light", "diet", etcetera - otherwise a manufacturer is free to define it themselves which makes it essentially meaningless).
I never used photoshop and I'm hardly a professional, but the other program I use is PhotoImpact. Easy operations in PhotoImpact can be done in Gimp, but to me, even after several years using it, is that it's just counterintuitive or just not intuitive at all.
In Photoimpact, I just explored and found what I was looking for, in Gimp, I have to look everything up. It could be easier, but then maybe, I'm not the target audience.
I agree.
I do this and this is the best she can do: have a private (like Gmail, from what I have seen, they have the best filters) account only given to trusted friends with the instructions that they never give it out to anyone else, and an open account to give out to anybody else, including various sign-ups. If she is careful, she will have no problems on the one account. If she is not. Well....... she will see that even google can't stop spam for her.
I don't think there is much you can do with such a stubborn person: but next time she calls you incompetent, ask her if she has ever recieves junkmail in her snailmail and why it all isn't eradicated yet.
As far as I can tell, neither does Wikipedia:)
You are a single data point.
Yes, BMI makes no fat/muscle distinction and recognizes a body builder as "obese." (BTW, how much weight do you gain to go from "normal" to "obese"? Because there is an "overweight" level between, under 30 BMI IIRC).
But I think it is safe to say, that the overall trend is that people with a higher BMI have a higher fat %.
I know, from personal experience, when I'm significantly thinner, my brain is less occupied with food. I feel mentally and physically faster. Of course, more studies are necessary to make an actual link or whether my anecdotal evidence is just that.
Will he rap in it?
http://www.mchawking.com/
Of course 1st class letters are dropping, who sends letters these days besides junkmail and bills? Not many. I can only think of birthday/holiday/invitation cards being the only regular use these days.
But the sending of priority mail and boxes must be up with ebay and all that. I wish the post office opened more small kiosks around the place, in strip malls, supermarkets and such, every time I go into a main branch it is a long wait. It would be profitable for them, especially as they are cheaper than the competition.
Oh, I know it happening to friends who didn't know better, but if you want a cited case, I can give you enough without looking to far on google, here's one:
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http://www.aclu.org/police/forfeit/14599prs200011
How would you program the laws of robotics?
That seems very hard because they are arbitrary/relative in every situation.
Regularly, you wouldn't pound on a guy's chest. But if they meant to save humans in trouble, they'd have to give the heimlich manuever to a choking man and CPR to a man pulled out of the pool and not breathing - both acts which can break ribs, etcetera - thus being acts they can't perform lightly.
One shouldn't have to explain the reason for having cash on their person. Europeans regularly have more cash on them because it makes them feel more secure while in America it's normal to run to the ATM before buying a $10 Pizza, unless they use their credit card.
It's just a cultural difference. Maybe it mainly stems from the fact that here the police can consider you a drug pusher if you have $X,000 on you and confiscate said monies without any other proof. Then you have to prove it was yours to get it back. You know, guilty until proven innocent.
Um, yes. "Fake" or "reproduction" paintings are nothing new. Throughout the ages, many students of art copied the old masters just to get better at their craft.
This is not to impact your point as a whole, but I just thought this particular line weakened it. Anybody who buys a reproduction Van Gogh as such for their living room is obviously not concerned about the value 200 years from now.
taught me that short and to the point works, under 2 pages, is preferred. Incidentally, my English professor shares this same attitude about good writing (using the book "On Writing Well" by Zinsser).
My experience bore this out. Of course, a resume is only to get a foot in the door. You can use (or prospective future employees) can bypass that step and use contacts to land an interview.