You`ve already received one (rather charming) reply, which i mostly agree with. I`d also point out that after the year, you can often get a replacement phone cheap/free, depending on your average monthly bill.
So you dont think the government has figured out that to carry out monitoring with needing a warrant, all they need to do is set up ISPs, and just watch all the stuff that comes through on their own servers? After all, YOU dont need a warrant to read what passes through YOUR servers, right?
You dont think that could have anything to do with the availability of clean water, better food for parents/children than at times where the chances for infants was lower than today?
If homeopathic medicine doesnt work, and its just the placebo effect, then how come vets use it successfully to treat animals? Dont tell me - they`re susceptible to the placebo effect too, right? Some scary guy in a white jacket approaches them with a needle, sticks it into them, and they think `ah, this guy is obviously trying to help me! Must be a vet!`
`coercion` to me suggests someone being forced to do something against their will. This is the exact opposite - someone choosing to download some software, then choosing to install it, and choosing to NOT read the contract they are entering into. Its about as far from coercion as you could hope to be.
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), which publishes 30 per cent of all computer science journals worldwide, is to stop requiring authors to comply with a controversial US digital copyright law.
I didnt say the UK is the whole world - i just can`t be bothered to spend 5 mins on the net finding out where the XBox is cheaper than the PS2, and where its more expensive.
I`m not sure how you assess how important any given country is. But how are things in the `land of the free` these days? Ready for your next drugs test? Fill this flask please, theres a good boy!
"Though "more expensive" is debatable, it's equivalently priced in most places"
'More expensive' is not really that debatable! Its either more expensive, or its not. In the UK, the X-Box is more expensive.
"Even PS2 fanboy reviews will grudgingly admit that the Xbox has better tech under the hood"
Repeat after me - it doesnt matter about the tech - nobody buys consoles for the tech!
People said that about the N64 when it was N64 vs PSX1. Guess what!
People said it about the Atari Lynx when it was Lynx vs the black and white gameboy! A small, black and white, inferior machine against the colour might of the superior Lynx?! So, whens the Lynx Advance coming out then?
I promise you that you can count on the fingers of 1 hand the number of people who go `This one is more expensive, theres no games for it, but its got a Zarg20000 processor and 6ghz ram! I`m there, dude!`
gets there first. I`m sure, though i cant remember the title, that i read a book about concrete space-ships. The idea was that if it got hit by a missile/laser, it`d just crumble a little - it wouldnt be as noticable around the whole craft. Something like that. (I`m sure someone reading this knows exactly what i`m talking about!)
Yeah, probably, although my point was that stuff is cheaper in Japan than the States..or they have more disposable income. Its my understanding that people who are into games over there generally get all the consoles as they are released as a matter of course. You`d have to be a pretty hard-core gaming fan to do that in the UK!
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"Trouble was, they found that it was unreliable- it tended to think birds landing in flocks and groups were people appearing and disappearing"
So? Flocks of geese look like soviet nuclear missiles to radar operators - i didnt hear anyone complaining about that!
You`ve already received one (rather charming) reply, which i mostly agree with. I`d also point out that after the year, you can often get a replacement phone cheap/free, depending on your average monthly bill.
"That is, they can't sell it for less than the manufacturing costs"
What, you mean like mobile telephones?
Pink triangle?
http://www.pink-triangle.com/home.html
So you dont think the government has figured out that to carry out monitoring with needing a warrant, all they need to do is set up ISPs, and just watch all the stuff that comes through on their own servers? After all, YOU dont need a warrant to read what passes through YOUR servers, right?
"I`d really appreciate a link, a book title, a researcher's name, anything"
Sure. Will the Lancet do?
http://www.homeopathic.com/research/lancet.htm
You dont think that could have anything to do with the availability of clean water, better food for parents/children than at times where the chances for infants was lower than today?
Its as good to be sceptical of sceptics too!
If homeopathic medicine doesnt work, and its just the placebo effect, then how come vets use it successfully to treat animals? Dont tell me - they`re susceptible to the placebo effect too, right? Some scary guy in a white jacket approaches them with a needle, sticks it into them, and they think `ah, this guy is obviously trying to help me! Must be a vet!`
I believe Google can help you out there. You know how to use a search engine, right?
`coercion` to me suggests someone being forced to do something against their will. This is the exact opposite - someone choosing to download some software, then choosing to install it, and choosing to NOT read the contract they are entering into. Its about as far from coercion as you could hope to be.
"one aimed at everyone concerned about online terrorism in the post-9/11 climate"
"Hey, how are we going to flog this tedious book about computers?"
"Simple - put something about terrorists in it. Get me some clip art of a Arab looking guy with a gun or something."
is turning SlashDot into an Italic hell!
Article in New Scientist, available online (but with annoying popup ad) at
9 99 92169
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), which publishes 30 per cent of all computer science journals worldwide, is to stop requiring authors to comply with a controversial US digital copyright law.
What?! A non-American knocking the UK?! I dont believe it! :)
Ooh - touched a nerve?
I didnt say the UK is the whole world - i just can`t be bothered to spend 5 mins on the net finding out where the XBox is cheaper than the PS2, and where its more expensive.
I`m not sure how you assess how important any given country is. But how are things in the `land of the free` these days? Ready for your next drugs test? Fill this flask please, theres a good boy!
"Though "more expensive" is debatable, it's equivalently priced in most places"
'More expensive' is not really that debatable! Its either more expensive, or its not. In the UK, the X-Box is more expensive.
"Even PS2 fanboy reviews will grudgingly admit that the Xbox has better tech under the hood"
Repeat after me - it doesnt matter about the tech - nobody buys consoles for the tech!
People said that about the N64 when it was N64 vs PSX1. Guess what!
People said it about the Atari Lynx when it was Lynx vs the black and white gameboy! A small, black and white, inferior machine against the colour might of the superior Lynx?! So, whens the Lynx Advance coming out then?
I promise you that you can count on the fingers of 1 hand the number of people who go `This one is more expensive, theres no games for it, but its got a Zarg20000 processor and 6ghz ram! I`m there, dude!`
When they are E-books.
gets there first. I`m sure, though i cant remember the title, that i read a book about concrete space-ships. The idea was that if it got hit by a missile/laser, it`d just crumble a little - it wouldnt be as noticable around the whole craft. Something like that. (I`m sure someone reading this knows exactly what i`m talking about!)
Oh yes. The power of the DMCA is meaningless next to the awesome pressure authors can apply with a pithily worded hyperlink.
Yeah, probably, although my point was that stuff is cheaper in Japan than the States..or they have more disposable income. Its my understanding that people who are into games over there generally get all the consoles as they are released as a matter of course. You`d have to be a pretty hard-core gaming fan to do that in the UK!
Its progress! So what if its expensive, and wont work properly!! Its new! Its different! You heard the idiot - "Go shopping, America!"
Stuff is cheaper in Japan too. I remember when you could get a N64 in Japan for less than the cost of 2 N64 games in the UK!
Increasingly becomeing a minority...
http://www.negativland.com/riaa/
"us techies are becoming an increasing minority"
Decreasing minority...