I buy games on Steam that do not have a notification about additional DRM because I refuse to play russian roulette with being able to play the game that I paid good money for (now or in the future). I would ask the other publishers if they believe that Valve has a significantly larger piracy problem than their own titles with more restrictive DRM and if they do whether they honestly believe that they are gaining enough additional revenue to continue the stupid arms race that is DRM.
Pressuretight is bad for the containment building because during a meltdown you have large amount of H produced which causes explosions which tend to do bad things to the containment building. A much better design would be to have a substantial amount of airflow through the containment building but make it go through a particulate filter so that any matter from a burning waste pool gets caught. That way the worst thing you should release into the atmosphere should be some radioactive Xeon which is not a huge deal.
Since Nintendo actually has the highest worldwide attach rate (and total games sold) right now I think you're assessment of the state of the wii is incorrect. Also I'm pretty sure since a much higher percentage of titles on the wii are first party and they should have a larger profit on first party titles that Nintendo is doing just fine.
Yep and when I fly to Chicago I always use MDW since OHR is more expensive and about 10x as likely to result in delays. Of course from the West coast there will be few (if any) direct flights into MDW so that might not help you.
I don't care because on real content available in the real world with a few real tv sets I can tell you that the difference between SD and HD in obviously visible.
LAX or BUR? If you were flying out of LAX for a shorthaul domestic flight they've probably upped slot fees to push traffic out of one of the busiest hubs on the continent. I just checked and a month out you can get a BUR to SFO flight for $158 round trip.
Ok, let's assume your figures are correct and that your screen can use 70W versus 200W for a plasma. Now for a device left on it costs roughly $1/W for a device left on 24/7 (@$.10/kwhr). So your potential savings are $130/year. That means to make up the difference between a $2200 tv and a $600 tv both would have to be left on for over 12 years to reach breakeven, add in the time value of money and it's closer to 16 years, and that's worst case scenario for the cheaper display. If you take a much more reasonable 4-6 hours a day and it's obvious that both displays will be long dead before the energy savings make up the difference in cost.
BS, I'll buy that you can't tell the difference between 720p and 1080p beyond 10-12' but the difference between SD and HD is very, very noticeable on a 42" set even at ~16' (distance from my tv to our typical sitting position on the couch).
If your viewing distance is greater than x then the ideal size for viewing 1080p content is y. Also if you go really big like a 120" projection setup you can make the screen fill up your entire vision field which is a much more immersive experience.
Gah, trying to get a cheap, low power card to do 1080p is hard enough, I'm sure that doubling the workload means you'd have to have a $350 graphics card that requires a one kilowatt PSU.
My tv just failed and I went out and bought a 2011 LED backlit non-3D model on clearance sale ($550 on a $850 MSRP model). I'm really not sure why you would want to pay twice as much for a screen with almost identical specifications but with some added electronics for 3D that are of basically no use today and arguably likely to always be of little use.
Charging more for oil rights just moves production offshore and thus increases trade imbalances which might be good for the world as a whole but which is decidedly not good for the US. The better thing to manipulate is demand by increasing taxes and thus driving up efficiency. I'm personally very annoyed that I can't get a reasonably priced, fuel efficient, AWD vehicle. There are many produced for the european and japanese domestic market but because of very cheap gas they aren't sold in the US and so I don't have the option to purchase an efficient vehicle which is what is in everyones best interest. To give you an idea the most efficient AWD crossover currently for sale in the US is the Mazda CX5, but only with the gasoline engine which gets 25/32 for fuel economy, compare that to the diesel which gets 45mpg combined but which is not for sale in the US.
Funny enough some commodity broker in Chicago did actually take possession of a few tankers full of oil in 2009. He correctly figured out that with world demand falling off a cliff there would be spare tanker capacity so he bought oil at $40 a barrel and paid a shipping company a small monthly fee to keep the oil in their already idle tankers. He managed to make a killing on the deal. It was a fairly rare event that required the right circumstances to pull off, but you can make money moving oil around even if you do take delivery, it just takes more work.
The reason we are a net exporter of gasoline is the cheap natural gas that has come online in the last few years. Mexico is shipping crude to the US to be cracked and then transporting the gasoline back home because it is cheaper than using part of each barrel to create the heat to do the cracking themselves.
Yes, for the plebs who can't get these kinds of discounts the house always wins, he was able to get some amazing discounts and the pit bosses made it even worse in that a discount that is normally across all play for a year was given to him on a per trip basis meaning he could actually come out ahead. Basically he pulled an old cracker trick and rather than attack the system (card counting), he attacked the human who could manipulate the system.
It's similar at the Ford plants here, though I'm not sure I've ever seen a foreign nameplate vehicle. Heck my dad still drives only domestic nameplate vehicles even though he no longer has any contracts with the big 3 and in fact has contracts with suppliers for Nissan and Honda because for many years almost 50% of his income came from the big 3.
A better and more universal education system is probably the answer. In the US the urban secondary dropout rate tops 50% and the overall secondary graduation rate is just 72% as compared with a 92% graduation rate for Germany and an 85% rate for France.
I'd assume that the coating is a few atoms thick meaning all the HDD's in the world would total a few tons which is obviously a rounding error when you're talking about the worldwide metals market.
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I buy games on Steam that do not have a notification about additional DRM because I refuse to play russian roulette with being able to play the game that I paid good money for (now or in the future). I would ask the other publishers if they believe that Valve has a significantly larger piracy problem than their own titles with more restrictive DRM and if they do whether they honestly believe that they are gaining enough additional revenue to continue the stupid arms race that is DRM.
Pressuretight is bad for the containment building because during a meltdown you have large amount of H produced which causes explosions which tend to do bad things to the containment building. A much better design would be to have a substantial amount of airflow through the containment building but make it go through a particulate filter so that any matter from a burning waste pool gets caught. That way the worst thing you should release into the atmosphere should be some radioactive Xeon which is not a huge deal.
Since the wii attach rate has been climbing every quarter I'm not sure where your analysis is coming from.
Since Nintendo actually has the highest worldwide attach rate (and total games sold) right now I think you're assessment of the state of the wii is incorrect. Also I'm pretty sure since a much higher percentage of titles on the wii are first party and they should have a larger profit on first party titles that Nintendo is doing just fine.
Yep and when I fly to Chicago I always use MDW since OHR is more expensive and about 10x as likely to result in delays. Of course from the West coast there will be few (if any) direct flights into MDW so that might not help you.
Search Settings->Never show instant results, not so difficult.
I don't care because on real content available in the real world with a few real tv sets I can tell you that the difference between SD and HD in obviously visible.
LAX or BUR? If you were flying out of LAX for a shorthaul domestic flight they've probably upped slot fees to push traffic out of one of the busiest hubs on the continent. I just checked and a month out you can get a BUR to SFO flight for $158 round trip.
and can it fit into an 18 Mbps broadcast channel
No, especially since we standardized on MPEG2 for ATSC/QAM. It might work if you did MPEG4 in the ~38Mbps available in a 6MHz QAM-256 channel.
Ok, let's assume your figures are correct and that your screen can use 70W versus 200W for a plasma. Now for a device left on it costs roughly $1/W for a device left on 24/7 (@$.10/kwhr). So your potential savings are $130/year. That means to make up the difference between a $2200 tv and a $600 tv both would have to be left on for over 12 years to reach breakeven, add in the time value of money and it's closer to 16 years, and that's worst case scenario for the cheaper display. If you take a much more reasonable 4-6 hours a day and it's obvious that both displays will be long dead before the energy savings make up the difference in cost.
BS, I'll buy that you can't tell the difference between 720p and 1080p beyond 10-12' but the difference between SD and HD is very, very noticeable on a 42" set even at ~16' (distance from my tv to our typical sitting position on the couch).
If your viewing distance is greater than x then the ideal size for viewing 1080p content is y. Also if you go really big like a 120" projection setup you can make the screen fill up your entire vision field which is a much more immersive experience.
Gah, trying to get a cheap, low power card to do 1080p is hard enough, I'm sure that doubling the workload means you'd have to have a $350 graphics card that requires a one kilowatt PSU.
My tv just failed and I went out and bought a 2011 LED backlit non-3D model on clearance sale ($550 on a $850 MSRP model). I'm really not sure why you would want to pay twice as much for a screen with almost identical specifications but with some added electronics for 3D that are of basically no use today and arguably likely to always be of little use.
Charging more for oil rights just moves production offshore and thus increases trade imbalances which might be good for the world as a whole but which is decidedly not good for the US. The better thing to manipulate is demand by increasing taxes and thus driving up efficiency. I'm personally very annoyed that I can't get a reasonably priced, fuel efficient, AWD vehicle. There are many produced for the european and japanese domestic market but because of very cheap gas they aren't sold in the US and so I don't have the option to purchase an efficient vehicle which is what is in everyones best interest. To give you an idea the most efficient AWD crossover currently for sale in the US is the Mazda CX5, but only with the gasoline engine which gets 25/32 for fuel economy, compare that to the diesel which gets 45mpg combined but which is not for sale in the US.
Funny enough some commodity broker in Chicago did actually take possession of a few tankers full of oil in 2009. He correctly figured out that with world demand falling off a cliff there would be spare tanker capacity so he bought oil at $40 a barrel and paid a shipping company a small monthly fee to keep the oil in their already idle tankers. He managed to make a killing on the deal. It was a fairly rare event that required the right circumstances to pull off, but you can make money moving oil around even if you do take delivery, it just takes more work.
Risk, there is a very large risk premium built into the pricing of crude. It's kind of the inverse of how the value of a fiat currency fluctuates.
The reason we are a net exporter of gasoline is the cheap natural gas that has come online in the last few years. Mexico is shipping crude to the US to be cracked and then transporting the gasoline back home because it is cheaper than using part of each barrel to create the heat to do the cracking themselves.
Yes, for the plebs who can't get these kinds of discounts the house always wins, he was able to get some amazing discounts and the pit bosses made it even worse in that a discount that is normally across all play for a year was given to him on a per trip basis meaning he could actually come out ahead. Basically he pulled an old cracker trick and rather than attack the system (card counting), he attacked the human who could manipulate the system.
Wow, some random asshat went through and randomly downmodded some of my recent posts as -1 troll, how weird.
I love her as HG Wells.
So you can do UML in gvim now?!?
It's similar at the Ford plants here, though I'm not sure I've ever seen a foreign nameplate vehicle. Heck my dad still drives only domestic nameplate vehicles even though he no longer has any contracts with the big 3 and in fact has contracts with suppliers for Nissan and Honda because for many years almost 50% of his income came from the big 3.
A better and more universal education system is probably the answer. In the US the urban secondary dropout rate tops 50% and the overall secondary graduation rate is just 72% as compared with a 92% graduation rate for Germany and an 85% rate for France.
I'd assume that the coating is a few atoms thick meaning all the HDD's in the world would total a few tons which is obviously a rounding error when you're talking about the worldwide metals market.