I'm not sure I've seen a "letter" sized piece of paper, I only know about them though printer preferences!
I've never seen the actual paper, but all software I've used has defaulted to using Letter, despite my living in a metric country. And I've had innumerable documents print badly or truncated because they were formatted Letter. Most irritating is that I have to make files to send to Americans and thus have to use Letter, which throws up an error that I have to bypass when I proof them on my laser.
The suicide bombers from 9/11 were mostly university students, therefore much more educated than the average poulation of their countries.
The problem is, you have to be a moron not to see that what the Israeli government does to their Palestinian "brothers" by all standards unfair, illegal und cruel.
Then, if you're young and clever and have a sense of justice, you feel the urge to do something against that.
Bin Laden, and most of the 9/11 hijackers, were (are) Saudis. They could give a shit about Palestinians. What gets up the radical Islamist Saudi's nose is their own corrupt royal family, supported with the full force of the US military. So their short term aim was to provoke the US into more extreme actions in the Middle East, causing a backlash that would eventually force out any local government that was friendly with the US. So far, it's all going to plan. (Has anyone ever seen Rumsfeld and bin Laden at the same time in two different places -- something to consider...)
Here's an idea on re-entry: Thrust up and away from your current vector. If you can reduce your angular velocity with minimal encounter of atmosphere during the process, you can reduce your dependence on heat shielding.
At the expense of having to carry much more fuel. Recall the lower stage of the Lunar Lander, larger and probably heavier than the command module. And that's for rocket braking in 1/6th g.
The fundamental selling point of Linux is FREE, which Microsoft can combat by making their OS easier to pirate.
No, they combat it by making deals with OEMS to bundle it. It may be illegal in the US now to make exclusive deals as they did before, but it's still not at all easy to buy a PC that doesn't come with Windows preinstalled.
And, even if you do make a superior product, 95% of businesses use word's proprietary 'doc' type file.
Some might remember back in the 80s and early 90s when WordPerfect was king of word processing and Lotus 123 of spreadsheets. MS worked hard on Word and Excel, but found it hard to convert existing users because of file compatibility. So they made an immense effort to be able to perfectly import and export these two formats, allowing easy transition. (Other things, especially Windows, were important too). Even now when transferring files to and from Word I often use WordPerfect 5.1 format as an intermediary; this always gives the cleanest conversion.
And even then, he was unable to account for all of the weapons that UNMOVIC knew he had.
But strangely, in the year since, no one has found these "weapons that UNMOVIC knew he had", or any sign that they ever existed except as dubious reports by paid informers and fuzzy photpgraphs that could have been anything, despite a desperate desire by Bush and Blair to justify their invasion.
When I just googled, I saw nothing of the like... only 3 results,
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I don't mind using either C or F, but since most of the US is fairly temperate, it's not often that it gets to freezing. Houston typically stays in the 20C-35C range. People don't like using decimals when talking about the weather, and sticking with F lets them do that.
I've lived in several metric countries, they all get along quite well with integeral Celsius weather reports. It's always irritating when I read some story where it's obvious some editor or reporter has taken a round figure in one system and converted it to another with 5 figures of implied accuracy ("it was about 160.93 kilometres away..."). One Celsius degree is more than fine enough to know what to wear.
On the other hand, it feels unnatural to talk about the weather in anything but degrees Fahrenheit. I've tried. I have plenty of European relatives. But centigrade's units feel too "big" and awkward.
In Australia we switched to metric in the 70s, when I was a teenager. Once the weather reports are ONLY in Celsius, you quickly adapt. Just as you do to different currencies when you visit another country. After a few months you don't even convert back, you just think native.
Also, no one uses "centigrade" units, in Europe or anywhere else. That was replaced by Celsius in 1948. "Big and awkward" -- can you really tell the difference between 75 and 76 Fahrenheit?
I think what they meant to say is that they realized it's more important to keep OTHER Windows users safe.
It isn't just what he "meant" to say:
"Having these unsecured users means bigger worm and virus outbreaks - which also impacts the Internet and consequently, our legitimate users as well." [said Microsoft group product manager Barry Goffe.]
By the end of the first 12 months of operation: Develop a client base of 75 White Box System Builders and 1 Major Strategic OEM Sell and Ship 30,000+ copies of the DAVID Middleware Generate a gross revenue of US$ 1,000,000.00
And the Contacts page gives one address only: PHILIPPINES Summit One Office Tower 530 Shaw Blvd. Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila 150
That was the context, "China and SE Asia". But yes, it goes for everywhere. Even now I think the piracy rate in Western countries is at least 25%, from memory of various articles.
Sasser can be blocked by any firewall, I have an unpatched Windows, ZoneAlarm reports blocking all the Sasser attacks, (port 445) without any intervention or upgrades from me. If you have a vulnerable OS, just wall it off.
Why do you find it so hard to imagine that there are legitimate DVDs made and sold in China?
I'm sure there are, just not a season's worth of TV episodes for $15, no matter what the quality of the packaging is.
OK, I hate to be rude, but I live in China, I have these DVDs in front of me, and you don't. I think I'm in a better position to be "sure" than you. The whole world does not have a single set price, especially not things where the cost of manufacture is negligible.
this seem only fair since providing service to pirates will only encourage piracy and shrink their market share.
I don't think it's a stretch to say that MS is quite happy that piracy makes Windows and Office ubiquitous in third world countries. They'd much rather MS remains the standard than build up any competing OS or software. If and when the local economies get to the point of being able to afford and need legit software (as for instance when they become involved with foreign companies that insist on it, or US trade officials lean on law enforcement) they have little option but to pony up for MS licences. This has happened in Hong Kong, Singapore, etc, over the last 10 years or so. Basically it costs them nothing at all to create this market, the pirates pay for the distribution. See for instance in Thailand when the government started distributing Linux for their subsidised PCs that MS very quickly came up with drastically cheaper licences. They would have preferred to leave it to the pirates, I think, as there is now a precedent for other markets to demand similar pricing; but the threat of Linux gaining a foothold could not be ignored.
Whoever bootlegged the DVDs you saw probably just duplicated the content of the legitimate releases, which is why it looks better than a normal bootleg.
Unless the "legitimate" HBO releases had Chinese descriptions on the boxes and subtitles on the disks, I don't think so. Why do you find it so hard to imagine that there are legitimate DVDs made and sold in China? Of course the ones you see in the US are bootlegs, they're not allowed to distribute the legal Chinese ones outside their markets, which is why they can be so cheap here.
My GoG DVDs were ripped from the laserdisc versions, for example.
The DVDs I'm talking about have full menus, commentary tracks, various subtitles. I don't think LDs have these features. The bootlegs are about US$1, and variable in quality.
>all at $10-15 per season. They look legit
Then you're blind. The price alone should be enough to tip you off. Also, don't be fooled by a cheap holofoil sticker. The Chinese bootleggers love to put those on to make their stuff look more official.
I live in Hong Kong, I think I have a clue about this. DVDs, real licensed ones, are much cheaper there. So is a lot of other stuff. Basically, the production cost is a few dollars for the disks and a cardboard box. The retail is whatever the market will bear. I'm not talking about copies of Photoshop for $1 on a CDR in a paper envelope. These DVDs have good art and the text isn't the gibberish that bootlegs usually have, and other fetures that lead me to believe they're actually licensed.
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I've never seen the actual paper, but all software I've used has defaulted to using Letter, despite my living in a metric country. And I've had innumerable documents print badly or truncated because they were formatted Letter. Most irritating is that I have to make files to send to Americans and thus have to use Letter, which throws up an error that I have to bypass when I proof them on my laser.
Bin Laden, and most of the 9/11 hijackers, were (are) Saudis. They could give a shit about Palestinians. What gets up the radical Islamist Saudi's nose is their own corrupt royal family, supported with the full force of the US military. So their short term aim was to provoke the US into more extreme actions in the Middle East, causing a backlash that would eventually force out any local government that was friendly with the US. So far, it's all going to plan. (Has anyone ever seen Rumsfeld and bin Laden at the same time in two different places -- something to consider...)
At the expense of having to carry much more fuel. Recall the lower stage of the Lunar Lander, larger and probably heavier than the command module. And that's for rocket braking in 1/6th g.
Okay -- that would be machismo, (noun) the original Spanish word (definitely not "machoness" or "machoism" other unnecessary constructions).
masochism: enjoying pain
misogynism: hating women
malapropism: using a similar sounding word to humorous effect
No, they combat it by making deals with OEMS to bundle it. It may be illegal in the US now to make exclusive deals as they did before, but it's still not at all easy to buy a PC that doesn't come with Windows preinstalled.
Some might remember back in the 80s and early 90s when WordPerfect was king of word processing and Lotus 123 of spreadsheets. MS worked hard on Word and Excel, but found it hard to convert existing users because of file compatibility. So they made an immense effort to be able to perfectly import and export these two formats, allowing easy transition. (Other things, especially Windows, were important too). Even now when transferring files to and from Word I often use WordPerfect 5.1 format as an intermediary; this always gives the cleanest conversion.
But strangely, in the year since, no one has found these "weapons that UNMOVIC knew he had", or any sign that they ever existed except as dubious reports by paid informers and fuzzy photpgraphs that could have been anything, despite a desperate desire by Bush and Blair to justify their invasion.
He wouldn't be the first fictional character to do so
To bad Duke didn't win in 2000. If he wanted to get Saddam, for instance, he would have taken him out personally without starting a world war.
To bad Duke didn't win in 2000. Of he wanted to get Saddam, he wold have takne him oput personally without starting a world war.
Google Search: "Don Fulci" Results 1 - 10 of about 81 for "Don Fulci".
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Since of course all the DVD players here are also region agnostic, I can't tell that.
In the real world, you'd be deciding whether to make it 31C or 32C. Incidentally, that'd be for a hothouse.
I've lived in several metric countries, they all get along quite well with integeral Celsius weather reports. It's always irritating when I read some story where it's obvious some editor or reporter has taken a round figure in one system and converted it to another with 5 figures of implied accuracy ("it was about 160.93 kilometres away..."). One Celsius degree is more than fine enough to know what to wear.
In Australia we switched to metric in the 70s, when I was a teenager. Once the weather reports are ONLY in Celsius, you quickly adapt. Just as you do to different currencies when you visit another country. After a few months you don't even convert back, you just think native.
Also, no one uses "centigrade" units, in Europe or anywhere else. That was replaced by Celsius in 1948. "Big and awkward" -- can you really tell the difference between 75 and 76 Fahrenheit?
It isn't just what he "meant" to say:
Their market strategy page
Objectives
By the end of the first 12 months of operation:
Develop a client base of 75 White Box System Builders and 1 Major Strategic OEM
Sell and Ship 30,000+ copies of the DAVID Middleware
Generate a gross revenue of US$ 1,000,000.00
And the Contacts page gives one address only:
PHILIPPINES
Summit One Office Tower
530 Shaw Blvd.
Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila 150
That was the context, "China and SE Asia". But yes, it goes for everywhere. Even now I think the piracy rate in Western countries is at least 25%, from memory of various articles.
Sasser can be blocked by any firewall, I have an unpatched Windows, ZoneAlarm reports blocking all the Sasser attacks, (port 445) without any intervention or upgrades from me. If you have a vulnerable OS, just wall it off.
I'm sure there are, just not a season's worth of TV episodes for $15, no matter what the quality of the packaging is.
OK, I hate to be rude, but I live in China, I have these DVDs in front of me, and you don't. I think I'm in a better position to be "sure" than you. The whole world does not have a single set price, especially not things where the cost of manufacture is negligible.
I don't think it's a stretch to say that MS is quite happy that piracy makes Windows and Office ubiquitous in third world countries. They'd much rather MS remains the standard than build up any competing OS or software. If and when the local economies get to the point of being able to afford and need legit software (as for instance when they become involved with foreign companies that insist on it, or US trade officials lean on law enforcement) they have little option but to pony up for MS licences. This has happened in Hong Kong, Singapore, etc, over the last 10 years or so. Basically it costs them nothing at all to create this market, the pirates pay for the distribution. See for instance in Thailand when the government started distributing Linux for their subsidised PCs that MS very quickly came up with drastically cheaper licences. They would have preferred to leave it to the pirates, I think, as there is now a precedent for other markets to demand similar pricing; but the threat of Linux gaining a foothold could not be ignored.
Unless the "legitimate" HBO releases had Chinese descriptions on the boxes and subtitles on the disks, I don't think so. Why do you find it so hard to imagine that there are legitimate DVDs made and sold in China? Of course the ones you see in the US are bootlegs, they're not allowed to distribute the legal Chinese ones outside their markets, which is why they can be so cheap here. My GoG DVDs were ripped from the laserdisc versions, for example.
The DVDs I'm talking about have full menus, commentary tracks, various subtitles. I don't think LDs have these features. The bootlegs are about US$1, and variable in quality.
But can you even source this misquote? I've tried to track it back, and it seems to have appeared fullblown as a sig liine. No printed source ever.
I just thought you were channelling Ed Sullivan.
Then you're blind. The price alone should be enough to tip you off. Also, don't be fooled by a cheap holofoil sticker. The Chinese bootleggers love to put those on to make their stuff look more official.
I live in Hong Kong, I think I have a clue about this. DVDs, real licensed ones, are much cheaper there. So is a lot of other stuff. Basically, the production cost is a few dollars for the disks and a cardboard box. The retail is whatever the market will bear. I'm not talking about copies of Photoshop for $1 on a CDR in a paper envelope. These DVDs have good art and the text isn't the gibberish that bootlegs usually have, and other fetures that lead me to believe they're actually licensed.