I'm not trying to troll or anything, but what is wrong with the consumer-protecting labels on copy-protected materials? It means consumers don't have to buy crap that won't work right with false expectations. I'd love a response so you can tell me your logic... (this is regarding your "going" link, by the way).
People don't seem to understand that this is not a Napster issue, where he's creating a means of piracy. Not at all.
XBOX mod chips contain illegally modified proprietary data. They contain, specifically, a modified XBOX bios. This is roughly the same thing as selling modified copies of windows. Sure, you can do it on your own, and he's not resposnsible for piracy at all. But he distributing hacked versions of the bios, which is strictly not allowed!
Because they cost so much money, and by protecting it, you're protecting human interests in it. Otherwise, the robot might complete a task in such a way that it would be destroyed in the process, even if there is another way. Or, it might just kill itself.
yeah, and netscape was also more popular at that point, partially because AOL used it an acted as ISP to some crazy number of users, and partially because it was the original. When netscape slid (like the parent said, around 4), i.e. got better and more popular.
Not sure what you mean by 'economy,' but you're absolutely right- the US budget is only about 2 trillion, and of the half of that spent on military, only a very small portion (*maybe* 150 billion over the entire project's life) could possibly be spent on something like SDI.
It strikes me that trying to make carts really expensive in today's fluid markets is like Chris Rock's super-expensive bullets- it's hilarious, because you just can't control other manufacturers. As complicated as you can make a cart, it's still pretty damn easy to reverse engineer, and they're consistently broken within months. I think the printer manufacturing industry ought to work hard to cooperate and raise the price of printers (not illegal collusion, just establish some price leadership like the airlines) so they can stop relying so heavily on cart sales and get their cash up front.
I suppose this used to kind of be the case, and it was likely dell who broke it. Ahh, well...
I'd just ask that you don't characterize the 'American' attitude of which you're speaking as 'American.' In the same way that 10% of the people in the world control something akin to 70% of the wealth, in 1998 (an old stat, not sure from whence it came) 10% of the people in the US control almost 70% of the guns.
The attitude was one of our forefathers', important in a time of revolution and independant militia (before a nationalized or state army), and has carried over through the ages because of tradition. But, it's not as widespread as you seem to think, and as Michael Moore made the point in Bowling for Columbine, Canada (as opposed to the US I assume you were referring to) is a much smaller nation with a much higher per-capita gun rate. I'm just saying- please don't characterize us ALL as nuts, even though some of us may be (and to readers here- I'm not saying all gun owners are nuts, either!).
The thing is, I am also from the US, and there are a lot of people here who say things like this on a frequent basis in seriousness. So it's tough to tell. Don't be too hard on all of us, because it's not our fault most of us are dumb.
I know the "win-win" remark above was sarcastic, but think of it like this:
First, there's virtually no interest to be collected in Japan regardless. Short rates are practically zero, and barely enough to recoup transaction costs.
Second, let's say the bank actually WAS collecting interest on your cash. Well, what are you going to do with it? You've got two choices: you can bury your money and not let anyone make any interest off it (because you're certainly not using it productively if it's sitting in your pocket), or you can lend it to someone to make money with, and it'll be instantly recoupable.
Technically, if everyone converted all their cash and let banks have it while they weren't using it, the economy would be more productive, and might do better.
Of course, the availability of cash might push interest rates lower, but it also might increase the willingness of people and companies to invest in productive products, possibly helping the Japanese economy out of its crisis.
No. If there's no link to your accounts, there needn't be a link to you. When you buy a metrocard in NY (as a previous poster discussed) do you have to input your ID? not at all. Sure, you may pay for it with a credit card, but if your goal is not to carry cash, how else would you pay for anything anyway?
Christ, this is not a product review, it's a bloody advertisement. Where's the criticism? Where's the testing? The only person we hear from is the salesperson!
Well, I think you miss the point of the article. Maybe you should read it first next time.
What they're saying is that now, we don't NEED a mythical being like superman to accomplish time travel. Now, we can just release some really fucked up greenhouse gasses and eventually mess with air currents enough that time travel will be easy and real.
Okay, lets do a line-by-line, since you've managed to piss me off.
Okay, you've got a favorite professor at your school. That's great. Guess what? That doesn't make them an authority. There's also a professor at almost every school in the U.S. who thinks Jews are evil, and that everyone who's not a (insert crackpot religion here) will go to hell. That doesn't necessarily make it so. Even if they are a professor of Asian studies. (cymbal crash) Thank you folks, I'll be here all week. Please tip your server, and the lamb chops are delicious.
First off, not my school. I never said I went to Wellesley, or had ever studied under this professor. I am an area guy who goes largely for the chicks (I have a date with one of the most beautiful for next week, thanks very much), and also for the anime, when it's not something horrible like pretear.
Professors are hired by schools and paid 100k at schools like Wellesley because they are well-studied and intelligent. This is not to say that they are necessarily definitive sources of definitions, but a professor who's life study lies in a specific discipline is probably as reliable a source of information as anything on the internet.
Third, I followed up by citing two references to definitions, which I would say are both more informative and more accurate, and probably more reliable than your "my teacher said" reference. I mean this in the serious, analytical, "my reference is better than your reference" sense, not "you suck." I don't think that. Especially since you're right, some anime is obviously targeted directly at women.
Ho! Speaking of the internet, both of your citations are user-generated content. As big a fan as I am of this aspect of the internet, those definitions were no more written by experts than anything else on the net. Do they have PhDs? Or are they twelve year olds making it up? You don't know which, and I think my original citation (from a short blurb about the organization in the campus newspaper) is a little more authoritative. Moreover, your Everything citation is directly contradicted by several below it, so check what you cite to make sure it's in your favour.
I will make another citation, if you'd like: This is the Bartleby online American Heritage Dictionary reference for bi-weekly, and it makes an essential note that, despite common usage by people uneducated to the derivation, the "bi" prefix means two of, not two in.
Hey Jackass- First off, she's a professor of Asian studies. Second, the bi-weekly anime showings at Wellesley get about 50 people per, mostly students of the college. Lastly, have you ever heard of shit like sailor moon, ranma, pretear, etc? These are all very popular teen- and pre-teen-oriented anime that appeal to women AT LEAST as well as men.
This is not true. Anime is defined by an expert at Wellesley College as:
"Anime is distinct from other forms of animation because it usually has fewer cels per second, giving it a less fluid, more static look. It also has stylistic designs: The characters have large eyes or the backgrounds are fully realized watercolor pictures. Anime is not exclusively for kids, although children may watch anime not targeted for them- part of the cultural differences between Japan and the U.S."
Nobody can *tell* you what the Matrix is- you have to see for yourself!
Really, though- be a little more openminded rather than trimming yourself off just because the style doesn't happen to coincide with your tastes. If you enjoyed the Matrix, this is likely worth a try.
Survival of the fittest, man. It's not necessarily the happiest state of things, and I'm not necessarily defending it (though I do, like most people on this earth, participate in it), but it's the way things are.
From dictionary.com (American Heritage) To gain especially for the performance of service, labor, or work
If anyone can really be said to earn anything, then someone can earn a billion just as well as they can earn $5 or a break or a hug or whatever they may have earned.
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I'm not trying to troll or anything, but what is wrong with the consumer-protecting labels on copy-protected materials? It means consumers don't have to buy crap that won't work right with false expectations. I'd love a response so you can tell me your logic... (this is regarding your "going" link, by the way).
People don't seem to understand that this is not a Napster issue, where he's creating a means of piracy. Not at all.
XBOX mod chips contain illegally modified proprietary data. They contain, specifically, a modified XBOX bios. This is roughly the same thing as selling modified copies of windows. Sure, you can do it on your own, and he's not resposnsible for piracy at all. But he distributing hacked versions of the bios, which is strictly not allowed!
Because they cost so much money, and by protecting it, you're protecting human interests in it. Otherwise, the robot might complete a task in such a way that it would be destroyed in the process, even if there is another way. Or, it might just kill itself.
yeah, and netscape was also more popular at that point, partially because AOL used it an acted as ISP to some crazy number of users, and partially because it was the original. When netscape slid (like the parent said, around 4), i.e. got better and more popular.
Neither this story nor this post were actually made in April. Hmmm...
oh yeah- you're right- I keep forgetting the difference between "half of the US budget" and "Half of the US discretionary budget."
Ignore my random idiocy in the future...
Not sure what you mean by 'economy,' but you're absolutely right- the US budget is only about 2 trillion, and of the half of that spent on military, only a very small portion (*maybe* 150 billion over the entire project's life) could possibly be spent on something like SDI.
It strikes me that trying to make carts really expensive in today's fluid markets is like Chris Rock's super-expensive bullets- it's hilarious, because you just can't control other manufacturers. As complicated as you can make a cart, it's still pretty damn easy to reverse engineer, and they're consistently broken within months. I think the printer manufacturing industry ought to work hard to cooperate and raise the price of printers (not illegal collusion, just establish some price leadership like the airlines) so they can stop relying so heavily on cart sales and get their cash up front.
I suppose this used to kind of be the case, and it was likely dell who broke it. Ahh, well...
If detergents are any indicator, it'll be "Ultra blu-light with colorfast bleach-alternative!!!"
I'd just ask that you don't characterize the 'American' attitude of which you're speaking as 'American.' In the same way that 10% of the people in the world control something akin to 70% of the wealth, in 1998 (an old stat, not sure from whence it came) 10% of the people in the US control almost 70% of the guns.
The attitude was one of our forefathers', important in a time of revolution and independant militia (before a nationalized or state army), and has carried over through the ages because of tradition. But, it's not as widespread as you seem to think, and as Michael Moore made the point in Bowling for Columbine, Canada (as opposed to the US I assume you were referring to) is a much smaller nation with a much higher per-capita gun rate. I'm just saying- please don't characterize us ALL as nuts, even though some of us may be (and to readers here- I'm not saying all gun owners are nuts, either!).
The thing is, I am also from the US, and there are a lot of people here who say things like this on a frequent basis in seriousness. So it's tough to tell. Don't be too hard on all of us, because it's not our fault most of us are dumb.
If you get stuck in a revolving door, you DESERVE to go broke quick!
"look kids, Big Ben!"
"look kids, Big Ben!"
I know the "win-win" remark above was sarcastic, but think of it like this:
First, there's virtually no interest to be collected in Japan regardless. Short rates are practically zero, and barely enough to recoup transaction costs.
Second, let's say the bank actually WAS collecting interest on your cash. Well, what are you going to do with it? You've got two choices: you can bury your money and not let anyone make any interest off it (because you're certainly not using it productively if it's sitting in your pocket), or you can lend it to someone to make money with, and it'll be instantly recoupable.
Technically, if everyone converted all their cash and let banks have it while they weren't using it, the economy would be more productive, and might do better.
Of course, the availability of cash might push interest rates lower, but it also might increase the willingness of people and companies to invest in productive products, possibly helping the Japanese economy out of its crisis.
No. If there's no link to your accounts, there needn't be a link to you. When you buy a metrocard in NY (as a previous poster discussed) do you have to input your ID? not at all. Sure, you may pay for it with a credit card, but if your goal is not to carry cash, how else would you pay for anything anyway?
Christ, this is not a product review, it's a bloody advertisement. Where's the criticism? Where's the testing? The only person we hear from is the salesperson!
Hey man, I made a joke too! It was genuine humour, just like yours!
Well, I think you miss the point of the article. Maybe you should read it first next time.
What they're saying is that now, we don't NEED a mythical being like superman to accomplish time travel. Now, we can just release some really fucked up greenhouse gasses and eventually mess with air currents enough that time travel will be easy and real.
I wouldn't buy my voodoo 3 either.
where can one see these shots?
Okay, you've got a favorite professor at your school. That's great. Guess what? That doesn't make them an authority. There's also a professor at almost every school in the U.S. who thinks Jews are evil, and that everyone who's not a (insert crackpot religion here) will go to hell. That doesn't necessarily make it so. Even if they are a professor of Asian studies. (cymbal crash) Thank you folks, I'll be here all week. Please tip your server, and the lamb chops are delicious.
First off, not my school. I never said I went to Wellesley, or had ever studied under this professor. I am an area guy who goes largely for the chicks (I have a date with one of the most beautiful for next week, thanks very much), and also for the anime, when it's not something horrible like pretear.
Professors are hired by schools and paid 100k at schools like Wellesley because they are well-studied and intelligent. This is not to say that they are necessarily definitive sources of definitions, but a professor who's life study lies in a specific discipline is probably as reliable a source of information as anything on the internet.
Third, I followed up by citing two references to definitions, which I would say are both more informative and more accurate, and probably more reliable than your "my teacher said" reference. I mean this in the serious, analytical, "my reference is better than your reference" sense, not "you suck." I don't think that. Especially since you're right, some anime is obviously targeted directly at women.
Ho! Speaking of the internet, both of your citations are user-generated content. As big a fan as I am of this aspect of the internet, those definitions were no more written by experts than anything else on the net. Do they have PhDs? Or are they twelve year olds making it up? You don't know which, and I think my original citation (from a short blurb about the organization in the campus newspaper) is a little more authoritative. Moreover, your Everything citation is directly contradicted by several below it, so check what you cite to make sure it's in your favour.
I will make another citation, if you'd like: This is the Bartleby online American Heritage Dictionary reference for bi-weekly, and it makes an essential note that, despite common usage by people uneducated to the derivation, the "bi" prefix means two of, not two in.
Hey Jackass- First off, she's a professor of Asian studies. Second, the bi-weekly anime showings at Wellesley get about 50 people per, mostly students of the college. Lastly, have you ever heard of shit like sailor moon, ranma, pretear, etc? These are all very popular teen- and pre-teen-oriented anime that appeal to women AT LEAST as well as men.
Somebody smack this loser
This is not true. Anime is defined by an expert at Wellesley College as:
"Anime is distinct from other forms of animation because it usually has fewer cels per second, giving it a less fluid, more static look. It also has stylistic designs: The characters have large eyes or the backgrounds are fully realized watercolor pictures. Anime is not exclusively for kids, although children may watch anime not targeted for them- part of the cultural differences between Japan and the U.S."
Nobody can *tell* you what the Matrix is- you have to see for yourself!
Really, though- be a little more openminded rather than trimming yourself off just because the style doesn't happen to coincide with your tastes. If you enjoyed the Matrix, this is likely worth a try.
Survival of the fittest, man. It's not necessarily the happiest state of things, and I'm not necessarily defending it (though I do, like most people on this earth, participate in it), but it's the way things are.
From dictionary.com (American Heritage)
To gain especially for the performance of service, labor, or work
If anyone can really be said to earn anything, then someone can earn a billion just as well as they can earn $5 or a break or a hug or whatever they may have earned.
I'm gone, cocker!
I want to see Segways in the next GTA. It'd be so much fun to kill people in smooth efficiency!