I think you are missing the concept of how this will work, so I'll do what I can to elaborate. The elevator does not have to lift the weight of the cable, the cable is simply the device that the space-bound vehicle will climb up. Imagine it as the rope in gym class: You only have to carry up your own weight, not the weight of the rope, and instead of having it attached to the ceiling, it is being held out there like if you were to have a rope with a weight on the end that you were spinning around in a circle. It capitalizes on the fact that the earth is spinning and it will stay out there even with the "elevator" going up or down.
I can already imagine the voicemail greetings of the future...
"You've reached the phone of Dave Melee, I'm not at my desk...err...I'm not at the office...errr...I don't want to...talk? Can't I just have a few minutes to hit the john? STOP SMOTHERING ME!!!! [beep]
Do you really have to keep your kids under such a close watch? Truthfully? At age 5 and 2? You're already set on sending them to school year round and pounding the learning into their craniums? Maybe you should bond with your kids.
My parents taught me the importance of going to school and actually learning. Most homework is bullshit anyway. If you don't understand it in class, sitting at home, alone, until you can finish it won't make you any more likely to learn it, it just makes you resent your parents. Seems to have worked for me, I graduated high school with high honors and be going to one of the top ranked business colleges in the nation.
Because you responded anonymously, I suppose you already thought of this:
If you honestly think that there's not going to be some sort of provision, especially for students who are in this situation, for approved students and faculty to have a different (if any) limit placed on their usage, you are more short-sighted than you percieve the 2 gig cap to be.
you're still limited to the leg of the transmission with the least bandwidth. Unless every major network upgrades and all bugs are worked out, it's not going to make a big impact.
Certainly, they feel that the Tetris name brought the group at least 50% of their final grade on the project. They must either forfeit the points or pay up!
Could this be used in a FPS to map people's facial expressions in real time (well, less the appropriate lag). I'd love to be able to see the pissed off look on some guy's face who I've fragged three dozen times straight.
Apparently somebody doesn't remember the voodoo lady's message about an unbreakable FIVE game contract with LucasArts. It will come, just give it time my piratey friend (and hopefully with more Murray, my favorite demonic talking skull).
As noted in another reply, a point is 1% of the mortgage amount, not 1/8%, but there is also one key that you are missing with points paid to reduce the rate of a mortgage.
Where points are useful is getting the seller of the property to pay points as part of the sale. In a buyer's market, it is a way for the seller to say, "look, I want to sell to you, and I'll even take some of the money you are paying me, and I'll put it toward helping you get a lower interest rate." The buyer is happy because they get the property and a lower interest rate, the seller is happy because in paying a small amount of what they just received, they closed a deal on their property in a buyer's market.
As a result of this lower interest rate, even the mortgage is only held for 7 years (more like 6 in MN), more of the principal has been paid off, and more profit will be made on the future sale.
It is unfortunate that so many people are uninformed about why points are useful. I do agree with one part of the argument though, however. If you are taking out a mortgage, don't pay for points on your own loan.
I read the article at nytimes.com, and then closed the window. What popped up in front of me? A Sprint popup ad for 3 months of service for only $30. Hmmm, ummmmm....maybe....no. Nice try sprint, but I'm already an unhappy customer, no need to tempt me with another year's worth of a contract.
You missed the point entirely, the reason that it would be good to not have to deal with returns is not for the sake of the video store, it is for the lazy customer (me) who does not want to deal with it. Though you are technically accurate in your statement.
As others have said, if you're buying a CD that only has one or two good tracks, that the artist isn't worth investing in. What I find really funny is that every time you turn on the radio, you are bombarded with these same artists' one or two good tracks. Who needs to download them for $.99 and burn them when all you need is good ol' FM?
Or if you're really that needy, just buy the single for 3 bucks and get a B-side too.
Does anybody else get a picture in their head of some proud new computer owners (a father and son perhaps). They are carrying their large screen glass computer from the car into the house when....splat, a bird dropps a bomb on it from 100 feet above leaving a dirty mess and one unhappy pappy.
The first time I bought MS Office (Office 95 Pro) its cost was 10% of the cost of a reasonable PC ($200 vs. $2,000). Now the cost of MS Office is $499 (Office XP Pro). A reasonable PC is about $1,000 (office automation, web surfing, etc. not a gaming machine).
Let's examine for a moment WHY the price of office hasn't dropped. Let me start by saying that I do think it's overpriced, but the point made here is rediculous. The cost of producing hardware is significantly cheaper than it was not that many years ago, but has any software seen that significant of a drop in price? The price for Photoshop hasn't dropped like hardware prices, and photoshop versions don't have as many changes as office does across Word, Excel, PPt, etc. I'm paying the same $50 for Myst 3:Exile that I paid for Riven and the original Myst. The fact is, software prices have stayed relatively constant while hardware costs were in a freefall.
I clicked around and got to the Amazon.com preorder page and watched the video...What was their big deal about how it's "every boy's favorite droid" and "every boy needs a droid." I'm not the kind of person that really cares, but it's almost like they were trying to draw heat from numerous upset mothers.
[Minneapolis]- Local authorities are investigating the scene of a lethal 8 car pileup. Apparently the 19 year old driver of a Volvo Safety Car had loaded Grand Theft Auto 3 onto his onboard computer and forgot where the line between reality and gaming is drawn....
I don't like the repurcussions of this if it passes. I forsee the government in the lead role of a favorite children's book of mine:
"If You Give a Mouse a Cookie..."
Call me old fashioned, but I guess I'll just keep stealing my TV by channel surfing during the commercials of the shows I watch. Of all of the rediculous things to be upset with, I'm suprised that this didn't come up when they introduced VCR+, those damn thieves who have taped their shows can fast forward through commercials too.
On a related note to tivo, legally or not, you can't tivo a pay-per-view event (such as wrestlemania). It completely blocks the recording function. You have to trick it by setting tivo to record a long show on another channel, and then change the cable box by itself. Could be worse, but what a pain!
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It's not just you. I don't know how Nintendogs could be considered an "essential" game by any stretch of the imagination.
it's free apple advertising, and they're really not comfortable, at least in my ears.
I think you are missing the concept of how this will work, so I'll do what I can to elaborate. The elevator does not have to lift the weight of the cable, the cable is simply the device that the space-bound vehicle will climb up. Imagine it as the rope in gym class: You only have to carry up your own weight, not the weight of the rope, and instead of having it attached to the ceiling, it is being held out there like if you were to have a rope with a weight on the end that you were spinning around in a circle. It capitalizes on the fact that the earth is spinning and it will stay out there even with the "elevator" going up or down.
doesn't this scream Jurrassic Park (well, genders reversed)?
I can already imagine the voicemail greetings of the future...
"You've reached the phone of Dave Melee, I'm not at my desk...err...I'm not at the office...errr...I don't want to...talk? Can't I just have a few minutes to hit the john? STOP SMOTHERING ME!!!! [beep]
Only if you use a vibrator to pleasure women...
Do you really have to keep your kids under such a close watch? Truthfully? At age 5 and 2? You're already set on sending them to school year round and pounding the learning into their craniums? Maybe you should bond with your kids.
My parents taught me the importance of going to school and actually learning. Most homework is bullshit anyway. If you don't understand it in class, sitting at home, alone, until you can finish it won't make you any more likely to learn it, it just makes you resent your parents. Seems to have worked for me, I graduated high school with high honors and be going to one of the top ranked business colleges in the nation.
Because you responded anonymously, I suppose you already thought of this:
If you honestly think that there's not going to be some sort of provision, especially for students who are in this situation, for approved students and faculty to have a different (if any) limit placed on their usage, you are more short-sighted than you percieve the 2 gig cap to be.
you're still limited to the leg of the transmission with the least bandwidth. Unless every major network upgrades and all bugs are worked out, it's not going to make a big impact.
I'm sure that was meant with no pun intended...At least...I hope so.
Certainly, they feel that the Tetris name brought the group at least 50% of their final grade on the project. They must either forfeit the points or pay up!
Could this be used in a FPS to map people's facial expressions in real time (well, less the appropriate lag). I'd love to be able to see the pissed off look on some guy's face who I've fragged three dozen times straight.
How appropriate, you fight like a cow.
Apparently somebody doesn't remember the voodoo lady's message about an unbreakable FIVE game contract with LucasArts. It will come, just give it time my piratey friend (and hopefully with more Murray, my favorite demonic talking skull).
As noted in another reply, a point is 1% of the mortgage amount, not 1/8%, but there is also one key that you are missing with points paid to reduce the rate of a mortgage.
Where points are useful is getting the seller of the property to pay points as part of the sale. In a buyer's market, it is a way for the seller to say, "look, I want to sell to you, and I'll even take some of the money you are paying me, and I'll put it toward helping you get a lower interest rate." The buyer is happy because they get the property and a lower interest rate, the seller is happy because in paying a small amount of what they just received, they closed a deal on their property in a buyer's market.
As a result of this lower interest rate, even the mortgage is only held for 7 years (more like 6 in MN), more of the principal has been paid off, and more profit will be made on the future sale.
It is unfortunate that so many people are uninformed about why points are useful. I do agree with one part of the argument though, however. If you are taking out a mortgage, don't pay for points on your own loan.
I read the article at nytimes.com, and then closed the window. What popped up in front of me? A Sprint popup ad for 3 months of service for only $30. Hmmm, ummmmm....maybe....no. Nice try sprint, but I'm already an unhappy customer, no need to tempt me with another year's worth of a contract.
You missed the point entirely, the reason that it would be good to not have to deal with returns is not for the sake of the video store, it is for the lazy customer (me) who does not want to deal with it. Though you are technically accurate in your statement.
As others have said, if you're buying a CD that only has one or two good tracks, that the artist isn't worth investing in. What I find really funny is that every time you turn on the radio, you are bombarded with these same artists' one or two good tracks. Who needs to download them for $.99 and burn them when all you need is good ol' FM?
Or if you're really that needy, just buy the single for 3 bucks and get a B-side too.
Does anybody else get a picture in their head of some proud new computer owners (a father and son perhaps). They are carrying their large screen glass computer from the car into the house when....splat, a bird dropps a bomb on it from 100 feet above leaving a dirty mess and one unhappy pappy.
I clicked around and got to the Amazon.com preorder page and watched the video...What was their big deal about how it's "every boy's favorite droid" and "every boy needs a droid." I'm not the kind of person that really cares, but it's almost like they were trying to draw heat from numerous upset mothers.
I just hope they release this for cell phones so I can IM and email without the hassle of pressing the same 12 buttons all the time.
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IT IS TIME FOR CHANGE
I don't like the repurcussions of this if it passes. I forsee the government in the lead role of a favorite children's book of mine: "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie..."
Apparently I was unclear, I could watch it fine, it was recording with tivo that was the issue, not viewing or ordering.
Call me old fashioned, but I guess I'll just keep stealing my TV by channel surfing during the commercials of the shows I watch. Of all of the rediculous things to be upset with, I'm suprised that this didn't come up when they introduced VCR+, those damn thieves who have taped their shows can fast forward through commercials too.
On a related note to tivo, legally or not, you can't tivo a pay-per-view event (such as wrestlemania). It completely blocks the recording function. You have to trick it by setting tivo to record a long show on another channel, and then change the cable box by itself. Could be worse, but what a pain!