"When you have circles and ellipses, there is no way you'd be able to do this without a calculator," Jarvis said.I don't think it's exactly impossible, especially we learned to do that in my algebra 2 class my freshman year of high school.
The cable companies never said that was the case. The bandwith cap was more for business purposes than to prevent piracy. What they didn't want was a few users using a disproportinate amount of the bandwidth. According to a Yahoo! story earlier today on Slashdot...
AT&T Broadband says on its system, 1% percent of users account for 16% of bandwidth consumption.
You think the cable companies really want to stop piracy? Think about all the extra business they get from people who want broadband jsut so they can d\l MP3's and other music/video.
"The inauguration of the maglev will break Japan's stagnation, both politically and economically," he reckoned.
I dont't really see how a new train is going to break their political stagantion. Economic, I can see that, with increased travel and commerce and the like, but politically? This train may be cool, but I don't think it can work those kind of miracles.
a word is defined by the common usage of it. think of all the slang words that aren't in the dictionary. there are hundreds of them, and new ones being created all the time. just because the dictionary doesn't have the word, that doesn't mean that it doesn't have a definition. "blog" is a slang word like all the others, granted it may be geek-slang, but it is slang nontheless.
If it's right for the US, it's right for everyone.
sure that may be true from an ethical standpoint, but not from a practical one. whether or not other countries have the right to spy on us is irrelevant, what does matter is who is gonna get their ass kicked if the other country finds out they are being spied on. as a superpower, we have always had a double standard for what is "right" for countries to do. for example, after WWII, the US placed missles in western germany, and pointed them at the USSR. the USSR didn't (couldn't) do anything. several years later, the soviets were putting missles on cuba, and we used our big fat navy to make them back down and take the missles off. the US doesn't care so much for what is "fair" and "right" as they care for what is best for little things like "national securtiy" and "preventing attacks".
Part of the problem is that many people looking to buy stock won't buy it if the earnings for that company aren't spectacular. The companies found this out, and therefore did everything they could to jack their earnings, or earning reports, up. If the people weren't so stupid, and bought stocks that were "just decent" in the first place, we wouldn't be in this situation now. People just pay so much undeserved attention to these people who make virtually baseless predictions on these "whispers" that they will buy up anything they say is good. Just what these corporate giants want. It is no surprise that MS is using questionable accounting techniques, that can almost be expcected from any "giant". The bigger issue is that the people aren't smart enough to decide which ones are good companies on their own.
I do not mean to say that the companies should do these things, or that they aren't responsible for them, I simply mean to say that the people should expect them.
If it really did work well, I'm sure it would be useful in any part of Tokyo. Despite the fact that there are "significantly differently dialects" in the city, I'm sure it could get the message across much better than by trying to do some sort of Japenglish with a lot of big hand motions. This is, of course, assuming that it worked well (a big assumption). The Japanese have no trouble understanding each other, and I'm sure they happen to meet people from other districts all the time, and somtimes they might even try to talk to them.
The funny thing is, most people play with LEGOs when they are in elementary school. Some people, however, play with them their entire lives. And if you thought they were expensive when you were a little kid, just look at the price for the ones that do your laundary for you!
Of course, if a woman can sue McDonalds for giving her hot coffee, and her spilling it on herself, then why not sue somebody for trying to rid the Internet world of your annoyance? I mean, heaven forbid that your coffee is actually hot, and likewise, heaven forbid that you only get the webpage you requested while surfing the net.
I can see the news reports now...
"A group of rogue Ham radioers have taken control of NASA's satellites. They are reportedly playing freeze-tag with them. Still pending investigation..."
No. I doubt it did. I would be willing to bet that most of the people going to see AOTC had already heard of it, and were going to see that, wherever it was playing. It isn't some no-name movie that people just go to the theater and say "Oh - that one looks like it has a lot of peolple going to it, let's go there." Most people are going to see AOTC, not just any movie.
avoid patronizing them? i will patronize any chain that will give me tickets to new releases for $2. i am sick of paying the outrageous $8.75 i pay in cincinnati. the only place that sells tickets for $2 around here is about 2 years later in getting the movie than everybody else. not only that, but the quality sucks and the springs in the seats poke me in the butt.
I can just imagine the unfortuante accidents associated with this becoming popular... "Local college student was hit by a car today, claiming that he had been insturucted to kill it..."
I think that it's about time they re-incarnated Paperboy for GameCube. That was the best game ever. Of course, it would have to be 3-D, like every other game they have comtinued making new versions of. I would by ANY system that had that game...
Surprise surprise! Someone got it wrong and sold a lot more issues by misquoting the Simpson's creator, saying that he was going to stop making new episodes. How convenient. It is such a rarity too, that a magazine would misquote someone to have a big story. Of course, I'm sure that it was entirely unintentional...
I can guarantee that if this becomes widespread, it will be challenged in a court. People challenge any and evey new law that comes out if it is even slightly controversial, and I would consider this issue to be more than slightly controversial.
Whether or not I am doing anything wrong, I don't want the government to be able to follow me and recognize me wherever I go. A certain degree of anonymity is nice, criminal or not.
All this is pointless anyway. Think about it - what's the best copyright protection they've come out with? CDs you can't play on your computer? Those are gonna be REALLY popular. And anyway, if you can play the CD at all, you will be able to copy it. It might take a little more work, but still not too hard.
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AT&T Broadband says on its system, 1% percent of users account for 16% of bandwidth consumption.
You think the cable companies really want to stop piracy? Think about all the extra business they get from people who want broadband jsut so they can d\l MP3's and other music/video.
CGI?! what? i though they just had really nimble puppeteers?
a word is defined by the common usage of it. think of all the slang words that aren't in the dictionary. there are hundreds of them, and new ones being created all the time. just because the dictionary doesn't have the word, that doesn't mean that it doesn't have a definition. "blog" is a slang word like all the others, granted it may be geek-slang, but it is slang nontheless.
sure that may be true from an ethical standpoint, but not from a practical one. whether or not other countries have the right to spy on us is irrelevant, what does matter is who is gonna get their ass kicked if the other country finds out they are being spied on. as a superpower, we have always had a double standard for what is "right" for countries to do. for example, after WWII, the US placed missles in western germany, and pointed them at the USSR. the USSR didn't (couldn't) do anything. several years later, the soviets were putting missles on cuba, and we used our big fat navy to make them back down and take the missles off. the US doesn't care so much for what is "fair" and "right" as they care for what is best for little things like "national securtiy" and "preventing attacks".
but does it look pretty?
Part of the problem is that many people looking to buy stock won't buy it if the earnings for that company aren't spectacular. The companies found this out, and therefore did everything they could to jack their earnings, or earning reports, up. If the people weren't so stupid, and bought stocks that were "just decent" in the first place, we wouldn't be in this situation now. People just pay so much undeserved attention to these people who make virtually baseless predictions on these "whispers" that they will buy up anything they say is good. Just what these corporate giants want. It is no surprise that MS is using questionable accounting techniques, that can almost be expcected from any "giant". The bigger issue is that the people aren't smart enough to decide which ones are good companies on their own. I do not mean to say that the companies should do these things, or that they aren't responsible for them, I simply mean to say that the people should expect them.
If it really did work well, I'm sure it would be useful in any part of Tokyo. Despite the fact that there are "significantly differently dialects" in the city, I'm sure it could get the message across much better than by trying to do some sort of Japenglish with a lot of big hand motions. This is, of course, assuming that it worked well (a big assumption). The Japanese have no trouble understanding each other, and I'm sure they happen to meet people from other districts all the time, and somtimes they might even try to talk to them.
The funny thing is, most people play with LEGOs when they are in elementary school. Some people, however, play with them their entire lives. And if you thought they were expensive when you were a little kid, just look at the price for the ones that do your laundary for you!
Of course, if a woman can sue McDonalds for giving her hot coffee, and her spilling it on herself, then why not sue somebody for trying to rid the Internet world of your annoyance? I mean, heaven forbid that your coffee is actually hot, and likewise, heaven forbid that you only get the webpage you requested while surfing the net.
A very good article. But one thing I don't uderstand -what is the difference between what the "indies" do, and payola? A fine line, it seems...
I can see the news reports now... "A group of rogue Ham radioers have taken control of NASA's satellites. They are reportedly playing freeze-tag with them. Still pending investigation..."
No. I doubt it did. I would be willing to bet that most of the people going to see AOTC had already heard of it, and were going to see that, wherever it was playing. It isn't some no-name movie that people just go to the theater and say "Oh - that one looks like it has a lot of peolple going to it, let's go there." Most people are going to see AOTC, not just any movie.
avoid patronizing them? i will patronize any chain that will give me tickets to new releases for $2. i am sick of paying the outrageous $8.75 i pay in cincinnati. the only place that sells tickets for $2 around here is about 2 years later in getting the movie than everybody else. not only that, but the quality sucks and the springs in the seats poke me in the butt.
I can just imagine the unfortuante accidents associated with this becoming popular... "Local college student was hit by a car today, claiming that he had been insturucted to kill it..."
I think that it's about time they re-incarnated Paperboy for GameCube. That was the best game ever. Of course, it would have to be 3-D, like every other game they have comtinued making new versions of. I would by ANY system that had that game...
Surprise surprise! Someone got it wrong and sold a lot more issues by misquoting the Simpson's creator, saying that he was going to stop making new episodes. How convenient. It is such a rarity too, that a magazine would misquote someone to have a big story. Of course, I'm sure that it was entirely unintentional...
I can guarantee that if this becomes widespread, it will be challenged in a court. People challenge any and evey new law that comes out if it is even slightly controversial, and I would consider this issue to be more than slightly controversial.
Whether or not I am doing anything wrong, I don't want the government to be able to follow me and recognize me wherever I go. A certain degree of anonymity is nice, criminal or not.
All this is pointless anyway. Think about it - what's the best copyright protection they've come out with? CDs you can't play on your computer? Those are gonna be REALLY popular. And anyway, if you can play the CD at all, you will be able to copy it. It might take a little more work, but still not too hard.