All baseball is asking the umpires do is call the stikezone as defined in the rules. The same rules they're supposed to have "on instant recall".
In the rules, the stikezone is defined as a pitch that crosses OVER the plate at a certain height (which I think is between the knees and the center of the chest but I am not certain since I am not an umpire).
Now the height of the pitch may be subjective, but the width is clearly defined. So when the catcher sets himself practically behind the outside batter's box, and Greg Maddox hits the mit dead on, that has to be a ball because the only way that pitch crossed any portion of the plate is if it broke 45 degrees after crossing the top outside corner. There's not a pitcher in the game, including Maddox, that can make a ball break that much. Yet during his Cy Young award years, Maddox got those pitches because the umpires expanded the width of the strike zone for him and other pitchers.
This tool will not replace umpires, but it may help weed out the ones who refuse to enforce the rules properly. If this is the result then I'm all for it.
Exactly. Microsoft did not introduce the Assurance program to counter piracy, they did it to increase their revenue stream. If all their large scale customers paid a yearly fee to keep their software current, MS could cite those sales as money in the bank when they report their earnings.
... maybe in Europe or Japan, but expect the sloath-like FCC to drag it's feet when it comes to approving these things for use in the U.S.
The "slim-line" model will be released before these wrist weights will even be available to American consumers.
I'm no expert on these matters, but I thought that registering a server required that the server owner agree to support all the protocols for information exchange including HTTP. In that case, isn't restricting deep linking a violation of this agreement since those who want to restrict deep linking are not fully supporting HTTP?
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You forgot to mention that the POS mouse wasn't user friendly to left-handed users.
All baseball is asking the umpires do is call the stikezone as defined in the rules. The same rules they're supposed to have "on instant recall".
In the rules, the stikezone is defined as a pitch that crosses OVER the plate at a certain height (which I think is between the knees and the center of the chest but I am not certain since I am not an umpire).
Now the height of the pitch may be subjective, but the width is clearly defined. So when the catcher sets himself practically behind the outside batter's box, and Greg Maddox hits the mit dead on, that has to be a ball because the only way that pitch crossed any portion of the plate is if it broke 45 degrees after crossing the top outside corner. There's not a pitcher in the game, including Maddox, that can make a ball break that much. Yet during his Cy Young award years, Maddox got those pitches because the umpires expanded the width of the strike zone for him and other pitchers.
This tool will not replace umpires, but it may help weed out the ones who refuse to enforce the rules properly. If this is the result then I'm all for it.
Exactly. Microsoft did not introduce the Assurance program to counter piracy, they did it to increase their revenue stream. If all their large scale customers paid a yearly fee to keep their software current, MS could cite those sales as money in the bank when they report their earnings.
... and I become, Zapman.
Don't tell me let me guess, Neo brings her back to life. Am I right? Am I?
A rerun of "Capricorn One" probably raised their doubts.
Too bad Nother, but you can still work your way down the fast food chain. I hear the monarch of ground round is still hiring.
How else are they going to pay for J-Lo's insurance?
Naw, they'd release a patch before you got to a 90% infection rate.
... maybe in Europe or Japan, but expect the sloath-like FCC to drag it's feet when it comes to approving these things for use in the U.S. The "slim-line" model will be released before these wrist weights will even be available to American consumers.
I'm no expert on these matters, but I thought that registering a server required that the server owner agree to support all the protocols for information exchange including HTTP. In that case, isn't restricting deep linking a violation of this agreement since those who want to restrict deep linking are not fully supporting HTTP?