Well, firstly this only applies to cars. Secondly, There probably already is a 12:1 ratio of cars to delivery trucks. Third. If you sell just 2, 60 mpg cars, for every 12 mpg large truck, then your average is still beyond 42 mpg.
However, the big question to me is, how do the automakers control which vehicles are sold? They can offer 18 different models that run at 50 mpg, and 1 model that runs at 30, and there's nothing saying that everybody won't run out and buy the 30 mpg car.
The big question is, will music stores be allowed to sell it. Will retailers who sell this be blacklisted by the distribution chain? EMI and the RIAA have a lot of influence in how their music is distributed. How long until retails get jacked up prices from their distributor for other music for selling this?
I picked search engines specifically because it's the one thing that just about (although I guess not everybody) uses on the internet. Facebook, and Twitter especially tend to stay too much within a single demographic.
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Not sure of any recent games. But Command and Conquer used to come with 2 CDs specifically for this reason. Give one to a friend, and you could play on modem against eachother.
Just a guess here, but they probably made it cheaper by choice on the Wii, because it's tied to the console you bought it on. There's DRM inherent in the WiiWare system, so they probably opted to sell it for cheaper.
W3 schools tends to be highly slanted away from IE, and already says FireFox is at 47%. This probably has to do with the fact that most of their visitors are web developers, and therefore a little more tech savvy than the average person. I would say that w3schools is actually a really bad place to look. If you could somehow get the stats from Yahoo, Microsoft Live Search, and Google, you might be able to get the numbers to within 5% error.
You're right. However, what it seems we both agree on is that the constitution is up to interpretation. Depending on who you talk to, the right to bear arms may only cover basic firearms, or it may cover everything upto and including automatic machineguns, rocket launchers, and nuclear devices.
The constitution was ratified in 1788, while photography didn't even get invented until 1820. How can the constitution really say anything about a technology that didn't exist at the time. Just as the right to bear arms doesn't mean you can carry around rocket launchers and nuclear weapons, there are things in the constitution that no longer can be taken to mean exactly what they say.
Last time I checked, Final Fantasy was turn based. Although I haven't played anything since FF VII. Although I've seen VIII. What stopped me from playing was the 2 minute cut scenes for every single attack. But that's another conversation. Also Chrono Trigger, at least as I played it, wasn't strictly turned based. There was actually 2 modes. One which was turn based, and one that was more interactive, in that you couldn't just sit there for 2 minutes thinking of your next move, or the bad guys would attack you a bunch of times.
Flashblock does pretty good. Blocks almost all animation. The remainder of animated stuff on the page is animated gifs, which is becoming increasingly uncommon, and which an be blocked with a quick press of the esc key. I find that with flash block installed, I only see non-animated ads, and I don't even feel the need to have adblock installed.
How does selling apps to control bittorrent drive away customers? Also, couldn't a web browser be used to control bittorrent. You could probably somewhat easily (if you were a programmer) create a PHP page on Apache that interfaces with your Bittorrent client.
Yeah, but who really thinks that it's genuine when it only costs $5 while the real retails (non street vendor) are selling it for $100. It's a fake rolex. You know it's fake, but you can still tell the time with it, so you probably don't care.
Are there really people who have a pirated copy and really believe that it's a copy that they have a valid license for? I seriously doubt that more than.05% of people who are running pirated versions of windows actually thing it is geniune. This is just going to annoy people who got mislabeled as pirates, while all the pirates find an easy way to disable this "feature".
A very good point. My brother wanted to become a teacher when he was in highschool. Our highschool had an option where you could be a teacher's helper in a class for a class credit. After one semester of being in the teacher's position, he knew that he didn't want to be a teacher. The students didn't want to learn, didn't want to listen, and didn't even want to be there. Only taking advanced highschool courses, he had no idea the general level courses would be so full of disruption and so hard to teach. I have to say that a lot of teachers really have given up. I had a lot of good teachers, but even the good ones let the kids fall behind if the student didn't put any effort into the course. You can't teach someone who doesn't want to be taught.
I never even saw a textbook until I was in high school, and even then we only had them for a few classes. You don't need textbooks to teach. For math, you can do all you need with a blackboard, some blank paper, and maybe a few photo copied (or ditto machine) homework assignments. For English, you can teach most of it without "textbooks". Sure you need novels, but out of copyright works can be extremely cheap. If you think about it, and look for alternatives, there are ways to teach just about every subject without requiring expensive books. I even did many university courses without text books.
But sure there are other ways to teach familiarity with IT than by giving out laptops. How hard is it to have a computer lab (or 2 or 3) so that the students can use computers. If the family situation is really as bad as you are insinuating, I think the student would be much better off using the computers at school, rather than bringing them home.
Your transit system sucks. Also, consider biking. I currently bike to work and it takes about 20 minutes. By car it takes about 15 minutes. I have a co worker to bikes from another area of town (35 minute ride), and by car it actually takes longer because of all the traffic. The plus of biking is that I don't have to make time for the gym as I get all the exercise I need just by going to and from work. I realize biking doesn't work for everybody, but it could be done by a much higher percentage than it currently is.
Except that they don't actually travel in a straight line away from the sun. They use the slingshot effect to travel a couple orbits around the sun and build up lots of speed. It would probably be very hard to aim the laser the correctly on a moving target millions of miles away.
Yet I'm sure that Maxim sells more copies than GQ or Equire. Same reason you see 70 different tabloids. The masses buy this trash, and the companies make money.
Really. It doesn't stop people from buying $500 smartphones and $300 MP3 players. Just be careful with your stuff. Sure it's not suited for all environments, like at the beach, there are quite a few good things about such a device. So it doesn't work at the beach. I only go to the beach once a year, and spend 48 weeks out of the year (minimum) in the city.
The fifth, from what I understand, only says you don't "have to" incriminate yourself, not that you can't willingly do so. Otherwise, there would be no way to plead guilty to a crime.
My first thought too. Continually harassing someone with hate speech should be against the law regardless of the medium. It shouldn't matter that they are doing it on the internet.
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Well, firstly this only applies to cars. Secondly, There probably already is a 12:1 ratio of cars to delivery trucks. Third. If you sell just 2, 60 mpg cars, for every 12 mpg large truck, then your average is still beyond 42 mpg.
However, the big question to me is, how do the automakers control which vehicles are sold? They can offer 18 different models that run at 50 mpg, and 1 model that runs at 30, and there's nothing saying that everybody won't run out and buy the 30 mpg car.
The big question is, will music stores be allowed to sell it. Will retailers who sell this be blacklisted by the distribution chain? EMI and the RIAA have a lot of influence in how their music is distributed. How long until retails get jacked up prices from their distributor for other music for selling this?
I picked search engines specifically because it's the one thing that just about (although I guess not everybody) uses on the internet. Facebook, and Twitter especially tend to stay too much within a single demographic.
Not sure of any recent games. But Command and Conquer used to come with 2 CDs specifically for this reason. Give one to a friend, and you could play on modem against eachother.
Just a guess here, but they probably made it cheaper by choice on the Wii, because it's tied to the console you bought it on. There's DRM inherent in the WiiWare system, so they probably opted to sell it for cheaper.
W3 schools tends to be highly slanted away from IE, and already says FireFox is at 47%. This probably has to do with the fact that most of their visitors are web developers, and therefore a little more tech savvy than the average person. I would say that w3schools is actually a really bad place to look. If you could somehow get the stats from Yahoo, Microsoft Live Search, and Google, you might be able to get the numbers to within 5% error.
You're right. However, what it seems we both agree on is that the constitution is up to interpretation. Depending on who you talk to, the right to bear arms may only cover basic firearms, or it may cover everything upto and including automatic machineguns, rocket launchers, and nuclear devices.
The constitution was ratified in 1788, while photography didn't even get invented until 1820. How can the constitution really say anything about a technology that didn't exist at the time. Just as the right to bear arms doesn't mean you can carry around rocket launchers and nuclear weapons, there are things in the constitution that no longer can be taken to mean exactly what they say.
Last time I checked, Final Fantasy was turn based. Although I haven't played anything since FF VII. Although I've seen VIII. What stopped me from playing was the 2 minute cut scenes for every single attack. But that's another conversation. Also Chrono Trigger, at least as I played it, wasn't strictly turned based. There was actually 2 modes. One which was turn based, and one that was more interactive, in that you couldn't just sit there for 2 minutes thinking of your next move, or the bad guys would attack you a bunch of times.
Flashblock does pretty good. Blocks almost all animation. The remainder of animated stuff on the page is animated gifs, which is becoming increasingly uncommon, and which an be blocked with a quick press of the esc key. I find that with flash block installed, I only see non-animated ads, and I don't even feel the need to have adblock installed.
How does selling apps to control bittorrent drive away customers? Also, couldn't a web browser be used to control bittorrent. You could probably somewhat easily (if you were a programmer) create a PHP page on Apache that interfaces with your Bittorrent client.
However, it's pretty easy to get cordless phones in the 5 GHz range.
Just get a Wii, and you have Youtube on your TV without all that futzing around.
Yeah, but who really thinks that it's genuine when it only costs $5 while the real retails (non street vendor) are selling it for $100. It's a fake rolex. You know it's fake, but you can still tell the time with it, so you probably don't care.
Are there really people who have a pirated copy and really believe that it's a copy that they have a valid license for? I seriously doubt that more than .05% of people who are running pirated versions of windows actually thing it is geniune. This is just going to annoy people who got mislabeled as pirates, while all the pirates find an easy way to disable this "feature".
A very good point. My brother wanted to become a teacher when he was in highschool. Our highschool had an option where you could be a teacher's helper in a class for a class credit. After one semester of being in the teacher's position, he knew that he didn't want to be a teacher. The students didn't want to learn, didn't want to listen, and didn't even want to be there. Only taking advanced highschool courses, he had no idea the general level courses would be so full of disruption and so hard to teach. I have to say that a lot of teachers really have given up. I had a lot of good teachers, but even the good ones let the kids fall behind if the student didn't put any effort into the course. You can't teach someone who doesn't want to be taught.
I never even saw a textbook until I was in high school, and even then we only had them for a few classes. You don't need textbooks to teach. For math, you can do all you need with a blackboard, some blank paper, and maybe a few photo copied (or ditto machine) homework assignments. For English, you can teach most of it without "textbooks". Sure you need novels, but out of copyright works can be extremely cheap. If you think about it, and look for alternatives, there are ways to teach just about every subject without requiring expensive books. I even did many university courses without text books.
But sure there are other ways to teach familiarity with IT than by giving out laptops. How hard is it to have a computer lab (or 2 or 3) so that the students can use computers. If the family situation is really as bad as you are insinuating, I think the student would be much better off using the computers at school, rather than bringing them home.
Works well when you have to go all the way across the city, but otherwise I agree, not much use.
Your transit system sucks. Also, consider biking. I currently bike to work and it takes about 20 minutes. By car it takes about 15 minutes. I have a co worker to bikes from another area of town (35 minute ride), and by car it actually takes longer because of all the traffic. The plus of biking is that I don't have to make time for the gym as I get all the exercise I need just by going to and from work. I realize biking doesn't work for everybody, but it could be done by a much higher percentage than it currently is.
Except that they don't actually travel in a straight line away from the sun. They use the slingshot effect to travel a couple orbits around the sun and build up lots of speed. It would probably be very hard to aim the laser the correctly on a moving target millions of miles away.
Yet I'm sure that Maxim sells more copies than GQ or Equire. Same reason you see 70 different tabloids. The masses buy this trash, and the companies make money.
Really. It doesn't stop people from buying $500 smartphones and $300 MP3 players. Just be careful with your stuff. Sure it's not suited for all environments, like at the beach, there are quite a few good things about such a device. So it doesn't work at the beach. I only go to the beach once a year, and spend 48 weeks out of the year (minimum) in the city.
The fifth, from what I understand, only says you don't "have to" incriminate yourself, not that you can't willingly do so. Otherwise, there would be no way to plead guilty to a crime.
My first thought too. Continually harassing someone with hate speech should be against the law regardless of the medium. It shouldn't matter that they are doing it on the internet.