I have an old copy that I borrowed from a friend and never returned. I never got around to installing it until a few months ago. I didn't really find it that good. I guess that I just don't like that kind of game. Although I like other somewhat similar games like Zelda, Diablo, and such. Maybe I just don't have enough time to pour into these long drawn out games anymore. You could probably buy an old copy off someone, I don't really want to see my copy, because well, it's not mine.
I certainly do remember those old calculators. Actually up until the last 2 years of highschool, I don't remember using a calculator much at all. Almost every cheap $10-$40 scientific calculator I've seen requires that you type the 30 before the 'sin'. At least all the older ones I used did. I haven't used those much since I got my TI-86. I see the advantage, when you don't have multiline displays, and you need to do all your calculations with a very simple chip, however I'll agree with you that it's no longer necessary.
What's the big deal with RPN? I've tried it a little bit, but never quite got the hang of it. I've always favoured standard notation. It's nice to be able to look at the equation on your calculator and verify that it's the same as the one on your paper. Just as a reference point, my calculator of choice is the TI-86. Bought it as a required tool back in my first year of university, and haven't found any reason to change.
That's why the only store I buy MP3s (or any digital file) from is eMusic. They are the one of the few (I've heard of amiestreet and others) that offer downloadable music at a price much lower than buying the physical thing. Make tracks cost a quarter, and you'd probably eliminate 75% of people pirating music. Cut the tracks down to a dime, and I don't think anybody would bother pirating. They could probably send you an entire album for 5 cents worth of bandwidth.
Garauteed to give you a rootkit if your dumb enough to leave autorun turned on. Although I really shouldn't blame the people who don't know enough to turn this mis-feature off. Whoever thought it was a good idea to have programs execute before you even have the chance to look at what's on the disk should be shot.
Is that legal? In Canada, there's laws saying that they can only raise your rent around 2% per year. If they raise it more, there has to be a good reason, like electricity bills skyrocketing, and the electricity being included in the rent.
It's basically their way of stopping people from signing up for a free trial over and over again. One free trial per credit card. How else do you expect them to limit you to only 1 free trial? Maybe they should just ask for your social security number instead.
But the advantage is that you can get 30 tracks for $10. If you don't want to spend $10, or download 30 tracks a month, then eMusic may not be for you. But even if you only download 11 tracks for the $10, you still save over the $0.99 music stores like iTunes. I think this is due to the fact that their credit card transaction costs would be too high if you only bought 1 or 2 songs a month. I find that eMusic works well as an addition to the music you usually buy on CD. Because a subscription can be had for as little as $10, it isn't going to break your budget, and you still have money left over to buy music from elsewhere.
There's already been DRM free music for quite a while. People like to complain that the music isn't available online without DRM, but aren't willing to vote with their wallet, and stop buying music from bands and labels that require DRM to download songs. Currently I get all my music from eMusic. It doesn't have everything I want, but it does have a lot of good music. I'd rather have music for about $3-$5 an album, than have to put up with DRM'd files, or paying $15 for a single album on CD.
Yeah, not everyone is happy. Sorry about that. What I meant was that people in general were pretty happy, and there hasn't been enough stuff go wrong yet to create a big public uproar. It would have been interesting if the Zune was any good. If there was any music player worth switching to, I think that people might start to realize the problem with iTunes. I'm not saying the iPod is completely amazing, or that there is nothing better, but that they are pretty much all the same, and no player out there gives people a big reason to switch from iTunes.
This is what people don't seem to understand yet. Everyone is happy using iTunes, but what happens when somebody comes out with a portable music player that's better than the iPod, or just as good, but for cheaper? What happens when there's another cool music shop that has better prices, or a better selection? Do you now need 2 programs to manage your music library? What about the 3rd and 4th online music stores? Things have been pretty calm for now, because there's been no major players that have shut down, and you can hook your iPod up to your home stereo, or your car stereo, so there hasn't been too much complaining. But I think that within 5 years most people will start to see the problem with DRMed media. To make a bad car analogy, could you imagine if your car would no longer function, if the dealership you bought it from closed down? Or something less stupid. What if all your CDs purchase from a store stopped working when the store closed down, and that you had to have a separate player for every store you bought CDs from. That's basically where DRM will take us.
Like I said, there's nothing in the $200 price range. The Asus Eee PC isn't out yet, and even when it comes out, won't be able to ship a whole lot of units. Also, having 1 competing product isn't a whole lot of competition. Putting out a $400 (efectively) laptop, means you have to compete with all the $400-$500 laptops. Putting out something in the $250 price range means that you aren't competing with much. They would do a lot better trying to compete with no one.
First question. Can I claim that as a charitable donation on my taxes? Second. Why not allow people to just buy a single machine, maybe for a little extra profit. I'd be much more likely to buy one at $250, then I would be to buy one at $400. There's a lot better laptops that could be had for $400. There's nothing in the $200 price range.
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I've always said, you get as much out of school as you put into it. There's a lot of people I know who cheated their way through school, and when it came time to graduate, they had a lot of trouble getting a job, because they hadn't actually learned anything. However, if you spend your time learning the material, researching other related areas, and getting to know the important people, then going to university will probably do you a lot of good.
What do you do when your car runs out of gas? Do you brew up a new batch in your garage? No, you probably go down to the local gas station, and fill up there. You depend on them for fuel. I realize there's a difference between dependance for supplies, and dependance for service, but how much really? Sure you know how to maintain all that stuff, but you probably rely on quite a few people for the stuff necessary to maintain those things. Everybody is hopelessly dependant on a lot of people to live out their lives as they currently do. It's called society. If we all decided to stop providing services and products to others, we might still survive, but we'd be a lot more like animals than people. And we wouldn't have computers, bikes, cars, and alot of other things we take for granted. Even animals realize the importance of society, hunting in packs, and travelling in herds/flocks.
Wouldn't selling it for use on any network generate more sales? If X is the number of users on AT&T and Y is the number of users on T-Mobile, then X + Y > X, unless of course, T-Mobile has less than 1 user. Would it be impossible for them to have a phone that works on all GSM networks. Oh, I forgot, they probably got really good kickbacks from AT&T for going exclusive.
Would they have to? With the GPL, if you make changes and distribute the software to an outside entity, you have to make the source code available. However, if you are a corporation, and make a bunch of changes to some GPL product, but only use it internally within you're corporation, you aren't required to release any of the changes. So if the Russian government makes a bunch of changes but only releases it to be used by government controlled entities such as schools, government offices, police, and military are they required to release the source? I would think not.
And 5 lbs is a pretty big kite. These large kites have a wingspan of 93 inches (7 feet, 8 inches), yet only weigh 10 ounces. I think you'd have to get a very large kite, to get past the 5 lbs range.
Why not just take responsibility for your own data and encrypt it yourself. Would you really trust that they were really encrypting it, and not leaving any back doors for the government, or the mafia? The solution is simple. If you're worried about them tapping the cable, then just encrypt your data end-to-end.
Is there 40 to 50 hours of gameplay? Or 40 to 50 hours of full motion video. I'm currently playing the GC version of Twilight Princess, and have played a total of 40 hours. And from what I can tell, I'm probably under 5 hours from beating the game. That's not counting doing all the side quests. I've completed a couple, but I haven't really focused on it. All that fits on a single GameCube Mini DVD. There's quite a few cutscenes, but I think they are all rendered with the game engine. If you have 40 to 50 hours of HD video, even compressed with h.264, I could see this filling up 4 DVDs. However, I could(n't) care less about how much full motion video there is in a game, I want lots of play time. I seem to remember FF VII taking 4 CDs and taking quite a while to beat, but that was more due to long cutscenes, and those 8 minute long attack sequences every time you attacked your enemy.
You could probably build a Myth TV box for probably around $400. If you went with local High Def ($0), you could save $50 a month, and your costs would be recouped in less than a year.
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I have an old copy that I borrowed from a friend and never returned. I never got around to installing it until a few months ago. I didn't really find it that good. I guess that I just don't like that kind of game. Although I like other somewhat similar games like Zelda, Diablo, and such. Maybe I just don't have enough time to pour into these long drawn out games anymore. You could probably buy an old copy off someone, I don't really want to see my copy, because well, it's not mine.
I certainly do remember those old calculators. Actually up until the last 2 years of highschool, I don't remember using a calculator much at all. Almost every cheap $10-$40 scientific calculator I've seen requires that you type the 30 before the 'sin'. At least all the older ones I used did. I haven't used those much since I got my TI-86. I see the advantage, when you don't have multiline displays, and you need to do all your calculations with a very simple chip, however I'll agree with you that it's no longer necessary.
What's the big deal with RPN? I've tried it a little bit, but never quite got the hang of it. I've always favoured standard notation. It's nice to be able to look at the equation on your calculator and verify that it's the same as the one on your paper. Just as a reference point, my calculator of choice is the TI-86. Bought it as a required tool back in my first year of university, and haven't found any reason to change.
Amazon could take a stand and refuse to sell songs from labels who want to push this kind of crap on their customers.
That's why the only store I buy MP3s (or any digital file) from is eMusic. They are the one of the few (I've heard of amiestreet and others) that offer downloadable music at a price much lower than buying the physical thing. Make tracks cost a quarter, and you'd probably eliminate 75% of people pirating music. Cut the tracks down to a dime, and I don't think anybody would bother pirating. They could probably send you an entire album for 5 cents worth of bandwidth.
Garauteed to give you a rootkit if your dumb enough to leave autorun turned on. Although I really shouldn't blame the people who don't know enough to turn this mis-feature off. Whoever thought it was a good idea to have programs execute before you even have the chance to look at what's on the disk should be shot.
Is that legal? In Canada, there's laws saying that they can only raise your rent around 2% per year. If they raise it more, there has to be a good reason, like electricity bills skyrocketing, and the electricity being included in the rent.
For another surprise, try Creedence Clearwater Revival.
It's basically their way of stopping people from signing up for a free trial over and over again. One free trial per credit card. How else do you expect them to limit you to only 1 free trial? Maybe they should just ask for your social security number instead.
But the advantage is that you can get 30 tracks for $10. If you don't want to spend $10, or download 30 tracks a month, then eMusic may not be for you. But even if you only download 11 tracks for the $10, you still save over the $0.99 music stores like iTunes. I think this is due to the fact that their credit card transaction costs would be too high if you only bought 1 or 2 songs a month. I find that eMusic works well as an addition to the music you usually buy on CD. Because a subscription can be had for as little as $10, it isn't going to break your budget, and you still have money left over to buy music from elsewhere.
There's already been DRM free music for quite a while. People like to complain that the music isn't available online without DRM, but aren't willing to vote with their wallet, and stop buying music from bands and labels that require DRM to download songs. Currently I get all my music from eMusic. It doesn't have everything I want, but it does have a lot of good music. I'd rather have music for about $3-$5 an album, than have to put up with DRM'd files, or paying $15 for a single album on CD.
Yeah, not everyone is happy. Sorry about that. What I meant was that people in general were pretty happy, and there hasn't been enough stuff go wrong yet to create a big public uproar. It would have been interesting if the Zune was any good. If there was any music player worth switching to, I think that people might start to realize the problem with iTunes. I'm not saying the iPod is completely amazing, or that there is nothing better, but that they are pretty much all the same, and no player out there gives people a big reason to switch from iTunes.
This is what people don't seem to understand yet. Everyone is happy using iTunes, but what happens when somebody comes out with a portable music player that's better than the iPod, or just as good, but for cheaper? What happens when there's another cool music shop that has better prices, or a better selection? Do you now need 2 programs to manage your music library? What about the 3rd and 4th online music stores? Things have been pretty calm for now, because there's been no major players that have shut down, and you can hook your iPod up to your home stereo, or your car stereo, so there hasn't been too much complaining. But I think that within 5 years most people will start to see the problem with DRMed media. To make a bad car analogy, could you imagine if your car would no longer function, if the dealership you bought it from closed down? Or something less stupid. What if all your CDs purchase from a store stopped working when the store closed down, and that you had to have a separate player for every store you bought CDs from. That's basically where DRM will take us.
Like I said, there's nothing in the $200 price range. The Asus Eee PC isn't out yet, and even when it comes out, won't be able to ship a whole lot of units. Also, having 1 competing product isn't a whole lot of competition. Putting out a $400 (efectively) laptop, means you have to compete with all the $400-$500 laptops. Putting out something in the $250 price range means that you aren't competing with much. They would do a lot better trying to compete with no one.
First question. Can I claim that as a charitable donation on my taxes? Second. Why not allow people to just buy a single machine, maybe for a little extra profit. I'd be much more likely to buy one at $250, then I would be to buy one at $400. There's a lot better laptops that could be had for $400. There's nothing in the $200 price range.
I've always said, you get as much out of school as you put into it. There's a lot of people I know who cheated their way through school, and when it came time to graduate, they had a lot of trouble getting a job, because they hadn't actually learned anything. However, if you spend your time learning the material, researching other related areas, and getting to know the important people, then going to university will probably do you a lot of good.
What do you do when your car runs out of gas? Do you brew up a new batch in your garage? No, you probably go down to the local gas station, and fill up there. You depend on them for fuel. I realize there's a difference between dependance for supplies, and dependance for service, but how much really? Sure you know how to maintain all that stuff, but you probably rely on quite a few people for the stuff necessary to maintain those things. Everybody is hopelessly dependant on a lot of people to live out their lives as they currently do. It's called society. If we all decided to stop providing services and products to others, we might still survive, but we'd be a lot more like animals than people. And we wouldn't have computers, bikes, cars, and alot of other things we take for granted. Even animals realize the importance of society, hunting in packs, and travelling in herds/flocks.
Wouldn't selling it for use on any network generate more sales? If X is the number of users on AT&T and Y is the number of users on T-Mobile, then X + Y > X, unless of course, T-Mobile has less than 1 user. Would it be impossible for them to have a phone that works on all GSM networks. Oh, I forgot, they probably got really good kickbacks from AT&T for going exclusive.
Would they have to? With the GPL, if you make changes and distribute the software to an outside entity, you have to make the source code available. However, if you are a corporation, and make a bunch of changes to some GPL product, but only use it internally within you're corporation, you aren't required to release any of the changes. So if the Russian government makes a bunch of changes but only releases it to be used by government controlled entities such as schools, government offices, police, and military are they required to release the source? I would think not.
And 5 lbs is a pretty big kite. These large kites have a wingspan of 93 inches (7 feet, 8 inches), yet only weigh 10 ounces. I think you'd have to get a very large kite, to get past the 5 lbs range.
Or just launch from a platform in international waters.
Why not just take responsibility for your own data and encrypt it yourself. Would you really trust that they were really encrypting it, and not leaving any back doors for the government, or the mafia? The solution is simple. If you're worried about them tapping the cable, then just encrypt your data end-to-end.
He's not hiding. In fact, he went to visit Bush, last time he was in Australia.
Is there 40 to 50 hours of gameplay? Or 40 to 50 hours of full motion video. I'm currently playing the GC version of Twilight Princess, and have played a total of 40 hours. And from what I can tell, I'm probably under 5 hours from beating the game. That's not counting doing all the side quests. I've completed a couple, but I haven't really focused on it. All that fits on a single GameCube Mini DVD. There's quite a few cutscenes, but I think they are all rendered with the game engine. If you have 40 to 50 hours of HD video, even compressed with h.264, I could see this filling up 4 DVDs. However, I could(n't) care less about how much full motion video there is in a game, I want lots of play time. I seem to remember FF VII taking 4 CDs and taking quite a while to beat, but that was more due to long cutscenes, and those 8 minute long attack sequences every time you attacked your enemy.
You could probably build a Myth TV box for probably around $400. If you went with local High Def ($0), you could save $50 a month, and your costs would be recouped in less than a year.