Maybe Ebay should just ignore them and remove the "Buy it now" feature. I don't think that the people on Ebay would be all the mad. Also, state on the home page why they are no longer using the buy it now feature, and show joe six pack just how messed up the patent system is.
This is probably mostly due to data density. If your scratch is the same size on a CD/DVD/HD DVD/Blu Ray, then on a CD it would damage x bits. Since a dual layer DVD holds about 14 CDs, i'm guessing the same scratch would take out 14x bits. Now if the new stuff holds 50 Gigs, lets call that 5X a DVD, it would take out 70x bits. Although I heard blu ray is supposed to have some heavy polymer that prevents scratching, how much will your fingerprint or speck of dust stop the player from reading properly. There's a reason that they put hard drives in sealed containers. I would think that a device such a bluray or hd dvd would require that there be very little dust in order for it to read properly. Either that, or a lot of ecc data.
Just because you've seen it before doesn't mean that nobody is going to see it. The Indian (east indian) film industry is alive and kicking. Bollywood makes way more movies than hollywood does every year. The movies are mostly all musicals with mostly the same plot line. People go to see them in droves. You want to know why? Because they don't charge $8 a head (or the equivalent) to watch them. In the end, I don't think people care that much about surround sound and crystal clear picture. People would just rather get out of the house and watch a movie. If it cost $2, then I'd probably go see 3 or 4 a week, or at least 1 a week. With the price it is now, I'm lucky if I make it out to 1 every 2 months.
open for 5 hours, constant browsing, currently using 55 MB. I don't know where everyone gets these problems. Maybe it's some extension. I've never seen Firefox go above 80 MB.
Why did his friend order a Triple Venti Latte then? Isn't the tripple a little redundant? If tall is one shot, what is the short? which is available but you have to ask for it, it's not on the menu.
Maybe they should make it so that you can't do permanent damage. No cutting trees, No taking items, that sort of thing. Maybe have an option so that people can come to your town, but they can't affect anything.
I know it would be a serious inconvenience on everyone, but couldn't they just make it harder to get Credit/ID? If all you need is a couple key pieces of information, (SIN (SSN), Driver's license, another credit card, etc..) to be able to get credit under a certain name, then it's the bank's fault when people do it. They should make it a lot harder. For any new credit cards/loans/mortgages over $5000, then you should have to meet in person, and show real ID (like a passport). Maybe this could be on a sign up basis, so that It doesn't annoy everyone, but I know that I get new credit cards seldom enough that it wouldn't be the end of the world if I had to wait a few weeks.
I was standing in line behind a guy who ordered a quadruple venti latte. No, kidding. The Barista gave a little bit of a smirk as he handed it to him. I wonder how common something like that is?
Air bags, Antilock brakes, CD Player, power seats, crumple zones, fuel injection, automatic transmission, power stearing, fuel economy, aerodynamic body, power windows, power locks, Traction control, On-Star (now standard on 52 models TM). Need I go on? Maybe all this wasn't added in the last 20 years, but a car is much more than it used to be.
I've seen Primer, I think it was a pretty good movie. But i'm a big geek, and your a big geek. Stuff like that doesn't appeal to 90% of the population. Neither does clerks, or a bunch of other low budget movies you could probably name off. I guess the problem is that hollywood doesn't see the value in making a movie for $7000 and only making $100,000 off it (Low Profit amount, High profit percentage), as opposed to making a $100 million dollar movie that makes $600 million (High Profit amount, Low Profit Percentage).
Pick up a used one for $50 at EB. Nintendo builds them like rocks. They don't die like XBox and PS2
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All the retailers still have it in Canada. You can pick one up for $100, with a game you actually want to play, and 2 controllers. That's very tempting for some people, even those who don't game very much.
Maybe i'm off by a big, probably describing more like 40 years ago. But the point remains the same. We have many more things than we used to have. Cell phones, stereos, cars, pdas, video games, computers. They are all much more prevelant than they used to be. And they all provide much more than the earlier versions did.
How do you tell if the open access point belongs to a government agent. At least at the ISP i know it isn't owned by the goverment, although they may be cooperating. With an open access point, it could belong directly to the government.
I believe the average home is poorer today than it was 10 and 20 years ago.
I believe that people just want to have much more stuff than they did before. 20 years ago, very few people had Computers, nobody had cell phones, thed had 1 phone for the entire house. They didn't have cable tv, and they had small 13 inch tv's. Now people have cable, and giant 60 inch TVs. You can't expect that to cost the same amount. Cars have also come a long way. A car 20 years ago is much less than what most cars are now. Entertainment is the same. Movies now are much more than what they were 20 years ago. You aren't getting the same product. You're really comparing apples to oranges in this case. Would the average american want to watch a black and white movie, where you can see the strings, and there's only 6 actors, and the director/producer/editor/cameraman/lighting tech/lead actor is all the same person?
What's the stop the person running the open access point from logging all your activity? Even with SSL, there's possibile MITM attacks that can be done. Are you really willing to trust a random individual with your privacy. I know that ISPs are capable of the same, but at least you have a contract with them.
That's kind of a tricky situation, but probably no different than any other case where shell companies are set up to take the blow. In this case, they'd probably find out pretty quick that you were their only customer, and your business would probably get found out easily. However, in this case, the end users of the blackberry have no relationship with the company, and there are millions of individual and business customers all around the world. I don't think that anybody could get away with suing the end user. Although it could happen, I think that the end user could quite easily sue the company that sold them the patented device. In the blackberry case, if they started suing the end users, then i'm sure a class action lawsuit would pop up pretty fast against RIM.
Actually, I find this to be the complete opposite. The first week an album comes out, it can usually be found for $7-$13. However, after that the price usually rises. Albums that have been on the shelf for a couple months sell for around $15, and stuff that's a few years old sells for $20. It's kind of odd that as more copies sell, that the price goes up. But it's probably based on warehousing and decreased demand making it cost more to store it on the shelf.
With an 8 digit minimum password, how many people do you think have their password set to 12345678? That's kind of an annoying feature. Everytime you want to use it, you have to type in the password. I know it's more secure, but I'm sure a lot of their users find it annoying. If you have a good password, how many mistypes do you get on that tiny keyboard before it erases all your data?
For what it's worth, RIM is a Canadian company, located (i think) entirely within Canada. however, since the american market is so big, they chose to do business there. Therefore they must play by the American rules. All this time, with the lawsuits, there was business as usual in canada, because the patents don't apply.
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Maybe Ebay should just ignore them and remove the "Buy it now" feature. I don't think that the people on Ebay would be all the mad. Also, state on the home page why they are no longer using the buy it now feature, and show joe six pack just how messed up the patent system is.
You obviously don't follow the patent news lately. Simply putting "On the Internet" in front of anything all of a sudden makes it a novel idea.
This is probably mostly due to data density. If your scratch is the same size on a CD/DVD/HD DVD/Blu Ray, then on a CD it would damage x bits. Since a dual layer DVD holds about 14 CDs, i'm guessing the same scratch would take out 14x bits. Now if the new stuff holds 50 Gigs, lets call that 5X a DVD, it would take out 70x bits. Although I heard blu ray is supposed to have some heavy polymer that prevents scratching, how much will your fingerprint or speck of dust stop the player from reading properly. There's a reason that they put hard drives in sealed containers. I would think that a device such a bluray or hd dvd would require that there be very little dust in order for it to read properly. Either that, or a lot of ecc data.
Just because you've seen it before doesn't mean that nobody is going to see it. The Indian (east indian) film industry is alive and kicking. Bollywood makes way more movies than hollywood does every year. The movies are mostly all musicals with mostly the same plot line. People go to see them in droves. You want to know why? Because they don't charge $8 a head (or the equivalent) to watch them. In the end, I don't think people care that much about surround sound and crystal clear picture. People would just rather get out of the house and watch a movie. If it cost $2, then I'd probably go see 3 or 4 a week, or at least 1 a week. With the price it is now, I'm lucky if I make it out to 1 every 2 months.
open for 5 hours, constant browsing, currently using 55 MB. I don't know where everyone gets these problems. Maybe it's some extension. I've never seen Firefox go above 80 MB.
No, if Dell has taught us anything, it's that the Linux/ No OS version will cost $100 more than the windows version.
Why did his friend order a Triple Venti Latte then? Isn't the tripple a little redundant? If tall is one shot, what is the short? which is available but you have to ask for it, it's not on the menu.
I thought the price match time span always lasted as long as the product return time span. Because you could just return it and buy it somewhere else.
Maybe they should make it so that you can't do permanent damage. No cutting trees, No taking items, that sort of thing. Maybe have an option so that people can come to your town, but they can't affect anything.
I know it would be a serious inconvenience on everyone, but couldn't they just make it harder to get Credit/ID? If all you need is a couple key pieces of information, (SIN (SSN), Driver's license, another credit card, etc..) to be able to get credit under a certain name, then it's the bank's fault when people do it. They should make it a lot harder. For any new credit cards/loans/mortgages over $5000, then you should have to meet in person, and show real ID (like a passport). Maybe this could be on a sign up basis, so that It doesn't annoy everyone, but I know that I get new credit cards seldom enough that it wouldn't be the end of the world if I had to wait a few weeks.
I was standing in line behind a guy who ordered a quadruple venti latte. No, kidding. The Barista gave a little bit of a smirk as he handed it to him. I wonder how common something like that is?
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The smoke filled house part probably did it for you.
Air bags, Antilock brakes, CD Player, power seats, crumple zones, fuel injection, automatic transmission, power stearing, fuel economy, aerodynamic body, power windows, power locks, Traction control, On-Star (now standard on 52 models TM). Need I go on? Maybe all this wasn't added in the last 20 years, but a car is much more than it used to be.
I've seen Primer, I think it was a pretty good movie. But i'm a big geek, and your a big geek. Stuff like that doesn't appeal to 90% of the population. Neither does clerks, or a bunch of other low budget movies you could probably name off. I guess the problem is that hollywood doesn't see the value in making a movie for $7000 and only making $100,000 off it (Low Profit amount, High profit percentage), as opposed to making a $100 million dollar movie that makes $600 million (High Profit amount, Low Profit Percentage).
Pick up a used one for $50 at EB. Nintendo builds them like rocks. They don't die like XBox and PS2
All the retailers still have it in Canada. You can pick one up for $100, with a game you actually want to play, and 2 controllers. That's very tempting for some people, even those who don't game very much.
Maybe i'm off by a big, probably describing more like 40 years ago. But the point remains the same. We have many more things than we used to have. Cell phones, stereos, cars, pdas, video games, computers. They are all much more prevelant than they used to be. And they all provide much more than the earlier versions did.
How do you tell if the open access point belongs to a government agent. At least at the ISP i know it isn't owned by the goverment, although they may be cooperating. With an open access point, it could belong directly to the government.
I believe the average home is poorer today than it was 10 and 20 years ago.
I believe that people just want to have much more stuff than they did before. 20 years ago, very few people had Computers, nobody had cell phones, thed had 1 phone for the entire house. They didn't have cable tv, and they had small 13 inch tv's. Now people have cable, and giant 60 inch TVs. You can't expect that to cost the same amount. Cars have also come a long way. A car 20 years ago is much less than what most cars are now. Entertainment is the same. Movies now are much more than what they were 20 years ago. You aren't getting the same product. You're really comparing apples to oranges in this case. Would the average american want to watch a black and white movie, where you can see the strings, and there's only 6 actors, and the director/producer/editor/cameraman/lighting tech/lead actor is all the same person?
What's the stop the person running the open access point from logging all your activity? Even with SSL, there's possibile MITM attacks that can be done. Are you really willing to trust a random individual with your privacy. I know that ISPs are capable of the same, but at least you have a contract with them.
That's kind of a tricky situation, but probably no different than any other case where shell companies are set up to take the blow. In this case, they'd probably find out pretty quick that you were their only customer, and your business would probably get found out easily. However, in this case, the end users of the blackberry have no relationship with the company, and there are millions of individual and business customers all around the world. I don't think that anybody could get away with suing the end user. Although it could happen, I think that the end user could quite easily sue the company that sold them the patented device. In the blackberry case, if they started suing the end users, then i'm sure a class action lawsuit would pop up pretty fast against RIM.
Actually, I find this to be the complete opposite. The first week an album comes out, it can usually be found for $7-$13. However, after that the price usually rises. Albums that have been on the shelf for a couple months sell for around $15, and stuff that's a few years old sells for $20. It's kind of odd that as more copies sell, that the price goes up. But it's probably based on warehousing and decreased demand making it cost more to store it on the shelf.
With an 8 digit minimum password, how many people do you think have their password set to 12345678? That's kind of an annoying feature. Everytime you want to use it, you have to type in the password. I know it's more secure, but I'm sure a lot of their users find it annoying. If you have a good password, how many mistypes do you get on that tiny keyboard before it erases all your data?
For what it's worth, RIM is a Canadian company, located (i think) entirely within Canada. however, since the american market is so big, they chose to do business there. Therefore they must play by the American rules. All this time, with the lawsuits, there was business as usual in canada, because the patents don't apply.