Yeah, this is exactly right. I set up a universal remote for my parents, but sometimes they don't aim it correctly, or the battery is low, and it will miss one of the devices. This confuses the heck out of them, because either the sound doesn't turn off, but the picture does, or the next time they try turning the TV on, one device goes on, and the other goes off, and they come running my way, completely befuddled. What really needs to be done is make each device have a seperate off and on button. That would fix all the problems.
There is no lack of oil at reasonable prices. Even with the recent price spike, US gas prices are lower in inflation-adjusted terms than they were during the "Oil Crisis" of the late-1970s. Prices would be a lot higher if we were running out of oil.
Ah, but the problem with oil is that it is not priced with the knowledge of how much is still in the ground, like other limited resources. So far, we have only been given educated guesses as to how much available oil is still in the ground. To give an example of the worst case scenario, the price could stay the same right up until the the wells start drying up, because we just don't know how much is really left.
If you RTFA, you will notice that more specifically, Microsoft is working along with Creative and iRiver, who will both be releasing these products for Microsoft. Don't you find it interesting that Microsoft has teamed up with two of the three biggest DAP designers (the third probably being Rio or Archos) on the market right now, outside of Apple, just to compete?
Whether or not your monitor supports the resolution or not, this still does not mean that it can fully support 720p. It has to do with the length of the electron guns in your display. I cannot find the best source for this information anymore, but there used to be a page that explained the issue. Basically very few HDTV displays currently can display 720p correctly. 720p is MORE DIFFICULT to display fully than 1080i. This is the best I could do here:
"And if I can go completely geek on you for a second, there are very few HDTV's out there that can support 720p properly. Most HDTV sets have 7" electron guns, and they are too short to give a full 720p picture. So even if a TV says it supports 720p, if it only has 7" guns, you're missing some of the picture. Not a lot, but enough to shortchange you on what you're supposed to be getting. If you want a real 720p picture, make sure that your set has 9" guns. Most other sets will "downsample" a 720p picture into 1080i."
from http://www.planetgamecube.com/mailbag.cfm?action=p rofile&id=88
The hard part isn't getting them and using them yourself, the hard part is convincing your ROOMMATE to use them. When I wrote that, I DID think to myself, well, if I made the effort to get them and use them myself, he might just get them too. They ARE an option, I was just looking for some other convenient alternatives.
"The design incorporates a computerised body vest," explains Jones. "If there's stress on part of the wing, the pilot would feel pressure on one side of his body.
"Equally, if the pilot is stressed the plane would sense this and only feed him must-know information."
Sounds like something they should implement for wives.
Oh, and this:
Batteries will store energy received in daylight hours to fly all night.
Then, batteries will store energy received in nightlight hours to fly all day...right? Uh no.
So....seriously, depending on the time of year and where they circumnavigate, say they get 12 hours of daylight; how is this thing gonna get 24 hours worth of flight out of that? I would be very interested to know.
As we are seeing, a new niche in the mp3 player market is being created. Creative just released a compact 4GB micro-drive MuVo2 MP3 player, here , and we have already seen a "pocket-sized" 1.5 GB player released by Rio, here.
Apple is just bringing out the competition now. They will be tough to compete with.
The missing foward slash at the end of these fake URLs kind of gives it away. The lack of the slash IS noticeable, especially now that we know to look for it. Is there anyway for it to work WITH a foward slash at the end?
It doesn't matter whether the iron in hemoglobin is magnetic or not, Magneto was just cracking a joke. In actuality, if you watch the movie, Magneto was simply extracting what Mystique had injected into the guy, not the iron in his hemoglobin.
So, I don't understand what the point in your post was...
But give credit where credit is due, the feat here is Kasparov's, one of the few humans alive today still capable of beating the machines anytime, anywhere.
While I agree that they are no longer worth PRODUCING at some point, retailers still hold stock of these processors if they haven't been sold. These retailers would rather make SOMETHING on what they have already paid for, then not sell them at all.
But then there is a counterpoint to this. A couple years ago, when Pentium 4 processors had surpassed Pentium III sales, there were stores online not willing to drop their prices on the forced-to-be-expensive-by-Intel Pentium III's of 1 GHz and higher. It got to the point where even though they were not selling any of the III's, the retailers were not willing to lose any more money on them, and it got to where these Pentium III's were not even worth buying for UPGRADING (in other words, it was cheaper to buy a new mobo, ram and P4 proc).
Now I do know that Intel themselves placed higher prices on these procs, SPECIFICALLY to drive the newer Pentium 4's into the marketplace, but I really do wonder if these stores ever sold their stock of PIIIs, or if they are still stubbornly leaving them on the shelves.
This technology seems like it would be much more applicable on the next set of video game systems, if anything, as it could be used to store the game information on cartridges (like they used to do on previous systems) but this solves the previous physical size issue (and price issue) and it has no loading time.
Hey man, I only asked questions about the laws and mentioned what I would think it "should" be like. Nothing that I said told that copyright laws were one way or the other. I think you should really question why this issue really means so much to you to be so angry that you tell people to keep their fat yap shut. Grow up.
If you own the original cartridge, why would downloading the rom break conventional copyright laws?
And if you do the rom transfer from the cartridge yourself, I would assume this would be acceptable as well now.
Also, in the situation of some older arcade boards, where decryption (xor tables) is necessary to access the original software, (for instance CPS2 arcade games), this should make it legal to circumvent this copy protection to access the software, if you own the boards.
I understand the flaw in that analogy, but consider that it is only in the ease of mass-production where "intellectual property" differs from "real life goods". The amount of mp3s able to be produced per year is, for comparisons sake, unlimited. The amount of cars able to be produced per year is still limited. Hypothetically, if it got to the point where it was possible to mass produce cars as easily as it is mp3s, cars would become an intellectual property of sorts, and I guess we would be sitting here arguing about the illegal copying of copyrighted cars. My analogy is only there to compare the morality of it, and so "whether it is right or wrong" is what I was trying to get at. Yes, it is hard to create a valid analogy in this situation, but regardless, I still think that just because one wouldn't ever buy something (whether it may be because he just can't afford it or for some other reason), does NOT mean that he should be allowed to have it anyway.
"Trade groups need to accept that the pirates wouldn't buy their products under any conditions whatsoever (short of giving stuff away), and treat them as the free advertising (rather than "criminals") they serve as."
Consider this: Car dealerships need to accept that the carjackers wouldn't buy their cars under any conditions whatsoever (short of giving stuff away), and treat them as the free advertising (rather than "criminals") they serve as.
Yeah, I'm sure they would LOVE the free advertising. Just because I wouldn't ever buy something (whether it may be because I just can't afford it or for some other reason), does NOT mean that I am allowed to have it anyway.
Schools are blocking P2P programs all over the country, but I would have to believe that freeing up bandwidth is NOT their first priority. Look here at Universiy of Miami, where everything P2P we have tried, they have blocked. Even BitTorrent doesn't work, and I am wanting to use it for LEGAL downloading. Ah, but I walked into a Biology computer lab the other day, and what do I find? SETI@home running on practically every computer.
It seems to me that you would be no safer in a legal sense to rob a music store and then lock up the goods in a combination safe in your house than to use this technology to hide your illegal mp3s. Once they have evidence that you have committed a crime, it shouldn't matter HOW well you hide the stuff.
You are correct, because for TMNT3, you had to hit select one or two times after you entered the code to select Two Players A or Two Players B.
Ah yes, just tested it in my favorite emu.
Teenagers everywhere, "But Mom, I can stop whenever I want to now!" All those excuses for babies now applies to lung cancer: "Well, I THOUGHT I could pull out in time..." Applying my new found adulthood has just gotten less risky: I can now try it without the chance of first-time addiction! Before, all one could hope for was that it wasn't in their genes. Well, you can THANK those genes now. (Presently going to tell my smoker buddies how lucky they are!)
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Yeah, this is exactly right. I set up a universal remote for my parents, but sometimes they don't aim it correctly, or the battery is low, and it will miss one of the devices. This confuses the heck out of them, because either the sound doesn't turn off, but the picture does, or the next time they try turning the TV on, one device goes on, and the other goes off, and they come running my way, completely befuddled. What really needs to be done is make each device have a seperate off and on button. That would fix all the problems.
well, C:\WINDOWS\CALC.EXE says that it is:
39.37007874015748 0314 96062992126
which doesn't match your first answer after the first break, and doesn't match Jeff "Bud" Field's work by hand after the second break. Who knows?
If you RTFA, you will notice that more specifically, Microsoft is working along with Creative and iRiver, who will both be releasing these products for Microsoft. Don't you find it interesting that Microsoft has teamed up with two of the three biggest DAP designers (the third probably being Rio or Archos) on the market right now, outside of Apple, just to compete?
Whether or not your monitor supports the resolution or not, this still does not mean that it can fully support 720p. It has to do with the length of the electron guns in your display. I cannot find the best source for this information anymore, but there used to be a page that explained the issue. Basically very few HDTV displays currently can display 720p correctly. 720p is MORE DIFFICULT to display fully than 1080i. This is the best I could do here:
p rofile&id=88
"And if I can go completely geek on you for a second, there are very few HDTV's out there that can support 720p properly. Most HDTV sets have 7" electron guns, and they are too short to give a full 720p picture. So even if a TV says it supports 720p, if it only has 7" guns, you're missing some of the picture. Not a lot, but enough to shortchange you on what you're supposed to be getting. If you want a real 720p picture, make sure that your set has 9" guns. Most other sets will "downsample" a 720p picture into 1080i."
from http://www.planetgamecube.com/mailbag.cfm?action=
The hard part isn't getting them and using them yourself, the hard part is convincing your ROOMMATE to use them. When I wrote that, I DID think to myself, well, if I made the effort to get them and use them myself, he might just get them too. They ARE an option, I was just looking for some other convenient alternatives.
I'll give you props on that one. Posts that are funny usually don't ACTUALLY make me laugh out loud.
Oh, and this: Then, batteries will store energy received in nightlight hours to fly all day...right? Uh no.
So....seriously, depending on the time of year and where they circumnavigate, say they get 12 hours of daylight; how is this thing gonna get 24 hours worth of flight out of that? I would be very interested to know.
As we are seeing, a new niche in the mp3 player market is being created. Creative just released a compact 4GB micro-drive MuVo2 MP3 player, here , and we have already seen a "pocket-sized" 1.5 GB player released by Rio, here. Apple is just bringing out the competition now. They will be tough to compete with.
The missing foward slash at the end of these fake URLs kind of gives it away. The lack of the slash IS noticeable, especially now that we know to look for it. Is there anyway for it to work WITH a foward slash at the end?
What you ARE doing is taking away the possibility of that person to sell it to you anymore.
If you would eventually buy it, then most would say that from that point this is still ok.
If you would never buy it, then most would say that you don't deserve to have the copy.
It doesn't matter whether the iron in hemoglobin is magnetic or not, Magneto was just cracking a joke. In actuality, if you watch the movie, Magneto was simply extracting what Mystique had injected into the guy, not the iron in his hemoglobin. So, I don't understand what the point in your post was...
But give credit where credit is due, the feat here is Kasparov's, one of the few humans alive today still capable of beating the machines anytime, anywhere.
Yeah, don't you get it? Kasparov is The One.
While I agree that they are no longer worth PRODUCING at some point, retailers still hold stock of these processors if they haven't been sold. These retailers would rather make SOMETHING on what they have already paid for, then not sell them at all.
But then there is a counterpoint to this. A couple years ago, when Pentium 4 processors had surpassed Pentium III sales, there were stores online not willing to drop their prices on the forced-to-be-expensive-by-Intel Pentium III's of 1 GHz and higher. It got to the point where even though they were not selling any of the III's, the retailers were not willing to lose any more money on them, and it got to where these Pentium III's were not even worth buying for UPGRADING (in other words, it was cheaper to buy a new mobo, ram and P4 proc).
Now I do know that Intel themselves placed higher prices on these procs, SPECIFICALLY to drive the newer Pentium 4's into the marketplace, but I really do wonder if these stores ever sold their stock of PIIIs, or if they are still stubbornly leaving them on the shelves.
This technology seems like it would be much more applicable on the next set of video game systems, if anything, as it could be used to store the game information on cartridges (like they used to do on previous systems) but this solves the previous physical size issue (and price issue) and it has no loading time.
Hey man, I only asked questions about the laws and mentioned what I would think it "should" be like. Nothing that I said told that copyright laws were one way or the other. I think you should really question why this issue really means so much to you to be so angry that you tell people to keep their fat yap shut. Grow up.
If you own the original cartridge, why would downloading the rom break conventional copyright laws? And if you do the rom transfer from the cartridge yourself, I would assume this would be acceptable as well now. Also, in the situation of some older arcade boards, where decryption (xor tables) is necessary to access the original software, (for instance CPS2 arcade games), this should make it legal to circumvent this copy protection to access the software, if you own the boards.
I understand the flaw in that analogy, but consider that it is only in the ease of mass-production where "intellectual property" differs from "real life goods". The amount of mp3s able to be produced per year is, for comparisons sake, unlimited. The amount of cars able to be produced per year is still limited. Hypothetically, if it got to the point where it was possible to mass produce cars as easily as it is mp3s, cars would become an intellectual property of sorts, and I guess we would be sitting here arguing about the illegal copying of copyrighted cars. My analogy is only there to compare the morality of it, and so "whether it is right or wrong" is what I was trying to get at. Yes, it is hard to create a valid analogy in this situation, but regardless, I still think that just because one wouldn't ever buy something (whether it may be because he just can't afford it or for some other reason), does NOT mean that he should be allowed to have it anyway.
"Trade groups need to accept that the pirates wouldn't buy their products under any conditions whatsoever (short of giving stuff away), and treat them as the free advertising (rather than "criminals") they serve as." Consider this: Car dealerships need to accept that the carjackers wouldn't buy their cars under any conditions whatsoever (short of giving stuff away), and treat them as the free advertising (rather than "criminals") they serve as. Yeah, I'm sure they would LOVE the free advertising. Just because I wouldn't ever buy something (whether it may be because I just can't afford it or for some other reason), does NOT mean that I am allowed to have it anyway.
Schools are blocking P2P programs all over the country, but I would have to believe that freeing up bandwidth is NOT their first priority. Look here at Universiy of Miami, where everything P2P we have tried, they have blocked. Even BitTorrent doesn't work, and I am wanting to use it for LEGAL downloading. Ah, but I walked into a Biology computer lab the other day, and what do I find? SETI@home running on practically every computer.
It seems to me that you would be no safer in a legal sense to rob a music store and then lock up the goods in a combination safe in your house than to use this technology to hide your illegal mp3s. Once they have evidence that you have committed a crime, it shouldn't matter HOW well you hide the stuff.
Awesome! My new wallpaper! Wait...
Must be some kind of new album promotion...
You are correct, because for TMNT3, you had to hit select one or two times after you entered the code to select Two Players A or Two Players B. Ah yes, just tested it in my favorite emu.
Teenagers everywhere, "But Mom, I can stop whenever I want to now!" All those excuses for babies now applies to lung cancer: "Well, I THOUGHT I could pull out in time..." Applying my new found adulthood has just gotten less risky: I can now try it without the chance of first-time addiction! Before, all one could hope for was that it wasn't in their genes. Well, you can THANK those genes now. (Presently going to tell my smoker buddies how lucky they are!)