Unfortunately, it's making housing prices go through the roof
It's just simple economics. Because there is a limited amount of land, the price has to go up. Phoenix, Chandler, Scottsdale, Mesa can all just grow outward. Some people may not like sprawl, but sprawl is what prevents housing prices from going "through the roof."
I heard this a lot, and never understood what was meant by it. It's locked in by municipal boundaries, not by geological ones. The 202 and the 10 and Mesa do not make it some kind of island.
Manhattan is landlocked. Kauai is landlocked. Tempe could annex Mesa or Guadalupe or Chandler, it has a long way to go before it hits any mountain ranges or oceans.
But Tempe can't just decide to annex Chandler or Mesa because Chandler and Mesa would never allow it and have the size (basically limitless because both cities can expand with few limits) to prevent it. Ergo, they are landlocked.
What I meant was that a single person's experience with a product/service is meaningless. It's the aggregate of people's perceptions that matters. E.g., Honda used to be considered the most reliable car manufacturer in the world (I think they've dropped, but are still in the top 5 or so). A friend of mine bought a Civic and had nothing but problems with them. Who would you believe, the aggregate of people who say Honda makes very reliable cars or the single person who had problems with it?
As a Netflix customer I've noticed a steady decline in the quality of service. Lost disks, wrong disks, longer waits, etc. Maybe they're cutting costs or maybe my postman is a film nut.
Anecdotes are useless to judge service. But I'll give one anyway;). They've never lost a disc. They've never sent me a wrong disc. I've rented well over 300 DVDs and have only 1 scratched disc. They're service slowed a little last month, for about two weeks, but it sped right back up to the typical turnaround (return on Monday, get new movie on Wednesday).
Can you really spoil a movie when you can buy the book at Amazon?
Of course you can. Just because a book is available doesn't mean that everyone has read it. For example, The Godfather was a book before it was a movie. Does that mean that people are free to talk about everything that happens in the book before the movie is released? For that matter, even if something has been released, it is still a spoiler if you haven't seen it. If you've never watched the TV show 24, me telling you what happens to a certain character in the show is spoiling it for you.
Why bother to backup movies/tv shows of discs you purchased?
Two possible reasons: 1) He didn't actually "purchase" it so much as "borrowed it from a friend/Netlfix." He said "purchase" to make it seem like what he is doing is Fair Use. 2) He did purchase it, but is planning to Ebay it for about $5 less than he purchased it for, meaning that he got Season 3 for $5 plus the cost of 6 blanks.
This is after a man who was not able to copy a DVD he purchase to a VHS cassette so he can watch it at his mother's place. Which is considered private copying and is a consumer right in France.
I guess it's much easier to bring a lawsuit instead of spending $50 and buying his mother a DVD player.
The only people who say "SDTV is good enough" are people who have never seen HDTV. Do you know the difference between SLP recorded VHS and DVD? The difference between SDTV and HDTV is many times greater.
The rules to determine if the patent qualifies for a 20 year life or a 17 year life based on a filing from 1987 are too complex for me to figure out.
The basic rule actually pretty simple. The term is either 17 years from the issuance of the patent or 20 years from the filing date. Calculate both dates. Whichever is later is the patent term.
For patents filed after June 8, 1995, it's even simpler--20 years from the filing date. In the present case, the 20 year date is longer, so it will not expire until October 27, 2006.
The more complicated part is determining if the maintenance fees are paid and if the patent in question is a continuation.
Suits are on the way out for lawyers. Among "big" law firms, almost every firm I've seen is "business casual" every day of the week. I know of only one firm which still requires a tie (and I know people in over a dozen firms).
That trend is probably different in New York City, though.
There is a difference between "leaving your door open" which results in someone stealing your copy of Half Life 2 and putting a CD duplicator in your room and allowing everyone in the world the ability to go into your room and copy it.
Because they can't. It has to be patented within one year of first public disclosure. Obviously, C, C++, and the like have been out there for more than a year.
It's amazing how much stuff you can buy that is basically the honor system. It is trivially easy to walk away from a restaurant without ever paying the bill. As for the security alarms, most times I set it off, no one stops me. Or, if they do, they just say, "go ahead". Target has stopped me to actually check my bag, but that's the only place I can recall doing that.
This goes for home-built systems as well. Often it's just cheaper to buy a system built in taiwan than to build your own out of the exact same parts.
The problem is finding a system built out of the exact same parts. Specifically, graphics cards and hard drives. The big name manufacturers trick out the systems with GHz, but give you either lame graphics cards or top of the line graphics cards, not a mid-line card like the GeForce 6600. And most give you a paltry 80 GB hard drive and charge through the nose to give you a larger hard drive.
So to build my system was more expensive than just getting a Dell, but I got what I wanted, instead of ordering something from Dell and immediately swapping out the graphics card and adding a new hard drive.
But there is a way to get stuff cheaper--upgrading. I could buy a brand new computer to replace my daughter's old computer. Or I could buy a motherboard, Sempron, and a stick of RAM for under $300.
With XP, for those prices, you're paying for an 'upgrade' which means you had to have a legal copy of Win 98/Me/2000, and you aren't allowed to resell your old copy.
No. They are OEM versions, not upgrades. You don't need any prior version of Windows to use an OEM version.
For which, the OEM is *NOT* eligible for any tech support whatsoever.)
As long as you have a valid key, why would MS refuse to support your version of XP?
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It's just simple economics. Because there is a limited amount of land, the price has to go up. Phoenix, Chandler, Scottsdale, Mesa can all just grow outward. Some people may not like sprawl, but sprawl is what prevents housing prices from going "through the roof."
But Tempe can't just decide to annex Chandler or Mesa because Chandler and Mesa would never allow it and have the size (basically limitless because both cities can expand with few limits) to prevent it. Ergo, they are landlocked.
What I meant was that a single person's experience with a product/service is meaningless. It's the aggregate of people's perceptions that matters. E.g., Honda used to be considered the most reliable car manufacturer in the world (I think they've dropped, but are still in the top 5 or so). A friend of mine bought a Civic and had nothing but problems with them. Who would you believe, the aggregate of people who say Honda makes very reliable cars or the single person who had problems with it?
Anecdotes are useless to judge service. But I'll give one anyway ;). They've never lost a disc. They've never sent me a wrong disc. I've rented well over 300 DVDs and have only 1 scratched disc. They're service slowed a little last month, for about two weeks, but it sped right back up to the typical turnaround (return on Monday, get new movie on Wednesday).
Of course you can. Just because a book is available doesn't mean that everyone has read it. For example, The Godfather was a book before it was a movie. Does that mean that people are free to talk about everything that happens in the book before the movie is released? For that matter, even if something has been released, it is still a spoiler if you haven't seen it. If you've never watched the TV show 24, me telling you what happens to a certain character in the show is spoiling it for you.
The first line is "SITH SPOILERS". Some people really don't want to go past that part.
Two possible reasons: 1) He didn't actually "purchase" it so much as "borrowed it from a friend/Netlfix." He said "purchase" to make it seem like what he is doing is Fair Use. 2) He did purchase it, but is planning to Ebay it for about $5 less than he purchased it for, meaning that he got Season 3 for $5 plus the cost of 6 blanks.
Isn't seating space up to the buyers (airlines)?
Or maybe my earlier post was just a joke.
I guess it's much easier to bring a lawsuit instead of spending $50 and buying his mother a DVD player.
The only people who say "SDTV is good enough" are people who have never seen HDTV. Do you know the difference between SLP recorded VHS and DVD? The difference between SDTV and HDTV is many times greater.
The basic rule actually pretty simple. The term is either 17 years from the issuance of the patent or 20 years from the filing date. Calculate both dates. Whichever is later is the patent term.
For patents filed after June 8, 1995, it's even simpler--20 years from the filing date. In the present case, the 20 year date is longer, so it will not expire until October 27, 2006.
The more complicated part is determining if the maintenance fees are paid and if the patent in question is a continuation.
That's just a fact of the U.S. legal system--if the Supreme Court thinks it is legal-->it is lega.
That trend is probably different in New York City, though.
My former company also used RightFax. I moved from there to a company that delivers fax via sneakernet. It is like moving to the horse/buggy era.
I think you are forgetting the rapper: Copywrite
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There is a difference between "leaving your door open" which results in someone stealing your copy of Half Life 2 and putting a CD duplicator in your room and allowing everyone in the world the ability to go into your room and copy it.
Software can be patented. Just because you think they shouldn't be patented doesn't make it true.
Because they can't. It has to be patented within one year of first public disclosure. Obviously, C, C++, and the like have been out there for more than a year.
It's amazing how much stuff you can buy that is basically the honor system. It is trivially easy to walk away from a restaurant without ever paying the bill. As for the security alarms, most times I set it off, no one stops me. Or, if they do, they just say, "go ahead". Target has stopped me to actually check my bag, but that's the only place I can recall doing that.
The problem is finding a system built out of the exact same parts. Specifically, graphics cards and hard drives. The big name manufacturers trick out the systems with GHz, but give you either lame graphics cards or top of the line graphics cards, not a mid-line card like the GeForce 6600. And most give you a paltry 80 GB hard drive and charge through the nose to give you a larger hard drive.
So to build my system was more expensive than just getting a Dell, but I got what I wanted, instead of ordering something from Dell and immediately swapping out the graphics card and adding a new hard drive.
But there is a way to get stuff cheaper--upgrading. I could buy a brand new computer to replace my daughter's old computer. Or I could buy a motherboard, Sempron, and a stick of RAM for under $300.
If you want to compare point releases, MS patches Windows very regularly.
No. They are OEM versions, not upgrades. You don't need any prior version of Windows to use an OEM version.
For which, the OEM is *NOT* eligible for any tech support whatsoever.)
As long as you have a valid key, why would MS refuse to support your version of XP?
The SP2 upgrade was free.