except if your REALLY trying to reach that goal you would not be making a HYBRID engine. Your still using gas, there is no going around that fact. And as I pointed out your likely still using MORE gas than many various ways you can make a non-hybrid powertrain use less. You can try to play with MPG figures all you want with your hybrids, but I can still see a 20 year old Geo that gets better gas milage than a hybrid prius or insight without the useless weight of a electric motor, and I can still see trucks out there that make better gas milage than their hybrid versions as long as the driver knows how to actually drive and not pump the gas as hard as possible.
I know you are trying to prove a point, but a 1.5 or 1.4l engine is STILL a big engine. Its not a V8 no, but its much bigger than 1.1l engines many cars of the 80's had that got better milage than the prius WITHOUT being a hybrid.
Through simple driving tweaks, many of these vehicles could make much better gas milage without costing a dime. And then if you NEEDED to spend money, there are much cheaper ways, up to and including whole engine swaps that are still cheaper and as efficiant or BETTER than converting to "hybrid." I just dont get the alure of hybrid, while its nice to be as free of gas as possible, responsible driving will go a lot further than a half battery power car ever would.
In my experience this is exactly why the Mac OS had so many issues with install base. It wasnt that it was difficult to learn, it was the simple fact they HAD to learn that dissuaded them. Still to this day even with EXACTLY the same programs there is a constant battle at work between those who want the macs because their support costs are much lower, and those who want the PCs because even though they cost more over the 3-5 service life, they are "easier to learn," because thats what they have at home even if for the most part they are not even close to doing anything more than checking the web and writing a document.
He is a she and if your read the article and not the summery you would find out SHE isnt collaborating with anyone but following proper legal procedure. The summery is a bunch of sensationalistic New York Post/Faux News like bullshit.
actually what the judge did was completely right even though we dont like it publicly. She is temporarily withholding the findings until they meet in court to prevent a slew of issues that could crop up where it to be released prematurely. This happens all the time in the legal world but people often dont know it unless they are directly involved in the trial.
The findings WILL be made public, but only when the trial actually starts.
except Apple has very clearly put clauses in their agreement with iTunes music buyers that if the store where to close they will bomb the DRM thus freeing your music completely.
I am sure the labels realize this and are fearful Apple might actually pull it off.
Lotus notes is not the same as using Mail and iCal on the iPhone. The program that was denied by Apple usurped those apps into its own app. To my knowledge Mail or iCal have no Lotus syncing features.
Yes thats exactly what he is, and the evidence backs his claim up, unlike the claims of the RIAA that have more often than not been proven to be made up.
ahhh yes "Eat shit, fanboy." the internet equivalent of stuttering when someone can not come up with a good comeback. Used just as often when talking about Microsoft, Google, Sony, Nintendo, etc. etc. etc.
Actually a DMCA notice IS a legal threat and holds a lot of weight both ways. It can both be used as evidence that an attempt was made to contact the rights abuser that was ignored, as well as if the DMCA notice was in fact invalid and the "rights holder" did not in fact hold the claimed items, it is evidence for fines to be placed on the "rights holder" for illegally claimed ownership.
Unfortunately the second part is rarely if ever applied which is why we have the situations we do now. If even one major organization was forced to play the massive fines they are supposed to, it would be the end of frequent applications.
thats my only issuewith genius, it sworking but it seems to choke on music with no record on the music store. I know my collection which holds a ton of darkwave/goth stuff from college, and music from game soundtracks, completely kills it to the point it shows me the top hits.
Its not that its shifted, its that for various reasons people are riding Apple harder than Microsoft or Dell, HP etc.. Obviously it's their own fault. Advertising it "just works" means people will go out of their way to prove it doesn't. But the media has been especially hard on Apple since while owning less of the market they ARE the more popular of the computer manufactures. so you have situations like this, where antidotal evidence turns into 30, 40 50% of people are having issues with no data to even come CLOSE to backing up the claim. Or the iPhone of which everyone blamed Apple for what turned out to be AT&Ts shitty 3G service.
But contrary to your belief Leopard has been fine, as has the genius service beyond the first day where they had store issues. So if your having problems with them its more likely your issue. And contrary to our Dell machines which constantly arrive broken and needing warrantee repair, I have not repaired a Apple computer in our district of sent them out for repair in 6 years.
Dells quality control was never its strong suit to begin with. I cant even begin to tell you how many computers we got from them with miss-seated boards, loose connections, or faulty drives or boards. Granted they where warrantee repaired, but the only reason we kept buying was both cost (they where the cheapest bid) and because my boss has a blind hated of Apple products and refused to continue on with our contract with Apple when he was hired despite complaints from our staff.
If that was supposed to be GOOD quality control that we experienced... I would hate to see what poor is.
This is ALSO the state that tried to pass a commuter tax on NJ and CT residence to even come INTO their state. That one got struck down by the supreme court real fast. Is it any wonder though? Their residence for the most part make a effort to go to NJ or CT to buy items, and they are sitting on a billion something dollar deficit from their own mismanagement.
Thats exactly what the NY law does, shift the burden from the individual which is notoriously difficult to pursue to the retailer which is a lot easier to go after.
The problem is actually both, it IS a huge unjustified burden on a company to tax individuals especially if they have no offices or logistical presence in the state, as well as it is in most cases a desire from consumers to bypass what is felt to be unjustifiably high sales tax. To put it in perspective, NY recently changed their sales tax because it was estimated they lost BILLIONS a year thanks to New Yorkers driving into NJ and CT because our sales taxes where much more relaxed. Even today since NY changed their archaic sales tax laws a lot of NY residence still drive into NJ for major purchases since all NY did was remove tax on items 100 or less, big money items are still taxed something like 10% which is HUGE when you think about cars or other high price items.
So what the law amounted to is they wanted retailers who are web based to be their cops, when its their own screw-ups that have caused NY residence to rebel and not pay their taxes on purchased items. Not surprising though considering NY has the largest budget deficit of any state in the nation right now and they just dont get WHY people dont want to pay the highest sales tax in the nation.
You agreed to their contract by installing the software. If you say No I reject your EULA when installing the software you are kicked out of the software. So to say yes THEN deciding to say no after saying yes just to trick the installer to install the software, you have breeched contract and yes Apple CAN sue you. The issue you have though is this has never been challenged in court by anyone for ANY software. There is a lot to be had by how legal a contract is in that you can not actually sign it and the company can not actually prove YOU are the person who installed it.
But yeah your idea of how to bypass the EULA is completely illegal as it stands now and would only be legal if it was challenged and you won, which the way courts have been ruling when it comes to tech issues is HIGHLY unlikely.
while your right, I would hardly consider Trademarks good too, especially when its often used to Trademark very common things like colors, common words, etc, which it is not supposed to be used for, and like Patents very hard to overturn.
A good example would be the non-profit org who where sued by Miracle Grow for using GREEN and YELLOW on their package of fertilizer despite the package it's self looking NOTHING like a Miracle Grow package at all.
Some real bullshit in your post here we need corrected.
1) Alan Moore DOESNT DO MOVIES... PERIOD. It would have been 100% impossible for the author to be involved when the author ABSOLUTELY FUCKING REFUSES TO BE REGARDLESS OF QUALITY.
2) From everything seen and printed they are being as faithful as possible to the book down to the color scheme of key scenes which are staying on the pastel range like the comic. They are going so faithful as to keep everything minus black freighter, which WILL BE IN THE DVD which will be clocking in at over 5 hours. The movie cut it to keep from going over 3 hours. The movie is planned to be just shy of 3 hours. Everyone who was involved in the comic minue Moore has been involved in the movie from the start. Its just Moore who has become somewhat a recluse. Dave Gibbons even begged him to reconsidered, telling him he would like what they where doing and Moore would have none of it.
Get your facts straight bub before you start spouting off rumor. They are positively being faithful to the book, and Moore chose not to be involved so that he could "bash it with a clear conscious" his quote, they didnt keep him out. Moore got burned and now takes it out on EVERYTHING regardless of quality.
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except if your REALLY trying to reach that goal you would not be making a HYBRID engine. Your still using gas, there is no going around that fact. And as I pointed out your likely still using MORE gas than many various ways you can make a non-hybrid powertrain use less. You can try to play with MPG figures all you want with your hybrids, but I can still see a 20 year old Geo that gets better gas milage than a hybrid prius or insight without the useless weight of a electric motor, and I can still see trucks out there that make better gas milage than their hybrid versions as long as the driver knows how to actually drive and not pump the gas as hard as possible.
I know you are trying to prove a point, but a 1.5 or 1.4l engine is STILL a big engine. Its not a V8 no, but its much bigger than 1.1l engines many cars of the 80's had that got better milage than the prius WITHOUT being a hybrid.
Through simple driving tweaks, many of these vehicles could make much better gas milage without costing a dime. And then if you NEEDED to spend money, there are much cheaper ways, up to and including whole engine swaps that are still cheaper and as efficiant or BETTER than converting to "hybrid." I just dont get the alure of hybrid, while its nice to be as free of gas as possible, responsible driving will go a lot further than a half battery power car ever would.
he must be expanding the capabilities of the reality distortion field.
In my experience this is exactly why the Mac OS had so many issues with install base. It wasnt that it was difficult to learn, it was the simple fact they HAD to learn that dissuaded them. Still to this day even with EXACTLY the same programs there is a constant battle at work between those who want the macs because their support costs are much lower, and those who want the PCs because even though they cost more over the 3-5 service life, they are "easier to learn," because thats what they have at home even if for the most part they are not even close to doing anything more than checking the web and writing a document.
He is a she and if your read the article and not the summery you would find out SHE isnt collaborating with anyone but following proper legal procedure. The summery is a bunch of sensationalistic New York Post/Faux News like bullshit.
actually what the judge did was completely right even though we dont like it publicly. She is temporarily withholding the findings until they meet in court to prevent a slew of issues that could crop up where it to be released prematurely. This happens all the time in the legal world but people often dont know it unless they are directly involved in the trial.
The findings WILL be made public, but only when the trial actually starts.
But then that isnt as sensational is it?
I am sure the labels realize this and are fearful Apple might actually pull it off.
Lotus notes is not the same as using Mail and iCal on the iPhone. The program that was denied by Apple usurped those apps into its own app. To my knowledge Mail or iCal have no Lotus syncing features.
oh dont worry they will get you on that, they will just build the road up to where the bridge was to be without actually building the bridge.
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/epic/site/ippd-dppi.nsf/en/h_ip01456e.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3052145.stm
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Yes thats exactly what he is, and the evidence backs his claim up, unlike the claims of the RIAA that have more often than not been proven to be made up.
ahhh yes "Eat shit, fanboy." the internet equivalent of stuttering when someone can not come up with a good comeback. Used just as often when talking about Microsoft, Google, Sony, Nintendo, etc. etc. etc.
Unfortunately the second part is rarely if ever applied which is why we have the situations we do now. If even one major organization was forced to play the massive fines they are supposed to, it would be the end of frequent applications.
I just knew SOMEONE was going to throw in the "raped my childhood comment!"
And yes I agree the whole thing was all a bit silly.
thats my only issuewith genius, it sworking but it seems to choke on music with no record on the music store. I know my collection which holds a ton of darkwave/goth stuff from college, and music from game soundtracks, completely kills it to the point it shows me the top hits.
But contrary to your belief Leopard has been fine, as has the genius service beyond the first day where they had store issues. So if your having problems with them its more likely your issue. And contrary to our Dell machines which constantly arrive broken and needing warrantee repair, I have not repaired a Apple computer in our district of sent them out for repair in 6 years.
If that was supposed to be GOOD quality control that we experienced... I would hate to see what poor is.
This is ALSO the state that tried to pass a commuter tax on NJ and CT residence to even come INTO their state. That one got struck down by the supreme court real fast. Is it any wonder though? Their residence for the most part make a effort to go to NJ or CT to buy items, and they are sitting on a billion something dollar deficit from their own mismanagement.
The problem is actually both, it IS a huge unjustified burden on a company to tax individuals especially if they have no offices or logistical presence in the state, as well as it is in most cases a desire from consumers to bypass what is felt to be unjustifiably high sales tax. To put it in perspective, NY recently changed their sales tax because it was estimated they lost BILLIONS a year thanks to New Yorkers driving into NJ and CT because our sales taxes where much more relaxed. Even today since NY changed their archaic sales tax laws a lot of NY residence still drive into NJ for major purchases since all NY did was remove tax on items 100 or less, big money items are still taxed something like 10% which is HUGE when you think about cars or other high price items.
So what the law amounted to is they wanted retailers who are web based to be their cops, when its their own screw-ups that have caused NY residence to rebel and not pay their taxes on purchased items. Not surprising though considering NY has the largest budget deficit of any state in the nation right now and they just dont get WHY people dont want to pay the highest sales tax in the nation.
But yeah your idea of how to bypass the EULA is completely illegal as it stands now and would only be legal if it was challenged and you won, which the way courts have been ruling when it comes to tech issues is HIGHLY unlikely.
A good example would be the non-profit org who where sued by Miracle Grow for using GREEN and YELLOW on their package of fertilizer despite the package it's self looking NOTHING like a Miracle Grow package at all.
considering his wife ran away with his girlfriend and he has no kids... i dont think he would mind.
Some real bullshit in your post here we need corrected.
1) Alan Moore DOESNT DO MOVIES... PERIOD. It would have been 100% impossible for the author to be involved when the author ABSOLUTELY FUCKING REFUSES TO BE REGARDLESS OF QUALITY.
2) From everything seen and printed they are being as faithful as possible to the book down to the color scheme of key scenes which are staying on the pastel range like the comic. They are going so faithful as to keep everything minus black freighter, which WILL BE IN THE DVD which will be clocking in at over 5 hours. The movie cut it to keep from going over 3 hours. The movie is planned to be just shy of 3 hours. Everyone who was involved in the comic minue Moore has been involved in the movie from the start. Its just Moore who has become somewhat a recluse. Dave Gibbons even begged him to reconsidered, telling him he would like what they where doing and Moore would have none of it.
Get your facts straight bub before you start spouting off rumor. They are positively being faithful to the book, and Moore chose not to be involved so that he could "bash it with a clear conscious" his quote, they didnt keep him out. Moore got burned and now takes it out on EVERYTHING regardless of quality.