Joysticks have gone out of style because we haven't had a new Descent game in almost a decade. Similarly, the last great space combat sim was Freespace 2. There are probably some chicken-and-egg issues as well. You don't buy a joystick if you haven't a game to go with it, and you don't buy appropriate games if you don't have a joystick.
How do the film studios avoid being held liable for failing to perform due diligence? In other words, if New Line Catering Service charges a bazillion dollars to deliver food to the set, isn't it negligent for New Line to hire them at such exorbitant rates? Shouldn't New Line have an obligation to look out for the interests of all the stakeholders?
Now that Putin's dissolved that pesky and meddlesome parliament...
Indeed! The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away, and no star system will dare oppose Putin after this demonstration of the full power of FOAB. The Rebel alliance will be crushed in one swift stroke!
Am I the only one who just copies the videos directly from the FireFox cache folder? It's pretty easy to find them - they're huge compared to the other cached stuff. Just copy the file, rename to.flv, and you're ready to play it.
But calling this unethical is just silly. There's no allegation of lying, only that she went in there undercover as a regular citizen without press credentials.
She was specifically told that video taping in secret was not allowed, but she did it anyway. Sounds pretty unethical to me. In contrast, the DEFCON staff seemed to handle the matter well. She was offered an official press badge on multiple occassions before they finally got fed up and outted her.
I certainly do - and it's my understanding that it's perfectly legal. I've got about 8 gigs of high-quality streams ripped from a favorite Internet radio station. I'm a subscriber to the station, but I must confess that I would cancel my subscription if unable to rip streams. The subscription fee is not worth it to me unless I can rip stuff and play it back later.
Really my wrist hurts as using mouse is obligation on my desktop, and that too for an average of 12 hours a day.
Buy a trackball / TrackMan. I switched to using a Logitech TrackMan about 2 years ago after having wrist pain from too much mousing. The pain went away and it hasn't come back since. I've never met anyone who switched to a trackball and regretted it.
I'm sorry, but it's just wrong to say that "of course the wiretapping is illegal". The legality of the issue is still being debated. In fact, according to the Wikipedia article, there have even been several circuit court rulings upholding the legality of the surveillance.
While about 30 percent indicated they valued careers that afforded them opportunities to perfect skills in technical areas, others said they wanted careers with managerial opportunities.
So does that mean 70 percent want to be managers? 70 percent managing 30 percent doesn't sound very practical to me... that's more than two managers per underling.
This could be one of those many instances when desires just don't match up with reality.
The developers for Starcraft 2 cited the zoom camera in Supreme Commander as being one of the things that held it back from being a competitive game.
I thought that comment was ridiculous for a couple reasons:
1. How can an optional feature make the game uncompetitive? Nobody forces you to use the zoom. If zooming cramps your style then you're free to leave the zoom at a level you like. Instead, you can just scroll the window as usual. And keep scrolling. And scrolling... almost there...
2. I play regularly play Spring (similar to Supreme Commander), which provides a zoom feature. I love it! It's SO much easier to see what's going on. For team games in particular, the zoom feature is a great way to see how the overall game is going. There are frequently battles taking place all over the map, so zooming is a natural way to take in the information. What's uncompetitive about that?
From an efficiency point of view, Vista beats XP hands down...It's the small things that make the difference - the improved Start Menu...
Maybe it's just me, but I hardly use the Start Menu. I assign keyboard shortcuts to all my commonly used applications. I might go digging around in the Start Menu a couple times a week, but's hardly a reason to change operating systems.
...improved search...
Is that really a huge efficiency boost? I use Windows Search even less than I use the Start Menu. It's very rare that I don't know where to find something on my own machine. Does anyone else use the Search function that often? For what are you typically searching?
the larger, more detailed icons (which are a real eye saver if you run at screen resolutions of 1280 x 1024 and above)
Yikes! Large icons are the first thing I usually turn off. What a waste of screen space. Once again, is this really a huge efficiency boost?
So in conclusion, "beats XP hands down" translates to two features I'd never use, and larger icons that I'll want to turn off. Think I'll wait a bit...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you're having to expend energy to heat your house anyway, wouldn't an incandescent bulb be just as efficient as a fluorescent? If the bulb puts out less heat then your heating bill goes up by the same amount you'd save on lighting.
Agreed, it's way too high. I just can't believe that 18% of the US population has the know-how to even install BitTorrent, much less download several gigabytes worth of movies.
What I think is more important than grammar mistakes is that your article summary was posted in the form of a direct quotation, with no indication that your words had been edited. That's extremely poor journalism. Quotation marks should always been reserved for direct word-for-word quotations... any changes by editors must be clearly indicated as such by the use of brackets. Or, the editors should paraphrase the summary instead of writing it in the form of a direct quote.
7.5 million subscribers, all paying a monthly access fee? That makes World of Warcraft a $1 billion industry all by itself. Have any other games broken the $1 billion barrier?
[Sources: Los Angeles Times, 9/27/01; White House release, 7/22/01]
Did you make an error posting your sources? The LA times link yields a "page not found" warning, and the whitehouse.gov link contains neither of the quotes you cited.
My wife spent two years teaching English in China. The way she described her experiences, it sounded as if cheating were an accepted norm. Some teachers, rather than ask their students to refrain from cheating, instead ask them to not make it so obvious that the teacher loses face. It's just a given that many of them will cheat. And some of my wife's students explained to her that it's quite an insult to refuse another student's request to help him or her cheat; it could ruin an otherwise lengthy friendship.
Granted, though, this was not at a top university. It was a smaller, almost trade-school atmosphere.
If you don't give the files back you remove the incentive for other infected users to pay up.
But that assumes that other infected users are collaborating (how else would you hear about the deletions?). And if they were collaborating then they could just share the password (like what has just occurred in this article), and the money dries up anyway.
It's more like reading books in the store without buying them.
It's more like photocopying the entire book and taking the copy home with you. You get to enjoy the content any time you want without going back to the store. And although reading the book in the store might be legal (but rude), photocopying the whole thing is certainly copyright infringement and against the law.
Another factor here is BluRay. I'd estimate that 80% of Playstation 2s are hooked up to a small TV in some teenageers bedroom. They're not going to go out and buy a High-Definition set for their Playstation 3. They will get no benefit from the enhanced resolution of BluRay and therefore see no reason to buy it.
Except that most consumers don't understand that small TVs don't benefit from BluRay. All they know is that BluRay is somehow "better" that DVD. Terms like "resolution" just make their eyes glaze over - in fact, the last time I looked at HDTVs in a store, they didn't even print the resolutions of the TVs on the list of features.
I almost always find exactly what I'm looking for on the first page. Isn't it a good thing that search engines do a good job of giving users relevant results on the first page?
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Joysticks have gone out of style because we haven't had a new Descent game in almost a decade. Similarly, the last great space combat sim was Freespace 2. There are probably some chicken-and-egg issues as well. You don't buy a joystick if you haven't a game to go with it, and you don't buy appropriate games if you don't have a joystick.
How do the film studios avoid being held liable for failing to perform due diligence? In other words, if New Line Catering Service charges a bazillion dollars to deliver food to the set, isn't it negligent for New Line to hire them at such exorbitant rates? Shouldn't New Line have an obligation to look out for the interests of all the stakeholders?
They found a Claw Shrimp! Big as a man!
Indeed! The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away, and no star system will dare oppose Putin after this demonstration of the full power of FOAB. The Rebel alliance will be crushed in one swift stroke!
Am I the only one who just copies the videos directly from the FireFox cache folder? It's pretty easy to find them - they're huge compared to the other cached stuff. Just copy the file, rename to .flv, and you're ready to play it.
Wow... even a woman should be able to use it!
She was specifically told that video taping in secret was not allowed, but she did it anyway. Sounds pretty unethical to me. In contrast, the DEFCON staff seemed to handle the matter well. She was offered an official press badge on multiple occassions before they finally got fed up and outted her.
I certainly do - and it's my understanding that it's perfectly legal. I've got about 8 gigs of high-quality streams ripped from a favorite Internet radio station. I'm a subscriber to the station, but I must confess that I would cancel my subscription if unable to rip streams. The subscription fee is not worth it to me unless I can rip stuff and play it back later.
Buy a trackball / TrackMan. I switched to using a Logitech TrackMan about 2 years ago after having wrist pain from too much mousing. The pain went away and it hasn't come back since. I've never met anyone who switched to a trackball and regretted it.
I'm sorry, but it's just wrong to say that "of course the wiretapping is illegal". The legality of the issue is still being debated. In fact, according to the Wikipedia article, there have even been several circuit court rulings upholding the legality of the surveillance.
So does that mean 70 percent want to be managers? 70 percent managing 30 percent doesn't sound very practical to me... that's more than two managers per underling.
This could be one of those many instances when desires just don't match up with reality.
I thought that comment was ridiculous for a couple reasons:
1. How can an optional feature make the game uncompetitive? Nobody forces you to use the zoom. If zooming cramps your style then you're free to leave the zoom at a level you like. Instead, you can just scroll the window as usual. And keep scrolling. And scrolling... almost there...
2. I play regularly play Spring (similar to Supreme Commander), which provides a zoom feature. I love it! It's SO much easier to see what's going on. For team games in particular, the zoom feature is a great way to see how the overall game is going. There are frequently battles taking place all over the map, so zooming is a natural way to take in the information. What's uncompetitive about that?
From the article:
Maybe it's just me, but I hardly use the Start Menu. I assign keyboard shortcuts to all my commonly used applications. I might go digging around in the Start Menu a couple times a week, but's hardly a reason to change operating systems.
Is that really a huge efficiency boost? I use Windows Search even less than I use the Start Menu. It's very rare that I don't know where to find something on my own machine. Does anyone else use the Search function that often? For what are you typically searching?
Yikes! Large icons are the first thing I usually turn off. What a waste of screen space. Once again, is this really a huge efficiency boost?
So in conclusion, "beats XP hands down" translates to two features I'd never use, and larger icons that I'll want to turn off. Think I'll wait a bit...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you're having to expend energy to heat your house anyway, wouldn't an incandescent bulb be just as efficient as a fluorescent? If the bulb puts out less heat then your heating bill goes up by the same amount you'd save on lighting.
Agreed, it's way too high. I just can't believe that 18% of the US population has the know-how to even install BitTorrent, much less download several gigabytes worth of movies.
LOL! My sentiments exactly.
What I think is more important than grammar mistakes is that your article summary was posted in the form of a direct quotation, with no indication that your words had been edited. That's extremely poor journalism. Quotation marks should always been reserved for direct word-for-word quotations... any changes by editors must be clearly indicated as such by the use of brackets. Or, the editors should paraphrase the summary instead of writing it in the form of a direct quote.
7.5 million subscribers, all paying a monthly access fee? That makes World of Warcraft a $1 billion industry all by itself. Have any other games broken the $1 billion barrier?
Did you make an error posting your sources? The LA times link yields a "page not found" warning, and the whitehouse.gov link contains neither of the quotes you cited.
My wife spent two years teaching English in China. The way she described her experiences, it sounded as if cheating were an accepted norm. Some teachers, rather than ask their students to refrain from cheating, instead ask them to not make it so obvious that the teacher loses face. It's just a given that many of them will cheat. And some of my wife's students explained to her that it's quite an insult to refuse another student's request to help him or her cheat; it could ruin an otherwise lengthy friendship.
Granted, though, this was not at a top university. It was a smaller, almost trade-school atmosphere.
It's more like photocopying the entire book and taking the copy home with you. You get to enjoy the content any time you want without going back to the store. And although reading the book in the store might be legal (but rude), photocopying the whole thing is certainly copyright infringement and against the law.
Except that most consumers don't understand that small TVs don't benefit from BluRay. All they know is that BluRay is somehow "better" that DVD. Terms like "resolution" just make their eyes glaze over - in fact, the last time I looked at HDTVs in a store, they didn't even print the resolutions of the TVs on the list of features.
Indeed. And for that matter, if .NET is dead in the water, then why are .NET developers one of the top 5 in-demand jobs?
I almost always find exactly what I'm looking for on the first page. Isn't it a good thing that search engines do a good job of giving users relevant results on the first page?