That's not true. If there was no punishment for anything, crime would be rampent. Punishments may not be as big a deterrent as we like to believe, and capital punishment doesn't seem to be any more of a deterrent than jail time, but punishment is a deterrent. People unconsiouslly weight the chances of getting caught versus the harshness of punishment if they do get caught before deciding to do something.
If punishment were no deterrent at all, I guess we'd just have to let our children run amok, eh?
I thought they were going to put us under the slave shield? Of course we need the Chenjesu around to help us with that whole faster than light travel first.
I don't know where you do your eating, but most thai restraunts I go to I can get an order of pad thai for $5. Hardly an expensive entree. In fact I can name just as many restraunts that will sell me an expensive ramen meal as an expensive pad thai meal. That's not only a recurring theme with asian restraunts but with all restraunts. I can go to cheap or expensive restraunts of any cuisine.
Lets see... in the past month I have watched the following chinese content: Fulltime Killers, Hard Boiled, Infernal Affairs (a masterpiece), Running Out of Time, Bullets of Love, and at least 4 or 5 other films I'm forgetting. Lets also not forget movies like Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Hero, and Shoalin Soccer which came out of the chinese cinema and were released here. It wouldn't suprise me if there are as many Hong Kong film releases a year as there are hollywood.
Most of the 'chinese' movies, are from hong kong. Hong Kong is under the control of mainland china (at least since 1997). I watch tons of movies from hong kong. If they were all released on EVD, i would have to get a player.
this is true... but most hardware players will... for instance I can plug in my nomad and the music store software will strip off the DRM as it transfers to my player. allowing it to play just like a normal WMA file.
Explain to me why MS has any reason to make the DRM more harsh than any of the other music stores, which coincidently have almost identical DRM schemes? They have no reason. They will provide the exact same DRM as the other stores as is mandated by the RIAA members.
I didn't say there was anything sinister about it. Safari uses a built-in rendering engine. IE uses a built-in rendering engine. It impossible to remove either of the engines. I don't think it's sinister, it makes perfect sense to me.
That article is from 2001. near the playstation launch date. Sony's method is to loose a little money on each console or break even in the short term and then recoup the costs as the consoles get cheaper to manufacter. I also didn't read in there anywhere it saying they lost money.
Lets see... apple sold something like 7 million songs in the first few months of iTunes. The new outkast double CD sold 700,000 copies in the first week of release. The CD has 40+ songs on it. That means that it sold 28,000,000 songs in one week. Now think about how many other CD's were bought in the US during that period. Now worldwide. People still want their media, and are going to continue to want their media for sometime to come.
What reason does MS have to make the songs any more DRMed than their competitors? All the stores are using just about equivalent DRM. Do you know why? It's because they're doing exactly what the record companies tell them to do.
That's only partly true. What if I remove Safari, install Firebird, and try to use iTunes? Does iTunes depend on the Safari rendering engine to contact the iTMS? What if I don't want quicktime? Will iTunes even play music?
That's not much different than windows. I don't use IE, OE, or WMP. But I understand if microsoft wants to release a new service that uses an HTML rendering engine or needs to play media files it's much easier for them to use the services they know will be there and understand the functionality of rather than try to use what the user has provided.
korea, vietnam, cambodia, libya, panama, columbia (ongoing), iraq, bosnia, iraq again. Sure some of these may be justified. And they weren't technically wars... but try telling that to the people who died.
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Quite a few have stood up. Three of them are even republicans.
That's not true. If there was no punishment for anything, crime would be rampent. Punishments may not be as big a deterrent as we like to believe, and capital punishment doesn't seem to be any more of a deterrent than jail time, but punishment is a deterrent. People unconsiouslly weight the chances of getting caught versus the harshness of punishment if they do get caught before deciding to do something.
If punishment were no deterrent at all, I guess we'd just have to let our children run amok, eh?
4.0 ran on both of those as well... I still have my NT4 CD with both a PowerPC and Alpha directory.
But once you get the cool orange bullets and the autotracking firing and lasers you are unbeatable!
I want sifl-n-olly. The rips on my computer just aren't good enough.
Just don't ask about the androsynth!
I thought they were going to put us under the slave shield? Of course we need the Chenjesu around to help us with that whole faster than light travel first.
I don't know where you do your eating, but most thai restraunts I go to I can get an order of pad thai for $5. Hardly an expensive entree. In fact I can name just as many restraunts that will sell me an expensive ramen meal as an expensive pad thai meal. That's not only a recurring theme with asian restraunts but with all restraunts. I can go to cheap or expensive restraunts of any cuisine.
The only use I've ever really seen for the multiangle option is in porn.
Lets see... in the past month I have watched the following chinese content: Fulltime Killers, Hard Boiled, Infernal Affairs (a masterpiece), Running Out of Time, Bullets of Love, and at least 4 or 5 other films I'm forgetting. Lets also not forget movies like Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Hero, and Shoalin Soccer which came out of the chinese cinema and were released here. It wouldn't suprise me if there are as many Hong Kong film releases a year as there are hollywood.
Most of the 'chinese' movies, are from hong kong. Hong Kong is under the control of mainland china (at least since 1997). I watch tons of movies from hong kong. If they were all released on EVD, i would have to get a player.
this is true... but most hardware players will... for instance I can plug in my nomad and the music store software will strip off the DRM as it transfers to my player. allowing it to play just like a normal WMA file.
car cd players wont... but something like my nomad will...
Explain to me why MS has any reason to make the DRM more harsh than any of the other music stores, which coincidently have almost identical DRM schemes? They have no reason. They will provide the exact same DRM as the other stores as is mandated by the RIAA members.
Most hardware players actually play WMA's as well. And with good software it is possible to play DRM'd WMA's on those players.
I didn't say there was anything sinister about it. Safari uses a built-in rendering engine. IE uses a built-in rendering engine. It impossible to remove either of the engines. I don't think it's sinister, it makes perfect sense to me.
That article is from 2001. near the playstation launch date. Sony's method is to loose a little money on each console or break even in the short term and then recoup the costs as the consoles get cheaper to manufacter. I also didn't read in there anywhere it saying they lost money.
Lets see... apple sold something like 7 million songs in the first few months of iTunes. The new outkast double CD sold 700,000 copies in the first week of release. The CD has 40+ songs on it. That means that it sold 28,000,000 songs in one week. Now think about how many other CD's were bought in the US during that period. Now worldwide. People still want their media, and are going to continue to want their media for sometime to come.
What reason does MS have to make the songs any more DRMed than their competitors? All the stores are using just about equivalent DRM. Do you know why? It's because they're doing exactly what the record companies tell them to do.
You do realize that both WMP and iTunes support DRM. Both also support making and playing completly unencumbered files.
That's only partly true. What if I remove Safari, install Firebird, and try to use iTunes? Does iTunes depend on the Safari rendering engine to contact the iTMS? What if I don't want quicktime? Will iTunes even play music?
That's not much different than windows. I don't use IE, OE, or WMP. But I understand if microsoft wants to release a new service that uses an HTML rendering engine or needs to play media files it's much easier for them to use the services they know will be there and understand the functionality of rather than try to use what the user has provided.
korea, vietnam, cambodia, libya, panama, columbia (ongoing), iraq, bosnia, iraq again. Sure some of these may be justified. And they weren't technically wars... but try telling that to the people who died.
If by farmers you mean monsanto and conagra...
democracy? wait we can't have that... this is america damnit!
english is so much better with the 5 and 10 for fifteen. Most every language has stuff like this built in.