But if they are wrong, they can also waste valuable research time/money while people look into them.
And in the process discover something incredibly valuable yet unrelated to what they were originally looking for. You never find anything if you don't look, or spend your time trying to figure out where to look. Just stick your head out the window.
I don't know, off the cuff, about Newton's published record, but Einstein did subject his work to peer review. His Nobel prize was awarded on a published paper, and that work preceeded his relativity theory.
Wasn't Einstein awarded the Nobel prize for his work on the photoelectric effect because the Nobel committee was too scared of relativity?
There are a bunch of places doing it retail for around $270-280, minus the $20 rebate currently running gives $250.
oooh, a rebate, the price is 270-280. You know why the offer rebates don't you? Because very few people actually redeem them. Mail-in rebates are the suck, what with all the hoops they have you jump through to get your cash back.
But the Nitrus is compatible with all of the leading P2P programs out there. What with over 3 million songs available for free, who gives a shit about iTunes.
Those people who don't want to bother with paying lawyer bills when RIAA comes knocking?
So...what was so hard to understand? Smaller market share for iTunes....fewer iPods sold, if you accept Jobs' statement for what he meant it to.
The implication was that iTunes is more important to Apple's bottom line than the iPod. This is not the case. Even if the iTMS is eclipsed by one of Apple's rivals they can still market the iPod as the finest mp3 player on the market. After all, the iPod was a big success before the launch of the iTMS.
iTunes can convert AAC files directly to MP3; it is not necessary to burn it to CD and re-import it.
iTunes won't let you do a damn thing to a protetected AAC file beyond listening to it or burning it to a disc. Unless of course you do something to iTunes...
When the iTunes service starts to lose major share of the market, though... That's when there will be real trouble. Losing the iPod is a small fish compared to iTunes.
uhm, I thought iTunes exists to sell iPods. I mean that's what Jobs has said in the past.
Passengers with laptops would probably be LESS distracting to drivers than passengers WITHOUT laptops.
Not neccesarily. My brother and I did a bit of long distance driving a couple months ago and when I was driving he popped a Cowboy Bebop DVD into my Powerbook. Having those moving pictures and sounds on the edge of my peripheral vision was a distraction. I kept stealing glances at the laptop trying to follow the DVD instead of keeping my eyes on the road.
On the other hand I've used a laptop+GPS combo many times while riding shotgun and it's been a big help, so it cuts both ways I guess.
Actually, the best thing the Detroit Red Wings did was to import their play-by-play man from the CBC a few years back (Ken Daniels). Before that they had a generic American talking head for a year or two who was absolutely pathetic (although if I recall he might be doing Minnesota Wild games now).
They hired that guy away from ESPN because ESPN hired Dave Strader away from the Red Wings after one of ESPNs play-by-play guys died in a pool accident. Dave Strader is still my favorite Red Wings TV play-by-play guy, though Daniels is very good and can easily hold his own with Mickey(the Wings awesome color guy).
For whatever it's worth a bank is required to hold information for seven years. Anything older than that can, and probably will be, destroyed. I don't know if this holds true for individuals, but it seems like a good rule of thumb to follow.
-sam, works in a bank, doesn't balance his checkbook.
Yeah and we pay a fee on every transaction for the privilege of using ATM machines, which save banks tons of money since they don't have to pay it a salary to sit there and dispense money. Go figure.
Of course ATM fees only apply if you use a "Foreign" ATM. So long as you stick to your bank's ATMs you won't be hit with a service charge. And if your bank charges you a fee for using their ATMs...switch banks.
Personally I love both ATMs and the self-check out express lines. I just think they're more convenient and faster than going to the teller window or dealing with a traditional check-out lane. And it's for the same reason I like buying music on the iTMS, you don't have to to deal with the mental rejects working the check-out lane/teller window/cash register.
Actually, thank God that EA decided to kill off Wing Commander instead of turning into the crappy cash-cows like Star Trek and Star Wars. Besides, Wing Commader franchise was going downhill since Wing Commader 3.
Oh, I don't know, WC4 was a pretty good game. It's probably the best "interactive movie" ever released, with a nicely branching storyline, a good selection of endings, and better graphics/film quality than WC3. All in all a strong game.
While I've read a lot of books, I never read any of C.S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower series, to which the Harrington novels are often compared. But, for the last few nights, I watched a series of Hornblower movies on A&E, and got hooked. I just got back from the local library with 4 of the Hornblower novels and plan to dive in as soon as I finish the 2 other books I'm reading.
yig, I caught a bit of the Hornblower film they ran on Tuesday and wow, they were just making stuff up. There's a reason they don't name the hornblower movies after the books. I'm not saying the A&E Hornblowers are bad, I haven't watched enough of them to form an opinion, they just are not straight translation of the books, from what I saw they're not even loosely based on the books.
The movie you are about to see is true, the plot has been changed to protect the innocent.
Either hackers have decided they *hate* OSS (not likely) or someone is putting up a purse trying to damage the OSS communities security image.
Well, everytime there's a major windows exploit you always hear "blah blah, Linux, blah blah BSD, blah blah OSX." Maybe the hackers are just looking for a new way to prove their "l33t h4x0r1ng sk1llz."
When I go for groceries, and the wife has asked me to pick up some sort of vegetables/fruits, this little sticker would be a blessing. Now say if my mother/grandmother were to go, i'm sure she would disregard the sticker, and squeeze the fruit regardless, because that's what they've been doing for years and years of cooking. For our 'packaged food is better food' generation, this may work, but for the older 'cook from scratch' generation, I just cant see it being a big hit.
Not to mention that you feel more like a true gourmet if you handpick your produce...from the bins in the supermarket. Well we can't all shop in open-air markets on the coast of France
As an aside, the GameCube/GBA hookup sounds like a great idea in theory, but every time you sell a game that requires some accessory that does not come with the base console (Light Gun, disk-drive, GBA, Steel Batallion controller) you are automatically limiting the number of potential sales to folks who have, or will purchase that accessory, and publishers hate that.
Certainly true in general, but not in this case I think. Let's not forget that the GBA is a game system in its own right, and a very succesful one at that. And when you consider that a GC + GBA now cost about as much as a PS2 or Xbox, that's some value.
Plus, Nintendo probably figures that enough people already own GBAs that it's not a big deal to require them as controllers for GC games.
Story driven games will never be as big or as popular as they have been on the PC. Consoles seem to be purely for "twitch" reflex games.
Console gamers want a different experience. They want FPS run and gun, they want to do it with an auto-aim function (because they like to use those simple gamepads instead of the flexibility of the mouse/keyboard interface). Console gamers become upset when they don't have unlimited ammo.
Riiight, which is why RPGs are so poorly represented on consoles. I mean shit, compared to Doom, Final Fantasy VI just has lousy character development.
Story-driven games are just as popular/prevalent on consoles as they are on the PC. Just look at all the attention being given to FF X-2
-sam
He may be fifty, yes, but remember, he's had the Ring for quite a long time. The ring gives you essentially immortality while you hold it (whether or not it's actually ON your finger). This perfectly explains the fact that Frodo still looks 20. Also remember that most hobbits live to 100 without a problem!
Well, you still age when you have the ring, look at Bilbo or Gollum, just quite slowly. And you are correct, I remember in the book some mention of Frodo looking like he was just out of his tweens, or something along those lines. But that's beside the point. The compression of the story in FotR means that the seventeen years between the party and Frodo's taking the ring to Rivendell didn't happen. So he's still younger in the movies than in the books.:) Though admittedly they never say how long Gandalf's trip to Gondor took.
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My 8600/250 never had a problem with 8.6...oh wait, it had 128MB RAM by the time I installed 8.6 on it...never mind. :)
-sam
And in the process discover something incredibly valuable yet unrelated to what they were originally looking for. You never find anything if you don't look, or spend your time trying to figure out where to look. Just stick your head out the window.
-sam
Wasn't Einstein awarded the Nobel prize for his work on the photoelectric effect because the Nobel committee was too scared of relativity?
-sam
oooh, a rebate, the price is 270-280. You know why the offer rebates don't you? Because very few people actually redeem them. Mail-in rebates are the suck, what with all the hoops they have you jump through to get your cash back.
-sam
Those people who don't want to bother with paying lawyer bills when RIAA comes knocking?
-sam
The implication was that iTunes is more important to Apple's bottom line than the iPod. This is not the case. Even if the iTMS is eclipsed by one of Apple's rivals they can still market the iPod as the finest mp3 player on the market. After all, the iPod was a big success before the launch of the iTMS.
-sam
iTunes won't let you do a damn thing to a protetected AAC file beyond listening to it or burning it to a disc. Unless of course you do something to iTunes...
-sam
uhm, I thought iTunes exists to sell iPods. I mean that's what Jobs has said in the past.
-sam
Not neccesarily. My brother and I did a bit of long distance driving a couple months ago and when I was driving he popped a Cowboy Bebop DVD into my Powerbook. Having those moving pictures and sounds on the edge of my peripheral vision was a distraction. I kept stealing glances at the laptop trying to follow the DVD instead of keeping my eyes on the road.
On the other hand I've used a laptop+GPS combo many times while riding shotgun and it's been a big help, so it cuts both ways I guess.
-sam
They hired that guy away from ESPN because ESPN hired Dave Strader away from the Red Wings after one of ESPNs play-by-play guys died in a pool accident. Dave Strader is still my favorite Red Wings TV play-by-play guy, though Daniels is very good and can easily hold his own with Mickey(the Wings awesome color guy).
-sam
-sam, works in a bank, doesn't balance his checkbook.
Something like a biopic of Mohammed Ali perhaps? ;)
-sam
Well there's always Live Phish, they offer DRM free .flac downloads :)
-sam
Personally I love both ATMs and the self-check out express lines. I just think they're more convenient and faster than going to the teller window or dealing with a traditional check-out lane. And it's for the same reason I like buying music on the iTMS, you don't have to to deal with the mental rejects working the check-out lane/teller window/cash register.
-sam
Hello Pot, there's a Kettle on line one that would like a word with you.
-sam
And how's that working out for you?
-sam
Yes, but you can also run iTunes on a G5 with OSX. :D
-sam
Oh, I don't know, WC4 was a pretty good game. It's probably the best "interactive movie" ever released, with a nicely branching storyline, a good selection of endings, and better graphics/film quality than WC3. All in all a strong game.
-sam
yig, I caught a bit of the Hornblower film they ran on Tuesday and wow, they were just making stuff up. There's a reason they don't name the hornblower movies after the books. I'm not saying the A&E Hornblowers are bad, I haven't watched enough of them to form an opinion, they just are not straight translation of the books, from what I saw they're not even loosely based on the books.
The movie you are about to see is true, the plot has been changed to protect the innocent.
-sam
Well, everytime there's a major windows exploit you always hear "blah blah, Linux, blah blah BSD, blah blah OSX." Maybe the hackers are just looking for a new way to prove their "l33t h4x0r1ng sk1llz."
-sam
Not to mention that you feel more like a true gourmet if you handpick your produce...from the bins in the supermarket. Well we can't all shop in open-air markets on the coast of France
-sam
Certainly true in general, but not in this case I think. Let's not forget that the GBA is a game system in its own right, and a very succesful one at that. And when you consider that a GC + GBA now cost about as much as a PS2 or Xbox, that's some value.
Plus, Nintendo probably figures that enough people already own GBAs that it's not a big deal to require them as controllers for GC games.
-sam
Console gamers want a different experience. They want FPS run and gun, they want to do it with an auto-aim function (because they like to use those simple gamepads instead of the flexibility of the mouse/keyboard interface). Console gamers become upset when they don't have unlimited ammo.
Riiight, which is why RPGs are so poorly represented on consoles. I mean shit, compared to Doom, Final Fantasy VI just has lousy character development.
Story-driven games are just as popular/prevalent on consoles as they are on the PC. Just look at all the attention being given to FF X-2 -sam
Not every crook can be The Napster, Left-Ear or Handsome Rob. Hell, most of 'em aren't, that's why they're crooks. :)
-sam
Well, you still age when you have the ring, look at Bilbo or Gollum, just quite slowly. And you are correct, I remember in the book some mention of Frodo looking like he was just out of his tweens, or something along those lines. But that's beside the point. The compression of the story in FotR means that the seventeen years between the party and Frodo's taking the ring to Rivendell didn't happen. So he's still younger in the movies than in the books. :) Though admittedly they never say how long Gandalf's trip to Gondor took.
-sam