"Either you are a fast reader of high page-count books or you got your prices wrong. Most monthly comics in 2003 are priced between two and three dollars."
It could be the problem that we Canadians run into over and over. Most of the time if we shoot off a number of bucks without converting an American will just nod and deal, but if we complain about a high price, the American will say "the price is never that high."
This happens even when the price difference is as small as two dollars, as here. $2 US, $3.50 CDN, for what is essentially a lavish pamphlet on the lifestyle of Superman is frustrating. For double that price I can get a paperback novel, and for a little less than three times that price I can get a copy of War and Peace. This is what matters, not the exact difference between two and four dollars. It's still a lot for a flimsy little thing.
Exactly. You wouldn't PAY for a taped over logo, but the machines remain recognizable. And while we're talking about free placements that were recognizable, it was inevitable that Reese Witherspoon would have a Tangerine iBook in the first Legally Blonde movie, and that it would be recognized with or without the logo. I don't recall if that one was logo-blanked.
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Problem 1 with that idea is that if Apple put down money for the placement the Apple logo wouldn't be taped over. It almost always is. Problem 2 with that idea is that the place one can most easily find Macs used for style is in commercials for other companies' products, products like shirts and real estate brokerage.
It doesn't really. It presupposes that when polled, you'll respond "I use Photoshop," which means some company somewhere is that much more likely to buy copies because it's the market leader. Marketshare is immensely valuable, however it's obtained.
Should Nintendo ever go out of business, the dolphins will bring in a thriving and successful replacement Nintendo from an alternate dimension. That's what the "Dolphin" project really was, a diplomatic mission to arrange for last-minute insurance.
I'm not sure if it's an abomination to God or not, but apparently Lucifer isn't happy with it. When my father phoned tech support for MSN to ask why his e-mail wasn't working on his flat-screen iMac, a machine configured for OS X out of the box, they had him install OS 9 over everything because "it's a very buggy OS, it's easier to just use something more reliable." Interesting policy for Microsoft.
If, as is usually claimed, there are 40 or 50 million file sharers in the U.S., then there just aren't enough young people to properly dominate trading. Even the Amish teens would have to be downloading, as would ghetto kids who can't afford food. There are only about thirty million people in the U.S. older than 9 and younger than 25. That leaves a lot of trading to be done by people over 25.
The system has 2 MB of VRAM with 5.3 GB/s bandwidth to that RAM. 8 MB system RAM.
Right.
"Puts out as many triangles as a PS2" does NOT mean "has PS2 quality graphics." Models will have to be poorly textured, with detail coming from beautifully rendered curves out of its 33 million triangles/sec instead. Bizarre.
In any case, right up front, not PS2 graphics. Very different.
Have you ever tried playing a 3-d game at such a tiny size? Anti-aliasing doesn't really come into it. The pixels will be too small to see much aliasing. It's the equivalent of running at 1280x1024 on a 19" monitor and using only the corner. Definitely not "worst graphics ever seen on a hand-held."
Try running something like Quake III in a 400x300 window while your main resolution is at 1280x1024. You'll see it isn't bad at all, just small.
If you aren't wearing them, it's very difficult to find them. This has nothing to do with monitors, but it's a major design flaw. They need to beep or something.
This reminds me of that TNG episode where the Enterprise tows a radioactive ship away from a planet then sends it into the planetary system's sun to safely dispose of it. It's very dangerous in the show because they have to bring it through an asteroid field first, which means staying close to it and irradiating the crew. What they should have done is charted a nice elevation out of the solar system's plane that wouldn't hit anything local. They could have sent the thing slowly spinning off into the interstellar void in a few minutes, not to cross paths with anything important until long after the radioactivity died down. Interstellar space is very much empty for an object moving at non-relativistic speeds.
Similarly, with Hubble all you'd have to do is reach escape velocity in a suitable direction and let it go. The Sun is really a very small target, so why bother with Sun disposal for anything? Is there anything on Earth so dangerous that we need worry about what it might hit in a million years? Maybe life...;)
None of this is intended as a practical solution to Hubble, just a sanity check on the Sun proposal.
It talks about new interfaces because we've been hearing so much about interfaces that it's a familiar topic to which readers will relate, and which can form a bridge into the story. It's a variety of lead paragraph.
An article which simply jumps into a description of an esoteric subject can seem awkward and be difficult to understand, so journalists have long been taught strategies for lessening that initial impact. Many of these conventions don't play as well in the internet environment because a linking page has already told the reader what the article will really be about. This makes the lead seem like irrelevant wandering.
The people in what are now Iraq, Palestine and Syria were never given a chance? They had the first chance, and there was nobody to give it to them, because that's where civilisation started. The current position of these countries evolved over thousands of years of history and success while western Europeans were still in the Stone Age. That's thousands of years of chances with grain in the pantry to support society. Mexico should have been so lucky.
Imagining that the white man's burden can be applied to Iraq in the way it is applied to Mexico is ignorance, but it is not racism, any more than imagining Africans to be inferior because they are composed of molasses and melt in the water would be. The poster you're criticizing just doesn't know what Iraq is.
Everyone is telling us that there are third-party models that have line-ins, but that nobody's seen a stock-model with one. This has been an issue for a good fifteen years or more, right? If in fifteen years they haven't put this in, I'm betting they have a motivation. Say, trying to intimidate buyers into purchasing a the CD player package for the car, instead of saying "you can plug in the Discman you already own anytime." A whole lot of people have never considered replacing their car stereos with anything, ever, so that up-front question is a big one.
You know, he didn't write this letter to us on Slashdot. He wrote it to the people who might care about his work, who use his program. It end up on Slashdot because someone else submitted it as a "sorry to see the project go" item.
Most people would speak differently to their friends about problems at home than they would to USA Today.
He ended the project. People coming to his website may want to know why. He's telling them. It's a single page of text. That seems pretty reasonable to me, since we've all seen worse. The guy didn't mean to impose on you.
I can't begin to count the number of people who write nasty "why's he making such a big deal about this" posts in response to some poor person who put something up on a webpage that gets ten thousand hits a month which attracted the interest of slashdot. It's like being angry that your neighbour is saying boring things to his wife on their patio again.
That's nothing like it. "why waste time" is in both, so we drop that. "reading code":"reading law"::"accidentally reusing code you've read":"accidentally reusing law you've read".
That's the correct analogy. Now let's translate yours back.
"reading law":"reading code"::"thinking of a crime":"thinking of an exception"
This is a reasonable back-analogy. It would be fun to kick around what a "crime" is in a program, but leave it be. You can fill in "crossing the MCP" if you like.
Clearly, programmers reading code to see where there are possible exceptions is a whole different matter. That's a stage in white-box testing, we do it all the time. So watch those analogies. They're math, so they can end up pointing in the wrong direction and look perfectly normal.
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It could be the problem that we Canadians run into over and over. Most of the time if we shoot off a number of bucks without converting an American will just nod and deal, but if we complain about a high price, the American will say "the price is never that high."
This happens even when the price difference is as small as two dollars, as here. $2 US, $3.50 CDN, for what is essentially a lavish pamphlet on the lifestyle of Superman is frustrating. For double that price I can get a paperback novel, and for a little less than three times that price I can get a copy of War and Peace. This is what matters, not the exact difference between two and four dollars. It's still a lot for a flimsy little thing.
Exactly. You wouldn't PAY for a taped over logo, but the machines remain recognizable. And while we're talking about free placements that were recognizable, it was inevitable that Reese Witherspoon would have a Tangerine iBook in the first Legally Blonde movie, and that it would be recognized with or without the logo. I don't recall if that one was logo-blanked.
Problem 1 with that idea is that if Apple put down money for the placement the Apple logo wouldn't be taped over. It almost always is. Problem 2 with that idea is that the place one can most easily find Macs used for style is in commercials for other companies' products, products like shirts and real estate brokerage.
It doesn't really. It presupposes that when polled, you'll respond "I use Photoshop," which means some company somewhere is that much more likely to buy copies because it's the market leader. Marketshare is immensely valuable, however it's obtained.
Should Nintendo ever go out of business, the dolphins will bring in a thriving and successful replacement Nintendo from an alternate dimension. That's what the "Dolphin" project really was, a diplomatic mission to arrange for last-minute insurance.
I thought Dr. Soandso was an intriguing name, and was trying to figure out was nationality that is. Spanish?
I'm not sure if it's an abomination to God or not, but apparently Lucifer isn't happy with it. When my father phoned tech support for MSN to ask why his e-mail wasn't working on his flat-screen iMac, a machine configured for OS X out of the box, they had him install OS 9 over everything because "it's a very buggy OS, it's easier to just use something more reliable." Interesting policy for Microsoft.
If, as is usually claimed, there are 40 or 50 million file sharers in the U.S., then there just aren't enough young people to properly dominate trading. Even the Amish teens would have to be downloading, as would ghetto kids who can't afford food. There are only about thirty million people in the U.S. older than 9 and younger than 25. That leaves a lot of trading to be done by people over 25.
Right.
"Puts out as many triangles as a PS2" does NOT mean "has PS2 quality graphics." Models will have to be poorly textured, with detail coming from beautifully rendered curves out of its 33 million triangles/sec instead. Bizarre.
In any case, right up front, not PS2 graphics. Very different.
Try running something like Quake III in a 400x300 window while your main resolution is at 1280x1024. You'll see it isn't bad at all, just small.
"I find myself in the biggest battle of my life" is code for "I'm angling for a grudge match with Scott Miller and Petri Järvilehto."
If you aren't wearing them, it's very difficult to find them. This has nothing to do with monitors, but it's a major design flaw. They need to beep or something.
Similarly, with Hubble all you'd have to do is reach escape velocity in a suitable direction and let it go. The Sun is really a very small target, so why bother with Sun disposal for anything? Is there anything on Earth so dangerous that we need worry about what it might hit in a million years? Maybe life... ;)
None of this is intended as a practical solution to Hubble, just a sanity check on the Sun proposal.
Especially considering that the card is already FCC approved, so you're halfway there...
Mind-bendingly brilliant. Note that his work is critical to all of Miyamoto's biggest hits, so he's critical to the Nintendo experience.
An article which simply jumps into a description of an esoteric subject can seem awkward and be difficult to understand, so journalists have long been taught strategies for lessening that initial impact. Many of these conventions don't play as well in the internet environment because a linking page has already told the reader what the article will really be about. This makes the lead seem like irrelevant wandering.
Imagining that the white man's burden can be applied to Iraq in the way it is applied to Mexico is ignorance, but it is not racism, any more than imagining Africans to be inferior because they are composed of molasses and melt in the water would be. The poster you're criticizing just doesn't know what Iraq is.
It is recommended that your defragment your store now.
Everyone is telling us that there are third-party models that have line-ins, but that nobody's seen a stock-model with one. This has been an issue for a good fifteen years or more, right? If in fifteen years they haven't put this in, I'm betting they have a motivation. Say, trying to intimidate buyers into purchasing a the CD player package for the car, instead of saying "you can plug in the Discman you already own anytime." A whole lot of people have never considered replacing their car stereos with anything, ever, so that up-front question is a big one.
You'd better damn well, with everyone setting up cantennas aimed at the john.
It seems like a much better solution than those slide-out keypads on something like the Sidekick. A hinge is an easier mechanism to work with.
They can, however, take some biometrics at knife edge.
Most people would speak differently to their friends about problems at home than they would to USA Today.
He ended the project. People coming to his website may want to know why. He's telling them. It's a single page of text. That seems pretty reasonable to me, since we've all seen worse. The guy didn't mean to impose on you.
I can't begin to count the number of people who write nasty "why's he making such a big deal about this" posts in response to some poor person who put something up on a webpage that gets ten thousand hits a month which attracted the interest of slashdot. It's like being angry that your neighbour is saying boring things to his wife on their patio again.
That's the correct analogy. Now let's translate yours back.
"reading law":"reading code"::"thinking of a crime":"thinking of an exception"
This is a reasonable back-analogy. It would be fun to kick around what a "crime" is in a program, but leave it be. You can fill in "crossing the MCP" if you like.
Clearly, programmers reading code to see where there are possible exceptions is a whole different matter. That's a stage in white-box testing, we do it all the time. So watch those analogies. They're math, so they can end up pointing in the wrong direction and look perfectly normal.
If you get them too hot, flags burn.
A black man has never been elected President of the Universe.
But, you know.... keep it under your hat, ok? We wouldn't want anyone to think we're for any of this.