... Right... because Apple hardware isn't standard hardware... it uses completely different Intel Core 2 duo and i7 processors that no one else uses, and different chipsets... and different video components...
wait a minute... no, its the exact same hardware...
No, not in any of its, or its developers wettest dreams. The mere thought that it is shows that the two are completely out of touch with reality.
Part of the argument is that Oracle is 'used for things MySQL can do', which is true both ways, and a flawed argument. Excel is used for things MySQL can do, doesn't make them competing products.
PostgreSQL is something that can be considered a Oracle alternative, not a replacement. MySQL is a completely different class of database useful for different purposes (if you're clueful anyway)
You realized that 'shipped to retailer' is extremely close to 'sold to customers' for anything that has already been released right?
Do you think MS is sending Walmart and BestBuy Xboxes which they are just storing in some big warehouse somewhere so MS can look good? Throwing MS some extra up front cash to help them out, while they sit on the stock?
Shipped to retailer vs sold to customer are only only different by the number sitting unsold, which is going to remain fairly consistent through out the lifetime of the product.
If they ship 400,000 in October, then you can assume safely that 400,000 sold. Not all of the units shipped in October will sell in October of course, but some units sold in October will have shipped in September and it all balances itself out pretty well, with the exception that Christmas may throw it off if a shortage is expected or they over stock to be safe, but by the end of January it'll be back to normal.
I guess I missed the unsold Xboxs sitting in stores, not saying it didn't happen, but if it did, and thats your argument, its a really flimsy one, even if thats why they list shipped rather than sold, its still going to help them so little that its just silly to worry about it.
I guess in my old age I'm just getting soft on MS, but this just really sounds like tinfoil hate stuff to me. Maybe I just don't care anymore. Everyone knows the Wii is the one thats doing best from any perspective that matters, regardless of what MS advertising says. Mom and dad don't read the WSJ for the most part, so what MS claims they've done in sales doesn't ever hit them. Mommy doesn't read the news wire man.
My stock radio antenna is built into my rear window... actual issue.
And when they start making cars with glass that blocks the signal, they'll move it. Of course in reality, your current antenna is between the two layers of glass that make up the window. Its in a sheet of plastic, part of all safety glass, the plastic is glued (laminated?) to both windows and this prevents the glass from flying all over the place when it shatters. All they have to do is only apply the glazing to the inner layer of glass and the problem doesn't exist for your antenna in the window, or just move it to somewhere else like a laydown rooftop antenna or an of several other form fitting/low profile variations.
Not actually an issue.
I don't want to buy an external GPS antenna, my GPS worked just fine until this was passed... actual issue.
It stopped working because the law was passed? Thats fucked up! They have a kill switch in it or something? Of course not, your GPS continues to work just fine in your existing car. If you buy a new car with this treatment on the windows, and it will likely have a navigation system built in, or you can buy an antenna then, dealerships will probably have it as an option. The couple hundred dollars the dealer is going to rip you off for it is trivial. It will probably just be part of the 'CA Emissions' package which you are already paying for there anyway.
Not actually an issue.
I like to open my garage door at the end of the street so it's all the way up when I pull into the driveway... actual issue.
Seriously? This is to backup your argument? You'd rather have your garage door open sooner than have your car stay a LOT cooler in the sun? Okay okay, allowing for personal preference...
Roll the window down. Or of course, had you read a little more about this you'd see the problem for all of this has already been contemplated, you could just position the remote near the 'deletion window' which is a portion of the glass which is not treated to allow signals through for this specific purpose.
Not actually an issue.
3/3 complaints listed as valid are not valid. Math is hard, lets go shopping!
I bought my current car in 2007, a particular little convertible that was in high demand (waited months for it actually), you couldn't buy it without california emission standards.
It was a line item on the sticker, but not optional or anything like that, I wasn't exactly car shopping so I didn't notice if other cars had it or not, I just kind of assumed they sold cars to that spec everywhere now to make things easier.
I don't really have a problem with it, its better for the environment and all that and its of almost no notice to me. I realize I could strip a few things off and get a few more HP, but its not worth the effort without more upgrades.
The point to all this is, myself being almost anti-environmental (I just really hate environmentalist twits, not the environment), and I think CA Emissions are a good thing, considering the air quality out there, I wouldn't bitch to much if I were you, the loss of freedom on your car is liable to add a few years to your life.
If you dont like it, which I can understand your point, even if not this particular point, you can vote differently, or leave. Plenty of other places are much more lax in their restrictions and nanny laws. If everyone there wants it that way, its your problem, not theirs.
Funny, since the GPS needs to 'see' the sats its listening too, that would require that the 'deletion window' have a completely unobstructed view of the entire sky... I guess this deletion window is a little bubble on the roof or something?
Its rather silly to trust stuff you find like that on a website promoting the thing. They will NEVER point out the downsides and will ALWAYS downplay those downsides, sometimes to the point of being completely misleading.
Fortunately, even though its metal, enough signal will still get through the roof to keep your GPS working.
Did you know that when Asbestos is used in that process it no longer is dangerous as it has changed structures at the molecular level?
Were you trying to be funny, it looks like it toward the end, but starting out with a completely unrelated false statement kind of ruins it unless its clear.
That is one of the single most ignorant statements I've seen on slashdot in years.
So when your car finally die, do you intend to just walk everywhere to show the man how you are sticking it to him? I'm sure he'll be alright with that, having at least one retarded person to laugh at is worth the single missing sale. What will make him laugh even more is when you get tired of walking and buy a new car the next day anyway. You can buy used for a while, but it won't be too long until that will be worthless.
You could use public transportation, all of which sold now days have navigation systems built in or they sit on a track.
In reality, if this happens, you'll buy a new car and move on, just like all the people who said 'I'm not buying a car that uses unleaded!%!@%!@% and other retarded shit like your statement'
Which is inbetween two layers of glass, along with the substrate that keeps them from shattering (making it safety glass), which is where the blocking will occur, which means, once again, the antenna will be ouside of the damped area.
Thats not air conditioning, thats just a blower. Air Conditioning implies conditioning the air in some way, heating/cooling/moisture removal.
Your TD2-50 'system' is simply an air circulation system that is a total pain in the ass to control while driving. It may cool you down, but its not air conditioning in any sense of the word that is even remotely accurate.
Your government is broke because they spend all their money trying to enforce the other retarded laws you vote in.
Yes the police are a necessary part of any government; it's to bad we spend many times more on prison guards than we do on police officers.
Citation needed. There are FAR more cops than guards, so your guards have to be making a couple orders of magnitude more than your cops for your statement to even be close to accurate. Not to mean a prison guard risks his life a lot more than a cop on a beat, but you never bothered to consider why did you?
A saving grace to you is teaching evolution? You my friend are an entirely unbalanced person.
Perhaps if California spent more time being sane and rational, rather than enacting laws and spending money on frivolous crap. The first intelligent thing that could be done is some population control, you know, intelligent zoning so you don't end up with overburdened highways because you all live on top of each other?
California's problems are caused by rather retarded residents, who, for the record, voted that government in.
Heres a hint: If you were robbed and the total loss was $50, I'm going to be fucking pissed if they spend $15k investigating it using my tax dollars rather than doing more important things.
How do you know the prints were bigger? Seems to me like they'd have to look all over the house and dust for them for you to know they were bigger. Of course, the reality of it is they were probably a friends, and the cops really only need to check specific places, where the criminals come in.
They don't dust your piano for prints when they check the glass on the broken window glass and find them there.
I too have been a victim, while I thought the cop and detectives that investigated were being very lax, after talking with them about what they were doing it became clear real quick that they had a good 20 years EACH more experience than I, and knew where to not waste time doing stupid shit. They caught the guy during one of the times it happened to me, with my help, people are far more likely to talk to a neighbor than a cop, its amazing how much YOU CAN HELP YOURSELF. The other instance resulted in a leather jacket and ~$30 taken from my unlocked car. It would have been a complete waste of time AND money to investigate it, however they are aware of it so if a string of break-ins occur they can work with the pattern.
You can report police who violate traffic laws, of course you'll probably end up reporting an officer that was going to a crime and didn't have his sirens on so he/she didn't alert the person he was coming or a hundred other reasons that you know nothing about since you obviously aren't a cop.
Cops don't investigate ponzi schemes, its not their arena, try the FBI or your SBI instead, those are the people who handle that sort of thing. Again however, I'd rather have them going after real criminal organizations rather than some ponzi scheme taking advantage of idiots like yourself. Truth be told, it probably wasn't a ponzi scheme, judging by the way you are using the word I'm betting you actually don't know what it means.
People who whine like yourself are the kind of people that make the rest of the world think people from California are complete morons who expect someone else to take care of them, sadly, I do think someone else needs to take care of you, at least until you get out of high school.
As the GP said, grow the hell up, the man isn't out to get you.
Its not about testing music, hardware, or the ability of the algorithm to reproduce the original sound.
Its about testing what people 'like', to which the answer is almost entirely subjective and will vary throughout the course of a lifetime, or even the day, for the same person. The rest of the setup is irrelevant as long as its the same for both tests as you're not testing those components, you're testing two different compression codecs for personal preference.
You chuckle, yet you don't even understand what the test results mean.
WTF is that exactly? HD radio or something (of which I've never seen in use by anyone)?
Standard FM isn't compressed, it simply has a limited bandwidth. It effectively has a low pass filter, but there is no compression in any sense of the word.
don't really know what to listen for when presented with different types of sound.
They don't need to know 'what to listen to', they just need to be able to tell if it sounds different. Hell, play the exact same file twice, but tell them something specific to listen for and lie to them about a difference between each playback and they'll tell you they can tell a difference.
Its not like this is new, I guess people don't remember what the point of the various mp3 bitrates were, you know, the one specifically that was considered high enough that the general public wouldn't tell the difference... guess what the bitrate was?
It gets better. Most of the money 'spent on the war' would have been spent ANYWAY. Just because troops aren't fighting doesn't mean they don't get paid, don't have to eat, don't train, don't use fuel and munitions for training.
These 'wars' are hardly above what we'd be doing anyway if the troops were at home base! WWII was a war, these (to our military) are basically training skirmishes with no punches pulled and live ammo being shot at you.
To me this is a tragedy. Young people starting off almost $100K in the hole.
Thats what happens when you live off of someone elses money for several years.
They aren't starting off in the hole, they dug the hole and climbed in when they decided to spend 4-12 years partying through undergrad and grad school rather than working a job as well.
Instead of ranting about how people should give you something for free, why don't you get off your lazy ass and work like everyone else? Why are you entitled to a free ride?
A civilized nation should provide free education to the highest level each person wishes to attain, because that's part of believing that the nation's most most important resource is its people.
Yes, we should pay for career college students, great idea, cause we don't have enough of them already...
Of course, you could go to school and work a job to pay for yourself, but its far easier to expect someone else to pay the bill for you and spend the time at night partying instead.
I'll be graduating next summer with a Masters in IT Management. (Undergrad in Simulation Design Engineering) 75k or so in loans, and the year I went to college they jacked up the interest rate to 6.8%.
Ironically, you could have spent that same time working in the field, moving up towards being an IT manager and... on top of it all, you'd have a clue about what you were doing rather than being just another idiot who graduated with no experience and an 'education' by people who don't actually do the job and probably never have.
Government loans are backed by ME and MY tax dollars that I'm paying for YOU to borrow. You will damn sure pay your interest to contribute back to the system. Its not free money, the working people of the world provide it to help you get started, not to give you a free ride. You got something out of it and now you don't want to contribute back.
You don't want to pay interest? I don't want to pay the taxes that help your ungrateful ass go to school, but I do it, so my kids have the same benefit.
Now shut your spoiled ass up, get a job, and pay your damn bills. You need a good spanking like a 3 year old until you start acting like an adult.
If the USA stays the same course as it's currently on, I think my children (as UK citizens by birthright) may be going to the UK for their education. It's a lot cheaper, it'll broaden their minds by travelling, and the quality is generally very high.
Yes, if you live in the US and pay lower taxes because higher education is not subsidized as much by taxes, then send your students across the pond to go to school that is being subsidised far more by other people paying higher taxes (which you are not doing), then it is a cheaper overall situation for YOU. SOMEONE ELSE IS PAYING YOUR BILL FOR YOU AND YOU AREN'T CONTRIBUTING BACK INTO THE SYSTEM.
Not letting them use loan money for housing, eating, or all the other shit that they use it for. Student loans should go directly to tuition, NOTHING ELSE. Theres the first way to keep your loans from being ridiculous.
When you live for 4 to 12 years on someone elses money, you're going to spend FAR longer paying back that money when all you would have had to do is get a damn job to start with and you could cut your loans in half easily, more in many cases.
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... Right ... because Apple hardware isn't standard hardware ... it uses completely different Intel Core 2 duo and i7 processors that no one else uses, and different chipsets ... and different video components ...
wait a minute ... no, its the exact same hardware ...
I'm sorry, what the hell are you talking about?
No, not in any of its, or its developers wettest dreams. The mere thought that it is shows that the two are completely out of touch with reality.
Part of the argument is that Oracle is 'used for things MySQL can do', which is true both ways, and a flawed argument. Excel is used for things MySQL can do, doesn't make them competing products.
PostgreSQL is something that can be considered a Oracle alternative, not a replacement. MySQL is a completely different class of database useful for different purposes (if you're clueful anyway)
Never heard of a loghost eh?
You realized that 'shipped to retailer' is extremely close to 'sold to customers' for anything that has already been released right?
Do you think MS is sending Walmart and BestBuy Xboxes which they are just storing in some big warehouse somewhere so MS can look good? Throwing MS some extra up front cash to help them out, while they sit on the stock?
Shipped to retailer vs sold to customer are only only different by the number sitting unsold, which is going to remain fairly consistent through out the lifetime of the product.
If they ship 400,000 in October, then you can assume safely that 400,000 sold. Not all of the units shipped in October will sell in October of course, but some units sold in October will have shipped in September and it all balances itself out pretty well, with the exception that Christmas may throw it off if a shortage is expected or they over stock to be safe, but by the end of January it'll be back to normal.
I guess I missed the unsold Xboxs sitting in stores, not saying it didn't happen, but if it did, and thats your argument, its a really flimsy one, even if thats why they list shipped rather than sold, its still going to help them so little that its just silly to worry about it.
I guess in my old age I'm just getting soft on MS, but this just really sounds like tinfoil hate stuff to me. Maybe I just don't care anymore. Everyone knows the Wii is the one thats doing best from any perspective that matters, regardless of what MS advertising says. Mom and dad don't read the WSJ for the most part, so what MS claims they've done in sales doesn't ever hit them. Mommy doesn't read the news wire man.
*Pssst* your ignorance is showing ...
And when they start making cars with glass that blocks the signal, they'll move it. Of course in reality, your current antenna is between the two layers of glass that make up the window. Its in a sheet of plastic, part of all safety glass, the plastic is glued (laminated?) to both windows and this prevents the glass from flying all over the place when it shatters. All they have to do is only apply the glazing to the inner layer of glass and the problem doesn't exist for your antenna in the window, or just move it to somewhere else like a laydown rooftop antenna or an of several other form fitting/low profile variations.
Not actually an issue.
It stopped working because the law was passed? Thats fucked up! They have a kill switch in it or something? Of course not, your GPS continues to work just fine in your existing car. If you buy a new car with this treatment on the windows, and it will likely have a navigation system built in, or you can buy an antenna then, dealerships will probably have it as an option. The couple hundred dollars the dealer is going to rip you off for it is trivial. It will probably just be part of the 'CA Emissions' package which you are already paying for there anyway.
Not actually an issue.
Seriously? This is to backup your argument? You'd rather have your garage door open sooner than have your car stay a LOT cooler in the sun? Okay okay, allowing for personal preference ...
Roll the window down. Or of course, had you read a little more about this you'd see the problem for all of this has already been contemplated, you could just position the remote near the 'deletion window' which is a portion of the glass which is not treated to allow signals through for this specific purpose.
Not actually an issue.
3/3 complaints listed as valid are not valid. Math is hard, lets go shopping!
I bought my current car in 2007, a particular little convertible that was in high demand (waited months for it actually), you couldn't buy it without california emission standards.
It was a line item on the sticker, but not optional or anything like that, I wasn't exactly car shopping so I didn't notice if other cars had it or not, I just kind of assumed they sold cars to that spec everywhere now to make things easier.
I don't really have a problem with it, its better for the environment and all that and its of almost no notice to me. I realize I could strip a few things off and get a few more HP, but its not worth the effort without more upgrades.
The point to all this is, myself being almost anti-environmental (I just really hate environmentalist twits, not the environment), and I think CA Emissions are a good thing, considering the air quality out there, I wouldn't bitch to much if I were you, the loss of freedom on your car is liable to add a few years to your life.
If you dont like it, which I can understand your point, even if not this particular point, you can vote differently, or leave. Plenty of other places are much more lax in their restrictions and nanny laws. If everyone there wants it that way, its your problem, not theirs.
Funny, since the GPS needs to 'see' the sats its listening too, that would require that the 'deletion window' have a completely unobstructed view of the entire sky ... I guess this deletion window is a little bubble on the roof or something?
Its rather silly to trust stuff you find like that on a website promoting the thing. They will NEVER point out the downsides and will ALWAYS downplay those downsides, sometimes to the point of being completely misleading.
Fortunately, even though its metal, enough signal will still get through the roof to keep your GPS working.
The first step is ousting the morons who voted those people in.
Nice of you to blame it on someone else, but as a citizen of CA, you're more to blame than the ones in charge. Citizens put them there.
Did you know that when Asbestos is used in that process it no longer is dangerous as it has changed structures at the molecular level?
Were you trying to be funny, it looks like it toward the end, but starting out with a completely unrelated false statement kind of ruins it unless its clear.
Or maybe I just w000shed.
That is one of the single most ignorant statements I've seen on slashdot in years.
So when your car finally die, do you intend to just walk everywhere to show the man how you are sticking it to him? I'm sure he'll be alright with that, having at least one retarded person to laugh at is worth the single missing sale. What will make him laugh even more is when you get tired of walking and buy a new car the next day anyway. You can buy used for a while, but it won't be too long until that will be worthless.
You could use public transportation, all of which sold now days have navigation systems built in or they sit on a track.
In reality, if this happens, you'll buy a new car and move on, just like all the people who said 'I'm not buying a car that uses unleaded!%!@%!@% and other retarded shit like your statement'
Which is inbetween two layers of glass, along with the substrate that keeps them from shattering (making it safety glass), which is where the blocking will occur, which means, once again, the antenna will be ouside of the damped area.
Thats not air conditioning, thats just a blower. Air Conditioning implies conditioning the air in some way, heating/cooling/moisture removal.
Your TD2-50 'system' is simply an air circulation system that is a total pain in the ass to control while driving. It may cool you down, but its not air conditioning in any sense of the word that is even remotely accurate.
Bullshit, stop believing the crap you see on MythBusters, they are morons in every sense of the word.
Your government is broke because they spend all their money trying to enforce the other retarded laws you vote in.
Citation needed. There are FAR more cops than guards, so your guards have to be making a couple orders of magnitude more than your cops for your statement to even be close to accurate. Not to mean a prison guard risks his life a lot more than a cop on a beat, but you never bothered to consider why did you?
A saving grace to you is teaching evolution? You my friend are an entirely unbalanced person.
Perhaps if California spent more time being sane and rational, rather than enacting laws and spending money on frivolous crap. The first intelligent thing that could be done is some population control, you know, intelligent zoning so you don't end up with overburdened highways because you all live on top of each other?
California's problems are caused by rather retarded residents, who, for the record, voted that government in.
omfg the man is totally out to get you dude.
Heres a hint: If you were robbed and the total loss was $50, I'm going to be fucking pissed if they spend $15k investigating it using my tax dollars rather than doing more important things.
How do you know the prints were bigger? Seems to me like they'd have to look all over the house and dust for them for you to know they were bigger. Of course, the reality of it is they were probably a friends, and the cops really only need to check specific places, where the criminals come in.
They don't dust your piano for prints when they check the glass on the broken window glass and find them there.
I too have been a victim, while I thought the cop and detectives that investigated were being very lax, after talking with them about what they were doing it became clear real quick that they had a good 20 years EACH more experience than I, and knew where to not waste time doing stupid shit. They caught the guy during one of the times it happened to me, with my help, people are far more likely to talk to a neighbor than a cop, its amazing how much YOU CAN HELP YOURSELF. The other instance resulted in a leather jacket and ~$30 taken from my unlocked car. It would have been a complete waste of time AND money to investigate it, however they are aware of it so if a string of break-ins occur they can work with the pattern.
You can report police who violate traffic laws, of course you'll probably end up reporting an officer that was going to a crime and didn't have his sirens on so he/she didn't alert the person he was coming or a hundred other reasons that you know nothing about since you obviously aren't a cop.
Cops don't investigate ponzi schemes, its not their arena, try the FBI or your SBI instead, those are the people who handle that sort of thing. Again however, I'd rather have them going after real criminal organizations rather than some ponzi scheme taking advantage of idiots like yourself. Truth be told, it probably wasn't a ponzi scheme, judging by the way you are using the word I'm betting you actually don't know what it means.
People who whine like yourself are the kind of people that make the rest of the world think people from California are complete morons who expect someone else to take care of them, sadly, I do think someone else needs to take care of you, at least until you get out of high school.
As the GP said, grow the hell up, the man isn't out to get you.
And MP3 isn't an audio format.
In any case, everyone on slashdot knew what they were referring to.
Its not about testing music, hardware, or the ability of the algorithm to reproduce the original sound.
Its about testing what people 'like', to which the answer is almost entirely subjective and will vary throughout the course of a lifetime, or even the day, for the same person. The rest of the setup is irrelevant as long as its the same for both tests as you're not testing those components, you're testing two different compression codecs for personal preference.
You chuckle, yet you don't even understand what the test results mean.
WTF is that exactly? HD radio or something (of which I've never seen in use by anyone)?
Standard FM isn't compressed, it simply has a limited bandwidth. It effectively has a low pass filter, but there is no compression in any sense of the word.
They don't need to know 'what to listen to', they just need to be able to tell if it sounds different. Hell, play the exact same file twice, but tell them something specific to listen for and lie to them about a difference between each playback and they'll tell you they can tell a difference.
Its not like this is new, I guess people don't remember what the point of the various mp3 bitrates were, you know, the one specifically that was considered high enough that the general public wouldn't tell the difference ... guess what the bitrate was?
Hint: Its lower than 128k
It gets better. Most of the money 'spent on the war' would have been spent ANYWAY. Just because troops aren't fighting doesn't mean they don't get paid, don't have to eat, don't train, don't use fuel and munitions for training.
These 'wars' are hardly above what we'd be doing anyway if the troops were at home base! WWII was a war, these (to our military) are basically training skirmishes with no punches pulled and live ammo being shot at you.
Thats what happens when you live off of someone elses money for several years.
They aren't starting off in the hole, they dug the hole and climbed in when they decided to spend 4-12 years partying through undergrad and grad school rather than working a job as well.
Instead of ranting about how people should give you something for free, why don't you get off your lazy ass and work like everyone else? Why are you entitled to a free ride?
Wait, I remember why, you AREN'T.
Yes, we should pay for career college students, great idea, cause we don't have enough of them already ...
Of course, you could go to school and work a job to pay for yourself, but its far easier to expect someone else to pay the bill for you and spend the time at night partying instead.
Grow up.
Ironically, you could have spent that same time working in the field, moving up towards being an IT manager and ... on top of it all, you'd have a clue about what you were doing rather than being just another idiot who graduated with no experience and an 'education' by people who don't actually do the job and probably never have.
Government loans are backed by ME and MY tax dollars that I'm paying for YOU to borrow. You will damn sure pay your interest to contribute back to the system. Its not free money, the working people of the world provide it to help you get started, not to give you a free ride. You got something out of it and now you don't want to contribute back.
You don't want to pay interest? I don't want to pay the taxes that help your ungrateful ass go to school, but I do it, so my kids have the same benefit.
Now shut your spoiled ass up, get a job, and pay your damn bills. You need a good spanking like a 3 year old until you start acting like an adult.
Yes, if you live in the US and pay lower taxes because higher education is not subsidized as much by taxes, then send your students across the pond to go to school that is being subsidised far more by other people paying higher taxes (which you are not doing), then it is a cheaper overall situation for YOU. SOMEONE ELSE IS PAYING YOUR BILL FOR YOU AND YOU AREN'T CONTRIBUTING BACK INTO THE SYSTEM.
This is, in effect, cheating, legal or not.
Not letting them use loan money for housing, eating, or all the other shit that they use it for. Student loans should go directly to tuition, NOTHING ELSE. Theres the first way to keep your loans from being ridiculous.
When you live for 4 to 12 years on someone elses money, you're going to spend FAR longer paying back that money when all you would have had to do is get a damn job to start with and you could cut your loans in half easily, more in many cases.