So in this case, a piece of work written by a couple of guys who are still alive, which was released not too long ago, and someone paid a lot of money for the rights to make and distribute a movie version of, you feel that this is a poor example of copyright law? I actually think this is an excellent example of the system working properly. If this was a work from 100 years ago, yeah, you'd have a legitimate beef. But copyright law needs to exist in some way. And even under the old system which gave copyright for 35 years, which most/.ers agree with that system, this work would still be covered under those conditions.
You might be able to control the box, but right now there is no way to easily record the HD content off of the box. The amount of data is just too great. HD tuner cards in a computer are perfect for capturing HD off of the feed, but now you've lost the ability to actually change/decode channels. That's why I've never gone the MythTV route. Maybe as computers get faster it'll happen, but right now it's not possible.
I was originally thinking the same thing, but the APU can be started electrically. Technically, the APU is an engine, so to say engine starter, you would technically be correct, but a little misleading, because it sounds like he is referring to the man engines.
An APU starter isn't really designed for powering a car. Yeah, they were designed to power things that produce quite a bit more HP and require more torque usually, but the duty cycles are all wrong, among a host of other things.
370 miles is twice the range of your petrol car? Considering you used the word petrol, I'm going to assume you are in the UK, and things may be different there, but there is hardly a car here in the US whose range is less than 400 mils. The tanks are sized based on gas mileage to get a car to drive that far. Exceptions are hyper-exotics and some trucks.
I think a ton of the dates are crazy wrong. How is tourist guy from Sept 10, 2001, when the event happened on Sept 11, 2001? Demotivators in 2006? I remember those from like 2003/2004, and they were quite popular then. The stuff just doesn't make sense in many areas. Or a 300 joke from 2006 for a 2007 movie?????
I've been in the same boat as you in the past. When I've worked for a large corporation, I got paid for forty hours. Overtime in my case was included, only because I was low on the totem pole (Engineer I), but it didn't kick in until the 48th hour of work. So I was expected at times to work 8 hours of unpaid overtime each week. Was it often that way? No, but it did happen. That's the way a salaried job works. These guys need to go back and read the contract they signed.
Um, speaking as someone whose mother is a teacher, sister is a teacher, and sister-in-law is a teacher, you are paid for your summer break. You usually will receive a large check at the beginning of the summer break to cover you for the summer. So, you are being paid, just like if you were in school. So what if you have to attend some trainings, etc. You have already been compensated at the beginning of the summer. She is not paying for the privilege, she was paid previously. That money is basically given with the assumption that through the summer, you will be creating lesson plans and such for the next year. Going to a training fits into that scope.
If you worry about paying for gas and everything, look into taking that as a deduction/credit on your taxes at the current rate of ~$0.50/mile. I know that as an engineer, when I have had to travel to facilities other than the one I have a desk at, I get reimbursed by the government.
Now, don't think I am disparaging teachers. I'm not. They usually are at the schools for an hour an a half before class, and usually 2 after, in addition to taking work home like grading papers, tests, etc. Add to that, that they have to deal with a bunch of kids that usually don't want to listen to them, you get a situation where teachers are not compensated enough in my eyes.
No, that's not what they said. What they said was they were able to keep the film from being bootlegged, DESPITE an incredibly successful opening. With that many people watching it, it's a shock that a cam copy didn't come out SOONER.
fundamental belief in Islam is that through the ages, the uncorrupted Bible became rife with revisions and mistakes - the resurrection of Jesus being a prime example (the other big one being the trinity).
Being a muslim, I can see how you got this wrong, but the Trinity was never outlined in the bible. It is a tenant of faith that was conceived by the Church later on. I believe the councils of Nicea and Trent established it.
Harvey was almost ready to shoot the crazy guy after he shot Gordon. He was right there near the edge, and we saw that early on. Batman had to stop him and bring him to his senses.
I don't think it's a set "5 mph" overage that is allowed. It's a DOT regulation that says that speedometers have to be accurate to within a couple of percentage points. Therefore, at speeds of 75 mph, it ends up working out to about 5 mph, so they give you a pass for anything in that range across all speeds.
1) Xbox live. Sony's online service is free for a reason, it isn't very good *yet*. If it gets to be as good as Live, Xbox will have a problem on their hands. Not yet. I didn't really understand why Live was so important until I signed up for it and saw the drastic difference it made to be the backbone of every game. Now, the benifits of live go away if you don't have friends/family with xbox's, or at least the "wow" factor goes away without being able to share your experiences with your friends.
Nothing is being done on XBL that isn't being done on PSN. PSN is actually very good. A year ago, you'd be correct.
Xbox Live Arcade is a great service and has a ton of games that are available only on XBLA. T
But plants don't just "appear". That's the problem. Sorry, but you aren't going to get an abundance of plant life in the Sahara just because more CO2 exists out there. Also, plants aren't dying due to a lack of CO2, so there is most certainly an upper limit on how much CO2 can be absorbed by the flora of this planet.
You know, I'm not an environmentalist whack-job, but here's the thing. Every day, all the plants in the world convert an amount of CO2 to O2. They strip out the carbon. Now that's awesome for us you say, and I agree, but here's where the problem lies. If you are generating more CO2 than what can be converted by all of the plants in the world, that CO2 hangs around. That's where the problem is.
After all, what's the point in doing what you can when you can if you can't do it all at once?
Agreed. Let's start drilling for domestic oil. It won't completely solve the situation, but it will help it. After all, what's the point in doing what you can when you can if you can't do it all at once?
I'll agree with you on this, it's been my own personal experience as well. I view them as equivalent to a computer program. They follow the set of instructions that you've given them to an amazingly high degree of accuracy, but if they come across an abnormality, it is not handled well. You have to be specific, and try to account for all possible combinations of things, otherwise you will get back something that is not what you were looking for.
I should also add, my experience hasn't been primarily with coding, but with data analysis.
I've worked with quite a few different Indians, both domestic and abroad. My boss is an Indian himself, and quite capable, knowledgeable, and proficient. Even he agrees that the Indians, for the most part, are incapable of being creative and thinking for themselves. All of their work is performed in a "group" and they don't know how to do it themselves. Only a handful of universities in India are worth anything, the rest are diploma mills. That's why they come here to get a degree, so it they have something meaningful. And giving an Indian a task is like giving a task to a computer program. It is very deliberate and exact. You give it something, you will get back exactly what you asked for, but if it something outside of the realm of what was expected, it is not handled well. You have to describe every possible corner case and exception that may get run into, in the hopes of you getting back something that is useful. With Westerners, I can give them something, a set of good instructions, and get back something where even the vagaries of a data set have been accounted for properly. I'll add, that these are college kids who have no knowledge of the thing I've given them, so it has nothing to do with experience....just a way of thinking.
You're not asking someone to write perfect, syntactical code. You're just asking them to do some pseudo code on the board. See how their mind thinks. See how they develop algorithms. What paths do they follow. Writing syntax perfect code isn't what's important. Thought processes are.
Nice you seem to have neglected the PSN games I've mentioned. Name all the amazingly wonderful games that are out for the Wii. You have Wii sports, Boom Blox, Mario Galaxy and Wii fit. Not really any more than the PS3. Most games for the Wii are awful.
Here's what I think they really need to do. Release free games, but charge for additional content, like outfits, guns, different characters, etc. It's the razors and blades model. You give away one thing, the game (razor), and charge a lot for the blades (add-ons). So you want your guy to have a certain camouflage or costume? It'll cost you $7.99. Want a different gun that is slightly more powerful? That'll be $3.99 please. The more popular/downloaded your game is, the more people that will probably want to spend a couple of bucks to customize it, and you'll make money. Plus, you won't have to worry about all those costs like packaging, shipping, making CDs, etc. Hell, charge people $10 if they want a physical version of the CD, and let everyone else download it. For $10, a bunch of people won't want to deal with the hassle of downloading.
Nothing is "killing PC gaming".
Blizzard, Funcom, Valve, Id, Maxis/EA, Bethesda, Creative Assembly, all have a great relationship with the PC. PCs have the biggest market and the best margins.
Meanwhile, PS3 struggles to get a single quality family title on the shelves and xbox is a multi-billion sinkhole no matter how you slice it.
Want a quality family title for the PS3? How about Ratchet & Clank, Hot Shots Golf, or Gran Turismo 5? LittleBigPlanet will be here in a matter of months. Other games on the Playstation Network like Calling All Cars, flOw, and PixelJunk Monsters are rated for everyone and are a great amount of fun. You want to try your point again?
Then by your logic I'm going to stop paying into SSA, because I'm not going to get a single dime back out of it when I try to "retire" in 2047. How is me paying in and not getting anything back ok, but for boomers to pay in and not get anything back isn't?
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So in this case, a piece of work written by a couple of guys who are still alive, which was released not too long ago, and someone paid a lot of money for the rights to make and distribute a movie version of, you feel that this is a poor example of copyright law? I actually think this is an excellent example of the system working properly. If this was a work from 100 years ago, yeah, you'd have a legitimate beef. But copyright law needs to exist in some way. And even under the old system which gave copyright for 35 years, which most /.ers agree with that system, this work would still be covered under those conditions.
You might be able to control the box, but right now there is no way to easily record the HD content off of the box. The amount of data is just too great. HD tuner cards in a computer are perfect for capturing HD off of the feed, but now you've lost the ability to actually change/decode channels. That's why I've never gone the MythTV route. Maybe as computers get faster it'll happen, but right now it's not possible.
I was originally thinking the same thing, but the APU can be started electrically. Technically, the APU is an engine, so to say engine starter, you would technically be correct, but a little misleading, because it sounds like he is referring to the man engines.
An APU starter isn't really designed for powering a car. Yeah, they were designed to power things that produce quite a bit more HP and require more torque usually, but the duty cycles are all wrong, among a host of other things.
370 miles is twice the range of your petrol car? Considering you used the word petrol, I'm going to assume you are in the UK, and things may be different there, but there is hardly a car here in the US whose range is less than 400 mils. The tanks are sized based on gas mileage to get a car to drive that far. Exceptions are hyper-exotics and some trucks.
I think a ton of the dates are crazy wrong. How is tourist guy from Sept 10, 2001, when the event happened on Sept 11, 2001? Demotivators in 2006? I remember those from like 2003/2004, and they were quite popular then. The stuff just doesn't make sense in many areas. Or a 300 joke from 2006 for a 2007 movie?????
I've been in the same boat as you in the past. When I've worked for a large corporation, I got paid for forty hours. Overtime in my case was included, only because I was low on the totem pole (Engineer I), but it didn't kick in until the 48th hour of work. So I was expected at times to work 8 hours of unpaid overtime each week. Was it often that way? No, but it did happen. That's the way a salaried job works. These guys need to go back and read the contract they signed.
Um, speaking as someone whose mother is a teacher, sister is a teacher, and sister-in-law is a teacher, you are paid for your summer break. You usually will receive a large check at the beginning of the summer break to cover you for the summer. So, you are being paid, just like if you were in school. So what if you have to attend some trainings, etc. You have already been compensated at the beginning of the summer. She is not paying for the privilege, she was paid previously. That money is basically given with the assumption that through the summer, you will be creating lesson plans and such for the next year. Going to a training fits into that scope. If you worry about paying for gas and everything, look into taking that as a deduction/credit on your taxes at the current rate of ~$0.50/mile. I know that as an engineer, when I have had to travel to facilities other than the one I have a desk at, I get reimbursed by the government. Now, don't think I am disparaging teachers. I'm not. They usually are at the schools for an hour an a half before class, and usually 2 after, in addition to taking work home like grading papers, tests, etc. Add to that, that they have to deal with a bunch of kids that usually don't want to listen to them, you get a situation where teachers are not compensated enough in my eyes.
Ok, one of the fuselages has real glass, the other has just black paint for windows. Why do this? Is it just a "looks" thing?
No, that's not what they said. What they said was they were able to keep the film from being bootlegged, DESPITE an incredibly successful opening. With that many people watching it, it's a shock that a cam copy didn't come out SOONER.
fundamental belief in Islam is that through the ages, the uncorrupted Bible became rife with revisions and mistakes - the resurrection of Jesus being a prime example (the other big one being the trinity).
Being a muslim, I can see how you got this wrong, but the Trinity was never outlined in the bible. It is a tenant of faith that was conceived by the Church later on. I believe the councils of Nicea and Trent established it.
Harvey was almost ready to shoot the crazy guy after he shot Gordon. He was right there near the edge, and we saw that early on. Batman had to stop him and bring him to his senses.
I don't think it's a set "5 mph" overage that is allowed. It's a DOT regulation that says that speedometers have to be accurate to within a couple of percentage points. Therefore, at speeds of 75 mph, it ends up working out to about 5 mph, so they give you a pass for anything in that range across all speeds.
1) Xbox live. Sony's online service is free for a reason, it isn't very good *yet*. If it gets to be as good as Live, Xbox will have a problem on their hands. Not yet. I didn't really understand why Live was so important until I signed up for it and saw the drastic difference it made to be the backbone of every game. Now, the benifits of live go away if you don't have friends/family with xbox's, or at least the "wow" factor goes away without being able to share your experiences with your friends.
Nothing is being done on XBL that isn't being done on PSN. PSN is actually very good. A year ago, you'd be correct.
Xbox Live Arcade is a great service and has a ton of games that are available only on XBLA. T
So does PSN.
But plants don't just "appear". That's the problem. Sorry, but you aren't going to get an abundance of plant life in the Sahara just because more CO2 exists out there. Also, plants aren't dying due to a lack of CO2, so there is most certainly an upper limit on how much CO2 can be absorbed by the flora of this planet.
You know, I'm not an environmentalist whack-job, but here's the thing. Every day, all the plants in the world convert an amount of CO2 to O2. They strip out the carbon. Now that's awesome for us you say, and I agree, but here's where the problem lies. If you are generating more CO2 than what can be converted by all of the plants in the world, that CO2 hangs around. That's where the problem is.
After all, what's the point in doing what you can when you can if you can't do it all at once?
Agreed. Let's start drilling for domestic oil. It won't completely solve the situation, but it will help it. After all, what's the point in doing what you can when you can if you can't do it all at once?
I'll agree with you on this, it's been my own personal experience as well. I view them as equivalent to a computer program. They follow the set of instructions that you've given them to an amazingly high degree of accuracy, but if they come across an abnormality, it is not handled well. You have to be specific, and try to account for all possible combinations of things, otherwise you will get back something that is not what you were looking for. I should also add, my experience hasn't been primarily with coding, but with data analysis.
I've worked with quite a few different Indians, both domestic and abroad. My boss is an Indian himself, and quite capable, knowledgeable, and proficient. Even he agrees that the Indians, for the most part, are incapable of being creative and thinking for themselves. All of their work is performed in a "group" and they don't know how to do it themselves. Only a handful of universities in India are worth anything, the rest are diploma mills. That's why they come here to get a degree, so it they have something meaningful. And giving an Indian a task is like giving a task to a computer program. It is very deliberate and exact. You give it something, you will get back exactly what you asked for, but if it something outside of the realm of what was expected, it is not handled well. You have to describe every possible corner case and exception that may get run into, in the hopes of you getting back something that is useful. With Westerners, I can give them something, a set of good instructions, and get back something where even the vagaries of a data set have been accounted for properly. I'll add, that these are college kids who have no knowledge of the thing I've given them, so it has nothing to do with experience....just a way of thinking.
And I think that's what's ridiculous. IMHO, the compiler is for syntax, the programmer should be able to generate algorithms.
You're not asking someone to write perfect, syntactical code. You're just asking them to do some pseudo code on the board. See how their mind thinks. See how they develop algorithms. What paths do they follow. Writing syntax perfect code isn't what's important. Thought processes are.
Nice you seem to have neglected the PSN games I've mentioned. Name all the amazingly wonderful games that are out for the Wii. You have Wii sports, Boom Blox, Mario Galaxy and Wii fit. Not really any more than the PS3. Most games for the Wii are awful.
Here's what I think they really need to do. Release free games, but charge for additional content, like outfits, guns, different characters, etc. It's the razors and blades model. You give away one thing, the game (razor), and charge a lot for the blades (add-ons). So you want your guy to have a certain camouflage or costume? It'll cost you $7.99. Want a different gun that is slightly more powerful? That'll be $3.99 please. The more popular/downloaded your game is, the more people that will probably want to spend a couple of bucks to customize it, and you'll make money. Plus, you won't have to worry about all those costs like packaging, shipping, making CDs, etc. Hell, charge people $10 if they want a physical version of the CD, and let everyone else download it. For $10, a bunch of people won't want to deal with the hassle of downloading.
Nothing is "killing PC gaming". Blizzard, Funcom, Valve, Id, Maxis/EA, Bethesda, Creative Assembly, all have a great relationship with the PC. PCs have the biggest market and the best margins. Meanwhile, PS3 struggles to get a single quality family title on the shelves and xbox is a multi-billion sinkhole no matter how you slice it.
Want a quality family title for the PS3? How about Ratchet & Clank, Hot Shots Golf, or Gran Turismo 5? LittleBigPlanet will be here in a matter of months. Other games on the Playstation Network like Calling All Cars, flOw, and PixelJunk Monsters are rated for everyone and are a great amount of fun. You want to try your point again?
Then by your logic I'm going to stop paying into SSA, because I'm not going to get a single dime back out of it when I try to "retire" in 2047. How is me paying in and not getting anything back ok, but for boomers to pay in and not get anything back isn't?