How does a rumour like this get started? It can't be founded on one bit of truth, since there is no one around who was there, nor were they able to communicate.
I think that you need more than the artificial horizon. You can have your nose above the horizon yet still be descending; for example, that's what you'd see when landing. However, I do agree that there surely must be a group of instruments (artificial horizon, attitude indicator, altimeter) that would clue you in on the situation.
Wouldn't instruments like the artificial horizon always work? It would seem to me that this and those showing attitude would be unlikely to fail and would provide the pilots with clear details on their rate of descent.
Direct marketing is the reason they want it. They asked for name, address, email, etc. Magazines sell their lists like crazy. One subscription of mine had a typo in the name and I could always tell when I'd been sold by them to a mailer.
I never said that not giving someone money inflicts harm -- *unless you would have otherwise done so*. Let me also quote myself "Without a doubt, a percentage of people who pirate a product would have purchased it if the "free" option weren't available". I agree the economic impact to the owner is zero when someone who pirates something would otherwise not have bought it. However, this just isn't the case. In many cases, the pirate would have purchased the item they took for no cost. You cannot argue (sanely) that this isn't true and does not represent a true loss to the property owner.
Reaching further, you could argue that even if they didn't want what they pirated, they would have bought something else instead; however, because they received substitute entertainment at no cost they don't need to purchase their preferred product. In this more extreme case, it's not the person whose craft is pirated who suffers, but someone else entirely. For example, if I pirate enough movies or music that I have enough content to keep me busy, it's far less likely I'll go out and buy the movie/CD I wanted but wasn't able to find for "free". Conversely, if I can't pirate anything, odds are that sooner or later I'm going to pay for something rather than live in silence.
You're presuming that everyone who pirated the product would not have purchased it otherwise. If that were true, you'd be right. But it's not true... Without a doubt, a percentage of people who pirate a product would have purchased it if the "free" option weren't available. This necessarily means that there is in fact a cost -- an opportunity cost -- due to the loss of revenue.
The argument of industry that one download = one lost sale is incorrect, but so is your pro-piracy argument. The fact that something can be duplicated without a cost has nothing to do with the fact that it has value to those who developed it and equally to those who pay money to enjoy it.
Should you eventually work as a software developer, perhaps a day of downsizing may come where revenues can no longer support staffing levels. Or perhaps the economic success of version 1 cannot support the development of version 2. Maybe the reason for this will be a bad product or a poor salesforce, but it could just as easily be piracy.
Because they don't create cards on the fly through electronic terminals. They are sold from the shelve of Apple stores, grocery stores, corner stores.... They are pre-printed and usable without activation. There is no way to follow a card.
Actually, it's a bit more than a pedometer. It's an accelerometer and it's quite accurate.
The problem with GPS is that it cuts out. Forests, tall buildings and other obstructions knock it out. Not to mention, it does nothing for tracking a run on a treadmill.
Polar also went the accelerometer route, though I think that they now have GPS. Their shoe fitting was larger, and much more accurate out of the box.
Why is everyone so concerned about people knowing where they go? Who cares? You went to work. Don't care. You went shopping. Don't care. You went to a strip joint. Still don't care. Gay bathhouse, don't care.
Perhaps those so concerned with being tracked are actually those with the greatest interest in the lives of others.
My official email is @yahoo.ca, but I just forward to a gmail account. I need both POP3 access and forwarding (so I can download to a mobile phone). Yahoo gives you only one or the other and won't let you forward Yahoo to Yahoo. GMail allows me to do both. So I forward all email from Yahoo to GMail where I have more options.
In the end, their goofy policy leads to me reading email using someone else's site -- probably not what they intended.
Check out copernic desktop. Adds Spotlight-like searching to everything, including email. I prefer the seamlessness of spotlight, but like the previews in Copernic. Plus, it's be best choice on Windows.
Snapped from a dog stepping on it? How big are the dogs where you're from? Or are Blu-Ray disks made of saltine crackers?
Ever tried busting a CD-ROM? I'd need a pony walking around my house with ice skates to bust one.
Do you think that this is the same as the inertial foot pods? I hesitate to say so. The initial pods from Polar are about $150. The HRM Watch + footpod from Nike is over $300.
If this is an inertial pod-- or merely a transmitter for one embedded into the shoe -- then it's a fantastic deal (depending on the cost of the shoe). The quoted price is only $29. If it's just a pedometer, then it's pretty useless.
I always that that it would be great to integrate HRM and iPod. Spoken stats (easier than trying to read your wrist while running) or music that changes based on pace would be so cool.
I suspect that something is going on, but it's primarily technical. The site was down, then it was up. Downloads were broken, then available. On-demand encoding was taking ages, then it suddenly worked fine. My guess is that:
1. Massive HW failure/theft/seizure. 2. Bring site only online 3. Ordering comes up w/o sufficient capacity. Encoding brought to its knees. 4. Take ordering down. Catch up on encoding. Get more hw online. 5. Bring it all back up.
And this is where we are today. It was fine the other day.
I considered that. But laptops will eventually be capable; corporate turnover is about 3-4 years on hardware (common lease duration). The challenge is no different than for desktops. Face it, the average Joe does not buy new video cards (or know that they can).
Would it exclude Aero? Excluding it would acknowledge that it is simply consumer-level chrome with no productive benefits. Even if it was only eye candy, even us office hacks need something to brighten up our days!
A lot (most?) of the piracy drives off of corporate copies. These typically don't call home. I can't imagine how you could force a corporation to grant internet connections for the purposes of licensing. If Vista corporate licensing still doesn't phone home, then the problem is far from solved. If they wish to force corporations to allow phoning home, they are going to have quite a stuggle getting companies to upgrade. The no-net workaround, calling in for an authorization code, is even worse when you have hundreds or thousands of computers.
Unfortunately, the max speed of this switch (and all others I've seen) is USB 1.1 speeds (12 Mbps). That's a far cry from USB 2.0 480Mbps speeds. I started using one with my film scanner and flash card readers and couldn't figure out why scans where taking minutes instead of seconds (high res scans). Only after carefully checking the package did I notice the lousy speeds.
$100 is bad value for what you get. There are good apps in there, like backup and iSync, but they aren't work paying $100 over & over again. You can buy 3rd party apps for less, and pay once.
I would expect that for the price charged the storage would be much, much better. I have unlimited storage on my Smugmug account, no ads, and pay only $30 per year. That is a good deal. I was happy to pay for it.
2GB of storage for $100 is a rip off. Give us unlimited storage. Make it really easy to buy great stuff like the albums, maybe limit bandwidth to control costs (they do now, anyhow).
The right price (in case anyone asks) is $50, unlimited storage, no ads, with all of the bells and whistles offered today.
I wouldn't want it to be free, because free portals have ads, and I hate ads (yeah, yeah, I know about ad blockers. But I don't want to torment less savvy visitors coming to view photos, etc.)
Are you looking for a specific number? I didn't know any score system existed. I have a pair (or similar, don't remember exact model #) and can say that they isolation is great. The cups come in three sizes for good fit. The isolation is good enought that I won't wear them in airport waiting lounges in case I miss my flight -- can't hear the announcements. You can hear some louder ambient noice, but it's too muffled to be distinquishable.
Comments that act as if a tax break is some lucrative reason to contribute to charity are laughable. If I give $100 to charity and get a $28 tax break, I'm not ahead. You'll never be ahead. Ever. Don't downplay his philanthropy to make you feel better about your lack thereof.
I don't care how he made his money, as long as it was legal. Despite what all of the radicals on their jihad against MS may say, he did it legally. Few in his position would give as much money away, and fewer still would do so to causes that can change the world so dramatically. Eradicate malaria in Africa or own the world's largest private yacht; who is to be lauded, the monopolist or the egoist?
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Really? The recent NYT article says that the replacement pitots were sitting in France waiting for the flight to return.
How does a rumour like this get started? It can't be founded on one bit of truth, since there is no one around who was there, nor were they able to communicate.
I think that you need more than the artificial horizon. You can have your nose above the horizon yet still be descending; for example, that's what you'd see when landing. However, I do agree that there surely must be a group of instruments (artificial horizon, attitude indicator, altimeter) that would clue you in on the situation.
Wouldn't instruments like the artificial horizon always work? It would seem to me that this and those showing attitude would be unlikely to fail and would provide the pilots with clear details on their rate of descent.
Direct marketing is the reason they want it. They asked for name, address, email, etc. Magazines sell their lists like crazy. One subscription of mine had a typo in the name and I could always tell when I'd been sold by them to a mailer.
I never said that not giving someone money inflicts harm -- *unless you would have otherwise done so*. Let me also quote myself "Without a doubt, a percentage of people who pirate a product would have purchased it if the "free" option weren't available". I agree the economic impact to the owner is zero when someone who pirates something would otherwise not have bought it. However, this just isn't the case. In many cases, the pirate would have purchased the item they took for no cost. You cannot argue (sanely) that this isn't true and does not represent a true loss to the property owner.
Reaching further, you could argue that even if they didn't want what they pirated, they would have bought something else instead; however, because they received substitute entertainment at no cost they don't need to purchase their preferred product. In this more extreme case, it's not the person whose craft is pirated who suffers, but someone else entirely. For example, if I pirate enough movies or music that I have enough content to keep me busy, it's far less likely I'll go out and buy the movie/CD I wanted but wasn't able to find for "free". Conversely, if I can't pirate anything, odds are that sooner or later I'm going to pay for something rather than live in silence.
You're presuming that everyone who pirated the product would not have purchased it otherwise. If that were true, you'd be right. But it's not true... Without a doubt, a percentage of people who pirate a product would have purchased it if the "free" option weren't available. This necessarily means that there is in fact a cost -- an opportunity cost -- due to the loss of revenue.
The argument of industry that one download = one lost sale is incorrect, but so is your pro-piracy argument. The fact that something can be duplicated without a cost has nothing to do with the fact that it has value to those who developed it and equally to those who pay money to enjoy it.
Should you eventually work as a software developer, perhaps a day of downsizing may come where revenues can no longer support staffing levels. Or perhaps the economic success of version 1 cannot support the development of version 2. Maybe the reason for this will be a bad product or a poor salesforce, but it could just as easily be piracy.
Because they don't create cards on the fly through electronic terminals. They are sold from the shelve of Apple stores, grocery stores, corner stores.... They are pre-printed and usable without activation. There is no way to follow a card.
But what about seeing how you did vs. plan? Having pace info while you run is also helpful.
Actually, it's a bit more than a pedometer. It's an accelerometer and it's quite accurate.
The problem with GPS is that it cuts out. Forests, tall buildings and other obstructions knock it out. Not to mention, it does nothing for tracking a run on a treadmill.
Polar also went the accelerometer route, though I think that they now have GPS. Their shoe fitting was larger, and much more accurate out of the box.
Why is everyone so concerned about people knowing where they go? Who cares? You went to work. Don't care. You went shopping. Don't care. You went to a strip joint. Still don't care. Gay bathhouse, don't care. Perhaps those so concerned with being tracked are actually those with the greatest interest in the lives of others.
My official email is @yahoo.ca, but I just forward to a gmail account. I need both POP3 access and forwarding (so I can download to a mobile phone). Yahoo gives you only one or the other and won't let you forward Yahoo to Yahoo. GMail allows me to do both. So I forward all email from Yahoo to GMail where I have more options.
In the end, their goofy policy leads to me reading email using someone else's site -- probably not what they intended.
Check out copernic desktop. Adds Spotlight-like searching to everything, including email. I prefer the seamlessness of spotlight, but like the previews in Copernic. Plus, it's be best choice on Windows.
With kids bent over their laptops at school all day, I'd be more concerned about developmental problems in their spines and wrists.
Or worse, hairy palms from all of the Internet porn.
Snapped from a dog stepping on it? How big are the dogs where you're from? Or are Blu-Ray disks made of saltine crackers? Ever tried busting a CD-ROM? I'd need a pony walking around my house with ice skates to bust one.
Do you think that this is the same as the inertial foot pods? I hesitate to say so. The initial pods from Polar are about $150. The HRM Watch + footpod from Nike is over $300.
If this is an inertial pod-- or merely a transmitter for one embedded into the shoe -- then it's a fantastic deal (depending on the cost of the shoe). The quoted price is only $29. If it's just a pedometer, then it's pretty useless.
I always that that it would be great to integrate HRM and iPod. Spoken stats (easier than trying to read your wrist while running) or music that changes based on pace would be so cool.
I suspect that something is going on, but it's primarily technical. The site was down, then it was up. Downloads were broken, then available. On-demand encoding was taking ages, then it suddenly worked fine. My guess is that:
1. Massive HW failure/theft/seizure.
2. Bring site only online
3. Ordering comes up w/o sufficient capacity. Encoding brought to its knees.
4. Take ordering down. Catch up on encoding. Get more hw online.
5. Bring it all back up.
And this is where we are today. It was fine the other day.
I considered that. But laptops will eventually be capable; corporate turnover is about 3-4 years on hardware (common lease duration). The challenge is no different than for desktops. Face it, the average Joe does not buy new video cards (or know that they can).
Would it exclude Aero? Excluding it would acknowledge that it is simply consumer-level chrome with no productive benefits. Even if it was only eye candy, even us office hacks need something to brighten up our days!
A lot (most?) of the piracy drives off of corporate copies. These typically don't call home. I can't imagine how you could force a corporation to grant internet connections for the purposes of licensing. If Vista corporate licensing still doesn't phone home, then the problem is far from solved. If they wish to force corporations to allow phoning home, they are going to have quite a stuggle getting companies to upgrade. The no-net workaround, calling in for an authorization code, is even worse when you have hundreds or thousands of computers.
OK, I give up. I looked & looked and can't figure out the meaning of "redmisted". If I weren't in such an uncool place, I'd feel uncool.
Unfortunately, the max speed of this switch (and all others I've seen) is USB 1.1 speeds (12 Mbps). That's a far cry from USB 2.0 480Mbps speeds. I started using one with my film scanner and flash card readers and couldn't figure out why scans where taking minutes instead of seconds (high res scans). Only after carefully checking the package did I notice the lousy speeds.
$100 is bad value for what you get. There are good apps in there, like backup and iSync, but they aren't work paying $100 over & over again. You can buy 3rd party apps for less, and pay once.
I would expect that for the price charged the storage would be much, much better. I have unlimited storage on my Smugmug account, no ads, and pay only $30 per year. That is a good deal. I was happy to pay for it.
2GB of storage for $100 is a rip off. Give us unlimited storage. Make it really easy to buy great stuff like the albums, maybe limit bandwidth to control costs (they do now, anyhow).
The right price (in case anyone asks) is $50, unlimited storage, no ads, with all of the bells and whistles offered today.
I wouldn't want it to be free, because free portals have ads, and I hate ads (yeah, yeah, I know about ad blockers. But I don't want to torment less savvy visitors coming to view photos, etc.)
Are you looking for a specific number? I didn't know any score system existed. I have a pair (or similar, don't remember exact model #) and can say that they isolation is great. The cups come in three sizes for good fit. The isolation is good enought that I won't wear them in airport waiting lounges in case I miss my flight -- can't hear the announcements. You can hear some louder ambient noice, but it's too muffled to be distinquishable.
How cheap do you need them to be? Sony makes excellent ones for only $40 retail.
Comments that act as if a tax break is some lucrative reason to contribute to charity are laughable. If I give $100 to charity and get a $28 tax break, I'm not ahead. You'll never be ahead. Ever. Don't downplay his philanthropy to make you feel better about your lack thereof.
I don't care how he made his money, as long as it was legal. Despite what all of the radicals on their jihad against MS may say, he did it legally. Few in his position would give as much money away, and fewer still would do so to causes that can change the world so dramatically. Eradicate malaria in Africa or own the world's largest private yacht; who is to be lauded, the monopolist or the egoist?