The less people that can afford the car, the less hybrids that will be out there. Not everyone can afford the $3,000 markup that hybrids carry, and especially when they're told it won't save them the cost of said markup over time.
Sarah Rowland-Jones, a researcher at Oxford University, described the development of HIV in the six women as "dismaying". She added: "This implies that to maintain immunity, you need to have continual exposure."
The final results have not yet been compiled, however, and the Medical Research Council, under which the research is being carried out, does not believe the chances of developing an effective vaccine have been damaged.
It is still hoped that a vaccine can be developed which builds up immunity by introducing genes containing fragments of HIV proteins into the body.
The article goes on to say that any such vaccine would be far too expensive for Kenyan prostitutes... which unfortunately means that they would have to do what they could to continue to be exposed to the HIV virus. Even if this meant being exposed repeatedly to one HIV positive partner, who knows if the vaccine depends on the virus being different every time?
But I still think my point stands as it being something of an artificial limit, much like the 100 song limit on the ROKR. Something that developer's shouldn't have to grapple with, but they'll end up battling somewhere down the line.
'What we'll offer in terms of gameplay and approachability will more than make up for the lack of HD,' he said.
Ah, yes, the one flaw of the Gamecube that developers complained about most rears its ugly head again.
It's not like space is a bad thing, or even expensive. Heck, I don't even care if they provided a 512 MB USB stick and a special USB slot for it in the back. But why remove even the possibility of using it for developers?
They can do a few things, but releasing a free version of Office apps sounds more like shooting themselves in the foot. Repeatedly. Apple would literally have to not care about profits in order for that to work.
More likely, they'll release their version of Excel alongside the existing iWork apps Keynote and Pages. If they manage an Exchange Server alternative, iWork would become substantially more important to them.
Or, they could just buy out the Macintosh Office division of MS.
Can't download songs wirelessly? Ouch. Isn't downstream to cell phones still stuck at less than 200 kbps? Does the reviewer understand it would take a horribly, horribly long time to download full songs from the iTMS until the cell carriers get smart about uncapping their bandwidth?
I wouldn't want to do that to my customers.
This discussion is somewhat muted, anyway; the RAZR will pick up the ROKR's functionality. See here.
If it weren't, new businesses wouldn't stand a chance, and eventually we'd just end up with one big company that had a monopoly on everything.
Which is fine, but I still must ask... and then what?
We know that Microsoft didn't become a monopoly overnight, but instead happened to become, through marketing and better decisions, the biggest computer company in the U.S. When they illegally destroyed Netscape (and Netscape put out Communicator 4.8) that was a criminal offense. Was it one when the market share was 50/50?
If Sony is also selling boxes at a loss to maintain a market edge, is that not also a monopoly and an illegal practice?
Why? It's not like Microsoft doesn't have to compete in order to end up making a profit at the end of the day/year/decade.
If Microsoft were producing shoddy games, and cornering the market, and being willfully deceptive with their games division, you'd have an argument. But right now they're far from a monopoly, clearly some people must like their games because they're selling, and even though it's bankrolled by the monopoly that is Windows, it's not like Sony or Nintendo don't have the cash to compete, either.
Were they to do this with the toilet paper industry, I would be in agreement with you. I hesitate to call video gaming a commodity, though.
Lock-in to a specific service (Comcast On-Demand) or lock-in to a specific codec (Fairplay/ACC/iTunes)?
Given that it's doubtful Comcast will license their on-demand software to other cable companies, or that Apple will license their DRM scheme to other companies, there's going to be an element of lock-in here somewhere. Which would you prefer?
The PowerBook G4 and iMac G4 are great, if not showing their age (and yes, I tried installing 512 MB of Corsair memory, and it failed horribly, crashing whenever I plugged the PB back into the wall. That was a strange time, so if anyone wants 512 MB of Corsair memory for $30, drop me a message.) Microsoft Office has its little quirks that show that it's been developed by a separate dev team, though...
The sounds. Kinda annoying, I know you can turn them off, but they're not *that* annoying.
Lack of shortcut keys. Include this with the "alt doesn't select menu 'feature'" of OS X and my wife finds that, as an accountant, the way MS Excel on OS X works versus MS Excel on Windows drives her insane.
It feels like a Carbon app. Text smoothing helped, though.
No kidding... the coverage is great, but the ping time is a drag. I went for St. Louis once but toasted some outhouse across the river because of the lag. Biggest waste of my $10M ever. I'd give the seller an F-.
That depends on Gateway's quality vs. Dell's. When computer makers started selling TVs, out of all things, I thought they were nuts. Now that I see just how much in common a larger LCD screen and a plasma TV have, it may not have been a bad idea.
The TV segment has been competitive on its own (see the failure of Zenith for more, and the fact it was the last American retailer of TVs before bankruptcy in the late 90's), but the fact that computer companies -- who know about competitive practices -- have gotten in on it means only one thing.
I'll probably purchase a flat TV of some sort sooner than I thought. Whenever the currently-11-year-old 30" Sony of mine bites the dust.
That's one of those things that's always bothered me. If Mozilla's going to have a "safe" extensions library, why not use it?
I'm not sure if it's a "more freedom" thing or what restrictions are placed on newly developed extensions. I am interested in knowing why the authors chose to host their extensions on their own sites.
I generally do not test software until the release candidate stage, so this is my first experience with 1.5. Here are my thoughts:
Nicer looking menus. A nice little visual bonus.
Half my extensions are busted. TargetAlert, Flashblock, SessionSaver... those are the three most important disabled ones right now. Fortunately, it appears I no longer need SlashFix or Tab Mix (try dragging the tabs around).
Finally, I can update more than one extension at a time.
What's with the OS X-like preferences panel? It seems as though in the last year, more Windows applications have been going in that direction.
Haven't tested out the memory leak issue yet. Leave Gmail open for a night, you'll see what I mean.
By and large, this is because the website uses at Flash plugin to generate new windows of a specific URL and size. Some websites seem to hook Javascript onto links so that when you click on a "Next Page" or equivalent, a popup appears, but this hasn't happened to me in ages.
If 1.5RC1 doesn't solve this issue, I highly recommend installing Flashblock, which ensures no Flash executes unless you specifically click on it. For these "hidden" Flash animations, you can never click on them, so no more popups for you.
Ever think that maybe, just maybe, deficient highway design leads to more accidents?
Case in point — Interstate 74 in Peoria, Illinois. Worst urban highway I've ever driven on. The signs specifically tell you to keep left so that you don't collide with merging traffic. This is after you have to keep right... so that you don't collide with merging traffic coming in from the left. This is because the ramps in this area are about 500 feet long (most modern Interstates give you about a quarter of a mile... 1600 feet) because of space issues in the 1970's. A handful of ramps were marked as 15 mph exit ramps. One of the ones I frequented had a 10 mph dead-man's U-turn.
3/4ths of the way into rebuilding, I can already tell that, thanks to modern highway design, there will be far fewer accidents, injuries, and fatalities on the road because drivers won't have to do crazy things to get on and off the highway.
That's for individuals to decide, but above sea level is a great start in a region prone to 20+ foot storm surge periodically. Periodically may be every 100 years, but it doesn't have to take Katrina to remind us that it does happen.
Educated rebuilding is the smart thing to do, but it's far too costly and angers too many people, so that's precisely why it won't happen.
Theoretically, a tornado can happen at any point on the earth, but we can at least mitigate that sort of localized damage. Only hurricanes (periodic on the coast), earthquakes (periodic in certain areas), and tsunamis (rare) can cause the widespread damage the U.S. clearly can't cope with.
What would be fair? If everyone received $1.00 for every $1.00 they put into the system. Is that going to happen?
Oh, except for Alaska. Apparently, since they came in the union merely 50 years ago, they deserve $2.00 of every $1.00, even though they rank 48th or 49th in population. Oh, and Pennsylvania, which for no apparent reason also receives more than their dollar. Maybe because the head of the transportation committee (or whatever it's called) is from Pennsylvania? Because that makes sense. Look up Interstate 99 sometime. I guess that's fair.
Politics is enforcing fairness through unfair means. That's just the way it works right now. "Fair" is never fair.
Dennis Hastert is a representative of north central Illinois, namely DeKalb. The votes couldn't have "not gone his way", because New Orleans is in Louisiana. The people in his district were the ones who elected him.
As for Katrina, he said rebuilding seven feet under sea level didn't make any sense. Frankly, it still doesn't if you approach it with common sense, but emotional and cutural importance seem to have rendered this argument silent.
This... could be interesting, I suppose. At least I'll get to know what he's up to.
Anyone who's followed House politics over the last decades understands how in-the-background Dennis Hastert actually has been. Compare to, oh, say, Newt Gingrich. He's more of the quiet leader type. Not controversial, not loud. Just does his job.
About the only other thing I've heard about him is that he's trying to make our state (Illinois) a receiver state when it comes to federal funding of transportation, as opposed to a donor state. Currently we receive $0.80 of every dollar that Illinois taxpayers put towards highways. With Dennis Hastert, representatives Ray LaHood and Henry Hyde, along with Democrat senators Barack Obama and Dick Durbin, most of their energy has gone towards helping the state with their combined influence.
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The less people that can afford the car, the less hybrids that will be out there. Not everyone can afford the $3,000 markup that hybrids carry, and especially when they're told it won't save them the cost of said markup over time.
Sarah Rowland-Jones, a researcher at Oxford University, described the development of HIV in the six women as "dismaying". She added: "This implies that to maintain immunity, you need to have continual exposure."
The final results have not yet been compiled, however, and the Medical Research Council, under which the research is being carried out, does not believe the chances of developing an effective vaccine have been damaged.
It is still hoped that a vaccine can be developed which builds up immunity by introducing genes containing fragments of HIV proteins into the body.
The article goes on to say that any such vaccine would be far too expensive for Kenyan prostitutes... which unfortunately means that they would have to do what they could to continue to be exposed to the HIV virus. Even if this meant being exposed repeatedly to one HIV positive partner, who knows if the vaccine depends on the virus being different every time?
Needless to say, research continues.
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But I still think my point stands as it being something of an artificial limit, much like the 100 song limit on the ROKR. Something that developer's shouldn't have to grapple with, but they'll end up battling somewhere down the line.
Ah, yes, the one flaw of the Gamecube that developers complained about most rears its ugly head again.
It's not like space is a bad thing, or even expensive. Heck, I don't even care if they provided a 512 MB USB stick and a special USB slot for it in the back. But why remove even the possibility of using it for developers?
More likely, they'll release their version of Excel alongside the existing iWork apps Keynote and Pages. If they manage an Exchange Server alternative, iWork would become substantially more important to them.
Or, they could just buy out the Macintosh Office division of MS.
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I wouldn't want to do that to my customers.
This discussion is somewhat muted, anyway; the RAZR will pick up the ROKR's functionality. See here.
...so "yoink" is not the correct answer?
Which is fine, but I still must ask... and then what?
We know that Microsoft didn't become a monopoly overnight, but instead happened to become, through marketing and better decisions, the biggest computer company in the U.S. When they illegally destroyed Netscape (and Netscape put out Communicator 4.8) that was a criminal offense. Was it one when the market share was 50/50?
If Sony is also selling boxes at a loss to maintain a market edge, is that not also a monopoly and an illegal practice?
If Microsoft were producing shoddy games, and cornering the market, and being willfully deceptive with their games division, you'd have an argument. But right now they're far from a monopoly, clearly some people must like their games because they're selling, and even though it's bankrolled by the monopoly that is Windows, it's not like Sony or Nintendo don't have the cash to compete, either.
Were they to do this with the toilet paper industry, I would be in agreement with you. I hesitate to call video gaming a commodity, though.
Given that it's doubtful Comcast will license their on-demand software to other cable companies, or that Apple will license their DRM scheme to other companies, there's going to be an element of lock-in here somewhere. Which would you prefer?
Every single time I see DDR and compatibility, I think, wait, why do you need anything else with DDR?
No kidding... the coverage is great, but the ping time is a drag. I went for St. Louis once but toasted some outhouse across the river because of the lag. Biggest waste of my $10M ever. I'd give the seller an F-.
The TV segment has been competitive on its own (see the failure of Zenith for more, and the fact it was the last American retailer of TVs before bankruptcy in the late 90's), but the fact that computer companies -- who know about competitive practices -- have gotten in on it means only one thing.
I'll probably purchase a flat TV of some sort sooner than I thought. Whenever the currently-11-year-old 30" Sony of mine bites the dust.
I'm not sure if it's a "more freedom" thing or what restrictions are placed on newly developed extensions. I am interested in knowing why the authors chose to host their extensions on their own sites.
If 1.5RC1 doesn't solve this issue, I highly recommend installing Flashblock, which ensures no Flash executes unless you specifically click on it. For these "hidden" Flash animations, you can never click on them, so no more popups for you.
Case in point — Interstate 74 in Peoria, Illinois. Worst urban highway I've ever driven on. The signs specifically tell you to keep left so that you don't collide with merging traffic. This is after you have to keep right... so that you don't collide with merging traffic coming in from the left. This is because the ramps in this area are about 500 feet long (most modern Interstates give you about a quarter of a mile... 1600 feet) because of space issues in the 1970's. A handful of ramps were marked as 15 mph exit ramps. One of the ones I frequented had a 10 mph dead-man's U-turn.
3/4ths of the way into rebuilding, I can already tell that, thanks to modern highway design, there will be far fewer accidents, injuries, and fatalities on the road because drivers won't have to do crazy things to get on and off the highway.
If I go to a .mobi domain in my cell phone browser and it looks like crap, I won't go back. The website doesn't get any traffic. The company fixes it.
This isn't even bringing up the philisophical arguments of why this is a bad idea...
Educated rebuilding is the smart thing to do, but it's far too costly and angers too many people, so that's precisely why it won't happen.
Theoretically, a tornado can happen at any point on the earth, but we can at least mitigate that sort of localized damage. Only hurricanes (periodic on the coast), earthquakes (periodic in certain areas), and tsunamis (rare) can cause the widespread damage the U.S. clearly can't cope with.
What would be fair? If everyone received $1.00 for every $1.00 they put into the system. Is that going to happen?
Oh, except for Alaska. Apparently, since they came in the union merely 50 years ago, they deserve $2.00 of every $1.00, even though they rank 48th or 49th in population. Oh, and Pennsylvania, which for no apparent reason also receives more than their dollar. Maybe because the head of the transportation committee (or whatever it's called) is from Pennsylvania? Because that makes sense. Look up Interstate 99 sometime. I guess that's fair.
Politics is enforcing fairness through unfair means. That's just the way it works right now. "Fair" is never fair.
As for Katrina, he said rebuilding seven feet under sea level didn't make any sense. Frankly, it still doesn't if you approach it with common sense, but emotional and cutural importance seem to have rendered this argument silent.
Anyone who's followed House politics over the last decades understands how in-the-background Dennis Hastert actually has been. Compare to, oh, say, Newt Gingrich. He's more of the quiet leader type. Not controversial, not loud. Just does his job.
About the only other thing I've heard about him is that he's trying to make our state (Illinois) a receiver state when it comes to federal funding of transportation, as opposed to a donor state. Currently we receive $0.80 of every dollar that Illinois taxpayers put towards highways. With Dennis Hastert, representatives Ray LaHood and Henry Hyde, along with Democrat senators Barack Obama and Dick Durbin, most of their energy has gone towards helping the state with their combined influence.