But when the whole election depends on just one state and that state is close, everyone will (rightly) demand that the votes be counted and recounted until they get an accurate number.
Given that the 2004 election led bush by 34 votes, which single state decided the election? a hcnage of 17 votes would tie the outcome? So, which state? Florida, Ohio or Texas? How many other elections could have been changed by one state? Any election with a difference less than 55. That goes back a long time.
You don't just lose hundreds of votes using modern technology.
Ah yes! The hand recount! Such modern technology we've been using it for a meezley 3,000 years! (at least)
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WMV9 (a.k.a. VC-1) and H.264 are not yet in the standard for the HD-DVDs. They were sent to SMPTE for approval as standards in the HD-DVD standard. Microsoft apparently did some futzing and might have WMV9 disqualified due to some fibs told to SMPTE.
Currently there is a codec for WMV9, Microsoft owns it. Some other companies have liscensed it. The standard might be available but it takes a long time to work out an efficient codec that gives a good picture. In a few years it may be at a quality where TV stations will use it for interstation to air broadcast. But that is whith proffesional coders working on it.
Given that the lead character (female) is a robot/android, it would be impossible for the actress potraying her all by herself. However, Given what I have seen in Termanator (T1&T2) and Startrek (Data, Borg) I personally think they should have a live actress play Alita and augment her using computers and special effects. To me, that is the best way to accomplish a good special effects movie today. Especially seeing how a lot of people I know including me can still tell the difference between CG and reality. Puppets like the ones used in T1 and T2 have gone byt he wayside since computers came about even though they do help to give a better movie expreience when augmented with computers instead of being replaced by computers.
Many people live a fair distance from their families, myself included.
I wonder if Europeans sometimes don't grasp the distances that some people in the US live away from their relatives. Aside from my parents, my closest relatives are 800 miles (1300km) away. Given that (judging from a quick look at a map of europe) No european country is that long in any dimension, that is farther than anyone probably has to travel. Usually the only time I've been able to see them is at Christmass. If we lived half as far away we could see them a lot more often due to the time involved in travel.
I am physically fit and am probably in better health than I have ever been. (I'm 22, fresh out of college). After 4 years of college I'm still in better health than most people I know from scouts that are a few years younger than me and get regular exercise. I won't say I couldn't stand to lose a few pounds (under 10) but I'm deffinitely fit.
If any of it were true, you'd better lock me up before I go on a rampage, because I most definitely fit the profile (knowledge of guns, divorced parents, played Doom) when I was a teenager.
Divorce: The columbine kids parents were married. Guns: When was the last time you heard of a Boy Scout going on a shooting rampage, or someone whos dad is in the NRA. Doom) I know for a fact that this type of game keeps a lot of people I know from killing/shooting/strangling people. (Great way to work out frustration is to kill a bunch of bots).
is it because games are violence causes kids to become violence, or is it that they see themselves in a culture of violence so they enjoy violent games
Congradulations. You have just discovered the dificulty in figuring out Cause and Effect vs. Correlation. This is the hardest thing for scientists and psychologists to figure out. Do I have a correlation here? Or do I have a cause and effect?
Content aside, the amount of time kids spend playing games, even the good ones, is contributing to the obesity epidemic among American youth. For too many kids, the only parts of their body they are exercising are their thumbs. We are particularly concerned, therefore, about the launch of games this year aimed at children as young as two. We know that the industry wants to expand its customer base and that it is in their economic interest to hook babies on games. This trend, however, raises serious implications for our children's health.
What ever happened to parents kicking their kids out of the house to play ball outside? Turn off the TV, unplug their game console, log them off the computer and send them outside to play with their friends. This is nothing new and the "problem" is solved. This coming from someone who spends 10+ hours a day in front of a computer and still looks skiny.
First off, most of this stuff happens with the small guys, but lets poke holes in this one
Sony files injunction against Best Buy
Best buy didn't know they were knockoffs and directs Sony to who they bought from
Sony goes to distributer who says who he bought bateries from
Guy who distributer bought batteries from is over seas and has since closed up shop and changed name/address etc... being a front for a counterfitting group. Who they gonna sue? Neither the distributor nor best buy were doing anything illegal and the counterfiters have disapeared. Oh, and selling counterfits are not illegal unless you know they are counterfit.
So tell me then how you find the guy thats distributing the fake merchandise when he's already changed addresses, you have no idea where he is, the landlord doesn't give a shit, and you can't get an injunction against a landlord or file a lawsuit when you don't know who you are suing. Add to that the fact that a lot of this is taking place across national borders and you can't even find out what country the goods are coming from. Sometimes it is possible for a corporation to find out, but most times it is not.
Corporations can not:
Do sting operations
Get a hold of shipping records
Send people in undercover
Force another company to turn over who they are buying their merchandise from
Many other things necessary in finding out where a lot of stuff is coming from.
Who said anything about the back of a truck? You have some really bad info about this stuff. A lot of counterfit goods are sold right along the real things in shops and kiosks in malls. The shops never buy directly from the manufacturers, they all buy through distributers. If they come across a distributer out to make a couple of extra bucks thats passing on coutnerfits, or someone who claims to be an authorized distributer selling for near the regular price, you get a counterfit without even knowing it. This has nothing to do with selling dirt cheap or off the back of a truck or anything that looks shady to the end retailer and the customer. The smartest counterfitters sell their knock offs within a few percent of the regular price so that it doesn't look suspicious to anyone and looks like a regular discount. No one is the wizer until something bad happens.
If you think the government should be Corporate America's lackey, that's your right. But I totally disagree.
So if someone started to sell knock off GE microwaves that happened to have a habit of exploding, it would ruin GEs reputation. Corporations have money but they don't always have the authority to go after people. I hate to say this but, sometimes without Government intervention you can't stop a problem.
Warranties mean that if there is a problem, exchange for a working item. Defective is only applied when there is something fundamentally wrong with the item itself. Such as those hard drives that had a 33% failure rate in the first year about two years ago. 4.88 10E-7 is a lower failure rate than I have had with bad DVDs. (4 disks bad, ~300 Disks bought, 1.3percent failure).
Not all have very low prices. Many just masquerade as the same item at a similar price (maybe a buck less, maybe the same price). Same goes for video games, memmory, phones...
Well, since it is the next story on slashdot. how about making sure that when people buy batteries for their cell phones they make sure that they are getting batteries from the company and not know offs? Since their seem to be exploding cell phones in the news yet again.
Glad I finally found someone who understand that IP!=**AA
On a side not, I have seen some companies that have made ther FBI warnings quite humorous. Rhino's transformers DVDs draw a pair of glasses, beard and some other stuff on the guy in the picture on the FBI warning. Be nice if others did something like that instead of giving just the dull warning picture.
RTFA, this doesn't include just movies and music. It covers physical goods such as Clothing and other things. It will also cover books, electronics, games, hardware.
Read again. This isn't just movies and music. It's knock off goods posing as real goods. Such as purses, and physical CDs and DVDs. Nothing is mentioned about the internet. This should also include fake Games, computer equipment and many other things posing as real (Official) ones.
It's a meazley $2 million. If you distribute that evenly thats less than a dollar for every kid in school. Not like it would do anything if assigned to education. Besides, cracking down on conterfit goods should increase revenues, which will raise the amount of taxes colelcted which pays for things such as Education, Roads and Security. Besides, the Federal Government doesn't contribute that much to Education in the first place. It's mainly the states and local jurisdictions that pay for it.
I'm in Fairfax County and it is built up around here. But take I81 along the blue ridge and it gets pretty sparse. Eastern VA is pretty well built up but the western 2/3s is not built up as much. Especially when you get into the areas where they raise horses.
My Main question is what do rural areas have to do with blacks, hispanics, and other minorities, aren't most of the people in rural areas conservative whites (with rifles)?
I wasn't even thinking about race when I stated that. Just that its harder to get broadband out to those areas due to lower population density = less Return on Investment. As for conservative whites with rifles in rural areas, goto southern Illinois or sometime. You won't see that there.
Hmmm.... Wireless is nice, but I don't think they could do that in West Virginia due to trees and mountains. Also, 2000 is a lot of people compared to some towns that have pops in the low double digits. Or someplaces where it is 5 miles to your next door neighbor.
More importantly, most of their population is in dense areas. Try telling me that about Kansas. When you have a high population density, it is cheaper to wire everything.
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But when the whole election depends on just one state and that state is close, everyone will (rightly) demand that the votes be counted and recounted until they get an accurate number.
Given that the 2004 election led bush by 34 votes, which single state decided the election? a hcnage of 17 votes would tie the outcome? So, which state? Florida, Ohio or Texas? How many other elections could have been changed by one state? Any election with a difference less than 55. That goes back a long time.
You don't just lose hundreds of votes using modern technology.
Ah yes! The hand recount! Such modern technology we've been using it for a meezley 3,000 years! (at least)
WMV9 (a.k.a. VC-1) and H.264 are not yet in the standard for the HD-DVDs. They were sent to SMPTE for approval as standards in the HD-DVD standard. Microsoft apparently did some futzing and might have WMV9 disqualified due to some fibs told to SMPTE.
Currently there is a codec for WMV9, Microsoft owns it. Some other companies have liscensed it. The standard might be available but it takes a long time to work out an efficient codec that gives a good picture. In a few years it may be at a quality where TV stations will use it for interstation to air broadcast. But that is whith proffesional coders working on it.
Given that the lead character (female) is a robot/android, it would be impossible for the actress potraying her all by herself. However, Given what I have seen in Termanator (T1&T2) and Startrek (Data, Borg) I personally think they should have a live actress play Alita and augment her using computers and special effects. To me, that is the best way to accomplish a good special effects movie today. Especially seeing how a lot of people I know including me can still tell the difference between CG and reality. Puppets like the ones used in T1 and T2 have gone byt he wayside since computers came about even though they do help to give a better movie expreience when augmented with computers instead of being replaced by computers.
Many people live a fair distance from their families, myself included.
I wonder if Europeans sometimes don't grasp the distances that some people in the US live away from their relatives. Aside from my parents, my closest relatives are 800 miles (1300km) away. Given that (judging from a quick look at a map of europe) No european country is that long in any dimension, that is farther than anyone probably has to travel. Usually the only time I've been able to see them is at Christmass. If we lived half as far away we could see them a lot more often due to the time involved in travel.
I am physically fit and am probably in better health than I have ever been. (I'm 22, fresh out of college). After 4 years of college I'm still in better health than most people I know from scouts that are a few years younger than me and get regular exercise. I won't say I couldn't stand to lose a few pounds (under 10) but I'm deffinitely fit.
they already make an encryption plug in for AIM (un-official), same with Trilian. ICQ and others shouldn't be that hard to do.
If any of it were true, you'd better lock me up before I go on a rampage, because I most definitely fit the profile (knowledge of guns, divorced parents, played Doom) when I was a teenager.
Divorce: The columbine kids parents were married. Guns: When was the last time you heard of a Boy Scout going on a shooting rampage, or someone whos dad is in the NRA. Doom) I know for a fact that this type of game keeps a lot of people I know from killing/shooting/strangling people. (Great way to work out frustration is to kill a bunch of bots).
is it because games are violence causes kids to become violence, or is it that they see themselves in a culture of violence so they enjoy violent games
Congradulations. You have just discovered the dificulty in figuring out Cause and Effect vs. Correlation. This is the hardest thing for scientists and psychologists to figure out. Do I have a correlation here? Or do I have a cause and effect?
Content aside, the amount of time kids spend playing games, even the good ones, is contributing to the obesity epidemic among American youth. For too many kids, the only parts of their body they are exercising are their thumbs. We are particularly concerned, therefore, about the launch of games this year aimed at children as young as two. We know that the industry wants to expand its customer base and that it is in their economic interest to hook babies on games. This trend, however, raises serious implications for our children's health.
What ever happened to parents kicking their kids out of the house to play ball outside? Turn off the TV, unplug their game console, log them off the computer and send them outside to play with their friends. This is nothing new and the "problem" is solved. This coming from someone who spends 10+ hours a day in front of a computer and still looks skiny.
First off, most of this stuff happens with the small guys, but lets poke holes in this one
Sony files injunction against Best Buy
Best buy didn't know they were knockoffs and directs Sony to who they bought from
Sony goes to distributer who says who he bought bateries from
Guy who distributer bought batteries from is over seas and has since closed up shop and changed name/address etc... being a front for a counterfitting group. Who they gonna sue? Neither the distributor nor best buy were doing anything illegal and the counterfiters have disapeared. Oh, and selling counterfits are not illegal unless you know they are counterfit.
So tell me then how you find the guy thats distributing the fake merchandise when he's already changed addresses, you have no idea where he is, the landlord doesn't give a shit, and you can't get an injunction against a landlord or file a lawsuit when you don't know who you are suing. Add to that the fact that a lot of this is taking place across national borders and you can't even find out what country the goods are coming from. Sometimes it is possible for a corporation to find out, but most times it is not.
Corporations can not:
Do sting operations
Get a hold of shipping records
Send people in undercover
Force another company to turn over who they are buying their merchandise from
Many other things necessary in finding out where a lot of stuff is coming from.
Who said anything about the back of a truck? You have some really bad info about this stuff. A lot of counterfit goods are sold right along the real things in shops and kiosks in malls. The shops never buy directly from the manufacturers, they all buy through distributers. If they come across a distributer out to make a couple of extra bucks thats passing on coutnerfits, or someone who claims to be an authorized distributer selling for near the regular price, you get a counterfit without even knowing it. This has nothing to do with selling dirt cheap or off the back of a truck or anything that looks shady to the end retailer and the customer. The smartest counterfitters sell their knock offs within a few percent of the regular price so that it doesn't look suspicious to anyone and looks like a regular discount. No one is the wizer until something bad happens.
If you think the government should be Corporate America's lackey, that's your right. But I totally disagree.
So if someone started to sell knock off GE microwaves that happened to have a habit of exploding, it would ruin GEs reputation. Corporations have money but they don't always have the authority to go after people. I hate to say this but, sometimes without Government intervention you can't stop a problem.
Warranties mean that if there is a problem, exchange for a working item. Defective is only applied when there is something fundamentally wrong with the item itself. Such as those hard drives that had a 33% failure rate in the first year about two years ago. 4.88 10E-7 is a lower failure rate than I have had with bad DVDs. (4 disks bad, ~300 Disks bought, 1.3percent failure).
Not all have very low prices. Many just masquerade as the same item at a similar price (maybe a buck less, maybe the same price). Same goes for video games, memmory, phones...
Well, since it is the next story on slashdot. how about making sure that when people buy batteries for their cell phones they make sure that they are getting batteries from the company and not know offs? Since their seem to be exploding cell phones in the news yet again.
Glad I finally found someone who understand that IP!=**AA
On a side not, I have seen some companies that have made ther FBI warnings quite humorous. Rhino's transformers DVDs draw a pair of glasses, beard and some other stuff on the guy in the picture on the FBI warning. Be nice if others did something like that instead of giving just the dull warning picture.
RTFA, this doesn't include just movies and music. It covers physical goods such as Clothing and other things. It will also cover books, electronics, games, hardware.
Read again. This isn't just movies and music. It's knock off goods posing as real goods. Such as purses, and physical CDs and DVDs. Nothing is mentioned about the internet. This should also include fake Games, computer equipment and many other things posing as real (Official) ones.
It's a meazley $2 million. If you distribute that evenly thats less than a dollar for every kid in school. Not like it would do anything if assigned to education. Besides, cracking down on conterfit goods should increase revenues, which will raise the amount of taxes colelcted which pays for things such as Education, Roads and Security. Besides, the Federal Government doesn't contribute that much to Education in the first place. It's mainly the states and local jurisdictions that pay for it.
I'm in Fairfax County and it is built up around here. But take I81 along the blue ridge and it gets pretty sparse. Eastern VA is pretty well built up but the western 2/3s is not built up as much. Especially when you get into the areas where they raise horses.
My Main question is what do rural areas have to do with blacks, hispanics, and other minorities, aren't most of the people in rural areas conservative whites (with rifles)?
I wasn't even thinking about race when I stated that. Just that its harder to get broadband out to those areas due to lower population density = less Return on Investment. As for conservative whites with rifles in rural areas, goto southern Illinois or sometime. You won't see that there.
Hmmm.... Wireless is nice, but I don't think they could do that in West Virginia due to trees and mountains. Also, 2000 is a lot of people compared to some towns that have pops in the low double digits. Or someplaces where it is 5 miles to your next door neighbor.
More importantly, most of their population is in dense areas. Try telling me that about Kansas. When you have a high population density, it is cheaper to wire everything.