I'm curious, what was your major? In the EE/CompE dept at my school, three of us (me and my two dorm mates) were the most technical ones in our year. We had laptops and used them in various classes for work. Usually these were project based classes. We'd be programming our homework assignments in class for the CS courses and the laptops helped with some of the programming in our engineering classes as well. It was very usefull to be able to have one PC that you could take to class instead of transfering your assignments between the lab PC and our dorm PC.
$1000 to a school of 200-250 kids is expensive, when you look at all the other costs schools are assumed to support these days.
That's $4-$5 a kid. That's cheap compared to what the schools actually pay for the computers, books, electricity, salaries and so on. It's also what, a one time cost? Please, a back sale could raise that much money.
One year is not a long delay. Kingdom Hearts II was supposed to be out two years ago, it's finally coming out at the end of March (or someone is going to die). There's another game I heard of that kept getting delayed a year or so ago (not Duke Nukem Forever), the first delay was so that they could "take advantage of the all new ASCII graphics".
I'm surprised they didn't mention the Musical Breast Implants. These things should be... interesting, to say the least if they ever come out on hte market.
Why should DVDs not recieve a copyright? They are a movie, they fall squarely under the same area. It is a different experience, just as watching an IMAX movie is different from watching a movie in a regular theatre, that does not mean that it should not be under copyright.
In addition, for many decades the home video market has been necessary for the movies to break even or turn a profit. Theatre tickets don't pay for the movies anymore. There are also movies that are in theatres for decades (Rocky Horror anyone). Then there are videos that are only released on DVD/VHS.
I agree that copyrights are too long right now. However, I do believe that the DVD/VHS should still be under copyright.
I was talking to a guy that had one of these finger print readers on a fairly high end laptop of his. He said it worked great, for three weeks, until it broke and stoped recognizing him as the same person.
Then there is a matter of what would happen when the chip dies/fries and various other ways this can cause un recoverable loss of data. If there is a way to recover it with a bad reader or by directly accessing the chip to get the decryption key, then the system is inscure to people who have sufficient desire or resources to get access to it. Say, the MPAA/RIAA or governments.
Sorry, but either the system is inherently insecure in some way or if the computer breaks you have unrecoverable data.
Actually, you are in the minority. Look how many people see movies in theatres and pay $25+ for 2 people to get a single viewing. They can wait 3 months and buy the DVD for $15 or rent it for $3 (a savings of 88%). Yet millions of people still go to the theatre for most movies, and 10's of millions go for big hits.
This is not a valid comparison. There is a huge difference between wathing a movie in a theatre and watching one in a home. Size of screen, number and quality of speakers and a few other things. A better comparison would be the New vs. Used market for Video games ($50 vs. $10).
I'll even volunteer to be one of the first inhabitants of this brave "New World"
Get in line, behind me preferably. I know a number of people who, if you asked them h"ow would you like to live on the moon", would say "Who do I have to kill."
Does no one any longer care about the loss of fidelity? I mean sure, a lossy format copy of music is great for a portable player in a gym or even in a car, a couple of the worst possible listening environments.
Most popular music doesn't require high fidelity for people to get the highest quality of it. Take most pop music for the last 10 years as an example. A compressed 128kb MP3 of that sounds like the original, at least to 99% of the population. The remaining 1% I'm willing to bet don't listen to that crap. The main types of music that (to me) need the higher fidelity are Classical and Jazz. Few others need high quality music. Actually, most of the beatles songs probably sound fine in MP3 as well.
I myself prefer music in high quality. However, outside of Classical/Jazz I can't tell the difference. This is mostly due to a poor frequency hearing range.
Dang, I never even remembered the made the Cruisin USA for N64. That's a definite must for the revolution. Along with all the Marios of course. Although, I think the bigest market will be for the original NES games, such as castlevania and icarus over most of the N64 games. Altough the Gameboy SP seems to have most of those taken care of already.
Increasing magnification will reduce the brightness of the light by reducing the amount of light picked up. This is why zoom lenses need a wider aperture to pick up enough light to see by. It's also why if you put enough zoom and multiplying lenses on a camera, and point it straight at the sun, you won't see anything.
Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe and Lao-Tzu, Einstein, Morobuto, Buddy Holly, Aristophanes.. and all of this.. all of this was for nothing unless we go to the stars." - Commander Sinclair, "Infection", Babylon 5
Mars is RED for a reason. It is covered in rust, AKA iron oxide. There is plenty of oxygen there. You just need to separate it from the rocks. Moon rocks also contain oxygen.
It's scarry. I actually remember watching this series all those years ago. But I would rather know when Captain N and Voltron (among others) are coming out on DVD.
Nah, just having something else that we control specifically. Such as you open your eyes wide to have them zoom in, and squint to zoom out (or vice versa). It only works when you hold them past a certain threshold for a bit, so blinking won't activate it.
Having done this, there are a few different things that can cause this. Usually, you can feal the radiated heat coming off the person that is near you. Other than that, there is also the air movements that your skin is picking up. This has been done as a scientific experiment before, chalenging blindfolded people to stop as close as they can before walking into a wall. Next time you try this, try wearing a bandana. It confuses the skin sensors and you won't be able to do this.
The further away they are, the faster they seem to be going. That hints at some sort of event, roughly 10 billion years ago, that forced them all away and in fact created these objects. That's coupled with a background microwave radiation we'd expect from a universe at about 3 degrees Kelvin, as if the matter that spread out has cooled down to about that average temperature.
You missed one thing. The rate at which they are traveling seems to be accelerating as well.
I can garuntee sexuality is not just binary, or even trinary. It is at least a 4-way decision. You have people who don't have sex at all, heterosexuals, homosexuals and those who are bisexual.
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We're talking about a one time cost associated with getting a license for WinXP on the machines, not with keeping the entire system up to date.
I'm curious, what was your major? In the EE/CompE dept at my school, three of us (me and my two dorm mates) were the most technical ones in our year. We had laptops and used them in various classes for work. Usually these were project based classes. We'd be programming our homework assignments in class for the CS courses and the laptops helped with some of the programming in our engineering classes as well. It was very usefull to be able to have one PC that you could take to class instead of transfering your assignments between the lab PC and our dorm PC.
$1000 to a school of 200-250 kids is expensive, when you look at all the other costs schools are assumed to support these days.
That's $4-$5 a kid. That's cheap compared to what the schools actually pay for the computers, books, electricity, salaries and so on. It's also what, a one time cost? Please, a back sale could raise that much money.
One year is not a long delay. Kingdom Hearts II was supposed to be out two years ago, it's finally coming out at the end of March (or someone is going to die). There's another game I heard of that kept getting delayed a year or so ago (not Duke Nukem Forever), the first delay was so that they could "take advantage of the all new ASCII graphics".
I'm surprised they didn't mention the Musical Breast Implants. These things should be ... interesting, to say the least if they ever come out on hte market.
Why should DVDs not recieve a copyright? They are a movie, they fall squarely under the same area. It is a different experience, just as watching an IMAX movie is different from watching a movie in a regular theatre, that does not mean that it should not be under copyright.
In addition, for many decades the home video market has been necessary for the movies to break even or turn a profit. Theatre tickets don't pay for the movies anymore. There are also movies that are in theatres for decades (Rocky Horror anyone). Then there are videos that are only released on DVD/VHS.
I agree that copyrights are too long right now. However, I do believe that the DVD/VHS should still be under copyright.
I was talking to a guy that had one of these finger print readers on a fairly high end laptop of his. He said it worked great, for three weeks, until it broke and stoped recognizing him as the same person.
Then there is a matter of what would happen when the chip dies/fries and various other ways this can cause un recoverable loss of data. If there is a way to recover it with a bad reader or by directly accessing the chip to get the decryption key, then the system is inscure to people who have sufficient desire or resources to get access to it. Say, the MPAA/RIAA or governments.
Sorry, but either the system is inherently insecure in some way or if the computer breaks you have unrecoverable data.
Actually, you are in the minority. Look how many people see movies in theatres and pay $25+ for 2 people to get a single viewing. They can wait 3 months and buy the DVD for $15 or rent it for $3 (a savings of 88%). Yet millions of people still go to the theatre for most movies, and 10's of millions go for big hits.
This is not a valid comparison. There is a huge difference between wathing a movie in a theatre and watching one in a home. Size of screen, number and quality of speakers and a few other things. A better comparison would be the New vs. Used market for Video games ($50 vs. $10).
I'll even volunteer to be one of the first inhabitants of this brave "New World"
Get in line, behind me preferably. I know a number of people who, if you asked them h"ow would you like to live on the moon", would say "Who do I have to kill."
Does no one any longer care about the loss of fidelity? I mean sure, a lossy format copy of music is great for a portable player in a gym or even in a car, a couple of the worst possible listening environments.
Most popular music doesn't require high fidelity for people to get the highest quality of it. Take most pop music for the last 10 years as an example. A compressed 128kb MP3 of that sounds like the original, at least to 99% of the population. The remaining 1% I'm willing to bet don't listen to that crap. The main types of music that (to me) need the higher fidelity are Classical and Jazz. Few others need high quality music. Actually, most of the beatles songs probably sound fine in MP3 as well.
I myself prefer music in high quality. However, outside of Classical/Jazz I can't tell the difference. This is mostly due to a poor frequency hearing range.
Nevada is the only state that has legalized Prostitution and even then only in certain counties. GOOGLE
sex (consensual, mutually beneficial) or violence (beating/stabbing/shooting)
I'm guessing you've never heard of this sport called 'boxing' where two fully grown men attempt to beat the shit out of each other for money.
Dang, I never even remembered the made the Cruisin USA for N64. That's a definite must for the revolution. Along with all the Marios of course. Although, I think the bigest market will be for the original NES games, such as castlevania and icarus over most of the N64 games. Altough the Gameboy SP seems to have most of those taken care of already.
Why would you want to burn the oxygen for energy? Use solar or nuclear power and use it for oxygen.
Increasing magnification will reduce the brightness of the light by reducing the amount of light picked up. This is why zoom lenses need a wider aperture to pick up enough light to see by. It's also why if you put enough zoom and multiplying lenses on a camera, and point it straight at the sun, you won't see anything.
Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe and Lao-Tzu, Einstein, Morobuto, Buddy Holly, Aristophanes .. and all of this .. all of this was for nothing unless we go to the stars." - Commander Sinclair, "Infection", Babylon 5
Mars is RED for a reason. It is covered in rust, AKA iron oxide. There is plenty of oxygen there. You just need to separate it from the rocks. Moon rocks also contain oxygen.
It's scarry. I actually remember watching this series all those years ago. But I would rather know when Captain N and Voltron (among others) are coming out on DVD.
Nah, just having something else that we control specifically. Such as you open your eyes wide to have them zoom in, and squint to zoom out (or vice versa). It only works when you hold them past a certain threshold for a bit, so blinking won't activate it.
Having done this, there are a few different things that can cause this. Usually, you can feal the radiated heat coming off the person that is near you. Other than that, there is also the air movements that your skin is picking up. This has been done as a scientific experiment before, chalenging blindfolded people to stop as close as they can before walking into a wall. Next time you try this, try wearing a bandana. It confuses the skin sensors and you won't be able to do this.
The further away they are, the faster they seem to be going. That hints at some sort of event, roughly 10 billion years ago, that forced them all away and in fact created these objects. That's coupled with a background microwave radiation we'd expect from a universe at about 3 degrees Kelvin, as if the matter that spread out has cooled down to about that average temperature.
You missed one thing. The rate at which they are traveling seems to be accelerating as well.
UT2K4 has something very similar to this. "Online experience may vary" or some such disclaimer. XBOX-Live probably has a similar thing as well.
I can garuntee sexuality is not just binary, or even trinary. It is at least a 4-way decision. You have people who don't have sex at all, heterosexuals, homosexuals and those who are bisexual.
The "staunch fundamentalist christian" is probably playing a paladin and killing the "undead necromancers worshipping made up Gods".
So I don't have to repeat so much, see this. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=176010&cid=146 28303