...the plain English meaning makes so much sense...
The "plain English" meaning makes sense only in that many uninformed people, if forced to choose, may indeed choose it. But "beg the question" is so obviously idiomatic that those same people should recognize that it ought to be looked up...
Meanwhile, voluntarily employing a fancy phrase that one's not certain of is ill-advised on so many levels...
Great way for the labels and Apple to discourage people from using legal methods for downloading music.
The magic of the $0.99 is that its magnitude and uniformity places it on that mental shelf reserved for things nobody will bother to steal. But, if Apple starts making some nothings "more equal" than others, then that shelf and mindset become endangered...
... even if a life-extending genetic treatment became available, you'd very likely only be able to take advantage of it.. after you become fabulously rich.
Like all technologies, medicine goes where the money is. After the billionaires are "immortalized", new efficiencies and economies-of-scale will rapidly reach out for the multi-millionaires, and then, eventually, even for thee and me...
I would have been impressed if this had never reached any form of court proceeding. As it is, it's just typical corporate business as usual.
Sure. And my point was not to canonize Apple, but rather to note that $15m price tag may not be all that steep...especially as it allows their PR people to spin, at least for some recipients, the illusion of Apple-as-benefactor.
besides being obvious, this is very nice, and a credit to the BBC...
FWIW, it didn't seem obvious to me.
Pushing the content into the pirate's channels before the pirate can. Hmmm... why wouldn't that work for commercial TV too, with ads in place as originally broadcast? Sure, maybe ads could be fast-forwarded, as with TiVo, but maybe they wouldn't all be (as with TiVo).
(Nice they're reviving K9. Consonant with with their anti-piracy push-philosophy, makes him sort of a 'please-watch dog'...)
...owners... are entitled to $25...or $50 credit [or] a free replacement battery... could cost Apple as much as $15m.
Wonder what cascading cost Apple would've sustained from each disgruntled customer holding forth at the water-cooler... vs that same guy now talking about how Apple "stands behind" its products. Seems that, properly handled, this judgement might not be such a loss.
This is scary, and I hope Perfect 10 falls flat on their ass. It's not Google's job to police everyone else's copyright...
With luck, the law will (ultimately) distinguish between enterprise and infrastructure. Suing Google makes as much sense as suing your post-office for mail fraud.
Moreover... beyond images, what about copyrighted phrases like "Things go better with Coke"? Should Google not search for them?
Why do people get so upset at hearing claims that most geniuses are men...
There's usually a time when one's formal IQ-number is the single greatest weapon in an arsenal of self-esteem... at least for geeks.
But the older (and, ideally, smarter) one gets, the more that number's importance diminishes alongside the many other (and very practical BTW) mental assets one comes to recognize and envy.
Turnout in early elections was an impressive 60%, but it since has fallen to 30%.
Golly, it does sound like a real democracy...
The puzzle for large corporations employing highly skilled professionals is how to tap and maintain entrepreneurial vigor. I don't see clearly whether Schlumberger has pulled this off, but kudos for a creative try.
Let me see,... would I rather...spend $30+ on a movie ticket, popcorn, and a drink just so I can watch the latest subpar...movies...?
There was a time when studios aimed to create exciting movies. (More than one time, actually. Choose your era.) But, for a while now, the focus has been on creating exciting events, i.e., movies that can be marketed as exciting and of don't-be-left-out caliber. It's both a cause and effect of the 5,000-screen opening weekend... which makes advertising cheaper, but also makes those initial droves of excited, uninformed viewers all the more important...
...except now many viewers are becoming informed. (Evolution. Who'da thunk it?) They're learning, for example, that a movie that opens with less-than-blockbuster fanfare, but that steadily gains public acceptance (such as, most recently, WEDDING CRASHERS and MARCH OF THE PENGUINS) just might kick the crap, enjoyment-wise, out of GORE-LUST III (rated PG-13). And these viewers won't speed to the multiplex for less.
...a talking computer hidden within a pen the size of an electric toothbrush... aimed at 9-14 year-olds who can use it as a calculator, a calendar, to create and record music, and to play logic and geography games...
When the movie's ready for stamping, there'll be an estimate of the two competing formats' markets... instead of like now, where's there's an estimate of only the one (...if we call VHS defunct). And, sure, there'll be occasional mis-estimates... just as there are now. (Note the recent turmoil over unsold copies of SHREK 2.)
Granted, the problem is made slightly more complex, but certainly not new. I'd expect (and hope) the moguls will be worrying instead about, say, script quality...
Moreover, it was reported elsewhere that the rival technologies have forced movie studios to take sides, as it would be prohibitively expensive to produce films for both formats.
What in the world could that mean? Does the 35mm master-print lose its soul during an HD transfer?
Truthfully, AMD could do it, even without Intel's permission. Just go grab a chip off the shelf and let loose.
And conversely, Intel could do it without AMD's permission.
Moreover, if enough public attention manifests, that's exactly what will happen... with each side using the tests and conditions needed to assure its victory, and then publishing the results.
(While we wait for that entertaining debacle, let's prepare by taking the Pepsi challenge, America...)
I don't like this.... People need to sleep for various reasons...
The rule that says there is no free lunch is fine... as a first reservation. But, e.g., people also need natural food and clean air and water... yet seem to survive on lesser substitutes, even voluntarily when the incentive's high enough. And a 50% lengthening of your wake-day is a pretty strong incentive for trying to fool Mother Nature...
Patents were supposed to encourage disclosure of innovation so that others can build on it. A blanket "encourage innovation" idea has been used to argue that it should [let inventors] make a lot of money, which was not the goal.
'Building on innovation' may be the ultimate goal. But, inventors making (at least enough) money is an immediate corollary... unless you think that philanthropy or fame will sufficiently motivate their disclosures.
I'm just really getting tired of special effects movies...."War of the Worlds"...was just horrible!... As long as a special effect is about as good as the OLD Dr. Who, then that's all you really need...
A movie that's only effects isn't much, true. But remember that, especially with something like War of the Worlds, the movie itself is already an "effect", i.e., an attempt to render a literary concept into a visually believable form. If one's willing to settle for the mere narrative adequacy of "placeholder" effects, then why not simply stick with reading the book?
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Zapping's non-lethal... but some sweater-wearing subjects suffered disabling bouts of static cling...
The "plain English" meaning makes sense only in that many uninformed people, if forced to choose, may indeed choose it. But "beg the question" is so obviously idiomatic that those same people should recognize that it ought to be looked up...
Meanwhile, voluntarily employing a fancy phrase that one's not certain of is ill-advised on so many levels...
Damn straight. Let's put the angst back into space-travel. Next stop, Dostoyevsky...
The magic of the $0.99 is that its magnitude and uniformity places it on that mental shelf reserved for things nobody will bother to steal. But, if Apple starts making some nothings "more equal" than others, then that shelf and mindset become endangered...
So, in an emergency, not only can't they call 911, they can't even ring the house next door.
(The thing about a cheap shot is that the price is always right...)
Like all technologies, medicine goes where the money is. After the billionaires are "immortalized", new efficiencies and economies-of-scale will rapidly reach out for the multi-millionaires, and then, eventually, even for thee and me...
Sure. And my point was not to canonize Apple, but rather to note that $15m price tag may not be all that steep ...especially as it allows their PR people to spin, at least for some recipients, the illusion of Apple-as-benefactor.
FWIW, it didn't seem obvious to me.
Pushing the content into the pirate's channels before the pirate can. Hmmm... why wouldn't that work for commercial TV too, with ads in place as originally broadcast? Sure, maybe ads could be fast-forwarded, as with TiVo, but maybe they wouldn't all be (as with TiVo).
(Nice they're reviving K9. Consonant with with their anti-piracy push-philosophy, makes him sort of a 'please-watch dog'...)
Wonder what cascading cost Apple would've sustained from each disgruntled customer holding forth at the water-cooler... vs that same guy now talking about how Apple "stands behind" its products. Seems that, properly handled, this judgement might not be such a loss.
With luck, the law will (ultimately) distinguish between enterprise and infrastructure. Suing Google makes as much sense as suing your post-office for mail fraud.
Moreover... beyond images, what about copyrighted phrases like "Things go better with Coke"? Should Google not search for them?
Couple that with the fact that a human's unprompted circadian cycle is actually about 25 hours long, and it begins to explain a lot... to someone...
There's usually a time when one's formal IQ-number is the single greatest weapon in an arsenal of self-esteem... at least for geeks.
But the older (and, ideally, smarter) one gets, the more that number's importance diminishes alongside the many other (and very practical BTW) mental assets one comes to recognize and envy.
Golly, it does sound like a real democracy...
The puzzle for large corporations employing highly skilled professionals is how to tap and maintain entrepreneurial vigor. I don't see clearly whether Schlumberger has pulled this off, but kudos for a creative try.
There was a time when studios aimed to create exciting movies. (More than one time, actually. Choose your era.) But, for a while now, the focus has been on creating exciting events, i.e., movies that can be marketed as exciting and of don't-be-left-out caliber. It's both a cause and effect of the 5,000-screen opening weekend... which makes advertising cheaper, but also makes those initial droves of excited, uninformed viewers all the more important...
Water flows downhill...
Neither. But when the missile is done for (in about a minute-and-half at high setting), they'll emit a 2-second beep.
In a coffeehouse with colorful overstuffed chairs for lounging, barstools, and booths, it's not surprising that "books are a thing of the past".
So too, probably, are those little 'Quiet, please' signs...
When the movie's ready for stamping, there'll be an estimate of the two competing formats' markets... instead of like now, where's there's an estimate of only the one (...if we call VHS defunct). And, sure, there'll be occasional mis-estimates... just as there are now. (Note the recent turmoil over unsold copies of SHREK 2.)
Granted, the problem is made slightly more complex, but certainly not new. I'd expect (and hope) the moguls will be worrying instead about, say, script quality...
What in the world could that mean? Does the 35mm master-print lose its soul during an HD transfer?
And conversely, Intel could do it without AMD's permission.
Moreover, if enough public attention manifests, that's exactly what will happen... with each side using the tests and conditions needed to assure its victory, and then publishing the results.
(While we wait for that entertaining debacle, let's prepare by taking the Pepsi challenge, America...)
The rule that says there is no free lunch is fine... as a first reservation. But, e.g., people also need natural food and clean air and water... yet seem to survive on lesser substitutes, even voluntarily when the incentive's high enough. And a 50% lengthening of your wake-day is a pretty strong incentive for trying to fool Mother Nature...
'Building on innovation' may be the ultimate goal. But, inventors making (at least enough) money is an immediate corollary... unless you think that philanthropy or fame will sufficiently motivate their disclosures.
A movie that's only effects isn't much, true. But remember that, especially with something like War of the Worlds, the movie itself is already an "effect", i.e., an attempt to render a literary concept into a visually believable form. If one's willing to settle for the mere narrative adequacy of "placeholder" effects, then why not simply stick with reading the book?
In some retro-decorated apartments, I've seen doors that worked like this. The tenants called them "bead curtains"...