If you can accept that there is a God that has always existed, why not skip the whole divine being bit and say the earth and all its inhabitants have existed forever? The whole divine being thing just gives 'holy men' a means of control ('of course I'm right! God said so.').
Sure you could raise the minimum wage. Of course, then it just wouldn't make sense to hire as many people. Expenditures on unskilled labor by a given company probably want to stay the same, so doubling the wage will halve your workforce. Not so bad if you're not the guy getting canned, though...
Actually, the government stepped in to destroy DAT. DAT recorders are mandated to make poor copies, whereas audio CDs can be copied perfectly indefinately.
Well, the hope is that if enough people spite their face, the person holding a monopoly on mirrors will try to change their business plan... requires a lot of lost noses, though. Its still a better situation than it could be:
Imagine that the water company requires that to get water service, you must also get gatorade, seltzer, and prune juice service. Its impossible to fight the monopoly in this situation, as they only need to wait you out for a couple of days (hopefully you can deal without a net connection for a little while). The only thing that breaks such a monopoly is someone from outside trucking in water, which is analogous to satellite service. You only *really* need to worry when you're down to one massive provider (you have a local rather than universal monopoly, consider yourself lucky)
If a sufficient number of people were to cancel their service in the region where a company held a monopoly, the monopoly would probably provide more options. Having a monopoly doesn't mean you're totally omnipotent, it just means that your customers usually have to make greater sacrifices to affect you.
If you don't like the terms of the warranty, *gasp* don't buy the product. LCD quality control is sufficient for some people, but for others, it isn't. Stick with your massive, power eating CRT.
Because Intel, AMD, nVidia, and ATI are piddly companies with zero effect on the industry, demonstrating how the US and Canada are completely behind when it comes to semiconductors. A few more names for you: IBM, Cisco, Cray... The west is far from fallen.
Newspapers and magazines are a random access medium. I don't go through the pages in sequence, reading each page for the same amount of time. I spend time on the articles that interest me, but the advertising pages get skipped (or, in the case of the 10-page 1&1 ads in MaximumPC, removed by force...)
I think a more likely scenario is that they can't play a file, and ask their semi-technical friend what to do. The semi-technical friend then recommends WinAmp or one of the other gratis media players. Of course, if MS makes the error on media file 'You need Media Player' rather than 'Extension not associated', your plan might work.
And the air traffic controller who let your plane slam into that other plane was just enjoying God's creation rather than some stuff old control tower. Duty before pleasure;)
Still, if you're not too worried about acceleration, its a pretty easy way to supply power. You basically get a powerplant with negligible added mass (important both for getting the thing to space, and for using the solar wind to move it)
Probably messy to take the suits off if they're covered with toxic stuff... rather cramped quarters, I don't think that they have any sort of decontamination facility (though, if Brannon and Braga were in charge, we'd try to revitalize interest in manned spaceflight with decon paste orgies)
I wouldn't think that the owner of the proprietary format would have to let you open it, but that the boneheaded agency that generated the document would have to generate a copy in some form you could read (I presume that if you for example need a large print or braille version of a document, there's something saying you can get it?)
Yet it remains the most consumer-friendly DRM around. That's like saying 'The guy down the street is still the best deal; he only demands your first born child, the second is yours to keep!'
You feel like you have to try to get fired, until you see your first major staff reduction. When you're in, you're in, but they feel no attachment to you. The slackers are the first to go in budget tightening. And every budget gets tightened from time to time.
The last Linux solitare I played included like 50 variants... including million-game Freecell with hints. If anything, I can see productivity going down.
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If your family has been poor and hungry for several generations, why have children? Its called a condom, folks.
If you can accept that there is a God that has always existed, why not skip the whole divine being bit and say the earth and all its inhabitants have existed forever? The whole divine being thing just gives 'holy men' a means of control ('of course I'm right! God said so.').
Sure you could raise the minimum wage. Of course, then it just wouldn't make sense to hire as many people. Expenditures on unskilled labor by a given company probably want to stay the same, so doubling the wage will halve your workforce. Not so bad if you're not the guy getting canned, though ...
they didn't step in to save DAT
Actually, the government stepped in to destroy DAT. DAT recorders are mandated to make poor copies, whereas audio CDs can be copied perfectly indefinately.
I wonder if $0.50 air or $2.00/gal gasoline has the higher margin for them? Be funny if it was the air ...
Well, the hope is that if enough people spite their face, the person holding a monopoly on mirrors will try to change their business plan ... requires a lot of lost noses, though. Its still a better situation than it could be:
Imagine that the water company requires that to get water service, you must also get gatorade, seltzer, and prune juice service. Its impossible to fight the monopoly in this situation, as they only need to wait you out for a couple of days (hopefully you can deal without a net connection for a little while). The only thing that breaks such a monopoly is someone from outside trucking in water, which is analogous to satellite service. You only *really* need to worry when you're down to one massive provider (you have a local rather than universal monopoly, consider yourself lucky)
If a sufficient number of people were to cancel their service in the region where a company held a monopoly, the monopoly would probably provide more options. Having a monopoly doesn't mean you're totally omnipotent, it just means that your customers usually have to make greater sacrifices to affect you.
... or safer and more efficient nuclear reactors.
On the Autobahn, you're not driving over the effects of frost heave ...
Forget not the skullet! Would have made a fun addition to the various young-Picard flashbacks in Next Gen ...
If you don't like the terms of the warranty, *gasp* don't buy the product. LCD quality control is sufficient for some people, but for others, it isn't. Stick with your massive, power eating CRT.
Because Intel, AMD, nVidia, and ATI are piddly companies with zero effect on the industry, demonstrating how the US and Canada are completely behind when it comes to semiconductors. A few more names for you: IBM, Cisco, Cray ... The west is far from fallen.
Newspapers and magazines are a random access medium. I don't go through the pages in sequence, reading each page for the same amount of time. I spend time on the articles that interest me, but the advertising pages get skipped (or, in the case of the 10-page 1&1 ads in MaximumPC, removed by force ...)
I think a more likely scenario is that they can't play a file, and ask their semi-technical friend what to do. The semi-technical friend then recommends WinAmp or one of the other gratis media players. Of course, if MS makes the error on media file 'You need Media Player' rather than 'Extension not associated', your plan might work.
And the air traffic controller who let your plane slam into that other plane was just enjoying God's creation rather than some stuff old control tower. Duty before pleasure ;)
Still, if you're not too worried about acceleration, its a pretty easy way to supply power. You basically get a powerplant with negligible added mass (important both for getting the thing to space, and for using the solar wind to move it)
Probably messy to take the suits off if they're covered with toxic stuff ... rather cramped quarters, I don't think that they have any sort of decontamination facility (though, if Brannon and Braga were in charge, we'd try to revitalize interest in manned spaceflight with decon paste orgies)
Assuming 10% overhead for indexing, 1.1LOC.
I wouldn't think that the owner of the proprietary format would have to let you open it, but that the boneheaded agency that generated the document would have to generate a copy in some form you could read (I presume that if you for example need a large print or braille version of a document, there's something saying you can get it?)
You just need a lot of handles ...
Yet it remains the most consumer-friendly DRM around.
That's like saying 'The guy down the street is still the best deal; he only demands your first born child, the second is yours to keep!'
You feel like you have to try to get fired, until you see your first major staff reduction. When you're in, you're in, but they feel no attachment to you. The slackers are the first to go in budget tightening. And every budget gets tightened from time to time.
The last Linux solitare I played included like 50 variants ... including million-game Freecell with hints. If anything, I can see productivity going down.
psst ... Mountain Dew is made from orange concentrate ...
Its that irritating 'last wishes' thing ... some people plan ahead for the prospect of becoming a vegetable supported only by a vast array of machines.