Then ask yourself would you park your billion dollar spaceship outside if there was a 20% chance of a tropical storm damaging it? I don't think they gamble with those odds.
these questions are completely redundant. who needs more than 640k of memory? if you build it he will come. you can't even envisage what this could be used for because it probably hasn't even been invented yet. its like having a 60gig ipod in 1983 (?) when the only CD you could buy was Brothers in Arms and wondering what you were going to use the other 59 gigs and change for.
i have to agree - there's a big difference between 'free' and 'unlimted': i think the difference is usually called marketing or something like that. obviously the cost tends towards zero the more you use it but it's never going to reach zero in one month. cue geek response: cost per minute for constant use...
yes and if 20% of accidents are caused by drunk drivers, that means 80% are caused by sober drivers so it must be safer to drive when... no wait hang on...
Whilst I agree with you about the 35ish crowd who'll be going because they were 8ish when the original came out, I'm not dragging my kids because I have to. The 7 and 5 year olds can practically quote the other 5 movies already, and can't even conciously tell that Episode I is crap - they latch onto the fun scenes like the pod race - in fact this is how they identify the movies when they decide which one they're going to watch on a rainy saturday afternoon. Also the peer pressure is intense to see the movie too - you obviously can't be the only one in class who doesn't get to see it because of a PG-13 rating. And finally even my 2 year old can identify a the star wars logo and shrieks 'star woz' whenever we put on the dvd, so thats pervasive branding for you. plus he can hum the darth vader da da da da-ta-dummmm theme too, so I'm determined to take him along too. at least his 1st ever movie will be a classic, whether its any good or not, unlike some crap like Treasure Planet or such - now those are the movies you get dragged to as a parent for real. *sigh
I'm not sure that makes sense. If it was that easy then surely they'd have made an 82" display a lot sooner and the bigger displays would be cheaper to produce. Or if not cheaper at least a similar cost since you'd have more material but less rejects and that would balance the cost. There must be more to it than that.
Of course market forces in TVs means a bigger set => we can charge more for it, even if it costs the same or even less to produce. etc. Opposite applies to other things like cell phones where slim/smaller = higher cost so really manufacturing cost probably has little to do with pricing here.
display the results uploaded to the central server on-line so that anyone can login and verify that their sequentially numbered receipt (anonymous) shows their selections.
that way i can see that my vote was registered and that it was registered correctly. plus anyone and everyone can download all the votes and recount them at will to independantly verify them.
http://toolbar.google.com/dc/faq_dc.html and even mentions that the 1st use is protein folding at http://folding.stanford.edu/ so I'm not sure why IBM re-invented the wheel.
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http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0111/p01s03-sten.htm l uses algae to remove 40% of the CO2, 86% of NO2 and produces ethanol as a byproduct!
Plus there's tons of coal about (pun intentded)
this joke is wearing really thin already - no doubt it will become a slashdot mainstay
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ tw.html#Govt
conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Taiwan
so i wonder how many people read the 1st 3 lines of that email and binned it because it looks like a phishing email?
Then ask yourself would you park your billion dollar spaceship outside if there was a 20% chance of a tropical storm damaging it? I don't think they gamble with those odds.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at4+shtml /150721.shtml?tswind120?large according to the National Hurricane Center, winds equal to or exceeding 34 kt...39 mph (tropical storm force) extend to Cape Canaveral - that's probably why they're not taking any chances
http://science.slashdot.org/science/05/07/05/05212 06.shtml?tid=191&tid=14 is now proven to maybe not be proven
these questions are completely redundant. who needs more than 640k of memory? if you build it he will come. you can't even envisage what this could be used for because it probably hasn't even been invented yet. its like having a 60gig ipod in 1983 (?) when the only CD you could buy was Brothers in Arms and wondering what you were going to use the other 59 gigs and change for.
i have to agree - there's a big difference between 'free' and 'unlimted': i think the difference is usually called marketing or something like that. obviously the cost tends towards zero the more you use it but it's never going to reach zero in one month. cue geek response: cost per minute for constant use...
surely that's tin foil hattitide then?
yes and if 20% of accidents are caused by drunk drivers, that means 80% are caused by sober drivers so it must be safer to drive when... no wait hang on...
Whilst I agree with you about the 35ish crowd who'll be going because they were 8ish when the original came out, I'm not dragging my kids because I have to. The 7 and 5 year olds can practically quote the other 5 movies already, and can't even conciously tell that Episode I is crap - they latch onto the fun scenes like the pod race - in fact this is how they identify the movies when they decide which one they're going to watch on a rainy saturday afternoon.
Also the peer pressure is intense to see the movie too - you obviously can't be the only one in class who doesn't get to see it because of a PG-13 rating.
And finally even my 2 year old can identify a the star wars logo and shrieks 'star woz' whenever we put on the dvd, so thats pervasive branding for you. plus he can hum the darth vader da da da da-ta-dummmm theme too, so I'm determined to take him along too. at least his 1st ever movie will be a classic, whether its any good or not, unlike some crap like Treasure Planet or such - now those are the movies you get dragged to as a parent for real. *sigh
Hasn't exactly done wonders for the stock price though has it http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=aapl
I'm not sure that makes sense. If it was that easy then surely they'd have made an 82" display a lot sooner and the bigger displays would be cheaper to produce. Or if not cheaper at least a similar cost since you'd have more material but less rejects and that would balance the cost. There must be more to it than that.
Of course market forces in TVs means a bigger set => we can charge more for it, even if it costs the same or even less to produce. etc. Opposite applies to other things like cell phones where slim/smaller = higher cost so really manufacturing cost probably has little to do with pricing here.
I predict that in this episode Seth will finally twat that useless boyfriend of Summer's
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display the results uploaded to the central server on-line so that anyone can login and verify that their sequentially numbered receipt (anonymous) shows their selections.
that way i can see that my vote was registered and that it was registered correctly. plus anyone and everyone can download all the votes and recount them at will to independantly verify them.
It's been around for a while already too
iTunes music store has this feature too doesn't it.