Because people own HDTV's and see movies in 720p on HBO, and they can tell it looks a hell of a lot better than their current DVD's.... and they want the movies they buy for $20 each to look as good as the ones they see on HBO for $10/month.
"In the United States, entrapment exists if the accused's main motivation was the offer made by the police. If the accused was more motivated by other concerns, such as financial gain, then it is not entrapment despite police actions."
"In jurisprudence, entrapment is a procedural defense by which a defendant may argue that they should not be held criminally liable for actions which broke the law, because they were induced (or entrapped) by the police to commit said acts. For the defense to be successful, the defendant must demonstrate that the police induced an otherwise unwilling person to commit a crime. However, when a person is predisposed to commit a crime, offering opportunities to commit the crime is not entrapment"
Get a receiver with Dolby Pro-Logic II Music and you'll change your tune (ha ha).
It matrixes two-channel music into a 5.1 setup with fantastic results. It doesn't pipe a lot through the center channel at all. It's infinitely better than old-school Pro Logic, which sucked ass for music. It's even a hell of a lot better than the old Pro Logic for TV and movies.
"Remember how disappointing Dolby Pro Logic was whenever you tried playing a CD or stereo album through it? Everything collapsed into the center channel. It sounded like mono with muffled ambience.
DPL II, however, is an entirely different experience. DPL II delivers two full-range stereo surround channels, 20 Hz to 20 kHz, not a rolled-off mono channel "band-limited" at 7,000 Hz (nothing above 7 kHz, and in my quarters, that ain't hi-fi). Moreover, DPL II naturally extracts all the ambience and directionality that already exists in the stereo recording."
1) Buy a neato Blu-Ray drive for your PC for $400 2) Plug video card's DVI-out to your 1080p plasma TV's DVI-in 3) Buy $40 copy of King Kong on Blu-Ray 4) Get really pissed off that you're forced to watch the movie in 480p because your video card didn't support HDCP.
Blu-Ray and HD-DVD apparently will only output high-def signals with HDCP enabled hardware.
ENIAC was... commissioned on May 17, 1943. It was unveiled on February 14, 1946 at the University of Pennsylvania
The Manchester Mark I was one of the earliest electronic computers, built at the University of Manchester in England, in 1949.
So, uh, what's the story? ENIAC clearly came before the Mark 1 by at least 3 years.... and the ENIAC was programmable, even if it meant moving plugs around. So in terms of programmable computers, ENIAC was clearly first. It might not have been the first to store programs in some sort of cathode ray memory, but it clearly predates the Mark 1.
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I don't care about the annoyed person who touched someone else... the entire point was the rude idiot who whipped out a cell phone in a crowded theater during a serious movie and yapped away.
How the phone *rang* is irrelevant when something like this happens.
Polite phones don't help when people are rude.
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Seriously, the problem isn't the gadgetry, it's the people who use the gadgetry. In the link above, a woman's cell phone rings in a movie theater, then she whips it out and starts talking on it during the movie. Polite ringers won't do a damn thing when it's people that are the problem.
Intel has the fab capacity to handle any requests Apple makes. AMD doesn't. If Apple went to AMD, they would instantly become AMD's biggest customer.
That's an interesting assertion, considering that AMD processors are outselling Intel processors in the retail marketplace in both retail box and OEM PC form.
Plus, if you don't like search engines "leeching" from you, just set up robots.txt and say no to everything -- they'll go away.
That's the beginning and end of it, really.
These "content providers" (or this one in particular) realizes this, but they also realize that search engines are a major driving force for their traffic and therefore revenue. I'm not exactly sure who the visionary who wrote this article is, but he doesn't have a clue. Content providers NEED search engines.. to deny search engines in favor of greater marketing is suicidal.
"We worked with a number of technology companies to identify products that are the best of their type to create this suite. (We didn't pay them, and they aren't paying us.)"
I don't think you have any experience dealing with executives from an IT standpoint. You'd be surprised. Execs will sit down and edit their documents wherever they damn well please, thank you very much.
Besides, there's nothing fundamentally different between running "mission critical apps" from a losable, stealable, USB drive than an online service.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.dataaccessories.com/r5100.html0 9-v428.asp= 711&engine=adwords!654&keyword=(shielded+cat+5)
http://www.hosfelt.com/en-us/dept_41.html
http://www.shopping-headquarters.com/products/287
http://www.cablestogo.com/product_list.asp?cat_id
Google is your friend, dude.
Because people own HDTV's and see movies in 720p on HBO, and they can tell it looks a hell of a lot better than their current DVD's.... and they want the movies they buy for $20 each to look as good as the ones they see on HBO for $10/month.
Yeah. The police offer was the main motivation in the "thug for hire" case, and it seems to be the main motivation in the spammer case as well.
I fail to see how it isn't entrapment for the Secret Service to do what they did.
Additionally:
"In the United States, entrapment exists if the accused's main motivation was the offer made by the police. If the accused was more motivated by other concerns, such as financial gain, then it is not entrapment despite police actions."
Wikipedia:
"In jurisprudence, entrapment is a procedural defense by which a defendant may argue that they should not be held criminally liable for actions which broke the law, because they were induced (or entrapped) by the police to commit said acts. For the defense to be successful, the defendant must demonstrate that the police induced an otherwise unwilling person to commit a crime. However, when a person is predisposed to commit a crime, offering opportunities to commit the crime is not entrapment"
Oh trust me, this level of consumer anxiety is *absolutely nothing* compared to a consumer who decided he wanted to switch to linux.
"Final version"
LOL!!!!
Dude, this is GOOGLE we're talking about!!
Because the definition of "raid" is "a sudden forcible entry into a place by police."
Hence, they use the term raid when a raid has occurred.
Get a receiver with Dolby Pro-Logic II Music and you'll change your tune (ha ha).
It matrixes two-channel music into a 5.1 setup with fantastic results. It doesn't pipe a lot through the center channel at all. It's infinitely better than old-school Pro Logic, which sucked ass for music. It's even a hell of a lot better than the old Pro Logic for TV and movies.
"Remember how disappointing Dolby Pro Logic was whenever you tried playing a CD or stereo album through it? Everything collapsed into the center channel. It sounded like mono with muffled ambience.
DPL II, however, is an entirely different experience. DPL II delivers two full-range stereo surround channels, 20 Hz to 20 kHz, not a rolled-off mono channel "band-limited" at 7,000 Hz (nothing above 7 kHz, and in my quarters, that ain't hi-fi). Moreover, DPL II naturally extracts all the ambience and directionality that already exists in the stereo recording."
1) Buy a neato Blu-Ray drive for your PC for $400
2) Plug video card's DVI-out to your 1080p plasma TV's DVI-in
3) Buy $40 copy of King Kong on Blu-Ray
4) Get really pissed off that you're forced to watch the movie in 480p because your video card didn't support HDCP.
Blu-Ray and HD-DVD apparently will only output high-def signals with HDCP enabled hardware.
ENIAC was ... commissioned on May 17, 1943. It was unveiled on February 14, 1946 at the University of Pennsylvania
The Manchester Mark I was one of the earliest electronic computers, built at the University of Manchester in England, in 1949.
So, uh, what's the story? ENIAC clearly came before the Mark 1 by at least 3 years.... and the ENIAC was programmable, even if it meant moving plugs around. So in terms of programmable computers, ENIAC was clearly first. It might not have been the first to store programs in some sort of cathode ray memory, but it clearly predates the Mark 1.
I don't care about the annoyed person who touched someone else... the entire point was the rude idiot who whipped out a cell phone in a crowded theater during a serious movie and yapped away.
How the phone *rang* is irrelevant when something like this happens.
http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0,2028 1,18104683-5001022,00.html
Seriously, the problem isn't the gadgetry, it's the people who use the gadgetry. In the link above, a woman's cell phone rings in a movie theater, then she whips it out and starts talking on it during the movie. Polite ringers won't do a damn thing when it's people that are the problem.
No, because overall risk did not increase.
Intel has the fab capacity to handle any requests Apple makes. AMD doesn't. If Apple went to AMD, they would instantly become AMD's biggest customer.
That's an interesting assertion, considering that AMD processors are outselling Intel processors in the retail marketplace in both retail box and OEM PC form.
Er, no..
They're a hardware company that uses software like OS X as a reason to buy their hardware.
You said it yourself. They make money selling hardware. The selling points of the hardware, such as a snazzy OS, are kind of irrelevant.
Plus, if you don't like search engines "leeching" from you, just set up robots.txt and say no to everything -- they'll go away.
That's the beginning and end of it, really.
These "content providers" (or this one in particular) realizes this, but they also realize that search engines are a major driving force for their traffic and therefore revenue. I'm not exactly sure who the visionary who wrote this article is, but he doesn't have a clue. Content providers NEED search engines.. to deny search engines in favor of greater marketing is suicidal.
From the Google Blog:
"We worked with a number of technology companies to identify products that are the best of their type to create this suite. (We didn't pay them, and they aren't paying us.)"
We're learned folk round these parts.
Them's metric fuck-tons, and that's per day
"Why is it that inventions always have to have some military/security use in order to be deemed cost-effective or useful?"
Because the defense industry spends four and a half fuck-tons of money, so they fund a lot of this stuff.
"When passenger jets are mentioned, no one screams "Lockerbie" or "9/11" as a reason why we shouldn't fly in airplanes anymore."
Dude, you're nuts if you think that no one complains about airplane crashes or terrorists when they think about flying. Good lord.
First Google hit for "CES":
"International Consumer Electronics Show"
First listing on AcronymFinder for "CES":
"Consumer Electronics Show"
I guess I wasn't clear.
My contention was that neither the Internet nor USB drives were appropriate mediums for "mission critical" apps and documents.
I don't think you have any experience dealing with executives from an IT standpoint. You'd be surprised. Execs will sit down and edit their documents wherever they damn well please, thank you very much.
Besides, there's nothing fundamentally different between running "mission critical apps" from a losable, stealable, USB drive than an online service.
Because that doesn't work.
Please mod this down.