My guess is that they don't want to sell it anywhere without implementing a proper marketing campaign, localizing the device and all the software, etc., and they don't have enough faith in the product to spend the money to do all that. The last thing Microsoft wants is the embarrassment of Zune being the number-20 player in a major market instead of just number five.
I wish he'd spend less time Twittering and blogging and more time fixing the bugs in Delicious Library 2 that have been there since the beta. There's like, what, one update a year for that application? I don't even bother running it any more.
The problem with the summary goes deeper than that. It's full of weasel words, disingenuously conflating copying or filesharing with "theft" and suggesting that you cannot be an honest person if you are every the recipient of copyright infringement. Spidweb needs to get off his high horse. I think there are fewer honest people among those who shill for DRM.
Web standards and graceful degradation seem to be at the forefront of Apple's way of thinking. If you check out the Safari page, it's built using HTML5 but degrades gracefully in browsers that don't support HTML5 yet.
On top of that, I imagine there are valid words or phrases in Swedish in which "bank" might appear but would not refer to financial institutions. Using those words shouldn't be banned.
Thanks for the explanation. I was aware of the general problem but that sheds a lot of light on it. If platform #1's compiler performs a * b + a * c, and platform #2's compiler changes it to a * (b + c), do you get a discrepancy in the result even with IEEE standards?
I've heard that differing CPU architectures is a significant difficulty in cross-platform play and something that hampered Mac-PC online play before Macs switched to Intel. Online multiplayer games rely on players' own machines to perform practically all in-game calculations, and the game assumes that each machine is getting identical results from these calculations and passing those results into the next operation. But due to the nature of floating point arithmetic, the last few digits of a floating point operation will vary according to processor architecture, so cross-platform play requires code and bandwidth overhead to synchronize all those game variables.
Not only that, you could use nuclear power to perform the operation, making it a carbon-neutral way of producing and using oil. Heck, if this ever ended up being an economical way to produce chemicals for plastics, it would actually sequester carbon.
In my opinion, EULAs are BS. (I have too many reasons to list here.)
However, Microsoft and Lenovo are in the position of either admitting their EULA is false and non-binding, or else abiding by its terms and refunding the customer his money.
I suspect, though, that children who are truly curious about science and the world around them will figure out pretty quickly that parents are a poor source of answers (in 99% of cases), and that books are a great source. As soon as I learnt to read, I would spend endless hours at the library reading books on any conceivable topic that caught my interest, and taking shopping bags full of books home afterward. At one point, I even realized that looking up specific topics was too hit-and-miss, so I started reading every book of interest at the local library in Dewey Decimal order.
The EPA is anti-environmental. Their job is to provide the bureaucratically determined levels at which corporations may freely pollute, and eliminate personal responsibility for environmental damage.
Dude... I couldn't afford LAN hardware when my friends and I first started playing Starcraft. We used the serial port connection option with crossover cables, and I got a few cheap expansion port cards for my own machine so we could hook up 4 computers at once.
Now *there's* an option you know won't be in Starcraft II.
I suppose that once electric cars are more commonplace, roadside assistance insurance will cover things like emergency re-charging, and towing companies will be outfitted to offer that.
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My guess is that they don't want to sell it anywhere without implementing a proper marketing campaign, localizing the device and all the software, etc., and they don't have enough faith in the product to spend the money to do all that. The last thing Microsoft wants is the embarrassment of Zune being the number-20 player in a major market instead of just number five.
I wish he'd spend less time Twittering and blogging and more time fixing the bugs in Delicious Library 2 that have been there since the beta. There's like, what, one update a year for that application? I don't even bother running it any more.
The problem with the summary goes deeper than that. It's full of weasel words, disingenuously conflating copying or filesharing with "theft" and suggesting that you cannot be an honest person if you are every the recipient of copyright infringement. Spidweb needs to get off his high horse. I think there are fewer honest people among those who shill for DRM.
That's... pathetic. I have 50 megabit fiber (in Japan) and I've downloaded 5-gigabyte files in minutes before.
If full-duplex is all you care about, a dial-up line will suffice. But if you want high-bandwidth, pigeons is clearly the way to go in South Africa.
I'm looking forward to a follow-up three-way race that includes bongo drums.
Web standards and graceful degradation seem to be at the forefront of Apple's way of thinking. If you check out the Safari page, it's built using HTML5 but degrades gracefully in browsers that don't support HTML5 yet.
So the Americans are using exoskeletons to make more potential customers for Japanese exoskeletons?
I suspect you need to do a lot better than even 90%, otherwise both eyes see both images and you get double vision.
Yes. That way, if an asteroid destroys civilization, they have a 0.1% chance of catching it in the act.
Well, no. When it comes to military technology and sharing, India's traditional ally is Russia.
On top of that, I imagine there are valid words or phrases in Swedish in which "bank" might appear but would not refer to financial institutions. Using those words shouldn't be banned.
Thanks for the explanation. I was aware of the general problem but that sheds a lot of light on it. If platform #1's compiler performs a * b + a * c, and platform #2's compiler changes it to a * (b + c), do you get a discrepancy in the result even with IEEE standards?
I've heard that differing CPU architectures is a significant difficulty in cross-platform play and something that hampered Mac-PC online play before Macs switched to Intel. Online multiplayer games rely on players' own machines to perform practically all in-game calculations, and the game assumes that each machine is getting identical results from these calculations and passing those results into the next operation. But due to the nature of floating point arithmetic, the last few digits of a floating point operation will vary according to processor architecture, so cross-platform play requires code and bandwidth overhead to synchronize all those game variables.
Not only that, you could use nuclear power to perform the operation, making it a carbon-neutral way of producing and using oil. Heck, if this ever ended up being an economical way to produce chemicals for plastics, it would actually sequester carbon.
On my home networks, I've always named computers after planets and external drives after moons.
On a school network I set up for someone once, I named all the machines after people from the legend of Robin Hood.
In my opinion, EULAs are BS. (I have too many reasons to list here.)
However, Microsoft and Lenovo are in the position of either admitting their EULA is false and non-binding, or else abiding by its terms and refunding the customer his money.
Especially if the radio had an EULA you were presented with *after* you bought the car, and the car wouldn't drive unless the radio was working.
I suspect, though, that children who are truly curious about science and the world around them will figure out pretty quickly that parents are a poor source of answers (in 99% of cases), and that books are a great source. As soon as I learnt to read, I would spend endless hours at the library reading books on any conceivable topic that caught my interest, and taking shopping bags full of books home afterward. At one point, I even realized that looking up specific topics was too hit-and-miss, so I started reading every book of interest at the local library in Dewey Decimal order.
The EPA is anti-environmental. Their job is to provide the bureaucratically determined levels at which corporations may freely pollute, and eliminate personal responsibility for environmental damage.
I find it interesting how few of those people who say the world is overpopulated have offered to eliminate themselves and help solve the problem.
I tell you, of all the things you can catch, that's one of the deadliest. Darn Nigerian mosquitoes.
That would be the New Worlds telescope.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Worlds_Mission
Dude... I couldn't afford LAN hardware when my friends and I first started playing Starcraft. We used the serial port connection option with crossover cables, and I got a few cheap expansion port cards for my own machine so we could hook up 4 computers at once.
Now *there's* an option you know won't be in Starcraft II.
So, it resembles an act of Congress then.
(Although one could argue that by simultaneously fulfilling both opposing states, Congress is more like a quantum computing machine.)
I suppose that once electric cars are more commonplace, roadside assistance insurance will cover things like emergency re-charging, and towing companies will be outfitted to offer that.