Yeah, a lot of people died because of that tsunami. A lot of people have died as a result of 9/11, and I'm not talking about the people in the towers or the planes. I'd argue that the world has, to a degree, generally become a shittier place for everyone living in it thanks to the actions of the US government in the wake of 9/11.
You do realize their licensing costs are set to increase by an order of magnitude, right? Blockbuster peaked in 2009 and went bankrupt almost a year ago and has since been purchased by Dish Network for a measly $300 million. If Netflix was using low prices to snuff out the competition, they would have immediately raised their prices after successfully defeating the previous market leader.
Netflix is getting screwed left and right by content owners. Showtime stopped playing nice, and Sony just removed all of their titles. The licensing costs Netflix has to pay for content are going to increase astronomically now that the studios see how popular it is. What do you expect Netflix to do, just eat the order of magnitude increase in cost so they can keep your subscription price the same?
I thought it was a well known fact that the customization of SAP was rather limited. In fact, you often need to customize your business to match the way SAP works. If whoever at your company decided to buy SAP didn't know that, then they didn't do their research.
Apple said you don't need MMS. I don't want to get in to an argument about how stupid it is to say that email is a simple replacement (it isn't, give up now). Lo and behold Apple finally added MMS to the iPhone after YEARS of people bitching about it. I'm anxious to see how you will spin that in to "Apple just wanted to give users a superior experience."
Are you sure about that, as in you have a citation to some sort of city code? I've heard about this "law" in many different cities. The usual rumor is that sorority houses are outlawed because having 4 or more unrelated women living together constitutes a brothel, but that is just a bunch of BS.
I don't know. If Apple starts enforcing bathing requirements, they'll lose most of the US hipster market, as well as the majority of the European markets...
Will entire runs of specific HTC model phones have unlocked bootloaders or just a subset? Will this subset have a warranty? Does this decision in any way affect people with older HTC phones who had to void their warranty in order to unlock the bootloader?
So many questions, so little information at this point...
I can attest to this. For some reason I recently took it upon myself to get a fully functioning copy of Windows 98 SE running in a VM with VirtualBox. Getting the graphics to work correctly is a nightmare. I ended up going with the VBEMP driver and while it is hardly stable it at least lets me set the display to 16 bit color with a resolution above 640x400. There are a couple of other driver issues as well, including sound and USB. Hopefully Oracle will eventually release the guest additions for Win98 and resolve most of these issues.
Why not implement some of these systems in a non-automated fashion first? I can't tell you how many times I've tried to find some sort of inexpensive RADAR for my car.
One of the benefits of testing in Dallas is that is already a common occurrence to be cut off by someone driving 100 mph on a wet road while flailing wildly and screaming obscenities out the window.
Way to shit all over all the NASA employees in Houston by passing us over for New York City, a city that never played any role in the US space program. Yes, we have a Saturn V rocket, but we are also home to Mission Control and the fact that cities like Chicago and New York were even considered is an insult to all the hard work and dedication put forth by everyone at the JSC.
I see a lot of people stating that they would live in such a place if the scenario were practically perfect. Even if every politician, cop, etc was wired 24/7 for audio and video, I would never choose to be part of such a society. I don't care what my fellow citizens are up to 99.99999% of the time. What I do care about is keeping what I do private, even when my actions are legal and moral. It simply isn't any one else's god damn business what I do behind closed doors as long as I'm not hurting anyone.
I know it is too late in the life of this discussion for anyone to actually read this, but I see another angle on this that I feel is worth considering. Apple does allow free apps in the App Store and I believe they also take a cut of the advertising in these apps. Please correct me if I am wrong about this. Anyway, if someone chooses to write a web app instead of an App Store app, Apple doesn't get a cut of the advertising revenue. Again, I don't know if we're talking about enough money to justify these actions; just something else to consider.
There is a place in Houston called Joystix. It is mostly just a shop that sells classic cabinets and has the largest collection in the country. However, the first and last Friday of every month, from 9 pm to 2 am, you can pay $15 to get in and play all the games without coins or tokens. They also have a full bar.
Most people don't want to face the consequences of their free speech either. People like Phelps are nothing but trolls who use the law to protect them from the inevitable violent repercussions of their hateful speech.
That said, Anonymous has no creativity or imagination. What they should have done is filled the ranks of a protest led by Phelps' church with homosexual men and women as well as transgendered people. Imagine the reaction of Phelps and his followers when at a specific point during the protest/sermon half the group "spontaneously" turns gay and start making out with and feeling up members of the same sex.
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Can you please list a few phones that do provide this "basic" functionality? I'm genuinely curious.
Yeah, a lot of people died because of that tsunami. A lot of people have died as a result of 9/11, and I'm not talking about the people in the towers or the planes. I'd argue that the world has, to a degree, generally become a shittier place for everyone living in it thanks to the actions of the US government in the wake of 9/11.
You do realize their licensing costs are set to increase by an order of magnitude, right? Blockbuster peaked in 2009 and went bankrupt almost a year ago and has since been purchased by Dish Network for a measly $300 million. If Netflix was using low prices to snuff out the competition, they would have immediately raised their prices after successfully defeating the previous market leader.
Netflix is getting screwed left and right by content owners. Showtime stopped playing nice, and Sony just removed all of their titles. The licensing costs Netflix has to pay for content are going to increase astronomically now that the studios see how popular it is. What do you expect Netflix to do, just eat the order of magnitude increase in cost so they can keep your subscription price the same?
How is this in any way insightful?
I thought it was a well known fact that the customization of SAP was rather limited. In fact, you often need to customize your business to match the way SAP works. If whoever at your company decided to buy SAP didn't know that, then they didn't do their research.
Sony already has tvs and blu-ray players integrated with Google TV.
I think the big news from the summary is that 1000 > 4000. Welcome to the future!
Apple said you don't need MMS. I don't want to get in to an argument about how stupid it is to say that email is a simple replacement (it isn't, give up now). Lo and behold Apple finally added MMS to the iPhone after YEARS of people bitching about it. I'm anxious to see how you will spin that in to "Apple just wanted to give users a superior experience."
App Store sounds pretty obvious too; like a store where you can buy applications...
Are you sure about that, as in you have a citation to some sort of city code? I've heard about this "law" in many different cities. The usual rumor is that sorority houses are outlawed because having 4 or more unrelated women living together constitutes a brothel, but that is just a bunch of BS.
I don't know. If Apple starts enforcing bathing requirements, they'll lose most of the US hipster market, as well as the majority of the European markets...
Will entire runs of specific HTC model phones have unlocked bootloaders or just a subset? Will this subset have a warranty? Does this decision in any way affect people with older HTC phones who had to void their warranty in order to unlock the bootloader?
So many questions, so little information at this point...
I can attest to this. For some reason I recently took it upon myself to get a fully functioning copy of Windows 98 SE running in a VM with VirtualBox. Getting the graphics to work correctly is a nightmare. I ended up going with the VBEMP driver and while it is hardly stable it at least lets me set the display to 16 bit color with a resolution above 640x400. There are a couple of other driver issues as well, including sound and USB. Hopefully Oracle will eventually release the guest additions for Win98 and resolve most of these issues.
Why not implement some of these systems in a non-automated fashion first? I can't tell you how many times I've tried to find some sort of inexpensive RADAR for my car.
One of the benefits of testing in Dallas is that is already a common occurrence to be cut off by someone driving 100 mph on a wet road while flailing wildly and screaming obscenities out the window.
Agreed! We should also switch to metric time! No more psychotic time units like 60 seconds or minutes, no more 12 hour bullshit!
The real reason the US "clings" to the Imperial system is because we love hearing everyone else complain about it constantly.
Way to shit all over all the NASA employees in Houston by passing us over for New York City, a city that never played any role in the US space program. Yes, we have a Saturn V rocket, but we are also home to Mission Control and the fact that cities like Chicago and New York were even considered is an insult to all the hard work and dedication put forth by everyone at the JSC.
You might want to check out Songbird. It is a lot like iTunes except it is open source.
I see a lot of people stating that they would live in such a place if the scenario were practically perfect. Even if every politician, cop, etc was wired 24/7 for audio and video, I would never choose to be part of such a society. I don't care what my fellow citizens are up to 99.99999% of the time. What I do care about is keeping what I do private, even when my actions are legal and moral. It simply isn't any one else's god damn business what I do behind closed doors as long as I'm not hurting anyone.
I know it is too late in the life of this discussion for anyone to actually read this, but I see another angle on this that I feel is worth considering. Apple does allow free apps in the App Store and I believe they also take a cut of the advertising in these apps. Please correct me if I am wrong about this. Anyway, if someone chooses to write a web app instead of an App Store app, Apple doesn't get a cut of the advertising revenue. Again, I don't know if we're talking about enough money to justify these actions; just something else to consider.
There is a place in Houston called Joystix. It is mostly just a shop that sells classic cabinets and has the largest collection in the country. However, the first and last Friday of every month, from 9 pm to 2 am, you can pay $15 to get in and play all the games without coins or tokens. They also have a full bar.
Most people don't want to face the consequences of their free speech either. People like Phelps are nothing but trolls who use the law to protect them from the inevitable violent repercussions of their hateful speech.
That said, Anonymous has no creativity or imagination. What they should have done is filled the ranks of a protest led by Phelps' church with homosexual men and women as well as transgendered people. Imagine the reaction of Phelps and his followers when at a specific point during the protest/sermon half the group "spontaneously" turns gay and start making out with and feeling up members of the same sex.
Are you my 9th grade English teacher? She was also very good at inventing meaning in the most trivial of details.