Obviously with digital any cable is as good as another.
That's not true. On higher frequencies (like 1080p DVI), a cheaper cable will distort the signal so much that error correction cannot fix it. Besides, error correction is meant for random, infrequent problems. It should never be used for generally poor transmission.
They (along with Microsoft, shocking) were one of the last to deliver an Intel-native version of their premier software, over a year after Apple's switch to Intel.
Adobe's bread-and-butter is professional graphic designers who predominantly use Macs, and usually old Macs. Their customers were probably telling them, "We don't have any plans to switch to Intel for another couple years anyway, so just make sure your stuff works on Rosetta." My wife is one such customer, and her primary machine is still a PowerMac from 2000.
Renting an HD movie from Live Marketplace is almost ten times as expensive as renting a Blu-Ray movie from Netflix, and the downloaded movie is more compressed than the Blu-Ray version (6GB vs. 20GB). Microsoft will have to significantly lower the price of HD rentals, to about $1 each, to make it competitive.
Plus, the Microsoft Points purchase system is way too clunky. You have to buy the points in advance, and you can buy them only in multiples of 500 or 1600. Since HD movies cost 480 Points, you're always going to have wasted Points.
That's where journalist integrity comes in. The interviewer is responsible for knowing what questions should be asked. If she isn't allowed to ask those questions, then she should refuse to interview him.
Removing the case voids the warranty. He would have to pay for the repairs. Frankly, I think the guy is an idiot. I don't know why he expected to get the same case back.
Yeah, reneging on a promise to donate earnings to charity is not technially stealing...but it is every bit as immoral. And just as illegal.
No, it is not as immoral, and it is not as illegal. Stealing from someone is worse, legally and morally, than breaking a promise to give.
Also keep in mind that you don't know all the details. I'm sure LucasArts is trying to make GenCon look worse than they really are, so that they can win the lawsuit. The claims may not be outright fabrications, but they could easily be exaggerations. Perhaps GenCon is having accounting problems which prevent them from donating the money at the moment?
That's because he wasn't wrong. You were. When you bid on the item, did you know that the shipping would be $12? If so, that's what you agreed to pay. Of course the actual postage would be less. It always is! You should not be concerned with the actual shipping charge. Your only concern is the total cost with shipping. What difference does it make to you if you pay $12 shipping on a $5 item, or $5 shipping on a $12 item? None! I hate buyers like you.
"Magnetic stripe information contained on driver's license may be used only by law enforcement and other government personnel acting in official capacities"
You have to pay your engineers to research and implement support. In fact, there may be a validated and certified MP3 implementation already available for your hardware, but not an OGG implementation.
You have to pay your lawyers to verify that it's patent- and royalty-free.
You may need to increase the amount of processing power or memory to handle the additional codec.
You'll need to perform additional testing to make sure OGG files actually work.
You'll need to account for additional support costs if the OGG support is broken but the MP3 support isn't.
You have to have your marketing department do extra research to determine if the additional sales of your media player because of OGG support cover the additional costs.
The fact that there are no licensing costs may be inconsequential compared to the costs of just adding the feature to the product.
The business model survives because your local Blockbuster or that lame kiosk at the grocery store has a tiny fraction of the selection of Netflix. If it's available on DVD, then there's a 99% chance it's available from Netflix. Not only that, but if you have an HD DVD or Blu-Ray player, then you can rent the those discs at no additional charge.
And the fees are not astronomical. I have no idea why you think that. It costs about $6/month/disc for me. I watch mostly TV shows via Netflix, so let's do the math. A particular TV shows on DVD has 4 episodes per disc. The turn-around time for a DVD is two days (drop it in the mail on Monday, get a new one on Wednesday). 7 days/week is about two DVDs a week. Since there are 4.5 weeks/month, I can go through about 7 discs a month. That's less than $1/disc, which means I pay less than 25 cents to watch a TV episode. And note that this is episode is unedited, with no stupid network logos or commercials, and it's a better picture quality than what I can get through my cable company.
They've already gotten rid of me. A couple years ago, I decided to watch TV shows only on DVD. At first, it was inconvenient, because the shows I wanted to watch weren't available on DVD. But after a couple years, they started appearing, and now my Netflix queue for TV shows is growing faster than I can watch them.
Sure, very few shows are available on HD DVD, but then I only have analog cable service. Now I can watch unedited shows without commercials or overlays, and the picture quality is better than cable.
A non-scientist should be expected to know what the scientific consensus is. The scientific consensus for the age of the universe is 13.7 billion years. Unless you are capable of producing a theory that counters that number, you should just go ahead and say 13.7 billion years. The idea that laymen should go around disagreeing with scientific theories without even knowing how to come up with better theories is what got is in this creationism fiasco in the first place.
I don't think it sounds silly at all. Stores that sell the Xbox 360 also sell Halo 3. There's no reason why a person can't pick up both at the same time, and at that time you can choose which version of Halo 3 you want.
Probably because it's very easy in the U.S. to buy a PS3 without paying sales tax - just order from a retailer outside your state. You might even get free shipping. Oh sure, you're suppose to pay the sales tax yourself, but no one does that.
The whole point behind paper ballots is that, in case you don't trust the computer, a human can tabulate the votes by looking at the ballots. And the ballots are accurate because the voter looked over his ballot before putting it in the ballot box.
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Obviously with digital any cable is as good as another.
That's not true. On higher frequencies (like 1080p DVI), a cheaper cable will distort the signal so much that error correction cannot fix it. Besides, error correction is meant for random, infrequent problems. It should never be used for generally poor transmission.
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They (along with Microsoft, shocking) were one of the last to deliver an Intel-native version of their premier software, over a year after Apple's switch to Intel.
Adobe's bread-and-butter is professional graphic designers who predominantly use Macs, and usually old Macs. Their customers were probably telling them, "We don't have any plans to switch to Intel for another couple years anyway, so just make sure your stuff works on Rosetta." My wife is one such customer, and her primary machine is still a PowerMac from 2000.
I'd like to know where there is now two inches of wasted whitespace on the left side of every page. Why can't the comments be flush left?
Renting an HD movie from Live Marketplace is almost ten times as expensive as renting a Blu-Ray movie from Netflix, and the downloaded movie is more compressed than the Blu-Ray version (6GB vs. 20GB). Microsoft will have to significantly lower the price of HD rentals, to about $1 each, to make it competitive.
Plus, the Microsoft Points purchase system is way too clunky. You have to buy the points in advance, and you can buy them only in multiples of 500 or 1600. Since HD movies cost 480 Points, you're always going to have wasted Points.
That's where journalist integrity comes in. The interviewer is responsible for knowing what questions should be asked. If she isn't allowed to ask those questions, then she should refuse to interview him.
Removing the case voids the warranty. He would have to pay for the repairs. Frankly, I think the guy is an idiot. I don't know why he expected to get the same case back.
Yeah, reneging on a promise to donate earnings to charity is not technially stealing...but it is every bit as immoral. And just as illegal.
No, it is not as immoral, and it is not as illegal. Stealing from someone is worse, legally and morally, than breaking a promise to give.
Also keep in mind that you don't know all the details. I'm sure LucasArts is trying to make GenCon look worse than they really are, so that they can win the lawsuit. The claims may not be outright fabrications, but they could easily be exaggerations. Perhaps GenCon is having accounting problems which prevent them from donating the money at the moment?
Wouldn't the smaller process increase the defect density?
That's because he wasn't wrong. You were. When you bid on the item, did you know that the shipping would be $12? If so, that's what you agreed to pay. Of course the actual postage would be less. It always is! You should not be concerned with the actual shipping charge. Your only concern is the total cost with shipping. What difference does it make to you if you pay $12 shipping on a $5 item, or $5 shipping on a $12 item? None! I hate buyers like you.
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"Magnetic stripe information contained on driver's license may be used only by law enforcement and other government personnel acting in official capacities"
In OS X, is there an easy way to block all outgoing communication to *.2o7.net? Can I do that on my router (DGL-4300)?
That is just not true. There are costs:
- You have to pay your engineers to research and implement support. In fact, there may be a validated and certified MP3 implementation already available for your hardware, but not an OGG implementation.
- You have to pay your lawyers to verify that it's patent- and royalty-free.
- You may need to increase the amount of processing power or memory to handle the additional codec.
- You'll need to perform additional testing to make sure OGG files actually work.
- You'll need to account for additional support costs if the OGG support is broken but the MP3 support isn't.
- You have to have your marketing department do extra research to determine if the additional sales of your media player because of OGG support cover the additional costs.
The fact that there are no licensing costs may be inconsequential compared to the costs of just adding the feature to the product.The business model survives because your local Blockbuster or that lame kiosk at the grocery store has a tiny fraction of the selection of Netflix. If it's available on DVD, then there's a 99% chance it's available from Netflix. Not only that, but if you have an HD DVD or Blu-Ray player, then you can rent the those discs at no additional charge.
And the fees are not astronomical. I have no idea why you think that. It costs about $6/month/disc for me. I watch mostly TV shows via Netflix, so let's do the math. A particular TV shows on DVD has 4 episodes per disc. The turn-around time for a DVD is two days (drop it in the mail on Monday, get a new one on Wednesday). 7 days/week is about two DVDs a week. Since there are 4.5 weeks/month, I can go through about 7 discs a month. That's less than $1/disc, which means I pay less than 25 cents to watch a TV episode. And note that this is episode is unedited, with no stupid network logos or commercials, and it's a better picture quality than what I can get through my cable company.
They've already gotten rid of me. A couple years ago, I decided to watch TV shows only on DVD. At first, it was inconvenient, because the shows I wanted to watch weren't available on DVD. But after a couple years, they started appearing, and now my Netflix queue for TV shows is growing faster than I can watch them.
Sure, very few shows are available on HD DVD, but then I only have analog cable service. Now I can watch unedited shows without commercials or overlays, and the picture quality is better than cable.
A non-scientist should be expected to know what the scientific consensus is. The scientific consensus for the age of the universe is 13.7 billion years. Unless you are capable of producing a theory that counters that number, you should just go ahead and say 13.7 billion years. The idea that laymen should go around disagreeing with scientific theories without even knowing how to come up with better theories is what got is in this creationism fiasco in the first place.
Exactly. In fact, I would suggest that they put every game on a disc and include that.
You're not wrong. Pac Man is still not relevant. The games provided with the Arcade are all crap.
I don't think it sounds silly at all. Stores that sell the Xbox 360 also sell Halo 3. There's no reason why a person can't pick up both at the same time, and at that time you can choose which version of Halo 3 you want.
It's because there are three different versions of Halo 3, and so by not bundling the game, the customer can choose which version of Halo 3 he wants.
Rockstar lost their cool when they started charging over $2/song for Guitar Hero II, including songs that were already available for GH1.
"I was always under the impression that when you do parody, it's a sign of respect...
That's an interesting point of view. I don't agree with it, though. Most parodies are not respectful, and I don't think they should be.
The universe is 15 billion years old. The earth is 5-6 billion years old.
Probably because it's very easy in the U.S. to buy a PS3 without paying sales tax - just order from a retailer outside your state. You might even get free shipping. Oh sure, you're suppose to pay the sales tax yourself, but no one does that.
The whole point behind paper ballots is that, in case you don't trust the computer, a human can tabulate the votes by looking at the ballots. And the ballots are accurate because the voter looked over his ballot before putting it in the ballot box.
Holy cow, Delta Flight 191 crashed, American Airlines flight 191 crashed, Prinair Flight 191 crashed, and Comair Flight 191 crashed. I think I'll stay away from Flight 191.