Unless they've got an ace in their sleeve and they can add an order of magnitude to the amount of content available for streaming, this is going to kill them. I'll probably end up quiting one or both. I understand the business side of it, but you don't sacrafice a great product to do stuff like this unless the CEO's looking to hit some bonus and get out.
Are you kidding me? We have classified approximately 700 species of dinosaurs. Of those, about half are believed to be duplicates as most of the fossils are largely incomplete. That leaves us with about 350 species. We believe we have discovered about 25% of the dinosaurs. Assuming this is true, that brings the number of dinosaur species up to about 1400. These 1400 dinosaurs existed over 183 million years or so (248 million years ago to 65 million years ago).
Now lets look at the current extinction rate. Each year more than 27,000 species go extinct. Yes, you read that right. Let us look at mammals as they are typically considered the most evolved. In the past 400 years, 89 species have gone extinct and 169 species are critically endangered. Using simple extrapolation based on the 89 species, we would expect to see approximately 40 million species of dinosaurs over the 183 million years when they existed if evolution were true. If you include the critically endangered species, that would bring the total to 120 million species of dinosaurs. (Math: 89/400=0.2225 species per year. 0.225*183,000,000 = ~40,000,000).
When creationists speak of missing links, they are no looking for a single missing link. They are looking for the variation of species that evolution dictates, approximately 40 million species of dinosaurs, not 1400.
And just to set the record straight, I am very excited about this find and the exponential growth of knowledge we have of the earth's past. As we continue to find more fossils and other preserved remains and discover the remaining 1000 species, please quit calling each of them the missing link. It does not solve the fundamental problem of the fossil record.
Comcast did not help us fix The Pirate Bay. The problem was GBLX using reverse path filtering. We shut down one of our transits because it was flapping. The result was that all outgoing traffic to GBLX got filtered even though the packets took the same path as before. The Pirate Bay is using different paths for incoming and outgoing traffic to avoid beeing traced. We don’t even know where their servers are. We resolved the issue by activating our other transit again.
Due to their speed, the neutrinos must be causing a time dilation field which does not slow the decay rate but rather expands time. What other explanation could there be?
Your mixing up micro and macro evolution. Micro-evolution is changes within a species. This is widely believed as fact. Macro-evolution is one species changing into another species. This has never been witnessed or reproduced. It is not backed by the fossil record.
* If we started finding fossils that suddenly changed from one type of animal to another in a single generation - macro-evolution - never observed
* fossils where the exact same collection of species are stagnant all the way back to the beginning of time - observed in fossil record; modern day creatures: sharks, alligators, coelacanth, etc.
* identical complex features suddenly appeared in many species separated by a wide distance simultaneously - observed in Cambrian explosion
* able to reproduce selective breeding or specification in the lab - micro-evolution
* no bacteria ever developed resistance to antibiotics - micro-evolution
* genetic tests on existing fossils hadn't shown genetic drift tempered by survivability in an environment - micro-evolution
Your math is off a little. For the LED bulb, you are saving 60w - 6.9w = 53.1w. For the CFL, you are saving 60w - 13.5w = 46.5w. With the LED bulb saving you $23/yr, the CFL would save you approximately $20/yr.
Maybe it's just my machine, but I get a 99 when running Acid 3. Also, two of the tests were less than perfect. (Still a great score)
Failed 1 tests. Test 26 passed, but took 67ms (less than 30fps) Test 69 passed, but took 3 attempts (less than perfect). Test 72 failed: expected '10' but got '1' - prerequisite failed: style didn't affect image stacktrace: n/a; see opera:config#UserPrefs|Exceptions Have Stacktrace Total elapsed time: 1.74s
I like organic foods not because they have more vitamins or minerals, but because they have less chemicals, pesticides, preservatives, sodium benzoate, sodium citrate, potassium sorbate, clyceryl abietate, aspartame, saccharin, neotame, acesulfame, sucralose, glycerol monostearate, lecithin, polysorbate 80, guar gum, xanthan gum, carageenan, methylcellulose and red 40.
It sounds like they are both right here as well. Tax law dictates that employees should be taxed on the value of items given to them in exchange for work. For example, if an employee is given a nice DLR camera as a Christmas bonus, that employee would be taxed on the value of the camera. The same could be applied to the coins as their value far exceeds their face value.
The simple solution is to get rid of income tax, as it was only meant to be temporary during the war.
If we have to choose between spending a trillion dollars now and spending a trillion fifty years from now, which should we do? Personally, I'd rather wait the fifty.
I'd rather wait the fifty years as well. In fifty years a trillion dollars isn't going to buy much. Maybe a loaf of bread at the local convenience store. It's a much better bargain waiting than spending now.
Original copyright law allowed for 14 years of protection with the option to renew for an additional 14 years. That gives the author plenty of time to make money off of the book. Current law provides for 70 years after the death of the author. That keeps the book from the public domain for way too long and benefits the publisher more than the author.
In other types of media, the copyright may last up to 120 years. This is absolutely ridiculous. I say provide copyright protection for 14 years and then make the works public domain so that society as a whole may benefit while still protecting the artists from theft during the money making years.
I tend to be like you. Since many places don't handle returns if something isn't up to par, it's often necessary to try before buying. The problem is that we are in the minority. Most people who "try before buying" never actually buy, even if they like the product and use the product. I believe I remember a study (don't have the source) where they found out that roughly 10% of people who tried and then used the product actually went back and bought the product. That leave 90% of people who do this stealing the product. Not a great model for business.
The problem wasn't just mail. Any site that used Google for web statistics, mapping, or other services that Google offers was affected. For example, certain online banking systems use Google Analytics. These were affected.
It's a Dell 2001FP Rev A001. I've got the serial numbers on them if you're interested. No, they don't support HDCP. Netflix did not support them either (haven't tried the new Silverlight version on them, but it seems a lot better than the ActiveX junk).
As for the HD content, the only software available was PowerDVD and a certain version of it. I had the correct version (had to pay $100 or so for it). Couldn't get it to work. I did find a program called AnyDVD that would decrypt it and then I was able to view the movies on my monitors. Quite a hassle for something that should be easy to use. I see why so many people are reverting to piracy now. When you download a video, it works. When you buy one, you spend a lot of time and effort tying to get them to work.
One of my friends has a laptop with Blueray. Only half of the movies will play on it. A different set of movies will play on his home Blueray player. If you ask me, stop the DRM; make the stuff easy for consumers to use; watermark the videos for tracking purposes. Do something so that it is easier to play a movie that you bought than to steal one. What kind of pirate uses a video connection to steal the video? HDCP is not necessary.
On old receivers you could set up two video outputs. One could be used for a local preview while the second would show the picture on the big screen in the media room. Now you can only view the video on one display at a time and it takes seconds for it to negotiate before it will display. Craptacular if you ask me.
The problem with the Dell 2001FP is that I had two of them. Vista was unable to create a secure channel to the second one and it would screw up the DRM and a service or two, requiring a reboot to get things working again. The only software I had installed was the Netflix ActiveX control and the update to Media Player that came with it. I actually rebuilt the system to make sure it was clean to try and get this working. The people at Netflix said it was a known problem related to Microsoft's DRM, but they were required to use it or they couldn't stream the movies due to licensing contracts.
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Unless they've got an ace in their sleeve and they can add an order of magnitude to the amount of content available for streaming, this is going to kill them. I'll probably end up quiting one or both. I understand the business side of it, but you don't sacrafice a great product to do stuff like this unless the CEO's looking to hit some bonus and get out.
Are you kidding me? We have classified approximately 700 species of dinosaurs. Of those, about half are believed to be duplicates as most of the fossils are largely incomplete. That leaves us with about 350 species. We believe we have discovered about 25% of the dinosaurs. Assuming this is true, that brings the number of dinosaur species up to about 1400. These 1400 dinosaurs existed over 183 million years or so (248 million years ago to 65 million years ago).
Now lets look at the current extinction rate. Each year more than 27,000 species go extinct. Yes, you read that right. Let us look at mammals as they are typically considered the most evolved. In the past 400 years, 89 species have gone extinct and 169 species are critically endangered. Using simple extrapolation based on the 89 species, we would expect to see approximately 40 million species of dinosaurs over the 183 million years when they existed if evolution were true. If you include the critically endangered species, that would bring the total to 120 million species of dinosaurs. (Math: 89/400=0.2225 species per year. 0.225*183,000,000 = ~40,000,000).
When creationists speak of missing links, they are no looking for a single missing link. They are looking for the variation of species that evolution dictates, approximately 40 million species of dinosaurs, not 1400.
And just to set the record straight, I am very excited about this find and the exponential growth of knowledge we have of the earth's past. As we continue to find more fossils and other preserved remains and discover the remaining 1000 species, please quit calling each of them the missing link. It does not solve the fundamental problem of the fossil record.
How the Webb Space Telescope Got So Expensive?
Obviously it was the shipping and handling charges.
Act now and a second for free! Just pay the additional shipping and handling.
According to Serious Tubes Networks, http://serioustubes.org/:
Comcast did not help us fix The Pirate Bay. The problem was GBLX using reverse path filtering. We shut down one of our transits because it was flapping. The result was that all outgoing traffic to GBLX got filtered even though the packets took the same path as before. The Pirate Bay is using different paths for incoming and outgoing traffic to avoid beeing traced. We don’t even know where their servers are. We resolved the issue by activating our other transit again.
The stimulus bill included about 40% of the tax cuts that Republicans wanted.
What tax cuts are included in the stimulus bill?
Almost half of the people in this great nation have a below average intelligence.
Also, 82% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Due to their speed, the neutrinos must be causing a time dilation field which does not slow the decay rate but rather expands time. What other explanation could there be?
I remember when we used to make fun of people who thought their TV's were watching them. Now it's getting a little scary.
Your mixing up micro and macro evolution. Micro-evolution is changes within a species. This is widely believed as fact. Macro-evolution is one species changing into another species. This has never been witnessed or reproduced. It is not backed by the fossil record.
* If we started finding fossils that suddenly changed from one type of animal to another in a single generation - macro-evolution - never observed
* fossils where the exact same collection of species are stagnant all the way back to the beginning of time - observed in fossil record; modern day creatures: sharks, alligators, coelacanth, etc.
* identical complex features suddenly appeared in many species separated by a wide distance simultaneously - observed in Cambrian explosion
* able to reproduce selective breeding or specification in the lab - micro-evolution
* no bacteria ever developed resistance to antibiotics - micro-evolution
* genetic tests on existing fossils hadn't shown genetic drift tempered by survivability in an environment - micro-evolution
83% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Funny thing. The waters seem to rise and fall two times each day. I always thought the big circles in the sky had something to do with it.
There is already a high-tech cure. They're called buses.
Your math is off a little. For the LED bulb, you are saving 60w - 6.9w = 53.1w. For the CFL, you are saving 60w - 13.5w = 46.5w. With the LED bulb saving you $23/yr, the CFL would save you approximately $20/yr.
Maybe it's just my machine, but I get a 99 when running Acid 3. Also, two of the tests were less than perfect. (Still a great score)
Failed 1 tests.
Test 26 passed, but took 67ms (less than 30fps)
Test 69 passed, but took 3 attempts (less than perfect).
Test 72 failed: expected '10' but got '1' - prerequisite failed: style didn't affect image
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I find it ironic that a contract for a transparency website that is "part of President Obama's promise to make government more transparent through the Internet" is so lacking in transparency.
I like organic foods not because they have more vitamins or minerals, but because they have less chemicals, pesticides, preservatives, sodium benzoate, sodium citrate, potassium sorbate, clyceryl abietate, aspartame, saccharin, neotame, acesulfame, sucralose, glycerol monostearate, lecithin, polysorbate 80, guar gum, xanthan gum, carageenan, methylcellulose and red 40.
BITS is definitely the way to go. We have used this as well. It is designed for this type of scenario.
It sounds like they are both right here as well. Tax law dictates that employees should be taxed on the value of items given to them in exchange for work. For example, if an employee is given a nice DLR camera as a Christmas bonus, that employee would be taxed on the value of the camera. The same could be applied to the coins as their value far exceeds their face value. The simple solution is to get rid of income tax, as it was only meant to be temporary during the war.
Whatever happened to global cooling? Wasn't that the rage just 10 years ago? We're in an ice age, right?
If we have to choose between spending a trillion dollars now and spending a trillion fifty years from now, which should we do? Personally, I'd rather wait the fifty.
I'd rather wait the fifty years as well. In fifty years a trillion dollars isn't going to buy much. Maybe a loaf of bread at the local convenience store. It's a much better bargain waiting than spending now.
Original copyright law allowed for 14 years of protection with the option to renew for an additional 14 years. That gives the author plenty of time to make money off of the book. Current law provides for 70 years after the death of the author. That keeps the book from the public domain for way too long and benefits the publisher more than the author.
In other types of media, the copyright may last up to 120 years. This is absolutely ridiculous. I say provide copyright protection for 14 years and then make the works public domain so that society as a whole may benefit while still protecting the artists from theft during the money making years.
I tend to be like you. Since many places don't handle returns if something isn't up to par, it's often necessary to try before buying. The problem is that we are in the minority. Most people who "try before buying" never actually buy, even if they like the product and use the product. I believe I remember a study (don't have the source) where they found out that roughly 10% of people who tried and then used the product actually went back and bought the product. That leave 90% of people who do this stealing the product. Not a great model for business.
The problem wasn't just mail. Any site that used Google for web statistics, mapping, or other services that Google offers was affected. For example, certain online banking systems use Google Analytics. These were affected.
It's a Dell 2001FP Rev A001. I've got the serial numbers on them if you're interested. No, they don't support HDCP. Netflix did not support them either (haven't tried the new Silverlight version on them, but it seems a lot better than the ActiveX junk).
As for the HD content, the only software available was PowerDVD and a certain version of it. I had the correct version (had to pay $100 or so for it). Couldn't get it to work. I did find a program called AnyDVD that would decrypt it and then I was able to view the movies on my monitors. Quite a hassle for something that should be easy to use. I see why so many people are reverting to piracy now. When you download a video, it works. When you buy one, you spend a lot of time and effort tying to get them to work.
One of my friends has a laptop with Blueray. Only half of the movies will play on it. A different set of movies will play on his home Blueray player. If you ask me, stop the DRM; make the stuff easy for consumers to use; watermark the videos for tracking purposes. Do something so that it is easier to play a movie that you bought than to steal one. What kind of pirate uses a video connection to steal the video? HDCP is not necessary.
On old receivers you could set up two video outputs. One could be used for a local preview while the second would show the picture on the big screen in the media room. Now you can only view the video on one display at a time and it takes seconds for it to negotiate before it will display. Craptacular if you ask me.
The problem with the Dell 2001FP is that I had two of them. Vista was unable to create a secure channel to the second one and it would screw up the DRM and a service or two, requiring a reboot to get things working again. The only software I had installed was the Netflix ActiveX control and the update to Media Player that came with it. I actually rebuilt the system to make sure it was clean to try and get this working. The people at Netflix said it was a known problem related to Microsoft's DRM, but they were required to use it or they couldn't stream the movies due to licensing contracts.