I nearly crapped myself. There is no such thing as the "latest generation" of CRTs. They don't make them anymore, plain and simple. There might be a factory in china still making generic CRT units, but once you get into that price category it doesn't make sense talking about quality. It's highly variable and all CRT units I saw had ghastly doming issues. (It's probably more expensive to make and ship CRT TVs now than LCD panels.)
Quantifying "goodness" hasn't really got much to do with it. Here are a few things to consider.
1. The main point of the ad, no the whole point of it was how fast the iPhone performed. 2. It is not a case of puffery, but appears to be an entirely formal and objective demonstration. 3. They used an edited video to show off the fast performance despite the fact that the phone is not capable of performing like that.
It was a typical and very unspectacular campaigning meeting, which would have gone completely unnoticed had John McCain not repeatedly referred to him in the televised debate. As far as shining light on policies go, it's more interesting that McCain had to resort to stereotypes to explain his tax plan to people and convince them that they've really just got the same problems as a wealthy business owner. All of Obama's taxation policies can be read in full detail, and there's nothing that a rhetoric campaign meeting can add to that.
If you think supporting the economic principles of taxation in the United States is what makes your destinction of a "socialist", then there is no need to start looking for "evidence".
You've fallen for the trick though. Blizzard have realised that they can make much more money by tieing the game to an account and charging an absurd monthly subscription. They have no problem with the used market, because they totally killed it for their game.
The developers who aren't too pleased are the one's making traditional games, which don't require you to register your name and adress and delete your save files if you don't pay them.
But you won't buy the same game. Say you buy another game B, and sell the first game A to the next guy. So, the developer get's one sale of game A, vs. two if you both bought new. Even if the same company makes game B, they have to cover the development costs of two games.
Ideally, if game A is more popular, it should get more revenue depending on how many people play it.
The thing is that you will always need to have a house to live in and a car to drive, so you won't be saying "I had a marathon session last night and lived/drove this house/car through and don't need it any more", wheras a game will lose most of it's appeal after a short time.
When the business relies on selling different copies to different people, it can easily break the business.
The old games weren't any more replayable as new games, it's just that gamers attitudes and preferences have evolved with time. Gamers today would find it hard to understand how you could pay 60 dollars for Nintendo Tennis on the NES, and wouldn't be able to entertain themselves with it for longer than 5 minutes, never mind 20+ hours. By giving the games unlockables and slowly advancing to a climax, the games become more interesting. Gamers would be pretty angry if the developers were to go back to only making sports games, racing games, and short-lived games of skill.
Congrats, you found a Government body which isn't directly elected. Nobody would expect that/sarcasm
Okay, the Commission has exclusive legislative initiative. But every law has to be ratified by the parliament. The GP's comment just seemed to be another ill-placed, uninformed and completely offtopic jab at European Union like we have been bombarded with from the media.
Designated Computer and Laptop screens are typically in a 16:10 screen ratio, wheras screens designated as Televisions are usually 16:9. It's not hard to find 1920x1200 laptops, and there are quite a few with your desired 1920x1080 resolution.
Stretching an warming up is a heavily debated subject and even today there is no general consencus on anything. Stretching before or after? No-one knows. Warm ups necessary? Not as much as people think. We don't even know what causes muscle cramp.
On the other hand, almost every sportsman and coach has some kind of ultimate preparation ritual backed up by their pseudo-science and bullshit anecdotal evidence à la "I didn't stretch this one time and injured myself because of it". Don't trust em. Just tell them about the scientific method and then go and see what works best for you.
The only difference I notice between stretching "warm" and "cold" is that when warm, I'm less sensitive and more resistant to pain. Probably because of the metabolism change and adrenaline. This increases my chance of injury, because although I might feel more flexible, I'm more likely to overdo it.
Downloading random files from a web server? Don't know whether that will catch on. Many podcast are accompanied by a blog entry as well, and opening a web browser to visit the site is an extra nuisance.
Video is crap in iTunes because it doesn't support many widely-used codecs. And as far as podcasts go, Songbird and Miro have a far better implementation, to which ITMS seems restricted and unsorted.
iTunes was cool when what it offered was groundbreaking and new, but Apple's closed iSystem is beginning to show the wear of time. Nowadays it's a music player with basic functionality that is restricted to one brand of player.
Random access to all online media formats? Integration of podcasts from anywhere on the web? No need for a bucket of plugins and Add-ons for basic media integration? Try it before you bash it.
I have never seen a clamshell packaging with instructions on how to open the product. While there may be specific tools which allow themn to be opened with reasonable safety, but 99% of people won't know any better way than a knife or household scissors (usually small, lightweight and blunt) With things like an SD card, many people will want to use it immediately after purchase when they don't even have scissors available.
I'm guessing you haven't had much contact with patient care technology. $2200/month is almost bargain price considering the potential benefits. A simple voice synthesizer to fit on their wheelchair might set you back $3000. If you go for gadgets that might for example allow you to take a wheelchair down the stairs, expect to pay as much as you would for a small car.
As any software company should and would. While it is regrettable that homebrew developers get caught up in the mess, you can't blame them for protecting the haert of their business.
B:
We all knew that the Wii *could* play DVDs all along. Thing is, does it make sense to? Nintendo never said they would make it play DVDs, and personally I see no reason to.
Exhibit C: Their business practices are kinda mean. I mean just look at what they did with Gunpei Yokoi! Not only was it their fault the Virtual Boy was a failure but they didn't even give him a second chance.
It was actually Yokoi that left Nintendo. Very little is known of internal disputes at Nintendo, so it's probably best not to jump to conclusions.
I'm not really knowledgable of the subject, which is why I ask: Is this really anyway different from the technical advances made in PC architecture on a regular basis?
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I nearly crapped myself.
There is no such thing as the "latest generation" of CRTs. They don't make them anymore, plain and simple. There might be a factory in china still making generic CRT units, but once you get into that price category it doesn't make sense talking about quality. It's highly variable and all CRT units I saw had ghastly doming issues. (It's probably more expensive to make and ship CRT TVs now than LCD panels.)
Quantifying "goodness" hasn't really got much to do with it. Here are a few things to consider.
1. The main point of the ad, no the whole point of it was how fast the iPhone performed.
2. It is not a case of puffery, but appears to be an entirely formal and objective demonstration.
3. They used an edited video to show off the fast performance despite the fact that the phone is not capable of performing like that.
It was a typical and very unspectacular campaigning meeting, which would have gone completely unnoticed had John McCain not repeatedly referred to him in the televised debate.
As far as shining light on policies go, it's more interesting that McCain had to resort to stereotypes to explain his tax plan to people and convince them that they've really just got the same problems as a wealthy business owner.
All of Obama's taxation policies can be read in full detail, and there's nothing that a rhetoric campaign meeting can add to that.
If you think supporting the economic principles of taxation in the United States is what makes your destinction of a "socialist", then there is no need to start looking for "evidence".
You've fallen for the trick though. Blizzard have realised that they can make much more money by tieing the game to an account and charging an absurd monthly subscription. They have no problem with the used market, because they totally killed it for their game.
The developers who aren't too pleased are the one's making traditional games, which don't require you to register your name and adress and delete your save files if you don't pay them.
Somehow I doubt that for someone who spends so much time with his hobby.
But you won't buy the same game. Say you buy another game B, and sell the first game A to the next guy. So, the developer get's one sale of game A, vs. two if you both bought new. Even if the same company makes game B, they have to cover the development costs of two games.
Ideally, if game A is more popular, it should get more revenue depending on how many people play it.
The thing is that you will always need to have a house to live in and a car to drive, so you won't be saying "I had a marathon session last night and lived/drove this house/car through and don't need it any more", wheras a game will lose most of it's appeal after a short time.
When the business relies on selling different copies to different people, it can easily break the business.
The old games weren't any more replayable as new games, it's just that gamers attitudes and preferences have evolved with time.
Gamers today would find it hard to understand how you could pay 60 dollars for Nintendo Tennis on the NES, and wouldn't be able to entertain themselves with it for longer than 5 minutes, never mind 20+ hours.
By giving the games unlockables and slowly advancing to a climax, the games become more interesting.
Gamers would be pretty angry if the developers were to go back to only making sports games, racing games, and short-lived games of skill.
Just not with the GPL.
Congrats, you found a Government body which isn't directly elected. Nobody would expect that /sarcasm
Okay, the Commission has exclusive legislative initiative. But every law has to be ratified by the parliament.
The GP's comment just seemed to be another ill-placed, uninformed and completely offtopic jab at European Union like we have been bombarded with from the media.
What the fuck are you talking about, the European Parliament is directly elected.
Designated Computer and Laptop screens are typically in a 16:10 screen ratio, wheras screens designated as Televisions are usually 16:9.
It's not hard to find 1920x1200 laptops, and there are quite a few with your desired 1920x1080 resolution.
Pricing strategies often have little to do with production costs these days.
... because they're out of jobs selling and delivering LCD TVs.
I bought a Samsung TV that touts about having a 100000:1 (no shit!) contrast ratio.
Stretching an warming up is a heavily debated subject and even today there is no general consencus on anything.
Stretching before or after? No-one knows. Warm ups necessary? Not as much as people think. We don't even know what causes muscle cramp.
On the other hand, almost every sportsman and coach has some kind of ultimate preparation ritual backed up by their pseudo-science and bullshit anecdotal evidence à la "I didn't stretch this one time and injured myself because of it".
Don't trust em. Just tell them about the scientific method and then go and see what works best for you.
The only difference I notice between stretching "warm" and "cold" is that when warm, I'm less sensitive and more resistant to pain. Probably because of the metabolism change and adrenaline.
This increases my chance of injury, because although I might feel more flexible, I'm more likely to overdo it.
Downloading random files from a web server? Don't know whether that will catch on.
Many podcast are accompanied by a blog entry as well, and opening a web browser to visit the site is an extra nuisance.
Video is crap in iTunes because it doesn't support many widely-used codecs. And as far as podcasts go, Songbird and Miro have a far better implementation, to which ITMS seems restricted and unsorted.
iTunes was cool when what it offered was groundbreaking and new, but Apple's closed iSystem is beginning to show the wear of time. Nowadays it's a music player with basic functionality that is restricted to one brand of player.
Random access to all online media formats? Integration of podcasts from anywhere on the web? No need for a bucket of plugins and Add-ons for basic media integration?
Try it before you bash it.
I have never seen a clamshell packaging with instructions on how to open the product.
While there may be specific tools which allow themn to be opened with reasonable safety, but 99% of people won't know any better way than a knife or household scissors (usually small, lightweight and blunt)
With things like an SD card, many people will want to use it immediately after purchase when they don't even have scissors available.
I'm guessing you haven't had much contact with patient care technology. $2200/month is almost bargain price considering the potential benefits.
A simple voice synthesizer to fit on their wheelchair might set you back $3000. If you go for gadgets that might for example allow you to take a wheelchair down the stairs, expect to pay as much as you would for a small car.
A: Nintendo absolutely hates piracy.
As any software company should and would. While it is regrettable that homebrew developers get caught up in the mess, you can't blame them for protecting the haert of their business.
B:
We all knew that the Wii *could* play DVDs all along. Thing is, does it make sense to? Nintendo never said they would make it play DVDs, and personally I see no reason to.
Exhibit C: Their business practices are kinda mean. I mean just look at what they did with Gunpei Yokoi! Not only was it their fault the Virtual Boy was a failure but they didn't even give him a second chance.
It was actually Yokoi that left Nintendo. Very little is known of internal disputes at Nintendo, so it's probably best not to jump to conclusions.
Just to clarify: although the GBA was only released in 2001 long after Yokoi's death, work on the system had begun much much earlier. A quite accurate description of the hardware was leaked in 1996.
But Nintendo decided to release the GameBoy Color which was basically a beefed up GameBoy with a color screen. Because of the success of the system together with the Pokémon games, Nintendo decided to push back the GBA.
I'm not really knowledgable of the subject, which is why I ask: Is this really anyway different from the technical advances made in PC architecture on a regular basis?