Google already has GoogleTalk. And apart from that, there are quite a few SIP based providers out there (doesn't Vonage do SIP?), so you can use a whole variety of softphones, and aren't tied to licensed hardphones either. But in essence, there isn't really much behind Skype to make it profitable. You can't make money off people for a P2P service, so their only business is a landline gateway. Pretty stupid if you ask me.
Personally, I'd rather go for a SIP-phone anyway, as buying on of these would be just another vendor lock-in. There are enough SIP based VOIP providers out there with great deals, so I don't think it's worth using Skype anyway (at least last time I checked they didn't have that good prices)
The only advantage of Skype is that it's fairly wide spread, and a lot of people are hooked on it when they're on their PC. So it's a pretty easy to use and convenient service if you can stand their little fucker of a client.
2.6 billion is way, way too much though, considering the alternatives out there.
Yes, but the Shin Megami games are still classical RPGs, in that you fight your way through a story and have boss battles, and you still control your main character in battle. The nearest thing I heard of that came before Pokémon were capsule monsters in Lufia II.
In Pokemon, you were battling other trainers and Pokémon that you could own yourself, and there was no definitive ending. It was what the whole focus of the game, which I think is what makes it different from what came before. GameFreak made a whole game out of the idea. I'm not saying that it took a tremendous amount of creativity to take a tried concept and develop it further, but it certainly was a very different game design.
You can get good dedicated navigators for around $200 these days, and mounting them is a simple as pulling a lever on the suction cup that goes on the windscreen. I've never used Phone based navigators, probably mainly because I don't like the pricing schemes, when you can get the whole deal relatively cheaply.
Umm, Pokemon was actually quite a huge departure. Sure, there were certain vague similarities with some elements from other games, but the whole capture/build team/choose Pokemon fighting system was something new.
The only uses here are gold plated connectors (for which a few milligrams are needed, and whose technical advantage over other metals are debatable) and tooth fillings. Also, like any other element, trace quantities are used for scientific research applications. That just about wraps up everything.
Don't kid yourself. Gold was actually useful to people in the distant past, but not any more. There's only a market there because of it's shininess and (manufactured) value. The Value of Gold is almost as artificial as the value of modern currency.
If you look at his users history you'll find that it was about circumcision. I can't say that I disagree with his standpoint, but whining around because he was involved in an edit war on a highly controversial subject doesn't in my opinion do anything to discredit the rest of the encyclopaedia.
I think it would be a good option for some of the more complete articles to be tagged as "this is a featured article. If you wish to contribute please use the discussion page". Too many featured articles have lost their status due to people adding piles and piles of useless information, ripping up consistency and well written texts. That way there might be more focus on improving the information that's there, than on just adding and reverting small edits.
They have the monthly replaceable ones, but since I started using contacts (fairly recently), I've only ever heard manufacturers advising you to just take them out at night anyway. The daily lenses are recommended to be used for no longer than 12 hours before being disposed of, so I've never wanted to use them for more than about 24 hours, and have never re-used them.
Do you clean your lenses at all, or do you just leave them in for a few weeks? I must admit I've never really understood why the daily contacts are so bad if you reuse them.
Well, you could build upon Microsoft's often exclusive anti-competitive deals with computer retailers, or the lock-in practices etc. that this discussion is all about.
Besides, I have a copy of the original Zelda in cartridge form whose battery has long been dead.
You can replace the battery. >ou can even send it to Nintendo to do it. (But it will probably cost more than just buying it on VC. That to me shows just how reasonable the prices for the games are here)
iPod --> Yeah, what a fucking iPod Wannabe Zune --> Doesn't support Plays for Sure though either. Zen --> Only in their most recent model (been out a week or so) SanDisk --> And they sure took their time PSP --> It's a handheld games console, not good for listening to music unless you want to look like a tool Walkman --> This also took quite some time XBox 360 --> Not very portable PS 3 --> same goes here
Blackberry Nokia Sony Ericsson Motorola Samsung --> So basically, Cellphones offer support ( Samsung's Audio Players don't support AAC)
Actually, the Wii version may well be cheaper than the others as the controller uses the Wiimote to connect to the console, wheras the others will have to have their own wireless transceiver.
Wrong. The DMCA and co. are about copy-prevention systems, and this is not the case. And I would be very sceptical whether a developer has any copyrights to a save file at all.
Only for Online-only play. Say a player collects rewards while playing offline, and the developers want to enable him to take them online. One example that springs to mind is the online Pokémon trading in Pearl/Diamond, where many Pokémon are cheated, which kind of kills the point of it all.
They needed that to make room for the Video screen. The current Nano screens are just too small to make it watchable, so they scaled up the screen while keeping the size of the clickwheel.
Depends on the legislation I guess. The national legislation can expand on the European directive, which guarantees a minimum protection. Specifically, it's always best to quote the national legislation, so you should find out the details there.
For the first six months the burden of proof lies with the seller, and from then on it lies with the buyer.
So in this case PC World would have to explain how installing a different OS will crack the case, and that this is what likely happened. (Basically it wouldn't be worth their while)
If he'd have left it a month later, then he would have to prove that the crack is the result of a fault in the product. This shouldn't be too hard, if he can reasonably explain that the crack resulted without any inproper treatment, and that installing a different OS should not affect the casing.
This is the appropriate European directive, and for the specific national legislation, I think you have to look for the "sale of goods acts" for the UK.
In you sister's case I believe it is reasonable for the seller to simply repair the product, and the buyer cannot insist on replacement or refund (unless the seller has repeatedly failed to repair the product adequately).
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Google already has GoogleTalk.
And apart from that, there are quite a few SIP based providers out there (doesn't Vonage do SIP?), so you can use a whole variety of softphones, and aren't tied to licensed hardphones either.
But in essence, there isn't really much behind Skype to make it profitable.
You can't make money off people for a P2P service, so their only business is a landline gateway. Pretty stupid if you ask me.
You mean like this thing?
Personally, I'd rather go for a SIP-phone anyway, as buying on of these would be just another vendor lock-in. There are enough SIP based VOIP providers out there with great deals, so I don't think it's worth using Skype anyway (at least last time I checked they didn't have that good prices)
The only advantage of Skype is that it's fairly wide spread, and a lot of people are hooked on it when they're on their PC. So it's a pretty easy to use and convenient service if you can stand their little fucker of a client.
2.6 billion is way, way too much though, considering the alternatives out there.
Yes, but the Shin Megami games are still classical RPGs, in that you fight your way through a story and have boss battles, and you still control your main character in battle.
The nearest thing I heard of that came before Pokémon were capsule monsters in Lufia II.
In Pokemon, you were battling other trainers and Pokémon that you could own yourself, and there was no definitive ending. It was what the whole focus of the game, which I think is what makes it different from what came before. GameFreak made a whole game out of the idea.
I'm not saying that it took a tremendous amount of creativity to take a tried concept and develop it further, but it certainly was a very different game design.
I can't remember any adverts in the client when I used it a couple of years ago.
Apparently though, they were able to save a buck by turning ordinary users into network supernodes.
Tritium isn't really that naturally occurring. Most of it was released in the sixties from nuclear weapons tests.
You can get good dedicated navigators for around $200 these days, and mounting them is a simple as pulling a lever on the suction cup that goes on the windscreen.
I've never used Phone based navigators, probably mainly because I don't like the pricing schemes, when you can get the whole deal relatively cheaply.
Umm, Pokemon was actually quite a huge departure. Sure, there were certain vague similarities with some elements from other games, but the whole capture/build team/choose Pokemon fighting system was something new.
The only uses here are gold plated connectors (for which a few milligrams are needed, and whose technical advantage over other metals are debatable) and tooth fillings.
Also, like any other element, trace quantities are used for scientific research applications. That just about wraps up everything.
Don't kid yourself. Gold was actually useful to people in the distant past, but not any more. There's only a market there because of it's shininess and (manufactured) value.
The Value of Gold is almost as artificial as the value of modern currency.
Welcome to the discipline of engineering.
If everyone put them on their roofs, that would probably go a long way.
If you look at his users history you'll find that it was about circumcision. I can't say that I disagree with his standpoint, but whining around because he was involved in an edit war on a highly controversial subject doesn't in my opinion do anything to discredit the rest of the encyclopaedia.
I think it would be a good option for some of the more complete articles to be tagged as "this is a featured article. If you wish to contribute please use the discussion page".
Too many featured articles have lost their status due to people adding piles and piles of useless information, ripping up consistency and well written texts.
That way there might be more focus on improving the information that's there, than on just adding and reverting small edits.
They have the monthly replaceable ones, but since I started using contacts (fairly recently), I've only ever heard manufacturers advising you to just take them out at night anyway.
The daily lenses are recommended to be used for no longer than 12 hours before being disposed of, so I've never wanted to use them for more than about 24 hours, and have never re-used them.
Do you clean your lenses at all, or do you just leave them in for a few weeks? I must admit I've never really understood why the daily contacts are so bad if you reuse them.
Well, you could build upon Microsoft's often exclusive anti-competitive deals with computer retailers, or the lock-in practices etc. that this discussion is all about.
iPod --> Yeah, what a fucking iPod Wannabe
Zune --> Doesn't support Plays for Sure though either.
Zen --> Only in their most recent model (been out a week or so)
SanDisk --> And they sure took their time
PSP --> It's a handheld games console, not good for listening to music unless you want to look like a tool
Walkman --> This also took quite some time
XBox 360 --> Not very portable
PS 3 --> same goes here
Blackberry
Nokia
Sony Ericsson
Motorola
Samsung
--> So basically, Cellphones offer support
( Samsung's Audio Players don't support AAC)
Palm
Windows Mobile
--> WTF?
Actually, the Wii version may well be cheaper than the others as the controller uses the Wiimote to connect to the console, wheras the others will have to have their own wireless transceiver.
Analog stations don't have a specific "horizontal resolution", and for that reason it's nonsense to compare the squareness of pixels.
Wrong. The DMCA and co. are about copy-prevention systems, and this is not the case. And I would be very sceptical whether a developer has any copyrights to a save file at all.
Only for Online-only play. Say a player collects rewards while playing offline, and the developers want to enable him to take them online.
One example that springs to mind is the online Pokémon trading in Pearl/Diamond, where many Pokémon are cheated, which kind of kills the point of it all.
They needed that to make room for the Video screen. The current Nano screens are just too small to make it watchable, so they scaled up the screen while keeping the size of the clickwheel.
Depends on the legislation I guess. The national legislation can expand on the European directive, which guarantees a minimum protection.
Specifically, it's always best to quote the national legislation, so you should find out the details there.
Actually, with Skype, it doesn't.
Quick answer: Two years.
For the first six months the burden of proof lies with the seller, and from then on it lies with the buyer.
So in this case PC World would have to explain how installing a different OS will crack the case, and that this is what likely happened. (Basically it wouldn't be worth their while)
If he'd have left it a month later, then he would have to prove that the crack is the result of a fault in the product.
This shouldn't be too hard, if he can reasonably explain that the crack resulted without any inproper treatment, and that installing a different OS should not affect the casing.
This is the appropriate European directive, and for the specific national legislation, I think you have to look for the "sale of goods acts" for the UK.
In you sister's case I believe it is reasonable for the seller to simply repair the product, and the buyer cannot insist on replacement or refund (unless the seller has repeatedly failed to repair the product adequately).