"Customer of Size"? Is that like "People of Color"? Has political correctness come so far that you can't even call someone a fatass any more? I'm with Southwest on this one. Brilliant director or not, if I had to spend an "Evening with Kevin Smith" squished up against him in a coach-class seat, I would not be happy and would be demanding my ticket price back. They tried to accommodate his special request to fly early and couldn't. He should graciously accept their apology (it's more than he would have gotten from me).
Since most cellphones put the SIM card under the removable battery and the iPhone doesn't have a removable battery, I can somewhat understand your confusion, but rest assured that the iPhone does indeed have a user-removable SIM card (that is actually a requirement of the GSM standard).
Ever hear of a dead-cat-bounce? It crashed in 1920, recovered by 1922 and crashed again even harder in 1929. That's your definition of a successful recovery?
Apple is *notorious* about controlling your experience with their hardware and software yet their OS updates have no restrictions, no serial numbers, no registration. It's the honor system that you don't share the DVD with all your friends.
That's because Apple is a hardware company; they don't care if you copy the OS since you need a nice shiny MacBook to run it on and they are the only ones who sell them.
Your argument is interesting but fatally flawed. I could substitute "direct paid content" for "advertiser subsidized content" and your argument still holds. Niche content = few viewers = low budgets. Mass market content = many viewers = high budgets. Whether the viewers pay directly or via advertising doesn't effect the outcome. Mass market content isn't dumbed down to sell ads; it's dumbed down because the majority of viewers are dumb. If anything, the advertising-based funding model actual favors high-quality content since high-income (generally intelligent) viewers are disproportionately desirable to advertisers and generate more income-per-view to the content creator.
Exactly. Off the top of my head I can think of several things (brain tumor, alcoholism, clinical depression) that might cause both an increased sense of boredom and an increased probability of death.
Last time I checked, Android apps couldn't run on an iPhone (and vise-versa). The Android version of the app may have won a prize but that doesn't apply to the iPhone version. Ask anyone who has ever played the "same" game on XBox360, PS3, Wii and PC; just because they have the same name, doesn't make them the same app.
When was the last time you had to pay the cops for a stolen wallet or purse that belonged to you?
There's actually a very interesting answer to that question. If you send me a small shipping and handling fee (cash only please), I'll mail you the answer.
Regardless of how you stand of copyright, sending out automated DMCA takedown notices without having a human being at least review the supposed offending material is negligent behavior and should be punished.
The range of topics covered here is very wide and I don't know abc of several things discussed here. Does that make me stupid and pathetic?
No, your post was polite and respectful, so you're not stupid and pathetic (even though I don't agree with you). The original ("Reedeeculous") post was both incorrect and rude, and the response was appropriate (correct and rude). If the original post had been incorrect and polite, I'm sure the tone of the responses would be very different. If you act like a know-it-all, don't be surprised if someone who knows more than you decides to teach you some humility.
just because no other president has had the spine to admit it
Associated Press updated 8:00 p.m. ET Jan. 7, 2010
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama declared Thursday "the buck stops with me" for the nation's security, taking responsibility for failures that led to the near-disastrous Christmas attack on a Detroit-bound airliner and vowing the problems would be corrected. He said the lapses were widespread but suggested no officials would be fired.
Either the results have changed since you posted or the Canadian version of Bing has different results. When I clicked those links, the first hit on both Google and Bing was a root777.com page about this controversy. The Yahoo Answers page about Macs didn't show up on either search. Keep in mind that it is possible for third parties to 'game' the search results of even the venerable Google (the racist picture of the First Lady showing up as the first hit in a Google Image search being a recent example).
And my point was (as evidenced by countries other than the US): you don't need to legalize marijuana to legalize hemp. A fictions (but somewhat apt) analogy might be: if poppy seed muffins were banned in the US due to poppies being associated with opium, you wouldn't try to legalize heroin so you can get your morning muffin, but rather try to convince your paranoid government that the two things are not the same.
Resources - Hemp is an awesome product all around (Paper, fabric, etc).
Hemp is a great product, but although it is related to marijuana, it is not a drug and doesn't help your argument. Other than the US, most countries allow hemp to be cultivated, processed and sold; even countries where marijuana is illegal.
Sounds more like the Sega route (Genesis,SegaCD,32X) and we all know how that turned out. Incremental hardware upgrades are not enough to get most people to buy (which in turn means not enough developers will support it). A 'next gen' console needs to truly be 'next gen' otherwise all you do is fragment your market share.
I've often wondered how large the licensing fees are. Every big-budget movie needs a big-budget game with a synchronized release date. But the game developer is taking a big risk that the movie doesn't bomb and no one will buy the game (no matter how good it is). Even if the movie is a success, the game is really part of the movie's marketing, so maybe the movie studio's licensing fees are fairly small to encourage game developers to take the risk of creating the game? Even things like automobiles in racing games involve licenses, but again the car company benefits by having it's product promoted to a generation of future drivers, so maybe the licensing fees are relatively small? Does anyone know?
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The BBC has a long history of selling overpriced computers.
"Customer of Size"? Is that like "People of Color"? Has political correctness come so far that you can't even call someone a fatass any more? I'm with Southwest on this one. Brilliant director or not, if I had to spend an "Evening with Kevin Smith" squished up against him in a coach-class seat, I would not be happy and would be demanding my ticket price back. They tried to accommodate his special request to fly early and couldn't. He should graciously accept their apology (it's more than he would have gotten from me).
Since most cellphones put the SIM card under the removable battery and the iPhone doesn't have a removable battery, I can somewhat understand your confusion, but rest assured that the iPhone does indeed have a user-removable SIM card (that is actually a requirement of the GSM standard).
A he became president because of something that happened in the Texas Schoolbook Depository. Spooky.
Ever hear of a dead-cat-bounce? It crashed in 1920, recovered by 1922 and crashed again even harder in 1929. That's your definition of a successful recovery?
That's because Apple is a hardware company; they don't care if you copy the OS since you need a nice shiny MacBook to run it on and they are the only ones who sell them.
Your argument is interesting but fatally flawed. I could substitute "direct paid content" for "advertiser subsidized content" and your argument still holds. Niche content = few viewers = low budgets. Mass market content = many viewers = high budgets. Whether the viewers pay directly or via advertising doesn't effect the outcome. Mass market content isn't dumbed down to sell ads; it's dumbed down because the majority of viewers are dumb. If anything, the advertising-based funding model actual favors high-quality content since high-income (generally intelligent) viewers are disproportionately desirable to advertisers and generate more income-per-view to the content creator.
Exactly. Off the top of my head I can think of several things (brain tumor, alcoholism, clinical depression) that might cause both an increased sense of boredom and an increased probability of death.
Last time I checked, Android apps couldn't run on an iPhone (and vise-versa). The Android version of the app may have won a prize but that doesn't apply to the iPhone version. Ask anyone who has ever played the "same" game on XBox360, PS3, Wii and PC; just because they have the same name, doesn't make them the same app.
There's actually a very interesting answer to that question. If you send me a small shipping and handling fee (cash only please), I'll mail you the answer.
"Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one." - Benjamin Franklin
What happens if you put two SIM cards in two phones? Do incoming calls get routed to both phones? Or is one SIM voice-only and one SIM data-only?
Regardless of how you stand of copyright, sending out automated DMCA takedown notices without having a human being at least review the supposed offending material is negligent behavior and should be punished.
No, your post was polite and respectful, so you're not stupid and pathetic (even though I don't agree with you). The original ("Reedeeculous") post was both incorrect and rude, and the response was appropriate (correct and rude). If the original post had been incorrect and polite, I'm sure the tone of the responses would be very different. If you act like a know-it-all, don't be surprised if someone who knows more than you decides to teach you some humility.
Weird! Here's a screenshot of the results I see: screenshot
Associated Press updated 8:00 p.m. ET Jan. 7, 2010
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama declared Thursday "the buck stops with me" for the nation's security, taking responsibility for failures that led to the near-disastrous Christmas attack on a Detroit-bound airliner and vowing the problems would be corrected. He said the lapses were widespread but suggested no officials would be fired.
Either the results have changed since you posted or the Canadian version of Bing has different results. When I clicked those links, the first hit on both Google and Bing was a root777.com page about this controversy. The Yahoo Answers page about Macs didn't show up on either search. Keep in mind that it is possible for third parties to 'game' the search results of even the venerable Google (the racist picture of the First Lady showing up as the first hit in a Google Image search being a recent example).
2010 - 1947 = 53
And my point was (as evidenced by countries other than the US): you don't need to legalize marijuana to legalize hemp. A fictions (but somewhat apt) analogy might be: if poppy seed muffins were banned in the US due to poppies being associated with opium, you wouldn't try to legalize heroin so you can get your morning muffin, but rather try to convince your paranoid government that the two things are not the same.
Quantifying the unquantifiable for 53 years. I wonder if they use the Drake equation?
Hemp is a great product, but although it is related to marijuana, it is not a drug and doesn't help your argument. Other than the US, most countries allow hemp to be cultivated, processed and sold; even countries where marijuana is illegal.
Skynet prefers a barcode burned into your forearm.
Sounds more like the Sega route (Genesis,SegaCD,32X) and we all know how that turned out. Incremental hardware upgrades are not enough to get most people to buy (which in turn means not enough developers will support it). A 'next gen' console needs to truly be 'next gen' otherwise all you do is fragment your market share.
Yes, corals do this. Contrary to popular belief, corals are not plants but animals living in a symbiotic relationship with algae.
I've often wondered how large the licensing fees are. Every big-budget movie needs a big-budget game with a synchronized release date. But the game developer is taking a big risk that the movie doesn't bomb and no one will buy the game (no matter how good it is). Even if the movie is a success, the game is really part of the movie's marketing, so maybe the movie studio's licensing fees are fairly small to encourage game developers to take the risk of creating the game? Even things like automobiles in racing games involve licenses, but again the car company benefits by having it's product promoted to a generation of future drivers, so maybe the licensing fees are relatively small? Does anyone know?