I guess then that the only reason people want this is that they can't be bothered to put up their own antenna and PVR/streaming box, and prefer to pay a monthly fee instead?
If this were available in my area and played well with my PVR I'd be quite interested. Some of us live in apartments and don't have a good way of getting OTA TV.
I couldn't get much of anything with an indoor antenna here. Right now I have a 4 bay wedged against my window frame and even that isn't great. I get the basic channels but they still drop out from time to time since there's no clear signal path.
I think if the modification is small, and the investment into this new modification is small, then patent shouldn't be granted. I hope India doesn't end up with U.S's patenting culture, where the rounded corner on a phone can be patented.
I hope so too, but think about it from India's perspective. Their pharma industry stands to make (and has made) a lot of profit via ignoring patent law and producing generic drugs.
The patent application was for a small modification yes, but (In this case) only because India didn't recognize those types of patents until recently.
Since the original drug was produced in 1995 the patent should be good until 2015 under international law. Since the suit has been going on for 6 years, that means that India has jumped the gun by a total of 8 years.
So what's really happening (at least to cynics like me) is that India is supporting their local pharma industry with legal justification in the same immoral way the United States and EU does. I would LOVE to see a similar ruling on our shores, since we've had patents forever, but I'm quite certain our government's bread is "buttered on the other side", if you catch my drift.
A couple percent is barely enough to keep up with inflation.
No, it's not even close to actual real life inflation (vs the fake numbers the fed feeds us). When their '2% inflation' factors in things food and gasoline please let us know.
The other thing that couple of percent blue chip buys you is a hedge against the dollar. Since the stock price is denominated in dollars, as the dollar falls the stock price should (in theory anyway) rise accordingly, assuming a devalued dollar doesn't hugely impact their actual bottom line.
If by normal you mean crappy 'big-box store' bookshelf speakers then yes. We've had efficient 'bright' speakers for quite a long time now, it's just that they aren't the tiny little boxes + a sub woofer that seems to be all the rage today.
Seconded, if you only buy one cookbook, buy that one. It's not (at least the editions I've used) terribly useful for ethnic foods or specialty items but if you're cooking classic dishes from scratch it's an outstanding resource.
It is indeed shocking that people who look exactly like the Viet Kong and live in the same villages as them might accidentally get hurt when we start spraying napalm and agent orange everywhere trying to help them keep their independence.
Times of overpaying $300 for K series i5-i7 just to be able to OC >4.5GHz so retarded single threaded games run fast will be over.
I salute anyone going all out on multi-threading support, it's not easy. CPUs aren't really getting (much) faster so that's all you can do once you've offloaded everything you can to the GPU.
And that their page actually has some content on it instead of cross-referencing some other MSDN document that I can't get to
..or wants you to pay for answers (expert-exchange), ..or has a huge list of questions with almost no answers ..or demands that you sign up to see anything on their site if it detects you're not a search engine crawler.
Don't forget - the machine gun and landmine have killed far more people than drones likely ever will.
As have carpet bombing and guys with swords. As long as they're controlled by humans (at least during targeting) they aren't true robots.
..and yes, our leaders have been sending drone strikes and thousands of troops to go kill people based on a pack of lies.
Afghanistan harboring Osama? No it was Pakistan, the same country we keep sending huge bundles of cash and free F-16's. Iraq having weapons of mass destruction? We didn't even find a camel loaded with sparklers.
1. Removable batteries mean larger capacity battery options and less Apple themed 'planned obsolescence' after the factory battery starts wearing out.
2. Class 4 SD cards are slow, Class 10 SD cards are not. SD cards are going away because it allows you to mark up the 'extra ram' version of your phone and/or tablet...again, something that's been standard on all fruit themed hardware since the very beginning.
Here in California, farmers receive subsidies, and subsidized water, to grow water intensive crops like rice and cotton. If you remove the subsidies, farmers will switch to crops and irrigation practices that actually make sense, and the "water shortage" will disappear.
For the most part farmers are already using drip irrigation and not growing water intensive crops. The trade for 'subsidized' (hint -not free-) water is that the water districts can and do shut off the taps anytime they feel like it.
The bigger problem is that in California and most of the southwest we have vastly more people than we used to, but no more water has magically appeared. Therefore it comes down to a choice between building less houses or growing less crops...and with California real estate prices that's really a no brainer for politicians.
Rather offtopic, but does anyone else have glare sensitivity issues with these new led tail-lights? Most of them are OK, but some of them are almost blinding at night.
I'm almost to the point of going full on Corey Hart after half an hour of stop-and-go behind the things.
"I wear my sunglasses at night, so I can, so I can stand to watch these led tail-lights on certain awful cars.
And yes, I'm a big fan of green on black, fortunately most editors can still be configured that way.
Regulators (state & federal) have forced refineries to shut down or prevented them from being built in the first place.
It seems correct, but it's categorically false. Since the mid 1970's there has been exactly ONE request for a new refinery of significant size, and it was granted. Refineries are very expensive to build and it's cheaper to expand the existing ones. It also makes no sense for them to expand refinery capacity past what exactly what the market demands, since that would lower prices (and margins)
Because we have very few players in the market, collusion is going to happen...and market speculation is just as bad if not worse. If you buy oil futures IMO you should expect tanker trucks to show up at your investment firm, but that's not how the game is played.
And once you use a video feed, why not put the targeting on a laptop with a trackball for aiming or a tablet with a touchscreen? Once automated to that degree, recognition and tracking software could be used to keep aimpoints locked on multiple targets as they move about within view of the sight.
This is all we could salvage. We've
got four pulse-rifles with about
fifty rounds each. Not so good.
About fifteen M-40 grenades and
two flame throwers less than
half full...one damaged. And
We've got four of these
robot-sentry units with scanners
and display intact.
For the most part, rings are rings. They're made out of cast iron, why would ethanol have any effect on them? Ditto for steel valves. Changing to new style hardened valve seats means sending the heads out to a machine shop vs $40 worth of rings. We may have changed guides and lapped, it's been long enough that I don't remember anymore.
Also A. nice car and B. I'm sure a professional rebuild would have been better than my hillbilly job, but it's holding up fine. That truck's actually been stupid reliable.
You're going to want new valves, new seats, and new piston rings, so you are going to have to at minimum remove the heads and all the pistons. And you will also need to replace the fuel pump (if it's not new, those carter fuel pumps die all the time anyway) and rebuild the carburetor with synthetic seals, in sharp contrast to the bits of natural rubber and even leather â" my 1960 Dodge had a 650 cfm carter with a leather diaphragm in the accelerator pump!
My 1965 Dodge (D300 with a 318 and a Stromberg carburator) has had exactly none of those things done to it and it still runs like a champ.
Actually I take that back, it did have a ring-job at one point, but that had nothing to do with ethanol, it had to do with it being a 45 year old engine.
So some scientist suggest a runaway disaster of more heat releasing more methane causing more heat, etc. This has postulated the cause of a previous mass extinction in the geologic record.
...and this very thing is happening in the Siberian permafrost as we speak. It's really a huge swamp and it's started defrosting.
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If this were available in my area and played well with my PVR I'd be quite interested. Some of us live in apartments and don't have a good way of getting OTA TV.
I couldn't get much of anything with an indoor antenna here. Right now I have a 4 bay wedged against my window frame and even that isn't great. I get the basic channels but they still drop out from time to time since there's no clear signal path.
Oh, and RIP ClearQAM.
I hope so too, but think about it from India's perspective. Their pharma industry stands to make (and has made) a lot of profit via ignoring patent law and producing generic drugs. The patent application was for a small modification yes, but (In this case) only because India didn't recognize those types of patents until recently.
Since the original drug was produced in 1995 the patent should be good until 2015 under international law. Since the suit has been going on for 6 years, that means that India has jumped the gun by a total of 8 years.
So what's really happening (at least to cynics like me) is that India is supporting their local pharma industry with legal justification in the same immoral way the United States and EU does. I would LOVE to see a similar ruling on our shores, since we've had patents forever, but I'm quite certain our government's bread is "buttered on the other side", if you catch my drift.
No, it's not even close to actual real life inflation (vs the fake numbers the fed feeds us). When their '2% inflation' factors in things food and gasoline please let us know.
The other thing that couple of percent blue chip buys you is a hedge against the dollar. Since the stock price is denominated in dollars, as the dollar falls the stock price should (in theory anyway) rise accordingly, assuming a devalued dollar doesn't hugely impact their actual bottom line.
If by normal you mean crappy 'big-box store' bookshelf speakers then yes. We've had efficient 'bright' speakers for quite a long time now, it's just that they aren't the tiny little boxes + a sub woofer that seems to be all the rage today.
Seconded, if you only buy one cookbook, buy that one. It's not (at least the editions I've used) terribly useful for ethnic foods or specialty items but if you're cooking classic dishes from scratch it's an outstanding resource.
It is indeed shocking that people who look exactly like the Viet Kong and live in the same villages as them might accidentally get hurt when we start spraying napalm and agent orange everywhere trying to help them keep their independence.
Really? I thought his best illusion involved getting supermodels to marry him.
I salute anyone going all out on multi-threading support, it's not easy. CPUs aren't really getting (much) faster so that's all you can do once you've offloaded everything you can to the GPU.
"I love the Power Glove. It's so bad"
good times...
As have carpet bombing and guys with swords. As long as they're controlled by humans (at least during targeting) they aren't true robots.
..and yes, our leaders have been sending drone strikes and thousands of troops to go kill people based on a pack of lies.
Afghanistan harboring Osama? No it was Pakistan, the same country we keep sending huge bundles of cash and free F-16's. Iraq having weapons of mass destruction? We didn't even find a camel loaded with sparklers.
If Cliff doesn't like the memes and complaints, perhaps he should boycott Reddit until they stop? It's a free market after all.
That sounds just about as effective as telling (at best) 2% of the gaming population to STFU, boycott and expect things to magically change.
Don't forget "Onechanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayers". Sadly I'd have to say DNF was a better game...
1. Removable batteries mean larger capacity battery options and less Apple themed 'planned obsolescence' after the factory battery starts wearing out.
2. Class 4 SD cards are slow, Class 10 SD cards are not. SD cards are going away because it allows you to mark up the 'extra ram' version of your phone and/or tablet...again, something that's been standard on all fruit themed hardware since the very beginning.
For the most part farmers are already using drip irrigation and not growing water intensive crops. The trade for 'subsidized' (hint -not free-) water is that the water districts can and do shut off the taps anytime they feel like it.
The bigger problem is that in California and most of the southwest we have vastly more people than we used to, but no more water has magically appeared. Therefore it comes down to a choice between building less houses or growing less crops...and with California real estate prices that's really a no brainer for politicians.
Infogrames subsidiary needs cash badly. Infogrames subsidiary is about to die.
Rather offtopic, but does anyone else have glare sensitivity issues with these new led tail-lights? Most of them are OK, but some of them are almost blinding at night. I'm almost to the point of going full on Corey Hart after half an hour of stop-and-go behind the things.
"I wear my sunglasses at night, so I can, so I can stand to watch these led tail-lights on certain awful cars.
And yes, I'm a big fan of green on black, fortunately most editors can still be configured that way.
It seems correct, but it's categorically false. Since the mid 1970's there has been exactly ONE request for a new refinery of significant size, and it was granted. Refineries are very expensive to build and it's cheaper to expand the existing ones. It also makes no sense for them to expand refinery capacity past what exactly what the market demands, since that would lower prices (and margins)
Because we have very few players in the market, collusion is going to happen...and market speculation is just as bad if not worse. If you buy oil futures IMO you should expect tanker trucks to show up at your investment firm, but that's not how the game is played.
This is all we could salvage. We've got four pulse-rifles with about fifty rounds each. Not so good. About fifteen M-40 grenades and two flame throwers less than half full...one damaged. And We've got four of these robot-sentry units with scanners and display intact.
For the most part, rings are rings. They're made out of cast iron, why would ethanol have any effect on them? Ditto for steel valves. Changing to new style hardened valve seats means sending the heads out to a machine shop vs $40 worth of rings. We may have changed guides and lapped, it's been long enough that I don't remember anymore.
Also A. nice car and B. I'm sure a professional rebuild would have been better than my hillbilly job, but it's holding up fine. That truck's actually been stupid reliable.
My 1965 Dodge (D300 with a 318 and a Stromberg carburator) has had exactly none of those things done to it and it still runs like a champ.
Actually I take that back, it did have a ring-job at one point, but that had nothing to do with ethanol, it had to do with it being a 45 year old engine.
Sometimes dead is better.
The person you put up there ain't the person that comes back. It may look like that person, but it ain't that person.
What I really need is a droid that understands the binary language of moisture vaporators.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." -Thomas Jefferson