First, yes Apple is keeping to the requirement with the micro-USB adapter, but since no-one will be carrying it around, the iPhone 5 users will not get the advantage of just using a friends charger(especially now that their friend needs to have a Lightning-charger instead of the quite ubiquitous 30-pin).
"...and could even be used in military applications."
The naiveté is overwhelming. Military applications, if even remotely plausible, would be the first to get this technology, not high-tech baby monitors.
I thought there were lots of talks about this after the movie came out, and the definite answer was that it was impossible because DNA does not preserve that long, no matter how nicely that mosquito was encapsulated in amber.
Actually, there is a difference. A bank will give you a loan and expect you to pay it back with a certain interest rate. When you've paid that back, you just have to pay your other costs, rest of your income goes into your pocket. With a record label you're forever stuck with only getting a small cut, and sometimes they even withhold a part of this to cover costs they think belong to the artist. This is different. I don't think anyone would ever take a loan from a bank that demands that 90% of all future income from the investment go straight to the bank.
Also, the bank hopes to see you succeed(for obvious reasons), but can't really impact your success, and would be indifferent of your success if you went to another bank. Record labels on the other hand will try to block independent artists from breaking into the mainstream radio playlists(RIAA labels probably tolerate eachother though), unless they can force/convince you to sign, because you're their competition.
They NAILED the IPO, and neither undersold the stock(like LinkedIN did) and lose money that way nor did they value it too high and scare off any potential investors. I'm surprised and impressed.
Sure, for the guys holding the stock at FB it's a letdown, but the company nailed it.
I'm guessing with proper tuning, you'll get exactly the kind of performance you want. They are raising the efficiency at which the engine burns gasoline. This can be used to propel a commuter car to same speeds with same acceleration, but using less fuel. Or, increasing the amount of power you get out of a certain engine size, since the power is constrained by the amount of air-fuel mixture you can burn, which then depends on RPM/engine volume and possible use of turbos/superchargers. So if you suddenly improve the amount of energy you get out of the same amount of fuel, it's not a bad thing.
I find it more important what date it's on than what month. "When is your party?" "On the 9th". It's understood that it's the upcoming 9th. Just like it's understood that it's this year. Unless we need to specify. "9th of May" or even "9th of May, 2013"
The American equivalent would be: "In April", which basically a useless bit of information for an event taking place on one night. Sure it's covers longer events "The roadworks will be done in May" or when you're not bothered to give specifics. "Eh, in April?"
All in all this all depends on how much detail is needed. "When does your flight arrive?" For some, the answer "around midnight" will suffice, but some need to know "Twenty past midnight". And as such, the point that the spoken language should control the order of the date/month/year setup is ridiculous. Logic > Language
But if Americans can't pay enough attention to grasp the information in the sentence "9th of May" because of the word order, who am I to judge?
If the tablet is bought from a retailer outside of the injunction area, no one can touch them, since the injunction covers SELLING, not buying. Mind you, this injunction covered all of EU except The Netherlands(IIRC), so the Germans would only have to shop from a Dutch webshop to go around it.
Car analogy time. Well, not an analogy, but a real life example.
A Cadillac CTS-V Coupé costs between 65,000-70,000USD depending on what goodies you pick out. In the UK, the same car will net you 70,000-73,000 GBP. At today's rate, that's 110,000-120,000USD. Almost TWICE the going price in the US.
Things to take into consideration are the UK VAT of 20%, and whatever anti-pollution taxes are put on such a high performance car. But double up?
Compare this to how the price tag on European cars is the same or lower in the US, but in USD compared to EUR.
This is ridiculous. I know many people who stopped downloading illegally when they got iTunes or Spotify or any of the way more handy ways of getting music to their computer. Downloading music from p2p-networks has been relegated to the secondary tier, behind movies and TV-shows(which aren't $0.99). Where is this kind of piracy the most common? In countries with later or no access to say American TV shows or films. HULU works quite well in the US, so there is little incentive to download TV-shows there. But in Europe, it's a free-for-all. The second a new episode of House or something drops, tens of thousands of Europeans, South Americans, Asians or whatever grab onto it, and off we go. Same with theatrical releases of films, and then DVDs. Delays in the releases sets the stage for a huge surge in interest to download a movie. Some movies even come out on DVD in the US before it's released in theaters in Europe. How's that going to improve things? Oh how I'd love to have a HULU-like service here, even for a buck or buck-fiddy a pop. But no. Either wait a year or two for the shows to air here(Finland), and also pay TV-licence because then I would have to get a digital receiver, OR watch it 10 minutes from now. Big props to Voddler for actually trying to bring a proper film and TV streaming service to the European masses. No doubt there'll be a delay between availability, but it's something!
As for buying music, I started buying music once I found play.com, where instead of 18€ per disc I'm paying between 5 and 10€ for most. Holy cow, going from buying NO CDs at price 18€ to buying 30-odd CDs in the last 3 years when priced at half. Guess what boys and girls, the music industry's revenues from me have increased by a factor of unlimited! Same with DVDs. Before online shopping and reasonable prices, I had maybe a dozen. I've tripled that number since then. And I keep going back for more, since now it feels like "hey, 2 CD's and a DVD for 19€, good value" instead of "15€ for a CD? I don't like this music THAT much".
So what about the suspected link here? An illness that kills less people than the regular flu gets global attention (and HUGE vaccine demand), and a vaccine is then hastily brought to market without proper testing and studies.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/01/flu-shot-narcolepsy-_n_816868.html
So let's all just adopt a healthy dose of skepticism, and take a chill pill with those "big scare" illnesses.
But I do agree that vaccination against measles and the likes is insanely important.
Just (re)installed what I thought was the Firefox-4 beta linked in TFA on my N900. Error message "Fennec already installed". Uninstalled the original Firefox for Maemo that I had, installed the linked version, and hussah! Version information confirms the Maemo-Firefox is Fennec-3.6, not a beta of 4.0
So why are movies entitled to depict ongoing wars for profit and entertainment without this risk for backlash? How many movies haven't already been made about the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan, and often getting critical praise for their guts to comment on something so fresh and close to heart?
The E-series is a great solution, or if you want a more geeky toy, the N900.
Prepare to charge the phone daily though, if you keep the WiFi active with Skype online all day.
Well it's the developer's problem. They decided that control over the future availability of online play through their servers(= cripple service in time for next sequel) is more valuable than saving costs by providing players with software for dedicated servers.
The Nokia N900 has a "pointer-mode" in its browser. Slide your finger onto the screen from the left, and a pointer icon appears on the left. Click it to activate, and the icon gets a red x over it. You guessed it, clicking that icon will put you back in regular mode. It works very well on websites that use JS hover functions with say dropdown menus or something of the like.
Uuuh, I'd block it anyway unless blocking it caused any disruption in my use of Google's services.
Google-analytics, for one. Script-blocked a long time ago. Just in case.
... does the 30th of November sound like a great day to pull pranks like false fire-alarms and what-not to interfere with the deal? For once I my life I would condone civil disobedience, and for once it might even have an impact.
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Protecting users of more up to date Windows versions from those malware infested botnet-targets.
A voter must register and identify themself via their online banking, and they double-check this against the records in the magistrate.
Also, the text for the legislation is now finalized, and only accepting "up-votes" towards the 50 limit. Nothing you can do to astroturf that.
As for the watering down, if the proposal (a complete law text) passes the 50,000 vote mark, the Finnish parliament has to vote on it AS IS.
First, yes Apple is keeping to the requirement with the micro-USB adapter, but since no-one will be carrying it around, the iPhone 5 users will not get the advantage of just using a friends charger(especially now that their friend needs to have a Lightning-charger instead of the quite ubiquitous 30-pin).
One link to refute your point on digital video:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_High-Definition_Link
Uncompressend 1080i. Yup.
"...and could even be used in military applications."
The naiveté is overwhelming. Military applications, if even remotely plausible, would be the first to get this technology, not high-tech baby monitors.
I thought there were lots of talks about this after the movie came out, and the definite answer was that it was impossible because DNA does not preserve that long, no matter how nicely that mosquito was encapsulated in amber.
Actually, there is a difference. A bank will give you a loan and expect you to pay it back with a certain interest rate. When you've paid that back, you just have to pay your other costs, rest of your income goes into your pocket. With a record label you're forever stuck with only getting a small cut, and sometimes they even withhold a part of this to cover costs they think belong to the artist.
This is different. I don't think anyone would ever take a loan from a bank that demands that 90% of all future income from the investment go straight to the bank.
Also, the bank hopes to see you succeed(for obvious reasons), but can't really impact your success, and would be indifferent of your success if you went to another bank. Record labels on the other hand will try to block independent artists from breaking into the mainstream radio playlists(RIAA labels probably tolerate eachother though), unless they can force/convince you to sign, because you're their competition.
They NAILED the IPO, and neither undersold the stock(like LinkedIN did) and lose money that way nor did they value it too high and scare off any potential investors. I'm surprised and impressed.
Sure, for the guys holding the stock at FB it's a letdown, but the company nailed it.
I'm guessing with proper tuning, you'll get exactly the kind of performance you want.
They are raising the efficiency at which the engine burns gasoline. This can be used to propel a commuter car to same speeds with same acceleration, but using less fuel.
Or, increasing the amount of power you get out of a certain engine size, since the power is constrained by the amount of air-fuel mixture you can burn, which then depends on RPM/engine volume and possible use of turbos/superchargers.
So if you suddenly improve the amount of energy you get out of the same amount of fuel, it's not a bad thing.
Being filmed in 48fps and having a draw rate of 60fps on something filmed in 24fps is VERY different!
I find it more important what date it's on than what month.
"When is your party?"
"On the 9th".
It's understood that it's the upcoming 9th. Just like it's understood that it's this year. Unless we need to specify.
"9th of May"
or even
"9th of May, 2013"
The American equivalent would be:
"In April", which basically a useless bit of information for an event taking place on one night. Sure it's covers longer events "The roadworks will be done in May" or when you're not bothered to give specifics. "Eh, in April?"
All in all this all depends on how much detail is needed. "When does your flight arrive?"
For some, the answer "around midnight" will suffice, but some need to know "Twenty past midnight".
And as such, the point that the spoken language should control the order of the date/month/year setup is ridiculous.
Logic > Language
But if Americans can't pay enough attention to grasp the information in the sentence "9th of May" because of the word order, who am I to judge?
If the tablet is bought from a retailer outside of the injunction area, no one can touch them, since the injunction covers SELLING, not buying. Mind you, this injunction covered all of EU except The Netherlands(IIRC), so the Germans would only have to shop from a Dutch webshop to go around it.
Car analogy time. Well, not an analogy, but a real life example.
A Cadillac CTS-V Coupé costs between 65,000-70,000USD depending on what goodies you pick out. In the UK, the same car will net you 70,000-73,000 GBP.
At today's rate, that's 110,000-120,000USD. Almost TWICE the going price in the US.
Things to take into consideration are the UK VAT of 20%, and whatever anti-pollution taxes are put on such a high performance car. But double up?
Compare this to how the price tag on European cars is the same or lower in the US, but in USD compared to EUR.
This is ridiculous. I know many people who stopped downloading illegally when they got iTunes or Spotify or any of the way more handy ways of getting music to their computer. Downloading music from p2p-networks has been relegated to the secondary tier, behind movies and TV-shows(which aren't $0.99). Where is this kind of piracy the most common? In countries with later or no access to say American TV shows or films. HULU works quite well in the US, so there is little incentive to download TV-shows there. But in Europe, it's a free-for-all. The second a new episode of House or something drops, tens of thousands of Europeans, South Americans, Asians or whatever grab onto it, and off we go. Same with theatrical releases of films, and then DVDs. Delays in the releases sets the stage for a huge surge in interest to download a movie. Some movies even come out on DVD in the US before it's released in theaters in Europe. How's that going to improve things?
Oh how I'd love to have a HULU-like service here, even for a buck or buck-fiddy a pop. But no. Either wait a year or two for the shows to air here(Finland), and also pay TV-licence because then I would have to get a digital receiver, OR watch it 10 minutes from now.
Big props to Voddler for actually trying to bring a proper film and TV streaming service to the European masses. No doubt there'll be a delay between availability, but it's something!
As for buying music, I started buying music once I found play.com, where instead of 18€ per disc I'm paying between 5 and 10€ for most. Holy cow, going from buying NO CDs at price 18€ to buying 30-odd CDs in the last 3 years when priced at half. Guess what boys and girls, the music industry's revenues from me have increased by a factor of unlimited!
Same with DVDs. Before online shopping and reasonable prices, I had maybe a dozen. I've tripled that number since then. And I keep going back for more, since now it feels like "hey, 2 CD's and a DVD for 19€, good value" instead of "15€ for a CD? I don't like this music THAT much".
So what about the suspected link here? An illness that kills less people than the regular flu gets global attention (and HUGE vaccine demand), and a vaccine is then hastily brought to market without proper testing and studies. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/01/flu-shot-narcolepsy-_n_816868.html So let's all just adopt a healthy dose of skepticism, and take a chill pill with those "big scare" illnesses. But I do agree that vaccination against measles and the likes is insanely important.
Visiting that link with Firefox 3.6.12 "Incompatible Browser" What?
Just (re)installed what I thought was the Firefox-4 beta linked in TFA on my N900.
Error message "Fennec already installed".
Uninstalled the original Firefox for Maemo that I had, installed the linked version, and hussah!
Version information confirms the Maemo-Firefox is Fennec-3.6, not a beta of 4.0
So old news on the part of Maemo.
So why are movies entitled to depict ongoing wars for profit and entertainment without this risk for backlash?
How many movies haven't already been made about the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan, and often getting critical praise for their guts to comment on something so fresh and close to heart?
The E-series is a great solution, or if you want a more geeky toy, the N900. Prepare to charge the phone daily though, if you keep the WiFi active with Skype online all day.
Well it's the developer's problem. They decided that control over the future availability of online play through their servers(= cripple service in time for next sequel) is more valuable than saving costs by providing players with software for dedicated servers.
...hand it in, please. Come on now, don't fight it.
The Nokia N900 has a "pointer-mode" in its browser. Slide your finger onto the screen from the left, and a pointer icon appears on the left. Click it to activate, and the icon gets a red x over it. You guessed it, clicking that icon will put you back in regular mode. It works very well on websites that use JS hover functions with say dropdown menus or something of the like.
Uuuh, I'd block it anyway unless blocking it caused any disruption in my use of Google's services. Google-analytics, for one. Script-blocked a long time ago. Just in case.
The vagina is removed in the bathroom? Oy vey!
... does the 30th of November sound like a great day to pull pranks like false fire-alarms and what-not to interfere with the deal? For once I my life I would condone civil disobedience, and for once it might even have an impact.