I know several people who would *greatly* benefit from stem cell related advances.
I understand that people consider embryos life, and I respect that.
However, I would, without a moment's hesitation, trade 1,000,000 embryos (that wouldn't have been created in the first place if it wasn't for 'stem cell research') for any of my family members or friends.
I just don't consider "their" lives equal to the lives of legitimate people.
I'm not sure about this, but I think it's that DVD players do it better than most TVs. I know my 720p TV does an awful upconversion by itself - but with an upconverting dvd player it looks MUCH better.
I've seen TVs that do it well though - it is just that some don't.
Unless you aren't happy with how it looks right now, its probably not worth the investment.
Yeah, but do the math. Lets say someone only wants one song.
Online, he makes $0.04 per song.
If he sells a CD, he makes $3.74 (after all is said and done)
If online distribution wasn't possible, where you could buy one song instead of having to get the whole cd, your argument is that not as many people buy the cd.
However, if 1 out of 93 people that would have just bought one song decides to buy the whole cd, he would break even. (93 *.04 =(almost) 3.74)
Naturally, as far as concerts are concerned it's better to have 93 fans than 1. But I don't think the OnlyBuyOneSong:BuyTheWholeCD ratio 1:93.
It's like buying soda at a movie theater. A small is $3.25, and a large is $4.00. But a small is like 8 sips, and a large is 1000 sips. Most people will shell out the extra 75 cents. If I'm going to spend $500 on something, might as well pay the extra $100 for something a lot better.
The large soda is a rip-off, but less of a rip-off when compared to the small soda.
A generation is (among other things): "A group of individuals born and living about the same time."
So by default, the Wii is a next-gen console. Obviously the Wii's cool controller could be achieved on the Gamecube. Hell, it could probably work on the N64. That isn't the point.
The point is that they are making this controller the standard. If they were to release it for the gamecube, maybe one or two cool games would take advantage of it. It would just be more hardware that users had to buy. And most developers would simply ignore the controller since so few people had it. (How many developers make games for linux? Or Mac?)
Since *everyone* owning a Wii will have this controller, every game *can* take advantage of it. While developing the game, the designers will look at possible cool ways of using it to their advantage, even if they weren't planning to originally.
Besides that, they are upping the graphics, storage, and medium a bit. Plus the free internet service doesn't hurt.
It's close, but not quite what he is looking for. If you are going to have more than one office location and want the same computer in both places, you don't want to have to unplug the power, monitor, keyboard and mouse each time.
Besides, those extra wires sitting on your desk when the computer isn't there are would be really ugly. He wanted the equivalent of having two docking stations for laptops and just bringing the laptop around.
Basically, when you change locations you just pick up your cpu and place it at the other desk and that's it. Mac mini isn't there yet (although they might get there at some point)
A guy at work has been talking about how nice a small, non-laptop cube would be which essentially had the equivalent of a docking station. He wanted to easily have one computer at a couple of locations, but doesn't want to be constricted by laptop shortcomings.
If they left the CPU completely port free, and relied on those book-things to get a monitor/keyboard/mouse hookup - it'd be pretty cool.
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I know several people who would *greatly* benefit from stem cell related advances.
I understand that people consider embryos life, and I respect that.
However, I would, without a moment's hesitation, trade 1,000,000 embryos (that wouldn't have been created in the first place if it wasn't for 'stem cell research') for any of my family members or friends.
I just don't consider "their" lives equal to the lives of legitimate people.
I'm not sure about this, but I think it's that DVD players do it better than most TVs. I know my 720p TV does an awful upconversion by itself - but with an upconverting dvd player it looks MUCH better.
I've seen TVs that do it well though - it is just that some don't.
Unless you aren't happy with how it looks right now, its probably not worth the investment.
Yeah, but do the math. Lets say someone only wants one song. Online, he makes $0.04 per song. If he sells a CD, he makes $3.74 (after all is said and done) If online distribution wasn't possible, where you could buy one song instead of having to get the whole cd, your argument is that not as many people buy the cd. However, if 1 out of 93 people that would have just bought one song decides to buy the whole cd, he would break even. (93 * .04 =(almost) 3.74)
Naturally, as far as concerts are concerned it's better to have 93 fans than 1. But I don't think the OnlyBuyOneSong:BuyTheWholeCD ratio 1:93.
It's like buying soda at a movie theater. A small is $3.25, and a large is $4.00. But a small is like 8 sips, and a large is 1000 sips. Most people will shell out the extra 75 cents. If I'm going to spend $500 on something, might as well pay the extra $100 for something a lot better. The large soda is a rip-off, but less of a rip-off when compared to the small soda.
A generation is (among other things): "A group of individuals born and living about the same time."
So by default, the Wii is a next-gen console. Obviously the Wii's cool controller could be achieved on the Gamecube. Hell, it could probably work on the N64. That isn't the point.
The point is that they are making this controller the standard. If they were to release it for the gamecube, maybe one or two cool games would take advantage of it. It would just be more hardware that users had to buy. And most developers would simply ignore the controller since so few people had it. (How many developers make games for linux? Or Mac?)
Since *everyone* owning a Wii will have this controller, every game *can* take advantage of it. While developing the game, the designers will look at possible cool ways of using it to their advantage, even if they weren't planning to originally.
Besides that, they are upping the graphics, storage, and medium a bit. Plus the free internet service doesn't hurt.
It's close, but not quite what he is looking for. If you are going to have more than one office location and want the same computer in both places, you don't want to have to unplug the power, monitor, keyboard and mouse each time.
Besides, those extra wires sitting on your desk when the computer isn't there are would be really ugly. He wanted the equivalent of having two docking stations for laptops and just bringing the laptop around.
Basically, when you change locations you just pick up your cpu and place it at the other desk and that's it. Mac mini isn't there yet (although they might get there at some point)
A guy at work has been talking about how nice a small, non-laptop cube would be which essentially had the equivalent of a docking station. He wanted to easily have one computer at a couple of locations, but doesn't want to be constricted by laptop shortcomings. If they left the CPU completely port free, and relied on those book-things to get a monitor/keyboard/mouse hookup - it'd be pretty cool.
It seems to me that it would probably be pretty difficult to hold a camera that shoots 360 degrees without getting in the shot.