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Replacing keys is pretty easy, but larger keys are more difficult to pull off. You're really only intended to replace the standard-sized keys, so far as we can tell. Someone ought to let these folks know that when you reprogram the images on the keys, you don't have to replace they key, too!
I don't think you'll have to worry much; the fourth vaporware horseman was Longhorn/Vista.
Playing Duke Nukem Forever with an Optimus keyboard on Windows Vista... somehow I think the "apocalypse" you mention would exist only in the system running it.
Who fricking watches the keys while typing or gaming?! No, that's the thing--since you don't need the keyboard to tell you which letters are where, you can remap the keyboard to display images.
The really interesting thing is that all these artists are old-timers whose glory days are long gone. All their work was produced (mostly) way back. Yes, and if they don't receive royalties these many years after, there will no longer be an incentive for them to have produced it.
The creative work might disappear in a puff of retroactive disincentivity!
These crystals would about fill one room of every house every year, floor-to-ceiling. Finally, a market for all the houses foreclosed in the sub-prime mortgage disaster!
Correction: The IOC bans commercial gain for the athletes.
It has no problem signing exclusivity deals for its own commercial gain.
I don't see this ban on athletes' blogs as so much as having to do with pressure from China (I mean, why would China care whether athletes are blogging about the athletic side of the Olympics?), as having to do with pressure from the media corporations that spend oodles of money to have exclusive rights to broadcast Olympic events in their respective markets. The fact that it is in China is a mere coincidence--blogs simply weren't as big a threat two years ago.
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Personal donations ONLY are accepted ...for candidates that may be selected democratically, but can be replaced by a candidate of the party leader's choice.
Also, while the campaign financing restrictions are a Good Thing, they are fairly recent.
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I don't think you'll have to worry much; the fourth vaporware horseman was Longhorn/Vista.
Playing Duke Nukem Forever with an Optimus keyboard on Windows Vista... somehow I think the "apocalypse" you mention would exist only in the system running it.
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Well, you want my two cents?
Because that's probably all you'll get out of it if I were to buy a CD, or a legal download, after the RIAA take their cut.
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Put simply, the US fails at the Prisoner's Dillema.
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But... but... the banks.
Somebody please think of the banks!
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With any luck, in a few years he'll simply be "the artist formerly known".
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The creative work might disappear in a puff of retroactive disincentivity!
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Not as scared as those people who actually paid for it!
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In Soviet Russia, joke pattern doesn't get you!
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"I didn't go to Patent Troll medical school to be called 'Mister'."
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So, effectively, the IOC is saying "you can't commercialize yourselves because we are doing it for you."
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Correction: The IOC bans commercial gain for the athletes.
It has no problem signing exclusivity deals for its own commercial gain.
I don't see this ban on athletes' blogs as so much as having to do with pressure from China (I mean, why would China care whether athletes are blogging about the athletic side of the Olympics?), as having to do with pressure from the media corporations that spend oodles of money to have exclusive rights to broadcast Olympic events in their respective markets. The fact that it is in China is a mere coincidence--blogs simply weren't as big a threat two years ago.
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Also, while the campaign financing restrictions are a Good Thing, they are fairly recent.
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As a Canadian, I would respectfully ask the moderators to please mod the parent post up.
Thank you kindly.
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whose e-mail network was it that was revealed? Was it the NYT's network, or simply another one that they are reporting on?
(TFAS is ambiguous, and TFA is behind a login screen.)
Thanks,
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TV advertisers?
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Apple does a lot of rigorous testing on all of the platforms and configurations that they expect will be used by their customers.
Can you really blame them for not bothering to test for compatibility with Republicans?
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That must have been a while ago.
I had the opportunity to tour an aircraft carrier a decade or so ago, and I got to sit in the cockpit of a fighter jet.
The flight control interface on the jets had recently been upgraded--four fist-size square buttons "W, A, S, D" are arranged in front of the pilot.
I'm relieved to learn that the gaming industry is finally taking advantage of this advance!
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Good thing they don't allow these freedom-hating activist judges in America.
(...and a preemptive nod to the sarcasm-hating mods out there, sigh)
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