How can we address 'lack of expanding?' Whenever someone trots out a Vista post we're reminded there's still businesses out there running on a Win 2000 network because 'it just works' and isn't getting replaced.
I'm sure the poor compitent sysadmin of that 2K network has plenty of ideas how to innovate their network, but they can't requisition the funds for it. Then there's training, dealing with the migration... Sure, it can happen, but no one outside IT sees the advantage in it.
Maybe I don't get it, but there are hundreds of sighted cats that are put down every day in shelters around the US. How about giving your blind cat the gift of mercy and adopting a new cat?
People get attached to the pets they have, not the ones you think they should have. You might as well just s/cat/kid there and see if it holds up as well.
Oh, and gift of mercy? Blindness isn't a terminal cancer.
Of course, using a sitcom is clearly the best source material to make a point from....
why would buy the 20GB when for $100 more you get a 60GB with the wireless, card readers, and the extra disk space?
There's a number of people who plan to buy the PS3 for the sole reason that it's a cheap Blu-Ray player (I frequent an AV forum as well as this). For them, that extra $100 represents 3 BD movies.
It also probably makes Sony happier than someone who gets the 60GB, Resistance and spends every day in multiplayer.
[quote]Another company could then move in quickly to offer services where they know Verizon is weak.[/quote]
Problem is that other company would still end up either (a) dealing with Verizon or whoever else owns the lines or (b) running their own lines. Neither one of those seems to be an endeavour that would be undertaken lightly.
The only "fear" they should have is that if this gets released, people might start asking questions and end up realizing ISPs and the FCC are in cahoots and get slapped with some nasty lawsuits.
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It's a lot closer to being able to change the oil or spark plugs in my car. I can still get my car from home to work to the store without having to know how to change the oil. When I do need the oil change, I go to the Jiffy Lube. There's really no need for the average driver to know how to fix his own car.
The key point in your argument here, though, is that you KNOW you need an oil change. You might not know why, or how to do it, but you know it needs to be done and you know how often. (Which, at least with my car, is mentioned in the user manual.)
To make this example more accurate, it'd be like the following... (after sludge is flushed out of oil pan) 'I didn't know I needed my oil changed!' 'It's in the service and maintenance part of your car's manual.' 'My car has a manual?'
That's what it's like dealing with users that piss off IT.
And believe me, if you took that sludged up oil pan to a mechanic, they will make fun of you too. Oh, not at you, but later.
But for us to have a toy to play with may easily backfire into a situation where the next set of 419'ers or click-fraud farms are enabled through the use of OLPC devices.
I would venture if someone wanted to use these to make a 419/click-fraud farm, they would find one either on the grey market or just take one. (There should be plenty going to war torn, despot leaded areas of Africa where a militant could just walk out and go YOINK!)
The tinkerers would be the ones necessary to find how they're doing it and plug it up.
The modem could be replaced, but (sticking with the same analogy) you'd have to call your DSL company and they'll probably ship over the same model. Hence NASA would have to build, launch and land Pathfinder #2, at around the same spot...assuming Soj still has power.
Negative. Sojourner talks through Pathfinder. Since Pathfinder's dead, Sojourner's mute. Crudely speaking, look at it as a DSL line with your PC as Soj and the modem as Path. Dead modem, the PC doesn't talk to NASA.
You can get a trademark diluted if you fail to protect it (see Otis Escalators) but as long as you're on top of the registration, show a dedicated desire to protect it (like the boilerplate Adobe Photoshop form letters) and not let it lapse (Cisco released a recent iPhone in 2006) it's pretty much rock solid.
Plus, 'iPhone' isn't as generic term like 'Windows' so the Linspire argument won't work.
You cannot use 'prior art' in a trademark dispute. You cannot use 'obviousness' in a trademark dispute. Trademarks aren't methods of manufacturing. It's a registered name. You either have it or you don't.
First link goes to an index... Second link doesn't even work for me... And the third link is about spinal discs, the ones that herniate.
Battin 0 for 3, AC.
Anyway, I've always referred to magnetic storage as 'disks,' hard drives and floppy drives. Discs were the optical storage variety.
Probably some association with 'disk' as an older style of spelling, hence the older technology, while 'disc' is sleeker and shiny and new. Or 'disk' is a more blocky word to look at (HDs and FDs are rectangular), while 'disc' is rounder (cds being...round).
Most likely I just grew up doing it for no real reason and making excuses after the fact.
Strictly grammatically, the summary is still correct. 'Almost' as a word makes no claim on whether the value is under or over, just that it's very close. 1.9 is almost 2 the same way 2.1 is almost 2.
Yes, it is bad form, but that doesn't make it wrong. (Got to love this stupid language...)
1) Well, a human eye did see the stars after it went through the Hubble. (Can the Hubble actually "see?") Note, he didn't say "naked human eye."
2) But is that 1 billion years and two months from the Hubble or from British Columbia? Related question, do you get huffy when they say 10 bil years plus 700 mil years equals 18 bil years? Significant figures.
Under FLLA, licensee will be granted a license to use the Blu-ray Disc Format Specifications and Blu-ray Disc Logo to develop, manufacture, use or sell the products categorized as follows.
Unfortunatly, in order to read the licence, you have to pay to get one which is either $15k or $2.5k, I'm not quite sure... Either way it's a smidge out of my price range so I can only hazard a guess to what might be in it.
I'm curious where you got that impression from, since HD and BD can use the same codecs (MPEG 4, MPEG 2 and VC-1). The only real core difference is space and so far that hasn't been an advantage for either side yet.
Comparisons at this time are mostly inconclusive as well.
Dual-sided discs are always more complicated and expensive to manufacture
Interesting point, but that doesn't explain why many early releases on DVD were dual sided single layer (DSSL). (Right Stuff, Amadeus for two immediate examples I can think of). Single side dual layer is more complex and expensive, but (a) kinks got worked out and techniques improved so the raw cost dropped down close to (if not at) DSSL production and (b) customers just like them more so they sell better.
Heck, I didn't buy Amadeus because of that until the 2 disc SE.
Don't read those End User Licence Agreements do you?
but it would stand to reason they have their own license to use as they please.
They have their own licence to use as they please within the confines of the licence. Just because I have a licence to use XP Pro on my home computer (yes, I do, I actually plunked down for the retail version...my reasons are my own) doesn't mean I can do what I want to Windows. (Assuming I actually adhere to the licence)
True, I can violate that licence and MS likely won't come down on me like a sack of bricks. LG, though, is a corporation and is watched by Sony and other members of the Blu Ray Disc Association. I'd imagine they WOULD come down on LG like a sack of bricks. They could probably even revoke LG's licence.
So, you wouldn't mind if I go through your mail? It's not unreasonable. I consider you a threat to society. You bold words that start with 'u'. Makes perfect sense to me.
Sure, call it a strawman if you want, but the fact is the whole warrant thing exists is meant to enforce the legitimacy of the legal system. A warrant means law enforcement has shown the judiciary there IS reason for a search, it has been well defined and is documented.
Unless reason has been shown, any search is unreasonable.
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Hence why the summary starts out with "Roughly 18 percent of the U.S. [b]online[/b] population..."
More like 'lack of budget.'
How can we address 'lack of expanding?' Whenever someone trots out a Vista post we're reminded there's still businesses out there running on a Win 2000 network because 'it just works' and isn't getting replaced.
I'm sure the poor compitent sysadmin of that 2K network has plenty of ideas how to innovate their network, but they can't requisition the funds for it. Then there's training, dealing with the migration... Sure, it can happen, but no one outside IT sees the advantage in it.
Maybe I don't get it, but there are hundreds of sighted cats that are put down every day in shelters around the US. How about giving your blind cat the gift of mercy and adopting a new cat?
People get attached to the pets they have, not the ones you think they should have. You might as well just s/cat/kid there and see if it holds up as well.
Oh, and gift of mercy? Blindness isn't a terminal cancer.
Of course, using a sitcom is clearly the best source material to make a point from....
why would buy the 20GB when for $100 more you get a 60GB with the wireless, card readers, and the extra disk space?
There's a number of people who plan to buy the PS3 for the sole reason that it's a cheap Blu-Ray player (I frequent an AV forum as well as this). For them, that extra $100 represents 3 BD movies.
It also probably makes Sony happier than someone who gets the 60GB, Resistance and spends every day in multiplayer.
frickin...in my head on the preview those tags worked...
caffeine IV must be dry...
[quote]Another company could then move in quickly to offer services where they know Verizon is weak.[/quote]
Problem is that other company would still end up either (a) dealing with Verizon or whoever else owns the lines or (b) running their own lines. Neither one of those seems to be an endeavour that would be undertaken lightly.
The only "fear" they should have is that if this gets released, people might start asking questions and end up realizing ISPs and the FCC are in cahoots and get slapped with some nasty lawsuits.
It'll only be a comma, if we're lucky.
You can't use 'Windows Update' through the website and activeX control. They always pushed out critical updates to 'Automatic Updates.'
Least that's the last I heard about it...it could very well have changed and no one told me.
It's a lot closer to being able to change the oil or spark plugs in my car. I can still get my car from home to work to the store without having to know how to change the oil. When I do need the oil change, I go to the Jiffy Lube. There's really no need for the average driver to know how to fix his own car.
The key point in your argument here, though, is that you KNOW you need an oil change. You might not know why, or how to do it, but you know it needs to be done and you know how often. (Which, at least with my car, is mentioned in the user manual.)
To make this example more accurate, it'd be like the following... (after sludge is flushed out of oil pan) 'I didn't know I needed my oil changed!' 'It's in the service and maintenance part of your car's manual.' 'My car has a manual?'
That's what it's like dealing with users that piss off IT.
And believe me, if you took that sludged up oil pan to a mechanic, they will make fun of you too. Oh, not at you, but later.
But for us to have a toy to play with may easily backfire into a situation where the next set of 419'ers or click-fraud farms are enabled through the use of OLPC devices.
I would venture if someone wanted to use these to make a 419/click-fraud farm, they would find one either on the grey market or just take one. (There should be plenty going to war torn, despot leaded areas of Africa where a militant could just walk out and go YOINK!)
The tinkerers would be the ones necessary to find how they're doing it and plug it up.
The modem could be replaced, but (sticking with the same analogy) you'd have to call your DSL company and they'll probably ship over the same model. Hence NASA would have to build, launch and land Pathfinder #2, at around the same spot...assuming Soj still has power.
Have tou ever heard someone in the next office over going click, click, clock rapidly about 50 times? I'll bet you they were using Excel.
If that was me, it's Minesweeper.
Oh bother, didn't even see the "it's" above that line. I had to re-read it like 3 times after seeing this wondering 'wtf did THAT line come from?'
Yea, I think that's where the OP's first responder got confused too I bet, because you have another 'it's' right below it.
Then it is correct in the original post, because you would expand the contraction to
"It is a magical world..."
Anyway, that's how Bill Watterson wrote it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_and_Hobbes
Negative. Sojourner talks through Pathfinder. Since Pathfinder's dead, Sojourner's mute. Crudely speaking, look at it as a DSL line with your PC as Soj and the modem as Path. Dead modem, the PC doesn't talk to NASA.
It's just a fricken word.
Windows.
Pentium.
Photoshop.
Playstation.
Those are just fricken words too but some are worth more than some small nations.
Repeat after me: Trademarks are not patents.
You can get a trademark diluted if you fail to protect it (see Otis Escalators) but as long as you're on top of the registration, show a dedicated desire to protect it (like the boilerplate Adobe Photoshop form letters) and not let it lapse (Cisco released a recent iPhone in 2006) it's pretty much rock solid.
Plus, 'iPhone' isn't as generic term like 'Windows' so the Linspire argument won't work.
You cannot use 'prior art' in a trademark dispute. You cannot use 'obviousness' in a trademark dispute. Trademarks aren't methods of manufacturing. It's a registered name. You either have it or you don't.
First link goes to an index...
Second link doesn't even work for me...
And the third link is about spinal discs, the ones that herniate.
Battin 0 for 3, AC.
Anyway, I've always referred to magnetic storage as 'disks,' hard drives and floppy drives.
Discs were the optical storage variety.
Probably some association with 'disk' as an older style of spelling, hence the older technology, while 'disc' is sleeker and shiny and new. Or 'disk' is a more blocky word to look at (HDs and FDs are rectangular), while 'disc' is rounder (cds being...round).
Most likely I just grew up doing it for no real reason and making excuses after the fact.
Strictly grammatically, the summary is still correct. 'Almost' as a word makes no claim on whether the value is under or over, just that it's very close. 1.9 is almost 2 the same way 2.1 is almost 2.
Yes, it is bad form, but that doesn't make it wrong. (Got to love this stupid language...)
1) Well, a human eye did see the stars after it went through the Hubble. (Can the Hubble actually "see?") Note, he didn't say "naked human eye."
...Yea, that one's fubar.
2) But is that 1 billion years and two months from the Hubble or from British Columbia? Related question, do you get huffy when they say 10 bil years plus 700 mil years equals 18 bil years? Significant figures.
3)
Well, if you want to argue semantics, LG doesn't have an 'EULA' for Blu-Ray; it's a 'FLLA' or 'Format and Logo Licence Agreement'.
l e/flla.htm :
http://www.blu-raydisc.info/license_info/rewritab
Under FLLA, licensee will be granted a license to use the Blu-ray Disc Format Specifications and Blu-ray Disc Logo to develop, manufacture, use or sell the products categorized as follows.
Unfortunatly, in order to read the licence, you have to pay to get one which is either $15k or $2.5k, I'm not quite sure... Either way it's a smidge out of my price range so I can only hazard a guess to what might be in it.
I'm curious where you got that impression from, since HD and BD can use the same codecs (MPEG 4, MPEG 2 and VC-1). The only real core difference is space and so far that hasn't been an advantage for either side yet.
Comparisons at this time are mostly inconclusive as well.
Dual-sided discs are always more complicated and expensive to manufacture
Interesting point, but that doesn't explain why many early releases on DVD were dual sided single layer (DSSL). (Right Stuff, Amadeus for two immediate examples I can think of). Single side dual layer is more complex and expensive, but (a) kinks got worked out and techniques improved so the raw cost dropped down close to (if not at) DSSL production and (b) customers just like them more so they sell better.
Heck, I didn't buy Amadeus because of that until the 2 disc SE.
Don't read those End User Licence Agreements do you?
but it would stand to reason they have their own license to use as they please.
They have their own licence to use as they please within the confines of the licence. Just because I have a licence to use XP Pro on my home computer (yes, I do, I actually plunked down for the retail version...my reasons are my own) doesn't mean I can do what I want to Windows. (Assuming I actually adhere to the licence)
True, I can violate that licence and MS likely won't come down on me like a sack of bricks. LG, though, is a corporation and is watched by Sony and other members of the Blu Ray Disc Association. I'd imagine they WOULD come down on LG like a sack of bricks. They could probably even revoke LG's licence.
So, you wouldn't mind if I go through your mail? It's not unreasonable. I consider you a threat to society. You bold words that start with 'u'. Makes perfect sense to me.
Sure, call it a strawman if you want, but the fact is the whole warrant thing exists is meant to enforce the legitimacy of the legal system. A warrant means law enforcement has shown the judiciary there IS reason for a search, it has been well defined and is documented.
Unless reason has been shown, any search is unreasonable.