Yea, well, Venus couldn't sustain liquid water on the surface for very long to begin with anyway.
Back in my college astronomy classes, I remember hearing that both Venus and Earth had around the same amount of CO2 in their early days, the difference with Earth is our water vapor in the atmosphere was able to condense and the bulk of the CO2 dissolved into the oceans.
Meyers: I did a little research and I discovered a startling thing... There was violence in the past, long before cartoons were invented. Kent: I see. Fascinating. Meyers: Yeah, and know something, Karl? The Crusades, for instance. Tremendous violence, many people killed, the darned thing went on for thirty years. Kent: And this was before cartoons were invented? Meyers: That's right, Kent.
One thing to keep in mind for Nintendo is their cost is in yen.
The one time Big N had a losing quarter was during a period of currency fluxuations between the yen and the US dollar.
In Japan, the price is Y25,000 ($213) so they'd have to match at least $213, (it's more important that the foreign markets are priced higher, see above), so probably $225, but that's just a bizarre round number, so toss in Wii Sports and ratchet it to $250. Simple.
Added bonus is Wii Sports is a good showoff of the remote, it's a non-threatening game for console newbies, and it doesn't take away from other more lucrative titles like Zelda, Red Steel or Mario.
none actually wants the businesses to make a loss at the end of the day.
Actually, I think in this case they don't care. There's much much more at stake to drive the other (Sony or Microsoft) out of the business. For Sony, the PS3 doesn't just mean game revenue, but in their eyes, Blu-Ray revenue. Winning the HD format feud is much more lucrative in the long run than game consoles.
As far as Microsoft, they're desperatly trying to establish a foothold in the home theater environment. They want (perhaps need) another reliable market; their accounting department may have realized their software lines are starting to flatline and even start dropping.
Given the loss on the consoles, it would take a large number of games and services to break even. They're probably just using those to help soften the blow. Sony and MS still have large, profitable markets in their portfolio to subsidize the production of these consoles. HDTVs and Office software, respectively.
I think they're fully expecting their game console markets to take losses, even taking into account games and services. The eventual profits in the home theater market are greater for them than the console.
This is a new one to me. I don't think anyone would think too much of it if Amazon went down. There's plenty of alternatives, including brick and mortar, for most of what Amazon is used for.
The technology I see people not trusting are the ones we cannot control. Voting machines? With the punch card style we can still see where our vote goes. Most kiosk type services have withstood time (ATMs, for example), but people are still afraid of airplanes on a purely mechanical level. And when even pacemakers get recalled, can we ever really become complacent with technology?
I'd be worried about relying on anything mechanical to stay alive; it's just a lack of control. Who am I relying on for repairs, the medical field or the engineering department?
The Rock was a good summer popcorn flick; one of the few. It's also important to note that The Rock was the last Simpson/Bruckheimer collaberation. Don Simpson was yin to Bruckheimer's yang. Together, the two were great.
Since Simpson's passing though, that's when we got everything else you listed.
HP is going to be roiled hard over this when the state and feds get done. there will be new law, and pretexting is going to be outlawed. HP is going to stain like a cheap rug when Congress is done with them.
Cause Sony's sure hurting after pissing off the DoD with those rootkits...
Sad but true, give this 6 months, who's going to remember Pattie Dunn's little wiretapping? They'll go back to making their subpar consumer printers and whatnot and keep chugging along.
I thought it was packaged as one book way back in the day, but the binding couldn't hold the massive tome so the publisher asked Tolkien to split it up into more manageable parts, so he went to three and that's where the part titles came from...
They kept a log of recently applied-for accounts that were denied because of age, and if too many fields match, they wouldn't let you re-apply.
So...just sign up with completely false information under a new account. As far as Yahoo's concerned, I'm a 29 year old from Dallas, Texas with the name Marvin Fischer.
Unless there is Actual. Physical. Verification. there's absolutely nothing that can be done to verify these thing Kids are smart. Smarter than FTC brass, at least.
The successes of the DS and the Wii are mutually exclusive though. Sales of one does not adversely affect the other, while they may drive additional sales.
On the other hand, Sony is explicitly tying together Blu-Ray with the PS3. You can't get it without it. I guess the best way to put it would be if MS bundled Windows with Zune (so the only way to get Windows is to get a Zune, even if you didn't want the Zune...and you're paying for it as well)
The problem isn't that it's electronic, the problem is it's not being held to any sort of secure criteria. Just compare Nevada slot machines to a Diebold device. Hell, compare Diebold ATMs to Diebold voting machines. It's a world of difference.
It also shows the importance we place on money versus our government...
I'm all for this, but no one has proven they can do it right. Maybe we should just replace voting machines with slot machines...
And assumptions are where the system breaks down. How do you KNOW they won't? You don't. So you have to guard against it. It's why security exists in the first place: because people are unscrupulous, devious and selfish.
Driving a truck would invalidate that device. Can we synchronize taking out hundreds of voting machines by truck? Sure, but it might be a tad suspicious. Digitally altering it is virtually untracable if they do it right.
This particular workaround doesn't require solder or anything fancy either.
Printers rarely come with USB cables in my experience if they can instead come with a parallel. In fact, I'm pretty sure my printer didn't even come with a parallel as well. I guess they thought it was a wireless printer when they boxed it up.
I've dealt with those too, but on the other hand, how many common folk will go straight to 192.168.0.1 in their browser? Users need their hands held. If the sticker says Use the CD, by gosh, they'll Use the CD.
When I'm supporting people, sometimes I'll get to a point where they have to install something with the defaults.
I'll go "ok, you'll have about 5 - 6 screens, just agree to everything it gives you" and use the time to start working on typing up the incident...and it NEVER fails that every screen they'll say "It says 'ok, cancel' now" "Click OK" "And now..." "CLICK OK" I said agree to everything the damn program said already, why do you need a second and third confirmation?! WHY ARE YOU CALLING?!
Somewhere along the lines these guys are going to end up on the wrong side of 'common carrier' status and I hope the hammer falls so hard on them it makes the CEO's relatives get migranes....
Sadly, it'll take something like the ACLU, the EFF and an educated chunk of the public to pull that off...
Well, 2 out of 3 might be enough...and I'm sure we can all guess what that last 1 I'm leaving out is...
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Except that guard wasn't dead, just unconscious. Vulcan nerve pinch isn't a kill shot.
How will Microsoft recoup losses to the Zune later on?
They'll mark up the next Office by $100. Problem solved.
Point. Always mixed those terms up...
Just remember that half of the US has an IQ below average.
Yea, well, Venus couldn't sustain liquid water on the surface for very long to begin with anyway.
Back in my college astronomy classes, I remember hearing that both Venus and Earth had around the same amount of CO2 in their early days, the difference with Earth is our water vapor in the atmosphere was able to condense and the bulk of the CO2 dissolved into the oceans.
Meyers: I did a little research and I discovered a startling thing... There was violence in the past, long before cartoons were invented.
Kent: I see. Fascinating.
Meyers: Yeah, and know something, Karl? The Crusades, for instance. Tremendous violence, many people killed, the darned thing went on for thirty years.
Kent: And this was before cartoons were invented?
Meyers: That's right, Kent.
Users! Users! Users!
Wait, five reasons? Add a 'Users! Users!' to the end of that.
DS9 actually, and there was also an episode of Enterprise that went into exactly why the change happened.
So, they can't actually do it without breaking canon.
One thing to keep in mind for Nintendo is their cost is in yen.
The one time Big N had a losing quarter was during a period of currency fluxuations between the yen and the US dollar.
In Japan, the price is Y25,000 ($213) so they'd have to match at least $213, (it's more important that the foreign markets are priced higher, see above), so probably $225, but that's just a bizarre round number, so toss in Wii Sports and ratchet it to $250. Simple.
Added bonus is Wii Sports is a good showoff of the remote, it's a non-threatening game for console newbies, and it doesn't take away from other more lucrative titles like Zelda, Red Steel or Mario.
none actually wants the businesses to make a loss at the end of the day.
Actually, I think in this case they don't care. There's much much more at stake to drive the other (Sony or Microsoft) out of the business. For Sony, the PS3 doesn't just mean game revenue, but in their eyes, Blu-Ray revenue. Winning the HD format feud is much more lucrative in the long run than game consoles.
As far as Microsoft, they're desperatly trying to establish a foothold in the home theater environment. They want (perhaps need) another reliable market; their accounting department may have realized their software lines are starting to flatline and even start dropping.
Given the loss on the consoles, it would take a large number of games and services to break even. They're probably just using those to help soften the blow. Sony and MS still have large, profitable markets in their portfolio to subsidize the production of these consoles. HDTVs and Office software, respectively.
I think they're fully expecting their game console markets to take losses, even taking into account games and services. The eventual profits in the home theater market are greater for them than the console.
This is a new one to me. I don't think anyone would think too much of it if Amazon went down. There's plenty of alternatives, including brick and mortar, for most of what Amazon is used for.
The technology I see people not trusting are the ones we cannot control. Voting machines? With the punch card style we can still see where our vote goes. Most kiosk type services have withstood time (ATMs, for example), but people are still afraid of airplanes on a purely mechanical level. And when even pacemakers get recalled, can we ever really become complacent with technology?
I'd be worried about relying on anything mechanical to stay alive; it's just a lack of control. Who am I relying on for repairs, the medical field or the engineering department?
The Rock was a good summer popcorn flick; one of the few. It's also important to note that The Rock was the last Simpson/Bruckheimer collaberation. Don Simpson was yin to Bruckheimer's yang. Together, the two were great.
Since Simpson's passing though, that's when we got everything else you listed.
HP is going to be roiled hard over this when the state and feds get done. there will be new law, and pretexting is going to be outlawed. HP is going to stain like a cheap rug when Congress is done with them.
Cause Sony's sure hurting after pissing off the DoD with those rootkits...
Sad but true, give this 6 months, who's going to remember Pattie Dunn's little wiretapping? They'll go back to making their subpar consumer printers and whatnot and keep chugging along.
I thought it was packaged as one book way back in the day, but the binding couldn't hold the massive tome so the publisher asked Tolkien to split it up into more manageable parts, so he went to three and that's where the part titles came from...
The irony with that is how long did it take them to build in Print-to-PDF functionality?
They kept a log of recently applied-for accounts that were denied because of age, and if too many fields match, they wouldn't let you re-apply.
So...just sign up with completely false information under a new account. As far as Yahoo's concerned, I'm a 29 year old from Dallas, Texas with the name Marvin Fischer.
Unless there is Actual. Physical. Verification. there's absolutely nothing that can be done to verify these thing Kids are smart. Smarter than FTC brass, at least.
The successes of the DS and the Wii are mutually exclusive though. Sales of one does not adversely affect the other, while they may drive additional sales.
On the other hand, Sony is explicitly tying together Blu-Ray with the PS3. You can't get it without it. I guess the best way to put it would be if MS bundled Windows with Zune (so the only way to get Windows is to get a Zune, even if you didn't want the Zune...and you're paying for it as well)
Damn it Nintendo! Stop going forward in time and stealing Sony's ideas!
I'd be interested to see a breakdown of how much goes to Sony and how much goes back to the designers (if they even exist anymore...)
The problem isn't that it's electronic, the problem is it's not being held to any sort of secure criteria. Just compare Nevada slot machines to a Diebold device. Hell, compare Diebold ATMs to Diebold voting machines. It's a world of difference.
It also shows the importance we place on money versus our government...
I'm all for this, but no one has proven they can do it right. Maybe we should just replace voting machines with slot machines...
And assumptions are where the system breaks down. How do you KNOW they won't? You don't. So you have to guard against it. It's why security exists in the first place: because people are unscrupulous, devious and selfish.
Driving a truck would invalidate that device. Can we synchronize taking out hundreds of voting machines by truck? Sure, but it might be a tad suspicious. Digitally altering it is virtually untracable if they do it right.
This particular workaround doesn't require solder or anything fancy either.
Printers rarely come with USB cables in my experience if they can instead come with a parallel. In fact, I'm pretty sure my printer didn't even come with a parallel as well. I guess they thought it was a wireless printer when they boxed it up.
I've dealt with those too, but on the other hand, how many common folk will go straight to 192.168.0.1 in their browser? Users need their hands held. If the sticker says Use the CD, by gosh, they'll Use the CD.
When I'm supporting people, sometimes I'll get to a point where they have to install something with the defaults.
I'll go "ok, you'll have about 5 - 6 screens, just agree to everything it gives you" and use the time to start working on typing up the incident...and it NEVER fails that every screen they'll say "It says 'ok, cancel' now" "Click OK" "And now..." "CLICK OK" I said agree to everything the damn program said already, why do you need a second and third confirmation?! WHY ARE YOU CALLING?!
Then I wish we could drink on the job...
Somewhere along the lines these guys are going to end up on the wrong side of 'common carrier' status and I hope the hammer falls so hard on them it makes the CEO's relatives get migranes....
Sadly, it'll take something like the ACLU, the EFF and an educated chunk of the public to pull that off...
Well, 2 out of 3 might be enough...and I'm sure we can all guess what that last 1 I'm leaving out is...
Don't think there is one. It's an unknown concept in that language.