People thought the same at the beginning of DVD, or worse.
The difference is that DVD has a lot of benefits besides improved picture quality; no rewinding, you can choose scenes and go there instantly, "pause" doesn't leave ugly artifacts (nor do FF and Rewind), Multilingual subtitles (with the dynamics they use in movies these days where the music is ear splitting and the voices are muted, it's necessary) etc.
The only benefit to BluRay is the picture quality, and it is offset by some decidedly backward steps (one commenter earlier mentioned 90+ second to watch a movie, wtf???)
Most of us don't even have hidef TVs. Without a high definition television, BluRay is worthless.
My TV is forty two inches, flat screen, only five years old. I paid a thousand bucks for it, and I'm not planning on replacing it any time soon. By the time I need a new TV, BluRay will be obsolete.
Indeed. A screwdriver is useless for driving a nail, but a hammer is not a good tool to drive a screw. dBase is fine for small data sets (and you can do a hell of a lot) but NOMAD is far better for huge tables and databases. Neither is any good whatever for rendering a web page or writing a video game.
We can't keep wasting tax dollars on court cases for stupidity, which is exactly where this case will go.
You should move to North Korea or China if that's the sort of country you want to live in. I prefer to live where you are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, and where the punishment fits the crime.
I'm sick of you assholes trying to turn my country into MORE of a police state. Shoot yourself for treason and save the government the trouble.
And while there is no "right to privacy" explicitly state in American law
The tenth amendment says it your rights don't have to be explicitly stated in law; they are inherent. "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."
She took the computer to a second repair shop where they found that one of the problems was that her webcam would turn on whenever it detected her around and was taking photo's and uploading it to a website.
Chump. Assuming the improbable, that MS minions are really sincere about interoperability etc, just how do you propose to let them demonstrate that without either putting yourself into a vulnerable position or allowing them to waste your time or resources evaluating vaporware?
They're going to have to come up with something that doesn't suck and give it to me for free to make up for all the money I've wasted on their crap. And they're going to have to kiss my ass, too.
I don't know, but when I was in Thailand in the Air Force in 1974, almost all the Thai women under 35 were damned good looking, even beautiful. And they were the absolutely niceset people I ever met, which is saying a lot because I worked at Disney World for five years, meeting people from all over the world.
The British I met at Disney were the most polite of anyone, and the British women pretty much were about the same as American women.
But as they say, beauty (and ugliness) is in the eye of the beholder. Redd Foxx (or was it Richard Pryor?) once famously said "Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly's to the bone!"
Of course, didn't you see that one episode of STNG where Data shagged, er, that blonde that the oil slick monster killed later? What OS do you think Data runs on? Yep, Linux.
Lore runs on Windows. That's why Data always beats him.
Good point; more than likely half of all slashdotters are obese, and the other half are skinny. I was i nthe skinny half, the McDonald's diet didn't help a bit.
IINM you can scale Linux to run on anything from a supercomputer to a wristwatch. When you get down to the level of the bare silicone, there's nothing you can do in 16 bits that you can't do (albeit a lot slower) in eight bits.
The Apple IIe had some awesome Pac Man and Space Invaders clones that were decidedly illegal because they mimicked the arcade machines you put quarters in perfectly.
Would you consider health care for your parnets a "deadweight loss"?
and if you are willing to do fee-for-service yourself
If you can AFFORD to do fee-for-service. health care is expensive. I just had vitrectomy surgery in April to repair a detached retina, the hospital bill alone for the outpatient surgery was $6,000. I had cataract surgery on that same eye in 2006 and it was comparable; I got a newer CrystaLens implant (FDA approved in 2003) that can focus, that pushed my cost up to almost $2,000.
In the Canadian health system, you cannot get that MRI just by paying for it
Since only anout 1% of people can afford an MRI and I'm not one of them, I fail to see the problem.
Fat people got mod points? The above wasn't flamebait, it was fact.
That said, my "supersize me" diet hasn't paid off a bit. None of the weight has gone where I wanted it, but at a bar the other day some smartass asked "when is it due?"
Also, just because children of overweight mothers (the father's weight has nothing to do with the infant's health) often suffer health problems during infany doesn't mean that all do, or that fit women's infants don't. When my oldest was born, my ex-wife wasn't obese, yet Leila had health problems. Evil-X was big as a house when Patty came along, but aside from colic she was healthy.
No results found for "american infant dialysis machine" -Google
I fail to see how the above flamebait is in any way "insightful". We don't have them here, according to Google. From the HTML version in the Google cache of the PDF (also available) the official US Food and Drug Administration website:
For hemodialysis, a specialized central venous dialysis catheter is necessary to deliver adequate blood flow to the dialyzer. Sizes must be available that can be inserted in infants as small as 1.O kg, up to small adolescents of 50-60 kg. Since the development of the long term indwelling central venous catheter by Robert Hickman and his colleagues, significant strides have been made in the types and sizes of these catheters, but the selection is still limited. Several manufacturers have made commitments to the pediatric nephrology community to develop new catheters and continue to provide them to our patients. However, the number of vendors is quite limited, especially for smaller children and infants. To date the smallest long-term cuffed catheter is 8 Fr, yet this may be too large for some infants with renal failure, in whom long-term hemodialysis is life-sustaining therapy, or for some critically ill newborns with inborn errors of metabolism in whom hemodialysis or CRRT may be life-saving
I just googled "british women" and there are ony two ugly ones there. I don't know where you're from, but Springfield has its share of fugly women too (Betty Boop, Olive Oyle, and Alderman Gail Simpson live here, among other cartoons). In fact, I think ugly ones beat out hotties something like ten to one.
If anything, the women Google provided are perhaps too skinny, but otherwise damned good looking (except one or two, like I said). Where do you see these ugly british women? Or are you just trolling?
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People thought the same at the beginning of DVD, or worse.
The difference is that DVD has a lot of benefits besides improved picture quality; no rewinding, you can choose scenes and go there instantly, "pause" doesn't leave ugly artifacts (nor do FF and Rewind), Multilingual subtitles (with the dynamics they use in movies these days where the music is ear splitting and the voices are muted, it's necessary) etc.
The only benefit to BluRay is the picture quality, and it is offset by some decidedly backward steps (one commenter earlier mentioned 90+ second to watch a movie, wtf???)
Most of us don't even have hidef TVs. Without a high definition television, BluRay is worthless.
My TV is forty two inches, flat screen, only five years old. I paid a thousand bucks for it, and I'm not planning on replacing it any time soon. By the time I need a new TV, BluRay will be obsolete.
Indeed. A screwdriver is useless for driving a nail, but a hammer is not a good tool to drive a screw. dBase is fine for small data sets (and you can do a hell of a lot) but NOMAD is far better for huge tables and databases. Neither is any good whatever for rendering a web page or writing a video game.
NSFW
Crappy Old Bad Obsolete Language
COBOL is EASY compared to C/C++ or even Java/C#.
That's a strength, not a weakness.
I was told that "Thailand" means "land of smiles", and the people there are (at least were) extremely friendly, and they smiled a hell of a lot.
Nothing is prettier than a smile. A fat girl with a big nose and a smile is prettier than a frowning supermodel.
We can't keep wasting tax dollars on court cases for stupidity, which is exactly where this case will go.
You should move to North Korea or China if that's the sort of country you want to live in. I prefer to live where you are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, and where the punishment fits the crime.
I'm sick of you assholes trying to turn my country into MORE of a police state. Shoot yourself for treason and save the government the trouble.
I'm eating lunch, you insensitive disgusting clod.
Dude, Taco posted the story, so it should have been "tens wimman's".
And while there is no "right to privacy" explicitly state in American law
The tenth amendment says it your rights don't have to be explicitly stated in law; they are inherent. "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."
In Illinois doing this would be a felony.
A woman I was talking to in a bar last night who had just broken up with her boyfriend said all men are dicks.
She took the computer to a second repair shop where they found that one of the problems was that her webcam would turn on whenever it detected her around and was taking photo's and uploading it to a website.
Vapon and Taco, meet Bob.
Chump. Assuming the improbable, that MS minions are really sincere about interoperability etc, just how do you propose to let them demonstrate that without either putting yourself into a vulnerable position or allowing them to waste your time or resources evaluating vaporware?
They're going to have to come up with something that doesn't suck and give it to me for free to make up for all the money I've wasted on their crap. And they're going to have to kiss my ass, too.
I don't know, but when I was in Thailand in the Air Force in 1974, almost all the Thai women under 35 were damned good looking, even beautiful. And they were the absolutely niceset people I ever met, which is saying a lot because I worked at Disney World for five years, meeting people from all over the world.
The British I met at Disney were the most polite of anyone, and the British women pretty much were about the same as American women.
But as they say, beauty (and ugliness) is in the eye of the beholder. Redd Foxx (or was it Richard Pryor?) once famously said "Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly's to the bone!"
So linux can run on tits too?
Of course, didn't you see that one episode of STNG where Data shagged, er, that blonde that the oil slick monster killed later? What OS do you think Data runs on? Yep, Linux.
Lore runs on Windows. That's why Data always beats him.
For one thing, companies like Atarisoft published plenty of authorized ports of arcade games on Apple II and other 8-bit platforms
Yes, but none came close to the arcade games.
Good point; more than likely half of all slashdotters are obese, and the other half are skinny. I was i nthe skinny half, the McDonald's diet didn't help a bit.
IINM you can scale Linux to run on anything from a supercomputer to a wristwatch. When you get down to the level of the bare silicone, there's nothing you can do in 16 bits that you can't do (albeit a lot slower) in eight bits.
The Apple IIe had some awesome Pac Man and Space Invaders clones that were decidedly illegal because they mimicked the arcade machines you put quarters in perfectly.
Yes, I read it. It didn't say WHY they were too large, although some slashdotters have answered the question for me.
deadweight loss to the economy of Medicare taxes
Would you consider health care for your parnets a "deadweight loss"?
and if you are willing to do fee-for-service yourself
If you can AFFORD to do fee-for-service. health care is expensive. I just had vitrectomy surgery in April to repair a detached retina, the hospital bill alone for the outpatient surgery was $6,000. I had cataract surgery on that same eye in 2006 and it was comparable; I got a newer CrystaLens implant (FDA approved in 2003) that can focus, that pushed my cost up to almost $2,000.
In the Canadian health system, you cannot get that MRI just by paying for it
Since only anout 1% of people can afford an MRI and I'm not one of them, I fail to see the problem.
Fat people got mod points? The above wasn't flamebait, it was fact.
That said, my "supersize me" diet hasn't paid off a bit. None of the weight has gone where I wanted it, but at a bar the other day some smartass asked "when is it due?"
Also, just because children of overweight mothers (the father's weight has nothing to do with the infant's health) often suffer health problems during infany doesn't mean that all do, or that fit women's infants don't. When my oldest was born, my ex-wife wasn't obese, yet Leila had health problems. Evil-X was big as a house when Patty came along, but aside from colic she was healthy.
No results found for "american infant dialysis machine" -Google
I fail to see how the above flamebait is in any way "insightful". We don't have them here, according to Google. From the HTML version in the Google cache of the PDF (also available) the official US Food and Drug Administration website:
Mod parent troll.
I just googled "british women" and there are ony two ugly ones there. I don't know where you're from, but Springfield has its share of fugly women too (Betty Boop, Olive Oyle, and Alderman Gail Simpson live here, among other cartoons). In fact, I think ugly ones beat out hotties something like ten to one.
If anything, the women Google provided are perhaps too skinny, but otherwise damned good looking (except one or two, like I said). Where do you see these ugly british women? Or are you just trolling?