You could say that New Zealand bribes Warner to get the Hobbits. From TFA: "Mr Key also announced The Hobbit will get a $20million ($15m US) tax rebate - US$7.5m per film" and "The Government will also offset U$10m of Warner Brothers' marketing costs."
The tax rebates don't cost the government anything: that's money they would have lost anyway if the movie was filmed somewhere else. So US$10M to keep hundreds of millions in foreign money in the country. That's not a bribe, that's just common sense.
E-books have 6% the sales that printed books have.
E-books make up 6% of book sales.
The headline can't be interpreted as the second of these because the headline says "of printed book sales". Ebooks are not printed, therefore ebooks cannot possibly make up any amount of printed book sales. Only the first interpretation is valid.
Well they were comparing modern browsers and I don't know any one who considers IE8 in that category....
Just what do you consider modern? IE 8 was released in March of last year. It's actually the newest piece of software from Microsoft on my PC.
Personaly I think it was there just to show how much the IE team has really improved performance, to be homiest I am impressed.
Well I'm not. Why should I be impressed when a company the size of Microsoft takes 9 versions and 15 years to achieve acceptable performance? If they were on a par with Chrome I'd be impressed but it's not, it's slower than every other competitor except the Firefox 4.0 beta.
You're confusing RPG with MMO or the variant of MMORPG
Diablo has the same sort of mechanisms and it's considered an RPG, right? I don't think the MMO part has much relevance.
So you'd limit "cyborg" to only those systems that include a direct machine-nerve interface? Seems pretty restrictive. You'd even exclude neuromancer-like mirrorshades, since they're essentially surgically implanted night vision goggles. You'd exclude most of the existing powered prostheses, which are controlled by shoulder or stump motion. No myoelectric limbs have a direct neural interface, but use EMG (if they use any biopotential signal at all), which is a neural signal amplified by residual muscle.
I wouldn't want to be that restrictive. By "directly controlled by the nervous system" I was trying to make the distinction between something operated by conventional means such as manual controls and something operated more directly but I don't think it should require a direct neural interface necessarily. So prostheses operated by stump motion would be included.
There's no argument that if we were to have all technology/tools removed and even lose our ability to create primitive tools the human carrying capacity of the earth would be at most a few million, maybe only a few hundred thousand. So I guess you could say that 99.99% of us are "cyborgs".
If you make the definition of "cyborg" so broad as to include any basic tool use (as Kevin Kelly does) then the term loses it's usefulness, IMHO. It's actually pretty hard to define the word. I'd want to include active prosthetics such as myoelectric limbs and cochlear implants but not artificial limbs that aren't directly controlled by the nervous system or sensors that merely modify, filter or enhance stimulus for an existing sense organ (I don't think wearing night-vision goggles makes you a cyborg). I think the term is most useful to describe people who have been enhanced beyond the human norm, not merely those using technology to replace functions they individually don't have.
I HAD to TURN ON FLASH because otherwise I would NOT have been able to watch it. I for one am glad I had the option to do so!
Plays fine on my iPad without Flash.
You changed the argument. If they said "one eighth the size of an iPhone pixel" it would be no clearer whether they are talking about area or width.
My point is that statements like "eight times smaller" are ambiguous, It doesn't really matter whether it's the "eight times" or the "smaller" that causes the issue. In both cases it's simply sloppiness - there is no reason why the author couldn't be precise ("pixels 10 microns across rather than the 78 micron wide pixels in the iPhone 4"). Using terms like "eight times smaller" just causes unnecessary confusion.
Wow, I never thought of that phrase as ambiguous in the least. "8 times smaller/slower" always means divide by 8 and "8 times larger/faster" always means multiply by 8. I wouldn't use it in a scientific paper, but it should be okay in informal usage.
Always? "8 times faster than walking pace" is pretty obvious, sure. What about "8 times faster than a blink of an eye"?
In this case "8 times small than a iPhone pixel" are they talking about area or width?
Tyre makes me think of a tire in a pyre. Wiktionary agrees with me that this is, at best, archaic.
Wiktionary states that "tyre" is currently used in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and the UK. That's hardly "archaic".
If we're dealing with #1 then simple passwords are perfect AS LONG AS SOMEONE IS MONITORING THE ACCOUNT FOR FAILED LOGIN ATTEMPTS and dealing with them (and having a delay between individual attempts).
You are only thinking about the individual's situation. Yes, a simple password is fine for a particular account if that account is monitored to prevent a dictionary attack. But in a lot of cases an attacker doesn't need to breach a particular account - any account will do. Instead of attacking a single account with thousands of passwords an attacker can simply attack thousands of accounts with a single password (or even different passwords from a dictionary - it doesn't matter).
Life is a healthy respect for mother nature laced with greed.
