The second link in the article talks about this, shows how they measure holistic performance for different types of web sites, and includes benchmarks comparing IE9 to other pre-release browsers. I don't suppose it occurred to you to actually read any of the article links.
But of course, clicking links in the summary to see if your question has already been addressed would slow down your posting.
Often the full terms aren't even presented to until after you have paid money to reserve the apartment, and you have no real negotiating power. These are unconscionable contracts of adhesion.
1) "Unconscionability" is an extraordinarily high bar to meet. You should be very careful when you describe something as "unconscionable," because the odds are very good that the court is going to disagree with you.
2) They are not contracts of adhesion. First of all, even if the full terms are not presented until later (which is a change from every apartment I've ever rented--I have always had to sign both the lease agreement and the "community rules" documents), that doesn't necessarily mean that you're unable to reject them. As techies, we should probably be familiar with ProCD, Inc. v. Zeidenberg, 86 F.3d 1447 (7th Cir., 1996), as it is the case which most directly approved shrink-wrap licenses. The court in Zeidenberg said:
Transactions in which the exchange of money precedes the communication of detailed terms are common. Consider the purchase of insurance. The buyer goes to an agent, who explains the essentials (amount of coverage, number of years) and remits the premium to the home office, which sends back a policy. On the district judge's understanding, the terms of the policy are irrelevant because the insured paid before receiving them. Yet the device of payment, often with a “binder” (so that the insurance takes effect immediately even though the home office reserves the right to withdraw coverage later), in advance of the policy, serves buyers' interests by accelerating effectiveness and reducing transactions costs. Or consider the purchase of an airline ticket. The traveler calls the carrier or an agent, is quoted a price, reserves a seat, pays, and gets a ticket, in that order. The ticket contains elaborate terms, which the traveler can reject by canceling the reservation. To use the ticket is to accept the terms, even terms that in retrospect are disadvantageous. See Carnival Cruise Lines, Inc. v. Shute, 499 U.S. 585, 111 S.Ct. 1522, 113 L.Ed.2d 622 (1991); see also Vimar Seguros y Reaseguros, S.A. v. M/V Sky Reefer, 515 U.S. 528, 115 S.Ct. 2322, 132 L.Ed.2d 462 (1995) (bills of lading). Just so with a ticket to a concert. The back of the ticket states that the patron promises not to record the concert; to attend is to agree. A theater that detects a violation will confiscate the tape and escort the violator to the exit. One could arrange things so that every concertgoer signs this promise before forking over the money, but that cumbersome way of doing things not only would lengthen queues and raise prices but also would scotch the sale of tickets by phone or electronic data service.
In the event that you actually do find objectionable terms after signing (and why didn't you ask for a copy of the lease agreement to begin with?), you have the option of repudiating the agreement when you discover the objectionable terms. By continuing to move in and take advantage of the lease, you signal your acceptance of the apartment complex's offer. You don't get to take advantage of the offer, then complain later that you didn't like the terms.
And, for the record, the terms *can* be negotiated. I know because I've done it with nearly every apartment I've rented, having clauses struck that I didn't like and adding clauses I wanted. The idea that it's a contract of adhesion fails on several points, and "unconscionable" is laughable at best.
I think you're confused. eeplorer.exe is not a list of files - it's the whole user-interface of Windows - including the taskbar, desktop and window manager and any shell-extension plugins you've got hosted by it.
+1 from me.
Firefox has the worst management of any browser out there and it keeps getting worse with each new version.
In every single release they claim to sorted out memory leaks, but they haven't even started. I started Firefox this morning and it's already up to 850MB and needs restarting and I don't really even have any extensions installed anymore. You'd never get that with IE8 or Chome - they never seem to go over 200-300MB, no longer how long they're left running for. Don't get me wrong - Firefox is still my favourite and default browser - but don't ever try to claim to me that it's faster or better than Internet Explorer or Chrome because it's certainly NOT. Perhaps when it very first loads it is, but not in the real-world after 4-6 hours of usage.
What version of GIMP are you using, something from like 1998?
1) Make selection
2) Open "Image" menu in main menubar
3) Click "Crop to Selection"
You're done. That seems pretty easy and straight forward to me, and sounds almost identical to what you described. It's the way I've been cropping images for as long as I can remember in GIMP. I'm sure there's *always* a harder way you can find to do something, but that doesn't mean it's the way you are intended to.
There's an article I can't now find that has a dev stating it's £7 on the 360, i.e. ~15% (closer to 50% for XBLA and whatever, but then they're basically taking over the retailer's cut). I assume it is the "anything else" making up a big chunk of the $10 in TFA.
This makes some sense since you can buy lots of things in stores that obviously cost a lot more to produce (more complex, more materials) for much less than $10, in fact I buy my DVD's from a store that sells about 1/3 of DVD movies for half that or less. It may be reasonable for the article to do this because apparently royalties are charged on manufacture rather than on sale like most industries, and since it's quite hard to confirm what the royalty actually is, I'm guessing console makers must be very protective over it.
The console manufacturer's licence fee would appear to be a good deal for developers and publishers: they are moving towards consoles in droves.
You suckers keep paying $50 and $60 for games and the prices will only go higher.
While I'm in the same boat as you (I just bought Bioshock for $5 through D2D), I wouldn't necessarily label people who pay full price as suckers. They're paying a premium to play right away and that's their prerogative.
We know why most audio CDs cost $17.99. Illegal price fixing.
We know why video games cost $60. Illegal price fixing.
The FTC and the Justice Department's antitrust unit were out to lunch during the Bush administration, but that seems to be changing. Stay tuned for enforcement.
that's an awful lot of insertions to repair all the damage... using viruses to replace defective genes is all well and good when there are a fairly manageable number of damaged genes to repair but we are talking about potentially hundreds of genes. in addition, the process would have to be repeated as aging continues to do its damage. what we really need is a genetic template and a safe, reliable repair mechanism.
If you actually used Demonoid, you would have known the site has been down for more than a week.
hey did before the internet. Now we allhave soapboxes. The trouble is, most of us don't communicate very well.
Coulda swore I saw something somewhere that blogs weren't protected speech under the First Ammendment.
Besides, with all those blogs out there, the signal to noise ratio is dropping like a rock. Sure, everybody has a soapbox, but nobody's listening, they're too busy screaming.
One way to make your old car run better is to look up the price of a new model.
