Do you live alone? Not a jab or anything, but kids and other people just move stuff for no reason. Yes, there is a "landing pad" for wallet and keys, why do they move what's there? I have no idea, but they do.
I just keep keys and my wallet in my bag or in my coat pocket now and I hang my coat up and my bag (some people have briefcases) is put away. If I don't have my bag, I probably don't need all the keys, and so I just take what I need.
Simple. And I don't care if I carry a bag around; I've got useful stuff in there.
Check out Every Day Carry Forums for some interesting things that people carry and the methods they use.
We are talking about the internet. The web. And marketshare. Sorenson Spark and On2 VP6 are the winners, and h264 is tiny, almost vanishing by comparison.
We are talking about cell phone video.
Webcams.
Camcorders.
The Flip Pocket HD at $125. The Sony Handicam at $3500. A casual search of Google Shopping returns 3,600 hits for "H.264 camcorder."
Industrial and home security video. "H.264 WiFi Camera," 1,200 hits.
We are talking about services like Netflix and Hulu. Home video standards matter when the decoder is built into your Internet enabled HDTV, video game console, Blu-Ray player or STB.
That decoder will be H.264 not Sorenson Spark.
We are talking about hardware accelerated H.264 video in Flash and Silverlight.
Steam is slightly better than the absolute worst of the DRM systems yes, but it still can take all your games away if you so much as look at it funny. Even SecuROM or StarForce can't do that. If you travel with a laptop, I suggest you buy your games somewhere else. Steam has a tendency to lock accounts that log in from multiple IP addresses. 'Cause, you know, that's a crime.
I call bullshit on that. I regularly use Steam from school, my apartment, and my parents house and on many different machines. My brother also logs into my account to access my game libarary and vice versa.
Really the only ban is for cheating on VAC secured servers and games. Even if you get banned for cheating, it's still possible to play on non VAC secured games and servers.
Too many idiots go flying through construction zones putting construction works and other motorists in danger.
Cite?
Specifically that people speeding in construction zones is an actual problem in AZ that causes injuries/deaths.
In the movie House of Flying Daggers, there's a swordfight scene where the two rivals finally clash in an epic struggle as the seasons change from summer to fall to winter all around them. Obviously nobody can fight for nine months. Obviously the sword choreography was on a completely different time scale to the environment they were in. Details like this matter if you're a weak-minded literalist. As pretty as the visuals were, it simply communicated a story like a line in a novel. It was a powerful visual metaphor.
I'm going to disagree with you on this one. The whole film took place in late fall (which was an intentional visual metaphor). When they started fighting, it was sunny outside (perhaps that's what gives the impression of summer), but the leaves are all brown and autumney. The director was planning to film a straight autumn scene, but then (according to the director's commentary), in a great moment of serendipity, it started snowing in the middle of the shoot. So they went with the snow, thereby further enhancing the visual metaphor, since winter seems to come on just as (SPOILER ALERT) Mei dies. You also get the outstanding visuals of blood in the snow and the dagger shaking snow out of the tree. And that little bit of serendipity makes this one of my favorite cinematic scenes of all time (well, that, and the "showdown," where what happens doesn't make sense unless you think carefully about each character's motivation in doing what he/she does, and then it makes perfect sense).
And on an unrelated note, nobody should ever watch this movie with the lame English dubbing. Watch it with the awkwardly-translated subtitles, and enjoy Zhang Ziyi's expressiveness.
It's pretty much a worst case scenario, but BP, and I suspect a whole lot of politicians, went out of their way to minimize the potential.
It looks like they didn't. It looks like they were part of an active lobby against using the best safety precautions available. Look at this post above yours for some additional info: http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1639434&cid=32078886
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