For example, it has been shown that (especially when it comes to salmon), fish ladders simply do not work sufficiently to restore populations.
Citation please. I just dumped 70gs of carbon into the atmosphere trying to find a study showing the general ineffectivness of fish ladders. I did find several studies finding that individual fish ladders were creating an environment allowing predatory fish to congregate at the ladders reducing the populations of migratory fish. However, these situations were all in the tropics (i.e. not effecting salmon).
Not to mention, I was unaware that fish ladders were there to restore fish populations. I don't see any way something as simple as fish ladder could help restore a population. (maintain yes, restore no)
Well, the Gov't could just seize the patent as relating to "National Security." They do that on occasion, but I belive it's been basically limited to cryptography.
OK. So women get breast cancer. It's invariably after the "breeding age".
The article states that the father's family has a history of developing breast cancer in their 20's. That's smack dab in the middle of the "breeding age" in the western world.
why do I have to buy my house before I live in it?
But you certainly get to walk through the house first and (if it's a new house) the contractor is liable for any structural defects for up to 10 years.
You cannot return opened software. And very few developers release any sort of demo anymore.
Why do I have to buy my laptop before I get to take it home and play games on it?
But a laptop is a standardized piece of equipment, and if you don't like it you can return it (up to 90 days later at some stores)
You cannot return opened software.
Why did I have to pay for my holiday before I got on the plane?
If the airline gets you were you are headed and the hotel has a bed for you, then you got what you paid for (it's not the airline's fault if your destination just got wiped off the face of the Earth by a hurricane.) This is probably the most appropriate of your metphors.
However, if I buy a piece of software and it won't run on my system even though I meet the minimun req's, then I did not get what I paid for. And you cannot return opened software.
The GP's comment still stands though. The setup you are detailing is exactly like an old mainframe setup. One system with all the software and storage and several dumb terminals, which are little more than remote keyboards and monitors (probably video cards too in your example). I don't see this really taking off. When you consider that all it would take is breaking one machine and the whole household comes down (And home users do seem to be able to break ANYTHING).
Since it market does not appear to have slowed significantly or run into serious competition, why would they refresh the hardware?
See first post.
Why not refresh the hardware (especially since these designs have probably been on the drawing board for a couple of years now) when you can get the consumer to buy the same damn product a second time! Hey, I already have 2 DS lites and I would consider buying one of these.
I agree with you. Every time I hear a story with a title something like, "We can FIX global warming by messing with some other aspect of the weather system!" It makes me cringe.
We don't really know what's going on (I would love it if someone has a link to an article about an accurate computer model of the weather system, but I've never found one.) We see the average global temp increasing along with greenhouse gasses (but now the Germans are telling us GW is taking a hiatus, which means most all of our previous models are wrong), so lets cut back on the greenhouse gases (hell, hopefully eliminate man-made greenhouse emissions), not screw with the weather system even more.
The providers somewhat brought this on themselves by advertising in such a way that people equate SPEED with BANDWIDTH.
And I thought bandwidth was speed (well, the theoretical maximum speed. It appears to be about as slippery as those damned leprechauns), and throughput was the amount of data you actually moved. It's all confusing me especially since I had originally thought that bandwidth was a term used when transmissions were sent in analog (and dinosaurs ate our ancestors) and you could only make one transmission in each slice of the spectrum.
And now they throw in latency too. Doesn't it all move at the speed of light through a bunch of tubes? When did it all go wrong? Must be the haxors and pirates.
I also dispute that all other utilities we pay by usage. We don't pay by usage for cable/satellite TV.
Cable and satellite are both multicast services. The CableCo sends out one copy of everything to everybody. Usage isn't an issue because it's all being transmitted all the time anyhow.
We don't pay by usage for local phone service.
Local phone service never leaves the local TelCo (or at least the TelCos in close proximity have cheap to free peering agreements) I'm sure ISPs don't really care about the amount of data your moving around thier network. It gets expensive when your trying to move a large amount of packets across the planet. (Try making a long distance phone call and *BAM* usage charges.)
What do all these have in common? They're all information services.
But they are signifcantly different from ISPs. Just because they all move information doesn't mean they move it in the same manner.
I'm a solid agnostic (so, I'm willing to conceed that the Judeo-Christian Creator-God concept is possible, just not probable), also since age thirteen, but I think that a Governor (and not a potential VP) claiming that Operation Iraqi Freedom is "a task from God" is terrifying! Just remember, the crackpots that took out the Twin Towers also beleived they were on "a task from God."
Granted, in normal usage I have no problem with "a task from God" or "God's Will," but when you start to use them to justify military actions (or really anything political) it starts to get scary.
I would go a little farther than that. It don't think its unresonable to at least get a txt when you hit your limit. And I really wouldn't mind them just cutting outgoing service off when you hit 5x your normal monthly bill. (Even better, let us that customers set our own cutoff point)
But overages are where cell providers make the big bucks, so we won't be seeing anything like that (from the big players at least) unless it's mandated by law.
However, what I would really like to see (and will never ever ever happen) is tiered plans. So if you use 1-500 minutes you pay tier 1 cost, 500-750 tier 2, and so on. Of course they would still tack on their $.20 per txt and $.25 per pic and God only knows what per MB (my contract is old enough that I don't pay per MB:P)
Yeah, my mother had the same problem. She replaced every bulb in the house with CFLs and within 12 hours had a incapacitating migraine. Granted, she has a history of migraines and flourencent lighting is one of her triggers, but she was told "The new CFLs don't flicker anymore!" by a helpful sales person at her local big box store.
So the grandparent post must mean they don't visibly flicker, just like a CRT when you crank the refresh up to 120Hz. Unless he would care to cite a source proving they don't flicker at all.
We're not whinning about the fact that metered bandwidth is soon to be the norm. (At least I'm not) What is pissing me off is that I was sold an "Ulimited" plan only to find out that it is in fact limited. Which, wouldn't even be *that* bad, if they would at least tell me what the damn limits are!
So, if Comcast decides to be upfront and start selling tiered plans (or a flat rate for the connection + a per Mb rate) I'll stop whinning. Until then, might I offer you some cheese?
Now if we could figure out how to make diamonds out of all the spare carbon, then we've got something! You're right! We would have a bankrupt diamond industry.
Removing long term royalties would make this next to impossible for writers. Most writers would have to continue working at least part time jobs while getting a trickle of income from their newest works. That is not in the interest of the public at large, when the artist could be creating mildly successful works of creativity full time. How many books, that don't fly off the selves initially, ever see a second printing? I just don't beleive that publishers would fork out the money to republish (especially books since they cost considerable more per unit to publish than music) if they don't see a reasonable return. So, most writers don't see royalties for the rest of their lives anyhow.
Not to mention that energy usage wouldn't be as much of a problem if we would just produce it from more efficent and cleaner sources. That CFL what is powered by a coal fired plant is more damaging than an incandescent bulb powered by solar (or wind or tidal or geothermal or nuclear ad nasuem). Do you get your energy from renewable sources? Wait, scratch that; it doesn't matter. the entire grid is interconnected, which means that if you use less energy, then less coal is burned, period. My point was not that I use cleaner energy sources that you do, but instead that we would be better served by cleaning up our production process. Which means, burn less coal, period.
Here you go. In short, less mercury is released into the environment from a broken CFL than from the amount of coal burned by the equivalent incandescent. There are charts. That math quickly falls apart in certain situations. My basement for example has all 10 light fixtures and 5 outlets on one circuit breaker (It's a rental. If I owned it, it would be rewired). CFLs last about 1 week on average. (They don't deal with volatage irregularities very well, try using a simple dimmer on a CFL)
No one found a counter point to the migraine triggering aspects of CFLs? How can you support an outright ban (or in PC speech "slowly phasing out") of incandescents if it condems a percentage of the population to living in darkness.
What about people who have migranes triggered by the constant flickering of CFLs? My mother is one of them and I can tell you the week when they tried to switch over to CFLs was pure hell for her.
Not to mention that energy usage wouldn't be as much of a problem if we would just produce it from more efficent and cleaner sources. That CFL what is powered by a coal fired plant is more damaging than an incandescent bulb powered by solar (or wind or tidal or geothermal or nuclear ad nasuem). And isn't mercury a component of current CFLs? While it may not be a global warming danger, I centainly don't want any more mercury in my house than neccessary (anyone with a link to a site that compares the *production and disposal* of CFLs to incandescents?)
I'm not saying that trying to get the majority of the people to use CFLs is a bad thing, but it just won't work for everyone.
P.S. As soon as we stop burning fossil fuels in tiny, inefficent ICEs everyone can drive as big of a vehicle as they want. (And I'm not talking about hybrids)
So the universe isn't more lasting than a sparkle, but for us, inside the sparkle, that instant seems an eternity. I wish I had mod points. I think you just summed up the article quite profoundly.
I believe you are right. DVD ripping is not illegal. It's when you apply something like DeCSS to the ripped DVD file that's illegal. So yes, you can rip DVD's straight to your HD and legally play them all you want (provided the player has licensed CSS). But if I want to remove the ads or menus, or burn a dual-layer DVD to a single-layer disc I have to decode the DVD and I'm in violation of the DMCA (in the US).
I think you miss read the AC's post. He never said it would take hours to extract all the media from a client's computer. He said, "I honestly don't have time to look through everyone's personal image files and mp3 caches."
Doing a quick search for all media files on my computer returned 34K files, of which only about 3% is anything other than application resources. Assuming the files average only 100KB (because I think I might have just crashed explorer by trying to get file properties on that many files) that's still ~3.4GB, or about 30 minutes of burn time (and 5 cd swaps) with my CD burner. Not to mention the client's PC is probably already unstable, so even trying to copy that many files could be an exercise in futility. (Have you tried multitasking on a thrashed Windows installation?)
In other words, you would have to do spend some time digging or burning, to get anything useful from a client's computer.
I don't know what to blame that particular brain-fart on. I think it's Maine and Nebraska actually, and I'm not sure if the change happened after the last election.
Anyway, that's what I want. And they can go ahead and track what shows I'm watching and add targeted commercials. I don't care (I just don't need to see anymore Vagisil ads, sorry I don't have any use for that product.) just give me the media I want, how and when I want it.
Personally I long for the day when I can dial up the days entertainment on the net and have it delivered to me as and when I want, in the form I want, via a nice fat pipe to my house. I expect to pay for it too. I can't be alone in this thought. You're not.
You're right. In fact I think it can be safely labeled a purple state, since it's one of the few (the only?) states to split it's electoral college with the popular vote.
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For example, it has been shown that (especially when it comes to salmon), fish ladders simply do not work sufficiently to restore populations.
Citation please. I just dumped 70gs of carbon into the atmosphere trying to find a study showing the general ineffectivness of fish ladders. I did find several studies finding that individual fish ladders were creating an environment allowing predatory fish to congregate at the ladders reducing the populations of migratory fish. However, these situations were all in the tropics (i.e. not effecting salmon).
Not to mention, I was unaware that fish ladders were there to restore fish populations. I don't see any way something as simple as fish ladder could help restore a population. (maintain yes, restore no)
2009 Prius curb wieght : 2932 http://autos.yahoo.com/toyota_prius_4_door_liftback-specs/?p=ext
The 2000-03 Prius is the smaller verison that Toyota scrapped, because American's don't like shoe box cars.
Well, the Gov't could just seize the patent as relating to "National Security." They do that on occasion, but I belive it's been basically limited to cryptography.
OK. So women get breast cancer. It's invariably after the "breeding age".
The article states that the father's family has a history of developing breast cancer in their 20's. That's smack dab in the middle of the "breeding age" in the western world.
why do I have to buy my house before I live in it?
But you certainly get to walk through the house first and (if it's a new house) the contractor is liable for any structural defects for up to 10 years.
You cannot return opened software. And very few developers release any sort of demo anymore.
Why do I have to buy my laptop before I get to take it home and play games on it?
But a laptop is a standardized piece of equipment, and if you don't like it you can return it (up to 90 days later at some stores)
You cannot return opened software.
Why did I have to pay for my holiday before I got on the plane?
If the airline gets you were you are headed and the hotel has a bed for you, then you got what you paid for (it's not the airline's fault if your destination just got wiped off the face of the Earth by a hurricane.) This is probably the most appropriate of your metphors.
However, if I buy a piece of software and it won't run on my system even though I meet the minimun req's, then I did not get what I paid for. And you cannot return opened software.
The GP's comment still stands though. The setup you are detailing is exactly like an old mainframe setup. One system with all the software and storage and several dumb terminals, which are little more than remote keyboards and monitors (probably video cards too in your example). I don't see this really taking off. When you consider that all it would take is breaking one machine and the whole household comes down (And home users do seem to be able to break ANYTHING).
Since it market does not appear to have slowed significantly or run into serious competition, why would they refresh the hardware?
See first post.
Why not refresh the hardware (especially since these designs have probably been on the drawing board for a couple of years now) when you can get the consumer to buy the same damn product a second time! Hey, I already have 2 DS lites and I would consider buying one of these.
We don't really know what's going on (I would love it if someone has a link to an article about an accurate computer model of the weather system, but I've never found one.) We see the average global temp increasing along with greenhouse gasses (but now the Germans are telling us GW is taking a hiatus, which means most all of our previous models are wrong), so lets cut back on the greenhouse gases (hell, hopefully eliminate man-made greenhouse emissions), not screw with the weather system even more.
The providers somewhat brought this on themselves by advertising in such a way that people equate SPEED with BANDWIDTH.
And I thought bandwidth was speed (well, the theoretical maximum speed. It appears to be about as slippery as those damned leprechauns), and throughput was the amount of data you actually moved. It's all confusing me especially since I had originally thought that bandwidth was a term used when transmissions were sent in analog (and dinosaurs ate our ancestors) and you could only make one transmission in each slice of the spectrum.
And now they throw in latency too. Doesn't it all move at the speed of light through a bunch of tubes? When did it all go wrong? Must be the haxors and pirates.
I also dispute that all other utilities we pay by usage. We don't pay by usage for cable/satellite TV.
Cable and satellite are both multicast services. The CableCo sends out one copy of everything to everybody. Usage isn't an issue because it's all being transmitted all the time anyhow.
We don't pay by usage for local phone service.
Local phone service never leaves the local TelCo (or at least the TelCos in close proximity have cheap to free peering agreements) I'm sure ISPs don't really care about the amount of data your moving around thier network. It gets expensive when your trying to move a large amount of packets across the planet. (Try making a long distance phone call and *BAM* usage charges.)
What do all these have in common? They're all information services.
But they are signifcantly different from ISPs. Just because they all move information doesn't mean they move it in the same manner.
Granted, in normal usage I have no problem with "a task from God" or "God's Will," but when you start to use them to justify military actions (or really anything political) it starts to get scary.
But overages are where cell providers make the big bucks, so we won't be seeing anything like that (from the big players at least) unless it's mandated by law.
However, what I would really like to see (and will never ever ever happen) is tiered plans. So if you use 1-500 minutes you pay tier 1 cost, 500-750 tier 2, and so on. Of course they would still tack on their $.20 per txt and $.25 per pic and God only knows what per MB (my contract is old enough that I don't pay per MB :P)
So the grandparent post must mean they don't visibly flicker, just like a CRT when you crank the refresh up to 120Hz. Unless he would care to cite a source proving they don't flicker at all.
So, if Comcast decides to be upfront and start selling tiered plans (or a flat rate for the connection + a per Mb rate) I'll stop whinning. Until then, might I offer you some cheese?
No one found a counter point to the migraine triggering aspects of CFLs? How can you support an outright ban (or in PC speech "slowly phasing out") of incandescents if it condems a percentage of the population to living in darkness.
Not to mention that energy usage wouldn't be as much of a problem if we would just produce it from more efficent and cleaner sources. That CFL what is powered by a coal fired plant is more damaging than an incandescent bulb powered by solar (or wind or tidal or geothermal or nuclear ad nasuem). And isn't mercury a component of current CFLs? While it may not be a global warming danger, I centainly don't want any more mercury in my house than neccessary (anyone with a link to a site that compares the *production and disposal* of CFLs to incandescents?)
I'm not saying that trying to get the majority of the people to use CFLs is a bad thing, but it just won't work for everyone.
P.S. As soon as we stop burning fossil fuels in tiny, inefficent ICEs everyone can drive as big of a vehicle as they want. (And I'm not talking about hybrids)
BTW your link to dynamic content has expired. Here's another link to section 1201 of the DMCA. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/dmca-1200.txt
Doing a quick search for all media files on my computer returned 34K files, of which only about 3% is anything other than application resources. Assuming the files average only 100KB (because I think I might have just crashed explorer by trying to get file properties on that many files) that's still ~3.4GB, or about 30 minutes of burn time (and 5 cd swaps) with my CD burner. Not to mention the client's PC is probably already unstable, so even trying to copy that many files could be an exercise in futility. (Have you tried multitasking on a thrashed Windows installation?)
In other words, you would have to do spend some time digging or burning, to get anything useful from a client's computer.
Way to go me! Posting without sleep again.
Anyway, that's what I want. And they can go ahead and track what shows I'm watching and add targeted commercials. I don't care (I just don't need to see anymore Vagisil ads, sorry I don't have any use for that product.) just give me the media I want, how and when I want it.
You're right. In fact I think it can be safely labeled a purple state, since it's one of the few (the only?) states to split it's electoral college with the popular vote.