Your plates are registered to a VIN. They scan the plate to get the VIN from the RFID tag. They then look at the VIN on your car and if they don't match you go to jail.
No. Shell owns the property. They can put whatever they want on their property. Auto makers would have a claim if Shell would only sell you gas if you drove a Shell car. Similarly, Google has the right to sell or not sell, whatever advertisement space they want.
I agree. 40000 people die each year in traffic accidents. Most of them involve speeding and/or alcohol. Last I checked 0 people died last year because of copyright infringement.
The difference between a bad college and a good college is the how vs the why. At a bad college they teach you HOW program in C++. At a good college they expect you know HOW to program in C++, they teach you Why programing languages are they way they are.
From http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-30/NCSA/TSF20 04/809915.pdf
Speeding is one of the most prevalent factors contributing to traffic crashes. The
economic cost to society of speeding-related crashes is estimated by NHTSA to be
$40.4 billion per year. In 2004, speeding was a contributing factor in 30 percent of
all fatal crashes, and 13,192 lives were lost in speeding-related crashes.
Motor vehicle crashes cost society an estimated $7,300 per second. The total
economic cost of crashes was estimated at $230.6 billion in 2000. In 2000, the
cost of speeding-related crashes was estimated to be $40.4 billion -- $76,865 per
minute or $1,281 per second.
It is pretty much the same thing here. It has given rise to a type of insurance fraud where someone will swerve into your lane and slam on the brakes trying to get rear ended. Often they will have a buddy tailgating you from behind so you can't stop in time.
Each year more then 40,000 people die and more then 2.5 million people are injured on US roads. Someone dies in a car accident every 12 seconds.
Less then 3000 people died in the September 11'th attacks.
Where do you suggest we spend the money?
There is too much of an emphasis on ticketing in the US. We need to work on a 3 strikes your out principle.
#1) Warning
#2) Ticket
#3) License suspended for 1 month. Mandatory safe driving class before you can get another one.
Driving is not a right. Its a privilege. When 95% of drivers on US highways are breaking the law its time for tougher enforcement.
43,443 people were killed on US roads in 2005 and 2.7 Million were injured. The expense for these accidents in medical care, lost wages, cleanup, etc, run in the billions, if not trillions, every year.
See, that is annoying but not dangerous. Most of the time you can open those packages without tools or just use a pair of scissors and cut the ties. The plastic bubble containers are just stupid try opening those with just scissors and at best you will spend 10 mins and tyour hand will be cramped as hell.
This is not ture at all. There is a paper trail for all of the things you mention. If I buy something online and it does not arrive I KNOW it does not arrive and I can contact my credit card company about it. If I have been charged too much it shows up on my bank statement. If I renew my vehicle registration online I get my registration card in the mail. If I cast my e-ballot how do I know my vote got counted correctly? I don't. In fact, no one knows and that is what is wrong with the system.
No Verifiability means that if the results of an election are in doubt you can go back and recount the votes to be sure that the published results match the ballots. With the pure electronic voting machines we have today there is no way to know if the election results were altered in any way. What people have been asking for is a print out with each e-ballot that shows in clear, human legible print, who you have voted for. After you have checked the sheet to be sure that it is correct you drop it in a box for storage. NIST wants to take things one step further. Instead of having your vote counted by a machine and then have a receipt for your voting they want the machine to read the actual ballot.
$8-$12 in licencing fees per game. $200-300 loss per PS3 sold. +cost of network, SHipping, Service, Support, Advertising.
30 is a very reasonable number. It is unlikey that Sony will be able to lower component costs significantly before they are forced to do a price cut due to current manufacturing difficulties with Blue Lasers and the complexity of the Cell chip. The loss per consol will gradually shrink but it will be years before the PS3 breaks even on manufacturing.
The problem here is the lifetime of your software is shorter then the lifetime of your hardware. This makes the consol market notoriously volitile. For operating systems, Windows won the market because people wanted to continue to use thier old windows software in addition to new software. Old software still kept its value because it is important to keeping your buisness running. In the consol market people do not care about old software, they care about new software. Old games do not hold thier value because it is not critical that you be able to run them.
I see the Wii as a very shrewd move for Nintendo. If the Wii garners a modest 20 Million units Nintendo will just take thier profits go back to a more traditional consol in the next generation. No big loss for Nintendo. If the Wii takes off though, neither Sony nor Microsoft will be able to compete with Nintendo in the next generation because of the patents on the wiimote. Now, they could come up with something totaly new but given thier track record that does not seem very likely.
Worst case, Nintendo is still #3 and still makes a good profit.
Best case, Nintendo gains a definative advantage for the next 15 years.
This is true but the bigger truth is that you can not make money selling a consol at a loss.
Consol makers only see $8-$12 in fees for every game sold. If you are selling a consol at a $200 loss you would have to sell 20 games before you even covered your hardware costs. After that you have to cover your R&D costs, service and support costs, and your advertising costs. After all of that you can finally start to make some money. Historically most (if not all) consols have an attach rate of less then 10. (10 games sold per consol) This is why Microsoft los so much money on the Xbox. The PS3 will not make a profit for years to come. Nintendo, on the other hand, starts making money right away.
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Your plates are registered to a VIN. They scan the plate to get the VIN from the RFID tag. They then look at the VIN on your car and if they don't match you go to jail.
I'm going to file a patent where there are 3 buttons!
So, whats your point? Its their web page. They do with it as they see fit.
Exactly. Google is in no way obligated to sell advertisement space to their competitors.
No. Shell owns the property. They can put whatever they want on their property. Auto makers would have a claim if Shell would only sell you gas if you drove a Shell car. Similarly, Google has the right to sell or not sell, whatever advertisement space they want.
If any company today stands behind its products its Nintendo. Their warranty and RMA practices have been the best I Have ever seen.
I agree. 40000 people die each year in traffic accidents. Most of them involve speeding and/or alcohol. Last I checked 0 people died last year because of copyright infringement.
The difference between a bad college and a good college is the how vs the why. At a bad college they teach you HOW program in C++. At a good college they expect you know HOW to program in C++, they teach you Why programing languages are they way they are.
From http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-30/NCSA/TSF20 04/809915.pdf
Speeding is one of the most prevalent factors contributing to traffic crashes. The
economic cost to society of speeding-related crashes is estimated by NHTSA to be
$40.4 billion per year. In 2004, speeding was a contributing factor in 30 percent of
all fatal crashes, and 13,192 lives were lost in speeding-related crashes.
Motor vehicle crashes cost society an estimated $7,300 per second. The total
economic cost of crashes was estimated at $230.6 billion in 2000. In 2000, the
cost of speeding-related crashes was estimated to be $40.4 billion -- $76,865 per
minute or $1,281 per second.
So you are saying if I am ok with 5-20 years I have the right to cut off your hand?
It is pretty much the same thing here. It has given rise to a type of insurance fraud where someone will swerve into your lane and slam on the brakes trying to get rear ended. Often they will have a buddy tailgating you from behind so you can't stop in time.
http://www.driveandstayalive.com/info%20section/st atistics/stats-usa_indiv-states_per-capita_2002.ht m
Arizona is apparently only the 13'th worst state. Just be glad you are not living in Wyoming.
You can take a bus, plane, taxi or just walk. Driving is not a right.
Each year more then 40,000 people die and more then 2.5 million people are injured on US roads. Someone dies in a car accident every 12 seconds. Less then 3000 people died in the September 11'th attacks. Where do you suggest we spend the money?
There is too much of an emphasis on ticketing in the US. We need to work on a 3 strikes your out principle. #1) Warning #2) Ticket #3) License suspended for 1 month. Mandatory safe driving class before you can get another one. Driving is not a right. Its a privilege. When 95% of drivers on US highways are breaking the law its time for tougher enforcement. 43,443 people were killed on US roads in 2005 and 2.7 Million were injured. The expense for these accidents in medical care, lost wages, cleanup, etc, run in the billions, if not trillions, every year.
This would be true if everyone in the left lane wasn't already braking the law by speeding.
To be fair, try calling up any other company and asking for the ball of a mouse. I doubt they will give you the time of day.
See, that is annoying but not dangerous. Most of the time you can open those packages without tools or just use a pair of scissors and cut the ties. The plastic bubble containers are just stupid try opening those with just scissors and at best you will spend 10 mins and tyour hand will be cramped as hell.
This is not ture at all. There is a paper trail for all of the things you mention. If I buy something online and it does not arrive I KNOW it does not arrive and I can contact my credit card company about it. If I have been charged too much it shows up on my bank statement. If I renew my vehicle registration online I get my registration card in the mail. If I cast my e-ballot how do I know my vote got counted correctly? I don't. In fact, no one knows and that is what is wrong with the system.
No Verifiability means that if the results of an election are in doubt you can go back and recount the votes to be sure that the published results match the ballots. With the pure electronic voting machines we have today there is no way to know if the election results were altered in any way. What people have been asking for is a print out with each e-ballot that shows in clear, human legible print, who you have voted for. After you have checked the sheet to be sure that it is correct you drop it in a box for storage. NIST wants to take things one step further. Instead of having your vote counted by a machine and then have a receipt for your voting they want the machine to read the actual ballot.
The average consumer will only buy 7-9 new games per consol.
$8-$12 in licencing fees per game. $200-300 loss per PS3 sold. +cost of network, SHipping, Service, Support, Advertising. 30 is a very reasonable number. It is unlikey that Sony will be able to lower component costs significantly before they are forced to do a price cut due to current manufacturing difficulties with Blue Lasers and the complexity of the Cell chip. The loss per consol will gradually shrink but it will be years before the PS3 breaks even on manufacturing.
The problem here is the lifetime of your software is shorter then the lifetime of your hardware. This makes the consol market notoriously volitile. For operating systems, Windows won the market because people wanted to continue to use thier old windows software in addition to new software. Old software still kept its value because it is important to keeping your buisness running. In the consol market people do not care about old software, they care about new software. Old games do not hold thier value because it is not critical that you be able to run them.
I see the Wii as a very shrewd move for Nintendo. If the Wii garners a modest 20 Million units Nintendo will just take thier profits go back to a more traditional consol in the next generation. No big loss for Nintendo. If the Wii takes off though, neither Sony nor Microsoft will be able to compete with Nintendo in the next generation because of the patents on the wiimote. Now, they could come up with something totaly new but given thier track record that does not seem very likely. Worst case, Nintendo is still #3 and still makes a good profit. Best case, Nintendo gains a definative advantage for the next 15 years.
This is true but the bigger truth is that you can not make money selling a consol at a loss. Consol makers only see $8-$12 in fees for every game sold. If you are selling a consol at a $200 loss you would have to sell 20 games before you even covered your hardware costs. After that you have to cover your R&D costs, service and support costs, and your advertising costs. After all of that you can finally start to make some money. Historically most (if not all) consols have an attach rate of less then 10. (10 games sold per consol) This is why Microsoft los so much money on the Xbox. The PS3 will not make a profit for years to come. Nintendo, on the other hand, starts making money right away.