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I got to the Las Vegas air port over 2 hours before departure and missed my flight. I was waiting in the check in lines for nearly 2 hours never mind security which was even longer.
Of course this is a good example of not keeping up the infrastructure, that is a very busy airport (since vegas is primarily a tourist destination) and is not particularly modern.
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The high speed rail system in japan is fantastic. Its fast, its efficient, you don't have to get there 3 hours early and wait around. Trains leave and arrive precisely on time. For domestic travel it is far more common to use the train then it is to take planes.
Its not that the trains are actually faster its that there is little time wasted on either end with check-in and baggage.
Admittedly japan is smaller than the US and it would be hard to justify a rail line through the "fly over states" but and east coast system with branches out to various central cities and a west coast rail down the coast would go a long way.
my guess is that the burns were so bad because the coffee soaked into her clothes and continued to burn her, chances are if she was wearing a bathing suit most of the coffee would have poured off of her legs harmlessly, but clothing could keep a large amount of the very hot liquid up against the skin over time.
Ah a "look and feel" lawsuit... well that's different.
Maybe they should ask apple how well those work out.
As for a contract, there is no mention of that. The article says repeatedly that they were "told" by google that there would be no competition. If there was a contract with such a stipulation (which there would be if the company was at all competent) they would be getting sued for breach of contract. Since they are not, I find it unlikely that there is a contract with such a clause.
The Japanese are a small people overall. Id be curious what the averages are over there. I'm a pretty thin guy but I look beefy compared to many men in japan.
Remember, japan is a homogeneous society and they are very different from many societies in the west both physically and culturally.
I was in japan about 9 years ago and I went back just a few months ago. I was amazed at the difference. There were far more people that I would categorize as overweight. No where near as many as in America and nobody that appeared to be obese, but it was quite a shift in a decade.
To go along with that I noticed that there were far more fast food places and unlike my first trip, restaurants did not list the calories on items the way they had in the past.
On the other hand I noticed that smoking was down and there were more non smoking areas (including on the streets of Tokyo) but those regulations were often ignored.
If the third party is paying for bandwidth on Bells network (other than the last mile) shouldn't they receive that bandwidth without any filtering by Bell?
If they are selling X bandwidth and they throttling it back that would seem to be a breach of contract with the third party ISPs.
So what your supposed to try out all the local internet services for a few months each and test each thoroughly (avoiding any long term contracts in the process). Given the shady nature of packet shaping thats the only real way to figure out what the service is going to actually be like.
And once you spend 6 months and god knows how much time, money and energy to choose the "best" internet provider in your area they are free to simply change the deal on you whenever they want, adding shaping or downlaod caps or what have you.
This isnt exactly like buying a car where you can go out and test drive them thoroughly, its a very difficult thing to shop for and the providers are not being up front about the actual performance of their networks. At least cell phone contracts (in the us at least) have a 10 day get out of jail free option if the coverage sucks in the areas you need it in.
At the time the IBM PC was not a market there were other desktop computers (like apples) and the market was and still is "Desktop Computers" and "Desktop Computer OS." The argument would be that IBM had a monopoly on the desktop computer market even though there were other players in that market because they had an overwhelming share of that market.
But then the clones came along and there were lots of them and they all ran MS DOS. In very little time the vast majority of desktop PCs ran MS operating systems. At that point MS had a monopoly on desktop operating systems even though IBM had lost the monopoly on the desktop computer (assuming they ever really had one).
There was probably a time when apple held the monopoly on desktop computers... when they were really the only game in town, but I'm not really sure. So your right, IBM PC isnt really a market but PC is. In the same way, Apple iPod isn't a market but MP3 players is a market. Apple doesn't have a monopoly on MP3 players (as far as I know).
One thing I don't know is how much of the market you have to control to be a monopoly. But remember, being a monopoly doesn't have to be an issue, its only a problem if you use that power to eliminate competitors or to build a monopoly in another market.
How can you have a monopoly over a market you create ?
You almost by definition have a monopoly over a market you create. If you are the only person making widgetA then you have a monopoly on that market, even if you were the first one to come up with the idea to make widgetA.
There is nothing wrong with being a monopoly. What is wrong is using that power to lock other people out of the same market (or related markets... like the market for widgetB that works with widgetA).
At this point im mostly interested in solar for household energy. I'm not holding my breath for electric vehicles that make sense for me.
The problem I have is that my heat is Natural Gas and the furnace is new. The cost to convert from steam radiators to an all electric system is pretty high. As a result there are pretty substantial limits to how much I can expect to recoup on solar power. I might end up with a negative electric bill which would be nice, but not the same as getting rid of a 3+ grand a year oil bill.
With only an electric bill to eliminate it would take a lot longer to recoup the cost than it would with an oil bill or running electric vehicles. Im hoping that some of the advancements in solar tech will make their way to market soon and that, combined with a tax credit, might bring the cost down to the point where a good way to go.
I fear if I invested in an All-Clad set it would sit dormant while my cast iron got all the attention.
Admittedly there are a few things that I don't use cast iron for, but its definitely the material of choice for 75% of my cooking needs and its dirt cheep. When I can afford to upgrade some of my other pieces though, it will be All-Clad that I buy.
You are limited by your stove... most of us have crappy ones, gas or electric.
I was at a home show a while back and saw a beautiful gas stove. you could turn the burner down so low that a piece of paper put across the grate would not burn. You could leave something to simmer over that heat all day.
Not only that, but as a safety feature it could detect if the flame went out and relight the burner to avoid a dangerous gas leak. That stove was fantastic. When I finally redo my kitchen Ill be looking for a stove like that.
If you own your house you are probably already in debt.
If its worth the money to move your house to solar, why not take out a home equity loan (assuming you have equity... these days not everyone has a lot of that) and do the conversion. Don't think of it as debt, think of it as an investment. If its really more economical for you to go to solar then the monthly cost of that equity loan should be lower than the cost of electricity and other fuels and you would come out ahead every month.
People talk about debt like it is some horrible monster. Its not. Properly manged debt is a tool, poorly managed debt is an albatross.
At some point it might make a lot more sense to move to electric or hydrogen powered cars. If you do that you are going to need those nuke plants up and running to provide the power.
Even if we stick with bio fuels in cars there are likely going to be limits to the amount of bio fuel we can produce economically so converting everything that doesnt move around to nuclear based electricity would take a lot of the load off of biofuel production.
when I was in school we used a similar tiered class approach and while it was informed by testing any student could move to any level they wanted too, so if you were bored and un challenged you could move up. The one exception to this was Advanced science in my freshman year of high school which required a recommendation from your middle school science teacher.
Tests may not be great but they make a good first pass, then you move people around to fine tune the system.
I dont believe that is a sample. Samples are when you take the actual audio of one song and take a bit of it and use it in your song. In the case of Ice, Ice Baby the riff was ripped off and re recorded.
This is important because the labels own the recordings of the songs but the artists own the songs themselves. You have to pay the artist if you re-record their song, you don't have to pay the artist if you sample a recording.
I dont see the advantage. "Big" screens are for more than just watching movies. It should be obvious that editing a document or looking at a web page benefits from a larger screen.
The keyboard is extremely cramped as well. The only benefit it provides is being a bit slimmer than a slider style phone but it ends up being wider and taller without any of the normal advantages that a wider and taller phone would normally provide.
Its honestly not about the touch screen its about the terrible ergonomics of those keyboards and the small size of the screen. The iPhone isnt really a perfect design for this kind of business use either. That LG iPhone knock off looks like it would be pretty good, form factor wise, but of course its not a smart phone at all.
I get that these are supposed to compete with the black berry but I don't think the form factor makes very much sense on those either. I watch people cram their thumbs in there to try to use the keyboard and its just not worth it.
I don't understand the popularity of this form factor. If you want a qwerty keyboard it really needs to be a flip/slide open style. Mixing a keyboard with a keypad is not a very good idea since you end up with a cramped keyboard and a difficult to use keypad. Not only that bu phones like this end up with half the screen real estate that the iPhone does and they are very large overall. I just don't understand the popularity.
Id rather have a phone that is a bit thicker that has a comfortable qwerty keyboard and a large screen. Id be willing to do my numeric dialing on the screen to get that.
Apple is pretty good about making their OS run on older machines. Not as good as they used to be but certainly not bad. They even support machines that don't have the graphics hardware to handle some of the new wiz-bang graphics features.
The fact that some companies are distributing Intel only binaries is not apples fault they have provided a mechanism to allow for backwards compatibility.
As for software requiring the latest version of the OS this can easily be explained by programmers taking advantage of new features in the OS. Just about every OS version since 10.3 has had new and interesting features for developers and if they choose to take advantage of them they do end up leavening users of previous OS's out in the cold, but blaming apple for this isn't really reasonable. Would you rather they didn't add these features?
The prices in Europe have always been higher at the pump. The reason for this is that most European countries have a very high tax on gas and here in America, we have a fairly small tax on gas.
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I got to the Las Vegas air port over 2 hours before departure and missed my flight. I was waiting in the check in lines for nearly 2 hours never mind security which was even longer.
Of course this is a good example of not keeping up the infrastructure, that is a very busy airport (since vegas is primarily a tourist destination) and is not particularly modern.
The high speed rail system in japan is fantastic. Its fast, its efficient, you don't have to get there 3 hours early and wait around. Trains leave and arrive precisely on time. For domestic travel it is far more common to use the train then it is to take planes.
Its not that the trains are actually faster its that there is little time wasted on either end with check-in and baggage.
Admittedly japan is smaller than the US and it would be hard to justify a rail line through the "fly over states" but and east coast system with branches out to various central cities and a west coast rail down the coast would go a long way.
my guess is that the burns were so bad because the coffee soaked into her clothes and continued to burn her, chances are if she was wearing a bathing suit most of the coffee would have poured off of her legs harmlessly, but clothing could keep a large amount of the very hot liquid up against the skin over time.
Not that its her fault for wearing pants.
Ah a "look and feel" lawsuit... well that's different.
Maybe they should ask apple how well those work out.
As for a contract, there is no mention of that. The article says repeatedly that they were "told" by google that there would be no competition. If there was a contract with such a stipulation (which there would be if the company was at all competent) they would be getting sued for breach of contract. Since they are not, I find it unlikely that there is a contract with such a clause.
so if its so secret how did google steal it?
If it was a real development and somehow unique wouldnt they have patented it instead to get real protection?
Probably not given that this company takes the word of some people in a meeting over a signed contract.
The Japanese are a small people overall. Id be curious what the averages are over there. I'm a pretty thin guy but I look beefy compared to many men in japan.
Remember, japan is a homogeneous society and they are very different from many societies in the west both physically and culturally.
Id like it if most of my tax money wasn't used to fund a war in Iraq, but we don't all get what we want.
Id like it if most of my tax money wasn't used to fund a war in Iraq, but we don't all get what we want.
I was in japan about 9 years ago and I went back just a few months ago. I was amazed at the difference. There were far more people that I would categorize as overweight. No where near as many as in America and nobody that appeared to be obese, but it was quite a shift in a decade.
To go along with that I noticed that there were far more fast food places and unlike my first trip, restaurants did not list the calories on items the way they had in the past.
On the other hand I noticed that smoking was down and there were more non smoking areas (including on the streets of Tokyo) but those regulations were often ignored.
If the third party is paying for bandwidth on Bells network (other than the last mile) shouldn't they receive that bandwidth without any filtering by Bell?
If they are selling X bandwidth and they throttling it back that would seem to be a breach of contract with the third party ISPs.
So what your supposed to try out all the local internet services for a few months each and test each thoroughly (avoiding any long term contracts in the process). Given the shady nature of packet shaping thats the only real way to figure out what the service is going to actually be like.
And once you spend 6 months and god knows how much time, money and energy to choose the "best" internet provider in your area they are free to simply change the deal on you whenever they want, adding shaping or downlaod caps or what have you.
This isnt exactly like buying a car where you can go out and test drive them thoroughly, its a very difficult thing to shop for and the providers are not being up front about the actual performance of their networks. At least cell phone contracts (in the us at least) have a 10 day get out of jail free option if the coverage sucks in the areas you need it in.
At the time the IBM PC was not a market there were other desktop computers (like apples) and the market was and still is "Desktop Computers" and "Desktop Computer OS." The argument would be that IBM had a monopoly on the desktop computer market even though there were other players in that market because they had an overwhelming share of that market.
But then the clones came along and there were lots of them and they all ran MS DOS. In very little time the vast majority of desktop PCs ran MS operating systems. At that point MS had a monopoly on desktop operating systems even though IBM had lost the monopoly on the desktop computer (assuming they ever really had one).
There was probably a time when apple held the monopoly on desktop computers... when they were really the only game in town, but I'm not really sure. So your right, IBM PC isnt really a market but PC is. In the same way, Apple iPod isn't a market but MP3 players is a market. Apple doesn't have a monopoly on MP3 players (as far as I know).
One thing I don't know is how much of the market you have to control to be a monopoly. But remember, being a monopoly doesn't have to be an issue, its only a problem if you use that power to eliminate competitors or to build a monopoly in another market.
How can you have a monopoly over a market you create ?
You almost by definition have a monopoly over a market you create. If you are the only person making widgetA then you have a monopoly on that market, even if you were the first one to come up with the idea to make widgetA.
There is nothing wrong with being a monopoly. What is wrong is using that power to lock other people out of the same market (or related markets... like the market for widgetB that works with widgetA).
At this point im mostly interested in solar for household energy. I'm not holding my breath for electric vehicles that make sense for me.
The problem I have is that my heat is Natural Gas and the furnace is new. The cost to convert from steam radiators to an all electric system is pretty high. As a result there are pretty substantial limits to how much I can expect to recoup on solar power. I might end up with a negative electric bill which would be nice, but not the same as getting rid of a 3+ grand a year oil bill.
With only an electric bill to eliminate it would take a lot longer to recoup the cost than it would with an oil bill or running electric vehicles. Im hoping that some of the advancements in solar tech will make their way to market soon and that, combined with a tax credit, might bring the cost down to the point where a good way to go.
I fear if I invested in an All-Clad set it would sit dormant while my cast iron got all the attention.
Admittedly there are a few things that I don't use cast iron for, but its definitely the material of choice for 75% of my cooking needs and its dirt cheep. When I can afford to upgrade some of my other pieces though, it will be All-Clad that I buy.
You are limited by your stove... most of us have crappy ones, gas or electric.
I was at a home show a while back and saw a beautiful gas stove. you could turn the burner down so low that a piece of paper put across the grate would not burn. You could leave something to simmer over that heat all day.
Not only that, but as a safety feature it could detect if the flame went out and relight the burner to avoid a dangerous gas leak. That stove was fantastic. When I finally redo my kitchen Ill be looking for a stove like that.
If you own your house you are probably already in debt.
If its worth the money to move your house to solar, why not take out a home equity loan (assuming you have equity... these days not everyone has a lot of that) and do the conversion. Don't think of it as debt, think of it as an investment. If its really more economical for you to go to solar then the monthly cost of that equity loan should be lower than the cost of electricity and other fuels and you would come out ahead every month.
People talk about debt like it is some horrible monster. Its not. Properly manged debt is a tool, poorly managed debt is an albatross.
At some point it might make a lot more sense to move to electric or hydrogen powered cars. If you do that you are going to need those nuke plants up and running to provide the power.
Even if we stick with bio fuels in cars there are likely going to be limits to the amount of bio fuel we can produce economically so converting everything that doesnt move around to nuclear based electricity would take a lot of the load off of biofuel production.
when I was in school we used a similar tiered class approach and while it was informed by testing any student could move to any level they wanted too, so if you were bored and un challenged you could move up. The one exception to this was Advanced science in my freshman year of high school which required a recommendation from your middle school science teacher.
Tests may not be great but they make a good first pass, then you move people around to fine tune the system.
It was the Mass state government, not a private company.
I dont believe that is a sample. Samples are when you take the actual audio of one song and take a bit of it and use it in your song. In the case of Ice, Ice Baby the riff was ripped off and re recorded.
This is important because the labels own the recordings of the songs but the artists own the songs themselves. You have to pay the artist if you re-record their song, you don't have to pay the artist if you sample a recording.
I dont see the advantage. "Big" screens are for more than just watching movies. It should be obvious that editing a document or looking at a web page benefits from a larger screen.
The keyboard is extremely cramped as well. The only benefit it provides is being a bit slimmer than a slider style phone but it ends up being wider and taller without any of the normal advantages that a wider and taller phone would normally provide.
Its honestly not about the touch screen its about the terrible ergonomics of those keyboards and the small size of the screen. The iPhone isnt really a perfect design for this kind of business use either. That LG iPhone knock off looks like it would be pretty good, form factor wise, but of course its not a smart phone at all.
I get that these are supposed to compete with the black berry but I don't think the form factor makes very much sense on those either. I watch people cram their thumbs in there to try to use the keyboard and its just not worth it.
I don't understand the popularity of this form factor. If you want a qwerty keyboard it really needs to be a flip/slide open style. Mixing a keyboard with a keypad is not a very good idea since you end up with a cramped keyboard and a difficult to use keypad. Not only that bu phones like this end up with half the screen real estate that the iPhone does and they are very large overall. I just don't understand the popularity.
Id rather have a phone that is a bit thicker that has a comfortable qwerty keyboard and a large screen. Id be willing to do my numeric dialing on the screen to get that.
Apple is pretty good about making their OS run on older machines. Not as good as they used to be but certainly not bad. They even support machines that don't have the graphics hardware to handle some of the new wiz-bang graphics features.
The fact that some companies are distributing Intel only binaries is not apples fault they have provided a mechanism to allow for backwards compatibility.
As for software requiring the latest version of the OS this can easily be explained by programmers taking advantage of new features in the OS. Just about every OS version since 10.3 has had new and interesting features for developers and if they choose to take advantage of them they do end up leavening users of previous OS's out in the cold, but blaming apple for this isn't really reasonable. Would you rather they didn't add these features?
The prices in Europe have always been higher at the pump. The reason for this is that most European countries have a very high tax on gas and here in America, we have a fairly small tax on gas.