Religious Zeal has had it's business plan hammered out centuries before the invention of the Corporation. If I was a betting man, I'd give the odds of the Monolith as 1:1000000 chance of happening, the Cross a 1:3 chance.
Tried a few rounds. Some went well, some were so wrong as to be nearly hilarious. "This new dynamic duo is made up of Bruce Wayne's superhero self and a famous bandit of Sherwood Forest." Watson: "What is Lincoln Green Revolution." Unlike other answers where Watson at least admitted it was uncertain (though sometimes the correct answer was a contender), sometimes I'm not even sure where he'd get the answer...
South Korea? 3rd world? I bet you think the Japanese still live in mud huts, too.
A quick look placed South Korea at ~$18,000 GDP per capita, only about half of the US. North Korea is ~$1,000 per capita. If you call South Korea 3rd world, you're calling countries with similar economic profiles like Portugal and most of Eastern Europe 3rd world as well.
A quick Google search reveals some renderings of the Milky Way, compiling various theories. One of the illustrations has squarish features, but I can't find the "new map" that the article claims was supposedly released.
And I'm sure you are not representative of the average iPhone user, who is willing to pay $0.99 for an application that makes farting noises at the press of a big button or has the clothes fall of the pretty lady when the phone is tipped sideways. This would eat substantially into Android's share if iPhone was offered in other networks.
At this point, the "Nostalgia" may almost be for CD's. THe last one I bought was in line to get it signed by the band, everything else is (legal purchased) mp3.
Dude, you know that if Big Blue lost to Tao Rhuo-Hong in Chess, the US would have a major PR blow and toothless idiots that don't know Chess from Checkers would be afraid to sleep at night over worry that we're losing to the Chinese, and can we please spend more money to build better Chess-playing computers "CUZ THESE COLORS DON'T RUN!"
If I were IBM, I'd lobby on those fears to get the US to fund my R&D too. Not a good idea from a taxpayer's perspective, but evilly brilliant from IBM's perspective.
Until dangerous sites like wikileaks (and any other site we have a whim to block, like review sites that give poor reviews and non-MPAA/RIAA indie movie and music sites) are blocked, we and our children are not safe!
Be careful what you wish for. People with Hyperthymesia (total perfect memory) describe it as being "as non-stop, uncontrollable and totally exhausting." This could be the gene that locks that down and keeps us sane.
"Well golly, I like apples for the stability and that fact that 99% of malware doesn't work on it, but I need oranges because it's what runs all my expensive corporate business tools, and the vendor really won't and can't rewrite them for apples. That, and oranges are just more compatible with any game or app I want to use on it.
Gee whiz, it really is hard to compare apples and oranges."
So they're going to start with a giant study trying to find correlations (like the plankton one above), and much much later figure out what the causation is. And as always, the correlations will be published first to feed a hungry media. As these come back, remember that Correlation implies but does not prove Causation.
What you are talking about not "fixed prices," but "fixed costs." The cost of any good sold has a fixed cost and a variable cost, and technically an eBook has very low variable costs (in this case, mostly distribution) but similar fixed costs to deadwood (editing time, design/typography, etc).
Price fixing, on the other hand, is two companies joining forces to set prices in a market to maximize sales dollars or price out competition unfairly. The wikipedia link is a great reference on that.
Variable costs and Pricing are not necessarily related in non-commodity goods markets, because then artists would end up making nothing to produce creative works. It would be like saying I'm only going to pay $1 for Starcarft II, because that's what it cost to produce the disk, leaving out the R&D costs, testing, and (God forbid) that someone make some profit by producing a superior entertainment good that "can be copied infinitely at no cost."
Post his IP address on 4chan, not here. Within minutes, they'll have his name, address, mother's maiden name, his high school yearbook picture photoshopped onto longcat, 50 pizza delivery guys on the way to his place, and the FBI at this guy's door to search his (your) laptop for child animal porn....or maybe that's not such a good idea.
Come on, Australia has a population of 21MM people! If it joined the US, it would make it our 3rd largest state population-wise and that largest state area-wise! That, and if any of their government censorship antics (or nationalized broadband) are successfully implemented, don't think that the US and Western Europe won't seriously considering following suit.
That's absurd! By the time the TV starts working again, I'll have come back from McDonald's with my Double McLard with cheese with a super-sized bag of Freedom Fries. Won't even miss it.
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Religious Zeal has had it's business plan hammered out centuries before the invention of the Corporation. If I was a betting man, I'd give the odds of the Monolith as 1:1000000 chance of happening, the Cross a 1:3 chance.
Tried a few rounds. Some went well, some were so wrong as to be nearly hilarious. "This new dynamic duo is made up of Bruce Wayne's superhero self and a famous bandit of Sherwood Forest." Watson: "What is Lincoln Green Revolution." Unlike other answers where Watson at least admitted it was uncertain (though sometimes the correct answer was a contender), sometimes I'm not even sure where he'd get the answer...
Ironic that a Pirate themed product called Avast is using piracy as marketing...
South Korea? 3rd world? I bet you think the Japanese still live in mud huts, too. A quick look placed South Korea at ~$18,000 GDP per capita, only about half of the US. North Korea is ~$1,000 per capita. If you call South Korea 3rd world, you're calling countries with similar economic profiles like Portugal and most of Eastern Europe 3rd world as well.
Article is in error, there are no fire sheep pokemon, only electric sheep. I heard somewhere that Androids dream about them.
http://galaxymap.org/drupal/node/171
A quick Google search reveals some renderings of the Milky Way, compiling various theories. One of the illustrations has squarish features, but I can't find the "new map" that the article claims was supposedly released.
You're right! Adding -gate to things is the NEW SCANDAL! WE'll call it... Gategate!
And that we be the -gate to end all -gates.
And I'm sure you are not representative of the average iPhone user, who is willing to pay $0.99 for an application that makes farting noises at the press of a big button or has the clothes fall of the pretty lady when the phone is tipped sideways. This would eat substantially into Android's share if iPhone was offered in other networks.
No, but they have been issued large blue turtle shells.
At this point, the "Nostalgia" may almost be for CD's. THe last one I bought was in line to get it signed by the band, everything else is (legal purchased) mp3.
Dude, you know that if Big Blue lost to Tao Rhuo-Hong in Chess, the US would have a major PR blow and toothless idiots that don't know Chess from Checkers would be afraid to sleep at night over worry that we're losing to the Chinese, and can we please spend more money to build better Chess-playing computers "CUZ THESE COLORS DON'T RUN!"
If I were IBM, I'd lobby on those fears to get the US to fund my R&D too. Not a good idea from a taxpayer's perspective, but evilly brilliant from IBM's perspective.
Until dangerous sites like wikileaks (and any other site we have a whim to block, like review sites that give poor reviews and non-MPAA/RIAA indie movie and music sites) are blocked, we and our children are not safe!
I, for one, don't want to see any nukes on the interwebs.
Yes, but how does one stop 4chan?
Be careful what you wish for. People with Hyperthymesia (total perfect memory) describe it as being "as non-stop, uncontrollable and totally exhausting." This could be the gene that locks that down and keeps us sane.
http://www.physorg.com/news129561635.html
"Well golly, I like apples for the stability and that fact that 99% of malware doesn't work on it, but I need oranges because it's what runs all my expensive corporate business tools, and the vendor really won't and can't rewrite them for apples. That, and oranges are just more compatible with any game or app I want to use on it.
Gee whiz, it really is hard to compare apples and oranges."
For a minute, I thought this was from my Advertising Age newsfeed... I'm utterly mystified why it showed up on my Slashdot newsfeed.
I bought the new iPad, and it made my penis fall off! True story!
Fixed that for ya... per FTC compliance.
Indeed there is. The Pinball Wizard's got such a supple wrist. He's got crazy flipper fingers, never seen him fall. I also hear he plays by intuition.
So they're going to start with a giant study trying to find correlations (like the plankton one above), and much much later figure out what the causation is. And as always, the correlations will be published first to feed a hungry media. As these come back, remember that Correlation implies but does not prove Causation.
What you are talking about not "fixed prices," but "fixed costs." The cost of any good sold has a fixed cost and a variable cost, and technically an eBook has very low variable costs (in this case, mostly distribution) but similar fixed costs to deadwood (editing time, design/typography, etc).
Price fixing, on the other hand, is two companies joining forces to set prices in a market to maximize sales dollars or price out competition unfairly. The wikipedia link is a great reference on that.
Variable costs and Pricing are not necessarily related in non-commodity goods markets, because then artists would end up making nothing to produce creative works. It would be like saying I'm only going to pay $1 for Starcarft II, because that's what it cost to produce the disk, leaving out the R&D costs, testing, and (God forbid) that someone make some profit by producing a superior entertainment good that "can be copied infinitely at no cost."
Post his IP address on 4chan, not here. Within minutes, they'll have his name, address, mother's maiden name, his high school yearbook picture photoshopped onto longcat, 50 pizza delivery guys on the way to his place, and the FBI at this guy's door to search his (your) laptop for child animal porn. ...or maybe that's not such a good idea.
I know what you mean. I watched Pinky & The Brain too.
Come on, Australia has a population of 21MM people! If it joined the US, it would make it our 3rd largest state population-wise and that largest state area-wise! That, and if any of their government censorship antics (or nationalized broadband) are successfully implemented, don't think that the US and Western Europe won't seriously considering following suit.
Sorry teacher. I'm not rich enough to do my homework
See? They ARE teaching kids real-life skills... just maybe not the ones they intended.
That's absurd! By the time the TV starts working again, I'll have come back from McDonald's with my Double McLard with cheese with a super-sized bag of Freedom Fries. Won't even miss it.