The fact that graphing calculators of quite modest specs and build still cost so much is a gooey blob of saliva in the face of idealist theories of competition.
Gee, Wally. You don't suppose artificial market manipulation by the educational establishment might have anything to do with it?
The whole problem with the calculator product sector is that competition is explicitly disallowed.
Unfortunately, while he was probably just trolling, a lot of people genuinely believe that the TEAbaggers are either small-l or big-L libertarians. It's hard to say who has the worst marketing department between the Libertarian Party, the North Koreans, and NAMBLA.
For the record, here's how you tell the difference: the L/libertarians were the ones bitching about government overreach during the last administration. The Tea Partiers are the ones who were perfectly content until a President of the Wrong Color was elected.
I think the clue that you're missing is that there is nothing on a "GPU" that didn't exist twenty years earlier. It just didn't exist on a single chip. Likewise there is little new under the sun when it comes to vector computing applications.
This is just a recapitulation of the early days of radio broadcasting. The big players fought each other tooth and nail, and eventually formed a patent cabal to stifle innovation and keep smaller competitors out of the marketplace. Lawsuits based on the shakiest imaginable IP flew like arrows at Thermopylae, and at least one pioneering figure in wireless tech was driven to suicide.
That was the better part of a century ago. The patent system was abused by incumbents to protect their turf, people bitched and moaned about it, and nothing changed (except that patent terms got longer). Expect the same this time around.
The Estes-type solid engines contain both a fuel and an oxidizer, so they should do OK in a vacuum or near-vacuum. They'd never be able to burn quickly enough to propel a rocket if they didn't.
1) Gyroscopically stabilize the camera platform so the footage doesn't look like it was shot by Michael Bay on the Vomit Comet.
2) Use the balloon to bring an ordinary Estes model rocket to 100,000+ feet and fire it. If the rocket could reach 2,000 feet if launched from the ground, how high would it go if launched at 1% atmospheric pressure? In other words, what limits a model rocket's altitude performance -- drag or gravity? How long would the launch rod need to be to stabilize the rocket during launch at 100,000 feet?
Oh, come off it. You aren't fooling anybody but yourself with the self-righteous lawyer/logician schtick.
Here's an idea: why don't the "homebrewers" spend their considerable time and effort working on a platform that isn't proprietary to a criminally avaricious company who doesn't want anyone else to work with it or add value to it? Turn your back on Sony, shake off the dust from your boots, and walk away.
Unless, of course, the "homebrewers" are mostly interested in warezing games. Then it suddenly makes sense for them to focus so much time and effort on the PS3 and other locked-down consoles.
And if you see what portion of the establishment media is 'liberal', you might suspect that portraying Palin as an idiot is an intentional product of their political tastes.
If you want to hire ten or a hundred times as many police, and jump your property taxes by an order of magnitude, start a political campaign to do it. In the mean time, the police will (properly) prioritize violent crimes before non-violent crimes
Pull the other one. It has a bell attached!
You'd have a point if "prioritizing violent crimes" included camping out behind an overpass with a radar gun and a box of donuts, watching a meaningless yet profitable number on a speed display while meth-addled truckers are shoving people off the road.
I told him if we really wanted to see hate in action, I'd get him started talking about Sarah Palin.
Hate has its uses. A little hate at the right place and time might have stopped Hitler. The possibility of someone like Palin gaining the US Presidency is worth fighting against with every weapon at civilization's disposal. If that includes hate, well, so be it.
Second, he did not show nor was described as showing any inclination to use nuclear weapons that I am aware of
Except for revising US strategic nuclear doctrine to include preemptive strikes, of course. As CinC, Bush was accountable, if not directly responsible, for this initiative
No one cares.
Yeah, I think that was pretty much the whole problem.
This is classic FUD. What if Obama IS a secret Muslim? People assuaged by the fear of an alarmist eventuality that has no supporting evidence and is incredibly unlikely, is again, no loss. How does someone find it insightful?
OK, kids, this is your brain on Jack9. Any questions? Take them up with your pastor.
...And assuming that they aren't working in astronomy, there really is no loss.
"No loss?" What a monstrously stupid statement.
This kind of ignorance may be "no loss" to society until it becomes widespread enough to perpetuate itself... which is exactly what happens when these people vote. Then, we'll end up having to "teach the controversy" of heliocentrism in the schools.
Cheap shots in TV commercials are nothing unusual. The marketing people at the #2 player in a given market are paid to slag the competition, and if they're competent, that's what they do.
But when the engineers are focused on somebody else's taillights, it's a problem. They are paid to tend to the company's own knitting.
Engineers and managers at Apple meet in a boring, windowless conference room to discuss how to address weaknesses in the iPhone, what features should be added and how they should be implemented, and how to sell more units.
iPads are great and all, but the fact is, any cheap generic tablet or netbook can access khanacademy.org. That's all a motivated kid needs to learn almost anything in the STEM areas.
If I were a traditional textbook publisher I'd like to think I'd be smart enough to use my last $50 to put out a hit on that guy...
My own DirectDraw apps from 1996 work great in Windows 7. The API is deprecated in the sense that Microsoft no longer recommends using it, and who knows if they're still even shipping ddraw.h, for that matter. But as a COM component, runtime support for IDirectDraw isn't any more endangered than CreateWindow().
In the prostitution labor market, there are ordinary women, underage girls, children and adults bonded in the sex trade or sex slavery, pimps and their ilk, and clients. Underage girls and bonded women (unwilling members of the sex trade) do not consent to their work.
I'm sorry. Can you save me the trouble of reading through all that wharrrgarbl, and explain, in five words or less, who is arguing for the legalization of slavery?
My argument is that your argument is just another variation on the arguments that got us into Prohibition. "Because a subset of consumers can't handle their alcohol, nobody gets to drink a beer after work."
It is not the role of the government to tell consenting adults what they can do. (And I don't want to hear about slavery and human trafficking and all that crap. Slaves are not consenting adults.)
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The fact that graphing calculators of quite modest specs and build still cost so much is a gooey blob of saliva in the face of idealist theories of competition.
Gee, Wally. You don't suppose artificial market manipulation by the educational establishment might have anything to do with it?
The whole problem with the calculator product sector is that competition is explicitly disallowed.
Yeah. You're the one missing the clue.
Unfortunately, while he was probably just trolling, a lot of people genuinely believe that the TEAbaggers are either small-l or big-L libertarians. It's hard to say who has the worst marketing department between the Libertarian Party, the North Koreans, and NAMBLA.
For the record, here's how you tell the difference: the L/libertarians were the ones bitching about government overreach during the last administration. The Tea Partiers are the ones who were perfectly content until a President of the Wrong Color was elected.
I think the clue that you're missing is that there is nothing on a "GPU" that didn't exist twenty years earlier. It just didn't exist on a single chip. Likewise there is little new under the sun when it comes to vector computing applications.
This is just a recapitulation of the early days of radio broadcasting. The big players fought each other tooth and nail, and eventually formed a patent cabal to stifle innovation and keep smaller competitors out of the marketplace. Lawsuits based on the shakiest imaginable IP flew like arrows at Thermopylae, and at least one pioneering figure in wireless tech was driven to suicide.
That was the better part of a century ago. The patent system was abused by incumbents to protect their turf, people bitched and moaned about it, and nothing changed (except that patent terms got longer). Expect the same this time around.
The Estes-type solid engines contain both a fuel and an oxidizer, so they should do OK in a vacuum or near-vacuum. They'd never be able to burn quickly enough to propel a rocket if they didn't.
1) Gyroscopically stabilize the camera platform so the footage doesn't look like it was shot by Michael Bay on the Vomit Comet.
2) Use the balloon to bring an ordinary Estes model rocket to 100,000+ feet and fire it. If the rocket could reach 2,000 feet if launched from the ground, how high would it go if launched at 1% atmospheric pressure? In other words, what limits a model rocket's altitude performance -- drag or gravity? How long would the launch rod need to be to stabilize the rocket during launch at 100,000 feet?
Oh, come off it. You aren't fooling anybody but yourself with the self-righteous lawyer/logician schtick.
Here's an idea: why don't the "homebrewers" spend their considerable time and effort working on a platform that isn't proprietary to a criminally avaricious company who doesn't want anyone else to work with it or add value to it? Turn your back on Sony, shake off the dust from your boots, and walk away.
Unless, of course, the "homebrewers" are mostly interested in warezing games. Then it suddenly makes sense for them to focus so much time and effort on the PS3 and other locked-down consoles.
And if you see what portion of the establishment media is 'liberal', you might suspect that portraying Palin as an idiot is an intentional product of their political tastes.
"What magazines do you read?"
"All of them"
Yeah. Liberal bias.
If you want to hire ten or a hundred times as many police, and jump your property taxes by an order of magnitude, start a political campaign to do it. In the mean time, the police will (properly) prioritize violent crimes before non-violent crimes
Pull the other one. It has a bell attached!
You'd have a point if "prioritizing violent crimes" included camping out behind an overpass with a radar gun and a box of donuts, watching a meaningless yet profitable number on a speed display while meth-addled truckers are shoving people off the road.
I told him if we really wanted to see hate in action, I'd get him started talking about Sarah Palin.
Hate has its uses. A little hate at the right place and time might have stopped Hitler. The possibility of someone like Palin gaining the US Presidency is worth fighting against with every weapon at civilization's disposal. If that includes hate, well, so be it.
Second, he did not show nor was described as showing any inclination to use nuclear weapons that I am aware of
Except for revising US strategic nuclear doctrine to include preemptive strikes, of course. As CinC, Bush was accountable, if not directly responsible, for this initiative
No one cares.
Yeah, I think that was pretty much the whole problem.
Damn aliens, always trying to sap our precious bodily fluids. I don't know about you, but I deny them my essence.
Which was?
Are you in favor of delusional nutcases packing your local school board through sheer numbers?
This is classic FUD. What if Obama IS a secret Muslim? People assuaged by the fear of an alarmist eventuality that has no supporting evidence and is incredibly unlikely, is again, no loss. How does someone find it insightful?
OK, kids, this is your brain on Jack9. Any questions? Take them up with your pastor.
...And assuming that they aren't working in astronomy, there really is no loss.
"No loss?" What a monstrously stupid statement.
This kind of ignorance may be "no loss" to society until it becomes widespread enough to perpetuate itself... which is exactly what happens when these people vote. Then, we'll end up having to "teach the controversy" of heliocentrism in the schools.
Have you ever seen Idiocracy?
Cheap shots in TV commercials are nothing unusual. The marketing people at the #2 player in a given market are paid to slag the competition, and if they're competent, that's what they do.
But when the engineers are focused on somebody else's taillights, it's a problem. They are paid to tend to the company's own knitting.
Here are the government phones you asked for. The best part is, the waiting list for installation is only ten years!
The 400-unit sellthrough figure was a slanderous lie spread by Apple fanboy trolls. The actual number of Kin phones sold was closer to 1000.
Engineers and managers at Apple meet in a boring, windowless conference room to discuss how to address weaknesses in the iPhone, what features should be added and how they should be implemented, and how to sell more units.
iPads are great and all, but the fact is, any cheap generic tablet or netbook can access khanacademy.org. That's all a motivated kid needs to learn almost anything in the STEM areas.
If I were a traditional textbook publisher I'd like to think I'd be smart enough to use my last $50 to put out a hit on that guy...
My own DirectDraw apps from 1996 work great in Windows 7. The API is deprecated in the sense that Microsoft no longer recommends using it, and who knows if they're still even shipping ddraw.h, for that matter. But as a COM component, runtime support for IDirectDraw isn't any more endangered than CreateWindow().
In the prostitution labor market, there are ordinary women, underage girls, children and adults bonded in the sex trade or sex slavery, pimps and their ilk, and clients. Underage girls and bonded women (unwilling members of the sex trade) do not consent to their work.
I'm sorry. Can you save me the trouble of reading through all that wharrrgarbl, and explain, in five words or less, who is arguing for the legalization of slavery?
My argument is that your argument is just another variation on the arguments that got us into Prohibition. "Because a subset of consumers can't handle their alcohol, nobody gets to drink a beer after work."
It is not the role of the government to tell consenting adults what they can do. (And I don't want to hear about slavery and human trafficking and all that crap. Slaves are not consenting adults.)
How are the realities of an industry orthogonal?
Because those realities aren't part the "industry," but rather consequences of the industry's underground nature.
I'll keep hammering on my original point because it really is as simple as that: how many McDonald's employees were press-ganged by Russian mobsters?