This seems like an obvious question but why does one guy and his staff need a more than 400 passenger plane? Wouldn't something built for extended flight time, reliability, and speed that held closer to 75 or 100 passengers still be overkill? I certainly don't know a lot about airplanes so maybe a better alternative simply doesn't exist and this was the best option. Are there better 100 passenger options?
The fun part about BUD TV was you could receive uplinks from reporters/camera crews in the field. So you see a reporter standing there playing with his tie, conversing, picking his nose etc. Then suddenly he would stiffen up and a few seconds later make his report, go silent, ask if he was finished and then walk off camera. The feed would either continue for some time or go blank.
Yes, I remember this happening. Usually it was super boring though since they generally just stood there and looked at the camera.
I grew up with this as my only source of TV in the 80s and 90s (we were too far from town and lived in the mountains to use local over the air tv). We had an 8' dish though and it must have weighed well in excess of 26lbs so yes your dish is quite light. We never seemed to have issues finding channels with something to watch and were able to pickup news, cartoons (very important), shows, and movies. The main issue was that the channels had to be scanned manually then. There were two sets of numbers, the first number if I remember correctly would physically rotate the dish outside then the second number would scan the channel options available available at that dish angle. This took a lot of time and ended up with us writing down the common locations for shows that we wanted to watch. Today I would hope there is an auto-scan feature that would allow you to just scan the channels to see what you're able to receive and store those.
Unfortunately I haven't used this system in more than 10 years so I'm not very knowledgeable on what the system is like to use today. Hopefully something in my post was useful to you or someone else reading through.
And yet countries that ban ownership of assault rifles and handguns by the average person don't have these crimes. They just don't.
We need to be MORE like these countries, not less. We need to ban all assault rifles, and severely restrict the ownership of handguns. One per person, that's it, no more.
Yes because crazy people will stop if they can't find a gun. In China 22 children were stabbed recently. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2248054/China-stabbing-22-children-elderly-woman-stabbed-outside-primary-school-Chinese-knifeman.html Don't forget the deadliest attacks in America did not involve guns (911 and Oklahoma City Bombings). I personally think one of the more dangerous substances currently sold to anyone in our country is gasoline. Cheap, highly flamable, explosive when contained, and it's available in VERY large quantity everywhere. So should we ban gasoline or should we work on the real problem, mental health?
The Civilization games are quite educational, you gain some understanding of a broad array of topics through your tech tree choices. While it's not science exactly you certainly need to understand the different forms of government and religion in order to grow your cities and your civilization.
Corn to Ethanol production is current waste of time. The growing of corn takes more fuel than what it produces or in some newer studies it makes just slightly more than it takes to produce it.
http://www.afdc.energy.gov/fuels/ethanol_fuel_basics.html
This is exactly my experience, I'm also using the kindle app on my phone. There are quite a few sales that Amazon or another e-book retailer has lost just in the last few weeks from me because the publishers are trying to sell the e-book for more than the print version. In fact not only did they loose an e-book sale but I was so annoyed I didn't even buy the print edition.
I must also note I'm not a huge fan of the fact that I generally can't lend or sell an e-book even if I do pay MORE for it than a print version which I am able to do both.
I'm quite curious to know what browser the/. community is using these days. I myself became quite disillusioned with FF and have moved on to Chrome. Maybe the admins would be willing to do post up a weeks worth of logs? (stripped to the basics of course) Or maybe this has already been done and I've simply missed it?
They are definitely price fixing, every single time I've checked the price between the nook store and the kindle store they are exactly the same price (granted I have checked maybe 10 books at both stores) so why not include Amazon and BN in the investigation as well. It would also be great if they could force DRM free books and allow a used e-book market... oh right you can wake me up now I'm sure I'm dreaming reasonably priced DRM free e-books so I can resell/loan them when done?
Froyo (newest droid version) does have a remote wipe feature.
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/mobile-devices/2010/05/21/froyo-takes-googles-android-into-the-enterprise-40089007/
Data encryption would be nice and a better lock screen as well. The way it is if you enable the lock screen which requires you to draw a pattern it's only a 3x3 grid instead of the 4x4 that the BB has. The other annoyance is once you've entered your "passcode" you still have to swipe down to "unlock" your screen, why do I need to do that if I just successfully put int he correct "passcode"?
I don't know why they are bothering with the patent, they are not the first to do this. The Wave Secure (https://www.wavesecure.com/) app will already let Droid owners do this, BB has a remote wipe feature which granted doesn't get your phone back but does (if you do it quick enough) protect your data. I would guess there are a few other companies that have apps to do the same. To me this is borderline patent abuse.
I can't possibly agree more. It seems like if the books need to be reviewed by anyone I would guess it would be the Department Head and probably over beers. So any kind of review within the same institution is out and organizing multiple Colleges/Universities to review books for the other seems like a rubber stamp party. A College/University should take all the basic classes that almost never change for instance Algebra, Calc, Basic Chem, Basic Physics, ect and pick one book for 10 years that will be used buy a 5 year (or less) supply and let the students get their money back out of their books by selling them back or directly to each other.
You can't just use the number of companies that exist. Many businesses are just something that is more of a side project that often times looses money or is a risk that may pay off in the future. I know I run a very small business but it literally pulls in about $500 a year. I have a full time job and the business is more of a for fun and experience than getting rich.
-Just thought I would throw in my two cents
BUT, your claim that the take-home lesson of Economics 101 is that people are rational is ludicrous. People are clearly not rational in their economic decision-making, and this is why so many of the principles of Economics 101 fail in the real world. Please give some examples of Economics failing. Econ 101 is a basic over view of the easiest to understand principles of Economics and generally they hold true as is. You're right though if you take a more in depth look at a situation you will discover that you need to use more in depth principles of Economics. The Economics 101 view just says that most people are rational not every single one. The principal that "people are rational" isn't the easy take home lesson of Economics it's something that has been noted about populations over time.
How on earth did this comment get modded up so high? Yes, by our standards those conditions are terrible. What you don't realize is that in 99.9% cases those are vastly improved conditions from anywhere else that individual could be working. Entry level Economics will tell you that if there was a better place to be working they would take the better job since people are rational. So if they didn't have those jobs they would have zero hope of ever moving up in life. By having manufacturing companies over in 3rd world countries we are helping those countries and the people within them to improve their way of life and economic standing.
I was only stating the way I see things. You're correct our "educated public" is not very educated only 28% have a bachelors degree as of 2004 http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/education/004214.html I would like to see a way for our public to become more educated without the public having to give everyone and anyone a free education. Needless to say I don't know of a way.
I agree with you for the most part. However the one issue with that is that in the US it is the people who drive the politicians to do what they do. Our vote matters to some degree but to a much higher degree is popular opinion, if someone is just "liked" they can get elected. So if the people are uneducated and don't understand the whole picture they very often drive the politicians to do things that don't make sence for the Nation as a whole.
In the end it's best that everyone is well educated but I do like the idea of letting people fail. I think you learn much more from you failures not your successes.
I'm so tired of hearing this crap argument, first a physical product takes physical goods AND labor to reproduce. Music takes a negligible amount of labor to reproduce in digital formats. A CD, Cassette, 8track, ect... are all physical goods and you must pay to create them in addition to paying the artist/label. Digitally reproduced media should be priced accordingly, the music industry is just pricing it the same even though they have less costs to distribute the digital product. Some may not agree with me on this last part but I do think that if a song was $0.10 or $0.25 they would sell many many more songs and it would no longer be worth wile to download illegally when you could just buy the song correctly tagged in the formate/quality you want and be DRM free. The labels could save at least hundreds of thousands of dollars downsizing their legal department and getting rid of any CD stamping plants/contracts they may have. Music "collections" could also be sold, say $50.00 for every Beatles song ever written, bam one download and you have em all in your format/quality of choice. I really do think allofmp3.com has/had the right idea, they just need some more solid licensing.
I agree with the above although there should be an exception to allow an individual to gain a patent relatively inexpensively but it can't be used by a company without paying the full patent price and being subject to licensing fees if they want to keep the patent beyond a set number of years (say 3 years).
There also needs to be a stipulation requiring someone that has created a patent to have a product within a set amount of time. If someone creates the actual product before the person with the original patent there should be a limit on royalties (say less than 1% of net profit) and they are both given full rights to sell the devices.
How on earth did this make it onto Slashdot?
Beta software is for testing it may work it may not, if it doesn't then report the bugs to the devs thats your JOB as a beta tester! You get to use brand new stuff before anyone else in exchange for a little of your time and patience.
Either way, the Internet has yet again handily shown another large corporate entity that 'do no evil' is a pretty damned good motto. That puts it perfectly, a lot of companies are realizing that the internet has a lot of power and if they ignore even a few users in a very negative way they can suffer from the tech savvy portion of the internet knowing and responding very quickly.
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This seems like an obvious question but why does one guy and his staff need a more than 400 passenger plane? Wouldn't something built for extended flight time, reliability, and speed that held closer to 75 or 100 passengers still be overkill? I certainly don't know a lot about airplanes so maybe a better alternative simply doesn't exist and this was the best option. Are there better 100 passenger options?
The fun part about BUD TV was you could receive uplinks from reporters/camera crews in the field. So you see a reporter standing there playing with his tie, conversing, picking his nose etc. Then suddenly he would stiffen up and a few seconds later make his report, go silent, ask if he was finished and then walk off camera. The feed would either continue for some time or go blank.
Yes, I remember this happening. Usually it was super boring though since they generally just stood there and looked at the camera.
I grew up with this as my only source of TV in the 80s and 90s (we were too far from town and lived in the mountains to use local over the air tv). We had an 8' dish though and it must have weighed well in excess of 26lbs so yes your dish is quite light. We never seemed to have issues finding channels with something to watch and were able to pickup news, cartoons (very important), shows, and movies. The main issue was that the channels had to be scanned manually then. There were two sets of numbers, the first number if I remember correctly would physically rotate the dish outside then the second number would scan the channel options available available at that dish angle. This took a lot of time and ended up with us writing down the common locations for shows that we wanted to watch. Today I would hope there is an auto-scan feature that would allow you to just scan the channels to see what you're able to receive and store those. Unfortunately I haven't used this system in more than 10 years so I'm not very knowledgeable on what the system is like to use today. Hopefully something in my post was useful to you or someone else reading through.
And yet countries that ban ownership of assault rifles and handguns by the average person don't have these crimes. They just don't.
We need to be MORE like these countries, not less. We need to ban all assault rifles, and severely restrict the ownership of handguns. One per person, that's it, no more.
Yes because crazy people will stop if they can't find a gun. In China 22 children were stabbed recently. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2248054/China-stabbing-22-children-elderly-woman-stabbed-outside-primary-school-Chinese-knifeman.html Don't forget the deadliest attacks in America did not involve guns (911 and Oklahoma City Bombings). I personally think one of the more dangerous substances currently sold to anyone in our country is gasoline. Cheap, highly flamable, explosive when contained, and it's available in VERY large quantity everywhere. So should we ban gasoline or should we work on the real problem, mental health?
The Civilization games are quite educational, you gain some understanding of a broad array of topics through your tech tree choices. While it's not science exactly you certainly need to understand the different forms of government and religion in order to grow your cities and your civilization.
Corn to Ethanol production is current waste of time. The growing of corn takes more fuel than what it produces or in some newer studies it makes just slightly more than it takes to produce it. http://www.afdc.energy.gov/fuels/ethanol_fuel_basics.html
Thirded?
Cause it got electolyties?
This is exactly my experience, I'm also using the kindle app on my phone. There are quite a few sales that Amazon or another e-book retailer has lost just in the last few weeks from me because the publishers are trying to sell the e-book for more than the print version. In fact not only did they loose an e-book sale but I was so annoyed I didn't even buy the print edition. I must also note I'm not a huge fan of the fact that I generally can't lend or sell an e-book even if I do pay MORE for it than a print version which I am able to do both.
I'm quite curious to know what browser the /. community is using these days. I myself became quite disillusioned with FF and have moved on to Chrome. Maybe the admins would be willing to do post up a weeks worth of logs? (stripped to the basics of course) Or maybe this has already been done and I've simply missed it?
They are definitely price fixing, every single time I've checked the price between the nook store and the kindle store they are exactly the same price (granted I have checked maybe 10 books at both stores) so why not include Amazon and BN in the investigation as well. It would also be great if they could force DRM free books and allow a used e-book market... oh right you can wake me up now I'm sure I'm dreaming reasonably priced DRM free e-books so I can resell/loan them when done?
Froyo (newest droid version) does have a remote wipe feature. http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/mobile-devices/2010/05/21/froyo-takes-googles-android-into-the-enterprise-40089007/ Data encryption would be nice and a better lock screen as well. The way it is if you enable the lock screen which requires you to draw a pattern it's only a 3x3 grid instead of the 4x4 that the BB has. The other annoyance is once you've entered your "passcode" you still have to swipe down to "unlock" your screen, why do I need to do that if I just successfully put int he correct "passcode"?
I don't know why they are bothering with the patent, they are not the first to do this. The Wave Secure (https://www.wavesecure.com/) app will already let Droid owners do this, BB has a remote wipe feature which granted doesn't get your phone back but does (if you do it quick enough) protect your data. I would guess there are a few other companies that have apps to do the same. To me this is borderline patent abuse.
I can't possibly agree more. It seems like if the books need to be reviewed by anyone I would guess it would be the Department Head and probably over beers. So any kind of review within the same institution is out and organizing multiple Colleges/Universities to review books for the other seems like a rubber stamp party. A College/University should take all the basic classes that almost never change for instance Algebra, Calc, Basic Chem, Basic Physics, ect and pick one book for 10 years that will be used buy a 5 year (or less) supply and let the students get their money back out of their books by selling them back or directly to each other.
You can't just use the number of companies that exist. Many businesses are just something that is more of a side project that often times looses money or is a risk that may pay off in the future. I know I run a very small business but it literally pulls in about $500 a year. I have a full time job and the business is more of a for fun and experience than getting rich. -Just thought I would throw in my two cents
Very well said! I really hate when news becomes opinionated and the text is tainted with the journalists point of view. Thanks for posting
How on earth did this comment get modded up so high? Yes, by our standards those conditions are terrible. What you don't realize is that in 99.9% cases those are vastly improved conditions from anywhere else that individual could be working. Entry level Economics will tell you that if there was a better place to be working they would take the better job since people are rational. So if they didn't have those jobs they would have zero hope of ever moving up in life. By having manufacturing companies over in 3rd world countries we are helping those countries and the people within them to improve their way of life and economic standing.
I was only stating the way I see things. You're correct our "educated public" is not very educated only 28% have a bachelors degree as of 2004 http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/education/004214.html I would like to see a way for our public to become more educated without the public having to give everyone and anyone a free education. Needless to say I don't know of a way.
I agree with you for the most part. However the one issue with that is that in the US it is the people who drive the politicians to do what they do. Our vote matters to some degree but to a much higher degree is popular opinion, if someone is just "liked" they can get elected. So if the people are uneducated and don't understand the whole picture they very often drive the politicians to do things that don't make sence for the Nation as a whole. In the end it's best that everyone is well educated but I do like the idea of letting people fail. I think you learn much more from you failures not your successes.
Harvard has yet to see a single take down notice or legal action seeking the identity of someone on the Harvard network as of 5-02-2008. http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/05/riaa-says-harva.html
I'm so tired of hearing this crap argument, first a physical product takes physical goods AND labor to reproduce. Music takes a negligible amount of labor to reproduce in digital formats. A CD, Cassette, 8track, ect... are all physical goods and you must pay to create them in addition to paying the artist/label. Digitally reproduced media should be priced accordingly, the music industry is just pricing it the same even though they have less costs to distribute the digital product. Some may not agree with me on this last part but I do think that if a song was $0.10 or $0.25 they would sell many many more songs and it would no longer be worth wile to download illegally when you could just buy the song correctly tagged in the formate/quality you want and be DRM free. The labels could save at least hundreds of thousands of dollars downsizing their legal department and getting rid of any CD stamping plants/contracts they may have. Music "collections" could also be sold, say $50.00 for every Beatles song ever written, bam one download and you have em all in your format/quality of choice. I really do think allofmp3.com has/had the right idea, they just need some more solid licensing.
I agree with the above although there should be an exception to allow an individual to gain a patent relatively inexpensively but it can't be used by a company without paying the full patent price and being subject to licensing fees if they want to keep the patent beyond a set number of years (say 3 years). There also needs to be a stipulation requiring someone that has created a patent to have a product within a set amount of time. If someone creates the actual product before the person with the original patent there should be a limit on royalties (say less than 1% of net profit) and they are both given full rights to sell the devices.
How on earth did this make it onto Slashdot? Beta software is for testing it may work it may not, if it doesn't then report the bugs to the devs thats your JOB as a beta tester! You get to use brand new stuff before anyone else in exchange for a little of your time and patience.