To be more accurate, "jump the shark" is the point when you realize the show will never be the same because they can't come up with anymore good ideas. I would say "Jump the coach" is better if it defines that moment when you realize an actor has become a little loony.
You forgot a couple things, like the fact there is no way a CD jewel case costs 80 cents each when mass produced, or 90 cents each to ship. The publishing royalties, label profit, and label overhead don't even make sense as seperate items (uh, whats the difference between a label and a publisher?). Thats just another way of saying "we pay ourselves too much". And since when do Musicians need to be in a union? Last I checked they aren't disposable workers and 17 cents a CD is ridiculously high union fees. Adding retail overhead doesn't make sense either, $3.89 cents a CD to stick it in a slot and let it sit there gathering dust?
And this is why the music industry is viewed at evil, they can't even half-honestly justify the cost of the product they sell.
At least I know when I buy cereal, 80 cents of it is actual manufacturing costs / profit and the rest is retail profit. I know that because the industry that produces it isn't a bunch of liars.
Maybe someone can clear this up- does Clearwire use WiMax or not? Wikipedia didn't make it clear. My experience with them was that they didn't either have the infrastructure or the bandwidth to support their meager customer base. The thing worked just fine during the day when nobody really used it, but during busier hours you had significant lag and flow problems- however, the download rate was still good, but you can't play games with a ping of over a second.
For some reason I'm envisioning some obnoxious overweight woman in a mall, holding 20-page surveys asking, "would'cha like ta take uh survey aboot dumbestic spyin'?" to everyone who walks by her. Everyone refuses, so her results are nobody cares...
This isn't news at all, in fact I haven't heard anyone say it would happen any other way. I think I have a "My First Picture Book of the Planets" that says the same thing.
So far I'm reading that you guys want people to be obligated to declare a value or register a copyright for anything that is currently copyrightable lest it go into public domain. There's too many problems with that, the biggest being that nobody wants to declare their copyrighted items (lest be taxed on it) and the government doesn't want to pay the money to keep track of everyone's crap. All your doing is proposing an increase in the red tape involved in protecting your own ideas.
except cheap charlie provides the exact same service and the same thing could happen to cheap charlie in the reverse order if NS actually charged a competitive price.
Can we impreach everyone in charge of ICANN? Its obvious they aren't doing their job. Its like stealing candy from a baby in front of a police officer, then extorting it for more than its worth, then giving it back after I realize your not going to pay. Then having the police officer say "well thats fair."
Electric motors are very inefficient. In fact electrical -> physical energy is by far the most inefficient form of energy transfer. Ever heard of heat?
Actually its because he showed up in person while Clinton didn't.
The fact Obama is currently only 4 delegates ahead is pretty interesting, quite literally the votes from any state matter(even ones like Alaska, with only ~405 Democratic voters representing 13 delegates).
Its a game of strategy and anticipation, as well as skill, reflexes, teamwork, liability, physic, and everyone can pretty much find a useful position on it regardless of your body build. Its very popular once you understand it. Theres a lot of European trolls it seems that get pretty pissed when its "misnamed" (mind you that there is canadian football and australian football as well, and the game was originally very running centric) or because they think the draw of the sport is two people running into each other. Its good that these people are modded trolls and flamebait, because hopefully these people will learn to speak on topics that they actually know about, rather than spout out shit as if they actually have experience. Imagine these same people talking on other (non-sport) topics criticizing someone else's idea much in the same way.
And they do fit the roll of the troll or flamebait because they incite a response by trying to piss people off.
What I've wondered is what happens when you decide you don't want the pay-cut and are forced to quit? I know if I'm fired I get a severance package. If I quit I get nothing. Likewise, my severance is equal to my pay rate. What keeps a company from dropping your salary, then if you don't quit, lower your salary again and then fire you?
I leave my computer on for a couple reasons. One is that if I'm in the middle of doing something and its time to call it a day, its easier to resume that if I leave everything as is. The second is that I may get paged to fix something and would need to remotely log into my computer from home, which requires it to be on.
I suppose if you could find a way to remotely hibernate a computer and remotely unhibernate it then you could potentially save on the electric bill.
So in other words, Sams Club is going to try to give themselves a $2 discount? I think I tried that with my cell phone bill because the service wasn't as good as I wanted. It didn't work out very well.
In that old AI "game" Creatures, they claimed that the Norms would become disobedient like a real kid. Trying it first hand I found the neural network simply became in a confused state where it either was unable to do an action or unable to stop doing an action. This often resulted in its death and a lot of frustation for the user.
Saying that these robots are "lieing" or "being heroes" is just someone putting too much credit into these things. They are just simply malfunctioning. If I wrote a neural network to give me the output of "xor", it wouldn't be trying to lie to me when it gives a wrong output given a set of inputs, it would simply just be wrong.
I'll start by submitting the e-mail addresses of everyone I dislike and claim to be their parents and say that they are lieing about their age. Another well thought out government idea.
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To be more accurate, "jump the shark" is the point when you realize the show will never be the same because they can't come up with anymore good ideas. I would say "Jump the coach" is better if it defines that moment when you realize an actor has become a little loony.
Considering apples cost less than a dollar each I would think not.
You forgot a couple things, like the fact there is no way a CD jewel case costs 80 cents each when mass produced, or 90 cents each to ship. The publishing royalties, label profit, and label overhead don't even make sense as seperate items (uh, whats the difference between a label and a publisher?). Thats just another way of saying "we pay ourselves too much". And since when do Musicians need to be in a union? Last I checked they aren't disposable workers and 17 cents a CD is ridiculously high union fees. Adding retail overhead doesn't make sense either, $3.89 cents a CD to stick it in a slot and let it sit there gathering dust?
And this is why the music industry is viewed at evil, they can't even half-honestly justify the cost of the product they sell.
At least I know when I buy cereal, 80 cents of it is actual manufacturing costs / profit and the rest is retail profit. I know that because the industry that produces it isn't a bunch of liars.
Maybe someone can clear this up- does Clearwire use WiMax or not? Wikipedia didn't make it clear. My experience with them was that they didn't either have the infrastructure or the bandwidth to support their meager customer base. The thing worked just fine during the day when nobody really used it, but during busier hours you had significant lag and flow problems- however, the download rate was still good, but you can't play games with a ping of over a second.
To me, WiMax is the future version of 56k.
On my girlfriend's computer, iTunes automatically reopens itself after you close it. It also waits about 30 seconds before doing so.
Would be? Don't you mean IS? Is not this article about such a thing?
On a side note, what if this started some sort of internet fad involving my hometown...
For some reason I'm envisioning some obnoxious overweight woman in a mall, holding 20-page surveys asking, "would'cha like ta take uh survey aboot dumbestic spyin'?" to everyone who walks by her. Everyone refuses, so her results are nobody cares...
If there doesn't exist a program that can render your test correctly, then how do you know for sure you wrote it correctly to begin with?
Hey, that IS news.
This isn't news at all, in fact I haven't heard anyone say it would happen any other way. I think I have a "My First Picture Book of the Planets" that says the same thing.
So far I'm reading that you guys want people to be obligated to declare a value or register a copyright for anything that is currently copyrightable lest it go into public domain. There's too many problems with that, the biggest being that nobody wants to declare their copyrighted items (lest be taxed on it) and the government doesn't want to pay the money to keep track of everyone's crap. All your doing is proposing an increase in the red tape involved in protecting your own ideas.
Start prescribing Placebex for depression!
Disaster has been adverted.
Fixing our gas wasting traffic system.
except cheap charlie provides the exact same service and the same thing could happen to cheap charlie in the reverse order if NS actually charged a competitive price.
Can we impreach everyone in charge of ICANN? Its obvious they aren't doing their job. Its like stealing candy from a baby in front of a police officer, then extorting it for more than its worth, then giving it back after I realize your not going to pay. Then having the police officer say "well thats fair."
Electric motors are very inefficient. In fact electrical -> physical energy is by far the most inefficient form of energy transfer. Ever heard of heat?
Actually its because he showed up in person while Clinton didn't.
The fact Obama is currently only 4 delegates ahead is pretty interesting, quite literally the votes from any state matter(even ones like Alaska, with only ~405 Democratic voters representing 13 delegates).
Its a game of strategy and anticipation, as well as skill, reflexes, teamwork, liability, physic, and everyone can pretty much find a useful position on it regardless of your body build. Its very popular once you understand it. Theres a lot of European trolls it seems that get pretty pissed when its "misnamed" (mind you that there is canadian football and australian football as well, and the game was originally very running centric) or because they think the draw of the sport is two people running into each other. Its good that these people are modded trolls and flamebait, because hopefully these people will learn to speak on topics that they actually know about, rather than spout out shit as if they actually have experience. Imagine these same people talking on other (non-sport) topics criticizing someone else's idea much in the same way.
And they do fit the roll of the troll or flamebait because they incite a response by trying to piss people off.
Like you.
Flash cards don't have a seek time at all... How could they? It doesn't have any moving parts.
What I've wondered is what happens when you decide you don't want the pay-cut and are forced to quit? I know if I'm fired I get a severance package. If I quit I get nothing. Likewise, my severance is equal to my pay rate. What keeps a company from dropping your salary, then if you don't quit, lower your salary again and then fire you?
I leave my computer on for a couple reasons. One is that if I'm in the middle of doing something and its time to call it a day, its easier to resume that if I leave everything as is. The second is that I may get paged to fix something and would need to remotely log into my computer from home, which requires it to be on.
I suppose if you could find a way to remotely hibernate a computer and remotely unhibernate it then you could potentially save on the electric bill.
So in other words, Sams Club is going to try to give themselves a $2 discount? I think I tried that with my cell phone bill because the service wasn't as good as I wanted. It didn't work out very well.
In that old AI "game" Creatures, they claimed that the Norms would become disobedient like a real kid. Trying it first hand I found the neural network simply became in a confused state where it either was unable to do an action or unable to stop doing an action. This often resulted in its death and a lot of frustation for the user.
Saying that these robots are "lieing" or "being heroes" is just someone putting too much credit into these things. They are just simply malfunctioning. If I wrote a neural network to give me the output of "xor", it wouldn't be trying to lie to me when it gives a wrong output given a set of inputs, it would simply just be wrong.
I'll start by submitting the e-mail addresses of everyone I dislike and claim to be their parents and say that they are lieing about their age. Another well thought out government idea.