That's anti-capitalistic. If market pricing works, we don't live in a free-market society.
Can you explain? How is that not EXACTLY supply and demand? If Netflix wanted to pay more to the ISPs to get their product to you than Hulu, both then charging those extra costs back to the consumer, why isn't that supply & demand for the internet bandwidth available?
And if the guy who built the driveway for your house were to stand at the end of it and ask where you are going every time you leave, and demand extra payment if you go to Target or K-Mart over Wal-Mart (inspecting your bags and receipts when you return to further enforce it), to force you to go to Wal-Mart more because that's who gives him kick-backs, you find that an acceptable practice?
If he *RENTED* you the driveway (like the ISP is doing every month), and you knew the terms when you started renting it, then yes. Well, I wouldn't, but I could see how someone else might agree to it.. Just like others pay to drive in the toll express lanes, congestion pricing in London, etc.
But Hulu Plus, started by several of the networks, does/did have the "content providers open their vaults". I'd be fine with something like Hulu Plus charging *MUCH* more than even your twice-Netflix rate, IF THERE WERE A COMMERCIAL FREE OPTION. As much of a Tivo fan as I am, I'd much rather not have to deal with recording my own shows (though I still want the option, for e.g. OTA shows that I can record for keeps).
As for green1's message up the chain, there already IS "a video on demand model allowing you to choose only the individual shows you want". iTunes, Amazon Instant, etc. Pay per episode. Too expensive, IMHO, but it does give you the newest episodes, and there were stats recently showing way more downloads from them daily than I would have expected. (Yes I'm being vague since I don't have the link, but I think it was in the 5-6 figures, daily.)
While I realize it's not specifically what you're talking about (a fictionalized movie), there have been several documentaries about Tesla on PBS, and there was a recent documentary, "Silicon Valley", that was about Fairchild Semiconductor.
Not just air pressure, I wonder if the lack of 'hot air rising' has something to do with it too. You won't have the hot air with food aroma rising into your nose.
You can put both tortillas and bread in the refrigerator to make them last even longer. I think many people even freeze bread, and IIRC, you can still toast the frozen bread into proper toast.
Umm, no.. Haven't you seen that plastic bottles make up a large proportion of trash around? They definitely do not biodegrade. That fact is what makes them one of the very few things people have to pay a deposit on (at least in many parts of the U.S. and I presume much of the rest of the world)... to give incentive to return them to get your money back.
1) That's not an acronym. 2) If it were, it would be a great one, because we know the universe revolves around the United States. So whether you say us or U.S., you're talking about the same place.
I guess I do that sometimes, but in general, I'm the opposite. Even though I watch TV news as I said, on the weekends/holidays, I read the paper (yes, paper) for 2-3 hours each day.
One advantage of solar power is that it is distributed, which helps with redundancy on the grid.
Though isn't it true that a large proportion of solar installs (I want to say 'most' but I have no stats) are grid tied? So when the grid goes down, so does your power?
That's certainly the way I'll do it, so that I don't have the even greater cost of batteries.
I think you can have a solar system that is grid tied that can temporarily be pulled off-grid, but then you either ALSO need backup batteries or only get power when the sun is shining... and it obviously greatly adds to the expense (not even including the batteries).
Wow, you must read REALLY quickly. A newspaper article is usually MUCH longer/more detailed than what is contained in a TV news segment. (I say that, even though I 'consume' the nightly news every day. It's a good way to get a summary of the day's stories. Though I usually listen to the audio podcast at 2x or sometimes watch the video podcast at 2x.... and record the show as a backup since they frequently cut out any vaguely pop culture related segments from the podcast.)
Did you really think carriers would actually offer something that's anything more than dressed up as a deal?
Yes, because if it can make them a profit, they'll take it. (I'm saying that as a GOOD thing.)
For example, maybe a parent won't get their kid a cell phone if they have to pay the full $80/month or whatever. But if it's $60 (made up #) in the bundled case, then they will.. As long as it costs the cell phone company less than $60/month, they just have another customer that they didn't have before.
It's actually somewhat similar to buying huge packages of things at Costco vs buying them at 7-11. You'll almost certainly save a lot per item buying the Costco version. (I specifically used 7-11 and not a supermarket, since not all Costco things are cheaper than supermarkets, esp compared to supermarket sales.. So one still does need to do per item price comparisons.)
Why should the *family* of the person whose cells were used get anything?
That sounds *awfully* like "copyrights last for 75 years after the death of the author" (whatever the actual # is) that people here complain about all the time.
As long as the person was actually medically treated as well as possible at the time (there wasn't some Bond villain harvesting their cells but letting the person die), it seems like that person should get something for their contribution, but why continue it?
You're paying for the *bandwidth*. You're not paying for the *content* of the web pages you are going to. They have to pay for their employees, etc. somehow. (I say this as someone who hates ads probably as much as you do.)
Last I checked, pretty much no code assumes that RAM is volatile.
It doesn't assume that RAM is volatile, but isn't the fact that it is volatile PART of the reason "did you try turning it off and on again?" works so often?
If a program/OS has a memory corruption issue, it seems like there are at least _some_ cases where it would be harder to temporarily work around the issue if the memory is permanent.
(Devil's Advocating myself -- yes, in another way, this would be good, hopefully helping to flush out/get these types of problems fixed... But I mean mostly after something is in a customer's hands.)
Hell, the medical community puts mercury into injections, and expect you to inject it directly into your blood steam.
And you eat chlorine every time you eat table salt. The mercury in thimerosol (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thimerosol) is not the same as pure liquid mercury.
Of course, old people and some old-at-heart young people still love dead trees
In theory, I'd rather have an electronic version, but I want it to be as easy to browse through as a regular newspaper. Also, at least based on the reviews I've read of my local paper, the Kindle version at least isn't the entire paper. I want at _least_ the same content, if not a superset.
I can skim through a regular paper even easier than reading news articles online, opening new ones in tabs to read later.. But an approach SOMETHING like that -- show me something vaguely like a newspaper layout (at least closer to that than just a list of articles as I see on news sites now -- because the newspaper DOES have human-generated sorting for more 'important' stories), where I could easily check off the ones I want to read, then forget the rest of the section, would be useful.
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What is "Jeopardy!"?
Can you explain? How is that not EXACTLY supply and demand? If Netflix wanted to pay more to the ISPs to get their product to you than Hulu, both then charging those extra costs back to the consumer, why isn't that supply & demand for the internet bandwidth available?
If he *RENTED* you the driveway (like the ISP is doing every month), and you knew the terms when you started renting it, then yes. Well, I wouldn't, but I could see how someone else might agree to it.. Just like others pay to drive in the toll express lanes, congestion pricing in London, etc.
But Hulu Plus, started by several of the networks, does/did have the "content providers open their vaults". I'd be fine with something like Hulu Plus charging *MUCH* more than even your twice-Netflix rate, IF THERE WERE A COMMERCIAL FREE OPTION. As much of a Tivo fan as I am, I'd much rather not have to deal with recording my own shows (though I still want the option, for e.g. OTA shows that I can record for keeps).
As for green1's message up the chain, there already IS "a video on demand model allowing you to choose only the individual shows you want". iTunes, Amazon Instant, etc. Pay per episode. Too expensive, IMHO, but it does give you the newest episodes, and there were stats recently showing way more downloads from them daily than I would have expected. (Yes I'm being vague since I don't have the link, but I think it was in the 5-6 figures, daily.)
While I realize it's not specifically what you're talking about (a fictionalized movie), there have been several documentaries about Tesla on PBS, and there was a recent documentary, "Silicon Valley", that was about Fairchild Semiconductor.
Apple went public on December 12, 1980, so of course it was well known by 1982.
They already can. Buy online, gas station, etc. How many places actually check your ID or signature?
Maybe the fragmentation is why there aren't anywhere near as many Android tablet optimized apps.
http://www.canalys.com/download/tablet_apps.pdf
Not just air pressure, I wonder if the lack of 'hot air rising' has something to do with it too. You won't have the hot air with food aroma rising into your nose.
You can put both tortillas and bread in the refrigerator to make them last even longer. I think many people even freeze bread, and IIRC, you can still toast the frozen bread into proper toast.
Umm, no.. Haven't you seen that plastic bottles make up a large proportion of trash around? They definitely do not biodegrade. That fact is what makes them one of the very few things people have to pay a deposit on (at least in many parts of the U.S. and I presume much of the rest of the world)... to give incentive to return them to get your money back.
No, it's not. You don't pronounce U.S. as "us". An acronym is when you pronounce it as a word.
acronym
noun
an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word (e.g., ASCII, NASA).
U.S. is an initialism.
initialism
noun
an abbreviation consisting of initial letters pronounced separately (e.g., CPU).
So Android apps aren't in a sandbox? Why does an app get a notification that another app is being installed AT ALL?
1) That's not an acronym.
2) If it were, it would be a great one, because we know the universe revolves around the United States. So whether you say us or U.S., you're talking about the same place.
(That's (intended) as a JOKE, folks.)
I guess I do that sometimes, but in general, I'm the opposite. Even though I watch TV news as I said, on the weekends/holidays, I read the paper (yes, paper) for 2-3 hours each day.
Well, solid oxide fuel cells don't have the "materials needed to build them" problem, but you're still using natural gas as the fuel.
Though isn't it true that a large proportion of solar installs (I want to say 'most' but I have no stats) are grid tied? So when the grid goes down, so does your power?
That's certainly the way I'll do it, so that I don't have the even greater cost of batteries.
I think you can have a solar system that is grid tied that can temporarily be pulled off-grid, but then you either ALSO need backup batteries or only get power when the sun is shining... and it obviously greatly adds to the expense (not even including the batteries).
Wow, you must read REALLY quickly. A newspaper article is usually MUCH longer/more detailed than what is contained in a TV news segment. (I say that, even though I 'consume' the nightly news every day. It's a good way to get a summary of the day's stories. Though I usually listen to the audio podcast at 2x or sometimes watch the video podcast at 2x.... and record the show as a backup since they frequently cut out any vaguely pop culture related segments from the podcast.)
Yes, because if it can make them a profit, they'll take it. (I'm saying that as a GOOD thing.)
For example, maybe a parent won't get their kid a cell phone if they have to pay the full $80/month or whatever. But if it's $60 (made up #) in the bundled case, then they will.. As long as it costs the cell phone company less than $60/month, they just have another customer that they didn't have before.
It's actually somewhat similar to buying huge packages of things at Costco vs buying them at 7-11. You'll almost certainly save a lot per item buying the Costco version. (I specifically used 7-11 and not a supermarket, since not all Costco things are cheaper than supermarkets, esp compared to supermarket sales.. So one still does need to do per item price comparisons.)
I would store more videos from my Tivo on a theoretical iPad with this new memory.. or heck, use this IN a Tivo instead of spinning hard drives.
Why should the *family* of the person whose cells were used get anything?
That sounds *awfully* like "copyrights last for 75 years after the death of the author" (whatever the actual # is) that people here complain about all the time.
As long as the person was actually medically treated as well as possible at the time (there wasn't some Bond villain harvesting their cells but letting the person die), it seems like that person should get something for their contribution, but why continue it?
That's fine. Zuckerberg thinks it's a good thing to "break stuff" and uses that as a slogan.
You're paying for the *bandwidth*. You're not paying for the *content* of the web pages you are going to. They have to pay for their employees, etc. somehow. (I say this as someone who hates ads probably as much as you do.)
It doesn't assume that RAM is volatile, but isn't the fact that it is volatile PART of the reason "did you try turning it off and on again?" works so often?
If a program/OS has a memory corruption issue, it seems like there are at least _some_ cases where it would be harder to temporarily work around the issue if the memory is permanent.
(Devil's Advocating myself -- yes, in another way, this would be good, hopefully helping to flush out/get these types of problems fixed... But I mean mostly after something is in a customer's hands.)
And you eat chlorine every time you eat table salt. The mercury in thimerosol (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thimerosol) is not the same as pure liquid mercury.
In theory, I'd rather have an electronic version, but I want it to be as easy to browse through as a regular newspaper. Also, at least based on the reviews I've read of my local paper, the Kindle version at least isn't the entire paper. I want at _least_ the same content, if not a superset.
I can skim through a regular paper even easier than reading news articles online, opening new ones in tabs to read later.. But an approach SOMETHING like that -- show me something vaguely like a newspaper layout (at least closer to that than just a list of articles as I see on news sites now -- because the newspaper DOES have human-generated sorting for more 'important' stories), where I could easily check off the ones I want to read, then forget the rest of the section, would be useful.