This isn't just funny, it's true! If they are having a PR problem, it can't be because they are calling "Constantinople" Byzantium. That little switch happened about 1700 years ago. He goes on to say it's still a very sensitive issue, well I bet it is. He just pissed off the Turks all over again. Keep up the good work dealing with those sensitive PR issues...the song make a catchy little mnemonic if you need help keeping it straight.
Content providers have finally found their businesses on the wrong side of the law of supply and demand. For a long time it appeared that the public's voraciously insatiable appetite for entertainment and news would fuel ever growing profits indefinitely. Now thanks to the series of tubes the world is flooded with instantly accessible free media content. I think that the massive amount of available free media is curbing public demand for media with a price. I think that this effect is independent of the phenomenon of media piracy which just rubs salt in this wound. ACTA will be the industry tool for attacking piracy. In addition to being a simple money grab, I think that metered traffic and caps on use are intended to reduce the competing effect of free media by making you pay more heavily for access to any media or information. If you watch streaming video all day instead of cable TV you could end up paying for it as if it was a cable bill; indeed a cable bill that behaves more like a cell phone bill, i.e. rising with consumption. Content providers are sick of trying to compete with free...this is a means to impose a higher price on the free media products that they are competing with.
It's the people that create it. It is not technically difficult to tabulate millions of responses accurately so long as it remains an exercise in simply counting things. The complicating factor is that the results serve to distribute vast amounts of money and power which creates motivation for fraud that undermines that simple process. We should have no illusions about the accuracy of the tabulation process until there is open source code, paper audit logs and the opportunity for the public to examine these records for signs of fraud. Perhaps as an additional safeguard statistical comparison with exit polls should be required by law and any significant deviation should trigger an investigation of the process for possible tampering. These technical issues are only symptoms of the real problem.
"Proverbs for Paranoids #3: If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." -- Thomas Pynchon
there seemed to be so many worlds to discover; but the book itself was only a description of the key to a door in the minds of my friends and I. Thanks Dave.
I taped music off the radio and LP's when I was a kid. It seems to me that people really are saying that they don't like the price and they aren't going to buy it. I think that radio is an outdated legacy medium and a waste of bandwidth that should die and the frequencies should be used for wireless digital networks. I also think that current concepts of patent and copyright are just as outdated and backward. Perhaps this is the wrong forum to express this view, but if you are basing your business model entirely on trying to make a commodity out of something that can be reproduced at no cost by anyone using ubiquitous technology you might want to reconsider your business strategy. That isn't a justification for stealing, that is pragmatic realism. No matter how loud you yell in ALLCAPS, the kids are just not going to get off of your lawn. It's not going to be practical to round them all up and send them to jail for stealing either, because there are just too many of them and the jails are already stuffed full of harmless pot dealers. I suppose you could try to fine the hell out of them to recoup perceived loss but you can't get blood from a rock, especially these days. It seems to me that massive civil disobedience can be literally construed as criminal conduct but historically it is usually an indication from the citizenry that the law needs to change somehow because it does not reflect modern moires and sensibilities.
This comment should not have been modded "Troll"! I made the parent comment and found this comment to be valuable and informative and not offensive or provocative, even if it is slightly flippant. Please mod up!
I've now been well convinced by 3 other commenters, an acquaintance, and 2 authors that gyroscopic forces actually have a minimal effect in stabilizing bicycles. I think that the difference you are describing has more to do with the traction of the tires. I don't suggest that you just believe me; but you may want to question these ideas by reading about this a little more. The link provided above in FiloEleven's comment would be a good starting place if you are interested in learning more. It was time well spent for me.
You don't sound like an ass at all, no need to apologize! I hope I am not sounding like an ass by aggressively questioning new ideas that challenge my old accepted ones. I don't want to just accept new ideas...I want to actively understand them. I guess like to I do that by first questioning them. I have been discussing this offline with a bicyclist friend of mine who builds frames and he is telling me very much the same things you and FiloEleven are here. He has provided me with an book by David Gordon Wilson w/Jim Papadopoulos titled "Bicycling Science". I expect it to be a excellent read, though I'll admit some of it seems a little over my head. Please, keep up the good fight challenging persistent erroneous memes! Is there any other way to fight ignorance than with truth and reason? I am quite happy to have both learned and unlearned something here today.
Thanks for pointing this out to me, FiloEleven. I stand corrected: what makes a bicycle work is more complicated than I surmised. Learning new information always brings new questions to my mind. Please consider these ideas. To say that a bicycle with counter-rotating gyroscopes is still "rideable" is not the same thing as to say that the conservation of angular momentum does not play a role in keeping a normal bicycle upright. In the same way to say that it is difficult or impossible to steer a bicycle without negative trail does not exclude the role of conservation of angular momentum in stabilizing the vehicle either. I accept that my explanation was overly simplistic, and I see now that I was wrong to dismiss the rider's skill as a stabilizing factor, with apologies to Anonymous Coward.;) I also now see that the design of the steering is critical to make a bicycle practical to ride at all and contributes to stability while turning; but I don't see that this information excludes the angular momentum of the wheels as a stabilizing force. It would seem to me that there is a interplay of all of these factors at work. Thank you again for this information...I am fascinated and intend to read more to improve my understanding of this as this is a subject of interest to me as a thinking bicycle rider.
The spinning wheels are the gyroscopes that keep vehicles with 2 in-line wheels upright. The rider needs only to not do things to interfere with that stabilizing effect.:P
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It's a resort.
To be fair, they DID say from the beginning that they reserved the right to pick a name themselves regardless of the poll's outcome.
This is exactly the same idea behind the Electoral College.
This isn't just funny, it's true! If they are having a PR problem, it can't be because they are calling "Constantinople" Byzantium. That little switch happened about 1700 years ago. He goes on to say it's still a very sensitive issue, well I bet it is. He just pissed off the Turks all over again. Keep up the good work dealing with those sensitive PR issues...the song make a catchy little mnemonic if you need help keeping it straight.
Need I say more?
Content providers have finally found their businesses on the wrong side of the law of supply and demand. For a long time it appeared that the public's voraciously insatiable appetite for entertainment and news would fuel ever growing profits indefinitely. Now thanks to the series of tubes the world is flooded with instantly accessible free media content. I think that the massive amount of available free media is curbing public demand for media with a price. I think that this effect is independent of the phenomenon of media piracy which just rubs salt in this wound. ACTA will be the industry tool for attacking piracy. In addition to being a simple money grab, I think that metered traffic and caps on use are intended to reduce the competing effect of free media by making you pay more heavily for access to any media or information. If you watch streaming video all day instead of cable TV you could end up paying for it as if it was a cable bill; indeed a cable bill that behaves more like a cell phone bill, i.e. rising with consumption. Content providers are sick of trying to compete with free...this is a means to impose a higher price on the free media products that they are competing with.
You must cease and desist your discussion of the Streisand Effect immediately.
"Proverbs for Paranoids #3: If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." -- Thomas Pynchon
there seemed to be so many worlds to discover; but the book itself was only a description of the key to a door in the minds of my friends and I. Thanks Dave.
I taped music off the radio and LP's when I was a kid. It seems to me that people really are saying that they don't like the price and they aren't going to buy it. I think that radio is an outdated legacy medium and a waste of bandwidth that should die and the frequencies should be used for wireless digital networks. I also think that current concepts of patent and copyright are just as outdated and backward. Perhaps this is the wrong forum to express this view, but if you are basing your business model entirely on trying to make a commodity out of something that can be reproduced at no cost by anyone using ubiquitous technology you might want to reconsider your business strategy. That isn't a justification for stealing, that is pragmatic realism. No matter how loud you yell in ALLCAPS, the kids are just not going to get off of your lawn. It's not going to be practical to round them all up and send them to jail for stealing either, because there are just too many of them and the jails are already stuffed full of harmless pot dealers. I suppose you could try to fine the hell out of them to recoup perceived loss but you can't get blood from a rock, especially these days. It seems to me that massive civil disobedience can be literally construed as criminal conduct but historically it is usually an indication from the citizenry that the law needs to change somehow because it does not reflect modern moires and sensibilities.
Agreed. The word is adware.
about exactly how they word their craigslist ad when they do it.
mongolian.clusterfuck
"Don't be too proud of this media empire you've constructed. The ability to produce content is insignificant compared to the power of The Google."
This comment should not have been modded "Troll"! I made the parent comment and found this comment to be valuable and informative and not offensive or provocative, even if it is slightly flippant. Please mod up!
I've now been well convinced by 3 other commenters, an acquaintance, and 2 authors that gyroscopic forces actually have a minimal effect in stabilizing bicycles. I think that the difference you are describing has more to do with the traction of the tires. I don't suggest that you just believe me; but you may want to question these ideas by reading about this a little more. The link provided above in FiloEleven's comment would be a good starting place if you are interested in learning more. It was time well spent for me.
I got "Redundant" for this? I wasn't repeating myself, just trying to be polite...;)
You don't sound like an ass at all, no need to apologize! I hope I am not sounding like an ass by aggressively questioning new ideas that challenge my old accepted ones. I don't want to just accept new ideas...I want to actively understand them. I guess like to I do that by first questioning them. I have been discussing this offline with a bicyclist friend of mine who builds frames and he is telling me very much the same things you and FiloEleven are here. He has provided me with an book by David Gordon Wilson w/Jim Papadopoulos titled "Bicycling Science". I expect it to be a excellent read, though I'll admit some of it seems a little over my head. Please, keep up the good fight challenging persistent erroneous memes! Is there any other way to fight ignorance than with truth and reason? I am quite happy to have both learned and unlearned something here today.
I got "Troll" for this? I'm honestly sorry if I offended someone, just trying to make a joke...
Thanks for pointing this out to me, FiloEleven. I stand corrected: what makes a bicycle work is more complicated than I surmised. Learning new information always brings new questions to my mind. Please consider these ideas. To say that a bicycle with counter-rotating gyroscopes is still "rideable" is not the same thing as to say that the conservation of angular momentum does not play a role in keeping a normal bicycle upright. In the same way to say that it is difficult or impossible to steer a bicycle without negative trail does not exclude the role of conservation of angular momentum in stabilizing the vehicle either. I accept that my explanation was overly simplistic, and I see now that I was wrong to dismiss the rider's skill as a stabilizing factor, with apologies to Anonymous Coward. ;) I also now see that the design of the steering is critical to make a bicycle practical to ride at all and contributes to stability while turning; but I don't see that this information excludes the angular momentum of the wheels as a stabilizing force. It would seem to me that there is a interplay of all of these factors at work. Thank you again for this information...I am fascinated and intend to read more to improve my understanding of this as this is a subject of interest to me as a thinking bicycle rider.
When Larry Craig taps his foot that means he is up for a deep inspection if you are...
The spinning wheels are the gyroscopes that keep vehicles with 2 in-line wheels upright. The rider needs only to not do things to interfere with that stabilizing effect. :P
shovels some at an existing crappy concept at Segway and astroturfs up some cheap green tech to qualify for the terms attached to the bailout money.
Your concept sounds like a Dymaxion car.
You don't need gyros OR a third wheel to keep a two-wheeled scooter upright.
You mean only in 'Merica! Blago was just doing it wrong.