The point? Proof of concept for investors I would suspect. Tele presence is now much more closer to reality. There will be big money in this stuff down the line. I remember reading a forward looking military report that planned on mind controlled planes in 2020 or something like that, and that's just one application.
Sure, that all sounds good, but what this actually translates into is more profits and higher costs for users going forward. The social shift in media consumption from tv and radio to the internet isn't done yet, and people will be consuming more and more bandwidth.
Whenever a corporation plays the "fairly" card, erase the word and replace it with "more profitably". And that's not cynicism, that's realism. Time warner is a for profit enterprise, not a public service, and that is what this is really about.
A public service to make things fair would choke the hogs bandwidth during peak times so that all users get a fair slice. But again, this is about profits and ultimately being able to charge us all more, not about fairness.
And your gasoline analogy was really bad. Time warner doesn't have to dig more oil out of the ground and refine it every month in order to maintain bandwidth.
Why should Christians and their beliefs be exempt from criticism and public derision any more than anyone else?
Speaking as someone who rejects religion across the board on a personal level and who also finds the religious agenda in government politics extremely irritating in general, and outright infuriating at times, I would say that Christians and their beliefs should not be exempt anymore than anyone else, but rather, they should be shown the same level of respect and tolerance that we want for ourselves. If we can't tolerate views that stand in contrast to our own, then we should expect our views to not be tolerated.
If the people complaining about Christian intolerance and bigotry are going to fight it with bigotry back towards Christians, then they've already lost my support. I know I'm not alone. Something about fucking for virginity here.
That's the main thing that stuck out in the article for me. That and he is printed in something called "the communist daily II manifesto", but I'm sure that has nothing to do with it.:rollseyes
A lot of loan calculation software does more than just calculate interest rates. They can also produce payment schedules and amortization over the life of the loan, up till the last payment.
I learned that the hard way myself. I'm still feeling the hurt years later due to the chain of events that difficult-to-get-payment-from customers put our company through. Wish I had read a thread like this like 10 years ago, could have saved me a lot of heartache and a lot of money. Problem is, a lot of people assume the best out of others, I did. I assumed people would give to me what I give under the same circumstances, and that's just not how it works.
That's a good point. The only thing keeping me from getting a Mac notebook at this point is no touchscreen/tabletpc type functionality. I'm typing this on my mac mini right now, so no one accuse me of being anti-mac, I love this OS, it's just after 2 years with my TC1100, it's very difficult to go back to the classic notebook form factor.
In fact, having got my desktop mac after I got the TC1100, I can tell you the only reason I'm not upgrading my tc1100 to a newer version of the tabletpc with better hardware specs is because I really don't want another PC at this point. I hope Apple is looking into that. The tablet format is addictive and it has nothing to do with handwriting recognition, I don't use that at all. It's just being able to carry a slate and tap the screen browsing the net in comfortable, natural positions, is something that can't be fully appreciated until experienced.
Please Apple, please. Give me my dream notebook... a MacOS tablet that can be used as a keyboardless slate like the TC1100.
"I don't know how it works in the US, but here (Paris), I actually *walk* to one of the supermarkets that's 500m away, then shop, then give them my address and they deliver the stuff (free past a certain amount, and I shop for groceries only once every 3 weeks or so) 1 or two hours later at a pre agreed time."
I'd love that system. I would totally do it. I'd even walk a couple of miles if I could get it.
When I was growing up, it used to be totally acceptable to take the carts from the store and wheel them home. We used to take a walk to the grocery store, load up, push home, then leave the cart out front. The grocery store had someone drive around the surrounding areas to pick up carts and if your cart got missed in a pickup between then and next time you shopped, you just wheeled it back to go shopping again. Unfortunately, with the rise of mentally challenged adolescent behavior in my area and the stupid things they started doing with and to the carts, that era is gone forever. Oddly enough, there were fewer obese people in that area back then.
I've never heard of that third one you mentioned, but those two right there are two of the least cost effective large supermarket chains around. Just by doing your shopping at a food4less/foodco you could probably cut 25 percent or more on your food bill every week. We cut 40 percent over Albertsons by switching to food4less for my family of 4(70 dollars less a week since we switched).
So you add that 10 bucks you pay for delivery, to the 25 percent plus you're probably overpaying for your groceries, and that's what you're cost of not shopping for yourself actually is. Maybe you feel that's worth it, and maybe it is for your situation, but for me it's worth the 7 minute drive and 20-30 minutes of shopping every week to save 70 bucks a week. And that's not even counting the 10 dollar delivery charge.
I suppose if a cheaper grocery store offered delivery for a 10 dollar fee I would take advantage of that. But I have not seen any cost effective online grocers at all. Every one that I've seen the prices are laughable.
I've never seen a cost effective online grocery store. That's the reason I still go shopping. It's kind of funny to me how many of my friends will build their own PCs to save 50-100 bucks, then waste 30-50 bucks a week overpaying for food, never thinking twice about it. Whatever though, it's all about priorities.
Didn't Ford just recently get bumped down to number 3 in the US for the first time in like 90 years or something. I would be more worried about my perception among young relatively affluent(read: tech savvy and more likely to get pissed about something like this)) individuals if I were in their position, a lot more than I'd be worried about a fan site producing a calendar of paying customers cars.
But hey, I'm not a big corporate executive genius, so maybe I'm not their target market.
"Nearly every sport has a doping and non-doping league already."
There are doping leagues for baseball, basketball, and football? I've never heard of that. Are you talking about a European thing?
"The problem is, people will only pay to see the non-doping leagues at the moment."
In the one sport I know of that does have doping and non-doping, bodybuilding, the doping league is where the money is overwhelmingly made. Maybe this is just a US thing, don't know.
Even as we are faced with incident after incident of our government failing to safeguard information, we do nothing as they collect more of it claiming they can be trusted to safeguard it.
Produce a printed manual sell it from the main site.
Produce a lightweight but useful book and go into the software from more of a practical application standpoint than your standard manual/documentation, and sell it either dead tree or ebook format on the main site.
Ads on the main site.
Get a nice catchy logo for your project and arrange to sell logo'd tees, coffee mugs, etc... on your site. There are sites out there that will let you do this with little to no capital up front.
This one will be controversial here, but hey futz it... talk to some Indian support firms and see about possibly hiring them to offer support, which you then sell from the main site of the application, where you will serve as "level 2" tech support.
Most important of all, if you decide to do any of this, just freaking do it. Don't second guess yourself once you've decided. Move forward in total confidence, daily feeling/envisioning your goals attained.
Slashdot Mirror
This is going to be the best litigation show on slashdot since the Sco vs. Novell chronicles.
Everyone gets a coupon worth $1 off the latest (DRM laden) Britney Spears CD.
But if they lose, why do we get punished?
middle class, alarmist, conservative, "immigration is evil and all non-white immigrants should be castrated" type readers.
Wow, you have republicans in Britain?
We tried that with political parties, and, well, see my sig.
This is a different monkey, but same concept... he doesn't look particularly drugged nor do I see any exposed brain.
http://www.random-good-stuff.com/2007/02/20/video-monkey-controls-robotic-arm-with-mind-beware-of-robot-monkeys/
The point? Proof of concept for investors I would suspect. Tele presence is now much more closer to reality. There will be big money in this stuff down the line. I remember reading a forward looking military report that planned on mind controlled planes in 2020 or something like that, and that's just one application.
On Slashdot, soviet Russia jokes control YOU!
Sure, that all sounds good, but what this actually translates into is more profits and higher costs for users going forward. The social shift in media consumption from tv and radio to the internet isn't done yet, and people will be consuming more and more bandwidth.
Whenever a corporation plays the "fairly" card, erase the word and replace it with "more profitably". And that's not cynicism, that's realism. Time warner is a for profit enterprise, not a public service, and that is what this is really about.
A public service to make things fair would choke the hogs bandwidth during peak times so that all users get a fair slice. But again, this is about profits and ultimately being able to charge us all more, not about fairness.
And your gasoline analogy was really bad. Time warner doesn't have to dig more oil out of the ground and refine it every month in order to maintain bandwidth.
Why should Christians and their beliefs be exempt from criticism and public derision any more than anyone else?
Speaking as someone who rejects religion across the board on a personal level and who also finds the religious agenda in government politics extremely irritating in general, and outright infuriating at times, I would say that Christians and their beliefs should not be exempt anymore than anyone else, but rather, they should be shown the same level of respect and tolerance that we want for ourselves. If we can't tolerate views that stand in contrast to our own, then we should expect our views to not be tolerated.
If the people complaining about Christian intolerance and bigotry are going to fight it with bigotry back towards Christians, then they've already lost my support. I know I'm not alone. Something about fucking for virginity here.
That's the main thing that stuck out in the article for me. That and he is printed in something called "the communist daily II manifesto", but I'm sure that has nothing to do with it. :rollseyes
Vanadium batteries might also be useful.
Thank you, you just helped me find my next notebook.
I didn't say there was.
A lot of loan calculation software does more than just calculate interest rates. They can also produce payment schedules and amortization over the life of the loan, up till the last payment.
I learned that the hard way myself. I'm still feeling the hurt years later due to the chain of events that difficult-to-get-payment-from customers put our company through. Wish I had read a thread like this like 10 years ago, could have saved me a lot of heartache and a lot of money. Problem is, a lot of people assume the best out of others, I did. I assumed people would give to me what I give under the same circumstances, and that's just not how it works.
Ignorance is bliss until you get the bill.
That's a good point. The only thing keeping me from getting a Mac notebook at this point is no touchscreen/tabletpc type functionality. I'm typing this on my mac mini right now, so no one accuse me of being anti-mac, I love this OS, it's just after 2 years with my TC1100, it's very difficult to go back to the classic notebook form factor.
In fact, having got my desktop mac after I got the TC1100, I can tell you the only reason I'm not upgrading my tc1100 to a newer version of the tabletpc with better hardware specs is because I really don't want another PC at this point. I hope Apple is looking into that. The tablet format is addictive and it has nothing to do with handwriting recognition, I don't use that at all. It's just being able to carry a slate and tap the screen browsing the net in comfortable, natural positions, is something that can't be fully appreciated until experienced.
Please Apple, please. Give me my dream notebook... a MacOS tablet that can be used as a keyboardless slate like the TC1100.
"I don't know how it works in the US, but here (Paris), I actually *walk* to one of the supermarkets that's 500m away, then shop, then give them my address and they deliver the stuff (free past a certain amount, and I shop for groceries only once every 3 weeks or so) 1 or two hours later at a pre agreed time."
I'd love that system. I would totally do it. I'd even walk a couple of miles if I could get it.
When I was growing up, it used to be totally acceptable to take the carts from the store and wheel them home. We used to take a walk to the grocery store, load up, push home, then leave the cart out front. The grocery store had someone drive around the surrounding areas to pick up carts and if your cart got missed in a pickup between then and next time you shopped, you just wheeled it back to go shopping again. Unfortunately, with the rise of mentally challenged adolescent behavior in my area and the stupid things they started doing with and to the carts, that era is gone forever. Oddly enough, there were fewer obese people in that area back then.
"Safeway or Albertsons"
I've never heard of that third one you mentioned, but those two right there are two of the least cost effective large supermarket chains around. Just by doing your shopping at a food4less/foodco you could probably cut 25 percent or more on your food bill every week. We cut 40 percent over Albertsons by switching to food4less for my family of 4(70 dollars less a week since we switched).
So you add that 10 bucks you pay for delivery, to the 25 percent plus you're probably overpaying for your groceries, and that's what you're cost of not shopping for yourself actually is. Maybe you feel that's worth it, and maybe it is for your situation, but for me it's worth the 7 minute drive and 20-30 minutes of shopping every week to save 70 bucks a week. And that's not even counting the 10 dollar delivery charge.
I suppose if a cheaper grocery store offered delivery for a 10 dollar fee I would take advantage of that. But I have not seen any cost effective online grocers at all. Every one that I've seen the prices are laughable.
I've never seen a cost effective online grocery store. That's the reason I still go shopping. It's kind of funny to me how many of my friends will build their own PCs to save 50-100 bucks, then waste 30-50 bucks a week overpaying for food, never thinking twice about it. Whatever though, it's all about priorities.
Didn't Ford just recently get bumped down to number 3 in the US for the first time in like 90 years or something. I would be more worried about my perception among young relatively affluent(read: tech savvy and more likely to get pissed about something like this)) individuals if I were in their position, a lot more than I'd be worried about a fan site producing a calendar of paying customers cars.
But hey, I'm not a big corporate executive genius, so maybe I'm not their target market.
... then come on, football is a doping league. As another poster put it, you don't get that many lightening fast 300lb people naturally.
But seriously, they only use steroids accidentally in the MLB:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmDKsAuHooo
They were doing that before Apple was a company.
"it's better to make friends than enemas."
"Nearly every sport has a doping and non-doping league already."
There are doping leagues for baseball, basketball, and football? I've never heard of that. Are you talking about a European thing?
"The problem is, people will only pay to see the non-doping leagues at the moment."
In the one sport I know of that does have doping and non-doping, bodybuilding, the doping league is where the money is overwhelmingly made. Maybe this is just a US thing, don't know.
Even as we are faced with incident after incident of our government failing to safeguard information, we do nothing as they collect more of it claiming they can be trusted to safeguard it.
Real ID is going to be a nightmare.
Some other possibilities to add to those:
Produce a printed manual sell it from the main site.
Produce a lightweight but useful book and go into the software from more of a practical application standpoint than your standard manual/documentation, and sell it either dead tree or ebook format on the main site.
Ads on the main site.
Get a nice catchy logo for your project and arrange to sell logo'd tees, coffee mugs, etc... on your site. There are sites out there that will let you do this with little to no capital up front.
This one will be controversial here, but hey futz it... talk to some Indian support firms and see about possibly hiring them to offer support, which you then sell from the main site of the application, where you will serve as "level 2" tech support.
Most important of all, if you decide to do any of this, just freaking do it. Don't second guess yourself once you've decided. Move forward in total confidence, daily feeling/envisioning your goals attained.