No, that's exactly what always happens. All the limitations are mostly artificial - given enough money, we'd be able to jack up production by a lot within a year.
If the prices are high, there's incentive to increase production. If the prices are low, not much will be produced. You can draw a curve price supply - the higher the price, the higher the supply.
Same for demand. If gas was free, you'd find a use for it and would buy more. If it was $1000 a gallon, you'd try not to use as much. There's another curve. The higher the price, the lower the supply.
The actual market price is at the spot where both curves cross, the spot where supply equals demand, both in price and in volume.
Now what happens in case of someone like Katrina, is that one of the curves changed (if the curves never changed, you'd always have the same price and volume). Less can be produced, so in total, at a given price point, suppliers will be able to supply less. So that curve shifts.
As a result, price goes up, to a point where suppliers make a little more oil, and users use a little less oil, so there's equality again.
The US has had a huge trade deficit for years - they have been importing much, much more than they have been exporting. And paying for those things with dollars.
So people outside the US got a lot of dollars. What have they been doing with that? Investing it in the US. That is, buying up your companies.
Many (most?) large companies in the US aren't exactly American anymore.
So when all the jobs are outsourced and everyone around the world is making $8/hr in the new Global Economy, who is going to be able to afford $200 for an operating system? Or $500 for Office? Or $1500 for Adobe?
Many of them (outside the US), after all the trade deficit will make the dollar fall like a brick.
Is that few km up really such a big saver? Most of the energy for orbital flight is needed for getting the tremendous sideways speed needed to stay in orbit. I'm not having much luck with Google, but can you point at some stuff that shows the gains aren't more than a few percent?
It's computer science, not a programming course. Software engineering is but a tiny part of computer science, so it's no surprise that the coverage is limited.
Evolution is just the phenomenon that those that survive to have offspring decide the traits of the next generation. It's completely irrelevant how the ones that didn't make it died.
It has the most weapons and it has been involved in more wars than any other country since the 20th century, it seems to me. Murder rates inside the country are also much higher than anywhere else in the developed world.
Which country would you nominate as being more violent?
So you would agree that Python has anonymous functions, then?
Well, in the strictest meaning of function, then yes. Lambdas don't contain a block of code to executed (like in named functions), they can only contain an expression to evaluate. Python is sufficiently functional programmingish to make that somewhat valuable, but anonymous functions aren't the same things as named functions.
Newuser there got that answer because he asked his question the wrong way. Asking a direct question is just RTFM-bait. If he wanted a helpful answer from guru, he should have asked it more like
[newuser] Linux can do..., how come it's not possible on BSD? I thought BSD was as good, but apparently I was wrong!
[guru] what do you mean?! BSD beats Linux all the time!
[guru] all you need to do is...
Shashdotters call b.s. on anything because they like to do this! They are natural born devil's advocates and kill-joys who look for the flaws in things.
Facts:
Slashdotters are mammals.
Slashdotters call b.s. ALL the time.
The purpose of Slashdotters is to flip out and look for flaws in things.
These guys are so crazy and awesome that they flip out ALL the time. I heard that there was this Slashdotter who was eating at a diner. And when some dude dropped a spoon the Slashdotter kill-joyed the whole town. My friend Mark said that he saw a Slashdotter totally nitpick some kid just because the kid opened a window.
And that's what I call REAL Ultimate Power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What investors are trying to understand is who remains standing with a semblance of a profitable business at the end of it. Each side is desperately trying not to end up being a "dumb pipe", but have a valuable "walled garden" of services to keep customers paying $50, 100 or more per month per household.
Problem with that is that, as far as I can see it, the last thing a customer wants is a walled garden. They're always very limited and boring, and expensive.
Yes the porn industry is a large industry, and whether or not it's comparable to games, I have no idea what the numbers are! But that's besides the point! If you're going to get porn, get porn! If you're going to get a game that has porn on it, one way or another, then at least let people KNOW its there.
A video game man in pants making suggestive moves towards a video game women without genitalia ISN'T PORN in any sense of the word.
Seriously, with quality services such as iTunes out there, what legitimate reasons do people have to download mass quantities of music they haven't paid for?
Their client doesn't run on Linux, and their music isn't in mp3 or Ogg. That's what keeps me personally from using it, I'm not saying that those are the reasons for other people. If it were web based and had mp3s available, I'd probably go crazy and spend half my income on it for a few weeks:-)
That said, after confining myself to buying CDs at concerts and the odd CD Baby order for a few years, I've recently bought several CDs in normal stores again.
Even diehard MS fans have to be wondering what the hell is going on up in Redmond.
I'm no open source freak, but the trend seems clear that the time to migrate to Linux is here for anyone who doesn't have one or more must have apps that still only run on Windows.
It seems to me that the trend is to stick with the perfectly working version of Windows that people already have. Just as there is no special reason to get Vista, there is no special reason for people to abandon their working installation for Linux.
You're absolutely right, all warring or oppressive nations on this planet are Muslim, barring, say, China, North Korea, the US, the UK, Russia, Cuba, India, much of ex-Yugoslavia, Israel, Zimbabwe,...
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No, that's exactly what always happens. All the limitations are mostly artificial - given enough money, we'd be able to jack up production by a lot within a year.
If the prices are high, there's incentive to increase production. If the prices are low, not much will be produced. You can draw a curve price supply - the higher the price, the higher the supply.
Same for demand. If gas was free, you'd find a use for it and would buy more. If it was $1000 a gallon, you'd try not to use as much. There's another curve. The higher the price, the lower the supply.
The actual market price is at the spot where both curves cross, the spot where supply equals demand, both in price and in volume.
Now what happens in case of someone like Katrina, is that one of the curves changed (if the curves never changed, you'd always have the same price and volume). Less can be produced, so in total, at a given price point, suppliers will be able to supply less. So that curve shifts.
As a result, price goes up, to a point where suppliers make a little more oil, and users use a little less oil, so there's equality again.
when the turtle at the bottom of the stack of turtles that make up the universe
Dude, there is no bottom. It's turtles all the way down.
The US has had a huge trade deficit for years - they have been importing much, much more than they have been exporting. And paying for those things with dollars.
So people outside the US got a lot of dollars. What have they been doing with that? Investing it in the US. That is, buying up your companies.
Many (most?) large companies in the US aren't exactly American anymore.
So when all the jobs are outsourced and everyone around the world is making $8/hr in the new Global Economy, who is going to be able to afford $200 for an operating system? Or $500 for Office? Or $1500 for Adobe?
Many of them (outside the US), after all the trade deficit will make the dollar fall like a brick.
And remember, after that 1953 catastrophe, we received a lot of very important help from... the US.
I feel that offering just a few "dike inspectors" is a disgrace and an insult.
There's even the third meaning, which is that you should time flies like you would time an arrow, and not e.g. like you would time 100m runners.
Each of the first three words could be the verb in that sentence.
I wonder how anyone not making $80 grand a year can afford any of this stuff, including the gas it takes to get there.
If you have a car, you're not poor.
(as seen from outside the US)
Is that few km up really such a big saver? Most of the energy for orbital flight is needed for getting the tremendous sideways speed needed to stay in orbit. I'm not having much luck with Google, but can you point at some stuff that shows the gains aren't more than a few percent?
It's computer science, not a programming course. Software engineering is but a tiny part of computer science, so it's no surprise that the coverage is limited.
Evolution is just the phenomenon that those that survive to have offspring decide the traits of the next generation. It's completely irrelevant how the ones that didn't make it died.
Broadcasting rights? They must be easily more than that. And then there's ticket sales...
I think the tax money is going to building new stadiums, that sort of thing. Not to marketing.
In fact, that's how it works. Insert bread, start webserver, advertize its existence on Slashdot. Resulting meltdown turns bread into toast.
It has the most weapons and it has been involved in more wars than any other country since the 20th century, it seems to me. Murder rates inside the country are also much higher than anywhere else in the developed world.
Which country would you nominate as being more violent?
Could one of our EU slashdotters enlighten?
Speaking for most of us, no we can't :-(.
So you would agree that Python has anonymous functions, then?
Well, in the strictest meaning of function, then yes. Lambdas don't contain a block of code to executed (like in named functions), they can only contain an expression to evaluate. Python is sufficiently functional programmingish to make that somewhat valuable, but anonymous functions aren't the same things as named functions.
Newuser there got that answer because he asked his question the wrong way. Asking a direct question is just RTFM-bait. If he wanted a helpful answer from guru, he should have asked it more like
[newuser] Linux can do ..., how come it's not possible on BSD? I thought BSD was as good, but apparently I was wrong! ...
[guru] what do you mean?! BSD beats Linux all the time!
[guru] all you need to do is
(paraphrasing bash.org)
Shashdotters call b.s. on anything because they like to do this! They are natural born devil's advocates and kill-joys who look for the flaws in things.
Facts:These guys are so crazy and awesome that they flip out ALL the time. I heard that there was this Slashdotter who was eating at a diner. And when some dude dropped a spoon the Slashdotter kill-joyed the whole town. My friend Mark said that he saw a Slashdotter totally nitpick some kid just because the kid opened a window.
And that's what I call REAL Ultimate Power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What investors are trying to understand is who remains standing with a semblance of a profitable business at the end of it. Each side is desperately trying not to end up being a "dumb pipe", but have a valuable "walled garden" of services to keep customers paying $50, 100 or more per month per household.
Problem with that is that, as far as I can see it, the last thing a customer wants is a walled garden. They're always very limited and boring, and expensive.
Yes the porn industry is a large industry, and whether or not it's comparable to games, I have no idea what the numbers are! But that's besides the point! If you're going to get porn, get porn! If you're going to get a game that has porn on it, one way or another, then at least let people KNOW its there.
A video game man in pants making suggestive moves towards a video game women without genitalia ISN'T PORN in any sense of the word.
Seriously, with quality services such as iTunes out there, what legitimate reasons do people have to download mass quantities of music they haven't paid for?
Their client doesn't run on Linux, and their music isn't in mp3 or Ogg. That's what keeps me personally from using it, I'm not saying that those are the reasons for other people. If it were web based and had mp3s available, I'd probably go crazy and spend half my income on it for a few weeks :-)
That said, after confining myself to buying CDs at concerts and the odd CD Baby order for a few years, I've recently bought several CDs in normal stores again.
Even diehard MS fans have to be wondering what the hell is going on up in Redmond.
I'm no open source freak, but the trend seems clear that the time to migrate to Linux is here for anyone who doesn't have one or more must have apps that still only run on Windows.
It seems to me that the trend is to stick with the perfectly working version of Windows that people already have. Just as there is no special reason to get Vista, there is no special reason for people to abandon their working installation for Linux.
And I am an open source freak.
One thing I'm sure we can agree on though: if they keep increasing at this rate it won't be long until they both have infinite income!
Eh? Exactly the opposite: if their relative growth percentage continues to be finite each year, their income will always be finite.
Blah, anyone named CaroKann will be biased towards chess articles :-)
Well, those words have several spellings, and you're being inconsistent with them.
Pro-defending:
- "the best offence is a good defence": 214
- "the best offence is a good defense": 73
- "the best offense is a good defence": 219
- "the best offense is a good defense": 5340
Sum: 5846.Pro-attacking:
- "the best defence is a good offence": 571
- "the best defence is a good offense": 761
- "the best defense is a good offence": 871
- "the best defense is a good offense": 30500
Sum: 32703.So still a factor of over five. Oddly enough, your choice of defense/offence is skewed towards the pro-attacking side.
You're absolutely right, all warring or oppressive nations on this planet are Muslim, barring, say, China, North Korea, the US, the UK, Russia, Cuba, India, much of ex-Yugoslavia, Israel, Zimbabwe, ...