The problem is that natural monopolies frequently raise prices above economically-optimal to the profit-maximizing price point. There is no viable alternative for the consumer, so they can only choose between being gouged and doing without.
But dialing ten digits does not make a call long-distance. Dialing 718-xxx-xxxx from the 212 area code is a local call.
The "1 is a toll call prefix" was used in some places. 1-xxx-xxxx and 1-xxx-xxx-xxxx. It helped people with the surprises on their phone bills. It's been depracated for a while.
Pull-down menus, and the menu bar, were Apple inventions. Xerox had pop-up menues. The window menu included options like "resize" and "move". Very clunky...
The worst nuclear accident, by far, was Chernobyl, 1986. There were a couple of other accidents of the same magnitude as Three Mile Island (1979); IIRC, one in Britain, and one in the American south.
On the other hand, one of the reasons why people fear radioactivity is that it's a hard-to-detect hazard. You don't know when you're absorbing radiation. Some people just get sick and die. That scares a lot of people.
So how do you convince people that radiation and radioactive materials won't escape from the plant, and that radiation and radioactive materials won't escape from the waste disposal facility? How do you quantify radiation exposure, so that the public can compare the hazards of burning coal (and releasing the tiny amounts of uranium and radium contamination from the coal) with the hazards of having a nuclear plant in their neighborhood?
Because the rocket engines they are thinking about attaching to Hubble do not have enough fuel to lift Hubble to the moon.
I wonder why they can't boost it into a higher orbit. They should be able to do that -- if the engine they attach can start, stop, and then start and stop again. Some engines you light, and they burn 'till all the fuel is gone.
Take the money you would have spent on the powerbook, and put it into a savings account. Then, in a year, when the mysterious computer braking force has slowed your upgraded bronze PowerBook to a crawl, you'll have the money to buy an even better machine.
Microsoft played an active roll in dethroning Lotus and WordPerfect. By publicly claiming that their future direction was Presentation Manager, and convincing them to devote all their resources to the new PM version of their apps. And then introducing Windows 3.0.
IE is just relabelled NCSA Mosaic licensed via Spyglass. It wasn't a Microsoft Innovation.
By bundling IE with Windows, MS forced customers of the Monopoly Product (Windows) to pay for the competitive product (IE) whether they wanted to or not. That was a crime, for which the criminal was tried and convicted, and the conviction upheld on appeal. Then the Bush Administration's Law and Order justice department let the guilty go free, with all the fruits of the crime.
SGI may have admitted putting SYSV code into the Linux codebase. As soon as they discovered their transgression, they fixed it. That shows that their transgression was not intentional, and that they respected SCO's copyrights. SCO has not shown the same honesty of intention.
Has it really been fourteen years since the last Dr. Who episode was made for television? Wow. I've missed the old timelord.
I don't think I will ever be as excited as when Star Trek: The Next Generation came back on TV, but that was also, what, sixteen years ago? Time marches on. We get older, get real lives, more responsibilities. Sigh.
Odd. The United States Commission on Civil Rights reports, in a document titled _Voting Rights_in_Florida_2002:_Briefing_Summary dated August 2002, includes the following:
The agreements, for example, call for county officials to identify and restore the voting rights of people incorrectly removed from voter rolls as a result of errors on the felon lists provided by the state Division of Elections,
If there were no voters purged incorrectly, why is this part of the settlement between the U.S. Government and the counties of Florida?
Why all the reports of African American voters turned away at the polls, as reported by the USCCR?
In the last Canadian national election, the ballots were paper. Counted by hand. In a couple of hours.
I submit that you only need machines to do the tabulation when the counting process is complex, like in Instant Runoff Voting, see http://www.fairvote.org/irv/
According to http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/Gallery/Pearse/Pearse. html, Pearse crashed at the end of his first flight. Quoting the site: "In two letters, published in 1915 and 1928, the inventor writes of February or March 1904 as the time when he set out to solve the problem of aerial navigation. He also states that he did not achieve proper flight and did not beat the American brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright who flew on 17 December 1903. "
And then there's size. The Pearse machine had (a smidge over) half the wingspan of the Wright Flyer I.
By "the same thing as it did 20 years ago", do you mean violating antitrust laws? And then signing agreements with the Federal Trade Commission or the Department of Justice to stop breaking the law, and then ignoring those agreements?
Does that $2.05 Billion figure include the server _hardware_? Just askin', ya know.
Personally, I'm glad Red Hat is doing well. It means Linux is maturing. It means that more businesses will look for a Linux solution. As a unix software developer, that makes me happy.
What? You bought the product of a computer company, only to find out that a short time later, the company releases a new! improved! product? I am shocked, SHOCKED I tell you. That is totally unexpected behavior! It never happens.
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The alleged vulnerabilities of Mac OS X are still just allegations. Not real exploits that are uncovered daily on Windows.
The problem is that natural monopolies frequently raise prices above economically-optimal to the profit-maximizing price point. There is no viable alternative for the consumer, so they can only choose between being gouged and doing without.
But dialing ten digits does not make a call long-distance. Dialing 718-xxx-xxxx from the 212 area code is a local call.
The "1 is a toll call prefix" was used in some places. 1-xxx-xxxx and 1-xxx-xxx-xxxx. It helped people with the surprises on their phone bills. It's been depracated for a while.
And don't get me started on "local toll" calls.
Roddenberry passed on in 1991.
DS9 Premiered in early 1993.
Every sentence you wrote is false.
Are you a Republican?
Pull-down menus, and the menu bar, were Apple inventions. Xerox had pop-up menues. The window menu included options like "resize" and "move". Very clunky...
I bet on something tragic happening to human beings closest to me. I place this bet knowing that the house has an edge against me.
The house calls my betting "purchasing life insurance".
The worst nuclear accident, by far, was Chernobyl, 1986. There were a couple of other accidents of the same magnitude as Three Mile Island (1979); IIRC, one in Britain, and one in the American south.
Well said.
On the other hand, one of the reasons why people fear radioactivity is that it's a hard-to-detect hazard. You don't know when you're absorbing radiation. Some people just get sick and die. That scares a lot of people.
So how do you convince people that radiation and radioactive materials won't escape from the plant, and that radiation and radioactive materials won't escape from the waste disposal facility? How do you quantify radiation exposure, so that the public can compare the hazards of burning coal (and releasing the tiny amounts of uranium and radium contamination from the coal) with the hazards of having a nuclear plant in their neighborhood?
Because the rocket engines they are thinking about attaching to Hubble do not have enough fuel to lift Hubble to the moon.
I wonder why they can't boost it into a higher orbit. They should be able to do that -- if the engine they attach can start, stop, and then start and stop again. Some engines you light, and they burn 'till all the fuel is gone.
More like .00275 kiloton... See that "kilo" in there? It means "thousand"...
Modern science is now much more advanced, and clearly states that there are four phases of matter: solid, gasseous, plasma, and liquid.
About a decade ago, there was the Mac II fx, a machine so fast it could do an infinite loop in about half an hour...
Take the money you would have spent on the powerbook, and put it into a savings account. Then, in a year, when the mysterious computer braking force has slowed your upgraded bronze PowerBook to a crawl, you'll have the money to buy an even better machine.
Do you know where I can read more about this? I thought TiVo was an x86-based Linux box with a slick GUI.
Microsoft played an active roll in dethroning Lotus and WordPerfect. By publicly claiming that their future direction was Presentation Manager, and convincing them to devote all their resources to the new PM version of their apps. And then introducing Windows 3.0.
IE is just relabelled NCSA Mosaic licensed via Spyglass. It wasn't a Microsoft Innovation.
By bundling IE with Windows, MS forced customers of the Monopoly Product (Windows) to pay for the competitive product (IE) whether they wanted to or not. That was a crime, for which the criminal was tried and convicted, and the conviction upheld on appeal. Then the Bush Administration's Law and Order justice department let the guilty go free, with all the fruits of the crime.
So?
SGI may have admitted putting SYSV code into the Linux codebase. As soon as they discovered their transgression, they fixed it. That shows that their transgression was not intentional, and that they respected SCO's copyrights. SCO has not shown the same honesty of intention.
Has it really been fourteen years since the last Dr. Who episode was made for television? Wow. I've missed the old timelord.
I don't think I will ever be as excited as when Star Trek: The Next Generation came back on TV, but that was also, what, sixteen years ago? Time marches on. We get older, get real lives, more responsibilities. Sigh.
dated August 2002, includes the following:
If there were no voters purged incorrectly, why is this part of the settlement between the U.S. Government and the counties of Florida?
Why all the reports of African American voters turned away at the polls, as reported by the USCCR?
Why do you need machines to count the ballots?
In the last Canadian national election, the ballots were paper. Counted by hand. In a couple of hours.
I submit that you only need machines to do the tabulation when the counting process is complex, like in Instant Runoff Voting, see http://www.fairvote.org/irv/
According to http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/Gallery/Pearse/Pearse. html, Pearse crashed at the end of his first flight. Quoting the site: "In two letters, published in 1915 and 1928, the inventor writes of February or March 1904 as the time when he set out to solve the problem of aerial navigation. He also states that he did not achieve proper flight and did not beat the American brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright who flew on 17 December 1903. "
And then there's size. The Pearse machine had (a smidge over) half the wingspan of the Wright Flyer I.
By "the same thing as it did 20 years ago", do you mean violating antitrust laws? And then signing agreements with the Federal Trade Commission or the Department of Justice to stop breaking the law, and then ignoring those agreements?
Does that $2.05 Billion figure include the server _hardware_? Just askin', ya know.
Personally, I'm glad Red Hat is doing well. It means Linux is maturing. It means that more businesses will look for a Linux solution. As a unix software developer, that makes me happy.
What? You bought the product of a computer company, only to find out that a short time later, the company releases a new! improved! product? I am shocked, SHOCKED I tell you. That is totally unexpected behavior! It never happens.