Although, I did jump to potential conclusions that there may be more than one way to look at it. One might say that there is a fallacy of division on my part because I am assuming (which goes against the grain here) that the pilot is rational and therefore he may have made a rational decision as a whole. I then hypothesize that the decision being rational must have been made up of parts that are could be rational in whole or part, but in reality that may not be the case.
To the comment "I am sure you will find some wya to justify actions against the brown guy", I do not think this is a race issue. After what has happened in Milwaukee and Aurora, masked men, women, or children carrying, pellet guns, squirt guns, or weapons into crowded places of worship or entertainment warrants removal regardless if they are green, orange, blue, pink, white, brown, or black. Society has norms that underlie the fabric by which we conduct ourselves. Going against these customary norms then results in grief (physical or mental) for the parties involved. It may not lead to assault, battery, etc., but the expectation of hardship for going against the norm exists and should be expected.
I'm going to say that most people 45+ don't know what ZOMG means. Therefore, seeing something that says "Gonna Kill US All ZOMG" would be a bit unnerving. Even though it is security theater, society has norms that state when people deem to be right and wrong. Wearing a shirt that has that message is wrong because it breaks those societal courtesies. Putting someone's grandma in a state of unease for something that is already not exactly the most fun doesn't sit well in my book.
I applaud the pilot. It is his job to get the plane safely in the air and back to the ground. He probably saw it for what it was, but decided he didn't want one the passengers beating the shit out of this guy mid-air because they felt threatened. Bruce Schneier has pointed out numerous times that the acts against the World Trade Center have empowered the average citizen to stand up and fight if they closely felt threatened. That could have been the case and may have saved the student further grief.
I had this phone. It was called the LG enV3. It was awesome for everything you described, except the keyboard didn't slide out it folded out. The battery would readily last 3-4 days. It had good calendar features, chargeable by micro-USB, Bluetooth, etc. This thing was easily made 3 years ago.
Now, I have an iPhone and I am not looking back. Being able to VPN back into work and run SSH from my phone is like magic. It is called progress, brother!
Call the public services commission. I work for an ISP (Telco) we are regulated by the PSC and the FCC. Notifying them, the better business bureau, and the village/town/municipality where you operate would make enough noise. Hell, I might through in the FCC, but I don't think that would do anything.
A lot of our field techs/linemen know and work the the municipality and the linemen with the electric and water utilities. Make enough noise and you will get service or at least an answer. Likely, the backhaul from the Central Office to the their meet point for the Internet if full and oversubscribed from 5PM to 9PM. Someone suggested that the cross connect from the DSLAM to the the router in the C.O. might be full, but we have never seen that to be the case where I work because we have GigE and Ten-GigE fiber running through our distribution network. Even, the old ATM based distribution networks (late 90's tech) had OC-3's and OC-12's so having enough bandwidth between the C.O. and the DSLAM has never really been an issue.
I can't mod because I commented above, but the post above is awesome! I also want to chime in that the food pyramid has been replaced by "my plate". This has been the case for a few years, now.
As for counting calories, it is the fundamental unit of measure for energy. I have shed a bit of weight and like to think of my body as a rational system. In the fact that the storage of fat and gains in girth are because I was eating too much energy than what I needed to survive so my body stored the weight. The Hacker's Diet gave me great insight as to how weight is 90% caloric intake, 5% genetics, and 5% exercise.
of course, if you exercise as part of the lifestyle change, you'll be putting on muscle, which weighs a lot more than the fat you're losing.
I have a problem with "muscle, which weighs a lot more that the fat you're losing". A pound or kg of muscle has the same weight as a pound or kg of fat because of the unit of measure. The truth is that muscle is denser than fat, i.e. when you account for volume, muscle has more weight per volume than fat.
Especially considering that in a modern CO the blade(s) that is serve as the DSLAM is also the point where the analog signal is split out from the network and is in some instances responsible for providing dial tone. So if the DSL goes down, often times your POTS will go down with it!
I have to disagree with this. Currently, the two biggest cellular providers are Verizon and AT&T
Verizon was created from GTE + Bell Atlantic. AT&T is from Ameritech + NYNEX + Bell South + Pacific Telesis + SBC(changed name to AT&T).
Likely, only one of these entities would exist if AT&T continued to operate as a monopoly because I don't know if GTE had the clout to be as big as Verizon currently is by itself because moving cellular traffic depends mainly on access to fiber (T1s in days of yore). Which would mean that we would all have one technology for cell phones, with one option for a carrier. The other thing that came from the breakup, the Baby Bells had two work with each other to ensure that their new broken up networks would switch traffic after moving forward with independent network upgrades, which gave way to for more open/non proprietary standards to be implemented in the telecom industry and working interconnected networks with multiple routes and diverse locations (TCP/IP networks/slow rise of the Internet, respectively).
I don't think most people are under a false belief that big cars are necessarily less fuel efficient. Math points out that they are correct in that assumption.
I am thinking back to something I learned in statics class... If a car gets bigger, it will have a greater distance between the supports, frame, etc. Therefore we need to account for that Force applied will be the same, but the magnitude of that moment will be higher, aka: M=Fd Therefore, an Engineer would have to account for that moment to meet safety standards and would do so by increasing the mass of the supports, frame, etc to counteract the moment. This in turn, makes a car inherently heavier.
Sounds like the content providers are starting to work as an oligopoly and extracting the maximum cash out of Netflix, either that or Netfix is starting to cash in on the growing customer base.
Another thought just popped into my head, and that might be that Netflix is trying to actively fracture their customer base to beat on their chest to the content providers that streaming or on demand content is the only means people will access media, or it could be that they are going to sell off the DVD distribution side and focus on the lower costs associated without having to warehouse, sort, ship, receive, and resort DVDs.
Seriously, how does a person make the leap from either making the economic decision of, "If I buy this game, I will have to play it through and it has no resale value nor can I restart where I left off. If I don't buy this game I will have the $50 in my pocket to buy another game without those features" to "Screw this, I am now going to spend $50 on the game and use $400 of my time to learn C, become proficient, start spending $700 of my time to reverse engineering how the memory works in the console, and finally use another $800 of my time to break the encryption systems, etc. that store the key codes for the game status, etc."?
I don't think your scenario is reality for 99.999% of the game purchasing public, most people don't want to spend $1600 in their own time to become a hacker, just to break the encryption on a $50 game . I think the choice much simpler: Buy the game or don't buy the game based on the opportunity costs associated with not being able to resell or restart the game.
by blind biker on Thursday January 06, @11:27AM (#34778808):
I am a researcher in micro and nanotech, and I can confirm this trend in my field, as well. In fact, one journal in particular has been especially bad in rejecting my articles with some awful refereeing, which I will save for posterity. I am tempted to rub my published articles under the nose of the (probably equally incompetent or corrupt) editor of that journal.
I'm going to lose the ability to mod...
I doubt that you have studied dolphin behavior nor could you be a marine biologist or even properly studied, researching biologist.
The above quote is from you, today at 11:27 AM and now at 4:22 PM, you post being the know all of behavior and animal psychology. Maybe you are a nanotechnology research specialist who develops and then implants chips into the brains of dolphins based on your personality studies measuring and recognizing "personhood" with the added bonus of statistically noting the externalities of increasing your karma/or slashdotness based on this research, but I doubt that too!
The batteries are a variable cost, much like the steel to make the car, the tires on the car, the labor that is used to build each car, etc. The cost is associated with each car built. Constant costs are fixed costs. These would be the costs associated with the plant the cars are built in, the robotics used to build the cars, the building maintenance of the plant, etc.
Let's think of it another way: If the Chevy was to make 10,001 Volts, they would have to purchase 1 more battery pack to go in that extra car (technically, although it does run on gas only).
I think you are mistaking marginal costs and constant costs. Marginal costs are costs associated with making extra units or adding production. A great example is if Chevy took the same plant and decided to make 12,000 Volts. This likely means that they would have to pay overtime and/or add another shift to the plant. This is the additional marginal costs. Marginal costs are often associated with labor because there is only so much work a person can do before they have diminishing returns (get tired and do less work). That being said, goal of every profit driven company is to match its marginal costs with its marginal revenue (i.e. for the additional cost of adding one more unit equals the additional $ in profit of making that exact unit~). This is the point when a company has reached maximum profitability, after this it makes sense to add capacity usually via additional fixed costs, which creates a new average total cost, a new average variable cost, and a new average marginal costs. Marginal costs are hard to conceptualize because they exist in reality but we look at them abstractly and only exist for an exact set of parameters; most companies and people don't think along these lines, they think of adding production capacity, when we can't squeeze any more production out the existing facilities and labor.
Thanks for taking me back to college! It is nice to finally use my econ degree for something!
Maybe the Year of the Linux Desktop was supposed to happen, now Titor doesn't have to get his IBM 5100 because we are all going to use Macs in the future, and the iPhone and GTE (I mean Verizon) becomes reality.
We had the same problem because the company that I work for our antenna is pointed directly at a city with TV here in Wisconsin and it put us in line with Chicago.
We ended up buying a new full spectrum UHF antenna that uses two stacked antennas and mapped out the co-channel interference and determined the point of the lowest interference. We used to have issues with blocking and tiling when a weather inversion would occur, but now those problems are completely gone.
I would be willing to PM the name of the company that we used to consult on this project.
I have to add to the P3 pride list:
At home, my file server is a Dell Poweredge 1300 with dual P3 500 Mhz CPUs and 768 Mb of ram. It has a software raid 1, from two 80 Gig HDs running Ubuntu 6.06.
In my parents basement, I left a Pentium II 300 with 384 Mb and an 8 gig HD running Centos 4 for remote access, ssh tunnelling, etc.
The actual history of "going to the mattresses" comes from the Joey Gallo and the war between him and the Profaci family. The term appeared in the headlines in the early 60's in the headlines in New York newspapers.
Another idea might be to look at VLC for your streaming server with either IP set top boxes with a web based interface (LAMP). I know that Amino can provide IPTV set top boxes that will work work H.264 and should be able HD picture quality without having to setup a bunch of thin stations. This would allow you to use HD TVs, but it might cost you some interactivity by not having a button to push. The advantage would be that the hardware to run this would not cost as much. Currently, I use VLC to stream a channel that is on a loop from our headend to our customers because I don't want to have to deal with DVD's, etc.
http://aminocom.com/ http://www.videolan.org/vlc/streaming.html
The reason that you can't get DSL without a landline is due to the tariff that the telecom company serves under. If the telephone company operates the telecom and their tariff is written that you need to have a land-line to get Internet, that is the only way it is going to happen.
This goes back to how phone companies were set up as old school utilities with regulation while the cable company is not classified as a required utility in an area.
Often what causes the change in an area is if the local phone company has competition in the form of CLEC. The CLEC is usually established as a telecom company that happens to do pots vs. a phone company that happens to do telecom services. This usually causes the local exchange carrier to have to go back and re-write their tariff for the serving area to become more competitive.
Or it could be that our Senators and Congressman have used corporate taxes to impose a specific type of behavior onto the companies and people that are taxed. Thus, creating this specific type of behavior. Corporations and people naturally, follow this behavior because it benefits their bottom line. This is why the concept of a free market has become so convoluted.
If tax breaks where not imposed solar power, wind power, alternative fuels, hybrid cars, 401ks, iras, tuition costs, etc. would have a higher costs associated with them, thus jeopardizing portions (possibly all) of their exisitence. This means that alternatives become more attractive. I great example is the number of people going to college vs. entering a trade. The trades still exist, but the average tradesman has gotten older over the last 30 years.
Does a penguin then lead to global warming? I am sure all of the penguin poop leaves the penguin, entering the environment of Antartica warmer than the surrounding ice and snow. This then causes an ammount of ice around the penguin to melt (slightly). Which shows the results of an exothermic reaction, adding more carbon emissions to the environment. Hence, causing global warming
This was about the funniest post I have read in a while here. After just buying a foreclosed house and un-fucking a lot of mistakes, the parent speaks from experience.
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I didn't state that there was a serious crime.
Although, I did jump to potential conclusions that there may be more than one way to look at it. One might say that there is a fallacy of division on my part because I am assuming (which goes against the grain here) that the pilot is rational and therefore he may have made a rational decision as a whole. I then hypothesize that the decision being rational must have been made up of parts that are could be rational in whole or part, but in reality that may not be the case.
To the comment "I am sure you will find some wya to justify actions against the brown guy", I do not think this is a race issue. After what has happened in Milwaukee and Aurora, masked men, women, or children carrying, pellet guns, squirt guns, or weapons into crowded places of worship or entertainment warrants removal regardless if they are green, orange, blue, pink, white, brown, or black. Society has norms that underlie the fabric by which we conduct ourselves. Going against these customary norms then results in grief (physical or mental) for the parties involved. It may not lead to assault, battery, etc., but the expectation of hardship for going against the norm exists and should be expected.
I'm going to say that most people 45+ don't know what ZOMG means. Therefore, seeing something that says "Gonna Kill US All ZOMG" would be a bit unnerving. Even though it is security theater, society has norms that state when people deem to be right and wrong. Wearing a shirt that has that message is wrong because it breaks those societal courtesies. Putting someone's grandma in a state of unease for something that is already not exactly the most fun doesn't sit well in my book.
I applaud the pilot. It is his job to get the plane safely in the air and back to the ground. He probably saw it for what it was, but decided he didn't want one the passengers beating the shit out of this guy mid-air because they felt threatened. Bruce Schneier has pointed out numerous times that the acts against the World Trade Center have empowered the average citizen to stand up and fight if they closely felt threatened. That could have been the case and may have saved the student further grief.
I had this phone. It was called the LG enV3. It was awesome for everything you described, except the keyboard didn't slide out it folded out. The battery would readily last 3-4 days. It had good calendar features, chargeable by micro-USB, Bluetooth, etc. This thing was easily made 3 years ago.
Now, I have an iPhone and I am not looking back. Being able to VPN back into work and run SSH from my phone is like magic. It is called progress, brother!
Call the public services commission. I work for an ISP (Telco) we are regulated by the PSC and the FCC. Notifying them, the better business bureau, and the village/town/municipality where you operate would make enough noise. Hell, I might through in the FCC, but I don't think that would do anything.
A lot of our field techs/linemen know and work the the municipality and the linemen with the electric and water utilities. Make enough noise and you will get service or at least an answer. Likely, the backhaul from the Central Office to the their meet point for the Internet if full and oversubscribed from 5PM to 9PM. Someone suggested that the cross connect from the DSLAM to the the router in the C.O. might be full, but we have never seen that to be the case where I work because we have GigE and Ten-GigE fiber running through our distribution network. Even, the old ATM based distribution networks (late 90's tech) had OC-3's and OC-12's so having enough bandwidth between the C.O. and the DSLAM has never really been an issue.
Good Luck!
I can't mod because I commented above, but the post above is awesome! I also want to chime in that the food pyramid has been replaced by "my plate". This has been the case for a few years, now.
As for counting calories, it is the fundamental unit of measure for energy. I have shed a bit of weight and like to think of my body as a rational system. In the fact that the storage of fat and gains in girth are because I was eating too much energy than what I needed to survive so my body stored the weight. The Hacker's Diet gave me great insight as to how weight is 90% caloric intake, 5% genetics, and 5% exercise.
of course, if you exercise as part of the lifestyle change, you'll be putting on muscle, which weighs a lot more than the fat you're losing.
I have a problem with "muscle, which weighs a lot more that the fat you're losing". A pound or kg of muscle has the same weight as a pound or kg of fat because of the unit of measure. The truth is that muscle is denser than fat, i.e. when you account for volume, muscle has more weight per volume than fat.
That's funny!
Especially considering that in a modern CO the blade(s) that is serve as the DSLAM is also the point where the analog signal is split out from the network and is in some instances responsible for providing dial tone. So if the DSL goes down, often times your POTS will go down with it!
I have to disagree with this. Currently, the two biggest cellular providers are Verizon and AT&T
Verizon was created from GTE + Bell Atlantic. AT&T is from Ameritech + NYNEX + Bell South + Pacific Telesis + SBC(changed name to AT&T).
Likely, only one of these entities would exist if AT&T continued to operate as a monopoly because I don't know if GTE had the clout to be as big as Verizon currently is by itself because moving cellular traffic depends mainly on access to fiber (T1s in days of yore). Which would mean that we would all have one technology for cell phones, with one option for a carrier. The other thing that came from the breakup, the Baby Bells had two work with each other to ensure that their new broken up networks would switch traffic after moving forward with independent network upgrades, which gave way to for more open/non proprietary standards to be implemented in the telecom industry and working interconnected networks with multiple routes and diverse locations (TCP/IP networks/slow rise of the Internet, respectively).
I don't think most people are under a false belief that big cars are necessarily less fuel efficient. Math points out that they are correct in that assumption.
I am thinking back to something I learned in statics class... If a car gets bigger, it will have a greater distance between the supports, frame, etc. Therefore we need to account for that Force applied will be the same, but the magnitude of that moment will be higher, aka: M=Fd Therefore, an Engineer would have to account for that moment to meet safety standards and would do so by increasing the mass of the supports, frame, etc to counteract the moment. This in turn, makes a car inherently heavier.
Sounds like the content providers are starting to work as an oligopoly and extracting the maximum cash out of Netflix, either that or Netfix is starting to cash in on the growing customer base.
Another thought just popped into my head, and that might be that Netflix is trying to actively fracture their customer base to beat on their chest to the content providers that streaming or on demand content is the only means people will access media, or it could be that they are going to sell off the DVD distribution side and focus on the lower costs associated without having to warehouse, sort, ship, receive, and resort DVDs.
What?
Seriously, how does a person make the leap from either making the economic decision of, "If I buy this game, I will have to play it through and it has no resale value nor can I restart where I left off. If I don't buy this game I will have the $50 in my pocket to buy another game without those features" to "Screw this, I am now going to spend $50 on the game and use $400 of my time to learn C, become proficient, start spending $700 of my time to reverse engineering how the memory works in the console, and finally use another $800 of my time to break the encryption systems, etc. that store the key codes for the game status, etc."?
I don't think your scenario is reality for 99.999% of the game purchasing public, most people don't want to spend $1600 in their own time to become a hacker, just to break the encryption on a $50 game . I think the choice much simpler: Buy the game or don't buy the game based on the opportunity costs associated with not being able to resell or restart the game.
by blind biker on Thursday January 06, @11:27AM (#34778808):
I am a researcher in micro and nanotech, and I can confirm this trend in my field, as well. In fact, one journal in particular has been especially bad in rejecting my articles with some awful refereeing, which I will save for posterity. I am tempted to rub my published articles under the nose of the (probably equally incompetent or corrupt) editor of that journal.
I'm going to lose the ability to mod...
I doubt that you have studied dolphin behavior nor could you be a marine biologist or even properly studied, researching biologist.
The above quote is from you, today at 11:27 AM and now at 4:22 PM, you post being the know all of behavior and animal psychology. Maybe you are a nanotechnology research specialist who develops and then implants chips into the brains of dolphins based on your personality studies measuring and recognizing "personhood" with the added bonus of statistically noting the externalities of increasing your karma/or slashdotness based on this research, but I doubt that too!
I don't know how the above was modded Insightful.
The batteries are a variable cost, much like the steel to make the car, the tires on the car, the labor that is used to build each car, etc. The cost is associated with each car built. Constant costs are fixed costs. These would be the costs associated with the plant the cars are built in, the robotics used to build the cars, the building maintenance of the plant, etc.
Let's think of it another way: If the Chevy was to make 10,001 Volts, they would have to purchase 1 more battery pack to go in that extra car (technically, although it does run on gas only).
I think you are mistaking marginal costs and constant costs. Marginal costs are costs associated with making extra units or adding production. A great example is if Chevy took the same plant and decided to make 12,000 Volts. This likely means that they would have to pay overtime and/or add another shift to the plant. This is the additional marginal costs. Marginal costs are often associated with labor because there is only so much work a person can do before they have diminishing returns (get tired and do less work). That being said, goal of every profit driven company is to match its marginal costs with its marginal revenue (i.e. for the additional cost of adding one more unit equals the additional $ in profit of making that exact unit~). This is the point when a company has reached maximum profitability, after this it makes sense to add capacity usually via additional fixed costs, which creates a new average total cost, a new average variable cost, and a new average marginal costs. Marginal costs are hard to conceptualize because they exist in reality but we look at them abstractly and only exist for an exact set of parameters; most companies and people don't think along these lines, they think of adding production capacity, when we can't squeeze any more production out the existing facilities and labor.
Thanks for taking me back to college! It is nice to finally use my econ degree for something!
http://tutor2u.net/economics/revision-notes/a2-micro-supply-shortrun-costs.html
Maybe the Year of the Linux Desktop was supposed to happen, now Titor doesn't have to get his IBM 5100 because we are all going to use Macs in the future, and the iPhone and GTE (I mean Verizon) becomes reality.
We had the same problem because the company that I work for our antenna is pointed directly at a city with TV here in Wisconsin and it put us in line with Chicago. We ended up buying a new full spectrum UHF antenna that uses two stacked antennas and mapped out the co-channel interference and determined the point of the lowest interference. We used to have issues with blocking and tiling when a weather inversion would occur, but now those problems are completely gone. I would be willing to PM the name of the company that we used to consult on this project.
I have to add to the P3 pride list: At home, my file server is a Dell Poweredge 1300 with dual P3 500 Mhz CPUs and 768 Mb of ram. It has a software raid 1, from two 80 Gig HDs running Ubuntu 6.06. In my parents basement, I left a Pentium II 300 with 384 Mb and an 8 gig HD running Centos 4 for remote access, ssh tunnelling, etc.
I wish I had mod points. I haven't laughed so hard, out loud in the last couple of years.
Info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Gallo#Gallo-Profaci_war
http://tomfolsom.com/blog/
Another idea might be to look at VLC for your streaming server with either IP set top boxes with a web based interface (LAMP). I know that Amino can provide IPTV set top boxes that will work work H.264 and should be able HD picture quality without having to setup a bunch of thin stations. This would allow you to use HD TVs, but it might cost you some interactivity by not having a button to push. The advantage would be that the hardware to run this would not cost as much.
Currently, I use VLC to stream a channel that is on a loop from our headend to our customers because I don't want to have to deal with DVD's, etc.
http://aminocom.com/
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/streaming.html
The reason that you can't get DSL without a landline is due to the tariff that the telecom company serves under. If the telephone company operates the telecom and their tariff is written that you need to have a land-line to get Internet, that is the only way it is going to happen.
This goes back to how phone companies were set up as old school utilities with regulation while the cable company is not classified as a required utility in an area.
Often what causes the change in an area is if the local phone company has competition in the form of CLEC. The CLEC is usually established as a telecom company that happens to do pots vs. a phone company that happens to do telecom services. This usually causes the local exchange carrier to have to go back and re-write their tariff for the serving area to become more competitive.
working_connection != multicast_traffic + WIFI
Obligatory:
Hopefully, there weren't any chairs near him
Or it could be that our Senators and Congressman have used corporate taxes to impose a specific type of behavior onto the companies and people that are taxed. Thus, creating this specific type of behavior. Corporations and people naturally, follow this behavior because it benefits their bottom line. This is why the concept of a free market has become so convoluted.
If tax breaks where not imposed solar power, wind power, alternative fuels, hybrid cars, 401ks, iras, tuition costs, etc. would have a higher costs associated with them, thus jeopardizing portions (possibly all) of their exisitence. This means that alternatives become more attractive. I great example is the number of people going to college vs. entering a trade. The trades still exist, but the average tradesman has gotten older over the last 30 years.
Does a penguin then lead to global warming? I am sure all of the penguin poop leaves the penguin, entering the environment of Antartica warmer than the surrounding ice and snow. This then causes an ammount of ice around the penguin to melt (slightly). Which shows the results of an exothermic reaction, adding more carbon emissions to the environment. Hence, causing global warming
This was about the funniest post I have read in a while here. After just buying a foreclosed house and un-fucking a lot of mistakes, the parent speaks from experience.