I totally agree, I too would much prefer the cancer to having to listen to some pompous salesman or 13 year old girl chatter on their phone for 5 hours.
Here are some thing they could do: 1) Don't let anyone mine/pick anything that there skill level makes gray to them. 2) put some random drift into movement. 3) limit the price you can sell something for on the AH to 10 times what a vendor would pay 4) don't allow the transfer of more then 100GP a time. Maybe a one time unlimited amount per month.
All of these would be pretty trivial to implement.
Jesus, you clearly don't play WoW. These are terrible ideas.
1) People often need materials that are "grey" skill level. From useful potions to metals for engineering, etc. Plus, one of the advantages of having multiple characters is that one of your characters with an appropriate skill can gather materials for another one. This idea would completely break the tradeskill system.
2) This would be ok I guess, just really annoying since it would mean you'd have to constantly nanny your character while on autorun.
3) So you're saying that the market system should be abandoned in favor of having the overworked developers set a price that works not just world wide, but universe wide? Economies vary dramatically from server to server, and materials value vary dramatically as the game evolves from patch to patch. This is possibly the single most destabilizing thing that could possibly be done in WoW.
4) 100g is barely pocket change. It would completely break the system most people use of having a mule dedicated for sending spare stuff to for sale. You have limited inventory space and collect hundreds of items while questing, so this is fairly essential. It would also prevent raiding guilds from functioning effectively as they rely on financial cooperation by their members. Often in very large amounts too, some guilds spend 5-10k gold every week on various items for raiding. Furthermore, it would mean that sales through the trade channel or charging for rare materials or crafting services would no longer be possible.
So lets see, ruin the game with stupid restrictions or oppose a program designed solely for cheating and ruining the financial investment of millions of players...not a tough choice.
That really is the question. Is it possible that the delivered price of Solar PV could drop 50% in a period of 18 months year after year?
I don't know, and I don't think anyone can say. I think you can credit the cut-throat nature of the semi industry for the dramatic advances in transistor counts. Think about how many times Moore's Law has been declared dead and then someone invents a new type of interconnect, or a way to create transistor features smaller than the wavelength of light, or a better method of doping, or any of the other advances that have kept the trend going.
If there was as much money to be made in solar cells, I think we'd see some surprising improvements. Maybe it wouldn't match what's been done in semiconductors, but who can say?
Clearly it wasn't that big of a problem, as they now store all my email back 5 years (we were required to provide all our PSTs to IT to be integrated back in for data retention). They managed to put a system in place in just a few weeks when push came to shove.
Anyway, isn't exchange database driven? (which is what we were using all along)
My former company began archiving all email permanently due to some lawsuits, and it was the best thing that ever happened to me. FINALLY that 12MB limit on email disappeared. I never could figure out how a major tech company couldn't manage a quota higher than 12MB in this area of cheap storage...
Names don't "fall off" the DNC list. That was the original plan but the FCC decided that registrations would never expire when the first deadline to re-register approached. So you remain on the list.
In fairness, the incident with Absolute Poker was actually some rogue employees exploiting their insider knowledge to cheat as players. And they did it in such an incredibly obvious manner that they were caught almost immediately.
Most sites take this kind of thing seriously, they have nothing but their reputations. I know many of the bigger poker sites use some pretty sophisticated analysis software to detect unusual/unlikely patterns of play to root out bots and also to find any situations like this.
Personally I have pretty high confidence in sites like PokerStars, UltimateBet, and FullTilt. They've got too many users to risk something like this if they can prevent it.
But if you're really worried, lobby your congresscritter to stop their stupid bans on internet gambling, which are mostly illegal under our trade agreements. Then the sites could be properly regulated, NGC style.
The assumption seems to be that if only a small amount of the network is congested then P2P traffic is not a problem. That does not really follow. Regardless of congestion, bandwidth costs money. If they have to build out extra capacity then it might be an issue regardless of actual congestion.
I don't have much sympathy for the whining of most slashdotters on this topic. They tried traffic shaping and people had a fit. So then they started trials for metering the small percentage of bandwith hogs, and people had a fit.
If you are a heavy user of a service with limited resources, you should expect to be charged more. Deal with it.
The point, I guess, is that the law should not even suggest that such a sentence might be possible for a case like this.
And it doesn't...each charge has a possible maximum sentence, which is where the nonsense number of 38 years came from. But there are additional laws and sentencing guidelines that govern whether the charges are concurrent or consecutive, where in the possible range of sentences a person with certain characteristics should fall. And there are laws that provide for first time offenders, for diversion programs, etc.
The airline only requires ID to check a bag. I don't know what they do if you claim to have lost your ID. I rarely check a bag, so I just print my boarding passes online and head straight in to security. They don't act like you can come through without an ID but that is TSA policy.
The issue is that most people don't have the slightest clue what Safari is. If iTunes pops up and says it needs to update Safari they're going to assume that they need that to use their iPod, or iPhone. It's a dishonest tactic. I just hope by accepting the update it doesn't also take the liberty of setting it as the default browser (probably not, but Quicktime has been stealing associations for years, so who knows...)
If you notice, this article was written by a bunch of NBC affiliates...basically one of those sensationalist stories "The Investigators" or whatever your local station calls their guys create.
The article barely mentioned the real facts. The power production for regular light bulbs over the lifespan of a CFL generates 2-3x as much mercury as is in the CFL. They are just fine.
Now it is a bit of a problem right now finding a place that will recycle them. Ikea is doing it, and Walmart is thinking of rolling out recycling bins in their stores. But industry needs a lot more motivation to start taking these back. Ideally most municipal recycling programs would allow the bulbs to be placed in their bins (maybe in cardboard protectors or something. A decent article would have focused on this aspect of the story, and it was again just mentioned in passing.
Earthlink does this too and it really pisses me off, partly for the reason you mentioned - correcting a simple typo becomes a big pain in the ass. You can't opt-out with earthlink.
But the bigger problem is that their system falsely redirects on a fairly regular basis, at least every couple days a well known site becomes "unreachable" for 10-30 minutes. I'm talking amazon.com, gmail.com, etc. And when that happens I know they're completely full of shit and wasting my time with a service I pay for.
The comical thing is that I was so frustrated by this I called to switch to roadrunner last weekend. God damnit >
So I just tried Ubuntu 7.10 yesterday, building a new development machine for a project I'm working on at work. It installed nicely, and the first thing I tried to do was install Opera, the browser I preferred for this machine. I went to the add software function in the applications menu, found Opera, and clicked the check box to select it. It popped up a window telling me that I needed to refresh the list of packages or something. So I clicked the reload button, it downloaded some files and the dialog went away. I clicked Opera again and....the same dialog popped up. Somehow the update wasn't taking and it would pop this box up endlessly.
So for me, the most basic function of adding a new piece of software was totally nonfunctional. I didn't get 10 seconds into using the distro before it utterly failed. I was able to fix this, but no regular person could have. Windows has its pain in the ass aspects but overall I think it is much more suitable for non-technical people. That's why Linux still hasn't caught on as a desktop OS.
I agree that's annoying (mainly because it makes it hard to find amazon specific items to avoid additional shipping charges). But it doesn't obligate you to then buy them from a merchant and it is quite obvious when you have viewed an item not sold direct from amazon.
Medication non-compliance is usually due to forgetfulness rather than intentionally not taking it (they can't force you anyway). So really just alerting/reminding you is probably all they want to do.
It only seems weird because it has an official name. It's the people in the government who negotiate with union employees. Everyone who employs union employees has people who deal with conflicts, just without a fancy name.
What you're forgetting are opportunity costs. Everything has an opportunity cost. If we use the spectrum for a certain purpose, the opportunity cost is that it can't be used for any of the other possible things that other companies would have done with it. By selling the spectrum at auction the price paid by whoever buys it is representative of this opportunity cost. You should pay these costs for whatever service is put onto the spectrum. It's what ensures that it isn't used for something that doesn't have the highest economic value.
Now, some people have suggested that it should instead be allocated to "the best use" based on free speech or some other criteria. I don't really understand this argument at all. Is anyone really suffering from a lack of free speech because they don't have enough radio spectrum? Of course not. There's the internet, TV, radio, satellite radio, newspaper, the soapbox on the corner, etc. The best use is always going to be one man's opinion, the government is in no way qualified to make that kind of decision. An auction at least allows the best economic use of the spectrum.
If you're going to use an automotive analogy, try and find one that makes the slightest bit of sense.
The point remains, the primary goal of the thin and light laptop segment is for them to be...well, thin and light. I'm not particularly an Apple fan but it is sort of pissing me off hearing people whine about not being able to efficiently simulate folding proteins on a laptop that is totally not intended for that kind of shit.
If you're not a road warrior or a student who wants something to carry around for writing papers this is not the laptop for you and was never meant to be.
That's an awfully simplistic view. A lot of devices use a lot of pins for power and ground, to ensure they can supply enough power. Otherwise if you use 2 you might need to use unusually large wires/pins, which can be awkward. Further, there are noise issues to consider. The power pins can't cause any interference on the data pins.
Thats one of the applications of getting rid of net neutrality, which most people seem to oppose. It's a conundrum because you can't trust these assholes not to screw around/spy on your data, but at the same time it would be nice to put in some features that prioritize things like streaming audio/video or latency-sensitive gaming data over P2P traffic and the like.
It isn't reliable though...I work for a large company and I've tried setting those options in Firefox. It works sometimes, but not always. And most of the time I still have to enter an ID/password manually (whereas without setting the option it just gives an error, no option to authenticate at all). Whereas of course IE is seamless. A lot of intranet sites seem to serve off of multiple servers so you get prompted to authenticate a LOT.
Anyway, my point here is that Firefox's domain authentication is not as good as IEs for whatever reason.
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I totally agree, I too would much prefer the cancer to having to listen to some pompous salesman or 13 year old girl chatter on their phone for 5 hours.
Here are some thing they could do:
1) Don't let anyone mine/pick anything that there skill level makes gray to them.
2) put some random drift into movement.
3) limit the price you can sell something for on the AH to 10 times what a vendor would pay
4) don't allow the transfer of more then 100GP a time. Maybe a one time unlimited amount per month.
All of these would be pretty trivial to implement.
Jesus, you clearly don't play WoW. These are terrible ideas.
1) People often need materials that are "grey" skill level. From useful potions to metals for engineering, etc. Plus, one of the advantages of having multiple characters is that one of your characters with an appropriate skill can gather materials for another one. This idea would completely break the tradeskill system.
2) This would be ok I guess, just really annoying since it would mean you'd have to constantly nanny your character while on autorun.
3) So you're saying that the market system should be abandoned in favor of having the overworked developers set a price that works not just world wide, but universe wide? Economies vary dramatically from server to server, and materials value vary dramatically as the game evolves from patch to patch. This is possibly the single most destabilizing thing that could possibly be done in WoW.
4) 100g is barely pocket change. It would completely break the system most people use of having a mule dedicated for sending spare stuff to for sale. You have limited inventory space and collect hundreds of items while questing, so this is fairly essential. It would also prevent raiding guilds from functioning effectively as they rely on financial cooperation by their members. Often in very large amounts too, some guilds spend 5-10k gold every week on various items for raiding. Furthermore, it would mean that sales through the trade channel or charging for rare materials or crafting services would no longer be possible.
So lets see, ruin the game with stupid restrictions or oppose a program designed solely for cheating and ruining the financial investment of millions of players...not a tough choice.
Really - Is it "possible" or pretense?
That really is the question. Is it possible that the delivered price of Solar PV could drop 50% in a period of 18 months year after year?
I don't know, and I don't think anyone can say. I think you can credit the cut-throat nature of the semi industry for the dramatic advances in transistor counts. Think about how many times Moore's Law has been declared dead and then someone invents a new type of interconnect, or a way to create transistor features smaller than the wavelength of light, or a better method of doping, or any of the other advances that have kept the trend going.
If there was as much money to be made in solar cells, I think we'd see some surprising improvements. Maybe it wouldn't match what's been done in semiconductors, but who can say?
Clearly it wasn't that big of a problem, as they now store all my email back 5 years (we were required to provide all our PSTs to IT to be integrated back in for data retention). They managed to put a system in place in just a few weeks when push came to shove.
Anyway, isn't exchange database driven? (which is what we were using all along)
My former company began archiving all email permanently due to some lawsuits, and it was the best thing that ever happened to me. FINALLY that 12MB limit on email disappeared. I never could figure out how a major tech company couldn't manage a quota higher than 12MB in this area of cheap storage...
I would assume that anti-virus software can detect that stuff.
Names don't "fall off" the DNC list. That was the original plan but the FCC decided that registrations would never expire when the first deadline to re-register approached. So you remain on the list.
In fairness, the incident with Absolute Poker was actually some rogue employees exploiting their insider knowledge to cheat as players. And they did it in such an incredibly obvious manner that they were caught almost immediately.
Most sites take this kind of thing seriously, they have nothing but their reputations. I know many of the bigger poker sites use some pretty sophisticated analysis software to detect unusual/unlikely patterns of play to root out bots and also to find any situations like this.
Personally I have pretty high confidence in sites like PokerStars, UltimateBet, and FullTilt. They've got too many users to risk something like this if they can prevent it.
But if you're really worried, lobby your congresscritter to stop their stupid bans on internet gambling, which are mostly illegal under our trade agreements. Then the sites could be properly regulated, NGC style.
The assumption seems to be that if only a small amount of the network is congested then P2P traffic is not a problem. That does not really follow. Regardless of congestion, bandwidth costs money. If they have to build out extra capacity then it might be an issue regardless of actual congestion.
I don't have much sympathy for the whining of most slashdotters on this topic. They tried traffic shaping and people had a fit. So then they started trials for metering the small percentage of bandwith hogs, and people had a fit.
If you are a heavy user of a service with limited resources, you should expect to be charged more. Deal with it.
The point, I guess, is that the law should not even suggest that such a sentence might be possible for a case like this.
And it doesn't...each charge has a possible maximum sentence, which is where the nonsense number of 38 years came from. But there are additional laws and sentencing guidelines that govern whether the charges are concurrent or consecutive, where in the possible range of sentences a person with certain characteristics should fall. And there are laws that provide for first time offenders, for diversion programs, etc.
The airline only requires ID to check a bag. I don't know what they do if you claim to have lost your ID. I rarely check a bag, so I just print my boarding passes online and head straight in to security. They don't act like you can come through without an ID but that is TSA policy.
The issue is that most people don't have the slightest clue what Safari is. If iTunes pops up and says it needs to update Safari they're going to assume that they need that to use their iPod, or iPhone. It's a dishonest tactic. I just hope by accepting the update it doesn't also take the liberty of setting it as the default browser (probably not, but Quicktime has been stealing associations for years, so who knows...)
The article barely mentioned the real facts. The power production for regular light bulbs over the lifespan of a CFL generates 2-3x as much mercury as is in the CFL. They are just fine.
Now it is a bit of a problem right now finding a place that will recycle them. Ikea is doing it, and Walmart is thinking of rolling out recycling bins in their stores. But industry needs a lot more motivation to start taking these back. Ideally most municipal recycling programs would allow the bulbs to be placed in their bins (maybe in cardboard protectors or something. A decent article would have focused on this aspect of the story, and it was again just mentioned in passing.
But the bigger problem is that their system falsely redirects on a fairly regular basis, at least every couple days a well known site becomes "unreachable" for 10-30 minutes. I'm talking amazon.com, gmail.com, etc. And when that happens I know they're completely full of shit and wasting my time with a service I pay for.
The comical thing is that I was so frustrated by this I called to switch to roadrunner last weekend. God damnit >
So for me, the most basic function of adding a new piece of software was totally nonfunctional. I didn't get 10 seconds into using the distro before it utterly failed. I was able to fix this, but no regular person could have. Windows has its pain in the ass aspects but overall I think it is much more suitable for non-technical people. That's why Linux still hasn't caught on as a desktop OS.
I agree that's annoying (mainly because it makes it hard to find amazon specific items to avoid additional shipping charges). But it doesn't obligate you to then buy them from a merchant and it is quite obvious when you have viewed an item not sold direct from amazon.
Medication non-compliance is usually due to forgetfulness rather than intentionally not taking it (they can't force you anyway). So really just alerting/reminding you is probably all they want to do.
It only seems weird because it has an official name. It's the people in the government who negotiate with union employees. Everyone who employs union employees has people who deal with conflicts, just without a fancy name.
Despite their intentions it seems it's more like 1 expansion per 2 years. Regardless, that is a tremendous amount of money.
No, it is not. At least not when it comes to useful spectrum.
Now, some people have suggested that it should instead be allocated to "the best use" based on free speech or some other criteria. I don't really understand this argument at all. Is anyone really suffering from a lack of free speech because they don't have enough radio spectrum? Of course not. There's the internet, TV, radio, satellite radio, newspaper, the soapbox on the corner, etc. The best use is always going to be one man's opinion, the government is in no way qualified to make that kind of decision. An auction at least allows the best economic use of the spectrum.
The point remains, the primary goal of the thin and light laptop segment is for them to be...well, thin and light. I'm not particularly an Apple fan but it is sort of pissing me off hearing people whine about not being able to efficiently simulate folding proteins on a laptop that is totally not intended for that kind of shit.
If you're not a road warrior or a student who wants something to carry around for writing papers this is not the laptop for you and was never meant to be.
That's an awfully simplistic view. A lot of devices use a lot of pins for power and ground, to ensure they can supply enough power. Otherwise if you use 2 you might need to use unusually large wires/pins, which can be awkward. Further, there are noise issues to consider. The power pins can't cause any interference on the data pins.
Thats one of the applications of getting rid of net neutrality, which most people seem to oppose. It's a conundrum because you can't trust these assholes not to screw around/spy on your data, but at the same time it would be nice to put in some features that prioritize things like streaming audio/video or latency-sensitive gaming data over P2P traffic and the like.
Anyway, my point here is that Firefox's domain authentication is not as good as IEs for whatever reason.