I think that combining your post with the grand-parent post would be a good idea. Basically, take the income of those who download and multiply it with the average fraction of income spent on music by those who don't. That would be a good indicator of how much potential market is lost.
I mean, with Moore's Law improving the computing power of PC's. PCs should be 32-64x more powerful than 10 yrs ago. How big is a machine that would have the equiv processing power of deep blue of 1997?
I rather they got subsidized satellite service. It does not make sense when wiring to ONE house might cost more than wiring hundreds in the cities. However, it seems that the wiring priority is reversed. It's quite sad that many rural areas have FIOS, but afaik, none of the top 5 urban centers do.
As for the farms. It's hard to not sound like a bigot, but the fact is that we can actually IMPORT vast amount of produce and meats from outside US cheaper than using the local products. Remember also the farm subsidy to ask farmers to NOT grow? So, what value do the rural areas provide again?
If I understand it correctly Not really special, just that the joke only works for people who understand mandarin. Basically XiaJin is a (somewhat valid) homonym for penis in mandarin, tho more commonly known as XiaYin or YinJin.
Shame on any of you who think this is funny. Prison rape is NOT a fucking joke! Well, it might be a poor attempt at sexual humor, but it technically is a 'fucking' joke.
However, it would be kinda strange for an individual or crew capable of navigating a craft at least twenty four trillion miles to not know how to fly a spacecraft well enough to avoid crashing. Perhaps they are members of the intergalactic Al-Qaeda and never learned to land?
There is a lot more ways to interpret the data than just first vs latter born.
It could be the age of the parents. Older parents might have dumber kids (age has been shown to be linked to birth defects)
It could be that first children are raised differently from latter borns. First born get to find their path more (usually due to inexperienced parents). Later children tends to follow patterns, so less inquisitiveness and possibly lower IQ.
kind of like the way gmail tags e-mails? You can have folders that are tags, and any bookmark that matches that tag will show up. when you create a bookmark, you can choose from a tree of all the tags you have. You organize tags into trees so that they display well from a menu. There probably already is a plug-in for that (right?), probably should just fold that into the main code...
If it were illegal, it would be prohibitively expensive. Also, the seller, dealing with merchandise that can be turned on himself, will screen the buyer carefully so that he would not be ratted out or shot at. So, the chances of a nutjob getting a gun is dramatically lower. Nothing beats the screening of the paranoid arms dealer.
Also, ammo would also be correspondingly scarce (remember the paranoid arms dealer? He'd be miserly about ammo too). This guy would not have had over 100 rounds to kill 30+ and wound 30+ more.
What ends up happening, when guns are illegal, is that only criminals would have it as a "tool of the trade" and tend to, more than not, use it on each other more than they would on non-criminals. As opposed to now, where gun deaths caused by "non-criminals" are much more frequent
Pls mod parent up. The problem with the "if you make owning guns illegal, then only criminals will have guns" argument is that is that if owning guns were legal, the police (and the populace) would not know if a person who has a gun was carrying it legally or not. If owning guns were illegal, anyone who was packing without a uniform would be reported and there would be alarm over it. Whereas if guns are legal, there is a more lax attitude towards holders of DEADLY WEAPONS, and they might be allowed into situations where they would hurt many people.
Many countries have banned guns and seen crime fatalities drop tremendously or be very low. UK and Japan are cases I can think of on top of my head. I have not heard of any case where relaxing laws on carrying weapons had similar impact. To request allowing carrying weapons based on the tragedy here because someone with weapons might have stopped him is not a rational conclusion. If Cho was not allowed a gun in the first place, there would DEFINITELY have been far less fatalities
But what if you have candidates whose sole purpose of running is to get certain people NOT elected? They'll slander, lie and do anything to get that effect, should that be protected by free speech? We've seen the damage done by attack ads in the US.
Anyway, I believe that all campaign rhetoric, for or against, should stay off youtube. But, there is no way of really defining what is campaign rhetoric. So, the only way to do it is to keep everything and allow it to be used as evidence of promises and slanders
What they are not addressing is that most people would be using wired bandwidth for these tasks. Wired bandwidth is relatively plentiful, even with the bottlenecks in the local loop.
This is USA that we're talking about, wired bandwidth is NOT plentiful (sounds like a 3rd world country, but it's true). A place where many people can't even get DSL but Verizon Wireless serve their area and might be their only option for broadband.
I live in an area where I can get cable modem but no DSL. My cable service conks out sufficiently frequently that I'm tempted to get this service as a replacement. Hence, I've been hunting for EVDO routers to replace the cable modem. But with this cap, I'm not planning on getting this anymore...
The author and most people forget that we no longer own software, we license it. As licensees, we have no rights because we agreed to waive all rights when we use our software (EULA).
So, the software is working exactly as designed for the owners (MS/*AA), to make the maximum $$$$.
I hope that google is bidding to support automation and data gathering and analysis of the 2010 census. I'm sure there must be contracts going out now to support the process. So far, I think that google would be the most competent at managing the volume of data yet keeping the granularity.
Also, with google support. I think that census data can be published far more quickly than the 2000 census was.
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So now, all your gambling comp points can be redeemed for DL's of music and movies. That would be an awesome perk
I think that combining your post with the grand-parent post would be a good idea. Basically, take the income of those who download and multiply it with the average fraction of income spent on music by those who don't. That would be a good indicator of how much potential market is lost.
So, aliens are conservative? Which is why they keep on attacking the areas where the liberals congregate
I mean, with Moore's Law improving the computing power of PC's. PCs should be 32-64x more powerful than 10 yrs ago. How big is a machine that would have the equiv processing power of deep blue of 1997?
I want to see a real person say that!
I rather they got subsidized satellite service. It does not make sense when wiring to ONE house might cost more than wiring hundreds in the cities. However, it seems that the wiring priority is reversed. It's quite sad that many rural areas have FIOS, but afaik, none of the top 5 urban centers do.
As for the farms. It's hard to not sound like a bigot, but the fact is that we can actually IMPORT vast amount of produce and meats from outside US cheaper than using the local products. Remember also the farm subsidy to ask farmers to NOT grow? So, what value do the rural areas provide again?
If I understand it correctly
Not really special, just that the joke only works for people who understand mandarin.
Basically XiaJin is a (somewhat valid) homonym for penis in mandarin, tho more commonly known as XiaYin or YinJin.
then call every patent a infringement of this patent
All I want is a frickin' laser on top of a frickin' 787!
There is a lot more ways to interpret the data than just first vs latter born.
It could be the age of the parents. Older parents might have dumber kids (age has been shown to be linked to birth defects)
It could be that first children are raised differently from latter borns. First born get to find their path more (usually due to inexperienced parents). Later children tends to follow patterns, so less inquisitiveness and possibly lower IQ.
Either A.I. or the Great Mimsy
kind of like the way gmail tags e-mails? You can have folders that are tags, and any bookmark that matches that tag will show up. when you create a bookmark, you can choose from a tree of all the tags you have. You organize tags into trees so that they display well from a menu. There probably already is a plug-in for that (right?), probably should just fold that into the main code...
Guess it sucks to be a Jewish chef, who has to cook without killing anything (animal or vegetable)
I hope you've learned your lesson and stopped wearing purple shirts after losing all those jobs for wearing it...
If it were illegal, it would be prohibitively expensive. Also, the seller, dealing with merchandise that can be turned on himself, will screen the buyer carefully so that he would not be ratted out or shot at. So, the chances of a nutjob getting a gun is dramatically lower. Nothing beats the screening of the paranoid arms dealer.
Also, ammo would also be correspondingly scarce (remember the paranoid arms dealer? He'd be miserly about ammo too). This guy would not have had over 100 rounds to kill 30+ and wound 30+ more.
What ends up happening, when guns are illegal, is that only criminals would have it as a "tool of the trade" and tend to, more than not, use it on each other more than they would on non-criminals. As opposed to now, where gun deaths caused by "non-criminals" are much more frequent
Pls mod parent up. The problem with the "if you make owning guns illegal, then only criminals will have guns" argument is that is that if owning guns were legal, the police (and the populace) would not know if a person who has a gun was carrying it legally or not. If owning guns were illegal, anyone who was packing without a uniform would be reported and there would be alarm over it. Whereas if guns are legal, there is a more lax attitude towards holders of DEADLY WEAPONS, and they might be allowed into situations where they would hurt many people.
Many countries have banned guns and seen crime fatalities drop tremendously or be very low. UK and Japan are cases I can think of on top of my head. I have not heard of any case where relaxing laws on carrying weapons had similar impact. To request allowing carrying weapons based on the tragedy here because someone with weapons might have stopped him is not a rational conclusion. If Cho was not allowed a gun in the first place, there would DEFINITELY have been far less fatalities
But what if you have candidates whose sole purpose of running is to get certain people NOT elected? They'll slander, lie and do anything to get that effect, should that be protected by free speech? We've seen the damage done by attack ads in the US.
Anyway, I believe that all campaign rhetoric, for or against, should stay off youtube. But, there is no way of really defining what is campaign rhetoric. So, the only way to do it is to keep everything and allow it to be used as evidence of promises and slanders
I live in an area where I can get cable modem but no DSL. My cable service conks out sufficiently frequently that I'm tempted to get this service as a replacement. Hence, I've been hunting for EVDO routers to replace the cable modem. But with this cap, I'm not planning on getting this anymore...
Everyone knows that Intel will be Inside of all future art
Yeah, an entire bank of Photon Torpedos!!
At the highest tier. Looks like you'll only be able to use your internet for less than 2.5 hours per month before they cut you off?
120GB / 25Mbps = 8000s = 133.3minutes
The author and most people forget that we no longer own software, we license it. As licensees, we have no rights because we agreed to waive all rights when we use our software (EULA).
So, the software is working exactly as designed for the owners (MS/*AA), to make the maximum $$$$.
I hope that google is bidding to support automation and data gathering and analysis of the 2010 census. I'm sure there must be contracts going out now to support the process. So far, I think that google would be the most competent at managing the volume of data yet keeping the granularity.
Also, with google support. I think that census data can be published far more quickly than the 2000 census was.