Natural monopolies, as long as there's oversight and consumer protection, can work.
Georgia dereged natural gas. Before it was just Atlanta Gas & Light, now it's tons of companies.
Used to be during the summer, my gas bill was around $8-10. After the dereg, there is a $15 Atlanta Gas & Light meter reading fee, an $8 passthrough charge, and a $4 service fee. So, now in the summer my minimum gas bill is $27, plus $8 for actual usage.
But there is competition now, which in theory should bring the prices down.
Yup...but not on the spectator modes built into the games, which is what I was talking about. Then again, I have enough trouble seeing whats going on with one monitor...two would be instant death!
This comes up alot on any 3d modeller forum, with the logic being:
Maya, 3DSMax, SoftImage, and to a degree Lightwave cost a bundle. The little warez dude that pulls down a copy to play with wasn't gonna buy the software in the first place, because they can't pop down $4k for the package. Chances are that they are not gonna use it to make the next huge movie, but'll probably make a model/rendering of some ship from Star Wars or some character for an online game.
At this point the company has lost nothing. On the other hand, there is now someone out there who has a little experience with one of their products, and if that person lands in a job where they need to have the company buy a product for modeling/rendering, there is a good chance they'll say "Yeah...I used X and it would be good for this." Now the company has another customer.
The question then becomes "Is this bullshit or not?" and "How much of a blind eye can the company turn without looking apathetic?"
Of course, the 3d companies can always rely on idiots like the people where I work who bough a copy of LightWave (~$2400) just to make buttons for web pages, and never could figure it out.
Could you please explain what is broken in win95 that win98SE fixed? Yes, they changed the way it works, added support for newer stuff that was out, but I am unaware of anything in Win95 that was flat out broken that was fixed in 98.
That's why it's a REMOVABLE hard drive. Kinda like the hot-swappable ones that servers have. Just pull it out of the machine and put it someplace safe when not needed - you know, someplace the cat can easily rub against it!
People have been doing this kinda thing for a while. I know in ChaosDM for Quake2 people would connect and follow their character, but have the chase cam facing them so they could always see behind them.
Hmmm...perhaps I should setup another machine at home at night. The students at the help desk would really get an ass-whopping then:)
I could have sworn that it opened for $30 but the letter was for $10. Well...that makes me sleep a little better:) Yeah..I wouldn't have been able to retire overnight, but even if I could have sold it in a day or two, it would have still been more than I started with:)
I remember when they IPO'd. I got a letter saying I could have bought some shares at around $10per. That day it opened at around $33, and maxed at around $319, closing at around $270. Now it's at a hundredth of that.
Given that was an off the wall IPO and one of the first Linux IPO's, but still...
Brain fart.
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In college there was a professor who had a "paperless" class. All assignments were turned in/handed out via e-mail on the mainframe.
I would watch people working on their assignments. They would type the paper in, print it out to read it over, make corrections, print it again, and when they finally got done, e-mail it off to the prof.
I dunno. I still think the best sound is a mic in front of the amp. Line-out's on amps just don't sound right. I seriously doubt that ethernet out would sound any better.
Now...if you could place an ethernet mic in front of the amp with the syncing on it, that'd be cool - at least until:
"Illegal Operation: device eth0 detected "Stairway to Heaven". Port disconnected.
Okay...so the article says they found the bones of a pregnant goat. Uh...how do they know this?
I guess either the goat's ribs expand or something, or perhaps they found goat-fetus bones or something?
Somehow I just have this vision of people digging up the site and someone walking in saying "Wow...this is wonderful, they cooked with this and that, and wow, look at that, pregnant goat bones."
Uh...spiderman was bitten by a spider, albiet radioactive. Wolverine was just born that way and later had adamantium fused to him. The Thing, wasn't that from another planet or something?
Nah...this just means tons more Jessica Alba's running around:) Perhaps a resurection of Manimal, or at least that stupid Rob Schneider movie.
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put in infrastructure that is really needed (read bike/segway lanes).
Yeah...and then you get on a one-segway lane and get stuck behind someone only leaning foward 5%, moving slower than walking.
Yuh...I guess that'd kinda harm the seperation of powers. Though the supremes are usually the ones that come the closest to upholding the ideals of the constitution.
Besides, we all know how much Judge Thomas likes his porn:) (or is most of the/. readership too young to remember that?)
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Yeah...I wanna run around a level with ledges and stuff with a VR helmet on.
Actually, it's based on the book "Grendel" by John Gardner? which is just what you mentioned, a retelling of Beowulf from the other side.
:)
Not quite as good as the retelling of the three little pigs from the Wolf's point of view
Oh yeah...Marillion as rubbish - bollocks.
If the game works with the unknown cheat codes in there for testing, why yank them out on the off chance that it breaks code and causes a nightmare.
That would be a good reason to leave them in there.
Natural monopolies, as long as there's oversight and consumer protection, can work.
Georgia dereged natural gas. Before it was just Atlanta Gas & Light, now it's tons of companies.
Used to be during the summer, my gas bill was around $8-10. After the dereg, there is a $15 Atlanta Gas & Light meter reading fee, an $8 passthrough charge, and a $4 service fee. So, now in the summer my minimum gas bill is $27, plus $8 for actual usage.
But there is competition now, which in theory should bring the prices down.
Yup...but not on the spectator modes built into the games, which is what I was talking about. Then again, I have enough trouble seeing whats going on with one monitor...two would be instant death!
This comes up alot on any 3d modeller forum, with the logic being:
Maya, 3DSMax, SoftImage, and to a degree Lightwave cost a bundle. The little warez dude that pulls down a copy to play with wasn't gonna buy the software in the first place, because they can't pop down $4k for the package. Chances are that they are not gonna use it to make the next huge movie, but'll probably make a model/rendering of some ship from Star Wars or some character for an online game.
At this point the company has lost nothing. On the other hand, there is now someone out there who has a little experience with one of their products, and if that person lands in a job where they need to have the company buy a product for modeling/rendering, there is a good chance they'll say "Yeah...I used X and it would be good for this." Now the company has another customer.
The question then becomes "Is this bullshit or not?" and "How much of a blind eye can the company turn without looking apathetic?"
Of course, the 3d companies can always rely on idiots like the people where I work who bough a copy of LightWave (~$2400) just to make buttons for web pages, and never could figure it out.
Could you please explain what is broken in win95 that win98SE fixed? Yes, they changed the way it works, added support for newer stuff that was out, but I am unaware of anything in Win95 that was flat out broken that was fixed in 98.
That's why it's a REMOVABLE hard drive. Kinda like the hot-swappable ones that servers have. Just pull it out of the machine and put it someplace safe when not needed - you know, someplace the cat can easily rub against it!
Oh yeah...I've got a box of 5 1/4"'s I've been planning to burn to CD's forever.
... "Just 4 more weeks and my Groundhog Day backup will be done...oh look - more trick or treaters" :)
I can just see this as a backup solution
Okay...so I have CRS - Can't remember shit. Thanks for the corrections.
Man...I was just looking at some of my old posts (which I don't even remember how I made them).
I think we can have a collective opinion that when we were younger, we were a bunch of dumbasses.
Yup...originally it was named GIDS I think...the G was for gay. When more was learned it was renamed.
People have been doing this kinda thing for a while. I know in ChaosDM for Quake2 people would connect and follow their character, but have the chase cam facing them so they could always see behind them.
:)
Hmmm...perhaps I should setup another machine at home at night. The students at the help desk would really get an ass-whopping then
I could have sworn that it opened for $30 but the letter was for $10. Well...that makes me sleep a little better :) Yeah..I wouldn't have been able to retire overnight, but even if I could have sold it in a day or two, it would have still been more than I started with :)
thnx for the info
I remember when they IPO'd. I got a letter saying I could have bought some shares at around $10per. That day it opened at around $33, and maxed at around $319, closing at around $270. Now it's at a hundredth of that.
Given that was an off the wall IPO and one of the first Linux IPO's, but still...
Brain fart.
In college there was a professor who had a "paperless" class. All assignments were turned in/handed out via e-mail on the mainframe.
I would watch people working on their assignments. They would type the paper in, print it out to read it over, make corrections, print it again, and when they finally got done, e-mail it off to the prof.
circa 1983: "check check 1 2 check check 1 2"
circa 2005: "traceroute traceroute"
I dunno. I still think the best sound is a mic in front of the amp. Line-out's on amps just don't sound right. I seriously doubt that ethernet out would sound any better.
Now...if you could place an ethernet mic in front of the amp with the syncing on it, that'd be cool - at least until:
"Illegal Operation: device eth0 detected "Stairway to Heaven". Port disconnected.
No Stairway - denied!
I was paying $1500.00 a month for a T1 into my company what does that give me? a static IP range and the right to set up internet servers.
More than 384k upstream.
Okay...so the article says they found the bones of a pregnant goat. Uh...how do they know this?
I guess either the goat's ribs expand or something, or perhaps they found goat-fetus bones or something?
Somehow I just have this vision of people digging up the site and someone walking in saying "Wow...this is wonderful, they cooked with this and that, and wow, look at that, pregnant goat bones."
The interface to the quicktime for winders. How about that?
Yeah...I know, but as my wife just had a baby, that is kinda out of the question right now. Something about an episiotomy, a draining uterus, etc...
Uh...spiderman was bitten by a spider, albiet radioactive. Wolverine was just born that way and later had adamantium fused to him. The Thing, wasn't that from another planet or something?
:) Perhaps a resurection of Manimal, or at least that stupid Rob Schneider movie.
Nah...this just means tons more Jessica Alba's running around
put in infrastructure that is really needed (read bike/segway lanes).
Yeah...and then you get on a one-segway lane and get stuck behind someone only leaning foward 5%, moving slower than walking.
Yuh...I guess that'd kinda harm the seperation of powers. Though the supremes are usually the ones that come the closest to upholding the ideals of the constitution.
:) (or is most of the /. readership too young to remember that?)
Besides, we all know how much Judge Thomas likes his porn