How much does it cost to print up an entire issue of a publication? How much does it cost to serve up the few articles an average subscriber reads online? I'm speculating that the latter is in the tens of cents at the most. Sure, servers cost money to maintain, but this gets divided by the number of people they serve.
At some point CDs were cheaper to produce than tapes, but they still cost more. Same with online content, with an almost zero distribution cost. The pricing model isn't changed much even though the distribution cost changed radically.
I dunno about the rest of you, but I want a conductor on the train. Things like [...] having someone on the train that is a detterent to crime (just imagine, would a would-be rapist be more or less likely to rape a woman if a conductor was walking up and down the cars).
Don't worry, they haven't automated the passengers yet (ignoring television etc.).
I haven't watched television in my house since late 2000 (I've seen about 2 hours total in others' houses since). I think it's pretty clear-cut in my case: I don't watch television.
On the way back, two officers approached me and asked for my ID and asked why was taking pictures of the police station. Turns out one of my shots happened to have the police station in the background. Anyway, I asked what the problem was and he said that they had to be extra vigilant in case of a *terrorist attack*.
Duh! You could have been a terrorist stealing people's souls with a camera! The officer just needed to be sure it was digital.
A huge market barrier is that consumers won't take the chance because they're not confident they will find gas stations that supply this stuff (not to mention all the other alternatives that have been around for a while).
In other words, they modified these "hybrid" cars to be true hybrid cars, vehicles which run on two (or more) energy sources. I am always peeved by supposed hybrid cars which only accept gasoline as a primary fuel source.
Maybe this can be done with current CD drives, but what I'd like is software which reads the CD and reports the error level as an indicator of media condition. Compare a few regular measurements and you could predict when the degredation would start to result in uncorrectable errors. This would also give you a good indication of what media and storage conditions are best.
The first CD-R I burned is now 9 years old and still readable; I'm crossing my fingers.
Recently a friend took me to an Alamo Drafthouse theater in Austin, Texas. There were no commercials before the movie (just some really old cartoons), and there are tables in front of every row to put food on. Nice experience; I had stopped going to movies partly due to the commercials at the beginning.
Shiver Me Timbers and Poke Me Other Eye Out! How would it handle this!?
Let's put it this way: you'll be re-reading that sentence and regretting it with your remaining eye (unless you're a pirate, in which case you'll be eyeless).
I always found that a good 'grammer checker' was to use a text to speach program if you don't have anyone else to read your own paper. This caught more erros for me than MS's grammer check. I can't blame MS for this. The English and I'm sure many languages are really hard to break down in to a set of rules a computer can understand given so much is based on the context.
I take it your speech synthesizer was broken when you posted this.
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How much does it cost to print up an entire issue of a publication? How much does it cost to serve up the few articles an average subscriber reads online? I'm speculating that the latter is in the tens of cents at the most. Sure, servers cost money to maintain, but this gets divided by the number of people they serve.
"Please insert disk 2 of 1,270,196 in drive A: and click continue"
I don't think my drive is tall enough to work with that program.
The really surprising thing is that they released the source code, and here it is:
/d/s/e/c/f/h/k/y
xcopy *.* "x:\"
Sir, a DMCA takedown notice has been filed with your ISP and Slashdot. Please remove all source codes at once.
- Friendly protector of your rights
At some point CDs were cheaper to produce than tapes, but they still cost more. Same with online content, with an almost zero distribution cost. The pricing model isn't changed much even though the distribution cost changed radically.
Even the Cookie Monster is having to cut back on cookies.
So, now the terrorists can shine lasers (less-powerful ones) at planes if they want the pilot to take a different route.
...to 54666 bps. And I don't even try to download music!
Hmmm, 56K modem, 54666 max connect. Er, nevermind.
Do you wish to stop? [Yes] [No] [Cancel]
What does "cancel" do that "no" doesn't? Must try this next time.
I dunno about the rest of you, but I want a conductor on the train. Things like [...] having someone on the train that is a detterent to crime (just imagine, would a would-be rapist be more or less likely to rape a woman if a conductor was walking up and down the cars).
Don't worry, they haven't automated the passengers yet (ignoring television etc.).
super-germ keylords.
They could put a plastic cover over the keyboard, with molds for each of the keys [...]
Yeah, but the point was to get rid of the mold!
Easy, just use the Etherkiller.
(actually, not really; it'd just fry the controller, not the data on the disk)
I haven't watched television in my house since late 2000 (I've seen about 2 hours total in others' houses since). I think it's pretty clear-cut in my case: I don't watch television.
On the way back, two officers approached me and asked for my ID and asked why was taking pictures of the police station. Turns out one of my shots happened to have the police station in the background. Anyway, I asked what the problem was and he said that they had to be extra vigilant in case of a *terrorist attack*.
Duh! You could have been a terrorist stealing people's souls with a camera! The officer just needed to be sure it was digital.
Why is it that slashdot members can't seem to read articles before posting their uninformed two bits?
Because they're Slashdotted of course!
A huge market barrier is that consumers won't take the chance because they're not confident they will find gas stations that supply this stuff (not to mention all the other alternatives that have been around for a while).
Don't you mean grass stations?
In other words, they modified these "hybrid" cars to be true hybrid cars, vehicles which run on two (or more) energy sources. I am always peeved by supposed hybrid cars which only accept gasoline as a primary fuel source.
I, noidentity, have never had a problem with identity theft. But it may just be me...
See a problem here?!?
I think your thought control chip has gone haywire.
Maybe this can be done with current CD drives, but what I'd like is software which reads the CD and reports the error level as an indicator of media condition. Compare a few regular measurements and you could predict when the degredation would start to result in uncorrectable errors. This would also give you a good indication of what media and storage conditions are best.
The first CD-R I burned is now 9 years old and still readable; I'm crossing my fingers.
while there are a number of complexities standing between a handful of silicone today and a handful of nanobots
I'll take a couple of handfuls of silicone, assuming it's in the proper ahem "envelope".
Recently a friend took me to an Alamo Drafthouse theater in Austin, Texas. There were no commercials before the movie (just some really old cartoons), and there are tables in front of every row to put food on. Nice experience; I had stopped going to movies partly due to the commercials at the beginning.
You see, it's a quantum post, funny because a few people thought it was funny when it wasn't. Well that's the theory at least.
Shiver Me Timbers and Poke Me Other Eye Out! How would it handle this!?
Let's put it this way: you'll be re-reading that sentence and regretting it with your remaining eye (unless you're a pirate, in which case you'll be eyeless).
I always found that a good 'grammer checker' was to use a text to speach program if you don't have anyone else to read your own paper. This caught more erros for me than MS's grammer check. I can't blame MS for this. The English and I'm sure many languages are really hard to break down in to a set of rules a computer can understand given so much is based on the context.
I take it your speech synthesizer was broken when you posted this.