Dude, 5800 mirrors is nothing. I hold in my hand a solar death ray device that has probably billions of nanomirrors on it, each carefully aimed to focus light at a point.
And don't forget that unlike the SheevaPlug, the DreamPlug goes all-out to impress, packing integral Bluetooth, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, a 3Gb/s eSATA port, two USB 2.0 ports, a pair of gigabit Ethernet ports, and even analogue and SP/DIF digital audio ouputs. All for only $PRICE! Order yours today!
Besides, if we can determine that the universe is much bigger than we thought, then I'd say this much bigger one IS observable, by definition. By concluding its size, we HAVE observed it in some way. Never mind that it's indirect, since all observation is indirect.
Dude, really? On my only interview I got with a guy from Microsoft I was asked if I knew how to build a boat, when I said no, he said how would I do to build a boat for a customer.
I would start by not trying to build the customer a boat, since I am not experienced in that. Even if I managed to build one, it would be of poor quality. Assuming I was employed by the customer to get him the things he asked for, I would find his needs for the boat and look at what was available for purchase.
3,880,000 tons Si produced per yer, 5000 of which are electronic grade (0.13%). 80,000 tons of Mo produced per year, 0.13% of that is 104 tons. You were saying? Also, this does nothing to compare cost; how much does 1 ton of (non-electronics-grade) Si cost as compared to 1 ton of Mo? If we started producing enough electronics-grade Mo to satisfy need, how much would its cost go up? Being 1/180000 the amount of Si in the crust should say something.
Yes, and nobody has bullshitted their way into getting Apple to repair their iOS device after they dropped it in the toilet/pool, claiming they didn't. This is in response to people abusing Apple's warranty.
It was very useful in letting me know about the RopeCon convention in Finland, which everyone might have confused this device with with had it not clarified.
Either people just don't pick up on sarcasm here, or I'm not being obvious enough. To restate, good guys can't commit crimes, only bad guys. If a good guy appears to break the law, it's just him doing a good act and he shouldn't be held accountable.
Come on, the legal system just gums up the works, gets in the way and allows guilty people to walk free. Kind of like scientific method; it just slows down progress. Before that, people knew by feeling what was true and look at all the things that flourished, like astrology, palm reading, fortune telling, alchemy, homeopathy, etc. and were developed before the stagnation of science.
Or, it's an emergency and I need to get someone to a hospital, but the damn mechanism is refusing to allow me to start the vehicle. Or I'm driving on the freeway and it's malfunctioning and shutting the engine down. Or I never drink alcohol and do not want to pay extra for this bullshit.
Agreed, it's not an invasion of privacy; it's in invasion of property. They are attempting to dictate how your equipment operates, under the flimsy excuse that it'll eliminate 9000 deaths a year, and that there is no other way of achieving that which is less-invasive.
Tolls waste a lot of time and money in an attempt to spread the cost of the road to the people that 'use' it, but this doesn't work. Everyone benefits from the road system. Even if you don't own a car, the goods and services you use rely on them. Adding tolls just increases the cost of those goods and services, so the entire toll industry is a waste of time. Just tax people evenly for the roads we all rely on and skip the wasteful toll booths and electronics.
Why don't we just skip the wasteful cash registers and money in general? That's simplify things. Everyone could pay the same amount, regardless of what they get. Indirectly evreyone uses the things anyway, for example the guy that stocks the shelves at the supermarket goes home and relaxes by watching TV, therefore you should pay for part of his TV.
I read your entire message but I think you forgot to cover rouge admins, as mentioned in your subject line. I had one of those once, and had to spend half an hour a day wiping down the server case.
They want me to spend $1.50 per transaction to use it.
Yep, I love those "convenience" fees. My utilities announced a while back that you can now pay your bill online, and avoid all the hassle of a bill. Good, so instead of spending 30 seconds writing a check, I get to spend several times that remembering my login, using their bloated website, and on top of that, pay something like a $5 convenience fee. Thankfully I found that my bank offers bill paying without charge, either one-time or recurring.
But really, it's clear what they're doing. They're seeing whether there's a market that will bear such fees. It's almost like market segmentation for payment itself; some people don't mind an extra $1.50 per transaction.
It's genes that make us able to talk, see things, walk, eat food, etc. Why wouldn't there be a gene that gives us our ability to have religious fervor for something, or make us more likely to exercise it? If you think this is about biological determinism or the lack of "free will", then you are misunderstanding what a "gene for X" means.
Hell, most new hardback books are cheaper than their ebook equivalents. It's utterly ridiculous, given the minimal amount of resources involved in producing an ebook.
One thing to keep in mind: there aren't minimal resources required, because most of the cost of publishing a book isn't the physical manufacturing/shipping/etc; it's edition, author advances, advertising, and other processes that wouldn't disappear even if the book was exclusively digital.
I think he was talking about the resources to make another copy of the book. Hardback book: page printing, cutting, binding, cover, shipping. Ebook: sending a few megabits of data. As he says, it's ridiculous that the ebook version is more expensive, because it's the same intellectual content in both. Even if we assume that their source was a physical copy, with no digital versions, so they had to digitize it for the ebook version, that still can't explain why the amortized digitization cost exceeds the per-book production cost.
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Dude, 5800 mirrors is nothing. I hold in my hand a solar death ray device that has probably billions of nanomirrors on it, each carefully aimed to focus light at a point.
I wish I understood anything you wrote in your post. I'm missing some context it seems.
And don't forget that unlike the SheevaPlug, the DreamPlug goes all-out to impress, packing integral Bluetooth, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, a 3Gb/s eSATA port, two USB 2.0 ports, a pair of gigabit Ethernet ports, and even analogue and SP/DIF digital audio ouputs. All for only $PRICE! Order yours today!
Besides, if we can determine that the universe is much bigger than we thought, then I'd say this much bigger one IS observable, by definition. By concluding its size, we HAVE observed it in some way. Never mind that it's indirect, since all observation is indirect.
I would start by not trying to build the customer a boat, since I am not experienced in that. Even if I managed to build one, it would be of poor quality. Assuming I was employed by the customer to get him the things he asked for, I would find his needs for the boat and look at what was available for purchase.
Maybe they stole some copies and kept them on backup tapes. So they just have to steal them back to their machines.
3,880,000 tons Si produced per yer, 5000 of which are electronic grade (0.13%). 80,000 tons of Mo produced per year, 0.13% of that is 104 tons. You were saying? Also, this does nothing to compare cost; how much does 1 ton of (non-electronics-grade) Si cost as compared to 1 ton of Mo? If we started producing enough electronics-grade Mo to satisfy need, how much would its cost go up? Being 1/180000 the amount of Si in the crust should say something.
Yes, and nobody has bullshitted their way into getting Apple to repair their iOS device after they dropped it in the toilet/pool, claiming they didn't. This is in response to people abusing Apple's warranty.
There, fixed that for you.
It was very useful in letting me know about the RopeCon convention in Finland, which everyone might have confused this device with with had it not clarified.
Either people just don't pick up on sarcasm here, or I'm not being obvious enough. To restate, good guys can't commit crimes, only bad guys. If a good guy appears to break the law, it's just him doing a good act and he shouldn't be held accountable.
Yep, the table of abundance of elements in Earth's crust is damning. 27% Si in crust, 0.00015% Mo in crust.
Come on, the legal system just gums up the works, gets in the way and allows guilty people to walk free. Kind of like scientific method; it just slows down progress. Before that, people knew by feeling what was true and look at all the things that flourished, like astrology, palm reading, fortune telling, alchemy, homeopathy, etc. and were developed before the stagnation of science.
How could they have committed any crimes? They're part of the government, silly!
Or, it's an emergency and I need to get someone to a hospital, but the damn mechanism is refusing to allow me to start the vehicle. Or I'm driving on the freeway and it's malfunctioning and shutting the engine down. Or I never drink alcohol and do not want to pay extra for this bullshit.
Agreed, it's not an invasion of privacy; it's in invasion of property. They are attempting to dictate how your equipment operates, under the flimsy excuse that it'll eliminate 9000 deaths a year, and that there is no other way of achieving that which is less-invasive.
Why don't we just skip the wasteful cash registers and money in general? That's simplify things. Everyone could pay the same amount, regardless of what they get. Indirectly evreyone uses the things anyway, for example the guy that stocks the shelves at the supermarket goes home and relaxes by watching TV, therefore you should pay for part of his TV.
I read your entire message but I think you forgot to cover rouge admins, as mentioned in your subject line. I had one of those once, and had to spend half an hour a day wiping down the server case.
Yep, I love those "convenience" fees. My utilities announced a while back that you can now pay your bill online, and avoid all the hassle of a bill. Good, so instead of spending 30 seconds writing a check, I get to spend several times that remembering my login, using their bloated website, and on top of that, pay something like a $5 convenience fee. Thankfully I found that my bank offers bill paying without charge, either one-time or recurring.
But really, it's clear what they're doing. They're seeing whether there's a market that will bear such fees. It's almost like market segmentation for payment itself; some people don't mind an extra $1.50 per transaction.
It's genes that make us able to talk, see things, walk, eat food, etc. Why wouldn't there be a gene that gives us our ability to have religious fervor for something, or make us more likely to exercise it? If you think this is about biological determinism or the lack of "free will", then you are misunderstanding what a "gene for X" means.
What do you mean, is it common for people to know your name?
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I think he was talking about the resources to make another copy of the book. Hardback book: page printing, cutting, binding, cover, shipping. Ebook: sending a few megabits of data. As he says, it's ridiculous that the ebook version is more expensive, because it's the same intellectual content in both. Even if we assume that their source was a physical copy, with no digital versions, so they had to digitize it for the ebook version, that still can't explain why the amortized digitization cost exceeds the per-book production cost.
I don't know man, sometimes I find dropping $0 on a book isn't justified.
This is the second run in case you missed it the first time two months ago.
The computers they built to play Farmville were probably unscientific.