The problem is that the cost of an invasion / occupation destabilizes those prices, compare the pre-Iraq War II oil prices with current prices. I wouldn't be surprised if the mideast destabilization that happened because of Iraq costed the US a few times the cost of the occupation. There probably were significant opportunity costs. The people that have waged this war are not paying the price in any way, and short of impeachment. This would also require impeaching Cheney too, unless you want him to run the White house in name and deed, rather than just being the puppeteer.
1) Price being too close to the PS3, in some ways validating it.
I thought that the price of the XB360 + HD-DVD add-on was the same price as the premium PS3, so I just don't see this. As long as they don't kill the other verions, I don't see it as a validation. I also don't see offering a DVD-only console as lack of confidence because not many gamers care about that right now. Maybe two or three years from now, things will be different. I think one can be confident in something and still not force people into going along with it if they just want your game console and not a movie player. The former is OK, the latter is just being belligerent.
If you are using a standard notebook, then I think the extra battery live you'll get with a flash drive is about ten minutes. You'll only get significant extra life if your computer is an ultraportable with ULV type chips.
I haven't had a noisy or not notebook hard drive, though I haven't owned notebooks for long. I have a 1 yr old notebook and one that's over 4yrs old and I can barely hear them when they are seeking if I put my ear close to the drive. Usually it's the old drive types that are loud. If it's loud and hot, then you'd be better off bitching to warranty support or just spending $100 for a replacement drive if it is out of warranty. I'm certainly not going to spend $800 on a drive when I can get 160 or 200GB for $200.
They exist, but at least, I've never seen any vinyl collections that had a lot of them. My parents and their friends are old, but maybe not that old. I don't think singles made much sense at that time either, that's a lot of disc shuffling, playing one song at a time, I think it's better to play an album and let it play for a while. Only with portable audio players does having singles make sense, in my opinion.
I'm sorry, but I don't agree. In my opinion, scare tactics are not an excuse to infringe on privacy without a warrant. Any law enforcement agency that doesn't want judicial or legislative oversight should not exist, and legislatures should not give that up.
That oversight by an independent power is necessary to reduce the amount of abuse of power. I'm saddened that the US system of checks and balances has gone terribly awry. It's a good idea that shouldn't be bypassed though the use of scare tactics. If the system of getting a warrant is too slow, then maybe a system can be instituted to speed it up without giving up proper independent oversight. If there isn't enough evidence to get a warrant, then tough cookies to the investigator, we shouldn't be encouraging or allowing crime fishing expeditions in the name of terrorism or children.
Crime happened even with oppressive totalitarian regimes, so surrendering liberties for a certain amount of (IMO false) security isn't helpful.
Heck, terrorism isn't a major cause of death in the developed world and never has been, at least for a long time. Terrorism is only a problem for the developed world because people get needlessly freaked out about it.
I'm surprised you were labeled a communist if that was exactly how you expressed it. How you express it is a little unusual though, and I can see that being confusing to people. All it is supposed to be is that the buyer determines what they want and spend it however they want based on what sellers are offering. If a seller can't please enough buyers, they'll go away. If there is a market for a product and it's possible to produce and offer it at sellable price, then some other seller will come along and make it. If a product type falls into disfavor, then that market segment will shrink. It's fairly Darwinian in terms of natural selection.
However, this doesn't mean that sellers have to satisfy the needs of all potential buyers or at the price they want to pay. A business just needs a minimum number of buyers to make it worth their time. If a company can survive by selling $50 music CDs, then that's actually fine according to capitalism, but that means that they are targeting a smaller group of buyers and they generally have to please a pickier group of buyers to boot. There may be niches that support this that I'm unaware of. There will probably always be niches for costlier, low production run products that wouldn't be accepted by the mainstream.
You say others are young but you call CD busted and old?
I checked the article, 85% of music sales is still on CD. It's declining but it's nowhere near dead. I still buy music on CD because that gets me an uncompressed archive. I just don't listen to them in that form. The same article also says that it was when the Beatles came around when full albums became popular, I don't think it had anything to do with CD. When I've flipped through vinyl collections, I don't remember ever seeing singles. The same goes for 8-track and cassette collections too. I have a few CD "singles" but they are rare. I generally don't listen to crap artists so usually I like most songs on a given CD.
I don't expect the price to remain there for long. Apple has sold the original large iPod photo at $600 and now the current equivelent is $350 for a much better device.
There are other problems I have with the announced device, I do expect them to be resolved in a later iteration as well.
Besides, I don't think buying the first iteration of a new product is a good idea.
I don't think so. I would expect that fats are a lot less efficient to make. Energy from plants is a lot more efficient to get than energy from animals. There aren't many plants that make fats, I think coconut is possibly the biggest exception. They may store energy more densely, but converting plant matter to animal matter is far less efficient than just using the plant matter.
I don't like the idea of using food for fuel or energy though. I'd much rather support cellulose to ethanol conversion because it generally wouldn't mean deciding between two very different needs, and cellulose is readily available and often just wasted in food production because it's in the parts of harvested of plants that are not food.
Your explaination makes more sense, I think NT's similarity to VMS was a point of contention in a lawsuit too, it was obvious such that there were tech articles where they compared the name and function of the standard system services.
I've done some amount of experimentation on this. A lot of times, if a system requires registered RAM, there's usually nothing you can do, it needs registered RAM. Registered RAM in a system that doesn't require it also doesn't seem to accept it either.
Oddly, a chipset that will accept ECC memory on the data sheet might actually be implemented onto a board in such a way that the board won't accept ECC memory. Mixing ECC and non-ECC and registered and non-registered type memory doesn't seem to work either (makes some sense, at least w/ ECC). As you might see, I've had some frustrations trying to max out a system as much as I can with sticks that I have on hand stripped from an eclectic collection of computers. Even if the stick fits and is the right speed, that's no assurance that the computer would accept it.
I personally have not had serious problems of error rates on my ECC memory, "hard error" or "soft error".
I've never had an SGI, but with Alpha and Xeon systems, I really haven't had bit flips, except for one system which I think I tried using memory of the right speed but maybe wrong voltage.
It's not the programming that's the problem. For one, it's a constitutional problem which has not been dealt with. According to the US Supreme Court, the burden is on the states to harmonize what is taxed and what is not before they have any right to do this. So far, the states have not complied with the SCOTUS ruling, so trying to hassle businesses about it is jumping the gun.
Another, it's an added burden for small businesses if they have to deal with the cost of transactions to every pissant jurisdiction just because you made a sale to someone in that jurisdiction that the government can't collect. A B&M has one set of jurisdictions, under this regime for a web site, every jurisdiction, every city, county and state wants to add to the burden by having to deal with sending money to thousands of little governments. Having to pay more to a cart service that keeps track and update all the jurisdictions and tax rates is an unnecessary burden as well, just so I can spend $0.25 (or more!) of my profits just to send them their $0.25. That adds up.
I think that's disconnected. The problem is that the sale still crosses state lines, and if the product and store is not physically in WA (has to be shipped in), then interstate commerce code applies, not the state's, because the *physical* act of making the rest of the transaction takes place mostly outside WA. While the buyer is in WA, the seller is somewhere else. In not having a physical presence in WA, I, as a seller, am not under WA's jurisdiction. Just because I happen to serve a few bits to the state does not change that jurisdiction.
The Internet's structure is very indifferent to location. I don't want to be considered under tends of thousands of jurisdictions (countries, states, provinces, shires, cities, towns) just because a given jurisdiction can't collect from those within that jurisdiction. It sets a very bad precedent. For example, I don't want to be considered violating Zimbabwe's laws just because someone there can access my site from there.
I really wasn't considering nozzles. I had enough use to keep them going, but inkjet paper handling has been a problem for me, no matter what the print volume was. Fresher paper might help, but paper freshness has never been a problem for my lasers.
I'm not a publisher, but I am skeptical that there exists a volume of sales could ever make a $1.99 book profitable, unless maybe you used the dollar value from 1985 or earlier.
It's impractical to penalize for not submitting use tax for small ticket items, as such, Michigan has a very lenient amnesty program, if you earn $30k, I think it's $10 and it looks like you are free and clear for all sub $1k items.
A $10k item is a different matter. If it's a vehicle, then that is covered by the title fees. I'm not sure if politicians are really properly held accountable for not proper tax filing.
Also, speed is far from my first complaint. Inkjets have not been good for me in terms of paper handling, reliability or cost of use.
I'd say that my inkjets have more than 10x the paper jamming incidents as my lasers, despite my lasers being used more, and one laser is a duplex printer, which is another avenue for paper jamming, but it rarely happens on them.
Another complaint of mine is the cost of the ink. I think my lasers get over 10x more pages per dollar than inkjets.
As such, I'd much rather buy a laser printer, even if the print quality is a little lower. For the occasional photo and certain types of product mock-ups, I haul out my inkjet from storage, and only for that occasion.
That's highly subjective. In my opinion, I'd call it like a bed of nails, it may be called a bed, but that doesn't mean I'll find any comfort trying to use one.
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The problem is that the cost of an invasion / occupation destabilizes those prices, compare the pre-Iraq War II oil prices with current prices. I wouldn't be surprised if the mideast destabilization that happened because of Iraq costed the US a few times the cost of the occupation. There probably were significant opportunity costs. The people that have waged this war are not paying the price in any way, and short of impeachment. This would also require impeaching Cheney too, unless you want him to run the White house in name and deed, rather than just being the puppeteer.
1) Price being too close to the PS3, in some ways validating it.
I thought that the price of the XB360 + HD-DVD add-on was the same price as the premium PS3, so I just don't see this. As long as they don't kill the other verions, I don't see it as a validation. I also don't see offering a DVD-only console as lack of confidence because not many gamers care about that right now. Maybe two or three years from now, things will be different. I think one can be confident in something and still not force people into going along with it if they just want your game console and not a movie player. The former is OK, the latter is just being belligerent.
If you are using a standard notebook, then I think the extra battery live you'll get with a flash drive is about ten minutes. You'll only get significant extra life if your computer is an ultraportable with ULV type chips.
I haven't had a noisy or not notebook hard drive, though I haven't owned notebooks for long. I have a 1 yr old notebook and one that's over 4yrs old and I can barely hear them when they are seeking if I put my ear close to the drive. Usually it's the old drive types that are loud. If it's loud and hot, then you'd be better off bitching to warranty support or just spending $100 for a replacement drive if it is out of warranty. I'm certainly not going to spend $800 on a drive when I can get 160 or 200GB for $200.
They exist, but at least, I've never seen any vinyl collections that had a lot of them. My parents and their friends are old, but maybe not that old. I don't think singles made much sense at that time either, that's a lot of disc shuffling, playing one song at a time, I think it's better to play an album and let it play for a while. Only with portable audio players does having singles make sense, in my opinion.
I'm sorry, but I don't agree. In my opinion, scare tactics are not an excuse to infringe on privacy without a warrant. Any law enforcement agency that doesn't want judicial or legislative oversight should not exist, and legislatures should not give that up.
That oversight by an independent power is necessary to reduce the amount of abuse of power. I'm saddened that the US system of checks and balances has gone terribly awry. It's a good idea that shouldn't be bypassed though the use of scare tactics. If the system of getting a warrant is too slow, then maybe a system can be instituted to speed it up without giving up proper independent oversight. If there isn't enough evidence to get a warrant, then tough cookies to the investigator, we shouldn't be encouraging or allowing crime fishing expeditions in the name of terrorism or children.
Crime happened even with oppressive totalitarian regimes, so surrendering liberties for a certain amount of (IMO false) security isn't helpful.
Heck, terrorism isn't a major cause of death in the developed world and never has been, at least for a long time. Terrorism is only a problem for the developed world because people get needlessly freaked out about it.
Then again, you'd have to have a music channel on TV that actually played music.
There are, it's just not the original MTV channel. MTV has several music channels for specific genres.
I'm surprised you were labeled a communist if that was exactly how you expressed it. How you express it is a little unusual though, and I can see that being confusing to people. All it is supposed to be is that the buyer determines what they want and spend it however they want based on what sellers are offering. If a seller can't please enough buyers, they'll go away. If there is a market for a product and it's possible to produce and offer it at sellable price, then some other seller will come along and make it. If a product type falls into disfavor, then that market segment will shrink. It's fairly Darwinian in terms of natural selection.
However, this doesn't mean that sellers have to satisfy the needs of all potential buyers or at the price they want to pay. A business just needs a minimum number of buyers to make it worth their time. If a company can survive by selling $50 music CDs, then that's actually fine according to capitalism, but that means that they are targeting a smaller group of buyers and they generally have to please a pickier group of buyers to boot. There may be niches that support this that I'm unaware of. There will probably always be niches for costlier, low production run products that wouldn't be accepted by the mainstream.
You say others are young but you call CD busted and old?
I checked the article, 85% of music sales is still on CD. It's declining but it's nowhere near dead. I still buy music on CD because that gets me an uncompressed archive. I just don't listen to them in that form. The same article also says that it was when the Beatles came around when full albums became popular, I don't think it had anything to do with CD. When I've flipped through vinyl collections, I don't remember ever seeing singles. The same goes for 8-track and cassette collections too. I have a few CD "singles" but they are rare. I generally don't listen to crap artists so usually I like most songs on a given CD.
Is there a source for this?
A sale is a sale, whether or not the product is used isn't the concern here. Microsoft got their money and that's probably enough for them.
I don't expect the price to remain there for long. Apple has sold the original large iPod photo at $600 and now the current equivelent is $350 for a much better device.
There are other problems I have with the announced device, I do expect them to be resolved in a later iteration as well.
Besides, I don't think buying the first iteration of a new product is a good idea.
I don't think so. I would expect that fats are a lot less efficient to make. Energy from plants is a lot more efficient to get than energy from animals. There aren't many plants that make fats, I think coconut is possibly the biggest exception. They may store energy more densely, but converting plant matter to animal matter is far less efficient than just using the plant matter.
I don't like the idea of using food for fuel or energy though. I'd much rather support cellulose to ethanol conversion because it generally wouldn't mean deciding between two very different needs, and cellulose is readily available and often just wasted in food production because it's in the parts of harvested of plants that are not food.
Your explaination makes more sense, I think NT's similarity to VMS was a point of contention in a lawsuit too, it was obvious such that there were tech articles where they compared the name and function of the standard system services.
Isn't interleaving basically a different way of saying dual-channel?
The Itaniums are up to 24MB, but the x86 quad cores are "only" up to 8MB total. The next generation Core processors will probably go up to 16.
I've done some amount of experimentation on this. A lot of times, if a system requires registered RAM, there's usually nothing you can do, it needs registered RAM. Registered RAM in a system that doesn't require it also doesn't seem to accept it either.
Oddly, a chipset that will accept ECC memory on the data sheet might actually be implemented onto a board in such a way that the board won't accept ECC memory. Mixing ECC and non-ECC and registered and non-registered type memory doesn't seem to work either (makes some sense, at least w/ ECC). As you might see, I've had some frustrations trying to max out a system as much as I can with sticks that I have on hand stripped from an eclectic collection of computers. Even if the stick fits and is the right speed, that's no assurance that the computer would accept it.
I personally have not had serious problems of error rates on my ECC memory, "hard error" or "soft error".
I've never had an SGI, but with Alpha and Xeon systems, I really haven't had bit flips, except for one system which I think I tried using memory of the right speed but maybe wrong voltage.
It's not the programming that's the problem. For one, it's a constitutional problem which has not been dealt with. According to the US Supreme Court, the burden is on the states to harmonize what is taxed and what is not before they have any right to do this. So far, the states have not complied with the SCOTUS ruling, so trying to hassle businesses about it is jumping the gun.
Another, it's an added burden for small businesses if they have to deal with the cost of transactions to every pissant jurisdiction just because you made a sale to someone in that jurisdiction that the government can't collect. A B&M has one set of jurisdictions, under this regime for a web site, every jurisdiction, every city, county and state wants to add to the burden by having to deal with sending money to thousands of little governments. Having to pay more to a cart service that keeps track and update all the jurisdictions and tax rates is an unnecessary burden as well, just so I can spend $0.25 (or more!) of my profits just to send them their $0.25. That adds up.
I think that's disconnected. The problem is that the sale still crosses state lines, and if the product and store is not physically in WA (has to be shipped in), then interstate commerce code applies, not the state's, because the *physical* act of making the rest of the transaction takes place mostly outside WA. While the buyer is in WA, the seller is somewhere else. In not having a physical presence in WA, I, as a seller, am not under WA's jurisdiction. Just because I happen to serve a few bits to the state does not change that jurisdiction.
The Internet's structure is very indifferent to location. I don't want to be considered under tends of thousands of jurisdictions (countries, states, provinces, shires, cities, towns) just because a given jurisdiction can't collect from those within that jurisdiction. It sets a very bad precedent. For example, I don't want to be considered violating Zimbabwe's laws just because someone there can access my site from there.
I really wasn't considering nozzles. I had enough use to keep them going, but inkjet paper handling has been a problem for me, no matter what the print volume was. Fresher paper might help, but paper freshness has never been a problem for my lasers.
I'm not a publisher, but I am skeptical that there exists a volume of sales could ever make a $1.99 book profitable, unless maybe you used the dollar value from 1985 or earlier.
Sorry, but no, 480i is not HDTV, even if it is in component video form. The connector type doesn't define whether it is HD.
I had an SDTV that I bought in 2000 had 480i component, and that TV was not capable of progressive or HD video.
It's impractical to penalize for not submitting use tax for small ticket items, as such, Michigan has a very lenient amnesty program, if you earn $30k, I think it's $10 and it looks like you are free and clear for all sub $1k items.
A $10k item is a different matter. If it's a vehicle, then that is covered by the title fees. I'm not sure if politicians are really properly held accountable for not proper tax filing.
Also, speed is far from my first complaint. Inkjets have not been good for me in terms of paper handling, reliability or cost of use.
I'd say that my inkjets have more than 10x the paper jamming incidents as my lasers, despite my lasers being used more, and one laser is a duplex printer, which is another avenue for paper jamming, but it rarely happens on them.
Another complaint of mine is the cost of the ink. I think my lasers get over 10x more pages per dollar than inkjets.
As such, I'd much rather buy a laser printer, even if the print quality is a little lower. For the occasional photo and certain types of product mock-ups, I haul out my inkjet from storage, and only for that occasion.
in a manner that is both musical and lyrical
That's highly subjective. In my opinion, I'd call it like a bed of nails, it may be called a bed, but that doesn't mean I'll find any comfort trying to use one.
Is there anything that is X10 that's not junk? The standard stuff is garbage. Even their fanciest stuff that I've seen looked and felt flimsy.