Regardless of the AC claims, my purchases were based on local supplies and prices. Video clubs and later legit video rental stores had VHS movies. The selection was larger and for much less cost than Laserdisc. Laserdisc seclection was often non existant. Record stores sometimes carried a limited selection, often Pioneer Concerts, but not movies. While waiting for the movies on disc, I collected several hundred VHS movies. Later, DVD's came out at premimum prices. Again it was about 10 years from the release, that I bought a player. I did not buy the first gen of either platform, or pay the premium. I bought my LD player surplus, a commercial unit, not a consumer level unit.
The retail selection of LD movies was pathetic. This was pre internet, so ebay and online shopping was non-existant.
To support that argument, I bought a Laserdisk player when VHS movies were about $40 each. Laserdisks were promised to be cheaper than VHS because they could be stamped out like records.
The high quality of the video was attractive along with true NTSC video wouthout the jitters and rolling from Vidoeguard and Macrovision copy guard.
Due to the high quality, studios were afraid to release onto the format for a long time. What few movies were released were boutique priced. Affordable titles were things like "NFL How To Watch Pro Fotball"
Due to the high prices and poor selection, my lifetime collection of Laserdiscs is still in the single digits. Anybody want to buy a laserdisk player?
On the flipside my collection of under $10 DVDs number in the hundreds.
Many PC games are priced like Laserdisks. They are not priced, then lowered in price a year later like DVDs. Some DVD movies are classic films. Some I didn't remember if I replaced my VHS copy with a DVD, so some titles I have purchased twice.
Just think, who sold to me? The $65 copy of Fiddler on the Roof, or the two $5 copies? At over $15, I'm unlikely to buy a movie or game. At under $10, good ones are considered. At under $6, it becomes a possible impulse buy.
Are you pricing to sell many copies, or are you charging the price of a new bicycle for my grandson?
More quality games need to be priced for mass markets instead of selling a few at boutique pricing of over $10-15 per copy. A small selection of a couple dozen games is a serious budget buster. Due to the average selling price, I no longer browse the game isle. This is the same reason record stores closed. The didn't price for mass market sales and impulse purchases.
The chart lists the PRIMARY OS. For school, this is often the default installed OS and the one compatible with the MS Exchange back end for email. There is no data for the Secondary OS.
At work, I would have to list the Microsoft platform as the primary because that is what the business IT is built upon, but when I'm on break and fire up the secondary OS for break time browsing, watching a movie, etc, It's the secondary OS. Sadly this is not counted.
Most often for network mail, file storage, and gateway login, at schools only the two leaders, or one of the leaders is supported. This leads to students dual booting, or dual computers. Stuff for class and stuff for sharing media. Often the secondary media computer is an i-Pod.
On the subject of interfaces, one feature I use more than I thought I would is the parallel printer port on my older TDS200. A hard copy is nice. The older scope was supplied with drivers for an Epson Dot Matrix printer and an earlier HP laser. I have had no problems printing as many newer printers will support the older driver. I use mine with a Laserjet 1100 with no problems.
For documentation and records, a hardcopy is very nice.
Ive seen this used for a vacation rental in a time share once. The prepaid time slot was in 3 weeks at the resort 100 miles away. They checked in and the police checked them out. Some items don't work on a drop address. They are the best bait.
Using the illegal access to your email, this may be a case of attempted stolen ID. Load your email account with some fake business transactions and request a response needed for the delivery of the new plasma screen TV. Get a valid delivery address, name of the signer, etc, and send in the squad.
Since SCO had a distribution of Linux at one time, I'm more concerned with who put the code in Linux as much as wondering how much is in it. Remember Open Linux 2.3? I still have a copy. This is pre lawsuit. I've been keeping the boxed copy as a buffer against legal challanges. I bought the infringing code from them before they became trolls. http://linux.omnipotent.net/article.php?article_id=4448
It is common for hotels and the like to have a master antenna distribution system. The head end has the antenna combiners, modulators (digital and or analog) tuners/antennas and other program material. You will want an engineer to design the distribution system so each outlet receives the same signal strength and each channel has the correct audio and video levels into the respective modulators.
The general arrangement for a typical system is a tuner for each channel desired feeding a modulator on each desired internal channel. Using modulators instead of just feeding antenna signals eliminates signal strength changes inside the system and if using several antennas for several stations, prevents multi path (analog as well as digital problems can result) due to multiple antennas. Cable channels are tuned with a converter box and then fed into a modulator. This can be digital or analog. The combined and level balanced signal is than amplified by the head end amplifier (with enough headroom to handle the combined signal) and distributed to the receivers so each receives a signal with each channel at the standard distribution strength.
For that many sets and channels I highly recommend contracting the head end package and distribution. A typical company is like the one in this link. Disclaimer, this is from a google search and not an enforcement. I used to do this for hotels with satellite C band and Ku band. Cable loss, splitter insertion loss and such can be worked up from a good CATV system engineering handbook if you want to roll your own. Work from the set back to the head end to find the required head end amplifier signal level. Don't start by stuffing in a cheap amp and trying to make up the shortfall downstream. The result will be clipping, harmonics, distortion, and corruption of signal. This is not a home antenna project. http://www.mgacom.co.uk/casestud/study3.htm This is what you are looking for. Tell Comcast this installation will be part of a MATV head end. Get in touch with the right engineer. He will be hard to find as they want to sell a box a set and that is the primary consumer level response. You want a system engineer instead of the sales force. Find him.
You need to ask the second question when the first is you are not under arrest. The second quesiton is "Am I free to go?". If you are not free to go, ask again "Am I under Arrest?". Keep asking until you are either arrested or free to go.
I play a keyboard. Simply put the publisher's prices on sheet music is priced for professionals and not for an amature looking for a library of music to enjoy. A home compiled songbook of 100 songs is nearly the same price I paid for my used keyboard. A library of only 100 songs is a pretty thin library. Due to the prices, I don't pirate, but I do pick up what I can used. I mostly play classics from the 1950's and 1960's. I've inherited some full 3 ring binders of my grandparents sheet music (legal copies). Most were 10 or 15 cents a copy. I know inflation and all, but I think the price of sheet music has risen faster than the inflation over the same time. Gas has gone from 45 cents to $3. Sheet music has gone from 10cents to $4.00.
I'll sometimes buy a songbook, but rarely buy single sheetmusic due to the value.
(or I suppose they could just watch for a sudden drop in signal strength and try adjusting up, see if it helps, then try adjusting down if it made things worse).
auto antenna tuners exist. There is no need to guess by trial and error. Simply measuring the antenna current and comparing the phase of the current will tell you the tuning direction needed. When the current is in phase with the voltage, the antenna load is resistive (in tune). When the current leads the voltage, the antenna is capacitive and needs less capacitance (tuned higher in frequency) and vise versa.
Unfortunately, auto tuners for microwave frequencies are difficult to design due to the very short mechanical dimensions of the parts. Voltage tuned capacitors (diodes) are common in VHF and UHF, but not as common in microwave applications for tuning antennas due to their limited tuning range. A hand contacting a microwave antenna can tune it much further than the corrective auto tunning can correct it in most applications. Even if tuned to resonance, the new tuning to correct for the hand contact will still not have the impedance change corrected. Energy absorbed by microwave heating of the hand is energy not received or transmitted by the phone. Tuning is only part of the problem.
Attenuation is a real problem at these frequencies. To demonstrate this, simply tape an orange near the LNB in a satellite antenna in the path of the feedhorn. Without de-tuning the feedhorn cavity, the huge loss in signal strength by absorption can be seen as a total loss of reception. Try placing your hand over the feedhorn while setting up your satellite TV dish. Active retuning of the feedhorn to resonance won't fix the total loss of the signal.
HF for Ham radio and marine shortwave (2-30 MHZ) need larger components to tune mechanically larger antennas so those applications use mechanical relays to switch capacitors and inductors or motor driven capacitors and/or inductors.
This low level decision appears to be the norm. We ran into it when my mother-in-law passed. We solved the problem by submitting a forward phone and address of her final resting place. Her old apartment address is no longer valid. I think they soon got the message that she moved and is not replying to letters and can't take a phone call. They are welcome to drop in and visit.
Don't overlook the protocol used by radio amateurs for location tracking. This is often used with amateur weather balloon and photography. Getting a fix on the landing site helps recovery of the payload.
My workhorse is an old HP Laserjet III. It has 4 meg of RAM. The default RAM was too small to print a full screenshot. HP no longer makes carts for it. Aftermarket carts are 4/$100 with free shipping. In another 4 or 5 years, I may need to order another box of carts.
I bought the printer used at Goodwill. I was given the RAM from someone retiring another one. For printing an occasional web page for use on the road (Mapquest directions and such) there is no reason to use the expensive inkjet.
To make the printers available to all users in the house, I use the small Hawking printservers. With the parallel port, they clip right onto the printer. A wall wart and network cable finish the installation. They work fine with Windows and Linux. With the printers plugged into the wireless router, wireless printing from laptops and netbooks is a piece of cake.
To prevent any possibility of abuse from the Internet, my file server and printers are given a block of IP addresses that are not routed to the internet. There is no reason I need to print over the internet.
Can you show me a great movie/game/etc that really -has- been killed off by "piracy" and not just the fact that it didn't appeal to a wider audience or that the movie/game/etc was terrible?
There is plenty of examples of locked technology that is throw away due to lockdown.Hardware becomes either single use or repurposed when the lock is broken and the business model is broken.
Locked hardware that became more popular and re purposed include; The Cue Cat The i-Opener
Locked hardware and software that had such tethers that it had little market penetration include The Mailstation The Web TV The Zune store Liquid Audio Plays for Sure The Dongle
You are here cruising Slashdot, where visitors can post links and such to stories, news articles, photos, and even porn sites posted by trolls. Just because you don't visit porn sites intentionally, dosen't mean someone with bad intent won't provide a link to a site. Mods often mod them down to troll before the general public provides lots of traffic.
How do you know the link below is safe? The name of the site doesn't always indicate the contents. http://crazybuilders.com/ Note, the link is safe for work.
If you have a laptop and they insist you power it up, this may be detected. For better chances, place the CD upside down in the drive so it can't detect it as a valid disk. It won't fully spin up and try to autorun or load the TOC.
Using data collected in 1929 by the Conference Board and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Cole and Ohanian were able to establish average wages and prices across a range of industries just prior to the Depression. By adjusting for annual increases in productivity, they were able to use the 1929 benchmark to figure out what prices and wages would have been during every year of the Depression had Roosevelt's policies not gone into effect. They then compared those figures with actual prices and wages as reflected in the Conference Board data.
In the three years following the implementation of Roosevelt's policies, wages in 11 key industries averaged 25 percent higher than they otherwise would have done, the economists calculate. But unemployment was also 25 percent higher than it should have been, given gains in productivity.
Meanwhile, prices across 19 industries averaged 23 percent above where they should have been, given the state of the economy. With goods and services that much harder for consumers to afford, demand stalled and the gross national product floundered at 27 percent below where it otherwise might have been.
When I have the time I talk to the yahoos to tie up their resources and never violate rule number one with phone sales.
Safer phone purchases list. Post this list by your phone.
#1 Never buy from anyone who called you. #2 Research any product and vendor before you buy anything. #3 Comparison shop online. #3 Place an order only when #1, #2 and #3 is completed.
Start a pilot migration and use it to find the bugs. Once the bugs are worked out you can proceed with the migration. Many places have too many legacy programs that do not work with the new OS. The old stuff is stretched as long as possible mostly for budget reasons in the down market. There it too much investment in the installed base to toss it.
These studies never count sales that never happened because casual gamers won't spend the money for a console (or portable) if the cost of games is prohibitive. I never bought any X Box or Playstation games simply because of the cost of the console and a dozen games.
Way back in DOS days I bought a PC because stuff could be copied and thus affordable to experiment with the large world of software. I had tons of shareware, etc. If all software was locked down at over $40/title, my PC purchase would have been delayed for years. There is only just not that much interest in playing with DOS for DOS sake.
Games are always priced for the maximum profit (free market) by artificial scaracity. Only the more hard core gamers buy them. Many potential game buyers play freecell and minesweeper along with free online services such as Farmville, neopets, etc., and are content. Seriousely, if Farmville required a pre-play purchase of $40, do you think it would have any traction? Many games that are pirated enjoy this same publicity that the game is good. Some games locked down, don't get much exposure because it is reviewed as broken, slow, hard to make work.
I doubt that game manufactures are interested in attracting the Farmville players to a play platform at prices they would buy a good game. Wii has done a fair job at attracting players that normally won't buy a console.
It depends on your GPS, some show only speed, time, position, heading, etc as part of a NEMA message. Some show number of satellites tracked, estimated position error due to poor reception (showing good reception is good for your case) as well as which the Signal to Noise ratio of each satellite received. Know your equipment.
Some cars burn much less gas while waiting for a light. It is true even in a Prius that the electricity consumed sitting does amount to fuel wasted at a light, even if the engine is off at that time. In a Hybrid, the loss is less.
When you do show up in court with your GPS log, tell the judge that the GPS log is generally easy to verify if it has been falsified. Ask them to give it to their computer science guy to look for any signs of tampering. The record of the sattelite locations, the time of day, the locations, the time stamps, speed time distance, etc will provide evidence of tampering. Point out that a forgery is very hard to make with all those factors in place. It is up to them to prove their case against you. It is up to them to prove any errors in your GPS log.
Be sure to point out the number of satelites in the sky at the time of the stop, the margin of error, the base accuracy, the DOD calibration is monitored 24/7, etc. If the mobile is out of cal, it is out of sync and would not provide a valid fix. A valid fix is confirmation of calibration. If they doubt your statement of certification, ask them to verify it with the DOD and device manufacture. The base accuracy is generally +/- 1 on the LSD or 0.1 MPH. It does not have the parallax error of the officer's radar which you question to the max at this point along with the radar's known error modes, including mirrors, angle, angle correction, etc. It's your certification against their's and your operator skill against theirs.
You can show much more margin of error in both operator and equipment setup and calibration than they can show in your GPS log. Unless the judge is crooked or a technophobe, the GPS record is hard to discredit.
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Regardless of the AC claims, my purchases were based on local supplies and prices. Video clubs and later legit video rental stores had VHS movies. The selection was larger and for much less cost than Laserdisc. Laserdisc seclection was often non existant. Record stores sometimes carried a limited selection, often Pioneer Concerts, but not movies. While waiting for the movies on disc, I collected several hundred VHS movies. Later, DVD's came out at premimum prices. Again it was about 10 years from the release, that I bought a player. I did not buy the first gen of either platform, or pay the premium. I bought my LD player surplus, a commercial unit, not a consumer level unit.
The retail selection of LD movies was pathetic. This was pre internet, so ebay and online shopping was non-existant.
To support that argument, I bought a Laserdisk player when VHS movies were about $40 each. Laserdisks were promised to be cheaper than VHS because they could be stamped out like records.
The high quality of the video was attractive along with true NTSC video wouthout the jitters and rolling from Vidoeguard and Macrovision copy guard.
Due to the high quality, studios were afraid to release onto the format for a long time. What few movies were released were boutique priced. Affordable titles were things like "NFL How To Watch Pro Fotball"
http://www.discountlaserdisc.com/read.php?list=3&sort=SPF&sort3=name
Due to the high prices and poor selection, my lifetime collection of Laserdiscs is still in the single digits. Anybody want to buy a laserdisk player?
On the flipside my collection of under $10 DVDs number in the hundreds.
Many PC games are priced like Laserdisks. They are not priced, then lowered in price a year later like DVDs. Some DVD movies are classic films. Some I didn't remember if I replaced my VHS copy with a DVD, so some titles I have purchased twice.
Just think, who sold to me? The $65 copy of Fiddler on the Roof, or the two $5 copies?
At over $15, I'm unlikely to buy a movie or game. At under $10, good ones are considered. At under $6, it becomes a possible impulse buy.
Are you pricing to sell many copies, or are you charging the price of a new bicycle for my grandson?
More quality games need to be priced for mass markets instead of selling a few at boutique pricing of over $10-15 per copy. A small selection of a couple dozen games is a serious budget buster. Due to the average selling price, I no longer browse the game isle. This is the same reason record stores closed. The didn't price for mass market sales and impulse purchases.
The chart lists the PRIMARY OS. For school, this is often the default installed OS and the one compatible with the MS Exchange back end for email. There is no data for the Secondary OS.
At work, I would have to list the Microsoft platform as the primary because that is what the business IT is built upon, but when I'm on break and fire up the secondary OS for break time browsing, watching a movie, etc, It's the secondary OS. Sadly this is not counted.
Most often for network mail, file storage, and gateway login, at schools only the two leaders, or one of the leaders is supported. This leads to students dual booting, or dual computers. Stuff for class and stuff for sharing media. Often the secondary media computer is an i-Pod.
On the subject of interfaces, one feature I use more than I thought I would is the parallel printer port on my older TDS200. A hard copy is nice. The older scope was supplied with drivers for an Epson Dot Matrix printer and an earlier HP laser. I have had no problems printing as many newer printers will support the older driver. I use mine with a Laserjet 1100 with no problems.
For documentation and records, a hardcopy is very nice.
MS is ignoring the guys like me. I recover the docs folder if the drive is readable, and offer to install Ubuntu, which I used to recover the data.
These guys are making the switch to Ubuntu easier than jumping through hoops to recover the machine with full loss of data.
Ive seen this used for a vacation rental in a time share once. The prepaid time slot was in 3 weeks at the resort 100 miles away. They checked in and the police checked them out. Some items don't work on a drop address. They are the best bait.
Using the illegal access to your email, this may be a case of attempted stolen ID. Load your email account with some fake business transactions and request a response needed for the delivery of the new plasma screen TV. Get a valid delivery address, name of the signer, etc, and send in the squad.
Since SCO had a distribution of Linux at one time, I'm more concerned with who put the code in Linux as much as wondering how much is in it. Remember Open Linux 2.3? I still have a copy. This is pre lawsuit. I've been keeping the boxed copy as a buffer against legal challanges. I bought the infringing code from them before they became trolls.
http://linux.omnipotent.net/article.php?article_id=4448
It is common for hotels and the like to have a master antenna distribution system. The head end has the antenna combiners, modulators (digital and or analog) tuners/antennas and other program material. You will want an engineer to design the distribution system so each outlet receives the same signal strength and each channel has the correct audio and video levels into the respective modulators.
The general arrangement for a typical system is a tuner for each channel desired feeding a modulator on each desired internal channel. Using modulators instead of just feeding antenna signals eliminates signal strength changes inside the system and if using several antennas for several stations, prevents multi path (analog as well as digital problems can result) due to multiple antennas. Cable channels are tuned with a converter box and then fed into a modulator. This can be digital or analog. The combined and level balanced signal is than amplified by the head end amplifier (with enough headroom to handle the combined signal) and distributed to the receivers so each receives a signal with each channel at the standard distribution strength.
For that many sets and channels I highly recommend contracting the head end package and distribution. A typical company is like the one in this link. Disclaimer, this is from a google search and not an enforcement. I used to do this for hotels with satellite C band and Ku band. Cable loss, splitter insertion loss and such can be worked up from a good CATV system engineering handbook if you want to roll your own. Work from the set back to the head end to find the required head end amplifier signal level. Don't start by stuffing in a cheap amp and trying to make up the shortfall downstream. The result will be clipping, harmonics, distortion, and corruption of signal. This is not a home antenna project.
http://www.mgacom.co.uk/casestud/study3.htm This is what you are looking for. Tell Comcast this installation will be part of a MATV head end. Get in touch with the right engineer. He will be hard to find as they want to sell a box a set and that is the primary consumer level response. You want a system engineer instead of the sales force. Find him.
You need to ask the second question when the first is you are not under arrest. The second quesiton is "Am I free to go?". If you are not free to go, ask again "Am I under Arrest?". Keep asking until you are either arrested or free to go.
I play a keyboard. Simply put the publisher's prices on sheet music is priced for professionals and not for an amature looking for a library of music to enjoy. A home compiled songbook of 100 songs is nearly the same price I paid for my used keyboard. A library of only 100 songs is a pretty thin library. Due to the prices, I don't pirate, but I do pick up what I can used. I mostly play classics from the 1950's and 1960's. I've inherited some full 3 ring binders of my grandparents sheet music (legal copies). Most were 10 or 15 cents a copy. I know inflation and all, but I think the price of sheet music has risen faster than the inflation over the same time. Gas has gone from 45 cents to $3. Sheet music has gone from 10cents to $4.00.
I'll sometimes buy a songbook, but rarely buy single sheetmusic due to the value.
(or I suppose they could just watch for a sudden drop in signal strength and try adjusting up, see if it helps, then try adjusting down if it made things worse).
auto antenna tuners exist. There is no need to guess by trial and error. Simply measuring the antenna current and comparing the phase of the current will tell you the tuning direction needed. When the current is in phase with the voltage, the antenna load is resistive (in tune). When the current leads the voltage, the antenna is capacitive and needs less capacitance (tuned higher in frequency) and vise versa.
Unfortunately, auto tuners for microwave frequencies are difficult to design due to the very short mechanical dimensions of the parts. Voltage tuned capacitors (diodes) are common in VHF and UHF, but not as common in microwave applications for tuning antennas due to their limited tuning range. A hand contacting a microwave antenna can tune it much further than the corrective auto tunning can correct it in most applications. Even if tuned to resonance, the new tuning to correct for the hand contact will still not have the impedance change corrected. Energy absorbed by microwave heating of the hand is energy not received or transmitted by the phone. Tuning is only part of the problem.
Attenuation is a real problem at these frequencies. To demonstrate this, simply tape an orange near the LNB in a satellite antenna in the path of the feedhorn. Without de-tuning the feedhorn cavity, the huge loss in signal strength by absorption can be seen as a total loss of reception. Try placing your hand over the feedhorn while setting up your satellite TV dish. Active retuning of the feedhorn to resonance won't fix the total loss of the signal.
HF for Ham radio and marine shortwave (2-30 MHZ) need larger components to tune mechanically larger antennas so those applications use mechanical relays to switch capacitors and inductors or motor driven capacitors and/or inductors.
This low level decision appears to be the norm. We ran into it when my mother-in-law passed. We solved the problem by submitting a forward phone and address of her final resting place. Her old apartment address is no longer valid. I think they soon got the message that she moved and is not replying to letters and can't take a phone call. They are welcome to drop in and visit.
Don't overlook the protocol used by radio amateurs for location tracking. This is often used with amateur weather balloon and photography. Getting a fix on the landing site helps recovery of the payload.
Auto Position Reporting System (APRS) can be adapted to other communications links besides ham radio.
http://www.cave.org/aprs/
http://www.cave.org/aprs/aprswhat.html
http://freshmeat.net/projects/gpsd/
My workhorse is an old HP Laserjet III. It has 4 meg of RAM. The default RAM was too small to print a full screenshot. HP no longer makes carts for it. Aftermarket carts are 4/$100 with free shipping. In another 4 or 5 years, I may need to order another box of carts.
I bought the printer used at Goodwill. I was given the RAM from someone retiring another one. For printing an occasional web page for use on the road (Mapquest directions and such) there is no reason to use the expensive inkjet.
To make the printers available to all users in the house, I use the small Hawking printservers. With the parallel port, they clip right onto the printer. A wall wart and network cable finish the installation. They work fine with Windows and Linux. With the printers plugged into the wireless router, wireless printing from laptops and netbooks is a piece of cake.
To prevent any possibility of abuse from the Internet, my file server and printers are given a block of IP addresses that are not routed to the internet. There is no reason I need to print over the internet.
There is plenty of examples of locked technology that is throw away due to lockdown.Hardware becomes either single use or repurposed when the lock is broken and the business model is broken.
Locked hardware that became more popular and re purposed include;
The Cue Cat
The i-Opener
Locked hardware and software that had such tethers that it had little market penetration include
The Mailstation
The Web TV
The Zune store
Liquid Audio
Plays for Sure
The Dongle
The list goes on.
You are here cruising Slashdot, where visitors can post links and such to stories, news articles, photos, and even porn sites posted by trolls. Just because you don't visit porn sites intentionally, dosen't mean someone with bad intent won't provide a link to a site. Mods often mod them down to troll before the general public provides lots of traffic.
How do you know the link below is safe? The name of the site doesn't always indicate the contents.
http://crazybuilders.com/ Note, the link is safe for work.
If you have a laptop and they insist you power it up, this may be detected. For better chances, place the CD upside down in the drive so it can't detect it as a valid disk. It won't fully spin up and try to autorun or load the TOC.
The great depression was extended for years due to to the action the government took to end it. Now we are doing the same thing again with the stimulus. Expect this recovery to last a while.
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/FDR-s-Policies-Prolonged-Depression-5409.aspx
Using data collected in 1929 by the Conference Board and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Cole and Ohanian were able to establish average wages and prices across a range of industries just prior to the Depression. By adjusting for annual increases in productivity, they were able to use the 1929 benchmark to figure out what prices and wages would have been during every year of the Depression had Roosevelt's policies not gone into effect. They then compared those figures with actual prices and wages as reflected in the Conference Board data.
In the three years following the implementation of Roosevelt's policies, wages in 11 key industries averaged 25 percent higher than they otherwise would have done, the economists calculate. But unemployment was also 25 percent higher than it should have been, given gains in productivity.
Meanwhile, prices across 19 industries averaged 23 percent above where they should have been, given the state of the economy. With goods and services that much harder for consumers to afford, demand stalled and the gross national product floundered at 27 percent below where it otherwise might have been.
When I have the time I talk to the yahoos to tie up their resources and never violate rule number one with phone sales.
Safer phone purchases list.
Post this list by your phone.
#1 Never buy from anyone who called you.
#2 Research any product and vendor before you buy anything.
#3 Comparison shop online.
#3 Place an order only when #1, #2 and #3 is completed.
Start a pilot migration and use it to find the bugs. Once the bugs are worked out you can proceed with the migration. Many places have too many legacy programs that do not work with the new OS. The old stuff is stretched as long as possible mostly for budget reasons in the down market. There it too much investment in the installed base to toss it.
These studies never count sales that never happened because casual gamers won't spend the money for a console (or portable) if the cost of games is prohibitive. I never bought any X Box or Playstation games simply because of the cost of the console and a dozen games.
Way back in DOS days I bought a PC because stuff could be copied and thus affordable to experiment with the large world of software. I had tons of shareware, etc. If all software was locked down at over $40/title, my PC purchase would have been delayed for years. There is only just not that much interest in playing with DOS for DOS sake.
Games are always priced for the maximum profit (free market) by artificial scaracity. Only the more hard core gamers buy them. Many potential game buyers play freecell and minesweeper along with free online services such as Farmville, neopets, etc., and are content. Seriousely, if Farmville required a pre-play purchase of $40, do you think it would have any traction? Many games that are pirated enjoy this same publicity that the game is good. Some games locked down, don't get much exposure because it is reviewed as broken, slow, hard to make work.
I doubt that game manufactures are interested in attracting the Farmville players to a play platform at prices they would buy a good game. Wii has done a fair job at attracting players that normally won't buy a console.
It depends on your GPS, some show only speed, time, position, heading, etc as part of a NEMA message. Some show number of satellites tracked, estimated position error due to poor reception (showing good reception is good for your case) as well as which the Signal to Noise ratio of each satellite received. Know your equipment.
Some cars burn much less gas while waiting for a light. It is true even in a Prius that the electricity consumed sitting does amount to fuel wasted at a light, even if the engine is off at that time. In a Hybrid, the loss is less.
When you do show up in court with your GPS log, tell the judge that the GPS log is generally easy to verify if it has been falsified. Ask them to give it to their computer science guy to look for any signs of tampering. The record of the sattelite locations, the time of day, the locations, the time stamps, speed time distance, etc will provide evidence of tampering. Point out that a forgery is very hard to make with all those factors in place. It is up to them to prove their case against you. It is up to them to prove any errors in your GPS log.
Be sure to point out the number of satelites in the sky at the time of the stop, the margin of error, the base accuracy, the DOD calibration is monitored 24/7, etc. If the mobile is out of cal, it is out of sync and would not provide a valid fix. A valid fix is confirmation of calibration. If they doubt your statement of certification, ask them to verify it with the DOD and device manufacture. The base accuracy is generally +/- 1 on the LSD or 0.1 MPH. It does not have the parallax error of the officer's radar which you question to the max at this point along with the radar's known error modes, including mirrors, angle, angle correction, etc. It's your certification against their's and your operator skill against theirs.
You can show much more margin of error in both operator and equipment setup and calibration than they can show in your GPS log. Unless the judge is crooked or a technophobe, the GPS record is hard to discredit.