In a competitive market, the price will be determined by the cost. Each firm must charge enough to cover not just the marginal cost but also the capital investment to offer the product. The fees that the phone companies paid for spectrum are part of their costs and must be covered in their pricing.
Now, you could argue that this is not a competitive market and the phone companies are charging monopolistic prices. Then the price is set to maximize profit and may well be more than is required to cover costs.
My guess is that the price of the spectrum is pushing up the prices we are paying.
Last I checked REI wasn't public property. I suspect they would have the right to tell you to stop taking pictures. On the other hand, I doubt that the ATM guys represented REI.
Nope, I've had the same problem with Dell. I spent the better part of two hours on the phone with various Dell employees on various continents before I found somebody who would sell me the disk caddy for my Dell Workstation. (I am not the original owner.) Even these days their phone bill must have been more than the cost of the plastic part.
I do. I don't want it on the plane and it weighs enough to be a nuisance. I pack it in the middle of the suitcase, protected by clothes and, so far, haven't had any trouble. Any data that I'd worry about is encrypted and the laptop is an old, slow, one that I use just for travel. Someday, I suppose it will be stolen or broken. Until then, I'm more than happy not to be lugging it around and putting it in a separate tray for security.
Suppose that a year or two from now a computer passes this test. Does that mean that the computer is intelligent? Does it mean that the computer is conscious?
To my mind no computer as they are now conceived will ever be either intelligent or conscious. It's going to take some radically different hardware before I'd be convinced. My guess is highly parallel processing with lots of dedicated circuits for special purposes.
Not only that but it doesn't really work, either. I was tracking down a site that was being pointed to by a really unfriendly link. The site was full of malware but AVG showed the friendly green checkmark when it pre-scanned the site!
This works fine except that the fresh install has an out-of-date virus database and at the moment (Thu, Jul. 3rd) the appears to be overloaded, so the update fails every time. Maybe it would be best to wait a day or two till they straighten out the problem with the update server.
A self-signed certificate is useless if you want to prove your identity to other people. It is, however, useful if you simply want to offer encryption to people who already trust your identity. As an example, I use a self-signed certificate on my mail server. I'm not terribly worried about anyone spoofing my mail server but I do like to be able to encrypt my credentials when I log in. The self-signed certificate works fine in that case.
For those who want to try it, here's a link to the demo page http://www.maxmind.com/app/lookup_city. (And note the link to check your own IP in the bottom right:)
And what happened to fact checking? There was a time when a small army of fact checkers would verify things like this before they were published. The Internet is a great tool but it's pulling the rug out from under the newspapers and we will all suffer from the loss of reliable, fact-checked information.
It's not just that you have already paid for the bandwidth you use, so has the site that you are accessing. That's the nature of the Internet. What Virgin wants to do is to charge one (or maybe both) of you more for faster access.
Why would any store hesitate to post that notice? It's one of the most opaque examples of beureaucratic English I've seen in a long time: Run-on sentences; subordinate clauses out of place and badly punctuated; any good Junior High English teacher could get a full hour's lecture out of it.
Interesting. My friend has been in Beijing for almost ten years now and is in touch with Chinese students. He is presumably reporting what they believe - true or not. Or, perhaps, it depends on who owns the Chinese end of the connection?
Well,yes, you can do that. But I have a friend who lives in Beijing and he tells me that if you use a vpn and have too much traffic across it they will shut it down. So the firewall is aware of the presence of the vpn and can measure the traffic. Furthermore, too much use of a vpn may cast suspicion on you.
3 billion is the figure for base pairs, it takes three of them to code for a single amino acid. On average there are 3,000 base pairs per gene; so, even if the entire 3 billion were encoding something, there would still only be about 1 million genes. A huge part of the genomoe does not code for proteins. There are long sections of repeated blocks of G and C bases. These are belived to have a function relating to gene expression but not coding. There are other large areas repetitive sequences of "junk" DNA. I will be surprised if it turns out to have no function but it certainly doesn't appear to code for proteins. On balance I think the comparison is reasonably valid.
The comparison to the human genome is interesting. The genome contains about 3 billion base pairs and 30,000 coding genes. As best I can see,.NET is quite a bit bigger: The closest thing to a gene is a method (an object that can be used, or not used, and which does something). The genome has 30,000 and.NET has 384,000. So even if it takes 10 methods to do what one gene does, they are equivalent.
It takes 3 base pairs to code for a single protein, perhaps the closest we can come to an instruction. Each gene has an average of 3,000 base pairs, equivalent to 1,000 instructions. So we are looking at 30,000 genes x 1,000 instructions/gene or about 30,000,000 instructions in the genome..NET has 8,000,000 instructions. Given the roughness of the comparison, this is pretty close.
The point here is that we are creating programs that are roughly equal in complexity to the human genome. If we were better programers, then perhaps we'd have come up with intelligent design.
Finally, it's worth noting that the functions are unknown for over 50% of discovered genes. It may be about the same for.NET:))
half the camera shake comes from people holding the camera at arms length and squinting at an LCD they can't really see in the sunglight. Get a camera with a viewfinder that you can hold steady resting against your face. Canon still makes some.
One thing that Chase does that might help a little bit is if you login to your online banking site from somewhere not already verified (different IP address) they will make you send an activation code to your Cell Phone or your registered account e-mail address before they will let you logon and do anything.
The trouble with this is that your IP address changes all the time when your are travelling and there are lots of parts of the world where my (international GSM) phone doesn't work.
I second this. I actually made the trip with an X40 a few years ago. It worked out fine. If you want to save weight use the light battery and ditch the base with the DVD.
I tried using an OQO in Russia last year and the power supply died on me. Besides, by the time you add a light, useable keyboard, a USB network adapter and SD card adapter you have too many moveable parts. Never again.
Hmm, isn't this just another way of describing a virus or worm. You create a program and send it out into the wild to be executed on other people's computers? Or perhaps the difference is in the intention: These are nice worms.
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In a competitive market, the price will be determined by the cost. Each firm must charge enough to cover not just the marginal cost but also the capital investment to offer the product. The fees that the phone companies paid for spectrum are part of their costs and must be covered in their pricing.
Now, you could argue that this is not a competitive market and the phone companies are charging monopolistic prices. Then the price is set to maximize profit and may well be more than is required to cover costs.
My guess is that the price of the spectrum is pushing up the prices we are paying.
Last I checked REI wasn't public property. I suspect they would have the right to tell you to stop taking pictures. On the other hand, I doubt that the ATM guys represented REI.
Nope, I've had the same problem with Dell. I spent the better part of two hours on the phone with various Dell employees on various continents before I found somebody who would sell me the disk caddy for my Dell Workstation. (I am not the original owner.) Even these days their phone bill must have been more than the cost of the plastic part.
I do. I don't want it on the plane and it weighs enough to be a nuisance. I pack it in the middle of the suitcase, protected by clothes and, so far, haven't had any trouble. Any data that I'd worry about is encrypted and the laptop is an old, slow, one that I use just for travel. Someday, I suppose it will be stolen or broken. Until then, I'm more than happy not to be lugging it around and putting it in a separate tray for security.
It looks to me as though IE 8 does just this. The matched part of the url is in a bolder face than the rest of the address. Cool!
Suppose that a year or two from now a computer passes this test. Does that mean that the computer is intelligent? Does it mean that the computer is conscious?
To my mind no computer as they are now conceived will ever be either intelligent or conscious. It's going to take some radically different hardware before I'd be convinced. My guess is highly parallel processing with lots of dedicated circuits for special purposes.
Not only that but it doesn't really work, either. I was tracking down a site that was being pointed to by a really unfriendly link. The site was full of malware but AVG showed the friendly green checkmark when it pre-scanned the site!
This works fine except that the fresh install has an out-of-date virus database and at the moment (Thu, Jul. 3rd) the appears to be overloaded, so the update fails every time. Maybe it would be best to wait a day or two till they straighten out the problem with the update server.
A self-signed certificate is useless if you want to prove your identity to other people. It is, however, useful if you simply want to offer encryption to people who already trust your identity. As an example, I use a self-signed certificate on my mail server. I'm not terribly worried about anyone spoofing my mail server but I do like to be able to encrypt my credentials when I log in. The self-signed certificate works fine in that case.
For those who want to try it, here's a link to the demo page http://www.maxmind.com/app/lookup_city. (And note the link to check your own IP in the bottom right :)
I second this suggestion. I've had back troubles for 20+ years and have tried lots of chairs. The Aeron is the best.
AT&T's wireless Web site is down for maintenance.
http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-phone-service/site-map
Interesting!
And what happened to fact checking? There was a time when a small army of fact checkers would verify things like this before they were published. The Internet is a great tool but it's pulling the rug out from under the newspapers and we will all suffer from the loss of reliable, fact-checked information.
It's not just that you have already paid for the bandwidth you use, so has the site that you are accessing. That's the nature of the Internet. What Virgin wants to do is to charge one (or maybe both) of you more for faster access.
Yup. I noticed that one right after I failed to use the 'preview' button :)
Why would any store hesitate to post that notice? It's one of the most opaque examples of beureaucratic English I've seen in a long time: Run-on sentences; subordinate clauses out of place and badly punctuated; any good Junior High English teacher could get a full hour's lecture out of it.
Interesting. My friend has been in Beijing for almost ten years now and is in touch with Chinese students. He is presumably reporting what they believe - true or not. Or, perhaps, it depends on who owns the Chinese end of the connection?
Well,yes, you can do that. But I have a friend who lives in Beijing and he tells me that if you use a vpn and have too much traffic across it they will shut it down. So the firewall is aware of the presence of the vpn and can measure the traffic. Furthermore, too much use of a vpn may cast suspicion on you.
3 billion is the figure for base pairs, it takes three of them to code for a single amino acid. On average there are 3,000 base pairs per gene; so, even if the entire 3 billion were encoding something, there would still only be about 1 million genes. A huge part of the genomoe does not code for proteins. There are long sections of repeated blocks of G and C bases. These are belived to have a function relating to gene expression but not coding. There are other large areas repetitive sequences of "junk" DNA. I will be surprised if it turns out to have no function but it certainly doesn't appear to code for proteins. On balance I think the comparison is reasonably valid.
The comparison to the human genome is interesting. The genome contains about 3 billion base pairs and 30,000 coding genes. As best I can see, .NET is quite a bit bigger: The closest thing to a gene is a method (an object that can be used, or not used, and which does something). The genome has 30,000 and .NET has 384,000. So even if it takes 10 methods to do what one gene does, they are equivalent.
.NET has 8,000,000 instructions. Given the roughness of the comparison, this is pretty close.
.NET :))
It takes 3 base pairs to code for a single protein, perhaps the closest we can come to an instruction. Each gene has an average of 3,000 base pairs, equivalent to 1,000 instructions. So we are looking at 30,000 genes x 1,000 instructions/gene or about 30,000,000 instructions in the genome.
The point here is that we are creating programs that are roughly equal in complexity to the human genome. If we were better programers, then perhaps we'd have come up with intelligent design.
Finally, it's worth noting that the functions are unknown for over 50% of discovered genes. It may be about the same for
I bet the whole plan is to go after Starbucks for all those free drink coupons they hand out.
half the camera shake comes from people holding the camera at arms length and squinting at an LCD they can't really see in the sunglight. Get a camera with a viewfinder that you can hold steady resting against your face. Canon still makes some.
The trouble with this is that your IP address changes all the time when your are travelling and there are lots of parts of the world where my (international GSM) phone doesn't work.
I tried using an OQO in Russia last year and the power supply died on me. Besides, by the time you add a light, useable keyboard, a USB network adapter and SD card adapter you have too many moveable parts. Never again.
Hmm, isn't this just another way of describing a virus or worm. You create a program and send it out into the wild to be executed on other people's computers? Or perhaps the difference is in the intention: These are nice worms.