I want a watch that tells the time and just tells the time. A cell phone that only makes calls. A keyboard without Internet Keys. Why do I end up paying a premium for these simple devices?:(
Please note that you are not forced to purchase this TV watch. You can buy a watch that just tells time at any number of stores. In fact, I understand that they are rather common and have gotten less expensive over time.
As far as the cell phone goes, I want one that can receive calls as well, and find the fact that mine can store numbers to be very useful. Oddly enough each cell phone I have purchased it less expensive than the previous one and superior in every way.
I have an IBM Model M keyboard that just had its tenth birthday. Why pay a premium for a new keyboard when you can just keep using your existing keyboard? If you want one, head to your local thrift store.
This article seems like a good place to plug my Pacman clone/ripoff/project/experiment/what have you. In making my own Pacman game I have come to admire the gameplay, balance, and brilliance of the original more than ever.
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The drive on the iPod is hardly ever in use. It spins up for a few moments every 30 minutes to read 30 minutes worth of music into the buffer.
That said, I have a flash based player. It is smaller than my headphones, doubles as a USB key, and holds 512 MB. Now all I need is a program that will automatically put fresh MP3s on it when I plug it in to my computer.
Games could be expensive when they are first released, grabbing the money of those willing to spend $60 to buy them, and then over time the price could fall! Eventually you could buy a new copy of Diablo for $7!
What you and everyone else here are ignoring is that this is exactly what happens! This pricing scheme is efficient in that it gets from each person what they are willing to pay for a given game. You will never pay more than you are willing to for a game, and the price of any release falls over time. Releasing Doom III for $20 would be a very dumb move on the part of id, but you can bet that before long you will be able to buy it new for about $20.
And yes, I bought a new copy of Diablo for $7 several years ago.
just as hard as running a business on a conventional model.
I would guess that it is in some ways much harder. You are giving away all of your unique IP, so some of those that might be your paying customers in a conventional model are simply using your software for free.
Of course you could argue that it is easier because you have access to tools, libraries, a community of debuggers and testers, and other advantages of open source. But none of those advantages actually brings in the cash, they just cut down on your expenses.
Besides, it doesn't sound like this guy was running a business, just asking for large donations. There is a difference.
I appreciate the detailed response. It is still unclear to me what you mean by "relevant concentration". Do you mean that as much debris will fall there as at any other distant site, or that it will be a higher concentration, but not high enough to matter?
Earlier I had read a much more detailed article on the subject but couldn't find it again while Googling. I did find a number of articles which mentioned it in passing, and seemed to accept it as fact.
In any case, thanks for the links and for the conversation.
Back in the day is was just the IPAT, now it is online! It is an Information Processing Aptitude Test. Different organizations in the company have differing opinions about the test. I think that doing well on it helped me get hired.
raining, burning dust heats atmosphere at impact site and antipode (near Madagascar), perhaps heating local surface to 500 degrees F and igniting wildfires over large part of globe
and from the second article:
Both physics and Earth's rotation determined the global wildfire pattern. High-energy debris would have concentrated both around the Chicxulub crater in Mexico and its global antipode -- which corresponded to India and the Indian Ocean 65 million years ago. "The way to think of this is, the material was launched around Earth and headed on a return trajectory to its launch point," he explained.
I appreciate your response, but given the length of it there really isn't much discussion of debris distribution, just more discussion of shockwave effects, which I already agreed with you about. Basically you say that most of the debris will go straight up and fall to the west. I am not saying that it won't All I am saying is that debris will fall at the antipode in a grearter concentration than other distant locales. Are you saying that none of it will reach the anitpode? Are you also saying that none will reach orbit?
I appreciate that you don't intend to flame. I don't intend to flame either, but you don't appear to have read the pages I linked to and you keep coming back to shockwaves, which while interesting, isn't the topic at hand.
In another post I linked to some pages that mention the idea in more detail.
I would guess that someone has worked this out in great detail. In a physics class I once had to work out a generalized equation for where an object launched from any location on earth would land, taking into account the rotation of the earth, the lattitude, the angle of launch, the initial velocity, air resistance, and other factors that I no longer remember, though I am sure that wind patterns were not part of it.
It took a very long time to come up with an answer and I have no desire to revisit it. Not only that, I wouldn't even know how to begin anymore. In any case, I am taking the scientists that have worked on this at their word. Though it seems that 1/2 of/. thinks I am an idiot for doing so none of them have come up with a compelling argument for why this is wrong.
That is interesting. I would think that it should be possible to send a true deactivation message to a tag, if it had hardware support for such a thing. Too bad that the tag serial number isn't being overwritten or the tag disabled.
IBM and Metro Group (a German retailer) have developed a method to kill tags at the checkout counter, so that the tags are only used up to the point of sale. That way they are good for all the inventory control benefits but not useful for anything beyond that.
What you say is true. However, what I say is true as well, despite all the naysayers that responded without details, facts, or even a well-reasoned criticism.
A recent asteroid impact article on/. pointed out something that I had never thought of before. The two worst places to be after a major impact are under the impact and on the opposite side of the planet from it. Why is this? The debris that the impact throws up will travel out from the site of impact and some bits will go a long ways and other bits not so far. In any case, if you are 1/4 of the circumference of the earth from the site the debris can only come from one direction, but if you are 1/2 the circumference of the earth from the impact (opposite side of the earth) debris will be coming in from all directions. Some won't make it that far and some will fly even further, but it is the most likely place to get hit.
This is easy to visualize if you imagine a strike at the North Pole and the debris traveling along the lines of longitude to the South Pole.
Back in the day people appreciated driving a Volkswagon in a cold climate because the heaters were instant-on. How did they do this? They installed electric heaters since the couldn't use heat from the air-cooled engine to heat the passenger compartment.
Admittedly this would decrease your range, but there are ways of mitigating this as well. You could have it plugged in to the wall in the garage and have an alarm clock that told it to use wall power to heat the seat and the air in the car for 5 minutes before you leave for work each day, which would mean that the batteries would only need to keep the passenger compartment warm, not heat it initially.
If this became a real efficiency/range issue you could look into better insulation for the car, including an aerogel sandwhich for the windows and insulation in the roof.
AT&T knows when their system drops a call. When I used their service a year ago they would credit you some amount for each dropped call. They could simply look at the % of calls that each tower drops. That would give them a good idea of where they need to put more towers. Of course, this would lead to them installing a tower in my house.
I have friends that are/were professional athletes. From what I can tell there are many pro athletes that do not love what they do. They have little passion and are simply collecting a very large paycheck. I understand that is especially true in the NFL where if your are around long enough to qualify for the retirement plan you are set for life.
That said, many pros are very passionate about the game and it shows both during the games and in practice.
He isn't talking about the strategic oil reserve. He is talking about untapped oil in the ground in the USA. Notice that he talked about increasing production.
You are right in that there is no point in using the strategic reserve. But that isn't what is being discussed.
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Nao posso falar frances, mas acho que falo portugues mais ou menos fluentemente.
My question was more related to the odd grammar of that sentence.
What?
Please note that you are not forced to purchase this TV watch. You can buy a watch that just tells time at any number of stores. In fact, I understand that they are rather common and have gotten less expensive over time.
As far as the cell phone goes, I want one that can receive calls as well, and find the fact that mine can store numbers to be very useful. Oddly enough each cell phone I have purchased it less expensive than the previous one and superior in every way.
I have an IBM Model M keyboard that just had its tenth birthday. Why pay a premium for a new keyboard when you can just keep using your existing keyboard? If you want one, head to your local thrift store.
This article seems like a good place to plug my Pacman clone/ripoff/project/experiment/what have you. In making my own Pacman game I have come to admire the gameplay, balance, and brilliance of the original more than ever.
That said, I have a flash based player. It is smaller than my headphones, doubles as a USB key, and holds 512 MB. Now all I need is a program that will automatically put fresh MP3s on it when I plug it in to my computer.
What you and everyone else here are ignoring is that this is exactly what happens! This pricing scheme is efficient in that it gets from each person what they are willing to pay for a given game. You will never pay more than you are willing to for a game, and the price of any release falls over time. Releasing Doom III for $20 would be a very dumb move on the part of id, but you can bet that before long you will be able to buy it new for about $20.
And yes, I bought a new copy of Diablo for $7 several years ago.
I would guess that it is in some ways much harder. You are giving away all of your unique IP, so some of those that might be your paying customers in a conventional model are simply using your software for free.
Of course you could argue that it is easier because you have access to tools, libraries, a community of debuggers and testers, and other advantages of open source. But none of those advantages actually brings in the cash, they just cut down on your expenses.
Besides, it doesn't sound like this guy was running a business, just asking for large donations. There is a difference.
Earlier I had read a much more detailed article on the subject but couldn't find it again while Googling. I did find a number of articles which mentioned it in passing, and seemed to accept it as fact.
In any case, thanks for the links and for the conversation.
From what I can tell some groups use it and others don't. I applied at Santa Teresa Labs, and they seemed to think it was valuable.
Back in the day is was just the IPAT, now it is online! It is an Information Processing Aptitude Test. Different organizations in the company have differing opinions about the test. I think that doing well on it helped me get hired.
raining, burning dust heats atmosphere at impact site and antipode (near Madagascar), perhaps heating local surface to 500 degrees F and igniting wildfires over large part of globe
and from the second article:
Both physics and Earth's rotation determined the global wildfire pattern. High-energy debris would have concentrated both around the Chicxulub crater in Mexico and its global antipode -- which corresponded to India and the Indian Ocean 65 million years ago. "The way to think of this is, the material was launched around Earth and headed on a return trajectory to its launch point," he explained.
I appreciate your response, but given the length of it there really isn't much discussion of debris distribution, just more discussion of shockwave effects, which I already agreed with you about. Basically you say that most of the debris will go straight up and fall to the west. I am not saying that it won't All I am saying is that debris will fall at the antipode in a grearter concentration than other distant locales. Are you saying that none of it will reach the anitpode? Are you also saying that none will reach orbit?
I appreciate that you don't intend to flame. I don't intend to flame either, but you don't appear to have read the pages I linked to and you keep coming back to shockwaves, which while interesting, isn't the topic at hand.
I would guess that someone has worked this out in great detail. In a physics class I once had to work out a generalized equation for where an object launched from any location on earth would land, taking into account the rotation of the earth, the lattitude, the angle of launch, the initial velocity, air resistance, and other factors that I no longer remember, though I am sure that wind patterns were not part of it.
It took a very long time to come up with an answer and I have no desire to revisit it. Not only that, I wouldn't even know how to begin anymore. In any case, I am taking the scientists that have worked on this at their word. Though it seems that 1/2 of /. thinks I am an idiot for doing so none of them have come up with a compelling argument for why this is wrong.
That is interesting. I would think that it should be possible to send a true deactivation message to a tag, if it had hardware support for such a thing. Too bad that the tag serial number isn't being overwritten or the tag disabled.
IBM and Metro Group (a German retailer) have developed a method to kill tags at the checkout counter, so that the tags are only used up to the point of sale. That way they are good for all the inventory control benefits but not useful for anything beyond that.
Further reading:
http://atropos.as.arizona.edu/aiz/teaching/nats102 /impact.html
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0209/05wildfir es/
This is easy to visualize if you imagine a strike at the North Pole and the debris traveling along the lines of longitude to the South Pole.
I thought it was, "BYU project to silence Cougar fans." But then I realized that the football team isn't a new project, so I knew I was mistaken.
Admittedly this would decrease your range, but there are ways of mitigating this as well. You could have it plugged in to the wall in the garage and have an alarm clock that told it to use wall power to heat the seat and the air in the car for 5 minutes before you leave for work each day, which would mean that the batteries would only need to keep the passenger compartment warm, not heat it initially.
If this became a real efficiency/range issue you could look into better insulation for the car, including an aerogel sandwhich for the windows and insulation in the roof.
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AT&T knows when their system drops a call. When I used their service a year ago they would credit you some amount for each dropped call. They could simply look at the % of calls that each tower drops. That would give them a good idea of where they need to put more towers. Of course, this would lead to them installing a tower in my house.
paper-mache' concave surface should do the trick.
That said, many pros are very passionate about the game and it shows both during the games and in practice.
The problem is that /. mangles URLs by randomly inserting spaces, so it is considered good etiquette to input links as HTML.
You are right in that there is no point in using the strategic reserve. But that isn't what is being discussed.