I'm not suggesting that it is. I'm suggesting that businesses generally treat taxes as a cost, not as something that is morally offensive, so why expect anything different here?
Right. My point was that it is easy to come up with a scenario where supply is the problem, rather than demand (demand is certainly a key issue when you are talking about $500+ devices though).
The fact that a $100, roughly paper sized, highly legible, long battery life, great software containing device isn't on the market probably has quite a lot to do with it not being possible right now.
I'm pretty sure such a device would sell millions and millions of units.
Advertisers are more interested in people who bothered to subscribe or buy something, they figure they will actually look at it.
That doesn't mean that they won't buy ads in free papers, but they won't pay as much if you don't have some sort of reasonable proof that there is reader interest in your publication.
It is also worth pointing out that he was attempting to cut his own pay by less than $50 (a day's pay at his $6 rate and some small amount more if you worry about taxes).
Every time I see their new ad that talks about having sold 1 billion pills, I try to calculate how many suckers 1 billion pills translates into.
Looking it up, it looks like they sell 30 pills at a time, so they have sales in the neighborhood of 30 million. There also looks to be lots of complaining about autobilling, so hopefully the actual number of people that decided to call is closer to half of that. If they are counting the 'free' samples that they send out, it could be far less than that (they are charging more than $1 per pill for something that probably costs $0.05, so they have lots of room to mess around).
In my area, the NBC station is going to broadcast ABC on a subchannel and the CBS station is going to broadcast FOX on a subchannel (the pairs are each have a single owner; the ABC and FOX transmitters, that I don't receive well, will do the same, increasing the footprint of all 4 stations). PBS added Create, so I predict that I will receive a total of 6 OTA channels after the switch, and there is really only room for 2 or 3 more.
I can often get another ABC station from further away, but they are probably going to continue to broadcast weather on one subchannel (limiting the amount of additional programming), and it entails significant antenna fiddling.
For people in big markets, more than 8 or 10 channels is probably pretty likely, but not for everybody (I'm in a market that is on the large side of medium).
Well, they only released what they called a 'user ready' version of KDE4 a couple of months ago, so, based on the way all software releases everywhere work, an actual user ready system is only a version or two away.
Are they actively filtering semi-private material? I would think they would human-filter as little content as possible, to save money.
The article implies that they discourage all R rated postings, but it also implies that they only deal with stuff that has been flagged by a user, so it isn't real clear to me exactly what they are doing.
At any rate, people will do well to learn that when you send a company some information, you are depending solely on their respect for your privacy, there isn't anything magic that will prevent them from viewing or using that information (it may be illegal for them to do so, but that doesn't actually prevent it).
The thermal efficiency of nuclear power plants is (from what I gather searching on Google) closer to 35% than it is to 100%, so these things are probably dissipating 200 megawatts of heat, at a minimum. There could be design compromises (saving space, things like that) that make them less efficient than that.
The thermal efficiency doesn't really impact the comparison you are making though, even if it were 10% or whatever.
The British mask thing doesn't really seem to matter (I mean, it can't have cost a great deal, so the impact just isn't there; it might be ridiculous, but it simply isn't damaging).
Doesn't the U.S. have relatively large stocks of antivirals just sitting around? This is the impression that I am under; from what I can tell, Roche produces a fairly large amount of Tamiflu for government stockpiling, and new orders wouldn't significantly impact the amount of drug available for treatment in the U.S. (I.e., thar be plenty for the moment). By means of plenty, my understanding is that there are millions of courses on the shelf in the U.S.
The Mexican/Canadian song and dance isn't something I am familiar with, so I have no idea. Hopefully your impression of the Canadian reaction being incompetent is wrong. Clearly, the Mexican reaction was not ideal.
There is some upside to the current situation, as there is a chance to use it as a smoke test and take action to improve things (a simple step would be for the CDC to commit a few million towards establishing a quiet monitoring system in Mexico, claims on their sovereignty be damned).
Sure, but that is obvious and boring to complain about, I want to know what 'most' he is talking about, not about the radical reaction in Egypt that pretty clearly has an ulterior motive.
Basically, as far as I can figure, he thinks that there should have been a much harder travel shutdown (to control things as much as possible), or there should have been much less public disclosure about things (because the public reaction has been far beyond what would be justified by the situation).
It is tough to evaluate something like this, where government responses have had a significant impact on how things have played out; given the small number of infected, it is a little silly to complain about the reaction being too mild, but I guess it depends on your attitude regarding the economic damage done by reaction to severely. And then there is still room to argue that actions where inappropriate without being too severe or too mild, but my impression is that the government response has been reasonable and proactive (but I don't expect them to get it exactly perfect).
It isn't just the TSA; the last time I flew, I was looking out the window and watched the baggage handler actually tossing suitcases up into the air so that the landed hard on a flat side.
He could have been handling the bags more carefully and doing less work as a result, so it seemed pretty uncalled for.
And really, if you are going to a Frat house, leave the toys at home (unless going for work).
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I'm not suggesting that it is. I'm suggesting that businesses generally treat taxes as a cost, not as something that is morally offensive, so why expect anything different here?
If they can still make a reasonable profit, why not do so?
Right. My point was that it is easy to come up with a scenario where supply is the problem, rather than demand (demand is certainly a key issue when you are talking about $500+ devices though).
Did you read the first 6 words that you quoted?
The fact that a $100, roughly paper sized, highly legible, long battery life, great software containing device isn't on the market probably has quite a lot to do with it not being possible right now.
I'm pretty sure such a device would sell millions and millions of units.
Advertisers are more interested in people who bothered to subscribe or buy something, they figure they will actually look at it.
That doesn't mean that they won't buy ads in free papers, but they won't pay as much if you don't have some sort of reasonable proof that there is reader interest in your publication.
It is also worth pointing out that he was attempting to cut his own pay by less than $50 (a day's pay at his $6 rate and some small amount more if you worry about taxes).
If your goal is to have a working SP3 installation, you can just burn SP3 to a cd and run it that way (someone linked the package above).
If the question was more of a rhetorical nature, use nLite.
My security is currently at level 5, but it looks like level 6 is imminent.
Sometimes, security goes all the way to 11.
Every time I see their new ad that talks about having sold 1 billion pills, I try to calculate how many suckers 1 billion pills translates into.
Looking it up, it looks like they sell 30 pills at a time, so they have sales in the neighborhood of 30 million. There also looks to be lots of complaining about autobilling, so hopefully the actual number of people that decided to call is closer to half of that. If they are counting the 'free' samples that they send out, it could be far less than that (they are charging more than $1 per pill for something that probably costs $0.05, so they have lots of room to mess around).
In my area, the NBC station is going to broadcast ABC on a subchannel and the CBS station is going to broadcast FOX on a subchannel (the pairs are each have a single owner; the ABC and FOX transmitters, that I don't receive well, will do the same, increasing the footprint of all 4 stations). PBS added Create, so I predict that I will receive a total of 6 OTA channels after the switch, and there is really only room for 2 or 3 more.
I can often get another ABC station from further away, but they are probably going to continue to broadcast weather on one subchannel (limiting the amount of additional programming), and it entails significant antenna fiddling.
For people in big markets, more than 8 or 10 channels is probably pretty likely, but not for everybody (I'm in a market that is on the large side of medium).
Well, they only released what they called a 'user ready' version of KDE4 a couple of months ago, so, based on the way all software releases everywhere work, an actual user ready system is only a version or two away.
Are they actively filtering semi-private material? I would think they would human-filter as little content as possible, to save money.
The article implies that they discourage all R rated postings, but it also implies that they only deal with stuff that has been flagged by a user, so it isn't real clear to me exactly what they are doing.
At any rate, people will do well to learn that when you send a company some information, you are depending solely on their respect for your privacy, there isn't anything magic that will prevent them from viewing or using that information (it may be illegal for them to do so, but that doesn't actually prevent it).
The thermal efficiency of nuclear power plants is (from what I gather searching on Google) closer to 35% than it is to 100%, so these things are probably dissipating 200 megawatts of heat, at a minimum. There could be design compromises (saving space, things like that) that make them less efficient than that.
The thermal efficiency doesn't really impact the comparison you are making though, even if it were 10% or whatever.
I like the Aciphex commercials, because spelling it that way doesn't stop if from sounding like Assiphex and I giggle.
Isn't that a pretty thin line you are drawing there?
In my experience, "damn fool" doesn't particularly correlate with higher or lower slashdot user numbers.
Yes, vector art/graphics.
The British mask thing doesn't really seem to matter (I mean, it can't have cost a great deal, so the impact just isn't there; it might be ridiculous, but it simply isn't damaging).
Doesn't the U.S. have relatively large stocks of antivirals just sitting around? This is the impression that I am under; from what I can tell, Roche produces a fairly large amount of Tamiflu for government stockpiling, and new orders wouldn't significantly impact the amount of drug available for treatment in the U.S. (I.e., thar be plenty for the moment). By means of plenty, my understanding is that there are millions of courses on the shelf in the U.S.
The Mexican/Canadian song and dance isn't something I am familiar with, so I have no idea. Hopefully your impression of the Canadian reaction being incompetent is wrong. Clearly, the Mexican reaction was not ideal.
There is some upside to the current situation, as there is a chance to use it as a smoke test and take action to improve things (a simple step would be for the CDC to commit a few million towards establishing a quiet monitoring system in Mexico, claims on their sovereignty be damned).
Sure, but that is obvious and boring to complain about, I want to know what 'most' he is talking about, not about the radical reaction in Egypt that pretty clearly has an ulterior motive.
Basically, as far as I can figure, he thinks that there should have been a much harder travel shutdown (to control things as much as possible), or there should have been much less public disclosure about things (because the public reaction has been far beyond what would be justified by the situation).
It is tough to evaluate something like this, where government responses have had a significant impact on how things have played out; given the small number of infected, it is a little silly to complain about the reaction being too mild, but I guess it depends on your attitude regarding the economic damage done by reaction to severely. And then there is still room to argue that actions where inappropriate without being too severe or too mild, but my impression is that the government response has been reasonable and proactive (but I don't expect them to get it exactly perfect).
It isn't just the TSA; the last time I flew, I was looking out the window and watched the baggage handler actually tossing suitcases up into the air so that the landed hard on a flat side.
He could have been handling the bags more carefully and doing less work as a result, so it seemed pretty uncalled for.
And really, if you are going to a Frat house, leave the toys at home (unless going for work).
They make new boxes that have the SP2 release inside of them.
Connery!