No, I didn't miss the memo, but the off hand joke about a recall requiring a democratic majority doesn't work nearly as well if you say representative republic (expecting the representatives that are the problem to fix the problem is right out, so impeachment doesn't count).
12 matinee tickets at $6 a pop is $72. For 2 people, that's $144. For 3 people, it is $216.
Insist on some snacks and you can easily add $50 per person (this can vary wildly, carry in a can of pop and some jelly beans and you are talking about less than $10).
If you are paying less than $6 per show, you aren't in the majority.
I'm not trying to deny the intent of the license, I'm pointing out that up until there is case law regarding specific clauses, there is some small possibility that a clause might not matter (the various GNU licenses are carefully written to avoid this, but that doesn't make them bulletproof, it just makes them reasonable to use).
Why not? Encouraging the judge to keep his opinions strictly private isn't going to discourage him from having opinions.
The current system, where contentious issues (hopefully) get escalated to courts where they get wider and wider attention, does far more to encourage impartiality than hoping that judges live in some happy impartial world.
The FSF doesn't actually make law (and I doubt it is a given that their intent would override the intent of some author that used the GPL).
I don't think it is particularly likely that anyone could successfully revoke the gpl on code that they had distributed, but you can't look to the FSF for that determination (only for their opinion).
Nowhere in the Constitution does it require me (as a voter) to give you a fair shake. I can vote against you because I don't like your hair cut, or because the voices in my head said you smell funny.
Why are you assuming that they set the price as high as possible?
Depending on how elastic demand is, keeping the price at 2X (rather than cutting it to X) gives you more money with which to expand your production.
Basically, without looking at Amazon's actual data, we are speculating about what sort of model makes the most sense (my comment above really only points out that they may be selling at the capacity that they can currently manufacture at).
I think you should take greater care with your absolute modifiers. Long after the last antenna is smashed, some guy will walk up to you and use his voice to deliver you a message.
Thanks for the reply. Hopefully smart phones and media players don't completely push small computers out of the handheld market (they all sort of blend together, but the phones tend to come with a network and the media players tend to be less open).
That last bit is probably the reasonable question (though I'm interested in how much capital would be required to bring convenient roadside locations sufficient service, a number that could easily vary wildly between locations).
I don't really understand your aggravation on my pushback about referencing an industrial installation (I didn't even ask a question! I simply noted that what I was writing was based on a guess). I have no doubt that the electricity can be supplied (so telling me that there are places where it exists doesn't help me much), I simply think it will cost money.
For what it's worth, I regularly drive 300 miles with 1 or no stops and adding a (relatively brief) stop to that would not be a big deal. The point of my admittedly flip remark was more that I am not going to pay more for the privilege of the extra stop (at the moment, $10,000 buys a decent amount of car, and another $10,000 buys a healthy amount of gasoline, the economics of an EV aren't anywhere even close; if gas went up in price a lot...).
With current technology, speeding up and slowing down would each take at least months. If you managed to get up to 0.5 c, the trip (for the passengers) would take more than 34 years. If you got up to 0.9 c, the trip would take more than 9 years.
Very close to c, the trip would be nearly instantaneous (for the passengers).
(I assumed that gravity equivalent acceleration would be quite a feat, and used the table here:
Gas better get really expensive if mass market EVs need to recharge every 200 miles (or less, I don't see how something larger than a Tesla is particularly likely to be more efficient than it is).
And really, the typical service available at roadside stations is a lot more interesting to me than the service available at a site that was very likely using belts to move around tons of material everyday (and may have had large ovens in operation, but they would probably burn something for that).
So assuming that a passenger car is (eventually) going to want ~100 kWh isn't real crazy. Unless I am drunk, that's 4000 watts all day, for a single vehicle. I'm not familiar with what sort of electric service is typical for commercial setups, but I doubt that they have the 40,000 watts (Wikipedia implies that NEMA maxes out at 60A x 600 Volts) that they would need to serve a paltry 10 cars per day (and those watts are in addition to whatever they are using now).
I don't think there is all that much room for fraud (everybody not committing fraud would want to deal with it quickly; also, the government around here seems to do a decent job making sure gas pumps work about right, I don't think this is all that different).
The deposit model seems workable (as I said elsewhere, just serialize the batteries and publish the usage information).
Right, but you are going to lose money on it if there aren't enough electric cars coming through.
So putting a bunch of charging stations in Chicago (to kickstart the market) makes sense, but anybody who drives to Northern Wisconsin better see the electric as costing a lot less than a gasoline car (or they won't participate).
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No, I didn't miss the memo, but the off hand joke about a recall requiring a democratic majority doesn't work nearly as well if you say representative republic (expecting the representatives that are the problem to fix the problem is right out, so impeachment doesn't count).
The problem with that idea is that we live in a democracy.
12 matinee tickets at $6 a pop is $72. For 2 people, that's $144. For 3 people, it is $216.
Insist on some snacks and you can easily add $50 per person (this can vary wildly, carry in a can of pop and some jelly beans and you are talking about less than $10).
If you are paying less than $6 per show, you aren't in the majority.
I'm not trying to deny the intent of the license, I'm pointing out that up until there is case law regarding specific clauses, there is some small possibility that a clause might not matter (the various GNU licenses are carefully written to avoid this, but that doesn't make them bulletproof, it just makes them reasonable to use).
Why not? Encouraging the judge to keep his opinions strictly private isn't going to discourage him from having opinions.
The current system, where contentious issues (hopefully) get escalated to courts where they get wider and wider attention, does far more to encourage impartiality than hoping that judges live in some happy impartial world.
The FSF doesn't actually make law (and I doubt it is a given that their intent would override the intent of some author that used the GPL).
I don't think it is particularly likely that anyone could successfully revoke the gpl on code that they had distributed, but you can't look to the FSF for that determination (only for their opinion).
Nowhere in the Constitution does it require me (as a voter) to give you a fair shake. I can vote against you because I don't like your hair cut, or because the voices in my head said you smell funny.
Well gee.
Are your doors sledgehammer proof?
I thought that was the whole point of posting.
Required for what exactly? There are probably government computers that legitimately need access to the internets.
Why are you assuming that they set the price as high as possible?
Depending on how elastic demand is, keeping the price at 2X (rather than cutting it to X) gives you more money with which to expand your production.
Basically, without looking at Amazon's actual data, we are speculating about what sort of model makes the most sense (my comment above really only points out that they may be selling at the capacity that they can currently manufacture at).
Man, it takes great big balls to teabag the internet.
I think you should take greater care with your absolute modifiers. Long after the last antenna is smashed, some guy will walk up to you and use his voice to deliver you a message.
I'm pretty glad that hard drives and ram got a lot bigger and cheaper in that time period.
If you are selling your entire production run of a physical good, cutting the price in half just means that you take in half the revenue.
Hearing audio that sounds the same doesn't seem that interesting to me.
Being able to generate it, on the other hand...
Thanks for the reply. Hopefully smart phones and media players don't completely push small computers out of the handheld market (they all sort of blend together, but the phones tend to come with a network and the media players tend to be less open).
That last bit is probably the reasonable question (though I'm interested in how much capital would be required to bring convenient roadside locations sufficient service, a number that could easily vary wildly between locations).
I don't really understand your aggravation on my pushback about referencing an industrial installation (I didn't even ask a question! I simply noted that what I was writing was based on a guess). I have no doubt that the electricity can be supplied (so telling me that there are places where it exists doesn't help me much), I simply think it will cost money.
For what it's worth, I regularly drive 300 miles with 1 or no stops and adding a (relatively brief) stop to that would not be a big deal. The point of my admittedly flip remark was more that I am not going to pay more for the privilege of the extra stop (at the moment, $10,000 buys a decent amount of car, and another $10,000 buys a healthy amount of gasoline, the economics of an EV aren't anywhere even close; if gas went up in price a lot...).
How often does she call you DJCouchyCouch?
With current technology, speeding up and slowing down would each take at least months. If you managed to get up to 0.5 c, the trip (for the passengers) would take more than 34 years. If you got up to 0.9 c, the trip would take more than 9 years.
Very close to c, the trip would be nearly instantaneous (for the passengers).
(I assumed that gravity equivalent acceleration would be quite a feat, and used the table here:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/cship/timedial.html
)
Gas better get really expensive if mass market EVs need to recharge every 200 miles (or less, I don't see how something larger than a Tesla is particularly likely to be more efficient than it is).
And really, the typical service available at roadside stations is a lot more interesting to me than the service available at a site that was very likely using belts to move around tons of material everyday (and may have had large ovens in operation, but they would probably burn something for that).
Tesla says that their roadster gets 100 miles out of 28 kWh (it's in the fine print):
http://www.teslamotors.com/
So assuming that a passenger car is (eventually) going to want ~100 kWh isn't real crazy. Unless I am drunk, that's 4000 watts all day, for a single vehicle. I'm not familiar with what sort of electric service is typical for commercial setups, but I doubt that they have the 40,000 watts (Wikipedia implies that NEMA maxes out at 60A x 600 Volts) that they would need to serve a paltry 10 cars per day (and those watts are in addition to whatever they are using now).
I don't think there is all that much room for fraud (everybody not committing fraud would want to deal with it quickly; also, the government around here seems to do a decent job making sure gas pumps work about right, I don't think this is all that different).
The deposit model seems workable (as I said elsewhere, just serialize the batteries and publish the usage information).
Right, but you are going to lose money on it if there aren't enough electric cars coming through.
So putting a bunch of charging stations in Chicago (to kickstart the market) makes sense, but anybody who drives to Northern Wisconsin better see the electric as costing a lot less than a gasoline car (or they won't participate).
Is there a vehicle employing ultra-capacitors available?
The Tesla Roadster is enormously expensive, but it is also way past the exciting idea stage.