Astraweb sells 25GB for $10 (that is their most expensive rate). They probably deal with some pretty serious volume, but they will meter that 25 GB across months.
Give it a few years before you decide that he really managed to steal $60 billion. At this point, it isn't clear if that is the amount of money that he received, or if it is the amount that he was telling people that he had under management. Given that he was claiming 8% and better returns for almost twenty years, it is at least possible that he only managed to evaporate $30 billion (which is still evil and galling, but it also means that they aren't going to find more than that...).
You are still making it easier for other people to buy new music, and harder for still other people to buy used music (which may push them to buy new music...).
The problem is narrow reliance on the tool. A tool might provide good information much of them time (making it useful!) without providing good information all of the time (meaning that you leave human judgment in the mix).
Yes. The new shuffle may be fantastic, but I am never going to find out, as I can't bring myself to care much about the difference between tiny and tinier, and buttons only on the headphones doesn't strike me as a good thing.
Probably not averted. Conservation is unlikely to keep up with population growth (using less is still a good idea, it saves money and so on, but it isn't going to be enough).
Wind and solar are both doing reasonably well (especially when you consider that they have a lower return on capital than a coal plant). It makes sense to spread the investment into new technology at least a little bit, as the later investment will inevitably benefit from operation experience. Small scale tidal and wave power systems are getting deployed (and it isn't clear that throwing 10x the money at them would speed anything up, sometimes you have to actually try something to find out the scaling issues and whatnot).
In the meantime, I still want electricity, so trying to make is in a cleaner fashion is a reasonable goal. Most of the alternative power systems work just fine and are getting cheaper. At some point, they will be cheaper than fossil fuels (either by technology advancement or the inevitable carbon tax), so the question is, how much does clean coal slow that down? The answer isn't obvious, but it isn't going to be a century.
Plenty of people smoke pot through a water bong. If it were legalized and there was no issue with having 'drug paraphernalia', there is a good chance more people would use such a device. Certainly not all of them though.
I fear a lot of people are fine with the violence in Mexico, as long as it stays there (of course, it isn't staying there...). Personally, I wouldn't travel there any more, not even to on of the areas with tourist security.
My phrasing is the wrong way round, but the numbers are correct (so $16,000 in each of the years I listed is equivalent to the given number of 2009 dollars).
They are obscure and scary, but have much lower start up costs than subversion (and they aren't that hard to use), and compared to a hypothetical system, they are available today.
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He also sort of wants to provide the 100 the access they think they are paying for.
Astraweb sells 25GB for $10 (that is their most expensive rate). They probably deal with some pretty serious volume, but they will meter that 25 GB across months.
It wasn't so long ago that Walmart caused an uproar by taking out life insurance on some employees.
Give it a few years before you decide that he really managed to steal $60 billion. At this point, it isn't clear if that is the amount of money that he received, or if it is the amount that he was telling people that he had under management. Given that he was claiming 8% and better returns for almost twenty years, it is at least possible that he only managed to evaporate $30 billion (which is still evil and galling, but it also means that they aren't going to find more than that...).
The problem is that none of that necessarily justifies spending federal dollars. Redmond and (state of) Washington dollars? Probably.
Except something like Redhat vs Microsoft is hilariously asymmetric, and there is no mutual or assured involved.
You are still making it easier for other people to buy new music, and harder for still other people to buy used music (which may push them to buy new music...).
DeBeers does okay.
Anyway, while it is pretty clear that many types of software are commodities, it really isn't so clear that all software is a commodity.
The problem is narrow reliance on the tool. A tool might provide good information much of them time (making it useful!) without providing good information all of the time (meaning that you leave human judgment in the mix).
It might be cost effective to have a third party certify patches (but probably not).
Arithmetic?
Actually, we call it 'USA USA USA USA'. I saw it on Nascar, so it must be true.
Yes. The new shuffle may be fantastic, but I am never going to find out, as I can't bring myself to care much about the difference between tiny and tinier, and buttons only on the headphones doesn't strike me as a good thing.
Isn't most sodium currently nacl or bicarbonate?
Probably not averted. Conservation is unlikely to keep up with population growth (using less is still a good idea, it saves money and so on, but it isn't going to be enough).
Wind and solar are both doing reasonably well (especially when you consider that they have a lower return on capital than a coal plant). It makes sense to spread the investment into new technology at least a little bit, as the later investment will inevitably benefit from operation experience. Small scale tidal and wave power systems are getting deployed (and it isn't clear that throwing 10x the money at them would speed anything up, sometimes you have to actually try something to find out the scaling issues and whatnot).
In the meantime, I still want electricity, so trying to make is in a cleaner fashion is a reasonable goal. Most of the alternative power systems work just fine and are getting cheaper. At some point, they will be cheaper than fossil fuels (either by technology advancement or the inevitable carbon tax), so the question is, how much does clean coal slow that down? The answer isn't obvious, but it isn't going to be a century.
So what happens to the chlorine?
Plenty of people smoke pot through a water bong. If it were legalized and there was no issue with having 'drug paraphernalia', there is a good chance more people would use such a device. Certainly not all of them though.
I fear a lot of people are fine with the violence in Mexico, as long as it stays there (of course, it isn't staying there...). Personally, I wouldn't travel there any more, not even to on of the areas with tourist security.
No.
However, randomly saying "You will be, you will be" has been approved, along with "Stay on target" and "YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE".
My phrasing is the wrong way round, but the numbers are correct (so $16,000 in each of the years I listed is equivalent to the given number of 2009 dollars).
For reference, $16,000 of today's dollars is equivalent to ~$41,000 1980 dollars, $31,400 1985 dollars, $25,800 1990 dollars, $22,200 1995 dollars, $19,600 2000 dollars and $17,300 2005 dollars.
I visited a big damn last fall. One that would flood a huge area. There were telescopes at the visitors center.
The 'need' for the info isn't the only issue, the cost of managing the blackout (and administering fines) are also huge considerations.
Yeah, if you look around California government websites, there are dozens of photos of 'important' targets.
At least he is bringing attention to the issue, so people who haven't thought about it can take a second to think about it and then point and laugh.
I've never used it, but MultiMarkdown is exactly what you are talking about:
http://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/users_guide/what_is_multimarkdown/
Pandoc doesn't worry so much about generating html:
http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
Use Mercurial or Bzr:
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/
http://bazaar-vcs.org/
They are obscure and scary, but have much lower start up costs than subversion (and they aren't that hard to use), and compared to a hypothetical system, they are available today.