Did you get your joke backwards? I thought that fast flux DNS was used to obscure the servers while keeping the domain stable, not to obscure the domain while keeping the server stable...
You misread his post. If you read it again, you will see that your reply was exactly his point. The post he replied to complained that Wikipedia can't be cited as a reference on a paper about music; the "I've always wondered" was wondering why anybody would want to cite Wikipedia when there should be better sources right there for the taking.
You don't have to buy the whole song. I mean, if you want those 4 seconds you do, but there isn't anything forcing you to buy the song.
By prepackaging the song into chunks that most people find useful, the band is able to lower their average transaction costs. This is much like a grocery store that won't sell you 1 stick of butter out of a package of 4. Basically, they care less about exactly what you want than they care about their own convenience.
It doesn't hold as true for something like digital music, because the store server could slice and dice as needed, but the store and band would end up needing to track the rights for each part of the song much more closely (why should the singer sacrifice his royalties to the second guitar who is not audible during the portion you want to purchase...or the guy who fixed up some of the words in a different part of the song).
How much pig shit would you need if everybody went organic?
I'm under the impression that human waste can be used, but it needs to be treated rather carefully, as people swallow all sorts of things that you probably don't want in your food, and put even more nasty stuff down the magic hole in the bathroom.
It would be interesting to see the projected return on capital for such projects, and how it compares to the return on capital for, say, ultra deep drilling or tar sand extraction. If the return on capital is worse for biofuels, I have trouble holding it against the energy companies that they are not making those investments. If it is worse for tar sands, then there is clearly some entrenchment, intentional or otherwise.
The relative value of dollars and Euros only matters if Nintendo has some bizarre goal of minimizing the nominal amount of currency that they receive.
That people are willing to pay more in the Euro zone is why they are sending the units there. It costs $90 and 90 Euros. Given the relative exchange rates with the yen, people are paying the equivalent of $140 for the game in Europe. If people were willing to pay $140 in the US, the weak dollar wouldn't be bothering Nintendo any.
It depends on if you take the government at their word that they are going to pay you back. The eventual intent in a Ponzi scheme is to not pay a bunch of people (after you generate attention by paying back the first several rounds).
There is some reason to believe that the government will make good on its debts (though, the current weakness in the dollar surely has major creditors feeling a bit green).
Corn ethanol isn't economic (Cellulosic isn't economic either, because nobody is making industrial quantities yet). Biodiesel, I think, is economic, but I don't think that there is enough cropland to switch over to it. The 'but there is free grease' folks fail to imagine exactly what 390 million gallons of gasoline a day is (and another 120 million gallons of diesel!).
The oil companies are sticking with oil because it is currently the only way to meet the tremendous appetite for liquid fuels (and because they are making money hand over fist; GM shutting down the Hummer line is *not* something they like though).
As much as anything, the problem isn't just the oil companies, it is that everybody has capital tied up in oil consumption; cars, furnaces, blah, blah, blah. It's cheaper to keep driving the car that you own than it is to buy a new one, so increasing fuel economy takes months and years (I was looking at my car earlier; I don't drive a huge number of miles, so I have a disproportionately high gasoline cost (ownership and repairs get amortized over fewer miles), and I am still only paying ~$0.18 a mile for gas (that's at $4 a gallon), versus $0.35 a mile to purchase and keep the car running). I'll buy a car with better fuel efficiency in the future, but even at $10, gasoline would still only be about half of my cost per mile, so the motivation would be there, but I would be looking for a good deal, not looking for a quick deal.
Satellite is pretty much bidirectional at this point. I guess if you live in a really unlucky spot you might still need a phone line, but they generally advertise that you don't need to tie up your phone to use it.
The USPS sells flat rate boxes. Anything you can fit in the box goes for the price of the box. A local business uses them to ship horse shoes. The postmaster told me about it when I was using the flat rate boxes to ship some stuff, he said that they were really getting away with one (I shipped plastic with some air in it and barely beat a per mile box).
In a supply and demand situation, scarcity doesn't mean just 'a limited supply' it also means 'a fixed supply'. The price of oil (and thus gasoline) certainly isn't being set purely by supply and demand, but a significant portion of the price is due to the relative amount of supply and demand, and it takes months and years to start producing new oil, so it is very difficult for producers to increase supply in response to higher prices, even when they want to.
There is probably a good argument to be made that (at similar volumes to today) whatever the lowest future price of oil is is reflective of the amount of demand built into the price of oil today. If we never see anything less than $80 (inflation adjusted) oil, then that is at least a starting place for how much of the market is being driven by actual consumers, rather than speculators.
Yeah, I get it. My point was that you shouldn't be surprised that they charge more for a PC that is not being subsidized by Vongo. Vongo wants their software installed, so they pay HP, who can then charge less. If HP is not being paid by Vongo, they have to charge more to maintain their margins.
You are getting hung up on calling it 'removal' when really it is a 'Vongo free factory image' that costs $Vongo more than a PC with the Vongo image.
The original agreement with T-Mobile is probably exclusive in some way. It isn't like Domino's suing you because you ordered from Papa John's, It's like Domino's suing you because you let Papa John's use the pizza booth in your living room, when you had agreed to only allow Domino's to use the booth.
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The ridiculous part of the grand parent post isn't the purchasing of 1 song, it is the purchasing of 4 seconds of audio from 1 song.
Selling songs 1 at a time is perfectly reasonable. Whining that you (not you, the gp) can't purchase 4 seconds of audio is ridiculous.
Glancing at it, SoftRock looks like it does a great job of fulfilling its purpose, but it isn't really all that similar in scope to GNU Radio.
Especially if we make them take a trip through security for each ticket that they have.
Did you get your joke backwards? I thought that fast flux DNS was used to obscure the servers while keeping the domain stable, not to obscure the domain while keeping the server stable...
You misread his post. If you read it again, you will see that your reply was exactly his point. The post he replied to complained that Wikipedia can't be cited as a reference on a paper about music; the "I've always wondered" was wondering why anybody would want to cite Wikipedia when there should be better sources right there for the taking.
Wikipedia is a horrible place to link to in order to describe Wikipedia. Among other things, the page you link makes this preposterous claim:
"Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy"
My larger concern would be the who-knows-what that people flush down the toilet to get rid of:
http://www.google.com/search?q=sewage+heavy+metal
Magic hole syndrome is addressable, but people would need to build gray water habits that they don't currently have.
Getting the astronaut home is only a problem if you promise him that you are going to try.
I wouldn't do it, but I'm pretty sure that you could get someone willing to take a one way trip in exchange for their place in history.
You don't have to buy the whole song. I mean, if you want those 4 seconds you do, but there isn't anything forcing you to buy the song.
By prepackaging the song into chunks that most people find useful, the band is able to lower their average transaction costs. This is much like a grocery store that won't sell you 1 stick of butter out of a package of 4. Basically, they care less about exactly what you want than they care about their own convenience.
It doesn't hold as true for something like digital music, because the store server could slice and dice as needed, but the store and band would end up needing to track the rights for each part of the song much more closely (why should the singer sacrifice his royalties to the second guitar who is not audible during the portion you want to purchase...or the guy who fixed up some of the words in a different part of the song).
How much pig shit would you need if everybody went organic?
I'm under the impression that human waste can be used, but it needs to be treated rather carefully, as people swallow all sorts of things that you probably don't want in your food, and put even more nasty stuff down the magic hole in the bathroom.
Every time you LOL a gerbil eats its babies.
You use an emotionally charged (for many anyway) description to say that we should not treat it emotionally. Excellent.
USA! USA! USA!
USA! USA! USA!
U! S! A!
Some lameness, to get by the filter. Stupid filter.
You can in the American outpost. They built it in Texas.
It would be interesting to see the projected return on capital for such projects, and how it compares to the return on capital for, say, ultra deep drilling or tar sand extraction. If the return on capital is worse for biofuels, I have trouble holding it against the energy companies that they are not making those investments. If it is worse for tar sands, then there is clearly some entrenchment, intentional or otherwise.
Probably:
http://nymag.com/health/features/46213/
The problem with your point is that you are incorrect. US productivity is essentially at the highest level in history:
http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g17/Current/ipg1.gif
That chart is for manufacturing, mining, and electric and gas utilities:
http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g17/Current/
The relative value of dollars and Euros only matters if Nintendo has some bizarre goal of minimizing the nominal amount of currency that they receive.
That people are willing to pay more in the Euro zone is why they are sending the units there. It costs $90 and 90 Euros. Given the relative exchange rates with the yen, people are paying the equivalent of $140 for the game in Europe. If people were willing to pay $140 in the US, the weak dollar wouldn't be bothering Nintendo any.
It depends on if you take the government at their word that they are going to pay you back. The eventual intent in a Ponzi scheme is to not pay a bunch of people (after you generate attention by paying back the first several rounds).
There is some reason to believe that the government will make good on its debts (though, the current weakness in the dollar surely has major creditors feeling a bit green).
Corn ethanol isn't economic (Cellulosic isn't economic either, because nobody is making industrial quantities yet). Biodiesel, I think, is economic, but I don't think that there is enough cropland to switch over to it. The 'but there is free grease' folks fail to imagine exactly what 390 million gallons of gasoline a day is (and another 120 million gallons of diesel!).
The oil companies are sticking with oil because it is currently the only way to meet the tremendous appetite for liquid fuels (and because they are making money hand over fist; GM shutting down the Hummer line is *not* something they like though).
As much as anything, the problem isn't just the oil companies, it is that everybody has capital tied up in oil consumption; cars, furnaces, blah, blah, blah. It's cheaper to keep driving the car that you own than it is to buy a new one, so increasing fuel economy takes months and years (I was looking at my car earlier; I don't drive a huge number of miles, so I have a disproportionately high gasoline cost (ownership and repairs get amortized over fewer miles), and I am still only paying ~$0.18 a mile for gas (that's at $4 a gallon), versus $0.35 a mile to purchase and keep the car running). I'll buy a car with better fuel efficiency in the future, but even at $10, gasoline would still only be about half of my cost per mile, so the motivation would be there, but I would be looking for a good deal, not looking for a quick deal.
Satellite is pretty much bidirectional at this point. I guess if you live in a really unlucky spot you might still need a phone line, but they generally advertise that you don't need to tie up your phone to use it.
The USPS sells flat rate boxes. Anything you can fit in the box goes for the price of the box. A local business uses them to ship horse shoes. The postmaster told me about it when I was using the flat rate boxes to ship some stuff, he said that they were really getting away with one (I shipped plastic with some air in it and barely beat a per mile box).
In a supply and demand situation, scarcity doesn't mean just 'a limited supply' it also means 'a fixed supply'. The price of oil (and thus gasoline) certainly isn't being set purely by supply and demand, but a significant portion of the price is due to the relative amount of supply and demand, and it takes months and years to start producing new oil, so it is very difficult for producers to increase supply in response to higher prices, even when they want to.
There is probably a good argument to be made that (at similar volumes to today) whatever the lowest future price of oil is is reflective of the amount of demand built into the price of oil today. If we never see anything less than $80 (inflation adjusted) oil, then that is at least a starting place for how much of the market is being driven by actual consumers, rather than speculators.
Yeah, I get it. My point was that you shouldn't be surprised that they charge more for a PC that is not being subsidized by Vongo. Vongo wants their software installed, so they pay HP, who can then charge less. If HP is not being paid by Vongo, they have to charge more to maintain their margins.
You are getting hung up on calling it 'removal' when really it is a 'Vongo free factory image' that costs $Vongo more than a PC with the Vongo image.
The original agreement with T-Mobile is probably exclusive in some way. It isn't like Domino's suing you because you ordered from Papa John's, It's like Domino's suing you because you let Papa John's use the pizza booth in your living room, when you had agreed to only allow Domino's to use the booth.