Yeah, I get that, but that's your choice. The oil companies aren't arbitrarily charging $4 a gallon for gasoline, that's what people are willing to pay (sometimes, as you say, because they have few or no options). If people weren't so willing to pay $4, gas wouldn't cost $4 (well, it might, but only if there was still a sufficient number of people willing to pay $4).
The meat of my first comment was that it doesn't make any sense to run an oil company at a loss, because you won't be running it for very long. That market conditions allow them to make huge profits is perhaps unfortunate, but the other side of that equation is that they are providing you with something that you state you cannot do without.
The article makes it sound like ~100 acres of footprint per tower. That's probably mostly the wind footprint though, I imagine the ground footprint is a bit smaller.
No, they are just leasing the space to the energy consortium. The consortium pays them money for the use of the land, and that's about it.
On a side note, every time I see Boon Pickens, I think of a Michael McKean/Norm McDonald SNL sketch where they were Vincent Price and Slim Pickens, and Norm kept saying Sliiiiiimmmm Pickens. I always think to myself Boooooooooooon Pickens in the voice that Norm was using in the sketch.
Maybe it is just me not having the correct model for operating it in my head, but I can't imagine using VLC as a music player, the interface just isn't up to it. It's fine for pushing a video file at the right codec, but working with playlists seems pretty awkward to me.
It's still hard to interpret their success in the PC business. PC sales aren't a smooth, monolithic thing, there are trends and lumps and so forth, if they are coming out of a particularly good patch and heading into an only okay or poor patch, they will have big slump, and the market is pricing the stock for continued success, so there is a whole bunch of risk that I don't see being priced into the stock right now, just in the PC side of the business.
It depends on how flexible you are about it. If you start killing people that drive SUVs because you think it will help the environment, it's hard to say that you have good intentions.
I liked both Cryptonomicon and Gravity's Rainbow, and there are some parallels (stuff happened in WW2, more than one plot thread,...), but I don't think they are all that relatable, and I certainly wouldn't say that the one follows from the other (which is what watered down implies to me).
Plenty of the events in Cryptonomicon are extraordinary, but they don't have anywhere near the absurdist tone of the many extraordinary events in Gravity's Rainbow.
If those 3 pages of trojans are only present on 2,000 machines, (or 150 for that matter), it says something entirely different than if they are present on 50,000 or 100,000 machines.
It's an interesting stock, but the risk of "ipod fatigue", where most people who want one already have one so that they are in for some sort of dip in sales (assuming that replacement is lower volume than new purchases) and also the risk that they are in an 'easy' phase of market share gains (so that their margins start eroding as they go after the next customer) on the PC side make it kind of scary given the current price.
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Yeah, I get that, but that's your choice. The oil companies aren't arbitrarily charging $4 a gallon for gasoline, that's what people are willing to pay (sometimes, as you say, because they have few or no options). If people weren't so willing to pay $4, gas wouldn't cost $4 (well, it might, but only if there was still a sufficient number of people willing to pay $4).
The meat of my first comment was that it doesn't make any sense to run an oil company at a loss, because you won't be running it for very long. That market conditions allow them to make huge profits is perhaps unfortunate, but the other side of that equation is that they are providing you with something that you state you cannot do without.
One could presume that the cost of leasing the land in this particular place was attractive.
You should start an oil company and try to run it at a massive loss.
I can understand why people get upset about the level of the profits, but don't bitch and complain, stop buying oil products.
The article makes it sound like ~100 acres of footprint per tower. That's probably mostly the wind footprint though, I imagine the ground footprint is a bit smaller.
I imagine that you would end up consuming a rather astonishing number of candles.
No, they are just leasing the space to the energy consortium. The consortium pays them money for the use of the land, and that's about it.
On a side note, every time I see Boon Pickens, I think of a Michael McKean/Norm McDonald SNL sketch where they were Vincent Price and Slim Pickens, and Norm kept saying Sliiiiiimmmm Pickens. I always think to myself Boooooooooooon Pickens in the voice that Norm was using in the sketch.
I don't do anything over email that I care about Google knowing about. Especially relative to whatever other email provider.
That said, they can have my health information when my health care provider gives it to them without my permission.
It's just ambiguity rearing its ugly head.
It blocks flash with awesome, allowing you to choose to play flash content on a case by case basis (there is also a whitelist for trusted sites).
Also, Flashblock. It just inserts a box with a play button wherever there is flash content.
Foobar rocks.
Maybe it is just me not having the correct model for operating it in my head, but I can't imagine using VLC as a music player, the interface just isn't up to it. It's fine for pushing a video file at the right codec, but working with playlists seems pretty awkward to me.
I sort of thought that it used less CPU (just anecdotally). On the plus side, 8.0 lets you schedule weekly scans instead of daily scans.
Is your electricity free? I bet the Linksys also uses less power than the Cisco.
It's still hard to interpret their success in the PC business. PC sales aren't a smooth, monolithic thing, there are trends and lumps and so forth, if they are coming out of a particularly good patch and heading into an only okay or poor patch, they will have big slump, and the market is pricing the stock for continued success, so there is a whole bunch of risk that I don't see being priced into the stock right now, just in the PC side of the business.
Then they could just reply that they don't have a Wii.
It depends on how flexible you are about it. If you start killing people that drive SUVs because you think it will help the environment, it's hard to say that you have good intentions.
Using whatever methods you feel like in following your own agenda is not the same thing as meaning well.
In any case, you shouldn't be licking your console.
Please don't be the topic police. You and I are contributing even less to the thread than they did.
I liked both Cryptonomicon and Gravity's Rainbow, and there are some parallels (stuff happened in WW2, more than one plot thread, ...), but I don't think they are all that relatable, and I certainly wouldn't say that the one follows from the other (which is what watered down implies to me).
Plenty of the events in Cryptonomicon are extraordinary, but they don't have anywhere near the absurdist tone of the many extraordinary events in Gravity's Rainbow.
No doubt all his equipment works exactly as he expects it to.
He would probably be outright offended if he heard about Rockbox or other projects where people are *writing* their own firmware.
Aren't those the same thing?
If you can identify when users click without thinking, why not just keep prompting them until you have identified that they thought about clicking?
If those 3 pages of trojans are only present on 2,000 machines, (or 150 for that matter), it says something entirely different than if they are present on 50,000 or 100,000 machines.
It's healthily priced.
It's an interesting stock, but the risk of "ipod fatigue", where most people who want one already have one so that they are in for some sort of dip in sales (assuming that replacement is lower volume than new purchases) and also the risk that they are in an 'easy' phase of market share gains (so that their margins start eroding as they go after the next customer) on the PC side make it kind of scary given the current price.