If you have those EEG notes, post your own "How to build your own..." article. I've been wanting a portable, affordable one of these since I read Tuxedo Park. Also, got a price estimate?
They don't sell tickets at the theatre. The lag between a person wanting a scalped ticket, and a scalper having incentive to buy a scalped ticket is exactly long enough to buy the ticket in advance yourself.
Plus, if the company has half an IQ point, they'll not accept two with the same code.
Theory of Constraints teaches us that the bottleneck here is the theatres. They're already full for blockbusters, weekend nights, etc. Quantity sold is a constraint. To maximize profit, you need to maintain quantity of tickets sold at exactly full capacity - lowering prices when you can't fill on Saturday night and raising prices when lines are long. Supply and demand here is all f'd up. A decrease in price for the tickets means a decrease in revenue for theatres, which means theatres are less valuable (less likely built, more likely closed), and the audience base (limited by profit maximization to seats in theatres) will contract.
I've heard enough about SIPRNET and what it is or isnt. It is not connected to the Internet proper. It does contain hundreds of thousands of computers, have "www" urls and DNSs and lots of search engines, web crawlers, etc. While some would classically define this as a WAN, I think that it resembles a seperate Internet more, and there is as much content on the red net today as there was on the Internet in the mid nineties.
And we are talking about Joes here - these are the kind of people that wonder why the damn computer adds "http://" to every website they type in, and where the IT and Signal departments refer to data transfers as "receiving electrons" when they are clearly receiving photons. If the name sticks, let them call it an Internet.
The reason I get my news and entertainment from the Internet is because TV and radio are now inferior goods.
Free television is for people who cannot afford pay tv, and thus they get an inferior product. Cable is much better, but it is 'standard' and if you're anything like the rest of America, you're always wondering why you have 100 channels and nothing interesting to you.
Radio is the same situation as free tv, except that they still have the captive car audience. Expect satellite radio to push clearchannel to increased suckiness as they try to corner the bottom of the market.
Theres a reason mp3s are the desired medium of music. Radio is 90% shit, cds are 90% shit and overpriced, and mp3s are 100% controllable free and illegal. Hell, I watch the news stories I want now on my computer because I can't stand CNNs chatting or Foxs incessant republicanism.
Once the market is mainstream, you sacrifice quality for consistency and mass production. You can get quality if you pay the cost and since the demand for quality is always higher (than demand for anything+quality), it will always be more expensive.
Once again, I am dismayed by/.ers fail to use tactics. You herf the other bastards on the road to create obstacles for the stream of cops. You herf the police helicopter (and the news choppers) so the cops cant follow you, and then you can safely get to your Pay n' Spray.
I got it! My mp3 playlist is a whimsical parody of the pop radio, and therefore these 3-4 minute "songs" are relly "samples" and therefore perfectly legal to use artistically and profit from. Booya, andre.
Another way to think about this is from Vivendis point of view. The French govt is pressuring them to reduce overseas holdings, their creditors are pressuring them to raise cash, their shareholders are pressuring them to come back towards their original role: a European utilities company. Since V listed on NYSE, their stock is down from 80 to 14. Management is shaken, Messier's books have been 'messier' than is acceptable in the post-Enron era, and they're losing 5% a year on assets. DRM is a critical field in the entertainment industry's growth and they have no hope of competing with US/Japanese media giants, especially in the music industry. If they can get $6 bil to pay off high interest debt, it would take a lot of heat off their backs.
As many economists already know, salt is one of the strangest goods in the world, in that its price elasticity is almost perfectly inelastic. The demand of salt is always the same, regardless of price. You can never make a profit by selling in bulk.
I don't know who all is actually keeping score here, but al-Jazeera isn't a major media organization. They probably don't have the money to host a site to serve a million Americans a day. They have ~30 employees, and they don't have a very large subscriber base (not many rich Arabs in the world who can afford satellite, and fewer still w/out national censors.) The mystique is almost entirely the way American media watches al-Jazeera as a benchmark of the Arab Street, since all the other media orgs in the region are basically state propaganda machines.
Check out the War Powers Act. It is the law of the land, Joint Resolution by Congress. If this isn't Constituional enough for you, blame the Rules Committee.
I heard this from multiple sources, but I can't really confirm it - cell phones stop stealth. I wish I had the documentation for this (maybe someone else can help), but cell towers use a frequency that stealth aircraft have a high crossection for, and cell coverage gaps reflected down from the atmosphere can be used to track stealth aircraft. Thats why FRY managed to detect the direction to fire into - it had dense cell coverage (like the rest of Europe).
1) If someone has to pay 5400 for something, by definition it is worth 5400. Because a market price is too high for prolonged equilibrium doesn't mean that's not its price. 2) The bust isn't just bad because of capital valuations. The bust is bad because companies grew fast to capture profits, and now must build out and address their overcapacity. 3) High energy costs, the corporate legal environment, and geopolitical uncertainty (not just Iraq) aren't helping either.
It's too easy to blame the NASDAQ, but that is just a measure of how much people will pay for a few US companies - it is not the economy.
This guy started out on a couple of strong points, then got lost in the minutiae of hydrogen cars.
1) Protecting foreign oil is expensive In case anyone hasn't been paying attention, the Gulf War (Hussein vying for oil assets), the War on Terrorism (bin Laden psycho for US in the Holy land, due to Gulf War), and Gulf War 2 (US vying for oil assets) are all fairly direct costs of oil politics. The costs since OPEC ruined the party in '75, deflated and depreciated, are something like $20 bil a year. We rent Egypt for $2 bil/year, we subsidize Israel for $10 bil/yr... and there are plenty of other direct costs to the government of significance because of foreign oil. $40 bil/year ($140/capita) is a decent guess. Plus the political costs of deposing/supporting oil dictators.
2) Trade deficit 11 Mil BPD imported at $30/B x 365 = $120 bil/yr on imports we could alleviate. That would knock our trade deficit down by a third. This would have a $120 bil/yr beneficial impact on our capital account (how much of our capital belongs/is owed to foreigners).
3) Massive government initiative New technology is great for the economy because then we can export it. Plus, for capital intensive economies like ours, it boosts productivity. A big pile of research grants helps our intellectual capital too.
If a 10 yr program lets us eliminate those costs 10 yrs early, then $20-30 bil a year spent on it is well worth the cost.
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You can buy an Ok car for the price of an electric wheelchair. And that's just for what's on the low end.
Oneword: Dieselchair.
If you have those EEG notes, post your own "How to build your own..." article. I've been wanting a portable, affordable one of these since I read Tuxedo Park.
Also, got a price estimate?
They don't sell tickets at the theatre.
The lag between a person wanting a scalped ticket, and a scalper having incentive to buy a scalped ticket is exactly long enough to buy the ticket in advance yourself.
Plus, if the company has half an IQ point, they'll not accept two with the same code.
Theory of Constraints teaches us that the bottleneck here is the theatres. They're already full for blockbusters, weekend nights, etc. Quantity sold is a constraint. To maximize profit, you need to maintain quantity of tickets sold at exactly full capacity - lowering prices when you can't fill on Saturday night and raising prices when lines are long.
Supply and demand here is all f'd up. A decrease in price for the tickets means a decrease in revenue for theatres, which means theatres are less valuable (less likely built, more likely closed), and the audience base (limited by profit maximization to seats in theatres) will contract.
Wow, I'd like to say sorry to whoever's member is shown on the last page! That's TINY man!
So I guess what they say about Asians is true...
Remember, man's technological masterpiece, our crowning achievement, the Internet, is a pornography distribution system.
Tapping a phone in the DNC is only enough to take down the president. Tapping every phone in the country is enough to take down Democracy.
I've heard enough about SIPRNET and what it is or isnt. It is not connected to the Internet proper. It does contain hundreds of thousands of computers, have "www" urls and DNSs and lots of search engines, web crawlers, etc. While some would classically define this as a WAN, I think that it resembles a seperate Internet more, and there is as much content on the red net today as there was on the Internet in the mid nineties.
And we are talking about Joes here - these are the kind of people that wonder why the damn computer adds "http://" to every website they type in, and where the IT and Signal departments refer to data transfers as "receiving electrons" when they are clearly receiving photons. If the name sticks, let them call it an Internet.
The reason I get my news and entertainment from the Internet is because TV and radio are now inferior goods.
Free television is for people who cannot afford pay tv, and thus they get an inferior product. Cable is much better, but it is 'standard' and if you're anything like the rest of America, you're always wondering why you have 100 channels and nothing interesting to you.
Radio is the same situation as free tv, except that they still have the captive car audience. Expect satellite radio to push clearchannel to increased suckiness as they try to corner the bottom of the market.
Theres a reason mp3s are the desired medium of music. Radio is 90% shit, cds are 90% shit and overpriced, and mp3s are 100% controllable free and illegal. Hell, I watch the news stories I want now on my computer because I can't stand CNNs chatting or Foxs incessant republicanism.
Once the market is mainstream, you sacrifice quality for consistency and mass production. You can get quality if you pay the cost and since the demand for quality is always higher (than demand for anything+quality), it will always be more expensive.
Once again, I am dismayed by /.ers fail to use tactics. You herf the other bastards on the road to create obstacles for the stream of cops. You herf the police helicopter (and the news choppers) so the cops cant follow you, and then you can safely get to your Pay n' Spray.
I got it! My mp3 playlist is a whimsical parody of the pop radio, and therefore these 3-4 minute "songs" are relly "samples" and therefore perfectly legal to use artistically and profit from. Booya, andre.
Wait until nanotech bots can arrange Deuterium and Tritium in configurations that a quarter can go critical mass...
In the immortal words of a true American, Bill Maher "They hate us because we don't even know why they hate us." For the explanation, read the book.
Another way to think about this is from Vivendis point of view. The French govt is pressuring them to reduce overseas holdings, their creditors are pressuring them to raise cash, their shareholders are pressuring them to come back towards their original role: a European utilities company. Since V listed on NYSE, their stock is down from 80 to 14. Management is shaken, Messier's books have been 'messier' than is acceptable in the post-Enron era, and they're losing 5% a year on assets.
DRM is a critical field in the entertainment industry's growth and they have no hope of competing with US/Japanese media giants, especially in the music industry. If they can get $6 bil to pay off high interest debt, it would take a lot of heat off their backs.
I bet more than 12 dopes send them decent unpatented software ideas that they can steal while looking like they're doing good.
I recommend this movie as a political farce.
As many economists already know, salt is one of the strangest goods in the world, in that its price elasticity is almost perfectly inelastic. The demand of salt is always the same, regardless of price. You can never make a profit by selling in bulk.
I don't know who all is actually keeping score here, but al-Jazeera isn't a major media organization. They probably don't have the money to host a site to serve a million Americans a day. They have ~30 employees, and they don't have a very large subscriber base (not many rich Arabs in the world who can afford satellite, and fewer still w/out national censors.) The mystique is almost entirely the way American media watches al-Jazeera as a benchmark of the Arab Street, since all the other media orgs in the region are basically state propaganda machines.
Here is the text for all interested. It's an important read for those concerned with the international political situation.
Check out the War Powers Act. It is the law of the land, Joint Resolution by Congress. If this isn't Constituional enough for you, blame the Rules Committee.
I heard this from multiple sources, but I can't really confirm it - cell phones stop stealth. I wish I had the documentation for this (maybe someone else can help), but cell towers use a frequency that stealth aircraft have a high crossection for, and cell coverage gaps reflected down from the atmosphere can be used to track stealth aircraft. Thats why FRY managed to detect the direction to fire into - it had dense cell coverage (like the rest of Europe).
1) If someone has to pay 5400 for something, by definition it is worth 5400. Because a market price is too high for prolonged equilibrium doesn't mean that's not its price.
2) The bust isn't just bad because of capital valuations. The bust is bad because companies grew fast to capture profits, and now must build out and address their overcapacity.
3) High energy costs, the corporate legal environment, and geopolitical uncertainty (not just Iraq) aren't helping either.
It's too easy to blame the NASDAQ, but that is just a measure of how much people will pay for a few US companies - it is not the economy.
This guy started out on a couple of strong points, then got lost in the minutiae of hydrogen cars.
1) Protecting foreign oil is expensive
In case anyone hasn't been paying attention, the Gulf War (Hussein vying for oil assets), the War on Terrorism (bin Laden psycho for US in the Holy land, due to Gulf War), and Gulf War 2 (US vying for oil assets) are all fairly direct costs of oil politics. The costs since OPEC ruined the party in '75, deflated and depreciated, are something like $20 bil a year. We rent Egypt for $2 bil/year, we subsidize Israel for $10 bil/yr... and there are plenty of other direct costs to the government of significance because of foreign oil. $40 bil/year ($140/capita) is a decent guess. Plus the political costs of deposing/supporting oil dictators.
2) Trade deficit
11 Mil BPD imported at $30/B x 365 = $120 bil/yr on imports we could alleviate. That would knock our trade deficit down by a third. This would have a $120 bil/yr beneficial impact on our capital account (how much of our capital belongs/is owed to foreigners).
3) Massive government initiative
New technology is great for the economy because then we can export it. Plus, for capital intensive economies like ours, it boosts productivity. A big pile of research grants helps our intellectual capital too.
If a 10 yr program lets us eliminate those costs 10 yrs early, then $20-30 bil a year spent on it is well worth the cost.
Why should I delay their drowning? They are Commie Mutant Traitors. (Well, at least Commie...)
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