First off, you need to take more economics before you start marching out terms and mis-using them. In economic parlance, NOTHING can be just plain "elastic". It has to respond to something.
Now, in your example, I think you are trying to refer to price-elasticity. You are correct in saying that soda supply is price-elastic, but it IS effected by the weather. Hotter weather=>more demand=>higher prices=>more supply.
Now, I was also just flipping through the copy of "Microeconomics" by Katz and Rosen that is sitting on my desk.
Funny, but the defenition of a firm that sells its product based on demand alone is that of a "price-taker", i.e. a producer in a perfectly competitive market. You are wrong again--this is not the soda situation!
The situation with soda machines is akin to restaurants--each company produces a slightly different product that people have preferences for. Thus, producers "price-descriminate", that is, they charge the highest price that the market will take.
This is called smart business, supply and demand, and profit-maximization.
"The Google site features minimal advertising. So they are most likely funded with VC money. This means that they must have a plan for making money at some point. What is it and when will it kick in?"
Ummm...If you go to google and read about their company, you will learn that most of their income comes from licensing their awesome search engine for internal use by other companies. NOT from advertising.
With everyone just now learning that advertising on the web sucks balls, this looks like a pretty shrewd move on the part of Google....
Guess who has more money? The record industry or Princeton?
Princeton is sitting on a GIGANTIC HEAP of money. All the legal $$ from this case would not even dent the endowment. If the professors were really serious about publishing their papers, I would bet the U would back them up.
...of course, why publish when it is on the web in so many places? In fact, I am glad that they're won't be a lawsuit--less $$ for the lawyers, one less dispute settled by a stupid judge! Court sucks!
No, more like when they break into your house and steal your Car and throw the TV and the VCR and the DVD player and the Stereo and the PC's in the back.....
The parent is the problem, not the school!
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I am gonna get modded down for saying this, but I don't care.
This kid's dad is to blame for this! He should be smart enough to realize that public schools are a bureaucracy, and as such, run on rails. With all of the recent school violence, the parent should make it clear to his kid that if he makes some stupid threat, he is going to get kicked out of school!
Furthermore, he should be able to talk to his kid about abuse and bullying at school! Obviously, this kid feels the need for revenge (if he talked to his parents about his feelings and the situation, he would realize that revenge is worthless).
Call me old-fashioned, but I am a big fan of strong families and good parenting! I feel sorry for the kid, but, lesson learned.....
1)goto http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/row/mfi.htm . There you will see that the proper designation of this aircraft is the Mig 35/1.42.
2)Our "Air combat support aircraft" are not ancient--Commanche attack/recon heli one, and the air force has developed *numerous* different types of standoff weaponry.
3) Our bombers are not ancient--you refer obliquely to the B-52, but you completely overlook the B-1B. And with a loadout of 16 JDAM per B-2 or 24 JDAM per B-1B, I would say that does not render these bombers insignificant. With 18 (17?) active B-2's, the US could, flying undetected, destroy 18*16=288 targets anywhere in the world. Not bad, I say...
Get your facts straight before you start bitching.
I think IRC clients do not get sued because, compared to Napster, they are insignificant!
What distinguishes napster (and now gnutellas) from other file sharing/distributing apparati is that it is so easy to use that any kid with AOL can and does use it! The RIAA doesn't know how to use, let alone care about, some random IRC client with a gig of music flies on it, because thousands, not millions of people access it.
This article does, however, pave the way for building un-assailable p2p file sharing networks. Unfortunately, it seems that the most successful projects would either be open source or *sold* by a large corporation.
Can anyone say "MS Peer-to-Peer Suite"! Its not so far-fetched...they could sell a lot, and I don't think the RIAA is gonna get Boise working for them anytime soon....
Compared to the damage that has been wrought by countless accidental and deliberate alien species introductions, this has a minute potential for problems. They are not introducing a new species, but a mutation.
Now, mutations are introduced every second. However, because this is on such a large scale, this mutation probably has a much, much higher chance of success (but not guaranteed). Regardless, the moth is still a moth; by altering a gene you could possible cause some horrible mishap of nature. Still, the chance of this is quite low. Compare this to, say, the introduction of the mongoose to Hawaii. There are no natural predators of mongoose in hawaii, and birds were not adapted to avoid these animals. As a result, literally 100s of species of birds have gone extinct!
Your example with the foxes is one of an ecological niche being filled by a different animal. A great recent example is the north atlantic cod stocks off of the grand banks. A few years ago, the cod were fished to the brink of extinction. Now, it appears that, with fishing pressure much reduced, instead of the cod population rebounding (as one would expect), another species (artic cod--much less tasty) is beginning to take over the atlantic cod's habitat.
In sum: don't confuse mutation vs exotic invaders vs habitat distruction and subsequent niche invasion.
You know what I would LOVE to see incorporated in every PDA? An automatic phone dialer. I assume that it would be simple to put into a PDA, and would take up very little space.
I (and most people, obviously), don't want my PDA to be a cell phone--it's wayyy too large for that. I would love, however, to click on a phone number, and then have the PDA dial it for me.
Since it seems that actually generating income from all of these classic games is going to be very difficult, why not re-direct your efforts (part-time, even) towards acquiring a complete "game-museum". Think how cool that would be--every single home gaming system ever made in one place, with every single title!
Not only could visitors learn about the history of notable systems and games, but they could *play anything*! I don't know about you, but I would definitely pay 10 bucks to spend a day at such a place. Now, start-up costs would be high, but maybe you could get official help from the games companies. Tracking down some of the older, more obscure stuff could be difficult. But if you love games enough, you could pull it off, with fantastic results...
I would be surprised if any ISP recieved anywhere close to the number of subpoenas that AOL gets...there is NO ISP the scale of AOL...
...Moreover, why is everyone so excited about this? Obviously, AOL is acting in its self interest; if it were not, management would be inflicted a principal-agent problem upon the company and stockholders would have every right to eject their sorry-asses on the street. I'm sorry, but the definition of a corporation is a body which acts in its own self-interests at all times...
"What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?"
--Plato
Since the place is a mere 6 miles off the coast of the UK. The real question, is then, what would the UK government do to Sealand at the behest of the record companies? Since Sealand seems at a minimum quasi-legitimate, it seems that they might just do nothing!
...how does this service compare to wireless services that plug into the pc-card slot? It seems to me that the only competitive appeal of this over a pc-card based service would be to desktop owners in areas not served by DSL or cable modems--the ease of use sounds great. But, if you were interested in computing in your car, would you not rather have a service that you can also use portably, outside of your car?
As for cellphone driving, it is not the same as drunk driving. For example, cellphone-driving's impacts are age-related, whereas drunk-driving is not age specific. As a person gets older, reaction times get higher, and thus the added distraction of talking on the phone becomes more important.
Since it seems like Disney has a commercial interest in this project, for them it is far from a criminal waste of resources. This is going to be the next "Pirates of the Caribbean", literally.
I am sure Disney would love to have a section of Disneyland with characters from its movie "dinosaur" walking around and acting like 'real' dinosaurs. Since they have a history of pulling off (almost)cool rides, I am sure this one will be a winner too. Or, at least a money-maker.
Sooo, maybe you should buy some disney stock and donate your profit to charity.
I agree, this technology will soon be used to disperse crowds in the U.S. However, what is good, not bad, about this is that presumably this microwave would be used instead of tear gas, pepper spray, or beating as a method of attacking protesters.
All of those technologies CAN KILL you, and immobilize you for quite some time. This, it seems, just hurts, nothing more.
On the other hand, if I were a rioter and I knew that this weapon was being used on me, it would make me _more angry_ and _more likely_ to attack the cops. After all, it can't hurt you.
So, like everything in life, it has its pros and cons.
At work here in Washington, D.C. (think-tank), we have a guy who studies the DOJ vs MS case. He gave a really interesting presentation on why this antitrust case is unlike any previous case.
Essentially, the DOJ could not prove that in any one aspect of the case Microsoft behaved like a complete monopoly. Instead, the DOJ set out to prove that microsoft acted as a monopoly does at different points in the process.
The biggest stumbling point is that Microsoft used below-market pricing in an attempt to drive Netscape out of business. However, this attempt was not successful and an economist would argue that making browsers free in fact benefited consumers. If, like standard oil, MS had swept aside Netscape, we would have a traditional monopoly case. But now, as netscape is alive and well in the form of a company larger than MS (AOL-Time Warner), this falls apart.
In all, it seems impossible to decide what should be done with microsoft. Yes, they violated antitrust law, but more importantly, would the breakup of MS stop these violations? Nope. A better solution is needed.
Well, even if a lot of PS2's malfunction, just you wait until the Xbox ships. Would you trust version 1.0 of MS anything? I can't wait until the BSOD becomes part of the gaming community.
Seriously, though, I think Sony should be worried about the GameCube more than the Xbox. At least the GameCube will run instead of crash, and they have Mario and Link...
If in fact ICBMs are indeed designed to deploy a payload into orbit, please tell me which of the following missiles can, _without modification_ deliver an orbital payload, versus a sub-orbital, weapons trajectory payload (i think these are all of the current US ICBMs):
Trident D-5
MX
Minuteman3
To deliver a payload to low or high-earth orbit is considerably more difficult than delivering payloads along a parabolic sub-orbital trajectory. Do you somehow think that these missiles deliver their MIRVs while orbiting around the earth?
NO. In fact, the prime mission of these missiles is to deliver their payloads as quickly as possible, i.e. by minimizing y-axis movement and staying as close to the earth as possible. Think about it: the higher up they go, the longer the burn time==more time to detect and react to the missle firing.
Just because the space program used heavily modified ICBMs to deliver orbital payloads does not mean that an off-the-rack ICBM can do it (unless you consider the Titan IV an ICBM, in which case you might as well throw an h-bomb in the payload bay of the space shuttle).
I used to _love_ the southern cross stuff. awesome!
ICBM==Earth-Earth Payload, not Earth-Space
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It seems that this point was made because this is highly unusual:
#1) It is a Russian weapon system.
#2) It uses a submarine as a launch platform. How many satellites get launched from submarines?? That is extremely unusual.
#3) An ICBM is not designed to loft a large-size payload. A set of MIRVs, while very heavy, is relatively compact.
#4) More to the point, an ICBM is not designed to deliver a payload to space. It is designed to deliver a payload to earth. Why do you think that Alan Shepard's flight lasted only 15 minutes? Because he was sitting on top of a Redstone ICBM.
Umm....50+ years between planting and cutting down trees...this game better have time compression or it would get boring.
anyhow, the real lesson from that game would be that "tycoon" like profits can only be had in timber from cutting down old-growth. once it is all gone (now) profits are razor-thin. thats why stocks in forest product companies sux.
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First off, you need to take more economics before you start marching out terms and mis-using them. In economic parlance, NOTHING can be just plain "elastic". It has to respond to something.
Now, in your example, I think you are trying to refer to price-elasticity. You are correct in saying that soda supply is price-elastic, but it IS effected by the weather. Hotter weather=>more demand=>higher prices=>more supply.
Now, I was also just flipping through the copy of "Microeconomics" by Katz and Rosen that is sitting on my desk.
Funny, but the defenition of a firm that sells its product based on demand alone is that of a "price-taker", i.e. a producer in a perfectly competitive market. You are wrong again--this is not the soda situation!
The situation with soda machines is akin to restaurants--each company produces a slightly different product that people have preferences for. Thus, producers "price-descriminate", that is, they charge the highest price that the market will take.
This is called smart business, supply and demand, and profit-maximization.
"The Google site features minimal advertising. So they are most likely funded with VC money. This means that they must have a plan for making money at some point. What is it and when will it kick in?" Ummm...If you go to google and read about their company, you will learn that most of their income comes from licensing their awesome search engine for internal use by other companies. NOT from advertising. With everyone just now learning that advertising on the web sucks balls, this looks like a pretty shrewd move on the part of Google....
Guess who has more money? The record industry or Princeton?
Princeton is sitting on a GIGANTIC HEAP of money. All the legal $$ from this case would not even dent the endowment. If the professors were really serious about publishing their papers, I would bet the U would back them up.
...of course, why publish when it is on the web in so many places? In fact, I am glad that they're won't be a lawsuit--less $$ for the lawyers, one less dispute settled by a stupid judge! Court sucks!
No, more like when they break into your house and steal your Car and throw the TV and the VCR and the DVD player and the Stereo and the PC's in the back.....
And steals this baby....
You're fucked!
I am gonna get modded down for saying this, but I don't care.
This kid's dad is to blame for this! He should be smart enough to realize that public schools are a bureaucracy, and as such, run on rails. With all of the recent school violence, the parent should make it clear to his kid that if he makes some stupid threat, he is going to get kicked out of school!
Furthermore, he should be able to talk to his kid about abuse and bullying at school! Obviously, this kid feels the need for revenge (if he talked to his parents about his feelings and the situation, he would realize that revenge is worthless).
Call me old-fashioned, but I am a big fan of strong families and good parenting! I feel sorry for the kid, but, lesson learned.....
1)goto http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/row/mfi.htm . There you will see that the proper designation of this aircraft is the Mig 35/1.42.
2)Our "Air combat support aircraft" are not ancient--Commanche attack/recon heli one, and the air force has developed *numerous* different types of standoff weaponry.
3) Our bombers are not ancient--you refer obliquely to the B-52, but you completely overlook the B-1B. And with a loadout of 16 JDAM per B-2 or 24 JDAM per B-1B, I would say that does not render these bombers insignificant. With 18 (17?) active B-2's, the US could, flying undetected, destroy 18*16=288 targets anywhere in the world. Not bad, I say...
Get your facts straight before you start bitching.
I think IRC clients do not get sued because, compared to Napster, they are insignificant!
What distinguishes napster (and now gnutellas) from other file sharing/distributing apparati is that it is so easy to use that any kid with AOL can and does use it! The RIAA doesn't know how to use, let alone care about, some random IRC client with a gig of music flies on it, because thousands, not millions of people access it.
This article does, however, pave the way for building un-assailable p2p file sharing networks. Unfortunately, it seems that the most successful projects would either be open source or *sold* by a large corporation.
Can anyone say "MS Peer-to-Peer Suite"! Its not so far-fetched...they could sell a lot, and I don't think the RIAA is gonna get Boise working for them anytime soon....
Compared to the damage that has been wrought by countless accidental and deliberate alien species introductions, this has a minute potential for problems. They are not introducing a new species, but a mutation.
Now, mutations are introduced every second. However, because this is on such a large scale, this mutation probably has a much, much higher chance of success (but not guaranteed). Regardless, the moth is still a moth; by altering a gene you could possible cause some horrible mishap of nature. Still, the chance of this is quite low. Compare this to, say, the introduction of the mongoose to Hawaii. There are no natural predators of mongoose in hawaii, and birds were not adapted to avoid these animals. As a result, literally 100s of species of birds have gone extinct!
Your example with the foxes is one of an ecological niche being filled by a different animal. A great recent example is the north atlantic cod stocks off of the grand banks. A few years ago, the cod were fished to the brink of extinction. Now, it appears that, with fishing pressure much reduced, instead of the cod population rebounding (as one would expect), another species (artic cod--much less tasty) is beginning to take over the atlantic cod's habitat.
In sum: don't confuse mutation vs exotic invaders vs habitat distruction and subsequent niche invasion.
You know what I would LOVE to see incorporated in every PDA? An automatic phone dialer. I assume that it would be simple to put into a PDA, and would take up very little space.
I (and most people, obviously), don't want my PDA to be a cell phone--it's wayyy too large for that. I would love, however, to click on a phone number, and then have the PDA dial it for me.
Concentrate on simple functionality first!
Since it seems that actually generating income from all of these classic games is going to be very difficult, why not re-direct your efforts (part-time, even) towards acquiring a complete "game-museum". Think how cool that would be--every single home gaming system ever made in one place, with every single title!
Not only could visitors learn about the history of notable systems and games, but they could *play anything*! I don't know about you, but I would definitely pay 10 bucks to spend a day at such a place. Now, start-up costs would be high, but maybe you could get official help from the games companies. Tracking down some of the older, more obscure stuff could be difficult. But if you love games enough, you could pull it off, with fantastic results...
I would be surprised if any ISP recieved anywhere close to the number of subpoenas that AOL gets...there is NO ISP the scale of AOL...
...Moreover, why is everyone so excited about this? Obviously, AOL is acting in its self interest; if it were not, management would be inflicted a principal-agent problem upon the company and stockholders would have every right to eject their sorry-asses on the street. I'm sorry, but the definition of a corporation is a body which acts in its own self-interests at all times...
"What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?"
--Plato
Since the place is a mere 6 miles off the coast of the UK. The real question, is then, what would the UK government do to Sealand at the behest of the record companies? Since Sealand seems at a minimum quasi-legitimate, it seems that they might just do nothing!
...how does this service compare to wireless services that plug into the pc-card slot? It seems to me that the only competitive appeal of this over a pc-card based service would be to desktop owners in areas not served by DSL or cable modems--the ease of use sounds great. But, if you were interested in computing in your car, would you not rather have a service that you can also use portably, outside of your car?
As for cellphone driving, it is not the same as drunk driving. For example, cellphone-driving's impacts are age-related, whereas drunk-driving is not age specific. As a person gets older, reaction times get higher, and thus the added distraction of talking on the phone becomes more important.
Since it seems like Disney has a commercial interest in this project, for them it is far from a criminal waste of resources. This is going to be the next "Pirates of the Caribbean", literally.
I am sure Disney would love to have a section of Disneyland with characters from its movie "dinosaur" walking around and acting like 'real' dinosaurs. Since they have a history of pulling off (almost)cool rides, I am sure this one will be a winner too. Or, at least a money-maker.
Sooo, maybe you should buy some disney stock and donate your profit to charity.
The US Military has its own proprietary system of GPS satellites. They are completely separate from the commercial ones.
I agree, this technology will soon be used to disperse crowds in the U.S. However, what is good, not bad, about this is that presumably this microwave would be used instead of tear gas, pepper spray, or beating as a method of attacking protesters.
All of those technologies CAN KILL you, and immobilize you for quite some time. This, it seems, just hurts, nothing more.
On the other hand, if I were a rioter and I knew that this weapon was being used on me, it would make me _more angry_ and _more likely_ to attack the cops. After all, it can't hurt you.
So, like everything in life, it has its pros and cons.
At work here in Washington, D.C. (think-tank), we have a guy who studies the DOJ vs MS case. He gave a really interesting presentation on why this antitrust case is unlike any previous case.
Essentially, the DOJ could not prove that in any one aspect of the case Microsoft behaved like a complete monopoly. Instead, the DOJ set out to prove that microsoft acted as a monopoly does at different points in the process.
The biggest stumbling point is that Microsoft used below-market pricing in an attempt to drive Netscape out of business. However, this attempt was not successful and an economist would argue that making browsers free in fact benefited consumers. If, like standard oil, MS had swept aside Netscape, we would have a traditional monopoly case. But now, as netscape is alive and well in the form of a company larger than MS (AOL-Time Warner), this falls apart.
In all, it seems impossible to decide what should be done with microsoft. Yes, they violated antitrust law, but more importantly, would the breakup of MS stop these violations? Nope. A better solution is needed.
Well, even if a lot of PS2's malfunction, just you wait until the Xbox ships. Would you trust version 1.0 of MS anything? I can't wait until the BSOD becomes part of the gaming community.
Seriously, though, I think Sony should be worried about the GameCube more than the Xbox. At least the GameCube will run instead of crash, and they have Mario and Link...
Wait just a minute there...
If in fact ICBMs are indeed designed to deploy a payload into orbit, please tell me which of the following missiles can, _without modification_ deliver an orbital payload, versus a sub-orbital, weapons trajectory payload (i think these are all of the current US ICBMs):
Trident D-5
MX
Minuteman3
To deliver a payload to low or high-earth orbit is considerably more difficult than delivering payloads along a parabolic sub-orbital trajectory. Do you somehow think that these missiles deliver their MIRVs while orbiting around the earth?
NO. In fact, the prime mission of these missiles is to deliver their payloads as quickly as possible, i.e. by minimizing y-axis movement and staying as close to the earth as possible. Think about it: the higher up they go, the longer the burn time==more time to detect and react to the missle firing.
Just because the space program used heavily modified ICBMs to deliver orbital payloads does not mean that an off-the-rack ICBM can do it (unless you consider the Titan IV an ICBM, in which case you might as well throw an h-bomb in the payload bay of the space shuttle).
Did anyone every play the Robotech RPG???
I used to _love_ the southern cross stuff. awesome!
It seems that this point was made because this is highly unusual:
#1) It is a Russian weapon system.
#2) It uses a submarine as a launch platform. How many satellites get launched from submarines?? That is extremely unusual.
#3) An ICBM is not designed to loft a large-size payload. A set of MIRVs, while very heavy, is relatively compact.
#4) More to the point, an ICBM is not designed to deliver a payload to space. It is designed to deliver a payload to earth. Why do you think that Alan Shepard's flight lasted only 15 minutes? Because he was sitting on top of a Redstone ICBM.
So yes, it is overly unusual.
you mean falcon 3.0. falcon 2.0 was Falcon AT.
Sure, two processors are better than one...but only if you can take advantage of it.
And, for a lot of needs I can think of, that 1.6 ghz athalon, with over 4000 MIPS and 2000 MFLOPS, would make life faster.
Now, two of those....
Umm....50+ years between planting and cutting down trees...this game better have time compression or it would get boring.
anyhow, the real lesson from that game would be that "tycoon" like profits can only be had in timber from cutting down old-growth. once it is all gone (now) profits are razor-thin. thats why stocks in forest product companies sux.