Air and water have been productized because the free stuff has been polluted by industry.
You continue to display your ignorance. Water in bottled form is little more than tap water. What makes it succeed is marketing.
By the economic calculus it's not only good sense to pollute to reduce overhead ( and thus maximize profits), it's necessary for our continued survival as a race to lay waste to the enviroment we are dependant upon for that very survival.
More ignorance. This time, you ignore demand effects. If people cared about pollution, they would seek alternative sources of XYZ. If the claims of bottled water companies are correct, this is a perfect case in point. People think pollution is not acceptable. They seek an unpolluted source.
I'm sure if I read further in this thread, I'll see where the workers should seize capital.
Um, no, you're wrong. Economics is solely about distribution of scarce resources. It places no value judgements on what is 'good' or 'bad', as you claim in your earlier post.
Economists are well aware that there are types of value beyond money, and admit the failings of their models. They are also aware that it is a young science.
So, why is money such a popular metric? They haven't found anything better. Write up a paper with a new system, submit it to Oxford or the Univ. of Chicago's economics department, and if it isn't total tripe, they'll look at it.
Politicians who use economic studies inappropriately are fools. Economists who pressure politicians to use them in this manner are doubly fools.
The prof should give you a cd list along with a copy of the reading list for the course. I doubt they are giving books away at your uni, why should they give away other pieces for the class.
I would also question the value of having an entire piece available to students. What's the point. Do you really need to listen to various pieces of black music of the 40's to know that's where Elvis and Buddy Holly stole their playing style?
Since this is obviously a 'frippery', useless class, why doesn't the prof examine modern music with freely downloadable crap off the internet? I'm sure those garage and indie bands would be happy to 'license' the music for that purpose.
I own a skeeball machine (16 foot model) and let me try to cut through some of the BS here.
First, the people who are fretting over construction materials are overthinking the problem. I can stand on the middle of the field with little or no give. I'm 300 lbs. The construction is just some 2x4 and plywood.
They are also overly worried about the play surface. This isn't one of those shuffleboard type things. The surface appears to be a very thick layer of matte paint. Of course, you want it smooth, but it doesn't need to be perfect. Much like a bowling alley, each skeeball lane plays differently.
Scoring is very rudimentary. A few solenoids wired up to a counter. Coin mechs are cheap from many, many sources, or just push to play. I'd do push to play. The novelty of coin op in your home wears off quickly. Same thing with a ticket dispenser. I could have gotten one with mine, but why bother? Maybe for kids' parties or something.
Size IS a concern. Not only do you need room for a machine, you need room to stand while playing. A foot or two wider than the machine, and at least four feet behind it are needed to be comfortable. The machines are also very tall. If you lower the score area, you may not have enough angle to play very well. One thing to be careful of. They can also be really wide.
Getting things levelled up is very important. It took a few hours of playing before I was happy with the levelling of my game, and I knew that the 'guts' were correct.
Decent balls are hard to find. IMHO, the best are wooden balls. Sure, you can use some hobbiest crap you can find here and there, but they are generally very light, and the laminated construction means they aren't too strong. The last ones I got came from TNT amusements (where I bought the machine, BTW).
In some ways, 2-3 smaller machines is more impressive than a single unit. Also more fun and enables head-to-head play.
If you want some photos and/or measurements, email me. I don't play much (it was my wife's machine, actually) so it'll take me a day or so to get it uncovered to get decent shots, but I'm happy to help.
Not only do I have a cool wife, I bought a skeeball machine for HER! It's not one of those itty bitty toy ones at Chuck E. Cheese either. It's an old school 13 (or is it 16?) foot long job. Including an area to stand, it barely fits in the garage. One of our coffee tables in the house is actually a Space Invaders cocktail table.
I think you may be right WRT superbird vs. charger daytona. I'm not as up on my old Mopar lore as I used to be. Had to make room somewhere for motorcycle specs.
Well, a cheaper/faster processor is boring as shit. 10% faster, 5% cheaper. Ho hum. A half price iPod, however, is interesting. And, finally, a really nifty thing for $100 is cool, while a dull thing for $1499+ is boring.
$100(ish) is a VERY important price point for lots of people.
Most importantly, $100 is a very VERY important price point for my wife. When I told her about this rumor, her comment was basically 'well, I guess you're finally allowed to get an iPod'.
I haven't told her that I'll also be 'forced' to pick up about $100 worth of accessories (to play the tunes through car and motorcycle stereos:)
Given the choice, I'd rather have the Superbird. The Charger was a bit of barely functional body kit. The Superbird, while superficially similar, was quite a different beast under the hood.
Unfortunately, NASCAR, yet again, buried their heads in their ass and banned wing cars. Can't have the MOPAR crowd beating up on GM too much. These are the same asshats who got hemi headed engines and OHC engines banned. And hence we have the technological backwater that is NASCAR. Way to go.
I agree totally. Hence my desire to keep as much of my retirement fundage as possible away from their stock. I don't think there is a mutual fund in existence that doesn't have some, but I try.
Are customers paying per cup? If so, the tip jar should be sufficient. Why? The goal is to keep customers there buying more cups of coffee. Increased coffee sales should offset what the tips don't cover.
Not at all on point: interesting UID. My son got his second Case International toy tractor today. When I was a kid, it was still IH. And my grandfather actually had a ca. 1945 IH pickup truck.
Actually, I'm not assuming a technological standstill; I'm assuming technological maturity. The automobile has been mature for decades, yet it continues to advance. The advances are evolutionary, not revolutionary. I have yet to see the revolutionary advance in computers that would lead to mass replacement of Microsoft software. As has been pointed out many times, plenty of people are using Office '97 on Windows '95.
This must have been written by a fanboy, and not a serious person. The flattening of Microsoft's profits is long overdue; it is a sign of a company reaching middle age. The growth of a startup company in an undersaturated market cannot be maintained forever. Eventually, new products cease to be useful. At least not worth replacement for the sake of replacement.
For thirty years, Microsoft competed in a market that had essentially zero competition. Now, after having delivered fairly robust and stable systems (Windows XP and 2k), they are no longer selling to untapped markets. Of course their profits are going to taper off. This has absolutely nothing to do with Linux, BSD, Apple, or Sun. This has everything to do with classic market mechanics.
The article leads some fun 'rah rah' type cheerleading, but it misses the point. Are things changing for Microsoft? Undoubtedly. Are they solely or even mostly due to 'upstart' operating systems? Not a chance. I'd love it if some vertical apps (particularly EMR systems) were being written for Linux. But they aren't. Beating MS isn't going to be like overwhelming an enemy. It'll be more like digging Frenchman out of trenches, one inch at a time, in WWI. (Feel free to run with the analogy. I haven't got the time;)
Is there a plugin or some feature like this? It lets you rate tracks (and albums and artists) and then, when playing, it automatically adds tracks to your playlist. The frequency and choice is weighted via the aforementioned ratings. Until something like that is available for some other player, I ain't switching.
(I'd love it if it were available for iTunes, BTW)
people who are well off and have high-end salaried jobs are more likely to be able to get past registration barriers
What barriers? I can't recall a poll tax in my lifetime. Furthermore, in most states, registration is no more involved than filling out your name and address on an extra piece of paper at the DMV.
and to take time off from their weekday jobs (which are salaried, not hourly) to vote.
That would be nice if it were an issue. If an employee cannot make it to a polling place before or after their normal work hours, the employer is required by law to give them a no penalty (perhaps unpaid? I'm not 100% sure, as I pay employees so they can go vote) block of time to go vote.
Surprised this wasn't already mentioned. I was going to do a review for slashdot, but whatever.
Good stuff. Good dialog, good characters, good stories. You can see the threads that Whedon was going to build up and play out emerging, particularly the second time through.
So far, I've only made it through 1.5 discs (about 6 episodes?) and have only some mild complaints. First, the swearing is as lame as it was in Farscape. Second, the commercial breaks are very obvious. Looking at most of them, it would take very little to make the transitions a little smoother. Purists would probably object. Some episodes seem to just 'stop'. While in the larger scheme of things that would work, as episodic TV, it doesn't.
And one of these days, I will figure out whether Inara or Kaylee is hotter. A modern day Ginger vs. MaryAnn. (Yes, this is what a recent JE of mine is about, complete with linkage). At least Mal is hotter than the Professor for the ladies:)
It's almost impossible for a GUI to be accessible. Until KDE can *easily* support the work by the brltty folks, it ain't accessible as far as I'm concerned. The command line is the best bet. Simple, straightforward, easily interfaced with screen readers, text to speech, etc. Yes, I've seen JAWS and other workarounds. They suck compared to a brltty hooked up to a good CLI.
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Air and water have been productized because the free stuff has been polluted by industry.
You continue to display your ignorance. Water in bottled form is little more than tap water. What makes it succeed is marketing.
By the economic calculus it's not only good sense to pollute to reduce overhead ( and thus maximize profits), it's necessary for our continued survival as a race to lay waste to the enviroment we are dependant upon for that very survival.
More ignorance. This time, you ignore demand effects. If people cared about pollution, they would seek alternative sources of XYZ. If the claims of bottled water companies are correct, this is a perfect case in point. People think pollution is not acceptable. They seek an unpolluted source.
I'm sure if I read further in this thread, I'll see where the workers should seize capital.
No, economics is solely about monetary value
Um, no, you're wrong. Economics is solely about distribution of scarce resources. It places no value judgements on what is 'good' or 'bad', as you claim in your earlier post.
Economists are well aware that there are types of value beyond money, and admit the failings of their models. They are also aware that it is a young science.
So, why is money such a popular metric? They haven't found anything better. Write up a paper with a new system, submit it to Oxford or the Univ. of Chicago's economics department, and if it isn't total tripe, they'll look at it.
Politicians who use economic studies inappropriately are fools. Economists who pressure politicians to use them in this manner are doubly fools.
Dad to me: How the heck could you spend $400 in long distance last month?!
Me to dad: Don't worry, I got about $1000 worth of free software.
The prof should give you a cd list along with a copy of the reading list for the course. I doubt they are giving books away at your uni, why should they give away other pieces for the class.
I would also question the value of having an entire piece available to students. What's the point. Do you really need to listen to various pieces of black music of the 40's to know that's where Elvis and Buddy Holly stole their playing style?
Since this is obviously a 'frippery', useless class, why doesn't the prof examine modern music with freely downloadable crap off the internet? I'm sure those garage and indie bands would be happy to 'license' the music for that purpose.
I own a skeeball machine (16 foot model) and let me try to cut through some of the BS here.
First, the people who are fretting over construction materials are overthinking the problem. I can stand on the middle of the field with little or no give. I'm 300 lbs. The construction is just some 2x4 and plywood.
They are also overly worried about the play surface. This isn't one of those shuffleboard type things. The surface appears to be a very thick layer of matte paint. Of course, you want it smooth, but it doesn't need to be perfect. Much like a bowling alley, each skeeball lane plays differently.
Scoring is very rudimentary. A few solenoids wired up to a counter. Coin mechs are cheap from many, many sources, or just push to play. I'd do push to play. The novelty of coin op in your home wears off quickly. Same thing with a ticket dispenser. I could have gotten one with mine, but why bother? Maybe for kids' parties or something.
Size IS a concern. Not only do you need room for a machine, you need room to stand while playing. A foot or two wider than the machine, and at least four feet behind it are needed to be comfortable. The machines are also very tall. If you lower the score area, you may not have enough angle to play very well. One thing to be careful of. They can also be really wide.
Getting things levelled up is very important. It took a few hours of playing before I was happy with the levelling of my game, and I knew that the 'guts' were correct.
Decent balls are hard to find. IMHO, the best are wooden balls. Sure, you can use some hobbiest crap you can find here and there, but they are generally very light, and the laminated construction means they aren't too strong. The last ones I got came from TNT amusements (where I bought the machine, BTW).
In some ways, 2-3 smaller machines is more impressive than a single unit. Also more fun and enables head-to-head play.
If you want some photos and/or measurements, email me. I don't play much (it was my wife's machine, actually) so it'll take me a day or so to get it uncovered to get decent shots, but I'm happy to help.
Not only do I have a cool wife, I bought a skeeball machine for HER! It's not one of those itty bitty toy ones at Chuck E. Cheese either. It's an old school 13 (or is it 16?) foot long job. Including an area to stand, it barely fits in the garage. One of our coffee tables in the house is actually a Space Invaders cocktail table.
Are you that whipped, or does she also have to get your permission to get a new pair of shoes? :)
I'm that whipped.
I think you may be right WRT superbird vs. charger daytona. I'm not as up on my old Mopar lore as I used to be. Had to make room somewhere for motorcycle specs.
Well, a cheaper/faster processor is boring as shit. 10% faster, 5% cheaper. Ho hum. A half price iPod, however, is interesting. And, finally, a really nifty thing for $100 is cool, while a dull thing for $1499+ is boring.
$100(ish) is a VERY important price point for lots of people.
Most importantly, $100 is a very VERY important price point for my wife. When I told her about this rumor, her comment was basically 'well, I guess you're finally allowed to get an iPod'.
I haven't told her that I'll also be 'forced' to pick up about $100 worth of accessories (to play the tunes through car and motorcycle stereos:)
Talk to Progeny. A few weeks ago, they mentioned upgrade/replacement for deprecated RH systems to Debian.
Given the choice, I'd rather have the Superbird. The Charger was a bit of barely functional body kit. The Superbird, while superficially similar, was quite a different beast under the hood.
Unfortunately, NASCAR, yet again, buried their heads in their ass and banned wing cars. Can't have the MOPAR crowd beating up on GM too much. These are the same asshats who got hemi headed engines and OHC engines banned. And hence we have the technological backwater that is NASCAR. Way to go.
I agree totally. Hence my desire to keep as much of my retirement fundage as possible away from their stock. I don't think there is a mutual fund in existence that doesn't have some, but I try.
Are customers paying per cup? If so, the tip jar should be sufficient. Why? The goal is to keep customers there buying more cups of coffee. Increased coffee sales should offset what the tips don't cover.
At $80 for a 96-page book and a 20-minute DVD, anything but cheap, apparently.
Something ain't right.
Not at all on point: interesting UID. My son got his second Case International toy tractor today. When I was a kid, it was still IH. And my grandfather actually had a ca. 1945 IH pickup truck.
Actually, I'm not assuming a technological standstill; I'm assuming technological maturity. The automobile has been mature for decades, yet it continues to advance. The advances are evolutionary, not revolutionary. I have yet to see the revolutionary advance in computers that would lead to mass replacement of Microsoft software. As has been pointed out many times, plenty of people are using Office '97 on Windows '95.
This must have been written by a fanboy, and not a serious person. The flattening of Microsoft's profits is long overdue; it is a sign of a company reaching middle age. The growth of a startup company in an undersaturated market cannot be maintained forever. Eventually, new products cease to be useful. At least not worth replacement for the sake of replacement.
For thirty years, Microsoft competed in a market that had essentially zero competition. Now, after having delivered fairly robust and stable systems (Windows XP and 2k), they are no longer selling to untapped markets. Of course their profits are going to taper off. This has absolutely nothing to do with Linux, BSD, Apple, or Sun. This has everything to do with classic market mechanics.
The article leads some fun 'rah rah' type cheerleading, but it misses the point. Are things changing for Microsoft? Undoubtedly. Are they solely or even mostly due to 'upstart' operating systems? Not a chance. I'd love it if some vertical apps (particularly EMR systems) were being written for Linux. But they aren't. Beating MS isn't going to be like overwhelming an enemy. It'll be more like digging Frenchman out of trenches, one inch at a time, in WWI. (Feel free to run with the analogy. I haven't got the time;)
I wonder what my hosting provider plans to do about this. I should ask them.
I saw that when I tried it. Interesting, but I find it's not fine grained enough.
Is there a plugin or some feature like this? It lets you rate tracks (and albums and artists) and then, when playing, it automatically adds tracks to your playlist. The frequency and choice is weighted via the aforementioned ratings. Until something like that is available for some other player, I ain't switching.
(I'd love it if it were available for iTunes, BTW)
people who are well off and have high-end salaried jobs are more likely to be able to get past registration barriers
What barriers? I can't recall a poll tax in my lifetime. Furthermore, in most states, registration is no more involved than filling out your name and address on an extra piece of paper at the DMV.
and to take time off from their weekday jobs (which are salaried, not hourly) to vote.
That would be nice if it were an issue. If an employee cannot make it to a polling place before or after their normal work hours, the employer is required by law to give them a no penalty (perhaps unpaid? I'm not 100% sure, as I pay employees so they can go vote) block of time to go vote.
Surprised this wasn't already mentioned. I was going to do a review for slashdot, but whatever.
Good stuff. Good dialog, good characters, good stories. You can see the threads that Whedon was going to build up and play out emerging, particularly the second time through.
So far, I've only made it through 1.5 discs (about 6 episodes?) and have only some mild complaints. First, the swearing is as lame as it was in Farscape. Second, the commercial breaks are very obvious. Looking at most of them, it would take very little to make the transitions a little smoother. Purists would probably object. Some episodes seem to just 'stop'. While in the larger scheme of things that would work, as episodic TV, it doesn't.
And one of these days, I will figure out whether Inara or Kaylee is hotter. A modern day Ginger vs. MaryAnn. (Yes, this is what a recent JE of mine is about, complete with linkage). At least Mal is hotter than the Professor for the ladies:)
It's almost impossible for a GUI to be accessible. Until KDE can *easily* support the work by the brltty folks, it ain't accessible as far as I'm concerned. The command line is the best bet. Simple, straightforward, easily interfaced with screen readers, text to speech, etc. Yes, I've seen JAWS and other workarounds. They suck compared to a brltty hooked up to a good CLI.
In a similar vein, let me also suggest wallets and/or sweaters with reindeer on them.