They intend to go after high-volume sites with lots of files. Combine this with their plan to flood P2P networks with bogus files, and they'll probably wind up suing themselves! Only the lawyers will profit. Oh wait, that's how the game is played already...
Here's a good reference circuit. Ignore the Visual Basic Software, build the circuit, attach it to the serial port, and grab any of several serial-port monitors from SourceForge. The circuit is even self-powered from the port.
"1) The linked to articals where about derailing Nuclea Waste Trains, not passenger trains"
good point. spilling nuclear waste is so much better than rolling a few people around in a train car.
And, of course, the techniques are totally different.
On the contrary. It's the cost of a broadband connection vis-a-vis dial-up that's slowing adoption. If the average user is paying $9.95 (yeah, right) or $19.95, $40 seems way to much. Throttling the pipe should allow the companies to sell an entry level service for $29.99, then premium services for $39.99, etc.
man -k "acl". Don't know about the free stuff, but commercial unices & unix style OS have had this for a while. Apollo's AEGIS had it ca. 1987 or so...
There will be more musicians. Although the most famous musicians will earn less, there will be more musicians because the barrier to entry will be greatly reduced. Eventually it will be eliminated. Some say that we'll be "flooded" with a bunch of untalented musicians and we won't be able to find anything good, but I'd submit that's the case now anyway.
This may be the saving grace for the record labels. As the volume of product grows, consumers will want a gatekeeper to recommend exceptional artists... Just like the book or newspaper industry. There is gigabytes worth of news available online. I pay 50 cents for a newspaper (or read ad-filled pages at a news website) because an expert has filtered that torrent into a manageable stream. Word of mouth only goes so far. Same with free mp3's - that's a great way to market only if someone chooses your mp3 out of the 10,000 available for download. Part of that will come from a closer bond between bands and fans (from your favorite local band to Jimmy Buffett, who sold $26 million in tickets without a "hit" last year), and part of that will be "boutique" record labels and impresarios, like T Bone Burnett, Backporch Records, or Narada Records.
USS Gerald Ford : Pressed into service after the scrapping of the USS Richard Nixon (removed from service after being too effective), The Ford has suffered from no less than 18 dry dock accidents, mostly relating to the ship rolling off the pillars used to support it.
This sub is equipped with a unique offensive weapon system capable of firing golf balls at great velocity, but dubious accuracy.
The SEC's criticism is not based on whether or not this practice increases shareholder value. It's based on the theory that shareholders should have accurate information in order to make intelligent choices. Using reserves in this way allows companies to hide problems and mislead investors. Fortune magazine has an excellent article entitled, "Lies, Damned Lies, and Managed Earnings" which discusses the SEC crackdown on the practice.
Have Americans been completely brain-washed into believing they should pay more to use the most of a service? If you buy a car, and I buy a car, yet you drive it 3x as much, should you pay more (aside from gas prices)?
To be pedantic, in the US a substantial part of highway construction and maintenance costs comes from taxes on gasoline. So those who use more, pay more. I believe, but wouldn't swear, that trucks also pay additional taxes, on the theory that being heavier, they use the highways harder. They don't necessarily pay the right proportion, but they do pay more per mile of use.
Indeed. Just last week I saw a 24,000kVA backup power system. It's 5 tractor trailers, one of which contains a modified jet engine. The bad news is that it puts out 13.8kV or more. CS majors - don't hook that to your PC. Rent one today!
The implicit threat is that if we don't watch ads, we'll have to pay for TV. Fine. Makes sense - production has to be paid for. I see two possibilities.
Either, in effect, my cable bill doubles to pay for the 'free' channels, or I pick and chose ala cart.
In the former case, I damn well won't like commercials on a channel I'm paying for (remember the resistance when theaters tried/started showing commercials?). I'll feel perfectly justified in removing them; I'd also feel no qualms about trading to get a program on a channel, since I've paid for the right to watch that channel.
In the latter case, I'd be picky. I'd pay another $5-10/month for the Discovery family of channels; I wouldn't pay that for network TV. Either way, I become much more value-aware. If there is one show on a network (or even a family of channels) that I want to watch, I'd decide whether it's worth paying for the entire network, forever. I'd probably decide not; others may decide it's ok to have a friend tape that one show.
Bottom Line: this is about control, not where the money comes from.
MS bet that the price and performance of commodity processors and ancilliary chips would drop rapidly enough to keep them in the game. It appears that either they came to late to this round of the game (Sony's headstart), that CPU performance (which is increasing for commodity processors) doesn't have an effect until the next generation, or that the price of components hasn't fallen as quickly for these "commodity" parts. As for MS doing custom chips - can anyone imagine Intel handing over the crown jewels to MS, after having their knuckles rapped for moving into the software area? Even if they could gen up a set of customs, they'd still have to be competitive on price. Sony has a lot of experience in this area from it's consumer electronics business.
The potential ability for this company to collect a lot of data on "typical" viewing habits is a bit scary
Yeah, if someone knew I watched a lot of Junkyard Wars, Iron Chef, and Enterprise, why they could... er, they could, um...
Sell you an online personal ad?
Sensitive imaginative handyman, likes to cook, in search of...
You're missing the point. The article talks about aerospace applications. In aerospace, you're given a budget of space, weight, power, and cooling air to implement a function. You spend a lot of time making tradeoffs to get as much functionality, reliability, and speed in that budget. Devices like copper heat pipes are used to move heat from hot spots to the cooling air. If this is lighter, cost becomes less of an issue.
I had a former boss who kept an X-Ray tube on his desk. It looked like a light bulb the size of a basketball. The "filament" was a spinning disk of tungsten 3-4" across. Way heavy... Way cool. Another boss later kept an empty 20mm cartridge topped with a bullet of depleted uranium. It weighed about twice what you'd expect if you thought it was iron. Both were very jealous of their treasures.
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They intend to go after high-volume sites with lots of files. Combine this with their plan to flood P2P networks with bogus files, and they'll probably wind up suing themselves! Only the lawyers will profit. Oh wait, that's how the game is played already...
Here's a good reference circuit. Ignore the Visual Basic Software, build the circuit, attach it to the serial port, and grab any of several serial-port monitors from SourceForge. The circuit is even self-powered from the port.
And, of course, the techniques are totally different.
No, Milton-Bradley's!
Search for "LyME". It's a damned good matlab clone that runs under the PalmOS. It's even free.
On the contrary. It's the cost of a broadband connection vis-a-vis dial-up that's slowing adoption. If the average user is paying $9.95 (yeah, right) or $19.95, $40 seems way to much. Throttling the pipe should allow the companies to sell an entry level service for $29.99, then premium services for $39.99, etc.
man -k "acl". Don't know about the free stuff, but commercial unices & unix style OS have had this for a while. Apollo's AEGIS had it ca. 1987 or so...
This may be the saving grace for the record labels. As the volume of product grows, consumers will want a gatekeeper to recommend exceptional artists... Just like the book or newspaper industry. There is gigabytes worth of news available online. I pay 50 cents for a newspaper (or read ad-filled pages at a news website) because an expert has filtered that torrent into a manageable stream.
Word of mouth only goes so far. Same with free mp3's - that's a great way to market only if someone chooses your mp3 out of the 10,000 available for download. Part of that will come from a closer bond between bands and fans (from your favorite local band to Jimmy Buffett, who sold $26 million in tickets without a "hit" last year), and part of that will be "boutique" record labels and impresarios, like T Bone Burnett, Backporch Records, or Narada Records.
IIRC, Herbert Hoover was a mining engineer. Do all engineers make lousy Presidents?
The SEC's criticism is not based on whether or not this practice increases shareholder value. It's based on the theory that shareholders should have accurate information in order to make intelligent choices. Using reserves in this way allows companies to hide problems and mislead investors. Fortune magazine has an excellent article entitled, "Lies, Damned Lies, and Managed Earnings" which discusses the SEC crackdown on the practice.
To be pedantic, in the US a substantial part of highway construction and maintenance costs comes from taxes on gasoline. So those who use more, pay more. I believe, but wouldn't swear, that trucks also pay additional taxes, on the theory that being heavier, they use the highways harder. They don't necessarily pay the right proportion, but they do pay more per mile of use.
Indeed. Just last week I saw a 24,000kVA backup power system. It's 5 tractor trailers, one of which contains a modified jet engine. The bad news is that it puts out 13.8kV or more. CS majors - don't hook that to your PC. Rent one today!
You're probably thinking of Those who beat their swords into plowshares wind up plowing for those who didn't.
Glad to help.
P.S. You mispelled "plow".
What, you don't get the National Geographic's topless natives channel?
If you've ever been to Purdue, you'd know your version is a lot more likely than the version that winds up in Penthouse Letters :-)
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Bottom Line: this is about control, not where the money comes from.
No, X Version 11 throttles bandwidth pretty well also...
MS bet that the price and performance of commodity processors and ancilliary chips would drop rapidly enough to keep them in the game. It appears that either they came to late to this round of the game (Sony's headstart), that CPU performance (which is increasing for commodity processors) doesn't have an effect until the next generation, or that the price of components hasn't fallen as quickly for these "commodity" parts.
As for MS doing custom chips - can anyone imagine Intel handing over the crown jewels to MS, after having their knuckles rapped for moving into the software area? Even if they could gen up a set of customs, they'd still have to be competitive on price. Sony has a lot of experience in this area from it's consumer electronics business.
Look at some of the application notes for the PIC microcontroller. A $2-3 chip could easily debounce 25 buttons and output a serial stream.
You're missing the point. The article talks about aerospace applications. In aerospace, you're given a budget of space, weight, power, and cooling air to implement a function. You spend a lot of time making tradeoffs to get as much functionality, reliability, and speed in that budget. Devices like copper heat pipes are used to move heat from hot spots to the cooling air. If this is lighter, cost becomes less of an issue.
Don't forget Mary Elizabeth Cummins, who went to Georgetown. Georgetown uses (used?) First six of last name + first initial + middle initial.
I had a former boss who kept an X-Ray tube on his desk. It looked like a light bulb the size of a basketball. The "filament" was a spinning disk of tungsten 3-4" across. Way heavy... Way cool.
Another boss later kept an empty 20mm cartridge topped with a bullet of depleted uranium. It weighed about twice what you'd expect if you thought it was iron.
Both were very jealous of their treasures.
Makes sense. Uranium was named after Uranus...