No, it's just what happens when you don't read things you wrote 15 years ago, or follow the industry. Kodak had got into the market and was kicking Polaroid's butt, and their ideas for regaining it were ugly and scary.
My guess is Polaroid's been surviving because of that patent infringement you mention. Nothing like making your competitor pay you for competing.
About 15 years ago I was in a B-school class that did a case study on Polaroid. They were in trouble then because Kodak's SX-70 instant-picture technology that didn't require user intervention or a wastebasket had obviated Polaroid's 35-year-old watch-your-watch system. Their newer systems didn't quite have the technical quality of Kodak's, and their product design was laughable. But they were clearly survivors, because they should have been dead then, not now.
If you could make speakers and enclosures out of lightweight materials, it would have been done long before now.
They're made out of 3/4th-inch plywood to take the stress of constant packing and unpacking.
I predict the first tour that tries to use these things will end up with what looks like the first all-duct-tape speaker enclosures by the end of the trip.
--Blair
Text on poster translated
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Translated text:
"ALL YOUR BERT ARE BELONG TO US"
Original text:
"MALAKA-HAI MALAKA-HAY MALAKA HEINY-HO"
You're comparing two utterly different business models.
A cable drop costs about a thousand bucks to install (with equipment), and you get $30 per month, every month, for years. Have you ever heard of anyone voluntarily dropping their broadband connection to go back to DSL or analog speeds? I sure haven't.
A corvette costs about $25,000 to produce and you only get to sell it once.
But, if your drops are crappy and your customers are stupid, you spend that $30 and more on repairs and handholding. And you've got the cable companies (known mother-rapers) as middlemen hocking you for a bigger piece and screwing up customer service even more out of spite. This was @home's problem. Excite's problem was that they believed their own hype and market cap and did some supremely stupid things insted of doing due diligence and trying to make a business.
$1300/mo for a T1 line is insanely overpriced (the phone companies are antediluvian retards). $30/mo for a cable line is insanely underpriced. $50/mo or so is the residential ballpark, $200/mo for businesses.
But I still think the primary reasons for using oil and rail lines is that the oil and rail companies already own the right of way. I can't imagine what it would take to get 3,000 miles of clear path across the U.S. in the 21st century. It probably saves several billion dollars in negotiations and leases.
Getting a little economy of scale on maintenance is a nice bonus.
Sounds like the collar was a classic episode of COPS:
Daniel Carson Lewis, a 37 year old man from a town near the pipeline, was arrested for shooting the pipeline with a.338 caliber rifle. He has been charged with felony assault, criminal mischief, weapons misconduct, and driving while intoxicated, and is being held on $1.5 million bail.
It's moderated as flamebait because of the characterization of Israeli retaliations as "brutalization".
The brutality is the heavily rationalized suicide bombing designed to terrorize Israel into quitting its nation. The retaliation is just retaliation. Tit-for-tat. Plucking it out of the context does not make it brutality. Labeling it brutalization is begging to be flamed.
If the Palestinian side were richer, Israel would be extinct. If the Israeli side were richer, they could afford to clean Hamas et al from the Palestinian areas, and the rest of the Palestinians might just be willing to live peacefully alongside Israel.
With almost the entire world involved in ridding us of this religion-camouflaged terrorist nonsense, it's only a matter of coming around to it on the schedule before Hamas et al are cleaned out of the Palestinian lands.
With the malignancy removed, we'll see what the remaining people can do about brokering peace.
Our days of ignoring the problem and keeping our noses out of the Middle East and South Asia are over.
It was a big, stupid mistake not going in the shed just because we *thought* the hornets were building a nest in there.
We, and the rest of the world, are going to knock down the nest and kill the queen. No queen, no workers. And we're going to check the eaves every once in a while from now on to see that the next nest doesn't get so big.
Cameras are a fairly good market, but not the only market.
I'm not really sure what USB2 is supposed to do, other than external HD's, but that just means I don't know which peripheral industry to invest in to take advantage of it.
Other than that, there's nothing wrong with new stuff.
What Bonzo's dad wasn't telling you was that we poured $3 billion into Afghanistan, and sent "advisors", those being special forces who trained the Afghan resistance and helped build the bomb shelters that helped them survive Soviet carpet bombing.
Reagan wasn't saluting freedom fighters; he was plugging for continued covert funding (by making people write their congressman asking why we weren't helping those poor people), and getting by-jingo points from it. Politics as usual. It worked, and the Soviets finally quit.
But what happened next? The remainder of the mujahedeen mercenary force, the ones who couldn't afford to go home--or couldn't leave Mos Eisley because they had the death sentence on twelve systems--turned into the equivalent of a biker gang, in a country that had been armed to the man, to the teeth.
When you see Taliban propaganda saying that the Afghanis welcomed them and they brought peace to the region, it's true, up to a propagandistic point. They stopped the mujahedeen gangs.
But what happened next? They ground humanity into a thin page of things they could do vs. thousands of pages of things they couldn't. Typical example of "give some people a badge". Children leading a nation. Religiously fanatical, confused, hate-steeped children.
They were taking dangerous weapons out of the hands of dangerous people.
You "inadvertently fund the drug trade" every day you fail to form a posse to track down the drug dealers in the dirty part of your town and pour drain cleaner down their throats.
The part might work in the non-specified board, but if you take another of the same part and board, it might not.
It's not "supported" because Intel didn't spend on the testing to ensure that it's supposed to work at levels that don't cost Intel a lot of returns.
They changed the voltages on the part to get some other benefit (lower power, more speed, better yield, whatever), and couldn't guarantee the old boards would work, so they designed a new board.
It's not that big a deal (unless you think it is) because people who pull their CPU and replace it are relatively few and far between.
Maybe the Yoyodyne computer knows the difference between Red Lectroids and Black Lectroids but nobody programmed the popup for it before the economy turned.
--Blair
"Requirements-based testing: it's not just for breakfast any more."
It's your money (especially if it's a student loan, because you pay that back plus a profit margin).
Your education is your choice.
The guidance is for that 94% of students who are in college because it's what teenagers do after high school and because HR departments act mechanically when sorting resume's and creating pay ladders. They don't know where they're going, so it shouldn't matter to you if they go nowhere. The school is just trying to make it look like their tuition isn't being as wasted as it is.
If you want to use your 4-10 years as training rather than renaissance-man building, that's what you pay the big bucks for. Load up on technology intelligence (math, science, engineering, writing), and take an archaeology or history class if you want to be bored in a different way for three hours a week.
We can track low-tech means of communication using existing anti-privacy laws and counter-espionage methods.
But isn't it obvious that if you use uncrackable crypto you'll pick up a humint tail who will try to see if your shrouded commo could contain plans for another attack?
Suspicions are easy to raise in an uneasy society. Ask any Muslim in America now if just going to church doesn't mark them for unjust reprisals, from dirty looks to murder.
All the violence is moot, anyway. We deliberately set up a society and a government that allows you to change it from within, in a way that, if your revolution is successful, guarantees your changes will be accepted. But our enemy does not have such a system in place.
It's not our freedom that needs to be ended. It's their tyranny.
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No, it's just what happens when you don't read things you wrote 15 years ago, or follow the industry. Kodak had got into the market and was kicking Polaroid's butt, and their ideas for regaining it were ugly and scary.
My guess is Polaroid's been surviving because of that patent infringement you mention. Nothing like making your competitor pay you for competing.
--Blair
> the terrorists have also achieved that NO-ONE trusts the internet
Uh, no, that was achieved the day the thing was lit.
Everyone knew then, and has been telling you ever since, that the Internet is not a secure communications medium.
--Blair
About 15 years ago I was in a B-school class that did a case study on Polaroid. They were in trouble then because Kodak's SX-70 instant-picture technology that didn't require user intervention or a wastebasket had obviated Polaroid's 35-year-old watch-your-watch system. Their newer systems didn't quite have the technical quality of Kodak's, and their product design was laughable. But they were clearly survivors, because they should have been dead then, not now.
--Blair
Who did Sprint buy in the Silly Valley?
Elsewhere, I know they bought SpeedChoice, which operated in Phoenix (great town for line-of-sight) and Detroit (Detroit?).
--Blair
We have a lot of guys like him.
Whackos who got one thing right and went on to use the money to make other things seem right, all the while continuing to be whackos.
He won't tell you how much he has, but he brags about how much he's given away?
Yeah. We have far too many like him.
--Blair
If you could make speakers and enclosures out of lightweight materials, it would have been done long before now.
They're made out of 3/4th-inch plywood to take the stress of constant packing and unpacking.
I predict the first tour that tries to use these things will end up with what looks like the first all-duct-tape speaker enclosures by the end of the trip.
--Blair
Translated text:
"ALL YOUR BERT ARE BELONG TO US"
Original text:
"MALAKA-HAI MALAKA-HAY MALAKA HEINY-HO"
You're comparing two utterly different business models.
A cable drop costs about a thousand bucks to install (with equipment), and you get $30 per month, every month, for years. Have you ever heard of anyone voluntarily dropping their broadband connection to go back to DSL or analog speeds? I sure haven't.
A corvette costs about $25,000 to produce and you only get to sell it once.
But, if your drops are crappy and your customers are stupid, you spend that $30 and more on repairs and handholding. And you've got the cable companies (known mother-rapers) as middlemen hocking you for a bigger piece and screwing up customer service even more out of spite. This was @home's problem. Excite's problem was that they believed their own hype and market cap and did some supremely stupid things insted of doing due diligence and trying to make a business.
$1300/mo for a T1 line is insanely overpriced (the phone companies are antediluvian retards). $30/mo for a cable line is insanely underpriced. $50/mo or so is the residential ballpark, $200/mo for businesses.
--Blair
Interesting.
But I still think the primary reasons for using oil and rail lines is that the oil and rail companies already own the right of way. I can't imagine what it would take to get 3,000 miles of clear path across the U.S. in the 21st century. It probably saves several billion dollars in negotiations and leases.
Getting a little economy of scale on maintenance is a nice bonus.
--Blair
Sounds like the collar was a classic episode of COPS:
.338 caliber rifle. He has been charged with felony assault, criminal mischief, weapons misconduct, and driving while intoxicated, and is being held on $1.5 million bail.
Daniel Carson Lewis, a 37 year old man from a town near the pipeline, was arrested for shooting the pipeline with a
--Blair
It's moderated as flamebait because of the characterization of Israeli retaliations as "brutalization".
The brutality is the heavily rationalized suicide bombing designed to terrorize Israel into quitting its nation. The retaliation is just retaliation. Tit-for-tat. Plucking it out of the context does not make it brutality. Labeling it brutalization is begging to be flamed.
If the Palestinian side were richer, Israel would be extinct. If the Israeli side were richer, they could afford to clean Hamas et al from the Palestinian areas, and the rest of the Palestinians might just be willing to live peacefully alongside Israel.
With almost the entire world involved in ridding us of this religion-camouflaged terrorist nonsense, it's only a matter of coming around to it on the schedule before Hamas et al are cleaned out of the Palestinian lands.
With the malignancy removed, we'll see what the remaining people can do about brokering peace.
--Blair
> And no I do not get a commotion for this ad
Not even a little jostle?
--Blair
If they are not around to recruit, they won't.
Our days of ignoring the problem and keeping our noses out of the Middle East and South Asia are over.
It was a big, stupid mistake not going in the shed just because we *thought* the hornets were building a nest in there.
We, and the rest of the world, are going to knock down the nest and kill the queen. No queen, no workers. And we're going to check the eaves every once in a while from now on to see that the next nest doesn't get so big.
--Blair
Cameras are a fairly good market, but not the only market.
I'm not really sure what USB2 is supposed to do, other than external HD's, but that just means I don't know which peripheral industry to invest in to take advantage of it.
Other than that, there's nothing wrong with new stuff.
--Blair
What Bonzo's dad wasn't telling you was that we poured $3 billion into Afghanistan, and sent "advisors", those being special forces who trained the Afghan resistance and helped build the bomb shelters that helped them survive Soviet carpet bombing.
Reagan wasn't saluting freedom fighters; he was plugging for continued covert funding (by making people write their congressman asking why we weren't helping those poor people), and getting by-jingo points from it. Politics as usual. It worked, and the Soviets finally quit.
But what happened next? The remainder of the mujahedeen mercenary force, the ones who couldn't afford to go home--or couldn't leave Mos Eisley because they had the death sentence on twelve systems--turned into the equivalent of a biker gang, in a country that had been armed to the man, to the teeth.
When you see Taliban propaganda saying that the Afghanis welcomed them and they brought peace to the region, it's true, up to a propagandistic point. They stopped the mujahedeen gangs.
But what happened next? They ground humanity into a thin page of things they could do vs. thousands of pages of things they couldn't. Typical example of "give some people a badge". Children leading a nation. Religiously fanatical, confused, hate-steeped children.
--Blair
The drug trade doesn't need subsidies.
They were taking dangerous weapons out of the hands of dangerous people.
You "inadvertently fund the drug trade" every day you fail to form a posse to track down the drug dealers in the dirty part of your town and pour drain cleaner down their throats.
--Blair
Calm down, get a grip, and go on with your life.
We're all in this together. That's why it's a war.
If we don't do this, then you are in far more danger, because they will grow in number and boldness.
You are no more in danger now than you were yesterday, and because of this you will be in less danger next year.
--Blair
>Kill them, and more will come.
Militant fanaticism is not an inherited trait.
It is taught.
There are a large number of these fanatics, but it is a finite number at any time, and the production of them is laborious.
Kill enough in a short enough time, teach their children well by dismantling the schools of hate, and it will end.
That may be drastic, but so is this enemy, and they can not be permitted to win, or, as you fear, they will never go away.
--Blair
The part might work in the non-specified board, but if you take another of the same part and board, it might not.
It's not "supported" because Intel didn't spend on the testing to ensure that it's supposed to work at levels that don't cost Intel a lot of returns.
They changed the voltages on the part to get some other benefit (lower power, more speed, better yield, whatever), and couldn't guarantee the old boards would work, so they designed a new board.
It's not that big a deal (unless you think it is) because people who pull their CPU and replace it are relatively few and far between.
--Blair
High speed nuclear powered aerial gondolas.
--Blair
"No? Dang."
Concur.
Farscape is good, solid skiffy.
Lexx is just Gilligan's Island with bugs and necrophilia.
I think they owe the guy who invented 7-second-delay a *lot* of money.
--Blair
Maybe the Yoyodyne computer knows the difference between Red Lectroids and Black Lectroids but nobody programmed the popup for it before the economy turned.
--Blair
"Requirements-based testing: it's not just for breakfast any more."
It's your money (especially if it's a student loan, because you pay that back plus a profit margin).
Your education is your choice.
The guidance is for that 94% of students who are in college because it's what teenagers do after high school and because HR departments act mechanically when sorting resume's and creating pay ladders. They don't know where they're going, so it shouldn't matter to you if they go nowhere. The school is just trying to make it look like their tuition isn't being as wasted as it is.
If you want to use your 4-10 years as training rather than renaissance-man building, that's what you pay the big bucks for. Load up on technology intelligence (math, science, engineering, writing), and take an archaeology or history class if you want to be bored in a different way for three hours a week.
We can track low-tech means of communication using existing anti-privacy laws and counter-espionage methods.
But isn't it obvious that if you use uncrackable crypto you'll pick up a humint tail who will try to see if your shrouded commo could contain plans for another attack?
Suspicions are easy to raise in an uneasy society. Ask any Muslim in America now if just going to church doesn't mark them for unjust reprisals, from dirty looks to murder.
All the violence is moot, anyway. We deliberately set up a society and a government that allows you to change it from within, in a way that, if your revolution is successful, guarantees your changes will be accepted. But our enemy does not have such a system in place.
It's not our freedom that needs to be ended. It's their tyranny.
--Blair