Let's see. Mice, Joysticks, Voice command things for games. That's some hardware Microsoft makes. I'm sure there are other examples.
Windows runs on Intel (and some other) platforms. Intel gets to decide their own architecture, not Microsoft. In addition, I don't think anyone ever said RISC wasn't a better proccessor. The reason people stayed with x86 architecture is because of backwards compatability with all the mission critical business apps that are out there.
Apple didn't HAVE any mission critical business apps written for it, therefore they didn't have a problem upgrading.
When calling someone an idiot, the word you are looking for is you're. You may also use "you are". The use of "your" really makes YOU look like an idiot.
Anything that compiles down to IL will work on any machine with a CLR. Just like anything that produces byte code will run in a JVM. Running on a pocketPC machine will likely have more to do with the libraries and functions you use, and how you design your GUI than with the language you wrote in.
Thats the whole point of the CLR. C#, VB, Cobol, J# etc are all interchangable.
Delphi is a great language, and great set of libraries. But Delphi.Net is dumb. you wont have the VCL, or all the libraries, so all you have is Pascal syntax basically. (Not that Pascal is bad, I think it gives the readability of Basic, with the power of C)
You can trust them not to peak, because your information wouldnt be part of a good random sample of all households. Therefore your information would skew the data, therefore the data would not be as valuable to the networks, and Nielsons would lose money.
Thats why they only gather info if you are already a nielsons family (which has lots of stuff to insure they are getting random samples already).
If they did this for every Tivo, they would get highly skewed results for 20-40 year old single techno-savvy males. The xfiles, lone gunmen, alias, and dark angel would all be #1 overnight.
This is not illegal anywhere. You are just a non-exempt worker. This is actually in the employees favor, because you get paid overtime and whatnot.
Simmilarly, I can work by the hour for a maid service, and they rent(contract) my services our to people who want their house cleaned.
Or I can work for a roofing company, by the hour.
In both these cases, I wouldn't get benefits, or sick time or anything (well, you might, but its not mandatory). Just because a large percentage of people out there DO get benefits for the same job, doesnt mean you have to.
On a simmilar not, if you are salaried, and they dock your pay by the hour if you are late or whatever, they are legally required to give you overtime in addition to your salary, because they are treating you as non-exempt.
Several consulting firms hire non-salaried people to contract out to sites. In these situations, you get paid by the hour, but don't get benefits, or vacation, or sick time. You generally get a higher hourly wage than a salaried person gets if you average out their salary. (To account for vacation, and the risk inherint in the situation). You do not get as much as if you independantly consulted.
In this case, he is employed by the company, and the company is already paying FICA etc. but he doesn't get his sick leave or anything.
He is a contractor, just not an independant contractor.
Your brother recording something and mailing it to you while he retains a copy is already illegal. To use your own logic : why does the internet make it different?
JBoss will be a relitively easy upgrade, since JBoss does not include any vendor extentions to Java. Therefore your app should be "vanilla" The websphere to weblogic upgrade could be more difficult, because there are vendor extentions. Any code which used that vendor extention will most likely need to be re-written.
Java is write once run anywhere, but only if you stick to the standard. The standard doesn't do everything (yet) so the vendors have pushed the envelope (Just like the browser war)
If you write to the standard you are fine. If you need/want the advanced features, be prepared for migration re-writes.
If the public money commissioned a work, than the work would be owned by the city, which presumably would be then redistributed for the peoples good. (But maybe not) Alternatively the work could be sold and the money used for the public good.
However, in this case, its more like a city buying a copy of a book. The book was paid for with public funds, but that doesnt give the city the right to make as many copies of the book as they choose.
Nobody went without bandwidth, but the ISP had to pay for the bandwidth, and at the ISP level, bandwidth is often metered. So this is not the case of "they cost us the 1/4 million in revenue they should have had to pay for this" but an actual " they cost us the 1/4 million we had to pay our upstream for the bandwidth they used, when they only paid us $30/mo"
Did anyone actually read the article? It doesn't allow for DoS attacks on pirates, or anything damaging. The bulk of what it allows are putting up of decoy files, and doing the slow download thing.
This is like saying : people steal lots of stuff from best buy, and best buy wants to put up some empty boxes on the shelves, so people steal those instead. You go to the cash register to get the stuff.
Actually, you are the stupid f*$#. He was talking about Angelina Jolie. There were rumors flying around a year or two ago that she might have a... less than appropriate relationship with her brother, after she kissed him (not a peck) at an awards show, and based on some stuff she said at an interview.
Vendors only pay if they have non fraudulent transactions to make up for the difference.
In general, the vendor has already received money from the CC co by the time fraud is reported. Since the CC company would have to spend a whole bunch of time and money trying to get the money back (probably unsuccessfully) they let them have the money. But then they dont pay them for the next X$ worth of transactions that come through.
So if I get $1k of fraud on my card, the CC company eats that $1k, until the vendor gets another $1k worth of transactions, which the CC company pockets, and then the slate is wiped clean.
In this case, if the majority of transactions are fraudulent, the CC company just eats it, and turns off the charge priviledges of that vendor.
Linux isnt free. It cost the developers quite a bit of time and effort (Which both mean money) in development. They have chosen to donate their work to the collective. YOU are supposed to be contributing your own time and effort as well to improve the product. (There again, not free). If you are not, then you are just freeloading. (On the other ahnd, maybe you are contributing your adoration, which strokes the developers ego instead of their pocketbook)
Um. The wireless network has to be hookued up to the net somewhere. That means cable or T1s or something.
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^H means (Control-H) which is what most terminal emulators use for the backspace character. So when you hit backspace, it sends out a ^H. Back in the text days, if you had your terminal emulation set wrong, if you hit backspace, instead of deleting a character you would see ^H. So the joke is that they type Booth Babes^H^H^H^H^H^H^HNew Games.
This means they typed booth babes, backspaced it and then retyped new games.
Well, they all share the old testament. And at least in name the same God. (Read a history of God for some interesting info about how Islam morphed from a polytheistic society where Al'Ah was amountain God, into the same God as Yaeweh) But Christians are generally not considered to be decended from Abraham, nor are Muslims. If they were, we would all be Hebrews.
You are quite right, the model is more complex, but I didn't want to over indulge my predilictions for economics:)
The real model (Classical) The consumer demand curve shows the various quantities demanded of a product at various price points. The position of these various points is determined by a number of factors. (Availability of a substitute, quality of a substitute, price of complimentary goods, perception of popularity, neccessity (medicine vs candy), etc). In general people will buy more of a good the cheaper it is, and less of a good the more expensive it is. The slope and shape of the curve show you the elasticity of demand for that item (How volitile is the quantity demanded when the price changes.)
That takes care of the consumer.
The Supplier has fixed costs and variable costs, as you said. You did a decent job of explaining the cost structure, so I wont go through the Econ 101 stuff with that, but I will toss in Economies of Scale as a factor which you ignored.
However, almost all of the "fixed costs" you listed are in fact variable costs. Media, paper, assembly, and shipping are all things that happen on a per item basis. Fixed costs would be things like the cost of the lease for the factory, which does not change depending on how many units you produce. Also, if your labor is not flexible (they have union contracts so you cant fire them or something) then your labor is also a fixed cost. If you can rapidly hire and fire people, then labor is more of a variable cost.
However, those costs have nothing to do with price.
You cross the demand curve and the suply curve, and that gives you a price (and a quantity). (Actually, that is over simplified - the producer will continue to produce until the marginal cost of production is equal to the price per unit.)
This is in a competitive market of course.
In a monopoly the cost curve works exactly the same, but the demand curve slopes differently. This is because the consumer does not have an alternative. (The demand curve for a monopoly is the same as the sum of all demand curves for a competative industry - That is : If you add the demand curve for coke and pepsi together, that is what the demand curve would look like if there were only one soda in the world)
In a monopoly, the producer decides how many units he would like to sell (based on marginal costs) and looks at the demand curve to decide what price he should sell at to get that much quantity sold. (Of course, that assumes the producer knows what the demand curve looks like - which is why they hire all kinds of accountants and marketing research people to make good guesses at that)
You imply that the price the consumer pays for a good is in some way related to the cost to the manufacturer for making it. The price of an item is determined by the demand, not the cost. (This is actually oversimplified, quantity and price interact recursivly.)
"La Raza" is the collective group taken by some hispanic americans. The viewpoint I presented above is almost guaranteed NOT to be the viewpoint of all hispanic americans, and perhaps is the viewpoint of only a small vocal minority of hispanic americans.
The seperatist movment is the Aztlan movement, and their propaganda rich site can be found at http://aztlan.net
I have never noticed any significant anti-semitism from Japanese people, although they are much more xenophobic than most groups I have interacted with.
If there is some legitimate increased anti-semitism in Japan, it may be due to Japan's Axis status in WWII. Japan and Germany collaborated quite a bit on their propaganda, with some German propaganda refering to the Japanese as their Asian Aryan Brothers. It is concievable that the Japanese propaganda machine picked up on some of the Anti semitical propaganda of their allies.
A simmilar situation is developing now with "La Raza", a group of people who want to cecede quite a bit of the southwest and form a new country for all the hispanics. Their real goal (hispanic unity and cecession) aside, they are politically allied with the palestine liberation movments and other arab groups. As a result, their website echos the anti-jewish rhetoric of their allies, even though the people in question have no real interaction (more than anyone else in the US) with jews.
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If they don't it will be worthless, since interop runns REALLY slow compared to managed.
Let's see. Mice, Joysticks, Voice command things for games. That's some hardware Microsoft makes. I'm sure there are other examples.
Windows runs on Intel (and some other) platforms. Intel gets to decide their own architecture, not Microsoft. In addition, I don't think anyone ever said RISC wasn't a better proccessor. The reason people stayed with x86 architecture is because of backwards compatability with all the mission critical business apps that are out there.
Apple didn't HAVE any mission critical business apps written for it, therefore they didn't have a problem upgrading.
When calling someone an idiot, the word you are looking for is you're. You may also use "you are". The use of "your" really makes YOU look like an idiot.
Anything that compiles down to IL will work on any machine with a CLR. Just like anything that produces byte code will run in a JVM. Running on a pocketPC machine will likely have more to do with the libraries and functions you use, and how you design your GUI than with the language you wrote in.
Thats the whole point of the CLR. C#, VB, Cobol, J# etc are all interchangable.
Delphi is a great language, and great set of libraries. But Delphi.Net is dumb. you wont have the VCL, or all the libraries, so all you have is Pascal syntax basically. (Not that Pascal is bad, I think it gives the readability of Basic, with the power of C)
You can trust them not to peak, because your information wouldnt be part of a good random sample of all households. Therefore your information would skew the data, therefore the data would not be as valuable to the networks, and Nielsons would lose money.
Thats why they only gather info if you are already a nielsons family (which has lots of stuff to insure they are getting random samples already).
If they did this for every Tivo, they would get highly skewed results for 20-40 year old single techno-savvy males. The xfiles, lone gunmen, alias, and dark angel would all be #1 overnight.
Since the relevant law in this case is mostly federal, I doubt you are correct, but Id be interested if you could point to some documentation.
This is not illegal anywhere. You are just a non-exempt worker. This is actually in the employees favor, because you get paid overtime and whatnot.
Simmilarly, I can work by the hour for a maid service, and they rent(contract) my services our to people who want their house cleaned.
Or I can work for a roofing company, by the hour.
In both these cases, I wouldn't get benefits, or sick time or anything (well, you might, but its not mandatory). Just because a large percentage of people out there DO get benefits for the same job, doesnt mean you have to.
On a simmilar not, if you are salaried, and they dock your pay by the hour if you are late or whatever, they are legally required to give you overtime in addition to your salary, because they are treating you as non-exempt.
Several consulting firms hire non-salaried people to contract out to sites. In these situations, you get paid by the hour, but don't get benefits, or vacation, or sick time. You generally get a higher hourly wage than a salaried person gets if you average out their salary. (To account for vacation, and the risk inherint in the situation). You do not get as much as if you independantly consulted.
In this case, he is employed by the company, and the company is already paying FICA etc. but he doesn't get his sick leave or anything.
He is a contractor, just not an independant contractor.
Your brother recording something and mailing it to you while he retains a copy is already illegal. To use your own logic : why does the internet make it different?
I follow you as far as 1 and 2, 3 is more iffy, since your brother still has a copy of his own.
Would it be okay for me to record stuff to a VCR, and then copy tapes and distribute them via a catalog?
JBoss will be a relitively easy upgrade, since JBoss does not include any vendor extentions to Java. Therefore your app should be "vanilla" The websphere to weblogic upgrade could be more difficult, because there are vendor extentions. Any code which used that vendor extention will most likely need to be re-written.
Java is write once run anywhere, but only if you stick to the standard. The standard doesn't do everything (yet) so the vendors have pushed the envelope (Just like the browser war)
If you write to the standard you are fine. If you need/want the advanced features, be prepared for migration re-writes.
If the public money commissioned a work, than the work would be owned by the city, which presumably would be then redistributed for the peoples good. (But maybe not) Alternatively the work could be sold and the money used for the public good.
However, in this case, its more like a city buying a copy of a book. The book was paid for with public funds, but that doesnt give the city the right to make as many copies of the book as they choose.
Nobody went without bandwidth, but the ISP had to pay for the bandwidth, and at the ISP level, bandwidth is often metered. So this is not the case of "they cost us the 1/4 million in revenue they should have had to pay for this" but an actual " they cost us the 1/4 million we had to pay our upstream for the bandwidth they used, when they only paid us $30/mo"
Did anyone actually read the article? It doesn't allow for DoS attacks on pirates, or anything damaging. The bulk of what it allows are putting up of decoy files, and doing the slow download thing.
This is like saying : people steal lots of stuff from best buy, and best buy wants to put up some empty boxes on the shelves, so people steal those instead. You go to the cash register to get the stuff.
There is nothing even vaugely evil about this.
Actually, you are the stupid f*$#. He was talking about Angelina Jolie. There were rumors flying around a year or two ago that she might have a... less than appropriate relationship with her brother, after she kissed him (not a peck) at an awards show, and based on some stuff she said at an interview.
Vendors only pay if they have non fraudulent transactions to make up for the difference.
In general, the vendor has already received money from the CC co by the time fraud is reported. Since the CC company would have to spend a whole bunch of time and money trying to get the money back (probably unsuccessfully) they let them have the money. But then they dont pay them for the next X$ worth of transactions that come through.
So if I get $1k of fraud on my card, the CC company eats that $1k, until the vendor gets another $1k worth of transactions, which the CC company pockets, and then the slate is wiped clean.
In this case, if the majority of transactions are fraudulent, the CC company just eats it, and turns off the charge priviledges of that vendor.
The transcriber handwriting recognition on the pcoketpc works great. I use it as a primary means of input.
Handwriting has worked ever since rosetta back on the newtons.
And worst case, you always have grafitti.
Linux isnt free. It cost the developers quite a bit of time and effort (Which both mean money) in development. They have chosen to donate their work to the collective. YOU are supposed to be contributing your own time and effort as well to improve the product. (There again, not free). If you are not, then you are just freeloading. (On the other ahnd, maybe you are contributing your adoration, which strokes the developers ego instead of their pocketbook)
Um. The wireless network has to be hookued up to the net somewhere. That means cable or T1s or something.
^H means (Control-H) which is what most terminal emulators use for the backspace character. So when you hit backspace, it sends out a ^H. Back in the text days, if you had your terminal emulation set wrong, if you hit backspace, instead of deleting a character you would see ^H. So the joke is that they type Booth Babes^H^H^H^H^H^H^HNew Games.
This means they typed booth babes, backspaced it and then retyped new games.
Well, they all share the old testament. And at least in name the same God. (Read a history of God for some interesting info about how Islam morphed from a polytheistic society where Al'Ah was amountain God, into the same God as Yaeweh) But Christians are generally not considered to be decended from Abraham, nor are Muslims. If they were, we would all be Hebrews.
You are quite right, the model is more complex, but I didn't want to over indulge my predilictions for economics :)
The real model (Classical)
The consumer demand curve shows the various quantities demanded of a product at various price points. The position of these various points is determined by a number of factors. (Availability of a substitute, quality of a substitute, price of complimentary goods, perception of popularity, neccessity (medicine vs candy), etc). In general people will buy more of a good the cheaper it is, and less of a good the more expensive it is. The slope and shape of the curve show you the elasticity of demand for that item (How volitile is the quantity demanded when the price changes.)
That takes care of the consumer.
The Supplier has fixed costs and variable costs, as you said. You did a decent job of explaining the cost structure, so I wont go through the Econ 101 stuff with that, but I will toss in Economies of Scale as a factor which you ignored.
However, almost all of the "fixed costs" you listed are in fact variable costs. Media, paper, assembly, and shipping are all things that happen on a per item basis. Fixed costs would be things like the cost of the lease for the factory, which does not change depending on how many units you produce. Also, if your labor is not flexible (they have union contracts so you cant fire them or something) then your labor is also a fixed cost. If you can rapidly hire and fire people, then labor is more of a variable cost.
However, those costs have nothing to do with price.
You cross the demand curve and the suply curve, and that gives you a price (and a quantity). (Actually, that is over simplified - the producer will continue to produce until the marginal cost of production is equal to the price per unit.)
This is in a competitive market of course.
In a monopoly the cost curve works exactly the same, but the demand curve slopes differently. This is because the consumer does not have an alternative. (The demand curve for a monopoly is the same as the sum of all demand curves for a competative industry - That is : If you add the demand curve for coke and pepsi together, that is what the demand curve would look like if there were only one soda in the world)
In a monopoly, the producer decides how many units he would like to sell (based on marginal costs) and looks at the demand curve to decide what price he should sell at to get that much quantity sold. (Of course, that assumes the producer knows what the demand curve looks like - which is why they hire all kinds of accountants and marketing research people to make good guesses at that)
You obviously missed the last episode, where Jed said "Take Him"
You imply that the price the consumer pays for a good is in some way related to the cost to the manufacturer for making it. The price of an item is determined by the demand, not the cost. (This is actually oversimplified, quantity and price interact recursivly.)
One note, I may have over generalized.
"La Raza" is the collective group taken by some hispanic americans. The viewpoint I presented above is almost guaranteed NOT to be the viewpoint of all hispanic americans, and perhaps is the viewpoint of only a small vocal minority of hispanic americans.
The seperatist movment is the Aztlan movement, and their propaganda rich site can be found at http://aztlan.net
I have never noticed any significant anti-semitism from Japanese people, although they are much more xenophobic than most groups I have interacted with.
If there is some legitimate increased anti-semitism in Japan, it may be due to Japan's Axis status in WWII. Japan and Germany collaborated quite a bit on their propaganda, with some German propaganda refering to the Japanese as their Asian Aryan Brothers. It is concievable that the Japanese propaganda machine picked up on some of the Anti semitical propaganda of their allies.
A simmilar situation is developing now with "La Raza", a group of people who want to cecede quite a bit of the southwest and form a new country for all the hispanics. Their real goal (hispanic unity and cecession) aside, they are politically allied with the palestine liberation movments and other arab groups. As a result, their website echos the anti-jewish rhetoric of their allies, even though the people in question have no real interaction (more than anyone else in the US) with jews.