While the free market is profit motivated, it also spurs competition. Competition produces better services or products for lower prices. When a monopoly exists, then quality is reduced. If a single health care provider produces lower quality service, they get fewer customers, and reduced profits. Thus, competition keeps services in check.
Assuming unlimited improvement is possible or a large amount of competition. Unfortunately this "ideal" set up is as hard as "Ideal" communism. Corruption tends to skew it and you can't eliminate corruption. There has been very few deregulation events that actually lowered prices and improved quality and there is a lower limit to how much you can offer without changing the quality. On top of that a free market doesn't work when most of your buyers don't understand your product. Medical matters fall into this real. How do you know your doctor doesn't know what he's talking about when he prescribes your kid lithium. Or when you go for eye surgery can you compare results if he does 80% worse work then the competition? True free market capitalism is as unrealistic as true benevolent communism.
Health care in the US is not free market, it is heavily regulated. Because of these regulations, the costs of health care in the US are IIRC, 2.5 times higher than anywhere else in the world. Health care costs the most in the US out of anywhere in the world, and the US spends the most out of any country on health care, but does not get the benefits of those costs. So, a true free market system would actually be better than what is currently in place, because competition would allow a decrease in prices for consumers seeking treatment.
Are you sure it's lack of a truly "free" market that makes it 2.5 tiems as expensive? Becuase the margins for most services from provider to customer is about 2.0 -2.5 times. So while every country is paying cost, the US ispaying cost+profit. In atruly free market the thing would happen. The efficencies of a free market will nto negate the need to profit and the only way you can price match in that system is to reduce quality. Every system has flaws.
Still a matter of WHEN not IF. When the coal runs out then what? By volume coal plants do more damage then nuclear. If you do it right the end products are low radiactivity but highly toxic heavy metals. No more dangerous then the byproducts of coal burning except less of it.
Of course, a civilization that advanced could probably just make artificial gravity generators.
If it's possible. It may not. It's a huge object requiring a lot of fantastic technologies. But a shell less then earth thick and earth density of the earth would result in lower gravity. If it had a great deal more dendity it may need less overall mass. For instance if they had some way to use stable degenerate matter they wouldn't have to have it the thickness of earth and less mass as well.
If it's as thick as the earth then yes it would have the gravity of the earth. But thats a massive amount of material. thousands of times more then in this solar system. Although the contruct would have earth like gravity, it would require so much material it would require thousands of star systems to create.
Mod parent insightful not troll. Green Peace is irrelavant. They are attention whores who try to grab headlines but do veyr little to forward true enviromentalism. all flash, no substance and hardly a braincell between them. A slightly smarter and wiser version of PETA. although thats not hard.
Green peaces relavance has always been questionable. Most academic enviromental scientist despise them and groups like them because they target high profile but ussually unimportant causes. Diverting attention from real problems. For instance you could kill every spotted owl in existsance and it would not effect the basic ecology of the area. Other species will take up the niche the spotted. Almost all north american endangered species have a more successful cousin. Their loss isnt' significant. But more obscure causes like land preservation efforts in the amazon don't get the same headlines. Similiar groups like PETA also actively impede preservation efforts liek culling of certain animals to avoid a population crash. Enviromental Stewardship involves more then hugging fury things which a lot of activist organization don't acknowlege.
Nuclear energy and research which reduces the amount of damage energy generation causes is protested byt hese groups too. There are arguements against nuclear but they are more valid for the US. In canada our nuclear energy policies tend to be saner. But there is still a stigma about nuclear energy and it's mostly due to misinformation form media and groups like green peace.
For nuclear, it's not about IF we us eit it's abotu When and for how long.
Keep in mind your comparing first gen PS3 games to 3rd abd 4th gen Xbox games. There is more potential in the PS3 despite the parity of the RSX to the Xenos. The Xenos has some nifty features over the RSX too but generally they aren't that far apart.
The MPAA has every right to try to suppress distribution of this key. Is the effort pointless and futile? Yes. But they still have the right to waste their time and money trying.
No they don't actually. They have a legal right to punish the person who leaked this "trade secret" if they got it through illegal means or ban any explicit instructions on how to circumvent the HD-DVD protection. They have no ethical right to do so and this hex number is not a thing they can suppress. Like another poster put succinctly:
If I fail to protect my password, I cannot ethically or legally force others to stop spreading it.
Does this mean we like blu-ray now? I know the two are almost identical but Slashdot seemed to back HD-DVD. Not sure why. Does this mean we can stop hating Blizzard now.. er wait. I get so confused what does the collective want me to think...
And to those who are, indeed, mad as hell, consider what you will do after this incident is over. Kevin and the other admins may indeed fear a lawsuit if they don't take these articles down. Is that wrong, or is the law that allows this possibility the thing that is wrong? It's easy to sit there and paste line after line of numbers, but what would you do in the face of a lawsuit, even if it it's a ridiculous lawsuit supported by a law crafted just for this kind of abuse? You're taking action now, but will you get organized to push for real change tomorrow, the day after, and the day after that?
From the information others have posted it would seem ironic that by censoring they have exposed themselves to the said lawsuits.
Waiting 8h for a movies isn't that convenient. I have 3.0 mbit internet the competitor offers up to 8.0 but thats cable so I get 8.0 only late at night. at either speed a 13 gig movie is a bit much for me. my time is worth more then the movie.
The criticism are somewhat valid but you can play non UMD movies on the PSP. Just stick then in mp4 in the right resolution on a memory stick and your good. It's be nice if it supported something other then memory stick or had a sizable internal drive. I do think Sony Music/Movies are clobbering Sony electronics/Games with demands to include things that are superfluous to the function of the device. I enjoy the bluray on my Ps3, I'd enjoy it more if sony pictures released downloadable movies.
So what part of this argument doesn't negate all of the patants that Microsoft has on their software? If you can't be sued because your software isn't a component that was included in a computer, and claim that because the software was copied onto the system and therefore was not included with it, it doesn't constitute a component of the patentable item. simple.. if MS has a patent in that country they are okay. AT&T doesn't hold a patent for that bit in many of the countries MS sells to. So MS can sell there royalty free and At&T must apply to patent what ever it is MS has used.
The real question this brings up is if someone pirates this same overseas master disk and distributes those copies, doesn't it follow that MS has no recourse, that the only ones being infringed are the overseas distrbutors and not MS? They have no recourse to persue patent compensation but they could persue copy-right violations. Violating a patent is not violating a copyright law. They are no equivalent. Although both are used in similiar ways: temparary monopoly on some ideas.
Because it's shared agony. A bachlors/masters/doctorate degree is a serious marathon of agony. They refuse to admit anyone into their club that did not walk through those coals. Those that can do the job but didn't ensure the same torture are excluded because of this. Thats what university is, not higher learning but a institution to excludes those who could not hack the course. We are rightly upset when someone claims the credentials when they didn't endure like we did. Like it or not a degree does show endurance and work ethic or inate brillance. Not every job needs a certain degree for it, but a applicant with a degree has endurance and work ethic or inate brillance while a person without one is a unknown quantity.
8) Take cash, just as much as you need and no more, and use the cash only fast checkout. Oddly the best buys around here have 1 cash line which is almost always slwoer then the 3 credit/debit lines. they know your strategies and are attempting to defeat you!
I'm perfectly willing to do so. The hardware is somewhat on par with the PS3 in a lot of ways varying much only in the DVD drive and CPU. The CPU is likely cheaper then the PS3 but not that much cheaper and the Drive is not that much either. The xbox was aloss almost through out it's entire lifespan. But the loss is somewhat large compared to the numbers sold, I wouldn't imagien they take that much of a bath on them.
Sony doesn't have a back up division to rely on. Their most profitable division is their gaming division. Their other divisions do not have the same return or account for as much of their business. They depend on Sony gaming division to float the company. They have as much to lose or more as Nintendo. MS is just in to rock the boat and get their foot in the door. They can lose money indefinately.
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While the free market is profit motivated, it also spurs competition. Competition produces better services or products for lower prices. When a monopoly exists, then quality is reduced. If a single health care provider produces lower quality service, they get fewer customers, and reduced profits. Thus, competition keeps services in check.
Assuming unlimited improvement is possible or a large amount of competition. Unfortunately this "ideal" set up is as hard as "Ideal" communism. Corruption tends to skew it and you can't eliminate corruption. There has been very few deregulation events that actually lowered prices and improved quality and there is a lower limit to how much you can offer without changing the quality. On top of that a free market doesn't work when most of your buyers don't understand your product. Medical matters fall into this real. How do you know your doctor doesn't know what he's talking about when he prescribes your kid lithium. Or when you go for eye surgery can you compare results if he does 80% worse work then the competition? True free market capitalism is as unrealistic as true benevolent communism.
Health care in the US is not free market, it is heavily regulated. Because of these regulations, the costs of health care in the US are IIRC, 2.5 times higher than anywhere else in the world. Health care costs the most in the US out of anywhere in the world, and the US spends the most out of any country on health care, but does not get the benefits of those costs. So, a true free market system would actually be better than what is currently in place, because competition would allow a decrease in prices for consumers seeking treatment.
Are you sure it's lack of a truly "free" market that makes it 2.5 tiems as expensive? Becuase the margins for most services from provider to customer is about 2.0 -2.5 times. So while every country is paying cost, the US ispaying cost+profit. In atruly free market the thing would happen. The efficencies of a free market will nto negate the need to profit and the only way you can price match in that system is to reduce quality. Every system has flaws.
Still a matter of WHEN not IF. When the coal runs out then what? By volume coal plants do more damage then nuclear. If you do it right the end products are low radiactivity but highly toxic heavy metals. No more dangerous then the byproducts of coal burning except less of it.
Of course, a civilization that advanced could probably just make artificial gravity generators.
If it's possible. It may not. It's a huge object requiring a lot of fantastic technologies. But a shell less then earth thick and earth density of the earth would result in lower gravity. If it had a great deal more dendity it may need less overall mass. For instance if they had some way to use stable degenerate matter they wouldn't have to have it the thickness of earth and less mass as well.
If it's as thick as the earth then yes it would have the gravity of the earth. But thats a massive amount of material. thousands of times more then in this solar system. Although the contruct would have earth like gravity, it would require so much material it would require thousands of star systems to create.
Gravity is affected by mass linearly but radius exponentially. so At 1AU you'd have negigible gravity compared to earths gravity.
Mod parent insightful not troll. Green Peace is irrelavant. They are attention whores who try to grab headlines but do veyr little to forward true enviromentalism. all flash, no substance and hardly a braincell between them. A slightly smarter and wiser version of PETA. although thats not hard.
You have to balance off recycling with the higher energy required for recycling. Many materials cost more energy to recycle then to get new.
Green peaces relavance has always been questionable. Most academic enviromental scientist despise them and groups like them because they target high profile but ussually unimportant causes. Diverting attention from real problems. For instance you could kill every spotted owl in existsance and it would not effect the basic ecology of the area. Other species will take up the niche the spotted. Almost all north american endangered species have a more successful cousin. Their loss isnt' significant. But more obscure causes like land preservation efforts in the amazon don't get the same headlines. Similiar groups like PETA also actively impede preservation efforts liek culling of certain animals to avoid a population crash. Enviromental Stewardship involves more then hugging fury things which a lot of activist organization don't acknowlege.
Nuclear energy and research which reduces the amount of damage energy generation causes is protested byt hese groups too. There are arguements against nuclear but they are more valid for the US. In canada our nuclear energy policies tend to be saner. But there is still a stigma about nuclear energy and it's mostly due to misinformation form media and groups like green peace.
For nuclear, it's not about IF we us eit it's abotu When and for how long.
Keep in mind your comparing first gen PS3 games to 3rd abd 4th gen Xbox games. There is more potential in the PS3 despite the parity of the RSX to the Xenos. The Xenos has some nifty features over the RSX too but generally they aren't that far apart.
The MPAA has every right to try to suppress distribution of this key. Is the effort pointless and futile? Yes. But they still have the right to waste their time and money trying.
No they don't actually. They have a legal right to punish the person who leaked this "trade secret" if they got it through illegal means or ban any explicit instructions on how to circumvent the HD-DVD protection. They have no ethical right to do so and this hex number is not a thing they can suppress. Like another poster put succinctly:
If I fail to protect my password, I cannot ethically or legally force others to stop spreading it.
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Does this mean we like blu-ray now? I know the two are almost identical but Slashdot seemed to back HD-DVD. Not sure why. Does this mean we can stop hating Blizzard now.. er wait. I get so confused what does the collective want me to think...
And to those who are, indeed, mad as hell, consider what you will do after this incident is over. Kevin and the other admins may indeed fear a lawsuit if they don't take these articles down. Is that wrong, or is the law that allows this possibility the thing that is wrong? It's easy to sit there and paste line after line of numbers, but what would you do in the face of a lawsuit, even if it it's a ridiculous lawsuit supported by a law crafted just for this kind of abuse? You're taking action now, but will you get organized to push for real change tomorrow, the day after, and the day after that?
From the information others have posted it would seem ironic that by censoring they have exposed themselves to the said lawsuits.
PS3, blu-ray movies start around 13bg and go up from there.
Waiting 8h for a movies isn't that convenient. I have 3.0 mbit internet the competitor offers up to 8.0 but thats cable so I get 8.0 only late at night. at either speed a 13 gig movie is a bit much for me. my time is worth more then the movie.
The criticism are somewhat valid but you can play non UMD movies on the PSP. Just stick then in mp4 in the right resolution on a memory stick and your good. It's be nice if it supported something other then memory stick or had a sizable internal drive. I do think Sony Music/Movies are clobbering Sony electronics/Games with demands to include things that are superfluous to the function of the device. I enjoy the bluray on my Ps3, I'd enjoy it more if sony pictures released downloadable movies.
Coleges vary in quality. I refer only to university degrees. There is a difference and Science vs arts is a huge gap in difficulty.
Because it's shared agony. A bachlors/masters/doctorate degree is a serious marathon of agony. They refuse to admit anyone into their club that did not walk through those coals. Those that can do the job but didn't ensure the same torture are excluded because of this. Thats what university is, not higher learning but a institution to excludes those who could not hack the course. We are rightly upset when someone claims the credentials when they didn't endure like we did. Like it or not a degree does show endurance and work ethic or inate brillance. Not every job needs a certain degree for it, but a applicant with a degree has endurance and work ethic or inate brillance while a person without one is a unknown quantity.
PS. I am not a Ms fanboy. i own a wii and PS3. But I don't think MS is stupid enough to take a serious loss on each unit.
I'm perfectly willing to do so. The hardware is somewhat on par with the PS3 in a lot of ways varying much only in the DVD drive and CPU. The CPU is likely cheaper then the PS3 but not that much cheaper and the Drive is not that much either. The xbox was aloss almost through out it's entire lifespan. But the loss is somewhat large compared to the numbers sold, I wouldn't imagien they take that much of a bath on them.
Sony doesn't have a back up division to rely on. Their most profitable division is their gaming division. Their other divisions do not have the same return or account for as much of their business. They depend on Sony gaming division to float the company. They have as much to lose or more as Nintendo. MS is just in to rock the boat and get their foot in the door. They can lose money indefinately.