None of that is free and those costs must be passed on to the consumer somehow to at least break even and stay alive as a business.
True, and actually, I believe that "break even" puts it in the category of a non-profit org. I once commented on the price of some replacement bolts at a small mfg company that I worked at. The prez of the company replied that he has to make a profit on everything, else he'll go out of business.
Indeed, who needs ad revenue when Uncle Sam's paying for it with taxes?
Absolutely. Since the gov needs to have good meteorological forecasts for military operations, it only makes sense for them to release to the public, since, as you say, we're paying for it anyways.
Paraphrasing Madeleine Albright: "What's the point of having such a powerful military, if we never use it?"
It's there, so we use it. If it weren't there, we wouldn't be using it.
Yep. In the various civ games I play, typically I start out as a mind-your-own-business type. So inevitably, some local civs/tribes/whatever attack. I build up an effective defensive military. Bigger players come along and attack. I build up more. Eventually it comes to "the best defense is a good offense". If Empire X is going to be a constant issue, well, let's just take care of 'em while we have the armies in the field.
It tends to win. So, is it a Machiavellian/Sun Tzu principle? Is it my Western mindset? The mindset of the game devs? All of the above?
I don't care what tech level you're at or what you look like: there's still an m in the kinetic energy equation. Whatever your transportation goals are, they get more difficult the heavier your vehicle is.
Perhaps they've found some way to produce energy from mass.
When Curiosity was in the planning stages, 2gb for a comp was a major improvement. At some point they had to freeze the specs. If they had tried to keep up with Moore's Law, I doubt we'd have a functioning vehicle.
As far as bureaucracy goes, I hate it as much as the next person, maybe more. I wish humanity could come up with something better to ensure the success of complex projects.
... it's pretty interesting to witness scientific findings, with all rigor and instrumentation techniques etc. rediscovering something your grand-grandmother could probably have told you.
Yeah, every now & then something spectacular comes out of studies of "common sense" things that everybody could have told you. I can't think of any at the moment 'cause I'm too tired.
Greek, thanks. That's the great thing about numerology (and asstrology)...one can make up whatever one pleases. Nero was pre-ANSI, though, so no ASCII back then. EBCDIC probably.
Actually, it seems that most historians believe that 666 referred to Nero. Remember the scope of the New Testament. They expected the 2nd coming to be "right around the corner...all the signs are there". In the meantime, the faithful needed to be warned about Nero and what he was doing. Apparently 666 encodes "Nero" in Hebrew, or something like that. They were big into numerology back then.
I went to Wiki and found no ref to ipad or ipod in it, but found a ref link to AppleInsider...
Thursday, January 03, 2013, 06:05 pm Corning's third-gen Gorilla Glass could be bound for next iPhone, iPad
By AppleInsider Staff Glassmaker Corning on Thursday announced Gorilla Glass 3, a stronger, more scratch resistant version of the current substrate used in the display of Apple's iPhone and iPad lines of mobile devices.
Well, I like sitting around and waiting for other people to do stuff for me as well as the next guy, but I figured, just this once, to do something, so here you go.
The Clean air and water act was a knee jerk reaction to a problem that could have easily been solved with just the court system. It continues to cause many business to hire teams of lawyers just to insure they meet the letter of the law. It does very little to actually prevent pollution and cost tax payers and businesses far too much.
It is one thing to require businesses to not pollute beyond a certain level. It is a completely different thing to dictate how they will accomplish that process.
Also, using Beijing as anecdotal evidence is a bit of a straw man. They do not and never have had a capitalist society.
Here's a few million anecdotes: when I was a kid living in Los Angeles, smog really sucked. Many days a year we had Smog Alerts. Now it's fairly rare to get an Alert. It took decades to get to the point of constant smog, and, apparently, due to the "knee-jerk", it's taken decades to get us where we are now (it's not an easy solution).
So some regulations are good. I think we agree on that. A lot of regulations, though, are created when private businesses find ways to game the system (of course, some regs come to us via corruption or incompetence). I guess I'd rather have businesses have to retain an "army of lawyers" to deal with their pollution, vs. having to have private citizens or local govt have to hire an army of lawyers to deal with each polluter individually, on a case-by-case basis.
I think that I and a few million Angelenos prefer the knee-jerk. It is working, I don't believe that the court system would have worked as well or as comprehensively.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, I remember those. Still want one. Modded for kybd/mouse/trak/joy/wand operations.
None of that is free and those costs must be passed on to the consumer somehow to at least break even and stay alive as a business.
True, and actually, I believe that "break even" puts it in the category of a non-profit org. I once commented on the price of some replacement bolts at a small mfg company that I worked at. The prez of the company replied that he has to make a profit on everything, else he'll go out of business.
Indeed, who needs ad revenue when Uncle Sam's paying for it with taxes?
Absolutely. Since the gov needs to have good meteorological forecasts for military operations, it only makes sense for them to release to the public, since, as you say, we're paying for it anyways.
Pictures or it didn't happen.
HHTTG. Great read. I've also heard it applied to orbital mechanics, something like "aim yourself at the planet, but keep missing".
Paraphrasing Madeleine Albright: "What's the point of having such a powerful military, if we never use it?"
It's there, so we use it. If it weren't there, we wouldn't be using it.
Yep. In the various civ games I play, typically I start out as a mind-your-own-business type. So inevitably, some local civs/tribes/whatever attack. I build up an effective defensive military. Bigger players come along and attack. I build up more. Eventually it comes to "the best defense is a good offense". If Empire X is going to be a constant issue, well, let's just take care of 'em while we have the armies in the field.
It tends to win. So, is it a Machiavellian/Sun Tzu principle? Is it my Western mindset? The mindset of the game devs? All of the above?
* Not intended to be a factual statement
I don't care what tech level you're at or what you look like: there's still an m in the kinetic energy equation. Whatever your transportation goals are, they get more difficult the heavier your vehicle is.
Perhaps they've found some way to produce energy from mass.
When Curiosity was in the planning stages, 2gb for a comp was a major improvement. At some point they had to freeze the specs. If they had tried to keep up with Moore's Law, I doubt we'd have a functioning vehicle.
As far as bureaucracy goes, I hate it as much as the next person, maybe more. I wish humanity could come up with something better to ensure the success of complex projects.
It's a dog eat dog world.
Interesting studies. I gotta go take a nap, er, 1st sleep.
... it's pretty interesting to witness scientific findings, with all rigor and instrumentation techniques etc. rediscovering something your grand-grandmother could probably have told you.
Yeah, every now & then something spectacular comes out of studies of "common sense" things that everybody could have told you. I can't think of any at the moment 'cause I'm too tired.
It's called an analogy, genius. How much of your brain did you have removed?
And it's certainly an analogy that would connect w/ the /. crowd. The AC's insightful analysis didn't help (yeah, big surprise).
Disproof of the AC's hypothesis. Do a gedankenspiel comparing the AC's brain and a disk drive.
Throw a feather at it, it won't break.
Hit it w/ a sledgehammer, it will break.
sr
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy"
Greek, thanks. That's the great thing about numerology (and asstrology)...one can make up whatever one pleases. Nero was pre-ANSI, though, so no ASCII back then. EBCDIC probably.
"ASCII silly question, get a silly ANSI"
Actually, it seems that most historians believe that 666 referred to Nero. Remember the scope of the New Testament. They expected the 2nd coming to be "right around the corner...all the signs are there". In the meantime, the faithful needed to be warned about Nero and what he was doing. Apparently 666 encodes "Nero" in Hebrew, or something like that. They were big into numerology back then.
I went to Wiki and found no ref to ipad or ipod in it, but found a ref link to AppleInsider...
Thursday, January 03, 2013, 06:05 pm
Corning's third-gen Gorilla Glass could be bound for next iPhone, iPad
By AppleInsider Staff
Glassmaker Corning on Thursday announced Gorilla Glass 3, a stronger, more scratch resistant version of the current substrate used in the display of Apple's iPhone and iPad lines of mobile devices.
Gorilla Glass? I don't think Apple would do that. A broken screen just gives the tekkiddies an excuse to buy the latest iteration.
... but try threatening people with a netbook or a Mac and they just laugh. When they see my G40 whistling through the air they fucking run.
Hah! Ninja Notebook.
Yes! Dondi! I barely remember that. As a childster I got my hands on a really old copy. Fascinating.
Good stuff. Well drawn.
Terrific! Doonesbury for the right! Hope they don't use big words.
Well, I like sitting around and waiting for other people to do stuff for me as well as the next guy, but I figured, just this once, to do something, so here you go.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly#Historical_monopolies
Aristotle talks about it in his "Politics" (turns out someone had cornered the market on olive presses).
+1
The Clean air and water act was a knee jerk reaction to a problem that could have easily been solved with just the court system. It continues to cause many business to hire teams of lawyers just to insure they meet the letter of the law. It does very little to actually prevent pollution and cost tax payers and businesses far too much.
It is one thing to require businesses to not pollute beyond a certain level. It is a completely different thing to dictate how they will accomplish that process.
Also, using Beijing as anecdotal evidence is a bit of a straw man. They do not and never have had a capitalist society.
Here's a few million anecdotes: when I was a kid living in Los Angeles, smog really sucked. Many days a year we had Smog Alerts. Now it's fairly rare to get an Alert. It took decades to get to the point of constant smog, and, apparently, due to the "knee-jerk", it's taken decades to get us where we are now (it's not an easy solution).
So some regulations are good. I think we agree on that. A lot of regulations, though, are created when private businesses find ways to game the system (of course, some regs come to us via corruption or incompetence). I guess I'd rather have businesses have to retain an "army of lawyers" to deal with their pollution, vs. having to have private citizens or local govt have to hire an army of lawyers to deal with each polluter individually, on a case-by-case basis.
I think that I and a few million Angelenos prefer the knee-jerk. It is working, I don't believe that the court system would have worked as well or as comprehensively.
Hah! What a sight picture!
For a dramatic rendering of the phrase, see the movie "Airplane".