Some things are so standard that no matter how many competitors they have, they just won't die, or at least won't for a good couple of decades.
see: netscape
Not that this (or anything) is going to kill the ipod -- it's a quality product, and nobody is actually TRYING to KILL it. Everyone else is just trying to share the market.
Your first point (re: wal-mart) is concerning just who is the public. This is actually a reasonable point. What it comes down to is, however, that cutthroat business practices like those practiced by Wal-Mart have historically damaged the industry (see: standard oil). You do, however, have a somewhat valid point there.
Your second point (re: MS) is a classic fallacy -- you are claiming that MS would not be able to cause any of their beneficial effects without causing all of the detrimental ones. Technology is powerful; people can see that without Microsoft having to show them.
Your third point (re: mass media) is also flawed. It is based on the assumption that, because you are not directly shelling out cash to the provider of a service, you do not bear the cost. The money that pays for advertising must come from somewhere -- and in this day and age, it comes from everywhere. Advertising is an effective tax -- if you don't advertise, you don't make money. If you don't make money, and are a for-profit corporation, you cease to exist. Basic economics tells us that it doesn't matter where the taxes come from, as long as they do come. The burden is felt by all.
You sound like a Libertarian. Don't get me wrong, I probably agree with the Libertarian party on more issues than any other. I just think that the concept of "The market will police itself" has a lot of classic problems. Most notably, it only works long-term if most people are not shortsighted.
Smather's guilty plea to the specific charge under the can-spam legislation was rejected. I don't know enough about the can-spam act or this case to know what this charge precisely was. Regardless, whether or not he violated any other laws is not relevant to this charge. TFA gives no information regarding any fraud case, or any civil suit (i.e. breach of contract).
GWB may have taken your country to war, but he didn't do it all by himself. Your finger should be pointed at Blair -- he's the one who actually is supposed to represent you...
Technically, yes, people were permitted to use pen-and-paper ballots -- but they had to be absentee ballots. That option was probably not convenient enough for all voters, but some almost certainly exercised it.
Which is exactly the problem halflife 2 will have 70 years from now. Those who want to play it wont be able to because of different architecture (who honestly thinks we are gonna use silicon chips 70 years from now, or if microsoft will even be around, or if they will even support old modes).
Ever heard of an x86 emulator? Thought so. This is one of the many applications for a program which simulates a computer.
Not that I don't agree with you, but this isn't going to happen. There's a hidden reason for keeping the electoral college around. Block voting increases the effective power of the individual voter relative to the rest. The math behind this is pretty simple. The gist is that, in a closely contested state, without the electoral college, each voter has a very small amount of power. With the electoral college, in that same state, slightly more than half of the voters have more than double the power they otherwise would have had. The remainder have no power, but still the state's overall leverage is increased.
Because the states which benefit most from this have the most power, it is unlikely to change any time soon.
IANA...well, I am not a person whose speculation on this matter should be taken seriously. Nonetheless, I would wager that the reason for this is: Silicon is very common on Earth. As I recall, it's the most common element which is solid at room temperature. This makes it inexpensive.
Actually, one of the major benefits of optical computing is that you don't need a heatsink at all. This is because the heat put out by a CPU is due to inefficiency (in other words, because they are not room-temperature superconductors). There is little to no inefficiency in modern optical cable, especially compared to copper wiring.
Finally, there's a production model of something like this. Maybe those memory prosthesis prototypes being worked on at MIT, among other places, will come to market before too long?
And that's in addition to all the more generally in-demand applications.
At this point a programmer will become one who can describe a task sufficiently well that the atomaton can implement it.
This is essentially what a programmer does now. The idea is, sooner or later, the compiler will evolve to the point at which the specification of the process is no longer necessary. This doesn't reduce the necessity of the programmer, it just increases the programmer's productivity to the point where it seems like it.
Actually, if the station fails at the other end, the craft will be unable to stop. Either they'll be able to use a gravity well to turn around, or they won't be coming back at all...
Yeah, hopefully there aren't many easily-offended cat enthusiasts out there. They might not appreciate some of the more, er, "exotic" sites they find...
I understand some of these, but some just make no sense.
The Adventures of "Huckleberry Finn" and "Of Mice and Men" are widely recognized great pieces of literature. "The Catcher in the Rye" isn't on that same level, but it's still up there. "A Wrinkle in Time" and "The Giver" are about the only popular thought-provoking children's science fiction/fantasy books. That's just in the top fifteen.
What really did it for me was "A Light in the Attic." Seriously. How many of you developed your appreciation of poetry as a child largely due to this book?
Technically yes, but the fee is again relatively small (as little as 75c per album, and only for absolutely huge albums does that make up for the ridiculous entry costs to the industry).
It's still impossible to legislate against this sort of thing; if I'm literally throwing copyrighted material through the air for all to hear, I've given up any measure of control. The ony reason radio has not been crushed as a medium is that it's integral to the process of telling consumers what they want to listen to.
Blade Runner is a science fiction film for fans of science fiction books and stories. Most of the great science fiction books and stories of our time take modern society, change a few things, and try to tell what happens. From here, it branches into two parts. I call them "Frontier Sci-Fi" and "Established Sci-Fi." The former explores the events surrounding a new discovery, and the latter places you in a world where things just are different for a long time. Most is a blend. As much as providing the answer, science fiction is there to ask the question "What If?" There are, of course, exceptions.
Blade Runner squarely within "Established Sci-Fi." This medium allows it to stick to telling a traditional story, while posing the "What If?" question better than most other movies have ever approached.
1. Blade Runner (one of the few points on which I agree with the article) 2. Star Trek 2 3. Star Trek 4 4. Minority Report 5. Planet of the Apes 6. War Games (it's great in that it doesn't try to do too much) 7. Back to the Future 1+2 (didn't like 3) 8. Terminator 2 (unlike its predecessor, it actually "felt sci-fi") 9. Close Encounters of the Third Kind 10.Alien
Star Wars 1+2 but not Star Trek 2+4 (the former a masterpiece, the latter the funniest sci-fi movie of its time)? 2001 was a decent movie IF you'd read the book (as then you actually know all the things Kubric couldn't possibly convey through video, or left out to include more "monkeys beat each other with sticks"). It was worthless standalone. Terminator 2 was a great deal better than Terminator in many people's opinions; how you could include the Matrix but not T2 is beyond me.
The politicians understand it perfectly well. Thing is, if they want to be re-elected, they need to show that something is happening to fix whatever the bad thing of the moment is. Just saying "We can't feasibly do anything about it" or "We're trying to deter these courses of action, but in ways you can't see" won't cut it with most Americans.
MPAA research has been shown to SUPPORT the MPAA platform that piracy is hurting them!
Of course, this sponsored research definitely not done with any results in mind. It would also have definitely been released even if doing so was seen as counterproductive to the sponsor.
All kidding aside, we honestly can't trust surveys done by anything less than a multinational non-profit group anymore.
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Some things are so standard that no matter how many competitors they have, they just won't die, or at least won't for a good couple of decades.
see: netscape
Not that this (or anything) is going to kill the ipod -- it's a quality product, and nobody is actually TRYING to KILL it. Everyone else is just trying to share the market.
Your first point (re: wal-mart) is concerning just who is the public. This is actually a reasonable point. What it comes down to is, however, that cutthroat business practices like those practiced by Wal-Mart have historically damaged the industry (see: standard oil). You do, however, have a somewhat valid point there.
Your second point (re: MS) is a classic fallacy -- you are claiming that MS would not be able to cause any of their beneficial effects without causing all of the detrimental ones. Technology is powerful; people can see that without Microsoft having to show them.
Your third point (re: mass media) is also flawed. It is based on the assumption that, because you are not directly shelling out cash to the provider of a service, you do not bear the cost. The money that pays for advertising must come from somewhere -- and in this day and age, it comes from everywhere. Advertising is an effective tax -- if you don't advertise, you don't make money. If you don't make money, and are a for-profit corporation, you cease to exist. Basic economics tells us that it doesn't matter where the taxes come from, as long as they do come. The burden is felt by all.
You sound like a Libertarian. Don't get me wrong, I probably agree with the Libertarian party on more issues than any other. I just think that the concept of "The market will police itself" has a lot of classic problems. Most notably, it only works long-term if most people are not shortsighted.
That is basically what this is...
Smather's guilty plea to the specific charge under the can-spam legislation was rejected. I don't know enough about the can-spam act or this case to know what this charge precisely was. Regardless, whether or not he violated any other laws is not relevant to this charge. TFA gives no information regarding any fraud case, or any civil suit (i.e. breach of contract).
GWB may have taken your country to war, but he didn't do it all by himself. Your finger should be pointed at Blair -- he's the one who actually is supposed to represent you...
Note that this is also fusion power (though far less potent than the sun, but what in our solar system isn't?)
Technically, yes, people were permitted to use pen-and-paper ballots -- but they had to be absentee ballots. That option was probably not convenient enough for all voters, but some almost certainly exercised it.
Which is exactly the problem halflife 2 will have 70 years from now. Those who want to play it wont be able to because of different architecture (who honestly thinks we are gonna use silicon chips 70 years from now, or if microsoft will even be around, or if they will even support old modes).
Ever heard of an x86 emulator? Thought so. This is one of the many applications for a program which simulates a computer.
Not that I don't agree with you, but this isn't going to happen. There's a hidden reason for keeping the electoral college around. Block voting increases the effective power of the individual voter relative to the rest. The math behind this is pretty simple. The gist is that, in a closely contested state, without the electoral college, each voter has a very small amount of power. With the electoral college, in that same state, slightly more than half of the voters have more than double the power they otherwise would have had. The remainder have no power, but still the state's overall leverage is increased.
Because the states which benefit most from this have the most power, it is unlikely to change any time soon.
IANA...well, I am not a person whose speculation on this matter should be taken seriously. Nonetheless, I would wager that the reason for this is: Silicon is very common on Earth. As I recall, it's the most common element which is solid at room temperature. This makes it inexpensive.
(must need a huge heatsink).
Actually, one of the major benefits of optical computing is that you don't need a heatsink at all. This is because the heat put out by a CPU is due to inefficiency (in other words, because they are not room-temperature superconductors). There is little to no inefficiency in modern optical cable, especially compared to copper wiring.
If you'll notice, they also removed the allergen from the saliva glands.
I've started to think this about some new cellular phones...
Finally, there's a production model of something like this. Maybe those memory prosthesis prototypes being worked on at MIT, among other places, will come to market before too long?
And that's in addition to all the more generally in-demand applications.
At this point a programmer will become one who can describe a task sufficiently well that the atomaton can implement it.
This is essentially what a programmer does now. The idea is, sooner or later, the compiler will evolve to the point at which the specification of the process is no longer necessary. This doesn't reduce the necessity of the programmer, it just increases the programmer's productivity to the point where it seems like it.
Actually, if the station fails at the other end, the craft will be unable to stop. Either they'll be able to use a gravity well to turn around, or they won't be coming back at all...
And why was the Taliban there in the first place?
Oh right. War on communism. Religious fanatics were better than communism, so the U.S. put the Taliban in charge.
Yeah, hopefully there aren't many easily-offended cat enthusiasts out there. They might not appreciate some of the more, er, "exotic" sites they find...
I understand some of these, but some just make no sense.
The Adventures of "Huckleberry Finn" and "Of Mice and Men" are widely recognized great pieces of literature. "The Catcher in the Rye" isn't on that same level, but it's still up there. "A Wrinkle in Time" and "The Giver" are about the only popular thought-provoking children's science fiction/fantasy books. That's just in the top fifteen.
What really did it for me was "A Light in the Attic." Seriously. How many of you developed your appreciation of poetry as a child largely due to this book?
you are paying the artist
Technically yes, but the fee is again relatively small (as little as 75c per album, and only for absolutely huge albums does that make up for the ridiculous entry costs to the industry).
It's still impossible to legislate against this sort of thing; if I'm literally throwing copyrighted material through the air for all to hear, I've given up any measure of control. The ony reason radio has not been crushed as a medium is that it's integral to the process of telling consumers what they want to listen to.
Blade Runner is a science fiction film for fans of science fiction books and stories. Most of the great science fiction books and stories of our time take modern society, change a few things, and try to tell what happens. From here, it branches into two parts. I call them "Frontier Sci-Fi" and "Established Sci-Fi." The former explores the events surrounding a new discovery, and the latter places you in a world where things just are different for a long time. Most is a blend. As much as providing the answer, science fiction is there to ask the question "What If?" There are, of course, exceptions.
Blade Runner squarely within "Established Sci-Fi." This medium allows it to stick to telling a traditional story, while posing the "What If?" question better than most other movies have ever approached.
1. Blade Runner (one of the few points on which I agree with the article)
2. Star Trek 2
3. Star Trek 4
4. Minority Report
5. Planet of the Apes
6. War Games (it's great in that it doesn't try to do too much)
7. Back to the Future 1+2 (didn't like 3)
8. Terminator 2 (unlike its predecessor, it actually "felt sci-fi")
9. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
10.Alien
Star Wars 1+2 but not Star Trek 2+4 (the former a masterpiece, the latter the funniest sci-fi movie of its time)?
2001 was a decent movie IF you'd read the book (as then you actually know all the things Kubric couldn't possibly convey through video, or left out to include more "monkeys beat each other with sticks"). It was worthless standalone.
Terminator 2 was a great deal better than Terminator in many people's opinions; how you could include the Matrix but not T2 is beyond me.
The politicians understand it perfectly well. Thing is, if they want to be re-elected, they need to show that something is happening to fix whatever the bad thing of the moment is. Just saying "We can't feasibly do anything about it" or "We're trying to deter these courses of action, but in ways you can't see" won't cut it with most Americans.
MPAA research has been shown to SUPPORT the MPAA platform that piracy is hurting them!
Of course, this sponsored research definitely not done with any results in mind. It would also have definitely been released even if doing so was seen as counterproductive to the sponsor.
All kidding aside, we honestly can't trust surveys done by anything less than a multinational non-profit group anymore.