I'm sorry, but blaming the west coast for not having the concorde doing the SF to tokyo is just wrong. Both LA and SF are on the coast, even at subsonic speeds it takes practically no time at all to go far enough out to sea that sonic booms don't become a problem. And the same on approach. CDG is pretty inland from the coast, do you really think that the Concorde would break the sound barrier in the middle of France?
Forget all of the merits that plane may have had, it simply wasn't a money maker. And unless your final destination was either NYC or Heath or CDG you probably didn't save all that much time if you add in connecting flights. IE: direct flight from Chicago to Amsterdam on a 777 is a hell of a lot quicker than Chic -> NYC -> CDG -> Amst when you add in lay over times. Not to mention a lot more flight time options.
This is where I believe the vast majority of downloaders fall, including myself. Personally I haven't downloaded a song in years, or bought a CD. It just doesn't interest me anymore. But I will say that when Napster was king my music collection went up 10000% and my CD buying went to 0, simply because it was cheap and I could. Not because I had a passion for music. Or couldn't find it in the stores. It was just something to do. Of course the argument I could always throw out to justify was that I wouldn't have bought most of it anyway, so who am I hurting. In reality, I would have bought a little bit of it, so I did hurt a hand full. If you map the CD industry into providing a service (the ability to listen to their music), not a product(a physical CD), then you can argue that I received a lot while depriving the industry any revenue for it, thus 'stealing' from their bottom line. This is how they come up with their totally whacky $50 gazillion dollars lost for pirating numbers. The music industry has always believed themselves as a service. In the past they were able to provide the service by controlling the media it was on. Now they can't do that.
For every one of you who say you buy more CDs/music now because of the internet, there are X people like me who have bought less. The big question is the size of X. I honestly think it far outweighs the first. For every 'enthusiast' there's any army of average joes who really do it just to save a buck.
Of course, in the end none of this really matters to me at all. None of it compares to getting your legs blown off in Iraq.
For the most part this is due to software vendors not wanting to deal with support calls on more complicated systems. It's simply easier for them to support if you take out all of the variables introduced by other applications running on the machine.
The simplest thing for them to do is say or recommend it goes on a dedicated server. Much less of a headache come support time. Of course businesses spend millions because of it, and Dell/HP/IBM rake in the bucks.
I mean really, do license servers need to be dedicated? Not to mention the number silly little web apps that I've seen that management is told needs a dedicated server by the vendor. It's really pretty crazy.
Well, it seems that the crooks have been able to figure it out without a computer. Or is it random chance that they all seem to show up when people get paid?
Should we be proud that we've created a computer database that can predict how someone who probably has at most a high school education has figured out? And besides, are you telling me that the database knows how many people get paid on which days so was able to tell you when to be there? Of course not, the computer knows jack about when people get paid. A blind man can see it from a mile away. Increase the police presence on every friday, the 15th, the first day and the last day of each month, taking into consideration the affect of weekends
What next, are they going to tell us about a big study they've just that was able to determine that you need to increase the police outside of Madison Square Garden if they are having an event?
Most likely all he's managed to do is annoy a judge who probably already hates him because he was pulled over drunk. The chances that this guy is going to find anything are next to nil. He probably lacks the equipment and background needed to thorough test things. The device is certified to be used, and has been calibrated to meet specifications set by the state. I'm sure those specifications and the use of the device have already been defended in many other cases.
What he's managed to do is take what should be a fairly simple DUI case for a judge and made it into a headache for no reason other than this guy who was caught driving drunk thinks he is smarter than the system. Breathalizers have been questioned and successfully defended so many times in the past that their use is pretty rock solid.
If I read this correctly they claim that for each human step you can power a 120W bulb for a second. Something tells me they are using funny numbers here. Have you ever gone to one of those museums, or somewhere else that has a hand generator hooked up to a small tv or light bulb? It takes a decent amount of cranking, and this is a case where your puprose is turning the crank so most of your energy is directed towards that goal. With walking most of your energy directed into another goal, walking. There is no way that the energy transfered, collected and usable even comes close to 120W/s per step. Escpecially if you are going to have a surface that you can actually walk on normally.
The GM crop is designed to resist being poisoned by roundup. He didn't use roundup so there was no benefit to him having the seeds
I've seen this argument quite a bit. However anything that is resistent to Roundup is probably resistant to glysophate in general, which is the main ingredient that does all of the work. So this means it's probably resistent to just about every broad spectrum herbicide on the market. Roundup is popular, effective and more expensive for 1 reason, a higher concetration of glysophate (~2%). The cheaper herbicides are almost completely the same ingredients, with less glysophate (typically ~>1%).
I guess it is conceivable that Monsanto has added some bizaar ingredient to roundup that no one else uses and managed to create a plant that is only resistent to glysophate if this other ingredient is present, but I doubt it because the ingredients have to be listed and people would simply just buy the extra chemical and mix it themselves.
I just wish my lawn resistent to it. The nutsedge is out of control this year.
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A recent survey taken at a NAMBLA meeting reveals that soon all men will be having sex with little boys.
Here's an older test for PW4098 which is used on the 777. Really pretty slick, contains a single blade no problem. But what happens when the whole plane smashes into something and there massive failure?
You are correct about the valuejet not being engine related, I wasn't sure which is why i said I thought. However, we're not talking about the cause of the accident, we're talking about how people died. That's like saying that people didn't die from a fire from a crash because that may not have been what brought the plane down. It's certainly plausible that you could survive the initial crash only to have a side affect of it being that the engines and protective cover are damaged enough that in the aftermath you get sliced and diced by the blades. No idea if it's ever happened or is documented anywhere but the thought of it always has me looking at what I'm flying on and where my seat is.
I've seen Pratt & Whitney video of their GP7000 test in which they purposely have a blade blow out (I work for their parent company and it made the rounds in emails a few years ago). It shows how the protective sheathing is able to contain the blades. P&W and GE made a pretty big deal over the tests so I'm thinking it's not something that most engines are designed for. If it weren't plausible why would they test it. And again, if you need to use it then have things already not worked as expected, hopefully the protective sheath isn't among the failures.
Anywhere that isn't next to an engine. In an MD-80 with the engines in the rear the last place I want to be is sitting next to them so the blades can fly off and slice me in half. I thought I remembered hearing that this is what happened to that ValuJet DC-9 that crashed in the everglades. On a 777 I'll prefer the back to the middle for the same reason.
But the real answer of course is that the best place to be is in the section with the free booze. At least then you can be numb when the inevitable happens.
Why would you think a cartel? Cartels are used when the driving force is supply and demand. Cartels influence the demand by controlling the supply. The ISP market is a service. The service industry uses a different model. To increase your profits you need to grow your customer base. The customer base comes from either brand new users (whom you need to convince to go with you instead of someone else), or you have to convince people to leave their current provider. To do this you lower price (or provide a better service) so that you gain more customers and revenue than the price reduction costs you.
I disagree, this is a case where the market will adjust because of competition with the end result being overall faster connections for everyone for probably the same prices. This bill does nothing to force improvements or upgrades. What it does do is actually put a realistic definition on the word broadband. So you'll no longer get all those adverts in the mail from verizon dsl or comcast cable telling you how you can have high speed broadband for $19/mo when in reality it is a 750/128 connection. Although I'm still a little bit grey on whether this applies to the current broadband or this broadband 2 or whatever the word was.
In the cut throat isp business eventually one of the big players will push the envelope and actually offer a true broadband for a decent price, and everyone else will have to scramble to adjust, starting a price war.
Sure, initially people who want a faster connection will pay a bit more, but this is a case where the market will adjust for it pretty quick. Competition is just too fierce for it not to. And a price war between two 800lb gorillas (cable vs phone) can be nothing but good for consumers.
Isn't that what the ranked online playing attempts to do? I've never really used it but I believe it tries to locate people of the same approximate skill level to play against. I'm sure others have more insight. I don't use it because its quicker just to jump right into a random game.
As an American I find it strange that the Europeans don't seem to mind eating at outside cafe's that smell like you just inhaled from the back end of a bus:). Just a little teasing here, I actually enjoy my stays in Europ. But it isn't all perfect.
Don't kid yourself, Europe has mostly diesels because gas is taxed up the yahoo and its cheaper to run, not because it's better for the environment. If you do an even comparison, like sized gas engines are much more than 20% cleaner than a traditional diesel, producing less smut from point A to B. So as new engines are allowed in the US, the % of nice clean running diesels will start off at 100% and remain there. Europe will have 15+ years of cars to get rid of, shipping a lot of the problem to Eastern Europe to keep up their poluting in someone elses back yard. You have to remember, the vast majority of the population does not drive brand new Audis and BWMs and Mercedes, they drive lower end cars and a great many don't even buy new. How clean is the current low end Citroen diesel that the general populace would be? Are these cars also 'clean'? I have no idea, it's really a general question. I'm personally glad that the US has held out as long as possible until they get the Diesels right.
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I'm sorry, but blaming the west coast for not having the concorde doing the SF to tokyo is just wrong. Both LA and SF are on the coast, even at subsonic speeds it takes practically no time at all to go far enough out to sea that sonic booms don't become a problem. And the same on approach. CDG is pretty inland from the coast, do you really think that the Concorde would break the sound barrier in the middle of France?
Forget all of the merits that plane may have had, it simply wasn't a money maker. And unless your final destination was either NYC or Heath or CDG you probably didn't save all that much time if you add in connecting flights. IE: direct flight from Chicago to Amsterdam on a 777 is a hell of a lot quicker than Chic -> NYC -> CDG -> Amst when you add in lay over times. Not to mention a lot more flight time options.
Hampshire college. Can we look for an explanation that didn't come about from smoking massive amounts of dope in the middle of the desert.
Stupid scientists. It's the Graboids doing it. And Kevin Bacon HAS seen them.
For every one of you who say you buy more CDs/music now because of the internet, there are X people like me who have bought less. The big question is the size of X. I honestly think it far outweighs the first. For every 'enthusiast' there's any army of average joes who really do it just to save a buck.
Of course, in the end none of this really matters to me at all. None of it compares to getting your legs blown off in Iraq.
How many of them are sitting in a NJ warehouse waiting for Tony Soprano to pick up?
For the most part this is due to software vendors not wanting to deal with support calls on more complicated systems. It's simply easier for them to support if you take out all of the variables introduced by other applications running on the machine.
The simplest thing for them to do is say or recommend it goes on a dedicated server. Much less of a headache come support time. Of course businesses spend millions because of it, and Dell/HP/IBM rake in the bucks.
I mean really, do license servers need to be dedicated? Not to mention the number silly little web apps that I've seen that management is told needs a dedicated server by the vendor. It's really pretty crazy.
Well, it seems that the crooks have been able to figure it out without a computer. Or is it random chance that they all seem to show up when people get paid?
Should we be proud that we've created a computer database that can predict how someone who probably has at most a high school education has figured out? And besides, are you telling me that the database knows how many people get paid on which days so was able to tell you when to be there? Of course not, the computer knows jack about when people get paid. A blind man can see it from a mile away. Increase the police presence on every friday, the 15th, the first day and the last day of each month, taking into consideration the affect of weekends
What next, are they going to tell us about a big study they've just that was able to determine that you need to increase the police outside of Madison Square Garden if they are having an event?
Most likely all he's managed to do is annoy a judge who probably already hates him because he was pulled over drunk. The chances that this guy is going to find anything are next to nil. He probably lacks the equipment and background needed to thorough test things. The device is certified to be used, and has been calibrated to meet specifications set by the state. I'm sure those specifications and the use of the device have already been defended in many other cases.
What he's managed to do is take what should be a fairly simple DUI case for a judge and made it into a headache for no reason other than this guy who was caught driving drunk thinks he is smarter than the system. Breathalizers have been questioned and successfully defended so many times in the past that their use is pretty rock solid.
Does this mean an Energy Star computer would be Sales Tax Free in Connecticut like appliances are?
It was pretty cool. I drove ours to high school for a bit. Wow, a catch like you must have had all the girls lined up :)
If I read this correctly they claim that for each human step you can power a 120W bulb for a second. Something tells me they are using funny numbers here. Have you ever gone to one of those museums, or somewhere else that has a hand generator hooked up to a small tv or light bulb? It takes a decent amount of cranking, and this is a case where your puprose is turning the crank so most of your energy is directed towards that goal. With walking most of your energy directed into another goal, walking. There is no way that the energy transfered, collected and usable even comes close to 120W/s per step. Escpecially if you are going to have a surface that you can actually walk on normally.
I'm sorry, but how does a 2 sentence post that provides absolutely 0 actual information get modded as insightful?
I've seen this argument quite a bit. However anything that is resistent to Roundup is probably resistant to glysophate in general, which is the main ingredient that does all of the work. So this means it's probably resistent to just about every broad spectrum herbicide on the market. Roundup is popular, effective and more expensive for 1 reason, a higher concetration of glysophate (~2%). The cheaper herbicides are almost completely the same ingredients, with less glysophate (typically ~>1%).
I guess it is conceivable that Monsanto has added some bizaar ingredient to roundup that no one else uses and managed to create a plant that is only resistent to glysophate if this other ingredient is present, but I doubt it because the ingredients have to be listed and people would simply just buy the extra chemical and mix it themselves.
I just wish my lawn resistent to it. The nutsedge is out of control this year.
A recent survey taken at a NAMBLA meeting reveals that soon all men will be having sex with little boys.
Here's an older test for PW4098 which is used on the 777. Really pretty slick, contains a single blade no problem. But what happens when the whole plane smashes into something and there massive failure?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqRpsq7BosMIt seems this is actually an FAA required test for engine certification.
You are correct about the valuejet not being engine related, I wasn't sure which is why i said I thought. However, we're not talking about the cause of the accident, we're talking about how people died. That's like saying that people didn't die from a fire from a crash because that may not have been what brought the plane down. It's certainly plausible that you could survive the initial crash only to have a side affect of it being that the engines and protective cover are damaged enough that in the aftermath you get sliced and diced by the blades. No idea if it's ever happened or is documented anywhere but the thought of it always has me looking at what I'm flying on and where my seat is.
I've seen Pratt & Whitney video of their GP7000 test in which they purposely have a blade blow out (I work for their parent company and it made the rounds in emails a few years ago). It shows how the protective sheathing is able to contain the blades. P&W and GE made a pretty big deal over the tests so I'm thinking it's not something that most engines are designed for. If it weren't plausible why would they test it. And again, if you need to use it then have things already not worked as expected, hopefully the protective sheath isn't among the failures.
Anywhere that isn't next to an engine. In an MD-80 with the engines in the rear the last place I want to be is sitting next to them so the blades can fly off and slice me in half. I thought I remembered hearing that this is what happened to that ValuJet DC-9 that crashed in the everglades. On a 777 I'll prefer the back to the middle for the same reason.
But the real answer of course is that the best place to be is in the section with the free booze. At least then you can be numb when the inevitable happens.
Why would you think a cartel? Cartels are used when the driving force is supply and demand. Cartels influence the demand by controlling the supply. The ISP market is a service. The service industry uses a different model. To increase your profits you need to grow your customer base. The customer base comes from either brand new users (whom you need to convince to go with you instead of someone else), or you have to convince people to leave their current provider. To do this you lower price (or provide a better service) so that you gain more customers and revenue than the price reduction costs you.
I disagree, this is a case where the market will adjust because of competition with the end result being overall faster connections for everyone for probably the same prices. This bill does nothing to force improvements or upgrades. What it does do is actually put a realistic definition on the word broadband. So you'll no longer get all those adverts in the mail from verizon dsl or comcast cable telling you how you can have high speed broadband for $19/mo when in reality it is a 750/128 connection. Although I'm still a little bit grey on whether this applies to the current broadband or this broadband 2 or whatever the word was.
In the cut throat isp business eventually one of the big players will push the envelope and actually offer a true broadband for a decent price, and everyone else will have to scramble to adjust, starting a price war.
Sure, initially people who want a faster connection will pay a bit more, but this is a case where the market will adjust for it pretty quick. Competition is just too fierce for it not to. And a price war between two 800lb gorillas (cable vs phone) can be nothing but good for consumers.
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As opposed to all of the ones they've found that have been neutered?
It's just there to draw our attention from the real threat. Flooding the world with these
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Classic! A couple of probably overpaid employees bitching about how their company doesn't know how to save money!
Isn't that what the ranked online playing attempts to do? I've never really used it but I believe it tries to locate people of the same approximate skill level to play against. I'm sure others have more insight. I don't use it because its quicker just to jump right into a random game.
As an American I find it strange that the Europeans don't seem to mind eating at outside cafe's that smell like you just inhaled from the back end of a bus :). Just a little teasing here, I actually enjoy my stays in Europ. But it isn't all perfect.
Don't kid yourself, Europe has mostly diesels because gas is taxed up the yahoo and its cheaper to run, not because it's better for the environment. If you do an even comparison, like sized gas engines are much more than 20% cleaner than a traditional diesel, producing less smut from point A to B. So as new engines are allowed in the US, the % of nice clean running diesels will start off at 100% and remain there. Europe will have 15+ years of cars to get rid of, shipping a lot of the problem to Eastern Europe to keep up their poluting in someone elses back yard. You have to remember, the vast majority of the population does not drive brand new Audis and BWMs and Mercedes, they drive lower end cars and a great many don't even buy new. How clean is the current low end Citroen diesel that the general populace would be? Are these cars also 'clean'? I have no idea, it's really a general question. I'm personally glad that the US has held out as long as possible until they get the Diesels right.