Yeah, laying your own cable network is the major barrier to entry. And remember, not only do you have to run all the network that goes to the buildings, you have to get multi-family buildings to have your cable and the existing cable both going running through their building. Might be possible when a new building goes up, but who's going to agree to all the work neccessary to pull your new cable lines into an existing apartment building?
Really? All the ones around here do. The only things that don't are payphones and meters, and I don't really want to stick a $2 into either of those anyhow...
Cable costs $40 a month for the same reason that cable television _starts_ at $30 a month: no competition. Every city I've lived in has had two companies, who each supply about half the city, with no overlap, and therefore no choice.
And I really, really don't want more people using cable. There's too many now.
I had to join the IEEE to be involved in a project at DeVry. (we we're supposed to be working on fuzzy logic based ai. I thought it was waaaaay beyond us from the start, but what the hell, it was more interesting than class, even if the other first year guys couldn't follow my algorithm designs.) I got one copy of the CS publication before I moved, and I didn't bother sending them a change of address. The journal seemed _very_ hardware oriented, I simply didn't understand much of it all.
Sig, you don't really believe that the world's hacker community is going to rise up and overthrow the corporate rulers do you? I mean come on, most people aren't really all that concerned about this, and the sort of thing you're talking about (well, implying about really) is akin to a full scale revolt. Most people aren't looking to get arrested and/or shot at over IP abuses...
Capitolism is trillion dollar drug companies spending hundreds of millions of dollars on lobbyists and advertisments to convince Americans that cheap, price-restricted drugs is a bad thing.
Capitolism isn't progress, it's simply an economic ideal (that alot of people who have plenty of money already want to push toward). While it can facilitate progress, it is, in and of itself, just an idea. It happens to be one that many people are distrustful and suspicious of. Rightly so, in many cases. I have no problem with people advocating capitalism as a good method of improving life for a population. What I don't like is people advocating capitalism for its own sake, which is all that things like the private health care crap that Klien and Harris are pushing. (If you don't know the names, you shouldn't be telling me how close my country is or isn't to being communist.)
If the backlight is using 1/4 of the power in notebooks now, surely no one expected Crusoe to alter that (well, it'd be a higher ratio, but the same amount of power), so why's it being mentioned?
I have to agree that 5.6 lbs isn't Ultra Light. How much weight can be saved by not having to design in the cooling systems required by Intel chips?
I'm pretty sure that's illegal market manipulation, and if it was true, this particular case would be reasonably easy to prove, I'd say. (Note that IANAL)
Now, I don't think that's what I meant... Those are intelligent people making decisions that don't mesh well with what they were supposed to be doing. I was talking about Gomer Pyle not being allowed to rest his elbows near the fire button for the main guns...
All right, putting aside the likelihood of this being a troll, where do you think the Dragon legends came from, if not from old bones that people found? That's why dragon legends where to the effect of "turns out, they weren't all dead yet. some where just sleeping"
Hey, I'm not saying you won't get _in_, just that you aren't likely to be given control of anything more dangerous than a mop. (and a rifle during boot camp, I suppose)
Seriously though, that was funny. Too bad no moderators'll see it.
The part of nintendo's site with that exact same shot makes it clear that the shots are not examples of games in development, just stuff that looks cool. There's a bunch of LuigiWorld stuff, Some nice Link vs. Gannon fight shots, a couple Metroid shots, a couple Pokemon's, and some rooms full of Marios (like 50 or so).
Unless you're in one of the other branches (whose members have an obligation to mindlesly bash the branches they're not in), that's kind of a ridiculous statement. Military types may be inflexible and stiff necked, but they aren't stupid. No one's going to let a bunch of morons drive around in billion dollar ships capable of leveling cities.
A: not european
B: am socialist (personal philosophy that is)
C: I have to get into the shower right now so that I can get to work on time:) (4PM start)
I don't know if I'd be inclined towards speech recognition even then. I -like- typing. (except when my wrists decide they're pissed about having been fractured years ago. Then I'd surrender half my organs for high quality speech recognition)
I'd have to say, vocal training or no, the limit to speech speed is going to be alot lower than the limit to typing. I can talk like that character six on that annoying blossom show (for maybe 30 seconds) if I try really hard, and that's not much more than ~45 wpm. I can't imagine anyone being able to talk more than about ~60 wpm without somehow truncating the language, which might be ok for a command system, but won't work for dictation.
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Yeah, laying your own cable network is the major barrier to entry. And remember, not only do you have to run all the network that goes to the buildings, you have to get multi-family buildings to have your cable and the existing cable both going running through their building. Might be possible when a new building goes up, but who's going to agree to all the work neccessary to pull your new cable lines into an existing apartment building?
Really? All the ones around here do. The only things that don't are payphones and meters, and I don't really want to stick a $2 into either of those anyhow...
Cable costs $40 a month for the same reason that cable television _starts_ at $30 a month: no competition. Every city I've lived in has had two companies, who each supply about half the city, with no overlap, and therefore no choice.
And I really, really don't want more people using cable. There's too many now.
It'd be easier to just make remote controlled drones. There's other advantages to not having a cockpit too.
I had to join the IEEE to be involved in a project at DeVry. (we we're supposed to be working on fuzzy logic based ai. I thought it was waaaaay beyond us from the start, but what the hell, it was more interesting than class, even if the other first year guys couldn't follow my algorithm designs.) I got one copy of the CS publication before I moved, and I didn't bother sending them a change of address. The journal seemed _very_ hardware oriented, I simply didn't understand much of it all.
Sig, you don't really believe that the world's hacker community is going to rise up and overthrow the corporate rulers do you? I mean come on, most people aren't really all that concerned about this, and the sort of thing you're talking about (well, implying about really) is akin to a full scale revolt. Most people aren't looking to get arrested and/or shot at over IP abuses...
Never bang your own head, use the head of the person causing the frustration...
Capitolism is trillion dollar drug companies spending hundreds of millions of dollars on lobbyists and advertisments to convince Americans that cheap, price-restricted drugs is a bad thing.
Capitolism isn't progress, it's simply an economic ideal (that alot of people who have plenty of money already want to push toward).
While it can facilitate progress, it is, in and of itself, just an idea. It happens to be one that many people are distrustful and suspicious of. Rightly so, in many cases. I have no problem with people advocating capitalism as a good method of improving life for a population. What I don't like is people advocating capitalism for its own sake, which is all that things like the private health care crap that Klien and Harris are pushing. (If you don't know the names, you shouldn't be telling me how close my country is or isn't to being communist.)
If the backlight is using 1/4 of the power in notebooks now, surely no one expected Crusoe to alter that (well, it'd be a higher ratio, but the same amount of power), so why's it being mentioned?
I have to agree that 5.6 lbs isn't Ultra Light. How much weight can be saved by not having to design in the cooling systems required by Intel chips?
I'm pretty sure that's illegal market manipulation, and if it was true, this particular case would be reasonably easy to prove, I'd say. (Note that IANAL)
Now, I don't think that's what I meant... Those are intelligent people making decisions that don't mesh well with what they were supposed to be doing. I was talking about Gomer Pyle not being allowed to rest his elbows near the fire button for the main guns...
Well, not to be a math nazi, but you can go lower than zero, you just can't go smaller than zero.
Wish I had a mod point handy. Any 1984 reference (that isn't just "Big Brother is here") deserves karma.
because. Do you expect open to create [, {, or (?
On another note, isn't times quicker than multiplied-by?
All right, putting aside the likelihood of this being a troll, where do you think the Dragon legends came from, if not from old bones that people found? That's why dragon legends where to the effect of "turns out, they weren't all dead yet. some where just sleeping"
Hey, I'm not saying you won't get _in_, just that you aren't likely to be given control of anything more dangerous than a mop. (and a rifle during boot camp, I suppose)
Seriously though, that was funny. Too bad no moderators'll see it.
The part of nintendo's site with that exact same shot makes it clear that the shots are not examples of games in development, just stuff that looks cool. There's a bunch of LuigiWorld stuff, Some nice Link vs. Gannon fight shots, a couple Metroid shots, a couple Pokemon's, and some rooms full of Marios (like 50 or so).
Unless you're in one of the other branches (whose members have an obligation to mindlesly bash the branches they're not in), that's kind of a ridiculous statement. Military types may be inflexible and stiff necked, but they aren't stupid. No one's going to let a bunch of morons drive around in billion dollar ships capable of leveling cities.
How close together are the halves?
Alberta
A: not european :) (4PM start)
B: am socialist (personal philosophy that is) C: I have to get into the shower right now so that I can get to work on time
I thought that was the purpose of America in general
I don't know if I'd be inclined towards speech recognition even then. I -like- typing. (except when my wrists decide they're pissed about having been fractured years ago. Then I'd surrender half my organs for high quality speech recognition)
IE start Eudora fine. But I'm not using IE. I'm using Netscape. (the only thing that's keeping me here at this point is the interface)
I'd have to say, vocal training or no, the limit to speech speed is going to be alot lower than the limit to typing. I can talk like that character six on that annoying blossom show (for maybe 30 seconds) if I try really hard, and that's not much more than ~45 wpm. I can't imagine anyone being able to talk more than about ~60 wpm without somehow truncating the language, which might be ok for a command system, but won't work for dictation.