Heh. So I get to choose a life-changing trip exploring the world which I'll have with me my whole life or a $1,000,000 candy bar as I lay dying of cancer while the morphine drip steals my consciousness.
You're idea of success is... strange. But good on ya' mate. To each his own.
Exactly how is posting Wil's slashdot screen name (CleverNickName ) invading his privacy? Will *wants* people to read what he thinks, else he wouldn't be blogging. And BTW, he's been blogging over at WWdN In Exile since September.
The series of statements assume a rigid object with a center of mass coincident with its center of rotation. A cat, being flexible, is able to shift its center of mass away from it's center of rotation and therefore generate torque.
Why? Because this is how most people feel. They wrap this feeling in all kinds of intellectual packages, but this is how they feel.
Even if you don't agree with this fellow's statement, mod it up anyway. It's insightful as the truth so often is.
Yes, and this distance just happens to be the circumference of the earth at the tropic of cancer (capricorn, whatever). They were also proscribed from entering airspace above 66.7 deg latitude.
Yes, there are some intermediate steps but price is what you charge and profit is what you are interested in. Regardless of the steps in-between, you're goal is to set the price to maximize your profit.
Also, how exactly does "cutting back on production" make any sense with respect to selling digital files over a network. Admittedly, your bandwidth costs go up but I sincerely doubt this is a large fraction of the COGS.
Finally, competition exists between the distributors (Apple, Wal-Mart, whomever). Competition at the production level (Britney vs. Flavr-the-Week) is a completely different discussion and not particularly relevant here, IMO.
If they raise prices, it will drive more people back into Kazaaland. At the margin, some people will be willing to pay $.99 but not $1.09. The curve that describes this behavior is by no means linear. I would think that Apple has done a fair bit of research to determine where the optimal price point on this curve is.
It will no doubt change as competition (i.e. Walmart, et. al.) enters the market. It's one of the most common fallacies in business to raise your prices to make more money (or conversely to have a sale). It takes careful research and testing to determine the correct price point to maximize profts. You can't just decide to raise more prices to get more money.
FWIW, the easiest way I've found to refresh the screen is to hold down the control key and roll the mouse scroll wheel forward and then back (or vice versa). This does the same thing as Ctrl+ and Ctrl- .
Yeah. I'm going to second this. Grandparent obviously hasn't been to very many actual auctions. I've NEVER seen an auctioneer ignore a bona fide offer above the current bid. I have personally made sub-increment offers at livestock auctions and had them accepted.
In fact, I believe it would probably be a breach of the auctioneer's contract with the seller not to acknowledge an increased bid as it's their duty to get the maximum amount that an item will sell for.
You jogged my memory with the colors for the days of the week thing. It's something I hadn't thought about forever but when I was a kid, I saw the days of a week as colors and shapes and you're post brought this back to me. I'm sitting here recalling the days and their associations as I type.
Saturday was a green rectangle with a fringe.
Sunday was a half moon with a yellow gradient.
Tuesday is vaguely brown but I can't see the shape.
Anyway, I can't remember them all, but they're coming back to me. You've made my evening!
Alright! Alright! I *might* have camped out for the VH 1984 tour... *maybe*
And I won't even say how many times I saw Ep. IV. But I was like seven and movies were a buck and a quarter.
The movie literally rocked my world. I was a "boy fan", you know, kind of like Manbat is to Batman.
I've still got a complete set of those star wars trading cards around here somewhere (the ones that were blue, red, yellow, etc.) and I'm in a long... withdrawal. I can't wait for Ep. III to come out, suck, and die so my inner child can move on. I need closure!
When you take energy out of a system, you affect that system and all other systems that depend on it.
In other words, these projects affect the currents, at least locally which in turn *will* affect the biological systems that depend on these currents, to what extent? I don't think we know.
We need alternate energy, but we need to honestly compare the impact of each energy extraction method we consider. Personally, I think nuclear is the lowest impact energy tech.
It should be pointed out that the headline of this/. story is misleading. (Yeah, I know, what else is new?)
Images of Ocean Floor Show Effects of Tsunami
The damage to the ocean floor was a result of the cause of the tsunami - not the effect thereof. Tsunamis do not damage the ocean floor until they get into very shallow water (i.e. the coastline).
And of course, the view of "smart" is skewed anyhow, my mechanic can't fix my computer in the same way I can't fix his car... we're both smart in different ways.
Umm, I think you're confusing intelligence with training.
This ruling essentially means that I (as a private individual) can plant a GPS device on anyone's car for any reason that's not illegal in some other way (e.g. for the purpose of stalking) since I could just as easily follow them or rent an airplane to track them or hire a private investigator...
I think you're being flippant but even so, you do raise a good point (even if you didn't intend to).
The fact of the matter is, instruments of war should be firghtening. I'm quite afraid of tanks, for instance. I hope our enemies are afraid of our tanks too, and our highly trained soldiers.
It could be argued, and in fact here I am arguing it, that the "scarier" a weapon is, the less chance that it will be used. A perfect example of this, of course, are nuclear weapons. The BIG DADDY of scary weapons. Only used twice. Never used since.
It's impossible to know how the deterrent of nuclear weapons changed the world, and whether or not they changed the world for the better, but I don't think you can argue that they didn't have a profound effect on our enemies behavior (and on ours - US - after our enemies got their own).
Bringing this full circle, I think it's great that we are developing weapon systems that put the other guy in harm's way while keeping our soldiers out of the line of fire.
You have to forgive Legolas. He's young (for an elf) and trying to find himself by emulating popular middle-aged X Game Hall of Famers.
We've all had a "Tony Hawk Moment" from time to time. Cut the guy a break.
And while I truly enjoyed the LOTR movies, that part had me yelling at the screen in the theater. I yelled again when Legolas had his "Luke Skywalker" moment in RotK. Damn Middle Earth Imperial Walkers!!!
The first sci-fi-esque book I ever read was Marauders of Gor. Sort of Vikings, slave girls and big foot. Could there be a better starter book for a 13 year-old lust-ridden vat of hormones like myself?
I don't think so!
I thought the series dipped a bit after Tarl Cabot got enslaved but it didn't really jump the shark until Kajira of Gor, which (IIRC) followed a slave girl around and tried to make me sympathize with her plight?!?! Umm, Mr. Norman totally lost his target audience at that point. Sweaty-palmed pimple-faced junior high drones want to OWN the slave girl, not sympathize with her.
I'm just saying.
Of course I understand now that owning women, dressing them in silk, welding on a collar and branding them with a hot iron is wrong.
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Heh. So I get to choose a life-changing trip exploring the world which I'll have with me my whole life or a $1,000,000 candy bar as I lay dying of cancer while the morphine drip steals my consciousness.
You're idea of success is... strange. But good on ya' mate. To each his own.
Exactly how is posting Wil's slashdot screen name (CleverNickName ) invading his privacy? Will *wants* people to read what he thinks, else he wouldn't be blogging. And BTW, he's been blogging over at WWdN In Exile since September.
The series of statements assume a rigid object with a center of mass coincident with its center of rotation. A cat, being flexible, is able to shift its center of mass away from it's center of rotation and therefore generate torque.
Why? Because this is how most people feel. They wrap this feeling in all kinds of intellectual packages, but this is how they feel. Even if you don't agree with this fellow's statement, mod it up anyway. It's insightful as the truth so often is.
They are in the position of power and they refuse to sign NDAs simply because they CAN.
Yes, and this distance just happens to be the circumference of the earth at the tropic of cancer (capricorn, whatever). They were also proscribed from entering airspace above 66.7 deg latitude.
Also, how exactly does "cutting back on production" make any sense with respect to selling digital files over a network. Admittedly, your bandwidth costs go up but I sincerely doubt this is a large fraction of the COGS.
Finally, competition exists between the distributors (Apple, Wal-Mart, whomever). Competition at the production level (Britney vs. Flavr-the-Week) is a completely different discussion and not particularly relevant here, IMO.
It will no doubt change as competition (i.e. Walmart, et. al.) enters the market. It's one of the most common fallacies in business to raise your prices to make more money (or conversely to have a sale). It takes careful research and testing to determine the correct price point to maximize profts. You can't just decide to raise more prices to get more money.
Those figures you're looking at are per day. See here for an excellent set of maps.
FWIW, the easiest way I've found to refresh the screen is to hold down the control key and roll the mouse scroll wheel forward and then back (or vice versa). This does the same thing as Ctrl+ and Ctrl- .
In fact, I believe it would probably be a breach of the auctioneer's contract with the seller not to acknowledge an increased bid as it's their duty to get the maximum amount that an item will sell for.
Last year Tammet broke the European record for recalling pi, the mathematical constant, to the furthest decimal point.
You jogged my memory with the colors for the days of the week thing. It's something I hadn't thought about forever but when I was a kid, I saw the days of a week as colors and shapes and you're post brought this back to me. I'm sitting here recalling the days and their associations as I type.
Saturday was a green rectangle with a fringe.
Sunday was a half moon with a yellow gradient.
Tuesday is vaguely brown but I can't see the shape.
Anyway, I can't remember them all, but they're coming back to me. You've made my evening!
Regards,
-The Swine
And I won't even say how many times I saw Ep. IV. But I was like seven and movies were a buck and a quarter.
The movie literally rocked my world. I was a "boy fan", you know, kind of like Manbat is to Batman.
I've still got a complete set of those star wars trading cards around here somewhere (the ones that were blue, red, yellow, etc.) and I'm in a long... withdrawal. I can't wait for Ep. III to come out, suck, and die so my inner child can move on. I need closure!
!fanboy <= 1 day camping out < fanboy
In other words, these projects affect the currents, at least locally which in turn *will* affect the biological systems that depend on these currents, to what extent? I don't think we know.
We need alternate energy, but we need to honestly compare the impact of each energy extraction method we consider. Personally, I think nuclear is the lowest impact energy tech.
Total cost is $27,000 + $16,500 = $43,500 and $8,250 back yields about a 20% discount on the system.
So that's good. And just think how much fun said billionaire will have selling 825 DVDs to the proletariat on eBay.
Images of Ocean Floor Show Effects of Tsunami
The damage to the ocean floor was a result of the cause of the tsunami - not the effect thereof. Tsunamis do not damage the ocean floor until they get into very shallow water (i.e. the coastline).
Umm, I think you're confusing intelligence with training.
This ruling essentially means that I (as a private individual) can plant a GPS device on anyone's car for any reason that's not illegal in some other way (e.g. for the purpose of stalking) since I could just as easily follow them or rent an airplane to track them or hire a private investigator...
The fact of the matter is, instruments of war should be firghtening. I'm quite afraid of tanks, for instance. I hope our enemies are afraid of our tanks too, and our highly trained soldiers.
It could be argued, and in fact here I am arguing it, that the "scarier" a weapon is, the less chance that it will be used. A perfect example of this, of course, are nuclear weapons. The BIG DADDY of scary weapons. Only used twice. Never used since.
It's impossible to know how the deterrent of nuclear weapons changed the world, and whether or not they changed the world for the better, but I don't think you can argue that they didn't have a profound effect on our enemies behavior (and on ours - US - after our enemies got their own).
Bringing this full circle, I think it's great that we are developing weapon systems that put the other guy in harm's way while keeping our soldiers out of the line of fire.
We've all had a "Tony Hawk Moment" from time to time. Cut the guy a break.
And while I truly enjoyed the LOTR movies, that part had me yelling at the screen in the theater. I yelled again when Legolas had his "Luke Skywalker" moment in RotK. Damn Middle Earth Imperial Walkers!!!
The first sci-fi-esque book I ever read was Marauders of Gor. Sort of Vikings, slave girls and big foot. Could there be a better starter book for a 13 year-old lust-ridden vat of hormones like myself?
I don't think so!
I thought the series dipped a bit after Tarl Cabot got enslaved but it didn't really jump the shark until Kajira of Gor, which (IIRC) followed a slave girl around and tried to make me sympathize with her plight?!?! Umm, Mr. Norman totally lost his target audience at that point. Sweaty-palmed pimple-faced junior high drones want to OWN the slave girl, not sympathize with her.
I'm just saying.
Of course I understand now that owning women, dressing them in silk, welding on a collar and branding them with a hot iron is wrong.
I know that now.
Or maybe you were thinking the doppler shift would push the frequency above your threshhold of hearing...