Anyways, believe it or not, my family does get about that many episodes in a month from netflix, without watching TV all day either. Between having an episode per day of something for my wife to watch on the treadmill, an episode of something for my daughters, and something else for my son, plus one or two movies per week to watch with my wife, we keep our mailbox quite busy. But I feel we are being far more selective and watching less trash than when we had cable TV.
Personally, I never re-watch shows, so renting is better. But then for 13.99/month, you can rent about 32 episodes through netflix (that's 4 DVD's per week through the 2-DVD-at-a-time plan, with 4 episodes on each DVD). And that's not counting any "watch instantly" (streaming) series you might be interested in, which are also included in that price. Selection is limited but there is some good stuff in there, e.g. Dexter seasons 1 and 2.
Any nurse who does something like this is purely incompetent.
You are barking up the wrong tree.
Here is a must read. Quote: 'You change the culture by giving people new tools that actually work. The old culture has tools, too, but they're foolish: "Be more careful," "Be more diligent," "Do a double-check," "Read all the medical literature." Those kinds of tools don't really work.'
Sure, it would be dumb to do. But it does happen, thus it is a legitimate security concern.
As for preventing problems by firing anybody who's going to do something wrong before they do it, good luck. Even Stalin wasn't 100%, and not for lack of trying.
The reason that the US had so many Shermans is that they froze the design early and ramped up production. The Germans were continually tweaking their designs, making them "better" and more complicated thereby slowing production to a relative crawl.
The main reason that the US had so many Shermans is because our factories were protected from the battlefront by thousands of miles of ocean, and (unlike Japan) the US is on a huge continent with vast natural resources.
If churning out cheap low-tech weapons in vast quantities is the key to success we are really screwed nowadays, aren't we? We're the polar opposite of that.
The RIAA is arguing that net neutrality, if adopted, must not go so far as removing all means to enforce intellectual property rights. Go ahead and disagree. But if you were hoping to net neutrality to be passed in a form that abolishes the DMCA, get ready for a disappointment because the balance of power hasn't changed much, if at all, since it was passed.
ok, so you're saying my hard drive died. How much will that cost to replace? Excuse me?
Who would pay extra for an iPod that's physically larger just so they could replace the storage? Practically nobody. Integration is the key to getting computers cheap enough and small enough that you don't think of them as a collection of parts, but a thing you use, and replace if necessary.
This is why [] we don't put children [] in jail (they are amoral, and cant have a guilty mind)."
Except we do. I always think about this when people express shock and disgust at Mullahs marrying off 13-year-olds. We shouldn't prosecute criminal children as adults either, and for the same reasons.
Whether you take the benefit as a decrease in cost or an increase in mobility doesn't really matter in this case. This waste is currently being dumped into the environment anyways, so the net environmental impact of using it as fuel instead should be very small.
There are a lot more cars consuming more fuel than the whisky industry will be able to service.
Even a couple percentage delta in demand for fuel might impact the price dramatically due to inelastic demand: "That is, a 10% hike in the price of gasoline lowers quantity demanded by 2.6%. In the long-run (defined as longer than 1 year), the price elasticity of demand is -0.58; a 10% hike in gasoline causes quantity demanded to decline by 5.8% in the long run." I suppose whether the reverse is true - a 5.8% decrease in demand is necessary to decrease prices by 10% in the long run - depends on how efficient you believe the market for gasoline to be. But there's no good reason to believe decreasing demand by 1% would equal only 1% reduction in price.
In the era of high-def digital TV, you need a pretty beefy processor and GPU for video decoding (let alone transcoding). Last I checked, even atom-based systems with integrated graphics cannot manage, unless you get hardware accelerated replay working (which is iffy at best given poor linux support and the huge variety of codecs). Then there's web-based video - I have an 800 mhz celeron which cannot play youtube even at 320p (even with DRI working - if that makes any difference). Rescaling Hulu's flash player to 1080 lines for display on a TV is hugely cpu intensive.
Actually, it was very eye opening to run my old 800 mhz celeron on the Internet at all - even with fvwm instead of gnome, and even with the flashblock plugin, firefox is painfully slow. All the complex formatting of today's 1mb homepages really seems to take its toll. OpenOffice isn't exactly vi either. So I wouldn't be quick to assume these wall wart computers will do anything for the average user's normal desktop use.
"MAC addresses are not even necessary for connectivity to an IPv6 network."
Nor for connectivity to an IP4 network. I guess there must still be some token ring and ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) networks hooked up the Internet. For that matter, dialup modems don't have MAC addresses either.
it should be come apparent that we should be driving motorcycles and lightweight double passenger cars rather than trying to wrap our minds about how human weight affects oil consumption.
Of course, you can only make that argument because somebody bothered to compute how much human weight affects fuel consumption. It is wrong to claim that a study was unjustified because it shows that further concern over some issue is unnecessary.
And frankly people who let their votes be decided by "we'll give you more free stuff" deserve exactly what they'll get.
$43e9 AUS is not free. Also, I am not really clear on what's being proposed... the following quotes give me the impression they're upgrading the backbone, and perhaps to the home in major areas, but not taking on the last mile problem for all of Australia:
the faster capability was already built into the equipment which the company was installing in homes and Mr Quigley said he decided to enable it after discussions with internet providers and the competition watchdog....
NBN Co would offer unlimited download capacity at one gigabit per second wholesale rates to retail internet providers, but service provider Internode said it was not reasonable to give consumers unlimited downloads.
How much voice control? "Find nearest gas station" sounds like a handy thing to do, without trying to peck away at a (virtual) keyboard while driving. (We'll assume the driver is using a dash mount). Does the iPhone do this? Maybe it does, I wouldn't know.
Of course, it all hinges on how well it actually works. My Garmin 60 CS has the ability to search for "points of interest" (including gas stations). But searching is so clunky and inaccurate - especially compared to what we're now used to with google maps - you only use it when you really must.
Until just a couple years ago they still had unregulated cigarette vending machines in Japan. Now the cigarette vending machines require something called a "taspo." These cards are free of charge by mail order with proof of ID, and "The smoker's picture will be on the card, although the vending machines will not be able to read the images, so they won't be able to tell if the customer is legitimate." Perhaps somebody from Japan can comment on the difficulty of obtaining a false taspo, but it doesn't sound terribly secure to me.
That surprising, my local theater now has some threatening-looking posters (or was it a preview spot?) about grabbing movies with a video camera. They certainly gave the impression you could get in trouble for it (without waiting to see if you sell the recordings). Is that different?
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Anyways, believe it or not, my family does get about that many episodes in a month from netflix, without watching TV all day either. Between having an episode per day of something for my wife to watch on the treadmill, an episode of something for my daughters, and something else for my son, plus one or two movies per week to watch with my wife, we keep our mailbox quite busy. But I feel we are being far more selective and watching less trash than when we had cable TV.
I just hope google phone doesn't do everything ooma does, I just paid like $225 for that :)
Personally, I never re-watch shows, so renting is better. But then for 13.99/month, you can rent about 32 episodes through netflix (that's 4 DVD's per week through the 2-DVD-at-a-time plan, with 4 episodes on each DVD). And that's not counting any "watch instantly" (streaming) series you might be interested in, which are also included in that price. Selection is limited but there is some good stuff in there, e.g. Dexter seasons 1 and 2.
You are barking up the wrong tree.
Here is a must read. Quote: 'You change the culture by giving people new tools that actually work. The old culture has tools, too, but they're foolish: "Be more careful," "Be more diligent," "Do a double-check," "Read all the medical literature." Those kinds of tools don't really work.'
Discontinuing large-denomination notes to combat crime has already been done in the US (see the part about $10,000 bills) and Europe, at least.
I think not; if somebody is searching through shoe boxes in your home, they're already on to you.
As for preventing problems by firing anybody who's going to do something wrong before they do it, good luck. Even Stalin wasn't 100%, and not for lack of trying.
I believe that was the last known instance of Microsoft being cool.
The main reason that the US had so many Shermans is because our factories were protected from the battlefront by thousands of miles of ocean, and (unlike Japan) the US is on a huge continent with vast natural resources.
If churning out cheap low-tech weapons in vast quantities is the key to success we are really screwed nowadays, aren't we? We're the polar opposite of that.
And that epitaph is such a crackup. It is admirable to face death frankly, and even with humor.
The RIAA is arguing that net neutrality, if adopted, must not go so far as removing all means to enforce intellectual property rights. Go ahead and disagree. But if you were hoping to net neutrality to be passed in a form that abolishes the DMCA, get ready for a disappointment because the balance of power hasn't changed much, if at all, since it was passed.
Who would pay extra for an iPod that's physically larger just so they could replace the storage? Practically nobody. Integration is the key to getting computers cheap enough and small enough that you don't think of them as a collection of parts, but a thing you use, and replace if necessary.
Except we do. I always think about this when people express shock and disgust at Mullahs marrying off 13-year-olds. We shouldn't prosecute criminal children as adults either, and for the same reasons.
Whether you take the benefit as a decrease in cost or an increase in mobility doesn't really matter in this case. This waste is currently being dumped into the environment anyways, so the net environmental impact of using it as fuel instead should be very small.
Even a couple percentage delta in demand for fuel might impact the price dramatically due to inelastic demand: "That is, a 10% hike in the price of gasoline lowers quantity demanded by 2.6%. In the long-run (defined as longer than 1 year), the price elasticity of demand is -0.58; a 10% hike in gasoline causes quantity demanded to decline by 5.8% in the long run." I suppose whether the reverse is true - a 5.8% decrease in demand is necessary to decrease prices by 10% in the long run - depends on how efficient you believe the market for gasoline to be. But there's no good reason to believe decreasing demand by 1% would equal only 1% reduction in price.
Actually, it was very eye opening to run my old 800 mhz celeron on the Internet at all - even with fvwm instead of gnome, and even with the flashblock plugin, firefox is painfully slow. All the complex formatting of today's 1mb homepages really seems to take its toll. OpenOffice isn't exactly vi either. So I wouldn't be quick to assume these wall wart computers will do anything for the average user's normal desktop use.
Nor for connectivity to an IP4 network. I guess there must still be some token ring and ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) networks hooked up the Internet. For that matter, dialup modems don't have MAC addresses either.
Of course, you can only make that argument because somebody bothered to compute how much human weight affects fuel consumption. It is wrong to claim that a study was unjustified because it shows that further concern over some issue is unnecessary.
Yeah, progress is such a hassle.
$43e9 AUS is not free. Also, I am not really clear on what's being proposed... the following quotes give me the impression they're upgrading the backbone, and perhaps to the home in major areas, but not taking on the last mile problem for all of Australia:
Of course, it all hinges on how well it actually works. My Garmin 60 CS has the ability to search for "points of interest" (including gas stations). But searching is so clunky and inaccurate - especially compared to what we're now used to with google maps - you only use it when you really must.
Surely that's better than being a mouldering corpse for hundreds of years.
In addition: "NASA said WISE completed its primary mission, a full scan of the entire sky in infrared light, on July 17, 2010."
Until just a couple years ago they still had unregulated cigarette vending machines in Japan. Now the cigarette vending machines require something called a "taspo." These cards are free of charge by mail order with proof of ID, and "The smoker's picture will be on the card, although the vending machines will not be able to read the images, so they won't be able to tell if the customer is legitimate." Perhaps somebody from Japan can comment on the difficulty of obtaining a false taspo, but it doesn't sound terribly secure to me.
That surprising, my local theater now has some threatening-looking posters (or was it a preview spot?) about grabbing movies with a video camera. They certainly gave the impression you could get in trouble for it (without waiting to see if you sell the recordings). Is that different?