What's your point? Being totalled before reaching 350K miles is a very real possibility, and therefore a significant factor in the expected life of a vehicle. Bigger, more expensive vehicles = more property loss when they wreck.
All vehicles can be expected to have some kind of failure during their lifetime. So your comment is pure nonsense.
It's no slam on the F350 in particular to say that hoping for 350K miles is neigh on ridiculous. If we were to go down to the junk yard today and look at the odometer on a dozen randomly selected F350s, are you willing to bet the average mileage would be at least 350K miles?
I can just hear the car salesman now... "this $35K pickup is a bargain when you figure it's practically guaranteed to go 350K miles! Oh yeah, easy! Build like a tank. Oh, the warranty? Well it's so short simply because you won't need it anyways!"
That's interesting, but it's not as if the $30BN fund would have vanished into thin air if they hadn't still had this paper source material. At worse, some Alaskans might have missed out on their free handout. Or more likely got a second helping.
Utter nonsense - not everyone has the time & patience...
OK, that's your speculation. But a real pirate who used to make good money at it, no longer does. Something has changed. And to quote the summary, "When you asked a customer why he wasn't buying anything, 9 times out of 10 it was BitTorrent this, LimeWire that..." Seems pretty conclusive to me. Do you have some more reliable source of information you forgot to mention?
I think you're blind. Take one look at OSX vs XP, and Mac hardware vs PC hardware (on average), and you can't tell me why graphical/artistic types might prefer the Mac? I'm not referring to the functionality of the applications, but to the platforms themselves. And this is coming from a Linux user; my initial desktop screen looks like it's from 1987 and I don't mind having a mix of apps with 3 different widget sets on my desktop at once, but I've noticed that does NOT fly in the Mac world.
Maybe Vista will help, but Microsoft just doesn't have the culture of design that Mac does and my guess is people with opinions on these things will continue to see Vista as a clumsy attempt at style. Think of the "Mac Guy" vs "PC Guy" commercials. One of these days they'll make one where the PC Guy gets some really tacky designer clothes that look totally wrong on him and reveal a little too much pasty nerd skin and flab.
If you believe that interpretation of the "Mission Accomplished" episode, you'll believe anything. Everything the administration did up to and even after that time, from the budget and timetable, to the utter lack of planning for what to do after the invasion, proves that no such thing as a protracted conflict ever entered their minds. The mission was supposed to be a replica of Gulf War I: step 1, America leads the charge and the rest of the western world rallies around us; step 2, the international coalition wipes the floor with whatever semblance of an army Iraq can pull together; step 3, Mission Accomplished. Go home and have a parade.
In response to your previous comment that people wouldn't worry so much about a few thousand casualties now if there had been more during the ground war: if there were ever any chance of thousands of casualties during the ground war, the invasion would never have taken place, simply because nothing in Iraq is worth that much to us. That's why we haven't invaded North Korea and a dozen other places around the world where evildoers live.
Let's not go over-generalizing from Iraq and re-build our military around occupation and nation building. It's a pointless and unjustified mission. The solution is not to do that in the first place.
The idea of a smaller, hi-tech military is a very good one - for national defense, e.g. repelling an armed invasion of us or an ally. "But that kind of military is irrelevant for combatting terrorism!!" That's right, basically. The idea of stemming terrorism through massive invasions is fundamentally invalid. A "war" on terror is a false premise. Anti-terrorism is really about intelligence and police work, executed in conjunction with other nations around the world. Ocassionally we'll need a few highly trained and equipped special forces to eliminate terrorist cells when we find them. This whole approach of killing a mosquito with a sledgehammer has proven so destructive and costly, not to mention ineffective.
I just mean the USSR as an extreme example. Consider all the acquisitions, divestitures, and restructuring of companies. Or Bush's controversial tax cuts, or globalization (NAFTA etc), or the slashing of benefits, or the move away from lifelong employment. At best I'm ambivalent about some of these changes, but isn't it possible that these actually do serve some economic purpose, as the people behind them seem to think?
Isnt it fairly obvious that technology is primarily responsible for our increase in productivity?
An MBA might think more about things like how industries are structured and how people are managed. An economist might think about fiscal policy, demographics, and the increasing numbers of women in the workplace over the last 50 years. A politician would probably think about unemployment numbers and maintaining consumer confidence so people will continue to spend (and keep pumping up the GDP on the treadmill of debt). And to be fair, those things count for a lot. The USSR lost the cold war through lack of productivity, yet their high technology was very advanced and they had abundant natural resources.
Blaming "capitalism" for these effects makes about as much sense to me as blaming Boyle's Law for a hurricane.
Bull. Markets are not natural laws like physics, they're created by legislation. E.g. property and contract law. Policy can greatly impact markets. The trillion-dollar subsidy of oil happening in Iraq right now will never be fully reflected in the pump price of gas. The costs of building levies to keep Florida and New York above water will certainly not be paid by today's oil companies and drivers.
Don't the laws of conservation apply to children as well, or are they from an alternate universe?
That's an absurdly simplistic analysis. One obvious explanation is that to the extent exercise burns calories, it also makes the kids more hungry.
Anyways, thermodynamics does not directly relate calories consumed to weight. It only sets the lower bound. A hotdog and bun has about 350 calories, and a pound of fat is 3500 calories. When Kobayashi eats 53 hot dogs at a sitting, you think he puts on 5 pounds of fat? I don't. (My guess would be a massive attack of diarrhea). It's entirely possible that one person's body might be more prone to put on fat than another's even if they both eat and burn the same number of calories. Poop contains calories, too, you know.
$1 BN is a lot of money to me, too, but this was the only way to get everybody to agree to give up the extremely valuable RF spectrum currently wasted by broadcast TV. I say "wasted" because the old technology is using up huge swaths of some of the very best frequencies. Newer technology will use this limited natural resource much more efficiently.
When I visit, most of the links on the home page are not commercial content, they're more like home movies. I have no interest in the commercial content of youtube; if I wanted that, I would flip channels on TV. But what worries me more is that most of the videos do have background music which is likely copyright infringement.
Maybe a better statement would be "only a non-moron that has the cash to pay off the inevitable lawsuits", of which there are only a few companies, Google being one of them.
I don't think Viacom wants a one-time cash settlement, I think they want a slice of "new media." I bet this will end up with some sort of licensing deal. I only hope youtube will still be worth visiting when it's all over - not because I think Viacom's content is what makes it worthwhile, but - hey - after the cops raid a party it's over, whether or not you were there to do anything illegal.
Nor do they advertise any limitation. How would you know if you're running afoul of their policy when they don't have one? I'm not a very heavy user, but I have telephone only through Vonage so it would be a pain to get cut off arbitrarily.
To game developers and publishers, what's the difference between reselling and piracy? The money changing hands for a used game is not going into their pockets.
From a cnn story about oil, not DST specifically, here's what one analyst thinks about the purported energy savings:
"U.S. gas prices have jumped an average of 20 cents to $2.55 a gallon, and demand could increase in coming weeks as daylight-savings time gives Americans more time to drive, an industry analyst says."
PocketPC's here. Given that the other guy has no trouble with Outlook, my hypothesis is this: it's portable devices that have buggy DST (even with the patch). When you sync, the mobile device messes up some of your appointments, then Outlook accepts the mobile device's updates so now they're messed up in Outlook too. This is only my guess.
The DST problem has been a nightmare in my company, both for Outlook and especially PocketPCs. Microsoft has released a series of patches, each of which just muddles the situation more. In the end, they recommend manually fixing all your appointments. Well gee, if I knew when they were all supposed to be, I wouldn't need Outlook, would I?
Facism means giving all the authority to the executive branch in order to make things happen. Facists rise when people are frustrated with inefficacy in their government, and a charismatic leader arrives promising to solve everything if only he is given the authority to do it. "Making the trains run on time" is a good example of a problem in execution (as opposed to decision making) - everybody wants it done, it's a matter of somebody taking charge and making it hapen.
I don't think many people believe that Bush or the current British government are facists. The problem is simply that they are moving in that direction, by erasing boundaries such as judicial oversight in order to "git 'er done." The problem with these massive surveilance programs and police powers is that they grease the tracks for an irreparable slide into facism the next time there's a national crisis or an especially power-hungry leader. When it's a crime to report executive overstepping (such as the current national security letters issue), we are all too close.
Actually that caught my eye too: "at least five zero-day vulnerabilities are waiting to be fixed." It's the number of unpatched vulnerabilities that matters, not the number that were discovered by black hats before white hats. In any case, I'm not even sure it makes sense to say "this is a 0-day exploit" if it's something that was discovered a month ago (regardless of who discovered it first).
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I can just hear the car salesman now... "this $35K pickup is a bargain when you figure it's practically guaranteed to go 350K miles! Oh yeah, easy! Build like a tank. Oh, the warranty? Well it's so short simply because you won't need it anyways!"
That's interesting, but it's not as if the $30BN fund would have vanished into thin air if they hadn't still had this paper source material. At worse, some Alaskans might have missed out on their free handout. Or more likely got a second helping.
Maybe Vista will help, but Microsoft just doesn't have the culture of design that Mac does and my guess is people with opinions on these things will continue to see Vista as a clumsy attempt at style. Think of the "Mac Guy" vs "PC Guy" commercials. One of these days they'll make one where the PC Guy gets some really tacky designer clothes that look totally wrong on him and reveal a little too much pasty nerd skin and flab.
Interesting, but you didn't mention anything about timezones. Isn't that a problem?
In response to your previous comment that people wouldn't worry so much about a few thousand casualties now if there had been more during the ground war: if there were ever any chance of thousands of casualties during the ground war, the invasion would never have taken place, simply because nothing in Iraq is worth that much to us. That's why we haven't invaded North Korea and a dozen other places around the world where evildoers live.
The idea of a smaller, hi-tech military is a very good one - for national defense, e.g. repelling an armed invasion of us or an ally. "But that kind of military is irrelevant for combatting terrorism!!" That's right, basically. The idea of stemming terrorism through massive invasions is fundamentally invalid. A "war" on terror is a false premise. Anti-terrorism is really about intelligence and police work, executed in conjunction with other nations around the world. Ocassionally we'll need a few highly trained and equipped special forces to eliminate terrorist cells when we find them. This whole approach of killing a mosquito with a sledgehammer has proven so destructive and costly, not to mention ineffective.
Just for grins here's the code to find the most common lines in *your* code, and what I found. It seems the empty string is quite popular!
perl -e 'while(<>){++$l{$_}} map { print "$l{$_}:\t$_" } sort {$l{$a}<=>$l{$b}} keys %l' *.h *.cc | tail
59: #endif
77: private:
95: }
98: public:
105: };
105:
178: }
289: }
346: }
2075:
Does she keep the rights to her invention, or does somebody else get ownership of them? This sounds like a potentially valuable invention.
I just mean the USSR as an extreme example. Consider all the acquisitions, divestitures, and restructuring of companies. Or Bush's controversial tax cuts, or globalization (NAFTA etc), or the slashing of benefits, or the move away from lifelong employment. At best I'm ambivalent about some of these changes, but isn't it possible that these actually do serve some economic purpose, as the people behind them seem to think?
An MBA might think more about things like how industries are structured and how people are managed. An economist might think about fiscal policy, demographics, and the increasing numbers of women in the workplace over the last 50 years. A politician would probably think about unemployment numbers and maintaining consumer confidence so people will continue to spend (and keep pumping up the GDP on the treadmill of debt). And to be fair, those things count for a lot. The USSR lost the cold war through lack of productivity, yet their high technology was very advanced and they had abundant natural resources.
Anyways, thermodynamics does not directly relate calories consumed to weight. It only sets the lower bound. A hotdog and bun has about 350 calories, and a pound of fat is 3500 calories. When Kobayashi eats 53 hot dogs at a sitting, you think he puts on 5 pounds of fat? I don't. (My guess would be a massive attack of diarrhea). It's entirely possible that one person's body might be more prone to put on fat than another's even if they both eat and burn the same number of calories. Poop contains calories, too, you know.
$1 BN is a lot of money to me, too, but this was the only way to get everybody to agree to give up the extremely valuable RF spectrum currently wasted by broadcast TV. I say "wasted" because the old technology is using up huge swaths of some of the very best frequencies. Newer technology will use this limited natural resource much more efficiently.
When I visit, most of the links on the home page are not commercial content, they're more like home movies. I have no interest in the commercial content of youtube; if I wanted that, I would flip channels on TV. But what worries me more is that most of the videos do have background music which is likely copyright infringement.
Nor do they advertise any limitation. How would you know if you're running afoul of their policy when they don't have one? I'm not a very heavy user, but I have telephone only through Vonage so it would be a pain to get cut off arbitrarily.
From a cnn story about oil, not DST specifically, here's what one analyst thinks about the purported energy savings: "U.S. gas prices have jumped an average of 20 cents to $2.55 a gallon, and demand could increase in coming weeks as daylight-savings time gives Americans more time to drive, an industry analyst says."
PocketPC's here. Given that the other guy has no trouble with Outlook, my hypothesis is this: it's portable devices that have buggy DST (even with the patch). When you sync, the mobile device messes up some of your appointments, then Outlook accepts the mobile device's updates so now they're messed up in Outlook too. This is only my guess.
The DST problem has been a nightmare in my company, both for Outlook and especially PocketPCs. Microsoft has released a series of patches, each of which just muddles the situation more. In the end, they recommend manually fixing all your appointments. Well gee, if I knew when they were all supposed to be, I wouldn't need Outlook, would I?
I don't think many people believe that Bush or the current British government are facists. The problem is simply that they are moving in that direction, by erasing boundaries such as judicial oversight in order to "git 'er done." The problem with these massive surveilance programs and police powers is that they grease the tracks for an irreparable slide into facism the next time there's a national crisis or an especially power-hungry leader. When it's a crime to report executive overstepping (such as the current national security letters issue), we are all too close.
Actually that caught my eye too: "at least five zero-day vulnerabilities are waiting to be fixed." It's the number of unpatched vulnerabilities that matters, not the number that were discovered by black hats before white hats. In any case, I'm not even sure it makes sense to say "this is a 0-day exploit" if it's something that was discovered a month ago (regardless of who discovered it first).