Congestion actually helps solve the core issue. As congestion increases drivers begin to find other ways to get around. One electric bus could take up to 40 times the passengers of a single occupant vehicle, and transit becomes the best alternative for many commuters. In the long run cities become smaller and more accessible simply to overcome the inconvenience.
Take an ethics class sometime.
Employers have a duty to provide an experience which contributes to human flourishing, taking advantage of employees because you can (due to market conditions) is unethical.
Your utilitarian ethics are a very base level.
I hope that's some sarcasm about ethics being determined by market conditions.
It's certainly not ethical to offer crummy jobs to people just because you can. That's pretty much the opposite of ethical.
we are potentially about to elect a half-African president
Obama is not half-anything, he is a U.S. Citizen by birth, born on 4 August 1961 at the Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.
How could you possibly remove the incentive of a payday from amateur sports when there isn't one to begin with (hence 'amateur'). The money incentive is totally disconnected from the sport itself and unless you propose a worldwide ban on athletes receiving and payments for the rest of their lives for anything related to sport (including providing commentary on sports shows, paid interviews, etc...) I can't even fathom how it's possible to eliminate that incentive.
AC, incorrect - serviscope posted re: PURE CAPITALISM, which does not include regulation or legislation, it is the unfettered market at work - so no laws would exist.
What a great study! It restates the economic principle of 'adverse selection' where candidates with no better options remain at a certain position into perpetuity and those that can do better eventually do.
It might be new to some, but really just restates things every hiring manager should already know.
I have $200 in the gadget fund, and I was looking for a PDA phone, but i am going to continue saving for the iPhone. My point? Lots of other college students with disposable income will be early adopters too.
Bad News Junior, your 'disposable income' argument runs contrary to your gadget fund of $200. IF you indeed had 'disposable' (the actual marketing term is 'discretionary', disposable is slightly different) income to purchase this phone you would not need to save for it, also to be an early adopter you would have to have the funds to buy it FIRST, not save up for it.
Yes, I know that it is not released yet, but there are so many better phones at present. Go to any Korean or Japanese phone store and gander at some of the currently available GSM units. Sure no video, but the hackability more than makes up for a video player (which an early adopting dis-cretin like yourself surely already owns).
What college did you attend anyway? Hillbilly State? Backwoods Tech?
"Microsoft is discussing internally how to help Sony from going under, since that would create a raft of antitrust problems for Redmond. I am not making this up."
Microsoft supporting another company (Apple)? What an unexpected event.
Really, if this is a prediction, fire Nostradomus.
Last I checked there are possibly three films in the entire world with an actual HD source (Lucasfilms Star Wars Prequels) aside from that you are getting what exactly? A 1080p picture upsampled from 320p? That's an awful lot of extrapolation (3x?). The bits just aren't there. If you record a telephone call with even the higest end equipment you are still constrained by the horrific quality of the signal coming from your telephone speaker. FMJ from 70mm(?) to HDDVD, I still have to think that the original recording is just not high enough quality to justify the cost(s) of HDDVD (DRM, $$$, ETC)
Plus M$ gets to charge twice for goods already sold.
However, how will they check in the future if a license is a valid used license, or a pirate version, or if a reseller is selling multiple copies of a single license?
In Canada we have to pay similar surcharges, and do the dance with the Freedom of Information Act to actually discover what fees are charged where and by whom.
However, in Canada, you cannot charge these fees and mislead customers about where the money goes. The Government of Canada is Trademarked and fees which are collected cannot be ascribed to the TM Entity without consent.
Roundabout, but at least I know where my money is going
Maybe someone touched on this already, and maybe I'm just crazy, but didn't the illustious Mr Gates start this whole crazy thing?
What is.net? Didn't Gatestron allude to the fact that some huge percentage of processor cycles are wasted each day (and not just playing QwakerealTournament 2005 or surfing for porno?) and we should take advantage of this? Maybe it was someone from Sun, but the point stands. The major names in SW and HW development WANT P2P, but not on the users terms. No, P2P needs more rules and protection, lest the lowly user attempts to suborn the network for his own heinous wants.
On another topic, if no one can send powerful hardware to "terroristic" nations, could they not just use a SETI styled distributed thingamabob to guide the missles, or design new and improved WMD (of which we still have not seen hide nor hair)?
There is plenty of end-user customer support for beta, but you and I are not the end users. Professional video editing suites and production companies are.
Anyway, the poin I was trying to make is that you and I cannot decide, even voting with our wallets, what will be the new DVD standard. It will take the influence of one company ready to take a few risks to make a few bucks.
I have a friend in professional video editing and anything that is not digital is BETA. The reason for this is higher quality.
The reason you have a hard time finding consumer grade BETA machines is because of price.
So, you are partially right. The superior standard lost out to a cheaper alternative. More consumers = more machines = more media.
The whole debate will be settled soon when one company breaks away and starts selling the media for cheap (as in hard liquor) and garners the bigger market share. It wont be any of the big players either. They all have to worry about content handling and DRM. Look for a smaller media company to emerge as the market leader, and that format will prevail. Mark my words. Some unpronouceable company in a middle Asian country will put out one cheap player and one cheap media...= PROFIT!!
So the analogy is not wrong, but needs to be followed through to it's logical end.
"Patience is thinly veiled despair, diguised as virtue."
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Congestion actually helps solve the core issue. As congestion increases drivers begin to find other ways to get around. One electric bus could take up to 40 times the passengers of a single occupant vehicle, and transit becomes the best alternative for many commuters. In the long run cities become smaller and more accessible simply to overcome the inconvenience.
Watson, come here, I need you!
Take an ethics class sometime. Employers have a duty to provide an experience which contributes to human flourishing, taking advantage of employees because you can (due to market conditions) is unethical. Your utilitarian ethics are a very base level.
I hope that's some sarcasm about ethics being determined by market conditions. It's certainly not ethical to offer crummy jobs to people just because you can. That's pretty much the opposite of ethical.
Can two Down's Syndrome parents have a non-Down's child? if so, I think you're right!
This has nothing to do with being proud of one's heritage, it's just the facts.
we are potentially about to elect a half-African president
Obama is not half-anything, he is a U.S. Citizen by birth, born on 4 August 1961 at the Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.
How could you possibly remove the incentive of a payday from amateur sports when there isn't one to begin with (hence 'amateur'). The money incentive is totally disconnected from the sport itself and unless you propose a worldwide ban on athletes receiving and payments for the rest of their lives for anything related to sport (including providing commentary on sports shows, paid interviews, etc...) I can't even fathom how it's possible to eliminate that incentive.
AC, incorrect - serviscope posted re: PURE CAPITALISM, which does not include regulation or legislation, it is the unfettered market at work - so no laws would exist.
What a great study! It restates the economic principle of 'adverse selection' where candidates with no better options remain at a certain position into perpetuity and those that can do better eventually do.
It might be new to some, but really just restates things every hiring manager should already know.
The point is not that you can edit it, but that libelous statements can permanently damage someones' reputation.
Suing for money is one remedy, you could also sue for a written or posted apology or retraction, or many other things.
There is a Dutch Study which points out that healthy people cost more than smokers or obese people, over a lifetime. http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0050029
Beaucoup. It is spelled Beaucoup.
mod it 'informative', mes petits.
You forgot to say BaBaBooey at the end of your post.
Call me a "rapid mac fanboy"
Or 'Rabid' maybe?
I have $200 in the gadget fund, and I was looking for a PDA phone, but i am going to continue saving for the iPhone.
My point? Lots of other college students with disposable income will be early adopters too.
Bad News Junior, your 'disposable income' argument runs contrary to your gadget fund of $200. IF you indeed had 'disposable' (the actual marketing term is 'discretionary', disposable is slightly different) income to purchase this phone you would not need to save for it, also to be an early adopter you would have to have the funds to buy it FIRST, not save up for it.
Yes, I know that it is not released yet, but there are so many better phones at present. Go to any Korean or Japanese phone store and gander at some of the currently available GSM units. Sure no video, but the hackability more than makes up for a video player (which an early adopting dis-cretin like yourself surely already owns).
What college did you attend anyway? Hillbilly State? Backwoods Tech?
"Microsoft is discussing internally how to help Sony from going under, since that would create a raft of antitrust problems for Redmond. I am not making this up."
Microsoft supporting another company (Apple)? What an unexpected event.
Really, if this is a prediction, fire Nostradomus.
Last I checked there are possibly three films in the entire world with an actual HD source (Lucasfilms Star Wars Prequels) aside from that you are getting what exactly? A 1080p picture upsampled from 320p? That's an awful lot of extrapolation (3x?). The bits just aren't there. If you record a telephone call with even the higest end equipment you are still constrained by the horrific quality of the signal coming from your telephone speaker. FMJ from 70mm(?) to HDDVD, I still have to think that the original recording is just not high enough quality to justify the cost(s) of HDDVD (DRM, $$$, ETC)
Plus M$ gets to charge twice for goods already sold.
However, how will they check in the future if a license is a valid used license, or a pirate version, or if a reseller is selling multiple copies of a single license?
In Canada we have to pay similar surcharges, and do the dance with the Freedom of Information Act to actually discover what fees are charged where and by whom.
However, in Canada, you cannot charge these fees and mislead customers about where the money goes. The Government of Canada is Trademarked and fees which are collected cannot be ascribed to the TM Entity without consent.
Roundabout, but at least I know where my money is going
Snag some milk crates from uhhh...
Anyway, after you have aquired the requisite crates, fill them with junk and stack.
Neat and free. Also great for moving. Stack and roll.
Comes in designer colours as well.
What is .net? Didn't Gatestron allude to the fact that some huge percentage of processor cycles are wasted each day (and not just playing QwakerealTournament 2005 or surfing for porno?) and we should take advantage of this? Maybe it was someone from Sun, but the point stands. The major names in SW and HW development WANT P2P, but not on the users terms. No, P2P needs more rules and protection, lest the lowly user attempts to suborn the network for his own heinous wants.
On another topic, if no one can send powerful hardware to "terroristic" nations, could they not just use a SETI styled distributed thingamabob to guide the missles, or design new and improved WMD (of which we still have not seen hide nor hair)?
There is plenty of end-user customer support for beta, but you and I are not the end users. Professional video editing suites and production companies are.
Anyway, the poin I was trying to make is that you and I cannot decide, even voting with our wallets, what will be the new DVD standard. It will take the influence of one company ready to take a few risks to make a few bucks.
The VHS / BETA debate still rages today.
I have a friend in professional video editing and anything that is not digital is BETA. The reason for this is higher quality.
The reason you have a hard time finding consumer grade BETA machines is because of price.
So, you are partially right. The superior standard lost out to a cheaper alternative. More consumers = more machines = more media.
The whole debate will be settled soon when one company breaks away and starts selling the media for cheap (as in hard liquor) and garners the bigger market share. It wont be any of the big players either. They all have to worry about content handling and DRM. Look for a smaller media company to emerge as the market leader, and that format will prevail. Mark my words. Some unpronouceable company in a middle Asian country will put out one cheap player and one cheap media...= PROFIT!!
So the analogy is not wrong, but needs to be followed through to it's logical end.
"Patience is thinly veiled despair, diguised as virtue."
1) There are actually people who don't believe that Jesus was the messiah
Yeah, they are called 'Muslims'. There might be a few around. Maybe they are on to something?
Allah U Ackbar
I thought beer was free at /.
No?