yep, and since a Wordstar or text document is basically a character database, this means that any list that anyone ever created in any kind of text file is also proof of prior art in a database...
I am willing to bet that 2-to-1 striping (white-white-grey) is even more efficient than 1-to-1 striping (white-grey). Why does this study ignore this? Its an "obvious" option...
huh? just so you know, you can boot up and get access to all the files in a linux distro just as easily as this article says you can on Microsoft distros.
yeah, if it actually exists, why not share it with everyone? if you did that, then maybe someone would patch it right?
lol. if nobody steps forward with a thumbdrive, ill assume this article is fake propaganda.
it seems likely also that a advanced civilization will send out robots to "prepare" the planet for a future landing. why travel to a planet when it doesnt yet have the facilities for actually using it? it would make no sense for them to go into orbit for a long period of time waiting for the planet to be prepared would it? why not prepare it first so you can just get out of the ship when you get there?
The laws of demand in a open marketplace say that $3 gas is not possible, especially if politicians create any taxes on the fuel.
Take Diesel fuel for example. Back in the mid-80's it used to be around 1/2 the price of regular gas but demand , caused by passenger cars being manufactured with diesel capability, caused the demand to be high enough that the prices equalized and today Diesel is the same price as regular gas.
The same thing will happen with any green fuel. The same thing will happen with Hydrogen cars, etc. Your cost per mile will eventually equalize when the market matures for your fuel.
You come really close to the answer here. The problem with your theory is 2 things:
1. Given the limitations of the speed of light, the only civilizations that would attempt star travel are ones that live a very long time (like 1000+ years). This sorta rules out biological life. I personally think that only silicon based computer life would live long enough for star travel.
2. If a computerized life were to develop, they obviously dont need to find food or space because they could get all their energy from their star. And so, if they needed to colonize another star, they would seek out planets with good solar energy prospects, whos temperature falls into a range that supports their circutry. They wouldn't necessarily be looking for an earthlike planet.
Yeah, for my first job I worked in a phone technical support company in Portland doing support for Netscape Server software back in 1995-1996 and I was paid $12 . Today, at the same company, kids make only minimum wage... around $8 an hour.
Talk about salary depreciation... whoah!
I used flock for about 2 weeks. It is a nice concept but the browser has serious issues with remembering the pages and sites that you 'allow". EVERY SINGLE TIME I visited Facebook I had to tell the stupid browser to remember the password.
Someone needs to fix that. Until then, i consider it worthless.
I dont know where you heard that it costs $6/barrel. It actually costs just a little over $0.50 a barrel to pull oil out of the ground in Saudi Arabia.
what kind of bank doesn't lock up their garbage? personally I have never heard of a bank that isn't careful with their trash. that article is hard to believe. if it is true, its probably the last bank in the country to do so.
yeah, it was only just back in November '07 that the new Brazilian oil field was all over the news and people were saying it could have up to 80billion (making it the 5th largest in the world if that were true). Every 6 months or so a news item like this pops up and never really turns out to be true, but who knows?
there are 2 different versions of that movie. one version is at least 1 hour longer. it sounds like you watched the shorter version. in the longer version of the movie, in the "cut" scenes, the natives all have glowing blue eyes because of the spice. do you know which one you watched?
they spent my taxpayer money on this? hmm. i guess it is probably ok that private companies are not making bombs. the government should instead classify the patents relating to "explosives" as illegal for anyone to own, including the government. we don't need nuclear bomb patents. conventional weapons are plenty.
ok, so your saying that Amazon can make an easier profit, but that is not the point of this thread.
The point of this thread is that the wholesale costs are certainly below $10 and so if WalMart is dumping CD's its only going to hurt them because it seems to be one of the products that they can re-sell well above wholesale cost. Selling CDs wont hurt them, especially if they can get $12+ dollars out of them. They probably have plenty of other products in the store that they sell at an actual loss but CDs aren't one of them.
The important fact here is that at $15.99, the price of a CD is significantly higher than its wholesale cost. CDs don't need to cost that much.
Linux kernels dont come with "NVidia" drivers. Linux kernels come with "generic card support" which all video cards handle in order to display anything at boot time, before drivers have been loaded.
Then, the operating system loads the next video card driver layer on top of that after that while the OS starts. this doesn't mean the driver was in the kernel.
Oh no! When the "singularity" of computer intelligence is reached, the machines are going to take over the world and then they will process all the water on earth into energy using solar panels. What use do machines have with all the water? Then answer is none.
Maybe THAT is what happened to mars?
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yep, and since a Wordstar or text document is basically a character database, this means that any list that anyone ever created in any kind of text file is also proof of prior art in a database...
I would love to see an example of this running on "googlepages" .
yeah, the engineers are probably just having some fun.
lol. that is really funny. thats a very well placed anecdote.
What happens when a giant oil tanker or a cruise ship crashes into one of these seasteads at night during a storm. Wouldn't all hell break loose?
I am willing to bet that 2-to-1 striping (white-white-grey) is even more efficient than 1-to-1 striping (white-grey). Why does this study ignore this? Its an "obvious" option...
huh? just so you know, you can boot up and get access to all the files in a linux distro just as easily as this article says you can on Microsoft distros.
yeah, if it actually exists, why not share it with everyone? if you did that, then maybe someone would patch it right? lol. if nobody steps forward with a thumbdrive, ill assume this article is fake propaganda.
it seems likely also that a advanced civilization will send out robots to "prepare" the planet for a future landing. why travel to a planet when it doesnt yet have the facilities for actually using it? it would make no sense for them to go into orbit for a long period of time waiting for the planet to be prepared would it? why not prepare it first so you can just get out of the ship when you get there?
The laws of demand in a open marketplace say that $3 gas is not possible, especially if politicians create any taxes on the fuel. Take Diesel fuel for example. Back in the mid-80's it used to be around 1/2 the price of regular gas but demand , caused by passenger cars being manufactured with diesel capability, caused the demand to be high enough that the prices equalized and today Diesel is the same price as regular gas. The same thing will happen with any green fuel. The same thing will happen with Hydrogen cars, etc. Your cost per mile will eventually equalize when the market matures for your fuel.
You come really close to the answer here. The problem with your theory is 2 things: 1. Given the limitations of the speed of light, the only civilizations that would attempt star travel are ones that live a very long time (like 1000+ years). This sorta rules out biological life. I personally think that only silicon based computer life would live long enough for star travel. 2. If a computerized life were to develop, they obviously dont need to find food or space because they could get all their energy from their star. And so, if they needed to colonize another star, they would seek out planets with good solar energy prospects, whos temperature falls into a range that supports their circutry. They wouldn't necessarily be looking for an earthlike planet.
Yeah, for my first job I worked in a phone technical support company in Portland doing support for Netscape Server software back in 1995-1996 and I was paid $12 . Today, at the same company, kids make only minimum wage... around $8 an hour. Talk about salary depreciation... whoah!
I used flock for about 2 weeks. It is a nice concept but the browser has serious issues with remembering the pages and sites that you 'allow". EVERY SINGLE TIME I visited Facebook I had to tell the stupid browser to remember the password. Someone needs to fix that. Until then, i consider it worthless.
I dont know where you heard that it costs $6/barrel. It actually costs just a little over $0.50 a barrel to pull oil out of the ground in Saudi Arabia.
Daniel Faraday ( http://www.lostpedia.com/wiki/Daniel_Faraday ) on the TV show lost is a perfect example of a scientist character that seems to be on some kind of drugs.
what kind of bank doesn't lock up their garbage? personally I have never heard of a bank that isn't careful with their trash. that article is hard to believe. if it is true, its probably the last bank in the country to do so.
yeah, it was only just back in November '07 that the new Brazilian oil field was all over the news and people were saying it could have up to 80billion (making it the 5th largest in the world if that were true). Every 6 months or so a news item like this pops up and never really turns out to be true, but who knows?
there are 2 different versions of that movie. one version is at least 1 hour longer. it sounds like you watched the shorter version. in the longer version of the movie, in the "cut" scenes, the natives all have glowing blue eyes because of the spice. do you know which one you watched?
they spent my taxpayer money on this? hmm. i guess it is probably ok that private companies are not making bombs. the government should instead classify the patents relating to "explosives" as illegal for anyone to own, including the government. we don't need nuclear bomb patents. conventional weapons are plenty.
ok, so your saying that Amazon can make an easier profit, but that is not the point of this thread. The point of this thread is that the wholesale costs are certainly below $10 and so if WalMart is dumping CD's its only going to hurt them because it seems to be one of the products that they can re-sell well above wholesale cost. Selling CDs wont hurt them, especially if they can get $12+ dollars out of them. They probably have plenty of other products in the store that they sell at an actual loss but CDs aren't one of them. The important fact here is that at $15.99, the price of a CD is significantly higher than its wholesale cost. CDs don't need to cost that much.
still doesn't change the fact that Walmarts wholesale cost for that particular CD is still probably the same as Amazon.com pays, at below $9.97.
Linux kernels dont come with "NVidia" drivers. Linux kernels come with "generic card support" which all video cards handle in order to display anything at boot time, before drivers have been loaded. Then, the operating system loads the next video card driver layer on top of that after that while the OS starts. this doesn't mean the driver was in the kernel.
its time to add "Gygax", lord of dungeons, to the Deities list...
lol... thats funny. this is a good way to start a day.
Oh no! When the "singularity" of computer intelligence is reached, the machines are going to take over the world and then they will process all the water on earth into energy using solar panels. What use do machines have with all the water? Then answer is none. Maybe THAT is what happened to mars?