Not to mention, if we're going to start talking about the relatively few bankers/CEOs that are getting paid too much, we should also talk about all the other people doing jobs where they get paid too much, especially when they are paid by tax payers. There are bus drivers in my city that make over $100,000 a year. There's people who are employed at various government agencies who do nothing but play minesweeper all day, while collecting good paychecks and getting pensions that don't no sane company would offer in the private sector.
I'm with the other guy. I think that having cables going to a PC isn't a major problem. Personally, I thing it would be great to have an Oculus Rift with some kind of backpack that contained the PC, or small form factor machine, so that everything would be self contained, allowing you to move around the room or relax in whatever chair/bed you want to while enjoying your VR experience. Does the Surface PRO have the necessary ports to hook up to the Occulus Rift? Does it have enough power to run games? What other small form factor PCs are there that have the power to run games?
In many recipes you can substitute eggs for apple sauce. Depending on the function of the eggs in the recipe, there's already many completely natural alternatives to eggs in most recipes.
Sounds a lot like my my experience on my Surface 2 with Windows RT. There's fewer apps then what are available for Android tablets, but I can still do everything I want because it has so much stuff built into it. The browser is very capable so you don't end up needing apps that just duplicate stuff you'd find on a website. Comes with a calculator, file manager, office suite, text editor, and a lot of other things right out of the box. Microsoft has even gone out of their way to make a bunch of really good games for it as well.
Getting the apps running on Ubuntu is going to require that the app developers see value in releasing for the platform. It's already hard enough getting developers to make apps for Windows phone. Will Ubuntu with it's even smaller market share be able to convince app developers that it is worth their time to port the apps to Ubuntu?
Highly agree with this. I have the same problem with things like veggie "bacon" and soy "cheese". Personally I also don't like the name almond "milk", as we should really reserve "milk" from something that comes from the mammary glands of mammals, but coconut milk has been called milk for a long time, so I guess we should let that slide a bit. I think that vegetarian food can taste really good, but not usually when they are trying to make it resemble meat. Similarly these food substitutes should not be able to equate themselves with something they definitely aren't.
Looks to me like very little of that bike was 3D printed. It looks as thought the only part that was 3D printed was a small part that connects the seat post to the rest of the frame, and even that parts looks like it could be produced using traditional methods.
Cost of entry. Even as a white dude with a decent income, hockey is one of the few things that is off the table for my kids, because it's just too expensive. The amount of training that people put their kids through in Hockey in unlike any sport out there. You won't see kids who only ever played on an outdoor rink making it into the professional leagues. 20 years ago, that might have happened. But parents now spend thousands of dollars per year putting their kids in training camps, travelling leagues, and all other sorts of expensive endeavors, making the sport completely inaccessible to low income families, and even middle income families who don't want to devote all their resources to the sport.
But it's really not that simple. The amount it costs to service you has very little to do with how much internet you use over the entire month. Downloading 1 movie in 10 minutes puts more strain on the network, then downloading the same movie over a longer period of time. It would be much easier on the network to download their desired TV shows slowly while they're at work, then for everybody to get home and start streaming shows at 7 pm, where everybody wants a large amount of data at the same time. a small trickle of data over an entire month can put almost no strain on the network, but can accumulate quite a large amount of data by the end of the month.
It's similar to electricity. In many places, electricity has different prices depending on when you're using it. Similarly, there's some ISPs in my area that let you download as much as you want in the middle of the night, because usually there is very little demand during this time.
My city's program to get people to cut down on water usage was so good that they had to double the price we paid for water. The price to operate the water treatment plants and associated infrastructure is pretty much fixed, and had very little to do with how much water was being processed. Decreased usage with the same rates meant that revenues were way down without the operating costs going down.
This is why I don't like the idea that games seemed to have moved away from hosting your own server. Online games were great when you knew the guy you were playing against. There wasn't as many problems with cheating, or perhaps you could agree on which cheats could be used, and the in-game chat was a lot more tolerable. Now that you're just playing against a random selection of people from the internet, I just don't get as much enjoyment out of it.
I think the major problem with streaming video is that many of the service providers (YouTube especially) try to buffer as little data as possible. This means that steaming is very susceptible to variations in network speed. A few seconds of slow speeds is enough to freeze the stream, and Youtube seems to be pretty bad at getting the video playing again. Nobody cares if their game download drops to low speeds for a few seconds, as long as overall the speed is high. If streaming providers allowed for larger buffers, or allowed the whole movie/show to be downloaded before playing, there would be way less problems.
But looking at Wikipedia, Microsoft had revenues of 77 billion, so only 3% of the money they made went to taxes. I wish it worked that way for me. Oh, they're only taxed on money they don't spend. Their net income was 21.86 billion, again, only paying 10%. Quite a low tax rate if you ask me. not sure why you mentioned Citigroup, with a net income of 13.9 billion, they only paid 1.6% in taxes on net income. All my numbers are from Wikipedia, using your tax numbers.
Yeah, but generally they'll just charge you for the price of replacing the movie. If you lose a library book, then generally you have to pay a hefty feel to discourage people from using them as a book store, but generally there is no need for arresting people. In my city, if you fail to return your books or pay large amounts of late fees, they send it off to a credit agency and just forget about it. There's no profit to be made paying lawyers to collect late fees on borrowed and rented materials.
Exactly. With a few exceptions he games that I get the most enjoyment out of are the ones that don't look like real life. Games don't have to look real to be fun. Some games may benefit, like sports games, but even in those kinds of games it's not that important after you reach a certain level.
There's a lot more than 50 printable characters. Even not counting upper and lower case, as many databases are set up to not differentiate the two. Looking at my keyboard, You have 26 letters, digits 0 through 9, all the associated shift characters of those, which brings us to 46. Then there's 8 others on the top row of my keyboard, that's 54. 14 more to the left of the "Enter" key. which brings us to 68. That's without even getting outside what you could enter on your keyboard. Basically, all the visible characters below 127 in the ascii table. Then there's a bunch of other "characters" between 127 and 255 that differ depending on encoding used.
I agree with this. From what I've looked at, most schools in the US are the same price as the schools in Canada, provided you choose to go to a school in your own state. If you choose to go out of state, you start paying close to international student rates, which are quite high. If there are no good schools in your state, then that is something to push on the government. Taxes are fine to pay for schools, but they should be set up to create quality schools in your own state, so you don't have to move across the country to get a good education.
But what does that have to do with talking on the phone? With mobile internet, our phones are constantly sending out and receiving information from cell towers. What if someone calls you when you're filling up? Could this be a problem? I've known computer speakers that would play audible noises moments before the cell phone starts to ring. Should we be putting our phones in airplane mode, or turning them off when we drive up to the gas station?
Well, it's not going to work well to capture emerging markets. Most windows phones are pretty high end, and not in the price range of consumers in emerging markets.
With tablets, you don't get the option to buy a tablet, and then pick the OS that goes on there. You buy the whole package. If you want a tablet with a MicroSD slot, you can't run iOS. And, perhaps some people would like to run Windows apps, as well as Android Apps. Maybe it would be nice to have PowerShell, MS Office, and other Microsoft apps, as well as be able to play the Android versions of GTA or Minecraft. I picked the Surface over Android because I really liked the hardware, and the apps were sufficient. If it had the ability to run Android apps as well, I wouldn't have even had to consider getting and Android tablet.
I see a lot of that same thing on Android apps too. The MS app store isn't the only one that has this problem. You'll also see that a lot of "website wrappers" simply don't exist as a Windows App. For instance, there is no YouTube app for Windows 8. But if you just go to to YouTube on the browser, it works perfectly fine. There's no need for and app in the first place. A lot of the missing apps that people complain about on Windows 8.1 are completely unnecessary because the websites just work, even on the WinRT version of the browser.
As someone who owns a Surface2, I have to say the app selection is pretty good. There isn't really much that I would want to go on my Surface that I can't do on it. Sure I can't play GTA on my Surface, but there are a lot of really decent games. 200,000 apps is actually quite a decent number when you think about it. No console has ever had that many different things you could run on it, and most people think there's enough software for consoles.
I'll have to watch that later. But here's my opinion on the whole "why buying a car is awful". The reason it's awful, is that for most people, a car is the most expensive item (apart from real estate) that they will ever buy, by a huge margin. And, unlike real estate, cars depreciate at an exceptional rate. A car that costs as much as 1/4 of your yearly salary (which might even be low balling it a little, for people buying new), is going to be a huge decision. Plus people depend on their car. They need it to get back and forth to work. No car means they can't go to work, which means they won't get paid. So people are willing to spend large amounts of money to ensure they get something that will be dependable. Also, cars have become a status item. Half the reason most people buy a car, is probably just to show off to their friends which car they have.
I imagine that this wouldn't be possible for monthly passes but only if you pay for individual rides. Usually there's a decent savings if you buy the monthly pass. This would probably negate any savings from this method. If you ask me, this fare system is too complicated. Where I live you pay, and get to go as far as you can get in 1.5 hours. Which is enough to get from one end of the city to the other. Or if your only going for a short shopping trip, you can often go both ways on one ticket. The only thing I would like them to change is to make shorter, one way trips cheaper, possibly by scanning your pass as you leave the bus.
I would rather have a large number of people get A's, and just have people realize that there are limits to what can and should be tested in school. Either the test is made so hard that only a small percentage of the students are able to answer all the questions, thereby making the median grade a C, or we must accept that it's possible that a high percentage of the class will learn everything they were supposed to learn from the class, and therefore receive an A. The purpose of school isn't to differentiate between who are the elite and who are the median, but whether to certify that you learned whatever it was they were supposed to be learning. I know people who have had teachers tell them they won't give out any A's, which ends up being because it's an easy course, and they don't want all the marks to end up being A, because it looks bad, and would rather just give the entire class low marks.
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Not to mention, if we're going to start talking about the relatively few bankers/CEOs that are getting paid too much, we should also talk about all the other people doing jobs where they get paid too much, especially when they are paid by tax payers. There are bus drivers in my city that make over $100,000 a year. There's people who are employed at various government agencies who do nothing but play minesweeper all day, while collecting good paychecks and getting pensions that don't no sane company would offer in the private sector.
I'm with the other guy. I think that having cables going to a PC isn't a major problem. Personally, I thing it would be great to have an Oculus Rift with some kind of backpack that contained the PC, or small form factor machine, so that everything would be self contained, allowing you to move around the room or relax in whatever chair/bed you want to while enjoying your VR experience. Does the Surface PRO have the necessary ports to hook up to the Occulus Rift? Does it have enough power to run games? What other small form factor PCs are there that have the power to run games?
In many recipes you can substitute eggs for apple sauce. Depending on the function of the eggs in the recipe, there's already many completely natural alternatives to eggs in most recipes.
Sounds a lot like my my experience on my Surface 2 with Windows RT. There's fewer apps then what are available for Android tablets, but I can still do everything I want because it has so much stuff built into it. The browser is very capable so you don't end up needing apps that just duplicate stuff you'd find on a website. Comes with a calculator, file manager, office suite, text editor, and a lot of other things right out of the box. Microsoft has even gone out of their way to make a bunch of really good games for it as well.
Getting the apps running on Ubuntu is going to require that the app developers see value in releasing for the platform. It's already hard enough getting developers to make apps for Windows phone. Will Ubuntu with it's even smaller market share be able to convince app developers that it is worth their time to port the apps to Ubuntu?
Highly agree with this. I have the same problem with things like veggie "bacon" and soy "cheese". Personally I also don't like the name almond "milk", as we should really reserve "milk" from something that comes from the mammary glands of mammals, but coconut milk has been called milk for a long time, so I guess we should let that slide a bit. I think that vegetarian food can taste really good, but not usually when they are trying to make it resemble meat. Similarly these food substitutes should not be able to equate themselves with something they definitely aren't.
Looks to me like very little of that bike was 3D printed. It looks as thought the only part that was 3D printed was a small part that connects the seat post to the rest of the frame, and even that parts looks like it could be produced using traditional methods.
Cost of entry. Even as a white dude with a decent income, hockey is one of the few things that is off the table for my kids, because it's just too expensive. The amount of training that people put their kids through in Hockey in unlike any sport out there. You won't see kids who only ever played on an outdoor rink making it into the professional leagues. 20 years ago, that might have happened. But parents now spend thousands of dollars per year putting their kids in training camps, travelling leagues, and all other sorts of expensive endeavors, making the sport completely inaccessible to low income families, and even middle income families who don't want to devote all their resources to the sport.
But it's really not that simple. The amount it costs to service you has very little to do with how much internet you use over the entire month. Downloading 1 movie in 10 minutes puts more strain on the network, then downloading the same movie over a longer period of time. It would be much easier on the network to download their desired TV shows slowly while they're at work, then for everybody to get home and start streaming shows at 7 pm, where everybody wants a large amount of data at the same time. a small trickle of data over an entire month can put almost no strain on the network, but can accumulate quite a large amount of data by the end of the month.
It's similar to electricity. In many places, electricity has different prices depending on when you're using it. Similarly, there's some ISPs in my area that let you download as much as you want in the middle of the night, because usually there is very little demand during this time.
My city's program to get people to cut down on water usage was so good that they had to double the price we paid for water. The price to operate the water treatment plants and associated infrastructure is pretty much fixed, and had very little to do with how much water was being processed. Decreased usage with the same rates meant that revenues were way down without the operating costs going down.
This is why I don't like the idea that games seemed to have moved away from hosting your own server. Online games were great when you knew the guy you were playing against. There wasn't as many problems with cheating, or perhaps you could agree on which cheats could be used, and the in-game chat was a lot more tolerable. Now that you're just playing against a random selection of people from the internet, I just don't get as much enjoyment out of it.
I think the major problem with streaming video is that many of the service providers (YouTube especially) try to buffer as little data as possible. This means that steaming is very susceptible to variations in network speed. A few seconds of slow speeds is enough to freeze the stream, and Youtube seems to be pretty bad at getting the video playing again. Nobody cares if their game download drops to low speeds for a few seconds, as long as overall the speed is high. If streaming providers allowed for larger buffers, or allowed the whole movie/show to be downloaded before playing, there would be way less problems.
But looking at Wikipedia, Microsoft had revenues of 77 billion, so only 3% of the money they made went to taxes. I wish it worked that way for me. Oh, they're only taxed on money they don't spend. Their net income was 21.86 billion, again, only paying 10%. Quite a low tax rate if you ask me. not sure why you mentioned Citigroup, with a net income of 13.9 billion, they only paid 1.6% in taxes on net income. All my numbers are from Wikipedia, using your tax numbers.
Yeah, but generally they'll just charge you for the price of replacing the movie. If you lose a library book, then generally you have to pay a hefty feel to discourage people from using them as a book store, but generally there is no need for arresting people. In my city, if you fail to return your books or pay large amounts of late fees, they send it off to a credit agency and just forget about it. There's no profit to be made paying lawyers to collect late fees on borrowed and rented materials.
Exactly. With a few exceptions he games that I get the most enjoyment out of are the ones that don't look like real life. Games don't have to look real to be fun. Some games may benefit, like sports games, but even in those kinds of games it's not that important after you reach a certain level.
There's a lot more than 50 printable characters. Even not counting upper and lower case, as many databases are set up to not differentiate the two. Looking at my keyboard, You have 26 letters, digits 0 through 9, all the associated shift characters of those, which brings us to 46. Then there's 8 others on the top row of my keyboard, that's 54. 14 more to the left of the "Enter" key. which brings us to 68. That's without even getting outside what you could enter on your keyboard. Basically, all the visible characters below 127 in the ascii table. Then there's a bunch of other "characters" between 127 and 255 that differ depending on encoding used.
I agree with this. From what I've looked at, most schools in the US are the same price as the schools in Canada, provided you choose to go to a school in your own state. If you choose to go out of state, you start paying close to international student rates, which are quite high. If there are no good schools in your state, then that is something to push on the government. Taxes are fine to pay for schools, but they should be set up to create quality schools in your own state, so you don't have to move across the country to get a good education.
Not sure if this is the best example, but games like this already exist.
But what does that have to do with talking on the phone? With mobile internet, our phones are constantly sending out and receiving information from cell towers. What if someone calls you when you're filling up? Could this be a problem? I've known computer speakers that would play audible noises moments before the cell phone starts to ring. Should we be putting our phones in airplane mode, or turning them off when we drive up to the gas station?
Well, it's not going to work well to capture emerging markets. Most windows phones are pretty high end, and not in the price range of consumers in emerging markets.
With tablets, you don't get the option to buy a tablet, and then pick the OS that goes on there. You buy the whole package. If you want a tablet with a MicroSD slot, you can't run iOS. And, perhaps some people would like to run Windows apps, as well as Android Apps. Maybe it would be nice to have PowerShell, MS Office, and other Microsoft apps, as well as be able to play the Android versions of GTA or Minecraft. I picked the Surface over Android because I really liked the hardware, and the apps were sufficient. If it had the ability to run Android apps as well, I wouldn't have even had to consider getting and Android tablet.
I see a lot of that same thing on Android apps too. The MS app store isn't the only one that has this problem. You'll also see that a lot of "website wrappers" simply don't exist as a Windows App. For instance, there is no YouTube app for Windows 8. But if you just go to to YouTube on the browser, it works perfectly fine. There's no need for and app in the first place. A lot of the missing apps that people complain about on Windows 8.1 are completely unnecessary because the websites just work, even on the WinRT version of the browser.
As someone who owns a Surface2, I have to say the app selection is pretty good. There isn't really much that I would want to go on my Surface that I can't do on it. Sure I can't play GTA on my Surface, but there are a lot of really decent games. 200,000 apps is actually quite a decent number when you think about it. No console has ever had that many different things you could run on it, and most people think there's enough software for consoles.
I'll have to watch that later. But here's my opinion on the whole "why buying a car is awful". The reason it's awful, is that for most people, a car is the most expensive item (apart from real estate) that they will ever buy, by a huge margin. And, unlike real estate, cars depreciate at an exceptional rate. A car that costs as much as 1/4 of your yearly salary (which might even be low balling it a little, for people buying new), is going to be a huge decision. Plus people depend on their car. They need it to get back and forth to work. No car means they can't go to work, which means they won't get paid. So people are willing to spend large amounts of money to ensure they get something that will be dependable. Also, cars have become a status item. Half the reason most people buy a car, is probably just to show off to their friends which car they have.
I imagine that this wouldn't be possible for monthly passes but only if you pay for individual rides. Usually there's a decent savings if you buy the monthly pass. This would probably negate any savings from this method. If you ask me, this fare system is too complicated. Where I live you pay, and get to go as far as you can get in 1.5 hours. Which is enough to get from one end of the city to the other. Or if your only going for a short shopping trip, you can often go both ways on one ticket. The only thing I would like them to change is to make shorter, one way trips cheaper, possibly by scanning your pass as you leave the bus.
I would rather have a large number of people get A's, and just have people realize that there are limits to what can and should be tested in school. Either the test is made so hard that only a small percentage of the students are able to answer all the questions, thereby making the median grade a C, or we must accept that it's possible that a high percentage of the class will learn everything they were supposed to learn from the class, and therefore receive an A. The purpose of school isn't to differentiate between who are the elite and who are the median, but whether to certify that you learned whatever it was they were supposed to be learning. I know people who have had teachers tell them they won't give out any A's, which ends up being because it's an easy course, and they don't want all the marks to end up being A, because it looks bad, and would rather just give the entire class low marks.