The Master of Science in Software Engineering degree program may be just what you're looking for. But it's a relatively new degree and isn't offered in many schools yet.
The ideal toll is one that is priced to move as many cars as possible. If you see only 6-7 other cars on that road at rush hour, the toll on that stretch of road is too high. If you're moving at less than the optimal speed for lane usage (about 55 mph) due to congestion, the toll is too low. So yes, an incorrectly priced toll road is a problem.
All roads in the U.S. and Canada are toll roads. You pay the toll at the gasoline pump through the ~70 cent per gallon tax.
How do you get 70 cents? There's an 18.4 cent per gallon federal gas tax, which was set in 1997 and would be 24.4 cents in 2008 dollars, and in California there's an 18 cent per gallon state gas tax, which was set in 1994 and would be 26 cents in 2008 dollars.
Isn't the purpose of the gasoline tax in the United States to account for the wear an tear that your vehicle causes to the roads?
A gasoline tax isn't a very good way to do it. Road wear is a function of not how much gasoline you use but the weight of your vehicle, the number of axles, and the distance driven. For example, one semi truck does as much damage to the roads as 9,600 cars.
Except you won't be exchanging gas taxes for tolls. You'll just get to pay both.
And that's how it should be. Tax by the gallon, to fix the air pollution caused by burning a gallon of gasoline, and tax by the mile (better yet, the ton-mile), to fix the road wear caused by driving your vehicle that mile.
Because earlier he said, "I think that people who argue for splitting desktop kernels from server kernels are total morons, and only show that they don't know what the hell they are talking about." (source)
I have no issue with someone like Cox de-prioritizing their traffic so that the people that just want their Vonage to work don't get squashed out.
Why deprioritize at all? Give everyone using the pipe at a given moment an equal portion of the available bandwidth. Divide it up evenly by customer, not by application. One person doing p2p shouldn't affect another person's Vonage phone call or vice-versa.
Why prioritize at all? Give everyone using the pipe at a given moment an equal portion of the available bandwidth and let each customer do their own traffic shaping.
But this per-mile tax doesn't provide an incentive to limit emissions like the gas tax does, only to limit road wear and traffic congestion. So both taxes are needed, if you believe, like the Pigovians do, in taxing what you want less of.
Wikipedia says, Passenger airplanes averaged 4.8 L/100 km per passenger (1.4 MJ/passenger-km) (49 passenger-miles per gallon) in 1998. The new fuel-efficient Boeing 787 is expected to achieve 100 passenger-mpg.
In comparison, the TGV achieves on average 0.15 MJ/passenger-km, which is 543 passenger-miles per gallon of gasoline equivalent. Unless you factor in the inefficiencies of generating and storing electricity, which would drop the efficiency by two-thirds to 181 passenger-mpg.
Phone companies should read the caller ID information from outbound calls from their customers and block the call if the caller ID doesn't match.
The lady could setup a voice menu explaining that she isn't responsible for those calls, and press 1 if they want to ring through. That should eliminate some of the calls.
In a more free system, customers would have threatened to leave for another provider by now. That would have forced providers to upgrade their systems to support the growing userbase. Not so here. There's no other choice.
If you can get DSL, you usually have multiple ISPs to choose from.
If the government does not control the tests, the USDA is worried about beef exporters unilaterally giving consumers false assurance."
Folks seem to neglect this minor detail that it is ultimately a good thing the USDA is taking measures to prevent mis-information and FUD from affecting beef exports.
Preventing the test from even being administered based on how the results might be used sounds an awful lot like Minority Report where people are arrested because they might commit murder. This ruling sets up an ominous precedence.
HTTP is sent unencrypted, but it's not that easy for a random person who wants to steal your address to be on the correct subnet at exactly the right time to sniff it.
Unless you're both on an unencrypted (or underencrypted) wireless hotspot.
Consider the following: every culture that practices polygamy (actually polygyny, multiple wives, as opposed to polyandry, which would be multiple husbands) has to do something about the extra males.
All you need to do is to park a polyandrous tribe right next to each polygynous tribe. Let them feed off each other's surpluses.
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Landline modems killed .wav and .avi, but brought us .mp3 and .mpeg. So while tier based pricing might kill some technologies, it will create others.
The Master of Science in Software Engineering degree program may be just what you're looking for. But it's a relatively new degree and isn't offered in many schools yet.
And will be challenged by OPEC.
An electronic compass for the GPS that automatically orients the map in the right direction.
The purpose is to prevent the sensor resolution from being the limiting factor as the lens is now.
The ideal toll is one that is priced to move as many cars as possible. If you see only 6-7 other cars on that road at rush hour, the toll on that stretch of road is too high. If you're moving at less than the optimal speed for lane usage (about 55 mph) due to congestion, the toll is too low. So yes, an incorrectly priced toll road is a problem.
How do you get 70 cents? There's an 18.4 cent per gallon federal gas tax, which was set in 1997 and would be 24.4 cents in 2008 dollars, and in California there's an 18 cent per gallon state gas tax, which was set in 1994 and would be 26 cents in 2008 dollars.
A gasoline tax isn't a very good way to do it. Road wear is a function of not how much gasoline you use but the weight of your vehicle, the number of axles, and the distance driven. For example, one semi truck does as much damage to the roads as 9,600 cars.
And that's how it should be. Tax by the gallon, to fix the air pollution caused by burning a gallon of gasoline, and tax by the mile (better yet, the ton-mile), to fix the road wear caused by driving your vehicle that mile.
Because earlier he said, "I think that people who argue for splitting desktop kernels from server kernels are total morons, and only show that they don't know what the hell they are talking about." (source)
Why deprioritize at all? Give everyone using the pipe at a given moment an equal portion of the available bandwidth. Divide it up evenly by customer, not by application. One person doing p2p shouldn't affect another person's Vonage phone call or vice-versa.
Why prioritize at all? Give everyone using the pipe at a given moment an equal portion of the available bandwidth and let each customer do their own traffic shaping.
But this per-mile tax doesn't provide an incentive to limit emissions like the gas tax does, only to limit road wear and traffic congestion. So both taxes are needed, if you believe, like the Pigovians do, in taxing what you want less of.
Since links aren't defamatory, I can post something like this with impunity!
At least you can't steer a train into a skyscraper.
Wikipedia says, Passenger airplanes averaged 4.8 L/100 km per passenger (1.4 MJ/passenger-km) (49 passenger-miles per gallon) in 1998. The new fuel-efficient Boeing 787 is expected to achieve 100 passenger-mpg.
In comparison, the TGV achieves on average 0.15 MJ/passenger-km, which is 543 passenger-miles per gallon of gasoline equivalent. Unless you factor in the inefficiencies of generating and storing electricity, which would drop the efficiency by two-thirds to 181 passenger-mpg.
Phone companies should read the caller ID information from outbound calls from their customers and block the call if the caller ID doesn't match.
The lady could setup a voice menu explaining that she isn't responsible for those calls, and press 1 if they want to ring through. That should eliminate some of the calls.
And it only took 3 million complaints before the FTC got involved!
The one where the states are autonomous? Lincoln put an end to that idea.
If you can get DSL, you usually have multiple ISPs to choose from.
I think we should let algae reactors do it.
Preventing the test from even being administered based on how the results might be used sounds an awful lot like Minority Report where people are arrested because they might commit murder. This ruling sets up an ominous precedence.
Unless you're both on an unencrypted (or underencrypted) wireless hotspot.
All you need to do is to park a polyandrous tribe right next to each polygynous tribe. Let them feed off each other's surpluses.
Then we'll Uuencode or BinHex the binary data so it looks like ASCII.