historically it was the Detroit auto industry which did sabotage many light-rail and metro systems throughout the US, in cities which were growing in the early 20th century, such as Atlanta and Los Angeles. How did they do it?
They did it by selling the Ford Model A to the middle class for $500-$600. They did it by making the outer ring of suburbs accessible and affordable by car.
which makes me wonder how much Tim Burton's latest claymation cost- done with a relatively cheap digital camera
To begin, the puppets in "Corpse Bride"are silicon skins over stainless steel armatures.
The camera has always been a trivial part of the cost of stop-motion animation. Each figure has to be manipulated by hand, frame by frame. Precise, demanding, labor-intensive work. Two minutes of film per week. 'Bride' Stripped Bare
IT IS NOT STEALING. When will you people get this through your thick skulls and stop believing the propaganda? Copyright infringement is a crime, but it is NOT theft
In the popular imagination, all crime against property is theft. The thought is deeply entrenched in the english language and there is no hope of eradicating it now.
Here's some free, complimentary clue: nowhere in the definition of democracy does it say "but vote only on the issues cornface deems important."
The hard truth remains that only a handful of issues rise to the surface in any election. These may not be the questions you want to see decided, but they are the only questions which can be decided.
The Roman empire, as others, was built by dominating all possible enemies, or politically playing them off against each other. This works okay for a while, but eventually it always seems to lead to the empire's undoing.
The undoing took quite some time. Four hundred years in the West. Eight hundred years in the East.
As for welfare and Social Security's survivor and disability programs, insurance companies in the private sector may do a better job of giving their customers a safety net.
Private insurers demand premiums in proportion to the risks you represent. That becomes a problem when you are unemployed, elderly, chronically ill, or physically disabled.
Insurance companies are notoriously quick to retreat from such low profit, high-risk markets.
Historically, private insurance has always been organized around the needs and purchasing power of the middle class, with most clients young and healthy and in their prime earning years.
I may sound like an idiot for saying this, but does anyone ever get the impression that p2p is going to be the new conduit for the oppressed ( oppressed being everyone subject to coorprate america).
You need a middle class income or better to effectively exploit the P2P networks. That is one reason why talk of Freenets tends to descend into fantasy and farce.
1 MSDOS and Windows have been in the home and office for twenty-five years.
The complexities of the home market are generally ignored on Slashdot. This is an environment where a $500 sewing machine can be a Windows peripheral: Singer CE-100 Futura Sewing and Embroidery Machine
2. Most of the good stuff (Half-Life) makes its first appearance on Windows or gains credibility and market share only after the Windows port (iTunes).
iTunes for Windows is a perfect example of how a nominal competitor can leverage Windows' enormous installed base to its advantage. But it hasn't done much for sales of the Mac.
3. Windows targets the middle class: market oriented, pragmatic, and with limited free time. These folks buy $3000 plasma TVs for the pleasures of viewing Master and Commander in high-definition, not to feed home-made screeners to the P2P nets. Napster was fun, but Rhapsody at $15 a month can be better.
No wonder they stopped making them. They were putting plumbers and stores out of business with durable and reliable air conditioners
You did not put a plumber out of business by installing commercial A/C units using ammonia as a working fluid. I'd like to have seen the bill for this job.
I think they were refering to stability, since DVD authoring/ripping or any other "feature" can easily be done 3rd party. Granted it would be nice to have a stable OS that can natively rip DVD's however once you look at the pricetag... nice has a different definition.
Dell's upgrade price for MCE is $35. It isn't difficult to imagine an HDTV Vista system selling very well, even Walmart has shown it wants a piece of the MCE action.
And a large chunk of that 95% are computers owned by businesses or the government, and aren't intended for games. Once you look at computers that are actually personal, that percentage is going to drop quite a bit.
7- Fill-up the station wagon, have clothes handy if we needed to leave quickly
According to a story in this week's U.S. News and World Report, 100,000 New Orleans households did not have cars. There was no evacuation of the poor, the housebound, the sick, the elderly, the disabled.
I guess its functionally equivalent to your AO rating.
The AO rating limits retail distribution to the red light district of your local "adult" bookstore. Developers have been playing the ESRB to get the marketable M rating, while ratcheting up the level of sex and violence. Rockstar was simply the first to hit the wall, the limit of public tolerance.
Hot Coffee isn't about sex, it is about trust. The corruption of the ratings system, to begin.
then re-releasing the Hot Coffee version as a special adult-only don't-have-to-hack-the-code release (which I'm guessing some people would buy) and making MORE money from this
It is not going to happen.
Rockstar derailed the PR build-up for the next generation consoles. It left the ESRB hanging by a thread and drew unwanted attention to Walmart.
Rockstar has few friends left in the board room and none in government.
80% of the people DID leave. Privitization did nothing to cause the problems in NO. People wouldnt leave and the governments reluctance to do anything at first cause 90% of the problem.
---and 100% of those who left did so by car.
Those left behind were the sick, the elderly, the disabled and the poor. Those without transport. Those who had nowhere to go.
Last I checked, Linux's desktop share was higher than Apple's which puts Linux over the 3% mark
W3Schools has Windows, all flavors, at 90%, Mac and Linux at 3% each. OS Platform Stats. (august 2005) XP's share has grown over 30% since the spring of 2003, Linux only 1%.
Desktop numbers are highly biased againt linux simply because a) Most linux machines were previously windows, and b) Windows machines tend to be replaced more often, i.e. if i buy a windows computer today and another one in 2 years, both will be considered to be active and the nuber will be twice what it really is.
Chances are good, both Windows PCs will be in use five years from now. If I have four networked at home and sixteen at work, should only one be counted?
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New York had elevated rail in 1872. New York Elevated Railroad.
They did it by selling the Ford Model A to the middle class for $500-$600. They did it by making the outer ring of suburbs accessible and affordable by car.
Correct me if I am wrong, but didn't AMD license -- and pay for -- the use of Intel technologies?
What, exactly, was Intel forced to share?
AM stations can have a very long reach. What is Mediumwave DX?
To begin, the puppets in "Corpse Bride"are silicon skins over stainless steel armatures.
The camera has always been a trivial part of the cost of stop-motion animation. Each figure has to be manipulated by hand, frame by frame. Precise, demanding, labor-intensive work. Two minutes of film per week. 'Bride' Stripped Bare
In the popular imagination, all crime against property is theft. The thought is deeply entrenched in the english language and there is no hope of eradicating it now.
The court has the power to enforce its judgements.
You need to think long and hard before going down this road.
The hard truth remains that only a handful of issues rise to the surface in any election. These may not be the questions you want to see decided, but they are the only questions which can be decided.
Morgan Stanley's core business is investment banking. The working poor are not its clients.
The undoing took quite some time. Four hundred years in the West. Eight hundred years in the East.
Private insurers demand premiums in proportion to the risks you represent. That becomes a problem when you are unemployed, elderly, chronically ill, or physically disabled.
Insurance companies are notoriously quick to retreat from such low profit, high-risk markets.
Historically, private insurance has always been organized around the needs and purchasing power of the middle class, with most clients young and healthy and in their prime earning years.
No one wastes prime time advertising dollars marketing to Geeks.
You need a middle class income or better to effectively exploit the P2P networks. That is one reason why talk of Freenets tends to descend into fantasy and farce.
1 MSDOS and Windows have been in the home and office for twenty-five years.
The complexities of the home market are generally ignored on Slashdot. This is an environment where a $500 sewing machine can be a Windows peripheral: Singer CE-100 Futura Sewing and Embroidery Machine
2. Most of the good stuff (Half-Life) makes its first appearance on Windows or gains credibility and market share only after the Windows port (iTunes).
iTunes for Windows is a perfect example of how a nominal competitor can leverage Windows' enormous installed base to its advantage. But it hasn't done much for sales of the Mac.
3. Windows targets the middle class: market oriented, pragmatic, and with limited free time. These folks buy $3000 plasma TVs for the pleasures of viewing Master and Commander in high-definition, not to feed home-made screeners to the P2P nets. Napster was fun, but Rhapsody at $15 a month can be better.
You did not put a plumber out of business by installing commercial A/C units using ammonia as a working fluid. I'd like to have seen the bill for this job.
Dell's upgrade price for MCE is $35. It isn't difficult to imagine an HDTV Vista system selling very well, even Walmart has shown it wants a piece of the MCE action.
In your dreams.
Damn right.
You have 100,000 households without a car. How do you even begin to evacuate that many people without an organization in place?
According to a story in this week's U.S. News and World Report, 100,000 New Orleans households did not have cars. There was no evacuation of the poor, the housebound, the sick, the elderly, the disabled.
The AO rating limits retail distribution to the red light district of your local "adult" bookstore. Developers have been playing the ESRB to get the marketable M rating, while ratcheting up the level of sex and violence. Rockstar was simply the first to hit the wall, the limit of public tolerance.
Hot Coffee isn't about sex, it is about trust. The corruption of the ratings system, to begin.
It is not going to happen.
Rockstar derailed the PR build-up for the next generation consoles. It left the ESRB hanging by a thread and drew unwanted attention to Walmart.
Rockstar has few friends left in the board room and none in government.
---and 100% of those who left did so by car.
Those left behind were the sick, the elderly, the disabled and the poor. Those without transport. Those who had nowhere to go.
W3Schools has Windows, all flavors, at 90%, Mac and Linux at 3% each. OS Platform Stats. (august 2005) XP's share has grown over 30% since the spring of 2003, Linux only 1%.
Desktop numbers are highly biased againt linux simply because a) Most linux machines were previously windows, and b) Windows machines tend to be replaced more often, i.e. if i buy a windows computer today and another one in 2 years, both will be considered to be active and the nuber will be twice what it really is.
Chances are good, both Windows PCs will be in use five years from now. If I have four networked at home and sixteen at work, should only one be counted?
You will be sleeping on the couch the next time you get another bright idea.
And why am I buying the assinine secured player instead of the grey market Chinese one, exactly?
Because the only money to be made here is in the legitimate export product.