Well, ideally, I agree. However... Oh, hell with it. If you want to troll, fine. If you really do wonder about the rationale for these or other anti-trust measures, you can look it up somewhere else, since frankly I'm not well enough versed to tell you. But in regards to your first question, since the collusion in this case was vertical as well as horizontal, if you (record label) decide not to participate, you lose out on preferential treatment for major distributors and retailers who are involved.
For that one guy who shows up in a stained pink bathrobe, just doesn't wash, and then sits upwind of you. Spray him down. Febreze has a cleaner, less would-be-sexy smell than that aerosol deodorant stuff, and works better on fabric (bathrobe, anyone?). Not to mention you can dual-weild and call yourself 'Nerdbane the Dissolver.'
Oh, I agree. I just meant that ideally, if I have kids, I'd want them to begin discovering these things when they're ready for it, and not get caught. Because I can remember getting caught, and getting lectures... And it really didn't create any sort of positive associations in my mind.
I memorized Latin verse in public school. That said, I hated cursive, never really learned it. But I think teaching good, legible handwriting is a priority, at least for the next five or ten years. Because right now, I still have to leave notes for people, write adresses, test answers, directions, and so forth. None of them very long, but they have to be legible. I print, personally, but I wish I'd spent a year working on that instead of having cursive shoved down my throat, because my printing would probably be better.
They don't claim that it never wins... Just that before it offers you the double-or-nothing, it's already decided whether you're going to win or lose, and it doesn't matter whether you chose high or low.
It's because fiber optic lines usually just spew photons, because they don't need quantum effects. QC lines ideally go one photon per bit, which makes them more vulnerable to increasing error rates as they get longer. I say ideally because as has been pointed out, that's not exactly possible, but it's what they try for.
This is a sucessor to the key-handcuffed-to-courier's-wrist set of cryptosystems. It's for embassies, military bases, and so forth. Not for you and me and the neighbor kid.
Most of the guys from @stake that I knew, at least back in the day, failed that test... Then again, I'm really not sure what they're doing on that list...
One, the Republican Party isn't a unified block. Two, the invasions of privacy that Santorum preaches fall under the dubious heading of 'family values.' Three, no you're not, he's just a freak.
To clarify, I tend to vote Dem or Independant. But there are some good Republicans.
Actually... For all that I disagree with them on many, many issues, the Republicans do a fair bit of this sort of thing. They are all about personal rights and privacy, in theory. In practice, they have this weird (to me, and in comaprison with their stated political thought) obsession with morals and family values. But when they're not all family-valued, they often do rspect privacy, at least the more extreme members...
Many businesses work like this. Insurance companies do. So did banks, although with FDIC insurance it's now a moot point. If everyone filed an insurance claim at the same time, the company would go under. If everyone wanted their accounts emptied, so would a bank, though I understand that the Federal government would step in these days.
If you read the fine print, you'll find that your ISP does not sell you the right to saturate your bandwidth 24/7 without ever dipping below the maximum advertised rate, just the right to use the pipe at whatever it will give you. If you really believed that throughput was gauranteed, well, I have a Fast TCP protocol I could sell you... Speed things up by 6000 times...
EArlier versions of the M16 were supposedly not nearly as good. Think of them as beta hardware. These days, though, as the above post says, it's just not a problem.
I wouldn't call them a disappointment... I marginally prefer the first two, but I did really like the others, as well... The world-biulding isn't as in-your-face, but I thought the characters were at least as strong.
He's basically said that when he sat down to write Uplift, he thought to himself "Hm, I'll write a space opera. They need a way to go faster than light. No, wait. Make that a dozen ways. Might as well go over the top, eh?" and that's how we got things like fighting planetoids and probabilty beams...
And if you'd read the book REALLY well, you'd notice that at the sizes 'cavitronics' (hand-waving) could make black holes, which would be larger than is possible with current tech, they WEREN'T stable, which is why he had to use more hand-waving and invent a 5-dimensional knot singularity that actually WOULD be stable. For those who haven't read it, Brin is an astrophysicist, so it's GOOD hand-waving, but he freely admits that he just made that stuff up.
Actually they run two papers... The Sentinel, which is religious and a bit weird at times... Haven't read it much. And the Monitor, which is reputable and in fact one of the better national papers in the US. Hell, for all I know it's international.
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Well, ideally, I agree. However... Oh, hell with it. If you want to troll, fine. If you really do wonder about the rationale for these or other anti-trust measures, you can look it up somewhere else, since frankly I'm not well enough versed to tell you. But in regards to your first question, since the collusion in this case was vertical as well as horizontal, if you (record label) decide not to participate, you lose out on preferential treatment for major distributors and retailers who are involved.
No, it's not. Because when you have that sort of collusion, even though no monoploy actually exists, the industry functions as a monopoly.
Total dollar amount was fixed. All the DOS did was make it so I get $12.63, rather than say $12.50 or $12.
For that one guy who shows up in a stained pink bathrobe, just doesn't wash, and then sits upwind of you. Spray him down. Febreze has a cleaner, less would-be-sexy smell than that aerosol deodorant stuff, and works better on fabric (bathrobe, anyone?). Not to mention you can dual-weild and call yourself 'Nerdbane the Dissolver.'
Oh, I agree. I just meant that ideally, if I have kids, I'd want them to begin discovering these things when they're ready for it, and not get caught. Because I can remember getting caught, and getting lectures... And it really didn't create any sort of positive associations in my mind.
And thus learning that sexuality entails shame. A lesson I'd rather my kids skipped.
I memorized Latin verse in public school. That said, I hated cursive, never really learned it. But I think teaching good, legible handwriting is a priority, at least for the next five or ten years. Because right now, I still have to leave notes for people, write adresses, test answers, directions, and so forth. None of them very long, but they have to be legible. I print, personally, but I wish I'd spent a year working on that instead of having cursive shoved down my throat, because my printing would probably be better.
Or for that matter David Brin's similar hypothesis in Earth.
Possibly. But that technology is actually pretty damned good already.
They don't claim that it never wins... Just that before it offers you the double-or-nothing, it's already decided whether you're going to win or lose, and it doesn't matter whether you chose high or low.
It's because fiber optic lines usually just spew photons, because they don't need quantum effects. QC lines ideally go one photon per bit, which makes them more vulnerable to increasing error rates as they get longer. I say ideally because as has been pointed out, that's not exactly possible, but it's what they try for.
This is a sucessor to the key-handcuffed-to-courier's-wrist set of cryptosystems. It's for embassies, military bases, and so forth. Not for you and me and the neighbor kid.
Most of the guys from @stake that I knew, at least back in the day, failed that test... Then again, I'm really not sure what they're doing on that list...
One, the Republican Party isn't a unified block. Two, the invasions of privacy that Santorum preaches fall under the dubious heading of 'family values.' Three, no you're not, he's just a freak. To clarify, I tend to vote Dem or Independant. But there are some good Republicans.
Actually... For all that I disagree with them on many, many issues, the Republicans do a fair bit of this sort of thing. They are all about personal rights and privacy, in theory. In practice, they have this weird (to me, and in comaprison with their stated political thought) obsession with morals and family values. But when they're not all family-valued, they often do rspect privacy, at least the more extreme members...
Many businesses work like this. Insurance companies do. So did banks, although with FDIC insurance it's now a moot point. If everyone filed an insurance claim at the same time, the company would go under. If everyone wanted their accounts emptied, so would a bank, though I understand that the Federal government would step in these days. If you read the fine print, you'll find that your ISP does not sell you the right to saturate your bandwidth 24/7 without ever dipping below the maximum advertised rate, just the right to use the pipe at whatever it will give you. If you really believed that throughput was gauranteed, well, I have a Fast TCP protocol I could sell you... Speed things up by 6000 times...
As much as I really do agree with you, and as mcu of a badass as Marshal Zhukov was, American material support was a big contribution to that victory.
You mean they don't set the Evil Bit?
EArlier versions of the M16 were supposedly not nearly as good. Think of them as beta hardware. These days, though, as the above post says, it's just not a problem.
I wouldn't call them a disappointment... I marginally prefer the first two, but I did really like the others, as well... The world-biulding isn't as in-your-face, but I thought the characters were at least as strong.
He's basically said that when he sat down to write Uplift, he thought to himself "Hm, I'll write a space opera. They need a way to go faster than light. No, wait. Make that a dozen ways. Might as well go over the top, eh?" and that's how we got things like fighting planetoids and probabilty beams...
And if you'd read the book REALLY well, you'd notice that at the sizes 'cavitronics' (hand-waving) could make black holes, which would be larger than is possible with current tech, they WEREN'T stable, which is why he had to use more hand-waving and invent a 5-dimensional knot singularity that actually WOULD be stable. For those who haven't read it, Brin is an astrophysicist, so it's GOOD hand-waving, but he freely admits that he just made that stuff up.
Yes, but in the obligatory Matrix tie-in, the AIs did it... Hopefully I'm not spoiling the rest of the series.
Actually they run two papers... The Sentinel, which is religious and a bit weird at times... Haven't read it much. And the Monitor, which is reputable and in fact one of the better national papers in the US. Hell, for all I know it's international.
Nah, it snow-crashes, of course...