Its not just PlayStation Store, it's not just Steam, it's not just video games, it's not just the internet... It's everything. From text books, to DVDs, to jeans, to Big Macs: the same item can cost a different amount (after factoring in exchange rates) based on location. This has been true since there have been different currencies, different cultures, and different locations.
I'd say this is a typical example of an elite environmentalist. I pity the people who don't see they are merely using people and care only minimally for the environmment.
This is such a crock of shit. Try reading the actual article.
Matt Rogers, who oversees the department's loan programs as a senior adviser to Energy Secretary Steven Chu, said Fisker was awarded the loan after a "detailed technical review" that concluded the company could eventually deliver a highly fuel-efficient hybrid car to a mass audience. Fisker said most of its DOE loan will be used to finance U.S. production of a $40,000 family sedan that has yet to be designed.
You know, I guess I'm not really ticked off by commenters who don't read the article and get it wrong. In cases like this the summary and headline are just flame-baiting lies. It would be one thing if the headline and summary were along the lines of "$529M Gov't Loan To Company That Has Developed $89,000 Hybrid Sports Car". But when the headline and summary state something straight out, I can't really fault someone for taking it at face value. After all, the story has passed through a highly qualified and respected team of editors here at slashdot before making the front page.
Tipping the scales at around 4600 people utilizing 20,000 computer systems
Can someone explain this to me? I thought there were millions of WoW users? 4600 seems miniscule to me, especially when the same sentence says that they have 20,000 computer systems to serve these 4600 people... I don't understand.
Not wrong. Stephen Fry was the Narrator and read all of the Guide entries. But the OP was not wrong either... what point are you making?
This is exactly what the OP stated:
If they had added just a couple of minutes to put those into the movie, I think I would've liked it much, much more.
Or in other words:
P: they put guide entries into the movie Q: I would like it more
Stated: P -> Q ~Q
Therefore: ~P
Since the OP did not "like it more", he's saying that the producers did not take the time to add guide entries to the movie. The point I was making was that there were indeed guide entries in the movie, and my mention of Stephen Fry was just to reinforce my recollection, so that it wasn't just me saying, "nuh uh, were too".
If the observatory is this important, why haven't they done something like pave a 50m^2 circle around the thing so there's nothing combustable nearby?
Maybe because a 50m^2 circle has a radius of only 4m (12ft). I don't know how big the observatory is, but I don't think it would fit inside that space... And even if it did, I don't think 4m is enough distance from a raging inferno to save anything. But maybe you were saying that the the paved area would be a path along the circumference of a much larger circle. Of course if you keep the path's width to 50m^2, it starts getting very thin very quickly once you start increasing the size of the circle. If my math is correct, if you wanted to pave a path that had an area of 50m^2 along the circumference of a circle that had a radius of 50m, your path would only be.16m wide.
I have the equation for that last calculation being width=r-sqrt(r^2-50/pi). I think that's correct, I'm sure someone will let me know if I'm wrong
"The BBC is reporting that so-called augmented reality has arrived -- in the UK at least. From the article: 'Via the video function of a mobile phone's camera it is now possible to combine a regular pictorial view with added data from the internet just as the fictional Terminator was able to overlay its view of the world with vital information about its surroundings. For example, UK-firm Acrossair has launched an application for the iPhone which allows Londoners to find their nearest tube station using their iPhone.' The page features an impressive video demonstrating AR in action."
For me, the funniest parts of the books are the excerpts from the Guide (especially the part about how the Babel Fish has been used for the non-existence of God). If they had added just a couple of minutes to put those into the movie, I think I would've liked it much, much more.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I specifically remember excerpts from the book being presented in the movie. Didn't they have a voice over by Stephen Fry?
Cash back rewards are almost always under 1.5%, and percentage cuts of transactions are almost always over 2%.
So what? That doesn't mean the cash back money comes directly from the merchant fee money. It's not like American Express keeps a separate account where they put the merchant fees and only pays out cash back to card holders from this bank account. They get income from a number of different sources (I'll go out on a limb and suggest the biggest portion of which is from interest paid on debt) and they have a number of things they pay money out on. Just because one outflow of cash is slightly less than another inflow doesn't mean that all of the outflow comes from that one inflow.
Imagine you have a regular job from which you make most of your income. But you also have a little side business that makes $100/month. Your cable bill is $75/month. By your logic, your main job doesn't pay for cable at all, it comes 100% out of the side business. How would the customers of this side business feel knowing that the only reason they have to pay such high prices is to cover your cable bill? If you didn't have to watch cable, they wouldn't have to pay as much, right? Let's say you also pay a cell phone bill of $50/month. This is also less than your income from your side job, so again by your logic it must come 100% from the side job. But now you're paying out $125/month out of an income of only $100. That obviously makes no sense, and neither does tying cash back rewards directly to merchant fees.
You know that "cash back" that credit card companies give you on each purchase? They're just giving you a cut of the money that they're wringing out of the merchant.
Right, like the only money the credit card companies make is on the merchant fees. I'm pretty sure some of that cash back I'm getting is from other card holders who are in debt and paying upwards of 18% interest rates.
I honestly didn't understand it. Can you tell me what the parent meant by the lone "This"?
Thank you. I have been wondering about "This" for a while. I used to see it all the time on fark (when I used to read fark), but it doesn't make any sense. There will be a headline that makes a direct statement, then someone will quote it entirely and just add "This". What the hell does that mean? Also, what does it add to the conversation?
Funny you mention that, here's my results (and our server is VERY heavily hit):
eclug
INSTALATION
linux
meeting
message
printing
services
terrorism
Only the first (eclug) and last (terrorism) are really directly relevant to topics on sites I host.
Okay, since you state that eclug is a relevant term for one of your sites, I'm assuming you host either the site for the Eau Claire Linux User Group, or the Eastern Connecticut Linux User Group. If so, then I think the terms: INSTALLATION, meeting, and message are very relevant; and the terms: printing and services are quite likely to be relevant.
Maybe you should read what he actually wrote. His argument is very tempered and coherent. I believe the heart of it comes down to this sentence
The difference between source code and object code and the practice of using EULAs would give proprietary software an effective exception from the general rule of 5-year copyright -- one that free software does not share.
This is how software is different from other copyright-able works. With a song or book, the copyrighted thing is the end result and what is distributed to users. As soon as a song falls into the public domain (whether 5 years or 100 years) the actual work is out there for others to use, copy, modify, whatever. But with proprietary software, the copyrighted material is kept closed and secret. The thing the users have is a compiled version that can't easily (or sometimes at all) be used in another project or modified or learned from, even once it's in the public domain.
With insanely long copyright terms, proprietary software is protected by the fact that you don't have access to their source code and the law; whereas free software is only protected by the law. Once you take away the force of law after 5 years, proprietary software is still protected by the secrecy, and free software is completely unprotected.
Now if you want to get into a holy war over the GPL vs. BSD, fine, but that's a separate argument. If you care at all about the GPL, then RMSs point about the Pirate Party's goal makes a whole lot of sense.
We have the technology... the time is now... science can wait no longer... children are our future. America can, should, must, and will blow up the moon!
They will not type in your company name in the URL bar and add.com. They will type your company name into google and click on the result. If they're recurring customers, they will bookmark your page.
You're right and you're wrong. I know that what many people do is this: type their query into google which might contain multiple words, it might be a full sentence, it might be in question form... And then they will add.com to it. Many people apparently think, "If it's on the internet, I have to add.com". So you'll see queries like [where can I buy shoes.com]. They will type in the.com, it's been drilled into them. However it might be in the wrong text box. It's probably still beneficial to get yourcompanyname.com as people will type that in where ever they see a text input box.
The American economy recovered from the great depression by draining UK's coffers via the lend-lease act.
Before reading your comment, I didn't really know anything about the lend-lease act. It was one of those terms I had heard, but didn't know the specifics of. Your comment prompted me to do some reading (wikipedia). And I think I can say that without a doubt you don't know what you're talking about (assuming the information on Lend-Lease is accurate at the time I read it).
From the article:
Lend-Lease (Public Law 77-11)[1] was the name of the program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, France and other Allied nations with vast amounts of war material between 1941 and 1945 in return for, in the case of Britain, military bases in Newfoundland, Bermuda, and the British West Indies.
And further:
In sharp contrast to the American loans to the Allies in World War I, there were no provisions for postwar repayments.
So, technically the lend-lease act was not in any way any sort of drain on British coffers (quite the reverse actually). Now, after the war the "... Anglo-American loan came about. Lend-lease items retained were sold to Britain at the knockdown price of about 10 cents on the dollar giving an initial value of £1,075 million. Payment was to be stretched out over 50 years at 2% interest." That hardly sounds like any sort of drain to me... I'd love to get a million dollar home for $100,000 and then only have to pay it back at 2% over 50 years. And in fact, at least one member of the House of Lords agrees with me (emphasis mine):
Lord McIntosh of Haringey: My Lords, the loan originally was £1,075 million, of which £244 million is outstanding. The basis of the loan is that interest is paid at 2 per cent. Therefore, we are currently receiving a greater return on our dollar assets than we are paying in interest to pay off the loan. It is a very advantageous loan for us.
I gotta tell you, I love NPR. I listen to my local station WBUR almost constantly (Morning Edition, BBC World Service, On Point, Here & Now, Car Talk, All Things Considered, Market Place, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me, This American Life, and my new favorite: On The Media). But when I start my car and my radio comes on in the middle of one of her shows my ears just start to bleed. I have no specific opinion on the content of her show since I can't listen to her voice for more than 5 seconds before I have tune over to Love Line.
I could listen to WBUR almost constantly if it weren't for Diane Rehm, Tavis Smiley, and the religious shows they have on Sunday.
and even argued that sea based windmills would be inefficient recently (I think they will be attacked for their parts and be big targets if there was a war and I think maintenance in a high saline environment will be higher than they think)...
Exactly!! Which is why I've been saying for years that these "off-shore oil-rigs" (it's in quotes because it's dumb) will never work. No wonder we don't have any of them/
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Its not just PlayStation Store, it's not just Steam, it's not just video games, it's not just the internet... It's everything. From text books, to DVDs, to jeans, to Big Macs: the same item can cost a different amount (after factoring in exchange rates) based on location. This has been true since there have been different currencies, different cultures, and different locations.
The Coral Cache is working pretty well for me: http://benheck.com.nyud.net/10-01-2009/ps3-slim-laptop
And the youtube videos are certainly holding up just fine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nLEVnM9Cas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AM6NGbPQ-k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKia22tulUg
Come on teens! Get to work selling Windows 7!
This is such a crock of shit. Try reading the actual article.
You know, I guess I'm not really ticked off by commenters who don't read the article and get it wrong. In cases like this the summary and headline are just flame-baiting lies. It would be one thing if the headline and summary were along the lines of "$529M Gov't Loan To Company That Has Developed $89,000 Hybrid Sports Car". But when the headline and summary state something straight out, I can't really fault someone for taking it at face value. After all, the story has passed through a highly qualified and respected team of editors here at slashdot before making the front page.
Can someone explain this to me? I thought there were millions of WoW users? 4600 seems miniscule to me, especially when the same sentence says that they have 20,000 computer systems to serve these 4600 people... I don't understand.
This is exactly what the OP stated:
Or in other words:
Since the OP did not "like it more", he's saying that the producers did not take the time to add guide entries to the movie. The point I was making was that there were indeed guide entries in the movie, and my mention of Stephen Fry was just to reinforce my recollection, so that it wasn't just me saying, "nuh uh, were too".
Maybe because a 50m^2 circle has a radius of only 4m (12ft). I don't know how big the observatory is, but I don't think it would fit inside that space... And even if it did, I don't think 4m is enough distance from a raging inferno to save anything. But maybe you were saying that the the paved area would be a path along the circumference of a much larger circle. Of course if you keep the path's width to 50m^2, it starts getting very thin very quickly once you start increasing the size of the circle. If my math is correct, if you wanted to pave a path that had an area of 50m^2 along the circumference of a circle that had a radius of 50m, your path would only be .16m wide.
I have the equation for that last calculation being width=r-sqrt(r^2-50/pi). I think that's correct, I'm sure someone will let me know if I'm wrong
If it is more convenient to use base-2 unit groupings, then use them. Just don't use the prefixes kilo, mega, and giga.
I don't understand why the hell that is so difficult.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/08/11/1442239
You're EDITORS! So start EDITING!
Scene from the recent movie about the point of view gun (skip to about 1:30): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh8R7MwtVC0
Guide entry from old the BBC miniseries about babelfish: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcncPpQ8loA
Same guide entry from the recent movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyYS-GzBSIg
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I specifically remember excerpts from the book being presented in the movie. Didn't they have a voice over by Stephen Fry?
And even if this did happen. The MPAA would just blame their loss in sales to piracy and get even stricter laws in place to combat this.
So what? That doesn't mean the cash back money comes directly from the merchant fee money. It's not like American Express keeps a separate account where they put the merchant fees and only pays out cash back to card holders from this bank account. They get income from a number of different sources (I'll go out on a limb and suggest the biggest portion of which is from interest paid on debt) and they have a number of things they pay money out on. Just because one outflow of cash is slightly less than another inflow doesn't mean that all of the outflow comes from that one inflow.
Imagine you have a regular job from which you make most of your income. But you also have a little side business that makes $100/month. Your cable bill is $75/month. By your logic, your main job doesn't pay for cable at all, it comes 100% out of the side business. How would the customers of this side business feel knowing that the only reason they have to pay such high prices is to cover your cable bill? If you didn't have to watch cable, they wouldn't have to pay as much, right? Let's say you also pay a cell phone bill of $50/month. This is also less than your income from your side job, so again by your logic it must come 100% from the side job. But now you're paying out $125/month out of an income of only $100. That obviously makes no sense, and neither does tying cash back rewards directly to merchant fees.
Right, like the only money the credit card companies make is on the merchant fees. I'm pretty sure some of that cash back I'm getting is from other card holders who are in debt and paying upwards of 18% interest rates.
Thank you. I have been wondering about "This" for a while. I used to see it all the time on fark (when I used to read fark), but it doesn't make any sense. There will be a headline that makes a direct statement, then someone will quote it entirely and just add "This". What the hell does that mean? Also, what does it add to the conversation?
Very apt analogy. Both acts are based on ignorant beliefs and not scientific reasoning.
Okay, since you state that eclug is a relevant term for one of your sites, I'm assuming you host either the site for the Eau Claire Linux User Group, or the Eastern Connecticut Linux User Group. If so, then I think the terms: INSTALLATION, meeting, and message are very relevant; and the terms: printing and services are quite likely to be relevant.
Maybe you should read what he actually wrote. His argument is very tempered and coherent. I believe the heart of it comes down to this sentence
This is how software is different from other copyright-able works. With a song or book, the copyrighted thing is the end result and what is distributed to users. As soon as a song falls into the public domain (whether 5 years or 100 years) the actual work is out there for others to use, copy, modify, whatever. But with proprietary software, the copyrighted material is kept closed and secret. The thing the users have is a compiled version that can't easily (or sometimes at all) be used in another project or modified or learned from, even once it's in the public domain.
With insanely long copyright terms, proprietary software is protected by the fact that you don't have access to their source code and the law; whereas free software is only protected by the law. Once you take away the force of law after 5 years, proprietary software is still protected by the secrecy, and free software is completely unprotected.
Now if you want to get into a holy war over the GPL vs. BSD, fine, but that's a separate argument. If you care at all about the GPL, then RMSs point about the Pirate Party's goal makes a whole lot of sense.
Way to steal my joke an hour later and get modded higher.
We have the technology... the time is now... science can wait no longer... children are our future. America can, should, must, and will blow up the moon!
<stolen>http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/1c81d0df12/mr-show-america-blows-up-the-moon-from-thaffner</stolen>
You're right and you're wrong. I know that what many people do is this: type their query into google which might contain multiple words, it might be a full sentence, it might be in question form... And then they will add .com to it. Many people apparently think, "If it's on the internet, I have to add .com". So you'll see queries like [where can I buy shoes.com]. They will type in the .com, it's been drilled into them. However it might be in the wrong text box. It's probably still beneficial to get yourcompanyname.com as people will type that in where ever they see a text input box.
Before reading your comment, I didn't really know anything about the lend-lease act. It was one of those terms I had heard, but didn't know the specifics of. Your comment prompted me to do some reading (wikipedia). And I think I can say that without a doubt you don't know what you're talking about (assuming the information on Lend-Lease is accurate at the time I read it).
From the article:
And further:
So, technically the lend-lease act was not in any way any sort of drain on British coffers (quite the reverse actually). Now, after the war the "... Anglo-American loan came about. Lend-lease items retained were sold to Britain at the knockdown price of about 10 cents on the dollar giving an initial value of £1,075 million. Payment was to be stretched out over 50 years at 2% interest." That hardly sounds like any sort of drain to me... I'd love to get a million dollar home for $100,000 and then only have to pay it back at 2% over 50 years. And in fact, at least one member of the House of Lords agrees with me (emphasis mine):
I gotta tell you, I love NPR. I listen to my local station WBUR almost constantly (Morning Edition, BBC World Service, On Point, Here & Now, Car Talk, All Things Considered, Market Place, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me, This American Life, and my new favorite: On The Media). But when I start my car and my radio comes on in the middle of one of her shows my ears just start to bleed. I have no specific opinion on the content of her show since I can't listen to her voice for more than 5 seconds before I have tune over to Love Line.
I could listen to WBUR almost constantly if it weren't for Diane Rehm, Tavis Smiley, and the religious shows they have on Sunday.
You're trying to lose nerd karma with this one???
Exactly!! Which is why I've been saying for years that these "off-shore oil-rigs" (it's in quotes because it's dumb) will never work. No wonder we don't have any of them/