1776: "Then it's agreed, gentlemen, in order to secure our rights as a free people, we will risk embarrassment, imprisonment, expropriation, bankruptcy, bodily harm, exile and hanging."
2010: "Of course I'll waive my rights. I don't want to miss my connecting flight."
I suspect the foreign language versions are not actually published in the UK but rather published under license by a publisher in the country where that language is spoken. As far as harry potter, IIRC the whole set takes up about a foot of shelf space on my daughters bookcase.
Don't overlook inventory carrying costs. There are costs associated with maintaining the environment the books are stored in. Heating in the winter, air conditioning in the summer, humidity control, maintaining/repairing the structure, etc.
Of course you have the same with digital media, periodically copying to newer media etc. If they had digitized in the 70's a lot of this would be on 8" floppy disks and huge disc packs. Forty years from now they might not be able to find a SD card reader or SATA controller.
Lets play with the heat idea a bit, but from another perspective.
From TFA:
The rest of the energy would power an infrared laser beam, which would help fulfill the whole planet's energy needs day and night regardless of environmental conditions.
The main shortfall of this approach is that over the millions of miles between the satellite and Earth, even the tightest laser beam would spread out and lose a lot of its original energy.
So the tight infrared laser would diffuse in the atmosphere? infrared = heat right? and that energy lost is into the earths atmosphere, right?
Think about the french fries under the infrared heat lamp at the fast food place down the road...
I started using it before most browsers had it built in (back when it was called foxmarks instead of Xmarks and only worked on the one browser). This is of course the drawback to building a free product that adds functionality to another free product, if it is good the product your adding to will internalize the functionality rendering your product useless.
The project and software are commonly known as OpenOffice, but this term is a trademark held by a company in the Netherlands co-founded by Wouter Hanegraaff and is also in use by Orange UK, requiring the project to adopt OpenOffice.org as its formal name.
Agreed, similarly most of my searches are from the search box in Firefox, I rarely go to the actual Google page anymore. And when I do go to a Google page it's my iGoogle page which does not seem to have instant enabled. About the only time I see instant is if I am at a search results page and go to change the search on that page.
Or you can surf through a proxy that strips out annoying javascript (like anything that tries to intercept the right click) while leaving useful JS in place.
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I think the history channels show "Modern Marvels" did a show on these things.
Google did not announce it's own Google TV, Google announced Google TV products from partners Sony and Logitech. Which is what they were saying all along. May: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/05/20/198242/Google-TV-Announced-With-Intel-Sony-and-Logitech
The universe is ever expanding, the galaxy...not so much. The stars in the galaxy are orbiting the center, not moving away from it.
WTH? 29 posts and no one posted this: http://xkcd.com/695/
1776: "Then it's agreed, gentlemen, in order to secure our rights as a free people, we will risk embarrassment, imprisonment, expropriation, bankruptcy, bodily harm, exile and hanging." 2010: "Of course I'll waive my rights. I don't want to miss my connecting flight."
I suspect the foreign language versions are not actually published in the UK but rather published under license by a publisher in the country where that language is spoken. As far as harry potter, IIRC the whole set takes up about a foot of shelf space on my daughters bookcase.
Don't overlook inventory carrying costs. There are costs associated with maintaining the environment the books are stored in. Heating in the winter, air conditioning in the summer, humidity control, maintaining/repairing the structure, etc.
Of course you have the same with digital media, periodically copying to newer media etc. If they had digitized in the 70's a lot of this would be on 8" floppy disks and huge disc packs. Forty years from now they might not be able to find a SD card reader or SATA controller.
What is interesting is that Google doesn't seem to have been able to get the street view car anywhere close to the WH.
Lets play with the heat idea a bit, but from another perspective.
From TFA:
The rest of the energy would power an infrared laser beam, which would help fulfill the whole planet's energy needs day and night regardless of environmental conditions.
The main shortfall of this approach is that over the millions of miles between the satellite and Earth, even the tightest laser beam would spread out and lose a lot of its original energy.
So the tight infrared laser would diffuse in the atmosphere? infrared = heat right? and that energy lost is into the earths atmosphere, right?
Think about the french fries under the infrared heat lamp at the fast food place down the road...
Feds Say All-Caps Street Signs Cause Accidents -- And Tells NYC To Spend $28 Million To Replace Them http://www.businessinsider.com/feds-say-all-caps-street-signs-cause-accidents-and-tells-nyc-to-spend-28-million-to-replace-them-2010-9
Didn't the article spell that out for you? Oh wait, this IS slashdot...
I started using it before most browsers had it built in (back when it was called foxmarks instead of Xmarks and only worked on the one browser). This is of course the drawback to building a free product that adds functionality to another free product, if it is good the product your adding to will internalize the functionality rendering your product useless.
You are right, I had every intention of doing so and got in a hurry. I'll go stand in the corner if the internet with a pointy hat on.
The project and software are commonly known as OpenOffice, but this term is a trademark held by a company in the Netherlands co-founded by Wouter Hanegraaff and is also in use by Orange UK, requiring the project to adopt OpenOffice.org as its formal name.
I'm thinking this only makes sense of there's a shortage of people...
There will be other robots for that...
If I had mod points..... +1 insightful
What if the guy in front rides the brakes?
Wouldn't a government required registration of vacuums be sufficient?
So your saying the store simply surrendered?
Hyperdrive technology was sold by the Outsiders to the Human colony of We Made It, in 2409. He can yell "boo" at the Puppeteers all day long.
Spelling aside, would it not in fact be General Products corporation (admittedly Puppeteer owned) doing the complaining?
Agreed, similarly most of my searches are from the search box in Firefox, I rarely go to the actual Google page anymore. And when I do go to a Google page it's my iGoogle page which does not seem to have instant enabled. About the only time I see instant is if I am at a search results page and go to change the search on that page.
Or you can surf through a proxy that strips out annoying javascript (like anything that tries to intercept the right click) while leaving useful JS in place.
I don't legitimately want to back up my blu-rays ... I WANT to back up my blu-rays legitimately!
The subject line "don't forget to pay your $699 license fee" is part of the post ... and the joke.