Concerned Parents would be the target market here, I'm guessing.
And why are they Concerned? Because they read all the marketing literature about the horrible fate awaiting their precious little snowflakes if they spend too much time on WoW.
I mean, this stuff is fun to discuss, but his article was really just a rehash of points people have been making since the 70's (while ignoring all the popular counterpoints and countercounterpoints.)
At least he didn't go into how it would be "impossible" for a binary star to have planets around it, which was a popular thing for people to say before we actually found some.
As for the plans, maybe there was an engineer comments that said:/*This is a fatal design issue, will redress later*/ heh.
When I used to write demos for a bug-tracking system the company I was working for made, I'd have one of the cases be a reported design flaw of "the thermal exhaust vent", showing how to reject a bug report due to the unlikeliness of it ever causing problems.
I was delighted many years ago to come across a copy of "Star Wars Tales" in which the company that made the Death Stars was presenting their designs to the emperor and he brought it up. They agreed to add ray shielding to prevent mishaps.
He also asked about safety rails, and they told him "sure, for an extra 20 credits a meter, given 4000 kilometers of catwalks..."
"This [indicates the staff weapon] is a weapon of terror. It is designed to strike fear into the enemy. This [the P90] is a weapon of war. It is designed to kill the enemy."
Also, Chewbacca only visited Endor. He never lived there. That guy was a bad lawyer.
Guess what, your cell phone bill isn't going to go down thanks to this lawsuit.
Guess what, your cell phone bill isn't going to go up, either.
A huge loss will eat into the company's profit a bit (but not very much compared to their overall income), but that will only affect you if you own Verizon stock.
Verizon has already calculated what price level will maximize their profit. Customers expect regular raises in price, so they'll do that, regardless of any other costs.
They're not going to raise it any more or less because of this guy.
Nice try trying to bring in the health care debate, though. You have a citation I suppose for your belief that the only reason health care costs so much in this country is because of an epidemic of lawsuits?
And when someone in the marines has their functionality diminished because of lowered morale brought about by a decreased ability to communicate with home due to a seemingly arbitrary policy, people could *die*.
People aren't mindless machines. There's a reason we have things like facebook, leave, and the USO. It's not just to be nice.
They wouldn't, as long as they're the only ones doing it, and as long as people are signing up faster than they can get flights up.
In those circumstances, the price would logically rise fairly quickly.
However, it's unlikely that both of those conditions will remain true for very long.
With the (hopefully large) profits they pull in, they will be able to build more systems and launch more frequently. This will allow them to operate more flights. They may be able to then lower the price to attract more customers, and make more money with a smaller profit margin.
Also, once they've proven there's money to be made, other companies will copy them, often making incremental improvements, allowing them to do the same thing with far less initial R&D, and possibly lower operating costs, which will drive prices down even further.
Anyway, that's the ideal. Sure there are bumps along the way (for example, the more people are doing it, the more risk-averse they will become, thus the need for higher safety standards), but more likely than not, prices will start coming down soon. They'll likely never be cheaper than a planetary jet flight, for that you'd need a space elevator.
The difference here is that this is the currently used locations, routes, etc., used for the current administration, as opposed to one of the hiding places built for the use of one guy who's no longer in office.
At Dan Brown's level, it would be nearly free. I read one of his books (Angels & Demons). Ten minutes spent reading the Wikipedia article on antimatter before writing about it could have prevented most of his technical errors there.
Hell, just having used a cell phone at some point of his life could have prevented the scene where he had the physicist wondering why he couldn't get a dial tone on his mobile phone while deep underground at CERN. But, the plot depended on it, and he's far too lazy of a writer to bother going back to think up something more believable to fix the scene.
Fortunately for him, his readers are just as lazy, ignorant, and uncreative, so he's pretty much set for life.
Looking up at night and recording what you see isn't exactly a new phenomenon, or limited to our technology.
People around the world have been doing both for a few millennia at least.
And, while I lack any peer-reviewed data source here, I would posit that those in an agricultural environment will actually be paying *more* attention to what clouds are doing than those in an industrial area.
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They publish their data in well-defined formats, including real-time location information for all buses and trains, free for anybody to use.
Anyone is free to write their own applications using their data. TriMet maintains links to many of them on their web site.
I doubt anyone's going to be "curing" themselves at this place.
My guess is it will be mostly teenagers whose easily impressed parents have been frightened by the marketing literature.
I think there was a Batman Beyond episode about this place...
Concerned Parents would be the target market here, I'm guessing.
And why are they Concerned? Because they read all the marketing literature about the horrible fate awaiting their precious little snowflakes if they spend too much time on WoW.
I mean, this stuff is fun to discuss, but his article was really just a rehash of points people have been making since the 70's (while ignoring all the popular counterpoints and countercounterpoints.)
At least he didn't go into how it would be "impossible" for a binary star to have planets around it, which was a popular thing for people to say before we actually found some.
When I used to write demos for a bug-tracking system the company I was working for made, I'd have one of the cases be a reported design flaw of "the thermal exhaust vent", showing how to reject a bug report due to the unlikeliness of it ever causing problems.
I was delighted many years ago to come across a copy of "Star Wars Tales" in which the company that made the Death Stars was presenting their designs to the emperor and he brought it up. They agreed to add ray shielding to prevent mishaps.
He also asked about safety rails, and they told him "sure, for an extra 20 credits a meter, given 4000 kilometers of catwalks..."
You only need Petabytes if you want to map a whole lot of data.
Did you see how low resolution those images were?
200k, tops.
"This [indicates the staff weapon] is a weapon of terror. It is designed to strike fear into the enemy. This [the P90] is a weapon of war. It is designed to kill the enemy."
Also, Chewbacca only visited Endor. He never lived there. That guy was a bad lawyer.
You mean, like maybe the Navy might find a way of turning seawater into jet fuel?
Guess what, your cell phone bill isn't going to go up, either.
A huge loss will eat into the company's profit a bit (but not very much compared to their overall income), but that will only affect you if you own Verizon stock.
Verizon has already calculated what price level will maximize their profit. Customers expect regular raises in price, so they'll do that, regardless of any other costs.
They're not going to raise it any more or less because of this guy.
Nice try trying to bring in the health care debate, though. You have a citation I suppose for your belief that the only reason health care costs so much in this country is because of an epidemic of lawsuits?
Of course, an internal investigation on Verizon's part should be pretty simple:
"Did you hit our customer then chase him down the street?"
"Well, yeah, but..."
"You're fired."
At least, that's how it would go at any place that has an expectation of professionalism on the part of its employees.
It's not a white male.
It's just a really ugly pale black woman.
And when someone in the marines has their functionality diminished because of lowered morale brought about by a decreased ability to communicate with home due to a seemingly arbitrary policy, people could *die*.
People aren't mindless machines. There's a reason we have things like facebook, leave, and the USO. It's not just to be nice.
For each assignment, there will be very specific rules of engagement covering when you can and cannot fire your weapon.
A local approaching you with a visible weapon would certainly be one of the times you are allowed to do so, under almost all circumstances.
A car approaching a checkpoint and not stopping when ordered to do so would be another.
But no, no marine (or soldier, or sailor, or airman) is just given orders to fire at will when they arrive in country.
It's about 1.36x10^-14 the size of Alaska.
More and more, publishers are accepting electronic submission.
As Word documents.
The game I'm currently playing has four main characters. A Half-orc, a Tiefling, a Yuan-Ti, and a Dwarf. How much more diverse do you want?
They wouldn't, as long as they're the only ones doing it, and as long as people are signing up faster than they can get flights up.
In those circumstances, the price would logically rise fairly quickly.
However, it's unlikely that both of those conditions will remain true for very long.
With the (hopefully large) profits they pull in, they will be able to build more systems and launch more frequently. This will allow them to operate more flights. They may be able to then lower the price to attract more customers, and make more money with a smaller profit margin.
Also, once they've proven there's money to be made, other companies will copy them, often making incremental improvements, allowing them to do the same thing with far less initial R&D, and possibly lower operating costs, which will drive prices down even further.
Anyway, that's the ideal. Sure there are bumps along the way (for example, the more people are doing it, the more risk-averse they will become, thus the need for higher safety standards), but more likely than not, prices will start coming down soon. They'll likely never be cheaper than a planetary jet flight, for that you'd need a space elevator.
No, leaving your door unlocked is not an invitation to enter.
But we don't lock people up for 60 years for trespassing.
If the original post up there is correct, what he did was far less severe a crime than trespassing.
A fine would be appropriate here. Decades in US federal prison most certainly is not.
If you're an American, in this case the employer is you.
Bethesda leaked that information months ago!
The difference here is that this is the currently used locations, routes, etc., used for the current administration, as opposed to one of the hiding places built for the use of one guy who's no longer in office.
Research needn't cost millions of dollars.
Or even much money at all.
At Dan Brown's level, it would be nearly free. I read one of his books (Angels & Demons). Ten minutes spent reading the Wikipedia article on antimatter before writing about it could have prevented most of his technical errors there.
Hell, just having used a cell phone at some point of his life could have prevented the scene where he had the physicist wondering why he couldn't get a dial tone on his mobile phone while deep underground at CERN. But, the plot depended on it, and he's far too lazy of a writer to bother going back to think up something more believable to fix the scene.
Fortunately for him, his readers are just as lazy, ignorant, and uncreative, so he's pretty much set for life.
Because ending a sentence with a preposition is something with up which we cannot put.
Wouldn't work. This is east Texas we're talking about.
Looking up at night and recording what you see isn't exactly a new phenomenon, or limited to our technology.
People around the world have been doing both for a few millennia at least.
And, while I lack any peer-reviewed data source here, I would posit that those in an agricultural environment will actually be paying *more* attention to what clouds are doing than those in an industrial area.