If it's methane gas that will otherwise be freed to the atmosphere, it's much better to burn that for fuel than to free it and drill for oil under it. Methane is a much more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, by about 80 times.
parent and his ilk surely know that, but there's no money to be made selling [carbon] credits to the ocean floor now is there?
> "a right-handed user's left hand, for example, can be used for coarse manipulations of objects, while the right can be used for fine manipulation, such as with a pen"
Or you can just plug a second mouse in. People freak out when they see it ("that can't work!") but it does. Just pick two mice with a different number of "mickeys" resolution.
have you found anything that works to have two cursors simultaneously in windows?
So what if it sucks? it's cheap to produce and sells acceptably well. While Sony and Microsoft lost a fortune with their super-duper-powerful machines, Nintendo is profitable all the way. IT PRINTS MONEY!
I think what Nintendo is misjudging is the fact that the control method is a novelty that wears off on many, and the reason that their first-party titles are driving all of the sales is because we are only buying them for the Wii because they are only releasing them for the Wii.
I would have bought New Super Mario Bros. on any platform; it was released for Wii, so it was the only Wii game I bought last year.
Same here---sort of. Old desktop 2.4GHz P4 and scrolling causes 100% CPU usage in Firefox 3.6 which is supposed to have a decent Javascript implementation, but apparently not. I would test with Chrome, but the installer always fails on this machine with a completely useless error message. Don't know why.
That's because it's not necessarily a JavaScript issue, it's a omg-that's-a-lot-of-bad-markup (HTML and CSS) issue. And FireFox is getting more and more bloated with every release. I suspect your browser does similar on giant Slashdot threads, too?
You mean an open standard won out over a proprietary implementation?
Flash is about to be marginalized. It will happen quickly, in much the same way as the open HTML/DOM/Javascript beat out over 20 years of Microsoft "innovations" such as VB and.NOT.
Huh? This is akin to saying Coca Cola beat out Honda..
I'll settle for unruly code if it deprecates and banishes flash... hands down
So it's just a holy war for you, rather than the actual best tool or solution for the job?
That sort of spaghetti markup leads to huge pages, increased CPU load (browsers trying to render and mark up all the tags and mangled CSS), and other ill effects. It's not quite a black & white, "HTML IS BETTER THAN FLASH!" like you want it to be.
Furthermore, I find their "major reason" that HTML5 supports all the major points of the site's previous functionality to be a blatant lie. To give one example - ok, HTML5 supports webfonts... but how exactly are you going to license the fonts from Adobe (or any other font foundry that doesn't give away the font for free)?
That's a big point I hadn't thought of.. are they planning to pirate all of the fonts? Surely their spammy business model doesn't afford them the margins to properly license all of the typefaces. Further, how will they accurately preserve layouts or typesetting? This is something the PDF format does extraordinarily well, it's unfortunate that all of the browser plugins are terrible (at least on Windows, which represents ~90% of their user base.) I admittedly have spent little to no time working with the format on a low level, but at a glance I don't see why PDF can't be rendered in-browser the same way we finally got SVG support..
The battery for the Canon SD1100 is pretty good, it can go for about 1200 no-flash shots with the display turned off, (and thats with the cheap dealextreme knock-off batteries) but the highest rate i can get for timelapse is about 1 shot every 4 seconds-and thats without a break to transmit the image to a computer.
That's very slow.. I don't have an 1100 handy, but consider trying a better-rated SD card. That makes an order-of-magnitude difference in the SLRs, in terms of save speed.
I am not hep to the correlation, but my POTS Virgin phone has piss-poor coverage. The Network has some major holes, which I work around 'cause I don't mind paying $7 a month.
I don't know what you mean by a POTS Virgin phone, but this device is Virgin in name only. They are using the Sprint network.
Market share does not make a monopoly. As long as there are viable choices, there is no monopoly. Once iPhone becomes the only practical choice due to homogeneous lock-in, then the DOJ or EU can step in and apply remedies.
I don't disagree, but the DOJ didn't feel that way about Windows.
um.. I think the point is that since they are gift cards, and you probably won't ask your family/wife/husband/dog for a $25.74 gift card.
25 * $0.99 = $24.75. There's nothing to buy for 25 cents on iTunes, so Apple likely ends up with a @#$@load of unused gift cards with ~25 cents on them. Free money.
The same people who will pay $50-$70 for a pc or console game, or $15/month for a game subscription, won't pay $10 for a phone app. Because of the smaller, crappy screen, crappy sound, crappy controls, the perceived value just isn't there.
Isn't that a bit self-contradicting? People regularly pay $30-40 for DS/PSP/etc games.. how is the iPad any different? Yes, some control mechanisms won't translate well. So some game studios won't be able to port the same codebase they've been pushing to every new portable since Game Gear. Oh noes.
I personally believe that 30% for what apple is offering is a bit much. It's about 3x more than typical systems for similar services online.
Like who? Handango for example are one of the main resellers of mobile apps for Symbian, Android Blackberry etc. They take 40%.
Not to mention the carriers, if you want to accept payment by SMS billing.. many of them take over 45% at the bottom end. This purely for payment processing, no other services. They also hold your funds for 90-180 days, and likely earn interest on it all the while.
The progressive left is not in favor of state censorship of ideas they oppose, therefore, you will not be able to provide a single example to back up your outrageous claim. But thanks for playing 'False Equivalency,' and here's a copy of our home game as a consolation prize.
In June 2007, Senator Richard Durbin (D-Illinois) said, "It’s time to reinstitute the Fairness Doctrine,” [22] an opinion shared by his Democratic colleague, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts. . . . On June 24, 2008, U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco, California (who had been elected Speaker of the House in January 2007) told reporters that her fellow Democratic Representatives did not want to forbid reintroduction of the Fairness Doctrine, adding "the interest in my caucus is the reverse." When asked by John Gizzi of Human Events, "Do you personally support revival of the 'Fairness Doctrine?'", the Speaker replied "Yes." . . . A week later, on February 11, 2009, Senator Tom Harkin (Democrat of Iowa) told Press, "...we gotta get the Fairness Doctrine back in law again." Later in response to Press's assertion that "...they are just shutting down progressive talk from one city after another," Senator Harkin responded, "Exactly, and that's why we need the fair — that's why we need the Fairness Doctrine back." . . . Former President Bill Clinton has also shown support for the Fairness Doctrine. During a February 13, 2009, appearance on the Mario Solis Marich radio show, Clinton said: “ Well, you either ought to have the Fairness Doctrine or we ought to have more balance on the other side, because essentially there's always been a lot of big money to support the right wing talk shows.
do you need my mailing address, for that prize thingy?
Uses the Sprint network.. you buy the $100 modem, top-up when you want. The plans were more desirable when I purchased it, but they're still the best I've found in terms of prepaid.
Worth mentioning this is a great option for mostly-anonymous access, too. You can buy the modem + reload cards at Best Buy (and other stores probably) with cash. No info required.
IANAL - but you can make the same argument for Microsoft or Google - for antitrust cases its seems to be mostly about market share. Once/if apple gets enough market-share then they will get visits from the DOJ too.
Isn't that called price fixing? As I recall, Nintendo has gotten in to hot water for this at least once. I think a manufacturer can set an MSRP, but the seller can sell your item for whatever they want. Can a company choose to not fill orders for businesses that don't play by their rules, or is that some form of discrimination?
this has nothing to do with price fixing - price fixing is an antitrust offense. Like if Dell, HP, and Sony got together in a secret lair and said, "We won't sell any laptops for less than $600. muhaha!" That would be price fixing.
As for your question, yes- there are tons of companies that won't sell product to you on your terms. From Apple only selling 2 iPads per person, to Canon not providing product to unfavored camera stores.
And what if you can't prove it? At one point, for a period of about 6 months, I was unable to get a state ID in either of the states that I lived and worked in, because the state I was born in would not give me a copy of my birth certificate without my already having an ID issued by a state or the federal govt.
Not sure who told you that.. birth certificates are public record. Here's a for-profit private company happy to sell you yours or your family's.
Would be more like 50 cents, assuming the $10/mo rebates mentioned by other commenters is typical for a 1 hour interruption 2-3 times per week. Do you really want to get bothered every couple of days for fifty cents 'profit'?
Nope, I'd say no for 50 cents. I've never been subject to a system like this, but many of the other posters indicated it only gets 'activated' a few times a year. So if they want me to even bother signing up they should probably make it worth my while to go through the hassle of doing the paperwork (none of these utility companies seem to have usable websites.)
However, I suppose one could implement a progressive billing scheme for residential customers where for instance as random numbers, the charge for the first kWh was $0.10 and the charge for the 1000th kWh was $50, the costs listed are for each kWh and not the cost of all 1000 kWh. The a monthly bill for a customer using 100 kWh would ideally be much less than 1/10 of a bill from a home using 1000 kWh.
In summary, I would be willing to take a huge pay cut if my job was to spend 40 hrs/week driving a road grater over the sub-humans who cock-block nuclear power in this country.
If you ever send out a resume/CV, this should be the closing to your cover letter..
Problem being, even if he did have the money to build his own power plant he still would most likely not be able to due to government regulations prohibiting it.
Indeed. Somehow I suspect if I started a co-op with my neighbors and built a natural gas plant, this would not be acceptable to the myriad government agencies.
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If it's methane gas that will otherwise be freed to the atmosphere, it's much better to burn that for fuel than to free it and drill for oil under it. Methane is a much more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, by about 80 times.
parent and his ilk surely know that, but there's no money to be made selling [carbon] credits to the ocean floor now is there?
> "a right-handed user's left hand, for example, can be used for coarse manipulations of objects, while the right can be used for fine manipulation, such as with a pen"
Or you can just plug a second mouse in. People freak out when they see it ("that can't work!") but it does. Just pick two mice with a different number of "mickeys" resolution.
have you found anything that works to have two cursors simultaneously in windows?
So what if it sucks? it's cheap to produce and sells acceptably well. While Sony and Microsoft lost a fortune with their super-duper-powerful machines, Nintendo is profitable all the way. IT PRINTS MONEY!
I think what Nintendo is misjudging is the fact that the control method is a novelty that wears off on many, and the reason that their first-party titles are driving all of the sales is because we are only buying them for the Wii because they are only releasing them for the Wii.
I would have bought New Super Mario Bros. on any platform; it was released for Wii, so it was the only Wii game I bought last year.
You could have just linked to http://ezinearticles.com/?Flash-Vs-HTML5&id=4175699 where you borrowed that from, since your text formatting is on-par with Scribd's..
I assume you have some sort of zoom going on in your browser/OS (or WM?)
Same here---sort of. Old desktop 2.4GHz P4 and scrolling causes 100% CPU usage in Firefox 3.6 which is supposed to have a decent Javascript implementation, but apparently not. I would test with Chrome, but the installer always fails on this machine with a completely useless error message. Don't know why.
That's because it's not necessarily a JavaScript issue, it's a omg-that's-a-lot-of-bad-markup (HTML and CSS) issue. And FireFox is getting more and more bloated with every release. I suspect your browser does similar on giant Slashdot threads, too?
You mean an open standard won out over a proprietary implementation?
Flash is about to be marginalized. It will happen quickly, in much the same way as the open HTML/DOM/Javascript beat out over 20 years of Microsoft "innovations" such as VB and .NOT.
Huh? This is akin to saying Coca Cola beat out Honda..
I'll settle for unruly code if it deprecates and banishes flash... hands down
So it's just a holy war for you, rather than the actual best tool or solution for the job?
That sort of spaghetti markup leads to huge pages, increased CPU load (browsers trying to render and mark up all the tags and mangled CSS), and other ill effects. It's not quite a black & white, "HTML IS BETTER THAN FLASH!" like you want it to be.
Furthermore, I find their "major reason" that HTML5 supports all the major points of the site's previous functionality to be a blatant lie. To give one example - ok, HTML5 supports webfonts... but how exactly are you going to license the fonts from Adobe (or any other font foundry that doesn't give away the font for free)?
That's a big point I hadn't thought of.. are they planning to pirate all of the fonts? Surely their spammy business model doesn't afford them the margins to properly license all of the typefaces. Further, how will they accurately preserve layouts or typesetting? This is something the PDF format does extraordinarily well, it's unfortunate that all of the browser plugins are terrible (at least on Windows, which represents ~90% of their user base.) I admittedly have spent little to no time working with the format on a low level, but at a glance I don't see why PDF can't be rendered in-browser the same way we finally got SVG support..
The battery for the Canon SD1100 is pretty good, it can go for about 1200 no-flash shots with the display turned off, (and thats with the cheap dealextreme knock-off batteries) but the highest rate i can get for timelapse is about 1 shot every 4 seconds-and thats without a break to transmit the image to a computer.
That's very slow.. I don't have an 1100 handy, but consider trying a better-rated SD card. That makes an order-of-magnitude difference in the SLRs, in terms of save speed.
I am not hep to the correlation, but my POTS Virgin phone has piss-poor coverage. The Network has some major holes, which I work around 'cause I don't mind paying $7 a month.
I don't know what you mean by a POTS Virgin phone, but this device is Virgin in name only. They are using the Sprint network.
Market share does not make a monopoly. As long as there are viable choices, there is no monopoly. Once iPhone becomes the only practical choice due to homogeneous lock-in, then the DOJ or EU can step in and apply remedies.
I don't disagree, but the DOJ didn't feel that way about Windows.
um.. I think the point is that since they are gift cards, and you probably won't ask your family/wife/husband/dog for a $25.74 gift card.
25 * $0.99 = $24.75. There's nothing to buy for 25 cents on iTunes, so Apple likely ends up with a @#$@load of unused gift cards with ~25 cents on them. Free money.
And the same thing will happen to the iPad.
The same people who will pay $50-$70 for a pc or console game, or $15/month for a game subscription, won't pay $10 for a phone app. Because of the smaller, crappy screen, crappy sound, crappy controls, the perceived value just isn't there.
Isn't that a bit self-contradicting? People regularly pay $30-40 for DS/PSP/etc games.. how is the iPad any different? Yes, some control mechanisms won't translate well. So some game studios won't be able to port the same codebase they've been pushing to every new portable since Game Gear. Oh noes.
Like who? Handango for example are one of the main resellers of mobile apps for Symbian, Android Blackberry etc. They take 40%.
Not to mention the carriers, if you want to accept payment by SMS billing.. many of them take over 45% at the bottom end. This purely for payment processing, no other services. They also hold your funds for 90-180 days, and likely earn interest on it all the while.
The progressive left is not in favor of state censorship of ideas they oppose, therefore, you will not be able to provide a single example to back up your outrageous claim. But thanks for playing 'False Equivalency,' and here's a copy of our home game as a consolation prize.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine#Support
In June 2007, Senator Richard Durbin (D-Illinois) said, "It’s time to reinstitute the Fairness Doctrine,” [22] an opinion shared by his Democratic colleague, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts.
. . .
On June 24, 2008, U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco, California (who had been elected Speaker of the House in January 2007) told reporters that her fellow Democratic Representatives did not want to forbid reintroduction of the Fairness Doctrine, adding "the interest in my caucus is the reverse." When asked by John Gizzi of Human Events, "Do you personally support revival of the 'Fairness Doctrine?'", the Speaker replied "Yes."
. . .
A week later, on February 11, 2009, Senator Tom Harkin (Democrat of Iowa) told Press, "...we gotta get the Fairness Doctrine back in law again." Later in response to Press's assertion that "...they are just shutting down progressive talk from one city after another," Senator Harkin responded, "Exactly, and that's why we need the fair — that's why we need the Fairness Doctrine back."
. . .
Former President Bill Clinton has also shown support for the Fairness Doctrine. During a February 13, 2009, appearance on the Mario Solis Marich radio show, Clinton said:
“ Well, you either ought to have the Fairness Doctrine or we ought to have more balance on the other side, because essentially there's always been a lot of big money to support the right wing talk shows.
do you need my mailing address, for that prize thingy?
I already advise some other countries.
Don't worry, we'll export our policies to those renegades in no time. :)
Does anyone know a good pre-pade type 3G data provider?
http://www.virginmobileusa.com/mobile-broadband
Uses the Sprint network.. you buy the $100 modem, top-up when you want. The plans were more desirable when I purchased it, but they're still the best I've found in terms of prepaid.
Worth mentioning this is a great option for mostly-anonymous access, too. You can buy the modem + reload cards at Best Buy (and other stores probably) with cash. No info required.
IANAL - but you can make the same argument for Microsoft or Google - for antitrust cases its seems to be mostly about market share. Once/if apple gets enough market-share then they will get visits from the DOJ too.
lol.. Steve may come to regret this little brag, in that case: http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/04/iphone-os-4-0096-rm-eng.jpg
Isn't that called price fixing? As I recall, Nintendo has gotten in to hot water for this at least once. I think a manufacturer can set an MSRP, but the seller can sell your item for whatever they want. Can a company choose to not fill orders for businesses that don't play by their rules, or is that some form of discrimination?
this has nothing to do with price fixing - price fixing is an antitrust offense. Like if Dell, HP, and Sony got together in a secret lair and said, "We won't sell any laptops for less than $600. muhaha!" That would be price fixing.
As for your question, yes- there are tons of companies that won't sell product to you on your terms. From Apple only selling 2 iPads per person, to Canon not providing product to unfavored camera stores.
And what if you can't prove it? At one point, for a period of about 6 months, I was unable to get a state ID in either of the states that I lived and worked in, because the state I was born in would not give me a copy of my birth certificate without my already having an ID issued by a state or the federal govt.
Not sure who told you that.. birth certificates are public record. Here's a for-profit private company happy to sell you yours or your family's.
Would be more like 50 cents, assuming the $10/mo rebates mentioned by other commenters is typical for a 1 hour interruption 2-3 times per week. Do you really want to get bothered every couple of days for fifty cents 'profit'?
Nope, I'd say no for 50 cents. I've never been subject to a system like this, but many of the other posters indicated it only gets 'activated' a few times a year. So if they want me to even bother signing up they should probably make it worth my while to go through the hassle of doing the paperwork (none of these utility companies seem to have usable websites.)
However, I suppose one could implement a progressive billing scheme for residential customers where for instance as random numbers, the charge for the first kWh was $0.10 and the charge for the 1000th kWh was $50, the costs listed are for each kWh and not the cost of all 1000 kWh. The a monthly bill for a customer using 100 kWh would ideally be much less than 1/10 of a bill from a home using 1000 kWh.
This is precisely how SoCal Edison bills.. http://www.sce.com/customerservice/billing/tiered-rates/
In summary, I would be willing to take a huge pay cut if my job was to spend 40 hrs/week driving a road grater over the sub-humans who cock-block nuclear power in this country.
If you ever send out a resume/CV, this should be the closing to your cover letter..
Problem being, even if he did have the money to build his own power plant he still would most likely not be able to due to government regulations prohibiting it.
Indeed. Somehow I suspect if I started a co-op with my neighbors and built a natural gas plant, this would not be acceptable to the myriad government agencies.