well yes that was extreme, but you could start the insane taxes at about 66- 75% market share as the idea being that consumers can only get hurt by a company controlling that much. And in economics you do learn that monopolies are bad, they dont serve the economy well. Economist know that society gets the best value when there are many competitors for a given output.
Economics is not about the betterment of the few but the betterment of the whole. In most cases a monopoly doesnt benefit the whole. In some it does. Those are usually natural monopolies, such as utilities and governments.
If you had multiple electric wres coming into your home from different vendors then your energy prices would sky rocket because in order for the companies to all compete they would need to all build wires to all the homes.
Since one of the biggest worries about going to mars is all the things that go wrong with your body, why don't we do a year long test flight in a very large orbit around the earth-moon system for a year or so. Close enough so if something goes wrong the crew can return to earth within days.
Perhaps at the end of 6 months they would land on the moon, do some science/exploring, then with the obiter now orbiting the moon only, return to it, and once again simulate the 6 month flight back to earth by going around in a huge orbit.
The orbit would be far enough out to have no protection from earth's magnetic field.
but that is purely inside the RR network, on the net im only getting near 300
LOWER TEST
Roadrunner Bandwidth Results Loaded 1858812 bytes in 5.344 seconds. Your throughput is: 2783 Kb/s (kiloBITS per second) 348 KB/s (kiloBYTES per second)
Communications 2.6 megabits per second Storage 321.6 kilobytes per second 1MB file download 3.2 seconds Subjective rating Great
Info Date & time Friday, April 2, 5:06PM* Test type IDT4 Free Connection type Cable Region Texas Data size 605KB IP address 24.243.***.**:-p Provider ROADRUNNER-SOUTHWEST
Actually the video game business is pretty undecided about whether your last point is good or not.
Most of the revenue comes from game licenses, not from hardware sales, but huge hardware ssales (possibly spurred by GB emulation) would mean more developers wanting to sign up.
Personally I think the emulation thing is a good idea. Assuming it requires a cart, and not that you can download the GB roms to the PSP from the internet...if that were the case sony would absolutely love it, they get more hardware out the dor, nintenedo loses money... it would be awsome for them.
And on the other hand, some video game companies have been against legit emulators (sony vs DreamCast PS1 emulator...forgot the name of the product) for some unknown reasons...since they would only be making more money off of the licenses for the games...
Isnt the biggest problem on mars its lack of sufficient gravity?
The only way we will ever be able to terraform mars, is if we are able to somehow increae the Mass of mars without increasing it's volume very much, making its surface gravity get closer and closer to earth's. how do we do this, well ram lots and lots of asteroids into mars over the course of several centuries, perhaps even thousands of years.
They must be small enough to not cause a ton of debri to be flung from mars but big enough to start making a difference, and they must come from the right direction to no ruin mars' orbit.
Now unless we get some seriously more powerful explosives, moving asteroids/comets is going to be hard. So you will have to slowly alter their orbits (thou as fast as possible using explosives and/or space tugs which ever is best)around the sun until they form a collision course.
Then, once you have enough gravity to sustain an atmosphere and so our bones dont go to shit when we live there, that is when we can begin to turn mars into earth 2.
thank you, I am an American and I dont always agree wiht what my government does, and I voted in the first election i was allowed to do it in,and I will also in november.
But all the stupid american bashing is rediculous. You never hear Americans truely complaining about other countries. We have jokes about Canadians as just wanting to be like us, and the french being automatic surrenderers, the british as quirky. But none of it is mean spirited.
Unlike all the anti American hatred around the world.
On the one hand I like the idea of knowing the money trail for politicians. On the otherhand I could see this being used to ostracise people...in certain communities.
I think a balance would be to set a limit on who gets listed, maybe donations more than 250 bucks or something. im assuming it costs atleast that to get some sway.
I don't think that people shoudl be fined to death. But issuing a small fine 5-100 dollars (similar to traffic violations) + a mandatory class on computer security/safety/literacy and what not.
At the end of this course a student should be givena computer infected wiht a few viruses/malware/adware and have to remove them by obtaining and using tools available on the internet.
This is a some what good solution.
The only problem I see is who does the money go to?
I guess it might pay for the class or something.Who would provide the class? leave it up to private business just like defensive driving is.
"Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)" - Ambrose Bierce
It looks as though the person you quoted merely copy and pasted some words without the use of latin grammer
if your translation were to be correct, the phrase would have to be "Cogito me cogitare ergo cogito esse"
this is because the "I think that..." is an indirect statement construction that requires infinitive verbs and accusative subjects(the me).:-) ok now mod me down off topic...
"If anybody knows of a way to get a Windows box to route based on ports, I'd love to hear it."
Do you mean using Internet connection sharing?
If you click on the properties of the network connection you are sharing you can route ports (individual ones only unfortunately) to specific IP's on your lan. or even their computer name.
Ive used it, its works, the only problem is when you have port ranges greater than...oh say 2 that you want to forward, then its a bitch to do them all manually.
I've got emails announcing replies to my posts, so just ask any questions here.
a plumbing job is a few years down the road... there are mandatory licensing and aprenticeships, and that means lots of hand and can draining of a hole full of sewage to find a broken pipe kinda work. It pays well because it is a shitty ass job that not alot of people know hot to do, and there is tons of demand.
Plumber treat their understudies like the bitches they know they are. I've talked to them while they work on my home and neighbors, whenever you ask about the shit work they point to the guy who is working below them.
im not quite sure if telling a teenager to throw his money into the stock market is very good advice. The stock market can make you lots of money, but you have to know what you are doing. When you say research and and make soem picks, he would have to be doing that every night.
That is a level of discipline most HS dont have. Plus, what about trading fees? Most online trading companies like E-trade charge you a fee per buy/sell I thought. Correct me if I'm wrong.
actually in my experience, girls tend to read into the word "matter" as it is very important, when what a person usually means when they are asking is "does it make a difference?" and the answer to that question is usually yes, the answer to the first question (is it very important?) is usually no.
Not on ground of religion, morals or what not, but on scientific grounds.
Cross breeding, whether successful or not, creates another way for diseases to jump species.
If living in close quarters with animal excretions opens the whole world up to terrible respiratory problems, (SARS, bird flu, 1918 flu) imagine how much worse a direct injection of infested semen would do?
SARS most definitely came from animals in China, same with the bird flu. HIV is thought to have come from monkeys, and since the only way it is transferred is through bodily fluids that leaves blood and sexual contact as the only means of delivery.
There are diseases in pigs that could very easily be mutated slightly and be viable in humans. This is one of the big fears slowing the use of pig organs as helper organs for disease people while waiting for a transplant.
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I believe the cable argument, I dont believe the power argument... Can I read about this somewhere? (online)
well yes that was extreme, but you could start the insane taxes at about 66- 75% market share as the idea being that consumers can only get hurt by a company controlling that much. And in economics you do learn that monopolies are bad, they dont serve the economy well. Economist know that society gets the best value when there are many competitors for a given output.
Economics is not about the betterment of the few but the betterment of the whole. In most cases a monopoly doesnt benefit the whole. In some it does. Those are usually natural monopolies, such as utilities and governments.
If you had multiple electric wres coming into your home from different vendors then your energy prices would sky rocket because in order for the companies to all compete they would need to all build wires to all the homes.
So it is better to have a regulated monopoly.
Since one of the biggest worries about going to mars is all the things that go wrong with your body, why don't we do a year long test flight in a very large orbit around the earth-moon system for a year or so. Close enough so if something goes wrong the crew can return to earth within days.
Perhaps at the end of 6 months they would land on the moon, do some science/exploring, then with the obiter now orbiting the moon only, return to it, and once again simulate the 6 month flight back to earth by going around in a huge orbit.
The orbit would be far enough out to have no protection from earth's magnetic field.
thank you for reminding me :-p
LOL when was the last time you wrote to a floppy or CD over 1000 times... and the real floppy killer is USB flash/pen/key/whatever drives.
In SA I was only getting near 300KB/S same here in Austin. on RR.
:-p
yes you capitalize the b for god's sake..
if you got 300 Kbps I would laugh at you
B = byte, b = bit
Anyways, the point is that I think RR is one of the best cable internet companies, they actually give the speeds they quote.
Due to an awsome rent agreementI jsut signed I'm thinking of upgrading to homebusiness clas RR, 3-4 mbps!!!! w00t and 768 up, awsome.
Using the rr speed tests here
SATX RR speed tests (anyone can use these tests, try out your speed.
HIGHER TEST
Your line speed:
3185 Kbps
390.3 K bytes/sec
but that is purely inside the RR network, on the net im only getting near 300
LOWER TEST
Roadrunner Bandwidth Results
Loaded 1858812 bytes in 5.344 seconds.
Your throughput is:
2783 Kb/s (kiloBITS per second)
348 KB/s (kiloBYTES per second)
also here is another. bandwidthplace speed test
My results from there
Speed
2.6 megabits per second
Communications 2.6 megabits per second
Storage 321.6 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 3.2 seconds
Subjective rating Great
Info
Date & time Friday, April 2, 5:06PM*
Test type IDT4 Free
Connection type Cable
Region Texas
Data size 605KB
IP address 24.243.***.**
Provider ROADRUNNER-SOUTHWEST
Actually the video game business is pretty undecided about whether your last point is good or not.
Most of the revenue comes from game licenses, not from hardware sales, but huge hardware ssales (possibly spurred by GB emulation) would mean more developers wanting to sign up.
Personally I think the emulation thing is a good idea. Assuming it requires a cart, and not that you can download the GB roms to the PSP from the internet...if that were the case sony would absolutely love it, they get more hardware out the dor, nintenedo loses money... it would be awsome for them.
And on the other hand, some video game companies have been against legit emulators (sony vs DreamCast PS1 emulator...forgot the name of the product) for some unknown reasons...since they would only be making more money off of the licenses for the games...
Complicated business this is.
if i remember correctly you could find chainsaw..but not gas...
Meteors, mad scientists, girlfriend rescuing, meteor police, tentacles, dungeons...it had it all.
Man I loved that game.
Isnt the biggest problem on mars its lack of sufficient gravity?
The only way we will ever be able to terraform mars, is if we are able to somehow increae the Mass of mars without increasing it's volume very much, making its surface gravity get closer and closer to earth's. how do we do this, well ram lots and lots of asteroids into mars over the course of several centuries, perhaps even thousands of years.
They must be small enough to not cause a ton of debri to be flung from mars but big enough to start making a difference, and they must come from the right direction to no ruin mars' orbit.
Now unless we get some seriously more powerful explosives, moving asteroids/comets is going to be hard. So you will have to slowly alter their orbits (thou as fast as possible using explosives and/or space tugs which ever is best)around the sun until they form a collision course.
Then, once you have enough gravity to sustain an atmosphere and so our bones dont go to shit when we live there, that is when we can begin to turn mars into earth 2.
thank you, I am an American and I dont always agree wiht what my government does, and I voted in the first election i was allowed to do it in,and I will also in november.
But all the stupid american bashing is rediculous. You never hear Americans truely complaining about other countries. We have jokes about Canadians as just wanting to be like us, and the french being automatic surrenderers, the british as quirky. But none of it is mean spirited.
Unlike all the anti American hatred around the world.
On the one hand I like the idea of knowing the money trail for politicians. On the otherhand I could see this being used to ostracise people...in certain communities.
I think a balance would be to set a limit on who gets listed, maybe donations more than 250 bucks or something. im assuming it costs atleast that to get some sway.
2nd world is post communist countries.
I think...
I don't think that people shoudl be fined to death. But issuing a small fine 5-100 dollars (similar to traffic violations) + a mandatory class on computer security/safety/literacy and what not.
At the end of this course a student should be givena computer infected wiht a few viruses/malware/adware and have to remove them by obtaining and using tools available on the internet.
This is a some what good solution.
The only problem I see is who does the money go to?
I guess it might pay for the class or something.Who would provide the class? leave it up to private business just like defensive driving is.
Sweet my knowledge of latin is almost useful...
:-) ok now mod me down off topic ...
"Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)"
- Ambrose Bierce
It looks as though the person you quoted merely copy and pasted some words without the use of latin grammer
if your translation were to be correct, the phrase would have to be "Cogito me cogitare ergo cogito esse"
this is because the "I think that..." is an indirect statement construction that requires infinitive verbs and accusative subjects(the me).
hmm, yeah i figured i was misreading it. oh well.
"If anybody knows of a way to get a Windows box to route based on ports, I'd love to hear it."
Do you mean using Internet connection sharing?
If you click on the properties of the network connection you are sharing you can route ports (individual ones only unfortunately) to specific IP's on your lan. or even their computer name.
Ive used it, its works, the only problem is when you have port ranges greater than...oh say 2 that you want to forward, then its a bitch to do them all manually.
I've got emails announcing replies to my posts, so just ask any questions here.
a plumbing job is a few years down the road... there are mandatory licensing and aprenticeships, and that means lots of hand and can draining of a hole full of sewage to find a broken pipe kinda work. It pays well because it is a shitty ass job that not alot of people know hot to do, and there is tons of demand.
Plumber treat their understudies like the bitches they know they are. I've talked to them while they work on my home and neighbors, whenever you ask about the shit work they point to the guy who is working below them.
you can use other clients that let you limit your upload so you dont kill your connection.
http://www.bittornado.com/
im not quite sure if telling a teenager to throw his money into the stock market is very good advice. The stock market can make you lots of money, but you have to know what you are doing. When you say research and and make soem picks, he would have to be doing that every night.
That is a level of discipline most HS dont have. Plus, what about trading fees? Most online trading companies like E-trade charge you a fee per buy/sell I thought. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Has one each semester...
not sure about the slashdot proness of this website, so copy paste, no click for you!
http://siglinux.utacm.org/
windows XP + soundblaster live had some difficulties, there was a simple work around, but I remember it being a problem on my previous computer.
actually in my experience, girls tend to read into the word "matter" as it is very important, when what a person usually means when they are asking is "does it make a difference?" and the answer to that question is usually yes, the answer to the first question (is it very important?) is usually no.
Not on ground of religion, morals or what not, but on scientific grounds.
Cross breeding, whether successful or not, creates another way for diseases to jump species.
If living in close quarters with animal excretions opens the whole world up to terrible respiratory problems, (SARS, bird flu, 1918 flu) imagine how much worse a direct injection of infested semen would do?
SARS most definitely came from animals in China, same with the bird flu. HIV is thought to have come from monkeys, and since the only way it is transferred is through bodily fluids that leaves blood and sexual contact as the only means of delivery.
There are diseases in pigs that could very easily be mutated slightly and be viable in humans. This is one of the big fears slowing the use of pig organs as helper organs for disease people while waiting for a transplant.
html...arg
plus I still dont see why slashdot doesn't turn URLs into link automatically.