Literally. I know a few library workers here, and they routinely complain about having to tell the man in the trenchcoat to stop stroking the monkey to farm pics. It gets worse when they do this next to the computer their children are using.
For the confused, this is Seinfeld when Jerry was taping movies. He taped "Cry, Cry Again" and the end was cut off and replaced by Elain's spaz-dancing. Just before the end, you cry to the movie, then you cry again to the dancing.
Actually, there is CanJet, WestJet, Air Transat, JetsGo, Zoom, and possibly a few others. The difference is that Air Canada is really the only internation business airline in Canada, the others being national business or vacation-charter type.
Non-Canadian airlines will fly in and out of Canadian cities, but there are a bunch of regulations preventing them from being true competition for Air Canada. For instance, Delta can't fly from Toronto to Vancouver to Tokyo. We have to fly from Toronto to Chicago to Tokyo instead. Something like that, as I understand it.
In any case, some of the smaller airlines (like Air Transat) have been constantly growing and adding new routes, but it takes a while.
It's about time I heard someone mention this. You call it tax, I'll call it renting from the government. Either way, it will be a source of income for the government, and a way for them to remove all the double & triple taxation methods they have on everything we do.
Get rid of the regulations first and see what happens. Do you think that your Politicians have enough insight into market economics to make decisions about how it should behave?
For example, I can't get my favourite box of mozzasticks in Canada right now because my government is retaliating against the US for something equally trivial, whether it be restrictions, subsidies, or tariffs. In the end, it's detrimental to everyone. Regulations allow and encourage corruption for the benefit of the regulators and the lazy, one in the same.
Volume discounts are good. That's what we want as consumers. Empires are able to provide that. Regulations are not helping.
We don't live in a world any different than Adam Smith's, though we like to think so. It's tax season. Where did your money go this time?
Flamebait or Joke? I can never tell the difference. Definitely not insightful.
It would be very hard to visit relatives in Europe from my home in North America on a bike. Nice try though. You have some very hip opinions. Try it when you live in a climate with ice and snow 6 months of the year. Die-hards will venture out on their bikes, but fighting the traffic is bad enough when my tires actually do have traction.
Of course, if all we had were bikes, you might use walking as your next anti-progress measure. Not that either walking or biking is bad, but there's a time for scenary and a time for lightning-fast trans-ocean travel. The article is about improving the lightning-fast travel, and your rhetoric improves nothing.
I for one want a cheap, fast, and low-burden method of travelling anywhere in the world. I don't want to pay $2000 for a 10-hour flight that requires an extra 3-5 hours for airport overhead. There's nothing better right now, and that's why people are trying to improve it.
Please don't bring books and intellectual property into this. Of the $40 for a new hardcover, you're paying about $3-5 for the author. The rest goes to the publisher for actually printing the book with good paper, good ink, etc.., and shipping the books to the bookstores and so forth.
The reason people download music and not books is that it is cheaper and easier to download and burn to a CD. If you buy a hardcover for $40, you're paying $35 for the medium, not the content.
With peer to peer, the medium has been made enormously cheap. Why are we paying $.99 for a track (equivalent to store prices) when their distribution costs are all but eliminated (bandwidth + servers are much cheaper than stores, staff, shipping, and packaging).
Not only that, but we're not dead yet, despite the Clorox/Lysol warnings. Maybe there's germs, but so what? In most people it's helpful for building a strong immune system.
Maybe you're missing the context. In the past month, there's been scandals all over the Canadian news about the mismanagement of money. Take a look at this story which sums up some of the latest and greatest.
This doesn't even go into the problems discovered with expense accounts etc.
So "In all of this..." may be referring to both this new HP revelation as well as other recent news that was not Slashdot-worthy (having nothing to do with nerd's news).
I don't need to assert my masculinity with a fast&furious Dodge Neon. I want a car that I can get in and drive. Does it need gas? Fine. Does it need washer fluid? Fine. Oil change? Give me an easy-to-access location for removing the old and adding the new. Point being, I just want it to work.
This is the same with computers. I program them for a living, but when I want to use one, I just want to use it. I don't want to have to troubleshoot it every day. I don't want to have to wait 10 minutes for a reboot. I don't want to have to install patches 5 times a week. I want to turn it on like a TV and play a game. If I need more space, give me a (literally) plug&play harddrive that's no more complex than a flash card. I don't want to open the case and muck around with IDE cables and jumper settings.
You still haven't enlightened me though. I do realize that I simplified the scenario, but blatent uprising against patents because one news report was misleading is not justified. You need to find the patent and decide then whether this is a patent on a material or a procedure.
If people are including nanotubes in their products because of work these guy did, then let them enforce their patent. If you came up with a better stainless steel, wouldn't you want to patent the method so the big companies couldn't make profits based on your work? Without patents, you would keep the secret to yourself and have to start up your own steel company to profit from it. With patents, you can sell the idea to companies who want to make money from it.
It all depends on the actual patent(s) which there was no link to, or even description of.
Essentially we agree. This could be valid, but it depends on what the patent is actually on. The process or the tubes? I'm assuming the process, but we've seen some bad patents before.
They are working on a plan to allow other companies to use their technology. This is what the patent is. I agree that many modern patents are crap, but since I can't read this one, I'm going to give their press-release the benefit of the doubt.
This company spent loads of research money and invented a new material. They published their results and patented the procedure. Now, for a limited period, they get to make their money back by selling the right to use it.
It's easy for you to say "money ain't everything" when you didn't invest millions into an invention that others want to use for free.
It wasn't exceptional, but it was perfectly cromulent for a made-for-tv movie. This ties into this discussion as well because Christopher Lee is in it.
I had no graphics problems with U9 on my Geforce 2 MX, but it was U8 that looked horrible. Maybe because I didn't have much of a card on the machine I used, but the fact that it looked *much* worse than U7 was a sign of things gone wrong.
Look at MacDonalds and Coca-Cola. They make their fortunes from the poor, and both products can be considered luxeries. So,
1. Most the of the world's population is poor.
2. More market share equals more profit (ideally).
Therefore, if you make a product cheap enough for the poor, you get potential access to 100% of the market, instead of just the 20% at the top for instance.
I'm sure this guy was selfish and thinking about nothing but his potential profits when he came up with this, but nobody likes to hear that because we know nothing good comes from selfishness right? So lets all go on deluding ourselves that his only motivation was helping people, because that's the only way good inventions get made. Otherwise evil ensues.
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There are books is a library? Cool! Since when?
For the confused, this is Seinfeld when Jerry was taping movies. He taped "Cry, Cry Again" and the end was cut off and replaced by Elain's spaz-dancing. Just before the end, you cry to the movie, then you cry again to the dancing.
Non-Canadian airlines will fly in and out of Canadian cities, but there are a bunch of regulations preventing them from being true competition for Air Canada. For instance, Delta can't fly from Toronto to Vancouver to Tokyo. We have to fly from Toronto to Chicago to Tokyo instead. Something like that, as I understand it.
In any case, some of the smaller airlines (like Air Transat) have been constantly growing and adding new routes, but it takes a while.
Then what would we have to give this guy?
It's about time I heard someone mention this. You call it tax, I'll call it renting from the government. Either way, it will be a source of income for the government, and a way for them to remove all the double & triple taxation methods they have on everything we do.
For example, I can't get my favourite box of mozzasticks in Canada right now because my government is retaliating against the US for something equally trivial, whether it be restrictions, subsidies, or tariffs. In the end, it's detrimental to everyone. Regulations allow and encourage corruption for the benefit of the regulators and the lazy, one in the same.
Volume discounts are good. That's what we want as consumers. Empires are able to provide that. Regulations are not helping.
We don't live in a world any different than Adam Smith's, though we like to think so. It's tax season. Where did your money go this time?
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There's also some books being sold on the major websites like Amazon.
It would be very hard to visit relatives in Europe from my home in North America on a bike. Nice try though. You have some very hip opinions. Try it when you live in a climate with ice and snow 6 months of the year. Die-hards will venture out on their bikes, but fighting the traffic is bad enough when my tires actually do have traction.
Of course, if all we had were bikes, you might use walking as your next anti-progress measure. Not that either walking or biking is bad, but there's a time for scenary and a time for lightning-fast trans-ocean travel. The article is about improving the lightning-fast travel, and your rhetoric improves nothing.
I for one want a cheap, fast, and low-burden method of travelling anywhere in the world. I don't want to pay $2000 for a 10-hour flight that requires an extra 3-5 hours for airport overhead. There's nothing better right now, and that's why people are trying to improve it.
OpenGL.
I've never used this, but I've heard about it for a while now.
The reason people download music and not books is that it is cheaper and easier to download and burn to a CD. If you buy a hardcover for $40, you're paying $35 for the medium, not the content.
With peer to peer, the medium has been made enormously cheap. Why are we paying $.99 for a track (equivalent to store prices) when their distribution costs are all but eliminated (bandwidth + servers are much cheaper than stores, staff, shipping, and packaging).
Not only that, but we're not dead yet, despite the Clorox/Lysol warnings. Maybe there's germs, but so what? In most people it's helpful for building a strong immune system.
Go here for some fun tips.
If there's electricity in the water when you clean it, then you forgot to unplug it, and your computer is too close to water anyway.
This doesn't even go into the problems discovered with expense accounts etc.
So "In all of this..." may be referring to both this new HP revelation as well as other recent news that was not Slashdot-worthy (having nothing to do with nerd's news).
Forget the window, they have Clippy!
Designed for Women.
I don't need to assert my masculinity with a fast&furious Dodge Neon. I want a car that I can get in and drive. Does it need gas? Fine. Does it need washer fluid? Fine. Oil change? Give me an easy-to-access location for removing the old and adding the new. Point being, I just want it to work.
This is the same with computers. I program them for a living, but when I want to use one, I just want to use it. I don't want to have to troubleshoot it every day. I don't want to have to wait 10 minutes for a reboot. I don't want to have to install patches 5 times a week. I want to turn it on like a TV and play a game. If I need more space, give me a (literally) plug&play harddrive that's no more complex than a flash card. I don't want to open the case and muck around with IDE cables and jumper settings.
Ok. Enough ranting. I'll go back to work.
The "offending" artist actually credited the original composer for the silence. Go figure they wanted their cut of royalties.
I'm a member of the no-copyright crowd, but while in the realm of copyright this story makes sense.
If people are including nanotubes in their products because of work these guy did, then let them enforce their patent. If you came up with a better stainless steel, wouldn't you want to patent the method so the big companies couldn't make profits based on your work? Without patents, you would keep the secret to yourself and have to start up your own steel company to profit from it. With patents, you can sell the idea to companies who want to make money from it.
It all depends on the actual patent(s) which there was no link to, or even description of.
Essentially we agree. This could be valid, but it depends on what the patent is actually on. The process or the tubes? I'm assuming the process, but we've seen some bad patents before.
This company spent loads of research money and invented a new material. They published their results and patented the procedure. Now, for a limited period, they get to make their money back by selling the right to use it.
It's easy for you to say "money ain't everything" when you didn't invest millions into an invention that others want to use for free.
It wasn't exceptional, but it was perfectly cromulent for a made-for-tv movie. This ties into this discussion as well because Christopher Lee is in it.
Cheers.
I had no graphics problems with U9 on my Geforce 2 MX, but it was U8 that looked horrible. Maybe because I didn't have much of a card on the machine I used, but the fact that it looked *much* worse than U7 was a sign of things gone wrong.
U9 looked fine, but it felt stale and boring. Tomb Raider in Ultima land, without the excitement of Tomb Raider.
The party system was half the fun in the earlier Ultimas. You had to make leadership decisions on the fly for your team.
1. Most the of the world's population is poor.
2. More market share equals more profit (ideally).
Therefore, if you make a product cheap enough for the poor, you get potential access to 100% of the market, instead of just the 20% at the top for instance. I'm sure this guy was selfish and thinking about nothing but his potential profits when he came up with this, but nobody likes to hear that because we know nothing good comes from selfishness right? So lets all go on deluding ourselves that his only motivation was helping people, because that's the only way good inventions get made. Otherwise evil ensues.