Because the cost difference between producing 1 song and a full album is pretty much 0, but you can sell people all the songs on the CD for $10 instead of $1.
So by 'selling' 10 songs instead of 1, without any real additional cost of goods, they can make 10x the profit.
Really think about it, how much does it ACTUALLY cost to produce a CD... I don't mean how much Hollywood Accounting makes it appear to cost, I mean how much does it really cost? Even with expensive employees you're still only talking 10-20k per CD, the artists get spanked because the put the most work into it. After it hits the part where the record companies ACTUALLY do some work, theres not much left to do. The equipment costs are paid for with the first artist that makes number one for them, so its not like you can count that.
You do realize that the shopping channels and most of the religious channels are paying your cable company to carry them rather than getting paid by your cable company. You'll have those channels for free for ever.
Pardon the ignorance but this seems so simple to me, what am I missing?
The problem in these reactors is that they are overheating, steaming, and venting in one way or another due to over heating because they can't power the pumps for the cooling systems to pump away the waste heat generated from decay and various residual things, right?
So if they have enough heat energy in them to melt down, why exactly do they not run their own generators enough to power cooling? I just don't get how a power plant can run out of power... and then have a problem with too much power and no way to dump it.
It really seems like the solution to the problem is the problem itself. Okay so maybe you can't spin massive turbines for power generation, but theres no way you can't have a smaller secondary system that can run off the waste heat and no external power.
How can you have so much pressure that you're containment vessel is going to pop, but not enough to power the generators? I mean shit, have a secondary turbine powered directly off primary containment thats normally sealed off for the sole purpose of emergency cooling as a last ditch effort knowing the reactor will never be used again kind of thing, you don't have to worry about problems maintaining this emergency turbine due to radiation cause by the time you get to that stage you've accepted the reactor is done and you're trying to lessen the amount of cleanup you have to do, you're past the point of trying to prevent it.
I realize that I'm not coming up with new ideas or anything here, so whats wrong with doing these things, why don't reactors have this already?
No, they would have been safe if it was a smaller quake.
It was designed for a smaller quake, no one expected on that large at that location, they thought they were well over designing actually, turns out Earth had a different plan.
It actually came REALLY close to dealing with the situation anyway. It actually performed well above what was expected.
If the tsunami had come 1 month later, 2 of the reactors that leaked would have been shut down as they were literally weeks away from being decommissioned to their age.
I highly suggest you do a query of slashdot user profile preferences, count the number of people who have bothered to high a particular editor from the front page. The two guys with the highest numbers on that list ( which I'm fairly certain you'll find that timothy is first and kdawson is second ) and don't let them do post to the front page or do stuff like this.
Seriously guys, this isn't rocket science, do you guys REALLY have no clue or are you trying to fail intentionally by putting the worst people on it?
Done right it's cool, but apparently Slashdot's first videos have struggled a little.
Emerging? TV isn't new, thats all this is. Slashdot's video will continue to struggle, if we came here for video, we'd be watching the news, not these douche bags expel hot air. Just because you get it on demand doesnt' make it different.
The news types like it because the "content" is almost un-copyable as is; it's like Talking Head DRM. It also traps the viewer who can't use any active reading skills on it.
Its about as un-copyable as websites that disable right click, its trivial to work around if you have a clue, and works great for the content producer if you don't, this is pretty much the same in both forms of media, the difference is that most people who have embraced the Internet earlier did it because they weren't okay with the old way of doing things. These are just people trying to bring the old 'we control everything!' style of publishing to the Internet, and slashdot is learning that it doesn't work here.
Meanwhile on Chessbase the new hotness is chess videos. While I haven't bought one, if it didn't come with additional actual raw games & annotations, then the video itself for some $60 would be a total rip-off. It's a way to double your price tag at 1/100th of the content.
There is something seriously fucking wrong with you if you're talking about paying $60 for a chess video ANYWHERE.
Others are stuck in some 90's mentality of "ooh, let's leverage our Multimedia!"
Yes, pretty much everyone who is doing it is still stuck in that mentality. The big studios don't want your video, its unlikely you're that 1 in a million person who they actually made a mistake on. Just because you CAN publish on the Internet doesn't mean you're any good at it or that anyone enjoys it. The Internet doesn't stop you from doing shitty work. Again, just because they figured out how to publish on the Internet doesn't mean they should.
ISP's like it because it jacks up bandwidth use right into their bandwidth caps.
... so let me get this straight... ISPs complain about bandwidth usage, so they start adding caps to plans to prevent people from using as much bandwidth... but they are happy that people use a bunch of bandwidth and get to their caps, even though most of them just throttle you down and don't have an option for buying more bandwidth? Thats pretty stupid logic. They'd prefer you use as little bandwidth as possible so they can add on more accounts to the existing upstream they have. They want you to use more of their resources without any way to increase their revenue... yea, thats what they're doing... they don't care about making record profits so they can pad their own pockets or anything.
You pretty much got everything backwards in your post, good job.
Have you actually done any work with Unicode? Supporting UTF8 isn't just drop in and it works, it takes actual effort to make things better instead of worse when people start using UTF8 to work around various filters and other things. Its rather trivial with UTF to have a browser interpret one thing while the user sees something else in the URL bar that looks proper.
On a site that allows user submissions to go public nearly instantly, introducing UTF8 into a code base of this size (even in perl) is a non-trivial task that will have unforeseen side effects without a doubt. Expanding your character set from 256 characters to roughly 32k currently known glyphs which can expand at any time and you'll likely need updates to deal with those new glyphs for comparison purposes anyway. Remember there are lots of different UTF8 sequences that represent the exact same printed character.
Your comment leads me to think you've not actually had to deal with UTF8 in practice, only in theory, or when someone else did the work for you. Microsoft has fucked up UTF8 parsing multiple times resulting in security implications, do you REALLY think the tards left running slashdot can do better?
So then it comes down to, is it worth the risk so you can use a symbol instead of saying Euro? And that answer is simply, no, it isn't. This shouldn't surprise you a bit, if it was going to happen it would have been while CmdrTaco was around, but now days these guys are just a bunch of money grubbing whores he try to act like their 'corporate overlords' make them do stuff they don't want to when in reality they do whatever they're told because they have EVEN LESS of a clue about running the site than those 'corporate overlords' they pretend direct them to do these things.
I hope Taco got a fortune out of slashdot cause he quit way to quietly.
1) Someone wants new toys to play with and has figured out a way to get the company to pay for it. 2) Some moron thinks they can sell more video slashvertisments than normal ones. 3) They're about to go bankrupt and are grabbing at straws for anything they can to save the sinking ship.
$200 over the cost of the model you want to fly it in, which you could probably safely get buy at $400 total for aircraft and one of the prebuilt IMUs.
You'd need other support equipment, probably $600 total for a model capable of flying itself.
And russia fell apart, and theres nothing preventing us from doing that kind of research WITHOUT Russia as a threat, in which case we could have focused that energy on more efficient places for normal life instead of wars.
It wasn't a good war, it was a good focal point, we didnt' really 'win' in the deal, Russia just got fucked.
If we would have 'won' we'd not be disassembling nuclear bombs to fuel reactors, we'd just be fueling more of the reactors that weren't going to melt down because we focused on THAT kind of research and development instead of making big ass craters in the desert.
Any intelligent person has known the Noble prize has been a fraud for years, its just as much politics as anything else. While he may have been deserving, pretending that having the Noble proves he is deserving is just fucking retarded.
Not arguing with anything else in your post, simply that using the Noble as a reference is pretty fucking stupid, and even the public has known that since Obama now has the peace prize. Whats next, you're going to tell us Academia is all about educating students?
Only if the errors amount changes per sample. It should however remain consistent unless your speed changes, so while you may be off by some distance, you should be consistently off by that distance so your speed would still be correct.
The 'boiling metal' exiting the hole wouldn't be that dense, in fact, just like water drilling, the whole will evacuate itself rather nicely.
The hole will not be perfectly cylindrical in the real world when firing from or at a moving target. The angle of incident would be changing constantly. A boat rolling in the waves, even a carrier is going to roll enough that you'll have a cone, not a hole at the entry point.
Your corner cube, regardless of how effective, is going to be vaporized nearly instantly do to its own parasitic losses, just like a mirror would, probably much faster however. If you had something extremely efficient and sending back the laser without spreading it at all, then you're just going to have a tiny point that isn't really much of a threat to any individual person. If you spread the beam enough to make it a threat to be concerned about, its unlikely to have enough power to get back to the shooter, and even if it does, its probably not going to bother them.
Its a line of sight weapon, you've probably been tracking the target for a while before its even in range of this device. The US Navy at least would have had you in the targeting system, friend or foe, well before you saw the ship.
NOTE: I'm just talking out my ass like you are, but I'm fairly certain my logic trumps yours:)
Really, what ER have you seen someone rejected from, and why did the cops throw them out of the ER cause thats the only time someone gets rejected for medical car of a life threatening illness in America. Not everyone gets to see the high priced doctor who demands 500/hr because you think you're special and deserve it, but you will get treatment. You may get budget treatment, but you won't be left to die.
There really also isn't any excuse for any adult american without a certifiable handicap to not have money. There are jobs, ask all the illegal immigrants that are doing them. Perhaps if American's didn't think they were too good to do shitty jobs, they wouldn't be starving. Its not easy, but there are plenty of things to help take care of people like single moms as well, I know, I lived it. Octomom starving is her own damn fault, her kids don't deserve it, but she certain deserves far worse. If you make an effort, living in America is trivial, ask anyone who has come from a country where shit ACTUALLY SUCKS, you have no fucking idea.
I'm so sick of people saying 'omg what about our poor helpless people in america, take care of them first!'
FUCK THEM, they are in the position they are in because they choose to be there, not because anyone is holding them back. You're comments are fucking insulting to all the people who have come to America and actually dug themselves out of a hole.
Having all hotels provide connectivity suitable for a LARGE group of internet junkies is financially stupid.
Most hotels have adequate coverage for their normal guest load, so they use the cheapest provider capable of providing that adequate coverage.
No other event in the hotel is going to require the connectivity perfection that an IETF conference is going to require, its a waste of money for them to engineer and build out an IETF compatible network. Its far simpler to get some joe the plumber from the PCGuys Shop down the street to throw in a DSL line and enough APs that no one bitches, and for the most part, works just fine.
Not every hotel NEEDS that kind of connectivity. For instance the hotel I went to for my wedding had absolutely shitty connectivity and if you asked they would politely respond, aren't you here for your wedding sir? And they were right:) Disney has absolutely shitty connectivity and their response is rather atypical for Disney in that it is intentionally bad, you're not supposed to be dicking around on the Internet at Disney.
They also don't need to pay for DS3 or so of bandwidth for the hotel if it isn't filled with bandwidth hogs (which I actually doubt the IETF are, probably the opposite but just making a point.)
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Because the cost difference between producing 1 song and a full album is pretty much 0, but you can sell people all the songs on the CD for $10 instead of $1.
So by 'selling' 10 songs instead of 1, without any real additional cost of goods, they can make 10x the profit.
Really think about it, how much does it ACTUALLY cost to produce a CD ... I don't mean how much Hollywood Accounting makes it appear to cost, I mean how much does it really cost? Even with expensive employees you're still only talking 10-20k per CD, the artists get spanked because the put the most work into it. After it hits the part where the record companies ACTUALLY do some work, theres not much left to do. The equipment costs are paid for with the first artist that makes number one for them, so its not like you can count that.
Do you know any women at all?
From that comment alone, I'm pretty sure you don't know any women so you might not want to try to call him out.
You do realize that the shopping channels and most of the religious channels are paying your cable company to carry them rather than getting paid by your cable company. You'll have those channels for free for ever.
Dude, posting spoilers so soon, not cool :( You kinda ruined it for me now.
Pardon the ignorance but this seems so simple to me, what am I missing?
The problem in these reactors is that they are overheating, steaming, and venting in one way or another due to over heating because they can't power the pumps for the cooling systems to pump away the waste heat generated from decay and various residual things, right?
So if they have enough heat energy in them to melt down, why exactly do they not run their own generators enough to power cooling? I just don't get how a power plant can run out of power ... and then have a problem with too much power and no way to dump it.
It really seems like the solution to the problem is the problem itself. Okay so maybe you can't spin massive turbines for power generation, but theres no way you can't have a smaller secondary system that can run off the waste heat and no external power.
How can you have so much pressure that you're containment vessel is going to pop, but not enough to power the generators? I mean shit, have a secondary turbine powered directly off primary containment thats normally sealed off for the sole purpose of emergency cooling as a last ditch effort knowing the reactor will never be used again kind of thing, you don't have to worry about problems maintaining this emergency turbine due to radiation cause by the time you get to that stage you've accepted the reactor is done and you're trying to lessen the amount of cleanup you have to do, you're past the point of trying to prevent it.
I realize that I'm not coming up with new ideas or anything here, so whats wrong with doing these things, why don't reactors have this already?
No, they would have been safe if it was a smaller quake.
It was designed for a smaller quake, no one expected on that large at that location, they thought they were well over designing actually, turns out Earth had a different plan.
It actually came REALLY close to dealing with the situation anyway. It actually performed well above what was expected.
If the tsunami had come 1 month later, 2 of the reactors that leaked would have been shut down as they were literally weeks away from being decommissioned to their age.
"Let's send timothy to such-and-such convention."
And thats where you fucked up.
I highly suggest you do a query of slashdot user profile preferences, count the number of people who have bothered to high a particular editor from the front page. The two guys with the highest numbers on that list ( which I'm fairly certain you'll find that timothy is first and kdawson is second ) and don't let them do post to the front page or do stuff like this.
Seriously guys, this isn't rocket science, do you guys REALLY have no clue or are you trying to fail intentionally by putting the worst people on it?
This is one of the sneakier tricks emerging.
Done right it's cool, but apparently Slashdot's first videos have struggled a little.
Emerging? TV isn't new, thats all this is. Slashdot's video will continue to struggle, if we came here for video, we'd be watching the news, not these douche bags expel hot air. Just because you get it on demand doesnt' make it different.
The news types like it because the "content" is almost un-copyable as is; it's like Talking Head DRM. It also traps the viewer who can't use any active reading skills on it.
Its about as un-copyable as websites that disable right click, its trivial to work around if you have a clue, and works great for the content producer if you don't, this is pretty much the same in both forms of media, the difference is that most people who have embraced the Internet earlier did it because they weren't okay with the old way of doing things. These are just people trying to bring the old 'we control everything!' style of publishing to the Internet, and slashdot is learning that it doesn't work here.
Meanwhile on Chessbase the new hotness is chess videos. While I haven't bought one, if it didn't come with additional actual raw games & annotations, then the video itself for some $60 would be a total rip-off. It's a way to double your price tag at 1/100th of the content.
There is something seriously fucking wrong with you if you're talking about paying $60 for a chess video ANYWHERE.
Others are stuck in some 90's mentality of "ooh, let's leverage our Multimedia!"
Yes, pretty much everyone who is doing it is still stuck in that mentality. The big studios don't want your video, its unlikely you're that 1 in a million person who they actually made a mistake on. Just because you CAN publish on the Internet doesn't mean you're any good at it or that anyone enjoys it. The Internet doesn't stop you from doing shitty work. Again, just because they figured out how to publish on the Internet doesn't mean they should.
ISP's like it because it jacks up bandwidth use right into their bandwidth caps.
... so let me get this straight ... ISPs complain about bandwidth usage, so they start adding caps to plans to prevent people from using as much bandwidth ... but they are happy that people use a bunch of bandwidth and get to their caps, even though most of them just throttle you down and don't have an option for buying more bandwidth? Thats pretty stupid logic. They'd prefer you use as little bandwidth as possible so they can add on more accounts to the existing upstream they have. They want you to use more of their resources without any way to increase their revenue ... yea, thats what they're doing ... they don't care about making record profits so they can pad their own pockets or anything.
You pretty much got everything backwards in your post, good job.
Have you actually done any work with Unicode? Supporting UTF8 isn't just drop in and it works, it takes actual effort to make things better instead of worse when people start using UTF8 to work around various filters and other things. Its rather trivial with UTF to have a browser interpret one thing while the user sees something else in the URL bar that looks proper.
On a site that allows user submissions to go public nearly instantly, introducing UTF8 into a code base of this size (even in perl) is a non-trivial task that will have unforeseen side effects without a doubt. Expanding your character set from 256 characters to roughly 32k currently known glyphs which can expand at any time and you'll likely need updates to deal with those new glyphs for comparison purposes anyway. Remember there are lots of different UTF8 sequences that represent the exact same printed character.
Your comment leads me to think you've not actually had to deal with UTF8 in practice, only in theory, or when someone else did the work for you. Microsoft has fucked up UTF8 parsing multiple times resulting in security implications, do you REALLY think the tards left running slashdot can do better?
So then it comes down to, is it worth the risk so you can use a symbol instead of saying Euro? And that answer is simply, no, it isn't. This shouldn't surprise you a bit, if it was going to happen it would have been while CmdrTaco was around, but now days these guys are just a bunch of money grubbing whores he try to act like their 'corporate overlords' make them do stuff they don't want to when in reality they do whatever they're told because they have EVEN LESS of a clue about running the site than those 'corporate overlords' they pretend direct them to do these things.
I hope Taco got a fortune out of slashdot cause he quit way to quietly.
The same reasons this always happen.
1) Someone wants new toys to play with and has figured out a way to get the company to pay for it.
2) Some moron thinks they can sell more video slashvertisments than normal ones.
3) They're about to go bankrupt and are grabbing at straws for anything they can to save the sinking ship.
$200 over the cost of the model you want to fly it in, which you could probably safely get buy at $400 total for aircraft and one of the prebuilt IMUs.
You'd need other support equipment, probably $600 total for a model capable of flying itself.
These aren't new anyway.
http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/
Humans are capable of seeing 3d without technology and in fact every surgery that was done without electronics and optics have always been 3D.
So they've figured out that using a 3d microscope is a good idea? Seriously? Weren't most of us taught this in high school or something?
Funny how people get excited when technology finally catches up to the way we've done it all along.
Just curious, who do you think allocates funds to DARPA? I'll give you a hint, you just said hi to them.
And russia fell apart, and theres nothing preventing us from doing that kind of research WITHOUT Russia as a threat, in which case we could have focused that energy on more efficient places for normal life instead of wars.
It wasn't a good war, it was a good focal point, we didnt' really 'win' in the deal, Russia just got fucked.
If we would have 'won' we'd not be disassembling nuclear bombs to fuel reactors, we'd just be fueling more of the reactors that weren't going to melt down because we focused on THAT kind of research and development instead of making big ass craters in the desert.
The revolution is coming. Thats how will get out of this one.
Any intelligent person has known the Noble prize has been a fraud for years, its just as much politics as anything else. While he may have been deserving, pretending that having the Noble proves he is deserving is just fucking retarded.
Not arguing with anything else in your post, simply that using the Noble as a reference is pretty fucking stupid, and even the public has known that since Obama now has the peace prize. Whats next, you're going to tell us Academia is all about educating students?
Only if the errors amount changes per sample. It should however remain consistent unless your speed changes, so while you may be off by some distance, you should be consistently off by that distance so your speed would still be correct.
Me too, but I'd love to know what happens to someone else who is willing to leap before they look ;)
Awe, look you're trying to be clever and convince us your schlong is bigger than it really is, isn't that cute.
The 'boiling metal' exiting the hole wouldn't be that dense, in fact, just like water drilling, the whole will evacuate itself rather nicely.
The hole will not be perfectly cylindrical in the real world when firing from or at a moving target. The angle of incident would be changing constantly. A boat rolling in the waves, even a carrier is going to roll enough that you'll have a cone, not a hole at the entry point.
Your corner cube, regardless of how effective, is going to be vaporized nearly instantly do to its own parasitic losses, just like a mirror would, probably much faster however. If you had something extremely efficient and sending back the laser without spreading it at all, then you're just going to have a tiny point that isn't really much of a threat to any individual person. If you spread the beam enough to make it a threat to be concerned about, its unlikely to have enough power to get back to the shooter, and even if it does, its probably not going to bother them.
Its a line of sight weapon, you've probably been tracking the target for a while before its even in range of this device. The US Navy at least would have had you in the targeting system, friend or foe, well before you saw the ship.
NOTE: I'm just talking out my ass like you are, but I'm fairly certain my logic trumps yours :)
Really, what ER have you seen someone rejected from, and why did the cops throw them out of the ER cause thats the only time someone gets rejected for medical car of a life threatening illness in America. Not everyone gets to see the high priced doctor who demands 500/hr because you think you're special and deserve it, but you will get treatment. You may get budget treatment, but you won't be left to die.
There really also isn't any excuse for any adult american without a certifiable handicap to not have money. There are jobs, ask all the illegal immigrants that are doing them. Perhaps if American's didn't think they were too good to do shitty jobs, they wouldn't be starving. Its not easy, but there are plenty of things to help take care of people like single moms as well, I know, I lived it. Octomom starving is her own damn fault, her kids don't deserve it, but she certain deserves far worse. If you make an effort, living in America is trivial, ask anyone who has come from a country where shit ACTUALLY SUCKS, you have no fucking idea.
I'm so sick of people saying 'omg what about our poor helpless people in america, take care of them first!'
FUCK THEM, they are in the position they are in because they choose to be there, not because anyone is holding them back. You're comments are fucking insulting to all the people who have come to America and actually dug themselves out of a hole.
Hey how about a warning then a laser shot instead of a conventional lethal attack?
You can still do all the stuff you did before, but now you don't HAVE to fire a gun that INTENDS to kill them and everything on them.
This laser doesn't add a rule that says 'No warning shots, the laws of physics will cause the universe to implode if you fire a warning shot!'
He doesn't mean just over the literal horizon on the ocean.
He means in the future, just over the metaphorical horizon we can see in technology, we cant' see it yet, but we know its JUST out of view.
Not sure how you got modded insightful not understanding a rather common term. Perhaps you should stop taking everything so literal.
Having all hotels provide connectivity suitable for a LARGE group of internet junkies is financially stupid.
Most hotels have adequate coverage for their normal guest load, so they use the cheapest provider capable of providing that adequate coverage.
No other event in the hotel is going to require the connectivity perfection that an IETF conference is going to require, its a waste of money for them to engineer and build out an IETF compatible network. Its far simpler to get some joe the plumber from the PCGuys Shop down the street to throw in a DSL line and enough APs that no one bitches, and for the most part, works just fine.
Not every hotel NEEDS that kind of connectivity. For instance the hotel I went to for my wedding had absolutely shitty connectivity and if you asked they would politely respond, aren't you here for your wedding sir? And they were right :) Disney has absolutely shitty connectivity and their response is rather atypical for Disney in that it is intentionally bad, you're not supposed to be dicking around on the Internet at Disney.
They also don't need to pay for DS3 or so of bandwidth for the hotel if it isn't filled with bandwidth hogs (which I actually doubt the IETF are, probably the opposite but just making a point.)