Sprint: $50/mo on top of voice plan. Apparently no bandwidth or usage limits.
My Sprint terms of service (for a laptop cellular connection) say, roughly, "Web browsing and email only, definitely no streaming VOIP; if you use over 5 gigs we'll assume you're breaking the rules and kick you off."
My Sprint wireless service already says that things like streaming VOIP (or even streaming Internet radio) are against the terms of service. Apparently it's for "web browsing and email" internets only.
That and the "unlimited service" means "we'll kick you off if you use over 5 gigs".
In the open-source world you edit your text file, finish for a bit, save it, and check it back into your favorite form of source control. You can then look at the diffs between various revisions.
Try considering the opportunity cost! $36,000 in "initial investment" could also get you 4% a year in a 5-year CD with no risk... that's $120/mo! You can probably get double that if you take on a little risk in the stock market. If you're only saving about $100/mo then your "break-even" point suddenly runs all the way out to, what, twenty-thirty years?
And if you have any debt to pay down with more than a 9.2% interest rate, you'd probably want to do that first... and if you can pick up any decent tax advantage via 401(k) contributions or IRAs or ESAs or HSAs or other things like that, those probably are a better deal too.
I am going to point and laugh at you and say "I told you so!" when you are 65 years old, living alone on a fixed income, and you have vision problems, and need to go to the grocery store.
Well, it's one thing to be frivolous and have fun.
It's another thing for government agencies to raise my taxes and be frivolous on my dime.
I appreciate there's some tangible good and a fair amount of intangible good from, say, trying to send men to Mars in my lifetime... but I don't think it's nearly as much good as the trillions of dollars they'll be taxing people for. I can use my money for a lot of tangible and intangible good things as well.
First of all, HD radio is a new technology and one that isn't being very actively marketed.
You obviously don't listen to a radio station that's paid for the HD Radio technology. KDFC advertises HD radios a lot. (Then again KDFC also has too much gab and not enough music, and it's all very "pop" classical and not so much serious works of more than a minute or three, and... general lame:P i've switched mostly to the jazz station in the mornings)
That should give a good kick to the ecomomy, building all those new houses and infrastructure.
Sure, a good kick, in the standard broken-window-fallacy sense.
Not that the pollution isn't metaphorically breaking a few windows itself, but the nation's economy has better things to be doing than up and moving cities for the sake of the construction workers. It's wasteful.
Is it going into Wikipedia proper, or is it a separate wiki hosted by the parent organization, the Wikimedia Foundation? I'm betting on the latter. Genes are largely unencyclopedic.
Well, I think perhaps the best luck would be some sort of (true) sorrow, remorse, repentance, things like that, ending and eventually emerging from prison a better person and then going on to lead the rest of his life quietly contributing to some crazy experimental codebase of some sort. Why not?
Free software is ironically both communist-ic (yay collective good) and free-market-istic (the price of the software is the marginal cost of production of one copy, or, um, zero!) It's rather fun. Not too many markets work out that way.
Scientists who were once open with their research are now 'locked up in a cartel' and are financially motivated to support other scientists backed by the Foundation. Diversity of views is 'stifled,' dominance is bought, and Foundation views are pushed with 'intense and aggressive opposition.'"
There is no choice. We *must* drive to work, we must take our kids to the doctor, we must go to the grocery store, etc.
I think you're just considering "willing to pay" one thing (dude goes: I am fine and happy with gas at this price) and the economists are putting the bar a little higher (which includes a dude going: I just went out and paid this price, and I'm really upset that it was that much, but when you get down to it I suppose it IS worth it in terms not-having-everything-fall-apart-on-me). And the moral of the story is that gasoline has a rather low price elasticity of demand.
P.S. A monopoly or cartel can be, and usually is, part of a market economy. Not usually part of a free market, mind you.
P.P.S. The oil cartels have plenty of incentive to reduce inefficiency in production! More inefficiency means less profit! However, the efficiency of the global economy overall is (indeed) not something they set out to optimize.
Then you have to attract the attention of this mob and persuade them that it would be cheaper to buy your patent, rather then just sue you for infringing one of their patents.
Haha! You've made the mistake of assuming I'm actually doing some sort of business! As if I'd stoop that low.
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My Sprint terms of service (for a laptop cellular connection) say, roughly, "Web browsing and email only, definitely no streaming VOIP; if you use over 5 gigs we'll assume you're breaking the rules and kick you off."
That and the "unlimited service" means "we'll kick you off if you use over 5 gigs".
Congratulations. You're not only incoherent, you've obviously copy-and-pasted "smart quotes" that came out of Microsoft Word somewhere. Ick.
In the open-source world you edit your text file, finish for a bit, save it, and check it back into your favorite form of source control. You can then look at the diffs between various revisions.
He's talking about Peoples. You're talking about Teh Planet. I see no flaw.
p.s. zomg-12-billion-people-in-2038 is way overblown even if you take some of the most liberal figures out there.
p.p.s. Killing people in car accidents is really an ineffective way to Save The Environments.
Not that precharges are useless but it's not really effective to compare otherwise, and they seem all vague about the pure-gasoline figure.
Try considering the opportunity cost! $36,000 in "initial investment" could also get you 4% a year in a 5-year CD with no risk... that's $120/mo! You can probably get double that if you take on a little risk in the stock market. If you're only saving about $100/mo then your "break-even" point suddenly runs all the way out to, what, twenty-thirty years?
And if you have any debt to pay down with more than a 9.2% interest rate, you'd probably want to do that first... and if you can pick up any decent tax advantage via 401(k) contributions or IRAs or ESAs or HSAs or other things like that, those probably are a better deal too.
But in practice, it will take a lot more than 5 years. 25 years, maybe.
I am going to point and laugh at you and say "I told you so!" when you are 65 years old, living alone on a fixed income, and you have vision problems, and need to go to the grocery store.
It's another thing for government agencies to raise my taxes and be frivolous on my dime.
I appreciate there's some tangible good and a fair amount of intangible good from, say, trying to send men to Mars in my lifetime... but I don't think it's nearly as much good as the trillions of dollars they'll be taxing people for. I can use my money for a lot of tangible and intangible good things as well.
TFS says they're not using mercury in the tilting kind since it's too dense to work with effectively.
You obviously don't listen to a radio station that's paid for the HD Radio technology. KDFC advertises HD radios a lot. (Then again KDFC also has too much gab and not enough music, and it's all very "pop" classical and not so much serious works of more than a minute or three, and... general lame :P i've switched mostly to the jazz station in the mornings)
Try and add some RAM to the default configurations. IT's about twice as pricey as the stuff is on the normal market. :)
Sure, a good kick, in the standard broken-window-fallacy sense.
Not that the pollution isn't metaphorically breaking a few windows itself, but the nation's economy has better things to be doing than up and moving cities for the sake of the construction workers. It's wasteful.
As a current resident of SF, I can assure you that there are, in fact, many parking spaces! They're just not anywhere you'd really want to go...
Is it going into Wikipedia proper, or is it a separate wiki hosted by the parent organization, the Wikimedia Foundation? I'm betting on the latter. Genes are largely unencyclopedic.
That's really solar power, not wind. With wind power, the air is already moving before you heat it up.
Well, I think perhaps the best luck would be some sort of (true) sorrow, remorse, repentance, things like that, ending and eventually emerging from prison a better person and then going on to lead the rest of his life quietly contributing to some crazy experimental codebase of some sort. Why not?
I'm sorry you have to sleep on the couch! Especially if it sings. Though maybe if it's a lullaby it's not so bad....
Free software is ironically both communist-ic (yay collective good) and free-market-istic (the price of the software is the marginal cost of production of one copy, or, um, zero!) It's rather fun. Not too many markets work out that way.
Yes, since we are all brainless vegetables who do whatever the advertising tells us to do.
Yes, since advertising something is morally equivalent to pointing a gun at someone and making them do something.
Yes, since advertising is... Oh for crying out loud. No.
If you can get good enough optics, you can watch regular light and detect when it's being affected somehow by dark matter.
Confusing enough summary though.
I think you're just considering "willing to pay" one thing (dude goes: I am fine and happy with gas at this price) and the economists are putting the bar a little higher (which includes a dude going: I just went out and paid this price, and I'm really upset that it was that much, but when you get down to it I suppose it IS worth it in terms not-having-everything-fall-apart-on-me). And the moral of the story is that gasoline has a rather low price elasticity of demand.
P.S. A monopoly or cartel can be, and usually is, part of a market economy. Not usually part of a free market, mind you.
P.P.S. The oil cartels have plenty of incentive to reduce inefficiency in production! More inefficiency means less profit! However, the efficiency of the global economy overall is (indeed) not something they set out to optimize.
Then you have to attract the attention of this mob and persuade them that it would be cheaper to buy your patent, rather then just sue you for infringing one of their patents.
Haha! You've made the mistake of assuming I'm actually doing some sort of business! As if I'd stoop that low.