Concert seats are a fixed supply, so traditional economics apply. The point where the demand drops off is the proper price point. If that's $100, $200, $300, it doesn't matter. Basic economics.
Here in Chicago, the concert sold out in under 5 minutes. That would seem to show (by the laws of Basic Economics) that her show is actually "underpriced" by what people are willing to pay for it. However, the Madonna's producers "increased the supply" by having announcing a second concert in Chicago which also promptly sold out - at the same ridiculous prices. BTW, the $250 floor tickets are getting flipped for about $700-$1000 through ticket scalpers.
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As far as I'm concerned, if I'm going to lose my head - my brain may as well go with it.
Assuming you're a normal male, You would be losing your "brain" since the author wants to move your sex organs to that sensory/feeding stalk as well.
Drop a couple AAs into a pouch in a jacket or something, wire it up to strips of this: Suddenly drivers etc. can see you at night.
FWIW, Scotchlite(tm) is probably better than OLED for safety clothing. A headlight reflected back at a driver from Scotchlight is *VERY* *BRIGHT* since it is a highly directional reflection back at the source. You'd need very high output OLED to achieve the same brightness. Not to mention that with Scothlite, you don't need an active power supply, it's washable, and you can buy it right now.
ROT52 is pretty useless for playing cards assuming it's from the same family as ROT13. As a matter of fact triple-ROT52 has the exact same results as double-ROT52 or single-ROT52. Now that I mention it, the results bear a striking resemblance to that of AND-xff and OR-x00 algorithms. SHUF52 is much better.
Without trying to cause a flamewar, it seems to me the grant is justified, so long as the board is also willing to provide a grant to a theologist that is trying to prove creationism or intelligent design. Refusing to allow someone a grant to research a subject that causes such differing opinion is fairly small minded.
If we had to give a grant to a branch of pseudo-science everytime someone did legitimate scientific research, we'd have to give out grants for investigating perpetual motion machines and free energy (in violation of the laws of thermodynamics) every time we gave out a grant for any study into legitimate studies of alternate energy (solar, wind, hydrodynamic, etc). Do you propose that as well?
The original directions forgot to include the counter-steer after you get close to the curve while continuing to back up so you're right. Merely to "slowly bring the wheel back to rest state" would leave you at 60 degrees to the curb if you followed those directions to the letter.
Not only that, but if you live in Chicago (or anywhere with tight parking), you'll find that you don't have room to do it all in the one-pass method and you have to do that drive-forwards-and-backwards-several-times-while-t unring-the wheel-a-lot-to-wiggle-closer-to-the-curb method which is a real pain.
The $100 laptop does not seem the way to go with third world countries. You still need internet access and support for broken computers & software which will outweigh the cost of the laptop.
When I visited Thailand, they had cheap internet cafes everywhere with decent desktop computers that were great for e-mail, web use and basic office applications. Visitors like me used them of course, but most often they are used by local people without computers. The price was around $1 an hour which makes it very affordable for checking e-mail and basic computer usage. Internet cafes have shown themselves to be a viable model in many countries.
Why not just follow a model that works? On good computer shared by 10 people is much better than 10 crappy computers useable by no one.
For just once, I wish the government would "Protect the Children(tm)" without *Squashing My Rights* !
You ever notice how gov't acts named things like "Protection of Families" or "Protection of Marriage" or "Protection of Children" or "Protection from Terrorists" mainly serve to limit or take away legal protections and rights from the people?
I'm scared of my gov't trying to "Protect" me anymore than they already do. I think I have the right to make my own choices and live with the consequences as long as no one else gets hurt and I feel that my fellow Americans deserve the same rights.
I agree with you there. Even if the price is high to begin with, Sony has a win/win with PS3 mass production driving down the overall cost of BluRay in a much shorter time.
But then again this is Slashdot so who cares about facts. I'm an actual PS3 and XBOX360 developer and I made a comment on the last PS3 article to refute someone who didn't know what they were talking about (using only publically available knowledge but stuff I still know to be true as a registered developer who has both systems on his desk RIGHT NOW). The clueless parent was modded "Insightful" and I was modded "Troll" for refuting him.
That Google bends over backwards when it comes to Chinese censorship, but stonewalls the U.S. Justice Department when it comes to our civil liberties?
Google is offering Chinese citizens the rights and protections they have for computer access under Chinese law. Unfortunately under these laws Chinese citizens DO NOT have a right to privacy and DO NOT have a right to search sites censored by their government.
Google is trying to offer US citizens the rights and protections they have for computer access under US law. In the US, there are constitution rights to free speech and to privacy (as interpreted by previous Supreme Courts). Google is trying to uphold these constitutional rights and the US Justice department is trying to circumvent these rights.
I fail to see how Google has done wrong by trying to protect the rights that citizens of a country have been given by their respective governments.
Consider this: Despite the fact that nobody outside of sony has even seen a game run, the PS3 gets more headline coverage than Xbox360, which can be bought today.
When it comes to PS3, You obviously don't know what you're talking about. Plenty of people outside of Sony have seen code running on a PS3. There were hundreds of developers at PS3 devcon a couple months ago and we've had PS3 devkits for months before that as well. Sony will also be showing PS3 demos and tutorials for those people going to GDC in San Jose next week. Go there and see a PS3 in action for yourself. You can still sign up at http://www.gdconf.com/
The 2005 E3 Demo info, the PS3 devcon, the release of devkits, and the upcoming GDC talks have all been publicly mentioned on a variety of game-related websites. Maybe you should check the facts before you say no one else has seen code run on the PS3.
You don't know anything about US abortion clinics do you?
These centers preferred to be called "Family Planning Clinics" rather than "Abortion Clinics" which is a term coined by abortion opponents. The clinics that have been bombed and people hurt or injured in these clinics do much more than merely perform abortions. They provide family planning services, rape counseling, psychological resources for the pregnant women, etc. Much of their time and effort is for providing support for women who ACTUALLY DO DECIDE TO HAVE CHILDREN.
Bombing these clinics only hurts those pregnant women and their unborn children in the long run.
"... to blame gaming for everything that is inherently wrong in our homes, in our schools and on our streets is much easier to do than to actually figure out ways to fix the systemic problems that exist within our culture."
I like their all-in-one laser printer / copier / scanner. The most surprising Samsung item I own is a refrigerator and I must say, as far as refrigerators go, that it "totally rocks".
Cell, however, is basically a bog-stock PowerPC with DSP engines at its disposal.
Actually, the Power PC Unit (PPU) in a cell is a highly simplified streamlined Power PC and nothing at all like the PowerPC's you'll find in a G5 Mac. While it runs at a higher clock rate, it's missing lots of stuff like out-of-order execution and advanced branch prediction and has a much simpler load-store unit. For example, on Cell there are huge penalties for load-hit-store but on current gen Power PC's there is a unit to forward stores to loads while they pend in the SIQ. If you expect code on a current generation Power PC to behave exactly the same on a Cell PPU, you're in for a big surprise (and not in a good way).
Perhaps the reason MS is going to release Halo 2 on Vista rather than on XP is that with the steep hardware requirements for Vista (especially the requirement for a high-end DX10 capable graphics card), you're pretty much guaranteed a system which will that game can run decently on.
I remember when paypal was "we'll make our money off the float, totally free for you!". That lasted what, 8 months?
And they make plenty of money off the float. However, they end up returning it to you -- in exchange for your social security number and other personal details -- if you elect to "invest" in the PayPal money market. They pay something like 4.28% which is the highest paying money market fund available right now. Until now, they charged nothing to you for administrating the account but soon they're going to lop 0.25% off for administration which is still cheap.
Paypal has obvious costs for credit card transactions but I'd like to see a business account where cash (paypal funds) or check transactions were discounted or free. The limit the personal accounts to the point where they're nearly useless.
The main reason of course was that RISC processors were on a much faster performance incline than the fuddy duddy old CISC processors like the x86 line. The graph comparing the two in the period 1995-2005 showed CISC acceleration continuing to slow and RISC acceleration continuing with, I believe, a skyrocket attached to the top of the graph. We all know how that turned out.
No one at the time expected the changes in CISC processors. CISC processors still do have a "complex" instruction set in that they allow multiple forms of adddressing and varying length opcodes. However, internally these chips have become much more RISC-like. The current generation of Pentiums actually does an internal version of dynamic translation from CISC to RISC-micro-ops (which may be 1 or more per CISC instruction) and executes the micro-ops using a different instruction set internally. This internal RISC instruction set is used so central to the design that the L1 I-Cache is not actually a verbatim data cache of the CISC instructions but actually a trace cache of the translated RISC-like micro-ops.
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Apparently you missed the thundering herd of people abandoning their PS3 plans in favor of Wii and Xbox 360.
:-)
Yup... that's what my friends are saying. They're going to buy a Wii AND a 360 for the same price as the PS3.
Me, I'll buy one if they come out with a Linux Kit like they did for the PS2 but that's only because I'm a total nerd
Who'd want to play that!
Concert seats are a fixed supply, so traditional economics apply. The point where the demand drops off is the proper price point. If that's $100, $200, $300, it doesn't matter. Basic economics.
Here in Chicago, the concert sold out in under 5 minutes. That would seem to show (by the laws of Basic Economics) that her show is actually "underpriced" by what people are willing to pay for it. However, the Madonna's producers "increased the supply" by having announcing a second concert in Chicago which also promptly sold out - at the same ridiculous prices. BTW, the $250 floor tickets are getting flipped for about $700-$1000 through ticket scalpers.
As far as I'm concerned, if I'm going to lose my head - my brain may as well go with it.
Assuming you're a normal male, You would be losing your "brain" since the author wants to move your sex organs to that sensory/feeding stalk as well.
Drop a couple AAs into a pouch in a jacket or something, wire it up to strips of this: Suddenly drivers etc. can see you at night.
t ml
FWIW, Scotchlite(tm) is probably better than OLED for safety clothing. A headlight reflected back at a driver from Scotchlight is *VERY* *BRIGHT* since it is a highly directional reflection back at the source. You'd need very high output OLED to achieve the same brightness. Not to mention that with Scothlite, you don't need an active power supply, it's washable, and you can buy it right now.
http://cms.3m.com/cms/US/en/2-135/cikicFJ/view.jh
Then again, this is Slashdot, where common-sense and available now are never as cool as bleeding-edge vaporware.
Very funny... makes me look forward to seeing Spamalot in Chicago next week.
ROT52 is pretty useless for playing cards assuming it's from the same family as ROT13. As a matter of fact triple-ROT52 has the exact same results as double-ROT52 or single-ROT52. Now that I mention it, the results bear a striking resemblance to that of AND-xff and OR-x00 algorithms. SHUF52 is much better.
Without trying to cause a flamewar, it seems to me the grant is justified, so long as the board is also willing to provide a grant to a theologist that is trying to prove creationism or intelligent design. Refusing to allow someone a grant to research a subject that causes such differing opinion is fairly small minded.
If we had to give a grant to a branch of pseudo-science everytime someone did legitimate scientific research, we'd have to give out grants for investigating perpetual motion machines and free energy (in violation of the laws of thermodynamics) every time we gave out a grant for any study into legitimate studies of alternate energy (solar, wind, hydrodynamic, etc). Do you propose that as well?
The original directions forgot to include the counter-steer after you get close to the curve while continuing to back up so you're right. Merely to "slowly bring the wheel back to rest state" would leave you at 60 degrees to the curb if you followed those directions to the letter.
t unring-the wheel-a-lot-to-wiggle-closer-to-the-curb method which is a real pain.
Not only that, but if you live in Chicago (or anywhere with tight parking), you'll find that you don't have room to do it all in the one-pass method and you have to do that drive-forwards-and-backwards-several-times-while-
The $100 laptop does not seem the way to go with third world countries. You still need internet access and support for broken computers & software which will outweigh the cost of the laptop.
When I visited Thailand, they had cheap internet cafes everywhere with decent desktop computers that were great for e-mail, web use and basic office applications. Visitors like me used them of course, but most often they are used by local people without computers. The price was around $1 an hour which makes it very affordable for checking e-mail and basic computer usage. Internet cafes have shown themselves to be a viable model in many countries.
Why not just follow a model that works? On good computer shared by 10 people is much better than 10 crappy computers useable by no one.
For just once, I wish the government would "Protect the Children(tm)" without *Squashing My Rights* !
You ever notice how gov't acts named things like "Protection of Families" or "Protection of Marriage" or "Protection of Children" or "Protection from Terrorists" mainly serve to limit or take away legal protections and rights from the people?
I'm scared of my gov't trying to "Protect" me anymore than they already do. I think I have the right to make my own choices and live with the consequences as long as no one else gets hurt and I feel that my fellow Americans deserve the same rights.
Now all we need to do is biologically engineer boneless chickens for those tasty "boneless" chicken wings :-)
I agree with you there. Even if the price is high to begin with, Sony has a win/win with PS3 mass production driving down the overall cost of BluRay in a much shorter time.
But then again this is Slashdot so who cares about facts. I'm an actual PS3 and XBOX360 developer and I made a comment on the last PS3 article to refute someone who didn't know what they were talking about (using only publically available knowledge but stuff I still know to be true as a registered developer who has both systems on his desk RIGHT NOW). The clueless parent was modded "Insightful" and I was modded "Troll" for refuting him.
That Google bends over backwards when it comes to Chinese censorship, but stonewalls the U.S. Justice Department when it comes to our civil liberties?
Google is offering Chinese citizens the rights and protections they have for computer access under Chinese law. Unfortunately under these laws Chinese citizens DO NOT have a right to privacy and DO NOT have a right to search sites censored by their government.
Google is trying to offer US citizens the rights and protections they have for computer access under US law. In the US, there are constitution rights to free speech and to privacy (as interpreted by previous Supreme Courts). Google is trying to uphold these constitutional rights and the US Justice department is trying to circumvent these rights.
I fail to see how Google has done wrong by trying to protect the rights that citizens of a country have been given by their respective governments.
Consider this: Despite the fact that nobody outside of sony has even seen a game run, the PS3 gets more headline coverage than Xbox360, which can be bought today.
I guess nobody went to E3 in May of 2005 and saw the PS3 Unreal demo: http://ps3.ign.com/articles/614/614712p1.html
When it comes to PS3, You obviously don't know what you're talking about. Plenty of people outside of Sony have seen code running on a PS3. There were hundreds of developers at PS3 devcon a couple months ago and we've had PS3 devkits for months before that as well. Sony will also be showing PS3 demos and tutorials for those people going to GDC in San Jose next week. Go there and see a PS3 in action for yourself. You can still sign up at http://www.gdconf.com/
The 2005 E3 Demo info, the PS3 devcon, the release of devkits, and the upcoming GDC talks have all been publicly mentioned on a variety of game-related websites. Maybe you should check the facts before you say no one else has seen code run on the PS3.
You don't know anything about US abortion clinics do you?
These centers preferred to be called "Family Planning Clinics" rather than "Abortion Clinics" which is a term coined by abortion opponents. The clinics that have been bombed and people hurt or injured in these clinics do much more than merely perform abortions. They provide family planning services, rape counseling, psychological resources for the pregnant women, etc. Much of their time and effort is for providing support for women who ACTUALLY DO DECIDE TO HAVE CHILDREN.
Bombing these clinics only hurts those pregnant women and their unborn children in the long run.
Best quote from Mr Ecko in the article:
"... to blame gaming for everything that is inherently wrong in our homes, in our schools and on our streets is much easier to do than to actually figure out ways to fix the systemic problems that exist within our culture."
I own a Samsung laser printer and microwave
I like their all-in-one laser printer / copier / scanner. The most surprising Samsung item I own is a refrigerator and I must say, as far as refrigerators go, that it "totally rocks".
I'd much rather have a company that _tries_ to do the right thing and succeeds 90% of the time than one that never tries at all.
Or as the wiseman says: The followers of perfection are the enemy of good.
Cell, however, is basically a bog-stock PowerPC with DSP engines at its disposal.
Actually, the Power PC Unit (PPU) in a cell is a highly simplified streamlined Power PC and nothing at all like the PowerPC's you'll find in a G5 Mac. While it runs at a higher clock rate, it's missing lots of stuff like out-of-order execution and advanced branch prediction and has a much simpler load-store unit. For example, on Cell there are huge penalties for load-hit-store but on current gen Power PC's there is a unit to forward stores to loads while they pend in the SIQ. If you expect code on a current generation Power PC to behave exactly the same on a Cell PPU, you're in for a big surprise (and not in a good way).
Perhaps the reason MS is going to release Halo 2 on Vista rather than on XP is that with the steep hardware requirements for Vista (especially the requirement for a high-end DX10 capable graphics card), you're pretty much guaranteed a system which will that game can run decently on.
I remember when paypal was "we'll make our money off the float, totally free for you!". That lasted what, 8 months?
And they make plenty of money off the float. However, they end up returning it to you -- in exchange for your social security number and other personal details -- if you elect to "invest" in the PayPal money market. They pay something like 4.28% which is the highest paying money market fund available right now. Until now, they charged nothing to you for administrating the account but soon they're going to lop 0.25% off for administration which is still cheap.
Paypal has obvious costs for credit card transactions but I'd like to see a business account where cash (paypal funds) or check transactions were discounted or free. The limit the personal accounts to the point where they're nearly useless.
Are these outraged Congressmen the same ones that want to install filtering software on your library's computers???
Not really. I have five, and my collection is considered the second largest.
:)
Dude, if you're collection of five turtlenecks were Issey Miyake ones like Steve Jobs, you'd be spending a couple months disposeable income on them
The main reason of course was that RISC processors were on a much faster performance incline than the fuddy duddy old CISC processors like the x86 line. The graph comparing the two in the period 1995-2005 showed CISC acceleration continuing to slow and RISC acceleration continuing with, I believe, a skyrocket attached to the top of the graph. We all know how that turned out.
No one at the time expected the changes in CISC processors. CISC processors still do have a "complex" instruction set in that they allow multiple forms of adddressing and varying length opcodes. However, internally these chips have become much more RISC-like. The current generation of Pentiums actually does an internal version of dynamic translation from CISC to RISC-micro-ops (which may be 1 or more per CISC instruction) and executes the micro-ops using a different instruction set internally. This internal RISC instruction set is used so central to the design that the L1 I-Cache is not actually a verbatim data cache of the CISC instructions but actually a trace cache of the translated RISC-like micro-ops.