Assuming a grain of salt is a cubic millimeter, you could hollow out the Sun, fill it with salt, and assign a unique IP address to each grain - using less than 1% of the available IP addresses.
Try responding to this comment, but first correct the spelling error in the subject. Hit the "preview" button. Look at what Slashcode does to the subject, and you'll understand why the OP included the misspelling. I've seen other trolls put "5core:5, Interesting" to get around this "feature."
BTW, the original comment actually was modded up - it was at +1 Funny at one point. Looks like somebody's going to get nailed when this comes up in m2.
If you take a look at their web site, you'll notice they have a picture of the Golden Gate Bridge. In light of their recent "investment" in SCO, I think the Brooklyn Bridge would be more appropriate.
Think how many starving children you could feed for $50 million... or how much cancer research you could fund. I mean seriously, they couldn't think of anything better to do with their money than give it to SCO?
http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/tech/ronnaabramson/10119639.html Deutsche Bank analyst Brian Skiba accompanied his buy rating with a $45 price target, but cautioned that investors should consider an investment in SCO "extremely high risk and volatile." Shares of SCO propelled $5.13, or 33%, to $20.66 in recent trading.
Buying SCO is akin to buying a call option on the company's controversial lawsuit against IBM (IBM:NYSE - commentary - research), Skiba wrote in his research note. In its suit filed in March, SCO charged IBM with misappropriating SCO's UNIX source code in its Linux business. But the case is complicated because of how SCO ended up with rights to Unix and the code's relationship to Linux.
The analyst doesn't try to hide the fact that this is an incredibly risky investment. You're basically betting that the lawsuit will be successful. Therefore, shorting this stock would seem like a way to get some easy money. Then again, I would have said the same thing about betting on the Cubs a few days ago.
interstate commerce is not controlled by the states
I'm sure the Missouri highway patrol writes traffic tickets to long-haul truck drivers all the time. That's interstate commerce. Why shouldn't Missouri be able to go after spammers? Remember, they're breaking Missouri state law.
Cash costs money to handle too - in the form of time spent counting it, taking it to the bank, cash lost due to employee theft, etc. Counting pennies is a big waste of time. So just because the bank charges a 3% fee doesn't mean the store is losing 3%. They're losing the difference between the 3% and what it would have cost to handle the cash.
There are other ways a business or its employees can benefit from credit cards. For example, people at restaurants tend to tip more when they pay with a credit card.
The shorter the movie is, the more times the theater can show it. The more times the theater shows the movie, the more tickets they can sell. The more tickets they sell, the more money the studio makes. Movie studios tend to do things that they think will make them money.
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Let's say I'm a software company, and I want to develop a tool that only a few hundred customers will have any use for. However, it's so valuable to them that they're willing to pay $100,000 to use it. It costs me $50 million to develop the tool.
Under current laws, I would invest the fifty million, and if I can sell 500 copies I'll cover my investment. But what if a compulsory licensing scheme says I have to sell it for $1,000? I'm not going to invest the 50 million, even though everyone would benefit.
I think these schemes would work well for movies or music, but software is different. People don't use movies and music to run their businesses (at least not in the same way).
They included the SoBig author, so they understand "most influential" could mean negative influence. Whatever you think of the sue-em-all campaign, the RIAA has had a huge impact on the development of p2p apps, distribution of music over the internet, and probably the growth of broadband as well.
The whole reason why telephone providers are so closely regulated by the government is that the market for land lines is a natural monopoly - that is, competition is impossible because a competitor would have to install a redundant network, which is prohibitively expensive. So, since monopoly is inevitable, the government regulates it to ensure the providers don't take unfair advantage of the monopoly.
With VoIP, there is no monopoly. There can be dozens of different VoIP providers just as there's dozens (ok thousands) of pr0n sites or dozens of online bookstores.
When we have a new technology, why don't we rethink the way we regulate things instead of just applying the old regulations to the new technology regardless of whether or not it makes sense to do so?
It doesn't matter what people need. If the marketing department can convince people they need the higher speed (or faster processor or whatever), sales go up and the company makes money. A lot of people have made a lot of money selling people things they don't really need.
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Move to Arizona if you don't like it. There's no daylight savings time there, and the cost of living is a lot less than California.
Actually, yes.
Assuming a grain of salt is a cubic millimeter, you could hollow out the Sun, fill it with salt, and assign a unique IP address to each grain - using less than 1% of the available IP addresses.
(volume of the sun is 1.412 x 10^18 km^3)
340 billion billion billion billion = 340*(10^9)^4) = 340*10^36 = 340 undecillion.
He'll get the bill from Customs around the same time he gets the bill from the IRS. He did make a profit from the sale, after all.
Try responding to this comment, but first correct the spelling error in the subject. Hit the "preview" button. Look at what Slashcode does to the subject, and you'll understand why the OP included the misspelling. I've seen other trolls put "5core:5, Interesting" to get around this "feature."
BTW, the original comment actually was modded up - it was at +1 Funny at one point. Looks like somebody's going to get nailed when this comes up in m2.
causing orders and inventory to be lost or misrouted.
It's Friday. What do you want to bet the "misrouted inventory" found its way to the local college dorms/frat houses?
No, Hawaii's an hour late. According to Windows Control Panel, he could be in either Samoa or Midway Island (GMT -11 hours)
If you take a look at their web site, you'll notice they have a picture of the Golden Gate Bridge. In light of their recent "investment" in SCO, I think the Brooklyn Bridge would be more appropriate.
Think how many starving children you could feed for $50 million... or how much cancer research you could fund. I mean seriously, they couldn't think of anything better to do with their money than give it to SCO?
Seeing The Core once was enough for me. There was a reason it was such a dog at the box office.
http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/tech/ronnaabramson /10119639.html
Deutsche Bank analyst Brian Skiba accompanied his buy rating with a $45 price target, but cautioned that investors should consider an investment in SCO "extremely high risk and volatile." Shares of SCO propelled $5.13, or 33%, to $20.66 in recent trading.
Buying SCO is akin to buying a call option on the company's controversial lawsuit against IBM (IBM:NYSE - commentary - research), Skiba wrote in his research note. In its suit filed in March, SCO charged IBM with misappropriating SCO's UNIX source code in its Linux business. But the case is complicated because of how SCO ended up with rights to Unix and the code's relationship to Linux.
The analyst doesn't try to hide the fact that this is an incredibly risky investment. You're basically betting that the lawsuit will be successful. Therefore, shorting this stock would seem like a way to get some easy money. Then again, I would have said the same thing about betting on the Cubs a few days ago.
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You three can hide from m2, but you can't hide from my lawyers. Prepare to be sued.
televisions will become part of our intimate clothing
So in 20-30 years it will be fashionable to look like a Teletubby? Scary.
interstate commerce is not controlled by the states
I'm sure the Missouri highway patrol writes traffic tickets to long-haul truck drivers all the time. That's interstate commerce. Why shouldn't Missouri be able to go after spammers? Remember, they're breaking Missouri state law.
Cash costs money to handle too - in the form of time spent counting it, taking it to the bank, cash lost due to employee theft, etc. Counting pennies is a big waste of time. So just because the bank charges a 3% fee doesn't mean the store is losing 3%. They're losing the difference between the 3% and what it would have cost to handle the cash.
There are other ways a business or its employees can benefit from credit cards. For example, people at restaurants tend to tip more when they pay with a credit card.
The shorter the movie is, the more times the theater can show it. The more times the theater shows the movie, the more tickets they can sell. The more tickets they sell, the more money the studio makes. Movie studios tend to do things that they think will make them money.
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1GB + 73,741,824 bytes = 1GB
Let's say I'm a software company, and I want to develop a tool that only a few hundred customers will have any use for. However, it's so valuable to them that they're willing to pay $100,000 to use it. It costs me $50 million to develop the tool.
Under current laws, I would invest the fifty million, and if I can sell 500 copies I'll cover my investment. But what if a compulsory licensing scheme says I have to sell it for $1,000? I'm not going to invest the 50 million, even though everyone would benefit.
I think these schemes would work well for movies or music, but software is different. People don't use movies and music to run their businesses (at least not in the same way).
They included the SoBig author, so they understand "most influential" could mean negative influence. Whatever you think of the sue-em-all campaign, the RIAA has had a huge impact on the development of p2p apps, distribution of music over the internet, and probably the growth of broadband as well.
I wonder what those same spammers think of our "free speech right" to post their home phone number on /. and mod it up to +5 Informative.
Spammers do a lot of creative things to get their messages through. So, would it be "stifling innovation" to make spam illegal?
There's a difference between actual innovation that benefits society vs. people just finding a way to take advantage of the system.
The whole reason why telephone providers are so closely regulated by the government is that the market for land lines is a natural monopoly - that is, competition is impossible because a competitor would have to install a redundant network, which is prohibitively expensive. So, since monopoly is inevitable, the government regulates it to ensure the providers don't take unfair advantage of the monopoly.
With VoIP, there is no monopoly. There can be dozens of different VoIP providers just as there's dozens (ok thousands) of pr0n sites or dozens of online bookstores.
When we have a new technology, why don't we rethink the way we regulate things instead of just applying the old regulations to the new technology regardless of whether or not it makes sense to do so?
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It doesn't matter what people need. If the marketing department can convince people they need the higher speed (or faster processor or whatever), sales go up and the company makes money. A lot of people have made a lot of money selling people things they don't really need.