I prefer to see functionaility added with extensions rather than built-in. Added functions quickly add bload, just add the extensions that you want to use.
If they did an article that pointed out that it is dangerous to use a cell phone while driving, would you also expect it to be necessary to suggest a solution?
I suppose that it should be "well they get what they deserved for being cheap", rather than "well they get what they deserved for being ignorant", then.
In San Francisco, you could probably find an anal massage by placing a red handkerchief in your left hip pocket and visiting the Lonestar Saloon or the Eagle Tavern.
Yeah, BSA threw me too. I used to speak Air Force, most names became acronyms consisting of the first character of each word in the full name, usually not spelling a pronounceable word. The Navy and Marines names used to amaze me, like "BUPERS" or MILPERCEN"
It is bad enough to have a plethora of acronyms, there are names of things that look like acronyms (JAVA, UNIX), acronyms that have multiple meanings (DBM, GPS), acronyms that have other meanings when used as words (AMPS, BIT). One unusual acronym is 'PA' which can mean Power Amp, Public Address, Prince Albert, Pennsylvania, Panama, Physician's Assistant, Power of Attorney, Press Agent, Production Assistant, and probably more.
I used to enjoy watching Jim Lehrer and MacNeil/Lehrer. The local PBS station only carries it sporadically (money issues?). I just noticed that the PBS website has video archives of his shows back to Jan, 1997.
The research wasn't "based solely on reporting during the political conventions". From TFA: "Individual broadcasts of the nightly news and corresponding episodes of The Daily Show were analyzed by the researchers". They also looked at coverage of first presidential debate of the fall campaign.
TFA was not by Slashdot, it was by Ars Technica.
In your juristiction, is it illegal to take a brick to a discarded telephone that you found near your house? I would imagine that the police would not involve you at all unless somebody calls the police and can identify you, or the police were to happen by while you were smahing the phone.
Although these days, if the police saw you with a brick and a screaming cell phone, you probably needn't worry about going to court; they would probably just consider you to be a terrorist with a bomb. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4711021.stm
I don't mind people paying bills with paper checks, what I can't stand are the people in supermarket checkout lines that still write paper checks to pay for groceries. These paper check holdouts are the women who won't even open their purse to get out their checkbook until the order is totalled up, they write REAL slow, they wait until the check is OK'ed and they are handed their receipt before they write the purchase in their check register, and then they won't move along until they finish balancing their checkbook and everything is put away nicely in their purse. After carefully putting their checkbook and pen away, some of them continue to block the checkout line while they carefully reapply their lipstick.
Don't get me started on the use of hand sanitizer.
It doesn't completely explain their investments in R&D, but it does help explain the very posh nature of the physical plant at the old Bell Labs, for example.
Cough, cough, Bell Labs Holmdale. Other than a few show pieces, I am not sure that Bell Labs or the Bell System had physical plant that was any more posh than any other industrial company at the time. The Bell System physical plant at Long Lines and the local operating companies was solidly overbuilt and equipment was constantly maintained. The biggest thing that changed after the Bell System breakup was that instead of engineering and building telco plant that would operate continously without service interruption for 20 or 30 years, physical plant was designed to last a much shorter time, perhaps 5 years.
I believe that Western Electric was one of the reasons that Bell Labs was well funded. In 1981, the operating companies paid Western Electric about $500 for all of the parts that made up a Touch Tone, Trimline phone. The Trim Line base cost over $200, the Touch Tone handset cost over $200, the coiled cord cost about $10, and the line cord cost another $10. The operating companies bought almost everything from Western Electric, and everything was gold plated; including pens (Waterbury, of course), paper, electron tubes (some of which are coveted today), vacuum cleaners, wire, telco equipment (including installation), dust cloths, tools, computers (which were not called computers, usually they were called processors or controllers) -- everything. Western Electric's prices were not regulated, the operating companies' rates were based upon what it cost to provide the service - which included what it paid Western Electric.
That was exactly my point, AdWords is going to work much better for products such as yours than the traditional advertising in magazines, and the on-line distribution system is much faster and easier (and is less work for you) than somebody mailing you a check and you mailing them a CD. Mea culpa for typing AdSense instead of AdWords.
A house may be a tangible asset, but it doesn't necessarily have value unless somebody wants it and is able to pay for it. If a bank holds a house that can't be sold, it may be costing the bank money to hold it. One example I saw was in Seattle when the SST project was canceled, all of the houses in entire neighborhoods were empty, for sale, and many were in default. Currently, those same houses are probably worth a fortune; but at that time, nobody wanted to buy them at any price that the owners considered reasonable. Another example are the houses in any of several 'ghost towns' in the Rocky Mountains. The houses in some old ghost towns may now have value, but a great many of them sat empty for many years, with nobody wanting to buy them.
Disregarding a mortgage or other encumberances, any objects that have a finite supply and have a use at the time can be considered to be wealth. The value of certain items would vary depending upon the current situation. At certain times, various items could represent wealth, such as; preserved food, clean water, tools, medicine, practical clothing, boots, weapons, fuel.
Most of the giant, crappy houses that you are so worried about aren't made of paper. They are tangible wealth.
Wealth for whom? Most homes in the US are not owned outright by the 'owner', they are mortgaged. If the 'owner' of a house owes less money than it is worth, then the equity may be considered to be wealth. If the housing bubble bursts and the money value of a house is less than what the 'owner' owes on it, to whom is it considered to be wealth? As long as the 'owner' makes as much or more money than they did when the money value of the house declined, it doesn't really matter what the house is actually worth because the 'owner' just keeps paying the mortgage. The problem comes in when the 'owner' no longer has the means to pay the mortgage or the 'owner' needs to move to a different house, perhaps to move to where there is a job.
If a person owns their house outright, it does not really matter what the money value of their house is currently worth, and it really is wealth to the owner. The only time that the outright owner of a house would care about it's current value is when they want to extract money value from it (and for property tax valuation).
That $450 net was for one month's sales (and the month is not over yet). I would suspect that because this product is aimed at school teachers that September sales would be a major sales spike. The man-week development cost should be divided by the number of unit sales, which I would hope will be over a period of many months; his actual work during September (and presumably for most months) was or will be a fraction of an hour.
I believe that the point is that the ability to sell this rather specialized program over the internet makes it feasible to market the program. The alternative would be to put classified ads in school teacher oriented magazines and have teachers mail him a check for $25. Ad Sense expands his market as it includes people other than school teachers who may be looking for a product like this.
The difference is that most of the companies that make huge undelivered promises are not regulated monopolies. When supposedly regulated telephone companies makes huge promises, ratepayers and taxpayers start giving concesssions and possibly paying for portions of those promises at the time that the promise is made.
I don't believe that a free country exists any more, but Canada looks to be a better alternative.
I don't believe that I would trade your neo-conservative bigot (John Howard) for our neo-conservative bigot (George W). I am not sure which is worse, George W's smirk or John Howard's looking like he's about to cry.
I am not sure that it would be actively policed as a violation of gambling laws. If it ever showed up on politicians' radar, they could make it illegal to convert virtual currency, such as Linden Dollars, into real money. I'm not saying that such laws would be effective....
Good point. Depending upon how MS structures it's music download service, MS may have the same EU regulatory problems over it's DRM as Apple. I think that France backed down on it's objections to Apple's DRM, though.
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I prefer to see functionaility added with extensions rather than built-in. Added functions quickly add bload, just add the extensions that you want to use.
If they did an article that pointed out that it is dangerous to use a cell phone while driving, would you also expect it to be necessary to suggest a solution?
I suppose that it should be "well they get what they deserved for being cheap", rather than "well they get what they deserved for being ignorant", then.
If you have broadband you can use AOL without their software (my question is: Why?).
? t3323.html
http://cyberiapc.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php
... that used to require that you install software that essentially took over your computer and was impossible to completely remove.
Try http://public.diversity.org.uk/deviant/fsfist.htm
In San Francisco, you could probably find an anal massage by placing a red handkerchief in your left hip pocket and visiting the Lonestar Saloon or the Eagle Tavern.
Yeah, BSA threw me too. I used to speak Air Force, most names became acronyms consisting of the first character of each word in the full name, usually not spelling a pronounceable word. The Navy and Marines names used to amaze me, like "BUPERS" or MILPERCEN"
It is bad enough to have a plethora of acronyms, there are names of things that look like acronyms (JAVA, UNIX), acronyms that have multiple meanings (DBM, GPS), acronyms that have other meanings when used as words (AMPS, BIT). One unusual acronym is 'PA' which can mean Power Amp, Public Address, Prince Albert, Pennsylvania, Panama, Physician's Assistant, Power of Attorney, Press Agent, Production Assistant, and probably more.
I used to enjoy watching Jim Lehrer and MacNeil/Lehrer. The local PBS station only carries it sporadically (money issues?). I just noticed that the PBS website has video archives of his shows back to Jan, 1997.
The research wasn't "based solely on reporting during the political conventions". From TFA: "Individual broadcasts of the nightly news and corresponding episodes of The Daily Show were analyzed by the researchers". They also looked at coverage of first presidential debate of the fall campaign. TFA was not by Slashdot, it was by Ars Technica.
In your juristiction, is it illegal to take a brick to a discarded telephone that you found near your house? I would imagine that the police would not involve you at all unless somebody calls the police and can identify you, or the police were to happen by while you were smahing the phone.
Although these days, if the police saw you with a brick and a screaming cell phone, you probably needn't worry about going to court; they would probably just consider you to be a terrorist with a bomb. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4711021.stm
I don't mind people paying bills with paper checks, what I can't stand are the people in supermarket checkout lines that still write paper checks to pay for groceries. These paper check holdouts are the women who won't even open their purse to get out their checkbook until the order is totalled up, they write REAL slow, they wait until the check is OK'ed and they are handed their receipt before they write the purchase in their check register, and then they won't move along until they finish balancing their checkbook and everything is put away nicely in their purse. After carefully putting their checkbook and pen away, some of them continue to block the checkout line while they carefully reapply their lipstick.
Don't get me started on the use of hand sanitizer.
It doesn't completely explain their investments in R&D, but it does help explain the very posh nature of the physical plant at the old Bell Labs, for example.
Cough, cough, Bell Labs Holmdale. Other than a few show pieces, I am not sure that Bell Labs or the Bell System had physical plant that was any more posh than any other industrial company at the time. The Bell System physical plant at Long Lines and the local operating companies was solidly overbuilt and equipment was constantly maintained. The biggest thing that changed after the Bell System breakup was that instead of engineering and building telco plant that would operate continously without service interruption for 20 or 30 years, physical plant was designed to last a much shorter time, perhaps 5 years.
I believe that Western Electric was one of the reasons that Bell Labs was well funded. In 1981, the operating companies paid Western Electric about $500 for all of the parts that made up a Touch Tone, Trimline phone. The Trim Line base cost over $200, the Touch Tone handset cost over $200, the coiled cord cost about $10, and the line cord cost another $10. The operating companies bought almost everything from Western Electric, and everything was gold plated; including pens (Waterbury, of course), paper, electron tubes (some of which are coveted today), vacuum cleaners, wire, telco equipment (including installation), dust cloths, tools, computers (which were not called computers, usually they were called processors or controllers) -- everything. Western Electric's prices were not regulated, the operating companies' rates were based upon what it cost to provide the service - which included what it paid Western Electric.
That was exactly my point, AdWords is going to work much better for products such as yours than the traditional advertising in magazines, and the on-line distribution system is much faster and easier (and is less work for you) than somebody mailing you a check and you mailing them a CD. Mea culpa for typing AdSense instead of AdWords.
A house may be a tangible asset, but it doesn't necessarily have value unless somebody wants it and is able to pay for it. If a bank holds a house that can't be sold, it may be costing the bank money to hold it. One example I saw was in Seattle when the SST project was canceled, all of the houses in entire neighborhoods were empty, for sale, and many were in default. Currently, those same houses are probably worth a fortune; but at that time, nobody wanted to buy them at any price that the owners considered reasonable. Another example are the houses in any of several 'ghost towns' in the Rocky Mountains. The houses in some old ghost towns may now have value, but a great many of them sat empty for many years, with nobody wanting to buy them.
Disregarding a mortgage or other encumberances, any objects that have a finite supply and have a use at the time can be considered to be wealth. The value of certain items would vary depending upon the current situation. At certain times, various items could represent wealth, such as; preserved food, clean water, tools, medicine, practical clothing, boots, weapons, fuel.
Most of the giant, crappy houses that you are so worried about aren't made of paper. They are tangible wealth.
Wealth for whom? Most homes in the US are not owned outright by the 'owner', they are mortgaged. If the 'owner' of a house owes less money than it is worth, then the equity may be considered to be wealth. If the housing bubble bursts and the money value of a house is less than what the 'owner' owes on it, to whom is it considered to be wealth? As long as the 'owner' makes as much or more money than they did when the money value of the house declined, it doesn't really matter what the house is actually worth because the 'owner' just keeps paying the mortgage. The problem comes in when the 'owner' no longer has the means to pay the mortgage or the 'owner' needs to move to a different house, perhaps to move to where there is a job.
If a person owns their house outright, it does not really matter what the money value of their house is currently worth, and it really is wealth to the owner. The only time that the outright owner of a house would care about it's current value is when they want to extract money value from it (and for property tax valuation).
That $450 net was for one month's sales (and the month is not over yet). I would suspect that because this product is aimed at school teachers that September sales would be a major sales spike. The man-week development cost should be divided by the number of unit sales, which I would hope will be over a period of many months; his actual work during September (and presumably for most months) was or will be a fraction of an hour.
I believe that the point is that the ability to sell this rather specialized program over the internet makes it feasible to market the program. The alternative would be to put classified ads in school teacher oriented magazines and have teachers mail him a check for $25. Ad Sense expands his market as it includes people other than school teachers who may be looking for a product like this.
There is a history of pinball gambling laws at http://members.aol.com/rusjensen/gambling.htm
The difference is that most of the companies that make huge undelivered promises are not regulated monopolies. When supposedly regulated telephone companies makes huge promises, ratepayers and taxpayers start giving concesssions and possibly paying for portions of those promises at the time that the promise is made.
I don't believe that a free country exists any more, but Canada looks to be a better alternative. I don't believe that I would trade your neo-conservative bigot (John Howard) for our neo-conservative bigot (George W). I am not sure which is worse, George W's smirk or John Howard's looking like he's about to cry.
I am not sure that it would be actively policed as a violation of gambling laws. If it ever showed up on politicians' radar, they could make it illegal to convert virtual currency, such as Linden Dollars, into real money. I'm not saying that such laws would be effective ....
I'm not insulted; although I am not a nerd, I am a geek. ;)
Although SCO wants people to believe that it owns UNIX, the actual UNIX name trademark is owned by The Open Group and it is not contested.
Good point. Depending upon how MS structures it's music download service, MS may have the same EU regulatory problems over it's DRM as Apple. I think that France backed down on it's objections to Apple's DRM, though.