The "insurmountable hurtle" in the case of cable companies is rights-of-way easements, not the actual copper. The natural solution to this is to examine all of the existing rights-of-way that have been granted and tack on additional identical routes that can be purchased/auctioned at the municipal level.
Ten wires is just as ugly as one. 100 wires might be uneconomical or impractical, but I think it'd sort itself out pretty quick.
Actually taking delivery is academic. They perform their buffering by securing future prices.
You can buy and sell puts and calls, and you can even buy derivatives of stocks which function like commodities, but that's only relevant to the discussion if it helps you understand what's going on.
Despite the "speculators" there is still the *actual* market for oil. If trader A sells trader B the option to buy at $150/barrel in six months, and the market price of oil is $100/barrel, then trader A makes money as his option expires unexercised.
Trader B will then have paid $100/barrel + the commission. An efficient market will tend to make the "strike+commission" price approximate the moving average. And the beauty is that the more speculators there are, the more efficient the market will be.
It behaves exactly as if the actual deliveries were made, but without the overhead of physical warehouses.
Clearly, He just didn't care for a while. And then it was too late.
I'm not sure if I would buy *those* plugs though. They look a little wonky.
This breakthrough product is the only one of its kind to deliver flat attenuation of sound for musicians. Flat attenuation enables the wearer to hear the music just as it was intended, with a decrease of up to 20 decibels of potentially damaging noise.
So.. is it flat? or is it up to 20 decibels? What's the frequency range over which it's "flat attenuateion"?
What you want to get is something like E*A*R's superfit 36 (sorry I think that's a store. It was the best link after googling) The important bit is it's "up to" 36 decibels of protection, and the band that gives you a visual indicator of when they're inserted properly.
Indeed. I've got some friends like that. I call them "Collectors."
It makes a certain amount of sense at first, but after you think about it, you realize that with Netflix as your movie library, you don't have to worry about refreshing your media when it gets obsolete, and you can watch anything you want, within a couple days of when you think about it. Or right away, depending on what you want.
If your media costs fifty cents per burn, you could conceivably be paying two or three times your netflix subscription just to be able to rewatch stuff later. That money would be much better spent on an annuity: after six or seven years, you'd have accumulated enough to pay for your netflix account on interest in perpetuity. That gives you access to all the films you've already watched, AND the films that haven't even been pressed yet.
Not really. Absent copyright and privacy concerns, caching/multicast would save quite a bit more bandwidth than bittorrent ever could.
Bittorrent is sort of a next-best option, as it's rather like a distributed cache. It's still better than nothing because some of the data only crosses in-network, but it's main advantage is that it it can be set up ad-hoc per-file. It does reduce the seeder's bandwidth load, but it's effect on total network utilization is somewhat less pronounced.
Multicast would involve some very tricky agreements between the networks, since some networks could see it as other networks unfairly using their own internal bandwidth. And caching has precisely the opposite problem.
In other words, the problems with multicast/caching are political not technical, which is one reason why bittorrent is filling the void created by the networks' failure to implement.
Amtrak has discovered an alternate revenue stream to passengers. One which is much more reliable, and does not depend on customer satisfaction. So it makes sense that they focus most of their energy on that stream rather than their supposed reason for business.
I looked into that once. It was much cheaper to drive. Which made me very suspicious about the petro-economics of the whole deal.
The problem is that you have to buy a ticket for you car that's already more expensive than food, fuel, and lodging for the trip. Then you have to also buy a ticket for yourself, which is half again as expensive as the last ticket. Then you still have to take care of your meals.
And it gets much, much worse if you are a group of people.
A family of four would pay almost an order of magnitude less to travel by car.
And that would be correct.. BEFORE THE TSA. when the airlines were contracting private security companies to do the screening, they could set whatever terms they wanted on the ticket.
But TSA doing it, as an agency under a cabinet level department, is pretty squarely in the unconstitutional realm.
Ocean liners might be great for transatlantic crossings (well.. they were, anyway, until the queen mary stopped doing that), but your friends will never let you travel that way.
Somehow, you're going to end up drinking drugged milk yet again, and have to cut yourself down from the tree after you wake up.
I think it's safe to say that, should a mostly chinese and american (or maybe just like.. san fransisco or something) refugee expedition flee the solar system and establish itself in another solar system in another galaxy, with no contact with home (and indeed, the possible destruction of home), there might be some changes to the language along the way.
DN3D had a shrink ray. At one point you had to figure out that you could shoot the shrink ray at a mirror and it would bounce. Which was useful for shrinking *yourself* to get through the crack in the wall to the secret room.
It was so long ago, though, that I don't remember if that was actually *needed* to finish the game.
And of course, the "use the urinal to get some health" gimmick, as well as the "smash the urinal and drink the water to get more health" gimick.
Anyway, it was a decent, but not outstanding game, but it had lots of little gimicks and lines from Army of Darkness that made it pretty neat.
Doom, though, and the doom-offs, they've always been boring as hell.
Because he's the republican you want if a republican wins the White House, or because he's the republican you want your guy to run against?
Because one of those is some pretty unethical, cynical politicking, and one is not necessarily so bad, from a certain point of view. I mean, presumably in the second case you're voting for the "worst of two evils" in the hope that it is too evil to actual reach power. This strategy has been known to backfire.
The problem with that is that the movies were *better* than the televisions at the time. This is no longer the case.
With a 1080p screen and appropriate media, you can get a better image than the theaters are capable of providing. (well, the film theaters.) AND the film theaters are inconstent at even providing the maximum quality image they're capable of.
AND the theaters (even digital ones) seem to love to install very low fidelity sound systems (but loud.. can't spare loud). Much lower quality all things considered, than even the wal*mart home-theater-in-a-box dealies.
AND theater seats have the highest concentration of fecal coliform bacteria of any surface.
AND the gum
AND laser pointers
AND cell phones. (a ring or two doesn't even bother me. People are *answering* their phones *in* the theater.)
AND noisy people in general that aren't me (my comments are funny and apropos, of course)
AND the price of freakin' popcorn. I realize that they make most of their money on concessions, but perhaps not charging $5.00 for a small popcorn would encourage more people to buy it.
Not much, and that's the problem. Neither President Bush, nor McCain, Obama, or Clinton have the will to veto much that comes out of a democratic congress. Since Obama doesn't actually have a platform, our best hope is that a Clinton victory will usher in a republican congress following her wack-job plan to nationalize 13% of the economy.
It is less than hillary's lead if you count FL and Michigan. Why should the people in those states be disenfranchised because their legislators made willfully stupid timing decisions?
Oh, a vague announcement of "exclusive downloadable content" which you won't find out until you buy the product? Can you say, "Be Sure to Drink Your Ovaltine" five times fast?
To be fair, it makes very no business sense to keep the old services going when a) they're not driving new sales, and b) customers continue to buy sony crap even after being burned several times.
One thing, off the top of my head, is that you can lose $2 billion and still have a lot of money. If you only had $1 billion, you couldn't do that.
Uh, you could also fund some kind of big project that requires a lot of people to work on for a long time. Like maybe an x-prize shot, or a giant hospital/relief ship.
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The "insurmountable hurtle" in the case of cable companies is rights-of-way easements, not the actual copper. The natural solution to this is to examine all of the existing rights-of-way that have been granted and tack on additional identical routes that can be purchased/auctioned at the municipal level.
Ten wires is just as ugly as one. 100 wires might be uneconomical or impractical, but I think it'd sort itself out pretty quick.
Actually taking delivery is academic. They perform their buffering by securing future prices.
You can buy and sell puts and calls, and you can even buy derivatives of stocks which function like commodities, but that's only relevant to the discussion if it helps you understand what's going on.
Despite the "speculators" there is still the *actual* market for oil. If trader A sells trader B the option to buy at $150/barrel in six months, and the market price of oil is $100/barrel, then trader A makes money as his option expires unexercised.
Trader B will then have paid $100/barrel + the commission. An efficient market will tend to make the "strike+commission" price approximate the moving average. And the beauty is that the more speculators there are, the more efficient the market will be.
It behaves exactly as if the actual deliveries were made, but without the overhead of physical warehouses.
G'dang it, I had mod points like two days ago.
I'm not sure if I would buy *those* plugs though. They look a little wonky.
So.. is it flat? or is it up to 20 decibels? What's the frequency range over which it's "flat attenuateion"?
What you want to get is something like E*A*R's superfit 36 (sorry I think that's a store. It was the best link after googling) The important bit is it's "up to" 36 decibels of protection, and the band that gives you a visual indicator of when they're inserted properly.
Indeed. I've got some friends like that. I call them "Collectors."
It makes a certain amount of sense at first, but after you think about it, you realize that with Netflix as your movie library, you don't have to worry about refreshing your media when it gets obsolete, and you can watch anything you want, within a couple days of when you think about it. Or right away, depending on what you want.
If your media costs fifty cents per burn, you could conceivably be paying two or three times your netflix subscription just to be able to rewatch stuff later. That money would be much better spent on an annuity: after six or seven years, you'd have accumulated enough to pay for your netflix account on interest in perpetuity. That gives you access to all the films you've already watched, AND the films that haven't even been pressed yet.
Not really. Absent copyright and privacy concerns, caching/multicast would save quite a bit more bandwidth than bittorrent ever could.
Bittorrent is sort of a next-best option, as it's rather like a distributed cache. It's still better than nothing because some of the data only crosses in-network, but it's main advantage is that it it can be set up ad-hoc per-file. It does reduce the seeder's bandwidth load, but it's effect on total network utilization is somewhat less pronounced.
Multicast would involve some very tricky agreements between the networks, since some networks could see it as other networks unfairly using their own internal bandwidth. And caching has precisely the opposite problem.
In other words, the problems with multicast/caching are political not technical, which is one reason why bittorrent is filling the void created by the networks' failure to implement.
Sort of.
Amtrak has discovered an alternate revenue stream to passengers. One which is much more reliable, and does not depend on customer satisfaction. So it makes sense that they focus most of their energy on that stream rather than their supposed reason for business.
I looked into that once. It was much cheaper to drive. Which made me very suspicious about the petro-economics of the whole deal.
The problem is that you have to buy a ticket for you car that's already more expensive than food, fuel, and lodging for the trip. Then you have to also buy a ticket for yourself, which is half again as expensive as the last ticket. Then you still have to take care of your meals.
And it gets much, much worse if you are a group of people.
A family of four would pay almost an order of magnitude less to travel by car.
If his first language was french, his name would be more like, "Français anonyme."
And that would be correct.. BEFORE THE TSA. when the airlines were contracting private security companies to do the screening, they could set whatever terms they wanted on the ticket.
But TSA doing it, as an agency under a cabinet level department, is pretty squarely in the unconstitutional realm.
Ocean liners might be great for transatlantic crossings (well.. they were, anyway, until the queen mary stopped doing that), but your friends will never let you travel that way.
Somehow, you're going to end up drinking drugged milk yet again, and have to cut yourself down from the tree after you wake up.
I thought the nationalists were the communists...
Anyway,
I think it's safe to say that, should a mostly chinese and american (or maybe just like.. san fransisco or something) refugee expedition flee the solar system and establish itself in another solar system in another galaxy, with no contact with home (and indeed, the possible destruction of home), there might be some changes to the language along the way.
DN3D had a shrink ray. At one point you had to figure out that you could shoot the shrink ray at a mirror and it would bounce. Which was useful for shrinking *yourself* to get through the crack in the wall to the secret room.
It was so long ago, though, that I don't remember if that was actually *needed* to finish the game.
And of course, the "use the urinal to get some health" gimmick, as well as the "smash the urinal and drink the water to get more health" gimick.
Anyway, it was a decent, but not outstanding game, but it had lots of little gimicks and lines from Army of Darkness that made it pretty neat.
Doom, though, and the doom-offs, they've always been boring as hell.
Yeah, those computer controlled milling machines are a dime a dozen. Everyone has one in his basement already.
Because he's the republican you want if a republican wins the White House, or because he's the republican you want your guy to run against?
Because one of those is some pretty unethical, cynical politicking, and one is not necessarily so bad, from a certain point of view. I mean, presumably in the second case you're voting for the "worst of two evils" in the hope that it is too evil to actual reach power. This strategy has been known to backfire.
There's always the relatively simple hack of hermetically sealing your home theater and filling it with argon.
Ha Hah, You thought "Transformers" was a good film.
The problem with that is that the movies were *better* than the televisions at the time. This is no longer the case.
With a 1080p screen and appropriate media, you can get a better image than the theaters are capable of providing. (well, the film theaters.) AND the film theaters are inconstent at even providing the maximum quality image they're capable of.
AND the theaters (even digital ones) seem to love to install very low fidelity sound systems (but loud.. can't spare loud). Much lower quality all things considered, than even the wal*mart home-theater-in-a-box dealies.
AND theater seats have the highest concentration of fecal coliform bacteria of any surface.
AND the gum
AND laser pointers
AND cell phones. (a ring or two doesn't even bother me. People are *answering* their phones *in* the theater.)
AND noisy people in general that aren't me (my comments are funny and apropos, of course)
AND the price of freakin' popcorn. I realize that they make most of their money on concessions, but perhaps not charging $5.00 for a small popcorn would encourage more people to buy it.
There will always be room for IMAX, though.
Not much, and that's the problem. Neither President Bush, nor McCain, Obama, or Clinton have the will to veto much that comes out of a democratic congress. Since Obama doesn't actually have a platform, our best hope is that a Clinton victory will usher in a republican congress following her wack-job plan to nationalize 13% of the economy.
It is less than hillary's lead if you count FL and Michigan. Why should the people in those states be disenfranchised because their legislators made willfully stupid timing decisions?
I'd like to read an article or editorial or something about that NYT thing. Got a cite?
Oh, a vague announcement of "exclusive downloadable content" which you won't find out until you buy the product? Can you say, "Be Sure to Drink Your Ovaltine" five times fast?
To be fair, it makes very no business sense to keep the old services going when a) they're not driving new sales, and b) customers continue to buy sony crap even after being burned several times.
One thing, off the top of my head, is that you can lose $2 billion and still have a lot of money. If you only had $1 billion, you couldn't do that.
Uh, you could also fund some kind of big project that requires a lot of people to work on for a long time. Like maybe an x-prize shot, or a giant hospital/relief ship.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaSmart is pretty purpose-built.
You should run your signature through a vector graphics software (inkscape works pretty well) bitmap trace algorithm first.