It's much more simple than that. There is an impulse of demand right at the beginning, and possibly increasing demand following that, but the production is a continuous process. So unless you over-produce (and incur the capital expense of setting up more factories than necessary) there will be a shortage at the beginning, and it will continue until production out paces increasing demand (due to exposure) for long enough to catch up.
Ideally, they will size their production to the continuous demand at middle-of-life to end-of-life, rather than over build and then decommission factories that do not produce enough to break even before becoming unnecessary.
The other option is more liquid pricing, similar to the way airlines do it, to ensure that everyone that wants one badly enough can get one, but this does not help customer goodwill and leads to cries of "price gouging."
4.0 is definitely a 2 sig dig number, but 4 could be 1 sig dig or it could be "exact." You wouldn't say the 2 in 2*pi*r is only one significant digit, would you? Of course not, it would render any precision in pi or r meaningless.
Also, 1200 could have 2, 4, or be exact depending on the context. It's best to always use a notation that includes the fraction mark for non-exact quantities.
Skiing is the only thing that made that map with all the dunes and ruins at night playable. Without it you had to hike-jet across a half-kilometer and engage the enemy with no jetpack. Or stay on the ground and be an easy target for my spinfusor's splash damage.
They used to sell email appliances a couple years ago that were basically 3-5 lines of LCD smacked onto a standard keyboard. They ran for a month off a pair of AA-batteries, and connected to email servers via phone modem. Since they only handled text, the low bandwidth didn't really matter.
It was kind of the evolution of the keyboard w/ memory, where you used to be able to store keystrokes in a keyboard and transmit them to the computer later when you hooked it up. Unfortunately, I can't remember what they're called, but they were so useful, I can't imagine they're not sold anymore. I would think they'd have wifi for no good reason by now.
Criminy. A cursory web search reveals only http://www.landel.com/ which is similar to what I remember being sold at office max only a couple of years ago. But a bit on the expensive side for what it's supposed to do. I can't even find the right search terms.
Yeah we had this problem at my university, too. No professor wants to be responsible for a student actually being expelled, and for some reason they often assume that the act of plagiarism is limited to solely his own class, so they just fail the student on that assignment or for the class, and it never makes it into the "permanent" record. The school had a grace limit: you wouldn't get expelled on the first (and IIRC, even the second) offense, but that was defeated by all the professors who simply did not report the incident.
If it was better enough, it would've done better economically. It failed precisely because it was not sufficiently better to overcome the cost of switching. Eventually, we might get to the point where it makes more sense to make a new architecture than to extend x86 further. At which point, it will happen, either AMD, Intel, or some other company will realize the gains, and make it happen.
I'm not so sure that quote is necessarily anti-capitalism. It looks like one of those quites that reveals more about the listener than the speaker. I'm not a big Manson fan, but he is often cleverly ambiguous.
He claims tethered flight of the M200, (or an alleged M400 that looks suspiciously like a M200 to me...)
I don't know about the concept: a flying wing four feet wide, eight feet long, and only 400 mph seems a bit ambitious to me, but if the math supports it...
Though working model in hover mode seems more plausible to me.
I did not mean to imply that it was finished except for the control system. Although it does seem to me that the control system is significantly holding it back.
He's not lighting MY hundred dollar bills. He put the word geico on my mind, but not in a way that makes me want to actually buy anything from them. If I'm typical, then he's not lighting any dollar bills. If I'm not typical, then most people didn't notice the absurdity of alleged cavemen not actually living in caves; that part of the plan is a failure.
Unless that part of the plan didn't exist, and only happened by accident. Which brings us back to the concept of an idiot savant.
Ok, so what's you're answer to the question? Why should we use the threat of the gun to fund "intellectual curiosity?" Why should someone who's not interested in figuring out the universe be forced to pay for someone else's desire?
If your argument is that these projects wouldn't get funded otherwise, you're really not even a tenth of the way there: If no one is interested enough to pay, why should the projects commence at all?
not necessarily as a result of the ads, I know about the Government Employees Insurance Corporation, but I neither have it, nor intend on purchasing it. I was suckered by the much more relevant-to-car-insurance ad campaign by Progressive.
Yes, but one reason is Moller's sticking to a flawed plan IMO. He states that he wants *everyone* to be able to have one, and he makes the appropriate design choice for that goal, but it's not an appropriate choice for a product that will be sold within even 10 years. He wants the plane to fly itself. (He also requires what amounts to a complete revamp of the ATC system, but NASA and others are already researching something similar to his needs in that arena)
As long as that's a requirement, the plane will never be ready. If he's willing to sell it as a toy for rich playboys with nothing better to do, it might one day take off, (heck, even if I had the money, I wouldn't buy the Fischer Price version anyway), but it doesn't look like he'll take the pragmatic route.
They're just scruffy house-dwellers with poor hygiene. So they're like one step up from hippies.
What kind of marketing genius dreams up an entire campaign involving alleged cave-people who don't exhibit the only qualifying criterion for that status that exists? i.e. living in a cave.
Nothing except that a person with those qualifications would be snapped up by more traditional press, in exchange for more regular income and wider readership.
For the same reason that there's nothing preventing great ballplayers from playing for minor league teams.
It was only "much hotter than it needed to be" if you fail to consider the quantity of cream and sugar people who think McDonald's is a good place to buy coffee would use.
This seems really unlikely. the C-130 has just about the shortest takeoff distance of all of the air force's heavy lifters. Further, it's landing distance is even shorter than its takeoff distance. Even further, I find it completely unbelievable that Chilean pilots would be so ignorant as to steal an expensive piece of foreign machinery under any circumstances. Let alone fly an airplane of which they were unaware of its capabilities and unfamiliar with its controls. This story just doesn't add up.
Not really, you could also broaden the test hardware, say by using a chip that has been independently developed by separate manufacturers. As long as they're all pin-compatible, there should be enough difference that you'll evolve a general algorithm.
At the very least, it'll be general enough to work on all the manufacturers chosen.
There are dangers though, and it's different than traditional licensing.
The cost of a proprietary license is money. It's an up front cost (or per-unit cost) that's fairly easy on accounting.
The cost of GPL is code. It costs nothing up front, but depending on how you use it, could cost valuable trade secrets. Since the value of those are nebulous, especially before the project is begun, accountants won't like the extra thinking they'll have to do.
The danger lies in its difference. It's not simply a drop-in replacement for proprietary code.
My computer is 1G and would be under the 10s if memory test was all it did. Unfortunately I accidentally installed some kind of mainboard software RAID support thingie when I updated the firmware. Now I have to wait 30s for it to realize I've only got one disk, while tantalizing me with "press F4 for RAID options" with which I could presumably disable it if only pressing F4 actually did anything at all. I guess that's what I get for going with VIA.
Still, even an extra two seconds for tea is well worth it. You get quite a craving for it while reading HOWTO guides...
If you dual boot, why bother with grub on the HDD at all? If you put it on a floppy disk (or whatever easily removable, bootable, external storage device you choose), and set the default to whatever the default on the MBR isn't, you've got a makeshift external boot selector. Then you can go get tea right after you turn the machine on, instead of waiting for POST to finish so you can select the correct option in GRUB.
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It's much more simple than that. There is an impulse of demand right at the beginning, and possibly increasing demand following that, but the production is a continuous process. So unless you over-produce (and incur the capital expense of setting up more factories than necessary) there will be a shortage at the beginning, and it will continue until production out paces increasing demand (due to exposure) for long enough to catch up.
Ideally, they will size their production to the continuous demand at middle-of-life to end-of-life, rather than over build and then decommission factories that do not produce enough to break even before becoming unnecessary.
The other option is more liquid pricing, similar to the way airlines do it, to ensure that everyone that wants one badly enough can get one, but this does not help customer goodwill and leads to cries of "price gouging."
As an engineer, I'm also amused.
4.0 is definitely a 2 sig dig number, but 4 could be 1 sig dig or it could be "exact." You wouldn't say the 2 in 2*pi*r is only one significant digit, would you? Of course not, it would render any precision in pi or r meaningless.
Also, 1200 could have 2, 4, or be exact depending on the context. It's best to always use a notation that includes the fraction mark for non-exact quantities.
Skiing is the only thing that made that map with all the dunes and ruins at night playable. Without it you had to hike-jet across a half-kilometer and engage the enemy with no jetpack. Or stay on the ground and be an easy target for my spinfusor's splash damage.
They used to sell email appliances a couple years ago that were basically 3-5 lines of LCD smacked onto a standard keyboard. They ran for a month off a pair of AA-batteries, and connected to email servers via phone modem. Since they only handled text, the low bandwidth didn't really matter.
It was kind of the evolution of the keyboard w/ memory, where you used to be able to store keystrokes in a keyboard and transmit them to the computer later when you hooked it up. Unfortunately, I can't remember what they're called, but they were so useful, I can't imagine they're not sold anymore. I would think they'd have wifi for no good reason by now.
Criminy. A cursory web search reveals only http://www.landel.com/ which is similar to what I remember being sold at office max only a couple of years ago. But a bit on the expensive side for what it's supposed to do. I can't even find the right search terms.
Yes, but then you're faced with the engineering question of why you even have all that water below the active region.
Yeah we had this problem at my university, too. No professor wants to be responsible for a student actually being expelled, and for some reason they often assume that the act of plagiarism is limited to solely his own class, so they just fail the student on that assignment or for the class, and it never makes it into the "permanent" record. The school had a grace limit: you wouldn't get expelled on the first (and IIRC, even the second) offense, but that was defeated by all the professors who simply did not report the incident.
If it was better enough, it would've done better economically. It failed precisely because it was not sufficiently better to overcome the cost of switching. Eventually, we might get to the point where it makes more sense to make a new architecture than to extend x86 further. At which point, it will happen, either AMD, Intel, or some other company will realize the gains, and make it happen.
No need to be a fanboy, but why so much AMD hate?
I'm not so sure that quote is necessarily anti-capitalism. It looks like one of those quites that reveals more about the listener than the speaker. I'm not a big Manson fan, but he is often cleverly ambiguous.
He claims tethered flight of the M200, (or an alleged M400 that looks suspiciously like a M200 to me...)
I don't know about the concept: a flying wing four feet wide, eight feet long, and only 400 mph seems a bit ambitious to me, but if the math supports it...
Though working model in hover mode seems more plausible to me.
I did not mean to imply that it was finished except for the control system. Although it does seem to me that the control system is significantly holding it back.
He's not lighting MY hundred dollar bills. He put the word geico on my mind, but not in a way that makes me want to actually buy anything from them. If I'm typical, then he's not lighting any dollar bills. If I'm not typical, then most people didn't notice the absurdity of alleged cavemen not actually living in caves; that part of the plan is a failure.
Unless that part of the plan didn't exist, and only happened by accident. Which brings us back to the concept of an idiot savant.
Ok, but then with all these immigrants, replacing the Europeans who fail to be born, Won't Europe eventually be devoid of Europeans?
Ok, so what's you're answer to the question? Why should we use the threat of the gun to fund "intellectual curiosity?" Why should someone who's not interested in figuring out the universe be forced to pay for someone else's desire?
If your argument is that these projects wouldn't get funded otherwise, you're really not even a tenth of the way there: If no one is interested enough to pay, why should the projects commence at all?
More of an idiot savant.
not necessarily as a result of the ads, I know about the Government Employees Insurance Corporation, but I neither have it, nor intend on purchasing it. I was suckered by the much more relevant-to-car-insurance ad campaign by Progressive.
Yes, but one reason is Moller's sticking to a flawed plan IMO. He states that he wants *everyone* to be able to have one, and he makes the appropriate design choice for that goal, but it's not an appropriate choice for a product that will be sold within even 10 years. He wants the plane to fly itself. (He also requires what amounts to a complete revamp of the ATC system, but NASA and others are already researching something similar to his needs in that arena)
As long as that's a requirement, the plane will never be ready. If he's willing to sell it as a toy for rich playboys with nothing better to do, it might one day take off, (heck, even if I had the money, I wouldn't buy the Fischer Price version anyway), but it doesn't look like he'll take the pragmatic route.
Heck, I'll be happy if we can get the regular version of mr. Moller's skycar.
They're just scruffy house-dwellers with poor hygiene. So they're like one step up from hippies.
What kind of marketing genius dreams up an entire campaign involving alleged cave-people who don't exhibit the only qualifying criterion for that status that exists? i.e. living in a cave.
Nothing except that a person with those qualifications would be snapped up by more traditional press, in exchange for more regular income and wider readership.
For the same reason that there's nothing preventing great ballplayers from playing for minor league teams.
It was only "much hotter than it needed to be" if you fail to consider the quantity of cream and sugar people who think McDonald's is a good place to buy coffee would use.
This seems really unlikely. the C-130 has just about the shortest takeoff distance of all of the air force's heavy lifters. Further, it's landing distance is even shorter than its takeoff distance. Even further, I find it completely unbelievable that Chilean pilots would be so ignorant as to steal an expensive piece of foreign machinery under any circumstances. Let alone fly an airplane of which they were unaware of its capabilities and unfamiliar with its controls. This story just doesn't add up.
Yeah, it's better to let a thousand years of hatred fester another thousand, rather than try to do anything at all against it. Bush is the stupid one.
Not really, you could also broaden the test hardware, say by using a chip that has been independently developed by separate manufacturers. As long as they're all pin-compatible, there should be enough difference that you'll evolve a general algorithm.
At the very least, it'll be general enough to work on all the manufacturers chosen.
There are dangers though, and it's different than traditional licensing.
The cost of a proprietary license is money. It's an up front cost (or per-unit cost) that's fairly easy on accounting.
The cost of GPL is code. It costs nothing up front, but depending on how you use it, could cost valuable trade secrets. Since the value of those are nebulous, especially before the project is begun, accountants won't like the extra thinking they'll have to do.
The danger lies in its difference. It's not simply a drop-in replacement for proprietary code.
Unrelated personal note:
My computer is 1G and would be under the 10s if memory test was all it did. Unfortunately I accidentally installed some kind of mainboard software RAID support thingie when I updated the firmware. Now I have to wait 30s for it to realize I've only got one disk, while tantalizing me with "press F4 for RAID options" with which I could presumably disable it if only pressing F4 actually did anything at all. I guess that's what I get for going with VIA.
Still, even an extra two seconds for tea is well worth it. You get quite a craving for it while reading HOWTO guides...
Mine, too. But when my system hangs, the light *stays* on, even if the hard drive isn't doing anything at all.
If you dual boot, why bother with grub on the HDD at all? If you put it on a floppy disk (or whatever easily removable, bootable, external storage device you choose), and set the default to whatever the default on the MBR isn't, you've got a makeshift external boot selector. Then you can go get tea right after you turn the machine on, instead of waiting for POST to finish so you can select the correct option in GRUB.