Frankly the best thing they could do is get rid of common consecutive letters on the same key. So if you're typing "on to some bars" or something, you don't have to hit the advance key or wait for auto-advance.
If the phone lets you DIAL with voice, you can do away with the keypad altogether. Then we can start talking about truly interesting designs. Like instead of having a radio in your ear to communicate with a phone which communicates by radio to the cell, why not just put the phone in the ear-device?
The "flippers" as you so put it only exist because of the temporary market failure present during the initial roll out of the product wherein the manufacturer cannot make enough units to satisfy the demand at the fixed price. They actually provide a valuable service to the market by restoring price elasticity.
There are really only two solutions to the "flipper" problem. You can allow prices to rise to market-clearing levels or find a way to produce enough units to match demand. The former option will piss off the status-seekers who see the price as the value of the system. They buy because it is expensive, so a drop in list price becomes a loss of value to them since their more patient friends will have the system for much less and their window of bragging is not really all that large at all. Those people are jerks and we should ignore them.
The other group, the people who just really want to play the system as early as possible will simply have to decide if the extra time is really worth the price premium. The price of the system to them is irrelevant except inasmuch as it exceeds their perceived value, in which case they will elect to wait a bit.
The best option though is probably to hire outside manufacturing to produce extra units during the peak demand times. Covering the lower margins could be accomplished by producing "collector's editions" or simply charging a bit extra for the auxiliary models during the launch period.
In any event, a shortage is a market failure. The companies making these things have a pretty good idea what the demand is going to look like (especially with the existence of pre-orders) so there is no excuse for running out for months at a time. Unless it is a planned market failure...
It is just as good as turning over the hard drive itself in regards to recovering freed, but un-overwritten data. Did you mean that the image is unlikely to reflect previous states in sectors which have been overwritten with new data?
hmm.. have you tried knoppix? There are a lot more live-cd distributions than the ubuntoos. (which I'll add, as an inexperienced, occasional linux user, i've been disappointed in as well. Is it because they combined the installation CD with the live CD for the recent version?)
In my (admittedly limited) experience however, live-distributions have tended to be squirrelly compared even to their own installed versions.
If you don't like the offerings, then either write-in something or hold your nose and vote against the worst option. Isn't getting not-the-worst better than getting the worst?
If you don't even bother to write-in or vote-against, then I call shenanigans on your claim of having un-listened-to better ideas.
They put it in the sleeve to preserve your anonymity. The fact that you voted and what you voted for are recorded in separate places to ensure that the only repercussion of your vote is the possibility of your candidate/issue winning.
Perhaps, but if you don't vote, but complain anyway, you're really saying, "I don't really have an opinion about what should be done, but I still want to bitch about someone else's solution if it turns out to not be perfect."
Sure, you have a "right" to complain. That right is even recognized specifically by the first amendment. But your opinion is irrelevant because you're a whiny asshole.
Pick the best option you can. If you win, but you don't like how it turned out, you can bitch about how your pick didn't turn out how you expected. If you lose and you don't like how it turns out, you can bitch about how you told them so.
If you don't even participate, then get out of the way for the rest of us that want to actually resolve things.
sounds like these UKians (what's the real word for this?) smelled a trap and didn't really know the proper way to turn it around. Which kinda goes against your "didn't realize it was an exaggerated stereotype" hypothesis.
It's like the whole "hypnotist show" effect. Everyone knows that none of the people up there are actually hypnotized, hypnosis just doesn't work the way the showmen would have you believe. But people act pretty crazy up there because the "oh I was hypnotized" excuse gives them some kind of license to act crazy. It's really just a traveling improv troupe with lots of inexperienced actors.
No, YOU can't remember the book. The computer was contaminated when golgafrinchan telephone sanitizer breeding stock was introduced to the system. Since Arthur was partially descended from them, his question (assuming the scrabble-oracle system was accurate) was corrupted by this influence. Not to mention the fact that the actual mouthpiece, a little girl in the first book, was vaporized by the vogon destructor fleet.
All we can be sure of is that "what is six times nine" is at a minimum slightly off from the real answer. Since "What is six times seven" actually is forty-two, the logical assumption is that that is the correct question, but even that requires quite a few prerequisite assumptions.
What I don't understand is: those FM transmitters are essentially a stop-gap measure for the fact that most car audio players don't have an auxiliary input. They serve the same function the old cassette adapters did for people that no longer have cassette players. But for the past couple of decades, pretty much everyone has had an auxiliary audio device: cd-player, md-player, mp3-player, heck, even a cb radio.
So why aren't car-radio manufacturers just putting some good ol' RCA plugs, eighth-inch stereo mini-plugs, and/or digital audio or other inputs under a flap somewhere on the console rather than force people to destroy their audio by modulating, transmitting, and de-modulating it?
Yes, the war of 1812 was about a number of things. One very prominent problem however was british impressment of american sailors. If kidnapping, piracy, and forced labor aren't enough to justify a war, I don't know what is.
France surrendered to Germany on their own. Who were we to decide to impose our ideas of freedom on a population that clearly wanted to be part of Nazi Germany?
Why would Microsoft care what their stock price is? That's just the price at which people who've already purchased part of the company are selling to other people who'd like a part of the company. It doesn't affect the bottom line one iota.
Except, XML with it's myriad of nested markup dealys isn't really a "markup language" at all. In it's quest for great machine readability, it sacrificed the most important thing it's class of specifications has going for it: human readability.
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There's a list of the ten fastest typists in the world?
Frankly the best thing they could do is get rid of common consecutive letters on the same key. So if you're typing "on to some bars" or something, you don't have to hit the advance key or wait for auto-advance.
If the phone lets you DIAL with voice, you can do away with the keypad altogether. Then we can start talking about truly interesting designs. Like instead of having a radio in your ear to communicate with a phone which communicates by radio to the cell, why not just put the phone in the ear-device?
The "flippers" as you so put it only exist because of the temporary market failure present during the initial roll out of the product wherein the manufacturer cannot make enough units to satisfy the demand at the fixed price. They actually provide a valuable service to the market by restoring price elasticity.
There are really only two solutions to the "flipper" problem. You can allow prices to rise to market-clearing levels or find a way to produce enough units to match demand. The former option will piss off the status-seekers who see the price as the value of the system. They buy because it is expensive, so a drop in list price becomes a loss of value to them since their more patient friends will have the system for much less and their window of bragging is not really all that large at all. Those people are jerks and we should ignore them.
The other group, the people who just really want to play the system as early as possible will simply have to decide if the extra time is really worth the price premium. The price of the system to them is irrelevant except inasmuch as it exceeds their perceived value, in which case they will elect to wait a bit.
The best option though is probably to hire outside manufacturing to produce extra units during the peak demand times. Covering the lower margins could be accomplished by producing "collector's editions" or simply charging a bit extra for the auxiliary models during the launch period.
In any event, a shortage is a market failure. The companies making these things have a pretty good idea what the demand is going to look like (especially with the existence of pre-orders) so there is no excuse for running out for months at a time. Unless it is a planned market failure...
If that's how you go about agreeing with people, I wouldn't want to see what happens when you think they're wrong.
hmm.. have you tried knoppix? There are a lot more live-cd distributions than the ubuntoos. (which I'll add, as an inexperienced, occasional linux user, i've been disappointed in as well. Is it because they combined the installation CD with the live CD for the recent version?)
In my (admittedly limited) experience however, live-distributions have tended to be squirrelly compared even to their own installed versions.
If you don't like the offerings, then either write-in something or hold your nose and vote against the worst option. Isn't getting not-the-worst better than getting the worst?
If you don't even bother to write-in or vote-against, then I call shenanigans on your claim of having un-listened-to better ideas.
Um.. you "write-in" not getting robbed at all. Then you just have to worry about whether or not the felons are allowed to vote.
They put it in the sleeve to preserve your anonymity. The fact that you voted and what you voted for are recorded in separate places to ensure that the only repercussion of your vote is the possibility of your candidate/issue winning.
Perhaps, but if you don't vote, but complain anyway, you're really saying, "I don't really have an opinion about what should be done, but I still want to bitch about someone else's solution if it turns out to not be perfect."
Sure, you have a "right" to complain. That right is even recognized specifically by the first amendment. But your opinion is irrelevant because you're a whiny asshole.
Pick the best option you can. If you win, but you don't like how it turned out, you can bitch about how your pick didn't turn out how you expected. If you lose and you don't like how it turns out, you can bitch about how you told them so.
If you don't even participate, then get out of the way for the rest of us that want to actually resolve things.
sounds like these UKians (what's the real word for this?) smelled a trap and didn't really know the proper way to turn it around. Which kinda goes against your "didn't realize it was an exaggerated stereotype" hypothesis.
It's like the whole "hypnotist show" effect. Everyone knows that none of the people up there are actually hypnotized, hypnosis just doesn't work the way the showmen would have you believe. But people act pretty crazy up there because the "oh I was hypnotized" excuse gives them some kind of license to act crazy. It's really just a traveling improv troupe with lots of inexperienced actors.
No, YOU can't remember the book. The computer was contaminated when golgafrinchan telephone sanitizer breeding stock was introduced to the system. Since Arthur was partially descended from them, his question (assuming the scrabble-oracle system was accurate) was corrupted by this influence. Not to mention the fact that the actual mouthpiece, a little girl in the first book, was vaporized by the vogon destructor fleet.
All we can be sure of is that "what is six times nine" is at a minimum slightly off from the real answer. Since "What is six times seven" actually is forty-two, the logical assumption is that that is the correct question, but even that requires quite a few prerequisite assumptions.
Both good questions, but they need to be followed up with further questions.
1) does the gene-cure include a tweak that makes crocoturtle people seem more attractive too?
2) (assuming "twice as slow" means, "half as fast") slow as in IQ-70? or slow as in the handicapped genius kid from "Malcolm in the Middle?"
"why can't the government provide certification, without the paternal step of saying that I can't pay a witch doctor to bleed me?"
Um.. it does? What the hell is chiropractic if not a fancy word for "witch doctor?"
"making voting idiot proof" shouldn't mean making it easier for idiots to vote.
What I don't understand is: those FM transmitters are essentially a stop-gap measure for the fact that most car audio players don't have an auxiliary input. They serve the same function the old cassette adapters did for people that no longer have cassette players. But for the past couple of decades, pretty much everyone has had an auxiliary audio device: cd-player, md-player, mp3-player, heck, even a cb radio.
So why aren't car-radio manufacturers just putting some good ol' RCA plugs, eighth-inch stereo mini-plugs, and/or digital audio or other inputs under a flap somewhere on the console rather than force people to destroy their audio by modulating, transmitting, and de-modulating it?
The kind of employer from whom all those nice aeron chairs were available for cut-rate prices on ebay.
She's married to a nerd. I think she can be pretty sure he's not with any girls in pubs.
Yeah, 'cause we should just let anybody practice medicine. That won't come around to bite us in the ass at all.
Yes, the war of 1812 was about a number of things. One very prominent problem however was british impressment of american sailors. If kidnapping, piracy, and forced labor aren't enough to justify a war, I don't know what is.
France surrendered to Germany on their own. Who were we to decide to impose our ideas of freedom on a population that clearly wanted to be part of Nazi Germany?
Why would Microsoft care what their stock price is? That's just the price at which people who've already purchased part of the company are selling to other people who'd like a part of the company. It doesn't affect the bottom line one iota.
Except, XML with it's myriad of nested markup dealys isn't really a "markup language" at all. In it's quest for great machine readability, it sacrificed the most important thing it's class of specifications has going for it: human readability.
It's an anagram for MS-DOS. In fact, it's a two-letter transpose of it. Freaky.