As an IT guy, why do you oppose the paperless office? If we're going to keep moving paper around anyway, why should we bother with even having IT to secure in the first place?
The only way you could do that would be by establishing a monopoly in something the libertarian needs. Otherwise, they'll just support your right to charge what you will, and buy whatever it is somewhere else.
But, then you'd have a monopoly, so of course libertarians would loudly complain. Your "dream" is tautology...
Barnes and Noble already does #2, albeit with a 1 hour limit per day, you can read any book in their ebook catalog. I'm sure they do it to drive sales of the Nook, but I doubt there are a significant number of people actually using it. It's just not that convenient.
Why are you saying you can't get paid as a software developer? You clearly can: get a job as a programmer, and your employer will pay you (once) for what you write for them during working hours, within about two weeks of the work being done.
The same is true for authors. Get a job as a writer, and get paid (once) for the words you produce for your employer.
In this model of yours, how does his employer get paid?
If you're imagining that they're going to sell something other than the software that the software developer writes, then you're imagining a world where we all use Google Docs (or similar), rather than have control and privacy over our own word processing.
If you're imagining a novel author's employer using the books to sell something other than books, then let's hear it. Nothing I can imagine results in books I'd want to read....
0% in 2001? As in, less than a percent by enough that it didn't make sense to round up to 1%? that's a huge increase. I wonder if it's a real increase, or a result of sabotage by either independent malefactors, or by Britannica using an automated approach...
Anyone eligible to vote but who didn't should be considered to have voted for "whoever won" If they wanted to support anything else, the could have. On Voting day, it's everywhere.
Uh.. neutral utopia for spreading ideas and knowledge? I'm pretty sure that (D)ARPA had no intention of neutrality in terms of who was "supposed to" benefit from the communication.....
Do we know what he told them to do? It was right before they implemented the changes that caused the housing bubble, wasn't it? I think it would be very interesting tho know if the consulting he provided included advice on those particular policies and what that advice was...
Hate to break it to you, but not all women read trashy romance novels
In fact, none of the women I know personally read them. They do read other inexplicably popular novels, but so does everybody. They don't seem to be as interested in SciFi, Adventure, or Fantasy novels as I am, though.
That doesn't stop the booksellers from churning out page after page after page of trashy romance novels, though. It seems as though they're the "reality TV" of books. They must be selling a lot of them to someone, and what they sell a lot of, they try to sell more of. An extra 1% of a book that does huge volume results in a bigger bonus than an extra 15% of a book that's not that popular.
The whole point of it was to grow the fan base with new fans. Getting rid of it (instead of toning it down, as was done with the line-o-scrimmage in NFL broadcasts) was pandering to their already existing fans, who of course didn't care about it - they were already putting up with the inability to see the puck. Perhaps the existing fans really cared more about the fights than the gameplay.
While it was in place, I briefly considered getting into the sport. Being able to follow the play would've let me get up to speed more quickly. But it was done with so soon that I never got into it, and didn't have an HD set for several years after that. I still don't watch hockey.
There's nothing wrong with more technology, as long as it improves the experience. It should be a natural addition, not be distracting for the fans or players, and most importantly, should absolutely not be half-assed. A while back NFL tried using a "bullet vision" type technique by placing cameras all around the stadium. But they cheap'd out on it, and didn't use enough cameras, instead using interpolation techniques to get the intermediate frames, and it looked like crap. But it could've been really awesome if they'd used enough cameras not to need the interpolation.
I'm curious how sending us stuff in exchange for only paper and never other stuff is harmful to us and helpful to them economically. Strategically, perhaps, but that's only if we ever go to war on opposing sides.
Doesn't say anything about horses. Google wasn't so good to me. I wonder if other things I've (or people from my ip address as it shifts around) have searched for have tainted my results. I didn't get anything resembling a definition when I searched.
Which sucked, because I wanted to make a joke about farding while hording. I couldn't think of one, though, so I guess it's just as well.
Also, autocorrect sucks. I just want to context click like we used to when a word was misspelt
The problem is that the most voracious buyers of books are women, so it seems safe to make stuff that panders (rather than appeals...) to them. I've owned a nook since it came out, and most of the "deals" are still for collections of trashy romance novels.
It frankly is no surprise that the subset of fantasy that one could only describe as "trashy romance novels with a fantasy setting" would be surprisingly significant.
One would assume that at least some plants were flooded, or their owners would not have gone through the expense of hiring dive teams to recover the equipment...
And that's what it did. Initially, the demand curve didn't shift, but the supply took a huge hit. The price increase allowed the market to adjust, and eventually (quite quickly, apparently) subsided as capacity has been (partially at least) recovered (perhaps using existing capacity with reduced QC, as evidenced by the warranty cut...) and substitute products have been sought (some products may be forgoing HDs in favor of much smaller but still adequate SSDs, for instance).
This is exactly how the market is supposed to work. It's not supposed to be constantly at some steady-state "ideal" price. That's how planned economies work, and results in either or both of shortages and waste.
The only evidence of anything like market failure is the warranty cut, that cut across all manufacturers. One would've expected someone to hold out and become the "quality" producer. But even that is a stretch as the warranties were not cut across all product lines for all manufacturers.
You do know why that was in there, right? To prevent states from claiming proportionately larger representation in the national congress based on a population of people with no voting rights, and limited or no rights whatsoever. In short it was there to limit the representation of slave states, and without it, slavery may well have continued even longer due to the extra representation secured to slave states.
People bring up the 3/5's of a person argument as if it should've been 1, but really it should've been zero. And also included women, and all others permanently without franchise due to policies of the state.
Considering what Microsoft was trying to do to Java.. Nothing that Apple or Oracle do can even come close in terms of total evilness (not to diminish their actions, they're just dwarfed in comparison). The truly horrifying thing is that Microsoft basically got away with it scott free.
Wha? You can't just go down to the local radio depot and get a box of magical star trek sensors. "sensors" are a broad category of various devices that allow us to automate the gathering of certain types of information, with various drawbacks and limitations.
Without defining the rules of the sport around the properties of various sensing devices used, I doubt you could approach perfect scoring in any sport outside of, maybe, Fencing.
They don't need more spectrum. They need smaller cells and to parter with your workplace to install them inside the building. It's a cell phone, not an HF rig. You deal with density by increasing the number of cells in the area.
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As an IT guy, why do you oppose the paperless office? If we're going to keep moving paper around anyway, why should we bother with even having IT to secure in the first place?
The only way you could do that would be by establishing a monopoly in something the libertarian needs. Otherwise, they'll just support your right to charge what you will, and buy whatever it is somewhere else.
But, then you'd have a monopoly, so of course libertarians would loudly complain. Your "dream" is tautology...
Barnes and Noble already does #2, albeit with a 1 hour limit per day, you can read any book in their ebook catalog. I'm sure they do it to drive sales of the Nook, but I doubt there are a significant number of people actually using it. It's just not that convenient.
Why are you saying you can't get paid as a software developer? You clearly can: get a job as a programmer, and your employer will pay you (once) for what you write for them during working hours, within about two weeks of the
work being done.
The same is true for authors. Get a job as a writer, and get paid (once) for the words you produce for your employer.
In this model of yours, how does his employer get paid?
If you're imagining that they're going to sell something other than the software that the software developer writes, then you're imagining a world where we all use Google Docs (or similar), rather than have control and privacy over our own word processing.
If you're imagining a novel author's employer using the books to sell something other than books, then let's hear it. Nothing I can imagine results in books I'd want to read....
I blame Star Trek for that one, though.
0% in 2001? As in, less than a percent by enough that it didn't make sense to round up to 1%? that's a huge increase. I wonder if it's a real increase, or a result of sabotage by either independent malefactors, or by Britannica using an automated approach...
In general, as-you-type "correction" is an insult to anyone writing above a third-grade level.
So.. I guess it's hear to stay then.
here to stay, dammit.
Anyone eligible to vote but who didn't should be considered to have voted for "whoever won" If they wanted to support anything else, the could have. On Voting day, it's everywhere.
Uh.. neutral utopia for spreading ideas and knowledge? I'm pretty sure that (D)ARPA had no intention of neutrality in terms of who was "supposed to" benefit from the communication.....
Can someone explain to me why every time the democrats do something shady it makes both parties look bad?
Do we know what he told them to do? It was right before they implemented the changes that caused the housing bubble, wasn't it? I think it would be very interesting tho know if the consulting he provided included advice on those particular policies and what that advice was...
Hate to break it to you, but not all women read trashy romance novels
In fact, none of the women I know personally read them. They do read other inexplicably popular novels, but so does everybody. They don't seem to be as interested in SciFi, Adventure, or Fantasy novels as I am, though.
That doesn't stop the booksellers from churning out page after page after page of trashy romance novels, though. It seems as though they're the "reality TV" of books. They must be selling a lot of them to someone, and what they sell a lot of, they try to sell more of. An extra 1% of a book that does huge volume results in a bigger bonus than an extra 15% of a book that's not that popular.
The whole point of it was to grow the fan base with new fans. Getting rid of it (instead of toning it down, as was done with the line-o-scrimmage in NFL broadcasts) was pandering to their already existing fans, who of course didn't care about it - they were already putting up with the inability to see the puck. Perhaps the existing fans really cared more about the fights than the gameplay.
While it was in place, I briefly considered getting into the sport. Being able to follow the play would've let me get up to speed more quickly. But it was done with so soon that I never got into it, and didn't have an HD set for several years after that. I still don't watch hockey.
There's nothing wrong with more technology, as long as it improves the experience. It should be a natural addition, not be distracting for the fans or players, and most importantly, should absolutely not be half-assed. A while back NFL tried using a "bullet vision" type technique by placing cameras all around the stadium. But they cheap'd out on it, and didn't use enough cameras, instead using interpolation techniques to get the intermediate frames, and it looked like crap. But it could've been really awesome if they'd used enough cameras not to need the interpolation.
I'm curious how sending us stuff in exchange for only paper and never other stuff is harmful to us and helpful to them economically. Strategically, perhaps, but that's only if we ever go to war on opposing sides.
Doesn't say anything about horses. Google wasn't so good to me. I wonder if other things I've (or people from my ip address as it shifts around) have searched for have tainted my results. I didn't get anything resembling a definition when I searched.
Which sucked, because I wanted to make a joke about farding while hording. I couldn't think of one, though, so I guess it's just as well.
Also, autocorrect sucks. I just want to context click like we used to when a word was misspelt
The problem is that the most voracious buyers of books are women, so it seems safe to make stuff that panders (rather than appeals...) to them. I've owned a nook since it came out, and most of the "deals" are still for collections of trashy romance novels.
It frankly is no surprise that the subset of fantasy that one could only describe as "trashy romance novels with a fantasy setting" would be surprisingly significant.
Where did you get that definition?
One would assume that at least some plants were flooded, or their owners would not have gone through the expense of hiring dive teams to recover the equipment...
And that's what it did. Initially, the demand curve didn't shift, but the supply took a huge hit. The price increase allowed the market to adjust, and eventually (quite quickly, apparently) subsided as capacity has been (partially at least) recovered (perhaps using existing capacity with reduced QC, as evidenced by the warranty cut...) and substitute products have been sought (some products may be forgoing HDs in favor of much smaller but still adequate SSDs, for instance).
This is exactly how the market is supposed to work. It's not supposed to be constantly at some steady-state "ideal" price. That's how planned economies work, and results in either or both of shortages and waste.
The only evidence of anything like market failure is the warranty cut, that cut across all manufacturers. One would've expected someone to hold out and become the "quality" producer. But even that is a stretch as the warranties were not cut across all product lines for all manufacturers.
You do know why that was in there, right? To prevent states from claiming proportionately larger representation in the national congress based on a population of people with no voting rights, and limited or no rights whatsoever. In short it was there to limit the representation of slave states, and without it, slavery may well have continued even longer due to the extra representation secured to slave states.
People bring up the 3/5's of a person argument as if it should've been 1, but really it should've been zero. And also included women, and all others permanently without franchise due to policies of the state.
Considering what Microsoft was trying to do to Java.. Nothing that Apple or Oracle do can even come close in terms of total evilness (not to diminish their actions, they're just dwarfed in comparison). The truly horrifying thing is that Microsoft basically got away with it scott free.
They didn't need it any more once high definition broadcast started gaining traction.....
Wha? You can't just go down to the local radio depot and get a box of magical star trek sensors. "sensors" are a broad category of various devices that allow us to automate the gathering of certain types of information, with various drawbacks and limitations.
Without defining the rules of the sport around the properties of various sensing devices used, I doubt you could approach perfect scoring in any sport outside of, maybe, Fencing.
They don't need more spectrum. They need smaller cells and to parter with your workplace to install them inside the building. It's a cell phone, not an HF rig. You deal with density by increasing the number of cells in the area.
Yeah, but verizon won't display less than two or three bars....