For a market controlled by both supply and demand, if you have the same supply of each song, it makes sense to charge more for songs that are more demanded, since you can only supply a limited amount of each song. But in the case of digital downloaded songs, supply is basically unlimited. You would want to set the price very low--as low as you can go while keeping the demand curve fairly elastic. (Obviously at some price point people will be too saturated and stop demanding more.) Moreover, if you factor in limited bandwidth, then the supply of each song is pooled. It makes no sense to charge a different amount for different songs because popular songs and unpopular songs consume the same supply (bandwidth).
The Earth's core isn't heated by gravitational pressure. Pressure doesn't create heat unless the Earth is actively shrinking. Otherwise it could be used as a perpetual energy source. As far as I know, the high temperature of the Earth's core is caused by radioactive decay.
From the looks of the screenshots, the game is gonna have some Wing-Commander-style between mission story telling. Ah, Wing Commander 2 was a pretty sweet game back then.
I don't get how so many people have some rosy picture of hand-counting votes, as if hand counting were somehow impervious to counting errors and impossible to manipulate. Humans make mistakes. They make them a hell of a lot more often than computers.
It seems to me that ballot secrecy is a contrary goal to the goal of fraud resistance. How is it possible to guarantee anonymous ballots and yet be sure that each ballot was generated by a real person?
Vendors like Dell sell computers with XP. Their business lines pretty much come with XP by default. It's true that "Dell Recommends Vista upgrade" but it's not like they are twisting your hand.
I don't think it's all that hard for Joe to find an XP computer nowadays.
Who needs photons? A simple resistor will do. Johnson noise is real random and easy to put on a circuit board. Is there some advantage of the optics that I'm not seeing?
This reminds me of the medical marijuana nonsense. If marijuana has therapeutic powers (which doesn't seem at all unlikely to me), then it should be extracted and studied. People who are smoking it just want to get high.
Nah, I think most of the antibiotic resistances are from farmers regularly feeding farm animals large amounts of antibiotics to combat their disease-ridden living environments.
Interestingly enough, having cameras line the streets might do a better job of protecting us against the police, than protecting us against terrorists.
That is, assuming the people viewing the tapes aren't the same people who are on the streets.
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Nah, I bet people would waste proportionally as much time online in a 32 hour week as a 40 hour week.
Well, when a company got nothing else to lose...
For a market controlled by both supply and demand, if you have the same supply of each song, it makes sense to charge more for songs that are more demanded, since you can only supply a limited amount of each song. But in the case of digital downloaded songs, supply is basically unlimited. You would want to set the price very low--as low as you can go while keeping the demand curve fairly elastic. (Obviously at some price point people will be too saturated and stop demanding more.) Moreover, if you factor in limited bandwidth, then the supply of each song is pooled. It makes no sense to charge a different amount for different songs because popular songs and unpopular songs consume the same supply (bandwidth).
Nah, the original usage was descriptive of some guy destroying stuff with an axe.
http://xkcd.com/149/
The Earth's core isn't heated by gravitational pressure. Pressure doesn't create heat unless the Earth is actively shrinking. Otherwise it could be used as a perpetual energy source. As far as I know, the high temperature of the Earth's core is caused by radioactive decay.
From the looks of the screenshots, the game is gonna have some Wing-Commander-style between mission story telling. Ah, Wing Commander 2 was a pretty sweet game back then.
I'm sure the engineers thought of that and put in a trigger level above normal swaying.
I don't get how so many people have some rosy picture of hand-counting votes, as if hand counting were somehow impervious to counting errors and impossible to manipulate. Humans make mistakes. They make them a hell of a lot more often than computers.
It seems to me that ballot secrecy is a contrary goal to the goal of fraud resistance. How is it possible to guarantee anonymous ballots and yet be sure that each ballot was generated by a real person?
No, because you would be looking deep into the past, well before humans or the Earth existed.
I can't wait for E17 to be finished.
It's cheap compared to business school, too. You gotta factor in all those nice desks and executive chairs.
I blame the lack of orgies.
Vendors like Dell sell computers with XP. Their business lines pretty much come with XP by default. It's true that "Dell Recommends Vista upgrade" but it's not like they are twisting your hand. I don't think it's all that hard for Joe to find an XP computer nowadays.
No. A microamp is 0.000001 amps, and a microwatt is 0.000001 watts.
Unless these computers are similar in performance and modernness, it makes no sense to compare them for power consumption.
Obviously, your odds go up if you fly a lot. Business travelers?
Who needs photons? A simple resistor will do. Johnson noise is real random and easy to put on a circuit board. Is there some advantage of the optics that I'm not seeing?
This reminds me of the medical marijuana nonsense. If marijuana has therapeutic powers (which doesn't seem at all unlikely to me), then it should be extracted and studied. People who are smoking it just want to get high.
Nah, I think most of the antibiotic resistances are from farmers regularly feeding farm animals large amounts of antibiotics to combat their disease-ridden living environments.
Interestingly enough, having cameras line the streets might do a better job of protecting us against the police, than protecting us against terrorists. That is, assuming the people viewing the tapes aren't the same people who are on the streets.
fill your hard drive with goatse
Not quite 200F (you'd be dead), but it does get above 110F here pretty frequently.
That's certainly usury in all states.