As long as people are willing to pay 2-3x the current cost, they can have a TV with replaceable parts and the infrastructure required to support it. Of course, many people won't be able to buy these products, but boy howdy, if they do, it will really be great.
I am not an "internet entrepreneur", but from the outside this appears like a suicidal business plan. Was this the plan from the beginning? Get everybody "hooked" with "free" hosting and then, when it was embedded everywhere, try to extort an arm and a leg? Or did they try it as it was, then finally panic as they started to run out of VC, and this is their reaction? Or are they doing this to cause a problem, wait for the obvious and inevitable backlash, then are going to come back in a week and say "we heard you, we are sorry, its $50 out of the goodness of our hearts"?
In any case, it's hard to believe that anyone at Photobucket thinks they are getting the $400; if so, they fundamentally misunderstand the market. The mere fact they asked for it is just going to piss everybody off and there are plenty of others willing to offer the same for far less.
Exactly. Tylenol does exactly *nothing* for migraines. One of the worst migraines I have ever had was when I was on the nominal dose of Vicodin, which is like super-Tylenol with a mild opiate.
Aspirin and caffeine (anacin or Excedrin {which has tylenol as a "filler" as far as I can tell}) is the only thing that you can get over-the-counter that is likely to have an positive effect on migraines.
This is not "yelling fire in a crowded theater", in any way, shape, or form. That theory is used incessantly to justify suppression of speech. In this case, it is being used to *intentionally suppress political speech that is not in accordance with the current government position*, which is the sort of speech that requires the most protection.
Germany's history of anti-semitism is not the issue. If you examined the history of anti-semitism of Germany, it's hardly any different in theory from anyplace els - anti-semitism has been a recurring theme throughout history.
What *is* different is their history of oppression that led to the most appalling - and efficient - attempt at genocide in human history. The root of this was permitting repression in favor of the government, leading to a dictatorship. This allowed thugs with delusions of racial superiority to take over.
The Germans are *dead wrong* to criminalize speech, because as soon as you do, you permit someone else to decide what "hate" means - just like 1933.
Anyone who knows anything about it knew it was possible. Von Braun studied landing the Saturn 1. The problem was that it also reduces the throw weight by something like 30% - then and now. If getting a bigger booster is the end goal - and it was, at the time - then flyback boosters don't make any sense.
The fact that you are on here gloating about it means you never understood that in the first place - and calling everybody else assholes because of your own ignorance is exactly what is expected from fanbois.
There are very few rabid conservatives here, it's a leftist dream world.
You might consider that all this distress you are under is not because you are a leftist, but because you are an excitable, gullible, moron, highly susceptible to suggestion.
Nonsense. In the US, the press is making things up out of whole cloth in order to bring down the government. And an increasing number of people see it for exactly what it is - that's why the favorable opinion of the press is in the single digits, below even Congress. And anticipating the next argument - Trump is the effect, not the cause.
Error beyond 3-sigma means the same thing no matter what you are talking about, assuming the same distribution - essentially, the possibility that the data is outside 3 sigma by random error is 0.003, or.3%. 4 sigma is.00006 or 0.006%.
3-sigma is the usual standard for proving something, if your prediction {of whatever} falls outside 3 sigma, your theory has a significant problem, 4 sigma, there is something very big that you are missing.
You guys are looking strictly at the financials. If a national priority payload is lost, recovering the cost is close to irrelevant. It might be super-swell to get the money back but the national security issues are what drives the system.
That's why the commercial world and the national defense world are apples and oranges.
Eleven days is not *nearly* long enough to make any useful conclusions. I have done a lot of swings and graveyard work in the past, and it always took me and all my fellow workers took weeks and weeks to see the full effect. It would take even longer now (~30 years on). As noted in another response, switching shifts after a few weeks is even worse, because then you never get to any sort of stable equilibrium (stable, not good). Of course, we tried various approaches to cope and many of them seemed OK for very short periods of 10-11 days, but later stopped working and caused worse problems than doing nothing special.
And that is in general a much different issue, since the phone system in general *is* a common carrier and subject to common carrier laws. A private wi-fi service IS NOT a common carrier. Once you get past that, ISPs are (or might be, that is yet to be challenged and only is treated that way by Obama executive order).
Are they suggesting that the characteristics of physical systems can be represented by mathematical equations? And that these mathematical models may be used to predict the characteristics of physical systems that may not even exist yet?
My God, who would have ever thought this possible or valuable? They are leading biological science boldly into the 17th century!
If only there was some device and a standardized language with which to create these mathematical models without having to completely defined the models in closed form. Perhaps to "simulate" (to coin a phrase) these systems in an abstract way.
That's good question but there isn't a very good answer. I think you can probably do as you please on private property (within a broad range of other legal constraints based on local/state/federal law and in particular, your business license), but restrain of trade seems rather a stretch. Even then you can probably refuse service to anyone as long as you can dodge the maze of "discrimination" laws.
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As long as people are willing to pay 2-3x the current cost, they can have a TV with replaceable parts and the infrastructure required to support it. Of course, many people won't be able to buy these products, but boy howdy, if they do, it will really be great.
I am not an "internet entrepreneur", but from the outside this appears like a suicidal business plan. Was this the plan from the beginning? Get everybody "hooked" with "free" hosting and then, when it was embedded everywhere, try to extort an arm and a leg? Or did they try it as it was, then finally panic as they started to run out of VC, and this is their reaction? Or are they doing this to cause a problem, wait for the obvious and inevitable backlash, then are going to come back in a week and say "we heard you, we are sorry, its $50 out of the goodness of our hearts"?
In any case, it's hard to believe that anyone at Photobucket thinks they are getting the $400; if so, they fundamentally misunderstand the market. The mere fact they asked for it is just going to piss everybody off and there are plenty of others willing to offer the same for far less.
OY, where's the Dominion when you need them?
This is the kind of computer culture/tech information that I can really use!
I am waiting for them to get to Chubby 9
Exactly. Tylenol does exactly *nothing* for migraines. One of the worst migraines I have ever had was when I was on the nominal dose of Vicodin, which is like super-Tylenol with a mild opiate.
Aspirin and caffeine (anacin or Excedrin {which has tylenol as a "filler" as far as I can tell}) is the only thing that you can get over-the-counter that is likely to have an positive effect on migraines.
Perl and C are also fad languages. C++ even more so.
But the value-signalling quality is off the charts!
This is not "yelling fire in a crowded theater", in any way, shape, or form. That theory is used incessantly to justify suppression of speech. In this case, it is being used to *intentionally suppress political speech that is not in accordance with the current government position*, which is the sort of speech that requires the most protection.
Germany's history of anti-semitism is not the issue. If you examined the history of anti-semitism of Germany, it's hardly any different in theory from anyplace els - anti-semitism has been a recurring theme throughout history.
What *is* different is their history of oppression that led to the most appalling - and efficient - attempt at genocide in human history. The root of this was permitting repression in favor of the government, leading to a dictatorship. This allowed thugs with delusions of racial superiority to take over.
The Germans are *dead wrong* to criminalize speech, because as soon as you do, you permit someone else to decide what "hate" means - just like 1933.
The players change, but the script remains the same.
Anyone who knows anything about it knew it was possible. Von Braun studied landing the Saturn 1. The problem was that it also reduces the throw weight by something like 30% - then and now. If getting a bigger booster is the end goal - and it was, at the time - then flyback boosters don't make any sense.
The fact that you are on here gloating about it means you never understood that in the first place - and calling everybody else assholes because of your own ignorance is exactly what is expected from fanbois.
Indeed, they have effectively hacked the minds of Democrat party leadership and driven them effectively insane.
There are very few rabid conservatives here, it's a leftist dream world.
You might consider that all this distress you are under is not because you are a leftist, but because you are an excitable, gullible, moron, highly susceptible to suggestion.
Agreed, I have never heard of this and I am still not sure what it is after I have searched the internet for it.
Nonsense. In the US, the press is making things up out of whole cloth in order to bring down the government. And an increasing number of people see it for exactly what it is - that's why the favorable opinion of the press is in the single digits, below even Congress. And anticipating the next argument - Trump is the effect, not the cause.
Error beyond 3-sigma means the same thing no matter what you are talking about, assuming the same distribution - essentially, the possibility that the data is outside 3 sigma by random error is 0.003, or .3%. 4 sigma is .00006 or 0.006%.
3-sigma is the usual standard for proving something, if your prediction {of whatever} falls outside 3 sigma, your theory has a significant problem, 4 sigma, there is something very big that you are missing.
If you cover your ears and go "la-la-la-la" loudly, it will solve the problem.
Physics: 4 sigma error, question the model
Climate: 4 sigma error, jail those who dare to disagree
Hillary voter.
Then move out of the EU, because an authoritarian regime is the end goal.
Uh, what? Insurance?
You guys are looking strictly at the financials. If a national priority payload is lost, recovering the cost is close to irrelevant. It might be super-swell to get the money back but the national security issues are what drives the system.
That's why the commercial world and the national defense world are apples and oranges.
Eleven days is not *nearly* long enough to make any useful conclusions. I have done a lot of swings and graveyard work in the past, and it always took me and all my fellow workers took weeks and weeks to see the full effect. It would take even longer now (~30 years on). As noted in another response, switching shifts after a few weeks is even worse, because then you never get to any sort of stable equilibrium (stable, not good). Of course, we tried various approaches to cope and many of them seemed OK for very short periods of 10-11 days, but later stopped working and caused worse problems than doing nothing special.
And that is in general a much different issue, since the phone system in general *is* a common carrier and subject to common carrier laws. A private wi-fi service IS NOT a common carrier. Once you get past that, ISPs are (or might be, that is yet to be challenged and only is treated that way by Obama executive order).
Are they suggesting that the characteristics of physical systems can be represented by mathematical equations? And that these mathematical models may be used to predict the characteristics of physical systems that may not even exist yet?
My God, who would have ever thought this possible or valuable? They are leading biological science boldly into the 17th century!
If only there was some device and a standardized language with which to create these mathematical models without having to completely defined the models in closed form. Perhaps to "simulate" (to coin a phrase) these systems in an abstract way.
That's good question but there isn't a very good answer. I think you can probably do as you please on private property (within a broad range of other legal constraints based on local/state/federal law and in particular, your business license), but restrain of trade seems rather a stretch. Even then you can probably refuse service to anyone as long as you can dodge the maze of "discrimination" laws.