once a plant is gone it doesnt 'rematerialize'. Its genetic advantages are lost forever.
Forever? I don't think so. I'm pretty sure the primordial ooze 6 billion years ago did not contain the genetic code for pretty little wild flowers, and yet they exist.
Someone said it when they were using Word for Windows, flummoxed by the myriad of controls: "Good lord, I don't need to launch a Space Shuttle--I just want to write a letter!"
If that's all he wanted then why did he buy and install Word when Wordpad is already on the box? Oh wait, then he couldn't bitch about the complexity of Word.
For the n-th time RTFA. OS-X would not run on a generic Wintel box. It would require specific support chips that would only be present on Apple hardware.
Man you're right. Nobody can do anything without government funding. I don't know what the hell I was thinking. I'm gonna go sell all my stocks and send the money to the government where it'll do some real good. Thanks for setting me straight man.
If you use the web at home to do nasty, illegal stuff you can be tracked down through your ISP. This just extends that tracking ability to reprobates who try to hide behind library computers.
Most endeavors in science have become so expensive that there are only two types of entities that can fund them: governments, and large private corporations. The latter are far too risk-averse to actually do anything *big*, so its pretty much left up to governments.
X-Prize is not big? America's Space Prize is not big? Artificial heart not big?
2) It's unfunded. The states are supposed to work out for themselves how to comply with these regulations with NO federal funding
That's really a red herring. After all, where does federal funding come from? From taxpayers in the several states, of course. It's not like the federal government has a magic money tree. You and I are going to pay for it. Whether the money comes from your state taxes or your federal taxes won't make much difference.
I think you'll find they are wanting to use it as it is 'free' as in 'not produced by a company in the country that has maintained a remarkably schizophrenic attitude to Cuba, attempted numerous coups and asassination attempts against the leader and is currently forcing the general populace to live below the poverty line by punitive trade embargoes all based on misplaced ideology':). I've never understood this line of reasoning that the US embargo on Cuba causes them to live in poverty. It is only the US that won't trade with Cuba. China, Russia, The EU and most of the world have no restrictions on trade with Cuba. You can buy Cuban cigars anywhere outside the US and travel from outside the US to Cuba is largely unfettered.
It is quite common for the initial market leader in a given technology to be ecclipsed.
Apple -> Microsoft/IBM
Netscape -> Microsoft IE
Wordperfect -> MS Office
Lotus -> MS Office
Compuserve -> AOL
Nobody would have predicted any of these when the original products where the dominant market leader.
It's a better than even money bet that the same thing will happen to Google.
Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! It's about a downloads from a site that is 93% Windows users. He wants to support the other 7% without making it a pain in the ass for the 93%.
If wmv is smaller than other formats with the same video quality then obviously this is an area where Microsoft is innovating. But we can't say that here, can we?
All I know about Bush is I had a good job when Clinton was president. Yeah I know. Now that Bush is president you actually have to have skills to get a good job. Bummer man.
How do you know they have a hateful and vile viewpoint? etc. etc.
That's like saying you have to read Mein Kampf to know Hitler was a bad guy. You're being deliberately obtuse in an attempt to demonstrate a misguided indignation at any form of censorship.
I don't dispute what you say, but if the site was up I could see for myself.
Is it important to you to read every hatefull and vile viewpoint espoused by everyone in the world? Do you study the views of racists and pedophiles. Do you protest if their websites are taken down? I didn't think so.
No, it's claimed that flame wars and forks are detrimental. To show that something is detrimental would involve coming up with a bit of evidence.
How about the zillion different distro's of Linux. How many non-geeks have looked into using Linux and been stopped cold when they had to pick a distro?
This will be much lower that "a billion dollars", but it will also be higher (possibly much higher) than the marginal cost of production plus overhead (a proxy for the price under free competition).
In any industry where margins are very high, new companies will enter the market to compete for those margins. The dearth of new pharmacutical companies says that margins are not extreme. The cost of developing a new drug and overcoming the regulatory hurdles to bring it to market: $802 million on average, according to a study by Tufts University. Even then, only three in 10 market drugs produce enough revenues to match or exceed the average costs of research and development.
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Exactly. These little book or brick PC's have been around for at least ten years.
once a plant is gone it doesnt 'rematerialize'. Its genetic advantages are lost forever.
Forever? I don't think so. I'm pretty sure the primordial ooze 6 billion years ago did not contain the genetic code for pretty little wild flowers, and yet they exist.
Someone said it when they were using Word for Windows, flummoxed by the myriad of controls: "Good lord, I don't need to launch a Space Shuttle--I just want to write a letter!"
If that's all he wanted then why did he buy and install Word when Wordpad is already on the box? Oh wait, then he couldn't bitch about the complexity of Word.
Terraserver.microsoft.com was around long before Google maps. If anyone is following, it's Google.
For the n-th time RTFA. OS-X would not run on a generic Wintel box. It would require specific support chips that would only be present on Apple hardware.
Man you're right. Nobody can do anything without government funding. I don't know what the hell I was thinking. I'm gonna go sell all my stocks and send the money to the government where it'll do some real good. Thanks for setting me straight man.
If you use the web at home to do nasty, illegal stuff you can be tracked down through your ISP. This just extends that tracking ability to reprobates who try to hide behind library computers.
Most endeavors in science have become so expensive that there are only two types of entities that can fund them: governments, and large private corporations. The latter are far too risk-averse to actually do anything *big*, so its pretty much left up to governments.
X-Prize is not big? America's Space Prize is not big? Artificial heart not big?
2) It's unfunded. The states are supposed to work out for themselves how to comply with these regulations with NO federal funding
That's really a red herring. After all, where does federal funding come from? From taxpayers in the several states, of course. It's not like the federal government has a magic money tree. You and I are going to pay for it. Whether the money comes from your state taxes or your federal taxes won't make much difference.
I think you'll find they are wanting to use it as it is 'free' as in 'not produced by a company in the country that has maintained a remarkably schizophrenic attitude to Cuba, attempted numerous coups and asassination attempts against the leader and is currently forcing the general populace to live below the poverty line by punitive trade embargoes all based on misplaced ideology' :).
I've never understood this line of reasoning that the US embargo on Cuba causes them to live in poverty. It is only the US that won't trade with Cuba. China, Russia, The EU and most of the world have no restrictions on trade with Cuba. You can buy Cuban cigars anywhere outside the US and travel from outside the US to Cuba is largely unfettered.
It is quite common for the initial market leader in a given technology to be ecclipsed.
Apple -> Microsoft/IBM
Netscape -> Microsoft IE
Wordperfect -> MS Office
Lotus -> MS Office
Compuserve -> AOL
Nobody would have predicted any of these when the original products where the dominant market leader. It's a better than even money bet that the same thing will happen to Google.
I guess it won't be China's business either if the US puts tariffs on some Chinese goods and outright ban on other Chinese goods.
Why do they need special DVD players. If they want to release the movie to home viewers can't they just use cable/satellite pay-per-view?
This is how monopolies and government (aka monopoly) run services work.
Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! It's about a downloads from a site that is 93% Windows users. He wants to support the other 7% without making it a pain in the ass for the 93%.
If wmv is smaller than other formats with the same video quality then obviously this is an area where Microsoft is innovating. But we can't say that here, can we?
All I know about Bush is I had a good job when Clinton was president.
Yeah I know. Now that Bush is president you actually have to have skills to get a good job. Bummer man.
How do you know they have a hateful and vile viewpoint? etc. etc.
That's like saying you have to read Mein Kampf to know Hitler was a bad guy. You're being deliberately obtuse in an attempt to demonstrate a misguided indignation at any form of censorship.
I don't dispute what you say, but if the site was up I could see for myself.
Is it important to you to read every hatefull and vile viewpoint espoused by everyone in the world? Do you study the views of racists and pedophiles. Do you protest if their websites are taken down? I didn't think so.
No, it's claimed that flame wars and forks are detrimental. To show that something is detrimental would involve coming up with a bit of evidence.
How about the zillion different distro's of Linux. How many non-geeks have looked into using Linux and been stopped cold when they had to pick a distro?
The old *nix philosophy of doing one thing and doing it really well still applies.
Until the person you hired to do that "one thing" leaves and nobody else knows how to do it. Give me a bunch of really smart generalists any day.
This will be much lower that "a billion dollars", but it will also be higher (possibly much higher) than the marginal cost of production plus overhead (a proxy for the price under free competition).
In any industry where margins are very high, new companies will enter the market to compete for those margins. The dearth of new pharmacutical companies says that margins are not extreme. The cost of developing a new drug and overcoming the regulatory hurdles to bring it to market: $802 million on average, according to a study by Tufts University. Even then, only three in 10 market drugs produce enough revenues to match or exceed the average costs of research and development.
A) They can't charge "whatever they want". If they could a Tylenol would cost a billion dollars. B) How much is staying alive worth to you?
Why couldn't they have their Rapture before the election and let the rest of us get on with our lives?
Does being an ass hold you back in life?
Why can't you liberals engage in a simple conversation without injecting your political views? Nobody cares.