Nope. The price which generates optimal profit would have 1/3 of the seats empty (including most of the front row) and a bunch of people in suits sitting in the second to fifth rows. True fans would be somewhere near the back unable to hear much because they don't want the music so loud it offends the suits.
There was an Iron Maiden concert near here last summer, people were camped out two days before it to get good seats. I'm sure those are the people the band want in the front row, not a bunch of suits (or even empty seats if the suits find something better to do).
You mean (eg.) by actually being fans, knowing the music and cheering when you play the opening chord?
Scalping take the tickets out of their hands and puts them in the hands of the idle rich who only go because they've got nothing better to do or are trying to impress somebody else who doesn't really want to be there either.
The band should be the setting setting the prices and getting the profits, not some scumbags. They're the ones doing the work...
That's the thing., it *doesn't* mean the original prices weren't high enough, it means they were realistic for the true fans.
What you did is take the tickets from the real fans and put them in the hands of the idle rich who only go to the concert because they've got nothing better to do on Friday night and/or because they wanted to impress somebody or other.
Even if you give them iron jackets they're not going to 'deflect'. A magnet only attracts non-magnetized objects - hardly a desirable property when you're trying to use a magnetic field to avoid bullets.
When enough science has been done in the past you don't need to re-test everyday things unless you're trying to explain a completely weird observation.
In both those cases we're talking about Newton's laws and they seem to work well enough.
C'mon, the "science" is barely visible and they make plenty of mistakes.
A whole program trying to deflect bullets with magnets. Aren't they made of lead?
No scientist would even bother trying to curve a bullet by flicking his wrist, or trying to swing 360 degrees. You don't need experiments to know that's not going to work.
Jet powered Chevy: "let's put the rockets at the back for stability, that's where NASA puts them". Um, NASA rockets are mounted on swivels and have guidance mechanisms to aim them...
I could go on and on and on. They're good at building stuff and some things can only be tried experimentally so fair enough, but "science" isn't their major...
I can't imagine there's any money to be made by selling copied stuff - if that's your aim then just find a foreign company who can churn out molded plastic trinkets by the million.
Assuming we can increase resolution get rid of the lumps, it's still going to be very difficult to change the material.
Very few materials will form solids from liquids by shining lights on them and most objects are made of multiple materials, eg. you'd never be able to print a working cassette tape, a toy car, a computer mouse.
At best you'll be able to make things like a new case for your remote control after you drop it. Even then it's unlikely to be exactly the same color and feel as the original.
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I had a board with 4 T800s in my 286 PC, I wrote a raytracer for it.
The chips were OK but the compilers and development kit were terrible.
Isn't it just a #define in the source code?
Isn't that Intel's pet project for the last decade?
Nope. The price which generates optimal profit would have 1/3 of the seats empty (including most of the front row) and a bunch of people in suits sitting in the second to fifth rows. True fans would be somewhere near the back unable to hear much because they don't want the music so loud it offends the suits.
Does that sound like a "rock concert" to you...?
There was an Iron Maiden concert near here last summer, people were camped out two days before it to get good seats. I'm sure those are the people the band want in the front row, not a bunch of suits (or even empty seats if the suits find something better to do).
You mean (eg.) by actually being fans, knowing the music and cheering when you play the opening chord?
Scalping take the tickets out of their hands and puts them in the hands of the idle rich who only go because they've got nothing better to do or are trying to impress somebody else who doesn't really want to be there either.
The band should be the setting setting the prices and getting the profits, not some scumbags. They're the ones doing the work...
That's the thing., it *doesn't* mean the original prices weren't high enough, it means they were realistic for the true fans.
What you did is take the tickets from the real fans and put them in the hands of the idle rich who only go to the concert because they've got nothing better to do on Friday night and/or because they wanted to impress somebody or other.
Even if you give them iron jackets they're not going to 'deflect'. A magnet only attracts non-magnetized objects - hardly a desirable property when you're trying to use a magnetic field to avoid bullets.
When enough science has been done in the past you don't need to re-test everyday things unless you're trying to explain a completely weird observation.
In both those cases we're talking about Newton's laws and they seem to work well enough.
"expand government controls and set requirements to make systems safer"
I'm sure we'll be safe after they make Norton Antivirus mandatory on all machines (which is about as much as I expect from Government...)
C'mon, the "science" is barely visible and they make plenty of mistakes.
A whole program trying to deflect bullets with magnets. Aren't they made of lead?
No scientist would even bother trying to curve a bullet by flicking his wrist, or trying to swing 360 degrees. You don't need experiments to know that's not going to work.
Jet powered Chevy: "let's put the rockets at the back for stability, that's where NASA puts them". Um, NASA rockets are mounted on swivels and have guidance mechanisms to aim them...
I could go on and on and on. They're good at building stuff and some things can only be tried experimentally so fair enough, but "science" isn't their major...
I grudgingly agree. I'm not sure I like him personally but he's cool, hip and has plenty of TV programs to collect.
While you're at it though, make sure he has a copy of Carl Sagan's cosmos. Every kid should own that.
And maybe James Burke's "connections", too...though I'm showing my age there.
It makes a difference to a lot of people.
Have you ever seen what they do to bodies in an autopsy?
Presumably he can't get a replacement for $250...
How will anything they're currently doing prevent somebody stuffing their rectum with C4 and boarding an aircraft?
Seems to me like they're really training the population to get used to government invasions of their intimacy.
I carry a magic yeti-repelling stone around with me. I haven't seen a yeti in years so that proves it works!
There's always a "COBOL wanted" ad on the job boards somewhere.
Does the 1952 MG have aircon, soundproofing, safety structure, rear seats...?
He may get 30mpg but most people wouldn't want it.
PS: I've seen the doors pop open on those things when you go round corners too fast.
Linus doesn't see lights, he IS the light.
You mean like WinSxS?
Yep. Most iPhone users aren't sitting there thinking "If ONLY I could get a C compiler for it it would be perfect..."
Surely a good debugger can already do that...ie. When it hits a breakpoint it checks what value is being written and continues if it's not right.
The fact that this is 'hardware' doesn't seem like much of a win to me.
I can't imagine there's any money to be made by selling copied stuff - if that's your aim then just find a foreign company who can churn out molded plastic trinkets by the million.
Assuming we can increase resolution get rid of the lumps, it's still going to be very difficult to change the material.
Very few materials will form solids from liquids by shining lights on them and most objects are made of multiple materials, eg. you'd never be able to print a working cassette tape, a toy car, a computer mouse.
At best you'll be able to make things like a new case for your remote control after you drop it. Even then it's unlikely to be exactly the same color and feel as the original.
Only the "die hards" buy it on the first day, the real dyed-in-the-wool fanbois who'll buy anything with "Windows 7" written on it.
The real test is how many 'normal' people buy it in the next year.