I'm thinking it's more along the lines of "There is more demand when we can produce less so lets start at a higher starting price point." Later, when the pace of production can meet demand, they can just let the same price ride until competition shows up. Then, they can reap the benefits of an extra 6-9 months of higher prices, and then drop them when needed with no overhead.
Not sure, I'm not an apple consumer, but has the price of an apple product ever dropped until the next iProduct came out?
Along these same lines, There is a Toyota van here in Japan called a HOMY. In the local language (Okinawan), it means.. ahem.. female genitalia. Even so, the van sells fairly well.
no kidding. I wonder what the going price for a uid of 1 would be... Rob.. Auction it off and either use it for retirement money or donate it to a charity for homeless perl programmers or something.
Also, it's only called the "God" particle because the original phrase "God damned particle" wasn't very PC to publish. Joking I am not:
"The Higgs boson is the particle that is thought to give everything else in the universe mass, but that bit of theoretical physics is unlikely to be the reason most people have heard of it. Its theistic nickname was coined by Nobel-prize winning physicist Leon Lederman, but Higgs himself is no fan of the label. "I find it embarrassing because, though I'm not a believer myself, I think it is the kind of misuse of terminology which I think might offend some people."
It wasn't even Lederman's choice. "He wanted to refer to it as that 'goddamn particle' and his editor wouldn't let him," says Higgs."
I always thought that it would be a good idea to not pay politicians until AFTER their term was finished. Provide them with a car and driver, a fully stocked apartment/house, sets of suits or clothes that will be needed in the course of their work, and basically make it so they do not need cash while they are in office. Also, do not allow them to receive any gifts over a certain amount (like $100) from any one entity (person or corporation) for the duration of their term in office.
They work for us, and if they expect to reap the benefits of being a public employee, they would have to do a good job.
Then, at the end of their term, the people whom they represent will vote on what percentage of their "back pay" they are entitled to based on their performance in office.
I think that would help keep things in check. This includes the POTUS as well. Right now, getting voted into congress is almost an instant way to become a millionaire.
Can you imagine how long it would take to toss even a single gig of data onto 360k floppy disk? The funny part would be how much money you would waste by sitting in front of a computer switching disks every 60 seconds or so and then writing labels for them all, and sticking them on (straight of course or you have to carefully peel it off and put on a new one).
For a total of 174,763 floppies. That would be a stack of floppies (http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=174763+*+2mm) ~350 meters tall, or just taller (1.2x) than the Eiffel Tower.
Might be easier to just buy a bunch of TB hard disks and put them in a Raid 5 configuration (with hot spares of course) and be done with it.
Why not just make the games single player stand alone and ADD the networking stuff on as another mode. That way, the games don't require PSN for people to play them. Or use your own 3rd party server which would probably be even worse.
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I'm thinking it's more along the lines of "There is more demand when we can produce less so lets start at a higher starting price point."
Later, when the pace of production can meet demand, they can just let the same price ride until competition shows up. Then, they can reap the benefits of an extra 6-9 months of higher prices, and then drop them when needed with no overhead.
Not sure, I'm not an apple consumer, but has the price of an apple product ever dropped until the next iProduct came out?
Along these same lines, There is a Toyota van here in Japan called a HOMY. In the local language (Okinawan), it means.. ahem.. female genitalia. Even so, the van sells fairly well.
oops, forgot to check that Post Anonymously box this time eh?
no kidding. I wonder what the going price for a uid of 1 would be... Rob.. Auction it off and either use it for retirement money or donate it to a charity for homeless perl programmers or something.
Also, it's only called the "God" particle because the original phrase "God damned particle" wasn't very PC to publish. Joking I am not:
"The Higgs boson is the particle that is thought to give everything else in the universe mass, but that bit of theoretical physics is unlikely to be the reason most people have heard of it. Its theistic nickname was coined by Nobel-prize winning physicist Leon Lederman, but Higgs himself is no fan of the label. "I find it embarrassing because, though I'm not a believer myself, I think it is the kind of misuse of terminology which I think might offend some people."
It wasn't even Lederman's choice. "He wanted to refer to it as that 'goddamn particle' and his editor wouldn't let him," says Higgs."
Is it earth-shattering? No.
I see what you did there...
But at least I can see a scientist and ask them questions (and get answers).
I just downloaded that zip file, unpacked it, and opened the solution. It compiles right as it is and runs correctly. Story?
My take on this:
I always thought that it would be a good idea to not pay politicians until AFTER their term was finished. Provide them with a car and driver, a fully stocked apartment/house, sets of suits or clothes that will be needed in the course of their work, and basically make it so they do not need cash while they are in office. Also, do not allow them to receive any gifts over a certain amount (like $100) from any one entity (person or corporation) for the duration of their term in office.
They work for us, and if they expect to reap the benefits of being a public employee, they would have to do a good job.
Then, at the end of their term, the people whom they represent will vote on what percentage of their "back pay" they are entitled to based on their performance in office.
I think that would help keep things in check. This includes the POTUS as well. Right now, getting voted into congress is almost an instant way to become a millionaire.
I think he was saying that the AU dollar is worth a tad bit more than the USD which is worth almost nothing these days.
Uh oh. MichaelKristopeit is on my side? I don't know how I should feel about that.
Can you imagine how long it would take to toss even a single gig of data onto 360k floppy disk? The funny part would be how much money you would waste by sitting in front of a computer switching disks every 60 seconds or so and then writing labels for them all, and sticking them on (straight of course or you have to carefully peel it off and put on a new one).
Lesse.. wolfram alpha says just over 4 weeks (assuming an 8 hour work day) http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=60gib+%2F+360kib+*+60+seconds
For a total of 174,763 floppies. That would be a stack of floppies (http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=174763+*+2mm) ~350 meters tall, or just taller (1.2x) than the Eiffel Tower.
Might be easier to just buy a bunch of TB hard disks and put them in a Raid 5 configuration (with hot spares of course) and be done with it.
Put it all on 5 1/4" floppies :)
But John Titor didn't say anything about an asteroid impact in his world line...
http://www.johntitor.com/Pages/Story.html
And here is a patent for a time machine: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2006/0073976.html
Wait. When did we start talking about working in Congress?
Well, looks like someone reverse engineered slashdot's protocol.
I think you clicked that link wrong. Got nothing of the sort here.
Wait, that was too nice. uh, let me try again:
your mom's face leads to some sort of bogus site. stop cowering... feeb? :P
I still have the msdn windows 2k beta version for alpha. :) runs great!
Deeper? ok, try this:
vi forkbomb.sh
i
#/bin/sh
$0 &
$0
ZZ ./forkbomb.sh ./forkbomb.sh
chmod 777
Fork bomb works just fine in there. :)
I think it would trigger the next big bang. Endless recursion?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan
"Dodge this"
Why not just make the games single player stand alone and ADD the networking stuff on as another mode. That way, the games don't require PSN for people to play them. Or use your own 3rd party server which would probably be even worse.
Wow. do they even make that cereal anymore?