"Customers always find an approach which pays us less money." If that were true, wouldn't all of Microsoft's customers already be using Linux? (They still use Microsoft because they believe the costs of rewriting applications and retraining users exceed the cost of licensing the latest releases from Redmond.) I'm not even sure that customers even do a decent job of calculating Total Cost of Ownership, since they frequently neglect the potential cost of security holes, as well as the cost of not saving copies of all your licenses and then getting a visit from the BSA.
I beleive the reason people who received a flu shot are more likely to contract a flu variety not covered by the flu shot is because receivers of flu shots are a self-selecting population of people who consider themselves at a higher risk of contracting flu in the first place. Nurses, teachers, the elderly, and immuno-compromised people all get flu shots because they are at higher risk; of course they contract flu more often, with or without the shots.
Point 2 is valid. Point 1 is not, because upon death EVERYBODY simultaneously becomes eligible to publish the book, thus removing any profit incentive. How would you expect to make any profit publishing something that everyone else on the planet can distribute for free?
They`ll stone you when you`re trying to be so good They`ll stone you just like they said they would They`ll stone you when you`re trying to go home They`ll stone you when you`re there all alone But I would not feel so all alone Everybody must get stoned
They`ll stone you when you`re walking on the street They`ll stone you when you`re trying to keep your seat They`ll stone you when your walking on the floor They`ll stone you when your walking to the door But I would not feel so all alone Everybody must get stoned
They`ll stone you when you`re at the breakfast table They`ll stone you when you are young and able They`ll stone you when you`re trying to make a buck They`ll stone you and then they`ll say good luck But I would not feel so all alone Everybody must get stoned
Well They`ll stone you and say that it`s the end They`ll stone you and then they`ll come back again They`ll stone you when you`re riding in your car They`ll stone you when you`re playing you guitar Yes But I would not feel so all alone Everybody must get stoned Alright
Well They`ll stone you when you are all alone They`ll stone you when you are walking home They`ll stone you and then say they`re all brave They`ll stone you when you`re send down in your grave But I would not feel so all alone Everybody must get stoned
There's not that much power to be had in your pocket. True, but the average slashdotter's wrist generates a LOT of kinetic energy! If only there was some way to harness it, and use it to provide power for downloading from the 'net...
I've always insisted that copyright should end with the death of the original author. This pretty much proves my point. He's DEAD... at this point, no amount of protection of his work is going to encourage him to produce more! His heirs should go out and get a real job instead of trying to live off his reputation.
Would you think less of Joyce if you agreed that he sacrificed the mental stability and well being of his daughter to complete a novel?
Heck, I sacrifice the mental stability and well being of my own daughter all the time, merely for my own amusement... We even gave her mental blocks for Xmas!
One senior executive at the National Science Foundation spent at least 331 days looking at pornography on his government computer, records show. What a wanker!
I'm pretty sure his $1 trillion figure doesn't include the cost of retraining every user to use a new OS and applications, at a cost of over $2000 per seat. Your first year would be a lot more expensive because of the switchover; 2 or three years down the road you would start seeing a substantial cost savings since you only be paying for minor support and training of new employees. In the long term it does make good economic sense, but try selling that in a corporate environment where bonuses are based on cost savings THIS QUARTER, not 3 years from now.
Maybe the US demographic is different. Nope, we're paying about $45 for good new Wii games, about $15 for used. PS3 and XBox games can go up to $60. You do understand that the console business model is to sell the hardware at a loss and make all the profit on game licensing, don't you? You can rent games for much less, but I still feel the best approach is to form a co-op with like-minded gamers with the same console. You each buy a different game, then rotate the games every week.
Signals actually travel slightly faster in a copper coax than they do in a glass fiber, I've been told. So, while the bandwidth is impressive, your ping times are going to increase by a few nanoseconds...
The real reason that we haven't seen innovation is that we have allowed the automobile industry to be structured in such a way that rewards huge, monolithic corporations rather than entrepreneurs. Why do we need huge dealer/distributor networks for cars, when everything else can be purchased over the web? Why do we have parts and service departments that only work on one brand of car? Why are all vehicles REQUIRED to have a catalytic converter, regardless of whether or not they could meet emissions standards without it? Why are safety standards to onerous and hard to meet? And finally, why do we allow companies to become "to big to fail" so that when the market clearly demonstrates their business model is flawed, the government "must" bail them out? (Chrysler in the 80's, GM and Chrysler again in 2009...) Fuck the monolithic corporations -- let them fail. Just pass laws forbidding the export of the failed companies assets outside the country, and another, more efficient company would rise from the ashes, replacing many of the lost jobs.
The car steered with its single rear wheel. While not totally impractical, this does make it unstable and hard to drive. With front wheel drive instead, it would look very much like a larger capacity Aptera. Not bad for being designed 70 years earlier. (I like the rest of the design. I just think there might be a reason why nobody uses rear wheel steering. The Northrop University "White Lightening" human-powered vehicle also used the setup of driving the front wheels and steering the rear wheel. Feedback from the drivers was that it was difficult to steer correctly, and took a lot of getting used to.)
So, instead of having one giant conflict that lasts for a few years, we have a never-ending series of small but locally devastating conflicts that go on forever. None of which have taken place on US soil! So, from the standpoint of screwing those ignorant foreigners, them there nuclear weapons have been big success! Why do you think so many countries like Iran want their own nukes -- 'cause we've been bullying them around, then telling them, "Gee, it sucks to not have nukes, doesn't it? Ha-ha!" for 50 years now.
Some day, one of these assholes is going to scam the wrong person and they may end up wishing they've gone to jail. I suspect anybody smart enough to track down, kidnap, and torture one of these assholes is also smart enough to not fall for the scam in the first place... sigh.
I still get emails from people who scan the resumes on Monster.com and offer people a work-at-home position receiving checks, then wiring the money overseas... best of all, "it is perfectly legal!"
I think the Nigerians justify their activities by regarding it as an effective tax on stupidity. To fall for a scheme like this, you have to be 1) stupid, 2) greedy, and usually also 3) dishonest.
Isn't hiding assets from creditors unlawful? Isn't any "service" designed to assist people in committing unlawful acts also illegal? What is the difference between "You can make big $$$ selling our program to help people hide their assets!" and "You can make big $$$ breaking legs for loansharks whose borrowers don't pay up!" Either way, your business model is asking people to pay you to help them commit crimes. This fails one of the first tests any "business opportunity" should pass: is it legal?
Shouldn't the people that designed the faulty security in the first place be the ones charged for fixing it? Doesn't a user authentication scheme carry with it an implied warranty that some idiot in another country won't be able to easily exploit it? I assume this isn't the fault of the software, but rather of the configuration set up by the administrators, but still... "We're too stupid to do our job properly, so we think anybody that points out we don't do our job properly should have to pay to bring somebody else in to do our job for us!" Not exactly what I'd want to be claiming to justify my paycheck.
The question is, is it complete bullshit from a clueless moron?
researchers at Cornell recently tested a simple solar cell (called a photodiode)
I'm not a Cornell researcher, but I'm fairly certain a solar cell is not the same thing as a photodiode. Once again, proof that the only way we can make science relevant again is to train the people reporting on it to actually understand what the hell they are talking about!
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These are nice, but I still think photovoltaic SIPs is a better way to go... so why isn't anybody making them?
Tell your significant other to "Sit on my face, and tell me that you love me!"
Oh wait, this is slashdot...
Never mind.
"Customers always find an approach which pays us less money." If that were true, wouldn't all of Microsoft's customers already be using Linux? (They still use Microsoft because they believe the costs of rewriting applications and retraining users exceed the cost of licensing the latest releases from Redmond.) I'm not even sure that customers even do a decent job of calculating Total Cost of Ownership, since they frequently neglect the potential cost of security holes, as well as the cost of not saving copies of all your licenses and then getting a visit from the BSA.
"We're not saints." -- Steve Ballmer
Penalties include up to $11,000 in fines per violation. Note to self: require a payment of at least $12,000 to endorse a product in my blog.
I beleive the reason people who received a flu shot are more likely to contract a flu variety not covered by the flu shot is because receivers of flu shots are a self-selecting population of people who consider themselves at a higher risk of contracting flu in the first place. Nurses, teachers, the elderly, and immuno-compromised people all get flu shots because they are at higher risk; of course they contract flu more often, with or without the shots.
Point 2 is valid. Point 1 is not, because upon death EVERYBODY simultaneously becomes eligible to publish the book, thus removing any profit incentive. How would you expect to make any profit publishing something that everyone else on the planet can distribute for free?
They`ll stone you when you`re trying to be so good
They`ll stone you just like they said they would
They`ll stone you when you`re trying to go home
They`ll stone you when you`re there all alone
But I would not feel so all alone
Everybody must get stoned
They`ll stone you when you`re walking on the street
They`ll stone you when you`re trying to keep your seat
They`ll stone you when your walking on the floor
They`ll stone you when your walking to the door
But I would not feel so all alone
Everybody must get stoned
They`ll stone you when you`re at the breakfast table
They`ll stone you when you are young and able
They`ll stone you when you`re trying to make a buck
They`ll stone you and then they`ll say good luck
But I would not feel so all alone
Everybody must get stoned
Well They`ll stone you and say that it`s the end
They`ll stone you and then they`ll come back again
They`ll stone you when you`re riding in your car
They`ll stone you when you`re playing you guitar
Yes But I would not feel so all alone
Everybody must get stoned
Alright
Well They`ll stone you when you are all alone
They`ll stone you when you are walking home
They`ll stone you and then say they`re all brave
They`ll stone you when you`re send down in your grave
But I would not feel so all alone
Everybody must get stoned
I don't spend more than 10 minutes between any one of those things. And yet, you still refer to it as a "wireless" phone?!?
There's not that much power to be had in your pocket. True, but the average slashdotter's wrist generates a LOT of kinetic energy! If only there was some way to harness it, and use it to provide power for downloading from the 'net...
I've always insisted that copyright should end with the death of the original author. This pretty much proves my point. He's DEAD... at this point, no amount of protection of his work is going to encourage him to produce more! His heirs should go out and get a real job instead of trying to live off his reputation.
Would you think less of Joyce if you agreed that he sacrificed the mental stability and well being of his daughter to complete a novel?
Heck, I sacrifice the mental stability and well being of my own daughter all the time, merely for my own amusement... We even gave her mental blocks for Xmas!
One senior executive at the National Science Foundation spent at least 331 days looking at pornography on his government computer, records show. What a wanker!
I'm pretty sure his $1 trillion figure doesn't include the cost of retraining every user to use a new OS and applications, at a cost of over $2000 per seat. Your first year would be a lot more expensive because of the switchover; 2 or three years down the road you would start seeing a substantial cost savings since you only be paying for minor support and training of new employees. In the long term it does make good economic sense, but try selling that in a corporate environment where bonuses are based on cost savings THIS QUARTER, not 3 years from now.
Maybe the US demographic is different. Nope, we're paying about $45 for good new Wii games, about $15 for used. PS3 and XBox games can go up to $60. You do understand that the console business model is to sell the hardware at a loss and make all the profit on game licensing, don't you? You can rent games for much less, but I still feel the best approach is to form a co-op with like-minded gamers with the same console. You each buy a different game, then rotate the games every week.
How long does it take to transfer the blu-ray disc 100m if I toss it like a frisbee?
Signals actually travel slightly faster in a copper coax than they do in a glass fiber, I've been told. So, while the bandwidth is impressive, your ping times are going to increase by a few nanoseconds...
Why, in seventy years, haven't we seen anything half as innovative in either design or efficiency come to market?
One word: Aptera
The real reason that we haven't seen innovation is that we have allowed the automobile industry to be structured in such a way that rewards huge, monolithic corporations rather than entrepreneurs. Why do we need huge dealer/distributor networks for cars, when everything else can be purchased over the web? Why do we have parts and service departments that only work on one brand of car? Why are all vehicles REQUIRED to have a catalytic converter, regardless of whether or not they could meet emissions standards without it? Why are safety standards to onerous and hard to meet? And finally, why do we allow companies to become "to big to fail" so that when the market clearly demonstrates their business model is flawed, the government "must" bail them out? (Chrysler in the 80's, GM and Chrysler again in 2009...) Fuck the monolithic corporations -- let them fail. Just pass laws forbidding the export of the failed companies assets outside the country, and another, more efficient company would rise from the ashes, replacing many of the lost jobs.
The car steered with its single rear wheel. While not totally impractical, this does make it unstable and hard to drive. With front wheel drive instead, it would look very much like a larger capacity Aptera. Not bad for being designed 70 years earlier. (I like the rest of the design. I just think there might be a reason why nobody uses rear wheel steering. The Northrop University "White Lightening" human-powered vehicle also used the setup of driving the front wheels and steering the rear wheel. Feedback from the drivers was that it was difficult to steer correctly, and took a lot of getting used to.)
So, instead of having one giant conflict that lasts for a few years, we have a never-ending series of small but locally devastating conflicts that go on forever. None of which have taken place on US soil! So, from the standpoint of screwing those ignorant foreigners, them there nuclear weapons have been big success! Why do you think so many countries like Iran want their own nukes -- 'cause we've been bullying them around, then telling them, "Gee, it sucks to not have nukes, doesn't it? Ha-ha!" for 50 years now.
Some day, one of these assholes is going to scam the wrong person and they may end up wishing they've gone to jail. I suspect anybody smart enough to track down, kidnap, and torture one of these assholes is also smart enough to not fall for the scam in the first place... sigh.
I still get emails from people who scan the resumes on Monster.com and offer people a work-at-home position receiving checks, then wiring the money overseas... best of all, "it is perfectly legal!"
I think the Nigerians justify their activities by regarding it as an effective tax on stupidity. To fall for a scheme like this, you have to be 1) stupid, 2) greedy, and usually also 3) dishonest.
Isn't hiding assets from creditors unlawful? Isn't any "service" designed to assist people in committing unlawful acts also illegal? What is the difference between "You can make big $$$ selling our program to help people hide their assets!" and "You can make big $$$ breaking legs for loansharks whose borrowers don't pay up!" Either way, your business model is asking people to pay you to help them commit crimes. This fails one of the first tests any "business opportunity" should pass: is it legal?
Shouldn't the people that designed the faulty security in the first place be the ones charged for fixing it? Doesn't a user authentication scheme carry with it an implied warranty that some idiot in another country won't be able to easily exploit it? I assume this isn't the fault of the software, but rather of the configuration set up by the administrators, but still... "We're too stupid to do our job properly, so we think anybody that points out we don't do our job properly should have to pay to bring somebody else in to do our job for us!" Not exactly what I'd want to be claiming to justify my paycheck.
The question is, is it complete bullshit from a clueless moron?
researchers at Cornell recently tested a simple solar cell (called a photodiode)
I'm not a Cornell researcher, but I'm fairly certain a solar cell is not the same thing as a photodiode. Once again, proof that the only way we can make science relevant again is to train the people reporting on it to actually understand what the hell they are talking about!
"Ye cannae change the laws of physics!"