Using Helium in the blimp really is a big mistake... most of it will be wasted by GIs taking hits off it so they can talk like Donald Duck! On the other hand, hydrogen is extremely abundant and lighter, so it should be used instead. Regardless of what it is filled with, this thing is a sitting duck and when it gets hit it is going down. It should automatically jettison the payload and parachute it down, while the gas bag itself should be cheap and disposable. The fact that things burn quicker in a hydrogen environment should be irrelevant for this application.
Why not use the method L. Ron Hubbard's Bridge Communications used to keep Dianetics on the bestseller lists, and simply buy millions of copies of your own product?
I suppose next you'll be telling me that using Axe body spray won't really get me laid more often! And then you'll be telling me that "Jaguar- sleek and smart. For men who would like handjobs from beautiful women they hardly know!" was actually satirical!
The media companies have a vested interest in getting the best audience data they can. Uh, no. The media companies have a vested interest in getting the biggest numbers they can get for estimating their audience, thus allowing them to charge their customers (the advertisers, not the watchers!) the maximum amount of money. As such, any methodology they use to measure their audience is extremely suspect. E.g. American Idol claims "10 million viewers voted..." when it is more likely that "1 million voters voted an average of ten times each!" Do you believe everything McAfee tells you about how many computer viruses are out there? You shouldn't believe the ratings figures a consortium of networks quotes to you either. Especially with regard to the audience for non-members of the consortium.
Pointers in 64-bit code take up twice as much memory as pointers in 32-bit code. No amount of skill or fastidious programming is going to change that fact. Integers also take up twice as much memory. A good programmer who knows the bounding values of the variable can always define it as a smaller type, but that doesn't prevent the compiler from going ahead and padding the memory structure out to a 64-bit boundary for alignment, and using packed data can seriously slow down your memory access.
I think their justification is that people that are using more memory require more support. Or perhaps they figure that servers use the most memory, and people running servers are most able to pay exorbitant prices. If the first is true, perhaps they should adopt a business model of giving the operating system away for free and charging for support, much like another popular operating system...
No technical reasons, but there are economic reasons to use 32-bit instead of 64-bit code. 64-bit code tends to use more memory! Granted, memory has gotten much cheaper, so that reason is much less valid than it was a few years ago.
Give it up. The liability from lawsuits by people who sue after getting hit in the head by heavy gold flying pony crap will bankrupt you, just like it did the owners of the goose that laid golden eggs...
The moral of the story is, get your commands in writing and follow the chain of command. Much easier said than done. I've worked for managers that refused to discuss issues via email, precisely because they didn't want a written record of what was said. The best advice I can give to someone caught in a similar situation is: start sending out resumes.
End phone exclusivity. Any device should work on any network. Data flows freely.
In general a good idea, but I'm not quite sure how you get Qualcom CDMA phones to work on a GSM network.
Transition away from "owning" airwaves. As we've seen with license-free bandwidth via Wi-Fi networking, we can share the airwaves without interfering with each other. Let new carriers emerge based on quality of service rather than spectrum owned. Cellphone coverage from huge cell towers will naturally migrate seamlessly into offices and even homes via Wi-Fi networking. No more dropped calls in the bathroom.
I've had WiFi-enabled phones connection over Verizon FIOS. They were unusable in WiFi mode, dropping calls and connections like crazy. Generally, phone would ring, you would answer, there would be nobody there. Of course, Verizon also cells cellular service and digital phone over FIOS, so they have a vested interest in VoIP not working, don't they?
End municipal exclusivity deals for cable companies. TV channels are like voice pipes, part of an era that is about to pass. A little competition for cable will help the transition to paying for shows instead of overpaying for little-watched networks. Competition brings de facto network neutrality and open access (if you don't like one service blocking apps, use another), thus one less set of artificial rules to be gamed.
While we're at it, why not end exclusivity deals for power companies as well! Oh wait... maintaining a cable plant is expensive. So expensive that broadband wireless is probably cheaper. Plus, people object to having their street dug up 10 times in a row by different companies, and even with just Verizon and Comcast they have a nasty habit of "accidentally" cutting each other's wires.
Encourage faster and faster data connections to our homes and phones. It should more than double every two years. To homes, five megabits today should be 10 megabits in 2011, 25 megabits in 2013 and 100 megabits in 2017. These data-connection speeds are technically doable today, with obsolete voice and video policy holding it back. Once you've got a fiber network in place, then it is just a question of replacing the transmitters and receivers, so this is actually doable. Communication companies are reluctant to throw away working equipment, so unless they have competition driving it, they are not going to bother. Wireless bandwidth is not going to double every couple years, in fact, it is going to get worse! The more people using wireless, the less bandwidth available for each customer.
Unasked question: Why is it considered normal and acceptable in the US to pay over $100/month for communication, when most people in the world get better service for a tenth the cost?
Back when I was a kid, books used to come in a nice, easily scrollable format. Of course, that was before Gutenburg came along and messed things up with his new-fangled page-at-a-time printing... now get off my lawn!
Obviously I left out a few other necessary conditions, such as demand for the good, and non-zero valuation. "Meltdown" or bust means that valuations go to zero or very little; Project Gutenberg has been there since day one, so there is no room to fall.
Any time you have good that is infinitely reproducible at negligible cost, it inevitably leads to a bubble, followed by a meltdown. The global economic meltdown just demonstrated that this principle was true for Credit Default Swaps; it was just as true for the Tulip Bubble and Internet Bubble. Any attempt to monetize virtual property will inevitably result in this same boom/bust cycle. That's good if your one of the first to cash out, but very bad if you wait until later in the cycle...
Is this the first case of trolling the net being part of course requirements? No, I believe the Church of Scientology can claim prior art on that one...
Slashdot Mirror
Cops always have the best drugs, and Homeland Security always has the best porn!
One of the buttons is labeled "Viagra"!
Using Helium in the blimp really is a big mistake... most of it will be wasted by GIs taking hits off it so they can talk like Donald Duck! On the other hand, hydrogen is extremely abundant and lighter, so it should be used instead. Regardless of what it is filled with, this thing is a sitting duck and when it gets hit it is going down. It should automatically jettison the payload and parachute it down, while the gas bag itself should be cheap and disposable. The fact that things burn quicker in a hydrogen environment should be irrelevant for this application.
Why not use the method L. Ron Hubbard's Bridge Communications used to keep Dianetics on the bestseller lists, and simply buy millions of copies of your own product?
They have been doing this for years in the states...
I suppose next you'll be telling me that using Axe body spray won't really get me laid more often! And then you'll be telling me that "Jaguar- sleek and smart. For men who would like handjobs from beautiful women they hardly know!" was actually satirical!
The media companies have a vested interest in getting the best audience data they can. Uh, no. The media companies have a vested interest in getting the biggest numbers they can get for estimating their audience, thus allowing them to charge their customers (the advertisers, not the watchers!) the maximum amount of money. As such, any methodology they use to measure their audience is extremely suspect. E.g. American Idol claims "10 million viewers voted..." when it is more likely that "1 million voters voted an average of ten times each!" Do you believe everything McAfee tells you about how many computer viruses are out there? You shouldn't believe the ratings figures a consortium of networks quotes to you either. Especially with regard to the audience for non-members of the consortium.
Pointers in 64-bit code take up twice as much memory as pointers in 32-bit code. No amount of skill or fastidious programming is going to change that fact. Integers also take up twice as much memory. A good programmer who knows the bounding values of the variable can always define it as a smaller type, but that doesn't prevent the compiler from going ahead and padding the memory structure out to a 64-bit boundary for alignment, and using packed data can seriously slow down your memory access.
I think their justification is that people that are using more memory require more support. Or perhaps they figure that servers use the most memory, and people running servers are most able to pay exorbitant prices. If the first is true, perhaps they should adopt a business model of giving the operating system away for free and charging for support, much like another popular operating system...
No technical reasons, but there are economic reasons to use 32-bit instead of 64-bit code. 64-bit code tends to use more memory! Granted, memory has gotten much cheaper, so that reason is much less valid than it was a few years ago.
To date, I believe cuneiform tablets have best stood the test of time, as far as a data storage media which does not quickly become obsolete.
Endorsed with the phrase: "Bite my shiny plastic athletic shoe!", perchance?
Give it up. The liability from lawsuits by people who sue after getting hit in the head by heavy gold flying pony crap will bankrupt you, just like it did the owners of the goose that laid golden eggs...
The moral of the story is, get your commands in writing and follow the chain of command. Much easier said than done. I've worked for managers that refused to discuss issues via email, precisely because they didn't want a written record of what was said. The best advice I can give to someone caught in a similar situation is: start sending out resumes.
Is this the original?
I believe the original was actually about Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), but since we were talking about AT&T, I went with a later version.
End phone exclusivity. Any device should work on any network. Data flows freely.
In general a good idea, but I'm not quite sure how you get Qualcom CDMA phones to work on a GSM network.
Transition away from "owning" airwaves. As we've seen with license-free bandwidth via Wi-Fi networking, we can share the airwaves without interfering with each other. Let new carriers emerge based on quality of service rather than spectrum owned. Cellphone coverage from huge cell towers will naturally migrate seamlessly into offices and even homes via Wi-Fi networking. No more dropped calls in the bathroom.
I've had WiFi-enabled phones connection over Verizon FIOS. They were unusable in WiFi mode, dropping calls and connections like crazy. Generally, phone would ring, you would answer, there would be nobody there. Of course, Verizon also cells cellular service and digital phone over FIOS, so they have a vested interest in VoIP not working, don't they?
End municipal exclusivity deals for cable companies. TV channels are like voice pipes, part of an era that is about to pass. A little competition for cable will help the transition to paying for shows instead of overpaying for little-watched networks. Competition brings de facto network neutrality and open access (if you don't like one service blocking apps, use another), thus one less set of artificial rules to be gamed.
While we're at it, why not end exclusivity deals for power companies as well! Oh wait... maintaining a cable plant is expensive. So expensive that broadband wireless is probably cheaper. Plus, people object to having their street dug up 10 times in a row by different companies, and even with just Verizon and Comcast they have a nasty habit of "accidentally" cutting each other's wires.
Encourage faster and faster data connections to our homes and phones. It should more than double every two years. To homes, five megabits today should be 10 megabits in 2011, 25 megabits in 2013 and 100 megabits in 2017. These data-connection speeds are technically doable today, with obsolete voice and video policy holding it back.
Once you've got a fiber network in place, then it is just a question of replacing the transmitters and receivers, so this is actually doable. Communication companies are reluctant to throw away working equipment, so unless they have competition driving it, they are not going to bother. Wireless bandwidth is not going to double every couple years, in fact, it is going to get worse! The more people using wireless, the less bandwidth available for each customer.
Unasked question: Why is it considered normal and acceptable in the US to pay over $100/month for communication, when most people in the world get better service for a tenth the cost?
See figure 1!
What this episode really uncovers is that AT&T is dying. Does Netcraft confirm it?
Back when I was a kid, books used to come in a nice, easily scrollable format. Of course, that was before Gutenburg came along and messed things up with his new-fangled page-at-a-time printing... now get off my lawn!
I didn't know Bill G. posted to slashdot! How does Melinda feel about your 6.4 inches?
Obviously you are not familiar with the British connotation for "rubbing one out"...
Obviously I left out a few other necessary conditions, such as demand for the good, and non-zero valuation. "Meltdown" or bust means that valuations go to zero or very little; Project Gutenberg has been there since day one, so there is no room to fall.
Any time you have good that is infinitely reproducible at negligible cost, it inevitably leads to a bubble, followed by a meltdown. The global economic meltdown just demonstrated that this principle was true for Credit Default Swaps; it was just as true for the Tulip Bubble and Internet Bubble. Any attempt to monetize virtual property will inevitably result in this same boom/bust cycle. That's good if your one of the first to cash out, but very bad if you wait until later in the cycle...
Is this the first case of trolling the net being part of course requirements? No, I believe the Church of Scientology can claim prior art on that one...