The article, not the idea. It's two paragraphs, and the company that's developing this thing doesn't even have a website up, other than a big shiny logo.
This is the first time I've bitched about the editors here, but in this case, I think it's deserved. I'd honestly prefer a dupe or something a month old than a story with no substance at all.
I'll give it a shot.
1) That's what you'd be doing here - except you don't have to even bother going to their website to find the number to call, you just click the little phone.
2) Maybe you want to be anonymous while you decide whether or not to buy the product. Not every inquiry leads to a sale.
3) Someone above suggested a system where it calls the number you put in, then blacklists it for a period of time if the person didn't put it in themselves. Or, tie the number in with your google account and have them confirm it. Or a combination.
4) It's at least as much information as if the person clicks a text ad. More, in fact, since you can usually tell gender, maybe race and age, over the phone.
Enough, obviously. Personally, I click ads to support sites I like, especially if the company advertising is big enough or seedy enough looking that I don't care that they lose a few cents.
(Though I am very pleased they caught these crooks in this instance, I still don't see why a criminal would go up north, rob a store then flee to the biggest city in the country. Don't these people think about lying low?)
Why isn't a big city the perfect place to avoid detection? You stand out far less in a city of many million than in a town of a few thousand.
First off, ritalin isn't for mania. ADD or ADHA is very different than a manic state. And while there are some manics that are functional, most people in that state are simply not. It's a much more destructive and dehabilitating state than depression, hands down. If you think it makes people productive, I doubt you've ever been anywhere near someone in the heights of mania.
Ha - back in MY day, we wrote our own programs for approximating pi on TI-83s while walking 6 miles in the show to calc class, uphill both ways, and we were damn happy to do it. Newb.
I think that would also kill half the actual value of having it. When I bring my laptop to class (not often, mind you) I'll look at the course notes on the intranet, but also be checking other resources online. Wikipedia often has some helpful info on undergraduate level science/math stuff.
Yet you think it's "fair" to pay $1 for a lossy version of the same song, with no physical media, while you pay for the bandwidth required to download it, not to mention the monthly payments to your Internet provider?
Well, I do think a buck is fair, personally. Sure, if you buy an album with 15 songs it'll be cheaper, but it's a rare album that has 15 songs worth listening to. So for the ease of use and choice of what songs I get, I will pay a buck a song. As for lossy, I honestly can't tell the difference. I'd love to see you try in a double blind test. Also, counting the monthly payments for internet access is a mistake - that's a sunk cost - you're gonna pay that whether or not you download music, unless you're a very atypical/.er. And what exactly are you paying for bandwidth that makes the cost of downloading 10 megs expensive? I doubt very much it's more than a penny.
Everytime a story likes this get posted, someone says this and gets modded insightful. I don't understand it. When you buy a product at a store, do they reimburse you for the gas you spent to get there? No. It's part of the total cost, to you, of buying that item. Same goes for this. Your total cost is whatever they charge, plus the bandwidth cost, plus any electricity you're using above what you normally would be, etc. You can work out how much that is and decide whether or not to pay it. And really, try to think of the result of what you're suggesting. If they paid people for bandwidth, the initial price of the product would go up. So you can either get the movie for $1 and pay your own bandwidth costs, or get the movie for $5 and have them credit you $3.50 for all that bandwidth of yours they're using.
You have to integrate by parts. I forget how to do that, mind you, but I remember it working.
Slightly off-topic, while doing calculus in high school, me and a friend were trying to solve some optimization problem. We worked on it for quite a while, and when we'd done all we could, we collected like terms and gazed at our hard-earned solution: 6=4. We had a hell of a time with that one, I tell you.
You know, this line in the summary really bothered me. I feel that Wrath of Khan is genius, partly because of the pacing of it. It isn't too long, and it doesn't drag - a big problem in most of the odd movies.
If the passengers of those flights had not been prevented from having weapons they could have easily overwhelmed dudes with boxcutters.
The passengers could have easily overwhelmed them anyways, boxcutters or not. If 5 people jump the guy with the boxcutter, the 5 win. Life doesn't work like action movies. The reason the attacks worked, I think, is because people are used to doing nothing in a situation like that - just sit still, don't make waves, do what they ask, and everybody will get what they want and you'll get to go home safe, if inconvienienced. I seriously doubt the hijackers made an announcement about what they were planning to do with the plane, unless it was to say "don't resist, we're just going to land in cuba and get some money for your release, you'll all be fine."
You might as well try to follow a symphony by reading the sheet music.
I agree with the point you're making here, but as a matter of fact, doing both at once can be a very rewarding experience. You can see the particular orchestra's unique mark on the production - where they're changed the tempo, dynamics, how rubatos are done. etc. It's actually a lot of fun to follow along.
They still have to pay for the distribution of the files and set up of the system. Even if it's a file sharing system, there's some bandwidth outlay for them. Personally, I see this as a good compromise. Free download, few minutes of ads. Works for me.
How do you figure it's cheaper to drive? Insurence where I live is easily $800-1000 a year, then maintinence and gas on top of that, easily another $600. Public transport you can get unlimited usage for $80 a month, about. That's considerably cheaper, especially since I haven't even amortized out the cost of the car.
Well there's no reason to run out of gasoline or battery power other then stupidity on the part of the owner. I've never run out of gas.
Driving from Edmonton to Vancouver, there's a rather long stretch that's fairly empty, with one gas station in the middle. So what most people do is fill up at the last gas station before that stretch, fill up in the middle, and then fill up again on the other side. Never get that low on gas if you do it that way. Anyway, I drove it a few summers ago, filled up right before the long stretch, continued on my way. The gas station in the middle was closed for a family emergency, and I just barely made it to the other side running on fumes. A care with 20km less range would have run out of gas, and not through stupidity, but through bad luck and uncontrollable circumstances.
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If you doubt its authenticity, note that its author is a doctor and the guide is also available as a book."
Because anything written in a book by a doctor must be true...right?
The article, not the idea. It's two paragraphs, and the company that's developing this thing doesn't even have a website up, other than a big shiny logo.
This is the first time I've bitched about the editors here, but in this case, I think it's deserved. I'd honestly prefer a dupe or something a month old than a story with no substance at all.
I'll give it a shot.
1) That's what you'd be doing here - except you don't have to even bother going to their website to find the number to call, you just click the little phone.
2) Maybe you want to be anonymous while you decide whether or not to buy the product. Not every inquiry leads to a sale.
3) Someone above suggested a system where it calls the number you put in, then blacklists it for a period of time if the person didn't put it in themselves. Or, tie the number in with your google account and have them confirm it. Or a combination.
4) It's at least as much information as if the person clicks a text ad. More, in fact, since you can usually tell gender, maybe race and age, over the phone.
Enough, obviously. Personally, I click ads to support sites I like, especially if the company advertising is big enough or seedy enough looking that I don't care that they lose a few cents.
Since when does a game have to look real to be enjoyable?
Since the makers of games told us so. Duh.
Why? Let's say I think autorun is unsafe and disable it on my PC. Please don't try to tell me this is illegal in the slightest.
(Though I am very pleased they caught these crooks in this instance, I still don't see why a criminal would go up north, rob a store then flee to the biggest city in the country. Don't these people think about lying low?)
Why isn't a big city the perfect place to avoid detection? You stand out far less in a city of many million than in a town of a few thousand.
First off, ritalin isn't for mania. ADD or ADHA is very different than a manic state. And while there are some manics that are functional, most people in that state are simply not. It's a much more destructive and dehabilitating state than depression, hands down. If you think it makes people productive, I doubt you've ever been anywhere near someone in the heights of mania.
You can't sue the maker of a legitimate product just because the person using said product has an addictive personality.
Like cigarettes?
Ha - back in MY day, we wrote our own programs for approximating pi on TI-83s while walking 6 miles in the show to calc class, uphill both ways, and we were damn happy to do it. Newb.
I think that would also kill half the actual value of having it. When I bring my laptop to class (not often, mind you) I'll look at the course notes on the intranet, but also be checking other resources online. Wikipedia often has some helpful info on undergraduate level science/math stuff.
It's still a billion dollars that could be better spent other places.
Yet you think it's "fair" to pay $1 for a lossy version of the same song, with no physical media, while you pay for the bandwidth required to download it, not to mention the monthly payments to your Internet provider?
/.er. And what exactly are you paying for bandwidth that makes the cost of downloading 10 megs expensive? I doubt very much it's more than a penny.
Well, I do think a buck is fair, personally. Sure, if you buy an album with 15 songs it'll be cheaper, but it's a rare album that has 15 songs worth listening to. So for the ease of use and choice of what songs I get, I will pay a buck a song. As for lossy, I honestly can't tell the difference. I'd love to see you try in a double blind test. Also, counting the monthly payments for internet access is a mistake - that's a sunk cost - you're gonna pay that whether or not you download music, unless you're a very atypical
Everytime a story likes this get posted, someone says this and gets modded insightful. I don't understand it. When you buy a product at a store, do they reimburse you for the gas you spent to get there? No. It's part of the total cost, to you, of buying that item. Same goes for this. Your total cost is whatever they charge, plus the bandwidth cost, plus any electricity you're using above what you normally would be, etc. You can work out how much that is and decide whether or not to pay it. And really, try to think of the result of what you're suggesting. If they paid people for bandwidth, the initial price of the product would go up. So you can either get the movie for $1 and pay your own bandwidth costs, or get the movie for $5 and have them credit you $3.50 for all that bandwidth of yours they're using.
You have to integrate by parts. I forget how to do that, mind you, but I remember it working.
Slightly off-topic, while doing calculus in high school, me and a friend were trying to solve some optimization problem. We worked on it for quite a while, and when we'd done all we could, we collected like terms and gazed at our hard-earned solution: 6=4. We had a hell of a time with that one, I tell you.
You know, this line in the summary really bothered me. I feel that Wrath of Khan is genius, partly because of the pacing of it. It isn't too long, and it doesn't drag - a big problem in most of the odd movies.
If the passengers of those flights had not been prevented from having weapons they could have easily overwhelmed dudes with boxcutters.
The passengers could have easily overwhelmed them anyways, boxcutters or not. If 5 people jump the guy with the boxcutter, the 5 win. Life doesn't work like action movies. The reason the attacks worked, I think, is because people are used to doing nothing in a situation like that - just sit still, don't make waves, do what they ask, and everybody will get what they want and you'll get to go home safe, if inconvienienced. I seriously doubt the hijackers made an announcement about what they were planning to do with the plane, unless it was to say "don't resist, we're just going to land in cuba and get some money for your release, you'll all be fine."
You might as well try to follow a symphony by reading the sheet music.
I agree with the point you're making here, but as a matter of fact, doing both at once can be a very rewarding experience. You can see the particular orchestra's unique mark on the production - where they're changed the tempo, dynamics, how rubatos are done. etc. It's actually a lot of fun to follow along.
I first read MacBeth as a comic book. Then I saw the porno version.
You mean the one where the witches are topless for a scene or two? Man, and I thought I was into some crazy stuff.
duh.
Well, they could just keep it at the same quality and have 3,4,5 times as much on one disk. A "best of" whoever sort of collection.
I finished it. The end guy is hard.
They still have to pay for the distribution of the files and set up of the system. Even if it's a file sharing system, there's some bandwidth outlay for them. Personally, I see this as a good compromise. Free download, few minutes of ads. Works for me.
How do you figure it's cheaper to drive? Insurence where I live is easily $800-1000 a year, then maintinence and gas on top of that, easily another $600. Public transport you can get unlimited usage for $80 a month, about. That's considerably cheaper, especially since I haven't even amortized out the cost of the car.
Well there's no reason to run out of gasoline or battery power other then stupidity on the part of the owner. I've never run out of gas.
Driving from Edmonton to Vancouver, there's a rather long stretch that's fairly empty, with one gas station in the middle. So what most people do is fill up at the last gas station before that stretch, fill up in the middle, and then fill up again on the other side. Never get that low on gas if you do it that way. Anyway, I drove it a few summers ago, filled up right before the long stretch, continued on my way. The gas station in the middle was closed for a family emergency, and I just barely made it to the other side running on fumes. A care with 20km less range would have run out of gas, and not through stupidity, but through bad luck and uncontrollable circumstances.