For example, if a truck suddenly pulls out in front of you, you will suddenly focus on it; your passenger will tend to notice this and stop talking. Someone on the other end of a phone won't.
When I'm driving and having a conversation (either with someone in the car, or when using my handsfree headset for my phone), and a truck pulls out in front of me, I stop listening, because driving needs more of my concentration and has a higher priority.
It will compete with OE. It will not be competitive. Why? Because OE ships with Windows. Because the "Internet Connection Wizard" that you have to run to even turn on your LAN connection asks "do you want to set up a mail account now?" Because Microsoft is a monopoly, and wants to stay that way.
IF Microsoft abides by the EU's recent ruling to remove mediaplayer from Windows, maybe we can get something like that here (ha!) for OE. Until then, most people won't even know they need an alternative, much less that one is available to them.
Well, Google doesn't put ads in with search results, but rather clearly marks them and places them off to the side or two small lines at the top. This leads me to beleive that they would keep such "sponsored links" out of the autocomplete list, or at least continue clearly marking them as sponsored links.
You compare a fixed-price MS Windows to a regressive tax, then you make it still regressive by putting a cap on it.
A fixed-price is regressive - if I make $15k/yr and you make $115k/yr it hurts my wallet more to pay $300 for an OS than it does your wallet.
A static percentage is also regressive - same example as above, a 10% "tax" on me is $1500, for you it would be $11,500. Our after-"tax" incomes then are $13500 and $103,500. For someone living that close to the poverty line, $1500 is a VERY large amount of money - you can buy two cars with that! For you still making over 100k, does the loss of 11.5k hurt? Yes. Does it mean you won't be able to send your kid to community college? No.
This is why the US taxes are a series of increasing percentages. (I have some other opinions on this matter, but I'll try to stay on topic).
Now that the economics lesson is over, I would like to say I agree with your reasoning in paragraph one. The problem is that Balmer wants to make a $100 pc and then sell people a $200-300 OS, because of course they can afford it now. People buying a $100 PC want something tangible for their money - $100 for a whole computer? Great! $300 for a CD? WTF! Then the linux community comes along and says $1 to cover the cost of duplicating the CD... presto, worldwide linux usage!
MS might counter by saying it wants $100 PCs for windows use only, if you buy w/o windows the price for the hardware goes up to $200 or something. This, obviously, is complete BS - can you say "unfair business practices".
Doesn't Check 21 allow only BANKS to scan the check? PayPal is not a bank, therefore real banks wouldn't be forced to treat a Paypal-scanned check as a real check, right?
There have been lots of posts here about how it is useful to keep floppies around - for "just in case", for loading specialized drivers, for obscure dual-boot setups, etc. While I agree that there are *rare* occasions to use a floppy (disclaimer: your definition of rare may vary from mine), they are too small (storage, not physical), too slow, and too easily corrupt for common use. This leads me to my main point: The REAL reason floppies are still around is, every three months, some tech writer gets bored and writes yet another "The Death of the Floppy Disk" article.
Think of it this way: If even 0.1% of the people who saw the site this morning donated $0.50... look at your server logs, how many million hits did you get?
> It's a long ways to get from 350 miles up to 19,000 miles up.
Yeah, but at a dollar a ton, you can haul a LOT of rocket fuel the first 350 miles in the blimp. 350 miles to 19,000 miles needs a lot less fuel to move the same mass in the same time as 0 miles to 350 miles. Gotta love inverse r-squared.
Just to get things straight... Lessig is not the one who proposed the tax idea, he proposed the bounty idea. The author of the Financial Times article, Christopher Caldwell, proposed the tax idea. From reading the/. posting, I can see how you could make this mistake - now you don't have to think "I usually like Lessig's ideas, but not his rediculous one about spam!":)
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The Kzinti have religion... they even have heretic religions. Maybe there is no mention of human religions because they were brainwashed out by the ARM along with violence & war.
Do you think you were the right person to play James T. Kirk?
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In the article, it says they use multiple inputs and multiple outputs... IE, they give an example of using 4 transmitters and 4 antennas. They also say the 4 transmissions use the same band (ie, still 3G, but different channels).
What happens to the cell phone networks when every phone starts using 4 channels instead of 1? There's a limited number of channels in each band...
NOTE: This is going to look terrible, unless some omnipotent being infuses me with knowledge of MathML in the next 30 seconds...
No, like E = m_0 * gamma_m^+1 * gamma_g^-1 * c_0^2, where E = energy, m_0 = rest mass, c_0 = speed of light in a vacuum but not a gravity well, gamma_m is the motion correction factor sqrt(1-v^2/c_0^2) (ie, special relativity), and gamma_g is the gravity correction factor 1-GM/(r_0*c_0^2) (ie, general relativity - this is the part they might need to adjust, because this might only be a partial expansion of the "real" formula).
Now I'm going to be, because as much fun as this is (no really, I actually enjoy relativity & cosmology), I just helped someone move...
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So this is just lossy compression implemented in hardware?
I think the general solution is teach people to "trust no one"
If the solution involves changing people's behavior (arguably impossible anyway), why not teach people to not be dicks instead?
If it's virtual, how can you "reach out and touch faith"?
Hmm, 10 months ago...
I got this from a friend who works at yahoo...
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http://www.langreiter.com/exec/yahoo-vs-google.ht
Sorry if it gets slashdotted.
That's why it's important that doctors are legally allowed to do this kind of research; to answer these kinds of questions.
For example, if a truck suddenly pulls out in front of you, you will suddenly focus on it; your passenger will tend to notice this and stop talking. Someone on the other end of a phone won't.
When I'm driving and having a conversation (either with someone in the car, or when using my handsfree headset for my phone), and a truck pulls out in front of me, I stop listening, because driving needs more of my concentration and has a higher priority.
It will compete with Outlook express though.
It will compete with OE. It will not be competitive. Why? Because OE ships with Windows. Because the "Internet Connection Wizard" that you have to run to even turn on your LAN connection asks "do you want to set up a mail account now?" Because Microsoft is a monopoly, and wants to stay that way.
IF Microsoft abides by the EU's recent ruling to remove mediaplayer from Windows, maybe we can get something like that here (ha!) for OE. Until then, most people won't even know they need an alternative, much less that one is available to them.
Well, Google doesn't put ads in with search results, but rather clearly marks them and places them off to the side or two small lines at the top.
This leads me to beleive that they would keep such "sponsored links" out of the autocomplete list, or at least continue clearly marking them as sponsored links.
-Z
For every topic of interest, there are many forums. Some have high s/n ratio, some low. You just gotta know how to find the good ones.
Unfortunately for the submitter, it seems like the more "reputation for its tuning potential" a car has, the lower the s/n ratio of all the forums.
Go quattro!
You compare a fixed-price MS Windows to a regressive tax, then you make it still regressive by putting a cap on it.
A fixed-price is regressive - if I make $15k/yr and you make $115k/yr it hurts my wallet more to pay $300 for an OS than it does your wallet.
A static percentage is also regressive - same example as above, a 10% "tax" on me is $1500, for you it would be $11,500. Our after-"tax" incomes then are $13500 and $103,500. For someone living that close to the poverty line, $1500 is a VERY large amount of money - you can buy two cars with that! For you still making over 100k, does the loss of 11.5k hurt? Yes. Does it mean you won't be able to send your kid to community college? No.
This is why the US taxes are a series of increasing percentages. (I have some other opinions on this matter, but I'll try to stay on topic).
Now that the economics lesson is over, I would like to say I agree with your reasoning in paragraph one. The problem is that Balmer wants to make a $100 pc and then sell people a $200-300 OS, because of course they can afford it now. People buying a $100 PC want something tangible for their money - $100 for a whole computer? Great! $300 for a CD? WTF! Then the linux community comes along and says $1 to cover the cost of duplicating the CD... presto, worldwide linux usage!
MS might counter by saying it wants $100 PCs for windows use only, if you buy w/o windows the price for the hardware goes up to $200 or something. This, obviously, is complete BS - can you say "unfair business practices".
Doesn't Check 21 allow only BANKS to scan the check? PayPal is not a bank, therefore real banks wouldn't be forced to treat a Paypal-scanned check as a real check, right?
There have been lots of posts here about how it is useful to keep floppies around - for "just in case", for loading specialized drivers, for obscure dual-boot setups, etc. While I agree that there are *rare* occasions to use a floppy (disclaimer: your definition of rare may vary from mine), they are too small (storage, not physical), too slow, and too easily corrupt for common use.
This leads me to my main point:
The REAL reason floppies are still around is, every three months, some tech writer gets bored and writes yet another "The Death of the Floppy Disk" article.
Think of it this way:
If even 0.1% of the people who saw the site this morning donated $0.50... look at your server logs, how many million hits did you get?
> It's a long ways to get from 350 miles up to 19,000 miles up.
Yeah, but at a dollar a ton, you can haul a LOT of rocket fuel the first 350 miles in the blimp. 350 miles to 19,000 miles needs a lot less fuel to move the same mass in the same time as 0 miles to 350 miles. Gotta love inverse r-squared.
Let me guess, one of the criteria for being labelled a potential terrorist is wearing a black trench coat and playing video games...
oh wait, wrong incident.
-Z
Just to get things straight... /. posting, I can see how you could make this mistake - now you don't have to think "I usually like Lessig's ideas, but not his rediculous one about spam!" :)
Lessig is not the one who proposed the tax idea, he proposed the bounty idea. The author of the Financial Times article, Christopher Caldwell, proposed the tax idea.
From reading the
The Kzinti have religion... they even have heretic religions. Maybe there is no mention of human religions because they were brainwashed out by the ARM along with violence & war.
Combine it with speech recognition, and you're set. (Maybe handwriting recognition too... something good enough for doctor's handwriting!)
Do you think you were the right person to play James T. Kirk?
In the article, it says they use multiple inputs and multiple outputs... IE, they give an example of using 4 transmitters and 4 antennas. They also say the 4 transmissions use the same band (ie, still 3G, but different channels).
What happens to the cell phone networks when every phone starts using 4 channels instead of 1? There's a limited number of channels in each band...
Who cares? Capitalism isn't all it's cracked up to be...
-Zordok
Some quotes from the article:
"Spam, after all, is perfectly legal in most places -- as long as it isn't fraudulent."
"Spammers hide by using fake 'from' addresses and relaying their messages through anonymous mail servers in places like China."
IANAL, but I thought not revealing your company's name durign a business transaction was fraud...
-Zordok
I wonder if these can get high enough res. to be useful for laptop/handheld displays? That would sure be handy...
-Zordok
NOTE: This is going to look terrible, unless some omnipotent being infuses me with knowledge of MathML in the next 30 seconds...
No, like E = m_0 * gamma_m^+1 * gamma_g^-1 * c_0^2, where E = energy, m_0 = rest mass, c_0 = speed of light in a vacuum but not a gravity well, gamma_m is the motion correction factor sqrt(1-v^2/c_0^2) (ie, special relativity), and gamma_g is the gravity correction factor 1-GM/(r_0*c_0^2) (ie, general relativity - this is the part they might need to adjust, because this might only be a partial expansion of the "real" formula).
Now I'm going to be, because as much fun as this is (no really, I actually enjoy relativity & cosmology), I just helped someone move...