Problem: All the competition is incompetent. Google is not. Google will move in to this area, destroy everyone else, and then there will be no more "competition" (not that there necessarily was any before). In the end, we might end up with but one ISP....
Even if that happens, we'll still be (slightly) better off. Rather than have incompetent ISPs with no competition, we'll have a competent ISP with no competition.
It's a great idea in the term, but I think it might have problems long-term. Vastly increasing the demand for heroin (exactly what buying all production at the best price possible is!) would encourage more people to enter heroin production. Maybe convert farmland from food production to "cash crops."
However, unlike the "war" on drugs, I'm convinced your idea has a least a snowball's chance of working. The DEA's budget should be transferred immediately to you, our new Drug Czar.
Go get Google Voice. You can get a "call me" widget - the clicker types in their number, and Google connects them to you without revealing your number.
I know, I know, missed the point. I wish you the best of luck acquainting yourself with a female.
I'd think conversion to e-book formats would be trivial considering that the publisher has the source text. I'd hope that formatting it to fit a screen would cost less than shipping and producing literally tons of paper.
Even if e-books cost more to produce, as you say, there is no market for them. If I were Kindle-selling Amazon, I'd want to jump-start that market with lower prices rather than let it remain a niche market.
Do you have any idea how much work goes into producing a book?
I Am Not An Author, so no, I have no first-hand experience with how much work goes into a book.
However, I assume that compensation for that work is (and has always been) built into the price of the paperback versions. If none of the people who did all that work were compensated for it, that would mean no paperback versions.
I also assume that paperbacks cost more to produce than e-book versions, which don't require smushing a force with blades and chemicals.
Paperback: Work to produce original content + cost to physically print.
E-book: (Same) Work to produce original content.
I'd assume the E-book would still be much cheaper.
Good points. I agree that the "democratic" part of "democratic republic" is important, but I don't think it's dishonest. "Republic" doesn't necessarily mean "undemocratic republic," I think.
"Protected mode" is a marketing term meaning IE takes advantage of Vista's new permissions model. It means it's a low-privilege process and has most of its file system access effectively jailed or redirected.
Long-winded article here, but I'm guessing the hack doesn't work in "Protected Mode" because the browser itself doesn't have much file system access.
You might not even have to guess the tax-returns folder. I wonder if you could iterate through all possible files/paths inside My Documents and brute-force a listing.
I'm lucky that I never had to deal with any of the dangerous psychopaths, and that most of them were pretty small in grade school.
Scaring people is easy if you're a brute; manipulating "everybody" requires force of personality. You just need to be more charismatic (and sufficiently outspoken) than the psychopath to prevent the latter from happening.
"Twice as heavy..." I would've been screwed, but too stubborn to change my strategy. You have to make your first hit good, because that's sometimes the only hit you'll get.
At age 57, time doesn't "pass faster" for me than it did when I was 23 or 24, but each day adds a lower percentage of new experiences and memories than it did back then.
Well, duh. Near the level cap, it takes more XP to advance.
A lot of schools today have "zero tolerance" policies toward fighting. It doesn't matter if he started it; it doesn't matter if you were defending yourself. You are disciplined if you are in a fight with another student.
It just changes the risk/reward calculus. If the abuser and abused are equally punished, it makes more sense to go after the bully first. It pays off in the long run, once they start avoiding you.
i guess this study is for the kids not wiling to take a bully down a few pags.
Agree. I got bullied in grade school, but I beat the shit out of them. Most of them avoided me, though a couple still pushed me around. I always got punished whether I was beaten or beating - "zero tolerance" and whatnot.
Then I realized that since the consequences were the same (or even substantially better!) whether or not you were the aggressor, I decided I'd beat the shit out of the last recalcitrant bully first. Then they all avoided me.
Despite fully growing into nerddom in high school, I had zero problems with bullying there. I'm not sure if preemptively mauling your abusers in high school is as effective a tactic once you factor in juvenile court and expulsion. But, their files are still prone to deletion, their tires still prone to slashing, and their cars still prone to towing.
You should cut the guy some slack. I thought the same thing until I read through all the stuff buried in the last slashdot article.
The car started accelerating and wouldn't stop. Although brakes are designed to be strong enough to overcome the engine, the constant engine acceleration meant no vacuum. Given vacuum-assist brakes, he wasn't physically strong enough to depress the pedal sufficiently.
The shifter on those fancy-shmansy cars is evidently all electric and just tells the engine what mode to be in. Evidently Hal wouldn't let him shift into neutral.
The ignition switch won't kill the engine unless you hold it down for several seconds, which I guess makes sense.
In any other car, the guy would've been an idiot. But after trying to brake, shift, and kill the engine, I would've been out of ideas, too.
I would argue it depends on what degree you get, and from where. This coming from someone who's about to get his first degree. ^_^
You say connections trump little sheets of paper - surely MIT, Harvard, and Oxford were good places for networking at least?
My compsci classes also taught me some very handy stuff - Big-O notation, database normalization, data structures, Berkeley sockets, threads, and other OS concepts. Granted, some of it I might have learned on the job, but having those extra tools completely changed the way I approach problems.
It's like saying you don't care what box a pizza is delivered in, but pizzas graduating from Domino's have extra cheese, better crust, and a completely new sauce. Knowing that, maybe you'd hire something in a Domino's box first.
Download SRWare Iron instead. It's the Chrome source, but with a proper installer. (And without weird server communication and the auto-update service.)
In your niche market example, both demand and supply are low. The one firm you describe can price gouge because they're the only supplier in a theoretical market that doesn't seem large enough to serve multiple firms.
The reason the medical balance boards cost more is probably somewhere between "lawyers," "medical device regulation," and "lack of other competitors."
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Problem: All the competition is incompetent. Google is not. Google will move in to this area, destroy everyone else, and then there will be no more "competition" (not that there necessarily was any before). In the end, we might end up with but one ISP....
Even if that happens, we'll still be (slightly) better off. Rather than have incompetent ISPs with no competition, we'll have a competent ISP with no competition.
You can sign up for the beta here.
It's a great idea in the term, but I think it might have problems long-term. Vastly increasing the demand for heroin (exactly what buying all production at the best price possible is!) would encourage more people to enter heroin production. Maybe convert farmland from food production to "cash crops."
However, unlike the "war" on drugs, I'm convinced your idea has a least a snowball's chance of working. The DEA's budget should be transferred immediately to you, our new Drug Czar.
Go get Google Voice. You can get a "call me" widget - the clicker types in their number, and Google connects them to you without revealing your number.
I know, I know, missed the point. I wish you the best of luck acquainting yourself with a female.
I'd think conversion to e-book formats would be trivial considering that the publisher has the source text. I'd hope that formatting it to fit a screen would cost less than shipping and producing literally tons of paper.
Even if e-books cost more to produce, as you say, there is no market for them. If I were Kindle-selling Amazon, I'd want to jump-start that market with lower prices rather than let it remain a niche market.
To risk further trolling, "mega" in the context of storage and memory has been (mis)used as powers of two for far longer than mebi has existed.
The only reason to redefine it is to make SI purists happy, and so that Hitachi can continue to rip us off by ~7% of advertised storage.
All hail BRITANNIA!
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Do you have any idea how much work goes into producing a book?
I Am Not An Author, so no, I have no first-hand experience with how much work goes into a book.
However, I assume that compensation for that work is (and has always been) built into the price of the paperback versions. If none of the people who did all that work were compensated for it, that would mean no paperback versions.
I also assume that paperbacks cost more to produce than e-book versions, which don't require smushing a force with blades and chemicals.
Paperback: Work to produce original content + cost to physically print.
E-book: (Same) Work to produce original content.
I'd assume the E-book would still be much cheaper.
Good points. I agree that the "democratic" part of "democratic republic" is important, but I don't think it's dishonest. "Republic" doesn't necessarily mean "undemocratic republic," I think.
In the context of storage, a gigabyte is 1024 megabytes.
In the context of networking, a gigabit is 1000 megabits.
In the context of physics, a giga-something is 1,000,000,000-something. Physics doesn't measure gravity in bits or bytes.
Next up in words that have different meanings in different jargons: Hacking
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We are not a Republic. We are a Democratic Republic.
"Democratic Republics" are Republics. In fact, you could say one is a subset of the other.
Republic of China - Owns much of the US's debt. Human Rights record is abominable.
You're thinking of the People's Republic of China. The Republic of China is more commonly known as "Taiwan" and doesn't own quite as much debt.
Either way, I would much rather live in a republic than a democracy.
"Protected mode" is a marketing term meaning IE takes advantage of Vista's new permissions model. It means it's a low-privilege process and has most of its file system access effectively jailed or redirected.
Long-winded article here, but I'm guessing the hack doesn't work in "Protected Mode" because the browser itself doesn't have much file system access.
You might not even have to guess the tax-returns folder. I wonder if you could iterate through all possible files/paths inside My Documents and brute-force a listing.
Package that up into a script and you could probably scan for 1,000 different cookies in the time it took you to read my post.
Definitely! Reading everyone else's cookie is much more interesting than using an exploit to read your own cookies! :P
That's why I install the Windows OS on my Z drive.
Then you're running a vulnerable operating system. For compatibility with brittle programs, Vista and 7 label whatever drive they booted from "C."
So, this flaw would let you read that cookie. Which I'm pretty sure you can do without hacking.
I was going to mod you +1, Funny, but I was worried you were serious. ^_^
I'm lucky that I never had to deal with any of the dangerous psychopaths, and that most of them were pretty small in grade school.
Scaring people is easy if you're a brute; manipulating "everybody" requires force of personality. You just need to be more charismatic (and sufficiently outspoken) than the psychopath to prevent the latter from happening.
"Twice as heavy..." I would've been screwed, but too stubborn to change my strategy. You have to make your first hit good, because that's sometimes the only hit you'll get.
At age 57, time doesn't "pass faster" for me than it did when I was 23 or 24, but each day adds a lower percentage of new experiences and memories than it did back then.
Well, duh. Near the level cap, it takes more XP to advance.
Whoosh.
I think the GP is a smug Java programmer, hinting that his solution to a C++ problem was to rewrite Java.
A lot of schools today have "zero tolerance" policies toward fighting. It doesn't matter if he started it; it doesn't matter if you were defending yourself. You are disciplined if you are in a fight with another student.
It just changes the risk/reward calculus. If the abuser and abused are equally punished, it makes more sense to go after the bully first. It pays off in the long run, once they start avoiding you.
i guess this study is for the kids not wiling to take a bully down a few pags.
Agree. I got bullied in grade school, but I beat the shit out of them. Most of them avoided me, though a couple still pushed me around. I always got punished whether I was beaten or beating - "zero tolerance" and whatnot.
Then I realized that since the consequences were the same (or even substantially better!) whether or not you were the aggressor, I decided I'd beat the shit out of the last recalcitrant bully first. Then they all avoided me.
Despite fully growing into nerddom in high school, I had zero problems with bullying there. I'm not sure if preemptively mauling your abusers in high school is as effective a tactic once you factor in juvenile court and expulsion. But, their files are still prone to deletion, their tires still prone to slashing, and their cars still prone to towing.
You should cut the guy some slack. I thought the same thing until I read through all the stuff buried in the last slashdot article.
The car started accelerating and wouldn't stop. Although brakes are designed to be strong enough to overcome the engine, the constant engine acceleration meant no vacuum. Given vacuum-assist brakes, he wasn't physically strong enough to depress the pedal sufficiently.
The shifter on those fancy-shmansy cars is evidently all electric and just tells the engine what mode to be in. Evidently Hal wouldn't let him shift into neutral.
The ignition switch won't kill the engine unless you hold it down for several seconds, which I guess makes sense.
In any other car, the guy would've been an idiot. But after trying to brake, shift, and kill the engine, I would've been out of ideas, too.
I would argue it depends on what degree you get, and from where. This coming from someone who's about to get his first degree. ^_^
You say connections trump little sheets of paper - surely MIT, Harvard, and Oxford were good places for networking at least?
My compsci classes also taught me some very handy stuff - Big-O notation, database normalization, data structures, Berkeley sockets, threads, and other OS concepts. Granted, some of it I might have learned on the job, but having those extra tools completely changed the way I approach problems.
It's like saying you don't care what box a pizza is delivered in, but pizzas graduating from Domino's have extra cheese, better crust, and a completely new sauce. Knowing that, maybe you'd hire something in a Domino's box first.
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Download SRWare Iron instead. It's the Chrome source, but with a proper installer. (And without weird server communication and the auto-update service.)
In your niche market example, both demand and supply are low. The one firm you describe can price gouge because they're the only supplier in a theoretical market that doesn't seem large enough to serve multiple firms.
The reason the medical balance boards cost more is probably somewhere between "lawyers," "medical device regulation," and "lack of other competitors."