Telco's have no interest in selling new hardware except as a means to attract new subscribers. Most smartphones sold in North America are heavily subsidized by the carrier, meaning they *lose* money every time they "sell" a new phone. The only people in North American telcos who will be upset at the loss of the upgrade imperative will be their marketing department - they'll lose their easiest grab on people's attention.
revenue from 1000 barrels of oil they are collecting with their "straw" = $70,000/day
Cost to BP in the last 30 days for cleanup, drilling, etc = $33 million/day (http://blogs.wsj.com/source/2010/05/13/bp-cause-and-effect/)
Cost to BP if they don't get this sorted ASAP and scenes of oil slicked beaches up the eastern seaboard galvanize support to ban offshore drilling = priceless
I'm sorry but the idea that the "straw" is any sort of attempt to goose revenue from this situation is ludicrous.
As poster said, this hole is toast and everyone knows that. It cannot be rehabilitated or repaired.
I can assure you that 99.9999% of Windows users have no idea what Control or Alt are for, or that you can accomplish anything at all without a death grip on the mouse.
I fail to see why toll roads are a bad thing. The license plate photo idea has privacy and authentication concerns, but the economic case is rock solid.
I drive and I have driven on toll roads. Drivers, including myself, need to pay their way, that means as roads (supply) stay static, and demand (drivers) increase, prices to use those roads should go up high enough to either encourage more supply (infrastructure investment and/or private roads) and discourage demand (people realizing that cars suck).
There is a planned parking change in my city to have variable parking pricing. The price will continue to go up, until 15% of spaces are free at any given time. I think it's fabulous and should be applied to all drivers as some sort of traffic/congestion fee. Based on size of vehicle and continually jacked up until traffic decreases to your city's target level.
Everytime I've driving a toll road it's been a pleasure, as the high price kept traffic down and it was immaculately maintained. I would prefer to see all roads toll roads, it would be the fastest way to: - reducing / eliminating traffic deaths - reducing pollution - eliminating congestion - eliminating noise pollution - eliminating road rage - increase health/exercise
While I agree with the suggestion we should tax/control/ban the shite food, where does the impression that fast food is cheaper come from?
I can't think of single comparison between meals made at home from groceries, where the per meal cost would come in below a fast food restaurant. You could certainly argue that healthy restaurants are more expensive than crap restaurants, but the real issue is eating in restaurants, not the cost of the food.
All very true, but I think the idea most people are trying to get across is that instead of 1 Ethernet network linking everything, or 1 wire for each function, there should be at least 2 Ethernets. 1 for critical control elements. 1 for everything else. No connection. None. I can't see this significantly increasing the cost/weight/etc. And it's the only way to ensure the plane is not susceptible to network attacks.
Reading 18 blog summaries to just get back to the original story is ridiculous. If you want to credit the guy who happened to tip you off, by all means, but stop wasting our time, link to the original article.
And then of course there's the old saw about how blogs will replace newspapers - interesting that their original material often seems to come from them.
I'm sure I'll get flamed with comments like, "but what about the blog writers ad revenue stream - how dare you cheat him out of his living!" - bullshit. What exactly is the blog writer adding to the equation here that entitles him to anything? The Daily mail reporter found & wrote the story, got quotes, graphics & photos and did the layout. The blog writer said, "Hey, this is cool, check it out". Or more likely said, "hey, check out what my blog buddy said about what his blog buddy said about what his blog buddy said about what his blog buddy said about this cool article in the newspaper"
All great advice but try telling that to customers.
People buy IT products on features, not reliablity or usability. If you stop developing new features to focus on reliablity, your customers will, in short order, abandon you for the guy pumping out feature after feature, however buggy.
I'm not saying this is rational, but it's how non-IT (and some IT) people make IT buying decisions, and that drives the industry.
Why complicate matters? Instead of a wattage tax, why not just let power prices float?
Assuming this is for real, the reason you haven't seen this before is that as long as power is 10cents/KWh, nobody cares how many lumens per watt their light bulb gets, just like nobody cases about mpg when oil is $14/barrel.
If power was deregulated (and I mean full deregulation, not the half-way scheme of Calfornia a few years ago) it's a fair bet prices would be several times what they are now. Assuming that was politically survivable, we'd get what we wanted, people would give a shit about how much power they use.
As it stands, the only reason anyone cares is out of guilt or a need to feel PC.
There is a good deal of evidence that sugar and refined carbohydrates and other modern foods affect whatever it is that causes teeth and dental arches to grow properly. This is not about their immediate effect on the tissues of your mouth, this about their effect inside your body, impairing it's ability to develop properly.
Of course, no one wants to give up their sugar or white bread (unless it's part of a fashionable but short lived diet plan atkins) so no one really listens:
Mod parent up - seriously.. Taxi regimes in most cities are nothing more than welfare for those that already own licenses. There is no doubt that for-hire vehicles need to be regulated in some manner to avoid congestion, but there are much better ways of doing it than simply not allowing any more cabs, i.e.
- legalize livery services (running a for-hire vehicle that picks up more than one customer) - charge *all* vehicle owners a congestion charge for driving in the city without limiting their # - if congestion becomes worse, raise the charge - for-hire vehicles, esp. livery services, can spread that cost out among hundreds of customers during the day, making it much more economical than private car ownership.
Is there any good reason why a license to run a business should be the single largest cost in starting that business? When you start a restaurant, the cost of a business license is a miniscule part of the capital required, and look at the incredible variety of restaurants on offer in any large city.
... who saw this - when Google maps first came out, I swear I could see the whole world, then google uk maps came out and suddenly maps.google.com was just north america, now it's the whole earth again and everyone is going nuts.. what gives?
Winning with out winning the popular vote is a possibility, a trade-off, if you will, by design. It's been there for 300 years - why didn't you make a fuss before?
Further, this has been covered before, but Arrow's Impossibility Theorem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibil ity_theorem) proves it's impossible to have a perfect system. All have anomolies of some sort. In the case of the electoral college system, one of it's anomolies is that in a very close election someone will win without winning the popular vote, albeit by a very small margin.
You can pick a different system if you want, but you'll have to take it's new and possibly unknown anomolies with it. At least people understand how this system works.
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Telco's have no interest in selling new hardware except as a means to attract new subscribers. Most smartphones sold in North America are heavily subsidized by the carrier, meaning they *lose* money every time they "sell" a new phone. The only people in North American telcos who will be upset at the loss of the upgrade imperative will be their marketing department - they'll lose their easiest grab on people's attention.
Seriously?
With this logic, you would be against any sort of more efficient process ever developed.
ok so it's not the car crash evolving but it works out the same:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_homeostasis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation
uh...
revenue from 1000 barrels of oil they are collecting with their "straw" = $70,000/day
Cost to BP in the last 30 days for cleanup, drilling, etc = $33 million/day (http://blogs.wsj.com/source/2010/05/13/bp-cause-and-effect/)
Cost to BP if they don't get this sorted ASAP and scenes of oil slicked beaches up the eastern seaboard galvanize support to ban offshore drilling = priceless
I'm sorry but the idea that the "straw" is any sort of attempt to goose revenue from this situation is ludicrous.
As poster said, this hole is toast and everyone knows that. It cannot be rehabilitated or repaired.
I can assure you that 99.9999% of Windows users have no idea what Control or Alt are for, or that you can accomplish anything at all without a death grip on the mouse.
too bad he was wrong about the sunscreen.
99.99 % of the people on the internet: /.
- do not read
- have no idea what end-to-end connectivity means
- have no idea they don't have it with ipv4
I fail to see why toll roads are a bad thing. The license plate photo idea has privacy and authentication concerns, but the economic case is rock solid.
I drive and I have driven on toll roads. Drivers, including myself, need to pay their way, that means as roads (supply) stay static, and demand (drivers) increase, prices to use those roads should go up high enough to either encourage more supply (infrastructure investment and/or private roads) and discourage demand (people realizing that cars suck).
There is a planned parking change in my city to have variable parking pricing. The price will continue to go up, until 15% of spaces are free at any given time. I think it's fabulous and should be applied to all drivers as some sort of traffic/congestion fee. Based on size of vehicle and continually jacked up until traffic decreases to your city's target level.
Everytime I've driving a toll road it's been a pleasure, as the high price kept traffic down and it was immaculately maintained. I would prefer to see all roads toll roads, it would be the fastest way to:
- reducing / eliminating traffic deaths
- reducing pollution
- eliminating congestion
- eliminating noise pollution
- eliminating road rage
- increase health/exercise
While I agree with the suggestion we should tax/control/ban the shite food, where does the impression that fast food is cheaper come from?
I can't think of single comparison between meals made at home from groceries, where the per meal cost would come in below a fast food restaurant. You could certainly argue that healthy restaurants are more expensive than crap restaurants, but the real issue is eating in restaurants, not the cost of the food.
All very true, but I think the idea most people are trying to get across is that instead of 1 Ethernet network linking everything, or 1 wire for each function, there should be at least 2 Ethernets. 1 for critical control elements. 1 for everything else. No connection. None. I can't see this significantly increasing the cost/weight/etc. And it's the only way to ensure the plane is not susceptible to network attacks.
Way earlier.. in fact, the original source material:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=492631&in_page_id=1965&ito=1490
Why not just link to that in the first place?
Reading 18 blog summaries to just get back to the original story is ridiculous. If you want to credit the guy who happened to tip you off, by all means, but stop wasting our time, link to the original article.
And then of course there's the old saw about how blogs will replace newspapers - interesting that their original material often seems to come from them.
I'm sure I'll get flamed with comments like, "but what about the blog writers ad revenue stream - how dare you cheat him out of his living!" - bullshit. What exactly is the blog writer adding to the equation here that entitles him to anything? The Daily mail reporter found & wrote the story, got quotes, graphics & photos and did the layout. The blog writer said, "Hey, this is cool, check it out". Or more likely said, "hey, check out what my blog buddy said about what his blog buddy said about what his blog buddy said about what his blog buddy said about this cool article in the newspaper"
hilarious.
Well Said.
All great advice but try telling that to customers.
People buy IT products on features, not reliablity or usability. If you stop developing new features to focus on reliablity, your customers will, in short order, abandon you for the guy pumping out feature after feature, however buggy.
I'm not saying this is rational, but it's how non-IT (and some IT) people make IT buying decisions, and that drives the industry.
Why complicate matters? Instead of a wattage tax, why not just let power prices float?
Assuming this is for real, the reason you haven't seen this before is that as long as power is 10cents/KWh, nobody cares how many lumens per watt their light bulb gets, just like nobody cases about mpg when oil is $14/barrel.
If power was deregulated (and I mean full deregulation, not the half-way scheme of Calfornia a few years ago) it's a fair bet prices would be several times what they are now. Assuming that was politically survivable, we'd get what we wanted, people would give a shit about how much power they use.
As it stands, the only reason anyone cares is out of guilt or a need to feel PC.
Most balanced /. post ever.
mod parent up!
Well, that myth might be based on this reality:
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http://www.6502.org/users/andre/petindex/poke.htm
in short, on Commoodre Pets (builtin monitors) you could change a user accessible memory location and change the voltage to the screen.
There is a good deal of evidence that sugar and refined carbohydrates and other modern foods affect whatever it is that causes teeth and dental arches to grow properly. This is not about their immediate effect on the tissues of your mouth, this about their effect inside your body, impairing it's ability to develop properly.
Of course, no one wants to give up their sugar or white bread (unless it's part of a fashionable but short lived diet plan atkins) so no one really listens:
http://www.google.ca/search?q=weston+a+price
Most common sense /. post ever - thank you
Mod parent up - seriously.. Taxi regimes in most cities are nothing more than welfare for those that already own licenses. There is no doubt that for-hire vehicles need to be regulated in some manner to avoid congestion, but there are much better ways of doing it than simply not allowing any more cabs, i.e.
- legalize livery services (running a for-hire vehicle that picks up more than one customer)
- charge *all* vehicle owners a congestion charge for driving in the city without limiting their # - if congestion becomes worse, raise the charge - for-hire vehicles, esp. livery services, can spread that cost out among hundreds of customers during the day, making it much more economical than private car ownership.
Is there any good reason why a license to run a business should be the single largest cost in starting that business? When you start a restaurant, the cost of a business license is a miniscule part of the capital required, and look at the incredible variety of restaurants on offer in any large city.
Are you serious? Because of the rare chance that someone might abuse a freedom, it should simple not exist? Wow.
... who saw this - when Google maps first came out, I swear I could see the whole world, then google uk maps came out and suddenly maps.google.com was just north america, now it's the whole earth again and everyone is going nuts.. what gives?
CBC does a science show called Quirks & Quarks and they have excellent archives:
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http://radio.cbc.ca/programs/quirks/archives.ht
uh.. if the insect was close to the lens, close enough to get hit with the flash, 9 inches is surely enough to fly out of frame
Not going to happen w/inkjet. Buy a laser - it will pay for itself with cheap toner, better quality & long life.
Winning with out winning the popular vote is a possibility, a trade-off, if you will, by design. It's been there for 300 years - why didn't you make a fuss before?
l ity_theorem) proves it's impossible to have a perfect system. All have anomolies of some sort. In the case of the electoral college system, one of it's anomolies is that in a very close election someone will win without winning the popular vote, albeit by a very small margin.
Further, this has been covered before, but Arrow's Impossibility Theorem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibi
You can pick a different system if you want, but you'll have to take it's new and possibly unknown anomolies with it. At least people understand how this system works.