Every tinfoil hat wearer knows that's because without your tinfoil hat, you're vulnerable to the mind control rays that make you think that way!!

You know that EEUU among many other countries still has a notably huge rail freight traffic, right? With trains as long as 3 Km composed exclusively by standard freight containers...

Now that's an easy question:

TI calc, you use the hack to upload a firmware/os that you/someone created and that you're free to use (supossing that it's a open source or free version, I guess that there are no "buyable" new firmware/os for the TI)

Nintendo DS with the hack you can load hombrew, wich is fine and dandy, but you can also load ROMs of comecially available games, with falls right into the DMCA domains.

DirecTV you use the hack to view comercially distributed media (TV series, movies) that you didn't pay for, wich AFAIK falls again into DMCA domains.

Do you notice the trend?

Then this plant must be some kind of super genius cloning itself without those advanced stuffs you mentioned...

So if they buy a copy of snow leopard, they're apple's customers, but if they also have a Palm, they automatically stop being apple's customers ?

Nice logic there smart boy.

Did anyone else get the "free zero point magnet elecrticity" scam adds?

Lately i'm getting a lot of crap adds like this from google adds... It's a shame.

Excuse me for being ignorant if i'm wrong, but i think that the studios have little to no "cash" problems, if you make a 80% profit, investors will come from all over the place to rub your back, and since Watchmen appears to be a "low profit" movie, i can only imagine about the "high profit" ones...

So i'm sure the studios have plenty of cash to start as many movies as they see apropiate, that means that every silly idea anyone around them mentions becomes a movie...Oh wait, that's what's happening right now...

If you think that marginal==none then you have some reading cromprehension problems.

Once you have a bunch of high capacity routers and fiberoptic channels, the costs get reduced to the utilities bill, a number of maintenance guys and sysops and a repair here and there, wich is a tiny cost if you compare to the cost of laying maybe thousands of miles of fiberoptic and buying those super-duper-powered routers.

Of course you have more costs when you have more bandwidth but the cost isn't that big compared to the instalation costs, and you can't tell me it's otherwise....

Nice paper, now tell me where it says that running costs are higher than the building costs please, because to me, it seems that the paper is about how having more cars and trucks running over a road makes maintenance more expensive :P

Yup, because the whole world is a plain with no rivers, mountains or any feature whatsoever... Usually the most expensive part of highways are bridges, tunnels, and all kind of landscaping.

You realize that unlike all your other examples, using that bandwidth has no real costs versus no using it once it's instaled and running, right?

Bandwidth is like highways, the real cost is in the laying process, once you've done that, the maintenance is marginal when you compare it to the original cost. Of course you have those greedy bastards top level providers who are like the bastard companies that keep asking for expensive tolls once the highway has been more than paid (and the government pays for maintenance), they just care about their profits, and having a fair pricing isn't their goal.

The only real fair deal would if they made the numbers required to figure what kind of bandwidth infrastructure they would require to fulfill the needs of all their users, and make them pay that once... maybe as a subscription fee. And after that you would pay monthly the running costs, like the electricity the need to keep the net working... But that sounds a lot like those federal funds they got some time ago, right?

now my quote from the wikipedia article on the machine you're talking about

If you call a 4000 spaceship small, i don't want to know what would be big for you.... As a side note, you're somewhat right, as the nukes had a built in reaction mass that "pushed" the ship. But the part about "blast chambers of precise dimensions" is a bit off too, a huge plain shield of a special material isn't a blast chamber and doesn't have precise dimensions at all (it just has to be huge enough to protect the ship).

You know that "decimated" means that a tenth was taken... so it was more than decimated...

That only aplies to the Open servers where you can fight everywhere without previous flagging

On the normal servers you can't go to a lower tier and fight.