It's about using the abundant, free stuff (music files, video files, etc) to enhance the value and popularity of the scarce stuff (live shows). That's the model.
Do they have something that they've tested that you've seen which makes you want to work with them?
We haven't personally tested their prototypes yet. Its something that we'll work on together this year.
Not helpful in dispelling claims of vaporware. It does sound amazing though. Interestingly, it seems they intend to keep the tech strictly in-house, rather than licensing it. Makes me think of a future where EEstor cells are in everything. Good for standardization I suppose.
Nobody's telling you what to do, it's about pointing out the benefits of the alternatives. If the general population drove $10,000 Nissans, and you could get a Bugatti Veyron for free, why wouldn't the kindly Veyron enthusiasts point this out to their benighted counterparts?
I tried persuading all my friends, citing the freedom argument, the security argument, the stability, community etc. Nothing worked. Then I learned how. Show them the spinning cube (With my heavy metal friends, I go for a pentagonal prism), and shout 'It's free! It's free!' Over and over.
It isn't happening today, and probably won't. The story is that the UK government is 'investigating the use of' implanted chips. They clearly have not got very far though, the official is quoted talking about putting GPS in kiddie-fiddlers. This would cook them.
The UK already employs an extensive system of electronic ankle bracelets as part of early release programs, they're radio-linked to an internet connected receiver in their houses. A small percentage of them are removed, virtually always triggering the tamper detection devices. A much bigger problem so far has been the comically inept way the schemes are run.
The Streisand effect is such a useful concept. I think there's a good chance that future generations will primarily know Babs herself via the eponymous linguistic device, rather than her artistic oeuvre. A kind of Metastreisand effect. Hooray.
This looks to be open and shut, so, does anyone know- If the judge is sane, and applies the law as he should, what sort of legal precedent will be set? (I'm a stinking U.K.-er, I just want to know)
In the olden days, if they'd have discovered that some olden day ingredient (bat grease, shark lung etc...) made your ice cream all smooth, I bet they'd have used it in a second. It would now be an accepted part of 'good old ice cream'.
What I'm saying is that new technology need not necessarily be bad. This stuff might be good. Agree with you about most modern ice cream though. The swine.
A semantic difference I guess, I'll happily defer to your description of it as an instruction manual (you big, me small etc...).
Really though, as superficially appealing as -1 wrong is, it wouldn't work (don't you think they've thought about it before?). Meta-moderators can fairly quickly figure if something is off-topic, flamebait, trolling, even overrated. Wrong would break the system, it would require too much research. I agree there are legitimate, usually obvious uses for it, but the reality would be endless abuse. The solution is to moderate 'wrong' comments as overrated if you feel that other mods have incorrectly boosted it up. I wish it were otherwise.
Agreed it's a PEBKAC, pretty much the only predictable thing when designing software it the likelyhood of humans, with all their crazy ways, using it. That's why this story is really about how effectively software producers anticipate, discourage, and otherwise strive to design out situations like the one described. MS may be evil, but it's not the point here for sure. The point it that they don't take a cogent, cohesive view of the whole social engineering side of their business.
I don't think satisfaction and poetry should be mutually exclusive. Diabetes is a fucker to rhyme with though. They shoulda given Clarkson Diabetes/By mixing up glucose with his morning wheaties....
Both the heat recycling and heat reduction aspects of this start-up's tech work fine and would be extremely useful and practical, were it not for one small problem: The technology requires the entire CPU/GPU's circuit layout to be designed with this technology in mind. I'm betting that more pressing issues will influence the direction of chip development.
The method... doesn't necessarily come up with unique solutions -- there could be many ways to achieve equal 'unfairness'.
So basically, any re-jigging using this method will arbitrarily (or otherwise) favor one state over another, with no rationale. Additionally, it would likely mire the US electoral process in endless legal challenges. And we can't have that! (waka waka waka)
I like the scam they pulled, but to be truly poetic, the bank transfer should have gone to Friends of the Earth. Anyone who knows of Clarkson will understand.
Especially as those individuals are often disgruntled ex-BOFHs, who were responsible for keeping the licensing up to date in the first place. Or so I've heard.
Surely one thing we've learned in the field of computer technology- Whatever seems like more than enough is just too little. Not that this stuff doesn't look cool, it's just that in a year or two something 10 times better will come along, and cool new applications for many Gbps will probably arrive shortly after that... Those holo-hookers won't animate themselves.
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It's about using the abundant, free stuff (music files, video files, etc) to enhance the value and popularity of the scarce stuff (live shows). That's the model.
I wonder if the ads will feature an EEStor Bunny?
Not helpful in dispelling claims of vaporware. It does sound amazing though. Interestingly, it seems they intend to keep the tech strictly in-house, rather than licensing it. Makes me think of a future where EEstor cells are in everything. Good for standardization I suppose.
Nobody's telling you what to do, it's about pointing out the benefits of the alternatives. If the general population drove $10,000 Nissans, and you could get a Bugatti Veyron for free, why wouldn't the kindly Veyron enthusiasts point this out to their benighted counterparts?
I tried persuading all my friends, citing the freedom argument, the security argument, the stability, community etc. Nothing worked. Then I learned how. Show them the spinning cube (With my heavy metal friends, I go for a pentagonal prism), and shout 'It's free! It's free!' Over and over.
It isn't happening today, and probably won't. The story is that the UK government is 'investigating the use of' implanted chips. They clearly have not got very far though, the official is quoted talking about putting GPS in kiddie-fiddlers. This would cook them.
The UK already employs an extensive system of electronic ankle bracelets as part of early release programs, they're radio-linked to an internet connected receiver in their houses. A small percentage of them are removed, virtually always triggering the tamper detection devices. A much bigger problem so far has been the comically inept way the schemes are run.
(In fact I believe only Robert Smith can prevent this....)
The Streisand effect is such a useful concept. I think there's a good chance that future generations will primarily know Babs herself via the eponymous linguistic device, rather than her artistic oeuvre. A kind of Metastreisand effect. Hooray.
Actually, no. The Library's photocopier creates the unauthorized copies at the request of the sneaky book thief.
I guess I mean 'What rights will a good decision establish, and for whom?'
This looks to be open and shut, so, does anyone know- If the judge is sane, and applies the law as he should, what sort of legal precedent will be set? (I'm a stinking U.K.-er, I just want to know)
In the olden days, if they'd have discovered that some olden day ingredient (bat grease, shark lung etc...) made your ice cream all smooth, I bet they'd have used it in a second. It would now be an accepted part of 'good old ice cream'.
What I'm saying is that new technology need not necessarily be bad. This stuff might be good. Agree with you about most modern ice cream though. The swine.
Makes sense... Fisticuffs avoided once more. Obliged.
A semantic difference I guess, I'll happily defer to your description of it as an instruction manual (you big, me small etc...).
Really though, as superficially appealing as -1 wrong is, it wouldn't work (don't you think they've thought about it before?). Meta-moderators can fairly quickly figure if something is off-topic, flamebait, trolling, even overrated. Wrong would break the system, it would require too much research. I agree there are legitimate, usually obvious uses for it, but the reality would be endless abuse. The solution is to moderate 'wrong' comments as overrated if you feel that other mods have incorrectly boosted it up. I wish it were otherwise.
-1 Wrong. It's only an explanation of the language of the book, written in a confusing (as in, is this part of the book?) way.
Regarding yer sig: -1 wrong would only work if people were infalible. Instead, reply to the 'wrong' person, reason with them.
That's brilliant. Who needs integers?
Agreed it's a PEBKAC, pretty much the only predictable thing when designing software it the likelyhood of humans, with all their crazy ways, using it. That's why this story is really about how effectively software producers anticipate, discourage, and otherwise strive to design out situations like the one described. MS may be evil, but it's not the point here for sure. The point it that they don't take a cogent, cohesive view of the whole social engineering side of their business.
I don't think satisfaction and poetry should be mutually exclusive. Diabetes is a fucker to rhyme with though.
They shoulda given Clarkson Diabetes/By mixing up glucose with his morning wheaties....
Well shit! this would explain all that stuff about windows and viruses I keep hearing about....
Both the heat recycling and heat reduction aspects of this start-up's tech work fine and would be extremely useful and practical, were it not for one small problem: The technology requires the entire CPU/GPU's circuit layout to be designed with this technology in mind. I'm betting that more pressing issues will influence the direction of chip development.
I like the scam they pulled, but to be truly poetic, the bank transfer should have gone to Friends of the Earth. Anyone who knows of Clarkson will understand.
Especially as those individuals are often disgruntled ex-BOFHs, who were responsible for keeping the licensing up to date in the first place. Or so I've heard.
Surely one thing we've learned in the field of computer technology- Whatever seems like more than enough is just too little. Not that this stuff doesn't look cool, it's just that in a year or two something 10 times better will come along, and cool new applications for many Gbps will probably arrive shortly after that... Those holo-hookers won't animate themselves.