Didn't you worry that someone might say, "Hey, this dept works very well with 50% less employees. A little too well...". Surely an employer could consider the performance under these conditions when considering some layoffs.
Carmack performed an experiment. It failed to work the way he wanted it to. Now he can move onto the next experiment with the benefit of the extra data. That's science.
Don't knock it. There's always someone who's willing to be the early adopter to no advantage. That guy, and others like him, make things affordable for the rest of us. The early adopter is usually happy with the situation and so should we be.
Why do I have this weird feeling that, in the long rung, it will be released internationally? The extra publicity will make up for lack of UK sales (which will probably still be considerable via import). Maybe, they'll get around it in the UK with slightly different in game art (see Carmageddon or Fallout).
It's called showmanship. Foreign 'art' films have been benefiting from the mock outrage of the conservative British press in this way for years.
"certainly the situation isn't precisely the same"
We seem to be pursuing the same line of reasoning: that useful experiments can be performed in a "similar" environment. I was repsonding to the part that I quoted:
"They'll surely get interesting results, they just won't be worth anything when it comes time to actually plan a real manned Mars mission."
The experiments *will* be worth something even though the conditions can never be exactly the same.
"They'll surely get interesting results, they just won't be worth anything when it comes time to actually plan a real manned Mars mission."
I'm sure they will make lots of interesting finds. For example, they might stumble onto some interesting approaches to organizing shift rotation, team organization and job management.
Ideally, they would simulate all of this in a real spaceship but that just isn't cost effective. Are you saying that they/shouldn't/ attempt a simulation of this sort and intead just see what happens once they get out into space?
I think that ISPs will be quick to "protect" users from all of this dreadful offensive porn that could harm their users. Unfortunately, the form that this protection will take is to award themselves extra money... [cough] I mean... charge extra for porn channel access.
Maybe, in the future, human physiology could be altered to allow Mars explorers to subsist on water which has a 25% chance of being water. Obviously, those explorers would need to consume four times as much of this water.
Sometimes altruism takes the form of action rather than monetary donation. A person who regularly donates his or her time to a charity organization can easily, over the course of a year, make a large investment of manpower that would have significant monetary worth.
For example, if I worked in a charity shop, and through my efforts, increased the takings by $40 a week, that's a donation of $40x52 dollars. All without giving them any money.
It's worth noting that I might give more in this way than I generate due to mismanagement. Just as a person might donate money only for it squandered.
Also, bear in mind that some direct-action altruism might not involve something that can be measured economically. If I were to work, via a charity, with a homeless person, I might create significantly more benefit for that individual than someone who donates $20 to the charity. All of which is difficult to quantify.
Another point that occurs is that people who are conservative are more likely to be members of a church. In which case, some charity donations might be imposed upon them. If this is a consequence of Church life, it doesn't necessary reveal anything about the "nature" of the person making the donation.
Also, bear in mind that some forms of altruistic activity may be difficult to measure, such as choosing a career that allows one to help people.
I like the comments at the end about the way that adding qualification can slow down the writer and weaken the strength of his message. Very true, IME.
There are lots of factors that skew the stats on an issue such as this. There are lots of protections for women and if women feel that they are *provably* being paid less than their male counterparts, they can.
Apart from anything else, the guy who works a 55 hour week and who has just put in a solid 15 years at the job gets paid more, in total and per hour, than a woman who did five years, took seven years out and then came back three years ago to do a 30 hour week. It's fair.
Why is that *more* likely? Lots of people buy cars. If cars were free, it would impact sales but would the people who did all of the R&D needed to create the car be compensated?
Could save a lot of money if made into a practical device, as we wouldn't have to pay law enforcement. At the end of the shift, let them take the cloak home for personal use.
But they have gained their position by consistently breaking the law. Telling them not to do it as much in future isn't going to undo the damage and let other businesses back into the market.
Basically, the technology press should review a CPU by taking it's throughput under typical conditions and comparing that with the price. This is in contrast to the reviews of the early P4s which basically said: "slightly slower than the AMD and much more expensive - looks like Intel has another winner on its hands with this great product!"
Did they really feel that C-A-D was going to be pressed so often that it necessitated it's own key? This machine must have some serious stability problems.
You have to remember that many of the people who read a board like this will give the appearance of a man hiding a space shuttle in their jeans after visiting a electronics/aerospace surplus place of that sort.
It's shame that the compensation culture is going to restrict the development of an innovation that is set to make the tinfoil hat look as quaintly old fashioned as the house-brick sized mobile phone.
What if they don't become the ruling overclass? We'd shave your head for having supported them and you know it.
Why not make the the sign so that it says "Down with the tetrachromate overladies!" for norms and yet, to people who are sensitive to different colour bandwidths says "All Hail The Tetrachromate Overladies!"?
That way, you'd could always claim to have been on the winning side.
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I like the low power requirements but I'm really in the market for something that can run Vista smoothly. So, thanks but no thanks.
Didn't you worry that someone might say, "Hey, this dept works very well with 50% less employees. A little too well...". Surely an employer could consider the performance under these conditions when considering some layoffs.
Carmack performed an experiment. It failed to work the way he wanted it to. Now he can move onto the next experiment with the benefit of the extra data. That's science.
We've got a great new system that, while using no pills or pumps can take you all the way up to AT or even ATX in some case. Go on, do it for you gal!
Don't knock it. There's always someone who's willing to be the early adopter to no advantage. That guy, and others like him, make things affordable for the rest of us. The early adopter is usually happy with the situation and so should we be.
Why do I have this weird feeling that, in the long rung, it will be released internationally? The extra publicity will make up for lack of UK sales (which will probably still be considerable via import). Maybe, they'll get around it in the UK with slightly different in game art (see Carmageddon or Fallout).
It's called showmanship. Foreign 'art' films have been benefiting from the mock outrage of the conservative British press in this way for years.
"certainly the situation isn't precisely the same"
We seem to be pursuing the same line of reasoning: that useful experiments can be performed in a "similar" environment. I was repsonding to the part that I quoted:
"They'll surely get interesting results, they just won't be worth anything when it comes time to actually plan a real manned Mars mission."
The experiments *will* be worth something even though the conditions can never be exactly the same.
"They'll surely get interesting results, they just won't be worth anything when it comes time to actually plan a real manned Mars mission."
/shouldn't/ attempt a simulation of this sort and intead just see what happens once they get out into space?
I'm sure they will make lots of interesting finds. For example, they might stumble onto some interesting approaches to organizing shift rotation, team organization and job management.
Ideally, they would simulate all of this in a real spaceship but that just isn't cost effective. Are you saying that they
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Go on, correct that. I'm not very good at declining nouns yet.
I think that ISPs will be quick to "protect" users from all of this dreadful offensive porn that could harm their users. Unfortunately, the form that this protection will take is to award themselves extra money... [cough] I mean... charge extra for porn channel access.
Maybe, in the future, human physiology could be altered to allow Mars explorers to subsist on water which has a 25% chance of being water. Obviously, those explorers would need to consume four times as much of this water.
Sometimes altruism takes the form of action rather than monetary donation. A person who regularly donates his or her time to a charity organization can easily, over the course of a year, make a large investment of manpower that would have significant monetary worth.
For example, if I worked in a charity shop, and through my efforts, increased the takings by $40 a week, that's a donation of $40x52 dollars. All without giving them any money.
It's worth noting that I might give more in this way than I generate due to mismanagement. Just as a person might donate money only for it squandered.
Also, bear in mind that some direct-action altruism might not involve something that can be measured economically. If I were to work, via a charity, with a homeless person, I might create significantly more benefit for that individual than someone who donates $20 to the charity. All of which is difficult to quantify.
Another point that occurs is that people who are conservative are more likely to be members of a church. In which case, some charity donations might be imposed upon them. If this is a consequence of Church life, it doesn't necessary reveal anything about the "nature" of the person making the donation.
Also, bear in mind that some forms of altruistic activity may be difficult to measure, such as choosing a career that allows one to help people.
I like the comments at the end about the way that adding qualification can slow down the writer and weaken the strength of his message. Very true, IME.
That's not that steep. Depends what the specs of the free complete system that they are going to throw in with it .
There are lots of factors that skew the stats on an issue such as this. There are lots of protections for women and if women feel that they are *provably* being paid less than their male counterparts, they can.
Apart from anything else, the guy who works a 55 hour week and who has just put in a solid 15 years at the job gets paid more, in total and per hour, than a woman who did five years, took seven years out and then came back three years ago to do a 30 hour week. It's fair.
Why is that *more* likely? Lots of people buy cars. If cars were free, it would impact sales but would the people who did all of the R&D needed to create the car be compensated?
"we both win" ...at the expense of the car manufacturer.
Could save a lot of money if made into a practical device, as we wouldn't have to pay law enforcement. At the end of the shift, let them take the cloak home for personal use.
But they have gained their position by consistently breaking the law. Telling them not to do it as much in future isn't going to undo the damage and let other businesses back into the market.
Look, Mrs Gates... Your son can fight his own battles. He plays it pretty rough in debate too.
I've been asking this question for years, never meeting with a satisfying response. There is no such thing as 'free' energy.
Another point, raised by Arthur C Clarke, is that the side effect of all this energy conversion will always be more heat.
Basically, the technology press should review a CPU by taking it's throughput under typical conditions and comparing that with the price. This is in contrast to the reviews of the early P4s which basically said: "slightly slower than the AMD and much more expensive - looks like Intel has another winner on its hands with this great product!"
Did they really feel that C-A-D was going to be pressed so often that it necessitated it's own key? This machine must have some serious stability problems.
You have to remember that many of the people who read a board like this will give the appearance of a man hiding a space shuttle in their jeans after visiting a electronics/aerospace surplus place of that sort.
It's shame that the compensation culture is going to restrict the development of an innovation that is set to make the tinfoil hat look as quaintly old fashioned as the house-brick sized mobile phone.
What if they don't become the ruling overclass? We'd shave your head for having supported them and you know it.
Why not make the the sign so that it says "Down with the tetrachromate overladies!" for norms and yet, to people who are sensitive to different colour bandwidths says "All Hail The Tetrachromate Overladies!"?
That way, you'd could always claim to have been on the winning side.