Funny thing is, the SNES isn't obsolete in that way; you can buy SNES games on the Wii virtual console (albeit a limited subset). That means every other emulator is still in direct competition because it removes the need to give Nintendo money. For hardware emulation, there are NES-on-a-chip systems - they don't want this to happen with the SNES, too.
This is an impoverished view which will lead to nothing but stagnation, decline, and ultimately extinction.
If we actually want to get plain H. sapiens in space instead of robots containing brain uploads (because they don't have bones that wither under microgravity and they don't require costly foodstuffs), then re-use holds a lot of promise. Nanomachines breaking down waste to its molecular components, assembling C and O atoms back in any hydrocarbon flavor you want. Lots of room for very useful research - anything but stagnation!
Perhaps run them 1-8 days after the show airs in the land of origin.
This is based on the idea that a slice of money from advertisers gets to the content producers because they can reach their potential audience - and awareness means that people might buy their products.
Instead, with a subscription service, you get guaranteed money because the people watching are willing to pay for the service. So yeah, too bad for the advertisers (or not, because nobody here in the EU cares for US insurances or mortgages or other products that are very much region-locked by their nature). They're even paying when they're not watching - that's what a subscription is! Better, when they get access at exactly the same time as it's transmitted via air, there's no reason for them to look for torrents.
There's no reason whatsoever to delay the release of the streaming version, unless you really want to bleed money for no good reason and go against all principles of capitalism. Offer the goods to as many people possible. The only delay should be perhaps in the subtitles, but since torrents don't have those anyway, it doesn't matter.
I move to the menu, click on it, click on the section I want and click on the application I want.
If you know what it's called you could type it before you've even moved the moved the mouse a few inches. If you use it often, put it in a place where you can directly see and activate it (desktop, quicklaunch) so you don't have to waste time searching through sections or following paths. You need a tree/directory structure mostly for when you only have a vague hunch of what you need, instead of something specific.
Typing is way more efficient; provided of course that you're not hunting and pecking. The problem with the MS command line was always that unless you defined a crapton of paths in some configuration file it couldn't ever know what you were talking about - you'd have to 1) explicitly navigate there and 2) know which executable you wanted to start.
Just time your actions on a daily basis; what do you start using the menu and how long does it take you every time to navigate to it? Then compare this with hitting the Windows key and hitting "exc" or "wor" or what other 3 letters your software of choice starts with; it's faster. Since MS also does its research on a grand scale by recording metrics of millions of users, I'm fairly certain they've got better than personal/anecdotal evidence;)
If copyright can be prolonged indefinitely or nudged every 20 years, there's far more incentive to kill off successful authors. After all, they only cost money after they've created a work that can be milked for the next 120 years.
Why'd you want to continue to pay for Amy Winehouse's drug habit if you can enjoy the royalties of her two albums for eternity minus a day? If they became public domain after her death, anyone would be able to download them without repercussions - making the intellectual property worthless at once.
I claim that we darn humans have a hard time with reckoning the importance and value of numbers
No worries: those who don't get it will not know what Sieverts are anyway. When you say "Radiation exceeds tolerated levels for nuclear workers" (from this chart here ) you'd have a sufficient panic-inducing headline without having to explain what Sieverts are.
I like being able to divide a foot into all sorts of weird ratios and still have whole numbers.
And then you have to divide by 7 and then you're also in fractional/rational numbers land.
Driving drywall screws every 16" into a 48" wide sheet of drywall? Try doing that in metric!
Instead you'd have a 120 cm drywall sheet and you'd put screws in every 40 cm. Not exactly a compelling reason you're giving there.
"But it's smaller!" - yes, and as a result, they should be slightly cheaper unless the manufacturer is fleecing you.
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sometimes it's actually pretty nice to have the computer built into the keyboard
Until you spill your drink. Though I agree that a flat box with only the connections, laptop-sized and having 2 or 3 DVI outputs would be pretty neat. It'd do the job as HTPC and portable workstation. The room saved by not needing a screen or keyboard could be used to improve specifications or cooling - but not to the point where you'd make it completely bulky.
It's way more efficient to generate power in a place where you can squeeze the efficiency out of it (reclaim and reuse any generated heat for instance), and your car won't like a 400 kg filtering installation while a power plant doesn't care about having one added to it.
Plus, you can get electricity from a much larger variety of sources; oil can be had by drilling, biofuels or thermal depolymerization. 2 out of those 3 depend heavily on location.
Gold and silver -are- useful goods. Electronics benefit from 'm in various ways; they don't corrode. They're just outrageously expensive to use. They're not useful if you completely dump the entire technology tree and start at hunter-gatherer level, though.
Now if you are rich on the other hand, the tax would apply to all kinds of luxury expenses. Buying a ferrari? Well then you are paying 23% of the purchase price in a tax. Buying a plane? The same.
That is based on the assumption that the rich make a lot of these luxury expenses. Something tells me that if you want to stay rich, you don't; hedge funds aren't as flashy, but give far better returns. In other words, you're not going to put a dent into their income if you assume every single one of 'm lives like a soap opera millionaire.
Ads should be a means, not an end. However, broadcasters would feel cut out f you could only pay the creators directly to get TV a la carte; thus, ads are now also the end.
If calling dry feet at the expense of someone's job "positive", then you are part of the problem, not the solution.
The problem is that you think the boot-maker couldn't ever get any other job than being a boot-maker, which is of course nonsense. Sisyphean tasks like that only waste money. You shuffle money around, and the net positive effect is lower than simply doing it right the first time.
McDonalds offers cheap food, and provides jobs for people who have only a highschool education. According to your logic, it is your duty to eat fast food every week so they can keep their jobs.
But by buying 10 pairs of boots, he was keeping the boot-maker in employment
Broken window fallacy alert. By not buying those 10 pairs of boots, the $50 would've been spent on Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler's sausages. It would've ended up in the economy anyway, and with positive results instead of wet feet and continuation of crappy manufacturing.
If everything lasted for ever, the economy would grind to a halt, as no one would need to produce anything.
No. Part of the economy as it exists now - pushing useless, flimsy crap on people who don't need it - would grind to a halt, and the time and resources could be spent on better things.
Day in, day out, several commercials tell you that you are a worthless, ugly human being, in subtle or blunt ways - unless you buy that product that'll solve all your woes. It won't, your woes will still be there, and your money is gone - and you spend it again, because that product will break down or wear out.
Whenever a way to abuse it is found, then it should be fixed.
Your idea has abeen explored in Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age - except zaps can be substituted with nanomachines in your bloodstream that explode.
Now, you land in prison yourself. No excuses about that you don't make mistakes - the authority that puts you there can never be trusted 100%. Mistakes are made.
A group of inmates decides that they don't like you. They'll make you crowdsurf or they form a circle around you - and a bit of throwing or pushing later, you're beyond the barrier, getting zapped. You can't go back, because they've voted you off the island.
How are the guards going to find out that you didn't move out of your own accord? Do you think they're even going to care? If all of 'm have the same attitude you have, I wouldn't count on it.
so I con't understand why all this emphasis on faster connections.
Well, it enables studio personnel to record say, 48 streams of audio at 24/192 simultaneously, directly via USB 3.0 instead of having to buy a separate MADI interface. Right now most prosumer Firewire interfaces top out at 8 in/8 out, and you can fill that up easily with just drums already. ADAT is not an option if you want to go above and beyond 48/16.
You simply directly record to RAM which flushes it all to disk at its leisure.
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Funny thing is, the SNES isn't obsolete in that way; you can buy SNES games on the Wii virtual console (albeit a limited subset). That means every other emulator is still in direct competition because it removes the need to give Nintendo money. For hardware emulation, there are NES-on-a-chip systems - they don't want this to happen with the SNES, too.
Good luck with yet another DAW. Thing is, this is nonsense - making music never has been cheaper, and the price is still dropping.
$60 for Reaper and a slew of free as in beer plugins is not ridiculously expensive, and Reaper's anything but crippled.
If we actually want to get plain H. sapiens in space instead of robots containing brain uploads (because they don't have bones that wither under microgravity and they don't require costly foodstuffs), then re-use holds a lot of promise. Nanomachines breaking down waste to its molecular components, assembling C and O atoms back in any hydrocarbon flavor you want. Lots of room for very useful research - anything but stagnation!
This is based on the idea that a slice of money from advertisers gets to the content producers because they can reach their potential audience - and awareness means that people might buy their products.
Instead, with a subscription service, you get guaranteed money because the people watching are willing to pay for the service. So yeah, too bad for the advertisers (or not, because nobody here in the EU cares for US insurances or mortgages or other products that are very much region-locked by their nature). They're even paying when they're not watching - that's what a subscription is! Better, when they get access at exactly the same time as it's transmitted via air, there's no reason for them to look for torrents.
There's no reason whatsoever to delay the release of the streaming version, unless you really want to bleed money for no good reason and go against all principles of capitalism. Offer the goods to as many people possible. The only delay should be perhaps in the subtitles, but since torrents don't have those anyway, it doesn't matter.
What I want to see is Trusted Government, but apparently that's an NP-hard problem.
If you know what it's called you could type it before you've even moved the moved the mouse a few inches. If you use it often, put it in a place where you can directly see and activate it (desktop, quicklaunch) so you don't have to waste time searching through sections or following paths. You need a tree/directory structure mostly for when you only have a vague hunch of what you need, instead of something specific.
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Typing is way more efficient; provided of course that you're not hunting and pecking. The problem with the MS command line was always that unless you defined a crapton of paths in some configuration file it couldn't ever know what you were talking about - you'd have to 1) explicitly navigate there and 2) know which executable you wanted to start.
Just time your actions on a daily basis; what do you start using the menu and how long does it take you every time to navigate to it? Then compare this with hitting the Windows key and hitting "exc" or "wor" or what other 3 letters your software of choice starts with; it's faster. Since MS also does its research on a grand scale by recording metrics of millions of users, I'm fairly certain they've got better than personal/anecdotal evidence
If copyright can be prolonged indefinitely or nudged every 20 years, there's far more incentive to kill off successful authors. After all, they only cost money after they've created a work that can be milked for the next 120 years.
Why'd you want to continue to pay for Amy Winehouse's drug habit if you can enjoy the royalties of her two albums for eternity minus a day? If they became public domain after her death, anyone would be able to download them without repercussions - making the intellectual property worthless at once.
Mod parent down, he's completely and utterly wrong.
What has been seen, can now finally be unseen!
No worries: those who don't get it will not know what Sieverts are anyway. When you say "Radiation exceeds tolerated levels for nuclear workers" (from this chart here ) you'd have a sufficient panic-inducing headline without having to explain what Sieverts are.
And then you have to divide by 7 and then you're also in fractional/rational numbers land.
Instead you'd have a 120 cm drywall sheet and you'd put screws in every 40 cm. Not exactly a compelling reason you're giving there.
"But it's smaller!" - yes, and as a result, they should be slightly cheaper unless the manufacturer is fleecing you.
Until you spill your drink. Though I agree that a flat box with only the connections, laptop-sized and having 2 or 3 DVI outputs would be pretty neat. It'd do the job as HTPC and portable workstation. The room saved by not needing a screen or keyboard could be used to improve specifications or cooling - but not to the point where you'd make it completely bulky.
It's way more efficient to generate power in a place where you can squeeze the efficiency out of it (reclaim and reuse any generated heat for instance), and your car won't like a 400 kg filtering installation while a power plant doesn't care about having one added to it.
Plus, you can get electricity from a much larger variety of sources; oil can be had by drilling, biofuels or thermal depolymerization. 2 out of those 3 depend heavily on location.
He appears to be bald already.
High-speed pizza delivery.
Gold and silver -are- useful goods. Electronics benefit from 'm in various ways; they don't corrode. They're just outrageously expensive to use. They're not useful if you completely dump the entire technology tree and start at hunter-gatherer level, though.
It's not defensible - not even if it came with nukes.
Besides, L. Bob Rife is going to purchase it.
That is based on the assumption that the rich make a lot of these luxury expenses. Something tells me that if you want to stay rich, you don't; hedge funds aren't as flashy, but give far better returns. In other words, you're not going to put a dent into their income if you assume every single one of 'm lives like a soap opera millionaire.
Ads should be a means, not an end. However, broadcasters would feel cut out f you could only pay the creators directly to get TV a la carte; thus, ads are now also the end.
The optimal term is actually around 14 years. See http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/07/research-optimal-copyright-term-is-14-years.ars . And yes - of course it should be done ex post facto. You don't get to continue having free rides when the sign at the door says no more free rides.
They'll just censor Q33 NY then.
The problem is that you think the boot-maker couldn't ever get any other job than being a boot-maker, which is of course nonsense. Sisyphean tasks like that only waste money. You shuffle money around, and the net positive effect is lower than simply doing it right the first time.
McDonalds offers cheap food, and provides jobs for people who have only a highschool education. According to your logic, it is your duty to eat fast food every week so they can keep their jobs.
Broken window fallacy alert. By not buying those 10 pairs of boots, the $50 would've been spent on Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler's sausages. It would've ended up in the economy anyway, and with positive results instead of wet feet and continuation of crappy manufacturing.
No. Part of the economy as it exists now - pushing useless, flimsy crap on people who don't need it - would grind to a halt, and the time and resources could be spent on better things.
Day in, day out, several commercials tell you that you are a worthless, ugly human being, in subtle or blunt ways - unless you buy that product that'll solve all your woes. It won't, your woes will still be there, and your money is gone - and you spend it again, because that product will break down or wear out.
Your idea has abeen explored in Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age - except zaps can be substituted with nanomachines in your bloodstream that explode.
Now, you land in prison yourself. No excuses about that you don't make mistakes - the authority that puts you there can never be trusted 100%. Mistakes are made.
A group of inmates decides that they don't like you. They'll make you crowdsurf or they form a circle around you - and a bit of throwing or pushing later, you're beyond the barrier, getting zapped. You can't go back, because they've voted you off the island.
How are the guards going to find out that you didn't move out of your own accord? Do you think they're even going to care? If all of 'm have the same attitude you have, I wouldn't count on it.
Well, it enables studio personnel to record say, 48 streams of audio at 24/192 simultaneously, directly via USB 3.0 instead of having to buy a separate MADI interface. Right now most prosumer Firewire interfaces top out at 8 in/8 out, and you can fill that up easily with just drums already. ADAT is not an option if you want to go above and beyond 48/16.
You simply directly record to RAM which flushes it all to disk at its leisure.