So the guys at Mercedes and Rolex share that cash back right?
You don't think so? They live in the same society we do (well, maybe not in your hometown but still), and if business is good for them then they'll go out for drinks on the town and spend money at local bars, they'll spend more money on fashionable clothes, etc. Each fat cat pays the wages of maybe 50 people in the service industry. Do you really think it costs "the poor" that you're talking about $150 to make a fancy shirt? Hell no, but "the rich" pay that, and when they do, who's taking money from whom?
Nope. To hoard it as a Veblen good which is valuable to you precisely because it is expensive. 100 years in the future, food replicators will probably produce molecule-exact copies of such whiskey but it still won't be worth much, purely because it's so easily available, while a bottle of whiskey from 1845 will still be worth megabucks even if it tastes like paint thinner.
Interestingly, the time since it was bottled is irrelevant to the 'age' of the whiskey anyway:
Whiskies which have been in bottle for many years may have a rarity value, but are not "older" and will not necessarily be "better" than a more recently made whisky matured in wood for a similar time. Wikipedia on Whiskey
So the prices paid for these antique bottles are pure wank value (plus the rarity of the bottle itself).
I don't know why people are so worried about this happening... in my (and my friends' from what they've said) experience, excessive alcohol consumption is more likely to cause problems getting it back down again than getting it up in the first place. It's lead to some marathon sessions in the past, any time she starts getting chafed you know you've been at it too long.
It's only a problem getting things going in the first place if you've drunk enough to have stunding turble up.
I came here to complain about Python and the Pythonettes. They, and by 'they' I mean 'we', never stop crapping on about that damn language. Just because it's so awesomely simple yet powerful, flexible and expressive and... *ahem* I need some alone time now. Anyway, it's a great language and **gets yoinked away by irate PHP coders**
Wait, you're saying they upgrade "non-guaranteed" services like SMS to handle peak times? Generally (where I live, anyway) you just don't expect your phone to work at any very-large gathering (Australia Day fireworks, we get a good 2-3 million people in an area about 5km across). Admittedly the last one I went to was a bit better but still took a few retries to send messages.
And I'd bet the upgraded capacity you're talking about is for calls, not just for texts, given the relative volumes (roughly equal) compared to the relative bandwidth required (one text is ~0.1 seconds of talk time).
Um, what? Goats aren't machinery, you don't have to store them in a shed. You just kinda leave them in the field, with maybe a barn-type structure for protection from the elements when they need it.
Pretty sure they don't intend to only let the goats free on the lawn for two hours on Thursday afternoons.
Well let's see. You claim the cost per text is zero. Obviously that's not true since maintenance plus electricity for the towers costs money, but it's obviously quite cheap.
All of which the company has to pay for anyway. The text messages are sent at low priority over the metadata channel, so it literally doesn't cost them anything more to run the service than it would if they didn't. Unless you want to argue that the transmitter has to transmit for a few seconds longer per text (1kW transmitter, 5 seconds transmit time, 14c/kWh = 50 texts per cent).
So anyway..... my cellphone provider charges just 1 cent per text. That's about cheap as a plan can get, since you can't charge less than a penny (half-pennys were discontinued a long time ago).
Yes, yes they can charge less than a penny. Unless you have to physically put a coin in your telco's piggy bank every time you send a txt?
I disagree. The retail cost is whatever the market will bear. This idea goes all the way back to John Smith, and is not necessarily tied to the actual cost of the good.
I think you and the GP are talking about subtly different things here. You're saying that the retail cost to the telcos is what the market will bear, as in (correct me if I misunderstand you) if the telcos don't charge what the market will bear then they make a loss compared to what they could be getting?
Whereas the GP was simply saying that implementing SMS doesn't add any overhead or require the telco to spend any more money (barring external messages etc, of course).
The fscking game has was announce over two years ago.
And I'd be happy if they took 2 more years on it if they felt they needed to. You know why? Because I want it to be good enough that I'm still playing it in 2020, just like the original Starcraft was good enough that it's still fun to play now.
So how is an iPhone app different from any one of the 3rd party Armory/Talent replacements? Hell, wowhead.com has had a talent calculator up for years, and it's *still* better than the official Blizzard one, and I haven't heard anything about them getting C&D'd. ArmoryLite.com has likewise had characters' profiles cached and displayed for ages.
Perhaps not surprising given the size of the company now, but Blizzard's legal team is getting as inconsistent and stupid as Microsoft's.
What's new here is that this measures pitch and yaw (X/Z rotation) rather than the pitch and roll (X/Y rotation) that earlier dual axis gyros measured.
Wow, and they never thought to, you know, mount the chip at 90 degrees? Reminds me of the joke about changing light bulbs...
Pretty sure that with a real accelerometer, it'll be much harder to find that tiny flick motion that will be seen by the console as a massive smash. With sufficient accuracy you just integrate the forces that the controller experiences and you can get a pretty accurate path (over short periods of time, at least, there'll still be noticable drift after a second or two).
That's why I hate the current Wii motion-control games; not because of the concept but because the controls tend to suck ass in practice.
Did... did you just use "I resemble this remark" and NOT mean 'resent'? Woah. Never thought I'd see that.;)
I'd think that among smart, creative people (which, let's face it, we all are here on slashdot...;) the incidence of bipolar disorder would be higher than in the general population, simply because by nature we tend to be the kinds of people who focus maniacally on one thing for long periods of time. That's just my guess, though.
GPP was merely pointing out the correlation, and saying that it suggested possible causation, not categorically stating that correlation could be used to determine causation without a controlled trial.
If you knew about sorting and had actually learnt it
Because obviously from my statement that "most library implementations of 'sort' are quicksort based", I know nothing about sorting. Yeah. >.>
All rules of programming (without exception) can be replaced (for a sufficiently intelligent entity) with a simple rule of "don't be fucking retarded and do something suboptimal" - but that doesn't work so well as a directive to humans.
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And even if the amount of testing is the same overall, it's amortised over 5000 vehicles per year rather than 500,000 a year.
So the guys at Mercedes and Rolex share that cash back right?
You don't think so? They live in the same society we do (well, maybe not in your hometown but still), and if business is good for them then they'll go out for drinks on the town and spend money at local bars, they'll spend more money on fashionable clothes, etc. Each fat cat pays the wages of maybe 50 people in the service industry. Do you really think it costs "the poor" that you're talking about $150 to make a fancy shirt? Hell no, but "the rich" pay that, and when they do, who's taking money from whom?
"Extract", not "open". They most likely use a very fine needle to draw a tiny fraction of a millilitre out through the cork.
Interestingly, the time since it was bottled is irrelevant to the 'age' of the whiskey anyway:
Whiskies which have been in bottle for many years may have a rarity value, but are not "older" and will not necessarily be "better" than a more recently made whisky matured in wood for a similar time.
Wikipedia on Whiskey
So the prices paid for these antique bottles are pure wank value (plus the rarity of the bottle itself).
I don't know why people are so worried about this happening... in my (and my friends' from what they've said) experience, excessive alcohol consumption is more likely to cause problems getting it back down again than getting it up in the first place. It's lead to some marathon sessions in the past, any time she starts getting chafed you know you've been at it too long.
It's only a problem getting things going in the first place if you've drunk enough to have stunding turble up.
Also, he should be able to ask them, "Any skeletons in your closet that would make nominating you a risky move?" and expect to get a straight answer.
And government shouldn't be necessary at all because we should all just do the right thing.
Careful, his time's nearly up! You don't want to give him free abuse, now, do you?
I came here to complain about Python and the Pythonettes. They, and by 'they' I mean 'we', never stop crapping on about that damn language. Just because it's so awesomely simple yet powerful, flexible and expressive and... *ahem* I need some alone time now. Anyway, it's a great language and **gets yoinked away by irate PHP coders**
Wait, you're saying they upgrade "non-guaranteed" services like SMS to handle peak times? Generally (where I live, anyway) you just don't expect your phone to work at any very-large gathering (Australia Day fireworks, we get a good 2-3 million people in an area about 5km across). Admittedly the last one I went to was a bit better but still took a few retries to send messages.
And I'd bet the upgraded capacity you're talking about is for calls, not just for texts, given the relative volumes (roughly equal) compared to the relative bandwidth required (one text is ~0.1 seconds of talk time).
And google should be getting paid to feed thew goats, not the other way around.
Wait, the goats are getting paid to feed google? I knew there was a goatburger subplot in there somewhere!
Um, what? Goats aren't machinery, you don't have to store them in a shed. You just kinda leave them in the field, with maybe a barn-type structure for protection from the elements when they need it.
Pretty sure they don't intend to only let the goats free on the lawn for two hours on Thursday afternoons.
Glad I'm not the only one. ;) I was hoping it was a witty moderation and not just someone being retardedly land-rights-for-gay-whales-esque.
Better than Goat Fokker. ;)
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Well let's see. You claim the cost per text is zero. Obviously that's not true since maintenance plus electricity for the towers costs money, but it's obviously quite cheap.
All of which the company has to pay for anyway. The text messages are sent at low priority over the metadata channel, so it literally doesn't cost them anything more to run the service than it would if they didn't. Unless you want to argue that the transmitter has to transmit for a few seconds longer per text (1kW transmitter, 5 seconds transmit time, 14c/kWh = 50 texts per cent).
So anyway..... my cellphone provider charges just 1 cent per text. That's about cheap as a plan can get, since you can't charge less than a penny (half-pennys were discontinued a long time ago).
Yes, yes they can charge less than a penny. Unless you have to physically put a coin in your telco's piggy bank every time you send a txt?
I disagree. The retail cost is whatever the market will bear. This idea goes all the way back to John Smith, and is not necessarily tied to the actual cost of the good.
I think you and the GP are talking about subtly different things here. You're saying that the retail cost to the telcos is what the market will bear, as in (correct me if I misunderstand you) if the telcos don't charge what the market will bear then they make a loss compared to what they could be getting?
Whereas the GP was simply saying that implementing SMS doesn't add any overhead or require the telco to spend any more money (barring external messages etc, of course).
The fscking game has was announce over two years ago.
And I'd be happy if they took 2 more years on it if they felt they needed to. You know why? Because I want it to be good enough that I'm still playing it in 2020, just like the original Starcraft was good enough that it's still fun to play now.
So how is an iPhone app different from any one of the 3rd party Armory/Talent replacements? Hell, wowhead.com has had a talent calculator up for years, and it's *still* better than the official Blizzard one, and I haven't heard anything about them getting C&D'd. ArmoryLite.com has likewise had characters' profiles cached and displayed for ages.
Perhaps not surprising given the size of the company now, but Blizzard's legal team is getting as inconsistent and stupid as Microsoft's.
I actually came extremely close to including that quote in my post above. That's always been a bit of a family motto of ours...
What's new here is that this measures pitch and yaw (X/Z rotation) rather than the pitch and roll (X/Y rotation) that earlier dual axis gyros measured.
Wow, and they never thought to, you know, mount the chip at 90 degrees? Reminds me of the joke about changing light bulbs...
Pretty sure that with a real accelerometer, it'll be much harder to find that tiny flick motion that will be seen by the console as a massive smash. With sufficient accuracy you just integrate the forces that the controller experiences and you can get a pretty accurate path (over short periods of time, at least, there'll still be noticable drift after a second or two).
That's why I hate the current Wii motion-control games; not because of the concept but because the controls tend to suck ass in practice.
Did... did you just use "I resemble this remark" and NOT mean 'resent'? Woah. Never thought I'd see that. ;)
;) the incidence of bipolar disorder would be higher than in the general population, simply because by nature we tend to be the kinds of people who focus maniacally on one thing for long periods of time. That's just my guess, though.
I'd think that among smart, creative people (which, let's face it, we all are here on slashdot...
You only need a teaspoonful to taste the soup.
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My bucket of seawater has no fish in it, therefore there are no fish in the sea.
GPP was merely pointing out the correlation, and saying that it suggested possible causation, not categorically stating that correlation could be used to determine causation without a controlled trial.
If you knew about sorting and had actually learnt it
Because obviously from my statement that "most library implementations of 'sort' are quicksort based", I know nothing about sorting. Yeah. >.>
All rules of programming (without exception) can be replaced (for a sufficiently intelligent entity) with a simple rule of "don't be fucking retarded and do something suboptimal" - but that doesn't work so well as a directive to humans.