If this was a Kinja-powered news site, the comments section here would be full of Homer Simpson images, animated gifs, and memes generated just for this news story.
Nothing like an ad hominem arguments in formus to bring out the best thinking and engagement on the topic at hand. Here, you may need this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
What’s going to happen now? We’ve already started preparing the paperwork needed to continue to fight for the Constitution in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. A favorable decision would allow me resurrect Lavabit as an American company.
This experience has taught me one very important lesson: without congressional action or a strong judicial precedent, I would _strongly_ recommend against anyone trusting their private data to a company with physical ties to the United States.
Sincerely,
Ladar Levison
Owner and Operator, Lavabit LLC
Defending the constitution is expensive! Help us by donating to the Lavabit Legal Defense Fund here.
He leaves a link to donote to their legal defense fund. In other words, he's still fighting it, but in secret shadow court.
What this means is that "Gamers are not normal users," and they can cost-save their standard line by going from 7200 to 5400 and charge the same, and create a new Gamer/High Performance line and charge a lot more for it, if they aren't already doing that, while eliminating the lower-tier 7200 line that was doing "good enough" for most Gamers or high end users.
In other words, if you like 7200 cheap drives, buy one now or hope that competition won't follow suit.
Mod parent up, there is so much truth to this. I am an EE in the US (CompE actually), but between the real-world experience and painful interviewing process, it became clear that supply outpaced demand and competition for even the least appealing EE jobs was high. And of course, over time talent supply flows to where the demand (and pay) is higher.
Personally I left the field, got my MBA and joined the ranks of evil in the corporate world where there was more demand and money...
It's part of the new dual-currency system they're introducing in the US off of the highly successful Free 2 Play game system model and gamification of real life. Dollars can be earned through normal gameplay, mega-dollars can only be purchased by the Rich or Politically Connected and are required to unlock the best stuff in the the game.
I'm disheartened by the mostly negative comments I'm seeing on Slashdot on this. The comic itself isn't bad. The art, while heavily influenced by manga, is nice and unique and has evolved since he started, which is something you don't see much in anime/manga these days outside of something like One Piece. The story wandered a bit but flows better when you aren't reading the page a month that it now updates.
Yes, Fred and his wife have had health problems preventing frequent updates and I am not going to be his apologist, and no I have not read the comic regularly in years, but I think this project has serious potential. He started the comic with heavy influence from the visual novel genre and this could be the ultimate expression of the comic... he may even have a chance to straighten out some story elements. The ability to look at the same story from more than one character's perspective with different play-throughs and multiple endings sounds great as well.
Also, he has a team of developers working with him, he's not doing it on his own, so they should be able to keep this on track. Also, with any luck, one of the stretch goals will be to hire an art assistant (I mean he's blown through nearly every other early stretch goal in a day, why not?).
I really do believe "you get what you paid for," but then, I'm reminded of the story of golf ball finders a British con artist was selling as "bomb detectors" for several thousand dollars each.
That's the opposite of "you get what you paid for." It's called "Marketing."
Okay, so how about this for a better headline:
"Two-headed mutant killer cyber-rats plotting world domination: they share a mind, but may-or-may-not-be-on-different-continents-but-are-at-least-4000-miles-apart.
Nothing to contest in that statement now. All happy?
TWC has a *near* monopoly on my area (Cincinnati), so it is what I use. The moment Cincinnati Bell Fioptics or Verizon FIOS is available on my street, I'm outs.
Nothing changed. As always, you can turn electronics back on after a certain altitude, though you need to keep them in Airplane mode if they are cellular devices (no attempting connection to cellular is allowed at high altitudes). Most phones allow you to manually turn on WiFi while in Airplane mode to accommodate this.
Hybrids would have the same higher pollution pointed out in the article due to the batteries, without the potential benefit of charging those batteries with renewable energy resources like electric cars since Hybrids charge their batteries through fossil fuels. Some say that the lower emissions from the substantially higher fuel efficiency offset the higher pollution caused during manufacturing (http://donpettygrove.blogspot.com/2012/05/howstuffworks-pollution-caused-by.html), but this can be offset if the battery needs to be replaced / recycled over the life of the car, something that has yet to have good statistics due to the relative youth of the hybrid car market.
Funny with a touch of truth, but it doesn't work so well in the world of multiple platforms and languages competing with each other for adoption. For instance, if am am the manger of a company writing a mobile app, and the iOS manual is clean and easy to read with no issue, and the Android manual is cryptic and would take gobs of trial & error to get working, iOS is language is the platform the app will be written for first and best, and we'll get around to the Android one later, if at all. I'm not saying the above example is true, just using it for sake of hypothetical example.
Not everyone's manger has the patience to let you learn nuances of each language and platform. The manual almost needs as much effort and attention as the marketing materials, and probably more.
So in this evaluation, the Sample Size is One Class. Sorry Prof, you mentioned *three* other sources of online classes
I think this is the crux of why this article needs to be taken with a grain (or larger dose) of salt. After reading TFA, it is obvious that a math professor listed a bunch of actual competitive threats, but surveyed a brand new and relatively unknown new class and based his assertions on that.
From TFA: "Based on my review of the Udacity Introduction to Statistics course, I see some compelling strategic advantages for live in-class teachers, that will not be soon washed away by massive online video learning." He goes on to say things like "you get what you pay for and this is a free class" and so forth, but never really gives a compelling reason why his experience at Udacity is representative of every massive online learning coarse. In TFA he calls out online schools that are "sponsored by top-name schools such Stanford, Harvard, or MIT," but he doesn't review ANY OF THOSE, nor give any sense of how many people attend the school he reviewed vs. the ones he called out earlier, or how they might be similar or different.
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If this was a Kinja-powered news site, the comments section here would be full of Homer Simpson images, animated gifs, and memes generated just for this news story.
Thank goodness this isn't powered by Kinja.
Nothing like an ad hominem arguments in formus to bring out the best thinking and engagement on the topic at hand. Here, you may need this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
What’s going to happen now? We’ve already started preparing the paperwork needed to continue to fight for the Constitution in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. A favorable decision would allow me resurrect Lavabit as an American company.
This experience has taught me one very important lesson: without congressional action or a strong judicial precedent, I would _strongly_ recommend against anyone trusting their private data to a company with physical ties to the United States.
Sincerely,
Ladar Levison
Owner and Operator, Lavabit LLC
Defending the constitution is expensive! Help us by donating to the Lavabit Legal Defense Fund here.
He leaves a link to donote to their legal defense fund. In other words, he's still fighting it, but in secret shadow court.
What this means is that "Gamers are not normal users," and they can cost-save their standard line by going from 7200 to 5400 and charge the same, and create a new Gamer/High Performance line and charge a lot more for it, if they aren't already doing that, while eliminating the lower-tier 7200 line that was doing "good enough" for most Gamers or high end users.
In other words, if you like 7200 cheap drives, buy one now or hope that competition won't follow suit.
The researchers don't yet know how its strength compares to that of S. somereni.
In other words, they are currently writing up a research grant proposal that allows them to travel the world stepping on shrews. FOR SCIENCE!!!
Did anyone else read "Sourceforge" and start to worry about everyone's (1st/2nd/3rd) favorite code repository?
Good point.
...aaaaaaand done.
Mod parent up, there is so much truth to this. I am an EE in the US (CompE actually), but between the real-world experience and painful interviewing process, it became clear that supply outpaced demand and competition for even the least appealing EE jobs was high. And of course, over time talent supply flows to where the demand (and pay) is higher. Personally I left the field, got my MBA and joined the ranks of evil in the corporate world where there was more demand and money...
It's part of the new dual-currency system they're introducing in the US off of the highly successful Free 2 Play game system model and gamification of real life. Dollars can be earned through normal gameplay, mega-dollars can only be purchased by the Rich or Politically Connected and are required to unlock the best stuff in the the game.
You mean the pre-order list for the Xbox One with always-on Kinect?
I'm disheartened by the mostly negative comments I'm seeing on Slashdot on this. The comic itself isn't bad. The art, while heavily influenced by manga, is nice and unique and has evolved since he started, which is something you don't see much in anime/manga these days outside of something like One Piece. The story wandered a bit but flows better when you aren't reading the page a month that it now updates.
Yes, Fred and his wife have had health problems preventing frequent updates and I am not going to be his apologist, and no I have not read the comic regularly in years, but I think this project has serious potential. He started the comic with heavy influence from the visual novel genre and this could be the ultimate expression of the comic... he may even have a chance to straighten out some story elements. The ability to look at the same story from more than one character's perspective with different play-throughs and multiple endings sounds great as well.
Also, he has a team of developers working with him, he's not doing it on his own, so they should be able to keep this on track. Also, with any luck, one of the stretch goals will be to hire an art assistant (I mean he's blown through nearly every other early stretch goal in a day, why not?).
I was just impressed that he could fit a Walther P38 on his keychain.
I think the generally accepted term is "Beer koozie." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_koozie
I really do believe "you get what you paid for," but then, I'm reminded of the story of golf ball finders a British con artist was selling as "bomb detectors" for several thousand dollars each.
That's the opposite of "you get what you paid for." It's called "Marketing."
...those birds will look TWICE as angry on a Galaxy S 4 as they do on an iPhone 5? IN!
Okay, so how about this for a better headline: "Two-headed mutant killer cyber-rats plotting world domination: they share a mind, but may-or-may-not-be-on-different-continents-but-are-at-least-4000-miles-apart. Nothing to contest in that statement now. All happy?
TWC has a *near* monopoly on my area (Cincinnati), so it is what I use. The moment Cincinnati Bell Fioptics or Verizon FIOS is available on my street, I'm outs.
...is that its cold outside, and there's no kind of atmosphere. You're all alone, more or less.
But not nearly as funny as "I for one welcome our new irate horde of lost phone seeking Overlords..."
Nothing changed. As always, you can turn electronics back on after a certain altitude, though you need to keep them in Airplane mode if they are cellular devices (no attempting connection to cellular is allowed at high altitudes). Most phones allow you to manually turn on WiFi while in Airplane mode to accommodate this.
Maybe because one is $500 and one is $25?
The word you are looking for is not irony, it is hypocrisy.
Hybrids would have the same higher pollution pointed out in the article due to the batteries, without the potential benefit of charging those batteries with renewable energy resources like electric cars since Hybrids charge their batteries through fossil fuels. Some say that the lower emissions from the substantially higher fuel efficiency offset the higher pollution caused during manufacturing (http://donpettygrove.blogspot.com/2012/05/howstuffworks-pollution-caused-by.html), but this can be offset if the battery needs to be replaced / recycled over the life of the car, something that has yet to have good statistics due to the relative youth of the hybrid car market.
Funny with a touch of truth, but it doesn't work so well in the world of multiple platforms and languages competing with each other for adoption. For instance, if am am the manger of a company writing a mobile app, and the iOS manual is clean and easy to read with no issue, and the Android manual is cryptic and would take gobs of trial & error to get working, iOS is language is the platform the app will be written for first and best, and we'll get around to the Android one later, if at all. I'm not saying the above example is true, just using it for sake of hypothetical example. Not everyone's manger has the patience to let you learn nuances of each language and platform. The manual almost needs as much effort and attention as the marketing materials, and probably more.
So in this evaluation, the Sample Size is One Class. Sorry Prof, you mentioned *three* other sources of online classes
I think this is the crux of why this article needs to be taken with a grain (or larger dose) of salt. After reading TFA, it is obvious that a math professor listed a bunch of actual competitive threats, but surveyed a brand new and relatively unknown new class and based his assertions on that.
From TFA: "Based on my review of the Udacity Introduction to Statistics course, I see some compelling strategic advantages for live in-class teachers, that will not be soon washed away by massive online video learning." He goes on to say things like "you get what you pay for and this is a free class" and so forth, but never really gives a compelling reason why his experience at Udacity is representative of every massive online learning coarse. In TFA he calls out online schools that are "sponsored by top-name schools such Stanford, Harvard, or MIT," but he doesn't review ANY OF THOSE, nor give any sense of how many people attend the school he reviewed vs. the ones he called out earlier, or how they might be similar or different.
Sneaky.