Excellent rebuttal. By scarcity I meant the strict economic definition that there is a limited amount of something. I know bandwidth is the same (there is a definite limit) but since bandwidth follows semiconductor evolution we can expect at least another decade of internet growth comparable to the last one. In 97 most of us were still using dial up.
If a dollar did this we would consider it catastrophic inflation, witch come to think of it is my problem with this idea of bandwidth currency. What is great for bandwidth (exponential growth) is terrible for economics.
The size of Quake XXX isn't a factor, only the part you send over the internet. Blu-ray is about 46Mbps, just for an idea of how much bandwidth high quality audio visual is. What happens when bandwidth can be measured for Gbps over the internet? I don't know, but what I'm pretty sure of is that it would not be very valuable. Kind of like glass, when it was hard to make it had value, but when everyone pretty much had an unlimited supply of quality glass it gets taken for granted. In this case it is worse because silicone is used to make the chips of the internet.
The classic controller was with the console at launch, mainly to help with the virtual console. And I agree, I still play Megaman X games for god sakes, and they haven't really changed at all in a decade (and that's the way I like it).
At least the paper is written in such a way that it can be properly criticized. So many slashdot articles are along the lines: check this out, wouldn't it be cool if this crazy idea had some proof! Cosmic dust lifeforms comes to mind from a few days ago. It was an interesting read, and thank you for constructive criticism. Good luck on your paper, and please do check the numbers if you have the time... it seems he did control the numbers to get such a grand conclusion, but perhaps there is a statistically relevant phenomenon here.
If I'm being a troll forgive me, but how can bandwidth be currency? Isn't the whole basis of economics scarcity? Won't bandwidth eventually become basically infinite it grows to the point when we could saturate all 5 senses with data? We already passed audio (you can download audio in better quality than your ears faster than you can listen to it). Video is coming up. The rest is just a matter of time.
Exactly, I agree with you and your parent. It is not "obvious" that batteries are dangerous, and I can appreciate that. But it should become common knowledge. A better analogy would have been gasoline. You can't tell that it's dangerous just by looking at it, but we have grown to accept the risk.
Also, the power in a battery and gasoline is it's feature. A knife is the same, just less abstract. You can't cram huge amounts of power into small spaces, and have it ready to go at any time (gas and bats) without some risk.
When did we sign the social contract that nothing we use can have a negative impact without a payout? If I'm going to have a power source that can run a full computer for several hours I'm going to have to accept that that amount of power may get out of hand. If I have a blade sharp enough to cut a steak I have to accept that it is sharp enough to cut me.
Please, all of us, understand there are physical limitations to things and they are sometimes dangerous, and sometimes you just have to take the risk implicitly. If 6 batteries in the world caught fire that makes them about as safe as anything I've ever heard with that much power. They should be recalled if there is a reasonable expectation we can do better but I think you need to accept certain things are what they are. Fire cooks, fire kills. Chemicals react to make electricity, chemicals react period.
I understand, but there is still a lack of E=mc^2 to the whole thing (testable hypothesis), but I probably wouldn't understand it if it was told to me anyways.
Lol, I get it, vibrating strings, but there isn't any way to detect them without using, wait for it, strings. Same problem we have with sub atomic particles, you can't really detect them without using them, but you can make perditions, like protons are made of certain mixes of quarks. I will accept that it may take more powerful science to detect them, but I won't accept a science unless it actually claims something. Otherwise I propose my trapezoid theory of the universe, that the universe is made of trapezoids and the only properties they have is the length of their sides. Everything is described in terms of trapezoid interactions. Sarcasm added for effect and not meant to be mocking.
Thank you, do you have a link for something more specific? For Newtonian physics vacuumes proves things like inertia (no friction). For Einstinian, time dilation is strong evidence(and easy to understand, relatively). For string theory what kind of smoking guns/phenomenon work? I know you said Hawking radiation but that is pretty much heat from black holes, why would strings cause that? I'm just looking for a cause-effect relationship, doesn't have to be prove string theory, just show what it would predict in at least one case. In my entire life no one has been able to say string theory may equal x in cases y, not even theoretically. I know people are working hard on this, I just want to understand.
I purposefully did not, I find in it's own way the slashdot crowd knows how to cut to the chase faster than wiki. I went to wikipedia now and just don't have time to check the references. I'll try with I'm done researching Einstine's work.
Could someone explain to me a single phenomenon that is explained by string theory? Or a single predictive theorem, where thanx to string theory we expect to find x if conditions y are met? I need to know what I'm even looking for here.
It is not the same product, the Euro version has less backwards compatibility. That is why the 60 gig US is no longer produced (and on sale for 499). They want to erase the memory of the better backwards compatibility. All well and good anyways, you can get an actual PS2 for 130$.
However this spectrum must be open in two key ways
From the Summary
This portion of the spectrum also happens to be the one with two open access conditions attached to its sale mandating that all devices be allowed to access the band and that all applications can be able to run across the network. This means that it may become the dominate frequency for off the shelf parts, since they know that no provider can actually keep their product off the market. Honestly you combine these rules with a device like the N95 or iPhone, add a little Skype, and what you get is Nerdvana, a network where you only pay for the pipe, but you can flush anything you want down it.
since no one else said it, copyright should take into account that for all intents and purposes we can create and distribute an unlimited amount of video. Trying to hold onto short video clips is like trying to hold onto a saying. Even if you have 100% of a government's resources behind you you can't stop someone from quoting the daily show, and you can't stop them from putting that clip on a public video server.
Don't get me wrong, it's not that I don't believe in copyright, I just know how technology works and I feel that Hollywood is fighting an unwinnable battle. Yes I know it's not word.
I don't know. As far as being a "world" service, it is English only. Again, anyone actually work at a newspaper? Maybe I should get a news story on Google about it and then Google could comment on their own article, no verification needed.
It is not that hard to get reasonable confirmation of this kind of thing, or quoting people would be nigh impossible. Can anyone who actually works in a news room say how they verify things normally? I'll bet a simple phone call is all most major newspapers require and it won't kill Google to have a dozen people on the phone. Personally I can't wait until someone comments something really dumb, and then claims it wasn't them. Google may become my only source of news at this point.
ID 47000... that's pretty low... At least I won't get any farther from it. If I bought these songs, they would (in all likelihood) would just keep getting cheaper until I felt my money was thrown away. Then again you never know, maybe the song I buy for one cent today may become one of the top songs ever.
Looks like to me it only supports old creative players (the Rio brand has been discontinued). So iTunes does sync with some mp3 players but if you were to buy a new MP3 player today it shouldn't work (according to the list)
Trading votes isn't democratic, it's capitalistic. Sure you can parlay your vote into the maximum influence on the system possible, but the idea is to each have an equal share (and responsibility) of the government.
Capitalism and democracy are not mutually exclusive, but we can agree that they are not the same thing. A marketplace of votes makes a capitalist system out of a democratic one. Although I know that the average person anywhere is an idiot, trading votes isn't going to make things better.
Democracy is still the best way to divide power, marketplaces are the best way to divide non-vital resources. If you can do both, more power to you, literally, but it won't be as democratic.
This version is only a slight improvement over the original prototype, which could beam scenes from Gigli directly into a person's retina from up to 2 miles.
Thank god the supreme court ruled that the use of that was cruel and unusual, the Gigli 2 prototype could have cause permanent damage to the nation's... nay, the world's gag reflex.
Ah, yes, I forgot about that. Still the DS is backwards compatible so it didn't really kill the Gameboy, anyone who made a GBA game could still rely on DS owners as a market.
I am not a Nintendo fanboy, however you don't seem to understand the full lack of challenge ANYONE has brought to the Nintendo on the portable front. I heard at the peak of the last console wars they still sold a Gameboy for every PS2, Gamecube and Xbox sold, and that Pokemon accounted for 50% of all video games sales. But even if that weren't true, it's pretty clear that the DS currently is the most successful console, by a wide margin. I doubt anything but the most concentrated effort could take on Nintendo.
However Mac does sell about 10 million iPods a quarter lately, far outstripping DS sales. I started out sure that you were crazy to think Apple could do something dangerous to Nintendo with iPhone/Pod... but given the numbers... anything could happen if they release a touch screen iPod.
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And then Google sends in the ninjas. And you thought hording that personal data was to sell adds...
Excellent rebuttal. By scarcity I meant the strict economic definition that there is a limited amount of something. I know bandwidth is the same (there is a definite limit) but since bandwidth follows semiconductor evolution we can expect at least another decade of internet growth comparable to the last one. In 97 most of us were still using dial up.
If a dollar did this we would consider it catastrophic inflation, witch come to think of it is my problem with this idea of bandwidth currency. What is great for bandwidth (exponential growth) is terrible for economics.
The size of Quake XXX isn't a factor, only the part you send over the internet. Blu-ray is about 46Mbps, just for an idea of how much bandwidth high quality audio visual is. What happens when bandwidth can be measured for Gbps over the internet? I don't know, but what I'm pretty sure of is that it would not be very valuable. Kind of like glass, when it was hard to make it had value, but when everyone pretty much had an unlimited supply of quality glass it gets taken for granted. In this case it is worse because silicone is used to make the chips of the internet.
The classic controller was with the console at launch, mainly to help with the virtual console. And I agree, I still play Megaman X games for god sakes, and they haven't really changed at all in a decade (and that's the way I like it).
Only one way to know for sure. Bring me the 2 hearted artichoke!
At least the paper is written in such a way that it can be properly criticized. So many slashdot articles are along the lines: check this out, wouldn't it be cool if this crazy idea had some proof! Cosmic dust lifeforms comes to mind from a few days ago. It was an interesting read, and thank you for constructive criticism. Good luck on your paper, and please do check the numbers if you have the time... it seems he did control the numbers to get such a grand conclusion, but perhaps there is a statistically relevant phenomenon here.
If I'm being a troll forgive me, but how can bandwidth be currency? Isn't the whole basis of economics scarcity? Won't bandwidth eventually become basically infinite it grows to the point when we could saturate all 5 senses with data? We already passed audio (you can download audio in better quality than your ears faster than you can listen to it). Video is coming up. The rest is just a matter of time.
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Exactly, I agree with you and your parent. It is not "obvious" that batteries are dangerous, and I can appreciate that. But it should become common knowledge. A better analogy would have been gasoline. You can't tell that it's dangerous just by looking at it, but we have grown to accept the risk.
Also, the power in a battery and gasoline is it's feature. A knife is the same, just less abstract. You can't cram huge amounts of power into small spaces, and have it ready to go at any time (gas and bats) without some risk.
When did we sign the social contract that nothing we use can have a negative impact without a payout? If I'm going to have a power source that can run a full computer for several hours I'm going to have to accept that that amount of power may get out of hand. If I have a blade sharp enough to cut a steak I have to accept that it is sharp enough to cut me.
Please, all of us, understand there are physical limitations to things and they are sometimes dangerous, and sometimes you just have to take the risk implicitly. If 6 batteries in the world caught fire that makes them about as safe as anything I've ever heard with that much power. They should be recalled if there is a reasonable expectation we can do better but I think you need to accept certain things are what they are. Fire cooks, fire kills. Chemicals react to make electricity, chemicals react period.
I understand, but there is still a lack of E=mc^2 to the whole thing (testable hypothesis), but I probably wouldn't understand it if it was told to me anyways.
Lol, I get it, vibrating strings, but there isn't any way to detect them without using, wait for it, strings. Same problem we have with sub atomic particles, you can't really detect them without using them, but you can make perditions, like protons are made of certain mixes of quarks. I will accept that it may take more powerful science to detect them, but I won't accept a science unless it actually claims something. Otherwise I propose my trapezoid theory of the universe, that the universe is made of trapezoids and the only properties they have is the length of their sides. Everything is described in terms of trapezoid interactions. Sarcasm added for effect and not meant to be mocking.
Thank you, do you have a link for something more specific? For Newtonian physics vacuumes proves things like inertia (no friction). For Einstinian, time dilation is strong evidence(and easy to understand, relatively). For string theory what kind of smoking guns/phenomenon work? I know you said Hawking radiation but that is pretty much heat from black holes, why would strings cause that? I'm just looking for a cause-effect relationship, doesn't have to be prove string theory, just show what it would predict in at least one case. In my entire life no one has been able to say string theory may equal x in cases y, not even theoretically. I know people are working hard on this, I just want to understand.
I purposefully did not, I find in it's own way the slashdot crowd knows how to cut to the chase faster than wiki. I went to wikipedia now and just don't have time to check the references. I'll try with I'm done researching Einstine's work.
Could someone explain to me a single phenomenon that is explained by string theory? Or a single predictive theorem, where thanx to string theory we expect to find x if conditions y are met? I need to know what I'm even looking for here.
It is not the same product, the Euro version has less backwards compatibility. That is why the 60 gig US is no longer produced (and on sale for 499). They want to erase the memory of the better backwards compatibility. All well and good anyways, you can get an actual PS2 for 130$.
From the Summary This portion of the spectrum also happens to be the one with two open access conditions attached to its sale mandating that all devices be allowed to access the band and that all applications can be able to run across the network. This means that it may become the dominate frequency for off the shelf parts, since they know that no provider can actually keep their product off the market. Honestly you combine these rules with a device like the N95 or iPhone, add a little Skype, and what you get is Nerdvana, a network where you only pay for the pipe, but you can flush anything you want down it.
since no one else said it, copyright should take into account that for all intents and purposes we can create and distribute an unlimited amount of video. Trying to hold onto short video clips is like trying to hold onto a saying. Even if you have 100% of a government's resources behind you you can't stop someone from quoting the daily show, and you can't stop them from putting that clip on a public video server.
Don't get me wrong, it's not that I don't believe in copyright, I just know how technology works and I feel that Hollywood is fighting an unwinnable battle. Yes I know it's not word.
I don't know. As far as being a "world" service, it is English only. Again, anyone actually work at a newspaper? Maybe I should get a news story on Google about it and then Google could comment on their own article, no verification needed.
It is not that hard to get reasonable confirmation of this kind of thing, or quoting people would be nigh impossible. Can anyone who actually works in a news room say how they verify things normally? I'll bet a simple phone call is all most major newspapers require and it won't kill Google to have a dozen people on the phone. Personally I can't wait until someone comments something really dumb, and then claims it wasn't them. Google may become my only source of news at this point.
ID 47000... that's pretty low... At least I won't get any farther from it. If I bought these songs, they would (in all likelihood) would just keep getting cheaper until I felt my money was thrown away. Then again you never know, maybe the song I buy for one cent today may become one of the top songs ever.
Looks like to me it only supports old creative players (the Rio brand has been discontinued). So iTunes does sync with some mp3 players but if you were to buy a new MP3 player today it shouldn't work (according to the list)
Trading votes isn't democratic, it's capitalistic. Sure you can parlay your vote into the maximum influence on the system possible, but the idea is to each have an equal share (and responsibility) of the government.
Capitalism and democracy are not mutually exclusive, but we can agree that they are not the same thing. A marketplace of votes makes a capitalist system out of a democratic one. Although I know that the average person anywhere is an idiot, trading votes isn't going to make things better.
Democracy is still the best way to divide power, marketplaces are the best way to divide non-vital resources. If you can do both, more power to you, literally, but it won't be as democratic.
Thank god the supreme court ruled that the use of that was cruel and unusual, the Gigli 2 prototype could have cause permanent damage to the nation's... nay, the world's gag reflex.
Ah, yes, I forgot about that. Still the DS is backwards compatible so it didn't really kill the Gameboy, anyone who made a GBA game could still rely on DS owners as a market.
I am not a Nintendo fanboy, however you don't seem to understand the full lack of challenge ANYONE has brought to the Nintendo on the portable front. I heard at the peak of the last console wars they still sold a Gameboy for every PS2, Gamecube and Xbox sold, and that Pokemon accounted for 50% of all video games sales. But even if that weren't true, it's pretty clear that the DS currently is the most successful console, by a wide margin. I doubt anything but the most concentrated effort could take on Nintendo.
However Mac does sell about 10 million iPods a quarter lately, far outstripping DS sales. I started out sure that you were crazy to think Apple could do something dangerous to Nintendo with iPhone/Pod... but given the numbers... anything could happen if they release a touch screen iPod.