You clearly don't understand businesses based on appealing to different age cohorts' different tastes, do you? How much Bix Biederbecke do you suppose Spotify plays, or even Louis Armstrong or Duke Ellington? Compared to whatever is recent and appeals to today's mayflies?
Remember, Antonio Salieri was once known for something other than being convinced that he killed Mozart by overworking him, because he thought that Mozart was too easily too much better than him. And supposedly rightly known, if the classical music commentator on my local PBS radio station can be believed. How often is S. on Spotify, or anything by J.S.Bach's sons (several of whom were thought better than "Old Bach" in their lifetimes, and two of whom are still considered almost as good)?
So if other songs released when yours was and roughly as successful as yours was get preferential treatment because you didn't kiss Spotify's ass
Bad analogy. In this case, the band or musician did not refuse to kiss Spotify, they stabbed at them, and Spotify is somehow being castigated for making a reposte.
Streaming pays absolute shit according to most accounts.
A better way to view it is that streaming is today's AM radio (dating myself a tad, here). It is not a profit center, it is an advertisement for the musicians and/or their group. If you like their one song, maybe you'll buy others.
I might suggest that this "sour grapes" at exclusivity makes streaming services more like the old recording companies, too. I remember that when Motown had a celebration/concert for one of their anniversaries there was a lot of talk of ignoring the Jackson 5 and Michael Jackson, as they had signed to a different label after becoming big. This is similar.
In short, same old same old. Nothing to see, just move along.
, especially when its leaders are elected democratically.
No, he means that it is less likely to be authoritarian if democratically elected. If the Germans in the 1930sGODWIN RULE ALERT! CONTENT REMOVED AS IT IS VERBOTTEN IN DEUTCHLAND.
Also, if the government is elected repeatedly, occasionally loses and is out of power, then gets re-elected, it is even less likely. This still does not mean that they cannot be authoritarian, just less likely to be.
Besides, the Gaza Arabs wanted terrorists against Israel, and probably would still, even if they weren't inundated with anti-Jewish messages by their own media. Some people just like their hates. Ask a Bostonian about the Yankees, or a New Yorker about DeflateGate.
That is what lint used to be for, and compiling with full nattering (warnings), so that you can find the cases where you really wanted to drive on the guardrail-free mountain roads in a sport car rather than cruising in a Volvo, to use the once obligatory car analogy.
If you use short variable names for loop variables and stuff, you can code faster because you type quicker.
Back in college, I had to rename i,j,k,l as indx,jndx,kndx,lndx just to keep the TAs off my back. Single char variable names were FORBIDDEN!! but they never had a good reason for ruining the readability of the code when a quick comment at most would serve to describe which index variable was which.
You might notice that Mathematics texts never use long variable names, and COBOL always does? Nuff said.
Also globals aren't bad, and public variables aren't bad.
Of course they are bad. Necessary sometimes, but bad. So write yourself a comment as to why you are using it, and go on, and let someone else remove it after you have left the company, if they have nothing else to do with their lives. Especially useful for tracking internal conditions in functions when you are debugging and don't want to bother stepping through them.
Einstein held out for quite a long time believing in the "steady state" theory of cosmology
When did he actually abandon the belief? I thought that he just gave up publicly defending Steady State because the hand waving was getting too furious even for his tastes.
I wonder if it is the same Von Neumann who formed our ourdays CPUs?
Yes, he was.
Well, sort of "formed" them, at least. He never touched a tranister, let alone an integrated circuit, but he did give a formal (in the logical sense) definition of those things.
Habitable Planets For Man, written in the 1970s with assumed values that we now believe overly optimistic, "solved" the Drake Equation and came up with the nearest communication partner being about 1000 light years away.
The Fermi Paradox was defined without any hyper-light expansion needed, or even contemplated. Personally, I felt that crossing the gap to one of the satellite galaxies was probably unlikely (let alone a jump from or two the Andromeda spiral), just as Europeans were unlikely to cross the Atlantic to settle and replace the indigenous inhabitants of the two continents on the other side of that ocean.
The only way to make the probability not approximate zero is to find some excuse to insert an infinite number (or whatever seems close enough).
Like conducting the experiment in an ocean-sized lab with the organic density of beef consumme? Large enough numbers in the numerator balances large numbers in the denominator (or vice versa), so the chance of a very low probability event occurring once in an experiment that large, run for millions of years, can be quite close to one.
One needn't assume "a non-negotiable total commitment to materialism" to come up with a rational and fairly materialist explanation. Just a way to recalculate the problem so that an arrow CAN hit a target or a fast runner beat a tortoise with a head start, Zeno notwithstanding.
It was on the fourth birthday of his daughter. That's not a day to die, not even for a lawyer.
Well, not for the lawyer's daughter, certainly.
And I, for one, do not want a car making this sort of moral or ethical judgement, even if the car was driven by a Mexican drug lord. Robot Overlords be damned.
Why should they care if "your letter wasn't stolen from your mailbox, or lost, or eaten by your dog" or you could not log on to their server to respond, or their server went done before it was able to store your response, or a meteor fell from space and destroyed the server and all the backups? It is sufficient that previous methods failed, by whoever's fault,and so they move to the fallback method.
OK, obviously they should care about stolen or lost mail, bad servers, or meteor strikes, but that is not on the census department.
If they hadn't had the census material, they would have just handled it by appealing to patriotic (or greedy) Californians to identify which of their neighbors were from the same country which had just launched a sneak attack on their own.
BTW, many German immigrants were also interned, which in practice meant most of the German Jews who had left Germany before it was too late got to visit the Great Plains at government expense, along with a lot of Bundists that were not determined to be harmless.
We thought that it made good stories, not that it would actually work. Sort of like the Three Laws of Robotics being necessary for a "sane" positronic brain, regardless of its necessity to move beyond the "Frankenstein Problem" that John Campbell had identified so as to make interesting robot stories.
Mark Zuckerberg Tapes Over His Webcam. Should You?
Yes. Next question? Are they all this easy?
No. Go to the nearest sex shop, buy a lifelike-looking dildo at least porn star long, ideally something truly horselike, repaint it to match your skin tones if necessary, and mount it so that, if they turn on your camera, they become suicidally depressed if male, and horrified if female. Now wait.
If they are turning your camera on, you will KNOW! You may be kidnapped by a soon-to-be-disappointed operative, but you will know.
It gets confusing, so I'm sticking to the original definition: a ship is a vessel with three or more main square-rigged masts.
And no fore-and-aft masts. A three master with one fore-and-aft mast is a bark, and with two is a barkentine (I remember that rule holding for 4 and more masts as well, but that may have been from just the one source -- to be fair, the nomenclature tended to break down with really big, unique, ships).
As we are discussing commercial vessels, barks and barkentines required much smaller crews than full ships. I assume, since clipper ships were all ship-rigged, that they were faster for a given sail size (providing that a viable broad reaching course existed, of course) or else everyone would have sailed big dhows for everything.
Hey! Continentals were convertible to gold-backed dollars after the Constitution went into effect, at par. Granted, in the years before that they were often sold at pennies on the dollar, but that is the mistake of those who sold them so low.
For futures, require that the entity purchasing futures must pay for the transportation and storage of said futures until sold off, that will take the profit out of the futures market.
"Futures" don't exist except on paper or electronically. 1000 bushels of corn due in October don't exist in April. They are just being planted, then. Futures contracts can be even longer term, meaning the grain to be delivered might not be harvested, or its parent plants might not you exist, yet.
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You clearly don't understand businesses based on appealing to different age cohorts' different tastes, do you? How much Bix Biederbecke do you suppose Spotify plays, or even Louis Armstrong or Duke Ellington? Compared to whatever is recent and appeals to today's mayflies?
Remember, Antonio Salieri was once known for something other than being convinced that he killed Mozart by overworking him, because he thought that Mozart was too easily too much better than him. And supposedly rightly known, if the classical music commentator on my local PBS radio station can be believed. How often is S. on Spotify, or anything by J.S.Bach's sons (several of whom were thought better than "Old Bach" in their lifetimes, and two of whom are still considered almost as good)?
So if other songs released when yours was and roughly as successful as yours was get preferential treatment because you didn't kiss Spotify's ass
Bad analogy. In this case, the band or musician did not refuse to kiss Spotify, they stabbed at them, and Spotify is somehow being castigated for making a reposte.
OTOH, did Best Buy hide the rest of their AC/DC stock of CDs?
Streaming pays absolute shit according to most accounts.
A better way to view it is that streaming is today's AM radio (dating myself a tad, here). It is not a profit center, it is an advertisement for the musicians and/or their group. If you like their one song, maybe you'll buy others.
I might suggest that this "sour grapes" at exclusivity makes streaming services more like the old recording companies, too. I remember that when Motown had a celebration/concert for one of their anniversaries there was a lot of talk of ignoring the Jackson 5 and Michael Jackson, as they had signed to a different label after becoming big. This is similar.
In short, same old same old. Nothing to see, just move along.
, especially when its leaders are elected democratically.
No, he means that it is less likely to be authoritarian if democratically elected. If the Germans in the 1930s GODWIN RULE ALERT! CONTENT REMOVED AS IT IS VERBOTTEN IN DEUTCHLAND.
Also, if the government is elected repeatedly, occasionally loses and is out of power, then gets re-elected, it is even less likely. This still does not mean that they cannot be authoritarian, just less likely to be.
Besides, the Gaza Arabs wanted terrorists against Israel, and probably would still, even if they weren't inundated with anti-Jewish messages by their own media. Some people just like their hates. Ask a Bostonian about the Yankees, or a New Yorker about DeflateGate.
That is what lint used to be for, and compiling with full nattering (warnings), so that you can find the cases where you really wanted to drive on the guardrail-free mountain roads in a sport car rather than cruising in a Volvo, to use the once obligatory car analogy.
If you use short variable names for loop variables and stuff, you can code faster because you type quicker.
Back in college, I had to rename i,j,k,l as indx,jndx,kndx,lndx just to keep the TAs off my back. Single char variable names were FORBIDDEN!! but they never had a good reason for ruining the readability of the code when a quick comment at most would serve to describe which index variable was which.
You might notice that Mathematics texts never use long variable names, and COBOL always does? Nuff said.
Also globals aren't bad, and public variables aren't bad.
Of course they are bad. Necessary sometimes, but bad. So write yourself a comment as to why you are using it, and go on, and let someone else remove it after you have left the company, if they have nothing else to do with their lives. Especially useful for tracking internal conditions in functions when you are debugging and don't want to bother stepping through them.
Einstein held out for quite a long time believing in the "steady state" theory of cosmology
When did he actually abandon the belief? I thought that he just gave up publicly defending Steady State because the hand waving was getting too furious even for his tastes.
I wonder if it is the same Von Neumann who formed our ourdays CPUs?
Yes, he was.
Well, sort of "formed" them, at least. He never touched a tranister, let alone an integrated circuit, but he did give a formal (in the logical sense) definition of those things.
How many light years away?
Habitable Planets For Man, written in the 1970s with assumed values that we now believe overly optimistic, "solved" the Drake Equation and came up with the nearest communication partner being about 1000 light years away.
The Fermi Paradox was defined without any hyper-light expansion needed, or even contemplated. Personally, I felt that crossing the gap to one of the satellite galaxies was probably unlikely (let alone a jump from or two the Andromeda spiral), just as Europeans were unlikely to cross the Atlantic to settle and replace the indigenous inhabitants of the two continents on the other side of that ocean.
Oh, wait.
The only way to make the probability not approximate zero is to find some excuse to insert an infinite number (or whatever seems close enough).
Like conducting the experiment in an ocean-sized lab with the organic density of beef consumme? Large enough numbers in the numerator balances large numbers in the denominator (or vice versa), so the chance of a very low probability event occurring once in an experiment that large, run for millions of years, can be quite close to one.
One needn't assume "a non-negotiable total commitment to materialism" to come up with a rational and fairly materialist explanation. Just a way to recalculate the problem so that an arrow CAN hit a target or a fast runner beat a tortoise with a head start, Zeno notwithstanding.
It was on the fourth birthday of his daughter. That's not a day to die, not even for a lawyer.
Well, not for the lawyer's daughter, certainly.
And I, for one, do not want a car making this sort of moral or ethical judgement, even if the car was driven by a Mexican drug lord. Robot Overlords be damned.
Wrong. There is no double jeopardy rule allowing you to repeatedly break the law after being punished for the first violation.
They will love cash cows like you.
Why should they care if "your letter wasn't stolen from your mailbox, or lost, or eaten by your dog" or you could not log on to their server to respond, or their server went done before it was able to store your response, or a meteor fell from space and destroyed the server and all the backups? It is sufficient that previous methods failed, by whoever's fault,and so they move to the fallback method.
OK, obviously they should care about stolen or lost mail, bad servers, or meteor strikes, but that is not on the census department.
If they hadn't had the census material, they would have just handled it by appealing to patriotic (or greedy) Californians to identify which of their neighbors were from the same country which had just launched a sneak attack on their own.
BTW, many German immigrants were also interned, which in practice meant most of the German Jews who had left Germany before it was too late got to visit the Great Plains at government expense, along with a lot of Bundists that were not determined to be harmless.
If economics was a math problem, we probably would have solved it by now?
Like the General Three Body Problem in Physics, the Schroedinger Equation for more complicated cases than helium, the game of Go, the weather?
Some math problems cannot be solved by this Universe, let alone us, except for very simple cases.
We thought that it made good stories, not that it would actually work. Sort of like the Three Laws of Robotics being necessary for a "sane" positronic brain, regardless of its necessity to move beyond the "Frankenstein Problem" that John Campbell had identified so as to make interesting robot stories.
No, again, of course. No to anything but Russian natural gas imports.
Mark Zuckerberg Tapes Over His Webcam. Should You?
Yes. Next question? Are they all this easy?
No. Go to the nearest sex shop, buy a lifelike-looking dildo at least porn star long, ideally something truly horselike, repaint it to match your skin tones if necessary, and mount it so that, if they turn on your camera, they become suicidally depressed if male, and horrified if female. Now wait.
If they are turning your camera on, you will KNOW! You may be kidnapped by a soon-to-be-disappointed operative, but you will know.
Or cover the risk with shipping insurance, like they have since the early days of the East and West India Companies.
It gets confusing, so I'm sticking to the original definition: a ship is a vessel with three or more main square-rigged masts.
And no fore-and-aft masts. A three master with one fore-and-aft mast is a bark, and with two is a barkentine (I remember that rule holding for 4 and more masts as well, but that may have been from just the one source -- to be fair, the nomenclature tended to break down with really big, unique, ships).
As we are discussing commercial vessels, barks and barkentines required much smaller crews than full ships. I assume, since clipper ships were all ship-rigged, that they were faster for a given sail size (providing that a viable broad reaching course existed, of course) or else everyone would have sailed big dhows for everything.
Hey! Continentals were convertible to gold-backed dollars after the Constitution went into effect, at par. Granted, in the years before that they were often sold at pennies on the dollar, but that is the mistake of those who sold them so low.
If you were able to steal 10% of all the US dollars in circulation, it would cause the value of the currency to drop sharply.
Nonsense.
Firstly, 10% of all US currency is a small fraction of all dollar-denominated accounts.
Secondly, the value would rise, since a finite and now smaller quantity of dollars was chasing the same sized pool of value.
Perhaps you were thinking of the case of 10% of US currency being counterfeited (aka Gresham's Law)?
For futures, require that the entity purchasing futures must pay for the transportation and storage of said futures until sold off, that will take the profit out of the futures market.
"Futures" don't exist except on paper or electronically. 1000 bushels of corn due in October don't exist in April. They are just being planted, then. Futures contracts can be even longer term, meaning the grain to be delivered might not be harvested, or its parent plants might not you exist, yet.