Fans of Silicon Valley will be aware of the Pied Piper compression algorithm, and now Google has a more efficient one of its own.
IMHO, at first read, it sounds like it's saying it's more efficient than Pied Piper's (fictional) algorithm... Which of course is impossible, since Pied Piper's will compress everything.
The ironic thing about libertarians is that protection of the commons is not necessary, but they are the first to trash the commons if they can get away with it.
How is that ironic at all? They wouldn't be able to trash it as easily if it were protected.
(I know there was controversy regarding the original ending of the third.. which was supposedly either fixed or at least slightly alleviated by DLC..)
I'm only a little ways in, but at least from the podcast I'm currently listening to (Giant Bombcast), the several of the regular participants who have played them and really like them like the interaction with all of the NPCs and very deep back story about everything.
$20 for MANY MANY MANY hours of entertainment (compared to $10+ for ~2 hours with a movie), seems like a heck of a deal, to me.
(Yes, I wait a while to get games when they go down to $20.. which happens for basically all I've ever been interested in.. Even though I definitely prefer having a disk, even I am doing the electronic download thing on PSN for some games that get SO CHEAP.. e.g. $5 for the Mass Effect trilogy. Even if I play for only a couple of hours total and don't play the whole game, I've still gotten a ton of entertainment for that price.)
Yeah, and in my C++ class in I think 1991, the "textbook" was some compiler's manual, I *think* Borland's, since it fully explained the language and was apparently the convenient way to get a language reference. (I don't remember if it was before, or just way cheaper than, Bjarne's book.)
You can't hit the gym daily for 1-2 hours with a job? Tons of people do.. ok, it's the bottom end of your scale, but I do an hour a day (walking on a treadmill, watching TV on an iPad).
Similarly, in the Jesus resurrection story he is not a zombie. He was simply returned to life, as in properly restored to being "alive" as he was before death, not as in "undead", or transformed by his death into a new being.
Wait, so he was Jesus the Grey and turned into Jesus the White?
I last looked half a decade or so ago, when the ROI for solar was 19 years;
You seem to think that's bad. I think that's amazing, and would easily be worth putting in solar with that ROI (even _ignoring_ any investment money I could make in the meantime). I use so little energy that it doesn't make sense for me though... Much less the 2.5 years you have.. That's a "do it tomorrow!" price, IMHO.
Why should he be paid more, just because he's 2x more productive? He's actually doing _less_, by now "just" driving the truck, instead of driving + picking up cans (didn't they used to have driver + one other guy, and both guys would get out & pick up cans).
If he was more productive due to a change _of his own making_, then yes, pay him a lot more.. e.g. if he invented the truck with the robotic arm.
You guys realize you can buy your own cable modem and save TONS of money, right? It pays for itself in less than a year.
(The only exception I know about is if you use the cable company supplied "phone line" too.. I don't know of customer purchasable cable modems that support that.)
I let my lawns die because of the drought, but even though I admittedly rarely walk on it, I'd like the *ability* to walk on it. Is there other ground cover you don't have to water (nor mow, at least more than every month or two, though I was doing it about that infrequently with my lawn), but is still walk-on-able? Doesn't seem so, at least when I've asked the "native plants" people that show up at festivals.
Some (inspired) companies provide rewards for discovering flaws in their products; allowing them to improve them under controlled circumstances.
But this wasn't "controlled circumstances". This was someone releasing a product that used that flaw/design decision (as others have called it) in a way that the company didn't intend, and in a way that apparently the company didn't like.
If they had reported it *directly* to the company, especially after starting the internship, maybe they would have been rewarded for it (with a job in the future).
The geek lives in this fantasy world where you can be fired for cause for a security breach at a Fortune 500 company and still remain employable.
I actually agree with you in general, but a single data point to the contrary.
(info from Wikipedia). Kevin Mitnick went to jail for 5 years, and currently: He does security consulting for Fortune 500 companies, performs penetration testing services for the world's largest companies and teaches...
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IMHO, at first read, it sounds like it's saying it's more efficient than Pied Piper's (fictional) algorithm... Which of course is impossible, since Pied Piper's will compress everything.
Doesn't "the commons" mean any shared things (e.g. roads, air, etc.)?
How is that ironic at all? They wouldn't be able to trash it as easily if it were protected.
Congratulations for entering the late 19th century!
(I know there was controversy regarding the original ending of the third.. which was supposedly either fixed or at least slightly alleviated by DLC..)
I'm only a little ways in, but at least from the podcast I'm currently listening to (Giant Bombcast), the several of the regular participants who have played them and really like them like the interaction with all of the NPCs and very deep back story about everything.
$20 for MANY MANY MANY hours of entertainment (compared to $10+ for ~2 hours with a movie), seems like a heck of a deal, to me.
(Yes, I wait a while to get games when they go down to $20.. which happens for basically all I've ever been interested in.. Even though I definitely prefer having a disk, even I am doing the electronic download thing on PSN for some games that get SO CHEAP.. e.g. $5 for the Mass Effect trilogy. Even if I play for only a couple of hours total and don't play the whole game, I've still gotten a ton of entertainment for that price.)
Yeah, and in my C++ class in I think 1991, the "textbook" was some compiler's manual, I *think* Borland's, since it fully explained the language and was apparently the convenient way to get a language reference. (I don't remember if it was before, or just way cheaper than, Bjarne's book.)
Uhh, because it's the lynchpin of the entire religion?
I guess you're right there.. I was partially remembering the earlier *Microsoft* GUIs.
But this is one account that also recounts what I said:
http://www.theoligarch.com/mic...
It is referring to the Star 8010 though.
You don't know what you're talking about. Xerox didn't have overlapping windows, or many of the other interface paradigms of current GUIs.
On Usenet, you can delete posts.
(Yes, I realize many sites ignored those requests, but it is possible and I did it.)
Actually, I think most of these web fora, and many mailing lists, would be far better as Usenet groups.
Wait, you're not Jackie Gleason, are you?
You can't hit the gym daily for 1-2 hours with a job? Tons of people do.. ok, it's the bottom end of your scale, but I do an hour a day (walking on a treadmill, watching TV on an iPad).
Wait, so he was Jesus the Grey and turned into Jesus the White?
Because you can't just randomly call *anyone* specific, like you can with a phone.
If each pizzeria had to build their own road to your house another road to each and every house that they delivered to, YES.
Haven't you seen the old photos of tons of separate telephone wires from many different companies?
You seem to think that's bad. I think that's amazing, and would easily be worth putting in solar with that ROI (even _ignoring_ any investment money I could make in the meantime). I use so little energy that it doesn't make sense for me though... Much less the 2.5 years you have.. That's a "do it tomorrow!" price, IMHO.
Having a two-way radio *instead* of a telephone? That's madness.
Also, before the phone monopoly, there were tons of different companies stringing wires around, thus duplicating effort.
As countries become more educated, their birth rate goes way down. This happens time after time.
Why should he be paid more, just because he's 2x more productive? He's actually doing _less_, by now "just" driving the truck, instead of driving + picking up cans (didn't they used to have driver + one other guy, and both guys would get out & pick up cans).
If he was more productive due to a change _of his own making_, then yes, pay him a lot more.. e.g. if he invented the truck with the robotic arm.
You guys realize you can buy your own cable modem and save TONS of money, right? It pays for itself in less than a year.
(The only exception I know about is if you use the cable company supplied "phone line" too.. I don't know of customer purchasable cable modems that support that.)
I think your Novell system needs a new clock battery or something...
But this wasn't "controlled circumstances". This was someone releasing a product that used that flaw/design decision (as others have called it) in a way that the company didn't intend, and in a way that apparently the company didn't like.
If they had reported it *directly* to the company, especially after starting the internship, maybe they would have been rewarded for it (with a job in the future).
I actually agree with you in general, but a single data point to the contrary.
(info from Wikipedia). Kevin Mitnick went to jail for 5 years, and currently:
He does security consulting for Fortune 500 companies, performs penetration testing services for the world's largest companies and teaches...
So says someone who uses "i.e." when the proper term in this case is "e.g."