1. Anyone capable of time travel at any point in the future would immediately take the opportunity to kill Hitler while he was a no-name artist.
You are missing the obvious.
Hitler was the time traveler. He was sent back in time to kill a European Jew that (in his timeline) had set humanities progress back 2000 years. Because of how backwards the world had become due to this event, the futurenauts did not even know this Jews identity or even precisely where he was from. What they did know was that Germany had nuked the whole planet in 1955 in response to the continued global sanctions placed on that country since the War to End All Wars, and that the only surviving religion was in fact Judaism.
Hitlers mission was to kill as many European Jews as possible in the hopes of killing the right guy.
Quite a few telecoms also got favourable loans to build out their networks, yet we do not get the stagnation you are claiming should have happened. In fact, my privately owned telco rolled out Gb/s offerings here in this not-so-high-average-income suburb of Stockholm.
Privately owned is not government run, dumbass. Has the government run provider rolled out Gb/s? No? yeah... thats right... not even close.
So why does the store's supplier give them a price break at 1,000 units, 10,000 units, 100,000 units, etc.?
Because it lowers their overhead. To have large contracts and do large scale distribution means they do not need to guess about production numbers (no under or over production), do not need to buffer production in a warehouses (they have an agreed delivery date), and can arrange optimal shipping for the numbers involved.
Do you know anything about business? seriously.. you don't seem to know anything about business. Here is a tip.. when you don't know anything about business, don't act like you do. Since we both know that you dont know anything about business, we both know that you shouldn't have opened your mouth.
By contrast, how are Intel, Cisco, Oracle, Apple, RedHat, Samsung, IBM, Google, VMWare/EMC, NetApp, Canonical, and about 100 other tech companies doing? Most are still stable-to-growing, even in this economic climate.
Microsoft is also stable-to-growing. You dont seem to know what you are talking about, or are willing to lie. Microsoft is pushing record revenue numbers. Sure, not as much as Apple.. but then thats just cherry picking the guy at the top.
..and I never mentioned Microsoft. You are proving my point that you are just cherry picking shit looking for karma points. Congratulations... dishonesty paid off.
The population pyramid is now a snake with a big fat area we like to call the "boomer", and that snake has swallowed all of the next few generations hope.
It is highly doubtful that it was to create latency. More likely, it was being done to see what effects it had on the set of all the other HFT's, which would be measured statistically over a period of time before being shut down.
Err, given Ballmer's performance when compared to other CEOs of that level?
Over the past 10 years we have watched some CEOs "of that level" run their tech companies straight into the toilette.
How is Sun Microsystems doing?
How is RIM doing?
How is Palm.. err USRobots.. no wait.. thats 3Com.. err.. PalmOne.. err.. Hows the hell is that Palm brand that Hewlett-Packard acquired doing these days?
We quickly forget about all the failures.
It was right about 10 years ago that AT&T went into the toilet, too. SBC picked up their rotting carcass and re-branded themselves, because the only thing AT&T had going for it by that point was its brand.
Any company that is maintaining in this economic climate is doing just fine.
The only reason the store gets away with "buy 4 get 1 free" schemes is because shoppers are often so dumb (buying more than they will use) that it more than compensates for the lower margins.
The consumers insanity doesnt negate the retailers. Note that insane behavior may simultaneously be optimal/correct.
Bulk discounts are only sane in cases where some form of lower overhead is associated. Otherwise its gambling.
How much did we spend to buy GM to satisfy the UAW? But we don't have enough $ to fundamentally transform the nature of energy creation for the human race?
Do you want us to get the money from the same place?
We got the money to bail out GM from your children, their children, and their children's children.
Its not that people dont understand that two wrongs don't make a right, its that they don't quite understand that their pet favorite shit is also wrong.
That is it, only $7 billion. To put that number into perspective...
I hate it when people claim to be "putting something into perspective" but are really "spinning something marginally related."
If tax revenue were to decline.. or if the deficit were to increase.. your "perspective" makes this spending look better and better.. thats only 1 day of deficit spending.. thats only half a day of deficit spending.. thats only an hour of deficit spending..
Your "perspective" is actually the opposite of the way we should think about it.. Its just spin.
In perspective, its about $52 for each federal tax return filed. About $1/week for each federal tax payer.
Neural networks don't work as well as some specific algorithms for specific problems, but they are great generalists, so you can throw a NN at almost any problem and get at least OK results.
They are only great generalists if you havent made the network too big (can't learn) or too small (sub-optimal) while also avoiding over-fitting. There is plenty of "art" in deciding on the topology of a neural network and the length of training.
I propose that Googles success in this endeavor has more to do with the size of their training set than with their methodology. Google likely has a training set hundreds or even thousands of times larger than any other training set ever compiled for the voice recognition problem.
Wow, it took 7 whole minutes for a fallacious slippery-slope comment to appear.
I bet it was a "fallacious slippery-slope" when they banned smoking indoors, too.. am I right?
Which part of this slope is fallacious? First they banned smoking in government buildings. Then they banned smoking in all public establishments. Now they ban smoking anywhere at any time by any employee.
The problem with crying "thats just a slippery-slope" is that you are wrong. Its not "just a slippery-slope".. its the reality of a bunch of assholes that think its OK to fuck with you "for you own good." These assholes dont stop when they get what they want. They always move on to further encroachment into your liberty, "for your own good", every single time.
How about we put these assholes in prisons, for their own good, because sooner or later someone always decides to kill one of them. Its for their own good.
They arent transmitting with regular antenna tho. WISP's require directional antennas, that they be pointed in the right direction, and little to no obstructions. Its actually highly similar to satellite 'cept without the whole space thing. Of course the equipment is "off the shelf".. its just not the shelf that people are familiar with (walmart, staples, etc..)
In AI circles, a popular saying is that Neural Networks are always the second best way to solve a problem. Its what you use when you don't want to (or don't know how to) implement a more specific approach.
The real issue is that if the government comes in and builds up the network, thats exactly the network it will be 25 years later. If they decide on 20Mbit today, then 20Mbit will soon be the maximum available with no hope of more. Companies that offer more now will soon see that the only customers they have left are the ones that use more, and that their ISP business is suddenly wholly unprofitable.
Get involved in the local politics and seek out a cable company that wants to build out in your area. Give them an exclusive for a no-cap guarantee. If this isnt feasible its because you live way out in the middle of nowhere and as far as I am concerned, tough shit (you have the benefits of living out in the middle of nowhere, so dont expect sympathy for the couple of downsides)
Indeed. My Cable ISP has been upgrading my service every 1 to 2 years without asking for more money, and doesnt do any traffic shaping or port blocking of any kind. The service started at 2Mbit/64Kbit and is now 15Mbit/1Mbit.
The ISP started as a very small cable company and had announced data caps back in 2006 or so that never got implemented, but then they got bought out by a multi-state cable company (Metrocast, not one of the top 5.) I think that because they were small that they could not get a decent peering agreement so it was either cap the data or sell out to someone that could.
I've read on various forums that some of their service areas have very poor quality, but my area is not one of them. The service has been top-notch right from the start (I was a day-1 adopter) when it was set up by by the original small cable company, and that might have something to do with it the disparity between areas. The only beef I have ever had with them over the internet service is that they stopped supporting my old docsis 1.0 modem last year, but it was so that they could start offering even faster service. I still dont see why they couldnt have left a few channels allocated for the docsis 1.0 folks.
You may have noticed that cost of most foods is highly sensitive to the cost of fuel, ergo the food itself is worth very little due to high levels of efficiency.
All those big agricultural companies control their own distribution networks because the value they create and bank is mostly in the moving of the food to where it gets processed, and then to where it gets sold. Its like that guy giving away "free" learn-to-use-a-computer dvd's... just pay $4.95 shipping and handling. The dvd itself, like food, is worth very little (less than a penny to press.) Getting it to people that want it is where the value is added.
It isnt socialism to give away free food. Its socialism to deliver it free of charge. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to find a way to deliver food so efficiently that even an ardent free-market supporter such as myself can no longer call it socialism. Until then, thats someones labor moving that food around. They arent slaves. Using an accounting trick to make others pay for that labor doesnt change the facts that theres some slavery going on if you deliver the food free of charge.
...except that the only person that can defend against a DMCA request is a pertinent rights holder.
Sure, some of the stuff in the video is fair use, but absolutely none of it is yours (unless you are melodysheep) so you dont even get to claim fair use.
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1. Anyone capable of time travel at any point in the future would immediately take the opportunity to kill Hitler while he was a no-name artist.
You are missing the obvious.
Hitler was the time traveler. He was sent back in time to kill a European Jew that (in his timeline) had set humanities progress back 2000 years. Because of how backwards the world had become due to this event, the futurenauts did not even know this Jews identity or even precisely where he was from. What they did know was that Germany had nuked the whole planet in 1955 in response to the continued global sanctions placed on that country since the War to End All Wars, and that the only surviving religion was in fact Judaism.
Hitlers mission was to kill as many European Jews as possible in the hopes of killing the right guy.
Ergo, time travel most certainly exists.
Quite a few telecoms also got favourable loans to build out their networks, yet we do not get the stagnation you are claiming should have happened. In fact, my privately owned telco rolled out Gb/s offerings here in this not-so-high-average-income suburb of Stockholm.
Privately owned is not government run, dumbass. Has the government run provider rolled out Gb/s? No? yeah... thats right... not even close.
So why does the store's supplier give them a price break at 1,000 units, 10,000 units, 100,000 units, etc.?
Because it lowers their overhead. To have large contracts and do large scale distribution means they do not need to guess about production numbers (no under or over production), do not need to buffer production in a warehouses (they have an agreed delivery date), and can arrange optimal shipping for the numbers involved.
Do you know anything about business? seriously.. you don't seem to know anything about business. Here is a tip.. when you don't know anything about business, don't act like you do. Since we both know that you dont know anything about business, we both know that you shouldn't have opened your mouth.
By contrast, how are Intel, Cisco, Oracle, Apple, RedHat, Samsung, IBM, Google, VMWare/EMC, NetApp, Canonical, and about 100 other tech companies doing? Most are still stable-to-growing, even in this economic climate.
Microsoft is also stable-to-growing. You dont seem to know what you are talking about, or are willing to lie. Microsoft is pushing record revenue numbers. Sure, not as much as Apple.. but then thats just cherry picking the guy at the top.
..and I never mentioned Microsoft. You are proving my point that you are just cherry picking shit looking for karma points. Congratulations... dishonesty paid off.
You post a BID on MSFT at $10. Nobody wants to sell you any shares for such a low price...
..is your bid supposed to remain there for 10 or so years until MSFT's stock finally falls below $10 again?
The population pyramid is now a snake with a big fat area we like to call the "boomer", and that snake has swallowed all of the next few generations hope.
It is highly doubtful that it was to create latency. More likely, it was being done to see what effects it had on the set of all the other HFT's, which would be measured statistically over a period of time before being shut down.
The markets (with HFT) have consistently better prices (higher bids, lower asks) than can be found off-exchange.
Nobody is getting screwed. The HFT guy is saving you several pennies for his penny in profit.
I often wonder why the likes of Dell, HP, Samsung, ASUS, Acer etc don't band together to produce and market a Linux distribution.
Well, many big ones have tried to push some Linux out the door at one time or another. Turns out that it costs money to give Linux away.
If they abandon the windows market, they are just handing money that used to be part of their revenue stream over to someone else.
Err, given Ballmer's performance when compared to other CEOs of that level?
Over the past 10 years we have watched some CEOs "of that level" run their tech companies straight into the toilette.
How is Sun Microsystems doing?
How is RIM doing?
How is Palm.. err USRobots.. no wait.. thats 3Com.. err.. PalmOne.. err.. Hows the hell is that Palm brand that Hewlett-Packard acquired doing these days?
We quickly forget about all the failures.
It was right about 10 years ago that AT&T went into the toilet, too. SBC picked up their rotting carcass and re-branded themselves, because the only thing AT&T had going for it by that point was its brand.
Any company that is maintaining in this economic climate is doing just fine.
Is the business model of selling fruit "insane"?
Yes.
The only reason the store gets away with "buy 4 get 1 free" schemes is because shoppers are often so dumb (buying more than they will use) that it more than compensates for the lower margins.
The consumers insanity doesnt negate the retailers. Note that insane behavior may simultaneously be optimal/correct.
Bulk discounts are only sane in cases where some form of lower overhead is associated. Otherwise its gambling.
How much did we spend to buy GM to satisfy the UAW? But we don't have enough $ to fundamentally transform the nature of energy creation for the human race?
Do you want us to get the money from the same place?
We got the money to bail out GM from your children, their children, and their children's children.
Its not that people dont understand that two wrongs don't make a right, its that they don't quite understand that their pet favorite shit is also wrong.
That is it, only $7 billion. To put that number into perspective ...
I hate it when people claim to be "putting something into perspective" but are really "spinning something marginally related."
If tax revenue were to decline.. or if the deficit were to increase.. your "perspective" makes this spending look better and better.. thats only 1 day of deficit spending.. thats only half a day of deficit spending.. thats only an hour of deficit spending..
Your "perspective" is actually the opposite of the way we should think about it.. Its just spin.
In perspective, its about $52 for each federal tax return filed. About $1/week for each federal tax payer.
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I think a similar thing might have been said by some guy in my signature.
Neural networks don't work as well as some specific algorithms for specific problems, but they are great generalists, so you can throw a NN at almost any problem and get at least OK results.
They are only great generalists if you havent made the network too big (can't learn) or too small (sub-optimal) while also avoiding over-fitting. There is plenty of "art" in deciding on the topology of a neural network and the length of training.
I propose that Googles success in this endeavor has more to do with the size of their training set than with their methodology. Google likely has a training set hundreds or even thousands of times larger than any other training set ever compiled for the voice recognition problem.
Wow, it took 7 whole minutes for a fallacious slippery-slope comment to appear.
I bet it was a "fallacious slippery-slope" when they banned smoking indoors, too.. am I right?
.. its the reality of a bunch of assholes that think its OK to fuck with you "for you own good." These assholes dont stop when they get what they want. They always move on to further encroachment into your liberty, "for your own good", every single time.
Which part of this slope is fallacious? First they banned smoking in government buildings. Then they banned smoking in all public establishments. Now they ban smoking anywhere at any time by any employee.
The problem with crying "thats just a slippery-slope" is that you are wrong. Its not "just a slippery-slope"
How about we put these assholes in prisons, for their own good, because sooner or later someone always decides to kill one of them. Its for their own good.
They arent transmitting with regular antenna tho. WISP's require directional antennas, that they be pointed in the right direction, and little to no obstructions. Its actually highly similar to satellite 'cept without the whole space thing. Of course the equipment is "off the shelf" .. its just not the shelf that people are familiar with (walmart, staples, etc..)
In AI circles, a popular saying is that Neural Networks are always the second best way to solve a problem. Its what you use when you don't want to (or don't know how to) implement a more specific approach.
The real issue is that if the government comes in and builds up the network, thats exactly the network it will be 25 years later. If they decide on 20Mbit today, then 20Mbit will soon be the maximum available with no hope of more. Companies that offer more now will soon see that the only customers they have left are the ones that use more, and that their ISP business is suddenly wholly unprofitable.
Talk about monopolies..
Dont you see the opportunity here?
Get involved in the local politics and seek out a cable company that wants to build out in your area. Give them an exclusive for a no-cap guarantee. If this isnt feasible its because you live way out in the middle of nowhere and as far as I am concerned, tough shit (you have the benefits of living out in the middle of nowhere, so dont expect sympathy for the couple of downsides)
Indeed. My Cable ISP has been upgrading my service every 1 to 2 years without asking for more money, and doesnt do any traffic shaping or port blocking of any kind. The service started at 2Mbit/64Kbit and is now 15Mbit/1Mbit.
The ISP started as a very small cable company and had announced data caps back in 2006 or so that never got implemented, but then they got bought out by a multi-state cable company (Metrocast, not one of the top 5.) I think that because they were small that they could not get a decent peering agreement so it was either cap the data or sell out to someone that could.
I've read on various forums that some of their service areas have very poor quality, but my area is not one of them. The service has been top-notch right from the start (I was a day-1 adopter) when it was set up by by the original small cable company, and that might have something to do with it the disparity between areas. The only beef I have ever had with them over the internet service is that they stopped supporting my old docsis 1.0 modem last year, but it was so that they could start offering even faster service. I still dont see why they couldnt have left a few channels allocated for the docsis 1.0 folks.
You may have noticed that cost of most foods is highly sensitive to the cost of fuel, ergo the food itself is worth very little due to high levels of efficiency.
... just pay $4.95 shipping and handling. The dvd itself, like food, is worth very little (less than a penny to press.) Getting it to people that want it is where the value is added.
All those big agricultural companies control their own distribution networks because the value they create and bank is mostly in the moving of the food to where it gets processed, and then to where it gets sold. Its like that guy giving away "free" learn-to-use-a-computer dvd's
It isnt socialism to give away free food. Its socialism to deliver it free of charge. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to find a way to deliver food so efficiently that even an ardent free-market supporter such as myself can no longer call it socialism. Until then, thats someones labor moving that food around. They arent slaves. Using an accounting trick to make others pay for that labor doesnt change the facts that theres some slavery going on if you deliver the food free of charge.
...except that the only person that can defend against a DMCA request is a pertinent rights holder.
Sure, some of the stuff in the video is fair use, but absolutely none of it is yours (unless you are melodysheep) so you dont even get to claim fair use.
my eyes arent too good, can you inspect my palms for me?
Who do you think pays the salaries over at the Apache Foundation?