Sounds like Amazon's monopoly was broken. What's the problem with that again?
Amazon gained its market share by competing on price, Apple got forming a cartel with publishers using price-fixing.
Amazon had a monopoly which they used to abuse the publishers. Apple made separate deals with each publisher (which is not collusion or price-fixing) which broke Amazon's monopoly.
This is exactly how the market is supposed to work. Where once there was one eBook provider, there are now four major providers. Apple is not even the biggest one! How can that be a monopoly or even a trust?
The bottom line is non-apple customers are being hurt by this, including children.
Seriously, how can you say something like this with a straight face? That's straight-up trolling.
Prices went up 50% in a single day when this agreement went into effect. Regardless of the free market principles of the thing, every consumer lost.
Sounds like Amazon's monopoly was broken. What's the problem with that again?
One problem is that prices went up 50% literally overnight when Apple got all the publishers to agree to force Amazon and other sellers to charge more.
Well I was going to say, "who gives a shit" followed by "I kill bullshit processes just because I'm a control freak, fuck the performance implications (good or bad)," but then I thought wait-- you don't understand what that output means or you wouldn't give a shit. This is something I learned not so long ago, so let me share.
It doesn't mean that 50% of your processor is being used and the other 50% isn't... Whenever your processor runs, it runs at 100% its capability always. That's how it works. When you see the statistic "CPU at 50%" it means it's only processing 50% of the time. So 50% of the time it could be computing something, it is, the other 50% it's twiddling its proverbial thumbs... Any process that uses additional percentage points is getting the full capabilities of the processor; at a time it's normally not being used.... so should your computational needs be less than 100% of your computer's resources, then you are fine, and if anything it's under utilized. As a result there's no reason to stop processes (outside of concerns of power consumption).
One love, tehprofessor
p.s. You can kill the process; I have a mac (had windows worked there too) and kill the iTunes daemon... iPhone works fine. iTunes works fine.
It says 50% because he has multiple cores and the process is running on 1/2 of them.
A similar google service on my MacBook causes the keyboard to stutter every few hours and occasionally disables the camera until I reboot. There's a way to disable it, but I haven't bothered yet. However, the process is incredibly similar to this one for disabling applemobiledeviceservice on Windows.
Mac users don't complain because iTunes on Mac doesn't have this problem, or much of any problem that I've noticed. This is either because Apple doesn't know how or care to code for Windows, or because it's a conspiracy to get iPhone and iTunes users to buy Macs because "Windows is slow." In my opinion, it's probably a mixture. Apple just doesn't have as much incentive to provide a good Windows experience, so they don't bother, knowing that this will probably convert a few suckers to Mac.
Similarly, Google services don't seem to screw up Windows or Linux, and Google's MTP support for Mac (MTP is required for Nexus 4) is ridiculously minimal. It's an analogous situation. Vendors for system X don't care about system Y, news at 11.
The solution seems simple. Sell your iPhone to a Mac user, and buy an Android device. Why would you even buy an iPhone for Windows? I use a Mac and I still won't buy one.
Google employees mostly have Macs now. To use a Windows machine they need to write up a justification and they're rare enough to be envied. I don't think we can think of Windows as the native platform for Google.
However, Google services can cause a lot of problems in Windows, too, depending on what else you have running. As another user stated above, the best platform for either is to install in a VM and generally treat the Apple/Google software as malware.
Your right, it is in very bad taste. You should be ashamed of yourself and why Slashdot awards you points is beyond me. Having a Neurological disease myself, it is very offensive. You are the kind of person who laughs at others misfortunes. Sad!
Mods got this and the GP wrong. I used up my points earlier today.
Not only is the GP insensitive, his post is absent of entertainment. It's boring as hell.
I'm not really sure that this is even something they can patent? Isn't their prior art?
I seem to recall that the various companies (like banks) have programs in place that do stuff like automatically redact and prohibit things like emailing a document that contains a social security number. Using the above example of SSNs, I seem to recall that it would redact SSNs by changing 000-00-0000 to ***-**-**** or the likes?
I didn't read the patent application but examining emails and other documents for risky content that increase liability seems to have been long-since done and fairly run-of-the-mill considering that it is already in use and has been for some time.
You and the mods who pushed this to +5 insightful don't understand that prior art is about specifics, not "hey, didn't some guy in tennessee once do something kinda like part of that?"
Infinite bucks per GB? SMS messages don't use bandwidth or data. They get carried in what is otherwise wasted padding in heartbeat packets. That's why they have a limited character length.
Yes, but that doesn't stop AT&T from charging me 20 cents per message. Considering each message only has 120 characters, it would cost me ridiculous amounts of money to send a GB-worth of data via SMS.
A couple years ago I saw an amusing and pretty simple analysis showing that the end user bandwidth costs in terms of $/MB are far, far higher for SMS than for the Voyager space probes, including the cost of development and launch of said probes.
For conventional small businesses, about half fail in their first year. The fact that he's managed to achieve so much at his age makes him an EXCELLENT person from whom to seek out advice.
I don't disagree that he may have great advice or that the advice in TFA may be great, but you've given an example of a fallacy that bothers me so I think I'll point it out.
Success doesn't equal good choices. My favorite example is in the stock market. Generally the market goes up and therefore the average investor will be slightly in the black. Let's assume we pick 64 investment bankers who work for large firms and can therefore make large, leveraged bets where the outcome is roughly equally likely to be a large gain or a large loss. Now let's have them make 6 such random bets on the same 6 investments, with no broker having the same betting pattern as any other broker. One broker will have been right 6 times and made a vast fortune. The way the investment banking field works, he'll have made millions in bonuses and secured his future. He can write books. One broker will have been wrong 6 times and he'll be fired in disgrace, despite the fact that his 6 bets were just as likely to succeed as the big winner's. The 62 bankers in between will have a variety of outcomes.
There are so many players in the stock market making decisions based on exceedingly incomplete information and guesswork, and for that matter in small businesses, that we actually have a decent random distribution of choices. Picking one of the big winners out of such a vast pool often just results in picking someone who got lucky. For the CEO in TFA, I think that his business's success is a lot less impressive than his employees' loyalty.
No, those are things that agile *claims* to do. Whether it does that, what else it does, and how well it actually does those things varies greatly. "Agile" in my experience is usually just a buzzword meaning iterative development of any sort.
This is a pretty good little tangential comment thread. IANAPC (professional coder), but I'm quite familiar with professional methods with capitalized names that use the no true Scotsman fallacy to claim that every unsuccessful project was simply one that didn't correctly follow the method's instructions. On the other hand, any successful project was necessarily successful because of the Capitalized Method and the only way to quantify the value added by this method is to claim that the profit generated by the entire project is 100% due to the method's efficacy, of course.
I listened to a discussion of the relative success or failure of "the internet" in helping with the Boston attack on the NPR show Tell Me More yesterday. The discussion was mostly aimed at Twitter because the host and guests know about it, but I think they were actually discussion the Reddit activity without realizing it. One of the guests, who was a professor of...internet stuff at Harvard made a claim that had me rolling my eyes with abandon.
He claimed that 80 or 90 percent of posts on Twitter were useful collaborations that have value and that the empty and troll posts all fit into the remaining 10 or 20 percent. That's absurd. As one of the internet people who really sees this stuff from the trenches, I'd estimate that fewer than 10% of total Twitter traffic can reasonably be called valuable.
Journalists love Twitter, though, which is one of the reasons Twitter is successful. Old media loves to refer to Twitter. The BBC World News has a segment in every show where they read (almost always trite and stupid) tweets about the stories they just reported. In doing so they increase Twitter's popularity and then associate themselves with Twitter in order to be hip. Underlying it all is the uglier truth that was openly discussed on Tell Me More: the journalist guests insisted that the ability to get news 15 minutes after events occur is far more important than the fact that this news is usually incorrect. They're outsourcing the irresponsibility of irresponsible journalism, letting them claim to break news first and then when they're wrong they can simply blame their anonymous sources. Journalistic integrity means so little in news sources now, but because of the terrible way the market works, a 15 minute delay is vastly better than a 120 minute delay.
Society would best be served with slower, more curated news, but markets don't optimize results for societal benefit.
We could go back to PS/2 or S-Video style, where you accidentally bend all the pins every time you attempt to plug it in...
I really like the new expensive Apple connector I received with my iPhone 5. It's going to be the thing I miss most when I sell it to go back to Android.
Honestly, 14 year olds tend not to be remotely aware of the evils of bills like CISPA. In my experience it's the best and brightest segment of society that's united against this nonsense. On the other hand, 14 year olds are quite familiar with answering criticism with a false ad hominem attack.
Try half. High efficiency silicon cells are up to 20%.
The best are now sitting at 44% (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PVeff%28rev130307%29.jpg). That doesn't mean cheaper solar cells don't have lots of potential, but it does mean the editors here screwed up again. There are a few other errors in TFS as well, but this one really got me:
could lead to PVCs that cost about as much as paint to cover a one-meter square wall."
Huh? So does this mean a PV coating will will have the same cost per area as paint. Personal expertise tells me no. Does it mean a postage stamp of PV coating will coast as much as a square meter of paint? That's actually more realistic for the midterm future, but the language in TFS shows such a basic lack of understanding of both numbers and units that it's impossible to tell what the editor or submitter really meant to say.
This. Sadly, I personally don't think that Ouya content is going to be able to carry it though.
Except right now even before launch it has potentially more games than xbox360, ps3; and wii combined...and cheap too, most under a dollar. Everything from throwaway games to 20hr RPG's, Lets be honest most modern game engines work on Android. In fact the only problem it has is making out the quality from the...not so quality
Sadly, the rule with games available on Android and iOS is that they're almost all terrible. There are very few exceptions.
Which is kinda sad that at this point, nobody gives a crap about criminals anymore. Straight to complaints about possible future infringement of rights. It's almost as if nobody cares there were victims, or criminals, but damn another background check would be totally unacceptable.
Two people died. During the same hour, thousands died violently across the country in unrelated run of the mill events that don't get press because they're not potential terrorism. This event in Boston is only special in one way: it will be used to make the world a crappier place. When someone such as yourself insists we need to put huge focus on this kind of event while ignoring all of the equivalently dangerous but completely routine things going on at the same time, that's the sound of the terrorists winning.
If it's a terrorist attack, then it's stuff that matters.
If it's an exploding gas line then it's new for nerds.
Why?
Because if we ignore it the terrorists lose and we can't have that?
Because the damage and death toll is vanishingly small compared to the deaths caused by unpublicized crime during the same five minute period in the rest of the country?
What about "terrorism" makes this worth following?
Well, I for one don't really care about the exact details of how we came to be. If we were to suddenly discover the exact mechanism, it changes nothing. I still have to work, pay taxes and die....
It sounds like your life is completely pointless. Why not just die now and leave your nutrients for people who actually matter?
It should be pointed out that EA did lose a ton of money last year ($45 million quarter 4 2012, $381 the quarter before that). If they keep on track they should go out of business pretty quickly.
You're assuming that their business model is rooted in a capitalist economy. You couldn't be more wrong. See also: "Too big to fail," vendor lock-in, copyright, patent troll, "right to profit"...
You're arguing that EA will be bailed out because the government sees its continued existence as too important to jeopardize?
In other news today, due to increased CO2 values, O2 values will increase by 2% due to more feeding of plant material, increasing animal intelligence and short-term memory by 24%.
Citation? WHAT citation? I said CO2 - that's enough to warrant an immediate applause, right?
This is even weaker than the typical AC rebuttal to this type of story because the story actually does have a citation and critics can access the paper and evaluate it based on its description of the source data, model, and stated assumptions.
So, I can't imagine that most Google employees are eating TWO meals a day there - maybe a meal and a snack. So, the benefit is probably $2500/yr or so.
And that is gross income. Even if their marginal rate is 35% they'd only pay an extra $800 in actual taxes on that.
If you gave me a choice of paying for typical cafeteria fare at a typical fortune 500 at typical rates for cafeteria food (ie mediocre food at premium prices), or paying an extra $800 in taxes so that I could have gourmet food at lunch every day (just grab whatever you want and stop by for ice cream in the afternoon if you have a craving), I think I'd take the gourmet food. I pay way more than $800/yr on lunches already most likely, and I don't eat like they do at Google.
A cheese steak, drink, and mushy fries at work costs me $7.50. Gourmet food for $3.50/meal in taxes - sign me up! Oh, and if your marginal rate is lower then it is even cheaper.
From my experience two meals a day seems reasonable. It's not particularly good, mind you - it's comparable to an average college dining hall - but it's free and convenient. It's also free and convenient for local homeless people, who seem to get into some of the cafeterias by being clean and walking through the door with a purpose. Last time I was in a Google cafeteria, at least, they were taking full advantage of the lack of authentication (and so was I).
Plutonium nailclippers? We are not defending against those because we know islamic suicide terrorists are not gay: they want to get their harem of virgins in heaven.
Just to be clear - is this AC suggesting that people who trim their nails are gay?
If there's a shortage of H-1B visas (meaning there are times you can't obtain one no matter how much you're willing to pay), they should be put up for auction and sold to the highest bidder so everyone who wants one badly enough can get one.
(Presuming it's the sponsor who's bidding...)
Then give the money bid by the winner:
- to the worker
- in addition to the "at least prevailing wage" salary
- when he leaves the country.
That would go a long way toward both eliminating the pay disparity (so H1Bs would be used mainly for talent that's REALLY hard to find, rather than just expensive) and encouraging the workers to actually leave after a while. B-)
As other posters have noted, one of the biggest problems with the H1B fiasco is that workers are leaving after awhile and taking the jobs with them. We want to encourage them to stay if they're going to steal the job anyway.
I could never understand how academics could get lifetime positions at universities doing what they do - not exactly the kind of work that provides value in a fast paced world. It just seems that getting a degree in philosophy or literature is like getting a degree is making buggy whips. It's so weird. Does anyone stll believe that reading To Kill a Mockingbird is a relevant exercise in the world we live in when we have enough real world examples of social issues? Indulging in classic literature has been mostly a waste of time for at least 15 years. If you want to do it for personal development, go for it. Professionally? C'mon.
Yet Farmville programmers get vast sums of cash. Do they provide value? No.
Advertising and marketing are an arms race in which both customers and suppliers lose - only the marketers benefit. No value.
The finance sector is dedicated to redistributing conceptual wealth. We route money back and forth and the well off financiers try to siphon as much as possible to their well off clients. No value.
I argue that the majority of respectable and lucrative careers have no inherent value and produce very little or no value. In contrast, academics have a mission to explore and expand the meaning of humanity. A single paper on Proust read and discussed by a few groups of students seems a lot more valuable than the total combined contributions of Facebook, Zynga, Myspace, Pinterest, and Twitter. I would much rather permanently lose those five institutions than a two minute conversation with a lit professor.
People should study what they want. Productivity increases mean we can provide for everyone with fewer people needed. That means we can easily afford a basic income, and challenges to stimulate individuals to unleash the native curiosity and creativity most of us are born with.
What have you seen that suggest that is true?
That was the kind of thing which happened while people's parents could still afford to send them to school to "find themselves", but over the last few years has mostly gone away.
We don't live in the Star Trek universe where we have unlimited resources, and you can pursue whatever interests you. And it was only ever a small percentage of all of the people in the world that had this illusion that we can provide for everyone -- the rest of the world has been struggling just as much as ever.
We need to rethink pre-industrial age, feudal economics and understand that money is a tool that should benefit us
No, we need to look at it in the context of our current industrial age of feudal corporate economics which is the new god demanding a sacrifice. Everything now is measured by "shareholder value", and an expected year-over-year gain to keep the stock markets going up. A world where corporations want to tell universities what they should be doing.
Pretty much the entire economy since about 2008 has been moving away from this enlightened society you seem to think is still around.
This looks like a solid argument for the emptiness of the current system and the lack of value it adds to the universe or human existence. To counter this we need more people who understand what value is and why it isn't currency. Maybe we could find such people among the liberal arts students currently having economic trouble.
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Sounds like Amazon's monopoly was broken. What's the problem with that again?
Amazon gained its market share by competing on price, Apple got forming a cartel with publishers using price-fixing.
Amazon had a monopoly which they used to abuse the publishers. Apple made separate deals with each publisher (which is not collusion or price-fixing) which broke Amazon's monopoly.
This is exactly how the market is supposed to work. Where once there was one eBook provider, there are now four major providers. Apple is not even the biggest one! How can that be a monopoly or even a trust?
The bottom line is non-apple customers are being hurt by this, including children.
Seriously, how can you say something like this with a straight face? That's straight-up trolling.
Prices went up 50% in a single day when this agreement went into effect. Regardless of the free market principles of the thing, every consumer lost.
Sounds like Amazon's monopoly was broken. What's the problem with that again?
One problem is that prices went up 50% literally overnight when Apple got all the publishers to agree to force Amazon and other sellers to charge more.
Well I was going to say, "who gives a shit" followed by "I kill bullshit processes just because I'm a control freak, fuck the performance implications (good or bad)," but then I thought wait-- you don't understand what that output means or you wouldn't give a shit. This is something I learned not so long ago, so let me share.
It doesn't mean that 50% of your processor is being used and the other 50% isn't... Whenever your processor runs, it runs at 100% its capability always. That's how it works. When you see the statistic "CPU at 50%" it means it's only processing 50% of the time. So 50% of the time it could be computing something, it is, the other 50% it's twiddling its proverbial thumbs... Any process that uses additional percentage points is getting the full capabilities of the processor; at a time it's normally not being used. ... so should your computational needs be less than 100% of your computer's resources, then you are fine, and if anything it's under utilized. As a result there's no reason to stop processes (outside of concerns of power consumption).
One love,
tehprofessor
p.s. You can kill the process; I have a mac (had windows worked there too) and kill the iTunes daemon... iPhone works fine. iTunes works fine.
It says 50% because he has multiple cores and the process is running on 1/2 of them.
A similar google service on my MacBook causes the keyboard to stutter every few hours and occasionally disables the camera until I reboot. There's a way to disable it, but I haven't bothered yet. However, the process is incredibly similar to this one for disabling applemobiledeviceservice on Windows.
Mac users don't complain because iTunes on Mac doesn't have this problem, or much of any problem that I've noticed. This is either because Apple doesn't know how or care to code for Windows, or because it's a conspiracy to get iPhone and iTunes users to buy Macs because "Windows is slow." In my opinion, it's probably a mixture. Apple just doesn't have as much incentive to provide a good Windows experience, so they don't bother, knowing that this will probably convert a few suckers to Mac.
Similarly, Google services don't seem to screw up Windows or Linux, and Google's MTP support for Mac (MTP is required for Nexus 4) is ridiculously minimal. It's an analogous situation. Vendors for system X don't care about system Y, news at 11.
The solution seems simple. Sell your iPhone to a Mac user, and buy an Android device. Why would you even buy an iPhone for Windows? I use a Mac and I still won't buy one.
Google employees mostly have Macs now. To use a Windows machine they need to write up a justification and they're rare enough to be envied. I don't think we can think of Windows as the native platform for Google.
However, Google services can cause a lot of problems in Windows, too, depending on what else you have running. As another user stated above, the best platform for either is to install in a VM and generally treat the Apple/Google software as malware.
"Mayan" is the name of the language. The adjective is "Maya," as in Maya temple or Maya people.
Your right, it is in very bad taste. You should be ashamed of yourself and why Slashdot awards you points is beyond me. Having a Neurological disease myself, it is very offensive. You are the kind of person who laughs at others misfortunes. Sad!
Mods got this and the GP wrong. I used up my points earlier today.
Not only is the GP insensitive, his post is absent of entertainment. It's boring as hell.
I'm not really sure that this is even something they can patent? Isn't their prior art?
I seem to recall that the various companies (like banks) have programs in place that do stuff like automatically redact and prohibit things like emailing a document that contains a social security number. Using the above example of SSNs, I seem to recall that it would redact SSNs by changing 000-00-0000 to ***-**-**** or the likes?
I didn't read the patent application but examining emails and other documents for risky content that increase liability seems to have been long-since done and fairly run-of-the-mill considering that it is already in use and has been for some time.
You and the mods who pushed this to +5 insightful don't understand that prior art is about specifics, not "hey, didn't some guy in tennessee once do something kinda like part of that?"
Infinite bucks per GB? SMS messages don't use bandwidth or data. They get carried in what is otherwise wasted padding in heartbeat packets. That's why they have a limited character length.
Yes, but that doesn't stop AT&T from charging me 20 cents per message. Considering each message only has 120 characters, it would cost me ridiculous amounts of money to send a GB-worth of data via SMS.
A couple years ago I saw an amusing and pretty simple analysis showing that the end user bandwidth costs in terms of $/MB are far, far higher for SMS than for the Voyager space probes, including the cost of development and launch of said probes.
I think he's qualified.
For conventional small businesses, about half fail in their first year. The fact that he's managed to achieve so much at his age makes him an EXCELLENT person from whom to seek out advice.
I don't disagree that he may have great advice or that the advice in TFA may be great, but you've given an example of a fallacy that bothers me so I think I'll point it out.
Success doesn't equal good choices. My favorite example is in the stock market. Generally the market goes up and therefore the average investor will be slightly in the black. Let's assume we pick 64 investment bankers who work for large firms and can therefore make large, leveraged bets where the outcome is roughly equally likely to be a large gain or a large loss. Now let's have them make 6 such random bets on the same 6 investments, with no broker having the same betting pattern as any other broker. One broker will have been right 6 times and made a vast fortune. The way the investment banking field works, he'll have made millions in bonuses and secured his future. He can write books. One broker will have been wrong 6 times and he'll be fired in disgrace, despite the fact that his 6 bets were just as likely to succeed as the big winner's. The 62 bankers in between will have a variety of outcomes.
There are so many players in the stock market making decisions based on exceedingly incomplete information and guesswork, and for that matter in small businesses, that we actually have a decent random distribution of choices. Picking one of the big winners out of such a vast pool often just results in picking someone who got lucky. For the CEO in TFA, I think that his business's success is a lot less impressive than his employees' loyalty.
No, those are things that agile *claims* to do. Whether it does that, what else it does, and how well it actually does those things varies greatly. "Agile" in my experience is usually just a buzzword meaning iterative development of any sort.
This is a pretty good little tangential comment thread. IANAPC (professional coder), but I'm quite familiar with professional methods with capitalized names that use the no true Scotsman fallacy to claim that every unsuccessful project was simply one that didn't correctly follow the method's instructions. On the other hand, any successful project was necessarily successful because of the Capitalized Method and the only way to quantify the value added by this method is to claim that the profit generated by the entire project is 100% due to the method's efficacy, of course.
I listened to a discussion of the relative success or failure of "the internet" in helping with the Boston attack on the NPR show Tell Me More yesterday. The discussion was mostly aimed at Twitter because the host and guests know about it, but I think they were actually discussion the Reddit activity without realizing it. One of the guests, who was a professor of...internet stuff at Harvard made a claim that had me rolling my eyes with abandon.
He claimed that 80 or 90 percent of posts on Twitter were useful collaborations that have value and that the empty and troll posts all fit into the remaining 10 or 20 percent. That's absurd. As one of the internet people who really sees this stuff from the trenches, I'd estimate that fewer than 10% of total Twitter traffic can reasonably be called valuable.
Journalists love Twitter, though, which is one of the reasons Twitter is successful. Old media loves to refer to Twitter. The BBC World News has a segment in every show where they read (almost always trite and stupid) tweets about the stories they just reported. In doing so they increase Twitter's popularity and then associate themselves with Twitter in order to be hip. Underlying it all is the uglier truth that was openly discussed on Tell Me More: the journalist guests insisted that the ability to get news 15 minutes after events occur is far more important than the fact that this news is usually incorrect. They're outsourcing the irresponsibility of irresponsible journalism, letting them claim to break news first and then when they're wrong they can simply blame their anonymous sources. Journalistic integrity means so little in news sources now, but because of the terrible way the market works, a 15 minute delay is vastly better than a 120 minute delay.
Society would best be served with slower, more curated news, but markets don't optimize results for societal benefit.
We could go back to PS/2 or S-Video style, where you accidentally bend all the pins every time you attempt to plug it in...
I really like the new expensive Apple connector I received with my iPhone 5. It's going to be the thing I miss most when I sell it to go back to Android.
Honestly, 14 year olds tend not to be remotely aware of the evils of bills like CISPA. In my experience it's the best and brightest segment of society that's united against this nonsense. On the other hand, 14 year olds are quite familiar with answering criticism with a false ad hominem attack.
Try half. High efficiency silicon cells are up to 20%.
The best are now sitting at 44% (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PVeff%28rev130307%29.jpg). That doesn't mean cheaper solar cells don't have lots of potential, but it does mean the editors here screwed up again. There are a few other errors in TFS as well, but this one really got me:
could lead to PVCs that cost about as much as paint to cover a one-meter square wall."
Huh? So does this mean a PV coating will will have the same cost per area as paint. Personal expertise tells me no. Does it mean a postage stamp of PV coating will coast as much as a square meter of paint? That's actually more realistic for the midterm future, but the language in TFS shows such a basic lack of understanding of both numbers and units that it's impossible to tell what the editor or submitter really meant to say.
This. Sadly, I personally don't think that Ouya content is going to be able to carry it though.
Except right now even before launch it has potentially more games than xbox360, ps3; and wii combined...and cheap too, most under a dollar. Everything from throwaway games to 20hr RPG's, Lets be honest most modern game engines work on Android. In fact the only problem it has is making out the quality from the...not so quality
Sadly, the rule with games available on Android and iOS is that they're almost all terrible. There are very few exceptions.
Which is kinda sad that at this point, nobody gives a crap about criminals anymore. Straight to complaints about possible future infringement of rights. It's almost as if nobody cares there were victims, or criminals, but damn another background check would be totally unacceptable.
Two people died. During the same hour, thousands died violently across the country in unrelated run of the mill events that don't get press because they're not potential terrorism. This event in Boston is only special in one way: it will be used to make the world a crappier place. When someone such as yourself insists we need to put huge focus on this kind of event while ignoring all of the equivalently dangerous but completely routine things going on at the same time, that's the sound of the terrorists winning.
Just to follow up:
If it's a terrorist attack, then it's stuff that matters.
If it's an exploding gas line then it's new for nerds.
Why?
Because if we ignore it the terrorists lose and we can't have that?
Because the damage and death toll is vanishingly small compared to the deaths caused by unpublicized crime during the same five minute period in the rest of the country?
What about "terrorism" makes this worth following?
Well, I for one don't really care about the exact details of how we came to be. If we were to suddenly discover the exact mechanism, it changes nothing. I still have to work, pay taxes and die....
It sounds like your life is completely pointless. Why not just die now and leave your nutrients for people who actually matter?
It should be pointed out that EA did lose a ton of money last year ($45 million quarter 4 2012, $381 the quarter before that). If they keep on track they should go out of business pretty quickly.
You're assuming that their business model is rooted in a capitalist economy. You couldn't be more wrong. See also: "Too big to fail," vendor lock-in, copyright, patent troll, "right to profit"...
You're arguing that EA will be bailed out because the government sees its continued existence as too important to jeopardize?
In other news today, due to increased CO2 values, O2 values will increase by 2% due to more feeding of plant material, increasing animal intelligence and short-term memory by 24%.
Citation? WHAT citation? I said CO2 - that's enough to warrant an immediate applause, right?
This is even weaker than the typical AC rebuttal to this type of story because the story actually does have a citation and critics can access the paper and evaluate it based on its description of the source data, model, and stated assumptions.
So, I can't imagine that most Google employees are eating TWO meals a day there - maybe a meal and a snack. So, the benefit is probably $2500/yr or so.
And that is gross income. Even if their marginal rate is 35% they'd only pay an extra $800 in actual taxes on that.
If you gave me a choice of paying for typical cafeteria fare at a typical fortune 500 at typical rates for cafeteria food (ie mediocre food at premium prices), or paying an extra $800 in taxes so that I could have gourmet food at lunch every day (just grab whatever you want and stop by for ice cream in the afternoon if you have a craving), I think I'd take the gourmet food. I pay way more than $800/yr on lunches already most likely, and I don't eat like they do at Google.
A cheese steak, drink, and mushy fries at work costs me $7.50. Gourmet food for $3.50/meal in taxes - sign me up! Oh, and if your marginal rate is lower then it is even cheaper.
From my experience two meals a day seems reasonable. It's not particularly good, mind you - it's comparable to an average college dining hall - but it's free and convenient. It's also free and convenient for local homeless people, who seem to get into some of the cafeterias by being clean and walking through the door with a purpose. Last time I was in a Google cafeteria, at least, they were taking full advantage of the lack of authentication (and so was I).
Plutonium nailclippers? We are not defending against those because we know islamic suicide terrorists are not gay: they want to get their harem of virgins in heaven.
Just to be clear - is this AC suggesting that people who trim their nails are gay?
If there's a shortage of H-1B visas (meaning there are times you can't obtain one no matter how much you're willing to pay), they should be put up for auction and sold to the highest bidder so everyone who wants one badly enough can get one.
(Presuming it's the sponsor who's bidding...)
Then give the money bid by the winner:
- to the worker
- in addition to the "at least prevailing wage" salary
- when he leaves the country.
That would go a long way toward both eliminating the pay disparity (so H1Bs would be used mainly for talent that's REALLY hard to find, rather than just expensive) and encouraging the workers to actually leave after a while. B-)
As other posters have noted, one of the biggest problems with the H1B fiasco is that workers are leaving after awhile and taking the jobs with them. We want to encourage them to stay if they're going to steal the job anyway.
I could never understand how academics could get lifetime positions at universities doing what they do - not exactly the kind of work that provides value in a fast paced world. It just seems that getting a degree in philosophy or literature is like getting a degree is making buggy whips. It's so weird. Does anyone stll believe that reading To Kill a Mockingbird is a relevant exercise in the world we live in when we have enough real world examples of social issues? Indulging in classic literature has been mostly a waste of time for at least 15 years. If you want to do it for personal development, go for it. Professionally? C'mon.
Yet Farmville programmers get vast sums of cash. Do they provide value? No.
Advertising and marketing are an arms race in which both customers and suppliers lose - only the marketers benefit. No value.
The finance sector is dedicated to redistributing conceptual wealth. We route money back and forth and the well off financiers try to siphon as much as possible to their well off clients. No value.
I argue that the majority of respectable and lucrative careers have no inherent value and produce very little or no value. In contrast, academics have a mission to explore and expand the meaning of humanity. A single paper on Proust read and discussed by a few groups of students seems a lot more valuable than the total combined contributions of Facebook, Zynga, Myspace, Pinterest, and Twitter. I would much rather permanently lose those five institutions than a two minute conversation with a lit professor.
What have you seen that suggest that is true?
That was the kind of thing which happened while people's parents could still afford to send them to school to "find themselves", but over the last few years has mostly gone away.
We don't live in the Star Trek universe where we have unlimited resources, and you can pursue whatever interests you. And it was only ever a small percentage of all of the people in the world that had this illusion that we can provide for everyone -- the rest of the world has been struggling just as much as ever.
No, we need to look at it in the context of our current industrial age of feudal corporate economics which is the new god demanding a sacrifice. Everything now is measured by "shareholder value", and an expected year-over-year gain to keep the stock markets going up. A world where corporations want to tell universities what they should be doing.
Pretty much the entire economy since about 2008 has been moving away from this enlightened society you seem to think is still around.
This looks like a solid argument for the emptiness of the current system and the lack of value it adds to the universe or human existence. To counter this we need more people who understand what value is and why it isn't currency. Maybe we could find such people among the liberal arts students currently having economic trouble.