Likely because I just quit smoking and are somewhat grumpy, but I am tired of hearing about Moore's Law. Maybe those in the semiconductor industry care about it, but I, and those I work with certainly don't. At what point will we stop hearing about it?/rant
(Thank you for your patience. Now where are the damn pretzels?)
The most important part of Moore's Law was it essentially saying that your new toy will be far better than your old one before it even breaks. When the rate of doubling gets closer to 10 years, buying a new computer isn't going to be so much as the new toy is faster but rather the old toy broke. Once that driving force is over with, electronic companies will be talking about other ways to produce money in more mundane ways.
Vaccines are better than cures. A 'cure' requires that the individual get sick first, this directly means that whatever microbe infecting the person has already multiplied and could potentially spread to another host continuing on the cycle. Vaccines are preventative on this account which removed the possibility of further transmission. Once the vaccination rate is high enough, the disease simply has no were to run to and once it's out of hosts, it dies and it is effectively cured for everyone and all time and the vaccination program ends.
This is just what our broke-ass, can't-find-it's-dick-with-it's-own-hands, defective government needs, another resource drain and another nanny role in which they clearly have no business.
You can attack this issue from a potential civil liberties point of view in that by giving someone a gun guarantees someone will abuse it by silencing their opposition.
You can attack this from a Capitalistic perspective by stating that it's not the government's job to force people into buying anti-virus software or keeping laptops updated so any likely solution will artificially punish users for not buying Microsoft/Apple's latest OS device.
You can also attack this from a potential security perspective that goes along the lines of, if the government requires everyone to have the same lock, all they need to do is find one weakness.
You can't simply say that this isn't the government's business and end of discussion however as there now a sizable fraction of our GDP and military force tied up into this single utility, doing so would be analogous to stating that the government does not belong in the areas of domestic security in the form of a functional police system and standing army.
Yeah, can't see how that happens. Of course, if I were writing the ultimate spam filter the logic would go something along the lines of this when it receives a new message:
Has the guy emailed you before? (continue test if no) Is there a reference to a site selling watches, drugs, or online degrees? (continue test if yes) Is the site from a known legit source, based on popularity of the 'unspam' button for this user? (move to spam folder if no)
Poof, there goes 99% of all the spam that I've ever received in my life. If spammers want me to ever see their product, a product which I still will not be buying on an ethical basis of 'don't feed the spammers' and the financial advice of 'it's a scam', then they are really going to have to diversify their industries.
And CCP should be scared by a bunch of nerdraging players or just laugh at them if they don't talk with their wallet? Especially since, as you wrote, they "are throwing billions of ISK in ships away in protest" and if they don't quit they may be forced to buy more PLEX to recover from their losses?
I think that the reasoning of this is along the lines of:
Player: "I'll quit if you don't acknowledge the flaw in the direction you're heading" CCP: "You can't quit, you've spent years building your virtual empire" Player: "Fine, I've paid you till next month, I'll destroy my empire before I leave so I never have an incentive to come back"
Given the types of ships involved in this protest, it works out that the amount of virtual currency being lost is on the order of a billion ISK a minute being destroyed. This is roughly the networth of 2 or 3 accounts in game. If these players leave permanently, that works out to a potential user base of 2000 or more being lost a day. Given that Eve has only a quarter million active players, this is a sizable chuck of their player base that is being removed. As for them voting with their wallets, that's $30,000 a month gone each day that this continues versus the roughly $5,000 that they've made since the week began from their new RMT system.
I would sure hate to be the test case here. Poor guy got a bucket of blue paint; now he glows in the dark. Never has a problem finding his keys though.
The uh, control group for the repulsion gel actually got a pair of broken legs, poor bugger.
I for one have never really seen the point behind spending thousands of (pounds/dollars) on a gaming pc capable of playing the latest games, only to be surpassed within a few months.
As things currently stand, it's actually opening PC gaming to a far wider audience as the price of an adequate gaming rig is quite reasonable.
Also, i'd rather have longer and better games than I would slightly better looking ones. And even still, games with modding support can often receive graphical boosts down the line anyway.
Since when have you ever spent a thousand bucks on a PC and then faced a situation where you where not able to play a game that comes out just months later? If you're going to the Gray Box Store and buying the cheapest thing you see with a mouse, keyboard, and LCD, sure, you can't play everything at even decent visual levels, but you're looking at $400 pre-built computers at this point but even that thing should be able to run Crisis with decent settings*.
Would I like to see games improve in quality? Absolutely! But how? Developers are working on that, they have things like motion capture trying to attract a more communal experience that we lost with online play. We have achievements to add to the since of competitions that used to be covered by the guy who got high scores and filled up pack man arcade with his initials 'BUT'. If you want a longer game, you can do the side quests of hunting 200 chickens. These are all fat though, actual quality comes from story lines and the writing, but this is easier said than done. Mods and DLC's are the easiest way to accomplish this problem, but they are not everyone's cup of tea for obvious reasons.
*HP Pavilion Slimline s5710f PC - $410 on Amazon, pre-built with mouse and keyboard
I can't wait till a few Governors, Congressmen, Senators, Justices get hit because their kids downloaded content.
There are about a thousand individuals in the US with enough political power to get the ball rolling for change in this matter. Of them, their demographics put them with an average age of upper 40's to lower 50's making well over a million each year. Among those who still have kids living at home, to most of them, their thousand dollar settlements is chump change.
Given a US Internet population of about 200 million, and the assumption that 50 thousand will face legal action of similar nature, statistically, there is not even a 1% chance that someone with political sway has dealt with this.
Graphics processors' architecture resembles that of a CPU with hundreds (thousands?) of parallel cores. These cores are incredibly limited but it is a rendering format optimized for the information format that they receive (heavily parallelized). Apart from this, GPU's are extremely poor at performing other types of computations.
I've never run across a patient with leprosy but in The Journal of Chiropractic Medicine,
I read about a person in Texas who went to her Chirporactor with leprosy
sores. The Doctor performed some excellent manipulations which got the
patient's nervous system in tip-top shape to battle the
infection.
After intense treatments the leprosy was GONE.
Morbo says, "BOdies do not work that way!"
-Futurama reference
This is remarkable, a judge who likely majored in English or Philosophy as an undergraduate, realized that his education background left him unqualified to decide on a case involving technology and has thus decided to take the equivalent of the first day in a computer science class to actually obtain some grasp on the subject.
Imagine if the RIAA trials had judges like this?
Training just three trees using 1 million test images took about a day using a 1000-core cluster
Trees have traditionally been trained in Entish, which although reliable, is such an un-hasty language.
The 1K core cluster is mostly because it takes such a long time to say anything. Had they gone with a one core cluster, by days end, the system will have just managed to say 'good morning'. The end result is that it has accomplished nothing. Thankfully, with this system, they can complete this statement in a thousandth of the time, in other words, it reduced the startup time to 28.8 seconds.
CCP's attempt to combat real world traders is called the PLEX system. You purchase a 30 day time card using $20 and you can sell it in game to other players for the equivalent of ~350,000,000 ISK (the in game currency). This produces a base exchange rate of about 17.5 million ISK to one USD.
The black market does not directly deal in PLEX's, but it is safe to assume that the conversion ratio is at least as high, if not higher in order for it to be profitable for other players to take this route. Because of this, and the company's transactions of $290,000, it is safe to assume that the real world market trading has a value on the approximately of 5 trillion ISK.
The second link reports that the company holds an estimated 4 trillion in virtual assets making the total value of this to be 9 trillion.
Because the population in EVE is ~300,000 active accounts, this sums to be nearly 30 million ISK per user, the total wealth which based on their most recent economic reports (yes, CCP hired an economist to write these), shows the average subscriber has 300 million ISK. While this is not an insignificant sum of wealth, it is only about 10% of the games GDP.
Opera are against everything and everyone, while their actual market share consists only of a hardcore minority. In other words, nobody from the real world actually cares what Opera think, and there is no news here.
Opera's user base is only a hardcore minority? You want to take that outside punk?!?
Just kidding, not like I'm ever going AFK
Who is it exactly that defines what is or is not pornographic? The ISP? The Government? The Christian church that threatens not to vote for politician X?
Slashdot Mirror
If the crusade against depictions of Muhammad is any indication, expect a round of comics around the Hindu gods to come out at any moment.
Likely because I just quit smoking and are somewhat grumpy, but I am tired of hearing about Moore's Law. Maybe those in the semiconductor industry care about it, but I, and those I work with certainly don't. At what point will we stop hearing about it? /rant
(Thank you for your patience. Now where are the damn pretzels?)
The most important part of Moore's Law was it essentially saying that your new toy will be far better than your old one before it even breaks. When the rate of doubling gets closer to 10 years, buying a new computer isn't going to be so much as the new toy is faster but rather the old toy broke. Once that driving force is over with, electronic companies will be talking about other ways to produce money in more mundane ways.
Vaccines are better than cures. A 'cure' requires that the individual get sick first, this directly means that whatever microbe infecting the person has already multiplied and could potentially spread to another host continuing on the cycle. Vaccines are preventative on this account which removed the possibility of further transmission. Once the vaccination rate is high enough, the disease simply has no were to run to and once it's out of hosts, it dies and it is effectively cured for everyone and all time and the vaccination program ends.
What about DRM?
No DRM on personal documents like PDFs or Webpages
Tux is even easier, there are no discontinuities in a penguin, unlike that leaf.
"South Korean Scientists Create Glowing Dog," hehe.
I sincerely apologize for me sophomoric attitude, but I had to.
This is just what our broke-ass, can't-find-it's-dick-with-it's-own-hands, defective government needs, another resource drain and another nanny role in which they clearly have no business.
You can attack this issue from a potential civil liberties point of view in that by giving someone a gun guarantees someone will abuse it by silencing their opposition.
You can attack this from a Capitalistic perspective by stating that it's not the government's job to force people into buying anti-virus software or keeping laptops updated so any likely solution will artificially punish users for not buying Microsoft/Apple's latest OS device.
You can also attack this from a potential security perspective that goes along the lines of, if the government requires everyone to have the same lock, all they need to do is find one weakness.
You can't simply say that this isn't the government's business and end of discussion however as there now a sizable fraction of our GDP and military force tied up into this single utility, doing so would be analogous to stating that the government does not belong in the areas of domestic security in the form of a functional police system and standing army.
Yeah, can't see how that happens. Of course, if I were writing the ultimate spam filter the logic would go something along the lines of this when it receives a new message:
Has the guy emailed you before? (continue test if no)
Is there a reference to a site selling watches, drugs, or online degrees? (continue test if yes)
Is the site from a known legit source, based on popularity of the 'unspam' button for this user? (move to spam folder if no)
Poof, there goes 99% of all the spam that I've ever received in my life. If spammers want me to ever see their product, a product which I still will not be buying on an ethical basis of 'don't feed the spammers' and the financial advice of 'it's a scam', then they are really going to have to diversify their industries.
And CCP should be scared by a bunch of nerdraging players or just laugh at them if they don't talk with their wallet?
Especially since, as you wrote, they "are throwing billions of ISK in ships away in protest" and if they don't quit they may be forced to buy more PLEX to recover from their losses?
I think that the reasoning of this is along the lines of:
Player: "I'll quit if you don't acknowledge the flaw in the direction you're heading"
CCP: "You can't quit, you've spent years building your virtual empire"
Player: "Fine, I've paid you till next month, I'll destroy my empire before I leave so I never have an incentive to come back"
Given the types of ships involved in this protest, it works out that the amount of virtual currency being lost is on the order of a billion ISK a minute being destroyed. This is roughly the networth of 2 or 3 accounts in game. If these players leave permanently, that works out to a potential user base of 2000 or more being lost a day. Given that Eve has only a quarter million active players, this is a sizable chuck of their player base that is being removed. As for them voting with their wallets, that's $30,000 a month gone each day that this continues versus the roughly $5,000 that they've made since the week began from their new RMT system.
I would sure hate to be the test case here. Poor guy got a bucket of blue paint; now he glows in the dark. Never has a problem finding his keys though.
The uh, control group for the repulsion gel actually got a pair of broken legs, poor bugger.
I for one have never really seen the point behind spending thousands of (pounds/dollars) on a gaming pc capable of playing the latest games, only to be surpassed within a few months.
As things currently stand, it's actually opening PC gaming to a far wider audience as the price of an adequate gaming rig is quite reasonable.
Also, i'd rather have longer and better games than I would slightly better looking ones. And even still, games with modding support can often receive graphical boosts down the line anyway.
Since when have you ever spent a thousand bucks on a PC and then faced a situation where you where not able to play a game that comes out just months later? If you're going to the Gray Box Store and buying the cheapest thing you see with a mouse, keyboard, and LCD, sure, you can't play everything at even decent visual levels, but you're looking at $400 pre-built computers at this point but even that thing should be able to run Crisis with decent settings*.
Would I like to see games improve in quality? Absolutely! But how? Developers are working on that, they have things like motion capture trying to attract a more communal experience that we lost with online play. We have achievements to add to the since of competitions that used to be covered by the guy who got high scores and filled up pack man arcade with his initials 'BUT'. If you want a longer game, you can do the side quests of hunting 200 chickens. These are all fat though, actual quality comes from story lines and the writing, but this is easier said than done. Mods and DLC's are the easiest way to accomplish this problem, but they are not everyone's cup of tea for obvious reasons.
*HP Pavilion Slimline s5710f PC - $410 on Amazon, pre-built with mouse and keyboard
I can't wait till a few Governors, Congressmen, Senators, Justices get hit because their kids downloaded content.
There are about a thousand individuals in the US with enough political power to get the ball rolling for change in this matter. Of them, their demographics put them with an average age of upper 40's to lower 50's making well over a million each year. Among those who still have kids living at home, to most of them, their thousand dollar settlements is chump change.
Given a US Internet population of about 200 million, and the assumption that 50 thousand will face legal action of similar nature, statistically, there is not even a 1% chance that someone with political sway has dealt with this.
That 'pile of books' would get you to Uranus.
That's good. If each pill can 'double your penis', I'd only take me 46 or so go get there*
*Citation: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - 1737
Hello, I see that you are trying to encrypt and backup your customer data....
Graphics processors' architecture resembles that of a CPU with hundreds (thousands?) of parallel cores. These cores are incredibly limited but it is a rendering format optimized for the information format that they receive (heavily parallelized). Apart from this, GPU's are extremely poor at performing other types of computations.
I've never run across a patient with leprosy but in The Journal of Chiropractic Medicine, I read about a person in Texas who went to her Chirporactor with leprosy sores. The Doctor performed some excellent manipulations which got the patient's nervous system in tip-top shape to battle the infection. After intense treatments the leprosy was GONE.
Morbo says, "BOdies do not work that way!" -Futurama reference
The future is bright, you must wear shades.
Ah, that would explain the omnipresent lens flare in the future. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_(film)
This is remarkable, a judge who likely majored in English or Philosophy as an undergraduate, realized that his education background left him unqualified to decide on a case involving technology and has thus decided to take the equivalent of the first day in a computer science class to actually obtain some grasp on the subject. Imagine if the RIAA trials had judges like this?
Trees have traditionally been trained in Entish, which although reliable, is such an un-hasty language.
The 1K core cluster is mostly because it takes such a long time to say anything. Had they gone with a one core cluster, by days end, the system will have just managed to say 'good morning'. The end result is that it has accomplished nothing. Thankfully, with this system, they can complete this statement in a thousandth of the time, in other words, it reduced the startup time to 28.8 seconds.
CCP's attempt to combat real world traders is called the PLEX system. You purchase a 30 day time card using $20 and you can sell it in game to other players for the equivalent of ~350,000,000 ISK (the in game currency). This produces a base exchange rate of about 17.5 million ISK to one USD. The black market does not directly deal in PLEX's, but it is safe to assume that the conversion ratio is at least as high, if not higher in order for it to be profitable for other players to take this route. Because of this, and the company's transactions of $290,000, it is safe to assume that the real world market trading has a value on the approximately of 5 trillion ISK. The second link reports that the company holds an estimated 4 trillion in virtual assets making the total value of this to be 9 trillion. Because the population in EVE is ~300,000 active accounts, this sums to be nearly 30 million ISK per user, the total wealth which based on their most recent economic reports (yes, CCP hired an economist to write these), shows the average subscriber has 300 million ISK. While this is not an insignificant sum of wealth, it is only about 10% of the games GDP.
Chinese and Indian census data.
Opera are against everything and everyone, while their actual market share consists only of a hardcore minority. In other words, nobody from the real world actually cares what Opera think, and there is no news here.
Opera's user base is only a hardcore minority? You want to take that outside punk?!? Just kidding, not like I'm ever going AFK
Who is it exactly that defines what is or is not pornographic? The ISP? The Government? The Christian church that threatens not to vote for politician X?
The Mainstream Liberal Media(TM) just doesn't respect the in depth reporting that News Corp uses to expose the Truth(TM).
How many words can fit on the 3 by 5 inch flash card? Equations? Diagrams?