The 500k figure was made up by the summary writer, most likely by doing the simple extrapolation. It can't be used against the author - from the interview he's a pretty long term business guy whose done stuff in a number of fields and is now doing boot authoring. He's not an "artist" who thinks he's hit the jackpot, it seems to be pretty methodical business work (though I assume, not having actually read anything he wrote, that he can string words together better than the average person).
The summary writer also ignored all his expenses that i'm sure the actual author knows all about (editors/reviewers/graphic designers/etc) since he mentions them in the interview as well. Which again reflects badly on the summary writer not the book author.
In 2010, he conducted an experiment in the North Sea, aboard the THV Galatea, a 500-tonne ship. The Galatea is the pride of its fleet, with all the latest navigation equipment. Last wanted to find out how it would cope without GPS. So he used a simple jamming device that overwhelmed the GPS signal by broadcasting noise on the same frequency as the satellites.
When Last activated the jammer, the ship went haywire. According to the electronic display on the ship's bridge, the Galatea was suddenly flying at Mach speeds over northern Europe and Ireland. Then alarms sounded. The ship's navigation backup – its gyrocompass – crashed, because it uses GPS to provide corrections. The radar did the same. Even the ship's satellite communications failed, because GPS points the antenna in the right direction.
So the backups failed, because they relied on GPS in ways nobody had bothered to think about.
He's not claiming a yearly income claim. He is not extraplating his earning from a short period. He is not counting earnings earned in a 1 month period as if they were earned in a 1 hour period.
Hence the office payday example is completely irrelevant.
It took less than 3 months. If he spent 4 hours writing 5 days a week he'd write 2 books in three months, pushing 3 if they are all continuations of a series. Heck if he worked it as a full time job he could write 6 every three months.
He's not making the yearly income claim or extrapolation and that extrapolation and it isn't based of counting a larger time period of earning as earned in a shorter time period so your scenario is just irrelevant stupidity.
Given one of those books was released in February it's certainly not done with its run too. But obviously if he's sales have just spiked and he has 6 books out he's unlikely to maintain that sales rate since people can read faster than he can write so they'll buy all 6 (if they like them) in a shorter time frame than he can write the next six. Then again maybe his audience isn't done growing given he has two in the amazon top 10 kindle ebooks and hence a lot of exposure.
Situation A: lots of people - the authors - earn a good income writing books they want to write.
Situation B: A small number of people gate keep and determine what gets published and whom gets paid, a small number of people get very rich.
Note that in situation A, the individual authors (or collectives if they so choose) pay other people to do things like editing, cover art and design. And the new publisher/distributors like amazon employ/pay people to write the software, develop the ebook hardware, balance the books, do marketing, etc.
Those great authors aren't going to be selling $1 books, once they are recognized as great authors they'll be able to charge more since people will be willing to pay more for their work since they know it is better than most.
And yes people may buy 10x as many, possibly more than 10x as many. I'm willing to take a chance on a $1 book by an author I've never heard of and haven't had any recommendations about. Whether I'll do that more or less than 10x as often as I buy a book that I actually try to determine if I'll like first since it costs $10 depends on whether the first dozen tries see any success at finding something I enjoy.
And what do you do with all the people who want to be accountants but fail 3rd grade mathematics? And all the people who want to be authors but aren't just mediocre but complete crap? And all the people who want earn a living sitting on their couch playing video games? Is it my problem? Do I have to work to lower the bars low enough so that they can make a living doing their desired career?
How would I have known that looking at the picture revealed the error instantly if I didn't read the article?
And no I don't expect them to look at every picture, and I didn't say they should. I was being completely serious when I said you wouldn't bother looking at the picture, given the table of numbers tells you what you want to know.
And you really think there's a difference between "if one reads the article" and "if you read the article"?
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they do. King Arthur (http://store.steampowered.com/app/24400/) for example.
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Oh noes my taste is different than yours, it's the end of the world. And yes I played all those games, and yes they were good at the time. They are however crap now (well ok Defender of the Crown was crap then too).
And I still would prefer separate games. If I want to watch a romantic comedy I'd prefer it not also be a thriller.
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It would suck.
If I'm playing an RPG I want to play an RPG that gets the RPG things right, if I want to play an RTS I'll play an RTS not some shitty hybrid RPG/RTS/FPS/Puzzle/Adventure/Collectible Card/Fighter/Flight Simulator game that does nothing well.
Sure if they want to tell an epic story have an RPG tell the first part and Civilization tell the last part, but don't make it all one game.
The catalog was wrong, it's not a calculation it's just having the wrong data. Of course a quick look at the picture would have shown the error, but who looks at anything but the table of numbers?
You might be surprised at just what people can be convinced to do without religion being involved. Well the "rewarded in the afterlife part" is religious specific but a non-religious people will stuff conduct suicide missions and blow themselves up, for the cause.
Take Japanase kimikaze pilots in WW2. The Tamil Tigers basically invented the suicide belt but aren't doing things for religious reasons.
Sure, but not in the part of the world the article is from.
You could try reading the report for what they see the uses as. Hint: it isn't for typing reports.
That some US universities have unmotivated morons (why would you play games on your laptop during class? When we were bored with class we left and went to the bar - how many schooners could you manage and still not kill everyone in the heat exchanger lab that followed never gets old) for students says nothing about the student body in question here.
Why not read their report? Why do you think I would know more than college who ran a trial?
No way, a constitutional republic built upon ideas of individualism and democracy* operating under a vaguely capitalist economic structure has a different idea of what government should be to that of a totalitarian government operating under a vaguely communist economic structure. Who would have thunk it?
So you are saying they should ignore the results of their study and instead report whatever your beliefs are?
You know the study in which they also used Kindles, netbooks, etc. Having problems with their methodology or pointing out some bias in their evaluation is good and useful. Declaring they are idiots because their results aren't the same as your unbacked beliefs is just evidence of your own closed mindedness.
My God some people are luddites, sure you don't see any benefit to some way of using technology and hence when somebody else does a damn trial (you know spends some money and tries something out to see if it will be beneficial or not) you ignore the results because they disagree with your belief.
And no it's not a government funded university, heck it's not a university it's just a college.
Given Inflation solves both the horizon problem and the flatness problem and it's predictions agree with a bunch of observations, and it's part of mainstream Big Bang theory; the horizon problem isn't really a problem anymore, and certainly doesn't need FTL travel via wormholes...
But it wasn't at school so the school shouldn't be doing the disciplining. Sure the teacher could sue, if they think they can convince a Jury that a 12 year old should be punished for it.
And seriously you think that a 12 year old calling someone "retarded", or "schizo", or "bipolar", or "crazy" is criminal and warrants expulsion from school? Might as well expel everyone right now.
Manedela got it a year earlier, just as big a terrorist.
I wouldn't care if Stalin had been awarded it (he was nominated more than once after all, heck Hitler was too though that was supposedly in jest) I'd still take the $1.5 million if they wanted to give it to me.
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The 500k figure was made up by the summary writer, most likely by doing the simple extrapolation. It can't be used against the author - from the interview he's a pretty long term business guy whose done stuff in a number of fields and is now doing boot authoring. He's not an "artist" who thinks he's hit the jackpot, it seems to be pretty methodical business work (though I assume, not having actually read anything he wrote, that he can string words together better than the average person).
The summary writer also ignored all his expenses that i'm sure the actual author knows all about (editors/reviewers/graphic designers/etc) since he mentions them in the interview as well. Which again reflects badly on the summary writer not the book author.
Except that GPS is used for a bunch of other things, one of the biggies being time synchronisation - it's a cheap easy way to know the time. The basically same story from yesterday linked to http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20202-gps-chaos-how-a-30-box-can-jam-your-life.html?page=1 which has this gem:
So the backups failed, because they relied on GPS in ways nobody had bothered to think about.
He's not claiming a yearly income claim. He is not extraplating his earning from a short period. He is not counting earnings earned in a 1 month period as if they were earned in a 1 hour period.
Hence the office payday example is completely irrelevant.
It took less than 3 months. If he spent 4 hours writing 5 days a week he'd write 2 books in three months, pushing 3 if they are all continuations of a series. Heck if he worked it as a full time job he could write 6 every three months.
He's not making the yearly income claim or extrapolation and that extrapolation and it isn't based of counting a larger time period of earning as earned in a shorter time period so your scenario is just irrelevant stupidity.
Given one of those books was released in February it's certainly not done with its run too. But obviously if he's sales have just spiked and he has 6 books out he's unlikely to maintain that sales rate since people can read faster than he can write so they'll buy all 6 (if they like them) in a shorter time frame than he can write the next six. Then again maybe his audience isn't done growing given he has two in the amazon top 10 kindle ebooks and hence a lot of exposure.
Surely the situations are more like:
Situation A: lots of people - the authors - earn a good income writing books they want to write.
Situation B: A small number of people gate keep and determine what gets published and whom gets paid, a small number of people get very rich.
Note that in situation A, the individual authors (or collectives if they so choose) pay other people to do things like editing, cover art and design. And the new publisher/distributors like amazon employ/pay people to write the software, develop the ebook hardware, balance the books, do marketing, etc.
Those great authors aren't going to be selling $1 books, once they are recognized as great authors they'll be able to charge more since people will be willing to pay more for their work since they know it is better than most.
And yes people may buy 10x as many, possibly more than 10x as many. I'm willing to take a chance on a $1 book by an author I've never heard of and haven't had any recommendations about. Whether I'll do that more or less than 10x as often as I buy a book that I actually try to determine if I'll like first since it costs $10 depends on whether the first dozen tries see any success at finding something I enjoy.
And what do you do with all the people who want to be accountants but fail 3rd grade mathematics? And all the people who want to be authors but aren't just mediocre but complete crap? And all the people who want earn a living sitting on their couch playing video games? Is it my problem? Do I have to work to lower the bars low enough so that they can make a living doing their desired career?
How would I have known that looking at the picture revealed the error instantly if I didn't read the article?
And no I don't expect them to look at every picture, and I didn't say they should. I was being completely serious when I said you wouldn't bother looking at the picture, given the table of numbers tells you what you want to know.
And you really think there's a difference between "if one reads the article" and "if you read the article"?
they do. King Arthur (http://store.steampowered.com/app/24400/) for example.
Oh noes my taste is different than yours, it's the end of the world. And yes I played all those games, and yes they were good at the time. They are however crap now (well ok Defender of the Crown was crap then too).
And I still would prefer separate games. If I want to watch a romantic comedy I'd prefer it not also be a thriller.
It would suck.
If I'm playing an RPG I want to play an RPG that gets the RPG things right, if I want to play an RTS I'll play an RTS not some shitty hybrid RPG/RTS/FPS/Puzzle/Adventure/Collectible Card/Fighter/Flight Simulator game that does nothing well.
Sure if they want to tell an epic story have an RPG tell the first part and Civilization tell the last part, but don't make it all one game.
The catalog was wrong, it's not a calculation it's just having the wrong data. Of course a quick look at the picture would have shown the error, but who looks at anything but the table of numbers?
You might be surprised at just what people can be convinced to do without religion being involved. Well the "rewarded in the afterlife part" is religious specific but a non-religious people will stuff conduct suicide missions and blow themselves up, for the cause.
Take Japanase kimikaze pilots in WW2. The Tamil Tigers basically invented the suicide belt but aren't doing things for religious reasons.
Sure, but not in the part of the world the article is from.
You could try reading the report for what they see the uses as. Hint: it isn't for typing reports.
That some US universities have unmotivated morons (why would you play games on your laptop during class? When we were bored with class we left and went to the bar - how many schooners could you manage and still not kill everyone in the heat exchanger lab that followed never gets old) for students says nothing about the student body in question here.
Why not read their report? Why do you think I would know more than college who ran a trial?
No way, a constitutional republic built upon ideas of individualism and democracy* operating under a vaguely capitalist economic structure has a different idea of what government should be to that of a totalitarian government operating under a vaguely communist economic structure. Who would have thunk it?
* ideas of, not actual mob rule.
You can be thankful there isn't someone in your household who keeps up with Charlie Sheen news then.
Because there has to be just a single cause for all vaguely similar events.
So you are saying they should ignore the results of their study and instead report whatever your beliefs are?
You know the study in which they also used Kindles, netbooks, etc. Having problems with their methodology or pointing out some bias in their evaluation is good and useful. Declaring they are idiots because their results aren't the same as your unbacked beliefs is just evidence of your own closed mindedness.
My God some people are luddites, sure you don't see any benefit to some way of using technology and hence when somebody else does a damn trial (you know spends some money and tries something out to see if it will be beneficial or not) you ignore the results because they disagree with your belief.
And no it's not a government funded university, heck it's not a university it's just a college.
Oh and it's not about replacing textbooks.
It's explained by infation, so no it's not a huge problem for the mainstream theory.
Given Inflation solves both the horizon problem and the flatness problem and it's predictions agree with a bunch of observations, and it's part of mainstream Big Bang theory; the horizon problem isn't really a problem anymore, and certainly doesn't need FTL travel via wormholes...
But it wasn't at school so the school shouldn't be doing the disciplining. Sure the teacher could sue, if they think they can convince a Jury that a 12 year old should be punished for it.
And seriously you think that a 12 year old calling someone "retarded", or "schizo", or "bipolar", or "crazy" is criminal and warrants expulsion from school? Might as well expel everyone right now.
Then you weren't happy with "a dumbphone" and hence aren't part of the group, surely?
Such people obviously aren't the market for a bloody smart phone.
They won't be in charge of a Congressional investigation, the Republicans would be.
Manedela got it a year earlier, just as big a terrorist.
I wouldn't care if Stalin had been awarded it (he was nominated more than once after all, heck Hitler was too though that was supposedly in jest) I'd still take the $1.5 million if they wanted to give it to me.
Why would anyone regret that? Well other than if you were doing encryption at the time...