It does "promote the progress". If have a 0.000000000000001% greater incentive to create a work of art, because I feel secure that my great great great great grandchildren will be more likely to hold copyright, then it's still an incentive.
The issue is one of costs and benefits, which the constitution doesn't mention (IIRC).
Well, it's a great example of a simple algorithm which may or may not halt. So it's useful for teaching algorithms, compiler design, and the halting problem (which is enormously useful).
But assuming it does always end in 1... no, there's no use for the proof. The proof (or it's techniques) might lead to more useful applications though.
That's not necessarily true. There would not be MSM coverage of it. But blogs would cover it. Don't believe me, go to chinasmack.com and see what blog stories are popular in China. Have a look at the translated comments too.
The central government hates corrupt / inept local enforcers giving them a bad name. So unless the cops were doing something that was nationally sanctioned, the internet censors (who work for authorities a long way up the food chain) have no reason to block comments.
Even if comments get blocked, Chinese bloggers can (and do) use puns (very easy in Chinese) to get past the censors.
No, they could drop their affiliate programs ("Buy this on Amazon" buttons on Californian owned websites) so California can't touch them.
Bad news if your Californian startup wants to make money by advertising for Amazon (well, you can probably play some kind of shell game with out of state corporations, but that would be a PITA, and IANAL). Otherwise, it's irrelevant.
Once possible example is carbs. People say that rice and wheat is good for you. (Well, they think rice and vegetables, and not much sugar is good which is at least 2/3rds right).
New studies are showing carbs to be potentially bad. But people's reaction isn't "Oh, that's surprising", but "Nutter!". Yeah, there are lots of nutters, especially when health is concerned. And they DO have better arguments than the skeptics, because the skeptics just don't have time to debunk every crazy's pet theory. But "bad carbs" seems like it might have a little credibility (enough that some real experts should have a look), and it's still getting the cold shoulder.
Boy, if you think doctors are inept now, wait until the bureaucracy takes over. Nothing spells incompetence like a bureaucrat. If you think medicine is a bad example, look at cars. Compare cars made by governments (Communist countries) to cars made by private citizens (capitalist countries) and tell me which one is more reliable, more efficient and safer? Now, ask yourself if you want your doctor to run like a Toyota or a Moskvitch.
Compare the roads built BY communist countries (dictatorships) to the roads built BY capitalist (democratic) countries.
Both have bureaucrats building the roads. But democracies seem to build very good roads (generally speaking).
I'm not sure if that's totally correct. One issue is that the most "technologically powerful console" is often the one that's got the most exotic hardware.
Cell chips (PS3) are hard to program. Maybe that's intentional - it forces developers to target the PS3, because they know that porting back to XBox / PC will be easier than the reverse.Then there's the Atari Jaguar, with wacky custom chips.
Nor would Billy Mitchell. The father of the modern air force, and the guy who blew the whistle on the vulnerability of Pearl Harbor to a Japanese attack in 1924 - 17 years before it happened.
He was court-martialed for it. (Actually, for publicly blaming incompetent Navy commanders for losing a dirigible and 14 crew at a slightly later date... same deal really).
In 64 million years, when the dominent species creates a museum dedicated to the fossilised remains of cars (which they assume were the dominant species)...
The problem with Ballmer is that he's a strictly corporate type, with no real vision of his own. All of his decisions are informed by corporate thinking, which means he looks at already established and emerging markets and reacts to them.
What the hell? That's all Microsoft has ever done. Copied DOS, copied Apple's copy of Xerox's work, copied Java, copied WordPerfect, copied that spreadsheet app...
Their only problem was, they stopped copying the right products, or copied them too late.
Unfortunately, by the time MS has created a product in reaction to the market the market is already dominated by someone else and/or the public rejects the MS product due to the perception of MS being uncool.
No, MS has a great image. Not amongst techies, but that's nothing new. Microsoft is seen as great by most people in education, small business, big business, and government. Bing didn't suffer for being "uncool". It suffers for being 10 years late, and having no way to lock people in.
MS has had very little forward-thinking tech make it to the mainstream in the past 20 years considering the size and and intellectual resources at its disposal, and I believe this is what Einhorn is addressing. What MS needs is a leader who can leverage the best and brightest in the company and allow the best ideas (and there's a lot of great ideas floating around in their labs) to see daylight and be marketed properly.
MS has made a lot of innovative stuff. Problem is, it gets killed by cross-fighting from established products. How does it fit in with Windows and Office's plans? It doesn't? Bye bye.
They should just copy stuff, and not worry about synergies with their other knock-offs. Their main synergy is their stable of excellent engineers, testers, and managers; and their brand name.
Or like walking into a museum, and seeing a plaster replica of a T-Rex skeleton, which was reconstructed out of part of a skull and half a thigh bone (or whatever they had).
Well, that's been eliminated in the US. And been replaced with a much friendlier justice systems, that fails to discourage criminals. It's actually quite safe to walk down the streets at night in China.
I'm guessing that NOBODY makes 5000 RMB a day gold mining. That's almost $1000 US! Or 1 month's salary for a skilled professional, or a semi-skilled worker in a dangerous job.
5000 a day may have been for a large team. 60 prisoners making 85 a day? And the boss gets 5000. It could have been a lucky day when some guy found a +100 sword of ass-kicking. No idea, really.
But if you could make 5000 a day gold farming, I'd do it, and I hate those soul-sucking games. Cruel and unusual punishment, indeed.
Nah. It's just a few more "freelancers", who hope you can do a couple of jobs off elance, and then get a sweet tax deduction for your "business" computer.
But it would be better to pick a nice, high value, and risk a single possible death a year; and use the time you saved to warn people that a 9 volt battery can create about 100mA of current if it can get past the resistance of your skin... which is current enough to have earned one guy a Darwin award.
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Spelling was deregulated until roughly Coleridge's time. Thus Shakespeare spelt his name quite a few different ways.
Eventually, there was a big move to standardize English spelling. Rather than adopt a simple phonetic system, the academics chose to use the phonetic system of the root word. If the word is Germanic, in origin, you use a Germanic inspired phonetics. If it's French, in origin, you use a French inspired phonetic system. Greek? Latin? Guess what, there's more systems. Sucks, doesn't it?
Oh, and Dutch printers were some of the first big printers of English books, so sometimes a bit of Dutch crept in.
And it's last years iPod, and last year's Mac. And face it, an iPod is NOT an xBox 360. The component cost is waaaaay lower. And Apple has markup to spare.
You are full of shit. A free marijuana activist who gets thrown in jail for speaking is a political prisoner. A deadbeat pothead dealer with free marijuana politics who happens to get busted is NOT a political prisoner. They may, in their addled minds, see themselves as victims of unjust policies, and perhaps they even are, but they are not in jail for their politics. They *might* be in jail *because* of their politics, but they had every choice to express their view, fight for their beliefs, but not actually break the law.
In North Korea, the act of expressing your views will get you sent to prison. Not "trading on the open market" (or whatever they call capitalist behavior), but expressing the view that doing so might be a good idea.
I don't have an easy answer for Zimbabwe. Unlike, say, Arafat, I don't really think Mugabe is a lessor evil, though.
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It does "promote the progress". If have a 0.000000000000001% greater incentive to create a work of art, because I feel secure that my great great great great grandchildren will be more likely to hold copyright, then it's still an incentive.
The issue is one of costs and benefits, which the constitution doesn't mention (IIRC).
10 year olds like stories. It's only older people who want to sedate themselves for the crap that pases as "games" nowadays.
Well, it's a great example of a simple algorithm which may or may not halt. So it's useful for teaching algorithms, compiler design, and the halting problem (which is enormously useful).
But assuming it does always end in 1 ... no, there's no use for the proof. The proof (or it's techniques) might lead to more useful applications though.
That's not necessarily true. There would not be MSM coverage of it. But blogs would cover it. Don't believe me, go to chinasmack.com and see what blog stories are popular in China. Have a look at the translated comments too.
The central government hates corrupt / inept local enforcers giving them a bad name. So unless the cops were doing something that was nationally sanctioned, the internet censors (who work for authorities a long way up the food chain) have no reason to block comments.
Even if comments get blocked, Chinese bloggers can (and do) use puns (very easy in Chinese) to get past the censors.
No, they could drop their affiliate programs ("Buy this on Amazon" buttons on Californian owned websites) so California can't touch them.
Bad news if your Californian startup wants to make money by advertising for Amazon (well, you can probably play some kind of shell game with out of state corporations, but that would be a PITA, and IANAL). Otherwise, it's irrelevant.
Once possible example is carbs. People say that rice and wheat is good for you. (Well, they think rice and vegetables, and not much sugar is good which is at least 2/3rds right).
New studies are showing carbs to be potentially bad. But people's reaction isn't "Oh, that's surprising", but "Nutter!". Yeah, there are lots of nutters, especially when health is concerned. And they DO have better arguments than the skeptics, because the skeptics just don't have time to debunk every crazy's pet theory. But "bad carbs" seems like it might have a little credibility (enough that some real experts should have a look), and it's still getting the cold shoulder.
Boy, if you think doctors are inept now, wait until the bureaucracy takes over. Nothing spells incompetence like a bureaucrat. If you think medicine is a bad example, look at cars. Compare cars made by governments (Communist countries) to cars made by private citizens (capitalist countries) and tell me which one is more reliable, more efficient and safer? Now, ask yourself if you want your doctor to run like a Toyota or a Moskvitch.
Compare the roads built BY communist countries (dictatorships) to the roads built BY capitalist (democratic) countries.
Both have bureaucrats building the roads. But democracies seem to build very good roads (generally speaking).
* Basically, cheating works until you get caught. If you keep cheating, you will eventually get caught. *
Not true. Lots of people cheat through a large swath of uni.
Yeah, but they used to catch up with the guys they were chasing.
Spoken Chinese is "highly contextual". (Which is a linguist's euphemism for "vague").
"30" means "30 of whatever the logical unit is". 30 people. 30 platoons. 30 wan (= 30 * 10,000).
Whatever.
Point of interest, a very common Chinese phrase is "weishemenibugaosouwo" (I think that's spelled right). It means "Why didn't you tell me?"
I'm not sure if that's totally correct. One issue is that the most "technologically powerful console" is often the one that's got the most exotic hardware.
Cell chips (PS3) are hard to program. Maybe that's intentional - it forces developers to target the PS3, because they know that porting back to XBox / PC will be easier than the reverse.Then there's the Atari Jaguar, with wacky custom chips.
Nor would Billy Mitchell. The father of the modern air force, and the guy who blew the whistle on the vulnerability of Pearl Harbor to a Japanese attack in 1924 - 17 years before it happened.
He was court-martialed for it. (Actually, for publicly blaming incompetent Navy commanders for losing a dirigible and 14 crew at a slightly later date ... same deal really).
Fine.
In 64 million years, when the dominent species creates a museum dedicated to the fossilised remains of cars (which they assume were the dominant species) ...
Yes. Wang Ba. . Wang () = "net". Ba () = "bar" (it's an English loan word).
There's a few other terms, I think, but wangba is the main one.
The problem with Ballmer is that he's a strictly corporate type, with no real vision of his own. All of his decisions are informed by corporate thinking, which means he looks at already established and emerging markets and reacts to them.
What the hell? That's all Microsoft has ever done. Copied DOS, copied Apple's copy of Xerox's work, copied Java, copied WordPerfect, copied that spreadsheet app ...
Their only problem was, they stopped copying the right products, or copied them too late.
Unfortunately, by the time MS has created a product in reaction to the market the market is already dominated by someone else and/or the public rejects the MS product due to the perception of MS being uncool.
No, MS has a great image. Not amongst techies, but that's nothing new. Microsoft is seen as great by most people in education, small business, big business, and government. Bing didn't suffer for being "uncool". It suffers for being 10 years late, and having no way to lock people in.
MS has had very little forward-thinking tech make it to the mainstream in the past 20 years considering the size and and intellectual resources at its disposal, and I believe this is what Einhorn is addressing. What MS needs is a leader who can leverage the best and brightest in the company and allow the best ideas (and there's a lot of great ideas floating around in their labs) to see daylight and be marketed properly.
MS has made a lot of innovative stuff. Problem is, it gets killed by cross-fighting from established products. How does it fit in with Windows and Office's plans? It doesn't? Bye bye.
They should just copy stuff, and not worry about synergies with their other knock-offs. Their main synergy is their stable of excellent engineers, testers, and managers; and their brand name.
Or like walking into a museum, and seeing a plaster replica of a T-Rex skeleton, which was reconstructed out of part of a skull and half a thigh bone (or whatever they had).
Well, that's been eliminated in the US. And been replaced with a much friendlier justice systems, that fails to discourage criminals. It's actually quite safe to walk down the streets at night in China.
I'm just sayin'.
I'm guessing that NOBODY makes 5000 RMB a day gold mining. That's almost $1000 US! Or 1 month's salary for a skilled professional, or a semi-skilled worker in a dangerous job.
5000 a day may have been for a large team. 60 prisoners making 85 a day? And the boss gets 5000. It could have been a lucky day when some guy found a +100 sword of ass-kicking. No idea, really.
But if you could make 5000 a day gold farming, I'd do it, and I hate those soul-sucking games. Cruel and unusual punishment, indeed.
Nah. It's just a few more "freelancers", who hope you can do a couple of jobs off elance, and then get a sweet tax deduction for your "business" computer.
But it would be better to pick a nice, high value, and risk a single possible death a year; and use the time you saved to warn people that a 9 volt battery can create about 100mA of current if it can get past the resistance of your skin ... which is current enough to have earned one guy a Darwin award.
Spelling was deregulated until roughly Coleridge's time. Thus Shakespeare spelt his name quite a few different ways.
Eventually, there was a big move to standardize English spelling. Rather than adopt a simple phonetic system, the academics chose to use the phonetic system of the root word. If the word is Germanic, in origin, you use a Germanic inspired phonetics. If it's French, in origin, you use a French inspired phonetic system. Greek? Latin? Guess what, there's more systems. Sucks, doesn't it?
Oh, and Dutch printers were some of the first big printers of English books, so sometimes a bit of Dutch crept in.
And it's last years iPod, and last year's Mac. And face it, an iPod is NOT an xBox 360. The component cost is waaaaay lower. And Apple has markup to spare.
Also, many of the bits for the iPad are made in Japan, or other rich countries.
You are full of shit. A free marijuana activist who gets thrown in jail for speaking is a political prisoner. A deadbeat pothead dealer with free marijuana politics who happens to get busted is NOT a political prisoner. They may, in their addled minds, see themselves as victims of unjust policies, and perhaps they even are, but they are not in jail for their politics. They *might* be in jail *because* of their politics, but they had every choice to express their view, fight for their beliefs, but not actually break the law.
In North Korea, the act of expressing your views will get you sent to prison. Not "trading on the open market" (or whatever they call capitalist behavior), but expressing the view that doing so might be a good idea.
I don't have an easy answer for Zimbabwe. Unlike, say, Arafat, I don't really think Mugabe is a lessor evil, though.
Q: How do you know the CIA didn't kill JFK?
A: He's dead, isn't he?