It sounds like you have a high level of self-control. Sociopaths often have a low level of self-control, but it doesn't show because they also lack most emotions (except anger and frustration).
Well, it's only a 30 million loss. Not including DVD sales. "The Express" lost 30 million on a 40 million budget - THAT's a flop. Waterworld had massive cost overruns (here's a hint - don't build anything in the middle of the ocean unless you are drilling for oil - it's likely you'll have a lot of expensive problems), and it was panned by critics, but it wasn't the biggest financial disaster in Hollywood.
Really, if it weren't for the cost overruns it would have done OK.
You problem is obvious - too many students. If you can't spare 10 minutes per student per paper, something is broken. I'm not blaming you though, I'm sure you would love 20 to 40 students per class.
My theory - 10% of people are honest, to the point of hurting themselves. 10% of people are completely dishonest, to the point of hurting themselves. 80% of people just follow the rest of the herd.
Go ahead, let them cheat. They'll be paying for it once they get a job based on their "degree" and suddenly realize they don't know fuckall about what they're doing.
Yes, But unlike Schools, Most Jobs don't care if you cheat.
In fact copying a successful peers work is likely to get me a raise in the real world.
Yeah, but most jobs care if you steal from the till.
Not really. There are less young players in China than in England (due in part to a lack of facilities), so the national team is fed from a small base.
Ping-pong, gymnastics, and basketball are all popular activities.
It might be the most watched sport, but I doubt it. Basketball would be more popular. FIFA is pretty big though.
Keep in mind, Africa is an agricultural and mining country. They don't (as an aggregate) lack food. They lack bargaining power (which communications can improve), good leaders (which can be improved by better education), infrastructure, transport, and a lot of other little things.
There are disaster-stricken areas where food drops are necessary, but most of Africa is trying to develop past that.
FTA, the article's only novel point is that "the cloud" will do the heavy lifting for gamers and professionals. Yeah right.
Everything else is just the standard mainframe -> mini-computer -> desktop -> laptop -> iPad -> neural link and retinal implants meme that's been done to death more times than I care to count.
All in all, by the end of it, if you don't believe in dinosaurs, you've managed to ignore rock solid (pun intended) evidence presented to you before your eyes.
Five minutes in the primate house of any major metropolitan zoo should be enough to convince any thinking person that humans are part of the same evolutionary tree, but it's obviously not. If you've been indoctrinated as a child to believe certain absurd things in order to save your soul from an eternity of torment, you may not be able to shake off the bullshit just by reading author X, taking course Y, or visiting exhibit Z.
Religion is nothing but child abuse, and no truly enlightened society would tolerate it.
Five minutes in any middle school should be enough to convince any thinking person that humans are part of the same evolutionary tree, but it's obviously not.
Jobs was a geek. He went to HP lectures while he was in junior high school. He then got a job at HP. He went to Homebrew Computer Club meetings with Woz, and worked as an Atari technician (where he ripped Woz off on the circuit board design).
There's plenty of problems like this in hospitals. Doctors don't know what things cost, so they tick all the boxes without considering the cost-benefits.
But this is not the solution. Wasting doctors time to make them effectively "pay" for the tests is stupid.
Instead, they should include a rough estimate of the costs on the form. "Expedited treatment" should include "$30" (or whatever is roughly appropriate) next to it, so the doctor can judge how much it would cost. That way, they can make an informed decision without wasting any time.
Consider a really simple example - a fight between two tribes.
As an individual, I have a big incentive to hide in a tree while my tribe members do the dirty work. I'm more likely to get killed (or injured) in the fight than actually turn the tide of battle.
On the other hand, a tribe that successfully develops some crazy notion of teamwork (or altruism) will beat the other tribes in battles. Obviously, there are various ways this could develop - punishing shirkers, rewarding heros, belief in an afterlife (in which "good" people are rewarded, and "evil" people are punished), the very notion of altruism, stories which reinforce the importance of "doing good", and so on.
These various factors evolve into the checks and balances that we call "civilization". There can be sociopaths who buck the system, but these can be eliminated in the same way that a body eliminates mutant cells. Or they can bring down their society just like a cancer brings down an individual.
I wouldn't think that the filesystem is a huge problem. An emacs / vi / bash guru could probably change all the file names in a code base to lower case in thirty seconds flat.
Graphics and sound will be the issue. OpenGL fixes graphics, leaving only audio. Linux audio has a bad reputation (too many platforms). Are there any work-arounds? An OSX audio emulator maybe? I have no idea.
Whatever the case, it will be a huge win for Linux.
File management is an obstacle to content creation. Provided applications use interoperable standards (and file systems are still the best), a better interface makes it easier to both pull *and* push content.
There's a difference - your examples are concrete technologies.
Cloud computing is a buzz-word for clusters and/or client server systems.
Those are really old hat.
There's reasons why clusters and/or client server systems might grow - mobile devices and faster broadband, as well as new VM and parallel technologies; but I wouldn't back a buzzword that doesn't bring anything new to the table.
You might want to back specific providers (Amazon, Rackspace) who are bringing excellent new products to the market, but the cloud "industry" as a whole sounds like a lot of vaporware.
It's possible that the initial draft looked more like this:
New lab's primary initial medium-term strategic and tactical aim is to help small business, medium business, and fortune 500 companies, local, state and national governments, private, government, intergovernmental and quasi-government agencies, groups, working groups, and research laboratories, departments and institutions to plan, scope, design, build, implement, adopt, test, maintain, reuse, integrate, extend, embrace, and reap advantages, benefits and possibilities of cloud technologies.
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OK, so you are gradually working up to taking on the Pointy-Haired-Boss?
It sounds like you have a high level of self-control. Sociopaths often have a low level of self-control, but it doesn't show because they also lack most emotions (except anger and frustration).
Well, it's only a 30 million loss. Not including DVD sales. "The Express" lost 30 million on a 40 million budget - THAT's a flop. Waterworld had massive cost overruns (here's a hint - don't build anything in the middle of the ocean unless you are drilling for oil - it's likely you'll have a lot of expensive problems), and it was panned by critics, but it wasn't the biggest financial disaster in Hollywood.
Really, if it weren't for the cost overruns it would have done OK.
Gigli ... now that's a flop.
It would make the rest of the education more effective though. But I guess that doesn't really change their bottom line...
You problem is obvious - too many students. If you can't spare 10 minutes per student per paper, something is broken. I'm not blaming you though, I'm sure you would love 20 to 40 students per class.
My theory - 10% of people are honest, to the point of hurting themselves. 10% of people are completely dishonest, to the point of hurting themselves. 80% of people just follow the rest of the herd.
Go ahead, let them cheat. They'll be paying for it once they get a job based on their "degree" and suddenly realize they don't know fuckall about what they're doing.
Yes, But unlike Schools, Most Jobs don't care if you cheat.
In fact copying a successful peers work is likely to get me a raise in the real world.
Yeah, but most jobs care if you steal from the till.
Not really. There are less young players in China than in England (due in part to a lack of facilities), so the national team is fed from a small base.
Ping-pong, gymnastics, and basketball are all popular activities.
It might be the most watched sport, but I doubt it. Basketball would be more popular. FIFA is pretty big though.
Torrents would be good if you were in a place where youtube was blocked ... like about 1/4 of the world's internet users.
Keep in mind, Africa is an agricultural and mining country. They don't (as an aggregate) lack food. They lack bargaining power (which communications can improve), good leaders (which can be improved by better education), infrastructure, transport, and a lot of other little things.
There are disaster-stricken areas where food drops are necessary, but most of Africa is trying to develop past that.
FTA, the article's only novel point is that "the cloud" will do the heavy lifting for gamers and professionals. Yeah right.
Everything else is just the standard mainframe -> mini-computer -> desktop -> laptop -> iPad -> neural link and retinal implants meme that's been done to death more times than I care to count.
All in all, by the end of it, if you don't believe in dinosaurs, you've managed to ignore rock solid (pun intended) evidence presented to you before your eyes.
Five minutes in the primate house of any major metropolitan zoo should be enough to convince any thinking person that humans are part of the same evolutionary tree, but it's obviously not. If you've been indoctrinated as a child to believe certain absurd things in order to save your soul from an eternity of torment, you may not be able to shake off the bullshit just by reading author X, taking course Y, or visiting exhibit Z.
Religion is nothing but child abuse, and no truly enlightened society would tolerate it.
Five minutes in any middle school should be enough to convince any thinking person that humans are part of the same evolutionary tree, but it's obviously not.
Jobs was a geek. He went to HP lectures while he was in junior high school. He then got a job at HP. He went to Homebrew Computer Club meetings with Woz, and worked as an Atari technician (where he ripped Woz off on the circuit board design).
Woz on the other hand was The Geek.
Yet nobody hates them more than nerds. :s
So that's where he gained his mutant powers?
Any project will be either small, well defined, or designed by a committee.
Quake? Small. One guy did pretty much all the coding.
DOS? Well defined.
Windows? Designed by committee.
Excel? Iterative improvements on a well defined product.
There's plenty of problems like this in hospitals. Doctors don't know what things cost, so they tick all the boxes without considering the cost-benefits.
But this is not the solution. Wasting doctors time to make them effectively "pay" for the tests is stupid.
Instead, they should include a rough estimate of the costs on the form. "Expedited treatment" should include "$30" (or whatever is roughly appropriate) next to it, so the doctor can judge how much it would cost. That way, they can make an informed decision without wasting any time.
It does exist in nature.
Consider a really simple example - a fight between two tribes.
As an individual, I have a big incentive to hide in a tree while my tribe members do the dirty work. I'm more likely to get killed (or injured) in the fight than actually turn the tide of battle.
On the other hand, a tribe that successfully develops some crazy notion of teamwork (or altruism) will beat the other tribes in battles. Obviously, there are various ways this could develop - punishing shirkers, rewarding heros, belief in an afterlife (in which "good" people are rewarded, and "evil" people are punished), the very notion of altruism, stories which reinforce the importance of "doing good", and so on.
These various factors evolve into the checks and balances that we call "civilization". There can be sociopaths who buck the system, but these can be eliminated in the same way that a body eliminates mutant cells. Or they can bring down their society just like a cancer brings down an individual.
I wouldn't think that the filesystem is a huge problem. An emacs / vi / bash guru could probably change all the file names in a code base to lower case in thirty seconds flat.
Graphics and sound will be the issue. OpenGL fixes graphics, leaving only audio. Linux audio has a bad reputation (too many platforms). Are there any work-arounds? An OSX audio emulator maybe? I have no idea.
Whatever the case, it will be a huge win for Linux.
File management is an obstacle to content creation. Provided applications use interoperable standards (and file systems are still the best), a better interface makes it easier to both pull *and* push content.
Microsoft has a cunning plan to deal with that ...
There's a difference - your examples are concrete technologies.
Cloud computing is a buzz-word for clusters and/or client server systems.
Those are really old hat.
There's reasons why clusters and/or client server systems might grow - mobile devices and faster broadband, as well as new VM and parallel technologies; but I wouldn't back a buzzword that doesn't bring anything new to the table.
You might want to back specific providers (Amazon, Rackspace) who are bringing excellent new products to the market, but the cloud "industry" as a whole sounds like a lot of vaporware.
It's possible that the initial draft looked more like this:
New lab's primary initial medium-term strategic and tactical aim is to help small business, medium business, and fortune 500 companies, local, state and national governments, private, government, intergovernmental and quasi-government agencies, groups, working groups, and research laboratories, departments and institutions to plan, scope, design, build, implement, adopt, test, maintain, reuse, integrate, extend, embrace, and reap advantages, benefits and possibilities of cloud technologies.
They got it sounding pretty snappy, really.
I often just turn my resolution down on my consumer grade camera.
The 8 MP (or is it 10?) just gives more white noise. No point, unless you want to fill up your hard drive, and slow down online backups.
While a company with 1000 owners and a CEO trying to fleece a performance bonus is just as efficient as a company with 1 real boss?