That's an achievement. Clothes are IRONED in China, then sent to Australia on racks. It's cheaper to send them in a bigger container, than to actually have somebody iron them in the store.
Another problem is the unusual mixes of things. You can eat a lot more fat (without gagging) if you mix in a heap of salt. Fatty salty foods are not too common in the wild, but modern food mixes them together, which messes up our instincts about how much to eat.
Also, Coke has far too much sugar to taste good, but the added food acid makes it palatable.
A company that gets bailed out is fit, just like a virus or tumor. The same could be said for certain business practices. A parasite can hurt its host and still be successful.
This has been threshed out on Slashdot ad nauseum.
a) The Grind makes more money, because MMOs are time based.
b) The Grind makes them more addictive. You can't stop playing, because you "invested" 1000 hours already.
c) The Grind gives you a false sense of achievement, just like poker machines do. You like they way it feels like "work", but nobody ever criticizes you for doing it badly. If you were to spend the time learning a skill, or making money, there would be a much greater chance of failure. The Grind is an effective substitute for real life.
It could be the 1997 bloop that the Navy picked up on their sonar equipment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloop). It looked like a biological entity, but was far to big to be any known creature.
In Australian (specifically the state of Queensland) high schools, they like to teach kids to think "scientifically", and "design their own experiments", then write a 60 page report, plus a log book, and sometimes a poster. The kids just don't have the scientific maturity to design a correct experiment (i.e. statistically significant), but they do a bang-up job on the report. All neat, good grammar, pretty graphs and diagrams.
They don't enjoy it much (a 60 page report is honors thesis territory) and they aren't really learning any more science than if they watched Mythbusters, but at least they are able to generate a lot of paper for their teachers to mark.
A word of warning - never let education academics with no teaching or real world experience take control of the education system.
The whole OO paradigm seems to be founded on the belief that a whole new terminology of classes, objects, inheritance, and polymorphism is less confusing than function pointers.
I'm a python fan, but not for the OO features. I like the dictionaries. Especially when you stuff them full of function pointers.
Wind IS a base load replacement. Demand for power fluctuates, just like wind supply. It doesn't matter whether you are using coal, nuclear, or wind for you "base" power, you still need gas power plants (or other easy to control plants - maybe hydro) to smooth the difference between supply and demand. The only difference between wind and coal is that the standard deviation of the signal is a little bit larger (so you need another gas plant to provide more smoothing).
The lower reliability of wind means that it's worth a bit less than coal power (depending on the size of the grid, and the reliability of the demand), but it competes directly with base power.
Coal generators HATE wind, because it is a competitor. Peak load generators LOVE wind, because it requires more peak smoothing than coal.
Even with just a browser, you need multiple windows. When an AJAX command tells the browser to pop up a new window, the browser uses the native windowing system to pop up a new window. You also need windows for multiple browser instances, tabs, menus, and other fun stuff. It's not turtles all the way down.
SUVs were classified as trucks under US law, right? So they got better regulatory treatment.
US companies optimized their "cars" to cope with US regulations, while overseas businesses (who couldn't aim at any particular regulatory market) just did what made sense.
So you can still blame Congress if you really want to.
Also, Mono is reputedly a pretty mean general purpose VM. From a python perspective, Google has beefed up CPython a bit, and the PyPy folk are doing some interesting things with LLVM, and then there is Stackless and Shedskin. But i's always good to have lots of backends bumping around. New backends (and the benchmarking that people do on them) often reveal bottlenecks.
Also, bindings in Mono could be a good Rosetta Stone for interpreted languages to interoperate with. Every time I see a library that has been hand wrapped for Python, Ruby, Perl, Erlang, Java and half a dozen other languages, I have to repress a gag reflex. There should only be 2 bindings - one for Java and C#(with all their Design Pattens), and one for people with things to do.
Forget game theory. Consider the consequences of agency theory - a 5% reduction in arms is a 5% budget cut to the department responsible for the nukes. It benefits nations to reduce arms significantly (through multilateral treaties) to the point where they are only left with a reasonable deterrent, and enough ground troops to respond to disasters. But no defense department would recommend it, or push for the treaties.
Maybe it's just a sign the Microsoft think they can beat Mono. If Microsoft sets the standards they will have a more mature platform out at any point in time.
Or maybe they think that a little competition is a good thing?
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That's an achievement. Clothes are IRONED in China, then sent to Australia on racks. It's cheaper to send them in a bigger container, than to actually have somebody iron them in the store.
Yep, bands are a start-up, and the Silicon Vally model for start-ups is better than the "label" model. Less middlemen.
Another problem is the unusual mixes of things. You can eat a lot more fat (without gagging) if you mix in a heap of salt. Fatty salty foods are not too common in the wild, but modern food mixes them together, which messes up our instincts about how much to eat.
Also, Coke has far too much sugar to taste good, but the added food acid makes it palatable.
A company that gets bailed out is fit, just like a virus or tumor. The same could be said for certain business practices. A parasite can hurt its host and still be successful.
It's a pity that your post is so far down the list.
Google is a linux company. IBM is a linux company. I think they are both S&P 500. What's your problem?
This has been threshed out on Slashdot ad nauseum.
a) The Grind makes more money, because MMOs are time based.
b) The Grind makes them more addictive. You can't stop playing, because you "invested" 1000 hours already.
c) The Grind gives you a false sense of achievement, just like poker machines do. You like they way it feels like "work", but nobody ever criticizes you for doing it badly. If you were to spend the time learning a skill, or making money, there would be a much greater chance of failure. The Grind is an effective substitute for real life.
It could be the 1997 bloop that the Navy picked up on their sonar equipment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloop). It looked like a biological entity, but was far to big to be any known creature.
Which wouldn't rule out it being a shoggoth.
In Australian (specifically the state of Queensland) high schools, they like to teach kids to think "scientifically", and "design their own experiments", then write a 60 page report, plus a log book, and sometimes a poster. The kids just don't have the scientific maturity to design a correct experiment (i.e. statistically significant), but they do a bang-up job on the report. All neat, good grammar, pretty graphs and diagrams.
They don't enjoy it much (a 60 page report is honors thesis territory) and they aren't really learning any more science than if they watched Mythbusters, but at least they are able to generate a lot of paper for their teachers to mark.
A word of warning - never let education academics with no teaching or real world experience take control of the education system.
The whole OO paradigm seems to be founded on the belief that a whole new terminology of classes, objects, inheritance, and polymorphism is less confusing than function pointers.
I'm a python fan, but not for the OO features. I like the dictionaries. Especially when you stuff them full of function pointers.
Wind IS a base load replacement. Demand for power fluctuates, just like wind supply. It doesn't matter whether you are using coal, nuclear, or wind for you "base" power, you still need gas power plants (or other easy to control plants - maybe hydro) to smooth the difference between supply and demand. The only difference between wind and coal is that the standard deviation of the signal is a little bit larger (so you need another gas plant to provide more smoothing).
The lower reliability of wind means that it's worth a bit less than coal power (depending on the size of the grid, and the reliability of the demand), but it competes directly with base power.
Coal generators HATE wind, because it is a competitor. Peak load generators LOVE wind, because it requires more peak smoothing than coal.
Better still, put all the unemployed hedge fund managers on giant hamster wheels. That would create a few jobs.
Doesn't this sound a lot like iPhone 1.0, when SJ told developers to use "Safari" as the app framework?
Still, I guess nobody does web dev like google.
Even with just a browser, you need multiple windows. When an AJAX command tells the browser to pop up a new window, the browser uses the native windowing system to pop up a new window. You also need windows for multiple browser instances, tabs, menus, and other fun stuff. It's not turtles all the way down.
SUVs were classified as trucks under US law, right? So they got better regulatory treatment.
US companies optimized their "cars" to cope with US regulations, while overseas businesses (who couldn't aim at any particular regulatory market) just did what made sense.
So you can still blame Congress if you really want to.
I keep resolving to not be taken aback by weird shit from Japan.
Also, Mono is reputedly a pretty mean general purpose VM. From a python perspective, Google has beefed up CPython a bit, and the PyPy folk are doing some interesting things with LLVM, and then there is Stackless and Shedskin. But i's always good to have lots of backends bumping around. New backends (and the benchmarking that people do on them) often reveal bottlenecks.
Also, bindings in Mono could be a good Rosetta Stone for interpreted languages to interoperate with. Every time I see a library that has been hand wrapped for Python, Ruby, Perl, Erlang, Java and half a dozen other languages, I have to repress a gag reflex. There should only be 2 bindings - one for Java and C#(with all their Design Pattens), and one for people with things to do.
Forget game theory. Consider the consequences of agency theory - a 5% reduction in arms is a 5% budget cut to the department responsible for the nukes. It benefits nations to reduce arms significantly (through multilateral treaties) to the point where they are only left with a reasonable deterrent, and enough ground troops to respond to disasters. But no defense department would recommend it, or push for the treaties.
Maybe it's just a sign the Microsoft think they can beat Mono. If Microsoft sets the standards they will have a more mature platform out at any point in time.
Or maybe they think that a little competition is a good thing?
She has to settle, without the benefit of a court case, because they have such outrageous statutory damages if she doesn't settle.
Nobody should be forced to settle to avoid unjust penalties. It's a subversion of the the rule of law.
Quake. The rocket launcher. Camping. :)
I think Doom had similar issues with the BFG.
Why has parent been modded troll? Because he used a basketball analogy instead of a car one?
Given that most passenger gets these days have an in-flight entertainment system, which runs off a data center, I'd say that's a bit optimistic.
Not to mention military jets, bullet trains, and exotic things like spacecraft and the ISS.
Oh wait, it's modded "funny". I guess it must be a joke then. My bad.
Do they also sell gmail invites? I think I have a few of those under the mattress.
Also, rep by pop is not entirely immune to scummy party hacks.