We just need to persuade journalists that wherever they see "nano", they should simply replace it with "chemical". Okay, that might cause some consternation when reporting on the iPod model, but I say that's a small price to pay for more accurate reporting the other 99.9% of the time. Until controlled-assembly Molecular Nano Technology (MNT) comes along, there's no point distinguishing nano-meter-sized chemicals from, uh, chemicals.
You can rant all you want about how shallow people are for pre-judging a product based on the appearance of the preseneter, but it's a simple fact of human nature - we are far more likely to trust people from our own tribe. The first thing we use to judge "us" or "them" categorization is appearance, followed by sound, mannerisms and even smell.
Bottom line - if you want to play their game on their field, wear their dammned uniform. (Oh, and use the same postures, hand gestures, idioms and aftershave).
Trouble with extracting geothermal energy is that rock is a pretty good insulator. Once you get the first enthusiastic bout of steam and have cooled a few feet of rock around your pipe, the heat leaches back in very slowly. Unless they can create and sustain a lava tube that is constantly eroding in the presence of circulating magma, (or use a heat exchanger in constantly circulating hot water), this is unlikely to be successful.
They oughta implement a more durable punishment, like cutting off a leg or something. Make the character hobble around begging for the rest of their short life. Or put out an eye and make half the screen fuzzy or cut off an ear and attenuate the sound on one channel. That'd serve as a persistent reminder, both to the player and to others who interact with them.
Look at the fossil record. Something like 99.999% of all species that have ever existed are now extinct. More precisely, they have been transformed into species that are better adapted to exploit the resources of their niche. How can we expect it to be any different for humans? As soon as an intelligence exists that is better at allocating resources than humans, it will become the apex species. Since this intelligence appears most likely to arise as a result of human effort, it can be thought of as a transformation of humans. This transformation is different from others in that it is likely to result in a non-biological intelligence, and because it is a function of intelligence (human, mostly), rather than a function of environmental selection pressures. This will also mark an inflection point in evolution where future generations are primarily a product of thought rather than random selection.
I check out eBooks from the Denver Public Library. They're available for 21 days, after which the DRM makes sure you can't read them any longer. I like having several titles in my pocket that I can pull out and resume any time I have a few minutes - on the bus, anywhere I have to wait in line or am waiting for an appointment or for someone to show up. Plus, I don't even have to go to the library to get or return them. DPL also checks out audio books online. I don't know why more people aren't into them.
There are other hidden costs to offshoring deriving from cultural differences and communication problems. I was involved with three software development projects that had been outsourced to three different firms in India. In only one case was there a marginal win, despite net billing rates that were perhaps half of what we would have paid for domestic IT talent. Much of the cost overruns arose from miscommunication backed by a desire on their part to not appear incompetent. The engineers would come here for several weeks to gain understanding before returning to India to work on the project. Despite this, I found out there were fundamental knowledge gaps that should have been cleared up in the first day, let alone two weeks after they had returned to India (and billed us for two weeks of apparent head-scratching). In my opinion, the only way to make technical offshoring work is to make it onshoring, by opening a local office in the country where the talent lives. I doubt there is a similar solution for offshoring customer support.
Once something becomes an ingrained part of life, it stops being something we're considered "addicted" to. But ask anyone from a developing nation whether it seems odd that most everyone here owns at least one vehicle from the age of 16 onward and see if some of them don't describe our use of cars as an "addiction".
Hours spent watching TV has been decreasing for the last decade, owing to alternative time-wasters in the form of the internet and video games. It makes sense that TV would get out their big ole tar brush and paint up their new competition.
A good idea for most, but some bloggers would really find that onerous. For example: http://bahatia.blogspot.com/ is a blog for Bahatia Community Centre, who only have a website because it is free. (A dollar is an average day's wage for many over there).
For even a slice of a half-mil judgement, it'd be profitable for those of an 'adventurist' bent to fly to Ratholistan, find the phishers, show 'em a good time and when they're good and drunk, invite them to go jet-setting to a wild party in LA. Once they're on the ground, slap 'em with a legally served summons and wait for the judgement. (But there's always the small matter of collection, I suppose).
I was playing both. I enjoyed WoW more, but after Blizzard's "interview" here the day before, I decided they lacked respect, so I terminated my account.
The real reason some droid trowelled over these responses is that nobody at Blizzard could figure out how they'd make more money by tying up valuable developer time doing what a PR flack could do at less than half the cost.
So, I plan to offer them, in my own small way, an object lesson in how this ties to making money. Yup, I'm gonna cancel my account and let my poor little mage that I've lovingly levelled up shrivel into a pile of overwritten magnetic patterns.
Bluetooth chips should be pretty cheap by now. Why not make a clicker that establishes an ad-hoc mesh, with those closest to the podium (highest tranceived RF strength to the base unit) occupying the first level of the mesh, then each of those identifying strongest neighbors whom they wish to transact with, and so on. Mesh set-up should complete in a few seconds at most. Then each click hops P2P down the auditorium from assigned parent to grandparent until it reaches the front. This has the advantages of low power requirement and potentially huge scalability, though the bandwidth of the first-level transceivers would be the ultimate bottleneck. The other drawback is that the weird kid, the one who smells funny and always sits away from everyone else, wouldn't be in range of the mesh.
Ya know, the gods of slash are probably clever enough to coral-cacheify every link automatically. In fact, it seems like a blindingly obvious thing to do. But if they did, then they wouldn't have the immense prestige of laying waste to dozens of innocent sites on a daily basis. Some kind of a power-trip thing, I guess.
Why dont' the gods of/. simply auto-coral-cachefy every link? Oh, then they wouldn't be the big-swinging-dicks of the internet with their dreaded/. effect anymore, huh?
Even so, Yahoo Music lets you share tunes via Yahoo IM with any other Yahoo Music subscriber. The primary difference is that these culprits were not subscribers to a service like Yahoo music, and they were sharing tunes with other non-subscribers. So maybe damages were more like $3 * number of non-subscribers shared with per month. Still seems likely to be something in the hundreds of dollars, max.
With Yahoo Music providing access to over 1 million songs for $5/month I would think the damages that RIAA can claim are limited to whatever share Yahoo would have passed onto them if these file-sharers had gone legit with a subscription. Or am I just being naive?
Cheat-proofing ain't the big problem. It's skill-balancing. Mostly if two given players go head-to-head, they'll figure out within a minute which one is better. After that, why bother? The weaker player might as well ask the stronger "want some of my money"? and be done with it.
Somebody needs to make an auto-overclocking system that has a slot for feeding in bricks of dry ice.
You want that render to finish before lunch? Just slide in a brick of dry ice and watch the steam come out the sides as your motherboard's temperature sensor gives the go-ahead to crank the clock up to 7 GHz.
Yahoo and Google are a verry small slice of the total tech employee pie. If there's a tech talent pinch, it's more likely due to larger phenomena, such as the
demographic shift caused by all those creaky baby boomers starting to take early retirement. Early predictions were we'd start seeing spot shortages in tech specialty areas in 2005, with full-on, oh-my-god-its-worse-than-1999 shortage starting 2008. By the numbers, the late 1990s saw an estimated 4.7 million shortage of skilled workers, and by 2010, it is estimated we'll be short around 20 million. That oughta beef up signing bonusus ("No Mel, ABCorp is offering a 3000-foot condo on Maui. If CDcorp won't pitch in a Ferrari, I'm taking my VB skills to ABCorp.")
Currently, the cost of producing ethanol from cellulose is estimated to be between $1.15 and $1.43 per gallon in 1998 dollars. According to this paper, that cost could drop by another $.60/gallon by 2015.
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We just need to persuade journalists that wherever they see "nano", they should simply replace it with "chemical". Okay, that might cause some consternation when reporting on the iPod model, but I say that's a small price to pay for more accurate reporting the other 99.9% of the time. Until controlled-assembly Molecular Nano Technology (MNT) comes along, there's no point distinguishing nano-meter-sized chemicals from, uh, chemicals.
Bottom line - if you want to play their game on their field, wear their dammned uniform. (Oh, and use the same postures, hand gestures, idioms and aftershave).
Trouble with extracting geothermal energy is that rock is a pretty good insulator. Once you get the first enthusiastic bout of steam and have cooled a few feet of rock around your pipe, the heat leaches back in very slowly. Unless they can create and sustain a lava tube that is constantly eroding in the presence of circulating magma, (or use a heat exchanger in constantly circulating hot water), this is unlikely to be successful.
They oughta implement a more durable punishment, like cutting off a leg or something. Make the character hobble around begging for the rest of their short life. Or put out an eye and make half the screen fuzzy or cut off an ear and attenuate the sound on one channel. That'd serve as a persistent reminder, both to the player and to others who interact with them.
Look at the fossil record. Something like 99.999% of all species that have ever existed are now extinct. More precisely, they have been transformed into species that are better adapted to exploit the resources of their niche. How can we expect it to be any different for humans? As soon as an intelligence exists that is better at allocating resources than humans, it will become the apex species. Since this intelligence appears most likely to arise as a result of human effort, it can be thought of as a transformation of humans. This transformation is different from others in that it is likely to result in a non-biological intelligence, and because it is a function of intelligence (human, mostly), rather than a function of environmental selection pressures. This will also mark an inflection point in evolution where future generations are primarily a product of thought rather than random selection.
I check out eBooks from the Denver Public Library. They're available for 21 days, after which the DRM makes sure you can't read them any longer. I like having several titles in my pocket that I can pull out and resume any time I have a few minutes - on the bus, anywhere I have to wait in line or am waiting for an appointment or for someone to show up. Plus, I don't even have to go to the library to get or return them. DPL also checks out audio books online. I don't know why more people aren't into them.
There are other hidden costs to offshoring deriving from cultural differences and communication problems. I was involved with three software development projects that had been outsourced to three different firms in India. In only one case was there a marginal win, despite net billing rates that were perhaps half of what we would have paid for domestic IT talent. Much of the cost overruns arose from miscommunication backed by a desire on their part to not appear incompetent. The engineers would come here for several weeks to gain understanding before returning to India to work on the project. Despite this, I found out there were fundamental knowledge gaps that should have been cleared up in the first day, let alone two weeks after they had returned to India (and billed us for two weeks of apparent head-scratching). In my opinion, the only way to make technical offshoring work is to make it onshoring, by opening a local office in the country where the talent lives. I doubt there is a similar solution for offshoring customer support.
Once something becomes an ingrained part of life, it stops being something we're considered "addicted" to. But ask anyone from a developing nation whether it seems odd that most everyone here owns at least one vehicle from the age of 16 onward and see if some of them don't describe our use of cars as an "addiction".
GTA is satire. Made all the richer by those who don't get it and end up looking like the total goofs they are for taking satire seriously.
Hours spent watching TV has been decreasing for the last decade, owing to alternative time-wasters in the form of the internet and video games. It makes sense that TV would get out their big ole tar brush and paint up their new competition.
A good idea for most, but some bloggers would really find that onerous. For example: http://bahatia.blogspot.com/ is a blog for Bahatia Community Centre, who only have a website because it is free. (A dollar is an average day's wage for many over there).
For even a slice of a half-mil judgement, it'd be profitable for those of an 'adventurist' bent to fly to Ratholistan, find the phishers, show 'em a good time and when they're good and drunk, invite them to go jet-setting to a wild party in LA. Once they're on the ground, slap 'em with a legally served summons and wait for the judgement. (But there's always the small matter of collection, I suppose).
I was playing both. I enjoyed WoW more, but after Blizzard's "interview" here the day before, I decided they lacked respect, so I terminated my account.
So, I plan to offer them, in my own small way, an object lesson in how this ties to making money. Yup, I'm gonna cancel my account and let my poor little mage that I've lovingly levelled up shrivel into a pile of overwritten magnetic patterns.
Bluetooth chips should be pretty cheap by now. Why not make a clicker that establishes an ad-hoc mesh, with those closest to the podium (highest tranceived RF strength to the base unit) occupying the first level of the mesh, then each of those identifying strongest neighbors whom they wish to transact with, and so on. Mesh set-up should complete in a few seconds at most. Then each click hops P2P down the auditorium from assigned parent to grandparent until it reaches the front. This has the advantages of low power requirement and potentially huge scalability, though the bandwidth of the first-level transceivers would be the ultimate bottleneck. The other drawback is that the weird kid, the one who smells funny and always sits away from everyone else, wouldn't be in range of the mesh.
Ya know, the gods of slash are probably clever enough to coral-cacheify every link automatically. In fact, it seems like a blindingly obvious thing to do. But if they did, then they wouldn't have the immense prestige of laying waste to dozens of innocent sites on a daily basis. Some kind of a power-trip thing, I guess.
Why dont' the gods of /. simply auto-coral-cachefy every link? Oh, then they wouldn't be the big-swinging-dicks of the internet with their dreaded /. effect anymore, huh?
Even so, Yahoo Music lets you share tunes via Yahoo IM with any other Yahoo Music subscriber. The primary difference is that these culprits were not subscribers to a service like Yahoo music, and they were sharing tunes with other non-subscribers. So maybe damages were more like $3 * number of non-subscribers shared with per month. Still seems likely to be something in the hundreds of dollars, max.
With Yahoo Music providing access to over 1 million songs for $5/month I would think the damages that RIAA can claim are limited to whatever share Yahoo would have passed onto them if these file-sharers had gone legit with a subscription. Or am I just being naive?
Dude, he got more than wings - he got a record deal.
Apparently that's not a straightforward question to answer. The gpgpu.org hardware features forum would probably be the best place to ask.
Cheat-proofing ain't the big problem. It's skill-balancing. Mostly if two given players go head-to-head, they'll figure out within a minute which one is better. After that, why bother? The weaker player might as well ask the stronger "want some of my money"? and be done with it.
You want that render to finish before lunch? Just slide in a brick of dry ice and watch the steam come out the sides as your motherboard's temperature sensor gives the go-ahead to crank the clock up to 7 GHz.
Yahoo and Google are a verry small slice of the total tech employee pie. If there's a tech talent pinch, it's more likely due to larger phenomena, such as the demographic shift caused by all those creaky baby boomers starting to take early retirement. Early predictions were we'd start seeing spot shortages in tech specialty areas in 2005, with full-on, oh-my-god-its-worse-than-1999 shortage starting 2008. By the numbers, the late 1990s saw an estimated 4.7 million shortage of skilled workers, and by 2010, it is estimated we'll be short around 20 million. That oughta beef up signing bonusus ("No Mel, ABCorp is offering a 3000-foot condo on Maui. If CDcorp won't pitch in a Ferrari, I'm taking my VB skills to ABCorp.")
Currently, the cost of producing ethanol from cellulose is estimated to be between $1.15 and $1.43 per gallon in 1998 dollars. According to this paper, that cost could drop by another $.60/gallon by 2015.