But that is my exact point. Are you doing evil when you obey the law and follow the cultural norm of a market you are going into? It's almost like McD not going into India market because no beef allowed...
Also, it's not just political stuff. porn has to be more heavily censored as well... so is that evil?
Is it not evil to incite rebellion in another country? That is the thought that caused CIA to incite and support revolutions in various countries in the cold war era, earning the hatred of many for US butting into their business.
This is intended for the mass of Chinese who just need search, and frankly they don't really "need" to see things that's against the law to see. If you are a Chinese interested in finding results that is not filtered, there are already means for you to bypass the great firewall of china and search using regular google
this is a different situation with US, in which the Bill of Rights supposedly protects our freedoms. No such thing in China, hence, no legal leg to stand on.
Anyone find it interesting that the article included bitpump in the review. Azureus is obvious in popularity and utorrent is a rising star, and the classic is a classic. But the article passed over tons of popular clients such as bitcomet, bitlord, shareaza, shadow, etc and chose this... why?
I find that most heated discussions occur with things that are interpretive. Such as historical figures / events / philosophy.
The fact that there might be a tyranny by those with most time is a reflection of real life. What we call historians today are effectively people who've spent the most time on an issue. Effectively, they are the ones published because they've spent the most time on this.
I think that it's a shame that primary sources do not use the wiki as a publishing medium when they've dedicated so much time on a topic. Tho it might be due to a lack of credential system in which authoritative sources will be given stronger consideration... But that leads to other problems
Considering that the Prius has to be a new purchase, the mainstay of the comparison should have been between a gasoline car of similar performance or a gasoline cars of similar price. Instead, there was only a brief aside of comparing a Toyota Prius vs a Toyota Corolla, the mainstay was against a 99' accord. This is problematic on several levels: 1. It spread the net cost of the vehicle across the expected loan cycle against the "zero cost" of a 6 year old vehicle, which tend to enter higher maintenance cost as it is almost always out of warrantee and is a older vehicle. This is a stacked comparison.
2. It assumed that a person wouldn't want to replace a 6 year old vehicle. This is odd as typical car US fleet is 9 yrs old http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/onh00/onh2p3.htm/, a 6 year old car should be close to the replacement age.
3. When it chose a new automobile, it chose a economy car instead of a car of comparable performance as opposed to a 2006 Accord (avg msrp 24000), when it was ok to compare to a 1999 Accord because it was paid off. Also, it used a trade in value, when Accords are well known for having very high blue book values. 1999 Accords list from 8300-10700 in the blue book, the lower end should have been used for this, if at all
4. The base MSRP for the 2006 Corolla is 14000-17000, the author cherry picked the most base number for comparison when the standard package in the Prius is comparable to a 16000 Corolla.
5. It also discounts any tax incentives in the main comparison, only listing the gov't tax breaks in other factors when the main focus of the article is on the monetary impact. Performance and maintenance also has real world values he could have used, but that value is more debatable.
Overall, the article, tho it lists all factors, cherry picks comparisons to focus on to paint the hybrids as a very poor economic choice. Making the implication that the hybrids is far out of the value minded mainstream, when the real life costs is only probably 30-50$/month over the life of the loan
With X-mas coming up and no competing release, I suspect that they can easily move 2 million xboxes by end of the year and 3 million in 90 days. The shortage thing is just marketing BS. The only reason the number would not be made is if the box flops out of the door, which does not look like will happen
With 3 million units. 1.5B is not unreasonable as it is 500$ / console. thousands will be sold in the 1000$ + bundles. As there is no point in buying it without a game. $350 is the minimum that can be spent. But since there seems to be very few stores offering the $299, $399 will be the norm in the first month where the bulk of the units will be shipped, and + one game will bring the min revenue per xbox to 450$, pretty close to 500$
I guess this might turn into flamefest, but whatever.... Then how come you make such a blatant logical error?
I disagree on making a logical mistake. I was responding to (and quoted)
The article shows largely a series of examples where you DID have HIGHLY PAID and HIGHLY trained professionals with plenty of experience and oversight, but nevertheless very significant bugs occurred
The emphasis in bold is mine, but the words were yours. One or two of TEN does NOT make "largely", which implies a majority. Therefore at least five should fall into your rather specific categorization. This was not the case.
Perhaps you meant to say something else in the original post. But the words you used was inaccurate. Perhaps you mean that "HIGHLY PAID and HIGHLY trained professionals with plenty of experience and oversight" CAN result in serious bugs. Tho this was NOT the theme of the article either, but a perfectly valid comment.
The review looks like a rehashed product brochure.
No measurements at ALL of mouse accuracy. No measurements of keyboard responsiveness. My experience with Bluetooth products is that it goes to sleep every once in a while if you're not constantly moving the mouse or typing, and sometimes it doesn't wake up! This makes browsing the web or programming a chore. This article does NOT address this at all, which tells me that the reviewer spent a few minutes with this product at best and proceded to type the report on a laptop. Also, pairing a new device is also a chore for the uninitiated, also no mention here...
That said, the Ars Technica article is no more worthwhile to me than it was then. There are NO BlueTooth combos in there at all. RF is generally quite useless when you get more than 5 ft away from the receiver. This means that RF devices are useless for a Media Center PC, unless you are sitting 5 ft away from your PC, in which case, there is no real need for wireless!
The article shows largely a series of examples where you DID have HIGHLY PAID and HIGHLY trained professionals with plenty of experience and oversight, but nevertheless very significant bugs occurred first bug was improper process second was sabotage third was INEXPERIENCE fourth was new tech experiment, professionals involved but probably mostly grad students with varying experience fifth - I'll grant you this one sixth - I've worked with telcos for 10 years, chances are, it was a mod rushed out by marketing, switch bugs are, like in any other programming field, par for the course. seventh - poor oversight and testing eighth - university code base, generally minimal oversight. ninth - improper testing tenth - might qualify, but the doctors clearly went outside the allowed specs and did not check the calculations.
So, out of the 10, only one and half can be said as having "HIGHLY PAID and HIGHLY trained professionals with plenty of experience and oversight", I would say that your statement is at odds with the article, not the parent post.
Google engineer 1: Hey, you hear that rumour about us doing IM stuff? Google engineer 2: But we're not, right? Google engineer 1: No, but sounds like a good idea! Google engineer 2: True. Google engineer 1: You got any free time handy? We could bang this out in a week! Google engineer 2: Let's!...
Everest accumulated 87M$ in US Box Office and 40M$ more internationally. Top 7 IMAX films all surpass 20M$ in US BO. About half of them, imho, qualify as documentary...
Whereas March of Penguins has 26.5M$ in US BO so far and 15.5M more internationally.
March of Penguins did NOT get 20M$ in one weekend (yet)
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Hehe... you said tit ...
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sorry, feeling a little juvenile today
But that is my exact point. Are you doing evil when you obey the law and follow the cultural norm of a market you are going into? It's almost like McD not going into India market because no beef allowed ...
... so is that evil?
Also, it's not just political stuff. porn has to be more heavily censored as well
Is it not evil to incite rebellion in another country? That is the thought that caused CIA to incite and support revolutions in various countries in the cold war era, earning the hatred of many for US butting into their business.
This is intended for the mass of Chinese who just need search, and frankly they don't really "need" to see things that's against the law to see. If you are a Chinese interested in finding results that is not filtered, there are already means for you to bypass the great firewall of china and search using regular google
they might bomb back!!
So, obeying local law is "evil" now?
this is a different situation with US, in which the Bill of Rights supposedly protects our freedoms. No such thing in China, hence, no legal leg to stand on.
Anyone find it interesting that the article included bitpump in the review. Azureus is obvious in popularity and utorrent is a rising star, and the classic is a classic. But the article passed over tons of popular clients such as bitcomet, bitlord, shareaza, shadow, etc and chose this ... why?
Ummm... so because google is good, we're not bothered about it building SkyNet?
Omitted step 0 added
0. Mug the guy you see sporting a press pass of a well known technical rag and get the pass
1. Show up on a press pass as a representative of a well known technical rag.
2. Ask for stuff. Say you're going to do a review.
3. Profit!
I find that most heated discussions occur with things that are interpretive. Such as historical figures / events / philosophy.
... But that leads to other problems
The fact that there might be a tyranny by those with most time is a reflection of real life. What we call historians today are effectively people who've spent the most time on an issue. Effectively, they are the ones published because they've spent the most time on this.
I think that it's a shame that primary sources do not use the wiki as a publishing medium when they've dedicated so much time on a topic. Tho it might be due to a lack of credential system in which authoritative sources will be given stronger consideration
that they can build with this lens!
:)
40 MegaPixels in the palm of your hands
the ipod, ipod mini, ipod shuffle, ipod nano take 4 places in the top 10 froogle searches
As opposed to a VS plug-in, the demand would have been greater and they would have cross-platform capabilities
Considering that the Prius has to be a new purchase, the mainstay of the comparison should have been between a gasoline car of similar performance or a gasoline cars of similar price. Instead, there was only a brief aside of comparing a Toyota Prius vs a Toyota Corolla, the mainstay was against a 99' accord. This is problematic on several levels:
1. It spread the net cost of the vehicle across the expected loan cycle against the "zero cost" of a 6 year old vehicle, which tend to enter higher maintenance cost as it is almost always out of warrantee and is a older vehicle. This is a stacked comparison.
2. It assumed that a person wouldn't want to replace a 6 year old vehicle. This is odd as typical car US fleet is 9 yrs old http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/onh00/onh2p3.htm/, a 6 year old car should be close to the replacement age.
3. When it chose a new automobile, it chose a economy car instead of a car of comparable performance as opposed to a 2006 Accord (avg msrp 24000), when it was ok to compare to a 1999 Accord because it was paid off. Also, it used a trade in value, when Accords are well known for having very high blue book values. 1999 Accords list from 8300-10700 in the blue book, the lower end should have been used for this, if at all
4. The base MSRP for the 2006 Corolla is 14000-17000, the author cherry picked the most base number for comparison when the standard package in the Prius is comparable to a 16000 Corolla.
5. It also discounts any tax incentives in the main comparison, only listing the gov't tax breaks in other factors when the main focus of the article is on the monetary impact. Performance and maintenance also has real world values he could have used, but that value is more debatable.
Overall, the article, tho it lists all factors, cherry picks comparisons to focus on to paint the hybrids as a very poor economic choice. Making the implication that the hybrids is far out of the value minded mainstream, when the real life costs is only probably 30-50$/month over the life of the loan
With X-mas coming up and no competing release, I suspect that they can easily move 2 million xboxes by end of the year and 3 million in 90 days. The shortage thing is just marketing BS. The only reason the number would not be made is if the box flops out of the door, which does not look like will happen
With 3 million units. 1.5B is not unreasonable as it is 500$ / console. thousands will be sold in the 1000$ + bundles. As there is no point in buying it without a game. $350 is the minimum that can be spent. But since there seems to be very few stores offering the $299, $399 will be the norm in the first month where the bulk of the units will be shipped, and + one game will bring the min revenue per xbox to 450$, pretty close to 500$
I guess this might turn into flamefest, but whatever....
Then how come you make such a blatant logical error?
I disagree on making a logical mistake. I was responding to (and quoted)
The article shows largely a series of examples where you DID have HIGHLY PAID and HIGHLY trained professionals with plenty of experience and oversight, but nevertheless very significant bugs occurred
The emphasis in bold is mine, but the words were yours. One or two of TEN does NOT make "largely", which implies a majority. Therefore at least five should fall into your rather specific categorization. This was not the case.
Perhaps you meant to say something else in the original post. But the words you used was inaccurate. Perhaps you mean that "HIGHLY PAID and HIGHLY trained professionals with plenty of experience and oversight" CAN result in serious bugs. Tho this was NOT the theme of the article either, but a perfectly valid comment.
Excellent! Now my five panel presentation on the history of hobbits can win the Science Fair!
The review looks like a rehashed product brochure.
...
No measurements at ALL of mouse accuracy. No measurements of keyboard responsiveness. My experience with Bluetooth products is that it goes to sleep every once in a while if you're not constantly moving the mouse or typing, and sometimes it doesn't wake up! This makes browsing the web or programming a chore. This article does NOT address this at all, which tells me that the reviewer spent a few minutes with this product at best and proceded to type the report on a laptop. Also, pairing a new device is also a chore for the uninitiated, also no mention here
That said, the Ars Technica article is no more worthwhile to me than it was then. There are NO BlueTooth combos in there at all. RF is generally quite useless when you get more than 5 ft away from the receiver. This means that RF devices are useless for a Media Center PC, unless you are sitting 5 ft away from your PC, in which case, there is no real need for wireless!
The article shows largely a series of examples where you DID have HIGHLY PAID and HIGHLY trained professionals with plenty of experience and oversight, but nevertheless very significant bugs occurred
first bug was improper process
second was sabotage
third was INEXPERIENCE
fourth was new tech experiment, professionals involved but probably mostly grad students with varying experience
fifth - I'll grant you this one
sixth - I've worked with telcos for 10 years, chances are, it was a mod rushed out by marketing, switch bugs are, like in any other programming field, par for the course.
seventh - poor oversight and testing
eighth - university code base, generally minimal oversight.
ninth - improper testing
tenth - might qualify, but the doctors clearly went outside the allowed specs and did not check the calculations.
So, out of the 10, only one and half can be said as having "HIGHLY PAID and HIGHLY trained professionals with plenty of experience and oversight", I would say that your statement is at odds with the article, not the parent post.
No wonder they stopped making them. They were putting plumbers and stores out of business with durable and reliable air conditioners
Agreed, it could well be a case of:
...
Google engineer 1: Hey, you hear that rumour about us doing IM stuff?
Google engineer 2: But we're not, right?
Google engineer 1: No, but sounds like a good idea!
Google engineer 2: True.
Google engineer 1: You got any free time handy? We could bang this out in a week!
Google engineer 2: Let's!
I'll wait for the final ... if there is one ...
Everest accumulated 87M$ in US Box Office and 40M$ more internationally. Top 7 IMAX films all surpass 20M$ in US BO. About half of them, imho, qualify as documentary ...
Whereas March of Penguins has 26.5M$ in US BO so far and 15.5M more internationally.
March of Penguins did NOT get 20M$ in one weekend (yet)
and all the other IMAX films like that, they aren't documentaries?
How do you decide tied soccer games?
I've used IR mice before the iogear BT mouse, but it made me a BT convert. The on / off switch was just so sensible
they can search for p2p sites to sue faster than ever before!