Hmm... Is this an argument for word-shapes? It certainly sounds like evidence against serial letter reading (though there are plenty of those already).
Does anyone remember the movie "Pi"? All this talk about the universality of the Fibonacci sequence makes me wonder if the movie was referencing the wrong fundamental constant...
The most troublesome simplification in economics is not the assumption that people are rational; it's the assumption that people have "perfect knowledge" of their alternatives. The fact is that a consumer may not know that a rival product is out there, or that store X down the street has a better price. This is where traditional economics fails, and marketing & product postioning theories take over.
Actually I thought Vader was the one who restores the balance himself. Episode I: 1000s of Jedi, 2 Sith. Episode IV: 2-1/2 Jedi, 2 Sith. Hmm, which one sounds more balanced?:)
...that it must be a BadThing(TM). If this had been a favorable ruling, it would have been lauded as the height of reason & insight, no matter how twisted the logic. Good to see that the level of 'objectivity' around here hasn't changed.;)
Is this a troll? Or are you truly unaware of "soft money"? Of course Bush's direct contributions look clean, because those are the funds that are limited & regulated. All the corporate megabucks go to the party, with a quiet understanding that it will be used for his campaign.
I was thinking the same thing. However, as many have pointed out, there are long wires going back from the cockpit to the various avoinics systems in the plane. It's possible that these lines are acting as RF antennae, picking up signals with much greater sensitivity than the short traces in your home computer. Of course, the wiring should have been well shielded in the first place, but...
Err, "inches" may be a bit of an exaggeration (unless he's operating it on the floor of the cabin, using his feet!). A couple of feet is more like it.
Still, you've got a point. Also, the RF from the transmission towers is outside the plane, and the metal shell of the aircraft probably blocks some of it, in addition to the distance being greater.
I don't think that article says anything about one hardware platform being better than the other, and I don't doubt that had NVidia won the bundling deal, they would've had a "NVidia Shader Day" event, regardless of the performance of the product.
Err, I think that was sort of the point of the article...
If the solution to the performance issues was a simple driver update from NVidia (WITHOUT degrading quality in any way), then surely Valve would've left it to Nvidia to handle and proceeded to spend their time working on the game iteself...
It depends; Valve may have decided not to wait for the new drivers, for any number of reasons. You know, schedule issues, a sincere desire to make it work with the existing (widely distributed) drivers, the chance produce anti-nVidia FUD for their new corporate overlords...:)
I think he has a point, insofar as people believe this to be the case. But that doesn't make it so. It's entirely possible that some grand upheaval could yet undermine global corporate hegemony. I'll grant you that the extreme capitalist dystopia has been done to death in scifi these days, but that just means that scifi writers need to broaden their own horizons a bit.
Yes, but technically the data on the system could not be trusted from the moment it went online, since a hacker of similar skill could have used the same exploit at any time and (presumably) avoid detection. In a sense, Lamo didn't compromise the system --NYT's sysadmins did. Lamo merely pointed it out to them. Even if he hadn't actually hacked in, the mere existence of the flaw would be enough to render their data untrustworthy.
They needed to settle to put a definitive end to it. Simply failing to follow up would have left it open ended, and everyone would remember the original action but not the later inaction.
The question is: why $2000 instead of $2? I'm guessing $2000 is normally their lower limit on settlements, but still... Is there some legal reasoning why they couldn't make an exception in this case, or do they really think that $2000 is reasonable for a family in the projects to pay?
Heh, same here; although my name originally meant something specific to one forum, I kept reusing it because it's only one I've never had a problem registering. Apparently not many people like to call themselves "cheesy" in their username...
A lot of the early shows which made them great wouldn't last one season if they premiered on Fox now. The frustrating thing is that Fox still greenlights these innovative projects, but then turns around and kills them in their infancy. It would almost be better if they didn't buy these concept-shows in the first place. Then we wouldn't be tortured with the might-have-beens; and maybe the good ones would find an audience on cable or syndication.
I won't see this movie, because I was a fan of the series. I'm tied of being yanked around by the studios.
Err, I think you're a bit confused. What do the [movie] studios have to do with television? Last I checked, TV shows are cancelled by the TV networks, and networks != studios. Now if this movie were being produced by Fox Studios, you'd have point; but as far as I can tell, that's not the case.
For every obvious, common sense proposition, there is at least one well-respected expert/skeptic who publicly doubts that proposition. Also, there is a need to prove the effectiveness of a specific course of treatment (in this case, the specific game software), before it will be accepted for therapeutic use.
There's some truth to this argument, but some falsehood as well. One of the problems with international trade (and particularly labor) has to do with currency. The fact is that exchange rates are rarely indicative of the relatvie cost of goods in a country. While it's true that the standard of living may be different in India, it's also true that the amount of USD needed to sustain an USian lifestyle is probably also a lot less than in the US itself.
You can see a similar effect within the USA itself. As some have pointed out, $100K+ per year in northern California will barely get you a middle-class lifestyle --the same as you could have for ~$50K in parts of the southeast. Besides the intangibles of local culture, there's nothing in NoCal that's not available in Georgia, yet the monetary cost of living is very different.
As for moving to other countries: I don't know about India specifically, but in general: you try explaining to a foreign country's immigration why you should be allowed permanent residence just so you can take low-cost outsourcing jobs away from native citizens. Have fun in their detention center...
BTW, if companies outsource everything overseas, they face serious core-knowledge issues. What happens when their contractor folds or decides not to renew their contract? Bada-bing, they're left with no-one to even teach the new guys about the product. Ultimately, I believe that basic code-monkey skills will become blue-collar. But there is always a place for serious software designer/architects, whose knowledge and experience differentiate an established company from wannabe newcomers in the field.
I don't understand. Are you saying that a large, democratic government that consists of hundreds of different people with different opinions, different worldviews, and different agendas might not always agree with itself or be self-consistent?! Say it ain't so!
You know, this is a great hypothetical argument; if our gub'ment was actually democratic, you'd have a great point...:)
(SCO's explanation is that the company is talking about a team made up of people who formerly worked at MIT, rather than a group still associated with the school, but "due to contractual obligations, we cannot specifically name the individuals.")
Hmm, does anyone know of any former MIT janitors working over at SCO these days?
Slightly offtopic, but: Are there any papers in the UK that aren't tabloids? The couple of times I've been there, I've seen nothing but trash-talk headlines on every newsrag in the stand.
Not meant to be offensive, I just wonder if we USians are the only ones who still delude ourselves with the myth of unbiased reporting...
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Hmm... Is this an argument for word-shapes? It certainly sounds like evidence against serial letter reading (though there are plenty of those already).
Red Herring is right. I bet they led a lot of people down the garden path in their previous incarnation.
Does anyone remember the movie "Pi"? All this talk about the universality of the Fibonacci sequence makes me wonder if the movie was referencing the wrong fundamental constant...
The most troublesome simplification in economics is not the assumption that people are rational; it's the assumption that people have "perfect knowledge" of their alternatives. The fact is that a consumer may not know that a rival product is out there, or that store X down the street has a better price. This is where traditional economics fails, and marketing & product postioning theories take over.
Actually I thought Vader was the one who restores the balance himself. Episode I: 1000s of Jedi, 2 Sith. Episode IV: 2-1/2 Jedi, 2 Sith. Hmm, which one sounds more balanced? :)
...that it must be a BadThing(TM). If this had been a favorable ruling, it would have been lauded as the height of reason & insight, no matter how twisted the logic. Good to see that the level of 'objectivity' around here hasn't changed. ;)
Is this a troll? Or are you truly unaware of "soft money"? Of course Bush's direct contributions look clean, because those are the funds that are limited & regulated. All the corporate megabucks go to the party, with a quiet understanding that it will be used for his campaign.
I was thinking the same thing. However, as many have pointed out, there are long wires going back from the cockpit to the various avoinics systems in the plane. It's possible that these lines are acting as RF antennae, picking up signals with much greater sensitivity than the short traces in your home computer. Of course, the wiring should have been well shielded in the first place, but...
Err, "inches" may be a bit of an exaggeration (unless he's operating it on the floor of the cabin, using his feet!). A couple of feet is more like it.
Still, you've got a point. Also, the RF from the transmission towers is outside the plane, and the metal shell of the aircraft probably blocks some of it, in addition to the distance being greater.
Unfortunately you'd have to convince a prosecutor, since this is a criminal law. Still, sounds like a great double-whammy ad campaign...
Isn't it possible to OD on caffeine? Now when someone at work asks what I'm doing, I can say "I'm justing having my morning cuppa WMDs."
I don't think that article says anything about one hardware platform being better than the other, and I don't doubt that had NVidia won the bundling deal, they would've had a "NVidia Shader Day" event, regardless of the performance of the product.
:)
Err, I think that was sort of the point of the article...
If the solution to the performance issues was a simple driver update from NVidia (WITHOUT degrading quality in any way), then surely Valve would've left it to Nvidia to handle and proceeded to spend their time working on the game iteself...
It depends; Valve may have decided not to wait for the new drivers, for any number of reasons. You know, schedule issues, a sincere desire to make it work with the existing (widely distributed) drivers, the chance produce anti-nVidia FUD for their new corporate overlords...
I think he has a point, insofar as people believe this to be the case. But that doesn't make it so. It's entirely possible that some grand upheaval could yet undermine global corporate hegemony. I'll grant you that the extreme capitalist dystopia has been done to death in scifi these days, but that just means that scifi writers need to broaden their own horizons a bit.
Yes, but technically the data on the system could not be trusted from the moment it went online, since a hacker of similar skill could have used the same exploit at any time and (presumably) avoid detection. In a sense, Lamo didn't compromise the system --NYT's sysadmins did. Lamo merely pointed it out to them. Even if he hadn't actually hacked in, the mere existence of the flaw would be enough to render their data untrustworthy.
They needed to settle to put a definitive end to it. Simply failing to follow up would have left it open ended, and everyone would remember the original action but not the later inaction.
The question is: why $2000 instead of $2? I'm guessing $2000 is normally their lower limit on settlements, but still... Is there some legal reasoning why they couldn't make an exception in this case, or do they really think that $2000 is reasonable for a family in the projects to pay?
Heh, same here; although my name originally meant something specific to one forum, I kept reusing it because it's only one I've never had a problem registering. Apparently not many people like to call themselves "cheesy" in their username...
A lot of the early shows which made them great wouldn't last one season if they premiered on Fox now. The frustrating thing is that Fox still greenlights these innovative projects, but then turns around and kills them in their infancy. It would almost be better if they didn't buy these concept-shows in the first place. Then we wouldn't be tortured with the might-have-beens; and maybe the good ones would find an audience on cable or syndication.
Don't forget Fox's refusal to air the pilot, forcing them to premiere with a regular episode with no exposition.
Err, I think you're a bit confused. What do the [movie] studios have to do with television? Last I checked, TV shows are cancelled by the TV networks, and networks != studios. Now if this movie were being produced by Fox Studios, you'd have point; but as far as I can tell, that's not the case.
For every obvious, common sense proposition, there is at least one well-respected expert/skeptic who publicly doubts that proposition. Also, there is a need to prove the effectiveness of a specific course of treatment (in this case, the specific game software), before it will be accepted for therapeutic use.
There's some truth to this argument, but some falsehood as well. One of the problems with international trade (and particularly labor) has to do with currency. The fact is that exchange rates are rarely indicative of the relatvie cost of goods in a country. While it's true that the standard of living may be different in India, it's also true that the amount of USD needed to sustain an USian lifestyle is probably also a lot less than in the US itself.
You can see a similar effect within the USA itself. As some have pointed out, $100K+ per year in northern California will barely get you a middle-class lifestyle --the same as you could have for ~$50K in parts of the southeast. Besides the intangibles of local culture, there's nothing in NoCal that's not available in Georgia, yet the monetary cost of living is very different.
As for moving to other countries: I don't know about India specifically, but in general: you try explaining to a foreign country's immigration why you should be allowed permanent residence just so you can take low-cost outsourcing jobs away from native citizens. Have fun in their detention center...
Thanks for the heads-up. My TiVo is on the job! :)
BTW, if companies outsource everything overseas, they face serious core-knowledge issues. What happens when their contractor folds or decides not to renew their contract? Bada-bing, they're left with no-one to even teach the new guys about the product. Ultimately, I believe that basic code-monkey skills will become blue-collar. But there is always a place for serious software designer/architects, whose knowledge and experience differentiate an established company from wannabe newcomers in the field.
I don't understand. Are you saying that a large, democratic government that consists of hundreds of different people with different opinions, different worldviews, and different agendas might not always agree with itself or be self-consistent?! Say it ain't so!
:)
You know, this is a great hypothetical argument; if our gub'ment was actually democratic, you'd have a great point...
(Just kidding, Emperor Dubya!)
Hmm, does anyone know of any former MIT janitors working over at SCO these days?
Slightly offtopic, but: Are there any papers in the UK that aren't tabloids? The couple of times I've been there, I've seen nothing but trash-talk headlines on every newsrag in the stand.
Not meant to be offensive, I just wonder if we USians are the only ones who still delude ourselves with the myth of unbiased reporting...