Did not follow the links (this is still./ right;-)) And I don't disagree at all with your interpretation, but notice how "RT Score" is completely absent from it. My contention is that no matter how you define "Box Office Success", you won't find a correlation between it and the score of RT; which does not mean that there is no correlation with other variables.
Actually, it doesn't. Even if you define success as 'Has 2 billion revenue' you'll find that the three films that met the criterion have 84%, 88% and 92% score. A high one to be sure, but then again you have Dunkirk with a 93% and $500 million, Arrival (94%, $200 million) and Moonlight (98%, 65 million) just to mention recent examples. There's simply no way to correlate movie revenue with RT score.
No reflections, no lobes from the gain antennas, no blockage from green trees.
... lame
Re:Innovative companies fail a lot, MSFT included
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You may be right about innovation. But the FA is not about innovation. Compare MS to IBM, the former 'empire'. It's all about market cap and profits, and in that area MS certainly has been falling behind.
There was a time when technology companies were all about innovation, but we are now seeing the commodization of computing, where it doesn't matter how advanced you are as long as you have the largest market share, which may be gained by innovation but might as well be achieved by fashion sense or plain marketing.
MS lost the internet wave, they lost the mobile wave, they certainly have lost the walled garden wave. The new 'empire' is Apple like it or not, and it's not about innovation now, but profits and market share. Nothing wrong with being the new 'new IBM', but they are no longer at the forefront of technology companies when measured in $$$, they may be behind even Google now.
As usual, the summary is a bit misleading. The Mac support includes only 50 games none of which are part of the interplay "pay what you want" offering. The two announcements were conflated into one. The real Mac promo is here: Mac promo
It's only stupid if you think it was about upholding the law to take down an illegal enterprise, which it wasn't. It was to send a message to all other sites: 'you could be next'. And now the message is complete: we did this, it was illegal and your business is over and even the local government admits it, an yet there will be no consequences for those who did it. So, it's a nice little service you have here, would be a shame if something happened to it.
How is this science? A slate article siting the economist?
Bingo!, that should be a dead giveaway, the author is not trying to publish some paper. Wonder what exactly is he trying to do?...
All this stuff about toxo changing the development of society is entertaining speculation but no data is presented here to make it more than that.
Oh, I see.
I think a brief look at the context should indicate that this article is aimed at entertaining with some speculation, wouldn't you think? I would save the scientific criticism until it appears on Science or Nature
But the thing is, this tournament is for football players, not the population in general. Furthermore, one would think that nowadays it is aimed at professional football players.
But regardless, your analysis has not considered the additional complication of national football federations; each one has a certain number of affiliates, which may or may not reflect the total population of a nation.
why? because there is no linguistic authority that allows people to use words in only proscribed ways
Oh I get it, that's why you use the word proscribed to mean prescribed; very clever, specially when one is the opposite of the other. If you are looking for people supporting this new meaning count me in;-)
Yes, there will be talks with representatives of all divisions. We're just in the process of gathering the necessary information to at least have something concrete to talk about. Another factor to consider is the fact that the IT department at the central offices is not as undermanned, although they have their hands full. So I need to cooperate with them if a solution is eventually adopted.
Thank you for your kind offer. I think I will hold it until I have a more specific request to make, or at least until I know exactly what kind of system will adopt.
I want to thank all the answers so far, in spite of the blurry account of the problem I have. I now have better understanding of what kind of project I'm facing.
As I have mentioned in a previous post; currently, a "document" is a printed paper that has a signature written with a pen on it. Oversimplifying, the proposal boils down to converting these to (probably) pdf files with an equivalent method of "signing" them and confirming to auditors that the stored files have not been tampered with after signing.
I think Domino is a good option, specially because there are some people within the company (not me) that have some experience with it. But there is still the matter of costs and personnel and even before that the question of how much it is an improvement over the current situation.
Yeah, worry was my initial reaction. But still I need to describe the size and implications of such an undertaking if I am to convince the managers that it is not practical to implement this system at this time. Or who knows, maybe talking things through with all the divisions we can reach more specific requirements and bring the project down to a practical size.
Yes, I am aware there are too many details left hanging, that's why I need to hear from someone that has worked with a similar system to at least have an idea what kind of project are we dealing with. From listening to the managers, we need some serious talking to do before a formal proposal is made.
For starters, there's not much money available for the hypothetical system, so that will probably be a showstopper. When i say "documents" I mean anything that when printed on paper has to have a signature (as in "written with a pen") that identifies who wrote it/approved it, most likely a PDF file when talking about an electronic document.
I share your bafflement about the purpose of all this, presumably they want to eliminate all the time needed to move paper around four different locations, and it can't be done by e-mail due to the signature requirements (internal rules, legal implications among other things, lets not delve too much into that just now). But I think they really have not thought through all the added costs.
CDs at the equivelant of $15-$20 U.S., in a country where there average daily wage is about $4
Just a little nitpick, US $4 is the *minimum* daily wage in Mexico, I know we have really low wages over here, but the average is certanly higher than the minimum;-). And yeah, only big retail stores sell CDs now. All the small shops (if they still exist) sell pirated CDs (!)but on the bright side, most of the "catalog" CDs are US$7-10 and only the newest are sold at US $15-20.
But then again, these are CD "pirates" (as in organized crime) we are talking about; the computers/homes ratio here is way too low and it takes ages to download songs at a decent bitrate by dial-up. The vast majority of pirated music is acquired by buying pirated CDs on the street, rather than downloading it. If the Mexican Recording Industry is being destroyed, it is not because of those damn downloaders
People say, ads are obnoxious in my email. Clearly you havn't used hotmail recently. They are in the frame and in the email! Google invented the unobtrusive ad. Compared to the hotmail and yahoo accounts people will be coming from (have you read your SBC/Yahoo terms of service recently), it is hard to see how google will be so much worse for them, even from a privacy standpoint.
Have you tried Yahoo pop3 service? No ads, free account, just configure as any normal pop service.
Same thing using Outlook Express/Hotmail, no ads, just your mail...but this is Slashdot, so that one doesn't count. Yahoo is for real though
I think you mean the first consumer level graphics card to use a 128 *bit* data path. I remember seeing them bundled with Dells in the back cover of Byte a few years ago.
Unless you're looking at SMP solutions, anyone who has kept buying Intel chips over the past eight months needs a beating with the clue stick.
As others have pointed out, there is a flaw in this argument, and it doesn't have to do with AMD. Every VIA chipset I have used has had some "issues". I got so tired of all that crap that I no longer use any VIA chipset, nor recommend it.
Instead of a beating with a cluestick, I'll take a chipset that is rock solid, and works just fine no matter what kind of memory sticks, power supply, operating system or video/TV cards I have.
If someone can recommend an Athlon motherboard that (right now) doesn't use a VIA chipset, can hold a GForce 2, and is available outside the U.S. I would gladly stop buying Intel.
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Did not follow the links (this is still ./ right ;-)) And I don't disagree at all with your interpretation, but notice how "RT Score" is completely absent from it.
My contention is that no matter how you define "Box Office Success", you won't find a correlation between it and the score of RT; which does not mean that there is no correlation with other variables.
Actually, it doesn't. Even if you define success as 'Has 2 billion revenue' you'll find that the three films that met the criterion have 84%, 88% and 92% score. A high one to be sure, but then again you have Dunkirk with a 93% and $500 million, Arrival (94%, $200 million) and Moonlight (98%, 65 million) just to mention recent examples. There's simply no way to correlate movie revenue with RT score.
A valid point, but you have to think carefully before taking a $100K loan for anything, especially if you don't have a good plan for paying it.
No reflections, no lobes from the gain antennas, no blockage from green trees.
... lame
You may be right about innovation. But the FA is not about innovation. Compare MS to IBM, the former 'empire'. It's all about market cap and profits, and in that area MS certainly has been falling behind.
There was a time when technology companies were all about innovation, but we are now seeing the commodization of computing, where it doesn't matter how advanced you are as long as you have the largest market share, which may be gained by innovation but might as well be achieved by fashion sense or plain marketing.
MS lost the internet wave, they lost the mobile wave, they certainly have lost the walled garden wave. The new 'empire' is Apple like it or not, and it's not about innovation now, but profits and market share. Nothing wrong with being the new 'new IBM', but they are no longer at the forefront of technology companies when measured in $$$, they may be behind even Google now.
Ooops, I've found the real announcement too:
GOG.com goes Mac
As usual, the summary is a bit misleading. The Mac support includes only 50 games none of which are part of the interplay "pay what you want" offering. The two announcements were conflated into one. The real Mac promo is here:
Mac promo
It's only stupid if you think it was about upholding the law to take down an illegal enterprise, which it wasn't. It was to send a message to all other sites: 'you could be next'.
And now the message is complete: we did this, it was illegal and your business is over and even the local government admits it, an yet there will be no consequences for those who did it.
So, it's a nice little service you have here, would be a shame if something happened to it.
"Don't eat, see if I give a shit"
Seriously, if you have a contract dispute, take them to court.
In China, take them to court in China. Seriously?
Bingo!, that should be a dead giveaway, the author is not trying to publish some paper. Wonder what exactly is he trying to do?...
Oh, I see.
I think a brief look at the context should indicate that this article is aimed at entertaining with some speculation, wouldn't you think? I would save the scientific criticism until it appears on Science or Nature
But the thing is, this tournament is for football players, not the population in general. Furthermore, one would think that nowadays it is aimed at professional football players.
But regardless, your analysis has not considered the additional complication of national football federations; each one has a certain number of affiliates, which may or may not reflect the total population of a nation.
Oh I get it, that's why you use the word proscribed to mean prescribed; very clever, specially when one is the opposite of the other. If you are looking for people supporting this new meaning count me in ;-)
Yes, there will be talks with representatives of all divisions. We're just in the process of gathering the necessary information to at least have something concrete to talk about.
Another factor to consider is the fact that the IT department at the central offices is not as undermanned, although they have their hands full. So I need to cooperate with them if a solution is eventually adopted.
Thank you for your kind offer. I think I will hold it until I have a more specific request to make, or at least until I know exactly what kind of system will adopt.
I want to thank all the answers so far, in spite of the blurry account of the problem I have. I now have better understanding of what kind of project I'm facing.
As I have mentioned in a previous post; currently, a "document" is a printed paper that has a signature written with a pen on it. Oversimplifying, the proposal boils down to converting these to (probably) pdf files with an equivalent method of "signing" them and confirming to auditors that the stored files have not been tampered with after signing.
I think Domino is a good option, specially because there are some people within the company (not me) that have some experience with it. But there is still the matter of costs and personnel and even before that the question of how much it is an improvement over the current situation.
Yeah, worry was my initial reaction. But still I need to describe the size and implications of such an undertaking if I am to convince the managers that it is not practical to implement this system at this time. Or who knows, maybe talking things through with all the divisions we can reach more specific requirements and bring the project down to a practical size.
Hi, original poster here.
Yes, I am aware there are too many details left hanging, that's why I need to hear from someone that has worked with a similar system to at least have an idea what kind of project are we dealing with. From listening to the managers, we need some serious talking to do before a formal proposal is made.
For starters, there's not much money available for the hypothetical system, so that will probably be a showstopper. When i say "documents" I mean anything that when printed on paper has to have a signature (as in "written with a pen") that identifies who wrote it/approved it, most likely a PDF file when talking about an electronic document.
I share your bafflement about the purpose of all this, presumably they want to eliminate all the time needed to move paper around four different locations, and it can't be done by e-mail due to the signature requirements (internal rules, legal implications among other things, lets not delve too much into that just now). But I think they really have not thought through all the added costs.
Price varies by country. In Mexico it is 11.99. There are no blogs for delivery here though, that sucks
nope
the coconut-roach
Just a little nitpick, US $4 is the *minimum* daily wage in Mexico, I know we have really low wages over here, but the average is certanly higher than the minimum
And yeah, only big retail stores sell CDs now. All the small shops (if they still exist) sell pirated CDs (!)but on the bright side, most of the "catalog" CDs are US$7-10 and only the newest are sold at US $15-20.
But then again, these are CD "pirates" (as in organized crime) we are talking about; the computers/homes ratio here is way too low and it takes ages to download songs at a decent bitrate by dial-up. The vast majority of pirated music is acquired by buying pirated CDs on the street, rather than downloading it. If the Mexican Recording Industry is being destroyed, it is not because of those damn downloaders
Compared to the hotmail and yahoo accounts people will be coming from (have you read your SBC/Yahoo terms of service recently), it is hard to see how google will be so much worse for them, even from a privacy standpoint.
Have you tried Yahoo pop3 service? No ads, free account, just configure as any normal pop service.
Same thing using Outlook Express/Hotmail, no ads, just your mail...but this is Slashdot, so that one doesn't count. Yahoo is for real though
You really need to get your sense of humor checked. Or maybe the joke has been read by too many eyes and has lost the humor it contained. ;-)
(yeah, yeah, I'm joking, no need to inform me about the magical qualities of a joke)
Probably all of your money is not enough
I think you mean the first consumer level graphics card to use a 128 *bit* data path. I remember seeing them bundled with Dells in the back cover of Byte a few years ago.
As others have pointed out, there is a flaw in this argument, and it doesn't have to do with AMD. Every VIA chipset I have used has had some "issues". I got so tired of all that crap that I no longer use any VIA chipset, nor recommend it. Instead of a beating with a cluestick, I'll take a chipset that is rock solid, and works just fine no matter what kind of memory sticks, power supply, operating system or video/TV cards I have.
If someone can recommend an Athlon motherboard that (right now) doesn't use a VIA chipset, can hold a GForce 2, and is available outside the U.S. I would gladly stop buying Intel.