When are we just going to get it over with and create 'unlimited' class competitions for athletics? Augmented or replaced limbs, oxygen doping, performance enhancing drugs, go nuts.
This is more like putting in quarters than buying a game. I'm not sure there's anything morally wrong with the quarters model, as long as there's no trick about what the consumer gets. I'm not personally interested in leasing a game, but I don't know if RMS should ride in and save me from doing it, either.
We can't rely on the mathematical model because people will change their behaviors in response to the new code. E.g., if we find that $2000 x (# bathrooms + # dogs) yields exactly the same results as the current tax code, implement that, people will suddenly find an affinity one bedroom houses (or trees) and cats.
There's a business game in which people who want to something X way demand that the people who want to do it Y way provide a business case. What's the business case for continuing to develop code without a test suite?
Do you comment your code? Why? was there a business case developed for that? Did the electricians install circuit breakers in your building? Why? Did anyone sit down and figure out if this was cost effective? Of course not, because circuit breakers are best practice.
Sure, quantify costs and benefits when you can and when the task is large enough to justify it. But when then costs and benefits are not rigorously defined, it's innappropriate to give the status quo a free pass.
You lose money on every product until you've sold enough to pay off the retooling process, the design process and to force the price of new materials/parts to drop.
Yes, but that's not what "loses money on every Volt it sells" means. That phrase means that they're taking a loss on each marginal unit completely ignoring the fixed costs. What you're describing is, "GM hasn't yet recouped its development costs."
What we need is to attach a captive bee as a co-processor. The main processor would transform any NP-hard problem into a flower problem. Electrodes would connect to the bee's brain to simulate the sensations of the flower-domain problem and communicate back the solution to the computer through intercepted motor control messages.
The fact you might have a technical choice between one person or another, makes no difference at all to the direction those people what this country to go in. Obama or McCain, either a controversial black president, or a first time female vice-president... you see, "change" was inevitable as either likely candidate would have presented "controversial change" no matter who you voted for.
Those weren't the only candidates on the ballet in my state.
Also, there is a big push underway, with widespread support -- even from some artists groups -- to legalize file sharing in exchange for a small levy (~$1.74/month) on your broadband connection.
Fuck that. I don't infringe copyright. Don't steal my money. No new, undiscovered band is going to see this money. It's no different than taking money from the subscribers and giving it to Microsoft, because someone might download MS Office.
Maybe the specific usage of the word "pause" is new-ish, but the concept has been there as far back as I can remember, from before I or anybody I knew even knew what the Internet was.
So long you were playing with people who weren't jerks, you could always request for people to wait a minute while you tie your shoelaces or whatever.
Nobody is asseting that the internet invented time-out (or Al Gore for that matter). He made a comment regarding a story about language. My kids also request "pause" in sports and games, by the way.
Its really easy to figure out if your kid was misdiagnosed. People without ADHD who take the medication (e.g. Concerta) have a very different reaction than, say, my kid who barely notices it but is able to concentrate in class.
I've heard that claim, but I've also heard the opposite -- that Methylphenidate pushes everyone in the same direction.
Wikipedia states:
Methylphenidate is sometimes used by students to enhance their mental abilities, improving their concentration and helping them to study. Professor John Harris, an expert in bioethics has said that it would be unethical to stop healthy people taking the drug. He also argues that it would be "not rational" and against human enhancement to not use the drug to improve people's cognitive abilities.[132] Professor Anjan Chatterjee however has warned that there is a high potential for abuse and may cause serious adverse effects on the heart, meaning that only people with an illness should take the drug. In the British Medical Journal he wrote that it was premature to endorse the use of Ritalin in this way as the effects of the drug on healthy people have not been studied.[133][134] Professor Barbara Sahakian has argued that the use of Ritalin in this way may give students an unfair advantage in examinations and that as a result universities may have to consider making students give urine samples to be tested for the drug.[135]
400 million would only fund a one million dollar tax department at the 400 largest companies. 1/5 of the fortune 500 would have to wing it. A million dollar budget doesn't hire as many people as you'd think, especially with management bonuses, etc. Somehow, I'm not imagining GMs tax department as being 5 people and a supervisor.
OK, I would believe 4 billion or even 40 billion, but I'm pretty sure there's at least one extra zero in the original claim. 400 billion is more than the annual cost of the war in Afghanistan. It's more than $1000 per US citizen.
I would not be surprised, in the least, were the cost of collecting the dough equal to $1 out of every $50 raised.
That wouldn't surprise me, either. The claim wasn't 2.5% of tax revenue, though, it was 2.5% of GDP. The US government certainly didn't collect 400 billion x 50 = 20 trillion in tax revenue; that's more than the whole GDP.
Because it's discriminatory. Why should I have to pay more because I'm a larger person than you?
Because you're buying more of what they're selling. If you went to the hardware and bought lumber, you should expect to pay the same as everyone else for a 2x4. If you went to the hardware store and bought "enough lumber to make me a bed", you should expect them to scale the price to how much lumber you actually needed. Airline tickets aren't exactly like either of these cases, but I hope you can see that what's not "discriminatory" flies in the face of reality.
I seriously doubt 'George Lucas' had anything to do with this. It's possible he's not even aware of it. This was done by the Lucasfilm Ltd legal department. George doesn't exactly engage in day-to-day operations....he has 'people' for that.
I'm sure you're right, but when a person hires people to represent him, then they represent him. I.e., if this isn't what he wants done then George Lucas sucks at employing people.
That's the thing with soccer. The favorites don't always win. It's not like American sports where outcomes tend to be more predictable.
Are you including baseball in American sports? In 2009, the "dominant" New York Yankees won 103 games out of a 162 game schedule. That's less than 2/3.
When it comes to UI's, "most clicked" should absolutely be equated to "most valuable". Doing otherwise could result in a horrid design where the simplest tasks require very convoluted and excessive steps.
Often people click Back multiple times to get where they want. If we could invent a "Go Back to where I wanted to be" button that the user clicked only once, this would be more useful but receive fewer clicks.
Turn the new one into a parody; the lemmings are now Lawyers, Protected speech. Done.
IANAL, but I don't think it works that way. If one were parodying the Lemmings game, then the elements of the Lemmmings game in the parody would be protected. Parodies don't get blanket protection from copyrights in general.
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Any minute now one of these shadow accounts is going to ask me to donate a virtual cow or something.
I want to escape into a world that I can affect. Impotence isn't a compelling fantasy.
They had to open it to put the second-hand OnLive coupon in the box.
I can't wait for Blade Runner vs. Alien.
When are we just going to get it over with and create 'unlimited' class competitions for athletics? Augmented or replaced limbs, oxygen doping, performance enhancing drugs, go nuts.
We already have that. It's called war.
They wouldn't have to scrounge like this if they would implement IPV6.
This is more like putting in quarters than buying a game. I'm not sure there's anything morally wrong with the quarters model, as long as there's no trick about what the consumer gets. I'm not personally interested in leasing a game, but I don't know if RMS should ride in and save me from doing it, either.
We can't rely on the mathematical model because people will change their behaviors in response to the new code. E.g., if we find that $2000 x (# bathrooms + # dogs) yields exactly the same results as the current tax code, implement that, people will suddenly find an affinity one bedroom houses (or trees) and cats.
Why is this a problem?
That makes sense; you wouldn't want them to find out about each other.
There's a business game in which people who want to something X way demand that the people who want to do it Y way provide a business case. What's the business case for continuing to develop code without a test suite?
Do you comment your code? Why? was there a business case developed for that?
Did the electricians install circuit breakers in your building? Why? Did anyone sit down and figure out if this was cost effective? Of course not, because circuit breakers are best practice.
Sure, quantify costs and benefits when you can and when the task is large enough to justify it. But when then costs and benefits are not rigorously defined, it's innappropriate to give the status quo a free pass.
Yes, but that's not what "loses money on every Volt it sells" means. That phrase means that they're taking a loss on each marginal unit completely ignoring the fixed costs. What you're describing is, "GM hasn't yet recouped its development costs."
Don't be ridiculous.
What we need is to attach a captive bee as a co-processor. The main processor would transform any NP-hard problem into a flower problem. Electrodes would connect to the bee's brain to simulate the sensations of the flower-domain problem and communicate back the solution to the computer through intercepted motor control messages.
Those weren't the only candidates on the ballet in my state.
I think the word you want here is wary.
Fuck that. I don't infringe copyright. Don't steal my money. No new, undiscovered band is going to see this money. It's no different than taking money from the subscribers and giving it to Microsoft, because someone might download MS Office.
Nobody is asseting that the internet invented time-out (or Al Gore for that matter). He made a comment regarding a story about language. My kids also request "pause" in sports and games, by the way.
I've heard that claim, but I've also heard the opposite -- that Methylphenidate pushes everyone in the same direction.
Wikipedia states:
OK, I would believe 4 billion or even 40 billion, but I'm pretty sure there's at least one extra zero in the original claim. 400 billion is more than the annual cost of the war in Afghanistan. It's more than $1000 per US citizen.
That wouldn't surprise me, either. The claim wasn't 2.5% of tax revenue, though, it was 2.5% of GDP. The US government certainly didn't collect 400 billion x 50 = 20 trillion in tax revenue; that's more than the whole GDP.
That's staggering if true; $400 billion is ~2.5% of the US GDP. Are you sure about that? 400 million maybe?
Because you're buying more of what they're selling. If you went to the hardware and bought lumber, you should expect to pay the same as everyone else for a 2x4. If you went to the hardware store and bought "enough lumber to make me a bed", you should expect them to scale the price to how much lumber you actually needed. Airline tickets aren't exactly like either of these cases, but I hope you can see that what's not "discriminatory" flies in the face of reality.
I'm sure you're right, but when a person hires people to represent him, then they represent him. I.e., if this isn't what he wants done then George Lucas sucks at employing people.
Are you including baseball in American sports? In 2009, the "dominant" New York Yankees won 103 games out of a 162 game schedule. That's less than 2/3.
Often people click Back multiple times to get where they want. If we could invent a "Go Back to where I wanted to be" button that the user clicked only once, this would be more useful but receive fewer clicks.
IANAL, but I don't think it works that way. If one were parodying the Lemmings game, then the elements of the Lemmmings game in the parody would be protected. Parodies don't get blanket protection from copyrights in general.