Leave your graduated cylinder at home -- It is illegal to pump gas into a non-approved container. A better idea would be to fit a flow meter on the end of the nozzle while you're filling your car. Then you can not only track discrepancies, but you can find out if the pump "makes up for it" at the 5- or 10-gallon mark.
I think you're correct when you imply that rendering would be difficult to standardize, but I don't think that's what they're trying to do. There's a difference between rendering and modelling, and I believe the standard they are making is for a description of the model. Individual rendering engines would still have the choice of how they actually display the models, including how much detail they show and what hardware optimizations they take advantage of.
I agree that those topics are worthy of deeper discussion, but I think the article stands well on its own. I'm learning Python and I think the unittest section will help greatly while stumbling through the process of building applications.
The links he provides in the Resources section at the end of the article provide well-rounded background information on testing in general.
No matter what magic or technology is put in place to make your job easier, your job will require you to do more simply because your competitors will have access to the same.
Likewise, if your job requires less work (read "stress"), you're going to have to find something else to work on because no one is going to pay you the same to do less.
Teaching him not to commit crimes will of course make society safer. However, I don't think you can show that sending him to jail will teach him that lesson.
Rehabilitation is a subject that some people spend their whole lives studying, so I really can't suggest better methods of handling this kid. Maybe a week or two behind bars would suffice to scare this kid straight. On the other hand, it might also teach him the lesson that he needs to be more devious and ruthless the next time he commits a crime. He can certainly meet plenty of mentors for that during his stint. I would just like to encourage a little thought behind sentencing.
Crime isn't a single variable equation (criminal | !criminal) that can be adjusted solely by length of time in jail. If more of the public believed this, fewer legislators would feel the need to appear tough on crime by mandating jail time.
This could spawn a whole thread on rehabilitation, but I'm actually glad the judge didn't send him to prison. This bucks the trend in the states where any computer crime is practically considered terrorism.
It was a non-violent crime and I don't think society would be one bit safer with him behind bars.
Yeah, this is modded as "funny", but it's a lot easier to find food for a mule than a robot. Plus, mules don't need as much specialized maintenance or support.
Well, another reason studios release movies in different territories at different times is advertising. They can pump a bunch of money into ads for a crappy movie and people will see it anyway. However, they can also pump a bunch of money into ads for a crappy movie and nobody will see it. See the difference? Neither can they, but the answer isn't to stop pumping money into ads, it's a more scientific method of experimentation.
If they release a movie in Region N and spend X million in ads, how does that affect sales? This process is repeated until they get a fairly good idea of the "correct" amount of money to spend on ads.
See, ads have to be bought ahead of time and it's hard to predict which movies will succeed and which will fail. That's why any data they collect in one market can help them devise ad strategy for others.
Regional encoding is pretty lame, but staged releases of movies is inevitable.
Actually, our business is sending (and creating) newsletters for other companies (trade journals and such.) However, one IronPort customer is a major news organization that sends stock updates. The ability to send all of them out quickly is vital (whereas we're happy to just get all of the newsletters out the same day.)
The company I work for is looking at using one of these boxes to send our opted-in newsletters. IronPort may be popular with spammers, but I have to agree that there are perfectly ethical reasons to send out millions of emails per day (per hour in fact!) The IronPort systems are by far the fastest mail servers around.
The 7 +/- rule has already been debunked
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If you recall an earlier discussion here about ternary computing (base 3 instead of base 2) there is a scientific proof that the optimal balance between width-oriented menus (lots of choices at each level, decreasing the number of levels) and depth-oriented menus (few choices at each level, deeper levels) is to have e (~2.7) choices. Obviously you can't have.7 choices, but if the number of choices per level averages to e and you group your choices logically, you'll have a solid argument that your layout is optimal.
Indeed, New Hampshire uses Diebold's ACCUVOTE voting machine. Since today is election day, I recommend you Google "[your state here] State Board Elections" if you are concerned about this.
...I'm doing my part in ridding Mother Earth of that black poison called "oil" polluting her crust. The sooner we all chip in and convert this into harmless CO2 and water the better.
Prices can be determined by how much someone is willing to pay for a particular good or service. People get up-in-arms about stories like this (and stories about how Amazon.com is giving different prices to different customers) because they believe that if a price differs between people there is some sort of discrimination happening. The fact is that the price differs because different people have different demands. Consumers freak out about price above cost -- producers freak out about price below demand.
Furthermore, I think that this sort of pricing, if taken to its logical conclusion, would enable greater diversity in the sort of goods and services everyone enjoys. That, in turn, would enrich everyone's life.
For instance, I could care less about sewing. That means my demand is less for a book about sewing, and the price of a sewing book would have to be very low indeed for me to buy it. However, as the price declines I become more and more tempted to pick it up on a whim. If I do buy it (presumably above cost) that is at least one more sale the retailer, wholesaler, publisher and author wouldn't have otherwise had, and I would still know squat about mending my ratty old sweaters.
On the other hand, I would be extremely interested in, say, a book containing genetic algorithms in Python. My demand is high, and I would pay a higher price than what was offered to someone who wasn't interested in the subject.
Of course everyone would rather pay less for what they want, but the alternative - a single offer price per good or service - would end up widening the rift between lower and middle classes, and force everyone into narrower areas of interest.
Heck yeah. I was able to pick a number that spelled something pretty cool (www.phonespell.com) and easy to remember with my first carrier. I recently decided to get a second phone (because of contract lock-in and service dissatisfaction with my first) so now I'm paying for two phones.
With Sprint (my second carrier) I had to choose my number twice with the store personnel (his mistake) only to be informed by a second assistant (the one on the phone activating my service) that my number was yet a third. So my new number isn't easy to remember and has zeros so it can't spell anything.
If this goes through, and probably the biggest "if", IF Sprint decides to let me change my number, I'll be changing it immediately.
I don't like the idea that if I wrote Moby Dick when I was 30 I'd have to relinquish my copyright or fork over my retirement money when I was 70.
In fact, if IP is truly property it should also be inheritable. One should be able to go through life releasing high-quality works, making enough off of each one just to get by, and then be able to leave the collected works to one's children.
It's been a while since my Optics 101 class, but if memory serves, the index of refraction can change if the density of the material changes. So, if the density is larger at the edges of a surface than at the center, light would focus through it even though the lens was flat.
So, does the new licensing plan allow them to basically, delay new technologies? It seems that, with their latest scheme, it reduces their motivation to release newer/better products.
Actually, having a monopoly reduces their motivation to release new/better products even more. This is just a symptom.
I see a lot of people are quick to lay it on heavy with China, but balance this article with the Three Gorges hydroelectric plant they're building. It will be absolutely huge, and they're sacrificing a lot of cultural identity to get it. Once it's in place and the rivers start rising, they'll wash away litterally thousands of archeological sites dating back to before the Ming Dynasty. Equate that with flooding Rome or Greece.
All that is to produce clean, renewable energy and to prevent the incredible loss of life those rivers cause when they flood.
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Leave your graduated cylinder at home -- It is illegal to pump gas into a non-approved container. A better idea would be to fit a flow meter on the end of the nozzle while you're filling your car. Then you can not only track discrepancies, but you can find out if the pump "makes up for it" at the 5- or 10-gallon mark.
I think you're correct when you imply that rendering would be difficult to standardize, but I don't think that's what they're trying to do. There's a difference between rendering and modelling, and I believe the standard they are making is for a description of the model. Individual rendering engines would still have the choice of how they actually display the models, including how much detail they show and what hardware optimizations they take advantage of.
I agree that those topics are worthy of deeper discussion, but I think the article stands well on its own. I'm learning Python and I think the unittest section will help greatly while stumbling through the process of building applications.
The links he provides in the Resources section at the end of the article provide well-rounded background information on testing in general.
No matter what magic or technology is put in place to make your job easier, your job will require you to do more simply because your competitors will have access to the same.
Likewise, if your job requires less work (read "stress"), you're going to have to find something else to work on because no one is going to pay you the same to do less.
I think "Pootie" refers to the 2001 blaxploitation spoof movie "Pootie Tang"
The professional reviews don't do this movie justice. It was a non-stop laugh riot.
Teaching him not to commit crimes will of course make society safer. However, I don't think you can show that sending him to jail will teach him that lesson.
In Australia at least, 41 per cent of all inmates who had served a prison term [are] returning to jail within two years. I don't think any other country can boast of significantly better numbers (unless, of course, they immediately execute people found guilty.)
Rehabilitation is a subject that some people spend their whole lives studying, so I really can't suggest better methods of handling this kid. Maybe a week or two behind bars would suffice to scare this kid straight. On the other hand, it might also teach him the lesson that he needs to be more devious and ruthless the next time he commits a crime. He can certainly meet plenty of mentors for that during his stint. I would just like to encourage a little thought behind sentencing.
Crime isn't a single variable equation (criminal | !criminal) that can be adjusted solely by length of time in jail. If more of the public believed this, fewer legislators would feel the need to appear tough on crime by mandating jail time.
This could spawn a whole thread on rehabilitation, but I'm actually glad the judge didn't send him to prison. This bucks the trend in the states where any computer crime is practically considered terrorism.
It was a non-violent crime and I don't think society would be one bit safer with him behind bars.
Adam.
Oooo... Feel that Karma burn...
Yeah, this is modded as "funny", but it's a lot easier to find food for a mule than a robot. Plus, mules don't need as much specialized maintenance or support.
Well, another reason studios release movies in different territories at different times is advertising. They can pump a bunch of money into ads for a crappy movie and people will see it anyway. However, they can also pump a bunch of money into ads for a crappy movie and nobody will see it. See the difference? Neither can they, but the answer isn't to stop pumping money into ads, it's a more scientific method of experimentation.
If they release a movie in Region N and spend X million in ads, how does that affect sales? This process is repeated until they get a fairly good idea of the "correct" amount of money to spend on ads.
See, ads have to be bought ahead of time and it's hard to predict which movies will succeed and which will fail. That's why any data they collect in one market can help them devise ad strategy for others.
Regional encoding is pretty lame, but staged releases of movies is inevitable.
Actually, our business is sending (and creating) newsletters for other companies (trade journals and such.) However, one IronPort customer is a major news organization that sends stock updates. The ability to send all of them out quickly is vital (whereas we're happy to just get all of the newsletters out the same day.)
The company I work for is looking at using one of these boxes to send our opted-in newsletters. IronPort may be popular with spammers, but I have to agree that there are perfectly ethical reasons to send out millions of emails per day (per hour in fact!) The IronPort systems are by far the fastest mail servers around.
If you recall an earlier discussion here about ternary computing (base 3 instead of base 2) there is a scientific proof that the optimal balance between width-oriented menus (lots of choices at each level, decreasing the number of levels) and depth-oriented menus (few choices at each level, deeper levels) is to have e (~2.7) choices. Obviously you can't have .7 choices, but if the number of choices per level averages to e and you group your choices logically, you'll have a solid argument that your layout is optimal.
Last night I discovered that at least the Virginia State Board of Elections lists what voting machines they use, and today I found New Hampshire's:
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http://www.sbe.state.va.us/Election/Voting_In_V
http://www.state.nh.us/sos/voting
Indeed, New Hampshire uses Diebold's ACCUVOTE voting machine. Since today is election day, I recommend you Google "[your state here] State Board Elections" if you are concerned about this.
...I'm doing my part in ridding Mother Earth of that black poison called "oil" polluting her crust. The sooner we all chip in and convert this into harmless CO2 and water the better.
Prices can be determined by how much someone is willing to pay for a particular good or service. People get up-in-arms about stories like this (and stories about how Amazon.com is giving different prices to different customers) because they believe that if a price differs between people there is some sort of discrimination happening. The fact is that the price differs because different people have different demands. Consumers freak out about price above cost -- producers freak out about price below demand.
Furthermore, I think that this sort of pricing, if taken to its logical conclusion, would enable greater diversity in the sort of goods and services everyone enjoys. That, in turn, would enrich everyone's life.
For instance, I could care less about sewing. That means my demand is less for a book about sewing, and the price of a sewing book would have to be very low indeed for me to buy it. However, as the price declines I become more and more tempted to pick it up on a whim. If I do buy it (presumably above cost) that is at least one more sale the retailer, wholesaler, publisher and author wouldn't have otherwise had, and I would still know squat about mending my ratty old sweaters.
On the other hand, I would be extremely interested in, say, a book containing genetic algorithms in Python. My demand is high, and I would pay a higher price than what was offered to someone who wasn't interested in the subject.
Of course everyone would rather pay less for what they want, but the alternative - a single offer price per good or service - would end up widening the rift between lower and middle classes, and force everyone into narrower areas of interest.
Heck yeah. I was able to pick a number that spelled something pretty cool (www.phonespell.com) and easy to remember with my first carrier. I recently decided to get a second phone (because of contract lock-in and service dissatisfaction with my first) so now I'm paying for two phones.
With Sprint (my second carrier) I had to choose my number twice with the store personnel (his mistake) only to be informed by a second assistant (the one on the phone activating my service) that my number was yet a third. So my new number isn't easy to remember and has zeros so it can't spell anything.
If this goes through, and probably the biggest "if", IF Sprint decides to let me change my number, I'll be changing it immediately.
True, but he still can deliver the song by snail mailing a CD.
The price of something is not only given by the supply (presumably going up because of cheaper production costs) but also by the demand for it.
People who keep complaining about the price of music CD's are just upset that their personal demand for CD's is too high.
I don't like the idea that if I wrote Moby Dick when I was 30 I'd have to relinquish my copyright or fork over my retirement money when I was 70.
In fact, if IP is truly property it should also be inheritable. One should be able to go through life releasing high-quality works, making enough off of each one just to get by, and then be able to leave the collected works to one's children.
It's been a while since my Optics 101 class, but if memory serves, the index of refraction can change if the density of the material changes. So, if the density is larger at the edges of a surface than at the center, light would focus through it even though the lens was flat.
Are metamaterials homogenous?
Step 1: Get contract to do Linux support for IBM
Step 2: Get another vendor to do the Linux support for you
Step 3: Profit!
I think only ecommerce apps will mallfunction...
So, does the new licensing plan allow them to basically, delay new technologies? It seems that, with their latest scheme, it reduces their motivation to release newer/better products.
Actually, having a monopoly reduces their motivation to release new/better products even more. This is just a symptom.
I see a lot of people are quick to lay it on heavy with China, but balance this article with the Three Gorges hydroelectric plant they're building. It will be absolutely huge, and they're sacrificing a lot of cultural identity to get it. Once it's in place and the rivers start rising, they'll wash away litterally thousands of archeological sites dating back to before the Ming Dynasty. Equate that with flooding Rome or Greece.
All that is to produce clean, renewable energy and to prevent the incredible loss of life those rivers cause when they flood.