But you hit on a point. Corporations often think of it as a battle. Not to battle with their competitor to create the best product so that the informed customers will select it, as capitalism is supposed to work, but against their customers to harm them to the greatest extent they can get away with by giving them the cheapest product at the greatest price.
Couldn't agree more. Something tells me this adversarial model could go a long way towards explaining behaviour like piracy too. Who doesn't like to raise the middle finger to the goliath trying to beat them ?
In Soviet Russia is "Cell Phone Cost Calculator" a common name? For boys or girls?
No that would be in South Africa: "Ever since mobile phone services were introduced in KwaZulu-Natal some parents have named their children after some of the terms used by mobile services providers." My favorite is (mr. ?) Pay as you go Mfeka.
Scott Adams was right : 'Adams introduced the word confusopoly in this book. The word is a combination of confusion and monopoly (or rather oligopoly), defining it as "a group of companies with similar products who intentionally confuse customers instead of competing on price". Examples of industries in which confusopolies exist (according to Adams) include telephone service, insurance, mortgage loans, banking, and financial services.'
It's nothing like Superfetch. Superfetch preloads applications into system memory and this shared cache doesn't do that instead from what I understand it preforms some of the work the linker would do on load in advance.
Please to recall that the Manhattan Project was originally intended to be used in Europe, and that would have, sooner or later, ended the war. Nothing you've put out here makes me think the Axis might have won in the absence of the crypto stuff.
Huh, I had actually never heard that, I just assumed that due to the mores of the times it was easier to bomb "yellow" people than europeans. Strategically it doesn't make a lot of sense to me though. It's hard to image post WW2 being a cold war after bombing the russian backyard with WMD and sentiment in occupied europe might have swung more pro-german after a couple of mushroom clouds. Of course (luckily) we'll never know any of this for sure.
I'll clarify my position. I think that once passed into the collective consciousness it belongs to all of us (hence public domain) and yet only these unimaginative media conglomerates get to remix these movie/tv shows/songs whatever. To them it's only a way to recycle a "property" into a new "product" to make a few quick bucks. I do feel it's somewhat like theft, they're fencing off ever larger parts of the cultural commons.
That doesn't mean by the way that I don't respect the original creators of any work. I hold them in the highest regard and only wish I could contribute like them.
It's certainly part of it. Movies and TV are just another way to tell stories and sites like TV Tropes show quite clearly that it has become part of our "vocabulary." It may not conform to your idea of "high culture" but it does form part of our common background and frame of reference. So don't be a snob, culture is about more than just Picasso.
Outside of science fiction novels, where did it do that? If you're thinking of WWII, the Allies had a gigantically larger industrial base than the Axis could ever summon, and basically won by throwing enough men and materiel at the problem. At most, crypto might have shortened that war, but even that's not crystal clear.
Breaking Enigma helped get those men and materiel past the U-boats. If they hadn't D-day wouldn't have happened (and it was almost a failure even with the resource there) and the Germans wouldn't have been caught in a pincer between the allies and the soviets. I wouldn't discount its influence.
Libraries are on their way out, we're already slipping into an information dark age. The modern library wouldn't have a chance in hell if it were invented today. I mean just imagine trying to convince publishers today to not only let people read their books for free, but to let them take them home, you'd be thrown out on your ass. We're living in a time where there's a wealth of information, but it's so locked up that you can't do anything with it unless you're wealthy.
Yet another regurg of something that was once original and worthwhile. Am i really supposed to believe they're doing this for some other reason than to milk some of their 'property' until it's dry ? Give me back my culture already.
There's been quite a bit of previous research done on Tetris, which has found that just about the only thing playing tetris improves is your ability to play tetris. The spatial expertise acquired while playing tetris is highly domain specific
I had one of those iMacs with a bad lcd (still in warranty though.) I think it's an overheating issue. The fan speed are set too conservatively and components right behind the screen heat up and play havoc with the lcd, especially when gaming in Windows. After checking the specs I was surprised to see that the iMac is rated to operate in temperatures up to 35C (95F) as I was playing games during a heat wave when the ambient temperature was closer to 40C. I've since installed smcFanControl and haven't seen any problems so far.
If it is an iPhone problem, I wonder why the issue is so localized; I'd expect a design flaw to show up more often and more evenly spread over a production run.
Could be a shipping problem. A crate tipped was dropped or incorrectly stored or whatever. That or some guy made it up and then there were copycats, first locally because of local coverage and then internationally as idiots all over the world jump on the bandwagon. I'm leaning towards the first explanation but I'm not discounting the second.
Right. Because it's only conservative Christians who "gay bash." Islamic fundamentalists, for whom gay bashing laws are still on the theocratic books, get a pass in the public consciousness, as usual..
I was always taught to get your own garden in order before you go looking over the fence. Lead by example and all that.
>>>I'd trust the BBC any day of the week over "news" reported by a Murdoch mouthpiece.
I disagree. Not that I have any great love fox Murdoch, but I don't trust the BBC. They are as slanted as PBS, constantly trying to explain why we need more and bigger government programs. I don't need to hear that bias. Just once I'd like to hear either the BBC or PBS present a story about why government needs to be smaller, but of course that will never happen.
You can say what you want about the BBC but they employ people like Jeremy Paxman AKA the last news man with balls. If he lived in the states he'd probably be relegated to some topical comedy show.
It's not profitable to incarcerate, it's very expensive to incarcerate.
Expensive for the taxpayer, not for all the lawyers that have to be hired and the judges that get payed off or the stockholders of private sector prisons nor for the politicians who get kickbacks and jobs for constituents.
Sure, but how many crimes did it prevent? I always considered cameras more of a prevention, i.e. only idiots commit crimes in front of cameras.
Only idiots commit crimes. And a lot of them are committed in front of cameras of all sorts, witnesses, etc. Sure people might love the idea of a "Jean Valjean" everyman forced into crime by circumstance but how many do you really know ? Most are just thickheaded cretins, they don't care about cameras.
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Oh my. Is it bad that I know all those "games" ?
I guess disgruntled lovers wouldn't even have to know the password since they know enough about you to answer the password reset questions.
But you hit on a point. Corporations often think of it as a battle. Not to battle with their competitor to create the best product so that the informed customers will select it, as capitalism is supposed to work, but against their customers to harm them to the greatest extent they can get away with by giving them the cheapest product at the greatest price.
Couldn't agree more. Something tells me this adversarial model could go a long way towards explaining behaviour like piracy too. Who doesn't like to raise the middle finger to the goliath trying to beat them ?
In Soviet Russia is "Cell Phone Cost Calculator" a common name? For boys or girls?
No that would be in South Africa: "Ever since mobile phone services were introduced in KwaZulu-Natal some parents have named their children after some of the terms used by mobile services providers." My favorite is (mr. ?) Pay as you go Mfeka.
Scott Adams was right : 'Adams introduced the word confusopoly in this book. The word is a combination of confusion and monopoly (or rather oligopoly), defining it as "a group of companies with similar products who intentionally confuse customers instead of competing on price". Examples of industries in which confusopolies exist (according to Adams) include telephone service, insurance, mortgage loans, banking, and financial services.'
It's nothing like Superfetch. Superfetch preloads applications into system memory and this shared cache doesn't do that instead from what I understand it preforms some of the work the linker would do on load in advance.
How about WHARRGARBL ?
Please to recall that the Manhattan Project was originally intended to be used in Europe, and that would have, sooner or later, ended the war. Nothing you've put out here makes me think the Axis might have won in the absence of the crypto stuff.
Huh, I had actually never heard that, I just assumed that due to the mores of the times it was easier to bomb "yellow" people than europeans. Strategically it doesn't make a lot of sense to me though. It's hard to image post WW2 being a cold war after bombing the russian backyard with WMD and sentiment in occupied europe might have swung more pro-german after a couple of mushroom clouds. Of course (luckily) we'll never know any of this for sure.
since i gave M$ advice, I'll tell Linux how to beat M$: make a app store. I know, stupidly obvious, but there isn't one built into ubuntu.
It's been done : Click & Run, and it wasn't a great success.
I'll clarify my position. I think that once passed into the collective consciousness it belongs to all of us (hence public domain) and yet only these unimaginative media conglomerates get to remix these movie/tv shows/songs whatever. To them it's only a way to recycle a "property" into a new "product" to make a few quick bucks. I do feel it's somewhat like theft, they're fencing off ever larger parts of the cultural commons.
That doesn't mean by the way that I don't respect the original creators of any work. I hold them in the highest regard and only wish I could contribute like them.
It's certainly part of it. Movies and TV are just another way to tell stories and sites like TV Tropes show quite clearly that it has become part of our "vocabulary." It may not conform to your idea of "high culture" but it does form part of our common background and frame of reference. So don't be a snob, culture is about more than just Picasso.
Outside of science fiction novels, where did it do that? If you're thinking of WWII, the Allies had a gigantically larger industrial base than the Axis could ever summon, and basically won by throwing enough men and materiel at the problem. At most, crypto might have shortened that war, but even that's not crystal clear.
Breaking Enigma helped get those men and materiel past the U-boats. If they hadn't D-day wouldn't have happened (and it was almost a failure even with the resource there) and the Germans wouldn't have been caught in a pincer between the allies and the soviets. I wouldn't discount its influence.
I'm using Windows 2000.
PC users already subsidize Microsoft through the MS-tax on every PC sold. Apple have just cut out the middle man.
Libraries are on their way out, we're already slipping into an information dark age. The modern library wouldn't have a chance in hell if it were invented today. I mean just imagine trying to convince publishers today to not only let people read their books for free, but to let them take them home, you'd be thrown out on your ass. We're living in a time where there's a wealth of information, but it's so locked up that you can't do anything with it unless you're wealthy.
Yet another regurg of something that was once original and worthwhile. Am i really supposed to believe they're doing this for some other reason than to milk some of their 'property' until it's dry ? Give me back my culture already.
Wilson ? Wiiiiiiilsooooon !
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There's been quite a bit of previous research done on Tetris, which has found that just about the only thing playing tetris improves is your ability to play tetris. The spatial expertise acquired while playing tetris is highly domain specific
Bagging groceries is like real-life tetris :-)
I had one of those iMacs with a bad lcd (still in warranty though.) I think it's an overheating issue. The fan speed are set too conservatively and components right behind the screen heat up and play havoc with the lcd, especially when gaming in Windows. After checking the specs I was surprised to see that the iMac is rated to operate in temperatures up to 35C (95F) as I was playing games during a heat wave when the ambient temperature was closer to 40C. I've since installed smcFanControl and haven't seen any problems so far.
If it is an iPhone problem, I wonder why the issue is so localized; I'd expect a design flaw to show up more often and more evenly spread over a production run.
Could be a shipping problem. A crate tipped was dropped or incorrectly stored or whatever. That or some guy made it up and then there were copycats, first locally because of local coverage and then internationally as idiots all over the world jump on the bandwagon. I'm leaning towards the first explanation but I'm not discounting the second.
Right. Because it's only conservative Christians who "gay bash." Islamic fundamentalists, for whom gay bashing laws are still on the theocratic books, get a pass in the public consciousness, as usual..
I was always taught to get your own garden in order before you go looking over the fence. Lead by example and all that.
>>>I'd trust the BBC any day of the week over "news" reported by a Murdoch mouthpiece.
I disagree. Not that I have any great love fox Murdoch, but I don't trust the BBC. They are as slanted as PBS, constantly trying to explain why we need more and bigger government programs. I don't need to hear that bias. Just once I'd like to hear either the BBC or PBS present a story about why government needs to be smaller, but of course that will never happen.
You can say what you want about the BBC but they employ people like Jeremy Paxman AKA the last news man with balls. If he lived in the states he'd probably be relegated to some topical comedy show.
It's not profitable to incarcerate, it's very expensive to incarcerate.
Expensive for the taxpayer, not for all the lawyers that have to be hired and the judges that get payed off or the stockholders of private sector prisons nor for the politicians who get kickbacks and jobs for constituents.
The racism flag seems to get trotted out a little too often these days.
Come on. Everyone known those stupid polacks are dirty racists :o)
Sure, but how many crimes did it prevent? I always considered cameras more of a prevention, i.e. only idiots commit crimes in front of cameras.
Only idiots commit crimes. And a lot of them are committed in front of cameras of all sorts, witnesses, etc. Sure people might love the idea of a "Jean Valjean" everyman forced into crime by circumstance but how many do you really know ? Most are just thickheaded cretins, they don't care about cameras.