I see where you are coming from there, but it slightly misrepresents the actual analysis being done.
In baseball, the logic is "runs scored" win games (or more precisely, the run differential) and each play influences the expected runs scored over 9 innings. Good batting or good pitching is converted into equivalent run differential gained (through positive contribution on the batting side or limiting the opposition runs on the pitching side).
You can simply evaluate run differential contributed per dollar paid.
Likewise with football - you do not try to link a single player to win percentage with only 16 games per season. But you can: - determine how yardage differential impacts the likelihood of winning.. this over all teams and multiple seasons so is easy - determine each players contribution to yardage gains on a per-play basis
So in football, it becomes feasible to mode individual contributions when you are looking at 1000-2000 plays per season per team.
Not sure if that is satire of the "American-centric" articles on Slashdot or politic satire...
Presumable not a lame political statement or ignorance of the US being only a small part of the overall world oil market - US imports only form around 5% of total worldwide petroleum trade.
I probably should have been clearer... I think FB should call their bluff because they'll win this battle
Facebook enforcing a ban on that region would work just like age restrictions and its current real-name policies... ie not at all.. People would just lie and work around it... same customer base as before - no loss
If they truly enforced it through something like geolocation, there would be such a huge outcry and FB would get their way pretty quickly - again no loss
maybe a troll - yes disagrees with your views - yes an idiot and an AC - no
free & open-source software existed before RMS and would have existed without him... and he is clearly politically driven more by a philosophy than practical considerations... and is somewhat of a nut-job !
ignorant of what the world was like without RMS's free software movement.
what was it like? i seem to recall that we got by just fine... like we did before "Steve jobs invented the iPod" or "Bill Gates invented DOS/Windows"
Just because someone was the front-runner or the biggest fanatic in an area DOES NOT mean the world would have been a disaster without them !
Methinks someone who takes the attitude "Its 1000 miles to Wongamonga, we've got half a tank of gas, half a packet of cigarettes, it's dark, we're wearing sunglasses and we've got GPS - hit it!" is an accident waiting to happen.
You clearly haven't driven in Australia... that would be 1,600 kilometres, you wouldn't leave with only half a pack of cigarettes and where's the booze?
Best comparison is trying to get to Barstow and being directed off into the Mojave Desert...
We are talking about a town/city of 30,000 people that 5-6hr from a major city and fairly obvious rural highways from place to place... then being directed off into a national park of 1.5 million acres (approaching something like Yellowstone NP)
Yes - its rural and could get tourists into trouble but is still real Darwin Award stuff !
Why is that any different to researcher or expert or scientist? They are just as useless or even less useful terms
It is an Australian article using "Australian English" or "British English"... the term is well understood to define an academic/researcher with a very strong but narrow focus in a typical theoretical area.
It is no more problematic than terms like futurist (who has a broader focus) or your typical engineer/scientist labels (for those who are more problem solving focused).
But then I could not really see why this design would out-perform the helicopter/airship hybrid designs - most of those have thrust vectoring props which seems to be a more responsive system for hover and add the possibility of faster horizontal flight.
The UN has gotten a really bad reputation lately due to the pandering to groups that outright hate the United States. However, the US is called upon to be the world's police force, ambulance, piggy bank, and shoulder to cry on; but the US is denied the ability to have an appropriate role in the UN in exchange for these services.
Really? Just really?
I suspect many outside of the US would be of the view that the US has the most dominant role in the UN and that is the sole reason it is called upon is to serve predominantly US interests.
Unfortunately, 'pandering to groups that outright hate the United States' is part of allowing uniform representative. It just so happens there are A LOT of groups/countries that hate the US and probably an even larger group that tolerates the US because it serves their self-interest.
In reality, there are VERY few groups/countries view the world the same way as the US...
for example, how many countries contributed even 1% of the total troops that the US did in the Iraq War? - Great Britain, South Korea, Italy & Australia
Only 4 countries !!! And even then it was very much a quid pro quo for future military support
Back to point - the US does not represent what the majority of the world's view is, hence its ever decreasing role in the UN
Well you have to consider that the leader was raised in a country where such propaganda is fairly standard. So he might not realize how ludicrous the claims are.
What are you talking about? Are you referencing "Dear Leader" KIm Jong-un who was raised and educated in Switerland for most of his childhood ?
This seems more like 3 guards / 2 large forwards...
Defense appears to typically be a 3-2 full press with no half court defense if a steal or turnover doesn't occur. So not quite the endurance game of 5 guards but similar concept.
You bothered to research it but then didn't really present a fair summary ??
Over the 6 years of data that is available, they are one 1st place finish and another four 2nd place finished... so top 2 in 5 out of 6 years... They also have 69-31 record which is only bettered by St Norbet's 70-30 record.
Might be an average D-III division but that style of basket ball DOES work against that level of competition. It is incredibly sad that it works - but it does.
Typically I'd expect someone with a 3-digit UID to be more insightful than most of the slashdot crowd but I'm not sure if you've missed the issue here ???
Perhaps you meant closer to "ceases to be investing and becomes trading instead" - still a fair point.
HFT is normally not gambling an practice... maybe on a single transaction but not over millions of them.
Consider the most simple form of HFT that occur around the world: - pretend a stock is trading with buyers at $0.99 and sellers at $1.00 - someone comes along and wants to buy A LOT of that stock knowing they will push the price up - the HFT sees the order prior to it going to market and buy all stock between, say, $1.00 and $1.10 - the HFT then sells all of that stock fractions of second later at $1.10 to met the buy order they know is coming, making $0.00-$0.10 per share
It is simple creaming money off each trade - first one in makes the money... although much of the science/black magic is working out exactly high the buyer is willing to go with the price on the order but again that's where high-speed trades let you test out the market.
Get your algorithms wrong (with trading in the opposite direction ie on big sell orders) and you can end up selling too much stock while hoping to buy it back or get into a downwards race with other HFTs.
It is really no different than the old days when someone could enter millions instead thousands of share, or get a price entered wrong...
Your example of $42k per year is around $21/hr (assuming 40-hr weeks with and 50 weeks per year), so about $12x higher than $1.78/hr and would add $140-$360 per phone.
$42k per year seems high for basic assembly line work so probably more like $100-$250 per phone. And if the lower labour range is more accurate then something like $50-$150 per phone - certainly not the stupid numbers some other people have been throwing around.
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I see where you are coming from there, but it slightly misrepresents the actual analysis being done.
In baseball, the logic is "runs scored" win games (or more precisely, the run differential) and each play influences the expected runs scored over 9 innings. Good batting or good pitching is converted into equivalent run differential gained (through positive contribution on the batting side or limiting the opposition runs on the pitching side).
You can simply evaluate run differential contributed per dollar paid.
Likewise with football - you do not try to link a single player to win percentage with only 16 games per season. But you can: .. this over all teams and multiple seasons so is easy
- determine how yardage differential impacts the likelihood of winning
- determine each players contribution to yardage gains on a per-play basis
So in football, it becomes feasible to mode individual contributions when you are looking at 1000-2000 plays per season per team.
Possible but still not easy !
Duh...which party generally controls gas prices?
Not sure if that is satire of the "American-centric" articles on Slashdot or politic satire...
Presumable not a lame political statement or ignorance of the US being only a small part of the overall world oil market - US imports only form around 5% of total worldwide petroleum trade.
Surprisingly astute for an American politician ...
Particularly given the previous path had been to reduce prices and lead the American public down an unsustainable path
You've missed the point ... it is STILL cheap compared to the rest of the world
Wait until the US dollar starts its inevitable slide and you end up closer to $10/gallon !!!
I suspect you really missed the point ...
OP is pointing out that 37C is basically to nearest 1C accuracy, so it is pointless to call it 98.6F ie spurious accuracy
No sure why you needed to correct that ?
Most powerful country in Europe? hahahahahahahahahahaha
okay !
I probably should have been clearer ... I think FB should call their bluff because they'll win this battle
Facebook enforcing a ban on that region would work just like age restrictions and its current real-name policies ... ie not at all .. People would just lie and work around it ... same customer base as before - no loss
If they truly enforced it through something like geolocation, there would be such a huge outcry and FB would get their way pretty quickly - again no loss
More to the point, a German regulator in a tiny state thinks they can regulate an American website ????
In what possible way is this enforceable?
Worst case, just terminate the service to 1 million German in the affected state and see what happens.
You sir, are an idiot.
maybe a troll - yes
disagrees with your views - yes
an idiot and an AC - no
free & open-source software existed before RMS and would have existed without him ... and he is clearly politically driven more by a philosophy than practical considerations ... and is somewhat of a nut-job !
ignorant of what the world was like without RMS's free software movement.
what was it like? i seem to recall that we got by just fine ... like we did before "Steve jobs invented the iPod" or "Bill Gates invented DOS/Windows"
Just because someone was the front-runner or the biggest fanatic in an area DOES NOT mean the world would have been a disaster without them !
No idea how anyone thinks this holds up to even a cursory examination ...
For a better research insight I can recommend http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2012/12/11/at-last-the-secret-history-of-that-dead-cipher-pigeon as a good read ... It does claim to decipher the code but provides some coherent analysis around the origin of the message.
Methinks someone who takes the attitude "Its 1000 miles to Wongamonga, we've got half a tank of gas, half a packet of cigarettes, it's dark, we're wearing sunglasses and we've got GPS - hit it!" is an accident waiting to happen.
You clearly haven't driven in Australia ... that would be 1,600 kilometres, you wouldn't leave with only half a pack of cigarettes and where's the booze?
for those that do care ... no crocs ... just emus, kangaroos, snakes, etc ...
pretty damn difficult to die there except from exposure to the heat
Best comparison is trying to get to Barstow and being directed off into the Mojave Desert ...
We are talking about a town/city of 30,000 people that 5-6hr from a major city and fairly obvious rural highways from place to place ... then being directed off into a national park of 1.5 million acres (approaching something like Yellowstone NP)
Yes - its rural and could get tourists into trouble but is still real Darwin Award stuff !
Why is that any different to researcher or expert or scientist? They are just as useless or even less useful terms
It is an Australian article using "Australian English" or "British English" ... the term is well understood to define an academic/researcher with a very strong but narrow focus in a typical theoretical area.
It is no more problematic than terms like futurist (who has a broader focus) or your typical engineer/scientist labels (for those who are more problem solving focused).
That was my first thought too ...
But then I could not really see why this design would out-perform the helicopter/airship hybrid designs - most of those have thrust vectoring props which seems to be a more responsive system for hover and add the possibility of faster horizontal flight.
Revolutionary?
Nope ... just the Segway of the Dirigible world ...
The UN has gotten a really bad reputation lately due to the pandering to groups that outright hate the United States. However, the US is called upon to be the world's police force, ambulance, piggy bank, and shoulder to cry on; but the US is denied the ability to have an appropriate role in the UN in exchange for these services.
Really? Just really?
I suspect many outside of the US would be of the view that the US has the most dominant role in the UN and that is the sole reason it is called upon is to serve predominantly US interests.
Unfortunately, 'pandering to groups that outright hate the United States' is part of allowing uniform representative. It just so happens there are A LOT of groups/countries that hate the US and probably an even larger group that tolerates the US because it serves their self-interest.
In reality, there are VERY few groups/countries view the world the same way as the US ...
for example, how many countries contributed even 1% of the total troops that the US did in the Iraq War?
- Great Britain, South Korea, Italy & Australia
Only 4 countries !!! And even then it was very much a quid pro quo for future military support
Back to point - the US does not represent what the majority of the world's view is, hence its ever decreasing role in the UN
Now I am stuck with the image in my mind of a giant slingshot strung from Earth to the Moon !!
Well you have to consider that the leader was raised in a country where such propaganda is fairly standard. So he might not realize how ludicrous the claims are.
What are you talking about? Are you referencing "Dear Leader" KIm Jong-un who was raised and educated in Switerland for most of his childhood ?
This seems more like 3 guards / 2 large forwards ...
Defense appears to typically be a 3-2 full press with no half court defense if a steal or turnover doesn't occur. So not quite the endurance game of 5 guards but similar concept.
You bothered to research it but then didn't really present a fair summary ??
Over the 6 years of data that is available, they are one 1st place finish and another four 2nd place finished ... so top 2 in 5 out of 6 years ... They also have 69-31 record which is only bettered by St Norbet's 70-30 record.
Might be an average D-III division but that style of basket ball DOES work against that level of competition. It is incredibly sad that it works - but it does.
Pretty easy to forge serial numbers on a counterfeit note.
Not so easy to forge serial numbers encoded on nano-dots ...
So presumably like they do with nano-dots sprayed onto high-end cars as security.
So ... 60.7 million out of the 61 million would ignore the ads ??? really impressive eh?
and this is the impressionable facebook demographic
and no indication that this could or would impact voting intentions either
This is just useless facebook marketing material !!!!
Typically I'd expect someone with a 3-digit UID to be more insightful than most of the slashdot crowd but I'm not sure if you've missed the issue here ???
Perhaps you meant closer to "ceases to be investing and becomes trading instead" - still a fair point.
HFT is normally not gambling an practice ... maybe on a single transaction but not over millions of them.
Consider the most simple form of HFT that occur around the world:
- pretend a stock is trading with buyers at $0.99 and sellers at $1.00
- someone comes along and wants to buy A LOT of that stock knowing they will push the price up
- the HFT sees the order prior to it going to market and buy all stock between, say, $1.00 and $1.10
- the HFT then sells all of that stock fractions of second later at $1.10 to met the buy order they know is coming, making $0.00-$0.10 per share
It is simple creaming money off each trade - first one in makes the money ... although much of the science/black magic is working out exactly high the buyer is willing to go with the price on the order but again that's where high-speed trades let you test out the market.
Get your algorithms wrong (with trading in the opposite direction ie on big sell orders) and you can end up selling too much stock while hoping to buy it back or get into a downwards race with other HFTs.
It is really no different than the old days when someone could enter millions instead thousands of share, or get a price entered wrong ...
That said, I still think HFT is extremely evil
Yep - those number seems about right
A range of $12-$30 has been suggested for labour costs at $1.78/hr. http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57382995-1/iphone-manufacturing-costs-revealed/
Other have suggested as little as $6-$7 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-11/iphone-assembly-suggests-yuan-gain-wouldn-t-narrow-trade-gaps.html
Your example of $42k per year is around $21/hr (assuming 40-hr weeks with and 50 weeks per year), so about $12x higher than $1.78/hr and would add $140-$360 per phone.
$42k per year seems high for basic assembly line work so probably more like $100-$250 per phone. And if the lower labour range is more accurate then something like $50-$150 per phone - certainly not the stupid numbers some other people have been throwing around.