There is another option: the companies could pool their resources and both get it for a small price. This is, I believe, the notion that both sites are after. Using this kind of model, 10 companies could "commission" a product that they all need, and pay a paltry sum for it. Sure, if one company is willing to pay the entire cost, the others won't be so eager to join in, but negotiations like this will have to take place.
I agree here. Memories are NOT stored as a computer stores them. (except maybe in autistics, but I'm not going to get into that...) Rather, it seems to me that everything is stored in terms of concepts.
In other words, when I look at a forest scene, I don't remember "green green green brown green green". Rather, you remember "tree tree tree rock". Then each of these concepts has subconcepts like branches, etc... and things relating to the specific type of tree/rock.
Becuase of this, all memories are idealized to some extent to match the person's concept. It's rather akin to Platonic Ideas, for anyone who's interested. (I expect that sort of thought is what led him to his ideas, not to mention a bunch of other later philosophers).
I'm not sure that size of high school is necessarily that important. My school had almost 3000 people in it, and I don't think things were anywhere near as awful as people describe. People getting mocked occasionally, yes. Commonplace physical abuse? No. That sort of behaviour wasn't so rare in Junior high, perhaps, but the high school, in retrospect, was very civilized compared to the horror stories I've been hearing. I certainly knew many fairly typical geeks - most of my friends were among them. (though I had friends - friendly acquaintances anyway - in practically every social group that existed...)
Hey now... I'm listening to CBC right now. It's actually a very good station - they don't play much popular music, sure, but they play GOOD music instead. Not that classical is the only good music - they also play a lot of jazz, and alternative (occasionally VERY alternative) at night. All in all, you get lots of variety - rarely the same tune in a single month even - and knowlegeable commentary (quite a change from most commercial stations!) and no ads! Hard to argue with that...
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There is another option: the companies could pool their resources and both get it for a small price. This is, I believe, the notion that both sites are after. Using this kind of model, 10 companies could "commission" a product that they all need, and pay a paltry sum for it. Sure, if one company is willing to pay the entire cost, the others won't be so eager to join in, but negotiations like this will have to take place.
I agree here. Memories are NOT stored as a computer stores them. (except maybe in autistics, but I'm not going to get into that...) Rather, it seems to me that everything is stored in terms of concepts.
In other words, when I look at a forest scene, I don't remember "green green green brown green green". Rather, you remember "tree tree tree rock". Then each of these concepts has subconcepts like branches, etc... and things relating to the specific type of tree/rock.
Becuase of this, all memories are idealized to some extent to match the person's concept. It's rather akin to Platonic Ideas, for anyone who's interested. (I expect that sort of thought is what led him to his ideas, not to mention a bunch of other later philosophers).
I'm not sure that size of high school is necessarily that important. My school had almost 3000 people in it, and I don't think things were anywhere near as awful as people describe. People getting mocked occasionally, yes. Commonplace physical abuse? No. That sort of behaviour wasn't so rare in Junior high, perhaps, but the high school, in retrospect, was very civilized compared to the horror stories I've been hearing. I certainly knew many fairly typical geeks - most of my friends were among them. (though I had friends - friendly acquaintances anyway - in practically every social group that existed...)
Hey now... I'm listening to CBC right now. It's actually a very good station - they don't play much popular music, sure, but they play GOOD music instead. Not that classical is the only good music - they also play a lot of jazz, and alternative (occasionally VERY alternative) at night. All in all, you get lots of variety - rarely the same tune in a single month even - and knowlegeable commentary (quite a change from most commercial stations!) and no ads! Hard to argue with that...