This study is pretty obviously not statistically relevant and most likely a bias piece geared at proving a belief and not a hypothesis.
And yes, there is a big different between the two.
No no, you have it all wrong. Linus is on the fast track to taking over for Balmer. He's the only one in the tech industry with the temperament for the job.
Except Linus throws wireless printers, not chairs.
For normalized databases, this is often considered a best practice, although another option would be to store multiple author IDs in the article tables—something that would require extra fields, since most articles had more than one author. That would also require that we anticipate the maximum of author fields needed, which could lead to problems down the road.
A single field with delimited index keys pointing to an author table. I learned that in 1996. Then compressing the field with a dictionary, increasing the number of keys that can fit and speed up searches through it. Learned that in 1998.
Why does that not work in NoSQL? I don't understand.
I'm not against regulation, since it is the swiftest method to correct problems, but there are ways that the markets could be fixing these problems themselves but many financial products used today have not matured enough to be "market monitored".
For instance, most publicly traded stocks and commodities require certain amounts of public information sharing in standard formats and regular intervals, but newer instruments like mortgage backed securities and credit default swaps do not have such standards or openness to allow the broader market (through research or statistical/heuristic analysis) to judge the products.
Most of the people buying them are putting a lot of ignorant faith into their purchase that as everyone has noticed was very misplaced.
Central Banks make their targets public, are the sole source provider for their currency, sell the money at public auction and manage the currency for the public's interest.
The LIBOR scandal was a conspiracy among numerous banks to mitigate currency fluctuations and reduce loses (or produce profits) based off holdings in a variety of investments across several country's markets.
I assume when someone states "traveling faster than FTL" that they are not using a worm hole or "hyperspace" and that the ship is literally traveling through space faster than light.
In which case, they would not see any light when traveling faster than light, because if said light touched the traveler the collision would cause a domino of effects that would certainly destroy the traveler.
The field would need to have some field around it to avoid such collisions.
And there lies the true novelty of the idea of a "warp drive", since the "warp field" avoids the need to avoid any collisions.
I was commenting on the information given in the article and comments made by GOG, which I stand by as saying is misleading.
After further research after making the comment, I've discovered they were comparing the DRM version from the FIRST release to the Enhanced Edition release, which was available from download free from CD Project Red and GOG never had DRM in any form.
So, again, not a fair comparison between the two and there was no reason to torrent a file that was freely available to download from two well known sites.
But thanks for copy/pasting wiki trivia without even bothering to address the argument. I didn't know GOG had their own Wiki.
The Witcher 2 was originally released in May of 2011, not this past year when GOG finally started selling the game.
So, of course the most pirated version of the game would be one of the DRM variants, since the DRM version was available for a longer period and typically more in demand closer to the original release date.
But no mention of either date (original release of the game) or GOG's release are mentioned in the article, nor the period for statistics they are using for the torrents.
Anyway, sorry for interrupting the anti-DRM circle jerk with facts and logic.
I think you have things backwards, it's getting cheaper with time to make Bitcoins. All that hardware you bought for $10k+ can only process the mining at 1/1000th (or less, I'm being generous) the speed of ASICs, which cost at most $500-1000 a piece. So, on a hardware basis, return on investment on mining equipment has been increasing drastically over the last two years for those using the most up to date method.
And each time the mining systems evolved from cores to GPU to FPGA and now ASIC, the actual USD cost per Bitcoin dropped.
But with the planned market correction applying soon (the 50 to 25 Bitcoins per solve), the return on investment is going to halve overnight.
This will essentially cut off anyone using older methods from staying in the mining business, and since the lure of Bitcoins is the mining, it's going to have a psychological blow to the currency.
Translation: The return split is going to cause a run on the bank.
"That would save billions or trillions of dollars per year probably."
And put a lot of people out of a job, don't forget that.
Every time you make a system too efficient, you reduce the number of workers but with economies it's important to have as many people working as possible.
So you're stuck trying to balance efficiency with employment.
Not many people realize why central banks exist, but their primary role to to assure a consistent monetary policy, specifically one encouraging minor inflation (1-4%).
Why is that important and necessary? Because economies run best at a steady, expected pace. When inflation grows out of control, habits change with spending and investing (people buy less long term investments and more short-term riskier ones, or consumers horde goods) and we know from history that when an economy goes from inflation to deflation there is massive chaos not only in the markets but with consumer spending (as people sell off short-term investments for long term or consumers decide to hold off buying things knowing the cost will go down).
So, economic systems need a slow upward progression for currency to assure the economy to be healthy and Bitcoin offers that with the algorithmic generation but if the coins are generated too quickly (by some advance in computer processing), horded by a few people or other circumstances that reduce the liquidity of the currency (like the massive exchange thefts we've seen), the currency itself will begin to shift from the programmed inflation to deflation.
What's more is the fact that Bitcoin has a limit to the number of coins, which means when it hits that limit and the price of an apple goes from 1 coin to 0.1 coin, you just created programmed deflation and the behaviors of the users of the currency will change causing chaos against other world currencies that are targeting gradual inflation.
The IQ tests are a measure of how well a person can notice differences in patterns and cognitive reasoning.
I think the reason why the scores have been raising over the years is for the simple fact that people are using those portions of their brain more, by either the higher literacy rate (reading requires pattern recognition to make words from letters) or simply using a computer interface that allows for quicker interactions than possible before modern times.
But since there is only so much grey matter in our heads, I'm sure we are growing more terrible at other functions the more we tune ourselves to differencing.
Slashdot Mirror
...for having a CEO that actually cares about them.
This study is pretty obviously not statistically relevant and most likely a bias piece geared at proving a belief and not a hypothesis. And yes, there is a big different between the two.
There must be balance in the force, young padawan.
If either side gains, then the retaliation swings the line of power back and forth like a pendulum.
And before you know it there's a clone war, brothers kissing sisters and lil furry creatures saving the galaxy with rocks.
We must hold the line firm!
No no, you have it all wrong. Linus is on the fast track to taking over for Balmer. He's the only one in the tech industry with the temperament for the job.
Except Linus throws wireless printers, not chairs.
Aw man. That was hilarious. I wish I had mod points for funny. Thanks, got such a chuckle out of it.
I'm tired of huge phones. Why can't they give us a freakin' 3-3.2 inch phone for those of us that don't enjoy carrying around a small television?
For normalized databases, this is often considered a best practice, although another option would be to store multiple author IDs in the article tables—something that would require extra fields, since most articles had more than one author. That would also require that we anticipate the maximum of author fields needed, which could lead to problems down the road.
A single field with delimited index keys pointing to an author table. I learned that in 1996. Then compressing the field with a dictionary, increasing the number of keys that can fit and speed up searches through it. Learned that in 1998.
Why does that not work in NoSQL? I don't understand.
Iran's first stealth fighter has warning stickers in English?
Gee, I wonder who they produced the plane to impress.
I'm not against regulation, since it is the swiftest method to correct problems, but there are ways that the markets could be fixing these problems themselves but many financial products used today have not matured enough to be "market monitored".
For instance, most publicly traded stocks and commodities require certain amounts of public information sharing in standard formats and regular intervals, but newer instruments like mortgage backed securities and credit default swaps do not have such standards or openness to allow the broader market (through research or statistical/heuristic analysis) to judge the products.
Most of the people buying them are putting a lot of ignorant faith into their purchase that as everyone has noticed was very misplaced.
Unconstitutional you say, so why then did the Founding Fathers and the First Congress of the United States create a central bank?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Bank_of_the_United_States
You'd think they would know what's constitutional, since they wrote it.
Central Banks make their targets public, are the sole source provider for their currency, sell the money at public auction and manage the currency for the public's interest.
The LIBOR scandal was a conspiracy among numerous banks to mitigate currency fluctuations and reduce loses (or produce profits) based off holdings in a variety of investments across several country's markets.
And you see a likeness, where?
I assume when someone states "traveling faster than FTL" that they are not using a worm hole or "hyperspace" and that the ship is literally traveling through space faster than light.
In which case, they would not see any light when traveling faster than light, because if said light touched the traveler the collision would cause a domino of effects that would certainly destroy the traveler.
The field would need to have some field around it to avoid such collisions.
And there lies the true novelty of the idea of a "warp drive", since the "warp field" avoids the need to avoid any collisions.
You're only half right, give or take 50%.
Is that something new? I don't remember agreeing to that and find it to be a gross invasion of privacy.
Now I can figure out how all this shit works.
Can't wait for the one about magnetics!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM5_dgKDsrc
I'd call them a "pedantic" after their discoverer.
..so I'll just quickly say, my job sucks!
I was commenting on the information given in the article and comments made by GOG, which I stand by as saying is misleading.
After further research after making the comment, I've discovered they were comparing the DRM version from the FIRST release to the Enhanced Edition release, which was available from download free from CD Project Red and GOG never had DRM in any form.
So, again, not a fair comparison between the two and there was no reason to torrent a file that was freely available to download from two well known sites.
But thanks for copy/pasting wiki trivia without even bothering to address the argument. I didn't know GOG had their own Wiki.
The Witcher 2 was originally released in May of 2011, not this past year when GOG finally started selling the game.
So, of course the most pirated version of the game would be one of the DRM variants, since the DRM version was available for a longer period and typically more in demand closer to the original release date.
But no mention of either date (original release of the game) or GOG's release are mentioned in the article, nor the period for statistics they are using for the torrents.
Anyway, sorry for interrupting the anti-DRM circle jerk with facts and logic.
I think you have things backwards, it's getting cheaper with time to make Bitcoins. All that hardware you bought for $10k+ can only process the mining at 1/1000th (or less, I'm being generous) the speed of ASICs, which cost at most $500-1000 a piece. So, on a hardware basis, return on investment on mining equipment has been increasing drastically over the last two years for those using the most up to date method.
And each time the mining systems evolved from cores to GPU to FPGA and now ASIC, the actual USD cost per Bitcoin dropped.
But with the planned market correction applying soon (the 50 to 25 Bitcoins per solve), the return on investment is going to halve overnight.
This will essentially cut off anyone using older methods from staying in the mining business, and since the lure of Bitcoins is the mining, it's going to have a psychological blow to the currency.
Translation: The return split is going to cause a run on the bank.
"That would save billions or trillions of dollars per year probably."
And put a lot of people out of a job, don't forget that.
Every time you make a system too efficient, you reduce the number of workers but with economies it's important to have as many people working as possible.
So you're stuck trying to balance efficiency with employment.
Not many people realize why central banks exist, but their primary role to to assure a consistent monetary policy, specifically one encouraging minor inflation (1-4%). Why is that important and necessary? Because economies run best at a steady, expected pace. When inflation grows out of control, habits change with spending and investing (people buy less long term investments and more short-term riskier ones, or consumers horde goods) and we know from history that when an economy goes from inflation to deflation there is massive chaos not only in the markets but with consumer spending (as people sell off short-term investments for long term or consumers decide to hold off buying things knowing the cost will go down).
So, economic systems need a slow upward progression for currency to assure the economy to be healthy and Bitcoin offers that with the algorithmic generation but if the coins are generated too quickly (by some advance in computer processing), horded by a few people or other circumstances that reduce the liquidity of the currency (like the massive exchange thefts we've seen), the currency itself will begin to shift from the programmed inflation to deflation.
What's more is the fact that Bitcoin has a limit to the number of coins, which means when it hits that limit and the price of an apple goes from 1 coin to 0.1 coin, you just created programmed deflation and the behaviors of the users of the currency will change causing chaos against other world currencies that are targeting gradual inflation.
The IQ tests are a measure of how well a person can notice differences in patterns and cognitive reasoning.
I think the reason why the scores have been raising over the years is for the simple fact that people are using those portions of their brain more, by either the higher literacy rate (reading requires pattern recognition to make words from letters) or simply using a computer interface that allows for quicker interactions than possible before modern times.
But since there is only so much grey matter in our heads, I'm sure we are growing more terrible at other functions the more we tune ourselves to differencing.
...eh?
Just use a router to convert the packets from proprietary to standard when it hits a wired connection.
I doubt the wireless connection will notice the latency of the conversion if the processor in the router is moderately powerful.