There's always someone who comes along and says "it'd be useful if you could do this", be it "execute code embedded in a PDF" or "not have to remember or enter an annoying PIN code number when using the ATM". Never mind that the costs of adding this outweigh the benefit, so it gets added. And at some point, someone creates a new, just-a-freakin'-reader, and the cycle begins anew. Depressing.
What's the easiest way to find out who/what is using an a network port? Disable/unplug the port and wait for someone to call in and complain. This might be the same mentality at work, just a little larger scale.
Couldn't Oracle just stare into its crystal ball and get the answer to this more quickly?
I didn't claim they would exist and at a lower cost; I asked whether he had ever considered that. After posting I realized I should have worded it "Ever consider that all of the above could exist..."
...the parent post has a terrible subject line. What's with all the cliffhanger subjects? Is it because your dear reader is on the edge of his seat, just dying to know how you will finish your sentence in the body of the message?
All this assumes that without the government, none of these things would exist, or they would be poorer. Ever consider that all the above would exist, and more, at a lower cost?
You glossed over the most important point: the government takes your money, even if you aren't interested in what they offer. Try running a business like that and you'll get a visit from the government, because it doesn't like competition!
It's not that R&D is free, it's that these so-called free-riders are not consuming anything that belongs to the company who did the R&D (using an idea doesn't consume it). Yes, they are reducing the value of said company's products on the market, but like I said, a company doesn't own potential value.
Private industry is doing all sorts of analysis of you as a consumer to provide you better service and to let them make more profit. But the same consumer that's okay with private industry doing that is not okay, in a knee-jerk reaction, with government doing that. And yet, if government, because of this dynamic, continues not to be able to adopt modern transactional practices, then it's going to fall further behind the satisfaction curve.
Let me know when private industry gets its funding via taxation, and uses the information it gathers for more than simply increasing profit. It sounds like she just made a knee-jerk reaction that the government's end use of information it collects is good. Hint: dissatisfaction with government isn't due to it not employing the latest technology in order to efficiently tap all its citizens' phones!
It's cheaper for the insurance company to pay $8000 for those that benefit from a bulky piece-of-crap machine than pay $1000 for the many more that would fake an insurance claim to get a MacBook.
The native type is defined, abstract methods are waiting there to be defined, and someone who needed it has implemented it and made it available. Incidentally, that package has had 38 downloads since july, perhaps indicating the level of demand.
The demand was actually 4294967334, but the guy used MATLAB for the counter (without the library) so it wrapped around at 4294967296.
This isn't a free rider problem, unless you consider companies to own potential profits. In reality, knock-off products are produced with a person's own materials. The free-rider problem only exists when there is some scarce resource involved. The issue you're pointing to is that of the value of something affected by other things available in the market, similar to how the value of a supermarket is affected by its proximity to other supermarkets (which can change if new ones are built close by).
As described in the linked text, when you multiply the relative error stays roughly the same. Obviously some error does occur, and it's cumulative in many cases, but this is the case for any imprecise operation. I still think the error is fairly benign.
Here's a one-page intuitive description of floating-point, to give a feel for why multiplication and division are fairly benign, but addition and subtraction aren't. None of the other descriptions have made it as clear as this.
If no, log back in (your account will likely reactivate automatically)
Haha, it's like Facebook saying "Oh, I knew you weren't serious. Please, stay, I need you, don't leave, no, don't!"
And to be extra sure, you should log back in, download all your images, make new images of random data but that match the size of the previous ones (matching hashes are a bonus), then upload these in place of the old ones, wait a day (for everything to get flushed to backups), then delete everything. This way even if they restore them, they'll get your rewritten versions.
Don't worry; in a few years, cell"phones" will be the size of netbooks, with equivalent power. And once they get as large as laptops, maybe digital watches will have gotten the size of netbooks. After that, I dunno, maybe pacemakers will have suffered from feature-itis too?
Whoa. Did I just read "Marshall, TX" and "patents were invalid" in the same sentence? Someone should check that the earth's polarity just didn't go through a reversal.
You have to take into account the high concentration of residents who are experts on software patent law.
I'm thinking that Cameron will fill a role similar to Steve Jobs at Apple (minus the RDF of course), where he looks at the entire package and the output it produces. Given his experience with the ultimate form of this sort of thing, movies, he seems appropriate.
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There's always someone who comes along and says "it'd be useful if you could do this", be it "execute code embedded in a PDF" or "not have to remember or enter an annoying PIN code number when using the ATM". Never mind that the costs of adding this outweigh the benefit, so it gets added. And at some point, someone creates a new, just-a-freakin'-reader, and the cycle begins anew. Depressing.
Couldn't Oracle just stare into its crystal ball and get the answer to this more quickly?
I didn't claim they would exist and at a lower cost; I asked whether he had ever considered that. After posting I realized I should have worded it "Ever consider that all of the above could exist..."
...the parent post has a terrible subject line. What's with all the cliffhanger subjects? Is it because your dear reader is on the edge of his seat, just dying to know how you will finish your sentence in the body of the message?
I get the idea he's hiding something, not sure why.
Whoooosh!
All this assumes that without the government, none of these things would exist, or they would be poorer. Ever consider that all the above would exist, and more, at a lower cost?
Who is Earl Grey, and why do you want him hot? And stop calling me Tea!
Reminds me of that man-made Sidoarjo mud flow that flooded an entire city, and is still spewing.
You glossed over the most important point: the government takes your money, even if you aren't interested in what they offer. Try running a business like that and you'll get a visit from the government, because it doesn't like competition!
It's not that R&D is free, it's that these so-called free-riders are not consuming anything that belongs to the company who did the R&D (using an idea doesn't consume it). Yes, they are reducing the value of said company's products on the market, but like I said, a company doesn't own potential value.
...are posts whose title is just the beginning of the first sentence.
Let me know when private industry gets its funding via taxation, and uses the information it gathers for more than simply increasing profit. It sounds like she just made a knee-jerk reaction that the government's end use of information it collects is good. Hint: dissatisfaction with government isn't due to it not employing the latest technology in order to efficiently tap all its citizens' phones!
It's cheaper for the insurance company to pay $8000 for those that benefit from a bulky piece-of-crap machine than pay $1000 for the many more that would fake an insurance claim to get a MacBook.
The demand was actually 4294967334, but the guy used MATLAB for the counter (without the library) so it wrapped around at 4294967296.
In that case, he should have been prescribed an Intellivision.
Come on, why did you title your post "Before we get". I mean, how lazy can you be? How about "Before"? or "B"?
This isn't a free rider problem, unless you consider companies to own potential profits. In reality, knock-off products are produced with a person's own materials. The free-rider problem only exists when there is some scarce resource involved. The issue you're pointing to is that of the value of something affected by other things available in the market, similar to how the value of a supermarket is affected by its proximity to other supermarkets (which can change if new ones are built close by).
As described in the linked text, when you multiply the relative error stays roughly the same. Obviously some error does occur, and it's cumulative in many cases, but this is the case for any imprecise operation. I still think the error is fairly benign.
Here's a one-page intuitive description of floating-point, to give a feel for why multiplication and division are fairly benign, but addition and subtraction aren't. None of the other descriptions have made it as clear as this.
Haha, it's like Facebook saying "Oh, I knew you weren't serious. Please, stay, I need you, don't leave, no, don't!"
And to be extra sure, you should log back in, download all your images, make new images of random data but that match the size of the previous ones (matching hashes are a bonus), then upload these in place of the old ones, wait a day (for everything to get flushed to backups), then delete everything. This way even if they restore them, they'll get your rewritten versions.
Don't worry; in a few years, cell"phones" will be the size of netbooks, with equivalent power. And once they get as large as laptops, maybe digital watches will have gotten the size of netbooks. After that, I dunno, maybe pacemakers will have suffered from feature-itis too?
I actually have never been to Facebook nor signed up. But that doesn't mean they're going to prevent anyone from talking about me.
You have to take into account the high concentration of residents who are experts on software patent law.
I'm thinking that Cameron will fill a role similar to Steve Jobs at Apple (minus the RDF of course), where he looks at the entire package and the output it produces. Given his experience with the ultimate form of this sort of thing, movies, he seems appropriate.