I fell into a hornets' nest of revolutionary feminism/ I went down, down, down and the reward went higher/ And it stings, stings, stings/ that hornets' nest of revolutionary feminism/ the hornets' nest of revolutionary feminism.
Somewhere in all this talk about tERRORism there is a larger, hidden problem. It's plain before our faces, but most of the prominent stakeholders in the debate seem oblivious to it. But it is of capital importance that we find ways to bring this root problem out in the open and deal with it.
"The negative is that if I'm willing to pay $5 but not $20, I probably don't want to play that game very much, so maybe I'm not as excited about it after I play it and maybe I drive down the average appreciation of the game.'"
I have never not wanted to play a game as much, or enjoyed something less because I paid a lesser price for it. The less something costs me, the better.
A thing is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. If you can find everyone who'll buy your game @$60, good for you. But after you've found all of them, common sense says that you should go back through the market and see who'll bite @45, and then again @20, etc. until you've sold as many copies as you can. Since the copies cost nearly nothing to produce compared to the cost of developing the original, the more people you can sell to, the more money you'll make, even if you are selling at a drastically reduced price toward the end of your product's long tail.
What complicates this is piracy. If a whole lot of people would have really been willing to put down $20 on release day, but you were only selling for $60 at that time, then most of your potential market is not going to buy on release day, and may be tempted to pirate. If you can make your product available to them at a price that they find reasonable, many of them may not elect to pirate your product, and you may end up making more in total revenue than if you do the traditional $60-$40-$20-$5 phases.
Of course, most of the HIB games have been out for a while, and were selling at more normal retail prices. What they're doing with the HIB is promotional. They're using their sale pricing to generate word of mouth interest in a few hit games that have been out for a while and have had an opportunity to make their money. They're clearly not interested in maximizing per-sale profit, but are interested in maximizing distribution. I don't think they're all that concerned about whatever revenue they generate, because they allow the purchaser to donate whatever proportion of the sale price, up to 100%, to charity if they want to. In other words, this is not a normal sale model, it's a special. It has its place, but most likely cannot be a replacement for the usual business model.
Can't believe you guys haven't fixed this yet. How can a completely unrelated thing be tacked on like that? is it really just a congressmans whim? Everytime i hear the word "rider" in american politics, i think of that simpsons skit.
They did pass a No Riders law, but then at the last second someone added a rider to it to allow riders if the congressman really, really thinks it's important to do so.
3) So you can trust other people with managing your backups. 4) So when the government or a corporation decides you are in violation of the law or ToS, they can take you offline and deny you access to your own data without due process.
Ok, so we know there are a lot of accounts created for a public web site that have weak passwords.
Do we know that these accounts were "serious" accounts, and not throwaway accounts?
It could be, and likely is, that people don't care as much about securing their accounts as they should. It could also be that a lot of people needed to log in to gawker to access something one time, didn't plan to ever return, went through the account creation process with a throwaway password that they didn't care about, and then abandoned the account.
The proportion of people who are too stupid to own a computer is equal to the proportion of gawker users with weak passwords, less the number of throwaway accounts with weak passwords, divided by the total number of gawker users.
Agreed, I'd love that feature to be a configurable, always-on thing that the user can control.
The biggest thing for me would be to have some way to filter out e-commerce sites from results when I'm searching for information about a product. I don't want to read a bunch of shitty customer reviews on e-commerce sites, I want official information from the manufacturer and substantive reviews written by people who know the product and know how to write, and have integrity.
Seriously, Google, have you looked at your search results lately? It's getting so I can't find anything relevant amongst all the garbage. Maybe this is because the internet is turning into a morass of crap, but I don't think it is. I think it's because SEO have figured out how to game your results, and all I can find with simple keyword or phrases is useless. Do a better job of filtering out crap so I can actually find something useful.
That's the problem. They DO fear us. So this is how they respond. If you fear something, you seek to destroy it. This is natural, human nature.
The government should stop fearing the people, and start obeying them and acting transparently so that we may evaluate how well they are acting in our interest.
The issue here is due process, registrars should ignore any government "request" to remove or redirect a DNS entry unless it is ordered by a court of law.
The same applies to the former DNS provider for wikileaks, visa, mastercard and anybody else who stopped doing business with them just because they got a call from some government dude accusing them of illegal activity.
<sarcasm>OMGtERRORism! In a clear/present danger situation do we want to really wait around for niceties like court orders and other mamby pamby stuff? Executive branch needs this right now or they cannot effectively tyrranize. Why do you hate America stop sympathizing and giving aid to terrorists.</sarcasm>
My #1 mistake to avoid is simply "Not understanding the layer beneath the layer you are programming in." It's nearly impossible to code something right if you don't understand at least the layer immediately beneath the one you are programming in, so you can understand how to use it properly to get your work done, and don't try to (inefficiently) re-implement stuff that is already handled in the layer below.
How can we tell whether the trending data is accurate? What if the trending was still hot for Sunday in terms of tweets posted, but being suppressed by Twitter in terms of tweets visible?
The killer is going to be the upload. I've 2 Mbit up, uploading my data set to Amazon would saturate my pipe for about 55 hours straight. And that's a show stopper.
Only for the initial upload. Where I work, we have about 10-12TB of data and do a full weekly backup to LTO3 tape over gigabit ethernet and fiber channel. It takes about 55-60 hours to run, which we live with, because we have to.
Chances are, much of your 40GB isn't essential data. Don't back up your pr0n and mp3 collection, and just concentrate on important files like your taxes, family photos, and so forth, and it becomes much more reasonable. If you really do have 40GB, biting the bullet and waiting the 60hrs for a full backup isn't so bad if you only have to do it once; run incremental updates thereafter, and they'll take considerably less time.
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I fell into a hornets' nest of revolutionary feminism/
I went down, down, down and the reward went higher/
And it stings, stings, stings/
that hornets' nest of revolutionary feminism/
the hornets' nest of revolutionary feminism.
w/ apologies to J.Cash
Somewhere in all this talk about tERRORism there is a larger, hidden problem. It's plain before our faces, but most of the prominent stakeholders in the debate seem oblivious to it. But it is of capital importance that we find ways to bring this root problem out in the open and deal with it.
For some reason, all I could think of as I read the summary was the following Simpsons quote:
While the old Byte is worth remembering, is this new website going to be anything like it? To me, Ars Technica is the Byte of today.
I can't understand this way of thinking:
I have never not wanted to play a game as much, or enjoyed something less because I paid a lesser price for it. The less something costs me, the better.
A thing is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. If you can find everyone who'll buy your game @$60, good for you. But after you've found all of them, common sense says that you should go back through the market and see who'll bite @45, and then again @20, etc. until you've sold as many copies as you can. Since the copies cost nearly nothing to produce compared to the cost of developing the original, the more people you can sell to, the more money you'll make, even if you are selling at a drastically reduced price toward the end of your product's long tail.
What complicates this is piracy. If a whole lot of people would have really been willing to put down $20 on release day, but you were only selling for $60 at that time, then most of your potential market is not going to buy on release day, and may be tempted to pirate. If you can make your product available to them at a price that they find reasonable, many of them may not elect to pirate your product, and you may end up making more in total revenue than if you do the traditional $60-$40-$20-$5 phases.
Of course, most of the HIB games have been out for a while, and were selling at more normal retail prices. What they're doing with the HIB is promotional. They're using their sale pricing to generate word of mouth interest in a few hit games that have been out for a while and have had an opportunity to make their money. They're clearly not interested in maximizing per-sale profit, but are interested in maximizing distribution. I don't think they're all that concerned about whatever revenue they generate, because they allow the purchaser to donate whatever proportion of the sale price, up to 100%, to charity if they want to. In other words, this is not a normal sale model, it's a special. It has its place, but most likely cannot be a replacement for the usual business model.
Can't believe you guys haven't fixed this yet. How can a completely unrelated thing be tacked on like that? is it really just a congressmans whim? Everytime i hear the word "rider" in american politics, i think of that simpsons skit.
They did pass a No Riders law, but then at the last second someone added a rider to it to allow riders if the congressman really, really thinks it's important to do so.
3) So you can trust other people with managing your backups.
4) So when the government or a corporation decides you are in violation of the law or ToS, they can take you offline and deny you access to your own data without due process.
Probably no one... but one could easily have created a profile in 2006, and then changed all the photographs and details last week.
has there been any confirmation that it's actually his profile, or if it's a parody or fake?
How does that help Assange when he was denied bail?
Ok, so we know there are a lot of accounts created for a public web site that have weak passwords.
Do we know that these accounts were "serious" accounts, and not throwaway accounts?
It could be, and likely is, that people don't care as much about securing their accounts as they should. It could also be that a lot of people needed to log in to gawker to access something one time, didn't plan to ever return, went through the account creation process with a throwaway password that they didn't care about, and then abandoned the account.
The proportion of people who are too stupid to own a computer is equal to the proportion of gawker users with weak passwords, less the number of throwaway accounts with weak passwords, divided by the total number of gawker users.
Agreed, I'd love that feature to be a configurable, always-on thing that the user can control.
The biggest thing for me would be to have some way to filter out e-commerce sites from results when I'm searching for information about a product. I don't want to read a bunch of shitty customer reviews on e-commerce sites, I want official information from the manufacturer and substantive reviews written by people who know the product and know how to write, and have integrity.
Seriously, Google, have you looked at your search results lately? It's getting so I can't find anything relevant amongst all the garbage. Maybe this is because the internet is turning into a morass of crap, but I don't think it is. I think it's because SEO have figured out how to game your results, and all I can find with simple keyword or phrases is useless. Do a better job of filtering out crap so I can actually find something useful.
Especially since it didn't have any sails to begin with.
No wonder it sank.
The government should fear YOU.
That's the problem. They DO fear us. So this is how they respond. If you fear something, you seek to destroy it. This is natural, human nature.
The government should stop fearing the people, and start obeying them and acting transparently so that we may evaluate how well they are acting in our interest.
Sometimes I feel like all my sexual encounters have to be unlocked using a cheat code too.
Don't go to Sweden, in that case.
I want a Google Vorpal that gives me a 10' radius protection against data harvesters.
The issue here is due process, registrars should ignore any government "request" to remove or redirect a DNS entry unless it is ordered by a court of law.
The same applies to the former DNS provider for wikileaks, visa, mastercard and anybody else who stopped doing business with them just because they got a call from some government dude accusing them of illegal activity.
<sarcasm>OMGtERRORism! In a clear/present danger situation do we want to really wait around for niceties like court orders and other mamby pamby stuff? Executive branch needs this right now or they cannot effectively tyrranize. Why do you hate America stop sympathizing and giving aid to terrorists.</sarcasm>
As long as I don't have to wear those stupid glasses, I'm all for this 3D memory.
My #1 mistake to avoid is simply "Not understanding the layer beneath the layer you are programming in." It's nearly impossible to code something right if you don't understand at least the layer immediately beneath the one you are programming in, so you can understand how to use it properly to get your work done, and don't try to (inefficiently) re-implement stuff that is already handled in the layer below.
You composed this comment with EMACS, didn't you?
Well, more like if Geocities was a collection of 404 and 403 error pages. But yes, you are totally right.
So either these "engineers" are low skilled or their systems are a mess.
Could be both, too.
How can we tell whether the trending data is accurate? What if the trending was still hot for Sunday in terms of tweets posted, but being suppressed by Twitter in terms of tweets visible?
Only for the initial upload. Where I work, we have about 10-12TB of data and do a full weekly backup to LTO3 tape over gigabit ethernet and fiber channel. It takes about 55-60 hours to run, which we live with, because we have to.
Chances are, much of your 40GB isn't essential data. Don't back up your pr0n and mp3 collection, and just concentrate on important files like your taxes, family photos, and so forth, and it becomes much more reasonable. If you really do have 40GB, biting the bullet and waiting the 60hrs for a full backup isn't so bad if you only have to do it once; run incremental updates thereafter, and they'll take considerably less time.
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