There's a severe difference between a whole fantasy football season of managing a team with a prize at the end for the best overall performance, and placing simple one-game cash bets on individual players.
With sports teams you can compile enough information to make an educated guess about which teams have an advantage. No matter how much historical data you compile on an individual player, there is no way to predict within a reasonable margin how well they will perform from week to week.
How are individual players unpredictable but teams predictable? The team is comprised of 46 players. If you can't even predict the performance of one player, how can we say that you can predict the performance of a combination of 46 of them?
How this is not considered gambling I will never understand. If you bet on teams to win (thereby playing, through the odds, with or against every other bettor), that's sports betting and therefore gambling. If you bet on individual players and play against every other bettor, it's somehow not gambling?
(It's also the same model as the online poker sites which were banned...)
Either it all should be legal or all illegal. I'm not taking a position on that, but if I worked at one of these companies, I wouldn't be getting too comfortable in my current environs.
Although this project will probably never end up being used in any wide way, shouldn't the Linux community be concerned that it's running talent away with a poor culture?
If this were happening at our office, we'd all be concerned about brain drain.
This is actually a nice innovation. I expect someone to come along and tell me there's an Android equivalent, since this is/. - but I have long wished my phone could function like a laptop - plug into a dock at work, into my home entertainment center at home... to be everything everywhere.
A real innovation to me would not be more functions in the device itself - we already have more than you can count - but rather *eliminating devices*.
Not just devices on my person like my watch or my keys or credit card, devices in my life - in my home, car, office, etc.
Well, the rate is officially $3.75 per week (more if you want to be able to access it on all devices). But the NYT gives 50% off discounts for "educators and students", and any subscription given as a gift comes at 30% off. There's also a special corporate rate, and it's possible to subscribe to the Opinion section only. So, I'm guessing they count all these subscriptions at any level toward the total number.
When you compare the $3.75 per week to the $12+ a week (current prices) that people used to pay for home delivery, one wonders how the Times is making any money these days... (?)
IMO, if you trust any of the old media enough to pay for a subscription, and you spend enough time on one website to get your money's worth, you're probably getting too much of your information from a single source.
The worst thing that ever happened to Twitter was the retweet, just like the worst thing that ever happened to facebook was "share". Both of these things dramatically reduced the usability and usefulness of those sites. It changed the social media from a fun way to keep up with friends to an avalanche of nonsense you don't care about with a few nuggets buried somewhere inside.
This is the lifecycle for anything cool, I guess. Birth > Cool > Widespread adoption > Monetization > Bloat > Death spiral
I'm sure this is Amazon's response, that you don't need all the extra storage because it's all in the cloud, to be retrieved whenever.
I know some people feel like they have to have their entire library on the physical device, but really? If there are 5GB of system memory, and say half of it you want to reserve for ebooks, you've still got massive amounts of space. 90% or so of unillustrated ePub books are going to be less than 5MB in size.
I know, someone will come along and say "But I keep 5,000 picture books on my reader for my kids, and I want them all on the device at once". Well, that's not really a typical use case.
Exactly. Unionizing might solve one problem but would introduce a hundred more.
We need to make companies overcome the burden of proof that there is no one qualified domestically for a job before they can get an H1B. Other countries do this effectively.
We don't need to bring unions in to fleece dues out of everyone, jump in the middle of workplace disputes, destroy advancement based on merit, destroy the incentive to go the extra mile and be a star performer, etc etc. Perhaps if you are a cog turning a screwdriver for a living they are all well and good, but in IT where people work with their minds, it needs to be a creative, innovative, free environment.
All there needs to be is, as many other states do, laws in place demonstrating that there is no one qualified domestically for the job before you can get an H1B.
For whatever reason, the US doesn't have or enforce these laws in most circumstances. We need to protect our work force in sane ways that still preserve the incentive to work hard, perform, innovate, and compete for advancement based on merit.
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There's a severe difference between a whole fantasy football season of managing a team with a prize at the end for the best overall performance, and placing simple one-game cash bets on individual players.
With sports teams you can compile enough information to make an educated guess about which teams have an advantage. No matter how much historical data you compile on an individual player, there is no way to predict within a reasonable margin how well they will perform from week to week.
How are individual players unpredictable but teams predictable? The team is comprised of 46 players. If you can't even predict the performance of one player, how can we say that you can predict the performance of a combination of 46 of them?
It's only afternoon here, you insensitive clod!
How this is not considered gambling I will never understand. If you bet on teams to win (thereby playing, through the odds, with or against every other bettor), that's sports betting and therefore gambling. If you bet on individual players and play against every other bettor, it's somehow not gambling?
(It's also the same model as the online poker sites which were banned...)
Either it all should be legal or all illegal. I'm not taking a position on that, but if I worked at one of these companies, I wouldn't be getting too comfortable in my current environs.
Say hello to my little PPC !
Warning: People denying the existence of robots may be robots themselves.
Well, I think we can safely assume solar doesn't have the potential Deuterium does for warp drive applications.
Maybe they could skip selling off spectrum for billions of dollars to enormous companies and instead open it up the way they did the 2.4 Ghz band?
You must be new here. :)
Although this project will probably never end up being used in any wide way, shouldn't the Linux community be concerned that it's running talent away with a poor culture?
If this were happening at our office, we'd all be concerned about brain drain.
This is actually a nice innovation. I expect someone to come along and tell me there's an Android equivalent, since this is /. - but I have long wished my phone could function like a laptop - plug into a dock at work, into my home entertainment center at home... to be everything everywhere.
A real innovation to me would not be more functions in the device itself - we already have more than you can count - but rather *eliminating devices*.
Not just devices on my person like my watch or my keys or credit card, devices in my life - in my home, car, office, etc.
Well, the rate is officially $3.75 per week (more if you want to be able to access it on all devices). But the NYT gives 50% off discounts for "educators and students", and any subscription given as a gift comes at 30% off. There's also a special corporate rate, and it's possible to subscribe to the Opinion section only. So, I'm guessing they count all these subscriptions at any level toward the total number.
When you compare the $3.75 per week to the $12+ a week (current prices) that people used to pay for home delivery, one wonders how the Times is making any money these days... (?)
IMO, if you trust any of the old media enough to pay for a subscription, and you spend enough time on one website to get your money's worth, you're probably getting too much of your information from a single source.
6.31ug/L is still less than half the WHO's standard for safe water, and is not an unsafe level of exposure.
In Soviet Russia, man gays you!
It does indeed.
The worst thing that ever happened to Twitter was the retweet, just like the worst thing that ever happened to facebook was "share". Both of these things dramatically reduced the usability and usefulness of those sites. It changed the social media from a fun way to keep up with friends to an avalanche of nonsense you don't care about with a few nuggets buried somewhere inside.
This is the lifecycle for anything cool, I guess. Birth > Cool > Widespread adoption > Monetization > Bloat > Death spiral
Sure, there's always a risk of being hit by an asteroid, but what about the saucers? Those are much harder to avoid and they shoot back.
I'm guessing Amazon thinks most people can survive with only 1000 books to choose from until they get to an internet connection next.
Then I suppose a bargain basement tablet in a semi-walled garden ecosystem isn't what you've been using, or what you'd ever consider using.
I'm sure this is Amazon's response, that you don't need all the extra storage because it's all in the cloud, to be retrieved whenever.
I know some people feel like they have to have their entire library on the physical device, but really? If there are 5GB of system memory, and say half of it you want to reserve for ebooks, you've still got massive amounts of space. 90% or so of unillustrated ePub books are going to be less than 5MB in size.
I know, someone will come along and say "But I keep 5,000 picture books on my reader for my kids, and I want them all on the device at once". Well, that's not really a typical use case.
But but but think of the children/kitties/spotted owls/hot grits/cecil the lion!
To be fair, the EPA has been very busy cleaning up rivers in Colorado.
I love those sorts of headhunters.
"So, person working for a major employer in a major city. Would you like to move to outer Mongolia for a 3 month contract?"
I got one from a "health care staffing executive" whose previous employment was at Medieval Times.
Exactly. Unionizing might solve one problem but would introduce a hundred more.
We need to make companies overcome the burden of proof that there is no one qualified domestically for a job before they can get an H1B. Other countries do this effectively.
We don't need to bring unions in to fleece dues out of everyone, jump in the middle of workplace disputes, destroy advancement based on merit, destroy the incentive to go the extra mile and be a star performer, etc etc. Perhaps if you are a cog turning a screwdriver for a living they are all well and good, but in IT where people work with their minds, it needs to be a creative, innovative, free environment.
All there needs to be is, as many other states do, laws in place demonstrating that there is no one qualified domestically for the job before you can get an H1B.
For whatever reason, the US doesn't have or enforce these laws in most circumstances. We need to protect our work force in sane ways that still preserve the incentive to work hard, perform, innovate, and compete for advancement based on merit.
Yes, it's well known that most anti-gun statistics (such as this one) throw suicides and accidents in for effect.