This sounds more and more like people already in the industry or hobbyists are pissed off for having to *le gasp* train somebody! How dare they not come to your specific system that isn't being taught at the best universities! I mean, come on, we should all know how YOUR system works and should simply fall into lock step.
The argument that we go to college to be trained is one that has been used by corporations in the last thirty years to cut their own training departments. CS & IT degrees get you familiar with the subject matter but are by no means a comprehensive lesson in how a particular system works. I have no doubt the vast majority of CS majors have exit projects that they can show off. The problem is that if that program is written in a different language or different style how can you ask them to come in to work without training them.
"Experience required" is code for "I'm too lazy to train you, so you better be a job jumper"
I want to know how much it will cost before they break even, they imply 350,000 accounts, is that from day one with a game bought and a month played? 3 months played? 6 months played? My poor marketing skills suggest purchases and a month payed for would make them about 20 million. So I guess those numbers implied some months payed for to offset the cost. I have no doubt it will succeed but I think the MMO movement is hitting it's plateau period. There will be new players at a steady rate but the meteoric rise that happened over WoW I doubt we'll see again. The hourly and appointed time consumption is a killer compared to other forms of entertainment. Then again I could be absolutely wrong, I don't doubt the game will be wonderful but being an adult seeking to start a family this game will never be for me.
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So you can't call your local sheriff to have your small claim collected but what you can do is call Nvidia's HQ's sheriff and discuss with them how to have the warrant for sale executed. Then again if you won against Nvidia and not your laptop manufacturer or warranty company odds on all three of them would pay out before appealing if the case was solid. Class action suits are about trying to stop bad corporate behavior rather than helping the individuals. This is to keep Nvidia in the future from making faulty GPUs.
Cite or remove. Honestly I am sure I could have hounded google for hours to find an anti-nuclear site that explains it but I don't really have the time or energy. I didn't particularly try to make a strong academic point, just a generic stand. So since you made an explicit argument cite it or retract your stand. I'm willing to be wrong, I'm glad to learn but otherwise I would argue you're attempting to strawman me because I advocated that the nuclear launch system work they did was moral because the better the system the better we are at keeping MAD in-check. You're arguing a flaw in the system's coding and not the system itself. So please cite your argument against me.
Arguably killing the snake by cutting off the head is surprisingly quite effective. That book is a great bit of cliche propaganda that floats around every so often because they discuss organizations that are headed by individuals who were more symbolic than daily leaders. Whatever Osama was to Al Queda we know he was an effective fundraiser and channeled funds from Saudi Arabia into the coffers of Al Queda. Without him hopefully the resources will be drained, course only years will tell us one way or the other.
The best approach is as we defeat the Taliban we install proper education, clean drinking water, and advance their civilization along the lines of assimilation. The closer we tie these poor people to the advancement of the globe as a whole the less likely we are to keep facing this issue. Course the US is dominated by global businesses that only wish to see the profits flow so I worry we may never be able to solve this problem.
As for the "civilian deaths cause hate" argument, it is woefully more complex than that. It's more like "they never liked us so anything we do stupid is reason enough to dislike us" it doesn't discount our failure to be surgical but it really makes this whole situation a two-way street in that they never really liked us so when the army does do what armies do, kill people, the locals are bound to be upset and fight against us. The problem once again goes back to we aren't offering anything real or substantial to them. Replace their goat herding with schools and technology and they'll warm up to you. Course if they seek to keep women from attending those new schools explain to them that custom is dead and if that fails explain to them that their life is forfeit. Crimes of bigotry cannot be accepted anywhere as part of the rebuilding phase.
If that was directed at me I went to University of Pittsburgh. One of the most aggressive engineering schools in the country. The place was highly competitive, well funded, and cut-throat to the limit. State-related schools are fairly rare, I know of two in Pennsylvania and a handful more in the US so it's rather unfair to compare them to say Ohio State or Michigan. There tuition back then was practically double the state average and I could have gone to Tier-one state college on out-of-state rates and still been cheaper. But it was in my back yard so it made sense to me at the time. It was a school that did no hand holding, it was do or die, and frankly I burnt out after a while. Ended up getting my PhD in History. I can say with some degree once you get into middle-class schools (Tier one or otherwise) it becomes highly competitive because the funding simply isn't there. At places like Harvard their endowment is so large and their limited enrollment allows them to afford those options. The less well-endowed places tend to scrabble for cash to cover tuition costs. That's why they rely on Alumni so heavily, in many cases the schools are loss-leaders if state-run because they keep tuition affordable but have no massive nest egg to invest with due to various rules and charters. Not that they could develop that kind of nest egg because the same charters force admittance levels too low to select the cream of the crop as those private schools do.
That was a typo on my part. Arguably US nuclear weapons research is a perfectly acceptable route if one subscribes to MAD. Course, the argument with most geeks is that they tend to have an ethical code that comes out of comic books instead of the real world. MIT has done everything to advance society including nuclear weapons designs. The idea is to never have to use them but to be near perfect so that MAD is inevitable.
MIT is a wonderful place. I almost went there in the early 2000s before opting for a local school that was 7th in engineering (my preferred fields). They were far more willing to work with me on the tuition rates than the school I did choose and MIT was 4 times more expensive at the time. Right off the top MIT gave a half-tuition credit to those they sought out (as to those that simply applied) and then there was further reward if you succeeded. MIT is not a private school and operates largely for the good of humanity. Comparing your local college experience to MIT is really unfair. The only places I can think of that compete are places like Cal Poly Tech and a few other Tech schools in the US.
Giving the stock to MIT means they'll have a healthy steady source of income that hopefully will enable them to continue to research when politics pressure their research funds.
PS: On the subject of tuition the US has relatively high tuition because schools don't get the kind of funding they need from the state and private schools though non-profit in most cases need to have an excess to invest and protect against the future. Non-profit doesn't mean sum-zero, it means there is no dividend to pay out to trustees and they are limited in their total profits. State colleges by comparison are much cheaper and would be free if the state gave the proper kind of funding they deserved.
I laughed EXTREMELY HARD. The vast majority of tablets are not going to be tied to data plans. They're more like netbooks than smartphones, people are less likely to be roaming the streets with a massive tablet than sitting near a WiFi hotspot. I'm more so amazed that Asus has priced the battery pack-cum-keyboard at 150 to press the combination to $550 while Apple's wireless keyboard is approx. $570. So combined they still managed to undercut Apple in every way. Course there are third party bluetooth cases/keyboards for the Apple that cut it to about $30 or so.
Asus is going to sell a ton of Transformers. Nothing against iPads either. I'm honestly waiting till the fall when university starts again to buy one for reading. By that time I'll be swimming in a sea of Android tablets (since they all seem to be coming around this summer/early fall for Fall classes) so I'll have a choice of tablets and I still may get an iPad 2. Just comes down to pricing and features.
Netflix has done everything near perfectly for streaming service to our TVs. Expanding the fight for content drives up the price citizens pay for access to it so only the movie and television gain more for the same content they are largely already selling on their home channels. I haven't an issue with subsidizing entertainment if I am paying for it but I am instead paying for access to them after the fact. This new service suggests that Netflix will got into a price war with DirectTV and Amazon and thus push me more towards torrents than into paying $20-50 a month to cover the cost of the war.
Coming from an AC is kind of ironic. We as a society subsidize most everything especially broadband service to anybody beyond compact suburbia. If you lived any stretch away from a major city in an exurb you wouldn't have service either. So I think some of this attitude needs to be knocked off. Everybody should have access to the fastest internet possible and it should be government regulated to keep the cost down while offering the maximum in freedom.
Last time I checked politics make perfect sense if you're willing to take the time and think about it. The democratic party tends to support the social safety net and generally promote the welfare of the poorer classes. The Republican party tends to support the business community. What we have now is the "tea party" who tend to the bigoted and loosest of cannons influencing one party and in a country that is aging and seems "center-right" (though arguably is center-left by population) we're going to get these ludicrous ideas.
Wasting money on this to make the unemployed seem less desirable is just cruel and disturbing. The demonization of the poor, non-white, and liberal is disturbing. On top of it all the constant false dichotomy between the two parties to avoid controversy is so pathetic and irritating. Make a stand, have an opinion, stop trying to play the centerist scheme since the center in our politics is rarely a real place.
Honestly I haven't been following quantum science since I gave up engineering for history in college. That was several years ago and last I checked they did manage to "transport" light but it degraded because it was split. Essentially they've perfected the basic ability. Now it's time to move on towards real-world solutions. If this isn't the start of instant communication across the world at the very least think of the speed data centers could reach. If the initial progress was done just in room to room movements the speed at which processing could occur for computers and massive data centers is enormous.
As a Pennsylvanian who lives in one of the two major cities (i.e. Pittsburgh) we share a substantial amount of culture with California. This whole argument is stupid, the cultural differences between the states is limited. We're more likely to differentiate based on urban/suburban/rural and economics than a definitive geographical. It's such a hard argument to believe in "State's Rights" unless they're anarchists. The concept of home rule isn't a bad one but as we face a more global world where the payment of sales tax on the internet seems inevitable but on the same token should be based on individual's location since then Amazon and the rest can't exploit the situation.
I'm going to have to say that the metric you used for Facebook is just unrealistic. With about 4 million kindles sold collectively ad-based Kindle 3's are probably going to make up about 100,000 once the program is in full swing. So we're more inclined to see that metric be applied by the 100 or 500 or have the bid increased substantially. Even just halving it has Amazon turning a profit on their ad-kindles in a little over a year not including the fact that their main goal is to sell you books through their store.
The reality is that to justify forcing me to view ads I should receive a steeper discount. $20 is minimal on the overall price, it is barely a 7% discount. I think if I used a credit card to buy it with the right perk I could get that off. If Amazon wants to entice new buyers to get a kindle handing them out for $50 a pop would get people. As is stands now I suspect few will bite at that low a price.
PS: I suspect a vast majority will have their ad-based software stripped and replaced with normal kindle OS and use 3rd party bookstores to read from.
And rarely accurate. At least without relying on the scientific system to justify the positions they hold. I'm not denying that under incredibly lead foot driving the Tesla could be dragged down to 55 miles on the track but the implication is that 55 was a realistic range. Top Gear was trying to imply and quite successfully tied that number to the range fears that people have about electric cars still. Clarkson and Top Gear have an agenda like anybody else, Fifth Gear is more so like Motor Trend, scientific and honest, Top Gear is more like Car and Driver with Clarkson paralleling Yates and his numerous run-ins with environmentalists over the years. This doesn't make them bad people but it makes them irresponsible for doing certain things when they know full well their opinions are firmly set.
As a side topic, the Tesla sports car name is "Roadster" and they don't run the car in any track competition as a company. So whoever is declaring that Tesla wants you to use it on the track with confidence is making insinuations about the car that just aren't there.
This is where IP businesses suffer in the ideology of socialism but really the argument that people of talent that make software are trying to outsource themselves over what are small margins is inane. What right does an English citizen who wants to make video games have to move to the US or Canada? I'm not denying them the right to move or pay taxes in my preferred locality but in effect the argument is shifted onto the government to be held hostage by corporations when it should be on the corporations to deal with their locality and accept that taxation is part of the system. Then again I am openly in favor of every country charging corporate taxes on profits made within their borders so we can break the back of this poorly done blackmail game we suffer through as citizens.
For the record, if a UK game company moved to the US over taxation the best answer would be to simply charge them an additional surcharge to place their games on the shelves. In essence it would be passed onto the citizens of your own country but it would be a perfect way to execute protectionism which is definitively different from socialism.
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This sounds more and more like people already in the industry or hobbyists are pissed off for having to *le gasp* train somebody! How dare they not come to your specific system that isn't being taught at the best universities! I mean, come on, we should all know how YOUR system works and should simply fall into lock step. The argument that we go to college to be trained is one that has been used by corporations in the last thirty years to cut their own training departments. CS & IT degrees get you familiar with the subject matter but are by no means a comprehensive lesson in how a particular system works. I have no doubt the vast majority of CS majors have exit projects that they can show off. The problem is that if that program is written in a different language or different style how can you ask them to come in to work without training them. "Experience required" is code for "I'm too lazy to train you, so you better be a job jumper"
I want to know how much it will cost before they break even, they imply 350,000 accounts, is that from day one with a game bought and a month played? 3 months played? 6 months played? My poor marketing skills suggest purchases and a month payed for would make them about 20 million. So I guess those numbers implied some months payed for to offset the cost. I have no doubt it will succeed but I think the MMO movement is hitting it's plateau period. There will be new players at a steady rate but the meteoric rise that happened over WoW I doubt we'll see again. The hourly and appointed time consumption is a killer compared to other forms of entertainment. Then again I could be absolutely wrong, I don't doubt the game will be wonderful but being an adult seeking to start a family this game will never be for me.
Actually........ So you can't call your local sheriff to have your small claim collected but what you can do is call Nvidia's HQ's sheriff and discuss with them how to have the warrant for sale executed. Then again if you won against Nvidia and not your laptop manufacturer or warranty company odds on all three of them would pay out before appealing if the case was solid. Class action suits are about trying to stop bad corporate behavior rather than helping the individuals. This is to keep Nvidia in the future from making faulty GPUs.
Cite or remove. Honestly I am sure I could have hounded google for hours to find an anti-nuclear site that explains it but I don't really have the time or energy. I didn't particularly try to make a strong academic point, just a generic stand. So since you made an explicit argument cite it or retract your stand. I'm willing to be wrong, I'm glad to learn but otherwise I would argue you're attempting to strawman me because I advocated that the nuclear launch system work they did was moral because the better the system the better we are at keeping MAD in-check. You're arguing a flaw in the system's coding and not the system itself. So please cite your argument against me.
Arguably killing the snake by cutting off the head is surprisingly quite effective. That book is a great bit of cliche propaganda that floats around every so often because they discuss organizations that are headed by individuals who were more symbolic than daily leaders. Whatever Osama was to Al Queda we know he was an effective fundraiser and channeled funds from Saudi Arabia into the coffers of Al Queda. Without him hopefully the resources will be drained, course only years will tell us one way or the other. The best approach is as we defeat the Taliban we install proper education, clean drinking water, and advance their civilization along the lines of assimilation. The closer we tie these poor people to the advancement of the globe as a whole the less likely we are to keep facing this issue. Course the US is dominated by global businesses that only wish to see the profits flow so I worry we may never be able to solve this problem. As for the "civilian deaths cause hate" argument, it is woefully more complex than that. It's more like "they never liked us so anything we do stupid is reason enough to dislike us" it doesn't discount our failure to be surgical but it really makes this whole situation a two-way street in that they never really liked us so when the army does do what armies do, kill people, the locals are bound to be upset and fight against us. The problem once again goes back to we aren't offering anything real or substantial to them. Replace their goat herding with schools and technology and they'll warm up to you. Course if they seek to keep women from attending those new schools explain to them that custom is dead and if that fails explain to them that their life is forfeit. Crimes of bigotry cannot be accepted anywhere as part of the rebuilding phase.
If that was directed at me I went to University of Pittsburgh. One of the most aggressive engineering schools in the country. The place was highly competitive, well funded, and cut-throat to the limit. State-related schools are fairly rare, I know of two in Pennsylvania and a handful more in the US so it's rather unfair to compare them to say Ohio State or Michigan. There tuition back then was practically double the state average and I could have gone to Tier-one state college on out-of-state rates and still been cheaper. But it was in my back yard so it made sense to me at the time. It was a school that did no hand holding, it was do or die, and frankly I burnt out after a while. Ended up getting my PhD in History. I can say with some degree once you get into middle-class schools (Tier one or otherwise) it becomes highly competitive because the funding simply isn't there. At places like Harvard their endowment is so large and their limited enrollment allows them to afford those options. The less well-endowed places tend to scrabble for cash to cover tuition costs. That's why they rely on Alumni so heavily, in many cases the schools are loss-leaders if state-run because they keep tuition affordable but have no massive nest egg to invest with due to various rules and charters. Not that they could develop that kind of nest egg because the same charters force admittance levels too low to select the cream of the crop as those private schools do.
That was a typo on my part. Arguably US nuclear weapons research is a perfectly acceptable route if one subscribes to MAD. Course, the argument with most geeks is that they tend to have an ethical code that comes out of comic books instead of the real world. MIT has done everything to advance society including nuclear weapons designs. The idea is to never have to use them but to be near perfect so that MAD is inevitable.
MIT is a wonderful place. I almost went there in the early 2000s before opting for a local school that was 7th in engineering (my preferred fields). They were far more willing to work with me on the tuition rates than the school I did choose and MIT was 4 times more expensive at the time. Right off the top MIT gave a half-tuition credit to those they sought out (as to those that simply applied) and then there was further reward if you succeeded. MIT is not a private school and operates largely for the good of humanity. Comparing your local college experience to MIT is really unfair. The only places I can think of that compete are places like Cal Poly Tech and a few other Tech schools in the US. Giving the stock to MIT means they'll have a healthy steady source of income that hopefully will enable them to continue to research when politics pressure their research funds. PS: On the subject of tuition the US has relatively high tuition because schools don't get the kind of funding they need from the state and private schools though non-profit in most cases need to have an excess to invest and protect against the future. Non-profit doesn't mean sum-zero, it means there is no dividend to pay out to trustees and they are limited in their total profits. State colleges by comparison are much cheaper and would be free if the state gave the proper kind of funding they deserved.
I laughed EXTREMELY HARD. The vast majority of tablets are not going to be tied to data plans. They're more like netbooks than smartphones, people are less likely to be roaming the streets with a massive tablet than sitting near a WiFi hotspot. I'm more so amazed that Asus has priced the battery pack-cum-keyboard at 150 to press the combination to $550 while Apple's wireless keyboard is approx. $570. So combined they still managed to undercut Apple in every way. Course there are third party bluetooth cases/keyboards for the Apple that cut it to about $30 or so. Asus is going to sell a ton of Transformers. Nothing against iPads either. I'm honestly waiting till the fall when university starts again to buy one for reading. By that time I'll be swimming in a sea of Android tablets (since they all seem to be coming around this summer/early fall for Fall classes) so I'll have a choice of tablets and I still may get an iPad 2. Just comes down to pricing and features.
Netflix has done everything near perfectly for streaming service to our TVs. Expanding the fight for content drives up the price citizens pay for access to it so only the movie and television gain more for the same content they are largely already selling on their home channels. I haven't an issue with subsidizing entertainment if I am paying for it but I am instead paying for access to them after the fact. This new service suggests that Netflix will got into a price war with DirectTV and Amazon and thus push me more towards torrents than into paying $20-50 a month to cover the cost of the war.
Coming from an AC is kind of ironic. We as a society subsidize most everything especially broadband service to anybody beyond compact suburbia. If you lived any stretch away from a major city in an exurb you wouldn't have service either. So I think some of this attitude needs to be knocked off. Everybody should have access to the fastest internet possible and it should be government regulated to keep the cost down while offering the maximum in freedom.
Last time I checked politics make perfect sense if you're willing to take the time and think about it. The democratic party tends to support the social safety net and generally promote the welfare of the poorer classes. The Republican party tends to support the business community. What we have now is the "tea party" who tend to the bigoted and loosest of cannons influencing one party and in a country that is aging and seems "center-right" (though arguably is center-left by population) we're going to get these ludicrous ideas. Wasting money on this to make the unemployed seem less desirable is just cruel and disturbing. The demonization of the poor, non-white, and liberal is disturbing. On top of it all the constant false dichotomy between the two parties to avoid controversy is so pathetic and irritating. Make a stand, have an opinion, stop trying to play the centerist scheme since the center in our politics is rarely a real place.
Honestly I haven't been following quantum science since I gave up engineering for history in college. That was several years ago and last I checked they did manage to "transport" light but it degraded because it was split. Essentially they've perfected the basic ability. Now it's time to move on towards real-world solutions. If this isn't the start of instant communication across the world at the very least think of the speed data centers could reach. If the initial progress was done just in room to room movements the speed at which processing could occur for computers and massive data centers is enormous.
As a Pennsylvanian who lives in one of the two major cities (i.e. Pittsburgh) we share a substantial amount of culture with California. This whole argument is stupid, the cultural differences between the states is limited. We're more likely to differentiate based on urban/suburban/rural and economics than a definitive geographical. It's such a hard argument to believe in "State's Rights" unless they're anarchists. The concept of home rule isn't a bad one but as we face a more global world where the payment of sales tax on the internet seems inevitable but on the same token should be based on individual's location since then Amazon and the rest can't exploit the situation.
I'm going to have to say that the metric you used for Facebook is just unrealistic. With about 4 million kindles sold collectively ad-based Kindle 3's are probably going to make up about 100,000 once the program is in full swing. So we're more inclined to see that metric be applied by the 100 or 500 or have the bid increased substantially. Even just halving it has Amazon turning a profit on their ad-kindles in a little over a year not including the fact that their main goal is to sell you books through their store. The reality is that to justify forcing me to view ads I should receive a steeper discount. $20 is minimal on the overall price, it is barely a 7% discount. I think if I used a credit card to buy it with the right perk I could get that off. If Amazon wants to entice new buyers to get a kindle handing them out for $50 a pop would get people. As is stands now I suspect few will bite at that low a price. PS: I suspect a vast majority will have their ad-based software stripped and replaced with normal kindle OS and use 3rd party bookstores to read from.
And rarely accurate. At least without relying on the scientific system to justify the positions they hold. I'm not denying that under incredibly lead foot driving the Tesla could be dragged down to 55 miles on the track but the implication is that 55 was a realistic range. Top Gear was trying to imply and quite successfully tied that number to the range fears that people have about electric cars still. Clarkson and Top Gear have an agenda like anybody else, Fifth Gear is more so like Motor Trend, scientific and honest, Top Gear is more like Car and Driver with Clarkson paralleling Yates and his numerous run-ins with environmentalists over the years. This doesn't make them bad people but it makes them irresponsible for doing certain things when they know full well their opinions are firmly set. As a side topic, the Tesla sports car name is "Roadster" and they don't run the car in any track competition as a company. So whoever is declaring that Tesla wants you to use it on the track with confidence is making insinuations about the car that just aren't there.
This is where IP businesses suffer in the ideology of socialism but really the argument that people of talent that make software are trying to outsource themselves over what are small margins is inane. What right does an English citizen who wants to make video games have to move to the US or Canada? I'm not denying them the right to move or pay taxes in my preferred locality but in effect the argument is shifted onto the government to be held hostage by corporations when it should be on the corporations to deal with their locality and accept that taxation is part of the system. Then again I am openly in favor of every country charging corporate taxes on profits made within their borders so we can break the back of this poorly done blackmail game we suffer through as citizens. For the record, if a UK game company moved to the US over taxation the best answer would be to simply charge them an additional surcharge to place their games on the shelves. In essence it would be passed onto the citizens of your own country but it would be a perfect way to execute protectionism which is definitively different from socialism.