Another real challenge is being able to continue to fund failure. Always seek external funding before you think you need it! When you are forced to put your rent on your charge card your tolerance for failure decreases significantly.
Very interesting. I would be interested to see the exact phrasing of your Mechanical Turk question, to ensure that there is no bias hiding in the wording.
I would also be interested in rerunning the experiment with two groups, one who sees the DA's argument and one who sees your argument, and seeing how much these arguments skew the numbers for each self-assessed Math/English segment.
I see your point, but we've never had any principled outcry against wanted posters in the post office. And "America's Most Wanted" has been on TV for years.
They could do some terrible damage by showing both the suspect and his offense on these billboards. How long do you think an accused kiddie rapist would last under those conditions?
If a topic is interesting enough for someone to take the time to research and provide for the site, given that it is factually accurate, why the heck would we limit the boundaries of the knowledge provided?
Wikipedia is all about user-generated content and lack of centralized control. There are certain rules in place to ensure that the site does not fall into anarchy, and those basic rules are enforced by site moderators. But once a central source starts deciding on the content itself, Wikipedia has lost its identity.
A monopoly is not a company that dominates a market. It is a company that stifles all competition and unlawfully does not allow new entrants into the market. Microsoft faces competition every day, and is clearly losing its edge, as can be seen with the failure of Vista and the success of Firefox.
It is not fair to fine Microsoft for its success. If Windows and Office are truly so overpriced, it should be simple to create a product that has comparable/better features that can be sold for cheaper...right?
Socially optimum? If something is worth something to someone, they will acquire it at the lowest rate they possibly can. That is the social optimum. If this causes a dip in supply in this case due to prices suddenly dropping (due to a shift in the curve because of new technology), demand WILL NOT be decreased. There will always be a demand for music. When there is a demand, entrepreneurs find a way to fill it. Supply will grow, but maybe not in the same way that it grew before. Sit back and enjoy the ride -- you'll see. People will think of ways to deliver music that neither you nor I have imagined. Always bet on innovation, and always bet that you will find ways to happily spend your money in a free market.
The alternative? Shut down half the Internet, put strict controls on everything at the ISP level, criminalize people who download music, and force everyone to pay $15 for CDs. Give the music industry has no reason to innovate. Watch the free market fail.
I'm glad there's no cure for the common cold.
Is this guy just completely missing the fact that some of the brightest young developers in the world work for Google? They don't need external developers in order to be a success. Any third-party dev is just icing on the cake.
If we only catch one in three murderers, should each one caught get the death penalty for a triple homicide? Since when are criminals liable for the actions of others?
I agree that the offender should pay more than the actual cost of the stolen goods in order to deter the crime, but having the caught offenders covering lost profits from all offenders is going too far.
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So, you're saying it's not in the interest of our government to rebuild the port city on the largest river in our country?
If it's so damned profitable, then businesses should be willing to rebuild there. And the local government there should collect the taxes it needs in order to build some proper levees, and if these taxes are too high for the businesses to exist, then it's not damned profitable enough. It's one of those "return on investment" deals. If the dollars aren't there, then it isn't worth it -- have these people move and be industrious elsewhere.
It's not in government's interest to invest in infrastructure?
In international, interstate infrastructure, probably. But the state government usually handles state roads, right?
I agree with you on our ridiculous defense budget.
You don't need an expert to confirm that it is in the final tally if you can just log in to a web site, type in the alpha-numeric code on your receipt, and have it confirm the presense of your vote. You can then be given the option to look at all of the encrypted votes, so that if one wished, one could count them and see that their vote was among those for whom you voted.
The only problem I see with this is the ability to stuff the ballot box -- but you would have to steal or break people's private keys first, which would greatly increase the cost of voter fraud.
A trusted central source assigns the sites. The majority can be a relatively small amount, since sites will be assigned to clients randomly.
I do not claim to have designed this system, I only contend that it may be worth designing and that it should not be discarded without consideration.
What if different machines are assigned sites to crawl, and could only report on those assigned sites? How about if several machines are assigned the same site, and only those results in the majority are accepted? These problems can be worked around.
Then perhaps you should give your business to companies that do not switch to DX10.
If someone built a car that got twice the gas mileage but required a special process to be applied to the gasoline, would you be whining because the new gas wouldn't work with your old car?
Get over it. You can still run your OS, and run the games that you want to run today. If enough people feel like you do and don't want to upgrade, game manufacturors will still support you. If no one feels like you do and everyone else upgrades, than tough luck for you.
I don't know about you, but I can interact with glass. I can see it, I can collide with it, it has properties...I think you're missing the entire point of the parent.
I have thought as he does for a while, that scientists are too quick to try bending the old rules than thinking about new ones in some cases. But I also agree with several children that this is just the natural process, and that it will eventually lead to a breakthrough once enough data is gathered.
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Just because they predict it doesn't mean it isn't true.
"The sky's orange! Don't ask around -- they'll just tell you it's blue! They're wrong I tell ya!"
Of course it should be up to the author to decide whether his/her book is fiction or nonfiction, and that author should be held accountable for it.
The publisher takes the risk of looking bad if they invest in a disreputable author.
What's the problem here? Exactly how many people do you expect to hold your hand through life?
Next we'll be quibbling over whether the Bible is fiction or non-fiction.
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Another real challenge is being able to continue to fund failure. Always seek external funding before you think you need it! When you are forced to put your rent on your charge card your tolerance for failure decreases significantly.
Very interesting. I would be interested to see the exact phrasing of your Mechanical Turk question, to ensure that there is no bias hiding in the wording. I would also be interested in rerunning the experiment with two groups, one who sees the DA's argument and one who sees your argument, and seeing how much these arguments skew the numbers for each self-assessed Math/English segment.
Simple way to accomplish the same means: raise the price during peak hours. Works for cell phones, right?
I see your point, but we've never had any principled outcry against wanted posters in the post office. And "America's Most Wanted" has been on TV for years.
They could do some terrible damage by showing both the suspect and his offense on these billboards. How long do you think an accused kiddie rapist would last under those conditions?
If a topic is interesting enough for someone to take the time to research and provide for the site, given that it is factually accurate, why the heck would we limit the boundaries of the knowledge provided?
Wikipedia is all about user-generated content and lack of centralized control. There are certain rules in place to ensure that the site does not fall into anarchy, and those basic rules are enforced by site moderators. But once a central source starts deciding on the content itself, Wikipedia has lost its identity.
A monopoly is not a company that dominates a market. It is a company that stifles all competition and unlawfully does not allow new entrants into the market. Microsoft faces competition every day, and is clearly losing its edge, as can be seen with the failure of Vista and the success of Firefox. It is not fair to fine Microsoft for its success. If Windows and Office are truly so overpriced, it should be simple to create a product that has comparable/better features that can be sold for cheaper...right?
Don't take away my freedom because others are not informed. They should suffer the consequences of their ignorance.
Thanks for the correction guys. Yes, the house.
Of course, as a politician, Ron Paul (if he even actually had a chance), would become just another bullshit politician, so it's all a moot point.
As far as I can see, he has yet to become a bullshit politician after years of serving in the senate.
Should we be similarly worried about DNS services? Maybe I should stop being so dependent on www.google.com...time to browse to 72.14.207.99.
I don't really see this as a big deal.
Socially optimum? If something is worth something to someone, they will acquire it at the lowest rate they possibly can. That is the social optimum. If this causes a dip in supply in this case due to prices suddenly dropping (due to a shift in the curve because of new technology), demand WILL NOT be decreased. There will always be a demand for music. When there is a demand, entrepreneurs find a way to fill it. Supply will grow, but maybe not in the same way that it grew before. Sit back and enjoy the ride -- you'll see. People will think of ways to deliver music that neither you nor I have imagined. Always bet on innovation, and always bet that you will find ways to happily spend your money in a free market.
The alternative? Shut down half the Internet, put strict controls on everything at the ISP level, criminalize people who download music, and force everyone to pay $15 for CDs. Give the music industry has no reason to innovate. Watch the free market fail.
I'm glad there's no cure for the common cold. Is this guy just completely missing the fact that some of the brightest young developers in the world work for Google? They don't need external developers in order to be a success. Any third-party dev is just icing on the cake.
Is doing a roll call so difficult? Most of my teachers tended to know who I was, and would mark me absent if I wasn't there. Is this a crazy concept?
Well, okay. But I don't want people thinkin' we're robosexuals
If we only catch one in three murderers, should each one caught get the death penalty for a triple homicide? Since when are criminals liable for the actions of others? I agree that the offender should pay more than the actual cost of the stolen goods in order to deter the crime, but having the caught offenders covering lost profits from all offenders is going too far.
So, you're saying it's not in the interest of our government to rebuild the port city on the largest river in our country?
If it's so damned profitable, then businesses should be willing to rebuild there. And the local government there should collect the taxes it needs in order to build some proper levees, and if these taxes are too high for the businesses to exist, then it's not damned profitable enough. It's one of those "return on investment" deals. If the dollars aren't there, then it isn't worth it -- have these people move and be industrious elsewhere.
It's not in government's interest to invest in infrastructure?
In international, interstate infrastructure, probably. But the state government usually handles state roads, right?
I agree with you on our ridiculous defense budget.
My girlfriend already calls too often.
You don't need an expert to confirm that it is in the final tally if you can just log in to a web site, type in the alpha-numeric code on your receipt, and have it confirm the presense of your vote. You can then be given the option to look at all of the encrypted votes, so that if one wished, one could count them and see that their vote was among those for whom you voted. The only problem I see with this is the ability to stuff the ballot box -- but you would have to steal or break people's private keys first, which would greatly increase the cost of voter fraud.
A trusted central source assigns the sites. The majority can be a relatively small amount, since sites will be assigned to clients randomly. I do not claim to have designed this system, I only contend that it may be worth designing and that it should not be discarded without consideration.
What if different machines are assigned sites to crawl, and could only report on those assigned sites? How about if several machines are assigned the same site, and only those results in the majority are accepted? These problems can be worked around.
Then perhaps you should give your business to companies that do not switch to DX10. If someone built a car that got twice the gas mileage but required a special process to be applied to the gasoline, would you be whining because the new gas wouldn't work with your old car? Get over it. You can still run your OS, and run the games that you want to run today. If enough people feel like you do and don't want to upgrade, game manufacturors will still support you. If no one feels like you do and everyone else upgrades, than tough luck for you.
I don't know about you, but I can interact with glass. I can see it, I can collide with it, it has properties...I think you're missing the entire point of the parent. I have thought as he does for a while, that scientists are too quick to try bending the old rules than thinking about new ones in some cases. But I also agree with several children that this is just the natural process, and that it will eventually lead to a breakthrough once enough data is gathered.
Just because they predict it doesn't mean it isn't true.
"The sky's orange! Don't ask around -- they'll just tell you it's blue! They're wrong I tell ya!"
Of course it should be up to the author to decide whether his/her book is fiction or nonfiction, and that author should be held accountable for it. The publisher takes the risk of looking bad if they invest in a disreputable author. What's the problem here? Exactly how many people do you expect to hold your hand through life? Next we'll be quibbling over whether the Bible is fiction or non-fiction.
I could be wrong, but I don't think there are a lot of 100 degree days in Portland.