Clearly this is all an attempt by another universe to build a giant spaghetti strainer using the black holes at the center of all these galaxies to try to kill our great protector the FSM http://www.venganza.org/.
The problem there of course is that either the game devs get paid for producing a crappy game, or they don't. If they don't, the incentive to take the risk is gone. If they do, the assurance contracts screw the consumer. Big problem either way.
So, if a team of programmers spend 1,000,000 hours making a game, and they get paid at their hourly rate of $100, which user is going to pay the 100 million dollars up front?
No, he wouldn't pay $48 per year, would pay $24 for 6 months, and would pay $12 per year without bothering to discontinue service during the months he's uninterested.
Aladdin: sex Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass: sex Beauty and the Beast: sex Cinderella: sex, nudity Little red riding hood: bestiality
No, a bid of 4.6B, if the only bid offered, will be accepted. It is the starting and reserve price for the auction. The FCC did half of what google wanted (and not really the important half).
Actually, it depends heavily on how you conspire. It's illegal if you do it in any number of wrong ways. Take as an example selling product under cost in order to bankrupt the competition.
To clarify: I wasn't attempting to claim that NCLB was a good idea, or that it worked, just that there was a real problem people were hoping to address with the old system.
This was done at my high school. The result was that the good teachers fought to teach the classes with the good students, because the classes with the bad students were rowdy. The low and mid level students got left further and further behind. This is pretty much what no-child-left-behind was designed to defeat.
I would say that the first 3 of your items are actually at least somewhat understood as cooperative behaviors understood by psychological science in some depth.
Knowledge, on the other hand, is quite interesting, as knowledge and facts require somewhat circular definition.
Overall I would agree that no one purely lives in the first, which is why I suggested that the scientific mind 'prefers' the first. Freeing yourself completely from the other categories is difficult to impossible (and quite possibly undesireable in a number of dimensions). Our brains just aren't designed in that way.
From that list I have not had to use my:
history, literature, biology, chemistry, foreign language in the last decade. Not that you could know that ahead of time. I'd particularly question the foreign language training for anyone who doesn't live in a multilingual area. The odds that you'll use that training are really low. Statistically, you'd be much better off learning some computer skills with those 2 years.
Orthogonal is the key word. You're communicating in two categories when there are 3: facts : 4 a : something that has actual existence (http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/fact)
The soul either is a fact, or it isn't. Which is currently unknown.
The dimensions being dealt with are belief (true or untrue) and evidence (present or not):
Things which we believe to be true, and for which we have evidence: (scientific facts) Things which we believe to be true, but for which we have no evidence: (superstitions) Things which we believe to be untrue, and for which we have (contrary) evidence: (irrationalities) Things which we believe to be untrue, but for which we have no evidence: (superstitions)
Because both of the no evidence categories are superstitions, the 4 potentially interesting categories really collapse into 3.
The scientific mind finds it most pleasant to live in the first category. The mystic might spend all their time focused on the second and fourth. The crazy live in the third. Most of us really live our lives with a smattering of each.
Major architectural changes (historically) have been years between. AMD had the lead arch, and intel took years to respond with core. Now intel has the lead, and AMD won't compete until their new arch. The problem is compounded for AMD by intel deciding to make a major push to speed up their arch cycle time. AMD's new arch will have to do battle with intel's refined core2 shortly after release, and intel's next arch is due as soon as next year, so their window is tight. AMD is of course also trying to accelerate their cycle, but intel has a lot more money to spend on this battle.
The real threat will be from ear-embedded cell phones with encrypted communications. How you'll keep those folks from cheating your chess matches I don't know. Will you ask all kids who get interested in chess to have their secure cell phones surgically removed?
a) quarktronics: why limit yourself to computing with atoms? (not a big enough multiplier to really solve the problem though) b) quantum computing: why limit yourself to computing with the atoms of just one universe? c) neutrinotronics: the sun alone emits something in the range of 10^38 per second. There are a lot of neutrinos to work with. d) virtual particletronics: why limit yourself to computing with stuff that exists? e) algorithm advancement: perhaps we can do a better job of provably pruning the problem tree. You're allowed not to brute force a path if you can prove you don't need to.
Assuming we master any of the above, chess might be made much more amenable to solution via computer.
A sealed chamber has an external surface. The external surface dissipates heat if it is exposed to a lower temperature environment. So imagine that the size of this sealed chamber is a cubic meter, extending out of your computer case. It distributes all that heat to a very large surface area, bringing the temperature of your cpu down to near room temperature.
Unless you think of his parents and peers as higher level beings, no, he wasn't programmed by higher level beings. He was programmed by the same level of beings as deep blue was, and he lost. Ergo, either his programmers were inferior, or his hardware is inferior.
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Bad mod, bad! Not flamebait. Funny. Funny. No biscuit.
Clearly this is all an attempt by another universe to build a giant spaghetti strainer using the black holes at the center of all these galaxies to try to kill our great protector the FSM http://www.venganza.org/.
They ship lamers packed in buses. Morons are sent via shipping container I think.. jpg
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The problem there of course is that either the game devs get paid for producing a crappy game, or they don't. If they don't, the incentive to take the risk is gone. If they do, the assurance contracts screw the consumer. Big problem either way.
So, if a team of programmers spend 1,000,000 hours making a game, and they get paid at their hourly rate of $100, which user is going to pay the 100 million dollars up front?
No, he wouldn't pay $48 per year, would pay $24 for 6 months, and would pay $12 per year without bothering to discontinue service during the months he's uninterested.
Aladdin: sex
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass: sex
Beauty and the Beast: sex
Cinderella: sex, nudity
Little red riding hood: bestiality
The list goes on and on.
No, a bid of 4.6B, if the only bid offered, will be accepted. It is the starting and reserve price for the auction.
The FCC did half of what google wanted (and not really the important half).
Predatory pricing is exactly what I meant. The courts and antitrust authorities will pursue them if they will lead to higher prices.
Actually, it depends heavily on how you conspire. It's illegal if you do it in any number of wrong ways. Take as an example selling product under cost in order to bankrupt the competition.
To clarify: I wasn't attempting to claim that NCLB was a good idea, or that it worked, just that there was a real problem people were hoping to address with the old system.
This was done at my high school. The result was that the good teachers fought to teach the classes with the good students, because the classes with the bad students were rowdy. The low and mid level students got left further and further behind. This is pretty much what no-child-left-behind was designed to defeat.
Come on, this deserves positive moderation for the oblique futurama/gygax reference:
... (rolls dice) ... pleasure
y -Of-Interest-I.html
GYGAX
Greetings! It's a
to meet you!
http://www.imsdb.com/transcripts/Futurama-Anthlog
I would say that the first 3 of your items are actually at least somewhat understood as cooperative behaviors understood by psychological science in some depth.
Knowledge, on the other hand, is quite interesting, as knowledge and facts require somewhat circular definition.
Overall I would agree that no one purely lives in the first, which is why I suggested that the scientific mind 'prefers' the first. Freeing yourself completely from the other categories is difficult to impossible (and quite possibly undesireable in a number of dimensions). Our brains just aren't designed in that way.
From that list I have not had to use my:
history, literature, biology, chemistry, foreign language
in the last decade. Not that you could know that ahead of time.
I'd particularly question the foreign language training for anyone who doesn't live in a multilingual area. The odds that you'll use that training are really low. Statistically, you'd be much better off learning some computer skills with those 2 years.
Orthogonal is the key word. You're communicating in two categories when there are 3:
facts : 4 a : something that has actual existence (http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/fact)
The soul either is a fact, or it isn't. Which is currently unknown.
The dimensions being dealt with are belief (true or untrue) and evidence (present or not):
Things which we believe to be true, and for which we have evidence: (scientific facts)
Things which we believe to be true, but for which we have no evidence: (superstitions)
Things which we believe to be untrue, and for which we have (contrary) evidence: (irrationalities)
Things which we believe to be untrue, but for which we have no evidence: (superstitions)
Because both of the no evidence categories are superstitions, the 4 potentially interesting categories really collapse into 3.
The scientific mind finds it most pleasant to live in the first category. The mystic might spend all their time focused on the second and fourth. The crazy live in the third. Most of us really live our lives with a smattering of each.
Didn't you ever wonder why they are quite so inept at delivering packages? Because that's not their job.
She is hot, thanks for pointing that out.
Major architectural changes (historically) have been years between. AMD had the lead arch, and intel took years to respond with core. Now intel has the lead, and AMD won't compete until their new arch. The problem is compounded for AMD by intel deciding to make a major push to speed up their arch cycle time. AMD's new arch will have to do battle with intel's refined core2 shortly after release, and intel's next arch is due as soon as next year, so their window is tight. AMD is of course also trying to accelerate their cycle, but intel has a lot more money to spend on this battle.
The real threat will be from ear-embedded cell phones with encrypted communications. How you'll keep those folks from cheating your chess matches I don't know. Will you ask all kids who get interested in chess to have their secure cell phones surgically removed?
The main possibilities for refuting this:
a) quarktronics: why limit yourself to computing with atoms? (not a big enough multiplier to really solve the problem though)
b) quantum computing: why limit yourself to computing with the atoms of just one universe?
c) neutrinotronics: the sun alone emits something in the range of 10^38 per second. There are a lot of neutrinos to work with.
d) virtual particletronics: why limit yourself to computing with stuff that exists?
e) algorithm advancement: perhaps we can do a better job of provably pruning the problem tree. You're allowed not to brute force a path if you can prove you don't need to.
Assuming we master any of the above, chess might be made much more amenable to solution via computer.
A sealed chamber has an external surface. The external surface dissipates heat if it is exposed to a lower temperature environment. So imagine that the size of this sealed chamber is a cubic meter, extending out of your computer case. It distributes all that heat to a very large surface area, bringing the temperature of your cpu down to near room temperature.
Mod parent up. There are way too many posters in this thread who need to understand this.
Unless you think of his parents and peers as higher level beings, no, he wasn't programmed by higher level beings. He was programmed by the same level of beings as deep blue was, and he lost. Ergo, either his programmers were inferior, or his hardware is inferior.
attention metamods: overrated on unmoderated parent.