As another poster pointed out TM does not apply here due to TM acknowledgement, but perhaps more relevantly, TM does not apply to DMC A cases because the C stands for copyright, not trademark.
I'd guess that the problem is that there are, what, like 3 slashdotters qualified to comment informatively on mathematics at this level? Add to that that it is pretty obvious when you don't know what the heck the mathematics are about.
On the other side, every slashdotter thinks they have something funny to say.
Starcraft Ghost development has been in and out of Blizzards hands enough that its ever being published is not terribly likely. The head honchos at blizzard have an extreme control complex, so all the parts that were done out of house will no doubt need to be trashed before they'll feel satisfied to release it. At the same time, they don't like to throw work away, so actually trashing the out of house parts will be hard for them to do.
There are basically four (and a half) development teams at blizzard these days, and though they don't work smart they do work hard. There's no problem with the work ethic, they just don't apply that ethic in a very effective way. Only one and the half development teams work on WOW, the other 3 work on SCG, and two unannouced projects which you can probably guess at.
That's not true at all. Being a good scientist is about doing careful, repeatable work. Good science is that which turns out to be reproducible by other scientists. There's no way prior to having another scientist actually repeat your work to be able to say with certainty that they will be able to do so.
Yeah, I considered that that option would be more efficient, but since my point was really to emphasize the min() operation, I thought it was clearer to put it first. I figured this was not performance critical code, so in this case clarity for subsequent maintainers was more valuable than optimization.
Fleischmann was a good scientist, who in a moment of over-exuberance over what he thought was a world changing discovery, rushed to publish in the publish or perish world.
He perished when it was discovered his research was not reproducible. Having become the laughinstock of the scientific world, he can no longer get his research published. Making a living is becoming hard, as he can't get research funding.
Rather than give up on science, and take a lower paying more menial job, he falls in with crooks, and fleeces millions out of investors.
Now he's not just a guy who made a mistake, he's a guy who decided to do something immoral with deliberate intent. Old ladies die when they can't buy their winter heat because they got fleeced by this scam. Now he's a murderer in the eyes of history, like Ken Lay.
I've been pretty happy gaming with my inspiron 9300 with goforce 6800. 1024x768 or 1280x960 is playable (>30fps) for most action games (Quake IV, HL2) and 1440x900 or 1920x1200 is fine for non-action games (civ iv, wow). It's a bit heavy, more of a luggable than a laptop really, but I've used it on the airplane, at borders, etc. Battery time is about 1.5 hours of gaming, or 3.5 hours of web browsing and programming, and I carry a spare battery to double that (switchout costs me about 45 seconds of downtime to hibernate and unhibernate 1GB of memory to a 7200 rpm disk). Obviously, this is not top of the line performance, I don't have all the eye candy going, nor the highest resolution, but to me the convenience is worth it.
I think you misread my post. I said he (the software pirate) was the 'bad' guy. Though what he was doing is really only in the marginal reaches of bad at best.
Sounds like a standard good samaritan sort of law to me: you're not legally allowed to just stand by and watch bad things happen. Typically such laws require you to intervene or to get the authorities to intervene. Makes sense to me... which part of it didn't make sense to you?
You're one of those pirates who pirated Gigli, aren't you? Maybe you could explain how that happens exactly, I remember when this last came up how people were really baffled about that.
That's all true, and we all do have the right to defend ourselves. But you won't always have the ability to do so, and so I certainly would have reported the thefts and any physical attacks to the police immediately after the principal refused to solve the problem. Once the police reports start getting taken, you'd be surprised how fast school administrators will jump to solve the problem. Police reports create a nice audit trail for lawsuits, and that fear will get your problem solved in no time, with the added benefit of teaching your kids that there are options beyond just responding to violence with violence.
Actually I think the outcome is much more interesting to consider if the guy we think of as 'good' is the loser. In this case the guy who is doing the 'pirating' and the thuggery loses.
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As another poster pointed out TM does not apply here due to TM acknowledgement, but perhaps more relevantly, TM does not apply to DM C A cases because the C stands for copyright, not trademark.
Scores of worker competency:
0, 0, 0, 0, 50, 50, 51, 51, 51
Number of workers: 9
Average competency: 28.1
Number who correctly think they are above the average: 5
Number who represent a majority: 5
Conclusion: a majority of these workers correctly think that they are above average workers.
You're thinking of the median. The generally accepted definition of average is the mean.
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=average
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average
Of course none of that is what the study was really about, but that never seems to prevent people from miscommunicating the findings.
Thank you, I've often wondered if I was the only person who had considered that explanation for the 'above average' effect.
I'd guess that the problem is that there are, what, like 3 slashdotters qualified to comment informatively on mathematics at this level? Add to that that it is pretty obvious when you don't know what the heck the mathematics are about.
On the other side, every slashdotter thinks they have something funny to say.
Yes, you're almost there ....
http://www.timecube.com/
Starcraft Ghost development has been in and out of Blizzards hands enough that its ever being published is not terribly likely. The head honchos at blizzard have an extreme control complex, so all the parts that were done out of house will no doubt need to be trashed before they'll feel satisfied to release it. At the same time, they don't like to throw work away, so actually trashing the out of house parts will be hard for them to do.
There are basically four (and a half) development teams at blizzard these days, and though they don't work smart they do work hard. There's no problem with the work ethic, they just don't apply that ethic in a very effective way. Only one and the half development teams work on WOW, the other 3 work on SCG, and two unannouced projects which you can probably guess at.
You should stop waiting. It just wasn't any fun. Nor was it funny. Or well drawn. Really, it was crap.
Agggggghhhh, my brain! I had already seen it and you made me remember!
That just made his post funny on a whole other level.
Nothing I stated in my post was a lie. Some of it was hypothesis, which could be proved correct or incorrect in the long run.
That's not true at all. Being a good scientist is about doing careful, repeatable work. Good science is that which turns out to be reproducible by other scientists. There's no way prior to having another scientist actually repeat your work to be able to say with certainty that they will be able to do so.
Yeah, I considered that that option would be more efficient, but since my point was really to emphasize the min() operation, I thought it was clearer to put it first. I figured this was not performance critical code, so in this case clarity for subsequent maintainers was more valuable than optimization.
The negative outcome:
Fleischmann was a good scientist, who in a moment of over-exuberance over what he thought was a world changing discovery, rushed to publish in the publish or perish world.
He perished when it was discovered his research was not reproducible. Having become the laughinstock of the scientific world, he can no longer get his research published. Making a living is becoming hard, as he can't get research funding.
Rather than give up on science, and take a lower paying more menial job, he falls in with crooks, and fleeces millions out of investors.
Now he's not just a guy who made a mistake, he's a guy who decided to do something immoral with deliberate intent. Old ladies die when they can't buy their winter heat because they got fleeced by this scam. Now he's a murderer in the eyes of history, like Ken Lay.
I'd say that's a worse outcome.
Maybe it's min(round_down(component_scores))
In fact, I would hope that it was that, as that would give the best guarantee of a high score delivering high performance.
I've been pretty happy gaming with my inspiron 9300 with goforce 6800. 1024x768 or 1280x960 is playable (>30fps) for most action games (Quake IV, HL2) and 1440x900 or 1920x1200 is fine for non-action games (civ iv, wow). It's a bit heavy, more of a luggable than a laptop really, but I've used it on the airplane, at borders, etc. Battery time is about 1.5 hours of gaming, or 3.5 hours of web browsing and programming, and I carry a spare battery to double that (switchout costs me about 45 seconds of downtime to hibernate and unhibernate 1GB of memory to a 7200 rpm disk). Obviously, this is not top of the line performance, I don't have all the eye candy going, nor the highest resolution, but to me the convenience is worth it.
C'mon mods, overrated on an unmoderated on topic post? Bust 'em in metamod!
Don't count on it. Their drivers don't work for the Go6800 series either.
Here's a description of one in Quebec:a maritanLaw.html
http://www.cafb-acba.ca/english/GetInvolved-GoodS
Efforts in the US:
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/pubs/399HELP.HTM
I've heard of more, but it may be that some of them didn't pass or are still in progress.
I think you misread my post. I said he (the software pirate) was the 'bad' guy. Though what he was doing is really only in the marginal reaches of bad at best.
There are laws of both kinds. Failing to render assistance in some jurisdictions will get you fines or jail time.
I would think that the pirate would actually be more likely to have the putrid socks of nonwashing, unless his mom is taking care of his laundry.
Sounds like a standard good samaritan sort of law to me: you're not legally allowed to just stand by and watch bad things happen. Typically such laws require you to intervene or to get the authorities to intervene. Makes sense to me ... which part of it didn't make sense to you?
You're one of those pirates who pirated Gigli, aren't you? Maybe you could explain how that happens exactly, I remember when this last came up how people were really baffled about that.
That's all true, and we all do have the right to defend ourselves. But you won't always have the ability to do so, and so I certainly would have reported the thefts and any physical attacks to the police immediately after the principal refused to solve the problem. Once the police reports start getting taken, you'd be surprised how fast school administrators will jump to solve the problem. Police reports create a nice audit trail for lawsuits, and that fear will get your problem solved in no time, with the added benefit of teaching your kids that there are options beyond just responding to violence with violence.
Actually I think the outcome is much more interesting to consider if the guy we think of as 'good' is the loser. In this case the guy who is doing the 'pirating' and the thuggery loses.