between a program that simulates bullet time with pings abbreviated LPF, and the term of endearment for those with ridiculusly low pings, Low Ping Fuckers?
I'm not quite sure where you grab that number, but imagine where most of that traffic comes from. Universities and businesses, and maybe a few homes. Businesses, is it very important that we know which employee it was that chose to purchase from the website? And homes, it might as well be the same person, if not the same computer. Universities are a strange beast, but a lot of them have enough IPs to handle their traffic without NAT.
I wouldn't call it useless, anymore than tracking with cookies is useless because people can change computers or delete them.
I always figured that was a satire. I mean the guy's implicit argument is that we'll save on candle wax and other lighting effects by forcing everyone to get up earlier, because we're too lazy to do it ourselves.
Big deal. More and more workers are preferring more time off versus a 5k raise. Not that this is a valid linear relationship. It turns out that there's certain fixed costs that an employer needs to recover, and when the French passed a law restricting people to working less than 35 hours in an effort to fight unemployment, things continued to worsen. Irony at its finest, or are the French simply lazy?
A boycott is a good start, but you need to make sure that you institutionalize change, not redress a few current greviances. If EA releases a patch that fixes the nagging flaws five months later, is this boycott very effective at punishing EA for releasing broken software? No, it isn't. What they need to do is boycott until THE EXPANSION PACK isn't buggy.
How do the boycotting people know when it isn't buggy? I don't care, that's EA's fundamental problem here. At the moment you can't really tell when a game is buggy as hell without buying it. Piracy introduces as many problems as it solves, and many people thought that the problems with the demo would be solved before release (they weren't and it was a stupid thought). Even the review staples the patching situation like an afterthought.
Oh, you're quite right that it needs patching. I've only played the demo, but there was serious problems with audio looping instead of turning off, players who randomly switch teams, menu screens that take five or more seconds to load, and graphical glitches are common on the 6600gt.
I was under the impression that the accuracy thing was intentional, if nowhere near realistic. Apparently arcade action means you get shot five times and live, while your enemies get shot five times and live, and you can't hit the broad side of a barn up close and personal with it.
Whatever happened to the 9th amendment? Unlike the others before it, this one seems to get little recognition of having any purpose or effect. The founders added these provisions in part to stop the reintroduction of tyrannical notions. I'm pretty sure the introduction went something along the lines of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
How on earth do we know which rights the 9th amendment actually lends people? Should cite the bible as proof of human rights given by their creator? The works of Kant and others within the Enlightenment era? Perhaps a simple proof by induction?
Fortunately, instead of one large tyranny of rights we have 50 seperate ones that agree. So at least there's that.
Actually, I've considered how to redo the table myself in school to make more sense, and a circular approach came to me as well. I never pursued it much farther because a) I was 16 and b) I had no clue where to put those metals. I mean, it's obvious that as you descend the regular table, it becomes much larger, hinting at a circular design.
What I don't like about this one is the stupid backgroup of a spiral galaxy, and it doesn't provide a whole lot of actual information aside from spatial relationships.
The original article makes some strange statements that almost contradict each other. The game is over animated, but also jerky. I've played the game, and it is well animated, but not jerky. The animation does not distract from the game play, the way some modern platformers have so much animation going on it can be difficult to distinguish background from the plane of play. The only possible claim here is that the high color hacks detract from the rest of the game, which isn't as vibrant. They also claim that the graphics suck, but the GBC was basically on par graphically with the NES, and I think they surpassed the NES versions in many places.
I'm guessing the author couldn't simply think of any decent way to rule out all the other derivates of the game as awesome. One would simply be the cultural status of the game; more people played the NES version (at least in the states) than anything else.
I'm a little curious why it matters how China treats such a clause. He isn't working with google in China, and his job with MS was a VP of interactive technology (not sure how much software isn't these days), which was very likely a position on Redmond campus. Jurisdiction can be tricky, as people who've pointed out the CA rule.
I don't know where you live, but in the US, fridges from twenty years ago are far less energy efficient than today's. Lightbulbs are a pittiance compared to what they consume, alongside your oven and A/C. If a million people went out and bought newer, more efficient fridges, it would likely reduce pollution by five or ten million lightbulb changes.
Alternative fuel development is about longevity; your plan has to simultaneausly defeat properity and population growth. Even if everyone switched over to your lightbulbs, that would last a year, tops before we're back where we were before. Oil is simply not being replenished at the rate at which we consume it. At 60 dollars a barrel, it hints that something more than speculation is at hand when all the more Saudi Arabia can come up with is heavy / sour oil. Peak oil could be at hand, especially as more countries begin to create an industrial sector that consumes electricity and oil.
Forgive me for pointing this out, but is seems that every technology you mentioned is a "more of the same" philosophy. Two processors! Two videocards! Four harddrives! And I'll leave win64 to your imagination, largely because I don't have a good enough one for the task.
Just to pick nits, there is an experimental disribution "beyond" Sid, in the sense that packages can live there before residing in sid/unstable. That said, I hope that Debian is making its way toward encouraging users to using testing as a target rather than unstable. The intervening ten days can save you a significant amount of trouble, it seems.
Why is 300 dollars a limit? Warren Buffet's stock costs thousands for a single share! A much more important question is whether Google is worth it's valuation. GOOG is worth about 80 billion. YHOO is worth about 50. So the number isn't wildly off target. Remember, share price is determined in part by how much of the company that share represents, in google's case, it's much thinner.
Especially once you look at the rest of the numbers. YHOO isn't expected to grow nearly as fast as GOOG. Last quarter, both brought in about the same revenues, but google had a better EBITDA (Earnings before bs you have to put up with), and Google's revenue vs last quarter grew at 100 percent vs Yahoo's 55. The earnings growth is equally impressive. Something like 400 percent to 100. Sounds like a ripe time for MSFT and other competitors to walk in and make some money, but a difficult time to actually kill off anybody competing for bright people.
Ok, so I think the numbers are great, but what about contrarians? There were plenty of people worried at the IPO that the strike price would decimate initial investors, but the price jumped to like 130. When it reached 200 people suggested it was too high. And now at 300, how many people think this thing is too much? 3.5 percent of the GOOG float (available stock) is shorted. 6.2 percent is shorted in YHOO. I suppose this question is better answered by asking how much money is shorting each, and the answer is 2.84 billion dollars in YHOO, and 2.90 billion short in GOOG. So maybe, unless you consider that about 30 billion extra dollars feel that google is more valuable. But I'd be more concerned that a majority share is held by insiders concerned more about their own interests than the interests of all stockholders.
So at the very least, Google is comparable to it's competitors, and that comparison is favorable. You could argue that the sector is due for a fall, but I seem to recall a recent fall that was probably somewhat overdone.
Fortunately, Google's main aveneue of success is adsense. Targetted, noninvasive text ads. You know those ads that show up on searches? They also show up on countless blogger pages and ad powered software (cuteFTP and Opera, for example). Google isn't competing for your limited attention as much as it is finding more and more ways to paste that one success into different arenas. That's why they focus on hiring talented and driven people to make new products; new products get a large viewership during their initial run, and the more new products you get out there, the bigger the chance of one of them being a hit.
If anything, Google needs to find a way out of it's current dependence on adwords/adsense; I suspect that's part of what their paypal or whatever financial service is ultimately about. As long as Google dedicates to taking today's current practices on the internet and making it smarter, they'll be profitable.
This isn't something you can accidentally accomplish. This is another case of mothers not understanding the development of the male sexuality. Boys don't just wake up one day and think, "I've decided I'd like to develop a committed relationship with a woman full of love, understanding and consensually gratification." At best, it's "I like boobies!"
People here have made the mistake of assuming that this is an attempt to legislate good parenting. Only if you assume that pornography has no potentially positive role in becoming an adult. The biggest irony here is that the game is rated M, but the content is clearly aimed at an adolescent T. Unfortunately, the money earmarked for "research" will almost certainly be awarded to those with a track record of finding the way the Senators involved like. I mean, if pornography is harmful to adolescents, then are men who look at porn evil? That's a pretty extreme view to take, and a good example of the kind of discussion you wont hear from the talking heads on TV.
You know, part of the problem is that Linux distributors (the people who stand to profit most from desktop usability beyond the "configure make install" mantra) have been addressing other issues equally pertinant and at the same time unique to smaller competitor OS softwares: the installer. Debian makes a great hullabaloo about apt-get during the install, multilingual installs from a single disk, and pressing enter a number of times to get a reasonable system. Fedora Core has a wonderful GUI based system that includes a great deal of explainatory text that can help guide you along, although many believe that nobody reads anything software developers actually write. I have nothing fantastic to say about gentoo, sorry.
Linux faces a great hurdle in that people must actually install it, and they must often allow themselves to co-exist with Windows. Windows affords itself the luxury of refusing to recognize the existance of non MS OS's. So it's no wonder that getting the install correctly has taken more time than Windows, and that only now is Linux stepping beyond the incumbents in what counts to desktop users. FDO is slowly moving on some of the basic problems that have been previously addressed by agreeing to disagree (ie X clipboards), and as they figure out how to grease the wheels of communication and create a connected community of desktop oriented developers outside the realm of the inaccessible desktop environments, things will improve and overtake the market leaders again.
Thanks for sharing your valuable insights. I mean, it's not like there isn't four or five major companies selling Linux and addressing these very issues! They know that it's important to allow people a migration path, all the other areas this guy has pointed out, and many more.
Talk is cheap, and the biggest thing that Linux lacks as a desktop is Dedication, Effort and Commitment.
Of course, we should also study the usage of the word by journalists, the subjects of our study. The most often usage being, "May I quote you as saying... ?"
Basically, the technology of farming in the US vastly outcompetes everything else, with the cost of shipping accounted for. In a perfectly rational world, we shouldn't need to give farmers subsidies -- they're already doing a fantastic job producing.
As I understand it from anti-subsidy rhetoric, farming subsidies basically pay farmers not to plant, and send the excesses we still have onto foreign markets. Farming subsidies take many forms, from price floors and strategic reserves to ten dollar vouchers to a local farmer's market.
You're right that the efficiency of farmer's dictates how much labor we can spend on luxury goods, but I don't think anyone will be moving to the top by reducing their subsidies. I'm not sure what moving them to the top means, but if it's simply a matter of market cap (a number that represents the value of the company and it's future earnings), then farming can never compete with software. The software industry manages a 30 percent margin average. That means on average, a company that invests its money in improvements sees a return on investment in about three years, four if you count for inflation and opportunity costs of something like Treasury bonds. In contrast, everybody needs food, and we don't want to see people starving. While there is no price ceiling on computer operating systems, nessecities like food and rent are regulated carefully.
But I guess in a sense farmers are at the "top," they've got Congress moving on their behalf, in spite of overtures at the WTO on reducing farm subsidies.
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between a program that simulates bullet time with pings abbreviated LPF, and the term of endearment for those with ridiculusly low pings, Low Ping Fuckers?
the "Top 10" web fad.
I'm not quite sure where you grab that number, but imagine where most of that traffic comes from. Universities and businesses, and maybe a few homes. Businesses, is it very important that we know which employee it was that chose to purchase from the website? And homes, it might as well be the same person, if not the same computer. Universities are a strange beast, but a lot of them have enough IPs to handle their traffic without NAT.
I wouldn't call it useless, anymore than tracking with cookies is useless because people can change computers or delete them.
I always figured that was a satire. I mean the guy's implicit argument is that we'll save on candle wax and other lighting effects by forcing everyone to get up earlier, because we're too lazy to do it ourselves.
Big deal. More and more workers are preferring more time off versus a 5k raise. Not that this is a valid linear relationship. It turns out that there's certain fixed costs that an employer needs to recover, and when the French passed a law restricting people to working less than 35 hours in an effort to fight unemployment, things continued to worsen. Irony at its finest, or are the French simply lazy?
Certainly the DoI can add color to the Constitution. And that color is nessecary if the judicial system is to ever take the 9th seriously again.
A boycott is a good start, but you need to make sure that you institutionalize change, not redress a few current greviances. If EA releases a patch that fixes the nagging flaws five months later, is this boycott very effective at punishing EA for releasing broken software? No, it isn't. What they need to do is boycott until THE EXPANSION PACK isn't buggy.
How do the boycotting people know when it isn't buggy? I don't care, that's EA's fundamental problem here. At the moment you can't really tell when a game is buggy as hell without buying it. Piracy introduces as many problems as it solves, and many people thought that the problems with the demo would be solved before release (they weren't and it was a stupid thought). Even the review staples the patching situation like an afterthought.
Oh, you're quite right that it needs patching. I've only played the demo, but there was serious problems with audio looping instead of turning off, players who randomly switch teams, menu screens that take five or more seconds to load, and graphical glitches are common on the 6600gt.
I was under the impression that the accuracy thing was intentional, if nowhere near realistic. Apparently arcade action means you get shot five times and live, while your enemies get shot five times and live, and you can't hit the broad side of a barn up close and personal with it.
Whatever happened to the 9th amendment? Unlike the others before it, this one seems to get little recognition of having any purpose or effect. The founders added these provisions in part to stop the reintroduction of tyrannical notions. I'm pretty sure the introduction went something along the lines of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
How on earth do we know which rights the 9th amendment actually lends people? Should cite the bible as proof of human rights given by their creator? The works of Kant and others within the Enlightenment era? Perhaps a simple proof by induction?
Fortunately, instead of one large tyranny of rights we have 50 seperate ones that agree. So at least there's that.
Actually, I've considered how to redo the table myself in school to make more sense, and a circular approach came to me as well. I never pursued it much farther because a) I was 16 and b) I had no clue where to put those metals. I mean, it's obvious that as you descend the regular table, it becomes much larger, hinting at a circular design.
What I don't like about this one is the stupid backgroup of a spiral galaxy, and it doesn't provide a whole lot of actual information aside from spatial relationships.
The original article makes some strange statements that almost contradict each other. The game is over animated, but also jerky. I've played the game, and it is well animated, but not jerky. The animation does not distract from the game play, the way some modern platformers have so much animation going on it can be difficult to distinguish background from the plane of play. The only possible claim here is that the high color hacks detract from the rest of the game, which isn't as vibrant. They also claim that the graphics suck, but the GBC was basically on par graphically with the NES, and I think they surpassed the NES versions in many places.
I'm guessing the author couldn't simply think of any decent way to rule out all the other derivates of the game as awesome. One would simply be the cultural status of the game; more people played the NES version (at least in the states) than anything else.
I'm a little curious why it matters how China treats such a clause. He isn't working with google in China, and his job with MS was a VP of interactive technology (not sure how much software isn't these days), which was very likely a position on Redmond campus. Jurisdiction can be tricky, as people who've pointed out the CA rule.
BC:Elite Forces was a worthy successor to the original, in my opinion. You didn't get to kill Hitler, but really, why is that a plus?
I don't know where you live, but in the US, fridges from twenty years ago are far less energy efficient than today's. Lightbulbs are a pittiance compared to what they consume, alongside your oven and A/C. If a million people went out and bought newer, more efficient fridges, it would likely reduce pollution by five or ten million lightbulb changes.
Alternative fuel development is about longevity; your plan has to simultaneausly defeat properity and population growth. Even if everyone switched over to your lightbulbs, that would last a year, tops before we're back where we were before. Oil is simply not being replenished at the rate at which we consume it. At 60 dollars a barrel, it hints that something more than speculation is at hand when all the more Saudi Arabia can come up with is heavy / sour oil. Peak oil could be at hand, especially as more countries begin to create an industrial sector that consumes electricity and oil.
Forgive me for pointing this out, but is seems that every technology you mentioned is a "more of the same" philosophy. Two processors! Two videocards! Four harddrives! And I'll leave win64 to your imagination, largely because I don't have a good enough one for the task.
Just to pick nits, there is an experimental disribution "beyond" Sid, in the sense that packages can live there before residing in sid/unstable. That said, I hope that Debian is making its way toward encouraging users to using testing as a target rather than unstable. The intervening ten days can save you a significant amount of trouble, it seems.
So how much longer till WindRiver takes notices that they'd be better off releasing their code under BSD?
That would be the transition in the C++ ABI (ie a transition to gcc 4). That would be an excellent reason to keep with testing rather than unstable.
Why is 300 dollars a limit? Warren Buffet's stock costs thousands for a single share! A much more important question is whether Google is worth it's valuation. GOOG is worth about 80 billion. YHOO is worth about 50. So the number isn't wildly off target. Remember, share price is determined in part by how much of the company that share represents, in google's case, it's much thinner.
Especially once you look at the rest of the numbers. YHOO isn't expected to grow nearly as fast as GOOG. Last quarter, both brought in about the same revenues, but google had a better EBITDA (Earnings before bs you have to put up with), and Google's revenue vs last quarter grew at 100 percent vs Yahoo's 55. The earnings growth is equally impressive. Something like 400 percent to 100. Sounds like a ripe time for MSFT and other competitors to walk in and make some money, but a difficult time to actually kill off anybody competing for bright people.
Ok, so I think the numbers are great, but what about contrarians? There were plenty of people worried at the IPO that the strike price would decimate initial investors, but the price jumped to like 130. When it reached 200 people suggested it was too high. And now at 300, how many people think this thing is too much? 3.5 percent of the GOOG float (available stock) is shorted. 6.2 percent is shorted in YHOO. I suppose this question is better answered by asking how much money is shorting each, and the answer is 2.84 billion dollars in YHOO, and 2.90 billion short in GOOG. So maybe, unless you consider that about 30 billion extra dollars feel that google is more valuable. But I'd be more concerned that a majority share is held by insiders concerned more about their own interests than the interests of all stockholders.
So at the very least, Google is comparable to it's competitors, and that comparison is favorable. You could argue that the sector is due for a fall, but I seem to recall a recent fall that was probably somewhat overdone.
Fortunately, Google's main aveneue of success is adsense. Targetted, noninvasive text ads. You know those ads that show up on searches? They also show up on countless blogger pages and ad powered software (cuteFTP and Opera, for example). Google isn't competing for your limited attention as much as it is finding more and more ways to paste that one success into different arenas. That's why they focus on hiring talented and driven people to make new products; new products get a large viewership during their initial run, and the more new products you get out there, the bigger the chance of one of them being a hit.
If anything, Google needs to find a way out of it's current dependence on adwords/adsense; I suspect that's part of what their paypal or whatever financial service is ultimately about. As long as Google dedicates to taking today's current practices on the internet and making it smarter, they'll be profitable.
This isn't something you can accidentally accomplish. This is another case of mothers not understanding the development of the male sexuality. Boys don't just wake up one day and think, "I've decided I'd like to develop a committed relationship with a woman full of love, understanding and consensually gratification." At best, it's "I like boobies!"
People here have made the mistake of assuming that this is an attempt to legislate good parenting. Only if you assume that pornography has no potentially positive role in becoming an adult. The biggest irony here is that the game is rated M, but the content is clearly aimed at an adolescent T. Unfortunately, the money earmarked for "research" will almost certainly be awarded to those with a track record of finding the way the Senators involved like. I mean, if pornography is harmful to adolescents, then are men who look at porn evil? That's a pretty extreme view to take, and a good example of the kind of discussion you wont hear from the talking heads on TV.
You know, part of the problem is that Linux distributors (the people who stand to profit most from desktop usability beyond the "configure make install" mantra) have been addressing other issues equally pertinant and at the same time unique to smaller competitor OS softwares: the installer. Debian makes a great hullabaloo about apt-get during the install, multilingual installs from a single disk, and pressing enter a number of times to get a reasonable system. Fedora Core has a wonderful GUI based system that includes a great deal of explainatory text that can help guide you along, although many believe that nobody reads anything software developers actually write. I have nothing fantastic to say about gentoo, sorry.
Linux faces a great hurdle in that people must actually install it, and they must often allow themselves to co-exist with Windows. Windows affords itself the luxury of refusing to recognize the existance of non MS OS's. So it's no wonder that getting the install correctly has taken more time than Windows, and that only now is Linux stepping beyond the incumbents in what counts to desktop users. FDO is slowly moving on some of the basic problems that have been previously addressed by agreeing to disagree (ie X clipboards), and as they figure out how to grease the wheels of communication and create a connected community of desktop oriented developers outside the realm of the inaccessible desktop environments, things will improve and overtake the market leaders again.
Thanks for sharing your valuable insights. I mean, it's not like there isn't four or five major companies selling Linux and addressing these very issues! They know that it's important to allow people a migration path, all the other areas this guy has pointed out, and many more.
Talk is cheap, and the biggest thing that Linux lacks as a desktop is Dedication, Effort and Commitment.
Of course, we should also study the usage of the word by journalists, the subjects of our study. The most often usage being, "May I quote you as saying ... ?"
Basically, the technology of farming in the US vastly outcompetes everything else, with the cost of shipping accounted for. In a perfectly rational world, we shouldn't need to give farmers subsidies -- they're already doing a fantastic job producing.
As I understand it from anti-subsidy rhetoric, farming subsidies basically pay farmers not to plant, and send the excesses we still have onto foreign markets. Farming subsidies take many forms, from price floors and strategic reserves to ten dollar vouchers to a local farmer's market.
You're right that the efficiency of farmer's dictates how much labor we can spend on luxury goods, but I don't think anyone will be moving to the top by reducing their subsidies. I'm not sure what moving them to the top means, but if it's simply a matter of market cap (a number that represents the value of the company and it's future earnings), then farming can never compete with software. The software industry manages a 30 percent margin average. That means on average, a company that invests its money in improvements sees a return on investment in about three years, four if you count for inflation and opportunity costs of something like Treasury bonds. In contrast, everybody needs food, and we don't want to see people starving. While there is no price ceiling on computer operating systems, nessecities like food and rent are regulated carefully.
But I guess in a sense farmers are at the "top," they've got Congress moving on their behalf, in spite of overtures at the WTO on reducing farm subsidies.