Jovian clouds are generally understood as comprising three distinct cloud layers: an upper layer of ammonia crystals, a middle layer of ammonium hydrosulfide, and a thick bottom layer of water and ice crystals. It's good finally to see some corroboration from the trenches.
If you hadn't gathered from all the pre-release hype and game releases, the Sony theme is blue. Blue is everywhere. [snip]
I'm surprised the marketing folks at Sony didn't first swing their color design by psychologists first, since we've known for almost forty years now that colors have profound effects on people's moods, and people's moods have profound effects on their willingness to buy products. (Marketing may be a developed art, but it still has room to learn from the sciences.)
"Cool" colors like blue don't sell products to Sony's intended audience well. They have calming effects, relieve tension in the viewer, and encourage the consumer to withdraw into himself or herself instead of reaching out and buying the product. A far better choice would've been red, since red is an "active" color, promoting aggression, excitement, increase bloodflow and stimulate the autonomic nervous system, and otherwise stimulate precisely the same effects in consumers that the PS2, as a videogame console, is intended to stimulate. Anyone who's been to the cereal section of a supermarket can attest to red's popularity among sugary products aimed at young people, whereas blue is reserved for hygiene products and products aimed at the geriatric population. Why is the Playstation 2 different?
Sony's success with the PS2 relies almost as much if not more so on marketing as it does on a genuinely more enjoyable product. Little slip-ups like these make me wary and concerned for their prospects. On the other hand, these projected sales if realized would set aside all fears such as mine.
We're still not measuring the correct quantities: consumer value and whether the damn thing will have to be recalled within the first week of hitting the market because of some stupid FOOF error like Intel's have been known to do.
You make a correct point, but you don't take it far enough: what's important is not whether Crusoe is clock-for-clock equivalent to Intel's and AMD's offerings. The question is whether a device can be put together using Crusoe at a reasonable price that taken as a whole, fulfills consumers' needs.
The issue is not so much that Crusoe cannot compete in markets currently dominated by Intel and AMD. The question is whether Intel and AMD are the appropriate choices for those markets to begin with. For most consumer devices, they're overkill, both in computing power and electrical power dissapated. Crusoe has a bright future in these markets, and if it were publicly traded, I'd consider picking up a couple shares.
The correct postal abbreviation for "street" is "st" without the period. No postal abbreviation has a period, in fact. Therefore "st." correctly interprets as "saint", even if that's not what the author meant in context.
Ideally, neither abbreviation would have a period in it: all abbreviations containing the final letter of the expanded word in theory ought not to have a period, but we silly Americans threw out that rule a while ago.
For another example, check out slashdot. Facts or rumors? Knowledge or flamebait? Experience or juvenile posturing? Check to make sure it's a valid source and not just someone trying to score up some karma.
Don't you see? By postulating what you want us to believe, you exclude our capacity for believing it, because it itself belongs to the class of memes that you're criticizing: slashdot is no less "some place you hear stuff on the web" than the Drudge report.
Long live Caveat Emptor! It died in the sixties along with contract law, during the rise of tort law (with the California Supreme Court leading the way). The consumer no longer has any responsibilities; strict liability now ensures that all harms incurred by the consumer are borne by the manufacturer and incorporated into "the cost of doing business".
This makes sense in that individual buyers are in a terrible inequality to manufacturers in the bargaining process--there's no collective bargaining as there is with unions. There's also the time and hassle required to negotiate contracts properly, and as you've seen with EULAs in the software industry, the company usually just tells you, "FUCK YOU!" in more words but with the same capitalization.
On the other hand, by treating ourselves like morons, we're allowing ourselves to be morons; nay, expecting ourselves to be morons. For the most part, that's entirely justified, but it does produce odd results from time to time, like when an auto company was recently sued successfully because their cars didn't prevent consumers from locking their infants in the car on a hot day, forgetting they were there, and coming back to find a thoroughly asphyxiated baby.
...I look around and notice that every female in the area is connected to a male somehow.... ...They all look like college students, and are about half men, half women....
Isn't it odd that geeks seem so ready to line up at all hours of the night, sometimes weeks in advance *cough*Starwars: The Phantom Menace*cough* to partake of these feeding frenzies of American consumerism? I did too, until I figured out the real reason:
American corporations are conspiring to build the uber-geek by selectively breeding male geeks with female geeks at toystores and movie theatres across the nation in order to staff the great technological campaigns of the future. Think about it: those long hours together in darkened parking lots, with nothing but fastfood caffeine for sustenance, snuggling in sleeping bags to ward off the cold, basking in the glow of the occasional palm-pilot and humming the theme to Tron to keep up morale....
And how to get these geeks together? American pilot-programs during the cold war indicated that sociability and people-skills were insufficient. You have to have toys, and they have to be slick:
"Hey, what a neat joystick you have there. Wanna come over to my place and play Mario together? I'll be the Princess and you'll be Luigi *rrowwrrr*."
It's time we put an end to their sinister conspiracy. We don't need them to fall in love. Set free the romantic inside all of you! Love will set you free!
The law in question was repealed in 1991 without any fanfare. You're now free to touch aliens all you want, as long as you make sure they aren't same-sex or under-age aliens.
According to Plato, Eros is the striving of mankind to the pure, the good, the beautiful. Plato said nothing about photographic artifacts in satellite fly-bys of minor planets. Anyway, back to work. Plato said he left Atlantis lying around here somewhere....
Deny the movie exists and go back to playing with your fellow woodland-creature friends.
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It doesn't "affect" any balance of power, but it's useful nonetheless as a place for common ground and common endeavors. Look at it this way: it's useful for diplomatic relations between you and your playmates if you own and operate a videogame machine (or a terminal for reading slashdot, for that matter). It doesn't give you an extra card to play in times of war, but it does give you something you and your allies can play with in times of peace and build on your relationships.
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"Mir" means both "world" and "peace". This is the point in the conversation where I always point out that Lev Tolstoy's "War and Peace" should have been translated better as "War and the World".
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First, the Russian space program is heavily subsidized by international efforts, both through direct grants and through IMF credits, so the burden doesn't fall so greatly on the Russian government itself. Besides, the space program is an important part of international diplomacy and is necessary for that reason alone.
Second, Russia isn't doing nearly as badly right now, thanks to the threefold increase/barrel in the price of oil. They have incredible problems with infrastructure (especially with factories falling apart), but that's an argument in favor of continuing the program, not shutting it down.
Third, fundamental domestic problems have never stopped any other country from pursuing these high-profile feats of national pride (and maintaining MIR is a much different and cheaper proposition than building nuclear weapons like Pakistan and other countries are doing). Why should it stop Russia now?
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With something as non-trivial as putting a space station into orbit, it's almost always cheaper to keep the existing one running than to burn it and put up a whole new one. Especially today: look at the International Space Station, a $60 billion project.
Sure, parts are only a small part of the total cost, but the Russian space program (while on hard times of late) is still doing well with existing technology and at quite reasonable prices. A manned soyuz is about $3.5 million, +$0.2million for propellant, +$5million for mission control/year, +$0.6 for launch is well under $10million. Add on the cost of parts/repair, and it's still a steal.
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"As the world turns" comes to mind. (Funny if you know what "Mir" means in Russian....)
It's one that people have been making about gnutella for a while (where there is in fact a lot of overhead), but gnutella's hardly the best example.
If you haven't looked at freenet yet, then do so. Not only is it peer-peer, but it's anonymous, and it's working TODAY. There are smart folks developing it, and they're being very careful not to make the same mistakes gnutella did.
When Sony killed the betamax format, the vcr market was still a very very new and undeveloped market. The same can hardly be said about the videogame console market, which sony currently dominates and has had years of experience dominating.
The second important difference to note is that Sony completely screwed up the marketing/promotion side for betamax. Sony actually cut back marketing expenditures when sales initially rose and failed to raise them when vhs started making headway. But if you've seen any of Sony's marketing efforts recently, you know there's been a lot of change.
The industry is a different place from what it was back in 1975. PS2 might still fail, but if it does, it won't be because it too much resembled betamax.
At least the chronic ones, that is. Most heart disease can be prevented by proper diet and exercise. Most colon cancer can be prevented by proper diet. Most lung cancer can be prevented by not smoking (right, nicotineman?;-).
Even many infectious diseases can be prevented with cheap stuff you can find around the home. Most STDs can be prevented by cheap latex barriers. Most malarial diseases can be prevented by proper screens and nettings. Most intestinal parasites can be prevented by proper sewage disposal.
The question you have to ask yourself, though, is can a buck be made by handing out this free and sensible advice? Most problems could be solved at lower cost by addressing these causes directly instead of treating their symptoms, but it's not as sexy and it runs contrary to human nature.
We've seen for a long time how people who lose the use of one part of their body can remap the nerve cells that control that part for other purposes. Brains are, after all, just literally big neural networks, and it's remarkably easy to reshape that network when changing a few constraints. All it takes is some relearning and motivation, which these people have.
And, yes, I'm for the death penalty, too, like you.
I should hope not, for your sake, and how have I led you to believe otherwise about me? Judicial homicide is a stain on American jurisprudence and on our society as a whole. The Association for a European Initiative Against the Death Penalty just held a forum a week ago in Paris specifically to address the death penalty as applied in the US. It makes us the laughingstock of the civilized world.
And when you cook burgers your teaching them it is ok to cook humans too, right?
Studies have shown that most psychopaths go through a period of committing animal abuse long before they turn to committing violence against humans. Eating animals is not only itself a violent act; it does teach people disregard (or at least selective disregard) for animal life, which as I've said, desensitizes them to violence against human life. You've already answered your own question.
Certainly kaffe exists. They will benefit, not because they cannot currently exist but because they will have to go through fewer legal hoops to get there.
For example, what would a functional semantic checker do with your sentence: "English is far to multivariable a language to provide such an easy solution."? (How far is it to that multivariable, anyway?)
Radical views corrolate with poor grammar, both because of the poor education received by the radicals, resulting in their departure from social norms, and because of differences in regional heritage. So, we'd have to preprocess everything with a grammar checker, and we all know how successful that'd be.
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Jovian clouds are generally understood as comprising three distinct cloud layers: an upper layer of ammonia crystals, a middle layer of ammonium hydrosulfide, and a thick bottom layer of water and ice crystals. It's good finally to see some corroboration from the trenches.
A mother raising children is not considered "a worker." She is treated as if she has no input or productivity to contribute to the "real economy".
In Sweden, being a homemaker is assigned a value for the purpose of calculating GDP.
If you hadn't gathered from all the pre-release hype and game releases, the Sony theme is blue. Blue is everywhere. [snip]
I'm surprised the marketing folks at Sony didn't first swing their color design by psychologists first, since we've known for almost forty years now that colors have profound effects on people's moods, and people's moods have profound effects on their willingness to buy products. (Marketing may be a developed art, but it still has room to learn from the sciences.)
"Cool" colors like blue don't sell products to Sony's intended audience well. They have calming effects, relieve tension in the viewer, and encourage the consumer to withdraw into himself or herself instead of reaching out and buying the product. A far better choice would've been red, since red is an "active" color, promoting aggression, excitement, increase bloodflow and stimulate the autonomic nervous system, and otherwise stimulate precisely the same effects in consumers that the PS2, as a videogame console, is intended to stimulate. Anyone who's been to the cereal section of a supermarket can attest to red's popularity among sugary products aimed at young people, whereas blue is reserved for hygiene products and products aimed at the geriatric population. Why is the Playstation 2 different?
Sony's success with the PS2 relies almost as much if not more so on marketing as it does on a genuinely more enjoyable product. Little slip-ups like these make me wary and concerned for their prospects. On the other hand, these projected sales if realized would set aside all fears such as mine.
We're still not measuring the correct quantities: consumer value and whether the damn thing will have to be recalled within the first week of hitting the market because of some stupid FOOF error like Intel's have been known to do.
You make a correct point, but you don't take it far enough: what's important is not whether Crusoe is clock-for-clock equivalent to Intel's and AMD's offerings. The question is whether a device can be put together using Crusoe at a reasonable price that taken as a whole, fulfills consumers' needs.
The issue is not so much that Crusoe cannot compete in markets currently dominated by Intel and AMD. The question is whether Intel and AMD are the appropriate choices for those markets to begin with. For most consumer devices, they're overkill, both in computing power and electrical power dissapated. Crusoe has a bright future in these markets, and if it were publicly traded, I'd consider picking up a couple shares.
The correct postal abbreviation for "street" is "st" without the period. No postal abbreviation has a period, in fact. Therefore "st." correctly interprets as "saint", even if that's not what the author meant in context.
Ideally, neither abbreviation would have a period in it: all abbreviations containing the final letter of the expanded word in theory ought not to have a period, but we silly Americans threw out that rule a while ago.
For another example, check out slashdot. Facts or rumors? Knowledge or flamebait? Experience or juvenile posturing? Check to make sure it's a valid source and not just someone trying to score up some karma.
Don't you see? By postulating what you want us to believe, you exclude our capacity for believing it, because it itself belongs to the class of memes that you're criticizing: slashdot is no less "some place you hear stuff on the web" than the Drudge report.
You honestly thought they wanted to let you see what they're up to? Back to the salt mines, prole.
Long live Caveat Emptor! It died in the sixties along with contract law, during the rise of tort law (with the California Supreme Court leading the way). The consumer no longer has any responsibilities; strict liability now ensures that all harms incurred by the consumer are borne by the manufacturer and incorporated into "the cost of doing business".
This makes sense in that individual buyers are in a terrible inequality to manufacturers in the bargaining process--there's no collective bargaining as there is with unions. There's also the time and hassle required to negotiate contracts properly, and as you've seen with EULAs in the software industry, the company usually just tells you, "FUCK YOU!" in more words but with the same capitalization.
On the other hand, by treating ourselves like morons, we're allowing ourselves to be morons; nay, expecting ourselves to be morons. For the most part, that's entirely justified, but it does produce odd results from time to time, like when an auto company was recently sued successfully because their cars didn't prevent consumers from locking their infants in the car on a hot day, forgetting they were there, and coming back to find a thoroughly asphyxiated baby.
...I look around and notice that every female in the area is connected to a male somehow....
...They all look like college students, and are about half men, half women....
Isn't it odd that geeks seem so ready to line up at all hours of the night, sometimes weeks in advance *cough*Starwars: The Phantom Menace*cough* to partake of these feeding frenzies of American consumerism? I did too, until I figured out the real reason:
American corporations are conspiring to build the uber-geek by selectively breeding male geeks with female geeks at toystores and movie theatres across the nation in order to staff the great technological campaigns of the future. Think about it: those long hours together in darkened parking lots, with nothing but fastfood caffeine for sustenance, snuggling in sleeping bags to ward off the cold, basking in the glow of the occasional palm-pilot and humming the theme to Tron to keep up morale....
And how to get these geeks together? American pilot-programs during the cold war indicated that sociability and people-skills were insufficient. You have to have toys, and they have to be slick:
"Hey, what a neat joystick you have there. Wanna come over to my place and play Mario together? I'll be the Princess and you'll be Luigi *rrowwrrr*."
It's time we put an end to their sinister conspiracy. We don't need them to fall in love. Set free the romantic inside all of you! Love will set you free!
The law in question was repealed in 1991 without any fanfare. You're now free to touch aliens all you want, as long as you make sure they aren't same-sex or under-age aliens.
According to Plato, Eros is the striving of mankind to the pure, the good, the beautiful. Plato said nothing about photographic artifacts in satellite fly-bys of minor planets. Anyway, back to work. Plato said he left Atlantis lying around here somewhere....
Deny the movie exists and go back to playing with your fellow woodland-creature friends.
It doesn't "affect" any balance of power, but it's useful nonetheless as a place for common ground and common endeavors. Look at it this way: it's useful for diplomatic relations between you and your playmates if you own and operate a videogame machine (or a terminal for reading slashdot, for that matter). It doesn't give you an extra card to play in times of war, but it does give you something you and your allies can play with in times of peace and build on your relationships.
"Mir" means both "world" and "peace". This is the point in the conversation where I always point out that Lev Tolstoy's "War and Peace" should have been translated better as "War and the World".
First, the Russian space program is heavily subsidized by international efforts, both through direct grants and through IMF credits, so the burden doesn't fall so greatly on the Russian government itself. Besides, the space program is an important part of international diplomacy and is necessary for that reason alone.
Second, Russia isn't doing nearly as badly right now, thanks to the threefold increase/barrel in the price of oil. They have incredible problems with infrastructure (especially with factories falling apart), but that's an argument in favor of continuing the program, not shutting it down.
Third, fundamental domestic problems have never stopped any other country from pursuing these high-profile feats of national pride (and maintaining MIR is a much different and cheaper proposition than building nuclear weapons like Pakistan and other countries are doing). Why should it stop Russia now?
With something as non-trivial as putting a space station into orbit, it's almost always cheaper to keep the existing one running than to burn it and put up a whole new one. Especially today: look at the International Space Station, a $60 billion project.
Sure, parts are only a small part of the total cost, but the Russian space program (while on hard times of late) is still doing well with existing technology and at quite reasonable prices. A manned soyuz is about $3.5 million, +$0.2million for propellant, +$5million for mission control/year, +$0.6 for launch is well under $10million. Add on the cost of parts/repair, and it's still a steal.
"As the world turns" comes to mind. (Funny if you know what "Mir" means in Russian....)
It's one that people have been making about gnutella for a while (where there is in fact a lot of overhead), but gnutella's hardly the best example.
If you haven't looked at freenet yet, then do so. Not only is it peer-peer, but it's anonymous, and it's working TODAY. There are smart folks developing it, and they're being very careful not to make the same mistakes gnutella did.
When Sony killed the betamax format, the vcr market was still a very very new and undeveloped market. The same can hardly be said about the videogame console market, which sony currently dominates and has had years of experience dominating.
The second important difference to note is that Sony completely screwed up the marketing/promotion side for betamax. Sony actually cut back marketing expenditures when sales initially rose and failed to raise them when vhs started making headway. But if you've seen any of Sony's marketing efforts recently, you know there's been a lot of change.
The industry is a different place from what it was back in 1975. PS2 might still fail, but if it does, it won't be because it too much resembled betamax.
At least the chronic ones, that is. Most heart disease can be prevented by proper diet and exercise. Most colon cancer can be prevented by proper diet. Most lung cancer can be prevented by not smoking (right, nicotineman? ;-).
Even many infectious diseases can be prevented with cheap stuff you can find around the home. Most STDs can be prevented by cheap latex barriers. Most malarial diseases can be prevented by proper screens and nettings. Most intestinal parasites can be prevented by proper sewage disposal.
The question you have to ask yourself, though, is can a buck be made by handing out this free and sensible advice? Most problems could be solved at lower cost by addressing these causes directly instead of treating their symptoms, but it's not as sexy and it runs contrary to human nature.
We've seen for a long time how people who lose the use of one part of their body can remap the nerve cells that control that part for other purposes. Brains are, after all, just literally big neural networks, and it's remarkably easy to reshape that network when changing a few constraints. All it takes is some relearning and motivation, which these people have.
Got any references? What is the statistical significance of those 'studies'?
Yes. Animal abuse has been linked to child abuse and linked to serial killing. It's an intuitive fact which is born out by the sociological evidence.
And, yes, I'm for the death penalty, too, like you.
I should hope not, for your sake, and how have I led you to believe otherwise about me? Judicial homicide is a stain on American jurisprudence and on our society as a whole. The Association for a European Initiative Against the Death Penalty just held a forum a week ago in Paris specifically to address the death penalty as applied in the US. It makes us the laughingstock of the civilized world.
And when you cook burgers your teaching them it is ok to cook humans too, right?
Studies have shown that most psychopaths go through a period of committing animal abuse long before they turn to committing violence against humans. Eating animals is not only itself a violent act; it does teach people disregard (or at least selective disregard) for animal life, which as I've said, desensitizes them to violence against human life. You've already answered your own question.
Certainly kaffe exists. They will benefit, not because they cannot currently exist but because they will have to go through fewer legal hoops to get there.
For example, what would a functional semantic checker do with your sentence: "English is far to multivariable a language to provide such an easy solution."? (How far is it to that multivariable, anyway?)
Radical views corrolate with poor grammar, both because of the poor education received by the radicals, resulting in their departure from social norms, and because of differences in regional heritage. So, we'd have to preprocess everything with a grammar checker, and we all know how successful that'd be.