You assume that someone on the production side wants to pay them for placement on their service.
Maybe this is 1) against the spirit of pandora & 2) is not something that the recording industry is interested in.
To me the great thing about Pandora is that they bring me music that I've never heard before. Now if Kanye gets to pay them to have his track show up in one of my rap stations, I've lost the ability to (potentially) find a new artist during that time.
Idk why you think the recording industry would be willing to finance Pandora (whole or in part) for placement like this.
This is a perfect example of markets working poorly. Your response presupposes that the customers actually represent their best interests. Problem is that, for a variety of factors, consumers DON'T represent their own interest and the markets become skewed. I see this happen most frequently when the good/service being sold is something that people do not want to live without, or it becomes part of a larger product.
I'm sure with cable TV it went like this:
Wow, I can pay and have no commercials!
Wait what? You're adding commercials?? Nooo!! But I'll keep buying because I can't live without the extra channels that you offer.
The larger product that the cable companies offered masked the consumer interest to not see ads.
If companies want to advertise to me on Pandora they can pay to have their songs ranked up, so that I hear them more
This is the LAST thing that I would like to see. I hate most "ads" so I do as much as possible to avoid them, but the great thing about Pandora is all the new stuff it exposes me to.
I certainly don't want that exposure to be diminished because someone payed to have their song played. This exposure is the key to their product for me. I like to put in someone that I know and get someone that I've never heard of. Chances are if I've never heard of them they probably dont have enough money to pay Pandora to play their songs more.
Since I was a teenager, I stopped buying branded shirts, as I refused to pay to be a walking billboard for some corp
D00d, some of us CHOOSE to be "walking billboards" in order to help the companies whose clothing we are wearing. Some brands come with the quality, and I enjoy repping their gear. Granted, none are "some corp's", but the point remains that not all advertising is bad.
The shirt I wear IS word of mouth. Ask me about it and I'll highly recommend it.
Most people care about EA's DRM as a rights issue. Makes sense that you don't have to be affected to be concerned about how the loss of rights for someone else could potentially lead to the loss of your own rights.
Just because it is playable doesn't mean that it doesn't scale with CPU power. Try running their games on a P4, then swap out only the processor and watch as your framerates go up significantly. Most other games are so GPU limited that they do not show this same scaling framerates in response to CPU change.
Basically if you had increased your processor from 1.6 to say 2.0ghz you'd notice a big difference. Performance scales with video card, but also significantly with CPU.
Most other games are limited by GPU much more and don't show the same scaling with CPU.
It's not so much that the path between circuitry and the antenna is so full of junk because of poor designs, it's because prior to this "discovery" no one knew how to get rid of that junk.
Now this guy shows us a way to bypass all that and gain the efficiency of removing all those components so that less power is used to get the same amount of radiation out of the antenna.
Generally speaking Corsair does have very good power supplies. The HX line is really top notch stuff, in pretty much all aspects.
They don't make the best PSU's, but they're right there with the best.
jonnyguru.com is probably the best site for power supply reviews. the guy does FULL disassembly, even removing rectifiers and diodes and stuff. Because of this he is able to determine what OEM manufactured every power supply he tests, and also gives you comments that, if you payed enough attention, would allow YOU to determine the layouts typical of each OEM.
He's also the guy that started using an actual load tester to test power supplies, instead of testing them by placing them in systems. The ORIGINAL hard core power supply test site!
good point about money in the bank being something of an insurance policy. Especially when you consider that when the parent speaks of the money not influencing anyone or making more money, he's talking about what is inherently a risky business. SO you go from having your capital being a protection for you to a liability for you.
You hit the nail on the head with the pilot example. You're willingness to do the job for 50k is exactly the competitive wage-reducing force that the unions seek to eliminate. Without the unions you'd get hired immediately and the formely highly paid pilots would be out of jobs. But since they have no work they now want jobs badly and now they'll settle for 45k so that they can get the job. Now YOU have no job, so you settle for 40k. Rinse and repeat. Next thing you know you're making the wages of an illegal immigrant farm worker.
But if you all get together (a la a union) you might be able to agree on a wage that you ALL would like, and then only work for that wage, and then let hiring and jobs play out on other grounds. Basically you can eliminate wages as the primary factor in determining who gets hired (that is that people aren't hired on how cheaply they're willing to work).
Just like you say that sometimes industrialists are bastards and at other times they're not, the same goes for unions. Promoting good wages for workers and safety standards is good, and keeping poor workers around is almost as bad as industrialists providing unsafe work conditions.
That's not the point of unions. The point of unions is the collective aspect. Without unions there is a competitive drive between workers to lower wages, especially in markets where there are fewer jobs in relation to people seeking work.
The idea is that by joining together, the workers can essentially collude to force wages up to a level that ALL the workers accept. So instead of the people that will do the job for the cheapest wage setting the market price for labor the entire GROUP of laborers sets the market price.
The thing is that all too often once the cards are signed the company starts applying massive pressure to ensure that the vote fails.
The idea is to boil it down to one step so that companies won't have the intervening time to influence the vote. Basically the assumption is that the cards are a true representation of what the workers want, and the votes likely aren't.
You might try listening to KPFA sometimes, because they cover this issue quite a bit, and you can get the worker's perspective there.
The part of logic that "necessitates" the existence of dark energy is inductive logic, which relies on inferences. Right now the evidence infers that dark matter exists, but as is the case with all inferences it could be wrong. Hence TFA stating that this discovery adds to the evidence but does not PROVE its existence (which would be deductive logic).
In either case dark matter may not be necessary at all. This is because in logic necessary has a hugely different meaning than the way you used it:( To quote from wikipedia
* possible if and only if it is not necessarily false (regardless of whether it actually is true or false);
* necessary if and only if it is not possibly false;
* contingent if and only if it is actually true (and so possibly true) and not necessarily true.
So even if we can prove the existence of dark matter, we've only shown it to be contigent. We'd still have some heavy lifting to do to show that it cannot possibly NOT exist.
It's the tone that is "friendly"...almost childish. As if every person on the blog is a close friend that you share your creative literary whims with.
It's most prevalent in the Hollywood related blogs. I don't read them, but I see enough quotes from them to make me want to puke at the level of discourse:(
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Or maybe TFA is right, and they just dont have the space (hehe see that "the space"!! :)
You assume that someone on the production side wants to pay them for placement on their service.
Maybe this is 1) against the spirit of pandora & 2) is not something that the recording industry is interested in.
To me the great thing about Pandora is that they bring me music that I've never heard before. Now if Kanye gets to pay them to have his track show up in one of my rap stations, I've lost the ability to (potentially) find a new artist during that time.
Idk why you think the recording industry would be willing to finance Pandora (whole or in part) for placement like this.
This is a perfect example of markets working poorly. Your response presupposes that the customers actually represent their best interests. Problem is that, for a variety of factors, consumers DON'T represent their own interest and the markets become skewed. I see this happen most frequently when the good/service being sold is something that people do not want to live without, or it becomes part of a larger product.
I'm sure with cable TV it went like this:
Wow, I can pay and have no commercials!
Wait what? You're adding commercials?? Nooo!! But I'll keep buying because I can't live without the extra channels that you offer.
The larger product that the cable companies offered masked the consumer interest to not see ads.
If companies want to advertise to me on Pandora they can pay to have their songs ranked up, so that I hear them more
This is the LAST thing that I would like to see. I hate most "ads" so I do as much as possible to avoid them, but the great thing about Pandora is all the new stuff it exposes me to.
I certainly don't want that exposure to be diminished because someone payed to have their song played. This exposure is the key to their product for me. I like to put in someone that I know and get someone that I've never heard of. Chances are if I've never heard of them they probably dont have enough money to pay Pandora to play their songs more.
Since I was a teenager, I stopped buying branded shirts, as I refused to pay to be a walking billboard for some corp
D00d, some of us CHOOSE to be "walking billboards" in order to help the companies whose clothing we are wearing. Some brands come with the quality, and I enjoy repping their gear. Granted, none are "some corp's", but the point remains that not all advertising is bad.
The shirt I wear IS word of mouth. Ask me about it and I'll highly recommend it.
yeah cuz the wheel is a great interface for dialing!
Is this really AI? Or is it more just a mechanical computer built inside of an electronic computer?
I was under the impression that AI involved being intelligent, and not simply computing moves in Tic-Tac-Toe (or chess, etc).
Most people care about EA's DRM as a rights issue. Makes sense that you don't have to be affected to be concerned about how the loss of rights for someone else could potentially lead to the loss of your own rights.
Just because it is playable doesn't mean that it doesn't scale with CPU power. Try running their games on a P4, then swap out only the processor and watch as your framerates go up significantly. Most other games are so GPU limited that they do not show this same scaling framerates in response to CPU change.
Seriously google it. Or just try it yourself.
http://www.google.com/search?q=tf2+cpu+limited&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t
Basically if you had increased your processor from 1.6 to say 2.0ghz you'd notice a big difference. Performance scales with video card, but also significantly with CPU.
Most other games are limited by GPU much more and don't show the same scaling with CPU.
The savings should be reflected in the ratio of standby to talk time. Standby time should stay the same, but talk time should increase significantly.
It's not so much that the path between circuitry and the antenna is so full of junk because of poor designs, it's because prior to this "discovery" no one knew how to get rid of that junk.
Now this guy shows us a way to bypass all that and gain the efficiency of removing all those components so that less power is used to get the same amount of radiation out of the antenna.
Generally speaking Corsair does have very good power supplies. The HX line is really top notch stuff, in pretty much all aspects. They don't make the best PSU's, but they're right there with the best.
jonnyguru.com is probably the best site for power supply reviews. the guy does FULL disassembly, even removing rectifiers and diodes and stuff. Because of this he is able to determine what OEM manufactured every power supply he tests, and also gives you comments that, if you payed enough attention, would allow YOU to determine the layouts typical of each OEM. He's also the guy that started using an actual load tester to test power supplies, instead of testing them by placing them in systems. The ORIGINAL hard core power supply test site!
good point about money in the bank being something of an insurance policy. Especially when you consider that when the parent speaks of the money not influencing anyone or making more money, he's talking about what is inherently a risky business. SO you go from having your capital being a protection for you to a liability for you.
GTA4 isn't the only CPU dependent game out there. All the Valve fps games are massively CPU limited. Things like Left 4 Dead, TF2, half-life 2 etc
You hit the nail on the head with the pilot example. You're willingness to do the job for 50k is exactly the competitive wage-reducing force that the unions seek to eliminate. Without the unions you'd get hired immediately and the formely highly paid pilots would be out of jobs. But since they have no work they now want jobs badly and now they'll settle for 45k so that they can get the job. Now YOU have no job, so you settle for 40k. Rinse and repeat. Next thing you know you're making the wages of an illegal immigrant farm worker.
But if you all get together (a la a union) you might be able to agree on a wage that you ALL would like, and then only work for that wage, and then let hiring and jobs play out on other grounds. Basically you can eliminate wages as the primary factor in determining who gets hired (that is that people aren't hired on how cheaply they're willing to work).
Just like you say that sometimes industrialists are bastards and at other times they're not, the same goes for unions. Promoting good wages for workers and safety standards is good, and keeping poor workers around is almost as bad as industrialists providing unsafe work conditions.
That's not the point of unions. The point of unions is the collective aspect. Without unions there is a competitive drive between workers to lower wages, especially in markets where there are fewer jobs in relation to people seeking work.
The idea is that by joining together, the workers can essentially collude to force wages up to a level that ALL the workers accept. So instead of the people that will do the job for the cheapest wage setting the market price for labor the entire GROUP of laborers sets the market price.
The thing is that all too often once the cards are signed the company starts applying massive pressure to ensure that the vote fails. The idea is to boil it down to one step so that companies won't have the intervening time to influence the vote. Basically the assumption is that the cards are a true representation of what the workers want, and the votes likely aren't. You might try listening to KPFA sometimes, because they cover this issue quite a bit, and you can get the worker's perspective there.
Way to contribute Nostradamus!
Yeah, he came over here from Digg! /buh-dum-ching
The part of logic that "necessitates" the existence of dark energy is inductive logic, which relies on inferences. Right now the evidence infers that dark matter exists, but as is the case with all inferences it could be wrong. Hence TFA stating that this discovery adds to the evidence but does not PROVE its existence (which would be deductive logic).
:( To quote from wikipedia
In either case dark matter may not be necessary at all. This is because in logic necessary has a hugely different meaning than the way you used it
* possible if and only if it is not necessarily false (regardless of whether it actually is true or false);
* necessary if and only if it is not possibly false;
* contingent if and only if it is actually true (and so possibly true) and not necessarily true.
So even if we can prove the existence of dark matter, we've only shown it to be contigent. We'd still have some heavy lifting to do to show that it cannot possibly NOT exist.
Horrible headline & summary :(
:(
A new study of 86 galaxy clusters in the early universe has provided independent confirmation of the existence of dark energy
and quotation:
the new data strengthen the suspicion â" but do not prove
The summary makes it sound like they actually proved that dark matter exist, not simply added to the inference of it's existence
It's the tone that is "friendly"...almost childish. As if every person on the blog is a close friend that you share your creative literary whims with.
:(
It's most prevalent in the Hollywood related blogs. I don't read them, but I see enough quotes from them to make me want to puke at the level of discourse
nevermind that there are all sorts of vehicles that run on the "dirty filthy stuff". It's just that they don't put those engines in cars.