You're some way behind the curve if you want to make money sports betting on this. There is an extreme non-stationarity problem with basketball teams which inevitably means methods using past statistics will never be that successful. I know of professional basketball modellers who pay an army of students and the like to watch college games while clicking on hand-held devices to record second-by-second data on passes, interceptions etc. This data is then fed into their models and provides a very accurate picture of how a team is playing right now. They are then able to handicap the games and look for value where the line is wrong.
Well he got one thing right: "All the costs are the people in the publisher's HQ..." Exactly. So why don't authors just upload their e-books and cut out publishers all together?
Programming does not need to be made fun - it already is fun - unless you're forced to learn JavaScript as your first language. Terrible decision; there are just so many better choices. I really don't care if a child is put off by {insert favourite language} not being flash-bang-whizzy. Let's be realistic here, they were never going to be programmers anyway. What they should be teaching is the idea of an algorithm not burdening kids with silly syntax for making widgets appear on a screen.
You don't enforce it. You don't WANT to enforce it. You simply wait for them to break it then BAM! they're guilty of breaking the terms of an ASBO and can be prosecuted.
ASBOs are kind of bespoke little specific laws when someone is being an ass and it's too much trouble to prosecute them under general laws. The terms of this one look pretty crazy but most are fairly reasonable.
No believe me... everyone wins when people can upload their own creations to youtube without corporations claiming to own their content and denying them any review process or appeal.
I'm sure you're a decent person but if Rumblefish is a small company and you're taking their coin then this is on you as well. Never mind answering technical questions, why aren't you answering the question as to how an obvious false ownership claim like this is happening?
Would it be possible to simply connect the Earth and Moon with a cable that vehicles could traverse? Yes some technologic problems to overcome but in principle?
Well it hasn't happened yet there's just been one judge's ruling. I don't find it scary because I know perfectly well, like everyone else here, that's it like trying to damn Niagara Falls. I just wish that realisation could permeate to the judiciary, parliament and the music industry itself.
Yes the UK version of the ZX-81 only had 1K RAM but that included the screen and the system variables. The screen was a maximum of 32 chars x 24 lines (= 3/4 K) but when a line was blank it was stored internally as a single byte. I think the system variables were 128 bytes but could be wrong on that. Oh and of course the program itself had to be stored in that RAM too so there were weird tricks like using PI-PI for 0 or PI/PI for 1 because PI was an inbuilt constant and used 1 byte (so those expressions were 3 bytes total) whereas raw numbers took 5 bytes.
There were some surprisingly good games produced nevertheless so I look forward to seeing what people can squeeze out of 140 bytes.
There is no advantage! But many people in decision-making positions in companies do not act rationally. It may be preferable for them to be able to say to their bosses "I paid $$$ for support for this server product" rather than say "In the very unlikely event of a problem occurring the online spacemonkey community will have a patch within hours".
Why not? It's MSFT. They're pretty adept at breaking their own products.
Don't knock "corporate" users. It was corporates who ensured Vista suffered a premature death.
OP isn't asking for validation or sympathy. He simply wants to work with Open Source products. Respect his choice even if you don't share it. All these bizarre posts lecturing him about having to justify his decisions seem like projections of insecurity.
Gore always gets an unfair kicking over his clumsy Internet claims. However I actually remember the first time I ever heard of Gore in 1992 (I'm in the UK - he was unknown here then) when he was explicitly characterised (in a mocking way) as someone constantly evangelicising about how the coming Net was going to revolutionise everything. To put this in context I was playing chess "online" via Telnet and an ASCII board on a VT-100 or FTP-ing The Anarchists Cookbook.
I know he's a wooden hypocritical blowhard with a carbon footprint the size of Bigfoot but he was genuinely extremely prescient about the Internet.
The genie is out of the bottle and it isn't going back inside. When digital content can be disseminated globally at virtually zero cost it's the end of copyright. Asserting it's illegal is like King Canute ordering the tide around.
Of course you're correct. The Fed isn't in the business of software development and all their code could be open (as opposed to their data). It would be fun project to force this to happen in all goverment departments because of all the screaming and invalid arguments that would ensue but forcing a clean separation between code and data would be extremely beneficial.
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You're some way behind the curve if you want to make money sports betting on this. There is an extreme non-stationarity problem with basketball teams which inevitably means methods using past statistics will never be that successful. I know of professional basketball modellers who pay an army of students and the like to watch college games while clicking on hand-held devices to record second-by-second data on passes, interceptions etc. This data is then fed into their models and provides a very accurate picture of how a team is playing right now. They are then able to handicap the games and look for value where the line is wrong.
Well he got one thing right: "All the costs are the people in the publisher's HQ..." Exactly. So why don't authors just upload their e-books and cut out publishers all together?
Programming does not need to be made fun - it already is fun - unless you're forced to learn JavaScript as your first language. Terrible decision; there are just so many better choices. I really don't care if a child is put off by {insert favourite language} not being flash-bang-whizzy. Let's be realistic here, they were never going to be programmers anyway. What they should be teaching is the idea of an algorithm not burdening kids with silly syntax for making widgets appear on a screen.
You don't enforce it. You don't WANT to enforce it. You simply wait for them to break it then BAM! they're guilty of breaking the terms of an ASBO and can be prosecuted. ASBOs are kind of bespoke little specific laws when someone is being an ass and it's too much trouble to prosecute them under general laws. The terms of this one look pretty crazy but most are fairly reasonable.
No believe me ... everyone wins when people can upload their own creations to youtube without corporations claiming to own their content and denying them any review process or appeal.
I'm sure you're a decent person but if Rumblefish is a small company and you're taking their coin then this is on you as well. Never mind answering technical questions, why aren't you answering the question as to how an obvious false ownership claim like this is happening?
Would it be possible to simply connect the Earth and Moon with a cable that vehicles could traverse? Yes some technologic problems to overcome but in principle?
Well it hasn't happened yet there's just been one judge's ruling. I don't find it scary because I know perfectly well, like everyone else here, that's it like trying to damn Niagara Falls. I just wish that realisation could permeate to the judiciary, parliament and the music industry itself.
Yes the UK version of the ZX-81 only had 1K RAM but that included the screen and the system variables. The screen was a maximum of 32 chars x 24 lines (= 3/4 K) but when a line was blank it was stored internally as a single byte. I think the system variables were 128 bytes but could be wrong on that. Oh and of course the program itself had to be stored in that RAM too so there were weird tricks like using PI-PI for 0 or PI/PI for 1 because PI was an inbuilt constant and used 1 byte (so those expressions were 3 bytes total) whereas raw numbers took 5 bytes. There were some surprisingly good games produced nevertheless so I look forward to seeing what people can squeeze out of 140 bytes.
There is no advantage! But many people in decision-making positions in companies do not act rationally. It may be preferable for them to be able to say to their bosses "I paid $$$ for support for this server product" rather than say "In the very unlikely event of a problem occurring the online spacemonkey community will have a patch within hours".
Why not? It's MSFT. They're pretty adept at breaking their own products. Don't knock "corporate" users. It was corporates who ensured Vista suffered a premature death.
OP isn't asking for validation or sympathy. He simply wants to work with Open Source products. Respect his choice even if you don't share it. All these bizarre posts lecturing him about having to justify his decisions seem like projections of insecurity.
Gore always gets an unfair kicking over his clumsy Internet claims. However I actually remember the first time I ever heard of Gore in 1992 (I'm in the UK - he was unknown here then) when he was explicitly characterised (in a mocking way) as someone constantly evangelicising about how the coming Net was going to revolutionise everything. To put this in context I was playing chess "online" via Telnet and an ASCII board on a VT-100 or FTP-ing The Anarchists Cookbook. I know he's a wooden hypocritical blowhard with a carbon footprint the size of Bigfoot but he was genuinely extremely prescient about the Internet.
The genie is out of the bottle and it isn't going back inside. When digital content can be disseminated globally at virtually zero cost it's the end of copyright. Asserting it's illegal is like King Canute ordering the tide around.
Of course you're correct. The Fed isn't in the business of software development and all their code could be open (as opposed to their data). It would be fun project to force this to happen in all goverment departments because of all the screaming and invalid arguments that would ensue but forcing a clean separation between code and data would be extremely beneficial.