The bottom 90% "teach others" is a fabulous aid to learning yourself. If you're interested in a subject, someone asks a question and you answer it after a bit of research, you're going to understand and remember the stuff well.
Almost makes me want to fire up my newsreader and see if there's anything there to see. Almost. For me to go back to public Usenet, all the clients would have to have builtin reputation systems/collaborative filtering, compulsory signing of posts and some central registry of IDs. Killfiles and regexp filters just ain't up to it.
Having said that. Usenet News absolutely rocks in a controlled setting like a private/corporate LAN. If you can make it part of the culture at all there's an order of magnitude improvement in communication over email for group discussions. For some reason, people seem to feel inhibited about sending emails to 100 recipients, but less so about posting to a newsgroup.
1: Most don't initiate a topic. Simply reading the latest cool stories. 2: Look at the social network diagram of an answer person. Few interconnections. It indicates introverted social behaviour, which is classic computer/science etc geek/nerd. It's not like we're short of those. 3: Hands up the system administrators and technical support analysts.
In fact, the way Slashdot is structured with the constant new topics may even attract "answer people" over other bulletin board cultures. It'd be interesting to see an analysis done here. It'd be interesting if different bulletin board systems encouraged different types of people to use them. Hmm, you could even track the types of interactions based on the age of the story and by UID to see if the general culture has changed.
And yet, Yahoo and other online corporations are (imho) exploiting these people by establishing "Answer" areas that reward people for answering questions with useless points. Do they get compensation or a cut of the advertising profits that yahoo is making on them? No. They get honor points. I'd mod you insightful if I had any points.
Genetic engineering is probably essential for our long term survival as a species Right because there's no other way we could have survived the last few million years.
(for example, modern medicine and cultural values sabotage natural selection) Or do they just change the selection pressures.
So yeah, let's run a simulation where Iran's rulers get their way in the Middle East. How many nukes do you think it'll take them to "wipe Israel off the map"? Hey, that's what they OPENLY SAY they're going to do. Actually it's a (deliberate?) mistranslation of what was said. Not that you should let that get in the way.
Buy last year's hardware at a fraction of the cost and let someone else take the depreciation hit/development cost. You benefit from lower depreciation and usually, better reliability. There's always a dogleg increase in cost for the latest and greatest.
At the moment, our software is mostly designed as a script. 1, 2, 3 we push the instructions onto the CPU. As you say, sequential.
But we already have a different way of thinking about getting information, client/server. With the Internet, millions of people get the information they need by asking a server somewhere. Instead of applications running sequentially on a cpu, shouldn't they be parallel by default, little bits of client code querying and updating little bits of server code.
Software expands to fill the resources made available to it, and then some. Always has and always will. People will always be able to make the text editor that little bit bigger... Ask the Emacs guys how.
And yet by limiting government power you also limit the corporations interest in government and their ability to abuse that power. Also, "unchecked" is a mischaracterisation.
To be honest I think this is just a natural expansion of the requirement of the exponential increase. It can't continue forever. At some point we're going to have to switch to another monetary system or face indentured servitude. Perhaps that will be the change.
The US's single biggest export by the way... is debt.
There's no such thing as intrinsic value. If you have a million potatoes, the million and first is damned near worthless to you. Utility/Value always depends on circumstances.
The game companies should create in game marketplaces where legitimate trading can take place with stalls and places to advertise (boy they're missing a trick there) and yes, currency exchanges can take place. Stick them on the borders of the land or something.
As for tax. Well, income is income, it doesn't really matter where the source is.
You can work out some basic stats by adding and multiplying the numbers together.
If you want the chance of something and something else happening, then you multiply the two numbers. If you want one or the other then you add them together.
The chances of 11 failures at a 5% random failure rate?
0.05 * 0.05 * 0.05.... 11 times
Basically, it isn't random, not even with MS. Someone's fucking over the machines.
Who said anything about a conspiracy? And government, is not a free market. If you can persuade governments to set the rules to your benefit there's SFA the rest of the market can do except lobby in their direction instead.
Slashdot Mirror
http://lowery.tamu.edu/Teaming/Morgan1/sld023.htm
The bottom 90% "teach others" is a fabulous aid to learning yourself. If you're interested in a subject, someone asks a question and you answer it after a bit of research, you're going to understand and remember the stuff well.
Having said that. Usenet News absolutely rocks in a controlled setting like a private/corporate LAN. If you can make it part of the culture at all there's an order of magnitude improvement in communication over email for group discussions. For some reason, people seem to feel inhibited about sending emails to 100 recipients, but less so about posting to a newsgroup.
Which ironically could be why it's so popular.
1: Most don't initiate a topic. Simply reading the latest cool stories.
2: Look at the social network diagram of an answer person. Few interconnections. It indicates introverted social behaviour, which is classic computer/science etc geek/nerd. It's not like we're short of those.
3: Hands up the system administrators and technical support analysts.
In fact, the way Slashdot is structured with the constant new topics may even attract "answer people" over other bulletin board cultures. It'd be interesting to see an analysis done here. It'd be interesting if different bulletin board systems encouraged different types of people to use them. Hmm, you could even track the types of interactions based on the age of the story and by UID to see if the general culture has changed.
Interesting social research.
You give the thieves far too much credit. Your average thief is even dumber than your average person.
Batch, PBS, NQS, SGE, Torque, LVS. . .
Choose your poison.
Computer performance being limited by power. Who'd have thought.
Just a few more years.
m oney/2007/06/24/cnfopp124.xml
e.g. FOPP
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/
Why would any artists care about music stores these days anyway? Oh they have gone into administration btw, just announced on the news 22 seconds ago.
Get em while they're hot!
HTH
Buy last year's hardware at a fraction of the cost and let someone else take the depreciation hit/development cost. You benefit from lower depreciation and usually, better reliability. There's always a dogleg increase in cost for the latest and greatest.
Works for cars too.
At the moment, our software is mostly designed as a script. 1, 2, 3 we push the instructions onto the CPU. As you say, sequential.
But we already have a different way of thinking about getting information, client/server. With the Internet, millions of people get the information they need by asking a server somewhere. Instead of applications running sequentially on a cpu, shouldn't they be parallel by default, little bits of client code querying and updating little bits of server code.
The "What we have now only bigger", people are wrong and will disappear.
And yet by limiting government power you also limit the corporations interest in government and their ability to abuse that power. Also, "unchecked" is a mischaracterisation.
Till you fuck up the product.
To be honest I think this is just a natural expansion of the requirement of the exponential increase. It can't continue forever. At some point we're going to have to switch to another monetary system or face indentured servitude. Perhaps that will be the change.
The US's single biggest export by the way... is debt.
There's no such thing as intrinsic value. If you have a million potatoes, the million and first is damned near worthless to you. Utility/Value always depends on circumstances.
The game companies should create in game marketplaces where legitimate trading can take place with stalls and places to advertise (boy they're missing a trick there) and yes, currency exchanges can take place. Stick them on the borders of the land or something.
As for tax. Well, income is income, it doesn't really matter where the source is.
You can work out some basic stats by adding and multiplying the numbers together.
.... 11 times
If you want the chance of something and something else happening, then you multiply the two numbers. If you want one or the other then you add them together.
The chances of 11 failures at a 5% random failure rate?
0.05 * 0.05 * 0.05
Basically, it isn't random, not even with MS. Someone's fucking over the machines.
The US government still haven't got the connection between the middle class, wealth and democracy. Oh well.
Who said anything about a conspiracy? And government, is not a free market. If you can persuade governments to set the rules to your benefit there's SFA the rest of the market can do except lobby in their direction instead.