Actually, it's more like dumping them right into the store's trashcan. The store loses, nobody (including the perpetrator) gains.
That's only true if there are an infinite number of cookies, since throwing away all of the free samples deprives other customers. In this case, only the store (or the company providing the samples) loses.
Oh great... basing ext4 performance gains on caching writes in the OS for 2 minutes just means they will focus their optimizations in ways that will suck even worse than ext3 does for applications that can't afford the risk of enabling write caching...
1. The Xbox 360 was release a year before the PS3 and with that year head start it gained around 7 million users. If you trust Microsoft they sold 10 million the first year! So given that it was around 7 million units sold. The 360 and the PS3 have been selling around the same amount from launch.
Yes, and WHY was the PS3 released a year after the Xbox 360? Because it was so hard to develop for (and develop in general). Why is the Sony online service so far behind Xbox Live? (I think Home is/was 2 years behind what they originally thought!) Because it was so much harder to develop than they expected. Yeah Sony, wouldn't want to make it easy to create a usable online service too early in the product's lifecycle, you might risk making billions of dollars a year like MS has with Live...
2. The Wii is also hard to develop for yet it is selling at around a 2 to 3 times clip of the 360 and PS3.
Again, why is this? Because it's cheaper than the others. Nintendo did the opposite of Sony and kept the hardware simple - and it paid off for them with a huge sales lead.
3. The guy's point was that they could make a system that is easier to develop for at the cost of longevity. In short he is saying to get a 10 year lifespan Sony had to go with something like the Cell and it's 8 SPE's. It is harder to develop for than one core but the payoff over time is worth it.
Seems like your previous two points pretty much show that this third one is just a way of making excuses for why Sony is in 3rd place.
And where the hell does this "10 year lifespan" come from? People (Sony execs included) have already been spreading rumors about a PS4, and that it could be out as early as 2010... given the PS3 launched in Nov 2006, that's more like 4-5 years. Sure, it will still have some life for a few years after that, but a steadily declining life consisting mostly of mediocre ports of titles that look much better on the new platform...
You can't really "satire" your high school principle; they're unlikely to meet the "public figure" criteria that would protect the person who is making fun of them from legal repercussions if anything strayed over the line.
Of course the principal is a public figure - especially in the "world" of the high school students who were the intended audience of the satire.
I was always impressed hearing a friend describe her low-temperature physics class, where they were always cooling things to 3 degrees Kelvin and then doing various interesting experiments. I'd imagine that takes a fair bit of resources and department expertise, though.
I don't actually remember the specific experiments, because as happens with most research of this kind, building the equipment to cool a chamber down to 3 degrees Kelvin is 95% of the work...
If you are going to use an electronics analogy, I think a better one would be anti-burn in technology in modern plasma TVs. They can periodically shift the image on screen by tiny incremental amounts not detectable to the eye, which lessens the amount of time any one pixel will be fixed on one color.
Yeah, but there is a big difference between "random" and "incorrect".
The errors resulting from undesirable interactions between transistors are probably a lot less random than a good pseudorandom number generator for these purposes.
This isn't a message to the world screaming, "Fear Us!". This is a message to the world asking, "Respect Us."
Yeah, right. Just like China's message to the world after shooting down one of their old satellites wasn't "look, we have the technology to shoot down satellites", it was "everyone rejoice, we now have the means to help defend our great united human race when Mars Attacks!!"
"Shares" are useless in a company unless you get a dividend, they are bought out, or IPO.
Your post is a bit vague, but if in fact you are saying you are being offered 10% of the company, clearly, the "CEO" (or "owner with an ego" at that point, I assume?) has no intention of doing any of those, so offering "shares" is a great way of keeping a valuable employee without any real cost.
In fact, if you are being offered 10% of the company I guarantee things are completely f-ed. No one offers 10% of anything valuable unless they are desperate, and if they are in fact offering it to you, then you must be smart enough to realize this and RUN AWAY AS FAST AS YOU CAN!
Except this isn't James Woods High School, this is UC Berkeley, which is (supposedly!) in the top 5 in the US for Mathematics programs.
If you need Starcraft to make math "cool" after having already taken Calculus and Diff Eq as prereqs, then something is seriously wrong with your choice of classes...
Try for yourself. Get a torch and a red filter and a blue filter. Go out at night and let your eyes get used to the darkness. Shine the torch through the red filter such that you cannot see any white lite. You will be able to see quite well after you switch the torch off.
I tried, this - but not realizing you weren't American, I ended up setting both the red and blue filters on fire, and then badly burning myself trying to switch the torch off.
But is it my fault? I think not - you are the one named fireman sam, so I would have thought you'd have been a bit more responsible!
The problem is they are wasting a huge amount of money and effort legislating something that makes a pitifully small difference in electricity usage compared to so many other, more useful ideas.
$19 a year? That's $1.50 a month. I probably pay an average of $90 a month for electricity in a 2 BR/2 BA apartment in CA (which is actually fairly low given heat, washer/dryer, and all other appliances are electric... no gas to the place). That's 2% of my monthly bill.
By setting my thermostat a couple degrees lower in the winter and only using AC when it gets > 90F in the summer I probably save 20x that. Why don't they try harder to convince people to put a damn sweater on when they are cold?
Also, household electricity usage is now dwarfed by corporate usage from all of their desktop PCs, server farms, AC, etc. Why isn't CA passing laws to regulate that more stringently?
The reason: because the CA legislature is nearly useless these days. Pointless bipartisan laws enforcing tiny increases in TV efficiency are politically safe, while laws enforcing energy efficiency in multibillion dollar corporations take large amounts of work and compromise, with a risk of getting that valuable campaign funding pulled.
How are they bogus? Just because you dont care what they are does not mean they're not different things.
What does it mean to be from the "2.75th generation"? The very definition of "generation" implies an integral value. Unless maybe your parents are your mother and your grandfather - then we might have to consider an alternative term.
Otherwise, they are stupid marketing terms created by the cellular industry and trade media to pretend there is some meaningful difference between marginally improved technologies so that they have something to talk about in CES press releases.
Though in fact, my post was not even to rant about made up marketing terms as much as return a snide remark to the OP's snide remark implying that the average customer confused by the obviously ridiculously confusing cellular marketing-speak is somehow the one at fault.
Dream on! There are a LOT of countries in the EU, and there are a LOT of police jurisdictions within each country. It's naive bordering on moronic to pretend that there aren't incidents happening like this all the time, especially in the more extreme privacy-and-human-rights-limiting countries, like... the UK.
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...massive list of failed graphics companies trying to do something novel in the last 10 years...
Seriously, can anyone name a single company that has made inroads into the nVidia/ATI duopoly? I can probably name a half dozen who have tried...
Actually, it's more like dumping them right into the store's trashcan. The store loses, nobody (including the perpetrator) gains.
That's only true if there are an infinite number of cookies, since throwing away all of the free samples deprives other customers. In this case, only the store (or the company providing the samples) loses.
Oh great... basing ext4 performance gains on caching writes in the OS for 2 minutes just means they will focus their optimizations in ways that will suck even worse than ext3 does for applications that can't afford the risk of enabling write caching...
I have always found it highly questionable that something one can give away for free should be illegal to sell..
Trying to think of a good counter example, but it's not easy... what about human organs?
Giving it away for free should not be legal. Sexual relations outside of the covenant of marge should be as illegal as prostitution.
Who is this "marge" and how can I get inside her covenant?
A friend of mine summarized Sony's need to come up with said pointlessly proprietary formats pretty well:
"Some motherfuckers always trying to ice skate uphill..."
1. The Xbox 360 was release a year before the PS3 and with that year head start it gained around 7 million users. If you trust Microsoft they sold 10 million the first year! So given that it was around 7 million units sold. The 360 and the PS3 have been selling around the same amount from launch.
Yes, and WHY was the PS3 released a year after the Xbox 360? Because it was so hard to develop for (and develop in general). Why is the Sony online service so far behind Xbox Live? (I think Home is/was 2 years behind what they originally thought!) Because it was so much harder to develop than they expected. Yeah Sony, wouldn't want to make it easy to create a usable online service too early in the product's lifecycle, you might risk making billions of dollars a year like MS has with Live...
2. The Wii is also hard to develop for yet it is selling at around a 2 to 3 times clip of the 360 and PS3.
Again, why is this? Because it's cheaper than the others. Nintendo did the opposite of Sony and kept the hardware simple - and it paid off for them with a huge sales lead.
3. The guy's point was that they could make a system that is easier to develop for at the cost of longevity. In short he is saying to get a 10 year lifespan Sony had to go with something like the Cell and it's 8 SPE's. It is harder to develop for than one core but the payoff over time is worth it.
Seems like your previous two points pretty much show that this third one is just a way of making excuses for why Sony is in 3rd place.
And where the hell does this "10 year lifespan" come from? People (Sony execs included) have already been spreading rumors about a PS4, and that it could be out as early as 2010... given the PS3 launched in Nov 2006, that's more like 4-5 years. Sure, it will still have some life for a few years after that, but a steadily declining life consisting mostly of mediocre ports of titles that look much better on the new platform...
Left arm: MPAA
Right arm: IFPI
Left leg: SPA
Right leg: BSA
Torso: RIAA
Head: DMCA
Combined: WTMGDL! (Way too many god damned lawyers)
Hmm, any other suggestions for the copyright megacronym? :)
You can't really "satire" your high school principle; they're unlikely to meet the "public figure" criteria that would protect the person who is making fun of them from legal repercussions if anything strayed over the line.
Of course the principal is a public figure - especially in the "world" of the high school students who were the intended audience of the satire.
I was always impressed hearing a friend describe her low-temperature physics class, where they were always cooling things to 3 degrees Kelvin and then doing various interesting experiments. I'd imagine that takes a fair bit of resources and department expertise, though.
I don't actually remember the specific experiments, because as happens with most research of this kind, building the equipment to cool a chamber down to 3 degrees Kelvin is 95% of the work...
That's 4.7 metric tons, not 12 kilograms - in other words, you're off by a factor of 400.
Which means if the rest of his math is in fact correct, that's a sub traveling at 400 times the speed of sound, ie. over 10x escape velocity.
The Air Force has monopolized space exploration long enough, now it's the Navy's turn to go to the moon!
If you are going to use an electronics analogy, I think a better one would be anti-burn in technology in modern plasma TVs. They can periodically shift the image on screen by tiny incremental amounts not detectable to the eye, which lessens the amount of time any one pixel will be fixed on one color.
Yeah, but the newest version they could get was 0.98. They are still maintaining it, though!
Yeah, but there is a big difference between "random" and "incorrect".
The errors resulting from undesirable interactions between transistors are probably a lot less random than a good pseudorandom number generator for these purposes.
What's the point of trying to *shame* a spammer? You can't shame someone who has no shame.
Naming them is pointless, too. "Oh, hey, I found out it's a guy named Viktor in the Ukraine sending me all this spam!" Now what?
And Heroes!
This isn't a message to the world screaming, "Fear Us!". This is a message to the world asking, "Respect Us."
Yeah, right. Just like China's message to the world after shooting down one of their old satellites wasn't "look, we have the technology to shoot down satellites", it was "everyone rejoice, we now have the means to help defend our great united human race when Mars Attacks!!"
I would mod this up if it weren't already +5...
"Shares" are useless in a company unless you get a dividend, they are bought out, or IPO.
Your post is a bit vague, but if in fact you are saying you are being offered 10% of the company, clearly, the "CEO" (or "owner with an ego" at that point, I assume?) has no intention of doing any of those, so offering "shares" is a great way of keeping a valuable employee without any real cost.
In fact, if you are being offered 10% of the company I guarantee things are completely f-ed. No one offers 10% of anything valuable unless they are desperate, and if they are in fact offering it to you, then you must be smart enough to realize this and RUN AWAY AS FAST AS YOU CAN!
Except this isn't James Woods High School, this is UC Berkeley, which is (supposedly!) in the top 5 in the US for Mathematics programs.
If you need Starcraft to make math "cool" after having already taken Calculus and Diff Eq as prereqs, then something is seriously wrong with your choice of classes...
In a rural type area, sure you might have more people that injure themselves with tools than guns
Tell that to Dick Cheney...
Will It Blend - Hannibal Lecter edition.
I'll donate the fava beans...
Try for yourself. Get a torch and a red filter and a blue filter. Go out at night and let your eyes get used to the darkness. Shine the torch through the red filter such that you cannot see any white lite. You will be able to see quite well after you switch the torch off.
I tried, this - but not realizing you weren't American, I ended up setting both the red and blue filters on fire, and then badly burning myself trying to switch the torch off.
But is it my fault? I think not - you are the one named fireman sam, so I would have thought you'd have been a bit more responsible!
The problem is they are wasting a huge amount of money and effort legislating something that makes a pitifully small difference in electricity usage compared to so many other, more useful ideas.
$19 a year? That's $1.50 a month. I probably pay an average of $90 a month for electricity in a 2 BR/2 BA apartment in CA (which is actually fairly low given heat, washer/dryer, and all other appliances are electric... no gas to the place). That's 2% of my monthly bill.
By setting my thermostat a couple degrees lower in the winter and only using AC when it gets > 90F in the summer I probably save 20x that. Why don't they try harder to convince people to put a damn sweater on when they are cold?
Also, household electricity usage is now dwarfed by corporate usage from all of their desktop PCs, server farms, AC, etc. Why isn't CA passing laws to regulate that more stringently?
The reason: because the CA legislature is nearly useless these days. Pointless bipartisan laws enforcing tiny increases in TV efficiency are politically safe, while laws enforcing energy efficiency in multibillion dollar corporations take large amounts of work and compromise, with a risk of getting that valuable campaign funding pulled.
How are they bogus? Just because you dont care what they are does not mean they're not different things.
What does it mean to be from the "2.75th generation"? The very definition of "generation" implies an integral value. Unless maybe your parents are your mother and your grandfather - then we might have to consider an alternative term.
Otherwise, they are stupid marketing terms created by the cellular industry and trade media to pretend there is some meaningful difference between marginally improved technologies so that they have something to talk about in CES press releases.
Though in fact, my post was not even to rant about made up marketing terms as much as return a snide remark to the OP's snide remark implying that the average customer confused by the obviously ridiculously confusing cellular marketing-speak is somehow the one at fault.
Dream on! There are a LOT of countries in the EU, and there are a LOT of police jurisdictions within each country. It's naive bordering on moronic to pretend that there aren't incidents happening like this all the time, especially in the more extreme privacy-and-human-rights-limiting countries, like... the UK.