Mark Zuckerberg doesn't charge for the game he calls "Facebook", and he recently said he has no intention of taking it public.
That means he's making bank off the ad revenues and feels no need to share his profit stream with anyone just to get some cash.
See also Pogo.com, which offers nearly everything for free in the default, ad-sponsored model, but allows you to pay a monthly fee to turn off the ads and get access to baubles that don't have any effect on play.
Kinda lame, but useful Still lame, not as useful Somewhat better presented, less useful compared to competitors Kinda flashy and a little more useful than before Crufty and deliberately defeatured Kinda buggy and simplistic compared to competitors Definitely suffering bit-rot, not any more useful Total crap with pockets of new development of script-kiddie webdev showoff crap that makes it no more useful and often worse than useless
So the problem is that the government has too much control of the economy so it's now more far efficient for corporations to buy politicians that to compete in the marketplace.
Who said the government has too much control over the economy?
The government has almost no control over the economy. The government is a puppet, opening the spigots into the pockets of the puppet masters. Spigots that are jammed into the guts of both workers and consumers.
We saw the kind of shitstorm that swept Europe when Guttenburg started cranking out his bibles
Not sure what you're referring to, or whether you're being factious, but, by the time Gutenberg invented the press the Inquisition had been going on in earnest for centuries and was winding down through most of Europe.
If anything the easy availability of bibles reduced the Catholic Church's hold on what was and was not proper, allowed other sects to gain power, and eventually led to the sort of religion-neutral government that we have in America. Or rather, are supposed to have. Not that the churches and their miions aren't doing everything they can to get back the power to make law, not just suggest it (and damn you to eternal fire if you don't vote for their platform).
The political system is broken because money has taken over the input to our representatives and megacorporate control of media has taken over the output to the voters.
That is to say, it's the same problem, both ways.
Our democracy has become overwhelmed by the concentration of wealth in a few hands, owing to vacuous sophistry that skews our economic system towards one that shovels money to those who have it and entrains the lives of those who don't.
People who call any attempt at regulation or any braking of the egregious concentration of wealth "socialism" are buying into a psychological campaign of misinformation that is used to suck the foundation of the country out from under them.
While it's possible to get rich and not become a plutocrat, that just takes one person out of the stream and leaves hundreds of others to let the money tell them what to do.
If you want to fix this information economy, you need to get control of the economy first, so that the money doesn't overwhelm the information.
This is like an earthquake, only it's taking years, and we can see 99.99% of it coming, instead of minutes and we don't see it coming.
So, instead of wailing in the streets and digging for bodies and asking what could have been done, and making do with the meager resources we have left after all the buildings fell on all the people and food and tools, we do what actually can be done and make do with the relatively copious resources we still have because we can see it coming.
Prayer and luck are never options. They're a waste of time in lives that have a nonzero probability of ending sooner than they should.
1. A double flare within a few seconds of each other.
2. A meteor crossing just behind an Iridium flare. It was a bit dimmer and about the same arc-length as the iridum flare, but was much quicker; tenths of a second rather than a second or two; clearly not another satellite.
interesting. I never thought about the overhead SSH adds to the data. I would expect it would have some setup and teardown handshaking and then put the effort on the endpoints to do the encryption, but wouldn't add much to the data stream. Lower data rates would mean the terminals would have all the time in the world to encrypt and decrypt, meaning lower is easier, not harder.
How much more data is transmitted in a packet than would be for non-SSH traffic?
Iridium was planned in the late 80s, when cell phones were exotic and rare. It expected to cover the 90% of the world that didn't have cell service, to act as a pay-telephone in remote villages, etc.
It took 10 years to get the system up to a marketable state (it wasn't late; that was the schedule to design, build, test, and deploy the dozens of satellites, multiple ground stations, and multiple brands of handsets). By that time a vast majority of the anticipated market was served by cellphones and by higher-data rate satellite services, but Iridium's technical specs and market anticipation barely moved.
Except for that 2.4kbps data rate, the system was technologically wondrous when it went live. But hardly anyone needed it any more, especially at the prices it had to charge to break even. It nearly killed Motorola, leading to the closure or sale of many of its businesses, including Iridium.
So a $5 billion project was sold for $50 or $150 million, or whatever it was. A much easier break-even point to reach, for sure.
And Motorola went on to launch the Razor, resurrect itself, and change cell phones anyway.
We get "popular revolution" every 2, 4, and 6 years. So there's no pressure for the masses to join the militias.
But that's beside the point. The point is, yes, there is enough military power in the military to stop any military attack on the military from any militia or military on this planet. So as long as that military is protecting the government, this form of government is not going to be revolved by military action. We, or anyone else, would need to get a lot of countries together to accomplish anything revolutionary here.
Which is why we need to get better at the 2/4/6-year thing, and use ideas and facts to control our destiny, instead of letting money and propaganda be the determining factor.
Manipulating the market, even for good, is like "flying" a toy airplane by waving it around in the air with your hand, instead of throwing it and watching it move aerodynamically.
Telling people what the market will or won't do is pointless.
Telling them the truth about the information that is causing people to make decisions, on the other hand, should be written into the Constitution as one of the branches of government.
I don't think that's correct. I have both Ultimate and Home Premium, and I've configured them to behave the same (though one asks for password confirmation and the other just has a button).
If I had a time machine, I'd go into the future, find the future self of my time machine, disassemble it, put it in my time machine, bring it back to the present, reassemble it, then I'd have two time machines.
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Advertising also works.
Mark Zuckerberg doesn't charge for the game he calls "Facebook", and he recently said he has no intention of taking it public.
That means he's making bank off the ad revenues and feels no need to share his profit stream with anyone just to get some cash.
See also Pogo.com, which offers nearly everything for free in the default, ad-sponsored model, but allows you to pay a monthly fee to turn off the ads and get access to baubles that don't have any effect on play.
And real-world rich people don't want to get fragged by fake-world otaku who have built up a stash of every possible collectible item and power.
Between these extremes lies the essence of successful (and profitable) game design.
Kinda lame, but useful
Still lame, not as useful
Somewhat better presented, less useful compared to competitors
Kinda flashy and a little more useful than before
Crufty and deliberately defeatured
Kinda buggy and simplistic compared to competitors
Definitely suffering bit-rot, not any more useful
Total crap with pockets of new development of script-kiddie webdev showoff crap that makes it no more useful and often worse than useless
If I disassemble both in the future, how do I get either back to the present?
And I can imagine getting one disassembled time machine into another, but not two, four, eight, etc. It's a time machine, after all, not a TARDIS.
And once I got the second one back to the present, I couldn't take the two back to the future to get two more, because I can only drive one at a time.
See, this stuff is all very simple once you start thinking logically about it.
Oh, smeg.
Just how do you think a matter replicator works?
It's a time machine, not a trojan horse.
So the problem is that the government has too much control of the economy so it's now more far efficient for corporations to buy politicians that to compete in the marketplace.
Who said the government has too much control over the economy?
The government has almost no control over the economy. The government is a puppet, opening the spigots into the pockets of the puppet masters. Spigots that are jammed into the guts of both workers and consumers.
And you, clearly, are helping them do it.
We saw the kind of shitstorm that swept Europe when Guttenburg started cranking out his bibles
Not sure what you're referring to, or whether you're being factious, but, by the time Gutenberg invented the press the Inquisition had been going on in earnest for centuries and was winding down through most of Europe.
If anything the easy availability of bibles reduced the Catholic Church's hold on what was and was not proper, allowed other sects to gain power, and eventually led to the sort of religion-neutral government that we have in America. Or rather, are supposed to have. Not that the churches and their miions aren't doing everything they can to get back the power to make law, not just suggest it (and damn you to eternal fire if you don't vote for their platform).
The political system is broken because money has taken over the input to our representatives and megacorporate control of media has taken over the output to the voters.
That is to say, it's the same problem, both ways.
Our democracy has become overwhelmed by the concentration of wealth in a few hands, owing to vacuous sophistry that skews our economic system towards one that shovels money to those who have it and entrains the lives of those who don't.
People who call any attempt at regulation or any braking of the egregious concentration of wealth "socialism" are buying into a psychological campaign of misinformation that is used to suck the foundation of the country out from under them.
While it's possible to get rich and not become a plutocrat, that just takes one person out of the stream and leaves hundreds of others to let the money tell them what to do.
If you want to fix this information economy, you need to get control of the economy first, so that the money doesn't overwhelm the information.
Obscure and colloquial count as use.
As dictionaries are meant to be descriptive, not prescriptive*, that's enough to make a use of "sinked" valid.
Albeit its validity is weak, since it's unlikely the rest of the statement in question was cast in the same colloquial idiom.
* - if you want to be told how to talk, get Strunk & White or any of a number of journalistic stylebooks. Or wait for Talk Like A Pirate Day. Arr.
My question is, why do they say it's 100 feet deep, when it's apparent it opens into some sort of bottomless cavern below the 100 feet of dirt?
Well, think about it this way.
This is like an earthquake, only it's taking years, and we can see 99.99% of it coming, instead of minutes and we don't see it coming.
So, instead of wailing in the streets and digging for bodies and asking what could have been done, and making do with the meager resources we have left after all the buildings fell on all the people and food and tools, we do what actually can be done and make do with the relatively copious resources we still have because we can see it coming.
Prayer and luck are never options. They're a waste of time in lives that have a nonzero probability of ending sooner than they should.
I have a sinking feeling he's used that before and doesn't want to put any more craters in his resume'.
my two favorites:
1. A double flare within a few seconds of each other.
2. A meteor crossing just behind an Iridium flare. It was a bit dimmer and about the same arc-length as the iridum flare, but was much quicker; tenths of a second rather than a second or two; clearly not another satellite.
>At around 2400 baud - don't use SSH.
interesting. I never thought about the overhead SSH adds to the data. I would expect it would have some setup and teardown handshaking and then put the effort on the endpoints to do the encryption, but wouldn't add much to the data stream. Lower data rates would mean the terminals would have all the time in the world to encrypt and decrypt, meaning lower is easier, not harder.
How much more data is transmitted in a packet than would be for non-SSH traffic?
Iridium was planned in the late 80s, when cell phones were exotic and rare. It expected to cover the 90% of the world that didn't have cell service, to act as a pay-telephone in remote villages, etc.
It took 10 years to get the system up to a marketable state (it wasn't late; that was the schedule to design, build, test, and deploy the dozens of satellites, multiple ground stations, and multiple brands of handsets). By that time a vast majority of the anticipated market was served by cellphones and by higher-data rate satellite services, but Iridium's technical specs and market anticipation barely moved.
Except for that 2.4kbps data rate, the system was technologically wondrous when it went live. But hardly anyone needed it any more, especially at the prices it had to charge to break even. It nearly killed Motorola, leading to the closure or sale of many of its businesses, including Iridium.
So a $5 billion project was sold for $50 or $150 million, or whatever it was. A much easier break-even point to reach, for sure.
And Motorola went on to launch the Razor, resurrect itself, and change cell phones anyway.
1. Give everyone a dollar.
2. Take 50% from everyone who's lying, and give it to everyone who isn't.
3. Goto 2.
What do you end up with, after a few years?
We get "popular revolution" every 2, 4, and 6 years. So there's no pressure for the masses to join the militias.
But that's beside the point. The point is, yes, there is enough military power in the military to stop any military attack on the military from any militia or military on this planet. So as long as that military is protecting the government, this form of government is not going to be revolved by military action. We, or anyone else, would need to get a lot of countries together to accomplish anything revolutionary here.
Which is why we need to get better at the 2/4/6-year thing, and use ideas and facts to control our destiny, instead of letting money and propaganda be the determining factor.
Manipulating the market, even for good, is like "flying" a toy airplane by waving it around in the air with your hand, instead of throwing it and watching it move aerodynamically.
Telling people what the market will or won't do is pointless.
Telling them the truth about the information that is causing people to make decisions, on the other hand, should be written into the Constitution as one of the branches of government.
"man su...oh rats..."
I don't think that's correct. I have both Ultimate and Home Premium, and I've configured them to behave the same (though one asks for password confirmation and the other just has a button).
it happens so often running ordinary everyday software that pressing 'yes' becomes second nature.
Clearly, you have the setting set way too high.
I see it a couple of times a month. But then, I don't go downloading everything with a Download button, either.
If I had a time machine, I'd go into the future, find the future self of my time machine, disassemble it, put it in my time machine, bring it back to the present, reassemble it, then I'd have two time machines.
I'd never have to buy parts again.
I don't know about your fart button, but mine calculates the trajectory of the fart in real time.