The lord works in mysterious ways. No seriously I know of an anti-vaxxer who had one of her children die, and she's still 100% anti-vax. When the news about her broke in the local newspaper she also complained that she doesn't understand why everyone thinks she's a horrible person for doing something "she believes in".
These people are in a different world. Their brains don't tick right.
That's not that weird, It's just sunk cost fallacy, which is illogical but normal human nature. Someone's invested so much into an idea that, in their mind, it has to be justified.
It's part of what keeps victims paying in advance fee fraud. It's part of what can keep otherwise competent people following a doomed course on a failing project.
You can't have much more invested in an idea than to have lost a child to i t. It's not surprising that someone can't face accepting that they've done so unnecessarily.
Well, yes and no. Presumably it would remove the claimed reason for Assange to stay in whichever embassy it is he's staying in and perhaps thereby make continuation of that story go away - or at least start a new chapter in which something happens. It's gotten dull.
I get dumping documents from government agencies. Though, their motives are a bit bizarre at times. Disclosing hundreds of thousands of addresses of private citizens? What does that help? When will Wikipedia disclose those types of details on everyone within Wikipedia? Oh that is right, Wikipedia believes they can be opaque in operation, not transparent like they expect everyone else to be.
I don't think Wikileaks is related to Wikipedia. The term "Wiki" predates Wikipedia and isn't any sort of trademark of theirs.
I hope you're equally outraged when it's on the other foot.
Well I certainly would be. Are you saying that you don't find it appalling for someone to deliberately try to induce a seizure in someone in response to an argument, regardless of 'foot'?
Weirdly enough, Google, Amazon, Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft announced a partnership this week to conduct research and promoting best practices on AI.
Why is that weird? It's just a trade association. Its purpose is to come up with a minimal code of conduct in the field of AI so that the government doesn't impose something more stringent, to give what may be mistaken as an independent body to take complaints about its members to, and to the extent practical to establish ways to restrict outsiders from entering the market. This is perfectly normal, every industry with money sloshing around has them. It doesn't mean the companies don't compete (or indeed engage in anti-competitive practices against one another).
If you look at this from another perspective, Jennifer Youngman was just in the process of test-firing one of her just-cleaned shotguns, when a drone, flying dangerously low over her property, was unfortunate enough to stray into the line of fire.
No. She wasn't test firing and it didn't stray into her line of fire. She aimed at it, shot at it and hit it. Unless you think she's lying about what happened, but I don't see how that's "a matter of perspective".
My guess is the bible also says it's your right to transfer your patents to Ireland so you can squirrel away your money without paying US Corporate Taxes. Do no evil meets the bottom line.
"Render unto Caesar no more than you can get away with."
If the readers are not exchanging anything of their own for the content they consume, then the writers (producers) aren't getting anything from that trade.
Unless the writers want people to read their stuff. Then that's what they get.
Dawkins said that the universe has ‘no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference’. But he also says that religion is a "significant force for evil in the world".
It seems readily apparent that the first quote is saying that the universe itself has no purpose, makes no moral judgments, bears us no ill-will and no good-will either. That isn't at odds with saying that humans pursue objectives, that humans make moral judgments and that he personally makes such moral judgments in relation to religion. You don't have to buy into his world view to realise that there is no contradiction here.
The citizens of Eichberg now have a mayor whose agenda has nothing to do roads, sewers, public safety, or any of the other unsexy issues that municipal officials deal with. He does care about copyright reform — an issue in which a mayor has no say at all.
Genuine question because I don't know anything about his politics - is what you've said here based on first hand knowledge of the mayor's opinions and policies, on local news reports, on something you read on some blog on the internet, or is it something you just made up based on your imagination of how a pirate party mayor should be?
I'm curious what you think happens to the children of working career women?
Hmmmm I don't know. Is it similar to what happens to the children of working career men? If we were to ban men from having careers, would that eliminate the problem for both men and women?
Has anybody built a working model of a brain that has become conscience?
I doubt that anyone's built anything that could reasonably be said to be working model of a brain. Whether anything that has been built has become conscious is unknown, and probably unknowable. How would you test for it?
Given that some areas of the Amazon have 30,000 trees per square kilometre, or at least 240,000,000 pages, this court case used less than half a square kilometre
But those are all industries much less encumbered by patents. Tech moves fast enough that patents generally don't expire until after they're useless anyway, hence the trend towards only a few big players.
But the original claim was about "mature markets" whereas you're suggesting it's something that applies to less mature markets. Cars are "tech" too, but they're more mature tech than mobile phones. One day mobile phones will be old hat too, with few essential patents and with less rapid change - i.e. that's when it'll be a mature market.
"Jonathan Oxer, Andrew Tridgell, and software freedom activist Richard Stallman, disagreed." *Click link, ctrl-f stallman, oxer, tridgell*, no matches found. Stop wasting my time with links that are inappropriate to the sentence they claim to be linking about.
I think that this bit from the summary:
"Software developer Ben Sturmfels, whose 2010 anti-software-patent petition won the support of open source community members such as Jonathan Oxer, Andrew Tridgell, and software freedom activist Richard Stallman, disagreed"
was trying to say that Ben Sturmfels disagrees, and that back in 2010 Jonathan Oxerm, Andrew Tridgell and Richard Stallman agreed with Ben Sturmfels about something else. A sort of 'appeal to authority by association'.
The only problem is that Samsung makes about a nickel on each phone it sells.
Okay, doing a quick search on "samsung,mobile phone profits". I see things like:
"reported its highest quarterly profits since 2008, with net profit almost doubling to 5.05 trillion won ($4.5 billion) for the three months to March 31." (http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/business/120427/samsung-profits-jump-mobile-phone-sales-outstrip-apple-and-nokia)
and
"Samsung’s quarterly handset division profits nearly tripled to 4.27 trillion won ($3.8 billion U.S.), accounting for 73 per cent of total profit" (http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1169494--galaxy-phone-powers-samsung-to-record-profit)
Now, maybe those reports are wrong. And very possibly Apple makes much much more on their phones (I haven't checke but I believe it) BUT I really doubt Samsung are crying over results like that. This looks like a very very succesful business for them.
Name one market Apple has entered where they have competed on price?
Tablets. There are others that have undercut the iPad since but the iPad itself was aggressively priced when introduced (and honestly I think it's reasonable for the specifications now). (Don't have one or plan to get one myself as there's more to life than pricing.)
The repair to replace the logic board that contained the defective GPU was a $1700 repair from a third-party authorized repair center and I did an average of 2 to 3 a week for 2 years.
From the article: "At one point, the judge asked Apple how much it would have cost them to have simply replaced my logic board when I had taken it in, and one of the Apple guys said “Oh, it wouldn’t have cost us anything, Nvidia foots the bill for each board we replace.”"
2) Partner with Microsoft against Samsung and HTC with Windows Phone
That isn't an option. Microsoft is also 'partnered' with Samsung and HTC and wants to build on them as customers. They have no interest in partnering with anyone against them.
Nokia's competitors, other than Apple, are Microsoft's customers or would-be customers. Google is Microsoft's competitor and Nokia's potential supplier.
If the car company used the word "slut" in a sentence that was otherwise English, they would have a hard time convincing anyone that they should be reading that one word in Sweedish.
Exactly, just as if a company uses the exression '4G' in an advertisement otherwise aimed at Australians, they'll have hard time convincing anyone that that one word should be read as aimed at the American market.
Slashdot Mirror
The lord works in mysterious ways. No seriously I know of an anti-vaxxer who had one of her children die, and she's still 100% anti-vax. When the news about her broke in the local newspaper she also complained that she doesn't understand why everyone thinks she's a horrible person for doing something "she believes in".
These people are in a different world. Their brains don't tick right.
That's not that weird, It's just sunk cost fallacy, which is illogical but normal human nature. Someone's invested so much into an idea that, in their mind, it has to be justified.
It's part of what keeps victims paying in advance fee fraud. It's part of what can keep otherwise competent people following a doomed course on a failing project.
You can't have much more invested in an idea than to have lost a child to i t. It's not surprising that someone can't face accepting that they've done so unnecessarily.
Well, yes and no. Presumably it would remove the claimed reason for Assange to stay in whichever embassy it is he's staying in and perhaps thereby make continuation of that story go away - or at least start a new chapter in which something happens. It's gotten dull.
I get dumping documents from government agencies. Though, their motives are a bit bizarre at times. Disclosing hundreds of thousands of addresses of private citizens? What does that help? When will Wikipedia disclose those types of details on everyone within Wikipedia? Oh that is right, Wikipedia believes they can be opaque in operation, not transparent like they expect everyone else to be.
I don't think Wikileaks is related to Wikipedia. The term "Wiki" predates Wikipedia and isn't any sort of trademark of theirs.
I hope you're equally outraged when it's on the other foot.
Well I certainly would be. Are you saying that you don't find it appalling for someone to deliberately try to induce a seizure in someone in response to an argument, regardless of 'foot'?
Next thing you know, the govmint will require news sources to fact check!
Hell no, from there it's a short slippery slope to requiring them to spellcheck and where would that leave Slashdot?
Weirdly enough, Google, Amazon, Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft announced a partnership this week to conduct research and promoting best practices on AI.
Why is that weird? It's just a trade association. Its purpose is to come up with a minimal code of conduct in the field of AI so that the government doesn't impose something more stringent, to give what may be mistaken as an independent body to take complaints about its members to, and to the extent practical to establish ways to restrict outsiders from entering the market. This is perfectly normal, every industry with money sloshing around has them. It doesn't mean the companies don't compete (or indeed engage in anti-competitive practices against one another).
If you look at this from another perspective, Jennifer Youngman was just in the process of test-firing one of her just-cleaned shotguns, when a drone, flying dangerously low over her property, was unfortunate enough to stray into the line of fire.
No. She wasn't test firing and it didn't stray into her line of fire. She aimed at it, shot at it and hit it. Unless you think she's lying about what happened, but I don't see how that's "a matter of perspective".
My guess is the bible also says it's your right to transfer your patents to Ireland so you can squirrel away your money without paying US Corporate Taxes. Do no evil meets the bottom line.
"Render unto Caesar no more than you can get away with."
If the readers are not exchanging anything of their own for the content they consume, then the writers (producers) aren't getting anything from that trade.
Unless the writers want people to read their stuff. Then that's what they get.
http://slashdot.org/zoo.pl?op=check&uid=2836539
Dawkins said that the universe has ‘no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference’. But he also says that religion is a "significant force for evil in the world".
It seems readily apparent that the first quote is saying that the universe itself has no purpose, makes no moral judgments, bears us no ill-will and no good-will either. That isn't at odds with saying that humans pursue objectives, that humans make moral judgments and that he personally makes such moral judgments in relation to religion. You don't have to buy into his world view to realise that there is no contradiction here.
The citizens of Eichberg now have a mayor whose agenda has nothing to do roads, sewers, public safety, or any of the other unsexy issues that municipal officials deal with. He does care about copyright reform — an issue in which a mayor has no say at all.
Genuine question because I don't know anything about his politics - is what you've said here based on first hand knowledge of the mayor's opinions and policies, on local news reports, on something you read on some blog on the internet, or is it something you just made up based on your imagination of how a pirate party mayor should be?
I'm curious what you think happens to the children of working career women?
Hmmmm I don't know. Is it similar to what happens to the children of working career men? If we were to ban men from having careers, would that eliminate the problem for both men and women?
Has anybody built a working model of a brain that has become conscience?
I doubt that anyone's built anything that could reasonably be said to be working model of a brain. Whether anything that has been built has become conscious is unknown, and probably unknowable. How would you test for it?
Given that some areas of the Amazon have 30,000 trees per square kilometre, or at least 240,000,000 pages, this court case used less than half a square kilometre
How many pages are you assuming per document?
But those are all industries much less encumbered by patents. Tech moves fast enough that patents generally don't expire until after they're useless anyway, hence the trend towards only a few big players.
But the original claim was about "mature markets" whereas you're suggesting it's something that applies to less mature markets. Cars are "tech" too, but they're more mature tech than mobile phones. One day mobile phones will be old hat too, with few essential patents and with less rapid change - i.e. that's when it'll be a mature market.
The best way to avoid making mistakes is not doing anything at all.
Unfortunately it's not that easy. My biggest mistakes have consisted of not doing things.
"Jonathan Oxer, Andrew Tridgell, and software freedom activist Richard Stallman, disagreed." *Click link, ctrl-f stallman, oxer, tridgell*, no matches found. Stop wasting my time with links that are inappropriate to the sentence they claim to be linking about.
I think that this bit from the summary:
"Software developer Ben Sturmfels, whose 2010 anti-software-patent petition won the support of open source community members such as Jonathan Oxer, Andrew Tridgell, and software freedom activist Richard Stallman, disagreed"
was trying to say that Ben Sturmfels disagrees, and that back in 2010 Jonathan Oxerm, Andrew Tridgell and Richard Stallman agreed with Ben Sturmfels about something else. A sort of 'appeal to authority by association'.
Say what you will about MS, but they never played favorites with or bought OEMs.
Nokia certainly like to claim that they got a favoured position due to their (at the time) market strength. Are you saying they didn't?
The only problem is that Samsung makes about a nickel on each phone it sells.
Okay, doing a quick search on "samsung ,mobile phone profits". I see things like:
"reported its highest quarterly profits since 2008, with net profit almost doubling to 5.05 trillion won ($4.5 billion) for the three months to March 31." (http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/business/120427/samsung-profits-jump-mobile-phone-sales-outstrip-apple-and-nokia)
and
"Samsung’s quarterly handset division profits nearly tripled to 4.27 trillion won ($3.8 billion U.S.), accounting for 73 per cent of total profit" (http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1169494--galaxy-phone-powers-samsung-to-record-profit)
Now, maybe those reports are wrong. And very possibly Apple makes much much more on their phones (I haven't checke but I believe it) BUT I really doubt Samsung are crying over results like that. This looks like a very very succesful business for them.
Name one market Apple has entered where they have competed on price?
Tablets. There are others that have undercut the iPad since but the iPad itself was aggressively priced when introduced (and honestly I think it's reasonable for the specifications now). (Don't have one or plan to get one myself as there's more to life than pricing.)
The repair to replace the logic board that contained the defective GPU was a $1700 repair from a third-party authorized repair center and I did an average of 2 to 3 a week for 2 years.
From the article: "At one point, the judge asked Apple how much it would have cost them to have simply replaced my logic board when I had taken it in, and one of the Apple guys said “Oh, it wouldn’t have cost us anything, Nvidia foots the bill for each board we replace.”"
2) Partner with Microsoft against Samsung and HTC with Windows Phone
That isn't an option. Microsoft is also 'partnered' with Samsung and HTC and wants to build on them as customers. They have no interest in partnering with anyone against them.
Nokia's competitors, other than Apple, are Microsoft's customers or would-be customers. Google is Microsoft's competitor and Nokia's potential supplier.
If the car company used the word "slut" in a sentence that was otherwise English, they would have a hard time convincing anyone that they should be reading that one word in Sweedish.
Exactly, just as if a company uses the exression '4G' in an advertisement otherwise aimed at Australians, they'll have hard time convincing anyone that that one word should be read as aimed at the American market.
He's a follower of Ayn Rand.
Well, that's ruined my day. Dare I ask for a citation?
Would you accept Wikipedia as a source in this case?