Notice that Clinton consistently kept the same or lowered the rate of growth of the debt (That is what he was talking about with F', it's a calculus thing).
Hmm, I'm pretty sure American education is struggling to improve as well. Struggling to improve and improving are two different things, and both edu and NASA are certainly doing the former.
I don't know. 20 year olds can wear glasses that make everything upsidedown for a few weeks (they are basically taped on and mask out anything that isn't being flipped upside down) and when they take them off normal looks upside down for a few weeks.
You can't gradually switch off of facebook. It's like the old "find your highschool friends" sites; except all your old highschool friends (at least those that made it to college) are actually you know, there.
eBay can be easily duplicated as well. But not its userbase. Incidentally.. name a dotcom era company that is still around and doing very well; shit I'll do it for you: eBay.
They have a pipe into the mindspace of nearly every college student in the US for starters. Huge demographic and it is starting to get to the point where the average college student spends more time on facebook than watching TV. It is also a viral thing like IM networks and online auction sites: their features can be copied and even surpassed, but without an installed base they are squat. The only worry of being toppled they have is that microsoft includes a crappy facebook workalike in explorer.exe. It actually isn't that far of a stretch.
Facebook's most ingenious contribution was verifying its users by checking for specific.edu email addresses. Every other social network out there is full of fake people and random trash. This is very minimal on facebook.
Yeah, and with enough money you can make the new ebay! No. Not unless ebay seriously fucks up. (Ok I admit it, if you managed to get enough money to pay users to post their auctions on your site and could keep it up for a solid year, you would be able to replace ebay. Good luck dealing with all the scammers on that deal though.)
Exactly, Google learned this with Google Talk: they ended up buying 5% of AOL to be able to interoperate (ok.. there were other reasons.. like the insanely large portion of revenue Google gets through ads to AOLers..).
Great, that has nothing to do with being instantly tainted by viewing code. Of course if you view code and make something "virtually identical to it" you are still in for trouble.
Ok, hundreds of milliseconds is a bit extreme. But "even a few" milliseconds is not. Consider that if a person is talking to you from three meters away, the speed of sound dictates that there is a delay of almost 10 milliseconds before you hear their voice. Your brain easily adjusts. I still don't buy the summary's (and presumably article's) claim that this thing measures anything, let alone the speed of your brain, with millisecond accuracy via a flash applet.
"According to CNet, a company named Posit Science has produced an online test using Flash that uses sounds to measure the speed of your brain down to the millisecond"
I thought this was hilarious simply because I'm aware of latency to the soundcard due to buffering for mixing output, etc. and it varies on machines by hundreds of milliseconds.
Is there a similar switch to turn off VM caching on a per descriptor basis in linux? Right now I have an ugly script for some things which sets "swapiness" to a very low value, does all of the job (right now I just use this for updatedb), and then sets swapiness back. If I code could do this on a descriptor level that would rock (think extracting a large tar, etc.).
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This isn't a pork graph, but... haha.
Immortal or mortal, we will still be finite in complexity/capability, so what is so much better about the move to immortal?
With universal health care will will have a population explosion amongst latinos, catholocism at it's best.
Notice that Clinton consistently kept the same or lowered the rate of growth of the debt (That is what he was talking about with F', it's a calculus thing).
Price discrimination isn't illegal. In more lucrative markets the studios can charge more.
Hmm, I'm pretty sure American education is struggling to improve as well. Struggling to improve and improving are two different things, and both edu and NASA are certainly doing the former.
Yeah, afterall, what would Google have been without it's massive ad campaign.
Yeah, why not get some canalphones? Sony fontopiaa, despite being sony, are awesome and cheap.
but where most of the spectacularness comes from is the in-game rendered cutscenes, which are by definition on rails.
I don't know. 20 year olds can wear glasses that make everything upsidedown for a few weeks (they are basically taped on and mask out anything that isn't being flipped upside down) and when they take them off normal looks upside down for a few weeks.
Blizzard gets people for selling their ingame accounts using the DMCA as well. That isn't copyright either, but they have found a way to make it so.
Yeah, cause you know, so much money is spent on TV. About the only commercials that rely on that come on after 3:00am.
You can't gradually switch off of facebook. It's like the old "find your highschool friends" sites; except all your old highschool friends (at least those that made it to college) are actually you know, there.
eBay can be easily duplicated as well. But not its userbase. Incidentally.. name a dotcom era company that is still around and doing very well; shit I'll do it for you: eBay.
They have a pipe into the mindspace of nearly every college student in the US for starters. Huge demographic and it is starting to get to the point where the average college student spends more time on facebook than watching TV. It is also a viral thing like IM networks and online auction sites: their features can be copied and even surpassed, but without an installed base they are squat. The only worry of being toppled they have is that microsoft includes a crappy facebook workalike in explorer.exe. It actually isn't that far of a stretch.
.edu email addresses. Every other social network out there is full of fake people and random trash. This is very minimal on facebook.
Facebook's most ingenious contribution was verifying its users by checking for specific
Yeah, and with enough money you can make the new ebay! No. Not unless ebay seriously fucks up. (Ok I admit it, if you managed to get enough money to pay users to post their auctions on your site and could keep it up for a solid year, you would be able to replace ebay. Good luck dealing with all the scammers on that deal though.)
Exactly, Google learned this with Google Talk: they ended up buying 5% of AOL to be able to interoperate (ok.. there were other reasons.. like the insanely large portion of revenue Google gets through ads to AOLers..).
Nice, so your whole "I don't know what other OSes do" was made up. Thanks for the verification.
I don't see that in man fcntl on my linux system, and while this isn't the best search it is telling.
Great, that has nothing to do with being instantly tainted by viewing code. Of course if you view code and make something "virtually identical to it" you are still in for trouble.
Ok, hundreds of milliseconds is a bit extreme. But "even a few" milliseconds is not. Consider that if a person is talking to you from three meters away, the speed of sound dictates that there is a delay of almost 10 milliseconds before you hear their voice. Your brain easily adjusts. I still don't buy the summary's (and presumably article's) claim that this thing measures anything, let alone the speed of your brain, with millisecond accuracy via a flash applet.
"According to CNet, a company named Posit Science has produced an online test using Flash that uses sounds to measure the speed of your brain down to the millisecond"
I thought this was hilarious simply because I'm aware of latency to the soundcard due to buffering for mixing output, etc. and it varies on machines by hundreds of milliseconds.
Is there a similar switch to turn off VM caching on a per descriptor basis in linux? Right now I have an ugly script for some things which sets "swapiness" to a very low value, does all of the job (right now I just use this for updatedb), and then sets swapiness back. If I code could do this on a descriptor level that would rock (think extracting a large tar, etc.).
I didn't realize he was talking about getting a dot matrix up and running.
Because designing a system from scratch is inherently easier than copying one.