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yeah, and did it occur to you that in the first century of the last millennium, a bunch of fresh water got dumped into the atlantic which brought down the temperature greatly by the same mechanism, and right now, we are still recovering from that.
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considering it was warmer in europe in the middle ages than now and we are about 13 degrees below the global average temperature over time, I would say that you are freaking out over nothing.
Data locks you into a platform dork. if all my files are in some format that is only available on windows, I can't really pickup and move over to Linux very easily can I.
well, PCI 16 was about a year away, and IBM had just developed that crappy bus arch that never caught on because it was an attempt to re-close the PC architecture... to bad they did not get an exclusivity agreement with MS.
market-share is an inverse function, so the sum of the series defined by the nth term of 1/2n would approach 1 but never reach 1. that means that the sum of the terms N2, N3, N4...n are less than N1.
yeah, see that is the funny thing...IBM did not want to open up the PC either, but the Bios was reverse engineered, MS sold the OS to compaq, and IBM did not sue because of antitrust pressure.
lets look and see who it benifited the most to open the PC platform.
IBM? nope, they are almost gone from the market. Microsoft? hell yes it did.
now you will claim that apple could have just licensed its OS to the other system builders, but you know what, they tried that in the 90's and it almost killed them, and it would have killed them in the 80's as well. Apple is a hardware company that makes software to run on their hardware. they make 67% of their income from their computer sales today, and 99% of it back when the mac first came out. today apple would have been dead if they had licensed their OS and opened up their platform.
umm, Star Trek did not make use euclidian geometry and have an infinite speed of light, it utilized space time warping to move the ship faster than light relative to an outside observer, but it is only really going about 90% speed of light inside the warp.
umm...the reward has to be regular enough to make it click.
and if you are using a computer, reinforcement every time is not that big of a deal since a computer has infinite patience.
the random reinforcement lasts longer when you are not exposed for a long time, which fits right in with visits to a casino. you do not hit a slot machine everyday, but traffic lights? most people run into those every day multiple times per day.
as said before, depending on the timing, you might not be able to.
also, if these intersections are equipped with the picture taking ticket machines that catch people running red lights and yellow lights, then people will know that they will be caught and the guarantee of a 200 dollar ticket will force people to stop.
if you always get a negative reinforcement for an action, operant conditioning will cause the drivers to slow down. tickets and cops are not regular enough to train people to stop.
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yeah, and did it occur to you that in the first century of the last millennium, a bunch of fresh water got dumped into the atlantic which brought down the temperature greatly by the same mechanism, and right now, we are still recovering from that.
considering it was warmer in europe in the middle ages than now and we are about 13 degrees below the global average temperature over time, I would say that you are freaking out over nothing.
the Arctic ice sheet is melting while the Antarctic ice sheet is growing.
have you ever looked inside a mac?
USB, Firewire, VGA, ATA and SATA.
yeah, look at all the strange connectors.
Data locks you into a platform dork. if all my files are in some format that is only available on windows, I can't really pickup and move over to Linux very easily can I.
not being able to build it does not make it closed.
well, PCI 16 was about a year away, and IBM had just developed that crappy bus arch that never caught on because it was an attempt to re-close the PC architecture... to bad they did not get an exclusivity agreement with MS.
NU UH>>>>
Macx caint ron gamz and you caint pic up ten difrent print schop progrms.
which he is in this market fool.
the set can still be infinite.
market-share is an inverse function, so the sum of the series defined by the nth term of 1/2n would approach 1 but never reach 1. that means that the sum of the terms N2, N3, N4...n are less than N1.
yeah... apple is a living highly profitable company with many popular products and a lot of industry mind-share.
had they licensed, they would have died before 1992.
yeah, see that is the funny thing...IBM did not want to open up the PC either, but the Bios was reverse engineered, MS sold the OS to compaq, and IBM did not sue because of antitrust pressure.
lets look and see who it benifited the most to open the PC platform.
IBM? nope, they are almost gone from the market.
Microsoft? hell yes it did.
now you will claim that apple could have just licensed its OS to the other system builders, but you know what, they tried that in the 90's and it almost killed them, and it would have killed them in the 80's as well. Apple is a hardware company that makes software to run on their hardware. they make 67% of their income from their computer sales today, and 99% of it back when the mac first came out. today apple would have been dead if they had licensed their OS and opened up their platform.
umm...IBM BUILDS ppc MAINFRAMES AND SERVERS your fucking moron.
buy a TV with RCA out and you can tape DVDs just fine ;-)
umm, Star Trek did not make use euclidian geometry and have an infinite speed of light, it utilized space time warping to move the ship faster than light relative to an outside observer, but it is only really going about 90% speed of light inside the warp.
how about a nice hybrid car?
hmm...80% better energy usage means A LOT less gas used and it fits into the current way the roads are set up.
and when we move to fuel cells, these motors will mean greater milage out of what ever fuel is used.
ooo...but then Sony just needs to set up the Blueray tech to destroy the media if it is being copied.
so how it is big brother for me to record MY conversation with you?
apparently you have not read 1984 or you would not have made such a foolish statement.
umm...excuse me, but it has to be a party in the conversation.
a 3rd party not engaged in the conversation still needs the consent of one of the members that are engaged in order to record it.
well, every web application will need to allow the user to place a disclaimer at the beginning of any conversation.
**notice, this conversation may be recorded, by responding, you consent to any possible recordings of your comments**
now, if IM clients would allow people to send those messages at the beginning of their conversations, the problem would go away.
umm...the reward has to be regular enough to make it click.
and if you are using a computer, reinforcement every time is not that big of a deal since a computer has infinite patience.
the random reinforcement lasts longer when you are not exposed for a long time, which fits right in with visits to a casino. you do not hit a slot machine everyday, but traffic lights? most people run into those every day multiple times per day.
no, you want BOTH.
it gets speeders to slow down through behavioral techniques, and punishes all people who run the red light.
as said before, depending on the timing, you might not be able to.
also, if these intersections are equipped with the picture taking ticket machines that catch people running red lights and yellow lights, then people will know that they will be caught and the guarantee of a 200 dollar ticket will force people to stop.
it is a behavioral punishment.
if you always get a negative reinforcement for an action, operant conditioning will cause the drivers to slow down. tickets and cops are not regular enough to train people to stop.
I don't know about you, but most people speed, and I sure as heck don't see most people running red lights.