Yeah, it reminds me about what happened to Sega in the home console market. They were "firsts" in a variety of changes, like the 32-bit add-on for genesis, the sega "CD", which was 32 bit, and the "dreamcast" that had the first console networking capabilities (at, ahem, modem speed). Soon after the competitors learned what worked and what didnt, and innovated around them. Sometimes being first in a new technology isnt better.
Funny..because there are 3 companies out there who claim to know everything about you and your trustworthyness and report that out to everyone as a neat little number...your credit score. Then they sell this data as if it were true, when 1/3 of all of it is false. AND they all use a secret algorithm. AND it took an act of congress just to let you peek at your score once a year....and everyone seems to trust them.
Rubbish law. When you log into a network, so long as you're not hacking it, you politely ask the router "may i use this network and have an IP address?". The router says "yes", on behalf of you, the owner. Therefore it is authorized.
Its NOT the same as leaving your front door open in your house, or your car unlocked.
It IS the same as leaving your front door open in your house, having a visitor stop at the door and ask "may I come in?" and you replying "yes". You can't then turn around and sue for trespassing.
....and using some 1'st edition rules and books too. I just think D&D has kinda lost its "magic" that made the original game. I never really got into 3'rd edition or 3.5 edition. It's not about rules, it's about gameplay and overall 'feel' that made D&D what it is. If you didn't like a rule - throw it out. if you want to change something, then change it. The heart of D&D has always been flexibility to adapt. updaing the rules ad-nauseum doesn't bring the original theme back. In fact it dilutes the game.
call me crazy, but usually you have to have a ready supply of the thing you're trying to cure in order to study it, in order to cure it. where is the ready supply of cancer? oh yes, growing in people. This seems like a better option.
Apparently the term "JOINT STEREO" is misleading, as there are 2 types. One type is good and the other..not so good. But there is plenty of myth surrounding this. It's not as simple as JOINT_STEREO = bad;
Ridiculous! Did you ever think that planatery trends, meta-cycles, or whatever the hell you want to call it, take place over HUNDREDS OF YEARS. Not 50, not 30, not 20. HUNDREDS, even THOUSANDS.
We as a species, if we are having no impact on the planet, should be able to detect NOTHING out of the ordinary during the hundred or so years for which measurements are available.
The planet is slow. Things change slowly, over time. Trends and cycles occur over long periods. Nothing happens in 20 years in absence of a particular catalyst. (Catalyst = something that makes it happen faster)
Are you kidding me? First read and understand arguement, then make counterarguement.
I said there was NO/WEAK correlation. Not a NEGATIVE correlation, NO correlation. (NONE != NEGATIVE) Therefore by my logic, NO prediction for hurricane activity can be made based from average global climate temprature alone.
2006, according to TFD (the fucking data: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.D.txt ), was warmer than 2005. Therefore, # of hurricanes doesnt seem coorolate well with average global temps, now does it?
Why? ask a meterologist. (look for things like: favorible wind conditions, atmospheric highs/lows, and luck).
I cant believe you were modded up for this stupid logic.
That's ridiculous. 2007 has been one of the worst years on recrod for extreme weather, including flooding and tropical storms. It doesnt always have to mean hurricanes. Have you been paying attention?
I konw what your origional post said, and that's what you think. So tell me i'm wrong. Tell me you think global warming is a problem and people are the cause.
Let me guess, you're still one of those idiots who've discounted the whole thing as some left-wing conspiracy, so you keep driving your SUV and turning your AC on 24/7. Then you look for data points to prove what you already want to believe, and discount anything that could possibly contradict you. How very neo-conservative.
YOU need to wake up and figure out there is a REAL PROBLEM and WE are part of the cause. It's not hard to see. Most scientists, who are smarter than you, have figured it out.
Go search for data WITHOUT having any prior intentions of what you WANT to believe. You have essentially stuck your head in the sand and your ass in the air.
(Hint: the key is RATE OF CHANGE, not absolute temprature)/flame
I agree. I think the best way to think about is with a term called Value Added. 1 lousy programmer produces a produced of low Value Added. 1 uber programmer produces a high Value Added product, where:
Value Added = price buyers are willing to pay for your product less cost to produce it. (It's not the same as margin)
Anywho, 10 lousy programmers will still produce the same product, or one 10x as large, or perhaps the same product in half the time (no, not 1/10 the time as we all know), and the cost to produce of course it goes up.
The value added actually _decreases_, however, because the price customers are willing to pay for it remains the same.
Now fire a lousy programmer and add an uber programmer to the mix, and that person can solve the hard problems the lousy one's cant, and even make the lousy one's more productive as you mentioned. Therefore the price premium of the product increases, and the value added increases. This will lead to higher profits, assuming the rest of the organization is positioned well.
Therefore it makes very good business sense to find the uber programmers and pay them more than enough to stay. (yes i'm an MBA, with computer science undergrad).
It seems there are only 3 ways for us (as a race) to die off:
1. asteroid impact 2. nuclear war 3. global warming? (debatable)
Aside from those things, the nature of the solar system and galaxy seems stable enough to sustain the planet for another 5 billion years. May as well strike #1 before it becomes a problem.
It's not the people...shoot the current business leaders and new ones will just come along to replace them. it's the entire model that's flawed. It's a model that businesses essentially control the government. They have more rights than you do, more money and influence than you do, and can lobby the government for laws that are good for them, and not you. It's a fundamental flaw in our system. Yes indeed, the rest of the world will march ahead of us.
If everyone on slashdot took 5 minutes to write to your local congressman/woman, this would create enough noise for them to notice, it's not OK to be doing this anymore...here is my letter:
"Dr mr Waxman, I am writing you to urge your opposition to H.R.3155, which is still in committee. Should it go to general debate, it will double penalties for copyright infringement, and introduce new crimes in the process. I'm sick of congress making criminals out of innocent people and wasting our tax money enforcing this. This is being pushed by the RIAA no doubt.
Copyright issues are a CIVIL case, they are not criminal offenses, and should be dealt with accordingly. I for one am fed up with the congress that looks out only for big businesses. Its time to make laws that are good for the people. This is not one of them. Furthermore, a punishment should fit a the "crime". Copying an mp3 file or a movie is not a big crime. Nobody died. Nobody was hurt. Nothing was stolen (the original is still there). No property was damaged. Lets treat it as it is. Current laws are ridiculously harsh. We need to roll back the power your friends in congress have given the big RIAA machine and give it back to the people. "
In America, there would be absolutely nothing wrong with changing from one to the other in the middle of your college career. Unless you went to cal poly san luis obispo, CA, where you choose a Major freshmen year and stick with it..and changing majors is very difficult. Not every school lets you spend 2 years deciding what you want to do.
I agree with you but the real fix to this mess is to fix the larger problem, the core problem.
It ought to be illegal for a corporation (a made-up entity) to lobby the government. There ought to be a seperation of corporation and state clause in the consitution, because they're just as dangerous as church and state.
Too bad the founders couldnt have possibly seen this coming and being a problem. I'm sure USv2.0 will fix it after the next civil war. But until then, the system is broken, and repair is probablly not possible at this point.
_People_ have rights. Corporate entities (non-people) shouldnt have nearly as many.
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Yeah, it reminds me about what happened to Sega in the home console market. They were "firsts" in a variety of changes, like the 32-bit add-on for genesis, the sega "CD", which was 32 bit, and the "dreamcast" that had the first console networking capabilities (at, ahem, modem speed). Soon after the competitors learned what worked and what didnt, and innovated around them. Sometimes being first in a new technology isnt better.
As an avid bunny watcher i'm offended by your..
Oh look a TV!
Funny..because there are 3 companies out there who claim to know everything about you and your trustworthyness and report that out to everyone as a neat little number...your credit score. Then they sell this data as if it were true, when 1/3 of all of it is false. AND they all use a secret algorithm. AND it took an act of congress just to let you peek at your score once a year. ...and everyone seems to trust them.
Awesome.. i needed a good scenario for the sci-fi game i'm writing. This seems perfect. Where did you come up with such great work?
Rubbish law. When you log into a network, so long as you're not hacking it, you politely ask the router "may i use this network and have an IP address?". The router says "yes", on behalf of you, the owner. Therefore it is authorized.
Its NOT the same as leaving your front door open in your house, or your car unlocked.
It IS the same as leaving your front door open in your house, having a visitor stop at the door and ask "may I come in?" and you replying "yes". You can't then turn around and sue for trespassing.
-J
....and using some 1'st edition rules and books too. I just think D&D has kinda lost its "magic" that made the original game. I never really got into 3'rd edition or 3.5 edition. It's not about rules, it's about gameplay and overall 'feel' that made D&D what it is. If you didn't like a rule - throw it out. if you want to change something, then change it. The heart of D&D has always been flexibility to adapt. updaing the rules ad-nauseum doesn't bring the original theme back. In fact it dilutes the game.
call me crazy, but usually you have to have a ready supply of the thing you're trying to cure in order to study it, in order to cure it. where is the ready supply of cancer? oh yes, growing in people. This seems like a better option.
Apparently the term "JOINT STEREO" is misleading, as there are 2 types. One type is good and the other..not so good. But there is plenty of myth surrounding this. It's not as simple as JOINT_STEREO = bad;
http://harmsy.freeuk.com/mostync/
what about scientists? i dont recall putting them into my analysis. I simply, amazingly, drew a conclusion by looking at TFD (The fucking data).
And all you can come back with is "loser".
Can you possibly make up some reasonable point? based on logic? no? maybe that's because you're a fucking idiot.
delete your slashdot account, for all of our sake.
Ridiculous! Did you ever think that planatery trends, meta-cycles, or whatever the hell you want to call it, take place over HUNDREDS OF YEARS. Not 50, not 30, not 20. HUNDREDS, even THOUSANDS.
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We as a species, if we are having no impact on the planet, should be able to detect NOTHING out of the ordinary during the hundred or so years for which measurements are available.
The planet is slow. Things change slowly, over time. Trends and cycles occur over long periods. Nothing happens in 20 years in absence of a particular catalyst. (Catalyst = something that makes it happen faster)
Now go see the trend on a big scale:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:2000_Year_Temp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Carbon_Dioxide
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Instrumental_T
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Solar-cycle-da
Are you kidding me? First read and understand arguement, then make counterarguement.
I said there was NO/WEAK correlation. Not a NEGATIVE correlation, NO correlation. (NONE != NEGATIVE) Therefore by my logic, NO prediction for hurricane activity can be made based from average global climate temprature alone.
I have to flame you twice for your stupidity.
t ), was warmer than 2005. Therefore, # of hurricanes doesnt seem coorolate well with average global temps, now does it?
2006, according to TFD (the fucking data: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.D.tx
Why? ask a meterologist. (look for things like: favorible wind conditions, atmospheric highs/lows, and luck).
I cant believe you were modded up for this stupid logic.
That's ridiculous. 2007 has been one of the worst years on recrod for extreme weather, including flooding and tropical storms. It doesnt always have to mean hurricanes. Have you been paying attention?
I konw what your origional post said, and that's what you think. So tell me i'm wrong. Tell me you think global warming is a problem and people are the cause.
Or perhaps in fact i do know what you think.
Let me guess, you're still one of those idiots who've discounted the whole thing as some left-wing conspiracy, so you keep driving your SUV and turning your AC on 24/7. Then you look for data points to prove what you already want to believe, and discount anything that could possibly contradict you. How very neo-conservative.
/flame
YOU need to wake up and figure out there is a REAL PROBLEM and WE are part of the cause. It's not hard to see. Most scientists, who are smarter than you, have figured it out.
Go search for data WITHOUT having any prior intentions of what you WANT to believe. You have essentially stuck your head in the sand and your ass in the air.
(Hint: the key is RATE OF CHANGE, not absolute temprature)
None of things will kill us off as a race.
I agree. I think the best way to think about is with a term called Value Added. 1 lousy programmer produces a produced of low Value Added. 1 uber programmer produces a high Value Added product, where:
Value Added = price buyers are willing to pay for your product less cost to produce it. (It's not the same as margin)
Anywho, 10 lousy programmers will still produce the same product, or one 10x as large, or perhaps the same product in half the time (no, not 1/10 the time as we all know), and the cost to produce of course it goes up.
The value added actually _decreases_, however, because the price customers are willing to pay for it remains the same.
Now fire a lousy programmer and add an uber programmer to the mix, and that person can solve the hard problems the lousy one's cant, and even make the lousy one's more productive as you mentioned. Therefore the price premium of the product increases, and the value added increases. This will lead to higher profits, assuming the rest of the organization is positioned well.
Therefore it makes very good business sense to find the uber programmers and pay them more than enough to stay. (yes i'm an MBA, with computer science undergrad).
It seems there are only 3 ways for us (as a race) to die off:
1. asteroid impact
2. nuclear war
3. global warming? (debatable)
Aside from those things, the nature of the solar system and galaxy seems stable enough to sustain the planet for another 5 billion years. May as well strike #1 before it becomes a problem.
It's not the people...shoot the current business leaders and new ones will just come along to replace them. it's the entire model that's flawed. It's a model that businesses essentially control the government. They have more rights than you do, more money and influence than you do, and can lobby the government for laws that are good for them, and not you. It's a fundamental flaw in our system. Yes indeed, the rest of the world will march ahead of us.
If everyone on slashdot took 5 minutes to write to your local congressman/woman, this would create enough noise for them to notice, it's not OK to be doing this anymore...here is my letter:
"Dr mr Waxman, I am writing you to urge your opposition to H.R.3155, which is still in committee. Should it go to general debate, it will double penalties for copyright infringement, and introduce new crimes in the process. I'm sick of congress making criminals out of innocent people and wasting our tax money enforcing this. This is being pushed by the RIAA no doubt.
Copyright issues are a CIVIL case, they are not criminal offenses, and should be dealt with accordingly. I for one am fed up with the congress that looks out only for big businesses. Its time to make laws that are good for the people. This is not one of them. Furthermore, a punishment should fit a the "crime". Copying an mp3 file or a movie is not a big crime. Nobody died. Nobody was hurt. Nothing was stolen (the original is still there). No property was damaged. Lets treat it as it is. Current laws are ridiculously harsh. We need to roll back the power your friends in congress have given the big RIAA machine and give it back to the people. "
I dont find you particularly brilliant or your counter-arguement compelling.
I think you're just being an asshole.
Shouldn't we be talking about something that matters rather than debating an imaginary law? the whole discussion is fruitless...
(im not a troll. mod me -1 goblin)
It's right before you get to the kingdom of far far away.
I agree with you but the real fix to this mess is to fix the larger problem, the core problem.
It ought to be illegal for a corporation (a made-up entity) to lobby the government. There ought to be a seperation of corporation and state clause in the consitution, because they're just as dangerous as church and state.
Too bad the founders couldnt have possibly seen this coming and being a problem. I'm sure USv2.0 will fix it after the next civil war. But until then, the system is broken, and repair is probablly not possible at this point.
_People_ have rights. Corporate entities (non-people) shouldnt have nearly as many.
-jorg