Slashdot is a totally different environment than a professional setting: there are CEOs, engineers, high school kids, lawyers, etc.. all here posting their thoughts. They all get lumped into the same bin of comments and moderated without regard to those unseen traits (at least, in theory). One day I might mod someone +1 insightful and the next day -1 troll. I don't risk losing my job by doing so. No one opinion is higher than the others, so there's nobody to target with bribes (well, other than the people selecting the stories to comment on). I'm sure there are groups on/. that moderate certain opinions down which is an issue. Still, I think this site is pointed in the right direction at least.
By that logic, open source projects should stop providing source code, too, since most people can't understand it anyway. No need to mention that source code is available - let people ask for it.
You know, in a free(-ish) market, this is not a choice. You must use the cheapest, most profitable method that is available. The reason is that if you don't, somebody else will, and they will eventually drive you out of business.
Apple isn't leading the market based on price - their products are among the most expensive. It seems that using cheap labour simply maximizes their profit. I'd be interested in seeing a real justification that Apple would go out of business or lose their place in the market if they used more local companies and labour. Even if they started with an increase of 5% or 10%, that could plant a seed for future local expansion. They have the clout to make "Made in America" something that other manufacturers want (need) to emulate.
If keeping a train of thought is a major problem, try this: remove caffeine from your diet, eat more healthy, exercise, set up your desk area clean and ergonomic, make sure you have proper lighting, avoid distracting music/noise.
I think when someone builds the next facebook and offers an ironclad contract forbidding any sale of personal data, I'd probably be willing to pay $5 or so per month for the service.
Indeed - I'd pay to not have my data pimped around. I don't know what vendors' single-minded fixation with free+advertising is all about.
Mars is fundamentally inhospitable to human life. The rest of our solar system is fundamentally inhospitable to human life. This fairytale notion that we're going to magically whisk ourselves away to another planet, star system, galaxy, etc. and live there is just that: a fairytale notion.
I've said it before but we should first set our sights on propagating life to another planet. Even if we can only get bacteria to live on Mars or some other planet, it's a start. We'll learn from that relatively cheaply and become more prepared for human inhabitation when that time comes. Plus, it's something we can do right now. Let evolution take care of the rest, if that's all we could accomplish before Earth's life is extinguished.
With slaves you've got parallelization down, but processing speed and inter-slave communication will become the bottleneck. You've also got to feed all these people which costs money.
What if the coffee cup cost $100 to make but was sold for only $5 on the assumption that the money the buyer spends in Folgers coffee would make up for the cost over time? Then people start growing their own coffee and using the cup to drink it. Now Folgers is losing $95 per coffee cup.
Is that not one of the arguments that device makers use?
Personally I think it'd be nice if large corporations could actually fish for input from their technical userbase. It's not like increased communication would be bad.
Considering the dollars that companies spend lobbying the government, being more in touch with people beforehand couldn't hurt either.
Imagine a 1GB file compressed to 25% of the original size (so 250MB).
Decompress the file to memory (not disk!) and process it. My bet is that decompression time will be the least of your worries: the time saved by reading only 250MB of data from disk instead of 1GB will be the more dominant factor in the total time taken.
Combat pilots probably have a lot better spatial awareness than most people. I suspect that would be _very_ important in space, even when not flying a ship.
That would be really easy to automate with Firefox - click the Star to bookmark your site, then click the Star again to edit the bookmark. Add the tag "aicn" and save your changes.
From then on you can type "aicn" into your location bar. Use Firefox Sync to have your bookmarks copied to all your computers.
First of all, scarcity of a resource- in this case, shelters- is just how things operate in nature. It's not a sign that something is necessarily wrong, because in a healthy ecosystem, there's never enough to go around for everyone.
Sure, if humans weren't around to muck everything up, nature's balance would be fine. I've talked to a real marine biologist who said people take enough shells from the beach that there is a real shortage in certain areas. I would not call that a healthy ecosystem.
Basically, you could scale your character to take a lesser percentage of damage, but in return you would get benefits like experience/honor points, and could affect drop rates, too.
Should say:
Basically, you could scale your character to take a lesser percentage of damage, but in return you would get lower than usual benefits like experience/honor points, and could affect drop rates, too.
To deal with the huge range of ability (or patience for grinding) of different WoW players, one feature idea I had was what I would call Difficulty Scaling.
Basically, you could scale your character to take a lesser percentage of damage, but in return you would get benefits like experience/honor points, and could affect drop rates, too.
So you'd be slower to level, but wouldn't die all the time, allowing you to participate in activities you normally wouldn't be geared for.
On the flip side, experience players could scale in the opposite way and take more damage but in return would get higher than usual benefits. That would provide faster leveling and more of a challenge to those who are already skilled at the game.
Funny enough, when the TSA started up I said to myself airports are the best place for them to start: people tight for time, with lots of money on the line, tired, just want to get from point A to point B. What better subjects to test new "security" devices/protocols on. Airports are the test bed. It'll spread if left unchecked.
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I think you hit on some good points here.
Slashdot is a totally different environment than a professional setting: there are CEOs, engineers, high school kids, lawyers, etc.. all here posting their thoughts. They all get lumped into the same bin of comments and moderated without regard to those unseen traits (at least, in theory). One day I might mod someone +1 insightful and the next day -1 troll. I don't risk losing my job by doing so. No one opinion is higher than the others, so there's nobody to target with bribes (well, other than the people selecting the stories to comment on). I'm sure there are groups on /. that moderate certain opinions down which is an issue. Still, I think this site is pointed in the right direction at least.
By that logic, open source projects should stop providing source code, too, since most people can't understand it anyway. No need to mention that source code is available - let people ask for it.
Apple isn't leading the market based on price - their products are among the most expensive. It seems that using cheap labour simply maximizes their profit. I'd be interested in seeing a real justification that Apple would go out of business or lose their place in the market if they used more local companies and labour.
Even if they started with an increase of 5% or 10%, that could plant a seed for future local expansion. They have the clout to make "Made in America" something that other manufacturers want (need) to emulate.
If keeping a train of thought is a major problem, try this: remove caffeine from your diet, eat more healthy, exercise, set up your desk area clean and ergonomic, make sure you have proper lighting, avoid distracting music/noise.
Indeed - I'd pay to not have my data pimped around. I don't know what vendors' single-minded fixation with free+advertising is all about.
That's one of the best posts I've ever read on slashdot. Thank you for putting the effort into a thoughtful reply!
Mars is fundamentally inhospitable to human life. The rest of our solar system is fundamentally inhospitable to human life. This fairytale notion that we're going to magically whisk ourselves away to another planet, star system, galaxy, etc. and live there is just that: a fairytale notion.
I've said it before but we should first set our sights on propagating life to another planet. Even if we can only get bacteria to live on Mars or some other planet, it's a start. We'll learn from that relatively cheaply and become more prepared for human inhabitation when that time comes. Plus, it's something we can do right now. Let evolution take care of the rest, if that's all we could accomplish before Earth's life is extinguished.
With slaves you've got parallelization down, but processing speed and inter-slave communication will become the bottleneck. You've also got to feed all these people which costs money.
What if the coffee cup cost $100 to make but was sold for only $5 on the assumption that the money the buyer spends in Folgers coffee would make up for the cost over time?
Then people start growing their own coffee and using the cup to drink it. Now Folgers is losing $95 per coffee cup.
Is that not one of the arguments that device makers use?
The first test run of the giant sphere wasn't very successful either:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEm6XtFhwZk
Considering the dollars that companies spend lobbying the government, being more in touch with people beforehand couldn't hurt either.
Yes - and yet young people wonder why older people get jaded.
Imagine a 1GB file compressed to 25% of the original size (so 250MB).
Decompress the file to memory (not disk!) and process it. My bet is that decompression time will be the least of your worries: the time saved by reading only 250MB of data from disk instead of 1GB will be the more dominant factor in the total time taken.
Combat pilots probably have a lot better spatial awareness than most people. I suspect that would be _very_ important in space, even when not flying a ship.
That would be really easy to automate with Firefox - click the Star to bookmark your site, then click the Star again to edit the bookmark. Add the tag "aicn" and save your changes.
From then on you can type "aicn" into your location bar. Use Firefox Sync to have your bookmarks copied to all your computers.
See here: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2506578&cid=37931088
The article summary is completely wrong. Slashdot is becoming Fox News of the tech journals. What a way to go after all these years.
I'm happy with the streaming service, too. It's way too convenient to complain about for $8/month.
Indeed - they don't need to expand through warfare. Just buy up a country's companies and natural resources.
By simple, do you mean saving money by slave wages, no human rights, and abhorrent environmental policies and passing the savings on to the buyer?
We should have heavy tariffs on everything from China until they clean up their act.
Adam Sandler? Depends on which voice he does. :)
- lunch lady
- goat
- etc..
Sure, if humans weren't around to muck everything up, nature's balance would be fine. I've talked to a real marine biologist who said people take enough shells from the beach that there is a real shortage in certain areas. I would not call that a healthy ecosystem.
Basically, you could scale your character to take a lesser percentage of damage, but in return you would get benefits like experience/honor points, and could affect drop rates, too.
Should say:
Basically, you could scale your character to take a lesser percentage of damage, but in return you would get lower than usual benefits like experience/honor points, and could affect drop rates, too.
To deal with the huge range of ability (or patience for grinding) of different WoW players, one feature idea I had was what I would call Difficulty Scaling.
Basically, you could scale your character to take a lesser percentage of damage, but in return you would get benefits like experience/honor points, and could affect drop rates, too.
So you'd be slower to level, but wouldn't die all the time, allowing you to participate in activities you normally wouldn't be geared for.
On the flip side, experience players could scale in the opposite way and take more damage but in return would get higher than usual benefits. That would provide faster leveling and more of a challenge to those who are already skilled at the game.
Sounds like the state of Louisiana is devaluing American currency by limiting its usefulness. Brilliant.
Funny enough, when the TSA started up I said to myself airports are the best place for them to start: people tight for time, with lots of money on the line, tired, just want to get from point A to point B. What better subjects to test new "security" devices/protocols on. Airports are the test bed. It'll spread if left unchecked.