Regardless of the merits of the detailed examples, a lot of the article just struct me as saying, "If it's not from Disney you can't trust it!" Never mind your local children book authors! They may be up to something no good! CONSUME ONLY DISNEY.
You open 10 accounts taking 10 hard credit pulls in a single year, your rating is going to be in the sub 500 range. Good luck buying a house or car in the next half dozen years. You'll probably be declined by card 5 or so from just the speed the hard pulls are coming in at.
I get that you're joking but the erosion of our language to this pseudo-marketing language is devolving us completely as a species.
No corporation can deny the meaning of common words.
Skill is not the same as "number of apps interfacing with a hardware system," and this perversion of language continues to be tolerated.
Corporations want this because it means they can make a word mean whatever will benefit them the most, either to limit their own culpability or to trigger a buying response.
Amazon wants to take the word "skills" and apply it to "app-count" but if this was truly an amazing product, it would work on every app and not require special coding just to get it to work.
Really interesting choice of words since Apple decided that they can 'make a word mean whatever will benefit them the most' when they changed 'app' from being an appearance in a sport to 'software interfacing with a hardware system.' In riling against the practice you subtly reinforce it. Bravo!
With small sample size, Cord-Cutters tend to have been on higher tier plans and just replaced them with streaming services. I know a several who use HBO Go and NFL season passes rather than $150/mo cable packages.
Got a refurb phone from iCare+ for another issue. It developed that problem intermittently within 2 weeks. Took it to an Apple store but it wasn't happening then so they wouldn't do anything but clearly knew the issue. Told me if it happened again to record a video of it. Within 3 seconds of me arriving home it happened and I grabbed a video. When I went back to the Apple store a different guy took a look at the video and in the first second or so said, "Yep, I've seen this happen before." and handed me a new phone.
Sample size 1, ancedote is not the singular form of data etc...
The revenue of the entire video game industry (91 billion) is less than that of a single automotive manufacturer (Fiat at 113 billion) How much open source is coming from automotive manufacturers compared to video games?
Hey funny you mention that, There was this article earlier that said selfish extortion is the best way to win the prisoner's dilemma. That sounds like modern corporations dealing with local governments in a nutshell1
Should we teach everyone trigonometry? Or should we just teach basic arithmetic since all you really need is to balance your checkbook? You could just hire a professional accountant instead! Should we teach everyone creative-writing? Or should we ask instead if the rules of grammar are enough? After all you can just hire a professional author or buy a book! Why should everyone need to know how to write?
Some possible ways to determine if we're living in a simulation:
Look for signs of optimizations/short cuts in the simulation: Is there a maximum speed? Is there a minimum size? Is there a limit as to determining an object's position and momentum? etc...
Do you have a source for that? From mobygames ( http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/world-of-warcraft/credits ) more people WoW people worked on FEAR 1 than on Everquest. What is this 'most of lead devs' and half of the 300+ dev team from EQ?
That could have been worded better. What I meant is real time object replication where state on an object one on server is mirrored on other servers. IE: If you are standing near the boundary between two servers, you on one server, your opponent on the other server. Each server is constantly updating object state to each other as well as to the observing clients. What are the other cases that this is common? I'll be happy to move the location in the future because I know on MMOs I worked on this was the single cause of the most # of bugs in the system and one reason why a lot of early MMOs were Zone based rather than open world.
To be clear, you believe that if the credit card numbers of 11 million subscribers of World of Warcraft was leaked it wouldn't be on the front page of NY Times? What percentage of the banks and utilities you are talking about there have on the order of 11 million subscribers?
And I described software complexity, not software importance.
I've always said that an MMO is literally the most complicated piece of software one can make. Take every single problem that exists in software engineering, and you have it in an MMO.
A) Every problem from a normal game. 1) Resource streaming for an open world. 2) Particle system running on 5 year old commodity hardware 3) Physics system to handle projectiles (Even if it's not havok you still need something for the characters falling from the sky.)
B) Every problem that a business app would have. 4) High availability clusters 5) Billing systems 6) Massive databases 7) Customer Support back end 8) Call center support
C) Every problem that 'internet companies' have 9) Latency kills 10) World wide datacenters mapping 1:1 and 1:many architecture pieces
D) Some nice unique problems for MMOs only 11) Cross server object replication 12) More hackers targeting it than they would some banks.
40 hours a week at $250 an hour is $10,000 a week or half a million a year. I suppose that's possible, but you must be a bit of an outlier.
You make all sorts of assumptions here to create that outlier:
1) That this persons max rate is now their minimum rate. 2) That they can generate 2080 hours worth of work per year. 3) That generating 2080 hours worth of work takes 0 time.
Perhaps they do 10 hours a month because they spend 30 hours a month to get that time and that's the limit of their networking?
I'm not sure where you're getting western coast is predominantly Hispanic and black from. The two cities I'm most familiar with here Seattle and Redmond claim 69.5% White and 79.26% White respectively... I'd say that's predominantly Caucasian...
I have a google notebook with every site and the username I use on the site. Sometimes it's email address, or name, or one of 4-5 handles. I also list a mnemonic for the password that I used on the site. That page is basically for me, and I update it all the time as I add new sites, change passwords etc...
In a fireproof safe in my closet I have an envelope that contains my current google password and the key to the mnemonics. It gets updated whenever I change the google password or add a bunch of new mnemonics. My wife knows where it is and what it's for.
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Regardless of the merits of the detailed examples, a lot of the article just struct me as saying, "If it's not from Disney you can't trust it!" Never mind your local children book authors! They may be up to something no good! CONSUME ONLY DISNEY.
You open 10 accounts taking 10 hard credit pulls in a single year, your rating is going to be in the sub 500 range. Good luck buying a house or car in the next half dozen years. You'll probably be declined by card 5 or so from just the speed the hard pulls are coming in at.
I get that you're joking but the erosion of our language to this pseudo-marketing language is devolving us completely as a species.
No corporation can deny the meaning of common words.
Skill is not the same as "number of apps interfacing with a hardware system," and this perversion of language continues to be tolerated.
Corporations want this because it means they can make a word mean whatever will benefit them the most, either to limit their own culpability or to trigger a buying response.
Amazon wants to take the word "skills" and apply it to "app-count" but if this was truly an amazing product, it would work on every app and not require special coding just to get it to work.
Really interesting choice of words since Apple decided that they can 'make a word mean whatever will benefit them the most' when they changed 'app' from being an appearance in a sport to 'software interfacing with a hardware system.' In riling against the practice you subtly reinforce it. Bravo!
What MacBook Pro model has a spinning hard drive?
With small sample size, Cord-Cutters tend to have been on higher tier plans and just replaced them with streaming services. I know a several who use HBO Go and NFL season passes rather than $150/mo cable packages.
Got a refurb phone from iCare+ for another issue. It developed that problem intermittently within 2 weeks. Took it to an Apple store but it wasn't happening then so they wouldn't do anything but clearly knew the issue. Told me if it happened again to record a video of it. Within 3 seconds of me arriving home it happened and I grabbed a video. When I went back to the Apple store a different guy took a look at the video and in the first second or so said, "Yep, I've seen this happen before." and handed me a new phone.
Sample size 1, ancedote is not the singular form of data etc...
Work is force times distance. Just because they're forcing it in doesn't mean it's work if there's no actual movement.
The revenue of the entire video game industry (91 billion) is less than that of a single automotive manufacturer (Fiat at 113 billion) How much open source is coming from automotive manufacturers compared to video games?
Actually the biggest thing it adds is double the memory which will:
A) Greatly increase the lifetime of the device.
B) Greatly decrease frustration of when things get killed as you swap around apps.
Hey funny you mention that, There was this article earlier that said selfish extortion is the best way to win the prisoner's dilemma. That sounds like modern corporations dealing with local governments in a nutshell1
Should we teach everyone trigonometry? Or should we just teach basic arithmetic since all you really need is to balance your checkbook? You could just hire a professional accountant instead!
Should we teach everyone creative-writing? Or should we ask instead if the rules of grammar are enough? After all you can just hire a professional author or buy a book! Why should everyone need to know how to write?
I would think that crappy front page editorials from a single individual would make long time readers Feel right at home
Alternate headline: Python - The Pascal of the 21st Century
Some possible ways to determine if we're living in a simulation:
Look for signs of optimizations/short cuts in the simulation:
Is there a maximum speed?
Is there a minimum size?
Is there a limit as to determining an object's position and momentum?
etc...
Do you have a source for that? From mobygames ( http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/world-of-warcraft/credits ) more people WoW people worked on FEAR 1 than on Everquest. What is this 'most of lead devs' and half of the 300+ dev team from EQ?
That could have been worded better. What I meant is real time object replication where state on an object one on server is mirrored on other servers. IE: If you are standing near the boundary between two servers, you on one server, your opponent on the other server. Each server is constantly updating object state to each other as well as to the observing clients. What are the other cases that this is common? I'll be happy to move the location in the future because I know on MMOs I worked on this was the single cause of the most # of bugs in the system and one reason why a lot of early MMOs were Zone based rather than open world.
To be clear, you believe that if the credit card numbers of 11 million subscribers of World of Warcraft was leaked it wouldn't be on the front page of NY Times? What percentage of the banks and utilities you are talking about there have on the order of 11 million subscribers?
And I described software complexity, not software importance.
I've always said that an MMO is literally the most complicated piece of software one can make. Take every single problem that exists in software engineering, and you have it in an MMO.
A) Every problem from a normal game.
1) Resource streaming for an open world.
2) Particle system running on 5 year old commodity hardware
3) Physics system to handle projectiles (Even if it's not havok you still need something for the characters falling from the sky.)
B) Every problem that a business app would have.
4) High availability clusters
5) Billing systems
6) Massive databases
7) Customer Support back end
8) Call center support
C) Every problem that 'internet companies' have
9) Latency kills
10) World wide datacenters mapping 1:1 and 1:many architecture pieces
D) Some nice unique problems for MMOs only
11) Cross server object replication
12) More hackers targeting it than they would some banks.
40 hours a week at $250 an hour is $10,000 a week or half a million a year. I suppose that's possible, but you must be a bit of an outlier.
You make all sorts of assumptions here to create that outlier:
1) That this persons max rate is now their minimum rate.
2) That they can generate 2080 hours worth of work per year.
3) That generating 2080 hours worth of work takes 0 time.
Perhaps they do 10 hours a month because they spend 30 hours a month to get that time and that's the limit of their networking?
I invoke Betteridge's Law of Headlines here.
No.
I'm not sure where you're getting western coast is predominantly Hispanic and black from. The two cities I'm most familiar with here Seattle and Redmond claim 69.5% White and 79.26% White respectively... I'd say that's predominantly Caucasian...
Really? How about http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html when they did in the past? Is it still unlikely?
I do a variation of this.
I have a google notebook with every site and the username I use on the site. Sometimes it's email address, or name, or one of 4-5 handles. I also list a mnemonic for the password that I used on the site. That page is basically for me, and I update it all the time as I add new sites, change passwords etc...
In a fireproof safe in my closet I have an envelope that contains my current google password and the key to the mnemonics. It gets updated whenever I change the google password or add a bunch of new mnemonics. My wife knows where it is and what it's for.