But a good question for this experiment would be: when they fire those brain cells, do the flies try to avoid what's going on immediately?
Yeah like if the fly ALSO happened to be taking a crap at the moment the laser was fired, would they now forever find that unpleasant too? Or just the idea of being locked in a cage with several other flies?
Hmmm...
The problem with Sprint's 4G is that they're using WiMax, while everyone else on the planet will be using LTE.
Assuming you are uninformed... Check out The WiMAX Forum where the front page states: With more than 487 networks deployed in over 141 countries.... You can also check out the WiMAX maps of deployments.
Oh wait, did you hear me right? Yes, DEPLOYMENTS.
Kindly point me to the live deployments of LTE that "everyone else on the planet" will be using while "only" Sprint/Clearwire are using WiMAX?
Wow, so Verizon is actually thinking now? I'm notably biased but wow, all that stuff is old news at Sprint...
Sprint Nextel has led GPS since 2002, already has a WiFi Blackberry (and all future smartphones will have WiFi), has been part of the Open Handset Alliance and had a leading Developers Program for years...
And, oh yeah, Sprint already has 4G launched in 4 cities with like a dozen more in September and ~20 by EOY 2009 (not 2010 or 2011)...
A meta-wiki would be amazing, as for each high level subject there could be a page talking about the main bits of it, but then also link to the subject's own wiki for which you can explore all the different aspects of that subject.
I can see that aspect of it, but I would imagine the meta-wiki to also allow searching of any topic. I.e. - pop in a topic, it will go out and confirm whether or not that topic exists in each reference wiki it is indexing and return you a list of linked results along with links describing the wiki that article is hosted at.
Can we stop calling this rubbish cyber warfare and call it a middling DoS attack, which is what it is? It's not war, it's pathetic.
Actually, while I agree that it isn't a national emergency and that these attacks weren't critical, I wouldn't merely call it a "middling DoS attack"... I'd call it TRAINING. DPRK has already made it clear they are willing to export nuclear technology, so how hard would it be to develop an expertise in cyber-warfare which they could then export to countries with much more capable networks and agencies?
It's all speculation, of course, but the development of an "arms market" that is service-based rather than manufacturing-based would be fairly simple.
The school, per student, will spend about $30 dollars PER BOOK, PER STUDENT.
Where are you getting your data?
Scholastic Administrator magazine (one of the leading ones for K-12 administration) Nov/Dec issue cover story: "The End of Textbooks"...
"Typical elementary-school textbooks cost more than $100 each, and, as a result, the four largest textbook publishers rake in more than $4 billion each year. [...] Besides cost, traditional paper textbooks have other disadvantages. They are easily damaged, and their subject matter can become outdated or obsolete in just a few years. And any student can testify how textbooks are heavy and inconvenient..."
Its a good article and they didn't even hit on all the advantages of moving away from print... Perpetual content licensing, advance content licensing, elimination of distribution and storage, frequent updates/revisions, multiple methods of annotation, easily facilitated discussion/collaboration between students or with teachers, monitored or collected data on student use of the text, enabling of end-of-chapter quizzes to be interactive, read-aloud audio interfaces for certain students, etc, etc... I could go one and on.
Right now the Amazon Kindle DX is a "good" device, IMHO, for this purpose. Give it another generation or two so the e-ink technology supports color and higher resolution, add a simple messaging system and poll/quizzing capability and you've got 90% of the above covered. The business model is great -- you get a networked device on a macro cellular network without the monthly fees. Subsidized by Amazon's consumer-content driven business model and a wholesale carrier relationship. (If every kid had a Kindle DX, where might they buy the next Harry Potter book?)...
I'm a bit surprised its taken so long. But being in industry now, I can see the snails and actually watch their race with excitement.
If you ever seriously think of killing yourself over your job, it's time to get a new job.
Perhaps he felt responsible and not just depressed? I agree with your sentiment, but I also acknowledge that not all cultures do. We still today hear stories out of Asia of people taking their own lives after failing in their job. In this case there were many other factors as well, but suicide isn't always about depression.
Heck, IIRC plenty of people were recently calling for Wall Street Execs and Bankers to consider the option.
Sorry, we may be working from different assumptions here. I wouldn't argue that your set S is unbounded as you have defined it, but the original question was around the set of Primes. I assumed the original "prize" was associated with a proof around how many Primes would consist of all 1's.
I may have misunderstood.
Very interesting.... I think that in my mind I tend to store area codes (and sometimes prefixes) as sounds rather than digits. To me, it is more like storing and playing back a new word rather than a string of syllables. My wife thinks it is odd that I can remember longer phone numbers.
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No car thief is going to carry an ID to let themselves be tracked.
Silly me, I was assuming that's where the cameras came in... I.e. if a Camera sees a person but doesn't pick up a valid RFID tag (or picks up a stolen one) it would flag it...
The technology is impressive, but the human resources they'll need to actually act on these things are outrageous... Of course, if there is a place that has lots of excess unemployed human resources, this is probably it.
I was just bragging to the office MS pundit that Leopard would be out soon. Then I get Vista'd (tm) by APPLE.
I was under the impression that Vista wasn't held up for adequate QA and was released with inadequate QA... Yes, both have seen delays, but how many people on slashdot have complained about inadequate attention to QA in the rush to get products out? Isn't this refreshing in at least that respect?
You moron, pay attention to the god damn conversation. Don't hop in the middle of something you aren't paying attention to attempt to "enlighten" us on something we aren't even talking about. Jesus Christ, you're about just as bad as the Grandparent poster and those idiots who labeled his post insightful.
If you fail to see the connection, I may not be able to help you... But I'll try.
The origin of the discussion was regarding offshoring and the effect on American jobs. Via some middlemen you eventually made a claim that you could increase labor rates (wages) for orange pickers without having a "significant" effect on market prices for oranges and thus making the jobs more attractive to American workers.
My post (which probably should have responded directly to the above, not your last retort) challenged your assumptions on two grounds:
That given the choice, companies would do as you suggest in a market economy
That if compelled to do so by government action, market forces would render the benefits moot over the long term.
2) We shouldn't be breaking the traffic laws anyways. The police don't make the law.
The traffic laws in this country are a bit out of whack with reality. The police arbitrarily enforce them based on a multitude of factors, least of which is the law itself. More often it would be factors such as profiling (not necessarily race but many factors), recent accident frequencies in an area, quotas/budget concerns, recent advocacy group action/attention, etc.
I live in Atlanta, where we have a freeway running around the city called the Perimeter. The speed limit on most of it is 55 MPH (lower if there is construction). I have always thought it would be highly amusing to get 20-30 cars together to drive 55 MPH across all lanes, effectively blocking anyone from going faster. We'd have traffic backed up for miles as a result. It would be an interesting protest...
Maybe someone with some legal knowledge can weigh in on whether or not we'd be breaking the law for "impeding the flow of traffic" or some such violation... Still, might be worth it just for the public protest value and to bring to light the fact the almost nobody drives the speed limit anymore.
I pointed out fairly clearly that we could double or triple the current price paid for oranges from $0.70 per 90lb box to $2.10 per 90lb box. The price of oranges in the supermarket would barely budge while providing double and triple salary increases for the orange pickers, making those jobs attractive to American workers.
If companies could triple the price with no noticeable impact on prices of oranges in the supermarket (i.e. no impact on demand) then they certainly would increase the prices. That does not imply they would also pay their workers more.
First, you would have to uniformly force all orange companies to do this simultaneously (setting a floor on the price). Then you would have to consider substitution effects (maybe a consumer would just buy an apple or a pack of ramen to satisfy hunger) and perhaps set floors on those prices as well. Then, since there are workers willing to work for less, to guarantee the increase in revenue went to the more highly-paid workers, you would have to raise the minimum wage (at least for that job, whether considered hourly or per box).
Companies don't seek lower prices simply for their own sake, they seek lower prices to increase demand for their goods and services.
As has been stated elsewhere, the balancing act is occuring right now as many consumers are rejecting the quality of work at the lower wage in foreign markets. This could be poor English in call centers or error-prone code in software, etc.
The problem is when equally skilled workers are willing to work for drastically different wages. You would have to force companies to hire the more expensive workers, thereby increasing the cost of their goods/services and decreasing their competitiveness. If you tried to compensate by forcing domestic buyers to buy only from domestic producers (localizing the economy) it might work in the short run.
In the long run:
American workers become less productive because there is less threat of foreign competition for their jobs
American education no longer needs to be internationally competitive increasing the chance of falling behind the rest of the world
The rest of the world has a greater trading block (each other) and acheives greater scale and efficiency (through specialization and better use of capital)
In the end, you've dramatically increased the chances of America being uncompetitive on the international stage unless you assume some natural advantage for Americans (genetic?).
I am at heart a free-trader, but on this one, the ONLY answer that I can see is to make it less profitable for the corporation to carry out this type of activity, and that would have to be a government initiative of some sort.
Wow, that is a pretty hefty self-conflicting statement. Either you lack an understanding of Free Trade or you are NOT, at heart, a "free-trader". The U.S. is filled with so-called "free-traders" who mean "free-trade-as-long-as-its-better-for-me-today". "Free Trade means I can get cheaper drugs from Canada? I'm all for it!"
"Free Trade means free flow of goods, capital AND labor??? I had no idea!"
Someone who is truly "free-trade" at heart, as you claim, would have no problem eliminating immigration restrictions (note: I am not saying "opening the borders", there is a difference between letting anyone in and letting anyone in who goes through a proper legal process), allowing outsourcing (free flow of capital to a foreign market's labor/workforce, where it achieves the best rate of return) and would understand that true free trade eventually leads to an equalization of incomes for people with equal skills regardless of geography (note this does not imply an equal standard of living as different governments will take different amounts of that equal income).
The truth is that most people in the Western World, who enjoy a higher standard of living than the 3rd world, tend to be "protectionist" when it involves self-interest. They either cannot adapt to the changes (without continuing education they may not have the ability to adapt quickly to new opportunties) or they are afraid/unwilling to adapt.
Your suggestion is entirely protectionist. Not of an industry, but of the American workforce in general. Does it lead to a less efficient economic application of capital? Yes, it does! Is it "safer" for American workers? In the short run, certainly; in the long run, probably not.
As with all protectionist schemes, it assumes an isolated economy. If you protect American workers by forcing employers to hire them above the worldwide prevailing wage for comparable skills, you lower the global competitiveness of American firms and their products/services become overpriced. Eventually it is Americans who suffer.
More visibly, it is the investors in those companies who would suffer as the companies failed to make the best use of their capital. The result? Smart investors would invest their capital elsewhere -- outside the US markets!!!
One major supporter that is left off your list -- K-12 Schools and Parents. Part of the time shift is to decrease the days that kids stand at the bus stop in the dark (considered dangerous) in the mornings.
Besides why would you carry one of these around as a Skype Phone, plus carry around a regular cell phone for when you aren't near a WiFi connection.
You wouldn't have to. If they used WiFi and WiMAX, you'd be pretty much covered anywhere. Heck, they could ecven do it on EVDO-RevA which will have the same footprint as Sprint's current CDMA network. Intel already plans to build WiMAX into their stuff as they did with WiFi, so it isn't a stretch.
Actually, you could even potentially see GSM as the cellular phone portion and WiMAX as the dat portion in late 2008...
Errr... Sprint operates an EVDO Rev 0 network, not EDGE. They've upgraded about 70M pops to Rev A as of their last public announcement. That's not only not EDGE but way ahead of Cingular's HSDPA deployment.
Yeah. Instead they're using that nasty old cell tower triangulation thing, which is only what pretty much every other mobile phone offering GPS functionality does.
Ummm... Virtually every phone offered by Sprint-Nextel now has high-precision GPS, meaning an actual GPS chipset using multiple satellites, not cell tower triangulation. The terrestrial network provides assistance (hence AGPS) but that assistance is usually limited to time syncronization, almanac data (where the sats should be) etc. That stuff is used to improve satellite acquisition time, but not to provide terrestrial-based location. The phones usually revert to cell tower based location when you cannot see satellites (indoors for example).
I can't believe Apple was stupid enough to lock into one carrier.
I'd love to see the exact terms of that "exclusive, multi-year" relationship. Is it only for this device? Is it only for cellular phone calls? I could easily see a WiFi only version of this launching for public and home WiFi networks which could be sold through the Sprint-Cable JV. Or, a version with WiMAX (Sprint to launch in 2008) + WiFi + Skype or a similiar VoIP solution.
There is no need to limit development for the iPhone, and with the business smarts it took Apple to create this thing, it is unlikely they will criple it by trying to limit development.
Why would they?
It is not typically the phone mnufacturer that makes this decision, but the carrier. There is lots of concern from carriers over allowing uncertified or unsigned apps on mobile devices (at least anything that uses the network). It would be too (potentially) destructive if the wrong types of apps got out and attacked the networks (at worst) or just ran up huge user bills by abusing services.
What really puzzled me was the SMS app. SMS is huge, but with per message costs as they are today (just raised by Cingular in fact) why wouldn't they have included an IM app using the standard IP interface (unlimited use)???
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And speaking of fucking, how about we create a negative association with fucking in convicted rapists?
Yeah like if the fly ALSO happened to be taking a crap at the moment the laser was fired, would they now forever find that unpleasant too? Or just the idea of being locked in a cage with several other flies? Hmmm...
Assuming you are uninformed... Check out The WiMAX Forum where the front page states: With more than 487 networks deployed in over 141 countries.... You can also check out the WiMAX maps of deployments.
Oh wait, did you hear me right? Yes, DEPLOYMENTS.
Kindly point me to the live deployments of LTE that "everyone else on the planet" will be using while "only" Sprint/Clearwire are using WiMAX?
Wow, so Verizon is actually thinking now? I'm notably biased but wow, all that stuff is old news at Sprint...
Sprint Nextel has led GPS since 2002, already has a WiFi Blackberry (and all future smartphones will have WiFi), has been part of the Open Handset Alliance and had a leading Developers Program for years...
And, oh yeah, Sprint already has 4G launched in 4 cities with like a dozen more in September and ~20 by EOY 2009 (not 2010 or 2011)...
Ok, now you can mark me down for trolling...
I can see that aspect of it, but I would imagine the meta-wiki to also allow searching of any topic. I.e. - pop in a topic, it will go out and confirm whether or not that topic exists in each reference wiki it is indexing and return you a list of linked results along with links describing the wiki that article is hosted at.
Can we stop calling this rubbish cyber warfare and call it a middling DoS attack, which is what it is? It's not war, it's pathetic.
Actually, while I agree that it isn't a national emergency and that these attacks weren't critical, I wouldn't merely call it a "middling DoS attack"... I'd call it TRAINING. DPRK has already made it clear they are willing to export nuclear technology, so how hard would it be to develop an expertise in cyber-warfare which they could then export to countries with much more capable networks and agencies?
It's all speculation, of course, but the development of an "arms market" that is service-based rather than manufacturing-based would be fairly simple.
Where are you getting your data?
Scholastic Administrator magazine (one of the leading ones for K-12 administration) Nov/Dec issue cover story: "The End of Textbooks"...
Its a good article and they didn't even hit on all the advantages of moving away from print... Perpetual content licensing, advance content licensing, elimination of distribution and storage, frequent updates/revisions, multiple methods of annotation, easily facilitated discussion/collaboration between students or with teachers, monitored or collected data on student use of the text, enabling of end-of-chapter quizzes to be interactive, read-aloud audio interfaces for certain students, etc, etc... I could go one and on.
Right now the Amazon Kindle DX is a "good" device, IMHO, for this purpose. Give it another generation or two so the e-ink technology supports color and higher resolution, add a simple messaging system and poll/quizzing capability and you've got 90% of the above covered. The business model is great -- you get a networked device on a macro cellular network without the monthly fees. Subsidized by Amazon's consumer-content driven business model and a wholesale carrier relationship. (If every kid had a Kindle DX, where might they buy the next Harry Potter book?)...
I'm a bit surprised its taken so long. But being in industry now, I can see the snails and actually watch their race with excitement.
If you ever seriously think of killing yourself over your job, it's time to get a new job.
Perhaps he felt responsible and not just depressed? I agree with your sentiment, but I also acknowledge that not all cultures do. We still today hear stories out of Asia of people taking their own lives after failing in their job. In this case there were many other factors as well, but suicide isn't always about depression.
Heck, IIRC plenty of people were recently calling for Wall Street Execs and Bankers to consider the option.
Sorry, we may be working from different assumptions here. I wouldn't argue that your set S is unbounded as you have defined it, but the original question was around the set of Primes. I assumed the original "prize" was associated with a proof around how many Primes would consist of all 1's. I may have misunderstood.
I believe you had to provide a mathematical proof?
Very interesting.... I think that in my mind I tend to store area codes (and sometimes prefixes) as sounds rather than digits. To me, it is more like storing and playing back a new word rather than a string of syllables. My wife thinks it is odd that I can remember longer phone numbers.
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The technology is impressive, but the human resources they'll need to actually act on these things are outrageous... Of course, if there is a place that has lots of excess unemployed human resources, this is probably it.
The origin of the discussion was regarding offshoring and the effect on American jobs. Via some middlemen you eventually made a claim that you could increase labor rates (wages) for orange pickers without having a "significant" effect on market prices for oranges and thus making the jobs more attractive to American workers.
My post (which probably should have responded directly to the above, not your last retort) challenged your assumptions on two grounds:
- That given the choice, companies would do as you suggest in a market economy
- That if compelled to do so by government action, market forces would render the benefits moot over the long term.
Best of luck to you in protectionist la-la-land.I live in Atlanta, where we have a freeway running around the city called the Perimeter. The speed limit on most of it is 55 MPH (lower if there is construction). I have always thought it would be highly amusing to get 20-30 cars together to drive 55 MPH across all lanes, effectively blocking anyone from going faster. We'd have traffic backed up for miles as a result. It would be an interesting protest...
Maybe someone with some legal knowledge can weigh in on whether or not we'd be breaking the law for "impeding the flow of traffic" or some such violation... Still, might be worth it just for the public protest value and to bring to light the fact the almost nobody drives the speed limit anymore.
Companies don't seek lower prices simply for their own sake, they seek lower prices to increase demand for their goods and services.
As has been stated elsewhere, the balancing act is occuring right now as many consumers are rejecting the quality of work at the lower wage in foreign markets. This could be poor English in call centers or error-prone code in software, etc.
The problem is when equally skilled workers are willing to work for drastically different wages. You would have to force companies to hire the more expensive workers, thereby increasing the cost of their goods/services and decreasing their competitiveness. If you tried to compensate by forcing domestic buyers to buy only from domestic producers (localizing the economy) it might work in the short run.
In the long run:
- American workers become less productive because there is less threat of foreign competition for their jobs
- American education no longer needs to be internationally competitive increasing the chance of falling behind the rest of the world
- The rest of the world has a greater trading block (each other) and acheives greater scale and efficiency (through specialization and better use of capital)
In the end, you've dramatically increased the chances of America being uncompetitive on the international stage unless you assume some natural advantage for Americans (genetic?)."Free Trade means I can get cheaper drugs from Canada? I'm all for it!"
"Free Trade means free flow of goods, capital AND labor??? I had no idea!"
Someone who is truly "free-trade" at heart, as you claim, would have no problem eliminating immigration restrictions (note: I am not saying "opening the borders", there is a difference between letting anyone in and letting anyone in who goes through a proper legal process), allowing outsourcing (free flow of capital to a foreign market's labor/workforce, where it achieves the best rate of return) and would understand that true free trade eventually leads to an equalization of incomes for people with equal skills regardless of geography (note this does not imply an equal standard of living as different governments will take different amounts of that equal income).
The truth is that most people in the Western World, who enjoy a higher standard of living than the 3rd world, tend to be "protectionist" when it involves self-interest. They either cannot adapt to the changes (without continuing education they may not have the ability to adapt quickly to new opportunties) or they are afraid/unwilling to adapt.
Your suggestion is entirely protectionist. Not of an industry, but of the American workforce in general. Does it lead to a less efficient economic application of capital? Yes, it does! Is it "safer" for American workers? In the short run, certainly; in the long run, probably not.
As with all protectionist schemes, it assumes an isolated economy. If you protect American workers by forcing employers to hire them above the worldwide prevailing wage for comparable skills, you lower the global competitiveness of American firms and their products/services become overpriced. Eventually it is Americans who suffer.
More visibly, it is the investors in those companies who would suffer as the companies failed to make the best use of their capital. The result? Smart investors would invest their capital elsewhere -- outside the US markets!!!
Actually, you could even potentially see GSM as the cellular phone portion and WiMAX as the dat portion in late 2008...
What really puzzled me was the SMS app. SMS is huge, but with per message costs as they are today (just raised by Cingular in fact) why wouldn't they have included an IM app using the standard IP interface (unlimited use)???