OK, I'm not with the whole information wants to be free idealogy but hey, I think I can rationalize by myself why I shouldn't be paying for some of the things I download.
Yes, that is the whole idea of me getting broadband is spread the cost among people who use it very little and subsidize the cost for me. I don't use as much of other membership (or things from taxation) as others do. But, I like using up a little more broadband than my neighbor but my neighbor probably watches more TV than I do.
Ours is a coop, meaning that every cost we incur must necessarily come sooner or later out of the pockets of the subscribers. We are charged by our upstream provider according to our traffic levels. If a subscriber were to generate so much traffic that we had to pay an extra $250 per month to our provider, we would need to charge that $250 to that subscriber. There would be no other choice.
The reason I got broadband was for P2P. So, doesn't that mean this whole thing is useless for P2P? If I want to check e-mail and ebay I would use 56K modem.
Well, there are plenty of artists and bands who are selling thier music in mp3 format. The problem is you are not hearing or interested in those artists because they aren't on MTV or hyped in magazines (which they mostly own).
Hence, the point never ever has been of demand and supply. When you have advertisment and product differentiation, there is no point talking about demand and supply. You either buy ("you favorite band or musicians")'s CD or live a miserable life without it. There's no substitue product.
What inadequecies exist that need to be research and developed? More rendering power by more distributed software? Better algorithms for some specific branch of the process? More tools?
Yes, every different application needs a slightly different method of application development. Making children's CD-ROMs needs a slighly different approach and designing but that doesn't warrant a class by itself.
If you see software design in terms of UML specs, then this class could all be an extra chapter in the book.
True, there are many things to learn to be a good game developer but university classes aren't supposed to be about trade learning, but to learn subjects that have their own unique set of rules, patterns and theorems. I think game programming isn't unique enough to be a class by itself. Just think of the syllabus and what it would consititure. It would not be anything very very new.
Game programming is not by itself a subject. It's just sections from math, computer science elements and maybe management and buisness. There is no cohesive set of general theories and ideas that define game programming but a bunch of ideas from other subjects and some set of tricks. To learn something like that, you don't really need a professor and a class.
Reminds me of some of the CS classes. 3 credit semesters of nothing. Long long lectures that just reiterated the super-obvious.
1. You say you have developed an interest in math. Does that mean you like the idea of yourself knowing a lot of math or you are interested in a field that you want to know more of.
2. If it is the first one, then pay lots of money to learn lots of math that you will never use and halfway thru give up. At least you won't have regrets.
3. If it's the other one, then you know what fields of mathematics that you need to study in order to further understand the subject that you are interested in. Find the things that don't make sense or topics that don't make sense and make a list of subjects that you need to learn. You can go the local university library and read some of the books there which will lead you to other question and so on. That will be the true fun way of doing it.
As the concert approached, the complaint alleged, Warner and PolyGram became concerned that the audio and video products resulting from the Paris concert would not be as original or as commercially appealing as the earlier Three Tenors releases. To reduce competition from these earlier releases, the companies allegedly adopted what they called a "moratorium" agreement. Through this agreement, the complaint alleged, PolyGram would not discount or advertise the 1990 Three Tenors album and video from August 1, 1998 through October 15, 1998 (the "moratorium period"); in return, Warner would not discount or advertise the 1994 Three Tenors album and video during the same interval.
I guess this is price fixing but what about all the CDs that are released. Aren't they all over-priced becuase of all the record companies working together to raise prices?
What? Someone makes a bold characterization about the internet and has no scientific (or statistical evidence) to back it up, and you see a point in it. If I know 2 people who only use the internet to download porn, does that mean the internet is used only for downloading porn? This article is almost on that level of stupidity but with better sentence structure.
Quote, "both articles simply state the obvious". "This is obvious" is the most notorious way of making logical jumps. I think you're making one right there. It is not obvious to me. You are saying uneducated people are more likely to get wrong ideas and follow up on them? You are saying uneducated people are prone to extremism and only poor people. I think we know a lot of well-educated extremists.
Quote "You must know that you can't believe everything you read on the Internet." I think you need the sarcasm plugin to properly decode that part of my post.
Yes, of course. It must be that Internet is "Fueling Hatred and Misunderstanding" because it says so on slashdot and hence, everything on the internet (and slashdot) must be true.
Without a proper scientific study to back it up, it is pointless to even start a debate, this is just bad journalism. Take some inflmatory example and extrapolate it to every internet user and with a few logical leaps, voila, the internet is "Fueling Hatred and Misunderstanding". Jeez.
If I were a customer wanting software written then :
1. I think if the software is an implementation of a patent, then it could open source it (like a reference implementation).
2. If the software aides some other software that makes the money, then you could open source the software.
Otherwise, I'd be very opposed to the idea for the fact that it's a special purpose software that wouldn't have much use in the open-source community and would only serve to inform my competitiors.
Well, this is only for sample data collection, people. For the advertisers to survey what people are watching and to put their money into it. The article says it's based on sex and age group groups as their demographic partitions but who knows...
You must have been in a coma for the last 6-7 years. All the hardcore graphics stuff is now in OpenGL and on the silicon on the graphics board.
The main purpose of the game engine is now to use the graphics library properly and make the engine interactive and also, modular for people to add mods on it.
The C++ complier does make a few more tables and a few extra memory references in C++. But, look at modern day CPU architechure with large caches. The slowdown is very little. Also, engineers have been working hard on the C++ compiler optimizations that a lot of the critical stuff (tight loops where the program spends 90% of it's time) can be turned into C equivalent code.
1. Anecdotal evidence is worthless in statistical analysis.
It can be offered as a counter-example to a rule someone is proposing.
2. An effect observed in a small sample size (relative to the total population) may not generalize to a large sample size.
True. But we don't have the large sample size!!! However, we are proposing that the effect does happen and giving an example. However, the veracity of the idea lies in a large number of samples doing doing it which we have no way of showing. Rather than say inconclusive and not do anything, we have to put our proposal forward and cite an example for people to try. This is out of the statistical realm but slashdot isn't a statistical forum.
3. You must not ignore the effects of statistical lag.
How you determine how long the lag is? It is not the emperical 5 years that you say it is. The lag might be just a month. It is only by constant sampling that you can know what the lag is. And, that's exactly what we're doing.
Bah, nothing is more interesting than the CRC handbook of organic compounds. OK, LSD is strangely missing but it's more adventure to figure out the process thru related lysergic compound synthesis.
Inability of most scientists to present their research in an interesting and meaningful way to lay people
A research scientist does not need to possess the above skill to be a good research scientist.
Go to India and watch a blockbuster Hindi movie. You will not be able to stand the 3 hours of the movie time that millions of people pay to watch. Boring and interesting is more dependent on the listener than you'd care to admit.
You could get more than one of those savings card with different information thus make the database less accurate. Or, you could use your friend's or someone else's card.
$10/year is misleading. If they were to produce the drug in that country then the cost of the drug would match up to the $10/year heath care spending. In other words, they could produce it real cheap.
<P>Qoute:<I>Malaria kills far more people than AIDS</I> <P>Maybe in the 1980s and before. From the link <A HREF="http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/back ground_briefings/aids/newsid_341000/341288.stm"> ; BC titled "Aids Africa's top killer "</A>, AIDS is the largest killer in Africa. <P>$10/year is misleading. If they were to produce the drug in that country then the cost of the drug would match up to the $10/year heath care spending. In other words, they could produce it real cheap.
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Duh, no need to elaborate on the obvious.
OK, I'm not with the whole information wants to be free idealogy but hey, I think I can rationalize by myself why I shouldn't be paying for some of the things I download.
Yes, that is the whole idea of me getting broadband is spread the cost among people who use it very little and subsidize the cost for me. I don't use as much of other membership (or things from taxation) as others do. But, I like using up a little more broadband than my neighbor but my neighbor probably watches more TV than I do.
Well, there are plenty of artists and bands who are selling thier music in mp3 format. The problem is you are not hearing or interested in those artists because they aren't on MTV or hyped in magazines (which they mostly own).
Hence, the point never ever has been of demand and supply. When you have advertisment and product differentiation, there is no point talking about demand and supply. You either buy ("you favorite band or musicians")'s CD or live a miserable life without it. There's no substitue product.
What inadequecies exist that need to be research and developed? More rendering power by more distributed software? Better algorithms for some specific branch of the process? More tools?
Yes, every different application needs a slightly different method of application development. Making children's CD-ROMs needs a slighly different approach and designing but that doesn't warrant a class by itself.
If you see software design in terms of UML specs, then this class could all be an extra chapter in the book.
True, there are many things to learn to be a good game developer but university classes aren't supposed to be about trade learning, but to learn subjects that have their own unique set of rules, patterns and theorems. I think game programming isn't unique enough to be a class by itself. Just think of the syllabus and what it would consititure. It would not be anything very very new.
Game programming is not by itself a subject. It's just sections from math, computer science elements and maybe management and buisness. There is no cohesive set of general theories and ideas that define game programming but a bunch of ideas from other subjects and some set of tricks. To learn something like that, you don't really need a professor and a class.
Reminds me of some of the CS classes. 3 credit semesters of nothing. Long long lectures that just reiterated the super-obvious.
1. You say you have developed an interest in math. Does that mean you like the idea of yourself knowing a lot of math or you are interested in a field that you want to know more of.
2. If it is the first one, then pay lots of money to learn lots of math that you will never use and halfway thru give up. At least you won't have regrets.
3. If it's the other one, then you know what fields of mathematics that you need to study in order to further understand the subject that you are interested in. Find the things that don't make sense or topics that don't make sense and make a list of subjects that you need to learn. You can go the local university library and read some of the books there which will lead you to other question and so on. That will be the true fun way of doing it.
As the concert approached, the complaint alleged, Warner and PolyGram became concerned that the audio and video products resulting from the Paris concert would not be as original or as commercially appealing as the earlier Three Tenors releases. To reduce competition from these earlier releases, the companies allegedly adopted what they called a "moratorium" agreement. Through this agreement, the complaint alleged, PolyGram would not discount or advertise the 1990 Three Tenors album and video from August 1, 1998 through October 15, 1998 (the "moratorium period"); in return, Warner would not discount or advertise the 1994 Three Tenors album and video during the same interval.
I guess this is price fixing but what about all the CDs that are released. Aren't they all over-priced becuase of all the record companies working together to raise prices?
Everything now has a X button and says "You cannot request this song due to copyright restrictions. Please try a different search."
OK, there was a story on how the internet is "Fueling Hatred and Misunderstanding". Now, online chats are dangerous for kids.
Stories on pedophiles, Islamic extremists on the internet ... what is the Slashdot agenda here?
What? Someone makes a bold characterization about the internet and has no scientific (or statistical evidence) to back it up, and you see a point in it. If I know 2 people who only use the internet to download porn, does that mean the internet is used only for downloading porn? This article is almost on that level of stupidity but with better sentence structure.
Quote, "both articles simply state the obvious". "This is obvious" is the most notorious way of making logical jumps. I think you're making one right there. It is not obvious to me. You are saying uneducated people are more likely to get wrong ideas and follow up on them? You are saying uneducated people are prone to extremism and only poor people. I think we know a lot of well-educated extremists.
Quote "You must know that you can't believe everything you read on the Internet." I think you need the sarcasm plugin to properly decode that part of my post.
Yes, of course. It must be that Internet is "Fueling Hatred and Misunderstanding" because it says so on slashdot and hence, everything on the internet (and slashdot) must be true.
Without a proper scientific study to back it up, it is pointless to even start a debate, this is just bad journalism. Take some inflmatory example and extrapolate it to every internet user and with a few logical leaps, voila, the internet is "Fueling Hatred and Misunderstanding". Jeez.
For those of you freaking out, here's a link Strangelets are strange but not dangerous
If I were a customer wanting software written then :
1. I think if the software is an implementation of a patent, then it could open source it (like a reference implementation).
2. If the software aides some other software that makes the money, then you could open source the software.
Otherwise, I'd be very opposed to the idea for the fact that it's a special purpose software that wouldn't have much use in the open-source community and would only serve to inform my competitiors.
IBM must have sniped to win the ebay bid.
Well, this is only for sample data collection, people. For the advertisers to survey what people are watching and to put their money into it. The article says it's based on sex and age group groups as their demographic partitions but who knows ...
You must have been in a coma for the last 6-7 years. All the hardcore graphics stuff is now in OpenGL and on the silicon on the graphics board.
The main purpose of the game engine is now to use the graphics library properly and make the engine interactive and also, modular for people to add mods on it.
The C++ complier does make a few more tables and a few extra memory references in C++. But, look at modern day CPU architechure with large caches. The slowdown is very little. Also, engineers have been working hard on the C++ compiler optimizations that a lot of the critical stuff (tight loops where the program spends 90% of it's time) can be turned into C equivalent code.
1. Anecdotal evidence is worthless in statistical analysis.
It can be offered as a counter-example to a rule someone is proposing.
2. An effect observed in a small sample size (relative to the total population) may not generalize to a large sample size.
True. But we don't have the large sample size!!! However, we are proposing that the effect does happen and giving an example. However, the veracity of the idea lies in a large number of samples doing doing it which we have no way of showing. Rather than say inconclusive and not do anything, we have to put our proposal forward and cite an example for people to try. This is out of the statistical realm but slashdot isn't a statistical forum.
3. You must not ignore the effects of statistical lag.
How you determine how long the lag is? It is not the emperical 5 years that you say it is. The lag might be just a month. It is only by constant sampling that you can know what the lag is. And, that's exactly what we're doing.
Bah, nothing is more interesting than the CRC handbook of organic compounds. OK, LSD is strangely missing but it's more adventure to figure out the process thru related lysergic compound synthesis.
Looks like you just did a paper on that for ENG101 class, huh?
This is not about finding a consistent and complete system of logic. It's about simple ideas of science that people don't know about.
Inability of most scientists to present their research in an interesting and meaningful way to lay people
A research scientist does not need to possess the above skill to be a good research scientist.
Go to India and watch a blockbuster Hindi movie. You will not be able to stand the 3 hours of the movie time that millions of people pay to watch. Boring and interesting is more dependent on the listener than you'd care to admit.
for "Oh Brother, Where art thou" came out, it received little airplay because media focus groups thought it sounded 'too twangy'
Umm, and it was the soundtrack to a hollywood blockbuster. That's not word of mouth in the classic sense. The movie propelled the soundtrack.
You could get more than one of those savings card with different information thus make the database less accurate. Or, you could use your friend's or someone else's card.
However, fingerprint is unique.
Qoute:Malaria kills far more people than AIDS
Maybe in the 1980s and before. From the link ; BC titled "Aids Africa's top killer ", AIDS is the largest killer in Africa.
$10/year is misleading. If they were to produce the drug in that country then the cost of the drug would match up to the $10/year heath care spending. In other words, they could produce it real cheap.
<P>Qoute:<I>Malaria kills far more people than AIDS</I>k ground_briefings/aids/newsid_341000/341288.stm"> ; BC titled "Aids Africa's top killer
<P>Maybe in the 1980s and before. From the link <A HREF="http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/bac
"</A>, AIDS is the largest killer in Africa.
<P>$10/year is misleading. If they were to produce the drug in that country then the cost of the drug would match up to the $10/year heath care spending. In other words, they could produce it real cheap.