The article said he can send out 1 Billion e-mails per day. If it takes an average of 10 seconds to determine one of his e-mails is bogus (on average I think that's fair, some are more savvy than others) then 4 78-year lifetimes are wasted every day thanks to him. He's "killing" nearly 1500 people a year.
I wouldn't shed a tear if he spent the rest of his life in solitary confinement in prison.
Until you've tried to control moving parts with software you have no idea how disparate those two worlds are. Completely unexpected behaviors are the norm. On the bright side, I'm sure they logged all the flight data and they'll be able to track down a bug or two. Plus, abject, public failure has a way of making you go and look at code you kind of skimmed on the first pass.
I can only pray that Rick is right and hollywood goes bankrupt. Imagine if all the studios had to reorganize and rather than continue the model they have now of getting as many opening weekend theaters to create 'buzz' and interest in foreign and retail markets they gave the viewers choice by not pushing out all the independent productions that are usually so much better than the 'blockbusters.'
Unfortunately, he's wrong of course. The amount of money moving around in the movie business is huge, if there are profit problems it is either due to to many studios killing each other's profit margins, too much power in the hands of actors when salaries are determined, or just general incompetence. I suspect it is a combination. What will happen is that the studios will eventually be forced to take action, either becoming more efficient, lowering salary costs, or having a few mergers. Anyway, I didn't see any evidence that the studios are actually in financial trouble, I suspect Rick is either fairly dumb or he assumes his audience is.
Oil exploration and energy generation in general are economic activities. The more oil costs, the more marginal fields will be exploited and the more alternatives will be found. This will take years and years, as it already has taken years and years. It's not like there's one tap in the ground and when it goes dry there is no more oil There are a number of different quality oil sources in the ground, and some are more expensive to exploit. As the price of oil goes up, they will become economically feasible, and there will be enormous economic advantages to find cheaper sources of energy. At some price, biofuel will be feasible, at some price wind power will become feasible, and at some price, solar power will become feasible. Gasoline cars will never be obsolete because those alternatives will be used for applications that are flexible with regards to the source of their energy (anyone that uses electricity for example) when those alternatives are cheaper than oil, so the demand for oil will decrease dramatically, leaving only those who have no choice but to use oil as the only market for oil.
Then Amtrak bought these turbo trains from the French. They are
not at all nice, lighter weight, uncomfortable, slowish trains with not much
room, snack cars, and seats that are like airliner seats. ( Some moron
at Amtrak probably thought they were loosing business to the airlines
because people like those airline seats.)
So by your reasoning:
Horses are so much better than the smelly, prone-to-breakdown, ugly model T. I'll stick with my horse before I try this new Accura Integra because the model T sucked.
No, I think that you are missing the point of the other posters. You need to remember that there is no TiVo for your life, so therefore you shouldn't be obsessing about whether you have "every Seinfeld, Buffy, +20 other shows episode available within a few seconds, in perfect broadcast quality for ever".
So, to extend your line of thinking, anyone who buys a Sopranos season 1 DVD set or a Simpsons season 1 DVD set, etc is inferior to your mad social skillz and needs to get a life, yo.
And watching the Simpsons on DVD is weird, it is too crisp and clean. The poor broadcast quality of Fox adds some charm to it.:-)
Try reducing the sharpness on your television. Most people have it set way too high, and most broadcasting is more pleasing to the eye a little bit softer.
hat should be "
the penultimate in pedantry," you dimwit!
LOL! I take it back!
Actually, since I was using penultimate as an adjective, it was legal. Try thinking of "...can only aspire to be secondary." That sentence is legal, and it is an adjective the same as "penultimate in pendantry" is an adjective phrase. Now, if you put a "the" in front of "secondary" it takes on a different meaning and "secondary" becomes a noun. It is like the difference between saying "he is slow" vs. "he is the slowest."
Etymology: Medieval Latin ultimatus last, final, from Late Latin, past participle of ultimare to come to an end, be last, from Latin ultimus farthest, last, final, superlative of (assumed) Latin ulter situated beyond
Damn! I knew I should have bought a burner before the MPAA made 'em illegal...
Because you had to open your mouth all future posts on this thread can only aspire to be penultimate in pedantry.
Yeah, guess I was a little rough on you. There are a lot weirder people out there. I still don't fully understand having music you'll never actually hear. Most hobbies involve collecting visual items so the collector can at least make the argument s/he has observed all of the items in his/her collection. For all you know, the Garth Brooks song you haven't gotten around to is actually 3 minutes of Jar-Jar Binks professing his love of Jedi.
You obviously either don't have children or really don't give a shit about preserving videos of your kids. I'm thinking the latter, and the closest you'd come to kids would either be those that you fondle on the bus on the way home to your mother's basement, or those you drool over in the kiddie porn newsgroups.
I have several hours of video of my son that I've been capturing using the card. A single 90 minute run took 4GB
Anyone else notice the corollary to Moore's law: as storage capacity doubles, the quality of what's stored will be reduced by 1/4? A haiku can express multilayered, meaningful thoughts that translate across languages and cultures in about 85 bytes. It took 4 gigabytes to create a pièce de résistance of diaper changing, some unintelligible babble, and drool. I can only imagine what the future has in store for us.
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Thank you, offtopic Aqua Teen Hunger Force-quoting anonymous guy.
I wouldn't shed a tear if he spent the rest of his life in solitary confinement in prison.
It seems fast because it moves at the speed of laughable.
No, but it dumps when it processes too much data.
No need to put the word "infinite" in the phrase "positive feedback system." Anyone who understands the rest of your post will get it.
;)
Very bad for the porn industry.
But seriously, pretend I said something relevant about the article here so my witty banter doesnt get modded down.
Unfortunately, he's wrong of course. The amount of money moving around in the movie business is huge, if there are profit problems it is either due to to many studios killing each other's profit margins, too much power in the hands of actors when salaries are determined, or just general incompetence. I suspect it is a combination. What will happen is that the studios will eventually be forced to take action, either becoming more efficient, lowering salary costs, or having a few mergers. Anyway, I didn't see any evidence that the studios are actually in financial trouble, I suspect Rick is either fairly dumb or he assumes his audience is.
Oil exploration and energy generation in general are economic activities. The more oil costs, the more marginal fields will be exploited and the more alternatives will be found. This will take years and years, as it already has taken years and years. It's not like there's one tap in the ground and when it goes dry there is no more oil There are a number of different quality oil sources in the ground, and some are more expensive to exploit. As the price of oil goes up, they will become economically feasible, and there will be enormous economic advantages to find cheaper sources of energy. At some price, biofuel will be feasible, at some price wind power will become feasible, and at some price, solar power will become feasible. Gasoline cars will never be obsolete because those alternatives will be used for applications that are flexible with regards to the source of their energy (anyone that uses electricity for example) when those alternatives are cheaper than oil, so the demand for oil will decrease dramatically, leaving only those who have no choice but to use oil as the only market for oil.
So by your reasoning:
Horses are so much better than the smelly, prone-to-breakdown, ugly model T. I'll stick with my horse before I try this new Accura Integra because the model T sucked.
I can tell from the aggression present in your post that you're clearly no WIMP.
Really poor overall though, it looks like pure texture mapping will a low polygon count and darn near empty z buffer most of the time.
So, to extend your line of thinking, anyone who buys a Sopranos season 1 DVD set or a Simpsons season 1 DVD set, etc is inferior to your mad social skillz and needs to get a life, yo.
I believe the phrase "duct tape" is an appropriate rejoinder.
Given that it isn't worth it for them to sell regular TiVo's, it could take awhile! They are still losing money.
Try reducing the sharpness on your television. Most people have it set way too high, and most broadcasting is more pleasing to the eye a little bit softer.
Turn on close captioning on your TV or VCR. That's what I do.
LOL! I take it back!
Actually, since I was using penultimate as an adjective, it was legal. Try thinking of "...can only aspire to be secondary." That sentence is legal, and it is an adjective the same as "penultimate in pendantry" is an adjective phrase. Now, if you put a "the" in front of "secondary" it takes on a different meaning and "secondary" becomes a noun. It is like the difference between saying "he is slow" vs. "he is the slowest."
Because you had to open your mouth all future posts on this thread can only aspire to be penultimate in pedantry.
Now that's something I would like to buy: a scanning laser grill. Cook with light. Perfectly even cooking. Just don't override the door close sensor.
Yeah, guess I was a little rough on you. There are a lot weirder people out there. I still don't fully understand having music you'll never actually hear. Most hobbies involve collecting visual items so the collector can at least make the argument s/he has observed all of the items in his/her collection. For all you know, the Garth Brooks song you haven't gotten around to is actually 3 minutes of Jar-Jar Binks professing his love of Jedi.
Does this mean you don't like me anymore?
Will it still suck?
Anyone else notice the corollary to Moore's law: as storage capacity doubles, the quality of what's stored will be reduced by 1/4? A haiku can express multilayered, meaningful thoughts that translate across languages and cultures in about 85 bytes. It took 4 gigabytes to create a pièce de résistance of diaper changing, some unintelligible babble, and drool. I can only imagine what the future has in store for us.
;)