Of course, any name that has the letters x, s, e, p, v, etc, give the consumer certain subconcious signals. If I designed a processor for AMD I would name it the Athlon ROLA-ESX.
I tend to cook my own dinners. I love Qdoba's peel-like-a-banana-style burritos. If I could consistantly cook a dinner with the same marginal utility as the burrito in 6 minutes I would break even. I can't, yet I still cook.
Am I irrational? I don't think so, and the reasons I cook for myself uniformly apply to hacking jobs like this (the utility derived from the act of creation, the inflexibility of income in salaried positions, transaction costs involved in piecemeal or contract work, etc.)
Thanks for the basic economics lesson though.:)
Bravo! Also, if someone feels that this will result in more competetion for jobs, it means they are worried that their only advantage over others is the name of the school on their diploma.
The article praised google's use of text advertisements that appear at the top of the search list because they confuse web surfers who think they are search results. So why are we all feel-goody about google?
That's an interesting analogy because the postal service's history is littered with undesirable activities. Anthony Comstock, a crusader against birth control, abortion, and anything he considered offensive, managed to cajole congress into passing the Comstock Act in 1873, which prohibited materials on these topics from being sent via the mail. The funny thing is that law still exists. You can read a brief summary here.
Please remember that at the time the post was the only way to communicate between geographically diverse regions, so he basically singlehandedly ended the national debate of birth control. Do you really want the government to take over another source of information?
But, as the obvious nature of this hasn't immediately been apparent to you, I doubt anything I've said will have changed your opinion. Take the blue [loveposts.com] pill, the red has a bitter aftertaste.
Yeah, because you disagree with my post I must be dumb and closeminded. A closer examination of my post than you undertook would reveal that I didn't say the bill was good, I did say it isn't as bad as the headline made it out to be and offered a couple of points in defense of my position.
I'm surprised you used your login for that post, most trolls use anonymous login to protect their precious Karma.
BTW, if I hear that Ben Franklin quote one more time I'm going to puke. He had a few pithy aphorisms, but Ben wasn't much more than a country bumpkin with a better-than-average ability to amuse Frenchmen.
First of all, I read the description of the algorithm and it is not a "solution" to the traveling salesman problem, that problem is NP-1. If someone were to "solve" it as that term is understood by computer scientists, it would be a major advancement in math and computer science. I doubt the algorithm presented could be reduced to mathematically "prove" it can deterministically find the best solution to the problem, and it certainly can't do that in less than O(X^c) time. This is merely a case of a marginal "researcher" who managed to take a weighted paths scheme, perhaps original and perhaps not, and put it in terms that the average reader could nod his head at and say "yeah, I could've told them that! Dumbass scientists."
The people in lower floors complained of only a vibration they at first thought was an earthquake. It seems likely that the foundation was designed to withstand the vibrations associated with an earthquake.
Interesting theory but you miss the point of the superhero genre. The Superhero genre has several key elements: a semi-loner with gifts, usually a backstory explaining their origins. The loner usually hides his powers and uses them in defense of a childlike worldview against unusual or also gifted enemies. Rinse, repeat. Most importantly, the superhero is invariably the focus of the show.
Knight Rider and the Rocketeer are in the superhero genre, as (I think) they should be, but Star Trek is not. Problem-solving, magic disguised as technology and a ridiculous utopian social ideal is the focus of most ST series.
Well, of course the broadcasters are going to try to do this. Do the math, they only need to contribute 20 million or so of soft money to reap a 200 billion windfall. That's a 1000000% return on investment.
I am sorry to see AMD is using this change in branding to confuse consumers, but this has to happen eventually. Consumer products are advertised based on what they can do for the consumer. No one buys a Whirlpool 1600RPM washer, they buy the Calypso, because it's so much fun and good for you laundry too! Muscle cars still tout their RPM's and cylinder count, but this is due to the egos of those purchasing such cars.
The truth is that MHZ doesn't matter for the vast majority of consumers. Any computer 800 MHZ or faster is probably bottlenecked by the software and hard drive.
More and more I think that theories in physics are nothing more than successive approximations and we'll never know the true nature of existence. With some of these theories it almost feels like someone is playing a trick on us and every time we see through it a new layer of tricks is added.
Why yes, it is amazing that it can render at.4 fps. That is quite a feat of silicon and software. I didn't read your post but I assume that's what you're talking about!
Who doesn't know someone who got cable for free and "forgot" to tell the cable company?
That said, now that there are 3 choices for television programming (cable, air, satellite) for many people they can no longer use the excuse that they are just fighting the man.
There is finally at least the hope of competition in this long-time monopoly. Honestly, I don't know why this is news worthy of a Slashdot post, unless theft and Slashdot are somehow linked.
Moderate me down if you must.
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"That scares me a little. But its also a cool idea"...
I wish posters would know when they have nothing meaningful to add to a story and just post it sans comment.
I agree with you 100 percent about the space shuttle. If the government worked that way, they should just take the money spent on the shuttle program and invest it to save enough to do something interesting from both human and scientific perspectives.
Unfortunately government doesn't work that way and any extra money will be spent on free lampshades for the poor or a tax cut aimed at the rich.
I also would like to see space exploration taken seriously, but I do not want it done in the name of jingoistic "national pride."
The success of the 1950's and 60's in rocket science can be attributed to vast outlays of capital more than fundamental advancement of the state of the art. If space travel and colonization were as important to the world today as it was then we would have already journeyed to Mars and would be well on our way to establishing permanent colonies on the moon.
It is difficult to guess how history will judge an age while an observer is still in it. That said, at least some historians now believe that the space progress 1960's will be remembered as an anomoly due to national pride and the cold war rather than a fundamental change in the nature and speed of human technological progress.
Before you decide whether Crusoe is a disappointment or not, you have to decide on the importance of low power consumption. I would look to the handheld gaming industry for an example of what low power consumption does.
Nintendo's Gameboy has been around forever, and it has beaten many superior systems that were similarly priced. One of the main reasons for its success is its battery performance.
Changing out and recharging batteries in laptops and handhelds is one of the major drawbacks to these devices. I suspect many businesspeople, especially those that travel, would take half the performance of their laptops for 3 times the battery life in a heartbeat. How fast do you need to run Powerpoint, after all?
I work for a company that generally encourages good coding practices, but quality varies from division to division and I have been on projects where the manager wants code fast, fast, fast. The best bet is to write the UI in VB, and whenever your manager stands over your shoulder, load it and show him what you're doing in VB. Behind his/her back, write the guts of your project in C++ and wrap it in an ActiveX control that you insert into your VB project. I promise your manager won't know the difference!:)
I'm just shaking in my boots. It's so frightening to me that a cracker with a cluster of 30 computers to spare for a period of 7 months can get all of my secret credit card information.
Was this an attempt at a troll or are you just dumb?
Of course it isn't practical now (except by the government.) However, anyone who records encrypted traffic will have no problem solving large integer problems like this on a group of workstations in a few years and can then crack the data. Given that a lot of information will be as important years from now as it is today, do you understand the problem?
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Of course, any name that has the letters x, s, e, p, v, etc, give the consumer certain subconcious signals. If I designed a processor for AMD I would name it the Athlon ROLA-ESX.
I tend to cook my own dinners. I love Qdoba's peel-like-a-banana-style burritos. If I could consistantly cook a dinner with the same marginal utility as the burrito in 6 minutes I would break even. I can't, yet I still cook. Am I irrational? I don't think so, and the reasons I cook for myself uniformly apply to hacking jobs like this (the utility derived from the act of creation, the inflexibility of income in salaried positions, transaction costs involved in piecemeal or contract work, etc.) Thanks for the basic economics lesson though. :)
Its too bad I can't see you winking through my computer screen so I could be sure you are not a troll or ignorant. You left just enough ambiguity...
It is still in Earth's gravitational field (a tiny bit less than 1 G,) so in that sense it still has weight. It just falls a lot.
Bravo! Also, if someone feels that this will result in more competetion for jobs, it means they are worried that their only advantage over others is the name of the school on their diploma.
The article praised google's use of text advertisements that appear at the top of the search list because they confuse web surfers who think they are search results. So why are we all feel-goody about google?
Please remember that at the time the post was the only way to communicate between geographically diverse regions, so he basically singlehandedly ended the national debate of birth control. Do you really want the government to take over another source of information?
But, as the obvious nature of this hasn't immediately been apparent to you, I doubt anything I've said will have changed your opinion. Take the blue [loveposts.com] pill, the red has a bitter aftertaste.
Yeah, because you disagree with my post I must be dumb and closeminded. A closer examination of my post than you undertook would reveal that I didn't say the bill was good, I did say it isn't as bad as the headline made it out to be and offered a couple of points in defense of my position.
I'm surprised you used your login for that post, most trolls use anonymous login to protect their precious Karma.
BTW, if I hear that Ben Franklin quote one more time I'm going to puke. He had a few pithy aphorisms, but Ben wasn't much more than a country bumpkin with a better-than-average ability to amuse Frenchmen.
Many civil liberties are restricted during threats to "National Security." Ever heard of martial law and curfews?
First of all, I read the description of the algorithm and it is not a "solution" to the traveling salesman problem, that problem is NP-1. If someone were to "solve" it as that term is understood by computer scientists, it would be a major advancement in math and computer science. I doubt the algorithm presented could be reduced to mathematically "prove" it can deterministically find the best solution to the problem, and it certainly can't do that in less than O(X^c) time. This is merely a case of a marginal "researcher" who managed to take a weighted paths scheme, perhaps original and perhaps not, and put it in terms that the average reader could nod his head at and say "yeah, I could've told them that! Dumbass scientists."
The people in lower floors complained of only a vibration they at first thought was an earthquake. It seems likely that the foundation was designed to withstand the vibrations associated with an earthquake.
Interesting theory but you miss the point of the superhero genre. The Superhero genre has several key elements: a semi-loner with gifts, usually a backstory explaining their origins. The loner usually hides his powers and uses them in defense of a childlike worldview against unusual or also gifted enemies. Rinse, repeat. Most importantly, the superhero is invariably the focus of the show.
Knight Rider and the Rocketeer are in the superhero genre, as (I think) they should be, but Star Trek is not. Problem-solving, magic disguised as technology and a ridiculous utopian social ideal is the focus of most ST series.
Well, of course the broadcasters are going to try to do this. Do the math, they only need to contribute 20 million or so of soft money to reap a 200 billion windfall. That's a 1000000% return on investment.
Excellent point
I am sorry to see AMD is using this change in branding to confuse consumers, but this has to happen eventually. Consumer products are advertised based on what they can do for the consumer. No one buys a Whirlpool 1600RPM washer, they buy the Calypso, because it's so much fun and good for you laundry too! Muscle cars still tout their RPM's and cylinder count, but this is due to the egos of those purchasing such cars.
The truth is that MHZ doesn't matter for the vast majority of consumers. Any computer 800 MHZ or faster is probably bottlenecked by the software and hard drive.
Everyone who has listened to modern political discourse knows that the ability to talk and the ability to think are two seperate things.
More and more I think that theories in physics are nothing more than successive approximations and we'll never know the true nature of existence. With some of these theories it almost feels like someone is playing a trick on us and every time we see through it a new layer of tricks is added.
Why yes, it is amazing that it can render at .4 fps. That is quite a feat of silicon and software. I didn't read your post but I assume that's what you're talking about!
Who doesn't know someone who got cable for free and "forgot" to tell the cable company?
That said, now that there are 3 choices for television programming (cable, air, satellite) for many people they can no longer use the excuse that they are just fighting the man.
There is finally at least the hope of competition in this long-time monopoly. Honestly, I don't know why this is news worthy of a Slashdot post, unless theft and Slashdot are somehow linked.
Moderate me down if you must.
"That scares me a little. But its also a cool idea" ...
I wish posters would know when they have nothing meaningful to add to a story and just post it sans comment.
I agree with you 100 percent about the space shuttle. If the government worked that way, they should just take the money spent on the shuttle program and invest it to save enough to do something interesting from both human and scientific perspectives.
Unfortunately government doesn't work that way and any extra money will be spent on free lampshades for the poor or a tax cut aimed at the rich.
I also would like to see space exploration taken seriously, but I do not want it done in the name of jingoistic "national pride."
The success of the 1950's and 60's in rocket science can be attributed to vast outlays of capital more than fundamental advancement of the state of the art. If space travel and colonization were as important to the world today as it was then we would have already journeyed to Mars and would be well on our way to establishing permanent colonies on the moon.
It is difficult to guess how history will judge an age while an observer is still in it. That said, at least some historians now believe that the space progress 1960's will be remembered as an anomoly due to national pride and the cold war rather than a fundamental change in the nature and speed of human technological progress.
Before you decide whether Crusoe is a disappointment or not, you have to decide on the importance of low power consumption. I would look to the handheld gaming industry for an example of what low power consumption does.
Nintendo's Gameboy has been around forever, and it has beaten many superior systems that were similarly priced. One of the main reasons for its success is its battery performance.
Changing out and recharging batteries in laptops and handhelds is one of the major drawbacks to these devices. I suspect many businesspeople, especially those that travel, would take half the performance of their laptops for 3 times the battery life in a heartbeat. How fast do you need to run Powerpoint, after all?
I work for a company that generally encourages good coding practices, but quality varies from division to division and I have been on projects where the manager wants code fast, fast, fast. The best bet is to write the UI in VB, and whenever your manager stands over your shoulder, load it and show him what you're doing in VB. Behind his/her back, write the guts of your project in C++ and wrap it in an ActiveX control that you insert into your VB project. I promise your manager won't know the difference! :)
Was this an attempt at a troll or are you just dumb?
Of course it isn't practical now (except by the government.) However, anyone who records encrypted traffic will have no problem solving large integer problems like this on a group of workstations in a few years and can then crack the data. Given that a lot of information will be as important years from now as it is today, do you understand the problem?