Uhm, the whole point is to have a solid state camera.. Hard drives are by no means solid state..
your parent didn't say anything about retaining solid state. i think he has a great idea: use solid state cards when you're on the move, then swith over to an extenal HD for high capacity when you're stationary.
thanks for the patronizing economics lesson, but i think your parent was talking about a shift in demand, not a movement along the same demand schedule. if so, a positive shift in demand relative to supply will increase prices.
very true, game theory can be applied to all sorts of things. for example, i'm currently working on an academic paper that uses game theory to analyze the computer security vulnerability disclosure problem.
how does google's comment violate moore's law?
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moore's law says nothing about the speed or power of a chip, only the density of transistors. if you hold the size of the chip constant, the number of transistors can increase, or if you hold the number of transistors constant, the size of the chip can decrease.
if google uses a large number of low speed chips, they will still benefit from smaller sized chips with lower power consumption and lower price.
you have done an amazing job at garnering support and sympathy from the public, but how will we ever know if you deserve it? the only person that knows your true motives is you. with your social engineering skills and drive to see how far you can push things, wouldn't changing an entire public's opinion be the ultimate social hack?
of course the "http://" qualifier must be present in the href of the link. i'm talking about what is displayed on the page, what's inside of the "a" tags.
Another iteresting google search trick. Search for "http" and you will get a list of the top page-ranked sites on the internet.
i forget who, but an engineer from google discredited this claim. a search for "http" isn't an objective view of the page rank of all the sites in google's database. it only considers sites that are linked to with the "http://" protocol specifier. so if a link to slashot is written "www.slashdot.org", it won't show up in the list, but if its written "http://www.slashdot.org" then it will. this introduces a bias because most links with the "http://" qualifier are high traffic sites like yahoo and cnn.
Someone care to explain the compiling the compiler problem and solution?
when you're writing a compiler for language x using language x, how do you compile the compiler? the first compiler for a language has to be written in some other language.
A new account has been created for the benefit of slashdot users who don't care to register with NYTimes.
what the hell is your problem? they're not asking for money. they give us a high traffic, quality content site and all they ask for in return is a free registration! or is that still too much to ask? running a site, especially a high traffic site, isn't free you know...
i think it would be interesting if IBM implemented a market for the processing time instead of charging a pre-determined rate. the cost of cpu time would increase as more people demanded the service, then get cheaper during off peak periods.
with a pre-determined rate, IBM would have to build a lot of capacity to satisfy the peak demand times, but then they would have all that power sitting around unused when demand dies down. people who choose to use cpu cycles during off hours will end up subsidizing the peak demand users.
if IBM charged based on current demand, they wouldn't have to build up as much capacity because people would smooth out their usage to take advantage of cheaper prices during odd hours. before you submit a job, you could check and see what the current rates are, and also look at historic rates to try and predict a cheaper time to run your job.
sounds a lot like the arguments for running electricity markets...
Did anyone else think it ironic that some rap artists are endorsing the RIAA's position, considering that "sampling" is little different from consumer use of Napster?
i'm not against online music trading, but getting a song on napster is nothing like using sampling in the creation of music. using napster as a substitue means of obtaining a cd you would normally buy is theft.
using a sample in creating a song doesn't deny the original artist of any income they would have gotten had you not sampled their music. if anything, it will introduce their music to new markets and increase their sales, as the sampler is normaly in a different genre than the samplee.
We do not live under a free market economy. Not even close. The average US citizen is forced to give nearly 50% of his/her earnings per year to fedeal, state, and local governments.
government is an essential part of a free market economy. you are correct that a free market requires strong property rights; without them corruption and cheating would destroy all competition and information transmissions that make a free market work.
to protect our property rights we need the government to provide a solid legal and political framework. without taxes, the government could not function and property rights would be non existent- much worse than your so-called violation by taxation. the public services that the government provides are a common good. if people were not forced to pay for them in the form of taxes, they would suffer from the free rider problem and get no funding at all.
look at some of the developing countries, or countries converting to a market economy from communism. they implement free markets in their countries, but they fail because of the lack of legal protection of the participants.
AOL has looked like a bad investment for years and years.... But as long as old Jod keeps buying it, it goes up - not down.
perhaps you should have looked at a chart before commenting. AOL has been a a bad investment for years. for the past two years the street has been extremely sceptical about aol and its future.
there are plenty of stocks (like roxio) that are still elevated by unrealistic expectations, but aol has not been one. i do believe that aol has some more points to lose. if i were to open a position, it would be short.
it was explained quite clearly on the web page. there was even a link for "what is included in the auction". you get all of the panels, the mission timer, joysticks, some flight manuals + flipbooks, power supplies and software. you don't get the chair or any of the misc things in the picture.
slashdot's favorite company, microsoft, does this and they were called on it a little while ago. stockholders prefer smooth and predictable numbers, so when msft had a quarter with especially high numbers, they would hold off on reporting some of it so they could use it later when revenue might be down.
If we're redesigning Java threads, maybe we can move this discussion from boozy barroom chats to a serious discussion and figure out if there's some way to reconcile the two sides.
people that get into arguments about thread implementation at the bar deserve our attention on the issue.
if you're interested in starting out with go, try samarkand. sorry for the blatant plug, but i started playing go a few months ago and this site was very helpful. the link goes to their equipment guide, but they also have an excellent online store. its founded by Janice Kim, one of the best go players in america and author of several go books.
just put the speaker behind him and he'll run faster! actaully it would be interesting to do an experiment where the rat powers the speaker. i wonder if he would try to run faster or if he would "get it" and stop running.
maybe i'm completely missing your point, but wouldn't this help out the riaa by making it extremely frustrating for other p2p users to find the music they are looking for? i thought i had heard about the riaa actually doing this themselves to "thwart copyright violators".
Microsoft needs maximum market penetration for.NET, otherwise the initiative fails.
i'm a little curious as to why you think.net needs "maximum market penetration" to be a success.
the success or failure of microsoft's software as a service agenda is not hinged upon the widespread adoption of.net. you might be able to argue that the acceptance of passport is important to web services, but i think that's still a stretch, and passport !=.net. either way, microsoft could launch any piece of software they have as a service without using a single line of.net code. what language/framework they use has no bearing on its market success.
back to.net- in my opinion its already a success, for 2 reasons. first, microsoft has chosen it as the next windows development platform. developers will follow or be out on the street. one of the perks of being a monopoly i guess. second, it is actually a good programming environment. an open spec, free development tools, and a common class library. even if it doesn't get "maximum market penetration" its still fun and productive to program in. plus, with mono and (maybe) portable.net you don't have to buy a single microsoft product to write or use.net applications.
in other words, i really don't know what you're bitching about...
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your parent didn't say anything about retaining solid state. i think he has a great idea: use solid state cards when you're on the move, then swith over to an extenal HD for high capacity when you're stationary.
thanks for the patronizing economics lesson, but i think your parent was talking about a shift in demand, not a movement along the same demand schedule. if so, a positive shift in demand relative to supply will increase prices.
very true, game theory can be applied to all sorts of things. for example, i'm currently working on an academic paper that uses game theory to analyze the computer security vulnerability disclosure problem.
if google uses a large number of low speed chips, they will still benefit from smaller sized chips with lower power consumption and lower price.
don't forget Oracle 9i.
you have done an amazing job at garnering support and sympathy from the public, but how will we ever know if you deserve it? the only person that knows your true motives is you. with your social engineering skills and drive to see how far you can push things, wouldn't changing an entire public's opinion be the ultimate social hack?
of course the "http://" qualifier must be present in the href of the link. i'm talking about what is displayed on the page, what's inside of the "a" tags.
i forget who, but an engineer from google discredited this claim. a search for "http" isn't an objective view of the page rank of all the sites in google's database. it only considers sites that are linked to with the "http://" protocol specifier. so if a link to slashot is written "www.slashdot.org", it won't show up in the list, but if its written "http://www.slashdot.org" then it will.
this introduces a bias because most links with the "http://" qualifier are high traffic sites like yahoo and cnn.
when you're writing a compiler for language x using language x, how do you compile the compiler? the first compiler for a language has to be written in some other language.
what the hell is your problem? they're not asking for money. they give us a high traffic, quality content site and all they ask for in return is a free registration! or is that still too much to ask? running a site, especially a high traffic site, isn't free you know...
just have someone throw the mouse at you hard enough that that light blueshifts.
with a pre-determined rate, IBM would have to build a lot of capacity to satisfy the peak demand times, but then they would have all that power sitting around unused when demand dies down. people who choose to use cpu cycles during off hours will end up subsidizing the peak demand users.
if IBM charged based on current demand, they wouldn't have to build up as much capacity because people would smooth out their usage to take advantage of cheaper prices during odd hours. before you submit a job, you could check and see what the current rates are, and also look at historic rates to try and predict a cheaper time to run your job.
sounds a lot like the arguments for running electricity markets...
the song is by clint mansell, who also did the music for pi.
i'm not against online music trading, but getting a song on napster is nothing like using sampling in the creation of music. using napster as a substitue means of obtaining a cd you would normally buy is theft.
using a sample in creating a song doesn't deny the original artist of any income they would have gotten had you not sampled their music. if anything, it will introduce their music to new markets and increase their sales, as the sampler is normaly in a different genre than the samplee.
government is an essential part of a free market economy. you are correct that a free market requires strong property rights; without them corruption and cheating would destroy all competition and information transmissions that make a free market work.
to protect our property rights we need the government to provide a solid legal and political framework. without taxes, the government could not function and property rights would be non existent- much worse than your so-called violation by taxation. the public services that the government provides are a common good. if people were not forced to pay for them in the form of taxes, they would suffer from the free rider problem and get no funding at all.
look at some of the developing countries, or countries converting to a market economy from communism. they implement free markets in their countries, but they fail because of the lack of legal protection of the participants.
perhaps you should have looked at a chart before commenting. AOL has been a a bad investment for years. for the past two years the street has been extremely sceptical about aol and its future.
there are plenty of stocks (like roxio) that are still elevated by unrealistic expectations, but aol has not been one. i do believe that aol has some more points to lose. if i were to open a position, it would be short.
it was explained quite clearly on the web page. there was even a link for "what is included in the auction". you get all of the panels, the mission timer, joysticks, some flight manuals + flipbooks, power supplies and software. you don't get the chair or any of the misc things in the picture.
slashdot's favorite company, microsoft, does this and they were called on it a little while ago. stockholders prefer smooth and predictable numbers, so when msft had a quarter with especially high numbers, they would hold off on reporting some of it so they could use it later when revenue might be down.
linux as a product is not profitable and never will be. ibm is investing in linux so they can use it as a base to sell services from.
people that get into arguments about thread implementation at the bar deserve our attention on the issue.
if you're interested in starting out with go, try samarkand. sorry for the blatant plug, but i started playing go a few months ago and this site was very helpful. the link goes to their equipment guide, but they also have an excellent online store. its founded by Janice Kim, one of the best go players in america and author of several go books.
just put the speaker behind him and he'll run faster!
actaully it would be interesting to do an experiment where the rat powers the speaker. i wonder if he would try to run faster or if he would "get it" and stop running.
maybe i'm completely missing your point, but wouldn't this help out the riaa by making it extremely frustrating for other p2p users to find the music they are looking for? i thought i had heard about the riaa actually doing this themselves to "thwart copyright violators".
this is an unacceptable violation of riaa intellectual property. please post proof of copyright ownership or refrain from stealing others' work.
i'm a little curious as to why you think .net needs "maximum market penetration" to be a success.
the success or failure of microsoft's software as a service agenda is not hinged upon the widespread adoption of .net. you might be able to argue that the acceptance of passport is important to web services, but i think that's still a stretch, and passport != .net. either way, microsoft could launch any piece of software they have as a service without using a single line of .net code. what language/framework they use has no bearing on its market success.
back to .net- in my opinion its already a success, for 2 reasons. first, microsoft has chosen it as the next windows development platform. developers will follow or be out on the street. one of the perks of being a monopoly i guess. second, it is actually a good programming environment. an open spec, free development tools, and a common class library. even if it doesn't get "maximum market penetration" its still fun and productive to program in. plus, with mono and (maybe) portable.net you don't have to buy a single microsoft product to write or use .net applications.
in other words, i really don't know what you're bitching about...