Why do you think South africa suddenly became a major wine producer? It's because then lands would not support grape vines but would support vineyards. It's a huge huge problem and has been for centuries.
And what do you think all those burgers ate when they were still cows? Soja and corn that was grown especially for them. For the soja alone, massive amounts of rainforest are cut down in countries like Brazil every year.
Wrong. Those would be lot fed beef not grazing animals. Of course many animals are fattened on lots for a short period
People who think meat is inefficient compared to vegetable don't understand that Grazing animal use the massive tracts of un-airable land and don't require labor and oil and pesticide intensive production techniques. Water is our most precious resource and growing crops uses massive amounts of it, and the run off poisons streams. It can even leave land too salty or nutrient deprived for anything but specialized fertilizer fed crops. You can of course over graze too, as seen by the desertification of some areas. The point is that saying crop growing is always more efficient that raising cattle shows a profound misunderstanding of the earth. Eat a banana and it probably traveled 2500 miles, was grown in a chopped-down rain forest, with massive amounts of pesticide.
I want something that can be like a Roku or Apple TV. I want Video out for my TV. I want it to cost about $200. I want it to play Hulu, Netflix and Amazon Instant Video. If it play apple itunes video all the better. And I want it to have decent but not excellent pad function so I can take it ont car trips instead of my laptop. Finally, I want an OS that will be updated (e.g. ice cream sandwhich or later). Anyone have one?
IS there any way to have hundreds of facebook accounts? I'd be fine with using facebook as a universal ID system if I can also maintain different logins of different sites rather than linking them all to one facebook ID. I don't actually use face book-- indeed I detest it, but that's another story.
yet the headline says cheating occurs at all GPA levels. So unless cheating is so sporadic (i.e. negligible) that it does not alter your GPA then this seems to suggest that cheating has as much chance of raising your GPA as lowering it. that is, on average it does not work, but the average is composed of individuals it "helped" and those that it "hurt" in terms of GPA.
Even if the Android advertisements would include features, I have a strong feeling it would be something like "Freedom! 1 GHz processor! 128MB RAM!", ie. just listing specs. That isn't interesting. Users don't know what and why.
OK. Then if you were a manufacturer that made phones with say, 32 GB (let's assume that's double the maximum everything else), market it?
At my institution through the 90s and early 2000s we had to have many more Windows tech support "firemen" than apple support techs. Indeed there basically were no virus and networking and printier driver conflict fires to put out. You didn't have to worry about interrupt conflicts between PC cards. No fires.
The result was every time there was an major IT decision, the windows support techs would out vote the apple support techs. Lots of windows only software became standards and at one point there was a push just go windows only.
All because there were more problems and thus more support techs.
I would imagine that more mature languages have fewer people looking for clever tricks on this web site.
The amazon tablet, as opposed to the amazon readers, is just another tablet. What is special about it and why it will win is Silk backed by the Amazon cloud. Now you have awesome power in a cheap tablet. B&N is trying to compete on specs at the low end and there's almost no amount of minot spec improvement that will rival the added power of the cloud. Amazons silk web pages will almost always open faster. Amazon can add a Siri like personal assistant. B&N can't add those things. some third party might do it for them but it won't be as integrated.
It is almost like Google designed this car to be the epitome of the worst patent law could do. That it has ties to every company possible. I mean, what next? Google throws in a built in iPod to drag apple in?
Google has run roughshod over everyone else's IP. Some of it may be legit but it is a consistent pattern. For example, who would deny that YouTube is built off of loads of clips from copyrighted materials? google profits from this immensely even if they did not upload the copyrighted material themselves.
Google news completely rips off and sublinks to copyrighted news content without compensation or even requesting permission.
Their android runs afoul of Microsoft and Apple IP. Don't take my word for it: manufacturers and courts have voted with their pocket books and injunctions. Google profits enormously from adoption of android since it enhances user adoption of the google ecosystem.
You can quibble but the pattern here is clear; take first and apologize later. make all assumptions about IP in the most favorable light for google profit.
As a consumer I of course benefit from all this. But producers of content are getting hurt.
Since there's not much of a technical reason the iPhone 4 cannot have Siri, I think a big part of why it's only on the 4s (and not even the iPad 2) is to help Apple understand server load from the service before it goes live for 100 million+ people.
That plausible but I'd suspect a couple other reasons too. First, when you rollout something new you want to make sure it does not get a reputation for sucking. One way to do this is to roll it out only on the best machines. And also as you say a smaller foot print helps control things. Second, I'd bet it is full of debugging code and is not optimized. It is known already it chews batteries. If you put this on older phones with tired batteries it's going to get a bad reputation.
So there's reasons besides the naked one of forcing upgrades.
Samsung released their Galaxy II s in the previous quarter. apple did not release the overdue and widely expected 4S till this quarter. Combine that with the fact that the smart phone market is expanding (not zero sum) so that apple does not have to sell less for Samsung to sell more, and it's pretty clear this statistic is just an anomoly due to the way sales get binned by quarter. We won't know much about it till a few more quarters have passed to average it out. My guess is the 4s is the hot cake for Q4.
Please list the ten biggest examples of innovators[tm] whose efforts wilted because of copying.
To be clear: I want ten examples of failure not because the inventor threw his toys out of the pram ("I'm not writing any more music until u guise stop downloading pirated MP3s I'm entitled to more money!!!") but because their efforts became genuinely financially unsustainable.
Ironically Chrome magnifies the importance of security holes that escape the sandbox by it's design. Chrome retains root privledges by default. you can turn this off but then it won't update. That is chromes update manager downloads and installs and exectutes code automatically with root privledges. it does not require you to enter your password to do this.
Thus if an exploit can re-direct chrome into trusting other URLs than it should it's var more of a security hole than it would be if chrome did not retain root privledges.
Note that many codes check for updates: ms word, firefox, and some even download the updates ahead of time. But only chrome installs and runs these as root without asking for your password.
Basically it's unsafe to use chrome in any corporate or government environment
Chrome is invasive in many ways. It even modifies your Environment variables on Macs.
I think Paul might have a point here. When A subsidy is accessed by a small fraction of a market then it does not distort the market much. But when a large fraction accesses the subsidy then prices rise. Take for example the new car purchase rebate the US government offered. Dealers responded by offering less discounts. Most of the subsidy was going to the car dealers not to the consumers. This meant that anyone purchasing a car at that time without a guzzler to trade in paid more than they would have,
The same is very likely true for educational prices.
However, education is more than a market. The nation does care who gets educated. There is a conscious decision that a college education is opportunity for class advancement. We benefit as a nation if we don't have people locked generationally into lower classes and we benefit whn there are large numbers of educated people.
So even if it does cost more the question is, would those objectives be achieved if subsidies were removed and the price of education fell?
Perhaps the proper answer is to reduce subsidies till they no longer distort the market.
My biggest problem is wading through the crap publications to find the good ones. 20 years ago we called publishing incremental results "salami" science. Oh goody your arbitrary change to an algorithm improved it on some meager special case test set, and your publication is so short in the intro and discussion that you don't link it to the extisting stream of knowledge or compare it broadly. Your publication is unlikely to have any value except to adding length to your resume. Otherwise is has almost negative value since it's indistinguishable from all the other ones like it that are actually wrong.
Publishers at as a bit of a gate keeper in this tragedy of the commons. Publish less not more.
You sir are a dupe. The Macintosh and Lisa projects were well underway before Jobs Ever heard of the PARC XEROX project. You should google Jeff Raskin who created the mac and learn he was planning it well before 1979. Here's a bit of history: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/mac/parc.html
the real issue here however is not that but rather, the fact the Schimtt was on apple's board of directors. This is why it is stealing not copying.
How big a fall is depends on where you measure it. It is volatile. THere's a difference between something that is volatile and something the either crashes or always goes up.
I'm pretty sure there are serious problems with bit coins model that lacks a central bank or reserve system (though as some have pointed out it' not impossible a country could adopt it as a currency and provide a reserve system. That would make no sense for a major country, but for a banana republic that did not trust it's own leadership not to print money that would be a sound idea. Or they can just use Dollars like everyone else).
But I'd be surprised if those fundamental flaws are showing up this early. Thus I suspect this is more of a public interest fluctuation or the speculators cashing in.
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Name one? good god man, it's a hure scientific and bussiness enterprise bringing salinated lands back to life.
https://www.technologyreview.com/business/25763/
Why do you think South africa suddenly became a major wine producer? It's because then lands would not support grape vines but would support vineyards. It's a huge huge problem and has been for centuries.
You need to get out more. try driving in the southwest. many many many grazing animals.
And what do you think all those burgers ate when they were still cows? Soja and corn that was grown especially for them. For the soja alone, massive amounts of rainforest are cut down in countries like Brazil every year.
Wrong. Those would be lot fed beef not grazing animals. Of course many animals are fattened on lots for a short period
People who think meat is inefficient compared to vegetable don't understand that Grazing animal use the massive tracts of un-airable land and don't require labor and oil and pesticide intensive production techniques. Water is our most precious resource and growing crops uses massive amounts of it, and the run off poisons streams. It can even leave land too salty or nutrient deprived for anything but specialized fertilizer fed crops. You can of course over graze too, as seen by the desertification of some areas. The point is that saying crop growing is always more efficient that raising cattle shows a profound misunderstanding of the earth. Eat a banana and it probably traveled 2500 miles, was grown in a chopped-down rain forest, with massive amounts of pesticide.
I want something that can be like a Roku or Apple TV. I want Video out for my TV. I want it to cost about $200. I want it to play Hulu, Netflix and Amazon Instant Video. If it play apple itunes video all the better. And I want it to have decent but not excellent pad function so I can take it ont car trips instead of my laptop. Finally, I want an OS that will be updated (e.g. ice cream sandwhich or later). Anyone have one?
IS there any way to have hundreds of facebook accounts? I'd be fine with using facebook as a universal ID system if I can also maintain different logins of different sites rather than linking them all to one facebook ID. I don't actually use face book-- indeed I detest it, but that's another story.
next time RTFA. it's not at all like what you said.
Students cheating and getting higher grades.
yet the headline says cheating occurs at all GPA levels. So unless cheating is so sporadic (i.e. negligible) that it does not alter your GPA then this seems to suggest that cheating has as much chance of raising your GPA as lowering it. that is, on average it does not work, but the average is composed of individuals it "helped" and those that it "hurt" in terms of GPA.
How about the obvious:
Dept of CONTROL
Department of Information Retrieval.
would be my favorite but perhaps we should go with the spam voting meme and as a group astroturf this:
Department of Colbert
Another direction would be the
Department of Never Gonna Give you up.
If you think about the lyrics it actually makes a strange sense.
Even if the Android advertisements would include features, I have a strong feeling it would be something like "Freedom! 1 GHz processor! 128MB RAM!", ie. just listing specs. That isn't interesting. Users don't know what and why.
OK. Then if you were a manufacturer that made phones with say, 32 GB (let's assume that's double the maximum everything else), market it?
I dunno, but I'll ask Siri.
At my institution through the 90s and early 2000s we had to have many more Windows tech support "firemen" than apple support techs. Indeed there basically were no virus and networking and printier driver conflict fires to put out. You didn't have to worry about interrupt conflicts between PC cards. No fires.
The result was every time there was an major IT decision, the windows support techs would out vote the apple support techs. Lots of windows only software became standards and at one point there was a push just go windows only.
All because there were more problems and thus more support techs.
I would imagine that more mature languages have fewer people looking for clever tricks on this web site.
The amazon tablet, as opposed to the amazon readers, is just another tablet. What is special about it and why it will win is Silk backed by the Amazon cloud. Now you have awesome power in a cheap tablet. B&N is trying to compete on specs at the low end and there's almost no amount of minot spec improvement that will rival the added power of the cloud. Amazons silk web pages will almost always open faster. Amazon can add a Siri like personal assistant. B&N can't add those things. some third party might do it for them but it won't be as integrated.
Publishing in a Journal was the researchers choice. IIRC that pretty much makes the algorithm unpatentable as it's public disclosure (IINAL).
No it does not in the US. But it does start the clock ticking. You have 1 year after that.
In foreign countries however it's first to file, so once you publish it's over.
Back in my day we had Basic running on a 2K altair. Kids these days don't know the meaning of a kilobyte.
It is almost like Google designed this car to be the epitome of the worst patent law could do. That it has ties to every company possible. I mean, what next? Google throws in a built in iPod to drag apple in?
Google has run roughshod over everyone else's IP. Some of it may be legit but it is a consistent pattern. For example, who would deny that YouTube is built off of loads of clips from copyrighted materials? google profits from this immensely even if they did not upload the copyrighted material themselves.
Google news completely rips off and sublinks to copyrighted news content without compensation or even requesting permission.
Their android runs afoul of Microsoft and Apple IP. Don't take my word for it: manufacturers and courts have voted with their pocket books and injunctions. Google profits enormously from adoption of android since it enhances user adoption of the google ecosystem.
You can quibble but the pattern here is clear; take first and apologize later. make all assumptions about IP in the most favorable light for google profit.
As a consumer I of course benefit from all this. But producers of content are getting hurt.
Since there's not much of a technical reason the iPhone 4 cannot have Siri, I think a big part of why it's only on the 4s (and not even the iPad 2) is to help Apple understand server load from the service before it goes live for 100 million+ people.
That plausible but I'd suspect a couple other reasons too. First, when you rollout something new you want to make sure it does not get a reputation for sucking. One way to do this is to roll it out only on the best machines. And also as you say a smaller foot print helps control things. Second, I'd bet it is full of debugging code and is not optimized. It is known already it chews batteries. If you put this on older phones with tired batteries it's going to get a bad reputation.
So there's reasons besides the naked one of forcing upgrades.
oddly I want an iphone none the less. strange is it not that specs are not everything.
Samsung released their Galaxy II s in the previous quarter. apple did not release the overdue and widely expected 4S till this quarter. Combine that with the fact that the smart phone market is expanding (not zero sum) so that apple does not have to sell less for Samsung to sell more, and it's pretty clear this statistic is just an anomoly due to the way sales get binned by quarter. We won't know much about it till a few more quarters have passed to average it out. My guess is the 4s is the hot cake for Q4.
Please list the ten biggest examples of innovators[tm] whose efforts wilted because of copying.
To be clear: I want ten examples of failure not because the inventor threw his toys out of the pram ("I'm not writing any more music until u guise stop downloading pirated MP3s I'm entitled to more money!!!") but because their efforts became genuinely financially unsustainable.
Easy...
Eli Whitney was driven to ruin after rampant copying of his patented cotton gin. He did not continue inventing.
http://inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventions/a/cotton_gin.htm
Edison slavishly copied Swans patented carbon filament light bulb slavishly.
http://www.coolquiz.com/trivia/explain/docs/edison.asp
Elisha Gray filed his patent on the telephone before Alexander Graham bell.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Gray_and_Alexander_Bell_telephone_controversy
But I doubt anything could convince you. But in the mean time please stop using the telephone, or lights or wearing cotton.
Ironically Chrome magnifies the importance of security holes that escape the sandbox by it's design. Chrome retains root privledges by default. you can turn this off but then it won't update. That is chromes update manager downloads and installs and exectutes code automatically with root privledges. it does not require you to enter your password to do this.
Thus if an exploit can re-direct chrome into trusting other URLs than it should it's var more of a security hole than it would be if chrome did not retain root privledges.
Note that many codes check for updates: ms word, firefox, and some even download the updates ahead of time. But only chrome installs and runs these as root without asking for your password.
Basically it's unsafe to use chrome in any corporate or government environment
Chrome is invasive in many ways. It even modifies your Environment variables on Macs.
I think Paul might have a point here. When A subsidy is accessed by a small fraction of a market then it does not distort the market much. But when a large fraction accesses the subsidy then prices rise. Take for example the new car purchase rebate the US government offered. Dealers responded by offering less discounts. Most of the subsidy was going to the car dealers not to the consumers. This meant that anyone purchasing a car at that time without a guzzler to trade in paid more than they would have,
The same is very likely true for educational prices.
However, education is more than a market. The nation does care who gets educated. There is a conscious decision that a college education is opportunity for class advancement. We benefit as a nation if we don't have people locked generationally into lower classes and we benefit whn there are large numbers of educated people.
So even if it does cost more the question is, would those objectives be achieved if subsidies were removed and the price of education fell?
Perhaps the proper answer is to reduce subsidies till they no longer distort the market.
My biggest problem is wading through the crap publications to find the good ones. 20 years ago we called publishing incremental results "salami" science. Oh goody your arbitrary change to an algorithm improved it on some meager special case test set, and your publication is so short in the intro and discussion that you don't link it to the extisting stream of knowledge or compare it broadly. Your publication is unlikely to have any value except to adding length to your resume. Otherwise is has almost negative value since it's indistinguishable from all the other ones like it that are actually wrong.
Publishers at as a bit of a gate keeper in this tragedy of the commons. Publish less not more.
You sir are a dupe. The Macintosh and Lisa projects were well underway before Jobs Ever heard of the PARC XEROX project. You should google Jeff Raskin who created the mac and learn he was planning it well before 1979. Here's a bit of history:
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/mac/parc.html
the real issue here however is not that but rather, the fact the Schimtt was on apple's board of directors. This is why it is stealing not copying.
How big a fall is depends on where you measure it.
It is volatile. THere's a difference between something that is volatile and something the either crashes or always goes up.
I'm pretty sure there are serious problems with bit coins model that lacks a central bank or reserve system (though as some have pointed out it' not impossible a country could adopt it as a currency and provide a reserve system. That would make no sense for a major country, but for a banana republic that did not trust it's own leadership not to print money that would be a sound idea. Or they can just use Dollars like everyone else).
But I'd be surprised if those fundamental flaws are showing up this early. Thus I suspect this is more of a public interest fluctuation or the speculators cashing in.