You're looking at it the wrong way : the labels are like venture capital for musicians.
If publishing music is such a competitive, high risk, low-profit business, why do the same old companies and individuals run it year after year? When I see an industry where nobody ever goes out of business, I get a little worried. Being a band, for instance, is clearly hugely competitive and risky, they come and go almost week to week. Jack Valenti made more than any of them, what risks did he take and what unique talent did he possess?
I think people are too quick to close learning off in a corner, in the classroom. What the kids of underdeveloped nations need to brighten their futures may be found in a classroom, or on the Internet, or more likely both. The need basic facts, but also a window on the global economy. And luckily laptops are good for both - for storing almost any quantity of easy-to-duplicate texts, or for Internet access. And before you dismiss the Internet as nonexistent in places like Africa, take a look at their cellphone adoption rates.
Actually galvanic skin response is a pretty widely used technique that actually does work for detecting changes in "arousal" (not necessarily sexual arousal in particular). As for GSR differing between people, depending on the temperature, etc., the secret is that you're looking for short-term changes in GSR in response to stimuli, not absolute levels of conductance.
I think this could be a cool way to learn to be aware of and control stress.
As opposed to smart guys like you, who, placed alone on an island with sufficient natural resources, could single-handedly recreate all of modern civilization?
None of us thoroughly understands the world we live in. The amount you could learn in a single lifetime is only a minuscule fraction.
Could you go further into why raytracing is better for deformable terrain (including buildings etc)? I think static environments are one of the most glaring problems of simulated environments.
The problem is that they operate in a political realm where there are no objective assessments, where if you lose but spin it right, you win. So they campaign and make decisions based on propaganda. But then they make some real decision with real consequences (like starting a war or handling a natural disaster) and boom, reality asserts itself, and it hurts.
One has to wonder if Google would even want to compete head on with the iPhone..
I hope not. The iPhone is just a smartphone with a few new features that looks like an iPod; there's nothing special about the infrastructure or business model.
If google jumps in, I hope it will be more revolutionary. For instance, if they won the bandwidth auction that's happening soon, and used that to make a high-speed nationwide data+voice wireless network open to third party devices (though since it's "new" spectrum, initially only the gPhone would work). I'm probably just setting myself up for major disappointment, but that's what I wish.
For google, click fraud is a quality control issue. It dissuades potential advertisers from paying google for clicks because they don't know how many of those clicks are worthless.
Saying click fraud costs google nothing is like saying bad transmissions cost Ford nothing because the customer eats it. People aren't stupid, so pretty soon things that decrease the utility of the product also hurt the market for the product.
Remember, McBride lives in an alternate universe where Linux beat SCO only because IBM infused Linux with UNIX code stolen from SCO. Granted, that's all proven totally false, but there is some consistency to his hallucinations.
The actual quote, which you failed to attribute, is by Benjamin Franklin and reads:
They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.
Uh, no... the actual quote, which you both misquoted and failed to attribute, is: "to live, or not to live, that is the question," and it is by William Shakespeare. Sheesh, you messed it up so much it took me a minute to identify. Although I'm not sure why you are using that quote anyways, since it's entirely irrelevant.
Yep, because when Nike doesn't go in somewhere to charge $.50 an hour to make shoes, alternative jobs will magically spring up that pay the people $7.25
Actually I don't see why Nike couldn't afford to pay the people who make Nike shoes US minimum wage. It's not like they pass the savings along to their customers, that's for sure.
It's just a natural extension of the net neutrality debate. It AT&T gets to charge extra for more valuable bits, why shouldn't Microsoft get to charge extra for its OS to run programs that make people money? Or something.
I hope a lot of is made of this. It seems to me that every time a bust is made, they give credit to whichever government policy is most controversial at the time. Then later it turns out the new law had nothing to do with it, and very often the accused are not guilty anyways. It would be nice to have a list of examples in one place, I wonder if anybody is collecting them?
Oddly enough, I also have a no-longer-supported Geforce 4 4200 card.
My real complaint with upgrading isn't so much the money, but the hassle of spinning the wheel of fortune on a new piece of hardware, a new driver, hardware and software incompatibilies... I just don't need the hassle. Anybody with significant computer experience knows you can never assume stuff will work like it's supposed to.
Closed-source drivers can be OK, except they tend to discontinue support after a while. Eventually the binary driver won't load into a current kernel and you are high and dry. With open-source drivers, the prospects for long-term support are better.
All employers are the same. Overreporting your hours is "timecard fraud" whereas underreporting them is simply "getting the job done." So your answer is to shop around for a boss who writes the rules in your favor instead of their own? Good luck with that.
I think it was Linus who lucked into success due to Stallman's efforts. Without the GPL, Linus probably would have just gone with a BSD-style licence. Linux would then have fragmented and dissipated just like BSD Unix. And having not been beat to the punch by Linux, maybe a FSF kernel would have taken the spot Linux now occupies.
Give it a couple years, and we'll probably all be running 10Gbps networks, and though wireless speeds will improve too, I see no reason to believe that they'll ever catch up.
This is basically what the article is about - not whether wired is faster (it is), but whether that matters to most users? They argue that metrics like ease of moving around to collaborate with different people are more important than technical benchmarks like latency and jitter since 802.11n is "good enough" in those respects.
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I think people are too quick to close learning off in a corner, in the classroom. What the kids of underdeveloped nations need to brighten their futures may be found in a classroom, or on the Internet, or more likely both. The need basic facts, but also a window on the global economy. And luckily laptops are good for both - for storing almost any quantity of easy-to-duplicate texts, or for Internet access. And before you dismiss the Internet as nonexistent in places like Africa, take a look at their cellphone adoption rates.
I think this could be a cool way to learn to be aware of and control stress.
None of us thoroughly understands the world we live in. The amount you could learn in a single lifetime is only a minuscule fraction.
Could you go further into why raytracing is better for deformable terrain (including buildings etc)? I think static environments are one of the most glaring problems of simulated environments.
The problem is that they operate in a political realm where there are no objective assessments, where if you lose but spin it right, you win. So they campaign and make decisions based on propaganda. But then they make some real decision with real consequences (like starting a war or handling a natural disaster) and boom, reality asserts itself, and it hurts.
If google jumps in, I hope it will be more revolutionary. For instance, if they won the bandwidth auction that's happening soon, and used that to make a high-speed nationwide data+voice wireless network open to third party devices (though since it's "new" spectrum, initially only the gPhone would work). I'm probably just setting myself up for major disappointment, but that's what I wish.
Are you aware that Ford has been in crisis for the last two or three years?
Saying click fraud costs google nothing is like saying bad transmissions cost Ford nothing because the customer eats it. People aren't stupid, so pretty soon things that decrease the utility of the product also hurt the market for the product.
Jack Thompson may be a nut, but the guy in the game probably is "him" - inasmuch as that is possible.
Remember, McBride lives in an alternate universe where Linux beat SCO only because IBM infused Linux with UNIX code stolen from SCO. Granted, that's all proven totally false, but there is some consistency to his hallucinations.
I wonder what is the legal tab for this whole escapade? It could easily exceed $3M.
If they're smart enough to make a backup plan, then they're not dumb enough to include it in the press release.
Is it still called a budget when you get however much money you ask for?
It's just a natural extension of the net neutrality debate. It AT&T gets to charge extra for more valuable bits, why shouldn't Microsoft get to charge extra for its OS to run programs that make people money? Or something.
There's a huge difference between "you don't need anything faster" vs. "DDR3 is not faster."
I hope a lot of is made of this. It seems to me that every time a bust is made, they give credit to whichever government policy is most controversial at the time. Then later it turns out the new law had nothing to do with it, and very often the accused are not guilty anyways. It would be nice to have a list of examples in one place, I wonder if anybody is collecting them?
My real complaint with upgrading isn't so much the money, but the hassle of spinning the wheel of fortune on a new piece of hardware, a new driver, hardware and software incompatibilies... I just don't need the hassle. Anybody with significant computer experience knows you can never assume stuff will work like it's supposed to.
Closed-source drivers can be OK, except they tend to discontinue support after a while. Eventually the binary driver won't load into a current kernel and you are high and dry. With open-source drivers, the prospects for long-term support are better.
All employers are the same. Overreporting your hours is "timecard fraud" whereas underreporting them is simply "getting the job done." So your answer is to shop around for a boss who writes the rules in your favor instead of their own? Good luck with that.
I think it was Linus who lucked into success due to Stallman's efforts. Without the GPL, Linus probably would have just gone with a BSD-style licence. Linux would then have fragmented and dissipated just like BSD Unix. And having not been beat to the punch by Linux, maybe a FSF kernel would have taken the spot Linux now occupies.