Well the ironic thing about the Monopoly game is that you go to jail for no good reason. Basically going to jail is just bad luck. This probably captures the mindset of the early American monopolists quite well.
Maybe we should measure computer performance in more practical terms. Maybe it should be a function of input and output. For how much work the user puts in, how much work does the computer put out? That is the real point of computing, having a machine do work for us, so perhaps it would help to measure power in more concrete terms.
There is still plenty of reason for hope. All that happened was that the booster failed. We still don't know how the actually sail technology will perform, since the systems are unrelated.
That is just a symptom of Amercian-style representative "democracy." A good percentage of legislature at the federal level is hardly beneficial to the nation and its people.
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I respect their satirical style, but their coverage of September 11 and the Tsunami were so offensive, I find it difficult to go to their page now-a-days.
Perhaps the backers of the broadcast flag would like to wait for another bill to append it to. For instance, the Real ID act passed the senate 100-0 as a part of an $80B war funding bill. The war funding bill had strong support in the senate and the house because the congressmen don't want to look bad to their constituents. Additionally, those sort of bills are not often held up in committee, because people want to get them through fast.
Attaching an ammendment like Real ID or Broadcast Flag will not slow the process. So maybe the CJS Appropriations Bill was not an ideal carrier for Broadcast Flag since appropriations bills tend to be the most debated and delayed.
With this knowledge, someone could start a whole new gang of internet vigilantes. First you write "malware" and sell it to seedy companies, phishers, spammers, and various other jerks. Then it is revealed that the software is actually "beneware" which cleans the target computer of all spyware and viruses and reports to the perps to the authorities.
First we have the U2 iPod. Now Apple can launch the HRH Queen Elizabeth II iPod. It will be royal blue. To cater to British sensibilities, the HRH QE2 iPod featuers and extra long queue.
The movie industry has known this for quite a while and has adjusted their business model accordingly:
These numbers tell the story. Ticket sales from theaters provided 100 percent of the studios' revenues in 1948; in 2003, they accounted for less than 20 percent. Instead, home entertainment provided 82 percent of the 2003 revenues. In terms of profits, the studios can make an even larger proportion from home entertainment since most, if not all, of the theatrical revenues go to pay for the prints and advertising required to get audiences into theaters. (Video, DVDs, and TV have much lower marketing costs.)
This profit reality has transformed the way Hollywood operates. Theatrical releases now essentially serve as launching platforms for videos, DVDs, network TV, pay TV, games, and a host of other products. Even so, the box-office totals are losing their traditional influence. Up until a few years ago, the results from the U.S. box office largely drove secondary markets, especially video. If a film had a huge opening, the video chains would order 200,000 or more copies (at $60 or more apiece wholesale) for rentals. But this buying formula ended when consumers began buying DVDs at mass retailers. By 2004, Wal-Mart was accounting for more than one-third of the studios' revenues in video and DVD. ~Edward Jay Epstein for Slate.
So basically the theatrical release is a gimmic to get consumers to buy DVDs and other stuff later.
Is anyone else troubled that a company can acquire a trademark for a word so generic as Numbers? Worse than that, companies seem to own names more than people do (though I admit that Mike Rowe was a special case). Still, it seems that corporate powers have abused the trademark system.
I wonder what CBS thinks about this trademark considering that they have a crime drama entitled "Numb3rs." Will this be another challenge of Apple's trademarks (think: Tiger)?
This might explain why every other month there is a story on the news which tells me that I should or should not eat eggs. Also, I wonder what our diet would be like if we combined the recommendations of all the "scientific" studies on human nutrition in the last five years.
A scientist who has absolute faith in his craft is sort of like the emporer who wears no clothes.
Throughout the history of human society on earth, creationism is the vast majority opinion. The concept of evolution as the origin of species is quite new and by no stretch of the imagination universal.
The crux of creationism for Christians and other religious people is that God created man. Concerning the time, means, manner, and reason, there is a plethora of opinion, but that is the central concept. The reason Christians (and other religions) started being concerned about the age of the earth was that Darwin scandalized the idea that God created man. At this point fundamentalists went the biblical chronology to prove that the earth was not old enough for evolution to have "created" man.
I am not so sure that there were many "scientific conclusions" about the age of the earth being in the billions over a century ago, though.
Actually the journalist was a staunch supporter of science and trimmed all of the numbers downward to allow the scientific community to save face. Then if you factor in that the scientists surveyed also lied in the sruvey, you are looking at 50% of scientists fudging data.
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. . . why Slashdot even bothers with images for ads, knowing that most of the readership will block them with adblock.
. . . the delightful real-life board game from New York, PacManhattan.
Well the ironic thing about the Monopoly game is that you go to jail for no good reason. Basically going to jail is just bad luck. This probably captures the mindset of the early American monopolists quite well.
400 people were registered, but the missing 100 people were not able to locate the convention center thanks to faulty map software.
Cool it. We are just talking about software here.
A thousand monkeys at a thouse typewriters . . .
To see folks from Opera trying to denegrate Firefox. You have to stick together to beat IE, then you can duke it out amongst yourselves!
Maybe we should measure computer performance in more practical terms. Maybe it should be a function of input and output. For how much work the user puts in, how much work does the computer put out? That is the real point of computing, having a machine do work for us, so perhaps it would help to measure power in more concrete terms.
There is still plenty of reason for hope. All that happened was that the booster failed. We still don't know how the actually sail technology will perform, since the systems are unrelated.
That is just a symptom of Amercian-style representative "democracy." A good percentage of legislature at the federal level is hardly beneficial to the nation and its people.
I respect their satirical style, but their coverage of September 11 and the Tsunami were so offensive, I find it difficult to go to their page now-a-days.
Attaching an ammendment like Real ID or Broadcast Flag will not slow the process. So maybe the CJS Appropriations Bill was not an ideal carrier for Broadcast Flag since appropriations bills tend to be the most debated and delayed.
Can something be modded down "Overrated" when it has not been modded up for anything? We'll let the metamods decide.
With this knowledge, someone could start a whole new gang of internet vigilantes. First you write "malware" and sell it to seedy companies, phishers, spammers, and various other jerks. Then it is revealed that the software is actually "beneware" which cleans the target computer of all spyware and viruses and reports to the perps to the authorities.
Did anyone else read "Apple Moves to All Dual-Core PowerMac Lineup"? I need to get my eyes checked because I am seeing double.
I thought for sure their next move would be the classic "Let's offer more free trial hours."
First we have the U2 iPod. Now Apple can launch the HRH Queen Elizabeth II iPod. It will be royal blue. To cater to British sensibilities, the HRH QE2 iPod featuers and extra long queue.
These numbers tell the story. Ticket sales from theaters provided 100 percent of the studios' revenues in 1948; in 2003, they accounted for less than 20 percent. Instead, home entertainment provided 82 percent of the 2003 revenues. In terms of profits, the studios can make an even larger proportion from home entertainment since most, if not all, of the theatrical revenues go to pay for the prints and advertising required to get audiences into theaters. (Video, DVDs, and TV have much lower marketing costs.)
This profit reality has transformed the way Hollywood operates. Theatrical releases now essentially serve as launching platforms for videos, DVDs, network TV, pay TV, games, and a host of other products. Even so, the box-office totals are losing their traditional influence. Up until a few years ago, the results from the U.S. box office largely drove secondary markets, especially video. If a film had a huge opening, the video chains would order 200,000 or more copies (at $60 or more apiece wholesale) for rentals. But this buying formula ended when consumers began buying DVDs at mass retailers. By 2004, Wal-Mart was accounting for more than one-third of the studios' revenues in video and DVD.
~Edward Jay Epstein for Slate.
So basically the theatrical release is a gimmic to get consumers to buy DVDs and other stuff later.
Is anyone else troubled that a company can acquire a trademark for a word so generic as Numbers? Worse than that, companies seem to own names more than people do (though I admit that Mike Rowe was a special case). Still, it seems that corporate powers have abused the trademark system.
I wonder what CBS thinks about this trademark considering that they have a crime drama entitled "Numb3rs." Will this be another challenge of Apple's trademarks (think: Tiger)?
A scientist who has absolute faith in his craft is sort of like the emporer who wears no clothes.
The crux of creationism for Christians and other religious people is that God created man. Concerning the time, means, manner, and reason, there is a plethora of opinion, but that is the central concept. The reason Christians (and other religions) started being concerned about the age of the earth was that Darwin scandalized the idea that God created man. At this point fundamentalists went the biblical chronology to prove that the earth was not old enough for evolution to have "created" man.
I am not so sure that there were many "scientific conclusions" about the age of the earth being in the billions over a century ago, though.
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Actually the journalist was a staunch supporter of science and trimmed all of the numbers downward to allow the scientific community to save face. Then if you factor in that the scientists surveyed also lied in the sruvey, you are looking at 50% of scientists fudging data.
It is interesting how that whenever religion is critiqued on Slashdot, the only religion discussed is Christianity.