... I'd like to find something that is broader, rather than do yet another mobile device. Perhaps he's thinking of some sort of... immobile device? And broad. Perhaps they'll paint the entire planet with some touch-sensitive OLED display paint, and hook it all into the Google server network. Then, the internet will be everywhere, Google will be everywhere, and you can access your impossible-to-use spreadsheets from all over the world! And, they can claim to have the most up-to-date map anywhere -- full scale! Press release: world domination is not evil -- we're offering you a service!
It would be better to engineer a malaria parasite which kills mosquitos, but not humans. Then, we infect every human and animal in the area with this new parasite, and watch the mosquitos die! It's a perfect plan!
For independant game designers who make shareware games, price probably depends directly on development cost.
For the heavy hitters, development cost is a function of price, which is a function of demand. A game designer comes up with some idea, and passes it onto marketing. Marketing does some research, and finds that x gamers would be interested in a certain type of game. Then, with some simple calculus, find that y games will sell at a price of z for maximal gross sales of yz. Subtract out the price to manufacture, franchise fees and the whatlike, and you have a budget. If the budget is too small, tell the designer to shove off, or tweak the idea until it appeals to a more profitable market.
Consider the game Duke Nukem Forever. Marketing discovered that as time passes, market interest has decreased at a linear rate, such that a negative number of gamers are interested in the game. Also, as time increases, the development costs have increased at a linear rate. So, at this point, any reasonable price tag will result in a loss -- that's a negative sum of money. Here comes the stroke of brilliance: by selling the game at a loss, to a negative number of gamers, this is a product of negative numbers, so positive! Thus, 3D Realms' marketing department has determined that by delaying the game, since both market interest and profits are decreasing at a linear rate, the profit function increases quadratically! I figure, they're waiting until this profit will result in every employee earning a cool hundred million -- then they can release the game, and retire!
I figured that out like, 20 years ago! Kids these days are reaching a new low. They can't even figure out how to walk without some dumb robot to teach them!
In a paper-ballot election, it takes a lot of effort from a number of people (usually at least one insider) to fake a win. With electronic voting, a single person can do the job.
Gasoline is relatively safe because it's not explosive as a liquid. So, you pop the gas tank, and it leaks all over the ground, catches fire, and you can run away before the thing goes. However... if you have porous charcoal, there are problems. Impact the charcoal and little bits break off. Hit it hard enough, and significant portions get reduced to a fine powder. Suddenly, your low-pressure, high density tank turns into a high-pressure, high density tank that's only rated for low pressure.
Add to that, the flammability of charcoal powder. And by flammability, I do mean explosive tendency in the presence of enough air. In review: impact increases pressure, adds explosive potential -- tank rupture is now imminent, and a gas / charcoal mixture is sprayed out in large amounts. Scary.
Depends how you define a wheel. Wheel with axel connected to drive mechanism? No. But tumbleweed can roll for hundreds of miles.
And the neurons in your brain amplify small electrical signals into larger ones. Just like a transistor. (though, the mechanism is vastly different)
Most of whom will be buying their online music from Apple. What I find curious about this is that Walmart still sells computer with Linspire. They're actually denying access to customers who have bought their computer from Walmart!
They feel slighted when they give away such samples, but then cannot afford the patented vaccines. How is this Indonesia being evil? They've gotten tired of getting fucked in the face by greedy american pharm companies. It's like, "Hey! Give us some virus, and we'll make a cure!". "Here's the cure! Oh... you can't afford it? Well, sorry all your people are dying. BTW, do you have any samples of the new strains? We'd really like to make a new cure."
I'd get pretty tired of that, too. This isn't "playing the IP game, with the world's health at stake". This is fighting back against the IP trolls, who are holding the world's health hostage.
Not at all. The only time I use bittorrent is to download free software. I don't equate this to "hanging out with drug dealers", I equate it to "riding the bus". Drug dealers ride busses all the time. So do I. Does this implicate me? Hell no. Neither should using bittorrent.
Another analogy. Criminals use guns. Therefore, we should arrest anybody who uses guns. First stop, police shooting range.
Unless you plan on using a big-tower and build a Beowolf cluster of these;-) Actually... I was just thinking that maybe 10 of these together would be the size of my laptop. And my laptop bag has the extra space. And that since they've got mini-pci slots, they get wireless networking, and I would only need to supply power. And these can't take much of that. I usually plug my laptop in, anyway. But then, I would have a 10x1GHz superlaptop. For the price of two laptops (not counting the original).
If base 10 wasn't useful, it wouldn't have been on the slide rule, either. It's useful for people who count in base 10. Quick way to count digits. If you give me a log in base 2, I've gotta divide by log_2(10) to see if we're talking about thousands, millions, billions.
The definition of prime numbers varies quite a bit, depending on the application.
Similarly, many don't even agree what log(x) means!
For high school math, log(x) is log base 10.
In undergraduate math, and statistics, log(x) is the natural log.
Later on in math, log(x) is of the most convenient base for the application, unless this is ambiguous or non-obvious.
In computer science, log(x) is frequently base 2, but nobody really cares 'cause change of base is just multiplication by a constant.
Same goes for -1. In fact, John Conway, among others, considers -1 to be prime. Good math books contain rigorous definitions of any terms used. If I want to use the word "prime" to denote "any natural number that is 5 greater than another natural number", that's my business. Others may not like the terminology, but if the math is good, the result is good.
Math & written language must coexist, but at the same time, the line between them must not be blurred.
P2P: trade / craft shows. Individuals from all around the world flood an area to swap goods. They bring goods, and share with others. The person running the show doesn't need to own anything themselves -- they rely on the users to bring the content.
VOIP: Couriers in faster (non-truck) vehicles can transport small payloads with relative ease.
A friend of mine is working on a "powered brace" which is intended to assist a paralyzed individual to walk for therapeutic purposes. He uses BasicStamp to record and "replay" walking motion.
That's a helluva lot cooler than a "magic 8-ball", if you ask me.
Also, a large number rather famous people had records of homosexual affairs -- which, at the time, was as damning as kiddie porn is today. Did this forever keep their discoveries from the world? No. But people with insanely brilliant ideas were killed, like Galileo.
Select few:
Alan Turing
DaVinci
J. Edgar Hoover
Really, I doubt it would make much of an impact. If your shit is brilliant, and people care enough to check, they will. Regardless of your taste in digital pictures.
Logically, why *should* you care what people people think of you when you're dead? I do my best to do the right thing, so that I might get the recognition that I deserve while I'm alive. If I die, and people say, "whoah, what a great guy!" or "man that dude was an asshole!", it doesn't make a difference to me.
Now, something like a will can have a significant impact on the people you love... so I definately see the benefit to helping them out, even if they don't know about it while you're alive. But cleaning up some potentially embarassing portion of your life after you die? Not seeing it.
Why? If it's illegal, you won't get caught once you're dead. Unless, of course, you believe in heaven & hell -- and from what I hear, God already knows, so hiding it won't do you any good.
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Are those really the top ten, or is this just some sort of prank?
... I'd like to find something that is broader, rather than do yet another mobile device. Perhaps he's thinking of some sort of... immobile device? And broad. Perhaps they'll paint the entire planet with some touch-sensitive OLED display paint, and hook it all into the Google server network. Then, the internet will be everywhere, Google will be everywhere, and you can access your impossible-to-use spreadsheets from all over the world! And, they can claim to have the most up-to-date map anywhere -- full scale! Press release: world domination is not evil -- we're offering you a service!It would be better to engineer a malaria parasite which kills mosquitos, but not humans. Then, we infect every human and animal in the area with this new parasite, and watch the mosquitos die! It's a perfect plan!
Like books. Print out your source. On non-acid paper.
For independant game designers who make shareware games, price probably depends directly on development cost.
For the heavy hitters, development cost is a function of price, which is a function of demand. A game designer comes up with some idea, and passes it onto marketing. Marketing does some research, and finds that x gamers would be interested in a certain type of game. Then, with some simple calculus, find that y games will sell at a price of z for maximal gross sales of yz. Subtract out the price to manufacture, franchise fees and the whatlike, and you have a budget. If the budget is too small, tell the designer to shove off, or tweak the idea until it appeals to a more profitable market.
Consider the game Duke Nukem Forever. Marketing discovered that as time passes, market interest has decreased at a linear rate, such that a negative number of gamers are interested in the game. Also, as time increases, the development costs have increased at a linear rate. So, at this point, any reasonable price tag will result in a loss -- that's a negative sum of money. Here comes the stroke of brilliance: by selling the game at a loss, to a negative number of gamers, this is a product of negative numbers, so positive! Thus, 3D Realms' marketing department has determined that by delaying the game, since both market interest and profits are decreasing at a linear rate, the profit function increases quadratically! I figure, they're waiting until this profit will result in every employee earning a cool hundred million -- then they can release the game, and retire!
I figured that out like, 20 years ago! Kids these days are reaching a new low. They can't even figure out how to walk without some dumb robot to teach them!
Yup. Takes quite a bit of energy to convert it from liquid to gas. You haven't said anything that contradicts what I did.
- Succeptability to man in the middle attacks.
- Network outages / succeptability to DDoS attacks.
- Possibility of ISP censorship of votes.
In a paper-ballot election, it takes a lot of effort from a number of people (usually at least one insider) to fake a win. With electronic voting, a single person can do the job.Gasoline is relatively safe because it's not explosive as a liquid. So, you pop the gas tank, and it leaks all over the ground, catches fire, and you can run away before the thing goes. However... if you have porous charcoal, there are problems. Impact the charcoal and little bits break off. Hit it hard enough, and significant portions get reduced to a fine powder. Suddenly, your low-pressure, high density tank turns into a high-pressure, high density tank that's only rated for low pressure.
Add to that, the flammability of charcoal powder. And by flammability, I do mean explosive tendency in the presence of enough air. In review: impact increases pressure, adds explosive potential -- tank rupture is now imminent, and a gas / charcoal mixture is sprayed out in large amounts. Scary.
Depends how you define a wheel. Wheel with axel connected to drive mechanism? No. But tumbleweed can roll for hundreds of miles. And the neurons in your brain amplify small electrical signals into larger ones. Just like a transistor. (though, the mechanism is vastly different)
Yeah... but with IM, you can multitask. Your sister could talk to multiple kids at once!</sarcasm>
Most of whom will be buying their online music from Apple. What I find curious about this is that Walmart still sells computer with Linspire. They're actually denying access to customers who have bought their computer from Walmart!
s/american/money grubbing/gi
I'd get pretty tired of that, too. This isn't "playing the IP game, with the world's health at stake". This is fighting back against the IP trolls, who are holding the world's health hostage.
Not at all. The only time I use bittorrent is to download free software. I don't equate this to "hanging out with drug dealers", I equate it to "riding the bus". Drug dealers ride busses all the time. So do I. Does this implicate me? Hell no. Neither should using bittorrent.
Another analogy. Criminals use guns. Therefore, we should arrest anybody who uses guns. First stop, police shooting range.
OMG, I didn't see it on slashdot, so it must not've happened!!!!
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http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/sc.8/category.83/.
If base 10 wasn't useful, it wouldn't have been on the slide rule, either. It's useful for people who count in base 10. Quick way to count digits. If you give me a log in base 2, I've gotta divide by log_2(10) to see if we're talking about thousands, millions, billions.
The definition of prime numbers varies quite a bit, depending on the application.
Similarly, many don't even agree what log(x) means!
For high school math, log(x) is log base 10.
In undergraduate math, and statistics, log(x) is the natural log.
Later on in math, log(x) is of the most convenient base for the application, unless this is ambiguous or non-obvious. In computer science, log(x) is frequently base 2, but nobody really cares 'cause change of base is just multiplication by a constant.
Same goes for -1. In fact, John Conway, among others, considers -1 to be prime. Good math books contain rigorous definitions of any terms used. If I want to use the word "prime" to denote "any natural number that is 5 greater than another natural number", that's my business. Others may not like the terminology, but if the math is good, the result is good.
Math & written language must coexist, but at the same time, the line between them must not be blurred.
P2P: trade / craft shows. Individuals from all around the world flood an area to swap goods. They bring goods, and share with others. The person running the show doesn't need to own anything themselves -- they rely on the users to bring the content.
VOIP: Couriers in faster (non-truck) vehicles can transport small payloads with relative ease.
This is fun! What's next?
A friend of mine is working on a "powered brace" which is intended to assist a paralyzed individual to walk for therapeutic purposes. He uses BasicStamp to record and "replay" walking motion.
That's a helluva lot cooler than a "magic 8-ball", if you ask me.
Also, a large number rather famous people had records of homosexual affairs -- which, at the time, was as damning as kiddie porn is today. Did this forever keep their discoveries from the world? No. But people with insanely brilliant ideas were killed, like Galileo.
Select few:
Alan Turing
DaVinci
J. Edgar Hoover
Really, I doubt it would make much of an impact. If your shit is brilliant, and people care enough to check, they will. Regardless of your taste in digital pictures.
Logically, why *should* you care what people people think of you when you're dead? I do my best to do the right thing, so that I might get the recognition that I deserve while I'm alive. If I die, and people say, "whoah, what a great guy!" or "man that dude was an asshole!", it doesn't make a difference to me.
Now, something like a will can have a significant impact on the people you love... so I definately see the benefit to helping them out, even if they don't know about it while you're alive. But cleaning up some potentially embarassing portion of your life after you die? Not seeing it.
Why? If it's illegal, you won't get caught once you're dead. Unless, of course, you believe in heaven & hell -- and from what I hear, God already knows, so hiding it won't do you any good.