So PAL is sufficiently distasteful that it must be shut down, even if decision markets are generally really useful predictors of future events (and the fact that the U.S. intelligence community could probably use the help), while invading other countries based on faulty (or falsified) intelligence and wishful-thinking "domino-theory" premises about mideast relations, and despite the inevitable civilian and military casualties and potential terrorist reprisals is a "Sacred Duty". Blows my mind.
The closest the academic world has come to these subjects in recent memory was Douglas Hofstadter's standing-room-only Spiritual Robots Symposium back in 2001.
So academia is staying away from this? Could it have something to do with how flakey this whole thing is? Watch out for the grey goo, and make sure your tin-foil hat is fastened tight. And if the goo comes, maybe some Goo Gone will do the trick.
I think I agree with their tech support.. if they give you a music file their obligation has been fullfilled. if you can't play it how is it their problem?
Well, y'see, they're called BuyMusic.com, and they're in the business of selling stuff to consumers. One of the best ways to ensure repeat business is to treat customers with grace and generosity: that's where the old maxim "the customer is always right" comes from. Even if that is impractical in the digital age, it seems that it's in BuyMusic's best interests to treat early adopters well, so that the buzz surrounding their service stays positive. It seems to me that they're not doing a very good job of it so far. And they bear an extra burden, not only having to establish themselves as a viable service, but having to establish that the service they provide is economically viable and technically possible: they seem to be falling down on the latter count, and alienating people who actually decided to drop money on an untested service doesn't bode well for their success on the former.
So maybe you're right, that technically, as soon as the.wmv file hits the user's hard drive, the BuyMusic folks have discharged their obligations, but in a larger sense, if they leave users adrift, they're failing in their obligation to themselves: it's precisely their problem when users don't come back to spend more money there, and dissuade their friends from using the service as well.
Given that the PAM only allows 1000 people a day to sign up, it'd take just under 3 years for even one million people to sign up. I don't think that the economic impact of the PAM will have any statistical significance. There's a really good piece on information markets on the New Yorker's website.
Well, I certainly don't claim to know the social history of tipping, and how it became entrenched, but in my province (Ontario, Canada), tipping is sufficiently institutionalized that the minimum wage for servers is less than 90% of the regular minimum wage (both of which have been frozen for over 8 years, by the way), and that things like workers' compensation and income tax presume that servers make a certain amount in tips. And I suppose that's why I don't think it's optional.
Tip (at least) 15%. Servers get paid less than everyone else because it's assumed they'll be tipped. Tipping isn't optional.
Drop the rightmost digit of the bill, and move the decimal point one to the left. For example, $43.68 becomes $4.36. You now have 10% of the bill.
Take half of the 10% you got from the last step. This gives you 5% of the bill. Continuing the example, half of $4.36 is $2.18.
Now add the 10% and 5% together to get 15%. There's your tip, and it's that simple! Finishing off our example, $4.36+$2.18=$6.54. And if service was really good, or the server is hot, you can always tip more
Or, if you live somewhere with 15% tax, you could always just tip the tax.
So, the key is to understand the nature of the tool you're using, including its drawbacks. If you know what you're doing, you can manipulate the keywords you search on to reduce the number of shopping and weblog links you get. And hey, if the drawbacks are too severe for you, nobody's forcing you to use google, so use something else!
You got me. I must have been thinking of something else. It turns out that it's an American-made red ale. Google tells me it tastes like a bitter. Sorry about that. And good luck with your campaign
RedHat has an odd way of naming releases; the way I understand it is that each consecutive pair of release names has something in common, but (see here) for a good explanation). So for instance, "Pinstripe" followed "Zoot" (both kinds of suits), and "Guiness" followed "Pinstripe" (both British beers). So the last one was "Shrike" and this one is "Severn" which previous posters have noted are both characters in the "Hyperion" novels. Maybe the next one will be a river or a UFC guy.
First, my background. I did an undergraduate degree in math and philosophy, and I'm doing graduate work in Mathematics right now, and I've t/a'ed a few introductory math courses. It was suggested to me by a prof. that before I graduate I should take a basic course in discrete math, and so in my final year of my undergrad, I took the introductory course in discrete math. We used Rosen's book, which I borrowed from a friend, and, as I recall, it was a clearly written book with good examples and almost all of the formulas and information where you think it should be. Plus, it's reassuringly huge.
And now for the unsolicited advice. ..
You absolutely can't learn math from a book; math is a learn-by-doing subject. Books and teachers can help by suggesting techniques, or walking you through things, but you get to know how to do things by doing them again and again and again. It's a bit like sports in this respect: you can watch all the basketball you want on T.V., read all the books you want, and go to as many "shot doctors" as you like, but the only way you're going to make your shot better is by putting the hours in shooting again and again. So it is with math: books and examples and teaching can make it easier for you to practice and revise, but actually working problems out, and proving things for yourself are the only ways that you'll get better.
So how do you put this into practice?
Well, I have two concrete suggestions: first, if it's at all possible (and in my experience, it usually is) get ahold of all the past exams you can, and start working on the problems on the tests. The first few tests you do, have your notes, and whatever books you find useful with you, so you can look at how your prof., or Rosen, or Grimaldi, or whoever does similar problems or proofs, and so you can check facts and formulas that you use. Make sure that you save a few old tests to do without aides once you're confident and comfortable. My other big piece of advice is to work in a group when you do homework or problem sets or studying. The more backgrounds and perspectives and ways of understanding that you have to bring to bear on a problem, the better off you are, and with any luck you'll learn something from the folks you're working with. Plus, it's good practice having to explain and defend your proofs and solutions to classmates, and it's worthwhile to see how other people do the same.
This is what I've learned from taking, tutoring, T/A'ing and marking math courses for the half decade, I hope you find it helpful.
A trip to google leads me to believe that it has something to do with ham radio. This site seems to explain what's going on, but I'll be damned if I can decode exactly what it's talking about.
I actually kinda like Dean, but saying that someone is a serious contender for the 2004 election because he's tied for the nomination at this point is kinda like saying your kid has a serious NBA future ahead of him because he's tied for tallest in grade 3.
For the same reason the makers of Tylenol didn't stop making Tylenol once Kroger Brand Acetominephine came on the market: they still make uber-tons (like a ton, only uber) of money off of it.
That's not the question. They might still be making money off of it, but one key benefit of the patent period is that the original inventor gets to recover their investment during the period where they have exclusive rights. You have to wonder if Tylenol would have been so willing to sink money into R&D for acetaminophen if they knew that Kroeger could exploit their work within a matter of months instead of years. And would they still have a dominant market position if they didn't have their period of exclusivity to establish themselves?
Why aren't we told if it's an editor moderating our posts?
I have to take issue with your suggestion that chemicals should be non-patentable. Given the commercial exploitability, R&D costs, and relative ease of copying once the R&D heavy lifting has been done, chemical compounds are exactly the sort of thing that patents should protect. Why would companies sink millions into R&D for potentially useful compounds (say, enzymes to metabolize oil spills, or self-repairing fabrics) if anyone could exploit that R&D latterly?
In general, patents and IP are a more complicated issue than can be dealt with in the sort of single-sentence answers (like "Ban patents!" or "Ban patents on chemicals, software, and business methods!") that are popular here on/.
MOL is not an emulator but runs runs the OS directly without any CPU emulation. Moreover, NO ROM IMAGE is required.
Basically, that means that you have to have OS X installed on the PPC box you're using before you use MoL. So it doesn't work on any PPC, it only works on macs running linux.
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So PAL is sufficiently distasteful that it must be shut down, even if decision markets are generally really useful predictors of future events (and the fact that the U.S. intelligence community could probably use the help), while invading other countries based on faulty (or falsified) intelligence and wishful-thinking "domino-theory" premises about mideast relations, and despite the inevitable civilian and military casualties and potential terrorist reprisals is a "Sacred Duty". Blows my mind.
So academia is staying away from this? Could it have something to do with how flakey this whole thing is? Watch out for the grey goo, and make sure your tin-foil hat is fastened tight. And if the goo comes, maybe some Goo Gone will do the trick.
Well, y'see, they're called BuyMusic.com, and they're in the business of selling stuff to consumers. One of the best ways to ensure repeat business is to treat customers with grace and generosity: that's where the old maxim "the customer is always right" comes from. Even if that is impractical in the digital age, it seems that it's in BuyMusic's best interests to treat early adopters well, so that the buzz surrounding their service stays positive. It seems to me that they're not doing a very good job of it so far. And they bear an extra burden, not only having to establish themselves as a viable service, but having to establish that the service they provide is economically viable and technically possible: they seem to be falling down on the latter count, and alienating people who actually decided to drop money on an untested service doesn't bode well for their success on the former.
So maybe you're right, that technically, as soon as the .wmv file hits the user's hard drive, the BuyMusic folks have discharged their obligations, but in a larger sense, if they leave users adrift, they're failing in their obligation to themselves: it's precisely their problem when users don't come back to spend more money there, and dissuade their friends from using the service as well.
You might want to read this New Yorker piece on the effectiveness of information markets.
Given that the PAM only allows 1000 people a day to sign up, it'd take just under 3 years for even one million people to sign up. I don't think that the economic impact of the PAM will have any statistical significance. There's a really good piece on information markets on the New Yorker's website.
You know, it wasn't bread that was the reason that agrarian communities formed. It was beer.
I'd venture that "how drunk it can get me" is a reliable measure for the advancement of any technology.
Dan Rather is (quite obviously) Texan.
Well, I certainly don't claim to know the social history of tipping, and how it became entrenched, but in my province (Ontario, Canada), tipping is sufficiently institutionalized that the minimum wage for servers is less than 90% of the regular minimum wage (both of which have been frozen for over 8 years, by the way), and that things like workers' compensation and income tax presume that servers make a certain amount in tips. And I suppose that's why I don't think it's optional.
Or, if you live somewhere with 15% tax, you could always just tip the tax.
I'm a canuck, and the the first I heard about snipe hunting was on the T.V. show "Cheers", in an old episode.
Jeez, i miss that show
So, the key is to understand the nature of the tool you're using, including its drawbacks. If you know what you're doing, you can manipulate the keywords you search on to reduce the number of shopping and weblog links you get. And hey, if the drawbacks are too severe for you, nobody's forcing you to use google, so use something else!
.I suspect you're either a troll or Just Plain Dumb. I'll assume the latter and get all didactic on your ass.
Google is a research tool: it isn't google's fault that it can't read your mind, you need to learn how to use the tool appropriately. So if you Just search on "Asus A7N8X-X" you might get mostly shopping links (although as a previous poster pointed out, you get this potentially helpful link from Asus as number two on your list), however if you search on "Asus A7N8X-X specs", "Asus A7N8X-X review", or similar, you might get information closer to what you are looking for.
You got me. I must have been thinking of something else. It turns out that it's an American-made red ale. Google tells me it tastes like a bitter. Sorry about that. And good luck with your campaign
RedHat has an odd way of naming releases; the way I understand it is that each consecutive pair of release names has something in common, but (see here) for a good explanation). So for instance, "Pinstripe" followed "Zoot" (both kinds of suits), and "Guiness" followed "Pinstripe" (both British beers). So the last one was "Shrike" and this one is "Severn" which previous posters have noted are both characters in the "Hyperion" novels. Maybe the next one will be a river or a UFC guy.
You misunderstand my point; what I'm saying is that simply reading a book is insufficient -- you need to actually do the problems to get the benefit.
First, my background. I did an undergraduate degree in math and philosophy, and I'm doing graduate work in Mathematics right now, and I've t/a'ed a few introductory math courses. It was suggested to me by a prof. that before I graduate I should take a basic course in discrete math, and so in my final year of my undergrad, I took the introductory course in discrete math. We used Rosen's book, which I borrowed from a friend, and, as I recall, it was a clearly written book with good examples and almost all of the formulas and information where you think it should be. Plus, it's reassuringly huge.
And now for the unsolicited advice. . .
You absolutely can't learn math from a book; math is a learn-by-doing subject. Books and teachers can help by suggesting techniques, or walking you through things, but you get to know how to do things by doing them again and again and again. It's a bit like sports in this respect: you can watch all the basketball you want on T.V., read all the books you want, and go to as many "shot doctors" as you like, but the only way you're going to make your shot better is by putting the hours in shooting again and again. So it is with math: books and examples and teaching can make it easier for you to practice and revise, but actually working problems out, and proving things for yourself are the only ways that you'll get better.
So how do you put this into practice?
Well, I have two concrete suggestions: first, if it's at all possible (and in my experience, it usually is) get ahold of all the past exams you can, and start working on the problems on the tests. The first few tests you do, have your notes, and whatever books you find useful with you, so you can look at how your prof., or Rosen, or Grimaldi, or whoever does similar problems or proofs, and so you can check facts and formulas that you use. Make sure that you save a few old tests to do without aides once you're confident and comfortable. My other big piece of advice is to work in a group when you do homework or problem sets or studying. The more backgrounds and perspectives and ways of understanding that you have to bring to bear on a problem, the better off you are, and with any luck you'll learn something from the folks you're working with. Plus, it's good practice having to explain and defend your proofs and solutions to classmates, and it's worthwhile to see how other people do the same.
This is what I've learned from taking, tutoring, T/A'ing and marking math courses for the half decade, I hope you find it helpful.
A trip to google leads me to believe that it has something to do with ham radio. This site seems to explain what's going on, but I'll be damned if I can decode exactly what it's talking about.
Yeah, but it offers a veritable lifetime of gameplay!
Canada hasn't been a dominon since at least 1982.
I actually kinda like Dean, but saying that someone is a serious contender for the 2004 election because he's tied for the nomination at this point is kinda like saying your kid has a serious NBA future ahead of him because he's tied for tallest in grade 3.
What about this? Does it count?
That's not the question. They might still be making money off of it, but one key benefit of the patent period is that the original inventor gets to recover their investment during the period where they have exclusive rights. You have to wonder if Tylenol would have been so willing to sink money into R&D for acetaminophen if they knew that Kroeger could exploit their work within a matter of months instead of years. And would they still have a dominant market position if they didn't have their period of exclusivity to establish themselves?
Who cares?
I have to take issue with your suggestion that chemicals should be non-patentable. Given the commercial exploitability, R&D costs, and relative ease of copying once the R&D heavy lifting has been done, chemical compounds are exactly the sort of thing that patents should protect. Why would companies sink millions into R&D for potentially useful compounds (say, enzymes to metabolize oil spills, or self-repairing fabrics) if anyone could exploit that R&D latterly?
In general, patents and IP are a more complicated issue than can be dealt with in the sort of single-sentence answers (like "Ban patents!" or "Ban patents on chemicals, software, and business methods!") that are popular here on /.
From the MoL site, that you graciously linked to:
Basically, that means that you have to have OS X installed on the PPC box you're using before you use MoL. So it doesn't work on any PPC, it only works on macs running linux.I think that offtopic was being used as a proxy for the non-existant clueless moderation.