I am planning on voting Libertarian only in hopes that if enough votes pile up in the Libertarian column a major party will be compelled to revise their platform to include a more Libertarian outlook (much the way the budget balancing Reform Party resulted in the budget finally being balanced -- well it was nice while it lasted anyway).
My question for Mr. Badnarik is, "Is this a good reason to vote Libertarian?"
Yeah, you young whippersnappers. We didn't have your on-line games and 64-bit graphics. We had crappy, pixelated Intellivision where all the sports games only had two teams; Red and Blue.
Thus the danger of presenting genetic findings as a gene "for" this or that. If a geneticist was to announce they found a gene that "is related to in some way, but we can't say for sure, and surely interacts with myriad other processes along the way", it wouldn't grab a headline, would it?
And how do you know that the mutant monkeys would be super-smart? Maybe they would have language but still only be interested in typical monkey things. They would probably be very boring, repetitive conversationalists.
I think in the context of Xbox live it does make sense. It is intended as a level playing field, gamers should love the chance to compete w/ less concern over hardware differences. Xbox is what its advertised to be, you can always play games on your PC when you want to cheat
But you're assuming that the per unit cost would be the same. In the quantities they deal in the media cost would be negligible. And they wouldn't have to carry multiple copies of big hits. They buy one master dup license and recoup the price much faster.
The burn-on-demand process could be highly automated.
Personnel costs would drop as they would save on what must currently be a storage, retrieval and refiling nightmare.
You could argue that it would increase the value of the service dramatically. Instead of '3 movies out at a time' you could have 'n' movies burned and shipped to you each week.
This highlights a common confusion about academic vs. applied math. Ordinal counting is an extremely stable abstraction, but when you apply it to real world objects, it's only as meaningful as the abstraction that maps onto the algorithim.
There is a rule of thumb that every 3 orders of magnitudes require a new science. All abstractions define things in general terms for a given scale, but the chaotic fringes, where these definitions break down, are what bring about problems.
High-speed digital is a good example. Binary encoding is an abstraction with a huge range of uses when modeled by transitor states. But when signal speeds (actually edge rates, but whatever) reach a certain point, the 'is it a 1 or a 0" abstraction breaks down. The change in magnitude has given rise to a new discipline. A new dimensionality must be added to the abstraction that accounts for controlled impedence, transmission and skin effects, line termination, etc.
This DVD rent-by-mail company and pop-up ad regular will end up saving a lot of money on their return mail envelopes. The mail format even negates the burn time. I don't see how they could pass it up.
Maybe they could make the media out of a decomposable starch-based fiber - like those flushable packing peanuts;)
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I am planning on voting Libertarian only in hopes that if enough votes pile up in the Libertarian column a major party will be compelled to revise their platform to include a more Libertarian outlook (much the way the budget balancing Reform Party resulted in the budget finally being balanced -- well it was nice while it lasted anyway).
My question for Mr. Badnarik is, "Is this a good reason to vote Libertarian?"
pls refer to Episode I and II, droid armies are very ineffective. why do you think they spent on that money on the clones?
duh...
"The farther from lights and altered habitats you get, the more moths you find," he says.
Yeah, like moths to a...er...away from a flame?
Yeah, you young whippersnappers. We didn't have your on-line games and 64-bit graphics. We had crappy, pixelated Intellivision where all the sports games only had two teams; Red and Blue.
That's the way it was and we LIKED IT!!!
...and an undo button, Crap I wish I hadn't posted that...
Thus the danger of presenting genetic findings as a gene "for" this or that. If a geneticist was to announce they found a gene that "is related to in some way, but we can't say for sure, and surely interacts with myriad other processes along the way", it wouldn't grab a headline, would it? And how do you know that the mutant monkeys would be super-smart? Maybe they would have language but still only be interested in typical monkey things. They would probably be very boring, repetitive conversationalists.
I think in the context of Xbox live it does make sense. It is intended as a level playing field, gamers should love the chance to compete w/ less concern over hardware differences. Xbox is what its advertised to be, you can always play games on your PC when you want to cheat
But you're assuming that the per unit cost would be the same. In the quantities they deal in the media cost would be negligible. And they wouldn't have to carry multiple copies of big hits. They buy one master dup license and recoup the price much faster.
The burn-on-demand process could be highly automated. Personnel costs would drop as they would save on what must currently be a storage, retrieval and refiling nightmare.
You could argue that it would increase the value of the service dramatically. Instead of '3 movies out at a time' you could have 'n' movies burned and shipped to you each week.
There is a rule of thumb that every 3 orders of magnitudes require a new science. All abstractions define things in general terms for a given scale, but the chaotic fringes, where these definitions break down, are what bring about problems.
High-speed digital is a good example. Binary encoding is an abstraction with a huge range of uses when modeled by transitor states. But when signal speeds (actually edge rates, but whatever) reach a certain point, the 'is it a 1 or a 0" abstraction breaks down. The change in magnitude has given rise to a new discipline. A new dimensionality must be added to the abstraction that accounts for controlled impedence, transmission and skin effects, line termination, etc.
Thus knowledge systems evolve.
This DVD rent-by-mail company and pop-up ad regular will end up saving a lot of money on their return mail envelopes. The mail format even negates the burn time. I don't see how they could pass it up. Maybe they could make the media out of a decomposable starch-based fiber - like those flushable packing peanuts ;)