It seems to me that gold is sitting at the intersection of the supply and demand curves.
The primary driver of the high gold demand is artificial (Man made/imaginary role as a parking space for power/wealth). In this case the LACK of supply is what drives demand, and for that reason any large influx of gold would have a much larger influence on price than a simple supply/demand market. Gold is not "used up" in that we have far too much gold on Earth for the current prices if only aesthetic and industrial applications are taken into account. It is rare and it sits there, take away either of those properties and it is not useful anymore.
the 4+ people who work on the project aren't the ones who own the data, the university is.
that's the issue with privacy... we trust the people who we willingly give our privacy up to, but it is the people who come after them that we have to worry about.
I love that people (especially at/.) assume that since Zuck is young (presumably younger than you) or that because he is hated that his success as a megabillionaire is pure luck, and that he has no insight into trends, social networking, or business.
Well for starters this has nothing to do with mega mammals, they practically happened on a different planet. The space rock hit. Then 64.5 million years of flora and fauna happened. Then the American Lion came. Then, 11,000 years ago they died out.
I am not sure any bulb really has a reliable lifespan. I bought my house as a new construction 7 years ago. I have individual fixtures that still have the same light bulbs that came with the house (cheap incandescent 60w) I have fixtures on the same circuit where I have changed the CFL 6 or 7 times.
Now of course it could be the individual fixtures, (or even parts of fixtures, my dining room light has one of the original bulbs still and I have replaced all of the other bulbs tons of times), but it seems a lot more likely to me that light bulbs are highly random. I have in my house 3 month incandescent bulbs that last 7 years and 7 year CFL bulbs that last 6 months, it just doesn't lead me to believe there is a problem with my wiring, but rather that light bulb manufacturing and quality control and ratings are highly varied and not at all consistant.
Incidentally I also am typically the one to change bulbs in my grandmother's house (which is 40 years older than my house, and on a different electrical grid/provider about 60 miles away and have wxperienced roughly the same thing there.
My concern isn't that I will pay 60 bucks for a bulb that will last 20 years, but rather will I get the one that will actually only last for a few months, or will I get the one that will last for 70 years. Crazy as it seems, if I am going to pay more than 60 times what I do for a "normal" bulb, there is going to need to be some warrenty, especially since many cheap bulbs vastly outperform their longevity rating, and the energy savings is a very very small portion of my energy usage.
Blu-ray is still only about 1/4 the market of plastic coasters containing commercials and occasionally movies. DVD is still 75% (by sales). The blu-ray player does both. Online delivery is starting to break through mainstream, but isn't really firmly out of the *geek* sector yet... Especially in Europe (ikea's main market) where netflix is a joke, and bandwidth is sold by the gigabyte.
I'll be honest, as a wannabe author my backup solution involves storing on multiple computers AND gmailing myself copies as lazy-man incremental backups. I am not exactly sure what I would use a cloud drive for, since I already use gmail(and to a lesser extent docs) that way. One really sweet thing is that it is already integrated into my smart phone as-is, because emails with attachments already work there.
I think there IS a consumer gap as far as sharing files bigger than an email attachment without torrent or the like. XKCD summed it up nicely but it seems like nobody has figured out how to do it without going to jail. I am just not quite sure what cloud storage can do (that docs and gmail doesn't, that is legal) without some stupid hardware artificially making it a necessity (e.g. iPad and Kindle Fire omitting storage options)
My first development job had a Go-to hacker girl. She was awesome (and we still keep in touch). She taught me a lot about how to be a good developer, and was always arguably more skilled at programming than me.
She is the same age as me and started her career earlier than me. Today I am a VP System Engineer at a fortune 500 and she is a Registered Nurse.
Don't forget we should be teaching biblical Pi instead of heathen devil math.
"And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one rim to the other it was round all about, and...a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about....And it was an hand breadth thick...." — First Kings, chapter 7, verses 23 and 26
Why would you need a new vaccine? It's not like the genetic makeup of viruses can change over time through a process of natural selection. This is the same reason why we didn't need to invent any new antibiotics after penicillin.
It's false, but it obviously will not change consumer behavior. Hell it might even help shield the games industry from litigation from Jack Thompson 2.0 or the like.
Cigarette warning labels (displayed on an actually harmful product) are not effective. Experts think it is because they make cognative statements, rather than emotional ones... Personally I think you could require cigarette to be packaged directly in cancerous lungs, and require smokers to recite a complicated emotional sonnet declaring that they are thowing their lives away in; and you might impact the market by 1%.
14 year-olds won't just read if you tell them to. Reading a book to them that is actually exciting and fun and age apropriate is a great way to inspire a love of reading, rather than attempting to emulate the appearance of it for a test. By the time I was 14 I had great expectations assigned to me 3 times. I never read that boring piece of antiquated crap more than once. I have read ender's game a few times... The first run-in with science fiction I ever had was when my dad read me stories from I, Robot when I was a kid; you can bet I was old enough to read at the time, but I didn't have any reason to believe that books could be anything but school assignments before that.
It sucks that in this case it didn't happen until the kids were 14, but I can think of a lot worse things a teacher can do than attempt to instill a love of reading on their kids... like Test Prep, for example.
If you have kids YOU ARE NOT THEIR CHILDCARE. You cannot work and watch your kids at the same time. It is not a problem to work with the kids in the house, but you have to be behind a closed, locked door.
SO many of my coworkers think that working from home means they no longer need childcare, and EVERYONE that has kids suffers in reputation because of their bad decisions (as evidenced by Parent post). Every time some toddler talks into daddy's phone during a conference call everyone else assumes all parents are incapable of working from home. It annoys me because I pay for child care, I have a locked door, I work distraction free.
Let me preface by saying, I played D1 and D2 to the exclusion of most other games on the market for YEARS. Everything blizzard (not in the warcraft universe) has me from day 1 till long after the fervor dies down. D3 is horrible.
They limited multiplayer to 4 players per game, 8 player just wasn't working. If that continues to production, wow, what a blunder.
The (very simple) skill system doesn't require/allow you to make any hard choices
The stat system doesn't allow you to make ANY choices
The rune system provides the illusion of skill choices in the form of yet another item hunt
Gear is the only way to differentiate from one player of the same class to another (since you don't really controll stat or skill.
So basically you are left with the late game of DIablo 2 from day 1: Constant item hunt/grind.
Not to mention, if you ever start to forget you are playing a game, there is something blatant to pull you back out. In-line tutorial messages like"don't forget you have a right-click attack too!" to "You have found new lore!" the random floating health orbs from kills make it feel like either all players are soul eating demons, or you are playing an 80s platformer.
It honestly feels like a browser game trying to mimic Diablo2 late game (aka once a character was no longer fun to play), except with really really good graphics.
It's like they are trying their very hardest to be different from the core engagement of diablo 2 (aka building and experimenting, not late game item grinding), like they can't even remember that had something like 1.5 Billion in sales with that game.
Granted this is beta, but I just don't see them changing the fundamentals by may.
First I taught my kids (age 5 and 6) about Pi with a circle drawing and a ruler and some string.
Then I taught them about the greek alphabet so they would understand what the "Pi" symbol came from
Then I taught them about homophones
Then I taught them about puns based on homophones
Then we made a pie, they learned about measuring and cooking.
Then we ate pie while they snickered about the fact that they don't have to do school work during spring break.
but that is my point... You can't do any of the office stuff on a tablet (because of the input problem). Sure you can sorta do some of it, but not in real life. I just don't see how something with such an input problem could ever compete with office.
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Horribly inflated? By what measure?
It seems to me that gold is sitting at the intersection of the supply and demand curves.
The primary driver of the high gold demand is artificial (Man made/imaginary role as a parking space for power/wealth). In this case the LACK of supply is what drives demand, and for that reason any large influx of gold would have a much larger influence on price than a simple supply/demand market. Gold is not "used up" in that we have far too much gold on Earth for the current prices if only aesthetic and industrial applications are taken into account. It is rare and it sits there, take away either of those properties and it is not useful anymore.
Nevermind the fact that Snow Crash inspired Google Earth
It's not like that software is used by anyone.
Dystopian or not, it always struck me as starkly pro-technology.
the 4+ people who work on the project aren't the ones who own the data, the university is.
that's the issue with privacy... we trust the people who we willingly give our privacy up to, but it is the people who come after them that we have to worry about.
I love that people (especially at /.) assume that since Zuck is young (presumably younger than you) or that because he is hated that his success as a megabillionaire is pure luck, and that he has no insight into trends, social networking, or business.
Well for starters this has nothing to do with mega mammals, they practically happened on a different planet. The space rock hit. Then 64.5 million years of flora and fauna happened. Then the American Lion came. Then, 11,000 years ago they died out.
I am not sure any bulb really has a reliable lifespan. I bought my house as a new construction 7 years ago. I have individual fixtures that still have the same light bulbs that came with the house (cheap incandescent 60w) I have fixtures on the same circuit where I have changed the CFL 6 or 7 times.
Now of course it could be the individual fixtures, (or even parts of fixtures, my dining room light has one of the original bulbs still and I have replaced all of the other bulbs tons of times), but it seems a lot more likely to me that light bulbs are highly random. I have in my house 3 month incandescent bulbs that last 7 years and 7 year CFL bulbs that last 6 months, it just doesn't lead me to believe there is a problem with my wiring, but rather that light bulb manufacturing and quality control and ratings are highly varied and not at all consistant.
Incidentally I also am typically the one to change bulbs in my grandmother's house (which is 40 years older than my house, and on a different electrical grid/provider about 60 miles away and have wxperienced roughly the same thing there.
My concern isn't that I will pay 60 bucks for a bulb that will last 20 years, but rather will I get the one that will actually only last for a few months, or will I get the one that will last for 70 years. Crazy as it seems, if I am going to pay more than 60 times what I do for a "normal" bulb, there is going to need to be some warrenty, especially since many cheap bulbs vastly outperform their longevity rating, and the energy savings is a very very small portion of my energy usage.
Blu-ray is still only about 1/4 the market of plastic coasters containing commercials and occasionally movies. DVD is still 75% (by sales). The blu-ray player does both. Online delivery is starting to break through mainstream, but isn't really firmly out of the *geek* sector yet... Especially in Europe (ikea's main market) where netflix is a joke, and bandwidth is sold by the gigabyte.
I'll be honest, as a wannabe author my backup solution involves storing on multiple computers AND gmailing myself copies as lazy-man incremental backups. I am not exactly sure what I would use a cloud drive for, since I already use gmail(and to a lesser extent docs) that way. One really sweet thing is that it is already integrated into my smart phone as-is, because emails with attachments already work there.
I think there IS a consumer gap as far as sharing files bigger than an email attachment without torrent or the like. XKCD summed it up nicely but it seems like nobody has figured out how to do it without going to jail. I am just not quite sure what cloud storage can do (that docs and gmail doesn't, that is legal) without some stupid hardware artificially making it a necessity (e.g. iPad and Kindle Fire omitting storage options)
My first development job had a Go-to hacker girl. She was awesome (and we still keep in touch). She taught me a lot about how to be a good developer, and was always arguably more skilled at programming than me.
She is the same age as me and started her career earlier than me. Today I am a VP System Engineer at a fortune 500 and she is a Registered Nurse.
I think that about sums the whole snafu up.
he was saying that they are NOW but were not when the current workforce was going through childhood.
another idiom busted
"And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one rim to the other it was round all about, and...a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about....And it was an hand breadth thick...." — First Kings, chapter 7, verses 23 and 26
Clearly Pi = 3
Sinners.
Why would you need a new vaccine? It's not like the genetic makeup of viruses can change over time through a process of natural selection. This is the same reason why we didn't need to invent any new antibiotics after penicillin.
more likely it is because these things are always purchased with corporate HP support contracts, which are the "ink cartridges" of the business world.
Oh wait, they already do that.
From my post:
Cigarette warning labels (displayed on an actually harmful product) are not effective
From your link:
knowledge of warning labels on cigarette packages and advertisements is not associated with reduced smoking
It's false, but it obviously will not change consumer behavior. Hell it might even help shield the games industry from litigation from Jack Thompson 2.0 or the like.
Cigarette warning labels (displayed on an actually harmful product) are not effective. Experts think it is because they make cognative statements, rather than emotional ones... Personally I think you could require cigarette to be packaged directly in cancerous lungs, and require smokers to recite a complicated emotional sonnet declaring that they are thowing their lives away in; and you might impact the market by 1%.
14 year-olds won't just read if you tell them to. Reading a book to them that is actually exciting and fun and age apropriate is a great way to inspire a love of reading, rather than attempting to emulate the appearance of it for a test. By the time I was 14 I had great expectations assigned to me 3 times. I never read that boring piece of antiquated crap more than once. I have read ender's game a few times... The first run-in with science fiction I ever had was when my dad read me stories from I, Robot when I was a kid; you can bet I was old enough to read at the time, but I didn't have any reason to believe that books could be anything but school assignments before that.
It sucks that in this case it didn't happen until the kids were 14, but I can think of a lot worse things a teacher can do than attempt to instill a love of reading on their kids... like Test Prep, for example.
If you have kids YOU ARE NOT THEIR CHILDCARE. You cannot work and watch your kids at the same time. It is not a problem to work with the kids in the house, but you have to be behind a closed, locked door.
SO many of my coworkers think that working from home means they no longer need childcare, and EVERYONE that has kids suffers in reputation because of their bad decisions (as evidenced by Parent post). Every time some toddler talks into daddy's phone during a conference call everyone else assumes all parents are incapable of working from home. It annoys me because I pay for child care, I have a locked door, I work distraction free.
Let me preface by saying, I played D1 and D2 to the exclusion of most other games on the market for YEARS. Everything blizzard (not in the warcraft universe) has me from day 1 till long after the fervor dies down. D3 is horrible.
They limited multiplayer to 4 players per game, 8 player just wasn't working. If that continues to production, wow, what a blunder.
The (very simple) skill system doesn't require/allow you to make any hard choices
The stat system doesn't allow you to make ANY choices
The rune system provides the illusion of skill choices in the form of yet another item hunt
Gear is the only way to differentiate from one player of the same class to another (since you don't really controll stat or skill.
So basically you are left with the late game of DIablo 2 from day 1: Constant item hunt/grind.
Not to mention, if you ever start to forget you are playing a game, there is something blatant to pull you back out. In-line tutorial messages like"don't forget you have a right-click attack too!" to "You have found new lore!" the random floating health orbs from kills make it feel like either all players are soul eating demons, or you are playing an 80s platformer.
It honestly feels like a browser game trying to mimic Diablo2 late game (aka once a character was no longer fun to play), except with really really good graphics.
It's like they are trying their very hardest to be different from the core engagement of diablo 2 (aka building and experimenting, not late game item grinding), like they can't even remember that had something like 1.5 Billion in sales with that game.
Granted this is beta, but I just don't see them changing the fundamentals by may.
Year-month-day is the correct way, you little endian bastard.
First I taught my kids (age 5 and 6) about Pi with a circle drawing and a ruler and some string.
Then I taught them about the greek alphabet so they would understand what the "Pi" symbol came from
Then I taught them about homophones
Then I taught them about puns based on homophones
Then we made a pie, they learned about measuring and cooking.
Then we ate pie while they snickered about the fact that they don't have to do school work during spring break.
They should kickstart fund the signage and associated paperwork.
but that is my point... You can't do any of the office stuff on a tablet (because of the input problem). Sure you can sorta do some of it, but not in real life. I just don't see how something with such an input problem could ever compete with office.