Aha! Gotcha! Cockroaches aren't rodents! I just defeated j00r entire argument! Nyeah!
:D
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Obviously you want to avoid posting pictures of you doing your last beer bong, or wearing a lampshade on your head, whilst posting white papers, and pictures of you presenting at conferences.
/me sadly puts away photo of wearing a lampshade on my head whilst posting white papers.
This trial is not something that will be resolved quickly, I expect it to take around 5 years atleast since it will almost certainly appealed up to and including the Supreme Court and possibly even further going over to the EU court.
The prosecutor disagrees:
The trial will last 13 days, public prosecutor Håkan Roswall told The Local.
...nothing that Microsoft contributes to schools facilitates education...
I don't think the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is owned by Microsoft. It's a philanthropic organization that happens to have Bill Gates (and his wife) as its head, because he's super-rich. That's all.
But I'm still curious as to what the money was spent on, and why the initiative failed.
Also if he's so smart why is he trying to do his colour correction in ANY ambient light, instead of under a hood like the real professional photographers do.
The university i am working in (somewhere in new england) has a bunch of foreign grad students. I would say that about 80% of them are foreigners. I am myself a postdoc and a foreigner, all but 2 postdocs are foreigners. Americans should see the things straight: without foreigners research in the US would take a big hit.
This is an interesting point. On the one hand, US PhD programs are filled with foreigners. On the other hand, foreigners are coming to the US to get PhDs. What does that say about the quality of US PhD programs? In Fareed Zakaria's book The Post-American World, he shows that in London's Higher Times Educational Supplement, which is one of two worldwide university rankings, American universities comprise 68% of the top 50 (the other ranking is less qualitative, put out by Chinese researchers, and has the US clocking in at 42% of the top 50).
So I don't think the high percentage of foreign PhD students is a measure of how bad Americans are at science: America has 5% of the world population, so we would expect that because of the draw of American universities, American citizens would represent nearly 5% of the class.
Shopping around the world for labor and materials ultimately lowers the price of goods.
It does not. Here is why:
Public companies must increase share price. The single biggest driver of growth in shareholder value is growth in return on invested capital (see, for example, here. Return on invested capital is, essentially (and somewhat simplistically), the profit you make relative to the equipment you have. Lowering your price to a customer when your cost lowers does nothing but keep profit the same. Therefore, lowering your price does not benefit shareholders.
For private companies, the assumed goal is to make as much money as possible for the company owners, else why would they own the company? Again, lowering your price does not benefit the company owners.
Certainly when there is some form of competition, however, prices should lower (see, for example, the destruction of the airline industry due to uncontrolled price competition).
Thus, in theory, if everyone's material cost lowers, then so too should price lower as a result of competition. However, there are two forms of capitalism: improving goods to gain market share, and cutting costs to gain profit. The switch from the former to the latter, combined with the pressure of growing ROIC (or private profit) prevents prices being lowered.
It's interesting that the overline examples they showed did not show overlines in equations, specifically over italic text. This is where the overline feature really fell down.
I stopped playing new boardgames as all these become obvious after a few games, and if you tend to like one, old games already implement them perfectly...
I agree. I stopped reading fiction after I realized that there were only 20 plots, and they've already been implemented perfectly.
So can someone explain where the whole "Idle is Pants" thing came from? I logged on to slashdot one day and found nearly every story marked "idleispants", with no explanation. And Google ain't helping.
Here's how I know where Portugal is. When I was around 6, my parents took me on a vacation to Portugal. I stayed on the beach and got the worst sunburn evar. THAT'S how I know where Portugal is. It's the country with the god damn sunburns.
Start thinking about disasters that could happen, assign probabilities of that happening (with you and without you), and assign estimated dollar costs associated with recovering from that disaster. Be sure to add in unlikely scenarios (fire consumes everything) and likely scenarios (someone breaks a server). These are the risks. Each risk will have two probabilities: one given that you are not working for the company preventing things, and one given that you are. Now, for each risk, estimate what it would take to recover from it, and how much that would cost, again given that you are not, and given that you are, working for the company.
Multiply out the probabilities and costs for the "not working" column, and then do the same for the "working" column. The difference between the sums should show that you're actually saving the company money.
True, but given that EA has withdrawn their suggestion that you guess at the last character, wouldn't that mean that guessing the last character is back to being circumvention?
Personally, I think they need to work on a way I can vote from the privacy of my own home. In this day and age, there's no reason I should have to physically go somewhere and have someone inexpertly check that I am me and haven't voted already. Someday, maybe the government will catch up to civilian technology.
What civilian technology is available that will identify a particular person uniquely yet anonymously, is not subject to tampering, and will work for everyone regardless of age? "Voting over teh Intarweb" is not as easy as it sounds.
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Aha! Gotcha! Cockroaches aren't rodents! I just defeated j00r entire argument! Nyeah!
:D
/me sadly puts away photo of wearing a lampshade on my head whilst posting white papers.
The prosecutor disagrees:
I don't think the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is owned by Microsoft. It's a philanthropic organization that happens to have Bill Gates (and his wife) as its head, because he's super-rich. That's all.
But I'm still curious as to what the money was spent on, and why the initiative failed.
1. Cite? 2. Because as everyone knows, as time goes on, CPU doesn't get faster and RAM doesn't get bigger.
You mean like this?
This is an interesting point. On the one hand, US PhD programs are filled with foreigners. On the other hand, foreigners are coming to the US to get PhDs. What does that say about the quality of US PhD programs? In Fareed Zakaria's book The Post-American World, he shows that in London's Higher Times Educational Supplement, which is one of two worldwide university rankings, American universities comprise 68% of the top 50 (the other ranking is less qualitative, put out by Chinese researchers, and has the US clocking in at 42% of the top 50).
So I don't think the high percentage of foreign PhD students is a measure of how bad Americans are at science: America has 5% of the world population, so we would expect that because of the draw of American universities, American citizens would represent nearly 5% of the class.
It does not. Here is why:
Public companies must increase share price. The single biggest driver of growth in shareholder value is growth in return on invested capital (see, for example, here. Return on invested capital is, essentially (and somewhat simplistically), the profit you make relative to the equipment you have. Lowering your price to a customer when your cost lowers does nothing but keep profit the same. Therefore, lowering your price does not benefit shareholders.
For private companies, the assumed goal is to make as much money as possible for the company owners, else why would they own the company? Again, lowering your price does not benefit the company owners.
Certainly when there is some form of competition, however, prices should lower (see, for example, the destruction of the airline industry due to uncontrolled price competition).
Thus, in theory, if everyone's material cost lowers, then so too should price lower as a result of competition. However, there are two forms of capitalism: improving goods to gain market share, and cutting costs to gain profit. The switch from the former to the latter, combined with the pressure of growing ROIC (or private profit) prevents prices being lowered.
So there.
It's interesting that the overline examples they showed did not show overlines in equations, specifically over italic text. This is where the overline feature really fell down.
See: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=21486
And, for eye-gouging images: http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=54058
For the record, Microsoft Word (equation editor) also doesn't get it right. But that's no excuse :)
The article heavily pushes the free market concept because Reason is a libertarian magazine.
I agree. I stopped reading fiction after I realized that there were only 20 plots, and they've already been implemented perfectly.
I much prefer to read Eric Drexler's PhD thesis, Molecular Machinery and Manufacturing with Applications to Computing. Chapter 11 (nanomechanical computational systems) is particularly interesting.
I guess this is one of those times I'm glad IEEE has a paywall.
>Put lamp on grate
Nothing happens.
>Put sword on grate
Nothing happens.
>Put rock on grate
Nothing happens.
>Put wand on grate
Nothing happens.
>Put apple on grate
The grate opens!
So can someone explain where the whole "Idle is Pants" thing came from? I logged on to slashdot one day and found nearly every story marked "idleispants", with no explanation. And Google ain't helping.
Halp?
Here's how I know where Portugal is. When I was around 6, my parents took me on a vacation to Portugal. I stayed on the beach and got the worst sunburn evar. THAT'S how I know where Portugal is. It's the country with the god damn sunburns.
There is also a very nice free intro to Erlang and functional programming in general, specifically for the procedural programmer: Thinking in Erlang
Need Another Seven Allen wrenches
A neurosis occurs when your reaction to something is not realistic, even though you know it isn't realistic (e.g. arachnophobia is a neurosis).
A psychosis occurs when your reaction to something is not realistic, but you think it is (e.g. believing the voices in your head is a psychosis).
Exercise for /. crowd: Was Spears's reaction a neurosis or a psychosis?
Start thinking about disasters that could happen, assign probabilities of that happening (with you and without you), and assign estimated dollar costs associated with recovering from that disaster. Be sure to add in unlikely scenarios (fire consumes everything) and likely scenarios (someone breaks a server). These are the risks. Each risk will have two probabilities: one given that you are not working for the company preventing things, and one given that you are. Now, for each risk, estimate what it would take to recover from it, and how much that would cost, again given that you are not, and given that you are, working for the company.
Multiply out the probabilities and costs for the "not working" column, and then do the same for the "working" column. The difference between the sums should show that you're actually saving the company money.
Okay, your post was like lemon juice on a wound.
True, but given that EA has withdrawn their suggestion that you guess at the last character, wouldn't that mean that guessing the last character is back to being circumvention?
What civilian technology is available that will identify a particular person uniquely yet anonymously, is not subject to tampering, and will work for everyone regardless of age? "Voting over teh Intarweb" is not as easy as it sounds.
Not to write any code?
I don't know about you, but I want AI to be useful. Fooling idiots isn't really all that useful.