"faster than all other known dinosaurs and all living birds" isn't quite the same thing as "fastest growing animals ever". Blue Whales grow pretty fast too.
How many real goods and services are actually being traded for bitcoins? I mostly hear about currency speculation. Can I buy stuff from Amazon or some other online shop with Bitcoins?
It'll be fascinating to see what Google's response (both in terms of words and actions) will be. Does "don't be evil" include "don't concede to evil"?
For Google, I get the impression that it does. They have a tendency not to back down, even if backing down seems more profitable in the short run. Google looks at the long term.
I bet Google doesn't even care much about the profitability of their fiber. They just want more people to use the internet more. That increases the advertising pie that's still Google's main source of revenue.
And that's really the core of Google's business model: while everybody else is fighting over pieces of same the pie, Google just keeps making bigger and bigger pies.
The fact that AT&T even believes that Google might back down gives me little hope for AT&T and lots of hope for Google.
I don't care how they do it. If you can submit more than once and see the result immediately, I'd use it as the fitness function to develop my own AI that writes the perfect assay. It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to please the machine.
Nice distillation of the school learning process to its very core, and once they find out, everybody learns a valuable lesson.
1) Generate base load, as in it doesn't vary with the time of day or weather.
Why would we want that? Energy consumption varies with the time of day. Why would we want energy production that doesn't vary?
Nuclear can't respond to demand, and neither can most coal. Oil and gas can. But if you want to get rid of fossil fuels, nuclear alone will not do it. You need some kind of efficient energy storage. And once you've got that, you haven't just fixed this problem for nuclear, you've also fixed it for wind, solar, tidal, hydro etc.
2) Provide for power in all parts of the world, from northern latitudes to the equator.
Note that we don't need a single power source. There's no downside to having several different sources of power, and in all likelihood, it's better to have some diversity in our supply.
Though some actually do work in quite a lot of latitudes. Solar, for example. You'd think it's only for southern climates with big deserts, but Germany, which is about as sunny as Alaska, gets quite a lot of energy from solar too.
3) Is cost effective.
Hydro. Seriously, countries with big dams tend to have dirt cheap electricity. But wind is pretty competitive too, and solar is getting there as well.
Nuclear is the best option.
Once you figure out how to handle that waste.
Current nuclear tech is a temporary measure at best. Maybe advances in Thorium or fusion will make it a viable long term solution, but at the moment it isn't.
Exactly. This story only makes sense when you believe that nuclear and coal are the only options. They're not! "Cleaner than coal" is like saying "more freedom than North Korea". We can do way better than that.
But Facebook is old. It's been top dog for a while now. For Kickstarter, it's rather premature to start asking if it's peaked. It's still busy exploding all over the place.
Exactly. It's important to make sure that paying customers get better value than pirates, rather than worse.
If the paying customer gets a sluggish, heavily-DRMed version that's unreliable because of all the required verification, while the pirate gets a cleaner version with all the DRM removed, you're punishing the customer for paying. Don't do that.
Some very mild DRM might be acceptable, but make sure that it will remain working even if you're unable to continue supporting it (so no validation servers), it will continue working even if they have no internet connection, and it won't cause it to be unnecessarily slow.
Give them a unique code to activate it (without the code, it might function as a demo), that also automatically gives them an account on your site where they can get all sorts of bonus stuff and support.
He's not tier 2 support, he's now a trainer. Instead of being a software developer, he now trains software developers, and should definitely charge accordingly.
Discrimination is just unpopular talk about a segment of the population.
Lately my view has been very discriminatory against wall street and the wealthy.
No, that's not what it is. There's a big difference between criticism and discrimination. And discrimination is something totally different from "unpopular talk". It is, unfortunately, often quite popular, and often goes far beyond talk. But it hurts people for no reason other than for being who they are. And that's why it's wrong.
Why don't you organize a counter campaign to urge them to publish Card's stories anyway?
DC is probably mostly worried about whether it will sell. If they only see people claiming they won't buy it, and they don't see anyone claiming they will buy it, they may have reason to believe it won't sell.
It's not merely his views, it's that he's actively campaigning to deny some people certain rights, and many people strongly object to that and don't want their money to be used for it. And if you buy his stories, he will make money from you, and your money may be used for that campaign. People are voting with their dollars.
The Longest Journey and Dreamfall: Chapters are not remotely as well known as Planescape: Torment. Almost everybody I know has heard of Torment. It's mentioned constantly all over the place. This is the first time I hear of TLJ or Dreamfall.
The Ada Initiative is NOT arguing for anything like what you say. Get your facts right.
It's not what they claim to be arguing for, but it is what it amounts to in this particular case.
Although from Violet Blue's description of the conversation, I get the impression she could have explained a bit better that this was basically going to be a "safe sex" talk. And "safe drugs". (Not sure about the rock and roll.)
This talk doesn't sound like it should have been cancelled for this reason. Having it in a smaller room should definitely have been good enough. It's easy to avoid for anyone who thinks they might be triggered by a safe sex talk.
Can we maybe not politicize everything along party lines, and instead simply recognize injustice when we see it, and demand justice whenever it's needed?
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But it might help to get the certification.
"faster than all other known dinosaurs and all living birds" isn't quite the same thing as "fastest growing animals ever". Blue Whales grow pretty fast too.
How many real goods and services are actually being traded for bitcoins? I mostly hear about currency speculation. Can I buy stuff from Amazon or some other online shop with Bitcoins?
It'll be fascinating to see what Google's response (both in terms of words and actions) will be. Does "don't be evil" include "don't concede to evil"?
For Google, I get the impression that it does. They have a tendency not to back down, even if backing down seems more profitable in the short run. Google looks at the long term.
I bet Google doesn't even care much about the profitability of their fiber. They just want more people to use the internet more. That increases the advertising pie that's still Google's main source of revenue.
And that's really the core of Google's business model: while everybody else is fighting over pieces of same the pie, Google just keeps making bigger and bigger pies.
The fact that AT&T even believes that Google might back down gives me little hope for AT&T and lots of hope for Google.
Or they mail you. With a nice link that will fix your problems for you. Very pro-active, MS support.
I do want 7. Partially because my XP has developed some weird issues that I don't feel motivated to solve.
I don't want to pay $140 for it, though. If I could get it for $40, I'd get it in a heartbeat.
I don't care how they do it. If you can submit more than once and see the result immediately, I'd use it as the fitness function to develop my own AI that writes the perfect assay. It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to please the machine.
Nice distillation of the school learning process to its very core, and once they find out, everybody learns a valuable lesson.
Give me one that can:
1) Generate base load, as in it doesn't vary with the time of day or weather.
Why would we want that? Energy consumption varies with the time of day. Why would we want energy production that doesn't vary?
Nuclear can't respond to demand, and neither can most coal. Oil and gas can. But if you want to get rid of fossil fuels, nuclear alone will not do it. You need some kind of efficient energy storage. And once you've got that, you haven't just fixed this problem for nuclear, you've also fixed it for wind, solar, tidal, hydro etc.
2) Provide for power in all parts of the world, from northern latitudes to the equator.
Note that we don't need a single power source. There's no downside to having several different sources of power, and in all likelihood, it's better to have some diversity in our supply.
Though some actually do work in quite a lot of latitudes. Solar, for example. You'd think it's only for southern climates with big deserts, but Germany, which is about as sunny as Alaska, gets quite a lot of energy from solar too.
3) Is cost effective.
Hydro. Seriously, countries with big dams tend to have dirt cheap electricity. But wind is pretty competitive too, and solar is getting there as well.
Nuclear is the best option.
Once you figure out how to handle that waste.
Current nuclear tech is a temporary measure at best. Maybe advances in Thorium or fusion will make it a viable long term solution, but at the moment it isn't.
Exactly. This story only makes sense when you believe that nuclear and coal are the only options. They're not! "Cleaner than coal" is like saying "more freedom than North Korea". We can do way better than that.
Not everybody has access to HBO in the first place.
I think that's already happened.
But Facebook is old. It's been top dog for a while now. For Kickstarter, it's rather premature to start asking if it's peaked. It's still busy exploding all over the place.
But if it means you sell that many more, it's still a good idea.
Or you sell at a higher price in that app store. Whatever works.
Exactly. It's important to make sure that paying customers get better value than pirates, rather than worse.
If the paying customer gets a sluggish, heavily-DRMed version that's unreliable because of all the required verification, while the pirate gets a cleaner version with all the DRM removed, you're punishing the customer for paying. Don't do that.
Some very mild DRM might be acceptable, but make sure that it will remain working even if you're unable to continue supporting it (so no validation servers), it will continue working even if they have no internet connection, and it won't cause it to be unnecessarily slow.
Give them a unique code to activate it (without the code, it might function as a demo), that also automatically gives them an account on your site where they can get all sorts of bonus stuff and support.
He's not tier 2 support, he's now a trainer. Instead of being a software developer, he now trains software developers, and should definitely charge accordingly.
Discrimination is just unpopular talk about a segment of the population.
Lately my view has been very discriminatory against wall street and the wealthy.
No, that's not what it is. There's a big difference between criticism and discrimination. And discrimination is something totally different from "unpopular talk". It is, unfortunately, often quite popular, and often goes far beyond talk. But it hurts people for no reason other than for being who they are. And that's why it's wrong.
Why don't you organize a counter campaign to urge them to publish Card's stories anyway?
DC is probably mostly worried about whether it will sell. If they only see people claiming they won't buy it, and they don't see anyone claiming they will buy it, they may have reason to believe it won't sell.
It's not merely his views, it's that he's actively campaigning to deny some people certain rights, and many people strongly object to that and don't want their money to be used for it. And if you buy his stories, he will make money from you, and your money may be used for that campaign. People are voting with their dollars.
The Longest Journey and Dreamfall: Chapters are not remotely as well known as Planescape: Torment. Almost everybody I know has heard of Torment. It's mentioned constantly all over the place. This is the first time I hear of TLJ or Dreamfall.
The Ada Initiative is NOT arguing for anything like what you say. Get your facts right.
It's not what they claim to be arguing for, but it is what it amounts to in this particular case.
Although from Violet Blue's description of the conversation, I get the impression she could have explained a bit better that this was basically going to be a "safe sex" talk. And "safe drugs". (Not sure about the rock and roll.)
This talk doesn't sound like it should have been cancelled for this reason. Having it in a smaller room should definitely have been good enough. It's easy to avoid for anyone who thinks they might be triggered by a safe sex talk.
I get the impression playing cowboys and indians in the US is only okay if you use real guns.
This case wasn't in the US. You're confusing judicial systems.
If one idiot can ruin it, it's not the best security in the world.
Though of course the idiot needs to lose access for telling others his password.
So all in all this is good news? The old-people's party is tech savvy, and the punishment is reasonable and proportional.
For me it was the other way around. It asked my if I wanted to use my G+ name for Youtube, so now I'm also a Youtube user.
They're members of the Obama administration.
Can we maybe not politicize everything along party lines, and instead simply recognize injustice when we see it, and demand justice whenever it's needed?