You could probably just run the whole game on statistics and quantum probability. Despite where the ball actually fell, over the course of N games the ball was statistically most likely to fall over there, based on the records of this batter, pitcher and field. This would be less costly than "optical hardware". So all you need are past statistics and a random number generator. The number of "bad calls" would be statistically equal over time.
Based on the amount of evidence, I've constructed a "theory" that the Kraken's mother was named Celliphelia, and that she was constantly scolding the Kraken for playing with his food. Kraken was going through teen rebellious stage (normal for octopi which ate dinosaurs), and left home for a period but was lost in a plankton storm, and washed up on a remote island.
See? "Science" is amazing when you apply paleontology to boneless organisms! It opens an entire new career track for creative writing majors.
Retroworks Law: Every saving (in computing consumption) C is offset by A (larger display devices) plus B (shorter lifespan of energy embedded in device, i.e. mining/extraction/refining/molding/distribution). C
For awhile we thought that the LCDs were going to reduce the consumption of the CRTs, but we found that the energy saved in the LCDs per hour was used up by the behavior of throwing away 3 year old 15" LCDs and replacing them with 21" LCDs. That could be recaptured by delivering the older display devices to emerging markets, such as Egypt and Indonesia, but alas we are banning that trade and building shredders for the display devices. Still, the claims of energy saving go up in proportion to marketing new products, which is directly tied to the problem of increased energy consumption.
In other words, replacing a working functional device with an energy saving device rarely saves any energy.
"We raised your prices for rentals, but, we explained it". Damn, didn't fly... hmm. Ok, try this...
"We raised your prices for rentals, but, we called it another name and wrapped it in top management-ese explanations." Darn, still losing them!
"We raised your prices for rentals, and now we aren't going to change the name etc., because we listened to you" That should do it... Keep fingers crossed, this may just work...
I thought this was going to suck. But a lot of good advice going both directions above (at least the 5 and 4 mods). I'm a company owner, and hope staff like you would come and talk about it. If someone has been a good and loyal staff, what is best for YOU counts a lot with me. I generally know when someone is bluffing... Not recommended
The cost of unleaded gasoline was astronomical in the early 1970s - because unleaded gasoline was produced in relatively small batches and could not compete at scale with leaded gasoline. When leaded gasoline was banned, we were all told that we'd be paying more for gasoline. In fact, the price of unleaded gasoline production fell. The important thing is that the mean blood lead level in 1975 was 15.5 g/dl. The mean blood lead level today is less than 2g/dl. Urban IQs are rising. What does this mean for phasing CFCs out of inhalers? I don't know, but the people who scream every time a new technology has to make transition to scale tend not to make the world any better.
I tried Hootsuite for awhile, which promised similar management of multiple web services. It felt like a house of mirrors. I'm already getting my slashdot headlines on Facebook. Ultimately, it looks like the "portals" will pass like fashion and musical tastes, and maybe all will wind up with MySpace playing guest parts on Love Boat.
I think you miss how smart people stay out of the jury pool. The smart people don't want to be tied up on jury duty, so they think of answers to questions which result dismissals for good reason. Think Arlo Guthrie and the Group W Bench (Alice's Restaurant).
Ergo skip the summary? Why not skip the story? Why not skip/.? While I don't disagree per se, this criticism of the poster (timothy) would be stronger if it hadn't come from "Anonymous Coward". Anonymous Cowards criticize the original poster, if you are Outing the editor, say your name.
Six days out of seven, I agree with the vengency and ridicule of/. commentary on bitcoin. But I find that most of the ridicule is automatic, and automatic criticism of gold is better than knee-jerk opine of bitcoin. Knowing how gold mining works (14/15 USA Superfund sites), I know how randomly awful digging into rain-forested-mines can be. If this "derivative" of bitcoin, pinned to other currencies, weens humans off the tit of OK Tedi Mining, it's a derivative which at least beats the Digger. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ok_Tedi_environmental_disaster
To be a truly faux American city, it needs virtual law offices, courts, and lawsuits over easements and blocked views, and ghosts invested in keeping it from ever ever being built.
Here's the actual explanation why it refuses to die. Ma Bell forgot to escort us to the next technology. This links to a 1954 PSA by Bell Telephone which has a non-threatening matronly woman explaining how to use the telephone without calling "The Operator" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuYPOC-gCGA (explains how to remember a phone number, what a busy signal means, etc.). Incidentally, I agree about the griping, the article was probably written by someone who learned how to dial a telephone at the movie theater.
Psychologically, like most people, I stopped sensibly digesting the numbers when we crossed 4 billion. The best video on the subject remains Hans Rosling's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes (BBC)
I continue to wonder whether any greedy porn king would have the slightest interest in "gerber" or "disney". If they had found a market in that, we'd already have Gerber_XXX.com or XDisney (like Xhamster). The brew-ha-ha may actually create a "Streisand Effect" causing domain squatters to go register domains they otherwise would not have considered (something I tried labelling the "streisand.xxx effect").
"The Streisand effect is a primarily online phenomenon in which an attempt to hide or remove a piece of information has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely. It is named after American entertainer Barbra Streisand, whose attempt in 2003 to suppress photographs of her residence inadvertently generated further publicity."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
In chapter 1, we access free content, and we enjoy it. In chapter 2, we are warned ("ooga-booga-booga", to quote artor3) that we have given up something for the lunch, and that we are at risk of... from the summary, something about someone in Syria using my browser cookies to do something on the world stage. I'm on the edge of my seat. Now, let's see something besides foreshadowing of evil, this tinfoil hat is getting uncomfortable.
Perhaps the point is that very very large herds are prone to attacks on individuals, well I think we buffalo are aware of that. Someone could take the time to learn about me and use my browser cookies. But that's one-on-one risk, not a threat to Syria, and the herd has long ago accepted that this is the price of grazing in the prairie (or has evolved into a mountain goat).
A track at the school does not make fat kids skinny. It does, however, support runners at the school. A swimming pool at the city park does not teach children to swim, either. But access to a public pool levels the playing field between kids who get private lessons and those who cannot. Anyone who thinks expenditures on track and field make kids thin doesn't understand that the access is directed to the top of the class - the runners, swimmers, and computer illiterates. It's no different than paying the salary of a teacher when only 50% of the kids are listening or doing their homework. Laptops, and teachers, are provided so that the students who CAN and WILL pay attention and benefit from them have access to them, the other 50% of students can go to hell and take the schools GPA average with them.
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The application to body parts raises sensitive questions.
Sounds like Weapons of Mass Destruction. Wasn't Dick Cheney or Donald Rumsfeld around in 1883?
You could probably just run the whole game on statistics and quantum probability. Despite where the ball actually fell, over the course of N games the ball was statistically most likely to fall over there, based on the records of this batter, pitcher and field. This would be less costly than "optical hardware". So all you need are past statistics and a random number generator. The number of "bad calls" would be statistically equal over time.
Based on the amount of evidence, I've constructed a "theory" that the Kraken's mother was named Celliphelia, and that she was constantly scolding the Kraken for playing with his food. Kraken was going through teen rebellious stage (normal for octopi which ate dinosaurs), and left home for a period but was lost in a plankton storm, and washed up on a remote island.
See? "Science" is amazing when you apply paleontology to boneless organisms! It opens an entire new career track for creative writing majors.
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Retroworks Law: Every saving (in computing consumption) C is offset by A (larger display devices) plus B (shorter lifespan of energy embedded in device, i.e. mining/extraction/refining/molding/distribution). C
For awhile we thought that the LCDs were going to reduce the consumption of the CRTs, but we found that the energy saved in the LCDs per hour was used up by the behavior of throwing away 3 year old 15" LCDs and replacing them with 21" LCDs. That could be recaptured by delivering the older display devices to emerging markets, such as Egypt and Indonesia, but alas we are banning that trade and building shredders for the display devices. Still, the claims of energy saving go up in proportion to marketing new products, which is directly tied to the problem of increased energy consumption.
In other words, replacing a working functional device with an energy saving device rarely saves any energy.
"We raised your prices for rentals, but, we explained it". Damn, didn't fly... hmm. Ok, try this...
"We raised your prices for rentals, but, we called it another name and wrapped it in top management-ese explanations." Darn, still losing them!
"We raised your prices for rentals, and now we aren't going to change the name etc., because we listened to you" That should do it... Keep fingers crossed, this may just work...
I thought this was going to suck. But a lot of good advice going both directions above (at least the 5 and 4 mods). I'm a company owner, and hope staff like you would come and talk about it. If someone has been a good and loyal staff, what is best for YOU counts a lot with me. I generally know when someone is bluffing... Not recommended
We don't need the news as it's happening. We just need it on a timely enough basis to form excuses based on it.
^ mod up informative
The cost of unleaded gasoline was astronomical in the early 1970s - because unleaded gasoline was produced in relatively small batches and could not compete at scale with leaded gasoline. When leaded gasoline was banned, we were all told that we'd be paying more for gasoline. In fact, the price of unleaded gasoline production fell. The important thing is that the mean blood lead level in 1975 was 15.5 g/dl. The mean blood lead level today is less than 2g/dl. Urban IQs are rising. What does this mean for phasing CFCs out of inhalers? I don't know, but the people who scream every time a new technology has to make transition to scale tend not to make the world any better.
I tried Hootsuite for awhile, which promised similar management of multiple web services. It felt like a house of mirrors. I'm already getting my slashdot headlines on Facebook. Ultimately, it looks like the "portals" will pass like fashion and musical tastes, and maybe all will wind up with MySpace playing guest parts on Love Boat.
I think you miss how smart people stay out of the jury pool. The smart people don't want to be tied up on jury duty, so they think of answers to questions which result dismissals for good reason. Think Arlo Guthrie and the Group W Bench (Alice's Restaurant).
And thus ended remakes of Monty Python's Dead Parrot Sketch.
Hey, just saw picture from TFA... And Sean Duffy looks just like a troll! HA-HAH! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Muntz
Like kids fighting on the lawn.
Ergo skip the summary? Why not skip the story? Why not skip /.? While I don't disagree per se, this criticism of the poster (timothy) would be stronger if it hadn't come from "Anonymous Coward". Anonymous Cowards criticize the original poster, if you are Outing the editor, say your name.
Six days out of seven, I agree with the vengency and ridicule of /. commentary on bitcoin. But I find that most of the ridicule is automatic, and automatic criticism of gold is better than knee-jerk opine of bitcoin. Knowing how gold mining works (14/15 USA Superfund sites), I know how randomly awful digging into rain-forested-mines can be. If this "derivative" of bitcoin, pinned to other currencies, weens humans off the tit of OK Tedi Mining, it's a derivative which at least beats the Digger. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ok_Tedi_environmental_disaster
To be a truly faux American city, it needs virtual law offices, courts, and lawsuits over easements and blocked views, and ghosts invested in keeping it from ever ever being built.
Here's the actual explanation why it refuses to die. Ma Bell forgot to escort us to the next technology. This links to a 1954 PSA by Bell Telephone which has a non-threatening matronly woman explaining how to use the telephone without calling "The Operator" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuYPOC-gCGA (explains how to remember a phone number, what a busy signal means, etc.). Incidentally, I agree about the griping, the article was probably written by someone who learned how to dial a telephone at the movie theater.
Psychologically, like most people, I stopped sensibly digesting the numbers when we crossed 4 billion. The best video on the subject remains Hans Rosling's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes (BBC)
"Software doesn't spy on people. People use software to spy on people."
I continue to wonder whether any greedy porn king would have the slightest interest in "gerber" or "disney". If they had found a market in that, we'd already have Gerber_XXX.com or XDisney (like Xhamster). The brew-ha-ha may actually create a "Streisand Effect" causing domain squatters to go register domains they otherwise would not have considered (something I tried labelling the "streisand.xxx effect").
"The Streisand effect is a primarily online phenomenon in which an attempt to hide or remove a piece of information has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely. It is named after American entertainer Barbra Streisand, whose attempt in 2003 to suppress photographs of her residence inadvertently generated further publicity." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
In chapter 1, we access free content, and we enjoy it. In chapter 2, we are warned ("ooga-booga-booga", to quote artor3) that we have given up something for the lunch, and that we are at risk of ... from the summary, something about someone in Syria using my browser cookies to do something on the world stage. I'm on the edge of my seat. Now, let's see something besides foreshadowing of evil, this tinfoil hat is getting uncomfortable.
Perhaps the point is that very very large herds are prone to attacks on individuals, well I think we buffalo are aware of that. Someone could take the time to learn about me and use my browser cookies. But that's one-on-one risk, not a threat to Syria, and the herd has long ago accepted that this is the price of grazing in the prairie (or has evolved into a mountain goat).
A track at the school does not make fat kids skinny. It does, however, support runners at the school. A swimming pool at the city park does not teach children to swim, either. But access to a public pool levels the playing field between kids who get private lessons and those who cannot. Anyone who thinks expenditures on track and field make kids thin doesn't understand that the access is directed to the top of the class - the runners, swimmers, and computer illiterates. It's no different than paying the salary of a teacher when only 50% of the kids are listening or doing their homework. Laptops, and teachers, are provided so that the students who CAN and WILL pay attention and benefit from them have access to them, the other 50% of students can go to hell and take the schools GPA average with them.