Calculating a coordinate with GPS is about measuring the differences between pulses. If we calculated coordinates after the fact by comparing the signal measured by a remote probe with a signal measured on earth I think you'd get a very accurate relative position.
Yeah, their biggest problem is they assumed market prices changed randomly, and started basing all their risk assessment on models that completely ignore events that might affect the whole market.
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Though your example is just a different coordinate system that could still be translated into 3D space. The "dimensions" in the article are 3 colours and 2 polarisations. I'd rather call them "attributes" than "dimensions".
The other big plus for LaTex I find is source control. Too many people use Word documents to describe something that might need to change over time, but it's almost impossible to tell what changed between versions.
Nope, but it's easy enough to fix on the client side.
In XP, you'd open the advanced TCP/IP Settings from the network properties of you VPN connection, set the "Append these DNS Suffixes (in order)" or "DNS Suffix for this connection" to your work domain name(s). Done.
Then whenever the VPN is connected and the client tries to use a bare hostname, the work DNS server will be checked before the ISP's.
it was the banks offering huge loans to people who couldn't afford the actual payments (not the one or two year introductory payments) that drove prices higher and higher as massive amounts of fraudulent wealth was created.
Yes and no.
I agree with the original poster. Speculators purchasing assets on the hope that the price will go up, pushed the price up. Because everyone agreed to price and secure those assets based on recent similar sales. Which encouraged more speculation that the prices will continue to go up. Which encouraged more loans secured on those increased prices.
Yes, there were a large number of loans given to people who could not afford the repayments, and the failure of these loans was the first obvious sign of a collapse in the economy.
But more fundamentally, the value of these assets was grossly inflated by speculation, fueled by loans that should never have been issued, even if the purchaser could afford the repayments.
The security value of a loan should be based on the assets future ability to generate wealth, not on its speculative resale value. In the case of houses, say 9 years of the market rate of rent. That way there is a direct link between the income of the tenant and the amount you can borrow, limiting the effect of speculation.
The housing bubble is just speculation and good marketing managing to hide the ugly truth for a couple years
If consumers weren't so willing to listen to bank managers and financial analysts. If we hadn't mortgaged ourselves to the hilt in the hopes of speculative gains. We never would have fallen into this debt trap.
Western economies have only been "booming" for the last 20 years because consumers have been racking up credit card and mortgage debt. Spending all that borrowed money on foreign goods has been euphoric, but it has slowly destroyed our economy.
Without all those loans we would have had a depression after the 1987 crash. But all we did was delay and worsen the inevitable crisis.
Economists didn't learn the right lessons from the 30's depression. We should have put regulations in place to restrict the value of loans. Using an intangible asset like a share or a house as security for a loan based on its speculative resale value is a recipe for disaster. A security on a house or share should be based on its future earning potential, say 9 years of rent or dividends.
That's not to say you shouldn't be allowed to speculate on asset prices, but speculation should not be the main driving force in how those asset prices change.
Increasing the realism greatly increases the cost to produce the visual assets. I'm happy enough having a great game released every now and then for an affordable price with cartoony graphics.
I remember some time ago, it was the impending release of Half-Life 2 and Doom 3 that were defining GPU purchases. I think the performance benchmark hasn't moved very much since then. GPU's that can play HL2 / Doom3 well at your maximum resolution can probably play anything released since then reasonably well. I'd say that valve's hardware survey is playing a big part of this, showing that not all gamers are upgrading to the bleeding edge.
A better answer would be to send a wake on lan packet when I swipe my security card at the front door. Then it doesn't matter when I walk in the building.
Nope, that's not quite how it works either since you missed the part where the bank borrowed some amount (say $10) to cover your loan from the FED or overseas, and you deposited (or spent and the seller deposited) that $100 into another bank account. I suggest you read The Roving Cavaliers of Credit recently written by Steve Keen, which explains how a pure credit economy can function and how it can fail.
This sounds almost like the right direction, but the devil may be in the details. A private company that the government will later sell will end up with monopoly control over the last mile of everyone's internet connection. Whoever ends up owning this network will want to maximise profits and recoup the cost of their investment. This still has the potential to end up horribly wrong.
My point was that anyone can do it. If you are worried about google's street view, you should also be worried about tourists taking random photos. Since anyone could then collect the photos together from say flickr and build their own 3D model of a public space.
It's obviously not as convenient as street view yet, but the state of the art is moving very quickly in this area.
100's of sets of tourist photos randomly scattered across the internet, being added and removed and reorganized by their takers at their whim is not remetely the same thing as a single permanent indexed geo-tagged database filled with photos that were carefully and systematically taken and stitched together.
A random collection of photographs of a public space, tagged with vague location info can easily be converted into a 3D model you can virtually walk around. Have you seen Photosynth'sNotre Dame Demo?
Slashdot's wiki page includes a reasonable list of the more common meme's and their meanings, though there may be frequent edit wars as people try to add more obscure meme's that pop up from time to time, and there used to be a whole page related to trolling.
Plus staff and visitors commuting between their buildings clog up the same streets that everyone in town uses. Building a bridge helps the whole community.
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Calculating a coordinate with GPS is about measuring the differences between pulses. If we calculated coordinates after the fact by comparing the signal measured by a remote probe with a signal measured on earth I think you'd get a very accurate relative position.
Yeah, their biggest problem is they assumed market prices changed randomly, and started basing all their risk assessment on models that completely ignore events that might affect the whole market.
7. Page
8. Line
9. Character
Though your example is just a different coordinate system that could still be translated into 3D space. The "dimensions" in the article are 3 colours and 2 polarisations. I'd rather call them "attributes" than "dimensions".
The other big plus for LaTex I find is source control. Too many people use Word documents to describe something that might need to change over time, but it's almost impossible to tell what changed between versions.
Or put the DNS suffix in their advanced network settings.
Nope, but it's easy enough to fix on the client side.
In XP, you'd open the advanced TCP/IP Settings from the network properties of you VPN connection, set the "Append these DNS Suffixes (in order)" or "DNS Suffix for this connection" to your work domain name(s). Done.
Then whenever the VPN is connected and the client tries to use a bare hostname, the work DNS server will be checked before the ISP's.
So watching your process really will make it finish faster?
A list of things that happened since the List of Things That Have Happened Since Duke Nukem Forever Was Announced was written.
it was the banks offering huge loans to people who couldn't afford the actual payments (not the one or two year introductory payments) that drove prices higher and higher as massive amounts of fraudulent wealth was created.
Yes and no.
I agree with the original poster. Speculators purchasing assets on the hope that the price will go up, pushed the price up. Because everyone agreed to price and secure those assets based on recent similar sales. Which encouraged more speculation that the prices will continue to go up. Which encouraged more loans secured on those increased prices.
Yes, there were a large number of loans given to people who could not afford the repayments, and the failure of these loans was the first obvious sign of a collapse in the economy.
But more fundamentally, the value of these assets was grossly inflated by speculation, fueled by loans that should never have been issued, even if the purchaser could afford the repayments.
The security value of a loan should be based on the assets future ability to generate wealth, not on its speculative resale value. In the case of houses, say 9 years of the market rate of rent. That way there is a direct link between the income of the tenant and the amount you can borrow, limiting the effect of speculation.
If corporations are taxed differently than individuals then all wealthy individuals will setup a shell company to hold their real wealth.
The housing bubble is just speculation and good marketing managing to hide the ugly truth for a couple years
If consumers weren't so willing to listen to bank managers and financial analysts. If we hadn't mortgaged ourselves to the hilt in the hopes of speculative gains. We never would have fallen into this debt trap.
Western economies have only been "booming" for the last 20 years because consumers have been racking up credit card and mortgage debt. Spending all that borrowed money on foreign goods has been euphoric, but it has slowly destroyed our economy.
Without all those loans we would have had a depression after the 1987 crash. But all we did was delay and worsen the inevitable crisis.
Economists didn't learn the right lessons from the 30's depression. We should have put regulations in place to restrict the value of loans. Using an intangible asset like a share or a house as security for a loan based on its speculative resale value is a recipe for disaster. A security on a house or share should be based on its future earning potential, say 9 years of rent or dividends.
That's not to say you shouldn't be allowed to speculate on asset prices, but speculation should not be the main driving force in how those asset prices change.
"win+r, iexplore, enter" would be more reliable...
Increasing the realism greatly increases the cost to produce the visual assets. I'm happy enough having a great game released every now and then for an affordable price with cartoony graphics.
I remember some time ago, it was the impending release of Half-Life 2 and Doom 3 that were defining GPU purchases. I think the performance benchmark hasn't moved very much since then. GPU's that can play HL2 / Doom3 well at your maximum resolution can probably play anything released since then reasonably well. I'd say that valve's hardware survey is playing a big part of this, showing that not all gamers are upgrading to the bleeding edge.
A better answer would be to send a wake on lan packet when I swipe my security card at the front door. Then it doesn't matter when I walk in the building.
Igor. Pull The Switch!
45 5f E1...? That's so last month ;)
Nope, that's not quite how it works either since you missed the part where the bank borrowed some amount (say $10) to cover your loan from the FED or overseas, and you deposited (or spent and the seller deposited) that $100 into another bank account. I suggest you read The Roving Cavaliers of Credit recently written by Steve Keen, which explains how a pure credit economy can function and how it can fail.
This sounds almost like the right direction, but the devil may be in the details. A private company that the government will later sell will end up with monopoly control over the last mile of everyone's internet connection. Whoever ends up owning this network will want to maximise profits and recoup the cost of their investment. This still has the potential to end up horribly wrong.
Though now the top 3 are references to this page.
My point was that anyone can do it. If you are worried about google's street view, you should also be worried about tourists taking random photos. Since anyone could then collect the photos together from say flickr and build their own 3D model of a public space.
It's obviously not as convenient as street view yet, but the state of the art is moving very quickly in this area.
100's of sets of tourist photos randomly scattered across the internet, being added and removed and reorganized by their takers at their whim is not remetely the same thing as a single permanent indexed geo-tagged database filled with photos that were carefully and systematically taken and stitched together.
A random collection of photographs of a public space, tagged with vague location info can easily be converted into a 3D model you can virtually walk around. Have you seen Photosynth's Notre Dame Demo?
Heck, just give the OS kernel enough time to flush the filesystem to disk and I'd be happy.
Slashdot's wiki page includes a reasonable list of the more common meme's and their meanings, though there may be frequent edit wars as people try to add more obscure meme's that pop up from time to time, and there used to be a whole page related to trolling.
Plus staff and visitors commuting between their buildings clog up the same streets that everyone in town uses. Building a bridge helps the whole community.