I would imagine any D&D would be prior art in a general games category? MSoft wasn't exactly the first company to get into games. I'm not sure how they can get a pantent on how points are awarded.
Any D&D DM has subjective power to award points, and MS didn't exactly put D&D out there.
Actually, an article appeared on Slashdot a while back about this. Wiki is not peer-reviewed for accuracy. The article discussed an intentional inaccuracy posted to see how long it would be discovered. In short, it never was, and the author finally went in and changed it.
While it may be very useful in many situations, I wouldn't cite Wiki as a source. Use it to track down other sources based on its information though.
The US is too far behind on this. For a bit less than half that price mentioned ($118), a lot of people in the US are lucky to get 5 Mbit download and 50Kbit upload at $50.
but that shouldn't change the fact that the ISP shouldn't disconnect a user depending on how he uses his connection as long as he pays for it.
Unless the ISP is legally responsible for its users traffic. I'm sure most people (most, not all) did actually agree to some terms of service for broadband connections.
My guess is that they believe that you would not need to turn the lights on for another hour at night thus saving 1 hour of electricity,
That's the assumption, but honestly, at those hours, my lights are off and my monitor and PC is on, which is probably eating up more electricity than the lights...
The funny thing is that, if real, this is most likely a worthless patent. The patent will likely expire long before something like this is even possible.
Or, what is might actually mean is this technology is closer to reality than many of us might have thought....
Why should everything in the whole world be dumbed down for the lowest common denominator?
For the benefit of the many, versus the benefit of the few. Many slashdotters are apparently not lawyers (according to the number of IANAL posts), so does that mean all law should be described in terms only the lawyers can understand? No, it should be done both ways as to benefit as many people as possible.
Law is a specialized area as is the tech industry.
After about 50 significant decimal places doesn't the accuracy get too small to test against reality?
IANAM (... not a mathematician), but using some basic calculus, you can derive formulas for computing/estimating Pi, and in the same text book, its typically shown how to calculate the accuracy of the calculation (i.e. - maitain a minimum level of error). That said, there should really be nothing to test against. Its not statistics.
Obviously, you haven't read 99% of any other business articles either. I say that, because they all can be summarized in that fashion. That's why only about 1% of them are good (but, that goes with about all research in all fields). And since this isn't exactly The American Economic Review or an IEEE journal, there probably isn't much to really be learned from it.
If this is the case, then use it to your advantage. And I'm not speaking direct directly to the parent, but rather to all. There is a good chance a lot of/.ers out there are smarter than the average joe. If this is the case (which I hope it is), make it work for yourself, not against yourself.
I think you're leaving out the "on-time" and "on budget" criteria for software success as well. Otherwise I wouldn't be too quick to jump on labeling anything a success.
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Or, to paraphrase a wise man, myself, I ask how come you don't get why they don't get it?
Who didn't see this coming? I can't see the site (Slashdotted already?), but if I make a site called e-BurgerKing.com to sell hamburgers online, I think I'd get sued too. I don't see the difference.
Depends on how the job market is, doesn't it? A lot of areas in NC have a lightly higher unemployment rate compared to the rest of the US. Maybe the incentive here is to keep your job instead of giving it to someone else who is willing to do it at the rate requested by the employeer.
There are far many more issues dealing with the situation that what are being brought forth from the somewhat one-sided arguments from the posters here on/.
I love the following two quotes from famous economists, because they are both oh-so-true:
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
John Maynard Keynes 1883-1946, English Economist
There is one and only one responsibility of business - to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game.
Milton Friedman 1912-, American prominent economist advocate of free markets, 1976 Nobel price for economics
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Looks like he was finally beamed up to the final frontier?
So long Scotty! I'm sure he'll be missed.
I would imagine any D&D would be prior art in a general games category? MSoft wasn't exactly the first company to get into games. I'm not sure how they can get a pantent on how points are awarded. Any D&D DM has subjective power to award points, and MS didn't exactly put D&D out there.
Actually, an article appeared on Slashdot a while back about this. Wiki is not peer-reviewed for accuracy. The article discussed an intentional inaccuracy posted to see how long it would be discovered. In short, it never was, and the author finally went in and changed it.
While it may be very useful in many situations, I wouldn't cite Wiki as a source. Use it to track down other sources based on its information though.
It really surprises me people complain so much about Jar Jar and so little about the midi-clorians.
Really? I tend to call the above a lot of complaining. Get over it already... (that goes for the Jar Jar haters too).
The US is too far behind on this. For a bit less than half that price mentioned ($118), a lot of people in the US are lucky to get 5 Mbit download and 50Kbit upload at $50.
To sum up. "Pure Awesomeness!"
I hate to tell you this, but to sum up: "Pure Idiocy"
You've seen the Triumph clip where he is at the release of Episode 2, correct?
I like my economic gain at steak well-done!
but that shouldn't change the fact that the ISP shouldn't disconnect a user depending on how he uses his connection as long as he pays for it.
Unless the ISP is legally responsible for its users traffic. I'm sure most people (most, not all) did actually agree to some terms of service for broadband connections.
My guess is that they believe that you would not need to turn the lights on for another hour at night thus saving 1 hour of electricity,
That's the assumption, but honestly, at those hours, my lights are off and my monitor and PC is on, which is probably eating up more electricity than the lights...
In Russia, the Nanotechs regulate you!
The funny thing is that, if real, this is most likely a worthless patent. The patent will likely expire long before something like this is even possible.
Or, what is might actually mean is this technology is closer to reality than many of us might have thought....
Why should everything in the whole world be dumbed down for the lowest common denominator?
For the benefit of the many, versus the benefit of the few. Many slashdotters are apparently not lawyers (according to the number of IANAL posts), so does that mean all law should be described in terms only the lawyers can understand? No, it should be done both ways as to benefit as many people as possible.
Law is a specialized area as is the tech industry.
After about 50 significant decimal places doesn't the accuracy get too small to test against reality?
IANAM (... not a mathematician), but using some basic calculus, you can derive formulas for computing/estimating Pi, and in the same text book, its typically shown how to calculate the accuracy of the calculation (i.e. - maitain a minimum level of error). That said, there should really be nothing to test against. Its not statistics.
Obviously, you haven't read 99% of any other business articles either. I say that, because they all can be summarized in that fashion. That's why only about 1% of them are good (but, that goes with about all research in all fields). And since this isn't exactly The American Economic Review or an IEEE journal, there probably isn't much to really be learned from it.
Go ahead and mod me down for Trol or Offtopic, but the economist in me likes to point out the following correction to the parent.
The optimal strategy will be to persue both strategies till they yield the same rate of additional spam reduction per cost in each pursuit.
Otherwise, mod parent up!
If this is the case, then use it to your advantage. And I'm not speaking direct directly to the parent, but rather to all. There is a good chance a lot of /.ers out there are smarter than the average joe. If this is the case (which I hope it is), make it work for yourself, not against yourself.
I think you're leaving out the "on-time" and "on budget" criteria for software success as well. Otherwise I wouldn't be too quick to jump on labeling anything a success.
Or, to paraphrase a wise man, myself, I ask how come you don't get why they don't get it?
You left out the rest of the joke:
President Screwb: One, Two, Three, Four, Five?! Amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage!
The water balloon fight was epic
It must have been as you obviously didn't have any other use for them?
Who didn't see this coming? I can't see the site (Slashdotted already?), but if I make a site called e-BurgerKing.com to sell hamburgers online, I think I'd get sued too. I don't see the difference.
Depends on how the job market is, doesn't it? A lot of areas in NC have a lightly higher unemployment rate compared to the rest of the US. Maybe the incentive here is to keep your job instead of giving it to someone else who is willing to do it at the rate requested by the employeer.
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There are far many more issues dealing with the situation that what are being brought forth from the somewhat one-sided arguments from the posters here on
That said, maybe I shouldn't be posting at work
I love the following two quotes from famous economists, because they are both oh-so-true:
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
John Maynard Keynes 1883-1946, English Economist
There is one and only one responsibility of business - to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game.
Milton Friedman 1912-, American prominent economist advocate of free markets, 1976 Nobel price for economics
I like D&D. But after seeing some of those pics (before the slashdot effect), I frown on it too!
That being said, colleges, as a general rule, don't teach ethics.
By the time anyone reaches college, you more than likely have ethics or you don't. There isn't much the professors can do to change that.