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Ooo good. I love bad analogies. They're fun. Can I have a go too?
What if the objectionable thing B was manufacturing blue M&Ms, a colour you dislike - even if you don't purchase M&Ms. Does it suddenly become okay to continue the business relationship? I know there are huge differences in the offense, but the underlying argument is the same for both buying from someone who makes confectionary in an objectionable colour and a slave created goods provider.
Are you really surprised that people care more about enforced slave labour than a company that allows two people to enter into a contract which sets out on what devices they are able to buy a licensed product?
It's simply a shorthand turn of phrase that goes back to way back when. I remember in the late 1980s when the IBM 9370 was being touted a "The Vax Killer".... It wasn't.
Can you imagine the lateral stress on the structure if you attempted to build it horizontally and then hoist? I suspect the engineering challenge involved in building a machine that would give sufficient support along the full length of a multi-story structure as it was raised to vertical would be substantially greater than the challenge of constructing a tall, hurricane resistant building.
That's a coincidence, I was thinking that when you get to that may cores, you're effectively producing something akin to a VLIW processor, with each instruction handed to its own execution system.
I was pretty disturbed when I looked at the new features in version 7 to find that it would salt password files for the first time. The fact that version 6 does not use salt didn't give me a particularly warm and fuzzy feeling regarding security.
I'm not so sure that attempting to measure quality is necessarily the way forward when having the discussion with that CIO. Perhaps an alternative approach is to talk more about the value of the data which is being backed up. It can be quite illustrative to go through the data that is being backed up and work out the cost that went into generating it: "That took those staff 3 person-weeks to generate, their average salary is X" etc. It's fairly easy to get a notional cost of most data. Then you can look at the length of time that it would took to re-generate that data.
The answer to the "how does this help the business sell more widgets?" actually becomes fairly clear: 'N Employees of the company spent X hours and approximately $y generating this data, it is necessary to have for the company operate effectively, so when something happens to the data storage those N employees will have to spend X hours regenerating it, rather than working on their primary task of selling widgets. I cannot tell you exactly when the data storage will go bad, but I can tell you that given a mean time between failure of Z, it is likely to happen within the next T years.... Oh and there this data here, which we wouldn't have any practical way of generating. If that were to be lost, the impact on the business would be.. I"
and so on and so-forth.
Yes it sounds like a painful process, but the clarity introduced can be useful for all concerned.
Weird beastie it may be, but you make two errors. It is not state-run in any meaningful sense and the state does not collect the money. Wikipedia has a decent summary of the licensing and collection regime here.
Let's see how that would work... Hmmm, Bill Gates pays Martin Scorsese to produce and direct a film which he can watch repeatedly in private on his home cinema.
That works fine for Bill Gates. Now how about the rest of us who would like to watch films?
You avoid the question. The original poster claims that that we have to see (say) a recording as the product of a service and pay accordingly. Most of your examples are of the artist rendering *other* services and getting the consumer to pay for those. How do you suggest we pay the artist for the work that went into the recording?
and re: option 7, no I don't think most people are going to pay for consultancy or a support contract to support their music.
Your definition of theory sounds nice, but I find it leaves the definition of hypothesis hanging rather. I was so intrigued by what a hypothesis was that I went to your same source and looked up the defniition:
"A proposition, or set of propositions, set forth as an explanation for the occurrence of some specified group of phenomena, either asserted merely as a provisional conjecture to guide investigation (working hypothesis) or accepted as highly probable in the light of established facts."
Uh, OK - so using these definitions it sounds as if, a theory effectively the collective noun for a group of hypotheses that play nicely together. Then I saw the note at the bottom:
Synonyms: 1. Theory, hypothesis are used in non-technical contexts to mean an untested idea or opinion. A theory in technical use is a more or less verified or established explanation accounting for known facts or phenomena: the theory of relativity. A hypothesis is a conjecture put forth as a possible explanation of phenomena or relations, which serves as a basis of argument or experimentation to reach the truth: This idea is only a hypothesis.
(itals are mine).
So from this section, it seems that theories are more-or-less verified, while hypotheses are conjectoral. I hypothesise that these dictionary writers have their knickers in a twist.
I live in London, where most of my friends will tell you they are really looking forward to the games, wanted the games, and are happy enough that money to fund the building of venues and facilities is being taken from National Lottery funds and (possibly) direct taxation.
The family and broke a flight from New Zealand to London at LA last year and I have to agree. I didn't mind the security measures one bit. What I did mind was the brusque, humourless, discourteous way it was handled. Not by the customs officials - they were fine, but by the guys herding you into line to go through security. I *get* that it's a serious business, but it doesn't have to be threatening.
In the Portes du soleil ski area a single lift pass lets you roam freely across the Swiss-French border. Again. virtually impossible to tell what country you are in.
Thanks for that excellent summary. Just one addition - he didn't just stop the clock, I believe he also had to briefly remove power from the chip in order to get the random values in the registers/ program counter.
I have to say I have nothing but the greatest respect for the guy. I'd love to be smart enough to manage something like this.
The two students had no way of checking all of their predictions, but based on their own knowledge outside the Facebook world, their computer program appeared quite accurate for men, they said.
...The work has not been published in a scientific journal...
I once wrote a computer program that predicted coin tosses. I didn't check, but I'm pretty sure that if I had tossed a coin that the predictions would have been accurate.
You're right. Things wear out. But the story here is about things breaking, in the absence of the wear that might reasonably be expected to cause such a breakage
No, simply pass along the charge. "You want to check whether this is the right song before you purchase? Sorry that will be 10c on this song". Let's see how sales go, shall we?
I would argue that the current market leader won despite not having an app store right away. The griping about the lack of one and Apple's 'you just develop using Web widgets' strategy was loud and prolonged.
The iPod Touch/iPhone was lucky in that it didn't have an entrenched direct competitor with a full app store to compete against. The Zune isn't that lucky.
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Ooo good. I love bad analogies. They're fun. Can I have a go too?
What if the objectionable thing B was manufacturing blue M&Ms, a colour you dislike - even if you don't purchase M&Ms. Does it suddenly become okay to continue the business relationship? I know there are huge differences in the offense, but the underlying argument is the same for both buying from someone who makes confectionary in an objectionable colour and a slave created goods provider.
Are you really surprised that people care more about enforced slave labour than a company that allows two people to enter into a contract which sets out on what devices they are able to buy a licensed product?
It's simply a shorthand turn of phrase that goes back to way back when. I remember in the late 1980s when the IBM 9370 was being touted a "The Vax Killer". ... It wasn't.
Can you imagine the lateral stress on the structure if you attempted to build it horizontally and then hoist? I suspect the engineering challenge involved in building a machine that would give sufficient support along the full length of a multi-story structure as it was raised to vertical would be substantially greater than the challenge of constructing a tall, hurricane resistant building.
That's a coincidence, I was thinking that when you get to that may cores, you're effectively producing something akin to a VLIW processor, with each instruction handed to its own execution system.
I was pretty disturbed when I looked at the new features in version 7 to find that it would salt password files for the first time. The fact that version 6 does not use salt didn't give me a particularly warm and fuzzy feeling regarding security.
I'm not so sure that attempting to measure quality is necessarily the way forward when having the discussion with that CIO. Perhaps an alternative approach is to talk more about the value of the data which is being backed up. It can be quite illustrative to go through the data that is being backed up and work out the cost that went into generating it: "That took those staff 3 person-weeks to generate, their average salary is X" etc. It's fairly easy to get a notional cost of most data. Then you can look at the length of time that it would took to re-generate that data.
The answer to the "how does this help the business sell more widgets?" actually becomes fairly clear: 'N Employees of the company spent X hours and approximately $y generating this data, it is necessary to have for the company operate effectively, so when something happens to the data storage those N employees will have to spend X hours regenerating it, rather than working on their primary task of selling widgets. I cannot tell you exactly when the data storage will go bad, but I can tell you that given a mean time between failure of Z, it is likely to happen within the next T years.... Oh and there this data here, which we wouldn't have any practical way of generating. If that were to be lost, the impact on the business would be.. I"
and so on and so-forth.
Yes it sounds like a painful process, but the clarity introduced can be useful for all concerned.
Weird beastie it may be, but you make two errors. It is not state-run in any meaningful sense and the state does not collect the money. Wikipedia has a decent summary of the licensing and collection regime here.
What you are saying is that if The Internet was turned off, you'd start building an internet.
I'm sure others would start doing the same too. You could peer with them.
Let's see how that would work... Hmmm, Bill Gates pays Martin Scorsese to produce and direct a film which he can watch repeatedly in private on his home cinema.
That works fine for Bill Gates. Now how about the rest of us who would like to watch films?
You avoid the question. The original poster claims that that we have to see (say) a recording as the product of a service and pay accordingly. Most of your examples are of the artist rendering *other* services and getting the consumer to pay for those. How do you suggest we pay the artist for the work that went into the recording?
and re: option 7, no I don't think most people are going to pay for consultancy or a support contract to support their music.
The way to do it is.... ?
I like that definition. A lot
Your definition of theory sounds nice, but I find it leaves the definition of hypothesis hanging rather. I was so intrigued by what a hypothesis was that I went to your same source and looked up the defniition:
"A proposition, or set of propositions, set forth as an explanation for the occurrence of some specified group of phenomena, either asserted merely as a provisional conjecture to guide investigation (working hypothesis) or accepted as highly probable in the light of established facts."
Uh, OK - so using these definitions it sounds as if, a theory effectively the collective noun for a group of hypotheses that play nicely together. Then I saw the note at the bottom:
Synonyms:
1. Theory, hypothesis are used in non-technical contexts to mean an untested idea or opinion. A theory in technical use is a more or less verified or established explanation accounting for known facts or phenomena: the theory of relativity. A hypothesis is a conjecture put forth as a possible explanation of phenomena or relations, which serves as a basis of argument or experimentation to reach the truth: This idea is only a hypothesis.
(itals are mine).
So from this section, it seems that theories are more-or-less verified, while hypotheses are conjectoral. I hypothesise that these dictionary writers have their knickers in a twist.
I live in London, where most of my friends will tell you they are really looking forward to the games, wanted the games, and are happy enough that money to fund the building of venues and facilities is being taken from National Lottery funds and (possibly) direct taxation.
Hope that helps.
The family and broke a flight from New Zealand to London at LA last year and I have to agree. I didn't mind the security measures one bit. What I did mind was the brusque, humourless, discourteous way it was handled. Not by the customs officials - they were fine, but by the guys herding you into line to go through security. I *get* that it's a serious business, but it doesn't have to be threatening.
In the Portes du soleil ski area a single lift pass lets you roam freely across the Swiss-French border. Again. virtually impossible to tell what country you are in.
Thanks for that excellent summary. Just one addition - he didn't just stop the clock, I believe he also had to briefly remove power from the chip in order to get the random values in the registers/ program counter.
I have to say I have nothing but the greatest respect for the guy. I'd love to be smart enough to manage something like this.
...imagine how dusty that thing will get after a week or two.
Question: If you put your iPhone into Flight Mode - is it still a mobile phone in the eyes of the law?
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I once wrote a computer program that predicted coin tosses. I didn't check, but I'm pretty sure that if I had tossed a coin that the predictions would have been accurate.
You're right. Things wear out. But the story here is about things breaking, in the absence of the wear that might reasonably be expected to cause such a breakage
No, simply pass along the charge. "You want to check whether this is the right song before you purchase? Sorry that will be 10c on this song". Let's see how sales go, shall we?
But is the area behind the door in the second scenario more secure. And if so, isn't it more secure due to obscurity?
OK, I'll bite. Let's say I have a door with a very efficient, unbreakable lock. I lock it with a key.
I have two choices.
1. I can leave the key taped to the door with a label saying 'this is the key to this lock'
or
2. I can hide the key in a box which I bury in a location somewhere in mainland Europe known only to myself.
Are you arguing that in both cases the door is equally secure?
I would argue that the current market leader won despite not having an app store right away. The griping about the lack of one and Apple's 'you just develop using Web widgets' strategy was loud and prolonged.
The iPod Touch/iPhone was lucky in that it didn't have an entrenched direct competitor with a full app store to compete against. The Zune isn't that lucky.