Why would the fire department even know about it? So long as you don't call it in, your over is completely safe through a "clean" cycle with a pizza in it, which burns much better than a PCB. You'd just have to open some windows.
The thing I rarely seen pointed out is that it's anti-environment. The "value" is measured in damage to the environment. It's not like they are basing assigning value from useful work. Perhaps a SETI@Home (of folding, or whatever you like) block completion. But arbitrary and useless math calculations. Burn fuel to solve a useless equation, and get rewarded.
I think that a government-issued and controlled crypto-currency would be much better. The central issuer would lose control when they "spend" it. And the mechanism for issuing new currency could be mathematically trivial, so as to not be environment damaging.
But the bitcoin bakers see such a proposal as anti-bitcoin. If you aren't destroying the environment, you are a fascist.
What happens there is that the peso is unofficially tied to the dollar, and both the US and Mexico work to keep the rates stable, because that improves trade. So they are not independent currencies. They just fluctuate together, within reason.
Is that fluctuation in comparison to oil in Germany or bread in France? Or in comparison to some unrelated arbitrary currency? OMG, it fluctuates wildly compared to the BHT !!11!!
Evolution demands people eat all they can when they can, store it all as fat, move only to get more food and then get ridiculed on Slashdot by those that don't understand evolution, while pontificating on evolution.
If there was, I've never heard of it, but the results you give seem reasonable. Much like the results in the Prisoner Dilemma studies, where people are informed of the "ideal" result, and don't choose it.
We can take piles of elements and combine them into a living bacterium? I didn't think were were to that yet. We use viruses to splice in genes to make modifications, but can't "create" much of anything at this point.
I disagree with Singularity's statements. Whether you choose to apply those to anything else is your choice, not mine.
I have studies that back up my assertion. But I remember thousands of studies I've read, but not the URL to them. You'll have to look yourself, if you doubt me. I have proof. My memory. That you don't trust my proof doesn't concern me.
So if people are actually reading books you don't like, they should be paid less because you don't like them? If there was a system where the ratings influenced the author's pay, I expect it would be gamed heavily.
The complaint is that the authors will make more money, but Amazon will make even more money. Rather than focusing on the amount you make relative to Amazon, focus on how much you make relative to today. Amazon indicates it will be a net increase for almost every author under current projections. If they are committing fraud by overly optimistically assigning example numbers, then that's something for the authors to settle in court for the fraud of signing them up. But, based on the information released so far (including by the complaining authors), the result is a net gain for the authors.
I'm always interested in the edge cases. What happens to the guy that paid $9 for a month, but ends up not reading a single book? How about the guy that reads exactly one? I can tell you how I'd do it, but I'd be more interested in hearing how Amazon would split up the money in those cases.
Your comments are the opposite of what I read on the subject. Kindle doesn't care what you "download". Kindle tracks every page turn. If you don't read the book, it won't count as "read". Do download crap, get 2 pages in, and Kindle knows you read two pages and no more.
If you don't know the basics of how Kindle works, why are you posting so authoritatively on the subject?
I've done it. There are DOS emulators that will let it run, and have arbitrary clocks inside the VM. So you can run it at 4.77 MHz, or 10 or 20. Now, installing it under Windows with nothing else wont work because it'll not access the HAL correctly. Not that you "install" DOS games. You run them. So running them under a DOSBox or VM doesn't break the rules, does it?
I remember my XT with a turbo button (4.77 to 8 MHz). I'd play on one and the other, and as you note, it's like a whole different game.
How slow can you underclock a CPU these days? I've never tried going more than 10% slower (amazing that 10% less top speed gives you 50% reduction in power consumption).
You are taking my objection to the general (And false) statement that "roads cause congestion" as a statement that I somehow think that applies to L.A. I don't. Your assumption is wrong.
I was merely pointing out the generic "roads cause congestion" is wrong, and people cause congestion, not roads. That's true in L.A. as well.
Yes, $10,000 in forensics and such for a homicide isn't uncalled for, but for a $150 ticket, it'll never happen. That's why we keep getting new laws. The "goal" (though unstated) is to drive the cost of enforcement below the revenue from the enforcement.
How do you avoid facebook when any picture posted of you makes a stealth profile? You have more rights and "power" as a user, than a non-user-datapoint. So avoiding it is worse than accepting it.
Yeah, except nearly all of my high school classmates have an account, and have posted prom and group pictures with people in them that don't have accounts. And what about family? Not a single family member has an account? I don't believe you. There are plenty of grandmas with accounts these days.
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Why would the fire department even know about it? So long as you don't call it in, your over is completely safe through a "clean" cycle with a pizza in it, which burns much better than a PCB. You'd just have to open some windows.
The thing I rarely seen pointed out is that it's anti-environment. The "value" is measured in damage to the environment. It's not like they are basing assigning value from useful work. Perhaps a SETI@Home (of folding, or whatever you like) block completion. But arbitrary and useless math calculations. Burn fuel to solve a useless equation, and get rewarded.
I think that a government-issued and controlled crypto-currency would be much better. The central issuer would lose control when they "spend" it. And the mechanism for issuing new currency could be mathematically trivial, so as to not be environment damaging.
But the bitcoin bakers see such a proposal as anti-bitcoin. If you aren't destroying the environment, you are a fascist.
What happens there is that the peso is unofficially tied to the dollar, and both the US and Mexico work to keep the rates stable, because that improves trade. So they are not independent currencies. They just fluctuate together, within reason.
Is that fluctuation in comparison to oil in Germany or bread in France? Or in comparison to some unrelated arbitrary currency? OMG, it fluctuates wildly compared to the BHT !!11!!
Evolution demands people eat all they can when they can, store it all as fat, move only to get more food and then get ridiculed on Slashdot by those that don't understand evolution, while pontificating on evolution.
If there was, I've never heard of it, but the results you give seem reasonable. Much like the results in the Prisoner Dilemma studies, where people are informed of the "ideal" result, and don't choose it.
What about the previous 2,000,000 years, how did these brown fats help the primitive man whose main problem was finding enough calories to eat?
Kept you from freezing to death.
What is this all about proving that it's 100% diet, despite all the studies to the opposite?
We can build bacterium from scratch.
We can take piles of elements and combine them into a living bacterium? I didn't think were were to that yet. We use viruses to splice in genes to make modifications, but can't "create" much of anything at this point.
That's the same as saying that each improvement in the car brings us closer to an airplane. I'm not sure that works.
I imagine all messages as having come from Clippy.
I disagree with Singularity's statements. Whether you choose to apply those to anything else is your choice, not mine.
I have studies that back up my assertion. But I remember thousands of studies I've read, but not the URL to them. You'll have to look yourself, if you doubt me. I have proof. My memory. That you don't trust my proof doesn't concern me.
So if people are actually reading books you don't like, they should be paid less because you don't like them? If there was a system where the ratings influenced the author's pay, I expect it would be gamed heavily.
The complaint is that the authors will make more money, but Amazon will make even more money. Rather than focusing on the amount you make relative to Amazon, focus on how much you make relative to today. Amazon indicates it will be a net increase for almost every author under current projections. If they are committing fraud by overly optimistically assigning example numbers, then that's something for the authors to settle in court for the fraud of signing them up. But, based on the information released so far (including by the complaining authors), the result is a net gain for the authors.
I fail to see the problem.
I'm always interested in the edge cases. What happens to the guy that paid $9 for a month, but ends up not reading a single book? How about the guy that reads exactly one? I can tell you how I'd do it, but I'd be more interested in hearing how Amazon would split up the money in those cases.
Your comments are the opposite of what I read on the subject. Kindle doesn't care what you "download". Kindle tracks every page turn. If you don't read the book, it won't count as "read". Do download crap, get 2 pages in, and Kindle knows you read two pages and no more.
If you don't know the basics of how Kindle works, why are you posting so authoritatively on the subject?
So when a new subscriber signs up, the pool doesn't increase?
I've done it. There are DOS emulators that will let it run, and have arbitrary clocks inside the VM. So you can run it at 4.77 MHz, or 10 or 20. Now, installing it under Windows with nothing else wont work because it'll not access the HAL correctly. Not that you "install" DOS games. You run them. So running them under a DOSBox or VM doesn't break the rules, does it?
I remember my XT with a turbo button (4.77 to 8 MHz). I'd play on one and the other, and as you note, it's like a whole different game.
How slow can you underclock a CPU these days? I've never tried going more than 10% slower (amazing that 10% less top speed gives you 50% reduction in power consumption).
You are taking my objection to the general (And false) statement that "roads cause congestion" as a statement that I somehow think that applies to L.A. I don't. Your assumption is wrong.
I was merely pointing out the generic "roads cause congestion" is wrong, and people cause congestion, not roads. That's true in L.A. as well.
MH 370 wasn't, but may have passed through Indonesian space after the transponder was off.
Yes, $10,000 in forensics and such for a homicide isn't uncalled for, but for a $150 ticket, it'll never happen. That's why we keep getting new laws. The "goal" (though unstated) is to drive the cost of enforcement below the revenue from the enforcement.
Doesn't work. I've tried. They have the numbers, but don't take "I know a guy who drives past here drunk all the time" calls.
How do you avoid facebook when any picture posted of you makes a stealth profile? You have more rights and "power" as a user, than a non-user-datapoint. So avoiding it is worse than accepting it.
So does that list include Wal-Mart, Sony, Ford, GM, Chrysler, MS, and countless others, or are you just anti-facebook and not principled?
Facebook is intolerable to anyone with actual principles.
And let me guess, "actual" principles means "exactly my" principles, right?
Yeah, except nearly all of my high school classmates have an account, and have posted prom and group pictures with people in them that don't have accounts. And what about family? Not a single family member has an account? I don't believe you. There are plenty of grandmas with accounts these days.