Doesn't even have to be crooked ones. You put up a legit-looking front and you can get even the good guys' waste floating in the sea. It's got to be a nightmare PR scenario for any company that might have toxic waste to dispose.
Blaming it on nonexistent bribery trivialises the issue. If it were down to a bunch of scheming, cash-hungry corrupt politicians, you could just replace them with good, honest politicians and be done. The fact is that in reality they all think they're good, honest politicians standing up for what's right for the people they represent.
will totally make a cutting edge game that will be popular when we invent computers that can run it.
More seriously, this is how the industry works already. People develop to the specs of the machines expected at launch time, not the machines that are available now. This requires that the developer produce "target footage" and do pre-rendering for early previews, and generally spend a bucket on the most powerful machines available for testing. It has marketing upsides because the previews blow existing games out of the water. However you can't reach too far ahead, because "computer power" isn't fungible on a long timescale. Entirely new approaches are developed and old approaches are abandoned. Image that a PSone dev wrote a game that ran at one 300th of a frame per second on the PSone. No machine has arisen in the past 15 years which would run that game at full speed, because games consoles have shifted to a different architecture. You'd have to write a virtual machine for it.
It was tried about a decade ago by webcomics. I think Scott McCloud pioneered the idea. People just didn't go for it - the content wasn't worth the hassle of signing up for the account and topping it up. People don't usually pay for newspapers with credit cards, after all.
The media is very biased and pisses off a lot of center-right potential customers
I'm sure there are plenty of self-described centre-left potential customers who believe exactly the same thing about exactly the same media. I think the more informative view is that the media as a whole is a bunch of crap that either tritely reinforces your pre-existing biases or tritely contradicts them, the only distinction being which specific outlet is doing the reinforcement or contradiction.
That reminds me of how the US court documents public access system works, where the indexing information is essentially free, and the cost of maintaining the extensive parts of the archive is offset by a $0.02/page (or thereabouts) document viewing fee which is charged $10-at-a-time to your credit card.
"Will it blend?" isn't about whether things will combine, it's about whether things will be reduced to a homogenous heap by the act of blending. Which may not be the sort of comparison the author intended.
"Centrino". They're not just selling a CPU these days, they're selling a platform. Thus, they are marketing a platform too. The fact that CPUs are still named at all is for the benefit of enthusiasts.
How is a raven like a writing desk? They're entirely different kinds of products. They're not even the same kind of computer (RISC versus CISC), but even setting that aside, you'd be better off comparing an ARM CPU to one of Intel's low-end Atom offerings.
I think that's a worthy lesson to all mobile phone manufacturers, especially ones like Nokia and SE. There is no point adding Super Feature X to one handset when you release eight thousand handsets per year. Nobody is going to use the bloody feature because it's a complete dice-roll as to whether the handset is going to be a success.
I think it's simpler than that, they literally mean "a force has been applied to the device from outside causing it to fail", i.e. it was dropped or struck.
However, very recently the BBC and the like have been publishing these sorts of things for the general audience, with clever visualsiations. It's often hard to grasp how exactly a 1% false positive rate can completely undo the benefits of a 1% false negative rate.
In the UK, at least, Microsoft's dropping the 360 Elite price but it's discontinuing the Pro. Combined with the changes to the Elite box contents post-price-drop it means we're basically paying £30 more if we want the system with a hard drive, and in exchange we only get a measly 60GB extra HDD space. It's not like HDDs are expensive on their end.
This study does demonstrate that either the measurements are wrong or our understanding of orbital dynamics is wrong. Knowing the former is important because it tells us we have to alter how we make the measurements and knowing the latter is important because it tells us we have to alter our understanding of physics. So it's the very antithesis of hubris.
So, you hack in, and then it turns out that the Patriots have released nanomachines to control the flow of phonemes as part of the S5 program to eliminate the meal of breakfast in collaboration with the reverse vampires.
I imagine that the MPs won't be able to distinguish "idiotic and unnecessary" due to the high background levels of idiocy and superfluousness built into the Commons.
If it does come back, check for signs of demonic possession, including but not limited to:
* Bloodthirst * Creeping veins of ichor * Word-like sounds, as though chattered in a dead tongue older than space and time * Moving under its own bloody power
The "holy shit" part of the iPhone is the OS, though. The original hardware was merely adequate, and only barely for anyone who didn't live in a nest of wi-fi hotspots. Yet it was enough to sell the OS to people.
To release the One True Google Phone would undo the platform's great advantage. If someone walks into a phone store and wants something that's like an iPhone, but kind of different, probably half of the alternatives are going to be Android handsets.
I don't think that ingenuity or resourcefulness really comes into the "who controls the platform" question. DIY outshines the achievements of the professionals in every market you care to name, but it just doesn't scale to world domination. If it did, Linux hackers selling 5GHz nitrogen-cooled palmtops with built-in 3D prototyping equipment and "mad leet" LED downlighting would be in control of the PC market.
what I write in the latter two are not personal or representative of my meatspace self.
Surely that's the whole reason why content on the internet is so incredibly banal? Connect people to the web, give them an anonymous persona, and the sense of group integrity and social self-preservation that keeps them from blurting out pointless rubbish at random passers-by vanishes, along with any reward they would get from carefully crafting high-quality verbal output.
"They serve no purpose other than giving people a way to distribute malicious links."
Have you ever tried to tell someone, in a conversation, to go to "tech dot slashdot dot org slash story slash zero nine slash zero eight slash nineteen slash one two zero two zero six slash u-r-l dash shortener dash trim dash to dash go dash community dash owned dash open dash source slash? Ever tried to write it down? In that situation, I use tinyurl to change it to something like "tinyurl dot com slash slashdot no space trim". If URLs were human-readable, human-sharable references to documents like they were meant to be, services like tr.im wouldn't exist, but they do.
Slashdot Mirror
Doesn't even have to be crooked ones. You put up a legit-looking front and you can get even the good guys' waste floating in the sea. It's got to be a nightmare PR scenario for any company that might have toxic waste to dispose.
Blaming it on nonexistent bribery trivialises the issue. If it were down to a bunch of scheming, cash-hungry corrupt politicians, you could just replace them with good, honest politicians and be done. The fact is that in reality they all think they're good, honest politicians standing up for what's right for the people they represent.
will totally make a cutting edge game that will be popular when we invent computers that can run it.
More seriously, this is how the industry works already. People develop to the specs of the machines expected at launch time, not the machines that are available now. This requires that the developer produce "target footage" and do pre-rendering for early previews, and generally spend a bucket on the most powerful machines available for testing. It has marketing upsides because the previews blow existing games out of the water. However you can't reach too far ahead, because "computer power" isn't fungible on a long timescale. Entirely new approaches are developed and old approaches are abandoned. Image that a PSone dev wrote a game that ran at one 300th of a frame per second on the PSone. No machine has arisen in the past 15 years which would run that game at full speed, because games consoles have shifted to a different architecture. You'd have to write a virtual machine for it.
Then, I'll have Cry Source, Unreal Source, Source Source... ...red source, brown source, barbecue source, hot source...
It was tried about a decade ago by webcomics. I think Scott McCloud pioneered the idea. People just didn't go for it - the content wasn't worth the hassle of signing up for the account and topping it up. People don't usually pay for newspapers with credit cards, after all.
The media is very biased and pisses off a lot of center-right potential customers
I'm sure there are plenty of self-described centre-left potential customers who believe exactly the same thing about exactly the same media. I think the more informative view is that the media as a whole is a bunch of crap that either tritely reinforces your pre-existing biases or tritely contradicts them, the only distinction being which specific outlet is doing the reinforcement or contradiction.
That reminds me of how the US court documents public access system works, where the indexing information is essentially free, and the cost of maintaining the extensive parts of the archive is offset by a $0.02/page (or thereabouts) document viewing fee which is charged $10-at-a-time to your credit card.
"Will it blend?" isn't about whether things will combine, it's about whether things will be reduced to a homogenous heap by the act of blending. Which may not be the sort of comparison the author intended.
"Centrino". They're not just selling a CPU these days, they're selling a platform. Thus, they are marketing a platform too. The fact that CPUs are still named at all is for the benefit of enthusiasts.
How is a raven like a writing desk? They're entirely different kinds of products. They're not even the same kind of computer (RISC versus CISC), but even setting that aside, you'd be better off comparing an ARM CPU to one of Intel's low-end Atom offerings.
I think that's a worthy lesson to all mobile phone manufacturers, especially ones like Nokia and SE. There is no point adding Super Feature X to one handset when you release eight thousand handsets per year. Nobody is going to use the bloody feature because it's a complete dice-roll as to whether the handset is going to be a success.
I think you mean "de facto standard", "de facto" meaning "totall rad".
I think it's simpler than that, they literally mean "a force has been applied to the device from outside causing it to fail", i.e. it was dropped or struck.
However, very recently the BBC and the like have been publishing these sorts of things for the general audience, with clever visualsiations. It's often hard to grasp how exactly a 1% false positive rate can completely undo the benefits of a 1% false negative rate.
In the UK, at least, Microsoft's dropping the 360 Elite price but it's discontinuing the Pro. Combined with the changes to the Elite box contents post-price-drop it means we're basically paying £30 more if we want the system with a hard drive, and in exchange we only get a measly 60GB extra HDD space. It's not like HDDs are expensive on their end.
That would fall under "our understanding of orbital dynamics is wrong".
This study does demonstrate that either the measurements are wrong or our understanding of orbital dynamics is wrong. Knowing the former is important because it tells us we have to alter how we make the measurements and knowing the latter is important because it tells us we have to alter our understanding of physics. So it's the very antithesis of hubris.
So, you hack in, and then it turns out that the Patriots have released nanomachines to control the flow of phonemes as part of the S5 program to eliminate the meal of breakfast in collaboration with the reverse vampires.
I imagine that the MPs won't be able to distinguish "idiotic and unnecessary" due to the high background levels of idiocy and superfluousness built into the Commons.
If it does come back, check for signs of demonic possession, including but not limited to:
* Bloodthirst
* Creeping veins of ichor
* Word-like sounds, as though chattered in a dead tongue older than space and time
* Moving under its own bloody power
The "holy shit" part of the iPhone is the OS, though. The original hardware was merely adequate, and only barely for anyone who didn't live in a nest of wi-fi hotspots. Yet it was enough to sell the OS to people.
To release the One True Google Phone would undo the platform's great advantage. If someone walks into a phone store and wants something that's like an iPhone, but kind of different, probably half of the alternatives are going to be Android handsets.
I don't think that ingenuity or resourcefulness really comes into the "who controls the platform" question. DIY outshines the achievements of the professionals in every market you care to name, but it just doesn't scale to world domination. If it did, Linux hackers selling 5GHz nitrogen-cooled palmtops with built-in 3D prototyping equipment and "mad leet" LED downlighting would be in control of the PC market.
Essentially, it allows you to treat any net-connected computer as a dumb terminal with web services acting as your actual computer.
what I write in the latter two are not personal or representative of my meatspace self.
Surely that's the whole reason why content on the internet is so incredibly banal? Connect people to the web, give them an anonymous persona, and the sense of group integrity and social self-preservation that keeps them from blurting out pointless rubbish at random passers-by vanishes, along with any reward they would get from carefully crafting high-quality verbal output.
"They serve no purpose other than giving people a way to distribute malicious links."
Have you ever tried to tell someone, in a conversation, to go to "tech dot slashdot dot org slash story slash zero nine slash zero eight slash nineteen slash one two zero two zero six slash u-r-l dash shortener dash trim dash to dash go dash community dash owned dash open dash source slash? Ever tried to write it down? In that situation, I use tinyurl to change it to something like "tinyurl dot com slash slashdot no space trim". If URLs were human-readable, human-sharable references to documents like they were meant to be, services like tr.im wouldn't exist, but they do.