Indeed. The number is probably closer to 90% of photoshop "owners" have warez copies. At least based on my own, rather poor sampling: I have met two, maybe three people who have or had at one point warez copies of photoshop, and only zero people who are actually professional graphic artists. Therefore illicit casual users vastly outnumber professionals.
The stock market, as in, every index, tanked for sixty days following 9/11, an attack which killed thousands of people and destroyed hundreds of millions of dollars worth of infrastructure.
Following the Boston flasher, there was, what, like a week and a half of late-night one-liners?
I don't remember there being any particular economic consequences to the "someone sent me anthrax" claim festival, either.
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We really should put the year first though, since it turns a date into just another number, but with weird base rules.
Of course, institutional inertia, and the fact that most of the time, you don't need the year at all, since you're usually talking about events that are within +/- 3 months from now(), means that we're not going to switch any time soon.
I agree. There wasn't much bad about the government shutdown, excepting that it didn't last. That's why I'm starting my own party: the Gridlock party. All I've got so far is a logo that doesn't look very good, but it doesn't matter, we've got plenty of candidates, or rather, we did until McCain came out ahead on the republican side.
Our only hope is a D-R spread, because McCain's a real "plays along with democrat legislators" kinda guy. Unfortunately, the D's don't have many seats up this term, so it looks like we'll definitely have a D-congress and a D-president. So, the trick now is to vote how you want the mid-term elections to go in two years from the next election. We're just going to have to suck up two years of democrats in full or nearly full control. Hopefully, they'll try to do something so outrageous ( like amnesty or rhodhamcare) that they'll be to distracted to ratchet up the legislative burden.
For one of them, I think they just put their thumb on a photocopy machine and pressed the copy button. There wasn't a single piece of equipment in there that could be called, "secure." I think even the mythbusters were surprised at how easy it was. I imagine they were expecting to bust it, considering the size of the industry.
The thing that people need to drill is that fingerprints are a username. You still need a password.
What's amusing, (and not in a funny-haha sense, but more in a funny-smell sense), is all the new antennas out there advertising that they're somehow "digital" antennas as if the mode affects antenna performance. I suppose they *could* be optimized for the smaller bandwidth somehow, but that's not how they're being advertised. It's not as if your 17 element beam on the roof is going to suddenly start working worse than an indoor loop-antenna.
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Um.. it's much more logical to be year month day. Unless you use reverse decimal ordering. I.e. the number fourteen is represented as 41.
In logical parts of the world, it goes Y.M.D. For a periodic event, it doesn't make sense to include the non-periodic year field, anyhow: hence M.D, which is exactly what we've got. Since there is no thirty-first month, there's no ambiguity there, either. Then take numbers to fill fields as they make sense.
So, march 14 makes perfect sense. If you choose to start at 1:59, or 3:09 pm, or what have you, it's up to you, but I'm sure that the placeholder zero would be enough to make that less preferable. Now, the only real problem is that the digits never end, so you can keep filling arbitrary fields to your hearts content and assigning meaning to them. Like, you have to celebrate at house number 26 on your street, or going to a specific area code or something. It's not at all like mole day, where once you've gone through the nine or so digits that have been pinned down, you're done. You can't make up any more "more meaningful" ways to celebrate it.
In not too distant memory, This was a phrase suggested by an anti-drug campaign for children to say to people trying to convince them to do drugs. No prominent comedians seemed to take notice.
It appears to. But studies consistently show that the numbers are quite overblown. Cities do not make back the cost of construction in tax revenue, even if you consider the secondary tax revenue: people using the shops and facilities around the stadium when they come to visit.
Or sports teams wanting every citizen to subsidize their business.
Oh, I hate this one. Also, the others.
They really get the communities riled up every few years, "we need a new stadium or we'll move." "if you build us this new stadium, and give us some free money, we'll move to your town instead of that other town. That sounds like a deal, right?"
Argh. And the stupid city management keeps building them the damn stadiums, instead of saying, "look, we'll help you find a site for it, but you're on your own building the thing." and sending them packing if they don't like the terms. If the team moves so far away that the local fans can't support it, that just opens up an opportunity for someone to start a new team.
Why does anyone think public money should in any way be spent on an entertainment venue? It's like a bad High School special where "The Jocks" get all the special privileges and "The Nerds" have to make due with counterfeit musical instruments of questionable metallurgical history.
I'm not sure that's all that good of a metric. A 'Sims' product may have been on the shelves, and if you aggregate them it's the best selling, but a starcraft product has been on the shelves since 1998. And it's the same product. In glorious 800x600 sprite graphics!
Democracy is only good insofar as it prevents tyranny. But there is also "Tyranny of the majority" which is extremely easy for a pure democracy to fall into. It's commonly illustrated as three wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
Your system of government should prevent that sort of thing.
"Nothing's stopping you from buying the movie and then ripping it of all the extraneous garbage."
Nothing but the law. Unless you program your own DRM circumvention software, you have to obtain it from someone who is breaking the law simply by giving/selling it to you.
Well, ok, but don't presume to tax the empty land, demand their resources, and tell them how to live their lives then, either.
Without the minor protections of the electoral college, there is pretty much nothing else preventing "flyover country" from the tyranny of the united urban centers except secession.
Oh, that's my pet peeve, too. A half-pound steak is even a bit much for a main course, unless you're having a one-course meal or it was really fatty before cooking, that is. But the restaurants have: appetizer, salad, entrée, and dessert (and the entrée will usually have some kind of sides, I'm not sure where that fits into the course-plan), and somehow seem to expect you to order all of them despite each being large enough to be considered a full meal.
Gah. Just have smaller portions. If you're a restaurant, you don't want people taking home food, anyway, since then you'd be competing with yourself. And anyway, a little bit of really good food is a lot better than a whole pile of garbage.
But it makes quite a bit of sense, if you think of the GPU as a vector/matrix processor, rather than simply a video organ.
It makes sense because tasks that aren't parallelizable won't benefit from any number of cores beyond one. But tasks that are parallelizable, and massively so, would benefit much more from a "single" massively parallel core than from a few parallel sequential cores. Assuming they can be set up like that.
A computer takes up a lot more shelf space than, say, an mp3 player or mobile phone. Indeed, it's price density is lower than most of the items in the store, save maybe housewares. Pillows and comforters do take up a large volume.
More importantly, at $200 for a PC, it's profit margin had to be quite a bit lower than any of those things. I'd bet that even selling like hotcakes it would be one of the least efficient items in the store, in terms of profit per square foot.
and in fact plays games better than an $800 PC. So, you get the best of both worlds for approximately the price of a mediocre "gaming PC".
$800 buys an awful lot of PC. Even if you're buying a monitor with that. You might not be able to use full graphics on everything that comes out over the next five years, but I'll put the performance of any $800 PC not stupidly purchased (e.g. diamond encrusted or otherwise price-inflated) bought or assembled today against a PS3 or an Xbox360.
development/publishing side of things, where consoles are the ONLY logical platform to develop for, if you want to make money.
And that's probably true. and unfortunate. Because it means that we keep getting saddled with console ports that feel like they belong on a console. Like, they have teeny tiny maps for no good reason (I'm talking to you battlefront. Tribes 2 had been out for years, with maps measured in kilometers. The original tribes had maps that took ten minutes to reach the edge of, in the flying vehicle. Forget walking. You telling me that tiny little theme park is the best they can do?)
The trick is coming up with a chemical name for it that's as technically correct as possible, but conveys the worst fears of accidents involving powerful industrial solvents.
Frankly, I don't know why they call it DHMO, though, even though it has a nice acronym. When you can split H2O into H-OH and refer to it using acid-base terminology. Something like hydro-oxyhydric acid sounds pretty menacing to me, or the severely caustic protium hydroxide!
A lot of people believed in alchemy at the time. Newton did experiments that largely proved disappointing from that point of view, but that were also interesting to metallurgy and chemistry, nevertheless.
I think it would be difficult to call Newton a "religious nut" though, since he was able to get the rules relaxed for himself regarding ministry requirements when he was inducted into the Royal Society.
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Indeed. The number is probably closer to 90% of photoshop "owners" have warez copies. At least based on my own, rather poor sampling: I have met two, maybe three people who have or had at one point warez copies of photoshop, and only zero people who are actually professional graphic artists. Therefore illicit casual users vastly outnumber professionals.
If you lived closer to both work and the grocery store, maybe you'd have fresh food and time to cook it once in a while.
Indeed, especially since the trend line that best fits the currently data is the logistic growth curve. Which has an asymptote at ~9 billion, IIRC.
It's left as an exercise to the reader as to whether that's caused by reduced fertility rates or increased killing each other rates.
Really?
The stock market, as in, every index, tanked for sixty days following 9/11, an attack which killed thousands of people and destroyed hundreds of millions of dollars worth of infrastructure.
Following the Boston flasher, there was, what, like a week and a half of late-night one-liners?
I don't remember there being any particular economic consequences to the "someone sent me anthrax" claim festival, either.
We really should put the year first though, since it turns a date into just another number, but with weird base rules.
Of course, institutional inertia, and the fact that most of the time, you don't need the year at all, since you're usually talking about events that are within +/- 3 months from now(), means that we're not going to switch any time soon.
I agree. There wasn't much bad about the government shutdown, excepting that it didn't last. That's why I'm starting my own party: the Gridlock party. All I've got so far is a logo that doesn't look very good, but it doesn't matter, we've got plenty of candidates, or rather, we did until McCain came out ahead on the republican side.
Our only hope is a D-R spread, because McCain's a real "plays along with democrat legislators" kinda guy. Unfortunately, the D's don't have many seats up this term, so it looks like we'll definitely have a D-congress and a D-president. So, the trick now is to vote how you want the mid-term elections to go in two years from the next election. We're just going to have to suck up two years of democrats in full or nearly full control. Hopefully, they'll try to do something so outrageous ( like amnesty or rhodhamcare) that they'll be to distracted to ratchet up the legislative burden.
For one of them, I think they just put their thumb on a photocopy machine and pressed the copy button. There wasn't a single piece of equipment in there that could be called, "secure." I think even the mythbusters were surprised at how easy it was. I imagine they were expecting to bust it, considering the size of the industry.
The thing that people need to drill is that fingerprints are a username. You still need a password.
What's amusing, (and not in a funny-haha sense, but more in a funny-smell sense), is all the new antennas out there advertising that they're somehow "digital" antennas as if the mode affects antenna performance. I suppose they *could* be optimized for the smaller bandwidth somehow, but that's not how they're being advertised. It's not as if your 17 element beam on the roof is going to suddenly start working worse than an indoor loop-antenna.
Um.. it's much more logical to be year month day. Unless you use reverse decimal ordering. I.e. the number fourteen is represented as 41.
In logical parts of the world, it goes Y.M.D. For a periodic event, it doesn't make sense to include the non-periodic year field, anyhow: hence M.D, which is exactly what we've got. Since there is no thirty-first month, there's no ambiguity there, either. Then take numbers to fill fields as they make sense.
So, march 14 makes perfect sense. If you choose to start at 1:59, or 3:09 pm, or what have you, it's up to you, but I'm sure that the placeholder zero would be enough to make that less preferable. Now, the only real problem is that the digits never end, so you can keep filling arbitrary fields to your hearts content and assigning meaning to them. Like, you have to celebrate at house number 26 on your street, or going to a specific area code or something. It's not at all like mole day, where once you've gone through the nine or so digits that have been pinned down, you're done. You can't make up any more "more meaningful" ways to celebrate it.
In not too distant memory, This was a phrase suggested by an anti-drug campaign for children to say to people trying to convince them to do drugs. No prominent comedians seemed to take notice.
It appears to. But studies consistently show that the numbers are quite overblown. Cities do not make back the cost of construction in tax revenue, even if you consider the secondary tax revenue: people using the shops and facilities around the stadium when they come to visit.
If you've seen one sports game, you've seen them all. The plot never changes.
You'd have to watch like 10 or 12 episodes of television dramas to see all the plots.
Oh, I hate this one. Also, the others.
They really get the communities riled up every few years, "we need a new stadium or we'll move." "if you build us this new stadium, and give us some free money, we'll move to your town instead of that other town. That sounds like a deal, right?"
Argh. And the stupid city management keeps building them the damn stadiums, instead of saying, "look, we'll help you find a site for it, but you're on your own building the thing." and sending them packing if they don't like the terms. If the team moves so far away that the local fans can't support it, that just opens up an opportunity for someone to start a new team.
Why does anyone think public money should in any way be spent on an entertainment venue? It's like a bad High School special where "The Jocks" get all the special privileges and "The Nerds" have to make due with counterfeit musical instruments of questionable metallurgical history.
Interesting, but there are as many Jews living in the US as there are living in Israel.
I'm not sure that's all that good of a metric. A 'Sims' product may have been on the shelves, and if you aggregate them it's the best selling, but a starcraft product has been on the shelves since 1998. And it's the same product. In glorious 800x600 sprite graphics!
Bond-O, eh. You expect it to talk?
And your point is?
Democracy is only good insofar as it prevents tyranny. But there is also "Tyranny of the majority" which is extremely easy for a pure democracy to fall into. It's commonly illustrated as three wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
Your system of government should prevent that sort of thing.
"Nothing's stopping you from buying the movie and then ripping it of all the extraneous garbage."
Nothing but the law. Unless you program your own DRM circumvention software, you have to obtain it from someone who is breaking the law simply by giving/selling it to you.
Well, ok, but don't presume to tax the empty land, demand their resources, and tell them how to live their lives then, either.
Without the minor protections of the electoral college, there is pretty much nothing else preventing "flyover country" from the tyranny of the united urban centers except secession.
Oh, that's my pet peeve, too. A half-pound steak is even a bit much for a main course, unless you're having a one-course meal or it was really fatty before cooking, that is. But the restaurants have: appetizer, salad, entrée, and dessert (and the entrée will usually have some kind of sides, I'm not sure where that fits into the course-plan), and somehow seem to expect you to order all of them despite each being large enough to be considered a full meal.
Gah. Just have smaller portions. If you're a restaurant, you don't want people taking home food, anyway, since then you'd be competing with yourself. And anyway, a little bit of really good food is a lot better than a whole pile of garbage.
What do you call the main course in french, btw?
But it makes quite a bit of sense, if you think of the GPU as a vector/matrix processor, rather than simply a video organ.
It makes sense because tasks that aren't parallelizable won't benefit from any number of cores beyond one. But tasks that are parallelizable, and massively so, would benefit much more from a "single" massively parallel core than from a few parallel sequential cores. Assuming they can be set up like that.
A computer takes up a lot more shelf space than, say, an mp3 player or mobile phone. Indeed, it's price density is lower than most of the items in the store, save maybe housewares. Pillows and comforters do take up a large volume.
More importantly, at $200 for a PC, it's profit margin had to be quite a bit lower than any of those things. I'd bet that even selling like hotcakes it would be one of the least efficient items in the store, in terms of profit per square foot.
$800 buys an awful lot of PC. Even if you're buying a monitor with that. You might not be able to use full graphics on everything that comes out over the next five years, but I'll put the performance of any $800 PC not stupidly purchased (e.g. diamond encrusted or otherwise price-inflated) bought or assembled today against a PS3 or an Xbox360.
And that's probably true. and unfortunate. Because it means that we keep getting saddled with console ports that feel like they belong on a console. Like, they have teeny tiny maps for no good reason (I'm talking to you battlefront. Tribes 2 had been out for years, with maps measured in kilometers. The original tribes had maps that took ten minutes to reach the edge of, in the flying vehicle. Forget walking. You telling me that tiny little theme park is the best they can do?)
The trick is coming up with a chemical name for it that's as technically correct as possible, but conveys the worst fears of accidents involving powerful industrial solvents.
Frankly, I don't know why they call it DHMO, though, even though it has a nice acronym. When you can split H2O into H-OH and refer to it using acid-base terminology. Something like hydro-oxyhydric acid sounds pretty menacing to me, or the severely caustic protium hydroxide!
"My eyes! The goggles do nothing!"
A lot of people believed in alchemy at the time. Newton did experiments that largely proved disappointing from that point of view, but that were also interesting to metallurgy and chemistry, nevertheless.
I think it would be difficult to call Newton a "religious nut" though, since he was able to get the rules relaxed for himself regarding ministry requirements when he was inducted into the Royal Society.