"and content creators WILL STILL BE REWARDED: concerts, endorsements, other revenue streams"
Under such a scheme as an artist cannot make money from the distribution of recordings of their work, the free recordings would compete with the artist's paid concerts. Wise artists would endeavor to ensure that no such recordings exist save for specific glimpses for advertising purposes only. I for one do not look forward to a world in which the only way to listen to new music is pay through the nose for the privilege of submitting to a body search on the way into the megacoustidrome.
Attacking a valid military target is still a de facto declaration of war. The question is: Who exactly declared war on us, and what are we going to do about it?
Pakistan, the U.K., and even Canada may "grudgingly accept" attacks on "Valid US targets." The US does not have that option if it wishes to remain an intact, sovereign state.
PS3 sold out for quite a few weeks, so the economic implication is that their price wasn't high enough. As I said, having a strict, flat pricing scheme may go over well with economically ignorant consumers and Sony certainly have to make sure that they don't cut out the future market by causing bad-will in the present one, but flat pricing isn't the only way to do that.
Personally, I think the phrase "Price Gouging" should be completely stricken from the English language, to facilitate understanding of how the market protects us from shortages.
Sony's solution could just have easily been to adopt a pricing scheme similar to the airlines, by charging a premium for the early models, they get the "extra" profit, and the people who "just gotta have it now" will always be able to find one, albeit at a ridiculous price.
In fact, that's exactly what happened. It's just that Sony didn't get that profit. eBay sellers snapped up the difference between Sony's price and the market price and will continue to do so until that difference disappears if it hasn't already.
Arbitrary enforcement of laws is itself unjust, when combined with unjust laws is intolerable. Unjust laws should be stricken, not unfairly enforced. It is the inefficiency of enforcement which undermines clamor for their repeal.
"Oh, and silly providers like Verizon in US that don't use GSM are, well, silly.."
As a transmission mode, GSM's TDMA is quite lacking compared to Verizon's CDMA. Don't knock the transmission mode just because certain implementations don't provide some of the features available to certain implementations of another mode.
Frankly, I think SIM cards themselves are a bit of a kludge. You shouldn't need a tiny, delicate memory chip to switch phones or phone providers. You should be able to do it just by entering some numbers specific to your phone into a website or by entering a number specific to you into the phone itself.
Which is why you don't necessarily assign points at the per-question level of granularity. If she gave partial credit for partially correct problems her students would still feel the burn of missing part of the problem (the actually doing the math part correctly).
And before you say it's all wrong if part of it's wrong, think about applying that standard to the entire assignment and you'll realize how specious it is.
As a lab instructor, I've even had to mark things wrong which have the answer correct: there are many wrong ways of setting up calculations that happen to arrive at the "correct" answer. In my case it usually involved careless with units. It wasn't a very high-level lab.
Give credit where credit is due, no more and no less. The level of granularity should depend on how much time you want to spend grading it and how important the assignment is among other things.
Yes, that's exactly what the supply/demand graph is.
Plot demand vs. price, and overlay supply vs. price. The market will settle where they intersect.
If the price is fixed and supply cannot be arbitrarily adjusted there is shortage. This occurred at launch for both systems, though i is expected to be temporary. This is not a desirable condition, though companies may choose the fixed-price route to maintain goodwill with economically ignorant consumers.
These machines simply change the importance of various resources.
We will need people to develop the raw materials. This job will be unromantic and will therefore require some kind of compensation.
We will need people to develop new designs. This job will be slightly more romantic so many will want to do it rather than develop the materials. How can we value their work so that everyone gets what they need?
We will need precious few people to phasor the evil overlord computers and sex up the green alien babes. Perhaps none at all are really necessary. This job is highly romantic and many will desire it. How can we value their effort so the needed tasks are accomplished without the field being so glutted with workers that the accomplishers starve?
Granted, these are problems that are much to be desired over our current ones.
OTOH, a good question to ask is why does the standard *nix file system have such terse naming? I mean, most modern shells do some kind of name completion so speed of typing isn't an issue anymore.
Why put binaries in/bin? why not put them in/binaries
What is../sbin for? And what the hell is the difference between/usr/local/bin and/usr/share/local/bin (or is that/usr/local/share/bin or something else?)*
*I don't remember if these are even the exact directories, only that really similar naming in that area has bugged me to the point that I can't remember.
The point is that maybe it should be obvious where to put and find stuff because the names are intuitive. Perhaps the standard directories shouldn't even have names at all, but rather some kind of magic number, from which the names are chosen based on your choice of language.
Yeah those things look great on paper, but in practice just introduce a whole new set of problems to solve. (and a good thing, too or life would get really boring really quick)
One problem for instance: How do you convince people to take up careers as "stuff gathers" to feed the machines instead of as "starship captains" to sex up the green alien babes?
Ridiculous. It depends on just how much evidence you don't have. For instance, there's very little evidence of the existence of Yeti despite some rather concerted efforts to find anything at all. In fact, there is no evidence at all. Yet mountain lions are easy to find evidence of. Therefore yeti are far less likely to exist than mountain lions.
Absence of evidence is prima facie evidence of absence.
The question is, does your lack of evidence result from failing to look or from nothing turning up despite exhaustive searching?
The problem with mythbusters is that they are not imaginative enough to design a properly controlled experiment, and often prematurely bust or confirm myths that have been insufficiently throughly tested.
They also occasionally have well-designed experiments, but they lack consistency. Part of the problem is also that some of the myths are just inappropriate for a show with limited resources and time to address.
They really ought to have an engineer or physics professional on hand more often.
No, as mentioned by the other poster, electrical resisance "causes" heat. Heat resistances "causes" temperature. As in, Temperature increases as heat accumulates, which will happen if resistance to its flow out is increased.
In the UK do the student domiciles typically include a fairly complete kitchen (-ette)? That might explain the cultural difference. Many of the dorms in US colleges and universities have no kitchen facilities whatsoever, or at the most a wholly inadequate shared "kitchen" of two stoves on the first floor of a building designed to house several hundred students.
They often have a small microwave & child size refrigerator, which is great for frozen dinners and ramen, but is insufficient for anything more complicated than that. (What's that you say.. use a buffet range? Only if you have some kind of trick for converting your bed into counter top space...)
No it's not. It's a matrix of cones and spheres. or.. well.. half-spheres, since obviously you can't see the back of 'em to know for sure. Just pause the DVD on any SD screen.
It could work for ad-games, like the recent Burger King promotion though. In that case everybody wins: gamers get a free, crappy, but probably funny game to play, MS gets paid, though indirectly through an advertising firm, and some company exec gets to claim he's "hip" and "with it" for his new ad campaign, which maybe even works: If you spend 40 hours with the burger king logo plastered in front of you, you're gonna think about whoppers next time you've got a craving for bland, fatty sandwiches.
If 90% of your users have a misconception about what the software is supposed to do, perhaps you're software isn't "supposed to" do what it should be "supposed to" do.
You know, a home computer should be able to last at least five years. That's only one order of magnitude in capability worth of moore's cycles. Which.. are we still following moore's law even?
Misleading does not necessarily involve actual falsehood. In fact, that's pretty much why we use the word "Misleading" instead of "Deceiving." To differentiate between outright fraud and the most dangerous of all lies: the one your victim tells himself.
For instance, When President Clinton went on national television and told an audience, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky," while shaking his hand at an elderly woman in the front row, it was obvious to any observer that he was not actually disclaiming the possibility of having had sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky.
In fact, the structure of that particular sentence would seem to imply that he was telling ms. Lewinsky that he didn't have relations with the old lady in the audience. A statement which has the virtue of bearing no individual falsehood whatsoever.
He did, however, by those completely truthful words, lead people to the mistaken conclusion of the absence of improper sexual conduct toward an underling.
Regardless of what one thinks of Clinton's behavior however, the statement, "Russian Rocket Hits Wyoming," while technically factual, is unnecessarily inflammatory nonetheless.
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Well, where is there more money? The best I could come up with is http://www.bea.gov/bea/industry/gpotables/gpo_acti on.cfm?anon=77&table_id=18893&format_type=0 which is next to useless for evaluating your question.
Does anyone have the google-fu to provide even a rudimentary guess as to "where the money is?"
"and content creators WILL STILL BE REWARDED: concerts, endorsements, other revenue streams"
Under such a scheme as an artist cannot make money from the distribution of recordings of their work, the free recordings would compete with the artist's paid concerts. Wise artists would endeavor to ensure that no such recordings exist save for specific glimpses for advertising purposes only. I for one do not look forward to a world in which the only way to listen to new music is pay through the nose for the privilege of submitting to a body search on the way into the megacoustidrome.
Attacking a valid military target is still a de facto declaration of war. The question is: Who exactly declared war on us, and what are we going to do about it?
Pakistan, the U.K., and even Canada may "grudgingly accept" attacks on "Valid US targets." The US does not have that option if it wishes to remain an intact, sovereign state.
PS3 sold out for quite a few weeks, so the economic implication is that their price wasn't high enough. As I said, having a strict, flat pricing scheme may go over well with economically ignorant consumers and Sony certainly have to make sure that they don't cut out the future market by causing bad-will in the present one, but flat pricing isn't the only way to do that.
Personally, I think the phrase "Price Gouging" should be completely stricken from the English language, to facilitate understanding of how the market protects us from shortages.
Sony's solution could just have easily been to adopt a pricing scheme similar to the airlines, by charging a premium for the early models, they get the "extra" profit, and the people who "just gotta have it now" will always be able to find one, albeit at a ridiculous price.
In fact, that's exactly what happened. It's just that Sony didn't get that profit. eBay sellers snapped up the difference between Sony's price and the market price and will continue to do so until that difference disappears if it hasn't already.
Arbitrary enforcement of laws is itself unjust, when combined with unjust laws is intolerable. Unjust laws should be stricken, not unfairly enforced. It is the inefficiency of enforcement which undermines clamor for their repeal.
"Oh, and silly providers like Verizon in US that don't use GSM are, well, silly.."
As a transmission mode, GSM's TDMA is quite lacking compared to Verizon's CDMA. Don't knock the transmission mode just because certain implementations don't provide some of the features available to certain implementations of another mode.
Frankly, I think SIM cards themselves are a bit of a kludge. You shouldn't need a tiny, delicate memory chip to switch phones or phone providers. You should be able to do it just by entering some numbers specific to your phone into a website or by entering a number specific to you into the phone itself.
Which is why you don't necessarily assign points at the per-question level of granularity. If she gave partial credit for partially correct problems her students would still feel the burn of missing part of the problem (the actually doing the math part correctly).
And before you say it's all wrong if part of it's wrong, think about applying that standard to the entire assignment and you'll realize how specious it is.
As a lab instructor, I've even had to mark things wrong which have the answer correct: there are many wrong ways of setting up calculations that happen to arrive at the "correct" answer. In my case it usually involved careless with units. It wasn't a very high-level lab.
Give credit where credit is due, no more and no less. The level of granularity should depend on how much time you want to spend grading it and how important the assignment is among other things.
Yes, that's exactly what the supply/demand graph is.
Plot demand vs. price, and overlay supply vs. price. The market will settle where they intersect.
If the price is fixed and supply cannot be arbitrarily adjusted there is shortage. This occurred at launch for both systems, though i is expected to be temporary. This is not a desirable condition, though companies may choose the fixed-price route to maintain goodwill with economically ignorant consumers.
Ok, but where're you going to keep the whistleblower bounty fund? Paypal?
There will always be the problems of
1) how to distribute the available resources
and
2) how to develop new resources
These machines simply change the importance of various resources.
We will need people to develop the raw materials. This job will be unromantic and will therefore require some kind of compensation.
We will need people to develop new designs. This job will be slightly more romantic so many will want to do it rather than develop the materials. How can we value their work so that everyone gets what they need?
We will need precious few people to phasor the evil overlord computers and sex up the green alien babes. Perhaps none at all are really necessary. This job is highly romantic and many will desire it. How can we value their effort so the needed tasks are accomplished without the field being so glutted with workers that the accomplishers starve?
Granted, these are problems that are much to be desired over our current ones.
That's not true. They won the French Revolution, didn't they?
OTOH, a good question to ask is why does the standard *nix file system have such terse naming? I mean, most modern shells do some kind of name completion so speed of typing isn't an issue anymore.
/bin? why not put them in /binaries
../sbin for? /usr/local/bin and /usr/share/local/bin (or is that /usr/local/share/bin or something else?)*
Why put binaries in
What is
And what the hell is the difference between
*I don't remember if these are even the exact directories, only that really similar naming in that area has bugged me to the point that I can't remember.
The point is that maybe it should be obvious where to put and find stuff because the names are intuitive. Perhaps the standard directories shouldn't even have names at all, but rather some kind of magic number, from which the names are chosen based on your choice of language.
Woah woah.. Truce...
Maybe s/he's irritated by reading post after post of painfully obviously bad grammar. Irritated to the point of complaining about it.
How is that worse than being irritated by the complaints?
Or complaining about complaints of being irritated by the complaints of irritation?
Yeah those things look great on paper, but in practice just introduce a whole new set of problems to solve. (and a good thing, too or life would get really boring really quick)
One problem for instance: How do you convince people to take up careers as "stuff gathers" to feed the machines instead of as "starship captains" to sex up the green alien babes?
Ridiculous. It depends on just how much evidence you don't have. For instance, there's very little evidence of the existence of Yeti despite some rather concerted efforts to find anything at all. In fact, there is no evidence at all. Yet mountain lions are easy to find evidence of. Therefore yeti are far less likely to exist than mountain lions.
Absence of evidence is prima facie evidence of absence.
The question is, does your lack of evidence result from failing to look or from nothing turning up despite exhaustive searching?
The problem with mythbusters is that they are not imaginative enough to design a properly controlled experiment, and often prematurely bust or confirm myths that have been insufficiently throughly tested.
They also occasionally have well-designed experiments, but they lack consistency. Part of the problem is also that some of the myths are just inappropriate for a show with limited resources and time to address.
They really ought to have an engineer or physics professional on hand more often.
It is both perfectly understandable and jarringly imprecise.
No, as mentioned by the other poster, electrical resisance "causes" heat. Heat resistances "causes" temperature. As in, Temperature increases as heat accumulates, which will happen if resistance to its flow out is increased.
Perhaps the meant, "superior heat rejection."
If the car has regenerative braking, the weight should not significantly affect its efficiency.
In the UK do the student domiciles typically include a fairly complete kitchen (-ette)? That might explain the cultural difference. Many of the dorms in US colleges and universities have no kitchen facilities whatsoever, or at the most a wholly inadequate shared "kitchen" of two stoves on the first floor of a building designed to house several hundred students.
They often have a small microwave & child size refrigerator, which is great for frozen dinners and ramen, but is insufficient for anything more complicated than that. (What's that you say.. use a buffet range? Only if you have some kind of trick for converting your bed into counter top space...)
No it's not. It's a matrix of cones and spheres. or.. well.. half-spheres, since obviously you can't see the back of 'em to know for sure. Just pause the DVD on any SD screen.
It could work for ad-games, like the recent Burger King promotion though. In that case everybody wins: gamers get a free, crappy, but probably funny game to play, MS gets paid, though indirectly through an advertising firm, and some company exec gets to claim he's "hip" and "with it" for his new ad campaign, which maybe even works: If you spend 40 hours with the burger king logo plastered in front of you, you're gonna think about whoppers next time you've got a craving for bland, fatty sandwiches.
If 90% of your users have a misconception about what the software is supposed to do, perhaps you're software isn't "supposed to" do what it should be "supposed to" do.
You know, a home computer should be able to last at least five years. That's only one order of magnitude in capability worth of moore's cycles. Which.. are we still following moore's law even?
Misleading does not necessarily involve actual falsehood. In fact, that's pretty much why we use the word "Misleading" instead of "Deceiving." To differentiate between outright fraud and the most dangerous of all lies: the one your victim tells himself.
For instance, When President Clinton went on national television and told an audience, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky," while shaking his hand at an elderly woman in the front row, it was obvious to any observer that he was not actually disclaiming the possibility of having had sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky.
In fact, the structure of that particular sentence would seem to imply that he was telling ms. Lewinsky that he didn't have relations with the old lady in the audience. A statement which has the virtue of bearing no individual falsehood whatsoever.
He did, however, by those completely truthful words, lead people to the mistaken conclusion of the absence of improper sexual conduct toward an underling.
Regardless of what one thinks of Clinton's behavior however, the statement, "Russian Rocket Hits Wyoming," while technically factual, is unnecessarily inflammatory nonetheless.