It's a somewhat clever model. But it makes me wonder if they're releasing chips with cores that might me marginal into the market.
This stratigy has been used for a long time to maximize yield in ram chips. In ram chips they include extra rows at the end. These rows are connected such that they can burn out the connections and use them to replace any bad row. If all rows are good they simply disable the extra rows.
The way an auction usually works is potential buyers state increasing amounts of money untill you find the one who is willing to pay the most. Each buyer may have in their mind how much they are willing to pay, but that amount is kept secret. You mearly state an ammount more than what the last bidder offered.
On ebay, this is simulated, you put in how much you are willing to pay, and the system out bids the last person by a preset amount up to the amount you have specified. A cleaver seller can use this to his advantage, to max out your bid, even if there are no other parties interested.
The seller shill bids, upping the amount each time untill he outbids you. Then he eather retracts his last offer, or uses the second chance feature to give it to you, at very close to your maximum bid. He can even outbid you, to try to get you to raise you maximum bid, and then repete the process, untill you no longer raise your price. Then he uses the second chance feature to sell it to you.
This practice (which is at best dishonest and at worst fordulent) undermines the entire prinsipals that an auction works on, where an item's price is determined by interest from multiple parties raises the price. Using shill bids an even a single interested party can be tricked into paying top dollar for an item.
It can't prove string theory. It can *support* it, or it can disprove it, falsify it, contradict it. But it can't confirm it. All the experimental data in the universe can't do that.
No theory can ever be compleatly proven. We can simply test it's predictions with experements. After a while, when we have tested a theory many times, we figure it's good enough to use. Eventually however we come up with a prediction of the theory not suported by an experement. Then we go back and start to refine the theory or come up with a new one. Any theory, even a well established one, can be disproven by an experement. However even a disproven theory can be very usuful and still make accurate predictions in certin circumstances.
He hasen't been sentenced yet. The 101 years is simply a theoritical maximum arrived at by adding up the maximum senctence for each thing he was found guilty of.
If one count of fraud carried a maximum penelty of 1 year, then 100 counts of fraud would carry a maximum penelty of 100 years. That's how the number got so big. In reality he will probbly do much less.
Why don't they just maintain a blacklist of sights with "mature" content, and make the list freely avalable to people who whish to block such material. That sounds like a whole lot eaiser solution than what they are talking about.
There is actually a subtle difference, a "comic book" is released in issues, and multiple issues tell a story. A "graphic novel" is released all at once in a single book. There is also, compelations of comic books, released in a single volume, these have another name, which I can't remember.
If I see a good, or interesting looking add I will stop to watch it. A great example of this is the add with Abe Lincon and a monkey playing jump rope. You can't just wizz by Abe Lincon and a monkey playing jump rope, you have to see what it's all about. Turnes out the add was for sleeping pills.
I have never laughed as hard as I did when I watched Street Fighter. The sceen where M. Bioson was using the controls (that looked just like an arcade game) to shoot at the good guys who were on the boats, and then yelled "Game Over".
I am very concerned about our national heritage, and I am very concerned that the films that I watched when I was young and the films that I watched throughout my life are preserved, so that my children can see them.
And it's just in time for the Thanksgiving weekend. Strangely, it's positioned to be released a week after the PS3, which I think is a GREAT idea, since it will basically give them a week of free press (from Sony) and advertising, and then drown the PS3 the next week.
I wouldn't be supprised if Nov 19 ended up being ahead of the PS3 launch, with all the trouble soney has been having, they may end up pushing back the date. 250 is more than we were hoping for, but it does come with a bundled game, though admittadly one I have no interest in. One thing that does supprise me is the dec 2 japan release date. Maby the big N figures they have Japan in the bag, and want to ship as many units in the US as possible, to get a strong foothold. Who knows...
If people really used it like that, then it would work, but people also mod down statements that they don't like, or disagree with. Go ahead and post a well thought out pro GWB statement and wathch it get modded to -1, or post something negetave about apple computers etc...
The moderation system does protect from crap floods, trolls and flame wars, but it also promotes groupthink and surpresses comments opposed to the majorit.
First off, most of this artical was a bad idea. One thing that did seem like a good idea, was to somehow (perhaps by marking in red or some other visual clue) indicate what part of an artical was new, from the part of the artical which has existed for a while. This would help in several ways:
1) People looking for reliable information would know that these parts of an artical have not been exposed to long term scrutney, and therefore may be inacurate.
2) The new, and therefore unverified parts would be more obvious, which would help focus accuracy checking on new material.
It would seem logical for "new" text to remain new, untill it had been viewed a certain number of times, allowing enough sets of eyes to read it, rather than a set time limit, since some articals are not viewed very often, which allows them to remain inaccurate for a long time.
World of Warcraft, the most successful video game on any platform, ever.
By what criteria do you declare WoW to be the most successful video game ever? If you were going by total units sold, wikipedia gives that to the sims for the pc at over 16 million, and original mario borthers sold over 40 million (though it was bundled with the NES so that number is kinda skewed). WoW isn't the top grossing game of all time eather.
I really think that the movie industry is out of touch with this one. The more spent on a movie, the bigger the risk is, since there is more up-front cost to recupe. So rather than going for new unproven ideas, they rehash the same ideas, and do sequils.
The problem is that the movie industry has grown so bloated that the idea of tightening budgest, and making movies on the cheap that don't need to grose as much to be profitable isn't even considered, instead they simply throw more money at the problem.
That's a good question, but I would be willing to bet that the copyrights of dead companies are not public domain (though that is probbly what should happen to them). Usually when a company goes out of buisness all of it's IP is auctioned off, the only obvious intrested party would be the company who made the system so nintendo, soney, sega etc...
I am a firm believer in the sun style keyboard layout, whith the ctrl and caps lock keys switched. This puts a much more frequently used key in the eaiser to reacy spot.
As far as I have looked into it, these are the exclusives:
* Avatar: The Last Airbender
* Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors
* Elebits
* Excite Truck
* GT Pro Series
* Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers
* The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
* Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
* Monster 4x4 World Circuit
* Red Steel
* SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab
* Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz
* Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam
* Trauma Center: Second Opinion
* Wii Sports
Not a bad list...
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The way an auction usually works is potential buyers state increasing amounts of money untill you find the one who is willing to pay the most. Each buyer may have in their mind how much they are willing to pay, but that amount is kept secret. You mearly state an ammount more than what the last bidder offered.
On ebay, this is simulated, you put in how much you are willing to pay, and the system out bids the last person by a preset amount up to the amount you have specified. A cleaver seller can use this to his advantage, to max out your bid, even if there are no other parties interested.
The seller shill bids, upping the amount each time untill he outbids you. Then he eather retracts his last offer, or uses the second chance feature to give it to you, at very close to your maximum bid. He can even outbid you, to try to get you to raise you maximum bid, and then repete the process, untill you no longer raise your price. Then he uses the second chance feature to sell it to you.
This practice (which is at best dishonest and at worst fordulent) undermines the entire prinsipals that an auction works on, where an item's price is determined by interest from multiple parties raises the price. Using shill bids an even a single interested party can be tricked into paying top dollar for an item.
He hasen't been sentenced yet. The 101 years is simply a theoritical maximum arrived at by adding up the maximum senctence for each thing he was found guilty of.
If one count of fraud carried a maximum penelty of 1 year, then 100 counts of fraud would carry a maximum penelty of 100 years. That's how the number got so big. In reality he will probbly do much less.
I just can't do it captin, I don't have the power...
Why don't they just maintain a blacklist of sights with "mature" content, and make the list freely avalable to people who whish to block such material. That sounds like a whole lot eaiser solution than what they are talking about.
Any good lawyor will eat an ELU for breakfast.
The disturbing part is the creepy burger king. For some reason he just creaps everyone out. Have you seen the comercials with him? He's creepy..
There is actually a subtle difference, a "comic book" is released in issues, and multiple issues tell a story. A "graphic novel" is released all at once in a single book. There is also, compelations of comic books, released in a single volume, these have another name, which I can't remember.
no bias there.
The RIAA exists essentially for illeagle price fixing, and it's high time that somebody called them on it.
If I see a good, or interesting looking add I will stop to watch it. A great example of this is the add with Abe Lincon and a monkey playing jump rope. You can't just wizz by Abe Lincon and a monkey playing jump rope, you have to see what it's all about. Turnes out the add was for sleeping pills.
I have never laughed as hard as I did when I watched Street Fighter. The sceen where M. Bioson was using the controls (that looked just like an arcade game) to shoot at the good guys who were on the boats, and then yelled "Game Over".
If people really used it like that, then it would work, but people also mod down statements that they don't like, or disagree with. Go ahead and post a well thought out pro GWB statement and wathch it get modded to -1, or post something negetave about apple computers etc...
The moderation system does protect from crap floods, trolls and flame wars, but it also promotes groupthink and surpresses comments opposed to the majorit.
I think that almost any reputation system woulth threaten the impartial nature of wikipedia.
First off, most of this artical was a bad idea. One thing that did seem like a good idea, was to somehow (perhaps by marking in red or some other visual clue) indicate what part of an artical was new, from the part of the artical which has existed for a while. This would help in several ways:
1) People looking for reliable information would know that these parts of an artical have not been exposed to long term scrutney, and therefore may be inacurate.
2) The new, and therefore unverified parts would be more obvious, which would help focus accuracy checking on new material.
It would seem logical for "new" text to remain new, untill it had been viewed a certain number of times, allowing enough sets of eyes to read it, rather than a set time limit, since some articals are not viewed very often, which allows them to remain inaccurate for a long time.
I really think that the movie industry is out of touch with this one. The more spent on a movie, the bigger the risk is, since there is more up-front cost to recupe. So rather than going for new unproven ideas, they rehash the same ideas, and do sequils.
The problem is that the movie industry has grown so bloated that the idea of tightening budgest, and making movies on the cheap that don't need to grose as much to be profitable isn't even considered, instead they simply throw more money at the problem.
That's a good question, but I would be willing to bet that the copyrights of dead companies are not public domain (though that is probbly what should happen to them). Usually when a company goes out of buisness all of it's IP is auctioned off, the only obvious intrested party would be the company who made the system so nintendo, soney, sega etc...
That's really just speculation though.
Or you could go the government rout, why by one, when you could get them both at twice the cost...
I am a firm believer in the sun style keyboard layout, whith the ctrl and caps lock keys switched. This puts a much more frequently used key in the eaiser to reacy spot.
As far as I have looked into it, these are the exclusives: * Avatar: The Last Airbender * Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors * Elebits * Excite Truck * GT Pro Series * Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers * The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess * Metroid Prime 3: Corruption * Monster 4x4 World Circuit * Red Steel * SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab * Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz * Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam * Trauma Center: Second Opinion * Wii Sports Not a bad list...