I just set up office365 for my Dad's small business. It costs $6/user/month if you just want email and online editing of word+excel+ppt, or $20/user/month if you want desktop versions of the software as well. (Both offer free trials). That's not a big upfront cost at all!
The platinum is not consumed during the electrolysis process. While the high cost of platinum does affect the cost of the device used to generate hydrogen, it has no effect on the cost of the hydrogen gas itself. Almost the entirety of the cost of hydrogen gas is the energy used to create it by cracking water.
You think so? I reckon you're missing the "thermodynamics of capital". If you have to borrow $10k to start your electrolysis company, then the prices you charge will have to cover the $1k/year repayment on that loan. But if you only borrow $1k to start your electrolysis company, then the prices you charge will only have to cover $0.1k/year repayments.
So I'm spending $1000/year on Google and other companies to thrust unwanted ads in my face (maybe closer to $2000/year if you discount young+old). I don't even pay Apple that much. Calling Google's stuff "free" is a misdirection.
That's not right. Copyright doesn't apply to "details" of an invention. It applies to original creative/artistic/literary WORKS expressed in some medium (usually written and artistic).
"We would like our stories about the world to be true, and to be as simple as possible... Scientific method is a set of rules governing down how those stories are created, in what settings and using what techniques -- and often what kinds of places and what kinds of tools. Presumably all great literate cultures have had these concerns with adequate accounts of the world, and the people and methods in which trust should be vested."
The thing is, it's not clear WHICH kind of logic or reason to apply to observations about the natural world, and there are lots of candidates which scientists have used (and are using). The first instance of what we'd recognize as scientific method was by Sir Francis Bacon in 1620. Newton came up with other versions. There were different approaches and philosophies. Today we're still debating what kind of scientific method to use, e.g. whether it counts as science if you can't do experiment (e.g. astronomy) or whether the subject has to be purely natural world or not (e.g. computer science).
There's been a huge rich intellectual history on the matter of which we as scientists can be justly proud. You miss out on this entirely when you say "just the application of logic and reason".
I made an "artificial life" simulator too when I was young, in 10th grade in about 1990. I observed it repeat in cycles with about 100 cycles of conflict, then 5 cycles of cooperation, then 100 cycles of conflict again, and so on. (it was doing iterated prisoner dilemma, played by genetic algorithms with breeding and mutation).
My conclusion? That all these "experiments" are completely dependent on accidents of the way they got set up, and the link between algorithms and outcomes is poorly understood, and we shouldn't draw any moral or evolutionary conclusions from them.
32 chords would work for most of the things you do on a smartphone or tablet -- writing text messages, typing in search keywords in youtube or search engines, writing messages on facebook, typing in names of apps you want to run rather than scrolling through pages. You could compose emails and rely on the system to auto-capitalize for you, and it'd work fine most of the time.
Don't think of it as replacing a 101-key keyboard. Think of it as replacing the tiny, awkward, hard-to-use keyboard on smartphones and tablets.
I think the default assumption would be that anything we do would DECREASE the intensity of earthquakes.
(explanation: earthquakes are the huge release of energy when pent-up forces are released; anything that lets it be released earlier in smaller amounts would decrease that).
On purely technological grounds, I'd want to make the decision based on battery life -- if it takes less battery power to upload the audio and download a response, then do it online; if it takes less battery life to do the voice-recognition and database lookup on the phone, then do it on the phone.
[use of metrics] usually produces teaching that increases test scores, but fails real the learning goals, i.e. producing insights and capabilities.
Are you saying that it fails on the measure of "how much insight and capability was produced"? What kind of measure is that, and how is it collected? Would you even call it a "metric" ?
I don't think it's an unsavory or wasteful business environment when a company stock price "fluctuates sharply on its successes and failures in patent litigation and licensing."
Think of a university research group which discovers a new drug candidate, and forms a company to pursue its further clinical trials and licensing. The financial health of this company will be wholly determined by its ability to patent and license.
Think of a pharma company which spends $200mil research on each drug candidate, and every four years it gets one $10bil success for 50 failures. The financial health of this company will rest solely on its ability to protect (through patent litigation and licensing) the $10bil revenue that makes up for the $10bil expenses.
These both seem like cases where the market is operating as intended.
What annoys me is when I search for a particular word or phrase, and Google takes me to a page which lacks that word.
I used to be able to type "+blankie" and google would show only those pages that had the word blankie in them. No longer. It just says that + is no longer supported, and takes me to a load of pages without that word.
The SOPA was written to address "US-based interests", i.e. it specifically claims to go after only US-directed foreign websites, to prevent US-based people from seeing those foreign websites.
(Defn: "US-directed" means that the site hasn't taken steps to prevent US people from seeing the website, or other nonspecified reasons. "Foreign website" means a domain name which is registered by a non-US registrar, or an IP address which comes from a non-US block).
But the US doesn't have jurisdiction over foreign domains/websites. So, in that absence, it's US-based companies who have to act:
* US-based ISPs have to take measures to prevent their customers from "accessing" those websites 5 days. It's not clear what measures must be taken, but they include at a minimum blocking DNS lookups.
* US-based search engines have to remove hyperlinks to those foreign domains/websites within 5 days
* US-based ad brokers have to cease serving ads to those foreign domains/websites within 5 days
* US-based payment companies have to cease processing payments for those foreign domains/websites with 5 days
Moreover, any US-based service which bypasses this censorship -- TOR, Mafiaafire, free and open DNS servers -- will be shut down by the courts.
The "iTunes Match" option NEVER disappears from the menu bar at the left.
Even after you've disabled the iTunes store under "parental controls", it's still there. Even after you click "No Thanks" it's still there, asking you to subscribe for $25/year. (this is itunes 10.5.1.42 on windows).
Either shoddy programming, or an insidious attempt to get more money out of you despite the parental controls.
The original value proposition was you got free content in exchange for screening commercial messages in your home.
Of course it was never actually free; merely "free at point of delivery". The soap manufacturers paid for those ads, and they passed the cost onto consumers in the form of higher prices.
US annual expenditure on advertising: $300 billion US population: 300 million
Advertising tax: $1000 per person per year. We're paying this money to line the pockets of the advertising middle-men so that we get ads that we don't want thrust in our faces.
US annual expenditure on advertising: $300 billion US population: 300 million
Each of us is paying $1000 per year to have irritating ads thrust in our faces. The money ends up in the pockets of the advertising middle-men like facebook and google and ad agencies. The companies pay it to promote their products. They pass the cost onto us the consumers who buy their products.
I'm unhappy as heck paying $1000 per year for the "joy" of having ads stuffed in my face. I think the figure should be much lower. This is a business that has gotten out of control through a people brainwashed (by advertising!) to think that this level of advertising is normal.
2) I don't know what timeline you want, since Firefox showed up in Feb 2004 well before the end of Netscape in 2008. But let's pick 1998 as your "Netscape" year, since that was when the source code of Netscape was abandoned.
1999 -- Microsoft introduces "AJAX". It made our lives significantly better. (or at least, it was what turned the Internet from Web1.0 static pages into Web2.0 interactive pages).
I think that's the problem. Wikis are awful for gathering together information. Every individual page is too isolated. No reader can get an episcope, an overview of how all the topics fit together. Sometimes people suggest "make another topic that shows how the topics fit together" but this adds to the problem rather than solving it.
You see the same problem with things like Javadoc which are great for creating lots of tiny little informations but bad for conveying the overview of how things fit together.
The solution? Write FEWER topics, long ones. That way people can scroll through to get an idea. The brain's really good at skimming through large documents, understanding what the domain is, drilling down where it's needed. That's why books are so successful!
If you need to make money on top of that, throwing in an ad or two should do the trick and keep the service free for anyone.
Ads aren't free. They cost money for the company who places the ad, who then passes the cost on to every one of its customers, with huge amounts of money bled off by the ad middle-men. It's basically an "advertising tax". Currently it works out at about $1000 per head in the US ($300bil total advertising, 300mil population).
I'd much rather spend $1000/year how I want it, rather than on having unwanted ads thrust into my face.
From your rule of thumb, up to its bounds of accuracy, there very well might have been a plurality. E.g. if it were 33.4% mad, 33.3% happy, 33.2% unhappy then "mad" would have the plurality.
Most GPS-enabled watches last a day -- typically used by athletes to track their workout, especially endurance athletes.
It becomes a nightly ritual to recharge it just like you recharge your smartphone. My Nokia 8210 from ten years ago used to last 10 days without recharging.
The.NET standard libraries WILL be accessible from Metro applications. You'll write your C#/VB metro applications targeting both WinRT APIs and standard.NET APIs at the same time. I suspect that very nearly all C#/VB metro apps will be using many.NET APIs.
(you had said that the.NET standard libraries wouldn't be available for Metro apps).
For example:
IAsyncInfo ai = MessageBox.ShowAsync("hello world");// using a WinRT API Task t = ai.StartAsTask();// here we're bridging from WinRT to.NET await Task.WhenAll(t, Task.Delay(100));// here we're using standard.NET APIs
(disclaimer: I work for Microsoft on the VB/C# language team)
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Presumably paid for through advertising, i.e. by consumers.
I just set up office365 for my Dad's small business. It costs $6/user/month if you just want email and online editing of word+excel+ppt, or $20/user/month if you want desktop versions of the software as well. (Both offer free trials). That's not a big upfront cost at all!
The platinum is not consumed during the electrolysis process. While the high cost of platinum does affect the cost of the device used to generate hydrogen, it has no effect on the cost of the hydrogen gas itself. Almost the entirety of the cost of hydrogen gas is the energy used to create it by cracking water.
You think so? I reckon you're missing the "thermodynamics of capital". If you have to borrow $10k to start your electrolysis company, then the prices you charge will have to cover the $1k/year repayment on that loan. But if you only borrow $1k to start your electrolysis company, then the prices you charge will only have to cover $0.1k/year repayments.
US annual expenditure on advertising: about $280bil - http://www.galbithink.org/ad-spending.htm
US population: about 300mil
So I'm spending $1000/year on Google and other companies to thrust unwanted ads in my face (maybe closer to $2000/year if you discount young+old). I don't even pay Apple that much. Calling Google's stuff "free" is a misdirection.
That's not right. Copyright doesn't apply to "details" of an invention. It applies to original creative/artistic/literary WORKS expressed in some medium (usually written and artistic).
What is the distinction? I don't get it.
"The RFC doesn't tell me what to do; it tells me what I should do."
The two sound like synonyms to my ear.
Science isn't "just" that at all. Listen to this podcast on the history of the scientific method:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01b1ljm
"We would like our stories about the world to be true, and to be as simple as possible... Scientific method is a set of rules governing down how those stories are created, in what settings and using what techniques -- and often what kinds of places and what kinds of tools. Presumably all great literate cultures have had these concerns with adequate accounts of the world, and the people and methods in which trust should be vested."
The thing is, it's not clear WHICH kind of logic or reason to apply to observations about the natural world, and there are lots of candidates which scientists have used (and are using). The first instance of what we'd recognize as scientific method was by Sir Francis Bacon in 1620. Newton came up with other versions. There were different approaches and philosophies. Today we're still debating what kind of scientific method to use, e.g. whether it counts as science if you can't do experiment (e.g. astronomy) or whether the subject has to be purely natural world or not (e.g. computer science).
There's been a huge rich intellectual history on the matter of which we as scientists can be justly proud. You miss out on this entirely when you say "just the application of logic and reason".
I made an "artificial life" simulator too when I was young, in 10th grade in about 1990. I observed it repeat in cycles with about 100 cycles of conflict, then 5 cycles of cooperation, then 100 cycles of conflict again, and so on. (it was doing iterated prisoner dilemma, played by genetic algorithms with breeding and mutation).
My conclusion? That all these "experiments" are completely dependent on accidents of the way they got set up, and the link between algorithms and outcomes is poorly understood, and we shouldn't draw any moral or evolutionary conclusions from them.
32 chords would work for most of the things you do on a smartphone or tablet -- writing text messages, typing in search keywords in youtube or search engines, writing messages on facebook, typing in names of apps you want to run rather than scrolling through pages. You could compose emails and rely on the system to auto-capitalize for you, and it'd work fine most of the time.
Don't think of it as replacing a 101-key keyboard. Think of it as replacing the tiny, awkward, hard-to-use keyboard on smartphones and tablets.
I think the default assumption would be that anything we do would DECREASE the intensity of earthquakes.
(explanation: earthquakes are the huge release of energy when pent-up forces are released; anything that lets it be released earlier in smaller amounts would decrease that).
On purely technological grounds, I'd want to make the decision based on battery life -- if it takes less battery power to upload the audio and download a response, then do it online; if it takes less battery life to do the voice-recognition and database lookup on the phone, then do it on the phone.
[use of metrics] usually produces teaching that increases test scores, but fails real the learning goals, i.e. producing insights and capabilities.
Are you saying that it fails on the measure of "how much insight and capability was produced"? What kind of measure is that, and how is it collected? Would you even call it a "metric" ?
I don't think it's an unsavory or wasteful business environment when a company stock price "fluctuates sharply on its successes and failures in patent litigation and licensing."
Think of a university research group which discovers a new drug candidate, and forms a company to pursue its further clinical trials and licensing. The financial health of this company will be wholly determined by its ability to patent and license.
Think of a pharma company which spends $200mil research on each drug candidate, and every four years it gets one $10bil success for 50 failures. The financial health of this company will rest solely on its ability to protect (through patent litigation and licensing) the $10bil revenue that makes up for the $10bil expenses.
These both seem like cases where the market is operating as intended.
What annoys me is when I search for a particular word or phrase, and Google takes me to a page which lacks that word.
I used to be able to type "+blankie" and google would show only those pages that had the word blankie in them. No longer. It just says that + is no longer supported, and takes me to a load of pages without that word.
The SOPA was written to address "US-based interests", i.e. it specifically claims to go after only US-directed foreign websites, to prevent US-based people from seeing those foreign websites.
(Defn: "US-directed" means that the site hasn't taken steps to prevent US people from seeing the website, or other nonspecified reasons. "Foreign website" means a domain name which is registered by a non-US registrar, or an IP address which comes from a non-US block).
But the US doesn't have jurisdiction over foreign domains/websites. So, in that absence, it's US-based companies who have to act:
* US-based ISPs have to take measures to prevent their customers from "accessing" those websites 5 days. It's not clear what measures must be taken, but they include at a minimum blocking DNS lookups.
* US-based search engines have to remove hyperlinks to those foreign domains/websites within 5 days
* US-based ad brokers have to cease serving ads to those foreign domains/websites within 5 days
* US-based payment companies have to cease processing payments for those foreign domains/websites with 5 days
Moreover, any US-based service which bypasses this censorship -- TOR, Mafiaafire, free and open DNS servers -- will be shut down by the courts.
The "iTunes Match" option NEVER disappears from the menu bar at the left.
Even after you've disabled the iTunes store under "parental controls", it's still there. Even after you click "No Thanks" it's still there, asking you to subscribe for $25/year. (this is itunes 10.5.1.42 on windows).
Either shoddy programming, or an insidious attempt to get more money out of you despite the parental controls.
The original value proposition was you got free content in exchange for screening commercial messages in your home.
Of course it was never actually free; merely "free at point of delivery". The soap manufacturers paid for those ads, and they passed the cost onto consumers in the form of higher prices.
US annual expenditure on advertising: $300 billion
US population: 300 million
Advertising tax: $1000 per person per year. We're paying this money to line the pockets of the advertising middle-men so that we get ads that we don't want thrust in our faces.
US annual expenditure on advertising: $300 billion
US population: 300 million
Each of us is paying $1000 per year to have irritating ads thrust in our faces. The money ends up in the pockets of the advertising middle-men like facebook and google and ad agencies. The companies pay it to promote their products. They pass the cost onto us the consumers who buy their products.
I'm unhappy as heck paying $1000 per year for the "joy" of having ads stuffed in my face. I think the figure should be much lower. This is a business that has gotten out of control through a people brainwashed (by advertising!) to think that this level of advertising is normal.
2) I don't know what timeline you want, since Firefox showed up in Feb 2004 well before the end of Netscape in 2008. But let's pick 1998 as your "Netscape" year, since that was when the source code of Netscape was abandoned.
1999 -- Microsoft introduces "AJAX". It made our lives significantly better. (or at least, it was what turned the Internet from Web1.0 static pages into Web2.0 interactive pages).
"I created new wiki topics everywhere"
I think that's the problem. Wikis are awful for gathering together information. Every individual page is too isolated. No reader can get an episcope, an overview of how all the topics fit together. Sometimes people suggest "make another topic that shows how the topics fit together" but this adds to the problem rather than solving it.
You see the same problem with things like Javadoc which are great for creating lots of tiny little informations but bad for conveying the overview of how things fit together.
The solution? Write FEWER topics, long ones. That way people can scroll through to get an idea. The brain's really good at skimming through large documents, understanding what the domain is, drilling down where it's needed. That's why books are so successful!
It's still the wrong word. The parliament's move doesn't have any relation to a polemic.
(Polemical is not a synonym for "controversial". It specifically relates to polemic.)
If you need to make money on top of that, throwing in an ad or two should do the trick and keep the service free for anyone.
Ads aren't free. They cost money for the company who places the ad, who then passes the cost on to every one of its customers, with huge amounts of money bled off by the ad middle-men. It's basically an "advertising tax". Currently it works out at about $1000 per head in the US ($300bil total advertising, 300mil population).
I'd much rather spend $1000/year how I want it, rather than on having unwanted ads thrust into my face.
Do you mean "plurality" or "majority"?
From your rule of thumb, up to its bounds of accuracy, there very well might have been a plurality. E.g. if it were 33.4% mad, 33.3% happy, 33.2% unhappy then "mad" would have the plurality.
Most GPS-enabled watches last a day -- typically used by athletes to track their workout, especially endurance athletes.
It becomes a nightly ritual to recharge it just like you recharge your smartphone. My Nokia 8210 from ten years ago used to last 10 days without recharging.
The .NET standard libraries WILL be accessible from Metro applications. You'll write your C#/VB metro applications targeting both WinRT APIs and standard .NET APIs at the same time. I suspect that very nearly all C#/VB metro apps will be using many .NET APIs.
(you had said that the .NET standard libraries wouldn't be available for Metro apps).
For example:
IAsyncInfo ai = MessageBox.ShowAsync("hello world"); // using a WinRT API // here we're bridging from WinRT to .NET // here we're using standard .NET APIs
Task t = ai.StartAsTask();
await Task.WhenAll(t, Task.Delay(100));
(disclaimer: I work for Microsoft on the VB/C# language team)