So what you are saying is that you do not know enough of SQL to understand that query; therefore you are not qualified to comment on the practicality and viability of using SQL for complex structures.
Actually, Anderson's point is that since the cost keeps getting closer to zero (asymptotically, as you say), and since the market price should intersect with its production cost eventually; at some point someone will come around and make it zero by just absorbing completely the marginal cost and distribute the thing for free, thus gaining a competitive advantage.
I greatly disagree with Anderson's principles and wild assumptions, but that point is not really the reason why he is wrong.
I just talked to her last night, and after the wild party on Saturday (and the few inebriated occurrences of which we shall not speak), I can say with some authority that Information most definitely wants to just be left the fuck alone.
Maybe since they have some responsibility for the cleanup, it will motivate them to think about how you design for the environment and the commodity value at the end of the life
Congratulations! You have just stumbled upon the definition and intent of lobbying, and presumably can now see why it garners such protection from unreasonable regulation and is treated mostly as free-speech.
Although this is a very important moment for you, please do not stop there. As you now know, act: gather your friends, relatives and even build up associations with strangers to advocate for your community's interests. It is possible, you know; not all "interest groups" are corrupt and greedy power grabbing entities. Some of them are actually, like you thought, groups of people trying to get their point across and influence government in their favor. The fact that you may disagree with them does not make them any less righteous to their cause than you would be to yours.
Wrong! Buzz is suggesting we build bases on the Moon and try to exploit it commercially: extract Helium 3 or water or whatever it is we think is there. The ultimate purpose of this is to test our technology and theories on interplanetary travel and long-term, low-gravity human habitation, and practice for our eventual missions to other celestial bodies.
That is the express purpose of traveling to the Moon, to make sure we can get off this rock and survive in space and then scale it for longer voyayes. We'll then exploit the Moon commercially, just because we're there and would like to get something back from it; but this is only incidental.
From there on, if the Moon proves not to be commercially viable, then, he continue, scrap the lot! Cancel the mission, call it a day, and dump any future projects for it. It served our purpose: we tested our stuff and we practiced; and we can go on with the real goal, Mars.
From the Wikipedia article linked: "In 1964, William C. Brown demonstrated a miniature helicopter equipped with a combination antenna and rectifier device called a rectenna."
Heh, rectenna sounds like some alien probing device.
>> I didn't invent anything this clever when I was 15. How about you?
At 15, I designed an Analog-To-Digital converter, a signal sampler, and an analog harmonizer (I was a DJ, and dabbled in sound design and basic electronics). All in theory, of course, but completely isolated from any real world implementations, to which I was never exposed by that time.
I would never had been able to build any of those systems, nor trully understand or appreciate the intricacies and complexities of the engineering challenges they involved. But my insight into their basic theoretical workings turned out to be correct, and in a way, obvious.
This is what 15 year old kids do. I still don't think I was any more special for this.
However, when I hear of a 15 year kid who designs and builds his own computer or something like that--you know, someone who solved the engineering problems and actually understood the real world application of his theory and all its dependencies and challenges--that I think is very impressive.
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So what you are saying is that you do not know enough of SQL to understand that query; therefore you are not qualified to comment on the practicality and viability of using SQL for complex structures.
I suspect the same applies to Perl.
-dZ.
You mean, more taste, less filling?
-dZ.
True.
+1 Insightful
-dZ.
Actually, Anderson's point is that since the cost keeps getting closer to zero (asymptotically, as you say), and since the market price should intersect with its production cost eventually; at some point someone will come around and make it zero by just absorbing completely the marginal cost and distribute the thing for free, thus gaining a competitive advantage.
I greatly disagree with Anderson's principles and wild assumptions, but that point is not really the reason why he is wrong.
-dZ.
AdBlock? Goodness, indeed!
-dZ.
I just talked to her last night, and after the wild party on Saturday (and the few inebriated occurrences of which we shall not speak), I can say with some authority that Information most definitely wants to just be left the fuck alone.
-dZ.
What is incorrect of his usage of "pithy"?
>> "His advice is pithy[...]"
pithy |<SLASHDOT CANNOT PRINT NON-LATIN CHARS, WTF?>|
adjective ( pithier , pithiest )
1 (of language or style) concise and forcefully expressive. See note at terse*.
* From "terse": "A pithy statement is not only succinct but full of substance and meaning (: a pithy argument that no one could counter)."
Source: New Oxford American Dictionary
-dZ.
Maybe since they have some responsibility for the cleanup, it will motivate them to think about how you design for the environment and the commodity value at the end of the life
Huh? Whose responsibility is it to design what??
-dZ.
And which principle is that? Is it the principle of fair use? Or is it the principle of proper attribution and representation of the girl's rant?
And how, then, do you sue or "hammer" a purely philosophical principle?
-dZ.
Congratulations! You have just stumbled upon the definition and intent of lobbying, and presumably can now see why it garners such protection from unreasonable regulation and is treated mostly as free-speech.
Although this is a very important moment for you, please do not stop there. As you now know, act: gather your friends, relatives and even build up associations with strangers to advocate for your community's interests. It is possible, you know; not all "interest groups" are corrupt and greedy power grabbing entities. Some of them are actually, like you thought, groups of people trying to get their point across and influence government in their favor. The fact that you may disagree with them does not make them any less righteous to their cause than you would be to yours.
So what do you say?
Cheers!
-dZ.
I haven't seen any of the videos yet. Can someone answer me my one pressing question?
Are there any LOLcatz with capshuns on helth cair? I wud so watch dat!
-dZ.
Or just sufficiently human-ish, at least in the right parts.
-dZ.
Wrong! Buzz is suggesting we build bases on the Moon and try to exploit it commercially: extract Helium 3 or water or whatever it is we think is there. The ultimate purpose of this is to test our technology and theories on interplanetary travel and long-term, low-gravity human habitation, and practice for our eventual missions to other celestial bodies.
That is the express purpose of traveling to the Moon, to make sure we can get off this rock and survive in space and then scale it for longer voyayes. We'll then exploit the Moon commercially, just because we're there and would like to get something back from it; but this is only incidental.
From there on, if the Moon proves not to be commercially viable, then, he continue, scrap the lot! Cancel the mission, call it a day, and dump any future projects for it. It served our purpose: we tested our stuff and we practiced; and we can go on with the real goal, Mars.
This is all in his article. Did you even read it?
-dZ.
Awwwww! But what a nice photo-op. Come on!
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/54428main_MM_image_feature_102_jwlarge.jpg
Sign me up for a space-pilgrim one-way ticket to Mars, stat! I have my camera ready!
-dZ.
15 light minutes between the twittering masses! For shame!
-dZ.
Flamebait? really? It was a joke!
Woooooosh!
To which message are you replying? Your comment seems out of context with all the others running with the joke.
-dZ.
Exactly, as if he were to invent a wireless, radio-powered, rectal probing device. Is he of extraterrestial descent, by chance?
-dZ.
I'm sorry for your loss.
-dZ.
From the Wikipedia article linked:
"In 1964, William C. Brown demonstrated a miniature helicopter equipped with a combination antenna and rectifier device called a rectenna."
Heh, rectenna sounds like some alien probing device.
-dZ.
>> I didn't invent anything this clever when I was 15. How about you?
At 15, I designed an Analog-To-Digital converter, a signal sampler, and an analog harmonizer (I was a DJ, and dabbled in sound design and basic electronics). All in theory, of course, but completely isolated from any real world implementations, to which I was never exposed by that time.
I would never had been able to build any of those systems, nor trully understand or appreciate the intricacies and complexities of the engineering challenges they involved. But my insight into their basic theoretical workings turned out to be correct, and in a way, obvious.
This is what 15 year old kids do. I still don't think I was any more special for this.
However, when I hear of a 15 year kid who designs and builds his own computer or something like that--you know, someone who solved the engineering problems and actually understood the real world application of his theory and all its dependencies and challenges--that I think is very impressive.
-dZ.
And since you're posting to Slashdot, I'll assume you're also 15 years old.
Oh wait!
-dZ.
>> Pure science informs experimental science informs design engineers informs process engineers informs manufacture.
Long chains work a lot better with commas. I'm just saying...
-dZ.
I say, chain them to the PlayPump!
http://www.inhabitots.com/2009/03/05/play-pump-the-merry-go-round-water-pump/
-dZ.
We criticize his idea, you know, scientific method and all that.
-dZ.