If all the theorems/lemmas/etc used in the ultimate proof were each given an even share of the $1M, and we followed things back recursively, how much money would each person get.
Learning skills that apply all over, and get expressed as 'targetted' skills, is worth much more over time. The ability to read, write, speak, manage time, and finally, learn and adapt...
Well, as even TFA states, it's not a new problem, just one that's finally feasible with the power of data mining.
It's high time people sat down and laid out generally acceptable standards for privacy balanced against freedom of information and dealt with how people can just aggregate data from all over the place and pull meaningful but harmful information at the push of a buton.
Re:having taken quantum mechanics courses...
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Everyone's free to believe what they believe and to try to prove it to the opposition. Heck, isn't that the spirit of peer review?
Science is all about changing the theory if something comes up in nature that's not properly predicted, so I believe that there is still alot of value in having one of the greatest minds around throw all of his ability at trying to find flaws in quantum mechanics, and utterly failing to do so.
He may not have been right in not believing in the truth of quantum mechanics, but who else could come up with those 'clever thought experiments' that could have potentially been the 1 case the breaks the theory?
802.16 is for fixed positions anyways, I'd imagine if you get a good enough density of users in a spot you can just aim a good directional antenna at that place and recycle the channels in other directions. At least, that's how the theory goes.
Do it yourself, or pay someone else to do it, since when did either case not involve doing your homework properly? The only bad thing about outsourcing security is that managers think they can get away with doing less homework than doing it in house. Otherwise, it's a perfectly valid option.
Spatialization vs Round Robin of Iterated PD actualy can yield vastly different outcomes for identical 'worlds'. And my gut feeling is that these colluding strategies would not do nearly as well when they can only interact with a limited number of strategies in it's field of vision.
In our group's research we've been using Spatialized IPD among other projects, to come to look at prejudice reduction, which is a real-world version of fair-play and cooperation version betrayal.
Sure, games are designed to be positive reinforcement. But any sport and pretty much any form of entertainment I can think of is also positively reinforcing (you can 'Win', or be 'Entertained' for some action). Why would anyone entertain themselves with anything "not fun" after all?
The difference, if there is any, would be that computer games give more reinforcement per time period, than say, TV or sports.
Although a big accident can kill the idea of commercial space flight, we'd like to think that people are at least in some ways rational (to a point). Everyone is aware that big ol' NASA with a percieved huge budget can't make space flight 100% safe, or even 90% safe, so people come in with expectations for "as safe as you can get it for the price"
The real question is, is the number of people willing to pop $100k to go on an known to be risky ride, large enough to fund further safety improvements and cost reductions which'll push space flight into the mainstream.
Although there's no practical value in having 1 of a group of bottlenecks relaxed, there's still value in relaxing it. Innovation in leaps or babysteps is innovation nonetheless.
when the same people realize the waste of magic pills used in conjunction with a proper diet, excercise, and health consultation will give them rock hard abs and longer life all for $49.99 a bottle!
Well it breaks down like this for my store example, milelage may vary depending on industry and size.
The stores do generate revenue through selling inventory. It's not clearing the shelves, but every day a certain amount of goods are sold, and the money first goes to the employee salaries, 'cause without them we might as well pack up now.
Now if you have no product, you'd have to get outside investment (read: suckers) to keep you afloat. Or you buy/sell parts of businesses.
The really big reason why the creditors don't ram your door down probably comes down to the managers negotiation skills, and power relationships.
The owner/manager I worked for had a heck of a sharp tongue and could deal with all sorts of angry collections people, if he decided to actually take their calls through the secretary filter. Small suppliers need every account they can get and he really takes advantage of their lack of power
Okay fine, if you want, you can bring in the lawyers. But that'll take months to go through the courts, and alot of times the wholesaler just doesn't want to bother and will settle for a fraction of the bill. The business has had time to save up some cash to pay off a settlement so it's clear then.
Now, if you're a large important supplier with hot products, say, Nike, you'll always get paid. Power, again.
This is probably why collection agencies are actually very useful to wholesalers, having 20 suppliers bound to not ship things to you if you get too far behind on the payments gathers up some negotiation power back to the suppliers.
Companies that seem to us totally mismanaged, drowning in red, and should have failed years ago stay afloat alot of times because no one's gotten around to sink them.
It's much like a small clothing retailer I worked briefly at in NYC 3 years ago, the turnover was horrible, unsellable inventory was piling up, collections groups had been holding shipments constantly until the outstanding balances are paid, the company credibility was so bad that we'd have to fax copies of the checks we write at the end of the week (for invoices 3-6 months past due) to prove we've written the checks (that we don't mail for a few days after anyways). Heck, the ultilities didn't get paid until they threatened (as in guy with cutters literally stands next to the wires) to disconnect us.
By all reasonings of business, accounting, and logic, we're looking at a dead turkey here. However, it's still in business to this day, still generating revenue (not really profit). My firm belief is that it'd take a big claims lawsuit from a bunch of creditors to force this company into bankruptcy. And until that day comes, it'll still flounder around.
The campus Resnet I'm on right now is just as bad if not worse, and we're sitting on an OC-3 here (though it's only 10Mbp and what seems to be Cat3 to most dorms. Yes, you heard me - we need special cables that take are RJ-11 on one end and RJ-45 on the other)
Once 3 years ago as a freshman, I left my XP share open to those default Shared folders for 10 minutes and had about 30-50 copies of nimda flood in. Norton went berserk with warnings before I closed the sharing.
And 2 years ago the fiber switches literally got overloaded from traffic from sasser et al. It still happens time to time. It's a wonder we've got continuous conntections more than a few hours.
Policy changed after sasser requiring all machines to be patched to a certain point before registering into the resnet system. It's still at WinXP SP1 right now with no signs of requiring SP2 or updating once your MAC's registered.
The only amusing part to this long story is that we knock our network down long before anyone can use our pipe to knock someone else off.
Not to sound like a gov't official, but just think of how infinitely more difficult resource-wise it is to constrain a car that has 3 dimensions of movement.
We've already got enough trouble with simple roadblocks if someone really wants to cause trouble, blockading flying cars? good luck.
A good part of it is justifying the cost of doing such a project for what might be little benefit to city budget committees who are always strapped for cash. Other than "hey look we're tech savy come here!" what benefit do you derive from paying for free wireless upkeep in a metro area?
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If all the theorems/lemmas/etc used in the ultimate proof were each given an even share of the $1M, and we followed things back recursively, how much money would each person get.
Learning skills that apply all over, and get expressed as 'targetted' skills, is worth much more over time. The ability to read, write, speak, manage time, and finally, learn and adapt...
Well, as even TFA states, it's not a new problem, just one that's finally feasible with the power of data mining.
It's high time people sat down and laid out generally acceptable standards for privacy balanced against freedom of information and dealt with how people can just aggregate data from all over the place and pull meaningful but harmful information at the push of a buton.
Everyone's free to believe what they believe and to try to prove it to the opposition. Heck, isn't that the spirit of peer review?
Science is all about changing the theory if something comes up in nature that's not properly predicted, so I believe that there is still alot of value in having one of the greatest minds around throw all of his ability at trying to find flaws in quantum mechanics, and utterly failing to do so.
He may not have been right in not believing in the truth of quantum mechanics, but who else could come up with those 'clever thought experiments' that could have potentially been the 1 case the breaks the theory?
Looks kinda like a giant space pig to me. Note the curly bit at the end =D
Question being, _free_ free, or "somewhere in your tax bill" free?
802.16 is for fixed positions anyways, I'd imagine if you get a good enough density of users in a spot you can just aim a good directional antenna at that place and recycle the channels in other directions. At least, that's how the theory goes.
It's not worth all that much to them sitting on their drives anyways. Who knows, some wacko might actually pay!
But really it's just to generate bad publicity for cisco
Do it yourself, or pay someone else to do it, since when did either case not involve doing your homework properly? The only bad thing about outsourcing security is that managers think they can get away with doing less homework than doing it in house. Otherwise, it's a perfectly valid option.
Spatialization vs Round Robin of Iterated PD actualy can yield vastly different outcomes for identical 'worlds'. And my gut feeling is that these colluding strategies would not do nearly as well when they can only interact with a limited number of strategies in it's field of vision.
In our group's research we've been using Spatialized IPD among other projects, to come to look at prejudice reduction, which is a real-world version of fair-play and cooperation version betrayal.
There are some papers here for anyone interested. Some of the results are simple and yet very striking.
http://www.computationalphilosophy.org/
Just because we have no jurisdiction doesn't mean we can't ask, or demand, just like extradition.
Sure, games are designed to be positive reinforcement. But any sport and pretty much any form of entertainment I can think of is also positively reinforcing (you can 'Win', or be 'Entertained' for some action). Why would anyone entertain themselves with anything "not fun" after all?
The difference, if there is any, would be that computer games give more reinforcement per time period, than say, TV or sports.
Although a big accident can kill the idea of commercial space flight, we'd like to think that people are at least in some ways rational (to a point). Everyone is aware that big ol' NASA with a percieved huge budget can't make space flight 100% safe, or even 90% safe, so people come in with expectations for "as safe as you can get it for the price"
The real question is, is the number of people willing to pop $100k to go on an known to be risky ride, large enough to fund further safety improvements and cost reductions which'll push space flight into the mainstream.
Although there's no practical value in having 1 of a group of bottlenecks relaxed, there's still value in relaxing it. Innovation in leaps or babysteps is innovation nonetheless.
when the same people realize the waste of magic pills used in conjunction with a proper diet, excercise, and health consultation will give them rock hard abs and longer life all for $49.99 a bottle!
So, no.
Well it breaks down like this for my store example, milelage may vary depending on industry and size.
The stores do generate revenue through selling inventory. It's not clearing the shelves, but every day a certain amount of goods are sold, and the money first goes to the employee salaries, 'cause without them we might as well pack up now.
Now if you have no product, you'd have to get outside investment (read: suckers) to keep you afloat. Or you buy/sell parts of businesses.
The really big reason why the creditors don't ram your door down probably comes down to the managers negotiation skills, and power relationships.
The owner/manager I worked for had a heck of a sharp tongue and could deal with all sorts of angry collections people, if he decided to actually take their calls through the secretary filter. Small suppliers need every account they can get and he really takes advantage of their lack of power
Okay fine, if you want, you can bring in the lawyers. But that'll take months to go through the courts, and alot of times the wholesaler just doesn't want to bother and will settle for a fraction of the bill. The business has had time to save up some cash to pay off a settlement so it's clear then.
Now, if you're a large important supplier with hot products, say, Nike, you'll always get paid. Power, again.
This is probably why collection agencies are actually very useful to wholesalers, having 20 suppliers bound to not ship things to you if you get too far behind on the payments gathers up some negotiation power back to the suppliers.
Companies that seem to us totally mismanaged, drowning in red, and should have failed years ago stay afloat alot of times because no one's gotten around to sink them.
It's much like a small clothing retailer I worked briefly at in NYC 3 years ago, the turnover was horrible, unsellable inventory was piling up, collections groups had been holding shipments constantly until the outstanding balances are paid, the company credibility was so bad that we'd have to fax copies of the checks we write at the end of the week (for invoices 3-6 months past due) to prove we've written the checks (that we don't mail for a few days after anyways). Heck, the ultilities didn't get paid until they threatened (as in guy with cutters literally stands next to the wires) to disconnect us.
By all reasonings of business, accounting, and logic, we're looking at a dead turkey here. However, it's still in business to this day, still generating revenue (not really profit). My firm belief is that it'd take a big claims lawsuit from a bunch of creditors to force this company into bankruptcy. And until that day comes, it'll still flounder around.
The campus Resnet I'm on right now is just as bad if not worse, and we're sitting on an OC-3 here (though it's only 10Mbp and what seems to be Cat3 to most dorms. Yes, you heard me - we need special cables that take are RJ-11 on one end and RJ-45 on the other)
Once 3 years ago as a freshman, I left my XP share open to those default Shared folders for 10 minutes and had about 30-50 copies of nimda flood in. Norton went berserk with warnings before I closed the sharing.
And 2 years ago the fiber switches literally got overloaded from traffic from sasser et al. It still happens time to time. It's a wonder we've got continuous conntections more than a few hours.
Policy changed after sasser requiring all machines to be patched to a certain point before registering into the resnet system. It's still at WinXP SP1 right now with no signs of requiring SP2 or updating once your MAC's registered.
The only amusing part to this long story is that we knock our network down long before anyone can use our pipe to knock someone else off.
Not to sound like a gov't official, but just think of how infinitely more difficult resource-wise it is to constrain a car that has 3 dimensions of movement. We've already got enough trouble with simple roadblocks if someone really wants to cause trouble, blockading flying cars? good luck.
A good part of it is justifying the cost of doing such a project for what might be little benefit to city budget committees who are always strapped for cash. Other than "hey look we're tech savy come here!" what benefit do you derive from paying for free wireless upkeep in a metro area?
how much productivity you'd gain if only the security features would stop popping up.
And yet, if I asked a random girl "Is what you're carrying real?" I'd get slapped or worse.