This is almost true.Films generally drop of a huge amount after the first weekend.
"That's because moviegoers often use box-office performance as a filter in deciding which movies to watch... For studios, releasing a movie that has fallen short of expectations spells trouble, especially in an era in which the media are obsessed with handicapping and analyzing the box office... Studio executives may talk up the prospects for their rivals' upcoming releases while downplaying their own films, hoping to create the impression of a surprisingly strong opening."
...but they also stifled his writing ability and effictively stopped his songwriting.
Well is writing wasn't making him happy, probably good that he stopped. Writing can make you think a lot about your problems, and if this is something you find it hard to handle (or you have some major problems), then it can be a negative event.
Being happy means not thinking too much about the bad things.
More space for the screen. Don't you know, it is all about bigger screens. Just look at digital cameras for this trend, the cameras got smaller, the screen got bigger, until you get something with a 2.5 inch screen that takes up almost the entire back - impasse.
It does make it easier to read things, as long as they scale up the numbers. I remember my first phone with a pixel display (nokie 8110 - the banana), and it didn't scale up the numbers, so they were really small. I want big numbers!
Never gone into a tunnel, been in a bridge, travelling in an elevator, gone to a basement nightclub, gone into a shielded room...I am pretty sure that I have seen all these things in Europe.
Hey, if you count UK as Europe, and I do, then I can't get reception in some areas of my flat.
Mozilla guys walk into a big room. Microsoftie: Hey guys, thanks for coming down here. We have a lot to talk about. Take a seat and we will get started. Mozilla guys: Um, there are no chairs in this room? Steve Ballmer breaks through the wall, armed with a number of vicous looking chairs. Steve: Did someone want a chair...hahaha.
I imagine this sort of thing happens all the time at Redmond.
I have found that having the wireless router right next to the computer I am using gives the best results. If only there was some sort of cable to connect the two, it would be great!
The feedback system is a great idea, and one of the reasons for ebays success, but needs improvement.
You often get see the more sophisticated fraud attempt, were people build up their feedback with cheap crappy items, and from mates, then try to sell 5 or 6 top of the line IBM laptops when they hit 50 positives.
The feedback system should also have the sale price of the item (or at least the option to let you have it) Then you can better judge the value of that positive feedback.
I wouldn't say it was a 100% loser idea for Microsoft, but it is definately a big regime change for Microsoft.
It would mean that Microsoft are recognising Linux as a legitimate operating system - which would mean that many over businesses start to take Linux seriously, and would even consider it on their desktop machines. This will probably happen eventually (there are signs that it is happening already, amoung goverments anyway). This means that people will start to look at Linux/Office rather than Windows/Office, which will take money away from Microsoft.
Big mistake for Microsoft, I think. The only reason Microsoft would do this, is if they perceived some real danger from Open Office - I don't think we are there yet.
Sure, I think we all feel that way after reading this story. But the error could also lie with the Agency. If they are constantly asking for changes and new additions, what can the programmers do.
And this would make it very difficult to get companies to do government contracts in the future.
Perhaps they should have taken in past history as well as cheap price, when deciding on contractors.
Intel seem to have wrestled back the lead, but it has made Dell realise that AMD are not just a bit player. They have produced some great chips, and this has probably been influencing the people at dell for sometime.
Intel have the lead now, but for how long. AMD is promising a better Quad-Core product, which may give them the advantage in the server space. Can Dell afford to ignore this? The people at Dell say no.
Many people who grew up playing video games have lost interest. The games have become too complicated and often force you to sit through 5-10 minutes of story telling before even letting you attempt to play. If you're not into remembering which button throws grenades, which shoots your gun, which brings up your inventory, which calls for backup, then you're S.O.L. with current games.
Mate, you and your friends are just getting older. Get used to it. I tried to go back and play a game of civ 2, a game I used to spend whole nights on 8 or 9 years ago. Couldn't get into at all. Stopped after 15 minutes of forcing myself to try to enjoy it.
Personally, I think the Wii has a good chance of a strong showing, but I wouldn't be surprised if things turned out exactly the same as they had in the last generation. Or that they all flop. That is my 3 options.
I use corporate social responsiblity as the deciding factor in my purchases.
You can use corportate responsiblity if you want. I use quality of the product. And it just so happens that the two best quality laptop builders are Apple and IBM (now Lenovo, not sure how things will change). Now, I wonder if the fact that these two are already involved in this program, goes hand-in-hand with the obvious quality they put in designing the laptops, or it is just a co-incidence.
I hope so, but probably not since Sony and Dell are on there as well. Oh well.
You are right, it is a tricky issue. But you can use it to teach your children some valuable lessons. Restrict them to 5 minutes a month, or 100 messages, will teach them the value of resources, and the ability to restrict themselves from blowing the budget, and the value of planning ahead and of time management.
As long as you make these conditon before you both agree to getting the phone, then you should be ok.
I think that this whole cell phone culture is pretty fascinating. I mean, a few millenia ago it was pretty common for kids to live in tribal societies where they knew and had easy access to their friends in physical space. Walk to the next hut over and talk to your friend, if you're not busy doing chores.
This is a very interesting comment. I think we need to look at the problems with the way this constant communication is re-establishing itself in our society. For example, in the past, parents also new these kids and their parents, whereas this doesn't happen so much. Kids communication was limited by physical space, such as a particular village, whereas this is not the case anymore. The person on the other end of the call could be a child 30 miles away, or an adult across the road or even someone on another continent. How can you limit this? Sure, there are methods to control these things, but when you child comes to you asking to put a new number on their phone, how much screening can you do?
He also say One of the things I said in my post is that I think it's very difficult, if not impossible, to have an analysis of exactly where we are as a number with supporting or complying with CSS - given that there isn't an official test suite that exhaustively tests whether you comply with the standard or not. And any analysis you can do is going to be somewhat biased.
Surely it is not hard to create some test pages to test CSS I could whip up a few in an afternoon. If you don't like the acid2 test, then create some of your own pages. Maybe they will even let you host them on microsoft.com - which is a pig-awful site anyway.
We're trying to improve the world for web developers and when we looked at what people were saying they wanted us to do, there were a ton of bugs that were causing web developers a lot of pain, from IE6 - and we really wanted to nail those and the most requested features upfront.
This is the problem, old versions of ie weren't standards compliant, for whatever reason. So making IE7 compliant, means it will break the old pages. We will have to go back to checking not only whether it is netscape or ie5 (as in the old days, i am sure nobody still cares that much about netscape), but whether we are dealing with ie6 or ie7. This is the problem that you created Microsoft, and it is difficult to go back and change these things!
I think it depends on how you look at it. Some of the way advanced chess games play:
Pattern matching - very similar to the way people play, trying to look for particular opening moves.
Learning - the software learns from mistakes it has made in the past, which is exactly what people do. Also the software will learn a particular players idiosyncracies. eg. software may realise that a player will make unnecessary sacrifices to protect his queen, because he likes playing with his queen. This will affect how the player
These strategies came about from looking at how we play chess. So I think that we can learn a lot from how we play chess, or what goes on in the mind of a human chessplayer.
I strongly subscribe to Science, and all the advances it gives us. Of course, just before I die, I plan on renouncing science and embrassing any religion I can get into. That is the Scientific thing to do!
Software chessplayers can beat human ones, but they play completely differently. For example, human chessplayers see only a few moves ahead, while software chessplayers rely more on brute-force search to find good moves.
I would say that we understand chess - the rules are pretty simple, there are no surprises, nothing that is to be discovered.
And your description for chess playing software is simplistic and irrelevant. The only chess playing software that plays in such a way is the most simple versions - most real programs use a lost more complicated methods that a simple search tree.
But beside all that, I fail to graps the point you are trying to make. Your description doesn't say anything different about computers or people. They both do the same thing. They both look moves ahead, try to look for patterns, develop some sort of strategy that may or may not work, and try to forsee what the other player is doing.
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Oh don't worry, they have thought of this. They will use real tentacles.
This is almost true.Films generally drop of a huge amount after the first weekend.
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"That's because moviegoers often use box-office performance as a filter in deciding which movies to watch... For studios, releasing a movie that has fallen short of expectations spells trouble, especially in an era in which the media are obsessed with handicapping and analyzing the box office... Studio executives may talk up the prospects for their rivals' upcoming releases while downplaying their own films, hoping to create the impression of a surprisingly strong opening."
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-boxoffice6a
...but they also stifled his writing ability and effictively stopped his songwriting.
Well is writing wasn't making him happy, probably good that he stopped. Writing can make you think a lot about your problems, and if this is something you find it hard to handle (or you have some major problems), then it can be a negative event.
Being happy means not thinking too much about the bad things.
More space for the screen. Don't you know, it is all about bigger screens. Just look at digital cameras for this trend, the cameras got smaller, the screen got bigger, until you get something with a 2.5 inch screen that takes up almost the entire back - impasse.
It does make it easier to read things, as long as they scale up the numbers. I remember my first phone with a pixel display (nokie 8110 - the banana), and it didn't scale up the numbers, so they were really small. I want big numbers!
Never gone into a tunnel, been in a bridge, travelling in an elevator, gone to a basement nightclub, gone into a shielded room...I am pretty sure that I have seen all these things in Europe.
Hey, if you count UK as Europe, and I do, then I can't get reception in some areas of my flat.
Well, while reading these books may work for this particular problem, it is not always the case that books answer simple problems like this.
For most questions, you can read as many books as you want, but if the question is simple but stupid, you often won't find the answer.
In these cases, you often need to find someone who is very knowledgeable in the subject, or ask slashdot.
Anybody who has studies an of-campus course will realise the value of being able to ask stupid questions, and talk to knowledgeable people.
Do you hear whoosh sound? It is as if something just went flying over your head.
Ha, I can see it now.
Mozilla guys walk into a big room.
Microsoftie: Hey guys, thanks for coming down here. We have a lot to talk about. Take a seat and we will get started.
Mozilla guys: Um, there are no chairs in this room?
Steve Ballmer breaks through the wall, armed with a number of vicous looking chairs.
Steve: Did someone want a chair...hahaha.
I imagine this sort of thing happens all the time at Redmond.
I have found that having the wireless router right next to the computer I am using gives the best results. If only there was some sort of cable to connect the two, it would be great!
The feedback system is a great idea, and one of the reasons for ebays success, but needs improvement.
You often get see the more sophisticated fraud attempt, were people build up their feedback with cheap crappy items, and from mates, then try to sell 5 or 6 top of the line IBM laptops when they hit 50 positives.
The feedback system should also have the sale price of the item (or at least the option to let you have it) Then you can better judge the value of that positive feedback.
I wouldn't say it was a 100% loser idea for Microsoft, but it is definately a big regime change for Microsoft.
It would mean that Microsoft are recognising Linux as a legitimate operating system - which would mean that many over businesses start to take Linux seriously, and would even consider it on their desktop machines. This will probably happen eventually (there are signs that it is happening already, amoung goverments anyway). This means that people will start to look at Linux/Office rather than Windows/Office, which will take money away from Microsoft.
Big mistake for Microsoft, I think. The only reason Microsoft would do this, is if they perceived some real danger from Open Office - I don't think we are there yet.
Don't worry, when things get really bad the Stark program will get underway to ensure that some of survive.
Damn, I probably should be saving, not just living day by day.
Sure, I think we all feel that way after reading this story. But the error could also lie with the Agency. If they are constantly asking for changes and new additions, what can the programmers do.
And this would make it very difficult to get companies to do government contracts in the future.
Perhaps they should have taken in past history as well as cheap price, when deciding on contractors.
Intel seem to have wrestled back the lead, but it has made Dell realise that AMD are not just a bit player. They have produced some great chips, and this has probably been influencing the people at dell for sometime.
Intel have the lead now, but for how long. AMD is promising a better Quad-Core product, which may give them the advantage in the server space. Can Dell afford to ignore this? The people at Dell say no.
Many people who grew up playing video games have lost interest. The games have become too complicated and often force you to sit through 5-10 minutes of story telling before even letting you attempt to play. If you're not into remembering which button throws grenades, which shoots your gun, which brings up your inventory, which calls for backup, then you're S.O.L. with current games.
Mate, you and your friends are just getting older. Get used to it. I tried to go back and play a game of civ 2, a game I used to spend whole nights on 8 or 9 years ago. Couldn't get into at all. Stopped after 15 minutes of forcing myself to try to enjoy it.
Personally, I think the Wii has a good chance of a strong showing, but I wouldn't be surprised if things turned out exactly the same as they had in the last generation. Or that they all flop. That is my 3 options.
I use corporate social responsiblity as the deciding factor in my purchases.
You can use corportate responsiblity if you want. I use quality of the product. And it just so happens that the two best quality laptop builders are Apple and IBM (now Lenovo, not sure how things will change). Now, I wonder if the fact that these two are already involved in this program, goes hand-in-hand with the obvious quality they put in designing the laptops, or it is just a co-incidence.
I hope so, but probably not since Sony and Dell are on there as well. Oh well.
You are right, it is a tricky issue. But you can use it to teach your children some valuable lessons. Restrict them to 5 minutes a month, or 100 messages, will teach them the value of resources, and the ability to restrict themselves from blowing the budget, and the value of planning ahead and of time management.
As long as you make these conditon before you both agree to getting the phone, then you should be ok.
I think that this whole cell phone culture is pretty fascinating. I mean, a few millenia ago it was pretty common for kids to live in tribal societies where they knew and had easy access to their friends in physical space. Walk to the next hut over and talk to your friend, if you're not busy doing chores.
This is a very interesting comment. I think we need to look at the problems with the way this constant communication is re-establishing itself in our society. For example, in the past, parents also new these kids and their parents, whereas this doesn't happen so much. Kids communication was limited by physical space, such as a particular village, whereas this is not the case anymore. The person on the other end of the call could be a child 30 miles away, or an adult across the road or even someone on another continent. How can you limit this? Sure, there are methods to control these things, but when you child comes to you asking to put a new number on their phone, how much screening can you do?
Your supposed to play pass-the-parcel with it. Then, whoever gets the license, is allowed to use the compiler. You are obviously a newbie.
He also say One of the things I said in my post is that I think it's very difficult, if not impossible, to have an analysis of exactly where we are as a number with supporting or complying with CSS - given that there isn't an official test suite that exhaustively tests whether you comply with the standard or not. And any analysis you can do is going to be somewhat biased.
Surely it is not hard to create some test pages to test CSS I could whip up a few in an afternoon. If you don't like the acid2 test, then create some of your own pages. Maybe they will even let you host them on microsoft.com - which is a pig-awful site anyway.
We're trying to improve the world for web developers and when we looked at what people were saying they wanted us to do, there were a ton of bugs that were causing web developers a lot of pain, from IE6 - and we really wanted to nail those and the most requested features upfront.
This is the problem, old versions of ie weren't standards compliant, for whatever reason. So making IE7 compliant, means it will break the old pages. We will have to go back to checking not only whether it is netscape or ie5 (as in the old days, i am sure nobody still cares that much about netscape), but whether we are dealing with ie6 or ie7. This is the problem that you created Microsoft, and it is difficult to go back and change these things!
I think it depends on how you look at it. Some of the way advanced chess games play:
Pattern matching - very similar to the way people play, trying to look for particular opening moves.
Learning - the software learns from mistakes it has made in the past, which is exactly what people do. Also the software will learn a particular players idiosyncracies. eg. software may realise that a player will make unnecessary sacrifices to protect his queen, because he likes playing with his queen. This will affect how the player
These strategies came about from looking at how we play chess. So I think that we can learn a lot from how we play chess, or what goes on in the mind of a human chessplayer.
I strongly subscribe to Science, and all the advances it gives us. Of course, just before I die, I plan on renouncing science and embrassing any religion I can get into. That is the Scientific thing to do!
Software chessplayers can beat human ones, but they play completely differently. For example, human chessplayers see only a few moves ahead, while software chessplayers rely more on brute-force search to find good moves.
I would say that we understand chess - the rules are pretty simple, there are no surprises, nothing that is to be discovered.
And your description for chess playing software is simplistic and irrelevant. The only chess playing software that plays in such a way is the most simple versions - most real programs use a lost more complicated methods that a simple search tree.
But beside all that, I fail to graps the point you are trying to make. Your description doesn't say anything different about computers or people. They both do the same thing. They both look moves ahead, try to look for patterns, develop some sort of strategy that may or may not work, and try to forsee what the other player is doing.