1. The software development industry is very different from the drug industry. In particular, look at the costs of bringing something to market. It costs far more to bring a patented drug to market than it does a computer program. So you have higher costs you have to recover. Maybe on average - I would be astonished if any drug cost more than windows vista to develop for example.
Personally, I find "mind reading" to be utterly falacious. As others have pointed out, evolution would have heavily favoured even a very slight ability in this regard.
That's an assertion that is of dubious value, as any number of fiction writers have demonstrated over the years. If telepathic abilities led to insanity, autism, shyness, or other types of strong mental impact, then it could be the opposite of heavily favored. That's even assuming it's isolated and not linked to other undesirable traits.
You would be right not to believe that information, as it would seem that human activites C02 emissions were 150 times that of volcanic in 1998 and have been increasing ever since.
It's like defining a dangerous chemical as one which has special handling rules. It has special handling rules because it is dangerous, it's not dangerous because it has special handling rules.
Same deal with mission critical systems - they have a well defined SLA because they are mission critical, they aren't mission critical because they have a well defined SLA.
Think about it - did you tell your business users what was mission critical or did you ask them ?
The 2405P uses an out of spec hack to the blanking interval to fit it's bandwidth into standard DVI. If I remember correctly, this is only useful because it's an LCD panel, the same trick won't work for TVs.
Don't underestimate the general lack of computer literacy of many people.
You make take knowledge of file sharing, what it does, how it happens, for granted, but there are many many people in the world to whom the details would be a surprising revelation.
A more appropriate analogy might be that you were sued by Penthouse because your children had been making illegal copies of centerfolds by taking pictures of them with their mobile phones and then uploading them to websites, when you weren't even aware that the phones you bought them could take pictures in the first place.
It's that kind of bewilderment, not as a knowledge that doing so was wrong, but finding the entire concept of having been able to do so quite alien.
"The real is of course out now, but it wasn't prior to release date"
It was actually, not a long time prior but still. I thought it was kind of a ballsy move after the pounding that the torrent sites got for Revenge of the Sith.
Actually - do the chips it supports other than AMD, like the old cyrix ones, support the function that tells it whether it has SSE or not ?
That does make a difference in that if it took the path of checking for SSE and then doing it or not doing it, that code would crash on a machine that didn't support the SSE check, in which case it would be laziness in not including AMD rather than pettiness in excluding them.
I watched the first episode of Star Blazers again a while ago ( for the first time in many many years ) and was actually pretty surprised by all of the stuff that wasn't apparent at the time.
For instance, the villians of the piece are fat, balding super capitalists who fight using nuclear weapons from long range - they are also equipped with a gigantic purple gun with a bulbous head that shoots white streams of energy at things. The good guys come from the planet earth, which appears to have japan as the only continent, and they fly around the universe in a japanese warship that was sunk during WW2.
Of course, none of this meant anything when watching it as a child.
I would think that would depend on how expensive it will be for them to comply with the requirements.
For example, if they project the cost as being 1 billion dollars, paying the $5M/day fine until they can renegotiate could seem an attractice option.
I don't think that's what he is talking about. If I remember correctly, the entire frame of the B2 is computer controlled to constantly make minor adjustments to it's shape in response to air currents.
Whether it would tear itself to pieces or simply become difficult to fly and/or non stealthy if this system stopped working, I am entirely unqualified to comment on.
How do you know that ? The article makes no mention of what the fibres are actually made of, let alone what their temperature response is.
And how would they catch on fire if they are inside the concrete ? It would have to crack open to expose them to oxygen before that could happen, presuming that they are even flammable in the first place.
In China, you so much as complain about a poorly designed / manufactured / supported product, and they stick your ass in prison, probably making the very product you complained about!
I would be surprised if that were true, but if it was it has a certain poetic justice. It sucks ? Well here is your chance to make it better 8)
To bring that a bit closer to the original discussion - that adjusted for inflation list contains 1 "R", 4 "PG-13", 8 "PG" and 7 "G", and can't really be compared with the first list given the first is international and the second is domestic.
On the whole I feel that the the original list is actually a better indicator overall. Times change, culture changes - how well a PG-13 movie would perform in 1970 has very little bearing on how well the exact same movie would perform today.
My dad had a lot of trouble with that concept unfortunately. Ended up with a font folder full of links, http links, html files, zip files, rar files, arj files, bitmap images and jpegs.
Some people just need an installer which only has a "Yes" button on it.
You, I fear, are part of the problem.
It doesn't need to *sound* funny, it simply needs to be complete deadpan, it *is* funny sheerly for the absurdity value.
Yeah, you are missing the key point. The heat is the same everywhere. If the heat came from the big bang it should be hot in the middle, and cooler toward the edges where the universe has expanded.
Actually, you are sort of missing the point - context.
To paraphrase an actual conversation seen in everquest :
P1 : Have you got your new nuke done yet ?
P2 : No, I am still missing some of the bits.
P1 : What ? We've been waiting 3 weeks for this raid, people are getting impatient.
P2 : The components are rare and hard to find ! I'm working on it !
P1 : It has to be ready for next sunday, that's when we will have everyone ready to go.
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Yes, but Blu-ray burners can't be used for playing commercial Blu-Ray discs.
Actually the 'without loss' part may be literally true - what if, along with his c64, they collected a moldering pile of twenty year old tapes ?
It's entirely possible that attempts to play them back by conventional means could result in the physical destruction of the tape in question.
That's an assertion that is of dubious value, as any number of fiction writers have demonstrated over the years. If telepathic abilities led to insanity, autism, shyness, or other types of strong mental impact, then it could be the opposite of heavily favored. That's even assuming it's isolated and not linked to other undesirable traits.
You would be right not to believe that information, as it would seem that human activites C02 emissions were 150 times that of volcanic in 1998 and have been increasing ever since.
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Your definition is backwards
It's like defining a dangerous chemical as one which has special handling rules. It has special handling rules because it is dangerous, it's not dangerous because it has special handling rules.
Same deal with mission critical systems - they have a well defined SLA because they are mission critical, they aren't mission critical because they have a well defined SLA.
Think about it - did you tell your business users what was mission critical or did you ask them ?
The 2405P uses an out of spec hack to the blanking interval to fit it's bandwidth into standard DVI. If I remember correctly, this is only useful because it's an LCD panel, the same trick won't work for TVs.
In the past, it has invariably been the other way around. I can't see that changing.
Don't underestimate the general lack of computer literacy of many people.
You make take knowledge of file sharing, what it does, how it happens, for granted, but there are many many people in the world to whom the details would be a surprising revelation.
A more appropriate analogy might be that you were sued by Penthouse because your children had been making illegal copies of centerfolds by taking pictures of them with their mobile phones and then uploading them to websites, when you weren't even aware that the phones you bought them could take pictures in the first place.
It's that kind of bewilderment, not as a knowledge that doing so was wrong, but finding the entire concept of having been able to do so quite alien.
Er, unless the alchemists have made a startingly discovery recently, forging a lump of gold remains pretty difficult.
"The real is of course out now, but it wasn't prior to release date"
It was actually, not a long time prior but still. I thought it was kind of a ballsy move after the pounding that the torrent sites got for Revenge of the Sith.
Actually - do the chips it supports other than AMD, like the old cyrix ones, support the function that tells it whether it has SSE or not ?
That does make a difference in that if it took the path of checking for SSE and then doing it or not doing it, that code would crash on a machine that didn't support the SSE check, in which case it would be laziness in not including AMD rather than pettiness in excluding them.
Is there anything at all that a 1.4GHz itanium would run better than a dual 3.2GHZ p4 ?
I watched the first episode of Star Blazers again a while ago ( for the first time in many many years ) and was actually pretty surprised by all of the stuff that wasn't apparent at the time.
For instance, the villians of the piece are fat, balding super capitalists who fight using nuclear weapons from long range - they are also equipped with a gigantic purple gun with a bulbous head that shoots white streams of energy at things. The good guys come from the planet earth, which appears to have japan as the only continent, and they fly around the universe in a japanese warship that was sunk during WW2.
Of course, none of this meant anything when watching it as a child.
I would think that would depend on how expensive it will be for them to comply with the requirements. For example, if they project the cost as being 1 billion dollars, paying the $5M/day fine until they can renegotiate could seem an attractice option.
That depends on whether they pressurize all of him, or only part of him.
There's a reason that in a rear end accident the driver behind is almost always automatically assumed to be at fault.
If you can't stop without hitting them if they brake suddenly, you are too close.
I don't think that's what he is talking about. If I remember correctly, the entire frame of the B2 is computer controlled to constantly make minor adjustments to it's shape in response to air currents. Whether it would tear itself to pieces or simply become difficult to fly and/or non stealthy if this system stopped working, I am entirely unqualified to comment on.
How do you know that ? The article makes no mention of what the fibres are actually made of, let alone what their temperature response is. And how would they catch on fire if they are inside the concrete ? It would have to crack open to expose them to oxygen before that could happen, presuming that they are even flammable in the first place.
In China, you so much as complain about a poorly designed / manufactured / supported product, and they stick your ass in prison, probably making the very product you complained about!
I would be surprised if that were true, but if it was it has a certain poetic justice. It sucks ? Well here is your chance to make it better 8)
To bring that a bit closer to the original discussion - that adjusted for inflation list contains 1 "R", 4 "PG-13", 8 "PG" and 7 "G", and can't really be compared with the first list given the first is international and the second is domestic.
On the whole I feel that the the original list is actually a better indicator overall.
Times change, culture changes - how well a PG-13 movie would perform in 1970 has very little bearing on how well the exact same movie would perform today.
My dad had a lot of trouble with that concept unfortunately.
Ended up with a font folder full of links, http links, html files, zip files, rar files, arj files, bitmap images and jpegs.
Some people just need an installer which only has a "Yes" button on it.
You, I fear, are part of the problem. It doesn't need to *sound* funny, it simply needs to be complete deadpan, it *is* funny sheerly for the absurdity value.
Yeah, you are missing the key point. The heat is the same everywhere. If the heat came from the big bang it should be hot in the middle, and cooler toward the edges where the universe has expanded.
Actually, you are sort of missing the point - context. To paraphrase an actual conversation seen in everquest : P1 : Have you got your new nuke done yet ? P2 : No, I am still missing some of the bits. P1 : What ? We've been waiting 3 weeks for this raid, people are getting impatient. P2 : The components are rare and hard to find ! I'm working on it ! P1 : It has to be ready for next sunday, that's when we will have everyone ready to go.