Then again watching a diverse selection of films isn't terribly advantageous to them. While keeping you happy is concern #1, offering a diverse and perhaps unusual selection isn't any better than keeping you happy with a string of blockbusters.
HP, Dell and Asus all compete amongst themselves (Dell being the key word here since the article is about Dell). Their most direct competitors are themselves.
Apple is usually purchased not on the basis of its hardware but on its operating system. In that regard Apple has a complete monopoly. You buy an Apple laptop if you want OSX. Dell has no such luxury. You can get a computer that works exactly the same as dell and runs all the exact same software from Asus.
Windows PC category: Apple, Dell, Asus, HP, Lenovo etc.... OSX PC category: Apple.
Apple certainly seems to think of itself as a product separate and unique from PCs as a whole. "Hi I'm a Mac, And I'm a PC" anybody? According to Apple: PC is interchangeable. And I tend to agree with them on that point as do most consumers (even those who prefer PCs).
Now I might believe this "it's cutting into cash cow" theory if Dell was a monopoly like Apple. But if HP, Asus et all are offering 12" Netbooks then wouldn't they just be losing customers to their competitors--gaining 0 profit instead of less profit?
"Does the earth orbit the sun?" or "Does the sun orbit the earth?"
I've seen pretty stable accuracy in international surveys. People are stupid. That seems to transcend international borders. And if you think Americans are superstitious and gullible then you need to travel more.
You volunteer hundreds of hours of your time, without pay, and all you hear from the members is complaint-after-complaint-after-complaint.
You eventually reach a point where you say, "What am I doing this for? No one's appreciating it or saying thanks. I could be out having fun instead of this shit," and then you stop volunteering.
You just described why I mostly use commercial software. Because they take all my complaining with a smile and a nod and get to work.
The idea behind the solution is that it can be applied to any set of data where people make a preference regardless of 'type'. That could be cars, politicians or slashdot comments.
"Based on the way you previously have moderated slashdot comments and the way other moderators have previously ranked similarly to you we think these comments will be +5 insightful to you."
I think facebook and texting are better typing classes than anything you'll learn in school.
Making sure every student has a computer and internet connection would be a far better use of school resources than a teacher teaching 50 kids how to type.
If they want to talk to their friends on MSN they'll touch type faster and faster and faster...
I use [cursive] mainly to write in a personal journal which I choose not to type out.
Awww so you use it as a form of simple encryption. Clever.
I have absolutely no problem reading neat cursive riding. For me I can write at least 2x as fast in script and I experience less hand fatigue
I can write like 2x as fast in quasi cursive as script myself. But then it's almost completely illegible--depending on the amazing context sensitivity of the brain to decypher it.
If we're measuring speed then both script and cursive must be equally legible. Is your 2x speed cursive as legible as fast script? And are you perhaps just slow at writing script?
I'm 23 and I was taught cursive for at least 2 years in school.
It's not the computers. It's not the schools. It's that the only time I've used cursive since 6th grade is to fill out those stupid *#$&!ing "honestly policy" sections on standardized tests that have to be written in cursive.
Just about everyone in my highschool had to have the teacher write it up on the front board so that we could have a reference on how to fill it out. And I know all of us learned cursive in grade school because most of my classmates were in the same class with me when I 'learned it'.
It is useless so I forgot it. Just like how to solve 10343.34931/9093.9483 without a calculator.
I work in TV/Film and thought I had worked with every crazy framerate/pulldown/interlacing scheme on earth and I had never even heard of PAL60 before (then again I'm from the US so don't work with anything PAL very often). I had to go look it up on Wikipedia thinking perhaps I had missed some big thing new in Europe. I still don't know what it is or why it exists. So it's PAL color with NTSC fields? Who uses that? Who supports that? Why would Kill zone offer it?
While I 100% agree with the need to protect sapient rights regardless of species or construction material you do have to approach this one slightly differently since the stakes are different.
If I was a silicon brain you could just back me up. As long as you disabled my pain processors you could do whatever you wanted to me. I would even be proud to be helping so many of my organic cousins at nothing but inconvenience. And since I'm a silicon brain with no where to go yet I wouldn't really have anything else to do except be retarded or schizophrenic from time to time.
Yeah. Nothing says "Victory" like banning all your customers from your store.
China tries to screw our economy and two things happen: 1) They also go bankrupt and the people have another revolution to replace their idiotic leaders. 2) The US says "Just try and collect. Send your best repo man."
When the government can take anything away from you at any time, for any or no reason, that isn't liberty. It isn't freedom. There are no choices. That IS evil.
By that definition everything short of Anarchy is evil.
Parents as a form of governance over their children is evil and children should have free reign to do completely as they please.
What is "yours" is only what is "yours" by government protection and social contract. There is nothing which says my TV is mine. It has no intrinsic ownership beyond what I can defend. As a member of society I get society's protection of what I can reasonably defend as mine. Without government what is mine is only what I can defend personally, pay someone to defend or threaten into defending.
It's a strong government when can enforce contracts. It's a strong government which can keep the people from deciding that you've received an unfair portion of resources. It's a strong government which enables wealth.
If you want complete freedom from government intervention then you also have to learn to live with the fact that there are is no definition of ownership.
Evil is allowing those around you to suffer and die while others live in excess. Evil is manipulating a system in order to economically subjugate those without as much money through your influence.
Communism is Evil. Capitalism is Evil. Socialism is Evil. Anarchy is Evil. Everything is evil. Some things are just more obviously evil. Nobody gets to take the high road.
The United States supported Stalin. He killed more Jews than Hitler. Is the US evil? Nobody is blameless. To admit that isn't weakness it's reality.
I've thought about this a lot and I think I've come up with a 99.9999999999% secure system. What we need is an encrypted means of verifying our vote after the fact and two receipts.
Then you could independently survey people's actual votes after the fact if people "exit poll" by dropping off their second official receipt. It would be completely anonymous and verifiable.
The receipt would be a 2D Barcode containing: Encrypted name and indicated vote.
You build a database of these encrypted names and votes which are double checkable when you get home or at booths run by party representatives with just an internet connection. Then everyone can check their vote. In order to avoid the government intentionally miscounting but correctly verifying your report you could provide the database after the fact to anyone interested. People could then verify their vote on a third party server as well.
Lastly the extra Exit Poll receipts could be entered into a database on the spot by the media to verify that there is no indication of tampering.
Electronic Voting COULD be easy and safe. It could also be safer, more transparent and reliable than paper ballots. If we just do it right.
IF you had say an anti-matter motor which only accelerated the launch vehicle at.5m/s but could be burned long enough to get into orbit your small rocket would be sufficient.
$40 per user for access to Corporate Webmail. Corporate Outlook. Sharepoint and everything else is unreasonable to you?
If you added up all our monthly costs per user for software licenses we would be spending well in excess of $150 per user. And this isn't going to be an additional CAL license. I assume this'll just be included with the current CAL you already have so for most corporations they won't be paying anything more than they already do for Outlook access and their domain controller.
This is the problem I've always had with gun laws to "protect ourselves from the government".
If you're overthrowing the government I'm going to go out on a real long limb here and wager that you're going to need to break a few laws in the process.
Similarly all guns rights activists also say "If you criminalize guns only criminals will have guns."
Just so we're clear. Criminals can easily obtain guns (according to gun rights activists). Using guns against to overthrow the government is illegal (by definition). Therefore by the transitive law People who want to overthrow the government should be able to easily obtain guns. Where's the problem?
When I need a gun to shoot at police I'll worry about getting a gun in order to protect my civil liberties. Until then I'll use the court system and not get charged with murder for using unnecessary force.
on a normal launch, the escape system is just dead weight, despite the fact that it's more powerful then the Atlas rocket that put Mercury capsules into orbit
But for how long? (Not very long.)
A relatively small bomb is more powerful than the Atlas rocket. A relatively small rocket could put an object in orbit with sufficient fuel.
The most obvious fine border I can think of is those that do the eating, and those that get eaten.
That's perhaps the least obvious fine border I could possibly think of. And easily the most confusing.
A Shark which eats a Human which ate a Shark which another Shark which ate a Barracuda which ate a smelt which ate a shrimp which ate...
All of those "Did the eating". So are they all the same? All of those "Got eaten". So are they still all the same? What about the shark which ate another shark? Are they different?
Your border seems to ignore the fact that carnivores eat other carnivores. Also there are carnivores which eat plants as well. Are they different?
You're welcome. I always purchase games that I find entertaining. I can't remember the commercial I saw for Braid and I'm sure it's a sequel to something.
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Most indie games get rejected because they aren't good enough to warrant the attention of very many people. And if your indie game looks bad it has nothing to do with your budget except that you were too cheap to pay the salary of an artist or two. I've seen great looking games in 2D and 3D produced by one or two artists.
Yeah. I'm a huge fan of Microsoft Office and I despise sharepoint. It's terrible. There is nothing I can think of that's redeeming about it. The interface is bad. The implementation is bad. The features are lacking. It just needs to be completely scrapped.
You could start from scratch and develop an almost featureless replacement that would perform better just because no feature of sharepoint is actually worthwhile and what is worthwhile is impossible to use.
Slashdot Mirror
Then again watching a diverse selection of films isn't terribly advantageous to them. While keeping you happy is concern #1, offering a diverse and perhaps unusual selection isn't any better than keeping you happy with a string of blockbusters.
How often do those two compete though?
HP, Dell and Asus all compete amongst themselves (Dell being the key word here since the article is about Dell). Their most direct competitors are themselves.
Apple is usually purchased not on the basis of its hardware but on its operating system. In that regard Apple has a complete monopoly. You buy an Apple laptop if you want OSX. Dell has no such luxury. You can get a computer that works exactly the same as dell and runs all the exact same software from Asus.
Windows PC category: Apple, Dell, Asus, HP, Lenovo etc....
OSX PC category: Apple.
Apple certainly seems to think of itself as a product separate and unique from PCs as a whole. "Hi I'm a Mac, And I'm a PC" anybody? According to Apple: PC is interchangeable. And I tend to agree with them on that point as do most consumers (even those who prefer PCs).
Now I might believe this "it's cutting into cash cow" theory if Dell was a monopoly like Apple. But if HP, Asus et all are offering 12" Netbooks then wouldn't they just be losing customers to their competitors--gaining 0 profit instead of less profit?
I don't know on the question of:
"Does the earth orbit the sun?"
or
"Does the sun orbit the earth?"
I've seen pretty stable accuracy in international surveys. People are stupid. That seems to transcend international borders. And if you think Americans are superstitious and gullible then you need to travel more.
Our education system breeds retards who aren't expected to think more than what "OMGWTFBFF" text message they are going to send next.
Amazingly you identified the source of the problem but still failed to correctly select it.
Answer Hint: Schools don't breed children.
I always thought it was obvious: remove epidermal defects.
Dead skin, parasites etc.
You volunteer hundreds of hours of your time, without pay, and all you hear from the members is complaint-after-complaint-after-complaint.
You eventually reach a point where you say, "What am I doing this for? No one's appreciating it or saying thanks. I could be out having fun instead of this shit," and then you stop volunteering.
You just described why I mostly use commercial software. Because they take all my complaining with a smile and a nod and get to work.
Ideally it wouldn't be make any difference.
The idea behind the solution is that it can be applied to any set of data where people make a preference regardless of 'type'. That could be cars, politicians or slashdot comments.
"Based on the way you previously have moderated slashdot comments and the way other moderators have previously ranked similarly to you we think these comments will be +5 insightful to you."
I think facebook and texting are better typing classes than anything you'll learn in school.
Making sure every student has a computer and internet connection would be a far better use of school resources than a teacher teaching 50 kids how to type.
If they want to talk to their friends on MSN they'll touch type faster and faster and faster...
Actually I used mod() in a water color ink spread simulation plugin I created just last week.
I use [cursive] mainly to write in a personal journal which I choose not to type out.
Awww so you use it as a form of simple encryption. Clever.
I have absolutely no problem reading neat cursive riding. For me I can write at least 2x as fast in script and I experience less hand fatigue
I can write like 2x as fast in quasi cursive as script myself. But then it's almost completely illegible--depending on the amazing context sensitivity of the brain to decypher it.
If we're measuring speed then both script and cursive must be equally legible. Is your 2x speed cursive as legible as fast script? And are you perhaps just slow at writing script?
I'm 23 and I was taught cursive for at least 2 years in school.
It's not the computers. It's not the schools. It's that the only time I've used cursive since 6th grade is to fill out those stupid *#$&!ing "honestly policy" sections on standardized tests that have to be written in cursive.
Just about everyone in my highschool had to have the teacher write it up on the front board so that we could have a reference on how to fill it out. And I know all of us learned cursive in grade school because most of my classmates were in the same class with me when I 'learned it'.
It is useless so I forgot it. Just like how to solve 10343.34931/9093.9483 without a calculator.
I work in TV/Film and thought I had worked with every crazy framerate/pulldown/interlacing scheme on earth and I had never even heard of PAL60 before (then again I'm from the US so don't work with anything PAL very often). I had to go look it up on Wikipedia thinking perhaps I had missed some big thing new in Europe. I still don't know what it is or why it exists. So it's PAL color with NTSC fields? Who uses that? Who supports that? Why would Kill zone offer it?
While I 100% agree with the need to protect sapient rights regardless of species or construction material you do have to approach this one slightly differently since the stakes are different.
If I was a silicon brain you could just back me up. As long as you disabled my pain processors you could do whatever you wanted to me. I would even be proud to be helping so many of my organic cousins at nothing but inconvenience. And since I'm a silicon brain with no where to go yet I wouldn't really have anything else to do except be retarded or schizophrenic from time to time.
Yeah. Nothing says "Victory" like banning all your customers from your store.
China tries to screw our economy and two things happen:
1) They also go bankrupt and the people have another revolution to replace their idiotic leaders.
2) The US says "Just try and collect. Send your best repo man."
When the government can take anything away from you at any time, for any or no reason, that isn't liberty. It isn't freedom. There are no choices. That IS evil.
By that definition everything short of Anarchy is evil.
Parents as a form of governance over their children is evil and children should have free reign to do completely as they please.
What is "yours" is only what is "yours" by government protection and social contract. There is nothing which says my TV is mine. It has no intrinsic ownership beyond what I can defend. As a member of society I get society's protection of what I can reasonably defend as mine. Without government what is mine is only what I can defend personally, pay someone to defend or threaten into defending.
It's a strong government when can enforce contracts. It's a strong government which can keep the people from deciding that you've received an unfair portion of resources. It's a strong government which enables wealth.
If you want complete freedom from government intervention then you also have to learn to live with the fact that there are is no definition of ownership.
Evil is allowing those around you to suffer and die while others live in excess. Evil is manipulating a system in order to economically subjugate those without as much money through your influence.
Communism is Evil. Capitalism is Evil. Socialism is Evil. Anarchy is Evil. Everything is evil. Some things are just more obviously evil. Nobody gets to take the high road.
The United States supported Stalin. He killed more Jews than Hitler. Is the US evil? Nobody is blameless. To admit that isn't weakness it's reality.
Since all of Sweden is by choice more communist that Obama or Ayers... does that mean all Swedes are Evil?
I've thought about this a lot and I think I've come up with a 99.9999999999% secure system. What we need is an encrypted means of verifying our vote after the fact and two receipts.
Then you could independently survey people's actual votes after the fact if people "exit poll" by dropping off their second official receipt. It would be completely anonymous and verifiable.
The receipt would be a 2D Barcode containing: Encrypted name and indicated vote.
You build a database of these encrypted names and votes which are double checkable when you get home or at booths run by party representatives with just an internet connection. Then everyone can check their vote. In order to avoid the government intentionally miscounting but correctly verifying your report you could provide the database after the fact to anyone interested. People could then verify their vote on a third party server as well.
Lastly the extra Exit Poll receipts could be entered into a database on the spot by the media to verify that there is no indication of tampering.
Electronic Voting COULD be easy and safe. It could also be safer, more transparent and reliable than paper ballots. If we just do it right.
I'm speaking in hypotheticals.
IF you had say an anti-matter motor which only accelerated the launch vehicle at .5m/s but could be burned long enough to get into orbit your small rocket would be sufficient.
$40 per user for access to Corporate Webmail. Corporate Outlook. Sharepoint and everything else is unreasonable to you?
If you added up all our monthly costs per user for software licenses we would be spending well in excess of $150 per user. And this isn't going to be an additional CAL license. I assume this'll just be included with the current CAL you already have so for most corporations they won't be paying anything more than they already do for Outlook access and their domain controller.
This is the problem I've always had with gun laws to "protect ourselves from the government".
If you're overthrowing the government I'm going to go out on a real long limb here and wager that you're going to need to break a few laws in the process.
Similarly all guns rights activists also say "If you criminalize guns only criminals will have guns."
Just so we're clear. Criminals can easily obtain guns (according to gun rights activists). Using guns against to overthrow the government is illegal (by definition). Therefore by the transitive law People who want to overthrow the government should be able to easily obtain guns. Where's the problem?
When I need a gun to shoot at police I'll worry about getting a gun in order to protect my civil liberties. Until then I'll use the court system and not get charged with murder for using unnecessary force.
on a normal launch, the escape system is just dead weight, despite the fact that it's more powerful then the Atlas rocket that put Mercury capsules into orbit
But for how long? (Not very long.)
A relatively small bomb is more powerful than the Atlas rocket.
A relatively small rocket could put an object in orbit with sufficient fuel.
The most obvious fine border I can think of is those that do the eating, and those that get eaten.
That's perhaps the least obvious fine border I could possibly think of. And easily the most confusing.
A Shark which eats a Human which ate a Shark which another Shark which ate a Barracuda which ate a smelt which ate a shrimp which ate...
All of those "Did the eating". So are they all the same?
All of those "Got eaten". So are they still all the same?
What about the shark which ate another shark? Are they different?
Your border seems to ignore the fact that carnivores eat other carnivores. Also there are carnivores which eat plants as well. Are they different?
You're welcome. I always purchase games that I find entertaining. I can't remember the commercial I saw for Braid and I'm sure it's a sequel to something.
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Most indie games get rejected because they aren't good enough to warrant the attention of very many people. And if your indie game looks bad it has nothing to do with your budget except that you were too cheap to pay the salary of an artist or two. I've seen great looking games in 2D and 3D produced by one or two artists.
Yeah. I'm a huge fan of Microsoft Office and I despise sharepoint. It's terrible. There is nothing I can think of that's redeeming about it. The interface is bad. The implementation is bad. The features are lacking. It just needs to be completely scrapped.
You could start from scratch and develop an almost featureless replacement that would perform better just because no feature of sharepoint is actually worthwhile and what is worthwhile is impossible to use.