If a library costs $1.5m more to build and probably tens of thousands of dollars per year more to maintain with shelving and cataloging etc then you can afford to take that $1.5m put it into a trust and probably pay the entirety of your annual licensing fees out of the trust's Capitol Gains.
Checking out a book costs a library about $0.50 per checkout. And a hardback book costs about $27. The average checkouts per year for a book is 23. That means a library per hardback book pays $11.50 per year per book in checkout expenses even if it was donated but if we assume a book has a 4 year life then the life cost of a physical book is $46. W/ the hardback book costs added in it becomes more like $73. With some estimates of replacements only every 2 years that would increase to nearly $100.
An average ebook for a library is about $75. That's pretty comparable to 3 years of physical book expenses. If you bought e-books with your $1.5m in infrastructure savings fund (Let's say 8% return) then you would be looking at 1,600 new e-books every year added to your 'collection' for free. I doubt the average library gets 1,600 new physical books donated every year. In 3 years when you would be re-buying many of your physical books your e-book library would have an additional 4,800 books.
You commit the fallacy of believing that physical assets don't depreciate and need replacement over time.
An Nvidia Quadro card costs $8,000 for an 8GB card. I would consider $8,000 "many thousands of dollars". Nobody is suggesting Knights ____ is competing with any consumer chips CPU or GPU. I have a $1,500 Raytracing card in my system along with a $1,000 GPU as well as a $1,000 CPU. If this could replace the CPU and GPU but compete with a dual CPU system for rendering performance I would be a happy camper even if it cost $3-4k.
The UX project started in 2004 to demonstrate that it is feasible to combine the address, search, and find box into one.
Maybe in 2004 that would be interesting but seeing as that's default behavior for both IE and Chrome I don't really see the novelty. If anything this toolbar is regressive. "Hey check out these browser UI concepts that have already been tried and either discarded or adopted."
How is that different from your doctor saying "You most likely have Leukemia." All diagnosis and advice is based on a probability scale. If you have an 88% chance of developing cancer that's almost as good as saying you have cancer.
This might be a bit of a waste though. With 802.11AC offering 320mbps and probably gigE+ speeds in the next gen it kind of starts calling into question whether wired networks are even necessary.
FTTN and then enough bandwidth to blanket a block in 2gbps wifi w/ 10ms pings would be fine by me and save a small fortune.
I think the big deal that we never want to admit is that the success of a project usually isn't from the community. We like to think we're the critical component when in reality most of the important work is being done by the benevolent overlord.
Sure we could fork Android for instance... but it wouldn't advance very quickly and it would be garbage compared to the Google helmed branch.
Movies though get sold for TV all the time. You could say that people who go to an ad supported website to download a film are the same people who demonstrably would watch an ad to see the film for free on TNT etc.
It's ongoing and it's also inaccurate to say "Microsoft's Customers" since it implies that these guys have a mailing list that they're using. I know a couple people who have gotten the call and they only have Macs. They're just moving from country to country and randomly calling anyone who will listen. I'm sure there are variations on the scam that adjust for specificity vs scope. For instance if I call and say I'm from Dell technical support and you're a Dell customer you're more likely to feel like it's true since they called you and knew you had a dell "how else would they know!". I'm actually pretty surprised that someone hasn't gone "all the way" and crafted the script to be like "Hi, you called dell Technical Support a couple weeks ago and I'm following up to say that it appears that we didn't correctly resolve your issue."
The odds of getting someone who did call support in the last couple of weeks are low, but if you hit someone who did your chances of them believing you are very high.
It's a waste of their time to rule on a law which is in the process of changing. For instance they wouldn't have wasted their time on the Obamacare decision if congress was likely to make significant amendments and/or appeal it.
The judicial branch is like government QA. If a new build is about to drop, it's a waste of time to do a big bug push.
You start in the federal court of someone whose information was wrongfully collected. Which is apparently just about anybody.
They will judge whether the government infringed their rights and whoever loses will appeal to a higher court. When that higher court rules it'll get passed up to the next appeal court. As long as a higher court is willing to hear the case it'll keep getting appealed until the SCOTUS lets the ruling stand or hears the case.
That sounds more useful than any of these "weapons" created by this guy. I was looking forward to some innovative solutions but the only one that looks at all menacing is the fraggacino. And even that I presume is just an exploding axe body spray.
Almost all of them had so many ways to go wrong that they're a failure waiting to happen. Just buy some duty free vodka and make a molotov if you want a weapon. Hell, buy two and you have a stabby knife.
Or here's a crazy idea, don't waste buying and assembling your weapon in a bathroom where someone might get concerned at the sound of a blow torch in the stall next door and smoke coming out and just tweak the firmware on your laptop. Boom! Lots of fire!
Actually the Israelis are responsible for this failure. They claimed that they could train their screeners to 'detect' suspicious behavior without machines, just reading faces. What this study revealed was that what the Israelis claimed was best was no better than chance.
If you say: I hypothesize that temperature is changing and I say. "Sources of Error: I cannot measure the arctic reliably." And then say "It's getting warmer on the long trend, but on the short term, the noise results in no warming trend." You've fulfilled your study.
If you then have a follow up study and you say "I filled the gaps in my data and my hypothesis was further confirmed and even the short term change was warming." You're still following empiricism.
It would be like dropping a ball and a feather and saying "Hmm, my theory that objects would fall at the same rate appears to be wrong. Source of error: Different amounts of air resistance."
Rerun the test: "Eliminating a potential source of error changed my result."
TWiTfan: HE CHANGED THE CONDITIONS TO PROVE HIS THEORY!
Of course you change the conditions. You identify sources of error and then hopefully in the future can eliminate them with closer study for more accurate results. that *IS* empiricism.
Yeah, I was going to say... "just blow some foam on it" sounds nice and all, but I've never seen a car fire stopped before it burned the vehicle down to the frame.
Because consoles aren't something most people use 24/7. I probably use my 360 about 2-3 hours per week. It's not at all challenging to see the opportunity for increased efficiency. Why should everyone have a full powered machine that only is used 2-3% of the time. 2-3% usage is the perfect situation for usage based rentals.
Netflix has datacenter charger but they still have a flat rate. The Xbox One has free datacenter hours. The reason is that most consoles sit idle 90% of the time. If I can buy 1 console and sell it for half the price of the console permanently to 10 people and they only use it 10% of the time then I can most likely make a profit.
Also keep in mind it's one thing to have a customer use 10GB. It's quite another to use petabytes of data. There aren't necessarily economies of scale if you have to support an intensive user like that. I know we hammer our ISP at work way harder than most users since we're a media company. We don't pay more, but we would have to if we needed more than our ISP provides and I wouldn't be surprised to be charged a premium for a niche usage metric.
The difference is between consensual action and non-consensual action.
This change in regulation is actually a great example ladies and gentlemen why libertarians are full of it.
If my neighbor gives my family asthma from burning a wood stove then TOO BAD, you're just suffering from a side-effect of freedom. If your neighbor is forced to spend an extra $5 on a stove that won't force pollution on your neighbors then OMG TYRANNY.
Sometimes you have to non-consensually force coerce people to stop being dicks because their liberty is interfering with everyone else's liberty. Homosexuality doesn't interfere with anyone else's liberty. If someone is harming the public then they need to be stopped. You don't need community support to ban the sale of non-compliant stoves. You just tell manufacturers where 99.9% of all stove are made to change their design and they do and 99.9% of new stoves are compliant. Problem. Solved. You don't have to ask people nicely and hope that maybe 20% voluntarily change their ways and choose better stoves (That would be the status quo where we clearly already tell people particulate pollution is really bad and they still save the $2 and get the deadly stove.)
Even in rural areas stoves very quickly cause lots of problems. Go visit a country where they mostly use wood stoves. Even in tiny rural communities there'll be a fog hanging over the community. It's awful. It's worse than pollution in Los Angeles.
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This is x86. Theoretically your program already runs on this. You don't have to rewrite your entire application to run on CUDA.
If a library costs $1.5m more to build and probably tens of thousands of dollars per year more to maintain with shelving and cataloging etc then you can afford to take that $1.5m put it into a trust and probably pay the entirety of your annual licensing fees out of the trust's Capitol Gains.
Checking out a book costs a library about $0.50 per checkout. And a hardback book costs about $27. The average checkouts per year for a book is 23. That means a library per hardback book pays $11.50 per year per book in checkout expenses even if it was donated but if we assume a book has a 4 year life then the life cost of a physical book is $46. W/ the hardback book costs added in it becomes more like $73. With some estimates of replacements only every 2 years that would increase to nearly $100.
An average ebook for a library is about $75. That's pretty comparable to 3 years of physical book expenses. If you bought e-books with your $1.5m in infrastructure savings fund (Let's say 8% return) then you would be looking at 1,600 new e-books every year added to your 'collection' for free. I doubt the average library gets 1,600 new physical books donated every year. In 3 years when you would be re-buying many of your physical books your e-book library would have an additional 4,800 books.
You commit the fallacy of believing that physical assets don't depreciate and need replacement over time.
An Nvidia Quadro card costs $8,000 for an 8GB card. I would consider $8,000 "many thousands of dollars". Nobody is suggesting Knights ____ is competing with any consumer chips CPU or GPU. I have a $1,500 Raytracing card in my system along with a $1,000 GPU as well as a $1,000 CPU. If this could replace the CPU and GPU but compete with a dual CPU system for rendering performance I would be a happy camper even if it cost $3-4k.
It's not that one anachronism either.
The UX project started in 2004 to demonstrate that it is feasible to combine the address, search, and find box into one.
Maybe in 2004 that would be interesting but seeing as that's default behavior for both IE and Chrome I don't really see the novelty. If anything this toolbar is regressive. "Hey check out these browser UI concepts that have already been tried and either discarded or adopted."
I find it notable that there is no mention of miracast anywhere in the GoGo description. Isn't this what Miracast is supposed to deliver?
People don't want to turn off traction control to do a burnout, they also probably want to slide around corners.
How is that different from your doctor saying "You most likely have Leukemia." All diagnosis and advice is based on a probability scale. If you have an 88% chance of developing cancer that's almost as good as saying you have cancer.
the MARKET will put them out of business as consumers will a) stop using them and b) competitors who provide better service will emerge.
Just like the MARKET will put all of those herbal supplements, homeopathic water solutions and penis enlargers out of business?
This might be a bit of a waste though. With 802.11AC offering 320mbps and probably gigE+ speeds in the next gen it kind of starts calling into question whether wired networks are even necessary.
FTTN and then enough bandwidth to blanket a block in 2gbps wifi w/ 10ms pings would be fine by me and save a small fortune.
I think the big deal that we never want to admit is that the success of a project usually isn't from the community. We like to think we're the critical component when in reality most of the important work is being done by the benevolent overlord.
Sure we could fork Android for instance... but it wouldn't advance very quickly and it would be garbage compared to the Google helmed branch.
Movies though get sold for TV all the time. You could say that people who go to an ad supported website to download a film are the same people who demonstrably would watch an ad to see the film for free on TNT etc.
It's ongoing and it's also inaccurate to say "Microsoft's Customers" since it implies that these guys have a mailing list that they're using. I know a couple people who have gotten the call and they only have Macs. They're just moving from country to country and randomly calling anyone who will listen. I'm sure there are variations on the scam that adjust for specificity vs scope. For instance if I call and say I'm from Dell technical support and you're a Dell customer you're more likely to feel like it's true since they called you and knew you had a dell "how else would they know!". I'm actually pretty surprised that someone hasn't gone "all the way" and crafted the script to be like
"Hi, you called dell Technical Support a couple weeks ago and I'm following up to say that it appears that we didn't correctly resolve your issue."
The odds of getting someone who did call support in the last couple of weeks are low, but if you hit someone who did your chances of them believing you are very high.
It's a waste of their time to rule on a law which is in the process of changing. For instance they wouldn't have wasted their time on the Obamacare decision if congress was likely to make significant amendments and/or appeal it.
The judicial branch is like government QA. If a new build is about to drop, it's a waste of time to do a big bug push.
You start in the federal court of someone whose information was wrongfully collected. Which is apparently just about anybody.
They will judge whether the government infringed their rights and whoever loses will appeal to a higher court. When that higher court rules it'll get passed up to the next appeal court. As long as a higher court is willing to hear the case it'll keep getting appealed until the SCOTUS lets the ruling stand or hears the case.
No, like all smart businessmen they donated $1,000 to Obama, $2,500 to some republican running for the senate and another $1,000 for Romney.
That sounds more useful than any of these "weapons" created by this guy. I was looking forward to some innovative solutions but the only one that looks at all menacing is the fraggacino. And even that I presume is just an exploding axe body spray.
Almost all of them had so many ways to go wrong that they're a failure waiting to happen. Just buy some duty free vodka and make a molotov if you want a weapon. Hell, buy two and you have a stabby knife.
Or here's a crazy idea, don't waste buying and assembling your weapon in a bathroom where someone might get concerned at the sound of a blow torch in the stall next door and smoke coming out and just tweak the firmware on your laptop. Boom! Lots of fire!
the Israelis do it MUCH better
Actually the Israelis are responsible for this failure. They claimed that they could train their screeners to 'detect' suspicious behavior without machines, just reading faces. What this study revealed was that what the Israelis claimed was best was no better than chance.
If you say:
I hypothesize that temperature is changing and I say. "Sources of Error: I cannot measure the arctic reliably."
And then say "It's getting warmer on the long trend, but on the short term, the noise results in no warming trend." You've fulfilled your study.
If you then have a follow up study and you say "I filled the gaps in my data and my hypothesis was further confirmed and even the short term change was warming." You're still following empiricism.
It would be like dropping a ball and a feather and saying "Hmm, my theory that objects would fall at the same rate appears to be wrong. Source of error: Different amounts of air resistance."
Rerun the test: "Eliminating a potential source of error changed my result."
TWiTfan: HE CHANGED THE CONDITIONS TO PROVE HIS THEORY!
Of course you change the conditions. You identify sources of error and then hopefully in the future can eliminate them with closer study for more accurate results. that *IS* empiricism.
You only need to drink like 1oz of wine to get those benefits. You might as well just take a tablespoon of booze and get the best of both worlds.
Yeah, I was going to say... "just blow some foam on it" sounds nice and all, but I've never seen a car fire stopped before it burned the vehicle down to the frame.
Imagine your house is on fire. It would be hard to play games in that situation as well.
Because consoles aren't something most people use 24/7. I probably use my 360 about 2-3 hours per week. It's not at all challenging to see the opportunity for increased efficiency. Why should everyone have a full powered machine that only is used 2-3% of the time. 2-3% usage is the perfect situation for usage based rentals.
Netflix has datacenter charger but they still have a flat rate. The Xbox One has free datacenter hours. The reason is that most consoles sit idle 90% of the time. If I can buy 1 console and sell it for half the price of the console permanently to 10 people and they only use it 10% of the time then I can most likely make a profit.
Also keep in mind it's one thing to have a customer use 10GB. It's quite another to use petabytes of data. There aren't necessarily economies of scale if you have to support an intensive user like that. I know we hammer our ISP at work way harder than most users since we're a media company. We don't pay more, but we would have to if we needed more than our ISP provides and I wouldn't be surprised to be charged a premium for a niche usage metric.
The difference is between consensual action and non-consensual action.
This change in regulation is actually a great example ladies and gentlemen why libertarians are full of it.
If my neighbor gives my family asthma from burning a wood stove then TOO BAD, you're just suffering from a side-effect of freedom. If your neighbor is forced to spend an extra $5 on a stove that won't force pollution on your neighbors then OMG TYRANNY.
Sometimes you have to non-consensually force coerce people to stop being dicks because their liberty is interfering with everyone else's liberty. Homosexuality doesn't interfere with anyone else's liberty. If someone is harming the public then they need to be stopped. You don't need community support to ban the sale of non-compliant stoves. You just tell manufacturers where 99.9% of all stove are made to change their design and they do and 99.9% of new stoves are compliant. Problem. Solved. You don't have to ask people nicely and hope that maybe 20% voluntarily change their ways and choose better stoves (That would be the status quo where we clearly already tell people particulate pollution is really bad and they still save the $2 and get the deadly stove.)
Even in rural areas stoves very quickly cause lots of problems. Go visit a country where they mostly use wood stoves. Even in tiny rural communities there'll be a fog hanging over the community. It's awful. It's worse than pollution in Los Angeles.