It's already profitable. The credit crunch has quashed new centers from being built because the credit markets are frozen due to irrational fears, something the supply/demand model does not account for. When the space dwindles the new centers will be built but there's a lag, it's not instant, also something supply/demand models do not account for. Let's leave the Econ 101 classroom theory alone and take a look at the real world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_economics
This is great stuff, but I wonder how the algorithm works. Any Computer Science wizards on here know how this picture identification could be done in less than polynomial time?
Totally agree with you. Especially because as soon as you upload anything to the internet you've pretty much waived any of your content rights you had.
Now when I say that I don't mean it in the legal sense but in the realistic practical sense. Anything digital is pirated and shared.
We even have karma whores that copy & paste other peoples insightful comments.
I cant believe the news today Oh, I cant close my eyes and make it go away How long... How long must they steal our songs? How long? how long...
cause tonight...no sales of our song "One" tonight... they're all downloading "One" Tonight...
Broken models of our business bleat Record execs thrown out on the street And we won't make our earnings call It puts my back up Puts my back up against the wall
Pirate bay, bloody pirate bay Pirate bay, bloody pirate bay...
Don't complain when there's no competition and then complain again when there is. If all the companies pre-agreed on a format we would cry "collusion" and that the lack of competition led to consumers getting a sub-optimal new standard.
When companies compete to bring better products to market, the consumer wins. Although this particular war may be costly and counterproductive, you have to accept that this kind of thing comes with the territory if you want to have a non-monopolized market environment.
Did anyone else read this synopsis on the Slashdot front page and then completely misinterpret the next article down? For a minute I thought Slashdot was turning into Gamespot.
First Article - "World of Warcraft - The Burning Crusade Review"
Second Article - "Recovering a Wrecked RAID"
(a store I have generally avoided because of their Microsoft-specific solutions)
Do you mean Microsoft-specific DRM solutions? Because if you're avoiding them simply because they've chosen to build their website/infrastructure with ASP and.NET, you've gone off the deep end with your Microsoft-hating.
Aside from the obvious problems with the sentence "pioneering work being done by educators in the e-learning 2.0 space", how does banning myspace et. al. prevent learning? Are teachers seriously encouraging kids to get on myspace during class time for educational purposes?
I don't see anything wrong with banning social network sites inside school libraries. Wikipedia, Nasa, etc. are legitimate learning sites, I don't see how myspace compares to these.
You can get on a plane, open up your laptop and play inappropriate video right now. I don't think this has been a huge problem so far, and I don't see how ipod-seat-back-video makes this problem any worse.
Lore Sjoberg is probably best known for his hilarious, now defunct website Brunching Shuttlecocks, and the "Ratings" column he used to write on that website. You can still read the past columns right here. The ones about classic video games and Dungeons & Dragons characters are especially funny.
More than half your questions are answered by TFA. Before you start pointing out that there are too many issues for it to work, why don't you at least try to read the article. FTA:
What Soucy and MTI CEO Peng Lim envision is a world where instead of recharging your phone's battery, you'll buy disposable fuel cells that last longer than the batteries that come with cell phones today and are more eco-friendly.
There's two of your (non)issues gone right there. It's not a fire hazard, and they are more eco-friendly than current batteries. Now before you respond asking what makes it more eco-friendly, it's actually explained in the article.
Flying carpets come out of Persian or Arab folklore, not Indian. I know you think they're all the same, but you're just displaying your typical Western ignorance, as are the moderators that modded you funny.
Your joke is equivalent to if NASA decided to work with the French Space Program and I made some jokes about German stereotypes (all the astronauts will have to eat sauerkraut, etc). It doesn't make any sense, and I doubt it would be modded funny.
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I give you two hours before the RIAA makes Slashdot take down this blatantly illegal copy of the song. You're letting everyone enjoy it for free!
It's already profitable. The credit crunch has quashed new centers from being built because the credit markets are frozen due to irrational fears, something the supply/demand model does not account for. When the space dwindles the new centers will be built but there's a lag, it's not instant, also something supply/demand models do not account for. Let's leave the Econ 101 classroom theory alone and take a look at the real world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_economics
My sorting algorithm operates in constant time. I should really enter it into one of these competitions. It's called Intelligent Design Sort: http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/intelligentdesignsort.html
This is great stuff, but I wonder how the algorithm works. Any Computer Science wizards on here know how this picture identification could be done in less than polynomial time?
Totally agree with you. Especially because as soon as you upload anything to the internet you've pretty much waived any of your content rights you had.
Now when I say that I don't mean it in the legal sense but in the realistic practical sense. Anything digital is pirated and shared.
We even have karma whores that copy & paste other peoples insightful comments.
Given that this is the LHC, we might be able to accommodate you there.
does he run linux?
Sorry, had to be said.
Judging from the photographers I've worked with, you can leave out the "Rinse" part as well.
Don't be so crabby. Some company is shelling out clams for you to write code (probably in Perl), not snap at someone on Slashdot.
I cant believe the news today
Oh, I cant close my eyes and make it go away
How long...
How long must they steal our songs?
How long? how long...
cause tonight...no sales of our song "One"
tonight... they're all downloading "One"
Tonight...
Broken models of our business bleat
Record execs thrown out on the street
And we won't make our earnings call
It puts my back up
Puts my back up against the wall
Pirate bay, bloody pirate bay
Pirate bay, bloody pirate bay...
I thought Picasso said that.
Then again, maybe he stole it.
1. As described in the article summary, receive 1 million dollars to never vote again.
2. Buy an ipod every two years and buy the vote of someone who said they'd forfeit their vote for an ipod.
3. Profit! (Literally!)
Don't complain when there's no competition and then complain again when there is. If all the companies pre-agreed on a format we would cry "collusion" and that the lack of competition led to consumers getting a sub-optimal new standard.
When companies compete to bring better products to market, the consumer wins. Although this particular war may be costly and counterproductive, you have to accept that this kind of thing comes with the territory if you want to have a non-monopolized market environment.
Very true. Interesting discussion of that whole "Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabridge" thing below, which largely debunks their claims. http://typewriting.org/2003/09/14/Aoccdrnig_to_a_rscheearch.../#content
No, they will be responsible of 775 new computers. When you're responsible of something, I guess you multiply it by one million.
Did anyone else read this synopsis on the Slashdot front page and then completely misinterpret the next article down? For a minute I thought Slashdot was turning into Gamespot.
First Article - "World of Warcraft - The Burning Crusade Review"
Second Article - "Recovering a Wrecked RAID"
(a store I have generally avoided because of their Microsoft-specific solutions)
.NET, you've gone off the deep end with your Microsoft-hating.
Do you mean Microsoft-specific DRM solutions? Because if you're avoiding them simply because they've chosen to build their website/infrastructure with ASP and
...is encrypted and the bits past where files were are random...
Are you sure you didn't run it on your post?
Aside from the obvious problems with the sentence "pioneering work being done by educators in the e-learning 2.0 space", how does banning myspace et. al. prevent learning? Are teachers seriously encouraging kids to get on myspace during class time for educational purposes?
I don't see anything wrong with banning social network sites inside school libraries. Wikipedia, Nasa, etc. are legitimate learning sites, I don't see how myspace compares to these.
You can get on a plane, open up your laptop and play inappropriate video right now. I don't think this has been a huge problem so far, and I don't see how ipod-seat-back-video makes this problem any worse.
Lore Sjoberg is probably best known for his hilarious, now defunct website Brunching Shuttlecocks, and the "Ratings" column he used to write on that website. You can still read the past columns right here. The ones about classic video games and Dungeons & Dragons characters are especially funny.
Disclaimer: I'm Indian as well.
There are a LOT of questions to be answered.
More than half your questions are answered by TFA. Before you start pointing out that there are too many issues for it to work, why don't you at least try to read the article. FTA:
What Soucy and MTI CEO Peng Lim envision is a world where instead of recharging your phone's battery, you'll buy disposable fuel cells that last longer than the batteries that come with cell phones today and are more eco-friendly.
There's two of your (non)issues gone right there. It's not a fire hazard, and they are more eco-friendly than current batteries. Now before you respond asking what makes it more eco-friendly, it's actually explained in the article.
Remember this quote from Scott Mcnealy a few years back?
Flying carpets come out of Persian or Arab folklore, not Indian. I know you think they're all the same, but you're just displaying your typical Western ignorance, as are the moderators that modded you funny.
Your joke is equivalent to if NASA decided to work with the French Space Program and I made some jokes about German stereotypes (all the astronauts will have to eat sauerkraut, etc). It doesn't make any sense, and I doubt it would be modded funny.