Here, the government and history majors drink 5 nights a week, write their papers at the last minute, get a 3.8 GPA, and each run some sort of student group on campus. Then, they get out of school and have a leg up over the rest of us for having a high GPA and "leadership experience."
I guarentee that the rich and famous of my graduating class will not be the engineers. It'll be the ones who ran for Student Assembly (which does nothing and barely meets), ran the Museum Club (wtf is that? We have a museum?) and still had more fun than you did.
This is an old issue - Lessig has been writing about it since 2001.
The idea pops up every few months, but in the end, it is economic suicide for a market that already has an open, neutral standard to splinter into a set of closed, preferential standards.
In short, the competition between providers will reduce their profit below the current 'tacit agreement' point it is currently at, thanks to the neutral standard. This is especially true as long as they are not offering any additional value with their service, and only destroying the value of the current network effects.
The economically feasible solution is to price discriminate (as much as existing customers hate it, it does reduce deadweight loss and increase revenue). Simply, charge by bandwidth provided, and charge less for 'preferred' types of bandwidth, such as traffic internal to their network.
[Recommended Reading: The Innovator's Solution (which addresses closed vs. open standards) and anything about Nash-Bridges Equilibrium (which addresses tacit agreement among competing parties).]
"Intellectual property stuff is purely evil. Don't quote me on this or I'll sue."
So sue me! Thank goodness for FAIR USE (the anti-evil)! woot
1-I quoted the entirety of the work 2-the nature of the use was for comment and criticism 3-the market impact was negligable 4-nature of the original work was non-commercial discourse!
In the 1970's, the only computer science related disciplines were Math, Stats, Electrical Engineering, and in some places, Computer Science.
Now that computers are everywhere, and support almost every non-humanities discipline, it may worry some that CS enrollment is dropping.
Yet, the number of students enrolling in computer-driven fields, who learn to program and apply computer science to a specific area, is increasing. There are more majors to enroll in, with the a higher number of interested students - the mean number of students enrolled in computer driven majors is increasing, but the distribution among majors has increased faster, pushing the concentration in CS down.
Wikipedia and other online collaborative sites allow us to quickly access and learn a bit on almost any subject. We also share our own personal knowledge freely, through it.
So what is it called when I can learn anything you know, and you can learn anything we all know collectively?
I think that's called a Hive Mind. It's not as fast or built-in and wireless as we imagined, but it still serves the same purpose.
What about all those types of creative endeavors which require massive amounts of money in investment?
Things like biomedical or physics research take a lot of initial set up. Corporations spend millions of dollars on R&D. Do you think the same amount of research would go on if they couldn't recoup their investment costs?
Oh! And don't forget that money as a prime motivator is only this idea that.. you know.. is written into the constitution?
Article I, Section 8: "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;"
No, this is not the best they could come up with.
Nor is it original. There were versions almost exactly the same known just as "Dogz" and "Catz" in the early 90s.
I think you're just jealous because A: you never had a tomogachi and B: you still want nintendogs
It's the government. They don't do efficient, cheap things like infect computers to make zombies.
If they did use a Denial of Service attack, I imagine they first bought all the computers they'd need, set them up, finished the DoS, then shut down and destroyed the computers.
Trackpads are one of the worst human input devices ever invented. I'm not sure why they're the de facto solution on laptops these days. They're hard to use, offer no direct feedback, etc, etc.
That said, why doesn't a computer company with human-computer interaction in mind develop a laptop with a trackball BUILT INTO the laptop?
It wouldn't take that much more space, if it was a very small trackball. It could perhaps stick out the right hand side (customizable for lefties?), so it wouldn't bump into the screen.
Anyways, i wish you luck in your search for a bluetooth trackball.
Oracle products can do this. Yes, it has been proven that it isn't 100% failsafe, but they got it so it'll return an error on the original query fast enough and rare enough that it isn't an issue.
Unless of course, there's only one timeline, and he attended the event in the past of his own timeline.
Hey, maybe even sent himself an invitation. Or traveled back from an even later future, telling his earlier self that he better well attend, for the future of mankind depends on it - which would be silly, cause there's only one timeline anyway.
Besides, lots of people play in order to escape the life they have. They actually have too much life for their tastes at the moment.
I once met a prostitute who just loved EQ just so she wouldn't have to think about her life. Met her in reality, though (and no, I was not a customer).
Slashdot Mirror
What's really scary is, I think I know what school you go to. I think I've had classes with you. So much for the pseudonymity of Slashdot.
Here, the government and history majors drink 5 nights a week, write their papers at the last minute, get a 3.8 GPA, and each run some sort of student group on campus. Then, they get out of school and have a leg up over the rest of us for having a high GPA and "leadership experience."
I guarentee that the rich and famous of my graduating class will not be the engineers. It'll be the ones who ran for Student Assembly (which does nothing and barely meets), ran the Museum Club (wtf is that? We have a museum?) and still had more fun than you did.
"Couple projects have tried to fork gaim, now you don't really hear any of them."
Adium is the single most popular non-bundled IM client for OS X.
It is essentially a gaim fork.
It's stable, but the features are probably going to change a lot before they call it complete.
I'd suggest waiting until they release a stable version, just so you don't have to annoy everyone on your LAN by constantly updating it.
This is an old issue - Lessig has been writing about it since 2001.
The idea pops up every few months, but in the end, it is economic suicide for a market that already has an open, neutral standard to splinter into a set of closed, preferential standards.
In short, the competition between providers will reduce their profit below the current 'tacit agreement' point it is currently at, thanks to the neutral standard. This is especially true as long as they are not offering any additional value with their service, and only destroying the value of the current network effects.
The economically feasible solution is to price discriminate (as much as existing customers hate it, it does reduce deadweight loss and increase revenue). Simply, charge by bandwidth provided, and charge less for 'preferred' types of bandwidth, such as traffic internal to their network.
[Recommended Reading: The Innovator's Solution (which addresses closed vs. open standards) and anything about Nash-Bridges Equilibrium (which addresses tacit agreement among competing parties).]
"Intellectual property stuff is purely evil. Don't quote me on this or I'll sue."
So sue me! Thank goodness for FAIR USE (the anti-evil)! woot
1-I quoted the entirety of the work
2-the nature of the use was for comment and criticism
3-the market impact was negligable
4-nature of the original work was non-commercial discourse!
3/4 ain't bad.
In the 1970's, the only computer science related disciplines were Math, Stats, Electrical Engineering, and in some places, Computer Science.
Now that computers are everywhere, and support almost every non-humanities discipline, it may worry some that CS enrollment is dropping.
Yet, the number of students enrolling in computer-driven fields, who learn to program and apply computer science to a specific area, is increasing. There are more majors to enroll in, with the a higher number of interested students - the mean number of students enrolled in computer driven majors is increasing, but the distribution among majors has increased faster, pushing the concentration in CS down.
For instance, we now have:
and many other majors all vying for the students that, 10 years ago, would have just gone into CompSci.
You don't have to believe me, but I've seen the data for myself - I'm on the Computing and Information Science working group at Cornell University
Wikipedia and other online collaborative sites allow us to quickly access and learn a bit on almost any subject. We also share our own personal knowledge freely, through it.
So what is it called when I can learn anything you know, and you can learn anything we all know collectively?
I think that's called a Hive Mind. It's not as fast or built-in and wireless as we imagined, but it still serves the same purpose.
Oh? What? I was.. i was just taking a nap.
Oh! You weren't calling me. Nevermind. See you soon, I guess.
Please, please don't take the above seriously.
What about all those types of creative endeavors which require massive amounts of money in investment?
Things like biomedical or physics research take a lot of initial set up. Corporations spend millions of dollars on R&D. Do you think the same amount of research would go on if they couldn't recoup their investment costs?
Oh! And don't forget that money as a prime motivator is only this idea that.. you know.. is written into the constitution?
Article I, Section 8:
"To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;"
No, this is not the best they could come up with. Nor is it original. There were versions almost exactly the same known just as "Dogz" and "Catz" in the early 90s. I think you're just jealous because A: you never had a tomogachi and B: you still want nintendogs
That's just a Markov Model that "learned" from what looks religious mumbo jumbo in the first place.
Markov models are perhaps the easiest language acquisition model to implement, but also one of the worst at coming up with valid speech or text.
Interestingly, they do much, much better as recommender systems.
It's the government. They don't do efficient, cheap things like infect computers to make zombies.
If they did use a Denial of Service attack, I imagine they first bought all the computers they'd need, set them up, finished the DoS, then shut down and destroyed the computers.
I use batch files to operate a software level RAID solution! It's easy!
/e /k /i /c
RAID.bat
xcopy c: d:
pays about $15 an hour, entry level.
Trackpads are one of the worst human input devices ever invented. I'm not sure why they're the de facto solution on laptops these days. They're hard to use, offer no direct feedback, etc, etc.
That said, why doesn't a computer company with human-computer interaction in mind develop a laptop with a trackball BUILT INTO the laptop?
It wouldn't take that much more space, if it was a very small trackball. It could perhaps stick out the right hand side (customizable for lefties?), so it wouldn't bump into the screen.
Anyways, i wish you luck in your search for a bluetooth trackball.
Oracle products can do this. Yes, it has been proven that it isn't 100% failsafe, but they got it so it'll return an error on the original query fast enough and rare enough that it isn't an issue.
Unless of course, there's only one timeline, and he attended the event in the past of his own timeline.
Hey, maybe even sent himself an invitation. Or traveled back from an even later future, telling his earlier self that he better well attend, for the future of mankind depends on it - which would be silly, cause there's only one timeline anyway.
You can't use the slashdot effect on slashdot itself... oh well. Nice try
i need to leave my computer on overnight so that all my AIM friends know i'm sleeping, duh
Actually, grass smoke is much more transparent than gasoline. It's just that typically it isn't as completely burned, when you put it in a wood stove.
Plus, burning leaves / grass smells great.
Maybe that's how we can sell it to the American public - burn grass, not gas, and your car will smell better.
Don't worry. Plastics aren't a problem anymore either.
Now you can make plastic from oranges.
Cornell has you covered once again
There's just fewer jokes about smoking oranges...
The only way it'll ever gain significant market share is if it competes with the home DVD renting.
This means fighting Blockbuster and NetFlix on their home turf.
The only solution? Undercut Blockbuster and NetFlix on price for a SUBSCRIPTION service that allows you to pay monthly, not by # of movies.
Good luck to Sony on coming up with a DRM scheme that can ensure you only have 3 movies out, ala the way physical media can be tracked.
Isn't that the dream of DRM after all? Find a way to make digital media work just like proprietary real objects?
In related news, thousands of adventurers die as their clerics go AFK to pay the delivery guy.
omg n3wb..
/camp desktop
it's
Besides, lots of people play in order to escape the life they have. They actually have too much life for their tastes at the moment.
I once met a prostitute who just loved EQ just so she wouldn't have to think about her life. Met her in reality, though (and no, I was not a customer).