I seem to remember a little title for the SNES called Chrono Trigger, which was released at the humble price of eighty dollars. Eleven years ago!! Just one example illustrating that expensive games are no new thing. As for consoles, does anybody remember the cost for SegaCD or Saturn when they came out?
I bet it was more than my two cents.:-P
the "proposed" ad was a joke? Maybe not, if this community is willing to believe that someone would seriously try to publish an ad like that, it's possible that someone (presumably an engineer) could make that and congratulate themselves.
Also, as noted below, nobody takes credit for this, meaning that it was probably not serious.
Simulation is fine, but it isn't always applicable. Especially when working with exotic materials, where the umpteen parameters required for a simulation to produce useful and accurate results are not known, simulation may fall short. It's one thing to make predictions based on simulation, but another to be able to verify those predictions.
Don't get me wrong. Simulations are wonderful tools but, since they are many times (as I assume they are in this case) based solely on theory, experimental measurements are very useful to corroborate the results of and/or improve upon the methods of those tools.
IMHO John Searle answered this question in 1980 with his "Chinese Room" thought experiment. It basically shows how computers don't think, they merely process instructions.
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."
~Edsger Dijkstra
Another way to do that is have an access card system which logs every user, and a separate, old style up/down button for guests. This way each user only gets one input, and guests without cards still get to use the elevator. Although it does lead into issues about big brother, but everybody probably already knows which floor you work on anyway...
The invite only model does two things which I think actually boost membership: 1) It makes elitists think that they are cool for having one, 2) It allows google to have a massive army of recruiters, each inviting all of their friends and family members and, as the parent says, pets.
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How about we see some more durable drives in larger sizes? Hell, I'd be willing to pay a premium for something I could rely on to take a beating.
Well, In the back of most free city papers, you can find all sorts of ads for businesses which provide the services described...
I seem to remember a little title for the SNES called Chrono Trigger, which was released at the humble price of eighty dollars. Eleven years ago!! Just one example illustrating that expensive games are no new thing. As for consoles, does anybody remember the cost for SegaCD or Saturn when they came out? I bet it was more than my two cents. :-P
the "proposed" ad was a joke?
Maybe not, if this community is willing to believe that someone would seriously try to publish an ad like that, it's possible that someone (presumably an engineer) could make that and congratulate themselves.
Also, as noted below, nobody takes credit for this, meaning that it was probably not serious.
Simulation is fine, but it isn't always applicable. Especially when working with exotic materials, where the umpteen parameters required for a simulation to produce useful and accurate results are not known, simulation may fall short. It's one thing to make predictions based on simulation, but another to be able to verify those predictions.
Don't get me wrong. Simulations are wonderful tools but, since they are many times (as I assume they are in this case) based solely on theory, experimental measurements are very useful to corroborate the results of and/or improve upon the methods of those tools.
IMHO John Searle answered this question in 1980 with his "Chinese Room" thought experiment. It basically shows how computers don't think, they merely process instructions.
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."
~Edsger Dijkstra
Another way to do that is have an access card system which logs every user, and a separate, old style up/down button for guests. This way each user only gets one input, and guests without cards still get to use the elevator. Although it does lead into issues about big brother, but everybody probably already knows which floor you work on anyway...
The invite only model does two things which I think actually boost membership:
1) It makes elitists think that they are cool for having one,
2) It allows google to have a massive army of recruiters, each inviting all of their friends and family members and, as the parent says, pets.
So Bill Gates posts as Anonymous Coward?
Gives the name of the sunscreen orator.
There are so many of these on bash. Still funny that people still do it.
why not just use an md5 checksum of a small file containing a string?