How does one even verify whether or not a companies have agreed not to poach from one another in a way that cannot otherwise be explained as 'not the right fit'?
There actually is a system known as the peg-link system, which is mostly a mnemonic technique. I'm not sure if your actually aware of this or think it's total bs based on your double quotes around peg. There is some merit to the system itself, particularly associating phonetic sounds with an item and generating a bizarre image to reinforce memory. Ultimately though, the link-peg system is really only good for establishing a stronger memory on a list of items, with little regard to ones comprehension of what that list might mean. The amount of information involved in this method, would probably amount to a wikipedia article and not much more. As for its effectiveness, I was able to use it to memorize 50-100 items, but usually setting up the mnemonic visualizations is more trouble than its worth.
I had a friend who was once asked to write a network protocol as an 'exercise'. He was hired based on his example code. The funny thing is, when he came to work, he noticed his code was actually being used in their software. Sometimes it's an exercise, sometimes it's free work, sometimes it's both.
Now I can look forward to people driving and twittering and emailing and watching youtube. On second thought, the resulting mayhem might be fun to put on youtube. It has a sort of Escher-esc appeal to you it. Jackass recorded on youtube crashing while watching youtube.
Aren't current ISPs relying on the infrastructure setup by the government? If bandwidth is such a limited commodity, they could always invest in the network lines with greater throughput... Seriously, I've seen the prices for internet access go up, but little news of companies actually upgrading their network. Meanwhile, we get stories about other countries giving all of their citizens T1 connections more or less. And, yes I know it's not entirely feasible to implement the same plan in the US due to population distribution, but they could do it in densely populated areas. There are probably high-bandwidth users who are a burden to the network, but I hardly feel for the ISPs whose only solution is to charge and throttle more while avoiding the costs to upgrading their network.
I'd hate to have that for any bioware or strategy game due to the sheer amount of gameplay involved. I imagine quite a few people here would be poor if they had to pay an hourly fee to play Civilization; Small games can last up to 6 hours:P. If we moved to a subscription based architecture, developers would probably change their design strategy to generate short bursts of content, which will ultimately lead to smaller, more shallow games. No offense to Telltale games, but the episodic content of Monkey Island and Sam & Max feels like a shadow of their predecessors' former glory. I wouldn't mind seeing what the industry does with subscription based content, but I wouldn't want to see it move as a whole to this form of distribution, at least for some developers.
No, median is the number in the middle of everything. Index [N/2 rounded up if odd] or the average of the two middle numbers if even. The median is used in concert with the average to determine if your data is skewed one way or another; useful if you want to know whether you're dealing with a guassian or poisson distribution. I believe the mean is typically synonymous with average though. If they state average, I suspect they used count(N)/N.
It makes me cry a little whenever I see a post like yours. All of the copyright holders could make so much more money if, instead of scrabbling for a fist-full of dollars from a few hundred to a thousand piraters, they setup a service to make getting it easy for millions of users to get legitimate access to new movies movies. I mean, look at how well ipod and steam are doing for fucks sake. If they spent less money on lawsuits and more on software developers and network engineers, they could probably make this happen, and cheaper too. Lawyer: 100$+ an hour, engineer 30-50$+ an hour. I would love to watch new movies from my home setup, but nooo they have to go after that one guy torrenting a crappy screener of Avatar. Ugh, excuse me while I go sulk in a corner now.
This is very true. I never really hear about MS Research in the commercial product space. But, if I ever need to do scholarly work and look up some algorithms, there are usually a couple of papers written by the research team in a number of given fields. Some of them are pretty interesting too.
The reason I thought it might blunt weight gain is that it acts as an appetite suppressant. Less caloric intake might lead to weight loss. This assumes that all things are equal and that your control variables would be HFCS and caffeine, which excludes other eating or exercise habits. The only way to see if there's some effect is to run a randomized control trail with decent power.
The idea is that with more/some funding they'd be better able to hire qualified journalists, coders, servers, and equipment (note, I'm not making a comment on the current quality of their work). It isn't entirely unreasonable to to want to be paid when you do some work, as opposed to having it entirely distributed for free. The internet has the pros and cons with regards to distribution. It makes it much cheaper to reach a wide audience, but it may also be harder to get money from that audience by traditional means since they can probably find a free copy or variant of that work. Because of this, more planning has to go into a viable business model. For a good example,.just look at wikipedia and wikileaks. They survive off of donations. In another example, web comics like penny-arcade and pvponline do well through delivering free content and selling advertising/merchandise. In order to deal with server and employee costs, they naturally need money. The only difference in Murdoch's case, is that he's reacting poorly to the changing environment. He needs money to keep everything going, but charging explicitly for the content may not work.
It's not that it would be unethical, but that it's probably more of a pain for researchers to organize such a study. They have to write up informed consent forms, get approval from ethics committees, and deal with the inconsistent behaviour of humans (i.e. people quitting the study or having a sedentary vs active lifestyle). With lab rats, they can have a more controlled environment and go through less paperwork. If they really wanted to verify that there were no species effects going on, they'd probably test it against monkeys (particularly rhesus monkeys) first because they have really close genetic similarities to humans. However, when performing a macroscopic analysis on a biological process like metabolism, the conclusions usually translate well across the same categories of organisms e.g. mammals/reptiles/fish. Most researchers only evaluate multiple species when developing drugs that target specific biological processes like some molecule binding a particular protein. They do so because they usually want their drug to have a greater efficacy or unintended side effects rather than seeing if it works generally as hypothesized. In conclusion, if the question is not very specific, there is less need and desire to use more complex model organisms
I wonder how this study would work if they included caffeine (an appetite suppressant) with thee HFCS, as is the case with many soda drinks. Would the effects cancel each other out, blunt the weight-gain, or have no affect?
That might not turn out so bad. It sounds like the plot to a Dr. Who episode (Fix with the Sontarins). We just need Davies or Moffet penning the script : D.
Isn't that presupposing that openness will cause civil strife? An alternative argument is that, if all the flaws about the government are out in the open, it'd be easier to identify and fix problems early, instead of letting them grow out of control. I think the free flow of information causes true damage, only when there are no process to rectify them. E.g. if a corrupt official is abusing their power the people can impeach the official as opposed to initiating a violent coup. Similarly, if a company dumped mercury or lead into the local water supply, would it be better to warn the people that an accident occurred or cover it up? Having growth and stability is good, but it doesn't seem sustainable if no one takes responsibility when things go bad.
I don't know what I'm more surprised at, the clever way in which Valve announced Portal 2, or how quickly their obscure puzzle was crowd sourced and solved. Heck, I only noticed the achievement a view days ago, and now we have unencrypted images from sound bytes in the game. I wonder what would happen if Valve left a little teaser challenge: cure cancer and we'll give you episode 3.
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How does one even verify whether or not a companies have agreed not to poach from one another in a way that cannot otherwise be explained as 'not the right fit'?
There actually is a system known as the peg-link system, which is mostly a mnemonic technique. I'm not sure if your actually aware of this or think it's total bs based on your double quotes around peg. There is some merit to the system itself, particularly associating phonetic sounds with an item and generating a bizarre image to reinforce memory. Ultimately though, the link-peg system is really only good for establishing a stronger memory on a list of items, with little regard to ones comprehension of what that list might mean. The amount of information involved in this method, would probably amount to a wikipedia article and not much more. As for its effectiveness, I was able to use it to memorize 50-100 items, but usually setting up the mnemonic visualizations is more trouble than its worth.
I had a friend who was once asked to write a network protocol as an 'exercise'. He was hired based on his example code. The funny thing is, when he came to work, he noticed his code was actually being used in their software. Sometimes it's an exercise, sometimes it's free work, sometimes it's both.
Now I can look forward to people driving and twittering and emailing and watching youtube. On second thought, the resulting mayhem might be fun to put on youtube. It has a sort of Escher-esc appeal to you it. Jackass recorded on youtube crashing while watching youtube.
Aren't current ISPs relying on the infrastructure setup by the government? If bandwidth is such a limited commodity, they could always invest in the network lines with greater throughput... Seriously, I've seen the prices for internet access go up, but little news of companies actually upgrading their network. Meanwhile, we get stories about other countries giving all of their citizens T1 connections more or less. And, yes I know it's not entirely feasible to implement the same plan in the US due to population distribution, but they could do it in densely populated areas. There are probably high-bandwidth users who are a burden to the network, but I hardly feel for the ISPs whose only solution is to charge and throttle more while avoiding the costs to upgrading their network.
I'd hate to have that for any bioware or strategy game due to the sheer amount of gameplay involved. I imagine quite a few people here would be poor if they had to pay an hourly fee to play Civilization; Small games can last up to 6 hours :P. If we moved to a subscription based architecture, developers would probably change their design strategy to generate short bursts of content, which will ultimately lead to smaller, more shallow games. No offense to Telltale games, but the episodic content of Monkey Island and Sam & Max feels like a shadow of their predecessors' former glory. I wouldn't mind seeing what the industry does with subscription based content, but I wouldn't want to see it move as a whole to this form of distribution, at least for some developers.
Ah, looked it up, you're right.
No, median is the number in the middle of everything. Index [N/2 rounded up if odd] or the average of the two middle numbers if even. The median is used in concert with the average to determine if your data is skewed one way or another; useful if you want to know whether you're dealing with a guassian or poisson distribution. I believe the mean is typically synonymous with average though. If they state average, I suspect they used count(N)/N.
and hire a bunch of interns to play the part.
In Soviet Russia robot folds you?
It makes me cry a little whenever I see a post like yours. All of the copyright holders could make so much more money if, instead of scrabbling for a fist-full of dollars from a few hundred to a thousand piraters, they setup a service to make getting it easy for millions of users to get legitimate access to new movies movies. I mean, look at how well ipod and steam are doing for fucks sake. If they spent less money on lawsuits and more on software developers and network engineers, they could probably make this happen, and cheaper too. Lawyer: 100$+ an hour, engineer 30-50$+ an hour. I would love to watch new movies from my home setup, but nooo they have to go after that one guy torrenting a crappy screener of Avatar. Ugh, excuse me while I go sulk in a corner now.
None, you blame it on the programmers and make them fix it.
I tried to RTFA, but slashdot killed the bunny.
This is very true. I never really hear about MS Research in the commercial product space. But, if I ever need to do scholarly work and look up some algorithms, there are usually a couple of papers written by the research team in a number of given fields. Some of them are pretty interesting too.
also, if you want literature, just look up 'caffeine appetite suppressant' in pubmed. You'll find lots of literature on the topic.
The reason I thought it might blunt weight gain is that it acts as an appetite suppressant. Less caloric intake might lead to weight loss. This assumes that all things are equal and that your control variables would be HFCS and caffeine, which excludes other eating or exercise habits. The only way to see if there's some effect is to run a randomized control trail with decent power.
The idea is that with more/some funding they'd be better able to hire qualified journalists, coders, servers, and equipment (note, I'm not making a comment on the current quality of their work). It isn't entirely unreasonable to to want to be paid when you do some work, as opposed to having it entirely distributed for free. The internet has the pros and cons with regards to distribution. It makes it much cheaper to reach a wide audience, but it may also be harder to get money from that audience by traditional means since they can probably find a free copy or variant of that work. Because of this, more planning has to go into a viable business model. For a good example,.just look at wikipedia and wikileaks. They survive off of donations. In another example, web comics like penny-arcade and pvponline do well through delivering free content and selling advertising/merchandise. In order to deal with server and employee costs, they naturally need money. The only difference in Murdoch's case, is that he's reacting poorly to the changing environment. He needs money to keep everything going, but charging explicitly for the content may not work.
It's not that it would be unethical, but that it's probably more of a pain for researchers to organize such a study. They have to write up informed consent forms, get approval from ethics committees, and deal with the inconsistent behaviour of humans (i.e. people quitting the study or having a sedentary vs active lifestyle). With lab rats, they can have a more controlled environment and go through less paperwork. If they really wanted to verify that there were no species effects going on, they'd probably test it against monkeys (particularly rhesus monkeys) first because they have really close genetic similarities to humans. However, when performing a macroscopic analysis on a biological process like metabolism, the conclusions usually translate well across the same categories of organisms e.g. mammals/reptiles/fish. Most researchers only evaluate multiple species when developing drugs that target specific biological processes like some molecule binding a particular protein. They do so because they usually want their drug to have a greater efficacy or unintended side effects rather than seeing if it works generally as hypothesized. In conclusion, if the question is not very specific, there is less need and desire to use more complex model organisms
I wonder how this study would work if they included caffeine (an appetite suppressant) with thee HFCS, as is the case with many soda drinks. Would the effects cancel each other out, blunt the weight-gain, or have no affect?
Then why are you on slashdot?
Clearly, he got the "Colbert Bump".
Screw that, how soon until I get my own kung-fu Milla Jovovich to save the universe.
That might not turn out so bad. It sounds like the plot to a Dr. Who episode (Fix with the Sontarins). We just need Davies or Moffet penning the script : D.
Isn't that presupposing that openness will cause civil strife? An alternative argument is that, if all the flaws about the government are out in the open, it'd be easier to identify and fix problems early, instead of letting them grow out of control. I think the free flow of information causes true damage, only when there are no process to rectify them. E.g. if a corrupt official is abusing their power the people can impeach the official as opposed to initiating a violent coup. Similarly, if a company dumped mercury or lead into the local water supply, would it be better to warn the people that an accident occurred or cover it up? Having growth and stability is good, but it doesn't seem sustainable if no one takes responsibility when things go bad.
I don't know what I'm more surprised at, the clever way in which Valve announced Portal 2, or how quickly their obscure puzzle was crowd sourced and solved. Heck, I only noticed the achievement a view days ago, and now we have unencrypted images from sound bytes in the game. I wonder what would happen if Valve left a little teaser challenge: cure cancer and we'll give you episode 3.