There are some interesting facts in the article about IQ and other things.
1. The IQ average in the middle of the bell curve wasn't much changed, but in the top end, it was 4/1000 vs 23/1000.
2. 3% of the US population hold 27% of its nobel prizes.
3. An Israeli clinic devoted to treating people with Gaucher's has vastly more engineers, scientists, accountants and lawyers on its books than would be expected by chance.
So here we have 3 ways of measuring "intelligence". IQ, exceptional achievement, and occupation. Now the paper was trying to make a link between the genetic diseases and intelligence, and while there is no direct proof that these diseases increase intelligence, the numbers do tend to indicate it.
I don't think this paper has gone out to say that and entire race is superior to another, and I don't think you can say they based all their ideas on IQ tests alone.
And yes, as long as people try to define intelligence in hundreds of different ways, it will be impossible to call a paper like this conclusive proof.
One of the good reasons to have patents (at least in a perfect world) is that a poor inventor CAN have an idea and patent it without having to produce a working prototype. It is quite possibly that many great inventions in the next century will require large manufacturing capability to get even a prototype out, so patents for such things will still be a good thing.
To bring this more back to the topic, what European companies could do is release their patents to the open source community. This kind of good deed will help the open source community in europe flourish.
Okay, maybe I should change my first statement. Selling episodes to download isn't automatically going to fail, but its still going to be a lot smaller than the illegal downloads which is what really pisses off the studios.
Now, while many people don't mind the copy protections, others hate them. Thats where the advantage of the badge advertising comes. Put that in, and now suddenly the more people copying it, the more valuable that position is. Remove copy protection completely, let other people use their bandwidth to copy and share it. The company who is advertising won't complain.
Personally I'd happily download a movie for free with adverts in it (as long as there wern't too many). Do the advertising right, ie small, fast, unobtrusive, and I'm not even going to care. Give that to me unrestricted, and all my friends get a copy, and thus all get the advertising.
As long as there are free episodes to download, charging won't work.
I remember reading somewhere (may well have been on slashdot) an idea about integrating adverts into the downloads. Not big intrusive ads that people get up to make coffee during, but a little icon at the top of the screen where the tv station emblem would usually be.
I'm pretty sure <insert large multinational here> would pay a decent price to have that spot. Knowing that as long as people are downloading that episode, their logo is going to be there, burning itself into the minds of everyone watching.
I dunno. Sure.jobs and.travel are going to take a long time to get used properly. But I think.xxx may take off quite quickly.
It's becoming harder and harder to find a good domain name, and as more and more people are forced to use the new TLD's, the more people will learn to expect them.
batteries
They don't mention what the power usage of this beast is, though they do mention that batteries are still a problem.
I'd love to be able to own an electric car that I recharge from a plug in my garage wall, but it still looks like its going to be a while before we get the batteries to allow you to get far.
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There are some interesting facts in the article about IQ and other things.
1. The IQ average in the middle of the bell curve wasn't much changed, but in the top end, it was 4/1000 vs 23/1000.
2. 3% of the US population hold 27% of its nobel prizes.
3. An Israeli clinic devoted to treating people with Gaucher's has vastly more engineers, scientists, accountants and lawyers on its books than would be expected by chance.
So here we have 3 ways of measuring "intelligence". IQ, exceptional achievement, and occupation. Now the paper was trying to make a link between the genetic diseases and intelligence, and while there is no direct proof that these diseases increase intelligence, the numbers do tend to indicate it.
I don't think this paper has gone out to say that and entire race is superior to another, and I don't think you can say they based all their ideas on IQ tests alone.
And yes, as long as people try to define intelligence in hundreds of different ways, it will be impossible to call a paper like this conclusive proof.
Apple's lightsaber would probably give off a soft white soothing light, the handle would be a paragon of simplicity and form.
And yet noone would care since just to the side would be two big guys smashing up the place with their cool red and blue lightsabers.
Maybe in some form of safe mode.
Getting it to run on various random mixes of hardware will likely take a bit more effort than just a 2 day hack.
One of the good reasons to have patents (at least in a perfect world) is that a poor inventor CAN have an idea and patent it without having to produce a working prototype. It is quite possibly that many great inventions in the next century will require large manufacturing capability to get even a prototype out, so patents for such things will still be a good thing.
To bring this more back to the topic, what European companies could do is release their patents to the open source community. This kind of good deed will help the open source community in europe flourish.
If the web designer is willing to go to the effort of excluding +-90% of browsers, the site probably isn't worth viewing anyway.
I wonder how fast these teens can send out sms's with a phone that has a mini qwerty keyboard?
Okay, maybe I should change my first statement. Selling episodes to download isn't automatically going to fail, but its still going to be a lot smaller than the illegal downloads which is what really pisses off the studios. Now, while many people don't mind the copy protections, others hate them. Thats where the advantage of the badge advertising comes. Put that in, and now suddenly the more people copying it, the more valuable that position is. Remove copy protection completely, let other people use their bandwidth to copy and share it. The company who is advertising won't complain. Personally I'd happily download a movie for free with adverts in it (as long as there wern't too many). Do the advertising right, ie small, fast, unobtrusive, and I'm not even going to care. Give that to me unrestricted, and all my friends get a copy, and thus all get the advertising.
It creates job opportunities as well. People searching the dumps for monitors to take to a collection depot.
As long as there are free episodes to download, charging won't work.
I remember reading somewhere (may well have been on slashdot) an idea about integrating adverts into the downloads. Not big intrusive ads that people get up to make coffee during, but a little icon at the top of the screen where the tv station emblem would usually be.
I'm pretty sure <insert large multinational here> would pay a decent price to have that spot. Knowing that as long as people are downloading that episode, their logo is going to be there, burning itself into the minds of everyone watching.
I dunno. Sure .jobs and .travel are going to take a long time to get used properly. But I think .xxx may take off quite quickly.
It's becoming harder and harder to find a good domain name, and as more and more people are forced to use the new TLD's, the more people will learn to expect them.
That particular one always reminds me of the folloing line from http://bash.org/?4281
[SA]HatfulOfHollow: i'm going to become rich and famous after i invent a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet
batteries They don't mention what the power usage of this beast is, though they do mention that batteries are still a problem. I'd love to be able to own an electric car that I recharge from a plug in my garage wall, but it still looks like its going to be a while before we get the batteries to allow you to get far.