The average consumer has little chance of realizing an i7 may need a 1156 or a 1366 socket depending on what the model number is. Those should really have been named differently.
Well, it obviously is self-declared, as they did declare independence. The brits refused to implement the resolution, considering it unworkable. Israel declared independence the day before the British mandate expired. There was loads of controversy although most of the world recognized Israel fairly quickly.
That's unlikely. They'll claim they spend more than ever to make movies and just barely make a profit. What they think is "We need new laws and ways to prevent consumers from watching the same movie twice without paying both times, watching movies on hardware not made by the same companies that own the movie studios or watching movies not made by the big studios."
I'm sorry, but that stretches the meaning of "sophisticated" and "decision" beyond all reason.
One might just as well argue that water flowing down hill has made a sophisticated decision.
That's hardly a good comparison. If you wrote a piece of software that had a similarly sophisticated decision making process you would call it just that although the process is completely deterministic. Water flowing downhill is just shaped by the terrain although the turbulence is complex. The water contains no complex mechanism comparable to that of a bacterium.
How could it be otherwise? Although Congress technically works for the taxpayers, a politician's career advancement is completely controlled by campaign contributions.
No Wikipedia entry, and their website seems to be hidden, unless they call themselves "Blues Destiny Records" when not filing frivolous lawsuits
Apparently both Blues Destiny Records and Blue Destiny Recordings exist, but not Blue Destiny Records. Anyway, a lawsuit by a small label may be the big four's way of either limiting their risk if they lose or getting around some previous agreement with Google. And by limiting risk I mean avoiding big "Sony, Universal, EMI and Warner sue Google!" headlines when there's a big risk they'll lose.
Well, the photon is the carrier of the electromagnetic force, so the two may be equivalent in some sense. However, naively thinking, wouldn't rotating a wheel that pushes on something be more efficient than a rocket? Jet engines are more efficient than rockets, but I don't know what principles are at work and don't know how they apply here.
So no one noticed a 5000 x ~150 ~= 750 MW of usage? Over 10 years? Yikes. I would think at least some nerdy kids would have noticed at some point that there was SETI installed and asked some questions. Wouldn't people wonder why the computer lab was hot first thing in the morning.
With 750MW of heating, I think they would wonder why there's a pit of lava where the school used to be... A slightly more realistic estimate is 5k * 40W = 200kW, costing $14/hour @ 7c/kWh.
If I heard correctly, matchmaking ensures you only play against people of your own skill level. So if you don't pay for weapon upgrades, you'll either play against others who don't or people who do, but are worse players than you.
In essence, players are whining because they no longer get their 1337 epix but the actual game doesn't change at all. Their ranking / points / whatever will be lower than that of people who pay, but they will not be playing against those guys.
Also, there is nothing stopping the Movie industry from attacking DVD-Recorders and VCR's, they simply haven't. I honestly think if they wanted to go up against DVD-Recorders they would have a good enough case to cause legislation forcing VCR Recorders to lock down the types of recording they can do.
Note the bolded part. It's not too far fetched to assume the studios could get legislation that does away with the "capable of substantial noninfringing uses" norm. It could be argued that the DMCA ban on decryption is a roundabout way of achieving that goal.
Not as bad as two-way computer-brain communication. If you have popup ads in your field of vision it's annoying, but if it works as an extra sense you probably can't distinguish advertising from your own opinions. Kinda like politics works now.
In physics the term theory is generally used for a mathematical framework--derived from a small set of basic postulates (usually symmetries--like equality of locations in space or in time, or identity of electrons, etc.)--which is capable of producing experimental predictions for a given category of physical systems. A good example is classical electromagnetism, which encompasses results derived from gauge symmetry (sometimes called gauge invariance) in a form of a few equations called Maxwell's equations. Note that the specific theoretical aspects of classical electromagnetic theory, which have been consistently and successfully replicated for well over a century, are termed "laws of electromagnetism", reflecting that they are today taken for granted. Within electromagnetic theory generally, there are numerous hypotheses about how electromagnetism applies to specific situations. Many of these hypotheses are already considered to be adequately tested, with new ones always in the making and perhaps untested.
You can run just about any game out there at max settings at 1920 X 1080 silky smooth with a 5870, which goes for less than $300.
The 5870 still seems to cost more than $400, but your point is of course valid. What might become an issue is multi-monitor gaming like ATI's Eyefinity. Running a triple-screen setup demands a bit more. I don't know if multi-monitor will become mainstream, but it's roughly in the same ballpark price-wise as high-end GPUs.
I did a bad thing and followed the link you gave as a citation for the pumped-storage assumption. I can't find anything on that page which even mentions it so I have to assume you are blowing smoke.
The link I gave gives installed wind capacity and load factor. The post I responded to gives the figure for pumped-storage along with a link.
Part of the problem in moving to unlocked phones is that US customers are used to seeing low up front costs, believing these are the actual prices of the phones. The Droid costs $600, but Verizon sells it for a third of the price, choosing to spread out the missing $400 over 24 months. Since that's only $17 per month, it's easy to slip into other charges that may or may not be mandatory as long as the average customer pays enough.
This works as long as the large providers don't compete in pricing of plans for unlocked smartphones. Without specific regulation, they have no interest in doing so, making an unlocked smartphone look too expensive for the average Joe.
In addition, conventional hydroelectric dams can save up water and release it when necessary.
I assume Spain simply builds up as much pumped-storage hydro as needed. They seem to have around as much pumped-storage as they have (wind capacity * load factor).
Anyway, I doubt many countries will face the problem of having too much wind power in the near future. Denmark currently has around 20% wind and sells off any excess to Norway, which in turn has huge amounts of hydro. Note that there is currently no other country that has more than the 15% figure quoted by GP. The US has room for building out 10 x the current capacity without worrying about storage.
Flash is around $1.87 per GB while Hard drives are closer to 7c per GB.
That's 26 times the price. Sure SSDs are getting cheaper every day but so are hard drives.
If you look at 64-80G drives rather than the 1-1.5T sweet spot for HD prices, the SSDs are around 3-5 times the price. USB sticks are cheaper than any hard drive when you get down to 8-16G.
Very soon, SSDs will be cheap enough that your choice is between a 100G SSD and a 1T HD at the same price. Unless you really need the space and using separate system and data drives would be too expensive, your computer will have an SSD. I'm fairly certain this is what we'll start seeing; every computer has an SSD with 64-128G space and those who need it add a 1T+ HD for videos and mp3s.
Not to mention exchange rates and associated taxes in foreign countries, which vary from country to country.
Yes, since the average non-US currency is valued 40% lower than the USD it makes sense to price your product 40% higher abroad and charge the same number regardless of currency. This is why everything in Kuwait is so expensive and Italy had really low prices before they joined the euro.
"The basic principle in the mobile industry is that those companies who contribute in technology development to establish standards create intellectual property, which others then need to compensate for," said Ilkka Rahnasto, vice president of Legal & Intellectual Property at Nokia.
Yeah, and the basic principle in the IP industry is that those in the cartel establish standards that limit interoperability so that everyone else will have to pay up or be unable to make working devices. I'm Finnish and I don't like Nokias role in destroying the "information society". I accept that it's a broken system and it's the role of governments to fix it while corporations can only exploit it as best as they can. I still wish Nokia could stay outside this patent trolling bullshit. You're Finnish, not American. Cutthroat capitalism is not acceptable.
"innovation in either the creation or distribution of works"
Note that the so-called copyright industry is actually not mainly about making copies. They finance the creation of works and distribute them. I would argue that no important innovations in creation has come from them and they have actively worked against any and all innovations in distribution.
I think copyright is a misnomer in the modern world and maybe it always was. It should be called distribution rights. Making copies without selling or otherwise transfering them to others was just not thought of when copyright was invented. Making of a copy was seen as intent to distribute.
I'd specify that "rewarding mediocrity" is a misleading term in a single-player game. In multiplayer games you can and should pick who the player competes with based on previous results. In a single-player game I don't see a reason not to make the game harder for better players. Ideally, if you can adjust difficulties or change relative occurences of separate elements of gameplay, you should be able to trickle out content to a player at a predetermined rate. This avoids problems of breezing though interesting parts of a storyline too fast or getting stuck in "grinding" without getting more story. For more puzzle-like games it seems reasonable to assume that inserting more of the elements a given player finds difficult would make the game more fun. This may not be true and might even be the other way around, though.
Does anyone know anything about the Ward Dendrogram shown in fig 3 on page 5? The T value seems arbitrary unless I misunderstand the text. Assuming the height differences between branches are indicative of distance between clusters, three or six groups would be more natural.
The 750k jobs is a dubious claim from 1986 about counterfeit goods. The $250 billion is a 1993 figure given for the worldwide market of, again, counterfeit goods.
Since there are 250 of them between 1.5 billion and 5 billion light years away, you have roughly 2 per billion light year sphere. If we could expect to see an average of two within a billion light years from us, meaning within a billion years back, perhaps they still exist and we just don't happen to have any nearby?
Given their density within the 5 billion light year sphere, it should be possible to calculate the odds of having 1.5 billion light years to the closest one.
Am I the only one seriously doubting this claim? 91% of the >1k market yet 8,7% of the total market means less than 9,56% of the total PC market is >1k machines, and less than 0,86% of the PC market are sub-1k non-Apple computers? Is this realistic? More than 99% of non-Apple PCs are less than 1k? I don't have any numbers to refute this; it just seems completely unreasonable that such a large majority of PC sales would be so cheap. Looking at two prominent Finnish web stores, 50-70% of the laptops for sale are over 800 euros and the same seems to hold true for desktops. Obviously machines for sale != machines sold, but >1k$ non-Apple PCs just cannot be this rare?
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The average consumer has little chance of realizing an i7 may need a 1156 or a 1366 socket depending on what the model number is. Those should really have been named differently.
Well, it obviously is self-declared, as they did declare independence. The brits refused to implement the resolution, considering it unworkable. Israel declared independence the day before the British mandate expired. There was loads of controversy although most of the world recognized Israel fairly quickly.
That's unlikely. They'll claim they spend more than ever to make movies and just barely make a profit. What they think is "We need new laws and ways to prevent consumers from watching the same movie twice without paying both times, watching movies on hardware not made by the same companies that own the movie studios or watching movies not made by the big studios."
That's hardly a good comparison. If you wrote a piece of software that had a similarly sophisticated decision making process you would call it just that although the process is completely deterministic. Water flowing downhill is just shaped by the terrain although the turbulence is complex. The water contains no complex mechanism comparable to that of a bacterium.
How could it be otherwise? Although Congress technically works for the taxpayers, a politician's career advancement is completely controlled by campaign contributions.
Apparently both Blues Destiny Records and Blue Destiny Recordings exist, but not Blue Destiny Records. Anyway, a lawsuit by a small label may be the big four's way of either limiting their risk if they lose or getting around some previous agreement with Google. And by limiting risk I mean avoiding big "Sony, Universal, EMI and Warner sue Google!" headlines when there's a big risk they'll lose.
Well, the photon is the carrier of the electromagnetic force, so the two may be equivalent in some sense. However, naively thinking, wouldn't rotating a wheel that pushes on something be more efficient than a rocket? Jet engines are more efficient than rockets, but I don't know what principles are at work and don't know how they apply here.
So no one noticed a 5000 x ~150 ~= 750 MW of usage? Over 10 years? Yikes. I would think at least some nerdy kids would have noticed at some point that there was SETI installed and asked some questions. Wouldn't people wonder why the computer lab was hot first thing in the morning.
With 750MW of heating, I think they would wonder why there's a pit of lava where the school used to be... A slightly more realistic estimate is 5k * 40W = 200kW, costing $14/hour @ 7c/kWh.
If I heard correctly, matchmaking ensures you only play against people of your own skill level. So if you don't pay for weapon upgrades, you'll either play against others who don't or people who do, but are worse players than you.
In essence, players are whining because they no longer get their 1337 epix but the actual game doesn't change at all. Their ranking / points / whatever will be lower than that of people who pay, but they will not be playing against those guys.
Note the bolded part. It's not too far fetched to assume the studios could get legislation that does away with the "capable of substantial noninfringing uses" norm. It could be argued that the DMCA ban on decryption is a roundabout way of achieving that goal.
Not as bad as two-way computer-brain communication. If you have popup ads in your field of vision it's annoying, but if it works as an extra sense you probably can't distinguish advertising from your own opinions. Kinda like politics works now.
In physics the term theory is generally used for a mathematical framework--derived from a small set of basic postulates (usually symmetries--like equality of locations in space or in time, or identity of electrons, etc.)--which is capable of producing experimental predictions for a given category of physical systems. A good example is classical electromagnetism, which encompasses results derived from gauge symmetry (sometimes called gauge invariance) in a form of a few equations called Maxwell's equations. Note that the specific theoretical aspects of classical electromagnetic theory, which have been consistently and successfully replicated for well over a century, are termed "laws of electromagnetism", reflecting that they are today taken for granted. Within electromagnetic theory generally, there are numerous hypotheses about how electromagnetism applies to specific situations. Many of these hypotheses are already considered to be adequately tested, with new ones always in the making and perhaps untested.
The 5870 still seems to cost more than $400, but your point is of course valid. What might become an issue is multi-monitor gaming like ATI's Eyefinity. Running a triple-screen setup demands a bit more. I don't know if multi-monitor will become mainstream, but it's roughly in the same ballpark price-wise as high-end GPUs.
The link I gave gives installed wind capacity and load factor. The post I responded to gives the figure for pumped-storage along with a link.
Part of the problem in moving to unlocked phones is that US customers are used to seeing low up front costs, believing these are the actual prices of the phones. The Droid costs $600, but Verizon sells it for a third of the price, choosing to spread out the missing $400 over 24 months. Since that's only $17 per month, it's easy to slip into other charges that may or may not be mandatory as long as the average customer pays enough.
This works as long as the large providers don't compete in pricing of plans for unlocked smartphones. Without specific regulation, they have no interest in doing so, making an unlocked smartphone look too expensive for the average Joe.
In addition, conventional hydroelectric dams can save up water and release it when necessary.
I assume Spain simply builds up as much pumped-storage hydro as needed. They seem to have around as much pumped-storage as they have (wind capacity * load factor).
Anyway, I doubt many countries will face the problem of having too much wind power in the near future. Denmark currently has around 20% wind and sells off any excess to Norway, which in turn has huge amounts of hydro. Note that there is currently no other country that has more than the 15% figure quoted by GP. The US has room for building out 10 x the current capacity without worrying about storage.
If you look at 64-80G drives rather than the 1-1.5T sweet spot for HD prices, the SSDs are around 3-5 times the price. USB sticks are cheaper than any hard drive when you get down to 8-16G.
Very soon, SSDs will be cheap enough that your choice is between a 100G SSD and a 1T HD at the same price. Unless you really need the space and using separate system and data drives would be too expensive, your computer will have an SSD. I'm fairly certain this is what we'll start seeing; every computer has an SSD with 64-128G space and those who need it add a 1T+ HD for videos and mp3s.
Yes, since the average non-US currency is valued 40% lower than the USD it makes sense to price your product 40% higher abroad and charge the same number regardless of currency. This is why everything in Kuwait is so expensive and Italy had really low prices before they joined the euro.
Yeah, and the basic principle in the IP industry is that those in the cartel establish standards that limit interoperability so that everyone else will have to pay up or be unable to make working devices. I'm Finnish and I don't like Nokias role in destroying the "information society". I accept that it's a broken system and it's the role of governments to fix it while corporations can only exploit it as best as they can. I still wish Nokia could stay outside this patent trolling bullshit. You're Finnish, not American. Cutthroat capitalism is not acceptable.
"innovation in either the creation or distribution of works"
Note that the so-called copyright industry is actually not mainly about making copies. They finance the creation of works and distribute them. I would argue that no important innovations in creation has come from them and they have actively worked against any and all innovations in distribution.
I think copyright is a misnomer in the modern world and maybe it always was. It should be called distribution rights. Making copies without selling or otherwise transfering them to others was just not thought of when copyright was invented. Making of a copy was seen as intent to distribute.
I'd specify that "rewarding mediocrity" is a misleading term in a single-player game. In multiplayer games you can and should pick who the player competes with based on previous results. In a single-player game I don't see a reason not to make the game harder for better players. Ideally, if you can adjust difficulties or change relative occurences of separate elements of gameplay, you should be able to trickle out content to a player at a predetermined rate. This avoids problems of breezing though interesting parts of a storyline too fast or getting stuck in "grinding" without getting more story. For more puzzle-like games it seems reasonable to assume that inserting more of the elements a given player finds difficult would make the game more fun. This may not be true and might even be the other way around, though.
Does anyone know anything about the Ward Dendrogram shown in fig 3 on page 5? The T value seems arbitrary unless I misunderstand the text. Assuming the height differences between branches are indicative of distance between clusters, three or six groups would be more natural.
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The 750k jobs is a dubious claim from 1986 about counterfeit goods. The $250 billion is a 1993 figure given for the worldwide market of, again, counterfeit goods.
Since there are 250 of them between 1.5 billion and 5 billion light years away, you have roughly 2 per billion light year sphere. If we could expect to see an average of two within a billion light years from us, meaning within a billion years back, perhaps they still exist and we just don't happen to have any nearby?
Given their density within the 5 billion light year sphere, it should be possible to calculate the odds of having 1.5 billion light years to the closest one.
Am I the only one seriously doubting this claim? 91% of the >1k market yet 8,7% of the total market means less than 9,56% of the total PC market is >1k machines, and less than 0,86% of the PC market are sub-1k non-Apple computers? Is this realistic? More than 99% of non-Apple PCs are less than 1k? I don't have any numbers to refute this; it just seems completely unreasonable that such a large majority of PC sales would be so cheap. Looking at two prominent Finnish web stores, 50-70% of the laptops for sale are over 800 euros and the same seems to hold true for desktops. Obviously machines for sale != machines sold, but >1k$ non-Apple PCs just cannot be this rare?