I certainly hope people are taking that into account (as well as payment processing fees) when setting their targets. If they don't take that into account then they don't have much business sense and I wouldn't want to fund such people. I have seen projects with expense breakdowns showing they have factored that in.
I'm a bit disappointed in kickstarter over this as well. They're clearly doing quite well and really don't seem to be doing much to make their site better for either backers or starters.
My method is to click on the category at the bottom of the page (or click Discover at top and then the category) and then to click "see more popular projects" below the "Popular this week" section. That's the only way I know to see everything, but you still can't sort/filter in any way.
My impression is definitely that kickstarter itself is just a bunch of lazy bums sitting back while their clients are frequently risking everything for their big dream. From occasions when I read their blog and other communication it seems to me that they think way to much of themselves too. If possible I prefer to back at IndieGoGo because they don't seem to have quite the delusions of grandeur that KS has. I'm tempted to go straight through Paypal for projects that set up that option, but I'm not a big fan of them either.
The last update said they'll start shipping on March 28th. That's still the first quarter of the year so I don't think it's too big a stretch to call that early 2013.
If you check you'll note that on the original kickstarter (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-video-game-console) March 2013 was the estimated delivery date for physical consoles. I'm incredibly amazed that they're actually hitting that. I expect every kickstarter to deliver at least one quarter behind the estimated date and probably add another quarter each time they double their original goal.
If you're favorite kickstarter is farther behind than you would like I have good news for you: SimCity shipped on time!
The only song there I even recognize is Hey Jude, and it doesn't ever get stuck in my head.
I don't think any of those have the same power as TV show themes do. I can get anything from the Facts of Life to Thundercats to the Knight Rider theme stuck easier than anything else, as well as several Phineas and Ferb songs.
I'm not sure that even those can compete with the dark power unleashed by Friday's announcement of the remastered Duck Tales game. Odds are good that was an evil plot to study the effects of getting the same song stuck in millions of peoples heads at the same time.
At an absolute minimum you can sit on it, grab the handles and stretch. I just loop the handles over the armrests on my chair and am quite capable of forgetting its there for months at a time.
Keep in mind that this is a small part of a large appropriations bill. I'd have to dig into the details but I believe the main point of the bill is to protect the Dept of Defense from the damage of the recent sequester.
That's not to deny that the Dems are suddenly less into transparency lately. I was very disappointed that only one of them supported Senator Paul's filibuster.
Doctors and Nurses are sometimes brutally honest in their documentation. If you've been a difficult or non-compliant patient you can expect that it was documented. Some people get quite irate about that when they see it in their records, especially if insurance is refusing to cover something because they were non-compliant with treatment. Some people even get upset with the description of morbidly obese, even though for these purposes it's a strictly defined medical term.
I imagine most doctors could identify some patients that would benefit from full access to their records and some patients that they'd rather not even tell them their blood pressure because they'd insist that the nurse did it wrong because their BP is never that high.
Any company that gets you to a human fast is likely only doing that so they can give you a sales pitch. I'd rather have a screen I can just click on "no". It wastes less of my time that way.
In most fields of economics it's nearly impossible to do real science because it's hard to find a country that will let you have control of their economy - For Science! You probably can't even get a small company that would do that. The best you can generally do is study historical data. Attempting actual experiments with controls and tests isn't going to happen.
There are certainly some micro-economic things you can study, but it's just not going to happen on the larger scales. There has been a really strong emphasis lately about having micro-economic foundations for absolutely everything, but it's not clear how well that's working.
When considering "Lifecycle costs" you also consider how long the lifecycle will be. I rather doubt that his son will still be playing minecraft in 3 years. It's also entirely possible that barring hardware failure this server will be just fine for several years. In any case, if his server somehow goes up in smoke in 3 years the cost of something equivalent will likely be drastically lower.
Just as there is a cost to using their home network there is also a benefit - learning more about networking and server administration. Doing this properly would have at least some of the educational value of an entry-level networking class of some kind. People have discussed the "value" of their time, but in college I paid for the privilege of having my time consumed (and the profs time of course).
I've always felt that The Final Frontier was trying as hard as it could to be truly awful but the strength of the core cast kept it from getting there. It's arguably the high-point of the Kirk-Spock-Bones trinity (mostly in Row Your Boat) which has always been the heart of classic Trek to me.
Nope, just flirting with other NPCs out in the world. They apparently wanted to get it working for companions but it has apparently been harder than they expected.
Actully, 2 out of 8 base classes, 4 out of 16 advanced classes. There were already standard Heterosexual relationships available for those who don't care so much about what the Order thinks.
Actually the article made it clear that tying it to a credit card was optional.
As for what someone can find out about your kids. The most likely scenario is that the RFID bracelet just storing a GUID, and all the real data is in a back-end database. The only way a creepy wierdo is going to find anything out about your kids is if said weirdo is a Disney employee with access to the database - which is certainly a possiblity. However, the NY Times article made it clear that parents have complete control over what information it stores about kids.
There's a lot of bad uses for RFID, but there are also some cool and good uses for it. There will certainly be evil marketdroids at Disney data-mining the heck out of this stuff, but in their case there are also people trying to genuinely make your visit more "magical". If the privacy controls are as robust as they say, this is a decent implementation.
Like any investment there are different amounts of risk/reward to be found on kickstarter. Video games and new products are definitely the highest risk.
Comics, board games, and some arts projects are typically very low risk. The core product for the Order of the Stick reprint just required Rich to send money to his printer and tell them to reprint, and those came out pretty much on time.
Most board games are already in a playable form by the time they kick-start and several already have a review from Dice Tower or someone from board game geek. They usually just need more artwork and better quality pieces. A print-and-play version is frequently one of the awards and is often immediately available. There are scads of custom decks of cards out there that shouldn't be problematic at all. The US Playing Card Company has to absolutely love Kickstarter.
I am a bit confused by how cnn categorized the projects. Castle Story and Ogre aren't complete yet, but both should be out early next year. Something that was projected for last quarter of this year that looks very likely to make the first quarter of next year doesn't qualify as "Where the ^%$# is it!?" to me.
I've never wanted mod points more than I do right now to mod you down as well as the many other idiots like you who have made similar comments.
Read his entire article and you'll understand why he's doing that. I'm not going to tell you because your brain obviously needs the exercise. If you're too lazy to read then don't bother commenting. I'd also recommend actually reading the rest of the comments for the many people here who have subscribed to his list for years and verified that he's 100% legit.
There is nothing commercial or unsolicited about his service and it's a vital and important tool if value minor things like freedom. A single one of his e-mails is probably more valuable to the world than your entire pathetic existence.
They mentioned that farming it from the fish in adequate amounts would difficult. They hope to graft the slime production into bacteria for mass production.
It's more than just the newsfeed. I have the newsfeed disabled by browser plugins and always keep my main page sorted by "most recent" but I still don't get all posts from some people/pages that I like. I check several of their walls directly because I genuinely don't want to miss anything they post.
I do not "like" anything or anyone if I don't want to see everything they post and facebook has royally pissed me off because they think they get to decide what I really like.
As a side note it also ticks me off that facebook keeps trying to change my sort to "Top Stories" but it's almost always immediately obvious when that happens and I always switch it back.
Disney has gotten pretty good at targeting multiple demographics lately. Disney Channel's Phineas and Ferb is my 2nd favorite show on TV (Mythbusters is #1). I'm pretty sure I enjoy it more than my kids do. Gravity Falls appears to be trying something similar but targeted even more to adults. Admittedly Disney is a huge beast and what one part has mastered the others may not, but we will see.
Wreck it Ralph was a completely in-house Disney Animation film. It's not the greatest movie of all time, but it's very well-crafted and thoroughly enjoyable. I'm not sure how connected Disney Animation and Disney not-animation are, but they've definitely got people who can do it right.
Mentioning Doctors makes me consider something like the American Medical Association. In terms of how it relates to government and politics it functions similarly to a union in that it tries to represent and lobby for it's members, but it doesn't function at all like a union in relation to companies. It also does some amount of research and publishes one of the most important journals in medicine.
I could see something like that working pretty well.
Notice that above the 3rd graphic there's a statement where a guy says he's never seen so much purple on this graphic. The purple indicates 100% chance of sustained storm force winds.
It's not super-intense, but it's intense enough, it really huge and is heading for lots of people.
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I certainly hope people are taking that into account (as well as payment processing fees) when setting their targets. If they don't take that into account then they don't have much business sense and I wouldn't want to fund such people. I have seen projects with expense breakdowns showing they have factored that in.
I'm a bit disappointed in kickstarter over this as well. They're clearly doing quite well and really don't seem to be doing much to make their site better for either backers or starters.
My method is to click on the category at the bottom of the page (or click Discover at top and then the category) and then to click "see more popular projects" below the "Popular this week" section. That's the only way I know to see everything, but you still can't sort/filter in any way.
My impression is definitely that kickstarter itself is just a bunch of lazy bums sitting back while their clients are frequently risking everything for their big dream. From occasions when I read their blog and other communication it seems to me that they think way to much of themselves too. If possible I prefer to back at IndieGoGo because they don't seem to have quite the delusions of grandeur that KS has. I'm tempted to go straight through Paypal for projects that set up that option, but I'm not a big fan of them either.
The last update said they'll start shipping on March 28th. That's still the first quarter of the year so I don't think it's too big a stretch to call that early 2013.
If you check you'll note that on the original kickstarter (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-video-game-console) March 2013 was the estimated delivery date for physical consoles. I'm incredibly amazed that they're actually hitting that. I expect every kickstarter to deliver at least one quarter behind the estimated date and probably add another quarter each time they double their original goal.
If you're favorite kickstarter is farther behind than you would like I have good news for you: SimCity shipped on time!
The only song there I even recognize is Hey Jude, and it doesn't ever get stuck in my head.
I don't think any of those have the same power as TV show themes do. I can get anything from the Facts of Life to Thundercats to the Knight Rider theme stuck easier than anything else, as well as several Phineas and Ferb songs.
I'm not sure that even those can compete with the dark power unleashed by Friday's announcement of the remastered Duck Tales game. Odds are good that was an evil plot to study the effects of getting the same song stuck in millions of peoples heads at the same time.
Just about any resistance bands are workable. Grab any of the hundreds of options like this (first hit at walmart.com) http://www.walmart.com/ip/Gold-s-Gym-Long-Resistance-Tube/12167856
At an absolute minimum you can sit on it, grab the handles and stretch. I just loop the handles over the armrests on my chair and am quite capable of forgetting its there for months at a time.
Keep in mind that this is a small part of a large appropriations bill. I'd have to dig into the details but I believe the main point of the bill is to protect the Dept of Defense from the damage of the recent sequester.
That's not to deny that the Dems are suddenly less into transparency lately. I was very disappointed that only one of them supported Senator Paul's filibuster.
Doctors and Nurses are sometimes brutally honest in their documentation. If you've been a difficult or non-compliant patient you can expect that it was documented. Some people get quite irate about that when they see it in their records, especially if insurance is refusing to cover something because they were non-compliant with treatment. Some people even get upset with the description of morbidly obese, even though for these purposes it's a strictly defined medical term.
I imagine most doctors could identify some patients that would benefit from full access to their records and some patients that they'd rather not even tell them their blood pressure because they'd insist that the nurse did it wrong because their BP is never that high.
Any company that gets you to a human fast is likely only doing that so they can give you a sales pitch. I'd rather have a screen I can just click on "no". It wastes less of my time that way.
In most fields of economics it's nearly impossible to do real science because it's hard to find a country that will let you have control of their economy - For Science! You probably can't even get a small company that would do that. The best you can generally do is study historical data. Attempting actual experiments with controls and tests isn't going to happen.
There are certainly some micro-economic things you can study, but it's just not going to happen on the larger scales. There has been a really strong emphasis lately about having micro-economic foundations for absolutely everything, but it's not clear how well that's working.
less than 30 seconds with google produces this:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=identical-twins-genes-are-not-identical
When considering "Lifecycle costs" you also consider how long the lifecycle will be. I rather doubt that his son will still be playing minecraft in 3 years. It's also entirely possible that barring hardware failure this server will be just fine for several years. In any case, if his server somehow goes up in smoke in 3 years the cost of something equivalent will likely be drastically lower.
Just as there is a cost to using their home network there is also a benefit - learning more about networking and server administration. Doing this properly would have at least some of the educational value of an entry-level networking class of some kind. People have discussed the "value" of their time, but in college I paid for the privilege of having my time consumed (and the profs time of course).
And then someone else will then be boycotting you for wearing animal skins.
I've always felt that The Final Frontier was trying as hard as it could to be truly awful but the strength of the core cast kept it from getting there. It's arguably the high-point of the Kirk-Spock-Bones trinity (mostly in Row Your Boat) which has always been the heart of classic Trek to me.
Nope, just flirting with other NPCs out in the world. They apparently wanted to get it working for companions but it has apparently been harder than they expected.
Actully, 2 out of 8 base classes, 4 out of 16 advanced classes. There were already standard Heterosexual relationships available for those who don't care so much about what the Order thinks.
Actually the article made it clear that tying it to a credit card was optional.
As for what someone can find out about your kids. The most likely scenario is that the RFID bracelet just storing a GUID, and all the real data is in a back-end database. The only way a creepy wierdo is going to find anything out about your kids is if said weirdo is a Disney employee with access to the database - which is certainly a possiblity. However, the NY Times article made it clear that parents have complete control over what information it stores about kids.
There's a lot of bad uses for RFID, but there are also some cool and good uses for it. There will certainly be evil marketdroids at Disney data-mining the heck out of this stuff, but in their case there are also people trying to genuinely make your visit more "magical". If the privacy controls are as robust as they say, this is a decent implementation.
Like any investment there are different amounts of risk/reward to be found on kickstarter. Video games and new products are definitely the highest risk.
Comics, board games, and some arts projects are typically very low risk. The core product for the Order of the Stick reprint just required Rich to send money to his printer and tell them to reprint, and those came out pretty much on time.
Most board games are already in a playable form by the time they kick-start and several already have a review from Dice Tower or someone from board game geek. They usually just need more artwork and better quality pieces. A print-and-play version is frequently one of the awards and is often immediately available. There are scads of custom decks of cards out there that shouldn't be problematic at all. The US Playing Card Company has to absolutely love Kickstarter.
I am a bit confused by how cnn categorized the projects. Castle Story and Ogre aren't complete yet, but both should be out early next year. Something that was projected for last quarter of this year that looks very likely to make the first quarter of next year doesn't qualify as "Where the ^%$# is it!?" to me.
I've never wanted mod points more than I do right now to mod you down as well as the many other idiots like you who have made similar comments.
Read his entire article and you'll understand why he's doing that. I'm not going to tell you because your brain obviously needs the exercise. If you're too lazy to read then don't bother commenting. I'd also recommend actually reading the rest of the comments for the many people here who have subscribed to his list for years and verified that he's 100% legit.
There is nothing commercial or unsolicited about his service and it's a vital and important tool if value minor things like freedom. A single one of his e-mails is probably more valuable to the world than your entire pathetic existence.
They mentioned that farming it from the fish in adequate amounts would difficult. They hope to graft the slime production into bacteria for mass production.
According to the arxiv pdf (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1211.6429.pdf) there is no strong evidence of it being stripped. Page 1, last paragraph on the right.
It's more than just the newsfeed. I have the newsfeed disabled by browser plugins and always keep my main page sorted by "most recent" but I still don't get all posts from some people/pages that I like. I check several of their walls directly because I genuinely don't want to miss anything they post.
I do not "like" anything or anyone if I don't want to see everything they post and facebook has royally pissed me off because they think they get to decide what I really like.
As a side note it also ticks me off that facebook keeps trying to change my sort to "Top Stories" but it's almost always immediately obvious when that happens and I always switch it back.
Disney has gotten pretty good at targeting multiple demographics lately. Disney Channel's Phineas and Ferb is my 2nd favorite show on TV (Mythbusters is #1). I'm pretty sure I enjoy it more than my kids do. Gravity Falls appears to be trying something similar but targeted even more to adults. Admittedly Disney is a huge beast and what one part has mastered the others may not, but we will see.
Wreck it Ralph was a completely in-house Disney Animation film. It's not the greatest movie of all time, but it's very well-crafted and thoroughly enjoyable. I'm not sure how connected Disney Animation and Disney not-animation are, but they've definitely got people who can do it right.
Mentioning Doctors makes me consider something like the American Medical Association. In terms of how it relates to government and politics it functions similarly to a union in that it tries to represent and lobby for it's members, but it doesn't function at all like a union in relation to companies. It also does some amount of research and publishes one of the most important journals in medicine.
I could see something like that working pretty well.
As I understand it what makes the meteorologists so worried about Sandy is that the area of intense high winds is huge. Here's a page with several graphics:
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/why-sandy-has-meteorologists-scared-in-4-images/264198/
Notice that above the 3rd graphic there's a statement where a guy says he's never seen so much purple on this graphic. The purple indicates 100% chance of sustained storm force winds.
It's not super-intense, but it's intense enough, it really huge and is heading for lots of people.